Already uneased when they met them when the priests turn into monsters and attack him his body starts to crack and flare, more for the children whose state was unknown rather than simply fighting something evil. Their cries tearing at his thoughts he lashes out at the priest that attacked him.
Icy blue eyes sparkling with anger, Sigrun's expression becomes a stony mask, her form seeming more alove, more vibrant than before. With a fluid movement she brings her hammer smashing down on the first of the creatures within reach.
With the front line engaged, Percy does what she can to end the fight quickly and, with a word and a flourish, brings Rocky into the world behind the monsters.
The small earth elemental shifts his feet a couple times.
And punches one of the monsters in the butt.
Allie growls a sinister, low growl that originates low in her throat. Not quite a natural soundto be coming from such a small gnome. Her eyes, still not unlike a dead fish's, lock on one of the enemies. With a loud crack, a bolt of fire shoots from her outstretched hand.
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Kicking Mule into Action with a loud "Hiyaa" The warhorse ran and leapt over the undead creatures the felinerai slashing down with his katana.
Hobbes steps back and fires off a pair of arrows at the undead who struck him.
"It's always something. Ow."
Hila moves to defend her master/meal provider.
Vehement heat still leaking from his body Neverhome steps over the redowned priests and heads inside to search for the children.
Neverhome sees a group of ghostly children crying for their parents. Suddenly, ghostly trolls and giants burst through the far wall, snatch up the young ones, and dissipate. Terrified screams and tortured wails resonate through your head.
Even though he knew something was off with the ethereal children be still began to rush for them until they disappeared. Looking around with a confused face he finally lets his shoulders slump, realizing they were far, far too late to have ever helped the children. Letting an unhinged chuckled he shakes his head as he heads back to the others.
Without a word he moves up and puts his arms around Sigrun, holding her tightly as he lays his head on her shoulder.
Holding Lyosha in an embrace, Sigrun runs her fingers through his hair, her other hand rubbing his back gently as he processes whatever horror he witnessed inside.
"We never had any chance of saving them. Corpses in corpse of town that once was. Forsaken places in forsaken land. Cursed ground in cursed land that never should have been. Souls... They're not here but they're still here... still reliving it... still dying... still suffering... this land won't let them go." he finally managed to mumble out, his grip on Sigrun tightening all the while.
Hobbes sighs as he sees Neverhome come back out. He knew that look. There was no one to save. Hobbes just puts his arm around Percy.
Holding Lyosha, Sigrun takes slow deep breaths. "I know...we aren't able to help them, but there are the ones we can help, the ones that we can keep from ever being locked into that cycle. We can help them, and we can make the ones responsible for this pay." she says, tears glistening in her crystal blue eyes as she comforts him.
"Da." he says softly but there is a firm steel to his voice as he nods/nuzzles Sigrun's neck.
Under a loose flagstone, you find a small stone coffer containing the following:
Scroll - hold person x2
Scroll - resist energy (cold) x2
Bladed Belt x1
Ring of Feather Falling x2
An engraved scroll case (worth 200gp)
Fire Opal x4 (worth 250gp each)
50pp, 450gp
Percy lands into Hobbe's and sighs. Such a sad event...
She waves to Rocky and thanks him before he transfers back to the Plane of Earth.
Allie seems nonplused about the whole event. Her face stays blank.
Zses sighs heavily after watching the ghostly children. Silently, he pulls out the Desnan pendant in his hands. "Isn't...isn't there a way to put their souls to rest, at least?" the witch asks after a long moment to Vashti.
Under a loose flagstone, you find a small stone coffer containing the following:
Scroll - hold person x2
Scroll - resist energy (cold) x2
Bladed Belt x1
Ring of Feather Falling x2
An engraved scroll case (worth 200gp)
Fire Opal x4 (worth 250gp each)
50pp, 450gp
Casting Guidance
Frozen solid like the surrounding wasteland, Vashti freezes at the cries of the children inside. Her mind shuts down and draws her back to the last time she heard those cries.
So many, I couldn't save you...I couldn't stop you...I burned you, I burned you, I destroyed you, I saved you...no I killed you, I could have found a way to save you...I failed, they are gone, I killed them, I am not a healer I am a murderer..
Eyes dilated to pinpoints she barely reacts to the combat as tears roll down her cheeks to freeze into small trails of ice.
After breathing deeply for a minute, VAshti speaks in a ragged voice.
I can lay them to rest, but I haven't the spells prepared. I would need to wait until dawn to do so.
"Then we stop here for the night." Sigrun says, seeing what this would mean for Vashti. "In the morning we cn make this right," she says looking the priestess in the eye as she holds Lyosha's head to her shoulder.
"Thank you Mamushka, and you." Neverhome says to Vashti and Sigrun as he raises his head up, kissing the red headed warrior on the forehead as he does so. "I believe I am okay now." he says with a grateful smile.
I'll set the uh... horses just outside the grounds so they dont get too spooked.
The felinerai said though clearly from the way he kept half twitching at the noise of the children crying it might be just as much so for his benefit as for the horses. After dinner of giant nommable deer creatures was made he took some of the spare mantis shell parts and some of the deer hide and began fiddling with it near the horses quietly.
I would assume you would prefer the more overly complicated daily check everytime Silence can work on it? If im reading it correctly, the DC would be 13 for the barding then when that is done 20 for the MW part.
13 times 23 would be like 299 divided by 7 would be 42.7 or 43 silverpeices out of 1000 done meaning 957 left?
You have an unexpectedly-quiet night in the haunted village.
Percy wakes around the same time as Vashti and performs her morning supplication to Imbrex. After such a wonderful meal yesterday, she feels quite refreshed.
Hobbes sleeps in to find Percy and Vashti praying for spells as Silence again goes to scout, inevitably bringing back more trouble.
Allie awakes and slowly gets up, rubbling her eyes. She says nothing while she gets dressed and ready for the day.
Hila wakes up, licking her lips in hunger.
"Where's the food?"
Hobbes walks over to rub the pup's furry little head.
"Don't worry, we still have some leftover grub."
He gets some of the leftover deer and passes it out to the group along with the pup.
Before she goes to bed, Vashti uses her remaining magic to heal any injured party members. In the morning, at her usual prayer time, she prepares consecrate and spends some time sending the childrens' spirits to their final rest.
Once everyone's rested and the childrens' souls have been ferried to the Boneyard, you set off once more. You're getting close to Whitethrone - if all goes well, you'll arrive sometime this evening.
1.
Flee you foolish wolves flee!
He growled out as he kicked Mule forward leading with his Naginata while Mule nipped hard at the nearest wolf.
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2.
Come at me wolves! I am not afraid of your breath!
The felinerai called out drawing and arrow and loosing while guiding Mule with his knees to half spin back torwards the slaygon trying to draw the winter wolves away... and hopefully into parley range with little Hila.
You charge up on your steed and land a powerful blow on the nearest wolf before Mule finishes it off. The two others growl and leap at you, but Mule darts out of the way with surprising agility.
He growled a warning growl at the remaining wolves before he drew his katana and slashed downwards torwards one while Mule enganged the other.
"Where'd the cat go? Did he see a ball of yarn?"
"No pup. But I'm thinkin' Whiskers found trouble."
Hobbes draws his bow and looks for any signs of a swarm of birds or something even worse. "We should be ready for whatever Stripes brings back with him."
Allie stares off in the direction the caturai went to scout. She sighs, getting ready to torch anything that is to come.
"Or maybe he's back with more food!" Zses comments cheerfully at Hobbes, smiling and then turning to Allie.
She's been down since the other day...I wonder what I can do to cheer her up...
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