Denlar turns as he hears voices, noticing the boars distraction as well he punches it with the wicked spikes on his armor.
Viridi winces as the voices around her turn to gibberish, and she calls out a prayer in melodic-sounding gibberish.
Everyone's weapons feel lighter, and surer to strike.
After Viridi walks up and blesses her allies, Ansgar and Garbund advance against the boar striking with their weapons. Ansgar finds a solid hit against the animal's back, making it bleed profusely; Garbund misses his attack as the boar recoils from the sword impact.
Seeing the boar is distracted, Denlar connects with an impressive punch to the boar's nose, making the animal fall into the grass, unconscious.
"Impressive.", Aldern mutters to himself.
Viridi swallows in relief as the fight ends as swiftly as it begun.
She moves to the new half-orc. "Excuse me, sir? Do you need healing?"
Denlar looks at the woman, then himself over.
"The blood is from the beast, well I think most of it is from the beast. Might be a bit that is mine but I will survive. What are you all doing here?"
Denlar is very tall, broad of shoulder and fierce of smile, his armor is dented but well worn, bristling with spikes and razors of all sorts.
"As luck would have it, we were trying our hand at boar hunting."
"Being from the city of Magnimar, I'm not too good at it, apparently."
"Being from Magnimar has little to do with it, since I am from there has well." Ansgar says with a bit of a grin on his face.
Turning to the lone warrior, "I am Ansgar, what is your name?"
"Denlar, from the Hold of Belkzen"
"Um... Viridi. From Sandpoint."
Aldern rides up to Denlar.
"Greetings friend. I'm Aldern Foxglove. It seems we both found the same boar to hunt. Would you mind sharing it with us? We come from Sandpoint and there is a innkeeper there who makes a wonderful roast boar."
Denlar looks down at the board then up at Aldern.
"I will give you half, I am out searching for Giants." Denlar pulls out his hatchet and starts to carve chunks out of the boar.
" Are we far from Sandpoint?"
"Half seems fair. And we are not too far from Sandpoint." Ansgar says.
I never did tell people about the goblins...
"Do any of you know anything about the Thistletop goblins?" Ansgar suddenly asks.
"Neh, but I did know goblins in the Hold, cowardly things. They do love fire though." Denlar takes his helm off and scratches his fuzzy head.
"We could aways hunt a second boar and make a big feast.", Aldern says. "I don't think you'll find giants around here, but Sandpoint was in need of warriors last time i saw."
Denlar looks at Aldern, "Well it might be a good place to start, why is the town in such need of warriors?"
"Goblin infestations."
"Small, yes. But lots of them."
"The town is safe for now, but another blade would be welcome." Ansgar confirms.
Looking at the boar as Denlar cuts it up, "I think hunting another boar would be a great idea, then there would be enough to go around."
"I am up for the challenge, they are fun to wrestle with." Denlar smiles at the thought of wrestling another boar.
Denlar is able to find a couple of tracks and soon the group finds itself even deeper in the forest. After a couple of minutes walking the group arrives at a point where the tracks and the destruction are much bigger, so much so that even those without any tracking expertise can tell it probably belong to a much bigger boar than the one the party just fought.
"We could try to hunt this huge boar, i bet it would be quite challenging...But maybe we should just play it safe and search another like the one we just fought...What do you think, ladies and gentlemen?", Aldern asks.
"I like a challenge! And I think the rest of us probably do too."
"Besides, a huge boar means more wild boar dinners afterwards!"
"I think that we may as well try for this boar. Worst comes to worst we simply give it an opening to run away through. Its instinct will surely be to run away at that point and not fight." Ansgar says while surveying the destruction the boar caused.
Denlar cracks his knuckles and gets ready for a fight.
"Aye but we won't be letting it go."
As the group follows the trail of destruction, the forest becomes emptier and quieter, it seems other animals never come to this part of the woods. A few minutes follow untill the group can hear a heavy and slow breathing coming from southeast, the creature seems to have noticed as well, because it stands up and grunts loudly. Aldern winces as you finally turn a corner and are able to see a huge boar amidst devastated trees.
"...Last chance to give up if you want, i don't think this boar will just run from us...", his grip tightens around his spear as the boar stares at him.
Turn Order:
Dire Boar
Garbund, Aldern, Kalais, Viridi, Ansgar, Denlar
The huge boar runs up to Aldern, unable to charge thanks to the many fallen trees in the way.
"S-stay away!", Aldern braces with the spear.
The spear gets a deep hit at the boar, but the beast just looks even more furious now.
"I will hold it Aldern, back up carefully!" Ansgar says while laying into the board with his sword, shield at the ready.
Denlar moves around to the side of the boar, trying to catch it between Ansgar and himself.
"Yer a great big Piggy aren't ye? I bet you will taste good on some bread soaking in butter."
Viridi swallows, the chattering of her companions receding to incomprehensible gibberish once more.
"Irori, dona nobis benedictionem tuam!" She intones, and power begins to suffuse the party's weapons...
Garbund tries to hit the boar with his boar spear
… and proves once again that he is definitely not a trained combatant!
Viridi blesses the group, who collectively tries to attack the boar but is unable to hit it. Aldern retreats, scared, and makes another attack.
He gets another lucky hit on the boar. Kalais steps awai from the beast and shoots an arrow at it.
She gets a well-aimed, but ultimately innefective hit on the beast, who's focused on Aldern. The boar steps closer to the noble and tries to gore him.
Aldern manages to barely evade what would likely be his certain death!
Any of you can act
Garbund tries to hit the boar with his boar spear - again
But hardly does any better this time
"Aldern, flee behind me!" Ansgar cries out.
It would not do to let our host die...
Asgar slashes with his blade again.
Denlar sees Ansgar on the far side of the boar and tried to draw as my spikes and razors up the beast as possible.
"Take that you big side of bacon!"
Viridi stumbles back, pulls her spear back, and throws it...
The group attacks once again but only Denlar manages to connects, piercing the boar with his spikes.
Aldern withdraws. "G-good luck!"
Kalais steps back to take another shot.
She gets another arrow at the beast, the boar bleeds from many wounds. The boar turns its attention to Ansgar.
And his horns hit hard, going through Ansgar's armor and knocking him out.
Viridi starts to panic as Ansgar is brutally gored and laid low. Almost without thinking, she releases a burst of healing energy from the palms of her hands. It floods the area, indiscriminately healing those caught within...
Ansgar falls to the ground in a heap, grunting from the pain.
Garbund, realizing he's nigh on useless with the boar spear, steps back and tries to shoot the boar with a spell
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Seeing Ansgar go down, doubles his effort to take this large ham down.
Seeing how he harmed the boar, Denlar yells "Come get your meat now before I wreck it."
Viridi channels healing energy, helping Ansgar to stop bleed but also giving some energy back to the dire boar. The two half-orcs attack again, and Denlar manages to connect with a powerful two handed smash at the boar's face.
Aldern musters his courage and tries to poke the almost dead boar.
But misses his attack. Kalais takes aim and shoots
Her arrow hits the boar on the side, the creature still tries a final attack against Denlar, but bleeds to dead before it has the chance to hit.
"...W-wow...That was a big boar...", Aldern mutters, crouching near Ansgar to see if he is fine. "I can ride back to sandpoint carrying him, can you four handle the two boars?"
Viridi gasps for breath and retrieves her spear before shakily walking over to Ansgar. "O-oh--oh my..."
"...I-I wasn't expecting that boar to put up so much of a fight..." She swallows and nods. "...I think I can help carry some boars back."
"Yes I can, I want half of the smaller one. I want the tusks as well, might make good shoulder spikes for my armor."
Denlar takes out his rope and ties it into the larger boar, then he opens his water skin and pours some on to Ansgar's face.
"Come round you. We killed him dead."
Ansgar wakes up, feeling less than optimal. As water rains down on his face he sputters for a breath. "Den.. Den.. Denlar! Enough. I'm awake." Ansgar coughs as he sits up.
Looking at the boar, "Yes, killed him dead you did indeed."
Standing fully, and thanking people for the concern, Ansgar begins to clean himself and his weapons of blood.
"So what next?"
"Seems like now's a good time to take the Boars back to Sandpoint."
"Ameiko and the Rusty Dragon cooks can make a lot of boar dinners now!"
"That was quite brave from all of you, i guess even my boar hunting skills can't measure up to real heroes...Has anyone seen our little friend?", he looks around worried.
"I'm sure he's fine.", Kalais shrugs. "Lets head back."
The journey back takes longer as the boars are much heavier than expect, Denlar doesn't have a horse, and everyone is half-exhausted from the run. Still, after one hour, the group arrives in Sandpoint. The townsfolk are mostly busy with their work and either don't see the big party with horses and boars or have decided to ignore it for some reason...
"Little friend?" Denlar looks confused
"He's probably talking about Squeeze, a goblin."
"He has helped us in the past against other goblins."
"He is a bit odd, though. Even for a goblin."
"Let us get our portion of the boar to Ameiko, she will be able to cook it better than any of us I dare say." Ansgar suggests as me moves on toward the inn.
"You probably want to do the same, friend.", Aldern says to Denlar. "Besides being an excellent cook, lady Kaijitsu owns one of the finest Inns in town, you might want a room there."
"I will share my portion of the kill, I might even be talked into helping around the town. You told me there are not giants around here so I will need some coin to travel further north to find some."
Denlar drags his share of the boars back
The group walks into the Rusty Dragon Inn, a large structure with an iron dragon figure at the roof, the inn smells of spiced food. A couple of patrons are chatting loudly, but they become quiet as the group walks in and move to a table on a far corner of the inn.
"Oh, good morning you all, looks like your boarhunt was a bloodbath.", Ameiko says, before lowering her voice. "I'm...Not sure what you did, but Ven Vinder, the owner of the general store, has been talking some pretty nasty stuff about all of you..."