Vic fires at the beast as it engages with The Boulder.
Again Vic fires at the beast as it engages with The Boulder.
Her lips slightly blue (cold was an unusual sensation for the girl), Kat shivers as she glances at Helen's prone form. She hoped the other woman was still alive and wished there was some way to help. Healing or first aid was not her strong point however, even when not being attacked by flying creatures. It seemed the best thing to do would be to help bring the odd beast down so that Tursk or one of the others could aid her. Her eyes narrowed on the beast as it tried to avoid the assaults of her other companions. Another blast shot from her upraised palm....
I will shoot at it
piercing
Tursk applies pressure to Helen's wounds to stabilize her.
"Come on, Lass, stay with us."
The ice beast takes a massive beating from Barl and tries to get away, but arrows and a blast from kat doom it as it flees. You watch it explode into shards as kats blasts does it in. Tursk, stabilizes Helen leaving you hurt and standing on the shore with the trail ahead of you,
Maybe a short rest is in order before pressing on?
Tursk places a finger above Helen's forehead and evokes positive healing energy into her.
"Actually, unless someone here has a healing potion, I think we should find a place to rest for the night. I don't have anymore spells left in me. And too many of us are hurt. We're no good to anyone if we die ourselves."
Helen opens her eyes, which are crossed to focus on the finger on her forehead.
"Well," she says, "Been a while since I've woken up like this..."
Thanking Tursk and getting to her feet, she looks around and realizes she's been dragged across the remainder of the frozen river.
"What did I miss? What's our situation?"
"We're hurt, and I'm out of healing magic. Pressing on in our state is too risky. I was suggesting we camp for the night. I can find us a spot with some cover from the wind. We can boil the snow for drinking water. And it shouldn’t be too hard to trap some rabbits."
Barl is jumping up and down stomping on the ice crystal/ remains of the creature. "Oh nothing, just smashing some stupid ice monsters. All in a days work for The Boulder." he continues kicking/ stomping/ flinging remains happily.
Once he's done, "So who wants to camp out for the evening? I've got a spot in my tent! Promise I don't snore or fart!" "I even know some spooky stories."
I agree, let's rest, but it is also cold out, we have to make sure we don't freeze at night
Vic begins to unpack his tent upon the selection of an appropriate campsite.
Should we set a watch? I will gladly take the early duties. Let's get a fire going, shall we. That should help take the sting out of this bitter cold.
"A fire sounds good. I'll get some wood."
Tursk, leads you deeper into the woods, well off the trail, even though you leave easy to spot tracks. With the reaming daylight hours you find a nice, defensible spot and Tursks traps seem to indeed bring some rabbit, just not enough for everyone it seems.
Kat has no trouble finding some wood, even if its damp and slow to burn because of the deep snow. After a short while you have a nice warm fire, some food and a location you can defend a bit when the sun sets upon you. Some of you may even have tents to keep the cold wind out and off the damp, frozen snow packed ground.
"I don't know that I would be the best lookout, and I don't want to hold everyone up with spell preparations in the morning, so if nobody objects I'd like to get to sleep promptly so I can rise early and be ready to go as soon as possible."
Helen then sets up her tent and bedroll, spends a few minutes reviewing and notating her spellbook, casts a couple of cantrips, and goes to sleep.
Tursk takes one of the watches. And contemplates the unnatural cold. Something is very wrong in his forrest.
The night passes without much in the way of trouble, each person takes a watch and most see no trouble or even life at all. The wind howls and the cold drops to deadly deep winter temperatures, keeping most of you near frozen. The morning sun greets you, but adds no real warmth and many of you are not as warm and toasty as you would like.
Vic awakens with a chill in his bone. He packs up his tent and takes a few nibbles on some rations, wondering,
Will I ever get warm again?
Vic completes his preparations for further travel, checks his armor straps and weapons.
Let's get moving, then. It may be the only way to keep warm.
He heads back on the trail.
Tursk finishes his morning prayers and agrees with Vic.
"Let us delay no longer. "
As they resume their trek, Helen again magically warms her boots, and offers the same to Katarina. Then, turning to Tursk, she says, "Mr. Krune, thank you for your help earlier," and heats his boots as well.
I think somethin' was watching us... maybe something still is." Kat says with a shiver that had little to do with the cold. "I kept hearin' something movin' last night. Never could see it though."
She smiles at Helen's offer but shakes her head. "Cold never really bothers me none. My toes are plenty warm. Mebbee one of the boys could use it."
The morning is still young as you make your way down the trail, the nights snow has covered some of it, but its still easy to follow. Blowing snow makes visibility over long ranges harder, but you are starting to see a hill in the distance.
You are walking along, with trees to either side when the attack comes. Tursk's picks up a noise but he has little time to act. And Bolts lash out from the woods to fall upon the group
The bolts come out of the trees, one hitting vic and one hitting Kat. The four men throw down their crossbows and charge out of the woods, two to a side, weapons drawn
Surprise:
Group 1:
Group 2:
Tursk:
Who is attacked/ Attack and damage
Group 1
*1: attack: Damage
*2: attack: Damage
Group 2
*3: attack: Damage
*4: attack: Damage
Init for round 1:
Vic
Barl
Kat
Jack
Helen
Round 0
Tursk
Round 1
Barl, Helen
Group 1 {on he left}
Jack
Group 1 ( on the right)
Tursk,Vic, Kat
Helen extends a hand toward the pair of assailants on the left and shouts in a stern voice, "Sleep!"
"You dare attack travelers without parley?! May Old Deadeye curse you!"
Tursk raises his mace and says a word of power. Immediately Vic's wounds close.
He moves to one of the bandits and brings down his weapon.
After Helen casts her spell, Barl sprints to the other flank, eager to take down a bandit or two.
"Ha, ambush us and still get beat down!" Barl mocks the bandits as he swings Ulga.
Tursk laughs at the bandits as he lifts his mace again to bludgeon his enemies.
"For home and hearth!" Tursk yelled as a battle-cry.
Caught in an ambush, Tursk leaps into action, attacking one of the men on the right with his mace, scoring a solid hit. Helen springs into action next, casting a spell and catching both attackers in mid charge, they stumbled a few feet , then crash into the ground like sacks of oats. Barl joins Tursk in attacking the two on the right, but swings too wide to land a blow.
Seemingly not understanding yet that their fellow ambushers now slumbered on the other side of the road, the two on the right press the attack. Tursk gets his mace up, deflecting the blow, but Barl feels the sting of the bandits sword . Tursk, does however, connect another hard blow on his opponent.
attack on Tursk damage
Attack on Barl damage
Round 1
Jack, Vic and kat have yet to go.
Round 2
Barl, Helen,Jack
Group 1 ( on the right)
Tursk,Vic, Kat
Helen turns to the right and fires off a cantrip at one of the remaining attackers.
,
With a shrill yell, Kat lets loose a blast of energy at the bandit who injured Barl.
If Kat comes under melee attack herself, she casts armor of agathys, otherwise she looses another eldritch blast at whichever bandit seems 'most dangerous' to her at the time.
towards heads toward the nearest concious enemy with duel daggers.
Tursk continues his assault but misses by a wide margin.
Barl feels no shame in goading the bandit and then missing, then getting hit himself.
"Bah, lucky!"
Vic wades in with his rapier and sticks the bandit on Tursk.
another set of duel daggers in melee with whatever creature is hurt the most
for sneak attack.
+1 for base =10 damage total on the one that hit Barl.
Helen and Kat both blast one of the remaining attackers, while Barl and Vi move to finish off the other quickly. Jack Puts the last hit on an already reeling attacker. The fight is over in mere seconds. You are left in the road, with two very dead attackers and two sleeping, one of which gentility snores in the snow.
Tursk moves over and kicks away the bandits weapons. He then puts away his mace and holds his spear to one of the bandits necks and indicates the others to threaten the other as well.
"Let's wake them up. Mayhap these gentleman now what befell Lady Argentea. We'll just scare them a bit, and send them off without their weapons. In these woods, it's as good as a death sentence anyway. But perhaps the gods will be merciful."
Vic nods to Tursk and places one knee in the center of the other sleeping bandit's back and pulls up his head by the hair, exposing his neck. He quickly places the sharp end of his dagger to the bandit's throat.
It is not the gods they should fear, and I, for one, am not feeling very merciful today, but let's see what they have to say, shall we?
Tursk casts a spell to make his eyes glow white and his voice rumble like thunder.
Helen stands well back, behind her more martial allies, as she awaits the awakening of the prisoners.
Jack will not only strip them of weapons, but take off their armor and shirts. They will be forced to go shirtless in the cold.
The bandit stirs, he looks about, a bit shocked but eyes settle upon the dagger at his neck. The Man with the glowing eyes seems to be in charge so he speaks looking at Tursk "As I an't dead, ye want something. Out with it"
"A woman and her retinue were attacked by fey in these woods. We are looking for her. I want you to tell me everything you can about any sprites you've come across. If you don't, then your life has no redeemable value to me or mine. So think hard before you answer."
The bandit licks his lips "If you'll spare old quid here, I"ll tell ya all I know. Just let me be off well away from this place" He looks at the group trying to see if you will take his offer " And boy oh, can I tell you about them icy sorts, I can tell ya plenty!" He says grinning with broken teeth. Near by the second bandit still snores in the snow.