Kat presses forward nose first, to peek into the room from behind Barl. Her stomach growls rather loudly in the otherwise quiet room.
Behind the Half-orc you see nothing but a bear skin rug, some side doors( one of which has a glow of a light coming from it) and deer heads on the wall.
Helen walks calmly to the door that has light coming from it, and knocks politely. After all, it worked last time...
After Helen knocks, Tursk indicates for her to step to the side, in case of an ambush.
Vic positions himself to the side of the door, ready to attack with his rapier upon it opening, if necessary.
Helen gets no response from the knock, but it does echo though the large room.
Vic nods towards the door, and raises rapier.
Helen stands aside and says, "Alright, maybe we do this one your way, gentlemen. Just remember that the occupants could be our quarry rather than our enemies."
Kat sighs wistfully at the bubbling pot, shrugs at Beryl, then gets out of line of sight (hopefully) of anyone on the other side of the door the others are gathering around.
The door opens easily, to this room, the only room on the right and across from the kitchen. It is a small bed chamber, with a well locked and study chest near the bed. A few items lay on the bed, a loose bolt, a a bowl of some type of root, and a dirty rag. Likely this is where your half orc came from to answer your knock.
Vice heads to the chest as he rubs his hands together. He begins to search the chest for traps.
Helen rolls her eyes, confident that Vic knows full well the lady is not likely to be in the chest. Nevertheless, she patiently waits for him to finish his looting before trying to move on.
Vic does not noticed anything that would seem to be a rap, but the lock is very good it seems and well made, the same with the chest. You do not see a key, so your options are to leave it for later, try and pick the lock or smash the chest( which would likely let everyone know you are here)
Tursk whispers to Vic, "We can worry about the chest later. Let's try the next room."
Vic looks from chest to Tursk, then back. Licking his lips, he whispers,
Ohhhhh...alright, then. But I will come back for it.
"Well," Helen ponders aloud, "Before we bother opening random doors, let's have a look at the other side of that hearth, shall we?"
When you get near the fireplace, you hear voices. a group of people seems to be talking past the fireplace, you have not been speaking much as you neared it and likely they took any noise you made to be the half orc. You can make out five distinctive voices.
Edit: this roll was totally a 24 when I previewed. So that was my fault and I am gonna leave the roll as 24.
Motioning for her companions to wait, Helen strides calmly into the room, a sincere smile on her face. "A moment of your time, please?" she asks cheerily.
Tursk smiled as he thought, Brash woman.
He then took a place next to Helen, his shield held before him and his other hand inches from the mace that hung by his side.
"We would like to ask you about the whereabouts of a missing noble woman."
Helen glares sideways at Tursk's interruption, then goes back to smiling.
Vic also steps into the room but stays towards the door. He will position himself close enough to close and engage in melee combat immediately if things turn south.
At Helen they were confused, when Tursk came in they started to scramble to their feet. By the time Vic walks in someone is yelling "We got Intruders! Intruders in the house!" Whatever Helen may have planned, it seems like it will be bloodshed.
The room is dominated by a large table and two long benches, a door to the outside stands at the far wall, behind the table and bandits, and another door is to the right under the stairs.
Init
Vic
Barl
Tursk
Kat
Jack
Helen
Bandits 1-3
Bandits 4-5
Init:
Jack
Bandits 4 and 5
The rest of the group
Bandits 1,2 and 3
Barl bulls into the room, Ulga held high. "Fine, if you want it that way, but Kat and I are eating your stew after we kick your butts!!"
Barl will put the "thwack" on the first non-friend he sees.
Wide eyed, Kat stares into the room after the others, then seems to realize with a start that she is the only one not in there! Whoever these bandits were, they were yelling for help and she could only assume they weren't yelling for the ones already in the room with them - that would be silly. How many more were there, and where were they?
With a sqeak, she moves towards the doorway after the others and sends a bolt over helen's shoulder, aiming for one of the bandits. She stands at the door, half her attention on the fight in front of her, the other half watching for someone coming up behind her...
The first two Bandits spring into action, drawing blades and attacking Helen and Tursk, who are in front at that time. Helen takes a hard hit , while Tursk fends them off with his shield.
Barl comes bellowing around Helen with his Beloved Maul, caving in her attackers head dropping him like a stone. Kat is right behind him and aiming over Helen's shoulder hit Turks attacker with her icy blast. Her attack seems to raise cries of alarm with the bandits in the rear.
Bandit 4 at Helen damage
Bandit 5 at Tursk damage
INT round 1
Bandits 4 and 5( have gone)
Barl and kat( Have gone)
Everyone else in the group
Bandits 1-3
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Tursk sees Heaven take a heavy blow, and so he says a word of power, invoking Erastil's name to heal her wounds.
He then focuses on the bandit in front of him, and attempts to attack him with his mace.
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Vic slides up next to Helen and attacks the foe engaged with here with his Rapier.
Need some assistance, lady?
Alarmed and flustered, Helen extends a hand and hopes she can end the fight before it gets out of hand.
I will duel wield 2 daggers and move in to attack bandit number 2
Tursk misses his target as the bandit reacted to the icy blast, But Vic slips up and drops him with a well places stab. Helen puts an enchantment of slumber upon two of the three remaining Bandits and they crumble to the ground. The Last Attacker is meet by Jack and his blades, who injuries him with both weapons.
Int round 2.
Everyone
Bandit 3
Tursk moves nods to Vic in thanks, and then moves off to attack the bandit engaged with Jack. His mace rises and falls with the power of a crashing boulder as he strikes the bandit in the back of the head.
Barl will go for a knock out rather than a kill.
Vic, seeing everything in hand, begins to loot the dead or unconscious bodies and search the room.
yeah if he is still standing then
"Hurry, there might be more! They were yellin' for help," exclaims Kat, who is looking back behind her into the room they had come from.
Tursk beats the others to the last bandit and he goes down hard as he is distracted by Jack. Vic does not see anything out of the ordinary, but its not hard for him to hear movement coming from the doors on the left.
Ready my shortbow, it goes off if whatever comes is hostile.
Vic perks up upon hearing commotion behind the door. He cleans his rapier on his pant leg as he stealthily hides just on this side of the door, waiting to pounce on the enemy when he comes in or charge in and attack from his hidden spot.
Tursk hangs his mace on his belt and reaches for his holy symbol. He begins chanting a prayer.
Helen takes a deep breath, trying to calm her nerves, and waits quietly to see what happens next.
Barl leans casually against the wall, takes a sip from his horn of Mead and enjoys the heft of Ulga in his hands.
Kat waits nervously, the smell of stew still rather distracting.
The door to the right opens, and four, near naked sweaty mean rush out, they are armed with weapons but look sickly as they charge you, the bandit in the lead, although an unhealthy looking fella, dodges Turks spell, closing the distance.
Even as the four men charge into your midst, the stairs above you creak and you feel the temperature drop. Coming from the room above are two ice covered creatures, nothing but skeletons with an icy covering and a hellish blue glow from their eye sockets.
They simply jump the rail and are among you, causing the very air around you to drop to uncomfortably cold levels. The skeletons waste no time plowing into those around them. The first lands behind Helen and slashes her with its icy weapon leaving a cold chill behind The second lands beside Barl, who blocks the weapons aim with his mug.
Bandit 1 dex
Int
Vic
Vic
Barl
Tursk
Kat
Jack
Helen
Bandit
Skeletion
Who the skeletons attack
1 Attack Damage and cold damage
2 Attack Damage and cold damage
Init:
Skeletons {went}
Everyone but Barl
Bandtis
Barl
Vic again attempts to come to Helen's rescue by slipping his rapier into the ice creature.
Helen cries out in pain!
Helen tries her best to contribute, firing a bolt of fire at the other skeleton!
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Helen raises her arms in defense and tries to get some meat between her and the enemies!
Tursk scowls, hefts his mace and tries to bring it down on one of the sickly-looking thugs.
Kat releases another bolt of eldritch energy at the enemy...
Barl unloads with Ulga on the nearest skeleton.