Fisnis looks at the beasts and laughs at it. He than charges at the beasts.
Fisnis seeing that he can not reach the beast moves towards it.
Fisnis swings his sword at the beast.
Fisnis charges at the beast with grin.
As Finik charges, he yells "Taste my Axe!"
The barbarian nods, distant, in appreciation as the spell of protection is placed over him. He feels a comforting warmth, but the focus his senses are reserved on the enemy. After his toss, Yuma is incredulous for a moment as his javelin strikes home. He had never before in his life needed to attack another living thing with the intent to seriously wound or kill, and yet the action came some readily for him that it was almost instinctive and reflexive. Without spending any more time in hesitation Little Horn grips his poleaxe and rushes foward, attempting to remember his boyhood training, and releasing a savage howl more to steel himself then frighten a foe.
Lokti, bolstered by the fact that his shot met its mark, focuses all of thoughts on one thing: his target. All of his discipline and training coming to the fore, Lokti releases two more arrows at the creature.
Unfortunately, Lokti is distracted at the last moment and his shots are not as straight as intended.
"Use it well my friend," Razz says to the barbarian. He runs towards the brute to see if he can give it an even worse time, summoning both his lamest insults and forces from beyond the Void.
"Hey, ugly," he yells, extending a finger, "headache, much?"
Razz pauses to breathe for a moment.
"Well that was... intense. Mr. Fisnis, do you find they usually go down that easy?"
He walks up to the creature's corpse and starts doing a search on it with mage hand. Then Razz looks to the sky.
"Well, we don't have much night left. I'm willing to nap for a bit longer, although this time I'm sleeping next to my crossbow. We could also strike out–I don't know about you guys, but that certainly woke me up. What do you say?"
Looking at the body before him than back at the Duraz Fisnis says "I do not know. I trained myself to know magical creatures this is not a magical creature." He than turns to walk over to the fire than says "We should burn the body. The blood might bring animals on the hunt here."
Lokti winces as he feels the a little bit of blood running from the wound he received. He looks to the others, unsure of how to take care of his wound having had no training in that area. "I don't suppose anyone knows how to dress this?
Yuma just stares at the...thing that attacked while he retrieves his javelin. He had often viewed death and gore on the steppe when warriors from his tribe returned from battle, but had never personally taken part. It was an unsettling feeling.
"It used weapons. Like a warrior. Why would a single warrior willingly attack such a large group of armed combatants, even at night? Are these beasts a common menace here?"
Little Horn turns to Lokti, looking concerned.
"I haven't been trained in medicine and healing, but I've seen enough doctoring to help someone who is."
Looking at Lokti Fisnis says "I can dress the wound." He than goes over to look at Lokti's wound before dressing it.
Yuma and Fisnis are able to dress the wound and then Ghadame comes over and places her hand gently on the wound "Be healed little one" she says and her hand starts to glow.
"There that should be better." She then looks at Yuma and nods "Unfortunately such things are common in these woods, and much more vial creatures will lurk deeper with in, we're still on the very outskirts but be sure that as we travel further on our journey things like this will be common place. He most likely wanted foot and saw us as an opportunity to eat." Ghadame then takes a moment to glance at the beast and squints her eyes at it.
"Looks like that used to be a bugbear and your fight Fis we should probably burn the body, but those things typically way about 400 pounds so I won't be any help in moving it" she says having enough knowledge to properly identify the creature.
I feel much better now. Thank you, madam. And you as well, Fisnis and Yuma.
”Nice job, glad to see you can use that large sword almost as well as I wield my axe haha. ” Fin says to Fisnis, he then puts his great axe on his back and waits for Razz to take off the bugbear’s equipment. Then after his brother has looted the body, Fin will offer to help move the creature to the fire. ”Since ya’ll killed this beast before I got here it’s only fair I help with clean up. Besides my brother and sister aren’t very good when it comes to anything evolving strength hehe.” Fin laughs as he goes to move the body. Whoever helps him move the body he will offer them to share a drink of whiskey with him.
Looking at Finik Fisnis says "I will help you move it. The faster we can get rid of the body the quicker we can sleep. "
After Fin and Fisnis move the body, Fin takes out his flask and takes a drink then offers it to Fisnis. "Thanks for the help Fisnis. It's odd, these beasts usually never attack alone there could be more around so the remaining watches should be ready for more intruders. Who knows maybe a Minotaur heard us then we can really test our skills out hehe." Fin says.
Fisnis shakes his head at the offer of the flask than says "So this thing might of some allies? This one might of been a scout that got little ahead of itself."
"I wonder if we should try to track his footsteps a little bit to see if we can find out if there is more of them."Fin suggests.
Fisnis thinks for a moment than says "That might be a bad idea. We do not know how many more of these there are if more are about or if this one was just a trap. I think we should just rest so we can move on."
"I agree with Fisnis. We finish out the night and get moving early in the morning. I'd rather not engage a bunch of bugbears in the dark when as a party we can't see well at night. We do need to get rid of that body quickly so we don't attract his friends."
Fisnis looks around as the group walks through the woods.
Yuma twitches uncomfortably at the burning of the body that his party had slain. It could use weapons. It was intelligent. It probably had friends and family in with its people. And he had helped to kill it. The thought made him nearly as nauseous as the smell of the burning flesh. It made the barbarian feel even worse that he mourned the passing of an enemy rather than celebrated like most among his people. If possible he felt even more distant from the family he had left behind. Little Horn sleeps poorly that night, mulling over recent events and jotting down his feelings in poetic verse in his personal tome when he couldn't get any decent rest.
The following day Yuma stops short in their travels as he sees more beasts ahead. He attempts to pull off into the foliage before any potential enemy notices him.
"Danger ahead. More beast men. Bugbears, Ghadame called them. [He whispers to any group member that doesn't appear to notice.]"
Horned creatures are revered in Little Horn's tribe, who worship the spirit of the ram, and as he sees the minotaur he tries to recall any stories he may have heard about the powerful looking brutes.
As Yuma tries to sneek into the woods he steps into a puddle on the forest floor making a bit of a sloppy splashing sound(more mud than water) but it doesn't seem that the beasts noticed him. Ghadame sneaks off into the woods behind Yuma and Thor goes off into the woods after her.
[ooc]Ghadame's Stealth Check:
[ooc]Thor's stealth check:
You seem to remember from the stories told around many fires that these beasts have been scorned by the civilized races centuries ago and born from a deific curse. They have hunted, slain, and devoured lesser humanoids in retribution for real or imagined slights for as long as anyone can remember. Your culture has legends of how the first minotaurs were created by vengeful or slighted gods who punished humans by twisting their forms, robbing them of their intellects and beauty, and giving them the heads of bulls.
Fin moves with his sister to watch over her since sneaking around just isn't her. He will not let her know he's behind her if I can. He actually stays quiet and focuses on the beastmen.
Lokti, seeing the beasts ahead, decides to try and get a better view. He whispers to the group, "I am going to attempt to get a better vantage point."
Razz hears his siblings in trouble and bolts over as quickly as he can to do... something about it.
"Don't worry guys, if they come near us I'll give them something to freak out about."
Fin picks up his sister with ease, he whispers, "Jeez sis, I think you alerted the whole camp." After he helps her out of the mud, he takes out his sling and begins to load it as the creatures point to them. He then whispers an idea to Ghadame"Hey Damey(Maybe annoying nickname for Ghadame hehe) do you have that one spell ready that uses the plants,(he pauses for a moment and tries to think of the name.) You know the one you used to slow me down at the site so foreman finally caught me"(Entangle). Fin will wait for his brother's okay before he acts, since he has screwed up his spells in the past.
Ghadame growls a little as she is helped out of the mud. "Had you not snuck up on me it wouldn't have been a problem. And yes I have entangle ready. Though I'm going to have to be careful if I use it because the people who like to be more up close and personal won't be able to get that close." Ghadame stood her ground readying for the upcoming battle.
Fisnis draws his sword than looks at it as it beings to glow.
Fisnis moves closer to the enemy.