Round 2-
Ordered Initiative-
Lil: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25
Enemies: 1d20 ⇒ 14
Grumblejack: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (14) - 1 = 13
Argan: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12
Kharn: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 1 = 10
Vlad: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
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Lil giggles and flies 90 feet closer, getting 15 feet off the ground. She points at the cleric with a mad cackle. "So blinded by your faith!"
Woody wastes no time. With terrifying speed from the haste spell, he charges and attacks James O'Toole!
Sister Marta takes a step forward chanting a spell, making Hallac stronger than he is!
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”Ye ask for a duel and your minions attack us! Villain, ye’ll be dealt with!” The Sergeant says advancing to meet Kharn.
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The dwarf smiles at the enemy's fate and joins the fight, with his big hammer.
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James moves to attack the treant.
but even with his superp agility, it isn't enough to avoid the abomination in front of him.
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Bianca DeVallya too cast a spells.
”Embrace thy friend, the darkness!”
Woody slams the insolent who-man!
Lil giggles and flies 90 feet closer, getting 15 feet off the ground. She points at the cleric with a mad cackle. "So blinded by your faith!"
Kharn gets really angry at Hallac for accusing him of cheating. "They aren't my minions you pompous twit!"
Kharn then shifts to be closer to his tree buddy.
Argan double moves to go around the poor enemies, taking some of the attention from Kharn's foes.
Vlad moves over a few more places and attempts to Dominate the Bard..
If she fails he tells her.. "Stop singing and come sit by the tree over here.." He indicates the tree to the north of him..
This makes him visible as well.. A dark cloaked figure with dark plate showing within the visage.. He wide brim hat protecting him from the sun's harmful rays.
Kharn attacks with one brutal sword blow, but misses the rest.
Argan moves closer.
Vlad tries to overtake the woman’s mind. but the woman's mind is strong and vlad enchantment does not works.
Round 3-
Ordered Initiative-
Lil: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25
Enemies: 1d20 ⇒ 14
Grumblejack: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (14) - 1 = 13
Argan: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12
Kharn: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 1 = 10
Vlad: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
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"Now that's not very nice, you shouldn't be seeing right now!" Lilpinny giggles and charges the cleric from the air, holding up a hand glowing with black energy.
Woody drools red sap and his small wound mostly closes up. He mindlessly raises his creaking arms and brings them down with ruthless force!
The dark energy takes root in the cleric's mind, but that don't make her falter, longsword in hand, punishment comes quickly after.
"Receive divine punishment!" the woman says as she attacks.
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"The big one is an enchanter of some sort!" the half-elf woman alert the others and moves to help Bianca against her enemy.
"May you find piece in death."
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Yourgun moves to attack the Kharn the ‘fleeing’ enemy.
”Ain’t working for no bad guy!” he answers Argan.
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Hallac continues his attacks
”Surrender and be spared, resists and know death!”
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James hasn’t been so lucky with his foe, but that didn’t prevent him from attacking:
Missing woody miserably...
Lil sucks in some air at the wound, but grins through it. She had suffered far worse before, usually at her own hand. In fact, she would show the silly cleric. Yes, that would show her! With a sick grin Lil flies back five feet, then slits her own wrist with her dagger. Giggling madly, she points at Hallock and a black ray springs from her hand!
Woody is nothing if not persistent. The small moving creature would stop moving eventually under his tender embrace.
Vlad frowns.. "We'll do it the hard way then.." He moves to attack the bard. Smite as a swift..
Argan steps up to the leader, knowing he was keeping their little band together and thus his demise would be necessary so they could surrender. He strikes multiple times, although not exactly with the regular precision. "Just keep my offer in mind dwarf. We will negotiate it in some seconds."
Damage: 1d8+6str+2spec+2favor+
Kharn puts all of his strength into attacking the leader in the hopes of bringing him down.
In one, swify brutal moment, every of the advetures, save for the Cleric are dead, laying broken and destroyed on the ground.
Lil gives a twisted laugh as the adventurers fall. "Yay!" She floats back up to the cleric and lands on her shoulder. "Let's keep her!"
Seeing everything as lost and her allies dead, the sister breaks
"You aren't taking me alive!" she yells readying to fall in her own sword.
"Noooo, you must be my friend!" She quickly casts a spell and touches the cleric!
Dropping his sword Vlad will grapple the woman to prevent the suicide.. He provokes in doing so.. swift action to smite her for the cmb bonus..
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The woman resists Lil Spell, but Vlad inevitably grabs her. The Horny vampire using this opportunity to ‘feel’ the nun body, just because, he can.
”Get your stinking hands off me you monster!” the woman yells.
"Ooh let's get those manacles of cooperation on her! She'll be sure to be nice then!"
Argan looks to either side. "You know, I though this would be a little bit harder... I'm kinda disappointed..." The rogue retrieves the manacles and put on the prisoner.
He's kinda confused, tough. "Wouldn't killing yourself be the ultimate damnation from your god? I mean, what good is to be dead instead of alive, if the place where you went to is worse than here?"
After his words were absorbed Argan still has something to improve the chances the sister avoids trying to kill herself. "Don't worry, Sis. As long as you behave and help us when we get your ransom from the other sisters, everything is going to be fine. How much do you think you're worth?"
Vlad attempts to pin the woman..
"Ok get the manacles on her!!"
It takes some many tries, but in the end, the knot is able to subdue the sister.
With that, they return to the horn, to plot and achiev Talingard's destruction.
Vlad will take the heads of any of the hero's not reanimated by Lil, if there are any that is.. "Well that was uneventful. To bad the other chick had to die. I had some fun planned for her, but thankfully the sister here lives." He gets an ever so delighted look on his face at the last statement..
Argan shruggs. "Yeah, for a second we thought they would be up to the challenge and used everything we had... what a pity."
During the next week, the knot takes turns ‘questioning’ the nun. It does not takes much to break the woman.
Questioning her don’t reveal much information, except for the fact that, the Abbey of Saint Cynthia-Celeste, usually called simply the Abbey by locals, the large walled manor house is home to a devout order of Mitran nuns. The nuns are a common sight about town dressed in their dark blue and white habits. These “brides of light” are a chaste and cloistered order, but still must frequently leave their abbey to conduct their business. They are a relatively young order, their founder having been martyred only a hundred and fifty years ago. However, the order has more than three hundred sisters within its walls, less than twenty of them have the ability to use divine magic. Owing to their founder being a devil-hunter, every sister of the abbey receives some basic military training and they maintain an armory. While this is not well-known about town, now that the garrison is gone the sisters of Saint Cynthia-Celeste are actually the largest fighting force in Farholde. They could must more than a hundred trained fighting nuns backed by divine spellcasters if Farholde were directly endangered.
Recounting of Evilness
“Let ye with wisdom hear my words and understand my plead. It was darkness before everything until the cursed light came into being. Let ye with wisdom understand my words and hear my plead. From darkness we came, to darkness we shall return.”
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The ritual starts, the heart ripped of the cultist still beats inside the bowl in the statue.
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”With the cursed light, the perfect darkness was broken. With the cursed light, the sin was born, disparity arrived. What once was one now is many. What once had unity, now wage war against itself. Cursed be the light.”
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An alien voice of pure malice speaks in abyssal: “Kazara Vo” -- “I hear.” Can be heard.
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”But now, as the light fades and the world is once more sheathed in the darkness blessing, Call him and it will be heard, Call him and pray for his blessing. Vetra Kali Eats-the-Eye!”
“Let ye with wisdom hear my words and understand my plead. It was darkness before everything until the cursed light came into being. Let ye with wisdom understand my words and hear my plead. From darkness we came, to darkness we shall return.”
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Hallack, a former sergeant, trying to escape his life in the army, decides to take up adventuring and explore the horn, never reached the place. He and his crew slaughtered before reaching the place.
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”With the cursed light, the perfect darkness was broken. With the cursed light, the sin was born, disparity arrived. What once was one now is many. What once had unity, now wage war against itself. Cursed be the light.”
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The priestess taken as hostage.
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”But now, as the light fades and the world is once more sheathed in the darkness blessing, Call him and it will be heard, Call him and pray for his blessing. Vetra Kali Eats-the-Eye!”
“Let ye with wisdom hear my words and understand my plead. It was darkness before everything until the cursed light came into being. Let ye with wisdom understand my words and hear my plead. From darkness we came, to darkness we shall return.”
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Farholde is quiet. No new adventurers arrive.
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”With the cursed light, the perfect darkness was broken. With the cursed light, the sin was born, disparity arrived. What once was one now is many. What once had unity, now wage war against itself. Cursed be the light.”
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Organization Action: Gather Information DC 8:
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”But now, as the light fades and the world is once more sheathed in the darkness blessing, Call him and it will be heard, Call him and pray for his blessing. Vetra Kali Eats-the-Eye!”
“Let ye with wisdom hear my words and understand my plead. It was darkness before everything until the cursed light came into being. Let ye with wisdom understand my words and hear my plead. From darkness we came, to darkness we shall return.”
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A new group of adventures arrive in Farhold.
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”With the cursed light, the perfect darkness was broken. With the cursed light, the sin was born, disparity arrived. What once was one now is many. What once had unity, now wage war against itself. Cursed be the light.”
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The White Ravens wipe out a newly arrived adventurering group calling themselves “Brendam’s Breakers”.
Elise sends this: “New adventurers in town calling themselves ‘Brendam’s Breaker’. They have been broken. No further difficulties. -- Z”
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”But now, as the light fades and the world is once more sheathed in the darkness blessing, Call him and it will be heard, Call him and pray for his blessing. Vetra Kali Eats-the-Eye!”
During the first week Kharn walks over and talks to his followers. "You lot get down to Farhold and start doing some jobs, and keep your nose clean while you're down there. I don't want any incidents leading back to me. We'll talk every week, and I'll have a new job ready for you on the fourth week. While you're out there try to learn about the town more." Kharn also talks to Argan. "Hey, if you don't mind would you send out some people to kidnap peasants for our hydra? I'm going to try and make the boggards able to do that, but they probably need some work first."
After talking to his minions Kharn heads out to Farholde to pick up his hammer and try to find someone to buy his old greatsword. After getting his new hammer Kharn will head back to his boggard minions and he'll take over training his boggards. Training them in the ways of combat and tactics. After the first week though Kharn realizes how ill equipped his boggards are so he heads in Farholde during the second week and he orders a longspear for half of the boggards and shortspears for the other half.
During the second week Kharn checks in with his minions in Farholde to make sure they are working and doing well. With his boggards Kharn begins training them in the use of longspears and shortspears together to make them into an actual dangerous force. He can't talk to them that well so he just shows them through the use of example. After that week is over Kharn will take his boggards out to kidnap some people for feeding to the hydra.
Meeting up with his human minions during the fourth week's meeting Kharn sits them all down. "You guys have been doing good by doing legitimate things, so now it's going to pay off. Now that you've established yourself as legitimate workers I need you to spread some misinformation for me. I need you to convince the people that there's a ghost in the woods that's attacking people. If you succeed then I'll have a round of drinks ready for you all when you get back."
Kharn will go out and buy some good alcohol for his minions in case they succeed. He will then head out with his boggard minions to kidnap some more people for the hydra.
The day and night passes and no more messages arrive from Farhold, things seems to have calmed down, somewhat.
One particular night, as the knot sleeping footsteps echoes in the night and then someone is banging at Argan’s door.
”Sir! Wake up! Sir! We are being attacked!”
Argan gets up immediately, drawing weapons and gathering his stuff before opening the door, since one can never be too careful. "What or who is attacking us?"
"Don' know sir. Only found the bodies." the man answers, leading Argan towards the bodies they found.
A quick glance is enough to see a bit mark each of the bodies. Whatever killed the thugs, bite them to death. The marks suggest a big canine or wolf.
Glancing around, Argan notices two other thugs observing from the sidelines. Strangely enough they seem 'uncomfortable' standing there , as if not used to their own bodies. Also, they are only listening and not saying a word, but keep glancing at each other, as if talking.
"We're gonna find whoever did this. We're going to recruit them, since they can be worthy allies to our cause." He doesn't look at the wherewolves, shapeshifters or whatever those were. Instead, he waves his hand in front of him to empower his voice and summon the others, just in case these wolf guys run fast.
He lets his booming voice shake the walls and wake the others, while showing these new thugs who's the boss around here. "Knot, assemble! We have a problem to solve."
While they wake and gather he commands the thugs around them to wait and keep watch, lowering his tone. "Now, no one else dies tonight. Keep aware of your surroundings, but don't leave this place. If there are enemies wandering around, we will stick together and find them. Did I make myself clear?" He makes eye contact with all the thugs around him, one at a time.
You keep your attention focused on the thugs partially ignoring the werewoulfs, shapeshifters or whatever they are, and when you are speaking to your followers, some strange movements in the corner of your eye draw your attention.
The two you noticed earlier, their bones and meat shifting and deforming, assuming a hound like figure. The creature appears to be a large grayish-black sleek hound standing about 3 feet tall at the shoulder. Its triangular head has a somewhat human appearance. Its eyes are white with amber pupils.
The moon dog is a large wolfhound from the outer planes (believed to have its origins on the plane of Elysium). Moon dogs often enter the Material Plane when evil has grown to an immeasurable level in an area. Otherwise, they are found in the employ of deities, solars, planetars, and the most powerful devas. Moondogs forepaws are prehensile and resemble human hands.
NG Medium outsider (extraplanar, good) known as Moon Dog.
A moon dog attacks with its powerful bite. If faced by particularly powerful or evil opponents, the moon dog opens combat with its bay attack. Moon dogs' prehensile hands could facilitate the use of weapons, though none have ever been encountered wielding such items.
They are resistant to magic and its bark has ill effects against evil creatures and buffs effects against good creatures.
A moon dog's natural weapons, as well as any weapons it wields, are treated as good-aligned for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.
And it has several spell like abilities.
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Instead of attacking, the dogs starts to bark loudly and suddenly fear grips your mind.
Vlad will exit his room and head towards the sound pronto.. He drinks a potion of expeditious retreat and quickly moves towards Argans sleeping quarters..
Lil frowns. What's all the noise about? She says the word to teleport to the second floor, then heads over.
Kharn wakes up slowly not happy about his sleep being interrupted. Groggily getting up and walking forward he picks up his hammer and walks towards the stairs leading up to the sound of Argan's voice.
Argan realizes there would be no recruitment to be had today. More than that, although he thought he could buy some time for the other useless folks to come, that freaking howl crept deep down on his nerves, making him realize this was not worthy it. He would need to regroup with the others, but how? The creatures were in the way, so he ran the other way, behind Grumblejack to get in room 2-11 and later 2-12, where he could jump out of the hole on the wall away from the evil good creatures.
The ogre hold his feet when the dogs started howling. Argan passed near him fleeing and that was the order for him to flee as well.
"Daeg's. Grumblejack don't like them!" he says moving further away from the outsiders.
Round 2
Ordered Initiative-
Enemies: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27
Argan: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7
Active Effects-
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Using their superior mobility, the dogs start plucking out the fleeing villains, not caring if they are simple henchman or the big deal.
One thing is certain; they are not trying to leave any survivors.
Lil keeps moving towards the noise curiously.
Move as fast as possible till I arrive on the scene. However long that takes..