Torod casts Flaming Sphere on the far side of the two headed troll and has it run into them.
Chuffy charges at the creature (accepting any AoO).
Chuffy Bite: bull, charge
Asta focuses her Evil Eye on the Troll in an effort to lower its defense against physical harm!
Torod's ball of fire lands on the big troll's foot. He seems to try to go both ways, but fails at either, and the ball's flame chars his wound, which stops closing. Chuffy tries to harry the troll's other leg, but can't find purchase. Asta's spell takes hold - her foe's hide cracks in a few places, offering the promise of weak spots if a weapon can find them.
Arctorus's axe-swing catches on the troll's hide, scraping skin off but doing little in the way of actual damage. Arabeth continues throwing Life Links around, this time tying herself to Arctorus, and she readies...something.
The troll lashes out with its claws, raking across Arctorus's chest, then follows with a vicious bite to his shoulder with its right head. Its left head, however, is much more interested in the little (to it) thylacine harassing its feet. It reaches down and chomps on Chuffy, opening a massive wound on either side of the beast's chest.
Asta moves closer to the battlefield and continues to focus the power of the Evil Eye on the Troll...!
Arctorus grits his fangs against the attacks, bringing hairs axe down hard again at the troll’s left head.
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Arabeth grimaces, though what causes her distress is not immedately obvious.
Her distres seeming to cause her to drop the potion in her grasp, even as she administers the healing wand to herslef.
Since the troll didn't move, the Flaming Sphere can damage it again.
Torod fires twice.
Comp Longbow, mw mighty +2: tiger aspect, rapid shot, precise shot
Comp Longbow, mw mighty +2: tiger aspect, rapid shot, precise shot
Chuffy takes step to the side and, now flanking with Arctorus, bites the troll.
Chuffy Bite: flank
Between Arctorus, Chuffy, and Torod, the troll shudders, then slowly falls to its hands and knees. It glares defiance at Arctorus, but it quickly succumbs to its wounds. The flaming sphere continues to char its flesh, making it impossible to regenerate, and before long, it's well and truly dead.
On its corpse, there are two amulets. The first sits around the troll's left neck like a choker, almost cutting into its flesh. The second is wrapped in a filthy cloth and shoved in a bag
Arctorus looks at the troll and scoffs at it, before pushing it over with his foot. He then looks at his axe curiously. ”I thought you killed trolls better?” he asks it.
"What did you have to pay the merchant again for that axe?" Asta asks Arctorus while she loosens the two necklaces and looks them over.
"Ah," she soon says. "Good. Useful! The first one is an amulet of natural armour. I'd suggest giving it to one of our frontliners, Arctorus or Torod. The second is a necklace of fireballs; it has five left, one big, two small, two medium. Very useful… to someone other than me; I can't use fire. Arabeth, maybe you?"
Arabeth finishes healing her ills... Then moves to aid those others who've been hurt.
At Lady Arabeth's question she blinks.
"I am a practitioner of some arcane arts... I'm... not sure about throwing fire around, though?" She replies.
At Asta's question, he looks at her and it and said "I dunno. I think I married it. Whatever that is..."
With the two-headed troll dead and looted, the party returns to their city. Their pockets are only slightly lighter, though they've paid for their new-found tools in other ways. Now, all that remains (as their advisors remind them) is to strike out for the trolls' lair and put an end to the threat they pose.
Arabeth sees to her horse, her gear and enjoying a good meal and the town's amenities. The last chance she may get to enjoy 'Civlization' for some time to come.
"This time," Asta says to the party on the way back, "we need to leave our city in good security and good control. Any objections to appointing lord Lebeda as temporary seneschal?"
"Sure. Sounds good to me."
With Kesten Garess in place to help keep the peace at home and their shopping done, the rulers of Stagland leave their town and head south. Their path takes them through the grassy hills of the Kamelands. Before too long, however, they find themselves passing through the already-falling leaves of the Narlmarch. Fall is upon the Stolen Lands, and with it, the harvest comes soon.
As you enter the southern, deep forest, the weather takes a turn for the worse, and though the foliage is still thick above the narrow path through the Narlmarch, cold rainwater drips from the leaves and soaks each member of the party. It's in this rain that you pick up troll signs, and lots of them; the trolls aren't being subtle about their home.
Nor is their home subtle. From the edge of a clearing in the woods, you can see the wall of a dwarven outpost jutting from a wall of rock. Far up on the hill, only a narrow approach offers a way up to its door - and if there's anyone keeping watch from the tower on the top of the sheer hill, any approach will be easy to spot.
Arabeth looks on at the imposing sight. She prepares to dismount. She absently touches the great clasp about her cape.
"I could.... look over the area... Possibly..." She offers/suggests.
"Perhaps we might use something a little less conspicuous than a flying woman," Asta suggests with a polite cough.
Croft also coughs.
"Um… That king troll saw me when you met him, right? What if he's given his underlings orders to shoot at all ravens…? Does anyone else see any birds flying about?"
Arabeth bows her head in acknowledging Lady Asta's wisdom and continues to propare for the group's encounter.
"Chuffy and I could scout ahead." Torod moves up.
Stealth
Chuffy Stealth
Chuffy sends an avalanche of rocks careening down the slope as he and Torod approach the tower. However, at exactly that moment, there's a deafening roar from inside, then another, and the sounds of huge amounts of meat on meat. Torod nearly trips over the shattered remains of the stone door, only to see two trolls slamming into each other, claws extended, in the dim light the arrow-slits around the room let in.
Torod signals back that there are two in the room.
Arabeth does her best to move quietly up to where Torod and Chuffy have moved to.
Before heading over, Asta casts two spells on herself in quick succession. Then she tries to be as stealthy as she can!
The party manages to make their way to the doorstep. Inside, the two trolls back away from each other, panting heavily as their wounds slowly knit shut. One sniffs the air, then shrugs.
Arctorus looks to the others and readies his axe before stepping inside the doorway and down a bit, moving to keep the green men in reach for future attacks.
Asta fixes the toughest-looking troll in the sight of eyes gone ruby-red and unleashes the power of her Evil Eye!
Torod targets the closer of the two.
Comp Longbow, mw mighty +2: tiger aspect
Torod's arrow punches into the (blue) troll's side, and it snaps around to howl at its attacker. The other (red) troll shakes its head, then shrugs off Asta's spell - or at least most of it.
Asta keeps her Evil Eye trained on the red troll.
"Somebody kill it before my hexes wear off!" she grunts, strained.
Arabeth moves to give Torod, Chuffy and Arctorus more room while she extends her healing powers over Arctorus in preparations for the impending conflict.
Torod moves into the room and casts causing it to damage the red troll.
Chuffy attacks blue troll.
Chuffy Bite: bull focus
The red troll is neither fast enough to dodge Torod's fire, nor is it able to shrug off Asta's magic. Chuffy is more than able to take out a chunk of the blue troll's leg.
The troll set ablaze by Torod's sphere rushing toward the half-elf and trying to get purchase with its huge jaws. However, its teeth scrabble on the man's armor.
Arctorus tightens his grip on his new axe he had just...married...and swings it furiously at the troll in blue, but his second swing is horribly off course and misses by a mile!
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The blue troll takes Arctorus's first hit to the thigh, leaving a wound that, in spite of the monster's regeneration, is too deep to stitch completely shut. It bellows, returning blows to its two attackers.
Asta refocuses her Evil Eye, now targeting the troll!
Arabeth extends second 'Life link' to Torod. Drawing her sword with one hand and a poiton with the other. She looks carefully around, seeking any more enemies.
The Flaming Sphere continues to burn at the feet of red.
Torod swings Wyandare at his foe.
Wyandare (Scimitar +2 feybane):