Pete gets up and attempts to climb on Nitina's horse. "Thanks for the lift; it'll take me forever to get over there otherwise."
If Karina is not successful in waking the horse Vlad attempts to wake it. Shouting at the horse "Clarence! Clarence wake up!!!" and gives him a light smack on the back of the head to wake him up. "Wake up Clarence!!!"
If Karina has succeeded Vlad stands up and grabs his bow if he dropped it.
Arastine shines her lantern northwest, holding her revolver drawn and ready to fire if the light reveals anything. It doesn't. She otherwise remains close to Karina and Vlad.
Karina quickly awaken's Vlad's horse, which stands upright once more.
Klinn's horse continues to panic and dashes further north .
Nitina ceases her pursuit of the cart and stops to help Pete to his feet. He clambers onto her horse with her.
Arastine continues to watch for any further sign of enemy action, revolver at the ready.
Vlad retrieves his bow and stands up from where he fell from the saddle.
"Damn it!" Vlad shouts. "We can't see where everyone else is, so we should stick together but the rest of our band are probably being attacked!" Vlad mounts Clarence once again.
You think cutting your horse free might cause the wagon to catapult its flaming contents forward as the hitching part slams into the ground.
She pulls out a lantern from her pack and lights it.
Handle animal (technically cannot be used untrained)
Fast dismount attempt
So Nitina's horse panics and runs to wherever and then she spends a move action dismounting.
If Pete is down (and therefore not taking advantage of my lack of Precise Shot) and I can still see the creature from my new location, Nitina will call upon the Judgement of Justice and take a shot.
Attack
Damage
If she can't see it or Pete's blocking the shot, she'll call upon the Judgement of Protection (+1AC) and cast Light on her Carbine.
Vlad, unwilling to abandon the fire and unable to see the creature, uses his standard action to cast Haunted Fay Aspect on himself. "Beast! Wherever you are I will kill you if you remain!"
Intimidate:
Klinn grins, nods at Nysro, and swings his longsword at the rope to sever the horse from the wagon.
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dmg:
He then attempts to dodge the flaming contents of the cart as they catapult out of the cart.
Reflex save Klinn:
Reflex save Hosre:
Nysro stays clear of the flames and at least 10 ft away from the crazed horse, but he keeps up with Klinn.
Karina retrieves and lights her lantern. In its light you can see the fallen form of Pete on the ground next to Nitina's horse. A bipedal wolf wearing a chain shirt and a belt with pouches and flasks stands snarling next to Pete and Nitina, its jaws dripping blood.
Klinn cuts the harness holding his horse to the cart. As the cart's hitch slams into the ground, its contents catapult over Klinn and his horse. The bottles of alcohol and flasks of lantern oil, already boiling from the flame, crash down around them, causing fire and piercing damage to each of them .
His horse continues to run wild .
Nitina's horse, however, does panic at the sight of the creature beside it. Seizing the opportunity presented by its flight, the creature snaps its jaws at Nitina, but her armor stops the blow. After her horse flees east, Nitina dismounts and fires a bullet at the creature standing over Pete's prone form. Her bullet strikes it in the leg.
With the foe revealed, Arastine rides to -F39 and fires twice at the thing, missing with each shot.
Pete bleeds some more .
Vlad hops back on his horse and makes himself look really freaky. The creature seems unimpressed.
The creature charges east, after Nitina.
Like other lycanthropes, there are two types of werewolf: natural and afflicted. Natural werewolves were born with the condition and are far more deadly, able to shift form at will and in possession of much tougher skin than their afflicted fellows. Only these natural werewolves can spread the disease which causes their condition. An afflicted werewolf can also change between forms at will, but doing so is exceedingly painful and so most only do so when there is no recourse or when forced to.
K(Nature):
Karina gasps, "It's a werewolf! Anyone have any silver weapons?"
She rides to -E44 in pursuit, holding her lantern to the northeast.
EDIT:I will move to -H50 because I realized my horse moves separately. What do I see?
Karina, your lantern reveals the fallen form of Nitina on the ground. She is bleeding profusely from one shoulder. The werewolf is nowhere to be seen.
Karina dismounts her horse, then assumes a defensive position.
Ride in attempt to Fast Dismount
Total Defense = AC up to 18 until my next turn.
Vlad, upon hearing his, says A Werewolf!!!!" and his smile grows wider once again. He chases after the beast. Vlad runs his horse to to -I53. Vlad remains mounted.
Vlad declares the werewolf the target of his smite evil and he readies a shot against it.
Shot 1:
dmg:
Arastine spurs Midnight over to -K51, near where Vlad and Karina seem to be gathering.
Arastine readies a shot for the creature if it shows itself within 20 feet of her.
Karina rides east and dismounts, ready to defend herself from the creature should it emerge from the darkness.
Klinn and Nysro run in from the north (Klinn upon his horse), appearing out of the darkness to the west of the rest of the party.
Nitina seems to stop bleeding so much .
Pete also stops bleeding out .
Arastine and Vlad ride east to close the gap between themselves and Nitina. Both ready shots should the creature appear.
Suddenly, without any apparent movement, the creature appears next to Nitina. Vlad fires his arrow but it misses entirely. Seeing Arastine level her revolver at it, it snarls and charges straight at her. She fires, hitting it in the shoulder as it approaches. Possibly as a result of the painful distraction, the creature's jaws fail to connect and deflect off of some unseen force.
"Swift Invisibility," it mutters after its failed attack, vanishing from sight.
Karina <
Klinn
Nitina (unconscious)
Pete (unconscious)
Vlad
Arastine
Ride:
Vlad stands up and five foot shifts to -H53.
Nysro charges at -J52, stopping in -J52 and full attacking.
Klinn directs his horse to -I48 (EDIT: not -I28) (careful not to step on Pete) and draws his spear, ready to throw it at the monster should it appear.
Attack:
Damage:
Karina readies an action to attack the werewolf should it appear again.
Attack:
Damage:
As Nysro charges in, there is a loud snarl and the werewolf appears in -J52 with its mouth around Nysro's neck. With a loud snapping noise, Nysro falls unconscious to the ground.
Klinn chucks his spear at the newly-revealed werewolf, but the creature's skin seems to absorb the blow and the spear bounces off without drawing blood. Karina's whip also cracks against its face without causing any harm.
Vlad falls from his saddle as his horse bolts south. He stands and the werewolf lunges at him, but misses. He then steps to -H53.
Arastine urges her horse to back up to -M49 and fires twice at the beast. Both shots strike it, and it staggers under the heavy blows.
Staggering and in great pain, the werewolf looks around and seems to decide, at random, to stagger to -I51 and lunge for Karina's throat. It connects , but then falls over, breathing shallowly.
Roll to Stabilize:
Vlad seeing that it is still breathing slightly walks up next to it in -I52 "Just so you know. For what you did to Karina and our loot I am going to sheer you, then I am going to take your fur and have it made into fabric and then that fabric made into a suit. You are about to become nothing more than what I put between my skin an the ---- the world throws at me. And with that knowledge...Die!"
With that Vlad coup de grace the creature with his bow.
Piercing:
Piercing: These mean double damage!
Dmg:
Dmg:
After Vlad sends an arrow into the creature's skull, it begins to change in shape, ultimately becoming a male half-orc. He has a bloodstained chain shirt and a belt with a couple of flasks.
Klinn first checks on his sister to make sure she is stable and then walks over to Nysro, healing him . He then detects magic on the stuff the werewolf had.
Arastine will go apply the blessed bandages to Pete and Nitina , and will move them to the area where the werewolf fell so the group can keep an eye on them.
"So, that was a werewolf? Does that mean these three are going to turn into more of them?"
Klinn paces, looking concerned at the three unconcious party members.
"Well, it seems likely that it is a full moon tonight, since we ran across a werewolf at all. I'd just as soon wait until morning to wake these three up, just in case. Does that even make sense?" He shakes his head, clearly distraught. "Well, what about that old potion maker that Oleg spoke of? He might have some sort of cure for becoming a werewolf, at least a temporary one." He keeps pacing. Nysro constantly circles the group.
"That's... actually not a bad idea. Let them sleep it off," Arastine says. She starts cleaning and reloading her gun. "The potion maker might know. We could also go ask that witch we met if she knows of a cure. Alternately, we wait and see who wakes up crazy and go from there."
"I'm not leaving my sis here, if that is what you mean. I... I think I'm gunna go over to the cart, see if anything over there is salvageable. You watch out and holler if anything funny happens."
Klinn walks over to the cart with Nysro to examine the contents that were flung out all over the grass. He does his best to avoid the cart, which is probably still aflame. He uses all appropriate cautions while examining anything that might still be hot. After he salvages anything he think can be safely salvages that is still worth anything, he comes back and tends to Karina for the night.
Destroyed goods:
- Both tents
- 1 gunsmith’s kit
- Both antiplague vials
- Both antitoxin vials
- 3 bedrolls
- Footprint and portrait books
- Compass
- Mapmaking kit
- All lamp oil
- Water purification sponge
- Pouch of dust
- 3 longbows
- Both shortbows
- 4 suits leather armor
- arrows
- Silver earrings
- Wooden music box
- All furs and hides
- All liquor
The remaining gear is salvageable.
Nitina wakes up after one hour. Pete wakes up after two. Karina collects her beauty sleep and wakes up after three.
Karina slowly opens her eyes and says groggily, "Wha... What happened? Why does my..." It takes the excruciating pain in her neck for her to remember what just happened hours ago.
She gently touches her neck, looking for physical evidence of what might have been a bad dream, but has no such luck. She bolts up in great distress. "Oh no! Oh nononono! This couldn't have happened. Klinn! Please tell me it didn't happen! I don't want to be a werewolf!"
"I'm sorry sis. It happened. You got bit. I... I..." Klinn is obviously very upset. "You got bit. We haven't healed any of the three of you yet, just in case you turn into one of those... things tonight. We've been resting now and will leave as soon as we can in the morning."
K(Nature)
Most methods are ill-documented, but most scholars can tell you that these nonmagical "remedies" are ineffective. The poisonous plant Monkshood (known also as Wolfsbane), however, has been known to remove the condition if the afflicted individual consumes a freshly-picked flower, although ingesting the plant has been known to worsen the condition or even kill the afflicted person from time to time.
The night passes uneventfully. Karina, Nitina, and Pete don't transform into anything.
The morning is crisp and clear. You feel more skilled and powerful than ever before.
Pete had been silent and pouty after his resuscitation and subsequent news of lycanthropy, but he feels inspired the morning after. This curse is a test from the heavens. I will not fail.
He arises and hobbles over to the group. "I believe... I am afflicted. How do I... Can this be fixed?"
In your time with the party, you have noticed that Karina normally rolls out of bed later than most. She will lazily awaken and make a jovial entrance to the others, then go about her morning routine in a slow fashion.
Today, Karina still gets up on the later side, but emerges from her tent with a more pronounced determination. Without a hello to everybody, she announces to the group, "I'm not going back to Oleg's with the rest of y'all. I'm going off to see the witch. Gonna see if there's anything she could do about this problem we've run into. Pete, Nitina, I'd like... I'd recommend that you come with me. I could tell y'all a couple dozen ways people have told stories about treating werewolf bites, and if you wanna try them, be my guest. But the only real chance we've got is to have powerful magic on our side. And I don't know anyone else who can cast out here besides our new Forlarren friend."
Your tent was on the cart. It's gone now. Klinn has the full list of destroyed stuff, but I've reproduced it below.
- Both tents
- 1 gunsmith’s kit
- Both antiplague vials
- Both antitoxin vials
- 3 bedrolls
- Footprint and portrait books
- Compass
- Mapmaking kit
- All lamp oil
- Water purification sponge
- Pouch of dust
- 3 longbows
- Both shortbows
- 4 suits leather armor
- 2d20 ⇒ (20, 20) = 40 arrows
- Silver earrings
- Wooden music box
- All furs and hides
- All liquor
The remaining gear is salvageable.