After a few minutes, one of the villagers walks up to the shelter. "I thought you lot were going to get rid of the bandits. They came again last night."
She groans, "What? We took turns waiting up all night for them and didn't see anything."
"That's apparent," the villager says before turning and walking away.
"How did we not even hear anything? I think we have to go to them." Sig says in frustration.
She sighs as she nods her head, "Apparently so if they're that sneaky. We better hurry up and eat so we can get going before more angry people come to complain." She says sounding a bit frustrated as she picks up their things and changes into her warmer traveling outfit.
Jerrica takes out the rations. "I guess so."
Thorgr sighs and gets his own rations out.
Once their things are picked up she sits down next to Thorgr and takes out some rations for herself as well. Sitting quietly she eats as she tries to think about how to fight something, or stop bandits that they can neither see nor hear.
Getting her own rations out, Dagmarr sits and begins to eat, mentally preparing herself for another foray into the darkness.
Sig sits beside Jerrica as they eat, focused.
Upset that they failed so miserably at their task she has little appetite and mostly picks at her dried meats, fruit, and nuts.
"Hopefully, this foray will be a little more successful," Thorgr says as he eats.
She nods but looks up into his face, "Yeah...but try to stay behind me since you can't see anything in there this time. That way I don't have to yank you back to get to them....I don't know what the best solution is...we'll just take it a step at a time okay?" She says trying to reassure the both of them.
"Yeah."
"I'll be able to see as well this time so I'll be up front with her. " Dagmarr says, hoping to alleviate a bit of Thorgr's worry.
After you finish eating, you head to the dark valley once more. It looks the same as yesterday.
She sighs as she once again shifts her vision to perceive auras of magic as she peers into the darkness.
Once again, Frostine sees several shapes moving in the darkness.
She shakes her head, "Yup...like before and there's several of them. It's hard to get an exact count like this."
Doing the same as Frostine, Dagmarr peers through the darkness with magical sight.
Sig draws a torch, and lights it holding it aloft in one hand.
Sig finds that her torch at least lets her see five feet ahead of her. The beasts manage to confound Frostine and Dagmarr as to their true numbers, but they do not yet approach.
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"Is the torch helping?" Jerrica asks Sig.
Frostine looks at Sig, curious as well to whether or not the torches were useful.
"I can see about 5ft out so once we're in melee it will but as of now I can't see them yet. That and they didn't immediately swarm the light source." the skald replies.
"Whatever do you all think, should we advance and engage them?" Dagmarr asks.
"Maybe if we move in a little further I can get a better look?"
"I'll lose a bit of efficiency here, but it's better than losing a leg," Thorgr says, taking out a torch.
"A one-handed weapon comes in handy at times like these," Jerrica says, getting her own torch.
"Then let's move forward." Dagmarr says leading the way closer to the creatures.
Carefully navigating around the rocky terrain of the valley, the beasts begin to scatter and find their way around you. A quick glance lets you know that you are surrounded by eight of them, slowly approaching.
Initiative:
Round 1: Jerrica, Frostine, Beasts, Dagmarr, Sig, Thorgr
Sensing something nearby, Jerrica readies her weapon for when one of the beasts gets close enough.
Frostine stretches out her hand and sends forth a blast of icy air at the beast directly in front of her.
"They are closing in, I'll shout when the are within range of a physical attack." Dagmarr says drawing her sword as she intones a prayer to Freya, granting them her blessing in battle.
Frostine's spell slows her target down, so it only approaches. The rest, however, charge towards the group. As they enter the area illuminated by torchlight, the beasts appear to be some sort of warped wolf.
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The wolves drag Frostine, Sig and Thorgr to the ground as they sink their fangs into them.
Round 1: Jerrica, Frostine (prone), Beasts, Dagmarr, Sig (prone), Thorgr (prone)
Jerrica takes her retributive strike against one of the wolves that charged her.
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Thorgr clambers to his feet. "Try that again, you bastards!"
He drops his torch on the ground and swings at one near Frostine.
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Thorgr cuts down one of the wolves while another snaps its jaws at him. It fails to hit the warrior.
Fending off the attempt of the wolf that bit her, Dagmarr slashes at the other wolf attacking Frostine, using her shield to occupy her own opponent.
Rolling onto her back and holding the torch out in front of her, Sig begins a raging battlechant, her fury flooding into her companions as she draws her axe with the other hand.
Jerrica continues to attack her opponent.
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Jerrica puts down another of the monsters.
Round 2: Jerrica, Frostine (prone), Beasts, Dagmarr, Sig (prone), Thorgr
Staying on the ground she says, "Kill that son of a bi+<h that's behind you love so I can move back and try to do something."
The wolves go for those who are prone as well as Thorgr and Jerrica.
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Round 2: Jerrica, Beasts, Dagmarr, Sig (prone), Thorgr, Frostine (prone)
Thorgr swings at the wolf which tried to bite him.
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