Gideon will draw his bow and wait for the party's decision.
Lucian moves silently to the fence, waiting for the correct moment to strike.
Hamailii and Lucian go unnoticed in their maneuverings to the edge of the fence.
Rahger feels that the group is ready is attack. However, he looks carefully at the crodlu to determine if they are trained enough to take combat orders.
Regardless, Rahger will move to E5 and attack human 1.
Rahger has struck the first blow. The animal handler reels under the gut punch, but is still somehow standing. "What the?" he manages blurt and reaches for a carrikal hanging from his belt. Nearby Crodlu start to panic.
Gideon will sneak attack handler 2
His arrow dealing moderate damage to the poor Crodlu handler
Lucian flings a card at the unsuspecting handler.
Round 1
Lucian follows up with three more cards into the still standing? handlers.
[dice="Dagger"#1]1d20 + 8;1d4 + 1d6 + 7[/dice]
[dice="Dagger"#2]1d20 + 8;1d4 + 1d6 + 7[/dice]
[dice="Dagger"#3]1d20 + 8;1d4 + 1d6 + 7[/dice]
Init
The precisely aimed arrow and flurry of psionic cards cut down the handlers before they could even react. The nearby Crodlu fly into a panic and begin squawking loudly.
Rahger quickly checks the handler near him for any kind of crodlu feed or taming instrument.
He does what he can to calm the crodlu.
"If we move the bodies, then the crodlu might settle down. Or we leave quick if not want them. "
There is a pile of feed on the Eastern side of the pen. You can attempt a Handle Animal check to calm the Crodlu down. You could also make a Heal check to determine if either of the two humans still live.
Rahger will try to calm the crodlu with feed.
Dai frowns as she hears the crodlu squawking. She moves up to the enclosure to keep an eye out for any investigating newcomers...before scaling the fence and helping Rahger quiet with the animals with feed....
Chumani moves to the humans, to try and check to see if either are alive, sending a message out to everyone as he moves. "Well done all, keep your eyes open.
You are able to calm the beasts down in short order. A reconnoiter of the bodies shows that while the Southeastern tamer is quite dead, the other one, whom Rahger decked, is unconscious, but stable. Dukotti hops the fence and starts rummaging through the effects of the dead one.
Chumani will drag him over to some shade if he can find it. Once there he will bind, gag and then search him.
"Rahger and Gideon, when your ready can you scout up the path? How far behind you do you want the rest of us."
On him, you find:
6 ceramic pieces
1 Shortbow
1 Carrikal
12 Arrows
1 Light Shield
2 waterskins
5 days of rations
1 torch
1 Backpack
1 suit of leather armor (slightly bloody)
There are six Crodlu in the pen, each with a saddle. There is also a bale of vegetable matter, twenty Crodlu-days worth of sustenance. And finally, the basin in the middle of the pen contains enough water to refill your skins if you aren't too picky about a little lizard-bird saliva being mixed in.
Doesn't matter, as long as you aren't seen. You know your own abilities better than I do
Gideon will then go on ahead and scout as told, stealthily
Rennoc stays silent.
Chumani will gather the equipment, making sure to keep contact with his earth breaker so it does not return to where it came from, then move to mouth of the path and start trying to prepare for the coming fight.
A minute passes, then another. No one is forthcoming.
Following the footpath up, Gideon reaches the edge of a cliff overlooking a canyon housing several tents and stone buildings. A small road winds down into the canyon. He can see that the canyon is bustling with activity. Men and women of various races are engaged in various forms of training – equal in hardship to the classes at any gladiatorial school. He observes Nadar being greeted by a powerfully built bald man with dark skin, and the two vanish into one of the tents. Cratek stands guard outside.
"Hmm, starting to wonder if that was necessary." Lucian says with a grin.
Rahger will drag the dead body toward the back of the crodlu feed pile. He then covers the body with a sufficient amount of feed to hide it from sight.
Gideon sneaks back down the trail and reports what he saw to the party.
"Exactly what I was thinking."
Eventually someone will notice the missing Crodlu handlers. We need to make and enact our plans now, before that
I believe it is time to finish our business with our enemy, if you halfling can cause the herd to stampede in the direction of the camp I can call forth a dust storm to envelop part of the encampment. In the resulting chaos and confusion a few good archers and a mage can take out much of the camp's defenses... Once the dust has settled Chumani and Daishata can wade into the fray...
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Wow calm down. Didn´t you hear what i just said? How about we handle this a bit more careful and strategically? We don´t even know how many people there are, how many of them are warriors or magic users. Or maybe they have some warbeasts hidden somewhere. And you just want to wade in there and attack everyone. You don´t even know if they are hostile yet.
Dai listens to all the options.
"I agree with Rennoc - to a degree. I say we wait for some folk to investigate, then obliterate them to reduce numbers, then go with Rennoc's plan. Or, if you think that the non-appearance of the handlers might elicit some defense on the part of the settlement let's just surprise them now. Also, perhaps we should fire flaming-arrows at the tents prior to the dust storm enveloping them…"
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And you humans complain about the violence of elven tribes. Very well, i´ll go investigate. Don´t do stupid things while i´m down there!
Hamailii manifests a power and she becomes a lot harder to see.
She will try to sneak down there, hidden between the tents and different objects, trying to eavesdrop on some people to find out who they are and what they are doing there and if possible eavesdrop on Nadar.
We could investigate more and locate Nadar and, under the cover of darkness, target him specifically
" Gideon say what Rahger think too. We want Nadar. If other get in way, then we take care of that. Best we know more of who is with Nadar so we kill only who we need."
Based on Gideon's description, you doubt anyone in the camp could see you on the overlook unless you were shooting spells up into the air. However, if someone was on the trail up, that would be a different matter.
Capturing Nadar alive may be important, but he only needs to be able to speak... He won't miss a few limbs...chopped off or otherwise.
As he speaks the last two words Rennoc gazes pointedly at the halfling's rather sharp teeth.
Lucian stands with the group and awaits a conclusion to the discussion.
"Just like the giants, we don't want to pick a fight we can't win. And right now we have nothing against these people, just Nadar and his people."
Chumani stops the think for a moment, "Lets stay out of sight and keep any eye on things for a half hour or less and see what happens. Maybe he is just here for a short meeting. Those that can watch unseen do so, everyone else stay out of sight ready to go if things escalate."
"Half hour or less, Ayy?" Lucian says with a smirk. "Let me consult the cards to see what this short time period will bring us."
Will the next half-hour bring us confrontation with this village?
Dai nods at Chu's decision, and wonders what Hamailli's actions might erupt...
She watches Lucian's divination with interest.
Gideon will go and watch unseen, as the leader commands.
Around the time Gideon and Hamailii get back to the overlook, the pair emerges from the tent and everyone in the camp is called together. They form disciplined ranks and fall silent in an instant. You’d estimate the force is at least a few hundred strong. The man accompanying Nadar speaks for all to hear: “The time is nearing. Lord Thaxos is making the final preparations as we speak. Master Nadar has been sent to retrieve a band for a most important mission. I will personally select the men and women to go with him. The rest of us will remain here until further notice and keep training. When the time comes we will all be rewarded for our efforts.” He then proceeds to pick out the ones that will go with Nadar, a total of four men and two women.
A tanned human man with curly brown hair and pale blue eyes. His face is pockmarked with scar tissue, probably from chemical burns. He has a dagger tucked into his knotted rope belt, but wears no armor.
* You know that his name is Crakos. He was once a defiler of moderate power in Draj, but was cast out and disfigured with acid some time after the fall of Tectuktitlay.
A dark skinned dwarf woman, covered from foot to toe in toe in tattoos of various geometric designs. She is not carrying any visible weapons or wearing any armor.
* Her name is Borras and she is a loyal agent of House Vordon. A fairly powerful Psion, she prefers to manifest bolts and blasts of energy in battle.
A tall and impressively muscled elf man. The countenance of an elemental drake is tattooed across his face. He wears leather armor and is armed with a longbow and elven longblade.
A half elf man. Unarmed and unarmored. A shock of blond hair tops his head and his eyes are a piercing blue.
A mul man, whose body is covered in tattoos. On his bald forehead is a red circle, indicating status as a gladiator-slave. Across his bared arms are inked figures of animals and people. He wears a sleeveless leather jerkin and carries a heartpick and throwing axes.
An exotic human woman with ebony skin and yellow eyes. She wears a pair of small macahuitls at her hips.
You also recognize the elf. His name is Mutami and he is a member of the Nightrunners, your tribe. The Nightrunners often act as spies and assassins in a mercenary capacity and that is probably what is going on here. Mutami doesn’t have any special abilities, but is fairly well trained in the martial and sneaking arts.
Just as Nadar and the chosen mercenaries are preparing to leave the camp, a pack of six gaunt creatures rounds a boulder not thirty feet distant. Shambling along with a hunched gaits are muscular humanoids with pale tan skin and covered in ruddy hair. Their bodies are lean and utterly devoid of fat, their arms end in blunt black claws while broken yellow teeth jut at crooked angles from their broadly grinning mouths. Each carries a crude sword made from bone. While they haven’t spotted you, they are pawing at the ground as they shuffle nearer as if looking for tracks.
They look like this.
These are sligs. They are voracious carnivores since they are incapable of storing body fat. This does take its toll on their their stamina however . They can communicate telepathically with each other. They are extremely good at tracking. Even though you’re hidden now, it is likely they will find you given enough time.