Malden whispers a quick prayer to Sarenrae, thanking the goddess for granting him the power of flame and guiding his aim.
Dodging the blast of cold air, Gaelin quickly retaliates with another swing of his sword.
The Twang Twins try again:
The creature plummets to the ground, dead. It is a blue far female, about a half-meter tall with ice-blue skin
“All, well done,” says Malden. He peers down at the dead creature. “Do any of you know what it was?”
"Blue?" Alikai ventures, scratching her head as she kneels to examine the little dead thing.
Alikai:
Jeydavu comes up beside Alikai. "Can you tell what it was Alikai?"
"I think it's another one of those things that knocked me off that bridge," Alikai responds, hoping that her companions will start remembering the event that way instead of the clumsy slip that it was, "I don't think they are very smart. They probably just moved in when the woods turned cold like they like. Other kinds live in the heat, like in volcanos or hot springs, but this kind likes the cold."
She digs a quick trench in the snow, places the thing inside, and covers it over. "Not the masterminds of the situation that we're looking for. I mean, really, if you were that size, would you out and out attack this group, alone?" She shrugs.
"Anybody injured? Should we proceed?"
“How do you fare Gaelin?” Malden asks. “If you require healing, please but ask.”
"I've sustained worse injuries in childhood games of 'capture the flag'," Gaelin says with a boyish grin. "We should move on."
"Let us proceed then."
The group heads out into the early morning snow. They have reached the valley floor, a heavily wooded section, but there is a wide path leading into the heart of the valley. As they advance, they see a clearing emerging ahead. There seem to be some sort of rounded buildings scattered within in. A small hill flanks the western edge of the clearing, also heavily forested. The trail leads right to it. The cold is getting very intense now
Malden brushes damp, limp hair from his brow and pulls his scarf up around his chin. “This is miserable,” he mutters, although despite his words and tone, the cold doesn’t actually seem to be impacting him as badly as it is some of his companions. He seems to forget his discomfort momentarily upon looking down into the clearing.
“Are those huts of some type? Could someone be living here? I suggest we proceed with caution.”
"Perhaps we ought to send a scout to investigate whether anyone has been sheltering in those huts. If so we need to be careful about announcing ourselves," Gaelin suggests.
As the group mulls over their options there comes a strange flittting, buzzing noise from above. As if a giant hummingbird was flying about in the snow swirls above them
"Another of the blue elemental kin perhaps?" Malden wonders out loud, peering upwards through the snow.
"Maybe this was... I mean is... a logging camp or something. We may be able to gain shelter here." Alikai trails off at the buzzing sound overhead.
"I'm hoping it's just a really noisy snowflake," she replies to Malden's conjecture, nocking an arrow and half-drawing her bow as she squints up into the snow.
The buzzing dies away, but ..
"Let's try to get closer before we send out a scout. I think we can make it through the forest to that hill overlooking the clearing without being seen," suggests Jeydavu. He peers intently at the clearing and forest trying to see if anything is amiss.
Jeydavu sees activity amongst the domed structures. Hard to tell from this distance and in the blowing snow, but there seems to be figures moving there
Lets head over to the hill if we can as suggested.
As you watch a large figure comes striding through the snow at a quick pace as if skipping through a grassy field. Blue warty skin covers this tall thin figure, and a massive spear is clutched in its warty hands
Malden's modifier is +1, so 17 for me.
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So much for a stealthy approach, Gaelin muses to himself. His sword at the ready, he calls out to the charging spear-carrier, "Halt! Lower your weapon and identify yourself!" He is quickly beginning to wonder whether hailing these strange creatures will ever be fruitful.
"Oh dear, big guy." Sahsara nocks an arrow, then calls to the warty blue figure in Sylvan, "Hail, friend. We come in peace!"
Jeydavu watches the figure approach. He prepares to cast entangle if the figure takes hostile action.
The large creature laughs and brandishes its spear
"YOU HAVE COME TO THE WRONG PLACE TO COME IN PEACE, WARMLANDERS!"
"Oh dear. Why is he so angry?" Sahsara fires at the approaching, club-waving, yelling dude.
"Warmlanders? Warmlanders?!" Alikai huffs, "No need to be insullting. Come herd reindeer with my family then call me that, blue man!" She raises her bow and fires.
"So... so, just go away!" she yells at the aggressor as her arrow zips past his ear, "Last warning shot!"
"I hope there's not a whole group of these blue men," she murmurs to her companions.
Jeydavu begins to cast entangle but then realizes that the vegetation will not survive this unseasonably cold weather. Instead, he casts shillelagh'on his quarterstaff. He stands ready for the creature to approach. He tells Chonthoth to stand ready to move into a flank if the creature allows it.
Malden offers a prayer to Sarenrae and the blade of his scimitar begins to glow red hot, steam rising from it in the cold air
"Then you leave me no choice!" Gaelin exclaims, with a flair for the melodramatic. He charges at the creature.
Tristan charges forward alongside Gaelin, pivoting at the last moment to strike behind the creature's knee.
Charging attack
Unarmed damage , Stunning Fist DC 14
Attack rd one
Troll:21 [miss? maybe 1 hit?]
Sahsara 20 [miss]
Alikai 20[miss]
Tristan: 20 [miss]
Gaelin 18 [hit]
Jeydavu 18 [shillelagh]
Esme 17
Malden 17 [sun metal]
The large form, sensing the cold iron in Gaelin's sword, swipes at him as he charges and bares a mouth full of sharp fangs
Tristan's attack bounces off the troll's rubbery hide. Gaelin, however, cleaves deep. His sword is bathed in greenish troll blood
Esme
Esme closes in on the combat and conjures a long vine from her arm, which tries to ensnare the troll.
Tanglevine vs CMD
The long vine stretches out, but the troll eludes it
The wound from the troll seems to set Gaelin into a frenzy. With a roar, the refined warrior becomes wild and aggressive in his stance he retaliates for the blow with his greatsword.
(+2 if flanking)
Alikai, seeing the reaction to Gaelin's weapon, pulls a cold iron arrow and fits it to her well-worn bow.
Sahsara also fires her bow again, reluctant to get near the big guy.
Jeydavu takes his quarterstaff which now gives off a faint glow and moves in to attack the Troll. Chtonthoth moves circles and attacks from the opposite side.
Chtonthoth bends his head down and lifts it rapidly attempting to impale the Troll with his antlers. ,
Jeydavu brings his glowing quarterstaff around and tries to strike the Troll on its protruding jaw. ,
Tristan bends down and draws a cold iron dagger from his boot, then sidesteps to flank with Gaelin and strikes at the troll.
attack w/ flank
damage