Braden herds the animals, picking out one to be butchered as an offering to the troglodytes. He thinks he's learned a thing or two about building shelters by now.
Vraxis and Fang discover several things on their scouting mission. The first, there is a boar somewhere in the area with an extremely violent temperament based on the trees it has taken down. They also find a large thicket of bramble bushes that could be used to escape from pursuers who are more worried about injury than pursuit. Finally, they find tracks. Three sets of humanoid footprints with a set of small pawprints. It looks like they are following a search pattern rather than actively tracking, but who knows how long that will last.
As the days go by, Braden holds daily prayer sessions with the group. A few become especially strong in their faith, trusting in Old Deadeye to help them survive and endure in these troubled times. Braden teaches them the lessons and prayers he learned at the Riverwood Shrine. And with new faith comes new power, as one or more of them are empowered by Erastil to perform miracles.
Sitting down with the current warriors Mazon, Barek, Barid, and Akkuya. Harg pulls out his special blade "I may not be a direct warrior, but I have found a way to merge magics with swordmanship. I hope to use this knowledge to help increase your skills. If some of you pick up the magic aspect, great, but my first priority is to increase your fighting abilities"
Harg then tries to combine his magical talent with sword dancing. Showing all of them hard strikes, quick strikes, and ways to connect directly with your weapon. It becomes part of you, an extension of yourself.
Harg feels satisfied with the training. The sword {You know, they wont ever match your mixed abilities. Plus they don't have me.}
Harg stays quiet about it, but thinks to himself, "Tomorrow, I should try to teach some of these commoners to how to deal with alchemy"
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In between his scouting missions, Vraxis spent time with Kinning, showing how to cure and stretch hides to make them into workable leather.
Pulling aside Suri (Female Human Aristocrat 1), Govrina will attempt to help her learn skills in entertaining the group as a whole, as well as in slight of hand and other social improvement techniques.
Besides Kinning, Vraxis elects to spend some time with Anafa, the only other halfling around. It's a little easier for her. The tools are actually sized for her.
Vraxis gave a nod of his head and headed out after the hunters.
Following behind, ready for anything.
Vraxis and Fang find the hunters, and it is just as you feared. A trio of hobgoblins with a dog are attempting to pick up your trail. A female hobgoblin is clearly the leader of the pack, searching the ground for signs of passage with her shortbow out and ready while her dog helps looking for scents. The other two hobgoblins carry handaxes openly and look ready to use them. The entire crew is kitted in light armors and appear to have small packs of travel rations to stay out in the woods without having to return to wherever they came from.
There are a few close calls, especially with a dog in the opposing party, but it appears Vraxis and Fang have spent so much time together their scents have mixed, and the two remain undetected. The rest of the group doesn't even have a chance to see the hunters following your trail, but manage to duck out of sight whenever Vraxis and Fang do.
Analyzing the search patterns Vraxis realizes that the hunters still haven't found a good trail to follow and are running through a grid formation. This gives your plan a chance to succeed if you can leave an obvious trail to the boar's territory...
"Alright Fang, let's see if we can get ahead of them and lure them towards that boar..."
"What? Oh relax would ya. This is gonna be fun!"
Vraxis and Fang dance around the group of hobgoblins, seeming to be in every place at once. Vraxis occasionally gets off of Fang's back to place boot prints and move through underbrush leaving traces of their travel.
"Now don't go getting your fur in a knot. This is going to work. Trust me. When have I ever been wrong before? What? No, are you serious? Don't be ridiculous, that time doesn't count."
Braden and Arrow keep a low profile as Vraxis and Fang do their work!
A merry chase is led through the forest, Vraxis and Fang leading the way. They leave just enough clues and tracks that the hobgoblins don't notice they're being shepherded to a boar's den. Following the hobgoblins is the rest of the party, preparing for any trouble that might come of this arrangement. You're not quite sure what causes it, but eventually the boar's squeal of rage can be heard, as well as cries of alarm and the barking of a dog. Sidling through cover you make your way to a good vantage point and see a thickly muscled beast of a boar attacking the hobgoblins. It has something shining on one of its tusks, but you can't really tell what it is in the scramble. The lead hobgoblin appears to have a net ready for something while the others circle with handaxes out.
The boar's ambush appears to have proved effective, the lead hobgoblin bleeding from a wound inflicted by the large dangerous looking tusk.
The battle is fierce and reveals something about these hobgoblins, their training is much more thorough than any you've faced thus far. Immediately both underlings put their longbows to good use, driving arrows deep in the sides of the boar. The leader steps back, unfurling her net and tossing it over the creature, tangling it up heavily, while calling the dog to attack. It rushes the boar, and nearly rebounds mere inches from the beast, as though it were protected by magic. But its teeth leave bloody scores along the boar's flank and face. The boar's retaliation is fleeting, the blood loss already getting to it, but it does manage to gore the dog while entangled.
Carf -8
Grabbing solid cover behind a tree, Govrina whispers to the others while pulling out her wand of Magic Missiles.
"Watch for my action, then join in!"
Harg has blade out. Ready to charge in. As soon as one side wins out.
Wincing at the battle, watching from a distance. "Better them then us."
Harg focuses on the the archer within 30 feet. Focusing on the electrical flow on its brain. Attempting to bring it down into sleep.
Harg then runs into the clearing and attempts to get up close to one of the Hobgoblin. Hopefully a different one from the one he hexed.
As Harg runs his blade gets darker and starts to give off a dark glow.
The net floats off of the boar and flips over onto the dog, just as one of the hobgoblins drops to the ground, gently snoring. Harg's sudden appearance is equally startling to the hobgoblins
Still hiding in the bushes, Vraxis begins to cast a spell before Fang slowly moves closer to the brush line, ready to spring into a charge once given the order.
Using the Servitor power at his disposal, Braden summons a small Earth Elemental again and let's it wade into the melee combat, from behind the hobgoblins...
EDIT: He then readies his bow and nocks an arrow.
Harg pulls deep into his arcane reserves and fills his blade up with electricity, arcing out from the edges causing hair to raise up. He then moves into the frey up to flank with the elemental.
Between Braden's elemental and Harg's sword work the hobgoblin drops, broken and bloody, to the earth. The other hobgoblin with the bow continues sleeping. The lead hobgoblin pulls out her own bow and steps back, firing a shot at Harg while her dog starts chewing on the net, trying to get out of it.
The arrow flies wide and the dog gets most of the way through the net, but not before it is gored down by the boar.
Still in cover, Govrina Grabs a branch with her Aether then launches it at the Hobo' shooting at Harg!
Braden launches his first arrow at Harg's shooter too!
Then Braden's elemental shifts to the nearest enemy and bashes him!
Exploding out of the underbrush comes halfling and wolf charging the nearest standing hobgoblin.
Fang's teeth go for the legs and try to bring the hobgoblin down.
Everyone turns on the lead hobgoblin, the last one standing. With so many attacks coming from so many different angles she doesn't really stand a chance. She's still standing, but only barely.
"Back up Harg! Let the Elemental and the boar finish this! Geez that thing's big!"
Grabing a rock, Govrina tosses it with her Aether at the still standing Hobgoblin!
Looking over at the boar and the biggest hobgoblin, then over at Govrina. He walks over to the sleeping Hobgoblin scout.
Standing over the sleeping Scout, Harg pulls his blade out and aims for a percise strike down.