Hobb looks around as the travel.
Alunarius looks around for any sign of danger.
Hobb recognizes half of them as elite ghouls and the other half were ghast.
You travel up the mountain for a couple more hours.
A large cave opening is carved into the mountainside to the north. A trio of watchtowers stands in the clearing between the cave opening and the forest to the south.
Each watchtower is 15 feet wide and 25 feet tall. A ladder on the north and south sides of each tower allows for easy access to the top of the tower. You can attempt to Climb the tower via a ladder with ease. If you attempts to Climb a tower from the east or west side, the ascent is relatively simple, but requires more effort than using a ladder.
You see a human guard at each of the towers. You are fairly certain that they should of seen at least those of you who are not stealthing, but none of them have reacted to you. There are also two harpies on the middle tower. One of the harpies looks significantly younger than the other one.
Hobb prays and a magical shield of fire appears before him. Then Hobb steps forward into the clearing. "Hey! You have something of ours!" he bellows. "Return the brooch!"
He holds his scimitar in hand...
Kali says nothing, but instead just moves under the closest tower then begins to climb the far side from the other towers.
Alunarius positions himself at the foot of the ladder of the same tower Kali is climbing.
Annabelle uses her super-fast tiger speed to circle around the watchtower and climb all the way up the ladder.
Old Wrinkleface leaps into the forest and slowly creeps forward through the brush, doing his best to stay hidden...
Amberly hurries forward to get a view of the harpy camp. Then she gives her tambourine a shake and sings a fast paced little song!
The whole crew spends the round getting into position. Amberly also gives Old Wrinkleface a nice buff to make him faster.
The harpies seem to perk up and really notice you for the first time. The bigger one shouts out You fools! I told you to watch for intruders! This is mine. All my power!
The big harpy begins to sing an alluring song. It is so... captivating. He then flies up about 30 ft.
The other harpy cackles a bit, pulls out it's morning star, then flies in to attack the pesky magic user. Unfortunately, the flight was longer than it expected and is unable to attack this round.
The guards do not seem to notice Old Wrinkleface. The orange guard draws his bow and takes a step forward and tries to take a shot at Annabelle. The arrow seems to just graze her, dealing minimal damage.
The blue guard does the same thing as the orange but takes his shot at Hobb. He also gets a grazing shot, that does minimal damage.
The light blue guard draws his kukri, and takes a swing at Annabelle twice. His first swing misses but his second one lands hard.
[ooc[Everyone is up. Please make your will saves. If you took damage, you will be broken free, but make the save anyway because you may get bolstered from it in the future.[/ooc]
Old Wrinkleface moves up to right below the harpy. Then he pulls out his rope and grappling hook and swings it up at the harpy. "I'm coming! Gotta get to the song! Yes!"
To get to the harpy he is going to trying to rope him with his grappling hook and then climb up the rope to the harpy.
He really loves this song! Yes!
Annabelle wants to go to the music! But then jerk some jerk hurts her! So she decides to tear his face off with her nails!
Amberly hear the harpy's song and immediately starts a song of her own!
"NO! Cover up your ears, don't listen, don't listen, NO! Pay that dirty harpy no mind!"
Amberly shakes off the music with her own, takes a careful step back, and fires off a pair of magical missiles at the harpy in front of her.
"Your evil ways will only lead to destruction!" shouts as he swings his scimitar three times.
At first, Alunarius seems fascinated by the otherworldly song, but then Amberly's performance quickly snaps him out of it. He scampers up the ladder, considers drawing one his bombs, but decides against it since his allies are too close. He whips out his kukri instead, and lunges at the light blue enemy!
Kali finishes climbing the tower then will rage and quickdraw her scythe and attack.
Old Wrinkleface falls for the enchanting music, moving to the harpy and tries to hit him with a grappling hook to climb closer. The grappling hook falls harmlessly to the ground though as the hook misses.
Annabelle snaps out of the wierd trance right away as she was attack. She gets her claws ready and tries to rip into the enemy right in front of her, but only hits once.
Amberly plays a song to help break the enchantment from the group and releases a few missiles at the other harpy.
Hobb also attacks the harpy in front of him, but only hits it once.
Alunarius moves up the ladder, pulls out his weapon, and stabs the enemy, cutting into him.
Kali succeeds in helping the fight against the surrounded guard by hitting him hard with her scythe.
The younger harpy sees that the caster was able to counter the bigger ones song so tries it's own song.
It then takes a step forward and tries to strike Amberly with it's morningstar once. The attack barely hits her, but regardless strikes true.
The bigger harpy, flies down to Amberly seeing her as his biggest problem and also tries to strike out him his morningstar. Unfortantly for the harpy, a gust of wind messed with his flight down to the gnome, causing him to nearly drop his weapon and makes the whole attack a failure.
The orange guard releases a volley of arrows at Annabelle, hoping to drop one of the injured combatants. The first arrow finds a very tender target, while the other two fly off into the woods. That one arrow was very painful though.
The dark blue guard presses the assault on the poor gnome. Once again, only one arrow finds it's mark though this time, the shot is not nearly as painful.
The last guard is not on the same page as the other two guards and instead attacks at the barbarian, who dealt him the most damage so far. Despite using an agile kukri, he seems to be a mess with it as misses terrible with it. This makes the next attack all the more surprising as he stabs deep into Kali. His last attack misses the barbarin also.
Old Wrinkleface breaks free from the harpy's magic song.
"Oh! You tricky! Yes!"
Old Wrinkleface spins his grappling hook in the air and throws it at the blue guard up on the platform. He tries to hook him on the leg, then he gives a great, big, YANK! He tries to pull him right off the platform!
"OH! Old bones! Old bones! Me dead! Yes!" Old Wrinkleface lies as he steps forward.
Then he whacks him with his cane!
Annabelle is hurt the orange guy keeps shooting her! She leaps off the platform, races across the ground, and hurries up the ladder.
Hobb takes a step to surround the harpy. "Hey! Leave her alone, you bully!"
Then he swings his scimitar at the purple harpy twice.
Kali ignores the damage and keeps going, trying to finish one tower so she can move to the next.
Alunarius keeps on frantically slicing at the light blue enemy!
Amberly continues her splendid 'counter performance', preventing the harpy's song from controlling her comrades.
As the harpies surround her she hurries out of the way, gives her tambourine a shake, and sends a blast of flashing colours into the faces of the harpies.
Old Wrinkleface tries to launch a grappling hook up at the nearest guard, but is unable to trip him.
Realizing how tricky this guy will be to trip and how fast he can move, Old Wrinkleface tries to climb the watch tower, which he does effortlessly. He still feels the power of Amberly's magic run through him so he is still able to attack the guard once. He hit's with his attack, hurting the guard.
Hobb swings twice at the purple small harpy, only hitting once, but the hit seems to hurt a lot.
Kali swings her big scythe 3 times but fails to even touch the the guard. This fuels her rage as she keeps her anger!
Alunarius also tries to swing at the guard 3 times, failing to land a sing blow on the seemingly untouchable guard.
Amberly sprays both harpies with a mist of color! Both seem relatively unaffected, but both are seem a bit dazzled from it.
The orange guard panics as he sees the tiger like monk charging his tower, he releases another volley of arrows at her. This triggers her niffty bracers, helping to deflect his arrows. The first arrow seemed to be flying right for her exposed neck when the bracers deflect the arrow to just hit her shoulder. The other two arrows miss completely.
The dark blue guard finds a pesky goblin on his tower so her he drops his bow, and pulls out what appears to be a very fancy kukri. He proceeds to try to cut into him 2 times with it! Both swings hit the elderly goblin, causing him to bleed a bit more than it seems he should.
The light blue guard presses his assault on the barbarian, attacking her 3 times. All three swings hit, causing some massive damage to his foe, but in true barbarian fashion, she stays standing.
The purple harpy swings his morningstar once and talons twice at the annoying gnome who crushed his music. Only one of the talon attacks manage to hurt her.
The big harpy follows suite, taking the exact same actions. Like his friend, only one of his attacks hit... unlike his friend, it was the morningstar and it hit in a tender spot!
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Even though things are not going so well, Alunarius cannot think of a better option than to keep on pressing the same enemy...
"Oh! I dead! You so strong! DEEEEAD!"
Then he suddenly snarls and swings his weapon. "I kill you first!"
Deception to Feint (use of deception skill): 1 action, With a misleading flourish, you leave an opponent unprepared for your real attack. You attempt a Deception check against that opponent’s Perception DC.
…Success The target is flat-footed against the next melee attack that you attempt against it before the end of your current turn.
…Critical Success The target is flat-footed against all melee attacks you attempt against it until the end of your next turn.
…Critical Failure You are flat-footed against melee attacks the target attempts against you until the end of your next turn.
Intimidate to Demoralize (use of intimidate): 1 action, With a sudden shout, a well-timed taunt, or a cutting put-down, you can shake an enemy’s resolve. Choose a creature within 30 feet of you who you sense or see and who can sense or see you. Attempt an Intimidation check against that target’s Will DC. If the target does not understand the language you are speaking, you’re not speaking a language, or they can’t hear you, you take a –4 circumstance penalty to the check and demoralize loses the lingual trait.
…Success The target becomes frightened 1
. …Critical Success The target becomes frightened 2 and is fleeing until the end of its next turn
. …Critical Failure You can’t attempt to demoralize the target again for 10 minutes.
Annabelle uses her ki powers to heal her own wounds!
Then she climbs up the ladder and attacks him twice! But when she attacks her ki charges up her fists and she's surrounded by an illusion of her ki! It makes her look like a real tiger!
Heavily wounded, Amberly sings an invigorating song under her breath!
Then she hurries away from the enemy.
Hobb swings his scimitar at the purple harpy.
Then he laughs and unleashes a gout of flame from his hands! The fire engulfs both the purple and red harpies!
"Things are heating up now!"
Alunarus continues to attack over and over again, but only strikes the enemy once.
Old Wrinkleface is having a hard time with this fight. His acting doesn't seem to fool the guard, though the sudden shout scares him. But both of the follow up attacks unfortunately miss.
Annabelle uses her ki power to heal herself before flying up the ladder and attempting to claw the guard at the top twice. The first claw slices right through his armor but the second is an wide miss.
Following her sister's action, Amberly heals herself. She then moves away from the aggressive harpies.
Hobb swings his scimitar at the weaker harpy once, slicing deep into it. He then releases a wave of fire at the harpies hitting both harpies. Surprisingly, the nearly dead weak harpy is able to dodge the worst of the fire while the stronger one takes the full blast. Luckily, the weak harpy is still burned enough to drop him.
The angry barbarian continues to try and cut up the light blue guard!
Luckily, it only takes one swing to finish the pesky guard off and is able to try to jump across the gap between towers. She charges and tries a long jump!
The jump just is too big for her and she is only able to make it about half the distance before falling 25 feet, making her fall prone.
Laying on the ground, the feeling of fatigue sets in and her rage subsides.
Kali finishes off the light blue guard before making a foolish jump that landed her half way between the towers on her back.
The orange guard drops his bow and draws his kukri to try to finish this tiger gnome! He swings at her twice, the first swing misses but the second hit lands.
The dark blue continues to try to fight off the pesky goblin! The first swing hits him, causing him to bleed and hurt even more but the follow up swings both miss.
The big harpy realizes the scimitar user is also a magic user and tries to kill him now! He moves closer and tries to smash Hobb with his morningstar once and scratch him once. The morningstar hits but the talon misses.
Old Wrinkleface groans. "OH! I'm REALLY dead now! OW OW OWWWWW!"
"FOOLED YOU! I'll kill you dead! YES!"
Then he swings his cane at the guard a few times!
Annabelle scratches with her claws at the guard!
Amberly shakes her tambourine and sends a trio of rainbow colours musical notes flying at the last harpy!
Hobb quickly slashes at the harpy with his scimitar, trying to score multiple hits!
Satisfied that his enemy has been disposed off, Alunarius scrambles down the ladder, picks a good position so that a few of the remaining harpies are within reach, and then draws two bombs, ready to toss them.
Old Wrinkleface fails to trick the guard again with his acting, but is also less scary this time as well. But on the bright side, one of his swings does hit the guard, dealing some damage.
Annabelle releases a flurry of claws at the orange guard, but the guard is well defended making all but one of the claws miss.
Amberly sends a blast of music at the bigger harpy dealing a decent amount of damage to him.
Hobb follows his big painful spell up with an embarrassing display of scimitar flourishes that all manage to miss the harpy in front of him.
Alunarius climbs down the ladder and pulls out a couple of bombs.
Finding her rage gone and her fatigue setting in plus laying on the group face down, Kali begins to realized how bad of an idea the jump was. She stands up moves to the ladder. She then tries climbing up, but it is a slow process. She can only make it up 10 feet.
Kali moves and starts climbing the ladder.
The orange guard tries to return his blow against Annabelle as they have been just trading attacks back and forth. His first swing hits and it hits hard. It struck a vital location, hurting her a lot.
The blow manages to knock the poor tiger like gnome to the ground as she begins the fight for her life. As if not even realizing what he is doing, he puts away his kukri and pulls out his long bow again.
The dark blue guard tries to take care of the pesky goblin who has been causing so much trouble. His first swing hits hard causing more blood loss, but the second swing also hits making the goblin drop to the ground. The guard then puts his kukri away.
The bigger harpy is happy to see the fight starting to turn in his favor so he continues to attack Hobb! His morningstar strikes Hobb right across the head, nearly knocking the half orc unconscious. Since Hobb is still standing, he hits him once with his talon as well, knocking Hobb out.
Annabelle makes a Heroic Recovery! Despite her wounds her eyes pop open and she gasps!
You can spend 1 Hero Point at the start of your turn or when your dying value would increase in order to return to 1 Hit Point, no matter how close to death you are. You lose the dying and wounded conditions and become conscious.
She pulls out a mistform elixir, drinks it, and appears very cloudy. Then she pulls out a healing potion.
Old Wrinkleface also makes a heroic recovery!
"Ack! I dead!" he groans. Then he tilts his head to the side, sticks out his tongue, and closes his eyes.
Then he slowly crawls over to the ladder and tries to flop down it. When he gets to the bottom he tries to hide under the platform.
Hobb also makes a Heroic Recovery! "Sarenrae!" he gasps. He presses a hand to his chest that glows with holy light, healing his wounds repeatedly.
Slightly taken aback by the massive damage his friends have taken, Alunarius steels himself, lobs two bombs at the red harpy and draws two more. To Hobbs, he cries "Duck, watch out for the splash!"
Kali continues up the ladder, then when she crests the top, she sees the old Goblin laying on the ground. Enraged, she moves to the guard and teaches him some manners!
The tiger gnome suddenly bursts back to life. It is a heroic feat indeed. She then chugs down a misty potion plus prepares a healing one. She begins to look like she is made of mist.
Old Wrinkleface is finally able to sell the act to the guard now that he experienced real death. He uses this opportunity to crawl down the ladder and hide.
Hobb feels better suddenly, most likely from the same source as the other members of the group but then calls the power of his goddess to heal his wounds. She seems to oblige as he slow reverts to near perfect condition.
Alunarious tosses two bombs at the red harpy but both seem to loft over his shoulders, dealing no damage.
Kali finishes climbing the ladder and is able to strike the guard once!