Caelryl tries to finish off a scorpion using his new sword, targeting it's soft spot.
Zig sees Caelryl stab at the scorpion and turns and smashes his sword down on its face.
With the scorpion approaching, Fumbus draws his recently obtained magic weapon and attacks.
Agamer, Zig and a few magic missile kill the two scorpions. No more danger lurks for the time being.
Well now that, that’s settled let’s continue. . Zig sheathes his sword and looks around to see if everyone agrees.
"Longshanks means, after Fumbus eat, of course." cries the goblin in response, ripping off a piece of one of the pincers and taking a bite of the soft, meaty insides. He then breaks the pincer in half, offering the lower portion to the dwarf. "Good source of iron."
zig looks in shock at the goblin chomping away at the claw, your appetite never ceases to amaze me little one
The heroes continue up ahead and they see a Gnoll camp. They are up on a hill and the Gnoll Camp is 300 feet away and the only way down the hill is the spiral path down, in which they will see you. Once you enter the camp.
Zig draws his sword and leans on it trying to get a look at the group down below.
"I don't think any of my magics will bring us all the way. Be it a masked approach, surprise attack, takeover, not happening," Nerze says, stretching a tiny illusion of a hill between his fingers. "And talking to gnolls costs a finger every minute. Instead, might I suggest we get as close as possible before giving them Hell?"
zig nods I think that’s a good idea but I don’t think we should go into the camp draw them out so we can all see them and get at them.
Zig picks his sword up and puts it on his shoulder, I’ll give them something to come and fight, you guys stay back and hit them from afar. If anyone would like to join me in the mud and blood feel free. once everyone decides where they wanna be zig will walk towards the gnolls sauntering and singing a song he remembers his wife would sing to the kids.
You see five gnolls running up the spiral Hill, 3 of them regular and 2 of the Bosses. The bosses go in front.
Gnolls
Zig
Crunch
Playtest Pregen
AGamer
You all have the high ground advantage, so you may roll your readied actions and you all have soft cover. You may also take round 1 if you won init.
Zig sees them running at him and readies a sweeping cut to try and kill one of these gnolls quickly.
Loath to waste unerring force magic, Nerze starts off with his trusty crossbow.
Zig and Crunch both land hits, Zig on a regular gnoll, Crunch on the boss, but neither manages to kill anything, just slice them up good.
Seeing the cramped path, Caelryl draws both swords and joins Zig to create a skirmish line. He gets ready to attack the first gnoll that gets near him.
He then studies the closest gnoll before swinging with both swords.
A Gamer slashes on twice, the same Zig hit, but the Gnoll though bleeding bladly is still alive.
The goblin jogs ahead trying to keep up with his long-legged companions. Once he does so, he draws his remaining pair of vials of alchemist's fire, before hurling one towards the gnearest gnoll--hoping to catch agnother gnoll in the splash!
Playtest Pregen finishes off the gnoll and catches all the other four of them in the splash. Playtest Pregen is now up for round 1
Delighted to see his foes ablaze, Fumbus throws his second vial of alchemist's fire at the nearest foe!
He then reaches for more. Disappointed that he can't quickly find anymore sources of fire, he grabs a vial of acid and hurls it.
Playtest Pregen only hits the square, they then attack
+6, 6, +1, +1, +3, +3, -1 and -1 modifiers
Three hits land on Zigurad, one crit
All heroes are up
Fumbus fumbles around in his pack again. Biting on his tongue for concentration, his small hand struggles to find what he is searching for even as the gnolls threaten. He his pleased when his mitt lands upon a pair of vials, which he pulls out quickly and with great delight.
"Bottled lightning!" he cries. "Fumbus forgot Fumbus make these this morning!"
He tosses each towards the two closest gnolls still standing.
Playtest Pregen gets all the gnolls in the splash, but hurts one badly.
Concerned that he's now the front line by himself, Caelryl studies the gnoll that Fumbus hit with his latest attack and tries to finish him off.
Nerze chips in by firing more magic missiles at the wounded gnoll, to keep their numbers down.
A Gamer misses, but Cruch does lots of damage to a gnolls, the impact rumble for the missiles causes a rockslide
Cruch and AGamer reflex save dc 10 or take save for half
four of them have to make reflex saves dc 12 as they are further down, so the rocks will fall faster and hit harder
+7 to each. Guess they each take 4.
Playtest Pregen is up
Concerned that he didn't even wound a gnoll, he braces for the oncoming attacks while hoping his companions behind him can take some out before they attack.
His focus on the battle allows him to duck and cover his head before getting hit from the rocks which saves him from a more serious injury.
Fearing that he has thrown his entire stash of harmful alchemical substances for the day, Fumbus reaches for his dogslicer and has a go at the nearest gnoll.
Playtest Pregen accidently hits the rocks and more fall
to heroes. Zig who is down anyway lucks out. The rest of the heroes reflex 12 for half.
to enemies.
They must make reflex dc 14 +7 to each check.
Killing the injured one and the others take 6 dmg
They will target the mountain on your side
to heroes, Expect Zig, reflex is now 14, it keeps increasing as rocks fall.
to themselves, reflex is 13 to themselves.
+7 to each. Killing one more and leaving the bosses heavily injured.
All heroes are up
Fumbus attempts to avoid the rocks he jostled free.
Sensing that the mountain has stabilized (relatively), Nerze presses the attack. "Who's up for a good sleep after this? Someone raise Zig's hand."
Crunch gets in a good hit, nearly kill one AGamer and Playtest Pregen are up
Fumbus, eager to bring the fight to an end, cuts away at any for he can reach.
Playtest Pregen killed them both, now A Gamer has a chance to Stabilize Zig on the last round
Zig after he wakes up sits up and looks around confused to see a bunch of dead gnolls and his bloodied companions.
Caelryl looks around at the fallen gnolls, hoping there aren't more. When he sees that the battle is over, he turns his attention to Zig to see if he's still alive.
Not sure that he did anything to help, he's relieved when Zig sits up.
"You took quite a hit," he tells his confused companion.
Shaking the dirt off of himself he stands up and, takes stock of his wounds, a deep gash a large bruise forming under his breastplate where he was hit.
“I think we should take a quick moment to relax, it seems those gnolls were a bit tougher than we anticipated. “
"A quick moment? We were nearly totaled!" Nerze, who is still pristine save some dust, carefully steps over.
Zig stares at the dwarf with an angry look in his eyes. ” Fine, then we can continue on.”
Zig casts heal on himself, then gets up ready to follow.
You figure you can rest here for the night as there is plenty of food and water here and you find out the camp is all just statues. There is a tomb for you to go into, but first you must disable the trap, dc 20.
Treasure The Gnolls just have mundane stuff on them, mostly arrows. Leather armor and composite bows, which can't be sold. You are also level 3 now.
Oh and when you get to the bottom of the mountain you see a dead Gnoll leader and a dead Manticore from all the falling rocks, obviously it hits them much harder.
Nerze makes an attempt on the trap, using simple magic to steady himself.
Caelryl tries to help Nerze disable the trap.
AGamer and Crunch disable the trap and are able to get into the tomb. They don't have reason to believe anything will come out of the tomb, but they are out in the open.
Brass wants to go first exhausted as he is getting it out of the way hopefully.