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"Don't let them knock you down like that. What do you think you are, four legged gnomes or short eared rabbits?!" Ulretha snarls as another of his Pack is knocked from their feet.
He doesn't seem to care that they now outnumber their opponents 2 to 1. In fact, he seems intent on making it 4 to 1 as he wails the orange collared wolf with his flail.
Between the snarling and snapping, Fazingar's tail tucks and his ears lower, clearly chastened by his failure and Ulretha's shouting. He fights on, though, obviously trying to make up for his mistake.
Onnikka, on the other hand pays the gnoll little, if any mind, continuing to fight from the ground.
Crezobill actually prances a bit, more than a bit smug at being the only member of the Pack still on his feet.
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...Heyna...heyna ...Heyna...heyna ...Hyena. :)
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Ulretha hits with his flail, severely injuring the orange wolf.
Onnikka can't quite hit from their vulnerable ground position.
Fazingar lands a decent bite that tears a chunk of wolf of, but doesn't quite knock the wolf prone (those extra legs!).
Crezobill also tears out wolf fur and blood and it is enough to knock the wolf unconscious.
Blue wolf moves in to try and attack Little Ben, but gets cut down on the way in.
The pink wolf moves to fight the dinosaur, whom immedialty responds with a talon slash.
The wolf is still up though, and tries to bite into Little Buddy, but man, that dinosaur is tough to hit.
Initiative Order, Bold May Go!
Map Slide
Lidia
Little Ben
Thyste
Beastmaster 1, -13hp and entangled, red -9hp,
Ulretha, heyna -5hp and tripped, heyna -4hp and tripped
Beastmaster 2, -9hp, entangled, pink entangled -4hp
Thyste takes a step to improve her footing; with most of the combat having closed pretty thoroughly into melee, she heads down the aisle in the middle of the combat and looses an arrow at the beastmaster with the white cloak.
Thyste takes a step to improve her footing; with most of the combat having closed pretty thoroughly into melee, she heads down the aisle in the middle of the combat and looses an arrow at the beastmaster with the white cloak.
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Ben moves around to the opposite side of the wolf, making sure not to get within range of its bite and lashes out.
Little Buddy also unleashes the full fury of its teeth and claws.
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Thyste and Lidia's arrows all find their marks, although mostly due to the entangle for some of them. Thyste is able to take down the first beastmaster while Lidia's arrows take out the other.
Little Ben has trouble swinging his enormous axe again, but Little Buddy tears in a wolf.
Ulretha and his pack take their revenge out on the remaining wolf.
Combat Over!
heyna -5hp, heyna -4hp
Loot:
potions of cure light wounds (4), acid (4), caltrops (2); leather armor (2), javelins (6), orc double axe (2), scabbard of honing (2), 72 gp
Ben takes one of the potions and lets the others pick through the loot and plops the rest on the scales.
"Hey, you want to use this thing to heal your friends?" he asks the packmaster?
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Ulretha nods at Ben...perhaps gratefully...thankfully? Then claims two of the potions, glaring at anyone who protests. That's the easy part. The hard part is getting the hyenas to drink them. He ends up wrestling them each into a headlock and sticking the vial down their muzzle and tilting their heads back amidst much squirming, scratching and snarling.
"Be careful, Lidia. Keep acting like this and I might start to like you," he says at the change in her when that is done. He starts padding toward the buildings she indicated.
Once Ben figures out the scabbard will actually work on his axe he takes one.
When Ulretha ignores Ben's advice and uses the potions he says, "I guess not. Sorry Thyste. Would you like my potion?"
He also takes the pause in action to use the pearl of power to get his spell back.
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Ulretha nods at Ben...perhaps gratefully...thankfully? Then claims two of the potions, glaring at anyone who protests. That's the easy part. The hard part is getting the hyenas to drink them. He ends up wrestling them each into a headlock and sticking the vial down their muzzle and tilting their heads back amidst much squirming, scratching and snarling.
Although the hyenas don't know her well, Lidia nonetheless tries (unbidden) helping out to get the animals to take their medicine. She approaches them much as she would likely approach a wild dog or wolf, speaking to it calmly and quietly, giving them a chance to smell her, and offering a few comforting pats on the flank and scratches of the ears. When the moment of truth comes, she reaches an arm around its torso to hold it in place, and another on its front to keep it from trying to bolt, being sure to leave the business by the mouth for their master.
"Be careful, Lidia. Keep acting like this and I might start to like you," he says at the change in her when that is done. He starts padding toward the buildings she indicated.
Lidia actually cracks a smirk at this. "Well, we wouldn't want that." she rejoins in the same spirit. After a pause, she gets a little more serious and speaks up again. "I don't like bullies and orcs are the biggest bullies around. It's a pleasure to give it back to them in the teeth."
"I guess not. Sorry Thyste. Would you like my potion?"
He also takes the pause in action to use the pearl of power to get his spell back.
"Always good to have on-hand!" says Thyste, happily swiping it from Ben.
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As you finish recovering from this fight, you look to the northeast (L7) and see that there are three houses being ransacked by orcs, although no one is in immediate danger.
To the northwest (L9), you hear the guttural voices of orcs threatening someone down this dark alleyway. In contrast to the dim light in the rest of the district, the narrow alley is obstructed by debris and shrouded in almost complete darkness.
Thyste hustles toward the threatening sound!
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Lidia's first instinct seems to be to rush off and deal with the orcs she can see, but something about the threatening voices coming from the dark alley makes her pause. She looks about at the others and gestures with her head.
"I'll go have a look." she says, then trots off toward L9, edging along the buildings and trying to blend into the shadows.
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Ulretha looks longingly at the orcs who are looting. If he loots them after they loot someone else then he can't be blamed for the original looting. He's just righting a wrong. Everyone knows that.
But, he knows that he probably can't take them all on by himself and the flatsnouts seem intent on helping whoever it is that is in trouble so he follows Lidia...but at a distance so as not to mess up her sneaking.
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Two half-orcs have cornered a human man named Aleril at the end of this alleyway. The villains are speaking in rough Common, and though their exact words are hard to make out, the seething hatred in their voices is clear. At one point, one says, “Move an inch and five of my best come to join us. They won’t be as friendly as we are.”
Instead he gets 5 of the other side's best.
"I don't expect you meant us."
Ben activates the scales to cast a spell but does not charge forward. Instead he readies an action to attack if they charge him since that worked so well with the wolves.
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The most powerful ability of the scales, however, is their ability to cast divine magic, directly from Abadar, upon those that pay for it. Instead of placing an item on the left side of the scale, a character can place coins or the parchment described above to be the target or to designate another attuned character to be the target of divine magic.
They are not attuned, so cannot be targeted. The idea is that you cannot use the scales for offensive magic
Initiative Order, Bold May Go!
Map Slide
Thyste
Lidia
Enemies
Little Ben
Ulretha
Thyste raises her bow. ”I know it’s a bit late, given you already have an arrow sticking out of you, but if you surrender quickly and start explaining the situation, you can avoid getting one of these in the neck,” she says.
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Lidia's arrows find their mark due to firing at point-blank range. Thyste's arrow joins Lidia's and lands an extremely precise blow
The half-orc looks like she is about to pass out, but she pulls out a potion and drinks it, turning invisible.
The remaining one yells, "OI, BOYS, GET IN HERE!" as she also pulls out a potion and turns invisible.
Initiative Order, Bold May Go!
Map Slide
Thyste
Lidia
Enemies, red -27hp, both invisible
Little Ben, +11hp
Ulretha
"Ulretha, care to sic your pack on them? With them being invisible and all I'm thinking their noses might serve us well."
" Anyone care for a blessing from Abadar?" Ben activates the scales again, this time producing the bless spell. Cheap and effective.
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"Great," Ulretha growls as the two orcs turn invisible. He looks around, clearly paranoid about getting stabbed in the back. "Who do you think the 'Bois' are?"
He sends the Pack to sniff out the two orcs, then readies his magically sharpened longsword for any orc that happens to get close to him, whether the two who just disappeared or whoever they were calling for.
Onnikka looks at Ulretha quizzically as he tries to send her looking for things she can't see. The two males take their cue from her and, instead of padding down the alley to look for the orcs, they circle up, backs to each other ready to bite anything that gets close that isn't their friend.
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As the heyna's sniff around, one of the half-orcs suddenly appears face-down in the dirt where it was once standing.
You hear the footsteps of people coming down the ally from the north as well now.
Initiative Order, Bold May Go!
Map Slide
Thyste
Lidia
Enemies, red -27hp unconscious,
Little Ben, +11hp
Ulretha
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Ulretha barks a short laugh as the orc falls down unconscious. [b]"Well that will ruin your plans," he snarks.
He continues to cover his end of the alley but notices the tidbit is at the other end. Because she's so wee and he doesn't entirely hate her, he sends the Pack to protect her.
Apparently, the Pack likes Thyste, too. At least enough to listen to Ulretha when he says to protect her. They move around and past her to surround her, watching out for any threats and ready to take them down.
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"There's more coming." says Lidia quickly to her comrades. She whistles once sharply and gestures to the erstwhile hostage. "Aleril! This way! Quickly!"
Then she rushes forward, slithering through the wreckage of the half-ruined building, she makes her way stealthily up to where she last saw the half-orcs, then searches for tracks for the one who vanished and didn't just reappear.
Ben hasn't a clue what to do and wanders forward swinging his axe in a broad arc as a kind of blind man's cane, Little Buddy in tow. When he gets to the intersection he stops and readies an action to attack anyone foolish enough to attack him. Readied attacks...
Ben uses the scales to cast a Shield of Faith on himself before moving out.
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Five orcs come stomping down the ally, stopping once they see you. They all yell and begin charging towards you!
At the same time, the one Lidia was tracking becomes visible, poking her head around the corner as she watches the orcs charge.
Initiative Order, Bold May Go!
Map Slide
Thyste
Lidia
Enemies, red -27hp unconscious,
Little Ben, +11hp, +2 AC
Ulretha
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Like some kind of brainless human, Ulretha finds himself completely out of position. That must be the problem, he's been around humans so long, he's starting to lose his combat instincts.
With a frustrated growl, he hustles to the other end of the alley, getting just far enough to see the fresh orcs.
He points his sword at them and snaps out a command to the Pack.
Onnikka and the males look at Ulretha blankly then at each other. The way their ears flick and heads cock you can practically hear them thinking "Attack what?"
Thyste's eyes dart around the alley, taking in the possibilities, and she's up, using windowsills and shingles and hops when she needs them:
"Byenas!"
Swinging her legs over the ledge, she rolls with her bow, popping up onto her feet and jogging across to the center of the branching alleyway paths.
Spotting the orcs rounding the corner, she nocks an arrow and looses it!
Ben steps back and hands the scales off to Ulretha.
"Here. Why don't you try them out."
Then he waves to the orcs.
"Over here lasses. If you dare." Both he and Little Buddy make ready to attack when and if they get within range.
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Thyste climbs up some of the small buildings, making it to the top of a "5ft" tall building in a single climb.
Thyste fires an arrow, slightly more than 30ft away, and manages to hit the orc, severely wounding it.
Lidia's first arrow knocks an orc unconscious, but her second arrow misses.
Red comes charging into range of Little Ben, frenzied by Thyste's arrow, but doesn't really make it very far before Ben cuts the poor orc in half.
The other three orcs continue in, but the one from before turns tail and runs.
One of the orcs lands a luck blow that comes extremely close to dealing a nearly devastating blow, but Little Buddy shoves the orc at the same time, throwing the attack off.
Initiative Order, Bold May Go!
Map Slide
Thyste
Lidia
Enemies, red -5hp
Little Ben, -1hp, +2 AC
Ulretha