Tamerius will move in a second--
"Scared to death? What the..."
Giggett starts screaming at the young guy:
"Come to us! We can protect you!"
The man turns his head towards you--
Dragh reacts--
Then, the young man, obviously filled with adrenaline, turns towards Giggett who called out, and sprints towards your group.
He runs around and hides behind Giggett...
Racing like crazy, coming around the edge of the house from where the young man appeared, chasing him, you see a wild boar!
It comes racing along, hot on the heels of the young man.
The boar comes grunting along, its paws ripping clods of earth from the grass, and, not seeing very well, it looks at all the people--
--before charging and ramming into Giggett!
Because it came in so fast, it manages to pass Giggett's defenses, and its tusks rip into the gnome's flesh.
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Dragh looks at the running person not knowing what to do. When seeing how Giggette was hit he moves to the side, beginning the incantation as he walks. He stops to the side in a big grass and water begins to materialize around the dwarf. After a couple of seconds, a big stream of water flies towards the animal.
Dragh notices that the water flies too high for such a low animal, so he attempts to control the flow of the magic to direct the water element at the target.
"WHOA! That is one big pig!" hollers Natsume as she reaches for her flail-- and finds the sword, instead. Not having time to reconsider, she shrugs and dances around the hog , putting it between herself and Giggett.
Even redirected, the water from Dragh's magical spell does not really hurt the boar, and it sure does not push him back... it does drench the beast though, and it starts to smell.
Not used to using swords, Giggett tries to twirl it like a flail... and misses.
Tamerius draws his medical tools and tries to patch Giggett's wounds
Too far to do anything to the creature, he tries to impress it.
GO AWAY!
Tamerius swiftly slams some balm and a patch of clean cloth on Giggett's recent wounds, and the gnome feels a lot better.
But when he yells at the boar, it does not really react...
The young man looks at Tamerius: "Me? Go away, me?!", but he keeps on hiding behind you.
The wild boar keeps on grunting, and decide to try to go through Giggett to get to the young man, butting its head over and oven and over again... its tusks his Giggett the first time, hurting her, but do not do anything the next times.
Giggett feels as is Tamerius' healing was undone!
Giggett screams when hit. She then moves into flanking position, drawing her rapier, and attack the boar.
piercing damage + precision piercing damage.
Giggett slightly wounds the boar, piercing its hide.
Giggett tries to capitalize on her successful attack and she starts screaming at the boar in an unknown language.
with a +4 bonus if it understands sylvan (who knows :p).
She then makes an attack, aiming at the eyes of the creature.
piercing damage + precision piercing damage.
Dragh quickly draws few glyphs in the air maintaining the connection with arcane powers. He keeps speaking in the dwarven language trying to maintain calm and accuracy. His movements are calculated and precise.
Dragh learned from his teachers that panic and lack of control can be devastating for the caster.
He throws a big branch at the boar
The branch hits the ground before the boar and bounces above it. Irritated dwarf extends his hand and a force bolt flies towards the boar hitting it.
Tamerius heals again Giggett, but this time he calls for Asmodeus' power.
Heals the wounds of those fighting to protect your Servant.
Then he draws his crossbow.
Natsume shakes her hand out a bit, as if to prompt it to remember that she's using a sword. She lashes out twice, one a slash and the other a quick stab as she recovers from the swing:
Egged on by her success up to this point, she attempts to twist the blade before drawing it out:
The boar does not react in the slightest to Giggett speaking to it--
--and her rapier pushes hard into the hide of the beast, but does not manage to pierce it.
The boar sniffs at the branch-- but then looks up, unhappy, when a force bolt bashes it between the eyes.
Giggett is then healed, as Tamerius magically stitches up his wounds--
--then Tamerius arms himself.
Having shaken her blade very well, Natsume slashes the boar with a serious wound--
--and then another light wound with her quick stab.
This stab pierces the boar's throat and blood gushes out, killing it--
--but... but, no!
The boar grunts, and it shows pure ferocity!
It seems to be Wounded, and very badly hurt, but it manages to remain standing!
Even as blood pumps out of the deadly wound.
Egged on by her success up to this point, Natsume attempts to twist the blade before drawing it out, but, this beast seems to be so strangely strong, and she does not manage to drop it.
Giggett starts to clean her blood, boldly smiling, but the boar turns to face her with its tusks, and the gnome realizes that she should never have hoped that this fight might last more, for her wish has been fulfilled!
Giggett was ready to clean the blood when the creature went all frenzy. She lashes out a reflex attack...
piercing damage + precision piercing damage.
... and managed to finish the boar. It takes her a second to realize how violent the animal actually was compared to other specimens of its race.
Gigget tries for a last attack against the boar that did not fall--
--and she just manages to pierce it skin, and bring it down.
The boar drops... and stays down.
The young man jumps up and down with glee!
"Thank you, thank you! It was eating our turnips, I threw a rock at it and... it charged me!"
He looks at the boar’s carcass, smiling:
"Thanks! I can dress and cook the animal for you!"
Just then you see Trin coming out of the house:
"Marny? What's up... oh?"
She sees you all, and invites you inside for tea.
Natsume hooooos as the boar falls, wiping the longsword on its side. "Everyone okay? Anyone in the mood for ham?" she asks, slipping her blade back into her obi and rolling out her arms.
"You okay?" she asks of the young man directly.
The young man, who looks a bit like Trin, jumps up a down, full of glee.
»Oh yes! So much to eat! I am great! »
Natsume grins broadly. "Awesome! I'm down for some tea, and then we'll..."
She looks back at the boar, and hums a little.
"We might need to load that onto a wagon, actually. Don't think we can just butcher it on the road like that!"
Before doing that, lets look if this specimen has any magical or strange surgery.
Tea will wait.
Says Tamerius who starts looking at the animal.
Giggett quickly welcomes the two strangers before speaking to the party:
"Guys, could we stop fooling around? All of this is getting far too dangerous to walk without armor or wait for ages before healing all our bruises. I really think we need to operate like a group of mercenaries. Playing easy will get us killed. And stupid deaths is something I really hate..."
Then turning back to the two strangers:
"We need a little bit of rest to heal our wounds. We are happy to share a drink, but first, we are going to take a few minutes to check both the boar and ourselves."
And then to Natsume:
"Natsume, you are crafty, isn't it? Do you know how to sceal a potency crystal on a weapon?"
Gigget also takes some time to think about the boar. It was especially dangerous, from where she was, but maybe was it just normal for a specimen of its race, after all...
Nah, it was especially dangerous for a specimen of its race
"Thank you, by the way. But be careful, at this rate, I'll start to appreciate you."
Marny looks at Natsume grins broadly:
"I can butcher it here at the farm, and work on it. Make cuts. Smoke meat. Prepare sausages..."
Natsume looks at the boar, and does not know much about it, but thinks she would like to eat it.
Tamerius looks over the wild boar, checking it out... he does not know much about wild boars, so cannot speak about its behavior, but while looking it over, he sure there has been no alchemical tampering or surgery done on the beast.
Trin and Marny both welcome Giggett.
They shake their heads: "Getting killed? No, the boar might hurt you bad, but it doesn't kill... normally.
Come on in. Have some tea. Rest a bit. And we can help tend to your wounds, boiling some water..."
Natsume knows that affixing a talisman takes 10 minutes, using a repair kit. And there is a repair kit in the wagon that has tools and such.
Natsume has her own repair kit, which she keeps forgetting to use to reaffix the chip on her shield.
"Should be no problem!" she tells Giggett.
She happily goes in for some tea, drooling a little.
Dragh looks at the boar's carcass and just to be sure checks it for any magic. He lays his hands on top and concentrates for a bit...
"Let us rest and heal giving them time to prepare the meat. Then we can talk."
Seems like a normal boar to me. Lets take a tea.
Says Tamerius after observing the animal.
He follows his comrades inside, hoping inside that the man will prepare the boar for his next meal.
Tamerius' response is as cold as expected don't get use to it too much.
By protecting you, I'm protecting myself.
Tamerius uses this rest to tend his old wounds.
After enjoying his tea, he starts asking questions about the other night.
Trin, have you a recollection of last night events? taking his notes he asks I remember that you fled the main room when the fight started toward the stables. Have you seen Phinick inside? Before the fight, have you notice something unusual? and during? When you were outside, have you hear or see something?
Dragh detected no traces of magic on the dead boar.
You all enter the nice little farmhouse, that is a simple buy cozy home.
Trin makes tea for all, and serves Natsume first.
You see she has a bruise on her face.
"So, you're the people from the caravan, from the Feedmill. You have not departed yet? And what are you doing around our farm? Interested in getting turnips? We have some to spare."
She watches Tamerius as he spends some time tending to his wounds.
"Wow, thanks for fighting that boar, it could've maimed my brother. What a fool he is, throwing rocks at wild pigs."
Marny answers: "It was eating our turnips! Besides, I run fast, it never would've got me..."
Which he, and all present, now to not be true at all.
Giggett looks to Natsume, to see if she will work on her crystal...
You all enjoy a nice tea.
Trin smiles at Tamerius: "Last night events? Well, I went to bed early. There were no events at all. I had enough with the fight at the Feedmill the other night."
She points to her bruise.
"Got hit in the face with a mug, so I got fed up and just came straight home."
When Tamerius goes on about her fleeing the main room when the fight started. the answers:
"That was two nights ago.
But if your asking about that, yes, I did exit out the side door, but didn't go to the stables. I just ran straight home.
I mean, after being hit in the face everything is a bit of blur until I got home. I didn't pay attention to anything.
But, yes, Phinick was inside the inn, he was plating the food.
And, no, I didn't see anything unusual before the damn fight.
Why? Did someone rob your belongings or something?"
Natsume is totally sure that Trin is telling the truth, though she does seem a little confused as to why all the questions, but she is polite and helpful, thus answering you.
Also, Natsume cannot feel any curse, spell or mental magic affecting the young waitress.
In the meantime, the brother, Marny, is busy getting knives and basins to slice up the boar.
Natsume nods along to the information; seems legit!
”Do you want a hand with that boar?” she asks, finishing her tea.
Marny looks up: "Oh, yes, why not, there's a lot to chop up!"
Natsume grins and hops up. ”Happy to help!” she chimes, rolling back her sleeves.
She’ll assist with butchering the big pig, and probably knows what she’s doing, given her time in the wilderness.
Marny is happy with the help: "Too bad it was killed by having its throat cut, we lost a lot of blood... could've made blood sausage."
Natsume shrugs. ”No shortage of other food here!” she chimes, getting to work.
She’ll also slap that crystal wherever Giggett needs it—though maybe she should have washed her hands first!
Trin watches as Natsume helps cut up the boar, then pulls her repair kit out and works away on Giggett's weapon, affixing a magical crystal to it.
You see she is quite polite, but has no idea what the heck you are doing all these things in her house, nor asking all these questions for.
But, well, you saved her brother, so...
Giggett first checks that Trin is not acting as surprised , and then puts her up to date:
"Trin, something else happened that night, and it looks like you are not aware. Bort, the merchant leader, got poisoned. That's the reason why we are here asking so many questions, the sheriff asked us to investigate, as Bort was our boss."
She also thanks Natsume with a smile, showing off with her shiny new trinket!
Giggett feels that Trin is truly surprised, and does not see any sign of deceit.
Especially when Trin seems quite shocked by the news of the merchant being poisoned.
"Oh my! Poisoned? Bad food? Is he doing better? The sheriff... but... does that mean it was on purpose? He is not dead, is he?"
Trin actually seems quite shaken to learn the dwarf is dead and foul play took place.
"Well, what I can remember is that I spent the evening serving food.
Yes, and Kolnral served drinks.
As a result, I spent most of my night going back and forth between the kitchen and tables.
I recall serving you all your food at your table.
You were sitting right beside Flonk. On the podium area.
And, yes, I brought the turnip porridge dessert out.
That was right before the fight began.
I remember standing near the table as the fight started, just having dropped off the desserts.
Then I was hit with the mug!
Cannot remember much after, only that I ran home and my brother took care of me.
No... I do not recall seeing anyone near the food who should not have been there, only Amora preparing it and Phinick plating it."
Unless any have other questions or such, Marny will give you some fresh meat: "I'lll prepare the rest and get it to you these next days. And start smoking the rest."
And then you would move back to the wagons for lunch-- on boar meat.
Dragh looks at Trin and asks:
"Have you ever seen this?" showing a flask in which the poison was.
Dragh looks carefully at the reaction of both people in the house.
If there is no reaction that Dragh can spot, he adds:
"Do you recognize that smell? Have you scented it when putting the porridge plates down?" He opens the flask and let them smell it.
Dragh show the flask.
Trin shakes her head.
Marny says: "I don't drink. Only a little mead now and then."
Observing both, Dragh sees no tell tale signs of deceit at all.
They both smell it, and shrug.
"Smells floral... but I can't say which kind of flower", is there only reaction.
"And you haven't seen such or similar vials during the past week?"
Asks dwarf.