As the group reaches the gatehouse Stanislav steps out from the side of the building and hurls an alchemical fire at the woman in the second rank. He hopes to burn many with the splash, including the two oxen who might begin to panic and move away from the lady on fire or at least rear up and foul their harnesses.
Cori steps out from behind the rounded wall of the tower and looses an arrow at the red-haired knight in the winged helmet.
Vinnick will, as his allies make their move, cast fog cloud on half the group, to sow even further chaos and confusion.
He then moves his minions up to the front to support his companions.
Do you want me to make the gates open? as it is only Cori and Ryzz can see any of them.
My initial (surpprise) action assumed that at the gates were open as I through the alchemical fire through. Slid also through a missile weapon in that Ghast Retch.
It would be ideal I guess if one of the gates were closed. Not sure we would have done that as it might have given away the surprise.
I agree with Stan. If we were able to get ahead of them and lie in wait, the best plan would be to leave one door of the gate partially open, just big enough for one person to pass through, and the other door closed and barred, spiked, or something very heavy in place to keep it from opening. I don't know if we would have had time to do this, though.
Stannis manages to hit the middle-aged civilian woman in the middle with his alchemist fire. He Burns her badly and she screams and the man and the young girl next to her as well as the oxen behind are burned as well.
Cori fires an arrow but misses her mark.
Slid Trows the ghast retch at the red-haired thiefling woman escorting the carts and hits her. She manages to resist puking just barely but is still sickened by the foul liquid.
The old man and old woman at the font manage to get one of the doors open and the half-elf warrior at the front moves up seeing the situation he evaluates the zombie tiger as the biggest danger and calling upon the power of his god to empower his blade with holy energies he strikes at it.
The Red-haired thieving woman decides to shoot back at Cori.
The woman Stannis burned spends her turn putting out the flames on her body aided by the man next to her.
The rest of them continue to focus on the zombies for the moment. The zombies continue to move in on the caravan.
Your Go. You can all act then it will be NPC's Then Zombies again and we will continue in this order.
Cori looses another arrow at the red-haired woman.
The tiger merely looks to the foe that struck him. Eyeing him like it would have prey in life. How dare his prey strike him.
The skeleton solider moves to assist, though the tiger may not need it.
Vinnick grins as his newfound pet goes about its gruesome business. He will take a shot at the man on the wagon before moving to safety.
As the half-elf steps up to attack the tiger he passes through the threatened range of Stanislavs' glaive. The pale warrior swings his weapon but cannot connect.
Both Ajikisshochraos and R'yzztyg reach the gate, and climb to the top of the solid stone tower, and lie flat as possible to hide themselves from the slow approaching caravan. They whisper to each each other deciding which targets will be there first.
Ajikisshochraos decides to use her breath on the red hair warrior closest to the tower, but aiming her acid blob to land between the ox, and the warrior, so to avoid damaging the attacking zombie, and the ox, and possibly the villager at the same time.
R'yzzntyg decides the red hair warrior is just out of your breath range and decides to hold it for now. She lies still to see where the other warriors come out of the fog cloud.
OK I applied all the damage and got everything sorted the elf is still up Stannis albeit barely. He was badly mauled but avoided the worst of it thanks to his divine protection (smite ac) He took 21 dmg and is grappled.
The old man driving the front wagon slumps over unconscious.
Seeing the holy knight still standing Stanislav attacks before stepping back.
The Elf manages to avoid the blow from Stannis staying in the fight for the moment.
He heals himself a little (Lay on hands) and then strikes at the tiger again.
The thiefling woman who shot at Cori drops her bow drawing two short-swords and destroys the zombie in front of her.
The other thiefling woman also dispatches her zombie.
The woman in the back incants a spell targeting Cori.
[will save dc 17 negates] The spell creates the illusion of pitch darkness that only Cori can see effectively making her blind if she fails the save.
The cleric in the back channels to harm the undead destroying two zombies and weakening the other two.
The civilians try to hide behind the wagon.
The remaining zombies attack the cleric. More are coming but they won't arrive for a little while.
Your go.
Cori shrugs off the phantasmal magic and closes with the tiefling woman near the gate, stowing her bow and drawing her sword as she moves.
Seeing the thiefling woman take down the zombie, and Cori rushing to contront the theifling she casts a spell to summon an animal to aid Cori.
Ajikisshochraos glides down from the tower to attack the thiefling to bite a leg, yet misses the agile moving thiefling.
The skelletal warrior strikes out at the elf, hoping to down it and free the tiger to cause mayhem. However the struggle between the tiger and the elf proves too turbulent.
The Tiger secures it's grip on the man, biting down with its jaws and crunching through the elf's armor.
Vinnick moves to his tiger, laying a hand on its flank and channeling negative energy into it.
The Tiger kills the Elf Paladin.
Yes you can change your action, Slid.
The tiger did kill his foe stannis.
With all the enemies remaining inside the gate Stanislav slips inside and tries to trip the woman in chain to his north.
@stannis that is just an unharmed old lady the mayor's wife.
Stannis trips the old lady who screams and begs for mercy.
Slid misses the agile tiefling.
One of the remaining zombies bites the cleric and the other misses.
The thiefling woman attacks Cori with her shortswords.
The other one moves to flank around slid but can't quite get into a flank position.
The female caster takes a length of rope from her bag and tosses it towards Cori uttering the words of a spell. It snakes out going for Cori's legs.
Reflex save dc 15 to avoid being tripped. If Cori is tripped she will also cast
Staggering fall.
The old man shouts for Stannis to leave his wife alone and fire a crossbow at him.
Your go.
As the woman's blades strike, Cori is pleasantly surprised to find that they fail to penetrate her skin. Handy bit of magic, that, she muses, only to suddenly be aware of the rapier stab, which she avoids. Stepping aside, she finds a magical rope slithering about her legs, clearly intent on toppling her to the ground.
Cori counterattacks with her own blade, striking at the woman with the short swords.
Stay down woman. If you stand then you are part of the fight. And you old man, put down the crossbow and sit on the ground or Ii will cut her down where she lays. Stanislav warns as he steps to help Cori and Slid.
A lightning elemental appears suddenly behind the thiefling and immediately attacks.
Ajikisshochraos attacks the thiefling.
Ajikisshochraos also does a tail attack at the elf behind her.
R'yzzntyg decides to summon another nature ally to attack the elf.
Cori gets a stab in on the already wounded tiefling next to her nearly downing her.
The elemental manages to finish her off.
Slid does a few acrobatic flips and moves into a flank position on female tiefling behind him catching her off-guard and sliding his rapier into her ribs
She collapses bleeding out.
Vinnack stands back and watches for the moment sending regional in to help but keeping the Tiger up front to watch the gate.
The wizard of the enemy group makes herself invisible and flees.
Their cleric is overwhelmed by the zombies and goes down.
The rest surrender begging you to spare them.
Going out of initiative here.
The trick now is to loot the bodies without being eaten by the undead. Stanislav offers. I do hope they have something worth this extra trouble.
You grab the two tiefling girls and move the wagons forward out of the gate before closing the gates.
The wagons contain a decent amount of loot, Vinnick points out the magical stuff and identifies it.
The wagon contains 2 weeks’ worth of trail rations, a barrel of fresh water, six skins of ale, and a matching +1 composite longbow (+3 Str) and +1 defending longsword, each wrapped in oilcloth. A slender crate contains a masterwork short sword and a masterwork rapier, each with a red leather hilt. Another, larger crate contains a suit of +1 studded leather and a suit of masterwork chainmail; both suits of armor have decorations that resemble feathery wings.
A handy haversack contains a potion of eagle’s splendor, a potion of fox’s cunning, a potion of owl’s wisdom, and a ring of protection +2. A velvet bag on the wagon’s seat contains two wands: a wand of cure moderate wounds with 33 charges remaining and a wand of lesser restoration with 13 charges remaining. Finally, a leather bag tucked beneath the wagon’s seat contains 310 pp.
The fighters defending the convoy had.
1 masterwork Falchion, 2 masterwork shortswords, Mastweerwork Longsword, +1 chain mail, 2 masterwork chain shirts, masterwork longbow with 27 arrows, alchemical silver arrows (5), darkwood flute, 2 potions of cure light wounds, 630 gold.
"Not a bad haul," Ci Ci says, glancing over the pile of gear. "I suppose it's time to report back."
She instructs the elemental to push the survivors away from the wagons, and also the strige to help keep the survivors away. Ajikisshochraos decides to join the summons, and mock threaten the survivors that she use her breath weapon, if they approach. R'yzzntyg remains on top of the wall, watching the approach of the undead. Once the wagon is through the gate, with Ajikisshochraos in tow, and the gates are closed, she glides down to the wagon with Ajikisshochraos already rummaging through the wagon contents looking for treasure.
@R'yzzntyg link is at the top, I pinned it there.
"The zombies will get the peasants," Cori replies with an unconcerned shrug. "One of the others escaped, but since we were using our pendants, he won't be able to identify us by appearance. All in all, I'd say it was a good day. We've made a tidy profit from this little excursion, and rid the world of a few more self-righteous prigs."