Round 1
Eldric charges in ducking the creatures potential blow and striking it!
Round 2
Relzak swings and misses!
Griselda lashes out with her hair, but her strike too is ill aimed.
Ghostwind enhances his blade and strikes, but narrowly misses!
Turn order:
1. Relzak
2. Griselda
3. Ghostwind
4. Gnomes???
5. Eldric
6. Handerbald
That brings up everyone!
Status:
Green: -18
Moving to get into a flanking position, Eldric let loose a flurry of blows aimed at the oversized gnome’s pressure points. One landed home, taking the gnome in the side of the neck.
Relzak continues his assault on the wounded gnome-thing.
Griselda will try to give her companions an advantage against the gnome
Ghostwind capitalizes from the bad positioning of the "gnome" to launch a dangerous thrust.
Round 2
The flanked gnome attempts to frighten Ghostwind and Griselda with a spell.
both flee for four rounds!
The giant sized one moves to flank, then it and its match across the side attack Eldric and Relzak respectively.
At Eldric:
At Relzak:
both miss!
With Greselda fleeing Eldric has no flanking partner, but still hits once!
Relzak follows through and finishes the injured gnome creature!
Turn order:
1. Relzak
2. Griselda
3. Ghostwind
4. Gnomes???
5. Eldric
6. Handerbald
Status:
Griselda and Ghostwind: fleeing 3 more rounds!
Purple: -11
With one gnome down, Eldric stepped forward towards the oversized one that was far too close to their king for comfort. He took a moment to size the foe up, and then gave a kick to the nether-regions, followed up by a punch to the throat, and finally a spinning kick to the ear.
Whooping in triumph as gnome-thing he attacked falls, Relzak turns his attention to the next closest gnome and decides that they're too tall. He aims to chop some of the height off of one of their legs.
Eldric drops the large creature!
Relzak punctures the final one with a quick strike!
The last gnome grows to his larger size!
Turn order:
1. Relzak
2. Griselda
3. Ghostwind
4. Gnomes???
5. Eldric
6. Handerbald
Status:
Griselda and Ghostwind: fleeing 2 more rounds!
Final one: -9
"Relzak, get behind him and brace!" With that, Eldric took off running at full speed towards the last of the large gnomes. Rather than slow down, he leapt into the air, brought both feet into his chest, and kicked out with all of his might.
Strategy!
Relzak darts around the large gnome's legs to get behind it.
Once in position, he times his strike for the same time as Eldric's.
Eldric and Relzak both hit and the final of the creatures here goes down.
From here, the trail of the limbering gnome like creatures is easy enough to follow, and after an hours walk (over he border), you see ahead about a mile away a squat, round building where they must have come from.
”Well, then, what now? We defeated their raiding party. We could try the diplomatic approach, or we could go in with vengeance in mind.”
After composing herself from her shameful display Griselda asks her companions
" I must apologize I must say I was not entirely prepared for that...... Battles are quite different when your in one to just hearing about them"
She looks to her companions to see if any where injured while she was indisposed so she can try to be useful in at least that
”Magic is the great equalizer. No matter how strong one might be, it levels the field. It could quite easily have been any of us who fell prey to their spell, so there is no reason for apologies. Or should I apologize the next time that a fireball sets my hair aflame?” Eldric responded with a good natured smile.
Relzak studies the building from afar.
"They are raiders into Tharbenia territory, so raiding and conquering in return is justified. But since we do not know why raiders come or how many raiders are, perhaps talking can be good way to find out."
He nods at Griselda's apology, but does not say anything.
"There are many questions to be answered still, we should try to talk first" Ghostwind says. "There's always time for violence later."
"It is decided then, that we will parlay with them. But I must ask our king to retreat from this, for we do not know what is in there. Should we fall, then more may be recruited to take our place. But should you be captured." He looked to the oracle. [/b]"Or worse, then our entire kingdom might be in jeopardy."[/b]
"But his leaving after a battle could also be taken as a sign of weakness or cowardly. At this point I believe we should all progress, but should we run into trouble our first priority is getting the king out safely. Even if it means the rest of us stay behind"
"There are many questions to be answered still, we should try to talk first" Ghostwind says. "There's always time for violence later."
"Yes. I will go knock."
Unless someone stops him, Relzak will head towards the building. If he makes it without interruption, he will give three measured pounds on the door with his fist.
...with Eldric standing beside him.
Griselda will walk behind the two as they approach the building
While the rest of the party go straight, Ghostwind decides to stay a bit away and sneak, just in case their received with lethal force. In that case, there's a chance they won't expect an extra combatant.
Relzak knocks on the door. Inside you hear a chittering, then, voice says, deeply in common, "Who would bother the Spriggan Lord?"
"The God King Handerbald III himself has come!" Eldric announced, somewhat haughtily. "To demand answers and restitution for the crimes committed against the people of Tharbenia. Open this door and parlay." The monk demanded.
Relzak grins at Eldric's forceful language, standing up straighter in pride.
"Tharbenia doesn't want fighting, but won't run from attacks on Tharbenia people!'
”the Spriggan Lord recognizes no borders, not kings, no Tharbenia nor otherwise here- this whole island is Spriggan Land by divine right, and we shall kill any who say otherwise.”
Eldric looked to their King and said, matter of factly "It would seem that we have little choice but to remove this threat. While we could wait for your armies to arrive, I believe that if we deal with this issue ourselves it would serve to increase your prestige in the eyes of the people."
Griselda listened to the arrogant creature speak to the king
" I'm inclined to agree on this my Lord this creature clearly has no intention of parlaying. But we can surmise as well since he follows no kings or laws he is not in liege with the Fey king."
Round 1
Inside you hear the sounds of casting, of size shifting, and of at least one crossbow being loaded. . .
Turn order:
1. Spriggans
2. Handerbald
3. Griselda
4. Relzak
5. Eldric
6. Ghostwind
Griselda wanting to make up for her previous battle decides to use a special elixir. She drinks a dark green potion and begins to grow in size (Enlarge Person)
"A plan, if you would all agree to it. My liege, if you would bless us, and once done we can throw the door open. Let your fire spread forth, while the Silver Witch attacks with ice. We charge in the second after the ice and flames."
Relzak nods in agreement with Eldric's plan, and puts his back to the wall on one side of the door, his curved blade held at the ready across his chest.
Ghostwind nods, but he knows his attacks lose part of their power if readied, and he's quite squishy himself if stealth is our of the equation. He opts, then, for a bit more defensive approach.
Round 1
Relzak positions himself and Ghostwind casts shield.
Inside, whatever the Spriggans are doing, they do but do not come out.
Turn order:
1. Spriggans
2. Handerbald
3. Griselda
4. Relzak
5. Eldric
6. Ghostwind
As a move action Griselda will open the door and immediately try to grapple the first person she sees with her hair(10ft reach)
If it hits i will use a swift action to Constrict
With the door open and flames filling the room, Eldric charged into the fray.
"AaaayyYYYAAaaaaaYYYaaaa!" Relzak screams as he runs inside and tries to cut down the first enemy he sees.