Round 4
Jade charges to Matthew's aid cutting one in half and cleaving another.
Three remain near Matthew and Jade...
Round 5
Closing the gap between satyr and half-giant, Zaidel quickly crotches down next to Jonathan and casts stabilize.
Round 4
Gin rushes over to Jon's limp form and takes down a wolf next to Zaidel.
Round 2
Seeing that the wolves are somehow not scared away by his trumpet blast, Davin girds himself for battle with a quick conjuration spell.
Round 3
Davin charges one of the wolves attacking Matthew.
Round Four
The mastodon rears up on it's hind legs, and smashes another wolf.
Zaidel looks up from the fallen half-giant to see a mastadon smash a wolf with it's trunk. "WHOA!"
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Round 5
Jean cackles to Dean, "We got them on the run Dean!"
Dean hisses back, "Hssss.." as two wolves flank and attack Jean but miss the small dragon. Jean returns with a flurry of claws and teeth. He snaps into a wolves neck and claws it as it falls beneath him before whirling and slashing the remaining wolf with his other claws.
Round 3
The wolves are already swarming around you, you take one of the twelve out.
Round 4
The mastodon squishes another wolf.
Round 5
Gin kills two more wolves next to Zaidel.
Round 5
Jean finishes off both of the wolves as one of them was previously scorched by him.
Niversal heals Jon and his construct slows down with a whining sound and the back opens up to let Niversal out.
Round 5
Jade tries to cleave the last three but epically fails. None of them bite hers
acid
acid
acid
AC is 13.
Three remain near Matthew and Jade...
She gets bit three times, though one of them epically fails as well. Opening it to attacks from Jade and Matthew.
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acid
Then using cleaving finish she kills another one.
acid
Only one wolf left.
But no one is a dedicated healer and many of us don't have any healing abilities.
Round 6
The cleric tries to put the pointy-end of the rapier in the last wolf.
Round 5
Davin the mastodon slams his mighty hoofs into another wolf.
Round 5
The most amounts of wolves are around the mastodon. A total of 12 but now only 9.
Matthew has one wolf next to him.
Jade and Gin took care of their wolves.
Zaidel how many are still around you after Gin helps out?
Niversal how many wolves are following you?
The Stranger moves over to your group standing in front of Gin and Jon, ready to take on more wolves that charge them.
More wolves show up but only three of them, though they are as large as a horse and are likely dire wolves. Its fangs are large and sharp as knives. The one in the center has glowing red eyes and it howls before the three of them charge the stranger.
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They bite the stranger and trip him to the ground.
Round 5
He swings at the last wolf again. again! He misses and is not able to cleave. Seeing Jade move forward he calls for aid.
Now that he's thinned a bit of the pack surrounding him, Davin takes a moment to analyze the wolves, trying to figure out what's corrupted them.
He then continues to slaughter the wolves around.
Niversal there are a few wolves still after Zaidel and thus are close to you but you would not provoke any AoO from the action.
The Mastodon smashes two more wolves to bloody pulp. Leaving seven attacking you.
Matthew smashes the last two wolves on Zaidel.
Round 6
Gin smashes his fists into one of the dire wolves. Hurting it severely.
The wolves bite at Jade.
The mastodon gets hit a total of twice from all those attacks.
Round 5
He moves to Zaidel so that he could cleave if he hits. He is a bit shaken by all of his misses so far. He swings and hits the first wolf. Then cleaves to the one next to it.
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Round 6
He moves to Gin's side and 5 feet more and then attacks the weakened dire wolf. He hits and downs the wolf.
Round 6
Jade steps up to the other side of Gin and goes for a cleave.
acid
acid
AC is 13.
Groaning as he rose, Jon muttered about wolves. He took a step back to avoid the fight and healed himself further.
Round 7
The satyr will fight his way to the mastodon in hopes of healing it before Davin drops.
A few wolfs have bitten Davin, not many.
Round 7
Zaidel rushes over to the mastodon and skewers a wolf, though he does not drop it. Gin and Jade swing at both of the dire wolves again obliterating them. After Jade practically yells at him he backs up upon the bloody ground on hands and feet. He keeps both daggers in his hand and spits out, "I am Whisper, an adventurer, I have killed most of the black wolf clan for a quest. Are you Chosen?" He was about to talk about the mastodon then thought better of it.
Before Matthew gets half way to the wolves you see them all break off away from the mastodon, who can do an AoO to crush one of them.
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"Unicorn, I didn't, oh you saw my cloak. I found the unicorn there and put my shroud or cloak, upon it. I am from the Death family so death is my thing. It was a form of last rights. I did not kill the unicorn." He stays calm and collected even with what appears to be a raging barbarian before him. He does continue to slowly back away.
Round 7
Jade cleaves again.
acid
acid
AC is 13.
Both of the dire wolves drop, likely dead from her cleave.
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"So who are you and what have you done?" she grunts out at the stranger.
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"I am not a Chosen, though I was chosen to protect. Why did you kill the unicorn?!" she practically yells this at him with a bit of spit coming out as she does.
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"I can't tell if he is lying anyone?" she simply states and looks to the others near her hoping someone can sense his motive. She is ready to put her axe in this wisp of a man.
Round 7
He thanks Jade, "Thanks for the assist!" With the dire wolve dealt with he moves to the mastodon and the last remaining wolves. Ready to strike if needed.
Seeing Whisper and Jade about to start a new fight as soon as the old one ended, Zaidel takes out his new panpipes and plays a few notes to get everyone's attention.
"Everyone! I suggest we all take a moment to stop and sort this out without violence."
The satyr begins to help his co-hort and the hunter out of the trees, as he continues to speak.
"Not all of us are Chosen, but most of us are. My name's Zaidel and a cleric of Cayden Caliean. Nice job on the Black Wolf Clan quest. That cloak on the unicorn was our only clue as to how might have killed the unicorn. We're on the quest to retrieve the horn and hopefully revive her or him."
"Now. everyone please come closer for some healing." The caydenite holds his holy symbol in his hand and concentrates. "Three bursts."
"One.."
"Two.."
"And three! Fu<k YEAH! Channeling positive energy is the SH|T!"
Whisper and the others do calm down. Gin sits down. Whisper moves just a little to a spot without much blood.
After 45 minutes a blue screen appears before the Chosen:
Quest
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Kill the black wolf clan
180/180 killed
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Reward: Weapon worth 20 gp or less
2nd Reward: whet stone
Time limit: N/A
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You may claim rewards now from the store.
He runs off to get the wolves. Yelling back, "I will get them!" Soon you hear a howl go up from the forest.
It takes him about an hour to chase them down and find your group.
Enhanced Scent = 1, natural armor =2, bite attack, lowlight vision, +1 Con, +1 Dex, skill focus Perception, +5 feet to speed. For every five wolves.
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Jean smiles at Zaidel and says, "Thank you for the healing."
The satyr beams with pride. "You owe me a hug later, when we're less busy, dragon!" Zaidel smiles.
Looking to Mia, the cleric asks, "What type of weapon should I ask for you? Gotta keep the price under 20 gold."
Jon didn't feel as good as Zaidel from the positive energy - the overabundance of life energy made him itch - but he nodded his thanks for the healing, and vowed to hide until he could get some decent armour.
"Alright, so you claim you didn't kill the Unicorn, and put your cloak on them to...honour them? OK. So what can you tell us? The Unicorn wasn't long dead when we arrived, so you must have been even closer to the killer. Did you see anything?"
Mia thinks hard on what would be best for her and ends with tracing the letters out with her magic, "Silver short sword, silver dagger, or cold iron of either. Or a composite bow +1."
"I will try to retell what I heard and saw. First I heard the death call of a horse. It piqued my interest and I went towards it. Then I got the quest to return the horn. This is where it gets tricky.
I heard movement around me but not infront of me where I saw the corpse. I couldn't see who or what was moving around, but I did see a pale lady over the unicorn with a horn in one hand and a glisten red dagger in the other. She looked at me and I went blind.
Once I recovered, there was little I could do, I preformed the last rites, layed my cloak and ventured South. I didn't see any tracks but from the unicorn."
Jon nodded to the other, signalling that the guy seemed to be on the level. "Alright. A pale lady who drove you blind." No tracks did create a problem, but maybe there was a clue somewhere. "What about hearing? Did you hear her move away?" The ground wasn't what could call delicate, but it was probably possible to move with some subtlety.
Niversal can think of hundreds of female creatures that it could possibly be. Maybe some evil fey lady though without more details it is hard to pinpoint what it was.
"No all I heard was the movement around me as if the wind itself embodied and moving around." He simply relays.
"She had a dark robe on with a white dress underneath. No jewelry that I remember or anything of note." He relays thinking hard.
She offers, "It could be the banshee of the North wind. She is an evil pale female. If we continue North for about a day we would enter the Mountains of Winter. Though she is likely far stronger than the group."
Mia thinks hard on what would be best for her and ends with tracing the letters out with her magic, "Silver short sword, silver dagger, or cold iron of either. Or a composite bow +1."
The cleric looks to the sky and says, "One silver short sword, please?"
She offers, "It could be the banshee of the North wind. She is an evil pale female. If we continue North for about a day we would enter the Mountains of Winter. Though she is likely far stronger than the group."
"With all due respect, Angelica, I don't much care", Zaidel said bluntly. "I appreciate your warning and knowledge of the area, but I can't help seeing that dead unicorn in my mind. I'll likely care it always. Nobody escapes justice from such a heinous crime against nature and lives! It's probably my fey blood boiling but I will be going to confront the Banshee of the North, and I'm gonna return that horn back to it's original order or fu<king die trying!!"
She takes a step away from Zaidel, she was about to say something more but decided not to.
"I get that you're p****d off, Zaidel," Jon said slowly, standing behind Angelica's shoulder to support her. "But as the dude whose gone down twice already, I'm thinking we scout this out first. We learn what we can, and get stronger if we need to. I'm not saying we don't fight. I'm saying we take the time to make sure we don't get to meet the Unicorn in person because she straight-up murders us. We need to know how to not, for example, go blind before we try and fight her. Angelica gives us advice and she knows this place better than us. I say we listen." The unicorn wasn't going to be any less dead in a week. Rushing would only see them getting killed.
"Anyone else got a view?" Jon asked the other party members.
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Banshee's are Irish ghosts right? How would she cut off a horn or carry it once it was cut off if she was a ghost? And don't they wail at their enemies, not blind them? It might well be that the killer is the woman to the north. But it doesn't sound like the banshee's my family told me about." Jean pats Jon on the side of his foot and says, "I am all for scouting and working on our tactics, but so far our record with scouting has been pretty poor."
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I used to be a professor of English Lit after my time in service before I retired to the woods. It depends what we are talking about but there are fae Banshee from the elves as well as those Irish ones and also a few other myths but the one closest to what our friend describes is a pale woman in a red dress who holds a bowl bowl of blood to feed the dead at the mounds. This is Celtic in nature.
Shifting back into human form, Davin addresses their cleric. "Zaidel, I fully agree with you, and your anger. We do need to hunt down and bring to justice the person responsible for this heinous murder. But, Jon is also right. We should not run blindly(ha!) into yet another dangerous situation. He has already died once here, and we might not be able to bring him back should he do so again." The sorcerer says in reply to Zaidel, hoping to convince the satyr to see some sort of reason.
Turning to Jean, Davin continue. "You're right as well. Our current track record when it comes to scouting as been gods awful, but that's been in part because we've relied more or less solely on you to provide it. We're a party of Chosen adventurers, but so far, we've acted in pairs or in small groups instead of fully together."
He calls up the blue quest/info screen. "How many days are left for this quest? And are there any others nearby we can try to accomplish, before we attempt to confront the Banshee of the North?" He asks aloud.
Gin continues to sit.
Jade stands there with her axe head touching the ground and leaning on the handle while looking down upon Whiaper.
Whisper offers, "If all of you are done with me I will just beggar off."
Quest - Finding the lost horn!
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A unicorn had its horn stolen. Bring it back and the heart of the fiend that took it.
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Location: Northern Forest of Winter
Time limit: 7 days
Difficulty: E
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Reward: Unicorn tears
2nd Reward: Ward or consort
3rd Reward: 1st level potion of your choice
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Hint: Follow the howl of the wind or find ice as hot as fire.
"I get that you're p****d off, Zaidel," Jon said slowly, standing behind Angelica's shoulder to support her. "But as the dude whose gone down twice already, I'm thinking we scout this out first".
Jean pats Jon on the side of his foot and says, "I am all for scouting and working on our tactics, but so far our record with scouting has been pretty poor."
"Of course we should scout ahead", Zaidel capitulated. "I think Jean has been doing an amazing job as scout."
Whisper offers, "If all of you are done with me I will just beggar off."
"Hold on, Whisper," the satyr said with hand up before him. "Believe or not, you're a quest now." Zaidel looks up to the sky and says, "Show Stranger Quest."
A blue screen appears before the cleric:
Urgent Quest
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Save the Stranger!
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Save the stranger and keep him alive for a week.
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1st Reward: Random Loot Box
2nd Reward: +1 to an ability score of your choice
"Now if The Gods control the quests given, it stands the reason your patron, Death, wants us to keep you alive. At least for a week. Please stay with us as we quest after the unicorn killer. We could use a rogue like you."