Krakas moves forward and throws some rocks, which the demon avoids.
[color=Red][/color]
➤ Perla │
⠀⠀➤ Shadow │
Virgil │
Krakas │
Avenger of the Green │
➤ Solras Pirhatya │
Demon
Obahi │
Qafathiel │
- Stage 1: Sickened 1 and Fatigued
- Quednys Orlun
- Safe house (Topaz Solutions)
- Safe house (Tower of Estrod)
- Blackwing
- Loumis Fine Fittings
- Horgus Gwerm's Mansion
- Anevia's Home
Solras fires a singular shot at the demon, hoping to tear a hole through it... but it barely does any damage
The demon takes a minor amount of damage from Solras.
It then steps forward, and its .
Striking Virgil acid spirit damage, Virgils Breastplate is also damaged acid.
It then . Virgil is able to avoid getting rust licked.
[color=Red][/color]
➤ Perla │
⠀⠀➤ Shadow │
➤ Virgil │
➤ Krakas │
➤ Avenger of the Green │
➤ Solras Pirhatya │
Demon
[color=Green][/color]
➤ Obahi │
➤ Qafathiel │
- Stage 1: Sickened 1 and Fatigued
- Quednys Orlun
- Safe house (Topaz Solutions)
- Safe house (Tower of Estrod)
- Blackwing
- Loumis Fine Fittings
- Horgus Gwerm's Mansion
- Anevia's Home
That's just disgusting.
The Magus casts Shield, Strides to provide Obahi a Flank and Strikes!
Saved you a spot, Obahi!
Qafa quickly moves to get a line on the disgusting creature
Stride, Stance, Flurry
Stunning fist DC 18
Virgil manages to hit the demon., and so does Qafathiel. Unfortunately, Obahi does not.
[color=Red][/color]
➤ Perla │
⠀⠀➤ Shadow │
Virgil │
➤ Krakas │
➤ Avenger of the Green │
➤ Solras Pirhatya │
Demon
[color=Green][/color]
Obahi │
Qafathiel │
- Stage 1: Sickened 1 and Fatigued
- Quednys Orlun
- Safe house (Topaz Solutions)
- Safe house (Tower of Estrod)
- Blackwing
- Loumis Fine Fittings
- Horgus Gwerm's Mansion
- Anevia's Home
Krakas will continue to launch rubble at the creature, trusting that at least a big chunk of rock should do something, rather than try anything elemental.
He will follow up this rock with a small force dart.
Krakas moves a bunch of rocks, but they go completely wide. Krakas follows that up with the smallest force damage possible.
[color=Red][/color]
➤ Perla │
⠀⠀➤ Shadow │
Virgil │
Krakas │
➤ Avenger of the Green │
➤ Solras Pirhatya │
Demon
[color=Green][/color]
Obahi │
Qafathiel │
- Stage 1: Sickened 1 and Fatigued
- Quednys Orlun
- Safe house (Topaz Solutions)
- Safe house (Tower of Estrod)
- Blackwing
- Loumis Fine Fittings
- Horgus Gwerm's Mansion
- Anevia's Home
Rust isn't an issue for our little woody friend, so he rushes in to stab at him with a spear of wood. But the demon is too fast for him this time.
"Glad we don't have any Taloses here. They'd be running for their life."
BANG. Reload. BANG.
Avenger is unable to hit the demon with the blast, but Solras is able to hit.
The demon will move behind Obahi, and spew a hail of rusted shards.
[color=Red][/color]
➤ Perla │
⠀⠀➤ Shadow │
➤ Virgil │
➤ Krakas │
➤ Avenger of the Green │
➤ Solras Pirhatya │
Demon
[color=Green][/color]
➤ Obahi │
➤ Qafathiel │
- Stage 1: Sickened 1 and Fatigued
- Quednys Orlun
- Safe house (Topaz Solutions)
- Safe house (Tower of Estrod)
- Blackwing
- Loumis Fine Fittings
- Horgus Gwerm's Mansion
- Anevia's Home
Obahi runs around the creature, positioning himself between it and Krakas. Winded, he heaves for a moment before losing his lunch yet again. "If we carry on like this, it will be hunger and dehydration that gets me. Not these nasty bastards.
Then he attempts to elbow the creature twice.
Virgil just watches the splinters piercing his bloody green skin with aplomb.
Ouch.
The Magus then casts Shield, Strides into Flank and Strikes!
Obahi is unable to get rid of his nausea.
Obahi takes 3 acid damage and 7 piercing damage from the sharts of rusted metal spewing from the demon.
Unfortunately, Virgil takes the full brunt of the damage (7 and 15 respectively)
Obahi is unable to hit the demon, but, because of the flank, Virgil is.
[color=Red][/color]
➤ Perla │
⠀⠀➤ Shadow │
Virgil │
➤ Krakas │
➤ Avenger of the Green │
➤ Solras Pirhatya │
Demon │
[color=Green][/color]
Obahi │
➤ Qafathiel │
- Stage 1: Sickened 1 and Fatigued
- Quednys Orlun
- Safe house (Topaz Solutions)
- Safe house (Tower of Estrod)
- Blackwing
- Loumis Fine Fittings
- Horgus Gwerm's Mansion
- Anevia's Home
Qafa once again quickly moves to get a line on the disgusting creature and motions with his hand over the sling bullets he converts into shards ...
Krakas will launch an orb of freezing air at the creature. "Its hard to hit, let's see how hardy it is against the elements,"
He then steps to the west, trying not to bunch up too much.
Avenger moves up to try and keep the demon surrounded. He srtikes out with a woody spear.
Avenger of the Green takes 3 acid damage and 7 piercing damage from the shards of rusted metal spewing from the demon.
More shards from Qafathiel hit the demon.
Ice forms around the demon, and after a moment, it shatters into a million pieces.
Health Status
Virgil │ Breastplate 29/36[/ooc]
Obahi │
Avenger of the Green │
- Stage 1: Sickened 1 and Fatigued
- Quednys Orlun
- Safe house (Topaz Solutions)
- Safe house (Tower of Estrod)
- Blackwing
- Loumis Fine Fittings
- Horgus Gwerm's Mansion
- Anevia's Home
How long will you spend to heal up?
In the next two hours, as you approach Defender's Heart, you deal with some looters, and a couple of Abikandilu.
Your approach to Defender's Heart does not go unnoticed. A guard from a window fires a crossbow bolt over your heads as he demands, "Drop your weapons. Why are you here?"
Looking at the demon freeze solid then shatter, krakas lets out a grunt a surprise, "I guess I should have led with that, seemed to obvious, red demon weak to cold damage,"
As they approach Defender's Heart, Krakas calls back to the guard, "Woah there guy, watch those crossbow bolts, you trying to give us a new hair cut?"
Krakas will use try and use telekinetic projectile/prestidigitation to recover the man's bolt, holding on to it for when they come inside, "No need to waste your ammunition, we are here looking for Irabeth!"
Obahi raises his hands, palms open. "We're looking for an Irabeth. We have her injured and worried wife with us." he shouts back at the man.
Avenger carries no weapon, "We got buried and fought our way back up and across the city. Killing demons and corrupted bugs and crazy cultists the whole way."
He continues on, once again having to explain reality to somebody made of meat. "Sadly, there seems to be more problems than one merry band can handle all by ourselves. Perhaps working as a group might make this a little easier."
Solras puts the butt of her oversized weapon on the ground, but decidedly doesn't drop it. "Not going to drop it, but we're here to see Irabeth as the Dromaar said."
"If you would be so kind as to let Lady Irabeth know that we have cleared her home of demons, and killed the sorcerer Vorgog, AND that her wife would like to speak to her, we would be grateful. We will wait here."
Perla stays quiet in the background, knowing her appearance will not be helpful to those who can talk better. She would rather spend her time watching their backs, because with their luck, and her lack of luck, she will miss something if she does not go out of her way to watch for it. She would suggest to her companions " Perhaps having her speak would be best? She could tell that we were honest in our approach?"
Anevia comes to the front, [color=#03a9f4]"Hello. Tell Irabeth I'm safe and here. I'm 'SilverStrong' at last."[/color]
"Please wait," the voice comes.
A few minutes later, a tall woman of Orcish descent appears at the open door to Defender's heart.
Anevia lets out a joyful cry as Irabeth appears. The women embrace tenderly before Anevia introduces her wife, Irabeth, to You.
Irabeth thanks you for keeping Anevia safe and swears to assist you them in whatever way she can.
After bringing you inside Defender's Heart, and getting you settled down, Irabeth will explain that she’s now in charge of the Eagle Watch, at least, until the Mendevian army arrives to help reclaim the city. She knows that word got out about the attack, but has also heard that Nerosyan and other cities along the border are facing their own plights — so far, she’s relatively certain that none of the other border cities have suffered as great a defeat as Kenabres, but she can confirm that this city’s wardstone has been destroyed and that as a result, the entire network of wardstones has diminished in power to a shadow of its former strength. She thanks Iomedae daily for the inherent disorganization of the enemy, noting that had the demons made as focused an attack on Nerosyan as they did on Kenabres, things would be dire indeed.
Irabeth wants to know all about your adventures — any additional information they can give her about the nature of the attack on Kenabres is most welcome.
Virgil grunts, pushing his way through to the buffet table...
Virgil grunts, pushing his way through to the buffet table...
Following the very focused orc, Qafathiel says "I am almost as hungry for clean food as I am for healing. I hope someone can fix my face too."
Krakas, tired, exhausted and hungry but understanding of Irabeth's desire to know the city, "We have a rough map of the area, we've traveled quite a distance these past few days. We've found few survivors, battled demons and carrion birds all across the city. Are there any specific information you've looked for? I can give you a general run down though of the types of demons we've faced, their descriptions as well as some of the other threats we've faced,"
Krakas will go on to give her as detailed a description of the cultists, demons, the damn vultures, giant bugs, etc that they encountered the past few days.
If Krakas gets some downtime he'll want to scribe a few more of his scrolls into his spellbook and see if there are any wizards or magus at the Inn that he could maybe copy spells from.
Avenger will tell his side of the battles. He'll also help out healing people in the city, which also helps with food supplies.
Solras will spend the day crafting more ammunition and black powder from whatever detritus she can find. This isn't Alkenstar or the Deadshot lands, so she has to make her own pretty regularly.
Obahi relucantly enters Defender's Heart, but tries to keep his distance from people. Once the pleasantries are done, he approaches Irabeth. "Your wife is strong of heart. Trudged through the city with a mangled leg like it was nothing. Congratulations on your reunion." he gives both women a slight nod. "But I fear I may be sick. I'm not sure if it's contagious. Can I see your physicians, if there are any available? I seem to be suffering from a fever."
Irabeth will let you know that they don't have real healers here. Many of the Eagle Watch are Paladins or other champions, but true healers are pretty scarce.
Irabeth is delighted to learn about the mongrels of Neathholm (people she prefers to call the “First Descendants,” out of respect for their original parents), and agrees to send some Eagle Watch knights down to contact Neathholm and work out the alliance.
When you mention the Templars and their safe houses, Irabeth becomes very interested. The Templars of the Ivory Labyrinth are, in her opinion, one of the most dangerous elements of the enemy. “They have spies everywhere,” she says, “and have apparently been among us for decades. Only recently has proof of their presence been manifesting. I personally managed to root out one of their more powerful members — the leader of a group called the Hammers of Heaven. We all thought of Staunton Vhane as a model crusader, but as far as I was able to discern, he’s been working for the demons for decades. There’s even evidence he may have been the one to betray Drezen 75 years ago. They knighted me for that discovery, but I’m still not sure why, since he slipped through my fingers and is out there still, causing who knows how much more damage...”
Irabeth trails off here for a moment before she shakes her head to clear her thoughts, then informs you that she can reward you for their efforts against the Templars of the Ivory Labyrinth. "I can give you a cash reward for each of the safe houses you can clear."
Everyone has been expecting the Mendevian army to arrive, but, it has been days since the attack, and that hope has been beginning to fade.
After a few hours, where you can eat, drink, and clean up in your new rooms, Irabeth approaches you.
"Just trying to keep a lid on this part of the city is taking all of what is left of the Eagle Watch busy. Can I count on you to clear out the so-called safe houses?"
Avenger is already getting antsy after just a short time in town. "I'm up for uprooting these damn demons and cultists. The more places we can secure, the better."
Irabeth is pleased that you will clear out the safe houses.
Hearing that some of you may have contracted some diseases, Irabeth will summon some healers.
Later that evening, Obahi is completely healed from his Fiendish Rot, but Anevia seems to be getting worse.
The next morning, you set out for one of the two safe houses, either Topaz Solutions or the Tower of Estrod. Each of them is just over an hour away, now that you are not being slowed down by Anevia. Topaz Solutions is outside of Old Kenabres and the Tower of Estrod is inside the old city walls.
Which one would you like to go to first?
Krakas takes in the sights, thanking Irabeth for her assistance, "While we still have a few more of our own quests to take care out there, if there is anything you need for us to look for or take after besides just the Safe Houses, let us know," Writing notes in a journal, as well annotating a map, with where they've been, what they fought, and where Defender's Heart is, Krakas continues, "We will be sure to send any able bodied survivors we can find to meet here,"
"With the tower we might be able to get a better view of what's going on around us."
While the doctors are able to help Obahi, Virgil, and Avenger of the Green with the Fiendish Rot from the Fiendish Giant Flies, Shadow is affected.
You set out in the morning after a hearty meal toward the Tower of Estrod.
As the tower comes into view, a man in ragged clothes wielding a whip and a sickle comes into view.
"I hate you all," he cackles, snapping his whip.
[color=Red][/color]
➤ Perla │
⠀⠀➤ Shadow │
➤ Qafathiel │
Whip and Sickle Man
Avenger of the Green │
Solras Pirhatya │
Virgil │
Krakas │
Obahi │
- Stage 1: Sickened 1 and Fatigued
- Quednys Orlun
- Safe house (Topaz Solutions)
- Safe house (Tower of Estrod)
- Blackwing
- Loumis Fine Fittings
- Horgus Gwerm's Mansion
- Anevia's Home
- Defender's Heart
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The Orc is seen staring at his reflection in a mirror behind the bar.
The Magus then proceeds to get drunk behind the bar and passes out until well after the group leaves for Tower.....
Her blue eyes widen in a bit of displeasure, although she immediately smiles, waving to the young man that just entered from the stables.
Squire Merlin Brokencrown! How long has it been!?
Striding straight across the crowded common room, the knightly young human easily avoids any jostling, tostling or even bullfighting by a drunk and certainly depressed Orc from behind the bar.
All 6'6 250 pounds of him easily lifts her up, swings her around in a circle and redeposits her directly on her feet again.
It's Sir Merlin Brokencrown as of two days ago. I was officially knighted (along with a half dozen others) after the attack. A squadron of us were trapped..... almost got overrun by a batch of demon lead cultists...
The blonde hair, blue eyed, muscular Knight proudly wearing pristinely clean metallic blue full plate armor under pristine crimson robes, firmly holding his Helm with a Sword and sun pattern winks at her.
...but we didn't. We held. Reinforcements arrived. We got knighted and sent to Defender's Heart. Unfortunately I am the only one who arrived as yet. We got separated by a large force of demons, cultists and vultures (you wouldn't believe the amount of vultures out there!).
Pointing out the recent Team of survivors to him, she nods.
Your arrival is fortunate. We have a Team ready to depart and investigate certain sites that could be military and strategically advantageous. You in?
Merlin places a gloves hand on the pommel of his longsword.
By Iomadae's will.
Qafathiel smiles ... "I am almost sure we hate you too."
For the team, the outstretched hands say it all; they can see the power building.
" Hate will drive you to do things you regret. I hope you may see the err and Desna guide you home."
Qafathiel begins powering up, and Perla hits with one of their arrows.
The Man will spew hateful things about Virgil.
He will then put something on his whip.
[color=Red][/color]
➤ Perla │
⠀⠀➤ Shadow │
➤ Qafathiel │
Whip and Sickle Man │
[color=Green][/color]
➤ Avenger of the Green │
➤ Solras Pirhatya │
➤ Virgil │
➤ Krakas │
➤ Obahi │
- Stage 1: Sickened 1 and Fatigued
- Quednys Orlun
- Safe house (Topaz Solutions)
- Safe house (Tower of Estrod)
- Blackwing
- Loumis Fine Fittings
- Horgus Gwerm's Mansion
- Anevia's Home
- Defender's Heart
"Oh dear! What's all this?" a man of sunkissed complexion with a prominent widow's beak but otherwise long albeit greying hair and beard approaches the street corner. He is dressed in layered, flowing white garbs, a long blade and a dagger to his side, a bow on his back, and several scroll cases hanging from his backpack. As he sees the commotion, he looks at the man in the centre of the 'square', and grimaces. Then looks towards you, and quickly assesses the situation. He ducks behind a cart and strings his bow. "You need some help, friends?" he sputters with a raspy voice with an accent,
As for my actual actions: Stride, Manipulate (Draw Weapon), Recall Knowledge on this individual. I would like to find out what I can about the man.
Skills are: +11 Arcana | +9 Crafting, Mercantile Lore, Occultism, Society | +6 Religion
Krakas takes a moment to register the man’s appearance, his tiefling eyes narrowing as he gauges whether this stranger is a threat or an ally. The white garb, the bow, and the arsenal of weapons suggest a seasoned traveler, but the raspy voice and offer of assistance tip the scales toward ally—at least for now.
He exchanges a quick glance with Perla and the others before calling back, his voice steady but tinged with urgency. “If you’ve got a steady hand and a clear shot, we won’t say no! Just aim for the demons, not us!”
As Krakas speaks, his fingers twitch, readying a spell in case this unexpected help proves to be anything but. For now, though, they could use all the help they could get.
Turning his attention to the Whip Man, he'll look around and launch some rubble at him, opening things up. "Anyone know what this guys problem is?"
This is about as bright as the team has seen Qafa get; he's definately on.
The energy releases with a crack that would seem to bring thunder (it doesn't though)
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