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Name Azula Malith
Race Oni-blooded teifling
Class/level Monk 5
Adventure The Shackled Hut
Location The Bone Mill (off path)
Catalyst Saving some orphans in a random encounter in Whitethrone
So after saving a group of orphans from Cold chain Slavers (the shackled hut pg. 83 Whitethrone encounters) and learning about the Bone Mill (feeding orphans, slaves , foreigners to trolls, grinding bones for troll bread) my group really wanted to shut it down. I really thought that it should be a challenging battle. I had a coven of Hags operating as the head carvers, with vats for creating candles and the mill stones for grinding bones. I gave a pc the sheets for the hags so she could participate (her character is on a solo side mission to get kidnapped by Logrovich). She had the hags invisible at the start (the group got into combat with some starving winter wolves and alerted them) and used bestow curse on Azula. -6 strength right off the get. Azula stayed in melee with the green hag and proceeded to lose 6 more strength while the paladin worked on the Annis hag, the fighter and ranger worked the winter hag and the cleric was channeling. Azula didn't activate ki defense one round and the green hag hit with both claw attacks and turned it into a rend. This brought azula down to -34 Hp. The green hag died from the fighter the action immediately following. The Annis hag was at 2 :-P and tried to surrender but was smote by the paladin. The winter hag (at 50% hp) took an AoO from trying to turn invisible and flee but was chased down by the fighter and crushed. This is my first run as a Gm and my first character death.I know I set a hard fight but my group has been hitting above CR. No one tried to knowledge nature them until I prodded. I don't know if he will ask for raise dead or roll for a new character.