Thimble grabs his weapon but doesnt pull it out.
You approach the door to the hut. When you get closer you notice the door has practically rotted off its hinges.
You get to the door. Vartan knocks, but there is no reply, only silence. It looks like the door would be easy to break down; in fact, you could probably just push it off its hinges.
Dena screeches to break the silence
"Shhh, Dena" said Asther I a whisper tone
This time Thimble knocks, not wanting to anger the witch by breaking down her door.
"Haha maybe shes dead"Thimble whisper to Vartan realising that it might be possible.
"Haha maybe shes dead"Thimble whisper to Vartan realising that it might be possible.
"Maybe. In any case, I don't think anybody is here."
"Hellooooooo?" Asther says waiting for an answer from the witch.
"Hellooooooo?" Asther says waiting for an answer from the witch.
There is nothing but the eerie silence.
"I guess we have no choice but to go inside"
"Thimble, would you mind pushing that door open? We're right behind you." Vartan has his bow out with an arrow nocked in it.
Thimble pushes on the door.
The door breaks free of its hinges and falls back.
Inside, the hut is dank, reeking and filled with shadows. Haphazard shelves line the walls, covered with all kinds of clay jugs, clouded bottles, strangely cut rocks, rotted bunches of herbs, and other assorted weird stuff.
Right in the middle of the hut's single room is a rusty iron cauldron about five feet in diameter and three feet tall, its ash-covered surface covered in pictures of capering fiends and grinning devils.
Against the far wall stands a tall chair, made of wicker, tusks of a giant beast and thousands of human teeth. In the chair sits a corpse wrapped in filthy burial linens, padded with herbs and sprouting fungus.
Asther draws her scimitar.
Dena screeches.
Thimble draws out his axe and takes a step towards the corpse.
Nothing happens.
Asther walks to the corpse and pokes it with her scimitar. "This dead body might be the witches.
Asther walks to the corpse and pokes it with her scimitar. "This dead body might be the witches.
You now see that what at first appeared to be a dead body is really just a bundle of mud branches and linen made to look like a corpse.
"This could be a trap"
"She probably wants us to think she's dead"
"Whatever it is we still have to find that Rat's Tail. Shall we start looking around on these shelves?"
"Ya. The fox might be able to smell it out"
"I'll keep watch at the door"
Asther looks at some of the shelves but knows not to touch anything, because it could be a trap.
Vartan looks at the shelves too.
"You know Rat's Tails aren't really rats tails. They are some kind of pickled root, probably in a jar or something."
You search through the shelves for about 20 minutes.
Asther:
"Over here, I found them"
Vartan comes over. "Yes that looks like them. Well, here goes."
He reaches up and grabs the jar.
You hear a loud thump and scrape behind you. When you turn around you see that the big cauldron is moving quickly, running on it's stubby legs, its mouth gaping. The big mouth tries to bite Vartan, who doges away, knocking over some of the stuff on the shelves.
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Initiative (1d20+2=19)
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Initiative (1d20+3=9)
Round 1 order:
Vartan
Asther
Dena
Thimble
Cauldron
Vartan pulls out his longsword and takes a cut at the cauldron.
Longsword attack (1d20+6=20)
Longsword damage (1d8+2=7)
He then sidesteps 5 feet toward the door.
Vartan's sword nicks the cauldron a little bit.
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1d20+2=6
Asther takes a wild swing at the cauldron with her scimitar and whiffs as it continues to go after Vartan. Dena lands on it and ties to dig her claws into it but her talons do not penetrate the iron surface.
Thimble:
Thimble:
Thimble's axe comes down hard on the cauldron, putting a big crack in it. It continues to try to bite Vartan with its big, wide mouth, but Vartan again dodges away.
Round 2:
Vartan
Asther
Dena
Thimble
Cauldron
Vartan moves to the right to put himself opposite the cauldron from Thimble and swings his longsword at it.
He hits and a chunk flies off it.