Felwyst mumbles a quick prayer to Desna, and white light surrounds the same bat Thorin shot.
Tatsu readies herself for the fight to come.
Bats begin to escape to the outside, but three shadows remain. Three large bats, one already badly wounded, fly at the party.
B1 flies down, , and slashes at thorin with it's tail
It flies back up ready to strike again.
B2 flies straight at Thorin and lashes out
B3 dives down at the dwarf and quickly return to the air
All three attacks fail to penetrate Thorin's heavy scale armor.
The dwarf warrior is shaken by the flurry of dark wings and sharp talons. He drops his crossbow, grabs his hammer and takes a swing at the closest big bat.
Tatsu seeing an opening on B2 tells Thorin where to Strike
Kidlat, Ser and Clovis what in the hall. Unable to do anything until the others move into the room.
B1 once again dive bombs the dwarf. Before it can move far Felwyst dashes into the room and makes an attack
Felwyst seems a glimpse of the future and that his attack will miss, but the grace of Desna allows him to corrent the situation
The attack obliterates the bat leaving only two.
"I've flown better than them," Clovis sounds dismissive.
"Thanks Felwyst!" says the dwarf, grateful that he wasn't drilled by the dive-bombing bat. He charges at the last remaining vampire.
Felwyst seems a glimpse of the future and that his attack will miss, but the grace of Desna allows him to corrent the situation.
Clovis ball of chaos strikes the bat and sends it jibbering to the floor.
B3 swoops in and dives at the dwarf
The attack misses and Thorin steps forward and swings. His hammer makes contact and sends the flying mammal against the wall.
Felwyst crouches, blade poised to strike down the final bat.
Tatsu will ready herself, waiting for the bat to strike to counterstrike.
"I hate flying monsters." Tatsu remarks to her companions.
Tatsu and Felwyst both ready to strike the flying rat from the air. Kidlat annoyed at missing out on the action pushes into the room and gets ready to hit the bat like a boy swinging at a ball.
Clovis tries and fails to send a glob of disintegrating acid into the last bats.
"These things move by sound, I think. Make some noise, boys!" Tatsu says right before she starts to scream at the top of her lungs a battle cry. "HEEEEEEEYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" She hopes the noise will either disorient the bat or piss it off enough to attack her.
"Noise I can do. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Clovis unleashes an unearthly howl.
"Hey, you, get away from my friends!" yells the dwarf to the bat. The fact that most bats do not understand Common does not seem to bother the dwarf.
As the party surrounds the bat, Felwyst straightens and chants a quick prayer.
Tatsu's sword strike, Thorin's hammer blow, and Felwyst's radiance annihilate the last bat. Luckly there's enough left to prove to Greypelt the deed is done.
"I don't trust the worg, but so far this deal hasn't been inconvenient. Still, nobody let your guard down. Maybe we should discuss a plan first. I'm best up close, but with the small passages a ranged attack might be best. Our melee guys could focus on the small wolves protecting the artillery while we slowly withdraw to the courtyard.... If things go awry of course."
Thorin shakes his head.
"I hope we didn't kill the bats for nothing. They didn't do anything bad to us."
"I'm with you, Thorin. Sadly, I have learned that not every traveller holds true to his word. Right now, we have a chance to prepare for that eventuality and we should."
The dwarf looks down on the broken bat bodies sadly, closes his eyes, and nods.
"You're right Felwyst. The talking wolf could be lying to us and we have to prepare for that."
"If I was a huge talking wolf, bats wouldn't bother me, but maybe he's allergic."
"Well, that was easy. O.K., so here's what I am thinking: we have done what the old wolf wants. Now we see if he is as good as his word. Thumpy, you're up here with me. We enter together. Fel, you hang back. If he is lying, there will a vanguard sent to flank us. I need you and Kidlat to guard the back and make sure this doesn't happen. If the wolves want a fight, we will give him them one. Ser and Clovis, you are behind us and in front of Kidlat and Felwyst. Focus on the worg if anything starts up. Once he's dead, the others will run." Tatsu says to her companions, looking them straight in the eyes as she addresses them. "Hopefully, this will be a whole lot of nothing. I would prefer to leave the wolves alone. But better safe than sorry. Let's go."
"Like you said Tatscakes. I still want to keep a wolf to ride. You reckon the huge one would let me ask or not?"
"I'm with you."
Greypelt snarls as the group returns from their bat removal. "Did you do as I asked? Have those flying rodents finally left my home?"
"Guess so. Tell me, are you allergic or something? They're just flying mice and you're a ten foot tall talking wolf. I really don't see why you needed us to wipe out a bunch of bats. Seems like a waste to me."
"Yup, Clovis here made short work of them."
"We've got rid of the bats, spiders, and those big smothery-things. Can we please have the mushrooms now, Mr. Graypelt? The folks in Falcon's Hollow aren't going to get any better without it."
"Feel free to take the mushroom from this room", He snaps at the dwarf. "I've told the others not to bite it's safe"
"Oh, OK." As Thumpy helps to collect the mushrooms he keeps glancing at the wolves nervously, feeling unassured by the worg's promises.
Felwyst keeps a keen eye on the worg as the others collect mushrooms, his hand never lifting from the hilt of his sword.
Tatsu nods to Thumpy. "It'll be alright. Greypelt doesn't want to start something with somebody who can kill all his enemies."
"Tats, you think he'd like to know how to play "Find the Lady"? Even a talking wolf has to get bored during the long winter evenings."
Felwyst
Something about this still doesn't sit right with you.
Felwyst silently hangs back and takes up rear guard as the group prepares to leave the monastary.
Tatsu just shoots Clovis a hard look and nods to the door. "Now!" she mouthes to him silently. She glances at the old worg as she leaves the room.
The old worg growls, but does not pursue the group put of the chamber.
Following the leather clad warrior the party reassembles in the courtyard. The morning sun still shines above as they begin planning their next move.