Arjun moves 15 feet south and drinks one of the cure light wounds extracts.
Nuveril is barely out of sight of the damnable creature before her fear fades and is quickly replaced by anger and shame for having run from a fight. She glances up toward the city toward the sound of the howling hyenas to see if she can spy any lights or movement toward the bridge.
You can't see much. You can hear the sound of hyenas in what you think is the lower town but the cries are echoing and its hard to tell. You neither see nor hear gnolls.
She moves back to D15, keeping her eyes turned toward the bridge.
As the creature struggles to get back into the air, Grall brings his halberd down onto its neck with brutal force driving it down to the ground. It spasms and then lies still, blood streaming from the gaping wound.
Arjun drinks one of his healing extracts.
Holding the remaining peryton down with one hand, Sajan flips a length of rope and deftly hog ties the creatures feet. Its howls grow ever more frenzied, ringing out across the river but that doesn't Sajan from flipping them both over the side of the wall. Sajan floats gently down with the aid of his magic ring while the creature lands with an audible thump. damage
She moves back to D15, keeping her eyes turned toward the bridge.
"Hyenas are coming," Nuveril reports. "And gnolls won't be far behind. Where do we go with our 'prize?'"
Give me a hand with it Grall. Sajan says as he grunts, attempting to carry the wounded, helpless beast. This will make a nice gift for the harpy...
Give me a hand with it Grall. Sajan says as he grunts, attempting to carry the wounded, helpless beast. This will make a nice gift for the harpy...
"Will they not turn against her, if they find one hunting bird dead and the other in her custody? She will be forced to tell them about us if she does not take the blame herself. And then the lead gnoll will hurt her as he has before, for not turning us in immediately." She thinks a moment. "Throw the bird in the mill, that its struggle and cries will draw the gnolls' attention along with the light atop the wall; we will lie in wait and ambush them."
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"I like Nuveril's idea. We've played cautious too long with these gnolls. Sajan, while I understand wanting to take one of the creatures back to the harpy, I think we should end the beast after it has served our purposes here."
Khalid takes a position, hiding in wait for the gnolls, and urges the others to do the same.
Stealth:
"The hyenas will smell us. We cannot count on our ruse to last long. The noise and the light are only a distraction." She crosses to the dead peryton, gives it a contemptuous kick, then picks up handsful of the mud made where its lifeblood ran into the dust to rub over her body, hoping to cover her own scent. "If the bird-woman wants the creature," she tells Sajan, "let her have it when we have dealt with the hyenas and gnolls. It makes no difference to me." She withdraws into the darkness outside the magical light of the shuriken and crouches down in any indentation of the ground or behind any desert plant she can find.
Yes, let them enterrr the mill, we should attack them frrrom both sides and trrrap them...as soon as they get close I will yell to them in Gnoll to try and drrraw them in quickly. What do you think about Khalid, Linahrrr, and myself in the mill and Sajan, Arrrjun, and Nuverrril outside?
Sajan drags the thrashing peryton inside the mill. As the rest of you are moving into positions in and around the mill you hear, faintly, a low whistle echoing from across the water. The hyenas calls still.
Sajan joins the outside group, hiding himself. Stealth
You strain your ears to hear over the noise of the peryton but can hear nothing further. Your acutely aware of the lit shuriken, a beacon on top of the wall.
Long minutes pass. The night seems silent...
Sajan drags the thrashing peryton inside the mill. As the rest of you are moving into positions in and around the mill you hear, faintly, a low whistle echoing from across the water. The hyenas calls still.
Sajan joins the outside group, hiding himself. Stealth 1d20 + 7
You strain your ears to hear over the noise of the peryton but can hear nothing further. Your acutely aware of the lit shuriken, a beacon on top of the wall.
Long minutes pass. The night seems silent...
If nothing happens within 10 minutes Grall will beat the Peryton unconscious so it shuts up and then wonders outside to discuss with Khalid going up the hill after them.
As there appears to be no pursuit, Sajan will insist on bringing his gift to the harpy.
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Perception
Nuveril
Khalid
Sajan !
Its been about seven minutes when Sajan whispers to Nuveril and Khalid nearby. I hear something! Way over there. He gestures to the east. Something moving..
Edit: About a hundred feet to the east the terrain gets rocky with plenty of vegetation and other places to hide.
Nuveril whips her head around. "They've circled around the river to surprise us," she hisses.
Nuveril whips her head around. "They've circled around the river to surprise us," she hisses. 1d20+5
Nuveril examines the eastern stretches, at about 100 feet (the edge of the map) the terrain gets rocky with plenty of vegetation and places to hide. She doesn't see or hear anything.
Nuveril will sit still and wait until something happens, whether it's movement from the east or Grall coming out to check on the out-of-the-mill half of the party.
Linah retreats into the and waits, her scimitar still drawn. Not knowing how many the gnolls are she isn't comfortable with the plan, but she doesn't want to contradict Khalid's decision.
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Khalid silently waits until Sajan announces that he has heard something. He then motions the rest of the group back to the cover of the mill building...
"Apparently, Sajan has detected some sort of movement of to the east amongst the brambles. What do you all think, should we go 'greet' them or fall back. Sajan, if we fall back I don't think we'll be able to take your prize with us...it will have to die."
Khalid silently waits until Sajan announces that he has heard something. He then motions the rest of the group back to the cover of the mill building...
"Apparently, Sajan has detected some sort of movement of to the east amongst the brambles. What do you all think, should we go 'greet' them or fall back. Sajan, if we fall back I don't think we'll be able to take your prize with us...it will have to die."
Khalid motions to Sajan and Nuveril to head back inside. As the three begin to move, two black fletched arrows hiss in out of the night. Khalid and Sajan are hit, Khalid in the left arm and Sajan in the ribs.
Arrow vs Khalid hit
miss
Arrow vs Sajan hit
miss
The arrow fire seems to have been some kind of signal. There is another whistle and a dark tide comes into sight from beyond the buildings on the other side of the river and boils on to the bridge. A mass of hyenas pounding across. It looks like two groups of four, the foremost covered torso to neck in crude leather barding.
At their rear comes the biggest hyena you've ever seen, a great brute easily twice the size of the others. Riding it and driving the other hyenas on is a tall redish brown gnoll. Unlike the other gnolls you have seen this one is armored in steel: breastplate, helmet and gauntlets and it grips a strange weapon, two metal bars linked by a chain, the ends bear short but wicked looking spikes.
It shouts in gnoll.
Kill all but the priest! For Kardwann and the Kulldis!
The Dark Tide
Round 1
Initiative
Grall
Nuveril
Linah
Khalid
Sajan
Arjun
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Tall Gnoll
Big Hyena
Hyenas
Ordered Initiative
Arjun 20
Tall Gnoll 17
? 15
Hyenas 14
Sajan 13
Khalid 11
Nuveril 9
Big Hyena 6
Grall 6
Linah 4
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- Notes
Dim light conditions provide 20% miss chance.
Its not easy to tell but the arrows seem to have come from the general vicinity of where Sajan pointed, the more rocky terrain about 100' to the east of the entrance to the mill. Khalid, Sajan and Nuveril may make another perception check at this time to try and pinpoint.
Sajan perception
I see them! Two moving up (north) through the rocks!
Round 1
Grall looks over to Arjun as he Coup De Grace the peryton, Do you have any magic that can make me big Arrrjun?
Auto-Crit:
DC 30 Fort Save or Die if the 20points doesn't kill it in the first place. Is my bless from the statue still in affect?
1d20+5
** spoiler omitted **
I am Ok with you staying where you are and in stealth. I gathered you were taking a lower profile which is one of the reasons you wern't an arrow target.
Note the hyenas scent though...
You don't sense anything.
Round 1
Grall looks over to Arjun as he Coup De Grace the peryton, Do you have any magic that can make me big Arrrjun?
Auto-Crit:
DC 30 Fort Save or Die if the 20points doesn't kill it in the first place. Is my bless from the statue still in affect?
Round 1, initiative 4
Linah reaches out to imbue Grall with the divine might of Sarenrae. "Stand fast, the dawnflower will see us through this battle. Let us strike a mighty blow against Lamashtu and her minions!", Linah calls out and starts chanting a rythmic melody as she prepares for battle.
As the GGH (Gnoll Growth Hormone) takes hold of him, Gralls muscles bulge and become almost hideously large, the studded leather straining to keep the beasts within contained...
Today, the Gnolls will learrrn true fearrr, we will rrrip them frrrom aparrrt frrrom nose to gullet!!!
Reacting quickly, Arjun moves to the doorway (S28), preparing a bomb and readying to throw it.
The gnoll rider delays to act with his mount.
Another black arrow arcs out from the rocks at Khalid but this time falls well short.
Arrow
Howling in a great cacophony of noise, the hyenas bound across the bridge and over the open ground toward the mill. Of the four in the lead group, three throw themselves at Sajan and Khalid snarling while the forth, seeking to circle around the pair, stops short as it scents Nuveril and howls to the others. The back group runs in closely behind.
As the leaders close to thirty feet, Arjun flings his bomb. His throw is off target, veering to the left, but the bomb fortuitously lands next to the hyena approaching Nuveril, showering it and the one following with fiery droplets. Both manage to avoid the worst of it but are clearly unnerved by the fire.
Fire Bomb (pbs, range)
miss direction sw
Reflex 1 pass
Reflex 2 pass
The hyenas close in around those outside, two darting between Sajan and Nuveril to menace Arjun.
Surrounded by hyenas, Sajan weaves between snapping jaws. Timing his movements, he snaps onto the front foot, lashing out at one of the hyenas flanking him with his fists. He hits it with brutal force, leaving it on its feet but clearly staggered.
Flurry 1 hit possible crit
Flurry 2
hit
Confirm?
no crit
ha 1 - 3
ha 3 - 15
hb 1 - 3
Hmmm I didn't realize they would be here this round. Grall would probably change his action to attack the enemies right outside the door.
Do you mind if I change my action since the map is now updated and I should be able to clearly here/see the group right outside?
Hmmm I didn't realize they would be here this round. Grall would probably change his action to attack the enemies right outside the door.
Do you mind if I change my action since the map is now updated and I should be able to clearly here/see the group right outside?