"You are planning on milking them, Petry? I suppose that is worth a try." Dragolan moves past Meraxes and strikes the goat next to him (attempting to do nonlethal damage).
"Slippery little devil!"
However since its a 1 round casttime spell, and we both acted before you, wouldn't that mean we'd get a chance to move out of the AoE before it actually hits?
Just in case: Will save:
Rather than stepping back, Petry snapped the fingers of his right hand, and said "Crowbar!" He hefted the short, hooked improvised weapon like a club, preparing to step forward and trounce the goat in front of him and Allia.
(Concentration check to suppress the display of the power DC 15+level)
Meraxes finishes casting his spell and opens his eyes to see the positions of people have moved! The goats are still firmly in the area but poor jasper is collateral damage. Oh well.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...i wanna ride the pony mommy...zzzzzzzzzzzz
As you all stand to fight back against the goats, you are overwhelmed by the intense heat of the island.
Dragolan -
Jasper -
Meraxes
Allia -
Kalis -
Petry -
Non-Lethal Damage:
Allia casts the spell and grease spews forth, covering the ground. The goat attempts to stay on its feet.
Goat Reflex Save:
It falls to the ground in a heap.
Kalis brings his fist down on the goat's head. As a reaction, the goat attempts to gore his hand before it strikes him.
Gore Attack of Opportunity: for
Kalis' hand lands cleanly and strongly on the goat's head.
Meraxes casts sleep on the area.
G6 Goat Will Check:
G8 Goat Will Check:
Both goats fall asleep. As does Jasper.
"You...uh..can't make an omelete without putting to sleep a few goats and a fellow surivor!"
Allia groans as the sudden and unexpected activity causes her vision to blur and spin for a moment and she realises again, just how damn hot it is here.
"Best we kill those things before they wake up agian, right? Or how long will they be out? And how do we wake Jasper?"
She picks up her waterskin, once again cooling it and then pours some of the refreshing liquid over her head and into her mouth as well.
"Why do goats attack, I thought they're docile animals?"
"Don't kill them yet--we may be able to get more than just meat out of them." Fanning himself with one hand, Dragolan examines the goats as best he can without disturbing them.
Dragolan is unable to detect anything unusual or distinct about the goats. They appear to be typical, everyday goats - just a bit more violent than most.
"You really want to keep the for their milk? Are they even girl goats?"
She then concentrates closely on the sleeping animals, speaking a few arcane words again, in an attempt to see if there's anything unnatural about them.
Kalis spends a moment to check both of the goats.
Even if these are female, I don't know if anyone would be able to calm them long enough to milk them.
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Somebody wake up Jasper!
As an iron crowbar appears in Petry's hand, Meraxes' spell takes care of the two goats. With everyone talking at once and Dragolan checking out the beasts, Petry is left with nothing to use the crowbar on. He shrugged and let the crowbar fall to the ground, where it disappeared a moment later.
"Meat or milk, Dragolan, unless you can pull a reluctant goat for a couple of miles, I'd just tie them up and carry them. We can hobble them back at camp until they learn to accept us." Petry suggested. At Kalis' remark, he turned to where Jasper lay on the ground. "He's out again?" the young man commented.
"Yeah he's out again."
She doesn't say anything more about what she thinks is a stupid idea, instead walks over to Jasper stepping around the greased ground and the goats, so she won't wake them up.
She kneels down and shakes Jasper's shoulder firmly "Jasper? Wake up, will you?"
Jasper shakes his head groggily. With a kind of stupid look on his face he says Did we win?
"I think so. They fell asleep, just like you, but I don't know how long that will last" she looks questioningly at Meraxes
"The goats were unexpected." Petry mentioned to the group. "We should be grateful that they were not wild boars. Pigs returned to the wild are far more dangerous. But it means someone did try to colonize this island, if they brought goats with them."
"A minute, more or less till the goats wake up. They'll wake up faster if you hit them though."
Kalis makes sure the goat's legs are tied together securely before they wake up. He waits for the heat of the day to pass before he goes into the jungle and cuts down a couple of sapplings and strips them of branches. He pushes them between the goats' legs. I don't know if they are any good for milk, but it will take four people to carry them.
After the goats are properly secured and everyone seems to be alright again, Allia sits down in the shade of the trees once more. She takes a large sip from the cool water from her waterskin and will chill the drink for everyone that asks.
She considers taking her flute and playing a light tune, but then thinks about the fact that everything here seems to want to eat them, and decides not to help them find them this easy.
"I hope not every day will be as hot as today"
Dragolan gratefully accepts the offer to cool his waterskin*. "Thank you most kindly." And I thought she'd be only decorative...the more fool me! He tries to find some shade, then sits and and fans himself after drinking deeply.
Meraxes drinks some more water.
"Allia don't you have any songs to inspire us to stay cool? It is so hot."
She looks up at Meraxes words and blinks "No, I don't. How would that even work?"
"Two people per goat?" Petry asked Kalis as they rested. "Safer than carrying them across our shoulders, at least! No doubt they would bite."
(Spellcraft check, untrained, max 10? )
In response to the conversation between Dragolan, Meraxes, and Allia, Petry added, "Isn't there a spell to make this heat more endurable? And before anyone asks me, no," Petry said, looking at his open hands, "I don't think I can do it myself. Not my...area of expertise." He accentuated the declaration by wiping the sweat off of his brow.
Well at least theres this, if it gets any hotter we wont need to build a fire to cook, you'll be able to do it off my head. I really need to try and make it through a fight without passing out.
Jasper grins tiredly before taking a drink from Allia's cooled water.
The rest of the afternoon passes peacefully. A couple of hours later, the heat begins to subside significantly, making you all feel confident that movement won't cause an instant, negative reaction.
The goats, upon waking, were actually quite docile. They didn't seem to react negatively to being tied up and actually just laid still and slept for the most part. Dragolan did discover that there was one male and one female.
You make the remaining trek back to the campsite without incident.
Breaking through the trees, you first see Ishirou and Aerys. Aerys is sitting with her head in her hands, looking quite morose. Ishirou is sharpening the end of a sharp stick - you see a pile of already-sharpened sticks at his feet. A moment later, Sasha steps out of her tent, sees the group and exclaims, "You're back! Wonderful! We were growing concerned. Did everything go ok?"
Not long after Sasha speaks, Gelik appears. He looks a little worse than when you saw him last. His clothing doesn't look immaculate, there is sweat on his brow and rather than his normal, mocking look, he appears to be slightly concerned.
Allia shrugs at Petry's question "I'm sorry Sir, I don't know anything about that."
"i'm afraid our friend Brin isn't doing too well," Gelik says, wiping the sweat from his brow. "I've done what I can for him, but I believe we need someone with more divine healing skill than I."
"The symptoms started not long after you left. He has a heavy fever, has vomited several times and can't seem to stop shivering. When he is able to speak, he complains of feeling weak and exhausted."
Glad that they made it back to the camp without any more wild beasts trying to have them for lunch, she lets out a loud sigh of relief.
"Everything on this island wants to eat us, even the goats! Can you believe that"
Upon hearing Gelik's explanation of what happened, she get's a shocked look on her face "Oh no! Is there anything anyone can do?! Master Canario maybe?"
Petry handed the sack with the young reptile-bird over to Sasha, saying "We found an old shipwreck before we were attacked by the flying reptile-bird things. The shipwreck was empty, but Kalis and Jasper helped get this out of the parents' nest. The goats came later. Sorry for being late."
Upon Gelik's report, Petry looked over at Dragolan and asked "Dragolan, can you tell if it is life-threatening, or just a sickness? And I would like to learn your methods for healing."
Dragolan pulls out his healer's kit and goes to examine Brin. "Allia, if you would be so kind, cool some more water, please? Petry, certainly. As long as you stay out of the way and hand me things when I ask you to. As you may have noticed, my...friends don't always leave things where I put them." And indeed, when Dragolan sets things down they'll sometimes move around a bit without being touched.
Allia quickly nods "Of course! Right away", and she once again speaks the incantation to cast the Prestidigitation trick on herself.
She pours some of the water from one of the skins into a bowl and cools it, grabs a piece of cloth or bandage as well before following Dragolan into the tent.
"Here you go"
Petry, about to reach for his own healing kit, nods and looks on next to Dragolan. Items about him move on their own? Petry thinks, wondering if his own power is similar to Dragonlan's.
"Thank the Gods somehow I've been able to evade diseases so far and only been plagued with the poisons of stinger bites and flying reptile fangs. I'd take that any day over what he is going through."
It is good that we have a healer. It is likely that more of us will become ill. Kalis turns to Ishiro. Do you need any help with more sticks?
"Don't forget Jask - he is a cleric! Jask! Can you help?" Petry called out from near Brin's tent.
"Hopefully Jask can combine his powers of Nethys with the healing magics of our food expert and they can conjure some healing goat stew."
"I have my doubts that Brin could keep stew down at this point; dimorphodon broth is what he needs."
"Heh. Well you're the expert!"