"I'm prepared to fight, and who are you?" The kenku laughs, mimicking your voice perfectly. He twirls his scythe in mid-air then places it upright up next to him. He makes a 'come at me' gesture with his free hand. The elk nestles by your side.
something like this
Sparkles narrows her eyes and says 'So be it.' She then draws her own quarterstaff and runs at the Kenku, ready for combat.
Initiative: 20
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Sparkles goes to strike the kenku, two-handed, with her quarterstaff, but something inside her wavers. Maybe it was because the kenku had yet to attack, or for some other reason, but she couldn't muster the resolve to strike the kenku, instead just missing. Quarterstaff Attack: 9 to hit, 11 damage.
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William quickly draws the slender bone wand from his pocket and points it directly towards the were-raven. After muttering a few words under his breath, a sickly brown-ish green blast of necrotic energy bursts from the tip and screams towards the thug.
After firing off the spell, the mage quickly scrambles backwards 30ft towards the cart as he attempts to put as much distance between himself and the four men as possible.
Wasting no time in attacking Zeren swings his longsword with all his might, taking the bandit by surprise and nearly cutting him in half with the force of the blow.
Even as the man drops to the ground Zeren is already looking for his next target, his eyes glowing red as his bloodlust takes over.
Shayara did her best to avoid the fight however she is begining to understand that in Drakkenheim she may have to fight more than monsters in her quest.
Looking at the so-called guards she mutters an incantation (magic stone) and her dice begin to move. The three gems orbit in the air just above her hand. With a flick of her finger one flies out at the closest bandit.
Wirh her first attack done she backs up toward the caravan. "I should warn you, I have seen the possible outcomes here and none of them look good for you"
((just to help me sort things for each of the battles I'm doing it like this but you definitely can move around the map and fight things not in your specific area))
@Syed
Round 1 begins...
Syed (9/9 HP)
Move 10 ft north towards Raven N
(Action) Attack @Raven N with Sharp Tusks 24 > 12 AC A Hit. ---> Raven N takes 4 piercing and 1 psychic damage for a total of 5 ---> Raven N is now at 6/11 HP
End of Round:8/9 HP
Mellow (5/5 HP)
Move 10 ft north towards
(Action) Attack @Raven N with Bite 7 < 12 AC A Miss. ---> Raven N takes no damage
End of Round: 4/5 HP
Raven N - bird bandit (11/11 HP)
(Action) Attack @Mellow with Beak 8 + 4 = 12 = 12 AC A Hit. ---> Mellow takes 1 piercing damage ---> Mellow is now at 4/5 HP
End of Round: 6/11 HP
Raven T - bird bandit (11/11 HP)
Move 15 ft northwest
(Action) Attack Syed with Beak 12 + 4 = 16 > 15 AC A Hit. ---> Syed takes 1 piercing damage ---> Syed is now at 8/9 HP
Syed climbs up caravan wagon to meet face to face with the flying menace. The raven (N) takes to this attack with surprise as it caws and steps back. No matter, the rataosk jumps up and catches the bird mid-air, sinking his teeth past the bird's feathery down and into its wings. It hollers in pain, flapping. What's worse is the physic damage! In its confusion, the bird starts to spiral before landing on the top covering off the caravan. The mastiff, Mellow, also tries to take a bite out of it, but its jump up misses and its paws leaves scratches on the side of the wagon. The bird, trying to peck at whatever thing is causing it so much pain, successfully lands one in the right side of the mastiff's muzzle.
The other raven (T) comes flying full force. It pecks at Syed, trying to get him off its friend. It manages to get him in the back and caws from behind, extending its talon. "CAW CAW!"
@Sparkles
Round 1 begins...
Sparkles (9/10 HP)
(Action) Attack @ B4 Mildred (kenku) with Quarterstaff 9 < 12 AC A Miss. ---> Mildred takes no damage
Mildred (Bandit) (11/11 HP)
(Action) Attack @Sparkles with Scythe 8 + 3 = 11 < 15 AC A Miss. ---> Sparkles takes no damage
The skirmish between Sparkles and the kenku ends up with both missing each other by a long shot. First, Sparkles goes out to whack him with her quarterstaff, but instead hits a nearby tree. The kenku just laughs and jumps out the way before lashing out at the bird-girl. He swings it only for him to lose his footing and fall on the ground before jumping back up, dusting himself off.
He twirls his scythe once again with narrowed eyes, "I know what you are. What am I?" he says in someone else's voice for no apparent reason.
@ Kolette, William, Zeren, and Shayara
Round 1 begins...
Kolette (10/10 HP)
(Action) Casts Bless on William, Shayara, and Zeren
(Action) Attack @Brodan (the wereraven thug)with Chill Touch 12 + 2 (from Bless = 14 > 11 AC A Hit. ---> Brodan (thug) takes 4 necrotic damage ---> Brodan is now at 28/32HP
Move 30 ft west towards caravan
Zeren (13/13 HP)
(Action) Attack @Hosh (Bandit 1) with Longsword 17 + 1 (from Bless)+ 6 = 24 > 12 AC A Hit. --> Hosh takes 5 + 6 = 11 slashing damage --> Hosh is now at 0/11 HP and is now DEAD
End of Round: 8/13 HP
Shayara (10/10 HP)
(Action) Attack @Mudface (Bandit 3) with Magic Stone 7 + 6 + 2 (from Bless) = 15 > 12 AC A Hit. ---> Mudface takes 2 + 4 = 6 --> Mudface is now at 5/11 HP
End of Round: 5/10 HP
--
Hosh - Bandit 1 (11/11 HP)
End of Round: DEAD
Sanna - Bandit 2 (11/11 HP)
(Action) Attack @Shayara with Light Crossbow 12 + 3 = 15 > 14 AC A Hit. ---> Shayara takes 5 piercing damage ---> Shayara is now at 5/10 HP
Mudface - Bandit 3 (11/11 HP)
(Action) Attack @Zeren with Light Crossbow 13 + 3 = 16 < 18 AC A Miss. ---> Zeren takes no damage
End of Round: 5/11 HP
Brodan (wereraven thug) (32/32 HP)
Move15 ft northwest towards Zeren
(Action) Attack @Zeren with Light Crossbow (from Pack Tactics gets advantage first roll:10, second roll:17) 17 + 3 = 20 > 18 AC A Hit. ---> Zeren takes 5 bludgeoning damage ---> Zeren is now at 8/13 HP
End of Round: 28/32 HP
Kolette casts Bless on all her nearby companions. They all feel the warmth and reassurance that comes with it. It helps them steady their arms. William is the first one to move. He takes out his bone-wand to the chagrin of the bandits but amusement of the wereraven. "Mage-born?" He chides before the bast is sent. The Chill Touch knocks out the air, sending a shiver throughout his whole body. "Uh uh uh." The thug tsks, "Aw does the Academy know about this?" He gets to his feet in an instant.
William and Kolette both retreat towards the caravan. "But we're just getting started!" He watches Zeren's attack with glee. "Now that's what I'm talking about!"
Little did he know that the single swipe of Zeren's sword was a death kneel for one of his men. Hosh (Bandit 1) only sees red before Zeren's sword slices through the side of his body from shoulder blade to abdomen. He doesn't even get time to touch it before Zeren yanks it away. He collapses immediately to the floor. "Hosh!" the so-called 'captain' screams. He curses, scrambling to take out his weapons, and Sanna does the same.
"Pity,"the wereraven coos, "bring his body to the scrap heap. He will do for good composting just like the rest of these folks. Won't want anything else littering these roads now, shall we?" He blows air from his mouth with a smile. Immediately he turns to sees his men almost reach out for the downed bandit before he screeches, "LATER, OF COURSE!"
Shayara takes out her Magic Stones and, with the precision and ease of a finger flick, sends one flying out towards Mudface (the 'captain'/Bandit 3). It hits him on the back of his head as he was trying to get out his crossbow. This seems to rile him up as he turns around with angry fury. "HEY!" Despite his outburst, Mudface shrinks away from her, instead moving on towards Zeren with his crossbow taking aim at the one who killed the first bandit. He misses the metal-man, getting no where close to Zeren.
A second shot comes from Sanna, hitting Shayara in the chest. The arrow embeds itself into her ribs.
"FINALLY! Competency!"the thug, Brodan, shouts. Sanna gives a thumbs up then trips. "And there it goes again. Unbelievable!"You can almost hear the eye roll.
This time Brodan takes the stage, taking up his own crossbow and aiming it back at Zeren. He does not miss. Flapping his giant wings in the air, the wereraven takes a precise shot with his talons. It is swift like water. It travels in a straight line towards the metal-man, sticking him right in the head. The arrow stays there in an almost goofy angle. The wereraven gasps when this does not immediately kill him."No mortal man..."he whispers.
Sparklesis a bit put on edge by the appearance of this bandit. They seem a similar strength to each other and her mind can't help but draw up parallels between the two...nah, she's just overthinking after Kolette's talk about 'the duality of good vs evil and light vs dark'. She goes to strike again, this time banishing all doubts and striking cleanly against the beak of the other bird person with her quarterstaff. To hit: 23, 5 bludgeoning damage.
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"Shhh! Keep it a secret!" William shouts back to Brodan before retreating back towards the wagon. Without even turning to face the were-raven, he continues to move 30ft towards the wagon and points his wand back behind himself. While racing towards Syed and his dog, he mutters a few words under his breath. In an instant, three Greenish brown spectral skulls erupt from the tip of his wand and streak towards the were-raven. Streams of dust and ash trail behind the skulls and hang in the air for an instant before dissolving as the magic missiles slam into their target
Sparklesis a bit put on edge by the appearance of this bandit. They seem a similar strength to each other and her mind can't help but draw up parallels between the two...nah, she's just overthinking after Kolette's talk about 'the duality of good vs evil and light vs dark'. She goes to strike again, this time banishing all doubts and striking cleanly against the beak of the other bird person with her quarterstaff. To hit: 23, 5 bludgeoning damage.
[Completely forgot that Sparkles can make Unharmed Strikes as Bonus Actions, thanks so much to Cyreon to helpfully pointing that out!]
After she's struck the kenku with her quarterstaff, Sparklesquickly pivots round and strikes down the birds face with her talon-like feet in a sweeping kick, hopefully wiping out her foe. To hit: 21, 6 bludgeoning damage.
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Syed feels the sharp pain of the second raven’s beak digging into his back, but he grits his teeth and focuses on the task at hand. His eyes meet Mellow’s, and without a word, the mastiff understands. Mellow circles back, his powerful legs propelling him forward in a calculated leap.
The raven in Syed’s grasp struggles, its wings flapping frantically, but before it can break free, Mellow is there. The mastiff lunges upward, catching the raven’s leg in his jaws. With a fierce tug, Mellow pulls the bird downward, forcing it off balance and exposing its neck to Syed.
Seizing the opportunity, Syed quickly shifts his position, using Mellow’s grip to steady the raven. With a swift motion, he sinks his sharp teeth into the exposed neck of the raven, feeling the life drain from the struggling bird. The raven’s cawing turns into a choked gurgle, and its frantic movements slow as Syed and Mellow work together to bring the fight to a swift end.
Mellow: helps Syed to land his blow Action: attack @N, hit 18/8for 4 piercing and 2 psychic damage
Ignoring his grievous wound from the arrow Zeren continues his unrelenting assault on the bandits.
Stepping over the corpses in front of him his next blow nearly decapitates the bandit in front of him, the corpse's head hanging by a few strands of meat and bone as it topples to the ground. Yanking his sword free and pulling the arrow out Zeren looks around for his next target.
(Action) Attack @Raven N with Sharp Tusks with advantage from Mellow's Help (first roll: 8, second roll: 18) 18 > 12 AC A Hit. ---> Raven N takes 4 piercing and 2 psychic damage for a total of 6 ---> Raven N is now at 0/11 HP and is DEAD
Raven N - bird bandit (6/11 HP)
End of Round: DEAD
Raven T - bird bandit (11/11 HP)
(Action) Disengage
Fly up 50 ft
The bird trashes around in your grip, pecking and cawing until it turns into that choked gurgle and slowly dies as your sharp tusks blow through its skin and into its carotid artery. It slowly stops trashing. Blood stains the caravan roof.
The other bird stops, stepping back in nearly a trip, before taking wing and flying up into the air away from you. It hurries and does not look back.
@Sparkles
Round 2 begins...
Sparkles (9/10 HP)
(Action) Attack @ B4 Mildred (kenku) with Quarterstaff 23 > 12 AC A Hit. ---> Mildred takes 5 bludgeoning damage ---> Mildred is now at 6/11 HP
(Bonus Action) Attack @B4 Milded with Unarmed Strike (Talons) 21 > 12 AC A Hit. ---> Mildred takes 6 bludgeoning damage ---> Milded at 0/11 HP is now DEAD
Mildred (Bandit) (11/11 HP)
End of Round: DEAD
"Ack!" Mildred shouts as the quarterstaff of the young girl strikes the left side of his beak. He clutches it, and with full intent and fury, leaps out, but is instead drop-kicked by said girl whose talons swipe him across his face. The tips of your talons strike red as it slashes across his face hard enough that he collapses to the floor. The kenku puts his arms behind him to push himself up but falls flat on his back once more. The left eye of the bandit is soaked in blood as you realize that you scratched it out with a piece of eyelid hanging.
His right eye narrows and his chest heaves up and down before he coughs. More blood. He looks to that small puddle on the ground and his face briefly changes from anger to fear before fading back to anger... or maybe just exasperation.
"See you again real soon!" the kenku last stammers, his voice fading and taking on the high pitched tone of a small child. "Real soon...." He breathes his last, and his eye closes.
@William, Kolette, Shayara, and Zeren
Round 2 begins...
William (11/11HP)
Move 30 ft west towards caravan
(Action) Attack @Brodan (the wereraven thug) with Magic Missile A Hit automatically. ---> Brodan (thug) takes 2 + 3 + 2 = 7 force damage ---> Brodan is now at 21/32 HP
Kolette (10/10 HP)
(Action) Casts Fire Bolt on B2 Sanna 11 < 12 AC A Miss. ---> Sanna takes no damage BUT it does set fire to the elk corpse
(After Brodan's attack) Constitution Check on Bless 6 + 2 = 8 < 10 CON Save A Failure. ---> Bless ends.
End of Round: 5/10 HP
Zeren (8/13 HP)
(Action) Attack @ B2 Sanna with Longsword 23 + 4 (from Bless) = 27 > 12 AC A Hit. --> Sanna takes 7 + 6 = 13 slashing damage --> Sanna is now at -2/11 HP and is now DEAD
(Action) Attack @Mudface (Bandit 3) with Magic Stone 18 + 2 (from Bless) = 20 > 12 AC A Hit. ---> Mudface takes 9 bludgeoning damage --> Mudface is now at -4/11 HP and is now DEAD
--
Sanna - Bandit 2 (11/11 HP)
End of Round: DEAD
Mudface - Bandit 3 (5/11 HP)
End of Round: DEAD
Brodan (wereraven thug) (28/32 HP)
(Action) Attack @Zeren with Beak NAT 20! + 4 = 24 > 18 AC A Critical Hit. ---> Zeren takes 4 x 2 = 8 piercing damage ---> Zeren is now at 0/13 HP and is knocked unconscious
(Action) Multiattack @Kolette with Crossbow 14 + 4 = 18 > 17 AC A Hit. ---> Kolette takes 5 piercing damage ---> Kolette is now at 5/10 HP
Fly 50 ft in the air
((this doesn't provoke opportunity attacks because he's pretty out of range of your melee attacks which were 5 ft and the closest PC near him is unconscious))
End of Round: 21/32 HP
End Encounter.
"Secret?" Brodan flaps his wings in the air. "Oh I like this one."He clicks his tongue at William. "Pity though we can't be friends."
The spectral greenish-brown skulls go snapping through the air, each snapping down upon Brodan's wings as he shakes to bring them off. "WHAT EVEN ARE THESE?!"He shouts, missing at each grab. The skulls teeth chatter as they bite him right through his wings, and he hollers.
Fire erupts from Kolette's hands, sending great flames bursting out everywhere. "Eep!" Sanna makes a whistle-like noise as he ducks. The flames go streaking past him however the elk corpse in front of him catches on fire. "Ahh!" he screams, stepping back right into Zeren's range when a longsword slices off the top of his head in an instant. The corpse's frightened face goes rolling towards the burning fire. The sword takes a few tugs it looked like the body was trying to regenerate itself but failed as the last strands of meat go sliding off Zeren's sword as he stands tall with his weapon.
"Is this all you have?! Send more men!"
Brodan is stunned by this statement. "Wha-?"A sudden tug to leg sends him reeling. "Mas-"Mudface hesitates. "-ter Brodan, we're losing here! Let's go!" He tugs the bird-man harder.
"Shu-" His feathers flare up with an angry scowl before flattening. He turns to look at the battlefield around him, "****. Yeah."
The false captain pants as he goes scrambling, feathers start sprouting from his body and so do wings, but he is instead knocked in the head by a six-sided projectile. Shayara's Magic Stone returns to her. His body falls to the ground and starts slowly turning back to human.
"YOU IMBECILE!" Brodan yells to no one in particular. Screeching, he takes flight and hurtles himself towards Zeren, grabbing him by the chest. His talons sink deep into the metal and with his human-sized beak he takes a chunk off Zeren's shoulder, making sure to rip off some skin. Then, clamping down upon his arm, he trashes the fighter in mid-air before tossing him down onto the ground like scrap metal. "AHAHA HAH HAH!"He laughs crazily. Reloading his crossbow, he takes a second shot this time at Kolette, sending an arrow straight at her heart but gets at her side instead.
Tossing his head back up again, he laughs and flies off into the air. "ENJOY YOUR CURSE!"
((I'm gonna say since Zeren is already a dhampir he can't also become a were-raven so not constitution check but you know Bordan doesn't know that.))
End Encounter.
((you can choose whatever here if you want to pursue him or not))
Sparkles takes the scythe from the kenku, and takes the coins from the mound in the floor. She beckons the young elk and then climbs out of the ditch, steadying herself on both her quarterstaff and new weapon. Coming over to the rest of the party, hoping the young elk will follow, she says 'Looks like you guys got into a fight too! Sorry I couldn't help, some creepy kenku bandit attacked me down there whilst I was helping this little guy' she says, stroking the elk between his oversized antlers. 'I'm a little wounded, Kolette, so mind if I get some healing? I only need a little, and I could have done myself if I hadn't exhausted my healing hands on the elk'
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"I could use a berry or two," calls out Syed to Kolette all the while climbing the caravan wagon to the top for getting a better view over the aftermath.
Once he spots Zeren bleeding and unconscious on the floor, he jumps on his mastiff and hurries to Zeren's position (mastiff dashes for 80 feet). He produces a vial with an oily blue liquid from his pack that doesn't smell all that good. But with Zeren unable to refuse, Syed quickly forces the liquid down Zeren's throat to Cure Wounds for 7 HP. "Slowly now, Zeren. Let it work a moment. Don't dare spitting it out."
Kolette whispers, "Bless my companions as they fight, enhance them with Pelor's light"
William, Shayara, and Zeren, add 1d4 to each attack roll and saving throw.
Then she moves 10 feet towards the wagon.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
Sparkles narrows her eyes and says 'So be it.' She then draws her own quarterstaff and runs at the Kenku, ready for combat.
Initiative: 20
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Sparkles goes to strike the kenku, two-handed, with her quarterstaff, but something inside her wavers. Maybe it was because the kenku had yet to attack, or for some other reason, but she couldn't muster the resolve to strike the kenku, instead just missing. Quarterstaff Attack: 9 to hit, 11 damage.
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William quickly draws the slender bone wand from his pocket and points it directly towards the were-raven. After muttering a few words under his breath, a sickly brown-ish green blast of necrotic energy bursts from the tip and screams towards the thug.
chill touch Attack: 12 Damage: 4
After firing off the spell, the mage quickly scrambles backwards 30ft towards the cart as he attempts to put as much distance between himself and the four men as possible.
OOC: William, you are Blessed, add 1d4 to your rolls to hit and saves.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
ooc: forgot! add 2 to my 12 to hit!
Wasting no time in attacking Zeren swings his longsword with all his might, taking the bandit by surprise and nearly cutting him in half with the force of the blow.
Even as the man drops to the ground Zeren is already looking for his next target, his eyes glowing red as his bloodlust takes over.
"I'll slaughter you all!"
Shayara did her best to avoid the fight however she is begining to understand that in Drakkenheim she may have to fight more than monsters in her quest.
Looking at the so-called guards she mutters an incantation (magic stone) and her dice begin to move. The three gems orbit in the air just above her hand. With a flick of her finger one flies out at the closest bandit.
Wirh her first attack done she backs up toward the caravan. "I should warn you, I have seen the possible outcomes here and none of them look good for you"
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@Syed
Syed climbs up caravan wagon to meet face to face with the flying menace. The raven (N) takes to this attack with surprise as it caws and steps back. No matter, the rataosk jumps up and catches the bird mid-air, sinking his teeth past the bird's feathery down and into its wings. It hollers in pain, flapping. What's worse is the physic damage! In its confusion, the bird starts to spiral before landing on the top covering off the caravan. The mastiff, Mellow, also tries to take a bite out of it, but its jump up misses and its paws leaves scratches on the side of the wagon. The bird, trying to peck at whatever thing is causing it so much pain, successfully lands one in the right side of the mastiff's muzzle.
The other raven (T) comes flying full force. It pecks at Syed, trying to get him off its friend. It manages to get him in the back and caws from behind, extending its talon. "CAW CAW!"
@Sparkles
The skirmish between Sparkles and the kenku ends up with both missing each other by a long shot. First, Sparkles goes out to whack him with her quarterstaff, but instead hits a nearby tree. The kenku just laughs and jumps out the way before lashing out at the bird-girl. He swings it only for him to lose his footing and fall on the ground before jumping back up, dusting himself off.
He twirls his scythe once again with narrowed eyes, "I know what you are. What am I?" he says in someone else's voice for no apparent reason.
@ Kolette, William, Zeren, and Shayara
Kolette casts Bless on all her nearby companions. They all feel the warmth and reassurance that comes with it. It helps them steady their arms. William is the first one to move. He takes out his bone-wand to the chagrin of the bandits but amusement of the wereraven. "Mage-born?" He chides before the bast is sent. The Chill Touch knocks out the air, sending a shiver throughout his whole body. "Uh uh uh." The thug tsks, "Aw does the Academy know about this?" He gets to his feet in an instant.
William and Kolette both retreat towards the caravan. "But we're just getting started!" He watches Zeren's attack with glee. "Now that's what I'm talking about!"
Little did he know that the single swipe of Zeren's sword was a death kneel for one of his men. Hosh (Bandit 1) only sees red before Zeren's sword slices through the side of his body from shoulder blade to abdomen. He doesn't even get time to touch it before Zeren yanks it away. He collapses immediately to the floor. "Hosh!" the so-called 'captain' screams. He curses, scrambling to take out his weapons, and Sanna does the same.
"Pity," the wereraven coos, "bring his body to the scrap heap. He will do for good composting just like the rest of these folks. Won't want anything else littering these roads now, shall we?" He blows air from his mouth with a smile. Immediately he turns to sees his men almost reach out for the downed bandit before he screeches, "LATER, OF COURSE!"
Shayara takes out her Magic Stones and, with the precision and ease of a finger flick, sends one flying out towards Mudface (the 'captain'/Bandit 3). It hits him on the back of his head as he was trying to get out his crossbow. This seems to rile him up as he turns around with angry fury. "HEY!" Despite his outburst, Mudface shrinks away from her, instead moving on towards Zeren with his crossbow taking aim at the one who killed the first bandit. He misses the metal-man, getting no where close to Zeren.
A second shot comes from Sanna, hitting Shayara in the chest. The arrow embeds itself into her ribs.
"FINALLY! Competency!" the thug, Brodan, shouts. Sanna gives a thumbs up then trips. "And there it goes again. Unbelievable!" You can almost hear the eye roll.
This time Brodan takes the stage, taking up his own crossbow and aiming it back at Zeren. He does not miss. Flapping his giant wings in the air, the wereraven takes a precise shot with his talons. It is swift like water. It travels in a straight line towards the metal-man, sticking him right in the head. The arrow stays there in an almost goofy angle. The wereraven gasps when this does not immediately kill him. "No mortal man..." he whispers.
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Sparkles is a bit put on edge by the appearance of this bandit. They seem a similar strength to each other and her mind can't help but draw up parallels between the two...nah, she's just overthinking after Kolette's talk about 'the duality of good vs evil and light vs dark'. She goes to strike again, this time banishing all doubts and striking cleanly against the beak of the other bird person with her quarterstaff. To hit: 23, 5 bludgeoning damage.
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"Shhh! Keep it a secret!" William shouts back to Brodan before retreating back towards the wagon. Without even turning to face the were-raven, he continues to move 30ft towards the wagon and points his wand back behind himself. While racing towards Syed and his dog, he mutters a few words under his breath. In an instant, three Greenish brown spectral skulls erupt from the tip of his wand and streak towards the were-raven. Streams of dust and ash trail behind the skulls and hang in the air for an instant before dissolving as the magic missiles slam into their target
Magic missile damage! 5 + 5 + 5
[Completely forgot that Sparkles can make Unharmed Strikes as Bonus Actions, thanks so much to Cyreon to helpfully pointing that out!]
After she's struck the kenku with her quarterstaff, Sparkles quickly pivots round and strikes down the birds face with her talon-like feet in a sweeping kick, hopefully wiping out her foe. To hit: 21, 6 bludgeoning damage.
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Syed feels the sharp pain of the second raven’s beak digging into his back, but he grits his teeth and focuses on the task at hand. His eyes meet Mellow’s, and without a word, the mastiff understands. Mellow circles back, his powerful legs propelling him forward in a calculated leap.
The raven in Syed’s grasp struggles, its wings flapping frantically, but before it can break free, Mellow is there. The mastiff lunges upward, catching the raven’s leg in his jaws. With a fierce tug, Mellow pulls the bird downward, forcing it off balance and exposing its neck to Syed.
Seizing the opportunity, Syed quickly shifts his position, using Mellow’s grip to steady the raven. With a swift motion, he sinks his sharp teeth into the exposed neck of the raven, feeling the life drain from the struggling bird. The raven’s cawing turns into a choked gurgle, and its frantic movements slow as Syed and Mellow work together to bring the fight to a swift end.
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Ignoring his grievous wound from the arrow Zeren continues his unrelenting assault on the bandits.
Stepping over the corpses in front of him his next blow nearly decapitates the bandit in front of him, the corpse's head hanging by a few strands of meat and bone as it topples to the ground. Yanking his sword free and pulling the arrow out Zeren looks around for his next target.
"Is this all you have?! Send more men!"
Kolette nods this fight could get out of hand quickly.
"Pelor's Light, burn bright!" Fire Bolt at Sanna Bandit 2 Attack: 7 Damage: 3
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"real life is a super high CR."
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"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
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Try that attack again Attack: 20 Damage: 7
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
@Syed
The bird trashes around in your grip, pecking and cawing until it turns into that choked gurgle and slowly dies as your sharp tusks blow through its skin and into its carotid artery. It slowly stops trashing. Blood stains the caravan roof.
The other bird stops, stepping back in nearly a trip, before taking wing and flying up into the air away from you. It hurries and does not look back.
@Sparkles
"Ack!" Mildred shouts as the quarterstaff of the young girl strikes the left side of his beak. He clutches it, and with full intent and fury, leaps out, but is instead drop-kicked by said girl whose talons swipe him across his face. The tips of your talons strike red as it slashes across his face hard enough that he collapses to the floor. The kenku puts his arms behind him to push himself up but falls flat on his back once more. The left eye of the bandit is soaked in blood as you realize that you scratched it out with a piece of eyelid hanging.
His right eye narrows and his chest heaves up and down before he coughs. More blood. He looks to that small puddle on the ground and his face briefly changes from anger to fear before fading back to anger... or maybe just exasperation.
"See you again real soon!" the kenku last stammers, his voice fading and taking on the high pitched tone of a small child. "Real soon...." He breathes his last, and his eye closes.
@William, Kolette, Shayara, and Zeren
"Secret?" Brodan flaps his wings in the air. "Oh I like this one." He clicks his tongue at William. "Pity though we can't be friends."
The spectral greenish-brown skulls go snapping through the air, each snapping down upon Brodan's wings as he shakes to bring them off. "WHAT EVEN ARE THESE?!" He shouts, missing at each grab. The skulls teeth chatter as they bite him right through his wings, and he hollers.
Fire erupts from Kolette's hands, sending great flames bursting out everywhere. "Eep!" Sanna makes a whistle-like noise as he ducks. The flames go streaking past him however the elk corpse in front of him catches on fire. "Ahh!" he screams, stepping back right into Zeren's range when a longsword slices off the top of his head in an instant. The corpse's frightened face goes rolling towards the burning fire. The sword takes a few tugs it looked like the body was trying to regenerate itself but failed as the last strands of meat go sliding off Zeren's sword as he stands tall with his weapon.
"Is this all you have?! Send more men!"
Brodan is stunned by this statement. "Wha-?" A sudden tug to leg sends him reeling. "Mas-" Mudface hesitates. "-ter Brodan, we're losing here! Let's go!" He tugs the bird-man harder.
"Shu-" His feathers flare up with an angry scowl before flattening. He turns to look at the battlefield around him, "****. Yeah."
The false captain pants as he goes scrambling, feathers start sprouting from his body and so do wings, but he is instead knocked in the head by a six-sided projectile. Shayara's Magic Stone returns to her. His body falls to the ground and starts slowly turning back to human.
"YOU IMBECILE!" Brodan yells to no one in particular. Screeching, he takes flight and hurtles himself towards Zeren, grabbing him by the chest. His talons sink deep into the metal and with his human-sized beak he takes a chunk off Zeren's shoulder, making sure to rip off some skin. Then, clamping down upon his arm, he trashes the fighter in mid-air before tossing him down onto the ground like scrap metal. "AHAHA HAH HAH!" He laughs crazily. Reloading his crossbow, he takes a second shot this time at Kolette, sending an arrow straight at her heart but gets at her side instead.
Tossing his head back up again, he laughs and flies off into the air. "ENJOY YOUR CURSE!"
((I'm gonna say since Zeren is already a dhampir he can't also become a were-raven so not constitution check but you know Bordan doesn't know that.))
End Encounter.
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Kolette sighs and watches Brodan fly away. Bah, there are wounded.
She takes out her healer's kit and stabilizes Zeren, then hands Shayara 5 goodberries.
"Is anyone else hurt?"
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
Sparkles takes the scythe from the kenku, and takes the coins from the mound in the floor. She beckons the young elk and then climbs out of the ditch, steadying herself on both her quarterstaff and new weapon. Coming over to the rest of the party, hoping the young elk will follow, she says 'Looks like you guys got into a fight too! Sorry I couldn't help, some creepy kenku bandit attacked me down there whilst I was helping this little guy' she says, stroking the elk between his oversized antlers. 'I'm a little wounded, Kolette, so mind if I get some healing? I only need a little, and I could have done myself if I hadn't exhausted my healing hands on the elk'
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"I could use a berry or two," calls out Syed to Kolette all the while climbing the caravan wagon to the top for getting a better view over the aftermath.
Once he spots Zeren bleeding and unconscious on the floor, he jumps on his mastiff and hurries to Zeren's position (mastiff dashes for 80 feet). He produces a vial with an oily blue liquid from his pack that doesn't smell all that good. But with Zeren unable to refuse, Syed quickly forces the liquid down Zeren's throat to Cure Wounds for 7 HP. "Slowly now, Zeren. Let it work a moment. Don't dare spitting it out."
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