Bazza begins breathing normally and, with Keyrie's spell, his wounds heal closed. He opens his eyes, then reaches to his neck, where the wretch bit him. "Ow," he says.
Inside the tent, the unicorn whirls around on the hell hound and charges at it, goring it with it's horn, then rearing up and smashing at it with its front hooves.
Horn Attack: 10 Damage: 10
Hooves Attack: 23 Damage: 14
The horn misses, but the hooves come crashing down on the hell hound's head. The hound shakes its head, snorting flames, ready to respond.
Tock shoots his last arrow at the hell hound and yells out about the fire! The fire breathing monster needs to die first before any efforts to save any equipment can begin.
Sighing with relief as he sees Tock's arrow finish off the hound, Tyrol dashes toward the new opening torn into the tent, but he stops for a moment as the unicorn standing near the slain beast catches his eye. Where on earth did that thing even come from? It did seem to be fighting the hound...
"Hey! Hey, uh, unicorn! You all right?" the minotaur calls out. "I'm sure you're real busy or, uh, something, but if there's any chance there's something you can do to help with this fire... if you're injured, I can fix that, I'd be happy to after your help fighting that thing off, but please... we've got to save the circus, it's all we've got, most of us, please..." He takes a deep breath, leans out of the tear and shouts, "Water! If anyone's got hands to help, we need water to the main tent now, it's caught fire!" Tyrol glances nervously at the mysterious unicorn one last time before ducking out toward Tock on the other side.
Hearing that the tent is on fire Keyrie's face pales, "Jonda and Wei Wei are still in the tent!" Keyrie is going to run back through the hole in the tent from the Mane earlier and see if Jonda and Wei Wei are alright.
(Perception if needed: 7)
(Are the animals in cages that we can drag outside? Also because of her background she has the feature Wanderer that lets her remember the general lay out of the terrain would she remember any river or source of water nearby?)
The cages, especially Jonda's, are much too large to move with the animals inside. The animals are usually transported on leashes, sometimes two stiff leashes, as with the big cats like Jonda. Wei Wei is usually allowed to fly and play at the top of the tent and is only in a cage until she can be leashed and brought out to a wagon. While both animals are domesticated, the smoke creeping into this side of the tent and the general chaos of the fight, an animal handling check will be necessary to move the animals calmly outside.
As usual, the circus pitches its tent within walking distance of a stream or creek. A small creek lies to the west about 500 feet away.
Feytok rarely needs to handle the animals. His forte is more in performance and crowd control. But it helps that Wei Wei is familiar with all of the circus family and she calmly flutters down onto his shoulder when he beckons.
"There is a creek to the west if we want to start organizing a bucket chain." Keyrie calls out just to make sure everyone knows of the creek, then she turns her attention to Jonda still in the cage. "Don't worry buddy we will get you out of here to safety just trust us." She tells her while opening the cage and motioning her to follow. (Because Keyrie is a Firbolg beasts and plants can understand the meaning of her words.)
Jonda is pacing back and forth when Keyrie arrives. And she calms immediately. Upon hearing Keyrie speak, she bows her head. When the cage opens, the elderly panther comes out, looking up at the Fibolg for direction.
Seeing the smoke begin to rise out of the top of the arena side of the tent, Bazza's face tightens in pained sorrow. "Thirteen years I've worked this circus for Mr. Crowley. Never once did we have a fire," he says with a sigh.
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Dog, trying to remember if there are any water buckets or barrels he could grab as he hears shouts of a fire and assuredly sees some smoke, attempts to find one on his way (Investigation 21), grabbing it and bringing toward the noise to throw on any flames he sees.
Dog looks around in a panic. He sees some crates and tarps but rejects these are unworkable. In fact, he sees nothing here that will serve to hold enough water to make it from the creek to the tent.
Dog realizes he is choosing a bad day to have a bad day, and follows FeyTok to try to stamp out the fires with sand and dirt. He does not like smoke so he's going to keep an eye on the air quality to see if he needs to call it and get his compatriots to escape the tent before it burns up with them inside.
"Fire? What caused that?"says Q'wai aloud to no one in particular. He rushes toward the smoke and flames, uncertain of who or what he will see there. If any source of water is on hand nearby, then he seizes it on his way. If not, he'll aid the others in whatever way seems best.
This post has potentially manipulated dice roll results.
DM shield:
11
21
20
Inside the backstage tent, Q'wai spots the bucket that Tick and Tock use in their act with the crowd. He grabs it as it checks on the fire, seeing a growing blaze taking over the arena. There is a large tear in the tent to the east.
Tock and Kruk also spot some containers. Kruk sees the barrel that is used to collect rainwater, already half full, and points it out out to Tyrol. Tock remembers that one of the wagons was waterproofed with pitch (at E32) a few months back when Mr. Crowley was forced to put up his circus more than a mile from the nearest water source.
All:
We will use the chase rules for running to and from the creek to the west. Speed will be halved if someone is carrying more than a bucket of water while running. The creek is exactly 500 feet from the western wall of the circus tent, but I won't be putting this on a map. If anyone choose to run the distance, we'll just keep track of the distance.
(Tock and Tyrol may still take an action or move.)
Bazza begins breathing normally and, with Keyrie's spell, his wounds heal closed. He opens his eyes, then reaches to his neck, where the wretch bit him. "Ow," he says.
Inside the tent, the unicorn whirls around on the hell hound and charges at it, goring it with it's horn, then rearing up and smashing at it with its front hooves.
Horn Attack: 10 Damage: 10
Hooves Attack: 23 Damage: 14
The horn misses, but the hooves come crashing down on the hell hound's head. The hound shakes its head, snorting flames, ready to respond.
(Tock and Tyrol may still go.)
Tock shoots his last arrow at the hell hound and yells out about the fire! The fire breathing monster needs to die first before any efforts to save any equipment can begin.
Attack: 23 Damage: 6
Tock's arrow flies true, piercing the hound's skull just above the left eye. It falls to the ground, dead.
Combat has ended but the fire is spreading. Rounds will continue for a bit.
"Is everyone ok? Do we have water barrels for the animals. Bucket brigade? "
Sighing with relief as he sees Tock's arrow finish off the hound, Tyrol dashes toward the new opening torn into the tent, but he stops for a moment as the unicorn standing near the slain beast catches his eye. Where on earth did that thing even come from? It did seem to be fighting the hound...
"Hey! Hey, uh, unicorn! You all right?" the minotaur calls out. "I'm sure you're real busy or, uh, something, but if there's any chance there's something you can do to help with this fire... if you're injured, I can fix that, I'd be happy to after your help fighting that thing off, but please... we've got to save the circus, it's all we've got, most of us, please..." He takes a deep breath, leans out of the tear and shouts, "Water! If anyone's got hands to help, we need water to the main tent now, it's caught fire!" Tyrol glances nervously at the mysterious unicorn one last time before ducking out toward Tock on the other side.
The unicorn responds to Tyrol in his mind in a language he does not understand.
Q'wai:
In your head, in elvish, you hear a feminine voice say, "I don't understand you, minotaur. I am sorry for your belongings, though."
Then it paws at the hell hound to make sure it is dead before following Tyrol out of the tent and turning to look back at the blaze.
(Everyone make take their fifth round turn in any order. Rounds will end when the fire is out or the group gives up on the blaze.)
FeyTok is just going to rage stomp and try to smother as much fire as possible with sand.
Hearing that the tent is on fire Keyrie's face pales, "Jonda and Wei Wei are still in the tent!" Keyrie is going to run back through the hole in the tent from the Mane earlier and see if Jonda and Wei Wei are alright.
(Perception if needed: 7)
(Are the animals in cages that we can drag outside? Also because of her background she has the feature Wanderer that lets her remember the general lay out of the terrain would she remember any river or source of water nearby?)
Keyrie and Feytok rush back into the tent.
The cages, especially Jonda's, are much too large to move with the animals inside. The animals are usually transported on leashes, sometimes two stiff leashes, as with the big cats like Jonda. Wei Wei is usually allowed to fly and play at the top of the tent and is only in a cage until she can be leashed and brought out to a wagon. While both animals are domesticated, the smoke creeping into this side of the tent and the general chaos of the fight, an animal handling check will be necessary to move the animals calmly outside.
As usual, the circus pitches its tent within walking distance of a stream or creek. A small creek lies to the west about 500 feet away.
Animal handling 18
Feytok rarely needs to handle the animals. His forte is more in performance and crowd control. But it helps that Wei Wei is familiar with all of the circus family and she calmly flutters down onto his shoulder when he beckons.
"Good, good. Ok. Little problem but we got this. Stay calm."
"There is a creek to the west if we want to start organizing a bucket chain." Keyrie calls out just to make sure everyone knows of the creek, then she turns her attention to Jonda still in the cage. "Don't worry buddy we will get you out of here to safety just trust us." She tells her while opening the cage and motioning her to follow. (Because Keyrie is a Firbolg beasts and plants can understand the meaning of her words.)
Animal Handling: 24
Jonda is pacing back and forth when Keyrie arrives. And she calms immediately. Upon hearing Keyrie speak, she bows her head. When the cage opens, the elderly panther comes out, looking up at the Fibolg for direction.
Seeing the smoke begin to rise out of the top of the arena side of the tent, Bazza's face tightens in pained sorrow. "Thirteen years I've worked this circus for Mr. Crowley. Never once did we have a fire," he says with a sigh.
Dog, trying to remember if there are any water buckets or barrels he could grab as he hears shouts of a fire and assuredly sees some smoke, attempts to find one on his way (Investigation 21), grabbing it and bringing toward the noise to throw on any flames he sees.
Dog looks around in a panic. He sees some crates and tarps but rejects these are unworkable. In fact, he sees nothing here that will serve to hold enough water to make it from the creek to the tent.
Dog realizes he is choosing a bad day to have a bad day, and follows FeyTok to try to stamp out the fires with sand and dirt. He does not like smoke so he's going to keep an eye on the air quality to see if he needs to call it and get his compatriots to escape the tent before it burns up with them inside.
"Fire? What caused that?" says Q'wai aloud to no one in particular. He rushes toward the smoke and flames, uncertain of who or what he will see there. If any source of water is on hand nearby, then he seizes it on his way. If not, he'll aid the others in whatever way seems best.
Tock is extremely frightened and joins any crew that is running towards the stream after grabbing a bucket or something like that.
DM shield:
11
21
20
Inside the backstage tent, Q'wai spots the bucket that Tick and Tock use in their act with the crowd. He grabs it as it checks on the fire, seeing a growing blaze taking over the arena. There is a large tear in the tent to the east.
Tock and Kruk also spot some containers. Kruk sees the barrel that is used to collect rainwater, already half full, and points it out out to Tyrol. Tock remembers that one of the wagons was waterproofed with pitch (at E32) a few months back when Mr. Crowley was forced to put up his circus more than a mile from the nearest water source.
All:
We will use the chase rules for running to and from the creek to the west. Speed will be halved if someone is carrying more than a bucket of water while running. The creek is exactly 500 feet from the western wall of the circus tent, but I won't be putting this on a map. If anyone choose to run the distance, we'll just keep track of the distance.
(Tock and Tyrol may still take an action or move.)