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Phodoxia watches aghast at the battle, and then launches herself into the fray, rushing towards Eldeth and the drow she's engaged with. Skirting furtively around them, she draws her daggers and tries to come in behind to the drow, unseen, lashing out with both weapons.
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Phodoxia's first attack with the dagger lands true. You're able to find an opening in his chain shirt and plunge the dagger in deep. The drow falls to the ground motionless.
Buppido re-loads his crossbow and fires at the other drow
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Vethna, hidden from the drow, lifts her hand crossbow and fires. She does not believe that they woudl surrender, or, if they did, that they wouldn't escape and bring other drow back with them. She also has no wish to be hauling prisoners aorund with them. Lifting her crossbow she simply fires at the drow, then slips into deeper darknes to hide once more... Attack: 23 Damage: 10 Sneak Attack Damage: 4 Hide: 10
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Tanis tries to stealthily return to his rear scouting position to check for pursuit from that direction and continue to erase tracks. He wants to make a point about these 2 drow scouts and an even more important point to (and about) Buppido and how we should handle stealth, but we need to make sure we are safe for the moment first.
Tanis, as a scout, is so incensed at Buppido's behavior that he is distracted and does a poor job himself. In his anger, he does use a bonus action to switch his Hunters Mark to Buppido, though he does not attack (yet).
[OOC: can you explain the location we are in again? For some reason I have it in my head that there is a cliff nearby or a drop off or something, Vrah is confused. :) ]
It was a vertical shaft, but you guys are at the bottom. Passages enter from a number of different directions. The space at the bottom is 40 to 50 feet wide with boulders scattered about.
Tanis muses to the group if the coast is clear: "Not that it matters, but those two drow may have been looking for other runaway slaves, not us. Ilvara and her cronies could not have missed the fact that we raided her armory and recovered our own gear. Anyone sent by her would not be surprised by the fact that we are equipped and armed as these two drow scouts seemed to be."
(Still maintaining concentration on Hunter's Mark on Buppido for next 59 minutes).
Shoowaa will help move the bodies and replies to Tanis “I am just glad that they were unequipped. But um maybe she did not want it to be known that slaves raided the armoury, as it would look bad on her? I don’t know.”
Shoowaa gently taps Buppido’s shoulder “Hey next time can you not yell? There could have beeen many drow to find our location, and we were preparing an ambush. Ambushes are best when quiet.”
Vethna moves to the bodies and quickly removes their gear and would lay it out where the others can pick anything they might wish. The drow appear to be wearing chain shirts, and using melee weapons. Any rations, waterskins, and such she would make sure to lay out separately. Then she would help move the bodies somewhere out of the way. "Take what you want from that lot." Vethna would tell the others, after taking a look through whatever there is herself as well.
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Phodoxia breathes a sigh of relief when the drow go silent. Her nerves are jumping around, muscles tense. She does not want to be recaptured, especially not by Ilvara. She cleans off her dagger using a piece of cloth from the dead drow's clothing and resheathes it, but ignores the items Vethna is laying out to be rifled through.
"Yeah, please don't yell," she adds to Buppido, seconding Shoowaa's request. Then she creeps around the cavern, peering up the shaft and into the various passageways, around the boulders, trying to see or hear anything or anyone else that might be nearby without being seen, herself.
Buppido comes over to the bodies "No yelling! No yelling! Blah, blah, blah... Looting the bodies is the clearest way of showing our former captors that these two were killed by escaped prisoners. We need them to have been killed by a wild creature." He stomps through the items taken off the bodies and kicks them around the chamber. Then he pulls out the arrow and crossbow bolt and takes out his dagger and begins slashing viscously at the bodies, even trying to dismember them. He's laughing as he does so.
Sarith comes forward to Vethna and Eldeth, looking at Buppido with concern. "We need to get as far away from here as we can. It's that passage we should take." He points to one up a short rise to the right.
"The no yelling part is so that if there is a larger party of drow nearby, as there often are with scouts, they don't come rushing and we can still evade them," Tanis says, as calmly as he can, while attempting to recover his arrow before Buppido stomps all over it.
Phodoxia, not finding anything on her excursion, comes back to the group and stands for a minute to watch Buppido hacking at the corpses. "We should just leave now," she agrees, ignoring her rising frustration at the derro. "Let's go that way." She points to the passage that Sarith indicated.
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Phodoxia, you're up.
Then back to the top of the order with Vethna. Then Buppido, Kisiki, Tanis, Eldeth, Shoowaa, Drow 1, Vrah, Drow 2, Petmailer.
For status, one drow is entangled. It was hit and wounded by Tanis with an arrow. It hasn't freed itself and is still entangled.
The non-entangled one was struck by Eldeth's warhammer and is engaged with her.
Those of you who can speak undercommon hear one Drow say to the other:
"I thought these were escaped slaves! Where did they get weapons and equipment??!!"
Phodoxia watches aghast at the battle, and then launches herself into the fray, rushing towards Eldeth and the drow she's engaged with. Skirting furtively around them, she draws her daggers and tries to come in behind to the drow, unseen, lashing out with both weapons.
Action:
Attack main hand: 10
Damage: 7
Bonus Action:
Attack off hand: 24
Damage: 2
Sneak Attack damage (if applicable): 3
Phodoxia's first attack with the dagger lands true. You're able to find an opening in his chain shirt and plunge the dagger in deep. The drow falls to the ground motionless.
Buppido re-loads his crossbow and fires at the other drow
Attack: 21 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll.
3
With an arrow and a crossbow bolt sticking out of him and tangled in the vines, the drow shouts in undercommon
I surrender! Hold your fire.
Vethna, hidden from the drow, lifts her hand crossbow and fires. She does not believe that they woudl surrender, or, if they did, that they wouldn't escape and bring other drow back with them. She also has no wish to be hauling prisoners aorund with them. Lifting her crossbow she simply fires at the drow, then slips into deeper darknes to hide once more...
Attack: 23 Damage: 10 Sneak Attack Damage: 4
Hide: 10
With that, the second Drow goes down.
Petmailer moves quickly and quietly as he can to move the bodies, trying to shove them into a hidden place, whispering to the others to hide again.
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Tanis tries to stealthily return to his rear scouting position to check for pursuit from that direction and continue to erase tracks. He wants to make a point about these 2 drow scouts and an even more important point to (and about) Buppido and how we should handle stealth, but we need to make sure we are safe for the moment first.
Stealth: 25
Perception: 8
Survival: 11
Tanis, as a scout, is so incensed at Buppido's behavior that he is distracted and does a poor job himself. In his anger, he does use a bonus action to switch his Hunters Mark to Buppido, though he does not attack (yet).
That derro will be the end of us.
Tanis(Ranger1): Shiverquill's Tempest City | Xarian(Fighter2): NioNSwiper's Tyranny of Dragons
Dyson/Eleo(TwilightCleric4): Vos' Beyond the Veil | Soren(ShepherdDruid5): Bartjeebus' Ravenloft | Ophelia(WildMagicSorcerer4): Ashen_Age's Risen from the Sands
Joren(EchoKnightFighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Sabetha(MercyMonk3): Bedlymn's Murder Court | Seri(NatureCleric3/DivineSoulSorcerer1): Bartjeebus' Greyhawk
[OOC: can you explain the location we are in again? For some reason I have it in my head that there is a cliff nearby or a drop off or something, Vrah is confused. :) ]
It was a vertical shaft, but you guys are at the bottom. Passages enter from a number of different directions. The space at the bottom is 40 to 50 feet wide with boulders scattered about.
Tanis muses to the group if the coast is clear: "Not that it matters, but those two drow may have been looking for other runaway slaves, not us. Ilvara and her cronies could not have missed the fact that we raided her armory and recovered our own gear. Anyone sent by her would not be surprised by the fact that we are equipped and armed as these two drow scouts seemed to be."
(Still maintaining concentration on Hunter's Mark on Buppido for next 59 minutes).
Tanis(Ranger1): Shiverquill's Tempest City | Xarian(Fighter2): NioNSwiper's Tyranny of Dragons
Dyson/Eleo(TwilightCleric4): Vos' Beyond the Veil | Soren(ShepherdDruid5): Bartjeebus' Ravenloft | Ophelia(WildMagicSorcerer4): Ashen_Age's Risen from the Sands
Joren(EchoKnightFighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Sabetha(MercyMonk3): Bedlymn's Murder Court | Seri(NatureCleric3/DivineSoulSorcerer1): Bartjeebus' Greyhawk
Petmailer stays quiet after moving the bodies, pausing to listen for any movement, conversations, or sounds of others still tracking them.
Perception : 9
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Shoowaa will help move the bodies and replies to Tanis “I am just glad that they were unequipped. But um maybe she did not want it to be known that slaves raided the armoury, as it would look bad on her? I don’t know.”
Shoowaa gently taps Buppido’s shoulder “Hey next time can you not yell? There could have beeen many drow to find our location, and we were preparing an ambush. Ambushes are best when quiet.”
Vethna moves to the bodies and quickly removes their gear and would lay it out where the others can pick anything they might wish. The drow appear to be wearing chain shirts, and using melee weapons. Any rations, waterskins, and such she would make sure to lay out separately. Then she would help move the bodies somewhere out of the way.
"Take what you want from that lot." Vethna would tell the others, after taking a look through whatever there is herself as well.
Phodoxia breathes a sigh of relief when the drow go silent. Her nerves are jumping around, muscles tense. She does not want to be recaptured, especially not by Ilvara. She cleans off her dagger using a piece of cloth from the dead drow's clothing and resheathes it, but ignores the items Vethna is laying out to be rifled through.
"Yeah, please don't yell," she adds to Buppido, seconding Shoowaa's request. Then she creeps around the cavern, peering up the shaft and into the various passageways, around the boulders, trying to see or hear anything or anyone else that might be nearby without being seen, herself.
Perception: 6
Stealth: 27
Buppido comes over to the bodies "No yelling! No yelling! Blah, blah, blah... Looting the bodies is the clearest way of showing our former captors that these two were killed by escaped prisoners. We need them to have been killed by a wild creature." He stomps through the items taken off the bodies and kicks them around the chamber. Then he pulls out the arrow and crossbow bolt and takes out his dagger and begins slashing viscously at the bodies, even trying to dismember them. He's laughing as he does so.
Sarith comes forward to Vethna and Eldeth, looking at Buppido with concern. "We need to get as far away from here as we can. It's that passage we should take." He points to one up a short rise to the right.
"The no yelling part is so that if there is a larger party of drow nearby, as there often are with scouts, they don't come rushing and we can still evade them," Tanis says, as calmly as he can, while attempting to recover his arrow before Buppido stomps all over it.
I should kill him. Right now.
Tanis(Ranger1): Shiverquill's Tempest City | Xarian(Fighter2): NioNSwiper's Tyranny of Dragons
Dyson/Eleo(TwilightCleric4): Vos' Beyond the Veil | Soren(ShepherdDruid5): Bartjeebus' Ravenloft | Ophelia(WildMagicSorcerer4): Ashen_Age's Risen from the Sands
Joren(EchoKnightFighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Sabetha(MercyMonk3): Bedlymn's Murder Court | Seri(NatureCleric3/DivineSoulSorcerer1): Bartjeebus' Greyhawk
Phodoxia, not finding anything on her excursion, comes back to the group and stands for a minute to watch Buppido hacking at the corpses. "We should just leave now," she agrees, ignoring her rising frustration at the derro. "Let's go that way." She points to the passage that Sarith indicated.