Crimson Sands of Time

 @Brian_Avery ^ 

<The other orcs are in houses. You can check them uf youbwant, but they cant approach because frightened of dragon.>

You discover another caravan wagon crashed about 40 feet across the bridge as well as the bodies of nine caravaneers, mostly drovers and armed guards riddled with black-fletched poison arrows. A gravely injured middle-aged man lies flat on his back under the wagon on the bridge, breath- ing in shallow gasps due to the wyvern poison coursing through his veins.

The Boccobite cleric who had been hiding behind the toppled statue of Zagig reflexively casts healing magic at the axe-struck Tetrevess.

cure wounds for  9 hp

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"Thank you for the healing...   These Orcs are tougher than most..". Tetrevess looks at the axe blankly, and starts another spell..

Players are still up.

<I thought i replied about the warding bond. I saod it shoukd have ended b_c >60ft apart, but ignore that and keep it.>

The orcs are attacking, just not you. Tbeyre in the houses excwpt the ine who just acted, so.. plauers are up.

Tetrevess again launches a firebolt at the orc who injured him.  29 to hit,  23 damage.  "I said surrrender!". He yells. 

If the orc is still standing, he uses his bonus action to telekinetic ahove (DC 20 str) the orc 5' (off the bridge, back, or ovet something, if possible) 

Trisk will take a quick glance around at his only other companions, Sam and Tetrevess, and have the illusory dragon attack the wyvern and rider again if they still live (and it's another round)???

(the wyvern and orc rider are down, there's a group of maurading orcs attacking villagers)

The aggressive orc (who wouldnt have surendered, anyway) is steu k dead by T's firebolt. 

There are no visible orcs, but several houses with screaming and sounds of violence. Plus that guy lying beside the wagon on the bridge. That ckeric is there, too.

What do you want to do?

Tetrevess looks to the others.  "we need to save the innocents.  I am not sure the fastest way to do this-  any ideas?   

 He rushes to the guy lying beside the wagon to see if he needs healing.  

Can Triskelion see the bodies of the wyvern and it's rider, specifically did the rider have a horn, or was there one strapped to the saddlebags of the wyvern?

"If there's no way to call off the raid we may have to find and kill every one of the orcs. Afterwards the cleric on the bridge may be able to aid those who need it."

A horn? I dont follow. He had a nice sickle, a set of daggers, a cloak and what look like a set of goggles on his head. If you're really rifling through his stuff...

<The fastest way to help the people in the houses is to enter the houses, I'd reckon.>

The man struggling to breathe on the bridge had a hole in his chest pretty close to the size of the stinger at the end of the wyvern's tail and he looks a most unhealthy shade.

Tetrevess will healing word the man on the bridge for 9 HP to stabilize him, then will head for the nearest house, using Sacred flame (as it ignores cover) on any orc he sees there:  18 HP Dex DC 20 to avoid. 

Ricard is at 14hp

Con save 8 (DC15) for 15 poison damage

(He'll live)

The orc takes a blast of fire to the chest, but rallies and fires back with a heavy crossbow 21 for 6 piercing 6

(20) a man and woman cower nearby, with him holding a pan and her a fire-poker, poised to defend themselves as best they can from the brutish home invader.

Trisk will enter a different house with screams coming from inside it.

Players are up. Anyone following T, helping the dying guy? Looking through the fallen orcs' stuff? Searxhing ither houses (there are noises coming from a few)? 

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Trisk will enter a different house with screams coming from inside it.

 How many houses are left that we hear screaming coming from?

<sorry, missed crosspost.>

It's pretty chaotic, screams issue from swveral of the homes, but maybe the worst of it is the houses that are dead quiet. 

A woman screaming as she kneels beside the staw pallets on the floor, cradling the dead man lying covered in blood, sprawled before her.  

<theres only like one orc left, this encointer is basically over.  It was meant to last longer but you were so efficient the interesri g monsters died and now youre just left with the mooks, eho couldnt really assist in the face of the frightening dragon.  We can just call it and see what the NPCs say>

Sam will walk over to the ones who our living “what happend here”