The fire scorches the wolf’s side as it bites at Rweni. The other wolves rush forth near the entrance but are strained to reach Paren. Meanwhile, the goblins scrabble craftily into ranged positions before letting arrows fly.
An arrow sticks into Rweni’s shoulder and Paren’s thigh. The wolf below Paren’s embankment loses its footing and fails to catch him in its teeth, and the one in front of Rweni snaps its jaws short of her. But a javelin from the bugbear boss stabs into her side.
”You’ve lost this fight!” the bugbear roars. “Surrender, and we’ll be nice. We won’t even break you before we hand you over to the Spider!”
Rweni drops to a knee when the arrow catches her in the shoulder, but then gasps and collapses as the javelin finds its mark into her side. She looks back to Feu, fear in her eyes and shakes her head, ”This is *gasp* bad, Feu. We really *gasp* misjudged their numbers.” She gathers her breath and looks in the direction of the bugbear, “Call them off, *gasp* please. We give up.”
Rweni looks the other direction and below to where Paren would possibly be and again yells out, ”Paren! Are you okay? There’s just too many for us!”.
The half-elf looks back to Feu once more, “I’m scared, Feu. This isn’t how it should be…”
“You and Sildar need to find a way to hide or escape.” Rweni continues between intermittent gasps. “I might try to jump into that river below us. I might be able to use an old wood-elf trick to mask my escape. But I’ll distract them from you.”
Rweni looks to the water below hoping it is deep enough to cushion her fall and thinks hard on whether to do it or not. “If this goes South, please come back for Paren and me?”
(OOC- This is a tough position. Anyone got any ideas? At most that I might be able to pull off is distract those near Feu and myself with a cantrip (if it works) and maybe escape in the river below if the fall doesn’t kill me. I can use “Mask of the Wild” to possibly hide in the water. But that’s not a sure thing. My other thought is that if Paren and Feu can somehow disengage and escape out, though that still leaves Sildar in danger and isolated. What a pickle!)
(If it makes a difference, the bugbear boss hinted that they don’t plan to kill you, even if they fight you until you’re at 0 HP, just as they haven’t killed Sildar.)
(I’d rather avoid adding another player. The party will be bolstered with NPCs in the future, most likely.)
(On a hopefully encouraging note, I’m not out to kill the party lol. I think this will be our most interesting scene yet since we have hit our first big obstacle.)
(Understood and no complaints here. Yes, All I can keep thinking is my Dad mimicking the old Adam West Batman TV show “to be continued” endings whenever we find ourselves in a family predicament. Good way to de-stress an already stressful situation).
(Rweni is up. A round is six seconds, so we don’t have time to say much else unless surrender comes first to stop the attacks. Of course, you can always try other things besides surrender or fighting.)
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(Yeah, attack away.)
Rweni quickly digs into her pouch and hurls a magic stone at the wolf
Magic Stone Attack: 18 Damage: 6
The wolf leaps sideways out of its trajectory.
(Feu is up unless Rweni has a bonus action.)
(ooc- nope. I’m out)
Feu will move up to 15 ft, just behind Rweni and cast Fire Bolt, targeting the wolf.
Attack: 18
Damage: 8
The fire scorches the wolf’s side as it bites at Rweni. The other wolves rush forth near the entrance but are strained to reach Paren. Meanwhile, the goblins scrabble craftily into ranged positions before letting arrows fly.
An arrow sticks into Rweni’s shoulder and Paren’s thigh. The wolf below Paren’s embankment loses its footing and fails to catch him in its teeth, and the one in front of Rweni snaps its jaws short of her. But a javelin from the bugbear boss stabs into her side.
”You’ve lost this fight!” the bugbear roars. “Surrender, and we’ll be nice. We won’t even break you before we hand you over to the Spider!”
(Rweni drops to 1 HP. Paren drops to 4 HP.)
(Top of the round! You can keep fighting on your turn or try something else. Paren is up!)
Rweni drops to a knee when the arrow catches her in the shoulder, but then gasps and collapses as the javelin finds its mark into her side. She looks back to Feu, fear in her eyes and shakes her head, ”This is *gasp* bad, Feu. We really *gasp* misjudged their numbers.” She gathers her breath and looks in the direction of the bugbear, “Call them off, *gasp* please. We give up.”
Rweni looks the other direction and below to where Paren would possibly be and again yells out, ”Paren! Are you okay? There’s just too many for us!”.
The half-elf looks back to Feu once more, “I’m scared, Feu. This isn’t how it should be…”
“You and Sildar need to find a way to hide or escape.” Rweni continues between intermittent gasps. “I might try to jump into that river below us. I might be able to use an old wood-elf trick to mask my escape. But I’ll distract them from you.”
Rweni looks to the water below hoping it is deep enough to cushion her fall and thinks hard on whether to do it or not. “If this goes South, please come back for Paren and me?”
(OOC- This is a tough position. Anyone got any ideas? At most that I might be able to pull off is distract those near Feu and myself with a cantrip (if it works) and maybe escape in the river below if the fall doesn’t kill me. I can use “Mask of the Wild” to possibly hide in the water. But that’s not a sure thing. My other thought is that if Paren and Feu can somehow disengage and escape out, though that still leaves Sildar in danger and isolated. What a pickle!)
(If it makes a difference, the bugbear boss hinted that they don’t plan to kill you, even if they fight you until you’re at 0 HP, just as they haven’t killed Sildar.)
(Feu can cast Feather Fall if that helps.)
(OOC- That’s one if the reasons Rweni is giving up. It looks pretty dire, I was looking for an “out” though if anyone else has an idea.)
(That would definitely help. Curious to hear what Paren will do. Is it too much to ask about adding another PC? If not, I understand.)
(I’d rather avoid adding another player. The party will be bolstered with NPCs in the future, most likely.)
(On a hopefully encouraging note, I’m not out to kill the party lol. I think this will be our most interesting scene yet since we have hit our first big obstacle.)
(Understood and no complaints here. Yes, All I can keep thinking is my Dad mimicking the old Adam West Batman TV show “to be continued” endings whenever we find ourselves in a family predicament. Good way to de-stress an already stressful situation).
Paren says "we need to funnel them in. Feu, I'm coming to you"
He disengages and runs back towards Feu.
D&D since 1984
(Rweni is up. A round is six seconds, so we don’t have time to say much else unless surrender comes first to stop the attacks. Of course, you can always try other things besides surrender or fighting.)