The clearing looks calm, the deer standing in the treeline encircling the small clearing don't make a single movement, Neferox growls at them but stays in place.
Turning to look upward Neferox gives a short bark and in the tree above the group sits a familiar humanoid, red skinned with horns sprouting from its head, Gewyn looks up at another Gewyn, who similarly looks back, suddenly there are three more Gewyn's in the tree and they each fall landing amongst the group, five Gewyns in total.
The deer around the clearing suddenly make a move toward the group.
Gewyn sees himself in the tree, and then down at the barking Nef. His gaze shifts over to Vin standing beside them and gives him a blank look, head cocked.
Then in a flash of steel his hand flicks up with a deftness that seems uncharacteristic for him in a battle, and a dagger tip thrusts toward Vin's throat.
Neferox jumps to action in defence of Vin unleashing two ferocious bite attacks at the Bard who has been in your group for so long. (to hit, 19 & 22, dealing a cumulative 27 bludgeoning damage) after his assault Gewyn hits the floor and starts bleeding profusely from his torso, the other Gewyns who descended from the trees begin laughing maniacally.
Iver leaps back as the Gewyns descend from the tree, he immediately lashes out at the closest one, swinging with his shortsword his reactions keen and his strike hits true. The Gewyn he hits disapates into floating light destroyed. Iver then lifts his shield in preparation.
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Vin was completely caught off guard by the sudden attack that was aimed at his throat and it looked like something terrible was about to happen to the boy; however, there is a sudden field of shadowy every around his neck as the dagger tries to pierce his life the shadows seem to gather and protect the boy from any damage at all. Vin stumbles back wide eyed and confused as he suddenly sees a bunch of different Gewyns.
In his confusion Neferox viciously leaps at the one that attacked him and mauls them to the point they are just bleeding on the ground and then barks at the others. Vin seems to snap out of their confusion after the bark and positions themselves so the deer are not as close to him and with a tree at his back as he blasts one of the Gewyns.
Just before he strikes with magical energy he sees Iver cut through one that simply vanishes. He seems to get the idea that some are illusions and wanting to help identify the real threats quickly he switches tactics instead of focusing on one now Vin attacks two of them. One blast of eldrich energy at 1 and 5.
As Vin throws his forceful blasts at the mass of Gewyns, they seem to shuffle around on the spot, his first attack hits another fake and it dissipates like the previous one, His second shot however hits a Gewyn who takes the damage and seethes with anger as it continues to shuffle back and forth magically between itself and its last standing counterpart.
Muir raises an eye at Gewyn attacking Vin and quickly looks around for someone of something controlling him but before he could a Gewyn junps down between him and Sam. He reaches into bag for some thorns and squeezes them tightly muttering in Druidic casting Thorn Whip (onG4).
Again the strike hits something solid, the form does not dissipate, the gewyn turns to scowl at Muir as a slash across its face forms on both the standing Gewyns', they continue to shuffle back and forth obscuring which of the remaining creatures is real.
Elthana watches in disbelief as the scene rolls out in front of her. She has a hard time believing that the Gewyn she knows attacked Vin, but as the others dissipate and the two now share a scar, she thinks she has an idea...
"Guys, our Gewyn is dying over there, please save him. He must have been under some sort of spell from the not-deer. It's the only explanation I can think of." and as she communicates this, she runs at G4 and tries to kick him. If she succeeds, she will employ her stunning strike.
The Gewyn hit stops still, the second one does the same, both are seemingly stunned, locked in position, but there is still a blur of movement between them, both are still but somehow swapping positions magically.
The Crazed deer are fast, moving through the clearing and picking out their adversaries decisively, one heads straight for vin antlers down for a gore attack but misses where it was aiming when its head was up, three surround Neferox, beating her back and forth with varying degrees of success. Elthana is likewise flanked, but similar to Vin the deer find their attacks in vain, same with the one deer who tries their luck with Sam. Finally Iver fends off an attack with his shield. Two deer are still a short distance away, but inbound and frothing at the mouths.
Sam’s eyes bulge wide as he sees Gewyn thrust a dagger towards Vin.“Wha…?” Almost simultaneously a band of shadow-looking something or other forms and blocks the blow…
Sam notices something falling from the trees.Shapes?People?More deer?? Sam pays too little attention to even know, his focus is instead honed on one thing only…Neferox.
Neferox unleashed two ferocious bites into Gewyn, large vicious jaws tearing away flesh and sinew and gods only knew what else…As Sam’s eyes narrow in fury, as his hands choke up into position on his maul, all Sam can see if Neferox of the bloody jaws… and the body of Gewyn hit the ground at the beasts feat.Lifeless.
—-
“I will protect my pack from others within the pack as well. Got it? You go after anyone in my pack, you best come for me first. My line to you? You don't start a thing, there won't be a thing. But you start a thing? I will end you..."
Had that really been just earlier this day?Sam had never thought it would come to this so quickly…he actually kind of liked the beast.Still, he also suspected from the first that it might come to this…And here we are.
—-
Sam moves as directly to Neferox as possible, shoving Elthana aside to move north and the stepping Northeast to be besides the beast, paying no heed to the opening for attack this may leave to other creatures Sam barely even registers in his fury. (D10 AoO for first north move, G4 and D8 for them moving NE I believe…)
Without a word spoken or curse spat, Sam first grows in size (last Giant’s Might used) and then takes one, then a second, swing of his maul at Neferox…
(On first attack that hits (if either) Sam does an extra D6 damage for Giant’s might and pushes Neferox 5’ SW.Sam then moves West (protectively standing over Gewyn’s body) before second swing or ending action…will roll through character sheet and post after this the results…1s + 2s on damage dies reroll due to Great Weapon fighting style…)
The flickering Gewyn (G4) standing before Elthana remains frozen in place, blood trailing down his face both from a diagonal gash left by the thorn whip and from a nose freshly broken by Elthana's boot. As the stunning ki begins to wear off, the Gewyn's bloody and blurred features land briefly on a pained expression. Through a locked jaw just starting to regain its function, Gewyn stammers "N-not...y-y-" before both standing Gewyns, still flickering, fall forward onto their knees and collapse face-first.
At that moment, the heavily wounded Gewyn beside Nef (G2) snaps his eyes open, rolls over his shoulder to his feet, braces, and then sprints at Elthana with dagger bared, slashing twice at an opening at her back made by one of the attacking deer.
Despite the massive man trying to bash the head in of the protective dog. Neferox isnt one to lose sight of their prey easily and wont let them get away from trying to harm Vin. As the Gewyn near them tries to move away and attack Elthana Nef notices them and makes a quick snarling bite towards them. Her big form may seem clunky but as the two notice she isn't not slow or clumsy. The deer take advantage of the fact that she is fighting on multiple fronts fronts though and manage to bash into her with several slamming antlers.
Attack of opportunity Bite: 27 Damage: 19 on the triggering Gewyn
She tries to get a sense of the melee but its diffuclt to decern the rral threats being surrounded by mad deer and an angry man. She snarls at Sam but instead of attacking him she tries to open up her options before dealing with him. She attacks at two of the deer surrounding her, trying to cut down their numbers and allow her the ability to get to Vin if they need it.
Attack Bite 1:: 23 Damage: 15 on a deer.
Attack Bite 2: 13 Damage: 16 same deer if still up otherwise new deer.
As nef lands a solid strike on the Gewyn who just sprung back up, she rounds on two of the three deer who have ger surrounded, felling the eastern and northern ones easily,
Iver runs around the deer in front of him taking an attack of opportunity from it as he sidles up to the side of Sam, the attack misses, as does his attack on the deer to the west of Neferox, he interjects his shield slightly between the Half orc and the hound, "get it together you two, we need to figure out what's going on, infighting only helps whatever this thing is!" He snarls at the pair, obviously angry and frustrated at the lack of battle tactics going on.
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Vin still seems confused and looks between Nef and Sam as Iver gets in-between the two. Vin seems relieved more then anything but also sees the gewyns still attacking. He doesn't know what's going on but he knows that the Not-deer is here. Neferox was certain of it. She's busy right now she Vin just follows her orders and continues to fight the Gewyns.
The single deer in front of Vin disrupting his casting so he moves out of range of its antlers trying to slam into him provoking an attack of opportunity. Once out of melee he tries to blast the many gewyns again. Not targeting the one Nef attacked as she can probably handle that one.
Eldrich Blast Attack 1: 10 Damage: 11
Eldrich Blast Attack 2: 25 Damage: 7
"Ummm, I don't know if he's under a spell but Neferox says he's dangerous and smells similar to the not-deer." He doesn't seem certain about his course of action but to anyone with a semi-good insight they would probably figure out he's being told what to do.
Muir watches the mayhem around. The deer charged, the little one becoming hexed or showing his true nature, Sam attacking the dog, who Muir suspects is something more than just a Warlock’s familiar and Iver getting between Sam and the dog. Muir decides he and Elthana need some allies while the others fight. Suddenly 8 glowing eyes appear from the woods. Muir commands them in druidic to attack the deer and Gewyn. The panthers begins their pounce attack with their claws (4 Panthers pouncing).
Elthana screams as the Gewyn attacks her on the back, his daggers sinking in deep. She quickly takes a breath and dodges the deer that then flank her trying to take her out with their antlers.
Unsure of the best plan of attack, Muir creates panthers out of thin air, who is this guy?, and the cats take out the deer that are flanking her, giving her the opportunity to attack the one that surely can't be Gewyn. There is no way their Gewyn would have gotten up after that attack by Neferox. The realization dawns on her... she just took out her friend.
Anger courses through her veins as she goes to attack the one that must be the not-deer. Again, if one of her furious blows hit the fake Gewyn, he will be stunned if he fails a CON save of 14 (I think I missed that part earlier, sorry)
As four of the deer (2,8,9,10) are mauled, pounced on, and essentially decimated by the panthers, called forth by Muir. The other deer set about their targets.
Two of the deer (3,6) move to sandwich Neferox once more one attacking with a gore and one a bite. Iver moves to intercept with his shield causing the first deer (3) to have to dodge around, but it still hits its mark, the second deer isn't so successful.
Deer (7) finally makes it to the party, moving to flank Elthana with her other attacker, it catches her in her ribs with a fire attack as she faces Gewyn, tearing at the wounds she has already received.
The final deer (1) chases down Vin jumping at him and striking him unawares with its antlers, battering at him with ferocity.
The clearing looks calm, the deer standing in the treeline encircling the small clearing don't make a single movement, Neferox growls at them but stays in place.
Turning to look upward Neferox gives a short bark and in the tree above the group sits a familiar humanoid, red skinned with horns sprouting from its head, Gewyn looks up at another Gewyn, who similarly looks back, suddenly there are three more Gewyn's in the tree and they each fall landing amongst the group, five Gewyns in total.
The deer around the clearing suddenly make a move toward the group.
Roll initiative!
Gewyn sees himself in the tree, and then down at the barking Nef. His gaze shifts over to Vin standing beside them and gives him a blank look, head cocked.
Then in a flash of steel his hand flicks up with a deftness that seems uncharacteristic for him in a battle, and a dagger tip thrusts toward Vin's throat.
Attack: 19
Damage: 5
Neferox jumps to action in defence of Vin unleashing two ferocious bite attacks at the Bard who has been in your group for so long. (to hit, 19 & 22, dealing a cumulative 27 bludgeoning damage) after his assault Gewyn hits the floor and starts bleeding profusely from his torso, the other Gewyns who descended from the trees begin laughing maniacally.
Iver leaps back as the Gewyns descend from the tree, he immediately lashes out at the closest one, swinging with his shortsword his reactions keen and his strike hits true. The Gewyn he hits disapates into floating light destroyed. Iver then lifts his shield in preparation.
Vin was completely caught off guard by the sudden attack that was aimed at his throat and it looked like something terrible was about to happen to the boy; however, there is a sudden field of shadowy every around his neck as the dagger tries to pierce his life the shadows seem to gather and protect the boy from any damage at all. Vin stumbles back wide eyed and confused as he suddenly sees a bunch of different Gewyns.
In his confusion Neferox viciously leaps at the one that attacked him and mauls them to the point they are just bleeding on the ground and then barks at the others. Vin seems to snap out of their confusion after the bark and positions themselves so the deer are not as close to him and with a tree at his back as he blasts one of the Gewyns.
Just before he strikes with magical energy he sees Iver cut through one that simply vanishes. He seems to get the idea that some are illusions and wanting to help identify the real threats quickly he switches tactics instead of focusing on one now Vin attacks two of them. One blast of eldrich energy at 1 and 5.
Eldrich Blast Attack: 24 Damage: 10
Eldrich Blast Attack: 26 Damage: 8
As Vin throws his forceful blasts at the mass of Gewyns, they seem to shuffle around on the spot, his first attack hits another fake and it dissipates like the previous one, His second shot however hits a Gewyn who takes the damage and seethes with anger as it continues to shuffle back and forth magically between itself and its last standing counterpart.
Muir raises an eye at Gewyn attacking Vin and quickly looks around for someone of something controlling him but before he could a Gewyn junps down between him and Sam. He reaches into bag for some thorns and squeezes them tightly muttering in Druidic casting Thorn Whip (onG4).
Hit 16
damage 8
Again the strike hits something solid, the form does not dissipate, the gewyn turns to scowl at Muir as a slash across its face forms on both the standing Gewyns', they continue to shuffle back and forth obscuring which of the remaining creatures is real.
Elthana watches in disbelief as the scene rolls out in front of her. She has a hard time believing that the Gewyn she knows attacked Vin, but as the others dissipate and the two now share a scar, she thinks she has an idea...
"Guys, our Gewyn is dying over there, please save him. He must have been under some sort of spell from the not-deer. It's the only explanation I can think of." and as she communicates this, she runs at G4 and tries to kick him. If she succeeds, she will employ her stunning strike.
Attack: 26 Damage: 10
The Gewyn hit stops still, the second one does the same, both are seemingly stunned, locked in position, but there is still a blur of movement between them, both are still but somehow swapping positions magically.
The Crazed deer are fast, moving through the clearing and picking out their adversaries decisively, one heads straight for vin antlers down for a gore attack but misses where it was aiming when its head was up, three surround Neferox, beating her back and forth with varying degrees of success. Elthana is likewise flanked, but similar to Vin the deer find their attacks in vain, same with the one deer who tries their luck with Sam. Finally Iver fends off an attack with his shield. Two deer are still a short distance away, but inbound and frothing at the mouths.
Sam’s eyes bulge wide as he sees Gewyn thrust a dagger towards Vin. “Wha…?” Almost simultaneously a band of shadow-looking something or other forms and blocks the blow…
Sam notices something falling from the trees. Shapes? People? More deer?? Sam pays too little attention to even know, his focus is instead honed on one thing only… Neferox.
Neferox unleashed two ferocious bites into Gewyn, large vicious jaws tearing away flesh and sinew and gods only knew what else… As Sam’s eyes narrow in fury, as his hands choke up into position on his maul, all Sam can see if Neferox of the bloody jaws… and the body of Gewyn hit the ground at the beasts feat. Lifeless.
—-
“I will protect my pack from others within the pack as well. Got it? You go after anyone in my pack, you best come for me first. My line to you? You don't start a thing, there won't be a thing. But you start a thing? I will end you..."
Had that really been just earlier this day? Sam had never thought it would come to this so quickly… he actually kind of liked the beast. Still, he also suspected from the first that it might come to this… And here we are.
—-
Sam moves as directly to Neferox as possible, shoving Elthana aside to move north and the stepping Northeast to be besides the beast, paying no heed to the opening for attack this may leave to other creatures Sam barely even registers in his fury. (D10 AoO for first north move, G4 and D8 for them moving NE I believe…)
Without a word spoken or curse spat, Sam first grows in size (last Giant’s Might used) and then takes one, then a second, swing of his maul at Neferox…
(On first attack that hits (if either) Sam does an extra D6 damage for Giant’s might and pushes Neferox 5’ SW. Sam then moves West (protectively standing over Gewyn’s body) before second swing or ending action… will roll through character sheet and post after this the results… 1s + 2s on damage dies reroll due to Great Weapon fighting style…)
((LoL, a 12 and a 13 to hit Neferox… I suspect those both miss so I won’t bother breaking down damage and such less they somehow do hit…))
The flickering Gewyn (G4) standing before Elthana remains frozen in place, blood trailing down his face both from a diagonal gash left by the thorn whip and from a nose freshly broken by Elthana's boot. As the stunning ki begins to wear off, the Gewyn's bloody and blurred features land briefly on a pained expression. Through a locked jaw just starting to regain its function, Gewyn stammers "N-not...y-y-" before both standing Gewyns, still flickering, fall forward onto their knees and collapse face-first.
At that moment, the heavily wounded Gewyn beside Nef (G2) snaps his eyes open, rolls over his shoulder to his feet, braces, and then sprints at Elthana with dagger bared, slashing twice at an opening at her back made by one of the attacking deer.
First attack: Hit 19, Damage 10
Second attack: Hit 24, Damage 6
Despite the massive man trying to bash the head in of the protective dog. Neferox isnt one to lose sight of their prey easily and wont let them get away from trying to harm Vin. As the Gewyn near them tries to move away and attack Elthana Nef notices them and makes a quick snarling bite towards them. Her big form may seem clunky but as the two notice she isn't not slow or clumsy. The deer take advantage of the fact that she is fighting on multiple fronts fronts though and manage to bash into her with several slamming antlers.
Attack of opportunity Bite: 27 Damage: 19 on the triggering Gewyn
She tries to get a sense of the melee but its diffuclt to decern the rral threats being surrounded by mad deer and an angry man. She snarls at Sam but instead of attacking him she tries to open up her options before dealing with him. She attacks at two of the deer surrounding her, trying to cut down their numbers and allow her the ability to get to Vin if they need it.
Attack Bite 1:: 23 Damage: 15 on a deer.
Attack Bite 2: 13 Damage: 16 same deer if still up otherwise new deer.
As nef lands a solid strike on the Gewyn who just sprung back up, she rounds on two of the three deer who have ger surrounded, felling the eastern and northern ones easily,
Iver runs around the deer in front of him taking an attack of opportunity from it as he sidles up to the side of Sam, the attack misses, as does his attack on the deer to the west of Neferox, he interjects his shield slightly between the Half orc and the hound, "get it together you two, we need to figure out what's going on, infighting only helps whatever this thing is!" He snarls at the pair, obviously angry and frustrated at the lack of battle tactics going on.
Vin still seems confused and looks between Nef and Sam as Iver gets in-between the two. Vin seems relieved more then anything but also sees the gewyns still attacking. He doesn't know what's going on but he knows that the Not-deer is here. Neferox was certain of it. She's busy right now she Vin just follows her orders and continues to fight the Gewyns.
The single deer in front of Vin disrupting his casting so he moves out of range of its antlers trying to slam into him provoking an attack of opportunity. Once out of melee he tries to blast the many gewyns again. Not targeting the one Nef attacked as she can probably handle that one.
Eldrich Blast Attack 1: 10 Damage: 11
Eldrich Blast Attack 2: 25 Damage: 7
"Ummm, I don't know if he's under a spell but Neferox says he's dangerous and smells similar to the not-deer." He doesn't seem certain about his course of action but to anyone with a semi-good insight they would probably figure out he's being told what to do.
Muir watches the mayhem around. The deer charged, the little one becoming hexed or showing his true nature, Sam attacking the dog, who Muir suspects is something more than just a Warlock’s familiar and Iver getting between Sam and the dog. Muir decides he and Elthana need some allies while the others fight. Suddenly 8 glowing eyes appear from the woods. Muir commands them in druidic to attack the deer and Gewyn. The panthers begins their pounce attack with their claws (4 Panthers pouncing).
Elthana screams as the Gewyn attacks her on the back, his daggers sinking in deep. She quickly takes a breath and dodges the deer that then flank her trying to take her out with their antlers.
Unsure of the best plan of attack, Muir creates panthers out of thin air, who is this guy?, and the cats take out the deer that are flanking her, giving her the opportunity to attack the one that surely can't be Gewyn. There is no way their Gewyn would have gotten up after that attack by Neferox. The realization dawns on her... she just took out her friend.
Anger courses through her veins as she goes to attack the one that must be the not-deer. Again, if one of her furious blows hit the fake Gewyn, he will be stunned if he fails a CON save of 14 (I think I missed that part earlier, sorry)
Attack: 20 Damage: 10
Attack: 14 Damage: 7
Attack: 15 Damage: 7
Breathing hard, "Please, someone help Gewyn!"
As four of the deer (2,8,9,10) are mauled, pounced on, and essentially decimated by the panthers, called forth by Muir. The other deer set about their targets.
Two of the deer (3,6) move to sandwich Neferox once more one attacking with a gore and one a bite. Iver moves to intercept with his shield causing the first deer (3) to have to dodge around, but it still hits its mark, the second deer isn't so successful.
Deer (7) finally makes it to the party, moving to flank Elthana with her other attacker, it catches her in her ribs with a fire attack as she faces Gewyn, tearing at the wounds she has already received.
The final deer (1) chases down Vin jumping at him and striking him unawares with its antlers, battering at him with ferocity.