Elthana curses under her breath as she hears Nef whimper after the unholy shriek that makes her skin crawl. After a quick glance back to Gewyn and Sam, she heads towards the sound of the dog, plunging head first into the darkness. Feeling around for anything, whether it be friend, or a foe to fight. She finds herself holding her breath as she enters...
“Now what?” Sam snaps as he hears Neferox. Turning away from the carriage he catches a glimpse of the beast plunging into the darkness. He catches Elthana’s eyes for just a moment.. and yep, sure enough she plunges right into the darkness as well.
“Guess I’m headed in,” Sam says as he drops what he was doing and picks his mail up into both hands. As he steps forward he slowly turns into a run, but quickly enlarges. (Bonus action - Giant’s Might) Sam follows, ready to smash…
"Alright, guys! Let's get out of-" Gewyn looks over his shoulder in time to see Elthana disappearing into the dark. "Damn it,"he mutters to himself, weighing his options. Reluctantly, he hops down off the horse, grabbing the bullseye lantern off the front of the carriage and starts running for the darkness as fast as he can.
"Wait! We don't know what we are getting int-" Sam disappears into the darkness as well. He looks around for Vin, but sees no sign of him. "Damn it," Gewyn mutters again, trying his best to steel his resolve.
As each member of the party enters the darkness their sight goes completely black, the inky void obfuscating even their hands in front of their face, Gewyn's bullseye lantern blinks out, even though the warmth and smell of the burning oil tells him that it is still lit.
Perceptions based only on touch and sound, the group muddles forward slightly, ready to attack. Their feet bump into the corpses of animals, the crunch of oddly dried and dead vegetation under their feet serves as a stark contrast to the moist and muddy hoof trodden field outside of the forest line. Nef can be heard around 10ft in front of where the group now stand together growling and fighting with something unseen.
In the darkness Vin can't really tell what is going on. They hear Neferox fighting what they saw just moments before it charged him. Scared and unsure what exactly to do Vin tries to aim high a couple of blasts based on the sound of the fighting. He gathers some of his raw magical energy feeling the globes of power in the palm of his hands he takes note of how it feels. Normally, he's able to see the magic but this time all he can do is feel it. He thinks about what he saw and he thinks about Nef. He aims higher then normal but pauses a bit before unleashing both barrages of power. As he listens to the sounds of the fight and tries to get a sense of where everyone and everything is he picks up on a lot. Its a bit too much information as he's able to focus his mind on his ears completely. He picks up on everyone nearby but as right now all he can do is worry about Nef. Aiming slightly higher then normal the boy unleashes two beams of energy at the sound of the attacker.
Whatever creature that was attacking vin in the darkness, shrieks once more, it's makes the skin crawl and hairs stand on end, from the volume it must only be 10ft Infront of you all, a sickening crunch and a thud comes next as Nef reacts with a pained yelp and a whimper.
Elthana is the next to let out a pained cry. The movement in the inky darkness makes dead leaves continue to crunch underfoot, it is the only lonely reminder that your companions are close by and you are not alone, blind, and facing an unknown enemy.
Those near Elthana hear her attacking something next to her, hearing the thud a couple of times. Then, her footsteps on the dead leaves give away that she is heading East towards the sounds that Nef was making...
"Vin?" Sam calls out in a subdued and whispered shout. "You in this crap?"
"Elthana?" he similarly calls out hearing a brief struggle and then footsteps...
The Half-Orc was hesitant to say much more for fear of giving away his... But wait...
"Vin! Elthana! Talk if you can hear me. Answer me, direct me, tell me a damned children's rhyme. Just keep talking. And listening..." Sam explains, thinking this out as he does so. He feels out tentatively with his maul, adding slowly in the direction he last hear struggle but still hesitant to strike out blindly. "Ways I see it is if I just swing about willy nilly I may strike one of us, and none of us want that, eh? But whoever... whatever is responsible for this unnatural... unnaturalness, well I'm betting they have some way to see us anyway, eh? But maybe if we each keep prattling on, well I won't be able to see you to not smite you down... But if I can hear where you are I know at least not to strike there..."
"Elthana? Vin? Does this make any sense at all?" Sam asks, still feeling about.
So it is that Sam stumbled and probes about (for his turn) trying to follow the direction he hear something, but mostly prattling on and on to try to give away his location to his friends. He's currently quite the large target, he'd rather not take friendly fire.
"I'm over here," Gewyn shouts. "Elthana, worry not. We are coming your way!" He starts playing long clear notes to pierce through the wind and the leaves, letting his allies know where he is as he runs toward where he last heard Elthana cry out. In his other hand, he white-knuckles his dagger, ready to use it in self-defence, but hoping he won't have to.
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Not seeing any reason to remain stealthy Vin yells with panic and fear, "I'm here! Nef is fighting it but... but she needs healing! She can see in this darkness. I think the thing destroyed Ted!"
With declaring his location Vin takes his time to listen to the thing fighting Nef and they take a moment before unleashing another barrage of two blast of raw magical energy. The odd feel of the pulsating power in his hand and wishing he was better at controlling his magic so he could summon even more magic to blast the thing with. Either way he gets closer to the sound of the creature and Nef fighting despite the dog's warning barks and tries to blast it at melee range. He is hoping that it will attack him as Vin absorbed a lot of life energy from a previous attack and Nef taught him how to shield his body with it. "Attack me you crooked antlered freak, leave my dog alone!"
Hearing that the fog is actively fighting.., something… Sam aims himself in the direction of the barks. If Neferox can indeed see then hopefully she can avoid Sam’s large sized feet and Sam can walk right over the beast and into whatever their foe is… (no change in action, just perhaps slight course adjustment…)
The darkness is once again pierced by the unnatural and inhuman scream if the creature,
Sam, Elthana and Nef feel a rush off air past them as the creature misses one of them, then a crutch as Elthana screams out in pain.
A gutteral voice is heard by all, off further back than the one engaging in melee, it's language is unnatural and unknown. Suddenly more hooves can be heard far off, further into the woods, but galloping towards the group.
You hear Elthana curse as she attempts to strike at her attacker. "I don't know if it's the darkness that is screwing me up or this creature moves like nothing I've seen!" she calls from the darkness, giving away her location, and then she adds, "Either way, Gewyn, Sam, head for the voice. The one with the strange language, Vin and I can take this on over here."
As the group hears Elthana's attacks thud off of the creatures hide it gives a short yelp, and the darkness begins to dissipate...
Nef is low to the ground and swaying slightly, she looks ragged and blood seeps from several wounds in her fur, however she still growls and looks ready to attack the large creature towering over her.
Sam stands just behind Nef, maul in hand and looking down to one side, at his side Elthana is slightly turned around, her fists still up and pointing toward her orc companion.
Vin and Gewyn are toward the rear of the group, they look forward to the eerily lanky form of a large deer with crooked antlers, but it's not quite a deer, it's not a deer at all. The horror of what the group see before them confuses and terrifies, as they look up its face, past it's blood dripping maw up to its four eyes and extra face sitting on the back of its head. It shrieks once more...
(Everyone facing the Not-deer make a wisdom saving throw, DC14 on the start of your next turn)
"Gunna kill myself stumbling 'round like this," Sam says softly but conversationally - trying to keep a running dialogue up so others can hear where he is. "Give me extra room, I'm feeling a bit bloated at the moment... Hey! What was that?" The something rushing past him made Sam stumble a bit but he quickly regained his balance.
"Elthana, that you? You alright?" Sam calls out upon hearing she pained screams. "And anyone know what that voice is saying? My Hobbitese is way rusty and I have no idea.."
"Hey! Ow! Whoah!" Sam calls out, the impact of the two blows noticeable in his nonstop chatter. But even as Sam is winding up with his maul the darkness begins to recede... And he finds himself looking down at Elthana? Sam pauses for the briefest of moments, maul still wound up, a low growl escaping from the half-orc... Then Sam steps over Neferox and looks to move past the deer-NotDeer thing and towards where he hear the voice coming from. Though moving past does not equate to not taking two passing swings with his already readied maul as he does...
Sam's first swing of his Maul (attack 25, damage 14+5 from Giant's Might) comes just as he steps up to the deer/NotDeer. The second swing come as Sam is already moving past the creature, looking for the speaker (attack 13, damage 12) and is less well aimed or effective... Once past the creature Sam takes a slow, deep, rejuvenating breath to prepare for whatever may lay ahead...
(Round 2: Two maul attacks vs Deer-Thing, Bonus Action -Second Wind for 12 healing... Movement to the deer/NotDeer and then away from it in the direction they heard the voice come from, assuming we cannot see that thing yet. Giant's Might 2/10 used up.)
Edited to adjust Damage since I initially forgot I can reroll 1s and 2s on Damage rolls...
Gewyn begins to sigh in relief as the darkness dissipates. That is, until he sees the Not-Deer. He wishes the dark would come back. Gewyn is rooted to the spot as he stares in wide-eyed terror.
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It takes a moment for the darkness to lift as Vin takes in the scene around him. People are spread out and there is confusion in Vin's eyes as he tries to make heads or tails of what is happening. They see Elthana is injured, Ted is indeed gone, the creature itself seems to have taken some hits at least. The creature seems twisted and unnatural to Vin but he doesn't care. As Vin's eyes shift to the side of the Not-Deer the sight of Neferox bleeding and injured as they wobble a bit on their paws is all that Vin notices when the darkness lifts. Trembling with fear for Nef instead of at the creature Vin gathers in both of his hands orbs of raw magical energy that glow and shift with a white light. He yells "Nef!" in fear, as he sends out the two beams of energy streaking across the gap at the not-deer.
Attack- Eldritch Blast 1: 28 Damage: 14
Attack- Eldritch Blast 2: 27 Damage: 13
Neferox for their part had been trying to wrangle the creature down but now that the big man Sam can see it the black hound moves to flank the creature from the opposite side helping both Sam and herself attack this thing. She goes in for some bite attacks hoping to rip it to pieces. She barks at the thing as she dives in low to bite its oddly misshaped legs hoping to hobble two of them.
Sam beats the flank of the creature dealing a tremendous blow and moving off. As he passes the creature, it attempts to swing back on him, but the delay of recoiling from the maul attack causes the Not deer to miss.
Taking his chance Vin hits the creature once with a blast to its forehead, the creature backs up a little exposing its neck, Nef doesn't hesitate as she leaps up and in two quick bites tears at its throat, they both go down in a gift heaps as the creature is slain.
The thundering of hooves gets closer as coming out of the trees leaping and bounding at the group, nine crazed deer join the fold, three head directly to Sam as he is ahead of the group attacking and goring at him with their antlers, as he explores something making a sound.
The other six deer divert before they enter Sam's range making it to the group as they begin attacking. Elthana takes a set of antlers to her side as one of the crazed deer hit, the second one attacking misses with its bite. Gewyn also takes a gore attack as two deer attack him, one being more successful than the other, the last two deer attempt to simultaneously gore at Nef, but their antlers clash against eachother and Nef dodges their bodies efforts.
As the darkness subsides, she realizes she had gotten turned around and was facing Sam! "Um, sorry about that..." and she quickly moves away, but then more crazed deer enter their area. After getting struck by one, she attacks it.
Each of her three strikes down a deer... including one attacking Nef, seeing that the dog has taken their share of the damage so far.
Trying to keep an eye on his target, Sam barely notices the deer approach. Still, once they are upon him he cannot help but notice. He curses with a lack of creativity but instead pure simplicity and swings his maul about left and right. Both swings seem to catch meat and send it flying (first attack 17, second 23. Damage 14 and 9 respectively... Giant's Might adds 6 more damage to the second swing, if needed for 15 total.) As a Bonus Action Sam has nothing left to do but look at the 3rd deer and snarl at it....
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Elthana curses under her breath as she hears Nef whimper after the unholy shriek that makes her skin crawl. After a quick glance back to Gewyn and Sam, she heads towards the sound of the dog, plunging head first into the darkness. Feeling around for anything, whether it be friend, or a foe to fight. She finds herself holding her breath as she enters...
“Now what?” Sam snaps as he hears Neferox. Turning away from the carriage he catches a glimpse of the beast plunging into the darkness. He catches Elthana’s eyes for just a moment.. and yep, sure enough she plunges right into the darkness as well.
“Guess I’m headed in,” Sam says as he drops what he was doing and picks his mail up into both hands. As he steps forward he slowly turns into a run, but quickly enlarges. (Bonus action - Giant’s Might) Sam follows, ready to smash…
"Alright, guys! Let's get out of-" Gewyn looks over his shoulder in time to see Elthana disappearing into the dark. "Damn it," he mutters to himself, weighing his options. Reluctantly, he hops down off the horse, grabbing the bullseye lantern off the front of the carriage and starts running for the darkness as fast as he can.
"Wait! We don't know what we are getting int-" Sam disappears into the darkness as well. He looks around for Vin, but sees no sign of him. "Damn it," Gewyn mutters again, trying his best to steel his resolve.
As each member of the party enters the darkness their sight goes completely black, the inky void obfuscating even their hands in front of their face, Gewyn's bullseye lantern blinks out, even though the warmth and smell of the burning oil tells him that it is still lit.
Perceptions based only on touch and sound, the group muddles forward slightly, ready to attack. Their feet bump into the corpses of animals, the crunch of oddly dried and dead vegetation under their feet serves as a stark contrast to the moist and muddy hoof trodden field outside of the forest line. Nef can be heard around 10ft in front of where the group now stand together growling and fighting with something unseen.
In the darkness Vin can't really tell what is going on. They hear Neferox fighting what they saw just moments before it charged him. Scared and unsure what exactly to do Vin tries to aim high a couple of blasts based on the sound of the fighting. He gathers some of his raw magical energy feeling the globes of power in the palm of his hands he takes note of how it feels. Normally, he's able to see the magic but this time all he can do is feel it. He thinks about what he saw and he thinks about Nef. He aims higher then normal but pauses a bit before unleashing both barrages of power. As he listens to the sounds of the fight and tries to get a sense of where everyone and everything is he picks up on a lot. Its a bit too much information as he's able to focus his mind on his ears completely. He picks up on everyone nearby but as right now all he can do is worry about Nef. Aiming slightly higher then normal the boy unleashes two beams of energy at the sound of the attacker.
Eldritch Blast Blind Shot 1: 11
Eldritch Blast Blind Shot 2: 15
Whatever creature that was attacking vin in the darkness, shrieks once more, it's makes the skin crawl and hairs stand on end, from the volume it must only be 10ft Infront of you all, a sickening crunch and a thud comes next as Nef reacts with a pained yelp and a whimper.
Elthana is the next to let out a pained cry. The movement in the inky darkness makes dead leaves continue to crunch underfoot, it is the only lonely reminder that your companions are close by and you are not alone, blind, and facing an unknown enemy.
Those near Elthana hear her attacking something next to her, hearing the thud a couple of times. Then, her footsteps on the dead leaves give away that she is heading East towards the sounds that Nef was making...
"Vin?" Sam calls out in a subdued and whispered shout. "You in this crap?"
"Elthana?" he similarly calls out hearing a brief struggle and then footsteps...
The Half-Orc was hesitant to say much more for fear of giving away his... But wait...
"Vin! Elthana! Talk if you can hear me. Answer me, direct me, tell me a damned children's rhyme. Just keep talking. And listening..." Sam explains, thinking this out as he does so. He feels out tentatively with his maul, adding slowly in the direction he last hear struggle but still hesitant to strike out blindly. "Ways I see it is if I just swing about willy nilly I may strike one of us, and none of us want that, eh? But whoever... whatever is responsible for this unnatural... unnaturalness, well I'm betting they have some way to see us anyway, eh? But maybe if we each keep prattling on, well I won't be able to see you to not smite you down... But if I can hear where you are I know at least not to strike there..."
"Elthana? Vin? Does this make any sense at all?" Sam asks, still feeling about.
So it is that Sam stumbled and probes about (for his turn) trying to follow the direction he hear something, but mostly prattling on and on to try to give away his location to his friends. He's currently quite the large target, he'd rather not take friendly fire.
(First of 10 rounds of Giant's Might used...)
"I'm over here," Gewyn shouts. "Elthana, worry not. We are coming your way!" He starts playing long clear notes to pierce through the wind and the leaves, letting his allies know where he is as he runs toward where he last heard Elthana cry out. In his other hand, he white-knuckles his dagger, ready to use it in self-defence, but hoping he won't have to.
(Bardic Inspiration 1d8 to Elthana)
Not seeing any reason to remain stealthy Vin yells with panic and fear, "I'm here! Nef is fighting it but... but she needs healing! She can see in this darkness. I think the thing destroyed Ted!"
With declaring his location Vin takes his time to listen to the thing fighting Nef and they take a moment before unleashing another barrage of two blast of raw magical energy. The odd feel of the pulsating power in his hand and wishing he was better at controlling his magic so he could summon even more magic to blast the thing with. Either way he gets closer to the sound of the creature and Nef fighting despite the dog's warning barks and tries to blast it at melee range. He is hoping that it will attack him as Vin absorbed a lot of life energy from a previous attack and Nef taught him how to shield his body with it. "Attack me you crooked antlered freak, leave my dog alone!"
Persuasion: 11
Eldritch Blast 1: 11 for 15 force damage
Eldritch Blast 2: 19 for 12 force damage
Hearing that the fog is actively fighting.., something… Sam aims himself in the direction of the barks. If Neferox can indeed see then hopefully she can avoid Sam’s large sized feet and Sam can walk right over the beast and into whatever their foe is… (no change in action, just perhaps slight course adjustment…)
The darkness is once again pierced by the unnatural and inhuman scream if the creature,
Sam, Elthana and Nef feel a rush off air past them as the creature misses one of them, then a crutch as Elthana screams out in pain.
A gutteral voice is heard by all, off further back than the one engaging in melee, it's language is unnatural and unknown. Suddenly more hooves can be heard far off, further into the woods, but galloping towards the group.
You hear Elthana curse as she attempts to strike at her attacker. "I don't know if it's the darkness that is screwing me up or this creature moves like nothing I've seen!" she calls from the darkness, giving away her location, and then she adds, "Either way, Gewyn, Sam, head for the voice. The one with the strange language, Vin and I can take this on over here."
As the group hears Elthana's attacks thud off of the creatures hide it gives a short yelp, and the darkness begins to dissipate...
Nef is low to the ground and swaying slightly, she looks ragged and blood seeps from several wounds in her fur, however she still growls and looks ready to attack the large creature towering over her.
Sam stands just behind Nef, maul in hand and looking down to one side, at his side Elthana is slightly turned around, her fists still up and pointing toward her orc companion.
Vin and Gewyn are toward the rear of the group, they look forward to the eerily lanky form of a large deer with crooked antlers, but it's not quite a deer, it's not a deer at all. The horror of what the group see before them confuses and terrifies, as they look up its face, past it's blood dripping maw up to its four eyes and extra face sitting on the back of its head. It shrieks once more...
(Everyone facing the Not-deer make a wisdom saving throw, DC14 on the start of your next turn)
"Gunna kill myself stumbling 'round like this," Sam says softly but conversationally - trying to keep a running dialogue up so others can hear where he is. "Give me extra room, I'm feeling a bit bloated at the moment... Hey! What was that?" The something rushing past him made Sam stumble a bit but he quickly regained his balance.
"Elthana, that you? You alright?" Sam calls out upon hearing she pained screams. "And anyone know what that voice is saying? My Hobbitese is way rusty and I have no idea.."
"Hey! Ow! Whoah!" Sam calls out, the impact of the two blows noticeable in his nonstop chatter. But even as Sam is winding up with his maul the darkness begins to recede... And he finds himself looking down at Elthana? Sam pauses for the briefest of moments, maul still wound up, a low growl escaping from the half-orc... Then Sam steps over Neferox and looks to move past the deer-NotDeer thing and towards where he hear the voice coming from. Though moving past does not equate to not taking two passing swings with his already readied maul as he does...
Sam's first swing of his Maul (attack 25, damage 14+5 from Giant's Might) comes just as he steps up to the deer/NotDeer. The second swing come as Sam is already moving past the creature, looking for the speaker (attack 13, damage 12) and is less well aimed or effective... Once past the creature Sam takes a slow, deep, rejuvenating breath to prepare for whatever may lay ahead...
(Round 2: Two maul attacks vs Deer-Thing, Bonus Action -Second Wind for 12 healing... Movement to the deer/NotDeer and then away from it in the direction they heard the voice come from, assuming we cannot see that thing yet. Giant's Might 2/10 used up.)
Edited to adjust Damage since I initially forgot I can reroll 1s and 2s on Damage rolls...
Gewyn begins to sigh in relief as the darkness dissipates. That is, until he sees the Not-Deer. He wishes the dark would come back. Gewyn is rooted to the spot as he stares in wide-eyed terror.
It takes a moment for the darkness to lift as Vin takes in the scene around him. People are spread out and there is confusion in Vin's eyes as he tries to make heads or tails of what is happening. They see Elthana is injured, Ted is indeed gone, the creature itself seems to have taken some hits at least. The creature seems twisted and unnatural to Vin but he doesn't care. As Vin's eyes shift to the side of the Not-Deer the sight of Neferox bleeding and injured as they wobble a bit on their paws is all that Vin notices when the darkness lifts. Trembling with fear for Nef instead of at the creature Vin gathers in both of his hands orbs of raw magical energy that glow and shift with a white light. He yells "Nef!" in fear, as he sends out the two beams of energy streaking across the gap at the not-deer.
Attack- Eldritch Blast 1: 28 Damage: 14
Attack- Eldritch Blast 2: 27 Damage: 13
Neferox for their part had been trying to wrangle the creature down but now that the big man Sam can see it the black hound moves to flank the creature from the opposite side helping both Sam and herself attack this thing. She goes in for some bite attacks hoping to rip it to pieces. She barks at the thing as she dives in low to bite its oddly misshaped legs hoping to hobble two of them.
Attack- Bite 1: 26 Damage: 12
Attack- Bite 2: 23 Damage: 15
Sam beats the flank of the creature dealing a tremendous blow and moving off. As he passes the creature, it attempts to swing back on him, but the delay of recoiling from the maul attack causes the Not deer to miss.
Taking his chance Vin hits the creature once with a blast to its forehead, the creature backs up a little exposing its neck, Nef doesn't hesitate as she leaps up and in two quick bites tears at its throat, they both go down in a gift heaps as the creature is slain.
The thundering of hooves gets closer as coming out of the trees leaping and bounding at the group, nine crazed deer join the fold, three head directly to Sam as he is ahead of the group attacking and goring at him with their antlers, as he explores something making a sound.
The other six deer divert before they enter Sam's range making it to the group as they begin attacking. Elthana takes a set of antlers to her side as one of the crazed deer hit, the second one attacking misses with its bite. Gewyn also takes a gore attack as two deer attack him, one being more successful than the other, the last two deer attempt to simultaneously gore at Nef, but their antlers clash against eachother and Nef dodges their bodies efforts.
As the darkness subsides, she realizes she had gotten turned around and was facing Sam! "Um, sorry about that..." and she quickly moves away, but then more crazed deer enter their area. After getting struck by one, she attacks it.
Each of her three strikes down a deer... including one attacking Nef, seeing that the dog has taken their share of the damage so far.
Trying to keep an eye on his target, Sam barely notices the deer approach. Still, once they are upon him he cannot help but notice. He curses with a lack of creativity but instead pure simplicity and swings his maul about left and right. Both swings seem to catch meat and send it flying (first attack 17, second 23. Damage 14 and 9 respectively... Giant's Might adds 6 more damage to the second swing, if needed for 15 total.) As a Bonus Action Sam has nothing left to do but look at the 3rd deer and snarl at it....