An Act of Hubris or Guile

Armor 2 Wis Save

13

Duncan keeps swinging

action: Attack: 20 Damage: 6
bonus: Attack: 16 Damage: 6

Kasbis continues to attack the suit of armor if it is still up and moving.  

Together the with everyone's effort the last armor crumples. Then you hear whoops of joy from the men and 1 man yells "Lets get back to our families." He then looks at the party "Will you go with us. Our families is to the west"

End of Combat

Bloodied from the battle Aisha looks to them, "Unless you have something we can use to recover now is not the time to act. When is the next check in for those who have your families? Perhaps we can lay a trap for them."

Kas is breathing heavily from the use of the magical power.  “Wait.  Hold on.”  He turns to Aisha and Duncan, “Are you alright?  Wonderful work you two!  I’m sure that you may need to rest for a bit, right.   Ah.  Point of fact.  And… don’t forget Ori.”  

He turns to the people now freed from the armor guards.  “Good people of Eveniel Enclave.  My name is Kasbis.  Please gather round.  I have a few questions for you, quickly, and we need to decide what to do next.”  Once they have gathered, he says “I need to hear exactly what happened before you were captured and taken here.  I want to hear how it happened, who was involved, what was said.”

The men gather around and start sharing what they saw. Little Ori turning into a massive bear and then going wild. There was chaos and at first Elder Bruth tried to restrain him and she almost did with the help of the militia, but they were assaulted by the suits of armor. There was fighting everywhere and I wasn't sure who would win. I man steps up and says he heard the main gate open and then this tall man in a metal mask took them hostage and threatened to kill us all unless Elder Bruth opened the way to Cloud Garden. At first she refused, but then the man in the metal mask slaughtered 2 militia men in a blink of eye. She gave in and opened that portal. We were forced to go through and do their bidding as they hold our families hostage.

The only one watching our families is a strangely large white cat. It is incredibly fast as no one has been able to escape its gaze.

The check in from the suits of armor is in a 6 hours. They communicate with some strange tiny relic over there. The man points to a gauntlet of Armor 1 that has a strange rune on it.

Duncan, catching his breath, agrees that a rest would be nice, but first wants to spend some time looking over the fallen armor to see if what he may be able to collect to use for himself later. Full plate armor is quite expensive afterall.

Turning to Kasbis, Aisha asks, "Do you have any skill or better understanding of the arcane that you could check out that rune?"

Aisha will then join Duncan in searching the armor, trying to figure out if it could be used as a disguise or maybe even to replace her chainmail with a breastplate. "Duncan you took a lot of hits back there how are you feeling? I don't have much energy left to cast and help with physical wounds but if there's any mental strain I can always listen."

From the armor that is still intact, Duncan and Aisha can assemble splint armor.

Does Kasbis see the large white cat who is watching everyone?  If so …

Kasbis whirls around, hissing, and points his hand at the cat, moving his hex onto the cat.  He fires off a bolt of force energy at the cat that he assumes is a familiar.  

Eldritch blast : Attack: 17 Damage: 5 force damage + 2 thunder damage.  

If the bolt of force energy hits, from hex it does an additional 1 points of necrotic damage.

Putting on the new piecemeal splint armor, Duncan does some stretching to calm himself down over the next hour to ready himself for what may come next. Once he feels nice and refreshed he looks up and says, "Alright! We've only got a few hours before this calls for help. Let's get on with it." He also takes the gauntlet with the marking on it just to keep an eye on if it does anything strange.

Where are you headed. West or to retrieve Ori.

After helping Duncan piece together the splint mail Aisha also takes time to get a little rest in. "I have one more surge of healing in me, and a once a day attack spell left in me. Lets get to these families in need."
Turning to the people assembled, she adds, "This could be dangerous, we left a young man behind in that direction to save him from the danger here. Would you find him and return here? That way when we save your families we can all regroup at the same time."

"Of course we will. You risked your necks for us and our families" The men then head out to retrieve Ori

The party continues west and after 6 hours the rune lights up and you hear a commanding voice say "Report"

What do you do?

Kasbis steps next to Duncan and quickly reports in an automaton-like voice “Work continues, trees are being felled; the search continues…”. He points quickly to Duncan and Aisha  and makes a chopping motion, points at an axe lying by, suggesting that they give him help in his deception.  

Aisha sees Kasbis' motion and pulls out her mace hitting a nearby stump in a repetitive pattern giving Help to Kasbis' attempt at deception.

"Leave the men with Keshrick in the west. Join me in the northeast. I found an entrance." The rune light shuts off and its quite again on the path to the west.

half hour later you see the clearing where the families sit huddled together in fear of the cat.

You seems to see after images or sometimes duplicates of the same cat as it circles menacingly around the families.

What do you do?

((After the suits of armor were defeated, did we take a short rest?  Also, is the pathway to the northeast clear, or is the beast blocking it?))