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Wisdom save: 11

(Believe it or not that's a save! :) I rolled Kyomi's in the game log. She also saved. So...)

Morbrukk tackles Kelsin and Strix slaps Harbeck, snapping them out of whatever trance they were in. Thankfully Kyomi is able to snap herself out of it. She looks around, knee deep in snow, and her facial expression clearly gives away that she has no idea how she got there. Just as the group is making the slow move back to the path, Morbrukk catches the shadow of movement out of the corner of his eye. Looking over, he sees a human hand reach over the top of the snow covered cliff, and then a woman's head peaks up behind it. "Help me!" She screams. "I almost fell to my death, and I can't hold on much longer!"

Kelsin shakes her head "Blasted song. Thanks Morbrukk for saving me" She gets up groggily.

*Hearing the screams Harbeck calls out to Morbrukk while making his way towards him.* “Be wary Morbrukk! It could be a trap, some sort of magic deception or illusion!” *He gets out his rope to toss down to the lady, but waits for Morbrukk to make the first move.*

Strix looks to see if there is a trail in the snow leading to cliff where the woman is climbing up (basically, does it look like she walked over the cliff under the same spell or is the snow unbroken where she's at?)  Perception check: 10

Kyomi shakes the dullness from her head and stares at the woman hanging from the edge of the cliff. (Perception roll in game log) Even from this distance she can clearly see that the woman's fingernails aren't fingernails at all, but sharp claws. Strix meanwhile calls his companions' attention to the fact that there is no trail through the snow to the edge of the cliff. All of their instincts were right, the song and the woman are part of the same trap. As the group starts to move back to the path ignoring the helpless pleas of the "woman" on the cliffs edge, the truth is revealed. The woman suddenly screams a beastly scream and massive vulture wings lift up behind her, flapping with great strength lifting the woman above the edge of the cliff. The "woman" has the massive wings of a vulture protruding from her back and her legs end in the sharp talons of a bird. Here and there about her naked body patches of feathers replace skin. She flaps several times to get some lift bringing her about forty feet above the cliffs edge, mere seconds later another just like her does the same, they screech an ear-piercing noise that seems a mixture of a human woman screaming and a bird's angry cry.

(OOC: Mechanical notes here: Cliff's edge is 170' from the path where Strix currently resides. Morbrukk, Kyomi, Kelsin, and Harbeck are all 30' from the path mired in the thick snow. So the monsters, which anyone can make a Nature check to identify, are roughly 140' from most of the party at this point. Your turn!!)

Nature check 13

Morbrukk, having grown up in the craggy mountains of Thgol'd'rak, knows these creatures quite well. "Harpies!" He yells.

Strix casts Bless on Morbrukk, Kyomi and Kelsin. (Add a d4 to any attack roll or savings throw until the spell ends - which is concentration up to 1 min.).

"Ugh more trouble" says Kelsin

Nature check

4

She fires an arrow at the harpy

Attack: 16 Damage: 5

Then uses cunning action to hide in the snow

Stealth check

16

*Harbeck casts shield of faith on Morbrukk.* "Go get em lad!"
(+2 to AC.)

I'm going to move as close as I can 

(OOC: Using the Dash action Morbrukk could get 30' closer due to the difficult terrain of the thick snow. This would put him 110' from the harpies.)

Kelsin's arrow bit deep into the feathery flesh of one of the harpies and the hybrid of woman and bird shrieked a terrible unworldly shriek. Afterwards the agile duergar dove behind a drift of snow to hide herself from sight.

Kyomi watched her new friends perform perfectly coordinated actions, and it brought up intense reminders of her days training with her father's house guard. The way every act was part of a complementary dance of coordinated movements, attacks and defenses. Strangely, it wasn't the fun and deep conversations with her new companions that intensified her feelings for them so much as moments like this. Kyomi had a strange thought that perhaps her spirit was a spirit of violence, and only through combat would that spirit be appeased. As she had that feeling a powerful though washed across her mind like a wave. "Use your sword!"  Almost without thinking about it Kyomi unsheathes her ancestral sword and moves her hand along the blade. As she does so the blade is wreathed in green flames. Her sword ready, Kyomi sets her feet in the traditional Tindarese fighting stance and makes ready her attack.

(OOC: So I'm having Kyomi use the Ready action to ready a sword strike in conjunction with the spell Green Flame Blade. Technically the flame wouldn't appear until the casting of the spell, which would only be triggered by one of the harpies coming within her threatened range, 5', but the rule of cool always trumps mechanics.)

Both of the harpies flap their massive wings to gain more loft and close the distance. After gaining a bit of height both creatures tuck their wings slightly and start a dive heading right for Morbrukk, the closest meal.

(OOC: Harpies took the Dash action doubling their flight movement. They are now 30' away from Morbrukk, but also 40' aloft. Using some pythagorean theorem that puts them at 50' for the purposes of any ranged attacks from Morbrukk. This puts them at 60' across 40' up for Harbeck, Kyomi, and Kelsin, meaning approx. 75' for the purposes of ranged attacks. For Strix they are 100' away from ranged attacks. Your turn!!!!)

Strix fires her crossbow, aiming for the unwounded Harpy.

Attack: 6 Damage: 7

Kelsin fires an arrow at the same harpy she hurt from her hiding place granting her advantage

Attack: 20 Damage: 10

Then uses cunning action to hide in another snow drift

Stealth

28

*Morbrukk laughs* "Let's see what these creatures can do" *Morbrukk then hurls a javelin at the wounded harpy*

Attack 19 damage 10 (rolled in game log)

"I've got a plan! I'll hurl my net onto the harpy, I just need to get close. Cover me!" *Harbeck runs full speed towards the harpy, as fast as his legs will carry him. As he runs he prepares to throw his net when he is within 15 feet.* "Dwarfs are natural sprinters!"

Strix's arrow misses, but Kelsin's does not, neither does Morbrukk's javelin nor another blast of eldritch magic released from Kyomi's fist. The concert of attacks all aimed at the same harpy make her wings sputter and falter, she falls to the ground, landing with the sound of cracking bone and squelching flesh. Red blood begins to stain the snow around her. Her death evokes a powerful scream of rage from her sister, and she slightly tucks her wings to increase the speed and distance of her dive toward her foes. Harbeck charges toward the soaring monster and jumps and throws his net in one swift arc. Seconds later the group watches the net tangle all around the harpy's wings and body and she crashes into the ground leaving a deep scar in the snow and coming to a halt almost right at Harbeck's feet. Now on the ground the harpy struggles to escape her binds.

(OOC: Harbeck I rolled the net attack roll on the game log for you, for two reasons. 1) The closing of the distance to the Harpy would only have happened if Harbeck continued to move through the snow this round, and I figured that's what you would want to do. 2) If the net was successful, as it was, that would totally change this round of combat for everyone else. Point being, Harbeck's turn for this round is completed, and it ended with devastating effect for your foe! Everyone else can still go, and the harpy is currently on the ground (both restrained and prone) 5' from Harbeck, 10' from Morbrukk, 30' from Kelsin and Kyomi, 70' for Strix. Batters up!!!)

To hit 24 damage 16 (rolled in game log)

Strix starts moving to where the Harpy and other party members are.

If it still lives then Kelsin stabs the trapped harpy with her rapier

Attack: 9 Damage: 9