The Call of Lon-Dia

Penelope will head down after them.

Initiative: 6

Grumbles to himself and checks his wounds and scars... none seem overly irritated or infected to him, but he's visibly irritated at the whole ordeal.

"Donnar, you've been a good help. Wish us luck..." he says lowly, and he turns to follow the others... 

Initiative: 13

OOC: Sorry gang, but I’m really sick and won’t be able to post today. FYI

Feel better soon, Neumie! 

Feel better soon! And I think I can speak for all of us when I say "Thanks!" For keeping this going and giving us a release valve, no matter how fleeting sometimes. Play by posts are tough to DM for long periods, i know from experience, and I really appreciate having this one to play in!

(OOC: I’m back and better! Getting the flu sucks! Thanks for your patience.)

You all head down to the lower pier to finish off “Susan” once and for all.

The fires you lit last time have burnt themselves out leaving scorch marks where they were.

Susan’s Initiative: 5 

 Initiative Roll Off 

Initiative Order 

Natasha, you’re first. 

(Natasha takes out her bow and shoots an arrow at the big rat.)

Attack: 19 Damage: 8

Your arrow pierces Susan’s side and she lets out a yelp of pain. You can tell she’s not used to being caught alone.

Stone, you’re up.

Stone approaches Susan with his longsword ready and uttering a quick prayer he tries to divinely smite her.

Attack = 16  Damage = 5 + 12 (+ if she is undead or a fiend 6)

You run up to the rat and strike it with your longsword. When you make contact, your sword momentarily glows with the divine light of justice. This light singes Susan, leaving her barely alive.

Jacob, take us home.

Swinging with both Bread and Butter: 

Bread: Attack: 17 Damage: 7 + fire 4 

Butter: Attack: 25 Damage: 5

(and since I’m doing this manually on my phone it didn’t do the snazzy auto crit damage on Butter, so here’s that second roll: 4)

Bread and Butter swing down and destroy the abomination Susan, once and for all.

What do you guys want to do now? You can investigate the corpses you saw earlier or go to where you were told Creel’s nest is.

Stone looks down at the rat corpse in front of him.

"I'm glad we could bring a little order to this town by destroying this fiend."

He searches Susan's corpse to be sure that it is just that of a dead rat. After examining Susan's corpse he points to the dead bodies and says,

"Those look like they may have been her previous victims. We should search them and see if we can identify them, then report their bodies to the local authorities. Also, they may have items that, while useless to them, could be of great use to us."

Grunts approvingly and begins to poke around for anything useful, specifically the pile on the right side of the map...

Investigation: 10

Stone approaches the dead bodies and starts to investigate them as well.

Investigation: 16

(Natasha hangs back and scans the area for potential threats while her companions search.)

Perception: 8

Penelope will help Stone check over the bodies.

Investigation: 9

Stone & Penelope: You approach the skeleton and notice how gnawed the bones look. This corpse has been picked clean of not only valuables, but of meat as well. You look over the other, fresher corpse it resembles a set of conjoined twins. Whoever this was, they must have been a victim of Susan. After searching the body you find a set of thieves’ tools and a +1 dagger.

Jacob: You head east along the trash filled beach, looking for anything of interest. When you reach the end of the beach, you look north and see a giant nest, tidier than anything you’ve seen tonight.

Natasha: You scan the lower piers, alert for threats. You see a few scurrying rats, but nothing like the doppelrat you just fought. You turn in the direction that Jacob is looking and see the silhouette of something much larger than a rat move in the nest.

What do you want to do?