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"Unhand me, brute,"Kieran grunts as he twists and wrestles for control of the javelin. During the struggle, he tries to stab the sharp tip of the weapon into Lam twice, and it continues to cackle with energy. With each hit, he grunts at the magically embodied force of Lam's rage hitting himself.
Attacks against Lam: 21 to hit, 9 piercing + 7 lightning; 20 to hit, 12 piercing + 4 lightning (Remember to only take half of the piercing damage).
If the attacks hit, Kieran takes 3 and roll]1d6[/roll], respectively.
No matter how his struggle with Lam is going, he also winces once and Saoirse feels blood magic attempting to hold her in place. DC15 to resist his blood curse of binding - amplified.
Lam's grip on the javelin weakens and he falls to the ground. He is bleeding from.multiple points, and though he might have been able to shrug that off, the electricity jolting through him has overwhelmed him. He is teetering on the edge of death.
Keiran walks up to Saoirse, standing within arms reach of Hemlock and Sha-Gravis as well.
"No, Lam!! Leave him! Run!", Saoirse screams, to no avail. She knows Lam is too hurt, and Kieran is too strong. She has felt this just by looking at his stance, and has felt it in his lightning rite which is much stronger than hers. And she's feeling it again as his curse binds her in place. (OOC: rolled a 14)
She watches in horror as Lam falls, and Kieran approaches her. If fire genasis could cry, she would be doing it right now. But fire genasis don't cry, and instead, what you can see is the light in her eyes flickering and their glow diminishing from flame to ember.
This time, it is she who pleads. First to Sha and Hemlock: "Don't fight him, please!". Then, she turns to Kieran. "Please ... PLEASE ... don't hurt them anymore. Let them go."
Sha can tell something personal is between Saoirse and Kieran, but he has come to love his fiery companion too much to just let her fall, and so he calls on his goddess for her touch of the void. (15 hpts). "Saoirse, Lam please my Mistress don't let them fall..."
Kieran braces himself for Sha's spell, assuming it will be somehow offensive, but he is barely phased by it. One of the soldiers does stumble and fall into the underbrush, suddenly embracing sleep's peace. A gentle voice appears in Sha's mind. "YOU WILL SURVIVE THIS, MY DEAR, BUT I CAN NOT STOP HIM FOR YOU."
The soldiers and workers continue to push through the overgrown plants, but are confused enough by the conversation that they stop actively trying to attack. To the south though, one corner of the battle is still active. The one dueling with Ahmed manages to get a hit in, and both Billy and Ahmed wince in pain. The other, feet gripped by vines, fires an arrow that is harmlessly deflected by Billy's chain mail shirt. Ahmed opens his mouth and spews fire in retaliation - clearly harming his opponent, but not killing him. Billy takes a step north, and calls for help from his gods again - asking them to protect Saoirse. A flickering flame-coloured aura surrounds Saoirse.
"Get out of here! Jonah believes in you, and so do I!"
"Traitor."
Initiative:Saoirse, Hemlock, Lam, Viconia, Servant, Firbolgs, Sha-Gravis, Soldiers, HMC group North, HMC pair West, Billy and Ahmed
The fight keeps going on around her, and Saoirsecan do nothing else but stare at the armored figure that has already reached her. She twists and turns, desperately trying to escape him, but the curse remains in place. (OOC: rolled a 4 to break free) So, she stops fighting and looks right over Kieran's shoulder, straight at Hemlock. She hopes the druid can help Lam, and perhaps that way they - along with Sha -will be able to turn the situation for the better. Either that, or heed Billy's words. Oh, Billy... what will happen to him now that he has unmasked himself by trying to protect her?
With few options left, the young genasi faces Kieran. If she keeps his focus on her, perhaps the others can take advantage. So she asks, "Am I to assume you are my father?", her voice quivers at the last word. Not really waiting for an answer, Saoirse searches for the periapt hanging around her neck and shows it to him. The last remnant of her natural blood. "I can't remember much of the ritual. I remember pain. Excruciating pain. And I remember calling for my mother and father during the worst moments. How strange to realize now that I called for the wrong persons. How many other lies have I been fed during all those cloistered years, I wonder."
She lets the periapt go and moves that same hand towards Swordbreaker's edge. As the fire-colored blood drops from the palm of the hand, she invokes her curse one last time. "Do you want me to stay here? Then stay with me. It is only fitting."
Action: What I hope to acomplish is to give Help by keeping Kieran distracted.
Bonus Action: My second and last blood curse of binding. This time, amplified. She takes 3 necrotic damage. STR ST DC 12.
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Hemlock hasn't made it far towards the West before he realises no-one else is following him. He turns to see Lam try to grapple the armoured person for his javelin, only to be struck down.
"Lam, no!", he calls out. But still Saoirse pleads with them not to fight the armoured person. He is torn between his instinct to take down the one who so savagely cut down Lam, and Saoirse's plea.
He sizes up the situation, but no matter what he thinks of, he doesn't know how to protect all his companions, at least not by himself.
He knows the most immediate need is to save his Bugbear friend. He runs across to him, taking out a healing potion and feeding it to Lam.
"Lam listen to me, you need to push the armoured person towards the soldiers and deeper into the undergrowth, then you need to run south-west as fast as you can", he says telepathically as Lam is coming around.
He then reaches out to Saoirse with healing energy, "I hope this is enough!". He once again speaks telepathically.
Just before he turns to run back West, he telepathically says to Sha-Gravis, "Sha, whatever happens, grab Saoirse and follow us as fast as you can".
Movement: 15ft South-east next to Lam Free Action: Take out potion of healing Action: Give Lam potion of healing - 3+1+2=6 Hit Points back Bonus Action: 2nd level Healing Word on Saoirse - 1+1+4=6 Hit Points back Movement: 15ft West into cover from tent hopefully Special: Concentration on Entangle - 4/10, Twilight Sanctuary - 3+4=7 Temporary Hit Points
Lam's eyes open again, to Hemlock pressing a potion against his lips. Stab wounds in his torso stop their bleeding, but he can still feel the lightning damage, a soreness that radiates through his whole body. He knows that, for a few seconds, he was out and barely clinging to life. The shock of this has overwhelmed his rage - though he can see that the man who nearly killed him is in weapon's reach of both of his other companions, his back towards Lam, and his attention on Saoirse.
Initiative: Saoirse, Hemlock, Lam, Viconia, Servant, Firbolgs, Sha-Gravis, Soldiers, HMC group North, HMC pair West, Billy and Ahmed
In the few seconds he was out, Lam had dreams involving the anguished screams of his friends, hurt with him unable to do anything. When he wakes up, the dream begins to give way to reality and his first thought is that he isn’t supposed to be unconscious. He was in a battle- he was supposed to be fighting for his friends. Whatever his objective was here, it wasn’t to be on the ground. He is not sure exactly how he failed his friends so badly when he swallows another mouthful of potion and realizes that he has been drinking something. He is awake again because Hemlock is here, feeding him a potion. He went down because he was stabbed by an electric weapon. The weapon belonged to the armored man. Hemlock sees Lam’s expression go from ashamed to confused, then angry as he notices the armored man is still there. Lam looks almost ready to lose all reason again and hurt himself getting up, then he stops and listens to Hemlock’s voice in his mind. Hemlock sounds like he has a plan, and Lam- not in a mental place to think of a different one- realizes as he gets up that it’s probably the best thing he can do to follow his friend’s directions.
Slightly disoriented but lacking the uncontrolled energy from before he went down, Lam charges directly at the armored man. With a grunt, he pushes the man with both arms as far as possible away from his friends. Then he has to turn away from his friends and trust them to make it out. Maybe Hemlock has spoken to them too. What did Hemlock say? Run south-west? He begins to make his way in that direction, joining Hemlock the moment he spots any part of his Firbolg friend behind the tent.
Movement+action: Dash action. 15ft to get up from prone, 15ft straight north to Kieran.
Bonus action: Shove attack on Kieran, with advantage from Saoirse’s help. Hopefully this shove is for 10ft because of charger? Either straight north of slightly northeast- the point is, away from friends. 2423 athletics.
More movement: 30ft southwest to hopefully join Hemlock behind the tent. Also trying to get cover from the tent, but in an admittedly worse position for it.
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Kieran is sent tumbling over and into the tall undergrowth before he has time to react, but manages to keep his stubborn, frozen feet beneath himself. He slowly turns, but, unable to move himself from where he suddenly stands, he turns and faces Saoirse. He throws the crackling javelin again, but at the last minute his hand siezes up, and he twists to aim the point at Sha instead of Saoirse.(26 to hit, 10 piercing and 3 lightning). "Traitorous dwarf!" he barks towards Billy,but as he swings his arm a second time, he grits his teeth and pushes through the sanctuary, managing to at least throw towards his fellow genasi(11 to hit, 13 piercing and 2 lightning).
Initiative: Saoirse, Hemlock, Lam, Viconia, Servant, Firbolgs, Sha-Gravis,Soldiers, HMC group North, HMC pair West, Billy and Ahmed
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The soldiers and workers continue to push through the brush, and several of them do finally break free into the clearing. Two of them shout at the same time, slightly different commands. "Protect the boss!" / "Don't let them take Viconia!" Either way, their attention is on the four of you, standing now over Viconia's corpse.
The clash continues between Ahmed and the other worker, both injuring each other, but neither going down. The other, with a crossbow, fires a shot at Hemlock, still shining like a beacon inside of Sha's twiligh. He squints, the bright sunlight in the middle of the field making the lighting in the leading remarkable complicated.5 hit, 8 piercing.
"DROP!" Billy shouts with uncharacteristic authority, his voice reverberating with magic, and the worker drops his crossbow into the entangling vines at his feet.
You notice that Viconia's corpse is wearing a shining amulet around its neck, and another sending stone ring on her finger, but taking either of these from her would take time (a full action for each, or a BA with a dc15 sleight of hand check - Saoirse can't reach without being put back down), time you may not have.
Initiative: Saoirse, Hemlock, Lam, Viconia, Servant, Firbolgs, Sha-Gravis, Soldiers, HMC group North, HMC pair West, Billy and Ahmed
Hemlock winces as the bolt hits home, but fortunately does no more than a scratch, as the bolstering effect of Sha's twilight sanctuary protects him from most of the damage. He also manages to maintain his concentration on the entangling roots and plants.
Saoirsecan't think straight anymore. Everything is painful: Kieran's replies, the worry for her friend's wellbeing - along with Billyand Ahmed's- and of course the physical pain when that crackling javelin pierces her once again. When Shaapproaches her she doesn't even try to understand his intentions and simply lets the tabaxi carry her away. As far away as possible from that forest clearing she's already wishing she had never stepped into to begin with.
As Shakeeps running away carrying her, she can see that their enemies keep advancing. Can she do anything to delay them? That is when she remembers the horses. Without thinking too much, she produces a flame in her hand. "I'm sorry for this...", the genasi mutters as she fires the red and orange bolt towards the poor animal, hoping not too hurt him too much, only to scare him - and, with luck, the other three too - so they interrupt the soldiers advancing towards them.
Action:Produce flame on the nearest horse. To hit: 18 Damage: 8 (I loose Sanctuary) Temp HP: 9 STR ST DC 15: 10 (another fail)
The horse whinnies and screams, and begins to kick and pull away from the post it is tied to. The other horses begin to neighbors as well, though they are not thrown into a panic right away.
Athletics to break free: 13, Dex to shake off the feed bag: 19
The beast stays put, though the post shakes and loosens, and most of the HMC folks are momentarily distracted by its outburst. It will bear a large brand on its left rear flank for the rest of its life, and continue to struggle at the end of the initiative order.
Initiative: Saoirse, Hemlock, Lam, Viconia, Servant, Firbolgs, Sha-Gravis, Soldiers, HMC group North, HMC pair West, Billy and Ahmed, panicking horse
Hemlock gives Saoirse a bit of a shocked look after her fairly brutal attack on the horse, but now is not the time to get into a discussion about that.
Seeing the amulet around Viconia's neck, he can't help but wonder if that is why the soldiers are so keen to protect the body. He also needs to address the fact that he is shining like a beacon to the enemy archers.
He quickly stood to unclasp the amulet, and as he pockets it he suddenly disappears.
He briefly turns, and telepathically tells Billy, "Thank you, my friend. You should get Ahmed and both flee. Head to Village Tree, we will make sure you are expected".
Anyone listening closely would then hear him rush towards the woods.
Action: Take the amulet off Viconia Bonus Action: Firbolg Hidden Step - turns invisible until the start of his next turn Movement: Into the woods to the west Special: Concentration on Entangle - 5/10, Twilight Sanctuary - 1+4=5 Temporary Hit Points
"Unhand me, brute," Kieran grunts as he twists and wrestles for control of the javelin. During the struggle, he tries to stab the sharp tip of the weapon into Lam twice, and it continues to cackle with energy. With each hit, he grunts at the magically embodied force of Lam's rage hitting himself.
Attacks against Lam: 21 to hit, 9 piercing + 7 lightning; 20 to hit, 12 piercing + 4 lightning (Remember to only take half of the piercing damage).
If the attacks hit, Kieran takes 3 and roll]1d6[/roll], respectively.
No matter how his struggle with Lam is going, he also winces once and Saoirse feels blood magic attempting to hold her in place. DC15 to resist his blood curse of binding - amplified.
DM: Heavy is the Head
Lam's grip on the javelin weakens and he falls to the ground. He is bleeding from.multiple points, and though he might have been able to shrug that off, the electricity jolting through him has overwhelmed him. He is teetering on the edge of death.
Keiran walks up to Saoirse, standing within arms reach of Hemlock and Sha-Gravis as well.
It is Sha-Gravis' turn.
DM: Heavy is the Head
"No, Lam!! Leave him! Run!", Saoirse screams, to no avail. She knows Lam is too hurt, and Kieran is too strong. She has felt this just by looking at his stance, and has felt it in his lightning rite which is much stronger than hers. And she's feeling it again as his curse binds her in place. (OOC: rolled a 14)
She watches in horror as Lam falls, and Kieran approaches her. If fire genasis could cry, she would be doing it right now. But fire genasis don't cry, and instead, what you can see is the light in her eyes flickering and their glow diminishing from flame to ember.
This time, it is she who pleads. First to Sha and Hemlock: "Don't fight him, please!". Then, she turns to Kieran. "Please ... PLEASE ... don't hurt them anymore. Let them go."
Peindre l'amour, peindre la vie, pleurer en couleur ♫
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Sha can tell something personal is between Saoirse and Kieran, but he has come to love his fiery companion too much to just let her fall, and so he calls on his goddess for her touch of the void. (15 hpts). "Saoirse, Lam please my Mistress don't let them fall..."
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Kieran braces himself for Sha's spell, assuming it will be somehow offensive, but he is barely phased by it. One of the soldiers does stumble and fall into the underbrush, suddenly embracing sleep's peace. A gentle voice appears in Sha's mind. "YOU WILL SURVIVE THIS, MY DEAR, BUT I CAN NOT STOP HIM FOR YOU."
The soldiers and workers continue to push through the overgrown plants, but are confused enough by the conversation that they stop actively trying to attack. To the south though, one corner of the battle is still active. The one dueling with Ahmed manages to get a hit in, and both Billy and Ahmed wince in pain. The other, feet gripped by vines, fires an arrow that is harmlessly deflected by Billy's chain mail shirt. Ahmed opens his mouth and spews fire in retaliation - clearly harming his opponent, but not killing him. Billy takes a step north, and calls for help from his gods again - asking them to protect Saoirse. A flickering flame-coloured aura surrounds Saoirse.
"Get out of here! Jonah believes in you, and so do I!"
"Traitor."
Initiative: Saoirse, Hemlock, Lam, Viconia, Servant, Firbolgs, Sha-Gravis, Soldiers, HMC group North, HMC pair West, Billy and Ahmed
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The fight keeps going on around her, and Saoirse can do nothing else but stare at the armored figure that has already reached her. She twists and turns, desperately trying to escape him, but the curse remains in place. (OOC: rolled a 4 to break free) So, she stops fighting and looks right over Kieran's shoulder, straight at Hemlock. She hopes the druid can help Lam, and perhaps that way they - along with Sha - will be able to turn the situation for the better. Either that, or heed Billy's words. Oh, Billy... what will happen to him now that he has unmasked himself by trying to protect her?
With few options left, the young genasi faces Kieran. If she keeps his focus on her, perhaps the others can take advantage. So she asks, "Am I to assume you are my father?", her voice quivers at the last word. Not really waiting for an answer, Saoirse searches for the periapt hanging around her neck and shows it to him. The last remnant of her natural blood. "I can't remember much of the ritual. I remember pain. Excruciating pain. And I remember calling for my mother and father during the worst moments. How strange to realize now that I called for the wrong persons. How many other lies have I been fed during all those cloistered years, I wonder."
She lets the periapt go and moves that same hand towards Swordbreaker's edge. As the fire-colored blood drops from the palm of the hand, she invokes her curse one last time. "Do you want me to stay here? Then stay with me. It is only fitting."
Action: What I hope to acomplish is to give Help by keeping Kieran distracted.
Bonus Action: My second and last blood curse of binding. This time, amplified. She takes 3 necrotic damage. STR ST DC 12.
Temp HPs: 8
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"If a man raises a child and cares for it, that man is a father. I am no-one's father."
Kieran's body tenses up as the blood magic grips him, and he biffs another dice roll against his
RELATIONSHIP REDACTED.Hemlock can easily discern that Saoirse is trying to disctract the elder blood hunter, and that it seems to be working.
Initiative: Saoirse, Hemlock, Lam, Viconia, Servant, Firbolgs, Sha-Gravis, Soldiers, HMC group North, HMC pair West, Billy and Ahmed
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DM: Heavy is the Head
Hemlock hasn't made it far towards the West before he realises no-one else is following him. He turns to see Lam try to grapple the armoured person for his javelin, only to be struck down.
"Lam, no!", he calls out. But still Saoirse pleads with them not to fight the armoured person. He is torn between his instinct to take down the one who so savagely cut down Lam, and Saoirse's plea.
He sizes up the situation, but no matter what he thinks of, he doesn't know how to protect all his companions, at least not by himself.
He knows the most immediate need is to save his Bugbear friend. He runs across to him, taking out a healing potion and feeding it to Lam.
"Lam listen to me, you need to push the armoured person towards the soldiers and deeper into the undergrowth, then you need to run south-west as fast as you can", he says telepathically as Lam is coming around.
He then reaches out to Saoirse with healing energy, "I hope this is enough!". He once again speaks telepathically.
Just before he turns to run back West, he telepathically says to Sha-Gravis, "Sha, whatever happens, grab Saoirse and follow us as fast as you can".
Movement: 15ft South-east next to Lam
Free Action: Take out potion of healing
Action: Give Lam potion of healing - 3+1+2=6 Hit Points back
Bonus Action: 2nd level Healing Word on Saoirse - 1+1+4=6 Hit Points back
Movement: 15ft West into cover from tent hopefully
Special: Concentration on Entangle - 4/10, Twilight Sanctuary - 3+4=7 Temporary Hit Points
Lam's eyes open again, to Hemlock pressing a potion against his lips. Stab wounds in his torso stop their bleeding, but he can still feel the lightning damage, a soreness that radiates through his whole body. He knows that, for a few seconds, he was out and barely clinging to life. The shock of this has overwhelmed his rage - though he can see that the man who nearly killed him is in weapon's reach of both of his other companions, his back towards Lam, and his attention on Saoirse.
Initiative: Saoirse, Hemlock, Lam,
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In the few seconds he was out, Lam had dreams involving the anguished screams of his friends, hurt with him unable to do anything. When he wakes up, the dream begins to give way to reality and his first thought is that he isn’t supposed to be unconscious. He was in a battle- he was supposed to be fighting for his friends. Whatever his objective was here, it wasn’t to be on the ground. He is not sure exactly how he failed his friends so badly when he swallows another mouthful of potion and realizes that he has been drinking something. He is awake again because Hemlock is here, feeding him a potion. He went down because he was stabbed by an electric weapon. The weapon belonged to the armored man. Hemlock sees Lam’s expression go from ashamed to confused, then angry as he notices the armored man is still there. Lam looks almost ready to lose all reason again and hurt himself getting up, then he stops and listens to Hemlock’s voice in his mind. Hemlock sounds like he has a plan, and Lam- not in a mental place to think of a different one- realizes as he gets up that it’s probably the best thing he can do to follow his friend’s directions.
Slightly disoriented but lacking the uncontrolled energy from before he went down, Lam charges directly at the armored man. With a grunt, he pushes the man with both arms as far as possible away from his friends. Then he has to turn away from his friends and trust them to make it out. Maybe Hemlock has spoken to them too. What did Hemlock say? Run south-west? He begins to make his way in that direction, joining Hemlock the moment he spots any part of his Firbolg friend behind the tent.
Movement+action: Dash action. 15ft to get up from prone, 15ft straight north to Kieran.
Bonus action: Shove attack on Kieran, with advantage from Saoirse’s help. Hopefully this shove is for 10ft because of charger? Either straight north of slightly northeast- the point is, away from friends. 24
23athletics.More movement: 30ft southwest to hopefully join Hemlock behind the tent. Also trying to get cover from the tent, but in an admittedly worse position for it.
Regain 8 temp hp from being in Sha’s sanctuary.
Kieran is sent tumbling over and into the tall undergrowth before he has time to react, but manages to keep his stubborn, frozen feet beneath himself. He slowly turns, but, unable to move himself from where he suddenly stands, he turns and faces Saoirse. He throws the crackling javelin again, but at the last minute his hand siezes up, and he twists to aim the point at Sha instead of Saoirse. (26 to hit, 10 piercing and 3 lightning). "Traitorous dwarf!" he barks towards Billy, but as he swings his arm a second time, he grits his teeth and pushes through the sanctuary, managing to at least throw towards his fellow genasi (11 to hit, 13 piercing and 2 lightning).
Initiative: Saoirse, Hemlock, Lam,
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Sha snatches Saoirse into a fireman’s carry, and runs towards Hemlock and Lam. “May your fire burn forever Saoirse!”
Special feline agility.
Action Grapple Saoirse.
Movement all 60’ towards the others.
Bonus Action healing word on Saoirse for 6hp.
The soldiers and workers continue to push through the brush, and several of them do finally break free into the clearing. Two of them shout at the same time, slightly different commands. "Protect the boss!" / "Don't let them take Viconia!" Either way, their attention is on the four of you, standing now over Viconia's corpse.
The clash continues between Ahmed and the other worker, both injuring each other, but neither going down. The other, with a crossbow, fires a shot at Hemlock, still shining like a beacon inside of Sha's twiligh. He squints, the bright sunlight in the middle of the field making the lighting in the leading remarkable complicated. 5 hit, 8 piercing.
"DROP!" Billy shouts with uncharacteristic authority, his voice reverberating with magic, and the worker drops his crossbow into the entangling vines at his feet.
You notice that Viconia's corpse is wearing a shining amulet around its neck, and another sending stone ring on her finger, but taking either of these from her would take time (a full action for each, or a BA with a dc15 sleight of hand check - Saoirse can't reach without being put back down), time you may not have.
Initiative: Saoirse, Hemlock, Lam, Viconia, Servant, Firbolgs, Sha-Gravis, Soldiers, HMC group North, HMC pair West, Billy and Ahmed
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Hemlock winces as the bolt hits home, but fortunately does no more than a scratch, as the bolstering effect of Sha's twilight sanctuary protects him from most of the damage. He also manages to maintain his concentration on the entangling roots and plants.
Concentration Save: 11+2=13
Saoirse can't think straight anymore. Everything is painful: Kieran's replies, the worry for her friend's wellbeing - along with Billy and Ahmed's - and of course the physical pain when that crackling javelin pierces her once again. When Sha approaches her she doesn't even try to understand his intentions and simply lets the tabaxi carry her away. As far away as possible from that forest clearing she's already wishing she had never stepped into to begin with.
As Sha keeps running away carrying her, she can see that their enemies keep advancing. Can she do anything to delay them? That is when she remembers the horses. Without thinking too much, she produces a flame in her hand. "I'm sorry for this...", the genasi mutters as she fires the red and orange bolt towards the poor animal, hoping not too hurt him too much, only to scare him - and, with luck, the other three too - so they interrupt the soldiers advancing towards them.
Action: Produce flame on the nearest horse. To hit: 18 Damage: 8 (I loose Sanctuary)
Temp HP: 9
STR ST DC 15: 10 (another fail)
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The horse whinnies and screams, and begins to kick and pull away from the post it is tied to. The other horses begin to neighbors as well, though they are not thrown into a panic right away.
Athletics to break free: 13, Dex to shake off the feed bag: 19
DM: Heavy is the Head
The beast stays put, though the post shakes and loosens, and most of the HMC folks are momentarily distracted by its outburst. It will bear a large brand on its left rear flank for the rest of its life, and continue to struggle at the end of the initiative order.
Initiative: Saoirse, Hemlock, Lam, Viconia, Servant, Firbolgs, Sha-Gravis, Soldiers, HMC group North, HMC pair West, Billy and Ahmed, panicking horse
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Hemlock gives Saoirse a bit of a shocked look after her fairly brutal attack on the horse, but now is not the time to get into a discussion about that.
Seeing the amulet around Viconia's neck, he can't help but wonder if that is why the soldiers are so keen to protect the body. He also needs to address the fact that he is shining like a beacon to the enemy archers.
He quickly stood to unclasp the amulet, and as he pockets it he suddenly disappears.
He briefly turns, and telepathically tells Billy, "Thank you, my friend. You should get Ahmed and both flee. Head to Village Tree, we will make sure you are expected".
Anyone listening closely would then hear him rush towards the woods.
Action: Take the amulet off Viconia
Bonus Action: Firbolg Hidden Step - turns invisible until the start of his next turn
Movement: Into the woods to the west
Special: Concentration on Entangle - 5/10, Twilight Sanctuary - 1+4=5 Temporary Hit Points
Billy looks towards the woods, and towards Ahmed. He has heard your message.
The amulet is clearly magical, but there's no time to examine it now.
One of the soldiers shouts "bloody tree-orc witchcraft! It disappeared!"
Initiative: Saoirse, Hemlock, Lam, Viconia, Servant, Firbolgs, Sha-Gravis, Soldiers, HMC group North, HMC pair West, Billy and Ahmed, panicking horse
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