The guards escort the group inside. The one in the lead offers an explanation as they go about how they will be taking you to the Gatehold Barracks to discuss terms with the Taskhand. The people in the town look weather-beaten, but hard. They look at the passing parties with mild curiosity, but none waste more than a moment or two before going back to whatever they were doing.
From around the corner of a crumbling building, five twitching, skinless masses of blinking eyes and slavering mouths wriggle into view. One of them is shredding the flesh of a hapless soldier in three of its amorphous maws. His shriek of agony is cut off by the sudden loss of life. Trumpets blare an alarm, and several Aurora Watch soldiers hurry into the streets. One of them, a male drow, pauses to address you. “Newcomers? No time for pleasantries—draw your weapons or get to safety! Find me at the barracks after!”
Ten more of these skinless masses crawl over some of the lower rooftops. Ayo balks, Dermot recoils in fear, Maggie sets her jaw, Irvan shrugs and pulls a dagger from seemingly nowhere, Galsariad edges slightly behind Ayo and hisses about maybe getting terms sorted before combat, and Entropy nods her head, ready for combat once more. They then look to you to see what actions you take.
Ayo and her crew snap into action with the Fellowship, for once even out-pacing them as they rush to make up for being caught flat-footed with Bert and Ernie's dynamite special. They rush forward and engage a group of 5 of these creatures crawling down from the rooftops of some buildings on the left, while the Kryn warriors form up on the 5 coming down from rooftops on the right. That leaves the 5 in the street that just nibbled a Kryn warrior to pieces.
Ylis has no clue what they are but she is absolutely certain they are not cuddly or friendly. They are likely fiends of some kind and given what she has already been told a few times about Bazzoxan, they are likely some kind of demon.
Jacaranda did not know what the things were but she knew they were wrong.....
She headed north-east stopping just before the door and fired twice at the central creature.....her first shot channelling energy from the stones beneath her feet to fill the shaft with unreleased potential.
Attack: 16 Damage: 7 + 6 Force damage to all within 10 feet.
The guards escort the group inside. The one in the lead offers an explanation as they go about how they will be taking you to the Gatehold Barracks to discuss terms with the Taskhand. The people in the town look weather-beaten, but hard. They look at the passing parties with mild curiosity, but none waste more than a moment or two before going back to whatever they were doing.
From around the corner of a crumbling building, five twitching, skinless masses of blinking eyes and slavering mouths wriggle into view. One of them is shredding the flesh of a hapless soldier in three of its amorphous maws. His shriek of agony is cut off by the sudden loss of life. Trumpets blare an alarm, and several Aurora Watch soldiers hurry into the streets. One of them, a male drow, pauses to address you. “Newcomers? No time for pleasantries—draw your weapons or get to safety! Find me at the barracks after!”
Ten more of these skinless masses crawl over some of the lower rooftops. Ayo balks, Dermot recoils in fear, Maggie sets her jaw, Irvan shrugs and pulls a dagger from seemingly nowhere, Galsariad edges slightly behind Ayo and hisses about maybe getting terms sorted before combat, and Entropy nods her head, ready for combat once more. They then look to you to see what actions you take.
DM: What do you do?
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OOC: poop. Do the PCs know what they are?
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DM: Give me an Arcana or Religion Check, Ylis.
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Bombur pulls out the Hymnal and blesses his weapon (blessings of the forge).
[8 initistive]
“I know not what these creatures are, but they are surely evil!”
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Ooc: trying to use my phone is terrible 9
Yois Arcana check
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
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"real life is a super high CR."
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"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
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OOC: Shoulda waited until I got home.
"Ew it ate that dude! Gross! I think it's ok to kill them!"
Ylis Initiative 9
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
Ayo and her crew snap into action with the Fellowship, for once even out-pacing them as they rush to make up for being caught flat-footed with Bert and Ernie's dynamite special. They rush forward and engage a group of 5 of these creatures crawling down from the rooftops of some buildings on the left, while the Kryn warriors form up on the 5 coming down from rooftops on the right. That leaves the 5 in the street that just nibbled a Kryn warrior to pieces.
Ylis has no clue what they are but she is absolutely certain they are not cuddly or friendly. They are likely fiends of some kind and given what she has already been told a few times about Bazzoxan, they are likely some kind of demon.
They bear down on the party.
DM: Everyone else Roll Initiative.
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Initiative- 7
Jacaranda did not know what the things were but she knew they were wrong.....
She headed north-east stopping just before the door and fired twice at the central creature.....her first shot channelling energy from the stones beneath her feet to fill the shaft with unreleased potential.
Attack: 16 Damage: 7 + 6 Force damage to all within 10 feet.
Attack: 16 Damage: 7
Morgan: initiative 16 (with advantage from Tides of Chaos), and Arcana check: 4