BE7s Frozen Sick (IC)

Within seconds Akira goes from feeling immense pain, to nothingness, and then relief and life back into her body! With this new sense of rejuvenation she turns to Vayne and says

”Thank you friend, you have saved me more than once and for this I am eternally grateful. Now let’s try and be rid of these evil elves!” 

Akira takes a very deep breath and picks her bow off the stone ground. She takes a bow out of her quiver and says a small dwarvin prayer of luck and grace on the arrow. Translated into English the prayer says “aim true, shoot straight, hit without fear”

At bandit 1 attack roll: 13 damage 9 piercing

Akira's arrow, her prayer perhaps heard by a bearded god, hits home.  The arrowhead drives into the man's chest.  His hands are bleeding from the rope, an arrow is sticking out of his chest, bandit 1 is having a terrible day.  With a last gasp, he slumps against the wall, legs failing, falling into darkness...

Looking up at Torvil and Kitsune, then to the dead elf next to him, bandit 3  looks pi$$'d but also way less arrogant than he did 12 seconds ago.  

Bandit 2 fired his crossbow at Akira, payback for her last shot.  As he fires, bandit 3  bumps into him while reaching down for his scimitar.  The arrow flies high and to the left of Akira.

***party is up.  Plank is back to a crossable position.  Bandit 1 is dead.  None of the bandits currently hold the rope.  Gimme 2 mins and I'll have VTT up if u are free and want to see the map.  Can't do the pics from my phone.  Out of town till Sat.  Bandit 1 is dead, the other 2 are slightly back from the wster.***

Vayne extends his hand, palm up.  He chants softly, conjuring a ball of acid.  With a flick of the wrist the acid was flying at bandit 3.  ***attack 17 damage 4 acid***  The glob of acid hits, followed by a yelp of pain.

Torvil walks across the plank at normal speed, 30 ft on the first go.  

Athletics : 20

Torvil "walks the plank" safely, ending up a few feet onto the rocky floor just beyond the crude, make-shift bridge.

Kitsune doesn't let her friendly dwarf have all the glory.  As the bridge settles, she flows across the rough timber with the silent, blurring speed of a black panther.  She ignores the stinging in her shoulder, her pale eyes locked on the remaining bandits as she slides into position just behind Torvil’s shoulder, her shortsword leveled and ready for the next heartbeat.

Movement: 30 feet across the plank to join Torvil

Acrobatics (to cross at full speed): 23 (dice gods don't fail me now!)

The duo may as well have been walking a drawbridge, so confidently did they skip across the rough plank.  Kitsune makes it to the very end of the plank, just 5 ft short of the promised land, short sword at the ready.

As the arrow flies past Akira on her left, she grabs an arrow and aims it at Bandit 3 as an answer to his attempt to hit her! For a singular moment before she lets the arrow go, without relinquishing her aim, she watches two of her team mates make it across the rickety bridge. With a sigh of relief, she focuses back on bandit three and releases her arrow! 

@ bandit 3 attack roll:19, damage: 6 piercing 

Akira's arrow slammed into the bandit's abdomen, bending him over in agony.  Spitting up a bit of blood, he manages to almost straighten back up fully.  With a mix of pain and hatred in his eyes, he closes in on Torvil and swings wildly.  ***Bandit 3 scimitar attack 18 slashing damage 6***

"Back to the abyss with you," Bandit 2 screams at Akira.  Having seen enough of her arrows wound or kill his companions, he levels his crossbow at her.  Mumbling a whispered prayer to the dragon queen, he fires.  ***Bandit 2 crossbow attack 23 (crit) 16 piercing damage***  

Akira glances down to see the quivering shaft of the bolt sticking out of her chest, driven straight through her leather armor by tremendous force.  "Fu...." she manages to get out before everything went black.

***Bandit 3 is bloodied.  Akira is down and needs to make a death saving throw please.  The party is up.***

Vayne screams out in anguish when Akira falls again.  "Damn you!" he screams at the bandit with the crossbow.  Calling on the simmering magic within his very soul, he releases a flashing ball of lightening energy.  ***B/A innate sorcery /  sorcerous burst attack ADV 19 lightening damage 4***

Kitsune smells a strong odor of bat guano coming from the cave to the east.  Bandit 3 is wounded, bandit 2 is bloodied.

***got all criss crossed trying to post from my phone.  S/b sorted out now, much easier on the computer.***

***sorry, should have opened up the view on that room sooner***

OOC: Is Kitsune sure that the guano smell isn’t coming from the friendly dwarf in front of her?  😮

Death save roll: 12! 
Akira lies still on the cave’s cold ground. Her bow that was in her left hand lies next to her hand, dropped when Akira fell down the ground from the crossbow’s impact.

Torvil shrugs off the damage from the bandit, and moves 7.5 - 10 feet or so to the west, so that Kitsune can come off the plank, but staying within melee range of bandit 3.  He brings his war pick down on bandit 3, hopefully dropping them to the ground.  He aims the pick into their upper chest/left shoulder/back, yanking it out viciously with the motion.  With the last of his movement, he advances on bandit 2, getting in melee range with them and huffing and puffing on them, breathing out his blood-tinged hot breath on them.  The blood is pumping through his veins as he is fully into this brawl of a fight.  "Ready to bleed, elf?  Ready to meet my pick up close and personal like?"

War pick to bandit 3 : 21 to hit, for 9 points of piercing damage.  

Hot, bad blood-tinged breath : for effect. :) 

Bandit 3 falls to the ground, bits of shattered bone and perhaps a glob of lung ooze off of the tip of Torvil's war pick.  Bandit 2, spittle running down his face, and tinkle running down his leg, clutches his crossbow in shaking hands.  

Kitsune doesn't let the smell of guano - or the dwarf - distract her for a second.  As Torvil steps aside to clear her path, she sprints off the edge of the plank like a shadow.  She ignores the dying gasps of Bandit3, her eyes fixed solely on the trembling archer (Bandit2) who just put Akira down.

"Your Queen isn't listening...but mine is!" she rasps, her voice a cold promise.

Shortsword Attack on Bandit2: 11 Damage: 9

Bandit 3, with absolute terror in his eyes (and dwarf spit on his face), drops his crossbow and surrenders.

Vayne crouches down near Akira, working to stop her bleeding and prevent her demise. ***medicine check:  5 ***  He curses profusely as he ties strips of cloth around her wounds, but the blood keeps flowing.

***Combat over:  Akira, death save please.***

OOC: @DM, how many feet is there between Kitsune and Akira?  Kitsune has the Cure Wounds spell memorized, which could save Akira.  However, that spell has a range of zero (aka "Touch").  So, Kitsune would have to sprint back across the plank (and pass an Acrobatics skill check), which would cover a max distance of 30 feet, and might not be able to even make it to Akira in time.  What say you?

***Could get there with the dash action, acrobatics still needed, but not crazy high (10 walking, 15 running) Barring a 1 on the death save, she should have another round or two at least.  Or Vayne could make it on the next medicine check...***

Kitsune doesn't even wait for the bandit's crossbow to hit the ground.  The moment she sees the blood through Vayne’s frantic fingers, she spins on her heel.  "Hold her together!" she shouts over the cavern’s roar.  She hits the plank at a full sprint, her boots barely touching the wood (OOC: elves look...weird...when they run).  The stench of the bat guano is forgotten, replaced by the desperate need to reach her friend before the light fades.

Action: Dashing across the plank

Acrobatics: 7

OOC: Sure wish I hadn't already burned my Blessing of the Raven Queen a while back, where I could teleport up to 30 feet...