Blood Scales Game

Despite the others making their way toward the stairs, Thimbol simply remained close to the swarm covering Navek, regardless of where they were headed. The halfling would bring about his daggers to cut through as many as he could with each swing of his weapon.

Swarm 2 Attack: 19 Damage: 6 Sneak attack: 6

(Two weapon)

Swarm 2 Attack: 20 Damage: 2

(swarm 2 takes 8 damage, 12/24 hp and swarm 4 has 10hp)

Swarm 4 will leap from Lorarila and attempt to flee up the stairs and out of the house since they have been unable to land a single blow or get to taste any fresh meat.

Lorarilla and Sayre, please take AOO against them as they leave.

Sayre, Navek, and then Lorarila are up

AOO

Hit 12

Damage 5

Nice, As the rats turn to flee, Lorarila is able to pin a couple to the stone floor with her dagger.

(Lorarila has been watching Thimbol and Sayre amazing skills, she learning slowly) 

Sayre throws her handaxe Attack: 8 Damage: 4 against the fleeing rats. She then moves to pick it up then moves to add her furry of attacks to the remaining swarm handaxe Attack: 19 Damage: 6; dagger Attack: 19 Damage: 5

Navek laughs and says, "No Sass, little Lora! Just speaking from experience. Looks like we're almost done though!" He glances down at Thimbol now back at his side, starts to say something, but then with another chortle he just brings Miss Heckler down on the remaining batch at his feet.

Miss Heckler: 9 Damage: 10.

Future Reaction: Good 'ol Faithful Protection Feature on the 1st Ally targeted by an attack nearby.  

The few remaining rats that used to make up swarm 4 escape up the stairs, some of them picking up other dead rats as they scurry up the stairs to feast upon later.

Lorarila is up!

Swarm 2, still swarming around all over Navek has 6 HP left

Lorarila, "Well can't catch them, we should get a cat or something." Looking at Navek and sing aiming yet another firebolt. "Don't move Sassy, or you may be on fire."

Hit 15

Damage 10

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Round 4 Recap
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Initiative order
swarm 2 - Continued to crawl all over Navek, hoping to continue feasting on the mountain of flesh but Navek is able to toss them off and prevent taking any further damage.

Mo - Stood up and took a few swings at the rats covering Lorarilla, but in his making sure not to hit her, the rats were able to avoide his attacks, spreading apart so that they sword passed between them.

Thimbol - Was able to quickly stab into the rats swarming over Navek, quickly spearing through so many rats that the blades of his daggers were no longer visible beneath the dead rat corpses, once the daggers were full he flicked them off with a quick twist of the wrist and went back to stabbing. 

swarm 4 - Attempted to escape the basement with as many snacks as they could (other dead rats) and lost some of their number to a few quick stabs from Lorarila and an axe from Sayre that sailed through the air and split a number of them in half.

Sayre - Proceeded to pick up her handaxe and attack the last swarm with it and her dagger, just barley missing with the axe but plunging her dagger deep into the mound of squirming rats.

Navek - tries to peel the rats off his body with his axe but they are all over him and his face and is unable to strike the rats without hitting himself in the process

Lorarila - Launches a firebolt at the rats covering Navek, missing him and slamming into the stone wall behind him.

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Round 5 (Optional)
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Swarm 2 will attempt to jump from Navek and flee up the stairs as well after taking heavy losses, picking up other dead rats on their way out. 

(everyone can make AOO if they want, or they can just let them go and be done with combat. You will get the same amount of XP either way if you were worried about that)

"My stock! Nooo!" Navek takes a swings the axe around. "Get them! Let a few too many escape , and will be dealing with them for days more!"

Opportunity Attack: 20 Damage: 7.

AOO: Attack: 18 Damage: 7 

Thimbol would make a final effort to kill the fleeing rats so they wouldn't consider coming back. His swing was wide, as Navek was quicker. "This better be worth..." the halfling pauses as he remembered what he was sure he saw before the swarms converged. "I think there's a body in the corner..."

(On phone. )

Following Thimbol's words, Sayre moves to the body to investigate. 7

Navek manages to cleave nearly all the remaining rats in half as just a couple manage to make their way up the stairs. As Thimbol mentions remembering a body, Sayre moves across the room through an ankle deep sea of rat corpses before getting to the small corpse. As Sayre investigates the body she can tell that it belonged to a dwarf who apparently had their legs pinned under a large holding barrel of ale. The corpse is very decomposed and had been housing a large number of rats, but there appear to be a few items mixed in among the remains that appear to be in brand new condition. 


Also everyone make sure to add 50 xp for that last fight plus 25 for Sayre answering my question in the OOC chat.. 75 xp each!

"Uh guys... I think I found Morgan Leadbelly," Sayre calls out.

OOC: Level 2!! What'd I find?

Lorarila looks around at the rat corpses and covers her nose and mouth before coming down the stairs, casting Light onto her dagger to use as a torch. "You all can't help but find trouble, can't you? Barely been home for a few hours and you brought out every vermin for miles." Shurgs and chuckles, "I guess spiders and rats has standards, they don't want to live beside you all." Looks at the body, "Please tell me that isn't old Leadbelly, I hoped he had a happier ending."

Navek had already jumped at the chance to examine one of the more or less intact of the dead, so Thimbol's statement fell on death ears. At Sayre's words and having the light on the shield get transferred, the goliath slides it into a side-pouch as he joins in on the investigation. "We'll... No matter who it is, we need to take it up to have identified." He steps up on that note to see how best he could carry up the body. "May need a... ah--got just the thing." Navek starts fishing around in his pack for his bedroll, giving the others plenty of time to further investigate the body or do whatever. 

"The best way to identify someone is to look through their stuff. " Thimbol commented as he put the daggers away and moved toward the body. Hopefully getting a hand or two in before Navek wrapped the corpse up. 

(I can roll if needed? But unless the guy is hiding something deep in his colon...)

(On phone) 

As Navek moves to pick up the body, Sayre take a small step back from her examination. Thimbol quickly moves in front of Navek and begins to look for "clues" as to the identity of this individual. As thimbol moves his hands through the pockets and of the cloths and shifts around the remains, he finds a few items that seem to either look brand new or at the very least still look usable around 7 years of decay.

1 x A moldy leather pouch containing 100G
1 x Gold ring with perfectly cut emerald and Ruby gemstones (worth 750 gold)
1 x Top hat of superior quality (worth 50 gold)
1 x Pipe that appears to look like a fire breathing dragon
1 x key ring, with a number of keys, the largest Key inscribed with the letters LB
1 x Tankard with a stern dwarven face carved into the side.
1 x light crossbow & 20 bolts

As you continue to examine his body, you notice just out of reach of the corpse a few inches from the outstretched hand is a small carved stone with the face of a beautiful dwarven women etched into the front. 

**has it been 10 minutes since we walked into the house? I had Detect Magic going. If its been more then 10 minutes I could sit down and do another ritual.**