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Nice Hat: Round 3
Kod raises his axe waiting for the questioning to be over. The cultist raises his arm instinctively to block the blow that doesn't come... yet.
The kobolds are still out of sight, although you still hear them scrambling around out of view. It sounds like they're circling around the bowl you're all in...
8
Delirious, Place', Hordkhen and Lyria are up, now is the time to ask questions if you have them. Or just post if you're passing or holding an action.
"Really... that's all you've got for us--" Tar makes a point to step to the side, and not be the thing standing between Kod, Potato, and the Cultist, any longer. "If you see a Dragon Queen when you get to Hell tell 'er that the slaves are pissing on her gold before they melt it."
Ready crossbow for as soon as Kobold is visible on the 'rim' of the 'bowl' Crossbow 16 dmg 1
The four of you hold attacks and scan the rim for returning kobolds.
The Cultist doesn't move, probably knowing what would happen if he did, but says, "Please, don't kill me, I'll tell you everything I know if you let me leave!" He then proceeds to spill his guts before even hearing if you'll agree to not spill his guts. "I already told you about the rearguard, I don’t know how strong it will be, but it's going to be about a mile ahead, where the path passes between rocky bluffs. The camp is not going to be far from that, it's in a ravine with guards posted all over. There are watch towers, too. Some prisoners were taken from town but I don't know how many. We were told to look specifically for gold, gems, and other valuables and were forbidden to do any looting for ourselves. We are preparing the great hoard to honor the Dragon Queen. That's all I know, I swear, will you let me go now?"
Potato is up, then Kod.
22-Kod 18-Kobolds x8 (2@ 1 HP, Out of sight, NW side) 15-Delirious (Atop hill, SE side) 15-Place' 13-Hordkhen 12-Lyria (Atop hill, SE side) 10-Cultist 5-Potato
Potato shrugs. "You roll over, close eyes, stay quiet. We tie you. Make you slow. You wait, we go. You figure it out. Go new place, be better pink skin. We not see you again, we not stuff you with onion, you not fill many bellies."
That seemed unnecessary, mercy may mean nothing to you but it means nothing to them either. I move between cod and the cultist, try to cast spare the dying and attempt to treat his clearly lethal wounds. I hope we won't be butchering defeated enemies by practice, because I can not be a party to blatant, unnecessary brutality. I don't expect saints from among you but I demand honor in dealings with unwilling or disadvantaged foes. there are so few crucial things that separate us from the wanton destruction wrought by monsters.
"I never gave him my word he'd live. He's a dog and a coward. Killing innocents and sniveling when its time to pay the tab. I did the world and him a favor. These zealots always go back to the fold. But if you don't like that I killed an unarmed man..." Kod tosses the resurrected cultist a hand axe and says "take it and stand up. My friend wants you to die on your feet."
Those of cults are lost and confused souls, the power of faith is as powerful in the right as it is in the wrong. I'm not asking you to spare his life because I believe he is good, that he will do the right thing or that he did no wrong. I put my hand on Kod's shoulder gently I'm asking because I believe that any repentant soul can be saved, if it wishes it. We know nothing of his crimes, only his association to the criminal and his prostration in the face of death. Give to my lord Ilmater the lives of the weak, the fearful and confused. Give them the chance to redeem their souls as I am here on this world to see done, Let their end be met at another's blade should they choose poorly, and I'll not question the justice you grant to the ones we know as the tyrant, the killer or the fiend. I remove my hand. I will bear witness to the justice of those known to deserve it, but I can not stand idly as any are cut down simply for being affiliated with the wrong people. Speaking to everyone.This isn't just, there is naught to be gained. Who would I be if I allowed myself to be affiliated with this group if I let this come to pass?
Tar keeps an eye and a readied shot for the Kobolds, looking back to Lyria just briefly, "War makes for strange alliances, and I respect you for your fearlessness, lady- I won't protest if you try to redeem them. But the second they hesitate they die- meet us half-way there." he looks back down the bolt, "I have no use for gods- your flock should pray to you instead." Tar looks back to her, "...because anything that gets too much power thinks itself a god. Dragons are sadistic masters and all that walks or crawls they believe are subject to them. My Grandsire was Ash-Marked, bathed in the soot from burning mountains, dragonfire, and the bodies of countless dead. This isn't ancient history- the masters want their slaves back... we found out from that slug Nighthill disposed of that this cult serves those very masters."
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Potato offers to let the cultist go, but then in Round 4 of Nice Hat, Kod chops the cultist's head like firewood.
Lyria steps forward while chiding Kod about his brash unforgiving ways, and they converse for a few short seconds, but before she can do anything to repair the cultist's bleeding skull, the kobolds start pouring over the top of the ridge. The first one gets an arrow from Delirious: Attack: 14 Damage: 5 it falls and rolls down the inside of the bowl with its momentum. Place' misses his shot with his magical stone. Hordkhen fires a bolt and hits a kobold but the bolt bounces off with only minor damage. Lyria sends holy fire at the same one, DEX Save: 13 but it manages to dodge it.
There are 7 kobolds now, lining the top of the ridge on the East side, not far from where Delirious still stands. Two of them dash over to melee range with him, the other 5 sling stones at the group, 2 at Delirious: Attack: 19 Damage: 4 Attack: 24 Damage: 7 and 3 at Kod: Attack: 16 Damage: 4 Attack: 21 Damage: 3 Attack: 11 Damage: 6 (Wow, 2 with advantage got a 13, and 2 crits without advantage... Sorry, Kod)
Delirious, PLace', Hordkhen and Lyria are up again.
22-Kod 21/32 18-Kobolds x7 (2@ 1 HP, 1@ 4 HP / 2 in melee with Delirious, 5 along East ridge) 15-Delirious (Atop hill, SE side, in melee with 2 kobolds) 15-Place' 13-Hordkhen 12-Lyria (Atop hill, SE side) 10-Cultist 5-Potato
Delirious swings at one of the kobolds, but it ducks the attack. However, he comes in with a second blow and anticipates the direction it was going to move, killing it by severing a vital artery in its neck.
Place' throws his other two magic stones at two of the already injured kobolds: Attack: 18 Damage: 5 Attack: 16 Damage: 7 He takes out one of the nearly dead ones.
Hordkhen missed his target but is now adjacent to the group atop the ridge.
Lyria targets the one Hordkhen knicked, DEX Save: 9 but it leaps out of the way.
Potato and Kod are up.
22-Kod 21/32 18-Kobolds x5 (1 in melee with Delirious, 4 along East ridge- 1@ 1 HP, 1@ 4 HP) 15-Delirious (Atop hill, SE side, in melee with 2 kobolds) 15-Place' 13-Hordkhen 12-Lyria (Atop hill, SE side) 10-Cultist 5-Potato
Hold action axe to his face until I get a clear sign we're done with questions.
Nice Hat: Round 3
Kod raises his axe waiting for the questioning to be over. The cultist raises his arm instinctively to block the blow that doesn't come... yet.
The kobolds are still out of sight, although you still hear them scrambling around out of view. It sounds like they're circling around the bowl you're all in...
8
Delirious, Place', Hordkhen and Lyria are up, now is the time to ask questions if you have them. Or just post if you're passing or holding an action.
-We are all just one failed saving throw away from someone else's fantasy...
HOld action sacred flame on any enemy making an appearance. 6
Rainbow....... Mooo....
Delirious readies an arrow and scans the battlefield for anything that might need shooting.
Ba magic stone so I have 3 again
Hold action throw stone at enemy 22 dmg 8
Chronomancy!!!
"Really... that's all you've got for us--" Tar makes a point to step to the side, and not be the thing standing between Kod, Potato, and the Cultist, any longer. "If you see a Dragon Queen when you get to Hell tell 'er that the slaves are pissing on her gold before they melt it."
Ready crossbow for as soon as Kobold is visible on the 'rim' of the 'bowl' Crossbow 16 dmg 1
The four of you hold attacks and scan the rim for returning kobolds.
The Cultist doesn't move, probably knowing what would happen if he did, but says, "Please, don't kill me, I'll tell you everything I know if you let me leave!" He then proceeds to spill his guts before even hearing if you'll agree to not spill his guts. "I already told you about the rearguard, I don’t know how strong it will be, but it's going to be about a mile ahead, where the path passes between rocky bluffs. The camp is not going to be far from that, it's in a ravine with guards posted all over. There are watch towers, too. Some prisoners were taken from town but I don't know how many. We were told to look specifically for gold, gems, and other valuables and were forbidden to do any looting for ourselves. We are preparing the great hoard to honor the Dragon Queen. That's all I know, I swear, will you let me go now?"
Potato is up, then Kod.
22-Kod
18-Kobolds x8 (2@ 1 HP, Out of sight, NW side)
15-Delirious (Atop hill, SE side)
15-Place'
13-Hordkhen
12-Lyria (Atop hill, SE side)
10-Cultist
5-Potato
-We are all just one failed saving throw away from someone else's fantasy...
Potato shrugs. "You roll over, close eyes, stay quiet. We tie you. Make you slow. You wait, we go. You figure it out. Go new place, be better pink skin. We not see you again, we not stuff you with onion, you not fill many bellies."
Kod swings his axe down on the cultist.
"Wrong god."
That seemed unnecessary, mercy may mean nothing to you but it means nothing to them either. I move between cod and the cultist, try to cast spare the dying and attempt to treat his clearly lethal wounds. I hope we won't be butchering defeated enemies by practice, because I can not be a party to blatant, unnecessary brutality. I don't expect saints from among you but I demand honor in dealings with unwilling or disadvantaged foes. there are so few crucial things that separate us from the wanton destruction wrought by monsters.
Rainbow....... Mooo....
"I never gave him my word he'd live. He's a dog and a coward. Killing innocents and sniveling when its time to pay the tab. I did the world and him a favor. These zealots always go back to the fold. But if you don't like that I killed an unarmed man..." Kod tosses the resurrected cultist a hand axe and says "take it and stand up. My friend wants you to die on your feet."
Those of cults are lost and confused souls, the power of faith is as powerful in the right as it is in the wrong. I'm not asking you to spare his life because I believe he is good, that he will do the right thing or that he did no wrong. I put my hand on Kod's shoulder gently I'm asking because I believe that any repentant soul can be saved, if it wishes it. We know nothing of his crimes, only his association to the criminal and his prostration in the face of death. Give to my lord Ilmater the lives of the weak, the fearful and confused. Give them the chance to redeem their souls as I am here on this world to see done, Let their end be met at another's blade should they choose poorly, and I'll not question the justice you grant to the ones we know as the tyrant, the killer or the fiend. I remove my hand. I will bear witness to the justice of those known to deserve it, but I can not stand idly as any are cut down simply for being affiliated with the wrong people. Speaking to everyone. This isn't just, there is naught to be gained. Who would I be if I allowed myself to be affiliated with this group if I let this come to pass?
Rainbow....... Mooo....
He actively raided a town. He isn't sorry. He's afraid because he got caught.
Tar keeps an eye and a readied shot for the Kobolds, looking back to Lyria just briefly, "War makes for strange alliances, and I respect you for your fearlessness, lady- I won't protest if you try to redeem them. But the second they hesitate they die- meet us half-way there." he looks back down the bolt, "I have no use for gods- your flock should pray to you instead." Tar looks back to her, "...because anything that gets too much power thinks itself a god. Dragons are sadistic masters and all that walks or crawls they believe are subject to them. My Grandsire was Ash-Marked, bathed in the soot from burning mountains, dragonfire, and the bodies of countless dead. This isn't ancient history- the masters want their slaves back... we found out from that slug Nighthill disposed of that this cult serves those very masters."
Potato offers to let the cultist go, but then in Round 4 of Nice Hat, Kod chops the cultist's head like firewood.
Lyria steps forward while chiding Kod about his brash unforgiving ways, and they converse for a few short seconds, but before she can do anything to repair the cultist's bleeding skull, the kobolds start pouring over the top of the ridge. The first one gets an arrow from Delirious:
Attack: 14 Damage: 5 it falls and rolls down the inside of the bowl with its momentum.
Place' misses his shot with his magical stone. Hordkhen fires a bolt and hits a kobold but the bolt bounces off with only minor damage. Lyria sends holy fire at the same one, DEX Save: 13 but it manages to dodge it.
There are 7 kobolds now, lining the top of the ridge on the East side, not far from where Delirious still stands. Two of them dash over to melee range with him, the other 5 sling stones at the group, 2 at Delirious:
Attack: 19 Damage: 4
Attack: 24 Damage: 7
and 3 at Kod:
Attack: 16 Damage: 4
Attack: 21 Damage: 3
Attack: 11 Damage: 6
(Wow, 2 with advantage got a 13, and 2 crits without advantage... Sorry, Kod)
Delirious, PLace', Hordkhen and Lyria are up again.
22-Kod 21/32
18-Kobolds x7 (2@ 1 HP, 1@ 4 HP / 2 in melee with Delirious, 5 along East ridge)
15-Delirious (Atop hill, SE side, in melee with 2 kobolds)
15-Place'
13-Hordkhen
12-Lyria (Atop hill, SE side)
10-Cultist5-Potato
-We are all just one failed saving throw away from someone else's fantasy...
Sacred flame on the kobold at 4hp 2
Rainbow....... Mooo....
Hordkhen stomps over to the closest of the kobold group and slashes a them.
Longsword 6 Dmg 8
Delirious slings his bow over his shoulder and draws his two scimitars to greet the Kobolds that ran up on him.
Scimitar Attack: 7 Damage: 6
Scimitar Attack: 15 Damage: 9
If the first one dies I'll hit the second one, if not I'll hit the same one twice.
Delirious swings at one of the kobolds, but it ducks the attack. However, he comes in with a second blow and anticipates the direction it was going to move, killing it by severing a vital artery in its neck.
Place' throws his other two magic stones at two of the already injured kobolds:
Attack: 18 Damage: 5
Attack: 16 Damage: 7
He takes out one of the nearly dead ones.
Hordkhen missed his target but is now adjacent to the group atop the ridge.
Lyria targets the one Hordkhen knicked, DEX Save: 9 but it leaps out of the way.
Potato and Kod are up.
22-Kod 21/32
18-Kobolds x5 (1 in melee with Delirious, 4 along East ridge- 1@ 1 HP, 1@ 4 HP)
15-Delirious (Atop hill, SE side, in melee with 2 kobolds)
15-Place'
13-Hordkhen
12-Lyria (Atop hill, SE side)
10-Cultist5-Potato
-We are all just one failed saving throw away from someone else's fantasy...
Rush a kobold swing
Atk. 18 dmg. 13