Andrømeda steps to the right, raising her greataxe high once more and then bringing it down, looking to decapitate the Manticore.

Attack: 25 Damage: 13

With the jostling around from being attacked on multiple sides, the Manticore is moving around too much for Andrømeda to decapitate it, but she does get a solid hit on the evil creature. It cries out in agony and you can tell that it is clearly very injured.

Kwisatz is up next.

"It's a shame it had to come to this. You should have left them alone." Kwisatz says to the manticore, adding "You need to cool down." as he casts chill touch at it Attack: 14 Damage: 6

((I love how you integrated both compassion and a dad joke into your RP. hahaha))

The manticore, being 40' away and her view being somewhat blocked by this massive barbarian barely even realized Kwisatz was back there. But, being touched by this spectral, magical hand brought Kiwz's existence to her notice. She looked at him and says, "Your comments are meaningless, child!" Either she's not sure you're a gnome, or she's trying to insult you. You're not sure. 

She does take all 6 points of damage, and it is now her turn.

The manticore is going to just go for the target closest to her, and that would be Andrømeda. She knows that she's going to die soon, and you can see that recognition in her face. But, you can also tell that she's all-in on this fight. Her mate is dead. She's near death. She's going to give it all that she has. 

She lunges at Andrømeda and slashes at Andrømeda's leg with her claws (Attack: 18 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll.) as she tries to climb the large human, then she slashes at Andrømeda's chest (Attack: 8 Damage: 6), and finally, she attempts to bite Andrømeda on the neck (Attack: 8 Damage: 6).

The manticore's strength, judgement, and coordination are clearly failing her. At this point, she's just a wounded animal fighting for survival in the most primitive of natural directives: kill or be killed. 

It is now Rush's turn.

Rush runs up and strikes at the manticore with his warhammer

Attack: 18 Damage: 4

((Rush is currently 40' away from the minotaur, so it would take your whole turn in order to get all the way up there. If you want to do that, you can, but you won't have enough of an action to attack.))

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((Rush is currently 40' away from the minotaur, so it would take your whole turn in order to get all the way up there. If you want to do that, you can, but you won't have enough of an action to attack.))

 Oh whoops

Rush will cast toll the dead then. DC 14. 12

That's a hit! With that attack, the Manticore is very close to death. After trying to climb Andrømeda, failing, and landing back on the ground, the Manticore is on all fours with it's head hanging low. Then a bell tolls that brings with it necrotic damage.

Sael is next!

Smirking, but still shaking her head at Kwiz's joke, Sael rushes forward with her longsword, hoping to end this battle.  Using both hands, she swings at the near-dead Manticore:

Attack: 21 Damage: 8

With Kwisatz's comments and Rush's attack still commanding most of the manticore's attention, Sael rushes forward from the creature's blind spot. She brings her longsword down on it's neck, finishing what Andrømeda had started and Sael decapitates it. The manticore's head drops to the ground and awkwardly rolls down the hill a few feet, resting at Andrømeda's feet, face looking up and still sneering. The only indication on the creature's face that it's actually dead and not just a disembodied yet living head is that the tongue is hanging out to the side. 

Combat is over.

The Stranger approaches Andrømeda and, looking up, he says, "Thank you for your assistance. I don't think I could have taken them both by myself, but I had to at least try. My name is Jesper." To your surprise, Jesper is speaking in Common. Up to this point, you weren't sure that he could since he had been speaking in a foreign language for the entire fight. "But, we can go through the formalities in a bit - I think the woman who lives here might be in trouble."

As he finishes his sentence, he turns to move towards the windmill with a sense of urgency.

Kwisatz will approach, first to the bodies of the manticores, and say "It's a shame that such seemingly intelligent creatures had to come to such and end... Perhaps in the future we can find a way to train them?... But at this point it is to late..." then looking to Jesper says "Jesper you said? I am Kwisatz. A student, or researcher, of the arcane. We were here only a couple days ago to warn the inhabitants of the tower... oh! we must check on them in soon... ah... of a dragon in the area. What is it that brings you here? Are you also interested in studying the arcane and the creatures that are able to use it?"

"Nice to meet you, Kwisatz," he says while walking towards the windmill. "I have been sent on a journey by my clan. I came here for some supplies, but when I approached, I noticed those two fiends attacking the woman inside. So, I did my best to capture their attention in order to give the victim some reprieve."

"That's very heroic of you!" Kwisatz says, continuing a bit bashfully "Honestly... I never expected myself to run to the aid of others like this... If you'll excuse me though, I'd like to check on Adabra in her tower." He then starts heading towards the tower, but looks towards Andromeda, and starts counting seconds in his head, saying "So! How does it feel to be big big?!" with a bit of a laugh.

Sael nods to Jesper in greeting while approaching the dead manticores, prepared to take teeth, claws, and tail spikes.

"Give me just a moment.  You can head on without me."  She says.

Andrømeda, the adrenaline fading from her system now that the threat has passed, kneels down, closing it's still glaring eyes. Hearing Kwisatz speaking with Jesper, she is reminded of what brought them here, and with an intent frown she begins marching toward the windmill.

I will need Sael to give me 3 DEX checks. For these manticore (in total) there are 48x tail spikes, 100 teeth and 40x claws. I won't make you roll for each individual thing, but one roll for each TYPE of thing. So, 3 rolls. 

Oh, and label which type of thing each roll is for, please.

Teeth:   13

Claws:    16

Spikes:   20

So, Sael is currently working on the manticores, trying to extract those items from the corpses, the rest of the group is walking towards windmill. (The front door is only 100' from where the last manticore died.) The time is currently about 8:30 in the morning. (You all woke up and heard about this situation at about 7:30, Kwiz bought a map, and Darrin had to secure horses, so you left Phandalin at about 8:00a, arriving here 30 minutes later. This fight took all of about 20 seconds from start to finish.)

As you're walking over there, Andrømeda begins to shrink.

Sael successfully extracts all of them. It takes her 2 x 10 minutes for each type of thing. So, Sael will be out there for about 1.5 hours extracting items from the dead monsters. 

While that is going on Jesper arrives at the windmill with Kwisatz close by and Andrømeda shrinking more and more with every step she takes until, moments later, she's back to her normal height. She realizes, now that she's back to normal, that Jesper is at least half a foot taller than her.

When Jesper and Kwisatz arrive, they find Adabra laying motionless on the floor about 10' inside of the windmill doorway. Jesper rushes to her side and checks her vitals: medicine: 10. He determines that she's stable, but injured very badly and he closes his eyes, and begins casting cure wounds on her, healing 6 HP. 

She opens her eyes, "Wha...what's going on? The last thing I remember, I was preparing some health potions to bring to market when...oh!" she trails off as her eyes widen in an almost panic at the memory of being attacked. "Where are they? They came back to finish the job."

"They're dead, now, miss. How are you feeling?" Jesper inquires.

"I'm...well, I'm feeling perfectly fine, honestly." She sits up.

"Slowly, now," Jesper cautions.

"No, truly. I feel fine. Now, if you would please help me up?"

Jesper stands, himself, extends his hand and grabs hers to help her stand up.

Satisfied and packing up, Sael turns to see what the others are/have been up to.