Jovial Jungle Jaunt (ToA)

The yuan-ti man dips low and rises with his scimitar poised under Nenne's shield. The blade is too short to do any real serious damage, but he does manage to get a cut in on the cleric's forearm (9 damage). No stranger to battle, Nenne turns his inward strike to her advantage and pulls him farther from Boosey, saving him from another bite before disengaging.

A gout of red flame spurts from the cleric's outstretched hand toward the yuan-ti harrying her and the bard. (Sacred Flame, dex 14 or 12 radiant damage). Seeing the massive snake near Allister, she clutches at her holy symbol and invokes the name of her deity. Instantly, the spectral, skeletal hand of Kelemvor appears beside the giant creature and slams down toward it. (Bless 4 plus Attack: 25 Damage: 11))

The huge snake bites down on the appearing skeletal hand, but the weapon isn't something to be trifled with in that manner. It finds out the hard way that the spiritual weapon has a nasty bite of its own. The creature hisses out in pain from the hand as it cracks against the snakes mouth from the inside. With an uneven jaw, it backs away from the hand and focuses its attention on the newcomer. Even as Nenne finishes her spell igniting holy fire around the yuan-ti man, he thrusts a scimitar out in her direction, but she easily pushes the weak strike aside with her shield. Eku sees and opportunity and fires an arrow at the snake man. It thunks into his side, causing him to hiss out in pain once more.

 Watching as the body fell and their new battle member join them, Lemon the snake decided best to take out the other foe closest to him. It slithered over the dead snake and quickly took an attempt to kill the one still alive by first coiling once more around it, just like he did to its dead companion (Constrict).

Attack: 26 Damage: 29

 Lemon comes at the thing in just the right moment. The creature's head ends up pinned to its chest, leaving it completely defenseless. A few quick jabs from Allister and another sweeping strike from the newcomer flays the second snake open wide. It is in this moment, all companions realize there is an additional foe attacking Nenne and Boosey.

The Bard, seeing Sthara sidle off into the passageway is stunned for a moment, "Sthara, I think she's been turned against us," he shouts as the Yuan-ti attacks both him and Nenne."  Looking the snake man in the eye he shouts, "go back where you came from, snake in the grass", casting vicious mockery on him.  As soon as he has finished speaking he looks towards Eku and calls her.  "Eku, you're wounded. Here!," and he quickly casts healing word on his companion.

As the second snake falls dead to the ground Allister runs to the yuan-ti. Seeing that it is distracted he rams his rapier with all his power into its torso... the blade sinks in so deep that he cannot attack a second time. He reverses the grip on his cutlass and jabs it into the yuan-tiˋs back

Alynoa moves towards the Yuan-Ti (p9), never taking her eyes off the giant snake near her. "What's with this one?" She calls out to the other humanoids nearby. She will hold her action to attack anything hostile that gets within her reach. 

Nenne shoots another burst of flame, but the yuan-ti dodges out of the way. Her Spiritual Weapon then moves closer to the remaining target and swipes at him. (Bless 4 plus Attack: 21 Damage: 10)

The yuan-ti knows he bit off more than he could chew as his wounds add up. Visciously, he lashes out at Nenne, determined to take her down. His efforts go a long way towards that effect as he pops her hard with the pommel of his scimitar (5 damage) followed by a poisonous bite on her free hand (12 damage).

Finished with the snakes, Lemon the snake reared its head in all of its glory. Hissing in satisfaction. The snake, once done celebrating its job, reverts back to its normal form. The snakes body begins to shrink, its skin lightening and turning into a tannish-white skin color. Back to his original 4 foot form, the bald headed dwarf yells gleefully. "Take that ye sorry little snakes! Mother nature be favorin' me more it seems hahaha!"

He looks back to the person who helped them fell those beasts and Lemon decided to give him a thumbs up as he ran off to the Yuan-ti. Upon coming up to the creature (R7), Lemon cast out his hands towards its weapon, heating it up as he did so (3rd level Heat Metal), hoping for the creature to at least drop it's weapon.

Damage: 24

The man yells out in pain and drops the scimitar. He hits the ground clutching his burned hand and shortly thereafter doesn't move at all.

Eku puts her bow away and dashes into the side cavern, calling for Sthara.

Boosey, ready to strike the Yuan-ti is caught out by his sudden demise.  Eku’s call after Sthara brings him to his senses and he follows her to the cavern.  “News of this will surely reach the Yuan-ti before long”, he shouts.  

“We should expect more attacks soon.  I think we should move from here quickly, once we find Sthara!”

Nenne, gripping her amulet to keep her hand elevated and lessen the bleeding, takes off after Eku. "What happened? Is Sthara injured? I did not see her engage at all!"

Boosey finds Eku a short ways in. She is waving at an empty tunnel. She turns back to the gnome as he enters with a saddened look. "She has gone with Izifo...wherever it is they go. She asked me to confess her apologies that she could not fight her own kind." She pounds a fist softly on the wall in frustration. "How can she compare herself to Ras Nsi and his servants? It is clear these *creatures* are out for blood, but never was that her way." 

Nenne sees the empty tunnel and sighs heavily. "I am rarely one to speak ill of another faith," she says, somewhat chagrined, "yet I confess that I do not appreciate the ways of Ubtao. To take her just as we were preparing to avenge her...I see little justice in that." 

Pulling a length of bandage from her pack, she binds her injured hand and steps out toward the white-haired newcomer. Nodding in graceful greeting, she calls out, "Peace to you, friend, and thank you for your assistance! I am Nenne Amharat, cleric of Kelemvor. May I inquire as to the name of our unexpected champion?"

Allister gently touches his bruised chest. "Shit, the same spot again. How do they always know where my nearly healed injuries are." He joins Nenne and greats the newcomer. "Hello there, my name´s Allister. This city it full of surprises, and you are the first pleasant one." The young man, maybe in his mid 20s with a shaggy brown beard and at least two missing front teeth, offers his hand to the woman. "That was some impressive swordsman... I mean swordswomanship."

The strange woman bows to everyone. "I am Alynoa. I came here with a group of adventurers to try and stop this death curse. Unfortunately this city proved to be more than we could handle. What about all of you? Are you also here because of the death curse? What have you learned?"

"That there be plenty of berries lyin' around lass!" The dwarf proclaims. The 4 foot dwarf walks over to Alynoa with an outstretched hand- covered in dirt and grime- gesturing for her to shake it.

The blond dwarf was completely bald on the top of his head, and shined as it was caked in sweat. His beard was braided along the the center and went down to his midbelly. He was stocky, yet also produced a... profound stomach- giving the impression that he had ate too many breakfasts' before this journey.

"Tis sad to she ye 'er alone, but I just joined these 'er people not but two days ago! Maybe ye would like to accompany us as well? All people who help defeat some evil creatures be friends of mine! Even people with few missin' teeth!" The dwarf gives a bright smile, showing all of his teeth.