Tales from Talaveroth

You get the Veteran square into your sights, and you pull the trigger, almost satisfied with the beautiful line-up of the shot. You can see a small crimson stain slowly growing in size, just above the hip, as the veteran grits his teeth, shouting back: "You've got no idea what we're here to do! It's got nothing to do with you, but I'd gladly pluck your feathers, you arrogant peacock!"

Si'Juul just laughs.

"I didn't know the Black Brand was recruiting children as their team leaders now! Putting you in the dirt is going to be fun!"

Catch that flask!: 7 (whoo!!)

Paren catches the flask of oil in the air and throws it back at the alchemist. "You really need to be careful with these things. Very dangerous." He then follows it up by battering the poor man in front of him with an elbow followed by a spinning kick and two quick jabs from his off hand.

Paren, you snatch the flask before it shatters, and throw it back at the alchemist, much to the surprise of the dwarf. You hear him scream fearfully as he catches fire. Using the momentum from the throw, Paren spins around and takes his elbow to the novices face, a satisfying crunch as the nose breaks, cofirming your hit. The force of the strike causes him to stumble back, luckily dodging out of the way of your spinning kick. You follow up by a jab to his throat, and a second to knock him out with a cross to the jaw, but he blocks your hand. Despite this, he looks roughed up, with blood pouring from his nose.

Poinki runs into the group, still focusing on the enemy with the rifle. In goblin culture, the boss has the biggest weapon: take him out, and the others might flee or surrender.

Whacking with his flail: Attack: 9 Damage: 12

As Poinki rushes towards the veteran, he scurries through the legs of one of the novices, and although he swipes at the nimble goblin, he misses. Poinki's flail connects with the shoulder of the very surprised veteran, and you can tell from his gritted teeth, that he's hurt.

Looking to the left, the first of the novices spots Elhanna trying to get into cover, and he fires at her. The bullet hits her thigh, leaving a badly bleeding gash on her leg (You suffer 10 points of piercing damage).

Oleg, still concentrating on his Bless spell, fires off a guiding bolt towards the rifle-wielding veteran. Still stunned by Poinki's attack, the bolt hits the veteran below the jaw, and you can see the blood puls from the wound, as he's now surrounded by a glowing outline and badly bleeding.

The second novice still faces Paren, and takes another swipe at him with his rapier, but Paren is too quick and evades the strike. The badly wounded veteran is now hurrying over to the right and throws himself into cover behind a tree, to try and recuperate somewhat, before reloading his rifle and firing both barrels at Paren. Taking two full shotgun blasts, Paren falls to the ground, bleeding profusely and currently unconscious (you suffer 28 points of damage).

Seeing Paren get wounded critically, Twitch rushes over to him, and drags his body back into cover, shielding Paren agains another swipe from the novice (she takes 7 damage).

Elhanna, you're up!

Si'Juul is solely focused on the veteran leader. He flies down 50 more feet, now at 100, and fires once more.

If a shot from Si'Juul drops him to 0, Si'Juul would want it to be a non-lethal blow.

Attack: 23

Damage: 26

Second attack: reload

Elhanna sees the veteran light up and wack him with the spectral staff! 

Then she turn toward Paren and yell “Heal!” casting healing word on him! 

ooc: did you take in to account that Elhanna has cover when attacking her? 

OOC: yes, but the +2 from half cover she got wasn't enough on either one of the attacks. Also, I keep somehow struggling to post the roll commands in the proper order, which is why the dice roll notifaction keeps popping up, I'm sorry. I included all the damages in brackets again, for your convenience.

Elhanna's spectral staff swwops in, and momentarily hovers above the veteran, who stares at it in disbelief, before coming cracking down onto his exposed head, knocking him to the ground, where he now lies, unconscious and slowly bleeding out.

The third Novice sprints for the cover of a nearby tree, before firing up at Si'Juul again. You can hear the click of the hammer, but the following sound is a loud crack, as the gun misfires. You all swear you can hear Si'Juul cackle at the novice's misfortune.

The alchemist meanwhile is still on fire, and desperately trying to put them out. As he fails to do so however, you see him desperately grabbing the two satchels, and throwing them 20 feet to the south, where Poinki has run to, before leaping into a nearby pool, dousing the flames. As the bags land, you hear a loud detonation of the remaining flasks and other substances in the bag. Poinki is within the blast radius, but you all see him become engulfed in a thick cloud of smoke that seems to billow out from one of the concoctions within the Alchemist's bag, and is now heavily obscuring Poinki and everything surrounding him for another ten feet.

 The last of the novices sees her outmatched position and makes for a tree further north, pressing herself agains it to avoid SI'Juul as best as possible, before leaning out and taking a shot at him. Using the tree to steady her shot, she manages to clip one of his wings. (You suffer 4 points of piercing damage).

Poinki, Paren and Si'Juul are up! Si'Juul, do you want to take the action you already posted, but on a new target, or does your focus now shift?

(Dex save: 2)

Startled and disoriented by the explosion, Poinki runs to whack whoever is closest, calling for Ilmater's divine favor

Attack: 20 Damage: 11 pkus 2 radiant damage.

Running straight out of the fog cloud, Poinki finds himself face to face with the wounded and equally startled novice that Paren had already dealt quite a few blows too. He staggers from the impact of the blow, but is still somehow standing, after all the punishment he's taken.

Paren dusts himself off and looks around the battlefield. Seeing the last novice he raises a hand and then squeezes a fist together. Ice begins to form on the novice's skin. frostbite (DC12 Con or 10 cold damage) 

He speaks to her from behind his wooden mask. "We are not without mercy young one. Surrender without further violence and we will spare you." 

If the veteran is down and unconscious then Si'Juul will either fire on an enemy if an ally needs the aid.

If everyone is holding their own then Si'Juul will just dash his way down towards the veteran, 50ft up in that scenario.

Paren, you see the novice bare her teeth at your words, though whether as a reaction to your frostbite or your words is difficult to say.

WIth many of his allies wounded, but standing, Si'Juul dashes to the ground towards the downed veteran close to the middle of the battlefield.

Having seen Poinki emerge from the fog cloud, the first Novice levels his pistol at him and fires. You hear the crack and see a cloud of smoke, but Poinki is fine, as the novices' pistol misfires. Oleg rushes over to Paren, and laying his hands on him, attemtping to cure wounds.

The second novice, badly mangled from Paren's and Poinki's blows, turns towards the goblin and starts to hack at him with his rapier, but the strikes glance harmlessly off of Poinki's armour. Twitch rushes forward to try and knock out the second novice, but he proves too quick for her strikes and evades her blades.

Elhanna, you're up!

Elhanna ducks out from her tree and run over to Twitch. “Hey how are you doing?” She cast spirit guardians and caches all four enemies in her attack. 

Wis save 14 (allis are excluded)
On a failed save, the creature takes 19 radiant damage (if you are good or neutral) or necrotic damage (if you are evil). 
All have half speed. 

With Elhanna rushing forward and unleashing a flurry of small magical winged guardians whizzing about the battelfield, the wounded novice and the alchemist are torn up by the creatures of light, much to the horror of the two novices that manage to withstand the creatures. The third novice, his gun unable to fire, and caught within Elhanna's radiant circle of buzzing guardians, drops his rapier and starts to run in a southwesternly direction. The fourth novice takes a shot at Si'Juul, but seeing now three of their number fallen and one running for the hills, she trembles too much to give an accurate shot.

Si'Juul, Paren, and Poinki, you're up!

Paren takes off after the fleeing novice. When he catches up he makes two strikes at him with a flat palm, looking to render him unconscious rather than dead. His second strike he aims at the cluster of nerves in the neck, looking to lock up the novice's body.

Attack: 16 Damage: 9

Attack: 22 Damage: 8

(Stunning Strike: DC13 Con Save)

Si'Juul just uses his movement to land next to the unconscious veteran and tries to stabilize him. He is certainly no fully educated doctor but in his work he picked up at least basic medical knowledge. Such as tearing pieces of the man's shirt to use as makeshift bandages over his wounds.

If medicine check: 13, if survival check: 16

He then binds the veteran completely with his rope before he regains consciousness.

Poinki will try to knock out the fourth novice with his flail.

Attack: 11 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll.

In her haste, the novice evades the first of Paren's strikes, but the second one catches her, as she turns her back to him, but it glances off without stunning her. She instead flings herself to the ground: "Mercy!"

As Poinki rushes forward to deal with one of the two remaining novices, both drop their weapons as well: "Please, we surrender!"

Si'Juul manages to successfully stabilise and bind the veteran in the meantime.

What do you want to do?