Nos Heliwr, as a native of Ibini you are well aware of the history of this place. You know that during the time of the Rainbow Empire, which collapsed five hundred years ago, the High Magi of that empire wielded incredible power - possibly the most arcane power that has ever been used in the history of the known world. The local Jade Magi specialized in creating and experimenting with terrible animals, adding extraordinary powers and longevity to these creatures. Some of them were known to have been given effectively immortal life. And a common side effect was that these creatures lost their minds. They still possessed huge cunning and ability to reason but they lost all sense of the natural order of things. These creatures, mercifully few in number, would attack and kill people for no other reason than they seemed to enjoy it.
And from his hiding place on the tall rock, Nos Heliwr sees a huge wolf, the size of a wagon, to the south east. The wolf leaps up onto the same rock that Nos Heliwr is on and throws back its head, letting out a blood-curdling howl at the moon. The wolf's eyes glow an unnatural green in the moonlight and Nos Heliwr knows he's mere feet from one of the infamous and deadly Ancient Jade Wolves of local legend.
The two wolves to the north west howl in response and begin to close in. Combat is joined!
Claire reels around as she hears the unearthly howl from behind her, rather than as expected from the two wolves approaching before her. Her jaw drops open.
"... what in the heavens-" she gasps, her fingers grasping for the javelin at her side. She ducks between the trees and runs towards the enormous wolf, letting her javelin fly, before stepping back a bit in trepidation.
(Claire knows much the same about these creatures as Nos Heliwr).
Claire moves towards the large rock with the huge wolf-beast upon it and lets loose her javelin. It strikes the hideous creature in the hind quarters and its howl turns to one of pain. Where you would expect red blood to flow from the wound you are surprised and alarmed to see a sickly green fluid oozing from the creature's side.
Salazar looks at the approaching wolves and says, "Ah, we go to the nicest places." His tattoos writhe to his forearms and drip down into lengthy crimson chains. "Let's see how far these reach..." And then he launches the foul chain at the nearest wolf. Then he shimmies further up the rock (2xS, 1xE)
Salazar's mystical chains lash out across the open space and strike the incoming wolf (wolf 2) heavily across the face and shoulder. It is heavily wounded but it keeps coming, the compelling power of the Ancient Jade Wolf driving it on against its instincts.
The two smaller wolves rush into the firelight, heading for Claire's position. This takes them across the line of caltrops she had carefully positioned earlier.
Wolf 1: Dex Save for caltrops: 13 Wolf 2: Dex Save for caltrops: 20
One of the two wolves stops and howls, this time in pain as it's front paw is pierced by the caltops. The other, the one Salazar has already struck, nimbly leaps the row of defences and sprints in to engage the glaive-wielder.
Claire you can have an Attack of Opportunity as the wolf reaches you. It has double moved, so will not be making an attack.
Meanwhile the huge and terrible Ancient Jade Wolf prowls forward and attempts to maul the hapless Nos Heliwr in its slathering jaws.
Attack: Attack: 7 Damage: 11
The nimble assassin, though not hidden from the giant, evil beast, is at least fast enough to dodge to the side however!
(Nos Heliwr, I'm a little confused as to your action economy? You appear to be taking an Attack, and an off-hand attack (which would be using your bonus action), plus using Disengage, which is at least a bonus action using your Cunning Action feature. Can you elaborate please? Also you appear to have rolled yet another attack for your Sneak Attack?)
(Nos Heliwr, I'm a little confused as to your action economy? You appear to be taking an Attack, and an off-hand attack (which would be using your bonus action), plus using Disengage, which is at least a bonus action using your Cunning Action feature. Can you elaborate please? Also you appear to have rolled yet another attack for your Sneak Attack?)
Oophs! I misread the Two-handed attack bit, so nix the disengage; rolling a sneak attack(duh!) well all I can say is this is the result of insufficient infusion of caffeine. We are all wired up now. Mea Culpa.
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Claire slashes with perfect timing as the wolf reaches her, and cuts it from shoulder to hip. It falls instantly dead at her feet without even time for a growl. Meanwhile the brave Nos Heliwr stands his ground against the huge and monstrous wolf. He slashes once with rapier and plunges his dagger into the foe successfully but the huge beast is so massive that the blows do not slow it down. It bleeds a terrible green goo, rather than blood. He then circles warily around to the other side of the large beast, which follows his move attentively.
Vaclav is next up before we start Round 2. Wolf #2 is dead. Wolf #1 was momentarily stopped back on the edge of the clearing by caltrops and is limping and lightly wounded. The Ancient Jade Wolf is alive and well, though lightly woundedby Nos Heliwr.
Vaclav mutters to himself as he scrambles down the rock, moving so that he's within 15 feet of the giant wolf. "This is very stupid, why am I getting so close." He then reaches into his pouch, drawing a pinch of colourful sand and throwing it into the air. The sand morphs in the air into a glittering cone of dazzling lights, surrounding the giant wolf but skillfully missing Nos. Color Spray
(As long as the giant wolf has less than 40 hp it is now blinded, meaning it has disadvantage on attacks and all attacks against it have advantage)
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The dazzling array of lights flashes across the monstrosity's face, instantly blinding it. It howls in frustration and growls menacingly at any and all around it.
Round 2
Claire and Salazar are first up before the wolves' next go. As previously mentioned, any attacks against the Ancient Jade Wolf are at Advantage this round!
Claire scrambles onto the rock where the huge jade wolf is threatening Nos. "Hey! Over here, you disgusting creature!" she yells, whirling her glaive overhead before taking a stab at the wolf.
Attack: 16 Damage: 6
She turns the glaive around and strikes towards it with the tail end, just to make sure she has its attention.
Claire clambers expertly up onto the big rock, fearlessly putting herself between Vaclav and the dire beast. The beast can't see her coming but whips around as he catches her scent. That said, unable to see the wicked glaive in action it is powerless to avoid her blows and she connects twice, most effectively dealing the Ancient Jade Wolf some heavy wounds.
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Salazar watches his allies from his perch, and seeing that the Jade Wolf is vulnerable, lashes out at it with the chain like a whip, hoping to finish it off before anyone more gets hurt. Or before it realizes that there is nice meal on top of the rocks.
History: 12
Gronk in Bastion, Kingdom of Medrin Elixisys in Talaveroth (Team 2) Uthal in Lost Continent of Theviranne
Nos Heliwr, as a native of Ibini you are well aware of the history of this place. You know that during the time of the Rainbow Empire, which collapsed five hundred years ago, the High Magi of that empire wielded incredible power - possibly the most arcane power that has ever been used in the history of the known world. The local Jade Magi specialized in creating and experimenting with terrible animals, adding extraordinary powers and longevity to these creatures. Some of them were known to have been given effectively immortal life. And a common side effect was that these creatures lost their minds. They still possessed huge cunning and ability to reason but they lost all sense of the natural order of things. These creatures, mercifully few in number, would attack and kill people for no other reason than they seemed to enjoy it.
And from his hiding place on the tall rock, Nos Heliwr sees a huge wolf, the size of a wagon, to the south east. The wolf leaps up onto the same rock that Nos Heliwr is on and throws back its head, letting out a blood-curdling howl at the moon. The wolf's eyes glow an unnatural green in the moonlight and Nos Heliwr knows he's mere feet from one of the infamous and deadly Ancient Jade Wolves of local legend.
The two wolves to the north west howl in response and begin to close in. Combat is joined!
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Salazar and Claire are first to react....
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(Sorry it's late! This is just to see if I suppose Claire knows what Nos does. History: 16 )
Claire reels around as she hears the unearthly howl from behind her, rather than as expected from the two wolves approaching before her. Her jaw drops open.
"... what in the heavens-" she gasps, her fingers grasping for the javelin at her side. She ducks between the trees and runs towards the enormous wolf, letting her javelin fly, before stepping back a bit in trepidation.
Movement: 1x SE, 4xE
Action: Throw javelin
Attack: 21
Damage: 5
Movement: 1xW
(Claire knows much the same about these creatures as Nos Heliwr).
Claire moves towards the large rock with the huge wolf-beast upon it and lets loose her javelin. It strikes the hideous creature in the hind quarters and its howl turns to one of pain. Where you would expect red blood to flow from the wound you are surprised and alarmed to see a sickly green fluid oozing from the creature's side.
(Salazar is up!)
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Salazar looks at the approaching wolves and says, "Ah, we go to the nicest places." His tattoos writhe to his forearms and drip down into lengthy crimson chains. "Let's see how far these reach..." And then he launches the foul chain at the nearest wolf. Then he shimmies further up the rock (2xS, 1xE)
Attack: 24 Damage: 7
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Salazar's mystical chains lash out across the open space and strike the incoming wolf (wolf 2) heavily across the face and shoulder. It is heavily wounded but it keeps coming, the compelling power of the Ancient Jade Wolf driving it on against its instincts.
The two smaller wolves rush into the firelight, heading for Claire's position. This takes them across the line of caltrops she had carefully positioned earlier.
One of the two wolves stops and howls, this time in pain as it's front paw is pierced by the caltops. The other, the one Salazar has already struck, nimbly leaps the row of defences and sprints in to engage the glaive-wielder.
Meanwhile the huge and terrible Ancient Jade Wolf prowls forward and attempts to maul the hapless Nos Heliwr in its slathering jaws.
Attack: Attack: 7 Damage: 11
The nimble assassin, though not hidden from the giant, evil beast, is at least fast enough to dodge to the side however!
Nos Heliwr and Vaclav, you are up.
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Nos Heliwr will punch both his blades into the foul thing.
Attack: 24 Damage: 10 OFAttack: 17 Damage: 4
SnkAttkAttack: 14 Damage: 3 (if he gets a sneak attack)
And Disengage toward the SE, so it will have to turn around to attack him.
Panic is a mechanism that strengthens the gene pool.
(Nos Heliwr, I'm a little confused as to your action economy? You appear to be taking an Attack, and an off-hand attack (which would be using your bonus action), plus using Disengage, which is at least a bonus action using your Cunning Action feature. Can you elaborate please? Also you appear to have rolled yet another attack for your Sneak Attack?)
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Edit: Wait, I can read! Haha, sorry!
Attack: 18
Damage: 11
As the wolf leaps towards her, Claire whips her glaive around and stabs at it, yelling hoarsely.
"Get back, foul beast!"
Oophs! I misread the Two-handed attack bit, so nix the disengage; rolling a sneak attack(duh!) well all I can say is this is the result of insufficient infusion of caffeine. We are all wired up now. Mea Culpa.
Panic is a mechanism that strengthens the gene pool.
Claire slashes with perfect timing as the wolf reaches her, and cuts it from shoulder to hip. It falls instantly dead at her feet without even time for a growl. Meanwhile the brave Nos Heliwr stands his ground against the huge and monstrous wolf. He slashes once with rapier and plunges his dagger into the foe successfully but the huge beast is so massive that the blows do not slow it down. It bleeds a terrible green goo, rather than blood. He then circles warily around to the other side of the large beast, which follows his move attentively.
Vaclav is next up before we start Round 2. Wolf #2 is dead. Wolf #1 was momentarily stopped back on the edge of the clearing by caltrops and is limping and lightly wounded. The Ancient Jade Wolf is alive and well, though lightly wounded by Nos Heliwr.
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Vaclav mutters to himself as he scrambles down the rock, moving so that he's within 15 feet of the giant wolf. "This is very stupid, why am I getting so close." He then reaches into his pouch, drawing a pinch of colourful sand and throwing it into the air. The sand morphs in the air into a glittering cone of dazzling lights, surrounding the giant wolf but skillfully missing Nos. Color Spray
(As long as the giant wolf has less than 40 hp it is now blinded, meaning it has disadvantage on attacks and all attacks against it have advantage)
Gronk in Bastion, Kingdom of Medrin Elixisys in Talaveroth (Team 2) Uthal in Lost Continent of Theviranne
The dazzling array of lights flashes across the monstrosity's face, instantly blinding it. It howls in frustration and growls menacingly at any and all around it.
Round 2
Claire and Salazar are first up before the wolves' next go. As previously mentioned, any attacks against the Ancient Jade Wolf are at Advantage this round!
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Claire scrambles onto the rock where the huge jade wolf is threatening Nos. "Hey! Over here, you disgusting creature!" she yells, whirling her glaive overhead before taking a stab at the wolf.
Attack: 16
Damage: 6
She turns the glaive around and strikes towards it with the tail end, just to make sure she has its attention.
Attack: 24
Damage: 5
Claire clambers expertly up onto the big rock, fearlessly putting herself between Vaclav and the dire beast. The beast can't see her coming but whips around as he catches her scent. That said, unable to see the wicked glaive in action it is powerless to avoid her blows and she connects twice, most effectively dealing the Ancient Jade Wolf some heavy wounds.
Salazar to act next.

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Salazar watches his allies from his perch, and seeing that the Jade Wolf is vulnerable, lashes out at it with the chain like a whip, hoping to finish it off before anyone more gets hurt. Or before it realizes that there is nice meal on top of the rocks.
Attack: 18 Damage: 4
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