Kiran easily dodges the bolt that came flying at him and moves in to throw another kick at one of the swordsmen around him following it up with a quick jab to the throat. Keeping his whip ready to help deflect incoming attacks again.
A quick slice through one, blade rending back and sending a man to face his god, and Varen swiftly moves to surround the last sword-wielding bandit. She gives a nod at Kiran, who just pummeled down another, her saber held outright and small shield held ready.
Petal, frustrated from her previous miss, gestures again with her wand and another vine whips towards the crossbowman.Attack: 19 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll. and misses yet again
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Shouting in a language unknown to the party three new attackers appear on horseback, these are gnolls one peels off from the three towards Ran, and two others advance on Opal’s position they are about 45ft from the princess.
OOC: Joining the tail end of BG initiative order in round 3
Kiran fells the last two sword-wielding bandits but sees the house guard is being overwhelmed by a dozen other sword-wielding bandits that have come from the trees.
OOC: House guard and sword-wielding bad guys are like twenty feet away from Kiran and Varen. They are spread out down a fifty-foot line. The is one cluster around the royal carriage, three on three, but the king and queen are still inside.
Meanwhile attacks on the party:
Attack on Kiran crossbow attack: 20 Damage: 4 Attack on Petal crossbow attack 23 Damage: 7 Attack on Elavor crossbow attack 13 Damage: 6; disadvtange because on half cover from the wagon. Attack on Ronnie crossbow attack 8 Damage: 9 Attack on Varen crossbow attack 20 Damage: 10
>>>>>>>>>>>> NPCs
Attack on Onyx 23 Damage: 6 HG attack on Sword BGs: 24 Damage: 9 X 7 Sword BGs attack on HG: 22 Damage: 5 X 7
NPCs attacks:
As Opal charges back towards the caravan she see the crossbowman attacking Ronnie and again directs her warpony for a trapple attack: 25 Damage: 12; then Opal sweeps her greatax attack: 17 Damage: 10 vicious ax if nat 20 gets an extra 7 damage. Trapple fails the crossbowman dodges out of the way in time but her ax catches him ending him! As the princess shouts again triphumant she sees the two gnoll riders heading her way and she takes the rest of her movement to rejoined the party nearest to Varen and Ran!
“Onyx gets your ass out here and help us or I will never forgive you,” Opal shouts at her twin brother.
Frowning at Elavor still holding his wound young prince Onyx stumbles out from beneath his hiding place beneath the wagon and focuses his gaze on the crossbowman firing on him his eyes go white as the air around him seems to turn colder as he cast Snilloc’s Snowball Swarm on the crossbowman causing 13 of cold damage if he fails a Dex save DC 13.
Crossbowman Dex Save 13; 10 points of cold damage pummel the crossbowman with snowballs as the prince grins.
“But no living man am I! You look upon a woman...You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Elavor smiles weakly as the young prince gets out from the hiding place, knowing his sister would be a more powerful motivator than any words he could give the lad. A good pair, those two. .. He goes to stand up, using Dust's reins to aid him.
Clutching the bleeding coming from his own side he quietly says: "Go ahead kid, show 'em what you g-"
And that's all Elavor gets out as another crossbow bolt slams into him, knocking him into unconsciousness....
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Kiran makes an attempt to grab the bolt shot at him out of midair.
Deflect Missiles: 11
Though he slows and deflects the bolt, it still cuts along his arm. He ignores the blood and moves to aid the king and queen, throwing a dart at the back of one of them while unleashing a quick kick to the back of a bg sw and a blow to the back of the neck of another.
(Adding advantage rolls for the unarmed strikes in case he manages to get flanking from attacking from the back, hoping their engaged with someone else: 2424)
Dizzy from the loss of blood, Ronegan gives Opal a weary wave and a nod of thanks. As the Gnolls ride up and charge towards the dwarven princess, Ronegan will flick his hand toward one of them and yell loudly in Halfling, casting Magic Missile at second level.
He will then move to the part of the wagon where Onyx and Elavor had taken cover. Seeing the fallen cartographer, Ronegan grimaces. "Oh dear..."
Magic Missile Damage: 3 per dart for 4 darts (12 total)
As petal dances around dodging arrows, trying to get her thorn whips to work on the crossbowman- she starts to get frustrated. “C’mon girl, you spent too much time away from the land, losing your touch.“
Attack: 23 Damage: 2
She spots Onyx under fire, with Elavor - and Elavor taking an arrow. That brave man was protecting her Onyx - he must be good. Petal mutters a small prayer to the land to spare this brave soul as she drags her victim across brambles mauling him.
Varen follows the priest closely, taking another glancing blow from a crossbow bolt as she sprints. She lets out a curse, and tenses a moment, a wisp of indecision passing her expression.
"No. Not yet."
Fighting alongside Kiran, she flanks one of the swordsmen engaged with the House Guard, attempting to change the dynamic of the battle there. She can't deal with the crossbowmen while the king and queen are threatened so.
Saber Attack: 15 Damage: 12
If that kills the swordsman, or I can move to put any sort of cover between me and the crossbow guys after without taking an opportunity attack, I do so.
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Ran watches as the home guard appear to be getting overwhelmed by the bandits. Grabbing the royal family and fleeing might be their only option now, he thinks. Then he spots the gnolls riding in. Something is definitely wrong. How could these bandits being coercing these gnolls to work for them. He wished he had more time to think about this, but one of the gnoll riders was heading right at him.
He had to put this thing down quickly and figure out how to get the royals out of here.
He slashes out at the gnoll as it approaches with his longsword, then turns quickly and slashes with his other sword. Using his training he manages one more quick swipe of his dominant hand to try and disarm the gnoll.
(Action: Longsword: 12 Damage: 8
Bonus Action: Second Longsword: Attack: 24 Damage: 10
Action Surge: Attack: 17 Damage: 11 plus Disarming Attack: 1 and if attack hits, Gnoll must roll a Str Save - DC14 - or be disarmed)
"-got! Wha... ow... oh, oh to hell with this" Elavor says, as he stands...pulling his short bow up again and taking aim at the nearest enemy, letting loose an arrow...
Attack: 21 Damage: 3
(Sneak attack if that enemy of target is within 5 ft of target : 9 )
Slinging his bow across his back, he then reaches behind his back to grab the two black daggers
Gnoll rider 2 attack on Ran scimitar attack: 5 Damage: 6
Opal great ax against gnoll rider 15 Damage: 16 vicious ax if nat 20 gets an extra 7 damage.
Onyx sees his spell work and grins his eyes still white charged with natural now trained magics work focusing his concentration on his casting frostbite5;
Crossbowman CON save 15; he drops to the ground dead frozen!
“But no living man am I! You look upon a woman...You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Varen finishes off her opponent, saber slinging a trail of blood through the air as she cuts a long slice through the swordsman. Feeling that the melee next to the royal carriage is won, Varen gives a sharp whistle for Mouse. The horse comes running back, and Varen lifts herself quickly up into the saddle, raising the long curved blade as she charges the closest threat... preferably the crossbowman that winged her before, but she searches the field for Opal as she rides.
If he does in fact come and has the movement to do so, mount Mouse and ride to the closest crossbowman, if there are any left. If no crossbowmen, then to help Opal and flank the Gnoll she's fighting.
Ran twists quickly allowing the gnoll’s scimitar slash to swish past him. Taking advantage of gnoll’s loss of balance with the miss, Ran reacts quickly with a fast riposte slash.
(Reaction to gnoll’s missed attack using Riposte: Attack: 11 Damage: 6 Plus superiority die damage 2 ).
Ran then recenters himself and slashes out again, once with each sword.
Ronegan looks very surprised that Elavor seemingly stood right back up after taking a serious wound. Shrugging it off at the sound of battle, he will peek out and target the gnoll he had already hit with his magic missile.
This time however, he conjures a bubble of foul-smelling green acid and with a wave of his hand, pushes the Acid Splash towards the gnoll, hoping to catch him unawares.
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Elavor finds the closest enemy target that's engaged with a member of the caravan, and continues drawing his daggers from behind his back, which he then expertly flings at the enemy in one fluid motion....
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Killilli uses the spike growth to kill her attacker again yanking them through the spike growth.
Recap
Varen cleaves yet another sword wielding attacker as she sees Opal being matched by two attackers. Mouse charges ahead and she reaches Opal and the two gnolls she's holding off. The gnolls are jabbering to one another before one howls loudly towards the forest around the caravan.
Ran's first two hits renders the horseback gnoll off his steed. The gnolls topples to the ground in a heap bloodied but is still alive!
Kiran drops two more sword wielding attackers on the house gaurd.
"Kiran...my children," Queen Citrine calls out of a slot in the door the carriage fortified against attack.
Gnoll attacking Opal DEX save against Ronnie's acid 20
Meanwhile Elavor helps finish off the last few bandits attacking the royal caravan!!
Round 3 (right haha)
Gnolls against Opal
Attack 1 7 Damage: 5
Attack 2 17 Damage: 3
Gnoll against Ran stands and lumbers forward striking out with it's scimitar 24 Damage: 8
Opal attacks with her great ax aided by Varen's flanking tactic 15 Damage: 13 vicious ax if nat 20 gets an extra 7 damage.
Onyx turns towards the carriage hearing his mother call out...
"It's uh...its almost over mother stay inside the carriage," Onyx bellows charging from behind the wagon holding his hand out towards the gnolls attacking his twin casting ray of frost Attack: 9 cold Damage: 6 ( ignore 4) on the most injured rider aided by Varen as well flanking.
Round 4!
The gnoll's howl echoes through the forest. Several house guard and combatants lay dead around the road with travelers caught in the fray while wagon teams of horses too have been cut down! As the horses attached to the royal carriage have been killed! The whole party is bloodied or bleeding.
OOC: 3 gnolls are visibly up and fighting.
2 gnolls are with Opal 30ft from the royal caravan/carriage with Varen flanking.
Ran is 30ft from the royal caravan/carriage fighting a gnoll.
Kiran is by the royal carriage 15ft from the party wagon; 30ft from Opal/Varen/Ran.
“But no living man am I! You look upon a woman...You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Kiran assumes for Ran can protect the king and queen for now, and follows the queen's instructions to help Opal. He'll race over and charge in from the side laying two quick low blows against one of the gnolls engaged with Opal, holding his whip ready to deflect any attacks.
Kiran easily dodges the bolt that came flying at him and moves in to throw another kick at one of the swordsmen around him following it up with a quick jab to the throat. Keeping his whip ready to help deflect incoming attacks again.
Action: Unarmed strike: Attack: 10 Damage: 5
Bonus action: Unarmed strike: Attack: 20 Damage: 6
(Advantage attack rolls: 1st attack-23, 2nd attack-14)
A quick slice through one, blade rending back and sending a man to face his god, and Varen swiftly moves to surround the last sword-wielding bandit. She gives a nod at Kiran, who just pummeled down another, her saber held outright and small shield held ready.
"As one, preacher."
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Daventry in The Candlekeep Mysteries, and her bag
Petal, frustrated from her previous miss, gestures again with her wand and another vine whips towards the crossbowman.Attack: 19 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll. and misses yet again
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Petal - Forest Gnome Druid (Circle of the Land - Forest) - Unsung Heroes of Embera
Shouting in a language unknown to the party three new attackers appear on horseback, these are gnolls one peels off from the three towards Ran, and two others advance on Opal’s position they are about 45ft from the princess.
OOC: Joining the tail end of BG initiative order in round 3
Kiran fells the last two sword-wielding bandits but sees the house guard is being overwhelmed by a dozen other sword-wielding bandits that have come from the trees.
OOC: House guard and sword-wielding bad guys are like twenty feet away from Kiran and Varen. They are spread out down a fifty-foot line. The is one cluster around the royal carriage, three on three, but the king and queen are still inside.
Meanwhile attacks on the party:
Attack on Kiran crossbow attack: 20 Damage: 4
Attack on Petal crossbow attack 23 Damage: 7
Attack on Elavor crossbow attack 13 Damage: 6; disadvtange because on half cover from the wagon.
Attack on Ronnie crossbow attack 8 Damage: 9
Attack on Varen crossbow attack 20 Damage: 10
>>>>>>>>>>>> NPCs
Attack on Onyx 23 Damage: 6
HG attack on Sword BGs: 24 Damage: 9 X 7
Sword BGs attack on HG: 22 Damage: 5 X 7
NPCs attacks:
As Opal charges back towards the caravan she see the crossbowman attacking Ronnie and again directs her warpony for a trapple attack: 25 Damage: 12; then Opal sweeps her greatax attack: 17 Damage: 10 vicious ax if nat 20 gets an extra 7 damage. Trapple fails the crossbowman dodges out of the way in time but her ax catches him ending him! As the princess shouts again triphumant she sees the two gnoll riders heading her way and she takes the rest of her movement to rejoined the party nearest to Varen and Ran!
“Onyx gets your ass out here and help us or I will never forgive you,” Opal shouts at her twin brother.
Frowning at Elavor still holding his wound young prince Onyx stumbles out from beneath his hiding place beneath the wagon and focuses his gaze on the crossbowman firing on him his eyes go white as the air around him seems to turn colder as he cast Snilloc’s Snowball Swarm on the crossbowman causing 13 of cold damage if he fails a Dex save DC 13.
Crossbowman Dex Save 13; 10 points of cold damage pummel the crossbowman with snowballs as the prince grins.
“But no living man am I! You look upon a woman...You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Elavor smiles weakly as the young prince gets out from the hiding place, knowing his sister would be a more powerful motivator than any words he could give the lad. A good pair, those two. .. He goes to stand up, using Dust's reins to aid him.
Clutching the bleeding coming from his own side he quietly says: "Go ahead kid, show 'em what you g-"
And that's all Elavor gets out as another crossbow bolt slams into him, knocking him into unconsciousness....
Kiran makes an attempt to grab the bolt shot at him out of midair.
Deflect Missiles: 11
Though he slows and deflects the bolt, it still cuts along his arm. He ignores the blood and moves to aid the king and queen, throwing a dart at the back of one of them while unleashing a quick kick to the back of a bg sw and a blow to the back of the neck of another.
Action: Dart: Attack: 17 Damage: 6
Bonus Action: Flurry of Blows: 12 Damage: 8
10 Damage: 6
(Adding advantage rolls for the unarmed strikes in case he manages to get flanking from attacking from the back, hoping their engaged with someone else: 24 24)
Dizzy from the loss of blood, Ronegan gives Opal a weary wave and a nod of thanks. As the Gnolls ride up and charge towards the dwarven princess, Ronegan will flick his hand toward one of them and yell loudly in Halfling, casting Magic Missile at second level.
He will then move to the part of the wagon where Onyx and Elavor had taken cover. Seeing the fallen cartographer, Ronegan grimaces. "Oh dear..."
Magic Missile Damage: 3 per dart for 4 darts (12 total)
As petal dances around dodging arrows, trying to get her thorn whips to work on the crossbowman- she starts to get frustrated. “C’mon girl, you spent too much time away from the land, losing your touch.“
Attack: 23 Damage: 2
She spots Onyx under fire, with Elavor - and Elavor taking an arrow. That brave man was protecting her Onyx - he must be good. Petal mutters a small prayer to the land to spare this brave soul as she drags her victim across brambles mauling him.
Healing word - 4
Thorns damage 9
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Petal - Forest Gnome Druid (Circle of the Land - Forest) - Unsung Heroes of Embera
Varen follows the priest closely, taking another glancing blow from a crossbow bolt as she sprints. She lets out a curse, and tenses a moment, a wisp of indecision passing her expression.
"No. Not yet."
Fighting alongside Kiran, she flanks one of the swordsmen engaged with the House Guard, attempting to change the dynamic of the battle there. She can't deal with the crossbowmen while the king and queen are threatened so.
Saber Attack: 15 Damage: 12
If that kills the swordsman, or I can move to put any sort of cover between me and the crossbow guys after without taking an opportunity attack, I do so.
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Ran watches as the home guard appear to be getting overwhelmed by the bandits. Grabbing the royal family and fleeing might be their only option now, he thinks. Then he spots the gnolls riding in. Something is definitely wrong. How could these bandits being coercing these gnolls to work for them. He wished he had more time to think about this, but one of the gnoll riders was heading right at him.
He had to put this thing down quickly and figure out how to get the royals out of here.
He slashes out at the gnoll as it approaches with his longsword, then turns quickly and slashes with his other sword. Using his training he manages one more quick swipe of his dominant hand to try and disarm the gnoll.
(Action: Longsword: 12 Damage: 8
Bonus Action: Second Longsword: Attack: 24 Damage: 10
Action Surge: Attack: 17 Damage: 11 plus Disarming Attack: 1 and if attack hits, Gnoll must roll a Str Save - DC14 - or be disarmed)
"-got! Wha... ow... oh, oh to hell with this" Elavor says, as he stands...pulling his short bow up again and taking aim at the nearest enemy, letting loose an arrow...
Attack: 21 Damage: 3
(Sneak attack if that enemy of target is within 5 ft of target : 9 )
Slinging his bow across his back, he then reaches behind his back to grab the two black daggers
"To hell with all of this!"
Recap
Kiran fells two sword-wielding bad guys.
Ronnie finally fells his attacker.
Petal's attacker takes 2 HP but is still up.
Varen cleaves another opponent in half!
ALL Ran's attack miss.
Elavor finally fells his attacker.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> NPCs attacks
Attack on Petal crossbow 20 Damage: 9
Attack on Onyx crossbow 19 Damage: 3
HG attack on Sword BGs: 23 Damage: 10 X 4
Sword BGs attack on HG: 13 Damage: 3 X 4
NEW combatants:
Gnoll rider 1 attack on Opal scimitar attack: 23 Damage: 8
Gnoll rider 2 attack on Opal scimitar attack: 20 Damage: 8
Gnoll rider 2 attack on Ran scimitar attack: 5 Damage: 6
Opal great ax against gnoll rider 15 Damage: 16 vicious ax if nat 20 gets an extra 7 damage.
Onyx sees his spell work and grins his eyes still white charged with natural now trained magics work focusing his concentration on his casting frostbite 5;
Crossbowman CON save 15; he drops to the ground dead frozen!
“But no living man am I! You look upon a woman...You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Varen finishes off her opponent, saber slinging a trail of blood through the air as she cuts a long slice through the swordsman. Feeling that the melee next to the royal carriage is won, Varen gives a sharp whistle for Mouse. The horse comes running back, and Varen lifts herself quickly up into the saddle, raising the long curved blade as she charges the closest threat... preferably the crossbowman that winged her before, but she searches the field for Opal as she rides.
If he does in fact come and has the movement to do so, mount Mouse and ride to the closest crossbowman, if there are any left. If no crossbowmen, then to help Opal and flank the Gnoll she's fighting.
Attack: 15 Damage: 8
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Ran twists quickly allowing the gnoll’s scimitar slash to swish past him. Taking advantage of gnoll’s loss of balance with the miss, Ran reacts quickly with a fast riposte slash.
(Reaction to gnoll’s missed attack using Riposte: Attack: 11 Damage: 6 Plus superiority die damage 2 ).
Ran then recenters himself and slashes out again, once with each sword.
(Action: Attack: 10 Damage: 11
Bonus: Attack: 23 Damage: 5 )
Kiran continues to try and clear out enemies near the royal carriage and move out from there to find enemies.
Action: Unarmed strike: Attack: 12 Damage: 5
Bonus action: Unarmed strike: Attack: 23 Damage: 7
Ronegan looks very surprised that Elavor seemingly stood right back up after taking a serious wound. Shrugging it off at the sound of battle, he will peek out and target the gnoll he had already hit with his magic missile.
This time however, he conjures a bubble of foul-smelling green acid and with a wave of his hand, pushes the Acid Splash towards the gnoll, hoping to catch him unawares.
DEX Save 14 or take 2 Acid damage
Elavor finds the closest enemy target that's engaged with a member of the caravan, and continues drawing his daggers from behind his back, which he then expertly flings at the enemy in one fluid motion....
(Dagger 1) Attack: 15 Damage: 5
(Dagger 2) Attack: 22 Damage: 3
(Sneak Attack if enemy is within 5 ft of ally): 7
Killilli uses the spike growth to kill her attacker again yanking them through the spike growth.
Recap
Varen cleaves yet another sword wielding attacker as she sees Opal being matched by two attackers. Mouse charges ahead and she reaches Opal and the two gnolls she's holding off. The gnolls are jabbering to one another before one howls loudly towards the forest around the caravan.
Ran's first two hits renders the horseback gnoll off his steed. The gnolls topples to the ground in a heap bloodied but is still alive!
Kiran drops two more sword wielding attackers on the house gaurd.
"Kiran...my children," Queen Citrine calls out of a slot in the door the carriage fortified against attack.
Gnoll attacking Opal DEX save against Ronnie's acid 20
Meanwhile Elavor helps finish off the last few bandits attacking the royal caravan!!
Round 3 (right haha)
Gnolls against Opal
Attack 1 7 Damage: 5
Attack 2 17 Damage: 3
Gnoll against Ran stands and lumbers forward striking out with it's scimitar 24 Damage: 8
Opal attacks with her great ax aided by Varen's flanking tactic 15 Damage: 13 vicious ax if nat 20 gets an extra 7 damage.
Onyx turns towards the carriage hearing his mother call out...
"It's uh...its almost over mother stay inside the carriage," Onyx bellows charging from behind the wagon holding his hand out towards the gnolls attacking his twin casting ray of frost Attack: 9 cold Damage: 6 ( ignore 4) on the most injured rider aided by Varen as well flanking.
Round 4!
The gnoll's howl echoes through the forest. Several house guard and combatants lay dead around the road with travelers caught in the fray while wagon teams of horses too have been cut down! As the horses attached to the royal carriage have been killed! The whole party is bloodied or bleeding.
OOC: 3 gnolls are visibly up and fighting.
2 gnolls are with Opal 30ft from the royal caravan/carriage with Varen flanking.
Ran is 30ft from the royal caravan/carriage fighting a gnoll.
Kiran is by the royal carriage 15ft from the party wagon; 30ft from Opal/Varen/Ran.
Ronnie, Elavor, Petal, and Onyx are by the cart.
Go!
“But no living man am I! You look upon a woman...You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Ronegan grits his teeth in frustration and will shoot three more Magic Missiles at the gnoll he had been attacking (one of the two targeting Opal).
4 for each of the three darts (12 total)
"Go down, damn you." He yells.
Kiran assumes for Ran can protect the king and queen for now, and follows the queen's instructions to help Opal. He'll race over and charge in from the side laying two quick low blows against one of the gnolls engaged with Opal, holding his whip ready to deflect any attacks.
Action: Attack: 13 Damage: 8
Bonus action: Attack: 20 Damage: 6