19 Vahorn Initiative

Vahorn frowns as he hears the frightened squeaks of the mouse. Provoked into action, he darts out from behind cover, loosing an arrow at the fair skinned woman before returning back to position, his back against the cave wall. “Watch out for the snake, I’ve got a bad feeling about it....” (does he recognise it as a native snake, or similar to the ones they fought before?) ”It’s just two people,“ Vahorn responds to Hayeth, “It may be wise to save your energy.”

Attack: 9 Damage: 8

Dumasz initiative 3 

 Dumasz sees hostility flying around the room and reaches out to kick the male’s feet out from under him.

athletics 14 

Noelle's crossbow drops the woman in one shot.  Vahorn misses, his arrow sailing through the man's dark green robe. [[OOC: Athletics: 3]]

Dumasz's kick knocks the man down to the ground. 

[OOC: Hayeth disadvantage roll. 17]

Getting interrupted will finish round soon

Noell freezes as the woman drops.  The wet sound the woman makes, the sight of the blood blooming across her chest as the bolt flies true, and crumple of her body cause her to falter.  She has hunted before; she's even killed before, but those were animals, meant for food.  This... this is something different.  It's the first time she's ever fired on another person, let alone killed anyone, and she lowers her crossbow in shock.

"I... Did I just do that?" she mutters, stunned, unable to take her eyes off the woman, even as the mouse drops from her victim's lifeless hand.

Hayeth burns the man on the ground, and Lia lays a good smack on him with her staff.  He falls still.

Snake Initiative: 17

Noelle is up, the snake looks like it is approaching the party. This particular snake looks native to the area, and just a bit bigger than typically found here.

((Wasn't expecting that guy to go down so quickly, so I didn't state this in my first turn, but if Lia got the last blow she would have been aiming to incapacitate, not kill))

Hearing the hiss of the snake, Noell shakes her head, trying to focus.  "Watch out!" she says, taking aim at the snake.

Attack: 10
Damage: 7 piercing

(the dice roller isn't loving me today, again, ugh)

As Vahorn turns the corner to fire again, he finds the pair of cadavers slumped on the floor. Pausing for a second, he makes a tutting, squeaking sound, signalling for the mouse to come to him for safety. Locking eyes with the snake, he keeps his stare, eyes open as wide as they can go as he bares his teeth in a show of intimidation. Animal handling 25

”No sense in killing it if it’s not food or foe.” He eyes the snake, trying to figure out if it has any magical effect on it, or if it truly is just a native non-evil snake 

ready attack on snake Attack: 19 Damage: 12 If it moves to attack

[[NP about the incapacitation]]

Vahorn: The mouse skitters towards and past you while the snake closes its mouth and coils up in the far corner of the room.

***END COMBAT***

Noell lowers her crossbow, breathing a sigh of relief, and approaches the woman that she killed.  She kneels by the corpse and studies her face, trying to see if she recognizes her as someone from town.  She gives the unconscious man a good look over as well.  "Why were they raising snakes in this cave?" she mumbled, rooting through the corpse to try and find clues as to the woman's identity and purpose.

 Hayeth looks the snake in the corner over without getting too close

"I was expecting a bigger snake to be honest with you this one seems only a little bigger than the normal ones right?"

OOC: Does the size of this snake match up with the tracks we found at the abandoned camp?

Vahorn pulls out a few seeds from his tunic and crouches down to offer some to the mouse. “I don’t know Noell, but they’re messing with the natural order. This snake is one of the natives, and it’s back to it’s nature now that the coaxing is over.”

Checking over the two bodies, Vahorn nods with a grunt. “Fine control with the fire there....” his eyes lock with Hayeth “But don’t get overconfident, the woods are easily burned, and not so easily doused.” 

Pulling a few thin blades of bark out of his pocket, Vahorn crouches down and grabs the scorched man’s hand. “Do you have your questions? Words aren’t my thing.”

Hayeth grins a little "Fire isn't my only tool but easily the most effective in here"

She looks down at the scorched man

"If you can wake him I'm sure Dumasz and I can make him talk one way or another"

She pauses for a moment "that sounded more sinister than I meant it... oh now I think about it Fay could you keep an eye on the tunnel entrance for me, wouldn't want to be surprised by a larger snake worse coming to worst" 

Once shes finished speaking she sends Fay down the tunnel to keep watch 

”Well, it’s good to see we weren’t called out here for nothing. I wasn’t expecting to find snake trainers.”

Dumasz settles onto his haunches, and takes the robes off these jerks, and helping to search them.

Your DM is dumb.  I forgot to mention there is a tunnel to the left leading deeper into the hill.

The snake could have made some of the tracks but far from all.

You find two scimitars,  about 19 coppers, a small worn hairbrush and a wooden flute.

“Sinister....?” Vahorn looks up after finishing placing the bark underneath the man’s fingernails. “Let’s do it then.” 

 He slaps the man awake, holding one of the splinters ready to push into his fingernails.

Dumasz plays a few notes on the flute before pocketing it. He then puts a hand on Hayeth’s back, tapping out a rhythm (inspiration!). “Let’s wake him up. It’s time to see what he knows.” (Help for a medicine check to wake him up?)

Hayeths eyes go wide as she realises what Vahorn is planning with the bark

"Put that away! We're not animals"

She gently tries to pull it away from the unconscious man's fingers, while crouching down and attempting to wake him a little gentler than a slap

Medicine: 17

"Lets try to be better than they are, eh?"