Jaheira hurriedly cast cure light wounds on Arkanis' fornshe did not wish for him to join the fallen. While her arm hurt so much that it distracted her from just about everything, she cast her second, and final, spell on Minsc to heal him. She then moved off to the side, rubbing her shoulder and glaring at Alora in a most accusatory way.
OOC: If we rest, trading entangle for bless with 2xCLW
@reedmilfam Okay. Arkanis wakes up and Minsc groans as most of his pain is alleviated. Arkanis gets back 8 hit points, Minsc 7, taking them to 8 hp and 9 hp respectively.
Khalid gently plucks the shark tooth that is sticking out of Jaheira's shoulder all the way out. Much of the pain abates (she is now only -1 to hit) but it's still distracting.
There is no sign of the Minitaurs and no sounds beyond the first door.
OOC: Am I able to grab her and drag her within the range of the tall dwarves? If so, I do that, if not, I still demand that she escorts Culum back to the surface.
@deltago You can try. I'm waiting for @Permidion_Stark to respond to the end of the combat. I am pretty sure Alora will have something to say (or at least think an opinion) about what happened. I can tell you that none of them are evil at this point. (They might have been when they were actual giants, but their attitudes have changed quite significantly since then!)
"Silence that racket or I will," Jaheira barked. She was becoming increasingly convinced that Alora was a human child, merely play-acting at being a halfling. No other explanation made any sense.
Alora's screaming attracts the attention of a group of goblins. Just normal goblins. Twelve of them. Because everyone is focused on Alora's screaming, they win initiative. The first anyone knows something is going on is when a shrill voice screams "Attack!" and the 12 Goblins, wielding Spiked Clubs, charge the party. You are caught COMPLETELY flat-footed, but luckily, Gobins are not the greatest at aiming, and many of them simply miss. Anomen takes 5, Jan takes 3 and is knocked out. Aerie takes a hard club to the head and is knocked unconscious (-1 and bleeding/concussed). Jaheira takes 4.
Stunned and reeling, you lost initiative. Minsc takes 5, so does Khalid.. Minsc takes another 3. The leader of the Goblins (the largest and meanest-looking of them) hits Alora full on, knocking her to 0 and unconsciousness.
HP at the end of Round 1 (Surprise Round is not counted): Aerie -1, Alora 0, Anomen 6, Arkanis 8, Khalid 8, Jaheira 5, Minsc 2, Jan 0 and unconscious.
OOC: and this, ladies and germs, is why you do not hold screaming fits in a dungeon.
"Aerie," Jaheira called, as she moved to strike the nearest foul creature. ."Make them sleep." That powerful magic could help them stem the tide, numbers notwithstanding. And, angry as she was for their striking a poor, frightened child, she gave out a battle cry of, "For Alora!"
Aerie wanted to tell Anomen to put the poor girl down, but she hated Alora's screaming more. Such shrill, piercing shrieks! Not her time in captivity, nor her time in the circus at the front of a roaring crowd, could have prepared her for this. Hands clamped over her ears, she didn't even notice the charging goblins until one of them struck her in the end.
@Nonnahswriter I know! I do everything randomly (i.e. live by the dice, die by the dice). but even the goblins wanted to shut Alora up. I am thinking someone (maybe even more than one) is going to want to invest in a SILENCE spell (or a gag) for Alora.
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OOC: If we rest, trading entangle for bless with 2xCLW
Khalid gently plucks the shark tooth that is sticking out of Jaheira's shoulder all the way out. Much of the pain abates (she is now only -1 to hit) but it's still distracting.
There is no sign of the Minitaurs and no sounds beyond the first door.
"Stranger danger! Stranger danger! The bad man is touching me!"
Alora looks Anomen in the eye and quietly says: "Put me down or I will scream, and scream and scream until I am sick. And I can!"
Alora starts to scream.
She won't be stopping anytime soon.
Shut up or I'll feed you to the cows you were screaming about earlier
Stunned and reeling, you lost initiative. Minsc takes 5, so does Khalid.. Minsc takes another 3. The leader of the Goblins (the largest and meanest-looking of them) hits Alora full on, knocking her to 0 and unconsciousness.
HP at the end of Round 1 (Surprise Round is not counted): Aerie -1, Alora 0, Anomen 6, Arkanis 8, Khalid 8, Jaheira 5, Minsc 2, Jan 0 and unconscious.
OOC: and this, ladies and germs, is why you do not hold screaming fits in a dungeon.
Thank you for shutting her up and proving my point, now die!
Then the world went black.
OOC: NOOOOOO! Not the healer!!