Minsc lets out a cream of Berserk rage and lashes out, beheading the waxy man with a single stroke. No blood or entrails fly free, making you believe that these things are some kind of construct- not a golem, exactly, but definitely not human. Arkanis calls out to his god and attacks the closest bandit for maximum damage (and with a 20 to hit!), killing the bandit with a single slice that cuts the man in half lengthwise.
Ajantis, meanwhile, attacks the man statue-thing attacking Jaheira, but his blow bounces off the thing's hide. Anomen smashes out at the last remaining bandit, but cannot connect. Jaheira also lashes out, her vision blackening and going dim, realizing this might be her final chance to strike a blow. She misses, her weapon dropping from her nerveless hands to clatter on the stone floor.
The gnomes fire sling stones, killing the last waxen man with a flurry of blows, and the injured bandit. Squirrel Neera, too busy angrily chittering at Anomen, is crushed under the smelly dead weight of the falling body and knocked out.
With the bandits and waxy man-things dead, Minsc collapses due to wounds and his previously berserk state.
Aerie (-3, bleeding to death), Alora (-7, bleeding to death), Ajantis is at 2. Anomen 8, Jaheira is at 1, but is wounded, shaking, and short of breath, gasping for air. Minsc is at 0. Neera is at 1 (but unconscious)
OOC: In Hindsight I should have rode Oops into battle as a squirrel Cavalry. Now I'm unconscious under a dead guy. I didn't go the wizard academy in High Forest just for this!. . . I didn't, I was kicked out of High Forest for this!
Once Anomen stabilizes Aerie, Ajantis will heal her with Lay on Hands so she can regain consciousness. Then, if nobody else has done it yet, he'll bandage Alora to stop her bleeding and drag the dead bandit off of Neera's squirrel body (assuming he noticed she turned into a squirrel).
After he is through tending to his comrades Ajantis grimaces at his wounds which are suddenly demanding attention, painfully. He offers a heartfelt thanks to the party's Gnomish friends before sinking to the ground with a groan.
OOC: In Hindsight I should have rode Oops into battle as a squirrel Cavalry. Now I'm unconscious under a dead guy. I didn't go the wizard academy in High Forest just for this!. . . I didn't, I was kicked out of High Forest for this!
OOC: I'd keep the cat away. It might eat you. After batting you around the place for a good hour.
Jaheira hurriedly casts cure light wounds on Alora. Based on what she knows, it does not appear to be too late, but healing was admittedly an inexact science.
"Jaheira, do you know how to resuscitate a squirrel?" Ajantis asks as he looks woefully at the bedraggled creature revealed when he dragged the bandit's body away.
OOC: if we are resting for 8 hours, I will memorize cure light wounds ans use it on the party member most dire need of healing. If we are double resting, I will memorize bless the second portion of the rest.
Anomen will spit polish the armour until there is no more bat poop on it. He will then put the armour on all while staring down the gnomes so they dont attempt to take any of our possessions.
Sort of. I was depressed and said the wrong thing to the wrong person and ended up being committed. :P Seriously, if you said, in a moment of depression, that you'd rather not be around anymore sometimes, don't say you *don't* want to go to the hospital. It will lead to young being involuntarily committed in the US. Seriously,
I was stuck in a mental hospital for six days. I joked that if I wasn't already crazy, that place would have turned me crazy. I was stuck in with gang members, people actively trying to run away and people there for drug and alcohol addiction. (The latter two weren't too bad- but the former… Eh…) There were six fights, one guy trying to get out of the place by pissing everyone else there off (tattoos down both arms and around his throat), some guy with an Eastern European accent who claimed that if his wife peeved him off, he'd give her "a smack around the face" and claimed that he was there to "get a new girlfriend" (no, I'm NOT joking!), Guys looking for someone (One who liked me spent an entire meal talking to me with a huge wad of food he was chewing in his mouth- ugh!)
It was an experience. Not a good experience. But an experience, certainly. One I would just as soon NOT have had. Oh well. I did get in some good writing time when I was there, and I got to know a lot of people I would never otherwise have met. And there was another girl who was 18 who was in there and also a writer- one of her co-workers was going through the stuff in her locker and found a private journal and read it, and in it somewhere, she had written "Now I know why people commit suicide" and the co-worker reported it to the Boss, and she ended up in the same place. She was my roommate, and we became something like friends there.
So, you are able to save Alora, but she is going to have some fairly significant scars. You need to hole up in the cave for a day to rest and heal. There are 150 gp scattered over the floor, and a beautiful mirror with a frame of bronze worth 90 gp in one bandit's backpack. There is also a suit of chain mail sized well enough for Arkanis to wear. The three chests are empty, and there is another 50 gp in mixed coins in the bandits packs and belt pouches. Other than that and some iron rations, the bandits have little to recommend them.
The young gnome strikes out at one of the dead bandits with his fists and feet and breaks into tears, crying into his arms. He appears both sad and happy at the same time.
@LadyRhian - Never thought that was a way to pick up chicks. I'm in my 40's and it never occurred to me! Learn something (ahem) new every day... Wonder how that's working out for him
"Have a care," Jaheira coaxed, laying a hand on Aerie's forehead. "They are gone." The cost was high, both in danger (especially for Neera) and pain, but it was done. "Drink some water," she offered, unsure of what else needed doing.
OOC: what are current HP totals? How 'bout closeness to LevelUP! (after healing and stuffs)
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Ajantis, meanwhile, attacks the man statue-thing attacking Jaheira, but his blow bounces off the thing's hide. Anomen smashes out at the last remaining bandit, but cannot connect. Jaheira also lashes out, her vision blackening and going dim, realizing this might be her final chance to strike a blow. She misses, her weapon dropping from her nerveless hands to clatter on the stone floor.
The gnomes fire sling stones, killing the last waxen man with a flurry of blows, and the injured bandit. Squirrel Neera, too busy angrily chittering at Anomen, is crushed under the smelly dead weight of the falling body and knocked out.
With the bandits and waxy man-things dead, Minsc collapses due to wounds and his previously berserk state.
Aerie (-3, bleeding to death), Alora (-7, bleeding to death), Ajantis is at 2. Anomen 8, Jaheira is at 1, but is wounded, shaking, and short of breath, gasping for air. Minsc is at 0. Neera is at 1 (but unconscious)
Lady Aerie! Can you hear me?
*Attempts to stabilize Aerie*
Where's that daft mage?!
After he is through tending to his comrades Ajantis grimaces at his wounds which are suddenly demanding attention, painfully. He offers a heartfelt thanks to the party's Gnomish friends before sinking to the ground with a groan.
Arkanis helps tending the wounded.
"We should regain our strenght now, and keep watch in case other bandits appears."
Also, yay! We won!
She doesn't have much to say at the moment being underneath a dead guy.
Arknis search through the bandits and the room.
"Do we rest here, or we go back to one of the other caves?"
Anomen will spit polish the armour until there is no more bat poop on it. He will then put the armour on all while staring down the gnomes so they dont attempt to take any of our possessions.
*Afar the breeze blow,
Our camp sleep below.
Our camp sleep below,
Just the fire glow.
Let burn-let burn my weary friend that warm fire,
Moradin knows how long can we this admire.
The tone of the breeze
Too getting weary,
from far-far away
A bell ring eerie.
stilly-stilly call that ringing, bimm-bumm-bimm-bumm
In our soul the echo rising, bimm-bumm-bimm-bumm.*
...But seriously, where's @LadyRhian? o_o;;
I also worry over things too much even when they are usually ok, though.
I was stuck in a mental hospital for six days. I joked that if I wasn't already crazy, that place would have turned me crazy. I was stuck in with gang members, people actively trying to run away and people there for drug and alcohol addiction. (The latter two weren't too bad- but the former… Eh…) There were six fights, one guy trying to get out of the place by pissing everyone else there off (tattoos down both arms and around his throat), some guy with an Eastern European accent who claimed that if his wife peeved him off, he'd give her "a smack around the face" and claimed that he was there to "get a new girlfriend" (no, I'm NOT joking!), Guys looking for someone (One who liked me spent an entire meal talking to me with a huge wad of food he was chewing in his mouth- ugh!)
It was an experience. Not a good experience. But an experience, certainly. One I would just as soon NOT have had. Oh well. I did get in some good writing time when I was there, and I got to know a lot of people I would never otherwise have met. And there was another girl who was 18 who was in there and also a writer- one of her co-workers was going through the stuff in her locker and found a private journal and read it, and in it somewhere, she had written "Now I know why people commit suicide" and the co-worker reported it to the Boss, and she ended up in the same place. She was my roommate, and we became something like friends there.
Anyhow, enough of my griping.
The young gnome strikes out at one of the dead bandits with his fists and feet and breaks into tears, crying into his arms. He appears both sad and happy at the same time.
Aerie woke with a gasp, clutching for her quarterstaff. "Wh-What happened? The bandits, where--"
But before she's able to get out the rest of her sentence, a dizziness washes over her and she lays back in her bedroll. "Ohhhh..."
OOC: what are current HP totals? How 'bout closeness to LevelUP! (after healing and stuffs)