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<blockquote data-quote="Sic_Pixie" data-source="post: 5982326" data-attributes="member: 52403"><p><strong>Pringle finds a new friend .. oh and beware the scythes of march ...</strong></p><p></p><p>The next morning they set out early; about mid morning they hit the forest and start making their way though; there only seems to be game trails though the forest with the occasional remnants of a true road showing every now and then. Mid afternoon finds them roughly halfway through and in the deepest part of the wood; the surrounding foliage has been getting increasingly large as they progress and Grembor has been getting increasingly more worried as the day progresses as the fey influence of the region is of the more foreboding type; he has tried leading the party away to go around the taint but each time they try heading towards a nicer part of the forest they seem to head into the deeper wood. Resigning themselves to whatever may come they move along the trail warily expecting the worst; however what they meet is so much worse than what they were expecting.</p><p></p><p>They are riding cautiously through the forest when Sayrui and Zordlan see a flash of red along with the glint of steel in the trees; the rest of the party is however surprised when four small creatures leap from the surrounding foliage and attack. They are small in size with garishly red caps; they also wield normal sized razor sharp scythes with a disturbing competence as Pringle is soon made aware of as the first blow of the combat pierces his chest and erupts from his back in a vivid spurt of blood; the scythe is dragged sideways out of his body severing the spine and ripping through his heart and lungs. The rest of the party look on in shock as Pringle slumps from his horse and collapses upon the ground; his killer takes off it’s hat and submerges it in Pringles blood refreshing the blood red of his attire before placing it again upon his head. </p><p></p><p>A pair of redcaps flank Sayuri each of them swinging their scythes as she nimbly dodges the incoming attacks; one of them connects scoring a deep cut on her thigh the other blade whisking past her face slicing off several strands of hair. The Redcap grins as the black strands drift to the ground as its companion slices its scythe into Grembor’s back; the blade thankfully not catching as it skips over his rips leaving a trail of blood in its wake. Sayuri concentrates; as she is apt to loose spells when confronted by foes and sends some force missiles into the faces of the pair attacking her before stepping back from between the pair. Zordlan swinging his horse around moves up to one on Sayuri and swings his sword low trying to catch the small fey; his sword hits but most of the force is absorbed by it’s tough skin. Pringle does very little other then make a bloody mess upon the ground while Grembor fires some arrows at the closest Redcap while withdrawing from combat. Nashkar guides his pony to Pringles body and slips off to the ground; casting a quick spell he breathes life back into Pringles body restoring some colour to his ashen skin. He sits up and coughs up a large amount of blood which inexplicably seems to have gathered in his lungs and throat.</p><p></p><p>The Redcap which with a single blow took out Pringle grins to see him alive again; relishing the chance to kill him another time he swings his scythe which is bathed in Pringles blood in a low arc hoping to duplicate his first blow but he inexplicably misses his mark as Pringle slumps back to the floor under the savage strike. The Redcap steps up to Sayuri and swings his scythe hoping to hook Sayuri but all he got was some of her shirt as the point catches and rips the fine cloth. Two of them turn on Zordlan; they both strike true and he sports some new wounds on his new body. Sayuri stepping back again summons the power of a newly acquired spell; the matrix for the transmutation forms in her minds eye as she forms the image of a kitten and tries to impose this image upon the Redcap before her. Its features momentarily take on a feline aspect but it is soon shaken off as the spell fails very much to Sayuri’s disappointment. Zordlan with an impressive flourish of his sword manages to slice the skin open above his own eyes blinding him from the flow of blood; he staggers around for a while trying to wipe the stinging liquid from his eyes. Pringle scampers to his feet narrowly missing the Redcaps assault; and backs away; he summons his energies and fires off several force missiles which impact upon the Redcap’s chest, face and shoulders causing some bruising; the fey creature grins up at Pringle through bloody teeth wincing at the pain from his bruises. Nashkar channels healing energy into the party closing up wounds and stemming the flow of blood from Zordlan’s forehead and making Pringle feel a whole lot better as his remaining wounds close. Setting his shield on his forearm and extracting his axe he looks around for a suitable opponent to molest with lightning.</p><p></p><p>The assembled fey creatures assaulting them are a little taken aback; they had expected an easy victory; run in slam them a few times with their scythes and then gorge on the remains and take their loot. However after the first one killed Pringle (he got better) it all went a bit wrong. They rally and try to take out the serious threat of the warrior in their midst as without their armored wall casters tend to fall like wheat to a scythe … They are however somewhat nervous as someone just channeled energy throughout the group so there may be a dreaded cleric around and this is something they would not be happy about. The two on Zordlan both strike relentlessly their razor sharp blades hammering into his plate armor and finding the gaps as they slice into his newly healed flesh. One assaults Sayuri but his wild swings miss by a significant margin while the remaining one assaults Nashkar figuring another warrior in full plate armor needs taking down a notch; he is however unable to penetrate the solidly repaired dwarven plate armor as his blade bounces off. </p><p></p><p>Sayuri again retreats a way and concentrates very hard on kittens. Trying to impose her will upon the stubborn form before her; unfortunately for the Redcap he has no resistance against this kind of magic and soon finds himself looking up at a large human from a cute little kitten face; his mind however is still his own as he hisses in an exceedingly cute kitten fashion at Sayuri. The whole party grins at the evil fey’s predicament as the remaining fey look around in fear as one of their number is reduced to the status of a cute kitten. Zordlan a little embarrassed about his last attack tries another tactic and attempts to skewer the Redcap upon the point of his sword. However as he attempts this his helm takes a solid blow from the shaft of the scythe and slips over his eyes rendering him blind to his surroundings; he flails about still managing to cause his opponent some harm with his wildly swung blade. Pringle casts more force missiles at the Redcap which attacked him which impact upon its back and neck but he is currently more concerned with trying to kill Nashkar than the annoying mage who he has already killed once already. Grembor closes with one attacking Zordlan and strikes it with his sword hitting it in a sweet spot but causing little to no damage due to the fey’s resistance to damage while Nashkar hits the other Redcap (trying in vain to decapitate Zordlan) in the back with his axe causing it to spin around as the lightning from his axe courses through his small frail body.</p><p></p><p>The evil Fay; one of which is now an evil kitten of spitting, clawing death seem to think they can still beat this party down. They have the advantage of their natural resistance to any physical damage the party can give out plus they all hit harder than most of the party. The only one who can hit harder than them is Zordlan and he is staggering around as if drunk with his helmet over his eyes; a helmet which seems resistant to being moved presently. They decide to stay and kill these interlopers to their woods. The two seeing Zordlan staggering around direct their attacks at him; they both hit but the damage is relatively minor as most of the impact is absorbed by his armor. The Redcap who killed Pringle is still a little miffed that he got better attacks Nashkar; the blow hits but again his solid armor absorbs much of the force of the blow resulting in only a shallow wound to his arm. Sayrui again concentrates on one of them attacking poor Zordlan and pictures him as a little cute monkey; he feels Sayuri’s will trying to impose a new form upon him but shakes off the effects with a grunt. Zordlan staggers around trying to remove the obstacle from his view but is unable to; he strikes out at where he thinks one of the evil little buggers is and feels his sword connect not once but twice. Pringle casts a mind altering spell and advances upon the Redcap which killed him a few seconds ago and lightly touches it; he feels the spell take hold as the evil fey’s eyes dim a little as his metal faculties are drained. Grembor strikes at one on Zordlan and gets a much better hit as he sinks his sword into one of its lung causing a fountain of blood to erupt from its mouth which is closely followed by another spurt when the sword is removed with a strange sucking sound; the fey collapses to the floor with his fairy blood running from his mouth and lungs into the hungry earth. Nashkar chops at the other Redcap on Zordlan sinking his axe into his side; alas the axe does not go as deep as he hoped and the evil little bugger kicks him in his shins for his trouble. </p><p></p><p>Evil kitten gives up trying to impress Sayuri with its needlelike claws and looks around for someone else to impose its evil intellect upon; it gets a sudden urge to chase some random bit of brightly coloured cloth which had been cut from Sayuri’s clothes earlier and is now fluttering attractively. The remaining two Fey are nervous, one is very low on hits and the other see’s a glint in Pringle’s eye that he does not like at all. Sayuri casts again on the one which killed Pringle and has his mental faculties hampered; it finds itself growing smaller still until it looks up at the big people and has a sudden urge to eat banana’s ... whatever they are. It is now a small monkey with a monkeys mind due to Pringles insidious spell crippling it’s mental fortitude. Zordlan finally manages to right his helm and sees only one remaining Redcap and a monkey. Knowing Sayuri he strikes at the remaining redcap and misses by a significant margin; Pringle kneels and offers the monkey some trial rations which it takes, consumes and starts chittering up at him, Pringle picks it up casting a quick spell to mollify him. Grembor attacks the kitten causing it to jump up into the air with its tail all fluffy as it spits at him while Nashkar heals up the party with some needed channeled energy.</p><p></p><p>The last remaining Redcap looks around at his friends; one is a kitten which is currently running into the surrounding woods fluffy tail high; the other is a monkey whose mind has also reverted to that of a primate. One other lies dead bleeding his last into the ground; he takes his chances and leaps into the woods and disappears for view. The Party look around and relax as the more foreboding aspect of the surrounding woods seems to have been lifted somewhat. They then look at Pringle who seems deliriously happy with his new pet as he feeds it some nuts and fruit from his rations.</p><p></p><p><em>DM Note: Pringle is intending to take on the monkey as a familiar. I don’t have an issue with this as it’s just a monkey; will be amusing if the polymorph gets dispelled however. There used to be a feat called Obtain Familiar which allowed a character to gain a familiar as a wizard does so I am considering that.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Pringle died again which seems to be a re-occurring theme; random encounters can be nasty and a critical hit with a scythe at 2d4+10 damage is very destructive with a x4 crit. Had more characters die in the last few sessions than we have had for most of the adventure; guess it’s getting more dangerous the higher they go.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Zordlan had a terrible day of it; he rolled three natural 1’s in three consecutive rounds. Not so much fun for him but he survived and was the comedy relief for the night. That and the look of shock on Pringle’s players face as he went from practically full hits to big negatives in one hit. Now that was funny …</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sic_Pixie, post: 5982326, member: 52403"] [b]Pringle finds a new friend .. oh and beware the scythes of march ...[/b] The next morning they set out early; about mid morning they hit the forest and start making their way though; there only seems to be game trails though the forest with the occasional remnants of a true road showing every now and then. Mid afternoon finds them roughly halfway through and in the deepest part of the wood; the surrounding foliage has been getting increasingly large as they progress and Grembor has been getting increasingly more worried as the day progresses as the fey influence of the region is of the more foreboding type; he has tried leading the party away to go around the taint but each time they try heading towards a nicer part of the forest they seem to head into the deeper wood. Resigning themselves to whatever may come they move along the trail warily expecting the worst; however what they meet is so much worse than what they were expecting. They are riding cautiously through the forest when Sayrui and Zordlan see a flash of red along with the glint of steel in the trees; the rest of the party is however surprised when four small creatures leap from the surrounding foliage and attack. They are small in size with garishly red caps; they also wield normal sized razor sharp scythes with a disturbing competence as Pringle is soon made aware of as the first blow of the combat pierces his chest and erupts from his back in a vivid spurt of blood; the scythe is dragged sideways out of his body severing the spine and ripping through his heart and lungs. The rest of the party look on in shock as Pringle slumps from his horse and collapses upon the ground; his killer takes off it’s hat and submerges it in Pringles blood refreshing the blood red of his attire before placing it again upon his head. A pair of redcaps flank Sayuri each of them swinging their scythes as she nimbly dodges the incoming attacks; one of them connects scoring a deep cut on her thigh the other blade whisking past her face slicing off several strands of hair. The Redcap grins as the black strands drift to the ground as its companion slices its scythe into Grembor’s back; the blade thankfully not catching as it skips over his rips leaving a trail of blood in its wake. Sayuri concentrates; as she is apt to loose spells when confronted by foes and sends some force missiles into the faces of the pair attacking her before stepping back from between the pair. Zordlan swinging his horse around moves up to one on Sayuri and swings his sword low trying to catch the small fey; his sword hits but most of the force is absorbed by it’s tough skin. Pringle does very little other then make a bloody mess upon the ground while Grembor fires some arrows at the closest Redcap while withdrawing from combat. Nashkar guides his pony to Pringles body and slips off to the ground; casting a quick spell he breathes life back into Pringles body restoring some colour to his ashen skin. He sits up and coughs up a large amount of blood which inexplicably seems to have gathered in his lungs and throat. The Redcap which with a single blow took out Pringle grins to see him alive again; relishing the chance to kill him another time he swings his scythe which is bathed in Pringles blood in a low arc hoping to duplicate his first blow but he inexplicably misses his mark as Pringle slumps back to the floor under the savage strike. The Redcap steps up to Sayuri and swings his scythe hoping to hook Sayuri but all he got was some of her shirt as the point catches and rips the fine cloth. Two of them turn on Zordlan; they both strike true and he sports some new wounds on his new body. Sayuri stepping back again summons the power of a newly acquired spell; the matrix for the transmutation forms in her minds eye as she forms the image of a kitten and tries to impose this image upon the Redcap before her. Its features momentarily take on a feline aspect but it is soon shaken off as the spell fails very much to Sayuri’s disappointment. Zordlan with an impressive flourish of his sword manages to slice the skin open above his own eyes blinding him from the flow of blood; he staggers around for a while trying to wipe the stinging liquid from his eyes. Pringle scampers to his feet narrowly missing the Redcaps assault; and backs away; he summons his energies and fires off several force missiles which impact upon the Redcap’s chest, face and shoulders causing some bruising; the fey creature grins up at Pringle through bloody teeth wincing at the pain from his bruises. Nashkar channels healing energy into the party closing up wounds and stemming the flow of blood from Zordlan’s forehead and making Pringle feel a whole lot better as his remaining wounds close. Setting his shield on his forearm and extracting his axe he looks around for a suitable opponent to molest with lightning. The assembled fey creatures assaulting them are a little taken aback; they had expected an easy victory; run in slam them a few times with their scythes and then gorge on the remains and take their loot. However after the first one killed Pringle (he got better) it all went a bit wrong. They rally and try to take out the serious threat of the warrior in their midst as without their armored wall casters tend to fall like wheat to a scythe … They are however somewhat nervous as someone just channeled energy throughout the group so there may be a dreaded cleric around and this is something they would not be happy about. The two on Zordlan both strike relentlessly their razor sharp blades hammering into his plate armor and finding the gaps as they slice into his newly healed flesh. One assaults Sayuri but his wild swings miss by a significant margin while the remaining one assaults Nashkar figuring another warrior in full plate armor needs taking down a notch; he is however unable to penetrate the solidly repaired dwarven plate armor as his blade bounces off. Sayuri again retreats a way and concentrates very hard on kittens. Trying to impose her will upon the stubborn form before her; unfortunately for the Redcap he has no resistance against this kind of magic and soon finds himself looking up at a large human from a cute little kitten face; his mind however is still his own as he hisses in an exceedingly cute kitten fashion at Sayuri. The whole party grins at the evil fey’s predicament as the remaining fey look around in fear as one of their number is reduced to the status of a cute kitten. Zordlan a little embarrassed about his last attack tries another tactic and attempts to skewer the Redcap upon the point of his sword. However as he attempts this his helm takes a solid blow from the shaft of the scythe and slips over his eyes rendering him blind to his surroundings; he flails about still managing to cause his opponent some harm with his wildly swung blade. Pringle casts more force missiles at the Redcap which attacked him which impact upon its back and neck but he is currently more concerned with trying to kill Nashkar than the annoying mage who he has already killed once already. Grembor closes with one attacking Zordlan and strikes it with his sword hitting it in a sweet spot but causing little to no damage due to the fey’s resistance to damage while Nashkar hits the other Redcap (trying in vain to decapitate Zordlan) in the back with his axe causing it to spin around as the lightning from his axe courses through his small frail body. The evil Fay; one of which is now an evil kitten of spitting, clawing death seem to think they can still beat this party down. They have the advantage of their natural resistance to any physical damage the party can give out plus they all hit harder than most of the party. The only one who can hit harder than them is Zordlan and he is staggering around as if drunk with his helmet over his eyes; a helmet which seems resistant to being moved presently. They decide to stay and kill these interlopers to their woods. The two seeing Zordlan staggering around direct their attacks at him; they both hit but the damage is relatively minor as most of the impact is absorbed by his armor. The Redcap who killed Pringle is still a little miffed that he got better attacks Nashkar; the blow hits but again his solid armor absorbs much of the force of the blow resulting in only a shallow wound to his arm. Sayrui again concentrates on one of them attacking poor Zordlan and pictures him as a little cute monkey; he feels Sayuri’s will trying to impose a new form upon him but shakes off the effects with a grunt. Zordlan staggers around trying to remove the obstacle from his view but is unable to; he strikes out at where he thinks one of the evil little buggers is and feels his sword connect not once but twice. Pringle casts a mind altering spell and advances upon the Redcap which killed him a few seconds ago and lightly touches it; he feels the spell take hold as the evil fey’s eyes dim a little as his metal faculties are drained. Grembor strikes at one on Zordlan and gets a much better hit as he sinks his sword into one of its lung causing a fountain of blood to erupt from its mouth which is closely followed by another spurt when the sword is removed with a strange sucking sound; the fey collapses to the floor with his fairy blood running from his mouth and lungs into the hungry earth. Nashkar chops at the other Redcap on Zordlan sinking his axe into his side; alas the axe does not go as deep as he hoped and the evil little bugger kicks him in his shins for his trouble. Evil kitten gives up trying to impress Sayuri with its needlelike claws and looks around for someone else to impose its evil intellect upon; it gets a sudden urge to chase some random bit of brightly coloured cloth which had been cut from Sayuri’s clothes earlier and is now fluttering attractively. The remaining two Fey are nervous, one is very low on hits and the other see’s a glint in Pringle’s eye that he does not like at all. Sayuri casts again on the one which killed Pringle and has his mental faculties hampered; it finds itself growing smaller still until it looks up at the big people and has a sudden urge to eat banana’s ... whatever they are. It is now a small monkey with a monkeys mind due to Pringles insidious spell crippling it’s mental fortitude. Zordlan finally manages to right his helm and sees only one remaining Redcap and a monkey. Knowing Sayuri he strikes at the remaining redcap and misses by a significant margin; Pringle kneels and offers the monkey some trial rations which it takes, consumes and starts chittering up at him, Pringle picks it up casting a quick spell to mollify him. Grembor attacks the kitten causing it to jump up into the air with its tail all fluffy as it spits at him while Nashkar heals up the party with some needed channeled energy. The last remaining Redcap looks around at his friends; one is a kitten which is currently running into the surrounding woods fluffy tail high; the other is a monkey whose mind has also reverted to that of a primate. One other lies dead bleeding his last into the ground; he takes his chances and leaps into the woods and disappears for view. The Party look around and relax as the more foreboding aspect of the surrounding woods seems to have been lifted somewhat. They then look at Pringle who seems deliriously happy with his new pet as he feeds it some nuts and fruit from his rations. [I]DM Note: Pringle is intending to take on the monkey as a familiar. I don’t have an issue with this as it’s just a monkey; will be amusing if the polymorph gets dispelled however. There used to be a feat called Obtain Familiar which allowed a character to gain a familiar as a wizard does so I am considering that. Pringle died again which seems to be a re-occurring theme; random encounters can be nasty and a critical hit with a scythe at 2d4+10 damage is very destructive with a x4 crit. Had more characters die in the last few sessions than we have had for most of the adventure; guess it’s getting more dangerous the higher they go. Zordlan had a terrible day of it; he rolled three natural 1’s in three consecutive rounds. Not so much fun for him but he survived and was the comedy relief for the night. That and the look of shock on Pringle’s players face as he went from practically full hits to big negatives in one hit. Now that was funny …[/I] [/QUOTE]
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