(CSRHoD) Creamsteak's Red Hand of Doom II [IC]

Warren nods. "Right, let's go see what's happening," he says, moving forward along the north tunnel. He brings the shadows around him again in a slightly concealing cloak as he goes.

[sblock=ooc]Taking 10 on Move Silently and Hide as he goes, in the Child of Shadow stance. Total of 28 each on those checks. My Listen and Spot modifiers are +11 and +12.[/sblock]

Pender nods and hefts his large blade onto his shoulder, trudging behind the halfling, allowing him to take the point.

Siobhan keeps her bow at the ready as she falls in behind the others. She steps over near Warren before he disappears into the shadows and asks, "The claws of the beasts caused some harm, do you wish the blessing of Kord to restore your injuries before we battle again?"

As the group moves forward they enter into an open room leading in four directions. The passageway you came through leads back to the south and east, while two passages (one more northern and one more southern) go off to teh west. A final passage goes off to the north and east.

In the center of the room, an emptied backpack sits on a small wooden bench to the south of a small fire pit. Soot covers a ring of rocks in the center, a few of them scattered from their places.

The echoes of fighting continue, coming from the north-west.

Warren replies "Yeah, that'd help....."

After the group reaches the room with the empty backpack, Warren heads along the western passage at the northern end of the room, still hoping to sneak up on whatever's fighting, see if it's anything the group should intervene on.

I'm not sure which kind of healing you were intending to do. Were you going to use touch of healing, or something else?

Siobhan leans over and touches Warren on the head. His wounds begin to knit quickly. Seeing that he is still in need of additional healing, she triggers her wand of lesser vigor to restore some more of the damage.

OOC: Using touch of healing to get him up to 23 (1/2 total) then using lesser vigor to give him another 11 hit points over the next minute. sorry for the delay, busy weekend.

As Warren creeps forward, he sees the source of the fighting. Right around the corner a wolf-like man is waiting nearby, seemingly trying to recover. Eight more of the creatures are spread out all over the room, some still bleeding or beaten unconcious, while most are are fully recovered and ready to attack.

A heavy wooden door leads out of this chamber to the west, and standing in front of it a massive lupine creature obstructs the path, this one with gray-beige fur and a scar covering his eye. This monster stands nearly a chest higher than the other creatures in front of it, and looks far more fierce.

Before Warren can sneak up to kill one of the monsters, he sees two of the werewolf creatures charge with tooth and claw towards the larger monster - hell bent on trying to rip it to shreds. --- It looks like the pack is trying to kill the big one.

V's are being used for the werewolves, B for the Big Wolf, W for Warren. The party isn't on the map right now, and this is for actions during the surprise round. The two V's nearest the B acted just before the surprise round, but are completely unaware of Warren (actually, nobody noticed him yet at all). The red V's represent severely injured worgen, currently unconcious (but they will quickly regenerate). Warren can act during the surprise round now, followed by everyone in order of initiative.

Initiatives
Pender 24
Big Wolf 20
Larian 17
Siobhan 16
Warren 15
Tyrla 15
Werewolves 15
Avril 8

I've attached the map, the caverns lead off somewhere to the west and south as well as the door in the northern part of the cavern and the entrance Warren used.

Warren the halfling, Child of Shadow stance

Warren.......although not normally one to pass up an opportunity.......decides that this may not be the best fight to get himself into, from a tactical standpoint. The wolf-men he can see more or less equal or outnumber his party, and the last two, despite their wounds, were a handful for him and Pender. A whole pack of them might just maul us before we could wear them down, and they seem to be fast healers......

So Warren quietly backs away and heads back to the group, slinking silently down the passageway and whispering to the rest of the group "Wolf-men, a bunch of them. Like, at least half a dozen I think, attacking some bigger wolf-man or whatever. They seem to be regrouping and healing up between assaults. I don't think we can take them all. And it did look like the gobbos were killed by savage beasts, so maybe.....these freaks aren't allies of the Red Hand?"

After a moment's hesitation, he adds "Much as I'd like to eviscerate and burn a few more to see whatever's so important and valuable that they're tryin' so hard to reach it.....and uh, I dunno, make sure they don't go summare else to eat townsfolk, I guess? Whatever it is they were in that village for? And I still don't understand why they got a cave down here, but...... Well anyway, it's prob'ly best we just move on and look for the next buncha gobbos or whatever."

[sblock=ooc]Warren just moves back to the group, at half speed to avoid penalties to his Hide and Move Silently checks, then repotrs.

I suppose we'd have some chance against them, if Warren zapped one and drew them into the corridor where our warriors could face them one-on-one for a while as others shot them and our warriors occasionally switched places.....but it would probably be a losing fight, in mine and Warren's estimation. I dunno how tough those critters are, but the two we faced already seemed fairly tough and dangerous. If Warren the alpha-strike vanguard can't take a somewhat-injured one down in a single round of awesome sneak attack crits, and without being more than halfway dead afterward, I don't like our chances against half a dozen or so wolfmen.[/sblock]

Warren makes his way back to the group successfully, the fighting still continuing in the other chamber.