A Merc's Life: Howl of the Carrion King [01]

[Leif]

Houwlou Groulenas

"That voice, that voice, I know that voice! One moment! It's a GOAT! That hideous, mournful wail is a goat!"

[sblock=Stat Block]
Houwlou Groulenas - Male Olcán Ranger 1
Initiative: +1, Perception: +8(?)(+2 more smell/sound,+2 more vs. undead), Low Light Vision 60'
AC: 17 (4Chain Shirt + 2Lg. Shield + 1Dex);FF16;T11
Fort:+2 | Ref:+3 | Will:+4
HP: 21/21
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[Maidhc O Casain]

Rescuing Rombard

A short way farther on you find yourselves at the edge of a very dense growth of cacti. Rombard's bleating is becoming more frantic and that creepy feeling in the air ratchets up another notch.

It is now fully dark, but Keeland, Houwlou and Aodhán can see the goat thrashing around about 25 feet into the cactus patch. It's tethered to one of the cacti with a hairy, knotted rope and it's likely that it's attempts to escape are causing it some fairly significant injury (these cactus needles are long).

[sblock=OOC]I'll need to know whether each of you is moving into the cactus. It will take 3 rounds of careful maneuvering through the cactus to avoid being stuck, and requires an Acrobatics check (DC 15) every round.

You're other option (besides letting poor Rombard bleed to death) is to barrel on through - this will inflict some damage.[/sblock]

 

[Leif]

Houwlou Groulenas

Houwlou does NOT enter the cactus patch at this time. "Poor Rombard! Tough break for the kid!"

[sblock=Eeeeesh]Pun fully intended[/sblock]

[sblock=Stat Block]
Houwlou Groulenas - Male Olcán Ranger 1
Initiative: +1, Perception: +8(?)(+2 more smell/sound,+2 more vs. undead), Low Light Vision 60'
AC: 17 (4Chain Shirt + 2Lg. Shield + 1Dex);FF16;T11
Fort:+2 | Ref:+3 | Will:+4
HP: 21/21
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[Scott DeWar]

[sblock=rules question] does hand of the apprintice have to be a weapon? can it instead be the rope in the cactice tethering the goat? can I use the hand to lead the goat without endangering the party?[/sblock]

OOC: ok, rules question has been answwered, however there are mitigating circumstances on the question, so harn will now act:

Harnrey, conjurer hope his armor and magic training can keep him safe in the catice patch. he starts to follow what looks like a possible path through the needls of excruciating pain...

He pulls out a sunrod and strikes the tip creating light to see by, the procedes into the patch.

acrobatics check:
1d20+2=7

ouch!

 

[renau1g]

Aodhán will shake his head as the wizard tries to navigate the prickly cacti:

"Get behind me boyo, I've clear a path for us!" the dwarf cries out as he pulls forth his waraxe and begins hacking a path through the plants.

 

[Leif]

Houwlou Groulenas

Houwlou bravely stands guard outside the sticker patch to make sure that no interlopers take us at unawares.
[sblock=Stat Block]
Houwlou Groulenas - Male Olcán Ranger 1
Initiative: +1, Perception: +8(?)(+2 more smell/sound,+2 more vs. undead), Low Light Vision 60'
AC: 17 (4Chain Shirt + 2Lg. Shield + 1Dex);FF16;T11
Fort:+2 | Ref:+3 | Will:+4
HP: 21/21
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[Maidhc O Casain]

In the Cactus Patch

Harnry begins his slow, careful way through the cactus patch and gets about ten feet in before getting thoroughly poked in the leg for . . . wait for it . . . one point of damage!

Aodhán pulls out his whopping war axe and begins carving a way through the cactus patch . . . the plants prove tough, their fibrous bodies resisting the edge of his axe, and he doesn't seem to be wielding it with his usual deft skill. Cactus juice coats the shaft and it slips round in his fingers, and the usually stolid dwarf finds himself slipping around as well. Several times he almost loses his footing! Eventually he makes it through, leaving a narrow path for the others to follow.

Harn and Kecil follow the dwarf through the patch, and the three adventurers find themselves standing on a thin strip of open land at the edge of a 15-foot wide ravine. A casual glance down the edge reveals a huge multi-armed, wickedly barbed cactus dominating the ground 10 feet below the ledge, almost directly below where the sad little goat Rombard has been lazily tied to a scrub bush. The goat is covered in cactus quills and is frantically pulling at the rope, bleating at maximum volume.

 

[Scott DeWar]

"quite the prickly situation, eh guys?" says the wizard as he pulls out the needle.

"who is good at climbing down to a pincusion?

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

[sblock=OOC]The goat is actually up here at the top of the ravine w/ you, but it's gonna take a Handle Animal check to get it to calm down enough to lead it out safely. For some reason the sight of humans isn't calming it as it should.[/sblock]

 

[Leif]

Houwlou Groulenas

OOC: Handle Animal check, eh? Dagnabbit!

Houwlou begins the dreaded arduous process of talking himself into entering the field of flesh-piercing cacti. "Oh, brother! Didn't you guys learn anything about animals?"
[sblock=Stat Block]
Houwlou Groulenas - Male Olcán Ranger 1
Initiative: +1, Perception: +8(?)(+2 more smell/sound,+2 more vs. undead), Low Light Vision 60'
AC: 17 (4Chain Shirt + 2Lg. Shield + 1Dex);FF16;T11
Fort:+2 | Ref:+3 | Will:+4
HP: 21/21
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