[AU] Lost Dreams: The Stone Troll

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Kelsis the Bright-Eyed, female sibeccai akashic

"Damn," Kelsis swears softly. Dropping her ranseur and knocking an arrow in her bow, she sights and fires as soon as she has a target. He will not escape me.

 

[Erekose13]

[ooc:map up]

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

ooc - Ok then, with the map up, Kelsis will move twenty feet to the right, then twenty feet up before attempting to fire.

 

[Erekose13]

Round 1

Kelsis moves quickly to a better position hoping to get a better shot at the rhodin hiding behind the tree. The arrow just misses the tree, hitting the rhodin in the right shoulder. [ooc:hit #6, 4 dmg]

The rhodin comes out from behind the tree, retreating to the tree up and to your left. When it leaves the cover of the tree you can see that this rhodin is female. It fires an arrow at Kelsis as it moves between cover, the arrow finds its target, grazing Kelsis' arm. [ooc:hit Kelsis, 3dmg]

Gren charges straight to the base of the tree trying to slide his swordstaff around the base of the tree. Luckily he misses the low branches sticking out and pierces the rhodin's defence. [ooc:hit #6, 13dmg]

Rinaldo makes for the opposite side of the tree trying to get around behind the rhodin. He is able to catch it, but unable to get in a bite.

[ooc: unhealed damage recap: Gren is at 6/29 and Kelsis is at 1/13, Rinaldo is fine. #6 17dmg]

 

[Erekose13]

[ooc: map is up]

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Kelsis the Bright-Eyed, female sibeccai akashic

*Kelsis will dance sideways and foreward, behind the cover of a tree, and fire another shot at the rhodin.*

Have to take her down, she'll murder us in our sleep! she thinks, nearly heedless of her own grevious wounds.

OOC - Kelsis will move twenty feet to the right, then twenty feet up before firing. She will try to keep behind the cover of the tree to protect herself against retaliation.

 

[Erekose13]

Round 2/End

Kelsis moves forward some more trying to get a clear shot at the rhodin. As Rinaldo and Gren are on the other side, they do not interfere with her line of sight. She launches her arrow when she spots an opening, scoring another hit. [ooc: hit #6, dmg 6]

The rhodin woman, seeing that she is out numbered and out classed drops her bow and tries to flee. Gren and Rinaldo take advantage of her distractions and finish her off. [Gren AoO hit #6, dmg 8; Rinaldo AoO hit #6, dmg 4, falls unconscious and bleeding.]

With the last of them down, Kelsis finishes her grizzly work and gathers the fallen rhodin's belongings. Adding to the treasure wagon's haul she comes up with another pile of things.

• nice chainshirt
• nice shortsword
• nice composite longbow, w/ 20 arrows
• another small vial with clear blue liquid. This one has a small orange rune carved into it.
• a small stone which when Kelsis picks up she knows immediately that it is an Akashic Memory stone.
• 20pp, 14gp

Returning to the caravan she carts the loot back with Gren's help. Atop the small hill the group sets up the best camp that they can in the damp cold night. The rain has finally stopped falling, but everything is still very wet. The night is miserable but quiet. Aadin finds out a couple more things about the ring. First it was last held by a being called Murtz whom you knew was rhodin. The object's creator was named Shethswana. Unfortunately thats all the information that you can get out of it tonight. Kalythar is given his hour rest to reorient his mind. [ooc: please feel free to let me know what spells you cast that night]

The next morning the temperature has dropped even more and the mud has turned solid and there is a thick layer of frost on the trees and grass. A chilly morning so early in the year proves that winter really is coming on fast this year.

[ooc:Yay for finishing the first major engagement of the campaign. Having calculated the xp awards I would like the three of you who have stuck around to advance to 4th level please . Please make an ooc note at the bottom of a post here letting me know when you have upgraded, and an Edit note at the bottom of your character sheets to let me know what you changed.]

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Kelsis the Bright-Eyed, female sibeccai akashic

*Kelsis helps Gren collect the items, then slowly walks back to camp. After dropping the things down in a pile, she goes to those who are near the fire.*

"I was wounded in the fight. I would be grateful for some assistance in healing," she says, sitting down. Those of you close to her can see that her fur is streaked with blood and there is a deep gash in her side.

*After receiving healing, or not, Kelsis will attempt to figure out what memories are in the stone.*

OOC - I'm all leveled up.

 

[DrSpunj]

Kalythar, Litorian Mage Blade 4

As Kelsis & Gren return to camp, Kalythar notes the severity of their wounds. "If you'll give me some time to meditate, I can help both of you feel a bit better."

[OOC: Current spell selection and slots after meditating:
Slots: 4/1
0: (4) - Bash, Glowglobe (Lesser), Saving Grace, Seeker
1: (4) - Precise Vision, Scent Tracker, Transfer Wounds (Lesser)

Will use his last 1st level slot to heal Kelsis, and then weave 3 0-level into a 1st level slot to heal Gren.]

Kalythar then takes the first watch, letting the others get some rest. He spends most of the night thinking over the battle and replaying it time and again, looking for ways he can improve his abilities and tactics in the future. He awakens Kelsis at the end of his watch, then grabs what sleep he can. In the morning he feels as if the self-reflection was very helpful, giving him new insights.

[OOC: Leveled to 4th! Current Spell Selection after meditating:
Slots: 4/3/1
0: (4) - Bash, Glowglobe (Lesser), Saving Grace, Seeker
1: (4) - Obscuring Mist, Precise Vision, Scent Tracker, Transfer Wounds (Lesser)
2: (1) - Gusting Wind]

After finishing his meditations and morning exercise routine with his Athame, Kalythar heads over to the campfire for some breakfast. Getting a bowl for himself, he looks at the others, saying, "Now that the sun is up and that wretched night is finally over, did they have anything useful we can use on the road ahead?"

 

[Erekose13]

The Rhodin's Memory Stone

damage recap for the day after:
Aadin - fully healed 23/23
Kelsis 14/17
Kalythar - fully healed 29/29
Gren - 18/27
Korwin - 10/21

Kelsis spends some time orienting herself to the memories embeded in the stone. It takes a little while before she is able to access it as the beastial nature of its user is apparent in what information was recorded. The most recent entry included a very detailed picture of your groups battle tactics and abilities. Delving into that further you can hear all of the rhodin talking before the battle then the larger group splitting off to attack. The user of the stone managed to get quite close to watch, but retreated again once it was apparent her companions wouldnt last. At the top of the hill she had used another stone to conjure the elemental, directing it towards the wagons.

Reviewing things a little further back, Kelsis finds two other entries of note. The first also occured at night and features another group of wagons being attacked by the same group. This time however the rhodin are successful, loosing only a couple of their numbers before overwhelming the poor merchants. The interesting part of this memory is that there was another combatant fighting with the rhodin, a very large ugly creature looking something like a troll, but with pale white skin.

The first entry in the stone, is in a stone room, lit by a strong pure white light. Most of the images are of the rhodin and a map. But another figure appears in the memory, an old crone bent over the map, her hideous face pointing to various locations. Sometime shortly thereafter you can see the outside of the room, it would appear to be a tall spire of pure white crystal standing in a field of snow. Perhaps it is the Citadel of Ice that the bard had spoken of.

There are voices but you cannot understand any of the words spoken. It is very glutteral, probably the native tongue of the rhodin.

That morning Lemm prepares breakfast for everyone, though he is unable to get a fire lit with the wet wood, soaked from the night before. But the bread is still soft and the water is cool and fresh. Master Mollen allows you to have a bit more time this morning to set things straight and get everyone ready for the next leg of the journey.

During breakfast he comes out of his wagon and begins, "Well that was some crazy night, thank you all for the wonderful job you did fending off those brigands. There will be hazard pay in it for all of you when we finish this job. As you had pointed out last night, they were well armed, I wonder why and by whom?"

"I do not like this change of weather. The mining site is quite a bit higher than the coast and an early winter might make it difficult for us to get everything loaded up and heading down before the first snow falls. If more rain storms hit it will make our journey there longer as well, slowing the horses and wagons down. Not to mention of course if we come across more bandits."