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

Warren the halfling, HP 39/39 (51/51), AC 18, Assassin's Stance

"Larian, if you can zap the runner, do it NOW! He'll cause more trouble." Warren says hurriedly, annoyed that he missed and that he's still too slow to catch up with that hobgoblin spellcaster. He adds "Someone keep this gobbo from messing with Larian."

Then Warren dashes off to go around the shack and check inside, hand-vaulting over Avril's dire wolf, rolling past Mandla and Larian, then slipping past Siobhan and Pender to reach the shack's door and go inside.

[sblock=ooc]Warren goes past the group and around to the inside of the shack, but just inside the doorway, not any further. He enters Assassin's Stance with a swift action at the end of his movement.

Next round, he'll step in and use Flashing Sun with Assassin's Stance to kill the first unconscious hobgoblin. He's going to make sure that any ones the others left alive inside won't survive, since he only knows that the one he attacked went down from injury, not spells. On the round after that, he'd step further in and coup de grace the second unconscious hobgoblin, if any. Only a 5-foot step on each of those rounds.

If he finds any other hobgoblins or hellhounds alive inside, he'll move in and attack each of them normally. Including any that may have stabilized. He figures one prisoner is more than enough. He won't slay the hobgoblin who surrendered, since that's a bit too dishonorable, but he has no compunction against finishing off the hobgoblins that fought 'till they fell.

Flashing Sun + Assassin's Stance + Discipline Focus (Desert Wind) against prone hobgoblin:
Short sword +13 for 1d4+5+3+3d6 damage and
short sword +13 for 1d4+5+3+3d6 damage

Coup de grace against other prone hobgoblin:
2d4+10+3d6 damage and Fortitude save against death

Any other attacks against prone gobs or hellhounds:
Short sword +15 for 1d4+5+3d6 damage[/sblock]
 

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Pender, Male Human Fighter 6

Pender growls in rage at this creature before him, begging for mercy when just second before he had struck down Larian. He raises his sword in both hands to cut the piece of walking refuse in half.

...then gets control of his emotions and thinks better of it. He lowers his sword and takes a few deep breaths to calm himself and regain his bearings. "Thank you, Siobhan," he says at her show of kindness.
 

Thrilled to be able to, and driven by the brush with death, Larian tries to retrieve and use one of his scrolls before the spellcaster gets beyond his reach.

[sblock=ooc] retrieve and use scroll of fireball, 5d6 damage, DC 14 reflex save for half. [/sblock]
 

Tyrla's last shot for 9 nearly misses altogether, but does manage to connect with the sorcerer.

Larian's fireball's save is made, but it deals 10 points of damage still to the area.

The sorcerer drops, a few hundred feet into the woods, possibly unconcious.

Warren performs a series of executions, but by the time he gets to the hellhounds their bodies have disappeared into the ether that summoned them. The unconcious hobgoblins die inside the destroyed building.
 

Warren the halfling, HP 39/39 (51/51), AC 18

Warren emerges a half-minute later, dragging his backpack and other people's stuff out of the shack, not trusting it to stay standing indefinitely after the battle inside and Pender's assault on the wall. His short sword looks like it was very bloody a moment ago, barely wiped off on some hobgoblin's clothes. The halfling goes back inside for a moment again, then emerges with any loot he can find off the hobgoblins' corpses.

"Best leave that shoddy little shack alone and sleep outside until we're ready to move on......oh, and here's our stuff." Warren says. "Somebody tie up that other hobgoblin if you haven't killed him, and gag him so we can take a nap without any interruptions." he adds just before yawning, then sets up his bedroll outside under a tree.
 

The hobgoblin regulars each had fairly mundane equipment, not even a potion to really salvage.

The sorcerer, once someone tracks down the body, has the following...

Ring of protection +1
Cloak of resistance +1
Potion of Cure Serious Wounds
 

Avril - Human Druid - AC 18 - hp 42/42 - Spot +12 - Listen +12
Mandla - Riding Dog - AC 28 - hp 45/45 - Spot +5 - Listen +5


Her small flame is accompanied by a giant blast that could only come from Larian. "Good thing we brought you back around," she said with a grin, before walking towards the large dire wolf, Mandla in tow. "Keep an eye out, Mandla," she said to the dog as she walked, her own eyes already scanning the wilderness, but nothing new seemed to be coming. Touching the large dire wolf by the neck, she gave the big animal a nod of her head. "You have done well. Go now, and rest with the Spirits." The wolf gave a low growl before disappearing into the nothingness.

"Mandla and I will go and bring the body back," she said before guiding her dog away to retrieve the fallen body of the spellcaster. Mandla had little trouble dragging the body back, which the dog dumped near the others. "I'm quite tired of all these constant attacks," Avril grumbled, unusually irritated. "I have half a mind to put these bodies on spikes as a warning," she continued, eyeing some of the dead wood lying near the trees. The wrath of Nature lay in her eyes as she watched. Resigning herself, she eventually sighed. "Yes, let's rest," she finally concluded as she tried to let her anger go.

She went into the shack to retrieve her things, before spreading them out near a tree. It reminded her of the way she used to sleep - in the forest, comforted and guarded by the spirits. This was not quite so peaceful. "Tyrla, Larian, will you be able to continue your watch?" she asked.

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OOC:

Spells and Abilities Active:

Barkskin (Avril, Mandla, 60 minutes)
Bear's Endurance (Warren, 12 minutes)
Produce Flame (6 minutes, 1 Used)

Spells Cast and Abilities/Items Used:

Enrage Animal
Cure Light Wounds
Barkskin
Bear's Endurance
Metamagic Rod of Lesser Extend (1 Used)
Call Lightning (Summon Nature's Ally III)
Cure Moderate Wounds
Produce Flame

Spells Prepared:

Spells Prepared (Normal 5/3/3/2, Wis 0/1/1/1):

Level 0 (5): Cure Minor Wounds (2), Detect Magic (2), Guidance
Level 1 (4): Faerie Fire
Level 2 (4): Bull's Strength, Flaming Sphere
Level 3 (3): Sleet Storm

XP: 625 (Goblins and Worgs)

Avril's Character Sheet
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Experience and treasure updated. By the way, not that I'm greedy, but did we get experience for the previous battle (with the worg riders)? If so I think I missed it.
 


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