Darkness Under Cold Stones

[Land Outcast]

Advancing in darkness now, with he moon as only light, you keep going... breath comes out as small clouds and the fingers are growing numb because of the cold.

You hadn't yet found out the cave, but supposedly it should be fairly near...

[sblock=Shoon, Balund, and Kragor]
The silver touch of the moon makes a leave glitter silver... silver leaves?!

No, the silver tip of an arrow pointing at your group from some fourty feet ahead; you can make out a humanoid siluhette on one of the trees (Balund sees another, on other tree 20 feet from this one) at some 20 feet of height, affixed to a branch with its legs.[/sblock]

Spot DC 19 & 19. (15 & 15 for Thoma)
Balund: 10+9=19 and 12+9=21
Thoma: 14+0=14 and 8+0=8
Shoon: 2+2=4 and 17+2=19
Kragor: 4+1=5 and 19+1=20
Ivan: 10+3=13 and 14+3=17

Surprise Round:
22. Shoon
19. #1
11. Balund
03. #2
02. Kragor

 

[Dire Lemming]

Shoon inhales sharply and warns the others in a quiet voice, "Archers, in the trees." he also looks at the hobgoblin and warns. "Do not do anything foolish." With that, he moves to take cover behind the nearest tree to the sentry that he can reach.

 

[Land Outcast]

Shoon's whisper of advice comes a bit too late for Balund, who was carrying himself with the thoughts of an ambush... the glint from the first tree approaches... fast, far too fast to allow the white-haired man any kind of reaction, and black-shafted arrow lodges heavily with a *thump* into his left shoulder.

For the rest, the forest is dead silent.

OOC: #1 Attack 18 vs. AC 15; 6 damage

 

[Scotley]

Kragor

Moving quickly, Kragor also takes cover behind a tree and pulls a javelin.

 

[Rhun]

Balund grunts in pain as the black feathered arrow tears into his flesh. The shaman readies his bow, while moving forward and taking shelter behind a thick trunk of a tree.






Move 10' forward to close distance to 30', take cover and ready bow.
AC: 17, HP: 10/16

 

[hafrogman]

Ivan starts at Shoon's warning and looks up just in time to see Balund struck by an arrow. Stunned by the sudden attack, he is momentarily at a loss.

 

[Land Outcast]

As Kragor shifts to get the cover of a tree, he instinctively rises his shield, almost carelessly... the arrow quivers for some seconds, like a bad weed with black leaves on it...

Silence... The hobgoblin commander promptly throws himself to the floor behind another tree.

Now the silouhettes have been pinpointed -their cover blown-, but are still behind the shadows, making difficult to clearly see where there is tree and where there is archer.

Silence, and the only ones seen are Thoma and Ivan, standing as perfect targets against the silver moonlight...

OOC: Actions for the first round?

22. Shoon
19. #1
11. Balund
11. Ivan
06. Thoma
03. #2
02. Kragor

 

[Dire Lemming]

How high up in the tree is the nearest archer, and how close to Shoon is the tree? Can he move so that he is within Sai range of his target while ending up with cover against the other archer? If not it's ok, I just want to attack the nearest archer.

Sai +4 1d4+1 x2 Range 10

 

[Rhun]

Balund quickly knocks arrow to bow, takes aim around the trunk of the tree he is using for cover, and looses feathered death toward the nearest foe.





Attack +5, Damage 1d6+2
AC: 17, HP: 10/16

 

[hafrogman]

Still not certain where his foes lie, Ivan reaches for a dagger from his belt and attempts to join his friends under cover.