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Erkonin (Campaign #2) [Session 45: Rajalmin's Agent]
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<blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 8100507" data-attributes="member: 7016699"><p>Session 12: Gnoll Army - Defeated!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Dramatis Personae:</p><p></p><p>Aldalómiel - Wood Elf Ranger (Hunter Conclave)</p><p>Elama “Lamie” Galanodel- Wood Elf Cleric (Tempest)</p><p>Vinya Anar - Wood Elf Monk (Way of the Sun Soul)</p><p>Elderon - High Elf Wizard (Loremaster)</p><p>Marxine Deepfoot - Dwarf Fighter (Champion)</p><p>Mia - Firbolg Druid (Circle of the Land (Forest))</p><p></p><p>GM - Everyone Else</p><p></p><p></p><p>Note: Before we started playing, Mia's player told us that she was going to have to bow out of the campaign for personal reasons. The rest of the table agreed to continue with a five person party.</p><p></p><p></p><p>1 Blizzarin 749 (Campaign day 32) (immediately after)</p><p></p><p>We decided that instead of returning to the fortified ranch immediately after the gnoll fight, we’d move along the gulch toward where they were coming from, so they wouldn’t see the bodies of the first advance party of gnolls and be alerted to an ambush.</p><p></p><p>We spotted another advance scouting band coming along the gulch -- the composition of the band was the same as the previous one -- one breeder (with four hyenas), one speedy gnoll, one sneaky gnoll, one maw demon, and five regular gnolls. Unfortunately, we didn’t hide nearly as well, so they spotted us fairly quickly and started screeching and chortling and howling.</p><p></p><p>Alda took the first shot at them and hit the breeder solidly. Marxine got her second wind, to help her heal up from the previous fight, and then ran out into the middle of the gulch to draw their attention, the started dodging and dancing around.</p><p></p><p>The breeder gnoll took Marxine’s bait and ran to her and attacked -- but it missed because she was dodging. The sneaky gnoll moved forward and shot vaguely in Marxine’s direction with its longbow.</p><p></p><p>Vinya ran out and attacked the breeder and hit it with both her quarterstaff and a punch, joining Marxine in the middle of the gulch. The regular gnolls, seeing the bait there, moved toward Vinya and Marxine but couldn’t make it all the way to them.</p><p></p><p>Elderron had found himself a position on a hillock in the gulch while we were waiting for them to arrive. He stepped out from behind a rise and tolled the dead on the breeder, then ducked back into cover.</p><p></p><p>Mia cast a spike growth centered on the speedy gnoll, hoping to have the same excellent results she had in the previous fight. The speedy gnoll, the sneaky gnoll, the maw demon, three regular gnolls and two of the hyenas were all in the spike growth.</p><p></p><p>The two hyenas in the spike growth were smarter than the gnolls in the previous fight. They saw that the ground around them was spiky and painful, and sat down, refusing to move at all. The other two hyenas, outside the spell area, also saw the dangerous ground, and ran around the area to attack Vinya -- both of them hit her.</p><p></p><p>The speedy gnoll, not as smart as the hyenas, took a great deal of damage running through the spike growth, then it attacked Marxine, hitting with its first swing. The second swing was very vigorous and forceful, but also entirely wild and missed entirely.</p><p></p><p>The maw demon took its cue from the hyenas and refused to move.</p><p></p><p>The ranch hands with their crossbows up on the rim of the gulch sent some of their shots to the breeder gnoll and some to the sneaky gnoll. Aldalomiel took out the the breeder with a perfect shot that went right into its eye, then she moved her hunter’s mark to the speedy gnoll.</p><p></p><p>Marxine hit the a gnoll right in front of her solidly. Vinya lamely hit one of them (it was a hit in a critical spot, but not a good hit) then used a flurry of blows to drop the two hyenas that had circled the spike growth to attack her.</p><p></p><p>The sneaky gnoll moved to Marxine and attacked her, hitting her solidly. The two regular gnolls not in the spike growth rushed Vinya and Marxine.. The regular gnolls attacked using spears. Marxine was hit hard by one. One hit Vinya. The other two were so wild with their attacks that it was almost impossible to know who they were targeting. One seemed to have targeted the ground with a powerful blow.</p><p></p><p>Elderron came off his hillock and cast magic missile on the sneaky gnoll, dropping it. Mia cast shillelagh and then used it to attack one of the gnolls that were mobbing around Vinya and Marxine.</p><p></p><p>The hyenas in the spike growth continued to sit there, unwilling to move through the painful ground. The maw demon did as well.</p><p></p><p>Elama cast sacred flame on one of the gnolls on Marxine and Vinya, hitting it with some radiant damage.</p><p></p><p>The crossbow wielding ranch hands moved along the top of the gulch and started shooting at the maw demon, since it was being a sitting target for them. They did it a lot of damage, setting it up for Aldalomiel to move her hunter’s mark over to it and drop it with an arrow right into its heart.</p><p></p><p>Marxine attacked the one that was between her and Vinya, taking advantage of having it flanked, and hit it well, twice, using an action surge to do so. That gnoll went down. Vinya turned to another one and hit it with her quarterstaff, but missed with her punch. The gnoll survived.</p><p></p><p>Which was a genuine pity, because another gnoll was able to find a position of flanking against Marxine and hit her very hard. Marxine looked fairly rough at this point. Another gnoll missed Vinya.</p><p></p><p>Elama ran over and healed Marxine, who was looking a lot better after that. The crossbowmen started working on the hyenas sitting in the spike growth -- hitting one of them well, but not dropping it.</p><p></p><p>Aldalomiel moved her hunter’s mark to the gnoll that had hit Marxine so hard and shot an arrow that went through its neck and into the back of its skill, dropping it instantly. Marxine took an opportunity attack from one of the gnolls to get flanking on another one, but then missed with her swing. Vinya took advantage of the flanking Marxine arranged to hit with her quarterstaff and attack with a flurry of blows.</p><p></p><p>She dropped one of the two remaining gnolls, but one remained standing. (There was also still a hyena in the spike growth.)</p><p></p><p>That last gnoll stopped its screeching and laughing and listened for a bit. Then it attacked Marxine and missed.</p><p></p><p>Elderron tolled the dead on the last gnoll but it didn’t quite drop. Mia let the spike growth drop then used her shillelagh on the last gnoll and dropping it. Marxine took one of their shields.</p><p></p><p>Mia looked at the last hyena, the last member of this advance party still alive, and tried to talk it out of being a gnoll-associated hyena. Before the hyena had a chance to repent its ways, the crossbowmen on the wall dropped it.</p><p></p><p>We immediately headed back toward the fortified ranch -- we got our horses and went back to the ranch.</p><p></p><p>The gnolls had to come through the gulch to get to the ranch -- so we left the bodies to distract them (Vinya figured they’d eat them) as they headed toward Telson’s Ranch. Mr. Alzey Telson and his wife Timma were happy that none of us were dead. So were we.</p><p></p><p>We told them what we saw and what we fought and rested for a bit, hoping to have a chance to get our breath back, gather our energy and prepare for the main body of the army to arrive at the rance. As we rested, Timma Telson showed up with two greater healing potions.</p><p></p><p>Timma: You look really beat up. Take these. You’ll feel better.</p><p></p><p>Marxine and Vinya drank the potions.</p><p></p><p>We were able to rest for a whole hour before we started hearing the screeching of the gnolls coming through the gulch toward the ranch. They were about fifteen minutes away when we started hearing them.</p><p></p><p>During that time, Marxine asked if they had any options for ground fighters, as neither she nor Vinya are at their best fighting at range. They loaned her a crossbow and Vinya a longbow.</p><p></p><p>Marxine: Well, it’s better than nothing. But not by much.</p><p></p><p>They also showed us the defenses they had behind the gates, in case the gnolls breached the gates. If they did, Vinya and Marxine would get off the wall and join the defenders at ground level.</p><p></p><p>The party took up positions on the wall on either side of the main gate, along with ten crossbow-wielding ranch hands, including the three that had been with us out in the gulch.</p><p></p><p>Elama cast a fog cloud about eighty feet away from the base of the wall.</p><p></p><p>Elama: I don’t know why the storm grants me this spell, but dammit I will use it!</p><p></p><p>By the time the gnoll army made it into range of the crossbows, long-range fire had whittled the army down to 10 gnolls, 10 hyenas, two maw demons, three speedy gnolls, two breeders, and the pack Alpha (not a flind).</p><p></p><p>Elderron shot one of the regular gnolls with a firebolt, but not for much damage. Aldalomiel missed with a sling bullet. Vinya hit with her unfamiliar longbow, but not for much damage. Marxine, on the other side of the gate from Vinya, missed. The crossbowmen shot at the closest targets, the speedy gnolls that were rushing the gate, and dropped one of them. The crossbowmen on Mia and Marxine’s side of the gate all missed.</p><p></p><p>Mia: Good practice round, guys! We’ll get them next time.</p><p></p><p>The hyenas rushed the wall, some of them getting right to it, but they were unable to do anything but mill about and chortle. The Alpha moved forward and began to dodge and weave, bracing for attack. The rest of the gnoll army moved forward as far as they could -- mostly rushing toward the gate rather than merely toward the wall.</p><p></p><p>Mia threw a moonbeam on the Alpha. Elama cast sacred flame on one of the hyenas, which was in range for her. Elderron cast magic missile on the Alpha, doing a nice amount of damage. Aldalomiel put her hunter’s mark on the sneaky gnoll that had already been hit by one of the arrows earlier and fired off a sling bullet at it, getting a crit. Unfortunately it didn’t drop, so Vinya took a shot at it to far less effect than Aldalomiel’s shot. Marxine missed with a crossbow shot at one of the regular gnolls.</p><p></p><p>The two speedy gnolls, got right up next to the gates, but had had to run their fastest to get there. The crossbowmen focused their fire on them and dropped them both.</p><p></p><p>The rest of the hyenas joined their packmates at the base of the walls and were unable to do anything there. The Alpha took some damage from MIa’s moonbeam then he moved closer and dodged again, as did the maw demon.</p><p></p><p>Mia moved the moonbeam back onto the Alpha then called out encouragement to the archers on her side of the gate.</p><p></p><p>The gnolls made their way up to the gates and started hacking at them with hand axes.</p><p></p><p>Elderron traded places with one of the crossbowmen and shot an Aganazzar’s scorcher that caught three of the regular gnolls -- all of them survived, but looked and sounded very pained. Aldalomiel got a critical shot on the same speedy gnoll she’d been shooting at -- caved in his chest with a sling bullet. Nice!</p><p></p><p>Elama: WTF was that?</p><p></p><p>Aldalomiel then moved her hunter’s mark to the other of the speedy gnolls.</p><p></p><p>Vinya, once again, got a nice hit with her arrow, but it paled compared to Aldalomiel’s prodigious shots. The archers on Mia’s side of the wall responded to her encouragement and took out a gnoll. The archers on Vinya’s side did as well.</p><p></p><p>The Alpha once again took damage from the moonbeam spell -- then he ran out of it toward the wall and dodged. The maw demons also moved up, finally getting near the wall themselves.</p><p></p><p>Mia dropped the moonbeam spell and cast an entangle spell on the area right outside the gates, to keep the gnolls from breaching the gates. Only one of the regular gnolls at the gate eluded the clinging and grasping vines. That one moved back, away from the gates, to get out of the spell’s area.</p><p></p><p>The Alpha got up to the wall and started attacking the gate with a glaive. Elama tried to cast a guiding bolt on him, but missed. Elderron cast another Aganazzar’s scorcher, catching the leader and a couple of the regular gnolls. The regular gnolls were both dropped, but the leader survived.</p><p></p><p>Aldalomiel shook the foundations of the world by missing with a sling bullet. Vinya got a nice shot on a gnoll near her.</p><p></p><p>Marxine, with a target finally near enough to use a preferred weapon, threw a handaxe at the Alpha and dropped him!</p><p></p><p>The crossbowmen on the wall took out the gnolls in the entangle spell.</p><p></p><p>The maw demons, seeing the Alpha dropped and most of the gnolls dead, started to flee. So did the regular gnolls and the surviving breeder gnoll and speedy gnoll. The hyenas milling about at the base of the wall started running away.</p><p></p><p>Elama cast a sacred flame on the maw demon.</p><p></p><p>Elama: That’s right! You better run!!</p><p></p><p>Elderron cast magic missile on the same demon, hitting solidly. Aldalomiel, Vinya and the crossbowmen all focused their fire on the breeder gnoll, but weren’t able to drop it.</p><p></p><p>Marxine finally got a crit with a crossbow (actually with any weapon on a 19, because she’s a Champion Fighter), but unfortunately it did very little damage.</p><p></p><p>After the gnolls got out of the range of our crossbows and bows, we jumped off the wall and mounted horses. We chased down and killed the demons, gnolls and the breeder gnoll. The hyenas we didn’t worry about.</p><p></p><p>Mia said that away from the gnolls and the influence of Yeenoghu the hyenas would revert to their natural state.</p><p></p><p>The Telsons told us that the people in the other settlement probably have some stuff and gold. They asked us to escort them to the ruined ranch.</p><p></p><p>We did so.</p><p></p><p>At that ruined ranch, we found mostly burned buildings. One of those buildings had a brick vault in it. Inside the vault we found some coin and some items. The Telsons wanted to keep the money and the art pieces in the vault, but said that we were welcome to keep any of the items we found.</p><p></p><p>The first thing we found was a maul bracketed to the wall over the vault. We also found two pairs of gloves, a flute, and three potions.</p><p></p><p>After we identified the items and discovered that the maul was a +1 magical weapon and one of the potions was a potion of supreme healing, we figured that the ranchers had forgotten (or didn’t think about) what was in the vault when they were being attacked by the gnolls. Either that or they couldn’t get to the vault in the assault.</p><p></p><p>The items were identified as:</p><p></p><p>+1 Maul (Marxine)</p><p>Gloves of Thievery (Elderron)</p><p>Gloves of Missile Snaring (??)</p><p>Pipes of the Sewers (Vinya)</p><p>Potion of Water Breathing</p><p>Potion of Animal Friendship</p><p>Potion of Supreme Healing</p><p></p><p>The potions were kept as party treasure. It’s possible that Alda kept the gloves of missile snaring, on the theory that she could supplement her ammo supply with them, but my notes don’t say that for sure.</p><p></p><p>After all of this fighting, Mia told us that she’d been getting weird dreams and signs that her people needed her back. She’d just intended to leave for a little bit to take care of the ogres she’d been following when she found us. She handed Vinya a handful of goodberries.</p><p></p><p>Mia: Remember, they’re only good for 24 hours.</p><p>Vinya: I had something to give you.</p><p></p><p>Vinya and Elama hugged her, and then Mia headed out toward Tash, across country, to get back to her people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="prabe, post: 8100507, member: 7016699"] Session 12: Gnoll Army - Defeated! Dramatis Personae: Aldalómiel - Wood Elf Ranger (Hunter Conclave) Elama “Lamie” Galanodel- Wood Elf Cleric (Tempest) Vinya Anar - Wood Elf Monk (Way of the Sun Soul) Elderon - High Elf Wizard (Loremaster) Marxine Deepfoot - Dwarf Fighter (Champion) Mia - Firbolg Druid (Circle of the Land (Forest)) GM - Everyone Else Note: Before we started playing, Mia's player told us that she was going to have to bow out of the campaign for personal reasons. The rest of the table agreed to continue with a five person party. 1 Blizzarin 749 (Campaign day 32) (immediately after) We decided that instead of returning to the fortified ranch immediately after the gnoll fight, we’d move along the gulch toward where they were coming from, so they wouldn’t see the bodies of the first advance party of gnolls and be alerted to an ambush. We spotted another advance scouting band coming along the gulch -- the composition of the band was the same as the previous one -- one breeder (with four hyenas), one speedy gnoll, one sneaky gnoll, one maw demon, and five regular gnolls. Unfortunately, we didn’t hide nearly as well, so they spotted us fairly quickly and started screeching and chortling and howling. Alda took the first shot at them and hit the breeder solidly. Marxine got her second wind, to help her heal up from the previous fight, and then ran out into the middle of the gulch to draw their attention, the started dodging and dancing around. The breeder gnoll took Marxine’s bait and ran to her and attacked -- but it missed because she was dodging. The sneaky gnoll moved forward and shot vaguely in Marxine’s direction with its longbow. Vinya ran out and attacked the breeder and hit it with both her quarterstaff and a punch, joining Marxine in the middle of the gulch. The regular gnolls, seeing the bait there, moved toward Vinya and Marxine but couldn’t make it all the way to them. Elderron had found himself a position on a hillock in the gulch while we were waiting for them to arrive. He stepped out from behind a rise and tolled the dead on the breeder, then ducked back into cover. Mia cast a spike growth centered on the speedy gnoll, hoping to have the same excellent results she had in the previous fight. The speedy gnoll, the sneaky gnoll, the maw demon, three regular gnolls and two of the hyenas were all in the spike growth. The two hyenas in the spike growth were smarter than the gnolls in the previous fight. They saw that the ground around them was spiky and painful, and sat down, refusing to move at all. The other two hyenas, outside the spell area, also saw the dangerous ground, and ran around the area to attack Vinya -- both of them hit her. The speedy gnoll, not as smart as the hyenas, took a great deal of damage running through the spike growth, then it attacked Marxine, hitting with its first swing. The second swing was very vigorous and forceful, but also entirely wild and missed entirely. The maw demon took its cue from the hyenas and refused to move. The ranch hands with their crossbows up on the rim of the gulch sent some of their shots to the breeder gnoll and some to the sneaky gnoll. Aldalomiel took out the the breeder with a perfect shot that went right into its eye, then she moved her hunter’s mark to the speedy gnoll. Marxine hit the a gnoll right in front of her solidly. Vinya lamely hit one of them (it was a hit in a critical spot, but not a good hit) then used a flurry of blows to drop the two hyenas that had circled the spike growth to attack her. The sneaky gnoll moved to Marxine and attacked her, hitting her solidly. The two regular gnolls not in the spike growth rushed Vinya and Marxine.. The regular gnolls attacked using spears. Marxine was hit hard by one. One hit Vinya. The other two were so wild with their attacks that it was almost impossible to know who they were targeting. One seemed to have targeted the ground with a powerful blow. Elderron came off his hillock and cast magic missile on the sneaky gnoll, dropping it. Mia cast shillelagh and then used it to attack one of the gnolls that were mobbing around Vinya and Marxine. The hyenas in the spike growth continued to sit there, unwilling to move through the painful ground. The maw demon did as well. Elama cast sacred flame on one of the gnolls on Marxine and Vinya, hitting it with some radiant damage. The crossbow wielding ranch hands moved along the top of the gulch and started shooting at the maw demon, since it was being a sitting target for them. They did it a lot of damage, setting it up for Aldalomiel to move her hunter’s mark over to it and drop it with an arrow right into its heart. Marxine attacked the one that was between her and Vinya, taking advantage of having it flanked, and hit it well, twice, using an action surge to do so. That gnoll went down. Vinya turned to another one and hit it with her quarterstaff, but missed with her punch. The gnoll survived. Which was a genuine pity, because another gnoll was able to find a position of flanking against Marxine and hit her very hard. Marxine looked fairly rough at this point. Another gnoll missed Vinya. Elama ran over and healed Marxine, who was looking a lot better after that. The crossbowmen started working on the hyenas sitting in the spike growth -- hitting one of them well, but not dropping it. Aldalomiel moved her hunter’s mark to the gnoll that had hit Marxine so hard and shot an arrow that went through its neck and into the back of its skill, dropping it instantly. Marxine took an opportunity attack from one of the gnolls to get flanking on another one, but then missed with her swing. Vinya took advantage of the flanking Marxine arranged to hit with her quarterstaff and attack with a flurry of blows. She dropped one of the two remaining gnolls, but one remained standing. (There was also still a hyena in the spike growth.) That last gnoll stopped its screeching and laughing and listened for a bit. Then it attacked Marxine and missed. Elderron tolled the dead on the last gnoll but it didn’t quite drop. Mia let the spike growth drop then used her shillelagh on the last gnoll and dropping it. Marxine took one of their shields. Mia looked at the last hyena, the last member of this advance party still alive, and tried to talk it out of being a gnoll-associated hyena. Before the hyena had a chance to repent its ways, the crossbowmen on the wall dropped it. We immediately headed back toward the fortified ranch -- we got our horses and went back to the ranch. The gnolls had to come through the gulch to get to the ranch -- so we left the bodies to distract them (Vinya figured they’d eat them) as they headed toward Telson’s Ranch. Mr. Alzey Telson and his wife Timma were happy that none of us were dead. So were we. We told them what we saw and what we fought and rested for a bit, hoping to have a chance to get our breath back, gather our energy and prepare for the main body of the army to arrive at the rance. As we rested, Timma Telson showed up with two greater healing potions. Timma: You look really beat up. Take these. You’ll feel better. Marxine and Vinya drank the potions. We were able to rest for a whole hour before we started hearing the screeching of the gnolls coming through the gulch toward the ranch. They were about fifteen minutes away when we started hearing them. During that time, Marxine asked if they had any options for ground fighters, as neither she nor Vinya are at their best fighting at range. They loaned her a crossbow and Vinya a longbow. Marxine: Well, it’s better than nothing. But not by much. They also showed us the defenses they had behind the gates, in case the gnolls breached the gates. If they did, Vinya and Marxine would get off the wall and join the defenders at ground level. The party took up positions on the wall on either side of the main gate, along with ten crossbow-wielding ranch hands, including the three that had been with us out in the gulch. Elama cast a fog cloud about eighty feet away from the base of the wall. Elama: I don’t know why the storm grants me this spell, but dammit I will use it! By the time the gnoll army made it into range of the crossbows, long-range fire had whittled the army down to 10 gnolls, 10 hyenas, two maw demons, three speedy gnolls, two breeders, and the pack Alpha (not a flind). Elderron shot one of the regular gnolls with a firebolt, but not for much damage. Aldalomiel missed with a sling bullet. Vinya hit with her unfamiliar longbow, but not for much damage. Marxine, on the other side of the gate from Vinya, missed. The crossbowmen shot at the closest targets, the speedy gnolls that were rushing the gate, and dropped one of them. The crossbowmen on Mia and Marxine’s side of the gate all missed. Mia: Good practice round, guys! We’ll get them next time. The hyenas rushed the wall, some of them getting right to it, but they were unable to do anything but mill about and chortle. The Alpha moved forward and began to dodge and weave, bracing for attack. The rest of the gnoll army moved forward as far as they could -- mostly rushing toward the gate rather than merely toward the wall. Mia threw a moonbeam on the Alpha. Elama cast sacred flame on one of the hyenas, which was in range for her. Elderron cast magic missile on the Alpha, doing a nice amount of damage. Aldalomiel put her hunter’s mark on the sneaky gnoll that had already been hit by one of the arrows earlier and fired off a sling bullet at it, getting a crit. Unfortunately it didn’t drop, so Vinya took a shot at it to far less effect than Aldalomiel’s shot. Marxine missed with a crossbow shot at one of the regular gnolls. The two speedy gnolls, got right up next to the gates, but had had to run their fastest to get there. The crossbowmen focused their fire on them and dropped them both. The rest of the hyenas joined their packmates at the base of the walls and were unable to do anything there. The Alpha took some damage from MIa’s moonbeam then he moved closer and dodged again, as did the maw demon. Mia moved the moonbeam back onto the Alpha then called out encouragement to the archers on her side of the gate. The gnolls made their way up to the gates and started hacking at them with hand axes. Elderron traded places with one of the crossbowmen and shot an Aganazzar’s scorcher that caught three of the regular gnolls -- all of them survived, but looked and sounded very pained. Aldalomiel got a critical shot on the same speedy gnoll she’d been shooting at -- caved in his chest with a sling bullet. Nice! Elama: WTF was that? Aldalomiel then moved her hunter’s mark to the other of the speedy gnolls. Vinya, once again, got a nice hit with her arrow, but it paled compared to Aldalomiel’s prodigious shots. The archers on Mia’s side of the wall responded to her encouragement and took out a gnoll. The archers on Vinya’s side did as well. The Alpha once again took damage from the moonbeam spell -- then he ran out of it toward the wall and dodged. The maw demons also moved up, finally getting near the wall themselves. Mia dropped the moonbeam spell and cast an entangle spell on the area right outside the gates, to keep the gnolls from breaching the gates. Only one of the regular gnolls at the gate eluded the clinging and grasping vines. That one moved back, away from the gates, to get out of the spell’s area. The Alpha got up to the wall and started attacking the gate with a glaive. Elama tried to cast a guiding bolt on him, but missed. Elderron cast another Aganazzar’s scorcher, catching the leader and a couple of the regular gnolls. The regular gnolls were both dropped, but the leader survived. Aldalomiel shook the foundations of the world by missing with a sling bullet. Vinya got a nice shot on a gnoll near her. Marxine, with a target finally near enough to use a preferred weapon, threw a handaxe at the Alpha and dropped him! The crossbowmen on the wall took out the gnolls in the entangle spell. The maw demons, seeing the Alpha dropped and most of the gnolls dead, started to flee. So did the regular gnolls and the surviving breeder gnoll and speedy gnoll. The hyenas milling about at the base of the wall started running away. Elama cast a sacred flame on the maw demon. Elama: That’s right! You better run!! Elderron cast magic missile on the same demon, hitting solidly. Aldalomiel, Vinya and the crossbowmen all focused their fire on the breeder gnoll, but weren’t able to drop it. Marxine finally got a crit with a crossbow (actually with any weapon on a 19, because she’s a Champion Fighter), but unfortunately it did very little damage. After the gnolls got out of the range of our crossbows and bows, we jumped off the wall and mounted horses. We chased down and killed the demons, gnolls and the breeder gnoll. The hyenas we didn’t worry about. Mia said that away from the gnolls and the influence of Yeenoghu the hyenas would revert to their natural state. The Telsons told us that the people in the other settlement probably have some stuff and gold. They asked us to escort them to the ruined ranch. We did so. At that ruined ranch, we found mostly burned buildings. One of those buildings had a brick vault in it. Inside the vault we found some coin and some items. The Telsons wanted to keep the money and the art pieces in the vault, but said that we were welcome to keep any of the items we found. The first thing we found was a maul bracketed to the wall over the vault. We also found two pairs of gloves, a flute, and three potions. After we identified the items and discovered that the maul was a +1 magical weapon and one of the potions was a potion of supreme healing, we figured that the ranchers had forgotten (or didn’t think about) what was in the vault when they were being attacked by the gnolls. Either that or they couldn’t get to the vault in the assault. The items were identified as: +1 Maul (Marxine) Gloves of Thievery (Elderron) Gloves of Missile Snaring (??) Pipes of the Sewers (Vinya) Potion of Water Breathing Potion of Animal Friendship Potion of Supreme Healing The potions were kept as party treasure. It’s possible that Alda kept the gloves of missile snaring, on the theory that she could supplement her ammo supply with them, but my notes don’t say that for sure. After all of this fighting, Mia told us that she’d been getting weird dreams and signs that her people needed her back. She’d just intended to leave for a little bit to take care of the ogres she’d been following when she found us. She handed Vinya a handful of goodberries. Mia: Remember, they’re only good for 24 hours. Vinya: I had something to give you. Vinya and Elama hugged her, and then Mia headed out toward Tash, across country, to get back to her people. [/QUOTE]
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