ooc: Thanks for the warning, Robichaud
Tank is unable to find any more information about the strange rune on the halfling's silver tooth.
At last, you take to the road again. The weather is still fair and slightly cold, with thin wisps of cloud rolling steadily southward from the gray peaks of the Stonespikes. Four more days pass, and the road winds through foothills of increasing steepness. The mountains loom almost overhead, it seems. Eventually, you come to the turning in the road that is marked on the map; in this, at least, the map seems to be accurate.
The road, little more than a pair of wagon ruts that are slightly less likely to be at a steep angle to each other than the surrounding hillsides, winds drunkenly through the hills, which are now precipitously steep and covered in large, angular boulders like warts on a sleeping giant.
Near sunset, with the hills casting deep shadows across most of the road, you round yet another hairpin turn and discover that the road plunges directly into a yawning opening in the hillside -- or it would, if the hillside had not collapsed into piles of boulders and rubble, completely sealing the entrance. The boulders look fresh and unweathered, a marked contrast to the many, many examples of weathered boulders around, and the twisted wreckage of a large tree half buried beneath the rubble still has green leaves on it.
Suddenly Phelan points to a boulder at the top of the collapsed hillside.
"Look out!" he yells.
His shout stops the party in their tracks, and so a heavy black arrow skewers the ground a foot in front of Tankard, rather than impaling his leg. Following the flight of the arrow, and Phelan's frantically pointing finger, you see a slim figure already nocking another arrow to a longbow, some 90 feet away at the top of the hill. A trio of skeletal dogs rise from their crouch and come racing down the hill, eerily silent, though their bony jaws gape wide.
While the rest of you scrabble for weapons, Phelan quickly chants a prayer of blessing.
Round 1
William is first to react...
Initiative
William
12/12 <=== You're up
Bowman
undamaged
Skeletal Dog 1
undamaged
Skeletal Dog 2
undamaged
Skeletal Dog 3
undamaged
Octavio
18/18
Phelan
undamaged
Jinx
6/6
Tank
13/13
All allies affected by bless, 10 rounds remaining
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