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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 4825296" data-attributes="member: 13966">Round 1 BeginsFayne steps a little closer to get a look at the second predator, which is now folding the skin back onto its skull with one paw.The dwarf, Storn Horn, turns at the sound of the shriek and hustles over to try intercepting the beast, but his dwarven legs are too short to get very far before it does something else.  However, Evanar and Abde'ragman react quickly to the second creature, though Evanar feels a bit rattled and shaky from the monster's display.[sblock=ooc]Naw, it was all the blood around the site that drew the predators, after you guys decided to wait around for quite a while for the young man to regain consciousness.  The gnolls beat him up pretty badly, so it's taking a while for him to wake up (he's only a 1st-level commoner, after all).  It's taking hours for him to recover enough, and there are half a dozen gnoll bodies nearby (all badly hacked up by the guys) plus the (mostly-drained) horse corpse and your group's own barely-patched-up wounds.Had the group made haste to return to town once they had rescued the youth, this encounter would not have happened at all.  And remember, you're a few hours deep into the Velarswood, which IS monster-infested.  What you've faced have only been the least predators of the Velarswood, closer to the fringes of it than the deep woods where the nastier stuff lairs.  The felines can smell the blood on most of you; to their senses, you're all bloodied and vulnerable.  But Selua, Evanar, and Fayne are more or less at full strength (aside from Selua's spent healing magic), so the group's actually in decent shape overall.  I think you still have your Bardic Music left, right Abby?The group's almost done here though.  I had expected you all to head back to town once you saved the boy.  Instead we have this little encounter before the return to Harrowdale Town (and they're not undead; they're krenshar, but nobody's tried a skill check to identify them yet).Evanar made his save, but is shaken for 1 round with fear, suffering -2 on attack rolls, skill checks, ability checks, and saving throws until the second feline's next turn.  He resisted the worst of the fear.Fayne steps forward a bit and waits to see if the creature will get closer, readying his polearm.Storn starts hustling closer to where the monsters have appeared, after spotting the first one and then hearing the second one's shriek.Evanar and Abde'ragman may take their actions for the 1st normal round now.Round 1 Initiatives:22 Evanar19 Abde'ragman16 Critters (#1 dead, #2 unwounded)15 Tarven14 Merrick12 Selua8 Fayne6 Abrielle6 StornMAPX X X * * X * X * X X X *X X * C C C * 1 C C X * X* 2 C C C C C E C C C X X* C C C C C C C C C C * XX C C C tt Ftt s C C C X *X C C M tt Ctt C C C C C X* C C tt hhh C C tttt C C *X C C tt Ctt p m a A C X XX C C C T tt S tttt C X * X* C C C C C C C C C C * X* C C C C C X * X X * X XX * X * * X * X * X X X *Map Key: A = Abde'ragman, a = Abrielle, E = Evanar, F = Fayne, M = Merrick, m = mule, S = Selua, s = Storn, T = Tarven, 1-? = monsters, C = empty 5-foot space in the clearing, t = tent, p = firepit, h = horse corpse, X = empty and mostly-clear forest terrain, * = space half-occupied by a tree (partial cover +2 AC/+1 Reflex)[/sblock]</blockquote>

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