D&D 5E [IC] Creamsteak's Princes of Elemental Evil

[Forged Fury]

Watching with satisfaction for a brief moment as the initiate falls from the sky, Damien turned to Tolan and said, "Now's our chance! We must flee before the giant throws more boulders!" Damien moved to lean against the boulder to provide himself with better cover and promptly fell through the illusion.

Looking around, he saw both Aridha and Thaliss looking remarkably not flattened. Quickly realizing the nature of the illusion, Damien stood up and said with a tone of annoyance, "Clever trick."

Clever? You were fooled by a parlor trick! I should have chosen a better beneficiary of my pact...

Ignoring the devil in his head, the warlock inspected the bodies, searching their faces and committing them to memory. Moving about the battlefield, he gathered up the golden mask and stripped the leather armor from one of the initiates. "I don't know what's going on here, but there seem to be a number of different groups with both odd senses of fashion and the desire to kill us. I'd like to have an advantage if it comes down to striking back at them." Glancing at the map, the warlock said, "That looks like it may be the tower that was close to where we found those shallow graves."

Gesturing to the approaching travelers, he said, "Now who do you think that is? More trouble?"

 

[Steve Gorak]

OOC: @Forged fury, fyi, you don't add your cha bonus to the eldrich blast damage unless you have an invocation for it. Question to all, anybody keeping track of the gold we are acquiring? I suggest we split the gold as we go, and Thaliss doesn't care about equipment unless it is valuable and can be sold. Actions: if Thaliss has time before the knight leaves, he'll use his action to move the illusory boulder as if it were being hurled towards the knight in an attempt to scare its mount. Who knows, perhaps with Damien's curse still active, it might cause him to fall.

ic:Telepathically Thaliss addresses the party I can hide us in an illusion if we wish to observe and eventually to confer with those travelers. It may be wise to do so: they might know more about where the riders come from.

 

[hafrogman]

Tolan looks up, scowling at the retreating knight, but he lowers his bow and turns back to the approaching travelers at Damien's warning, squinting into the distance.

"I think I recognize one of them . . ."

OOC: I figure to save us some effort, may as well claim to have met one or both of them on previous job(s). Whichever posts first

 

[Forged Fury]

OOC: I don't have Eldritch Blast, I made a design decision to not take it. I fired a crossbow bolt at it, thus adding +4 damage for Dexterity. I also don't think I have a bonus action to move the Hex onto the knight before he gets away, so that might not be doable. Good point on gold. There was some coinage and gems from the fight with Shoalar. I agree we should probably just split it up if we can, Some of it was in the form of gemstones, however, so we may need to wait to split that for when we return to Red Larch.

Speaking out loud, Damien said, "If we've seen them, they've probably already seen us. At least those of us not inside the illusion."

 

[Steve Gorak]

OOC: My bad Forged fury, I read your post too quickly and for some reason saw EB instead than a bolt. sorry!

 

[Kobold Stew]

Carradoc has been walking for days, and truth be told he doesn't like walking. But it's what the Lieutenant beside him seems to prefer, and the Lieutenant beside him has set the pace for these things for a while now. Carradoc doesn't mind. The Lieutenant is armed and armoured, and at a casual glance Carradoc in the day like this looks no more than a porter. Safe. In the dark, of course, he'd shimmer a bit with the Mage Armor he casts on himself every morning; but outdoors like this it wouldn't normally be noticeable.

Here, he is an unarmed half elf in a cloak, carrying a pack. The jade lines on his cheekbone are possibly make-up, or perhaps a tattoo. They match the pendant around his neck, a simple piece of jade in a tin clasp. It's more prominent than the silver badge of the Guild that he's earned, which he uses as a cloak clasp.

Ahead is a clearing, with the mangled bodies of fallen vulture riders on the ground, and scavengers, vultures themselves, picking over the corpses. At first he assumes they are human or orc, but they appear to be elven. It looked at first like there were three of them, but he can only see one just now. Carradoc, holds out his hands, and stops. They're far enough away (70 feet or so) that he doesn't think hiding would be effective.

The elf with the longsword looks like he's about to dash behind the large boulder, but stops, and lowers his blade. "That a friend of yours, Lieutenant?" Carradoc asks.

"Hello? Do we pass in peace, or leave each other in pieces?"

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Dent strode forward across the terrain, his knight's accoutrement glinting in the dim sunlight with each step. The metal plates of his scale mail hampered nimble movement, but Dent bore a shield with the insignia of Mirabar and he carried it with canny familiarity. An unsheathed longsword dangled from his left hand, the tip hanging toward the earth. As he approached, it wasn't immediately clear whether he was a man or part elf; his ears had rounded points, but the high set of his cheeks gave the lie. A half-elf, then. He had more the look of a man about him, however. Dent stopped when Carradoc stopped, leaving a cautious seventy feet between himself and the nearest member of the group. "Trouble?" he called. His voice was gravel.

He grunted in Carradoc's direction, but kept his voice low and his eye on the new group. "One of the elves, maybe, I've seen before. If it's the one I know, careful. He's dangerous."

 

[Shayuri]

Aridha turns to face the newcomers, cursing inwardly to herself. The vultures had come and gone so fast she'd barely had time to notice them, let alone do anything. At least one of them had a clue.

The caution in these new ones led her to believe they weren't with the knight and his company. A strange place for random wanderers to be crossing though.

"We've no quarrel with you," she says neutrally, planting her staff's end in the soil. "If you would leave us be, then you'll pass safely."

 

[Forged Fury]

Damien had never researched elf fertility or procreation, but damned if they must not share the same traits as rabbits. Must be the long ears... He was amazed to see two more half-elves approach, making him still the only living person in the dell without elf blood.

The warlock remained quiet, waiting to hear the new group's response to Aridha.

 

[Steve Gorak]

As the two travelers approached, Thaliss conjured up the image of moving air and sand within approximately a 15ft radius not centered on him. He also created the sound of moving wind to help the illusion. To his comrades, he says I am injured, and have not had time to recover. I don't want to be an easy target should the situation turn sour

OOC: casting of silent image and minor illusion for the sound. I am assuming that Thaliss' boulder tossing gimmick didn't work