[IC] Halfling Quest - Rooting Around

[Tarlonniel]

Kiylea holds her breath. She darts a look at Ringly's shadowy form. Can he see it?? Can he get it? She tenses, ready to jump up and reveal the lantern as soon as there's any kind of magic-y display.

OoC: Readied action to stand, letting the cloak fall away from the light, if Ringly casts a spell.

 

[Boddynock]

"Quiet," thinks Alton. "Quietly. OK - I've got the tindertwig. As soon as Ringly fires I'll light the lantern and move across to Bubbles. ... Where is it? ... What's going on?"

"Why doesn't something happen? ... Steady. ... Lady, guide us!"

 

[ender_wiggin]

Ringly's eyes flutter as he recovers from this tiring, soporific job.

He waits until the animal is where he knows he can reach it with his magic, then without any hesitation begins the ritual to color spray, throwing of a rainbow of light onto his target.

 

[Evilhalfling]

Eddie drops a bullet into the sling and clears his throat slightly, in case his friends have missed the creatures approach. He waits as tense as fishing line, for a target to be visable.

His mind drifts back to an earlier conversation:
What's it like to be choosen Alton? do you have some destiney that awaits you? My mom tells me that some times she can see my future, but it never ends well. It must be nice to know that a goddess knows you and cares about you.

 

[hafrogman]

Jerran rests quietly against the trunk of the tree, his legs dangling down on either side of his branch. He balances his loaded crossbow on the branch in front of him and waits. As he waits through the night, his mind soon wanders and he begins to get bored. Before too long has passed, he has pulled out his book and inkpen. He is trying to compose a poem about Bubbles as he watches her in the faint moonlight. His pen scratches quietly on the paper, and he squints in the darkness to make out his own writing. He rarely looks up from the book, but his ears remain alert as he catches the approaching creature. He quickly scrambles to put away his book and pen and picks up his crossbow, scanning the darkness watching for something to shoot.

[ooc - hold action to fire when I can see]

 

[Slippshade]

Bubbles Greenbottle

Sleep was begining to tug at Bubbles eyelids, she was finding it harder and harder to stay awake as night settled over the field. Bubbles went over the directions Eddie had given again in her head, it was a mantra that kept her focused on the job at hand...and she waited. Ringly's rainbow spray of color lit up the field like fireworks at festival and almost startled Bubbles into firing the trap prematurely.

Woooo girl.....Wait for it...wait for it...

(ooc) Bubbles will wait for the creature to get into range and spring the trap, then grab the shortswords that she stabbed into the ground next to her. (/ooc)

 

[Ferrix]

Near Midnight

Surprise Round

Eddie drops a bullet into his sling, he waits for the lights to turn on and the show to get moving. However, as Jerran scrambles to get his crossbow out and ready, the book slips from his grasp and flutters to the ground, and is not ready by the time Ringly acts.

Ringly mutters a string of arcane words, tossing a spray of powder into the air, with the final word they erupt in a dazzling array of light. With the burst of light, the boar can be made out more clearly if only in that flash-stop of light, it is smaller than you expected, covered in a dense reddish fur. The boar snorts angrily at the burst of light, but does not seem to become disoriented as Ringly would have predicted.

Kiylea, seeing the spray of colorful light, yanks the cloak off of the lamp revealing the forest around her.

The boar, surprised by the burst of light and the unmasking of another light source seems startled but has yet to make a move.

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OOC: Surprise Round Summed Up: Eddie loads his sling (move action), Jerran picks up his crossbow (move action), Ringly casts Color Spray (standard action) Boar Saves with a 21, Kiylea pulls her cloak off of the lamp (white area in the map is fully illuminated, twice that is shadowy), drops in initiative order to 13; Alton and Bubbles no action that round. Initiative: Eddie (22), Jerran (21), Bubbles (13),

OOC:

OOC: Kiylea (13), Ringly (13), Alton (11), Boar (2)

 

[Evilhalfling]

Eddies sling whirls and he send a rock flying at the boar, and reloads. Realizing the boar has a clear charge at him he inches behind behind Bubbles Hey! um ... Stupied Piggy! he yells remembering he wants it to charge this way.

Occ: its still flat footed right? I should be close enough for sneak attack +6(1d3+1) +1d6
5 ft step to the right

 

[Boddynock]

"This is it."

Alton strikes the tindertwig and light flares from it. He lights the lantern, already oriented towards the bait, and steps back towards Bubbles, drawing his sword and hefting his shield as he does so.

His first thought on seeing the boar is, "But it's so small". In the next moment, he sees how stocky it is, and realises the power there must be in that ball of muscle. Noting in passing that his mouth is dry but that his hands are steady, he sets himself for battle. He waits for first blood, then clashes sword against shield and cries, "Here! I am your foe! Here!"

OOC: Prepared action to light lantern. 5 foot step to Bubbles' side. Draws longsword on move. Shield previously readied.

 

[ender_wiggin]

Great. The spell didn't work. That thing should be unconcious. I'll have to read up on it later/

Ringly, afraid that coming down from the tree may result in injury, will remain on the branch until the boar has charged at another target or has significantly moved. In the tree, he will load his sling. If he cannot load and fire the sling properly in the tree, Ringly will remain there cautiously until it's safe to come down, instead of risking a fall.