Q'Barra: Facing Truth Chapter 2

[Pebele]

The elf lunges at Sepoto, catching the young shifter off guard. Sepoto's enhanced senses do little to prepare him as the blade sinks deeply into his chest. Sepoto blinks in disbelief and collapses to the ground. "Aww, too bad. Now it's your turn little boy!" With his other blade the elf finds a weak point in Darrick's guard and cuts him deeply through his shield arm.

Darrick returns the favor with a heavy strike right past the elf's blades this time, cutting swiftly through the elf's throat. The smirk on his face is still present even in death.

Charles moves to Kaelan's side, and forces a healing potion down his throat. Kaelan groans and opens his eyes. Surveying the area, he sees that all of the bandits are down, but the group has paid a heavy price for this victory, as Sepoto and Catherine are down on the ground; while Charles, Darrick, and Kaelan himself are heavily wounded.

Damage Summary
Bandit 8: is dead
Darrick: -14 (3/41 HP)
Kaelan: +5 (3/36 HP)
Sepoto: -7 (-1/22 HP)

(Now is as good of a time as any to award EXP. Everyone has earned 1537 EXP, bringing them up to 8887/10000.)

 

[EvolutionKB]

Kaelan 3/36hp 1DR remain, 3 hp healed

Kaelan sits up and looks around at the sorry state of the companions. With Catherine down, he jumps immediately into a leadership role. "Darrick secure the door, we may be here a few minutes." He rolls off the table, and pulls out his wand. Blood was pouring from Sepoto's chest. He taps Sepoto with the wand and then Catherine. He then keeps using the wand until they are both conscious. Once Catherine is awake, he says, "we need your wand, it is better to use it's power now than my own wand. We should only need about five minutes. Hopefully nobody heard anything." As his wounds begin to mend, he says, "I don't like to do this but I have too." He then changes form, as best as he can to appear like the elf that lay bleeding on the ground. "I'm going out there to see what I can learn."

With further thought, he picks up the elves blades, as well. "Anything here magical?"

 

[Shayuri]

Trebuchet enters the room and looks around. Though he lacks facial expression, his dismay is evident in his posture.

"As much as I would prefer to boil the flesh off the bandit leader..." The two fireballs evaporate into sulfurous puffs of smoke. "...a withdrawl to regroup seems advisable."

 

[BRP2]

Okay. I got an idea. The next time we forced into a small room like that... we don't go in, and lure them out with fireballs, arrows, axes, and pebbles. Felt like a caged animal in here.

Charles takes a chair[or barrel? What were they sitting on anyway] and sits down. He chugs down a potion of Cure light wounds.

 

[Yeoman]

Catherine leans heavily on her halberd while attending to the wounded. Catherine looks at Kaelan with an incredulous look on her face. "Kaelan, we have to withdraw. We don't have the resources to press on at the moment, as Trebuchet can attest to. Also, what in the name of the host do you hope to accomplish by going out there? You don't speak their language, so they will likely attack you immediately. Are you trying to get yourself, and possibly everyone else killed? We'll make camp a short ways away from the temple and try again later."

Catherine looks up at Trebuchet while she is attending to the living parts of the warforged. "Can you look for anything enchanted here, as Kaelan asked? I didn't think to prepare any spells for that today."

After a few minutes to let the healing magic work, Catherine looks around the room. "We've got to get out of here before someone comes to investigate all the noise. So grab anything that looks like it might be useful and let's get moving."

[sblock=Magic Used]
3 Charges each on Kaelan, Catherine and Darrick. 1 Charge each on Charles and Sepoto. 1 Cure Light Wounds Spell on Trebuchet.

HP Restored
Kaelan: +33 HP over 3 minutes.
Catherine: +33 HP over 3 minutes.
Darrick: +33 HP over 3 minutes.
Charles: +11 HP over 1 minute.
Sepoto: +11 HP over 1 minute.
Trebuchet: 7 HP (after 50% reduction)
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[Shayuri]

"I apologize, Catherine," Trebuchet says, sounding genuinely sorry. "I'm not equipped to detect magical emanations. Only to emit them, in a variety of energy forms."

After Catherine's spell, almost all the damage to Trebuchet's body is healed. The Repair potion he'd taken earlier had regenerated most of his metal components, and her spell replaces the lost living portions.

(28/30 HP)

 

[Yeoman]

"I apologize, Catherine," Trebuchet says, sounding genuinely sorry. "I'm not equipped to detect magical emanations. Only to emit them, in a variety of energy forms."

"No apologies needed. Destruction is your job, and you do it quite well."

 

[Pebele]

Kaelan uses two charges of his wand, one each for Catherine and Sepoto.

The large table in the center of the room is surrounded by four stools. There are also a variety of crates around the room which would be used for sitting.

The group looks around the room, finally paying closer attention to the racks and crates of weapons, armor, and various other items.

Catherine approaches the 4 bodies of the fallen foes, and determines that they are all completely dead.

[sblock=Various Loot the party found]on the human:
A black long sword
Breastplate
A very easy to handle heavy steel shield
2 Potions that are purple in color
15 gp

Elf
2 well-balanced short swords
Composite Long Bow
Chain Shirt
Heavy Steel Shield
11 Arrows
5 gp

Half Orc
A well-balanced black great sword
Breastplate
2 Potions that are purple in color
1 Potion that is blue in color
50 gp

Gnome
Small well-made, black short spear
Small Chain Shirt
Small easy to handle light steel shield
2 Potions that are purple in color
2 Potions that are blue in color
8 Jade Stones worth 5 gp each.
36 gp

Armory:
10 Short Spears
2 Small Short Spears
4 Hand Axes
2 Small Hand Axes
6 Long Swords
6 Battle Axes
1 Dwarven War Axe
1 Great Axe
2 Great Swords
1 Halberd
1 Scythe
2 Rapiers
4 Short Swords
8 Heavy Steel Shields
2 Light Steel Shields (1 small)
8 Chain Shirts (2 Small)
4 Suits of Scale Mail
2 Suits of Chain Mail
4 Breastplates
1 Suit of Half Plate Mail
2 Composite Long Bows
2 Composite Short Bows
2 Heavy Crossbows
6 Light Crossbows
200 Crossbow Bolts
200 Arrows
10 Dragonsbreath Arrows - Marked as "Property of Ilya" (in Halfling)
10 Serpentstongue Arrows - Marked as "Property of Ilya" (in Halfling)
4 Quickfire Capsules
4 Quickfrost Capsules
4 Quickspark Capsules
3 Flasks of Alchemist's Fire (labeled in Halfling)
3 Flasks of Alchemist's Frost (labeled in Halfling)
3 Flasks of Alchemist's Spark (labeled in Halfling)[/sblock]

 

[Shayuri]

As the loot piles up, Trebuchet says in response to Catherine, "It is true that my abilities were designed with purely destructive intent...however, with some experimentation, I have been able to adapt a few to peacetime operations."

His chestplate splits, revealing the tiny slots that discharge magic missiles...five small holes arrayed around a disc, each at the outer edge.

"Force evocation imminent, please stand clear," he says with some satisfaction. The slots flare with light, and the disc shaped plate they're set into abruptly opens and closes...creating a brilliant blue flash of light. The speed is too great to make out details, but the results are clear.

Hovering about a foot off the ground near Trebuchet is a small disc of translucent blue force. It's slightly bowl shaped, and about a yard across.

"This will support up to four hundred pounds of pressure before disintegrating," he reports. "And will keep pace with my movements. It should carry a significant fraction of the total armory's inventory."

(and to think, I thought Advanced Learning for Floating Disc would be a waste of time. )

 

[Rookseye]

Sepoto blinks his eyes in confusion at seeing Catherine standing concernedly over him. Was it not the other way around just a moment ago? Either way, it appeared that all seemed well, their foes were defeated. Sepoto looked at the smirking elf, now dead, and shuddered inwardly. Better him than Sepoto.

"My thanks, Friend-Catherine, Sepoto is grateful you and he are alive to have these words."