Spider's Path

[HolyMan]

End Round 1

Reacting quickly to the attack the party is surprised to see the effect Lora's spell has on the creatures. They all turn tale at the magical sound of horsemen galloping. As the gnolls flee, Onesimus gets a good swing in on one of them, causing it to limp bloodly back into the trees. Jareth's chain flicks out and barely misses another but the swing was close enough to get it to back off and flee with the others. Claude rushes to help "prop-up" Trinham. The young, large warrior staked up sees the tails of the fleeing gnolls for a split second before they are in the dark out of sight. A couple more arrows fall into the camplight but are short as if the bowmen too are fleeing. Yipping like whipped pups the group can also here howls and harsh gruntal like shouts coming from deep in the wood.

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As Aidan and Martomum travel at a brisk walk along the path they hear, "...ARMS! THE HORSEMEN ARE RETURNING TO..." The shouting is followed by the faint sound of galloping horsemen. Shocked by Lora's voice echoing through the trees, Aidan picks up his pace racing through the growing dark.

[sblock=Init]
Lora
Jareth
Claude
Trinham
Onesimus

Will pencil in Aidan,Martomum, and Greyhay when they arrive at the camp. [/sblock]

[sblock=Rolls]

Jareth missed by one because IC knew I was rolling for DW.

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all gnolls fail their will save

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[Myth and Legend]

Lora smirked a little as she saw the effects of her Ghost Sound spell. She had not expected it to be so effective, although more than once Mirella had told her to always use her resources as adequately as possible.

"Good! They might return though, so I suggest we gather towards the center and build shelters against arrow fire. We should use fresh branches and other damp material to cover them, in case the Gnolls try to use fire to drive us out. We will sleep and guard in shifts until morning comes. - Lora paused for a bit and cleared her throat. - We should also set up a perimeter of torches around the camp so we are not surprised again."

The girl was serious and her brows had thickened as she tried to best access the situation from a tactical standpoint.

 

[Dragonwriter]

Jareth keeps his eyes near the point where he could last see the gnolls. "Yeah, that's pretty likely... They'd have to be stubborn to follow us through or around the ettercap's territory."

The young man looks about a little, seeing if there are any good-sized, green, leafy branches around on the ground, only looking to the trees as a last resort. His elven schooling still lingers, and part of that was 'never take from one tree what another has freely given to you.'

 

[Sphyh]

Onesimus is upset he didn't drop the beast in one blow. One more and might have felled the thing. He wipes the blood from his blade and returns it to its sheathe. "Lets get that perimeter of torches going." as walks over to his pack to retrieve his own torch. "More than likely they will regroup and attack from another angle." He lights his torch with the fire in the middle of the camp and walks out slightly to the right of the direction from the attack and stakes it in the ground.

He walks back to camp and then begins to build his little fire a little higher and a little brighter.

"We can make some torches with fresh limbs, some rags, and lamp oil if needed."

 

[HolyMan]

The sounds of galloping horsemen soon disappears and the group can her the gnolls tromping in the forest. Hurrying to secure the camp, noone notices Greyhay slip from the dark shadows of the woods into the fires light. "I counted about eight of them out their, may be one or two more I didn't see though. I saw three with bows and the four that rushed the camp but I only heard the eighth one. He was howling and barking at the ones you all bloodied." the usually quiet scout says to the group. The upcoming fight must have him anxious to be talking so much.

More alert after the scouts sneaking into camp everyone hears the crashing of foot steps but coming from the opposite direction than the way the gnolls fled. Someone or something is coming.

[sblock=Theroc] That something is you I'm assuming though that you took off at your top speed believing Lora to be in trouble. [/sblock]

 

[Frozen Messiah]

Claude is on one knee near Trinham, his bow already set on the noise. Claude's eyes narrow as he tries to figure out what is coming. "It doesn't seem to be gnolls, but it isn't to large..." Claude thinks to himself as he keeps his aim steady.

 

[Theroc]

As soon as Aidan heard Lora shouting in a manner which sounded as if the main party were attacked, without a second thought, Aidan began sprinting ahead through the underbrush, heedless of his surroundings and the potential dangers of sprinting in the forest. Plunging headlong through the forest, it didn't occur to him that his allies would think he might be an enemy. As he sprinted into view, he looked about for gnolls, javelin in hand as he slowed down.

"Oi! What's goin' on?"

 

[Myth and Legend]

Lora heard the rustling trough the forest but remembered that this was the direction that Mart and Aidan had headed off to, so she was not surprised to see the lad pop out of the thick bushes, javelin in hand and panting heavily.

"Well the Gnolls paid us a visit, I mean it's not like i didn't say "Hey everyone, let's scare the Gnolls off before we go to that Ettercap's lair!" So now, since it's dark and all, we are fortifying our position against further attacks. - Lora suddenly realized how winded the boy was, and raised an eyebrow. - did you run all the way here?"

 

[ghostcat]

Still propped up by Claude's makeshift support, Trinham says "While I can't keep watch in my present state, Mogins makes a good scout. I was going to send him out to patrol the area around the camp and warn us if he detects anyone approaching. But Greyhay has already done that." Trinham thinks for a second or two and continues "I'll send him anyway, two pairs of eyes are better than one."

Trinham tells Mogins to wonder round the woods outside the camp. He also instructs him not to get distracted caching small animals.

 

[Theroc]

"Well the Gnolls paid us a visit, I mean it's not like i didn't say "Hey everyone, let's scare the Gnolls off before we go to that Ettercap's lair!" So now, since it's dark and all, we are fortifying our position against further attacks. Did you run all the way here?"

Aidan shifted nervously, his somewhat tanned skin hiding his faint blush in the dark as he slowly put his javelin away, looking slightly away from Lora. "Uh... no, not all the way..." Only since I heard you yell... Aidan thought, as the sheer idiocy of what he did dawned on him, given the various dangers a forest could pose. And he really did not want to hear Lora's thoughts on his intelligence... not just yet, anyway. He was tired... and still feeling the effects of the poison as he shuffled into camp, his muscles sore as he tried to catch his breath.