-
NOW LIVE! Into the Woods--new character species, eerie monsters, and haunting villains to populate the woodlands of your D&D games.
The Four Lands - Southern Operatives
- Thread starter J. Alexander
- Start date
J. Alexander
First Post
The Ambush
Dismounting and having posted lookouts, the party makes a search of the yard and finds it empty. The clacking of chikens can be heard from the hen house as well as two cows and a brace of pigs confined to pens. Searching the house the party discovers a grizzly site. Several people can be seen at a table set for breakfeast, blood pooling on the table. an inspection shows that their throats have been cut.
Dismounting and having posted lookouts, the party makes a search of the yard and finds it empty. The clacking of chikens can be heard from the hen house as well as two cows and a brace of pigs confined to pens. Searching the house the party discovers a grizzly site. Several people can be seen at a table set for breakfeast, blood pooling on the table. an inspection shows that their throats have been cut.
Leif
Adventurer
Leif -- Nijel Bladesong -- Paladin of Light
Having a sudden inspiration, Nijel will go to the barns. He will ride Saint Josiah into each one in turn, and while he is in each one, he will announce, "Hello, is there anyone in this barn? We are Soldiers of the Light come a bit too late, I fear. We have come to help, so please show yoursleves if you are here. We are under orders to destroy all buldings, so you will not be safe inside. We want to help you." Then he will wait a moment to make sure there are no responses, and then go to the next barn and repeat the process. Then, if he finds no one alive, Nijel will return to his post.
Having a sudden inspiration, Nijel will go to the barns. He will ride Saint Josiah into each one in turn, and while he is in each one, he will announce, "Hello, is there anyone in this barn? We are Soldiers of the Light come a bit too late, I fear. We have come to help, so please show yoursleves if you are here. We are under orders to destroy all buldings, so you will not be safe inside. We want to help you." Then he will wait a moment to make sure there are no responses, and then go to the next barn and repeat the process. Then, if he finds no one alive, Nijel will return to his post.
Last edited:
Rhun
First Post
"Damn," swears Cairnwalker at the sight of the dead homesteaders. He is immediately on the defensive as if expecting an attack. He hadn't expected the enemy to have gotten this far along already, but it seemed their lines extended further than he had imagined.
Drawing his blade, just to be safe, the knight inspects the rest of the house to make certain no one, friend or foe, is present.
Drawing his blade, just to be safe, the knight inspects the rest of the house to make certain no one, friend or foe, is present.
Scotley
Hero
Alban
"Could orcs have gotten in and slit throats like this without a man rising to defend himself?" Alban compares the number of places set to the number of bodies. He examines the bodies briefly and checks to see if it appears they have been stripped of valuables. "I suspect there was treachery from within. If you find anyone alive Cairnwalker don't turn your back on them." Alban goes outside to inform the others of the sad discovery within.
OOC: [sblock]He also does a Heal Check (1d20+8=18) . Does it seem that they could have been poisoned, drugged or enspelled before they were slain?[/sblock]
"Could orcs have gotten in and slit throats like this without a man rising to defend himself?" Alban compares the number of places set to the number of bodies. He examines the bodies briefly and checks to see if it appears they have been stripped of valuables. "I suspect there was treachery from within. If you find anyone alive Cairnwalker don't turn your back on them." Alban goes outside to inform the others of the sad discovery within.
OOC: [sblock]He also does a Heal Check (1d20+8=18) . Does it seem that they could have been poisoned, drugged or enspelled before they were slain?[/sblock]
Last edited:
J. Alexander
First Post
The Ambush
For Nijel
[sblock]Riding into the barns, Nijel has no one respond to his call of safety[/sblock]
For Cairnwalker
[sblock]Seaching the rest of the house you find a boy toddler with his head bashed in and an empty cradel.[/sblock]
For Alban
[sblock]Examing the bodies and the scene Alban's best guess is that they were forced to sit back down at the tables and then had their throat's cut.[/sblock]
For Padraig
[sblock]Circling back Padraing notices that pehaps ten or so miles back, cresting a small rise a body of movement can be seen.....[/sblock]
For Aidan
[sblock]From his perch atop one of the barns. Aidan observes a colume of somesorts to the west moving further to the west.[/sblock]
For Ewan
[sblock]Searching the area, Ewan stumbles across a set of footprints leading away from the house and moving towards one of the pens.[/sblock]
For Nijel
[sblock]Riding into the barns, Nijel has no one respond to his call of safety[/sblock]
For Cairnwalker
[sblock]Seaching the rest of the house you find a boy toddler with his head bashed in and an empty cradel.[/sblock]
For Alban
[sblock]Examing the bodies and the scene Alban's best guess is that they were forced to sit back down at the tables and then had their throat's cut.[/sblock]
For Padraig
[sblock]Circling back Padraing notices that pehaps ten or so miles back, cresting a small rise a body of movement can be seen.....[/sblock]
For Aidan
[sblock]From his perch atop one of the barns. Aidan observes a colume of somesorts to the west moving further to the west.[/sblock]
For Ewan
[sblock]Searching the area, Ewan stumbles across a set of footprints leading away from the house and moving towards one of the pens.[/sblock]
Leif
Adventurer
Leif -- Nijel Bladesong -- Paladin of Light
"So, friend Padraig, you're saying that we should make the best time that we are able to make, and not stop at all, if we can help it? We've done absoutely no good by stopping here, in fact we've wasted our time and fallen a little bit further behind. I also say we press onward with all possible haste." Nijel, disgusted, mounts and prepares to move out.
"So, friend Padraig, you're saying that we should make the best time that we are able to make, and not stop at all, if we can help it? We've done absoutely no good by stopping here, in fact we've wasted our time and fallen a little bit further behind. I also say we press onward with all possible haste." Nijel, disgusted, mounts and prepares to move out.
Similar Threads
