Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Pharast 12th 02 - A Bite, a claw and whip of the tail and down goes the cleric!

The night passes uneventfully.

After eating breakfast and hearing of rumours of troubles around the land the group decide to mount up and head south west.

Eventually they come across a mud brick hut on the marsh with animal bones and fetishes dangling from the porch, at the front gate there is a bell.

Natalia rings the bell and eventually an old lady appears at the door and is instantly recognised as one of the guests at the dancing lady’s feast. She invites the group in for a cuppa and a chat. 

During the conversation she mentions the presence of willow-o-wisps to the south and gives Kyrander a picture book to keep the ranger quiet.  The old lady asks the group if they would kindly pick up any black rattle cap mushrooms for her on their journey.

Knowing where the mushrooms where the group head South East and easily collect more than the lady requires before returning to her hut to deliver the goods.

The group then head west though dense forest and shrubs to find an elderly gentleman examining a wooden log full of bugs and sitting patiently near by was a black puma wearing smoke coloured tinted goggles.

The group announce their presence to the eccentric gentleman who takes a few minutes to look them over and then introduces himself as the “Mad hermit” to the group and asks what they want.

The group explain the reasons they are travelling through the land and try to engage the hermit in conversation but he just ignores them and eventually they decide to leave the hermit alone.

The group continue to head west past the now deceased sycamore tree and continue west past the elven keep of the dancing lady.

They then turned North West through more dense forest.

They soon find an area of moss, fallen trees and cave hollows where Kyrander spots tracks at the area, quite possibly from an hodag (reptilian) both old and fresh.

Kyrander attempts to follow the tracks with the group following closely behind.

He eventually finds a hollow underneath an mound of leaves and thinks the creature is in there.

Otto suggests that everyone hides whilst he throws something into the hollow but before that could happen the hodag exploded from under the pile and charges at the party.

Otto fires at the magical creature and hits.
Kyrander fires his magical beast bone arrow at the creature hitting and damaging the creature.
Natalia begins to casts a spell (call lightening)
Vaneer runs in avoiding giving the creature an opportunity to attack and hits the creature. 

Being the closest target the creature critically claws, gore and tailslaps Vaneer seriously injuring the cleric. 
Miro attacks and misses.
Otto magic missiles the creature.
Kyrander shoots another arrow only to miss.

Natalia calls down a bolt of lightening but the creature just avoids the electrical damage.

Natalia then casts a flaming sphere and hurts the creature with the ball of fire.
The Creature then hits Bob as the badger leaves it self open to an attack as he races into attack and hits the creature.

Vaneer hits back and critically injures the creature.
The Creature hits Bob with it claws and then misses Miro with its tail.
The Creature then hits Vaneer with its bite, gore and claw dropping the cleric to the ground.

Otto casts magical missile killing the creature.
Natalia races over to Vaneer and casts stabilise on the cleric.
Kyrander then administers Vaneer with a cure light potion bringing the cleric back round.

Vaneer then slowly works at healing himself and Bob before returning to the city.

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