- Vanis attacks Wolf, Roll(1d20)+5: 4,+5 Total:9 miss
- Vanis attacks wolf with offhand weapon, Roll(1d20)+5: 20,+5 Total:25, Critical Hit
- Roll(2d4)+0: 1,2,+0 Total:3
- Roll(4d6)+0: 2,3,3,2,+0 Total:10
- Damage bonus: 3
- Wolf takes 16 damage, dies.
With the last wolf dead, the adventurers were left alone in the clearing.
The dagger's points sank straight into the wolf's heart, and the beast expired with a final howl of misery.
"And that's how we do it on the high seas!" the pirate exclaimed, flicking the blood off his daggers and sheathing them before turning to Koras, a (mostly) genuine look of concern on his face. "Well, that's three for me, and three for ye... and one for the lawyer over there, I guess. You still alive, cow-boy?"
edited 28th Apr '16 5:18:16 PM by Pyrite
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.Koras nodded sagely at Vanis, then turned towards one of the wolves he had felled, and wasted no time in finishing what he had started. With his bone-crushing jaws, Koras bit into the wolf and began to devour them. He didn't care if he would get odd looks or admonishment from the other members of the party. He was a hyena, and he was hungry.
edited 28th Apr '16 10:22:19 AM by AllHailThrall
I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.Grant shrugged and dusted the eldritch flames off his hands, walking to the center of the clearing. "I'm a bureaucrat, not a warrior. Problems are far simpler when I can just burn their minds from long distance. Speaking of fire..." Grant turned to his Imp, chattering to it in an forgotten tongue. "You did adequately. Next time, bring coffee." He snapped his fingers, signaling it to move on.
Temporarily dismiss Imp to pocket dimension. There's probably no coffee in there.
edited 28th Apr '16 12:08:41 PM by VocalFox
Phara watched in consternation as Koras and the others took on the wolfpack. Raising her hand to her shield again, she was about to heal the druid when a second glance told her he didn't seem to be too concerned-if he needed her services he'd surely let her know. Lowering her mace (and feeling that she had not been a credit to the Order in that battle) she turned to the others, giving the transformed minotaur some time to feed.
edited 28th Apr '16 4:02:53 PM by Booky
Nukklebud watched Koras feed on the wolf corpse and looked ready to intervene but ultimately said nothing. He wasn't a big fan of magical transformations but the hyena had just done half the work for everybody. If he wanted to eat a wolf corpse, this dwarf was not going to stop him.
"What now?" he asked the rest of the group, wiping his bloody blade on the ground.
"Now, my fine fighting friend, we have a look at what the wolves were feasting on before they decided that we'd make a better meal." Vanis quickly strode towards the carcass, hoping that the sight would be slightly more palatable than Koras's lunch.
Perception check at the wolves' original location. Post-battle retrieval of 1 arrow as per ammunition rules.
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation."Tch. Goats?" Vanis scratched his head, puzzled. "Don't know the first thing about them besides that they smell funny and taste okay in a stew..."
He spotted something glinting in the grass - an empty vial, as it turned out - and bent over to pick it up.
"...and that they don't usually carry bottles o' drugs around. Any of you wise guys wanna have a poke at this?" he called to the others, waving it in the air.
edited 29th Apr '16 8:01:51 PM by Pyrite
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.Koras looked up from his meal to see that Vanis had found something in the grass. He walked up to the rogue in order to get a closer look at it. He scoffed a bit. City-dwellers and their littering, he thought to himself. He then looked towards the direction where he had seen the trail and tried to see if he could re-establish the trail again.
I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.Grant was mostly uninterested in the goat until Vanis recovered what he vaguely referred to as drugs. With a shrug, he leaned over to inspect the vial. "Well let's see here. It might not be so much drugs as..."
Investigation check to inspect in the bottle, Arcana if necessary.
edited 29th Apr '16 8:50:09 PM by VocalFox
Grant nodded, his suspicions not so much confirmed as given fodder. "It's an Alchemical compound. Almost didn't see it on account of the fact that only the residue is left. All I can tell you from a sample this size is that it's odorless and colorless." He looked over to Vanis, brow furrowed into a frown. "I'll give you three guesses as to what sort of compound benefits from those qualities." Curiouser and curiouser...
Vanis's ears pricked up the moment the tiefling reported his findings.
"Probably not the fun kind, that's for sure. Common practice in the day was, you wanted an unwilling sailor on board your ship, you'd slip him a dose of some ol' knockout juice in his grog, tie him up and drag him along. If you wanted him off your ship permanently, if you know what I mean... well, plenty of ways of doing it, but giving him something a little stronger was definitely an option."
He gave Grant a wry smile. "How's my guess?"
edited 1st May '16 6:03:13 AM by Pyrite
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.Grant shrugged, storing the vial for further analysis. Perhaps when more facilities were available, he could figure out exactly what the compound was for. "Both fair assessments, judging by the state of our caprine friend here." He gestured to the goat. "After all, drugging the poor thing would certainly attract wolves. As for why...?"
Nukklebud frowned and stroked his beard. This had all the trappings of a good conspiracy.
"Wolves eating a goat is nothing special but this potion makes it something out of the ordinary. Maybe these cattle thieves are more deadly than we thought. Or, at least, the people commanding them are." Nukklebud speculated.
History check to see if he remembers anything involving goats and potions occuring in the past.
"Perhaps the goat was just a test subject and they used the wolves as a way to dispose of the evidence? Setting the wolfpack as an obstacle seems too unlikely and random. Or they intended the compound to madden the wolves and provide a reason for the recent slayings?" the cleric offered. Phara shook her head. They'd already learned that there was more going on than simple cattle mutilations and theft. Now alchemy? Things were indeed tangled.
After the group spent a few minutes investigating the area, Koras began to feel a strange pressure building up in his head. After a few moments it passes, however as a result he found that he could no longer see, having somehow been blinded.
Vanis, Phara, Hogrom, and Nukklebud perceive that something is wrong with the minotaur.
Koras fails a constitution save, Grant fails a perception check, everyone else passes it, and somehow Vanis rolls another 20.
Koras, surprised by this turn of events, immediately shifted back into his minotaur form, and snorted angrily. "What in blazes?!" he shouted, stumbling back and bumping into a tree. He shook his head, trying to look around for anything out of the ordinary, to try and smell and hear or anything else.
I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither."Oi, what's going on?" Vanis instantly drew one of his daggers and looked around the surroundings for something he could stab - mysteries were bad enough without throwing magic into the mix.
As an afterthought, he signalled to Phara. "Hey, healer. Check on our friend here, won't you?"
Perception check on surroundings.
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.Phara nodded quickly and darted over to the confused minotaur. "Koros. I'm going to approach and examine you, all right?", she called to him. She didn't want to startle him by simply laying her hands on him without warning, even with his senses. When she reached the towering druid, the worried cleric would gently turn him towards her, so that she could look at his eyes in an attempt to discern the root of the trouble.
Phara will do a medicine check to determine if something is physically wrong with him and the best course of action to heal her companion.
After a through examination, Phara noticed a faint discoloration in Koros' eyes and breathed a sigh of relief. "I believe this sudden blindness is a result of eating the wolves' flesh. Doubtless they would have fallen victim to it if we had not come along." Phara handed him her water flask. "Drip this clean water into your eyes and it should help to clear them. I am confident that your sight will return in an hour, no more." Phara patted the big minotaur's arm in a reassuring manner.
edited 4th May '16 7:09:54 PM by Booky
"Well, that'll teach you to disrespect the five-second rule." Now that Phara had assured them of Koras's safety, Vanis felt slightly better about quipping - but the moment she mentioned the source of the druid's impairment, the hairs on the nape of his neck stood on end instantly.
"I already said I don't know anything about goats, and I definitely don't know anything about wolves, but I'm pretty sure they're not supposed to be poisonous!" he snapped, suddenly alarmed, and turned to the others... Grant and Phara in particular. "Missy, you'll have to be our tall friend's eyes for the time being - and if you know of any diseases or poisons that cause blindness, now's the time to start remembering. Call it a hunch, Stevens, but I have a very bad feeling about the contents of that vial."
edited 5th May '16 9:38:50 AM by Pyrite
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.Koras groaned angrily upon hearing what had been done to the wolf corpses. "City dwellers!!" he snapped. "Always meddling in the affairs of nature!" He reached out his hand, holding it palm-up so that Phara could put the vial of water into it. He was still blind so he would have trouble following the trail from here on out.
"The trail continues to the northwest. We must follow these defilers of the natural order and destroy them!" Koras nearly roared.
I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.Grant, finally putting 2 and 2 together, drew the connection between the goat, the wolves, and Koras' blindness. This... was getting stranger by the moment. He paced around the field, searching his memory for anything that would not only induce blindness, but was strong enough to poison an entire food chain.
arcana check to deduce the nature of the poison.
edited 5th May '16 10:33:17 AM by VocalFox

Vanis winced as he watched the last surviving wolf took another bite out of the giant hyena - better him than me, he thought, but I'll be damned if I let him become dog food. He ran to Koras's side and flanked the wolf, jabbing at it with his daggers.
Move to O9, attack with action and bonus action (you should know the rolls by now), retreat to O12.
edited 28th Apr '16 3:40:26 AM by Pyrite
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.