Rolled 12, 17, 13, 1, 14, 15 = 72 (6d20)

Right now you are in the middle of a battle at the tower of the wizard Abras seeking to retrieve his unfinished staff of stone shape.

You run up the stairs of the tower and into a small library at which window one of the gnolls is posted shooting arrows at your companions down below!

You try to attack it twice with your sword but miss!

Outside Bailey casts one last scorching ray against one of the gnolls, hitting it with two of the three rays! It still doesn't die!

Ss'rath enters the building too to go after the remaining gnolls in melee.

Dandala shoots at one of the gnolls at the windows but miss!

Mary runs inside the building to get into melee with the remaining gnolls.

One of the gnolls attacks you trying to bite you! The other five gnoll archers shoot at the targets still outside, two try to hit Dandala, two try to hit Bailey and one Selena. DC 15 you, DC 8 Bailey, DC 14 Dandala, DC 10 Selena.


What will you do?
> Attack the gnoll archer with your sword (roll 1d20 DC10)
> Attack the gnoll archer with your sword twice (roll 2d20 DC14)
> Throw your axe at one of the gnolls (roll 1d20 DC 10)
> Write in

>>3515836
> Attack the gnoll archer with your sword (roll 1d20 DC10)

>>3516061

roll the dice please

Rolled 20, 19 = 39 (2d20)

>>3515836
>> Attack the gnoll archer with your sword twice (roll 2d20 DC14)

>>3516396

Dandala shoots at the gnoll through the window.

Ss'rath arrives and stabs the gnoll archer with his spear.

You kill the gnoll archer with a couple swift blows of your sword!

Mary move upstairs and finishes off one of the gnolls wounded by Bailey's spells.

The four remaining gnolls climb out the window of the tower and begin to run away!

Bailey casts a magic missile upon one of the fleeing gnolls, slaying it!

Dandala shoots one fo the fleeing gnolls!

Selena shoots one of the fleeing gnolls!

Three gnolls manage to flee!

(You gained 5 experience. You now have 74 experience. You will level up once you reach 100 experience. You are currently level 3.)

You scour the tower looking for the staff of stone shape and you find it in the workshop on the highest level of the tower.

Once the item is retrieved you begin your trip back towards Sharpton.

When you arrive there you contact the wizard Abras and deliver it to him, he pays you 300 gold for it.

You learn that the merchants already departed to Lorione in your absence with someone else escorting them!

What do you want to do next?
> Recover the potions
> We're done with this town, let's just head to Lorione on our way to Valonde
> Write in

>>3516452
>> We're done with this town, let's just head to Lorione on our way to Valonde
Any loot worth mentioning in the tower? The wizard made magical items after all.

>>3516480 There was not much loot worth mentioning in the tower, the wizard Abras took most of his tools and materials with him when he fled the tower seems like he just neglected bringing the item he was currently working on because he was in a hurry at the time.

We decide to head towards Lorione in the elvish kingdom on our way to Valonde.


The first week of our travel is rather uneventful.

But after we cross the frontier and there is no longer a road, just a trail through the forest for us to follow, we see some smoke ahead and we stop our wagon and go investigate. We chance upon an encampment of gnolls right there near the trail! There seems to be about twenty gnolls in this camp! They lit a bonfire for some reason.

What are we going to do?
> Try to take our wagon off the trail to avoid the gnoll camp
> We'll kill the gnolls before continueing our travel
> Write in

calling it a night

> Try to take our wagon off the trail to avoid the gnoll camp

>>3516564
> We'll kill the gnolls before continueing our travel

I'll wait awhile for a tiebreaker, if nobody else votes I'll roll for it.

>>3517456
> Try to take our wagon off the trail to avoid the gnoll camp

>>3517231
>>3517233
>>3517668

Not liking our odds against a whole camp full of gnolls we decide to try to take our wagon off the trail to avoid the gnoll camp.

The task proves difficult as the vegetation around the area offers barely enough room between trees for our wagon to move through; we quickly find ourselves navigating a veritable maze of trees trying to squeeze our wagon between trees staying as far away from the gnoll camp as possible.

To avoid drawing attention to ourselves we refrain from lighting a campfire at night, sleeping in an indistinct patch of forest, taking turns on watch as usual.

After about three days off the trail we realize that we are to some degree lost; we continue moving more or less at random wherever the vegetation allows us to move our wagon through trying to move south.

On the fifth night watch Selena wakes us up.
"Guys, we have company!"

We get up, readying our weapons, then we see five elves near our wagon. They're wearing green clothing and carrying longbows and swords. One of the elves step forth and say in that funny accent of the elves, that sounds as if they're more singing than talking:
"We mean no harm travellers. I'm Galebor. We're rangers from Lorione. We were tracking the horrible gnolls who plague this land waiting for the best time to strike them when we noticed the tracks of a wagon going off trail. You've been going in circles for the past three days. Do you need assistance? We could lead you back to the trail and towards Lorione."

"Have you guys killed the gnolls who set up camp on the trail?", asks Selena.

"No, unfortunately not. There were just too many of them for us to take on our own. We've been hoping they'll scatter in smaller groups, then we'll be able to pick them off more easily. But they've been signalling their brethren in the northwest using smoke signals asking for reinforcements. Seems like they're keen on blockading the trail between our kingdoms. Seems like we'll also need to request reinforcements to deal with this situation. But don't worry, we can lead you to a spot of the trail way past the gnoll camp, you should be able to reach Lorione afterwards with no problems.", says Galebor.

What do you want to do?
> Tell Galebor that together we could take the gnoll camp
> Accept Galebor's aid to lead you back into the trail towards Lorione
> Decline Galebor's aid
> Write in

>>3518009
>> Accept Galebor's aid to lead you back into the trail towards Lorione

and then
>> Tell Galebor that together we could take the gnoll camp

>>3518020

We accept Galebor's aid to lead us back into the trail towards Lorione. His group leads us through a path in the trees going mostly west for a whole day until we reach the trail.

"Well, here we part ways then. If you follow the trail south you should reach Lorione in a few days, hopefully you won't chance upon any more gnolls.", says Galebor.

"Thanks for your assistance, we'd likely stay lost going in circles for many more days if it weren't for you.", says Bailey.

"You're welcome.", says Galebor.

"You know, together we could take that gnoll camp.", you tell Galebor.

"Do you want to come back with me to the gnoll camp and help wipe them out?", asks Galebor.

Well, do you?
> Go back to the gnoll camp with Galebor and his rangers to wipe out the gnolls
> Continue our trip towards Lorione
> Write in

>>3518075
>> Go back to the gnoll camp with Galebor and his rangers to wipe out the gnolls

Rolled 2, 8, 17, 7, 5, 5, 10 = 54 (7d20)

>>3518119

We decide to go back to the gnoll camp with Galebor and his rangers to wipe out the gnolls!

We approach the gnoll camp cautiously and Bailey looks for the best spot to toss a fireball at.
"I think I can catch seven of them in the blast."
"Go for it!", you say.

She then throw a fireball amidst the gnolls!

Rolling to see how many of them evade for half damage, DC 15 due to surprise.

Rolled 3, 2, 1, 4, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2, 4, 1, 4 = 30 (14d4)

>>3518291

One gnoll evaded the blast! Rolling to see how many hits of damage the gnolls will take. The third gnoll will take only the highest roll instead of both d4s of damage.

>>3518075
> Go back to the gnoll camp with Galebor and his rangers to wipe out the gnolls

>>3518297

First gnoll died in the blast!
Second gnoll died in the blast!
Third gnoll jumped in time and took one hit worth of damage!
Fourth gnoll died in the blast!
Fifth gnoll took two hits worth of damage!
Sixth gnoll died in the blast!
Seventh gnoll died in the blast!

A total of five gnolls died in the blast!

The elf rangers begin firing their arrows at the gnolls!

They kill one of the gnolls wounded in the blast and almost kill the other one!

Dandala kills the other gnoll wounded in the blast with one well placed arrow!

Selena begins playing the song of courage! Everyone gets a +2 bonus to hit!

Mary tries to shoot one of the gnolls with her crossbow but miss!

Ss'rath throws a spear at one of the gnolls and hits it!

Seven of the remaining gnolls grab longbows and shoot at Bailey. The six others come running spear in hand and try to rush Bailey but can only reach Dandala, Mary and you so they attack you three, two each. DC 14 for you DC 13 for Dandala DC 14 for Mary and DC 8 for Bailey.

What will you do?
> Attack one of the gnolls with your sword (roll 1d20 DC 10)
> Attack one of the gnolls with your sword twice (roll 2d20 DC 14)
> Use your Smite on one of the gnolls (roll 1d20 DC 10)
> Throw your axe at one of the gnolls (roll 1d20 DC 10)
> Write in

Rolled 7, 11, 19, 1, 3, 4, 6, 19, 1, 17, 11, 3, 12 = 114 (13d20)

>>3518318

forgot dice

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>3518318
>> Use your Smite on one of the gnolls (roll 1d20 DC 10)
SMITE!

Rolled 10, 3, 17, 18, 10, 16 = 74 (6d20)

>>3518319
>>3518323

You attempt to smite one of the gnolls but fails. Your skill has not been spent though, it is only spent on a successful hit, so you can try again if you want.

The gnolls attacking you don't manage to land any hits, Dandala manages to avoid the gnolls attacking her, the gnolls attacking Mary don't manage to land any hits.

But Bailey is hit pretty badly by all the gnoll archers, they manage to land four hits on her, she's now seriously wounded!

Bailey casts another fireball at the gnolls, managing to catch six of them in the blast!

Rolling to see how many of them evade for half damage, DC 13.

Rolled 1, 4, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 1, 3, 1, 3, 4 = 34 (12d4)

>>3518350

Three gnolls manage to evade for half damage!

Rolling to see how much damage each gnoll will take from the fireball!

>>3518355

The first gnoll dies in the blast!
The second gnoll dies in the blast!
The third gnoll takes four hits worth of damage!
The fourth gnoll takes four hits worth of damage!
The fifth gnoll takes four hits worth of damage!
The fifth gnoll dies in the blast!

The fireball blast kills a total of three gnolls, injuring another three!

The ten surviving gnolls begin to flee!

The elvish rangers pick off the four more badly wounded gnolls!

The remaining six gnolls manage to flee into the forest!

(You gained 1 experience for surviving the fight against the gnolls. You have 75 experience. You'll level up once you reach 100 experience. You're currently level 3.)

"We can pick off those stragglers later when they stop to rest. Thanks for you help, without you we wouldn't have been able to defeat all those gnolls.", says Galebor.

"Don't mention it.", says Bailey. "Now could you two please heal me, these arrow wounds really hurt."

Galebor and his men go forth to track the fleeing gnolls and your group continues your travel towards Lorione.

After a few more rather uneventful days of travel you arrive at Lorione.

You head to a tavern, a cozy nice place called The Half-full Cup where as would be expected most patrons are elves. Dandala and Selena head out to go talk to the locals - most older elves speak common, but at best about a fourth of the population in here speaks it so Dandala still needs to translate for Selena in some cases.

After a few hours they return to us telling what they have learned about this place.

"The village of Lorione is the home town of a powerful elvish archmage named Alion. He has a tower near the outskirts of town and a whole bunch of apprentices. Turns out that having such a powerful protector makes your village stay out of trouble for the most part. But there still seems to be some stuff for us to do around here."

"There's a cave a few days of travel away from here where a group of trolls have settled. Alion himself won't be bothered with such a trifling matter as killing a handful of trolls, and the beasts are a tad too powerful for the local rangers to kill, so the locals are offering 300 gold for us to go there and kill the trolls for them. There should be between three and five of them, the accounts vary, but we should be prepared for the worst if we are to accept the job, fighting five adult trolls inside a cave. We killed three before, five shouldn't be that much more difficult right?"


"Alion frequently offers generous amounts of gold for the procurement of rare components for his spells, rituals and the manufacture of magical items. This time around he's looking for the eggs of a cockatrice to make some powerful potions. The local rangers know where a small flock of the beasts dwell but deem them too dangerous to approach, as even a touch from their beaks could turn someone into stone! Alion is offering 50 gold per intact egg, up to twenty eggs, and 10 gold just for the eggshells in case we break some."

>>3518693

"The local militia is composed of a few squads of rangers, the most expert of them being led by Galebor which we already met. They've been engaged in trying to divert the flow of the gnollish invasion away from the elvish kingdom for the past several months, with moderate success. A few times Alion himself intervened when the gnolls got too close to the village, but he made it clear that he won't be messing around with gnolls as he has better things to do with his time. The militia has intel on eight larger gnoll settlements of fifty gnolls or more and at least thirty small gnoll camps of up to twenty individuals inside the elvish kingdowm, but it doesn't have the manpower to strike all of them. If we are willing to help the local militia they'll provide us with good intel and support on killing the gnolls. There doesn't seem to be any money to be had doing this though, we'd do it just to get on the good side of the elves, I hear good reputation amongst them is hard to earn and goes a long way."

"Alion offers the services of casting high level spells if we have the need of some high level spell to be cast. The usual cost is 100 gold per level of the spell, plus the costs of any extra components the spell requires. We may need to ask him with a certain antecedence which spells we want him to cast as he have lots of clients and specially the higher level spell are in surprisingly high demand."

"Alion is reputed as having a large stash of magical items he acquired on his very long career as a wizard. We could perhaps convince him to part with some items, either for some money or if we do some quest for him."

"Not everything is militia and wizards in this village though. There's a surprising amount of trade happening in here, perhaps because this town is in the edge of the elvish kingdom in the frontier with one of the largest human kingdoms. We could make a profit buying some elvish goods to sell in the human lands - we could easily double or even triple our money simply buying common trade goods and selling them as exotic commodities once we arrive in Valonde! Of course we would need to protect our goods from thieves but we already do it regularly, and then there's the actual selling of the stuff that might take some time unless we just drop it all at once on the market losing a good chunk of our profits by doing so. Still, profit! Might be worth our while to dip our feet into the merchant business since we already travel so much, don't you think?"

What do we want to do?
> Let's kill the trolls
> Let's get the eggs of the cockatrices
> Let's go kill gnolls for the militia
> Let's ask Alion to cast a spell for us (which spell?)
> Let's try to convince Alion to give us some magical items in exchange for money/quests
> Let's buy a bunch of elvish trade goods to sell at Valonde
> Let's just continue our trip towards Nyamaris on our way to Valonde
> Write in

>>3518695
>> Let's try to convince Alion to give us some magical items in exchange for money/quests

Then these two in order:
>> Let's kill the trolls
>> Let's go kill gnolls for the militia

>>3518695
o snap this is back

> Let's try to convince Alion to give us some magical items in exchange for money/quests

and

> Let's go kill gnolls for the militia

I'm nervous about the trolls, that was a tough fight against only 3, and 5 is almost 2x as many. We should at least prepare fire and oil to negate their regen without drawing too heavily on Bailey.

>>3518785
>>3519151

We decide to try to convince Alion to give us some magical items in exchange for money or quests.

His tower is impossible to miss, it's by far the tallest structure in town, easily a hundred feet tall. We head there and knock on the door. One of his elvish apprentices opens the door.

"What is you business in Alion's tower?"

"We would like an audience with mister Alion please.", says Selena.

"Well, excuse me but you still haven't stated your business ma'am.", replies the apprentice.

"Fine. We heard about the large stash of magical items Alion has accrued over the years and we thought maybe he would have some items that would interest us in exchange for money or quests.", says Selena.

"Well, tough luck miss. Master Alion do indeed has a large collection of magical items, but those are worth thousands of gold pieces each, I can scarcely think what sort of quest could you perform that would be worth that much money. Unless you're willing to work for master Alion for quite sometime I rather doubt he'd be parting with any magical items. Unless you happen to have a few thousand gold spare to straight out buy a few pieces of magical equipment.", says the apprentice.

"In any case we'd still like to talk to mister Alion. Perhaps after he hear us he'll feel convinced of our worth and will be willing to give us a shot.", says Selena.

"I hear you miss. Very well, I'll ask master Alion when he has time for an audience in a few hours, he's in the middle of casting a powerful spell right now. Do you guys want to wait inside or come some other time?", asks the apprentice.

"We'll wait inside, thank you.", says Selena.

"Very well, come with me.", says the apprentice, opening the door.

He leads us through a richly decorated hall up a flight of stairs and into a vast chamber with lots of leather bound sofas and a fireplace. There are several bookcases lining the walls, and some fine aged booze and smokes in a table in the corner.

"Wait here, I'll be back in a few hours to take you to master Alion. Feel free to read, drink and smoke while you wait if you're so inclined.", says the apprentice.

"Well, and now we wait.", says Selena, lighting a smoke and grabbing a thick book from the shelves.

After about six hours of waiting the apprentice comes back.

"Master Alion will see you now. Come with me."

You all then follow the apprentice up several flights of stairs until you reach the uppermost level of the tower. Behind an imposing set of double doors you find a large room filled whose walls are lined with magical equipment, books and a great many deal of weird objects whose purpose you can't quite determine. The whole place reeks of incense.

>>3519290

"Excuse the smell.", says Alion in a booming voice that still has the weird musical accent of the elves. "I've been casting a spell that required quite alot of it to be burned, and I'll be casting it again quite a few times more in days to come I'm afraid. A wealthy client wanted information on some rather rare objects he's pursueing and the information is hard to come by through non magical means so he came to me for aid and I've been performing the divination for a few weeks now."

"Mister Alion.", says Selena.

"Please, just Alion."

"Alright, Alion, we've heard of your large stash of magical items and we've wondered if you wouldn't part with some of them to help us in our adventures. We'd be willing to pay or perform quests for you in exchange for the items.", says Selena.

"I see you have a wizard in your group. If you had the coin to purchase magical items you'd probably have enough to fund her into crafting some starter magical items to help in your quest. No my dears, you won't be buying any magical items from me. But perhaps I could use your help since you are adventurers and all. Say, would you be willing to spend a few short months working for me doing some fetch quests too difficult for my apprentices in exchange for a few choice items from my collection? I do indeed have quite a few items that frankly I no longer have any use for but that would be quite useful for budding adventurers like yourselves."

"That sounds great!", says Selena.

"Here's a short list of the components that I need you to retrieve for me."

He hands us a piece of parchment with a list of items in it:

"Frost Giant's Heart (at least one, up to eight)
Naga Blood (one large vial)
Green Hag Right Index Finger (at least one, up to three)
Giant Ape Fur (at least a handful, a whole pelt would be nice)
Wyvern Poison (at least one pint, up to eight)
Giant Spider Web and Hair (a good sample from at least one, up to eight)
Wight Brain (at least one, up to eight)
One White Dragon Egg or One White Dragon Whelp Heart
Giant Bee Royal Jelly (a bucket full or three)
Giant Fire Beetle Glands (twenty or so)"

"Now that's one hell of a shopping list.", says Selena.

"Bring me back the items on this list and I'll give you some magical items. Now if you excuse me, I have some more casting to do.", says Alion.

We leave Alion's tower and decide to head to the militia headquarters to go check what we can do to aid in the ongoing war efforts. In there we find an elvish shaman who tells us: "The rangers are all out on various missions, they only come back town now and then to report how many gnolls they killed and to update each other on the movimentation of the large gnoll camps. We can arrange a meeting with one of the ranger groups by sending a message to them using magic, then you meet at some scheduled place. It's nice that you're eager to help, we could hook you up with one of the ranger groups.

>>3519293

Galebor group - " Galebor and his boys last reported that they're tracking a group of gnolls on the frontier. You'd be fighting on the very frontlines, striking quickly to delay or stop the flow of reinforcements from the main gnoll settlements in the northwest. His group is the more experienced so he was given the most critical mission."

Elror group - "Elror and his group are on the west busy with skirmishes against the groups that are making permanent settlements in the forest. They ambush the gnoll hunters and generally make the gnoll stay in our territory unpleasant. They don't have the numbers to attack the settlements with fifty plus gnolls so they keep harassing them in a war of attrition."

Fineli group - "Fineli and his men are keeping the trails west towards the capital gnoll free. They bust gnoll ambushes and skirmish against the gnolls that are constantly sent to this area to rob and kill our people."

Milure group - "Milure is working on the south where the presence of gnolls is the lowest. He's overseeing the main trade routes of our kingdom with the human kingdoms though so ambushes around this area have a higher monetary impact than in the other sectors."

"If you want to join one of the militia groups tell us and we'll send them a magical message setting up a day and time to meet with you.", says the shaman.


As we're pondering what to do next Bailey says "About the quests that Alion want us to do... at least half of that stuff we could find on castle Fornstein back in Greshire."

"You're not suggesting we travel half the world to go back to that accursed castle to get this stuff are you Bailey?", says Selena.

"I'm just saying that if we could get there faster somehow we might save up a lot of effort in getting all the stuff he wants us to. Maybe we could convince him to teleport us there?", says Bailey.

Well, what do you want to do?
> Go after some stuff from Alion's list (what?)
> Try to convince Alion to teleport us to castle Fornstein so we can loot the place for him
> Tell the shaman to contact one of the militia groups for us to join (which one?)
> Let's kill the trolls
> Let's buy a bunch of elvish trade goods to sell at Valonde
> Let's just continue our trip towards Nyamaris on our way to Valonde
> Write in

> Let's kill the trolls

>>3519338
We have 25 exp to lvl up and maybe the trolls have some interesting items : )

>>3519295
>>3519338
Ok, fine, we can kill the trolls.

But like I said, we have to prepare. Torches, oil, vials of alchemists fire, etc. Be ready to form a shield wall with Dandala, Ss'rath, and Mary so the trolls don't gang destroy Bailey or Selena after the first fireball/song of courage.

>>3519338
>>3519349
>>3519350

We decide to go kill the trolls. But this time we want to be prepared! We buy a bunch of torches, several flasks of oil and six vials of alchemist fire (all the vials the apothecary had ready in stock).

We then begin travelling to the region where the local indicated the cave of the trolls should be and start searching for it.

After a few days of search we find a large cave that seems like it would be just the ideal place for a bunch of trolls to settle in. The stench of death and decay coming from the inside tells you something been hunting and leaving carcasses inside the cave.

Your group then lights some torches and enters the cave looking for the trolls.

We continue advancing until we find a larger opening to a wider chamber of the cave, there are now five different tunnels that we could take branching out from this one large chamber whose center is dominated by a large flooded area with dripping stalactites.

There are two tunnels to the left, one smaller and one larger; two tunnels to the right, both large, one inclined upwards and another downwards; and one tunnel on the opposite side of the chamber going downwards.

Which of the five tunnels will we take?

> The smaller tunnel to the left
> The larger tunnel to the left
> The tunnel to the right going downwards
> The tunnel to the right going upwards
> The center tunnel going downwards
> Wait in here, the trolls are bound to show up sooner or later
> Write in


You're currently walking in this order:

Uhtred, Selena, Bailey, Mary, Dandala, Ss'rath

Tell me if you want to change it.

>>3519462

Ss'rath tells you the rotting smell comes more strongly from the tunnel in the right, particularly the one going downwards.

calling it a night

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I have to read up, but I wanted to say that your OP drew me in and what I saw didn't disappoint.
I liked thgat it was only at thread #2 so I hadn't missed much. The title and summary made wonder if this was an existing IP I was oblivious to, but a glance at the first thread made me think otherwise and anyway, you hooked me.

Sorry I overlooked the first thread. I vaguely remember making a number of wrong assumptions about a slow build up and start, which were proven wrong halfway through the opening post.
"something, something, monastery quest. Nah."
I can't fault you that I couldn't tell, or didn't notice, that the OP image was a frelling burning monastery. You can't safeguard against stupidity.
Fortunately, your OP image was dynamic, iconic, and got me wondering what these jewels were and what I read from the catalog only got me more interested without answering my question.


In short: great OP and good QMing from what I've seen so far.
Actual participation to follow.

>>3519462
Lets move Dandala up between us and Selena.

as for the tunnel, we'll trust Ss'rath's nose.
> The tunnel to the right going downwards

>>3519693
support

>>3519693
>>3520502

You move Dandala up between you and Selena, you're now moving on this order:

Uhtred, Dandala, Selena, Bailey, Mary, Ss'rath

You decide to follow the tunnel to the right going downwards. We walk for a few minutes going downwards then the tunnel opens up into a larger chamber.

You see a large number of animal carcasses scattered around the place. But what really draws your attention are the four little trolls who are gnashing on some bones and munching some half rotten meat when you arrive, they're a bit larger than a human child but much more muscular. The light of our torches seem to scare them and they begin to scream loudly!

What will we do?
> Attack one of the little trolls with your sword (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Attack one of the little trolls with your sword twice (roll 1d20 DC 11)
> Smite one of the little trolls (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Throw your axe at one of the little trolls (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Throw a bottle of oil at one of the little trolls and set it on fire with your torch (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Throw a bottle of alchemist fire at one fo the little trolls (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Tell everybody to throw alchemist fires on the little trolls
> Tell everybody to throw oil at the little trolls and set them on fire
> Tell Bailey to throw a fireball at the little trolls
> Write in

>>3520546
> Tell everyone to throw oil on the trolls and light them in fire.

I hope this isn't morally ambiguous

>>3520586

You tell everyone to throw oil on the little trolls and light them on fire!

In a few moments the little trolls are all drenched in oil and then you all light them on fire with your torches. The small creatures scream in agony flailing around as they burn, then after a few moments of this they die in the fire.

We hear some growls coming from the cave we just came from, seems like the big trolls are coming our way.

What will we do?
> Rush to meet the trolls in the tunnel, we should be able to funnel them into fighting one or two at a time
> Wait for the trolls in this room, position everybody in a semicircle around the entrance with Bailey and Selena behind the line
> Throw some oil bottles in the entrance of the room so we can light it on fire when the trolls show up
> Write in

>>3520638
>Wait for the trolls in this room, position everyone in a semicircle with Bailey and Selena behind the line.

Let Bailey help with positions for max fireball efficiency

Rolled 8, 10, 14, 19, 4 = 55 (5d20)

>>3520650

We decide to wait for the trolls in this room, getting in position in a semicircle around the entrance with Bailey and Selena behind the line.

And sure enough the trolls show up! They come running and screaming down the corridor, five of them! The one in front of the pack is carrying a very large metal hammer!

Bailey says "I got them all!", and casts a fireball at the approaching trolls!

Rolling to see if they evade for half damage, DC 13.

Rolled 1, 4, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 2 = 21 (10d4)

>>3520661

two trolls evade for half damage, rolling to see how much damage the trolls take from the fireball

Rolled 3, 2, 13, 14, 3, 1, 19, 16, 14, 17, 17, 17, 18, 2 = 156 (14d20)

>>3520664

The first troll takes 5 hits worth of fire damage from the blast!
The second troll takes 5 hits worth of fire damage from the blast!
The third troll takes 2 hits worth of fire damage from the blast!
The fourth troll takes 3 hits worth of damage from the blast!
The fifth troll takes 4 hits worth of damage from the blast!

Dandala throws an oil bottle on the first troll!
Mary throws an oil bottle on the second troll!
Ss'rath throws an oil bottle on the third troll!
Selena throws an oil bottle on the fourth troll!

The first troll will attack you with his hammer twice. The other trolls will attack two of them Dandala, one Mary and one Ss'rath, three attacks each troll. Rolling to hit DC9 for you, DC 10 for Dandala, DC 11 for Mary and DC 8 for Ss'rath.

What will you do?
> Attack one of the trolls with your sword (roll 1d20 DC 12)
> Attack one of the trolls with your sword twice (roll 1d20 DC 16)
> Smite one of the trolls (roll 1d20 DC 12)
> Throw your axe at one of the trolls (roll 1d20 DC 12)
> Throw a bottle of oil at one of the trolls (roll 1d20 DC 12)
> Throw a bottle of alchemist fire at one of the trolls (roll 1d20 DC 12)
> Write in

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>3520677
>Throw a bottle of alchemical fire on one of the trolls

3 attacks with low hit DC? Yeah they're as scary as I remember.

Rolled 4, 19, 12, 16, 12 = 63 (5d20)

>>3520680

You toss your bottle of alchemical fire on one of the trolls! The concoction lights on fire on impact and begins burning the troll!

The troll with the hammer misses his swings at you.

Despite fighting defensively Dandala is still hit twice by the two trolls attacking her, she's now lightly wounded!

Mary is hit twice by the troll fighting her despite fighting defensively! She's lightly wounded!

Ss'rath is hit once by the troll fighting him despite fighting defensively! He's lightly wounded!

Bailey throws another fireball at the trolls! Rolling to see how many of them evade for half damage, DC 13.

Rolled 1, 4, 3, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4 = 31 (10d4)

>>3520685

Two trolls evade the fireball for half damage. Rolling to see how much damage the trolls take from the fireball.

>>3520685
Oh no, we might have needed that second fireball for the kill squad.

Rolled 13, 12, 3, 10, 11, 17, 8, 18, 16, 2, 6 = 116 (11d20)

>>3520686

The first troll takes 5 damage from the fireball blast!
The second troll takes 3 damage from the fireball blast!
The third troll takes 6 damage from the fireball blast!
The fourth troll takes 4 damage from the fireball blast!
The fifth troll takes 7 damage from the fireball blast! It dies engulfed in flames!

All the trolls were drenched in oil and catch on fire! They should take fire damage on the following few turns until the oil runs out or they take action to put the fire out.

Dandala attacks one of the trolls with her sword but miss!

Ss'rath attacks one of the trolls with his spear but miss!

Mary attacks one of the trolls with her mace but miss!

Selena begins playing the song of courage! Everybody gets a +2 bonus to hit!

The trolls attack us again, the troll with the hammer attacks you, and the other trolls attack one of the others each. Rolling to hit DC9 for you, DC 10 for Dandala, DC 11 for Mary and DC 8 for Ss'rath.

What will you do?
> Attack one of the trolls with your sword (roll 1d20 DC 10)
> Attack one of the trolls with your sword twice (roll 1d20 DC 14)
> Fight the troll defensively (roll 1d20 DC 14, you get one free dodge)
> Smite one of the trolls (roll 1d20 DC 10)
> Throw your axe at one of the trolls (roll 1d20 DC 10)
> Write in

Rolled 1, 14 = 15 (2d20)

>>3520691
>Double attack hammer troll

Rolled 1, 2 = 3 (2d3)

>>3520709

The troll with a hammer manages to land both hits on you this turn. Rolling 2d3 to see how many hits of damage he causes.

>>3520715
Ah crap they even inflict multiple hits. Good thing we prepared!

>>3520715
>>3520709

You take 3 hits worth of damage from the hammer troll! You're now seriously wounded!

Dandala fights defensively but is still hit once by the troll fighting her! She's seriously wounded!

Mary fights defensively but is still hit once by the troll fighting her! She's seriously wounded.

Ss'rath manages to avoid being hit by the troll by fighting defensively!

You land one hit on the troll with the hammer with your sword!

Dandala lands one hit on one of the trolls with her sword!

Mary tries to attack one of the trolls with her mace but miss!

Ss'rath attacks one of the trolls with his spear!

Bailey casts a scorching ray spell on one of the trolls! She manages to land a couple of the rays on the troll, slaying it!

The three remaining trolls turn and flee! We begin pursueing them!

One of the trolls falls dead in the tunnel, victim to the burnings from the oil that was still burning.

The other two trolls manage to get to the hub cave and jump into the water putting off the fire! Then they try to run to the exit of the cave but we block their path!

Bailey casts another scorching ray, downing one of the trolls.

Only the troll with the hammer remains. Cornered, it runs towards us brandishing its hammer. We quickly dispatch the lone and weakened troll though, then we pour some oil on his remains and light them on fire.

(You gained 7 experience. You now have 82 experience. You'll level up once you reach 100 experience. You're currently level 3.)

With the trolls gone you leisurely explore their cave to see if there's anything worth looting.

The right tunnel going upwards opens up into some sort of forge room where the trolls were smelting metal, there's a bunch of iron ore and a few iron bars stored in there.

The other tunnels seem to be mining tunnels the trolls been digging looking for ore and don't have nothing much worth of note in them.

You loot the large iron hammer of the dead troll and the iron bars to sell back in town.

You then decide to head back to Lorione to claim your reward. You tell the tale of how you defeated the trolls, show them the large iron hammer you looted from the dead troll as proof, and then they agree to pay you the bounty of 300 gold.

What do we want to do next?
> Go after some stuff from Alion's list (what?)
> Tell the shaman to contact one of the militia groups for us to join (which one?)
> Let's buy a bunch of elvish trade goods to sell at Valonde
> Let's just continue our trip towards Nyamaris on our way to Valonde
> Write in

>>3520769
>Help out the Fineli militia group

Damn, I didn't think trolls were smart enough to mine, let alone smelt and forge.

>>3520781
sounds good to me

>>3520781
>>3520802

We decide to go help the Fineli militia group. We go talk to the elvish shaman and she tells us "I'll send a message to them telling where to meet you all tomorrow. You can already start the trip down the western trail, the meeting point will be the spot where there's a crossroads of trails about three days away from town, wait for them there, they should arrive shortly after you."

We then depart towards the place we've been told to go to meet the Fineli militia elves.

After about three days of travel we arrive at a crossroads of trails, with a north south trail crossing straight through the east west trail we were taking thus far.

"I guess here is the place. Let's wait for the elves to show up.", says Selena.

We wait for about eight hours until we hear some movement in the underbrush. Seven elves carrying longbows and swords come out from the woods.

"Hello, I'm Fineli", says the leader of the group. "We've been tracking gnoll for weeks now and busting their ambushes on the western trails. These are groups that manage to slip past Galebor's and Elror's groups and manage to get as far as these trails to lay in ambush for days, even weeks, hoping to catch a caravan. There are currently six caravans that we know of on their way from the capital Lenoria to some village or another going through the three major trails coming out of the capital going west, and we've tracked at least three different groups of gnolls moving around in the forest trying to avoid us and seeking to find a good spot to ambush the caravans. Now most caravan have some light escort, although I doubt the two or three guards an average caravan can afford could do much against a group of ten gnolls, so we must act fast if we are to catch the gnolls before they catch any caravans."

"We could patrol the north trail, which is the most likely to have ambushes, but is the less used by the caravans; we could go for the middle trail, which is the most used by the caravans, and is reasonably likely to have ambushes; or we could patrol the south trail, which is sometimes used by caravans and is less likely to have ambushes. Unfortunately we can't be at more than one spot at the same time, and splitting our forces would leave us too weak to deal with the ambush groups that are about ten to fifteen gnolls strong. You guys could come with us, although that many of us would be overkill to get the ambush groups, or you could patrol a different trail than our own."

What will we do?
> Go with Fineli to the north trail
> Go with Fineli to the middle trail
> Go with Fineli to the south trail
> Go to the north trail while Fineli goes to the middle trail
> Go to the north trail while Fineli goes to the south trail
> Go to the middle trail while Fineli goes to the north trail
> Go to the middle trail while Fineli goes to the south trail
> Go to the south trail while Fineli goes to the north trail
> Go to the south trail while Fineli goes to the middle trail
> Write in

>>3520986
>Patrol the north while Fineli takes the middle

Gotta work for that favor

Rolled 16, 15, 17, 14, 13 = 75 (5d20)

>>3521021

"We'll patrol the north trail, you guys can take the middle trail.", you tell Fineli.

"Alright! Good luck out there!", he says before going back into the forest with his group of rangers.

We travel the length of the north trail what we think is near half of the way to the elvish capital and find no sign of the gnolls. After twelve days of patrol when we are about to give up and turn back we chance upon a large gnoll ambush! Fifteen gnolls in three groups of five were laying by the sides of the trail where it makes a curve due to a small hill nearby.

We think we spot the gnolls about the same time as they spot us; we jump out of our wagon and prepare to fight them.

Bailey throws a fireball at one of the groups of gnolls, rolling to see how many of them evade for half damage, DC 13.

Rolled 4, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 1, 2, 1 = 24 (10d4)

>>3521094

all the gnolls evade for half damage, rolling to see how much damage they take

>>3521096
Already things look grim. Remember to shield wall up around Bailey and Selena

Rolled 3, 17, 12, 11, 10, 18, 11, 8, 5, 9, 16, 9, 8, 15 = 152 (14d20)

>>3521096
>>3521110


The first gnoll takes 4 damage from the fireball blast!
The second gnoll takes 3 damage from the fireball blast!
The third gnoll takes 4 damage from the fireball blast!
The fourth gnoll takes 3 damage from the fireball blast!
The fifth gnoll takes 2 damage from the fireball blast!

Dandala shoots at one of the wounded gnolls with her longbow, finishing it off!

Mary summons her Spiritual Weapon! It his one of the wounded gnolls!

Ss'rath tries to throw a spear at one of the wounded gnolls but miss.

Selena begins playing the song of courage! Everybody gets a +2 bonus to hit.

The gnolls begin shooting at us with their longbows. Five gnolls shoot at Bailey, five shoot at Selena, one shoots at everyone else. DC 15 to hit you, DC 14 to hit Dandala, DC 15 to hit Mary, DC 12 to hit Ss'rath, DC 10 to hit Selena, DC 8 to hit Bailey.

What will you do?
> Attack the nearest gnoll with your sword (roll 1d20 DC 8)
> Attack the nearest gnoll with your sword twice (roll 2d20 DC 12)
> Smite the nearest gnoll (roll 1d20 DC 8)
> Throw your axe at the nearest gnoll (roll 1d20 DC 8)
> Tell Dandala and Mary to stop what they're doing and come help you form a shield wall around Bailey and Selena (I'd include Ss'rath on this but he doesn't have a shield)
> Write in

>>3521129
Too late for the wall now lol

>Heal Bailey, and position yourself to intercept arrows meant for her with your shield

Rolled 17, 4, 9, 11, 2 = 43 (5d20)

>>3521161

The gnoll archers miss you, Dandala dodge the hit at her, they hit Ss'rath who gets lightly wounded, then they hit Selena four times getting her seriously wounded, and they hit Bailey five times getting her seriously wounded.

Bailey casts a fireball at another group of gnolls! Rolling to see how many of them dodge for half damage, DC 13.

Rolled 1, 3, 3, 1, 2, 4, 2, 4, 4, 1 = 25 (10d4)

>>3521180

One gnoll dodges for half damage, rolling to see how much damage the gnolls take.

Rolled 9, 16, 10, 3, 10, 17, 7, 16, 6 = 94 (9d20)

>>3521181

The first gnoll takes 3 damage from the fireball blast!
The second gnoll takes 4 damage from the fireball blast!
The third gnoll dies in the explosion!
The fourth gnoll dies in the explosion!
The fifth gnoll dies in the explosion!

You heal Bailey for one hit and position yourself to intercept arrows meant for her with your shield!

Mary heals Selena! Her spiritual weapon hits one of the wounded gnolls, killing it!

Dandala shoots at one of the wounded gnolls with her longbow but miss.

Ss'rath throws a spear at one of the wounded gnolls killing it!

Four gnolls shoot arrows at Bailey but since you're in the way protecting her they roll to hit you instead! One gnoll shoots at everyone else. DC 15 to hit you, DC 14 to hit Dandala, DC 15 to hit Mary, DC 12 to hit Ss'rath, DC 10 to hit Selena, DC 8 to hit Bailey.

What will you do?
> Attack the nearest gnoll with your sword (roll 1d20 DC 8)
> Attack the nearest gnoll with your sword twice (roll 2d20 DC 12)
> Smite the nearest gnoll (roll 1d20 DC 8)
> Throw your axe at the nearest gnoll (roll 1d20 DC 8)
> Lay on hands on someone (one use left)
> Write in

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>3521195
>> Smite the nearest gnoll (roll 1d20 DC 8)

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>3521195
If we can do >>3521207
without dropping protection on Bailey, sure. Otherwise throw the axe.

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>3521207
>>3521210 you need to run towards the gnolls to attack them in melee as they are far away shooting at you with their longbows so you'd need to drop protection on Bailey to smite the gnoll, ye


Well, looks like we got conflicting commands so I'm gonna roll for it.

1 - run towards the gnolls and smite one
2 - stay close to Bailey and throw your axe at the nearest gnoll

Rolled 18, 18, 1, 17, 16, 19, 18, 20 = 127 (8d20)

>>3521207
>>3521210
>>3521217

One of the gnolls shoots you while you are protecting Bailey from the arrows, you are lightly wounded now.

One gnoll hits Mary with an arrow, she's lightly wounded now.

One gnoll hits Selena with an arrow, she's seriously wounded!

You run towards the wounded gnolls and hit one of them with your Smite, killing it!

Dandala shoots one of the gnolls with her longbow!

Ss'raths throws a spear at one of the gnolls but miss!

Mary attacks one of the gnolls with her mace but miss! Her spiritual weapon hits one of the wounded gnolls!

Bailey casts a scorching ray at one of the gnolls! She only hits the gnoll with one of the three rays doing two hits worth of damage!

Three gnolls shoot arrows at Bailey! One gnoll shoot at each of the others. DC 15 to hit you, DC 14 to hit Dandala, DC 15 to hit Mary, DC 12 to hit Ss'rath, DC 10 to hit Selena, DC 8 to hit Bailey.

What will you do?
> Attack the nearest gnoll with your sword (roll 1d20 DC 8)
> Attack the nearest gnoll with your sword twice (roll 2d20 DC 12)
> Throw your axe at the nearest gnoll (roll 1d20 DC 8)
> Lay on hands on someone (one use left)
> Write in

>>3521227
jesus those rolls

>Run back, heal Bailey and shield her again

Rolled 19, 11, 1, 15, 17, 14, 4 = 81 (7d20)

>>3521232

One gnoll hits you with an arrow! You're lightly wounded!

One gnoll hits Dandala with an arrow! She's lightly wounded!

One gnoll hits Ss'rath with an arrow! He's lightly wounded!

One gnoll hits Selena with an arrow! She's crippled!

Three gnolls hit Bailey with arrows, one being a critical! She's crippled!

You run towards Bailey and heal her by laying on hand then position yourself to defend her from arrows! She's still crippled.

Mary casts Prayer of Healing, healing two hits worth of damage of everyone in the group!

You're fully healed!
Bailey is now seriously wounded!
Ss'rath is fully healed!
Dandala is fully healed!
Selena is now seriously wounded!
Mary is fully healed!

Dandala shoots at one of the gnolls with her longbow but miss!

Ss'rath throws his spear at one of the gnolls but miss!

Mary spiritual weapon kills one of the gnolls.

Bailey casts a scorching ray on one of the gnolls! She only lands one ray on the gnoll causing 2 hits worth of damage!

Selena stops playing the song of courage and shoots one gnoll with her crossbow!

The effects of the song will linger for awhile now that she stopped playing.

Two gnolls shoot arrows at Bailey but will roll to hit you since you're protecting her. One gnoll shoots each of everyone else. DC 15 to hit you, DC 14 to hit Dandala, DC 15 to hit Mary, DC 12 to hit Ss'rath, DC 10 to hit Selena, DC 8 to hit Bailey.

What will you do?
> Attack the nearest gnoll with your sword (roll 1d20 DC 8)
> Attack the nearest gnoll with your sword twice (roll 2d20 DC 12)
> Throw your axe at the nearest gnoll (roll 1d20 DC 8)
> Write in

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>3521256
> Throw your axe at the nearest gnoll (roll 1d20 DC 8)

We should invest in more axes. Or throwing knives, or a crossbow.

>>3521269

One gnoll hits you with an arrow! You're now lightly wounded!

One gnoll hits Mary with an arrow! She's now lightly wounded!

One gnoll hits Ss'rath with an arrow! He's now lightly wounded!

One gnoll hits Selena with an arrow! She's now seriously wounded!

You throw your axe at one of the gnolls, killing it!

Dandala shoots at one of the gnolls but miss.

Mary tries to hit one of the gnolls with her mace but miss! Her spiritual weapon also miss.

Ss'rath throws a spear at one of the wounded gnolls and kills it!

Selena shoots one gnoll with her crossbow but miss!

Bailey casts a magic missile at one gnoll, causing one hit worth of damage.

The remaining five gnolls begin to flee into the forest!

We take another round of shooting at them before they manage to escape!

Dandala lands a critical hit killing one of the fleeing gnolls with an arrow to the head!

Mary shoots one gnoll with her crossbow also landing a critical hit! Her spiritual weapon finishes off the gnoll!

Ss'rath throws a spear at the fleeing gnolls but miss.

Selena shoots with her crossbow at the fleeing gnolls but miss.

Bailey casts another magic missile dealing one hit worth of damage to one of the fleeing gnolls.

Three gnolls manage to flee!

(You gained 6 experience! You now have 88 experience. You'll level up once you reach 100 experience. You're currently level 3.)

"Well, it will take a day to heal everybody. Those gnolls left you and Selena in pretty bad shape Bailey.", says Mary.

"It would've been even worse if Uhtred hadn't stepped up to defend me. I guess it can't be helped, intelligent monsters will always try to target the casters first.", says Bailey.

"Well, we killed one gnoll ambush, what do we do now?", asks Selena.

> Continue to patrol the northern trail looking for more gnoll ambushes
> Have Bailey take a day to prepare a Sending spell to inform Fineli's team we're changing trails (which trail we're going to next?)
> Have Bailey take a day to prepare a Sending spell to inform Fineli's team we're heading back to Lorione
> Write in

>>3521319
> Continue to patrol the northern trail looking for more gnoll ambushes

Recommend Bailey prepares some kind of arrow protection spell, or starts looking for one.

I also don't suppose we could take a quick trip back to town for ranged weaponry? Gnolls are intelligent enough to focus her every time, so we'll be stuck bolstering her low AC.

>>3521327

We decide to continue patrolling the northern trail looking for more gnoll ambushes.

"You should prepare some kind of arrow protection spell Bailey.", you tell her.

"I think I saw a protection from arrows spell inscribed in the grimoire of that wizard Tartalos whose notes we're hauling to Valonde. I could copy it into my own grimoire if we can stop for a day or so. I would need a piece of shell from a tortoise or turtle as focus to cast it though. There must be some tortoises in this forest somewhere, I'm pretty sure."

"We could try our luck trying to find some tortoises or we could meet up with Fineli and ask them if they know where to find some turtles in this forest.", says Dandala.

Well, what are we going to do?
> Just keep patrolling, if we find a turtle we find it, if not tough luck
> Go off the trail and try to find a turtle in the wilderness
> Have Bailey take a day to prepare a Sending spell to ask Finely's team to meet up telling them we killed a gnoll patrol and now we need a turtle for a spell
> Write in

> Go off the trail and try to find a turtle in the wilderness

>>3521358
>Search for turtles if there's actually a chance we'll find one.

>>3521367
>>3521381


"How difficult can it be to find a turtle? Let's go off trail, we should be able to find one in no time.", you say.

"I'm pretty sure I saw some turtles somewhere before, there's definitely turtles in this forest.", says Selena.

Bailey stays with the wagon copying the spell on her grimoire.

After a couple of days looking for turtles we don't find any though.

"Dandala, you're an elf, this is the elf kingdom, tell me, are there turtles in these forests?", asks Selena.

"Well, I do recall playing with some turtles when I was much younger at least once so I'm gonna say yes, but I wouldn't know how rare they are or where to find one.", says Dandala.

"Let's keep looking then, if we widen our search we're bound to find one eventually!", says Selena.

We begin sending search parties in all directions lasting a few days each looking for turtles.

After about eight days of not finding any turtles we head back to our wagon and we find Bailey.

"Found anything?", she asks.

"Nothing.", we tell her, disheartened.

"A caravan just passed. I asked them if they know where to find any turtles and they had no idea. They definitely remembered eating some turtle soup in the capital so turtles do exist somewhere around here, they just didn't knew where.", says Bailey.

"Damn, this is proving harder than we first antecipated. Maybe closer to the capital we would have more luck getting some turtles?", says Selena.

"Maybe we should just ask Finely's help, they're rangers after all, they know this forest like the back of their hands, they would know where to find some turtles.", says Dandala.

"What kind of adventurers are we that we can't even find a turtle!", says Selena.

What are we going to do?
> Travel closer to the elvish capital, if they're making turtle soup over there the turtles must be hiding nearby
> Continue searching for turtles around our area, just send our search patrols further out, we're bound to find a turtle sooner or later
> We don't really need a turtle that badly, just continue patrolling the northern trail
> Have Bailey take a day to prepare a Sending spell to ask Finely's team to meet up telling them we killed a gnoll patrol and now we need a turtle for a spell
> Write in

>>3521433
>Have Bailey take the day to prepare a sending reporting progress and asking where to find turtles

>>3521433
>Have Bailey take the day to prepare a sending reporting progress and asking where to find turtles.
Also, I would like to get a range weapon to help pick off fleeing enemy.

>>3521463
Also, before we leave Lorione can we see if there is any Elvin equipment worth buying?

>>3521441
>>3521463 which weapon do you have in mind?


Bailey prepares a Sending spell to report progress to Finely's team, scheduling a meet up and asking for a turtle.

<<Killed twelve gnolls three fled caravan safe meet us at crossroads near Lorione in twelve days we need a turtle shell for a spell.>>

We then travel back towards the crossroads near Lorione and arrive at the specified day.

Finely doesn't leave us waiting very long; about two hours after we arrived he shows up, holding a turtle shell in his hand.

"Is this what you need? Turtles are fairly common near the capital, the locals sometimes make soup out of them. I've made some soup out of this one myself a couple days ago.", says Finely.

"Thanks, we've been running around like idiots through the forest trying to find a turtle for a whole week!", says Selena.

"It will be very helpful. The gnolls tend to target me the most, I'll use a fragment of this shell as a focus for a spell that will protect me from their arrows.", says Bailey.

"Glad to be of assistance. We've killed two groups of gnolls, so we should be in the clear unless more groups slipped past Galebor and Elror in the past few days. We're heading back to Lorione to have the shaman relay this information for the people in the field, then we'll go meet with Galebor in the front to see if they could use our help taking one of the larger camps, those with twenty gnolls or more. You're welcome to tag along if you so desire.", says Fineli.

We head back to Lorione together with the group of Fineli's rangers.

Once we arrive there he heads to the shaman.
"It will take a few days for the shaman to relay the information to Galebor and Elror, but we'll already be on our way to the front by then. Talk to her to schedule a rendezvous with us when you're ready to come.", Fineli says, then goes talk with the shaman.

What will we do?
> Go after some stuff from Alion's list (what?)
> Tell the shaman to contact one of the militia groups for us to join (which one?)
> Let's buy a bunch of elvish trade goods to sell at Valonde
> Let's just continue our trip towards Nyamaris on our way to Valonde
> Write in

>>3521497
> Tell the shaman to contact one of the militia groups for us to join (which one?)
Tag along on the big camp busting mission

calling it a night

>>3521497
I think a bow should be fine, unless has a better suggestion.

>>3521536
Crossbow please! It gives you range, but can be use in confined spaces. Which we are often in.

>>3521577
Second this. Maybe Mary can give us a few tips.

>>3521497
How far is Valonde? I want to assess the risk of buying trade goods. Will it slow down are travel, would we be at a higher risk of getting robbed?

>>3522464
Our*

>>3521503
>>3521536
>>3521577
>>3521614
>>3522464 about 4 weeks of travel away
You decide to go get a crossbow. You head to one of the local weapon's stores and find a crossbow for sale and buy it, you also buy plenty of spare ammo.

You ask Mary for a few tips on using a crossbow.

"It's very straight forward really. The disadvantage compared to a bow is that skill in reloading fast doesn't come into play so we can't really shoot a bunch of targets in a short amount of time, this thing takes awhile to reload. We also need to stow away our shields while we are reloading the crossbow as it takes both hands to do it so we can get a bit exposed while we do it. There are plenty of situations in which it is better to have the extra range so a dependable ranged weapon like a crossbow will certainly come handy.", says Mary.

We then decide to tag along on the big camp busting mission. We ask the shaman to contact the militia for us to join them. The shaman tells us: "Galebor's, Elror's and Fineli's groups are planning an attack on a large gnoll camp of about fifty individuals. They'll greatly welcome your aid in this endeavour."

She sends a message to them for you to meet on a trail six days later, she gives you specific instructions on how to reach the rendezvous point.

We then hit the road and travel towards the place where we are to meet the elves.

When we arrive there, a crossroad of the trails, we find that the elves were already waiting for us. Twenty one elvish rangers in all, the three groups of rangers - five from Galebor, seven from Fineli and nine from Elror.

"Did we leave you all waiting long?", asks Dandala.

"No, we arrived a couple hours ago.", says Galebor.

"We were planning a hit and run on the gnoll camp as fifty gnolls is a bit much for the twenty one of us to take on our own all at once, but with your help we might be able to wipe them out! Fineli told us that you took a group of fifteen gnolls on your own, your people might just give us the edge we need to end this camp.", says Elror.

"Still it will be a rather technical assault.", says Galebor."The gnolls no doubt will concentrate fire on your friends the wizard and the bard once they begin casting spells and playing their music. I'm afraid that in a fight in which such large numbers are involved it would be rather difficult to protect them from the gnolls unless some rather drastic measures are taken.", says Galebor.

"I've recently acquired a new spell that should be able to confer some degree of protection against arrows. It should be good for at least six shots. I will cast it on myself and on Selena before we attack the gnoll.", says Bailey.

Rolled 1, 7, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 20, 5 = 64 (9d20)

>>3522513

"That's better.", says Galebor, "But we might have a dozen gnolls targetting each of you. Your spell as you describe it might only be good for a volley, maximum two if you get lucky."

"How fast can your rangers mow down those gnolls?", asks Selena.

"Well, gnolls are tough to bring down. With twenty of us we should be bringing down an average of four gnolls every couple of volleys. We shoot twice as fast as the gnolls do.", says Elror.

"It's hard to tell how many gnolls could I bring down with a fireball spell. Depends on how close together they are to each other. I'd say I can injure five to ten gnoll a couple times with my fireballs. After that I'd be down to using magic missiles and firebolts, and if the gnolls keep targetting me after my protection from arrows runs out I can protect myself negating their attacks with a blade ward cantrip."

"Good, you just have to survive a couple turns of arrows to deploy your fireballs then you can act as a decoy negating their attacks with blade ward. How many times can you cast it?", asks Dandala.

"It's a cantrip, I can keep casting it all day.", says Bailey.

"So if you keep casting it continuously you can make yourself invulnerable to weapon attacks? That's kinda overpowered for a cantrip.", says Dandala.

"Well, I could still be set on fire or grappled, it just protects me against weapon attacks. In the royal academy they teach young wizards to just spam this cantrip if they get cornered by assailants and let their allies handle the rest of the fight for them.", says Bailey.

"How come you hardly ever used this cantrip up to this day?", you ask Bailey.

"Well, most of the time our battles don't last long enough for it to make sense for me to turtle up on go full on the defensive, but if I'm going to be bait then I can do it most effectively by using this cantrip over and over again. I'll save a third protection from arrows to cast on Selena if she needs it.", says Bailey.

"Very well, since the wizard can protect herself then we are set. We can kill about four gnolls each couple of volleys so it will take about ten or twelve volleys, less if your fireballs connect, to thin the gnolls to equal numbers. By then they'll likely attempt to flee, they don't usually fight unless they outnumber their foes. But a gnoll group of twenty or so gnolls is far more manageable than a group of fifty gnolls, we'll track them and slay the rest of them on another day.", says Elror.

We then head towards the gnoll camp. It's a sprawling agglomerate of tents in a large glade in the forest. Bailey casts the Protection from arrows spell on herself and on Selena. She then looks for the best spot for a fireball. "Over there I could get nine gnolls!", she says

When we're all in position, Bailey casts her fireball! Rolling to see if any gnolls take half damage, DC 15 due to surprise.

Rolled 1, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 4, 1, 4, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 47 (18d4)

>>3522515

Only one gnoll manages to avoid the fireball for half damage!

Rolling to see how much damage each gnoll takes.

>>3522515
Woah, those protection spells are absolute? I figured it would be more like 50% chance to negate an attack or +10 AC against arrows only. Mages stronk.

>>3522520
Gnolls roasted.

Rolled 12, 14, 8, 7, 13, 5, 14, 5, 15, 18, 20, 13, 5, 12, 11, 11, 8, 14, 12, 19, 7, 6, 20, 12, 10 = 291 (25d20)

>>3522520

The first gnoll dies on the blast of the fireball!
The second gnoll dies on the blast of the fireball!
The third gnoll dies on the blast of the fireball!
The fourth gnoll takes 3 hits worth of fire damage from the fireball blast!
The fifth takes 4 hits worth of fire damage from the fireball blast!
The sixth gnoll dies in the fireball blast!
The seventh gnoll dies in the fireball blast!
The eight gnoll takes 2 hits worth of fire damage fromt he fireball blast!
The ninth gnoll dies in the fireball blast!

A total of six gnolls were killed in the fireball blast!

The elvish rangers deal a total of 25 hits worth of damage shooting at the gnolls, killing the wounded gnolls and three others and wounding another one, killing a total of six gnolls.

Dandala shoots at one of the wounded gnolls killing it!

Selena begins playing the song of courage! Everybody gets a +2 bonus to hit!

Ss'rath throws a spear at one of the gnolls, hitting it!

Mary shoots her crossbow at one of the gnolls but miss!

The gnolls grab their longbows and begin shooting at us! One gnoll shoots at each of us including the elves, and six gnolls shoot at Bailey and six shoot at Selena. DC 15 to hit you, DC 14 to hit Dandala, DC 15 to hit Mary, DC 12 to hit Ss'rath, DC 10 to hit Selena, DC 8 to hit Bailey.

What will you do?
> Attack the nearest gnoll with your sword (roll 1d20 DC 8)
> Attack the nearest gnoll with your sword twice (roll 2d20 DC 12)
> Smite the nearest gnoll (roll 1d20 DC 8)
> Throw your axe at the nearest gnoll (roll 1d20 DC 8)
> Shoot one of the gnolls with your crossbow (roll 1d20 DC 8)
> Write in

Rolled 1, 15, 4, 10, 16, 5, 9, 4, 11, 11, 12, 7 = 105 (12d20)

>>3522548

more dice since more gnolls

Rolled 19, 4 = 23 (2d20)

>>3522548
>Double attack the nearest gnoll

I'd normally be freaking out over Bailey and Selena here but six shots is perfectly covered by their protection spells.

>>3522548
> Smite the nearest gnoll (roll 1d20 DC 8)

Rolled 15, 7, 6, 18, 5, 4, 5 = 60 (7d20)

>>3522570

The gnoll who shot at you miss.
Dandala dodges the shot directed at her.
The gnoll who shot at Mary miss.
The gnoll who shot at Ss'rath miss.
The gnolls land four hits on Selena, which are absorbed by the magical protection around her!
The gnolls land five hits on Bailey, which are absorbed by the magical protection around her!

Nine elvish rangers are hit by the gnoll arrows!

Bailey casts another fireball at the gnolls, this time hitting a group of seven gnolls. Rolling to see how many gnolls manage to dodge, DC 13.

Rolled 3, 1, 1, 4, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 4, 2 = 33 (14d4)

>>3522592

Two gnolls manage to dodge for half damage, rolling to see how much damage the gnolls take.

>>3522593

The first gnoll takes 3 damage from the fireball blast!
The second gnoll dies in the fireball blast!
The third gnoll takes 3 damage in the fireball blast!
The fourth gnoll takes 2 damage in the fireball blast!
The fifth gnoll dies in the fireball blast!
The sixth gnoll dies in the fireball blast!
The seventh gnoll dies in the fireball blast!

Dandala shoots at one of the gnolls!

You try to attack one of the gnolls with your sword twice, landing one hit killing it!

Mary shoots a gnoll with her crossbow!

Ss'rath throws a spear at one of the gnolls!

The elvish rangers deal a total of 29 hits worth of damage on the gnolls this turn shooting at them with their longbows!

The gnolls turn to flee!

Everybody takes shots at the fleeing gnolls! In a stroke of luck a grand total of 41 hits of damage is dealt on the fleeing gnolls, killing eight more gnolls.

Seventeen gnolls manage to flee.

(You gained 3 experience. You have 91 experience. You'll level up once you reach 100 experience. You're currently level 3.)

"The fight was much quicker than expected.", says Galebor. "Your fireball spells are quite powerful wizard, one of them does as much damage as twenty armed rangers, and your song really made a difference in our aim young bard, we struck about six gnolls per couple of volleys instead of four."

"Yes, luck was on our side on this day!", says Elror."We'll track and kill the remaining gnolls on another opportunity. Thank you for your help, adventurers."

"So what do we do now?", asks Selena.

"We're going to spread out again, my group will track the gnolls that got away and Galebor will go back to the front to track incoming reinforcements from the main gnoll settlements in the northwest. Fineli will head back to Lorione to report on progress and enlist Milure's help since the south should be gnoll free by now then they'll rendezvous with Galebor for more joint missions in weeks to come.", says Elror.

What do we want to do?
> Go with Galebor to the front
> Head back to Lorione
> Write in

> Go with Galebor to the front

>>3522632
>Go with Galebor

All gnolls must pay for turning Bailey into a pincushion

>>3522641
>>3522674

We decide to go with Galebor to the front.

Galebor and his rangers lead our wagon off trail and we go northwest for several days, sleeping in indistinct patches of forest.

"This area is hot with gnoll activity, we could chance into a gnoll patrol or encampment at any time.", says Galebor.

"The gnolls didn't use to be such a nuisance just a century ago.", says Galebor. "Their slower breeding rate with small liter sizes, meant that they were a self contained threat. But that changed when they started worshiping some sort of fertility deity. Where once their litters were of one or two gnolls per year, sometimes three, litters of eight or nine gnolls became common. They had a population explosion and began expanding in all directions. They're mostly carnivorous and don't usually practice agriculture so their population growth is pretty much unsustainable. Still, with the blessing of their fertility godddess they keep sending endless hordes of their surplus male population to slaughter and pillage other lands. Their females tend to be well guarded in their clan homes, where hundreds and sometimes even thousands of gnolls congregate, their numbers only limited by how much game they can hunt around the region. The northwestern lands where they dwell are blessed with plentiful herds of deers and lots of other smaller edible animals that the gnolls keep hunting for sustenance. To their credit they avoid killing female deers, specially if they are pregnant or with young, but if they acted otherwise their food situation would be unsustainable. They do some mining too, mainly to get metal for arrowheads and tools like skinning knives and such. We've travelled to one of their clans a couple times and observed their habits for a few days, there seems to be a clear hierarchy with the females at the top, the ones with the most children ranked highers than the ones with less children, followed by the older males. Young males are pretty much at the bottom of the tribe hierarchy so they resort to pillaging to try and bring something valuable back to the clan to make a name for themselves and become worthy of mating. Their clan halls where the matriarchs dwell are adorned with pillaged gold and silver and all sorts of objects that the various gnolls gave them as gifts. The older clans accumulate veritable treasures in their clan halls. The gnolls are semi nomadic, packing up and leaving if the game runs dry, but the ones at the northwest found a good spot and have been settled in one sport for at least five decades, pillaging, killing and slowly expanding, creeping into the borders of the human and elvish kingdoms. They seem to be more interest in the human kingdom to the north right now, what is good for us as it takes some pressure from us having to deal with their patrols all the time. A few years back when they were pressing hard on us we were killing gnoll patrols every single week and they just kept coming!"

>>3522744

We then arrive at a large river. There's an old looking wooden bridge in it.

"The gnolls been using this bridge to cross the river. It's an old bridge, it been built to reach a village that been overran by the gnolls a decade ago. The trail on our side of the bridge has even grew back out of disuse. I've been thinking about burning down this bridge, but then the gnolls would have to get creative to cross the river, they could travel down east, they could go upstream west, they could make canoes... I don't like them being creative, I like them being predictable, coming out from a known path so that we can track them easily. What do you guys think?"

> Torch the bridge
> Let the bridge be
> Write in

>>3522746
> Let the bridge be

>>3522746
>Let it be

You could even lay your own ambushes at this spot

>>3522759
>>3522765


"I see how having a predictable spot where the gnolls come from can be useful. I say we let the bridge be.", you say.

"We haven't found any gnolls on this side of the bridge. Usually we don't go that far, as the other side of the river is already human kingdom, but since the gnolls aren't coming we might as well go over there to check what is holding them back. Unfortunately I don't think your wagon would be able to cross such an old wooden bridge, we would have to find a place to hide it, or you'd have to leave someone behind taking care of it."

"Or we could just lay in ambush near the bridge and wait for the gnolls to show up!", says Selena.

"That's also a solid plan.", says Galebor.

What will you do?
> Find a place to hide your wagon and follow Galebor beyond the bridge
> Leave someone behind taking care of the wagon and follow Galebor beyond the bridge (who?)
> Lay in ambush near the bridge waiting for any gnolls to show up
> Write in

>>3522779
> Find a place to hide your wagon
>with lizardman and an elf

>>3522779
>Hide the wagon and proceed

Ambush plans don't seem so clever after hearing none have crossed in a while.

>>3522801
>>3522811


We find a place to hide our wagon and follow Galebor beyond the bridge to go check what is holding the gnolls back.

After walking for about three days we see something strange atop of a hill - a half built stone tower, some thirty feet above ground. We see a bunch of gnolls on top of said tower. They seem to be... working on it? We don't think we can approach any further without being seen, as they have the higher ground.

"It doesn't look like usual gnoll work, gnolls don't usually do masonry of this level of complexity. Something else is going on in here. If we get any closer we chance being seen though.", says Galebor.

"I didn't prepare an invisibility spell, just fireballs and protection from arrows, but I still have an invisibility potion. Do you want to take it to go check what is going on in there Uhtred?", asks Bailey.

> Try to get a little bit closer stealthily to check what is going on
> Drink the invisibility potion and go check what the deal is with the gnolls and the stone tower
> Suggest we attack the gnolls now that they're busy with construction work
> If the gnolls are getting on this level of organization it's certainly more of a threat than we can take, retreat and report back to the rest of the rangers
> Write in

>>3522918
>Drink the potion and scout out the tower.

How many gnolls look like they're in there?

>>3522918
>Drink the potion and scout out the tower.

>>3522933

"I'll drink the potion and scout the tower.", you say.

"How many of these invisibility potions do you even have Bailey?", asks Selena.

"Just this one. I made one more after the last one saved Uthred's life back when I couldn't carry him. I figured it would be handy to have one, in case we need it for something. I might make a new one later now that we're using this one."

You drink the potion and become invisible; you then begin walking towards the tower.

It quickly dawns upon you that it was good that you didn't jump the gun and attacked the place - there are at least a hundred gnolls in this place, many of them going back and forth carrying carts full of stone, piling up stone somewhere, hauling stone up the hill or busily working on building the tower itself.

But what really draws your attention is a group of about twenty gnoll skeletons archers around a large tent in the middle of the camp!

As if answering your question of who would be in such a place a wizard in black robes carrying a staff with a skull on top comes out of the tent. He screams something unintelligible and three gnolls come running towards him. He exchanges some words with the gnolls in what you think is gnollish then goes for a walk around the camp. He makes a motion with his staff and the skeleton archer gnolls begin following him around. After strolling around the camp for awhile he goes up to the tower, exchanges some words with the gnolls working in there, beats up a gnoll that was slacking off with his staff, talks to the gnoll leaders again, then heads back to his tent. The skeleton archers resume their posts around the large tent.

After having seen enough you head back to tell the others what you have learned.

"There's about a hundred gnolls in there. There are also twenty gnoll skeleton archers. A necromancer is inside the large tent in the middle of the camp giving orders to the gnolls to build the tower for him, he can speak their language."

"A necromancer you say? That's pretty bad.", says Galebor."There's no way we can take a hundred gnolls, plus twenty skeleton archers and a necromancer. Even with all the militia groups together it would still be too much!"

"Well, we can't just let him build his tower like this!", says Selena.

"I'm afraid there's not much we can do. We should expect undead attacks on top of the gnoll ones from now on. Tell your ranger friends to carry steel maces Galebor, arrows and swords won't do you much good against skeletons.", says Dandala.

What do you wanna do?
> Let's try to assassinate the necromancer
> Let's head back to Lorione
> Let's head back to Lorione and burn the bridge on our way back
> Write in

>>3522982
>How are necromancers in combat? Could we assassinate him if separate from the camp?

>>3522997
Yea I'm not sure if we can take a necromancer. We can try and if we fail, flee and burn the bridge as an exit strategy.

>>3522997
>>3523022

Necromancers are high level wizards, you must be at least level 5 to animate dead.

To control that many undead at the same time he is probably significantly higher level than that though. At level 5 you can only control like four undeads at the same time.

>>3523044
> Let's head back to Lorione and burn the bridge on our way back

>>3523044
Ok so even away from his camp and minions we probably couldn't take him.


Hmmm. Does anyone in the elven scouting party speak gnollish? If we could capture and interrogate one of them to find out what exactly the purpose of this necromancer and tower is it would be helpful. Especially if he's subjugating the gnolls, we could lead a revolt and see if his high level self could beat us and 100 gnolls.

Real talk I never want to fight another skeleton archer again though.

>>3523080
We have smite on our side this time. Deals twice as much damage to undead :)

>>3523080
Can we bypass the necromancer and see what else is out here?

>>3523064
>>3523080
>>3523139


"Does any of you speak gnollish? If we could capture and interrogate one of them to find out what exactly the purpose of this necromancer and tower is it would be helpful.", you say.

"One of my men knows gnollish, he's our expert on these creatures, he spent the best part of a decade learning the language with some captured gnolls a few decades ago.", says Galebor.

"Well, wizards make towers to have a place to conduct their research in peace, that much is known to everyone. Maybe this one necromancer just wants some privacy as he delves deeper into the dark arts or something.", says Selena.

"I don't think we should risk trying to capture a gnoll from this tower. We're too outnumbered, any mistake could easily cost lives.", says Bailey.

"With the way he's subjugating the gnolls maybe we could lead a revolt, see if he could beat us and a hundred gnolls", you say.

"Be reasonable now Uhtred. We've been slaughtering gnolls for months, why on earth would they ally with us? Besides, we don't know what is in it for the gnolls for serving the necromancer. I don't think intimidation alone would keep them working for him very long, he might be providing something in exchange for their loyalty.", says Dandala.

"Well, technically the tower is within the human kingdom, we just crossed the frontier out of curiosity to come check what was holding the gnolls back. The capital won't send reinforcements since the tower is in human territory, they'll just tell us it's the human's problem.", says Galebor.

"Heading back and burning that bridge is sounding more appealing by the minute.", says Selena.

"Well, in any case we're heading back to Lorione now. We must inform everyone about this new development and perhaps even take measures to equip our troops for possible skeleton attacks. I guess the last thing that needs deciding is whether we leave the bridge intact or we burn it.", says Galebor.

"Couldn't we just go around the necromancer tower and check what else is out there?", says Selena.

"Well, suit yourselves, but we're heading back now. ", says Galebor.

> Head back to Lorione and leave the bridge intact
> Head back to Lorione and burn the bridge on our way back
> Go around the necromancer tower and scout to see what else is out there
> Write in

>>3523164
> Head back to Lorione and burn the bridge on our way back

If the necro is gathering gnolls they'll probably not keep making it into the elf kingdom. I also doubt there's anything else around with the gnolls gathering there, they'll have searched and looted the surroundings.

>>3523178
+1

>>3523178
>>3523188

We decide to head back to Lorione and burn the bridge on our way back. Bailey casts a firebolt and sets the old bridge on fire, we watch as it burns then falls into the river.

We then find our wagon back where we had left it.

The trip back to Lorione is largely uneventful, we travel off trail most of the way back until the rangers get us back into a trail, then we follow it all the way to Lorione.

We arrive at Lorione and Galebor goes to the shaman and tells the whole story, she then begins to relay information to the other ranger teams on the field about the necromancer we encountered, what will take a few days.

"Well, what are you going to do now Galebor?", asks Selena.

"What else? Now that we relayed the information we'll go back to patrol the frontier. Our job is never done. Thanks for all your assistance so far by the way, the militia is indebted to you.", says Galebor.

What do we want to do?
> Go after some stuff from Alion's list (what?)
> Tell the shaman to contact one of the militia groups for us to join (which one?)
> Let's buy a bunch of elvish trade goods to sell at Valonde
> Let's just continue our trip towards Nyamaris on our way to Valonde
> Write in

>>3523280
> Go after some stuff from Alion's list (what?)
Giant bee royal jelly? We are in a forest...

Speaking of Alion, maybe we should tell him about the necromancer? It might be serious enough for him to deal with it.

>>3523280
If there is anything close and reasonable on Alion's list, we should do it. If not we should buy a bunch of elvish trade goods and talk to the elves to see if they will escort us out of their realm. We did put in a lot of work for them so they should be inclined.

>>3523313
Is that really what you want to spend the favor on? An escort along a standard road? I'd rather save it and call it in when we need it.

>>3523295
>>3523313

"I've been wondering about Alion's list. We're in a massive forest kingdom are we not? There should be giant bees somewhere for us to gather some royal jelly from.", you say.

"Yes, there are some. I killed a few back in the day. They're common in the southeastern part of the elvish kingdom, there should be some hives we could gather some jelly from. They're really big and their sting really hurts though. We'll have to go off trail though.", says Dandala.

"We might get lost going off trail without the rangers guiding us! Do you remember when we got stuck running in circles with our wagon?", says Selena.

"It might be better to leave the wagon behind then, so we don't need to worry about pathfinding for it through the dense vegetation and we can focus on going where we want to go.", says Bailey

"Yeah, we could leave the wagon with the shaman, she seems nice, I don't think she'll steal the philosopher stones and all the rest of the crap we're hauling.", says Selena.

"Maybe we should tell Alion about the necromancer? It might be serious enough for him to deal with it.", you say.

"I really doubt he would bother leaving his tower to go attack some necromancer, specially considering that his tower is in the human kingdom. He would more likely jump on the not my problem bandwagon like the elvish kingdom authorities will.", says Bailey.

"Maybe we should just buy a bunch of elvish trade goods and see if the good folks of the militia wouldn't escort us out of their realm. We did put in a lot of work for them so they should be inclined.", you say.

"Well, if we ask them maybe one of the militia teams might be willing to escort us out of the elvish kingdom. Although I'm not that sure if we really need being escorted, the elvish kingdom seems pretty safe, so long as we stick to the trails.", says Selena.

What do we want to do next?
> Head off trail southeast to gather some royal jelly
> Leave the wagon behind and head off trail southeast to gather some royal jelly
> Ask the militia for an escort out of the elvish kingdom
> Go after some stuff from Alion's list (what?)
> Tell the shaman to contact one of the militia groups for us to join (which one?)
> Buy a bunch of elvish trade goods to sell at Valonde
> Let's just continue our trip towards Nyamaris on our way to Valonde
> Write in

>>3523332
Sure we can save the favor. I was just thinking about limiting the risk of losing our goods. If we can sell it, we can upgrade our equipment. We might not be back here for a while. Also, before we leave we should see if they sell light chain mail or a better sword. But you can have the final call this man.

>>3523348
> tell Aion about the necromancer
> Leave the wagon behind and head off trail southeast to gather some royal jelly
> also, ask elves to point us in the right direction.

>>3523348
> Leave the wagon behind and head off trail southeast to gather some royal jelly

Buy a compass or something so we can navigate our way back to the trail if we get lost. Or pieces of cloth to tie to trees to mark the path.

>>3523354
I'd rather save it. We see in >>3523348
that the elf kingdom is generally safe, and we're adventurers. It would be embarrassing to need an escort.

>>3523368
>>3523440

We decide to tell Aion about the necromancer.

We head to Aion's tower and knock on the door. The apprentice answers.

"Ah. Your lot again. Have you collected the stuff master asked you to fetch for him yet?", he asks.

"No not yet. We're here to tell Alion about a necromancer who is building a tower near the frontier with the elvish kingdom, we've been wondering if that's not bad enough for him to intervene.", says Selena.

"Master Alion tends not to get involved with local politics, but I'll tell him you showed up to inform him about it.", says the apprentice.

"Actually we'd like to talk to him about it.", says Selena.

"I don't see what is there to talk about. Do you mistake master for someone fond of gossiping?", says the apprentice.

"Well, we wanna try to convince him to intervene.", says Selena.

"You adventurers, always keen on wasting important people's time. Alright, I'll tell master Alion you want to meet him. Do you want to wait inside?", asks the apprentice.

"Yes please.", says Selena.

The apprentice takes us to the very same waiting room as the other time. This time however there are a couple other people in there, an elvish merchant and an elvish shaman.

"Oh hey there. What are you guys here for?", asks Selena.

"Not that it is any of your business.", the elvish merchant replies, a bit rispid, "but I've come for the results of a divination to look for some artifacts I've been searching for quite awhile. They should make me even richer than I already am once I find them.", says the merchant.

"Sweet. What about you?", Selena asks the shaman.

"I'm looking for my daughter, she's an adventurer. She hasn't given signs of life in several months, I'm getting worried so I'm having Alion scry her to check if she's alright."

We wait for about six hours then the apprentice comes and takes the merchant upstairs. Then after a couple more hours he takes the shaman upstairs. After about an hour more he shows up.

"Master Alion will see you now. Follow me."

We follow the apprentice to Alion's room in the top of the tower.

"Oh, so you're back. You didn't fetch the items I asked you to I reckon?", says Alion.

"No, not yet. We're here to tell you about a necromancer who is building a tower near the edge of the elvish territory. We urge you to help against this menace.", says Selena.

Rolled 12, 9, 1, 9, 11, 9 = 51 (6d20)

>>3523454


"You urge me to help huh? Well, I'll tell you what. The elvish central government won't get involved because the tower is outside of the elvish kingdom, and the human kingdom probably won't do anything about the necromancer for several months, perhaps even years, and by then he'll have a tiny country of monsters of his own to play pety dictator with. Sure, I could probably defeat him in single combat, but that doesn't mean a thing. Do you expect me and what army to go over there to topple a wannabe dictator? Nay, I'll stay right here where I belong and he won't dare attack Lorione because I can easily kill off his precious minions. And I won't go over there because there's just too many of them in one place for me to kill on my own without expending disproportionate amounts of magical items, and quite frankly I have better things to do with my time, with my money and with my resources than go around killing every upstarter villain that shows up around the world. If you paid me say, 20,000 gold, I'd consider going over there and killing him and all his troops. But just out of the goodness in my heart, spending all my spells and expensive potions, wands and scrolls to beat some random necromancer, that I won't do, sorry. Do you have anything else you want to say to me or did you just came to my tower to waste my time?"

"No Alion, that was all, we just wanted your help, if you're not willing to help then we won't bother you anymore.", says Selena.

We leave Alion's tower and begin making preparatives to go fetch some royal jelly.

We leave our wagon with the shaman, get some buckets, we buy a compass to help us navigate the forest and buy a bunch of pieces of cloth to tie to the trees to mark the path, some buckets to fill with royal jelly then we head off trail southeast.

We spend nearly a month looking for a giant bee hive off trail in the southeast where we find some rather large trees and fields with huge flowers; when our rations are about to end and we're about to give up and head back to Lorione we find a large hive, it's a hundred feet large. We see five or six giant bees about five feet long buzzing around the hive.

"Most hives have up to twenty bees, but half of them tend to be out gathering polen on the giant flowers. If we kill the ones outside quickly, and then the ones inside that will come out to check what is going one we'll be able to enter the hive to gather the royal jelly before the ones that are on the field return!", says Dandala.

"Bailey, that's on you, you gotta catch them with your fireballs, we'll pick off the stragglers!", says Selena.

"Alright, here it goes!", says Bailey.

She throws a fireball at the six giant bees by the giant bee hive! Rolling to see if they evade the blast, DC 15 due to surprise.

Rolled 2, 4, 4, 3, 4, 2, 1, 4, 3, 1, 2, 1 = 31 (12d4)

>>3523456

rolling to see how much damage the bees take

Rolled 2, 9, 10, 13, 15 = 49 (5d20)

>>3523457

All the bees are killed by the fireball blast!

"Nice one Bailey!", says Selena.

A few moments after the bees are dead five more emmerge from the hive!

Bailey throws another fireball at them! Rolling to see how many bees evade the fireball.

Rolled 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3, 2, 1, 1, 3 = 19 (10d4)

>>3523458

Two bees evade the fireball for half damage. Rolling to see how much damage they take.

Rolled 10, 18 = 28 (2d20)

>>3523460

Three giant bees survive the fireball blast!

Dandala shoots one of the bees but miss!

Ss'rath throws a spear at one of the giant bees, killing it!

Selena shoots a crossbow bolt at the giant bee but miss!

Mary shoots a crossbow bolt at the giant bee but miss!

The two surviving giant bees converge towards Bailey! Rolling to hit DC 9.

What will you do?
> Shoot one of the giant bees with your crossbow (roll 1d20 DC 11)
> Run inside the giant bee hive to gather some royal jelly
> Run inside the giant bee hive to gather some honey
> Run inside the giant bee hive to gather some wax
> Write in

>>3523460
RIP bee 3

>>3523462
Goddamnit, even giant bees are smart enough to focus casters? Where are all the dumb monsters?

> Run inside the giant bee hive to gather some royal jelly

I have confidence in our teams ability to handle 2 wounded giant bees. Gotta get the jelly before the 15 in the field come back.

Though would they all come back at once? Perhaps we can pick them off.

>>3523462

> Run inside the giant bee hive to gather some royal jelly

>>3523464
>>3523471


You run inside the giant bee hive to gather some royal jelly! It's a bit of a maze of wax walls but at the center you find the large queen and a big pool of royal jelly in front of it. You fill up a couple buckets of the stuff and run out of the hive!

The two giant bees stung Bailey then died, their stings sinking deeply within Bailey.

Mary yanks the stings out of Bailey and begins to heal her. "These things are poisonous, if we don't heal Bailey all the giant bees in the region will be attracted to her."

"We should leave before the rest of the bees come back.", says Dandala.

"Let's go, I already got enough royal jelly.", you say.

We then begin to head back to Lorione.

The trip back is much shorter than the trip towards the bee territory, taking only ten days, since we go pretty much on a straight line due to our improved navigational skill until we find a trail to follow.

We then arrive at Lorione.

"Well, do we give this stuff to Alion right away or do we store it?", says Selena.

"I don't think it will spoil anytime soon, but something might eat it. Might be better to deliver it to him already.", says Bailey

> Give the royal jelly to Alion straight away
> Store it on our wagon, give it to him later
What do we want to do next?
> Go after some stuff from Alion's list (what?)
> Tell the shaman to contact one of the militia groups for us to join (which one?)
> Buy a bunch of elvish trade goods to sell at Valonde
> Let's just continue our trip towards Nyamaris on our way to Valonde
> Write in

>>3523479

> Give the royal jelly to Alion straight away

No sense in keeping it. Maybe he'll be less grouchy.

Other items on his list:
"Frost Giant's Heart (at least one, up to eight)
Naga Blood (one large vial)
Green Hag Right Index Finger (at least one, up to three)
Giant Ape Fur (at least a handful, a whole pelt would be nice)
Wyvern Poison (at least one pint, up to eight)
Giant Spider Web and Hair (a good sample from at least one, up to eight)
Wight Brain (at least one, up to eight)
One White Dragon Egg or One White Dragon Whelp Heart
Giant Fire Beetle Glands (twenty or so)"

I guess Giant Apes would also be nearby/forest dwellers? We could go after their fur.

> Go after some stuff from Alion's list (Giant Ape fur)

>>3523479

> Go after some stuff from Alion's list (Giant Ape fur)
Might as well knockout this list m8.

>>3523488
>>3523523


We decide to give the royal jelly to Alion straight away.

We head to his tower and knock on the door. The apprentice answer.

"Ah! So you got something this time! Royal jelly! Two full buckets! Very good, very good! Master has been putting off brewing a bunch of energy immunity potions because he could never find time to go get a bunch of royal jelly himself and he didn't trust us to not die to a swarm of angry giant bees, but now he won't have excuses not to brew the potions anymore! Those will be very useful, very useful indeed! I'll take them to master as soon as he finishes his daily castings. Thank you adventurers!"

We then leave Alion's tower.

"I think giant ape would also be nearby? They sound like forest dwellers. We could go after their fur.", you say.

"I think they're nearly extinct.", says Dandala.

"Since we're trying to get the fur intact we might wanna consider using steel maces to hit it so as to not leave a bunch of holes in the fur.", says Bailey.

"Do you think that's necessary? Alion didn't specify if he wants the fur intact or not, we don't need to assume he wants it in one piece, for all we know he may want it in straps.", says Selena.

> Use steel maces to preserve the giant ape fur
> Use our usual weapons

"Let's ask the shaman!", says Selena.
We head to the shaman and ask her if she knows where we can find any giant apes.

"They're an endangered species. Their fur is sometimes used as components for some potions so they're sometimes poached at the orders of some wizard. There should be a few of them left in the southwest.", says the shaman

We then depart towards the southwest looking for giant apes; we go off trails looking for one.

We get lucky and after just three days we find a giant ape, towering at the height of 30 feet.

Bailey says "Should I throw fireballs at him? Might damage the fur."

"Did you see the size of that thing Bailey? It gonna be a tough fight, fireballs or not!", says Selena.

> Tell Bailey to throw fireballs at the Giant Ape
> Better not to throw fireballs at it to preserve its fur


And what will you do?
> Attack the giant ape with your weapon (roll 1d20 DC 9)
> Attack the giant ape with your weapon twice (roll 1d20 DC 13)
> Smite the giant ape (roll 1d20 DC 9)
> Shoot the giant ape with your crossbow (roll 1d20 DC 9)
> Throw your axe at the giant ape (roll 1d20 DC 9)
> Write in

>>3523548
> Use our usual weapons
It said we only need a fist full of fur.
> Better not to throw fireballs at it to preserve its fur
> Shoot the giant ape if we have distance, double attack I'd we dont.

I'm gonna call it a night, we roll the combat tomorrow

>>3523548
Are they endangered? I feel kinda bad. Maybe we can just rip off a couple handfuls and run?

Or maybe we should just run. I was expecting like ten feet not thirty.

Then again we did beat those hill giants.

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>3523548
> Use steel maces to preserve the giant ape fur
> Better not to throw fireballs at it to preserve its fur

>>3524017
>> Attack the giant ape with your weapon twice (roll 1d20 DC 13)

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>3523570
>>3523631
>>3523677
>>3524017
>>3524019

there seems to be an agreement about not using fireballs on the giant ape

seems like there's a tie between using our usual weapons or using steel maces to preserve the giant ape's fur. I'll roll dice to resolve it.

1 - use our usual weapons
2 - use steel maces

as for attacking with your weapon twice the roll is 2d20 DC 13, I wrote 1d20 but it was a typo, please roll the dice if you want to make two attacks (either roll 2d20, or roll one extra dice since you already rolled 1d20).

Rolled 18, 2 = 20 (2d20)

>>3524155
Alright I guess we're fighting it

Maybe if it runs we can snatch a few handfuls of fur and then let it get away?

>>3524168
Next encounter we should have paralyzing spells ready. Could make acquiring these items simlper.

>>3524173
>Next encounter we should have paralyzing spells ready. Could make acquiring these items simlper.

Maybe even drugged food

Rolled 15, 16 = 31 (2d20)

>>3524168

We decide to use steel maces to preserve the giant ape's fur.

You attack the giant ape with your mace trying to hit it a couple times but only lands one hit!

Dandala tries to hit the giant ape but miss!

Ss'rath hits the giant ape with the steel mace!

Mary tries to hit the giant ape but miss!

Selena plays the song of courage! We all get a +2 bonus to hit!

Bailey touches the giant ape and casts a Shocking Grasp cantrip, electrocuting the beast for 1 hit of damage.

The giant ape attacks you with his massive fists twice! Rolling to hit DC 9!

what will you do?
> Attack the giant ape with your mace (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Attack the giant ape with your mace twice (roll 2d20 DC 11)
> Fight the giant ape defensively (roll 1d20 DC 11)
> Smite the giant ape (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Try to cut off some of the giant ape's fur (roll 1d20 DC 11)
> Shoot the giant ape with your crossbow (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Throw your axe at the giant ape (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Write in

>>3524186
> Attack the giant ape with your mace twice (roll 2d20 DC 11)

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>3524186
>Try to cut off some fur

Nice, giant apes are dumber than bees

Rolled 1, 1 = 2 (2d3)

>>3524196
>>3524197

You decide to try to cut off some fur from the giant ape! You stow away your mace, grab your sword, grab a patch of fur from the beast and chop off a handful of fur!

The giant ape landed a couple good hits with his fists on you though. His massive fists cause some serious damage! Rolling 2d3 to see how much damage you took.

Rolled 16, 17 = 33 (2d20)

>>3524207

You took two hits worth of damage from the giant ape's punches! You're now lightly wounded!

You have a bunch of giant ape's fur in your hands now.

Dandala hits the giant ape with her mace.

Ss'rath hits the giant ape with his mace.

Mary tries to hit the giant ape with her mace but miss.

Bailey tries to grab the giant ape again to cast another cantrip but miss.

The giant ape will hit Ss'rath with his fists! Rolling to hit DC 6.

What will you do?
> Attack the giant ape with your mace (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Attack the giant ape with your mace twice (roll 2d20 DC 11)
> Fight the giant ape defensively (roll 1d20 DC 11)
> Smite the giant ape (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Try to cut off some of the giant ape's fur (roll 1d20 DC 11)
> Shoot the giant ape with your crossbow (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Throw your axe at the giant ape (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Tell everyone to flee, we have a little fur already, that should be enough
> Write in

>>3524225
> Tell everyone to flee, we have a little fur already, that should be enough

>>3524225
Dang this ape has bomb ass rolls

>Call a retreat

Rolled 2 (1d3)

>>3524234

You tell everyone to flee, as we have a little fur already, that should be enough.

The giant ape is pissed off at us though, and he can move far faster than we can! It looks like he is not in the mood of letting us off the hook that easily!

>>3524246
Damnit Kong leave well enough alone.

Engage for a turn and cut off another handful each time he chases.

Rolled 11, 10 = 21 (2d20)

>>3524234
>>3524241
>>3524246


Ss'rath been lightly wounded by the punches of the giant ape, even though he was fighting defensively.

The giant ape runs after us and attacks Dandala! Rolling to hit DC 8.

Bailey says "Since we already got the fur we need maybe now I should throw a fireball at the giant ape, maybe it will scare it away."

> Have Bailey throw a fireball
> Don't throw fireballs, we can handle this


What will you do?
> Attack the giant ape with your mace (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Attack the giant ape with your mace twice (roll 2d20 DC 11)
> Fight the giant ape defensively (roll 1d20 DC 11)
> Smite the giant ape (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Try to cut off some of the giant ape's fur (roll 1d20 DC 11)
> Shoot the giant ape with your crossbow (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Throw your axe at the giant ape (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Continue trying to run away from the giant ape
> Write in

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>3524256
>Cut off more fur

>No fireball

Also have Mary heal Ss:rath. Maybe it'll give up if it sees attacks not having much effect.

Rolled 19, 19 = 38 (2d20)

>>3524262

You cut off some more fur from the giant ape!

Dandala fights defensively and manages to dodge the attacks of the giant ape! She also lands a hit on the giant ape!

Mary heals one hit worth of damage on Ss'rath.

Ss'rath attacks the giant ape with his mace!

Bailey tries to grab the giant ape to cast a cantrip but miss.

Selena hits the giant ape with her mace!

The giant ape attacks Dandala again with his fists! Rolling to hit DC 8.

What will you do?
> Attack the giant ape with your mace (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Attack the giant ape with your mace twice (roll 2d20 DC 11)
> Fight the giant ape defensively (roll 1d20 DC 11)
> Smite the giant ape (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Try to cut off some of the giant ape's fur (roll 1d20 DC 11)
> Shoot the giant ape with your crossbow (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Throw your axe at the giant ape (roll 1d20 DC 7)
> Try to run away from the giant ape
> Write in

>>3524256

> Have Bailey throw a fireball or magic missile. What ever won't kill it, but to get the point across to stop chasing us. Also keep fleeing

Rolled 4 (1d20)

>>3524273
Yikes, these rolls.

Whack it with the mace once and then try to flee again.

Rolled 2 (1d3)

>>3524273

Dandalas fight defensively but the giant ape still lands a hit on her.

>>3524277
>>3524280

Dandala is lightly wounded by the punch of the giant ape!

You try to whack the giant ape with your mace but you miss it.

Dandala hits the giant ape with her mace.

Ss'rath hits the giant ape with his mace.

Selena hits the giant ape with her mace.

Mary tries to hit the giant ape but miss.

Bailey grabs the giant ape and uses shocking grasp causing him 2 hits worth of damage.

The giant ape finally figures out he's losing the fight and begins to flee!

With the giant ape no longer in our tail we can heal our party leisurely and head back towards the trail to Lorione.

(You got 3 experience for surviving the fight with the giant ape! You now have 94 experience. You'll level up once you reach 100 experience. You are currently level 3)

The trip back to Lorione is largely uneventful; you even find a caravan going on that general direction on your way back and hitchhike part of the way with them.

Once you arrive at Lorione you decide to go deliver the giant ape fur you collected to Alion. You head to his tower, his apprentice opens the door.

"Ah, so you brought us something else from the list! What is it?"

"Giant Ape's fur. Here it is.", you say, handing him a couple handfuls of the stuff.

"Good, good, it's going to be very useful. There are a few potions we can use this stuff for, and there's a wand that master been meaning to craft for awhile now that requires a decent amount of this stuff to wrap the rarer components at the core. The amount you brought us might not be much but it will probably be enough for our purposes. Thank you again adventurers!"

What do we want to do now?
> Go after some stuff from Alion's list (what?)
> Tell the shaman to contact one of the militia groups for us to join (which one?)
> Let's buy a bunch of elvish trade goods to sell at Valonde
> Let's just continue our trip towards Nyamaris on our way to Valonde
> Write in

>>3524298
>Ask if anything else in the list can be found nearby. Naga blood or hag fingers?

> Write in, contact elves to see if there is anymore items on the list in this territory.

Also have Selena auto ask about the items we are looking for when we enter new town.

>>3524306
>>3524309

We go with our list from Alion to the shaman and begin pestering her to see if she knows where we can find all the stuff that we need. She patiently goes through the whole list with us.

"Frost Giants live in the mountains, we haven't seen any around our kingdom in centuries, you won't find any around here. You'd have to travel far to the mountains in the island to the north or in the mountain ranges to the west or in the far east to find their tribes. You may occasionally find a lone frost giant on a random mountain top but it is rare."

"Nagas are aquatic creatures, it would be a rare sight to find one so deep inland as to reach the elvish kingdom. You'd have more luck on the shores of the human kingdom to the north, they sometimes attack fishing villages and ships. They can sometimes be found in swamps too, but it is rare."

"Green Hags most definitely can be found in swamps, it's rare to see one anywhere else. But maybe you'd be able to find a stray coven in a cave in the forest somewhere in the south of the elvish kingdom, I've heard stories of travellers who barely survived meeting some hags around there years ago so perhaps they're still there."

"Wyvern can be found on the westernmost part of the elvish kingdom near the mountains where they make their nests. They flyby hunting in the forest. There aren't many of them and they take a vast territory where they tend to kill off any other large predators they can find so that they don't get competition for the food."

"Giant Spider exist both in the western and the eastern part of the elvish kingdom. They're somewhat rare, as there aren't that many giant bugs for them to eat in our forests, but they're there. They usually make their webs in caves so they can eat bats."

"Wights are a bit of a rarity. You might have some luck looking for them in ancient cursed places. There aren't many places like this in the elvish kingdom. The only one that comes to mind is the tomb of Khazud, an archmage that in his late days descended into madness. It's a large underground complex with at least ten levels, filled with undeads that due to the cursed nature of the place occasionally respawn. There are certainly lots of zombies, skeletons, some ghouls, some ghosts. You might find a wight or two in there. It is in the southwestern part of the elvish kingdom."

"Giant Fire Beetles live in the mountains to the west. Many monstrous species tried to domesticate them with little success. Their glands are useful for potions that protect against fire. They shouldn't be too difficult to find, but their habitat is in the midst of the territory of quite a few monsters, like goblins, orcs and other such nasties, what could prove to be a problem if you're going to spend too much time looking for them."

>>3524341


"White dragons live on caves they dig near the tops of mountains where they make their lairs. You'd have to find a female adult dragon who recently mated to find any eggs. Dragon whelps tend to keep living with their mothers for up to five years until they are big enough to go look for their own hoard and make their own lairs. This one will probably be the most difficult in your list if I am to say so myself."

What do we want to do now?
> Go after some stuff from Alion's list (what?)
> Tell the shaman to contact one of the militia groups for us to join (which one?)
> Let's buy a bunch of elvish trade goods to sell at Valonde
> Let's just continue our trip towards Nyamaris on our way to Valonde
> Write in

>>3524343
> look for Green Hags, Wyvern and Giant Spider
I think those are all the ones close by.

>>3524343
>Travel to the Western mountains

Wights and giant spiders are probably in that dumb castle, so let's go after the Wyverns and fire beetles

I'll be busy the rest of the day, I might be back later for a couple hours but then again maybe not.

>>3524585
Ok thanks for the heads up

>>3524369
>>3524370

Looks like the only thing you two agree upon are wyverns.

"Let's go after wyverns next!", you say.

"Do you think we'll need to buy antidotes against the wyvern poison?", asks Selena.

"Wyvern poison is fast acting, antidotes would do us no good. It's also highly lethal, meaning that if you get stung chances are you're going to die. Wyverns are no joke, many a cocky group of adventurers got wiped out by one of those beasts.", says Dandala.

"Those things are large flying dragons, we gotta figure out a way to bring them down, Bailey can't make us all fly.", says Selena.

"When we elves go hunting wyverns we use take tanglefoot bags to get the beasts down to earth. The local apothecary should have a couple of those in store.", says Dandala.

"I'll go buy it.", says Bailey.

Bailey buys a couple Tanglefoot bags.

"The apothecary said it will only pin something as big as a wyvern down for a little over half a minute with luck, maybe only a quarter of a minute if we get unlucky. He only had a couple of those in store. Do you guys think it will be enough?"

> That will be enough, let's go hunt a wyvern
> Ask the apothecary to make more Tanglefoot bags, we'll need more time to kill a wyvern
> Write in

>>3526464
Oof, I'm suddenly nervous hearing about that poison.

>Ask the apothecary to make a couple more bags, and if there isn't an antidote we could drink in advance to protect against poison in the next hour or so. If not, ask the church or Alion if they have protection from poison potions.

>>3526479
Support

>>3526464
Also, thanks DM for making the quests. I enjoy your post : )

>>3526479
>>3526511


We ask the apothecary to make a couple more Tanglefoot bags.

We also ask if there isn't an antidote we could drink in advance to protect against poison in the next hour or so.

The apothecary says he can make potions of poison resistance that act like that that would slightly improve our odds of taking reduced damaged from a wyvern sting, but he tells us that a wyvern sting is still one of the most potent fast acting poisons in nature and might still cause a lot of damage even if you take the potion. He recommends we look for protection from poison potions for maximum protection, they cost four times as much but are significantly more effective, divine caster can make it.
We seek the local shaman to ask her if she has any protection from poison potions available for sale. She says she has none but could make six for us in a week if we really want. The price is rather steep though, the six protection from poison potions will set us back 1200 gold - all the rest of the gold Bailey had still in store from the loot she sold from castle Fornstein and a little extra. The six poison resistance potions on the other hand would cost us only 300 gold.

> Buy six poison resistance potions for 300 gold
> Buy six protection from poison potions for 1200 gold
> Don't buy any potions, we'll take our chances
> Write in

>>3526532
Dang, we are poor. I thought we had more saved up.

>Buy the resistance potions

>>3526532
> Write in
We are getting these items for Alion can we ask him for things that will help us.

>>3526539
We could try, but they said this was a divine spell and Alion is arcane.

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>3526534
>>3526539

Well looks like we have a tie.

1 - buy the resistance potions
2 - ask Alion for things that will help us

>>3526724
I mean I was ok with asking Alion or his aide real quick

>>3526724
If we go can we ask for items that will help us with the rest of the checklist? So we don't waste his time coming back each time.

>>3526724
>>3526729 alright
>>3526750 alright


We decide to go ask Alion for things that will help us with getting the wyvern.

We head to Alion's tower and knock on the door. The apprentice greets us.

"Hello there! Do you bring some more items from the list?", he asks us.

"No, this time we're here to ask for some help. We're going after the wyvern and we're wanting to know if there isn't something Alion could do to help us get the poison more easily. In fact we've been wanting stuff that could help us with the rest of the list too", says Selena.

"Oh, please. If master Alion wanted to trouble himself with the specifics of gathering these items he wouldn't have tasked you with acquiring them. Or don't you think he couldn't simply teleport to the wyvern territory, fly around until he finds one wyvern, immobilize it with his powerful spells and extract the poison himself? Or even spend however long it takes trying to scry a wyvern then teleport right next to it and do the deed? The same can be said of pretty much any of the other tasks. The only thing between him and the items in the list is time. He's sending you all to do it in his stead so that he can spend his time doing other things. If you don't think you're up to the task of acquiring the components master Alion asked of you then tell us at once, we can arrange some severance pay for the work you performed so far. But don't disturb the master with the specifics of your quests, that's up to you."

> Give up the quest for Alion
> Buy six poison resistance potions for 300 gold and go after the wyvern
> Buy six protection from poison potions for 1200 gold and go after the wyvern
> Don't buy any potions, just go after the wyvern
> Go after some other creature from Alion's list
> Write in

>>3526815
> Buy six poison resistance potions for 300 gold and go after the wyvern

Rolled 9, 9, 20 = 38 (3d20)

>>3526832

We decide to buy the resistance potions.

We then depart towards the western part of the elvish kingdom looking for wyverns!

The trip takes about a month. We run into some bears and wolves a couple times but those encounters are quickly solved by Bailey throwing firebolts at them scaring the beasts away. We find a few turtles along the way funnily enough.

We finally get into the hunting grounds of the wyverns, a vast expanse of untrodden green. We happen upon plenty of game as we move about, evidence that the wyverns keep their territory free of other predators.

The wyvern doesn't make us wait too long either; on the second day of travel through its territory we hear it screeching and the large territorial beast comes flying towards us to check on who is intruding upon its territory! We drink our potions and ready ourselves for the battle!

The wyvern dives towards us and attacks Mary with it's bite, claw and it's deadly stinger! Rolling to hit DC 11!

What will you do?
> Throw a Tanglefoot bag at the wyvern (roll 1d20 DC 10)
> Shoot at the wyvern with your crossbow (roll 1d20 DC 10)
> Throw your axe at the wyvern (roll 1d20 DC 10)
> Write in

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>3526854
>Nat 20 on the stinger
fuck
Mary should probably stay back and heal herself, out of stinging range.

> Throw a Tanglefoot bag at the wyvern (roll 1d20 DC 10)

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>3526854
I rolled the wrong dice in >>3526885

>>3526854
> Throw a Tanglefoot bag at the wyvern (roll 1d20 DC 10)

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>3526885
>>3526887
>>3526889

Mary is stung by the wyvern! Rolling the damage of the stinger (it will be doubled of what I roll because it was a critical).

Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>3526902

Rolling to see if she takes half damage from the poison, DC 15.

Due to the poison resistance potion she took she can add 1d4 to this roll.

Rolled 3 (1d4)

>>3526904

adding 1d4 to the roll

>>3526904
rip

Rolled 6 (1d7)

>>3526904
>>3526906

Not enough, She'll take full damage from the poison.

Rolling poison damage.

Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>3526902
>>3526904
>>3526906
>>3526907
>>3526908

Mary took 10 hits of damage from the wyvern stinger, 4 from the stinger, 6 from the poison! She only has 8 hits of life.

Mary died!

You throw a Tanglefoot bag at the wyvern but miss. The goo spews out of the bag without hitting anyone.

Dandala throws a Tanglefoot bag at the wyvern but miss. The goo spews out of the bag without hitting anyone.

Selena throws a Tanglefoot bag at the wyvern but miss. The goo spews out of the bag without hitting anyone.

The last Tanglefoot bag was with Mary... but she's dead now!

Ss'rath throws a spear at the wyvern! He gets a critical hit!

Bailey throws a fireball at the wyvern.

Rolling to see if the wyvern evades for half damage. DC 13

Rolled 3, 4 = 7 (2d4)

>>3526914

The wyvern doesn't evade the fireball, rolling to see how much damage it takes.

Rolled 3, 8, 13 = 24 (3d20)

>>3526916

The wyvern takes 7 hits of damage from the fireball!

It gets enraged and attacks Bailey! It attacks with its bite, claws and stinger! Rolling to hit DC 4.

What will you do?
> Grab the Tanglefoot bag from Mary's corpse and throw it at the wyvern (roll 1d20 DC 10)
> Shoot at the wyvern with your crossbow (roll 1d20 DC 10)
> Throw your axe at the wyvern (roll 1d20 DC 10)
> Write in

Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>3526928
> Grab the Tanglefoot bag from Mary's corpse and throw it at the wyvern (roll 1d20 DC 10)

oh god

Rolled 1, 1 = 2 (2d2)

>>3526939

The wyvern lands a hit with its claw and its stinger at Bailey. Rolling damage.

>>3526928
We can't lose our mage! We have a 50% chance of catching it... If we flee it will follow and target Bailey. Our best option is to
> Grab the Tanglefoot bag from Mary's corpse and throw it at the wyvern (roll 1d20 DC 10)

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>3526941

Rolling to see if Bailey takes half damage from the wyvern poison, DC 15

Due to the potion she took she can add 1d4 to this roll

Rolled 6 (1d7)

>>3526946

Bailey will take half damage from the poison rounded up, rolling to see how much she'll take.

Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>3526941
>>3526942
>>3526946
>>3526949


Bailey takes a total of 5 damage from the wyvern, one from the claw, one from the stinger, three from the poison! She's seriously wounded!

You take the Tanglefoot bag from Mary's corpse and throw it at the wyvern! You hit it! The creature gets tangled in the goo and fall to the ground, unable to keep flying!

Dandala shoots the wyvern with her longbow!

Selena shoots the wyvern with her crossbow!

Ss'rath throws a spear at the wyvern but miss!

Bailey throws another fireball at the wyvern! Rolling to see if the wyvern evades for half damage, DC 13

Rolled 2, 4 = 6 (2d4)

>>3526955

The wyvern doesn't evade the fireball, rolling to see how much damage it takes.

>>3526955
Definitely have Bailey get out of range if this doesn't kill it.

>>3526958
>>3526959


The wyvern is killed by the fireball!

You collect the wyvern poison from the wyvern's stinger! You manage to fill up six pints of the stuff before it runs dry.

(You earned 3 experience for surviving the fight against the wyvern. You have 97 experience. You'll level up once you reach 100 experience.)

Mary is dead. What will you do?
> Bury her
> Carry her corpse back to town, maybe we can find someone to revive her
> Write in

>>3526967
> Carry her corpse back to town, maybe we can find someone to revive her

>>3526967
> Carry her corpse back to town, maybe we can find someone to revive her

Oh right, revival is a thing.

>>3526974
>>3526975


We carry Mary's corpse to the elvish capital Lenoria, both because it is closer and because it is more likely to have someone capable of reviving the dead than Lorione.

You're taken aback by the beauty of the tall crystal spires and the many statues to elvish heroes from the past scattered in the many plazas of the sprawling elvish town. You ask around for someone capable of reviving the dead and you're directed to the temple of nature.

You head to the temple of nature and you're greeted by the local hierophants.

"I see you have a fallen comrade. How long has it been since she's been dead?"

"About a week.", says Selena.

"The high priestess should be able to bring her back to life. However the materials needed for the spell have a substantial cost. We would gladly do it if you'd be so nice as to make a small contribution of 1,000 gold for our temple.", says the hierophant.

Bailey has 860 gold left from the profits from looting castle Fornstein. Mary had with herself upon death about 150 gold. Seems like we have enough, although only barely.

> Donate 1,000 gold to the temple of nature for the ressurection of Mary
> Reconsider and have the priests bury Mary instead
> Write in