Fantasy World Creations

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With the wagon and horse, the group started making their way towards the north road. There had been some people from the familia going to the other villages already telling about the upcoming festival, and this seemed to have drummed up the traffic going to and fro from the village. Though, likely, in another few days time, more and more people would be making their way towards town.

There was a scream from somewhere in the distance on the road ahead. The tall grasses and hills blocking the view of whatever it was.

Elidia's ears perk up, hearing the scream in the distance. She scans the area, looking for something amiss.

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The festivities were surely a highlight in the surrounding lands. Between the goddess and her familia, even the common people were interested in what Thalia's familia was hosting. It was a festival for an exodus, a change in their lives. Would it be a temporary visit, or a permanent stay? It just depending on what Thalia-sama wished.

Of course not all the attention to the festival was a good thing. The fact that people were coming regularly and from all around, meant there were opportunities as well. Good opportunities... and bad ones. Whether bandits looking to fill their coin purse. Or wild beasts looking to fill their bellies. Not everyone in the land was capable of fending off such aggressive attacks. The act of patrols in itself, was to discourage both man and beast from hunting the common traveling routes. The sight of humans, the smell of humans. Both acted as a deterrent to the would-be attackers, for whatever their reasons. Knowing was half the battle. The other half, well... That was real battle.

Rei had agreed to take part in this endeavor, although she sincerely hoped that nothing bad would happen. She simply just wanted the chance outside of the village and to spot any monsters. How she loved monsters. Preferably not being eaten of course, but that was sometimes the way of things. She and two other companions had taken up the mage's request, to allow the young woman to focus on preparations for the village festival. It was a good break for Rei as well, for having to pour her face over old dusty maps. The act of going out and witnessing some of the landscape itself, to re-verify what the maps showed, was good for her. She had been sitting in the back of the wagon, quietly, watching out the back as the horse pulled it along. It was quiet for the longest time, then there was a loud scream. It wasn't that of an excited and innocent child, as the horse itself turned its ears downward, wary of the danger it sensed. It was the type of scream that could temporarily freeze the blood of an adventurer when they knew something was not right. "That sounded kind of close..." she would say, standing up and preparing to move from the wagon if necessary.

"It looks like there are some large scorpions in the distance, not completely sure what they are, but the people that were screaming need help. Maybe we can get a bit closer with the wagon and rush in to catch the beasts by surprise."

Virgil's brow furrows and he grits his teeth. He snaps the reins to keep the horses going quickly down the road. "Let's be quick then. I'll get us closer, just be ready."

The horses that were heading towards you were still galloping towards the group. With the fact that Virgil was now moving your own wagon forward, it wouldn't be long until the horses would move past you altogether.

Virgil tries pushing the horses even harder trying to get to the people in trouble. He turns to look over his shoulder and shouts towards the others. "This ain't gonna be a gentle. Hold on and be ready to jump out." He turns to look forward again as he grits his teeth biting hard on his piece of hay then shouts towards the horses, "HYA, HURRY UP!"

Initiative

Combat

Initiative: Elidia: 22, Rei: 21, Scorpions: 12, Virgil: 9, Man, Woman
Status and Map roll20 (https://app.roll20.net/join/5246517/kDx7cg)
Log
Round 1
Elidia to take turn

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Elidia rushes into action, charging forward, ice forming at her fingertips. She sees the people that screams as she rounds a boulder and shouts. "Ice Shards!" The ice that had been forming at her fingertips rapidly grew, and launched towards the scorpion that she had eyes on.

Combat

Initiative: Elidia: 22, Rei: 21, Scorpions: 12, Virgil: 9, Man, Woman
Status and Map roll20 (https://app.roll20.net/join/5246517/kDx7cg)
Log
Round 1
Elidiacasts Ice Shards, hits and deals damage.
Rei to take turn.

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Rei would follow behind Eldia, they were headed in the direction of the screams. When they came closer, they found the people unde attack by a large scorpion- to which Eldia immediately cast a spell. Rei too would loose her own ranged attack as she drew her bow and fired an arrow at the same scoprion.

Range attack
Damage

Combat

Initiative: Elidia: 22, Rei: 21, Scorpions: 12, Virgil: 9, Man, Woman
Status and Map roll20 (https://app.roll20.net/join/5246517/kDx7cg)
Log
Round 1
Elidiacasts Ice Shards, hits and deals damage.
Rei attacks and hits scorpion for 1 damage.
Scorpion 1 attacks and misses Man.
Scorpion 2 attacks and hits Man for 4 damage. Man saves against poison.
Scorpion 3 attacks and misses Man.
Virgil to take turn.

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Virgil looks over and sees the others jump off the wagon and mutters a few choice curses to himself. Looking ahead and seeing the scorpions catch up to the two people on the side of the road he pulls at the reins slowing down the wagon and he jumps off before they even get to a full stop and sprints to their aid. He pulls his rapier out as he runs up alongside the man and puts himself between the woman and the scorpion and looks over his shoulder. "I'll try to hold them off. Y'all get to running." He then begins to scream and wave to get the scorpions focus on him.

Both the man and woman's eyes were full of fear as they started to attempt to get away from the scorpions.

"H-help!" The woman said. She ran past Virgil, heading straight towards Rei and Elidia. The man was following right after as well, though, he had a bleeding wound from his back, with his shirt stained red from his blood.

Combat

Initiative: Elidia: 22, Rei: 21, Scorpions: 12, Virgil: 9, Man, Woman
Status and Map roll20 (https://app.roll20.net/join/5246517/kDx7cg)
Log
Round 1
Elidia casts Ice Shards, hits and deals damage.
Rei attacks and hits scorpion for 1 damage.
Scorpion 1 attacks and misses Man.
Scorpion 2 attacks and hits Man for 4 damage. Man saves against poison.
Scorpion 3 attacks and misses Man.
Virgil runs.
Man and Woman runs. (Man withdraws to prevent AoO).
Round 2
Elidia to take turn.

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Elidia closed some of the gap between her in the scorpions, aiming to put herself between the innocents and the beasts. She targeted the two scorpions off the the side, giving them a cold glare as she launched a barrage of shards at them.

"Ice Shards!" [/color]

Combat

Initiative: Elidia: 22, Rei: 21, Scorpions: 12, Virgil: 9, Man, Woman
Status and Map roll20 (https://app.roll20.net/join/5246517/kDx7cg)
Log
Round 1
Elidia casts Ice Shards, hits and deals damage.
Rei attacks and hits scorpion for 1 damage.
Scorpion 1 attacks and misses Man.
Scorpion 2 attacks and hits Man for 4 damage. Man saves against poison.
Scorpion 3 attacks and misses Man.
Virgil runs.
Man and Woman runs. (Man withdraws to prevent AoO).
Round 2
Elidia casts Ice Shards

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Rei would remain stationary. She had a range advantage against the scorpions. It would take time to readjust if her allies got in her line of sight, but it beat running backwards f the scorpions turned on her instead. Virgil had rushed forward and attempted to get the scorpions' attention to allow the victims to escape. So Rei would snip from afar to aid Virgil. She pulled her bow back again and let lose another arrow. They could tend to the wounds after the immediate danger was over.

Range attack

Damage

Combat

Initiative: Elidia: 22, Rei: 21, Scorpions: 12, Virgil: 9, Man, Woman
Status and Map roll20 (https://app.roll20.net/join/5246517/kDx7cg)
Log
Round 1
Elidia casts Ice Shards, hits and deals damage.
Rei attacks and hits scorpion for 1 damage.
Scorpion 1 attacks and misses Man.
Scorpion 2 attacks and hits Man for 4 damage. Man saves against poison.
Scorpion 3 attacks and misses Man.
Virgil runs.
Man and Woman runs. (Man withdraws to prevent AoO).
Round 2
Elidia casts Ice Shards
Rei attacks and hits.
Scorprons attack Virgil. 9 attacks, 2 hit, dealing 4 damage total.

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Virgil turns and watches the man and woman run and ducks his head as the arrow and ice shards zoom past. He turns around to see there targets right on him. He manages to deftly move around most of the attacks despite his size but yells out as two of the scorpions manage to hit him. He look up at the one in front as the other two flank him. His grimace of pain turns into a smirk as he rolls back 5ft and reaches into his pockets pulling out a small vial. He gives it a heavy shake as he jumps up to his feet and tosses it.

Combat

Initiative: Elidia: 22, Rei: 21, Scorpions: 12, Virgil: 9, Man, Woman
Status and Map roll20 (https://app.roll20.net/join/5246517/kDx7cg)
Log
Round 1
Elidia casts Ice Shards, hits and deals damage.
Rei attacks and hits scorpion for 1 damage.
Scorpion 1 attacks and misses Man.
Scorpion 2 attacks and hits Man for 4 damage. Man saves against poison.
Scorpion 3 attacks and misses Man.
Virgil runs.
Man and Woman runs. (Man withdraws to prevent AoO).
Round 2
Elidia casts Ice Shards
Rei attacks and misses.
Scorpions attack Virgil. 9 attacks, 2 hit, dealing 4 damage total.
Virgil throws bomb, deals 1 damage to Scorpion 2 and 1.
Elidia to take turn.

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Continuing to try to get the scorpions to focus on her party instead of the fleeing civilians, Elidia rushes into the frey, drawing her rapier and charging towards the scorpion with a thrust.

Combat

Initiative: Elidia: 22, Rei: 21, Scorpions: 12, Virgil: 9, Man, Woman
Status and Map roll20 (https://app.roll20.net/join/5246517/kDx7cg)
Log
Round 1
Elidia casts Ice Shards, hits and deals damage.
Rei attacks and hits scorpion for 1 damage.
Scorpion 1 attacks and misses Man.
Scorpion 2 attacks and hits Man for 4 damage. Man saves against poison.
Scorpion 3 attacks and misses Man.
Virgil runs.
Man and Woman runs. (Man withdraws to prevent AoO).
Round 2
Elidia casts Ice Shards
Rei attacks and hits, dealing 3 damage.
Scorpions attack Virgil. 9 attacks, 2 hit, dealing 4 damage total.
Virgil throws bomb, deals 1 damage to Scorpion 2 and 1.
Elidia charges, hits, and deals 7 damage.
Rei to take turn.

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Line of sight had become a minor issue. One scorpion was down and another was heavily injured. The people had nnearly made it to safety and all that as left... was to clean up the mess. Rei side stepped a few paces to have a better vantage angle around the boulder. She would aim to finish off the second scorpion while it was incapacitated. Just to make sure her party members didnt venture too close to it, believing it was dead. Only to end up with a stinger in their ankle. She'd draw her bow back and let loose another arrow from her bow.

Range attack
Damage

Combat

Initiative: Elidia: 22, Rei: 21, Scorpions: 12, Virgil: 9, Man, Woman
Status and Map roll20 (https://app.roll20.net/join/5246517/kDx7cg)
Log
Round 1
Elidia casts Ice Shards, hits and deals damage.
Rei attacks and hits scorpion for 1 damage.
Scorpion 1 attacks and misses Man.
Scorpion 2 attacks and hits Man for 4 damage. Man saves against poison.
Scorpion 3 attacks and misses Man.
Virgil runs.
Man and Woman runs. (Man withdraws to prevent AoO).
Round 2
Elidia casts Ice Shards
Rei attacks and hits, dealing 3 damage.
Scorpions attack Virgil. 9 attacks, 2 hit, dealing 4 damage total.
Virgil throws bomb, deals 1 damage to Scorpion 2 and 1.
Elidia charges, hits, and deals 7 damage.
Rei attacks and misses.
Scorpions attack and miss.
Virgil to take turn.

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Virgil watches one of the scorpions collapse out of the corner of his eye as the third one makes it's way towards him and strikes. He slips to the side dodging the attack as he shifts around it. "I think I got him occupied. Finish it off!" He shouts to the other two as he lunges with his rapier trying to pierce it's thick body.

Combat

Initiative: Elidia: 22, Rei: 21, Scorpions: 12, Virgil: 9, Man, Woman
Status and Map roll20 (https://app.roll20.net/join/5246517/kDx7cg)
Log
Round 1
Elidia casts Ice Shards, hits and deals damage.
Rei attacks and hits scorpion for 1 damage.
Scorpion 1 attacks and misses Man.
Scorpion 2 attacks and hits Man for 4 damage. Man saves against poison.
Scorpion 3 attacks and misses Man.
Virgil runs.
Man and Woman runs. (Man withdraws to prevent AoO).
Round 2
Elidia casts Ice Shards
Rei attacks and hits, dealing 3 damage.
Scorpions attack Virgil. 9 attacks, 2 hit, dealing 4 damage total.
Virgil throws bomb, deals 1 damage to Scorpion 2 and 1.
Elidia charges, hits, and deals 7 damage.
Rei attacks and misses.
Scorpions attack and miss.
Virgil attacks and misses.
Round 3
Elidia to take turn.

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With two down, Elidia charges the final scorpion, providing her ally with some aid.

Combat

Initiative: Elidia: 22, Rei: 21, Scorpions: 12, Virgil: 9, Man, Woman
Status and Map roll20 (https://app.roll20.net/join/5246517/kDx7cg)
Log
Round 1
Elidia casts Ice Shards, hits and deals damage.
Rei attacks and hits scorpion for 1 damage.
Scorpion 1 attacks and misses Man.
Scorpion 2 attacks and hits Man for 4 damage. Man saves against poison.
Scorpion 3 attacks and misses Man.
Virgil runs.
Man and Woman runs. (Man withdraws to prevent AoO).
Round 2
Elidia casts Ice Shards
Rei attacks and hits, dealing 3 damage.
Scorpions attack Virgil. 9 attacks, 2 hit, dealing 4 damage total.
Virgil throws bomb, deals 1 damage to Scorpion 2 and 1.
Elidia charges, hits, and deals 7 damage.
Rei attacks and misses.
Scorpions attack and miss.
Virgil attacks and misses.
Round 3
Elidia charges and hits.
Rei attacks and misses.
Scorpion fullround attacks Elidia. Elidia to roll fort save.

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Seeing the scorpion focus on Elidia, Virgil will run up behind it with his rapier. "Hey, I ain't done with you yet." He then swipes with his rapier to hit the scorpion.

Combat

Initiative: Elidia: 22, Rei: 21, Scorpions: 12, Virgil: 9, Man, Woman
Status and Map roll20 (https://app.roll20.net/join/5246517/kDx7cg)
Log
Round 1
Elidia casts Ice Shards, hits and deals damage.
Rei attacks and hits scorpion for 1 damage.
Scorpion 1 attacks and misses Man.
Scorpion 2 attacks and hits Man for 4 damage. Man saves against poison.
Scorpion 3 attacks and misses Man.
Virgil runs.
Man and Woman runs. (Man withdraws to prevent AoO).
Round 2
Elidia casts Ice Shards
Rei attacks and hits, dealing 3 damage.
Scorpions attack Virgil. 9 attacks, 2 hit, dealing 4 damage total.
Virgil throws bomb, deals 1 damage to Scorpion 2 and 1.
Elidia charges, hits, and deals 7 damage.
Rei attacks and misses.
Scorpions attack and miss.
Virgil attacks and misses.
Round 3
Elidia charges and hits.
Rei attacks and misses.
Scorpion fullround attacks Elidia. Elidia takes 7 damage, and is now poisoned, taking 2 STR damage.
Virgil attacks and deals 9 damage.
Round 4
Elidia to take turn. Elidia to roll fortitude save.

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Elidia grimaced as the stingers sunk into her flesh but tried to hold it together and counter with a thrust of her own.

Combat

Initiative: Elidia: 22, Rei: 21, Scorpions: 12, Virgil: 9, Man, Woman
Status and Map roll20 (https://app.roll20.net/join/5246517/kDx7cg)
Log
Round 1
Elidia casts Ice Shards, hits and deals damage.
Rei attacks and hits scorpion for 1 damage.
Scorpion 1 attacks and misses Man.
Scorpion 2 attacks and hits Man for 4 damage. Man saves against poison.
Scorpion 3 attacks and misses Man.
Virgil runs.
Man and Woman runs. (Man withdraws to prevent AoO).
Round 2
Elidia casts Ice Shards
Rei attacks and hits, dealing 3 damage.
Scorpions attack Virgil. 9 attacks, 2 hit, dealing 4 damage total.
Virgil throws bomb, deals 1 damage to Scorpion 2 and 1.
Elidia charges, hits, and deals 7 damage.
Rei attacks and misses.
Scorpions attack and miss.
Virgil attacks and misses.
Round 3
Elidia charges and hits.
Rei attacks and misses.
Scorpion fullround attacks Elidia. Elidia takes 7 damage, and is now poisoned, taking 2 STR damage.
Virgil attacks and deals 9 damage.
Round 4
Elidia attacks and deals 1 damage. Scorpion is disabled.
Rei to take turn.

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The last scorpion went down. With that, both the man and woman you had saved ran back to their cart.

"G-good... I don't think they got to it..." The man said as he reached the wagon. The woman followed behind as well. Though she specifically turned towards you and the rest.

"T-thank you for saving us from the scorpions! We were on our way to Orario and these attacked from out of no where." She said.

"It's likely the food we're bringing..." The man continued pointing to one of the jars in his overturned wagon. You noticed that a few of the jars were broken, from it was a very strong smell. "Fermented shark meat from the maritime nation of Dizara. We were on our way to Orario to sell these there... But we heard of a festival happening around here?"

Excelia earned

CR1 x3, split between 3

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Virgil watches as Rei's shot brings the last scorpion down and breathes a sigh of relief. He puts his rapier away and dusts himself off and looks towards Rei and Elidia. "Thanks for that, I owe y'all a drink when we get back. Are you ok? I know those things sting like a something fierce."

He then watches the two run back to their cart. Seeing their worry he walks and joins them to see what their talking about. "It weren't a problem. We were actual on the road as a patr..." He stops as he walks around the side of the cart and the smell hits him. "Oh that could gag a maggot." He quickly turns and grabs the side of the cart trying not to let the smell overpower him. He takes a few steps away from the cart and takes a couple deep breaths to get the smell out of his nose. He whispers quietly to himself, "It just doesn't go away."

Virgil then turns back to the couple and tries to give them a friendly smile that probably looks more like a gnarled grimace. "Sorry, my apologies. Yes, there's a festival in Thalia Village down the road south of here. We were on patrol if you're wantin' to follow us back into town. I can help get your horses back t'gether so you can get your goods moving. Prolly don't want that getting left behind." A nervous look comes across his face as he thinks about that smell being in the cart with him and does not find it appealing.

Virgil then looks over to the scorpions laying on the ground then turns the others with a mischievous smile. "Anyone got a couple knives?

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"The goods we can salvage... As for the horses, not sure how far they ran off." He sighed but he began to pick up the various containers, at least the ones which had spilled. There were a couple that were completely broken though, and those he just left behind.

"Mind helping turn the wagon right side up?" The man asked.

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Virgil will help get the others to right the cart then recover the horses. Afterwards he hands the dagger back. "Thank you for letting me borrow this."

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"It isn't much... But I'd like the three of you to have some vals. Hopefully when we can setup a stall in the village, we'll get some sales then. Fermented shark meat is a delicacy in Dizara... Though, I suspect I'd get most of my sales in Orario, as that city is a coastal one..." With that, the man hands all three of you a bag containing 25,000 vals each.

"I'll pay another 10,000 vals to each of you if you can escort me the rest of the way back to your village. Don't want to run into anymore scorpions..." The man forced a laugh.

Virgil finishes loading the cart with pieces of the chitin and carefully stowing the venom sacs with his alchemy supplies. "Well, that won't be a problem. Let's make sure we got everything together and y'all can follow us back into town. No problem."

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"What'll we do with the horses? I see you have two... If we could latch one to our wagon, we could make our way to your village."

Taking the man's suggestion, eventually the horse was strapped in correctly.

The rest of the journey back towards the village, the man had been telling of his adventures in the last few weeks. Apparently he was a merchant based primarily in the Dizara region, far to the east, on the other side of the continent from Orario. He had taken with him a large amount of fermented shark from his business on the east coast that he trusted one of his relatives to manage since leaving. But thus far, haven't had much luck with selling the product in his journey through elven lands, the territory of Altena, and Meilstora. His last hope was Orario. Once there, he planned to attempt to start a business too.

He had apparently always had interest in Orario. In his youth he would fondly recall reading Dungeon Oratoria, a book depicting adventures of heroes against monsters. Although he was packing on the number of years, he still was fairly jovial about it.

Combat

Initiative: Hyenas: 14, Elidia: 12, Rei: 9, Virgil: 6

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Elidia stays on the wagon, ice dancing around her finger tips as hyenas nip at her allies. "Ice shards!

Combat

Initiative: Hyenas: 14, Elidia: 12, Rei: 9, Virgil: 6
Log
Surprise
Hyena 1 and Hyena 2 move up to wagon
Round 1
Hyena 1 attacks Virgil and hits, dealing 7 damage. Attempts to trip Virgil but fails.
Hyena 2 attacks horse, hits, dealing 9 damage.
Hyena 3 double moves closer.
Hyena 4 charges Virgil and misses.
Elidia casts ice shards, deals 10 damage to Hyena 4, and 5 damage to Hyena 2.
Rei to take turn.

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No sooner had the threat from the scorpions ceased, Rei noticed another threat. Hyenas, two at first or so she thought. Two wasn't that big of a deal... but then two more would appear and shake Rei's confidence. Her allies had already been slightly wounded by the battle with the scorpions and barely had enough time to drink potions. Maybe it was the battle, or the corpses of the scorpions that attracted the beasts... Either way, the hyenas had come and split their attention. That was a good thing. One of the horses and Virgil seemed to be the main targets. Elidia began to cast her ice spell to subdue the closest beasts to the wagon.

There was two options for Rei. She could keep  firing her bow while standing in the wagon, or she could attempt to even the field with her favorite spell. Hyenas weren't exactly the type of beasts she preferred, but they were beasts nonetheless. If she could charm one of them, it could turn the favor towards her group's victory. She would turn her attention to hyena number three and began to chant a spell she had never actually gotten to use yet. She was nervous, but excited at the same time! "Abide by love, become mine alone!" she would chant towards the beast, sending her affection to the beast through weird magic.

Combat

Initiative: Hyenas: 14, Elidia: 12, Rei: 9, Virgil: 6
Log
Surprise
Hyena 1 and Hyena 2 move up to wagon
Round 1
Hyena 1 attacks Virgil and hits, dealing 7 damage. Attempts to trip Virgil but fails.
Hyena 2 attacks horse, hits, dealing 9 damage.
Hyena 3 double moves closer.
Hyena 4 charges Virgil and misses.
Elidia casts ice shards, deals 10 damage to Hyena 4, and 5 damage to Hyena 2.
Rei to take turn.
Rei begins casting charm monster round 1/3

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Virgil reels back from the attack and pushes the hyena off him as he whips the reins to keep the horse moving forward. He sees one of the hyenas right in front of them and doesn't slow down. "Hold on back there... this is gonna get bumpy." He holds the reins in his left hand as he reaches in his pouch for a bomb with his right. As he looks back over his shoulder he tosses the bomb out into the middle of them.

As Virgil's bomb explodes the hyena's yip in pain as they feel the searing power of the small device that burns deep into there fur. Taking that split second to crack the reigns, the horse responds with a kick towards the first hyena to force it to snarl back slightly as the wagon went rocketing forward.

The Hyena tasting blood from the horse refuses to lose ground as it doesn't pay attention to the sudden movement of the wagon taking the full weight of the wooden cart to the side.

At the sudden movement of the wagon however the two hyena's close to the wagon attempt to take a bite at Virgil in retaliation only to get stopped by the sides of wagon.

the wolf manages to jump out of the way of the cart at the last moment avoiding both wheels.

Combat

Initiative: Hyenas: 14, Elidia: 12, Rei: 9, Virgil: 6
Log
Surprise
Hyena 1 and Hyena 2 move up to wagon
Round 1
Hyena 1 attacks Virgil and hits, dealing 7 damage. Attempts to trip Virgil but fails.
Hyena 2 attacks horse, hits, dealing 9 damage.
Hyena 3 double moves closer.
Hyena 4 charges Virgil and misses.
Elidia casts ice shards, deals 10 damage to Hyena 4, and 5 damage to Hyena 2.
Rei to take turn.
Rei begins casting charm monster round 1/3
Virgil uses bomb causes 6 to hyena 3 and 3 damage to 1 and 4
moves horse 60 feet hyena 2 avoids double overrun

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As the cart goes rushing forward in a rush the townsfolk did their best to keep up. The mixture of blood in the air and the rush of conflict caused the usually solitary animals to split into two groups each pair going after both carts.

Two of the Hyena's go rushing after the Cart with the party. One goes after the already wounded horse while another attempts to go after Rei. Yet the hyena overshoots, and slams his head into the wood of the cart as the horse stops short under the ther threat from the other beast.

That Hyena, in turn, manages to take the wounded horse to the ground in a bloodied spurt but it is clearly still breathing.

Combat

Initiative: Hyenas: 14, Elidia: 12, Rei: 9, Virgil: 6
Log
Surprise
Hyena 1 and Hyena 2 move up to wagon
Round 1
Hyena 1 attacks Virgil and hits, dealing 7 damage. Attempts to trip Virgil but fails.
Hyena 2 attacks horse, hits, dealing 9 damage.
Hyena 3 double moves closer.
Hyena 4 charges Virgil and misses.
Elidia casts ice shards, deals 10 damage to Hyena 4, and 5 damage to Hyena 2.
Rei to take turn.
Rei begins casting charm monster round 1/3
Virgil uses bomb causes 6 to hyena 3 and 3 damage to 1 and 4
moves horse 60 feet hyena 2 avoids double overrun
Hyena 1 charges Rei misses and takes 4 damage
Hyena 2 charges horse 1 deals 6 damage and trips the horse.
Hyena 3 attacks horse 2 misses
Hyena 4 attacks horse 2 misses and falls prone
Round 2

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Elidia steps to the back of the wagon, next to Rei and aims to defend the innocent villagers. "Ice Shards!"

The ice manages to blast out in a stronger wave than Elidia intended flash-freezing one hyena entirely before it cracked into bloody shards, while the other was left shivering and deeply wounded but unwilling to back down.

Combat

Initiative: Hyenas: 14, Elidia: 12, Rei: 9, Virgil: 6
Log
Surprise
Hyena 1 and Hyena 2 move up to wagon
Round 1
Hyena 1 attacks Virgil and hits, dealing 7 damage. Attempts to trip Virgil but fails.
Hyena 2 attacks horse, hits, dealing 9 damage.
Hyena 3 double moves closer.
Hyena 4 charges Virgil and misses.
Elidia casts ice shards, deals 10 damage to Hyena 4, and 5 damage to Hyena 2.
Rei to take turn.
Rei begins casting charm monster round 1/3
Virgil uses bomb causes 6 to hyena 3 and 3 damage to 1 and 4
moves horse 60 feet hyena 2 avoids double overrun
Hyena 1 charges Rei misses and takes 4 damage
Hyena 2 charges horse 1 deals 6 damage and trips the horse.
Hyena 3 attacks horse 2 misses
Hyena 4 attacks horse 2 misses and falls prone
Elidia deals 7 damage to hyena 3
Elidia kills hyena 4

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Combat seemed to be much too fast, for Rei to finish chanting her spell. Even as she had begun to cast the chant, the hyenas attacked viciously. She hadn't really experienced combat before, let alone know when was the best opportunity to cast her spell. One of the hyenas had rushed her, but it clumsily crashed into the side of the wagon. Elidia had taken action then, dismounting the front to aid Rei with the two hyenas which had decided to attack their wagon. Her ice spell was quite effective. She froze one of the hyenas to death and then wounded the other one. The hyena she intended to charm, was wounded and would likely resist the effects of her spell. While Elidia focused on the hyena still alive, Rei would turn her attention to the other wagon and focus her intent upon Hyena #2. She had already started the spell... Might as well finish!

Virgil shifts over towards the hyena attacking the horse and pulls out his rapier. He then shouts over his shoulder to the other cart, "Keep going!" He then swipes with his rapier at the hyena next to the cart. "GIT OFF MY HORSE, YA DAMN MONGREL!"

"I SAID, GIT OFF MY HORSE!" Virgil yells again as his eyes flash with anger and he lets out a scream as he stabs at the hyena with the rapier.

As Virgil went to go stab the hyena in his rage the blade nearly goes over the head of the beast but at the last possible moment it was as if time began to slow down around him. In that moment, that felt like it lasted a lifetime, he could feel the air around him come alive with a strange energy along with a spreading heat from his back. His ears started ringing with what sounded like the sounds of a cheering crowd. This phantom audience cheers his name as if he was the lead hero in some big play. There even was a phantom spotlight beginning to form at the edge of his vision.

Virgil's fear was being converted to confidence some otherworldly energy that made it feel like not only that he was good enough to kill this thing but that he was made for the role. The energy surged force from the mark in his back at that moment like a wave and into his blade causing to come surging alive with mana. As if moving on his own Virgil felt a strength in his sword arm that he had never felt before.

"VIRGIL! VIRGIL VIRGIL!" the crowd cried.

That strength, along with the roaring of the crowd, made a sword strike that would have otherwise gone wide, be a fair distance, into a strong hit at the beast's vitals. As soon as the blade hit its mark, deep into the hide of the Hyena, the energy dispersed off his skin in a burst like water evaporating on a hot summer day as reality returned to normal.

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While Virgil was busy dealing with Hyena at the front everyone else had the beasts in the back to worry about. The Hyena refusing to give an inch as it's companion gets frozen attacks the remaining horse getting at its throat with a solid bit.

The horse manages to stay on its feet but is bleeding badly from the neck. The woman screams as she sees the gout of blood and almost faints in the back of the wagon. Her husband cursing loudly, "Gods protect us!" He does his best to cover his face but it looks like one of the extra's in one of Thalia's plays as he gets covered in the spray of blood

At the same time, the last of the hyena's tries and fails spectacularly once again to snap at Rei falling prone in the process of the attempt.

Combat

Initiative: Hyenas: 14, Elidia: 12, Rei: 9, Virgil: 6
Log
Surprise
Hyena 1 and Hyena 2 move up to wagon
Round 1
Hyena 1 attacks Virgil and hits, dealing 7 damage. Attempts to trip Virgil but fails.
Hyena 2 attacks horse, hits, dealing 9 damage.
Hyena 3 double moves closer.
Hyena 4 charges Virgil and misses.
Elidia casts ice shards, deals 10 damage to Hyena 4, and 5 damage to Hyena 2.
Rei to take turn.
Rei begins casting charm monster round 1/3
Virgil uses bomb causes 6 to hyena 3 and 3 damage to 1 and 4
moves horse 60 feet hyena 2 avoids double overrun
Hyena 1 charges Rei misses and takes 4 damage
Hyena 2 charges horse 1 deals 6 damage and trips the horse.
Hyena 3 attacks horse 2 misses
Hyena 4 attacks horse 2 misses and falls prone
Elidia deals 7 damage to hyena 3
Elidia kills hyena 4
Rei maintains her chant 2/3
Virgil attacks and kills Hyena 1
Hyena 3 attacks horse does 9 damage
Hyena 2 attempts and fails to attack rei

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Elidia looks at the hyenas in front of her. "Let's finish this. Ice Shards!

With a final yelp cut off by freezing the air in their lungs Elidia manages to kill the rest of the beasts.  Though the sounds of the haggard whines and snorts from the two horses are less than comforting.

The horse attached to your cart is still laying down in a mixture of blood and dirt a dead hyena now partly sprawled on top of him.

Virgil will jump off the wagon and fumble through his pockets and pouches and pulls out a potion. "Our horse needs help!" Hell try to pour the potion in the horse's mouth to keep it alive. "I'm not really a vet or a medic..."

While the horse did not fully buck as Virgil approached he was unable to calm it enough to get close enough to feed it the potion. Out of fear the beast's heart pumped like crazy causing the poor thing to gush more blood until Virgil backed away slightly. Unless someone can calm the beast properly it will be hard to give it a potion and from the blood loss fighting too much might end up killing it.

"We need to do something to help it or it'll be a long walk back."

Elidia approached the horse, a bit wary of its flailing limbs, but willing to see what she could do. "Easy boy. Let's get you checked out."

Without a healer's kit, Elidia was unable to really do much for the wound, but by the efforts of the two of you working together, you managed to feed it a potion without it being able to kill itself fighting you. While it was not healed completely the worst of the wounds closed enough were you think you can get it up on its feet again.


Once the horse is standing again both Virgil and Elidia are covered in the horse's blood as if they had been sprayed with a hose. The stench of iron filing your nose and the back of the throat as over the past five or so minutes the blood of the various animals has been allowed to make a kind of crust on your body and hair. You hear the caw of crows as several large black birds circle the group in a tight circle though they do not seem willing to approach.

For the time being the surrounding area seems to be quite outside of the caw of the birds overhead. The couple seem to be doing their best to regroup while the horses stand and catch their breath. It seems for the moment there are no additional threats appearing.

After everyone gets a moment to catch their breath, Virgil gets up and clasps his hands together. "I reckon we should get moving on. We don't want to get caught out here after dark." As they're getting ready to head out he pulls Rei and Elidia aside. "So this may sound kinda silly but... do y'all think that shark stuff could be, like, attracting monsters?"

The road is otherwise clear on the way to the village except for the crows that continue to amass as you get closer to home as it follows the carts.

[into] survival
Hyena 1: Hyena 2: Hyena 3: Hyena 4:

Virgil manages to salvage two quality hides

Exp earned

CR1 x 4, split between 3

[close]

Vals earned

+10,000 vals earned, making assumption the group makes it to Thalia village safely.

[close]

RP Excelia earned

+1 step, Rei, consistent RP
+1 step, Virgil, face of the party

1/2 -> 1

CR 1 split between 3

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When they get back to town Virgil will look over to Rei. "Rei, when we get to town would you mind, maybe going to talk to someone to sell these hides? I'd like to keep the venom sacs, if y'all don't mind."

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Rei had been fortunate to have such useful allies. Her usefulness had been mostly limited to their surprise ambush on the scorpions. The hyenas turning things around on them, had shown Rei where some of her own weaknesses were. When Virgil requested her to help with selling the successful hides he had carved, she gladly took the chance.

Rei eventually manages to find a merchant willing to buy the hides. The merchant explains that hyena hides aren't as valued as those with valuable furs, but was willing to offer 1,000 vals per hide.