Jungle Ruins of Madaro-Shanti [IC]

[Mercurion 2]

Ignasio’s crossbow bolt sunk in to thetattered monkey with a dull thud as Niala conjured a vicious looking batnearby.

As another monkey dropped from the lowest branchof an overhanging palm tree, Cederick leveled his cane in its direction andblasted it with a ray of black and icy blue, but the creature continued itscharge towards him. It swung a paw towards him in a jerky manner that he deflectedaside with the cane.[1]

The porters scattered into the jungle forcover, though the monkey that Ignasio had struck managed to claw Mazaro across hishamstring and calf. The monkey stopped, however, as it seemed to notice the quarrelprotruding from it, and turned its dead eyes towards the merchant-sorcerer.Alan took the opportunity to strike with his arrow of dusk, eliciting a hollowthumping sound.

Niala’s leopard found itself bracketed by apair of the spire monkeys, lashing out a catching one with a paw but in turnbeing struck with a claw along the side. [3]

Towards the front of the caravan, the guard Henekkiwas confronted by one of the charging monkeys as the two exchanged blows, with thespearman comporting himself well in the face of the spire monkey and despitetaking a scrape to his forearm. [4] Karan charged in to deal with the othermonkey nearby, felling it with a single blow to the back of its head, splittingopen the already battered flesh. [5]

Thorik swung mightily at the last monkey, hisfirst blow thumping the thick hide obliquely without causing damage, and his secondcut passing over the creature’s head as it dug a claw into his off-hand. [6]

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(1) Cederick notices that the monkeys seem tomove unnaturally, like marionettes as someone if pulling their strings in aherky-jerky manner.
(2) The spire monkey claws the porter for 3damage, but then turns towards Ignasio who struck it with the bolt. Alan hitsit as well—need a confirmation on the damage—as it turns towards he andIgnasio.
(3) The leopard takes one claw hit for 3damage. Make a Fortitude Save for the leopard.
(4) The guard Henekki takes one damage, buthe manages a counter attack for 8 points of damage
(5) Critical hit from Karan, dropping thebeast
(6) Thorik misses with both attacks, and thenis hit for a single point of damage. Make a Fortitude Save for the Thorik.

OK, I think we are still pending an action forNiala since we determined she cast summon nature’s ally in the prep round, plusan attack from the summoned bat.

Also, just a note on the NPCs: the porters anddrivers will only defend themselves if they can’t otherwise flee. The guardswill defend themselves if attacked, but you also have the option of making themmore proactive-if you want then to attack, you just have to specify whatactions you want then to take. Pisco will be a bit more proactive, but mostlyfight defensively.

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