IC: Commoners

[NihilisticGnome]

Oh no..!

Remembering being told that the goodberries had healing properties, she chews some up a bit and then tries to spit them into Wave's mouth. A little gross she thought, almost like a mother bird feeding her young, but.. what else was Coral to do?

Please be okay! she thinks.

Purple slime drips from Coral’s lips
Into Wave’s open mouth
For a moment no reaction
Then
Wave returns to the land of the living
With a sputtering cough

Touched by Coral’s bravery
Wave smiles,
“You came back
The villagers?
They’re okay?”

Assured that they are
Coral helps wave to her feet
The monster continues to rampage
Spreading fire all around

“Got any good ideas?”

[NihilisticGnome]

Skittles leans out the small window, popping off a bolt at one of those smug newbies with an audible twang before taking cover and reloading. Looking up, she sees the flaming arrow in the support beam and shouts, "Someone put out that fire!"

With the roof dampened, the main threat now is just the Rangers themselves. If all seven of them stormed in, they'd be in trouble. Gotta cripple some outside and have them spend time taking care of their own wounded...

Spoiler: OoC

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Standard: Potshot at the left Green Ranger (G1) to try and bleed out the weak...

(1d20+5)[12] for (1d6)[4] Piercing, within 80'

5' Step: to the left side of the window (O13), out of sight

Move: Reloading Crossbow

Skittles levels her crossbow
A ranger square in her sights
Release
The bolt does fly

Punching through leather
Into the meaty thigh
Of the son of a blacksmith
Never having been shot at
Let alone struck

The ranger stumbles backwards
Falling to the ground
Screaming
“Hold your nerve”
Twinforge commands
“You’re rangers
Act like it”

Skittles slides behind cover
Working the mechanism
To reload her crossbow

[Metastachydium]

Right. Rhubarb nods along as the others, with the kobold and dwarf at the helm, busy themselves mounting a defense. The fire needs to go, that's right, but… Not just that! she calls out, a thought occuring to her. Remove all lights! Half them won't see jack after, they're humans! she explains, wrapping a rag on the butt of a spear and soaking it in beer. Someone taller help me. she beckons the cowering locals as she darts for the closest flame or light she can reach, pausing for a mere second to squint at the bard. Music man, you of the casting sort? Wanna sing for us?

[WindStruck]

“Got any good ideas?”

"Well, maybe you should have some more of these berries yourself so I don't have to feed them to you again! And..."

Coral looks around, picking up the frosty spear again. "Do you think we could lure it to water? I just hope it doesn't set more on fire."

[NihilisticGnome]

Right. Rhubarb nods along as the others, with the kobold and dwarf at the helm, busy themselves mounting a defense. The fire needs to go, that's right, but… Not just that! she calls out, a thought occuring to her. Remove all lights! Half them won't see jack after, they're humans! she explains, wrapping a rag on the butt of a spear and soaking it in beer. Someone taller help me. she beckons the cowering locals as she darts for the closest flame or light she can reach, pausing for a mere second to squint at the bard. Music man, you of the casting sort? Wanna sing for us?

One by one
Lights flicker out
The cottage disappears
Into the moonless night

Twinforge nods
With a touch of respect
Exactly as he would have done

Inside

Stringfellow with a flourish and bow

Taken aback by the suggestion
The bard throws up his hands
Assure you a sorcerer he is not

He would not believe his ridiculous tale
Had he heard it in story or song
But experience he did
Nothing more does he know

Still isn't there a kind of magic in song
Can not everyone feel it?
The bard begins to sing
Of little use otherwise

Stringfellow [Bard level 3]
Uses inspire courage +1

At the start of next round
Allies able to hear his song
Receive +1 saving throw vs charm and fear
+1 on Attack roll and damage

[JbeJ275]

Without any ranger weapon, or skill with one should he be able to get one Dufander instead spends the first few seconds running towards the barricaded door. His mace is raised high, ready to defend the position about anyone trying to push in.

[NihilisticGnome]

"Well, maybe you should have some more of these berries yourself so I don't have to feed them to you again! And..."

Coral looks around, picking up the frosty spear again. "Do you think we could lure it to water? I just hope it doesn't set more on fire."

Wave consumes berries by the handful
Her burns start to fade
But fail to disappear

Wincing in pain
As she leans against a large stone
Still hidden are they
Among the ruins of the town

The elemental continues
More does it burn with each passing minute
To the ocean they must go
But outrun it they can not
For much faster than they does it move

[WindStruck]

Coral complains, "Ugh! Why does this stupid fire monster get to burn stuff and kill plants but it doesn't get banished from the island??"

"Do you still have that magic stick?"

[NihilisticGnome]

Without any ranger weapon, or skill with one should he be able to get one Dufander instead spends the first few seconds running towards the barricaded door. His mace is raised high, ready to defend the position about anyone trying to push in.

Twinforge wears a demented grin
As the chaos unfolds before him
So within his element is he

To a trusted ally he does turn
Remember long ago
Those Bugbear
Sheltering in their cave
With a nod of his head
A plan is put in motion

The veteran ranger
Rushes forward
Running as fast as he can
Towards the inn

Exposed completely
An easy target
Against the front wall does he lean
Under the window
His position reached

V1 double moves to R12

[NihilisticGnome]

Coral complains, "Ugh! Why does this stupid fire monster get to burn stuff and kill plants but it doesn't get banished from the island??"

"Do you still have that magic stick?"

Her wand
Left behind
At the centre of town
Near where the monster lays waste

As for the rules
Fire is primordial
It needs not nature
To be

[NihilisticGnome]

Without any ranger weapon, or skill with one should he be able to get one Dufander instead spends the first few seconds running towards the barricaded door. His mace is raised high, ready to defend the position about anyone trying to push in.

A volley of arrows
Fly high overhead
Onto the roof do they land
But none do ignite

Through the upper window
Does Satria see
A flaming arrow fly
Upon much bedding
It does land

Twinforge raises his bow
Watching for his moment
Stands tall
Illuminated
A tempting target
Readies his attack

[WindStruck]

Coral points and says, "You'll have to get it again while I distract it."

Picking up some stones, she begins throwing them at the flaming elemental.

"Hey you big dumb fire, a candle couldn't.. uh.." but she gives up trying to make up an insult, seeing as it hardly understood her anyway.

Once she's got the elemental's attention, she tries to run behind a burning building.

[NihilisticGnome]

Coral points and says, "You'll have to get it again while I distract it."

Picking up some stones, she begins throwing them at the flaming elemental.

"Hey you big dumb fire, a candle couldn't.. uh.." but she gives up trying to make up an insult, seeing as it hardly understood her anyway.

Once she's got the elemental's attention, she tries to run behind a burning building.

Attacking fire with earth
The brave human girl
Draws the attention
Of a monster from the land of flames

What a life is this
Just another normal day?
A hero was she

Erupting with volcanic anger
The elemental screams
Giving chase
Moves across the burning landscape
In pursuit

[NihilisticGnome]

Satria, desperate, searches around the upper level for anything that may help. Hopeful that there may be something stashed away. (Search of 18)

Through the window does sail
An arrow set aflame
Deflected
Impact it does not
Instead falling on to a volatile mix
Of wool, feathers, reeds, and hay
Otherwise known as a bed

At once it does ignite
Thinking quickly
Satria attempts to smother the flames
But within mere seconds
The entire bed is burning
Smoke begins to fill the room
If not dealt with
The fire will spread

[NihilisticGnome]

Without any ranger weapon, or skill with one should he be able to get one Dufander instead spends the first few seconds running towards the barricaded door. His mace is raised high, ready to defend the position about anyone trying to push in.

The door to the inn
Charming and old
Made of Oak
Boards loosely fitted
Through which can be seen
The forward advance of a ranger

Too quickly does he move
Staying low to the ground
Crouched beneath the window
Close enough
For Dufander to hear his heavy breathing

[WindStruck]

Coral continues to run past and around obstacles, trying to buy herself and Wave as much time as possible!

[NihilisticGnome]

Coral continues to run past and around obstacles, trying to buy herself and Wave as much time as possible!

The elemental is so close
Coral can feel the heat emanating from its molten body
Ten feet behind
Closing fast

Wave traverses rough terrain
Leaping over broken stone walls
Dashing around burning debris
Magic stick finally in hand

From the wild she does call
An ally of animal kind
A wolf

Runs towards her at great speed
As it passes
She snatches hold
Pulling herself upon its back

[WindStruck]

"Eek! Waaaave!"

At last when it feels like the elemental is right upon her, Coral turns to face it, spear held before her, but her mind and legs more intent on evading its wrath than her arms are willing to swing at it.

Spoiler: ooc

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Let's just, um.. defend action. Coral would have an AC of 14...

[Ripptor]

Back against the wall, Skittles watches as Rhubarb kills the lights, Satria runs upstairs and Dufander takes up arms at the other front window. At least this is a sharp bunch she's found herself fallen into,

With a deep breath, she rolls back towards the small window and aims to find the young ranger recruit she pegged last time... And there he is, back standing with her bolt in thigh. Putting him out will mean the either have to deal with their wounded, or deal with the grief of letting a young man die. But that's their choice, not hers.

She looses another bolt into the night, clear for her but likely newly terrifying for the Human. She reaches around and snaps yet another bolt into place.

Spoiler: OoC

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5' Step: Back to the window (P13)

Standard: Potshot #2 at the wounded Green Ranger (G1) ...

(1d20+5)[13] vs Flat-Footed AC (Firing from the darkness)
for (1d6)[2] Piercing, within 80'

Move: Reloading Crossbow

[bladescape]

"Fire! There's Fire up here! One of the beds!" Satria cries out, unsure of how to actually handle this flame in front of her.

She'd tried throwing things on it to smother it (That's what they said to do when she was told how to keep her cart safe!) but that didn't work at all!

[NihilisticGnome]

"Eek! Waaaave!"

At last when it feels like the elemental is right upon her, Coral turns to face it, spear held before her, but her mind and legs more intent on evading its wrath than her arms are willing to swing at it.

Spoiler: ooc

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Let's just, um.. defend action. Coral would have an AC of 14...

Towering over Coral
Is living flame
The shape of a man on fire
So engulfed
As to disappear within

Raising its fists high above
The elemental does bring them down upon her
Like a hammer
To her knees she falls
Burned in such a way as unimaginable

Coral is disabled
0 Hit points

[NihilisticGnome]

Back against the wall, Skittles watches as Rhubarb kills the lights, Satria runs upstairs and Dufander takes up arms at the other front window. At least this is a sharp bunch she's found herself fallen into,

With a deep breath, she rolls back towards the small window and aims to find the young ranger recruit she pegged last time... And there he is, back standing with her bolt in thigh. Putting him out will mean the either have to deal with their wounded, or deal with the grief of letting a young man die. But that's their choice, not hers.

She looses another bolt into the night, clear for her but likely newly terrifying for the Human. She reaches around and snaps yet another bolt into place.

Spoiler: OoC

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5' Step: Back to the window (P13)

Standard: Potshot #2 at the wounded Green Ranger (G1) ...

(1d20+5)[13] vs Flat-Footed AC (Firing from the darkness)
for (1d6)[2] Piercing, within 80'

Move: Reloading Crossbow

“I can’t see anything”
The green ranger shouts
“Quiet fool,” Twinforge retorts
“You can see me” He says in a whisper
“Follow my lead”

Twinforge draws back his bow
The green ranger follows
The moment the kobold appears
Twinforge releases
Followed by the other

Skittles knows her target
Quickly does she fire
Reloading another shot
As two arrows impact
The window frame on either side of her

Her bolt does strike
The green ranger
Though wobble he might
Fall he does not

[NihilisticGnome]

"Fire! There's Fire up here! One of the beds!" Satria cries out, unsure of how to actually handle this flame in front of her.

She'd tried throwing things on it to smother it (That's what they said to do when she was told how to keep her cart safe!) but that didn't work at all!

The burning bundle continues to erupt
Fertile ground for the flames
From the fire does emerge
Heat, smoke, and light

Satria stands
Within a small room
Before a window
Illuminated

[Metastachydium]

Though Satria's cry for help drowns out the sound of footfalls, Rhubarb's eyes, ever wary of danger pick up the blur of motion as the ranger approaches the unmanned window. You waiting for an invite? she barks at the inn folk. Grab water, head up, now! she instructs them, pulling out one of the entangler bags the dwarf gave her and sprinting towards the window in the meantime.

Once there, she inhales sharply and erupting from behind the cover of the windowsill, slams it down at the crouching figure outside.

Spoiler: OOC

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Okay. Free action yell at the locals,
move to the window while pulling out the t-bag,
standard action throw it at the ranger,
free action drop prone.

[NihilisticGnome]

Though Satria's cry for help drowns out the sound of footfalls, Rhubarb's eyes, ever wary of danger pick up the blur of motion as the ranger approaches the unmanned window. You waiting for an invite? she barks at the inn folk. Grab water, head up, now! she instructs them, pulling out one of the entangler bags the dwarf gave her and sprinting towards the window in the meantime.

Once there, she inhales sharply and erupting from behind the cover of the windowsill, slams it down at the crouching figure outside.

Spoiler: OOC

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Okay. Free action yell at the locals,
move to the window while pulling out the t-bag,
standard action throw it at the ranger,
free action drop prone.

Common folk
Form a line
Passing buckets
From the well
Up the stairs
Soon the fire will be out

Crouched against the window
The ranger Ug-Ton
Pulls from his Tunic a rod of iron
Less than a foot in length

Before he can activate the device
A halfling does emerge
Tossing at him
A tanglefoot bag
Crafted with Ug-Ton’s own hands
With the rod does he bat away
The bag falling harmlessly to the grass
Ug-Ton prepares to strike the sunrod in his hands

[WindStruck]

Coral shrieks in pain as the elemental attacks her. So lucky is she that it grazes her, inflicting only a fraction of its terrifying potential, but it's enough to bring Coral to her knees.

Still, she does not fall yet, but she can do little else beside stand there quavering.

Spoiler: ooc

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Was trying to look up my options, but pretty much anything I do will put Coral at -1 HP. Then she'll just be helpless when it attacks, which is even worse.

So, Coral is just taking no action because 10 AC is better than like 0 AC and a coup de grace or whatever.

[JbeJ275]

Dufander yells to other common folk to lend a hand or clear the way as he drops his pack and runs to the bar of the inn, then grabs any large keg of beer or ale and heaves it up on his shoulder, hollering for others to make way as he gets ready to haul it up the stairs.

Spoiler: OOC

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Some light googling has put 200lbs as a pretty standard weight for a keg. This means Dufander can lift it as a heavy load, but since he’s a dwarf this doesn’t slow him down. It also means it does 1d6 damage per 10ft it falls onto someone. The plan is to drop it out the window on any ranger who spends too long there.

[NihilisticGnome]

Coral shrieks in pain as the elemental attacks her. So lucky is she that it grazes her, inflicting only a fraction of its terrifying potential, but it's enough to bring Coral to her knees.

Still, she does not fall yet, but she can do little else beside stand there quavering.

Spoiler: ooc

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Was trying to look up my options, but pretty much anything I do will put Coral at -1 HP. Then she'll just be helpless when it attacks, which is even worse.

So, Coral is just taking no action because 10 AC is better than like 0 AC and a coup de grace or whatever.

In the moment before the world faded away
Coral sees Wave
Wand in hand
Mounted upon a beast
Charge into battle

All is darkness
How long has passed
She does not know

Alone
In a unknown bed
Within an unknown room
High above in the canopy
A house amongst the trees

[NihilisticGnome]

Dufander yells to other common folk to lend a hand or clear the way as he drops his pack and runs to the bar of the inn, then grabs any large keg of beer or ale and heaves it up on his shoulder, hollering for others to make way as he gets ready to haul it up the stairs.

Spoiler: OOC

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Some light googling has put 200lbs as a pretty standard weight for a keg. This means Dufander can lift it as a heavy load, but since he’s a dwarf this doesn’t slow him down. It also means it does 1d6 damage per 10ft it falls onto someone. The plan is to drop it out the window on any ranger who spends too long there.

Heavy barrel mounted to his shoulder
Dufander begins his climb
A terrible weight pressing down upon him
Threatening to drive him to the floor
With every step

Sweat appears on Dufander’s brow
Mighty gulps of air
Fuel his lungs
Arms and legs both tremble
But
He does not falter

[NihilisticGnome]

Though Satria's cry for help drowns out the sound of footfalls, Rhubarb's eyes, ever wary of danger pick up the blur of motion as the ranger approaches the unmanned window. You waiting for an invite? she barks at the inn folk. Grab water, head up, now! she instructs them, pulling out one of the entangler bags the dwarf gave her and sprinting towards the window in the meantime.

Once there, she inhales sharply and erupting from behind the cover of the windowsill, slams it down at the crouching figure outside.

Spoiler: OOC

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Okay. Free action yell at the locals,
move to the window while pulling out the t-bag,
standard action throw it at the ranger,
free action drop prone.

Crouched beneath the window
His position known
The ranger Ug-Ton
Strikes the sunrod in his hands

The world is illuminated
With an overwhelming brightness
Ug-Ton shields his eyes
Pained by the light
From his hands does slip
The rod upon the ground