ROUND TWO
Joseph, groaning in pain, nocks, draws, and looses another arrow, this time at
Villager 3.
Villager 3 takes 8 piercing damage. Then the halfling rogue scoots back on the roof and tries to Hide as a bonus action.
Myrtha vaults the barrels and runs toward the armored and injured
villager. He raises his spear but she ducks under the point and drives her shoulder up into the man's ribs; with the wound in his neck and the spectral hand draining his vigor, he is in no shape to withstand this irresistible force.
Villager 1 is shoved back, and
Myrtha closes the northern barn door in his face.
Villager 3 recocks his crossbow and walks toward the barn, grateful for the
Light stone that illuminates the interior of the barn. The closed door blocks his view of
Myrtha, so he triggers his weapon, loosing a quarrel toward the first PC he can see:
Reptile.
Reptile is hit with a crossbow bolt, but he barely feels it.
Reptile takes 1 point of piercing damage (reduced from 2 from
Rage).
Villager 4 trots toward the house and out of view of everyone except
Chase, who is still above them, watching out of the open hay loft door.
Then
Aanbo leaps the barrels, scooping up the stone emitting
Light, and throws it back out into the farmyard, far enough that the light doesn't penetrate into the barn. The interior of the barn is plunged back into darkness.
Chase, in the loft, sees the person who threw the stone suddenly backlit and an easy target. His arrow flies true and strikes that target -
villager 6 - in the chest. Then
Chase ducks behind the haybales again.
Shield in one hand and battleaxe in the other, enraged
Reptile leaps the barrels just behind
Myrtha, intending to mirror her action and shove
Villager 2 out of the way to close the doors. But the split-second the barbarian is behind the fighter gives Villager 2 time to brace himself, and he resists the push.
Reptile (still enraged) and
Villager 2 are in close quarters combat (melee)! Chain shirt jangling,
Villager 2 tries to whack
Reptile with his spear...but flailing with one hand, he's unable to land a solid blow.
Villager 1 comes to his senses and rushes to stab Reptile in the doorway! The speartip gouges into the barbarian's side, but the hapless villager's eyes widen with horror as
Reptile feels no effect!
OOC:
For the purposes of description, I'm going to narrate that any blow that would've hit Reptile if he didn't have Unarmored Defense (ie, it's blocked by his CON mod) is an attack that lands but that has no effect. Mechanically, the attacks do NOT hit.
But then,
Reptile smells something foul. A green, scaly humanoid creature steps around the corner and through the open doorway into the darkness of the barn, its flat, noseless face parting to reveal a lipless mouth full of jagged teeth pointing in many different directions. This is what the party briefly saw in the darkness as
Villager 7. As the
reptilian attacker nears Reptile, it raises long arms that end with webbed hands with sharp claws instead of nails. Due to the stench,
Reptile is overcome with nausea and is POISONED. However,
Villager 7 finds itself still unable to savage the barbarian with its claws or tear him with its teeth (it missed with all 3 attacks).
Theran leaps into motion as soon as he sees the green monster step into view, hurdling the barrels and drawing upon the power of the land itself. There is a concussive blast of force as he shouts; dust and hay sprinkle down from the loft above him, and the whole barn shudders with the impact. The monstrous "villager" is flung backward by the detonation.
Villager 7 takes 3 thunder damage.
With an arrow in his chest,
Villager 6 stumbles and staggers backwards to where the
Light stone was thrown. With trembling fingers, he picks it up, but then, belying his obvious injury, his shout booms over the barnyard, his voice echoing off of the buildings
"ORLANE FOOLS! YOU CANNOT STOP US! WE WILL DESTROY YOUR TOWN AND STEAL AWAY YOUR CHILDREN!" Then he weakly tosses the shining rock back toward the barn. It lands just short of the open door, in front of Villager 7. Still, the illumination shines through the open doorway;
Reptile,
Myrtha,
Theran, and Villagers 1, 2, and 7 are in
bright light,
Aanbo, Villager 3, and Villager 6 are in
dim light.
Chase remains
in darkness in the loft.
[ +- ] Barnyard at the end of round two
Note: Chase is above everyone else, in the hayloft. All the other creatures are on the ground level.
Note 2: The northern/left door of the barn is closed, the southern/right door of the barn is open.
Note 3: The little yellow circle on the ground by the door is the
Light stone which is illuminating the front half of the ground floor of the barn.
23 - Joseph (4/13)
18 - Myrtha (12/12)
18 - Villagers 3 & 4
17 - Aanbo (19/19)
15 - Chase (11/11)
12 - Reptile (14/15) RAGING
12 - Villagers 1 & 2
11 - Villager 7 (stinky monstrous humanoid)
7 - Theran (13/13)
7 - Villagers 5 & 6
