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Upon leaving Under mountain from a gate in the Fat Mans keep, the hero's have only a single night respite, and then are attacked in the predawn hour by orcs and other things....

Tantos Vek, failed paladin:

"I wonder if the Fatman has come to get his treasure chest back," Vek rasps with merry malice. "Fight fire with fire, I always say."

Vek's sword slides from its scabbard. The grim warrior fans out, giving the wizards plenty of room to operate as he tries to flank the orcs and hack them asunder.

Glimble will cast bless on the group feeling fatefully lucky to be alive after a fireball flew at him. "Gond watch over us all."

Roseheart

[1d100] = 68

Enoka:

Hurt, Enoka cast Cure Light on herself.

Cure Light Wounds [1d8] = 6

OK, Vek starts off toward the original flanking direction. Does anybody follow him?

Enoka casts a quick heal spell, still in progress. Tella and Glimble are hunkering, Garl is nowhere to be seen, but is probably close, and roseheart tried to figure out where the fireballs came from but isnt 100% confident. It looked like at least one came from slightly behind your course, but you aren't sure. The other came from near where Enoka's entangle spell is still live.

The flames continue to spread, there may end up being a forest fire unless something intervenes.

Roseheart picks up the chest and follows after Vek "let's get into the open and draw out the enemy - they know we are here but we can't see THEM!"

Tella - Elf Mage

Agreeing with Roseheart she will help with the chest and run after Vek.

Glimble moves back out to open ground further from the woods.

Glimble, do you split away from the rest and begin heading toward the forest edge as before?

Vek is heading right at the enemy taking an arc, to try and throw them off balance, with Roseheart and Tella right behind him. Enoka, once you finish that heal spell will you follow tella?

I'm trying to draw them out not being a fool and running into the woods.

Glimble "I fail to see how running in after them draws them out..." the humble little gnome inventor priest says confused as to why everyone is rushing into the woods rather than acting as if to flee towards the road away from the woods as he is doing. "I prefer to live and fight another day rather that rush blindly to my death to an unknown number of foes."

Enoka will follow after Tella.

Darkmane wrote:Vek is heading right at the enemy taking an arc, to try and throw them off balance

I'm a little confused at the layout of the area. Vek wants to stay concealed by the foliage as long as possible while flanking the orcs. Thanks.

spanningtree wrote:OCC: Would it be possible to get a visual representation of the area, where the party is and where we think the baddies are? Right now its difficult to imagine, for me at least.

ooc: I'm just as confused as I was before as well the last image showed a road near the edge of a cliff in a grassy area we camped near the woods but not directly in them or so I had thought and now I am entirely lost on the area.

OK - real quick pause to organize, Glimble got off his bless spell (it takes 1 round). Enoka achieved her heal. You got attacked by fire balls from two different directions.

The end of your last battle occurred back out by the cliffs. You guys were pretty dosed out there so you made the decision to hike away from the ocean inland until the forest, to have cover while sleeping.

The forest seemed quite, safe so it is a bit baffling why a large organized force attacked you. They also seem to have magic using scouts...you could be dealing with the fat man or his agents again.

I'll sketch up some maps to give you guys perspective. You aren't that far from the forest edge, but in combat movement rate terms it is many rounds to get out completely.

Ok. Thanks. Will wait for maps.

Here is an ugly tactical map. You guys are the big circle. There is a fire in the center of this circle spreading outward now.

The two Xs close to you are your approximations of where these magic using scouts are.


The line of Xs at the top is the line of charging orcs, they still may take another two or three rounds to reach you. The lien of orcs would spread off the page in both dorections , it sounds like there are quite a few of them.

The arrow points toward the edge of the forest, it is the original direction you were heading.

Ugly map 2 - your estimate of where you are. Not to scale. You popped through the gate on the coastline near a road about thirty miles from what you believe to be waterdeep.

After the fight on the cliffs overlooking the ocean, you went northeast, crossing the road and heading into a small forest in the hills for cover.

This bad of orcs and other things appears to have tracked you into the forest. You tired to circle around them, but their magic using scouts must have alerted them to your maneuver, that's when combat ensued...