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Yon stands renewed after receiving aid from his fellow cleric. The priest concentrates on the bugbear facing Kragg, closes his eyes, and mutters a prayer to the Father of Light. A radiant glow slowly spreads from his outstretched hands, banishing the shadows of the darkened clearing. The tranquil light grows in its brilliance, and with a blinding flash, it suddenly appears right before the bridge of the bugbear's nose. The hideous creature screams in outrage as it paws blindly at its eyes with gnarled claws.
Brother Wil uses the momentum from his previous attack to gracefully flow into another deadly movement. The monk slams a well-placed elbow into the blind bugbear's throat, and the punishing blow effectively crushes its windpipe. The thing gurgles through its crushed larynx, stumbles for a few paces, and falls heavily to the forest floor.
Taking up his flail to attack the last remaining bugbear, Luna swings with all his might, but he is unable to connect with the vile beast.
Phineas adds another arrow into the back of the bugbear, and as it claws and scrabbles to remove the shafts, Favin strikes out with his mace. The cleric of Lunia barely nicks the brute.
As the battle unfolds, Osprey reaches into his belt pouch and withdraws a pinch of sand, a rose petal, and a live cricket. He rubs the sand between this thumb and index finger, sprinkling it upon the ground before him. He then proceeds to wrap the cricket in the rose petal and places them both under his tongue. The elf's voice takes on a somnolent quality as he utters eldritch, arcane magicks used to send one’s enemies into a bewitched slumber. The final bugbear suddenly collapses like a bag of stones dropped into a lake.
Hex continues to fire daggers down at the mad hound, and one of the halfling’s stilettos strikes the dog squarely in the side. It quickly turns to bite at the dagger protruding from its flank, and with a series of shrill yelps, it rushes off into the forest with its tail between its legs.
In the aftermath of the skirmish, the group takes inventory of their wounded and assesses their situation.
With all the conjuring of magicks, Aric is very unsettled. The barbarian stands apart from the others, glowering at the priests and the elf with smoldering eyes beneath a heavy brow.
Duran approaches the bleeding and battered Kragg, “Here my friend. Allow Lunia to assuage your pain.” The cleric begins to recite a prayer in a sing-song voice. The dwarf's wounds remain, but at least they appear to have stopped bleeding (1 HP healed).
