Earc picks up and evaluates the Ellurian steel shortsword with running horse engraving while waiting for Bianca and Winnie to deal with the nursing gnoll mothers and pups. Funil, Drunil, and Olaf also remain invisible, though the steam from the hot spring pool whorls a bit giving clues to their locations. Issachar, having crushed the skulls and collected the ears of the gnolls, washes off his weapons in the water. Ms. Dash whines pitifully behind Winnie as she steps towards the hyena-scented doorframe and Pony the mule sniffs distainfully at the carnage, sniffing but not drinking the pool.
Winnie whispers soothing words, then pushes the door open. She smiles comfortingly at the gnolls, who appear to summarily ignore her. The gnolls look alarmed as the door swings open, revealing the two young sorceresses and allowing Olaf to sneak through the doorway, doing his best to not clink and jangle. The gnolls one showing the sags of middle age, the other much younger, are not fooled, narrowing their eyes and looking at the place where Olaf stopped when Bianca begins talking.
Bianca explains in gnoll, a plaintive sounding request. The gnolls respond poorly to whatever it is she said. They snarl ferociously, roughly pushing their pups out of the way behind them. The older one kicks the door closed forcefully on Winnie and Bianca while the younger one lunges at the invisible Olaf. Winnie is caught flatfooted, the door slamming closed before Bianca can intercede.
Okay, they win initiative for the first action, which shapes how this unfolds. Olaf and the younger gnoll act simultaneously in the room on round 1. (Olaf act.) The rest of the group needs to deal with a barred dwarven stone door before they can intercede.
Date: 2:10pm, 18 July 2021
Light: Torchlight in sconces
Effects: Invisibility potions until 2:20pm
Injuries: None