Expedition: Fingers/Treasure of Yoldessi Plains- 30 Aug 2021

[Zhym]

How far is Fingers from the troll? Is he in a position to drop holy water on top of it?

[Marullus]

How far is Fingers from the troll? Is he in a position to drop holy water on top of it?

Sure. I'll give you a +1 for short range on the throw.

[Zhym]

Fingers reaches for a vial of holy water and rears back to throw it at the skeletroll. But the vial slips from his fingers and smashes on the stone catwalk.

"Dammit."

Holy water: [1d20+4] = 2+4 = 6

[onlyme]

Markd swings his staff, hoping to knock the troll away from the halfling.
Staff (thac0 14) [1d20+5] = 8+5 = 13 ; damage [1d8+5] = 1+5 = 6

Staff (thac0 14) [1d20+5] = 10+5 = 15 ; damage [1d8+5] = 3+5 = 8

[Alethan]

Bandy likewise swipes at the skeletal troll with his sword...

Penderyn Longsword THAC016 [1d20+2] = 8+2 = 10 Dam [1d8+2] = 1+2 = 3

But misses, tripping over some rubble...

[DavetheLost]

Hengist will swipe at the troll with his mace: Mace, +2 vs Undead, THAC0 18 [1d20+3] = 16+3 = 19
Damage [1d6+3] = 5+3 = 8

Had to make a new dice roller account

[Rusty Tincanne]

After the nimble halfling dodges clear and the troll skeleton rises, Winnie gasps and offers, Oh dear! Look out Bandy! much too late to be helpful. She holds her staff in front of her defensively and keeps Mrs. Dash near her.

[Marullus]

Fingers tosses a vial of holy water onto the nearby stones while Winnie shouts words of encouragement, holding back both hounds. The troll skeleton crunches Bandy hard in the side (-9), knocking the halfling's own blow off-kilter, the slicing blade going mostly between the unjoined ribs (-1, half-damage for slashing). Markd shatters bone into fragments as he pummels it with Cardinal Cathelon's staff (-6, -8) while Hengist steps forward and does the same with his mace (-8). The creature is heavily maimed, but still intent on the small hobbit who woke him.

(Actions!)

Date: 11:11am, 04 September 2021
Light: Winnie's continual light; daylight
Effects: None
Injuries: Bandy (moderately injured)

Troll Skeleton [1d20] = 16 [2d6] = 9

[onlyme]

Markd continues staffing the troll.
Staff (thac0 14) [1d20+5] = 13+5 = 18 ; damage [1d8+5] = 2+5 = 7
Staff (thac0 14) [1d20+5] = 11+5 = 16 ; damage [1d8+5] = 8+5 = 13

hoping it aint got another attack left in it.

(reroll, i assume?)
Initiative [1d6] = 2

[Zhym]

Fingers quickly considers his options. His longbow? Maybe if he hit the skeletroll with one of the limbs. But he doesn't have much hope for damage from an arrow. Besides, it might hit Bandy, Markd, or Hengist. Throw oil? Same problem—who knows what he'd hit? He glances down the wall, trying to judge whether he could climb down, unnoticed and hopefully concealed by his cloak, and attack the troll from behind. It doesn't seem likely.

Marullus, if I'm wrong about the "climb down and backstab" plan being improbable, tell me and I'll roll an attack. Otherwise, I think Fingers can only watch this round.

Initiative: [1d6] = 1

And no help there. Sorry about that.

[Rusty Tincanne]

Winnie keeps herself and the two dogs clear of the fighting, marveling at the strength behind Markd's swings as she does so. She also wonders why the cleric hasn't tried to turn the skeleton. Maybe it would aggravate the gargoyles? she muses. Then she looks up to be sure they are still.

Those are seriously impressive rolls, onlyme!

Fingers might know that Beith's Witches have the ability to produce flame 1x/day at will. So if she were to see him throw a flask of oil at the skeleton... Just saying.

[Alethan]

OOC: I assume it is still hitting after Bandy's bonus for fighting giant-type creatures?

Bandy gasps as the skeletal troll swipes at his side. "Bloody hell!"

He swipes at it again with his sword, not knowing what else to do...

Penderyn Longsword THAC016 [1d20+2] = 12+2 = 14 Dam [1d8+2] = 5+2 = 7

[Marullus]

OOC: I assume it is still hitting after Bandy's bonus for fighting giant-type creatures?

....just barely! Thanks for the reminder!

The skeletal troll swipes at Bandy again, but the tiny fellow is just too deft to be caught this time. Instead, Bandy's longsword (-4) and Markd's staff (-7, -13) both catch it at the same time, one going low and the other high. The bones shatter and the magic of animation leaves them, the fragments falling to the ground unmoving.

The group pauses a moment in expectation, but nothing else rises from the detrius of the stables.

Date: 11:12am, 04 September 2021
Light: Winnie's continual light; daylight
Effects: None
Injuries: Bandy (moderately injured)

Bandy and Markd have the exact same Dex... either would have killed it, but they both get honors, in this case.


Skeletal Troll [1d20] = 10 [2d6] = 11

[Alethan]

"Wow, either we've all shrunk a bit or that was a much larger skeleton than I'm used to seeing. Hopefully that was the only one!"

Wondering what sort of things might have been left behind by a...skeletal troll... Bandy does a search of the rubble and detritus inside the stable. Maybe it had a nice "dagger" or magical "ring" that a halfling could use as a sword or headband or some such thing...

[onlyme]

Markd hopes that the troll was the main event, and the gargoyles will now fly away seeing their leader destroyed.
He asks Bandy if he needs any help.

[Rusty Tincanne]

Winnie sighs in relief. She calls quietly to Fingers, letting him know Sprinkles is safe. He is a good boy! Stayed out of the way here with me and the Missus! Not wanting to make Mrs. Dash jealous, she praises her own dog as well. Yes, I know, you silly old dog, you. You were good too. She pets both dogs vigorously as the others search the rubble.

[Marullus]

Markd and Bandy sift through the collapsed detritus of the barn, such that it is. There is little remaining of value - only fragments that might be of interest to some historical researcher. You realize that even exposed bone should have broken down over so many centuries, had the troll skeleton not been held together by magic. You find only one thing of interest - amidst tiny fragments of horse-bone and the rusted bits of what might have once been plated mail, you find a still-intact and functional horseshoe that resisted corrosion. Searching around further you find the other three, giving a matched set of them.

Date: 11:40am, 04 September 2021
Light: Winnie's continual light; daylight
Effects: None
Injuries: Bandy (moderately injured)

[Zhym]

"Everlasting hoofstoppers. Cool."

Fingers glances back up to the gargoyles. "Okay, would someone climb up here and watch my back while I check that lock?"

[Alethan]

Bandy marvels for a moment at the horseshoes before stowing them in his pack.

Eyeing the remains of the undead troll, he mutters, "Those bones should have disintegrated long ago, yet they remain, even after the skeleton troll is dead..."

Then he remembers the breach in the wall they spied when they first landed in the courtyard...

To the right (south) of the keep doors are the collapsing remains of a large wooden stables, easily suitable for scores of horses. Opposite the keep on the west side of the courtyard is a three story stone gatehouse, the portcullis and gates still secured and intact beneath, leading out to the outer city. To the left (south) of the gatehouse but still on the west-facing side is a breach in the inner bailey wall. About 40' of the wall is collapsed into utter rubble, the rubble field strewn out in both directions, the glint of bone and rusted armor vaguely discernable among the hunks of toppled stonework.

"We should avoid the rubble from the breach in the wall. We saw more bone there, which should have also disintegrated long ago! Unless, of course, you lot enjoy fighting skeletal trolls..."

He looks over his wounds from the recent battle and adds, "By the way, Hengist.. any chance you could take care of some of these wounds with that staff?"

[onlyme]

Markd agrees to follow Fingers.