Shaldra~ZIn D&D5e~~Zin

[Tmd4772]

"Thank you" Brazensong replies, grabs the oranges the rushes out the grocery back to where that injured halforc was. Coming down the alley, he meets the halforc once again and peels then hands him the oranges, "Here you go, can i get your name by any chance?"

 

[Cyan_]

"Cade," he yawns. "You?" He takes an orange but his eyes flash wide as he realizes his pockets are feeling a little lighter. He eyes Brazensong suspiciously. "Did un' of you take mah coin?" he asks slowly, grabbing at his pockets to find that the pouch is indeed missing. He curses under his breath, muttering, "Knew I'd been mugged!"

 

[Grimsvald]

Greenstalker
Just as the woman begins to explain the detail to caring for these plants. “Sarah likes to sunbathe and plenty of water while Ce...” She is stoppes in her tracks. Everyone is. The city is shaken to its core by a thinderous explosion. Windows rattle and merchandise falls from shelves around you.

C Cyan_ & Tmd4772
Just as accusations begin to fly debris begins to fall. A huge wxplosion shakes the whole city. The two helping men run off in a hurry, probably with extra money in hand. A massive plume of smoke rises from the north side of the city and people begin to scream.

 

[Greenstalker]

Keaxusha tries to keep at least the catnips safe from shelves but he prioritize Sarah and Celie. He looks at woman and asks "Arre youu okay meow" The question was just a formality though. After shaking stops he puts Sarah and Celie on floor at a rather safe spot. "I will come back for them please keep them safe for me" He drops another two silver piece in palm of woman and dashes out to check what is going on. If he realizes the smokes and screams he will head to that direction.

Spoiler: dice results

Acrobatics result is 5+3=8
Perception result is 15+4=19

 

[Tmd4772]

"Those two must've taken your coin", Brazensong said spur of the moment to make Cade trust him[Persuasion: 21], though he wasn't sure. Unwilling to leave Cade sitting there where he could be struck by debris, he attempts to put his arm around his shoulder and assist him in walking...

 

[Cyan_]

[Insight: 14] Cade's face pulls into a frown, upset by the theft, but allows Brazensong to guide him. "The boom," he says quietly. He squints, the sound of screaming piercing his ears. "We should go help them," he says immediately (although his words are still coming out delayed). He gulps down a piece of orange, suddenly realizing how hungry he is...

 

[Grimsvald]

DoomyGloom
As you step through the temple’s threshold your hesitations linger. Intuition twists your gut and pumps cold blood to your numb fingertips. There is something wrong hanging heavy in the air here yet no one else feels it. You take a deep breath and scan the room with every sense.

When your eyes sweep the large prayer room you perceive nothing out of order. Uneven wooden floors are layed out under uncomfortable praying knees. Plain white walls bring notice to ornate armors on stands. This is the most interesting sight in the room, not unusual for most temples, but a temple to a pasifist god? It seems out of place.

Your nose twitches as it pulls in the sent of cheap insence burning and plates of flowers sitting in oils. Sandlewood and jasmin that are nearly overpowering. There is something else here....some smell that lays beneath it all. You venture a guess at sulfer or salts? You know that some purfume venders will salt there shops to open nasal passages for older customers to smell the product, but that has no place here.

Your ears bring you the evidence you craved. Beyond the genlte mumbles of prayer you hear paniced footsteps rushing towards the top floor, heavy breathing of a runner ready to scream. Someone charges into the opposite side of the room screaming, “Everyone run!”

The armors come free from the walls and start to cut down the priests as they rise off their knees to run. Heads roll and mayham breaks out. Noble or not you can trust in an orc to sense oncoming war.

As the young girl crosses the room she is consumed by the frey, only for a second. An old priest pulls her free from swinging steels and throws her into you. You both fall backwards and tumble down the steps. “Run!” He screams and blocks the door way you were just standing in. “Run for your lives!”

The girl grabs you and leads you down the steps at full clip. “Trust me, he means it.” The old man is quickly overwhelmed. As a dozen swords skewer him he glows bright as the sun. A defening boom turns the world black. You wake up at the bottom of the temple steps with ash and splints of wood raining down on you. The girl is crying, screaming and trying her damndest to pull you free from some stones that pin you down.

 

[Grimsvald]

Greenstalker
You nearly catch each plant, but save nothing. Each one shatters just beyond your grasp or just after your fingera lick the side of it. To an onlooker it may even look as though you were slapping away each item as it fell. Your purchase is safe. As you turn it over to the care of the shop owner she agrees to hold them for you and ducks behind her counter with the plants to shelter herseld from debris.

Tmd4772 and C Cyan_

Cade can see that the man helping him was not the thief. Most likly the two men running away were the thieves, but this explosion was more than a perfect oportunity to get away. There was no catching them in this condition. Cade could feel the oranges at work. Things were begining to speed up.

 

[Cyan_]

As Cade's mind clears, he now takes the lead, pulling Brazensong to the source of the explosion, an area of the city he had never really gone before. "Never got your name," he says to the fellow half-orc, intending to walk at a brisk pace.

 

[Greenstalker]

Keaxusha runs towards where people are running from not the smartest thing to do but than again Keaxusha was not the smart type of person and he was already in one of curiosity fits that is typical to his race. It can be even said this explosion and panic it created was perfect divine intervention for Keaxusha to not start a random buying spree of useless but interesting objects in the market. He thanked Talicid for his guidance under his breath as he approaches to source of all this chaos.

 

[Grimsvald]

All of you come together at a single point, the temple. The colossal building is left in ruins. It is just a tall stone stairway to nothing. At the bottom of the stairs, where you find yourselves, there is a young girl trying to pull someone from the wreckage. It is clear that she cannot do it on her own.
(Anyone who would like to help her may make a strength check with advantage.)

Stone, wood and steel debris rains down from above. There are a few places to take cover under building overhangs and beneath broken merchant stands. (Those who dont take cover must make a dexterity saving throw.)

 

[Cyan_]

Cade is quick to kneel next to the girl, his hands helping her to burrow through the wreckage, no questions asked [STR-check: 19]. It is a very good thing he's starting to move at full speed again. While he digs, signs of tension working his face, debris is free to fall down on him if he's not quick enough [DEX-save: 9]...

 

[Grimsvald]

Cade manages to pull the half orc from the pile of stone, but feels the sting of a falling rock slamming into his right shoulder. Bone cracks and the joint weakens. ( take 3 damage and do not add your strength mod to your main hand attacks until healed or long rest.)

At this time armored figures begin to push people out of their houses and kill them in the streets. People run, kneel and grovel while they are struck down. The number of foes building throughout the city is daunting. Even city guards are being overwhelmed and pushed back to their guard towers in the south end of town.

 

[Tmd4772]

Brazensong also attempt to dodge...[DEX:12]

Despite whether he's hit and as long as he's still conscious he rushes over to the half orc he helped earlier, "Are you ok?", Zen asks, "And my name is Brazensong by the way, you can call me Zen if you'd like."

 

[Cyan_]

Cade winces and clutches his shoulder, biting at his tongue to suppress an un-orc-like scream. "Glad to meet ya, Zen," he huffs out. As he watches the forces move throughout the city, he pulls the fallen half-orc to his feet and asks, "Can you stand? We got ta move." He slides himself under a merchant stand to avoid further injury and urges the others to do the same. The back of his mind is surprised at the interesting coincidence that they are all half-orc. Well, besides the girl. Looking at her, he asks, "You okay? Where your parents at?"

 

[Greenstalker]

Keaxusha hides behind a corner of a closeby house and watches two half-orc and a little girl trying to help another half-orc and getting hit by debris in the process he yells towards them. "come here quick meow" he does not like orcs because a tribe overrun his homeland in the past but he is not that dense to count half-ocs as ones responsible and he might even consider some other orc tribes quiet reasonable. Keaxusha tries to analyse situation but it seems there is only two course of action. Either run out of city which might be leading to a death trap or try to shelter in some sort of keep and it ill be easier to achieve either with a group rather than alone. He waits for half-orcs reaction to his call and if they ignore him he will be heading towards them. If they approaches him he will wait them. In either case he draws his light crossbow and rubs the tiger eye crystal over his fingerless glove that acts as his arcane focus ready to cast a spell if needed.

 

[Tmd4772]

Following Cade under the merchant's overhangs, Zen states "You should probably worry more about yourself at the moment, the girl seems unharmed", he says in reference to Cade seemingly gripping his arm in pain. "Can I heal you two?" Brazensong asks his fellow half-orcs.

 

[Grimsvald]

Just as Brazensong introduces himself a large splint of wood falls at him like a spartan spear. He is able to quickly jerk himself backwards to dodge the splint and it shatters on the stone road. When Cade rushes under cover he immediately hears a crashing on the surface of the cart, ruble, dust and steel raining down. The wooden cart cracks slightly to let its new inhabitant know that it has a life span to be spent wisely. The girl struggles to hear Cade over the falling debris and he must give effort to hear her reply. Because of this she makes a simple gesture, pointing to the temple that is no longer at the top of the stairs. "They were there..." She says following Brazensong under cover with Cade.

Keaxusha is approached by two well armored guards, "Duck under our shields and we will guide you and your friends to safety!" They yell up to him. Even with his generous slouch he stands a bit taller than each of them. It will take some cat-like dexterity to pose under their protection and walk. As a few falling stones clang against the guards shield, it sounds like it may be worth the effort. Another guard trudged up beside them and raised his shield, this one had obviously taken a battering already. This one insisted that we wait for the others before continuing to the "Dizzy Dwarf"

Calvin did recognize these creatures to some extent. There were animated armors in some fashion, but they did not mirror the ones he had read about in his books. Of course, he found that very few things did mirror their scholarly descriptions. There was something more to these walking, killing suits. There was a sense of personal purpose not handed down to them by a creator. A feeling of naturally occurring arcana, not conjuration or necromantic play. A swirling turquoise smoke churns within these armors, that was what made them unique. They may be vulnerable to electricity, but spilling forth this essence would be there gold coin from split purse. Maybe, just maybe, as beautiful to his orcish royal eyes.

 

[Greenstalker]

Keaxusha is approached by two well armored guards, "Duck under our shields and we will guide you and your friends to safety!" They yell up to him. Even with his generous slouch he stands a bit taller than each of them. It will take some cat-like dexterity to pose under their protection and walk. As a few falling stones clang against the guards shield, it sounds like it may be worth the effort. Another guard trudged up beside them and raised his shield, this one had obviously taken a battering already. This one insisted that we wait for the others before continuing to the "Dizzy Dwarf"

After guards arrive with their shields and Keaxusha realizes he was still being taller than them with an instinct or was it intuition he took almost a prowling position His hands were almost touching to ground and he was looking like a real cheetah ready to pounce with a moments notice now. It was a stance his people usually hated tabaxi were proud to be walking on two legs and they hated to be confused as big cats but maybe because Keaxusha being a more of a cheetah bloodline he always felt more natural in this stance. He looked at direction of half-orcs once again and than yelled with all his might "What are you fools waiting for at there an invitation to high heavens dinner party? If so it is raining on you. If you don't want to dine with your ancestors come over here quick you damn fools" admittedly Keaxusha's insult vocabulary was not well versed but he was not in the mood either. He looks at falling debris and choose one that was about to hit the wooden cart that half-orcs and little girl hiding and he sends a beam of pure gold light hoping to hit it or some other debris that is falling on them.

Spoiler: Eldritch blast with a flavor for celestial dice results

Ignore second d20 roll i messed up with it first rolls total is 10 not sure if it hits or not so i am rolling damage anyway,
Range:120 ft, to hit: 5+5=10 damage =10

 

[Grimsvald]

Greenstalker
Keaxusha’s celestial beam does not hit the target intended, but it does vaporize several pieces of passing debris. Wood splints turn to cinder and stone worked down to hot dust. It saved the cart from a few devistating blows.

 

[Tmd4772]

"Great...." Brazensong says warily as the wizard eyed him weird.


Brazensong casts Cure Wounds and Heals Calvin for 5 health.
(I meant to type +3 for spell casting modifier)

 

[Greenstalker]

Keaxusha looks at Calvin with a disdain on his face. "Purrrfect a half-green half-gnomeow what could be meore annoying I am not surrre. Well name is Keaxusha and take it offensivvvve if you want but I only shake hands with people I traaade and with people I call frieeend. You can keep your pet to yourself too." He than looks back at little girl and other two half-orcs since guards waiting for them to move out he is debating just to move himself to this Dizzy Dwarf or wait along with guards. In the end he decided to wait for half-orcs since there is strength in numbers especially in this situation even if that numbers includes orc blood.

 

[Grimsvald]

When Gavin dramatically turns to cast Firebolt he stands face to base with a large wooden pillar threatening to crush him. His spell burst forth from his extended arm ripping the wooden pillar into spears with a thunderous crack. 8 uneven splints thrust into the ground around Gavin, each engulfed by flame. The caster flees this flaming prison to join the guards and Tabaxi.

Brazensongs healing cast does off well enough, but it was by no means his best work. Maybe it was the chaos around them, although he knows he has played his music in worse bars. Maybe the recipient had difficulty hearing his verbal component to the spells...no, both these logics were flawed, but there wasn't time to get it right. Only time to accept the result and move on.

Once everyone had gathered with the guards they begin to guide you southward through the city. Their shields prove essential in this journey, eventually looking like armor that survived a war. animated armors shambled out from damaged homes cutting down anyone they can before retreating back into cover, like honorless trapdoor spiders. An axe cleaves into the neck of one of guards protecting your party. He is dragged to the ground by the steel beared weapon and pulled screaming into a house. Another axe swinging enemy approaches from the opposite side, planning to thin your party defenses even more.

 

[Greenstalker]

Spoiler: Character Sheet

Keaxusha Windstalker

Keaxusha saw the dragged guard too late. He was amazed with what was happening in the city and was distracted by all the chaos. He couldn't prepare his spell fast enough to help the guard but he got aware of the one that was trying to flank them from opposite site. So he formed the glowing beam in his palm than it moved to crystal that was on his fingerless glove that he uses as a focus and he aimed it to axe swinging enemy coming from other side and shoots the golden beam into it hoping he can hit the target this time instead of a bystander.

Spoiler: Dice results

Initiative: 3+16= 19
Eldritch blast to hit: 5+11=16
Eldritch Blast Damage: 7

 

[Grimsvald]

Spoiler: Character Sheet

Keaxusha Windstalker

Keaxusha saw the dragged guard too late. He was amazed with what was happening in the city and was distracted by all the chaos. He couldn't prepare his spell fast enough to help the guard but he got aware of the one that was trying to flank them from opposite site. So he formed the glowing beam in his palm than it moved to crystal that was on his fingerless glove that he uses as a focus and he aimed it to axe swinging enemy coming from other side and shoots the golden beam into it hoping he can hit the target this time instead of a bystander.

Spoiler: Dice results

Initiative: 3+16= 19
Eldritch blast to hit: 5+11=16
Eldritch Blast Damage: 7

Because the enemy is souly focused on the guard you may make this attack with advantage. Give me a second attack roll.

Everyone else roll initiative as well.