Report for June 22nd, 2024
The party:
- Jurgen, human Ranger 4
- Boglar, half-orc Fighter 3 / Assassin 3
- Vortigern, dwarf Fighter 4 / Thief 5
- His henchmen, Runa (human Magic-User 3) & Ingrid (human Ranger 3)
- Rowan, human Magic-User 5
- His henchmen, Freya (human Fighter 3) & Rikka (human Fighter 3)
- Four mercenary pikemen hired by the group
The party sets out to complete Jurgen's training quest so that his dues are cheaper, traveling 10 miles to camp outside the marsh, some few miles off from where the lizardfolk hovel had been dug out. They'd previously started clearing the hovel but had to retreat due to wounds; Jurgen had been seriously wounded and was bleeding out before being stabilized.
During the midnight watch, Boglar, thanks to his infravision, sees the heat profile of a pack of nine lions approaching the camp. He wakes everyone up with a shout, then lights and tosses a torch in the general direction of the pack. Lions here are mechanically Large, have an average of 28 HP, and attack three times with a hefty bonus to hit.
The others begin grabbing their weapons to either groggily charge forward or start firing arrows while both magic-users begin casting sleep, which proves ineffective against the lions (due to having 6 hit dice), but one dies during this exchange. Over the course of two rounds (two minutes in the fiction), two more lions die, two of the mercenaries have died, and both Ingrid & Freya are looking heavily wounded.
Rowan decides to take a risk and casts lightning bolt, originating it to the side of the melee and hoping to cut it through the melee and not hit an ally. The general ratio of Lion:Party was 2:1, which he accepts, and I roll a bunch of d3s. Miraculously, no party members are hit, and the fight is over.
They take stock of wounds, and send the two wounded henchmen back to the village to begin resting. The rest of them soldier on to the lizardfolk lair, where they quickly find that the monsters have cleared out and moved on. Quest complete.