The first of Lharvion

[Hyozo]

As the cloud of smoke comes closer, you begin to see a rodent-like form behind the smoke. Apparently taking no notice of your group, it attempts to run straight toward the fields behind you. Some of the farmers seem to notice the smoke and run toward the far-edges of the fields.

For GimliFett

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You recognise it almost instantly. The creature is known as an ash rat, a pest which occasionally shows up in civilised areas. While it is rather weak physically, it is treated as a major threat due to it's immense body heat which can ignite nearly anything it touches.

To anybody who hasn't done so yet, roll initiative.

[GimliFett]

Bastiaan Ventre

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HP 9/9; AC 15, t12, ff 13

Continuing his intercept course, Bastiaan calls out to the others. "It's an ash rat. Trouble and then some!" He huffs as he fires of an arrow at the creature. "They spit fire, have burning skin and the smoke protects them somewhat!"

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Spend 1 Inspiration Point for +Int mod (+2) attack.
Attack: (1d20+4)[13]; if I can move to within 30' before shooting, PBS comes into play: +1 more to hit.
Crit: (1d20+4)[10]; if I can move to within 30' before shooting, PBS comes into play: +1 more to hit.
Damage: (1d6)[2]; if I can move to within 30' before shooting, PBS comes into play: +1 more to damage.

iceddragons:

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If I've overstepped the bounds of information I got from my knowledge check just let me know and I'll edit. Will you be making the concealment rolls for our attacks? If not, here's mine: (1d100)[12]

[Breten]

Initiative: (1d20+2)[5]

Running forward Rhabin attempts hit the creature with an arrow.

To Hit: (1d20+2)[13] (+1 if in 30ft)
Damage:(1d8)[1]
Conceal: (1d100)[7]

[Rumda]

double post

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* post roll count doesn't match database

[Rumda]

Merash
drawing his crossbow merash fires a bolt towards the ash rat

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attack - (1d20+3)[16]
crit - (1d20+3)[19]
damage - (1d8)[5]
critdamage - (1d8)[1]
if in 30'sneakattack - (1d6)[6]
conceal - (1d100)[21]

[Miraqariftsky]

"Grandmother Wolf!" Khurr swears as sees the unearthly form of the ash rat. Hissing through clenched teeth, she hauls back on her spear, taking a bead on the grey grubber .

Her eyes burn with a fierceness born of an almost beastly protectiveness of those she had grown to cherish. "Ya bloody bugger! Ya ain't burnin' nuthin' whilest I'm around! Have at ye!"

While her eyes track the sharpened shaft of ashwood sail through the air toward the brimstone-scented beast, her supple legs take her hopping backwards a couple of feet. The bare, hardened soles of her feet scrape against the hard-packed, dusty ground as she draws another spear from her wooden quiver.

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(1d20+2)[17] attack roll
(1d20+2)[14] crit threat
(1d6)[3] damage

[MorkaisChosen]

Hammer moves immediately into action, running towards the beast to try and stop it getting any firther. He throws a quick punch, but concentrates mainly on protecting himself from its attacks.

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Move and fight defensively. Attack: (1d20-3)[5]
Damage: (1d6+1)[3]

[KIDS]

Chiron

Chiron, deciding that anything actually named "Ash" would not be the best thing to fight with fire (despite the old saying), approaches in a wary stance. With a decieving change that one would expect from his kind, the last few steps he surges forward, ducks and cuts from below, positioning the blade to pass through his own shadow where it will gain the energy needed to strike the beast and disorient it.

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attack Clinging Shadow Strike - (1d20+3)[21]
dmg scimitar - (1d6+2)[5]
dmg shadow strike - (1d6)[5]
The creauture, if it is hit, must make a DC 14 Fortitude Save or suffer a 20% miss chance on all attacks for 1 round.
HP 10, AC 18, Fort +2, Ref +5, Will +5, Fire Resist 5

[Hyozo]

I need to make a few rolls first...

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Kuhr-concealment - (1d100)[62]
Hammer-concealment - (1d100)[94]
Chiron-concealment - (1d100)[28]

Ash rat-initiative - (1d20+8)[25]

The rat attempts to run past all of you, but Chiron quickly strikes it with a nearly fatal blow, and the attacks that follow manage to slay the unusual beast. About a minute later, the militiaman approaches your group. Thanks for stopping that rat. it showed up near the forge, where I was stationed. I tried to stop it myself, but it was too fast." he explains.

[Breten]

It seems the forges and ovens are acting as portals. We may have to shut them down for a time or we will soon be overrun. Rhabin muses. But the town can not go without fire for long. People must eat afterall.

[MorkaisChosen]

Hammer replies, "We can set guards on the ovens and forges- Warforged best, we need no sleep or food."

[GimliFett]

Bastiaan Ventre

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HP 9/9; AC 15, t12, ff 13

Bastiaan beams at the armsman, clapping a friendly gloved hand onto his shoulder. "No worries. It's what we're here to do!" He draws another arrow and nocks it on his bow. "You'd best return to your post. Which reminds me. Maybe we can get whistles for those posted indoors? It might help." He pauses a moment, closing his eyes and enjoying the breeze that tosses his wavy hair about. He opens them up again. "Maybe we should check with Brevis on that before something else occurs? If nothing else, maybe things can be set in motion to get the whistles sooner rather than later."

[Hyozo]

The guard adresses Rhabin "That may be the case, but I doubt that was what happened this time. It wasn't in the forge, just near it." When Bastian suggests he return to his post, he nods and says "You're right, If I stay away too long some other problem may arise." He begins to walk back into town.

Noticing that the smoke has died off, the farmers who had run return totheir fields.

[Rumda]

Merash
well, in any case we should prepare for what may come through anywhere nearby

[Miraqariftsky]

Goldfang bounds forward but slows warily as he nears the grey-gutted beast. Finally steeling his nerve, he lunges and wrenches his mistress' spear from the smouldering carcass and bounds back to her, presenting the weapon like an oversized stick--- which it actually is.

Khurr pats the dog affectionately and sheathes the weapon in her back-slung wooden quiver. Turning to the others, she snorts and says, "Ya know, mebbe 'tis a good idea ta make some way o' gettin' water quicklike ta these 'ere places? Water allus beats fire, y'know..."

[KIDS]

Chiron, untouched by his part in slaying the runaway elemental, or at least outwardly so, takes a moment to regain his technique. Lowering the blade to reflect the sun back into his own shadow, he slowly edges it around until the sunlight passes across him and disappears on his feet like an eclipse. Satisfied with the small ritual, he looks to the group to make a decision. "This one came in from the inner circle," he comments. "Perhaps we should stay in the fields some more unless we have other orders, to make sure none come in from the outside."

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using Adaptive Style to "recover" Shadow Blade Technique, all other maneuvers the same

[GimliFett]

Bastiaan Ventre

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HP 9/9; AC 15, t12, ff 13

Nodding, Bastiaan turns back to the others as the guard departs. "A couple of buckets of water aren't gonna do much, I don't believe. We're better off patrolling the edges of the fields for runaways. Although, the more I think of it the better I like the whistle idea for those within town. Maybe we can pop in to see Brevis when our rounds take us near there?" He draws another arrow from his quiver and nocks it, but does not draw the string back.

[Miraqariftsky]

Khurr sighs wearily then spits at the sun-cracked ground. She whistlingly beckons to Goldfang then sets off again, trudging along with the rest of the patrol. "Hoy, Bastiaan. Um, yeps, here I arsks again... can we eat them rats... er, ash-rats? Are they already cooked inside?"

[GimliFett]

Bastiaan Ventre

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HP 9/9; AC 15, t12, ff 13

Bastiaan stares at Khurr for a long moment, before blinking twice and grinning at the shifter. "Probably not a good idea. I think they're elemental-based, so no real innards or meat to eat, as I understand it." He shakes his head. "You're welcome to try and skin it or check it out, just make sure it won't set fire to anything as you do."

[MorkaisChosen]

Hammer speaks up, asking, "Do you need food now, or are you checking for the future?"

His features express little, but he does seem to be holding up to that promise to pay more attention to social matters...

[Rumda]

Merash
Well you know shifters they'll eat anything and there always hungry...

[Miraqariftsky]

"Hey! I heard that, bucko!" says Khurr in indignation. Coming up behind Merash, she half-punts, half-pinches his posterior using her foot. "I resent that! It's not just food we're hungry for, ya meaty Merashee..." Flouncing forward, her skirts swaying with her hips, she throws a wild wink at him then shakes her head, making her still-wet hair whip about.

Chuckling softly, she reaches Hammer and Bastiaan and says to them, "Naaah, methinks I'll pass on that one, thankee. I likes me meat rare, not charred. But yeah, when's lunch? If'n we ain't a-stoppin', well, who wants some milk..."

Reaching into her satchel, she brings out the ever-so-lightly roasted milk snake. "...snake?"

[GimliFett]

Bastiaan Ventre

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HP 9/9; AC 15, t12, ff 13

Blanching just a bit, Bastiaan shakes his head. "No thanks," he chuckles. "I had a full breakfast. Eat like a king at breakfast, a prince at lunch and a pauper at dinner. That's what my dad always said." The young man seems to drift off for a moment, deep in thought.

[MorkaisChosen]

Hammer looks confused. "Logically, would it not be better to eat like a king at every mealtime?"

[KIDS]

Still refusing to wither under the sun's glare, Chiron knows that wandering aimlessly around the fields will provide them with little useful work to do. He feels somewhat out of place with a company like this, though he can't say whether it is out of a sense of superiority or inferiority. Why should of all the people he be thinking that anyways? He tries to shake off the uncomfortable thought and smiles at Hammer's comment. "Logically, indeed. But we are erratic creatures... and I would do just the same about meals."

[Rumda]

merash

Catching up with the rest of the party just in time to hear hammers statement, merash turns to the warforged and says

And besides if everyone ate like kings all the time how would the kings eat?

[GimliFett]

Bastiaan Ventre

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HP 9/9; AC 15, t12, ff 13

Shaking his head as if to clear it, Bastiaan looks back at the warforged. "Logically? Hmm. We're not exactly logically created, as far as I've ever seen. We're not very efficient, generally. See we need the most sustenance at our peak performance times, basically throughout the day. Overeating leads to sluggishness and other issues, in my experience, and eating too much before bed usually leaves me feeling...off in the morning." He shrugs and leads the group onward.

[MorkaisChosen]

Does a note of humour enter Hammer's voice? "It stands to reason that you created us, then- it looks to me that the Warforged are far more effective than you born races."

[GimliFett]

Bastiaan Ventre

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HP 9/9; AC 15, t12, ff 13

The young human scowls as he looks back at the warforged. "More effective at killing perhaps. And maybe other things. But what do you know of love? Of a good wine?" Bastiaan snaps at Hammer, then seems to return to himself, smiling once more. "Sorry about that. Really. Heat's making me irritable, I guess."

[Hyozo]

Time passes, and eventually Brevis leads a group of other militiamen to the fields. "You've been out here for a while. Kell and his partners will take your place." After the militiamen take their positions, Brevis continues "I've heard you saw combat today. Would one of you mind giving some more details?"