[i]Agreed.[/i]

After Mr. Lake offered insight to the reach of his arcane arsenal, the cleric aptly provided roles and tactics to encapsulate the troupe guarding the sanctuary’s rear. Quickly, sand saturated the atmosphere, carried thriftly towards the opposing campfire, swirling tendrils of silt, instantly impregnating draconic pineal glands, the thrones of their cerebral penumbrae. Half a dozen succumbed to the mage’s Orphic hymns of Sleep, mystical intoxication prompting immediate slumber and torpor amid the nemeses. A curious pair of the remaining Dionysian eight began to tred and investigate the origin of the Thracian languor of their partners.  

[color=fff200]"Whenever... our time is short to attack."[/color]

Borne from primal instinct, Brannor’s reflexive predisposition already knocked an arrow, shelling the metallic head into the smoke, with a stringent pluck from his longbow. In concert with a distant human’s pain-ridden screech, the paladin, in short order, unsheathed his blade, equipped to engage the throng. 

[color=00aeef]“Fret not, las.”[/color] Embracing his staff and shield, the pirate beckoned the large fanged root within his clenching fist to simmer with anger. The ground trembling beneath the soles of his plagiarized soul, as if the very earth was ‘bout to shift in aggregate before him.

The tethered tongue-ring licked Xaron's pale, vermillion borders, seething in the dusky moonlight, peppered by intermittent shadows cast by the floating raven, high above.

[color=ed1c24][b]“Nightmares will surface. Wounds will reopen. These specters will know their graves within this hill.”[/b] [/color] 

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Torus’ Initiative roll is [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/2053]19.[/url]

As a bonus action, [i]Shillelagh[/i] is cast. 

His readied action will be to creep within a 10 foot scope behind Brannor, Orchid and Kyra. For his free interact object, he will raise one of his waterskins (10 lbs full of water) for his familiar to later clasp with both of its claws on its turn, for which when overhead a foe, the crow will drop the makeshift watery anvil, with Torus employing [i]Shape Water[/i] to freeze midair.

The raven has its own turn. Its initiative is [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/2054]13.[/url]

AC: 14 (with shield)
HP: 7/7
Cantrips: Mold Earth, Minor Illusion, Shape Water, Shillelagh
Spells: None, except Find Familiar’s special features.
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