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Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 03 HP: 21/ 21 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: N/A Location: On the Path-Location of the Combat Action: Healing Light 2d6 healing on V resulting in 7 hp healed Bonus Action: N/A Reaction: N/A

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Alright, getting off the rock was a bit more trickier than getting on top of it. Well not really, as soon as Kosara was comfortably high she hopped off, testing the marvelous soles of her new boots! The conclusion of the said field practical testing was that they were good shoes, she didn’t feel any pebbles or branches underneath her feet. Which was not something her usual slipper styled shoes would have accomplished! V deserved even more healing!

The white tiefling studied the group that was now doing their thing between examining the scene and looting bodies for goodies. She might join up with them later, but for now she had other stuff to do. Important stuff though she did halt mid stride for a moment when she saw Kathryn take off part of the armor, not enough to even enough skin! Still THAT was some impressive display of physical prowess. Turning over a wagon by one’s self wasn’t something just anybody could do. With that impressive display over with, Kosara happily dashed over to V, haling a step away, watching the woman with a knife in her hand cutting off ears from goblins. The pale tiefling was a good girl and her adoptive family back home taught her to never disturb a person who had a knife and was cutting things. It was a recipe for disasters and wounds.

“Hey, V, can you halt for just a bit, I need to heal you.” Kosara asked when she saw the woman done with the ear she was currently cutting. Once she was sure she had the bard’s attention and it wasn’t going to be a surprise she moved closer and then gave the bard a careful hug, closing her eyes and focusing her energy, channeling it through herself and into the musician. As the golden light flowed into V, the wounds would begin healing rapidly. It was one of Kosara’s more favorite abilities she had learned/gained. Using the regular spells was all fine and dandy, but the healing hugs were the best! After the celestial energy finally stopped, Kosara pulled away, studying V’s wound, before looking at the knife and the ears.” Why are you taking the ears anyways? Wouldn’t the heads be a better thing to show? Could mount them on spikes and everything.” She asked with innocent curiosity.” Not like we lack the space to carry them with the wagons. I can help! Just need to find an axe!”

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 03 HP: 21/ 21 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: N/A Location: On the Path-Combat Map(I8) Action: Celestial(Eldrich) BLAST! Bonus Action: N/A Reaction: N/A

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Goblins were dying left and right, some in places she hadn’t seen, one was in a tree? Well… victory was gained! Kosara proudly grinned widely, taking a heroic posture at the sight of victory. All was good in the world. At least until a whack was heard from within the coffin and Kosara jolted, looking at it with a curious and careful expression. Was this some kind of evil undead? Was it the mummies again? Surely not, mummies this far from the desert shouldn’t be a thing! Ohh it was a coffin so maybe it was one of those vampires she heard stories about, but… it was day? She readied herself to attach as Marita decided to help the thing out and open the coffin with her spiritual dagger.

It was a… “COFFIN GOBLIN!” Kosara exclaimed in surprise as the thing hopped out of the coffin and bolted past the group. It wasn’t very fast, but it was loud and Kosara really wasn’t liking it’s tone! It sounded rude! Then again it was probably drunk. Many drunkards didn’t have nice mouths. Wait she shouldn’t be searching for excuses for the goblins! No, no, no! Then in a shocking surprise more Goblins revealed their presence by shooting at the bard!” V!” Kosara shouted in surprise as the arrows hurt the woman.” I’m going to heal you in a bit!” She called, but before she could actually do anything V whacked the bastards with a spell that did something nasty to them. Actually hearing what the woman said it was understandable! That coat was indeed looking very costly! The replacement cost would be a lot! Kosara would be similarly pissed if her dancing clothes were damaged. Where can she find cloths that thin and soft this far north!?

In any case, the ambushers were executed with shattering efficiency! Good, Kosara then spotted the Coffin Goblin that was running away.” OI! I said not to run!” She shouted after it and focused again. Performing the gestures and chanting the spell.” CELESTIAL BLAST!” The golden energy focused through her horns and then formed a crackling beam of golden energy that zapped through the air from her horns in an instant and struck the fleeing goblin dead center. Kosara made a sign of victory as the coffin goblin fell down not to move again. Maybe he should have stayed in the coffin…? In ANY case, the tiefling smiled, happy with herself. Her first proper fight without grandpa! Her grandpa was going to be so proud and she even struck them down with spells like he does! Horns power for the win! Granted in her mind she was kinda forgetting all the times Grandpa Horny Golden Horse tried to get her to fire spells with her hands instead of horns for versitility. Selective memory and all… weird that.

Still with the goblin down, she immediately turned to the most important thing right now.” Hold on, V! I’m going to heal you now!” She called, looking at which way was the better for descending the rock. She had to heal her new bardic friend!

@Sigil TAG!

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 03 HP: 21/ 21 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: N/A Location: On the Path-Combat Map(I8) Action: Celestial(Eldrich) BLAST! Bonus Action: N/A Reaction: N/A

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Having taken a second to study the effects of her attack had brought, Kosara realized that it wasn’t much after all. It had made them angrier!” Ahhaaaa! You still survive, villains!” She proclaimed, pointing her hand at them in loud voice, as the ambush had already ended and they were all well aware they were under attack. Thus without really meaning it, Kosara had turned into the rather vocal point of the attacking force. Taking on a heroic pointing stance at the goblin she had just showered with burning light of justice, she narrowed her eyes.

Her entire form lightly crouched, eyes locked onto the goblin her entire form hunched into almost a leaping stance. Light gestures were made with her free hand as golden sparkles gathered at her center point between her upper horns. Crackling noise of energy filled the air around her.” FACE THE FURY OF THE SANDS! CELESTIAL BLAST!” She chanted as all the golden crackling energy hovering between her horns was unleashed in a golden beam, streaking through the air between her and the goblin she was aiming. It was one of the first spells her Grandpa Horny Golden Horse taught her. To channel the fury of the divine! He later taught her how to make it even stronger and thus they were here. It was the thing he told her to use whenever she REALLY needed to help the people by obliterating forces of evil!

The golden crackling energy impacted the goblin and when it was over, the creature was down! Kosara raised her hand up towards the sun in sign of victory.” One has been smitten off the face of this world! YOU ARE NEXT, VILLAIN! NO NEED TO SURRENDER FOR I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND AND YOU CANNOT ESCAPE MY WRATH!” She added, pointing at the other goblin next to the one she just very bravely whacked with a beam of celestial energy… from over 30 feet away, from a huge tall rock… Like a real darn hero! Just like in the stories she was told(not) as a child.

TAG NOTE: @Lewascan2

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 03 HP: 21/ 21 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: N/A Location: On the Path-Combat Map(I6)->(I8) Action: Sacred Flame Bonus Action: N/A Reaction: N/A

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Kosara waited with held breath for the combat to start and then it did with a mighty sound of something hitting something fleshy and then Kathryn’s shout. All in all very adventure type beginning though it made her think if the woman was secretly a barbarian princess instead of a knight one. Both were types of warrior princesses so it wasn’t that far off and Kathryn the self proclaimed half giant certainly had the impressive musculature for a barbarian! Nowhere near enough leathers, furs and scars though… So mayyyyyyyybe not.

Suddenly tearing her mind away from academic and philosophical mental debates about the warrior woman’s very impressive body, Kosara took to action as she was hearing more and more sound of fleshy things being hit by stuff indicating goblins were being attacked! Nowhere near enough human groans of main for her party to be the victims. In a display of hurry and haste, the white tiefling threw herself at the rocks she was at and began climbing. Pulling herself up and jumping up along as her feet and tips of her brand new boots found good spots in the rock. Finally with a reasonably impressive flourish she hopped on top of the rock.’ Wow, it’s tall here! Hey I can see all the goblins!’ She thought. Most were read and there were 2 hiding in behind the overturned cart!

The white tiefling proceeded to strike a heroic pose while doing a bit of a turn in an overly dramatic fashion, crossing her arms with a flourish, braid swinging in the motion as she moved, one hand still holding the light crossbow, the other now now making a finger crossbow gesture at the two goblins behind the cart.” Your evil schemes and tomfoolery, shall end now, evil villains!!! In the name of all that is holy and pure and cheese! Especially cheese and maybe bacon, I shall smite you!” She proclaimed proudly.” By Sun that shines across the endless sands so I pray! SACRED FLAME!” Kosara proclaimed, doing her chant, doing the gestures and then making the fire finger crossbow gesture, calling forth a shining bright radiance to descend onto the goblin from on high. Very flashy and flashy was good as she struck a heroic pose despite the fact it didn’t really do all that much to the goblin except maybe annoy him. She had the high ground and if adventures that told her stories as a child have taught her anything, it's that the high ground was the best spot to be and the most heroic! They may also have mentioned the fact that it was the most dangerous spot to be, but that lesson had kinda slipped off her mind given she was a child with more than a few attention issues at the time and paying attention to the heroics of the story not the real lessons really.

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 03 HP: 21/ 21 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: N/A Location: On the Path-Combat Map(I6) Action: N/A Bonus Action: N/A Reaction: N/A

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With everything set and people buffing up, Kosara sneakily moved like a spy or infiltrator, making it to the set meeting point nearby to the camp of goblins. It was some rather big rock… or two big rocks forming a rock formation. There wasn’t much to be said about it, except the fact that she REALLY wanted to climb up on said rocks in the outset of the battle. It was both a good spot to fire at people from and also a good spot to do a very heroic pose!

The white tiefling carefully took stock of where everybody was situated on the combat field so far. She and Hugh weirdly enough were flanking the rocks on both side, waiting for the thing to start. From what she recalled before moving about the rock, Marita and Kathryn were taking the front with brave Morty and V right behind them to provide them with bardic support! Music was important people! Especially in battle! As such Kosara recognized the value of combat bards. One needed proper heroic background to do heroic things, and music was one part of it! It was why armies marched on drums or other musical orders! Probably not, but she didn’t know that, to her drums plus armies equals very epic scene that must go down in history because heroic tales and stuff. So for the moment, Kosara was in her blissful land of fairy tales and delusions.

Suddenly she heard a sound! Kosara was in attention mode right away! Looking over the rock, sneaking a glance and saw the aftermath of the goblin just sneezing. She stared for a moment at the sneezing green bandit and had the sudden urge to give him good wishes then remembered – green cannibal bandit! No well wishes for them! Everybody seemed to be moving into position or had already moved to position. Now Kosara had the hard thing to figure out, were she and Hugh to initiate or were the melee gals to do so first. Hard to think hard to think. In the end she readied her light crossbow, ready to hop over to the side to have view as soon as the combat starts so she can shoot goblins with sharp pointy objects just as one does in stories!

Frozen Darkness

@Lucius Cypher There we go!

Frozen Darkness

"Need not ask me twice." She barked a reply before legging it away, counting the seconds in her head. Cat was fast and nible and she booked it out of the building in no time, having more than enough seconds to spare to dash across the street and toss herself into a snow gliding move and even further away and then rolled herself flat on the ground, looking at the building, eyes narrowed, keeping track of where Donny ends up. She kept one arm on her weapon, another was placed over the back of her neck for protection, one ear covered with her upper forearms and her mouth was slightly open in preparation of the bomb going off. She didn't really want her eardrums punctured because of the blast wave and sounds creates too great a difference, so she made sure her mouth was opened to equalize the pressure somewhat. Once the time neared, she let go of her weapon and moved the now freed hand to proect her neck and block her ear also.

Moment's later at the count of 23 there was a flash for a moment, a roar of fire then an explosion as all the collected methane down below was ignited. The entire street rumbled, snow was displaced from the tops of the ruined buildings and a huge ball of fire went up from the building's collapsed roof. Smaller explosions of snow lined the street down the street, indicating the explosion ahd spread into the sewers that way, so they were likely at least somewhat connected to the insect hive. When everything settled, the woman quickly jumped up, shaking her head, her ears were ringing and it wasn't pleasant. Even though she protected her ears, they were still ringing and hurting. Luckily it was just a methane explosion with a focused outlet otherwise this could have been way way worse. She really hoped everything down there was torched including all the bugs, but couldn't ever be sure.

"DONNY!" She shouted, shacking her head one last time, before rushing towards where she saw him just before the explosion went off." We need to go! This would have attracted everybody and their mutt from all across town, better be away before people start gathering!" She told him.

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 03 HP: 21/ 21 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: N/A Location: On the Path Action: N/A Bonus Action: N/A Reaction: N/A

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Their little friendly and fun travel through the woods turned rather abruptly into a forest mystery of adventurous proportions like one of those stories the road weary adventurers who have traveled far and had stopped for respite at the oasis would tell at night. There were all the ingredients here! A forest, supposedly upturned cart, weird voices/noises and the party had no idea what’s really happening! It was amazing!” Sure~!” Kosara chimmed as they told her that she and Kathryn should swap places, not a surprising move all things considered. On one side you had a woman in a coat and on the other there was a giant of a woman in armor with all those amazing muscles! Kosara was now seriously pondering why the self proclaimed half giant wasn’t dressed like a barbarian!? If she was, she’d see all those muscles, but no, it was armor all the way. She lightly shook her head.’ Focus on the adventure at hand!’ She reminded herself. Them probably perfect abs came later... yes.

She then looked at Hugh in horror.” Indeed, we should leave the wagon away from the conflict! The mule might get hurt.” Kosara nodded, looking at the animal that was leading their merry travel so far. It didn't look overly concerned with what was happening. Did it know something the rest of them didn’t, or was this common enough situation in the life of a mule? She knew camels could be very indifferent of things happening too at times. Maybe this was something similar, or maybe it just hadn’t realized the possible danger.

“Well, I can fight at range and up close if I have to!” She stated ,pulling her small crossbow, her eyes filled with sparkles of excitement. She hadn’t had a battle since forever! Grandpa was the last one to bring her anywhere dangerous and it wasn’t goblins back then, she fought kobolds under his guidance and cooperation. Granted Grandpa was too powerful, so he mostly kept her protected while she got her feet wet into the whole fighting thing at first! Now though Gramps wasn’t around and she had other people for support and to support! It was going to be marvelous, though safety’s first! Kosara closed her eyes, placing a hand on her chest and focusing her mind as magical energies surged across her skin and formed a magical protective layer as she used one of the things Grandpa taught her – Mage Armor. Well it was his version of Mage armor, which in reality was considered a warlock ability, but Kosara had no real idea what Warlocks were per say despite being one. Now prepared for this, she double checked her crossbow and nodded.

“So… need me to open the combat with a spell? Pretty sure I can hit the one on the rock from here with one of the spells Grandpa taught me, with the crossbow though, I will have to get a lot closer.” She asked, eyeing the gobbos in teh distance. This was indeed an adventure out of a fairy tale. It always started with kobolds or goblins! Like in all the tales the traveling adventurers told her as a child!

Frozen Darkness

know I said I'd post sooner, but stuff happened on my end too and now Im covid again. Engery is sapped and what not, will get a post in the next day or two, but yeah... sigh.

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 03 HP: 21/ 21 Armor Class: 12 Conditions: N/A Location: On the Path Action: N/A Bonus Action: N/A Reaction: N/A

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Learning things from V was fun. The bard was a good teacher and good with her words, probably a professional thing. In any case, Kosara was learning heaps! In the end she concluded that horses and mules had a lot in common with the domesticated camels of the deserts. Albeit she supposed camels were funnier and way better for the hot deserts. Kosara seriously doubted a horse’s survival in the scorching sands without humans to care for them and she had seen camels eat cacti… like with the thorns and all, it was forever a mystery how the bastards didn’t seem to hurt much from it. She too liked Cactus Water and even a bit of the plant mush at times, but she’d do well without the spikes thank you very much!

Now as for the domesticated animals of the North and what V revealed about the ‘festival’, all of Kosara’s reply could be summed in a single long sound.” Oooooooh..!” She stared at the incredible number of animals that were doing their last walks and then looked at Morty, staring at the undead pig.” That’s. Mighty incredible actually! A walking emergency food supply! Why hadn’t the folk back home figured this out! I need to deliver this knowledge back home!” The easily excitable white tiefling proclaimed at the surprising revelation as if she had discovered a holy relic or knowledge from eras past! It was incredibly good thing to do actually! It could easily shave you so much space in effort of carrying supplies and if you can load the walking supplies with more supplies! She could hardly imagine all the possibilities! It would also cut down on supplies for the pack animals!” Wait… if this is done on a camel, can we replace the hump with a barrel or something to store water for people instead…!” Revelations upon revelations today!” Thank you, V!” She grinned at the bard, tonight, Kosara was going to have a long write into her journal about the utilities of undead pack animals and of course of northern customs.

Afterwards, Kosara listened to Marita’s tales of her home.” Sounds like a very magical and beautiful place, Martia.” Kosara told the cleric with a smile. She now wanted to see such a city.” Maybe you can tell more stories of your home again eventually? I would love to hear even more of the lifestyle and culture of your family and people.” Kosara loved hearing about interesting cultures and far of distant lands with their own unique beauty to them. She herself was never underground much. Well Grandpa Horny Golden Horse lived in a cave, but it wasn’t that far underground nor was it overly deep, so it didn’t count. Sure Marita had let it be known that they were a cult and all that, but even cults had their own culture outside of dangerous rituals and what not. Like… what type of mushroom recipes for food they had? Or maybe did they have preferred decorations they carried on their clothing? So much interesting knowledge.

While everybody was having team time, talking, Kosara basically didn’t even notice Hugh at first, mostly cause he wasn’t talking and was keeping his distance. He eyed him for a moment, before stopping to pay him any heed and returning her attention to Kathryn and her own tale. It was a marvelous tale of treachery, bravery and castles!” Wait… you are almost a princess then! Like in the fairy tales that travelers used to tell me! Had knights, castle, escaped tragedy, but you didn’t find a prince to help you. You instead trained and became a warrior of your own right… well you are a heroic princess now?” Kosara marveled, giving Kathryn a most honest stare of marvel.

And then there was the fact that there was some commotion ahead of them. It was weird really, over somewhere ahead, hidden by the terrain and fall forest, there was a lot of jabbering and laughter. Kosara blinked and turned forward, tilting her head.” Who’s laughing? Why are they laughing?” She asked in confusion and looked at the others.” Anybody else think this is weird? I’m curious now!”