Day 24 — Ambush at the camp!

KahuPachinkoJimminyRyuto

Chapter summary

A rescue camp is overrun by enchanted survivors, singing harpies, and hungry rocs in a desperate swamp battle.

Connections

Session notes

We are surrounded on all sides by confused and rabid, they are the missing members we came to rescue and they are attacking our makeshift palisade.

Combat log:

Miros starts the battle and acts rashly and kills one of the people we came to save with a critical hit to the head. No one is recovering from that.

Kahu tries to frighten some of the enemies but it’s not very effective.

The frightened crew member charges through the palisade and closes on Kahu.

Another crew member charges in and attacks Ryuto. Connecting a blow and hurting him.

Ryuto retorts by casting a fireball on four of the attackers, he aims to be a non-lethal fireball but that does not seem to be in his control.

One of the attackers is lethally fireballed while the other 3 survive.

The palisade on that side of the fireball is also gone, charred to a crisp. Now two of the survivors attack Pachinko. They all connect hits.

It’s now Oona’s turn. She is calling the energy of the water that fuels her rage. She looks around in panic and makes a non-lethal attack to one of the enemies near her. She swings her greataxe, non-lethally.

We notice there’s a chanting sound coming from somewhere deeper in the forest. There’s movement in the treetops.

Pachinko tumbles through one of the enemies and spots a humanoid winged creature in one of the tree canopies. He rushes towards it as it seems to be chanting the chant that has entranced the attackers.

Pachinko stops at the base of the tree with the figure in the canopy.

Pachinko is followed by one of the attackers and knocked down. His body unconscious far from his friends.

The harpies in the trees are now revealed and a tranquility washes over all of us a song lullaby us, trying to charm us into thinking that this swamp is a pleasant place.

The boggarts were well fed during our shifts and even though they don’t join in battle, they sing discordantly which breaks the cordant song from the harpies. We can choose two targets of our choice and break their charm.

Two of the attackers are uncharmed and are confused and look at Kahu for guidance. Kahu directs them to the trees with the harpies.

Miro shoots a bolt in the harpy near Pachinko but misses and now has to wait while he reloads his crossbow. Pachinko is in danger.

Kahu shoots a firebolt to one of the harpies, doing 20 damage, a great amount. The tree where that harpy rests to the southwest is now on fire.

The harpies are in:

North, where Pachinko lies
Southwest, is on fire
Southeast

The north harpy now flies to Miros and tries to enchant him. Miros fails his fortitude save and is now enchanted by the Harpies. Miros loves Harpies now and is on their side.

Oona is also attacked by one of the charmed attackers.

One of the reawakened crew members tries to attack the harpy near to Miros but fails miserably at connecting.

Now Ryuto aims a scorching ray at the southwest harpy but misses on the first try. He continues to aim at the other harpies and connects the one in the north, she takes 14 damage. The one in the southeast is safe behind cover.

The southeast harpy flies to Oona. She charms Oona with her song.

Now the attackers are surrounding Ryuto and Kahu.

Oona attacks Kahu in her trance. But misses.

No other hits happen meanwhile, everyone misses.

Big frog energy croaks through the swamp and we are able to uncharm 2 targets. We choose Miros and Oona who snap out of the charm.

Miros attacks the harpy in front of him and manages only one small blow for 8 damage with his shortsword.

Kahu tries to hit both south harpies with a blazing bolt. He deals 10 damage to the one that came close from the Southwest. The bolt to the southeast connects and her tree is now also on fire.

Kahu resists the call of the harpy.

Kahu is now attacked by two of the members.

One of the uncharmed crew members attacks the north harpy for a total of 25 damage. A staggering amount.

Ryuto fails to connect blows to the crew members around him in a sad turn. But he also manages to evade all hits from one of the crew members next to him.

Now the southwest harpy is trying to charm Ryuto. Ryuto resists it with his will of steel.

The southeast harpy leaves the tree and tries to go and recharm one of the previously charmed crew members.

Now three of the crew members are attacking Ryuto and he might die.

Ryuto fell and is now dying. The other crew members tried to get to Kahu but fail to hurt him.

Oona moves into position and tries to attack but fails. Instead tries to heal Ryuto but fails to conjure it.

One of the uncharmed crew members moves to Ryuto, heals him and then attacks the southeast harpy for 10 damage. Ryuto is now starting to feel better.

Meanwhile Oona gets a hit from one of the crew members.

Big Frog energy comes again and releases 2 crew members.

The north harpy, the most harmed one, cries in pain and summons a huge bird with a wingspan of 30m. A bus sized bird comes into view. Miros recognizes it as a lesser Roc, a known predator that likes to feed on the blood boars. The lesser Roc takes the blood boars to feed their young.

Miros takes his chance and two strikes connect and do 18 damage, the harpy is staggered and shrieks its last cords but has not fallen. The third strike misses.

Kahu tumbles through the enemies and gets clear view of the north and southwest harpies. Aims in the right way to avoid Miros and does a breath of fire. The harpies manage to avoid it and only take 8 damage each, not much. The crew member who is back on their side after being charmed also takes 8 damage.

North harpy is going to start running away as she panics after seeing the Roc.

One of the uncharmed crew members take a healing potion to Pachinko who is finally healed back from his unconsciousness. He heals for 3 only.

Crew members try to attack Miros but fail.

Ryuto takes out a scroll in a surprise move and covers all of us in a Fog cloud. They can’t see us and we can’t see them. Everything inside the cloud is obscured.

The Roc sees the fleeing harpy (North Harpy) as it’s its only target. It does 24 beak damage and the harpy is now down. The Roc flies away after it kills the harpy.

One of the charmed crew members attacks Ryuto and connects with no blows

Three charmed crew members attack Ryuto and Oona. Oona takes 16 damage. Ryuto takes one blow and is down again.

Oona does some damage and then heals Ryuto but fails to do so.

Pachinko is back in the fray and runs towards the Southwest harpy. He summons Jimminy to spike the harpy and Jiminy connects for 16 damage. He also uses his mad invention to heal Kahu next to him for 17 points with his searing restoration.

Meanwhile two charmed crew members attack Oona.

A Roc appears again. Meanwhile the big frog energy wakes up two charmed crew members.

Miros attacks and moves in the shadows but is not fully concealed. The southwest harpy is further hurt.

Kahu attacks the southwest harpy with his fire cantrip. He does an intimidating glare on one of the charmed crew members.

Pachinko is attacked by one of the charmed members and is downed again.

Ryuto casts invisibility on himself and slinks away.

One of the crew members attacks Oona for 9 damage. She is still standing with 3HP left.

Southeast harpy retakes control of one of the crew members.

Southwest harpy is frightened by Kahu’s charm and runs away from the fog, becoming exposed herself.

One of the crew members non-lethally attacks another crew member non-lethally and knocks them out.

Oona is attacked by another charmed crew member but manage to connect one hit and Oona is down.

Now that everyone is down, the remaining crew members that are charmed are going to Miros and are attacking since his hiding failed. Miros is attacked for 17 points, going from 50 to 33.

Frog energy is back and we recover 2 crew members, the two closest to southeast harpy.

The lesser Roc eats the southwest harpy.

Miros attacks the Southeast harpy and does some damage but it’s not enough, Miros runs and hides awaiting their next attack.

Kahu upcasts his ignition cantrip and aims at the southeast harpy. His attacks fail.

Kahu is attacked by a crew member but only superficial damage happens.

Ryuto is invisible and stands up, moves away. He goes to Pachinko and heals him for 14.

The harpy is panicking and begs for mercy in broken common tongue: “Don’t drop the cloud, keep the cloud”.

Kahu responds: “The flame will purify it all” and he embers a little.

The harpy enchants one of the crew members again.

Pachinko tries to attack with his arquebus but fails to aim.

Everyone uncharmed from the crew is attacking the harpy. One of them heals Oona with her own healing potion.

The uncharmed crew members attack the harpy while Oona gets up and also attacks the harpy. One managed to just do 8 damage but otherwise they all missed.

The charmed crew members also fail to attack properly. Only a couple hits happen on Oona and she is down again.

The Roc can do nothing.

Miros kills the southeast harpy and then the spell breaks over all the remaining crew members. We stabilize Oona.

We throw the body of the harpy out of the fog for the Roc to eat.

We now need to figure out how to escape the mist while avoiding the Roc to eat us. Ryuto figures out that we can have an illusory fog that covers us for 10 minutes while we heal up and refocus.

We are all healed and alive. The Roc flies away with its harpy prizes.

We level up.