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Barry couldn't see into the room, but judging from the screams he was glad he couldn't. He peaked round the door just in time to see the banshee float right on through the wall. "After her! If her only game was escape then she wouldn't have tried to floor us!" Barry ran outside and looked around the chaos. A banshee fleeing, Dixie bucking, and Aender, where was he? Barry looked around in panic, and there was, lying face down by the window. "S*"#.....Ok!...1!" he threw a As he is unconscious, healing spells are maxed. Aender gets 8 healing.healing spell to the Aender. 2!" a blast of Sacred Flameholy energy tore towards the banshee."And 3!" he dove for the Mule's reins, frightened the poor thing would bolt in terror.

 


 

 
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The sorce of the scream became louder and then quickly showed itself. A spectral, pale figure materialized through the front wall of the building. It headed straight for Beth, Ismark and the mules.
Her hand shook in fear and the shadow blade dissolved into nothing. Beth barely caught a glimpse of the tortured scream frozen on the face before the Banshee got too close. The mules brayed loudly but were no match to the scream of the Banshee.

She ran towards the left side of the cabin away from the Banshee leaving Ismark to try and calm the mules if he had not been frightened.

 


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Old Oct 9th, 2022, 08:35 AM
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Get out of the House! The Scream is Coming from Inside of the House!
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Everything seems to happen at once. The banshee flows through the outer wall and floats out from under Barry's radiant attack. Revived, Aender takes a shot with his previously readied crossbow after moving ten feet to the corner of the cabin but misses. Ismark and Lucian both shriek like girls at the banshee's approach and, along with Marybeth and Dixie, bolt away from the thing. Jacob merely takes a step back and Ireena, who was holding the reigns to both mules is forced to let them go before her arm gets pulled from its socket by the fleeing Dixie. Ireena outs sword and swings in a single, awkward movement, also missing. Mara sprints from the dwelling and circles the grouping of spooked people and mules to get ahead of the thing. A fan of fire shoots from Jhorn's fingers causing Jacob and Ireena to shy back further, but the spirit is too fast. Polly emerges behind Jhorn and fires off a triple-blast of solar energy, yet only manages to strike the retreating spirit with one of them.

The banshee sees Mara then and screams in frustration as it swerves aside to avoid her in its continued flight.




OOC: The banshee avoids engaging Mara, but swerves too late to keep from entering the range of her halberd. If Mara can't pull-off a 12 damage OA, the banshee will escape into the woods - a result of my rolling poorly for everyone except the banshee.

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All nerves and adrenaline, Mara very nearly loses the creature entirely as it glides past her, only to shift her feet in time to offer one last blow at the fleeing undead. With a growl she lashes out with her polearm, hoping to take down the creature to keep it from fleeing, and more importantly, keep it from returning. Yet for all her good intentions, her swinging blade catches nothing but the falling rain as the creature disappears beyond her reach.

Standing in the rain, silhouetted against the tree line, Mara only utters one word before turning back to the cabin, "Damn."




 


 
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Aender stopped as the banshee escaped into the woods and leaned heavily against the corner of the house. Looking the direction the banshee had fled. "Are we trying to get ourselves killed. Barging into homes and waking the dead, and whatever else we can disturb? I am all for getting out of the rain but maybe we try and coordinate our efforts a bit better before rushing headlong into danger."

He stayed there a moment before stepping away and moving over towards the mules to try and help calm them. His entire body hurt and all he truly wanted to do was lie down and rest to allow his body to try and recover but several had run off at the sight and sound of the banshee on top of his near death. The group needed to collect and regroup before anyone would have a chance to rest and recover.

 


 
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With the Banshee gone into the woods, Beth’s adrenaline started to fade from her body. She relaxed some of her clenched muscles and slowed her breathing to assist in slowing her racing heart. Coming back around the side of the cabin Beth surveyed the scattered party. Everyone seemed to be in a bit of shock or fear or anger; it was still hard to read the expressions of her new companions.

It didn’t take her too long to realize a few people and a mule were missing. “Ismark and the boy are gone, and one of the mules. We should try to find them before they get too far or the wolves get to them first,” Beth suggested counting heads just make sure she hadn’t missed them on her first survey.

“I can either help search for them or I can stay here and help heal anyone that needs it,”
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Aender looks to Beth as she offers healing. "If you are able to offer healing I could certainly use some, if feeling well enough after I can go and search for the others or the mule, hopefully they have not gone too far. I certainly don't want to run into that banshee again, I was outside the first time and nearly died."

Sighing he moves over closer to Beth as he looks for tracks to try and follow the others or the mule, considering he isn't certain where they might have run off to.

 


 
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Barry caught up with Mara as the banshee disappeared into the trees. "Damn" he said, matching her sentiment.

He made his way back to Beth."I'll go grab Dixie. She should respond to my voice more than most. No one goes alone though, and not too far. If we gotta go deeper, we all go together. There is some nasty stuff out there."

 


 

 
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Cursing in frustration, Jhorn is about to let off some even spicier ones when he hears Marybeth's comment. "What?" he says, "What do you mean they're gone?" He makes a beeline for the last place he saw Ismark - now noting that both man and boy are indeed missing - and looks intently at the ground, seeking to see if there is some kind of tracks showing where they may have left to. "Did the scream send them off?"


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We're going to need to move fast. Every second they'll get further away....
"Jhorn, with me. I'm afraid you'll scare the boy even further away...Halas, take Polly and find Lucien. He'll trust you after your fun fly and tree times. Ireena, go find your brother and take Mara. Hopefully a siblings voice will calm him. Beth, tend to Aender. Everyone, if you encounter anything bad shout so Kaleemvor can hear you! Quick now!"

 


 

 
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Through the lack of light and pouring rain, Jhorn quickly determines that he can't make any sense of the trampled morass in front of the cabin. Luckily, Ireena speaks up. "They ran off that way," she points up a low hill that's only slightly divergent from the path you would've taken the following morning - well away from the direction the banshee had fled. "Dixie led the way with Ismark close behind. Lucian tumbled from Jacob's back and practically hit the ground running, but was still trailing the other two."

She looks to Barry who'd taken immediate charge in organizing the group. "Do you really think it wise to leave only those two inside that thing's cabin? What if it comes back while we're all out searching?"





OOC: Question about Marybeth's offer to heal - how? I don't see the Healer feat on her CS. A healer's kit (to my understanding) without the feat is simply an aid to reviving someone from 0 hp without having to make a medicine check. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong about this.

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Barry ponders Ireena's comment a brief second then decides any more time spend on it is putting Lucien, Ismark and Dixie in more peril. "Right you are!" Barry grabs on to Aender's shoulder which turns into an encouraging pat as the transference of Second level cure woundsmagic healing enters his body. "Aight. Let's go find our lost sheep. I'll take Jacob. Maybe Dixie will be calmer around a friend.
Aender, Marybeth, pick a team and let's go."
Barry starts running off hoping the rest follow. "Ireena, did they look like the were sticking together as they ran?"

 


 

 
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Slow to turn away from the woods where the banshee had fled, Mara eventually tears herself away at the sound of her name, joining the others as they prepare to find the missing members of their troupe. Mara wastes little time in dumping her pack inside the abandoned house, out of the rain, where she can hope to light the lantern she carries for such situations. Magic would be easier, but she doesn’t have magic, she has oil, glass, steel, and flint, and she will make do.

Closing the glass to keep the burning wick from the rain, she steps back outside and turns to Ireena, ”Which way? There? Let’s go.”




 


 
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Aender nodded as Barry took charge. When the healing flooded through his body he sighed. "Thanks Barry much better at least now I might be able to take a hit or two if we run into anything before keeling over."

Looking about he moved after Barry "I will go with Barry hopefully we can find them quickly, and not run into that cursed banshee on the way." It was certainly the truth after all he had not even seen the creature and it had nearly killed him. The thought of seeing or hearing it again did nothing for his confidence.

 


 
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Barely organized and having taken only a few steps in the direction indicated by Ireena, a small voice comes from the trees. "Is it gone?" Lucian steps from behind a tree just forty-or-so feet ahead. "It's kind of scary out here, too." Pausing after only a few steps, Lucian turns his head to look back behind him.

"Come on you stubborn beast! I'll give you a carrot when we get back. **exasperated sigh** Alright! here's your damned carrot. Now come on!" A bit muffled by the distance and the rain, but you can tell it's Ismark's voice. "Good girl! That's right, let's go."

Lucian rejoins the search party just as Ismark leading Dixie comes into view.


OOC: I just barely rolled and Lucian saved to end the frightened effect on first of ten possible turns, Ismark and Dixie on the second turn. I'm assuming you're all looking to gather inside the house out of the rain, but I'd like a few posts to that effect please. Possibly ready for a LR with a set guard?

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