Roll to Raptor: Turn 27: Claws: Nature's Crampons
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Colon CancerLeap at small Hadrosaur from behind.
(Ambush Bonus: 3)
(Attack 5+3 vs 3. Damage 1+3) With a savage cry you leap onto the small hadrosaur and climb up it's side using your claws. (Cunning 4) You did little direct damage to the thick flesh of it's side, but on the other hand you now have access to parts of it's body the others can't reach from the ground.
Keep it's attention
(Cunning 5 vs 4. Damage 3) Rainstriker darts in and out under it's nose snapping and hissing, succeeding in keeping it's full attention for a while longer despite the other Hunter's antics.
[Small Hadro Turn] It again lunges forward trying to bowl her over but she escapes unharmed. (Attack 2 vs 3+1) (Counter 3 vs 2. Damage 2) This time she manages to scratch it's foreleg a little but it doesn't seem to do much.
Complain about Hunter's treatment of kin. Strongly worded letter to follow.
The others seem reluctant to get involved but one of the larger hadrosaurs makes an attempt to drive the Hunters away from the smaller one. It gets it's considerable bulk up to fairly impressive speed and gallops toward Rainstriker. Fortunately the ear splitting bellow it makes on the way gives her a little warning. (Attack 2 vs 1+1. Null. Luck 2) She dodges nimbly out of the way and it overshoots. It will take it a few seconds to turn around. [Large Hadro loses initiative next turn]
"Keep the attack up! Fresh meat's on the menu once more!"
Continue the attack.
With no particular goal in mind you strike at it's closest body part, it's long stiff tail. (Attack 4-1 vs 4. Miss.) Your foot catches on a root and you fall short of getting your claws into it.
((My attack choices tend toward the arbitrary if you don't specify.))
Copy role model.
Little Songcall tries to injure one of the small hadro's legs like she saw Ironhide do a few seconds ago. (Attack 1 vs 3) (Counter 3 vs 6) But she skitters back out of the way to avoid injury as it stamps and struggles.
Nomnomnom
Most of you probably don't notice in character but there is a lot of thrashing from the lake as the giant Longmaw death-rolls to tear it's victim into swallow-able chunks.
Norther Hunter Summary:Longmaw is eating.
A big hadrosaur came to the defense of the small one.
Rainstriker is dancing around being really distracting.
Krakjaw is inventing rodeo.
Ironhide and Songcall missed.
Combatants:[Small Hadrosaur has an impaired right rear leg and is bleeding 1/10.]
[Large Hadrosaur overshot and loses inniciative.]
Fauna In The Area:2 other Hadrosaurs nearby; a few more further off.
A bunch of Tenontosaurus scattered around.
A gaint longmaw in the lake.
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Hooktoe immediately looked around for the squawking creature. It sounded like food, and if it was small enough to be killed by four hunters and dumb enough to be yelling at them, that's what it was going to be.
(Sense 5) The source of the food noises is quickly apparent when you life your nose from the ground and look about for them. On the slope about 50 yards ahead are about 5 Snatchers. It's really rather embarasing that none of you smelled them before now.
They continue scolding in a manner that reminds you a bit of the way some smallwings have an annoying habbit of doing when they spot you on the prowl.
Ripmaw hissed softly to himself, and peered around, trying to find out what was squawking at them.
(Sense 6-1) A moment or two of glancing in all directions reveals the source. Up the hill a ways there appear to be a party of Snatchers. It's a bit hard to tell with your fuzzy vision combined with scent and sound you are pretty sure there are 5 of them.
Squawking isn't a good thing. I think we're being warned we're on another's territory. It certainly smells like so, I guess.
Look around for any probable ambushers, or any aerial ambushers given the case. Call out that we're just passing by.
If my allies find and know that the situation is peaceful, continue the hunt in the scent of that Charlie!
(Sense 1) Despite the noise they're making you have trouble locating the creatures. Fortunately Hooktoe points them out to you. It appears to be a hunting party of Snatchers. Your declaration of peaceful intent had no obvious effect on their scolding. (Cunning 6) They're either spoiling for a fight, feel secure, or have something to defend.
You can't find it right now but judging from the direction of Charlie's trail for the last few miles it probably goes right past where they are standing. You experimentally walk a few paces forward and the scolding turns into a howl.
Find a good hiding place and hide in it until we know what's going on.
Highleap ducks smoothly behind the nearest tree when the chattering starts. She isn't naturally stealthy, but she's clever (Cunning 6+1) and slithers along in a clump of bromeliads to distance herself from her previous position. (Stealth 4-1)
[Highleap is Hiding and gains a stealth bonus next turn.]
Eastern Summary:You found the noisemakers, a small group of Snatchers.
Ironhide is trying diplomacy but it's not clear if they care.
Highleap is coming up with a contingency plan?
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General Summary:Eastern Hunters are about 12 miles NE of Nesthome on a lightly wooded mountainside.
Northern Hunters are about 2 miles North of Nesthome near a lake.
It's about 15:00 in the evening. It's getting darker. ((Eastward Hunters are 30 minutes ahead.))
The wind is blowing from the NE and it's cloudy. Was that a raindrop?
No one is injured.
No one is very tired or hungry though you are burning energy traveling and fighting.
Player: SeriousConcentrate
Name: Hooktoe
Sex: Male
Age: 7
Attack: +1
Cunning: -1
Stealth: +1
100/100 Health
78/100 Food
80/100 Stamina
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Player: Tiruin
Name: Moonfang
Sex: Female
Age: 17
Attack +1
Defense +1
Stealth -1
87/110 Health
78/100 Food
80/100 Stamina
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Player: Hanslanda
Name: Ripmaw
Sex: Male
Age: 7
+1 Attack
+1 Cunning
-1 Senses
100/100 Health
80/100 Food
80/100 Stamina
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Name: Highleap [NPC]
Sex: Female
Age: 8
Attack: +1
Cunning: +1
Stealth: -1
Health: 100/100
Food: 78/100
Stamina: 80/100
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Player: GreatWyrmGold
Ironhide
Sex: Female
Age: 29
Attack -1
Defense +1
Cunning +1
98/110 Health
96/100 Food
93/100 Stamina
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Player: Tophat
Name- Krakjaw
Sex - male
Age - 21
Stats:
+1 stealth
+1 senses
-1 defense
Health: 90/90
Food: 88/100
Stamina: 93/100
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Name: Rainstriker [NPC]
Sex: Female
Age: 12
Defense +1
Stealth +1
Sense -1
Health: 100/100
Food: 88/100
Stamina: 94/100
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Name: Song-call
Age: 3 (Juvenile)
Sex: Female
Sense +1
Stealth +1
Defense -1
Health: 70/70
Food: 81/100
Stamina: 94/100
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