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Scare them into the deeper parts and cave in parts of the cavern, sealing them in

Take out their leaders and try to convince them to surrender

Slaughter them all

Ignore them and look elsewhere

Other (post and specify)

[highmax28]

Realizing that there wasn't much point in playing music, Ritiki drops his summoned instrument and fires his crossbow at the dire rat!

You fire your crossbow! (17+4) Your bolt strikes it, dealing (5) damage, but the bolt doesn't seem to do much to it.

James begins his turn!

EDIT:
((I added the 23 new refugees to the census book I have (finally!). If you ask Kylie what the new people's skills are, she can answer that for you. Their professions, their spouses, where some of them hail from, their mood, race, and THEIR NAMES. So you can go up to the ten people with you and they will tell you their names if you really wanted to get personal with them.

Also, now that they have tools and such, they will be doing things like cutting trees and such. I still need to do tools and gear, but I'll be working on that probably Saturday (I work most of tomorrow; 2:30-11), and that will require you or sending someone to do it for you, to check on the inventory of everything (just like in DF but without the pesky noble!)))

[Hanzoku]

((That's because WE are the pesky nobles. Let's hope the dwarves peasants don't build us a nice room suspended over a lava pit with a completely innocent lever outside the door.))

James moves closer to Ewan and seeing the dire rat revert to a human form as it dies, drops his crossbow on the ground and readies an action to catch the tossed short sword.

[highmax28]

((That's because WE are the pesky nobles. Let's hope the dwarves peasants don't build us a nice room suspended over a lava pit with a completely innocent lever outside the door.))

James moves closer to Ewan and seeing the dire rat revert to a human form as it dies, drops his crossbow on the ground and readies an action to catch the tossed short sword.

((Hopefully, you guys aren't as stupid to fall for that then))

He tosses the sword, but its a little hard to grab since its a little bit away. (12+1) you catch the blade and steel yourself

Arioch begins his turn!

[apiks]

Shoot the remaining enemy.

[highmax28]

Shoot the remaining enemy.

You reload and fire your crossbow. (13+3) Your bolt strikes true, dealing (5) damage. The dire rat looks unphased still

Martijn starts his turn!

[TD1]

Throw jewelled dagger at dire rat's head after a quick prayer to Dresna. Then throw another to the same place.

[highmax28]

Throw jewelled dagger at dire rat's head after a quick prayer to Dresna. Then throw another to the same place.

((Does that mean you're gonna use your feat?))

[TD1]

((Sure.))

[highmax28]

Throw jewelled dagger at dire rat's head after a quick prayer to Dresna. Then throw another to the same place.

You throw your daggers! (2+4+8) (17+4-5) Your daggers both hit, dealing (2+2) (3+2) damage! The daggers are both stuck in the dire rat, but stone dagger you had seems to cause the hide to make a sizzling noise as you hit.

Varg moves in and brings down his axe. His axe strikes true, and with Martijn's dagger stunning it a bit, Varg finishes it off by cleaving it's head clean off. It reverts to a human and the head and body are of that of a very young man, possibly no older than 16 years old.

The party gains 400xp! ((Congrats, you beat a CR8 encounter))

There is still one raw silver shortsword left, and Ewan takes it. Two of the wererats had backpacks, both containing an assortment of food, totems, trinkets and other things probably stolen from other clans. Varg doesn't recognize any of them.

Vorlak tries licking himself clean and sees it is futile.

"Bah... I guess that means I have to take a bath in the river... Where did the other one go?"

[apiks]

"You mean Ritcher? Ask Ritiki, he should know. He warned me something was up so I assume they really did think he was a kid or I was lying. Ritcher'll probably come back though and not alone. We can hide the bodies and ourselves and wait them out for an ambush."

Arioch straightens himself and a hard face falls upon it. He turns towards Ritiki.

"I apologize for this not being able to come to a peaceful conclusion. They truly did seem hostile as Varg said. The only reason they didn't fight us immediately was probably my little scaring act and me holding you hostage in their eyes. When they started surrounding us... well, let's say I got a bad feeling then."

Arioch addresses Varg next.

"My good man, you are a miracle with that axe. I'm starting to doubt you ever needed my brother's help in the swamps. It's a shame that it had to come to this, but if they do raid often as you mentioned they do, we'll probably be very high on that list now."

[Sirus]

((According to my sheet I should have 640 xp. Is that correct?))

"How would I know where the one called Ritcher went? Am not a tracker, and was more worried about the ones planning to attack." The merchant's whiskers drooped as he attempted to retrieve his crossbow bolt. "Daft fools...only a matter of time now before more blood is spilled, and I would not bet gold on these wererats."

[apiks]

"Even if I do know half a dozen of languages, I don't the one they spoke. If you weren't here I'd be thinking he was going to go deliver the message from me to their leader, but your reaction makes me think he's going somewhere else to do something else. Set up an ambush? Bring reinforcements?"

After a moment Arioch drops the topic.

"He probably will come back though and I doubt he'll be alone. Shall we prepare an ambush site when they try to investigate the blood or will we try to talk to them again?

We can always just send Vorlak to scout though. Bring the fight to them."

On a completely different note Arioch talks to Varg again.

"Say, these ratmen were saying something about forbidden magic. You know what that's all about? Did I breach a taboo topic or something?"

[Sirus]

"Wait, you could *not* understand them? From the way you reacted I was under the impression that...well, never mind. The one that ran was going to get reinforcements; at least three more according to their leader. Either he didn't realize that some of us were in hiding or he was very overconfident."

[apiks]

"Well they started surrounding us the moment they saw that I had no intention of hurting you for ransom. The moment their leader sent Ritcher on some errand, you told me to prepare my magic, which means that danger's coming due to what their leader said. Simply a matter of timing. From the looks of what you said they said, it seems I was correct.

I also don't feel like becoming rat food after my little rat meat joke, if you catch my drift, heh. Ah, well, this was bound to happen sooner or later. So what do you reckon should we do now? You're the one that wanted to try talking. Do we try again?"

[highmax28]

"Even if I do know half a dozen of languages, I don't the one they spoke. If you weren't here I'd be thinking he was going to go deliver the message from me to their leader, but your reaction makes me think he's going somewhere else to do something else. Set up an ambush? Bring reinforcements?"

After a moment Arioch drops the topic.

"He probably will come back though and I doubt he'll be alone. Shall we prepare an ambush site when they try to investigate the blood or will we try to talk to them again?

We can always just send Vorlak to scout though. Bring the fight to them."

On a completely different note Arioch talks to Varg again.

"Say, these ratmen were saying something about forbidden magic. You know what that's all about? Did I breach a taboo topic or something?"

Varg changes back to human form after the killing is done.

"I think the magic you use is a lost art. We haven't seen anyone use magic that didn't involve the gods after a long time. Perhaps these ones thought it was forbidden and that's why we couldn't use it.

No, it was just forgotten... Like many other things since we have lived here...

As for an ambush, they might be expecting it. If we give chase, we might be running into the heart of them. I am ready to fight them if it comes down to fighting them in their home; they have raided my village long enough."

"I don't like how they employ their young and their women to fight... It is terrible... They seem to have no regard for their own. They aren't even a family either."

He picks up the young one's head and puts it with the body.

"... This was a raiding party of some sort... The woman and the child were scouts and the three were the fighters. If we don't deal with them now, they will come after us for sure, and I know they will outnumber us, if what Ulf and Borg said is correct.

I will go with whatever you decide, but either we find somewhere else to claim, or we follow Ritcher"
He mutters under his breath in a thick accent you didn't think he would have. ((Linguistics check to discern the accent if you guys really want, perception to hear what he muttered))