Mara-Kai follows Arowyn, answering Mittens as she does, "My name is Mara-Kai. I am a swordmage." she seems sad and angry, but she's so wet it's hard to notice she's crying too. Her hair constantly flowing like a waterfall seen from a distance. Mara says, "We'll need to be quiet soon, though, or they will know we're following them."

"Yea!" Mittens agrees, "Let's catch those badguys!  One wonders what they were doing in a sacred wood in the first place..."

"I'd like to know that too," a pair of young sounding voices ring out.

From the north a pair of green children riding on the back of a purple unicorn approach.  The grassy-haired kids dismount and cast a sad look at the dead girl.

"Poor flower girl," one says.

"We should revive her," the other says.

"We are Bud and Lumin."

"The watchers of Heart Forrest."

"Thank you for chasing away those invaders."

"If you catch up to them, please try to keep them alive."

"So we can ask them why they're here."

The kids start drawing a circle around the dead girl.  Birds and squirrels arrive and watch.

Arowyn notices the twins, gives a respectful bow and says, "As you wish, watchers. Thank you for taking care of the girl." before he continues his search.

Bethany wasn't sure the concept of death, but thinks she understands. So she is happy when she hears what the twins are up to. "Thanks!" she says before following Arowyn.

Mara-Kai is unsure about the twins, but they sure are exotic. And cute. She nods. "Thanks for taking care of her." she hurries off after the other two.

Lucky and Mittens thank the twins as well.

"You're welcome!" they answer in unison.

Before long the group tracks down the hobgoblins who are apparently arguing about how best to escape the woods.

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DC 13 to sneak up on them.

The heroes begin sneaking. While Arowyn and Mara-Kai seem to be one with their surroundings, Bethany steps on a leaf, making a slight crinkle sound.

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Stealth checks:
Arow: 13+3=16
Beth: 9+3=12
Mara: 16+0=16

Lucky doesn't do any better than Bethany.  In fact, he does the worst of the group.

"What was that noise?!" an archer asks, nocking an arrow!

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Surprise round!  Each that beat the stealth DC gets 1 action.  Then the initiative order is:

Arowyn: 16+4=20
Archers 17
Lucky 17
Warcaster 15
Beth: 12+3=15
Mara: 2+0=2
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Arowyn holds his hands forward and that blasted cold wind blows the enemy southbound while giving them frostbite!

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Surprise Action:
Standard: Chill Wind v Archer 1, 2, Warcaster. Hit(19)! Miss(9)! Hit(20)!
 dmg: 6 and slide the target 1 square
 Moved Archer 1 from H7 to H8
 Moved Warcaster from H8 to H9

Archer 1 HP: 32 - 6 = 26
Warcaster HP: 12 - 6 = 6
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Mara wastes no time getting into the enemies' faces and says, "Surrender."

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Surprise action!
Move: M10 to I8

Arowyn then shape-shifts into a bear again and rushes to the enemy, belching those locusts. Yes, it's the same trick as before. No, it's not any less scary than before. Definitely distracting, though only the archer closer to Arowyn really feels the sting.

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Arowyn first in the round!
Minor: Wild Shape
Move: L11 to J10
Standard: Swarming Locusts v Archer 1, 2, Warcaster. Miss(7)! Hit(20)! Miss(5)!
 dmg: 9
 Effect: The blast creates a zone of swarming locusts that lasts until the end of your next turn. While within the zone, enemies grant combat advantage.

Archer 2 HP: 39 - 9 = 30

"Focus on the bear!" the Warcaster orders!

The two archers back up a step and their arrows strike true, nearly killing Arwen!

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Arwen HP: 25-20=5

Lucky steps forward to be next to Arwyn while Mittens charges at the warcaster and punches his lights out!

"Spirits of healing, restore my friend," Lucky chants as the two arrows just drop out of Arwyn's hide!

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Rolled Minimum damage.  Juuust enough to KO warcaster!

Warcaster HP: 6-6=Lulz!
Arwyn HP: 5+6=11

Bethany gasps and hurries around the tree she was at, and around her allies. She fires a beam of sparkling purple energy that seems to just seep into the archer's mind, giving him one nasty migraine.

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(Move: M11 to I13)
(Standard: Chaos Bolt v Archer2. Hit(23)!)
 dmg: 15

Archer 2 HP: 30 - 15 = 15
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Mara-Kai points her sword at the archers and shoots a large ball of fire at them, frying the second archer while the first one manages to dodge it. She then magically bonds the unharmed archer to her and moves in to engage both of them, standing over the body of their leader.

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(Standard: Flame Cyclone v Archer 1 and 2. Miss(10), Hit(15)!)
 dmg: 10
(Minor: Aegis of Assault v Archer 2.)
(Move: I8 to H9)

Archer 2 HP: 15 - 10 = 5
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Smelling opportunity, the bear changes back into an elf and shoots thorns at the south-most archer, knocking him unconscious.

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(Minor: Shapeshift into elf)
(Standard: Spirit Briar v Archer 2. Hit(17)!)
 dmg: minimum of 5, so didn't bother rolling.

Archer 2 HP: 5 - min or more = KO

The last archer steps back and fires an arrow right into Arwyn's chest, dropping him to the ground!

"BACK OFF!" it demands!

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14 damage to Arwyn

"Arwyn!" Lucky gasps!

He kneels at the elf's side and pulls the arrow out, while spirits of healing reviving his friend!

"You'll pay for that!" Mittens shouts, charging at the archer, once again drawing on Bethany's chaos bolt, but this time failing to harm the foe.

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Rolled a 2.  Arwyn HP: 6
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Bethany shines light at the archer that seems golden in color, a halo appearing over her head briefly that looks like Pelor's symbol.

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(Standard: Energy Strobe v Archer. Hit(21)!)
 dmg: 12
 D6: rolled 5 which means radiant damage and radiant resistance

Archer HP: 26 - 12 = 14

Mara-Kai slices at the archer and says, "Last chance before you die; surrender and be spared."

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Standard: Basic Attack v Archer. Hit(22)!
 dmg: 7

Archer HP: 14 - 7 = 7
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Arowyn doesn't give the guy a chance, makes a grabbing motion and vines choke the guy into unconsciousness. "Not his choice." he manages before sitting down to rest.

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(Standard: Spirit Briar v Archer. Hit(17 v Will)!)
 dmg: 7 exactly!

Archer HP: 7 - 7 = KO
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"Gosh that was scary," Lucky says, resting near Arwyn.

Mits gets to tieing up the badguys.

"But awesome!  Sorc was all ZAP!  and Swordage was all SLASH!  and Drood was all KRK!  And Gob was all ACK nooo!  You guys did great!  Now let's interrogate 'em and find out what they're doing here."

She slaps one with a ghost fish, waking him up.

"ACK!" it says, "Ghost!"

Arowyn walks to the prisoner, changes into a bear and begins in his death metal voice, "What were you doing here?"

Ironically, he's not trained in intimidate. But he figures just being a bear and having a bear's voice is probably plenty intimidating.

Roll it!

Intimidate results:
Arowyn: 9+0=9
Bethany: 5+4=9
Mara: 1+0=1

The hobgoblin begins stammering incoherently about "Idon'twunnadieIdon'twunnadieIdon'twunnadie!" so Lucky chimes in.

"We won't kill you if you simply answer our questions," he says almost comfortingly.

"Well my boss WILL kill me if I tell you what we're doing here!"

"I punched your boss's lights out," Mittens reminds.

"Not him!  The BOSS!  The leader of the Savage Hand!  I guess he'll kill me anyhow 'cause I failed to scout out the area."

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LuckyMits Aid-other intimidate? 10.  Group together beats the low DC.

Arowyn asks, "If your purpose was to scout, why torture the girl from earlier?"