Twiggy stays in the shadows keeping a look out and listening being quiet and unseen.

Nolan didn't say a word. He just looked out the window at the glowing light off in the distance, his mind far, far away.

"I may worship Ilmater and take on another's suffering, but if these people won't show you their faces, I'd suspect a trap too, even if they are crying out for help. Running away, leading you on to chase them, sounds like a trap to me." Roen said to the group "If we are to investigate this, we should all go out. We have numbers that might scare off a small group of pillagers, or we stay here and see if they will show themselves at the door."

Nox arches an eyebrow at Myarra's challenge. "Good enough?" The words come out a stifled whisper. His pride had suffered enough lately, that was more than sufficient to prompt him to action. "Take over up here, and keep an ear to the wind. Just in case." Just like that, he's gone before even hearing Roenthelm's words.

Kali looks at the others with a nod and stands at the front door.  Letting out a low whistle, she looks around, as Raieylan pads over.  She looks at the panther with a nod, and the panther pads off a short distance and hides in a shrub. She looks around and sniffs the air.


She looks back at Roenthelm. "I think it may be a trap, but not what the others think. If what our new friend said was true, I doubt the attackers may be human, and if they are, possibly not alive. I'd prefered if The others fell back, but trust in their skills.  If they need us they will call us. For now, lets prepare."

Lorrik shakes his head No, "No, I didn't recognize the voice. I'm sure if it was one of my friends, they would have ran up to the door calling my name."

Walking right by the big panther without seeing him.

You know I may be crazy to charge into the middle of 5 to 1 odds against me.  But, I'm definitely not stupid enough to walk into an obvious ambush in the middle of the night when I can't see what's coming.  For now I don't think they will come this way to attack us.  They might try again to lure some of us away from here though.

Twiggy stays hidden and listening as the others make their way back.

Lennox disappears in a puff of smoke and appears in the brush some distance away, then disappears again until nobody can see him with their vision anymore.....

The light on the trail still calls out for help,

Please help me! My friends are dying!

The cries for help, real or not,  were like fingernails down the chalkboard of the elven girl's soul, and she cringed as she listened.
Then she sighed
"I'm going to try something. "
Making a show if it (so as to not startle Lorrik too much) she used her new amulet to  summon a giant wasp, with instructions to investigate the noises in the woods

Activating the new amulet thst summons a giant wasp for 1 minute, thst obeys my commands. 

Amara didn't like someone going alone. If it was dangerous for a pair to go, it was dangerous for someone alone to go. She moved into the shadows, first to the side by about 45 feet, and then slowly toward the voice. Her goal was go get close enough to see what it was - not to follow it into what might be a trap. She was in no rush, moving deliberately.

Lorrik looks on in awe as Aliana uses her magical item to summon forth a Giant Wasp, but something strange happens before she commands it to look in the woods. Most of you are experienced enough to know what a Dancing Lights spell is, but it freaks Lorrik out. The lights follow the "light" into the forest. That's when Aliana sends her Wasp in to figure out what is happening. After the lights and the wasp have disappeared into the forest, Amara quietly disappears outside to follow.

"Well, with everyone going out and splitting up the party, it appears Nolan's assumptions are probably correct. Divide and conquer." Roen said to the group "Is this what we're going to do? Or should we follow in a large group?"

In reply to Roenthelm (msg # 47):

Aliana looked at him and shrugged.
"I wasn't going in without more information.  I guess a few of us are more impatient, or confident, then others."

Now that I've watched the lights, I recall a story I've heard about aberrations called Willo-wisps. Evil little creatures who lure the unknowing to natural hazards and drain their life force while they're dying. It does fit with plants that attack people, so I don't think it's wise to follow them. There might be more in hiding.

Lorrik looked out the window and backed away from it, "I'm not going out there. I don't know what this Abbera thing is, but I'll shoot at it from the second floor."

Aliana's giant insect friend returns to base and tells her what it found. She is told that the light is going up the trail away from the base further and further away.

The giant insect disappears. Its time has expired.

Sister Aliana looked at everyone.
"Yes, it's not a real person.  Just a magical light luring us out.  Pretty creepy."

Twiggy walks out from the shadows when the wasp appears back and he walks over to the others "I guess it is back to sleep again or do we set double watches?"

"Yeah, I'm not going to be able to sleep after all this." Lorrik said "How do you defeat this weird magical light?"

In reply to Lorrik (msg # 54):

The elven priestess shrugged, looking a bit sheepish.
'In a straight battle, we could probably win, but in the crowded and dark forest,  the monsters have a big advantage.    We should wait here, stay defensive.   They shouldn't come here into the open, and if they do, the. we'll have the advantage. "
She smiled at Lorrik.
'That's one of the big rules of Adventuring :  Always try to choose the battlefield,  if you can."

Looking at Lorrik.
Take it easy kid.  Your still on guard with Aliana, Myarra and myself.

Looking at the rest of the group.

Go back to sleep if you can and are not currently on guard duty.  If anything shows up that we can't handle we will wake you up again.
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Twiggy slaps Lorrik on the back walking back in the house "Another good thing to learn is sleep when you can. Aliana, that offer is still open.   Twiggy grins at the priestess as he goes in.

Unfortunately, I don't know how to defeat one. What I've told you all is the extent of my knowledge on them. If brawn doesn't work, use magic. If magic doesn't work, use brawn. If that doesn't work, run away as fast as you can.

"See, Byron.  What did I tell you?  Willy-Whisps.  I ran into one years ago in the Dales.  Well, my, err, team and I.  Steel and wood were useless, as was our wizard. She was mostly useless anyway, and a real lecher, but she didn't deserve getting electrocuted like that.   We ran for it, and it still managed to kill half of us before we got out of the marshes."

She stares off into the woods for a minute.  "Everyone needs to get back in the tower and wait for daylight.  We're much stronger than my old bandit ... I mean adventuring group, but we shouldn't be floundering around in the dark."