Airdsgainne swings viciously at the bear again. (Attack Critical, Damage 6)

The mighty bear succumbs to its injuries, unconscious and dying. The villagers stop attacking for a moment to begin to tend to the wounded and unconscious.

The flameskull screeches in anger at the bear. It commands something in Blood-tongue, and the villagers pause for a moment, puzzled. It screeches again and a few reluctantly raise weary weapons toward the party, still unsure of whether they wish to use them.

(The party has time for speech and short conversation with the villagers. Any substantive actions post-combat should wait for the next real round, including checking on wounded, the bear, the forest, as well as any attacks or spells. Diplomacy, Intimidate, Bluff or other speech checks may be appropriate. If you do not speak Blood-tongue, you can attempt to communicate simple ideas with an Intelligence check. Complex ideas will require a higher Intelligence check.)

Ryudo ignores the angry villagers and begins moving as though to help the nearest downed Terrorclaw.
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Aldridge sheathes his bow behind him and allows the Dancing Lights to die. All of his survival instincts tell him that it's time to leave. However, the frightened small child hiding in the tent within a couple steps of him compels him to stay. He decides that any sudden moves, including a word of warning to his colleagues, would need to be delayed.

Aldridge shoots a glare at the skull and warily eyes the confused villagers before crouching down to offer a sympathetic hand to the lad.
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Westra remains a bear just in case the villagers decide to attack her. However, she sits back on her haunches and grabs her back paws with her front paws, rocking back and forth and generally being as adorable as possible.
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Alwan attempts to somehow communicate through gestures that the party had no hostile intent, and to point out the great effort and risk the party went to in order to slay the bear. He finds the task rather difficult, however. (7 persuasion, 7 intelligence).
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The villagers are easily swayed, as Alwanzatar's actions match his words.

(This begins the next round. The villagers appear unlikely to attack this round, although the flameskull circling above appears to be yelling something at them. You can take actions.)

Ethic drops his hammer into it's hook on his belt and slings his shield on his back. His chest is heaving from the effort of the run and fight. He takes the time to examine the beast at his feet. (Nature:21)
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Alwan scrutinizes the flaming skull (11 arcana) and its relationship to the villagers (5 insight).
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While performing her circus act, Westra does a quick medicine check of the unconscious Terrorclaws around her, to determine if she can help them at all once back in human form (23 (Nat20)).
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Ryudo moves to the nearest Terrorclaw and tries to stabilize them.
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Airdsgainne grabs Aldridge by the collar and pulls him down to look him in the eye. He states coldly, "That is the last time I follow a plan of yours without knowing what it is."

He shoves Aldridge backwards onto a child's eviscerated torso, and walks off to tend the wounded. (Medicine check 17)
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Aldridge stands back up and dusts himself off, scowling at the gnome. "Save your petty outrage when we're actually out of danger. Or have you noticed that the battle might not be over?" He takes a few disgusted forward steps away from skull, keeping a peripheral eye on it over his shoulder.
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After inspecting a few bodies, Airdsgainne shouts over to Westra, "The gas is paralysing! They're not dead. Do you have antitoxin?" He begins giving rescue breathing to the gassed villagers.

"[Language unknown: Ho rutpr din io ineredhouund, U lesiec reonit iche etulle ave tinit a ho whetinhat illntieen,]" Aldridge mutters to himself. He continues walking away from the battle field, checking to see if anything is approaching. His unease about the screaming skull interferes with his analysis (Perception 4).

Westra points a claw at Ryudo and grunts in answer to Airdsgainne's question. She gets up and jogs over to Ryudo, turning reluctantly back into a human as she goes. "Can I get a few of those vials of antitoxin you found? We need as many of them on our side as possible."

Ryduo goes through the items he had found in the tent, displaying 8 doses of antitoxin.  "Here, you know how to use them better than I."

Roll call for the village:

Healthy combatants:

• Auhgan, 9yo boy
• Shagar, 28yo woman
• Rulfim, 49yo woman
• Mor, 28yo woman
• Zilug, 9yo boy
• Borgakh, 8yo girl
• Bruigig, 6yo boy
• Winug, 9yo boy

Healthy children:

• Lash, 2yo girl
• Opeghat, 3yo boy
• Dubok, 3yo boy
• Zarfu, 3yo boy
• Krugorim, 1yo boy
• Garzong, 4yo boy
• Trilug, 2yo boy
• Shomdud, 1yo boy
• Varthurg, 4yo boy (non-threatening burns from rescuing Burul)
• Burul, infant boy
• Ragash, 1yo girl
• Hugolm, 1yo boy

Unconscious:

• Vlog, 55yo man, bleeding out
• Quordud, 14yo boy, stabilized
• Bulfim, 16yo girl, stabilized (pregnant)

Paralyzed:

• Gonk, 31yo woman
• Sharog, 11yo girl
• Shelur, 8yo girl
• Mor, 10yo girl
• Duma the Elder, 48yo man
• Bogdub, 13yo girl
• Vagan, 9yo boy
• Xugagug, 50yo man
• Gluronk, 18yo girl (pregnant)
• Durz, 14yo girl (wearing druidic holy symbol)
• Ghak, 15yo girl
• Kegigoth, 12yo boy
• Dul, 10yo boy
• Lazgar, 63yo woman
• Zahgorim, 27yo man
• Borgahka, 72yo woman (wearing druidic holy symbol, previously healed Ryudo)
• Bor, 1yo girl (worn by Ghak)
• Ugak, infant girl (worn by Ghak)

Dead:

• Shagar, 30yo woman: leg torn off, burned to death
• Durgat, 11yo girl: decapitated, flaming head sent flying
• Durgat, 50yo woman: torso ripped open, burned to death
• Kegigoth, 7yo boy: bit in half
• Homraz, 48yo woman: burned to death
• Buomaugh, 51yo man: dismembered, burned to death
• Yotul, 28yo woman: burned to death
• Burub, 13yo girl: disemboweled, burned to death
• Grat, 19yo girl: burned to death, infant rescued from corpse

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Flutterwing immediately carries out Aldridge's instruction, dropping her shield and curing Westra of poison. (Westra is cured of poison, but the penalty to hp remains. Anything that removes a level of exhaustion will restore one hit die+con mod of max hp.)

"Good work, Flutterwing," Aldridge says. "Actually, if you wouldn't mind, go ahead and club the sleeping beast upside the head, just to be certain it doesn't surprise us."

Aldridge also sings a few begrudging healing words for the party druid, as well (+6 health).

The villagers, a few at a time, appear to decide that they are not going to attack a party that is helping them, skull or no skull. The flameskull appears to be getting impatient, however. The surviving villagers stand back from the party, as though they are afraid to associate with them.

Westra runs over to the old druid woman and uses a vial of antitoxin to stabilize her.

Aldridge immediately tenses. He is glad that the villagers appreciate the rest of the party's help, but their instincts sets his instincts on edge. He takes the bow in hand and stares down the monster as he takes a few more steps away from the skull. "Flutterwing, belay that order and put the bear between you and the skull!"
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"I think the skull is about to attack.  Be ready.  Don't attack first or else it might be taken as hostile by the villagers."  Ryudo says quietly as he attempts to help other injured.  "Does anyone know anything about it's origin?"

"It's a free flameskull," Aldridge explains, keeping his eye firmly on the monster and his bow firmly at his side. He edges away from the children. "I assume that before it became this, it was a necromancer that did this to itself before it died. If its tent is any indication, it seized control of the tribe, and is directly responsible for its most xenophobic tendencies. The increased sociopathic tendencies are a side effect of the form."
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