I didn't know you could get it as a Warlock. Or is it one of your patron spells?

Celestial patron spell.

Out of curiosity (and self-interest) when will we be getting XP for this encounter? It's... scary running a fighter build with 11HP. ;P

Mine have been updated by the GM already. I assume yours will be soon, if they haven't been already.

Karon just hit level 2, in fact, but after we take a long rest.

Same here, but I don't think now is the best time for a long rest, by my count its still young in the day. Maybe a short rest to get some health back and then we continue on?

Agreed. If we stay too long it will make finding whatever killed the soldiers that much more difficult.

Ah, good to know. And yeah, we need to loot the bodies, follow the trail, if there is one, and maybe bring back the bodies to town if there is a "speak to dead" spell that a cleric can cast.

Ah, the Speak with Dead is a good point. Not so sure about looting the poor soldiers though...

:p Well, we can hash that part out in character. :p

Yupp!

All for respecting the dead, but I know for certain if one of them has a shield I could use...

Lucien you should burn your inspiration dice on a perception or survival to try and get some more info. It expires in a few minutes.

Surprise surprise, the Warlock wants to take a short rest.

Holy shiznit! I forgot about both inspiration dice and my 2nd surge thingy majig. Could I use that now to heal up?

In reply to Volani O'Tamu (msg # 690):

Thank you. I forgot I got that second use of it. I will scout out the area while all you guys stem the bleeding.

Terminax, I would save the Second Wind for later, since you can use it in the middle of a fight, and just roll your Hit Die during the short rest that we are presumably about to take.

Also, Lathan knows Cure Wounds if someone is still in bad shape after the rest.

As soon as my sleep spell fell flat I got really worried about that fight. I started dumping cooldowns as quick as I could.

... and now that we're out of combat the dice have betrayed me. A 1 on a d6, a 2 and two 3s. *sigh*

It's cool, Lucien just has to pretend to be incompetent now otherwise you guys might get suspicious as to why jaunty Mr. Silversong is such a cold hard bada**.
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What's the plan? Are you going to rest here? Burn the dogs? What are you doing with the dead men? Is there anything else you are going to do?

Lucien didn't find any tracks (obviously) and Volani didn't detect any magic, by the way.

And the two men were killed with bladed weapons. The each have chain mail, a longsword, a longbow, 20 arrows, and a holy symbol of Ilmater.

I feel like we are split, between moving on immediately and staying for a short rest. Either way I think we plan on burying the bodies and burning the dogs.

With no tracks, we have no way of following any pilgrims potentially taken prisoner. That leaves the bodies and the dead dogs.

Karon has no really strong opinion one way or the other on burning the doggos. If we have the time and firewood and feel confident we won't come under attack again, let's do it. If we hear howling, we run for it.

He will want to bring the bodies back, since there was a good point made about speak with dead. It also gives their families a chance to bury them rather than just knowing they got killed and buried somewhere out there.

With a group this size, perhaps we need a leader to make the calls, so as not to have an endless IC debate about fairly inconsequential things?

I'm like... so tired of winding up in leadership positions... and yet I can seemingly never avoid it.

It's on account of my strong personality I suspect. :p

I believe we should rest while those of us who don't need the benefit (might just be me) collect wood to burn the dogs. Then since we can't find any tracks *ahem* we take the bodies back to town and look for someone who can cast speak with dead. Lucien knows a druid, but no bards or clerics that I remember. At least none that aren't currently members of this party.

I second Lucien's proposal.

I need to rest to heal, and I still have no ideas if I gained XP or leveled, which might impact my choice.