<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=314115.msg15251576#msg15251576">Quote from: Max on 24-01-2020, 08:15:26</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Millitana "Milli" Damaraus<br/><br/>Milli looks to the last of the weird twig monsters that had attacked the group.  While blood still oozed down her arm from the strike she had taken earlier, she kept a grip on her weapons, moving to the things, and her swords swung out at it.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>With a deft strike Milli takes the head off of the last twig creature.<br/><br/>Except for the squelch of feet in the muddy road, the sound of breathing, and the soft susurrus of wind through the trees the world seems still after the hectic noise and action of combat.<br/><br/>On closer examination the stick bundle creatures look to be made of the same dark thorny wood as the impaling apple trees. In the centre of their chests is a withered brown cylinder that looks very much like an apple core left out in the sun for days. Other than the apple core "heart" they are constructed only of thorny twigs.<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">GM Stuff</div><div class="spoiler_body">There are no Fumbles as such. Your characters are heroic, I'd rather not have you trip or drop your weapon on 1 swing out of 20. It is enough that a roll of 1 misses, even if you have an insane to-hit bonus. <br/><br/>The dead bandits could be looted. They can't be buried unless you chop down the dark apple trees. If you want to burn the trees/bodies that will take the rest of the morning and most of the afternoon to build a pyre. Just setting each tree on fire would make an even more grisly and terrifying sight -- burned bodies impaled on burned trees. Yuck.<br/><br/>You could make a brief (1 minute) search of the immediate area, a short (1 hour or less) search of the area within a bow-shot of the intersection, or a detailed search (the rest of the morning) of the area within about two bow-shots from the intersection. That would let anyone make either an Investigation or a Survival (looking for tracks or unusual natural phenomena) roll.<br/><br/>Of course you can pause that and have a discussion first, if you like!</div></div><br/><br/>