With her prey in her sights, the half-orc draws her longbow and fires an arrow into the swamp beast’s flank. The arrow flies true, and bites into the blubbery flesh, expelling a spray of dull yellow pus.  Anjie is use to hunting monsters, but this creature seems to not be one of them. Whilst strange, its movements are simple due to the irregular length of its limbs, and whilst the arrow dealt more damage than it should have, she judges that to be down to a quirk of the beast’s physiology rather than the application of her perfected skill.<br/><br/>If the swamp beast felt any pain from the arrow in its side, it shows no recognition, its attention instead caught by the armoured humanoid in front of it, making a racket with its blade and shield. Its desired prey, the soft and unarmored villagers, must wait, until this threat has been dealt with. The long, bent back legs of the creature leg, propelling it forwards in two short hops, allowing it to roll its fat head in a semicircle, bringing its horns to bear against the chain mail, the seer force behind them ensuring they find a weak point to the flesh below. Eldran'tyr is shaken by the force of the attack, but is still standing, just, but then he feels the seeping of something else spreading through his system. At least the swamp beast left itself open in the wake of the attack, sprawled across the wet ground.<br/><br/>Several of the villages flee, and the ones that remain shy away, behind the armoured knight or towards the half-orc, for as fierce as she may look, a greyskin is preferable to a monster. One in the crowd, the merchant also passing through, draws a strange weapon from his cloak, a crossbow, too small to be a regular model, but the grip is much longer than the hand version used in the mountains to the south. She takes aim and fires, the bolt disappearing into the wet, mottled flesh, the wound spurting pus before muscles tauten and the hole is sealed shut. That however was her only weapon and now she withdraw.<br/><br/>One of the villagers seems about ready to flee too, but then notices Lythia, standing there gazing in horrified awe. That does not bother him, it is a perfectly expected natural response to such a sight, but he notices something, a crossbow handing from the back of her pack. “Hello, miss,” he lays a hands on her shoulder, gripping firmly, his words in accented trade, “If you ain’t gona use that item, give itta someone else,” he reaches for the weapon.<br/><br/>OOC - Combat map has been updated: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/19DKzrrgrejYahRGC_yjde5DXvv70EqLuSmo629GBxAU/edit<br/><br/>New initiative order is:<br/>Lythia - 20 - Uninjured<br/>Anjie - 19 - Uninjured<br/>Eldran'tyr - 8 - Seriously injured, save pending<br/>Swamp Beast - 6 - Moderately injured, granting advantage to attackers<br/>Villagers - 4<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Eldran'tyr</div><div class="spoiler_body">The swamp beast gored you for 11 points of damage. You need to make a DC: 11 con save or be poisoned for 1 minute. Fail by 5 or more, and you also take an additional 8 points of poison damage.</div></div>