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Silence fell over the glade for a moment as the last of the charging treefolk was incinerated. Many spoke of retreat. Others kept stuffing their bags with as much as they could carry. But they were quickly interrupted as three quick notes, and a fourth, higher note, echoed from deeper into the woods. Then again, from another direction, then a third, even more distant than the others.

Will you risk further reinforcements? Or flee now?

Atil's axe reduced the last of the treefolk in melee with him to splinters. It's body burst out in all directions.

Stella finished it with little difficulty. The arrow shattered the mostly frozen treefolk's midsection.

The treefolk staggered back, raising two hands to try to block the icy beam from hitting it's face as frost built up around it's hands and joints. Fyodor's was quite dead.

One of the figures jabbed into Dullahan's armored shin with a high-pitched squeaking battlecry. The other did much the same, hitting Mr. Shredder's calf. The plant tendril started to twist and grow inside of him, burrowing into his muscle like loose earth.

If a 15 hits, Mr. Shredder takes 5 damage. He must also make a DC8 strength save. On a fail, he takes 6 more damage and the treefolk attaches to his leg. On a success, he takes half as much damage.

The tiny figure climbed from frond to frond, dangling and swinging. It cried a high-pitched battlecry as it tried to jab Mr. Shredder with a thorn on the end of it's tiny arm, but Mr. Shredder was able to flinch, swat, and/or flail the creature off of his arm before the blow landed.

Two more of the adorable saplingfolk looked up from a nearby tree branch. They looked at one another, eyes wide, and gasped, then leaped down, rushing towards Atil and Dullahan with their own high pitched battlecries.

Special Combat Rules

Your bags each contain 100gp worth of fern, our of a max of 250gp. During this combat, you may expend your turn to move to a patch of ferns and stuff them into your bag. If you do, you may roll Wisdom/Survival or Strength/Athletics, or if you have a herbalism kit, Dex/Herbalism Kit Proficiency or Int/Herbalism Kit Proficiency. Add double the result in gold piece value to your bag.

New enemies will appear each round.

Roll for initiative, DC11.

You know, Sormias, this one isn't too bad. Soothes the stomach a bit.

Jonathan cracked a thick branch off with a powerful thrust of his spear, before Dullahan's indigo blue fires engulfed the tree, turning red as the last of it's canopy lit up. Creaking and cracking, it fell to the ground. The fire spread along the trunk, flickering and blazing, but thankfully the underbrush withered without coming alight.

Past the tree, you made out some unusual ferns. Roll int/nature or wis/medicine.