Afternoon of Day 3 of Patchwall
From Gnorcia's notes:
Armatzi cast three Wyvern Watch spells at the entrance of the cave. I cast Mirror Image so there would be three of me if they did spot me hiding on the mountainside beside the entrance. I then cast Footfall, making it sound as if someone were running past the cave and down the path. Almost immediately, two displacer beasts appeared to ooze out of the entrance. They were great black beasts with waving tentacles that appeared to phase and they walked right through the Wyvern Watch spells. They begin to stalk toward the party—specifically toward Feno. We were prepared with a plan of attack and immediately Lhoss cast Sleep. It did nothing. Niki then cast Hold Animal and it did nothing because displacer beasts aren’t animals. Feno also swung and missed.
Suddenly worried about how this might go for the group, Armatzi then cast Continual Darkness, engulfing me and the cave entrance in it, but narrowly missing the beasts. Niki began to cast Lightning as Kyro ran up and swung at the beast closest to the cliff edge, seriously damaging it and making it howl in pain and anger. Feno attacked the other again and did enormous damage to it. From my hiding spot, unable to see anything in the darkness, I cast Hypnotic Pattern but it was too far away to affect them. Frustrated and unable to do anything effective, I just stood on the hillside, quietly waving my incense. Niki’s lightning then hit and completely fried them both, destroying their hides.
Feno probably would have started to cry at that but the noise instantly brought three more displacer beasts out of the cave. Armatzi dropped the Continual Darkness as two of them were affected by the Wyvern Watch and a third was affected by my Hypnotic Pattern. Arnd and Kyro then attacked from a distance, finishing off all three. We could then see they were panther-like creatures with six legs and two tentacles with horny barbs on them.
Looking around at each other in wonder, we realized that somehow none of us even took a hit from the beasts. Feno ran up, grabbed two of the bodies, and started dragging them away from the entrance. Kyro and Lhoss grabbed the third and carried it between them. We all followed Feno until we were about a quarter mile from the camp, where Kyro slaughtered the creatures, first harvesting the tentacles, teeth, and claws, then the meat and the hides. The rest of us dug a pit where we buried the remaining parts of the creatures. We returned to our camp and prepared to return to the village the next day.
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