The Bat's Out of the Bag

Tobith after running out of daggers

## A Great Fall

Wanting to save the Water Bull as much as possible, the team elected to simply jump down. After a brief argument about not wanting to hold hands on the descent, they jumped. On the way they passed the Dolphin-Bat that was circling under the city but elected to stay quiet as it hadn't noticed them. They encountered what Tobith identified as a force field around Melrose, but for whatever reason it allowed them to pass through. When they were a little too close to the ground for the boys comfort, Ianna cast Feather Fall, allowing them to slow their descent.

They landed in the muddy plains, noticing the large pits in the ground where buildings had been lifted up. The team made sure to look out for Mudsharks, and noticed some tracks that seemed to lead off in the direction of the forest. Moving stealthily, the group avoided the Mudsharks.

Moving through the forest proved difficult for Tobith as the only member of the group without darkvision. Electing to move deeper into the forest to try to find the clearing where the seeds were first found, they encountered a Green Dolphin-Bat.

Key events in the fight:

* Ianna tries a thunderclap that does nothing because of it's significant constitution.
* Tobith's daggers seem less effective against the blubber of the Green Dolphin-Bat, showing it's fortitude against piercing damage.
* Tobith runs out of daggers after throwing a grand total of two daggers.
* Donald tanks most of the damage it deals.
* Tobith deals the finishing blow.

After Tobith dealt the final blow, Ianna prompted him to make either a dolphin or bat related pun, so Tobith said, "I guess the bat's out of the bag!" and everyone groaned. The group took an hour to rest before moving forwards deeper into the forest. After this Tobith suddenly realised he had torches and lit one. As they delved deeper they began to hear more Green Dolphin-Bats in alarmingly large numbers. Coming to a clearing, they found the Green Dolphin-Bats they'd been hearing, there were about 200 of them. They were all moving towards a large tree with pink lights surrounding it.

Tobith and Donald moved forwards to check it out while Ianna hid away. Tobith and Donald made their way around the tree and entered the clearing the team had been looking for. A voice spoke to Tobith and Donald, revealing itself as the Voice of the Forest. The Voice said that since the seeds taken before hadn't fully regrown, they didn't want to give more seeds. However, if the team were able to get rid of the Dolphin-Bats, they would reconsider.

The team regrouped and discussed possible plans. They settled on using the Water Bull to attack from the sky. This was immediately proved to be a bad idea as Tobith was almost blasted out of the sky by a soundwave attack. Ianna stumbled on something that seemed quite helpful; when she cast Thaumaturgy to create a thunder sound, it seemed to stun the Dolphin-Bats. However, the players determined that even with the stun effect, it was going to be quite difficult to clear all of them. The team went back to the drawing board.

### Featured Characters

* Ianna Zephyr
* Donald Durmsquat
* Tobith Ironring
* Green Dolphin-Bats

### Trivia

* Part of the reason the players abandoned the plan to simply attack the Green Dolphin-Bats was due to a miscalculation from Cat. Cat determined the team would be able to make 200 attacks total, which is just completely wrong. The correct calculation is as follows: 1 attack per round=10 attacks per minute=600 attacks per hour. Certainly it would be immensely exhausting to fight for an hour, but between Donald and Tobith, we could potentially mark off 1200 attacks. We defeated the first Green Dolphin-Bat in 5 rounds. Assuming we do about the same amount of damage, we could potentially clear 120 out of 200, which is actually pretty good.
	+ Would it be entertaining or fun? Probably not, but I reckon it'd get the job done. Say you were part of the surviving 80, would you wanna stick around? I reckon not. Even if the remaining 80 Dolphin-Bats did choose to stay, we could probably still take them out because this plan doesn't actually need us to fly because they're stunned and can't attack us back. This plan also doesn't actually consume resources either, it just takes a fucking while.