Storm Point Asylum

Morning comes quickly. Drizzle and fog dominate the landscape. You arrive at the Walcrest Estate. You find the girl in her wagon... a cage of thick black wood, iron bars on wooden wheels. She is crumpled in a nest of blonde hair and motionless as the crags loom high above the city. Your breath comes out white clouds and hangs in the damp air. Harl stands next to the wagon. Once he sees you he climbs onto the driver's seat and motions you in. You sit on either side of him, mostly out of the weather in the cab. He flicks the reins, "Hyah!" he yips, his voice a deep basso rumble. There is a space behind the seat to stow your baggage.

Harl looks at the road ahead. "What I do is my business. What she does is her business. If we gotta fight, I protect her first, then myself. Best be about what they hired you for," he says. And continues to drive the wagon.

You cross a few foothills, the Stormkeepers looming high, majestic and ominous all at once. You see the dirt road that winds up the side of one of the smaller mountains. It still fills you with trepidation.

You hear the girl moving in the wagon, the clink of chains is the telltale sign.
She speaks in a raspy high pitched voice,
"You’re all killers too. I know the type. Liars in the skin of angels! I’ll escape, you know, escape and hold your eyes open as you bleed. Won’t it be wonderful? Asleep you’ll go, and my appetites only begun! Asleep you’ll go, eyes open, and the beetles will have their feast! Hahaha! Harl...undo thes chains...please Harl, I promise I'll be a good girl. Please Harl."

Harl keeps the wagon steady as you begin the incline up the dirt road. Dark clouds linger. The rain subsides and a blanket of dark grey moves slowly across the sky.

Jormund eyes his crystal and again the sense of unease feels strong. Fudge is restless and looks ahead as if to say something is coming. As the barred wagon totters up the mountain road, dark clouds gather. The path is a narrow, stone-cut roadway with a cliffside drop here and there. Agni stays quiet mostly.

Then, around a tight bend, large rocks have fallen in the way. As Harl steps forward to clear the blockage, a pack of red-eyed Road Rats leap from the broken stones and attack!

Phase 1

Rat 1 tries to BITE Harl - make d20 roll equal to or less than your defense
Rat 2 tries to BITE Filbur - make d20 roll equal to or less than your defense
Rat 3 tries to BITE Jormund - make d20 roll equal to or less than your defense

Ok, you'll need to roll 8 or less on a D20.

Jormund is up next. What is your action?

Harl uses his spear to attack the Rats