Steel Hawk Handaxe
Weapon (handaxe), uncommon
This throwing axe was made in the fiercely competitive forges of Heavensteppe. When you make a ranged attack with this weapon, you can speak its command word as part of the attack. When you do, choose up to 6 different creatures that you can see, recording the order in which you choose each one. The first target must be within the weapon's range; each subsequent one must be within 20 feet of the previous target. Make a ranged attack against each target using the handaxe, treating each one after the first as if the weapon was thrown from the previous target's space. Immediately after the last attack, the weapon flies back to your hand.
The handaxe's property can't be used again until the next dawn. In the meantime, the handaxe can still be used as a magic weapon.
Grace crouched in a hidden corner of the roofs and looked down into the wide courtyard below. The area had been taken over by a gang of some fringe cultists that morning. To secure their hold there, they'd taken twelve hostages: something about sacrificing two innocents for each gang member or some such. Cultists say the damnedest things.
Six criminals, however, made the perfect number. Words surfaced in her mind, reminding her that precision and perfect accuracy were always key to managing this kind of crisis. She could hear Alexander's lecture on magic missile from years ago back in the crags above their old encampment. But she didn't have his magic. Just her own. She held an axe in her hand and thumbed its well-worn handle.
She shook her head and settled back into the present. Weighing it in her hand one final time, she launched the spinning axe down, followed immediately by its distinctive whirling screech and the howls of the unsuspecting cultists.
Final tally: deaths? One. Injured? Five. Collateral damage?
None.
Just like her father taught her.
This throwing axe was made in the fiercely competitive forges of Heavensteppe. When you make a ranged attack with this weapon, you can speak its command word as part of the attack. When you do, choose up to 6 different creatures that you can see, recording the order in which you choose each one. The first target must be within the weapon's range; each subsequent one must be within 20 feet of the previous target. Make a ranged attack against each target using the handaxe, treating each one after the first as if the weapon was thrown from the previous target's space. Immediately after the last attack, the weapon flies back to your hand.
The handaxe's property can't be used again until the next dawn. In the meantime, the handaxe can still be used as a magic weapon.
Grace crouched in a hidden corner of the roofs and looked down into the wide courtyard below. The area had been taken over by a gang of some fringe cultists that morning. To secure their hold there, they'd taken twelve hostages: something about sacrificing two innocents for each gang member or some such. Cultists say the damnedest things.
Six criminals, however, made the perfect number. Words surfaced in her mind, reminding her that precision and perfect accuracy were always key to managing this kind of crisis. She could hear Alexander's lecture on magic missile from years ago back in the crags above their old encampment. But she didn't have his magic. Just her own. She held an axe in her hand and thumbed its well-worn handle.
She shook her head and settled back into the present. Weighing it in her hand one final time, she launched the spinning axe down, followed immediately by its distinctive whirling screech and the howls of the unsuspecting cultists.
Final tally: deaths? One. Injured? Five. Collateral damage?
None.
Just like her father taught her.
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