Nega v. Frost Giant 1

Frost Giant Initiative: 14
Nega Initiative: 3

Having already wounded Nega, the giant accepts its wounds and continues to press the dwarf to finish off its kill. Its axe cuts downwards at Nega, and once again its axe drives past her shield and bites into her armor. The blade pierces her mithril armor once again, streaking the fine everbright finish with blood once. The wound is enough to make Nega gasp from the pain.

She controls her staggering just enough to step around the giant’s next swing, before she readies her next attack against the giant battering her.

The frost giant hits Nega for 20 HP. She is now at half HP.

Battered but not beaten, Nega’s retaliation is lethal. Her mace batters the giant once, than twice on either side of its chest. The divine fury of her mace burns the giants badly, and it staggers from the wounds.

She strikes the giants for 23 HP and 19 HP of wounds.

Magnum versus The Guardian:

On the defensive now as he stands alone against the wizard’s guardian, Magnum reels from his own wounds. Whatever it was, he tried to avoid its gaze. He also tried to avoid that massive meat cleaver of a sword it was wielding. He also knew he needed help, and the only way to get that help was to clear away what was distracting his friends. As he begins his Ehontar song again, he swings his wand first towards the guardian than towards the giant fighting Nalrak. After getting blasted by the flamethrowers, the smoldering giant couldn’t have much fight left in him. It was also tying up Nalrak. So he discharged the last charge of the wand on top of the giant and let the flames howl and dance around it.

The blast of holy flame glow blazes and glows as the giant screams underneath its focus. Its skin turns black from the fire and sloths off, exposing bone and charred flesh. With an almost child-like wail, the giant falls to ground as fire continues to burn its skin and clothing.

Having expended the last charge of the wand, Magnum growls and casts the husk at the wizard’s guardian. It bounces off the thing’s armor and the crystal shatters. The thing did not even flinch from the throw. Magnum could feel its eyes burning into him from beneath its helm now, and it caused the proud warrior to flinch away for a moment as the energy beneath the helm glowed brightly.

With no more sound than the swish of oiled joints, the guardian glides forward towards Magnum and swings its sword in two powerful, precise strokes at the dwarf. Once again, the creature swings for Magnum’s head and the blade crashes into his thick sallet helmet. Only dwarven steel keeps his foe from splitting his head, and he sees stars as the blow pulverizes him. Without his axe in hand, Magnum only has his stout shield and this time he catches the blow and pushes it away. Only he can’t move the guardian’s sword and only manages to push himself away from it.

The Guardian rolls a 20 but cannot confirm the critical and does 19 HP to the battered Magnum.

Thordek versus The Guardian

With the wizard gone for now, Thordek turns his attention to the wizard’s indomitable guardian and prepares to attack it. He was not sure what it was, but it was damned dangerous. Still, they had numbers on it. How many of us can it kill before they took it down though was another matter.

Thordek steps in and, not underestimating its intelligence, throws a feint at it and then follows up with a real attack. He thought he was about to land a good hit on it and let his adamantine axe cut it open so he could see what was inside. Instead, his axe is met with the fastest parry he had ever saw with such a large weapon. His axe is caught, hooked and moved away. He has just enough time to duck as the guardian takes a level swing at his head.

Considering Magnum had been struck twice in the head, it seemed this thing was going for kill shots on every swing.

Not comforting.

Thordek rolled a 2 on his attack. Not good enough.

Nalrak versus The Guardian

With the giant he was facing slain in a blaze of fire, Nalrak turns his attention to the next target. With Nega too far away to get to, that left the guardian to deal with. He moves forward and into the towering foe’s range. He swings his hammer, but it bangs off the guardian’s armor.

At least Nalrak had its attention now…

Hjalmar versus The Guardian

With all but one giant down, the wounded and angry Hjalmar lumbers towards the guardian. He did not know what it was, but he’d fought bigger in his centuries, he figured. Shield held tightly and in perfect position, he too wades in against it and swings his hammer. The blow rings off its armor, and his blow is enough to pierce the armor with his hammer’s spike. It’s armor is caved in and the hole in the armor shines with a blue light. Having finally landed a wound on it, Hjalmar frowns that it seems to have no pained reaction to the blue. Maybe it was some sort of construct? He blinks his eye again though, and rivulets of a blue liquid seep from the wound.

What he also noticed is that the holy fury that his hammer normally wrought, burning the wicked, was silent. Whatever the thing was, it had not been judged to be evil. What it was though was anyone’s guess.

Hjalmar inflicts 19 HP against the Guardian

Wyatt v. Giant 1

With the frost giant and Nega trading blows, Wyatt guessed who would survive that exchange and figured it might not be Nega. He scoots forward and swipes at the giant, swinging his bat behind the giant’s knee. He lands a solid blow and translates him momentum into some extra damage against the giant. While it had not noticed Wyatt drift into the exchange, it surely felt his presence now. Wisely, Wyatt cleared out as quickly as he came in to avoid the giant’s retaliation.

Wyatt inflicts 24 HP against the frost giant.

Arumfaerwed

Taking a chance, Arum throws another dagger of ice in the direction of where he last saw the enemy mage. He hopes it has not had time to move away from its last location after it casts the invisibility spell that made it disappear so inconveniently.

The dagger hits the ground and explodes in a shard of ice. If the fragments hit anyone, he could not tell the effect.

Duergar Flamers:

With three giants down and only Nega’s remaining, the two search for an opening where their flame throwers would not wound any of their allies. Finding no opening against the giant, the guardian or the vicious battle between the hobgoblin regulars and their own forces, the two duergar back away for the time being. They also split up, to avoid both being taken out by the invisible wizard.

Buna Soulhammer:

With only two targets to choose from now, Buna bites her lip and drops her axe back into her belt. Concentrating for a moment, her hand suddenly leaps with hissing, crackling electricity and she closes the gap on th wizard’s guardian.

“I don’t care what ye are, yer a tin can and I bet ye feel this alright!” she shouts unnecessarily at it.

She thrusts her open palm outwards and presses it against the guardian’s armored shell and lets the electrical charge explode from her hand into it. The guardian is jolted by the electricity and seems momentarily stunned. Under its helm, the smoldering blue energy blazes in reaction to the attack. It backs away a moment and looks at Buna, eye slits blazing with angry azure energy.

“Got yer attention now!” she taunts it. Whatever the thing was, it was clearly an intelligent thing.

Carmard:

Seeing the brutal effectiveness of the wizard’s guardian, Carmard thinks what spells he has that would be useful against it and quickly discounts most options. He hefts his hammer and throws it at the wizard’s guardian from high above as he floats over the battlefield. The hammer flies straight and true and strikes the guardian in the helm hard and skips away. It’s armor is dented and torn once again and energy blazes from the tear.

Carmard strikes the guardian for 13 HP.