The Vanquishers of Reillalt

[Vazzaroth]

Hiram's bolt flies straight and nails the beast square in the side. It recoils and squeals loudly.
Sonia's specialized strike is not executed perfectly, but she still manages to stick one of the skeletons, but she finds her shortsword connecting with less effectively than she's used to on the open-ribbed undead.
Lance darts forward moving past Sonia's fight, but her enemy suddenly leaps forward to bit Lance's shin as he passes with unnatural speed (natural 20, not a crit, 1 dmg). The one he is moving towards is able to lash at him as well, inflicting more scratches on the Ranger (1 more dmg) To retaliate, Lance brings his sword to bear on it and can see his attack shatter a good amount of bones.

The Undead rats fight wildly, Lance's rat tries to attack, but it's broken structure seems to hinder it enough to allow him to dodge. Sonia's continues to bite accurately and she can feel the sting of it's bite on her thigh through her armor (3 dmg).
The living rats rush forward, the first at Sonia. He leaps and snaps his jaws at her, but misses by a good foot. (natural 1 :D) The other skampers past both Sonia and Lance to get to them, but he does not make it that far. Lance lops it's head and shoulders off as it enters his range. (6 dmg from AoO to rat)

Almost in response to the Dire Rat's death, you can hear more skittering. You can start to see what is producing it as it enters your visual range: A flood of smaller skeleton rats! These ones look like the household variety, but there are hundreds of them! Their red dots in their eye sockets are giving off an unsettling glow as they move toward Lance and Sonia.

((Resume combat. Swooper and Jack, you can post next round actions if you'd like.))
Init:
Skeletons 16
Dire Rats 14
Bonerat Swarm
Viktor 10
Royal 9
Paerin 8
Hiram 23
Sonia 21
Lance 18

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