Setonian Empire [the search]

[Geech000]

Krahl

"Stupid human die now!" Krahl roars as he rushes towards the soldiers.

((Init: 5+1=6
Move straight into the largest group of soldiers, charge if possible (+2 attack -2 AC)

Power Attack -2 attack +4 damage
Attack +8, Damage 1d12+11
AC 14 HP 51
Charge not currently included))

[Truwar]

Butch sighs and mutters as he glides with alarming grace towards the leader of the bandits, dagger appearing, as if by magic, in his hands.

I didn’t even get ta tell him how much I liked his boots… How am I supposed ta off a fella properly, if I aint even told ‘im how much I like his boots?

Initiative: 14+4=18

Attack +6/+6, Damage 1d4+5+1d6 sneak attack (if I beat him in initiative)/d4+2+1d6 sneak attack (same)
AC 14 HP 51

On-hand dagger: Roll 13+6 = 19 dmg: 7 + 6 (sneak attack) = 13
Off-hand Dagger: Roll 13+6 = 19 dmg: 4 + 4 (sneak attack) = 8

[Jongluer]

(Init 10)
"Border ruffians, figures." Marcuus draws his blade and whisks back his cloak revealing his blue armor and silver holy symbol, " You've made a grave mistake challenging us as well as a servant of the star Trithereon!" He lifts his shielded hand into the air and calls out, "O my patron, lord of freedom, grant me one of your grand beasts for protection!"

((Draw blade and use Summon Monster 3 to bring forth a Celestial Hippogriff))

[Uthuk]

Martin

Martin backs up abit further putting Marcuus between himself and the "soldiers" and starts up an old battle hymn from old while getting his bow ready for action.

((Init: 1d20+3=5

Inspire courage +1 on hitroll/damroll))

[amanodel]

As it seems to be usual, Butch is the first to react. Sitting on a cart one time, putting two daggers to a soldier's chest a moment later. The warriors nearby just watched the bugbear's action. When they realized what happened they were to attack him, but then there was a flash of light behind them. A veteran quickly turned back, just to receive a devastating hoof attackto his face. He landed several feet away in the mud, with a broken jaw.
"Sorcery!!" - the frightened soldiers start to vail.
As an answer, a light arrow flies through the air, and lands at the leader's arm.
After the arrow, something much more heavier flies into the group of soldiers. The thing is carrying a heavy greataxe, and shouts something like "Stupid human die now!". The orc swings his axe and delivers a devastating blow, aiming at a soldier. He raises hand in defence, but the only thing he achived is that his hand now became utterly useless. For all of his life.

Some of the ruffians start ot run away, but their leader yells at them.
"It did not even begin and you run?! You told me you deserted, not the army expelled you for being a girl!"
He swings his longsword at Butch, and manages to surprise the bugbear with the swift slashing ( -10HP ).
Another soldier swings his blade at Krahl, wounding the left arm of the orc ( -7HP ). The other soldiers are just reaching back from their swift retreat, or standing up from the ground.

"Screw you, Joshua!" - Yells a soldier, and keeps running away.

One of the soldiers are fighting duel with Fahd, which seems even.

[Geech000]

Krahl

Krahl snarls silently as he continues to chop through the soldiers, ignoring his wound.

((If the one Krahl attacked hasn't run, attack him again, otherwise attack the one who attacked him.

Maintain Power Attack
Attack +9 Damage 1d12+12
Possible Cleave attack after that
AC 14, HP 44/51))

EDIT: Inspire Courage effect added

[Yawielas]

Ely nocks another arrow and fires at Joshua again, a wry smile on her face. "Don't say we didn't warn you..."

[Jongluer]

Marcuus smirks as the battle seems to be going his way, he then charges in at the deserter captain and says, "Former commander to former commander then!" He comes in with a swift strike from his bastard sword cutting in on the man, he gestures for the hippogriff to do the same.

((Trying to get the hippogriff to flank with me, then come in for the charge, 8+7+2=17 (19 if flanked), 3+2=5 damage))

[Truwar]

*Butch tucks and easily rolls away from the bellowing leader, coming up behind the soldier that attacked Krahl and driving his blades into the back of the deserter as he chuckles*

Fightin’ fair is fer chumps!

((Tumble check Roll 7+9=16
Attack: On hand dagger: 11+6+2+1=18 dmg: 3+5+3+1(song) = 12
Off hand dagger: 13+6+2+1=23 dmg: 2+2+5+1(song)= 10
((edited to add bonus damage from song in))

[Uthuk]

Martin

Takeing in the scene, Martin decides to join the assault on the leader. Aiming his arrow at him.

((Hitroll: 1d20+8=27 Damroll 1d6+2=8

Song ended: round 1
))

[amanodel]

The soldiers can't even imagine the swift and agile moves that Butch shows them, only to stab another unlucky soldier with his duel knives.

Joshua would be happy, if Marccus were not to charge him, along with that strange creature of nightmares. But he does, and becomes quite helpless between the champion and the monster. Both hit him hard, and finally Ely's and Martin's arrows brought him down.

Krahl finally chops his foe in nearly two, and attacks the next moving creature in sight. This hurried blow misses, but so does the two soldiers nearby, who tried to hit the orc.

A soldier attacked Marcuus, and his sword slashed into the Setonian hard in the chest ( -8 HP ).

Butch gracefully dodged an attack meant to chop his head.

Meanwhile Fahd was fighting one-on-one for a while, but another soldier entered the fight and backstabbed the desert nomad, who fell into the ground, bleeding heavily.

[Yawielas]

Ely cries out furiously as Fahd goes down, drops her bow, draws her daggers and leaps at the backstabbing soldier.

(Sneak attack, melee +5, + whatever else bonuses, dmg 1d4)

[Jongluer]

"Fahd!" Marcuus and his beast move in together widely trying to take down the backstabbing soldier, whatever comes into their path they will cut down.

((5+7=12...and of course 10+2=12 damage...))

[Uthuk]

Martin

Martin takes aim to help and cover Ely and Marcuus, he will shoot the soldier nearest Ely.

((Hitroll: 1d20+8=16 Damroll: 1d6+2=6

Song ends: round 2))

[Truwar]

Dashing towards Fahd, Butch nimbly avoids the attacks of the ruffians and takes a spot near the guard that struck Fahd down. Holding an action to attack until Elysia is flanking the deserter, then driving his blades home.

((Tumble Check 11+9=20
On hand attack: 16+6+1(song)+2Flanking dmg: 3+5+4(sneak attack)+1(bard song)=13
Off hand attack: 8+6+1+2=17 dmg: 4+2+3+1=10))

[Geech000]

Krahl

Krahl gives a mighty roar, raising his greataxe above his head and bringing it down with all his might at the soldier unlucky enough to be near him. They hurt the tribe. They shall all die!

((Activate rage, max power attack for -4 attack +8 damage

Attack 10+8+1=19
Damage 10+10(str)+8(PA)+1(song)=28
Cleave Attack misses...rolled a 2
AC 12, HP 52/59))

EDIT: forgot increase to damage from rage and bard song

[amanodel]

Elysia quickly runs over Fahd, with dagger in hand, but her weak strike was easily avoided by the soldier. But somehow, A tall bugbear appeared behind the soldier, quickly stabbing him in his back. The unlucky soldiers barely turned to oppose Butch when he spt Marcuus advancing. He barely managed to avoid a large swing of the deadly bastard sword. But he can't even see the arrow coming, hitting him straigh between the eyes.

Meanwhile Krahl flies into a frezying rage, his axe knocks away every defense, breaks through armor, and finally lands deep into a ruffian's chest. He falls down, trying to stop the blood flowing out, and to reorganize his guts.

By concentrating only on attacking, Butch left his back defenseless, and the soldier nearby managed to slash a wound on his back ( -6 HP ).

Two soldiers surround the raging orc, trying to bring him down. But Krahl moves so fiercely and swiftly that only one of them could hitm him lightly on his arm with his sword ( -3 HP ). The orc doen't even seem to notice it.

( There are currently three soldiers left. Two fighting with Krahl, and one with the rest of you, currently Butch. )

[Yawielas]

Ely grimaces and tries to stab the one fighting with Butch in the back.

[Uthuk]

Martin

Seeing that Krahl has two opponents, Martin tries to put an arrow in one of them.

"Stupid bandits..."

((Hitroll: 1d20+8=22 Damroll: 1d6+2=5

Song ends: round 3))

[Geech000]

Krahl

Krahl rips his axe out of the dieing soldier and swings it at the nearest soldier's head.

((Attack +8
Damage 1d12+18
AC 12, HP 49/59))

EDIT: corrected HP

[Truwar]

Butch dodges around the Bandit, fighting on the opposite side of Elysia and forcing the deserter to split his attention between his two attackers.

Somebody attend ta Fahd!

((Tumble to flank: 14+9=23
On hand attack: 19+6+2=27
roll to confirm crit: 12+6+2=20 dmg: 3/2+5/5+1/1+4=21

Off hand attack: 10+6+2=18 dmg: 2+2+3+1=8 ))

[Jongluer]

Looking at the fight and then Fahd, back again, his eyes rest on his companions, and he rushes in on his travelling companion as he calls back, "Right" Marcuus slides to the ground next to Fahd and assesses the situation before he attempts to bring forth the healing light of the stars.

((Move over to him and heal him using Cure Moderate, 2+2+4=8))

[Yawielas]

(Amanodel is away for a few days, he'll be back soon, though. He posted a message in the OOC forum, but not in our thread.)

[amanodel]

Sorry for the long delay. Was in Frankfurt and didn't have the time to warn my groups each in the threads.

With lightning speed, Butch jumps over the lone soldier with a very attractive sommersault, and dives his twin daggers into the soldiers back, with one of the daggers going in deep right between the ribs. Ely only needed to stab the shocked bandit in the face to finish him off.

Meanwhile Krahl swinged his axe again, and his scream of rage was shortly followed by the bandits scream of death as the greataxe chopped down his hand raised in defense and slashed his chest wide open. An arrow from Martin hit the last soldier still figting, who dropped his sword and shiled and started to run away.

Marcuus tries to bring back Fahd, but Fahd doesn't move or show any signs of life. He is still bleeding intensively, altough his heart already stopped beating.

[Yawielas]

Ely sinks down on her knees staring at the lifeless form of Fahd. She mutters over and over again. "He died free....he died free....a free man...he died a free man...A fighter's death...clean..."

[Truwar]

Snarling in uncharacteristic anger, Butch runs after the fleeing bandit, hurling two throwing daggers at the man.

((On hand throw 16+6+1=23 dmg: 3+5+1 = 9
Off hand throw 11+6+1=18 dmg: 3+2+1= 6))

[Jongluer]

Marcuus lets out a garbled call of rage, and sends off his beast towards the fleeing man, knowing it can catch him much better than any knife. Then he kneels down, a begins murmurming the opening to a prayer song, letting his voice slowly grow, it is the beginning of a funeral, a lament for Fahd.

[amanodel]

The bandit runs towards a small hill. On his way up to the hill he once falls when two daggers fly into him. He quickly stands up and continues to run with wounded legs, bleeding an obscene amount of blood with every step he makes. The monster Marcuus summoned dives on him, knocking him off again, but this time the soldier cannot stand up. The hippogrif dives onto it's prey to atack again, but the force that sommoned it dissipates, and it is thrown back to it's own realm.

[Geech000]

The blood fury still upon him, Krahl runs after the fleeing soldier. He will stop and return when the soldier is dead or if he reaches the hill and the soldier is still getting away. Tribe hurt. Stupid human. Die already and plunge screaming into hell to join your disgraced ancestors!

((move speed: 40ft
Attack +8
Damage 1d12+18))

[amanodel]

Krahl quickly catches up with the fleeing soldier, and when he finally falls, the orc chops him repeatedly with his axe until all of the soldier's blood is spitted out, covering Krahl completely. When he stops his axe nearly weighs twice as much from the warious innards sticking to it.

Not a nice thing to look at.