Gwenn flashes her sword as a distraction, then carefully circles around behind the giant and charges at it again, this time walking up the back of its leg to stab him behind his knee before she drops down again.
Gwenn's rapier sinks deep, and another gush of blood wells to the surface as the giant bellows in pain and fear.
Miranda stepped out from the cover of the trees- as she paced forward, the air around her seemed to erupt into a swirling pillar of flame. With a wave of her staff, she conjured a roiling cloud of fiery sprite-like creatures, engulfing one of the giants and one of the bugbear archers- the other archer ducked just in time, slipping from under the conflagration.
Another archer is burnt to ash, while the giant appears distracted by lingering sparks.
Deacon plants his feet firmly into the earth, swinging his hammer and shield in conjunction with such force that even a giant cannot hold its ground, and is knocked onto its back. Not missing a beat, Deacon steps around his prone form and rushes into the center of the formation before bellowing a challenge to the surrounding enemies, who foolishly rush into his waiting hammer.
Another hammer blow to the knee and the giant crumples and falls still, bleeding freely from multiple wounds. At Deacon's challenge, the other giants close in, along with two of the spear wielders. A mighty sweep of Deacon's hammer crushes the skull of one bugbear into the other, and both fall. He also cracks the scorched skin of one of the giants, and blood slowly oozes down as the giants bring their weapons to bear.
Wary of Deacon's hammer, the giants simply smash at him with their massive clubs, but swing wildly and hit only the ground, sending up great gouts of dirt. The rockthrower scoops up a missile and hurls it at Gwenn with deadly accuracy, hurling her to the ground. As the bugbears prepare to charge in, the rockthrower growls,
"You! Back to the stedding! Get help from Nosnra!"
As the selected bugbear scampers away, two charge charge at Gwenn, but she nimbly rolls away from their thrusts. They shift to flank her as they withdraw their spears. Two more close in on Brook, and while he deflects the attack of one, the other scores a solidly on his back, bruising him through his armor. The last charges Miranda while the remaining archer fires a shot at the fire-throwing lady, but both attacks go wide.
[sblock=Mechanics]Rockthrower Crit scores 23 damage and knocks Gwenn prone.
Bugbears charge to U:18 and U:19 vs. Gwenn, then shift to their current positions. I forgot to add 1 for their charges, but they still miss.
Brook takes 12 damage from the bugbear that hits; sadly, they did
not charge, or both would have hit....[/sblock]
[sblock=Initiative]Gwenn 33
Deacon 27
Miranda 27
Enemies 27
Brook 23
Aelar 22
Wik 20
Clock-head 10[/sblock]
[sblock=Status]Giant 1 (S:13): 73/159 HP, bloodied
Giant 2 (T:20): -3/159 HP, dropped.
Giant 3 (V:14): 109/159 HP, can't make OAs
Rockthrower (I:16): normal
Archers 1-4: dead
Archers 5: normal
Spear-Wielders 1-2: dead
Spear-Wielders 3-8: normal; NOTE: the bugbear at K:1 is actually 4 squares off the map
Gwenn: 56/79 HP, prone
Brook: 66/78 HP[/sblock]
[sblock=Enemy Stats]Hill Giant: AC 25, Fort ??, ? < Refl < 28, Will 25
Bugbear Archer: AC ??, Fort ??, ? < Refl < 28, ? < Will < 30 [/sblock]
TAG: All but Clockhead (you'll be in range next round)