Wildwood Red in Tooth and Claw [IC]

[Endovior]

Alan retreats further, until he reaches the mangled corpse of the rear guard. Inspiration strikes him, and he drops his mind blade and begins gathering weapons.

(Not sure how far away the goblin was, or if it's close enough for Alan to get there this round, but when he does... Alan takes the goblin's shield and javelins, and begins attacking from afar)

 

[Fenris]

Noni frowns at his last shot and decides to fire one more arrow at the beast.

 

[D20Dazza]

Cursed locates the leao with his echolocation, slips another bolt home and fires once again at the beast.

 

[Voadam]

Round 4

With the leao occupied by Tur and distracted by the whizzing missiles Alan retreats further, until he reaches the mangled corpse of the rear guard. Inspiration strikes him, and he drops his mind blade and reaches for the goblins quiver of small javelins.

Slightly off-balance from his mighty swing, Tur fails to evade the great beast's swipe. Barely noticing the seemingly greivous wound, he shifts his grip yet again and swings his enormous axe back on the upswing. The circling blade is powered by great momentum as the lizardman times his swing with one of the leao's lunges to catch the beast in the chest and deal it a massive gash, slicing through flesh to score the leao's ribcage, causing it to drop the goblin from its jaws as it roars in pain. Blood from the leao mixes with the lizardman's.

Cursed locates the leao with his echolocation, slips another bolt home and fires once again at the beast as it trades vicious nigh mortal wounds with Tur.

Noni frowns at his last shot and decides to fire one more arrow at the beast.

Both missiles fly just over the heavily wounded leao whose head snaps around at the harassment.

The leao leaps away from the frenzied blood spattered lizardman and crashes into the heavy undergrowth off the trail. Tur takes another swing at the leao but it's leap takes it to safety and it speeds away.

ooc
Alan double move to get to the dead goblin.
Tur natural 20 22 crit 30 damage,
Cursed firing into melee 11 miss
Noni firing into melee 11 miss
Leao 40' into the heavy undergrowth (impeded movement for half speed) has partial cover from missile fire. Tur AoO 13 miss

Round 5

Initiative
Tefan 18
Goblins 12
Alan 10
Tur 9
Cursed 8
Noni 6
Leao 6

 

[Endovior]

Alan grabs the quiver of javelins... and attempts to strap it on in a somewhat useful location, if possible. If not, he'll just hold it.

 

[D20Dazza]

Curse races over to Tur "Are you OK friend?" he asks eyeing the mans wounds worriedly.

 

[Watus]

Tur the mighty

With a supreme effort of will, Tur supresses the urge to charge through the undergrowth after the fleeing beast. He grits his teeth and forces the blood frenzy from him.

Panting heavily, he notices that he is covered in blood - a mixture of his own and the leao's - and he begins to feel the pain of his wounds. He reaches into his pack and grabs his curative potion.

Curse races over to Tur "Are you OK friend?" he asks eyeing the mans wounds worriedly.

"I am fine," he says, his face inscrutable. He moves to Alan Keep and makes to hand him the potion.

"Your wounds are nearly mortal. Drink this."

 

[Endovior]

Alan gulps the potion down, then finishes his scavenging.

"My thanks, friend."

As the healing power of the potion works it's magic, Alan considers something.

"We should probably go after those goblins... who knows what trouble they're getting into without us..."

(ooc: I won't be needing the goblin javelins for long, but it's good to have the capability to make SOME kind of ranged attack. That being said, I seem to remember a 3.0 rule dealing with shield size, which made a heavy shield for a small-sized creature a light shield for a medium-sized creature... not sure if you'll use that, or whatever, but I'm hoping for a +1 to AC for the shield...)

 

[Fenris]

Noni watches as the leao crashes throught he underbrush. He stands listening for a time, watching for the tell tales signs of birds to show the the leao has indeed left and is not just circling around. Once he is satisfied that the beast has left he turns and heads back down the trail to find the goblins.

 

[Voadam]

The continues to crash away, leaving a bloody trail.

As Alan drinks the blue potion the unnaturally cool liquid is instantly refreshing taking away part of the sting of his serious claw wounds.

Noni watches warily until the bird song heralds that the great beast is not among them then heads down the trail to recover the fleeing goblins.