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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord_Raven88" data-source="post: 3595884" data-attributes="member: 31975">Finally reaching a decision the group moves to attack as Dowkan and Thodan simultaneously charge down into the tunnel they notice that the two remaining Ogres have taken up a flanking position at the entrance to the room and are using the body of their fallen companion as a shield of sorts, while Goran has been herded to the back of the room and is being guarded by the human leader.As the Ogre see the duo enter one of them raises a horn to his mouth and blows a long blast on it, which causes billowy white fog to flood into the short passageway obscuring their vision. Continuing there headlong charge the two are brought up short by the body of the fallen ogre.  As they close the distance the ogres both lash out with their greatclubs.  Due to his experience with fighting giants Dowkan easily deflects the blow aimed at him while Thodan isn't as lucky and receives a solid blow onto his left shoulder. Finally moving within striking distance Thodan is assaulted yet again and receives another painful blow for his troubles.Trained in the art of defeating giants Dowkan easily breaches the defences of the ogre lashes out over the makeshift shield (the fallen ogre) with his dwarven waraxe and strikes a vicious blow to the ogres side, retracting his axe he leaves behind a gaping hole flowing with blood.Thodan still dazed from the two blows he received brings his battle axe down in an overhand chop, but instead of striking the brute that has hurt him, he strikes whistles past the ogre and sinks into the fallen ogre.Further in the room a different drama plays out, seeing his companions rush in to defeat his foes, Goran smiles grimly at Lord Gargdol before launching one last ditch attack.  Instead of moving to engage Goran, Lord Gargdol stands his ground and deflects Goran's attack.  Goran's final frenzied attack only furthers to rip open his wounds, causing the giant warrior to collapse to the ground. Lord Gargdol gives Goran a final salute in honour of his bravery and tenacity, before moving and taking up a position behind his two ogre companions. Addressing the two warriors fighting the ogres "You should be proud to have fought with one such as Goran, he fought bravely till then end.  I only hope that you too show such bravery before you die"~~~~As Dowkan and Thodan enter the tunnel you hear the sound of a horn being blown, as the rest of you follow Dowkan's and Thodan's lead you step into a tunnel which swiftly fulls with white billowy fog which obscures your vision to the battle being fought ahead of you. InitiativeLord Gargdol (25) Readied action for full out defence.Goran (22) Readied action to attack. 21, miss.Deadbiter (19) Readied action to blow horn. AoO 10 vs Dowkan, miss.Redface (19) Readied action to attack vs Thodan. AoO 27, hit for 18 damage. Normal attack 26, hits for 20 damage.Dowkan (15) Moves to attack. 21, hits for 14 damage.Thodan (15) Moves to attack. 10, miss.Leonara (14) Moves into tunnel, vision obscured.Stalker  (14) Moves into tunnel, vision obscured.Nira  (14) Moves into tunnel, vision obscured.Vardrin  (14) Moves into tunnel, vision obscured. Conditional SummaryLord Gargdol: 100%Deadbiter: 52% (badly wounded)Redface: 100%Goran: -9/41  (Dying)Thodan: 4/42<a href="http://img126.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stonelandsportalrnd4lj1.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/4374/stonelandsportalrnd4lj1.th.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>[sblock=Combat Notes] Firstly this was a difficult battle to run, I had previously decided that your foes would change the battlefield to their advantage, just in case you decided to fight. As such the slain ogre was turned on his side and used to partially block the tunnel and to provide soft cover (+4 AC to the Ogres). I had also decided that the ogre with the horn would be ready to blow it to obscure the tunnel, effectively stopping ranged attacks and forcing you to melee with them.Secondly I did initiative slightly differently.  Because your foes and Goran were on high alert I ruled that they would all have an effective roll of 20 for initiative, also since your groups actions were reliant on Goran and Thodan acting first I ruled that Dowkan and Thodan would share the same initiative roll and act as one, with the rest of the group following a step behind.So while it may seem that this combat is stacked in your enemies favour (and it is) this is due to the fact that they are being lead by a combat savvy human. Also if you had tried a more subtle approach, (i.e. by pretending to go along with their request to allow them to leave.) you could have lured them out of the easily defended tunnel and attacked them in the open.So while I don't like the fact that Goran will probably die I had to run this battle in a sensible effective fashion. [/sblock]</blockquote>

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