Against the Storm: Luskan (Summoning shaff)

[Calim]

Ravin will start defensively casting to summon a Lantern Archon. With his partial action he will move away from the attackers as best he can.

 

[DM_Matt]

Mechothli draws her bastard sword and her short sword. She stays near Jon but will attack the nearest enemy if he joins the fray.


ooc: if possible she will make a full attack utilizing Imp2WF; if not she will make the fullest attack she can.

Better Description of Area: The wagon is in the middle of a tunnel about 20 feet long, 20 feet high, and 30 feet wide. There are doors inside the tunnel on each side, as well as booths for collecting tolls and such.

One of the elves in the wagon sees the three of you approach, as he continues plugging the guards with arrows. When he sees Mecholithi draw her two swords and move into the fight in a combat stance, he recognizes her fighting style as another reletivly common elven two-weapon battle technique, and he shouts to the other elves. "Reenforcements! Press Outwards!"

The four elves move at their attackers. The first one fakes as if he is going to dive through his attackers, but suddenly he jumps onto their two lowering polearms, takes a step forward on them, jumps, flips and lands behind his attackers. The second fakes a high jump to get the polarms raised, moves through the center attacker's space, parrying his weapons aside, and gets behind him. the other two bypasss their opponents as well.

The first elf simultaneously stabs both humans in the back, lifts himself up in the swords embedded in them, and kicks the orc as he turns around.

The others makes similar moves, altohugh all the guards remain standing. The guards miss far more often than they hit. Each elf is wounded nonetheless, but none very seriously.

Meanwhile, as the OgreMage overcomes the pain of the poison, he keeps pounding the wounded driver, but the other elf Puts two arrows in his back, distracting him long eenough for the driver to draw a venom-dripping knife and throw it into the Orge's chest, then jump past him, land on the front of the wagon, and roll off onto the other side The Orge-Mage falls over in convultions.

 

[shaff]

hearing the elves call for reenforcemnts Rannos thinks wiser of jumping into the wagon, and goes after the elf next to the one Mechothli attacks.

OOC: Rannos also has Improved 2 weapon fighting... and will get as many attacks as possible.

 

[Tanstaafl]

ooc: I'm confused... I thought we would be moving in to help the elves... since they are fighting against the minions of the same warlord who we oppose? Have I mis-interpreted something?

 

[DM_Matt]

hearing the elves call for reenforcemnts Rannos thinks wiser of jumping into the wagon, and goes after the elf next to the one Mechothli attacks.

OOC: Rannos also has Improved 2 weapon fighting... and will get as many attacks as possible.

It seems to rannos that the elf was interpreting you guys as reinforcements, not calling for reenforcements.

ooc: I'm confused... I thought we would be moving in to help the elves... since they are fighting against the minions of the same warlord who we oppose? Have I mis-interpreted something?

It seems htat rannos wants to help the guards so that they will let you guys into the city. Work this out in-character.

 

[shaff]

realizing his mistake, Rannos Moves in to attack a group of the least wounded gaurds. He will attack the half-orc first, and if that orc falls he will attack 1 of the humans with the rest of his attacks.

OOC: Rannos also has Improved 2 weapon fighting, and wants to get all the attacks in that he can. And yes, I figured we were going to help the gaurds so they would let us in. I have not read anything not pertaining to Rannos, i dont want to have OOC knowledge because it will affect my decisions IC. So i did not know that the gaurds worked for the bad guys. I appoligze for the misunderstanding.

 

[Tanstaafl]

Mechothli makes eye contact with the elves in the wagon and nods at them. Moving up behind the nearest guard. She attacks with a hail of blows swiftly and without warning.


ooc: Mechothli will move in for a flank if possible and attack with her Bastard Sword... if the distance is to great for her to close in one turn she will move toward the battle as quickly and quietly as possible.

 

[DM_Matt]

Ravin will start defensively casting to summon a Lantern Archon. With his partial action he will move away from the attackers as best he can.

Ravin casts the spell, managing to stay out of the Orcs reach (just barely). They will catch up quite soon, though. He manages to greab his swords, though, and he slices his larger sword into the Orcs kneecaps, knocking him down. The swordsman unleashes a series of cuts with both blades, and in moments the Orc falls dead. The Ogremage and another Orc come near the corner.

The bloodied swordsman starts to move towards Ravin. "On second thought, maybe we should go..."

 

[DM_Matt]

ooc: Mechothli will move in for a flank if possible and attack with her Bastard Sword... if the distance is to great for her to close in one turn she will move toward the battle as quickly and quietly as possible.

BTW, as of now the 3.5e Power Attack Rules apply (+2 dmg for every -1 attack when using a two-handed weapon)

 

[DM_Matt]

Mecholithi watches the elves and the guards fight, slowly walking up to them. Without warning, she puts both hands on her bastard sword and slices one of the human guards in the flank. The blow rips right through his ribcage, and he falls to his knees (15 dmg, hp-->0.). Mecholithi then raises her sword again and crushes his head. In something of a battle frenzy (Great Cleave activated), she slices another one throgh the chest (hp-->0), and he falls down. The orc finds himself alone in between Meholithi and the other elf, who drives his blade through the Orc's neck (crit) killing him.

Rannos dives into the fray, stabbing and killing one of the humans, turning quickly with his other blade to wound the other in the stomach(Cleave), spinning the blade around to plant the other sid ein his face (dropping him), then stabbing the Orc in the back as well. The elf in front of the Orc wounds him, but the Orc still stands.

The elf on top of the wagon fires an arrow into the badly-wounded OgreMage, another to kill the severely wounded human next to Mecholithi, and another killing blow into the Rannos' orc's head (crit).

Jonathan and his staff glow with blue energy. He moves behind the other group and uses the two-sided staff punch that Metholithi is a bit too intimately familiar with to smash both guards to the ground. Jonathan and his elf swarm the Orc with a flurry of attacks, killing him.

The ramparts on the walls above are now swarming. An alarm bell is heard. soldiers begin swarming towards the gatehouse, walls, and tower. The doors at the other end of the tunnel are being closed. One of the elves in the wagon hangs a flask with an organge liquid in it from the ceiling of the wagon with a rope, and the elves near the wagon run towards the woods...