Combat, round 1 - COMPLETE
Beyond the pit are a knot of men; three of them kneel, hastily reloading their crossbows, while the three standing behind these ready their second spears for hurling. The last of the seven men, the closest and probably the one that opened the door, bangs his longsword against his shield and waits.
One fast acting temple guard manages to reload and fire off another bolt before any of you can react to the surprise; again, luck is with the man, and his bolt slashes into the dwarf's abdomen.
“Ok, I'll go first. Protect me, if you can,” Dara says with a nod to Kurt, then she casts her own protective magic. Her own and Kurt's spells completed, she easily jumps over the pit with her bolstered strength.
Kurt deflects another thrown spear with his shield, even as he intones the words to a spell that will boost Dara's strength. His spell now affecting the warrior woman, the cleric lies down to make a more difficult target for the enemies.
"Did we set off an alarm when the pit was triggered?" Verdis curses and raises his crossbow for a shot at the rapid firing crossbowman. The well placed bolt strikes the temple guard full in the face, and the man collapses to the ground. He still moves, but appears out of the fight.
Otto throws a dagger. It misses.
Two more of the guards hurl their second spears. Both of the weapons fail to injure their intended targets.
Coraine curses from the bottom of the pit and wishes that he could fly.
The temple guard with the longsword waits anxiously for someone to clear the pit.
Ragnok charges forward, rushing across the small ledge to the right of the pit. He nearly loses his balance midway through, but throws his weight forward and stumbles into the room beyond. The guard with the sword slashes at the dwarf, but the blade skitters off of Ragnok's armor. The dwarf returns the blow with a strike from Norryjar, but scores only a relatively minor hit.
One of the nearby guards drops his bow and draws his sword, attacking the dwarf, as another targets him with a crossbow. Somehow Ragnok avoids both attacks, growling in anger at the temple guards.
The pit is about eight feet square, leaving a ledge some foot wide along the walls...of course, crossing too quickly could drop any of you into the pit to join Coraine. Or you could attempt to jump it...
INITIATIVE COUNT
Temple Guard 4 22: Crossbow vrs Ragnok 23 (success), damage 4
Dara 21: delay to IC16
Temple Guard 5 19: Spear vrs Kurt 16 (fail)
Kurt 16: cast Bull's Strength on Dara; lie down
Dara 16: , cast shield for +4 AC, jump check 22 (success)
Verdis 16: attack vrs TG1 22 (success), damage 10
Otto 14: attack vrs TG2 12 (failure)
Temple Guard 7 13: Spear vrs Kurt 6 (failure)
Temple Guard 6 12: Spear vrs Ragnok 17 (failure)
Coraine 11: -
Temple Guard 1 9: Ready attack; longsword vrs Ragnok 17
Ragnok 7: move, balance check 10 (success), attack vrs TG1 27 (success), damage 7
Temple Guard 2 3: drops crossbow, draws sword, sword vrs Ragnok 10 (failure)
Temple Guard 3 3: crossbow vrs Ragnok 7 (failure)
PC Status
Kurt 16/24
Ragnok 21/32
Dara 24/24, shield (AC21) for 20 rounds, +4 STR for 20 rounds
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TG1 17/24
TG4 0/10
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