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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhun" data-source="post: 3738036" data-attributes="member: 29098">Ciaran looks back at the crazy scene in the room. "Jinx," he speaks concernedly, "Unless we make something change, nothing will and we are doomed. I can raise fog to cover our exit." He tosses a guard's boot over his shoulder. "How about you? Do you have any trick to open up possibilities?"Aeron hears Ciaran speak to Jinx about his spell.  "You may need it.  There are reinforcements from the west." The cleric turns to Jinx.  "Leave the body.  The potions will be of more value."  He drops the bag for one of the mages to get. Aeron, torn as he knows his companions need the healing as well, decides that they will also need to escape.  The cleric downs the potion in his hand and moves forward to block the advance of reinforcements. While Aeron can here the sound of the enemy getting louder, he still can't see them.Unable to reach the enemy with the other two standing in the hallway, Shoon looks around for other options and sees Derren calmly slitting the throat of a helpless guard while Zirat and Merrick fight.  "You-  What are you doing?!  The reinforments the enemy sent for are sure to be here any moment and instead of helping us to escape you are murdering helpless men!?  You- you little... Gah!!"  At first unbelieving and then enraged at what he takes as almost a personal betrayal, coupled with his mounting discontent at the seeming ineptitude of his comrades, now all channeled at the the little halfling, he charges his and attempts to lift him off the ground.Deren pauses as he looks at the blood on his dagger.  Spotting a nearby knife he picks up and stares at the two.  An evil sort of glint appears in his eyes, which disappears instantly as Shoon smacks into him. "We're going to have to fight these people again," he says in a voice bordering a snarl and fear, but seeing the others preparing to leave, he takes a quick look at his numerous missing daggers and sighs.I'll let Deren and Shoon roleplay out there little tiff as they wish...it seems like Deren isn't going to put up a fight."To the abyss with you spawn of evil!" Sir Merrick again draws back a step to bring his large cleaver of a weapon into play against the gnoll. The glaive slashes down on the beasts head, cleaving skull and brain and killing the gnoll.Exasperated at the growing confusion and feeling tugged fifty different ways, Jinx snorts at Ciaran, "I've not much left other than a spider climb and a few detect magics," but leaves off unbuckling the clasps on the fallen guard's armor.  Kicking a stray guantlet out of his way, Jinx grabs the pack dropped by Aeron, and moves just a step into the room to bark at Zirat and Deren.  Hopeful that Shoon and Sir Merrick can also hear him, Jinx says, "We've got a path clear and we're going now!  I've got some armor removed from one guard--carry him out if you like, but the extra dead weight will only hamper our movement.  I'd leave him, were I you."  Having said his piece, Jinx scampers back over to join Aeron and Ciaran, nattering all the while about ill treatment, the vagaries of humans, and death unfettered.Merrick, fall back. It is time for the champion's glory to be recorded in history. Moving back the champion steps in between Shoon and Deren, and again swings his chain and tries to crush it on the captain's head. Again, the chain misses the captain.Seeing that if he continues forward he and his remaining troops will face the possiblity of an equal number of opponents, he holds up his hand. "Hold. Fall back and wait for reinforcements. Then we will crush them." With those words, the remaining forces fall back.Initiative Count20 Ciaran - 19 Deren - 13 Shoon - 13 Aeron - drop bag, drink potion (curing 8 points), move13 Merrick - 5' step, attack vrs gnoll e 24 (success), damage 1412 Jinx - pick up pack off floor, speak to others, then move to AU639 Zirat - 5' step, attack vrs Captain 13 (failure)<s>9 gnoll e</s>8 human 5 - 5' step4 human 1 - 4 human 2 - 5' step4 human 3 - [OUT OF SIGHT] ?4 human 4 - PC StatusAeron    14/24Merrick    2/22Shoon    13/18Zirat    10/31Jinx    15/15; mage armor (approx 54 mins left) for AC17[sblock=Opponent Status - Players Do Not Look]Guard 1 -4/38, stabilizedGuard 2 -3/27, stabilizedGuard 3 DEADGuard 4 -3/27, stabilizedGuard 5 DEADO1    DEADGnoll a DEADgnoll b -5/11gnoll c -3/11gnoll d -8/11gnoll e DEADhuman 5 21/29bugbear -3/16human 1 8/8human 2 8/8human 3 8/8human 4 8/8human 5 8/8human 6 -9/8guard 7 0/8, feigning unconsciousness[/sblock]</blockquote>

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