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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aust Thale" data-source="post: 7002863" data-attributes="member: 6804768">Vale and Gus Dance With The Red~ Reinforcements.  Magik-caster.  These tossers are persistent. ~The thought skirts Vale's mind in an instant.  His instincts were military, his intelligence and common sense screaming at him to be wary.  The combatants were not stepping from concealment.  They were appearing from thin air.  The first guard was clearly surprised.  It took him a moment, and he let his emotion get the better of him.  This wasn't planned.  So how did he signal for help?  Did they have vantage or high ground?  Not in here.  Too many short two story buildings to block line of sight.  He didn't have a whistle or alarm.  Had to be magical.  The next three stepped straight into melee and damn near carved up the officer coming out with his drink.  That flail was a savage and unholy, unforgiving weapon.  Damn torture device.  However, a brief instant was all it took for Vale to come to his senses from the surprise, intently searching for more of these people.  The red blur appeared just as quickly, taking a moment to launch sorcery at Beringer.  Vale felt his face turning red, righteous indignation welling up in his cheeks.  His eyes glowed for a moment as he whispered his attack, actually a dwarven prayer, sounding much like the tearing of parchment or a tapestry.  He controlled the spell's direction toward the red robes entering the fray, his hands curling and catching the air.   [OOC]  Vale casts Silence vs. the incoming red spellcaster [/OOC]As Gus eyes the melee, looking for a proper new chew toy, er...target, he hears Vale's spell whoosh over his head toward the red blur.  His attention goes with it.  He runs straight at the red robes with lethal ferocity, flanking the new combatant  and hitting him/her from the side.  He's played this maneuver with his Vale a number of times to great effect, allowing the spell to hit before actually hitting the target.  Gus goes for the left arm, attempting to grapple and drag the red robes figure to the ground. Gus' bite digging into the arm, Gus hits him squarely with tearing robes and what would have been a ruckus except for the silence spell effects.  Observers hear nothing, but see fur and red mangled together.  [OOC]  Gus moves to intercept the red robed newcomer an instant after Vale's spell his him/her. (d20 14 on bite, 9 on grapple (natural 1) [/OOC][gm]You did this wrong. First, the victim gets an attack of opportunity against the grappler. But Gus is considered armed, because he's using his natural weapon (a bite) to grapple; therefore, Gus does not provoke when he grapples. Then Gus makes a melee touch attack to grab; he rolled 14, which hits the wizard's touch AC. Then, they have to make opposed rolls; 1 is not an automatic miss on an opposed roll. Gus got a 9, and I rolled for the wizard, and he got an 8! Ha ha! Gus's grapple attempt succeeds! Gus may now deal bite damage to his target. I will roll the damage for you, but I will allow you to edit the post to reflect the fact that Gus succeeded in grappling the wizard.[/gm][gm]Gus Bite Damage (1d6+3) = 5 pts.[/gm]</blockquote>

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