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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hewligan" data-source="post: 4512377" data-attributes="member: 19688">OOC: Init order: leader ghoul (11), front ghouls (8), back ghouls (6) (<a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1772583/" target="_blank">rolls</a>), Jovik (4), Jokad (4), Danth (2), Kael (0)The light bounces across the yard, settling a few paces from the front arch of the house.As one, the five figures pause in their loping movement towards the house, and turn to stare towards the barn. A figure at the centre, wearing torn and soiled, but clearly once fine clothing, points a lace cuffed hand towards the barn and barks out a command that sounds like a grating voice from the grave.Three figures break off from the pack and run towards the barn. The leader, with one in tow, make the last dash towards the front arch of the house and darts under the cover and out of sight.OOC: three ghouls using their turn to cover the ground to the barn, 2 using their turn to enter total cover (and ultimately to enter the house).In the childrens' room, Danth braced himself. The ghoul was a hideous thing. Its face was both drawn and swollen at once, if such a thing was possible. Its eyes were tiny points of piercing light. Its mouth was dragged tight, almost lipless, showing its gums and teeth. Those teeth, so long, so sharp.The stench from the thing was overwhelming.It turned its head to observe Danth, and seemed to smile.It lunged itself through the window, using its entire body as a weapon, leaping as one past the waking child, and throwing its weight on top of Danth. Its tongue rolled out of its mouth, a long pointed thing that flicked in he air as if sensing the blood within Danth.It widens its mouth and snaps down. Danth batted the thing away with a hard bash from the fist that clenched Crimson Dawn. (OOC: <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1772612/" target="_blank">it missed</a>) The ghoul reeled back, leaving an opening for Danth. He thrust forward, feeling the point of his blade sink in to the neck of the thing. The weight of the attack drove the sword straight through. The flames from the blade caught the mask and set the ghoul on fire. Danth recoiled, kicking the thing away, and watching it pull itself screaming from his blade.It stumbled a few feet, its head raging with flames, before crumbling to the ground. Dead!Danth hears the screams from the children and their mother, cowering together in the corner. He feels for them, but now is not the time to comfort children and women.In the main room, Farmer Woldrack is slowly spinning in to action, moving to join Jokad. Jokad, however, is already prepared. The ghoul comes leaping through the window, its arms outstretched towards the barbarian. It has a lopsided smile, wild eyes, and gigantic hands that have turned to claws. Its clothing is old and worn, but the recognisable garb of a farmer. A beaten hat falls from his head as the jumps.It flails wildly, put off by the wild leap it had to make, and also by the punch to the face that Jokad met it with. (OOC: <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1772619/" target="_blank">it missed pretty badly</a>)Jokad shouts his warcry. It is the last thing the ghoul hears before its body is cloven in two, straight across the chest. It falls to the floor, still twitching and pulsing for a few seconds.You hear the noises at the door. And a grunt of pain outside.The grunt of pain comes from a ghoul, running towards the barn, who finds a dagger embed in its chest, before flying out and returning to the hand of the young rogue hidden in the attic.Kael, too surprised by the attack to respond in time, watches the three ghouls disappear into the barn below them.OOC: 2 dead, 1 injured ghoul. Round 2 initiative and actions please. Failure to post means failure to act. Sorry, but lack of free time means I can't really run characters as well. The 3 ghouls are in the barn below Jovik and Kael are out of sight, but may move towards the ladder in the next turn. 2 more are at the door and will be entering the house. You are not sure about any more outside the windows.</blockquote>

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