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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 4764247" data-attributes="member: 13966">Stirge Fight: FinisOOC: It has been more than a week.  I'm moving things along.  Please don't make me NPC Abde'ragman further this month.Selua takes a few seconds to try calming down her mule, but the distressed beast just keeps bucking and braying in helpless frustration at the pest digging into its back....Evanar unsheathes his dagger and drives it into the stirge on his chest!  The little creature spasms and squirms, then goes limp as Evanar uses the dagger like a lever to pry the dying beastie off and toss it to the ground.  It lies there and twitches a few times before dying.Abde'ragman continues to panic, flailing about with his staff and grabbing at the stirge, but doesn't manage to pry it off.  The overgrown mosquito-thing slaps his hand away with its leathery little wings.Tarven comes to the Calishite's rescue, however, dashing around Merrick and Evanar to reach him, dropping the crossbow and drawing his longsword swiftly to hack a long gash through its head and torso!  The guardsman pries the bug off of Abde'ragman as it falls to the ground in a bloody, twitching heap.Abrielle tries to cut off the bloodsucking beastie on her head, but her sword is a bit unwieldy in such close quarters and she barely grazes the bug's proboscis, not wanting to cut clean through into her own neck.Fayne, however, comes to her aid again, spearing the little beast with his polearm and prying it off.  The stirge falls to the ground in a mangled heap, quickly bleeding out.Victory!Everyone works quickly to bandage the thin, bleeding pinpricks where the stirges pierced their flesh, and further blood loss is averted.  Tarven and Merrick clean their weapons, sheathing swords and retrieving their crossbows, reloading them as needed.[sblock=OOC]Round 1 Initiatives:23 Stirge #1 (dying)22 Selua and her mule22 Evanar21 Stirge #2 (dying)19 Merrick17 Storn14 Abde'ragman11 Tarven8 Stirge #3 (dying)7 Stirge #4 (dying)6 Stirge #5 (dying)4 Abrielle2 FayneSelua fails to calm down the mule, but cuts the stirge off its back.Evanar draws his dagger and stabs the stirge on his chest, forcing it off and rendering it unconscious.Abde'ragman tries to remove the stirge.  He rolls an 8 for his grapple check, versus the stirge's 15.  He fails, still panicking.Tarven drops his crossbow and moves towards Abde'ragman, drawing his longsword.  He gets a 17 to hit, for 5 damage to the stirge.  It drops; Abde'ragman is narrowly saved from any Constitution loss at the last second.Abrielle misses the stirge, trying to avoid cutting the back of her neck while slashing at the stirge; she just grazes its 'nose' harmlessly.Fayne finishes off the stirge on Abrielle.Abrielle, Evandar, Fayne, and Selua each earn 150 XP.  Abde'ragman earns 10 XP, and the guardsmen take 70 XP each.  Non-combat XP will be awarded after each day or so in-character.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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