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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doghead" data-source="post: 1541987" data-attributes="member: 8243">ooc: I have Oscar at 1hp.TH, I assume you want to stop the wagon and use the horses in harness? There are no saddles as such, so any riding will be bareback (+5 DC).I always hated maths. This is how I think it works. Let me know if its wonky. The worgs have move 50'. But they are mounted, so say 40'. They can hustle (lope) at 800 feet a minute. 5280 feet to the mile. So about 6 minutes until they are in range of missile weapons if you stop (less if they pick up the pace to to a run for part of the way).Nate hauls in on the reins. The horses have other ideas and it takes some work to get them to stop. They do eventually, but their eyes are flat against their heads and their eyes rolled back. The snort and prance and pull at the reins. There is no way Nate can let go til the animals are calmed. Hewik realises the problem immediately, leaps down from the wagon and dashes forwards to calm the horses. Oscar is right on his heels. Oscar, it seems, does know something about animals. Its almost eerie the way he calms the agitated animal with just a touch and some whispered words. ooc: Handle Animal check, DC 20.Archer follows Oscar and Hewik, but stays clear as the animals are calmed. He looks at Cromwell. "I can ride, but there is no way I can shoot this and ride at the same time." He holds up his longbow. "Let Oscar ride. I'm more use here."Lisa looks like she too is about to argue the point with Cromwell. But she really is too much her father's daughter. Oscar pulls his knife and begins cutting. 2 minutes down. 3600 feet away.As soon as Oscar has his horse unharnessed, she takes it from him and clambers onto its back. It nearly takes off there and then - but she manages to haul it back around.Sadolath steps up to Oscar and with a brief incantation and flourish, touches him lightly. Oscar hisses. {+1 hp} Sadolath shrugs. "It may help."Hewik's horse can sense the halflings agitation, and Hewik has to take a moment to calm his inner turmoil before he is able to do the same for the horse. It takes him about a minute to get his animal calm. Another couple to get the harness cut away.Nate growls and leaps over the backboard into the wagon bed. The goblin boss had rolled himself over and was busily working away at the bonds. His wrists were bloody, but the binds still hold tight. Nate brains the goblin with the shaft of his mace.Hewik pulls the horse away from the yoke and over to where to where Oscar and Archer stand. 3 minutes down. 2800 feet.Archer opens his mouth as if to say something, then snaps it closed. He pushes his longbow and quiver into Oscar's hands and clambers up on the horse. Like Lisa's, it is skittish and prances around as Archer tries to mount. As soon as he is up, it wheels around and takes off in the opposite direction to the worgs. Lisa turns her horse and, with one last reproachful look at Cromwell follows.Cromwell finishes handing out the potions. Archer and Lisa he missed. He realises something and suggests Oscar try the potions. Oscar takes a sip of  of his own, then necks the rest {P:CLW 4 hp recovered}. Cromwell grabs another and hands it to Oscar. He sniff it and shakes his head. Smells different. The third he sinks after sniffing it {P:CLW remaining hp recovered}Cromwell realises that there will be no time to tip the wagon. It will have to do as is. The goblin riders will kick up the pace once they get close enough. They can cover move than 1500 yards a minute at a run. They have only moments to get into position and ready weapons.4 minutes down. 2000 feet.Oscar and Sadolath poke shafts into the ground in front of them. Hewik, Nate and Cromwell lean spears and javlins against the wagon and grab half a dozen bullets in their left hands.Round 1: 1000 feet - Oscar's shaft arcs across the sky betwen the groups only to lost in the background moments before it arrives. Round 2: 880 feet - Oscar's second shaft likewise.Round 3: 760 feet - Oscar's third shaft likewise.Round 4: 640 feet - Oscar's forth shaft likewise. One of the riders tumbles from his mount. Sadolaths first shaft goes closer to Cromwell than any of the riders. The goblins pull bows from their saddles.Round 5: 520 feet - Oscars releases his fifth. It buries itself into another rider. The goblin jerks back, and the worg stumbles a bit. But it's loses only a few strides before it has regained its balance. Sadolath releases his second shaft. Hewik, Nate and Cromwell wind up and release their first bullets.Arrows appear in the goblin's hands and they rise up in their saddles.Round 6: 400 feet - The goblins release. An arrow slams itself in the sideboards of the wagon. A couple sprout from the ground in front.Oscar releases his sixth. Sadolath releases his third. Hewik, Nate and Cromwell release their second bullets.Round 7: 280 feet - The goblins release. Another arrow slams into the sideboards of the wagon beside Cromwell. A couple more sprout from the ground in front.Oscar's fingers slip as he draws and the arrows is spun away harmlessly. Sadolath releases his fourth. Hewik, Nate and Cromwell release their third. Something connects and the wounded goblin twists in his saddle, dragging the worg around. It twist and turns snapping and snarling as the rider tries to regain control and his seat.Round 8: 160 feet - The goblins release again. An arrow buries itself into the wagon beside Oscar. Another slams into Cromwell leaving a wicked gash across his breastplate. The one that fell behind gets his mount under control but does not advance. Oscar releases number eight. It glaces off one of the goblins. Sadolath releases his fifth, which glances off the same goblin. Hewik releases his fourth. Cromwell grabs a javlins and throws. The poor goblin just manages to duck it, but keeps his seat. Nate pulls out his mace and points it at the goblin. The mace explodes with thunderous BBOOOM and a great cloud of smoke. The goblin dissappears over the back of its mount and comes rolling to a halt barely 50 feet away.Round 9: 40 feet. - The goblins release. Sadolath feels a tug on his leather jerkin. He glances down to see a bloodied arrow sprouting from the wagon behind him {dam: 2}. The other arrows are nowhere to be seen.Oscar pulls his rapier. Nate his mace. Cromwell his. Sadolath sets his spear. Hewik grabs his javlin.30 feet and the three remaining goblins and all but one of riderless worgs veer away flashing past the wagon to the left with gutteral howls and cries. That last one slams into Cromwell with a bone shattering crunch as its jaws close over his leg {dam 8}. Cromwell twists and tries to bring his mace into play. Its not pretty but it's something. Nate and Oscar try and assist, but cannot get clear blows. Hewik does, stabbing the beast with his javlin.Round 10: ...</blockquote>

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