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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue_Genie" data-source="post: 1873403" data-attributes="member: 13477">Combat Round 3Harlan steadies his hand, pointing his pistol at the reddish-brown curtain on the northern end of the room, waiting for anything to come through.The Iosan woman curses quietly in her language, as she picks up her gun off the ground.  Trying to blink away the afterimages of the flash grenade, she pulls a wicked-looking barbed dagger from a thigh sheathe with her left hand.  “Now let’s get out of here,” she mutters in Cygnaran.Over the din of combat, a loud voice starts speaking in heavily Khadoran-accented Cygnaran through the curtain on the north side of the Bet’n’Bar.  “Ve vant de book.  Zat iss all.  Giff us de book, and ve vill leave you in peace!”Outside the central chamber the Khadoran closest to Alanna pulls a fresh arrow from his quiver, peeks over the cockfighting enclosure, and fires it at Alanna.  Luckily for her, it whizzes harmlessly over her head, bursting into a shower of wooden splinters when it impacts the wall behind her.Jackson kicks over the table (M10) and takes cover behind it, picking up his pistol and aiming it at the southern curtained entrance.Alaois peeks through the curtain and casts his spell.  Immediately, a grayish-brown fog seeps up from the ground, filling an area 20’ high and 40’ in diameter.  It extends 10’ into the Bet’n’Bar, and completely swallows its caster in an oily mist.Alain picks up his greatsword and pistol, and aims the gun at the curtained entrance, now completely obfuscated by the magical fog.With a halting motion, Cormyck drops his military pistol on the stairs, where it clatters against the metal steps.  Descending the rest of the way into the room, he moves towards the Khadoran bowman until he is almost right on top of him.  With a flick of his wrist the Rynnish pistol springs into his hand and he fires it at point-blank range.  The bullet hits the tall man’s upper right arm, tearing through his greatcoat.  Bright, red blood spatters across the large doorframe, and the Khadoran winces in pain.Despite his fresh wound, the Khadoran draws a battleaxe from a sheathe on his back with his good arm, and circles around Cormyck, looking for an opening.  When he thinks he sees one, he lets out a lout, “Hach!” and lunges towards the more diminutive rogue, catching him on his leg where the greatcoat parts.  The axe bites deep into the flesh, and the Khadoran rips it free with a satisfied smirk.The Priestess of Morrow picks up her military pistol and aims at the entrance nearest her.Allana takes a quick look over the pen and casts a spell at the Khadoran opposite her.  A bright, silver light erupts from the muzzle of her magelock pistol and hits her enemy squarely in the eyes.  A dull expression comes over his face and his entire body goes slack, and he momentarily seems to loose all awareness of his surroundings.[n.b. I am not currently at home, so I can't provide you with an updated combat map.  I will add it this evneing. -Blue]OOC:COMBAT MAP END OF ROUND 3<a href="HTTP://home.nyc.rr.com/agreenshields/utternonsense/SarrRatuRound3.jpg" target="_blank">HTTP://home.nyc.rr.com/agreenshields/utternonsense/SarrRatuRound3.jpg</a>Harlan readies a standard action to shoot.Edrea Lloryrr picks up her pistol (move action) and draws a dagger (move action).Jackson knocks over table (move action), giving him cover, and picks up his pistol (move action).Khadoran (K4) fires Khadoran shortbow (6 + 2 – 4 (cover) = 4, miss).Alaois casts spell (ASF roll 48, spell succeeds).  Spell is centered on the NW corner of square J13 and extends 20 feet in every direction, including up.  This means that it does not reach the top of the vaulted ceiling (which are close to 30’ high), but does reach to the top of the Bet’n’Bar’s ceiling (which is about 9 ft.).  Only Alaois, Martasha, and Alain are currently in the area of effect.  Alanna and Khadoran (K4) still have line-of-sight on each other.Alain picks up his weapons (move action) and readies an action to shoot at anything coming through the fog.Cormyck drops the military pistol on the stairs (free action), moves to within 5’ of the Khadoran (K1) (to C7) while drawing his holdout pistol (move action) and fires it (19 + 0, threatened crit, 10 + 0, no crit, damage 2d4-2, 3 hp).Khadoran (K1) draws his battleaxe and moves to square C8 (move action) where he swings the axe (19 + 3 = 22, hit; damage 9 hp).Martashan picks up her pistol (move action) and readies an attack.Alanna casts Daze.  Khadoran attempts to save (7 – 1 = 8 vs. DC 12, failure.)INITIATIVE ORDER FOR ROUND 4:Harlan Baylentis (H): 22Edrea Lloryrr (E): 21Khadoran (K2): 15-firstKhadoran (K4): 15-secondJackson Bainbridge (J): 14Alaois O’Aodh (AO): 12-firstAlain Caldwallow (AC): 12-secondCormyck diTrivassi (C): 11Khadoran (K1): 7Martashan Leharin (M): 5Alanna Morwyn (AM): 3-firstKhadoran (K3): 3-second</blockquote>

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