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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IndyPendant" data-source="post: 2283516" data-attributes="member: 8738">Jair and Terrek charge in to the attack, flanking the two southern rats with Kuma and Jerek.  Jair attacks with his spear, and the rat can't quite get out of the way in time, taking a stab in its leg.  Terrek bites down savagely on the rat it is attacking, badly damaging it but not killing it.  Kuma brings his sword down in a sweeping arc, but it bounces off the stone inches from the north-facing rat.((Jair's attack: 18+2=20.  Damage: 1+0=1.  Terrek's attack: 15+3+2=20.  Damage: 1+3=4.  Kuma's attack: 8+4=12.))Lehko places the lantern on the floor so it won't shatter and casts his spell, trying to fire a smalt jolt of electricity at the farthest rat, past his companions and into melee.  He almost trips over the lantern he just placed on the ground however, and his jolt heads straight down into the stone floor instead.  Lehko then takes a step closer to the battle.  Heirmund, unable to get a clear shot at anything, picks up the lantern Lehko just put down and moves to stand with him.  Jerek cannot step out of melee, so he draws a dagger and stabs at the rat Terrek just finished chewing on, almost carving its head from its body.  He then steps to the north, so that he stands beside the northern rat.  Ydyr, also realizing he can't get into melee without squeezing past Jair and Terrek and risking an attack from the southern rat, moves to stand behind Jair, ready to help him as needed.  The two remaining rats attack!  --Instinctively going for Kuma, whom they both flank, their sharp teeth carving shallowly into his leg like knives.  Meepo draws its short sword, its red eyes glinting as it watches the battle tensely.((Lehko's attack: 1+2-4-4=-6.  Jerek's attack: 18+2=20.  Damage: 2+6=8.  Rat's attacks: 22,21.  Damage: 1,2.  Kuma takes a total of 3 points damage this round.))((Lehko, if you had dropped the lantern, I would have given it around a 75% chance of breaking.  It is a move-eqivalent action that provokes AoO's to set it down carefully.  You also have Jair, a rat, *and* Kuma in the way of hitting the northern rat, plus it's in melee.  Jerek, you are beside Kuma in a 10-foot-wide hallway, one rat northwest of you, two rats south of you.  You can't 5' step and safely shoot.))((The situation now: Kuma is flanked by two rats to the north and south of him.  Jerek stands beside the northern rat.  Jair flanks the southern rat with Kuma, Terrek beside him.  Ydyr stands behind Jair, and Lehko and Heirmund stand side by side 10 feet behind Ydyr.  Meepo stands behind Lehko.))</blockquote>

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