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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IndyPendant" data-source="post: 2607596" data-attributes="member: 8738">Jerek throws his shortsword at the bugbear, and watches it bounce crazily along the ground, not even coming close to its target, before readying his bow and taking a quick step backward.  Kuma rushes forward to attack the bugbear, his greater speed allowing him to close the distance.  His longsword swings in a great arc, cleaving into the bugbear--but Kuma is startled to see the bugbear survive one of his more powerful blows!  As Jair finally reaches the halfway mark of his climb down from above, Heirmund gets to his feet and hurries to Terrek.((Jerek's attack: 9+3-4-2-2=4.  Kuma's attack: 19+4=25.  Crit threat: 6+4=12.  Damage: 5+3=8.  Jair's climb checks: 19-3=16 and 15-3=12.))At the bugbear's command, the rats arc around him and Kuma and rush towards Jerek.  Only one of the rats manages to reach Jerek before he can react; the other doesn't quite make it.  Then the bugbear grips his morningstar two-handed again, and brings it up in a sweeping arc.  The effortless speed of the heavy weapon catches Kuma off-guard, and it crashes into his ribs, knocking him to the floor.  Even as he fights to remain awake, to get up, to do something, his view contracts into a point...and then nothing.((Bugbear's attack: 24.  Damage: 9.))Terrek only sees that one of the companions his master designated as 'friend' is being attacked by large animals--and joins the fray!  His powerful jaws close on the nearest rat--the one not threatening Jerek--and breaks its neck.  The remaining rat is directly between Jerek and the bugbear, so Jerek is forced to take a step back and shoot it, but the arrow goes well wide.  As Jair continues to climb down, Heirmund chases after Terrek--who ran away from him to reach the rat--then casts his spell, protecting what is now the group's most powerful warrior still fighting with magical armour.((Terrek's attack: 18+3=21.  Damage: 5+3=8.  Jerek's attack: 1+3+1=5.  Jair's climb checks: 9-3=6 and 16-3=13.  Jair still has to climb another 30 feet--at 10 feet per round, if climbing cautiously.))The rat chases after the backtracking Jerek and attacks him, its large teeth carving his leg like a knife.  The bugbear, seeing another spellcaster, shifts his grip once more and readies a javelin, throwing it directly at Heirmund from 30 feet away--and missing!  The bugbear then takes a step forward, once more wielding his morningstar two-handed.  Terrek moves forward again and attacks the rat that is threatening Jerek, biting deeply into it--and possibly for the first time ever, you see a rat survive his mighty jaws!((Rat's attack: 20.  Damage: 3.  Bugbear's attack: 5.  Terrek's attack: 17+3=20.  Damage: 3+3=6.  It is Jerek's action again.  He is at 1hp.))</blockquote>

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