Last Stand of the Dorinthians (Chapter 3 - The Imperials)

[Fenris]

Dartis utters an oath upon seeing the body of Morduk disappear.

"Sorcery! The Rider take him and his minions."

Dartis seeing the plight of Barok, spurs Swift onward up the steps attempting to run down one of the satyrs.

OOC: [sblock] Charge for a bull rush. Also I didn;t get a response on the size of Murduk's sword. Addtionally, since this will be Swifts actual attack, I will ready the Shield of Kings and draw my sword and if I can manage it, put away my bow [/sblock]

 

[Deuce Traveler]

OOC: Morduk's sword is a large greatsword, although that too has disappeared. Also, Dartis can switch weapons along with putting his bow away while allowing Swift to attack, but he cannot attack himself during this round.

 

[Fenris]

OOC: Then attack Swift shall!

 

[Kobold Stew]

At Dartis' cry, Danica whirls around -- her fear over the ogre's corpse has been realized, and she curses herself for getting distracted by the gargoyles. I'm not a real fighter... she thinks to herself, as she raises her crossbow to the square where Marduk had been. He needs to stand, she knows, as she points the crossbow at the empty area where the wizard's corpse, not a corpse, had been. She squeezes the trigger, firing into the space where she imagines he might be standing.

The bolt flies through the air...

 

[Nephtys]

Barok sneers in irritation at his useless weapons and instead tries to trip the least wounded of the Satyres flanking him, when he sees the Ogres body disappear. "Bloody Hell..."

 

[GlassEye]

"Ha ha!" crows a gloating Silas at the downed flying creature. He looks around to see if anyone witnessed his (and Danica's) victory over the creature. Seeing that everyone is involved in battles of their own he looks to see where he might be most useful and, seeing that the python is about to eat the downed archer instead of moving to attack another one, he yells out a command, "Attack the archer!"

Drawing the wand of magic missiles from where he has it stashed in his sleeve, Silas fires a missile at one of the remaining archers.

 

[Fenris]

OOC: Maybe Silas should worry about the other gargoyle first?

 

[Deuce Traveler]

OOC: Hey, the man is enjoying his moment.

 

[Fenris]

OOC: Hey, the man is enjoying his moment.

OOC: Nah, Silas just doesn't want to hurt rocks.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Silas' snake stops in mid-preparation, snaps its jaw back into form, and crawls towards another archer. Silas himself fires at the closest archer, but his miss is a critical one and he instead shoots Barok in the shoulder! (-2 hps to Barok).

Dartis charges into the mix and has Swift attack the archer to its left. It's a hard hit, but the hooves barely make a dent in the creature's tough hide. The python moves to bind the other archer, but it also misses its strike.

Danica fires at where she thought the ogre-mage last was, but strikes nothing, confirming her worry that he is no longer there or standing at the same location.

One of the archers butts Barok with his horns, but the rogue manages to stay standing despite the force of the impact (-1 hp to Barok).

Ventus attacks the archer that the python missed, but also misses with his strike. The second archer hits Barok once more with a dagger, driving it deeply in the bleeding rogue's body (-4 hps to Barok).

Silas yells as the second gargoyle takes revenge on him, slashing him from behind ( -4 hps to Silas).

Barok attacks next, and successfully trips the archer next to Ventus for the Imperial to easily strike down. In that same moment, however, Morduk reappears next to Dartis.

The party hears a triumphant roar as the ogre-mage appears next to the horsed noble. The whistling of his mighty sword causes the air to shriek as the blade tears through space and impacts against the noble's armor with a sickening sound of metal tearing against metal. Links from Dartis' chain shirt are torn apart, with many of them landing as far as Danica. Luckily, its not a fatal wound as the armor takes the brunt of the punishment. Still, Dartis' body flies from Swift, and the noble falls onto the ground and onto his back. You can hear him gasping for air as the wind is forced from his lungs upon impact with the ground (-16 hps to Dartis). The ogre-mage then ducks down, using Swift as both cover and an obstacle to attacking him.

OOC: Dartis is fine, and can get right back up. People may want to start using healing potions that were gathered in previous chapters, but never used.

Danica 15/18
Silas 10/19
Dartis 13/29
Ventus 21/32
Barok 3/21