Of Sound Mind

[Jarval]

Let battle commence!

Seraphina dashes round behind one of the horses, aims her crossbow and shoots. Rolls 5 + 3 = 8. The bolt zips over the horse's head, narrowly missing Aiden.

Aiden swings at the horse with his mace, trying to render the beast unconscious. Rolls 6 + 2 - 4 = 4. His effort not to land a killing blow causes the mace to go wide by quite some distance.

Jason pulls a scroll out of his pack and begins to chant. Glowing blue light briefly encompasses him as the Mage Armor takes effect.

Kerrick focuses his mind on the horse with fangs. His will lashes out, but vanishes into the emptiness that surrounds its mind. Rolls 10 + 2 = 12, the horse made it's save.

Adren draws his sword with a flourish, and swings two-handed with the flat of his blade. Rolls 13 + 3 - 4 = 12. His blow narrowly misses the horse as it jinks out of the way.

The horse with fangs turns to face Kerrick, jumping forwards with its teeth bared. Kerrick easily ducks under its clumsy attack.

The other horse's eyes begin to glow again. Taking advantage of this, Aiden, Kerrick and Gholog all take the opportunity presented as the horse concentrates on it power. Aiden swings again, (rolls 16 + 2 - 4 = 14), this making contact! It smacks into the horse's shoulder, and the horse shies away from him (deals 3 points of subdual damage), the glow fading from its eyes. However, this movement causes Adren's blow to go wide of its mark (rolls 7 + 3 - 4 = 6). Gholog lunges forwards with his glave, but his attack also misses, scoring a line along the ground to the right of the horse (rolls 2 + 5 = 7).

Undeterred by this, Gholog brings the glave back up, but to his frustration it again just goes past the horse (rolls 6 + 5 = 11).

"Ha! You two-legs are pathetic! We will kill you all!" says the voice in your heads. "The beasts of the mountains have given us the powers for our revenge, and none shall harness us again."

I've started an OOC thread for rules questions and the like. You can find it here

 

[GnomeWorks]

Seraphina Tealeaf

"Oh, to hell with it." She mutters to herself.

She then yells out to her companions. "Let's just down them, quickly!"

With that, she begins casting Magic Missile at the horse she tried to shoot earlier.

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Kerrick Jonez

"Very well if these infernal horses wish to test me, they will be sorry."

Once again Kerrick draws on his pool of personnal energy, channeling psychoportive energy in to his clenched fist. He then reaches out and attepts to place the hand on the beast that attacked him.


[OOC: Dissipating touch. Def: Thought shield]]

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Aiden sighs, "I suppose putting them out of thier misery is the only course to go, but should they hang at death's door strike no further." Aiden swings towards the same horse, not wasting his effort into attacking with subduing blows.

 

[Zhure]

Gholog

A trained pole-arm user, Gholog will try to shift his movement so that he can help flank for as many as possible. (Since he only gets one attack, he can move up to 30 and not change his attack rate.) If one closes past his reach, he will backpedal if possible, if not, he can attack unarmed and use psionic fist for additional damage.

In all of the above cases, Gholog will continue to do lethal damage.

"Sorry, farmer Othic... at least they'll be good eating the way we're hitting... they'll be all tenderized."

Thought shield

 

[Acmite]

Adren

Aiden sighs, "I suppose putting them out of thier misery is the only course to go, but should they hang at death's door strike no further." Aiden swings towards the same horse, not wasting his effort into attacking with subduing blows.

Aye, sadly it looks like we must put them down!

[COLOR=sky blue] If it appears that they are hovering at death's door, Adren will switch back to subdual damage at Aiden's suggestion. Until then, he will do real damage.

Defense Mode if necessary: Empty Mind [/COLOR]

**Edit Log: Added Defense Mode after reading the OOC thread**

 

[Other Guy]

Jason Master

Jason, after quickly looking over the situation, moves in to flank the horse that Kerrick is fighting. He makes a gesture with his arms that looks like an overexaggerated somatic component. At the same time he speaks, mockingly, "arcane banter, arcane banter," and strikes the horse with his fist.


(OOC)
Jason's not really casting a spell, as I'm sure you've guessed, just fooling around a little with the horse-thing. He's attacking for subdual damage, because he's a Monk and can do that kind of stuff .

Psionic defense mode: non-psionic buffer
(/OOC)

 

[Jarval]

Round 2

Initiative:
Seraphina 21
Aiden 20
Jason 19
Kerrick 17
Adren: 13
Gholog 10

Seraphina utters a few words as she points at the horse in front of her. A bolt of bright energy streaks away from her and smashes into the horse (deals 3 points of damage).

Aiden again swings with his mace, but this time he spares nothing in his blow. The mace arcs round and again strikes the horse (rolls 16 + 2 = 18). The blow lands well, and you hear the sound of bone breaking (deals 6 points of damage).

Jason moves over to the horse with fangs, making mock spellcasting gestures as he goes. He lashes out at the horse, but he misses as it shifts away from him (roll 4 + 1 = 5).

Kerrick's fist seems to shimmer as his power starts to take hold. The horse takes advantage of his momentary distraction to bite at him, but Kerrick gracefully dodges the attack. Kerrick swipes at the horse and the shimmering shifts from his hand to the horse's flank (rolls 18 + 2 = 20). The horse screams out in pain as its flesh is ripped by the psionic energy (deals 6 damage).

With a swish of his sword, Adren again attacks the beast before him. Ducking forwards under its head, he thrusts his sword into its shoulder (rolls 16 + 3 = 19). The horse stumbles and drops to the ground as Adren withdraws his blade (deals 8 points of damage)[/COLOR]. Aiden, while the horse seems seriously wounded, you think your first blow weakened it enough for it to fall. It seems to still live, although it is unconscious.

The horse with fangs jolts at the sight of its fellow falling. It lashes out again at Kerrick, but again his skilled reactions save him from any hurt. The horse turns bolts away. As it passes Gholog, he take the opportunity to strike at it with his glave. The weapon catches it as it runs past (rolls 11 + 5 = 16) and tears at its chest (deals 8 damage). The horse keeps going, along the road away from Bellhold.

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Damage taken so far:

The fallen horse: 20 (3 subdual)

Horse with fangs: 14


Looks like you were saving your good rolls for the second round

 

[GnomeWorks]

Seraphina Tealeaf

"I can stop it, but someone else needs to finish it!" Seraphina calls out. "We can't let that thing leave!"

She takes a small step towards the horse ([color=sky blue]5' step[/color]), and casts Mage Hand at one of the horse's back legs, raising it up high sharply and hopefully knocking the horse off balance.

 

[Other Guy]

Jason Master

Looks like you were saving your good rolls for the second round [/B]

Not all of us .

"I agree with the lady Tealeaf," Jason says, taking out his bow and firing an arrow at the escaping creature. Watching the arrow fly towards its target he adds, "I just hope that this time I don't miss."