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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 1594625" data-attributes="member: 4441">*Zaphira charges forward toward the closest grounded bandit.  He blanches when Chaos rears and strikes, her hoof just missing his head, but he never has time to blink as Desert's Fire seeks his throat and ends his life.  The sounds of Azure's horn sound out over the woods, bolsting the spirits of all her friends.  Heliad, in addition to all the sounds of combat, now the sound of a trumpet breaks through the afternoon.  It sounds like there's a major battle going on down there.**Saku draws his own scimitar and plunges forward with Viper, the coal-black horse eager for battle.  His falchion slices open one bandit while Viper's hoof cracks the skull of another.**Deep in the wooded valley, Doranna, Fianna's wolf companion, comes running back to her grove where she is conversing with Kani, a druid from the north.  The wolf is agitated, and obviously wants Fianna to come investigate.  From toward the road comes the sound of a trumpet, sounding to Kani like a call to arms.**Jabin quickly nudges Honeybee over to Azure, holding a piece of cured leather in his hand.  He mutters a few arcane words and lightly touches Azure's free armor, encasing her in protective force.**The bandits shout at the loss of some of their number and concentrate their fire on the two people that just killed three of their number.  No less than five arrows pierce Saku through the chest, and with a strangled cry, he falls from Viper's back.  Five more streak for Zaphira, but her armor turns away three of them.  The two that strike though her armor however strike hard and deep into her stomach.**Two more arrows strike for the pilgrims, one missing Mother Iray by a hair, and the second opening up a small wound on Father Parab's arm.  All the pilgrims start to dive off their horses and under the wagons, holding onto their reins to prevent the horses from fleeing.  It's a good bet that the bandits will try to avoid hitting the horses, as they're worth something.  The three crossbowmen loose their bolts, two going wide and one thudding into a bandit's thigh in his perch in a tree.  He gives a strangled cry and falls to the road.**Fighting from horseback is hard for Ashlie, and her shot misses as Earth Hammer thunders in and slashes his hoof down at the nearest bandit.  It catches him in the stomach, knocking the air out of him.  One of his fellows leaps out of a tree above Ashlie, his knife poised to thrust, but instead just gouges her armor.  He lands and pulls out a longsword, shouting for others to help him.  Shilo, seeing Ashlie in trouble, starts to charge to the rescue.*[OOC - InitiativeZaphira - 20Azure - 17Heliad - 16Saku - 13Fianna - 12Jabin - 11Bandits - 10Pilgrims - 9Kani - 8Ashlie - 5Zaphira rolls a 26, confirms with a 22, and does 14 points of damage, dropping a bandit.  Azure inspires courage.  Saku hits a 24 and Viper hits a 22, doing 13 and 8 points of damage respectively, dropping two more bandits.  Jabin gets off his spell.  Heliad, Fianna, and Kani are all now alerted and can begin running toward the site if they want to.  Saku gets hit for a lot of damage.  Zaphira gets hit for 10.  Ashlie has to take a -4 penalty for firing from a moving horse and only hits a 5, missing, but Earth Hammer hits a 21 for 4 points of damage, wounding a bandit.  The bandit in the tree only hit a 12, missing Ashlie.*</blockquote>

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