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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 1601456" data-attributes="member: 4441">*Zaphira charges the next bandit, Desert's Fire skewering him through.  The scent of scorched flesh reaches Zaphira's nostrils as Chaos' hooves fail to hit the falling bandit.  Rhia sights over her crossbow and looses a bolt at one of Saku's attackers, but it flies just past his ear, sticking into a tree.**Fianna and Kani fly through the woods on the back of their horses.  Ahead of them they know the road is there, and the sounds of combat are getting louder.  They'll be there very soon.**Jabin enchants his bolt to fly true, while the bandits' arrows fly all around.  Five of them fly towards Zaphira, but only one strikes, and lightly at that.  Three fly for Ashlie, but all even fail to touch her.  One flies over Jabin's head, and a final one slams home in Azure's side, the blood gushing immediately.  The bandit by Ashlie swings his sword at her, striking deep into her left side, nearly carving flesh from bone.**The three pilgrim crossbowmen fire, one of them finding their mark, slaying the wounded bandit that Earth Hammer hit.  Ashlie can't leap off Earth Hammer as she would like, but instead swings off, dancing backwards to avoid the bandit's sword, and firing her bow at him.  The arrow bounces off his armor and the bandit chuckles cruelly.  However, Ashlie has more allies than just her bow, and Earth Hammer powers in like an earthquake, his hooves smashing the man to the ground and his teeth slashing at his face.  Shilo comes up in the next moment to clamp his teeth around the man's throat, ensuring his death.  Both of your animal friends nose at you in concern.*[OOC - Zaphira hits a 21 for 11 points of damage, Chaos hits an 11 and misses.  Rhia hits an 11 and misses.  Heliad continues to chill.  Or run toward combat, whichever, I don't know yet.  Saku lies on the ground and bleeds a lot.  Fianna and Kani get closer to the combat, you should be there in a couple rounds.  Zaphira is hit with a 19 for 1 point of damage.  Jabin is missed, and Azure hit with a 22 for 6 points of damage.  Ashlie was hit by a 24 (unconfirmed crit) for 8 points of damage.  Ashlie fails her fast dismount Ride check with a 9, and instead takes a move-equivalent to dismount with a Tumble of 25 to avoid the AoO, and then a five-foot step back to hit with her bow, only hitting a 12 and missing.  Earth Hammer turns to the longsword bandit, hits on all three attacks, two hooves at 16 and 20, and his bite at 17, for a grand total of 19 points of damage, crushing the bandit to goo.  Shilo comes up in time to bite the corpse.  I think Earth Hammer likes Ashlie.  A lot.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> ]</blockquote>

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