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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 1616764" data-attributes="member: 4441">*Zaphira directs Chaos to take cover behind a tree with brush around it, and then bends to bow to find one of the bandit archers in the trees.  However, Chaos' movements and firing through the brush throw off her aim, and the arrow flies above the bandit's head.**Azure focuses tightly through the pain and fires her crossbow at the wounded bandit on the ground.  It flies cleanly through his thigh and the man gives a howl of agony.  In the forest, Heliad pounds the road with his feet, the sounds of battle ringing closer in his ears all the time.  He can catch the scent of blood on the wind and he knows he's close.**Viper gives a scream of rage and charges the next bandit he sees rearing and striking out with his hooves, clipping the man hard in the chest and sending him sprawling to the ground.  One of the archers above him in the tree fires down at Viper in a panic, and arrow driving into Viper's shoulder.  The black horse gives another wicked scream.**Fianna rides up nearly to the edge of the forest.  She can see a black horse just attack some ruffian, and then get shot by another archer in a tree above him.  Beyond them a battle rages on the road; dust and screams of men and horses adding to the confusion.**Jabin's bolt flies straight and true, thudding into the side of one of the treed archers.  The man gasps and grabs his side, but does not fall.  However, his bow does tumble out of the tree.  The man's two companions fire back at Jabin, but miss terribly, their arrows soaring over his head and flopping onto the dirt.  Three others on the ground fire at Zaphira, but the brush foils two of them, and only a single arrow gets through, scraping along her arm.**The other three treed archers on Viper's side of the road target three people.  One tries to strike the horse again and misses.  Another tries for Jabin and misses.  And the third strikes Azure in the back, driving the wind out of her.**The three pilgrim crossbowmen concentrate on Zaphria's side of the road.  One strikes the wounded bandit Ashlie hit, giving him another arrow to match the first in his gut.  The man gives a wheeze as he flops, lifeless, over the tree branch.  Another stands and makes a throat shot in another bandit, and watches him drop out of the tree.  The third goes wide, perhaps because he was gaping at the prowess of his companions.**Kani, you pull up next Fianna, seeing the same scene she saw, of utter chaos and pain on the road.  Ashlie dives into cover, making herself nearly invisible, sights carefully on the remaining bandit in the tree, and hits his heart from behind.  The man gasps in pain and spits blood.  It's clear its a near-mortal wound.*[OOC - Zaphira moves to cover and fires, but hits a 9 and misses.  Azure hits a 19 and hits the grounded bandit for 5 points of damage.  Heliad will be there next round. Viper hits a 16 for 8 points of damage, and is hit by a 21 for 6 points of damage.  Fianna arrives.  Jabin hits a 40 for 6 points of damage.  The bandits hit an 8 and a 3 (natural 1), missing Jabin.  One bandit can't fire.  Three fire at Zaphira and only one hits with a 21 for 4 points of damage.  Of the three remaining, the only one that hits is the one that his Azure with a 20 for 4 points of damage.  One pilgrim hits the one that Ashlie wounded for 6 points of damage, dropping him.  Another one actually gets a crit on another treed sniper for 13 points of damage, dropping him.  The third one misses entirely.  Kani arrives at the battle.  Ashlie gets a 22 on her Hide check, beating the best bandits' Spot check of 17, hits with a 25, and does 8 points of damage, severely wounding the last treed bandit on this side of the road.  Update, there are three grounded uninjured bandits on the side of the road with Zaphira and Ashlie.  There is one wounded bandit in a tree on the same side.  There is one wounded bandit on the ground on the other side, and three unwounded bandits in a tree on that side.]</blockquote>

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