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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oghma" data-source="post: 8455" data-attributes="member: 71">Dear Diary (Godsday, Flocktime 11 Fourth day of Harnekiah, Early morning)I didn’t think it could get worse, but it did.  We should have healed ourselves with Ord’s new wand.  I don’t know why did didn’t think of it, but we barely escaped with our lives.  I almost died.  Rattlin almost died.  Ord almost died.  Gimil would have died.I went to sleep under the wagon, on the opposite side from Rattlin, who also slept underneath.  Ord bedded down near the wagon wheels, but udner the trees.  Gimil was on watch.He swears he didn’t hear or see a thing.  “One minute I was looking around, then next minute the night was filled with the howls of bugbears. I could barely shout to wake you."There were eight of them.  We still had no spells.  It was lucky I had bought the wand, and that Ord had bought one too.When I awoke, it was already chaos.  Gimil had two javelins stuck in him, Ord had one, and Rattlin and I rolled out from under the wagon on either side.Ord was at the back end of the wagon, his back to it.  Gimil was in the front corner of the wagon, Rattlin was near him on the side of the wagon.  I was on the other side, near Ord.There were already three bugbears on Gimil, and he was a raging whirl of steel, dodging, slashing, screaming in fury.Rattlin went behind another approaching Gimil, and sank his sword deep into it’s back.  It whirled, enraged, to attack him.I whipped out my wand and shot two missiles at the bugbear on Ord’s right, nearest me.  I ran around behind the bugbears and prepared to shot some more.Two bugbears kept Ord flanked - one that I had wounded, and another that was near the right rear wheel of the cart. Ord hacked desperately at the one I had just hit, trying to drop him.  The third, that had backed Ord into the wagon, whirled to fight me.Two that had flanked him hit Gimil. The third missed.  Gimil’s sword bit deeply into the side of one of the flanking ones.Rattlin tumbled away from the bugbear and readied his bow.  The bugbear charged him and hit him hard!  Rattlin’s knees buckled, but he backed away and shot an arrow right into the bugbear.The bugbear attacking me swung his morningstar and hit me.  Already wounded, I wavered, almost falling down.Gimil was hit again by one of the bugbears surrounding him. He thrust his sword into the side of the one he’d already wounded.Ord was wounded and flanked, Gimil was flanked and had an extra on him, and Rattlin had been hit hard.  I had already been hit, and was woozy from the blow.Rattlin stepped back and fired another arrow, but the bugbear stepped in and felled Rattlin with a sickening crunch.I shot two missiles into the one in front of me.Ord needed help, and need it fast.  I saw that if I got on the other side of the one he and I had injured, we would flank it and make it easier to hit.  I knew that the bugbear next to me would get a swing at me, possible killing me, but I had to help Ord.  I ran to flank the one to his right.Whack!  The bugbear whirled, giving Ord the opening he needed.  Down went the first bugbear kill of this fight.  The bugbear I’d wounded twice charged and me and hit me.  I saw nothing but blackness.Diary, I thought I was dead.  I thought we all were.  Rattlin was weakened, Gimil was about to have a fourth bugbear attacking and flanking him if Ratlin fell, and Ord had two on him, one wounded by my missiles and one untouched.Rattlin stepped back and fired another arrow, but the bugbear stepped in and felled Rattlin with a sickening crunch.Gimil once again swung his sword but this time, missed.Ord shouted ‘”Posy! Nooooo!”  He stepped up and slew the one that had downed me with a single, mighty blow.  Braving the attack of his remaining foe, he ran over to me.Gimil nicked his foe, it was bleeding heavily but still attacking him.  The one that dropped Rattlin ran to attack Gimil.  Soon he’d be flanked on all sides.Ord whipped out his wand and healed me enough to bring me back to consciousness.  His foe hit him hard, but Ord stood strong above me, fending off the bugbear’s attacks.  I rolled out from under to see Gimil almost surrounded, flanked on four sides.From across the battlefield I shot two missiles into the one Rattlin had wounded, and they went right into the back of it’s head!  Down it went!  Gimil whirled and cut his wounded foe, dropping it, and scored a mighty hit on the follow- through!Suddenly the fight was even.  Three of us conscious, three bugbears alive and some wounded.Ord roared, “For Clangeddin!” and his muscles bulged and he hit the bugbear hard, almost killing it.  The bugbear snarled and hit Ord hard on the side of the head, staggering him.Gimil killed his wounded one with a mighty swing of his sword, and took a piece of fur out of the last one on him.Ord was badly hurt, Gimil was bleeding from numerous wounds, and Rattlin was bleeding to death.  I fired off two more missiles into Ord’s then ran to see if I could save Rattlin.Ord stepped back and healed himself with the wand, and the bugbear hit him again.Gimil hit his hard.  I got a healing potion out and poured it into Rattlin.The bugbear fighting Gimil swung and hit him, but Gimil was still enraged and full of fighting fury.Ord cleaved his bugbear with his axe. Down it went!  I fired two missiles into Gimil’s and it fell, also.We were alive.“Ord! Quickly, heal Gimil, he’s going to fall over!” I shouted.  I knew when his rage passed, Gimil could die of the wounds he received in battle.  Ord ran over to heal him.There were fourteen bugbear bodies all around us from the two fights.  We all looked at each other grimly, exhausted, bleeding, yet victorious.“No elves in this party”, I said.  “So you dwarves have this much fun every year?”Gimil’s lips began to twitch. Ord had a broad grin.  Rattlin started laughing and we all joined in.  We were alive.[Player note:  We thought were were going to die.  Gimil's player had rolled a one on his spot check, so before we knew it the bugbears were in the middle of our camp.  We were all wounded, and had stupidly not used the cure wand to heal ourselves.In this fight, every two magic missiles from my wand did nine or ten points.  Gimil survived almost certain death from the surrounding bugbears, and Ord, bless him risked his life for me as I had risked mine for him.  It was incredible, and was easily one of the most exciting fights I'd been in in my adventuring career]</blockquote>

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