Ptolus: 165 Vock Row - "Rat-catchers"
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
All five ratlings race up their side of the barricade, screaming what are almost certainly dire threats in Rattish.
Valana's hurled flask takes a bad bounce on the pile of refuse, and whirls over the ratlings' heads, trailing flames as it lands on the stone floor beyond.
Mata's throw is no better, but an old plank knocks the spinning flask down onto the barricade, into the path of the oncoming ratlings. They scream in frustration, two of them going left around the burning oil, two of them going right, one now loading his sling and muttering some sort of threat at Mata.
Aeshen draws his rapier and moves down the west side of the barricade and north, his head no longer in sight of the ratlings.
Down below, Thurst growls in frustration, pistol at the ready, as the ratlings fail, so far, to emerge over the edge.
Ella, beside him, makes a quiet anxious noise.
Mairan snorts and charges up the trash pile after the others.
[sblock=ooc]Round one ends.
Bad rolls on the flasks.
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Valana's hurled flask takes a bad bounce on the pile of refuse, and whirls over the ratlings' heads, trailing flames as it lands on the stone floor beyond.
Mata's throw is no better, but an old plank knocks the spinning flask down onto the barricade, into the path of the oncoming ratlings. They scream in frustration, two of them going left around the burning oil, two of them going right, one now loading his sling and muttering some sort of threat at Mata.
Aeshen draws his rapier and moves down the west side of the barricade and north, his head no longer in sight of the ratlings.
Down below, Thurst growls in frustration, pistol at the ready, as the ratlings fail, so far, to emerge over the edge.
Ella, beside him, makes a quiet anxious noise.
Mairan snorts and charges up the trash pile after the others.
[sblock=ooc]Round one ends.
Bad rolls on the flasks.
[/sblock]Watching the flask sail past the ratlings, Valana swears some more. "At this rate, I'm going to have to start making up new profanities."
Putting an arrow to string, Valana fires at one of the ratlings.
"We're going to need some help up here!"
[sblock=ooc]Target priority: 1) Ratling charging my position, 2) Ratling with the sling, 3) Any other ratling.[/sblock]
Putting an arrow to string, Valana fires at one of the ratlings.
"We're going to need some help up here!"
[sblock=ooc]Target priority: 1) Ratling charging my position, 2) Ratling with the sling, 3) Any other ratling.[/sblock]
Well, things could be worse. They couldn't smell worse, but they could be worse. The prophesied burning garbage has come to pass; although the stoic dwarf hasn't detected burning flesh as of yet, whether of the adventurer or the ratish persuasion.
"About that lass, mayhap you should be comin' back down right about now," Thurst suggests amicably.
Noting the direction in which Valana fires her bow, Thurst keeps his pistol steady and prepares to fire on whatever target first appears in that direction, lest it take it's ratty little anger out on the girl. "Say Mairan, while you are up there anyway, mind covering whatever appears on the side we arenae shooting at?"
Without breaking his concentration from the barricade, he poses Ella a question, "How many ratlings are we talking about anyway? Oh nevermind, how does crawling under a pile of burning garbage sound to ye girl?"
Chuckling softly, "If you donnae have any finger waggling to do, I would suggest either staying here and helping welcome any rats that show up, or going to the other side and cutting off their retreat. Of course, if reinforcements show up you will right be buggered. Ahhh decisions, decisions."
[sblock=ooc]Is the barricade sturdy enough that a little fire isn't going to make it collapse? Because that would suck.
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"About that lass, mayhap you should be comin' back down right about now," Thurst suggests amicably.
Noting the direction in which Valana fires her bow, Thurst keeps his pistol steady and prepares to fire on whatever target first appears in that direction, lest it take it's ratty little anger out on the girl. "Say Mairan, while you are up there anyway, mind covering whatever appears on the side we arenae shooting at?"
Without breaking his concentration from the barricade, he poses Ella a question, "How many ratlings are we talking about anyway? Oh nevermind, how does crawling under a pile of burning garbage sound to ye girl?"
Chuckling softly, "If you donnae have any finger waggling to do, I would suggest either staying here and helping welcome any rats that show up, or going to the other side and cutting off their retreat. Of course, if reinforcements show up you will right be buggered. Ahhh decisions, decisions."
[sblock=ooc]Is the barricade sturdy enough that a little fire isn't going to make it collapse? Because that would suck.
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Mata's crossbow bolt lodges in the thigh of the ratling loading his sling, but the wound is not enough to drop the creature.
Valana's arrow flies true, thunking into the neck of a charging ratling. For a moment, it looks as though the creature will go down, but it rises again, blood on its lips, and races toward her, spear in hand.
Mairan races to the top of the barricade, snarling as she spots the ratlings about to reach them, and beckons them toward her with one hand.
Thurst raises his pistol, bracing it on the back of his left forearm, waiting for a ratling to stick its head over the top.
[sblock=ooc]Mata does 1 point of damage to Ratling #1.
Valana does 3 points of damage to Ratling #2.
Mairan, Thurt and Aeshen (hiding in shadows preparing to flank and sneak attack) delay their actions.
Action pauses for Vdou's post.[/sblock]
Valana's arrow flies true, thunking into the neck of a charging ratling. For a moment, it looks as though the creature will go down, but it rises again, blood on its lips, and races toward her, spear in hand.
Mairan races to the top of the barricade, snarling as she spots the ratlings about to reach them, and beckons them toward her with one hand.
Thurst raises his pistol, bracing it on the back of his left forearm, waiting for a ratling to stick its head over the top.
[sblock=ooc]Mata does 1 point of damage to Ratling #1.
Valana does 3 points of damage to Ratling #2.
Mairan, Thurt and Aeshen (hiding in shadows preparing to flank and sneak attack) delay their actions.
Action pauses for Vdou's post.[/sblock]
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Ella clambers into the hole in the barricade, listening to the sounds of combat above her head as she works her way slowly through.
The ratling with the sling's bullet flies true, despite being wounded a second before, and Mata is hit in the elbow so hard that she's worried for a moment that the creature has broken her arm.
The ratling charging Valana gets his spear tip stuck in what appears to be an up-ended chair atop the pile, and she easily dances out of the way of his attack. The next ratling behind him, though, doesn't miss, and she cries out in pain as he jabs his filthy spearhead into her stomach and in horror, she feels it emerge from her back before being yanked back out again. She tumbles back onto the pile, unconscious and bleeding out.
Thurst attempts to avenge the fallen apprentice, and there's a boom of gunpowder, but it's a rotting plank that explodes, not a ratling's skull.
To Mata's right, two ratlings charge at Mairan, screaming with bloodlust. She easily parries each blow with her long sword, sneering back at them.
Even as one ratling becomes aware of Aeshen emerging from the trash behind them to attack, he remains spry enough to avoid Mairan's counterattack. Aeshen likewise is unable to successfully drive his rapier home into the other ratling's chest.
Ella emerges on the far side of the barricade to find herself behind all of the ratlings, who show no sign of realizing that she's there.
[sblock=ooc]Ratling #1 does 2 points of damage to Mata.
Ratling #3 does 5 points of damage to Valana. She is at -4 hit points and bleeding out. She will die in 6 rounds.
Round two ends.[/sblock]
The ratling with the sling's bullet flies true, despite being wounded a second before, and Mata is hit in the elbow so hard that she's worried for a moment that the creature has broken her arm.
The ratling charging Valana gets his spear tip stuck in what appears to be an up-ended chair atop the pile, and she easily dances out of the way of his attack. The next ratling behind him, though, doesn't miss, and she cries out in pain as he jabs his filthy spearhead into her stomach and in horror, she feels it emerge from her back before being yanked back out again. She tumbles back onto the pile, unconscious and bleeding out.
Thurst attempts to avenge the fallen apprentice, and there's a boom of gunpowder, but it's a rotting plank that explodes, not a ratling's skull.
To Mata's right, two ratlings charge at Mairan, screaming with bloodlust. She easily parries each blow with her long sword, sneering back at them.
Even as one ratling becomes aware of Aeshen emerging from the trash behind them to attack, he remains spry enough to avoid Mairan's counterattack. Aeshen likewise is unable to successfully drive his rapier home into the other ratling's chest.
Ella emerges on the far side of the barricade to find herself behind all of the ratlings, who show no sign of realizing that she's there.
[sblock=ooc]Ratling #1 does 2 points of damage to Mata.
Ratling #3 does 5 points of damage to Valana. She is at -4 hit points and bleeding out. She will die in 6 rounds.
Round two ends.[/sblock]
