Ptolus: 165 Vock Row - "Rat-catchers"

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Mata's crossbow shot is low, hitting the lip of the chasm, and the bolt bounces downward into the darkness.

A moment later, the solid chunk of garbage that Ella will try not to think too hard about follows it down.

The two remaining ratlings' sling stones do no better, whistling out of the darkness, and striking the walls around the group.

[sblock=ooc]ROUND ENDS.

Now Thurst can get fancy.[/sblock]

 

[Voca]

Mata curses in dwarvish and then prepares to fire the crossbow again.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Thurst steps in front of Valana as he reloads, offering what protection he can with his stocky frame.

Valana and Mata fire once more into the darkness as Mairan charges across the bridge, snarling. Aeshen is nowhere to be seen.

Valana Wavecrest's arrow hits its mark, almost sending a ratling tumbling into the blackness, but it hangs on and continues whirling a slingstone above its head.

Mata's crossbow bolt does even better, lodging in the open mouth of one ratling, its point driven up into the creature's brain, and it falls forward into the darkness, killed instantly.

[sblock=ooc]Let's call Thurst's act giving Valana partial cover, but a miss due to that will hit him instead ...

Valana does 3 hit points of damage to Ratling #2.

Mata does 8 hit points of damage with a critical hit, killing Ratling #3.

Waiting on Ella.[/sblock]

 

[Vdou]

[sblock]
No change in tactics yet. Ella's still hurling garbage.
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[Voca]

Smiling as the ratling tumbles down, Mata prepares to fire again at the remaining ratling. "One left" she grunts.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Ella's next glob of garbage goes spiraling down into the darkness harmlessly.

Then Mairan is across the bridge, screaming like a banshee. Her blade comes up and tears the last ratling's head right off.

[sblock=ooc]Mairan does 8 points of damage, killing Ratling #2.

COMBAT ENDS. Everyone gets 150 XP.[/sblock]

 

[Wool]

Apparently lacking in gratitude towards fate, Thurst curses to himself over the lost ratling tails while trying to decide which path looks the most reliable.

[sblock=ooc]The first two corpses fell into the chasm, what about the one Mairan killed?[/sblock]

 

[Voca]

Still looking at the bridge in some trepidation, Mata decides that if it held Mairan it will hold her, and makes her way to the other side to look around.

 

[Filthy]

So as not to over burden the rickety looking bridge, Valana waits until the others have crossed before doing so herself.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

[sblock=ooc]Mairan's kill -- other than the head -- remains on the upper ledge.[/sblock]

One by one, the group slowly crosses the wildly swinging bridge to the far side of the room.

A 10 foot wide passage in the north wall reveals a wide passageway descending deeper into the earth beneath Ptolus.