Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 4987110" data-attributes="member: 386">Part two: a big fight.The PCs made it through the wood to Lanath Keep.  When they got there they saw tracks - lots of them - leaving the keep.  One set of them got their attention: heavy booted feet dragging some bodies behind them, and blood in the trail.  These tracks belonged to hobgoblins using razorvine (a rare vine that's like barbed wire) to drag some living prisoners away.The PCs decided to head out after the hobgoblins to see if they could save Silverleaf (an elf who went there about a month? ago with a party of adventurers, who was captured).They followed the trail for a while and knew they were close when they heard the screams of Silverleaf.  They spotted a group of heavily armed and armoured hoboglins - about 15 of them - torturing Silverleaf and a pair of human women (Morgan Ironwolf and Sister Rebecca).The hobgoblin commander on watch spotted Shamon and we had a fight on our hands.  It lasted about 7 rounds:Round 1: Umar and Talesid move up to challenge the commander and hit him pretty hard.  Shamon moves up to Divine Challenge the hobgoblin Fleshcarver (the torturer) but can't get quite close enough; he Dominates him instead.  Aiden, Kiva, and the two elven archers start firing.  The commander is killed.At this point the players realize that none of these guys are minions.The four archers lay into Umar and Talesid and the six soldiers form a line on them.Round 2: Dominated, the Fleshcarver attacks the Warcaster.  Talesid, beaten pretty badly, second winds, and Kiva switches spots with him with a Teleport.  A lot of bursts and blasts go off.  Kiva is able to drop an archer.Round 3: The warcaster tries to drag Kiva behind the line but fails.  The Fleshcarver displays his skill by making a close burst 2 attack with his glaive.  Umar is hurt by the soldiers beating on him.  The elven archers lay into the Fleshcarver.  Talesid moves back into the fray.Round 4: Shamon is pinned in difficult terrain near a number of soldiers.  More damage is handed out; Umar drops.  Kiva is beaten down pretty hard.  Aiden and Talesid engage two of the archers in melee.  The elven archers continue to pound on the Fleshcarver and start moving out of difficult terrain so they can get their skirmishing bonus.Round 5: The Fleshcarver pounds on the PCs with his at-will close burst.  Kiva drops.  A number of soldiers are killed.  The hobgoblin archers fire their arrows then try to engage the elves in melee.Round 6: Fleshcarver's revenge.  He smacks all the PCs around then spends an action point to do it again.  Kiva and Aiden are on the ground.  The archers focus on him, but don't drop him; they know that if he's able to get another attack off he'll probably kill them all, so Talesid sucks an OA to get to a flanking position, stabs him in the back and kills him.  More hobgoblins are killed; at this point there are 3 soldiers and the two archers.Round 7: Shamon intimidates a hobgoblin into surrendering.  The soldiers attack but miss; the elven archers are able to avoid the hobgoblins and keep loosing arrows.Round 8: The hobgoblins surrender.</blockquote>

Verification