Posting for @Osthelerin Hawke
Having no way to know he is about to be aided by the party's archer, Hiroshi still feels confident that he can handle two enemies. He makes a deliberate thrust at the lower legs of the opponent on his right, hoping to cause him to fall. He will simultaneously electrocute that target.
Due to the necessity of concentration, even if only for a second, physical and mystical assaults must be directed toward the same opponent. This limitation may be overcome once an area of effect can be caused, but AoE has its own dangers.
Not being particularly suited to using magic to affect others, Oorvid will attempt to cripple one of his opponents so that he is not fighting two simultaneously.
Askari moves first. His desire to distract the adjoining opponent has more affect than he could have imagined. Never has an occasion happened before to provoke such an action from Volki. She moves with a phenomenal speed, something like a whip adder. Askari ineffectively moves at the first opponent, but Volki is able to capitalize, cutting the Shimadow five times, rendering him unconscious. Askari turns and incapacitates his second opponent. During the engagement, Askari takes a javelin which causes significant injury. Volki is also hurt.
Astrid seem to be infested with misfortune. She cannot harm her opponents; and together, they stab her twice more, incapacitating her. At this point, those two Shimadow look up to see how the rest of the battle fares. Both appear as if they will move toward the pergola.
Oorvid injures one of his opponents, cutting the leg significantly enough to cause him to fall, but falls to the assault of his double team, being conscious yet incapacitated by a javelin to the lower abdomen. Freed of his opponent the second moves toward Askari, who is currently unopposed. The other is crippled.
Hiroshi is not able to stab one of his assailants but does hurt the injured one with an unseen electric shock, before he succumbs to a stab from the second opponent.
The elation that could have been felt by the second opponent is short lived, as Wrenn puts an arrow into the rib cage, causing incapacitation.
Astrid, Hiroshi, and Oorvid are incapacitated and cannot physically move, though they can all still bend waylines. Askari is injured and Volki is hurt. Only Wrenn is at full capacity, being atop the pergola. Three of the four Shimadow who were on Astrid and Hiroshi quickly move toward the pergola.
Wrenn says, coldly, "Yes, come to me. Come to your deaths."
Wrenn will acidify the nearest opponent; if he falls, he follow up with a bow shot.
OOC:
If you START with a wayline manipulation, and your opponent goes down, does the weapon follow-up still have to be against the same opponent, or can it be targeted at another enemy?
Askari will wait to receive the incoming opponent, fighting defensively. He will concentrate on counter striking, and shield bash if there is an opening. During the melee, he will attempt to lure the Shimadow into a position where Wren or Volki have a clear line of attack.
While the opponent heading towards us is focusing on Askari, Volki will use this chance to strike from behind. Hitting vital points and using poison to take out one of the enemy.
Posting for @Osthelerin Hawke
Knowing that it may very well cost him his life, if the Shimadow suspect he is the source, Hiroshi attempts to cause one of the departing Shimadow to suffer an electric shock.
To help with the unfamiliarity of all mechanics, I am going to switch poison for acid because Volki is fighting with a bladed weapon. This way both cause physical damage. Poison does mental damage, by mechanics. I will always aid players in optimizing their character's efforts because this is a new system to all players.
Though he is near helpless, Oorvid still has a moment of remorse for what he intends to do. Unable to move from place to place, he is still able to reach over and touch the Shimadow that he crippled. When he does, he attempts to siphon life from him.
The uninjured Shimadow that remained fighting Volki acts before anything else happens. He stabs at Volki with his javelin but aims terribly, missing badly. This provokes Askari to hit him with his short sword a full two seconds before the others can close, but the assault only grazes the thin leather tunic.
The crippled Shimadow pokes Oorvid with a javelin, but the awkwardness of lying on the ground makes the assault barely effective and very little further harm is caused.
Only tics apart, the three outlying Shimadow close on Askari and Volki and Hiroshi and Wrenn each mystically assault one. Happening to choose the same target, the combination of shock and acid injures the Faethrin. This causes his steps to falter.
Set to receive the enemy, Aksari aggressively knocks the javelin down and aside with his sword, stepping in to slam his buckler into the Shimadow's face. The force of the blow is so hard that the Faethrin stumbles backward 7 steps before falling on his back.
Volki is not able to avoid the javelin of the newly arriving enemy, but the thrust only cuts her tunic.
Despite being poked again with a javelin, Oorvid touches the fallen Shimadow, siphoning life from him into himself. It is not enough life to allow him to get off the ground, but it is enough to incapacitate the crippled enemy.
Astrid wails in her defeat, overtly displaying unmitigated emotion.
Wrenn releases another deadly arrow, taking the consciousness from the Shimadow he had mystically assaulted.
In a matter of seconds, what appeared to be an assured situation for the Shimadow has been devastated in ruin. The Shimadow have gone from 12 to 3. It is obvious that the Shimadow that Akari knocked down is going to run. The other two who are still engaged with he and Volki slide a step back offering a gesture of yielding.
Askari will say Leave this place, and do not return. Pray you do not run afoul of us again, I only show mercy once.
He will then go about giving the downed Shimadow a clean death and tending to his wounded party members.
As he gazes over the area of what could have been their final battle, he rubs his thumb across his clans Warriors Mark. A simple trio of interconnected triangles, representing the Fates, on the inner forearm of his sword arm. He mumbles to himself, almost chuckling; Maybe there is some truth to the Elders’ senile rambling about Fortune and the Fates.
