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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maerdwyn" data-source="post: 1674531" data-attributes="member: 835">"What madness is this?" Asenath shouts to no-one in particular as she dashes out from the crowd towards the fallen Hur, but stopping when she sees the girl lying in the dirt, about to be trampled.  The sight of her word give several of the mob pause, and they stop, squaring off with her, seemingly suddenly unsure of what they are doing.   Melech orders Paqad toward the scaffolding, and the hyena bounds in, snarling at those in it's way.  Drunk with the fury of the mob, the boy at front of the pack swings his torch at Paqad's head as the animal races by, but the strike whooshes through the air <a href="http://krisinchico.brinkster.net/searchroll.asp?username=Yurial#117840" target="_blank">harmlessly</a>.  Paqad stop in front of Nahir and Adnon, still struggling to keep the shaky scaffold from falling over, and turnsto face the oncoming men.  Yuriel's face reddens in embarassed fury at missing the hyena as it passed him, and he shouts "Filthy Beast!" as he charges in for another swing. This time, the boy <a href="http://krisinchico.brinkster.net/searchroll.asp?username=Yurial#117841" target="_blank">connects</a>, <a href="http://krisinchico.brinkster.net/searchroll.asp?username=Yurial#117843" target="_blank">scorching</a>* the fur on Paqad's face and <a href="http://krisinchico.brinkster.net/searchroll.asp?username=Yurial#117842" target="_blank">tearing</a> a cut on his cheek.  He yelps, and snaps at the boy's arm trying to get him to drop the torch, but the boy jerks out of the way, sneering at the big animal.   The mob, save for the three men facing Asenath, surges forward behind Yuriel**.  Two of them, and man and what must be his son, barrel into Adnon, who is <a href="http://krisinchico.brinkster.net/searchroll.asp?username=Adnon#117846" target="_blank">no match</a> for the <a href="http://krisinchico.brinkster.net/searchroll.asp?username=Garion#117849" target="_blank">attackers</a>.  The boy is knock backwards and down. Another of the men, Yuval, goes after Nahir.  Paqad, desparate to fulfill his master's orders bites at Yuval, but, distracted by the pain he is in, <a href="http://krisinchico.brinkster.net/searchroll.asp?username=Paqad#117850" target="_blank">fails</a> to strike him.  The man plows into Nahir, and both crash backwards through the flap and into the tent beyond. The rest of the men advance, still wary of the wounded beast, but also still shouting and jeering, calling Hur to let Aaron make the god.  Four of them cast stones at the man, whose head it still visible despite his lying prone on top of the scaffold, but all the stones bounce of the wood.  Another of the men takes up a stone and hurls it at Padad, but <a href="http://krisinchico.brinkster.net/searchroll.asp?username=Nahir#117853" target="_blank">misses</a>.  The three men in fron of Asenath, continue staring at her, but begin moving to the sides, trying to get around her.   Tsedeq and Avram watch in shock as all of this happens, but finally spring into action.  Tsedeq tears forward toward the the boy in front of the hyena, and snatches him up <a href="http://krisinchico.brinkster.net/searchroll.asp?username=Tsedeq#117861" target="_blank">easily</a>, squeezing the boy until he cries out in <a href="http://krisinchico.brinkster.net/searchroll.asp?username=Tsedeq#117865" target="_blank">pain</a>. Without the two boys stabilizing it, Avram is sure the scaffold will not support the force of him jumping up onto it, and so stop in front of the scaffold, one eye on Hur, the other on the rest of the scene.  ***ooc:  Asenath, Avram, and Melech, and three of the mob each have a standard action still available to them this round. *I accidentally put an extra +1 on Yuriel's fire damage vs. Paqad.  Total damage was 4 blunt and 4 fire = 8hp**Asenath may take an attack of opportunity here, if she wishes.</blockquote>

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