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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Binks" data-source="post: 6597273" data-attributes="member: 6775039">Alright.  I feel a murderous rage coming on and some fitting vengeance theme music.From my kneeling position holding poor Lucky, I look up. One tear streams down my face and my eyes slowly scowl as my lips quiver with an unfettered thirst for payback.  I think to myself the moment I gave him the name Lucky he perishes...and so unceremoniously...Lucky.  I shake my head as I lay his broken body down and stand up deliberately.  If they wouldn't have magically warded the bog, this would have never happened.  One pace turns into two.  Those paces turn into a trot.  That trot turns into a sprint.  A sprint straight toward that ascending pass that goes up into the higher elevations where the figures set off into.  My bow comes into my hands and an arrow is strung.  The first fool that shows himself is getting one right between the eyes.  I'm in a full out sprint.  I'd like to attempt to get there before they can set up any proper defenses or get away if that is their aim.  [sblock]Defy Danger (Str)3, 4 + 0 = 7Success with a worse outcome, hard bargain, or ugly choice.[/sblock]I'm just going to put an arrow into one straight away and trust my cat-like quickness and instincts to avoid the trip-wire.  [sblock]d8 damage on one of the two kneeling men.  4 - 1 = 3 damage.  Dead.Defy Danger (Dex) to avoid the tripwire1, 4 + 2 = 7Success with a worse outcome, hard bargain, or ugly choice.[/sblock]I'll plant my feet firmly in the ground, drop my center of gravity and attempt to upend him with a single-leg takedown.[sblock]Defy Danger (Str)5, 2 + 0 = 7Success with a worse outcome, hard bargain, or ugly choice.[/sblock]I need this one dead before these guys can get to me.  I pull my elven dagger from its sheathe and send this guy to his maker.[sblock]Hack and Slash (Dex)2, 4 + 2 = 8d8 damage.  6 - 1 = 5.  Dead.b[2d6] counterattack.  3, 5 - 1 = 4 damage to me.[/sblock]Couple things.  I want to see if I can pick out a leader of this group.  One that might know something about the refugees and about that bog.[sblock]Discern Realities (Wis)2, 5 + 2 = 9 1 question and + 1 forward when acting on it* Who’s really in control here?[/sblock]I'm going to stand my ground and defend myself.  Assuming I'm effective, I'm going to attempt to terrify the lackeys.[sblock]Defend (Con)5, 5 + 1 = 113 hold.  I'll spend it to:* Halve the attack’s effect or damage* Deal damage to the attacker equal to your level.  4 - 1 will kill one of the lackeys.b[2d6 + 2].  5, 2 + 2 = 7/2 = 3 - 1.  2 damage to me.[/sblock]As we exchange blows, I draw my sword in my off-hand and in the same move impale one of the other two lackeys it after taking the butt of one of the spears into my ribs.  When the three of us disengage momentarily and the dying man sloughs off of he melee, I glare at the smaller of the two barbarians remaining.  "I just want him.  You may climb that rubble <signalling behind me> and leave these Coldlands a coward, but a living one.  But you can't go back."  I nod behind him, meaning I can't let him rejoin his clan and let them know I'm coming...and possibly kill the refugees.  I'm hoping that, in forgetful terror, he runs across the bog, triggering whatever response there is.[sblock]Parley (Cha)Leverage being his life.4, 6 - 1 (+1 DR) = 10They do what you ask if you first promise what they ask of you.[/sblock]I shout to my companions, who are surely at the debris by now, to let him pass.  I'll let him pass when he moves by me.As I sheathe my weapons, I dive backwards out of the field and toward my bow.  If I get there, I'm firing off an arrow as Rawr rips tears into him.  I don't want to kill him however.  If he falls, I'll immediately stop Rawr before he rends him to shreds.[sblock]Defy Danger (Dex)3, 5 + 2 = 10Volley (Dex)2, 4 + 2 = 8d8 damage.  5 (+ 3 Rawr) = 8 - 1. 7 damage.I'll choose danger as my complication.[/sblock]Rawr pursues and I do the same, high-tailing it out of the way of the falling ice and snow.  We can't afford to let this guy go nor can we waste time trying to climb the rubble behind us.[sblock]Defy Danger (Dex)2, 4 + 2 = 8Success with a worse outcome, hard bargain, or ugly choice.[/sblock]Hrmmmm...let me think about it and get back to you.</blockquote>

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