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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Binks" data-source="post: 6598367" data-attributes="member: 6775039">Alright.  This is a pass up into the high mountain country that these human barbarians frequent, right?  So surely they use torches for warmth and for lighting the way in the twilight hours.  Do I see any wrought iron braziers with ready-to-light torches anywhere nearby or maybe earlier in the pass?  Ok, as he is about to chomp the human barbarian, I pull to the furthest reaches of my bow's draw and hone in on the creature's eye.  I know this won't hurt it permanently, but I need to stun it for a second while I get one of those torches.[sblock]Called Shot (Dex) Head5, 6 + 2 = 13✴ 10+: As 7–9, plus your damage✴ 7-9: They do nothing but stand and drool for a few moments.I'm not even going to bother rolling damage...but that shot to the eye should buy me some time.[/sblock]I rush over to the iron wrought brazier and pat Rawr on the rump.  "Get him!"  As Rawr engages the staggered ice-troll I pull my pack off one shoulder and pull a tender-twig out <Marked off 1 AG>.  I grab one of the torches, strike the tender-twig to the bottom of my boot, and set the torch aflame.  I grab an arrow from my quiver and as the frozen fat of the torch melts, I rub it all along the shaft of the arrow, setting it alight <Marked off 1 Ammo>.  I drop the burning torch at my feet and string the flaming arrow, loosing it at the elbow holding the human.[sblock]Called Shot (Dex) Arm6, 4 + 2 = 12✴ 10+: As 7-9, plus your damage✴ 7-9: They drop anything they’re holding.d8 + 1 (+ 3 Rawr).  7 + 4 - 1 = 10 damage.[/sblock]I drop my bow and pick up the torch from the ground in one fell swoop.  As he recklessly rushes toward me, I'm going to attempt to tumble through his legs and sprint away so I can put some distance between us.  I need to get my Healing Potion out and quaff it![sblock]Defy Danger (Dex)6, 2 + 2 = 10[/sblock]He finds himself grasping nothing but air and I'm sprinting off to where he just left.  As I'm running off, I reach into my satchel and grab the stoppered potion.  Flicking the stopper off with my thumb, I down the whole thing.[sblock]10 HP returned[/sblock]I quickly look around at the slopes just above the cliff faces of this pass.  Any potential for avalanche there?[sblock]Discern Realities (Wis)6, 1 + 2 = 91 question and + 1 forward when acting on it.* What here is useful or valuable to me?[/sblock]Alright, I back myself against the wall with the forking routes on my left and my right.  I want him to come in and hopefully one of his stray fists will smash the wall and start an avalanche.  I'm going to Defend.  Can I use that as one of my options for hold? [sblock]Defend (Con) myself2, 4 + 1 = 71 hold to * Have the troll smash the wall in its fury and trigger an avalanche.d10 + 3 damage to me and Forceful.  10 + 3 - 1 = 12 damage.[/sblock]Ouch...My head is a fog and my ears are ringing but I'm smiling.  Rawr grabs me by the shoulder with his maw.  The only thing that could possibly save me is that and my battle-hardened instincts.[sblock]Defy Danger (Dex)2, 5 + 2 - 1 = 8.Success but with a worse outcome, hard bargain, or ugly choice.[/sblock]...I should have let the troll eat this guy.  I cringe mightily as the avalanche smashes down upon my bow.  It was the first bow I crafted.  It wasn't beautiful but it has been with me since before I became a ranger...I get up off my rump, shake the cobwebs from my head.  The only part of the troll unobscured by the snow, boulders and ice is part of its big nasty head with greasy hair.  I move to it and set the hair on fire.[sblock]d8 + 4 damage.  3 + 4 = 7 - 1 = 6.[/sblock]I quick-step back a few paces.  No way am I getting in melee with this thing.  Its lower half is still buried so it can't get to me.  I launch the burning torch at it end over end.[sblock]Volley (Dex)6, 4 + 2 (- 1 awkward) = 11d8 + 4 damage.  5 + 4 - 1 = 8 damage.  Its dead.[/sblock]With heaving breaths and an aching body I look to Rawr as he returns to me.  I'm shaking my head in disgust, anger, and deep, deep sadness.  I've lost Lucky and my trusty bow in under an hour.  To Rawr I simply say "...take him with us" as I point to the unconscious man.  "Lets head back."We'll go back to the entrance of the pass and work on excavating the first avalanche or figuring out how we can get over it to get back to the goblin brothers, Lucky's broken body and that stone structure.  We need to interrogate this guy, salvage for supplies and rest up.SaerieHP 9/21AG 3AM 3DR 26 (I'll keep track of them for everyone but Otthor)XP 9No bow.  Healing Potion gone.</blockquote>

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