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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mathew_Freeman" data-source="post: 4505990" data-attributes="member: 1846">The Battle With Irontooth"So now what?" asked Rangrim, cleaning the head of the Kaius Thunderhammer with a small cloth. He held it up against the sun for a moment, checking for kobold remnants.Aran looked over at the waterfall. "Well," he started. "I can see a cave entrance behind the waterfall - and two more caves, one either side.""Ah! Attacking on multiple fronts. Always a good plan," added Elwanen. "I suggest we attack from the left-hand cave. We can sweep in, hold a good position and let them come to us.""I've got an even better plan!" piped up Aran again, still scanning the hillside in front of them. "See there, and there," his finger jabbed at the various entrances. "I reckon if I went in through the main entrance, I could cause a diversion and let you lot get a bit of an advantage!""You're on!" cried Theron. "Let's do it - enough talk, time for action!"Aran swiftly started to move forwards to the main entrance, straining to see if he could spot anything going on inside. The rest of the group went left, moving quietly through the trees and ready for an ambush. A quick glance between Aran & Theron, and the attack was on!Pouring in through the entrance, the party (supported by Des acting as rear-guard) fell upon three kobolds. Two were quickly eliminated but the third proved to be of stronger stuff, ducking around the thrust of Elwanen's attack and shouting for aid.Aran was shocked to find 10 kobolds waiting for him as he burst through the waterfall, and he quickly abandoned the 'diversion' plan and join the main group through a side opening, chased by fearsome kobolds who quickly started to attack the party from both sides. "Tactically," Elwanen called out as he dodged and spun between kobold spear thrusts, "This is not the best plan we've ever had.""I've only known you a few weeks!" called back Rangrim as a enthusiastic kobold was sent flying across the cavern to crash into the fall wall. "I'm sure we'll improve in time!"Theron again showed remarkable bravery, moving in close to use his Thunderwave spell to his best advantage and blast kobolds back agains the walls of the cave. The small humanoids were falling back when a loud horn sounded further into the cave system.The horn marked the arrival of Irontooth - a fearsome goblin who was clearly the leader of the marauders. His face was covered in a skeletal ram's head tatoo, and he clutched a battleaxe in both hands, his mouth pulled back in a snarl. Charging into Rangrim and Elwanen, he struck quickly, his axe biting into the fine Eladrin armour of his opponent. Grunting in pain, Elwanen quickly shifted his focus and began to duel him. Expecting to find a slow moving brute, he instead found this goblin to be an adept and powerful foe.Joining the goblin from the south were two more of the ever-present Dragonshields flanking a kobold priest wearing another one of the dragon-masks. The priest stepped out of the shadows and, with an overarm throw, hurled a ball of fire at Rangrim. At the same time, he was also charged by the Dragonshields and overcome by the sheer numbers of foes pressing upon him, the proud Dwarf was sent crashing, bleeding, to the floor[1].Des finally stepped forwards and cast a healing prayer, restoring Rangrim to consciousness. As Theron continued his magical assault on the kobolds still surrounding them, continuing to send small bodies flying, Aran ran through to tackle the kobold priest, Elwanen and Rangrim (taking a second to catch his breath) started to duel the mean-faced goblin. Their weapons, and the conviction of their holy purpose, began to bite into him, blood pooling on the floor.Aran engaged the priest directly, and at close quarters the expertise of the halfling overcame the priests power, Aran's blade finding his throat. Immediately, he turned back towards the others, in time to see Irontooth launch into a frenzied series of attacks against his foes! "My Lord Orcus will take your souls when I cleave them from your bodies!" yelled the goblin. However, the luck of the gods was truly on the side of the Paladin pair, and they blocked, ducked and avoided every strike.[2]As the other kobolds fell to spell, sword and prayer, it became clear to Irontooth that the battle was lost. Entering a battle frenzy, he strove to bring his opponents down, but with a final strike his guts spilled across the floor as he was defeated.Catching their breath and checking around them for signs of any further foes, Rangrim offered this thought. "Teamwork is something we still need to be working on."[1] First time any character in the campaign had gone under 0hp![2] Irontooth blew his action point on this attack. He was able to use a power to attack both, with +1d10 damage if he hit as he was blooded. Despite this, my usually lucky dice came up with a series of sub-par rolls, and not one attack hit. This absolutely changed the battle - he could easily have downed both Paladin's if he'd done better!Next update: The treasure is located, identified and split!</blockquote>

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