The Return (The Heros of Mergovie)

[Manzanita]

Solomon's calm is disrupted. He had imagined a solo battle against the orc leader, one in which he could use his speed, steath and archery to his advantage. Clearly this was not to take place. In fact, he was no longer in control. The battle had erupted, filling the small room with its whirling chaos. The opportunity to strategize was gone. Now was only the time to kill or be killed. To hit harder, and live longer.

OOC: Solomon slips into rage on his initiative. He hopes that Jraq or someone will have taken down the injured orc attacking him by then. If not, he'll strike at that wounded orc. If it is down, he'll attempt to move North, fighting his way towards the orc leader. He'll try to fight the orcs, to take advantage of his favored enemy bonus, leaving the ogre to the others. With rage, str 21, +1 dwarven waraxe: +10 1d10 +10. AC 14 If he somehow were to reach the orc leader, he'd use full power attack, changing his attack roll to: +6 1d10 +18

 

[Ferrix]

Dai flurries with his two kama, hoping to take the orc in front of him down so that Solomon can proceed to where he needs to go.

OOC: Flurry +6/+6 magical kama (1d6+3)

 

[Kangaxx]

Jasper Conrad

Jasper cowers behind the bed as he watches the ogre smash its way into the room. Sounds like there's more coming. This can only get worse, I hope my friends are better at fighting than I am. I've got to stop that thing, it's massive! With another arcane gesture, Jasper conjures a pair of magical projectiles and sends the flying at the ogre. Then he waves his flaming sphere into it as he steps away from the melee.

OOC: Deciding the ogre is scarier than arrows, Jasper takes a 5' step away from it into the back of the room. He'll then cast magic missile on it (2d4+2) and roll his flaming sphere into it. (reflex save DC 16 or take 2d6 damage)

 

[DarkMaster]

Dai engages the injured orc barely standing on the bed. He can see joy in his eyes as he struck Solomon. But his celebration is quickly ended by Dai attack. Dai can feel that the orc has a lot of difficulty to deal with the fast moving monk. (roll 12+6, 1+6;dmg 2+3) (Orc balance 5 DC15) The Kama's are flying all over the place. Ripping his opponent flesh in many places but none of his attack seriously injure his opponent. But the orc overwhelmed by the monk's attack is unable to stay up on the bed and is forced to step down. Dai notices the hate, violence and frustration as he steps down.

Jasper invokes two dart of energy and aims them at the large Ogre. The two darts leave his hand simultanously and hits the large warrior in the chest. (roll 4+roll 1+2) the ogre barely moves on the impact almost as if the two dart of energy simply bounced off him. Has his hand commands the ball of fire, he steps a few feets back.
The rolling ball of Fire (save 14) strike the ogre in the legs. He saw the ball too late, he steps back as his boots and pants are burning (dmg 6+4). The ogre seems visibely annoyed by the wizard.

Another Orc erupt in the room from the back door. Already raging he charges towards Solomon to protect his leader.

Oculus still covered by Trolm steps back and starts moving his hand around, in a quick final movement he points his finger at the Ogre a black ray of energy erupts from his finger and (roll 17+4;dmg 2+1) hits the Ogre in the head. The ogre lowers his shoulder and seems disturbed by the ray he just received.

Jraq picks another arrow and aims at the injured Orc that just steped down. (roll 8) The arrow hits the raging orc but doesn't go through his armor. He quickly take a second arrow, cursing his bad luck and fires again (roll 14 ;dmg 6) This time the arrow hits his mark. The orc falls on the ground as the arrow pierces his lower trunk.

Solomon's opponent felt but a second one is now between him and his targets. (jump 11+6) Solomon leaps over the bed to meet the orc on the other side. As he his still in the air he swing his sword over his head and strikes incoming orc. (roll 7+10; dmg 6+10) before he even touch the ground his sword his cruching his opponent helmet and skulls. Blood splashes all around as he touch the ground and remove the blade from his opponent's head. The orc inanimate body falls immediatly on the ground. Solomon tries to continue unsuccesfully his progression towards the Orc leader.

The other orc fighting Dai tries to leap over the barricade to engage Dai. (jump 19) He leaps in the air and land near Dai who just pushed back the other Orc. (roll 19: dmg 1+1+4) Dai crouch at the last second as the orc curved blade swoosh over his head.

Another Orc gets out of the nearby room and charges on the open Solomon putting himself between him and his leader. (roll 12) Solomon whose sword is still in his opponent's head a few feets behind bring it back in front of him at the last second and in a very fluid move execute a beautifull parade. As his blade hits Solomon's blade the orc stay's surprised for about a second by the quickness of the barbarian.

Mok-Mok surges above the bed (jump 30) he falls besides Dai and his fellow orc. Dai already crouched from the Orc attack (attack 31;dmg 18) is unable to react quickly enough as the massive axe hits him in the shoulder almost cutting his arm off. Dai's inanimate body rolls back a few feets behind. The ogre his boot and pants still burning from Jasper spell not even pay attention to the monk and heads towards the two wizards.

The orc seeing how succesfull was the ogre tries to press the offensive on Trolm hoping to squeeze the two wizards in the corner. (roll 14) But Trolm stays calm and easily repel the orc offensive.

-----[]------
|....L....OS..O.|
{.......BOMM.T|
{......BMM..Oc|
-------[J-]---
............Jr
L Orc Leader
M Mok-Mok the Ogre
B for Bed I assume the bed is in angle to cover Jasper from both doors.
{} and [] are doors the left and main door are 10ft wide.

Initiative
Trolm 21
Orc Leader 21 (9dmg)
Dai 13+3
Jasper 15+1
Orc4 14
Oculus 9+6
Jraq 12
Solomon 9+2 (25hp)
Orc3 6
Mok-Mok 5 (17dmg;-3str)
Orc2 5

Trolm seeing that the group is about to get flanked yells "Jraq, get your ass over here quick!!!" Has he is fighting the orc he turns towards the wizards,"Move out of here, fast"

Trolm continues to engage the orc in melee, Trolm is visibely stronger but pressed in time he needs to kill his opponent as quickly as he can if he wants to have a chance to cover the wizards. (roll 23;dmg 10) Trolm using everything he got continues to shower attacks at the orc. Weakening at each attack the orc can't do anything against the soldier three last attack. the first one striking his left arm. unable to hold his falchion Trolm strikes him again in the leg to finally trust his sword thrue his helpless opponent's sternum. The orc falls on the ground emitting a low growl.

The Orc leader seeign Solomon approaches fires one last arrow (14-8) but he is unable to find his mark as the orc is providing cover to Solomon. Laughing he drops his bow and grabs his greataxe. He looks at Solomon with a defying a look and flexes his muscle as he prepares himself to kill him. In a low and slow voice he adds "Prepare to die"

Dai unconscious is slowly bleeding to death (I am not saying if he stabilise or not so for now he is at -5)

 

[Kangaxx]

Jasper Conrad

Near a state of blind panic, Jasper pulls a scroll from his belt and nervously tries to read it which avoiding the ogres flailing axe.

OOC: Jasper pulls out and attempts to defensively activate his scroll of lightning bolt. Concentrate +9 vs DC 18. (I think, I don't have the books handy.) If it works he'll line up the bolt to hit the ogre and the 2 orcs behind it. Afterwards he takes a 5' step away from the ogre.

 

[DarkMaster]

OOC Couldn't wait for Solomon to see the results of that action

(roll concentration 16+9) Jasper reads the scroll title and his hands gets energized with electricity (Intelligence 11+4 DC10,DC15) Jasper nervous quickly but carefully calculate his trajectory while dodging as much as he can the savage attacks of the ogre. For a fraction of a second a powerfull arc of electricity gets out of Jasper hand.

(reflex Ogre, Orc nearby, Orc in front of Solomon save 23, 13, 11 dmg 22) The Ogre moves out of the way but is still slightly shocked as the arc strike his large arm. The two orcs behind him drop their weapons on the ground. While they seem death their smoking body continues to tremble for a few seconds before crashing on the ground.

Solomon notices that the large orc behind is surprised by what just happened. A fraction of second that could give Solomon the advantage in their duel.

The ogre rises his large body again, looking at Jasper. if he wasn't sure before, Jasper is now certain that is the next on the Ogre lists.

 

[silentspace]

Oculus, through the chaos of the melee around him, hears Trolm's yell. Nodding, he moves as best he can back through the door.

ooc: Oculus will try to move back out of the room, trying to avoid aoos if possible. If he can, he will cast an acid arrow at the ogre. If none of this is possible, he will pull out his scroll of shield and cast it on himself.

 

[Ferrix]

Dai bleeds a bit more onto the ground.

 

[Manzanita]

Solomon Kreel

The chaotic battle could confuse even an experienced soldier. But Solomon is undaunted. Ogres, lighten bolts, rolling balls of fire, jumping over beds, flying arrows. None of it really registers. For Solomon, his focus has always been on the yellow-capped leader. Finally, no opponents block his progress. The time for battle is come.

OOC: Sorry - been a bit slow on the posting this weekend. Anyway. Wow, what a battle. I wonder if you'd be interested in letting us make our own rolls, Darkmaster. We could hyperlink them from Invisible Castle or whereever. I get so into Solomon; rolling his dice would be nice at times. I won't this time though. It looks like the leader is at least 10 feet away, which would allow Solomon to charge. With a charge and full power attack, Solomon's attack roll is +8 1d10+18. (Critical 20/x3 )Unfortunately, this leaves his AC at a miserable 12. He's using the magic dwarven waraxe, you know. He's left his greatsword behind. Nice job with the lightening bolt, Jasper. We're hardly out of the woods on this one, though.

 

[DarkMaster]

Jraq aims at ogre and fires one last arrow. (roll 26;dmg 3) The Arrow barely scratch the skin of his leg. Jraq drop his bow and grabs with his left hand the still shaking young wizards out of the doorstep. With his right hand he unsheats his longsword and places himself in front of Jasper to cover him.

Solomon can see the fear in his opponent eyes as he charges on him with everything he gots (roll 19+8;8+18). The Orc seeing the blade heads towards his massive torso steps back to dodge it. Solomon can feel his axe rip his flesh and muscles. But the orc steps forwards again to re-engage Solomon. The yellow feathered orc is obviously by far the most talented and dangerous warrior he ever fought.

The large Ogre furious by Jraq action turns his attack on the Mergovian Soldier. "He is mine, get out of the way miserable human" The Ogre press his attack on Jraq. (roll 20!;confirm 20; dmg 21x3 Damn another good NPC that bites the dust, I have to be carefull with those heavy dmg creature). Jraq tries to do his best to dodge the massive axe, about three times he his able to move quickly enough to prevent the axe from touching him. But on his last dodge he trip on the ground. The Ogre who also seems a proficient fighter doens't hesitate a second. His blade cuts his neck. Jraq heads roll about a feet from Jasper out of the room. The Ogre doesn't even blink as blood starts to spill all over, pressing on the young annoying wizard.

-----[]------
|....LS........|
{.......BMM..|
{......B.MMTOc|
-------[--]---
...........J
L Orc Leader
M Mok-Mok the Ogre
B for Bed I assume the bed is in angle to cover Jasper from both doors.
{} and [] are doors the left and main door are 10ft wide.

Initiative
Trolm 21
Orc Leader 21 (35dmg)
Dai 13+3 (uncouncious -5)
Jasper 15+1
Oculus 9+6
Jraq 12 (dead)
Solomon 9+2 (20(12hp after Rage) I forgot to update them last round)
Mok-Mok 5 (20dmg;-3str)

Trolm let go a cry of despair and pain as his compagnion head rolls on the ground. The Ogre too focused on the Jasper didn't bother about keeping the Trolm within reach. Trolm staying calm and making sure to cover Oculus attacks the Ogre. Anyone who could see his eyes would read pure vengance in the warrior eyes. (roll 16;dmg 6)"AAAAARRRRGG" The soldier launches a series of attack. The Ogre not fully concentrated on him repels most of them. Trolm effort only resulted in minor injury here and there.

The bleeding large orc looks at his options, not many the raging half orc is blocking the door. At Solomon's surprise the Orc steps back towards the large double door. Covering himself as much as he can from Solomon's attack. Once he reaches it he tries to close the large metalic door behind him.

Jasper flaming sphere is still burning behind the bed