The Romance of the River Kingdoms

[Neurotic]

Mystal moves to Three Flowers side, his stance changing to always moving, swaying step that constantly implies he's about to slip behind the opponent, his dark clotches and belowing cloak enhanced by the power of shadows strengthening the illusion.

He steps, his rapier darting from his chest up, straight along the line his eyes are focused on, looking at weak spot in targets defenses.

[sblock=Actions]
Swift: change stance to island of blades. As long as he's adjacent to an ally, any opponent adjacent to either is considered flanked

Move: 5' step, focused attack (Concentration +8)
Attack: att +10 (flanking); damage 1d4 -1 piercing; 18-20/x2
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[Dr Simon]

Mystal moves up beside Three Flowers, but even as he does so the young paladin skewers his opponent with one elegant thrust of White Lotus. The thug drops to the cracked flagstones of Shading Willow Court. The leader is about to utter some insult or threat when he is knocked from his feet by a flash of orange and black that appears from his left; Shakou's tiger form fairly ripping the man to pieces.

Seeing this, the remaining thugs falter. Those nearest their lair carefully retreat inside, the one left standing in the courtyard runs as fast as he can. Only the man left between Annika and Growling Ape stands his ground, his maniacal gaze so fixed on hurting the two before him he hasn't noticed the rout of his colleagues.

[sblock=OOC]
Three Flowers: scimitar attack on #2, 19+5=24, confirm 20+5=25, critical hit. 2d6+4=9 damage. Drops thug #2

Mystal: If he does a 5 ft. step then there is no-one in range. He can move so as to be adjacent to #1, but cannot then perform focussed strike. In case you should want to do this, I rolled anyway but got a 1!

Shakou: pounce attack on #1. Bite 5+7=12, hit for 1d6+3=5 damage. Claw #1 1+2=3, miss. Claw#2 9+2=11, miss. Rake #1 12+2=14, hit for 1d3+1=4 damage. Rake #2 20+2=22, confirm 17+2=19, critical hit for 2d3+2=4 damage. (13 in total). Drops thug #1.

Initiative order:

Annika
Remaining thugs
Growling Ape
Three Flowers
Mystal
Shakou
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[Neurotic]

OOC: Nah, I'll recover Fire Reposte and then the rest of maneuvers unless there is some extra attack...and you can keep one for my next attack

 

[Theroc]

Like an orange and black tornado, Shakou shreded the thug leader, leaving him alive and... mostly intact, though some of his entrails and much of his blood was on the stone. As quickly as she struck, she turned to strike again... this time at unsuspecting prey.

[sblock=Actions]
Pounce the remaining thug, following by a full attack, flanking with Annika, which makes all of Shakou's pounce sneak attacks[/sblock]

 

[Shayuri]

(OOC...man, it sucks burning through all your magic missiles when you haven't got any weapons... )

Annika steps back from the thug before her, and releases another pair of ghost-like flaming feathers towards him!

(2d4+2 damage.)

 

[Dr Simon]

The fiery feathers knock the man off his feet. Four men from the paper lantern gang lie dead or dying in the middle of Shading Willow Court, one of them the leader. The remaining five have retreated to an ornate five storey building on the far side of the court, next to Iridescent Hummingbird Street, although two linger at the large wooden door, watching.

There is a cackle of harsh laughter from behind, and the old lady storeholder hobbles over with her walking staff.

"Good!" she shrieks. "Kill them! Kill them all! Good-for-nothing scum. Murderers deserve death!" She jabs at the body of one of the men with the end of her staff and spits. "Not so brave now, are you?" she asks the corpse.

 

[Blackrat]

Three Flowers grimaces as he kneels down to check the leader's condition. Unnecessary fight, but I think it got the problem solved.

 

[Neurotic]

"Here you go, missus, you can finish it." Mystal offers his dagger to old lady and points toward fallen thugs.

 

[Walking Dad]

AC 15 (T15, FF13), HP 39/39, F +5,R+3,W+6 (Spells: 0:5/5, 1:3/4, 2:3/3)
Ape Form (AC: 17, Touch: 17, Flat Footed: 13)

"What do you do there? Have not already enough died? Will change his death now anything!" Ape shouts at Mystal, clearly remembering himself killing the other man. And his feelings thereafter.

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Spells (CL: 3, DC: 13+spell level)
5/Day Level 0: Cure Minor Wounds, Detect Magic, Light, Purify Food and Drink, Read Magic
4/Day Level 1: Produce Lightning, Shillelagh, Summon Nature's Ally I.
3/Day Level 2: Summon Nature's Ally II

Baboon Traits:
AC: 17, Touch: 17, Flat Footed: 13
Fort: +6
Refl: +5
Will: +6
Move: 40', cimb 40'
Init: +4
Listen/Spot: +9
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[Neurotic]

"Offering her chance to make her revenge. You should wait until she accepts and then shout at her, I'm will not kill them without groups approval.

As for your second question, the answer is yes, enough died, so these deserve their hell. His death will make others think on their path and even if it does not, you'll prevent whatever crimes this one would do for the rest of his life."