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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reddist" data-source="post: 2298941" data-attributes="member: 5212">Battlecries and warning shouts erupt as your party collides with Kolchak and his men.  Kolchak is a massive man with a shaved head, wearing a leather harness with flat-bladed knives and axes affixed to it.  His clean-shaven face and chest are covered with stylistic runes in black grease paint, making him look like a towering, roaring totem pole.  The whites of his eyes and his sharp teeth glare back at you in your torch light, outlined in the dark paint.  Mango is also easy to spot; a tall, lanky elf with a bright shock of orange hair.  He too wears a harness over a loose fitting dark tunic, but where Kolchak’s is covered in throwing weapons, Mango’s is laden with small round spheres or pots.  He snatches two of these off their ties when the battle begins, while Kolchak pulls a small axe in one hand and a heavy shortsword with a wide blade in the other.  The other two figures could almost be twins, dressed in black leather and armed with hand cross-bows and short curving blades.  They both wear hooded masks that leave only their eyes visible, and have matching sashes around their wastes, though one is red and the other blue.Kragor leaps at Kolchak, landing a swift side kick in his chest and following with a rapid punch, though his swing goes wide as Kolchak doubles over from the heavy blow to his sternum.  Jaleph takes a step back as his hand dips into the component pouches on his belt, mutters a short incantation and sends a bright green globule of arcane acid streaking at Kolchak, which splashes on his thigh.  The masked thug in blue aims his hand-cross bow at Kragor and fires, but the bolt flies high and ricochets down the tunnel. Bran lunges at Red, but the thug nimbly steps to the side, and he dodges Marisa’s wild swing as well.Kolchak rises smoothly, roaring as he drops his throwing axe to splash in the stream and brings up both hands to smash his heavy shortsword down onto Kragor.  His chop bites deep into the dwarf’s shoulder and blood splashes as Kolchak rips the blade from the wounded dwarf. (Crit! -11hp!)  Red swings his curved blade at Bran, who neatly turns it aside at the last moment, throwing it off with is rapier.  Mango drops back at bit from the melee and throws one of his ceramic spheres high, smashing it against the wall near Bran and Marisa. Fire splashes out as the clay pot shatters, covering Bran and Marisa with droplets of burning goo (-1 hp to each).  Flaming plasma drips down the side of the wall, casting harsh, flickering shadows as the combat rages on. <<<The order: Kragor, Jaleph, Blue, Bran, Marisa, Kolchak, Red, Mango.  Jaleph and Kragor are adjacent to Kolchak, Bran and Marisa are adjacent to Red.  Blue and Mango are behind the front line, reading their ranged weapons for the second round.>>></blockquote>

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