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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 2702246" data-attributes="member: 4441">Harolk takes a grip on one of his swords, the blade glittering in the dim light.  He sets his feet as firmly as he can in the uneven ground and waits for the first ragged enemy to come within reach of his steel.  Arimat takes advantage of an otherwise bad situation and slips into the shadows to hide.  He simply seems to disappear into thin air...The ravers come leaping closer, some howling as they slip on the stones.  However, two manage to leap clearly into the light.  One makes a prodigious leap from one hunk of rock to another, right above where Arimat was a minute before.  In the lantern light the ravers present themselves as a horrid combination between plague victims and dying soldiers.  Thin men and women, their bodies wrapped up in rags stained with blood, old wounds showing throw tears in their clothes.  They clutch pieces of shattered beams, chunks of rock, shards of metal with one end wrapped in cloth as cruth, makeshift weapons.  Their eyes, however, are possibly their most terrible feature, huge and glassy, staring through you as if they are fighting something not of this world.  Harolk readies his sword as one of them leaps into the light, making a mighty, two-handed chop at the raver on the rock.  It bites hard, and fresh blood begins to show on the raver's side.  He screams loudly as he lands on the rocks next to Harolk, a chunk of rock in his fist and death in his eyes.  From behind Harolk, Hxaptös clutches a twisted holy symbol secreted on his person, his other hand curved into a claw.  "Dukaos!" he snarls, raking his hand through the air.  A half-seen shimmer of shadow spreads through the area, and renewed shrieks are heard from the unseen ravers.  The one in front of Harolk begins to make a high-pitched mewling noise, like a frightened kitten. You see the creatures before you?  They have looked into Xoriat, and come out with amazing secrets.  Yet their minds cannot comprehend them, and so they are little better than animals.  One must have a trained will to understand the secrets, lest your mind be crushed under their weight.  Take one alive, listen to his words, and you may yet gain insight into the place of my creation, the Voice whispers into Hxaptös' head.Rayni steps carefully through the wreckage, but almost slips when she tries to climb up the rock.  Taking advantage of what she can, she pops her head and hand out of the other side of the rock, using it as a sheild, and stabs her hand forward.  With a sharp word, a dart of purple light flies from her finger and strikes the other raver to Harolk's left.  She hears a faint crack as it impacts in the raver's side, and he gives a faint shriek.  Mel sights over her arrow on the one Rayni just hit.  It's just outside the light from the fire-gout and lanterns, but by squinting and taking some care, she catches the glint of eyes and pinpoints the raver's position.  Letting the arrow fly, she hears another faint yelp from the wounded raver.  Bail steps backward carefully, putting himself between Mel and the ravers, his spear at the ready, glinting in the firelight...OOC - Harolk readies an action.  Arimat hides.  The ravers move up, some slipping, one moving up near Harolk, one getting within ten feet of him, Arimat, and Bail.  Harolk's readied action goes off, and he hits the jumping raver with a 20, doing 12 points of damage.  Hxaptös casts bane, catching all the ravers, and affecting several.  Rayni makes her Balance check to move across the ground, but fails her Climb check by one.  She pops around the rock and makes her attack on the raver with a touch attack of 14, doing 4 points of damage.  Mel hits with her shortbow on an 18, doing 3 points of damage to the one on Halrock's right.  Bail steps backwards and readies an action to attack.Initiative:Harolk - 17Arimat - 12Ravers - 11Hxaptös - 10Rayni - 8Mel - 7Bail - 4Would you guys like me to do several rounds at a time to make up for my slower posting schedule?  If so, post some general tactics or multi-round actions for me to work with.</blockquote>

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