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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Insight" data-source="post: 2323599" data-attributes="member: 11437">RalanRalan | With the House Myrrkal Caravan, Abils Fields, LurienIt is a mass of humans, half-orcs, elves, dwarves, and other assorted warriors on both sides, waves of attacks coming from both sides of the conflict.   Bandits issue forth from the tall grasses of Abils Fields.  Their crossbows and shortbows strike home, but in many cases, merely strike the wagons themselves.  The close combat oriented bandits charge in on foot, swords and axes ready for the clash of arms they knew was to come.  Guardians of the caravan, caught slightly off-guard, but yet still able to mount a counterattack against the bandits, are able to hold their own - for now.  Wheeling around to react, crossbowmen load their implements to strike their counterparts across the field of battle, while pikemen and other guards ready for the charging bandits on foot.It quickly becomes obvious to Ralan that he is not going to have much impact on the outcome of this battle, but he tries valiantly to aid his employer in any way possible.  Venang and Avrick do not stray far from Ralan, staying close and readying weapons.  Out of the corner of his eye, Ralan thinks he sees Talia disappear into a ravine that forms a half-circle around the field of battle."These bandits," Venang remarks, "They seem to come from everywhere.  But we can handle them."  With this last statement, the pikeman issues a smile, and regrips his pike.Avrick looks around.  "We have yet to take major casualties," the merchant's aide points out.  "Let's see how valiant you are when half the guards are dead.  You may not have noticed, my friend, but we are outnumbered."The awaited clash of bandits and guards takes place, with much noise and violence.  A few Hobgoblins, bearing a strange symbol on their shields, approach Ralan and his two allies, but the Hobgoblin spearmen do not prove to be the equal of Ralan, Venang, and Avrick.OOC:  Here's what happened in a nutshell.  Three Hobgoblins armed with shortspears, wearing studded leather.  Avrick armed with a longsword, Venang with a warpike, and Ralan with his morningstar.  Our heroes win initiative, and get into position.  Venang is first, and get attacks the middle Hob with his warpike, taking out the Hob.  Because he has a reach weapon, he also threatens the other Hobs.  Ralan is next, and since the Hobs are flat footed, Ralan manages to flank a Hob and gets sneak attack, hits, and kills the Hob.  Avrick handles the other Hob with some sort of fire spell."See, that wasn't too difficult," Venang says, wiping some Hobgoblin blood from his armor.Avrick stoops to take a look at one of the fallen Hobgoblins.  "This symbol," he says.  "Interesting."</blockquote>

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