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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orichin" data-source="post: 1861409" data-attributes="member: 25226">Hanjia:The world bobbed up and down with Hanjia's breathing.  Though she was clearly winded, the ire in her eyes and 2 feet of blood coating her spear made the trolloc second guess his choice to attack rather than run.  The trolloc made a sound that might have passed for a whimper among 10-foot tall, 400 pound monsters.  To Hanjia it came across as an ominous growl.The second horn answered the first again in the distance, but the sounds seemed to be getting closer.Tearing the wickedly spiked axe from the earth with a great divot of leaves and dirt, the trolloc swung again and roared with rage as the maiden dodged another of his clumsy attacks.OOC: nice rolling so far.  last trolloc swings and misses.  A check was made with results withheld.Al'Shain:  "Half a bloody fist."  Al'Shain muttered to himself as he knocked another arrow.  "And only 23 arrows left.  And who knows how many are blowing those light-forsaken horns." The driver spotted the trollocs as the carriage was rounding a bend a few miles back, they had been camped for the day, not far from the seldom-used road.  Having never seen trollocs before, the driver stopped the carriage on the top of a hill to look at the valley between hillls that was blackened by the shadowspawn's camp.  Al'Shain had commanded in no uncertain terms that the driver was to make top speed away from the camp.  It was too late, though, the trollocs were already stirring by the time the carriage began rolling away.There had been a Myrddraal, too.  That's what had spooked the horses so.  Generally a team of horses has the training to follow the whip in spite of trollocs, but the Look of The Eyeless is fear, and it's said that a Fade can scare any normal animal to death.  Where the Eyeless One had gone Al'Shain couldn't see.  It had galloped off into the woods to the east after harrying the carriage long enough for the trollocs to start catching up.Al'Shain felt the carriage shudder as it finally left the grass and underbrush and met the hard clay of the road.  Loosing another arrow into the charging mass of trollocs, Al'Shain silently cused the driver's ignorance, and fate in general for this cruel twist.Pulling the second from the last arrow from his first of two quivers, Al'Shain watched his arrow glance off the next nearest trolloc's metal pauldron and skitter along the road harmlessly.  The man with the crossbow had an easier time with the trolloc's armor, as evident by a quarrel punching through the center of one beast's chestplate and felling the horrid creature.  OOC:  Waited a while to post, if you've put up a reply by the time I finish writing the entry I'll go back and edit this..combat:  Since it's pretty much the only thing to do until the trollocs close in a bit, I'm assuming you fire another arrow.  An attack roll of 4+7 missed, the npc with the crossbow hit and killed another trolloc, currently none are injured and there are only 2 in the front rank closest to the carriage, whom will advance to within 5 feet of the back of the carriage next round.Audrey:Still unable to reflexively channel, Audrey had to put her mind to it.  Focusing on the energy surging within her, Audrey was rudely awakened as her concentration is rocked.  Closing her eyes always helped in the classroom, but Audrey decided she'd never try that again, wondering if she chipped a tooth.Audrey became a riverbank in her mind.  Moldable, not rigid; but able to alter the flow of Saidar like the riverbank channels water.  Coerceing threads of Air to weave themselves into a complex pattern of Water and Spirit about her attacker's body.  The riverbank shifted.  The river shifted with it.  A sickening tearing sound issued forth from the man's gut as he stumbled with pain.  Taking her chance, Audrey sidestepped to her left.  Her assailant let her go for the moment, having forgotten both her and the piece of wood that he absently clung to as he clutched his abdomen.Teeth bared and eyes suddenly bloodshot, the gray man glared up at Audrey from halfway across the room, and dashed off toward the direction of the other entrance, quickly disappearing behind a bookshelf.combat:  The gray man made the attack of opportunity as Audrey casts rend, dealing 5 more points of damage.  Audrey's concentration check passed with flying colors though, and his fortitude save did not.  The gray man withdraws for the moment, leaving Audrey's line of sight, though a listen check reveals that he did not go far, his footsteps grew softer and slower after passing perhaps 2 aisles.</blockquote>

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