Warriors Of The Coast

[DEFCON 1]

Ari, Khalia, Taviss and Jango begin sneaking back away up through the trees, while Skarghash moves back down to get into a good scouting position. The two guards continue to circle the camp, each one looking somewhat bored.

Unfortunately, as the group moves away Ari's spiked armor catches on some of the low bushes and a *snap* *crack* *snap* can be heard as the branches break away. [Ari Move Silent check 1-1=0 *failure*] All four retreating figures stop suddenly, Skarghash immediately checks out the guards, and one of the guards also stops his circling to wait, listen, and peer into the treeline. He takes a few seconds to think about things, looking intently into the woods. The four of you try to remain absolutely still, but you all see the guy quickly spin, wave an arm frantically at his partner, then rush at a full sprint across the camp towards the large tent. His partner sees the signal and rushes towards the large tent as well.

[sblock=Initiative Order: ]

18 Skarghash
15 Jango
12 Khalia
10 Pirates
8 Ari
7 Taviss[/sblock]

 

[Velmont]

"If we stay here, they will be all on us. If we try to flee and go back on the beach, they might send us only part of there force, as they don't know our number and if another group is near... better retreat for now and meet them elsewhere if they follow us." suggets Jango, his wand draw ready to shoot if needed.

 

[stonegod]

Ari curses under his breath, and shakes his head at the young boy. "That'd be madness. Get these two before they have the rest on us!" Hurriedly, he whispers to the others, "Take out the two now---they haven't raised an alarm yet!" Knowing he has little chance to do anything else, and draws a javelin and prepares to hurl it at whoever he can hit.

 

[Velmont]

"And you think we will be able to kill them silently?" ask Jango, before adding a word that realease some magic missiles that fly straight for the farthest pirate, avoiding all the trees in there path.

[SBLOCK=OOC]12 damages, 29 charges left[/SBLOCK]

 

[Ringmereth]

Dropping his quarterstaff--can a'ways get a new one--the wheels around and nods quickly to Ari. "Take 'em down!" he whispers loudly, and raising his longbow and an arrow, the ranger fires at the closer guard.

OOC: I'll use an action point on the attack roll.

 

[drothgery]

If she can get a shot off before both of the pirates are melee, Khalia fires her crossbow at the closest one that's not in melee yet. She will move to get a better shot, if it's useful to do so.

Shouting battlecries would hardly be approriate, so she kept ir'Indari, Thrane, the Silver Flame, and victory! to herself.

 

[Velmont]

[SBLOCK=OOC]Jango target pirate 2 with his magic missile[/SBLOCK]

 

[Brogarn]

Skarg visibly winces as he hears the branches break from up behind him.

Son of a... he silently curses. Well this just got ugly.

Taking a quick look around he thinks Well, nothing for it. Can't do much of anything here.

He arms and loads his hand crossbow, then sneaks off to his left, keeping in the trees.


OOC: I'm going to be moving 3 squares to the right if you're looking at the map. That should take the rest of this round and into next, I believe. Staying in the trees and hidden, I'm looking to get a better angle past the tents facing south.

 

[DEFCON 1]

Once the pirate on the beach makes the motion to his partner that they aren't alone, all hell immediately breaks loose!

Through several years of training to expect the unexpected, Skarghash immediately realizes the jig is up and he springs to his left and loads his hand crossbow in a fluid motion... coming out at a point where he sees the second pirate back along the far set of trees. He raises his crossbow and prepares to fire. [Move action to move / Move action to load crossbow]

Jango hears and sees the half-orc leap up and snake his way through the trees, so the elf doesn't waste any time. He pulls the wand out from his belt, shouts a quick phrase, and three small balls of energy spring out from it's tip. The balls wind their way through the trees, past Skarghash's head, then collide with the second pirate... who gives a quick scream of pain before dropping to the ground dead. [Move action to draw wand / Attack Magic Missile = 12 damage *hit* *killed*]

Khalia moves to her left as well to break through the trees... then fires her crossbow and hoping for the best. Unfortunately the pirate breaks inland just as her bolt flies by and it goes wide. [Move action to move / Attack crossbow: AC 12 / 6+3=9 *miss*]

The pirate ducks out of the way of the flying crossbow bolt and sees his partner drop like a bag of rocks. He immediately starts running across the camp and shouting for assistance. "Intruders! Intruders! All hands on deck! Intruders!" He is able to rush around the firepit and get onto the path heading straight for the large tent. [Double move action]

Ari pulls one of the magic javelins out from the quiver on his back, hoists it to throw, and takes a step to his left for a better angle. However, when he sees how far away the pirate is [three range increments -4 to hit], plus the amount of trees he would have to thread for the javelin to get there [+4 AC for cover], he knows this would be a longshot. He needs to decide whether to take the shot or keep moving forward instead. [OOC: I will change the 5' step to a Move action if you choose not to throw the javelin now that you see the difficulty of the shot.]

With the his longbow in hand and a much better ranged fighter than Ari is... Taviss has no problem moving through the trees to better his angle and then let his arrow fly as the pirate comes into view past the tents. Even with the trees cutting down on the sight lines and providing a small amount of cover for the pirate [+4 AC for cover] the arrow flies right over Skarghash's head and impacts the pirate right in the arm, causing the pirate to yell out in agony! [Move action to move / Attack longbow: AC 16 (cover) / 18+6=24 *hit* / 3 dam]

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OOC: Once stonegod decides whether or not he wants to try to make the javelin throw, I'll write up whether the arrow shot of Ringmereth's drops the pirate or not. The other three of you can prepare your second round actions.

 

[Velmont]

"Now the alarm is raised..." tells Jango to Ari after the pirates have shout.

[SBLOCK=OOC]Can't Ari draw his javelin while he do a single move action? With that, he could move. He could easily move to the small dark yellow star north of Skarg. From there, I think his range increament would have been reduce by 1 (and thus only -2 to attack), and teh cover might be less.[/SBLOCK]