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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yttermayn" data-source="post: 5964110" data-attributes="member: 31390">OOC: Ahhh, sometimes when everybody pre-rolls I miss one.  I'll use that roll, it was a good'un.  At least Roderic probably won't be the only one of you up there taking hits when they all go at init. 3.  Also, it's only the front ranks that can do melee with him.  'Course, the rear ranks are ranged...  Very well, into the sausage grinder!With an awe inspiring battle yell, Roderic charges up the slope towards the solid wall of enemy shields.  He dosn't know it, but besides the favor of his God, he also gains the favor of the brutal laws of physics, mass, and momentum.  Leading with his blade, he crashes into the elite kobolds wall with a deafening impact.  Shards of wooden shield hit the ground and slide down the slope towards the rest of the party, and Roderic finds himself before a badly injured kobold and his battle-buddies.Rosalia lets fly an arrow into the crowd, but it hits something hard obliquely and ricochets off harmlessly.  Scrag follows close behind Roderic, but he has difficulty getting his axe blade through or around the large shield presented to him.  Grok hangs back, keeping an eye on the battle and readying to aid anyone who is injured.  Tuk follows up behind Roderic and Scrag.  He then starts an unexpectedly brilliant and unorthodox move.  Staying as low and as far to the left as the tunnel allows, he swings his chain whip with his right hand in a 45 degree arc- over Roderic's head and down toward the edge of the leftmost kobold's shield.  The weighted head, however, extends past the edge by a foot or so.  When the chain hits the shield edge, the fulcrum of it's arc is suddenly shortened and the whip's head comes crashing into the back of the shield bearer's head!  Once again, the barest curl of a lip slips across Tuk's face when a spray of red suddenly decorates the second rank's shields.OOC: Whew!  John is up!Roderic 20 (rnd1 Charged, hit for 5, broke shield wall)Rosalia 15 (rnd1 Shot, missed)Scrag 13 (rnd1 Moved, missed)Grok 10 (rnd1 Held Action)Tuk 7 (rnd1 Moved, hit for 9)John (Held action)Kobolds (11 Held actions)Elite Kobold Dead</blockquote>

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