The commander says, "What the Hell?! You aren't the military! Guards!" He swings his greataxe at the bunch and misses, then steps back one, but didn't get far enough to sate Greenbeard's power! He gets struck by lightning. "HEY!"

The guards use their halberds to strike at Merric and Julia and hit both! Merric gets hurt badly again.

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Half-Orc attack crit fail. Guards attack Merric and Julia. Hit(20)! Hit(21)!
 dmg to Merric: 13
 dmg to Julia: 7

Half-Orc HP: 24 - 4 = 20

Merric HP: 28 - 13 = 15
Julia HP: 16 - 7 = 9

Greenbeards four limbs and head separate and turn into five adorable green wolf cubs!  They howl a cute wolfy chorus together as the torso mass turns into a huge swarm of green butterflies!  Deadly butterflies!  They swarm the enemy as the wolves bound forward and begin to feast on the bodies of the falling enemies being sliced up with razor sharp butterfly wings!

Julia bears the cuts of her enemies spears with gritted teeth, turning the grimace into a feral grin as she licks blood from a gash on her forearm. An aura of bloodthirst surges from her as her wounds begin to heal themselves. She bellows a menacing laugh amidst the chaos. "I seem to have found myself in interesting company! Come at me, then! This battle has only just begin!"

She darts toward the commander, feigning attack in order to create an opening for Eletor, shouting her order to strike.

The last two guys with clubs turn tail and RUN for it! The one next to Greenbeard manages barely to dodge the wolf snapping at him. "SCREW THIS!" the rebels say as they run.

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Minions double-move RUN outta there.

  Eletor faces the Commander, as behind him explosions of green fire, green wildlife, and red blood fly everywhere.

  "You picked a really, really bad day for this."  Alas, his pantywaist arms botch the melee basic.  But then he's back to striking true as he gives the commander a matching wound for the last one the Avenger inflicted, Julia probably encouraged by his actually being able to hit things again.

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Standard: Leading Strike vs Commander, hits.  11 DMG.  Julia gets +3 DMG rolls to her next attack Vs Commander.

Commander HP: 20-11= 9

Merric steps up to the guards and swipes at both of them! One dodges, but the other gets sliced!

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Sword Burst v guards. Miss(10) Hit(17)!
 dmg: 5

Guard 2 HP: 44 - 5 = 39

The boss says, "I'm... not... done!" He hacks at Julia, missing, then reaches for something in his pocket, turning to run farther into the city and SLICE! off comes his arm! "NOOOO!" and drops dead, (or at least dying) spraying blood from where his arm used to be.

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Attack missed. Tried to move, provoking AoO. Julia hits and does 9 dmg.

Boss HP: 9 - 9 = DED

The guards turn to run and Merric swipes at them, slicing one in the back! But they just keep going!

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Guards run. Merric takes the AoO! Hit Guard 1 (17)! Miss Guard 2 (13)
 dmg: 5

Guard 1 HP: 44 - 5 = 39

"Insecticons!" the butterflies squee with their tiny voices, "Merge!"

As they coalesce into the torso, the puppies turn into bear cubs!  http://www.bearfamily.com/green/greenbear.jpg http://www.allgraphics123.com/...luck/good-luck16.gif

The bunch of them then leap together, a strange metal-grinding sound accompanying their merging into a huge yellow primeval bear with a red shirt!  It gives chase after the fleeing baddies!

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After cleanly slicing the commander's arm off, she steps up to his bleeding, prone form and finishes him off with a downward thrust through the heart. "The only place you're going is straight to hell!" She punctuates the last word with a twist of the blade, then pulls it out, wipes it clean, and re-sheathes it with a methodical and calculating grace.

  Eletor makes a quick gauge of distance, and figures he can't nail a parting Holy Laser for just for the sake of it.  So he turns back toward the arm impaired, fallen, and impaled body of the commander.  "Nice work Julia.  I told him he would fall, but I am not picky how."  He kneels down to look for whatever it was the commander was trying to take from his pockets, before he was suddenly and violently disarmed.

  "While I check for whatever he thought was important enough to turn his back on your blade, could someone else go up and close the gate and secure whoever that woman was?  Without eating her, hopefully."

Aaaand since the druid is chasing the enemy, Merric rushes off to grab the instructions and find the woman. Soon, Merric is at the top of the tower and calls out to Greenbeard. "Greenbeard! Come back so I can close the door!"

The commander apparently had a stick of dynamite on him.
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Greenbeard gives up the chase, lumbers back, then turns back to his relatively normal looking Dwarf form once inside the gate.

"Close away, Fireblade!"

He looks at the carnage.

"This had better count for the extra 50."

Julia sneers when she spots the dynamite. "Tch, the coward thought he could use that to get away? Don't make me laugh." She surveys the carnage with a gleam in her eye. "It's too bad these weaklings couldn't give us more of a challenge. Well fought, gentlemen!"

Merric nods and closes the gate. "I'll be down soon!" he calls down to Julia, having heard little of what she said and wanting to hear what's going on.

Soon, Merric makes his way downstairs. "The lady at the top of the tower is tied up. She'll be OK... whoever she is. But she looks like a normal civilian. So what's going on down here? I saw you examining the half-orc."

He looks around at the dead bodies... for a moment, his expression shows pity. Then it hardens to a stern expression.
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Suddenly one of the dead humans starts to move.  At first you think you didn't finish him off.  But then you realize...someone's under the corpse.

"Hey!" you hear a squeaky voice say.  "Get this stiff offa me!"
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Greenbeard lifts the body off the squeaky voiced one.

"There ya go."

"I'm glad to see your bite matches your bark, lass," he comments to Julia, "Though I got the impression that stick of dynamite you found on the commander wasn't intended for getting away."

His eyes look in the direction of where the the commander was facing just before he died, searching for a significant target.

Greenbeard discovers a large eared mouse in a colorful Jester's Motley smiling back at him.  It took him a while to realise that the field mouse-like face is his fur and not make-up, with one ear grey, one ear black, brown hair poking out of his tri-pointed hat, and green eyes.

"Heh, thanks, pal." the Jester Mouse says as he gets up and dusts off his costume. "I thought there was something fun going on and got late to the party.  And then one of your victims fell on top of me.  Heh!  Whatta way to start an adventure."

He then blinks for a moment.  "Oh!  Introductions are in order!  Name's Johnny B Cheezer.  Pleased ta meet cha!"

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Opening Character Sheet:  https://s3.amazonaws.com/FoxFireDnD4ED/Johnny+Briz.pdf

Julia crosses her arms and grunts at Greenbeard's comment, her nose upturned as if to say, 'Well, what did you expect?'

She eyes Johnny skeptically, hand moving toward the hilt of her sword. "And how are we to know you aren't part of this rabble? Give me one good reason I shouldn't kill you where you stand.!"

Johnny, like a typical mouse, follows Rule #1:  When in doubt, be cute.  He gives her the most heart-melting puppy dog eyes and goes, "Because I'm too cute to be rabble."

Julia looks as though an entire cartload of manure is being held under her nose. She turns away unable to bear looking at this disgusting creature, hair fanning out dramatically behind her.

"I see. There's no way this weakling could possibly have been part of a rebellion. Get lost, ratty, before you hurt yourself on something sharp. A battlefield is no place for the likes of you."

Merric also looks in the direction Greenbeard indicated. There, the group can see the Mayor's home. Merric turns his attention to the only one shorter than him and blinks. A jester outfit... mouse. His stern expression goes to one of confusion. "....surely, you kid, Julia." Regardless, he puts himself between Julia and Johnny.

Then the mouse jokes. "OK, Johnny, where do you live in this city?"

Johnny shakes his head.  "Oh, nah, I just got here a couple days back.  Been going from tavern to tavern living up each place before I get thrown out."<green> He then taps his chin.  <green>"Come to think of it, I tend to get thrown out of them just after I make enough coin to get a room there. He then shrugs. "I still don't know why?  Everyone there likes my performances."

Greenbeard doesn't know what to make of the strange new arrival, but it's not like he's one to talk when it comes to "strange," so he doesn't comment.

"Gunna have to agree with Julia, there, little one.  Unless you're no stranger to violence or the savageness of combat, you'll likely not find us good company."

He gazes back at the target.  "The mayor's home.  Well.  I'd say that deserves a bonus to the pay we were promised.  But I suppose we'll have to wait here to find out either way.  Abandoning our post even if the coast is clear wouldn't look good.  Anyone here happen to be good at negotiating for bonus pay?"
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As if to illustrate that he's no stranger to fighting, Johnny makes a dagger appear out of nowhere and balances it on his finger for a moment.  Before throwing it dead into the Half-orc's still open eye.

"Aw poo." Johnny says.  "Didn't know he was an orc.  The smell's gonna take weeks to wash out."