Dregz quails ... and then grins.

Bulldust straightens to his full height and looks around over the top of the tents.  So that was Riza's plan.  He shrugs.  Its clobberin time.  He drops his goose-hook on the sand then moves forward 30' between the tents, readying his white-tipped flail as he goes.

In reply to Bulldust (msg # 73):

Ducks down closer to the tent trying to stay outta the light, and the bustle.

Today: Oopses rolled 50 using 1d100.  Fumble roll: 100 good, 1 bad.

Moffdust stands very still inside the tent...

Riza continues her progress around the northern side of the camp and another tent at the northwest edge of the camp begins to burn and shouts of anger and screams of fear start from inside. Meanwhile the guard (m1) shovelling sand with his shield manages to extinguish the flames on the first northern tent that had caught fire.

The giant Minmorc drops his bow, grabs battleaxe and greatspear and trots over to the closest tent at the southeast edge of the campsite.

Dregz peeks inside the big eastern tent again then Moffdust slits the back corner of that tent open enough for a goblin to easily enter. Swarms of rats pour out of the sand around her and pour into the well-lit tent past her. Moffdust slips in after them. "Der woman has der Magic Stick!" Dregz hisses urgently at Moffa as his kinswoman rushes past him. A lot of swearing and shouting and snarling and squeaking erupts inside that tent.  Oopses and Arlein remain hidden behind that tent.

Jurz joins in the fun by activating a wand that produces a flame in his open hand. Then he throws the flame at the next big tent south of the campfire. It immediately begins to burn on one corner of the tent.

The giant Bulldust peers over the top of the tents to see what's happening then drops his guisarme and moves forward between the tents to the edge of the campfire light, readying his white-tipped flail as he goes.

The shouting of men and screaming of women and children throughout the camp growslouder and louder with each passing second. Men start pouring out of the tents armed with their scimitars, some carrying shields as well and a few carrying bows. None are wearing any armour, just the lose cotton robes that they sleep in. A few women and children scurry out of some of the tents and head toward the campfire in the middle of camp but the biggest group of these is from the one big tent that Jurz set fire to. A total of six women and two children fled out of that big tent. Four men came from the big northern tent and one man (m5) came from the big tent to the west of the campfire. He is obviously someone important as he starts shouting orders and holds up his scimitar, which is instantly sheathed in flames. He is soon surrounded by seven other men including one (m6) who also wields a glowing scimitar.

Three men emerge from tends near the big eastern one and spot Jurz, Rog and Dregz where they are illuminated by the light spilling out the slit in the big eastern tent. Those three warriors converge from the south toward the goblins.

Four other warriors spot the giant Bulldust where he is silhouetted against the glow of that big eastern tent and they rush toward him from north and south. But the giant bugbear is ready for them. He swings his white-tipped flail at each one in rapid succession before they can even get within striking distance of him. Three of them are badly injured and collapse on the ground, including the young man (mA) who tried to flee from the big eastern tent. The long-haired, middle-aged woman who follows him out of the tent sees him fall and ducks off northward to avoid the same fate.

OOC: Main Game Map updated.
[Bless from Minmorc: All allies (except Riza) are +1 on attack rolls and saves vs fear for 16 more rounds.]

Bulldust glares at the man m16 who refused to lie down, then glances over his shoulder to see more men threatening the gobbos behind him.  He speaks to them in goblin tongue.  PM in goblin:  "
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Arlein chases the females, running behind the tents with a double move. Mhurring as she dashes underneath oopses.

Riza takes a 5 foot step back near the horses and then let's fly with a drow poison arrow at the big important man with the flaming sword. There are more enemies than she expected but more surprised at the number of women and children.
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Moffdust speaks quickly through the slit in the tent. "Youse should gets youseselfs away from dis tentses. I dont knows where dese ratses is goin next. An wes gotta gets de hairy ole womans cos shes got Dregsies sticks!" Then she crosses to the other side of the tent and slits a new hole low to the ground. She peeps out and points a finger at the long haired woman (fA) and casts Magic Missile. 6HP damage on her.

OOC: For clarification, the hairy old woman Moffa mentioned is 'fA' on the map. The shield-like woven ornament on her necklace is glowing brightly enough to illuminate 20ft around her and the big eastern tent goes dark when she left it. Two of the males have glowing scimitars - 'm5' with his flaming scimitar and 'm6' has a glowing, obviously magical scimitar.

Jurz encourages Rog to bite the nearest enemy (M22) then step backwards 5ft, while Jurz puts the wand away and conjures the flaming scimitar.  Then, in the glow of his own flaming blade,  he grins at the man, almost daring him to come closer for some more ...

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OOC:
17:28, Today: Rog rolled 18 using 1d20+7.  Bite attack.
17:28, Today: Rog rolled 6 using 1d6+5.  Bite damage.

I bet she is called Fanny Adams!
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Seeing Jurzy flame on back-lighting the thing that Bully has become and knowing that there's an almost invisible little Riza woman out in the darkness Minmorc will stretch his neck and shoulder muscles, feeling absolutely fantastic. Lumbering around the tent he'll casually drop his axe to stick in the sand and just as casually jab Vera into one of the humans gathering there.

The giant Bulldust flattens one warrior next to Jurz (m21) and leers over the top of the tent at the man behind him (m20) to say "Boo!" then returns his glare to the lucky warrior in front of him (m16).  He crouches slightly, taking a more defensive stance.

Seeing as m20 has just died most Minmorcishly, Bulldust avails himself of the soggy sand space just made available and steps back southeastward into the shadowy place behind the small tent, and further from the rat-infested large tent.  He grins at Minmorc "Hey Min, I'm on five." and resumes his defensive, slightly crouched stance.
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"Yeah... Well... Can any of yers do dis?" Minmorc will jiggle Vera to make the soldier impaled on it dance.

"Dat still only counts as one."

Dregz pales at the sight of three hobgoblins bearing down upon him, matter not that one is on his last legs or no, and heeds Moffa's advice, ducking through the slit in the tent then hurrying over to her side.

Moffdust is horrified to see Dregz inside the tent...

In reply to Moffdust (msg # 89):

Oopses chants a spell(ghost sounds).

Arlein the cat dashes away between the tents towards the north, paralleling the course taken by the long-haired old lady from the big eastern tent.

Riza steps back near the horses then takes aim and fires an arrow at the human leader (m5) wielding a flaming scimitar. The arrows hits him in the back. He gasps then whips around to glare at the flaming tent where the arrow seemed to have come from.

Moffa offers some advice from inside the tent. "Youse should gets youseselfs away from dis tentses. I dont knows where dese ratses is goin next. An wes gotta gets de hairy ole womans cos shes got Dregsies sticks!" Then she slits a hole in the northern wall of that big tent and recites a brief incantation to send two little glowing missiles to strike the long-haired old lady in the back. She is now moderately wounded but keeps running.   Dregz joins Moffa inside the tent moments later.

Rog bites the closest warrior (m22), grievously wounding the man then backs off a few feet behind the tent while Jurz recites the words that conjure a flaming scimitar in his hand. The light from that fiery weapon is as bright as a torch and clearly illuminates everything within 20 feet.

Giant Minmorc strolls around the south-eastern tent, drops his greataxe and with his greatspear Vera he skewers one of the warriors (m20) that was trying to attack Jurz. He jiggles Vera to make the corpse dance, much to Minmorc's amusement.

Giant Bulldust lashes out with his giant flail to put down another one of that group of warriors (m21) then steps over his body to move back closer to Jurz. The warrior (m16) to Bully's west slashes at him as Bully retreats but the scimitar misses its target.

Although he is terrified and still cowering behind the big eastern tent, Oopses chants a short spell and suddenly there is the howling of several wolves just east and northeast of the campsite. Two more terrified women clutching terrified children scramble out of the two northeast tents and dart toward the well-lit centre of the campsite, away from the wolves.

The long-haired old woman joins a group of other women and children who have crowded into the well-lit space between the northern large tent and the chained slaves. There she stops and chants a prayer that completely heals the wounds she had suffered from rat bites and magic missiles.

Only three of the warriors have bows (m8, m11, m17) but one of them (m17) pushes past another group of frightened women and children near the well and takes aim at Bulldust. However his terror is evident as the arrow flies high over the giant bugbear’s head and vanishes into the darkness of the surrounding desert.

Six of the warriors are carrying spears (m1, m2, m9, m13, m19, m23). A couple of them (m13 and m19) move forward and hurl their spears at Bulldust as well. The first spear glances off Bully's black chain shirt and the second misses completely.

A group of four warriors lead by a scarred veteran dash forward at Bulldust from south of the well, with the veteran (m7) actually charging fearlessly at the giant bugbear. Bully's giant flail clobbers the first two (m7 and m18) but the mortally wounded veteran still manages to complete his charge and hits Bully with his scimitar before collapsing unconscious at Bully's feet.  The warrior that Bully missed before (m16) then darts forward over their bodies to slash at the giant bugbear once more but again his blade misses completely. Bully's flail doesn't miss him this time and that plucky warrior joins the growing heap of dead or dying humans in front of Bully. The warrior that Rog mauled so badly (m22) retreats from the battle into a tent behind Bully.

Meanwhile, just north of the well, the leader (m5) with the flaming scimitar takes charge of the largest group of warriors in the camp. He gestures angrily sending one man (m24) off toward the flaming tent and horse lines in search of the archer who shot at him. The leader (m5) quickly organises his men and they begin to advance toward the eastern zone where Bully, Jurz and Minmorc are fighting.

The man sent northwest (m24) scouts around the burning tent and soon closes in on Riza where she is clearly illuminated by the blazing tent. He snarls angrily at the little lizardgirl and advances with his scimitar in hand. The horses nearby are starting to whinny and rear in panic as the flames engulf the nearby northwest tent.

OOC: Main Game Map updated.
[Bless from Minmorc: All allies (except Riza) are +1 on attack rolls and saves vs fear for 16 more rounds.]
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Minmorcs mouth drops open, momentarily dumbfounded by Bullies wit and martial prowess. A twitch starts in his left eye, becomes an erratic jerking of his head followed by full body spasms. Spittle flying from his mouth he will roar "One, ONE!  I'll show yer how it's done! WAARGH!" Striding between the tents Minmorc will emerge from between the tents an thrust Vera at the human with the flaming scimitar.

Jurz grins as the injured man ducks into the tent, but with Giant Bully and now Giant Minmorc heading the  for the same small gap there isn't going to be room for him there.  Instead he urges Rog forward quickly  heading around the tent and seeing if he can come out behind them.

As soon as he sees the situation there, he rides, screaming, towards the end of the line of melee fighters and waves his flaming sword at the last one in line, before diverting off to a position where he is level with the archers.


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18:14, Today: Jurz rolled 10 using 1d20+4.  Flaming Scimitar Att vs Touch ac on M19.
18:15, Today: Jurz rolled 3 using 1d8+2.  You never know your luck dam on M19.

Bulldust winces at the scimitar cut from the veteran "Ow!" but the wound does not slow him down.  Minmorc's spasms are the true reward for the young bugbear, a memory he will treasure always.  He smirks in reply "Seven."  Then facing the field he spies his nemesis m16 who keeps coming at him.  He leans closer and says in common tongue "You went da wrong way!"

In reply to Bulldust (msg # 94):

Arlein scurries into the tent underneath the flap.

OOC: The tents do seem to be a safer place to be ... unless they are infested with rats! ;o)