Dwalin lowered his head like a bull readying charge; his shield became the horns. Planting armored feet into ground, he burst into a mighty sprint, bellowing a dwarven warcry which thundered through the hearts of all. He was the avalanche. Every quake echoing from his footsteps reminded the world of his dwarven strength (and perhaps the need to lose weight too); barreling thus, he charged into Alldyde. He struck the sorcerer with a powerful slam of his shield, so powerful that Alldyde's feet flung out from under him, and he did something like a flip in midair before landing flat on his back on the floor
{Dwalin deals 5 damage to Alldyde; Trip Success}.
Mikael leapt onto the toppled Alldyde and began the dogpile
{Mikael deals 2 damage to Alldyde; Grapple Success}. Alldyde heaved a deep breath as the wind was knocked out of him. Maybe the elf needed to lose weight as well.
And as if this wasn't enough, Herr Johannes encouraged his horse to beat on poor Alldyde too. Although the buried sorcerer was too low its divine flurry of hooves, it stretched down its divine white neck and divinely bit Alldyde's leg! Alldyde began to regret certain life choices at this point
{Horse deals 5 damage to Alldyde}. Herr Johannes swung down his guisarme, but this (mercifully) missed.
Darus however had slightly less mercy for Alldyde. Stepping beside the man – who already had an elf on top of him, a horse biting his leg, and a lingered concussion from Dwalin's shield – Darus plunged down his longsword rather vengefully
{Critical Hit ~ Darus deals 10 damage to Alldyde}. Meanwhile, Adwonus closed in the other side, and now the adventurers formed nigh a full circle around their opponent, leaving him few options for escape.
***
Elsewhere, Imbellem and Jacqueline talked some sense into Barnett. Perhaps it was Imbellem's persuasiveness or Jacqueline's back-handed slap (probably the slap - that shit hurt), but Barnett finally came around. "
Your right. I can't just leave you here Miss Corelia. If you insist on staying, I'll do what I can." At that, Barnett ran back toward the battlefield and slipped behind a pillar in a very rogue-like fashion.
That taken care of, Jacqueline gave her full attention back to the fight, and she swiftly moved forward up the hall. As though their minds were on the same page, Imbellem already knew what she was going to do and had her covered; chanting a prayer, the area around Jacqueline began to grow foggy, as though each one of her steps released a wave of mist from the ground. And by the time she reached her position, she was completely covered in an embankment of fog. Outside the mist, all anyone could see now was the blurry outline of her figure, followed by a blurry movement, and finally a blurry arrow, that became clear real quick as it sailed into Gage's chest
{Jacqueline deals 17 to Gage; Sneak Attack}.
***
Gage grabbed the end of the arrow and broke it off in the manliest way possible. Meanwhile, Marcus had wheeled around to the other side of Gage. The tattoed giant followed him with dark and threatening eyes. "
Think you can defeat me little man?" Gage uttered with an equally dark and threatening voice. "
Even with that scrawny girl and her bow, you're no match for me." He held his club, more than ready to beat the crap out of Marcus. Marcus shrugged, "
Maybe not. But have you met our friend Grao?" "
Hmm?" Gage replied.
At that moment Marcus ducked, and an extremely large and muscular orc horizontally flew over him from behind. Grao had run at Gage full speed! -and sailing over Marcus, tackled Gage as though he were diving into the sea. The green pile of muscles crushed and entwined around the tattooed pile of muscles, and both entered a wrestling match like no other. Between these two seven foot giants, it was to be the wrestling match of the century
{Grao successfully grapples Gage}!
Marcus liked this. Mainly because he could stab Gage now and not worry so much about getting a club in the face. Yes, he liked that a lot; and began the stabbing
{Marcus deals 12 damage to Gage; Skirmish bonus}. Kelden, too, joined in on this
{Kelden deals 4 damage to Gage}.
***
Xubada, although he didn't grab Taisiya, beckoned her with a deep and primitive voice, "
Tai-zah. Boss say to leave. 'E must go. Come." "
No," she sternly replied. "
I don't want him to get hurt; I don't want anyone to get hurt!" "
Leave, now!" Alldyde commanded from beneath his dogpile. "
No!" she replied again. "
Dammit, why are women always so stubborn!?" said a flustered Alldyde. "
NOW I SAY!"
Taisiya, with a great deal of hesitation, took a step back, and Xubada took a guarding position in front of her, keeping a sword point out against any who might try to pass him.
Alldyde glared into the eyes of Mikael on top of him, who was trying to hold the sorcerer down; but Alldyde didn't try to throw him off. Instead, he fiercely grabbed both of Mikael's wrists. "
BURN ELF!" He spat. And started laughing madly. Alldyde's hands began to glow a lurid red, and suddenly, fire poured out from them and over Mikael, traveling up his sleeves and over his whole damn body. Mikael knew he needed a tan; but this wasn't the way he wanted to get it
{Alldyde deals 31 damage to Mikael}.
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Player Checks (Modifiers not included)
16:23, Today: DM Ryan rolled 17 using 1d20+8. Marcus, Longsword Attack @ Gage.
16:24, Today: DM Ryan rolled 10 using 1d8+4. Marcus, Longsword Damage @ Gage.
16:24, Today; DM Ryan rolled 2 using 1d6. Marcus, Skirmish Damage.
16:04, Today: DM Ryan rolled 19 using 1d20+6. Jacqueline, Shortbow Attack @ Gage + PBS.
16:05, Today: DM Ryan rolled 17 using 4d6+1. Jacqueline, Shortbow Damage + Sneak Attack + PBS.
10:22, Today: DM Ryan rolled 12 using 1d20+3. Dwalin, Shield Charge: Trip Attack.
10:34, Today: DM Ryan rolled 5 using 1d4+2. Dwalin, Shield Dmg @ Alldyde.
10:12, Today: DM Ryan rolled 22 using 1d20+4. Mikael, Grapple @ Alldyde.
10:14, Today: DM Ryan rolled 2 using 1d3. Mikael, Unarmed Damage.
