Neide:
OOC: I'd say I prefer to roll my checks myself, in general - aside from the ones that need to be made in secret etc., of course.
Anyway, here's Neide counterattack!
22:04, Today: Neide rolled 10 using 2d6 with rolls of 4,6. Counterattack!
22:04, Today: Neide rolled 2 using 1d10 with rolls of 2. Damage!
The soldier's armor seemed to protect him from most of Neide's counterattack, if not all of it...
Still, that was just the counterattack...
And yet...
The cleric casts a spell.
"Hark!" he says loudly.
"Bear witness! You attack a son of Veles, god of stone! His eyes and ears are everywhere! He feels every vibration, every footfall! He waits in judgment! Your goddess of vengeance has no place here! Begone!"
And he backs up and touches... a large rock.
And this... works, somehow.
Actually it absolutely does not work, for most of the soldiers. But it has an amazing effect on Lieutenant Aekins. Her eyes widen in horror, staring at the rock-- which gets her a knife cut across the back of her hand from the Easterner-- and then Aekins
panics. "
Retreat! After me! Retreat! Go! Move!"
The other soldiers look at each other for just an instant, like
Seriously? It's a rock. We outnumber them. We can do this, can't we?
But then their training-- and the reliance on following chain-of-command that's been beaten into them-- kicks in, and they follow Aekins as she retreats.
The cleric pants. "...A spell... of fear... I don't normally ask Veles for it, but I thought it might be useful this time, so I prepared it... It'll last as long as I want, but it's tied to the rock, so we should move, because we can't stay here forever, and it only affects one person. Let's go!"