End of Night 12: Into the fort
Giant Bulldust looks worried as he realises his predicament but he crouches defensively and slams his flail down on one of the foot soldiers behind him to clear an exit route. The blow kills the man instantly and Bully backs away 15 feet. Little Moffa casts a spell at the group of four foot-soldiers to his southwest and showers them with golden glitter, making them all bright and sparkly. The golden glitter gets in the eyes of three of the men (f13, f15, f16) temporarily blinding them but the other two see the giant bugbear trying to sneak away from them and both seize the opportunity to try to hit him before he gets away. The man behind Bully (f19) manages to hit him again.
Giant Minmorc had some interesting tactical advice for Bulldust but follows a much simpler strategy himself. He simply skewers a human foot soldier (f8) with his greatspear Vera and hoists the body back over the barricade to make it easier to keep track of his kills.
Riza selects a specially prepared arrow and deftly plants it in the left thigh of one of the foot soldiers (f2) attacking the breach, wounding him. He grits his teeth and pulls the arrow out of his thigh, scowls when he sees the discolouration of the arrowhead, points up at the wall where the arrow came from, snaps the arrow in half and throws the pieces back at the wall.
Raven takes aim at one of the foot soldiers in the middle of the assault on the breach with her crossbow. Her bolt actually hits a different man but the result is the same, another soldier (f17) seriously wounded with a crossbow bolt in his back.
Up on the southeast tower Jurz starts up another strange chant and begins waving his arms about like a conductor in front of an orchestra. All the weeds and grasses in an 80-foot wide area south of the tower starts waving around in time with his gestures and wraps around the legs of at least half a dozen of the horses galloping up the trail onto the plateau. Two of the horsemen (h12 and h13) find their mounts completely immobilised by the grasses (h13 also blocking the path up from the plain below) and the others are significantly slowed by the entangling vegetation.
Up on the western tower Dregz aims at the plate-armoured leading horseman (m2) again and this time his little crossbow bolt hits its mark, lightly wounding the man.
That leading horseman continues to lead the mounted troops up to the western tower then they loop back in front of the southwest wall of the fort again. The riderless horse and two more mounted troops slowly make their way out of the entangled area to join the 6 horsemen galloping around outside the southwest wall.
Back on the eastern side of the fort the three blinded men (f13, f15, f16) mill about in confusion but the other two in that group (f14 and f19) charge after the big, bad bugbear (possibly in response to his two-fingered salute?). Giant Bully grins and meets their charge with a sweeping blow of his white-tipped flail that crushes their helmets, killing both men instantly.
The foot solders assaulting the breach continue to hack as the orcs across the barricade. One on the right (f7) hits an orc (o17) with a sword slash that opens the orc's jugular vein and the orc collapses on top of the comrade he just replaced in the front line.
Another orc climbs up to fill the gap and the battle rages on. One of the orcs (o12) on the eastern wall spears a foot soldier (f4) with a javelin leaving that man in no condition to fight anymore. The human steps back a pace or two, sheaths his sword, drops his shield and struggles to pull the javelin out of his shoulder one-handed.
The orc with the crossbow (o6) on the southeast tower manages to plant a crossbow bolt in the plate-armoured leader (f1) of the foot soldiers, who already has one arrow wound. Again he shrugs off the wound and steps in closer to the battle at the breach.
The other orc on the southeast tower hits one of the entangled horsemen (m12) with a javelin and the rider topples off his horse to be covered by the writhing weeds and grasses.
Another orc crossbowman (o4) on the southwest tower shoots another horseman (m10) in the back before another orc on the southwest wall (o16) finishes him off with a javelin. The last orc crossbowman (o2) on the western tower follows his mates' lead and shoots another of the horsemen (m4) in the back leaving that man barely able to stay in his saddle.
The orc cleric Kurjan Sawtooth starts another dismal chant but this one seems to take longer and no effects are visible at first.
OOC: Main game map updated. Seven of the foot soldiers are down and seven more wounded (f1, f2, f4, f9, f10, f13 and f17) are wounded and three are blinded (f13, f15, f16). Four of the horsemen are down and two wounded (m2 and m4) and at least one (m13) is entangled. Two orcs are down and six orcs are wounded (o10, o15, o16, o18, o19 and o24) to varying degrees.
Everyone (except Dregz) has +1 to hit from Bless by Minmorc for 28 more rounds.