The smoke is getting thicker as logs from the bonfire that were burning when they hit the ground are starting to smoulder.

As Hargrin casts his spell he notices the Chamberlain's children moving away from Ned. Being close could get dangerous. They are looking for a place to hide.

Alleycat rushes to Sora's defense and cuts down one of the thugs bearing down on her. He and Antru are now within five feet of each other and are facing three masked thugs. One looks slightly stricken from Melody's spell. Sora is protected now, from melee.

Two more unhindered thugs are approaching Ned whose eyes still flare with rage. His staff is held in front of him.

Taria casts mage armor. Though no thugs seem to be closing on her, you all hear one of the  kobalds  She remains in the open with the stall as the nearest cover.

Catrina bursts onto the seen in time to prevet two thugs from reaching Melody. Her kick staggers one of them, but he still stands. The other, stricken by Melody's spell presses on and will reach her on his next turn.

Three young couples emerge from the smoke near Bross. They follow his direction to the skirmish line. The ambush drake that was on their heels misses Bross barely as it tries to bite him. Bross' counter with the axe barely misses. His bravery has saved the young couples... for now.

OOC: Now Sora annd Antru may post before they attack again.
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"Ranged attacks incoming on casters! Drakes incoming." Antru calls out as he hears the Kobold call orders. Antru tries to recall if he knows of anything that might match the Kobolds call for Drakes, though fighting made it harder to think. He slashes his scimitar at the thug that was hit by the spell.




18:55, Today: Antru Mistseeker rolled 17 using 1d20+7.  Scimitar Attack.

18:55, Today: Antru Mistseeker rolled 9 using 1d6+5.  Scimitar Damage.

18:56, Today: Antru Mistseeker rolled 3 using 1d6.  sneak attack damage.

Total Damage: 12


Nature check to see if I know what the Kobold meant by "Drake"
19:00, Today: Antru Mistseeker rolled 11 using 1d20+3.  Nature Check.

"...the Hells is this thing?" Bross curses lowly, before yelling "BAD DOG!"

21:57, Today: Bross Tallcut rolled 10 using 1d12+5.  Damage (Great Weapon).
21:56, Today: Bross Tallcut rolled 13 using 1d20+5.  Attack Roll .

  (It didn't seem like a "scare it off" sort of thing, but it was worth a try.)

He bellows again, "AWAY T'ME, GREENEST!" (figuring that any remaining farmfolk would recognize the shepherd's call, and not give the whole game away), and hopes he's not blocking the skirmishing line entirely.
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Sora, her eyes again her deep green, looked at Antru almost like she didn't hear what he said, but nodded none the less. She again held put her hand, this time the fingers streched almost like a claw "You have no idea what I'm CAPABLE OF!". As she screamed the last word, her eyes again went dark as their was a crackling sound as light purple lightning erupted from her hand, striking the man.

---

<OOC: Action - Casts Witchbolt

Sora rolled 15 using 1d20+5.  attack - Witchbolt.
Sora rolled 7 using 1d12.  damage - Witchbolt.

Bonus Action - None>

The smoke thickens. The horns and whistles are sounding all around you now. The guards continue their call.

Antru makes short work of the spell stricken thug in front of him. Two remain against him and Alleycat. Sora's purple lightning streaks out from her outstretched hand engulfing one of them in electric torment. Somehow, he manages to stay on his feet. The thug in front of Alleycat swings his staff and misses the crown of the rogue's head. The electified thug in front of Antru disengages and runs from the battle blowing his whistle in earnest.

The ambush drake circles Bross hissing in fury. It lunges at him barley missing his leg. Bross retaliates with a mighty swing that cuts deeply into the scaled creature's shoulder. It circles still, it's eyes filled with hate.

The thug kicked by Catrina swings wildly at his acrobatic target missing his mark and cursing his luck. Melody watches as one of the recipients of her spell closes with her. The effects of the spell protect her as his swing whooshes past her face.

Two thugs rush Ned in tandem swinging from different angles. One hits his jaw. The mighty swineherd laughs at them, eyes ablaze with fury. He barely notices the solid hit.

The kobalds take their time, waiting for the best shots. Sora's display of power earns her the attention of their best marksman. He shoots his crossbow and the bolt sinks deep into her right shoulder, barely missing her lung. Tiara fares better, even though she is in the open, the bolt that would have hit her is deflected by the magic of her spell. The bolt fired by the third kobald sinks harmlessly into Hargrin's shield.

Three Kobalds appear from the smoke in reponse to the whistles. The gaurds nearest Bross shout out, "Good work! Fall back to the keep. Protect who you can on the way."

A dozen unarmed townsfolk emerge from the smoke looking for direction, two drakes nipping at their heels.

OOC: Sora and Ned have each taken 6 points of damage. Everyone except Bross, Antru and Sora may now take their turn.

Catrina chuckles as her opponent misses his strike,"Heh, it's not your day my friend. For you stand before a GreySky, but I shall show mercy to you." she says, and with a thrust with her staff, the thug felt the impact on his stomach and was sent flying straight to a wall. She smirks at her work, then looks toward the townfolk being chased by an overgrown lizards,"Hey, don't worry, I'll protect you all with everything I got." she says as she makes a charging tackle towards one of the drakes, but it saw her coming and dodge that attack. It doesn't deter her as she faced the beast.

Action: Quarterstaff on Thug
10:11, Today: Catrina GreySky rolled 17 using 1d20+5.  Quarterstaff Att.
10:12, Today: Catrina GreySky rolled 8 using 1d8+3.  Dmg

Move: If Thugs down, Cat will head toward those drakes attacking citizens

Bonus Action: Unarmed Attack
10:16, Today: Catrina GreySky rolled 11 using 1d20+5.  Punch Att.

Probably Missed


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There were three ruffians facing Antru and Alleycat -- and then, only seconds later, there was but one. Antru's slashing blade cut one down, and Sora's purplish-colored magicks quickly convinced the second that he had better places to be.

That left only a single man facing the Waterdehavian. Mekkar did not waste time taunting his foe -- to his way of thinking, talking in such situations was a waste of time. In the time it took to taunt a man he could be lying dead at your feet, in his own pool of blood.

And so it was that Alleycat first feinted at his foe's head, then plunged the long, thin blade of his right-hand rapier deeply into the man's midsection. The ruffian groaned in pain and collapsed.

All of the noise and smoke made it difficult for Mekkar to judge what he should do next, now that all of the foes within easy reach were dead or dying.

"Hoi, Hargrin!" he called out.

"Did you see where they took His Nibs?"

Mekkar reasoned that if anyone had seen where the important-looking fellow had been dragged to, it would likely be Hargrin. If the Dwarf knew where the prisoner had been taken, it made sense to try and free him if he was still close by. For if he was important enough for the attackers to go the trouble to capture him alive, why, then, it stood to reason that anyone who rescued the man would be looked upon with favor by the local powers that be.

Edit: While he was waiting to hear from Hargrin, Alleycat decided that he needed to move up and get in the faces of the Kobold archers that had been peppering the magickers with arrows. He covered the ground quickly and stabbed at one of the little creatures, thinking that he would at least get its attention.

---

OOC:

Action: 21:29, Today: Alleycat rolled 14 using 1d20+5 with rolls of 9.  Primary Melee Attack v. Ruffian. Probable Hit.

21:30, Today: Alleycat rolled 9 using 1d8+3 with rolls of 6.  Damage (Primary Attack: Rapier).

21:33, Today: Alleycat rolled 3 using 1d6 with rolls of 3.  Sneak Attack Damage.

Total Damage (Primary Attack): 12.

Free Action: Call out (to Hargrin).

Edit: Move: Alleycat will move forward to close with one of the Kobold archers.

Bonus Action: 21:32, Today: Alleycat rolled 9 using 1d20+5 with rolls of 4.  Off-Hand Melee Attack.

Edit: 18:50, Today: Alleycat rolled 3 using 1d4.  "Bless" Bonus To Off-Hand Attack.

Edit: Total Attack Roll (Off-Hand Attack): 12

Edit: 18:51, Today: Alleycat rolled 2 using 1d8.  Damage: Off-Hand (If Applicable).

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"No idea!" Hargrin hollered back, scowling at the kobolds. "Blasted smoke hid 'em!" Truth be told, he was less worried about the Chamberlain than themselves at the moment: if they'd taken the man somewhere, they probably wanted him alive, and thus he could be rescued later. The rest of them -and their vulnerable ones- had no such guarantees. Even if they were trying to avoid injuring noncombatants, shit happened in a battle.

"Elf!" He yelled to Sora, "Can you take the kids and fall back?" He waved at the Chamberlain's children still near his stall, hoping the woman would have sense enough to go. Ned would be hard enough to pry away, caught in the battle fever as he seemed to be. He'd take the kids himself if need be, but perhaps the request would give her another reason to go.

The dwarf scowled at the new arrivals, paying the kobold who'd tried to shoot him no more attention than a bull would an annoying gnat, at pointed at one of the new drakes. A roll of thunder echoed through the sky in response to his accompanying shout of [Language unknown: "Hiriol ndti elfoss at enin conhatica atutut, thedervor!"]


Action: Cast Toll the Dead on the drake Catrina is not engaged with. WIS save DC 15 for the target. Damage is 4 on a fail.

11:57, Today: Hargrin Bitterbrew rolled 4 using 1d8 ((4)).

Movement: Move toward the road to the Keep- with the kids, if they don't go with Sora.

Melody does her best to help shepherd the fleeing people towards the keep; gesturing for them to keep running while she protects the rear.  She aims her ire for the thug rushing towards her.  Shouting, she hurls her insults at him as she draws her rapier.

"Even if you hit,
I won't feel a bit of it,
You are weak and small."

OOC: Melody casts Vicious Mockery at the thug Wis save vs 13

quote:

Vicious Mockery [60' range; Wis Save]
   You unleash a string of insults laced with subtle enchantments at a creature you
   can see within range. If the target can hear you (though it need not understand
   you), it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or take 1d4 psychic damage and have
   disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn.

edit: Melody gives Antru Bardic Inspiration (1d6)

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Once she is girded in a protective barrier, Taria switches tactics. Focusing on the ones that seek to harm her. She makes a series of gestures and speaks a simple word of power causing a bold of flame to erupt from her hand and soar towards the nearest of the Kobolds.


Cast Firebolt
11:53, Today: Taria rolled 12,2 using 1d20+5,1d4.
14 to Hit Kobold

11:54, Today: Taria rolled 3 using 1d10. Fire Damage

Willing to use a Reaction to cast shield if a Hit would Miss if she does.

The furious swineherd ignores his wounds though there is a sizeable welt forming on his jaw. He thrusts his staff at the thug on his left and shatters his face. THe man falls unmoving to the ground. He swings the opposite end and strikes the second thug catching the man in the chest. Ribs audibly crack, the man winces in pain, but remains on his feet.
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The guards, to the west of the party, remain in the skirmish line, but are getting increased pressure from kobalds and drakes. They continue their call to make a fighting withdrawal while helping citizens to reach the keep. They are slowly withdrawing westward. You remain about 300 feet east of the road into town.



OOC

Bross is closest to the guards in the skirmish line and is battling an ambush drake.

Melody is a about fifteen feet east of Bross with a thug stricken by bane and vicious mockery spells baring down on her.

Catrina is fifteenfeet south of Melody and has just missed with her first attack on an ambush drake.

Sora is ten feet east of Melody, there are no thugs near her. She has made herself the favorite target of the three kobalds about twenty feet south of her. SHe has a crossbow bolt deep in her shoulder and is bleeding from the wound.

Antru stands five feet south of Sora. THere are no thugs in melee with him.

Alleycat is ten feet south of Antru facing three kobalds armed with crossbows. An ambush drake is peeling off from chasing the fleeing farmers and is heading in his direction.

Hargrin is ten feet east of Sora, he is not in melee but is watching over two small children.

Ned is ten feet south of Hargrin in melee with a thug.

Taria is five feet east of Hargrin and is not in melee

Three kobalds with crosbows are flanking Taria to the east about thirty feet from her.

Crude map

Guard  Bross   Melody Sora  Hargrin Taria      3Kobalds
       drake          Antru       Ned
                Catrina
               drake      AC drake
                          3 kobalds

[OOC: I'm assuming the ambush drake either won't or can't retreat. If it does, I'd like to revise, later if possible.]

Grimly realizing this is one of those jobs you just have to finish, Bross clenches his jaw and takes another huge overhead swing of his axe at... whatever this thing is.

21:44, Today: Bross Tallcut rolled 12 using 1d20+5 ((7)).
21:45, Today: Bross Tallcut rolled 10 using 1d12+5.  Damage (just in case).

"Master Bitterbrew, Lady Sora! It would be prudent for you to fall back. Aim what spells you can at the kobolds. We'll hold the line and follow suit." Antru says as he he throws one of his daggers at the Kobolds closest to  Allycat. He then steps closer to the man and puts his scimitar to use. "Once the others start to fall back we should proceed to do the same. This area isn't the most defensible." Antru comments to Allycat as he comes up beside him.



Bonus Action: Throw Dagger

19:33, Today: Antru Mistseeker rolled 17 using 1d20+7.  Dagger Throw.

19:34, Today: Antru Mistseeker rolled 8 3 using 1d4+5.  Dagger Damage.

Forgot that offhand attack wouldn't get ability mod on damage.

Action: Scimitar Attack to Drake:

19:36, Today: Antru Mistseeker rolled 23 using 1d20+7.  Scimitar Attack.

08:06, Today: Antru Mistseeker rolled 11 using 1d6+5.  Scimitar Damage.


Sneak Attack if it applies to the dagger throw or scimitar attack. Which ever makes more sense if both could benefit.

08:08, Today: Antru Mistseeker rolled 3 using 1d6.  sneak attack damage.

Sora winced as the Crossbow bolt hit her shoulder, breaking her concentration for but a moment - but that was all it needed to end her spell. With a hand up to the bolt, bleeding profusely, she looked at the kobolds with seething anger unlike she hadn't had in a long time. The words and pleas from others were like flies...unseen and unheard in her anger.

Then her mind cleared and she heard the others. She wanted to stay, but the bolt weakened her, so she nodded, and reluctantly went about getting others to saftey.
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The smoke is thick, the party can only see things within fifty or sixty feet. Some stalls along the northern edge of the fairgrounds are burning. The stalls, burning or not, could help provide cover from the kobalds with crossbows. Frantic unarmed people from the festival pass through the smoke and see you fighting. Most follow your direction to move toward the keep. The guards are shifting westward as the drakes and kobalds start concentrating on driving them back. Winged kobalds can be seen flying over the melee northward toward the town.

Bross is battling with the five foot long drake. The beast moves quickly and with great agility. His swing misses its target. The drake attempts to counter attack, but the gutsy farmer slips away.

Antru moves southward to assist Alleycat who has been attacked by another drake. His thrown dagger is repelled by the creature's scaley hide, but, his scimitar cuts deep. The beast hisses in protest and lashes out. It is easily avoided by the agile clown.

Sora reduces an urgency to remain agressive and moves to help Hargrin usher the Chamberlain's children west toward the road to town.

The thug facing Ned attacks again with his staff glancing off the swineherd's knee. Ned does not notice.

The three kobalds behind the drake and the two rogues fire a volley at Sora, Hargrin and Taria. All of them miss.

The stricken thug facing Melody manages a feeble swing with his staff which the dancing tiefling deftly avoids.

To the east of Taria three more kobalds take aim at the casters. One finds his mark. Taria's thigh is grazed by a bolt.

The kobalds call for help. A drake and three more kobalds appear through the smoke 20 feet east of Taria.

In all of this a halfling slips through the smoke from cover to cover wondering if he should try to make it to the keep or find a good place to hide...
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Melody gave a feral grin to the thug she was dancing with before sending another cutting insult his way.  She wanted him out of the way so she could help take down more of these attackers, but at a safer distance.

"You look like something
That crawled dripping with disease
Out of your mom's butt."

She looks over at the guy to her right and says, "Have some musical loving, lover boy!"

OOC: OOC: Melody casts Vicious Mockery at the thug Wis save vs 13.

She also gives a Bardic Inspiration die (d6) to Bross.

Faim had come to Greenest knowing it to be a bit of a frontier town and figuring the festival a good opportunity to find recruits. He was going to find a party and go on a real live adventure, a dream which lived and breathed in his imagination for years. So he set up a booth (a mule cart with a sign) and chatted amiably with passersby. He started drawing small crowds by reciting tales of derring do.

Then the scream. And the smoke. And the dragon! Here went looking for adventure, or rather was getting ready to look for adventure when one popped up all around him. He froze. He wasn’t afraid. He was just… overwhelmed. It was nothing like what he had read about. It was chaos. He knew that if he were presented with the situation written in words on a paper, he would be able to tell you what the heroes should do. But he wasn’t in his father’s study. He was surrounded by screams and smoke and violence.

But he recovered. He want sure how long he spent frozen. A minute? Seconds? It didn’t matter. Something switched in Faim’s brain. He skulked now to the sound of battle. A party had formed, it was beautiful. More and more enemies were appearing out of the smoke. Everything was so obscured.

Faim grabbed a small bugle hanging from his waist and brought it to his pursed lips and gave a burst of rapid toots. Amongst the kobolds and drakes a burst of pastel light blossomed to illuminate the dragonic raiders.

Action: Cast faerie fire in a location that catches as many of the baddies without hitting the heroes, trying to make sure and get the drake(s).
Dex Save DC 13

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Spoiler text: (Highlight or hover over the text to view)
Range: 60 feet  Components: V  Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute  Each object in a 20-foot cube within range is outlined in blue, green, or violet light (your choice). Any creature in the area when the spell is cast is also outlined in light if it fails a Dexterity saving throw. For the duration, objects and affected creatures shed dim light in a 10-foot radius.  Any attack roll against an affected creature or object has advantage if the attacker can see it, and the affected creature or object can’t benefit from being invisible.

---

Faim quietly lectures to himself, “You are concentrating on a spell now, stay back and stick to ranged attacks.” Then he draws out his crossbow and loads it.

To the others he calls out, “Dwindle their numbers, even if it means doubling up on enemies! Or focus on little guys if you quickly take them out of the fight by yourself!”

Bonus action: Bardic Inspiration to Alleycat (or someone else if you already have it)
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~~I suppose that big Lizard must be a Drake,~~ Alleycat thought to himself. ~~At least I think that's what Antru called it. Looks very damned mean. Hope we can kill it. Or at least convince it to leave us alone.~~

Antru had already wounded the nearest Drake with his blade, and Mekkar quickly followed up with a heavy-handed rapier thrust that, based upon the beast's reaction, seemed to have hit a vital spot.

OOC: (Assuming the the Drake falls to Alleycat's first Attack): Seeing the Drake's death-throes, the Waterdehavian turned his off-hand Attack against the Kobold that he had previously wounded.

Having heard Antru's advice, Alleycat nodded and replied, "Aye, there are just too many foes. We should make a fighting retreat, falling back towards the keep as soon as possible."

He grinned at the Elf. "Mayhap by then we will have slain enough of them that they will think twice before pressing us too closely."

---

OOC:

Action: 17:40, Today: Alleycat rolled 25 using 1d20+5 with rolls of 20.  Primary Melee Attack v. Drake. Critical Hit!

17:42, Today: Alleycat rolled 17 using 2d8+3 with rolls of 8,6.  Damage (Critical Hit, Rapier)

Bonus Action: 17:44, Today: Alleycat rolled 13 using 1d20+5 with rolls of 8.  Off-Hand Melee Attack .

18:08, Today: Alleycat rolled 4 using 1d4.  Bless Boost.

Total Attack Roll for Off-Hand Attack: 17.

17:45, Today: Alleycat rolled 4 using 1d8 with rolls of 4.  Damage (Off-Hand Attack, Rapier).

17:46, Today: Alleycat rolled 1 using 1d6 with rolls of 1.  Sneak Attack Damage

Total Damage Dealt to Kobold This Round: 5.

Free Action: Speak.

Comments: I have written this post assuming that the combined Damage dealt by Antru and Alleycat will be sufficient to kill the Drake that they have attacked. If so, Alleycat will direct his off-hand attack against a nearby Kobold. If one of the Kobolds was previously wounded by him for 2 points of Damage (see Msg. #33, above), he will try to finish off the wounded Kobold.
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Catrina shakes her head at once again missing another tackle, so she goes for an aggressive attack. She twirls her staff in front of the drakes, hitting it's various joints while spinning her staff. She then ends it with a palm strike at it's head, threatening to shatter it's skull by her mere touch.


Action: Quarterstaff Att
08:01, Today: Catrina GreySky rolled 22 using 1d20+5.  Quarterstaff Att.
08:02, Today: Catrina GreySky rolled 10 using 1d8+3.  Dmg

Bonus Action: Unarmed Attack
08:03, Today: Catrina GreySky rolled 21 using 1d20+5.  Punch .
08:04, Today: Catrina GreySky rolled 7 using 1d4+3.  Dmg

17 dmg should be enough to kill it.

Gritting her teeth, Taria remembers the last time she unleashed this level of flame here and she spent the next four months helping her father rebuild houses, wells, barns, and so much more. She did not want a repeat performance. The Master would not approve an absence that long.

She takes a step or two to get a good angle. In her minds eye, she envisions a controlled fan no more than an inch thick encompassing each of the three Kobolds and no debris or structures. Her fingers trance an intricate pattern meant to constrain the evocation to the pattern imagined. With a single arcane word of power, a surge of flame erupts brilliantly lighting up the vicinity.


Cast Burning Hands to try and catch all three Kobolds with minimal collateral damage.

20:55, Today: Taria rolled 11 using 3d6.  Burning Hands. Dex Save DC 13 for half.

HP: 6/8    AC 15 (Willing to cast shield if AC 19 would deflect an attack)
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Sora, retreating with the children pauses long enough to look back. At this distance, most of her magic had little use.


....most

She ushered the children past her, feeling the anger of herself welling up, and felt the approval of her mistress. Her eyes again turned black, this time with small tendrils of black tracing her skin around her eyes like inky veins. Her necklace glowed pink, helping her aura turn pink. then the light coalesced into her outstretched hand.

All her anger was channeled into the magic as it flew from her hand towards the drake.

....it hit it with a solid blast of magical energy

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<OOC: Action - Cast Eldrich blast at the drake D1 (Facing Bross)

Sora rolled 25 using 1d20+5.  Attack - eldrich blast <*CRITICAL*>
Sora rolled 13 using 2d10.  damage - eldrich blast.>
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Hargrin continued to move with Sora and the children toward safety, turning back briefly to gesture at the right-most kobold shooting at Taria and shout again.

Action: Cast Toll the Dead on the one of the flanking kobolds. WIS save DC 15 for the target. Damage is 6 on a fail.


22:30, Today: Hargrin Bitterbrew rolled 6 using 1d8.  Damage.

Move: Toward the retreat.
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Through the smoke, the party can see the guards beginning an orderly fighting withdrawal toward the road and the keep. THe stalls along the northern edge of the fairgrounds still provide cover to those seeking protection from random bolts being fired by kobalds with crossbows. The adventurers do their part to hold the eastern flank, allowing dozens of unarmed townsfolk and farmers to reach the organized effort to escape the battle.

Alleycat pierces the vitals of the drake trying to tear him to ribbons. The strike from his off hand impales a nearby kobald before it can fire another bolt. Leaving one very nervous kobald hastily reloading his crossbow with the two deadly rogues in position to gut him next.

Catrina whirls about in a deadly dance staggering the drake in front of her with her blazing speed and accuracy, however, the drakes are tough and this one still stands.

Taria steps eastward closing on a drake and three kobalds. They all glow with a strange light, her hands extending outward releasing arcane fire. The kobalds scream, engulfed in flame. they run in random directions until they slump to the ground and add to the thickness of the smoke. The drake hisses in pain and rage as it emerges from the fire with hungry eyes only for her.

Sora helps to usher the Chamberlain's children toward the guards, at the limits of her vision in the smoke she turns and a blast of purple energy erupts from her oustretched hand and shoots straight into the ribs of the drake attacking Bross. The creature's scaley flesh sizzles as it slumps to the ground at Bross' feet.

Hargrin's call for Chauntea's aid tolls on the last kobald still standing. It coughs out its life force and falls to the ground. Dead.

Ned efficiently thrusts the blunt end of his staff through the eye socket of the thug attacking him. He rushes westward before that thug hits the ground and smashes the thug chasing melody along the side of his head. This thug is also finished.

Three loud blasts on a horn are heard from within the smoke. No new enemies emerge from the concealment of the smoke. Their approach can be heard at the limits of the adventurers' vision.
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Sora saw that Taria was in dire straits with the drake facing her. Her instincts called out for action and again she felt the power well up and the crystal flared with pink light. Her eyes again became pools of black, the tracing of black veins becoming more prominent as the energy again erupted from her hand, striking the drake a slight glancing blow.

As it hit, she called out. "Get out of there!"

---

<OOC: Action - Cast Eldrich Blast at drake 4 (Facing Taria)

Sora rolled 22 using 1d20+5.  Attack - eldrich blast.
Sora rolled 4 using 1d10.  Damage - eldrich blast.>