Quinn gritted his teeth and pulled the trigger of his crossbow.
Calliae moves up to Raska, drawing the healing wand they acquired earlier. "Just hold on a second, I'll see what I can do about that wound."
With that she channels the wand's energy, gently tapping Raska with it.
The Ironfang sentry takes a step back from Edvard and William, retrieving a signal whistle as she does so and blowing hard. Then, shouting in Goblin, she levels her crossbow and fires at William, even as her wolf jumps toward Edvard. The bolt goes wide, but Edvard finds the wolf's teeth sinking into his leg all too easily.
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Quinn cursed as his bolt went wide and dropped the crossbow. He pulled the wand from his sleeve and focused on the hob.
"Get off me beast!" shouts Edvard before stabbing the Wolf.
With a grimace, Raska removed the bolt from his shoulder. He steels himself as Calliae's healing energies rush through his extremities. "Thank you, my friend."
With that he rushes towards the sentry, cursing as he watches her raise the alarm.
William moves up and attacks the hobgoblin while says, "I'm with you Edvard!"
Edvard's and William's attacks are ineffective against the wolf, but Quinn's magic does sear the flesh of the ironfang heavy for a moment.
William says "I think we're going to have company joining us, possibly out of the shed there, she told them to "get out here"."
Without turning his attention, Edvard will shout out "Raska, disable the doors to the shed!"
"Quin, we should move towards the bridge. We don't want to be caught out here if troops come out of there." With that Calliae moves towards the bridge, though she does not actually join the melee.
Instead she stands back, facing the shed and ready to aid there if it's needed.
Edvard and William battle back against vicious attacks from their various foes. The Ironfang heavy, finding herself engaged in melee, takes a step back and fires point blank at William before tossing aside her crossbow and readying her shield. The bolt is aimed well, and William feels it sink deep.
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Across the bridge, the wolf snaps at Edvard, but forewarned is forearmed, and the warlord has little difficulty keeping his ankles out of the wolf's fanged maw.
At the bottom of the arch's slope, not far from Quinn, the storage shed door opens and another Ironfang recruit appears. A third hob is visible behind the new arrival, still struggling to grab her gear.
William steps forward and attacks the heavy with both ends of his quarterstaff. "We need to drop these two quick so we can help the others."
"Agreed."
Edvard moves to assist William with the Hobgoblin, provoking from the wolf.
”No, it's fine,” Quinn rolled his eyes as the two new hobs joined the fight, ”just swarm the old guy.”
Quinn glanced at the others -- they may as well have been in Osirion. He sighed and resigned himself to casting a real spell. After a gesture and a few words, Quinn coughed up a large glob and spat it at the hob that was already prepped for combat.
Raska continues his rush to the frontlines, flanking the wolf with Edvard hoping to put a quick end to the beast so that he may greet the new foes from the shed.
Edvard tries to move to aid William, but the wolf seizes the moment to catch him in its jaws again and hurl him to the ground.
Although William's staff is a blur and Raska stabs with all his might, the wolf and its master are both faster still, dodging and blocking the attacks easily.
Calliae grumbled as her fellows where falling into disarray, "Quin, get here! You can't take those guys alone. I can cover you but you need to get here!"
As she shouts she sees Edvard falling down from the corner of her eye and curses under her breath. None of this was working out. Both wolf and master stood there unmolested while they laid a beating on her fellows and now there were new hobs coming in.
She sighed before mumbling something undecipherable under her breath before inhaling a massive gulp of air. As she exhales a cloud of fog comes from her mouth, hiding those on the bridge from the newcomers.
Moments later she appears at the edge of the cloud near Raska, standing next to the side of the bridge. There was only so much she could do right now and if all else failed and her companions fell at least she could escape via the river. There was no reason to die pointlessly.
The Ironfang heavy adds her scimitar to her arsenal along with her buckler as she withdraws a step, now standing over the prone and vulnerable Edvard. She cuts him deeply as he lies there, leaving him unconscious and bleeding on the bridge.
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The wolf does the same to Raska, all but tearing the ifrit's throat out.
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Seeing the two heroes fall, Aubrin has one of the brawny refugees carry her into the mist, where she channels in hopes of saving the two men's lives.
The hobgoblin in the shed doorway runs up to Quinn, clearly enraged by the spell assault, and slashes at the wizard in a frenzy.
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The other starts making her careful, if awkward, way through the obscuring mist.
William steps forward and attacks the hobgoblin again. "Not good. Not good." he mutters.
Brought back from the edge of death, Edvard will focus on protecting himself, then stand up.
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Although he tries to block the inevitable attack as he rises, Edvard can't quite manage to fend off both fangs and scimitar. Still, he manages to reach his feet.
William has more luck, striking a solid blow that knocks the heavily-armored hobgoblin back for a moment.
This is not going well, Quinn thought, and I doubt anyone will jump to help me.
Quinn took a deep breath, focused his thoughts and booked it for the mist Calliae had summoned.
Quinn called out to the others as he neared the mist,"Maybe one of you should ask for help?!"
Miraculously Raska's bleeding seems to have stopped, but he is growing paler by the second.
As Aubrin's healing energies surge through Raska's bleeding body, he gasps air as his eyes flash open. Seeing the bloody fangs of the wolf he quickly realizes what happened and attempts to tumble away into the obscuring mists.
The wolf snaps his bloody jaws as Raska tries to roll away. Looming over him as the animal is, Raska finds he cannot keep the fangs away, and they sink deep into his chest.
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Calliae returns to Raska's side and uses another charge off of her wand to help heal him.
Aubrin channels again as well, before her escorts carry her back away from the dangers of the fray.
The Ironfang heavy turns her attention back to William, cutting at him with her blade. His staff knocks the strike aside easily, even as the other end spins around for a new attack.
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The wolf, unwilling to let its prey go, keeps trying to bite at Raska. Despite the healing magic he has received, he falls unconscious again beneath the vicious teeth.
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The other two hobogblins move forward, one trying to follow Quinn into the mist, the other stepping out of it and up next to Edvard, her blade steady and level as she approaches the warlord.
William moves forward slightly and then attacks the hobgoblin.
Edvard stabs at the wolf, intent on ending it's threat to Raska.
Despite Raska's best efforts, the tenacity of the slavering wolf simply will not allow him to flee to safety, although it does appear that his bleeding has stopped for the moment.
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Calliae grumbles as Raska gets bitten by the wolf once more. Once more she taps him with the wand, hoping it will at least sustain him for a bit longer.
Quinn let out a quick shout to the other survivors from the mist, ”Help!”
And then began casting a spell to summon one of Felix's playmates.
Aubrin, seeing that she is apparently the only one who heard Quinn's call, repeats the cry for help on the PC's behalf.
This time, it is answered, and one of the archers takes a shot at the wolf that has been such a scourge so far. To everyone's astonishment, the attack hits and ends the wolf's life.
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The heavy continues her duel against William. This time, though, the hob catches her boot in a crack of the bridge stones and nearly drops her blade.
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Edvard finds himself beset now by a new threat, as the hobgoblin recruit tries to finish him. What might have been a fatal blow, however, is avoided by dint of Evard's painfully-earned familiarity with Ironfang tactics.
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The final recruit steps out of the mist and turns his steps toward Calliae.
Edvard steps back to provide a flank for William and shouts "Stand and deliver. FOR NIRMATHAS!"
With the hobgoblin distracted William tries to drop her.
When the small dog appeared next to Quinn the wizard scratched behind the dog's ear. Quinn knew it wasn't the same dog each time -- sometimes it was white with two brown ears, sometimes it was gray with a squashed face. He wasn't actually certain certain that what came forth was even really a dog. Each time he gave the name his son had named their family pet, ”Sic 'em, Bert.”
After the dog raced off, Quinn headed pushed on through the mist. Wand of MM still gripped tight. When he came to the edge, Quinn grinned and activated the wand.
Bert Lerpis will move up and attack the same hob.
Raska will rise to his feet with a groan and step behind the recruit, attempting to stab him in the kidneys.
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William's staff cracks pain across the heavy's jaw, almost dropping her to knees, but she does not fall. Quinn and his summoned dog both inflict minor wounds on the Ironfang recruit as well.
Calliae exchanges the wand for her sickle before lashing out at the hobgoblin in front of her.
To her surprise, Calliae's sickle manages to cut a decent chunk out of the hobgoblin that has already been assaulted by Quinn and his summoned dog. He tries to cut back at her with his longsword, but she hooks his blade with the curve of hers and jerks it aside.
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Meanwhile, the other two Ironfang warriors keep up their own attacks on William and Edvard respectively. William takes a slash on his shoulder, but Edvard blocks the blow aimed at him.
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After deflecting the hob's sword Calliae quickly lashes out again with her sickle.
Edvard keeps stabbing with his spear while providing orders, instructions, and advice.
Feeling the scimitar bite into him William winces as he attacks the heavy and misses her.
Raska coughs up blood as he continues his assault. He will kill the hobgoblin or die trying.