Caprice casts haste upon herself, then moves to close with the foes.
"I think you'll find this lady'll split the two of you quite easily herself!"
Khamul slips from between the bandits, and then pokes his longspear at the bandit flanked between himself and Caprice...
+3 bab +1 str +1 size +2 flanking
+1 str
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4 (Dex) +4 (Armor) +1 (Size)
Dana moves into the building and casts murderous command on the green thug to attack the other thug.
“That is your enemy!“ she shouts.
Caprice rushes to intercept the thugs as they attempt to surround Khamul. The small halfling moves out from between them, his spear stabbing at the one with the green hand wraps. The warrior only shakes his head and puts a swift side kick into Caprice’s throat as she closes, sending her reeling a bit. He then turns back to Khamul just in time to take a spear to his leg.
The other thug, this one with a rose colored pendant around his neck, comes at Khamul with a fury, but it is clear he is not used to fighting a smaller opponent, as his kicks go just over the halfling’s head.
Caprice chokes, but does her best to stand her ground with practiced concentration, before her supernaturally accelerated blade flashes twice.
Khamul steps sideways and jabs at the remaining thug with his longspear. As he does he taunts "That lady is going to cut you both in half if you don't give up..."
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"Whoa, tough guy!"; Khamul's impressed, but that doesn't stop him from trying to put his spear into the flanked thug's back...
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4 (Dex) +4 (Armor) +1 (Size)
The wound in his leg seems to slow the thug as he turns to attempt to block the incoming strikes from Caprice. Her magically enhances speed is too much for him and he loses his footing and stumbles sideways into the wall and slumps to the ground.
Eyeing the fallen bandit, the other one takes a deep breath, as if to center himself as Khamul’s spear strikes at him. He seems to move almost as fast as Caprice, his hands easily batting away the weapon.
Dora casts bless on the party!
The bandit, now more focused, leaps into the air and over Khamul’s head and spear. He then makes a dash around the hole in the hallway floor and yells up the stairs, ”Boys! We got trouble down here!” You hear the pounding of feet from the floor above.
Realizing this is going to be a bigger fight, Khamul calls on borrowed holy might, as he follows after the escaping bandit. He takes up a spot on the opposite side of the hole Iesha tore in the floor, with his spear ready for newcomers...
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4 (Dex) +4 (Armor) +1 (Size)
+3 bab +1 str +1 size +2 divine favor +1 bless
+1 str +2divine favor
“More are coming?! Ok!“
She casts a spell and a ball of fire drops on the remaining thug.
Caprice follows, aided by her haste to maneuver, attempting to finish of the foe and position herself such that more opponents would have to face her first.
The bandit by the door tries to close it before the giant ball of flame hits him. It instead catches the door and his hand wraps aflame, just in time for Caprice to come close and stab him in the gut. The flame on the door goes out with a gust of black smoke, just as the fight in him seems to slow. He clutches his stomach and holds his hand up. "I yield."
You can still hear the men upstairs rushing to come down.
Khamul rushes around the pit and readies himself for the rush he thinks is coming, saying "Use the door as a chokepoint!"
+3 bab +1 str +1 size +2 divine favor +1 bless
+1 str +2divine favor
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+3 bab +1 str +1 size +2 divine favor +1 bless
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Using the blunt of her weapon, Caprice tries to knock unconscious the yielding fighter, worried he would turn on them as soon as his fellows arrived.
If the first strike knocked him out, she would stay her hand on the second.
The thug is not surprised as the hilt of Caprice’s sword hits him in the temple, dropping him almost instantly to the ground. Her proximity to the stairs tells her that his friends are almost there.
From the top of the stairs, two men start rushing down them, but as soon as they see their comrade lying on the floor, one of them turns and heads back a different direction while the other comes down cautiously, his hands up in a defensive posture, eyeing Caprice and her blade.
“Here some fire for your head!!“
She moves the ball of fire to the next thug.
Dora’s flame rolls towards the newcomer and he immediately folds his body backwards, allowing the flame to roll over him. He moves towards Caprice more aggressively, a sneer on his face.
Khamul lunges at the latest thug. As he does he calls out "Idun, I think the other one is going to the other stairs to come down behind you, where he can get at Dora."
+3 bab +1 str +1 size +2 divine favor +1 bless
+1 str +2divine favor
Defence roll G: 19 = 19(from previous post)
Defence roll H: 24 = 24(from previous post)
Defence roll J: 20 = 20(from previous post)
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Caprice nods and tries to fell the latest foe.
If her attack is successful at defeating the foe, she will move to guard the other stair. Otherwise, she will strike again.
“Here some more fire for your head!!“
She moves the ball of fire to the next thug in red clothing.
Between the Dora’s ball of flame, Khamul’s spear and Caprice’s blade, it seems the thug on the stair would have no chance, but his skills at evasion seem to be on par with your skills at combat. He dodges most of the strikes and blocks those that get through, though not without taking a couple of cuts on the arms as he does so. After weathering the assault, he creates a wicked smile on his face and then begins wailing at Caprice with fists and knees, attempting to wear her down. The other bandit comes down the stairs on the other side, looking for his first target, his hands in a similar defensive posture.
Khamul continues to poke at the bandit with his longspear.
+3 bab +1 str +1 size +2 divine favor +1 bless
+1 str +2divine favor
Defence roll G: 19 = 19(from previous post)
Defence roll H: 24 = 24(from previous post)
Defence roll J: 20 = 20(from previous post)
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“They are tough!!“
She moves the ball of fire to the next thug in green clothing.
"They fight like Grenz- but not quite to his quality, we'll prevail!" Caprice continues the fight.
Khamul and Caprice continue to accost the warrior on the stairs, his hands moving faster than lightning to keep their weapons at bay. When he gets a chance, he lashes out at Caprice with a kick to her mid-section.
The bandit with the cyan colored earring rushes Dora in an attempt to take her out of the fight. He comes at her with fists, feet, knees and elbows, a fury of strikes to drop her.
Khamul steps back from the fight, catching his longspear in the crook of his left elbow. He snatches at his waist, grabbing his sling. A single spin brings the weapon up to speed, even as practiced hands drop a bullet into the cup... the next spin launches the bullet at the bandit in the stairwell.
+3 bab +4 dex +1 size +2 divine favor +1 bless +1 pbs, can fire into melee without penalty (precise shot)
+1 str +2divine favor +1 pbs
Defence roll G: 19 = 19(from previous post)
Defence roll H: 24 = 24(from previous post)
Defence roll J: 20 = 20(from previous post)
She moves the ball of fire to the nearest thug that is up.
Dora holds back the bandit that attacked her, her sheer power of will keeping him from being able to touch her. In return, the ball of flame streaks towards his back, catching him off guard and begins to burn him where he stands.
The red bandaged thug is fast enough to stop hand to hand weapons from hitting him, but a tiny rock flying at extreme speeds is too much and he is nicked by it directly in the forehead, eliciting a thin line of blood. The surprise on his face is evident.
Caprice continues the fight, but is beginning to be worn down by the repeated bows.
"Sorry, I'll help when I can-" The thought passes through her mind that she doesn't quite make Grenz's quality of a warrior.
Caprice manages to get through the fighting bandit’s defense just enough to cut a gash across his leg. He grimaces with the pain and then launches another assault at the daring woman, but even in her weakened state, her defenses hold out and he seems to be slowing as well.
The one with the cyan earring keeps after Dora, the flames on his back seeming to drive him forward. Dora ducks under one fist, but the other catches her in the ribs.
Khamul continues to juggle a longspear while firing a sling... The longspear ends up held horizontally by his side in his left hand as the sling whips over his head...
+3 bab +4 dex +1 size +2 divine favor +1 bless +1 pbs, can fire into melee without penalty (precise shot)
+1 str +2divine favor +1 pbs
Defence roll G: 19 = 19(from previous post)
Defence roll H: 24 = 24(from previous post)
Defence roll J: 20 = 20(from previous post)
Caprice does her best to continue the fight. If Khamul fells the foe she'll go to fight the other, otherwise stand her ground.
Another rock from Khamul momentarily stuns the combatant on the stairs. This is just enough of a distraction that allows Caprice to impale him where he stands. The look of shock on his face is now permanently etched as he dies.
Dora 5 ft steps and delays given that her spell has expired.
Seeing that he is now outnumbered and his allies are down or dead, the last of the bandits decides discretion is, well, discretion, and he puts some distance between himself and all of you.
Khamul moves to the edge of the hole Iesha tore in the floor, and whips another sling bullet after the fleeing thug...
+3 bab +4 dex +1 size +2 divine favor +1 bless, can fire into melee without penalty (precise shot)
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Caprice'll try and chase down the last foe.
As the thug attempts to flee, a rock goes sailing towards his back. He stumbles a bit as it strikes, slowing him just enough for Caprice to catch up to him. Her blade finds its mark through him and comes out the other side, piercing his heart. He shudders a moment and then stops, sliding off of her gored blade.
Looking around for any further threats and seeing none, you allow yourself a moment of respite, breathing hard and holding sore spots. Now to decide what to do next.
Khamul stops dead and listens, trying to hear if anyone else is moving around in the house:
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Then he casts Message to allow the 3 of us to communicate quietly, "This cantrip will let us talk without risking alerting them. You can hear me whisper and you can whisper back to me. Dora, do what you can to patch you and Caprice; I'm fine."
First Khamul makes sure the one Idun knocked unconscious isn't dying, using his psychic abilities (casts Stabilize), and then he starts
searching the bodies (using his detect magic cantrip while doing so).
5 ranks +3 trained+1 Trait+2 spirit bonus
As he works, he whispers "If Idun's tracking was right, there's a bunch more of these dipsticks... Do we want to try and take them? If all four of those guys had shown up at once, I'm not sure we could have taken them..."
Caprice takes a moment to refocus herself before answering.
"I think they may have heard the shouting and fighting." Caprice does not seem convinced, but nonetheless uses the spell.
Dora breathes heavily. She heals herself first with her spells and then the team.
Making sure the one thug is still breathing, Khamul sets to perking up his halfling ears for any more of them. If anything, they are not upstairs, as he hears no creaking floorboards or thuds of footsteps on stairs. That leaves one place they could be.
Hurrying to find what he can in the pockets of the downed ones robes, Khamul finds many small trinkets and knick knacks more than likely taken from the manor. At a quick guess, they could be sold for at least five hundred gold sails altogether in Sandpoint. That does not include all the things they dropped prior to the fight. In one set of robes, those that had been burned by Dora’s flame, Khamul also finds the charred remains of a letter. He can barely make out the words, but they seem to be instructions and there is an image drawn on it as well. It looks very similar to the mass of mold you saw in the basement before.
“Alright, everyone, let's take a moment to catch our breath!“ Dora says,
“We did well back there, but we can't let our guard down just yet. Khamul, excellent job on your quick thinking and sharp ears. It seems the rest of the intruders may have retreated to the basement, where that mold-like substance is!“
... That does not include all the things they dropped prior to the fight. ...
"Idun, tie up the one you knocked unconscious, just in case he wakes up. Then drag him outside - I'd like to ask him questions, and I suspect unconscious people in this house don't wake up alive. Then let's head downstairs..."
While Idun's doing that, Khamul takes a quick, cautious, peek at the stuff they dropped - wondering if the bandits have been silly enough to have messed with mold-mass downstairs (like say trying to carry it out in pieces...).