As Uriel dashes into position behind the aurochs, the beast swings its head low, stabbing the paladin with a horn. The dretch tries to swipe at him with a claw, but Uriel is too fast and easily dodges it.
The aurochs' victory is short-lived. Two slashes with Radiance bring it crashing to the ground, dead.
Telerin steps back between the bridge piles, loads another bolt, and shoots at the tiefling.
It's a solid shot, and the tiefling looks badly injured.
One of the dretches chases after Uriel, and swipes again with its claw.
And, again, it fails to get through. The other dretch lashes out at Arloric.
On the other side of the bridge, the tiefling caster utters the words to a spell, and duplicate images appear around him shifting in and out so that it's difficult to know which one is the real tiefling.
Sensing an easier target, two tielfling converge on Arloric. The first slashes with its short sword.
The other moves into clanking position, and does the same.
Arloric looks gravely wounded, but is still in the fight.
The tiefling that Alexa wounded cuts and runs, scrambling up the hill.
The one between her and the bridge steps up and swings with his sword.
But she's too fast, and dodges the strike.
With all the aurochs dead, Alexa looks over at the far side of the bridge and realizes that Arloric is getting quite trounced.
She grumbles and deliberately ignores the tiefling soldier in front of her to rush to his aid, Telerin's haste spell spurring her onward!
With a flash, her gladius strikes...
Arloric gives a victorious cry as the last auroch falls.
"The bridge still stands, defilers!"
Seeing he's about to be surrounded, he falls back to try and join Uriel.
Alexa darts across the battlefield with unnatural speed.
She slams into tiefling 2's flank, and skewers them with her gladius. The tiefling doesn't even have time to cry out before collapsing, dead.
Alexa's momentum carries her further forward, her gladius raking across the dretch's hide before she skids to a halt.
Arloric, seeing the tide finally turning, falls back to rejoin Alexa so he can try to recover.
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Arloric withdraws from the fight, looking for a safe avenue. He heads towards Alexa, but the dretch threatening Uriel lashes out at the bard with one of its claws.
It finds a weak spot in Arloric's armor, and claws slash into him. Arloric stumbles, then collapses.
The tiefling engaging Darya withdraws, and comes to a stop next to one of his companions, ready to re-engage.
The tiefling closest to Telerin advances again, and brings her sword around.
Her swing goes wide, and the elf easily avoids the blow.
As Arloric drops, Uriel rounds on the Dretch. "Big mistake."
Crit?
Uriel's sword slices through the dretch. With two strokes, Radiance cuts it down, and it winks out of existence.
He steps toward the tiefling and slashes at them but is unable to land the blow.
As the tiefling she faces steps back to coordinate with his fellow, Darya looks at them both and smiles. With an uttered command, she takes a step forward and raises her shield, the burnished metal glowing with an internal magic and erupting in a brilliant burst of light as she takes the opportunity to heal some of her wounds.
The tieflings wince as the shield flashes with a brilliant light, but avert their eyes in time.
Telerin steps back, hugging the bridge pile, reloads her crossbow and fires again.
Her bolt goes sailing past the tiefling and thunks into the river bed.
From the south side of the river bank, the tiefling spell caster sees another target come into view, and produces two more searing beam of light, one aimed at Alexa and the other at Uriel.
Alexa feels a mild burn as she's dealt a glancing blow, but Uriel takes his full on and smells it burn into his armor.
The remaining dretch turns towards Alexa, and attacks with both claws and its teeth.
It rages at its futile assault, though its bite comes dangerously close.
The tiefling engaged with Uriel attacks with its sword.
It steps back to stand beside the dretch.
Alexa ignores the burn, steps over the unconscious body of Arloric, and starts stabbing the dretch attacking Uriel!
With two strokes, Alexa slices the dretch apart and it dissolves away as it collapses.
The tiefling harassing Telerin advances again and attacks.
Her shortsword makes contact and draws blood.
The two tieflings near Darya team up. One goes north, the other goes south, and they move into flanking position.
Their teamwork seems to pay off as both blows land on the paladin.
Gritting her teeth as both opponents score a blow on her, Darya focuses her attacks on one of them, hoping to level the odds.
Darya tears into both tieflings. The first one drops dead from two slashes of her sword. She whirls on the other one, and with a single strike leaves them reeling, barely clinging to life.
Uriel steps forward and tries to finish the tiefling in front of him.
Uriel cuts through the tiefling and they are dead before they drop.
Telerin steps back again, loading another bolt and letting it loose.
It just misses the tiefling, passing inches from their head.
The spell caster scowls angrily as his company of soldiers dwindles away. He gestures again, sending more searing beams of light towards Alexa and Uriel.
The beam aimed towards Alexa is a wild shot and misses her by a mile. The other finds its target, and Uriel feels it burning into him.
"...f*@* this." Alexa growls before racing up the incline to put an end to the mage's spellcasting once and for all.
Her speed is such that she gets there in the span of a heartbeat...
...where her gladius starts low...
...before suddenly racing upwards, towards his heart!
Alexa charges towards the tielfing spell caster with magically-enhanced speed, and his eyes grow wide at her rapid approach. She watches his mirror images shift in and around in a confusing, random fashion, but zeroes in on the real target.
He moves to dodge her gladius, but is fooled by her feint and finds himself unable to react when the real strike occurs. He hisses as the blade sinks into him.
The tiefling closest to Daria steps back, clearly trying to get away.
The one threatening Telerin steps forward again and swings.
It's a sloppy attack and Telerin doesn't even have to move to avoid the blow.
As the tiefling that moments ago sought to bring her down by outnumbering her, now succumbs to fear, Darya charges forward in righteous fury, ending him.
Uriel swiftly heals himself, then steps over and heals Arloric as well.
Daria finishes off the tiefling with a single stroke.
Uriel takes a moment to heal both himself and Arloric. The latter opens his eyes, some health restored.
The tiefling spell caster looks annoyed at the threat posed by Alexa. He concentrates briefly, timing a spell casting with her movements.
He gestures with his hand and looks smug as four bolts of energy slam into her.
Alexa tanks the blasts, spits a wad of blood and keeps on stabbing!
Unfortunately, the sudden burst of damage has evidently rung her bell--her stabs go wildly off-target!
Arloric gets to his feet and grabs his weapon.
"IT TAKES MORE THAN THAT TO SEND A SON OF SARKORIS TO HIS ANCESTORS, 'SPAWN!" he roars, shaking it at them.
The tiefling threatening Telerin looks around, sees that she is the lone soldier left on the battlefield and darts past Telerin, running for the north bank of the riverbed.
"Arloric, you're still not looking too good. Sure you're up to this?" Uriel says, laying a hand on Arloric's shoulder. Then he heads for the fight on the other side of the bridge.
"I have to be up to it, Uriel!" Arloric declares. "The battle is not yet over!"
Racing after the fleeing tiefling, Darya attempts to cut the enemy down, quickly looking around the battlefield. "Where's Alexa?" she calls out to Uriel and Telerin.
Darya darts to the fleeing tiefling and slays her with a stroke of her sword. The tiefling's body falls backwards and tumbles down the slope into the riverbed.
"HO THERE!" Arloric bellows to Darya, pointing with his sword to where Alexa went. "THATAWAY, DARYA!"