Sighting carefully, Gundar sends another bolt at the nearby orc, , sure to leave plenty of leeway so as not to hit his comrade.
He curses the miss, and considers taking a place on the melee line rather than continue to loose bolts into the air with no orc blood to show for them...
Green swings at Kragmyr in desparation, and manages a severe cut.
The black bomber draws his falchion and swings at Belir, but misses by a mile.
Bleeding heavily, Kragmyr takes a five foot step back and puts his hand onto his wound. Glancing down at it, he could see that the orc had cut an artery, and blood was flowing at a lethal rate. Focusing his hatred, he willed the wound to close.
"Baruk Trunau." He growled. "Baruk ai-mênu!"
* Loose translation: "The axes of Trunau. The axes have come!"
"That should just about do it!" Thozar tells Thuradin. "Kragmyr isn't looking to solid right now, I've got to keep him together too!" he says as he trots off towards his wounded brother.
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Ulark stabs out at the orc who wounded Kragmyr, missing but hopefully drawing its attention.
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Havent come for ya yet! So get back and rest up - days far from over!
Torith calls on his earthen power and hurls another large rock at the orc nearest to the barricade.
Torith seems to be tiring as he badly misses the heavily wounded orc.
Gundar shoulders his crossbow and hefts his axe, deciding against taking up the long spear. It was obvious there would be no orderly battle line with these fellows - and it seemed they could use some help in the swirling melee.
He brings his axe down on the orc attacking Kragmyr, savoring how much better it felt to put axe to bone rather than pull a release on a crossbow...
Gundar cuts the green orc down. Belir continues to dish out punishment on the bomber, who has taken fatal wounds but still struggles to stand. He lights a bomb, and tries to throw it.
Kragmyr' eyes widen as he sees the bomb lit and Belir's axe flash out. The blow looked like it would be swung true, but the lad was standing right next to it. He had a brief moment to wonder if this would end up as a a heroic saga, or another entry in the Book of Grudges...
Thuradin jumps the barricade and moves as fast as his stumpy dwarven legs will carry him over to the second pile of logs. "Belir, fall back" he yells as he draws his axe to cut the timbers loose.
The black bomber falls on his bomb, quite dead already.
Kragmyr falls back behind the barricade. "Well struck! That's another wave down. I wonder how many we will kill before they take a hint."
"Haha, orcs are slow learners, it might take thirty more!" Thozar responds as he scrambles over the barricade and heals some of Kragmyr's wounds.
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Ulark takes a few quick breaths in the moments lull. He then turns to Belir.
If you're going to be in the front anyway, at least join me to the south. We can draw a few of the dumber ones into the log-lane; just charging at them only makes the fight further away from the rest.
Torith takes advantage of the lull in the fight to catch his breath and check how his allies are doing.
"So far so good, right? Everyone holding up OK?"
"Aye, I'm alright. An' thank ye, Thozar. I wonder though, where the manlings be. This be there town. Hope they're nay be overrun elsewhere."
9 more orcs appear, 6 of them carrying a large battering ram and headed right for the barricade!
New orcs flood in, this time with siege equipment. One of their hangers-on heads for Gundar.
"Not one of you blighters gets through!" Gundar roars as he brings his axe around at the charging foe, dispensing finesse for brute force.
As the orcs barrel through the opening, Thozar lifts his hands as high as he can and waits for them to get close. Just as they are about to collide with Kragmyr, he slaps the ground before him and a large hole materializes in the ground beneath them! "The earth shall keep you company for a while!"
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Thozar creates a pit.
Three of the first 4 fall into the pit, taking the battering ram with them.
Kragmyr watched the orcs come, his eyes wide. They were coming far too fast. He couldn't fight a battering ram. This was his doom. He steeled himself, forcing himself to watch his death come so that he could meet his ancestors with pride.
And that was when Thozar created the pit. Kragmyr shot the dwarf a look of incredulity. "Ye amazin' bastard! Ancestors smile on ye lad!" Holding his gore soaked weapon, he swung once more at the nearest orc. He was tiring though...
As the logs roll and knock over a pair of dwarves, Ulark steps up to strike at one of the fallen.
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He then looks over to see a large hole where many of the orcs were just moments prior.
Thats it! That's using your head! Then seeing Kragmyr's footing, he yells again. Take a step back ya daft dwarf! Do you want to slip in?
"HAHA!" he shouts victoriously and then makes his way back over the barricade. He hefts his longspear into position and waits for an orc to make it's way to the barricade. "We can take them all!"
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Readied Action vs Approach
Gundar swings again at his target, aiming to disembowel the orc.
Kragmyr strike White, who is already struggling to stand up in the pit. He will die in there without any additional need to strike him.
Red takes another blow from Ulark, putting him down for good.
Gundar finishes off his target as well.
Thuradin steps upthe orc in yellow and swings his axe. Guided by Torag's power his blade sinks deep into the orc's side.
Torith gets an idea and heads for the boulder and starts to use his earth moving powers to create a channel to guide the boulder towards the pit.
"Does someone want to help me give this thing a shove?"
Omast fires a bolt at yellow, then moves back to the boulder to help push it.
Unfortunately, yellow just won't drop from his obviously fatal injuries. He swings at Thuradin.
Moving over to the fatally wounded orc, Kragmyr swung his weapon once more. It had hurt Thuradin something fierce, and while he was out of healing magic, he could still kill orcs.
Angered by the attack, Thuradin rushes into the orc and lifts him bodily off his feet. Carrying him backwards he dumps him into the pit with the rest if his kind.
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Hearing Torith, Gundar smiles wickedly. " 'old on, my pretties, we've got a gift for you," he says as he heads back to help move the boulder.
Yellow is killed, thrown into the pit, and then has a boulder dropped on him as well as the others. All of the orcs are dead.
Breathing heavily, Kragmyr leans on his hammer, breathing heavily. Looking around he smiles at his bloodied, wounded, and victorious kinsmen.
"Well done lads! Might not be the last o' the idiots. Let's get behind the fortifications lads. I doubt that they have more siege equipment, so let them tire themselves out comin' to us."
As the boulder plummets into the pit, Thozar shouts out a battlecry, punctuating it with both fists raised in the air.
He then spends the remaining time healing his allies in anticipation of another wave. "Brothers, think we should try to push the boulder further when those orcs appear?"
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Feeling his wounds heal, Kragmyr says "Thozar, ye do your ancestors credit with yer craft. Thank ye."
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"There is a human game i have heard of that is played in Taldor. They hit a small egg-ball around a field with a walking stick while trying to get it in a small hole. They would call this a 'hole-in-one', though i think the Dwarven version is much better as we got more than one with our boulder! I'm ready to push when you are Thozar!"
Torith takes his time to find his footing and brace himself so he is ready to shove with all his might when the others are ready.
"That was...effective." Ulark says, somewhat in disbelief as to how effective it worked. And fine shooting too Omast.