Tolbert staggers back from the last hit, barely able to stand. He pulls out a scroll, then disappears.
Warren attacks again, this time putting extra effort into the swings.
Garnult takes a step back He then issues a prayer to the Forgefather Granite and Onyx skin!
3 Rounds Deflection Aura
39 Minutes Barksin
Warren puts forth a steel frenzy, but to no avail!
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Cassidy will five foot step and attack E3 again.
E2 (Warren) has all three charges left, E1 (by the door) has 1 left, and E3 is empty.
Cassidy misses!
The elf by the door steps up and attacks Cassidy!
He misses, and his partner attacks Cassidy as well!
This one connects, and Cassidy collapses to the floor!
The remaining elf continues to attack Warren!
The blessings of the Forgefather protect him!
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"Oh SUGAR!" Realizing the desperate situation Warren calls out to Henley, "Attack!" and points at the one in front of him and moves to flank with Henley.
Tolbert runs behind the fence, pulling out his wand on the way, and shimmers into view as he launches a beam of fire at one of the attackers.
Ye'll pay for that ya damn skinny elf bastards! Garnult growls as Cassidy goes down. He casts Bull's Strength on himself and picks up his shield.
Hold on lassie. he whispers
2 Rounds Deflection Aura
39 Minutes Barkskin
4 Minutes Bulls Strength
Warren and Tolbert make solid hits on their targets, leaving them both looking pretty ragged. Meanwhile, Henley contributes with a token peck to the forehead of Warren's opponent.
The elf nearest the door tries to get the bird out of the way.
Henley struggles to remain conscious!
Warren's opponent sees if he can actually hit anything yet:
Nope!
Finally, the remaining elf casts a spell and advances on Garnult:
He whiffs!
E1: flanking Henley, no spell, 0
E2: vs Warren, 3FB, 20
E3: vs Garnult, SG, 22
Warren yells to Heley "Down!" and Henley moves out from between the two elves. Warren moves 5 feet and attacks the elf.
Tolbert sheaths his wand, then steps to the side and lets out a blast of colors at two of the attackers.
Garnult promises Yer gonna have a bad day now elfie. and he swings his warhammer at E3
1 Rounds Deflection Aura
39 Minutes Barkskin
4 Minutes Bulls Strength
Warren fails to connect with his opponent!
Henley retreats to the corner with Cassidy!
Tolbert unleashes a blast of color!
Warren's opponent is affected by the spell and starts blinking absentmindedly where he stands, but the other elf is unaffected!
Garnult attacks, but misses!
Garnult's opponent takes another swing:
Another miss!
The elf by the door casts a spell and tries to help against Garnult:
Taking full advantage of the opportunity Tolbert gave him, Warren attacks with everything he has.
Garnult grumbles Damn squirmy elf. Stay still!
but he misses, angering him further.
Deflection aura wears off now.
39 Minutes Barkskin
4 Minutes Bulls Strength
Tolbert casts another spell on the attackers, hoping to keep them from attacking.
Warren's opponent finally drops!
Garnult attacks, but misses!
Tolbert's spell fails to take effect!
The remaining two elves try to take down the dwarf!
Both miss!
Warren moves to flank with Garnult and attacks with all his might.
Now that they're bunched up, Tolbert lets loose a torrent of sparkling motes.
I Said Stand Still Dammit! Garnult growls but the elf keeps dodging his attacks.
Warren lays into one of the elves, wounding him twice!
Tolbert attempts to blind them:
Both elves are blinded! Even so, Garnult doesn't land a hit.
The more injured of the elves attacks Garnult's last-known location:
He misses! His partner turns and swings in the direction Warren attacked from!
Warren is lightly cut, and given a slight shock!
Warren's opponent regains his sight, but the other remains blind!
Garnult says Time for you to give up! while hammering his warhammer down at his blinded opponent.
"Garnult, do you have ants in your pants? Hit him, for Gorum's sake!"
Garnult continues to flail ineffectually!
Tolbert fires a bolt of force at one of the elves, but sees the spell disappear as the air in front of the target seems to ripple like the surface of a pool when a droplet falls into it.
Warren attacks again and misses twice.
"Garnult you're rubbing off on me. How about a Touch of Law?"
Warren's opponent fights back!
He misses!
The blind elf attacks where Garnult is swinging from:
Another miss!
Garnult's opponent is no longer blinded!
Warren attacks again, holding back slightly to make sure he hits.
"That's more like it!"
Garnult, his dwarven stubbornness kicking in, refuses to stop swinging at the damned elf
Warren downs his opponent!
Reassessing threats, the last remaining elf turns his attention from Garnult to Warren!
The elf wounds him, but fails to drop him!
Garnult moves into the corner, to allow Warren to flank with him. He readies his attack for when Warren moves over.
Garnult swings again.
Garnult continues to dance the macarena in the middle of a fight!
Warren moves to flank with Garnult. "You keep distracting him Garnult, I'll finish him!" Warren lashes into the last elf hard to try and put him down.
The last elf falls!
"Garnult, see to Cassidy please. I'll pick an elf for questioning."
Warren tries to stabilize the least wounded elf.
He then ties the elf up and begins searching him and the other two bodies.
Garnult rushes to Cassidy and casts a spell of healing on her Get up lass...please get up.
While the others tend to the wounded, Tolbert slumps down to the ground, rubbing his arms to keep himself warm.
"Hey, can you bring some of that healing over here?"
As soon as Warren has the elves tied up or even disarmed Garnult will unleash a Channel healing everyone, including the elves.
Each elf wears a mundane dark-green cloak. They have swords and armor and stuff, of little interest. They each have a spellbook that contains all 0-level magus spells, plus vanish, shield, frostbite, shocking grasp, unseen servant, jump, feather fall, expeditious retreat, floating disk, and in one of them, alarm.
There are also three 1st-level pearls of power.
The simple, oval-shaped masks they wear are plain and smooth (no facial features except for eyeholes), the top half black and the bottom half white. One of them detects as magical.
Garnult heals Cassidy, and recognizes that the magic used to enhance her attacker's strikes was nonlethal in nature; she was in no danger of death. (And neither was anyone else, at least until they ran out of charges and had to bust out the shocking grasps.)
EDIT: And two of the elves wake up.
Tolbert gathers up the spellbooks and the pearls, then considers it, and tosses one of the pearls to Garnult. "Knock yourself out."
Tolbert sits down in front of the least-injured elf, and studies him for a moment before shaking his head.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. You know, we're really nice people if you'd give us a chance before attacking us. Why so aggressive?"
The one of the masks that's magical seems to have the ability to attune to an alarm (whether the spell or a permanent magical trap) and allows the wearer to know the position of anyone who triggers said alarm for up to 3 minutes as long as they're within 300ft. It has a faint divination aura.
"For the record," says the elf addressed by Tolbert, "I'd like to point out our nonlethal tactics. We have no interest in you in particular. We intended to search you and then let you go."
"Yes, that was a very non-lethal SWORD YOU CUT ME OPEN WITH!"
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Oh, well that makes all the world of difference. Garnult says sarcastically We should just let ya go then.
He begins searching through his backpack Where's my hangin rope...the one with the good knots. he then pauses as a very funny idea comes to him Wait, we are gonna hang them elves as bandits..FROM TREES! he guffaws Get it, trees, elves.
The two conscious elves look at each other, as if each were hoping the other could lend some insight into what the dwarf might possibly be talking about. After a shrug and head-shake, the one who was speaking turns back to the group.
"Look, anyway, this is extremely important: have you found any of the meteorites that fell a few days ago? That's all we were after in the first place. Have you found any?"
What if we have? Mebbe I wanna raise an army of the undead with which to conquer me own kingdom? What business is it of yours! Garnult snarks
"Garnult, for the love of Torag, shut up and let me do the talking!"
"...anyway. What's your interest in these stones?"
Garnult whirls around to face the Wizard Now you loo.. but the look on Tolbert's face silences the grumpy dwarf. Garnult grumbles Damn sneaky git wizard..