Rokar and Milani move forward as Norasha does, pressing the attack.
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Corric scrambles atop the barricade, seeking a better vantage point for his sneak attacks. Omast swings at the orc adjacent to him, cutting deeply into its flesh, but still the humanoid presses forward! Aisha sends the orc before Norasha into a daze, preventing it from taking any actions. Milani tears into the orc in front of her (the one wounded by Omast) and finishes it off with a vicious claw and bite combo. Meanwhile, Rokar moves forward and puts the hurt on the dazed orc. Right behind him, Norasha hits hard, leaving the orc gasping for breath and near death, but still moving. Of the two orcs at the battle site, one now moves forward to attack Milani, as the other stands, dazed and bleeding. Milani takes a bad hit, leaving her critically injured. Behind the remaining orcs, more have begun to squeeze through the gap between the boulder and the gate.
Corric shoots his crossbow from his vantage point, and then ducks down to hide and reload.
Rokar calls to Milani to attack quickly, then retreat to his side.
Rokar's concern for his injured friend and partner grow as she lets out a loud ROAR, and he begins to be worried she might not have heard his command in its entirety.
"Gotta stop these ones, then cover the entrance!" he calls, rallying the others.
'Stay Strong girl...' he prays.
Aisha recoils as the orcs keep coming and falls back on the most basic of tools: brute force. Her mind exploded forward, ripping and tearing at the nearest orc's mind with unnatural pain. She then collects the shards of his psyche to predict the orcs' next move.
"Damn it! Milani pull out! You're too wounded to stay in the fight!"
Norasha quickly yelled at the others (particularly the halfling and half-orc) to cut the logs free! As in now!
She swung her axe but missed!
"Someone cut the damn logs free! NOW!!!!!!!"
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ROUND THREE:
Corric fires again into the chaotic melee, but misses his target. Omast swings, but misses, his attack very nearly hitting Milani! Aisha reaches out with her mind to psychically attack the weaker of the two orcs. Its eyes roll back in their sockets and it pitches forward, dead. Now freed to move into better position, Rokar steps up to aid Omast and Milani. A mighty claw swipes at the orc, but it ignores the wound. Milani also continues her assault on the attacker, too wrapped up in the combat and pain to hear the command to retreat. She manages to hit twice, setting the orc reeling, but still it stands. Norasha tries in desperation to cut the orc down but misses. The orc, surrounded, fights on, concentrating its attack on the cursed cat! There is a slash and a surprised yelp of pain and Milani goes down, bleeding profusely. Behind the front line, other orcs are squeezing through the boulder.
Milani, unconscious, groans as she bleeds on the ground.
Filled with rage as his companion falls, Rokar steps to the side, standing over Milani as he unleashes a flurry of attacks on the Orc so that he can freely aid his friend as soon as possible.
"Damn it!
Norasha heads toward one of the set of logs and begins cutting the ropes!
"They're getting through! Cut the ropes damn it! And get Milani out of there, so I can heal her! Aisha! Corric! Cut the ropes damn it! Those orcs are getting through!"
Aisha runs over to the logs and draws her dagger, hacking at one of the ropes holding the logs in place.
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ROUND FOUR:
As the others begin cutting the ropes that hold the logs in place (one full-round action is required to release the logs, and all of you had to move into position), Rokar slashes at the remaining orc, gutting it with a single swipe of his mighty claws. He hovers protectively over Milani as another wave of orcs charges up the hill. Two attack Omast as he fights to release the logs, while a third attacks Norasha. One manages to connect with Omast through his armor, leaving an ugly gash in his side. The fourth orc, however, hangs back a bit and hurls a bottle at Norasha but the throw goes wide and impacts behind Rokar and Milani, the fiery contents barely missing them.
With the immediately-adjacent threat dispatched, Rokar reaches down to Milani, still struggling with her wound even in her unconscious state, and lays calming hand on her side.
"You did great girl. Rest now; we'll take it from here."
As he looks up from Milani to see Omast and Norasha holding the line, he slips a chakram into his hand and waits for an opening...
Corric spends his entire action undoing the rope and trying to set the logs loose.
Aisha helps Corric to the best of her ability.
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Working on the logs, all four parties manage to free them and set them rolling down the hill. The logs roll over the orcs, the one to Norasha's left (#8) falling prone beneath the sudden flood of logs. In addition, the logs further jam the entrance, making it even more difficult (but not impossible) for the orcs to get through.
The orcs that remain standing press the attack, but neither of them is able to hit their target. The bombardier throws another vial of alchemist's fire at Rokar, coating him in burning alchemist's fire!
(touch)
"Anymore ideas!?" Corric yells as he darts away from the danger and reloads his crossbow.
"Drop the other pile and hope that it blocks the gate completely?" Aisha tries. In the mean time, she fires a small rock with the speed of an arrow, trying to take out one of the badly injured orcs.
Rokar tries his best to ignore the burning liquid soaked into his fur, and instead does as Aisha suggests, and begins working to free the logs.
Norasha quickly swings her axe at one of the remaining two orcs near them.
"Someone help Rokar and Milani out!"
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ROUND SIX
As Corric reloads, Omast swings at the orc before him, but the powerful blow is short and the orc is narrowly missed. Aisha's projectile pings off the orc's head, but aside from a scratch, there is no visible harm done. Rokar also swings at an orc and misses, and continues to burn , but the flames swiftly die down. Norasha's axe makes a wide arc, but also comes up short of the target. One orc slices at Omast, its axe ringing off his armor. Another slashes at Rokar, but it misses by a country mile. As the orc to her left rises, Norasha takes a chunk out of it, but it struggles to its feet and attacks her, its attack also clanging off her armor. The orc bombardier pulls out a clay orb and lights a fuse attached to it (move action). He picks his target and moves forward to close the range.
Aisha takes one look at the orc with the bomb and hurls her mind at him, trying to disable him before he can throw the explosive.
Rokar takes stock of the situation, looking around hurriedly, and hoping that someone else will come to help, even though he knows it's unlikely. At least they'd blocked off most of the entrance and the horde wouldn't make its way in-- yet.
'We can do this, we can DO this,' he thinks, channeling strength and diving back into the fight with yet another loud ROAR.
Corric fires another bolt at the nearest orc,
Corric then uses the cover of the log pile and height advantage, to try and duck out of sight.
The dwarven paladin swung her axe but missed the orc, which resulted in a colorful stream of dwarven curses that would make a sailor blush with shock.
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ROUND SEVEN
Corric pops up from hiding just long enough to skewer the orc to Norasha's left through the eyeball. The orc falls forward soundlessly. Omast swings as slays the orc before him, as Aisha reaches out to touch the mind of the bombardier. It blinks once, twice, then drools uncontrollably. Rokar's savage attack downs the orc before him. The grenade in its hand detonates, blowing its arm clean off and leaving it dead upon the ground.
Orcs are beginning to crawl over the logs and around the boulder.
bludgeoning and fire
"Any other ideas?" Aisha calls out as she tries to find another angle to deal with the problem from. She shifts behind the remains the the log barricades and aims for the first orc trying to get through the gap. Maybe she can slow them down more by stunning the first through and filling up the gap.
"Norasha! Can you heal Milani? She's stable, but not well. We've gotta hold the gates and hope the rest of the Guard shows up!"
Rokar assumes a tactical position at the front gate, and prepares to assault any advancing Orcs.
"Aye! I can heal her! Wish we had some alchemist's fire we could throw at those orcs!"
The dwarven paladin quickly beseeches the dwarven goddess of love and marriage, as well as Torag, asking them to aid her in healing Milani.
Suddenly, a brilliant light flows from Norasha's hands and spreads across the large cat's body, enveloping Milani, and healing her.
Corric grits his teeth as he quickly works to reload his crossbow for the next round's surprise attack.
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ROUND EIGHT
Corric spends the round reloading, cursing under his breath at the slowness of his weapon. Omast takes up a position on the left side of the gate and gives a grim nod to Rokar and Norsaha as they move to the right side. Norasah heals Milani before moving in to close the gap. The tigress staggers to her feet unsteadily. Aisha prepares to daze the first orc through the gates.
The characters assume their positions just as the first orcs start to clamber over the logs and squeeze between the boulder.
Corric sticks a head, arm, and crossbow out and launches a sneak attack bolt at an orc [12].
Corric then resumes his hidden status as best he can.
Rokar readies himself, comforted by a quick glance and nod at the approaching Milani, and prepares to strike the first orc over the barrier.
"Okay, here's what we do. You get injured, fall back and use those healing potions. Milani, you stick with Rokar and provide support. Not doubting yer's cat's abilities, but Rokar, see if you can get her to take some healing potion if she gets damaged even more."
The dwarven woman readied her weapon.
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ROUND NINE
As the orcs slowly begin making their way through the barrier, Corric snaps a shot off, catching the orc dead in the chest. The beastly humanoid refuses to fall, however. Omast steps up and finishes the job that the halfling began. On the other side, Aisha sees her opening and attempts to daze the first orc through the barrier. The orc is caught by complete surprise and stands helplessly while Aisha's allies make short work of it. More orcs squeeze through behind their allies.
More orcs squeeze through, slashing at the company as they come! A falchion clangs off of Norasha's armor, but the other two miss cleanly.
Aisha focuses on the nearest orc and unleashes an absolutely ear-piercing shriek.
Rokar, happy and grateful that Milani has been healed, encourages her to strike strong and true, and they unleash hell on the orc that makes its way into their claws:
"We can do this! For Trunau!"
Corric, fighting to yell out as well, focuses on reloading his crossbow.
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ROUND TEN
As Corric reloads, Omast swings at the next orc, striking a blow that would cripple an ordinary man, but the orc shrugs it off and keeps coming. Aisha unleashes a piercing shriek against another orc, but the spell has little effect. Rokar and Milani, working together, gut the orc before them. Norasha swings, but misses her foe. More orcs step to the fore, one managing a hit on Omast, and another on Rokar .
Aisha winces as the sonic blast hardly seems to slow the orcs down. She hurls another mental burst at them, trying to stagger one of the orcs before he can attack again.
Corric will lean into a firing angle, and launch another attack at the orc between Frum and Norasha.
And will once again pop back into hiding after shouting.
"Everyone all right!?"
Rokar and Milani keep their attack up, even as more Orcs fill in the gaps where the others had fallen.
"I've been better!" he yells.