Ivan readies an action to swing his axe blade down on the lizard when/if it gets close enough to him.
Alright then ye overgrown lizard, think ye can 'ave a piece O' me eh!?
The orcs thought they'd made the right move in delaying. They were wrong. That delay had given him all the time he needed to finish recovering his breath from his bloodrage, and now he was back to strength.
Stepping forward, he swung his hammer over Ivan's head at the lizard.
Sitting behind cover and waiting for the enemy is a strong tactics when the enemy has no reliable way for attacking from afar. As fearsome as the lizard looks with its monitor and the sharp teeth - once smashed into the ground its just another bloody body filling the ground. After Menrozzar clarified that there is not much to do for Ivan.
Instead Ivan deals with the raging handler of the now dead wizard that comes onto him. Which is only painful for the orc.
The orc near Bupkis swings his curious blade at the goblin, but misses too.
Bupkis winds up and tries to punch the orc attacking him.
Bupkis wounds the orc, but not as badly as he would have expected. This orc still stands without being staggered.
The other two orcs come at Menrozzar and Scrabbler, the orc dodging the hammer of the man. The one close to Bupkis also swings his blade, but all three attacks fall short.
Against the barricade as he was, Menrozzar decided he didn't have the space for the hammer, and dropped it in favor of the falchion again.
Unfortunately, the Orc dodges his swing.
Seeing the orc rushing Scrabbler, Daseem races to his aid screaming "GORUM TAKE THEE!" He pivots on one foot, acting as the fulcrum for his over-sized sword as it describes an arc through the middle of the unfortunate orc!
The orc is wounded badly, his innards threatening to come out. But he won't give in to the urge to die yet.
Scrabbler tried to repeat his earlier trick. He dove between the orc's legs and dropped the bear trap as he passed. Then he stabbed the orc in the thigh and started climbing his enemy's back.
Bupkis tries to continue pummeling the orc in front of him.
Scrabbler finishes off the orc that Daseem almost cut in half and stands on top in a winner pose. Ivan swings his hammer at an orc, but his stand is to uneven for a good balanced swing. Bupkis also misses his orc closely.
The orcs swing their curved blades at those defending Trunau, wounding Bupkis and Menrozzar .
Cut by the orc's blade, Bupkis steps back and gathers his second wind.
Ivan steadies himself, planting his feet before lashing out in a savage strike at the orc to his right trying to threaten those behind him.
Menrozzar breathes heavily from the wound, gritting his teeth, and swings out with the falchion at the Orc.
Together Ivan and Menrozzar end one orc.
With no immediate enemy in front of him, Daseem brushed past Scrabbler and descended past the fallen logs. He'd lost count of the waves of orcs and noted they had raised up an impressive body count. Unbidden from some primitive part of his mind Daseem felt more than heard the strains of angelic music he'd come to associate with Gorum's favour... Clear this wasn't over and he rushed to face the Orc fighting Menrozzar.
Scrabbler went up and over the barricade like some kind of monkey, and then leaped and twisted to roll past the Orc's blade and end up on the other side of it, stabbing for it's back.
With all the obstacles and the bodies Daseem only manages to get there. Scrabbler, not hindered by armor manages to get a knife into the orc. The goblins manage to make themself the primary targets now. But the orcs can't nail them down. They evade every attempt to hit them.
Feeling a bit better now, Bupkis swings back at the orc attacking him, but he still can't land another blow.
Menrozzar steps up next to Ivan, and swings the falchion at the Orc with Scrabbler on him.
Menrozzar deals the orc a large cut, but to his surprise it still stands.
Bupkis on the other side has no luck with his orc.
They had the Orc surrounded, and Daseem did his part to put the poor thing out of their and it's misery. With a powerful overhead chop, his sword glinted as it descended with lethal force!
Scrabbler continued his frantic stabbing.
Daseem kills the orc without further ado and Scrabbler - well, he is riding a dead horse.
Scrabbler rode his dying enemy into the dirt, rolled to his feet and started moving across the corpse-strewn battlefeild towards the last orc.
Ivan doesn't even try to get to Bupkis as it would take forever. He drops his hammer and draws his crossbow. But the shot goes wide.
The orc keeps trying to cut the goblin in pieces.
Ivan moves to fell the orc, drawing the Hammer on his belt as he does so.
Menrozzar moves up next to Ivan to aid him in attacking the Orc.
Bupkis tries to finally deliver a knockout blow to the orc.
With the one remaining orc surrounded, Daseem instead decided to stay put and watch to see if there was yet another wave about crash over them.
Bupkis and Ivan tag team the orc. In a last rise up he swings his blade at bupkis again and then dies.
With the last orc down it becomes silent. Not really silent, as the sound of battle is still heard, but it seems all far away. Here at the barricades battle has died down with this last orc. None are pressing through the gate anymore. It feels like it's other peoples battle as the tiredness of your limbs from fighting all night pulls you down like a leaden weight.
alchemist’s fire (8), plus the mundane gear.
The fight over for now, the goblin pugilist says,"Bupkis likes some healing from wand."
Daseem nodded and whispered the command word and a bluish radiance settled on Bupkis, causing his wounds to mostly vanish!
Looking around and still breaking hard from the fight, Daseem asked, "A-anyone else?"
Menrozzar nods in response to Daseem. ”I could use some healing as well.”
”The alchemical items will be useful, I think.”
"Scrabbler good at throwsing things!" the little goblin piped up, eyeing the bombs hungrily, bouncing from one foot to the other with the rush of battle still filling his veins.
"Where we goes now?"
"Bupkis thanks you!", the little goblin replies when Daseem heals him with the wand.
To Scrabbler he replies, "Goblins need fire to throw, especially Scrabbler!" Bupkis sorts through the items looted from the orcs.
As a small boulder impacted against one of the towers, he says, "Catapult must be stopped!"
"I concur - we need to stop the catapult before it does too much damage. Let's get some militiamen here to hold the gate, then we'll sortie out of the town and deal with it."
It took Daseem a few applications to fix Menrozzar up, but when he was done he was good as new.
When the others suggested taking out the catapult he nodded, there was no telling how much destruction it might cause if left unchecked.
Bupkis looks out the gate, and tries to figure out where the catapult is set up.
It is not visible from the gates, but Scrabbler can tell where it is. Behind the Barterstones - where normally the market would take place - the catapult is hidden and its operators managed to weather all attempts to stop them from afar.
Bupkis is torn; he wants to run to Alicia's house and check if she's OK, although he thinks her family might have gone to a safer place. But the catapult is battering down the towers along the town wall, and if he has to search for Alicia first, it could be too late.
"Catapult beyond Barterstones!" he declares, and hurries out the main gate, towards the massive flat stones that mark the location of the trading area outside the walls.
Daseem was keen to engage the catapult too, but the gate was wide open. Noting Bupkis about to depart, he asked, "D-do we need anyone to guard this?"
Daseem informs the first guy from the militia he can find, and he agrees to find some more to take care of the gate.
Then the group moves out to take care of the catapult. They find three orcs. Two operating the catapult and one shouting orders at them about where to shoot.
Bupkis hurries around the east side of the Briarstones
Briarstones Barterstones
Daseem circles the orc, putting it between himself and Ivan. With a cry he went for a savage overhead chop, hoping to lop off part of the orc!
Menrozzar moves after Bupkis, trying to circle the Barterstones so he can get to the orcs.