"On it!" Meliora yells back, not in any mood to disagree with an idea that she herself had already had and was in the process of acting on.
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Micheria's attack hits the dottari while not downing him he looks a bit staggered. As she leaves she provokes a swing from the woman.
Clearly her condition makes it hard for her to hit you.
Round 5:
Micheria, Meliora, Jack, Paullo, Canacha
Red dottari guard (dmg: 4 nl 6), yellow dottari guard(dmg: 9)
Lena
Blue thug (dmg: 0),
Jack staggers west, hoping to escape the protest-turned-riot with his life.
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The red dottari keeps attempting to get Lena down seeing her as the biggest threat at the moment.
But the guards swing is inaccurate.
The yellow guard staggers away from the battlefield to find some healing.
Round 5:
Micheria, Meliora, Jack, Paullo, Canacha
Red dottari guard (dmg: 4 nl 6), yellow dottari guard(dmg: 9 nl 4)
Lena
Blue thug (dmg: 0),
Lena hisses in pain at the attack. She swiftly activates her Liberation Blessing, and takes a step back away from the red dottari. "We need to get away from here."
Hoping to make some room for the group to get out of the area Mic moves in on the remaining near by guard. Hoping he wont be prepared for it she tries to slam her knee into his lower abdomen.
"Keep moving ladies."
Seeing three damsels in distress being threatened by a member of the Kintargo dottari, Jack allows chivalrousness to override wisdom. He steps up and hacks at the dottari with his longsword.
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Your no hero, Paullo.... don't get involved. NO don't you do it, I said NO!.
Paullo watches as the inept rioter with the longsword (sorry, Jack.) misses the Dotteri guard I wonder if he even knows how to use it or if it was his fathers. ; in the Dotteri's defense her training allowed her to basically be surrounded and still holding her own.
Blast it..
Seeing his opening Paullo, attacks with his cane as a mere club. (I don't know if you as a DM allow this, I have heard different discussions on this, so take away any penalty you think is fair. and just let me know your ruling for the future. on sword cane as a mere club if needed. or if a -4 penalty for improvised weapon.)
<-- too close for comfort so using inspiration bonus to attack.
"Get outta Here!.."
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Paullo that's a hit even with the -4 for an improvised weapon, for ease of play for me remember to roll the damage die also when you attack.
Edit Paullo beat me to it.
Paullo gives her a good wheck and she goes down.
Round 6:
Micheria, Meliora, Jack, Paullo, Canacha
Red dottari guard (dmg: 5 nl 10), yellow dottari guard(dmg: 9 nl 4)
Lena
Blue thug (dmg: 0),
I'm good with the improvised weapon I might take rough and ready or some other trait with extra trait feat later to lose or reduce the penalty.
She had been about to try to hit the guardswoman again with her club when some fellow stepped seemingly out of no where and whacked her good from behind.
"Thanks!"
She said cheerily as taking Mic's advice she hurried away from the scene.
The crowd is in full riot mode, people are fighting with each other, and Meliora is right on the edge of the map.
She gets the heck out of dodge now.
Still pushing through crowds (i assume) The pale skinned woman ran awy from the chaos, only looking back to make sure her friend was following along ish.
Mic, having missed her last strike changes her tactics knowing it will open her to attack. Instead of striking as she has so far instead she attempts to stick her thumb in her attackers eye and then move away with the others.
Jack sees the dottari drop, silently thanks the gods, and continues to stagger west out of the plaza.
Paullo looks down at the woman he hurt and checks her vitals.
Good job Paullo you might have just murdered someone.
Checking the vitals Paullo is releaved to find her not dead and stable.
well no sense on wasting the opportunity.... Paullo quickly grabs anything of value. In addition if she has a emblem of the Dotteri (a badge) that he could take or Asmodeous medallion he will.
Well then I guess I wasted a roll. Full move then. Seeing the strange men moving with them.
"I don't know who you are but come with us. We may need to keep together."
Maybe these people and I should reopen the family business.
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The doors of the opera house flies open and out of it reemerges Nox along with a dozen dottari and a hell hound who she commands just as easily as the dottari. The hell hound does what the thugs and dottari couldn't do before and the riot begins to disperse as the hound unleases it's fire breath on the protesters who had taken cover by the opera house.
Round 7:
Micheria, Meliora, Jack, Paullo, Canacha
Nox, Hell Hound, Dottari guards
Lena
"Oh look look at the puppems!"
She began still moving quickly away from the riot but still looking back for her friend. Mic would make sure they stayed safe she was super responsible like that. The little stupid half grin died as the hellhound unleashed its fiery breath on people simply taking cover near the Opera house. Had she not already been a very pale person she might have paled.
"That is not a good puppems at all... its like other rotten things here."
She half growled out pausing in her flight to reload.
"Get going." Lena double moves through the crowd to get out of the park.
I can't decide if that riot was to be expected, worse than expected or better than it could be.
Seeing the guards and the hell hound arrive Mic can tell that it is time to be someplace else. As hard as it is to admit they are out matched if only by numbers.
"Oh! That is not a fight that can be won." then louder "Gentlemen follow us out of here. We can regroup at my place, they may be looking for us."
I have a bad feeling this was a setup. Those poor people but I don't see a way to save them, though I would not mind a shot at the boss lady there.
Maybe it is time to start the family business again.
Mic moves towards the edge of the protest taking care to move a little slower then the rest should be able to.
Paullo creates a distracting by calling out more rioters on the left as a good civic minded person would then tries to blend in before they take a good look at him.
"Milady; look out to the left!!"
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As you all make a run for your life after Nox and the hell hound came out to turn the riot on it's head. You have ended up in the same direction and are running along the smaller streets of Kintargo to avoid being pursued. As you run by an alley Jack suddenly hear the sound of steel clashing agaisnt steel coming for further in the alley.
Even though he's wheezing due to some badly bruised (maybe even broken) ribs, the man in brown can't help but slow when he hears the battle in the alley.
"Another fight of some sort!" he whispers urgently to the others. "Anyone care to help me check it out?"
"Sure i will help, no sense in letting people get hurt.. but uhm maybe ... maybe you should stay back? You dont look to be in tip top shape mister."
She began quite cheerily well until descrbing that he didnt look the best. She withdrew her pistol and club and began to head the way he pointed.
"Another fight..?"
It's not something she'd normally want to deal with, personally, but... Meliora looks over towards Mic.
"You're going to go do something stupid and noble even if I try saying we should run, aren't you? I'll come with. Shouldn't leave a half-dead guy to look on his own, right?"
Paullo follows closely in the crowd knowing that they help give him cover. As he sees everyone duck into the alley Paullo creeps up to the mouth of the alleyway quickly looking in before following. looking for signs of Passage as a carefully as he can while keeping the others just out of sight.
Lena pulls out her longbow. "Let's go see what's what. We'll stay back. I'm not in good shape either." She moves toward the noises. "I didn't prepare any healing today. Just Blessings and Cursings"
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As you walk into the alley you come across a scene just as one of the thugs from the protest knocks a man down and it's clear they are moving in to perform a coup de grace. There are a total of 9 thugs however 4 of them (Yellow) is lying down sprayed in a myriad of colors. The man on the ground is a human close to hitting the middle age of his life.
One of the Chelish citizhen thugs (red) spots you coming into the alley and waves his mace at you clearing imploring you to mind your own business.
Round 1: Bold may act
Meliora, Jack,
Chelish citizhen thug red and pink,
Paullo, Lena, Micheria,
Chelish citizhen thug orange, green, and blue
Canacha
Jack, driven by rage, revenge, outrage, and perhaps a heaping helping of foolhardiness, moves in while drawing his weapon and strikes at the loyalist directly to his west. For once, the seemingly inept swordsman strikes true, though the blow isn't very powerful.
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Jack moves into the alley and poises his own sword over the throat of the downed loyalist to his west.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you!" he calls. "Kill that fellow and your buddy here joins him in the afterlife!"
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The thugs don't really seem to believe you would kill a helpless person. The leader of the thugs move close to Jack for an attack but before he gets close Jack stirkes the downed thug killing it.
Two of the thugs move in for revenge for the downed thug Jack just killed, but neither one can land a hit on him.
Round 1: Bold may act
Meliora, Jack,
Chelish citizhen thug red and pink,
Paullo, Lena, Micheria,
Chelish citizhen thug orange, green, and blue
Canacha
After following through on his warning and dispatching the fallen man, Jack grunts grimly, "Well, I guess there will be no negotiations...nor quarter given."
"Well that's that. I will back your play."
Not how I would have handled that but the die is cast.
Mic advances fast acting as though she is going to throw a punch but instead attempts to launch a knee into the thugs chest.
Now that there is a wall named Mic in between her and the enemies, Meliora will take her action.
She moves forward and fires off a Ray of Frost at Green Thug, letting her good feeling about it guide her hand.
"Hey, Mic? I think we're about to have a bunch of toughs all run in on us... so if they happen to fall over soon, you think you could take care of 'em?"
That kid is almost dead and is STARTING a fight..... Paullo shakes his head watching from around the corner. Paullo wants to spend the round to see if he can find out what happened. Not wanting to choose sides yet. best to see who started it... Is that a noble?
Seeing if any of these help.
<- don't think in crowds any more.
Lena moves up, and casts stabilize on the middle aged man. "You know it's not nice to treat people like that. Gang up on them in alley's. Go back to the protest. I'm sure there are still some unarmed citizens you could beat up."
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This is a kind of bottleneck for the fight so the thugs get in line behind thier teammates, but the green thug tries a swing at Jack even though it's a hard one to pull off.
But he misses wide because of the hard corner.
Round 1/2: Bold may act
Meliora, Jack,
Chelish citizhen thug red and pink (dmg 8),
Paullo, Lena, Micheria,
Chelish citizhen thug orange, green (dmg 1), and blue
Canacha
Meliora slips a hand into her component pouch and produces a dab of butter. Rubbing it between her fingers and muttering something, she fires off a spell to help her bodyguard and the half-dead guy deal with the thugs.
"Are you trying to get yourself killed!"
She called out to man in the cloak hurrying forward and aiming her pistol attempting to hit the thug(red) in front of him. Too much care perhaps.
She cursed darkly to herself glaring at the thug as if her look would do as much damage as her bullet would have had she not missed.
"Are you trying to get yourself killed!"
That's a fair question, Jack thought to himself. He didn't answer immediately, though, determined to stay alive and somehow rescue the fellow these nine thugs had targeted. When the spell dropped the three nearest foes, things looked a bit less bleak, and he hacked at the prone fellow before him .
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