Drael shrugs, swinging out at the nearest warrior as he spits a lone word at the balcony above. Coward.
Sharing in Drael's frustration, Razif nonetheless smirks as he sees the next wave of attackers. "At least these guys pose some easy targets."
He then brandishes his scimitar and strikes!
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Drael's blow fells one of the charging gnolls; Razif's successful attack only wounds his target. The gnolls fall upon the gang with flailing blows as the bugbear charges and viciously swings its morningstar at Rab-rab.
The wave of attacks breaks upon the gang defending the battle stage. Undrella and Layaali take glancing blows, while Razif and Drael deflect heavy flail-heads and Rab-rab dodges a particularly brutal spiked morningstar.
Rab-rab takes a careful five-foot step back and throws her arms out to her sides making a massive tornado of bunny wind swirl around her. Then she shoves her hands at the green gnoll, sending the bunny wind at his face!
Min takes a careful step back after his sister, and rubs his hands together. "Nindralius boing-boing!" He shoves his hands out and fires an blast of icy snow and ice all over the place!
Layaali takes a five-foot step back and casts a spell on herself, praying to Vileis for protection.
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Undrella screeches and swings at the injured gnoll after its glancing blow ruffled her feathers.
The wily gnoll ducks under Undrella's morningstar. Cawing in frustration, the harpy steps back and calls out to Drael.
"My love! I would use my vexing song on these dog-men, but it would affect you and your pink-skinned brethren. Finish these fools so we may see to Kardswann's painful death!"
Drael shrugs as he swipes at yet another gnoll, Fine. But I won't be able to do much to him at this rate.
Right after deflecting, Razif strikes at the gnoll again!
"Hang in there, everyone, just a few more!"
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Razif thrusts up with his scimitar after deflecting the flail, gutting the already-wounded gnoll and dropping it to the ground. Mortally wounded, the gnoll threatening Drael tries to bring its flail down on the bloodrager in a pyrrhic strike. Meanwhile, further gnolls press the attack on the ranger, Undrella, and Layaali, while the bugbear pursuing Rab-rab hacks at the gnoll single-mindedly.
Drael's assailant collapses in a pool of its own blood. Undrella again suffers a painful clip across her shoulders. While Razif and Layaali dodge their blows, Rab-rab isn't so lucky. The bugbear brings its spiked weapon down painfully on the pink-haired gnome, laughing with fury as he does so.
Knowing Rab-rab is the only companion she has that won't automatically heal at her expense, Layaali takes a careful step away from the gnoll and over to Rab-rab, then prays aloud to Vildeis, healing Rab-rab's wounds.
Worried over his sister, Min takes a five-foot step over, then thrusts his hands at the bugbear bullying his sister! "Santy rabbanty!"
Rab-rab takes a five-foot step away from the bugbear and shoves her hands at the green bugbear, sending bunny wind at his face!
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The oracle reaches out and touches the bruised kineticist as she and her brother send a barrage of occult and arcane energy the bugbear's way. His mirth is short-lived as the combination of the two effects blasts him backward into a crumpled heap.
Growling audibly in fury, Undrella swings her morningstar at the pesky gnoll, blood trickling down her arm from the most-recent painful blow. She follows the vicious overhead swipe with a clawed talon.
Undrella's morningstar crunches into the gnoll's collarbone on the left side, penetrating his chest. The harpy follows with a claw to its groin, ripping out a painful chunk of questionable flesh and throwing it in the gnoll's face as it collapses. She looks to the bloodrager for acknowledgment.
"I see you, lover!"
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Drael looks faintly nauseated by Undrella's display, averting his eyes and failing to connect at all with the nearest gnoll as he tries to refocus on anything but the harpy and her victim.
Razif lets out a snicker and turns to Drael as he moves to slash the next gnoll. "She sure knows how to get a guy's attention, huh?"
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Distracted by Undrella's antics, Drael misses high over the ducking gnoll. In response, the bloodrager's foe attempts a haymaker blow with his flail. The ranger thrusts into a meaty thigh and then drawing a vicious counter-swing from his attacker.
Drael takes the upswing of the flail full in the face, his nose exploding in blood. Razif dodges the clumsy parrying blow.
Drael's fresh wounds immediately begin to knit themselves back together as Layaali grunts in pain, blood blossoming and flesh tearing across her face in the same place Drael was wounded.
Looking oddly invigorated by her wounds, Layaali reloads her crossbow and fires it at the brown gnoll still standing.
Min moves back up onto the stage then he rolls his hands over each other faster and faster. "Kskooo kskooo!" He mutters over and over. Getting louder and LOUDER! Then he thrusts his hands forward and a beam of ice shoots out of his hands the pink gnoll!
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Rab-rab moves over, being sure to stomp on the face of the green bugbear on her way over. King Jack-jack does too!
She is pretty sure she did a good job.
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Min sends a blast of cold air at the gnoll attacking Drael, riming its tail with frost. As Rab-rab and Min giggle at the outnumbered Kulldis gnolls, a hail of arrows rockets down from above!
The deadly arrows thunk down; one of the arrows pierces the diminutive sorcerer's head. Min collapses, blood blossoming out on the battle stage under his prone form.
Undrella screeches in fury and take flight, wicked claws and heavy morningstar wheeling about. She unleashes a vicious strike as she lances by the gnoll archers gathered for what was-to-be-easy target practice.
Drael growls as Min drops to the floor, lashing out viciously at the nearest gnoll as he looks around for the source of the arrows.
Razif looks with disgust as his friends are riddled with arrows.
"Is THIS the Battle Market of the great Kardswann? A pit of weaklings, cowards and cheaters?! Truly this is a place for people of all walks of life, so they may live in the filth where they belong!"
While eyeing the mass of the crowd, Razif continues to strike at the gnoll next to him.
"No! Save him Layaali! Save my brother!"
Rab-rab looks around to see who just shot her brother. If she sees someone she sticks out her hands wide causing a loud tornado all around her. The wind gathers in her hands. Then she shoots her hands at the bad guy!
Layaali's nose crunches and blood pours from her head as both Min and Drael's wounds heal.
Short of blood, slightly dazed, and gripped by religious fervour, Layaali prays aloud to Vildeis, knowing she needed to share these wounds with her god if she wanted to stay conscious to help her friends.
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Layaali blasts a gout of air upwards, targeting nothing with the errant energy burst. As Layaali grunts with the effort at soaking up her companions' wounds, Min's eyes snap open, his consciousness restored.
Two of the archers re-focus their aim on the soaring form of Undrella, while the other two continue to target the gnome kineticist and the oracle.
Undrella takes a painful arrow through her wing, crying out in pain and fury. As her cries echo out, a lethal arrow from above sinks into Layaali's neck, blood spurting from around the hideous wound. The oracle scrabbles at the arrow, but her vision clouds into a red haze, her legs buckle, and Layaali collapses to the earth.
Undrella loops around and flies at the nest of snipers from the side. Instead of her morningstar, the wily harpy extends a ring-encrusted fist of talons at one of the gnolls at the edge of the balcony. A boom erupts from Undrella as she passes by the archer buffeted by the force blast.
The targeted gnoll rockets off the balcony, dropping twenty feet to the battle stage below.
With a wet crunching noise, and no small amount of irony, the gnoll responsible for the killing blow on Layaali drops onto the stony stage. It twitches and shudders before stilling.
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Drael quickly scans the galleries surrounding the battle-stage for a place of safety from the snipers' arrows. Torches illuminate a darkened gallery of compact market stalls in the eastern half of the inner wall. A few persistent merchants remain, possibly guarding their wares. A raised platform along the northwest curve of the inner wall sports four round tables, several wooden chairs, and a long bar stocked with numerous bottles of distilled spirits. A few stragglers sit in the tavern, watching the sport with well-raised mugs and glasses.
Razif sheathes his scimitar and picks up his bow again.
"Drael! I'll try to take down these miscreants, can you get the rest somewhere safe? I'll be right behind you!"
Drael grabs hold of Min's unmoving form, dragging it roughly behind him as he moves away from the center of the open circle.
"Ahhh!" Rab-rab shrieks as she shoot a blast of water up at a the knolls in the balcony.
She looks down at her brother, grabs his hand, and is about to pull him up and away. But, then she realizes he's not dying! "You're alive! But I think Layaali's about to die again! We should get out of here!" She hurries back off the stage with her brother!
Min gets up and follows his sister!
"AHHHHHHH!" Min shrieks on the way.
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Drael tries to pull on Min's arm to drag him away, only to startle at the gnome standing up and racing after his pink-headed sister towards the southern exit to the Battle Market. Drael then grabs the limp wrist of the oracle and pulls her unresponsive form in the same general direction.
Two of the remaining gnoll archers fire at the murderous harpy while the remaining gnoll targets the battle stage below.
One of the gnolls' arrows flies wide, but the snipers largely remain true to their bows. Undrella takes another painful arrow to the back of her thigh. Drael nearly drops Layaali's supine form as an arrow lances into his shoulder, blood spurting from the wound. Moving the fingers of his affected limb uncertainly, Drael confirms that his arm still works and continues in an attempt to reach cover.
Undrella swoops back around, targeting the nearest gnoll in a fashion similar to before, her arcane ring poised to blast another archer off his feet.
With a squelch, a wall of force emanates from Undrella, enveloping a hapless gnoll and pitching it end-over-end off the edge of the balcony. The gnoll dies well before its body smashes with a wet thud into the battle market twenty feet below. Undrella strafes the two remaining archers.