Ragnir hears the alarms and growls as he pulls himself away from the archer, sprinting above decks. Bursting through the door, he asses the situation. "No good flea ridden sons of goblins! You there, ye'll need te just stand still. Torag be comandin' it!"
Kaos, laddiebuck! Duck!
Anga steps back 5 feet, and casts burning hands on orc 1, 2 and 3, trusting to the corner behind her vs orc, er, golden sword, and that kaos is shielded from the spell by the wall he is next too.
DC15 reflex for half.
Round Two recap
Mordea hits the fifth Orc with a crossbow bolt. Then climbs down from the crow's nest. She jumps the last ten feet, but twists her ankle on the deck landing prone.
Haskyll moves across the boat's topside deck and drives his spear into the sixth Orc killing the green intruder.
The powerful burned Orc pulls out a Falchion and twice hacks into the Dwarf Ranger Barbarian.
The first Orc attacks Anga, nearly critically hacking into the Dwarf Wizard. The second Orc moves to get at Anga too, but stumbles and drops his Flachion.
The third Orc blocks the starboard side stairs heading to the rower's deck. The fourth and fifth Orcs attack the fallen Rogue, but miss their hacks against the human female. The seventh and eighth Orcs didn't miss anything. They both strike Bloodtusk. The Captain falls to the deck unconscious.
Then ninth Orc moves then attacks Haskyll. He strikes the Dwarf Cleric.
Ghorza hacks into the fifth Orc, but it was Sharg's blow that killed it. The Coxswain organizes the rowers to go topside.
Kaos moves up and nearly engages the Orc at the top of the stairs to the topside deck.
Anga steps back five feet. A fan of flames burn the first, second, and third Orcs. Kaos feels the heat from the flames, but is unharmed by them. The first and third Orc take the full brunt of the flames. The second Orc the stairs has its legs singed.
Trying to shake off the pain from the burned Orc's Falchion attacks, Ulfgard struggles to land blows against the fierce intruder.
Ragnir works to make his way topside.
Round Three
Mordea stands up.
But the fourth Orc tries to keep the girl down, hacking into the Rogue's flesh.
But it is hard to keep a good girl down. Mordea rises pulling out her shortsword. Her stab at the fourth Orc was off balance and ineffectual after receiving a strong blow from the smelly green cur.
Getting really angry Ulfgard hammers into his opponent.
The burned Orc sneers at Ulfgard when the Ranger-Barbarian misses his attacks. His sneer changes as Ulfgard parries away the burned Orcs further attacks.
The first Orc becomes ferocious and screams at Anga. Its breath and spittle were foul like rotten eggs. It takes a step and delivers a wicked blow against the Dwarf Wizard.
The second Orc escaped the worse of Anga’s Burning Hands. Without its Falchion, the Orc takes a step up the stairs pulling out a Javelin. It hurls the pointy stick at Dwarf Wizard, but Anga was unconscious just as the javelin passes and sticks in the back walls to the stables.
The third Orc screams through the pain and turns on the big Human coming up the stairs. But its strike bounces off Kaos' magic shield.
The fourth Orc continues its attack on the female human Rogue. But the capable Rogue dodged the heavy blade.
The seventh Orc moves and attacks Ghorza. It slices into the crewmember.
The eighth Orc moves and goes after Sharg, but its attack was feeble.
The Ninth Orc stays on the Dwarf Cleric, nearly achieving a critical hack into Haskyll.
Ghorza and Sharg both gasp when they see their Captain fall.
Ghorza was distracted just enough to receive a hew from the seventh Orc. Ghorza hacks back at the green mongrel. Green blood splatters about as Ghorza's handaxe cuts into Orc flesh.
Sharg turns his attention to the eighth Orc. He too fares well against the cur as more green blood falls upon the boat's topside deck.
Bloodtusk becomes stables, though still unconscious.
Haskyll seeing the captain fail, and tied up with a large amount of orcs, falls sligtly back, and attempts to put another orc down for the count.
anga casts shield, trying to cast it defensively
but loses it.
As the ninth Orc approaches Haskyll, the Dwarf Cleric skewers the green cur.
Round Three recap
As Mordea stands, the fourth Orc cuts into the Rogue. Mordea was not able to return the favor.
Haskyll, with a precognition of a near critical strike looming, instead kills the ninth Orc.
The first Orc brings its Falchion down heavy on the poorly armored Wizard. Anga goes unconscious and falls to the deck of the boat.
The second Orc takes a javelin and heaves it at the Dwarf Wizard. But Anga was falling to the deck. The javelin sticks into the back wall of the stables.
The third Orc hacks at Kaos. But its Falchion is deflected by the big human's magic shield.
The fourth Orc slashes at the Rogue, missing the nimble female.
The seventh Orc cuts into Ghorza. The eighth one misses Sharg.
Bloodtusk stabilizes. Ghorza and Sharg hit the seventh and eighth Orcs respectively.
Kaos makes sure that the third Orc is out of the way. The third Orc falls down...dead.
While unconscious, Anga fails to cast a Shield defensively.
Ulfgard Agrimmoshes and bashes the burned Orc. The formidable Orc weathered the blows.
Seeing the Warpriest coming up from the bilge, the Coxswain allows the Dwarf to pass. With Kaos on the right stairs, Ragnir takes the left, casting Hold Person against the first Orc.
The first Orc is held and cannot move.
Round Four
Mordea, with her ankle still sore, steadies her stance, then stabs the fourth Orc.
Ragnir looks over at Ulfgard with a grin, "Be keepin that smelly whelp of a goblin off o' me an' the lass, ya? then reaches down and touches Anga, "No time f'r nappin' lass, Torag needs ye in this fight."
Trying his best to hurt his enemy Ulfgard lashes out with hammer and shield
Anga blacks out for a moment, then wakes.
how did ah get here, she thinks for a second.
Then, realizing she was prone in combat she grasped her pick, striving to parry any attacks.
Moving slightly to help Mordea out, Haskyll attempts to skewer the orc facing her.
You cur, leave her alone.
Round Four
Mordea stabs the fourth Orc.
Haskyll skewers the fourth Orc. It becomes ferocious.
The first Orc is still paralyzed. The second Orc takes a step and picks up his Falchion.
The fourth Orc continues to work on Mordea. And work on the Rogue it does, hacking into Human flesh.
The seventh Orc tries to drop Ghorza and succeeds.
The eighth Orc again misses Sharg.
Sharg, in turn, misses the eighth Orc.
The burned Orc tries to hack twice again into Ulfgard. It lands the first blow.
Kaos moves through the stables where the agitated horses were neighing and stomping. The big human stops behind the burned Orc.
Ulfgard hits the burned Orc with Agrimmosh and shield.
Ragnir touches the Dwarf Wizard and provides a little healing.
Anga begins to stir and stands up beside the paralyzed first Orc.
Round Five
"Just... drop... dead... pigface!"
Mordea stabs again at the fourth Orc, but the ugly humanoid parried the thrust.
Ragnir steadies Anga on her feet using his shield arm, "Steady there, lass. I ken ye may want te be tradin' places w'me if'n the statue like orc comes round t'thinkin' it c'n be movin' again." He throws a wink at Anga, clearly enjoying the battle. His gaze shifts to the orc fighting Ulfgard, "As fer ye, ye son of a bog toad, that'll be enough of the fightin' f'r now!" Ragnir's voice commands, bolstered by his faith.
Haskyll attempts to drive his spear into the orc to his front again.
Only to have it knock his spear aside.
Round Five mostly
Both Haskyll's and Mordea's attacks were parried by the fourth Orc.
The first Orc remains held.
The second Orc, once again with Falchion in hand, moves down the stairs. He hears another coming up from below. He turns and engages Halrex. The blow glances off the Coxswain's magic leather armor.
The fourth Orc continues its duel with the Human female. But its hack was clumsy and off balanced.
The seventh Orc turns its attention toward Sharg continuing its success against Bloodtusk and his crew.
The hapless eighth Orc also attacks Sharg. But this time its blow lands firm with a spray of mottled Half-Orc blood. Sharg falls.
Ghorza stabilizes....barely.
Coxswain Halrex, with a shortsword in hand, stabs at the second Orc, slipping the blade in between the folds in the armor. The second Orc becomes ferocious.
The burned Orc continues its attack on the Ranger Barbarian. Its first strike caused enough damage to drop Ulfgard.
The burned Orc turns his attention onto the big human with a pained smile. It nearly lands a critical strike on Kaos.
But Kaos takes that smile right off its face. The burned Orc will never again be in pain as Kaos' strike with his big axe kills the powerful Orc.
Round Six
Anga sees ulfgard fall, and steps over his body (5ft step)
then she casts a magic missile at orc 1
The spell slams into the orc with two full force blasts.
Mordea continues her shortsword play with the fourth Orc. Her slash severs an artery in its throat. Green blood sprays all over the female Rogue. "Ewww," Mordea briefly shivers and shakes.
The fourth Orc stares at the Rogue. It then slumps to the deck and dies.
Ragnir shrugs at the fallen orc, "Well, tha's a much better option than me tellin' ye te stop fightin'. Glad ye took tha' route. He then reaches down to Ulfgard and lays a hand on him while covering Torag's holy symbol, "The forgekeeper is no' done wi' ye yet, lad. On yer feet!
Well struck Mordea, well struck
Haskyll shifts slightly and drives his spear at another Orc.
Only to have his spear knocked aside.
Round Six
Mordea finishes off the fourth Orc in a gooey spray of green blood.
Haskyll drives his spear at the eighth Orc, but the green cur deflected the thrust.
The first Orc comes around and is no longer held.
The second Orc chops into the female Orc crewmember. Her green blood begins to spill out onto the wooden steps.
The seventh Orc moves around the eighth to get at Haskyll. But Haskyll holds his ground and pierces the ferocious Orc. The seventh Orc dies on the giant broken spear.
The eighth Orc, seeing the Dwarf occupied with the seventh one, gets a hack into the Cleric.
Sharg is dying.
Coxswain Halrex, wounded from the ferocious Orc's blow, responds with a feeble thrust that was easily deflected.
The burned Orc stays dead.
As the first Orc comes around, it was able to quickly dodge Kaos' oversized axe.
Ulfgard is still unconscious.
Ragnir, being more Priest than War, provides healing to the Ranger Barbarian. Ulfgard regains consciousness.
The first Orc didn't last much longer in the end as Anga's Magic Missile finishes it off.
Round Seven
Ulfgard stands up, picks his hammer and nods thankful to Ragnir.
"Oi that hurt!"
Hoping that Kaos, Ulgard, Anga and the crewman (crew-orc?) can take down the one remaining orc, Ragnir marches his way towards Haskyll and Mordea, to see if he can lend a hand either taking down the orc there, or stabilizing unconscious crew.
Haskyll moves back slightly and attempts to stab the last orc in front of him.
Die you beast
Round Seven
Mordea moves and jumps on the boat's vent to the lower deck, not quite getting a flank against the eighth Orc. But she does stab the wretched cur with her shortsword.
Haskyll moves back a little and drived the broken spear into the eighth Orc. Its eyes practically pop out of their sockets. It falls to the wooden deck, dead.
The second Orc continues to go after the Coxswain. It cuts Halrex again, but the female Orc still stands.
The Coxswain presses again her attack against the second Orc. The female Orc returns blows with the Orc intruder. It also still stands.
Kaos moves against the second Orc, stomping on the dead first Orc with zeal. The big human brings his giant axe down hard on the last standing Orc. He nearly cleaves the green humanoid into two pieces. It is real dead.
Ulfgard rises in pain from his wounds.
Ragnir moves to the dying crewmember. He will stabilize Sharg.
Mordea 21 (AC18 15/40)
Haskyll 20 (AC16/18 9/25)
Orcs 18 (AC13 D,D,D,D,D,D,D,D,D/6 C-12)
Bloodtusk 11 (AC16 -1/38)
Crew 11 (AC14 -2,-7/15)
Coxswain 11 (AC15 3/20)
Burned Orc 10 (AC16 D/68 C-18)
Kaos 9 (AC17/21 26/41)
Ulfgard 7 (AC18 12/54)
Ragnir 4 (AC22/24 33/33)
Anga 9 (AC17/21 1/25)shifted
Victory
Anga slumps in relief as the fight winds down. She looks at her injuries and wearily shakes her head.
Ach, that wus unpleasant. Well, except for the dead orcs.
Lets get the injured into one place
Once the injured are gathered, Haskyll will channel a few times
On all the Orcs you will find Falchions and Javelins. In addition, on the burned Orc you will find 120gp, a fancy belt, two vials, a fire ward jel and a letter. The letter reads:
Tark,
Skreed has been murdered and I seek revenge on his killers. Help me with this and I will give you Skreed's alchemical formula for the balm that soothes your burns. I have learned that his killers are traveling to Ghostlight Marsh by riverboat. Don't worry-there is no need for you to set foot in the swamp. There is a marker on the northern bank of the Esk. Look for a stone carved with a circle of thorns-that is where Skreed's killers will dock. Board the boat and unleash your fury upon them. With luck, I will be on board as well and will join you. Together, we shall avenge Skreed. Do this and the formula is yours.
Melira
Haskyll prepares a couple of spells, while he waits for the injured to be gathered.
Well, let us see how much Torag is with us today.
That fight could have been worse.
Ragnir reads the letter and heads back down to the prisoner hold, axe bared.
Bloodtusk and his other unconscious crewmembers come around. With a big sigh the Captain says, "Report."
Recovering from her injuries herself, Halrex reports much of the details. The party and other crewmembers fills in any gaps. "This Melira should be keel hauled. But she will fetch a good price at market. I don't turn down a chance for profit. Particularly when this one has nearly cost us," Bloodtusk comments.
Kaos will note that the Belt and two vials radiate magic.