Denat swings wildly his weapon at the nearest wasp (W3).
Thkrull swats at the wasps as they get close, then unleases his full might on them as he keeps himself between them and Taerine.
Bite:
Damage:
Trip:
Claw:
Damage:
Claw:
Damage:
x 2 = 18
As the wasps charge the line of defenders Thkrull's claws sweep up, badly damaging a wasp
Anglon holds to the last moment, and as the wasp closes he impales it, then jerks the blade down through its body, killing it.
Denat attempts the same maneuver, but just misses - and suddenly Arioch is there, striking hard enough to cut the wasp's head from its buzzing body.
The remaining wasps, riders dead on their backs, fight with an instinctive fury.
Anglon, inspired by his unexpected success, takes a swing at the closest wasp.
Anglon is starting to believe he missed his calling as a fighter.
The archers all fall back neatly and keep firing at the wasps in front of them.
The skeletal warrior lashes out with it's claws.
Move action to draw revolver
Ranged touch
Bludgeoning damage
Simon's gun fires wildly into the melee. The skeletal archers back away as ordered, firing at their foes. - and one wasp goes down.
The skeletal warrior lashes out at its foe, doing some minimal damage with its claws.
Anglon moves up and lashes out at another wasp, once again using his impaling cleave to kill it near-instantly. The acrid smell of acid emanates from its already scarred corpse.
By this point in his sermon, Arioch, having loosened his Goddess' favored weapon, accentuates his words with snaps of the lash against the oncoming heretics.
The wasp bobs around as Arioch whips it - the whip flies harmlessly past.
Pulling her glaive, Taerine tentatively slashes at the wasp attacking the skeletal warrior in front of her.
Attack:
Damage:
Thkrull continues to try to rip the closest wasp out of the sky, clawing and biting furiously at it.
Bite, power attack:
Damage:
Trip:
Claw, power attack:
Damage:
Claw, power attack:
Damage:
Whispering a prayer to Lissala, Denat makes a step forward and attacks the nearest wasp , trying to smash it with his bec de corbin.
Taerine just missess the wasp, but Thkrull takes a chunk out of his, nearly killing it.
Denat steps up and attacks a wasp - cutting off an antenna and shattering an eye.
Grey moves towards and attacks one of the wasps, killing it.
With their Mite riders dead the wasps continue mindlessly attacking those next to them.
The delayed wasp, rider still intact, turns around and flees for the hive at top speed.
Anglon takes another swing at the attacking wasps.
Anglon strikes - and kills again!
Denat continues his attack, walking forward and attacking one of the surviving wasps
"D@**IT!" Simon says as his previous bullet goes wide, though he fires again.
Ranged touch
Then makes a motion with his hand to send another cold firework at the enemy.
cold damage
Taerine against slashes at the nearest wasp with her pole arm, familiarity with the weapon from her horrible childhood quickly returning to her arms.
Damage:
Hoping to finish off his foe more quickly, Thkrull claws savagely at the wasp nearest him, trying to rip it to shreds.
Damage:
Damage:
Damage:
The Runelords kill the remaining wasps in short order. Only the wasp fleeing back towards the hive still lives.
The Runelords kill the remaining wasps in short order. Only the wasp fleeing back towards the hive still lives.
Simon will fire his remaining cold snapdragon fireworks for good measure. If it dies great, but not a priority.
The last wasp, limping with cold but just alive, make sit back.
The Mite riding it is unlikely to have survived Simon's freezing cold.
What will the Runelords do now?
"Well, I guess we should go on, right?" Taerine says.
"Oh, defnitly," Thkrull says through a mouthful of wasp. After a moment, he spits some of the shell out.
"Crunchy. Kind of stings the tongue, though. Definitely not as good as chicken. Let's go find out if the mites taste any better and get their statue back."
"Agreed."
With dramatic flourish Simon fires a few last cold snapdragon fireworks at the fleeing wasps. Then turns to his companions
"I believe Grey mentioned some use for the wasps, but beyond that we should definitely press on. We should head the direction the wasps came from."
He holsters his gun and picks up his symbol of office.
Observing the tree along with the others, Arioch muses. "From everything I recall, Mites make bad neighbors. That tree looks a bit too big to effectively burn down & I rather doubt they will be as...
reasonable,
as our scaly friends have proven."
"Far be it from me to presume, but I suspect our company should prove equal to this task set before us."
"So you're telling us we should just go there and kick their asses ? "
Denat smiles broadly, obviously under the spell of a fight he finished without any injuries.
Ever pragmatic Simon says,
"We could just burn the tree down. "
Arms crossed looking hard at the tree. You get the impression he's working out the logistics even as he speaks.
It is an old tree, and enormous. If you could get it to start burning it'd turn into a chimney and burn like fireworks.
But it is old, hard wood. It would take a lot to get any of it hot enough to burn.
You could set a bonfire and let it burn for a while. There's magic and alchemy that could do it.
The two big problems are (A) there are inhabitants smart enough to put out the fire and (B) if the statue is inside and you collapse the tree it might be difficult to get, possibly even injured.
Mechanically it'll take a hundred points of damage to a 5ft area in 30 rounds or less to set it on fire. Once it is on fire the tree will burn slow, but will be effectively unstoppable.