Aya points toward the road and says, Look, somebody is moving, rather casually, from the direction of Morda's Pass. He's just now coming alongside the ogres' camp.
Antonio promptly eases himself into concealing foliage.
Indeed they are... Perhaps... Antonio, could you sneak close enough to listen and find out what's going on?
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That point looks to be near the northern point on the road - a fairly dangerous place to encounter them, but only 50' or so north of where Antonio is hidden (and not much farther for the rest of you). Of course, the big issue is there's very little foliage to screen the road in that area. Too much happening there might be noticed by the rest of the ogres.
A dwarf hunh? Antonio thought to himself. Good bet he's not with the ogres then...
Then something caught his eye.
Antonio leapt from concealment, grabbed the dwarf and yanked him back into concealment with him.
He put his finger against the dwarf's lips.
"Shhh! Ogres inbound!" He whispered to him.
Antonio changes his mind about grabbing the dwarf, and so remains hidden. The ogres seem to be fixating on the little guy, so now he plans to let the ogres pass and then take them from behind.
Aya runs with the group.
Reiko focuses for the barest of moments, and his katana begins to glow with that same red light. He then sprints after Tania, the blade held in two hands in an overhead position, ready to come down on a foe.
Holding very still, Antonio waits for the ogres to pass his hidden position.
Jun walks down the road, his twisted leg aching in pain. "I know better than to walk this far and this fast. I should have gotten a horse or found a wagon to ride in"
He knew his friends were out here somewhere, though he might just pass them by if his luck ran bad, but since his accident his luck never ran bad, ironic as that was. Up to this point he had to learn things by trial and error, but Alyra could help make sense of it all.
He keeps his eyes and ears peeled before drifting back into thought. Preparing the village's defenses against the ogres were finally complete. "Who were the strange men looking for Doran and why did he flee without his axe?" Jun shifts his weight and rolls his shoulders verifying that axe was still there on his back, even if he already knew it was still there. "Not much good it will do me, but it may help someone else." Jun's training in weapons was limited, and with his burned hands this weapon would be all but useless. Still it felt good knowing he had it with him.
Before sprinting down the path, Reiko spares a moment to speak to Sakuro.
I'll take whatever you can give. Those beasts are not to be taken lightly.
The day seemed to have went on forever, despite the fact that Nala had been sleeping throughout it. She'd awoken several times, at some perceived noise, and gone off to investigate it.
It was on one such time, in which the druid unraveled herself from her thick mound of furs, that she moved to the mouth of the cave with a sigh. I swear I heard something... she thought to herself, looking around lazily. She was still rather groggy, after all, from the deep sleep she'd just experienced... and been awoken from.
The random moments where she awoke were beginning to wear on her nerves. At this rate, she'd wind up sleeping into the night, and likely be yet another day late for the festival. Cutting across the woodlands had saved her time, but it didn't help that she'd only heard about it from a traveling merchant two days prior. Oh well.
Seeing nothing of interest, the druidess slid her hood back down as she moved back into the darkness of the cave. Thankfully, due to the thick canopies, her eyes hadn't needed to adjust.
"It's just your nerves... if they hadn't mentioned how dangerous this forest was to travel in, you'd have never even worried yourself. You'd just be sleeping now." She thought out loud.
As she slipped into the welcoming darkness of the cave, there was a sudden pain in the back of her head... and everything went fuzzy... and then black.
Jun hears the fighting before he sees who it is, and thanks his mysterious patron for keeping his luck running hot. He calls out to them as he moves towards them, anxious to help them in battle.
Round 1__________________
Seeing his chance, Antonio lines up on the one ogre holding still and tightens his finger on the trigger.
for a possible piercing and precision damage.
Aya draws her bow while moving, knocks an arrow, and shoots at the closest ogre.
for a possible
Reiko charges the ogres, his downward swing vicious against the lead beast.
I'll hold this one off as best I can! Focus on bringing them down one at a time! Everyone attack the same one!
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Reiko reaches the ogre, slipping in on it before it can get an AoO, and scores a deep slash in its side. As it's the one Tania injured, it looks rough, but all other attacks miss. Reiko becomes the target.
It glances back and forth expectantly as it attacks, looking worried.
Had it not been a charge, the magic would have just protected him - but it manages to slam home, crushing Reiko's shoulder.
Aya moves forward a full move and unleashes a Force Missile at the ogre next to Reiko.
Round 2_______________
Antonio drops the crossbow and bolts from cover, drawing his sword along the way. He spears the unmoving ogre in the back.
for a possible piercing and precision damage.
Jun huffs and puffs his way over to the group (80 ft with running, 40' to go)
Reiko howls not in pain, but in anger. He tightens his grip on his blade, and, ignoring the pain, makes another brutal two handed swing.
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The thick hides an ogre wears saves them from so much - and blow after blow misses the swaying monster, until Reiko's slash bites home, and it collapses. The other is still standing stock-still, but straining to move again -
Sweat rolls off of his pronounced brow, but Alyra's magic holds strong as if it was a mouse railing against a metal cage.