"Not a bad plan, except the part about me hiding. I mean, I'll give it a try, but ..."
Kyra will hang in the cave... she's not particularly hard to notice, but at least you have to be looking in the cave to see her.
Being not so good at laying ambushes, the group is surprised when two assasins appear stricking Hakon and Poog. Hiring bodyguards is not going to help you, there are only more souls to send to the other life.
Poog is punched hard in the face , but Hakon is unharmed when an arrow goes flying near him.
Combat round one
Bold can act
Hakon
Brawler
Kess
Oloch
Kyra
Poog
Sniper
Ulisha
Rixian
Hakon, yielding to the primal call of battle within, begins an Ulfen warchant.
The brawler continues punching Poog trying to take down the big two handed half-orc
Fort DC 13 or stunned for 1 round.
A stunned character drops everything held, can't take actions, loses any Dexterity bonus to AC, and takes a –2 penalty to AC.
Combat round 1
Bold can act
Hakon starts singing
Brawler contniues punching Poog
Kess
Oloch
Kyra
Poog
Sniper
Ulisha
Rixian
"AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!"
Wild with blood rage, Oloch rushes into a flank and tries to hack the brawling assassin down.
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"Poog!" Kess calls out as she runs from her hiding place. Guess that's what we get for trying subtlety for once... the brawler thinks as she sprints forward, reaching into her pack to pull out a javelin as she goes.
Hearing Hakon's low chanting once more, she lets the music wash over her as she hurls the spear at the sniper standing by the ridge's edge. Then, as soon as it leaves her hand, she snaps into her defensive style.
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Seeing Poog taking blows, Kyra moves forward as quickly as she can, and calls on the healing aid of Sarenrae.
"You will not be the arbiter of who reaches the Boneyard this day." She says, in response to the assassin's taunts.
The brawler assassin tries to hit Oloch as he moves, but the half-orc is too quick and his punch only hits air. As a reward the warpriest hits him with his greatsword, wounding him deeple. But the brawler has no time to emit a single sound of pain, because Poog´s blade cuts with fury along the brawlers body, leaving a bloody mess when moments ago there was flesh and done.
The second assasin dodge the javelin thrown at him and fearing Poog almost as he fears what his master will do to him for failing, shots an arrow to him. The arrow wounds him, but the pain is not enough to stop him.
End of combat round 1 and combat round 2
Everybody against the last assasin.
Hakon's knuckles whiten as he tightens his grip on the twin axes. Letting forth a blood-curdling roar, he rushes toward the lone assassin with murder in his eyes.
Blood thundering with the Ulfen song, the half-orc rushes to cut off the assassin's escape route.
Kyra follows closely behind Kess, using her for cover, though trying not to appear too obvious about it.
She calls upon the blessing of Sarenrae to bolster her companions
The sniper continues firing the group, but his arrow is deflected by Kess. After that, Ulisha starts reciting tales of bravery and courage to inspire you. But her tales last little, as the sniper can´t stand more than a few seconds when the group reachs him.
Being saved from the assasins, Ulisha greats you. You have my thanks, friends. This had been a hard fight if you weren´t here.
And now, let´s talk a little about bussiness. This is the Silver hexSays picking a sickle from her belt. An enchanted sickle used by druids millennia before. And it´s yours for a fair price.
Better than fair, indeed, because you have done lot of work to obtain the money, and even saved my neck
"I agree with Poog, so what are you calling a fair price? Nobody wins if we don't help you and walk away to let the next wave of assassins do their work on ya."
Poog, a sickle usually only can be used for tripping, or hurting a little, but obviously much less than your sword. It will never cause the same gore.
But this sickle can also cast one spell in your foe. So if you find a mage, or a bard-she continues with a wink[/b]- then you can find your opponen not only wounded, but also blinded, or paralyzed, or whatever your wizard, or bard, can cast. [/b]
The she turns to answer Oloch. Well, you have obtained the money to pay for the sickle thanks to my previous work. So, if you don´t want to keep the sickle, you can sell it and obtain the discount I´m making you in gold piezes. Two thousand gold piezes not a low amount for a few days of work.
"Seems a fair match for one of my axes..." Hakon says, examining the weapon. "Let's talk price.."
Ok, lets go town for a drink. I think I have a day or two until someone hire better assasins, maybe more if I´ve seen in town with so many "guards"
Once in town, and after a few pints, a drunken man comes to Ulisha, thanking all the gods to see her alive. Ulisha pay in advance a few pints more, and goes to a corner to talk with the man.
For what you can hear, the man is Anwald Greenfelt, a venerable Taldan and former manservant to the Tullivor family. It was Anwald who whipped up the Revolution’s fury against Ulisha, whom he perceives as the cause of his former masters’ untimely demise.
It was Anwald who hired assassins with funds raised by the Revolution, but now he is suffering a crisis of conscience and don´t want Ulisha´s blood in his hands. So they are talking about how can Ulisha repair Tullivors’ honor, and how can Anwald speak in Ulisha’s defense, to convince his Galtan contacts to leave her alone, and cancel the bounty on her.