"Reaver! Amgylchynwch iddo, fy ffrind!!!" he tells the roc.
Skyreaver flies down and flanks with the dwarf, attacking the orc.
The roc responds to the dwarf's call by circling around over Marikel's head and filling the gap in the barricade. It snaps at the half-orc, and its beak comes away bloody as the half-orc collapses to the ground.
With the roc downing the nearest foe and no others in his line of sight, Vhailor preserves the charges in his master's wand.
Marikel rushes past the fallen orc at its companion following behind.
He swings his sword up at the enemy as he closes in, looking to take the creature off guard.
Marikel's blade carves a bloody line up the female half-orc's arm. "Gaan! Waarsku die ander!" she shouts to her trailing companion.
The other half-orc turns and heads quickly down the hill.
Alicia spins on her heel as her companions engage her pursuers. Catching sight of one fleeing away, she darts back the way she came, drawing a small hand-sized crossbow as she moves.
"Don't let that one in the back escape! He's going to warn more of them! Marikel, there's a Patrolman behind the well--he might still be alive," she calls.
Alicia gives chase to the retreating half-orc.
In answer to Ali's directive, Vhailor moves to the edge of the barricade and, taxing the wand's range to its utmost, sends an arcane bullet speeding after the half-orc.
The female whom Marikel cut bares her teeth, drawing a greataxe from a sling across her back, and slashes wickedly at the priest, but his armor turns the blade.
"You got it, lass!" Dorn then takes off in said direction. "Reaver! Ewch yn cael iddo! Torrwch oddi ar ei ddianc!"
Skyreaver takes off in the direction of the fleeing half-orc, passing him by and hovering in the path of the humanoid at a distance that is just beyond him, awaiting for him to come near.
Dorn also gives chase to the fleeing half-orc, but Skyreaver quickly overtakes his master.
"How did you make it this far? Because you're not getting any further."
Marikel steps around his opponent and swings wide with his sword, trying to keep his shield between himself and the greataxe.
"We don't have to get any further," she growls back, "only wait for the front gate to fall and cut off the defenders as they retreat."
Alarmed by the flapping of large wings approaching his shoulder, the fleeing half-orc dodges, ducks, and weaves toward the door of a nearby building.
Alicia draws her rapier and moves to stab the overly-talkative female half-orc in the back.
The female half-orc coughs and looks down in surprise as the tip of Ali's rapier protrudes bloodily from the front of her throat. As Alicia withdraws the thin blade, however, somehow the half-orc does not fall.
As Alicia withdraws the thin blade, however, somehow the half-orc does not fall.
Instead, she turns on her heel and brings the head of her axe down in a vicious chop that slices open a gash on Ali's leg. Only then does the half-orc teeter and fall onto the blood-spattered road.
"Alicia!!"
Marikel reaches for her then stops.
"I mean, will you be okay, Miss Alicia?"
Seeing the half-orc about to enter the building, Dorn shakes his head, "Oh no ya don't, lad," and charges at him, hoping to get to him before he enters. "Reaver! Ymosodiad!"
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Skyreaver
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Skyreaver moves in and snaps at the lone half-orc.
The dwarf charges, bringing his warhammer down heavily on the fleeing half-orc, who collapses limply in a heap under the blow.
As the half-orc falls, the dwarf grins, proud of himself. Turning toward the others, he yells toward the others, nodding. He just now remember something, Turning back to the fallen half-orc, "Alright, let's see what ya got that we may be useful to us, hm?" He then rummages through the belongings of the humanoid.
Skyreaver lands next to him and rests a moment, preening himself while he does.
"SHUT UP! There's more!" hisses Marikel towards the Dwarf.
With a quick glance at Alicia, he darts forward to where he can see the fallen figure behind the well. He murmurs a quick prayer to Iomedae and points to the fallen warrior, before turning back to Alicia's fallen opponent and doing the same.
Vhailor keeps close by Marikel, trusting in the taller ones actions to both keep him safe as well as provide best means of guidance with respect to how to proceed. Carbonel appears more animated than usual... preening himself and presenting predatory nature.
Dorn finds that, besides his weapons and armor, the fallen half-orc has a vial in his pouch; the dwarf has just picked it up curiously when the door in front of which his victim fell opens, revealing more half-orcs.
One quickly moves to stand over the fallen half-orc on the doorstep, swinging a battleaxe at the dwarf from behind a wooden shield.
Alicia gives the fallen half-orc a nudge with her boot, then loads her hand crossbow and keeps an eye out for trouble up the road. "Do you want me to run tell the guards at the gate?" she asks Marikel.
Vhailor sees Dorn assailed and quivers with thought and anticipation, he turns to Marikel and queries "Should we go there or draw Dorn back?"
"SHUT UP! There's more!" hisses Marikel towards the Dwarf.
With a quick glance at Alicia, he darts forward to where he can see the fallen figure behind the well. He murmurs a quick prayer to Iomedae and points to the fallen warrior, before turning back to Alicia's fallen opponent and doing the same.
Turning his attention in the direction of the healer as he says something, a questioning look forms as he turns his attention to Skyreaver. "What did he say? 'Shut the door' or something?" Shrugging, he returns to the task at hand finding a vial and multiple weapons. "Ooh, a spear. That'll come in handy." After retrieving it, he stands up and the next thing he sees is the door open and a number of half-orcs behind it. Sighing, "Aw crap. But the door was already shut! That just doesn't make sense!" Dorn retreats back and calls for Skyreaver to follow him as he does.
The roc takes to the air and follows the dwarf.
Surprised by the new enemies, Dorn moves toward the others to regroup and commands Skyreaver to follow.
"Too late," Alicia says offhandedly to Marikel as she spots the new orcs. The rogue dashes forward, pausing only long enough to fire the crossbow in her hand.
Ali moves closer and shoots, her tiny bolt burying itself in the flesh of the half-orc's upper arm neatly despite the distance.
Skyreaver obeys Dorn's command and retreats to his side.
Vhailor waits to see what the priest will do.
"Too late."
Marikel shakes his head.
"I noticed," he scowls storming off towards the orcs.He holds his sword aloft to Iomedae then points it at the lead orc and a glowing replica of his sword rushes at the orc who attacked Dane.
Iomedae's weapon materializes near the half-orc in the doorway, who just manages to interpose his shield as the force blade slashes at it.
Vhailor moves up in Marikel's shadow, focusing his thoughts and readying a dazing invective against the first of the orcen that might emerge with painful intent...
Vhailor follows the priest, readying his own spell.
The visible half-orc retreats into the building, trying to get away from both the magic weapon and Alicia's stinging bolts.
As he vacates the doorway, another half-orc charges through, holding a battleaxe in one hand and drawing a javelin with the other, which he throws toward the dwarf.
Two more half-orcs emerge from the building and take up positions on either side of the javelin-thrower, one brandishing a scimitar and another a shortspear, both carrying shields.
Dropping his head in frustration, he looks back up, clearly annoyed, "Aw c'mon, ya just gonna stand there and throw things?! That's pathetic!" Dorn moves toward the half-orc on the edge, yelling at Skyreaver as he does. "Reaver! Amgylchynwch bod un!" he says, motioning to the one he swings his hammer at when he nears him.
As the dwarf approaches, the half-orc jabs out with his spear but fails to hit Dorn.
Dorn, in turn, misses with a swing of his warhammer.
Ali advances parallel to the half-orcs, reloading her hand crossbow as she goes.
Alicia reloads, moving into a new position.
Skyreaver obeys Dorn's command, flapping around to flank with the dwarf. It nips the half-orc in the back of the neck with its sharp beak.
Marikel narrows his eyes at the line of orcs, raises his sword and charges them.
Marikel uses the force of his charge to swing wide at the orc on the right, heedless of his foe's scimitar.
With a rush of blood and vigor, Vhailor follows in Marikel's wake - drawing near enough that he can reach out with arcane thought and intent to touch one of the brutes intangibly. Focusing mind through thought and gaze he murmurs and wills it's mind quiescent.
The scimitar-wielding half-orc uses the recklessness of the priest's charge to find an opening and draw blood, but it is the last thing he does, as the longsword slashes open his gut and he tumbles atop his entrails to the ground.
Marikel's spiritual weapon cycles quiescently in mid-air, waiting for further direction.
Vhailor attempts to daze the middle half-orc, but his arcane gambit is thwarted by his foe's adrenaline.
The half-orc with the battleaxe takes a step back toward the shelter of the building before swinging at Marikel, wielding his battleaxe in both hands; he slips on a loop of his fallen comrade's intestines, however, and the potentially dangerous blow goes well wide of the priest.
The spear-wielding half-orc jabs again at Dorn, this time piercing tough dwarven flesh, before stepping back in pace with his companion.
Grimacing in pain, the dwarf shakes his head at the back stepping half-orc. "Oh no ya don't! Ya cannot just stick me and run, lad." The dwarf moves right into the midst of them with a ton of confidence from who knows where, in an attempt to give himself a better chance to get revenge against the one who stuck him like a pig.
The half-orc jabs again with his spear, but Dorn supernaturally slithers out of the way of its point.
The dwarf strikes a ringing blow against the spear-wielder.
Alicia dashes forward, rapier in one hand and crossbow in the other. She makes a diving leap over Dorn, then dances around one of the half-orcs before stabbing him in the back.
Marikel steps around his opponent, attempting to keep them off balance between himself and Alicia and plunges his sword at them.
A quick nod of his head towards the creature beside Dane, and the glowing sword at his side rushes at it and attacks.
Alicia joins the scrum and stabs at the spear-wielding half-orc, but the tip of her rapier scrapes across his wooden shield.
Skyreaver attacks with beak and talons as he hovers, attempting to tear the half-orc to pieces.
Skyreaver does eviscerate the half-orc, messily spraying blood across the melee before letting the body drop limply to the road.
Marikel attempts to finish off the final visible enemy, but neither his physical longsword nor the spiritual one can penetrate the defenses of the half-orc wielding the battleaxe. After its final pivoting slash, the spiritual weapon winks back out of existence.
Vhailor tries again to cloud the mind of the half-orc and this time succeeds in deadening its reactions.
Rolling his eyes in annoyance, "Blast! There's one gettin' away inside the building! Finish this one, I'm going after the other. Reaver, attack bod un." He motions to the dazed half-orc and moves by him, giving chase to the retreating half-orc.
Helpfully as he seeks to job up to catch the others Vhailor squeaks "Put it down! I can't doddle his dizzy bits again!"