Frank moves back a few paces to take cover behind a wall. He readies his crossbow, waiting for the horses to clear off and anything not obviously friendly to show up.
Seeing a small scaly humanoid escape from the larger building, the grig decides that she must be one of the prisoners. Flying into the slightly smaller building, lands next to the ex-prisoner and starts firing at the nearby undead.
Talia throws another bomb at the green enemy...figur8ng horses on fire will provide more chaos...
Zabeth ducks behind cover, draws and loads her crossbow.
Sharon's toss hits one of the soldiers who instantly screams out in pain as he suffers a horrible death.
With Zabeth in cover, Sharon is exposed to the archers who take aim at her...
Dark Green 2 vs. Sharon - - Hit
one arrow misses while the other smacks off of her toughened hide.
Aerin had a moment of frustration as her glorious rescue plan ground to a halt. Oh well. Plans change. New plan, kill everything in the way of leaving.
The lithe woman hopped off her horse and landed next to the skeletal abomination. Her hand glowed with a flash of silver radiance, and she almost casually backhanded the undead.
Kneeling after his latest damage, Gauntlet speaks aloud to Aerin and Pink-Eye as she tries to help them while he is still conscious.
"Tie me to a couple of horses. Have them drag me. My body can take it, although it might hurt a bit..."
Aerin's attack strikes the undead from behind her strike causes a flash of light as the creature is injured.
The horses not ridden by Dev and Frank continue to move south.
From the flank, Pink-Eye gores the same undead, driving his horn into its ribs.
The creature still stands though as Gauntlet, terribly damaged states, "Tie me to a couple of horses. Have them drag me. My body can take it, although it might hurt a bit..."
The soldiers array themselves in the spot in the path that the horses have vacated. They begin firing at the "interlopers" that still remain in range, Dev and Sharon. All of the arrows miss their mark...
Two of the soldiers attempt to Mount the rear horses but only one does so successfully.
Soldier Bright Green 1 -
Soldier Bright Green 2 -
Arrows vs. Dev
Soldier Bright Green 3 - Hit
Soldier Purple 1 - Hit
Arrows vs. Sharon
Soldier Purple 2 - Hit
Soldier Purple 3 - Hit
Reaching out again he activates his wand silently, and attempts to shock the skeleton that Pink-Eye gored.
He then collapses onto the ground (@ -1 HPs) because the effort strains him beyond his limits.
Kana takes another step back, dismayed the halfling is still pursuing her.
You're one tough little pie, aren't you?
For a moment she is surprised about the horses coming through and considers kicking the halfling into the horses, but remembers she isn't good at that and plucks another arrow.
Your horses? Can you even get up there? Here, I got another gift für you.
EE, not being sure about the horses and unable to shoot down his enemies, decides it's time for now to keep his head low and hidden.
Gauntlet's attack drops the final jailer and he too stops moving, disabled due to the damage he has sustained.
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Elsewhere, Kana fires her bow at the fighter who brings up her sword to black the shot, "You've been lucky, whatever it is you are.
Surrender and we shall merely sell you into slavery. Reinforcements will arrive soon, you cannot hope to beat us all..."
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Dev flies from his horse, sending the unfortunate beast careening down the aisle towards the guards.
He ducks into the mass of folks, including Aerin and the prisoners, and retrieves his lockpicks when he notices the 'Forged who feel down is still shackled.
"Let's get you outta here, pal..."
"Luck, is it? Then let us try your, my friend," Viorr grins, launching a pair of attacks at the halfling.
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Dev manages to dismount, albeit a bit clumsily, and rushes in to try and spring the fallen Gauntlet from his shackles.
Dev - Disable Device
Unfortunately, the rushing nature of the attempt fails.
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Viorr attacks the female fighter with precise strikes but this woman is up to the task and blocks the blows with her blades.
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Electric Eye notices Viorr trying to hit a dodgy halfling, and steps forward to help. He moves his rapier up and down to distract her, then when least expected thrusts forward viciously, hopefully disrupting the halfling's defenses.
When the newcomer rushes into the room, Meridian's hands come up on reflex, fire kindling into her open palms. Before she can react, the man kneels beside Gauntlet and starts trying to remove his shackles. Since he is non-hostile, Meridian turns to face the doorway to the small room, ready to blast any of their captors that show their faces.
Pink eye tries to break the final shackles and asks where would they keep our gear as I wish to have it back
Meridian turns but holds her flames at bay as it is clear that the entrant was a friendly.
Gauntlet and Pink-Eye recognize this human but they have not seen him in some weeks, he is Dev from the City of Sharn of all places!
Pink-Eye manages to snap Gauntlet's already weakened shackles.
Meridian speaks, "In the building I just escaped it appears is the headquarters, I would imagine that is where our gear is being held..."
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Despite EE's feint, the fighter manages to catch his rapier with the hilt of her blade. Now clear that she is outmanned. The fighter withdraws backwards and rolls through the stampeding herd!
Hoping that he won't have to dismiss it again any time soon, Frank decides to cast Grease on the threshold of the entrance to the largest building after taking cover by the corner of the second largest.
Frank ventures calling out "Need any help in there?"
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The grig frowns as the final enemy in view collapses.
"Are you the prisoners we're saving? Can I help?" she asks.
Aerin's brow furrowed at the inert construct. "Ugh. Warforged are so hard to patch up."
She put her hands on the metal frame and concentrated.
Zabeth peers around the corner... "Bah... pinned down.. too many."
She sees Sharon hurling bombs without any cover.. unwounded, and sighs.
"Guess they're bad shots..."
She scrambles from behind the ruins, and heads for the nearby tree.
Standing behind her new paltry cover, she aims her crossbow at the nearest foe, and fires.
Gauntlet's body jerks and he sits up suddenly seemingly disoriented.
"Ahh. We are still in combat. Or have all the enemies been defeated?"
Talia will throw a bomb at the closest enemy...
Pink Eye will dash to the headquarters tent to try and grab his gear on the way out
Round 6
Zabeth fires at one of the guards and her bolt sinks into the man's calf but he does not go down.
Talia throws a bomb at that same foe it misses but of course the splash creates damage all on its own! The man yelps in pain and staggers backwards towards his own allies.
Some of the guards move backwards away from the current combat zone near the buildings.
Round 7
With Aerin's healing, Gauntlet comes to!
Pink-Eye rushes across the way but finds Grease in front of the entranceway.
The soldiers continue their withdrawal from the field of combat. Kana, EE, and Viorr see one of the soldiers on horseback, swing by and grab the female they were just fighting.
Getting up and seeing Pink-eye heading for the headquarters for his things, Gauntlet calls out.
"Grab my pack Pink-Eye? You know...the enchanted one with all the extra space in it?"
He then turns and proceeds to look around for enemies.
"Where to now? I'm afraid I will only slow you all down."
Pink eye's hooves go right out and he falls flat on his back and will work his way out of the grease and nod to Gauntlet about the bag
"I will go with Pink-Eye!" Meridian follows Pink-Eye, but having seen the big minotaur slip in the grease, she will try to jump over it.
"Nice ta see ya again, boys," Dev says, standing with a grin.
"Now why didn't you snap those 5 minutes ago?"
Securing his tools, Dev shuts his eyes, which glow visibly through his eyelids as he quickly meditates to regains focus.
"Mickey sends his best, by the way."
Guessing the plan is, once the prisoners are rescued, to get their arses out of here, EE tries to hop up a horse in an attempt to speed things up a bit.
With a slight grimace of frustration as his opponent escapes, Viorr turns and runs north toward his companions.
Kana curses as she sees her foe getting dragged away until safety and her triumph snacked away. She still tries to shoot her.
That's not how the script here goes! You're meant to die heroicly at the heroes hands! Especially after having the insolence of attacking me!
EE wrangles as horse as Viorr heads towards his companions.
Kana takes a shot at the warrior but his bolt misses the mark.
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Meridian manages to jump over the greased area but skids at the far end sliding into the room and hitting the wall but not hard enough to injure herself!
Beyond the entranceway, her obscuring mist is still operative and Garrow may well lie within... In the room to her immediate right (the north) she notices that the gear of those rescued is piled up, spoils yet to be divided.
Moving to regain his enchanted backpack, he splits the remaining items with Pink-eye each prefers.
"We should get moving...somehow. Where to next?"
Frank steps out from behind the corner and says a word to dismiss the grease underneath Pink-Eye.
Overhearing Gauntlet he interjects.
"Somewhere defensible if we want to fight instead of run. Um, can we run?"
Frank then instructs the summoned grig to stay close with its bow ready, to which it cheerfully agrees.
Pink Eye puts on the belt and carries his axe it's silver sheen glowing in the pale light and he puts his armor in his backpack and makes his way out with his things and a smile saying let us leave rather then fight. We want to leave through to the other side however as there is something we are here to recover
Zabeth breathes a sigh of relief as the forces break. She strides briskly past Sharon - glancing to scan for wounds.
"Brazen to stand out in the open like that... but you appear unharmed, yes?"
Seeing Viorr move north out of sight, she hustles to catch up.. while stowing her crossbow and drawing her cane.
Talia grins,"I like a little pain in my life..." she catches up to the other...and weighs in on the plan.
"Since I got only a few minutes before I go I we finish them off now and leave no survivors. I mean I doubt we would have time to do the other thing I enjoy doing...So that leaves fighting."
"Something to recover...?" Frank asks, then he remembers.
"Hey grig, look for a diamond shaped adamntine plate. Bring it here if you can find it. Start with that big building there."
Frank watches as the tiny creature flies off into the ruined building.
"Now you see friends, that's why you hire a Minotour. Not a more dedicated recoverer than ol' Pink Eye here. Only just rescued and still has his eye on the prize. Well done, mate," Dev laughs.
"Let's move quick then, whatever it is. Mick had us teleported here, but we're on our own for getting back to Sharn." Standing up on his tippy-toes, Dev makes an effort to clap Pink Eye on the back encouragingly.
"Trust me folks," he says to the others, "there's no sense in trying to talk 'em out of it. Let's recover their 'thing' right quick and get to movin' on home."
Gauntlet hold out a big metal hand, showing off the slightly glowing mark there that resembles the one on his forehead.
"Hold on. I'm confused. Mickey sent you? Teleported? He can't afford that. There must be something more there. We were paid to...explore something for our client. I would rather not give up on that since we are here, but I need time to repair my damage first. Pink-eye? Do you know what's going on? I can't afford to just walk away from a contract without a really good reason."
"Maybe ol Double-E can help out? He's not bad at that sort of thing, Gauntlet. Where do you need to do your exploring? And how long do you think it'll take? I can't imagine we scared those guys off for good, and next time, we won't be surprising them."
Nodding Gauntlet agrees.
"Not to mention they took my compatriots, other than Pink-Eye, away somewhere too. I'm unsure where. I have no idea where it is exactly, or how long it will take to find, but it should be nearby. It was a secret Cannith workshop in former Cyre, called Whitehearth. We...Pink-Eye and myself...need to find and retrieve a lost Schema there. My word is my bond. I agreed to this. Pink-Eye? You still in this come Hell or Dragonfire?"