The frog retreats slightly and attacks from the water again, surely this time it can pull an orc into the drink!
But the cold water must be slowing the amphibian down. Rubius shakes his head with laughter and frustration. "C'mon ya big softie! Grab an orc!" But he focuses on his shooting, encouraging Olaf to do the same. "Take out the ones on the ladders, laddie, can keep yer head down!"
Olaf's shift rips into an orc's side and Rubius calls out encouragement "There ya go, laddie! Keep 'em comin' just like that!"
Rubius then places two of his own shafts into orcs though they don't hit as hard as he might have liked.
The wild dwarf motions over at his mountain lion. "Tawny! Come here! tip this thing on those raging dolts down there!"
But Tawny doesn't like the idea of leaping between the two towers. Or maybe the big cat simply didn't hear the command. Either way, he just crouches low to the ground as shafts whizz overhead.
Vargas steps back from the wall to see about reloading the pitch in the spent and check if any companions have suffered an injury he missed.
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Durnim aims his longbow at a bow-carrying orc and fires.
Argrim aims his crossbow at a bow-carrying orc and fires.
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Thurgrom continues his focus on the javelin-throwers (J7).
Kragg and his recruit fire, striking another ladder orc (L6) and bringing him down.
Young Palin scores his first kill, dropping the javelin thrower with a well aimed bolt. (J5)
Rubius and his recruit score hits, but do not manage to bring down the ladder bearer.
Vargas grabs the pitch and reloads it, needing only to crank the level to relock the mechanism.
Durnim’s shot finishes the last bow using orc, and you breathe a slight sigh of relief that their ranged capabilities are greatly diminished, but realize the melee threat is just beginning.
Orcs fire damage:
Grease:
L gains his feet and dives into the icy water to put out the fire!
The orc struggles against the water and manages to get onto the ladder.
L8 loses his footing and falls.
L3 maintains footing and sets his ladder.
One orc falls, the other makes it through the first grease and into the second.
But falls in the second grease!
J6 maintains his footing and moves out, before throwing!
Javelin orcs:
L5 sets his ladder. The other orcs begin to advance!
The two orcs at the top in melee:
Status at the end of round 7:
Buffs active: Bless (whole party, 63 rounds
Rubius, Divine Favor 4 rounds
Grease-- 28 rounds
Grease 2-- 29 rounds
Health: Durnim 39/39
Kragg 29/33
Rubius 19/27
Thurgromm 37/37
Ungebrochen 26/26
Vargas 24/24
Recruits 1-6: 25/25
Giant Frog 6/16
L9- 23, on fire
L7-21
L- 23
Kragg grunted as the axe bit into his buckler. His arm went numb from the blow. He focused, and an axe formed in his free hand, made of out stone.
He returned the attack with one of his own. The orc was almost certainly not expecting the Unarmed dwarf to create his own weapon, and as such he took the axe to the chest. Kragg hoped that it would be enough.
On the wall, the recruit fired at one of the orcs who was on fire. The orc jumped into the water just as the recruit fired, and the bolt impacted into the ground.
Rubius continues to wave at Tawny. "C'mere boy! Deal with this big lunk for me!"
Tawny listens now and tries to leap over to help Rubius. In his eagerness, he barely makes it!
If that brings the orc down, Rubius will step forward and fire at any orcs trying to climb the ladders. If the orc is still alive, Rubius will try to step back again and fire into the orc again.
Rubius calls out to his recruit "We're in the thick of it now, Olaf! Keep firin', lad!!"
Seeing the orcs crest the battlements Vargas calls out. "Shove the ladders! They are anchored in grease!" Not pausing he steps back from the pitch to pull out the wand of curing and tap Rubius while invoking "Khazul."
for Rubius.
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"Target the leader, Argrim" Durnim says while he aims his longbow at the leader and fires.
Argrim aims his crossbow at the leader orc and fires.
Too to be deterred, Thurgrom continues to strike down the javelin throwers.
Kragg's axe hand impacts the orc, tearing steep chunks out of its flesh, but leaving it still standing.
The big cat leaps across and attacks, and Rubius steps back and fires, but the orc keeps his feet.
Thurgrom hits one of the remaining javelin orcs, but the others miss. As they watch the javelin orcs begin to advance towards melee-- they are down to their last javelins!
The orc leader advances- it's dire wolf giving him seemingly graceful mastery of the combat field, leaping onto the ladder after skirting around the grease- he will be upon you in the next round.
Orc L1 runs up the ladder and past!
Fire damage (L9):
The flames and his own wounds consume the flaming orc, his shrieks and the smell of orc flesh echoing and wafting across the battlefield.
Grease:
Orc L8
Orc
Orc
New orc moving onto grease
That orc on the second grease:
That causes him to stop in the fire! Reflex to avoid catching fire:
New orc moving onto grease
New orc moving onto grease
Orc L2 at Tawny:
Orc at Kragg:
Orc J4 with the frog:
Hampered by the grease, the limits of the ladders, and running out of ranged options, very few of the orcs can attack you currently, but they cluster at the bottom of the gates, waiting, menacing!
Status at the end of the round:
Buffs active: Bless (whole party, 62 rounds
Rubius, Divine Favor 3 rounds
Grease-- 28 rounds
Grease 2-- 29 rounds
Health: Durnim 39/39
Kragg 30/33 with 6 nonlethal
Rubius 22/27
Thurgromm 37/37
Ungebrochen 26/26
Vargas 24/24
Recruits 1-6: 25/25
Giant Frog 6/16
J7 (hit by Thurgrom) 9
L7-21
Foolish orc who crossed two greases and ran into fire: 6, on fire
Orc in melee with Kragg 14
L2- in melee with Tawny 15
L- 23
[ooc]That will bring up the party's actions for round 9![/dice]
Kragg let go of his stone axe as it was lodged in the orc’s chest. Another former in his hand. The orc jumped over the wall and right into the blade. It hit the beast in the neck.
Standing over the corpse he pointed the bloody axe at the orc leader.
”Oi! Ugly! Come and die!”
All around him the battle continued. There would be no retreat from the gate house. They weren’t fast enough. If they fell though, the orcs would pay for it in blood, and the recruits would hold the second gate. He hoped that the burning oil would be ready soon. It was needed now more than ever.
Unbeugsam moves forward and weaves a spell, using a point of his arcane pool and suddenly Durnhilm doubles in size.
"Time to go, Argrim" Durnim says while he heads toward the gate tower. He pauses aiming his longbow at the leader and fires.
Argrim follows Durnim out the tower aiming his crossbow at the leader orc and fires.
Thurgrom glares as the orc passes him. The mynrughdaer drops the long bow and grabs his dwarven axe. Confident that the other dwarves will handle to orc invaders that passed him, Thurgrom eagerly waits for the next orc he sees climb the ladder to strike.
Tawny, enraged that orc attacked him, unleashes a spitting and yowling hail of tooth and claw, seeking to bring the orc down.
The frog keeps trying to pull an orc into the water.
Hearing the sound grow as the orcs crowed around down below Vargas takes advantage of not being engaged to go over to the other vessel of pitch, oil and flame to drop it over the horde.
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Recruits pepper the leader with arrows, and the massive orc roars, seeming to revel in and gain power from the fury and anger of battle!
The other recruit finishes off one of the ladder orcs.
The fire splashes down, covering the battlefield!
Fire damage and saves:
Damage
Leader:
Orc on Ladder
L2:
L5:
L3:
Burning damage
Tawny lashes out, dropping the orc he was fighting!
Grease:
From front to back:
L2:
L8:
L4:
Orc moving from second grease through first:
New Orcs moving into grease:
To avoid catching fire by the two stopping in firey squares:
One orc provokes from Tawny, Thurgrom, and Ungebrochen if he has a melee weapon to swing as he moves past.
Orc attacking Rubius:
Orc on ladder attacking Thurgrom:
Orc on ladder attacking Kragg:
Orc leader at Kragg:
Orc L1 will provoke from Rubius, Tawny, and Ungebrochen if they have attacks of opportunity.
Status at the end of the round:
Buffs active: Bless (whole party, 61 rounds
Rubius, Divine Favor 1 rounds
Enlarge Person Durnim 30 rounds
Grease-- 27 rounds
Grease 2-- 28 rounds
Health: Durnim 39/39
Kragg 18/33 with 6 nonlethal
Rubius 22/27
Thurgromm 27/37
Ungebrochen 26/26
Vargas 24/24
Recruits 1-6: 25/25
Giant Frog 6/16
J7 (hit by Thurgrom) 9
Foolish orc who crossed two greases and ran into fire: 11, on fire
L- 23
L2- 7, on fire
L5- 4
L3- 7, on fire
Orc Leader- 20, on fire
Orc on ladder- 4
New orcs in grease- 7, 7 on fire
Kragg suddenly realized that he had failed to think things through. He had no sooner killed one orc before two more were on him...and one was their leader! It’s great axe nearly took off his head. A timely parry saved his life. He knew that he wouldn’t be able to keep that up. He swung his axe...hoping that the orc’s raging would mean that it would fail to properly defend itself.
Khazuk could feel Kragg’s rush of adrenaline and terror. The bird took to the skies, flying towards it’s master. There wasn’t much it could do, but it had to do something!
Seeing the massive orc turn to his cousin and attack viciously made Vargas gulp as steeled himself. He stepped into the reach of the enemy while holding only a small stick which he carefully invoked upon Kragg.
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Argrim follows Durnim aiming his crossbow at a ladder orc and fires.
"Argrim, shoot a orc holding a ladder," Durnim says while continuing towards the gate tower. He pauses aiming his longbow at a ladder orc and fires.
To quick, the orc zooms past Thurgrom before the dwarven warrior could land a blow. Yet an invading orc on the ladder took a swipe at him. The mynrughdaer decides to respond in kind.
Weaving his spell again Unbeugsam recasts his spell on Thurgrom, again using a point of gis pool to bolster his strength
Rubius unleashes a hail of arrows, trying to thin the orc herd. He continues to call encouragement to Olaf and Tawny.
Kragg striks at the leader, and his attack clangs against the superior armored breastplate that he wears.
Vargas heals Kragg, stitching some of the wounds from the barbarian's axe stroke.
One recruit's shot strikes an orc on the ladder which Rubius had hit a moment before, and it falls with a screech into the water.
Rubius launches a flurry of arrows, striking one of the orcs headed towards the ladders, felling him as he ran.
Tawny swipes at the orc that attempted to run past, dropping it and keeping the path behind you clear. The cat turns back and claws the orc leader, raking deep into his flesh.
Below the frog pulls the orc it's been fighting into the water.
Fails swim check, holding breath for 1 round, damage for hypothermia,
Fire Damage:
L3
L2
Leader
Foolish Orc
Orcs at the top:
Orc attacking rubius:
L3 attacking Thurgrom:
Orc leader attacking Kragg:
He five foot steps after his attack.
The two orcs at the top five foot step up and attack.
Attacking Thurgrom:
Attacking Tawny:
Grease, from front to back:
Foolish orc suceeds and moves
L8 falls/stays down
Orc moves
Orc moves
L4 Moves
L4 in second grease: And falls again!
Orc falls
Orc falls
Orc moves forward to second grease:
Falls again!
New orcs in grease:
J7
J6
Foolish orc makes it to the top and attacks Thurgrom:
Status at the end of the round:
Buffs active: Bless (whole party, 60 rounds
Rubius, Divine Favor EXPIRED
Enlarge Person Thurgromm 30 rounds
Grease-- 26 rounds
Grease 2-- 27 rounds
Health: Durnim 39/39
Kragg 10/33 with 6 nonlethal
Rubius 22/27
Thurgromm 22/37
Ungebrochen 26/26
Vargas 24/24
Tawny- 12/18
Recruits 1-6: 25/25
Giant Frog 6/16
J7 (hit by Thurgrom) 9
Foolish orc who crossed two greases and ran into fire: 11, on fire
L2- 12, on fire
L5- 4
L3- 8, on fire
Orc Leader- 33, on fire
New orcs in grease- 7, 7 on fire
J4- holding breathe, grappled, 1
The fires from the oil have burned themselves out except where they caught creatures on fire.
Seeing Kragg sorely wounded, Khazuk flew with all of his might...knowing that she would probably still be too late.
With the orc leader leaving him for dead, Kragg leaned against the wall. He put a hand to his chest and felt blood. Gritting his teeth he looked at the orc in front of him. It grinned as it prepares to finish off the wounded dwarf.
Kragg stepped forward, a spear forming in his hand. He ran the orc through. If he was going to die then he wouldn’t go alone!
On the wall the Dwarven recruit fired again, aiming for a ladder orc. He was proving to be quite a marksman!
Vargas cursed as the invaders continued to reach the top of the battlements and Kragg had nearly been cloven in twain. "I nearly reloaded the other pitch, finish and drop it! We are getting overrun!" He called across to the other dwarves while stepping back to see if he could further spoil progress for the third time, and maybe give them a chance to either flee or capitalize on the chaos.
doing
Tawny snaps at the orc that moves past him.
Then lays into the nearest orc with tooth and claw.
Rubius steps back to get some clear shots and focuses on bringing down any orc he can shoot at freely.
He keeps yelling to Olaf "Fire lad, fire! Bring them down!" To those near him, he asks in a lower tone "When do we fall back? This is getting hot."
Olaf fires at the orcs storming up the ladders.
The frog lets go of the orc, hoping it will drown, and moves to the side to try to pull another orc into the drink with its long tongue.
L3 orc swings wide with his attack, allowing the mynraghdaer to return in kind.
Missing another retreating orc, Thurgrom feels the sting of an advancing orc's weapon, while another one swings and misses. Damn! They're starting to swarm!
Then, quite suddenly, the dwarven scion feels the tendrils of magic immediately stretch and lengthen his form, now towering over the orc raiders.
Thurgrom smiles and screams an battle cry in the faces of the equaly-surprised orcs, bringing his waraxe down on the orc who struck him.
"Hurry, Argrim," Durnim says while hustling towards the gate tower. He pauses aiming his longbow at a ladder orc and fires.
Argrim follows Durnim ata hustle.
Kragg and his recruit focus their attacks on the orc in front of him, and he falls from the ladder into the water below with a splash.
Tawny lashes out at the orc leader, biting deeply into him and clawing him once! (Bite and second claw hit, first claw misses)
Rubius fires twice at the horde of orcs, picking off a previously uninjured orc from the front. (but not in the grease).
Thurgrom seems to curse the gods silently as he misses improbably twice!
Fire damage:
Foolish orc:
Leader:
New orc in grease:
L3:
Orc L3 stops/drops/rolls to put out the fire: He is no longer on fire! He uses his move action to stand up.
The orc leader snarls, howls, and screams [b]"I will be your doom, dwarves! The Marty's Mercy is all you should hope for now!"[b]
He five foot steps forward again, slashing at Tawny as he goes.
Pacifa, the Lord of Things to Come sides with the Dwarves of Gold Peak for once, as the orc leader misses badly!
Grease 3 at the top:
All 5 orcs (bonus one because of the squeezing ladders!) fall, two on the top and three into the water!
Two on top to stand back up:
One regains his feet and will be able to attack, one remains prone- +4 to hit him in melee next round.
Three in water to swim:
All 3 swim to shore.
Orc J7 moving through the grease:
The one orc who regained his feet strikes out at Thurgrom:
A lucky hit catches Thurgrom!
J7 moves through and keeps his feet, but provokes as he does so.
J7 Attacking Thurgrom:
A miss!
Grease 1 at the front/bottom:
L4 falls, but the other three manage to make it through that grease and up into the greased ladders:
Two more into the drink, but J6 makes it to a safe, grease free square by provoking from Tawny/Kragg.
Grease 2 at the back:
The two that made it out moving into grease 1:
One that made that on the ladder grease:
And he ends in the drink.
Two new orcs moving into grease:
Two new orcs moving into other grease:
One makes it through and another moving in:
J4's last gasp at breathe:
Drenched and freezing, he makes it to the edge of the water.
Status at the end of the round:
Buffs active: Bless (whole party, 59 rounds
Rubius, Divine Favor EXPIRED
Enlarge Person Thurgromm 29 rounds
Grease-- 25 rounds
Grease 2-- 26 rounds
Grease 3- 30 rounds
Health: Durnim 39/39
Kragg 10/33 with 6 nonlethal
Rubius 22/27
Thurgromm 22/37
Ungebrochen 26/26
Vargas 24/24
Tawny- 12/18
Recruits 1-6: 25/25
Giant Frog 6/16
J7 (hit by Thurgrom) 9
Foolish orc who crossed two greases and ran into fire: 12, on fire
L5- 19
L3- 20
Orc Leader- 49, on fire
New orcs in grease- 7, 13 on fire
J4- 6
With stone axe, Kragg hewed at the orcs. Fighting in a frenzy, blood flew as his axe cut into orc flesh again and again.
Khazuk, flapping in the air, saw that the orcs were breaking through! It turned and went to the wall, in it’s sing-song voice tweeting
”Two orcs are through the gate! They are entering the hold!”
Rubius, lacking a clear shot at the orcs on the ladder, focuses on the leader with Tawny.
Meanwhile, Olaf tries to clear Thurgrom's ladder the best he can.
The frog tries to drag another orc into the water.
Being stymied by the advancing orcs, the mynrughdaer quickly stows his prized waraxe. The ladders. They must fall. Thurgrom steels himself for the pain, as he rushes past the orcs attacking him, and making use of his enlarged size, attempts to push one or more ladders down.
"Use the oil! Take out ladders!" Vargas bellows out from his corner while stepping to tap again with his wand upon his allies.
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Ungebrochen, for once resorts to magic. 2 missles of pure force streak from his hand and unerringly strike the orc leader.
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Kragg’s quick attack takes a bite out of the orc’s leg as it moved passed. He turns and stabs again, ending the orc, it’s body tumbling off the parapet to the water below.
Tawny lashes out at the leader, clawing and biting it, then Rubius turns and fires at close range, a shot finding purchase in the orc leader’s neck, felling him where he stands!
Vargas steps up and heals Kragg.
Swimming orcs at the bottom:
The foolish orc freezes to death and floats to the bottom.
Grease at the top:
Three orcs moving up ladders into it:
J6 Attacks Thurgrom then moves, provoking attacks:
The orc who made acrobatics attacks then moves from the grease:
The orc who moved into continues through.
Orc grappled by the frog below:
He breaks free and struggles back to shore.
Grease at the bottom:
L4 making it into the grease at the top:
New orcs moving into the grease:
L4 dashes past, keeping it's feet.
Grease in the back:
Two that made it moving into the second grease:
New orcs moving into this grease:
That one trying desperately to get through to a ladder:
Status at the end of the round:
Buffs active: Bless (whole party, 58 rounds
Rubius, Divine Favor EXPIRED
Enlarge Person Thurgromm 28 rounds
Grease-- 24 rounds
Grease 2-- 25 rounds
Grease 3- 29 rounds
Health: Durnim 39/39
Kragg 19/33 with 6 nonlethal
Rubius 22/27
Thurgromm 22/37
Ungebrochen 26/26
Vargas 24/24
Tawny- 12/18
Recruits 1-6: 25/25
Giant Frog 6/16
J7 (hit by Thurgrom) 9
L5- 19
L3- 20
New orcs in grease- 7, 13
J4- 6