Desperately wanting to get away from the chatty maniacs, Sor tries to sneak up to the north side of the building.
Arlen strides 20' to the left to stand before Elandra and beside Big John.
"Whenever you're ready." He raises his bow with an arrow ready. He gestures to the team to follow his lead and shoot carefully.
Sor moves like a shadow in the dark, and is able to reposition himself at full speed without anyone noticing.
”Okay volley fire. Is the plan to pepper’em one each? Or are we going to try and concentrate fire on two or three of them to see if we can take’em out while we have the drop on them?”
Big John asks staging is loaded Heavy Crossbow and stringing his longbow.
"Focus fire in clusters. Move in to melee when ready." Arlen answers in a whisper.
A moment before he advances, Faerith lightly taps Sor on the shoulder.
"Drink this after the volley. It will make you harder for them to spot until your next attack." she whispers, handing the elf a vial filled with a greenish brown liquid that seemed to shift in the dim light.
John easily stretches back the Comp Longbow and looses.
”Meh, I need to get myself a bow with a heavier draw.”
John waits to see if he can get another shot off.
He nodded waiting for the arrows to loose and hit their marks.
"Be ready boy..."
He whispered to Sebastion as he held his position...
"I'll close when they close"
He called out to his allies readying his lance.
Yaron says quietly, "They're all in range, some even in point-blank. Do we fire now, or move up like the elf?"
Elandra nods, her bow drawn ready to fire with her companions.
Yaron aims at the nearest hobgoblin, Start close and work my way back..
Elandra takes a shot at the closest hobgoblin still standing.
On cue, Arlen fires an arrow.
Sor silently lets an arrow loose at either of the first two recruits still standing.
Surprise round___________
At Arlen’s signal, all archers fired at their targets together. Big John, Yaron, Elandra, Arlen, Sor.
With a bone freezing hiss, a cloud of arrows descended on the hobgoblins milling about in the courtyard, hitting the closest ones.
Legion recruits 2 and 3 went down immediately under multiple arrows, including one right in the left ear and out the right. Recruit 1 spun around on a heavy hit, but is still up.
Round 1_____________
Players take their turns in order of posting, enemies will go last.
The Legion Hobgoblins are just starting to look around at the commotion. They remain Flat-Footed until their turn.
Seeing the first wave of hobgoblins fall, Yaron advances slightly to cover while drawing another arrow, and snapping off a shot at the wounded, but not fallen, hobgoblin.
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[ooc]yes. At level 1 I can share the feat for 3 rounds [/ooc[
Sor's eyes remain steady over his veil as he launches another arrow.
Elandra moves up to point blank range and takes another shot.
Big John moves parallel to the cart and targets the lowest hobgoblin on the map with the Heavy Crossbow.
He squeezes the release lever and the steel limbs thunk forward launching the deadly bolt at the flat footed monster.
”Catch this chucklehead!”
Big John drops the Heavy Crossbow allowing the sling to take the weight as he quick draws his sword and shield, the extra wide and heavy blade impossibly nimble in the big man’s hands.
”Come get some more!”
As her companions let loose another volley, Faerieth readies her quarterstaff, preparing to engage the surviving hobgoblins.
Arlen holds his position and fires at the next nearest hobgoblin.
Round 1 complete______________
The next volley (from Yaron, Sor, Elandra, Big John and Arlen) shot down Hobgoblin Recruit 1 and 4, and wounded Recruit 5. (Arlen's shot sailed off into the night). Darry, Ghosteye and Faerieth waited.
The Hobgoblins shouted back and forth, then charged howling!
Recruit 5 charged at Big John.
for a possible slashing damage.
Recruit 7 charged at Elandra.
for a possible slashing damage.
for a possible extra slashing damage.
Recruit 9 charged at Big John.
for a possible slashing damage.
Recruit 8 double moved into contact with Sor.
Recruit 6 charged at Yaron. (AoO from Big John is allowed as he passed)
for a possible slashing damage. Fumble confirmed, doing the damage to his right foot. (Move reduced to half).
Around the NE corner of the store comes another three attackers!
Recruits 10 and 11 double move into contact with Ghosteye and Faerith.
Recruit 12 double moves.
Darry, Ghosteye and Faerieth can take their actions now at the bottom of Round 1.
Elandra staggers as blood spurts from her shoulder.
Though not a warrior by nature, Faerieth, like her mother, knew how to handle herself in a fight. As the hobgoblins race toward them, the half elf begins twirling her staff, the heavy oak building momentum with the movement that both made her strike less predictable and helped to calm her mind. And their enemies fall upon her and Ghosteye, she lashes out with a well-timed strike, smashing one end of her staff into the bastard that sought to bring more pain and suffering to her home.
"Darry, help Elandra!!" she yells, seeing the other woman take a vicious strike that she could see come out of the back of her shoulder before the hobgoblin pulled his blade back.
Big John grunts with pain, but smiles a bloody smile back at his attacker.
"Oh yeah that's the stuff!"
"Lets you know you're still alive!"
Big John tries to feed the hobgoblin the spiked rim of his shield as the monster tries to run past him.
"Couldn't let you come be up here all by yourself Yaron! Stay back to back!"
Either the halfling heard Miss Faerlieth's command and heeded it or he had planned on charging that way mattered little, what mattered is he lowered his lance and charged into the hobgoblin who stuck at Elandra. He couldnt tell whether the woman was just badly wounded or not he merely called out.
" Pull'er back if you can!"
He growled almost in time with his mouth who gnashed its teeth at the hobgoblin as well.
When Hobgoblin 10 ran up, Faerith wound up and smacked him hard, but he's still up.
When Recruit 6 ran by, Big John made a backhanded swipe that was blocked by Recruit 6's shield.
When Darry charged forward, his lance was blocked by Hobgoblin 7's shield; and Sebastion just missed with his bite.
[npc]Ghosteye took a step to the SW and blasted Hobgoblin 10. He froze solid, fell over and cracked in half.
Round 2__________________
Players act in order of posting, enemies will go last.
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Sor slips back and plunks an arrow at the hobgoblin across from him.
"Bah! Need more pratice with this blasted thing."
He growled out dropping the lance while drawing out his battleaxe.Ducking low he whistled Sebastion forward to get into a more advantagious position.
He slid off of Sebastions back flanking the one that had attacked Elandra.
Elandra takes her single action available to her to withdraw before collapsing.
Arlen sends an arrow at the northmost recruit over by ghosteye. Then he directs Russet to attack the hobgoblin behibd Yaron.
Russet charges at the nearest recruit.
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Yaron steps closer to John, shifting his bow to one hand and drawing his shortsword in the other. "I'll do what I can, but I'm better with a bow than a blade." ... though I suppose I can make all of us better... He keeps the blade ready, while drawing on the magic within him, before reciting, "There once was a mountain called John / A vertible fountain of brawn / When goblins attacked / John hacked and he hacked / Until all the goblins were gone."
”Hey! That one is kinda catchy!”
John tries to target an already injured attacker to reduce the number of weapons being thrust at him. He fights a much different battle now, using his sword and shield to block and return blows.
”Let’s get to the part of the story where the someone hits us with a healing wand, but keep singin! I like it!”
Faerith steps forward, bringing her staff up above her head and slamming it down as hard as she can, desperately trying to take down the Hobgoblin in front of her.
'Damn it! Need to get to Elandra before she bleeds out.' she thinks frantically as she attacks. 'These bastards have taken too many lives already'
Round 2__________________
Sor slips back and plunks an arrow at the hobgoblin across from him for modest damage. The hobgoblin is still up.
Darry growled dropping the lance while drawing out his battleaxe. Ducking low he whistled Sebastion forward to get into a more advantagious position as he slid off of Sebastions back flanking the one that had attacked Elandra.
His own attack was shield blocked, but Sebastions bite struck home, but for minor damage; and the hobgoblin withstood the trip attack.
Elandra takes her single action available to her to withdraw before collapsing.
Arlen sends an arrow at the northmost recruit over by ghosteye. He hit for modest damage.
Then he directs Russet to attack the hobgoblin behind Yaron.
Russet charges at the nearest recruit, but the hobgoblin managed to shield block him.
Yaron steps closer to John, shifting his bow to one hand and drawing his shortsword in the other.
Starting Inspire Courage (+1 to hit/+1 damage) on all allies in sound range.
John tries to target an already injured attacker to reduce the number of weapons being thrust at him. He attacked a hobgoblin, but it shield blocked it as well.
Faerith steps forward, bringing her staff up above her head and slamming it down as hard as she can, desperately trying to take down the Hobgoblin in front of her, but the hobgoblin shield blocked it as well.
[npc] Ghosteye cold blasts Recruit 11 hard for cold damage.
Recruit 5 attacked Big John.
for a possible slashing damage.
Recruit 6 attacked Russet.
for a possible slashing damage.
Recruit 7 attacked Darry.
for a possible slashing damage.
Recruit 8 stepped forward and attacked Sor.
for a possible slashing damage.
Recruit 9 stepped and attacked Yaron.
for a possible slashing damage.
Recruit 11 stepped and attacked Ghosteye.
for a possible slashing damage.
Recruit 12 stepped and attacked Arlen.
for a possible slashing damage.
Round 3__________________
Players act in order of posting, enemies will go last.
Setting up a proper flank (and providing Sor a bit of distraction to fall back away from the hobgoblin if needed) Darry whistled at his mount as he struck at the hobgoblin between them.
Though it didnt work at least he hoped he had kept its attention while Sebastion harried the foe attacking their elven archer.
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