Willy unwraps the sling from his wrist and bolts towards the Bar, He leaps up and over the counter. The halfling begins twirling his sling in preparation for the attack.
1d20+7
Initiative:
Willy (action readied)
Fist <==
Audric
Thom
Arrika
Torrent
"By my ancestors!"
[occ]
Free Action = Font of Life <Not needed this round but trying to get used to turn routine of Warden>
Minor Action = Ready Maul for combat
Move Action (Speed 6) = I6 to H6 to G7 to F8 (will go to F9 if F8 will not bring me in melee range with Maul; otherwise, hold at F8 and hold on Standard Action)
Free Action = Nature's Wrath Warden abilit to Mark any targets that are adjacent to Fist.
Standard Action = Encounter Warden 1 Thunder Ram Assault
Will target the first tough person with a weapon that threatens the front of the Poison Apple as the Primary Target.
Trigger Action = Half-Orc Racial Furious Assault on the Primary Target if they are not a minion that flops down on the first hit from Thunder Ram Assault.
I will be prepared to use Warden's Grasp to yank back towards me anyone that I have marked that tries to go after one of the others in the group and is within 5 squares of me.
[/occ]
Thunder Ram Assault
[occ]Primary Attack Str Vs AC = Str +4 (Str) +2 (Maul) : [/occ]
[occ]Primary Damage 1W + Str Thunder damage : [/occ]
[occ]Secondary Attack Close Blast 3 of Str Vs For : [/occ]
[occ]Secondary Damage 1d6 Thunder damage and push 1 square : [/occ]
Furious Assault
[occ]If hit Primary Target then use : [/occ]
[occ]Effect 1W extra damage : [/occ]
Initiative:
Willy (action readied)
Fist <==
Audric
Thom
Arrika
Torrent
Thug (marked by Fist)
Recruits
Str Vs For :
Fist leaps to his feat and hurtles toward the front door, hefting his massive maul. Although Torrent's lantern fails to light the area out in the frozen street at all, Fist still manages to make out the shadowed figures as they drop some sort of battering ram and swings the maul overhead. He hears a satisfying thud and grunt, but even though he swung with all his fury, the man in the door holds his ground.
Initiative:
Willy (action readied)
Fist
Audric <==
Thom
Arrika
Torrent
Thug (marked by Fist)
Recruits
Audric moves out and attempts to see past Fist, readying an attack should any make themselves visible.
Thom moves quickly across the common room towards the bar, and glimpses the enemies outside. praying there are no Inquisitors amongst them, he prepares a simple spell for the first target to enter the room.
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Initiative:
Willy (action readied)
Fist
Audric (action readied)
Thom (action readied)
Arrika <==
Torrent
Thug (marked by Fist)
Recruits
Arrika rises, grabs her halberd and moves to open the alley door so that the group has a way out of the place.
While the group of heroes spreads across the barroom, Arrika dashes to the side door, slides back the bolt and throws the door to the darkened alley open. A gust of cold air brings a bit of snow and the continued inexplicable thumps, followed by the occasional scream. Something strange is going on out there. Of more immediate concern, though, is the small of pack of dogs that faces Arrika, growling and with foam dripping from their jaws.
The closest one to the door snaps at Arrika, crushing her forearm through her chain armor .
Torrent rises from her chair with a look of alarm, hefts her gleaming battleaxe, and stands between the dogs at the door and Audric, clearly moving to shield him.
A creak on the stairs and the sounds of several pairs of boots draws attention in that direction. At least two men are creeping down from the second floor, crossbows at the ready. These are military-looking humans, wearing dark clothes and red armbands (each sporting an image of a black horse-head on it).
Willy, seeing the new threat, hurls a slingstone in that direction, but it is deflected by a beam supporting the banister. Audric, however, points toward the stairs and a brilliant flash of light strikes the crossbowman from above, covering him in cold, radiant light. Thom also sees this new threat, dangerously close to him, and pokes his wand at the closest man on the stairs. The scout ducks an imaginary bolt, screams as if it struck him anyway , and stumbles down the stairs to the floor below.
His companion, looking around the room, dips a hand into his pouch, pulls a small stone from within, and flings it into the middle of taproom . When the stone hits the ground, it explodes with a thunderous explosion. Willy is protected from the worst of the blast by the bar, but Thom and Fist both clutch at their heads, their ears ringing . The wounded crossbowman, seeing his opening, fired his loaded weapon at Thom, but even with his ears ringing the wizard twists out of the way, and the bolt thuds into the bar behind him.
Meanwhile, the thug standing in the doorway, who seemed to be waiting for his opening, takes advantage of thunderstone's detonation and shoves Fist in the chest, sending him stumbling backward into the room. The thug follows him into the room, hefts his sap, and shouts, "Drop your weapons and come quietly. We don't want to break your valuable little heads." Torrent, in response, laughs and says, "Just try it, buddy."
The other shadowed shapes in the street see their opening and scurry into the room. Fist, still clutching his ears, is unable to take advantage of their movement, and they sneak past him. Swinging saps, each runs to a different target and connects .
Suddenly, the entire building shakes and a deafening boom sounds overhead. The armed men seem just startled as you by the explosion, and, before anyone can react, ceiling boards crack and buckle, and flaming oil leaks down into the room like a fiery rain. Overhead, a handful of screams sound out and an additional crossbowman stumbles down the stairs, covered in flames and screaming, finally collapsing at the feet of his compatriot, and dies. A bronze bust of Emperor Coaltongue falls off the wall behind the bar and lands next to Willy with a thud. The burning trickles of oil dribble down onto the scout at the foot of the stairs, Thom, Willy, Torrent, and Arrika, lighting their hair and skin on fire It is clear that the building is coming down.
Initiative:
Fist (dazed and deafened) <==
Arrika
Dogs
Torrent
Willy
Audric
Thom (dazed and deafened)
Scout 1 (bloodied)
Scout 2
Thug (marked by Fist)
Recruits
"Arghh!"
1d20
Fist shakes off the ringing in his ears, gathers himself, and hefts his maul with a tusky grin.
Fist's Ancestors aid him in shrugging off the thundering clap. They remind him that a Warden doesn't fall while the community is in danger.
Tempest Assault
Fist channels lightning through his maul and swings it forcefully at the thug, who steps aside at the last second and allows the blow to sail wide.
Initiative:
Fist
Arrika <==
Dogs
Torrent
Willy
Audric
Thom (dazed and deafened)
Scout 1 (bloodied)
Scout 2
Thug (marked by Fist)
Recruits (G8 marked by Fist)
As the fire debris starts to fall around her, Arrika laughs with glee and jabs at one of the foes, then slides into the bar, trying to lure the dogs within.
Arrika's halberd whistles past Audric's shoulder, catches the recruit's armband, and finally embeds itself in the table next to the two of them . Ignoring the fire falling from the ceiling, she slides away from the door.
From outside, Arrika hears a gravelly voice shout, "Sauce! Bacon! Liver! Stay!" and the three dogs hold their ground outside the door, growling and barking at everyone inside.
Torrent glances over her shoulder at the dogs, then swings her battleaxe savagely. The recruit facing her goes down with barely a scream, clutching his belly where the axe bit deep.
Initiative:
Fist
Arrika
Dogs (action readied)
Torrent
Willy <==
Audric
Thom (dazed and deafened)
Scout 1 (bloodied)
Scout 2
Thug (marked by Fist)
Recruits (G8 marked by Fist)
Audric smiles at the man next to him as he dashes away from him and fires a bolt of eldritch energy at him.
Willy pulls a blade from its sheath at his lower back and moves down the counter where he attempts to stick one of the thugs.
The only thing Thom hears is a loud ringing, he focuses his concentration, for another attack
Willy fires his sling across the room at the recruit that is menacing Thom and is satisfied to see the fellow crumple after the stone cracks into his temple.
Audric hexes another one of these ruffians, noting in passing that there is some sort of writing stitched onto the fellow's armband, below the black horse-head on the red field. He then vaults the table and lurches across the room as his foe takes the opportunity to smack Audric with his sap . Audric turns and fires a bolt of pure magic in retaliation, but the bolt flies wide and shatters the boarded-up window behind the man.
The only thing Thom hears is a loud ringing, he focuses his concentration, for another attack
Initiative:
Fist
Arrika
Dogs (action readied)
Torrent
Willy
Audric
Thom (dazed and deafened) <==
Scout 1 (bloodied)
Scout 2
Thug (marked by Fist)
Recruits (G8 marked by Fist)
The air in front of Thom's outstretched hand begins to waver and crash of thunder echoes up the stairs, but both the scouts manage to stand against the crash of noise, merely grimacing against the waves buffeting them.
The closer of the two thugs, dripping blood from his wounds already, drops his crossbow and pulls a nasty-looking morningstar from a hook on his belt, he steps closer to Thom and swings mightily. Thom can't get out of the way in time and takes a blow to his midsection . The crossbowman on the stairs sees his opening, reloads, and fires at Thom, as well, and the bolt flashes into Thom's chest with a thunk .
The thug standing before Fist swings his sap furiously, but the weapon bounces off the half-orc's armor ineffectually. The other figure menacing Fist shifts to eventually maneuver into a flanking position, but his sap is equally useless as he swings at the furious half-orc.
The other recruit, after ducking the blast of magic, slides around the table after Auric and swings his sap hard, putting an ugly welt on Audric's head .
Suddenly, a cracking sound is heard from above, and it becomes very clear that a section of the burning ceiling is giving way and is going to begin to cave into the room in mere moments.
Initiative:
Fist <==
Arrika
Dogs (action readied)
Torrent
Willy
Audric
Thom (dazed and deafened, bloodied)
Scout 1 (bloodied)
Scout 2
Thug (marked by Fist)
Recruits (G8 marked by Fist)
"Why is it always the wizard that needs saving?" Fist growls out between his teeth.
"Great Ancestors lend me strength"
"For the Resistance."
"Time to bash skulls!"
The way the ceiling creaks gets Arrika moving towards the nearest window. "I think we need to be going!" she calls out. Once there, she swipes at one of the recruits before calling out "C'mon Thom, you're not going to let a bunch of gutter thugs beat you down, are you?"
Fist the half-orc calls upon the spirits of his ancestors and manifests horns atop his head and the cloven hooves of a ram, he leaps across the room in a mighty charge and swings his maul, not connecting with all his strength but still managing to get enough force into the blow to crumple the already wounded scout to the ground . Still channeling the power of the ram spirit, Fist turns to the crossbowman on the stairs, swings his maul once more and connects solidly, eliciting a scream from the wounded man .
Meanwhile, Arrika leaps across the table toward the recently shattered window and notes that it remains boarded from the outside, which limits is possibilities as an escape route. Undaunted, she swings her halberd across the room at the recruit menacing Audric and manages to slash him across the back, sending him to a floor in a heap. Her words of encouragement bolster Thom, as well .
Before anyone can do much else, though, the ceiling in the eastern half of the room begins to collapse, raining broken wood and flaming oil down on the Torrent and Arrika .
Torrent, managing to escape some of the damage by taking advantage of natural openings in the collapse, immediately leaps forward to protect Audric and dispatches the last remaining recruit with an efficient swing of her axe.
Initiative:
Fist
Arrika
Dogs (action readied)
Torrent
Willy <==
Audric
Thom (dazed and deafened)
Scout 2 (bloodied)
Thug
Willy stays behind the bar counter lobbing sling bullets from over it.
Willy snaps a sling stone into the chest of the thug who grunts and stumbles to one knee. One arm hangs limply as he grimaces at you.
Initiative:
Fist
Arrika
Dogs (action readied)
Torrent
Willy
Audric <==
Thom (dazed and deafened)
Scout 2 (bloodied, Fist's Preferred Enemy)
Thug (bloodied, grants Combat Advantage)
Audric continues to run through the room before turning his gaze to the leader. "So, you've come to capture us, have you? I believe there's one thing you ought to know." He smiles maliciously before saying something. Most of you only hear a distant melody that you can't quite identify. Judging by the look on the thug's face, he has heard something far worse.
Audric continues to run through the room before turning his gaze to the leader. "So, you've come to capture us, have you? I believe there's one thing you ought to know." He smiles maliciously before saying something. Most of you only hear a distant melody that you can't quite identify. Judging by the look on the thug's face, he has heard something far worse.
1d20+4+2+1;2d8+4;1d6
Initiative:
Fist
Arrika
Dogs (action readied)
Torrent
Willy
Audric (concealed)
Thom (dazed and deafened) <==
Scout 2 (bloodied, Fist's Preferred Enemy)
Thug (bloodied, grants Combat Advantage)
Thom, still reeling with the blasts in his ears, concentrates on finishing off the last thug.
well, at least I saved, he he
Thom's missile of magic flies wide and destroys a section of the wall near the door.
The scout on the stairs recognizes that Fist has made the situation personal and launches into an attack. He drops his crossbow, unhooks his morningstar, shifts into position and attacks, striking home on Fist in spectacular fashion .
The thug at the door rises from his knee and snarls at the bits of flaming debris falling near him. Reaching to the small of his back, he pulls out a small handaxe and hurls it at Audric, slashing him in the arm .
The ceiling gives an ominous groan, and anyone who cares to notice can see that another large area is about to give way.
Initiative:
Fist <==
Arrika
Dogs (action readied)
Torrent
Willy
Audric (concealed)
Thom
Scout 2 (bloodied, Fist's Preferred Enemy)
Thug (bloodied, grants Combat Advantage, cursed)
Audric simply looks maliciously at the leader of the thugs as he clutches his arm.
Fist takes the cuff across the face and just grins at the Scout.
"Heh, heh, that's it little skulker. No more fancy pop rocks or bolts in the back. It's blade on hammer as the spirits intended."
Fist's maul leaves another bruising impact on the scout, and he crumples without going down. He wipes blood from his lip and hefts his morningstar.
Initiative:
Fist
Arrika <==
Dogs (action readied)
Torrent
Willy
Audric (concealed, bloodied)
Thom
Scout 2 (bloodied, Fist's Preferred Enemy, marked by Fist)
Thug (bloodied, grants Combat Advantage, cursed)
Arrika goes through the window, and then attacks the Thug from behind.
Arrika quickly knocks several boards out of the window frame and slide through the subsequent gap. Quickly tumbling into the street, she leaps from the snow-covered ground, dashes to the door, and strikes the thug in the entrance-way from behind. He staggers forward but manages to maintain his feet. At which point, she notices the man on the horse at the end of the alley. Hidden under grey plate armor is a tightly muscled man, his armor worn from many battles and marked with symbols of sacred honor. His eyes have a darkness like a judge laying sentence. A broken helmet, cloven in the face, hangs from his belt. A raven stands on his right shoulder, staring at Arrika with black eyes. He whistles to the dogs and turns, leading them off, seemingly disinterested in the results of the battle in the bar. Arrika also notes that The Poison Apple is not the only building in the city that is ablaze, and it seems that the Ragesian attack has begun. Screams and thunderous booms drift on the frigid wind.
The ceiling then continues its collapse, raining debris and flames onto those in the taproom. Thom and Willy manage to avoid the worst of it, Torrent and the thug in the door take solid hits.
Torrent shrugs a beam from her shoulder, shuffles through the debris, and moves to flank the thug in the door. She swings her axe wildly, trying to rub the ash from her eyes, and fails to make contact with anything.
Initiative:
Fist
Arrika
Horseman
Dogs
Torrent
Willy <==
Audric (concealed, bloodied)
Thom
Scout 2 (bloodied, Fist's Preferred Enemy, marked by Fist)
Thug (bloodied, grants Combat Advantage, cursed)
EDIT: The map is slightly off. Arrika should be in F10, not F9. I'll correct it on the next iteration.