(023) Breakfast at Saxxon's

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waysoftheearth wrote:

After the slaying this latest hobgoblin, Dieter will at last use the power of his ring to leap to safety.

But he laughs as he does so. Loudly.

Dieter's shield is split in twain with a crack by the deadly bolt -- the point of it smashing through and pressing against his hard leather carapace!

Dieter shrugs off the useless weight of it and laughs at his foe, then invokes the command word and springs into the air like a grass-hopper. With a sword.

From way up in the cold air, Dieter sees the three hobgoblins he hadn't yet slain getting up and scurrying back toward their brethren.

One of them fires (1d20=11) another crossbow bolt toward him, and it whizzes by him with lethal speed but misses him in flight... and then he is descending toward the earth like a thunderbolt!

His leap is high but not deep enough to carry him over the walls, instead landing him with a resounding thud near the gate, where in he wriggles through the gap he made after Pelenwin.

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waysoftheearth wrote:
Dieter is now sans shield, and AC 4.

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waysoftheearth wrote:

As KOCH reaches the porticullis, he notices the crossbow fire of the hobgoblins and says, "d**n it all, and just as I thought I'd be out of this gatehouse."

He gathers whatever arrows he can from the cart and brings them back to the top of the battlements. Once there, he will reload his sling.

Mads (24) and Wibert (19) have most of the remaining arrows already. Olaf also has a few more (6).

Mads follows Koch up onto the battlement in order to make best use of both his bow and his arrows.

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waysoftheearth wrote:

OOC: how many of us have gotten through the portcullis by now?

Dieter is just squeezing though now... everyone else has already had time to get through.

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waysoftheearth wrote:

KOCH tries to count the number of hobgoblins in the field.

Once Koch and Mads arrive on the battlement, Koch sets his eye to counting the foe. Olaf, Wibert and Highbough have already been doing just that... (Desmond is still gathering rocks from around the catwalk).

There looks to be almost a dozen footmen, three wolf riders and the Captain down below... and the last three stragglers who are still scurrying back toward their fellows...

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waysoftheearth wrote:
Victor has a crossbow.

He is currently watching the enemy from behind the portcullis.

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eris wrote:
If Olaf has arrows, he'll shoot at the 3 retreating footmen that have just awakened.

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waysoftheearth wrote:

If Olaf has arrows, he'll shoot at the 3 retreating footmen that have just awakened.

Wibert and Olaf both take the opportunity to harry the retreating enemy, each swiftly aiming and loosing another arrow from their short bows (1d20; Olaf=6, Wibert=6) but these missiles both fly astray, the range growing too great for nimble accuracy.

Olaf now has 5 arrows remaining.

Wibert now has 11 arrows and 3 silver arrows in Padrig's quiver, and 4 arrows in the knave's quiver.

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danhem wrote:
Ulric turns to Dieter as he makes his way back through the gate.

"At least you got a few of them. We appear to have stalemate here. I doubt they'll charge the gate; they should know we'll just cut them down if they do. If that rider brings reinforcements, though, we may not be able to hold them back."

Ulric readies his own short bow and checks his quiver of arrows.

"We may need to take what treasure we can carry and escape while we can down into the ravine."

Ulric points toward the open gate on the other side of the keep.

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waysoftheearth wrote:

Ulric readies his own short bow and checks his quiver of arrows.

Ulric quickly counts 7 arrows in the quiver which he took from a slain knave.