(012) Beneath the Gatehouse

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heartless wrote:
Padrig will fall back while flighting the wolf after Ulric with Mads.

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waysoftheearth wrote:

Mads the Fair

Mads hears the suggestion amidst a fierce battle and will fall back after he dispatches his first wolf.

Verhaden; so Mads will stand and fight, and fall back only after the first wolf is slain?

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verhaden wrote:
Mads the Fair

Beating back the wolves with a wave of his axe, Mads pauses for a moment to consider the hulking Ogre approaching from the torture chamber. Dimly realizing the target he's made of himself and the vulnerabilities of his position, he decides to withdrawal and make for the rest of his group, but not before getting in one last swipe at the biting wolves as he makes his retreat.

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waysoftheearth wrote:
The Ante Chamber

Initiative is rolled (1d6; Andaros=4(-1), Gustave=5, Dieter=4(+1), Ogre=3)

Dieter rips his blade free of the beaten foe and turns immediately to glare red-faced at the melee behind him. Machine-like and without pause he strides toward the remaining Ogre raising his gory blade over his head as Andaros (dexterity 5) treads an artless circle around the growling and swinging foe. His mace lopes easily in his strong fist as he searches for the right balance, and draws the Ogre into the centre of the passage in its mad lust to engage.

The monster swings wildly at Andaros and Gustave, forcing them to leap back to dodge the brutal swipe. Andaros goads the monster further, drawing it on and giving his allies a brief moment of opportunity.

Gustave and Dieter both take it, and lunge at the foe at exactly the same moment. Gustave dives forward behind his poinard blade as Dieter hauls his heavy blade downward as a smith strikes an anvil (1d20; Gustave=13, Dieter=18) and both Men find the target!

Gustave stabs his blade (2dd=5,5) deep into the Ogre's horridly fat belly for a gruesome 11 points of damage, pushing up with all his might and cutting a voraciously wide wound -- freeing a most awful odour and spilling chains of slippery blue-grey rope and sausage -- at the very moment Dieter's blade cleaves the back of the stricken monster's noggin dealing (2dd=3,5) a stunning 7 hit points, splitting its thick skull and giving a foul splash of black custard.

The Ogre is simultaneously skulled and gutted and falls into a most wretched heap with a flatulent wheeze.

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waysoftheearth wrote:
The Passage

Initiative is rolled (1d6; Padrig=4, Wolves=3, Mads=2(+1), Caine=1(+1), Ulric=2).

The Ogre gives a ferocious bellow that rattles the rough hewn blocks of the passage walls and gives all pause to quail in their boots as it charges head long down the passage toward the tight melee...

Ulric wisely shrinks back calling for burning oil as Padrig and Mads attempt to hold off the snapping wolves as they make a fighting withdrawal.

Padrig reacts first, parrying snapping jaws then retaliating (1d20=19) with a perfectly timed stab of his spear (2dd=4,4) driving it efficiently into the chest of the black, snarling beast that assails him and dealing a fatal 8 hit points to fell the monster. He whips back his spear and hastily withdraws after Ulric in the moment of opportunity his kill creates.

Meanwhile Mads attempts to hold off the last wolf for a moment longer to let the others escape. The wolf seems furious that its prey might evade it, and snaps ferociously high and low at Mads with salivating jaws and (1d20=19) at last bests his defense, latching cruelly onto his thigh below his shirt of chain (2dd=6,1) dealing him a savage wound of 6 hit points.

Mads struggles violently to claw his way out of the passage and free himself of the wolf's fearsome bite and after several glancing blows off its thick black pelt (1d20=14) his efforts pay dividends as his axe connects (2dd=6,6!) mightily with the middle of the monster's arched spine, cleaving the beast bloodily in twain for a gorey 12 hit points, and slaying the foul creature outright.

As Ulric, Padrig and Mads try to retreat down the narrow passage, Caine (lunging just a moment too late to dispatch the wolf himself) and Pelenwin are both eager to give battle, and find themselves slowing the retreat of the others considerably!

The Ogre barrels down the passage, roaring and slashing wildly with its axe along the way and ends the round scarcely out of reach of Mads and Caine. Oh, how wretched is the stench of the monster!

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waysoftheearth wrote:
The situation is now thus;

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X Ogre
( Dead Ogre
w Dead wolf
a Anwyn (slain)
D Dieter (sword, shield, 6 of 12 hit points)
G Gustave (sword)
O Olaf (incapacitated, -1 of 10 hit points)
T Thorgrim (war-hammer)
P Pelenwin (hand-axe)
A Andaros (mace, shield)
m Michele (slain)
C Caine (daggers, 5 of 6 hit points)
p Padrig (spear, 4 of 5 hit points)
M Mads (axe, 2 of 9 hit points)
U Ulric (lantern)
@ Torch

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waysoftheearth wrote:
"Flee fer yar lives, maggots!" bellows the Ogre, kicking the broken body of a slain wolf out of its way.

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coffee wrote:
"Says who?" Dieter bellows back, with a short bark of a laugh.

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waysoftheearth wrote:
Gentlemen, what do thee intend for the upcoming round?

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makofan wrote:
Caine is taking the ogre down!