With Beldin charging in to draw attention, Bartha decided to move in, in order to be able to appear behind the enemy when they would be distracted by him.
Bartha uses her round for moving
Edit: Bartha readies her weapons as well.
With Beldin charging in to draw attention, Bartha decided to move in, in order to be able to appear behind the enemy when they would be distracted by him.
Bartha uses her round for moving
Edit: Bartha readies her weapons as well.
{Bartha's Speed is 11, so she can only move 6 squares while stealthed. She can move another 3 squares as part of her attack if she is charging in for a backstab.}
{Actually, I'm wrong. "Move" is a minor action, so if all Bartha is doing is moving, she can use "move" as her major and her minor action, and she can move up to 11 squares.}
((Which is what I did? Not the charge part though))
{It's cool. Sorry about the confusion.}
From her vantage point, Philomena could see her companions moving into position and their foes preparing to attack without even a word of warning. Bandits, most likely, attracted to their voices during the drill. Beldin somehow had already engaged a cluster of them, drawing blood but managing to evade any damage himself.
She glanced around and saw Tempest was much farther away from him than she. Any reservations Philomena might have had about Beldin fled her mind at the thought of him in danger from multiple foes. She silently moved behind the tree nearest to him, staff in hand, ready to assist in any way she could.
Tempest saw that Beldin had gotten injured... but she also realized that Philomena was almost directly beside him. It wouldn't be of any real benefit to have a second mage rushing to his side. Remembering the drill, when she had been one of the first taken down - which had it been a real fight would have left her group without healing - Tempest decided that for the time being, the best way she could be of help would be to avoid getting hit. Tempest attempted to become unobtrusive, as she had been so good at in Kirkwall... but she discovered that becoming an unimportant background object in a mage Circle was a lot easier than becoming one as a healer in the middle of a battlefield.
{She enters stealth, she just sucks at it
}
(Okay, so I am changing my post a bit since Ruth told me I am close enough to do some attacking too. Merc and Dog charge.)
Mercuriel continued his movement across the field towards where Laurelin was located. The threat to her caused him to develop a kind of tunnel vision. The attack had been so unexpected. He didn't want anything to happen to anyone in their group but, most of all, Laurelin. Despite their earlier disagreement and rocky state at the moment he still cared for her, perhaps even more than he would ever admit to himself.
Dog followed his master dutifully.
The two moved until they were next to Beldin and focused their attacks on M.
Mercuriel then follows up by attacking LS2 using Dual Strike. He furthers the damage by adding Mighty Blow. Dog also utilizes Mighty Blow.
Laurelin projects her energy through her staff,she glances around to see Mercuriel rushing towards her,while Beldin distracts the rest of the marauders surrounding her.
Losing no time she points her staff towards Marl, the ice slowly forming in her hands,as the air surrounding the wooden staff became frigid.
Laurelin interrupted her spell as soon as she realised the number of enemies swarming on her despite Beldin's efforts to keep them focused on him."Creators!"She mumbled and started to run away from her current position.Casting a spell would certainly make her their focus,and close combat wasn't exactly her strong point.
Laurelin falls back.
"Merc, get over here!" Beldin boomed. "Laurelin, fall back, fall back!"
{Going for Kerridwynn, disclaimer, etc, and things}
Rhys watched Tessa as enemies surrounded her. He and Tempest shared a look and he nodded.
{Rhys holds his turn to be able to cover Tempest}
Tessa attacks LS3 for 12 damage
As an arrow thudded into Tessa’s left bicep, she snarled viciously and took a second to rip the arrow from her arm. It hadn’t gone deep, but pulling it still hurt like fury. She risked a glance around and saw that it seemed like everyone was where they should be. She was beginning to feel sluggish so she gave a swift and silent prayer, ‘Maker, let me be enough.’
She turned in time to see a sword much like her own coming down at her. She stumbled back a few paces, trying to get out of the way and her foot caught in a small depression in the ground twisting her ankle painfully. It dropped her to one knee momentarily before she surged up with a scream of rage to swing her greatsword down on the bastard with the long sword.
With a satisfied grunt, Tessa connected on her opponent’s right thigh, digging deep into the muscle before pulling her sword away and up as she prepared to strike again.
Bartha waited for a moment when Beldin ran off, to study how the situation would turn out. Luckily, Mercuriel managed to keep the bandits in place. Fabian appeared behind one of them, and seemed to be able to do quite some damage. Although she wanted to help him, she also noticed that two people were attacking Mercuriel, and an archer was aiming for him as well. It was probably better to finish those first before helping out Fabian...
She hoped to make sufficient use of the commotion and people were distracted enough to not notice her right away. The man with the longsword (L2) was bleeding heavily... She clenched her jaw when she chose him as her target.
Her blade sank into the man's back. A moan escaped from his mouth, followed by gurgling as blood flew out, before he sank to the ground.
In a flowing movement, she swung her offhand blade to the bandit on her left, the one Fabian was attacking (L1), in order to strike him simultaneously. This blade hit home as well, sinking deep into the mans torso.
Bartha does 8 damage to L2, killing him, and 8 damage to L1 as well
Philomena holds her action
The cacophony of the battle was overwhelming. Taking a brief survey, Philomena could see that Tessa was severely injured, perhaps even more than she realized. Her inclination was to attack one of the men who surrounded the warrior, perhaps buying her more time. But then Beldin advanced, and seemed to draw their attention, so the need for her aid appeared less urgent.
Then she heard Mercuriel cry out as an arrow speared his leg, and a mage appeared out of nowhere and damaged him further. He seemed hale enough, despite the flow of blood. On top of that, Bartha and Fabian were nearby, close enough to be of immediate use.
Still in shadows, safe and possessing the element of surprise, Philomena held her position, waiting for the best moment to strike.
((YAY FOR COMBAT MAP!!!))
Modifié par berelinde, 09 novembre 2014 - 08:23 .
Oops.
Tempest sucked in her breath in anger and worry when she saw how injured Tessa was. It had only taken a split second; one moment she was fine, the next she was barely on her feet.
The healer berated herself for not sticking closer to the warriors. It would take her a few seconds to get to Tessa. Tempest just hoped that a few seconds wouldn't be too long. She met Rhys' eyes and gestured, indicating where she was going, and knew from his nod that he understood and would cover her.
As she moved across the field, Tempest saw Mercuriel take damage too, which concerned her, but she didn't change her trajectory. Right now, her goal was to heal Tessa, who was more critically injured. If it became necessary, hopefully Philomena could get to Mercuriel in time to heal him too.
(Tempest moves into position to help Tessa but does not reach her this round.)