Westport Road - Round 1
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 3:49 pm
Paladin waits, shortbow at the ready, looking for any other would-be attackers. Suddenly he spots some movement to the south-west and hears the distinctive note of an arrow being loosed from a bow. The missile thuds into the side of Paladin’s wagon, narrowly missing the driver. Paladin quickly returns fire at the archer, a male human, before he can dart back into the cover of the gorse bushes [modified “to hit” roll: 6 - miss], but the halfling’s arrow is a long way wide of the mark.
Leo thrusts at the rotting human with his spear [modified “to hit" roll: 5], but he misses badly as well.
Tannen jumps down from the rear wagon and dashes towards the ambushing archer, longsword and shield at the ready. Running in plate mail is difficult, but he manages to close to within 10’.
There’s the sound of another arrow being fired, this time to the east of the first wagon. Again the arrow hits the wagon rather than the passengers, this time in the wheel below the driver.
Whilst Benoni looks underneath the rear wagon (and see’s nothing but the underside of a wagon), and Mandross ducks down to stop his fancy hat from being skewered, Doughbert returns fire at the new adversary, who has partial cover from a bush [modified “to hit” roll: 8 - miss], but his arrow gets diverted by the intervening branches.
The rotting man roars and swipes with his shortsword at Leo, catching the ranger a glancing blow on his right arm for 2 damage.
Nivek can’t make his mind up as to whether the rotting man is undead or not. The decaying flesh would suggest “yes”; his general speed and ease of his movement would suggest otherwise. Jumping down from his wagon with mace and shield in hand, Nivek moves towards the nearest visible archer and closes to within 25’.
A third archer reveals himself, this time to the east of Wagons 2 and 3. However he’s no more accurate than his colleagues and the arrow goes sailing a long way over the head of Mandross.
Gannicus rushes to aid Leo in his battle with the rotting man, but he’s still got a lot of ground to cover - it’ll be another two or three rounds before he reaches him.
The round concludes with the firing of an arrow by a fourth archer to the west of Wagon 1. But, you guessed it, it’s another miss.
Shaw and the drivers just cower and take cover, clearly assuming that you’re going to sort this out.
Initiative for Round 2:
Doughbert: 7
Gannicus: 6
Nivek: 6
Archer 4: 6
Leo: 5
Mandross: 5
Paladin: 5
Archer 3: 4
Tannen: 2
Benoni: 2
Archer 1: 2
Rotting man: 2
Archer 2: 1
Updated tactical map at https://sites.google.com/site/marketstonecampaign/.
Actions for Round 2 please ...
Leo: HP 9/11
~2 pm, 16th day of Leaffall
The Marketstone Campaign at Obsidian Portal
Leo thrusts at the rotting human with his spear [modified “to hit" roll: 5], but he misses badly as well.
Tannen jumps down from the rear wagon and dashes towards the ambushing archer, longsword and shield at the ready. Running in plate mail is difficult, but he manages to close to within 10’.
There’s the sound of another arrow being fired, this time to the east of the first wagon. Again the arrow hits the wagon rather than the passengers, this time in the wheel below the driver.
Whilst Benoni looks underneath the rear wagon (and see’s nothing but the underside of a wagon), and Mandross ducks down to stop his fancy hat from being skewered, Doughbert returns fire at the new adversary, who has partial cover from a bush [modified “to hit” roll: 8 - miss], but his arrow gets diverted by the intervening branches.
The rotting man roars and swipes with his shortsword at Leo, catching the ranger a glancing blow on his right arm for 2 damage.
Nivek can’t make his mind up as to whether the rotting man is undead or not. The decaying flesh would suggest “yes”; his general speed and ease of his movement would suggest otherwise. Jumping down from his wagon with mace and shield in hand, Nivek moves towards the nearest visible archer and closes to within 25’.
A third archer reveals himself, this time to the east of Wagons 2 and 3. However he’s no more accurate than his colleagues and the arrow goes sailing a long way over the head of Mandross.
Gannicus rushes to aid Leo in his battle with the rotting man, but he’s still got a lot of ground to cover - it’ll be another two or three rounds before he reaches him.
The round concludes with the firing of an arrow by a fourth archer to the west of Wagon 1. But, you guessed it, it’s another miss.
Shaw and the drivers just cower and take cover, clearly assuming that you’re going to sort this out.
Initiative for Round 2:
Doughbert: 7
Gannicus: 6
Nivek: 6
Archer 4: 6
Leo: 5
Mandross: 5
Paladin: 5
Archer 3: 4
Tannen: 2
Benoni: 2
Archer 1: 2
Rotting man: 2
Archer 2: 1
Updated tactical map at https://sites.google.com/site/marketstonecampaign/.
Actions for Round 2 please ...
Leo: HP 9/11
~2 pm, 16th day of Leaffall
The Marketstone Campaign at Obsidian Portal
