Waterbrick Down

"Scratch that Hans, go for one of the last gaurds that just showed up, Haldor will accompany Sir Poletad!"

"Conserve yer strength Haldor. If ya can finish off an opponent from a safe distance than do so, as you'll have many more unoccupied gaurds to deal with afterwards." OoC: yes

While his blood races from the berserker's cry, Skrall still grimaces with disgust as he recalls too late that only one of the thrown bombs was of the Military Grade. He watches as the shell shocked gaurds regain their feet, clinging onto life. <Sir Poletad, can you finish off those wounded troops, keep a safe distance though.> "Everyone, stay back from those gaurds that we just bombed, we'll let Sir Poletad at 'em. Besides, we've got some newly arrived guests of our own. Those of ya with enough strength, conserve it and keep a good distance from yer foes. Felton, why don't ya welcome the newly arrived Captain by relieving him of his horse. Hans, go with Poletad and take out that straggler that Haldor was grapplin' with." Skrall smoothly loads his crossbow, sights down the bolt and attempts to fell Gaurds I and J from the back row. Battle Order: Tensi Felton Captain B from Front Row Hans Gaurd E from Back Row Haldor Dyric Poletad Gaurd A from Back Row Skrall Skrall OoC: Question so if Felton hits Captain B on this turn or rolls shield then the captain is de-hastened correct?

Skrall watches as the gaurds advanced upon their party, "Alrighty, let's have at 'em. Felton, Dyric, I think we'll start off against this bunch with a bang. Bombs away at those first troops, try not to hit Haldor. Oh and Felton, keep that Pheonix Smoke handy, ya never know when we're goin' to need it. Hans, see if ya can position yerself at the back of the gaurds and take out the last one. Oh, and keep away from the blast zone!" With that, Skrall removes his Military Grade Lightning Bomb and chucks it at the first part of the advancing gaurds, A, B, C, D, F, G from the Back Row, he then pulls draws his crossbow and shoots Gaurd H from the back row before he can get to far from the aftershocks of the bombing. <Sir Poletad, accompany Hans and see if you can disable that second to last gaurd, though make sure you keep behind Hans.> Order of Action: Tensi Dyric Felton Skrall Skrall Hans Sir Poletad Haldor

Turning to Vonettate before he leaves, Skrall chimes in, "We would have done better had we had more troops at our disposal, but someone had to weaken Gregor's forces, as well as kidnap the rest of my Party based upon some foolish speculation. I hope also that we shall prevail in our next assult, but do not lecture me on our losses when ya may bear as much blame as my Party and myself. Ya have my respect, Vonettate but not my confidence. See to it that yer warriors are ready, we will move out quickly." Skrall then scowls at the remarks of the remaining human captain. He calls after Gregor as he leaves, "Watch yer jokin' and judgemental tounge my good fellow, we may have lost a good number of troops back there, but at least they died supportin' a cause, which is more than you did sittin' on yer hands back here at camp. Now make sure the troops are all in order and ready, or I'll make sure Ms. Hightribe get's to vent some of her battle rage on yer hide after we're done here, captain or no captain." Skrall addresses the rest of his group, "My thoughts are the same as yer's, Rone. I don't think we're goin' to win this in a fair fight. Right now the scouts are sayin' the gaurds are split up into 5 groups. If they're anything like the last ones, then unless we take a considerablely larger escort the odds aren't lookin' good. Perhaps we could rig up some rock slides or such, either way I think we should take more troops with us this time, perhaps 30 and 1 captian, what do ya all think? In the mean time, Felton, Dyric go ahead and take my holy bomb and ice bomb, respectively for this upcoming battle. I can only use 2 at a time anyways." Skrall then hands his holy bomb to Felton and his ice bomb to Dyric.

"I do not worry my friends, we did our best as could be expected in such a situation and after weighing our options I felt retreat was the best course at the time. Should we prevail, do ya think the gaurds shall retreat back into the fortifications?" <I do not doubt yer courage my friend, but yer sacrifice would have only afforded us two more kills at best and a thrashing possibly at worst. No, it was best ya gain yer strength in order that we may confront the more powerful foes ahead, together.> Skrall also, removed his smelling salts and consumed them.

Skrall looks around in the cave for a spring to wash his wounds out. "Everyone in one piece? Haldor, will ya attend to Dyric and me when ya got a chance? I tend to yer own wounds first, you tooks some nasty blows back there. Hans, Felton, how do ya think we fared? I would of loved to stay longer, but I don't think it would have been a fair fight. Hopefully the rest of the troops and captains pulled through."

Felton is supposed to use the pheonix smoke this round so we should be fine. I calculated it out and we either kill 8 this round and escape or kill 10 after two rounds and have almost all of us KO'd before Felton uses the smoke.

Skrall racks his mind feverishly for what seems like hours, but only proves to be seconds in battle. At long last he decides upon the safer of the courses of action. Digging through his satchel, Skrall produces his water bomb and lobs it from the back row toward the general vicinity of Gaurds AA, BB, CC, DD, EE, and FF. He shouts over to his companions, "Dyric use that lightning bomb of yer's an' zap that group of gaurds that are going' to be soakin' wet! Haldor see if you can't warm 'em up with yer fire bomb! Hans, Tensi, we're gettin' out of here! Try and mow down some of the regular gaurds and clear us a path. Felton ready that Pheonix Smoke!" Battle Order: Tensi Hans Skrall Dyric Haldor Felton

Skrall catches his breath from his rapid fire shooting and reloads taking aim at Gaurd C again from the rear of the group. "Hans see if you can keep that other captain that just arrived, busy." Battle Order: Tensi Hans Felton Skrall Dyric Haldor

Yes sir, Skrall's got to do some training as a Hunter to specialize in tracking down and eliminating racist orc hating paladins. I'll post it now, but I still want to hear how this decoy skeleton works, as it may come in handy in a situation like this. Edit: No problem on the large army Zepher, 6 heroes can only do so much. Now where are those siege engines?

Epic training session Tamamono This makes me want to develop Skrall's character even further.

No problem, I just got used to Sandy listing both actions and striking through the worse one. I'll post the next battle order as soon as I hear from Sandy on the Skeleton decoy. By the by you don't think you could give us 4 battles to boost me to level 15 could you

Sandy, when using the skeleton decoy, does that count as an action, or does it absorb free hits automatically? And Zepher, I hate to keep nagging on this, but you are taking Dyric's lucky die into account for the rolls correct?

Skrall quickly glances at his party members as they charge the troops on the plain, he grimaces wishing he had a sword or a spear or something as close combat was more than likely inevitable eventually. Raising his crossbow he took aim at Gaurd B from behind his companions, drawing a bead on the man's chest to bring him to a quick end. He glances over at Dyric preparing to throw his knife, "Sod," Skrall thinks to himself, "I guess it had to come to this sooner or later." He shouts over to Felton and Hans, "Ya both cirle around on the left, see if ya can take down some of their troops on their flank. Focus yer attention on the unoccupied troops and watch out fer any stragglers!" <Sir Poletad, while yer bravery is well admired, I'd suggest ya lay low fer this battle. With this many feet movin' about, yer likely to get crushed.> Battle Order: Tensi Hans Felton Skrall Dyric Haldor OoC: So I'm confused as to where the 20 troops and our 2 captains come into play, are they fighting these gaurds as well, or how exactly does this work?

Good to see old Ratabor is still around and lovely job with your quest Etzel, it was quite epic.

Welcome to Eurobricks Poison Ivy, we look forward to your additions whether they be physical in the form of creations, philosophical in the debating of certain Lego topics or themes, or physiological in the RPG and Gaming sections. Welcome aboard

"Alright then, good to here we won't be messin' with any Chaos Beasts. Let's move out, we'll be takin' 20 troops and 2 captains with us. Felton if ya wouldn't mind holdin' on to this Pheonix Smoke, I'd be appreciative. Forward ho!" Skrall quickly checks that his equipment is in order and moves out with the Party.

Skrall looks around the gathered company, "We shall deal with the spy later, right now the enemy is at hand. I agree with Rone, do we have any information from scouts concernin' the troops on the plains? How many are there, do they have any magic users or foul beasts that accompany them? Haldor, I'm am for your suggestion that we utilize 20 troops, but in our first fight I believe we should have two of the captains accompany us. Also does anyone care for carryin' the Pheonix Smoke? my thought is either myself, Hans, or Felton should bear it as we have the best chance of usin' it should the time come." OoC: Zepher by 3 waves you refer to 1 battle with different waves of troops coming in at different points in the battle correct? Similar to our first fight of the quest?

No problem Zepher, I've got an all day LoTR marathon tomorrow anyways so I won't be on till the evening. I'm looking forward to the end and some witty banter with Wren

Skrall's thoughts wandered to his own home, his ogress, his two children, he wondered what exactly would happen should he be killed in the upcoming battle. "They probably wouldn't even care, I'm basically dead to 'em anyways right now," he thinks to himself. "Well folks enough of this mushy gushy, let's hit the sack and get a good bit of shut eye yer goin' to need it." With that Skrall backs himself against one of the trees and closes his eyes to sleep.

"Yer guess, is as good as mine Ms. Hightribe, seems like a rather wretched endin' to a tale. Well, I wasn't quite expectin to be fightin' a war out here, ambush and raidin' is more my style but I guess we'll make do with what we've got, hopefully the rebels make good on there promises of troops." Skrall fishes out a small oil can from his satchel and begins to grease up the mechanism of his crossbow. "Why do ya think she does it, Wren that is?"

Helping Haldor to his feet, Skrall picks up his crossbow and fires a final round off at the Chaos Beast of Zoot from the back row. "Let the soddin' beast have it chaps, make sure it goes back limpin' to its master!" Battle Order: Dyric Tensi Skrall Felton Sir Poletad Haldor

OoC: It's a good thing Skrall's an ogre, any more bashes to the face would have made any other hero's visage unrecognizable Skrall spits out a tooth the dark warrior has loosened from his gums. "Thank ya fer that mate, if there's anythin' I hate more than chaos beastsies it's the dentist. Hold tight Haldor, I'll be there in a jiffy." Skralls hurry's over to the blood soaked pile of the Nord and quickly uses his Pheonix Essence on Haldor from the Back Row. Battle Order: Dyric Skrall Haldor Tensi Felton Sir Poletad

"Well so much fer keepin' quiet. Keep yer eyes on this one chaps, he may have brought cookies, but I don't think he's the sharin' sort." Skrall quickly loads a bolt and fires it off at the Chaos Beast of Zoot from the back row. <Sir Poletad, I would suggest ya stick to the back row as much as possible> Battle Order: Dyric Tensi Skrall Felton Sir Poletad Haldor