A Gathering Storm

Kvarek sees the one figure go down in flames and launches his dagger at another as he hears the surrender offer ring out.

Lothar holds to see if some peace can be brokered.

Ansel calls out one of the figures, and such is the power of his words that you he partially freezes and the rest of you will do extra damage when attacking that one.

Kvarek flings his blade at the targeted one, and strikes it well.Lothar can delay his action until after them, but then he will have that same initiative position for the rest of combat.

Bartaloum and Kvarek attacked, Ansel acted, Oria and Lothar are after them...

The two by the gate draw weapons, pulling bows from their backs, uncovering the delicate bowstrings and fitting arrows to fire.

The remaining one standing by the smaller person stabs at them... but the figure twists away from the thrust. The cloaked figure darts backward, grabbing his buddy who clambers to his feet and they start to withdraw toward the gate.

Oria and Lothar are up.

When one of the feathered ones falls to the ground in flames, Oria cringes. A horrible death indeed, she thinks and one she would never want.

While her companions had been fighting, Oria had been inching closer to the feathered creatures. She noticed a small cloaked person dodge a knife thrust by a feathered figure. As the cloaked person grabbed their supine companion off the ground and started toward the gate, Oria took this opportunity to rush and attack the figure with the knife. Raising her sword above her head with both hands gripping the hilt, she attempted to bring it down over the feathered creature's head.

Oria's attack misses but dramatically changes the fight into a melee. Outnumbered and with fallen, the creatures seem less certain.

Oria can make another Vigilant test at -5, maybe get a better look at the combatants in the poor light.

Lothar notices the bowmen drawing near the gate. "Archers." he calls, seeing Lady Oria move into the fray, he rushes the men with his staffed raised to strike at the closer one.

How did I miss!? How embarrassing. Maybe it was too dark to be noticed.

Indeed it was terribly poor light and Oria squinted in the hopes it would help her to see better.

Lothar hits. Which did he rush (bowmen) or near the two beside the smaller one? Also, roll damage.

Four damage beats his Pain Threshold. Knock him down or take a free attack?

The young Wizard is shocked to see the creature burst into flame and he freezes as if someone walked over his grave as her grandmother used to say. The chill is followed by a nausea in his stomach that makes him feel sick.

"I wonder if it might be best to keep them... one of them.. alive? Find out what all this is about.", he shouts out to his new comrades

Unfortunately, there is not a rule for Disarming in Symbaroum.

"Bartalom, I'm with you on trying to take one alive! Leave one alive!" she calls to the others. She watches with interest as the battle unfolds.

She is not fooled by their boots. They are small enough that they should prevail but why are they here? She had only heard of such creatures and they were rarely seen. They would have to interrogate them.

Top of the initiative order: Bataloum, Kvarek and Ansel are up.

Bartalom has studied monsters with his masters, and as Lothar knocks one of the beasts to the floor, the novice wizard rushes towards it in the hope of identifying it in order to relay its strengths, weaknesses, and character to his comrades.