Round Four
(this is preceded by round three, followed by round five)
Antonius shifts in the back of the jouncing wagon to squat next to
Amnestria.
"Hold steady," he says,
"This will hurt." He yanks the bolt cleanly out of her back; it does hurt, but not as much as Amnestria feared, and her rigorous mental discipline allows her to maintain focus on her magic. Applying pressure to the grisly wound,
Antonius intones an entreaty to
Wee Jas and the goddess chooses to grant her miraculous power once more.
Amnestria is fully healed. Blood clots, muscles regrow, fresh skin develops.
Spreading the wizard's blood on his clothing,
Antonius calmly advises
"Breathe. Pain means you still have purpose."
Kazzak continues clashing swords with
Hider Four, blades ringing loud under the trees. This, combined with
Grallaria's fluttering, buffeting wings, distracts the
bandit enough that
Berthold can land his attack easily. The large blade cleaves into the man, who spins too late. The knight's blade rises and falls again and again, hacking deeply until the
bandit falls.
Hider Four takes 10 slashing damage and dies.
Seeing
Hider Four go down under the knight's blade,
Dell turns away and rushes through the edge of the Forest paralleling the Road. As he approaches the wagon, he can see
Sora punching and kicking at something or someone behind a tree up ahead.
Dell nocks, draws, and looses another arrow, but the shaft thunks into the tree trunk in front of the man's head.
Repeating the long-practiced syllables,
Amnestria summons fire on her hand again, and flings it at
Hider One. This time the flame catches on a low-hanging branch, just barely missing her target.
Grallaria silently turns and flaps through the air after the wagon.
The owl is 60' closer to
Amnestria.
Hider One, realizing too late that he missed his chance to flee, drops his crossbow and pulls out a scimitar in a desperate attempt to stop the monk from beating him to death. He slashes desperately, cutting into
Sora's arms as she punches.
Sora takes 4 slashing damage!
Wincing in pain,
Sora launches a roundhouse kick at the man, but he steps back out of the arc.
Sora follows up her kick with a lunge punch, striking
Hider One in the solar plexus. His breath whooshes out with the blow.
Hider One takes 4 bludgeoning damage!
As
Reynald continues to hold
Berthold's shield to cover him,
Guilbert drives the oxen further, advancing the
wagon another 10' down
Cecily's Road. This brings the heroes in the wagon -
Amnestria and
Antonius - to an angle where
H1 no longer has
any cover from their attacks.
Sora is adjacent to
H1.
Dell is 20' away,
Antonius is 25' away, and
Amnestria is 30' away from
H1.
14 - Antonius (10/10)
14 - Berthold (9/11)
14 - Kazzak (12/12)
11 - Dell (9/9)
7 - Amnestria (9/9)
7 - Grallaria
5 - Hider 1 (-10), Hider 2 (dead), Hider 3 (dead), Hider 4 (dead)
3 - Sora (8/12)
0 - Noncombatant servants: Guilbert, Olyena (stable), Reynald
