Round Two
(this is preceded by round one, followed by round three)
Bem whips out his sword and slashes at
Kazzak, hoping for a lucky strike. But the dwarf easily blocks the blows with his shield.
Grallaria flies out the open window, momentarily bracing for impact despite knowing that it is an illusion. Flapping into the
Dim Forest, she sees that two bandits,
Gull and
Huff, have made their way east through the trees around past the back of the farmhouse.
Sora spins, turning the spin into a kick that catches
Dhit in the chest. The kick lifts him off his feet; he lands flat on his back.
Dhit takes 5 bludgeoning damage and does not get up again.
Peering through the dim image of the closed shutters,
Amnestria sees
Kazzak and
Berthold confronting the three bandits behind the wagon; she intones the arcane syllables and gestures, flinging sand.
Through long study,
Amnestria knows exactly where to direct the magical energy so that it doesn't affect her teammates. Despite the adrenalin pumping through her in this life-or-death situation,
Ene starts to feel her eyelids droop as the magic washes over her...then abruptly she collapses behind the wagon, fully unconscious.
Ene is asleep.
Dell looses an arrow that skims past the combatants and disappears into the woods. Then he considers whether to leave the loft or not. All but one of the people who'd called him out are already defeated (only
Bem remains), and every visible bandit appears engaged; perhaps he could remain where he is? He decides that this is still a good vantage point and resolves to continue attacking from above.
Fern drops her crossbow and yanks out her sword to attack
Berthold.
Berthold takes 6 slashing damage and falls, dying, behind the wagon.
Gull and
Huff break out of the trees and run for the kitchen door in the back of the house.
Guilbert, stationed at the east window, sees them running below and yells so everyone can hear:
"There's bandits in the back!" Gull bursts through the door, sword drawn, but there's no one in the kitchen.
Huff follows inside the house, disappearing from
Guilbert's view.
Critically succeeding his death save,
Berthold blacks out for a few moments, then wakes up in severe pain, lying on his back on the ground.
Berthold is not dying, prone but conscious, with 1 HP!
Still clashing swords with the bandit,
Kazzak yells
"Yaaarr!" hammering blows at
Bem. The bandit turns aside the first, second, third strike, but
Kazzak whirls his sword in a spiral, finally batting the larger man's blade aside so that he can slash a deep gouge in the bandit's gut.
Bem takes 12 slashing damage!
Confident that
Berthold yet lives without his help,
Antonius whirls around.
"Sora, with me!" he barks, then calls toward the barn,
"Dell! Kazzak and Berthold need your bow more than I do!" Stepping back into the house, he starts to call upstairs
"Amnestria!" when
Huff's Readied crossbow twangs. The bolt thuds into the door jamb past his head.
Antonius finishes his shouted encouragement of the wizard as he takes stock of the situation in a glance.
"Your magic has already turned this fight—keep pressure on the wagon! Wee Jas favors the disciplined, and today your aim is truer than any blade here!" Huff is standing in the middle of the room (the main room which is the ground floor kitchen/dining area);
Gull has
Dashed, with just his feet visible at the top of the stairs. As he can't reach
Gull with his remaining movement,
Antonius crosses the shorter distance to
Huff and growls,
"You've chosen the wrong door," as he smashes the bandit woman in the shoulder with his warhammer.
Huff takes 8 bludgeoning damage and drops the crossbow.
20 - Bandits Abe (Dead) and Bem (west of the wagon, half cover from ranged, -12)
19 - Grallaria (outside in the trees, 1/1)
17 - Sora (just outside the front door east of the wagon, 8/12)
17 - Amnestria (in the second floor north room, 9/9)
17 - Bandits Chel (Dead) and Dhit (Dead)
14 - Dell (in the barn loft, 9/9)
11 - Bandit Ene (west of the wagon, full cover from ranged, asleep) and Bandit Fern (west of the wagon, 3/4 cover from ranged)
10 - Bandit Gull (on the second floor landing) and Bandit Huff (in the main room of the house, -8)
6 - Berthold (1/11) west of the wagon, Prone
6 - Kazzak (12/12) west of the wagon
3 - Antonius (10/10) in the main room of the house
0 - Reynald (4/4) in the southern room on the 2nd floor, Guilbert (4/4) in the eastern room on the second floor, Olyena (1/4) in the southern room on the 2nd floor
