Greenest in Flames

Mogguth's axe once again strikes flesh and the already wounded man has had all that he can take. He slumps to the ground dead.

Tayleron's blade slashes deep into the stomach of the last surviving cultist who immediately drops his weapon. Clutching at his wounds he stares into Tayleron's eyes before falling dead to the ground. The fight over, the group quickly searches the six corpses recovering finely crafted jewelry from one, several small statuettes from another, and a small sack of coins from a third.

Suddenly five humans dash in front of you from out of the shadows. A limping man and three young children race across the street into more shadows, and a woman carrying a round shield and broken spear turns and faces back in the direction from which they came. Eight kobolds stream out of an alley on the family's heels and fan out around the woman, who looks determined to delay the creatures for as long as possible.

The creatures appear to be so intent on killing off the family they don't give you a second look even though you're only about twenty feet away.

Catching the little creature around the neck Mogguth's whip of thorns drags the kobold towards her. His tiny hands reach up above his head as he briefly struggles to break free, but before the whip has even dragged him five or six feet, his body goes limp.

The other kobolds watch in surprised horror as their companion is dragged to his death. The surrounded women takes advantage of the distraction to lash out at one of her attackers, stabbing one of them in the shoulder with her broken spear. "Help us!!" she yells towards the party, frantically jabbing with her spear, trying to hold off her attackers.


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Do'urth is up.

More than making up for his previous shot Do'urth's arrow screams through the air and into kobold flesh. Penetrating completely through one of the creature's torsos, it continues on, nicking one of his companions on the hip before finally sticking itself into the ground. Seeing that two of their kind have fallen so quickly the group decides to put an end to the new threat as quickly as possibly. Five of the six charge forward, focusing their rage on Do'urth, while the sixth, who has been wounded by Linan, looks to exact some revenge.

"That hurt, Lady! Now you die!" he yells, the light of the fires flickering off of his dagger as he charges at Linan and stabs her in the thigh. "Mutt!!!" she growls as she quickly retaliates with her spear, missing the nimble kobold as he ducks to the side.

Two of the ugly things rush in toward Do'urth blades in hand. The first takes a wild slash that throws the rogue off balance allowing the second to get a clean jab in the abdomen. [4HP to Do'urth]

Even heavily armored and braced the for attack the pair charging Mogguth are able to slip through the stout dwarf's defenses and find exposed flesh. "Not so tough, dwarf!" one of them taunts. [8HP to Mogguth]

Finally the fifth peels off from the others and approaches Tayleron, darts to his right, and runs right it leading with his dagger. After a few quick feints the kobold finds an opening and slashes Tayleron across the arm. [4HP to Tayleron]

Tayleron, Mogguth, and Triana are all up. Once they've gone Do'urth will get the first action of round 2

Triana can almost see the relief in Linan's face as she rushes in to assist the villager who noticeably cringes at the bard's ineffective attack. "We have this one outnumbered now if nothing else" Linan reassures as a look of determination flashes onto her face.

Maneuvering for position Mogguth takes a step away from her attackers while simultaneously lashing out at the closest creature. Her axe connects squarely on the creature's throat, cutting a main artery. As his blood spurts high into the air the kobold drops his weapon and reaches for his throat but it's too late and he bleeds out in a matter of seconds.

Quick to retaliate Tayleron slashes at the nimble kobold who quickly jumps back. "Missed!"

Do'urth is up

While not the ideal situation for the rogue to find himself in he manages quite well. With both swords out of their sheaths, he quickly strikes at the taller of the two kobolds, slashing it deeply across the chest. It looks down at its wound, looks back up to Do'urth in disbelief, and once again at its wound before crumpling to the ground. Do'urth's second blade also finds kobold flesh, but doesn't have near the effect as his first attack. In fact it just seems to have angered the little creature.

Cursing Do'urth and his entire family in its native tongue he strikes back only to have the rogue smack his dagger to the side with his off-hand blade. "I get you yet, Ugly!" the kobold snarls as he takes a step back.

Watching his partner drop to the ground just seconds before, Mogguth's attacker charges in hard and without subtlety. Try as he might, however, he just can't seem to get his dagger through the dwarf's shield.

With a quick look over its shoulder, the kobold that was so confident in his last attack has noticed that half of his group has fallen. Deciding running is a better option than dying it takes a half-hearted swipe at Tayleron before turning and running back in the direction from which it came.

The three of you, having each held off the latest attack, are feeling pretty good about the situation until you hear a loud scream from in front of you. Linan cries out in pain as a dagger slices into her abdomen, her knees buckle as she takes a step away from her attacker, but she manages to somehow stay on her feet.

Tayleron, Mogguth, Triana, Linan are up (in whatever order you post).