Round four
(this was preceded by round three)
Shaken by the ferocity and brutality,
Arya nevertheless runs forward to aid the fallen warrior,
Myrtha.
"Great Pelor," Arya cries out, crouching to press her hands against
Myrtha's gushing wounds,
"lend your divine light! Heal this brave warrior's wounds, that her fight against the encroaching darkness may continue in your glorious name!" Pelor hears her prayer.
Myrtha is healed for 9 HP and is no longer dying. Her vision clears and she finds herself prone with a kindly stranger leaning over her.
Chase pulls, nocks, draws, aims, and releases, but the arrow just misses
Ambusher Seven.
"You have our thanks, traveler," Aanbo thanks
Arya while retaliating against
Bandit Five with staff blows and fierce kicks.
Bandit Five takes 7 bludgeoning damage.
Myrtha blinks groggily as she feels her flesh begin to heal.
"Thank you" she says to
Arya's concerned face leaning over her as the fighter's hand reflexively reaches out and finds her sword grip. The act of finding her voice and holding her sword strengthens her resolve.
Myrtha gains 8 more HP from Second Wind.
Grateful that
Aanbo has kept the enemy busy during all this,
Myrtha then rolls over to stand up and attack
Ambusher Five all in one motion. The sword, coming from an unexpected direction, slides under his defenses and in between his ribs.
Ambusher Five takes 11 damage and falls dead.
Swaying on his feet,
Theran taps into the the pulsing life force of the mycelium network beneath his feet and feels vigor restored to his body.
Theran gains 4 HP.
Manthis growls low in his throat, both hands tight on the grip of his greatsword, and stomps toward
Ambusher One, swinging the long blade in whistling arcs over his head.
Ambusher One sees his doom in those fierce eyes and attempts to defend himself with his scimitar. But
Manthis' scything blade knocks the much-smaller blade aside, and the next rotation brings the sword cleaving into the bandit's ribcase with a crunch.
Ambusher One takes 13 slashing damage and dies instantly.
If he weren't in the thick of battle,
Ambusher Seven might realize the predicament that he's in, but at the moment, all the sees is that
Rosemary has knocked down his buddy and expected leader,
Four (he's a little slow on the uptake and didn't see where the fire that scorched him came from). So he loads his crossbow and attempts to get some payback against the little barbarian. The bolt whistles over her head.
As he is fumbling for the next bolt to slot into his crossbow, furious
Rosemary is already upon him, clubbing him with her paddle in the knees, the gut, and across the head.
Ambusher Seven takes 6 bludgeoning damage.
Jonel squints and aims as he draws back his hands, marshalling the energy from within. His hands ignite, and then he thrusts them forward, hurling another gout of fire searing across the forest and over
Rosemary's head to engulf
Ambusher Seven in flames!
Ambusher Seven takes 10 fire damage and dies screaming.
There is a lull as the assorted heroes look around for any remaining threats: there are none, and all of them are alive and victorious.
"Wonderful!" Bradley cheers from his vantage point a little ways down Cecily's Road.
"You Dungeon Busters are incredible!!"
18 - Arya (10/10)
17 - Chase (6/14)
14 - Aanbo (9/27)
13 - Myrtha (17/18)
12 - Theran (6/13)
11- Manthis (11/11)
10 - Bandits One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven
9 - Rosemary (8/13)
0 - Jonel (7/7)
0 - Bradley
Sword swinging Manthis cleans up his great sword as he takes note there isn't more evil bandits. He advances over to healer Arya and protector Myrtha. He says to recently healed Myrtha, "I see Arya has fixed you up. I go by Manthis, a fellow Dungeon Buster. That sure was a lot of chaos. Seems you all have made some friends."
