Octagon - Another Purpose - Game Thread.

Ronna hid herself well and realized that it is good time to have some breath and calm herself down from what happened before. Also she noticed that her body warmed abit and strangling numbness is going to pass, all she need is to sit down abit and take moment of calmed breath.

The avatrol in the flowe fields stopped to move, and became silent, completely.

Jax, with all his might, lands his hammer on the hobbled avatrol's head, and after laudible and juicy sound, the avatrol falls dead, creating small cloud of dust raising in the air.

Lucas precisely landed arrow with the rope into Avatrol back, and held the rope. But then, erratic combat movement of Avatrol pulled him to direction of the shore. In same moment Mandoric made some hound sound, and perhaps that distracted animal abit, and instead of going from shore animal stopped it's movement, and that made for Lucas balancing easier. Lucas realized that it is very dangerous to hold the rope, and if he will continue he is risking to be pulled off balance. To pull the animal with the rope and in same time to maintain his balance on the canal wall - that could be very difficult task for him. However when he tried to pull he noticed that avatrol made some angry sound, perhaps having arrow in the back and having it being pulled was not pleasant sensation for the creature.
Lucas must do Diff 1 balance roll (it's 2, but 1 after substraction of Lucas balance skill training) in order to remain balanced and not to fall. Now it is clear that pulling and controlling creature with the rope could be very diffcult task, because it is much powerful physically. His shot deals 4-2+1 = 3 Points of damage..

Nyom were about to attack the Avatrol, but the rope and Mandoric sounds confused and changed animal behaviour, which was quite agile and was moving fast, and instead of poking the avatrol's side, Nyom poked the dust with her spear, losing her balance. In the same time the creature spinned in place and collided its torso back side into Nyom. Nyom falls on the ground, into the dust, she is on her kneels now, and her spear nearby, at one ft distance from her. In same time Avatrol attacked her with it's legs, overpowering her from above from her the back dirrection. Avatrol deals 3 pts of damage, Nyom is on her kneels and experiencing avatrol legg assaault. she need to roll difficutly 2 might roll in order to be able to stand up. Rolling more than 15 (5 Diff) will mean that she will be able to recover and to attack this turn. Attack will be +1 difficulty task then, unless she rolls nat20, which will give her non-modified attack in this round. She is in state where Avatrol have -2 diff to attack her, means that remaining in it Avatrol will be automatically hit. The roll could have effort applied.

The avatrol which been charging Zinobia reached him, and Zinobia tries to evade the collision.

Avatrol 4 - alive, fighting Zinobia
Avatrol 5 - alive, fighting Nyom
Rest is dead
Please update all the skill uses/efforts/damage changes on your character sheets

Jax sees his training comrade Nyom in a bit of trouble from the Avatrol.

"Good friend it seems as though are a bit rusy. Perhaps I should help.

Jax begins to charge towards the 5th Avatrol and attempt to club his hammer into the beast.


The force of Jax's hammer and his running start are so great it knocks the wind out of the Avatrol and sends it back a couple of feet
Not sure of the exact distance between me and Avatrol 5/Nyom so if its too far to make an attack please disregard the roll.

The chaos of the battle in the eyes and in the breath of the combatants. Lucas pulled the rope, and avatrol made loud scream which signaled that the pulling the arrow entered it's body was really painful sensation for the creature. It frowned abit, and went few meters towards dirrection of the canals, perhaps to ease the pain which was caused by Lucas actions. Lucas pulled once again, and in same time Mandoric made some hound sounds... and the creature, confused and consumed by pain waves, steeped once more towards the edge of the platform.
In same moment Jax landed his mace and all his mass on the confused creature, knocking it down. The arrow, which been linked to the rope, broke, releasing the edge of the rope, which is now on edge of the platform.
The beast is knocked down and near death. It's a good time for a finishing blow. Now.
Both pulling action and Jax assault brought Avatrol 5 into near death state.

Other avatrol attacks Zinobia with it's bite.

Ronna took her second, and her warmed body and stabilized breath helped her to overcome leftovers of canal liquid effects.

Avatrol 5 - knocked down, near death
Avatrol 4 - fighting Zinobia, it's short-long range, both Nyom and Jax will need one round of movement before they can attack the Avatrol.

The joint chorus of Mandoric and his Seskii catched edge of avatrol attention, as he looked few times towards the pair after the new wave of cypher-generated sounds.
Defence roll against avatrol is -1 task now.

Jax finished avatrol's life and turned towards direction of battleground between Zinobia and another avatrol. His intimidating voice, his posture entered into edge of Zinobia's attention, probably inspiring him, and he starts to fight even more fearlessly, consumed by battle rage.
Using Jax nat20 shouting choice as inspiration for front-line Zinobia, decreasing Zinobias attack/defence difficulties for next turn by 1.

Lucas carefully collected the rope, waiting till all the liquid left the rope in attepmpt to recollect itself in the canal reseivoirs.
Nyom finished her movement, and can attack Avatrol now, if Zinobia will not finish before it.

Summary: To hit avatrol is 3 diffiuclty task now, Zinobias defence/offence modified further, making for hims task 2 to attack, task 3 to defend taking into calculation his defence skill.