Continued from before...
The Half-Orc identifies himself as Thord, and insults Dante, threatening to make his skull into a trophy. Dante taunts him back. And so they fight.
The rest of the thirty-plus ruffians are comprised of mostly Orcs, and a couple Goblins. The PCs lunge forward, and engage in a violent melee with the monstrous humanoids....
...and it erupts into a bloody mess.
In this combat, the PCs gain initiative, except for Lucy. Meaty lunges forward, tearing and ripping into the Orcs with his jaws, and Jocelyn impales her first assailant on the tip of her blade. Rufus downs his opponents in a flurry of punches and kicks.
The Orcs try to overwhelm the characters with sheer numbers.
Lucy sweeps her blades around, with near-inhuman speed, causing Orc to nearly erupt into a panic.
As all this is happening, Dante, and the Half-Orc, Thord, are locked in combat. The Half-Orc is armed with a large sword, and continually swinging it in Dante's face. Dante heals himself by manifesting a psionic power that drains hit points from the victim transfers them to himself. I don't exactly remember, but the psionic power is probably
"Empathic Transfer, Hostile"...
So they're both putting a world of hurt on each other, when a couple Goblins sneak up behind Dante, and try to bash him with their weapons...
The other characters are doing an admirable job of fighting off the Orcs, however, Jocelyn temporarily becomes separated from the others and is overwhelmed in the melee. She's struck down by one of the Orcs...
The other characters are defeating or driving off their remaining assailants. Thord (the Half-Orc) is furious, but decides that he's had enough of Dante, and flees at superhuman speed. Meanwhile, the two Goblins are still trying to hammer away at Dante...
Dante tries to use his psionic power to drain hit points from them...
...but it doesn't work. :cool:
The Goblins laugh derisively at him. They struggle with him for a little longer, and then decide to run off, and join the others.
Things get chaotic for a while, as most of the Orcs are fleeing, so a couple Orcs try to run off with one of the captured women. The Orcs are encumbered by the girl, and drop her...when the PCs approach. They look at each other for a second, and decide that discretion is the better part of valor. Wisely, they flee...
Dante brings back the young woman, slinging her over his shoulder.
Take note that this combat was not without consequence as most of the characters were pretty badly mangled in the fight.
At this point, Lucy is freaking out, because Jocelyn is near death. Then suddenly, something unexpected happens. Meaty (the bulldog) nonchalantly walks over, and licks Jocelyn's face....
...and her wounds then begin to partially heal! :jaw-dropping:
Needless to say, people are
very surprised.
Lucy: "Meaty, how did you do that?" :confused:
Meatlips: "....."
After this, the PCs loot the bodies (priorities!), when Rufus mysteriously becomes the recipient of an unusual message...
During the combat, Horatio and Kratos were traveling towards Delzar. Horatio used an infusion to duplicate a
sending spell, in order to send the PCs a message. Rufus is the recipient of this message.
These are the messages they wrote down on a piece of paper for me (the DM)...
Horatio: "We're en route joining you, four hours behind. Meet you in Delzar in the morning at Town Square." :cool:
Rufus: "Ok. How are you messaging my brain?" :confused:
To be continued...