Repost of init starting with Edwena:
Edwena 20
Ridcully 19
Fargrim 18
Orc Bolt Gunner 15
Orc Zombie 12
Shroom 10
Vathalin 10
Maliferous (necromancer) 2
Edwena stands her ground against to the necromancer as he commands his army of undead to surround him. She closes her eyes, "Give me power to annihilate these corpses!" she prays to Avandra.
She moves forward towards the Necromancer and his zombie allies, and holds forth her holy symbol which suddenly flares with holy light. The muddy orcish corpses contort and writhe in the holy light that bathes them before collapsing.
The necromancer looks down at the bodies of the orcish zombies and then back up at Edwena with an unholy glare. He starts to raise his hands to cast.. but suddenly.. he is pelted in the face by a sling bullet.
Ridcully! Ridcully is chuckling at the foot of the ditch and already loading his sling for a second shot. The necromancer turns his attention ominously back to Edwena and Shroom.
Down at the base of the ditch, Fargrim spins his axe and slashes away at the final archer, closing with him, and chopping with dual strikes.. One of fargrim's singing axe blades cuts the bolt-thrower orc badly, leaving him bloodied. The runes of the legendary axe suddenly flare up with bright blue fire and the axe ices over, momentarily.
The orc bolt-thrower lets the belly-gun hang loose in it's harness and draws his battleaxe. He swipes at Fargrim wildly (and misses), but redoubles his fury.
Shroom backs slowly away from the necromancer, popping off a magic missile in the process. It arcs around to the left with a silvery streak and then curves back to hit the necromancer with a shriek. The necromancer actually looks pissed at this point, but doesn't move his hateful glare from Edwena.
Vathalin slips around behind the last remaining bolt-thrower and chops at him with his oath of pursuit.. he cuts the orc painfully from behind.
The necromancer suddenly lunges forward with supernatural speed and bites at Edwena. His mouth opens up in a horrific maw of elongated sharp teeth.. you realize he is no longer human, if indeed he ever was. He clamps down hard on Edwena's shoulder.
Edwena knows that IF she should try to use her lance of faith at this point, the necromancer.. thing, whatever it is, will maul her.
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Edwena's Divine Glow is a close blast. She can hit the necromancer and all four zombies at once with it. BUT, Edwena must make separate attack rolls on each target. I will go ahead and roll the extra attacks: 18, 15 (these each kill one of the zombie minions),
1d20+4=11, 1d20+4=16, 1d20+4=12 (last attack was on the necromancer himself, and it missed, but the other attacks destroy the remaining zombies).
Ridcully switches his attack from a zombie (they are all dead) to the necromancer, and hits for 9 damage, reducing the necromancer to 35 hp.
Fargrim: You hit once for 14 damage, and leaving the orc bloodied (he's at 12 hp, down from 26). I suggest that you mark the archer!
The orc bolt-thrower draws his battle axe and uses warrior surge (he makes a melee attack and regains 6 hp). His attack was
1d20+6=11, which misses. The orc regains 6 hp and is back to 18.
Shroom rolls an 18 to hit with his magic missile, which hits for 9 damage. The necromancer is left at 26hp.
Vathalin hits the orc from behind with a 15, and does 11 damage. The orc bolt thrower has 1 hp left.
The necromancer closes with Edwena, and then bites her (
1d20+8=21) and hits for
1d8+2=7 7 damage. Since Edwena had a contingency of using lance of faith (a ranged attack) I will let her choose another attack for next round!