<span style="font-style: italic">I just realized I forgot to trigger Saraphina's hellish rebuke. Wolf2 takes another 11 damage. <br/>Salana: Unfortunately, since Belle is already in melee range with Marutok, your Blinding Shield immediate reaction won't go off until after she attacks. PHB pg 291: readied actions take place after the enemy completes the triggering action.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Belle shifts to C-9, readies an action to attack Marrok. Gahru is a gnoll huntmaster, so normally he would try and shoot an enemy who has 2 or more allies adjacent (he deals extra damage that way), but there aren't any such grouping right now, so he just shifts to M-1 and shoots at Wolf1. Hits with a 19, deals 7 damage. Tolren moves to K-8, fires his sling at Wolf2, and uses Healing Word on Saraphina as a minor. Hits easily with a 24, rolls max damage and kills it. Saraphina spends a healing surge, plus an additional 2 from the d6 bonus, for 13 healing total.</span><br/><br/>Loyal enough to his commander's orders to target the wolf even after getting pricked by that dishonest lizard's javelin, Gahru giggles nervously as he lines up a shot. He gets a near-miss, the arrow cutting into the wolf's flank but not sticking there.<br/><br/>"Pardon me, miss." The little halfling fellow dressed in white smiles serenely at Saraphina as he catches up to her. "I hope you don't mind if I seal that little wound for you? I know they say scars add character, but..." He speaks a single word of power, and the injury closes up instantly, leaving only a bruise and a bit of soreness. All the while, he's spinning up his leather sling and lining up a shot at the charred wolf, which is shaking its head and trying to regain its senses. Just as it snarls and begins to advance, a lead sling bullet nails it right between the eyes, and the poor beast falls limp.<br/><br/>"Oh, Centrius's ASS!" Belle spits as she sees her first ally go down already. "KELSO! GET OVER HERE!"<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Wolf1 moves to K-1, then charges to K-7 to attack Tolren. Natural 20; critical hit. 8 damage. He is also grabbed.</span><br/><br/>After seeing his perfect shot, Tolren takes a moment to turn around to Saraphina and beam with pride, oblivious to the mass of fur and fangs hurtling towards him like a ballista bolt. "As you can see, my lady, fortune always favors the truly righteous. Have you considered praying to LuniAAAARGH" Cruel fangs seize his arm and nearly pull him to the ground. "Leggo!" he whines, but the wolf just keeps working its jaws further and further up his arm... It looks like Tolren's new furry friend sees the little healer as a perfect bite-sized snack.<br/><br/>Kelso looks over at Belle, and see's she got rushed by the most dangerous-looking enemy. He cracks a knowing grin; if he didn't hop to and come to her aid right away, he'd be sleeping by himself for a week. That was the best case scenario: in the worst case, the next time she DID let him bed down with her, he wouldn't be leaving... ever. So, rather than go after the easier targets on the other side of the thorns, he hustles over to threaten Marrok.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Kelso has two allies who need him to provide combat advantage: Moving down to attack Tolren and Saraphina would be smarter tactically, but he's more concerned about Belle's welfare. He moves to E-7. That gives combat advantage and triggers Belle's Unraveling Strike; she rolls high and gets a modified 27 to hit. Marrok takes 16 damage, and suffers a -2 to all defenses (save ends). And THEN, Kelso makes his own attack... and rolls a natural 3, missing by a longshot. And, to finish off this chain of readied actions, Salana's attack goes off and blinds Belle until the end of her next turn. Salana activates Rune of Destruction.</span><br/><br/>Belle grins as she sees Marrok's attention momentarily drawn away by the approach of her greatsword-wielding beau, and pounces with lightning speed. The runed axe bites through Marrok's chainmail as though it weren't even there, and the heroic wolf feels a surge of chaotic energy run through the blade, weakening and disorienting him. As soon as Salana sees this, she unleashes her own magical attack, and Belle's satisfied grunt turns into a cry of surprise as she's blinded.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, the other mercenaries are only just now recovering their senses enough to fight back against the elementals. They'll be tied up for a while yet.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic"><br/>Status scroll:<br/>Mirelle - HP: 65/70. AC: 20 Fortitude: 18 Reflex: 19 Will: 17<br/><br/>Belle - HP: 54/63. AC: 16 Fortitude: 15 Reflex: 17 Will: 15 (blinded)<br/><br/>Marutok: HP: 36/36. AC: 17 Fortitude: 14 Reflex: 15 Will: 13<br/><br/>Kelso: HP: 54/54. AC: 18 Fortitude: 17 Reflex: 16 Will: 16<br/><br/>Wolf 1: HP: 31/38. AC: 16 Fortitude: 14 Reflex: 14 Will: 13<br/>Wolf 2: Defeated.<br/><br/>Players and Allies<br/><br/>Saraphina: 44/45. AC: 16 Fort, Ref and Will: 15<br/><br/>Salana: 42/42. AC: 21 Fort: 19 Ref: 15 Will: 16<br/><br/>Marrok: 31/46. AC: 21 Fort: 19 Ref: 16 Will: 16 (-2 to all defenses, save ends)<br/><br/>Gahru: 34/38. AC: 17 Fort: 14 Ref: 15 Will: 12<br/><br/>Sophia: 45/45. AC: 17 Fort: 15 Ref: 16 Will: 15<br/><br/>Tolren: 37/45. AC: 17 Fort: 16 Ref: 16 Will: 18 (grabbed)<br/><br/><br/>Saraphina: 21<br/>Mirelle: 19<br/>Sophia: 14<br/>Marutok: 11<br/>Marrok: 10+<br/>Salana: 10-<br/>Belle: 9++<br/>Gahru: 9+<br/>Tolren: 9-<br/>Wolves: 8<br/>Kelso: 7<br/></span><br/><br/><br/><br/><img alt="Image" src="http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/9097/e1round1e.png"/><br/><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">I really appreciate the quick pace you guys have kept so far! Don't run yourselves ragged or anything, but it would be great if we can keep things moving like this (at least on weekends).</div></div></div>