Marric manages to catch himself after putting a bit too much force into one of his knees there... and immediately he drops his body weight low, ducking beneath the incoming strikes. A better man might have given them another chance to yield... but they'd thrown the first punch, and he had been hired to remove a bandit problem.<br/><br/>So they get what's coming to them.<br/><br/>The monk springs forward, swinging hard with one of his elbows towards the club-wielding man's chin. Even if the man evade that, though, the monk follows through, using the upward motion to launch a rib-shattering kick at the man's (hopefully now exposed) torso...<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button"> OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Second verse, same as the first: <br/>1d20+7= 16<br/>1d20+7= 10<br/><br/>1d6+5=9<br/>1d6+5=6</div></div>