Despite the orc's powerful muscles, the young mage managed to wrench herself out of his grasp and dodge away, putting her hired guards between her and the green-skinned goliath.  The orc howled in rage at his quarry escaping, but was not so foolish as to run past several armed men to pursue her; instead, he stepped up to Kent and tried to punch the burly young man out.  Kent ducked the flying fist and lunged upward with his mighty sword, impaling the orc through the chest and putting a quick end to his lust-fueled rampage.<br/><br/>Merrick slashed at the hobgoblin with his two daggers; it grunted as each slash drew a thin trail of red, one from its shoulder and the other from its side, but the wounds seemed superficial at best.<br/><br/>Up ahead, at the bend in the passage, Otavia noticed the heavily-bearded face of a man peering around the corner, observing the state of the battle, and then withdrawing.<br/><br/>Aleric stepped past the orc's collapsing body and around to the back of the hobgoblin and clobbered it over the head with a mighty blow of his mace; the hobgoblin went sprawling to the ground and stirred no more.  He wiped the head of his mace on his trousers before turning to Otavia, a slight edge in his normally playful voice.<strong>"As you commanded.  What did you see up there?"</strong><br/><br/>***<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">The orc and the hobgoblin are dead.  If you'd like to try continuing this battle and going after the other two, it's your initiative, or this can be the end of this particular battle.<br/><br/>With things like grapple checks on enemies' turns and saves in the middle of combat--would you prefer I roll those for you in the interest of streamlining, or would you rather stick with how we've done it so far, where I ask you for the rolls as needed?</div></div><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Dice</div><div class="spoiler_body">At 2016-06-17 07:43:24, Aleric damage (uid: 59153) rolls: 1d8a3 Result: 11 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=89430)<br/>At 2016-06-17 07:43:08, Aleric atk hob (uid: 59153) rolls: 1d20a7 Result: 17 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=89429)<br/>At 2016-06-17 07:41:41, Merrick damage (uid: 59153) rolls: 2d4 Result: 3 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=89428)<br/>At 2016-06-17 07:41:27, Merrick damage (uid: 59153) rolls: 2d4 Result: 6 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=89427)<br/>At 2016-06-17 07:41:03, Merrick atk 2 (uid: 59153) rolls: 1d20a3 Result: 17 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=89426)<br/>At 2016-06-17 07:40:48, Merrick crit (uid: 59153) rolls: 1d20a3 Result: 9 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=89425)<br/>At 2016-06-17 07:40:32, Merrick atk hob (uid: 59153) rolls: 1d20a3 Result: 23 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=89424)<br/>At 2016-06-17 07:39:32, Kent damage (uid: 59153) rolls: 2d6a4 Result: 11 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=89423)<br/>At 2016-06-17 07:39:09, Kent atk orc (uid: 59153) rolls: 1d20a7 Result: 20 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=89422)<br/>At 2016-06-17 07:37:20, Orc punch K (uid: 59153) rolls: 1d20a4 Result: 13 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=89421)<br/>At 2016-06-17 07:35:06, Orc keep grap (uid: 59153) rolls: 1d20a4 Result: 10 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=89420)</div></div>