Orcs were fast! The thrill of the hunt and battle incensed them beyond what normal races were capable of. Moments behind Cinder, one of the burly bastards dove at her, arms outstretched and ready to grip her and tangle her up with him as they would fall to the ground. Except she wasn't there! Inches separated freedom from the well muscled vise of his arms as he sailed through the air empty handed. Getting her feet under her, she just managed to leap up from the branch before the second orc grabbed it and ripped it from the tree with his momentum and also tumbled to the ground.<br/><br/>Cinder was tree'd, but she wasn't at their mercy, with a quickly notched arrow, she dispatched another of her pursuers with an arrow placed between the spine and under shoulder blade. It took a few moments to realize it was dead, but in its savage fury, the dead orc got a couple of good hacks into the tree she was in before it slumped to it seat and remain unmoving.<br/><br/>From there it was a bit of a shooting duel with the remaining two orcs. They chucked spears at her, as she desperately notched another arrow and fired. She took a solid cut from one such tossed spear, had she not been so high in the tree, it might have been a much more serious wound. As quickly as it began, the fighting stopped. Two orcs were dead under her tree, pincushioned with arrows, while the final brute managed to get away to some cover from her hail of arrows.<br/><br/>"You get hungry soon, bitch. You get sloppy soon, bitch. Then Rorg'll fuck you. Rorg fuck you long and hard. Rorg'll make his own tribe out of you. You beg to fuck Rorg." Its unclear if he's trying to psych himself up or if its just taking and taunting, but he looks about to break the haft of his axe into splinters.<br/><br/>At the moment... it was a stand off.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Acrobatics Check vs. DC 10<br/>Rolled a 4, +7 = 11 meets or beats 10 so success!<br/><br/>After a few rounds of combat, two orcs are dead, the last one is injured.<br/>Cinder took 11 damage from the orcs' javelins trying to knock her out of the tree. Cinder's HP is 32<br/><br/>------<br/><br/>Ok, here's a bit of a run down on ability/skill checks and combat. I'll start by saying I did a couple bulk rolls of attacks just to speed it up. DnD is a fun game, but combat can slow down the pace, especially with forum games.<br/><br/>The skills on your sheet are broad areas of knowledge that your character knows. Just the fact that Cinder is level 8 means she gets a proficiency bonus of +3. That means that the skills she took an interest in, get a bonus whenever we roll dice for them. Skills also have a relevant ability stat that goes along with it. Being nimble goes a long way to being good with Acrobatics. so Cinder's Acrobatics is +7, which means she has a pretty decent shot of doing hard and very difficult tasks. Compared to Religion at +2, Cinder didn't study at the church, but with her INT mod at +2, she might have a kernal of  of knowledge regarding the gods and demons, though its probably wrapped in rumors.<br/><br/>With ability scores, 10 is average, 18 is pretty darn good. Every two points above 10 gets you a +1 bonus on a d20 roll. So Cinder is pretty Nimble and charming, but don't expect her to lift 300lbs or stand in a blizzard for a few hours.<br/><br/>With combat, Cinder used a shortbow. She knows how to use a shortbow so she gets her proficiency bonus of +3. She's also good with her hands with DEX which the bow also uses so she also gets her DEX mod for a total of +7 to attack. The Orcs' AC (armor class) was 13. That represents their own nimbleness and what kind of armor they were wearing (ie, not good armor). To get damage you take the shortbow's damage range, a d6 and add your DEX mod which is +4, so Cinder would be doing between 5-10 damage usually with the bow. When she gets advantage on a target, she gets her sneak attack damage once a round as well, 4d6 which is between 4 and 24 damage added to one of her attacks in a round.<br/><br/>The Orcs threw javelins at Cinder in the tree. Javelins work off of STR, which the orcs have and hit her with three out of six throws. Because Cinder was so high up, I gave them disadvantage which was lucky, because one of them would have CRITically hit Cinder otherwise. Critical Hits and Successes are a time honored DnD tradition of rolling a natural 20 on the die. Its always a success, no matter how improbable, luck was on the Hero's side and they won the day. Criticals in combat are handled differently in each group depending on who you play with, from double maximum possible damage to just rolling the damage dice twice. For me, I like big hits so you get double maximum damage.<br/><br/>If that was too much, I understand it can be daunting at first. </div></div>