Knowing the advantage of numbers is critical, the party moves in.  Lili makes a careful maneuver to shift into flanking and land a solid blow on the ruffian's back.   The pain makes the man stumble and turn towards, her ready to retaliate.<br/><br/>Unfortunately for him, Jessica chooses that moment to dart into melee and thrusts her rapier forward, piercing a hole through both sides of the man's armor... by way of his torso.  While she misses his vitals, the man howls in pain and collapses onto the ground, clutching the wound.  Though he staunches the flow of blood with his clothing, he passes out from the pain and remains lying on the ground.<br/><br/>Seeing another of his underlings fall, the apparent leader of the band suddenly hears the sound of even MORE people coming in from the tree line.   Already rather fearful of the party's confidence and down two guys before he could even land a blow, the wiser ruffian says, succinctly "Sod this!" and turns tail.  He makes an expert shift out of the reach of Vladred's blade and makes a break for the road.  Unfortunately for Lyre, the ruffian has seen a few fights in his time and keeps a eye out for arrows, ducking the whistling projectile as he flees.<br/><br/>Still facing down Vladred, the ruffian is too busy parrying and dodging to notice his leader abandoning him until the man is already a good eighty feet away.   "H-hey!  That was just a magic thing!"  He tries to shout back, though apparently telling him that the group is ALSO capable of wielding magic does little to boost his leader's desire to keep fighting.   With the ruffian slightly more surrounded than his counterpart, panic sets in and he swings his sap wildly through the air, fighting like a cornered beast.  The club whips hard through the air and, unfortunately, catches Valdred on the side of the head, sending a powerful but dull pain through her skull.   Though she's not bleeding, the shear force is so dizzying, she's knocked to the ground she's knocked unconscious from the impact.<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Slaver Underling # 2:    Will Save At 2016-03-29 21:16:15, Aylinas (uid: 58573) rolls: 1d20a-1 Result: 19 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=87092)<br/>Attack: At 2016-03-29 21:42:37, Aylinas (uid: 58573) rolls: 1d20a3 Result: 22 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=87096)<br/>Damage: At 2016-03-29 21:42:52, Aylinas (uid: 58573) rolls: 1d6a1 Result: 6 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=87097)<br/><br/>Slaver: Will Save  At 2016-03-29 21:16:04, Aylinas (uid: 58573) rolls: 1d20a1 Result: 2 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=87091)<br/></div></div><br/>((OCC:<br/>Didn't want to sit on the combat much longer.<br/><br/>2 enemies are up. 2 are unconscious at -1 HP but stable<br/>1 is fleeing and has put 80ft of distance between him and the group, 1 just hit Vladred with his sap.<br/><br/>Vladred took 6 more non-lethal damage.  That's 10 non-lethal damage to your 9 HP, so you're unconscious but stable and in no danger of dying.<br/><br/><br/>Freeko:  You get a +1 to your damage roll from the song which made your damage 5, which was just enough to knock the bandit into the negatives.<br/><br/>Wenterburn:  As far as I can tell, for your attack bonus, you'd get a +1 from your DEX (for firing a ranged weapon) and a +1 from your own song.  So that'd be a 13.))