Fighting may be fun, but lethal combat isn't a pretty business.  You'd have to be a seriously twisted bastard to<em>want</em>your Pokemon journey to turn into a bloodbath.<br/><br/>But when you're getting mobbed -- by raccoons who prove unusually adept at clawing through plate mail, no less -- and people are in danger, you don't pull punches.  Or truncheons.  He can worry about their health<em>after</em>he no longer has to worry about his own.<br/><br/>As Bilzo zeroes in on one of the remaining Zigzagoons, Marcus steps to the side, lashing out to smack it with the chain, before whiplashing it back into the other's face with a deft flick of his wrists.<br/><br/>The spiked chain: a fine weapon, indeed.  Marcus is hardly the first warrior to wonder why the wizard who lives by the sea ever allowed such a thing to exist.<br/><br/>(Bilzo's attack roll is 12.  Or 14, if he can claim a flanking bonus.  If that somehow hits, damage w/skirmish is 5, plus poison.<br/><br/>Attack roll for another Whirlwind against the two remaining Zigzagoons is 24 (possibly 26 against one, if Bilzo is flanking).  Damage is 16; if damage rolls must be made separately, the second one is 17.<br/><br/>Current HP: 35/44.)