<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=3446.msg114693#msg114693">Quote from: Faolan on 04-01-2006, 21:00:11</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">  Grignak used hand signals, that he'd taught his riders, to pass the word to kill the male warrior and that the female warrior was his. He readied a stone to throw in his right hand and held his sword ready in his off hand.<br/><br/>  When the small caravan had reached the proper position he made the chopping motion with his hand that signaled the attack. His riders erupted from cover and three of them launched arrows at the male warrior. Grignak himself stepped out of cover roaring an ogre battlecry and cocked his arm, ready to throw, His intention was to smash her crossbow with the hurled stone. Others of his orcs stepped in to try to control the horses on the wagon before they could be spurred to a gallop by the cart driver.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Two of the arrows went wide of the mark, zipping past the warrior into the woods beyond.  One arrow hit, though it appeared to be superficial (2hp).  Grignak threw his rock, which flew true and hit the female warrior's crossbow.  However, the mechanism proved to be resilient, and the bow remained functional (19 on material saving throw versus blow).<br/><br/>The male guard replied in kind, loosing two arrows at one of the orcish archers.  Both arrows hit, seriously wounding the orc.  The other two orcs then took their turn, loosing four arrows total at the man.  Their marksmanship was not up with their zeal; two of the arrows zinged into the forest, one was turned aside by the guard's armor, but one went through, sicking the guard in the thigh.<br/><br/>The female guard raised her crossbow, pointing it at the orc in the lead, discharging it.  One bolt shot past the orc's shoulder, the second lodged in it, though the wound was minor.<br/><br/>From the wagon bed, another young woman suddenly appeared, bow at the ready,<em>surprising</em>the orcs.  She loosed an arrow at the already-wounded orc, striking it to give it a more serious wound in the leg.<br/><br/>NB: New rules regarding the composition of parties and the characters themselves were posted.  Please read them, and decide on what level you want Grignak to be, and how you wish levels divided among the henchmen.  The damage assessments I gave assumed first-level henchmen...if you make them zero-level, the damage will have been more serve, second-level, less severe.<br/><br/>(next is round 2)<br/><br/>