>>5317428>16 athleticism>14 spellcraft>6 (half-elf ranger)You are able to angle your descent and bring up your hand—your off-hand, bearing the Ring of Protection. The arrow is subtly redirected by the sudden pulse of invisible energy… But your shocking and frightening approach does the bulk of the work for you. You’re not certain the magical item would have been sufficient on its own, as you wielded it, to properly save you from a well-aimed arrow.
Well, a win is a win you suppose. You land well, between Glowie and the raging, shirtless human in his horned helm. You rise, drawing both of your swords as you do so, and face down your foes.
>19, 13 vs. 13, 1 (kobold support)You hear a panicked cry and a heavy thump behind you—a human voice, not a kobold one. A rain of sling-stones drives back the half-elf a moment later, accompanied by yelps and snarls of the kobolds on the roof, confirming the defeat of the rooftop rogue by your retinue. Perhaps not QUITE so useless after all, then, those miniature minions of yours…
But also not likely to be the deciding factor, but the way the larger mammal strides forward—the horn-helmed one—and utterly ignores the impacts, despite his near-nudity.
The enormous human puffs out his chest, thumping a single fist upon it and raising his maul in a salute. He bellows something in a tongue you are unfamiliar with… And yet, you understand a challenge when it is thus issued.
“Then come,” you retort in the True Speech.
He grins. You grimace. He charges. You meet him.
>14, 9 (swordsmanship)>20 (berserker)…And you quickly learn how Glowie was so badly brutalized.
