>Rolled 1, 4, 5, 4, 1, 6, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 5Sometimes a trap can harm by simply doing nothing at all.
You are slowly turning and rotating the arcuballista. Very slowly. There is a nagging worry in the back of your mind that these ballistae might not even work, with the torsion of their drawstrings exposed to the elements here in the mountain, long abandoned and broken after the failed Ritterskeep siege against the trolls.
An archer can draw aim and loose shaft after shaft with merciless repetitive speed.
QM: the left-side archer hears the called warning. Both archers draw and fire again; once again the archer on the left in the shadows misses.
1+4+1=6<7
The sunlit rightside path archer aims properly this time and it is a strong hit. He aims at the one he sees carrying a ranged weapon, Saorlai the Elf with her Wheel-lock pistol (the only ranged weapon in this adventuring party??)
5+4+1=10, Saorlai -10 damage!
2/12 hp remains
So staying with these rolls,
1+6=7
5+5=10
On the next turn you will manage to rotate two of the arcuballista and you will definitely hit - if the ballistae work. I will roll this afterwards (4/6 adverse tilt to the roll)
1 All the siege weapons here are useless. This was the trap, of course
2 The Left side works, the Right side doesn't
3 The Right side works, the Left side doesn't
4 They both work. But now you have to crank the drawstring (oh no! fires after the next turn)
5 They fire as intended
6 Not only do they fire, but the thrown barbed spearheads shatter into splinters for lethal area-of-effect
However this turn, you can only really hit two targets with them (think of them essentially as Very Large Throwing Spears). Lescurel is loading and rotating the third ballista,
>>5493109and fires the turn after this one.
There are three targets:
1/ the Left-side archer (on his own),
2/ the grouped mass of sword melee warriors led by the Horned Warrior. This group includes the Leash Warrior with the two snarling wolves. You think to kill everyone here would require aiming BOTH ballistae at centre of mass into this crowd, unless I roll a 6 above.
3/ the Right-side archer. The Stone-Thrower carrying the boulder is heading to join him on his his high rocky perch
You can see the Horned Warrior, the leader, ordering his men to prepare for a charge, that will likely completely rout and break your party as you are scattered manning the siege ballistae with no cover and possess no shields.
