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The high elf would try to hustle it past the Orc and below the gate before it fully closed. Granted, Aelgeirr may be asking a bit much...but if successful, the eladrin would then gather his resolve and attempt to strike Goblin 3.


OOC:
Double move to B2
Acrobatics check: 1d20-1=16

Using an action point to conduct a scalping check:
Attack roll: 1d20+6=13
Damage:1d6+4=6

ROUND 2

20 - Aelgeirr, Prone
18 - Ambra
17 - Goblin 2, Soiled
16 - Thork, 12 damage
PORTCULLIS CLOSES ON ROUND 2
15 - Goblin 1, Soiled
14 - Goblin 3
4 - Mercy, 1 damage

0 - Barricades - Ongoing 5 fire damage
K7 @ 23 damage.
L6 @ 27 damage.
L7 @ 16 damage.

(NOTE TO SELF: Add fire damage to K4)

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Aelgeirr saw the lowering portcullis, and immediately reacted before it was too late. Breaking into a run, he charged right at Thork, before pushing ↓+B to power slide between the Half?-Orc's legs, unsheathing his hand-axe as soon as he was clear and clearing the portcullis before it closed on him. Trying to follow through with his momentum, he attempts to swing his axe while he was surrounded by targets. However, his long spear got caught up at the last second by the descending portcullis and was throttled some as he lifted to strike, his axe deviating from target. He ends his turn prone.

Mercy would begin to fall back on the tried-and-true method of Hack-And-Slash to get through the flaming barricades! She hacks off a sizeable chunk (because if wooden barricades have vulnerable 5 fire, by golly, they have vulnerable 5 axes too!), but it was still a work in progress.

Ambra would proceed to try and finish what she started. Loosing another fiery burst, but opts to only conflagrate the farthest one in. It remains intact, but begins creaking as it threatens to fall to pieces.

The first goblin to react to Aelgeirr's entry would bark something excited in Goblinspeak, before unsheathing a short sword from its scabbard. However, despite being in an advantageous position, he thrusts the sword into the stone floor instead of elfmeat.

Thork, your turn! Aelgeirr is blocking your way beneath the portcullis. You feel a bit lighter than you did a minute ago, though!

ROUND 2/3

20 - Aelgeirr, Bloodied, 17 damage, Prone
18 - Ambra
17 - Goblin 2, Soiled
16 - Thork, 12 damage
PORTCULLIS CLOSES ON ROUND 2
15 - Goblin 1, Soiled
14 - Goblin 3
4 - Mercy, 1 damage

0 - Barricades - Ongoing 5 fire damage
K7 @ 23 damage.
L6 @ 27 damage.
L7 @ 16 damage.
K4 @ 11 damage.

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Thork, I presume you're dropping your glaive, vs trying to lift the portcullis one-handed?

Assuming you're using both hands, you move up to the gate, reaching down and start lifting it. It is made of heavy oak and reinforced at the crossing points with steel bands, so its high-quality stuff; you're doubtful the goblins made it themselves (unlike the crude barricades outside).

You're able to get it a few feet off the ground, to about your knees, but you have difficulty raising it higher than that. You did take a crossbow bolt to the arm...

The other two goblins would follow the first one's lead and draw their short swords. They would both plunge their blades into Aelgeirr while he was still on the ground, skewering him for 7 and 10 damage, bloodying him!

Mercy, Aelgeirr, Ambra, you're up! At the end of the round, the barricade at L6 crumbles and no longer is an obstacle (in case you want to hold until round 3, Mercy).

Smoke begins to accumulate at the roof of the tunnel, slowly but surely.

Mercy's axe strike slices down the barricade before her with ease; her axe cleaves straight down the middle, and the burned/damaged barricade falls to each side, then to pieces. The barricade in K7 is clear!

When Mercy arrives at the corner, she passes a pile of adventurer gear spewed out on the floor where Thork tore his backpack (K3). As she rounds the corner, she would see Aelgeirr on one side of a portcullis surrounded by goblins with swords, while Thork's trying to lift it. He stands by a lever.

You also take note that the floor has a messy tile-on-cave-floor motif, but looking farther into the tunnel, you see that the flooring tiles before you don't match up, as if they are... newer? At least, up to where the lever was installed.

"S-sorry!" Ambra would exclaim. "I was just trying to clear the way!" The little tiefling mage would shift up past the barrier in front of her then, then run in as far as she could into the cave.

Move action: Shift diagonally forward 1 square.
Standard Action: Move to K2 or L3 ((I'm a little confused on the moment here. Ambra moves up as far a she can after shifting past the barrier. Her movement is 6))

"Stupid Elf, need hit goblin, before Thork believe. Now get out, before Thork hit you stupid!" The orc-kin shouted straining to keep the gate up.

(Holding till after Mercy's action. Will roll again, if needed)

Keen eyes and irritated insight saw a hallway, a gate, an ork struggling with that gate, a goblin-kabob'd eladrin, and a single lever. What was a 16 intelligence gal to think other than: stupid ork? Can't blame a girl for her upbringing.

"If you want him to come out you must actually lift the gate!" she chided as she rushed to his back and pulled the lever. There were quite a few questions about why the lever was on the outside of the gate, and why the goblins would trap themselves on the side of it that can't easily be opened back up, but could easily be opened by attackers, but those were questions for another time. For now she had to focus her efforts on channeling divine power through her Holy Symbol to help out as much as she could.


Standard Action: Radiant Vengeance, Power of Love! targeting Thork for 15 vs. Reflex. Aelgeirr and Thork gain 5 Temporary HP.
Move Action: Moving to D1
Minor Action: Pull the lever!!