First Adventure 04: The Centaur Lord of Maraudine

*seeing the big centaur throw Higaide out over the ravine i quickly summon the last of my power and cast float in order to save his live*

*after doing all he can tabran slumps to the ground*

"i need to think about getting up at some point"

Rory shares a glance with Zeiss. In a boost of comaraderie--or at least on Rory's part--their eyes land upon the nearest centaur to the west. Reading each other's actions, the begin their assault.

Whis Kor cleaves through the Centaur but loses his footing as he approaches the edge. He grabs back at the edge as he goes over and only succeeds in grabbing a handful of dirt.

Landing with a loud "OOMPH" on the other side, he gives a loud yell of pain as an arrow works its way past his armor and implants itself in him. He jerks his shield in front of his body in reaction and begins slowly crawling up the stairs, protecting himself from the two archers above him.

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Dara moves forward, then fires a bolt at the boss centaur from close range. Hanuel then moves past Dara, drawing a sharp steel sickle, and taking up a defensive pose less than a dozen feet from the Centaur.

Rory and Zeiss were coordinating their attacks againts one centaur. He had to die, fast.

*Higaide scrambles back up the stairs*

Kolson, Ashakel, and Javan all move forward, preparing for battle.
Permeus barely saves Higaide's life with a last-second Float, and Higaide quickly takes Permeus' advice to heart and moves to safer ground.
Hanuel draws his sickle and moves closer, keeping an eye on the boss.
Rellan, now feeling quite invigorated from the Leyslice, looses a small inferno upon the two Centaurs on the other side of the ravine, burning them alive.
Gwydo, seeing his injured comrades, burns his one and only Mana healing himself, Hanuel, Kolson, and Ashakel. Thanks to his communement with the Life Elemental, his healing energies are strong and all of the above are now fully healthy.
Zeiss stabs the Centaur before him and Rory roughly, making it lose its balance before Rory, having built up his swing the entire charge, slices its entire head off just above the jaw. The Centaur teeters back on its hind legs, falls over onto Whis below and rolls off him and further down, until it plummets into the ravine.
Sethos casts a Regen upon Dara, healing it for 5, before shooting at the Boss and missing. Araiguna moves closer and also attacks the boss, also missing.
Dara moves up, feeling better, and looses a bolt at the boss, hitting it.

The Boss hurtles itself forward, Overrunning Hanuel, Kolson, and Dara as he goes, making sure to stomp on them as he goes and inflicting injury, finishing his charge on Permeus with a final stomp, injuring the prone fellow greatly.

Glancing around his shield, Whis Kor jumps up and begins moving up the stairs as soon as he sees the Centaur archers ignite and fall to the ground.

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"permius, Stay down"
Araiguna moves directly behind his prone body ready to fire a shot at the rampaging centaur

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Seeing the sight of his comrades fallen to the ground, Ashakel musters the last remains of his strength, running as fast as he can to try to knock down the Big Centaur.

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On the ground. Again. Kolson was sensing a pattern here. Standing up, he moved to help his allies surround the centaur.

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*Higaide witnesses the Centaur Leader storm off, tramplig on his comrades. It wasn't fair. He had so much he wanted to ask him, and there he was running away after so rudely tossing him to his death just moments ago. He scrambles after the nefarious gentleman, hoping to at long last get to smash his knuckles into his face!*

Chopping off the head of a beast with a knife. That was a feat to tell home about. Rory's face contorted in a slightly savage grin, feeling empowered by the consequence of his actions. Presently, he turns his attention to the centaur leader, who had finished stomping on a group of his fellows, ending on Tabran. As much as the heat of battle compelled him to give in, he needed this beast alive. Feeling confident in his ability, he pulled air into his lungs and raced toward him, roaring with as wild a look in his eye that he could, bellowing obscenities.

Sethos had simply been cursing under his breath throughout the entire fight, but now the beast of a centaur was baring down on him, he had to move but not until he'd helped Tabran. He took a deep breath and got ready to run.

Hanuel charges forward after being helped up, swinging the sharp sickle savagely, moments after Dara looses another point-blank bolt at the boss.

Whis Kor gets up and moves into action, as do Higaide and Zeiss. Kolson has to tumble by the creature, but succeeds at not getting stomped as he goes.
Rory runs up and gives a horribly demoralizing roar that appears to have no effect whatsoever.
Sethos quickly casts Regen on Permeus, healing him slightly before moving.
Javan helps Hanuel up, and Gwydo helps Dara up.
Dara makes an attack on the boss with its crossbow, landing a hit.
Araiguna moves into better position and attacks, but due to the hustle of combat misses again.
Ashakel moves into position to attack the creature with non-lethal damage, but fails to land a hit.
Caladrius, seeing how badly things were getting, casts Cure and heals himself, Permeus, and Kolson.
Permeus rolls away, getting hoof stomped as he goes for his efforts.
Rellan and Raver, getting tired of this, blow Mana on a Maximized Bolt 1 each, nuking the boss as hard as both are able. Shortly after this, Raver does a Healing check to see how badly the boss is doing .
Finally Hanuel makes a brave, daring charge at the boss only to trip on his own wings and mess up his swing entirely, hurtling his weapon away and leaving him disarmed.

Edit: Letting Raver do his own post for the Heal check results.

Raver, after leaning against the tree and waiting from the raging battle, stepped forward, suddenly springing his attack. He was annoyed and irritated as he barks to the party the condition he has assumed from the beast.

"He's going down! Half dead, I'll suppose."

The Centaur lets out a psychotic laugh, clearly enjoying every moment of the battle, and roars in Undercommon:

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He roars again, stomps his feet hard upon the ground, and channels a horrible web of lightning out of himself, laughing as it chars him and those around him.
Dara is desummoned from the damage.
Kolson falls to the ground in a slump, Downed.

Whis Kor emits a loud, hissing sound as he rounds the corner and sees Kolson slump to the ground. He flies at the large Centaur with his scimitar and shield at the ready, clearly intent on impaling him.

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finally getting to his feet tabran quickly unhooks the silk rope from his backpack, he had a plan that may just work

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"This was getting ridiculous. And he was hurting all over. Fine, lets get this over with, one way or the other. Higaide charges forward into the centaur and primes his knuckles."

"HEY, SUZY!!!!"

(assuming that the last attack didnt knock it out)

well, i want this thing dead too so im moving to K14 and killing the damn thing with my hand axe and rapier. i also want to use 1 AP in the process,

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Hanuel stumbles back from the blow, then draws and loads a crossbow shakily.

The mage was in a lot of trouble... Ashakel was certain that the Centaur will never give up, wanting to die in battle. The troll grasped his sword firmly, let loose a shriek a tried to land a killing blow!

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