Chapter 7a: Return to Base Immediately

Maika · Jan 29 '11, 9:30pm

Feeling the wind rushing by the sudden speed, Marin just keeps holding to her friend

Mordae · 9:50pm

Rives

handle animal:
Dice Roll: 1d20+7
d20 Results: 13 (Total = 20)
These dice were omitted, altered, or moved: 1d20+2
Original Dice: 1d20+2

leans over Strider, looking for all the world like a diminutive jockey on the big roan's back. Butch gives up trying to shoot at the pursuers and focuses on

survival:
Dice Roll: 1d20+8
d20 Results: 2 (Total = 10)
These dice were omitted, altered, or moved: 1d20+4
Original Dice: 1d20+4

finding a difficult path to evade them, but is tangled by a patch of twisted ivy.

Leo and Marin go flying over yet another obstacle, with the young warrior feeling the exhilaration of the hunt and the young woman doing her best just to hold on to her old friend.

Alelip and Caedmon continue to follow rives as best they can, gradually growing the gap to the six trailing gnolls.

Code:

                    1                   2
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   Feet
G            BL   AC R
G             M
G
G
G
G

Round 5 begins.

leinad · Jan 30 '11, 12:48am

Caedmon is growing ever more confident in his colt, urges Midnight onwards and attempts to

balanace:
Dice Roll: 1d20+2
d20 Results: 7 (Total = 9)

clear a clump of hedges before him.

Merlana · Jan 30 '11, 2:34am

Rives continues to lean low over Strider's neck and

ride:
Dice Roll: 1d20+5
d20 Results: 18 (Total = 23)
These dice were omitted, altered, or moved: 1d20+3
Original Dice: 1d20+3

urges him towards Baden Falls. As the herd leader, the others would try and follow, even if most of the other horses were built for strength, not speed. Still, he didn't want to face the gnolls in the forest. And there were more men back in the watchtower....

Jreece · Jan 30 '11, 2:46am

"What a lovely day for a ride isnt it Marin?" leo smiles despite the circumstances, and has his horse

balance:
Dice Roll: 1d20+7
d20 Results: 14 (Total = 21)

leap over another fallen tree.

Gauss · Jan 30 '11, 6:03pm

Alelip hazards a

spot:
Dice Roll: 1d20+3
d20 Results: 13 (Total = 16)

peek behind him as he continues to

ride:
Dice Roll: 1d20+1
d20 Results: 16 (Total = 17)

urgeWhiskey on, then whips his head around,

spot:
Dice Roll: 1d20+3
d20 Results: 17 (Total = 20)

looking ahead to see if there are any gnolls to close the trap.

Maika · Jan 30 '11, 7:10pm

"Shut up and keep riding, Leo" Says Marin with a small smile, slapping lightly his torso without letting go of the hug.

"Although... I don't think I like riding much" she thinks.

Mordae · 1:00am

Rives gooses Strider ever so slightly, and the magnificent stallion lengthens his stride into a near-run that quickly leaves the gnolls behind. Whiskey and Bear follow in the trail, with Alelip hugging his mount and muttering encouragement. Leo treats the whole effort like a fox chase, and his horse responds as though it had been riding steeplechase its entire life. Caedmon tries to keep up with the show but barely manages to clear a bristly hedge. Butch focuses on

survival:
Dice Roll: 1d20+8
d20 Results: 19 (Total = 27)
These dice were omitted, altered, or moved: 1d20+4
Original Dice: 1d20+4

blazing a separate trail to discourage the pursuit.

Just as the group is starting to pull away, another gnoll joins the chase from the side, only half as far away as his companions.

Code:

                    1                   2
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   Feet
G     G       B L  C   R
G               M  A
G
G
G
G

Round 6 begins.

Maika · 2:19pm

"Corporal!" calls Marin seeing her superior pulling back and to the side, her eyes widening when she turns and sees the new gnoll

"Leo! Pull back. We can't leave the Corporal alone with all the gnolls!" she says to her friend, one hand clinging to him, while the other starts fumbling with the steath of her sword

leinad · Feb 1 '11, 4:30pm

Feeling slightly humbled by his failure to clear the hedge and slowed somewhat by the bristles of the hedge, Caedmon

ride:
Dice Roll: 1d20+4
d20 Results: 2 (Total = 6)

wheels Midnight around once more and

attack:
Dice Roll: 1d20
d20 Results: 13

fires another

damage:
Dice Roll: 1d8+4
d8 Results: 1 (Total = 5)

shot at the approaching gnoll.