Waylaid by Trolls - Round 5

[Eclecticon]

Situation: The companions have been attacked from above by hideous mountain trolls. 

Combat Advantage dice:
• Arbogast 0/1
• Esgalwen 0/0
• Gwaithlim 0/0
• Hathcyn 0/2

Situation Modifiers:
• The Fellowship has the initiative.

Physical Modifiers (complications):
• Characters without bows will need to scale the bluff, requiring two Athletics rolls (TN 16 due to the danger of having rocks dropped on their heads) before they can engage the trolls (Arbogast 2/2, Hathcyn 2/2). 

PC/NPC

PARRY

ARMOUR

HOPE

END

STANCE

STATUS

Arbogast Esgalwen Gwaithlim Hathcyn

• 6 ( +3) • 6 ( n/a) • 7 ( n/a) • 7 ( n/a)

• 2d ( +4) • 2d ( n/a) • 3d ( n/a) • 3d ( +4)

• 8/16 • 12/14 • 12/12 • 10/13

• 12/26 • 21/27 • 25/30 • 19/29

Defensive Rearward Rearward Defensive

WEARY normal normal normal

ENEMY		PARRY		ARMOUR		HATE		END		NOTES
Tusked troll Stony troll		• 7 • 7		• 4d • 4d		• 4/9 • 0/9		• 64/96 • 0/96

STANCES

Forward - action order 1 Close combat TN 6+ parry Forward Maneuvers

Open - action order 2 Close combat TN 9+ parry Open Maneuvers

Defensive - action order 3 Close combat TN 12+ parry Defensive Maneuvers

Rearward - action order 4 Ranged combat TN 12+ parry Must be 2 other PC's in Close Combat; May not use if outnumbered 2:1 Rearward Maneuvers

From any Stance Escape combat Must start in Rearward or roll TN 10 + highest attribute level of opponents Athletics roll. On success, may safely flee from the scene of combat

[tomcat]

Undeterred from her previous failed shot, Esgalwen continued to send arrows at the remaining troll.
TN 19 great bow 4d

1d12 : 6, total 6
Rolled 4d6 : 6, 3, 4, 6, total 19

7   edge: 10  injury: 16

[tomcat]

Well that is pretty. If only that 6 had been a 10 or , too, it would have been a perfect shot!

Esgalwen has a success for 19 loss.

[GandalfOfBorg]

Gwaithlim sees the others furiously knocked about and can only continue the barrage from his vantage.

 

Great Bow - 1d12 : 2, total 2
Rolled 2d6 : 3, 4, total 7

[GandalfOfBorg]

Ugh *kicks ground petulantly*

[Telcontar]

The ground is scored by the feet of the men as they are knocked about by the hideous strength of the troll. The mists strangely deadening the sounds of the conflict from a distance, but also in a strange way making them louder and more intense for the participants.

[Eclecticon]

A swat of the troll's palm lays Hathcyn flat on the ground, and frantically he rolls aside to avoid the crushing follow-up attack that shakes the earth and sends stones rattling down the bluff.  Taking advantage of a momentary gap in the mists, Esgalwen lets another shaft fly, this one finding a home in a craggy buttock and drawing forth an ear-shredding bellow of pain.  Turning to face the direction of this attack, the troll sees only Arbogast, whose eyes widen as it lurches toward him, arms extended to tear him limb from limb...


The troll will drop a Hate point on Hideous Toughness again, reducing the Endurance loss from Esgalwen's arrow to 10 (still a worthy shot!).  And then it'll attack Arbogast (TN 21):

1d12 : 12, total 12
Rolled 4d6+9 : 2, 1, 3, 2 + 9, total 17

[Eclecticon]

Incredibly, however, the Fire-watcher deflects its first blow and then finds a momentary shelter beneath an outcrop of stone that, though it shatters under the force of the troll's fury, allows him the time to draw back out of the beast's reach and ready his axe once again. 


Huzzah for a !