A swift kick to the butt sends the last female assassin careening towards her allies.
"AAAIIIEEEE!"
She crashes into one of the male assassins, knocking him over. Both are now disrupted.
Garth then charges the assassin that's still on his feet.
The assassin tries to leap away, but, like the bloodbinder before him, doesn't leap far enough and Garth, like Xalen before him, masterfully adds range to his stab by letting the pike slip through his fingers. The damage only just beats the assassin's armour, but it's enough.
Xalen leaps... At this point I said to myself, their luck has got to run out.
... and then Xalen makes this roll.
Two 6's, I rolled the other 2 dice for the lulz to see if he could get 2 more.
Xalen creates a shockwave as he lands (fat jokes incoming), knocking the centurion over and making her easy prey. He slashes through her with extreme prejudice (a '12' and then 13 damage...
). Due to the critical nature of the success Garth is pushed back a bit harmlessly, and the disrupted dark elves are also knocked around, keeping them disrupted on their own turn.
Phineus appears at the top of the gate and waves his staff... The cliff to his right slides open, and out comes...
... a dark titan, goaded onward by two dark elf enforcers.
"ROAR!"
The enforcers themselves are armoured, highly skilled (1d8) and have two-handed weapons that are a threat even to Garth and Xalen's heavy armour. For now though, having witnessed the slaughter of their kinsmen, they seem more eager to let the giant do the work.
Enforcer: "Forward, you loathsome beast! Crush them for the master!"
Garth: "Master? Nimoë said Phineus wasn't their master..."
Xalen: "They must mean some other master. Let's kill this thing, and fast. Phineus is starting to raise the dead, and I can sense this creature and those dark elves' life force is still sustaining the aura that prevents us from attacking him."
I still have to resolve the rest of the round. You can already comment if you like.
Give it up for Miranda, guys! She gets an Almighty Benny for this feat of ossum.
Even the Almighty Benny couldn't save her.
