Marcus' glaive flickers, striking multiple mortal wounds in the hellhound. Steaming blood splashes your face as you barely finish your prayer in the choking sulfur smell of the dying hellhound.

Cael, taking advantage of the lack of snapping jaws, rushes to help Volarine. Channeling the fire he had absorbed from the hellhound, he pierces the beast with his blade. Though it strikes home, the lack of burning smell and the absence of the *hiss* of burning flesh tells you that you don't think fire will hurt these creatures.

And though Etienne streaks through the trees it's as if she teleported through shadows, she skids to a halt just off balance. The captain, reacting with uncanny, or long-practiced, agility, parries the blow.

Marcus obliterates the hellhound engaging him. Cael does 12 damage to the Hellhound on Volarine. Etienne misses both her attacks.

The House of the Sharpened Coin caravan maintains its composure under the sustained assault of the hobgoblin raiders. Despite the death of the warpriest and one of their shock beasts, the squadron holds firm, takes aim, and lets loose another volley of well-timed attacks, each pair of hobgoblins working as smaller sub-units to cover each other. Well, except for the lone archer still hacking inside of Dagna's Stinking Cloud.

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You recognize that the hobgoblin warriors are working in pairs to designate targets and spread out their attacks, taking advantage of each others' presence.


Arrows fly through the trees, most blown off course or ending up within the intervening cover. Eti is grazed by one lucky shot, the fletching catching the edge of her ear as she confronts the captain. Dagna feels pain bloom in her back as an arrow catches her from behind as she engages with one of the raiders who has now dropped his bow in favour of a longsword. Volarine fares worst of all, two arrows sailing almost in tandem tracing lazy arcs before slamming home in her side as she desperately tries to put out the flames wreathing her. With a strangled cry she falls to her side where she lies, unmoving.

Eti takes 5 damage, Dagna takes 12 damage, and Volarine takes 18...

After loosing their shots, the archers reposition themselves, darting carefully through the trees to keep their targets in sight.

OOC - Dagna, Freya, Tavi, Noman, you're up!