Jóra: Cunning: 6,3,3
Kol: Resolve: 5,2
Sihylde: Ferocity: 6,5,4
Einar: Resolve: 6,3,2
Dang you guys rolled great this time again
The horde of beast men and Cimbri charge toward the hill, their calls and screams disconcerting. There was no order, no plan in their attack. The Sea Wolves remained firm, and awaited with ready weapon and shield, and determination of steel. Jóra readied her arrow, tip drenched in tar. She nodded, and Skjære stepped beside her with a torch and lit the fire arrow. Jóra sent it whistling through the sky, and it landed right in front of the minotaur. It snorted, and tried to step over it. Then the rest of the tar caught fire.
A great fire exploded into life! It rose and consumed the minotaur, and rushed out, consuming many of those in the center of the horde. The minotaur bellowed in pain, and stumbled forward, covered in flame. It made it clear of the burning tar and then collapsed on the ground. Jóra and her archers cheered.
The shield wall did not have time to celebrate, however, as the leading edge of the beast men leaped to meet them in hand to hand combat. Einar blocked the axe of one ram-man, and his counterblow left his axe in the beast’s neck. Einar twisted and another quick blow finished him off. All down the line, the beast men’s disorganized attack was easily beaten off, the foe’s monstrous strength availing them nothing against the steady and determined shield wall of the Sea Wolves. The first wave pulled back.
A second wave rushed up to meet them. A few were burned, while the others navigated their way around the burning fields. Their fate was no better than the first. They were afraid, and did not fully commit themselves to the assault. The shield wall bore the brunt of their assault, and responded with blows of their own. Kol on the right flank was hard pressed by one beast man, a wolf-man, armed with two swords. It cut down one Sea Wolf next to Kol, and then it launched a furious barrage of blows at him, which Kol blocked ably with his shield, his face twisted in a grimace. It snapped at him, teeth inches from his face. Kol shoved it off, and upon its next leap spun to the side out of the blow, and the wolf man met only his sword, nearly cutting the beast in half. Kol spit on the corpse, and then returned to the fight.
The beasts attack stalled. From being awoken early and being burned from fire, they were making no progress against a numerically inferior foe. At this moment of wavering, Sihylde and the other raiders launched their counter attack. Streaming in from the flanks, they crashed into their disorganized foe. Sihylde swung hard with her war hammer, breaking bone and sending beast and man flying. A Cimbri rushed her with a spear, and she brushed his attack to the side with her hammer, and her return blow shattered his face, sending him down with a moan. She called out to Crom, and resumed her onslaught.
Soon the beast men were in full retreat, with most streaming into the woods. Their dead litter the ground, and only 40 or so out of nearly 150 beasts escaped. Only 3 men suffered serious wounds, and the rest only minor cuts and bruises The encampment lay before you.
Do you pursue the beast men into the woods? (Risky to Desperate)
OR
Focus on looting and burning the encampment?
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Topic: Viking: Sea Wolves-Chapter 1: Fur and Fang (Read 27037 times)