I swung my khopesh at the elven spearman again, but he brought his shield up to block the attack and, using the opportunity I had given him, he sprung to his feet. What the elf lacked in strength, he more than made up for in speed, this would indeed be a difficult fight.
Zak sprung to my aid, quickly stepping over (or by the sound the elf's ribs made, on) the animal caretaker to rush at the elf spearman. Zak swung his axe at the elf's leg, badly gashing it. The animal caretaker grabbed at Zak's legs, sending the axedwarf sprawling into the spearman, knocking both mammals to the ground. Seeing Zak faced with the problem of wresting two elves, Vactor drove his pike though the animal caretaker's arm, forcing the elf to let go of Zak.
With the spearman buried under a steel-clad, pissed-off Dwarf, I took the opportunity to hack at the monster's uninjured leg, this time to sucess! I brought by Khopesh down on my foe six more times, injuring his liver, breaking his shield-arm, and hacking both of his legs off, as Zak kept hold of the elf's weapon.
I hack at the elf again, breaking his weapon arm, and causing him to drop his spear. Vactor stabbed the elf in the hand with such force that one of its fingers was ripped off.
Vactor and I hacked at our - now thoroughly defeated - foe sending teeth and hands flying of the beast, until Zak, no longer burdened with wrestling the monster's weapon arm, brought his axe down upon it's neck, neatly decapitating it.
"With all due respect, Warlord" growled Zak, addressing me and Vactor, "What's the matter with you two tallfolk? Messin' around lopping off hands an' fingers an' teeth while the elf's tryin' ta bloody run me through with 'is spear! When ya kill someone, ya do it clean-like!" Zak proceeded to dust himself off and wipe the elven gore off his axe using his beard. I was not used to this type of insubordination, and I certainly wouldn't have gotten such disrespect from my own kind, but we were in the middle of a battle, and I had no time to reprimand him. My response was "I'll kill elves how I see fit, now follow me. We will regroup with Shoruke, and exact further vengeance for Rafal and Ee'nutcase."
I picked up the elf's spear, thinking "I believe I have found a new favorite throwing weapon", then remembering my other throwing weapon, I recovered my turtle. The splatter of elven blood on it would make it taste even better.
We regrouped with Shoruke and Stryke, killing two more elves on the way back.
As we advanced deeper into the forest retreat, Zak broke off from our group, and wandered out of sight into the woods, he returned later with more bloodspatters than before. That brought our count of elves killed in this assault up to 12. Excellent.
We spotted a swordsman and another bowyer through the trees, I shouted for my warband to charge, and they followed me into battle. I advanced at the bowyer, and it all happened so suddenly that I lost track of the situation for a moment. I had just stabbed the elf in the chest, when the lower half of his head just... exploded.
It wasn't until I heard Shoruke utter a triumphant hiss, and I saw the copper arrow pinning the elf's lower jaw to a nearby tree that I knew what had happened. Leaving the bowyer to bleed away, I wiped the teeth off my face and began to move towards the swordsman.
But Shoruke had hissed too soon!, An arrow flew out of the forest and hit Shouke in the hand!
I quickly spotted the sniper, and ran at her. I didn't get there in time to prevent the archer from firing again, though, this time wounding Shoruke badly.
Shoruke fell to the ground gasping, and I continued to run at the archer, blocking an arrow aimed for me. The archer's next arrow hit me in the hand. It hurt! Enraged, I threw my new spear at the elven archer, wounding her leg. In the time it took me to grab and throw my spear, the elven archer had pulled back and launched another shot, which thankfully, I blocked.
Behind me, I heard Vactor shout a battlecry, and an elf scream in pain. I guessed, correctly, that I wouldn't have to worry about the elf swordsman coming up beind me while I fought the archer.
Now I just had to survive getting close enough to the sniper to kill her.
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to be continued.
It seems that the overwhelming majority of votes was to save Rafal, as for what good it did...
Despite my best efforts, Rafal bled out not 3 steps after I tried to save him.
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Oh, so that's what the Abdominal Aorta is, I always thought it was some small organ near the kidneys or appendix. (shows you what I know about anatomy).
Edit: corrected an omission: "but Shoruke had hissed too soon!..."
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