The fight was going badly. They were outnumbered. He had hoped that the humans, would break and run, at the very least the civilians. But they held firm. Silvak looked for a signaler to order a retreat but could not find any alive. After some looking he found one of the signal crossbows already loaded with the retreat signal.
A quick hit against his greaves and the bolt tip started smoking, he quickly fired in into the air roughly to the north, then discarded the crossbow as the magic bolt whistled loudly through the air leaving a trail of blue smoke. It was the retreat signal, and the direction of the smoke trail indicated the direction to retreat to.
Silvak saw a flash of flame out of the corner of his eye during the retreat and then a firebird appeared in the air out in front of the retreating dracon, the summoner's fire spirit burning anyone attempting to block the retreat. Then shortly after the main part of the unit escaped the melee it blinked out in a puff of smoke. The young summoner had been killed. He likely was too exausted from summoning multiple spirits to escape with the rest of the unit.
The priest had made it out fortunately, though there was blood visible from some cuts, but they were healing quickly, the priest had likely cast a regeneration spell on herself when the fighting started going badly.
"Back to the base! Try to stay to the thicker groups of trees!" was the order. they hoped that the cavalry would be slowed down by the trees aiding in their escape. The dracon never stopped and another signal crossbow was loaded and fired, this time with a bolt that went straight up also with a whistling sound but exploded into a bright flash of white light above the treeline. Spotters back at the city could see it and know that the fight went badly. And to prepare for attack.
The unit was down to 14 members, 5 of which were injured in some way. And the master summoner back in the capital would not be happy when he learns of the death of his student. Worse yet, the small portal at the base would have much lower capacity without a summoner on each end of it.
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[OOC]The remains of the military moved back into the tile there icon
is on. And the group of sailors and such made it to the ocean city.
Youh looked up from his game boy and notices the retreat. "I thought they were better than that."
Ok then, I guess I should give them some cover."
He snaps his fingers and a little spark of flame jumps from his fingers and lands on the gameboard in the part of the forest with the retreating unit. "I hope they are at least as fireproof as Holm boasts." With that he goes back to raising pokemon on his game boy.
EDIT: Greiger, Breaking message board formatting since 1983.
[ March 10, 2008: Message edited by: Greiger ]
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