LOTR RP Game part 1- Journey to Fornost

(Unlikely; the duelling system in Star Wars is there to account for the fact that sabres invariably kill or disable in one go so the essence needed to be on the fight before the blow was struck. Here, carrying on whilst wounded is common)

Finuvien will need some time for her spell, if someone wants to cover her.

Talin- I need you to confirm you are abandoning your lines and taking time to run to the other end of the battle- in which case you are not attacking Orcs, you are simply running.

Vardalain, the Chiorc is in the middle of a melee with the rear lines- do you want to risk hitting friendlies?

Palanfirith, it is impossible to get a 'safe' shot, so do you want to risk yourself?

(Maybe you could get up there with Dexx, Palanfirith)

Talin runs towards the Chiorc.

"Don't hit me with those arrows, Vardalain!" Talin hollers to the Elf.

(poodoo....i can't shoot him now, can i)
vardalain starts firing in ..some other attackers

aranui withdraws in sword and swings it again, at the orc.

You CAN shoot him, Dexx, just it is risky.

Talin, you are just running past the caravans now...

(just see a couple more responses before I update the battle)

yeah--scratch the spell idea, if that chiorc's already in amongst our guys too. (sorry, i wasn't entirely paying attention to its location)

Continues running...

(ok..)
Vardalain moves the shooting back to chiorc. HE focuses intensly before releasing any arrows, carefull not to hit anyone on his side (especially talin wich should be there by now, eh?)

(I wouldn't think so yet)

Anglomir slashes open another Orc. He dodges a javelin and then another, and disembowels a small Orc wielding a scimitar.

(I don't quite risk to shoot.Last time when I did that I got a spear in my leg 😄)
"An orc it's as dead as another" thinks Palanfirith.He starts to shoot in the orcs close to him..

Crap, lost my diagram... hang on...

Ah!

Got a different plan, Narcil? I think the boys could do with SOME form of cunning idea...

Aranui, the orc, brandishing the spear like a quarterstaff, blocks yhour blow and cracks you around the side of eh head with the blunt end. Tricky bastard, this one...

Vardalain, you fire again. The shot thuds into the Chiroc's shoulder. He scream loudly, and his eyes fix on you. Then with a causal swing of his ball ans chain he smashes down another soldier. Also, the caravan area is getting a LOT of fire from those isolated javelineers on the hilltops...

Palanfirith and Finuvien, that guy is getting VERY close to you...

Anglomir, a man to your left has just cut down an orc when another does a flying tackle onto him from the front. He stabs upwards and kills that one too, but another Orc has already stepped forwards and jabs a spear in the man's head, cleaving through his helmet. Sueedenly there are no friends to your left. Farael and Aranui are in the mass ahead of you, bogged down by rocs all around. You watch as Farael screams out a challenge in Adunaic and pounds an orc into the ground with remarkable vigiour and anger. Talin was holding the broken part of the line together- but he hs run from the lines. The last man holding the point where the front and side lines meet is cut down.

Talin- almost there... a javelin lands just by you. Another man defending the caravans is hit dead in the chest.

*runs around...screaming girlishly?* (kidding, kidding!!!!!) *lol*

i wish i DID have another plan...i'm just worried about causing my allies some harm...though *presumably* the chiorc's a lot bigger than the rest of us, n' with his greater mass, the spell would have a greater effect on him, right?
is the ball n' chain he's carrying all made of metal? could we somehow send a jolt of electricity through it so that he's at least inclined to drop it?
or maybe if we could blind him, he'd flail wildly, hitting as many of his allies as our own?

vardalain will attempt another shot at chiorc later. he now moves his bow towards the javelineers on the hilltops, wich are a menace to his comrads down the hill. He starts shooting.

(The Lightning, the Muddy Ground, and the Blinding Flash sound like good ideas. We'll see what Ush says)

Talin dodges a javelin and runs towards the Chiorc again. He sees Vardalain's shot thud into the Chiorc's shoulder, and calls to Vardalain. "NICE SHOT!" he hollers above the din of clashing metal and screams of anguish.

Palanfirith moves rapidly in a safer direction,tries to get some protection and if it is possible I start shooting at chiorc with everything I got.He must fall at any price...

(Focus on the people around you Fitch. Me and Vardalain are going to get him)

(thnx! i'll wait to see what he says...)

I liked the running and screaming idea...

You would, of course, need a Mage with some knowledge of things electrical to pull off that trick. Finuvien really can only do Water at this point. But the weapon IS metal, yes, are are all of their weapons.

And yes, if you blinded him he would certainly be a spinning death trap. Though if you cut his head off he would be dead. The essence is in the 'how?'

Vardalian, your first shot falls quite short. It is quite hard to see the orcs in this gloom...

Palanfirith- still impossible for you to fire into that melee without either a. risking hitting a friend (which is what happens if you do it at distance) or b. risking getting hit (which is what happens if you get close). Which do you prefer?

Next battle update comes when I know what the people at the front are doing.

vardalain tries again one more time before moving back to chiorc