[WFRP2e] The Power of One - Part 2 - "Transire Benefaciendo"

[MrAbdiel]

Spoiler: OOC: Initiative and rolls!

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Taalia [14]
GoonOffsider - (1d10+4)[13] (8 Damage)
GoonBrute - (1d10+4)[13]
GoonGirl - (1d10+4)[12]
Cestié - (1d10+4)[10]
Bella - (1d10+4)[9]
GoonLeader - (1d10+4)[9]
GoonShort - (1d10+4)[6]

GoonOffsider, after a surprise stabbing, goes full defense.
Goon Brute moves to attack Taalia. vs50 - (1d100)[16] for (1d10+5)[11] (Handweapon, club).
Goon Girl lunges at Cestié. vs40 - (1d100)[86] for (1d10+3)[8] (Handweapon, shortsword).
Cestié backs up a step, daring an opportunity attack from Goon girl, then shoots at her with the crossbow.
OP attack: vs40 - (1d100)[4] for (1d10+3)[5] (Handweapon, shortsword)
vs38 - (1d100)[69] for (1d10+4)[10](Master-Tuned Crossbow)
Bella half-action climbs up, then half-action parry stances.
Goon Leader watches with disapproval for a turn.
Goon Short attacks Bella!
vs40 - (1d100)[30] for (1d10+2)[4] (dagger!)
BellaParryVs56 - (1d100)[49]

Narrative pending rolls, then Taalia's turn!

There are five of them. A pale skinned leader, tall with dark bags under his eye and an almost lipless mouth, has a small axe in hand but it seems little intention to use it. Even as you clamber over the edge of the roof to engage, he turns his attention to you but does not yet sully himself to be involved. He has people for this.

The nearest to Cestié is a leering, lank haired man with eyebrows that seem permanently too high on his forehead - higher still when you jam the point of your sword into his side and he staggers back, looking horrified and offended, longknife up to defend himself and menace you back. He releases a string of parochial judgements about you which, you are quite sure, suggest he is taking you seriously. As does another, the most muscled and largest of the gang who steps in and with the cudgel in his right hand strikes while the dagger in the left fakes. This time, it's for you - these are men of violence who are ready to take all comers.

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That will require a defence, or else take 11 damage to the body.

Nearby, just a few steps away, an almost androgynously malnourished young woman lunges for Maso with a shortsword. The forehand misses as he backsteps; the backhand barely nicks him along the stomach, cutting through leather and drawing blood, as he establishes enough space to send a crossbow bolt whizzing past her ear.

Bella is up on the roof a moment after you, slinging free her quarterstaff. She cannot keep the look of worry off her face; but as the fifth member of the gang lunges at her with dagger in hand, she has the presence of mind to ward the blow away with a whooshing strike of the staff.

Three versus five; or four, as long as their leader seems content to watch. You have fought better armed opponents, and deadlier and stronger opponents; but here in a rooftop in the sunken quarter of Miragliano, a wrong-step might cost a life as easily as a bad parry.