NIKANG POST
"Right!"
Nikang nodded as he sprung away from the armored soldier he'd been two-timing with Maynette. He shifted behind Maynette and tossed her his halberd while he removed his hammer from his back and into both hands. Smitty joined at his side and together, they eyed each other, then the burning building's wall.
Put simply, the building was a piece of shit even before Elisa and Fess went to town on the stupid thing. If anything, the fire was an improvement; even a pile of ashes would've been better than this heap of shitty, rotting wood and foul-smelling gunk. Still, no reason to look a gift horse's corpse in the disgusting mouth, so Nikang hefted his hammer, shared another look with Smitty, and got to smashing at the bottom of the corner support beam.
GM POST
Despite their backup, the two frontline knights remained stymied by the bandit forces. The knight that had faced Maynette and Nikang continued to stand strong, but even with his immediate threats reduced from three to two, the armored Lycian refused to lower his guard to Maynette. The Sacaen woman had already proved herself to be skilled enough to take his life with just the right chance with those axes of hers, and he felt not reckless enough to offer her that chance.
The second knight, on the other hand, had not been able to regain his composure following Salem's successful strike at the back of his neck. He had seen Clemens' own neck's blow that lead to the man's death, and the subsequent attack on his own combined with flames and the threat of death left his nerves shot.
Still, both knights lashed out at their opponents, the first aiming to bypass Maynette to stop her two accomplices and the second desperate to force more distance between his enemies and himself. For their efforts, the first knight was locked in melee with Maynette, and the second found his upper leg nearly crushed by Elisa's axe despite his armor's enchantments.
"Will you fools stop playing around and get back here?!" Conall shouted to his men, already working alongside the force's monk to create a curved wall of Light in front of them. Scowling, he summoned an orb of Light in his free hand and hurled it towards Elisa and Salem. "Hurry! Before they-"
A deafening crack overrode Conall's voice, found from the burning building that was no longer standing, but falling. Shouts arose from the Lycian knights as the building swayed forward from its broken corner, spurred by the wind and the weight of the flames' motion. With a groaning, black-smoked lurch, the building finally collapsed beneath the weight of its flame-heavy top, creating a burning line of flames and rotting wood that separated the Lycians and the bandits.
The force of the fall combined with the heat from the magical flames summoned a heated, breathless updraft that shot outward and dragged the air inwards. Said updraft swirled beneath Belphe's wings, distorting the air around the pegasus and his rider, dragging the both of them downwards to the nearby roof of the broken building, just in time to be missed by the nets shot by the newcomers that clattered uselessly on top of the stone wall.
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"Right!"
Nikang nodded as he sprung away from the armored soldier he'd been two-timing with Maynette. He shifted behind Maynette and tossed her his halberd while he removed his hammer from his back and into both hands. Smitty joined at his side and together, they eyed each other, then the burning building's wall.
Put simply, the building was a piece of shit even before Elisa and Fess went to town on the stupid thing. If anything, the fire was an improvement; even a pile of ashes would've been better than this heap of shitty, rotting wood and foul-smelling gunk. Still, no reason to look a gift horse's corpse in the disgusting mouth, so Nikang hefted his hammer, shared another look with Smitty, and got to smashing at the bottom of the corner support beam.
GM POST
Despite their backup, the two frontline knights remained stymied by the bandit forces. The knight that had faced Maynette and Nikang continued to stand strong, but even with his immediate threats reduced from three to two, the armored Lycian refused to lower his guard to Maynette. The Sacaen woman had already proved herself to be skilled enough to take his life with just the right chance with those axes of hers, and he felt not reckless enough to offer her that chance.
The second knight, on the other hand, had not been able to regain his composure following Salem's successful strike at the back of his neck. He had seen Clemens' own neck's blow that lead to the man's death, and the subsequent attack on his own combined with flames and the threat of death left his nerves shot.
Still, both knights lashed out at their opponents, the first aiming to bypass Maynette to stop her two accomplices and the second desperate to force more distance between his enemies and himself. For their efforts, the first knight was locked in melee with Maynette, and the second found his upper leg nearly crushed by Elisa's axe despite his armor's enchantments.
"Will you fools stop playing around and get back here?!" Conall shouted to his men, already working alongside the force's monk to create a curved wall of Light in front of them. Scowling, he summoned an orb of Light in his free hand and hurled it towards Elisa and Salem. "Hurry! Before they-"
A deafening crack overrode Conall's voice, found from the burning building that was no longer standing, but falling. Shouts arose from the Lycian knights as the building swayed forward from its broken corner, spurred by the wind and the weight of the flames' motion. With a groaning, black-smoked lurch, the building finally collapsed beneath the weight of its flame-heavy top, creating a burning line of flames and rotting wood that separated the Lycians and the bandits.
The force of the fall combined with the heat from the magical flames summoned a heated, breathless updraft that shot outward and dragged the air inwards. Said updraft swirled beneath Belphe's wings, distorting the air around the pegasus and his rider, dragging the both of them downwards to the nearby roof of the broken building, just in time to be missed by the nets shot by the newcomers that clattered uselessly on top of the stone wall.