His defense ready for the expected attack, Aldous backsteps and deflects the bill hook enough to miss his body -- but the blade of his smallsword breaks in the effort, leaving him holding a hilt and stub which he promptly drops to reach for a knife.

"Stercore!"

He tries another tact and casts , then swings his staff at the Ork's weapon hand.

In reply to Sparky (msg # 307):

there is not enough water in the area to do more than create bad footing if it is frozen.

the burning blade just misses the orc's hand as he once again readies the weapon.

the minions of Dagon are now behind the wight.

In reply to sewer worker (msg # 308):

Aine stays back, keeping the light as Dagons minions get ready to grab the thing...she is worried her fire may kill it.

Aldous draws his large knife and raises it to a ready position.

He readies his flaming staff, ut does not swing, so that Dagon's minions are not threatened by his skill.

as the former civil servant readies its polearm, the two zombies attempt to grapple with it from behind.

In reply to sewer worker (msg # 312):

Aine gets behind the barrel to assist with the lid...

you get the lid off the barrel, and the two zombies frogmarch the wightvto the front of the barrel. they trybto stuff him in, but the polearm is blocking the attempt!

In reply to Dagons minions (msg # 314):

"Can anyone deal with that polearm?" she says, holding the lid ready.
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"C'n try."  Aldous lunges with his knife, but fails to gain leverage on the bill hook.

 = 11)' class='helphover'>12]

In reply to Aldous Hack (msg # 316):

the wight tries to swing with its weapon, but its arms are encumbered by Dagon's minions, so it fails to strike.

In reply to sewer worker (msg # 317):

Is the barrel more or less upright? How many gallons of water to fill it?

Aldous makes another attempt at the bill hook, with similar result to the first try.

08:32, Today: Aldous Hack rolled 13 using 3d6.  Knife (strike at bill hook to disarm) (14 -3 [against reach 2 weapon] = 11). – 13

He reaches out with his staff and touches the wight's hand, casting magical bolt as he does so.


12:40, Today: Sparky rolled 4 using 1d6-2.  Magical Bolt dmg.
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In reply to Sparky (msg # 320):

The bolt strikes the hand with a crunch, and that hand loosens its grip on the polearm!

The barrel holds up to 55 gallons of liquid, but would be quite heavy with that.

Aldous tries once again to get the leverage he needs, hoping that the loosened hand will give him an advantage.

 = 11). – 11]

In reply to Aldous Hack (msg # 322):

Aine will pause for a second to see if the weapon can be taken...

In reply to Aldous Hack (msg # 322):

ST check to disarm...

Aldous pits his strength against that of the undead worker.

In reply to Aldous Hack (msg # 325):

The wight retains its grip, but the weapon is terribly unreadied.
it fumbles with its magically damaged hand to try and grab it with thebother hand, but the zombie behind t starts to pull its arm back.  You can see that individually the wight has greater strength than either zombie, but it is gradually being overwhelmed by them.

Aldous continues trying to separate the bill hook from the wight.

 = 11). – [roll=1709769798.34804.351650]]

In reply to Aldous Hack (msg # 327):

Aine creates a flame jet, trying to burn the hand of the critter.

But she misses terribly with the attack...

The leprechaun's luck prevents any further mishap from their casting of flame jet than to produce a puff of smoke.

Sensing her luck just came in useful, Aine pauses to give others a better go...