Wolves

From the tall grass a pack of wolves that had been using it as cover spring up to attack you. The “guards” had been caught unprepared and been unable to get an attack off before the wolves were on them.

Zandra had popped up as soon as you called out the warning and managed to get two arrows off, getting the leader once high in the chest before she had to rely on her sword. Alizin managed to Bless the group before she had to use her staff to warn off another wolf herself.

Two came for you, and you actually charged forwards to meet them. Taking your bar-room dagger from your inventory with one hand you ducked under the leaping lunge of the first wolf and shoved the broken bottle into its throat for a critical hit that killed it.

Spinning around you smashed the second one on the side of the head, stunning it long enough to stab it in the side of the next to break the handle of the bottle off, and to kill it.

Dashing over to Alizin you bring the pipe down on the head of the one she was facing.

The one Zandra was fending off had gotten close and managed to knock her sword out of her hand. Her left side was deeply cut, but she was using arrows held in her hands to stab it whenever it got close enough, and from the damage it had received they were pretty closely matched. Both were focusing on each other.

You used that to bring your pipe down on its neck, breaking the bones.

Alizin cast a minor healing spell on Zandra as you retrieved her sword for her.

The guys who were supposed to be on watch and ready to fight were in a bad way

Jonis was being attacked by two from opposite sides and was stuck in a purely defensive battle he could not win. Franek may have been well able to use deception and surprise in dark or crowed areas, but that was lacking here and he was barely hanging on. Daenawl might know a lot about magic, but he needed time to cast spells and fending off wolves meant he had to focus on that, and he was injured.

As you and the girls got closer Alizin used a healing spell to help Franek as he was the worst off.

The re-enforcements moved in. Alizin used her staff on the head of the one fighting Franek, stunning it enough for him to kill. Zandra slashed the one Daenawl was fighting in the neck, killing it.

You smashed your pipe down on one of the wolves tag teaming Jonis, letting him kill the other.

The party rested and you all heard something

Ding!

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