Portia arrives at Rorn and Roe, but has no time left to act in the round.

Bullden strikes one of the creatures hard in the chest, causing its ribs to crack audibly. Then he howls, spins, and strikes it across the arm using the confidence imbued in him by Kanon.

"Come get it, ye leaf eatin' sacks o' mange!" Bullden cries. "Taste the fury of the Hammerfoke!"

(META: Used Action Surge, did total 17 damage)

Kanon stays close to Bullden as they're surrounded by elf-a-taurs. After Bullden slashes down on one of them, they adjust position and Kanon strikes at it with his rapier. Not used to the heat of battle, the rapier flies far from the mark nearly slicing into the dwarf's shoulder. Kanon loses his grip on the weapon as an elf-a-taur bats it even further away, clanging down the road.

"Keep it up Bullden," he yells, "They won't give up until every last one of us is dead!" (Bardic Inspiration) Kanon pulls his dagger from its sheath. Not the best weapon, he thinks, but I won't go down without a fight!

"This is going really poorly!" Zina, always the optimist, called out. She attempted to shoot another witch bolt at one of the elf-a-taurs, but completely missed. 

Agitated by Bullden's curse (or by completely random roll by the DM that happened to turn out that way), all 4 creatures turn their attention to Bullden. They strike in coordination, waiting for Bullden to defend against one attack before making another. The first two attacks, Bullden brushes aside easily. The third, he barely has time to catch with the top edge of his shield. The fourth juts straight for his head, past his shield, and deflects off the noseguard of his helm. The attack leaves a scratch above his right eye, but deals no effective damage.

As he rushes into the battle, Pettilaen sees Orst standing to the side, petrified. Agitated, he begins to shout, "Orst! Dammit, get your act together and..." He slides under the injured centaur, timing the attack and stabbing it in the gut just as Gaia swoops in once again. "She's the only constant in this chaos", He thinks to himself as a gush of blood sprays across his face. Gross. Coming out on the opposite side, he continues, "Avenge your sons! Pick up your crossbow and FIGHT!"

OOC: 20 to-hit, 11 piercing damage; Gaia moves thirty, Helps. moves thirty.

Portia threads her way through the trees with a horse now as agitated as she. It had run just fine into the stand of elms, but then about dumped her off as it stopped short of a tree. Muttering about needing some animal training so she can actual interact with the animals she loves, she manages to get herself and horse relaxed enough to come around to both boys.

Dismounting she uses her divine power to put healing into both of the dwarven boys. Then she starts seeing about getting the spears out of the one nearly skewered to the ground.

((Meta - she can do a total of 10HP with this ability and puts 5HP into each))

Roe's eyes flutter open. He sighs as if he's just smelled the word's loveliest rose.

Rorn's chest heaves, his limbs tighten, then his body relaxes. You note the bleeding of his wounds slows over the next few seconds from a gush to a trickle.

Bullden swings again at the creature he injured before, but being focused so much on defending against 4 attackers, he comes up short.

Kanon stabs his dagger at the elf-a-taur, but the creature is far too quick and easily bats the thrust aside. Panic starts to set in for Kanon - He's feeling useless and helpless in this battle.

Zina delivered a Ray of Frost to the inured creature. (META: 2 damage)

Becoming frustrated at their inability to penetrate Bullden's defenses, and confronted with a new threat, 2 of the creatures turn on Pettilaen. Bullden brushes aside both attacks aimed at him. Pettilaen is able to sidestep the first attack directed at him, but walks into the second. (META: 6 damage to Pettilaen)

Seemingly from nowhere, the heavy crossbow thrums and a quarrel whistles solidly into the flank of the injured creature. (META: 9 damage)

The heavy crossbow bolt form Orst was a godsend. Gaia swooped down once again, digging her talons into the centaur, and while only causing superficial injuries, gave Pettilaen the distraction he needed to cast a small cantrip igniting his blade in flames as he struck the centaur through the heart, killing it. The rapier burrowed through the creature, before protruding from the other side, and the flames leapt from his blade to the closest centaur, burning its shoulder. "Aha! Take that would-be-thie..." His eyes fell on the dead dwarf, and they went wide. "Bullden!!!" He screamed, before poking his head around the dead centaur and seeing Bullden still alive. "Oh. Ooohhh... We're not gonna get paid at this rate." He winced from the wound in his side. "Or survive."

Bullden fights like a well oiled machine dodging attacks and smacking beasties with his battle warn hammer.  He swings at one of the two beasties in front of him all the while insulting their lineage to further infuriate the elf-a-taurs.  "Yer mother was a draft horse.  Ye must a got hit by an ugly stick cuz it still stick'n out yer head.".

(META:  18 to hit, 8 damage; after using bardic inspiration)

Portia knows there is no use getting the spears out of Rorn. Roe was going to live at least. 

She rises to her feet and turns her eyes on the fight. She throws sacred flame at the injured one and growls with rage as it fizzles due to the beast easily managing to dodge it. She pulls out her mace and shield and with a wild battle cry runs to join in the battle.

Kanon has come to the realization that he can't fight as well as a raging dwarf or as effectively as the blood-soaked Petti. So he decides he'll fight like Gaia - Distracting the enemy with feints to give Bullden an advantage in his attacks. He's now just a moving, annoying target, but at least he feels he's contributing to this fight. (Assist Bullden Action)

Zina hurled a firebolt this time, although it missed the blasted elf-a-taur again. She let out an annoyed scream, frustrated with her own inability to hit anything. Perhaps that electrocution had rattled her more than she cared to admit.

1 of the creatures is still focused on Pettilaen, while the remaining 2 keep Bullden engaged. Pettilaen sidesteps the attack targeting him and Bullden fends off both attacks aimed at him with his shield.

From the distance, a heavy crossbow thuds, but the quarrel flies well high of any conceivable target.

The bloody duo of Pettilaen and Gaia went to work again, trying to save their comrade's lives. Unfortunately, the centaur's have since become accustomed to the tactic, and dodged his attack. He screamed, "Just leave us alone! Is this worth your lives?!"

Portia keeps yelling as she runs full tilt into the back of the elkataur's trying to hit the injured one. She does, but not with her mace. She can't stop her momentum of running and a bad swing so bounces hard off his hindquarters. The only thing that keeps her standing is bouncing against another one. This gets her laughing instead of screaming as she knows she at least made her presence known. She readies for them to turn on her and tries to be more calculating with her next hit.

Bullden shoves into one of the creatures with his shield, intending to knock it just enough off balance to break its defenses. Taking a quick step back, he follows with an overhand swipe. The creature anticipates the move and kicks its legs toward Bullden to knock his attack astray, but it only manages to redirect though blow a little, which lands on the creature's shoulder with a thud.

(META: 6 damage)

The chaos of the battle is in full swing as Portia collides into the elken hybrids. Looking for something else to do to help, Kanon casts cure wounds on Petti. He can't really tell if the blood is his or the elken, but he figures it can't hurt to be safe. "I think we might actually be winning!  Keep it up! Route the enemy and slash at their hindquarters!!"