Check since it's necessary: 20

"Just a little more." Narz growls underbreath as he righted his footing and pushed down the pain like a good hobgoblin. And almost like the devestator he should've been, Narz pretended to open his guard in changing grip so that one hand held on to a lowered maul, only to suddenly growl out "Higradar!" and flick the free hand like one would throw darts. In an instance, pockets of magic and gravitational force are flung like glowing darts into the face of the the guard, but scatter inches away from the face to zip around and detonate into his fellow weakened guard.

When the guard realizes the trick for what it was, Narz smiles apologetically and says sounding almost sincere, "Sorry man. Seems that one went a little awry. No hard feelings, eh?" The hawk then swoops in to harass the veteran. As for the raven, it finally gets off its roost to sweep in at Nadia's thus far main choice for attack, and harass it with name calling, jeers, and "Oooo! Looks like the Cap'n over there has a new fling!"

Action: Cast Homing Darts, inflicting 3 times 2 for 6 damage to both V9 and V6.

The guard closes his eyes in anticipation for a blow that never comes. Once he realizes he's been tricked he looks behind him to see that his ally has fallen. He turns back and simply snarls at Narz. Despite having also been hit V9 remains standing albeit barely.

 Claire raises her arm above her head and summons her Golden Spear wrapped in vines (Spiritual Weapon) the weapon appearing above the prone Captain and twirling so the point faces down.  With a flick of her wrist the Spear plunges down towards the woman (non-lethal).  Claire then turns, and summons a mote of flame to her hands, throwing the fire out at V9.

The spear smacks the Captain across the head hard but the Captain keeps her composure. The mote of fire meanwhile strikes the weakened V9 in the back catching the man fire. He cries out briefly as he burns but the cries don't last long as he falls. V14 continues to target Rollo, whiffing his first attack hard but following through with a strong thrust to the Barbarians leg. (Half movement speed until healed or short rest)

Nadia can't help but quirk a brow at the jeers coming from the raven, but decides it would probably be best to ignore them for now and focus. Once the raven is seen distracting V12, she takes her shots at the veteran once more!

Action 1 -  On V12 -  Attack: 22 Damage: 6 
Action 2 - V12 again -  Attack: 11 Damage: 7 
Slayer's prey (since I think it should already be on them) - 2 extra damage on hit
BA - Moving Healing Spirit near the melee fighters for support - 2 uses left (still not sure if it was used ;w;) - Dip in it for 1 hp!

Nadia fires two arrows, once again hitting with only one. Meanwhile her healing Spirit stands in the room ready for someone to dip into it.

Back with Zack, the Captain draws her short sword and tries to weaken the fighter, going to give him two quick stabs to the gut before going to to headbutt him. Both sword thrusts hit the fighter though not to their full strength. The headbutt misses but she does manage to avoid hitting the floor. Cursing she uses all her strength to keep Zack pinned and yells Just surrender! You and your friends can't win this fight!

V13 Stands up, albeit with some difficulty thanks to his bleeding legs. Still freaked out the soldier looked like he man try to run(or crawl) away but surrounded by allies and seemingly winning the fight the soldier steels himself and attacks Rollo, managing to score a small hit.

Back outside V7 continues to focus on Narz who called him out earlier. Luckily for the hobgoblin the blow struck is glancing at best.

 With the soldier he was fighting down L2 immediately moves up to assist Narz, swinging and bashing his sheild at V7 while L4 attempts the same against V2. L2 only manages to hit once but the hit is hard and V7 starts to look nervous as he looks around to see they are now outnumbered in the courtyard. L4 unfortunately misses both his attacks but L5 moves in to try and finish or weaken v7. And yet it seems the confidence of the Lizards is not quite restored as the attempts to attack thensoldiers continue to be half hearted.

Zack had time to react once the woman had began to use her sword, a shimmering silver energy surrounding or coating his skin. Though it fails to block the blades first strike it makes the followup slip between him body and the floor, doing nothing, and shaving off some of the damage of her first attack as it had to pass through a secondary barrier around Zacks body. Ngr... And here I thought we had something special... But you're right.. you're just wrong about who isn't going to win... from this position, Zack doubted he could use his sword effectively atleast the way he normally used it... But he moved his hands up, atleast where his arms could be where he intended, before summoning the blade to his hand in a reverse-guillotine fashion with his arms as the 'wood' where the blade itself faced down, as he brought it down on her neck seeing that claire wanted her alive... and he realized why.... or thought he did..

Zack is using a non-slash attack against the woman with the backside of his blade which is blunt and thick, in an attempt to incapacitate her. He will use his Action surge only if the first strike fails to hit or knock her out.

 Zack hits the Captain in the the head with the blunt end of his blade twice and hard yet the woman seems to remain conscious though its clear she can't take another hit like that. Luckily for the otherwise vulnerable Zack Rollo seems to be keeping most of the guards attentions on him as he seems to shurg off blows with ease. V12 continues his assault against the Cleric with two attempts to slash at his chest, meanwhile v15 decides to go take out the pesky archer, running down the stairs tbe opening himself up to a counterattack by Rollo. V12 .anages to score at least one hit, and perhaps it was that blow that caused Rollo to miss.his target or perhaps its just more of his God being angry with him as his axe goes wide. V15 moves down the stairs and towards Nadia, getting right up in her face ready to put an end to her pesky arrow slinging (ya know on his next turn since he dashed). Still angry at himself for missing yet again, Rollo doesn't seem to notice the soldier behind him as he slashes his sword across Rollos back. Rollo grunts from the pain but now brought back to the fight he easily blocks the next blow.

Rollo counters against the guard that seems to be able to strike him. "Is that the best you've got? Come on, I'm barely bleeding!" 

Attack: 10 Damage: 10

 Rollo turns and hits the guard who just struck him in the arm dealing a not too shabby blow. Back outside V2 tries to attack both Narz and the closest Lizardfolk but manages to have both attacks blocked or dodged. In the corridor v4 drops his weapon as he starts to try and rip off the armor thats cooking him like a lobster. The shaman meamwhile focuses on the armor to make sure it continues to burn the man as much as possible before casting through whip at the enemy approaching Nadia. The whip wraps around the soldier and pulls him about 10ft back from Nadia, opening him up for an opportunity attack should Nadia choose to take it.

(Nadia rolled in discord for AOO. Her attack simply misses.)

Narz is no stranger to pain, so hardly flinches at the glancing blow. He just barks out more encouragement to the Lizardfolk in between split second side steps. Then the hawk is called in again to toclaw at the arm of the bold guard to the side just long enough to kindle the maul in silver flame, and bring it down hard on his head.

Hitting like only a shoulder at best, the flames still leap onto the injured guard before him, hopefully slaying the lizardfolk slayer. If so, Narz hisses out in Draconic for the focus to shift to the one he directly struck to bring him down quick, so that he may move again to engage the rest.The Raven in the meantime continues to harass Nadia's foe with name calling a flapping about the face whenever inconvenient.

Action: Cast Silver Flame Hammer on V2.
To Hit: 20 For: 8 bludgeoning and fire damage.
If hit, V7 takes 4 fire damage.

Narz manages to hit the guard and the fire spreads to the friend next to him but unfortunately it seems the blows simply don't have the strength needed to fell them

Claire had tossed the mote of flame at V9 almost absent-mindedly, getting swept up the battle, knowing that her life was on the line.  As she glances back and sees the man's charred corpse on the ground, dead, her eyes widen and her pupils contract.

She has never killed another humanoid before.

Her gut clenches, and she winces, but pushes down the sensation as she faces the Captain.  She murmurs quietly to herself.  "I need to end this..."  With a flick of her wrist, her pointer and middle finger extended, she directs her spear to attack the captain again, non-lethally. (Saving Action for after BA resolves.)

 Claire then summons a mote of flame to her hand and launches it towards the Captain, preparing to snuff out the flames before it could be lethal.

If captain is still up: "If you value your life, call off your men.  We don't need to do this to-the-last-man!"

If captain is unconscious: "Put down your weapons!  Your leader has fallen, and so will you!"  Claire will hold her spear point down over the captain.

Claires holy spear hits the captain in the head again while the blunt end amd yet the Captain remains awake, blood seeming to spill out of the injuries to her head. Before se can even say a word though the mote of flame flies toward her and begins to snuff out just before hitting the Captain, knocking her back and to the ground. To others she say look dead at first glance but Zack at least can tell the woman is alive, just unconscious. At Claires words those who seem most injured look ready to drop their weapons, loosing all heart in the fight. V14 and the others who seem uninjured don't budge however. It seems the remaining soldiers are split, with exactly half ready to surrender and the other half ready to fight. V14 turns to the weaker companions and says Come on men! We have a duty to defend this place! We are winning the fight we just need to stay together!The closest of the injured guards looks to his also injured companion, before finally replying  Screw that! Perisus is down, how many of our friends are dead after this? I'm not dying too just to protect a woman who doesn't care if live or die. With that V12 and V13 drop their weapons. Having heard the commotion inside v2 and v7 likewise drop their weapons. Finally the Shaman lessens the heat of his spell allowing the guard to take off all his armor before v4 also surrenders.

The five remaining guards, despite being mostly uninjured, seem to not like their odds with half their numbers depleted before finally dropping their weapons.

Combat is over.

Claire watches carefully as the men surrender, and then exhales deeply.  With a flick of her hand, the golden spear hovering over the Captain moves through the air and comes to a stop floating behind Claire's back, staying there and moving with with her as she walks over to the captain and kneels down.  She looks over the unconscious woman and feels around her armor for a key or key ring.  She speaks to Zack as she does this, her voice hoarse.  "One of the other guards probably knows where that lady we're here to rescue is kept, but if they don't, I can heal the Captain."

Claire easily finds a ring of keys on the Captains belt. There are10 keys. The shaman meanwhile summons vines that wrap around each guards arms to act as bindings for the time being. Once they are secured the shaman slightly heals v13 and v4, just enough to calm the two and stop bleeding legs and heal burned skin respectively.

Rollo maintains his position in the middle of the group of soldiers. "Tell us where your prisoner is or I continue with my axe. And as you've seen, I can kill you much more easily than you can kill me." As he says this his angry face gives a grin from beneath his beard and he spins to show the remaining guards that despite being in the middle of them he is still mostly uninjured and then he places his bloody axe back in two hands