Combat, round 3..

First, a little map to refresh our memories (particularly mine):

            S   L
              S     S
                  S
            I*         S S
                        A H
        S  *
        B  C*     RS
               M             H HH


The slaver that was the farthest north immediately stops fleeing and turns
back to pick up his longsword and fight again.

The man just to the southeast of him immediately regains courage again, and
runs back to pounce on Ivan with his bare hands, he having dropped his own
longsword while fleeing the round before. Unfortunately, his attack does
little more than cause Ivan to lose a few seconds by throwing him off.

Aardvarkin dashes inbetween two slavers and makes his way north, tripping and
stumbling over unseen bushes and splashing into invisible puddles. The rain is
coming down very hard now, severely limiting the vision of even those with
infravision.

Malcolm runs over towards Ruinad, and finding him unhurt, calmly brings his
wooden staff down harshly on the slaver's head. A sickening cracking sound
echos faintly through the pouring rain, followed by a loud curse .. something
about decapitating all mages...

Ruinad, seizing the opportunity, also attempts an attack on the helpless
slaver, but is astonished to find that his staff strikes the muddy ground. The
slaver has apparantly rolled away from his two attackers, and proceeds to get
up while Ruinad wrestles his weapon free from the clinging grasp of the mud.

Carideth strides west, in hopes of defending Borack. He attempts to cleave
through the rain towards the slaver, but narrowly misses. Carideth's second
attack on the man is successful, tearing through his armour and into his
midsection, spewing long coils of intestines several feet as the man is pushed
backwards by the force of the blow. After a few seconds of gasping, he falls
over backwards, quite immobile.

Undisturbed, Borack completes the casting of his spell. Two of the slavers
near the leader immediately fall to the ground in a peaceful slumber. The
leader and the two slavers near Ivan, both being within range of the spell,
are unaffected.

Carideth's horse, ever obedient to its master's demands, begins to attack the
slavers nearest to it. Striking out with its teeth and hooves, it seems at a
severe disadvantage because of the darkness and rain. Its attack do little
more than anger the two nearby slavers, who waste their time futilely
attempting to attack it.

The leader, far in the back, cannot be seen by any of you at the moment, but
you have a fairly good idea of his whereabouts by the orders he constantly
barks to the slavers. At this point, however, he ceasing giving out
instructions and falls silent for an unknown reason.

Ivan attacks his three nearest opponents, the two live ones with his drussus
and the one asleep by Borack's spell with his shield. He misses the one with
the longsword, but is easily able to determine the location of the weaponless
one that jumped on him a few moments ago and runs him through. Quickly
turning, he feels around in the darkness until he finds the magicked slaver
and smashes his face in with his shield. The man screams in pain and
immediately wakes up, grabs his longsword, and prepares to retaliate.

Meanwhile, the slaver that Ruinad and Malcolm attacked manages to stand up
again and reposition himself. With longsword in hand, he snarls "Come and get
me, ye wizard scum!" barely audible in the terrible weather.


OK, that should be just about it! Here is a nice updated map now:

                L
             S      s  A
            *  I S
             *           S
                        S H
        *  *       S
        B  *    C R
                   M         H HH

That ought to do it... another legend:
L = SLAVER LEADER (assumed position)
S = SLAVER
s = SLAVER (asleep)
* = SLAVER (dead or incapacitated)
H = HORSES

For the next round, Malcolm and Ruinad again attempt to confront the slaver
nearest to them. Ivan continues his killing spree.. and the rest of you?

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