[IC] A Stolen Land

[DM Dougfan]

Time freezes briefly as the air fills with the screams of a no-longer-smug Cade bleeding all over the middle of Trading Post's yard.  Happs and the other bandits are frozen in shock, partly because of such a gruesome scene, but mainly because none of them had ever expected the Levetons to have the audacity to mount any sort of resistance by themselves.  That though quickly disintegrates as Valdi explodes with growth, growing to twice his size.  The Northerner takes the bandits completely by surprise, but while his struggles to move the wagon and encourage the mule to move don't have as much of an effect, Vidar springing from his hiding spot and nearly reducing another of the bandits into a bloody mess certainly does.  Oleg doesn't stick around and sprints for cover to find Svetlana and protect her while the battle continues.

((Everyone gets to take part in a Surprise round because of your brilliantly-laid ambush.  After that, the regular turn order will resume.  I use Init blocks to allow for the vagaries of time differences on PbP, so I will post the init order in short order.  When I am able to find it, I'll have a combat status document up on excel that has all the pertinent info about your characters and NPCs.  The two maps are what I understood as your initial setup, and the result of Valdi, Eran, and Vidar's moves in the Surprise round.  Nexendia and Andra still have a turn available.  Please feel free to edit the "surprise" map for your turns.  Numbers are living bandits (red means injured), named PCs/NPCs have just the first two letters.))

Nexendia: 29 (??)
Eran: 22 (casts Enlarge on Vidar and issues attack orders)
Bandit 3: 15
Andra: 13 (Stealth: 27)
Bandit 1 (Cade): 13 (injured, slowed: half speed)
Bandit 5: 10
Happs: 9
Bandit 6: 8
Bandit 2: 8
Bandit 4: 7
Vidar: 2 (Charge Attack: 24, Damage: 8)
Valdi: 1 (Handle Animal: 8, Strength check: 7)