[i]"Brannor, there isn't much else we can do here. Let's help the defenders deal with the kobolds and other brigands and try to minimize our loses."[/i]

"Are you mad, woman?" Brannor's glance from underneath his cover revealed the enormous figure still above with its hateful, slitted eyes and whose shadow still cast down upon the ramparts by light of the moon, further spurring his resistance to her suggestion, "That creature will just lay waste to us and the keep if we fail."

He swallowed a dry breath, rubbing the back of his aged glove to his mouth before continuing, "So resist it with all that remains."

Who knew what the dragon intended short of their deaths? If anything the giant might be so insulted a resistance was put forth that it would be content to hunt them and any other survivors later - this was assuming the endured this deadly night in the first place, which Brannor wished to. At least here among the chaos of arcing lightning, magical spells and swathes of whistling arrows, there was stone to resist the assault with. The old man of Torus, unknown in name to the hunter, even seemed to pressure the men to resist rather than withdraw against the cleric's efforts.

Yet his point remained to kill or be killed, to be the predator or the prey. The dragon knew well what it was, but perhaps its intellect superseded its instinct. Brannor did not know, in all truth he could not know, but he was not about to let the Shadow of Greenest make such a bold attack without pain...

[i]“Embrace the sea of purpose!”[/i]

A voice cried out louder than the battle well under way, to which the outlander did not err in reply as moved in time; shot freed at the sky darkening silhouette, only to capture a glimpse of the half orc's leap of faith. String snapping forward, free of the incredible strength the man drew it with, the bolt's launch into the air was not anywhere near as remarkable as the harpoon that flew before the half-blood that trailed it.

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Rolled a [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/1794]19[/url] and an [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/1766]8[/url] from advantage for a longbow attack against the dragon. [i]Bless[/i] was added internally.
Rolled a [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/1795]4[/url] for piercing damage if the attack hits.
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Brannor had seen men before hunt great beasts with spears, ones whose ivory were as large as he was and their violence an avalanche, but a dragon was not such prey. The only question that mattered was would it work? He would not get to see the glory or failure, recalling his step back into safety, but his heart prayed; it prayed that the darkness would not claim another noble, wild spirit tonight, at least not without suffering seven fold first.

[@Hekazu][@Ryonara][@Lucius Cypher][@Gordian Nought][@Norschtalen]