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Okay boys and girls, TIME OUT. I know, pausing mid-rotation kind of throws your game off, but there is a horrifying event which may or may not occur, based upon how these first few rolls play out. Told tight your loved ones, grip your favorite d20s, and above all, [i]courage[/i].  

[u]Specific Resolutions[/u]

[i]Ntaj:[/i] With a highly utilitarian overhead chop, Ntaj dispatches the skeleton near Thomas. That's the good news. He very successfully gives the group his basic outline of his intentions, and hauls toward melee range with the staggered skeletons approaching at a dead run. Unfortunately, in his haste he slips on an orange peel and takes a dive forward. And here I had no idea oranges even grew this far north. That's the bad news. Or good, depending upon how you look at it. Don't worry, it gets worse. More bad news: As you were intentionally running toward these guys, one has a direct intercept path and will reach you in a couple more round segments. Fingers crossed. 

[i]Kyra:[/i] Not a bad shot with that bow. You manage to nail one of the skellys closest to the front. It detonates, spraying concussive force and shards of bone in all directions around it, giving off the same explosive cracking sound as before. I'm going to assume that the wind was with you on this, though - apparently your arrow survived well enough to strike another, albeit toward the back. Likewise, krak-boom. Neither skeleton was within the blast range of a party member. 

[i]Keystone:[/i] It's not as pretty, nor as impressive as his up close and personal work, but it did the job. The first kunai nails the skeleton running full tilt at Keystone and Sana. The boomage is massive. A half-second later, the other kunai strikes another target - the one running at Ntaj. It detonates while he is still outside of the blast radius, but just barely. The dagger spins off, striking a tree not too horribly far away from Kyra. Another blade appears in his hand, and he appears to be scanning the field for a viable target. 

[i]Lerraina:[/i] She gets where she needs to go without issue. Life does not suck. 


[hr][hr][h1][b][i][color=6ecff6][center]Mid-Round[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h1]
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	The greater part of this new and horrifying wave seems to be running for Team Human(ish), though not to exclusion. A disproportionately low number of the Orcs are equipped with missile weapons, though out of sheer desperation a few have taken to hurling shields or their primary weapons in front of them, with limited effectiveness. The casualty rate among the front line is [i]massive[/i]. Whatever dark sorcery was used in the creation of this particular brand of undead creature, it probably wasn't penned by someone who loved puppies and long walks on the beach. 

	The sound of bones being forcibly smashed apart from the inside resounded in their little section of the forest, muffled only slightly by the bodies of the Orcs they were exploding into. But these were only the ones that were ahead of the rest, the ones that had massed forward to attack whatever it was out there in the dark, rather than wait for more to come to them. Of course, they had it in their minds that it was merely more common skeletal adversaries. Well, half right is still right. Sort of. 

	From what you can tell, looking at the movements of these new skeletons, they aren't picking opponents. They are streaking forward in generally straight lines, maintaining a short distance from each other. Thanks to the efforts of the guys using missile weapons, they haven't quite reached the group yet, but that isn't stopping them from trying. Four down, six remain. 

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TIME IN.