The counterattack had begun. The warrior freed from the bombs of his foes had rushed forth, and despite the best attempts at the kobolds dropping away from his reach, he managed to slice not one but two kobolds down, leaving only two of them behind. Yet these two seemed to be out of bombs, and now driven to a corner. With their options few, if any, they picked up weapons much finer than most of their brethren, them being swords of some quality even if they happened to be on the shorter side. And with those in their hands, they rose to assault the threat that had taken their brethren down. And fight they would.

One at a time, they came at him, scrambling up the stone with weapons first in their jaws, then taken back into those claws of theirs as they rushed in, the first of the two landing a lucky hit that just so managed to sneak past Brannor's armour and nicked at his flesh. Yet it was the second that truly put up a show, using the attack of the first as a feint of their own, weaving their way past the ferocious man's defences, jamming their blade to a much more precarious position. Both shrieked simple battle cries, but soon a pair of very different shrieks came as four of the tendrils from the sidelines lashed at them, cracking like whips as they stole the freedom of movement away from the scaly creatures.

"Told you to leave this!" the monster growled at them, all of the six tentacles yanking in the direction of their source. The scaly critters were pulled to the edge of the other drop, almost tumbling all the way down, barely able to hold enough of their footing to not slide so far. But with the indiscriminate nature of the manoeuvre, Kyra who was gripped by one of the six found herself dragged past the threshold. An instinctive attempt at grabbing the ledge succeeded, yet she could not find enough strength in her to hold on, falling the fifteen feet down and landing flat on the floor. By the looks of it, the monster was more than ready to reel everything in again very soon… and quite unfortunately seemed to be paying little mind to the pleas about Kyra's release.

The situation was certainly not proceeding quite as would be deemed optimal, and so Torus made the hard decision of having to reinforce the suddenly formed secondary battlefield. The shape of the tiger rushed to the ledge that Kyra had fallen from and leapt on down, stumbling a bit on the landing but managing to keep upright with feline grace. For now, the Druid took up position between Kyra and the rock-skinned monster to intercept possible attacks on his more vulnerable ally.

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Brannor manages to slay kobolds #3 and #4.

Kobolds #1 and #2 mount a counterattack. #1 attacks with a roll of [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/18070]22[/url], landing a hit worth [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/18073]4[/url] piercing damage. With Pack Tactics working in their advantage, #2 attacks with [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/18071]23[/url] & [s][url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/18072]9[/url][/s], which lands for [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/18074]8[/url] damage. [@The Harbinger of Ferocity]

The tentacular thing proceeds to attack each living kobold twice with a grabbing attack, all of which it lands. #1 was subjected to rolls [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/18075]15[/url] & [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/18076]14[/url], while #2 got themselves a [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/18077]26[/url] and a [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/18078]20[/url].

Having seen to grappling more targets, the creature proceeds to pull every creature in its grasp closer to itself. The kobolds end up on the edge of the drop, while Kyra who was closer to the edge in comparison ends up falling down. She is struck by [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/18079]3[/url] bludgeoning damage and is now [i]Prone.[/i] [@Norschtalen]

Torus sees this, and decides to help. With [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/18080]5[/url] damage to the old (even if transformed) joints, he spends his remaining movement to stand up from the prone position and tries to pick a spot where he could intercept attackers coming at Kyra. Even with Tiger's superior movement, he needs to Dash for this, so he has no readied action in the works.

Next up, Orchid [@Lucius Cypher].
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