Hearing Jason say to ride out I gather me gear quickly and mount on Easy Spirit and head out with the others. Once I can see the enemy will cast my fire ray at them to help Jason with his fireball as we head toward the East.
Out of Character: doing 2 rounds of fire ray. One to help Jason's fireball the second for any that may remain or that may try and flee.
Grant jumps into the air and comes down on a startled Hobgoblin doing 30 damage to it as he kills it. Rachel casts SNA 2 and a hippogriff appears to attack the Hobgoblins. Jonathan heads out but misses as does Travis, Jason sends out a fireball into the ranks of hobgoblins that are rushing to try and block your escape to the east. Many go down as others are able to resist part of the fireball. The Hobgoblins attack. One hits Rachel for 4 damage, one hits Vickie for 5 damage, One hits Jonathan for 3 damage. Vickie misses with her attack, Ghost bites one for 7 damage killing it The hippogriff attacks one for 8 damage killing it. Thalica hits one for 4 damage as Be helps her out and hits it for another 4 killing it. The two elf teens brings up the rear shooting at them but miss.
Round two. Grant is able to hit one for 19 damage killing it. Rachel hits the one by Ghost for 4 damage. Jonathan hits for 8 damage killing another one as Travis misses again. Jason shoots one for 1 damage. The Hobgoblins attack again Only two hit one on Travis for 5 damage and one on Jason for 6 damage. Vickie misses with her attack but Ghost bites another for 6 damage killing it. The hippogriff scores another good attack hitting one for 14 damage killing it. Thalica hits and kills another one as everyone breaks through the line and heads east. As the teens clear the line Be tosses a fireball among them it is bigger than Jason's was and you hear the screams of many Hobgoblins as they die.
You are in the clear and heading east. What do you decide to do now?
"So where to now? DO we make a roundabout way back to the stronghold?" Still riding behind the party, I turn and fire at any targets I see, focusing my mind for those 'perfect vision' shots I strive for.
Specific Action: Shortbow shots with +4 inspiration to hit, -4 for gallop. Targets of opportunity, but pursuers are primary.
Out of Character: : I have two more turns of actions to use. I will try to scout out a little ahead of the group in whatever direction we go. I assume we will head east for a little while. The hippogriff will attack enemies in our path before it disappears in a couple of rounds. Ghost and I will try to pick out a path free of enemies. Hopefully we can get far enough East to get around the other group to the South of us.
"We still have Ping? Send him straight up to get a view of what's going on, which paths are clear and where we can hide if necessary."
Out of Character; HP Updated, as far as I know I didn't get more back than the 14 from the spell after the trolls but I may have missed something.
Good, we've broken through without losses as hoped, but it wasn't quite done yet. As best I can while riding and trying to ignore the wound in my side I call out, "Go ahead Rachel, but stay mostly in sight, Ping, point out the threats. Lets get a head start going east and then swing south to the stronghold."
"Keep up the pace for a bit, then we'll slow down to give the horses a chance to breathe and be sure of our path. But we keep moving."
Out of Character: I'll have Ping fly circuits around us, reporting on both the hobgoblins and any potential problems ahead as best the thing can observe. Flat out running for a bit to build up a gap between us and the hobgoblins, then alternating between trotting along and dismounting to lead the horses at a walk to move quickly without exhausting the mounts too fast. Changing course for the fastest clear route to the stronghold we can make out as soon as we are sure the hobgoblins won't catch up thanks to the change in direction.
As you start to head east Thalica stops her horse and heads to catch Be before she falls off her horse. The two Elf teens stop to to assist. Seems Be is unconscious.
Rachel heads farther East to scout along with ping looking for a clear way to get through. Rachel and Ghost run across another Hobgloblin and between the two of them they take it out killing it.