Saria atacks the nearest rats. if i have some penalisation shooting at them with the crossbow (becouse of their size or/and becouse they are too close to me), i will attack whit the longspear. if not, i will atack with the light crossbow.
if (with lucky) i kill all my rats, i will help someone else (the one who had killed less rats) whit my crossbow.
if i get hurt, i will try to fall back.

Suddenly i jump from the darkness and attack one of the rats with short sword.

I cast command on one of my rat's and make it attack the other and the i cast sommon monster and make the monster attack both of the rat's, in the meanwhile i cast cure light wounds on bakooza.

[Level 1 command only knocks the rat unconsious. :( The only creatures clerics get mental dominancy over for quite some time is the undead, Also you have to wait for the monster summon's casting time to be done with, which may be several rounds. Clerics get more powerful summon undead spell at level 3, and I do not remember their summon monster spell being effective. By the time you get to cast cure light wounds all the rats may be dead, perhaps you should cast on "Most gravely injured" as saria cannot cast in combat.]

I simply attempt to repeatdly crush one of the rats, turn my attention to the other, and do the same.

battle evolution:

round 1:
Taurgouz, quickly on his feet, not so much slices but pulverizes one of his rats
Saria deftly impales the rat attacking her
Melkorka is bitten hard (critical) by a rat for 2 damage! she tries to cast command, bu the rats get attacks of opportunity and one hits. she takes 1 damage and fails casting.
Bakooza gets bitten by a rat for 1 damage, then smooshes it

round 2:
Taurgouz misses terribly, and is bitten for 1 hp
Saria helps Melkorka, impaling one of the rats with her longspear
Melkorka tries to summon a helpful creature, but the rat hits on his attack of opportunity. She manages to hold the spell and a celestial giant fire beetle appears.
Bakooza stomps the other rat

round 3:
Taurgouz is bitten for 1hp, and gets revenge by splitting the rat in half with his greatsword
Saria skewers the other rat that's attacking Melkorka
Unseen and unheard by anyone until now, Jesse busts through the door and charges the only rat left, at Taurgouz's feet... and misses.
Melkorka, out of immediate danger, casts cure light wounds on Bakooza, bringing him back to full health.
Bakooza stands there and watches his bite marks dissapear
Melkorka's summoned beetle attacks the only enemy in sight, where Taurgouz and Jesse are, but the rat dodges.

round 4:
Taurgouz decides to put an end to the pesky rodent, but the rat thinks otherwise and dodges the falling sword
Saria, plunging her spear with force, is the one who finally ends combat and brings the rat to its untimely demise.


Bakooza: hp 20/20
Taurgouz: hp 17/18
Saria: hp 5/5
Melkorka: hp 4/8
Jesse: hp 5/6

Melkorka has used all her 1st level spells for now. She has 2 more 0-level spells. Unless otherwise specified, after resting, her prepared spells will be:

level 0: light, ?, ?
level 1: command, summon monster 1, cure light wounds.



To clear up the Command spell effects, command forces the affected creature (if it fails the DC 11 will save) to perform one of the following actions that the caster tells it to do: approach (run to caster), drop (drops all held items), fall (falls down), flee (runs away), halt (stands still). If the subject can't carry out your command, the spell automatically fails. (so command to attack rats would have failed anyway)
To refresh her divine spells, Melkorka must meditate for one hour (but only once per day), usually at dawn or dusk. Sleeping and/or resting has no effect on spell regeneration.

Am I the only one who actually didn't miss in that?

Yeah, but you stood there with your finger up your nose for a round. Also, saria killed more than you did, and did not miss.


Taurgouz remembers that you can eat rats, as long as you know how to cook them. Unfortunately he does not know how.

She can go poontz on it, two bites from a rat and she prolly would've been dead.
Weakling, :D

"well, that was a nice figth".
as she looks around the room, she sees the new guy that has arrived. "ehh.....hello, thanks for helping" Then she introduces herself and the others.