Round 3 Will Make You Wince
Twenty years from now, the poet Larrs of Greyhelm will write:
The collies circled 'round their preyThe zombies loved and lurched and theyRelentlessly ate dogflesh that dayWhen dogs and dead did duel.The collies' collars were gold and gayThe zombies' wrath gave them paws to prayOne cold dark night at the end of MayWhen dogs and dead did duel.Brogg, a big miss. Cinder, your backstabby bonus cancels out the penalty for fighting in the dark, and you just bearly hit. Ha ha! Get it? 8x2 = 16 and you kill that bear dead... no, wait... he's fighting into negative hp! He's still up! Just
bearly! Larrs is going to use a couple of those in his sonnets.
Dave, good going, owls are tough to hit, and you too have a -4 THACO going on, but a 19 does the trick. You smack that guy for 8, feathers everywhere and the owl is dead. You're healed for 3 hp from the mace, but then the bear smacks you again for 5! You're now at 16/22 hp.
Angry badger, zombies, and collies all go. They all tear into each other... you hear the groan of one zombie falling! Brogg, it looks like one of the collies is gnawing on something! You hear some collies yelping as they get torn into... looks like only a few are left. Plus you all hear the badger totally going nuts over there. (Badger stats to be posted next for future reference.) Dave, a collie bounces off your plate mail again. Brogg, collie bite for... 1 hp. Sad, but roll d%... if you roll 1-5%, make a save vs poison!
You see a light quickly turn on and then off in the house. You think you hear the sound of a few people running towards the barn! There's an almost-dead bear here, and four collies left. Do your worst!