First roll of the new year.
OF ANY OF YOU.

CaveCricket48 (Raphael) [10]:
You switch your efforts from heat to fire, and suddenly an enormous fireball bursts forth in front of you, melting the snow around and under you, and lighting your gloves on fire. Holy hell, you were trying to make heat a lot harder than you thought.
A quick yelp and flailing later, you extinguish the flames. Your hands are a bit tender, but it's not painful enough to impede you. More importantly, your gloves are covered in charred portions, and several fingers of them are falling off. They won't provide much heat protection like this... You ditch the useless portions, leaving you with ragged, half destroyed gloves.
If you pretend, they almost look like semi-normal fingerless gloves.

Character:

Ociamarru (Vadim Ivanov) [4-1=3]:
"You ♥♥♥♥!"
"Everybody is ♥♥♥♥ useless..."
Oh I'm sorry, you want me to walk through a blizzard to tell the two people you threatened that you're not a bad guy?
"Pretty much, yes."
"I'm not in the mood for this ♥♥♥♥!"
♥♥♥♥.
The woman quickly steps forward two steps, closing the distance between you, and swings her leg up at you. Seeing the movement, you jerk your left arm up and tilt your body to lessen the openings, and you successfully block a kick aimed for your head!
Only problem is, tiliting your body also made you easy to knock over, and before you can react, you fall over onto your side, hitting your arrowed shoulder. It feels as though someone just twisted a knife that was already stabbed into you, and even with your pain resistance, you can't help yelling in agony.

Character:

Emogotsaone (Jamal) [6-2=4]:
Way off towards where Raphael went, you see a burst of reddish light, and a moment later the sound of a dull explosion reaches your ears.
You should probably hurry up and get over to Raphael, before he gets too far away from you.

Character:


Izen (Theron) [3]:
Everybody is ♥♥♥♥ useless...
"Oh I'm sorry, you want me to walk through a blizzard to tell the two people you threatened that you're not a bad guy?"
Pretty much, yes.
Git.


"Oh. Hey there. You don't mind if I wait the storm out in here, do you?"
"You lost there son?"
"Uhh... yeah, I'm uh, not familiar with the area?"
There is no way they're gonna buy that.

"Newbie. Damn patrols. Well whatever, you'll catch your death up in the snow."
Holy hell they bought it. The three immediately relax, having decided you're a Newbie, and not some intruder.

"Dunno what Valentina's thinking, if you're gonna bring new blood in, at least teach em the ropes properly."
"I know right? Third person to get lost from a patrol this month."
"To be fair, the snowstorms are usually to blame, and we can't use, like, a GPS or anything."

Character:

CrazyMLC (Maria Crazer) [8-2=6]:
Right now, the ground is the best place to be. Yes. Out of the way of the fighting and the killing and the deaths.
The ebb and flow of Luck goes right over your head.
Derp.

Character:


JJA79 (Rose Fors) [6]:
"You ♥♥♥♥!"
"I'm not in the mood for this ♥♥♥♥!"
You drop your bow, and go in for melee combat, dashing forward two steps, then swinging your right leg up at his head. He sees your attack coming, and raises his left arm to intercept, successfully blocking your blow, but his stance is terrible, and the force of the kick knocks him over sideways to the ground.
He roars in pain as he hits, most likely because he just landed on the shoulder with an arrow through it. Serves him right.

Character:


Game Events:

Jamal is at "E,6".
Raphael is at "C,7".
Theron is in "B,9".
Maria, Vadim, and Rose are at "F,1".

Your fist does NOT count for hammer blow. A gauntlet wouldn't either.
A big solid boxing glove type thing would though.

That was more flavor text than anything else, but I'll keep that in mind.

Solution: get custom made metal gauntlets for punching.

WORKING IS HARD

CaveCricket48 (Raphael) [2]:
Maybe if you were to...
No, that failed. What about...
Nope, still nothing. Damn.
...
What if...
*FWOOSH*
And that was just another giant fireball. Dammit, making a small flame should NOT be this difficult.

Character:

Ociamarru (Vadim Ivanov) [3-3=1]:
"Stay down!"
Before you can so much as blink, a foot appears in your field of vision, and the next thing you know you're out like a light.
...
Wait, you're unconscious? This feels more like floating in an abyss.
Looking around, you see a spark of light off in the distance behind you, and a few voices coming from that direction.

Character:

Emogotsaone (Jamal) [4]:
Still stumbling a bit from your damaged ears (4-1=3), you jog over towards where you saw the light at a brisk pace, and make it about halfway there.

Character:


Izen (Theron) [2]:
"So uh, I don't think I've met you guys before."
"Sandra."
"Eric."
"Maxwell."
"Theron."
The 4 of you nod in greeting.

Character:

CrazyMLC (Maria Crazer) [10]:
Shame is right, you rolled a damn 10.
"Maria, get up. You've got some rope, right?"
"Uhhh... Yeah a little bit."
You get to a sitting position, then check inside the voluminous interior pockets of your parka. You're this patrol's pack mule...
You pull out a medium sized loop of rope, thin but definitely thick enough to tie someone with.

Character:


JJA79 (Rose Fors) [5]:
"Stay down!"
The moment you saw an opening, your left leg was already drawing back. The moment he yelled out in pain, you kicked forward at his face. The moment he saw your foot, it was too late.
You check him to be sure that you didn't kill him or anything, and thankfully he's still breathing.
"Maria, get up. You've got some rope, right?"
"Uhhh... Yeah a little bit."
She hands you the rope, and you look over your unconscious "friend".

Character:


Game Events:

Jamal is at "D,7".
Raphael is at "C,7".
Theron is in "B,9".
Maria, Vadim, and Rose are at "F,1".