Combat summary:

    Round 1: Ogre 1 misses Bruce but ogre 2 hits, doing 11 damage. Bruce now has 69/80 hp. Ogres 3 and 4 miss Ghotu. Bruce's first round attack hits for 15, wounding ogre 1. Ghotu hits ogre 3 for 32 (double damage) killing it.
    Round 2: Bruce's first attack severs ogre 1's head (vorpal axe to hit roll 20). His second hits for 13, wounding Ogre 2. Ghotu hits ogre 4 for 17, killing it before it can attack. His second attack goes at ogre 2 for 19, killing it.
    After this melee, Blade gets a shot at the fleeing ogre, long range (-4 to hit). He hits for 4 points of damage, but this does not stop the ogre from turning the corner.

Scene V: Battle in the Hallway with Ogres

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    Bruce and Ghotu step forward to meet the four advancing ogres, as the fifth ogre flees down the passage. Bruce is hit by one of the ogres’ axes, which glances off his shoulder. He returns the blow, wounding that first ogre. The second ogre misses Bruce, and the other two miss Ghotu with their axes. Ghotu splits one ogre’s skull with his axe, leaving three ogres, one of them wounded.

    Bruce recovers from his swing and whips his axe around again, this time catching one of the ogres in the collar bone. The great axe slices through the ogre’s armor and bone to sever his head and part of one shoulder. Bruce also uses the butt of his axe to smack the remaining ogre in the face, foiling its attack. Ghotu’s axe is a blur, slicing the hand on one ogre then slicing its throat. Ghotu then plants his axe in the spine of the ogre which Bruce had stunned. All the ogres lie dead in the hall. Blade steps forward and flings a throwing knife at the fleeing ogre, now far down the passage. He hears his knife strike, but the ogre keeps running, nearing a corner.

    Bruce yells, "We have to go after the other Ogre, before he alerts everyone, if he does, we are doomed!" and he pulls two figurines from his belt, throwing them to the ground. Bruce had bought the figurines only a month earlier, and had not used them yet, though he had used similar items before.

    The two small black statues polymorph into large jet black war dogs. "Attack him!" He yells, pointing to the back of the running Ogre. The war dogs both look at him calmly and say together, "Yes Master," then bound down the passage as the ogre turns the corner.

    Everyone in the company runs down the passage after the dogs and the ogre, in the same marching order as before.

    Next Turn: Talking Dogs?