[pnpgm] Update #19 – Varo

[Bessie Hadley]

Varo, still annoyed at the boy, has pushed him out of her mind for now. If he keeps watching & is seen, one of the trolls might spot him & raise an alarm to its fellows &, since for the moment she was apparently being ignored by them, any seen movement by the boy raises a risk of them also spotting her & spoiling her current plan. 

Time to pitch in & help the others. She ducks a bit & continues northward for about 10 feet, then drops to one knee for a bit of cover in the grass (which certainly wasn’t much!) & starts firing the self bow to various trolls in turn, starting with an arrow to the one furthest south, then another to one in the middle of the group of three. She makes sure her aim is steady with each shot, since her fellows are getting close to that motley group by the cabin’s corner. She is afraid a miss to the far troll in that group could hit Rocky, so her 3rd shot goes to the southernmost troll again. If she has time she will swing her bow around to the troll by the door & fire two bow shots at it. 

She then quickly looks over the scene, to spot where her friends are now & where the trolls are, & if there’s time (on this set of rounds), again heads north in a crouch, to try to get a look past the troll in the doorway. She’s pretty sure she’ll need to prepare for melee very soon, & checks while moving that her saber is ready to be drawn. At the back of her mind, only half-aware of it, she’s mentally noting where her arrows have been bouncing off the trolls’ armor. (embarrassing to see that) 

When this is all over, she’ll be doing grass-crawling to recover any usable arrows, or arrowheads. Annoying if nothing usable found. All she really knows in her conscious awareness is that she hates making new arrows while out in the field. “Ernalda, Earth Mother, please keep me calm & focused so I am of help here, not grousing about arrows bouncing off armor.” she mentally chants in silence, as she studies where everyone is, what they are doing, & listening for any calls of incoming trouble.

Her background hope is that she can gain the partial cover of the well, to try to see from there if any more trolls are hidden inside the cabin, but no plan can be definite at this moment.

Bess L. Hadley