Long Live the King!

Gerund and Sasha step into the shrine and take aim at the flying hounds. Gerund misses his target as the hound jigs out of the way and swoops down upon him. Sasha's aim is truer but the arrow seems to deflect uselessly off the beast's furry hide. The hound drops down onto Sasha, and she is knocked to the ground as almost 400 pounds of of canine crashes into her, savagely biting at her arms and face. Gerund manages to drop to one knee and deflect his attacker's charge with his shield. The hound, easily 5 feet high at the shoulder, lands on the floor and circles the paladin, ready to pounce again at any second.

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In the hall things get chaotic quickly. When the hounds attack, the noise of the conflict alerts the group that was trying to sneak up on the party from behind. Not wanting to miss the action, the goblins give up any attempts at stealth and charge down the hallway and suddenly find themselves the victims of an ambush instead of the perpetrators.

Giving over to her rage Yola yells out and charges into the first goblin to pass her position. Her startled foe is impaled on the end of her blade and the momentum of her charge carries the two of them right up to the big stone doors opposite.

Seoni follows Yola into the hall and sees more goblins running towards her. She quickly presses the tips of her thumbs together and sends a horizontal plane of magical flames cascading over them. The first several goblins scream out in pain and surprise, but behind them a large goblin mounted on a giant gecko the size of a pony snarls in anger. Chief Ripnugget ( you assume from the dented crown he wears) guides his mount to leap onto the wall, and the sucker footed lizard starts to charge at Yola and Seoni over the heads of the other goblins.

Shalelu steps into the corridor behind Seoni and assesses the situation, glancing from the charging goblin chief to the giant otherworldy hound mauling Sasha in the doorway beyond. Pulling back on her bow with all her might she lets loose a single arrow that strikes the hound squarely above the shoulder. The hound looks up, surprised at the slight sting, and stares balefully at the elven archer.

We're in a pickle now! The hounds shrugged off all but the strongest and most well placed attacks, and the first one savaged Sasha for 7 HP! Yola and Seoni's attack surprised the goblins quite handily, with Yola killing one and Seoni badly wounding two more. Chief Ripnuget and his loyal gecko steed Stickfoot were wounded by the Burning Hands spell as well but managed to avoid the worst of it by leaping up onto the wall.

NOTE re Smite: Smite can only be used on a melee attack, so I didn't apply it to Gerund's first bowshot. Also, I've decided to make a small change to the power ( as per the newer Pathfinder rules) - You now declare your Smite against a single foe, and it continues to work until that foe is defeated. It is still only usable once per day.