[center][color=fff79a]Catarina La'Spada[/color][/center]

[color=fff79a]"Hnn! Weak!"[/color] Catarina retracted her sword just as it scrapped the gnoll's armor. When he'd tried to go and cut off Catarina head, all she needed to do was lower her body a bit and let the blade bounce off her helmet. Despite it's silly shape, it was still armor; it could be used to block and deflect attacks as well as any shield could. And by lowing her body Catarina was able to parry the gnoll's blade as well, locking her Domina against the gnoll's sword to prevent it from moving further. Despite having her blade occupied with one of the gnoll's, she was far from defenseless. Quite the opposite: she was going to use her defense to attack.

Holding her shield close to her body Cataraina thrust the spiked tip of her shield into the Gnoll's chest. Even if his armor could deflect the shield's spike, Cataraina followed through with her strike using her whole body. Thus not only was she putting her full weight into stabbing the gnoll, but even if she couldn't he'd be bashed by her shield and the rest of her body. And with the momentum of her tackle she intended to knock the gnoll onto his back so she could stab him in the face with her blade.

[color=fff79a]"Fall!"[/color]

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[center][color=brown]Parum[/color][/center]

Parum was ready for one of those brutes to try to hop into the wagon, but she was genuinely surprised to see that they had gnolls sneaky enough to get the drop on her. Parum turned around just as she heard the sands shift, raising her dagger defensively. Just as she thought she was going to get hit Kalista jumped in front of her. In what Parum thought was a heroic sacrifice was actually a clever tactic. With Kalista using a spell to protect her from arrows, Parum could use her to block arrows for her. [color=brown]"Thanks Kalista!"[/color] Not one to waste an opportunity like this Parum hurled both her daggers at the gnoll who tried to shoot her. One dagger went straight for the gnoll's eyes, knowing that he would try to protect his face when he saw the dagger incoming. And if he didn't then a knife would fly into his eye. But a second dagger was thrown shortly after heading lower into the gnoll's chest, which Parum knew she had a better chance of hitting. After tossing her daggers out she drew two more and readied herself for another attack, hiding behind Kalista.