The battle continues as nearly a dozen mud creatures attack!
Attack targets chosen randomly.
A human-faced mudman dashes towards Torben, catching him off-guard as he draws his club. The mud creature's rock hard fist hits the baker with a sickening thud, caving in his skull and ending his short life of adventure. It then turns towards Ingrid for its next attack
next round
Human mudman attacks Torben [1d20]=14 damage [1d4]=4
Dang, sorry GreyWolf!
Smelly Seth loads his sling as he yells RUN YOU DANG FOOLS! Immediately after, two more mud figures rise from the ground. They have human faces and...mud jester hats? It is at this point most of our adventurers realize that speaking the name of animate things summons their hostile form in mud!
Seth's sling whistles as it lets fly a stone. It hits a faceless onrushing mudman square in the chest and it explodes in a brown mist.
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A human-faced mudman rushes at Lars, but the woodcutter is ready with his axe and hacks it down, killing it before it strike!
A dog-faced mudman squares off against Wil. Wil swings a savage, but errant shortsword and his agility saves him as he evaded the strike of his foe! Birdsong steps in, striking the creature with his staff
-1 hp but it fights on.
Two mudmen rush at Dilton, one human-faced, the other blank-faced. Perhael emerges from behind the hunter and cuts the human-faced one in twain with his newly obtained short sword! Dilton plunges his weapon into the faceless one and it disintegrates into a chunky dirt pile.
The mud-chicken runs towards Seth and Frank. It passes closely by Ingrid, who slashes at it with her sword, but her strike comes too late.
Shopco the halfling kills a human-faced mudman. Orlop, out of arrows and without another weapon, runs towards Seth, Talya, and Frank.
Samuel slashes at a dog-mud-man as it approaches him, but the muddy creature ducks it. It puts it off balance enough that its swinging fist misses the mercenary.
Abney, Gerd, and Elsie fail to land their strikes.
A faceless mudman runs at Booth. The ditch digger makes first contact with his shovel, albeit weakly,
-1 hp and the mud creature responds with a weak strike, hitting Booth hard in the ribs!
Faceless mudman attacks Booth [1d20]=12 dmg [1d4]=1
Talya whips a stone at the mud chicken as it continues to advance on Frank. It connects
-2 hp, spinning the mud chicken 360 degrees but the sturdy mud creature continues on its path. It finally felled by an arrow from Monty's bow. A faceless mudman then attacks Monty, but misses.
Sonja stabs a dog-mud-man for 1 hp of damage.
Torben lies dead with a total of 8 mud creatures defeated. Five remain in combat. One engaging Monty, one engaging Booth, one engaging Samuel, and another engaging Dilton and Perhael. Torben's slayer will go for Ingrid next.
Two jester-mudmen animate and will join the fray at the end of next round.
That narrates all the hits at least.
Missile fire into melee is done at a -1 penalty. If target is missed, 50% chance of hitting an ally...if the 50% means an ally is targeted, attack roll beating ally's AC means you've hit an ally. 
