Okay, there seems to be a couple of levels of confusion going on that I need to try and clear up.
This may be my misreading of the suprise rules, but I am giving everyone the chance to take actions in the first round the barghests attacked, the ones that can anyway (so everyone but Sammy and Mystech, and later when he got paralyzed Torley). It was just that none of you could act against the critters except Clementine. I know why things got confused, because I only had the three standing roll initiative, but that was because I was doing their suprise checks at the same time, and I was actually trying to KEEP things from getting confused by having everyone roll initiative and take actions in order. That didn't work apparently, sorry I won't do it again.
I just read what I wrote and I probably confused everyone even worse, nevermind...WE ARE WAITING ON GOREAN AND NOVOCRANE TO POST ACTIONS FOR THIER CHARACTERS AND THEN EVERYONE WILL ROLL INITIATIVE FOR THE SECOND ROUND OF COMBAT. Understand? Good
The other confusion came from me getting too cute with how folks got bound up, but dammit I am gonna keep that train rolling...
irisheathen, you cannot completely untangle your character from Novocrane's without getting one of the two of your sets of restraints removed. You can work one arm over his head, which isn't a bad idea and won't really require a roll if he is not fighting you on it, even if he was, it probably wouldn't THAT tough for you. This will not get you completely free though, what it will do, along you putting his arm over your head, is get your hands in front of you, but you will still be linked, like a chain, with your hands out front.
(At least I assume they will be out front, since I would bet at least one of you would have problem with your hands being close to the other's junk) Anybody else confused? Good!
By the way, did I mention I like smileys?