Everyone tried to huddle closer when the drums got closer and louder. Boromir and Aragorn, however, broke away and went to shore up the door in. Axes, swords and orc scimitars worked well to block the door. Boromir took a chance and stuck his head through a hole, having a moment of stupidity.A sharp twang and a thunk later, he drew back in with a scowl.
"They have a cave troll." They quickly finished shoring up and went back to the main group.
Gandalf sighed, throwing his hat into a corner and drawing his sword. Frodo and the hobbits followed this example and drew Sting and their short swords. The Jedi, with a grim look all round, unclipped and lit lightsabers. Tenel Ka dropped into a fighting crouch, and Jaina and Zekk shared a kiss for luck. Legolas and Aragorn drew arrows and trained them on the door, while Talon flew from Jacen's shoulder to a pillar, glowering. Gimli stood on the tomb and hefted his axes.
As the drums came even closer to the room, Threepio and R2 shuffled to a cornerwatched overby Lowie, so they didn't get attacked. Jacen drew Zekk, Anakin and the girls in a circle around the hobbits. Lastly, Han and Leia drew blasters, Chewie his bowcaster and Boromir gibbered until Han glared, then he, too, drew his blaster and trained it on the door. Then the fun began.
The first orcs to approach the door were kebabbed by Legolas and Aragorn's crack shooting, then the mass of orcs just broke through, pushing the dead out of the way. Blaster bolts bisected the creatures, and a large rock nearby burst into fragments from a Boromir-related shot. (Maybe the rock had been threatening?)
Gandalf ran into the fray with a yell and the Jedi and hobbits followed. Gimli leapt down from the casket, screaming dwarvish battle yells and hewing the knees out of anything that moved. Chewbacca found a corner from which he could shoot cleanly and took out many of the orcs as they poured into the door. Enter troll, stage left.
When the behemoth pounded into the room, the orc fights were tuned out by the Jedi. Tenel Ka was the first to actually engage the troll, making a deep lightsaber cut to its left leg. The troll howled, and swung its club, flooring the warrior girl. Jacen, seeing this, yelled and entered the troll's space. He hacked another deep gouge out of a leg. Talon dove, screeching,for its eyes. The troll was not really doing well, for something two stories high.
With Jacen's engagement came Jaina, Anakin, Tahiri and Zekk. Lightsabers of different hues flashed and the smell of burnt meat perforated everything. Tenel Ka, after shaking off the effects of a club pounding, finished off the troll with an agile leap to its back, and severing the creature's head from the body with adeep saber-swipe. Jumping off the falling body, Tenel Ka landed neatly beside Jacen. "Thank you, my friend." Jacen gave her a Solo grin.
While the Jedi had been efficiently making meat out of the troll, the orcs had been trying to make some headway with the creatures without the light-swords. Unfortunately for them, orcs died quickly when sliced with Glamdring, Sting, axes, or hobbit swords. Many also had elven arrows or bowcaster quarrels sticking out or smoking holes from blaster shots, and Sam was doing well with the "Hit-them-with-pans" offensive. Lowie guarded the droids, and soon a pileup of bodies made a wall in front of a moaning Threepio. Boromir had even killed something, with a random shot into the air that burnt the orc trying to jump on the his head. Four orcs, unfortunately, had cornered Frodo. Aragorn tried to get to the hobbit, but he was waylaid by another herd of the scabby beings. Frodo screamed as one orc managed to stab him, then collapsed. A few blaster bolts took down the offenders, and when the smoke cleared, it was over. The orcs were all dead, and so, seemingly, was the ringbearer.