Mage Strike (in case)
Sacrificing Blindness/Deafness
Harry summons his hammer and moves toward the robed man. Kong moves past him, ducking between two enemies who have already taken attacks of opportunity.
Luna snaps her whip, wraps it around the peace officer's ankle, and jerks, sending him coughing into the dust of the town street.
The women draw weapons and move toward the larger group. One pulls a weapon and moves up to Kong.
The dog, on a command from it's companion, races toward Kong, growling and snapping at him, but unable to attack due to how far it needed to move.
Two of the women adjust and flank Harry, timing their attacks.
Two women move up to Sterling and attack. Unable to flank this round.
Kong is the center of a party as 3 women and the dog attack him.
Harry dodges one attack, but ducks right into the other attack from the other woman.
Sterling likewise sidesteps one hit, but steps into a blow from the other woman.
Kong is, fortunately for him, missed by almost everyone, only one short sword comes in on him.
Harry will continue to try to get to the priest since he's evidently the source of the problem. He will do total defense and keep moving. He doesn't fell the civilians deserve to get brained.
The man with the staff steps back up to the now aged Neri, and swings his staff around in both hands, calling on the same name as before to smite his enemies.
The staff bounces off the armor Neri is wearing however, and doesn't do much more than spark and make screeching noises as it hits, much like a high-voltage line scraping over a car's hood.
The small child and the old woman pick up more stones and fling them, one at Harry, and one at Kong.
The little girl misses badly, but the old woman manages to zing in a stone that bounces off the side of Kong's head.
Sterling does a ct and weave maneuver to get past the women. He didn't want to get hit agian. He races as fast as he can to get to Harry. Let's end this quickly. he says to him with a nod.
Full Round: Double move
Mythic acrobatics check:
Mythic used 3/5
Acrobatic check result: 22
"Please stop this madness!" Jacob looks to the elderly and children in the group, seeing what emotions lay in their eyes. "There is no need to keep fighting. Let's talk it out!"
The child looks scared, the old woman resigned.
"You! Jacob says to a hesitant-looking elderly woman. "Do you want this child to grow up slaughtering others? If you continue on this path of violence, you'll be no better than the demons you seek to destroy! Come, let us stop this and use speech, not stones."
"Oh just shut up and fight Jacob, they can't control themselves! "
"Oh just shut up and fight Jacob, they can't control themselves! "
"It seems you can't either!"
"Ok, let them kill you then. I can't fix stupid. "
Luna runs past the enemies in front of her and continues her sprint to get closer to the others she runs over to Neri and tries to trip the staff wielder that attacked him.
Luna takes two cuts as she races past people, blood splattering the ground as she runs around the raised stage to get to the staff wielder. But it seems to have been worth it, her unexpected charge up to him and quick whip work sends him crashing to the steps.
The peace officer stands up.
The male villagers carefully close in on Jacob.
However, all four of the ones who can get into position to attack miss.
Neri starts to growl at the man and is caught off guard by a voice that isn't his own, when the lightning strikes him. He's thrown off at first, then the pain sets in. All of his old wounds, breaks, injuries catch up to him in his old age, and there's pain. His movements are sluggish. He can almost -guess- what the man did to him... what the staff did, he corrects himself.
Neri's hand dances through complex motions, lightning arcing along his fingertips, before suddenly disappearing, and Arcing along Id's nine rings, leaping from point to point. Neri misjudges the first swing, and strikes nothing but air as the man flies towards the ground. He corrects that in a moment, as he brings the blade crashing back across, and striking the staff with as much might as his broken body can muster. Lightning leaps from the sword into the staff, as sparks once more fly between the respectively mythic weapons.
Neri shifts backwards, if he broke the staff, he moves a few feet back to stand beside Luna, straight blue hair hanging in his face from the artificial (he hopes) aging, followed by dirty blonde, and then gray. He looks to her then the villagers. If not, he stares at the object of his hatred, resignedly.
Regardless, he'd nod to Luna. "Thanks for coming, I knew we couldn't run from the tyrant. Any man who'd hurt children wouldn't hold anything back to try to kill us. Besides, it takes a special kind of coward to even think of running from that kind of man."
"You're making a huge mistake!" Despite his nonviolent preferences, Jacob was reaching the limit of his patience as he dodged swings though.
He ran a distance away
Kong makes a wordless battle-cry as he runs up on the priest...RAAUGHHH!
chain upside the head, then...
sacrificing Blindness/Deafness
Zey didn't fail jour god, JOU failed ZEM!
Neri slams his sword into the staff, after missing it the first time. Sparks explode around he and Luna, for a dozen feet all around.
Every man woman and child in the village screams, staggered and sickened as the sigil's on their head glow.
Kong slams his scythe into the down'd man in robes, who screams in agony as blood sprays.
Keeping her distance so the man can't try anything Luna swings her whip at the staff trying to tear it from the mans hands.
The man with the staff stands up, then holds his palm out toward Luna. "Barathiel! Aid your priest and burn this demon with your holy light!"
A beam of light punches out from the man's hand and burns Luna badly, her skin smoking and crisping black as the beam burns deep into her abdomen.
At any rate:
I vill chove ziss chain down your TROAT!
Harry will drop the hammer, get his bow out and shoot at the priest.
deadly aim
Barathiel is a false god! Sterling yells with authority. He launches a bomb at the priest.
+6 to hit 2d6 + 4 20x2 30 ft (Bomb thrower)
Precise Bombs (Ex)
Benefit: Whenever the alchemist throws a bomb, he can select a number of squares equal to his Intelligence modifier that are not affected by the splash damage from his bombs. If the bomb misses, this discovery has no effect.
No splash damage for companions
Kong slices the robed man as he stands, then misses with the next strike, and finally hits with the third strike.
Harry's arrow finds it's mark, sinking deep into the robes.
Finally, Sterling's bomb explodes on contact with the robed man, sending him flying back into a crumpled form on the ground, his robes smouldering.
As he falls, the staff hits the ground and shatters, and everyone in the village cries out and collapses to the ground.
Sterling moves quickly over to Luna. That looked painful. Let's see if we can fix you up.
You were very brave. you should be proud of yourself. I know I am He mixes up a potion and hands it to Luna. Drink this it'll help
He turns around to look at the villagers, and shakes his head. I guess honesty IS the best policy
If Luna hears his praise she doesn't acknowledge it, if she's able to she drinks the potion then turns to the villagers ready to fight if they move forward.
"Dang it.." Neri looks from person to person as they collapse. He'd been hit by a wave of guilt when he'd injured them via the staff. "Remind me why we you guys just murdered their priest? We could have just subdued him.." Neri frowned. He scanned the group seeing who was wounded. Luna. Sterling. He was an old man and had no way of knowing if that would change. "Once everyone is fixed up, we need to talk."
He started moving about the town, checking on the collapsed villagers, starting with the robed man since he was close, then moving on to the children, and working his way up in age. Sterling was going to take care of his most prized pets, so he needn't worry about their group, only the villagers he didn't care about. He thought strongly about going to find Jacob, but he was no tracker, and these people were in more immediate danger.
((Neri is taking 10 on heal checks, just to see how wounded people are. If he feels like he might be able to stop the robed guy from dying, he'll work on that first, and call for help.))
"Murdered? That was about as clear a case of self defense as I've ever seen. He was trying to kill us. Anyways, it was pretty clear he wasn't making his flock act by persuasion. I'm pretty sure he needed to be put down. "
The robed guy is dead, half his face burned off and missing an eye from the bomb blast.
The villagers appear to be alive, but unconscious. The 'brand' or 'tattoo' on their faces however is glowing a nasty lurid red. All of them appear to be sweating heavily, and have elevated temperatures.
"Wonder if we should make sure this staff gets broken. I think it's a cause of some trouble here. "
Kong points at the pieces.
Not an issue.
"Good, then maybe we should check out this temple. See if we can get to the bottom of what is going one. Not like we can ask the locals anything right now. " and he will unsummon his hammer but keep his bow ready.
As Harry goes to enter the temple, the stone doors slam shut and seal, nearly taking off his hand. Strange black energy crackles over the doors, occassionally arcing off toward him, stopped only by the armor he's wearing. Even then, it feels like a wasp sting every time a tiny bolt hits him.
Sterling nods to Harry. Yes, that opportunity is no more. Lumpy enters the church and gets the lay of the land.
Sorry, right. Self-defense... but I'm looking at it from their perspective. Neri said from over his body, then moved on to another.
"Think we should go get Jacob first?" He began checking the first unconscious child. "This rune is glowing. In fact... all of them are. This child has a fever. He moved on to another, "This one, too. Harry, please go find Jacob, we could use lots of water. Kong, you're better with magic than I am. Help me figure this out." with the children endangered, Neri was attempting to take charge, to try to fix things before anyone else died.
Neri quickly casts detect magic, focusing first on the runes, then the ruined staff. Neri tried casting an arcane Mark over the glowing rune, delivered through his sword, to see if he could magically erase the Mark.
Jacob had run a distance from the scene and was kneeling in the grass. Not a religious man, he'd need enough bloodshed and experienced enough of this new place now to re-question the existence of god. "Barathiel, please forgive our sins. We are but strangers in this strange land. We did not know what to do!" Though he himself did not fight the villagers, he was concerned that such a being here might actually exist and exact some horrific revenge on them - if the wildlife was any indicator.
The rune'd staff has lingering magical aura, the runes are also magical.
Give me a will save, DC 20.