Rosa pulls her hammer and attacks
Darian hurls a bomb as the creatures approach - hopefully before anyone gets into melee range.
(+1 if I can wait 'til they're within 30')
The skeleton deftly avoids Rosa's strike, but she in turn blocks its claw. Darian's bomb misses, but the blast still manages to disable one of the oncoming skeletons, while 1 more closes to melee.
Vezron will step up and attack the skeleton engaged with Rosa.
She swings again
Azmerai shruggingly takes his flail again and flails at the closest skeleton.
Rosa and Vezron's attacks destroy the two attackers. The eerie green light present in the first skeleton's eyes fades, but then reappears in the closest oncoming skeleton.
Jolkum watches as the others begin smashing the skeletons one by one, impressed at how easy they make it look. Knowing that his skill set has a glaring weakness when it comes to non-living foes gills him with feelings of inadequacy. As the others seem to have this in hand, Jolkum pulls a knife and takes up a guard position in case something is attracted to the noise of battle.
Lelet is about as useful here as Jolkum. She delays for the moment, since you can't put a skeleton to sleep, freeze it, or hit it with a crossbow bolt.
She does keep careful watch over those eyes, though.
Three more of the skeltons get within striking distance, though none have time to attack.
She then yanks its cord and it comes back to her.
Azmerai spints forward swinging his flail.
As he again misses he starts to wail and turns around whirling the weapon away in frustration.
Vezron plants his feet and takes a strong swing at the skeleton in front of him.
Darian lobs another bomb just over the skeletons so that it lands behind them, splashing them with its contents but not hitting his party members.
Vezron smashes one while the two others fail to avoid Darian's bomb, and are blasted apart. The eerie light again shifts to the final skeleton, which moves up and claws at Rosa, but misses.
Making a gaumtletet fist Azmerai succumbs to his rage and slams his fist in the last one.
This time moves in for a hit
Vezron watches the others flail at the last enemy. Seeing it distracted by his comrades he steps up next to it and delivers a powerful swing.
Vezron destroys tha last skeleton, and the vast desert is once again eerily quiet.
Some sort of path winds toward a cave entrance to the right, while several cave entrances are on the left, all on the far side of the desert.
puts her hammer away and waits to see what the others do.
Darian crouches down to examine the remains. "I wonder what animated these?" he muses. "Certainly we've seen little to suggest some kind of graveyard or evil cleric here."
"Maybe they were evil things to begin with..."
Jolkum shrugs and slinks off to the left, heading around the area to get a look at the caves.
The interior walls of the cave are covered in paintings depicting fourarmed humanoids, who appear to be hunting strange creatures. Scattered around the sandy floor are a veriety of small gems and small works of art.
Azmerai shrugs and starts to collect them with a smile."Scavaging is good for the tribe. Barter for important things we do!"
This simple task brings finally some kind of smile on his eyes.
Jolkum pokes his head in to the next opening.
"Let me see that one, the small garnet, there is something about it. Humm a pearl of power, I think it is called. The weakest kind but still of use"
She says, she dose not take it buts lets the others work out what to do with it.
As Jolkum moves down the cave, the strange pictograms no longer adorn the walls. At the end of the cave, he sees that the walls are covered in holes, remarkably similar to the strange rock at the entrance.
The party moves to investigate the other opening. It appears to be a short dead end, but the end wall is strangely glowing with no apparent light source.
"Doh, seems we are at a dead end!"
Darian says, "And still no sign of Khonnir? And no tracks? This is unfortunate."
He pauses for a moment, then says, "If Khonnir passed through this area, he should have left tracks in the sand."
Jolkum walks through the wall.
Jolkum enters a room composed of the same dark grey metal as earlier. Panels on the ceiling fill the room with bright light, while machines similar to the ones in the room before the desert, but they hum and twitch.
Jolkum heads in yet farther while the others figure out what he has done.
Azmerai looks dumbfold. "Jolkum, where are thee?"
Jolkum moves into a relatively featureless corridor, although the glowing panels still illuminate the area. There are dorrs at 3 points along the corridor, each with different markings in Androffan.
Follows but stays back
Jolkum tries the first available door, but it is closed with some sort of technological lock.
Darian pauses, then lurches through the invisible wall. "A most curious sensation," he opines flatly. "Unexpected."
"Unknown word, unknown word effect, odd its still running"
Having been stymied by the door, Jolkum pops his head back in the other room.
"Hey, tall creepy girl, you seem to know tech. Can ya come in here and check out this door?"
She walks in and looks at the door a while.
Then asking for the lockpick they found she works on the door mechanism.
Rosa is unable to open the door with the e-pick, but realizes that the door will open for any level of access card, and opens the door.
The room seems to buzz and hum with energy. The panel on the cieling light this room as well, and many strange flickering windows are along the walls. In the center of the room sits a large glass table, while a desk covered in blinking lights is at the far end of the room. Next to it is a glowing pillar of black/purple metal, with a single glowing golden panel in its side. A thick layer of dust covers everything in the room, and many of the machines seem damaged.
Jolkum looks at the glowing panel.
"Hey, what does this do?" He says as he pokes the panel.