Iko looks for an entrance at the lower level to get in tot he building where the figure and voice came from.
Iko enters the building, finding the interior ruined and not avenue from inside to upstairs he retreats back out. The voices down the alley get louder and the sounds of boots crunching on the cobble stone are moving towards the group.
Lynn levels her glaive and waits for who is coming. Once they are in sight she activates her blessing. "Let's see whose blood this alley gets soaked in now." she mumbles to herself.
The alley opens into the faces of a group of homes, the bodies of 3 deceased men and women lay in the street. A large pentagram is drawn with blood and brick dust on the street. A man in dark green robes, a dagger in his left hand a holy symbol in his right. A hand print of blood covers his face and congealing blood drips from the knife.
”More for Baphomet, bring them to me.”
The men below move forward and the man in the building above peeks up over the table with an odd looking crossbow in his hands.
The first Brigand moves up the alley and blocks your way past, sword held out front.
The archer above takes a shot at Lynn
The guy shoots not very good and only hits the solid armor. Knowing he'll need some time to reload Lynn just stands there unfazed. Iko will take care of that problem. Besides that she checks her options. "How about some enlargement?" she asks Tink.
Don shoots at the brigand blocking the way
The brigand deflects the bolt just before it lodges into his shoulder, smiling defiantly at Don.
"Sure thing." Tink says as he steps behind her and casts the spell
As Lynn grows to double size she says clearly perceptible for everyone around "Then let's see if we can wipe that grin off that guys face."
She walks over and stabs him.
Iko nods and gets into a runners stance and then bolts for the rubble and up onto the rubble and grabs hold of a bent street lamp, swings and flips onto a ledge and carries the momentum bouncing from ledge to ledge upwards towards the crossbow wielding thug.
Iko manages to jump, reaching out at the last second and catches the ledge of the second floor.
Lynn slices right down the middle of the thug, the thug behind him knocks an arrow in its bow and fires at Lynn.
The arrow catches Lynn in a gap in her armor but causing a small gush of blood.
The Cultist starts to fill your heads with worry, worry that you won't succeed, that the city is to far gone.
Don manages to muscle past the angst.
Only Aniva is affected, her will a bit more broken, she holds her broken leg and weeps.
The Archer drops the crossbow pulling out a well worn long bow, taking aim at Iko who is holding onto the ledge.
The Brigand who shot at Lynn backs up and takes another shot.
The arrow from the brigand finds the same notch as the previous arrow.
Lynn ignores that archer and goes directly for the loud mouthed cultist.
Iko takes the hit to the shoulder and shouts in pain, then pulls himself up on the ledge and dives into the room over the crossbowman.
Don loads and shoots at the crossbow turned longbowman.
SteelGate moves up to the man that Lynn rushed past, trying to crush him into the ground.
SteelGate crushes the man, breaking his spine in the process.
Don't shot just skins the bowman, Iko's acrobatics are distracting to both but Iko does manage to get his feet under him on the ledge with the bowman.
The Cultist backs up , "I will use him to empower me!" The cultist points at one of his downed thugs, the life leaves the body of the thug and the Cultist's vitality returns.
The Archer backs away from Iko, putting the desk between him and the nimble monk.
Don shoots the longbow cultist again
After casting enlarge person Tink detects magic, and nods to SteelGate as he smashes the man.
The strange Cross bow the man had detects as magical, the Holy symbol is magical as well, there are a few other things that are obscured by being inside of clothing or bags.
Trying to hit gain
Iko swings his backpack off his back and at the archer over the table to distract him.
Don's shot just misses the archer, a portion of the ceiling crumbles from the impact of the bolt.
The archer sees through Iko's attempt to mess him up, avoiding the backpack and training his bow back on Iko.
Iko shrugs and charges at the archer as his bow comes to bare and drops at the last second sliding under the desk...
and as he slides between the archers legs, Iko tries to kick them out from under him.
Iko drops the archer onto his back, "You ruddy bastard, I will gut you like a fish for that."
Tink and SteelGate move forward to the down thugs in the street, making sure they are finished and will not be getting back up to help the cultist or the archer.
From above the sounds of falling and cursing makes its way down into the alley.
"Help, they caught me as I was making a break for it to Defender's heart." Comes the sound of a small female voice.
Lynn faces off against the cultist, her Glaive had cut deep into the man, blood still streams down his side. His vitality slightly restored from finishing off his companion. The cultist looks around seeing that all is lost, he turns to flee down the narrow alley way.
The archer above not knowing that he is alone continues to fight. Kicking out at Iko with his foot hoping to injure the half Elf.
"Don, don't let him escape!" Lynn shouts stepping out of the way for Don to get a free firing range.
I can't get a good shot, the Prone Shooter is blocked by Iko
"The running cultist down the alley!" Lynn shouts "Shoot him!"
At Lynn's shouting the Cultist turns to go around a corner, skidding in some garbage but managing to get around the corner.
The woman on the ground is a halfing, her bags are dumped all over the ground, papers wet in the blood and muck on the ground. Her clothes are torn in places and blood stained. "I was trying to get to somewhere safe, I heard Defenders heart is holding out so I was running there when this group caught me."
As the boot from the archer connects with Iko, he strikes at the archers knee.
The foot to his jaw throws Iko's punch off, but he shakes it off quickly and retaliates with a series of short jabs to his opponent.
Lynn is no match in running after that guy in her armor. But she is not willing to let him get away that easy. She drops her glaive and goes after him pulling out her bow on the way.
If he is still somewhere to see she shoots after him.
Lynn does get to the alley the man turned down, her shot fires wide though as she hits the wall sliding on the same waste the man did. The man hears the arrow slam into something and takes another turn towards the west.
Don follows Lynn
Tink whispers to the Blue who listens, tilts his head, nods, and flies up to get a birds eye view of the chase and direct Lynn.
The archer covers his face with his arms, "You dirty rotten bugger", he goes to stand up drawing his falchion guarding against Iko.
Blue gives an eye in the sky but the cultist is moving fast, dodging down ally ways and leading Lynn and Don away from the rest of the party.
As his opponent starts to rise Iko says "Oh no you don't."
Let us head back, we can't catch him.
Tink has managed to organize all the items from the thugs on the ground, Iko continues to battle the archer on the second floor of the ruined building.
mwk arrows (7), potion of cure light wounds (2) , tanglefoot bag (4), thunderstone (4)
leather armor, arrows (40), longbow (2), longsword (2), sap (2)
oil of magic weapon , potion of cure light wounds , blue whinnis (2), healer's kit; Other Gear
mwk chain shirt, mwk composite longbow (+2 Str) with 18 blunt arrows and 20 flight arrows, mwk falchion, backpack, belt pouch, flint and steel, hemp rope (50 ft.), manacles, signal whistle, torch (5), 11 gp
I did include the stuff from the archer
Iko misses the trip, the archer returns the attack with his own.
The archer lands a devistating hit on Iko, drawing a deep line into the Half Elf.
As the attack hit's Iko, Iko's heightened reflexes kick in and he turns his body taking the hit but twisting his body so fast that it's dizzying to the archer.
Still moving, Iko sends two flat handed slaps on the archers chest then on the third hit, has his leg behind the archer and kicks out at the same time as he hits to send the archer to the floor.
"Shit, shit, shit!" Lynn curses. "I hate it when these evil guys get away."
Don hurries back.
"Can I ask for someone to untie me?" The Halfling woman says from the ground.
Iko's first to attacks put the archer off balance, the hook behind the leg drops the archer to the ground hard.