Seeing more talking monkeys trying to hurt his friends, Spiny dino-spasms in their direction with his teeth and claws.
Spiny viciously claws the other drow in the back.
Readying an Action: You can ready a standard action, a move action, a swift action, or a free action. To do so, specify the action you will take and the conditions under which you will take it. Then, anytime before your next action, you may take the readied action in response to that condition. The action occurs just before the action that triggers it. If the triggered action is part of another character's activities, you interrupt the other character. Assuming he is still capable of doing so, he continues his actions once you complete your readied action. Your initiative result changes. For the rest of the encounter, your initiative result is the count on which you took the readied action, and you act immediately ahead of the character whose action triggered your readied action.
Farrukh wails on the Drow fighter, laying into his buddy if the first drops.
Subtract 2 hit/damage for any potential attacks on guy #2.
Farrukh's klar slices through the throat of the more injured drow. The dark elf collapses, gurgling.
Carina's eyes widen a little as the drow break invisibility and try to cut Farrukh down.
...wow. Okay, they're actually kinda cute. In a really creepy sort of way.
It doesn't stop her from reloading and wincing as Farrukh and Spiny start cutting them down. She aims at the drow that's still standing and fires...
Carina's shot pings against the stone wall.
The remaining drow steps over the body of his colleague and stabs at Farrukh. This time, he's almost able to slip behind Farrukh's guard, but Farrukh deflects the attack with his klar at the last second.
Spiny attacks the second little dark man-thing in front of him. Mmmm....I love dark meat.
Spiny claws into the drow's chest, nearly ripping out several ribs in the process. The drow falls to the ground, dead.
With the visible drow down, Tanith draws another potion and chugs it.
"Going to go and see if squiddy is still holding down the hallway..." Eben says quietly as he weaves a concealment glamour around himself. The sound of quiet footfalls are the only indication he's in motion.
Eben sneaks down the hallway. He sees the two drow women, their crossbows trained on him—clearly readied to fire if they see anyone coming.
One of them says something to the other.
They hear Eben coming.
The squid-headed creature is nowhere to be seen.
Carina winces as Spiny cuts down the other drow. She steps forward, reloading her crossbow before holding her hand out and taking the healing wand from Tanith.
"Good boy, Spiny! I'll be there in a second!" She says, twirling the wand and smiling.
Farrukh chugs another potion.
The two remaining drow suddenly fire in Eben's direction.
Can Tanith reach them with a single love action.
Hearing Eben's warning and follow up cry of pain, Tanith follows after him with his poleaxe at the ready. After awkwardly squeezing past the invisible bard he cleaves into the drow marksmen.
"OUCH!" Eben cries out as the two bolts hit home. "Okay, squidface isn't anywhere to be seen, but the drow ladies are. And they can see through invisibility, so, GET IN HERE."
A moment later he is nearly crushed by several hundred pounds of running Kordite.
Tanith hacks into the drow woman, badly injuring her.
"Can do!" Farrukh says and sprints out to help Eben.
Eben fires a shot at the drow suffering from a combination of Tantih's slicing and Carina's earlier bolt.
Sighing with frustration, he runs up behind Tanith and lets his magic whip go to work on the uninjured one.
"Oh, I just give up. Fine, you guys just do your thing. Try and take one alive for questioning, if you can..."
Hearing Eben's cries of pain and seeing both Tanith & Farrukh racing down the hallway to confront his attackers, Carina opts to try and help Spiny.
"Spiny!" She jogs over to where the dinosaur is sitting, holding the wand before her. "Here ya go!"
She taps Spiny on his nose with the wand, fixing some of his lightning burns.
As she does so, she looks over her shoulder at the two female drow.
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...oh no she's hot
She blushes and refocuses on her work.
Farrukh slashes the drow in the belly, and she keels over.
The other shooter is too slow to react as Eben turns visible, and the bolt sinks into her arm.
Heedless of the death of her comrade, the last drow steps back, reloads, and fires at Farrukh. "Kill me if you will, but you will all break before the Master!"
Maybe she's that good a shot. More likely she's just very lucky. But her bolt flies with perfect accuracy, lodging painfully in Farrukh's chest.
Hand crossbows are 19-20/x2 I believe.
Eben winces at the solid chok sound the bolt flying into Farrukh's chest makes. Okay, they are lethal with those and their bolts are smaller than my arrows! So I can be a bow badass too, he thinks to himself as he shoots again.
Eben glares up at the whip floating over his head. "Get it right for once!"
Tanith advances and removes a hand from his poleaxe long enough to backhand the crossbowowman.
Hand crossbows are 19-20/x2 I believe.
Tanith bruises the drow fighter as Eben's whip finally manages to coil around her arm. She struggles, swearing.
Farrukh steps out to the platform and starts whacking at the Drow with the side of his klar and flat of his sword.
Farrukh hammers into the drow, twice near-breaking her jaw with the side of his klar and finishing with a klong to her forehead.
The drow collapses, unconscious.
Tanith pulls the lever again and snatches up the unconscious drow woman.
"Grab whatever you can. As soon as the water's drained we're getting the hell out of here", he warns.
Farrukh chuckles.
"I should try to knock people out more often. That sound is just so...satisfying. "
"But yeah we need to leave before squidface comes back."
Carina doesn't say anything as the drow woman is beaten into unconsciousness.
"Got it. Spiny, heel." She points at the dinosaur and taps her side twice.
The water drains back down in a bit under a minute. With the barrel destroyed, though, the party is forced to climb back up. It's not an easy climb. Even Spiny moves slower than usual, so encumbered is he with mirror and corpses.
Barely over an hour ago, five heroes, one imposter, and a dinosaur entered the doppelgangers' hideout. Now, four heroes, one dinosaur, three dead bodies and a bound enemy exit.
It's a little past midnight on the 9th of Flocktime. This morning, the heroes encountered a poorly-maintained parade, met with Eligos and received a promise that he'd do research on the spawn and Ebon Triad, dealt with the Oligarchy, went to a nice cafe, and arrived at the Sodden Hold.
It has been a long, long day.
"Alright, you guys loot these two, I'll pat down the guys in the hallway..." Eben says, grabbing a couple of potions and swigging them down as he goes.
After looting the drow men, he heads back to the platform room to see the last of the water drain out. Noticing the dead octopus-thing for the first time (well, the first time he's in the room and not being shot at or electrocuted), he gives a low whistle. "Maybe that was why squid-guy wanted us dead. We killed his cousin."
On the way out of the warehouse, Eben stops and comments about each big fight that he apparently missed out on. "So the chests attacked? Really?" he says, as they exit. Outside, he looks around. "Okay, kinda turned around, but I assume we're not exactly near the palace..."
Farrukh cocks his head quizzically.
"That look odd to anyone else? I've never seen a blue eyed cat before."