With her targets occluded by the Bagra Fraejia quickly moved up and, once she saw there was a large room behind their attackers, she held one hand out and behind one of the rifleman there was a slight shimmer.
The captors draw their axes and slice at the Bahgra, except the on in back, who continues to fire.
Axe attack vs Bahgra for The Bahgra lets out a yelp of pain, followed by a growl.
Axe attack vs Bahgra
Rifle attack vs Neve
"Other's" turn:
The door to the north opens and two more Klaven are revealed behind it. The one who opened the door fires his rifle while the other strides forward, axe in hand to attack Jaxel.
Axe attack vs Jaxel
Rifle attack vs Jaxel
Jaxel unleashes a flurry of claws and fangs onto the Klaven.
After ripping the first one to bits, he gives the second one a menacing growl, his fangs and claws still dripping blood.
Artirian calls out uncertainly, "Urm krakkar, þú got þetta meðhöndlaðar, ekki satt?" and moves to hide behind the pillar.
Urm guys, you got this handled, right?
Aurexil looks over at the other door. Well... that makes for an easier choice, she thinks to herself as she maneuvers to slash the Klaven with her glaive.
Jaxel tears a Klaven down while Aurexil misses. The Bahgra try to continue their assault against the Klaven
Scimitar
Scimitar
Longbow
Longbow
The continuation of fury and sound to no effect.
Aggravated at her lack of a clear shot Fraejia took one anyway. She got lucky as the bahgra before her moved back to dodge the creautres strike she was able to hold her hand out right beside the doglike creature's head and send a near unobstructed blast into the alien's face.
The Klaven is nearly encased in the icy blast, but struggles onward, driven by its mental conditioning to fight until it no longer can.
Axe vs north Bahgra for The Bahgra yelps the growls.
Axe vs south Bahgra
Rifle vs Fraejia
Neve continues firing.
27/30 ammo left.
AefPakka stands back, lamenting the fact that he is so unprepared for such close-quarters fighting. He has his nine-section whip out and ready should one of the bahgra fall.
Bahgra scimitar
Bahgra scimitar for
Bahgra bow for
Bahgra bow for
The Bahgra finish off the front-liner Klaven, leaving only two standing. They don't show any sign of surrender, however.
Jaxel shoulders past one of the Bahgra to engage the Klaven and chomp its foot.
Artirian gestures to the Klaven in the North east magnanimously, "Allt þitt, dömur."
Guys should get a clue and just surrender. I'm not going back in that tube!
26/30 ammo left.
Aurexil flashes a grin at Artirian, but saves her breath for fighting. She continues her assault on the foe to the northeast.
Realizing there is an enemy to the northeast that Aurexil is fighting Fraejia moved up to help deal with it, She got close enough to send a burst of energy at it and keep herself undercover at the same time.
Jaxel and Neve finish off one Klaven while Aurexil and Fraejia finish off the other. The corridors fall silent, the sounds of combat ending.
The Bahgra spend a little effort to make sure the enemies are truly dead, unless stopped.
The room to the Northeast is a smallish rectangular stone chamber is empty save the dead Klaven and two cylinders set against the northern wall attached to root-like cables extending into the ceiling. These cylinders are slightly different from the others you've seen.
The scene to the east is a bit more grisly; eight open cylinders, their prior "occupants" stacked on the floor, each with a single slice opening their throats and a pool of blood formed under their bodies. They, apparently, were not given an opportunity to decide whether or not to surrender.
Aurexil growls softly as she takes in the sight. "Góður hlutur sem við vorum ekki enn sofandi þegar þeir fengu að okkur," she states.
Then she starts looking over the Klaven corpses for anything useful.
Artirian peeks into the room to the east timidly, turns green in the face, then staggers over to a corner to puke. "Afsakið mig, ég ætla að vera veikur," he manages to gasp out between heaves.
"Excuse me, I'm going to be sick."
Jaxel looks at his human, shakes his head, and sighs.
Aurexil looks over at Artirian, and while her face is hard for non-wyvaran to read, her expression seems to soften a bit.
"Hef ekki séð dauðann mikið áður, hefur þú?" She asks, quietly. "Leitt að segja það, en ég held að þetta sé að fara að versna áður en það batnar. Ég gæti vara þig næst þegar ég sé eitthvað svona ef það myndi hjálpa, þó."
Artirian leans one hand against the wall for support and looks at Aurexil, with distress in his eyes. "Hvers vegna vildi Klaven drepa fólk ekki að skaða þá með köldu blóði?"
"Why would the Klaven kill people unable to harm them in cold blood?"
He gestures at the Klaven bodies on the floor. "Það sem við gerðum var réttlætanleg. Ef við ekki drepa þá, þeir myndu drepa okkur.Við gerðum það sem við þurftum að gera."
"What we did was justified. If we didn't kill them, they would kill us. We did what we had to do."
"En þá?" His voice sounds both confused and sad.
"But them?"
Aurexil shrugs slightly. "Á giska? Pantanir." she states.
Freajia looked in interest at the apparently unused cylinders, she noted the differences between them but couldn't figure out what they meant just now. As they moved into the next chamber her breath caught at the sight of the dead and she felt a surge of anger flow through her. She started to glow as she began to "sing" again, the cold blue light radiating from her. She paid little attention to the others as, in a trance, she walked into the midst of the bodies, her song increasing and, with a sudden flash of blue light she stepped back out. Where the bodies were was no a rather large block of whitish ice that had a strange script embedded into it. She blinked and quieted, then she looked at the ice block in confusion and said, "They...at...peace. Not touched again...ever."
Artirian sighs, gets control of his stomach, cleans the mess up, inclines his head respectfully at what is now their icy tomb, then starts searching the place.
As Aurexil picks at the Klaven bodies, she notes that they each carry a battleaxe and spur rifle, with the ones who did not fire the rifles having five blobs of ammo for the rifle each. Perhaps more importantly, she sees that one in each group carries a 6-inch metal rod, easily identified by Neve as keys needing only be touched to the pads next to the doors to open them.
Not being one to comment on weird happening Neve points to the rods. Those are the keys to get out of here she says in GalComm
Aurexil takes one of the axes--always good to have another shorter-reach weapon if she needed it.
She jumped a bit when she noticed what Fraejia had done, then shook her head slightly. Not like it was any weirder than anything else that had happened today. She watched Neve point at the rods, then looked over at Fraejia.
"What did she say?" she asked in Auran.
Neve picks one up and motions to everyone else to pick one up as well then she moves back to the main corridor.
Artirian does as Neve says then tries his on every door until he finds which one it opens, with Jaxel by his side as he does so.
Fraejia nodded at Neve and, when the draconic woman tapped her and asked what had been found, she replied, "તેમણે જણાવ્યું હતું કે તે કીઓ જોવા મળે છે."
Aurexil nods and replies, "વેલ કે ઓછામાં ઓછા કેટલાક દરવાજા મારફતે અમને વિચાર કરીશું."
Then she notices Artirian trying doors and rushes over to him. "Ættir þú ekki að láta mig og Jaxel vera í framan þegar einn af þeim opnast?"
As Artirian is just about to try the door to the north, Aurexil catches him with her question.
"Já þú ert sennilega rétt." Artirian replies.
Yeah, your probably right.
Jaxel moves in front of the door as Artirian fiddles with the keypad.
Aurexil nods, and stands beside Jaxel as Artirian uses the key.
Let's do the north door first
As Artirian presses the rod/key to the pad next to the door, it opens, revealing another battle taking place.
A red-headed humanoid woman tries to fend off a Bahgra, whose teeth have already scored a few bites on her. Three more Bahgra lay unconscious on the floor before her.
The Bahgra behind you growl at the sight, brandishing their scimitars menacingly.
In Gal Comm Ah what's... Happening?
"hætta! Láta þá Bahgra friði!"Artirian shouts while raising hs hand up in a 'stop' gesture.
"Stop!Leave those Bahgra alone!"
"Ekki viss um að hún hafði val í málinu," Aurexil comments, then turns to AefPakka. "Getur þú færð Baghra að róa sig niður? Ég vil helst ekki hafa aðra baráttu ef við getum hjálpað henni."
The sight wasn't a good one, the woman fighting off these baghra was likely to set their own bahgra. She held up her hand in a gesture intend to indicate they should hold and approached the bahgra cautiously as she held out her hands to her sides in as non-threatening a manner as she could. "No...fight. We...flee...come." She made a gesture indicating they should come with her group and then watched cautiously for their reaction now that she was next to a couple of them.
AefPakka steps up and tries to help calm the situation as well. He says mostly to the new bahgra they have encountered and partially to the previous companions, "Grargle garra burruuuu. GarRowr rullarg roro." He points to the room with the strange creatures they just defeated.
The Bahgra behind bark out something, causing the Bahgra near the woman to hesitate its attack and bark something in return.
"Wait, she is not bad people! These bad people!"
"She use magic against friends!"
The woman cries out in GalCom "Please, help! They were trying to eat me, I think!"
Aurexil suppresses a sigh. It seems she'll have to leave this situation to those who can speak others' languages.
Fraejia's attention was caught when the woman spoke in a language she understood, it was a relief that she could communicate more readily with her. "They are pack animals, they need to establish dominance, you were resisting that and I think it's the cause of the fighting. We had a similar problem and after knocking most of the pack out they ceased being a problem and became our allies," she paused and considered, "at least for now." She looked at the situation and then said, "I need you to lower your weapon and then, if they hold, work your way slowly around to me. I won't let them attack you if I can help it, just don't show them any fear and I'll meet you partway." She then shifted to her left a few feet warily as she watched the Bahgra for any aggression.
In Gal Comm. Yeah, everyone just CALM DOWN! Whoever is running the ship is the real enemy here. They're the one who shoved us in these tubes! We just killed some of 'em and we need to take over the ship! Better than killing each other!
The woman and the Bahgra calm down a bit, and even more when the Bahgra on the ground are found to be merely sleeping.
The woman introduces herself to Neve and Fraejia as Andretta. "These beasts are like creatures of legend on my world, and they speak an ancient dialect of Ultan." she says, indicating the Bahgra. "Wehen we awoke in this chamber, we were all naturally disorientated and confused. Perhaps they saw me as their captor, for they began to attack. I was able to sing a lullaby to soothe most of them, but that one was stronger of will and continued the attack. If you hadn't come along.... well, without my spear there is not much else I could have done. Thank you. I assume from your words you were also prisoners here, wherever her is? Do your friends not speak Galak?"
The Bahgra are having a conversation of their own among the two groups.
"Woke up in pen."
"Also woke up in pen."
"thought bad"
"Us too, but these bad. These not bad."
"Find other bad, kill bad."
["Kill bad, escape pen."
Neve sighs in relief and starts jabbering in Galak. Yeah, pretty much the same happened to us just a little while ago. Managed to talk them 'round though.
The other people we're with don't seem to know Galak, hell, they don't seem to know how doors work, they might be primitives.. seem smart enough otherwise. We ran into some prison guards and took 'em out. We also found our gear and the keyrods. I think we should get you your stuff back too and then keep opening doors here before using the elevator to go upstairs.
Freajia approached Andretta carefully and said, "Well met Andretta, I'm Fraejia and this is Neve. As my companion here said, we both speak Galak, none of the rest do. Fortunately I share a language with Aurexil and she shares some with others so we can all communicate, albeit in a round about fashion." She gestured to Andretta and the other Bahgra to follow and headed back out to the main area. "So, which door next?"