For a moment, Yasmin wants to just smother the flames in the center with a blanket, but she becomes convinced that the heatless flame will not be so easily affected. Frustrated, she decides that it might be safer not to use more magics. Though she wondered whether magic items would be affected . . . it was time to test out the theory.
Taking a step back and reaching into her belt pouch, she draws out the Oil of Daylight that she had been saving for an emergency situation slightly different than this one. She pours it on to her metamagic rod, hoping daylight will fill the room and remove the shadows obscuring the elementals.
Rallos lashes out at the elemental again.
Any idead about these monster's weaknesses?
Cracking the oil across her magical implements, Yasmin fills the room with the brightness of daylight... diminishing the darkness and, as the blurred edges sharpen in the unnatural light, showing the friends exactly where the elementals are standing.
Stabbing forwards, Rallos strikes his opponent... the blade sinking deep into the black flames...
Ea moves towards Rallos, and cast a spell to strenghten his defenses
Again, as Ea casts her spell, the flames in the centre of the room seem to reach towards her...
"Careful Ea, that flame might grow stronger if we allow it to feed on our magics!"
The chanting grows to a level where an unseen malevolence starts to make itself felt within the entire chamber... the shadow creatures seem somehow larger and more imposing and, even though Yasmin's daylight still casts a powerful light around the room, the darkness coming from the alcoves is palpable.
...and now, perhaps emboldened by the effect that the chanting is having, the elementals press their attack.
"What?! You think I'm afraid of the dark," Titania taunts the creatures before slashing at the thing again with her sword, a ferocious grin on her face.
Titania's blade is wielded with a strength of conviction that even the rising darkness can do nothing to stop... her first swing nearly severs a limb from her opponent, and her back swing - elegantly weighted despite the power of the blow, utterly dissipates the shadow...
Good job, Titania.... Rallos shouts over the din of combat, his blade flickering in the light as he jabs at the elemental.
Rallos is accurate with his first attack, thrusting forwards and piercing the shadow... yet, as he does so, the shadows seem to writhe around his arm and across his body...
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Yasmin didn't really know what this chanting was doing, but it was obviously not good. Reluctant to cast spells, she's left with a few unpleasant options, none of which she really liked.
"I'm going to regret this . . . " she says a bit too loudly. Reaching into her belt pouch again, she retrieves a flask of acid and hurls it at the previously unmolested elemental.
;
Ea will try to strike her foe, using a more straight forward tactic than usual
Tossing an acid flask at the elemental, Yasmin hopes to avoid resorting to the arcane... but neither she, nor Ea following on with her morning star, can land blows upon the shadow figures...
...and, increasingly large above Rallos, the second of the elementals crashes his dark arms against him...
Titania runs across the room, a smile baring her teeth and her eyes glowing like red coals as she goes for the one that's chanting.
"Oi! Tall, dark, 'n' toasty! Down here you twit!"
Rsllps retreats from his opponent, his wounds and the sudden weakness almost buckling his knees.
Need....a nit of...help over...here
...[oo]withdraw[/ooc]
Quite unsure of how she could be most useful without casting a spell, she wanders off near he statue to see if it might reveal something of interest. .
As Rallos and Titania concern themselves with the shadowfire elementals - Titania by storming into combat once more and Rallos by extricating himself - Yasmin examines the statue to the east of the chamber - and finds nothing of note.
Ea moves toward the foe, shielding Rallos with her own body so he can get healed
Ea's weapon slams into shadow, diminishing it slightly, before... looming large over the Pharasmin, the elemental smashes her in return...
...whilst the remaining creature of darkness, stopping its chanting, turns it attentions towards Titania.
Ea stands her ground, fearlessly, and strikes back at the unholy creature
Seeing nothing near the statue, Yasmin decides she really ought to find a better way to help. "Okay, here goes." Drawing her rarely-used longspear, she gets into a position near Titania's elemental. She then seems to try to stab at it, though a closer look suggests she's really just trying to distract it!
Unfortunately, even this trivial effort comes to nothing.
Titania grins ferociously at the elemental as she starts trying to cut it to fiery ribbons.
"Wos tha matter? Can't hit one li'l girly? Too scared ya might not get whatever you use back?"
Titania's blade, swinging with force through the elemental fire, seems to catch on some nexus of energy within the dark flames... and, continuing the sword's arc, she rips through the very core of the creature. The flames, no longer dancing with ferocity, sputter and die...
Ea, avoiding the use of any magicks now, slams into the remaining elemental with her weapon... the chanting has stopped, two of the elementals slain and, badly outnumbered, the remaining foe is no longer vibrant - the tide of the battle has swung in favour of the friends.
Rallps closes with the elemental and swings at it with his blade.
Rallos, dancing around the elemental,stabs with his rapier - but, stabbing at peripheral flames, causes it no harm.
The battle is surely won yet the elemental, following some inscrutable instinct, continues to attack - this time slamming into Ea with two overwhelmingly powerful hits.
Titania throws herself at the last of the elementals, her eyes glowing red as she slashes at it.
Wanting to redeem her embarrassing first effort, Yasmin again uses her longspear as she tries to help Rallos finish off the remaining elemental.
Stoically, Ea takes her share of the pain and danger, unfazed by the risk of death.
And she delivers some pain of her own...
Rallos grits through the pain as he attacks, taking advantage of the opening Yasmin's feint has provided him.
Crashing into the elemental, Titania causes its flames to burn with far less intensity than before... indeed, the dark fire has almost completely faded now... and then when Ea and Rallos follow up with accurate blows, the flames are completely extinguished.
...anticlimactically, the elementals leave no trace of their existence and the fire in the centre of the chamber - that had threatened to feed from the friends' magicks - still burns.
Eyes still glowing, Titania turns to the others and gives them a grin that bares her teeth enough for it to be clear she has little fangs.
"Well, that was fun! We didn't even have to fight the big scary boss lady," She chirps as she shoulders her blade. "So we just snuff out the fire and then we can leave this creepy place behind!"
Despite her injuries, she's in a cheerful mood, and, amazingly enough, she doesn't seem to have been burned at all.
We might need some healing before we go on. Unless your deathwish is too severe, Hellknight?
"Your mood definitely brightens when you've had a chance to kill something, doesn't it?" Yasmin shakes her head. There was no doubt the girl was effective, even if she was rather aggressive. "But really, just give us a few seconds of warning there next time. We could've started a coordinated assault against those creatures."
Yasmin inspects the fire that had tried to thwart their magics. "I'm not sure we can just kick some dirt on this fire and expect it to go away. Our best bet might be to just starve it. It seems to feed on magical energy, so perhaps it will run out of energy in time after we leave." If possible, Yasmin tries to figure out if her guess is correct. .
"By the way, I placed a shielding spell on you, Murassa and myself to protect us against fire. Glad to see that it worked! The magic will only lasts about a half-hour though. So, shall we finish healing our wounds and continue?"
Nodding to Yasmin, Ea wordlessly unleashes another wave of grey energy,healing some more wounds
"Let's try this door to the north," suggests the sorceress. She takes a peek at it, though she knows by now that others have far keener senses than she does.
Rallos moves to the foor and examines it with his trained eye.
Yasmin's examination of the fire reveals that it seems to burn without fuel... and that the magical effect seems to require no external arcane energy to maintain the flame. In fact, it may have burnt here for an age without being fed by anyone else's spells... there is little to be done here other than avoid casting spells in its vicinity - and so, moving on, the group move towards the northern most of the doors.
Listening, there is silence from the other side of the heavy doors... and, as far as Rallos is able to tell, there is nothing as nefarious as a trap here.
Between being called just Hellknight, and Yasmin's observation, Titania's mood changes just as quickly as the glow in her eyes fades. She hadn't noticed the pain, and the implications of what Yasmin said bother her deeply.
She Waits for Rallos and Yasmin to finish their inspections before opening the door, her sword in her off hand.
Invigorated by the waves of healing from Ea, it is only Rallos with his energy sapping injury who carries any serious wound from the fight with the elementals...
The moment that Rallos pushes on the door, wisps of fog start to seep out into the room... a dense blue fog fills the space beyond the door. When the shifting air currents thin the mists near the door, they reveal that the walls connect at precise, unnatural angles and are decorated with strange geometric designs... and from somewhere in the fog, a rattling and scraping noise suggests that something is moving out of sight.
"That looks a little suspicious," remarks Yasmin as she observes the blue haze. She tries to understand what the strange mist might be, though she doesn't want to risk casting Detect Magic.
Yasmin deduces little about the blue mist... but as she considers it, she feels - as do her friends - something tugging at her mind...
"Blue flames, blue fog," Titania mutters before giving the others a wry grin, "what's next? a chamber where everything is blue?"