Demitri drops his sword and draws his crossbow, taking a shot at the necromancer.
Ortik grimaced as Vreeg froze Nalun in place. He spied Karri chanting the words to a familiar spell, so he started echoing them. You can stop one of us, he thought. I'll wager you can't stop us both.
Demitri's bolt hits Vreeg in the toe, causing the derro to look down in irritation.
"...really? Really?"
He then notices Karri & Ortik beginning to cast spells, causing him to grumble. He points his wand at Karri, sending the ghostly hand at her!
The hand streaks towards the sorceress... and thanks to Ortik's flare ruining his eyes, barely misses her. "Oh... this isn't going to end well, is it?"
Karralo starts awake and begins flailing around blindly.
Nalun knocks an arrow and readies it to disrupt spellcasting!
The air fills with a droning buzz, and a swarm of flies and insects appears near Vreeg. Shooting out of it is a mosquito-like creature the size of a cat, and it flies towards the derro's neck.
"Any time you want to surrender, necromancer, just let us know." Ortik watches the fight unfold, but takes no further actions.
AC 12, hp 5, CMD 9 (17 vs. trip)
Not sure - does the +8 to maintain a grapple apply to his CMD or just his CMB?
The stirge's proboscis finds its mark in the derro's neck! "Ow! What the--?!"
With a howl from the depths of her soul, Karri summons a twisted bird-like thing from her flesh. She throws it towards the levitating wizard and backs out of the room. Her face if grinning, something is pleased with the results.
The bird-thing attacks the wizard!
Karri seethes as she steps from the room, Kasdaye asserts himself enough that her hands feel helpless as he/she pulls her Morningstar from her back and swings it down on Karralo! The hollow voice curses and rages, "Die! Bleed, break and suffer!"
The wicked head smashes into the floor near Karralo with a clang. Karri's natural voice cries out, "Surrender so he won't kill you!"
Demitri seeing the necromance being taken care of, drops his crossbow picking up his sword in the process and moves to threaten Karralo stepping behind Karri. "She is right that you should surrender. You're blind, outmanned, and out weaponed."
Karri's summoned eagle claws and pecks at Vreeg, but the derro is too quick, managing to dodge each attack.
Karralo writhes on the floor, barely dodging Karri's morningstar. He doesn't hear anyone's pleas to surrender, but the spray of dirt across his face is enough to finally catch his attention.
Lyla puts down the flail and pulls out the crossbow again as she runs through Vreeg's room. She stops at the door to the last, unexplored chamber, and takes a peak inside while reloading the crossbow.
This dry, well-kept chamber contains a narrow bed, a relatively empty shelf containing only a few books and some bones and skulls, and a long bench. A man’s torso, the chest bearing numerous tribal tattoos and with the right arm still attached, lies on this bench. The arm periodically thrashes and clutches at the air as if it were alive.
Vreeg squawks and swings at the stirge stuck to him with the dagger in his hand!
The tiny knife barely nicks Buzzes' wing. "Dammit, get off of me you bloodsucking abomination of nature!"
"Well that is one less thing to worry about." Demitri will move back into the room and cast on Nalun.
Nalun continues his readied action versus spellcasting!
With powerful beating of wings, the eagle stays close to the derro. One of the flurry of beak and claws lands, drawing a painful scrape on the derro's arm.
Buzz beats his wings angrily as Vreed slashes a small wound on him, but continues to sup at the mad derro's blood.
AC 12, hp 4/5, CMD 9 (17 vs. trip)
If successful, he inflicts another point of Con damage to Vreeg.
Karri plants the head of her morning star on Karralo's chest. The meaning should be clear. To make sure it is, she twists, letting one of the spikes gouge Karralo.
Buzz is anchored firmly on Vreeg, despite the derro mage's best efforts. Karri's eagle's claw scrapes along Vreeg's arm, and manages to draw blood thanks to the stirge's assistance!
The derro glares at the stirge and channels necromantic power into his hand, reaching out to grasp the creature!
This time, the chill of the grave overcomes Buzz, causing the stirge to shrivel and blacken before falling off, truly dead. "Hmph. Amateurish." Vreeg grumbles.
Nalun readies another attack to disrupt spellcasting
The eagle is losing altitude, but makes one last lunge with a claw before it breaks off to fly into the ether as it disappears in a wisp of foul smelling vapor.
Karri holds her morning star on Karralo.
Demitri will move back to keep Karralo in check.
Lyla keeps firing at Vreeg repeatedly, hoping to bring him down with some insistence. "Someone grab a broomstrick and hit him up there, will ya?"
Lyla's bolt hits Vreeg squarely in the chest with a THUNK!
"OW! CAN'T YOU SEE THE EAGLE CLAWING AT ME, HALF-WOMAN?!" The derro barks. "I HAVE ENOUGH TO DEAL WITH ALREADY!"
"Don't listen to him, Lyla!", Ortik says, fishing into his bag for a few rat tails. "Here, a bit of luck for you!" He tosses them at her, and they crawl over the crossbow and her arms, helping aim the shot at the floating deep dwarf.
Vreeg glares at the clustered Nalun & Ortik. "That's it. I am officially done with this."
He raises a finger and points at the two. "Hope you weren't too attached to your ears!" He gloats as Nalun's readied shot flies wide.
Karri's eagle claws at Vreeg twice, each time being foiled by the translucent disc of force he conjured up. A white bubble streaks from his finger and in between Nalun & Ortik!
The noise rings throughout the room, but despite being at the centre of it, the bounty hunter & the dwarf are able to keep their senses about them!
Vreeg then swoops down right in Lyla's face. "Now for YOU." He growls. His eyes gleam with rage and insanity in equal measure.
Karralo blinks several times as Karri's magic finally wears off. He snorts at Demitri. "FINE. GO AHEAD AND CUFF ME--SEE IF I CARE. VREEG WON'T EVEN CONSIDER IT, THE MAD LITTLE S&#$."
Yep, he's still deaf.
Vreeg snorts derisively as Lyla's bolt hits him in the shoulder...
...then lashes out with a hand that is *thrumming* with grave magic!
...and thanks to Lyla's reduced size, he misses her by a hair. He doesn't scream or howl this time.
Nalun snarls This needs to end... and he drops his bow, and charges Vreeg! He draws his falchion as he moves
Nalun's falchion gets past the disc of force in time to connect squarely with Vreeg's back! "OW!"
The derro spins around. "Ex-CUSE me, I was in the MIDDLE--" He trails off when he sees just who it is that's standing before him.
"...of course. Deaf and stubborn. WHY NOT?! I CAN'T IMAGINE THIS DAY COULD GET ANY WORSE!"
Echoing and distant Karri tells Demitri, "Go, end the mad wizard. we will watch this one." Her eyes flash as she turns her attention back to the prone traitor-guardsman.
"Oh, Torag's t***," Ortik mutters as the necromancer swoops down before Lyla. He pulls his warhammer and moves up to harry the mage as well, hopping over the bed as he goes. "Bad plan, derro man. Now that you're down, you're staying down."
Attacking Vreeg!
"If you're sure, I'll be right back." Demitri double moves back to threaten the necromancer.
Ortik's swing comes at Vreeg, but the translucent disc of force interposes itself between the two of them, taking the blow.
Vreeg focuses on Nalun and starts weaving his hands, nimbly trying to avoid leaving himself open to retaliation!
He finishes his incantation and points a finger at him!
Worms crawl from her eyes. Tears of blood run down her cheeks. The skin of her face peels back and she SHRIEKS!
Your heart leaps into your throat, but you hold fast--Trinia is nowhere near this hellhole. She's safe. She's alright. At least, that's what your memories tell you.
The magic still makes your hands shake, though. Giving you a start like that has thrown off your aim a bit.
Nalun is staggered for a moment, but somehow manages to keep his composure!
Nalun attacks Vreeg again with a mighty chopTime to end this! he says with gritted teeth
Vreeg's eyes widen as Nalun's falchion cleaves through his meager shield of force. He has just enough time to regret casting his last spell before the bounty hunter cleaves him in two from crown to crotch.
He falls apart, well and truly dead.
Nalun breathes a sigh of relief. Okay, now thats over. Time for that other one to answer some questions I think.
Nalun walks over to where the man Karralo lay You. You will tell me everything you know, I am not in a mood for games.
Karralo's eyes widen, but he lies still.
"Good work. You should listen to him. That might be you next." Demitri says pointing to the bisected necromancer.
Karralo blinks.
"Let's just bring him with us while we finish finding the body parts. Who's hurt?"
Ortik cringes as the derro's blood is sprayed over his face. "Damn fool. Damn shame we couldn't take him alive, but dead's just as good for someone like him what perverts the natural order. It's right about now I wish I'd actually tried to weasel some information out of him during the fight - he was certainly chatty enough."
"Anyway, Demitri's right," he says, pulling the wand from his coat pocket. "Line forms to the right. I'll start fixing you up, right as rain."
Seeing the man unable to answer due to hearing, Nalun makes a distasteful face and begins roughly searching the man and relieving him of anything that might be a weapon. After that he searches the room that Vreeg was in originally.