Reesa tries to concentrate in casting a spell, but she starts sneezing and it is unable to do anything but move this round.
Arthrax moves ahead protecting his companions with his shield against the guards attacks.
Jani readies to send forth the swarm once Ma'Huuk gets out of the trajectory.
Kiti starts fighting defensively while pushes Mimi to the front where the dust particles are clearly moving. The tiger moves sneezing and breathing with great difficulty, only moving half she usually would move.
The guard takes his opportunity to attack the tiger.
Eva then moves casting a pattern of colours over the guards.
The green coated guard drops to the floor totally out of combat with his mind blown up.
The guards throw their readied attacks as Ma'Huuk approaches.
And both guards land a strike on the barbarian.
Then Ma'Huuk tries to overrun the yellow coated one, whom tries to defend himself...
Without success and Ma'Huuk hits him and passes by with ease, closing next to the doors.
Jani then moves her swarm that again bites the invisible man.
The red guardian attacks Arthrax with his scimitar, but the fighter hits the blade with ease deflecting the attack.
The green coated one instead tries to hit the tiefling "Crap devil! How were you allowed in Qadira!?!?!"
But she jumps to the side avoiding the attack.
The invisible figure moves between Ma'Huuk and his dinosaur, so clearly, they can attempt an attack of opportunity.
But both hit the air.
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"You meanie! I said no fight! Don't ever hit Mimi again!" Kiti cries at the guard. She steps to flank him with Arthax, and tries to hit with her Scimitar, but instead inhales too much of the dust and starts coughing.
"Mimi, stop gagging and catch him!" the gnome commands, and Mimi continues running after the invisible creature.
The Pathfinders breath again the refinery dusts and continue sneezing, unable to do much more than moving.
Fortunately Mimi recovers enough to hastily move surrounding the invisible creature.
The yellow coated guard charges up towards the dinosaur "Do not go into the refinery!" he shouts in common understanding you are not following their Kelish commands.
His attack hitting the floor instead of the target.
The red one moves to Eva and tries to drop her with a slash of his blade.
But the woman easily parries the blow.
Ma'Huuk fails to grapple the invisible creature, while Jani sends forth her swarm as far as she can.
When Buri tries to move this time, Ma'Huuk hits him in the back of the legs causing it to fall to the floor.
The red coated guard attacks yet again Arthrax with the scimitar.
The warrior is taken by surprise by the blade attack, but his armor easily deflects it. The guard steps out of the flanking position.
Eva's blade crashes on the guard's face, half-breaking it and leaving the man barely standing. He has an expression of surprise in his face.
Arthrax hits hard the guard iin front slashing on the man's side. Unable to continue fighting the guard lands soundly to the ground.
While Jina moves to the front Ma'Huuk profits the creature prone position to blindly look by touch for it and grappled. The man being affected by the swarm poison and the prone position is enough for the success of the attack.
Moto iis not nauseated and can still act.
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"Sorry but you hit first. Ma'Huuk, you got him? Mimi, don't bite, just defend Ma'Huuk! Yes, the big one. Here, this should help", Kiti says, puts her sword away and casts a spell to stop the guard's bleeding. "Wait for me, my legs are shorter than yours!" she shouts and starts moving toward the invisible creature.
An orb of magical energy blows from Reesa's wand and strikes hard the blue coated guard in the chest. The burst breaks partly the armor, his wounds too much for him to continue on foot.
Kiti easily stabilizes the guard, the man's breath becoming suddenly easier.
The remaining guard looks at the large team in the refinery, then at the ones going into the insides of the building, and finally charges over Jani shouting in Kelish and ignoring his fallen companions "You fiend! Go out you and your friends now! Or we will call the City Watch"
The woman jumps slightly to the side easily dodging the attack.
Buri Buri-Ban starts shouting "AAaaah! Leave me alone! Get out of here! You are not going to steal anything from me thief!" trying to break free of the grapple.
But Ma'Huuk tightens the hold so he cannot move.
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”The stone is not yours, Buri!” Ma’Huuk grunts as he takes ahold of the man, ”And we are here to reclaim it.”
”I HAVE HIM!” Ma’Huuk roars to the team and guards as he begins dragging Buri towards the refinery’s rear door, ”Guards! Help us get this man outside and we will sort this mess out! We are no thieves!”
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Reese moves up to the blue guard that she had just injured, preparing to try and save his life. She sits down beside him and directs a use of her heavenly fire ability directly to him, trusting that as close as she was, nothing and would happen.
Heal from heavenly fire, if he is good. If he is not good, no healing occurs.
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"We will leave as soon as we fix the mess our less temperate colleagues have caused. We sincerely apologize for the trouble. Are you injured?"
If the guard yelling at Jani is hurt, they will withdraw their wand of curing and heal his wounds. Otherwise will move to the closest one who is hurt and heal him.
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The guard, seeing all the party closing to the room corners himself trying to defend his life "Call the city watch! Assailants!"
Buri claims for his life also trying to escape the grapple "No! No, forgive me and my things please!"
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"There is no reason to call the watch," Ma'Huuk grunts as he wrestles the squirming, invisible Buri out through the back doors. "We are leaving. Come with us if you want to see proof of our truth."
Once outside, the massive Bekyar presses his knee into what feels like the invisible man's chest. "Remove your invisible spell. NOW! So we may speak."
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Kiti rushes to help Ma'Huuk. She draws a rope out of her backpack and ties the invisible creature up while the big man is dragging him. "It's so hard to see you but at least we can now see the rope. Look, it's wrapped around something, and that's who we want to talk to, we just want to get our statue back and he can go", Kiti tries to calm the guards. "So, where is it? How much did you pay? Why did you want it? Why did you run from us? Is it fun to be invisible? Are these guards your friends?" she blurts out all questions coming to her mind.
"Oh, Mimi, no need to watch now, we're fine, just need the airy guy to talk", she says to the tiger, who goes to find the sunniest spot nearby to lay down.
The guards look at you warily as you move Buri out of the building. The green coated one, gets out of the building running as he recovers from his stunning.
As Buri is tied up, he starts to answer most of your questions.
"I guess you mean the Osiriani statue. I bought it to Chaim... it was a great opportunity for such a piece of art" says the man as you see him fighting against the ropes "I was informed someone well armed was asking about me and the statue so I decided to run away before I come into trouble"
As the invisibility spell fades off you can see a tanned man, dressing with colourful light vestments. One small bag hangs from his belt, but otherwise he seems to have no other equipment.
"I paid him good. Who send you? How did you discover I have bought the statue? How long have you been following me?" ask him back.
Buri has been feeling uncomfortable since you bind it, but he seems to become increasingly nervous as seconds pass. He tries to move his arms out of the bindings, and now he is kicking and lowering his voice, talking as if he loses his mind "Unbind me! Unbind me! You fiend and lovers!!! Unbind me! No no no! I cannot breath! Oh god... I cannot breath! Unbind me!" he starts moving desperately not answering your questions anymore.
With a bit of effort Ma'Huuk takes the bag from the man and opens it. Inside there is a statue 2 inches tall and weighting about 8 ounces. It resembles a common house cat in the seated position.
You have seen similar things before. He is forcing the ties to the point he is making deep injuries in his arms and bleeding. You would say he has some kind of pathological aversion to being bound.
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Kiti takes the cat statue enthusiastically, and shows it to Mimi. "Look, Mimi! It's the cat! Not a big like you but a cat anyway."
She looks at Buri and lightly taps him with the statue. "I could hit him but it would only make more hurt. But if he runs and tells, we need to find three more airy guys and it was hard." She turns to Buri, face almost touching him. "I'd give back your money but Chammy had it and he's a bit dead. You wouldn't go messing with us? If you were free. We are very, very dangerous when angry", she warns Buri, staring him with her pink eyes and wiggling her tiny finger at his nose.
The man seems coming to a point were he is losing his sense of reality, turning to side and side and fighting with the bindings as if an invisible enemy was fighting with him. All of a sudden he starts to desperately cry "Unbind me! Unbind me... please... unbind me..." he seems unable to listen Kiti, or at least he does not answer to her menace.
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During all of this, Jani had been working to heal all the wounded guards, working on the mist badly wounded first, followed by the less badly hurt. They will be apologizing constantly, saying, "We can't apologize enough for the inexcusable actions of our colleagues. They had no need to attack you and we will be speaking to them to make sure nothing like this happens in the future."
They will also give each guard 5 gp for the inconvenience, and 10 gp additional to those who were injured.
"There's no need to call the city watch, just a misunderstanding, right?"
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Kiti puts the statue to her backpack and starts to help Eva untie their prisoner, collecting back her silk rope. "It's the same in the north. Usually because there isn't food around" she agrees with Ma'Huuk. "Do you know who have the other statues?" she asks Buri, then switching back to talking to her friends: "But he's not hungry I guess? I do have some rations in my backpack. And a cat but you cannot eat that."