Scarlet nods to Olag's comments, simply turning and shooting her x-bow at the figure from the South.
Sighing she goes about re-arming.....
Bosh pulls out his crossbow and aims for the normal looking skeleton,
Cinder moves beside Scarlet, drawing her morningstar as she does. "Bones bash easily, don't they?"
In response to Cinder, Oleg motions at the now unmoving corpse with his foot. "I don't know about all of them, but that one fell apart like a rotten hollow log."
Scarlet nods, "Aye, more'n my bolts zippin' through th gaps..." Scarlet replies some what ruefully to Cinder.
"So... what's up with th' candle-lit one, then? Any one got ideas?" She asks, turning to face that threat.
"He doesn't look friendly.." Bosh will try to make memory if he has seen something like that in his books,
The two skeletons surge forward, the one from the north with green eyes coming down to attack Oleg, and the one to the south charging forward to attack Cinder.
However, they both fail to connect on their attacks.
"And what're'ya lookin at ugly?" Oleg mouths off before trying to give the green eyes skeletal monster a massive punch to the face with his Cestus, and a follow up backhand for good measure.
The creature easily sidesteps Oleg's initial blow, but positively explodes backwards from the force of the balm-coated backhand. The green light inits eyes flickers for a moment and goes out.
Scarlet slowly moves over and pokes some of the remains with a boot.
"Okay... what do we do with the wreckage?" She asks, peering down at the bones to see if they were carrying anything of note.
"Why don't bones get fat? It's hard to target something so thin" Bosh talks to himself while aiming at the remaining skeleton,
"Why don't bones get fat? It's hard to target something so thin" Bosh talks to himself while aiming at the remaining skeleton,
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Your crossbow bolt skirts right past its ribs!
Scarlet aims, points and fires.
"It's like shooting at a bird-cage..." She grumbles, even as she reloads and prepares to shoot again.
Scarlet aims, points and fires.
"It's like shooting at a bird-cage..." She grumbles, even as she reloads and prepares to shoot again.
Your bolt, indeed, goes past the skeleton that is threatening Cinder.
"Your snarking is going to throw off my aim!" she growls at the crossbolters, as she strikes at the skeleton.
They do, indeed, throw off your aim, as the skeleton nimbly dodges your swing.
It retaliates at Cinder with a series of claw swipes...
...landing two claws for a stinging amount of damage!
Frowns, takes aim and shoots again...
"It's like trying to shoot holes in holes..."
Oleg moves carefully to get in flank with Cinder, before attempting to smash the foe using a swinging overhand punch with his cestus.
"Leave a spot open for me to shot.." Bosh moves around to get a clean shot without endangering his teammates,
"This guy is hard to kill.."
Oleg smashess his fist into the skeleton with tremendous force, sending it shhhattered and scattered across the sands.
Those of you with eyes to see can make out three more shapes moving towards you in the gloom. One is coming down the path to the east, another behind it, and a third to the north around the spur of land.
"Are this things endless? Should we move forward while fighting?" Bosh suggest as the other three figures appear, he will try to shoot the closest skeleton,
"Well, the other folks did say they'd had a tough time..." Scarlet points out even as she takes a bead on a new target.
"Should we start backing up? Don't want to run out of ammunition before we run out of shamblers..."
Each of you fire shots at the approaching skeletons, but your bolts simply ping off of their bony bodies, apparently not inflicting any damage.
Scarlet blinks... "Hey...? How many glow?" She asks, though she doesn't stop reloading.
"Arg! Where are they coming from?" Cinder stands ready with her morningstar, facing the area that the bolts are flying towards.
The three skeletons close, with the closest finishing its approach with a wild charge directly at Cinder, claws flailing as it strikes at you...
...it manages to cut through your armor, though just barely, and leaves a furrow in your torso.
The two other skeletons approach, one just north of the spur of rock, the other directly to the east, its eyes glowing with an unnatural green light.
Oleg moves a little closer to the Skeleton attacking Cinder, hoping to protect the nearly blind woman from further attack. "These things seem to be fixated on you something fierce!" Turning to the skeleton, Oleg attempts to bash its skull in with powerful blows from his Cestus and kicks from his leg. "Leave her be you dead bastard!"
Oleg's blows miss!
Cinder grimaces at the blood running down her side. "Can't afford a lucky hit." She presses her hand to her side, "Sarenrae, gift your light of healing to mend my wounds."
"Damn skeletons..." Bosh reloads his crossbow and shoots at the skeleton again,
"Are they protected by magic or my aim is just bad?" He complains as his attack fails..
The skeleton in the thick of it lurches towards Scarlet and launches a flurry of claw strikes with its many limbs...
... and one manages to get through your defenses.
The one to the north makes a circuitous route to get to Cinder, and just barely reaches her.
The one to the east charges at Oleg's back, launching a claw when it closes...
...but it is off balance and misses!
Oleg takes a step closer to the strange skeletal creature that Scarlet just stepped away from. Looking over at Cinder and seeing her in trouble, he shouts "Behind you!"
Then Oleg attempts the old high-low combination of powerful cross aimed at the head to set up a vicious kick should the monster duck the first blow.
Bosh repositions himself to avoid hurting his teammates and shoots again at the skeleton with his crossbow,
"By the beards of my ancients!" he yells as he misses...
Oleg's punch lands with a solid crack, and the skeleton collapses in a heap of bones. His kick further stops it into the sands, as Bosh's crossbow bolt flies past the skeleton.
"Thanks Oleg!" Cinder turns to the other skeleton and swings!
The skeleton with blazing green eyes steps up to Oleg, and proceeds to swipe at him with all four claws as well...
...and two find gory purchase in the gaps in his armor, pulling long furrows of flesh out with each strike,
The skeleton hops to the side to avoid Cinder's blow, and retaliates against her and Scarlet by swiping claws at each...
...but its divided attention clearly distracts it from connecting.
Bosh drops his crossbow into the sand and starts weavering his hands,
"Ég ætla að fara að mylja þig" he chants while some arcane force gathers around his hand, pointing his hands in the directions of the green eye skeleton Bosh unleashes its power in the form of a big magic arrow,