Dingus tosses a globule of acid over the Corlisses's heads to strike one of the remaining creatures. The burns distract it from its continued attack and it misses. The final creature removes the ornate polearm from the statue's grasp and waves it overhead as it advances around the pit. The polearm screams even louder and Kaul feels a brief uncertainty that passes. The noise is so loud that it makes it hard to think.
Dodging like a madman, Jim closes with the last enemy and tries to lever the polearm out of its grip.
Jim dives and rolls past the bearer of the screaming polearm before it can bring the heavy weapon to bear. He attempts a disarm but that proves difficult with his light blade against the long two-handed weapon.
Corliss (and his copycat) continues to duel the wounded foe near him/them.
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Corlisses further injure the mutant. It's not the death blow that Jim or Kaul would deliver but not bad for a sea priest.
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"Get them Boys".
Dingus continues to rain acid.
Acid Splash
It burns
But quickly has to remove one of his favorite sequined slippers as the acid splashes onto it.
Seeing his oppochancity for further mayhem, Kaul unleashes a hack to slay;
The bloody mutant raises the red-tinted steel polearm above Jim but is split from right shoulder to left hip by Kaul's axe. The shrieking polearm falls silent as it clatters to the floor in the dead creature's grip.
The final creature tries to attack Corliss but seems confused by its apparent double-vision.
"Nicely done, mate! One more to go!" Jim advances on the one facing Corliss and strikes.
The smell of burning slipper seems to take its toll on his accuracy, though.
Corliss takes a 5-foot step toward the wall, hoping to give Jim a flanking opportunity, then stabs out with his rapier.
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The Corlisses look on in disbelief as his hasty stab pierces the unarmored creature's chest and it slumps to the ground just as Jim readies a killing blow.
Jim looks at his nearly unscathed state, then at Kaul and Corliss. "You two seem to have been to the wars! Might be time for us to retreat and rest, hey?"
Kaul looks at his scars old and new and chuckles;
"Hur. Always in the wars Jimmer. Ol' Kauly soaks it up like a sponge..."
After checking to make sure their foes are irretrievably dead, Corliss gathers his mates for his final healing channel for the day.
"I may not be much o' a swordsman, but I be a top-notch practice dummy!" he exclaims, his crooked grin more of a crooked grimace this time. "Let's hope Bessie appreciates the effort we all put in...."
The channel only putting a dent in the damage he and Kaul suffered during the battle, the priest swaps out a couple of 1st-level spells to heal the two some more. Then another stronger one for himself....
Dingus stays up on his trapeze bar keeping an eye out while the others heal.
"Yay! Good job team. Do any of them have any nice shoes"? .
Dingus makes his way down and begins to loot the bodies.
The warped humanoids have nothing but tattered clothes and their old battered axes. The only items of value in the room are the magic polearm and gold ornamentation on the statue.
Jim wipes his rapier clean on some of the rags, and takes more so he can pick up the polearm without touching it. "Let's get out of here. Say, Corliss...did the wounds on the bodies we found look like these things might've done the killing?"
The wounds on the older dead certainly look to have been inflicted by the axes and strange jaws of the misshapen creatures.
As his wounds are healed Kaul nods a thanks to the priest;
"Hur. Much a'blidged Blackboots..."
He chuckles as Jim gingerly picks up the polearm;
"Should'a let Ol' Kauly an' his claw do that Jimmer. Ain't nowt worse than what I seen, what I done... what I'll do..."
The thug's bloody mind drifts to thoughts of revenge and a massacre to come at The Golden Goblin.
"Could be that poleax has a purpose... Could be we's meant to find it... Like me an' Lopps."
The axe head bobs in agreement...