Sybil slowly takes her new mace from her belt, still undecided about which ennemy to attack. After a moment, she decides to move toward the skeleton that Dao and Irnk (from what I gathered so far) are attacking. However, she stop right out of the undead's reach.
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Round 2 - Enemies
The skeleton flanked by Galford and Irnk seems unafraid and keeps attacking the Goblin Paladin.
On the other side of the battle the prone skeleton makes a dexterous jump getting back on it's bony feet. It moves his skull as to look towards Apex and opens its jaw... then it takes a 5' step towards Avan and quickly lets a skeletal open hand attack him trying to connect on his heart.
Round 3 - Heroes
Avan receives the hit square on the chest, but unfazed attacks the skeleton and connects, making it lose a couple of ribs.
Both of them stand in front of each other, their martial postures perfect, measuring their opponent now that the first strikes have connected.
Apex, seeing that the skeleton on Avan wasn't terribly affected by her attack, and that Avan has it under control, sends her cyclone after the one Irnk and Sybil are attacking.
If it falls down, hit hard before it can get back up!!
Sybil still stands behind the reach of the undead. However, she uses he mace to deflects attacks aimed at Dao. Well, she tries.
As Sybil attempts & fails to assist Dao and himself against the skeletal figure between them, Irnk swings his own weapon in a wide arc...
Which completely fails to connect.
Having exhausted her spells for the day, Apex sends her staff at the skeleton attacking Irnk.
I'm running out of magic!! We have to stop them quick before someone gets hurt!
Why does it keep bowing? Its leaving itself open to attacks...is it a salute of some kind? Avan let out a tired sigh, before he stood up straight slammed his fist into his open palm and stood still for a few moments, then dropped back into stance. The stillness of Avan was broken when he shifted forward in a few quick steps. Once within range he slid his foot which had its outer side facing his foe forward, and moved the weight of his entire body along the slide, attempting to land a blow with his shoulder, not ending his attacks there he raised his left leg swiftly and aimed a knee at the ribs of the skeleton, which was succeeded by a palm strike from his left hand and finally he slid his right foot forward once more but this time he landed an extended palm strike instead of another shoulder blow.
Sybil is barely able to maintain her cool while she tries, with numerous jerking motions, to disentangle herself from Dao. Yet, she seem to remain in control enough to avoid obvious openings for the skeleton to strike them.
Shaking, she takes a step forward and places herself in right accross Irnk, making sure the undead is right in the middle between her and the goblin.
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Sybil moves away from Galford and attacks the skeleton, but she also misses.
The Skeleton facing Avan maintains the salute, but as soon as Avan salute and assume combat position it also do it. It moves sideways to avoid Avan shoulder, and rolls to try to get his back, and the uses it's bony hands to parry the other attacks, moving with lightning speed.
At the en of Avan attack it moves 5' back, and retrieves an scroll from inside the remnants of his clothing.
It stands straight (it's flat-footed), and extends the scroll towards Avan, as if giving it out to him.
Confusion filled the martial artist's head as he stared at his peculiar foe, while scratching the back of his blond mane At least it will be an interesting story to tell Shalelu and the boss He thought as he warily approached the skeleton and reached out to take the scroll from him "I don't see why you are giving it to me, but I see no wisdom in refusing your offer either" He said to the skeleton, his expression some where between interest and apathy.
Apex sends her staff at the skeleton attacking Irnk yet again, a look of fear and frustration apparent in her blue eyes.
Breezes seem to follow most sylphs wherever they go, but some sylphs are better able to control these winds than others. A sylph with this racial trait surrounds herself with swirling winds, gaining a +2 racial bonus to AC against nonmagical ranged attacks. The sylph can calm or renew these winds as a swift action. Once per day, the sylph can channel this wind into a single gust, making a bull rush or trip combat maneuver attempt against one creature within 30 feet. Whether or not the attempt succeeds, the winds are exhausted and no longer provide a bonus to the sylph's AC for 24 hours. This is a supernatural ability. This racial trait replaces air affinity.
As the staff, born by the whirling cyclone, returns to her hand, Apex makes a motion with her arm, sweeping the air around her into a massive whirlwind in front of her, and the sends the ball of roiling wind blasting at the last skeleton!
It wants to fight again? Avan got into stance, raised his leg in a feint high kick, but before he could continue he felt something blazing a path through the air, and towards the skeleton. Seeing that it would more than likely hinder or slam into the skeleton, he waited for it to makes it ripple on their battlefield then raised his leg higher and brought it down in an axe kick that was followed with a jumping knee strike.
As the skeletal figure falls, Irnk hurtles himself forward, leading with the flail.
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Galford having seen the skeleton's actions earlier sheathes his blade.
"I believe it offered Avan A Challenge. I will not interfere." Stepping back, the curiously laidback tengu moves away from engaging the skeleton.
"It shows that it had honor in its past life and I will not deny it that for this current unlife it has." he explains.
Apex looks shocked at Galford's words.
Yes, it's acting funny, but it might hurt Avan! Those things killed an entire village of goblins!
"Discussions of honor, can wait till after we have come out of this alive" Replies Avan, his eyes still focusing on the skeleton "If you hold back then do it for your own sake, but not mine or its sake" He continues as he encircled his downed foe.
Sybil, who had stayed next to where her last foe was slain (retrieving an extract from her backpack and drinking it), is taken aback by Dao's words.
Her thoughts are steered away from the frenzy of battle by the understanding that Avan has entered a duel. Yet, she has qualms about letting the bouncer face danger alone but cannot bring herself to break the rules of a duel. Her mind races, trying to find a way out of this.
"Throw me the scroll!!!" she finally yells to the blond man.
Avan took the chance of their enemy being occupied with attacking Irnk and moved in. He stretched his arm back and brought his elbow down upon the skeleton fiercely and quickly followed the attack with a swift downward angled punch.
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Galford looks on and observes how the rest moves in battle, his mind quickly analysing their movements. More curious on the skeleton then anything else, uncaring of how his words might sound like. The tengu is intrigued.
"Perhaps if you stop fighting long enough to show us what you're defending, maybe we can help you find your final rest?" he remarks. Throwing that at the skeleton to test if it'd response.
Watching the fight, Sybil remembers the lost Tharjuk and the storm in her mind recedes. She stops shaking. She has reached a decision.
The alchemist takes out two vials from her pouch and waits. She waits to see whether the undead will heed Dao's remarks and stop fighting.
"Irnk, give me a clear line of sight to it." she says, calmly and with authority. "You, yield and we will find a way to put you to rest has Dao has said." she asks the undead martial artist.