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Allister blushes at Brezik's joke, and is slightly embarrassed that so much has come from his simple offering of a ring to his friend. 'I just thought it would look pretty on her, I didn't think it would mean kissing and marriage. I should have kept it for myself.'
He stands in awe and watches as the Halfling sends a barrage of frost rays at the blue fungus. It is quite a show, the glowing white-blue beams, the crackling electricity, the electric blue fungus fur. The light shines in his twinkling eyes.
"Get it, Qina! Freeze those blue walls!"
With a few minutes work the walls are no longer blue, instead they are grey and crackly. Just touching some of the fungus causes it to flake off and splash into the water. You look through the room, but don't find anything of particular value, either on the corpses or in the water itself.
Investigating the next room, a large chamber is partially flooded, with the south end just barely rising out of the stagnant water. A large wheel is set into the floor of the dry area, attached to chains that rise up into the ceiling. A thick layer of slick, black mold covers the carvings on the walls of this chamber.
Rubbing his stubbled chin in thought, Gad points to the other side of the new room.
"So we need to turn the wheel then, right? Any volunteers besides me?"
Belathorian moves cautiously into the room testing his step with the haft of his scythe.
"Something is not right here, too quiet...
He looks to the ceiling, check in for hidden dangers
"Let's let Brezik check this out first, and make sure its not deadly somehow. How are your engineering skills Brezik?
What do you think of the room? Is it dangerous?"
Bel and Brezik advance into the room, testing the waters. Bel quickly discovers a very deep pit in the side of the room and stops Brezik from walking straight into it. As they regain their senses the sound of splashing water alerts everyone to company, in this case six skeletons rising up and bearing weaponry similar to those from the front entrance.
Qina creeps forward, sloshing through the water almost hip deep water. She notices the skeletons as she peaks around the corner. Gulping nervously, her hand slips into her pouch and grabs the piece of cured leather. She chants a few words as she sketches a quick shield on her arm.
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Once he is alerted to the skeletons, Allister rounds the corner from the hallway and rushes towards the first one that catches his eye. He draws his greatsword as he moves and makes a heavy-handed swing.
His blade slams into the old bones of the skeleton before him and the ferocious look is in his eyes again.
"Battle!" the paladin hollers with pleasure in his voice.
Brezik draws and tosses a hammer at the skeleton in the middle of the room...
Moving up to support Allister, Gad leads with his broadsword on the second skeleton!
Bone shards fly as another skeleton explodes!
With a quick smile Gad looks at Alister and gives him a quick salute and a nod...
"Battle!"
Gad'larr and Allister handily rip apart skeletons using their swords. Brezik's hammer only manages to skip off of a shoulder bone before splashing down by the wheel on the other side of the room. The remaining skeletons move to attack.
Gad'larr does not notice it, but Allister does, there is a large pit on the other side of the room, mirroring the one you currently know about with a 5 foot wide bridge spanning it to the side of the room with the wheel.
The skeletons swing claws and blades at their opponents.
While the skeleton facing off against Allister swings wildly the overwhelming assault of blades and claws allows his opponent to score once on Gad'larr.
Belathorian swings for the skeleton beside him, bringing the beautiful war-scythe down vertically to avoid Gad stood at his side
"Nobody move, the floor is not what it seems, let them come to us."
Taking a five foot step to clear some room, Gad'larr responds to his minor wound with a furious attack!
1st Skeleton
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2nd Skeleton
With everyone focused on the battle ahead, Qina slips to the alcove in the rear. She feet stomp little ripples in the water as she passes, although hardly anyone notices. She reaches out and around the corner to touch Brezik's shoulder, quickly tracing an all-too-familiar shield rune over top of his leather armor.
Brezik is surprised by the touch of Qina on his back... He quickly turns and realizes who it is..
Thank you Qina.
With that he move up and around Bel to get at the first skeleton on the small bridge. He steps up between Allister and Beltharion Bring his hammer in an upward swing that catches the skeleton full in the chest.
Gad'larr steps forward twirling his blade about in a deadly figure 8 pattern that eviscerates one skeleton before disappearing into the murky water.
He quickly resurfaces but the flow of his attack is ruined and he is not able to strike the remaining skeleton. Brezik picks up where Gad left off and crushes another skeleton. Allister tries to destroy his newest foe, but is unable to break through the rusty chain armor it wears. Vivian is also stopped by the old and decrepit armor.
Sensing opportunity the skeleton still remaining on the bridge drops its scimitar to savage Gad with its claws.
Being in the water proves beneficial as Gad is easily able to dodge the sloppy attacks.
Allister's opponent also abandons its pretenses with its rusty scimitar and moves to rake its claws across his face and chest.
Nothing happens to the big man other than slight ringing in his ears as the claws scree across his armor.
Stepping forward to challenge the skeleton harassing Gad, Belatharion once more brings his scythe down in a deadly arc
Brezik swings on the one skeleton in reach. He strikes the skeleton squarely smashing its skull down through the neck hole of it's chain mail and into it's own ribcage... disrupting the magic enough to send bones scattering.
So the skeleton cannot attack him again in such a vulnerable position, Gad will do an awkward dive for the bottom of the pit, so Bel can concentrate on finishing it off without him in the way.
He'll scan the bottom of the pit as he goes so he does not dive onto any rusty spikes or dropped weapons.
Gad'larr notices, just in time, long bony claws reaching for him from the bottom of the pit, where two baleful lights are flowing from the eyes of yet another skeleton.
As Gad slipped beneath the surface of the water, Qina gasped. She had not cast her protection spell on him, and she began to fear the worst. She moved out of the safety of the alcove, past Brezik, and over next to Vivian to see if she could some how help out. Although given her current lack of strength, there was very little she could think of.
The last skeleton not submerged sizes up its opponent before clawing at Belathorian.
The claws once again skitter harmlessly across armor.
Surprised by the revelation of this new opponent, Gad will try and dive for the creature, swinging his broadsword as best he can underwater.
Divided by 1/2 = 4
Using the momentum of his last, unsuccessful, strike Belathorian reverces his grip and brings the mighty scythe up between the skeleton's legs ...
Belathorian's strike severely damages the skeleton, sending pieces of its shattered ribs flying, but the glow in its eye sockets has yet to dim.
Brezik realizes his best chance to actually help is too get to the other side of the water so he decides to go for a swim.
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Vivian watches Gad dive with a look of horror on her face, glancing between the skeleton and the water. "Gad! What are you doing? We're in combat!"
Then Brezik jumps in for a dip. "What the.. fine. Bel it's up to us!"
Vivian stays close to Bel's back and lets the power of Gorum feed strength into him again.
Qina tries to duck down and fire a ray of positive energy around Belathorian, but as Bela and the skeleton jostle for position, Qina's aim is thrown off and the ray misses.
The skeleton hastily attacks Belathorian again, claws scrabbling for purchase on his features.
Again the claws find nothing to rend and tear.
Underwater the very slow fight between Gad'larr and his foe continues, everything seemingly slow. The pinpricks of red light illuminate the nearby water in strange ways, but the creature rips at Gad, creating small streams of bubbles that rise to the surface as its claws move through the water.
The skeleton moves so forcefully it pops its shoulder temporarily out of its socket, which it hurries to put back in place
"You cannot prevail here, the might of the gods themselves opposes you!"
Another solid hit passes through the skeletons rib cage, clipping a rib but doing little damage
Realizing he's just clipping rusty chainmail with his sword, Gad switches to a spinning underwater flurry, his foot and his fist slowed
but still forceful.
Divided by 1/2 = 3
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The spinning kick solidly cracks the skull on the skeleton, leaving teeth floating into the water around the combatants and mixing more
armor rust into the water! However, the kick knocks back the skeleton far enough that Gad misses with the follow up punch.
Belathorian's second strike, though weak, does pull enough of the bones apart that the malignant forces holding the skeleton together give up entirely. The skeleton collapses before Belathorian with the creak of very old bones.
Small bubbles from below make their way past your face, though you were not the one to make them.
Brezik easily swims to the edge of the pool but as he goes to climb out of the water his hands slip off of the slippery surface.
Belathorian reaches down and grabs Breziks hand, pulling him up