A bomb, a fireball, and 3 arrows fly forward from the party, sending the redcaps diving and scattering in multiple directions, including snapping the fascinated one out of his reverie. The leader catches the bomb in the shoulder unable to completely duck it, but shields himself from the fireball behind one of the other unlucky redcaps.
Only one of Andel's shots gets through the mix and it strikes the leader but fails to penetrate his skin. The shock from the bolt still elicits a grimace of pain.
Vuloo starts to cast a summon.
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The leader screams and kicks at the scattering redcaps, swinging his scythe over his head.
The redcap warriors immediately respond, the pikemen rushing out of view and the crossbowmen running forward to kick at Relan, one after another.
Relan trips and follows through with a stab on the first one
The next two run in with ineffectual boot stomps against the warrior ineffectually before they run out. The leader follows the rest after he sees the warrior unable to get them all, swinging his scythe and catching the human with a vicious cut before he departs. You note they are all healing their burns.
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Braelex continues to carpet bomb the redcaps, making the leader her primary target.
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Gemel commands his elemental
Then he displays one of several Holy Symbols he is carrying (Cayden Cailen), and launches a burst of Magic Missiles into the redcap leader (?Roy?).
[dice=AOO Trip]1d20+30
[dice=+1 Fey Bane, Shocking Cold Iron Ranseur]1d20+28+2-3+4;2d4+12+9+2+1+3d6
[dice=Confirm?]1d20+28+2-3+4;4d4+24+18+4+2+6d6
Vuloo will place the hound archon within melee range of the closest redcap.
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Andel moves to get line of sight and then again fires his shock bow at the red cap leader if he can see him, otherwise he fires at the nearest visible red cap.
Andel moves to get line of sight and then again fires his shock bow at the red cap leader if he can see him, otherwise he fires at the nearest visible red cap.
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Braelex unloads a volley of bombs smashing the already burning leader, who screams in agony. Fire blows every where seriously harming most of the redcaps.
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; success total 27
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; fail total 33
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Relan holds position and sets for the leader. Andel strikes the closest red cap, again only causing some electrical damage.
The summoned archon engages the nearest redcap, which nimbly dodges both the celestial's sword blows only to get caught in a bite with a gulp, but then he giggles hysterically as the archon's teeth are unable to penetrate his skin.
Gemel pummels the leader with a volley of missiles sending the little man nearly to his knees. The leader turns and runs, screaming with his hands in the air, burning the whole time and stumbles down the stairs out of sight ... his boots echoing until no longer audible.
His men press the attack, fighting like cornered animals now that their leader is gone. Two of them rush Relan . One stands to catch his breath and heal.
The other two retaliate against the archon.
; HIT!; ; DR applies
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; HIT!; ; DR applies
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" I think we're mopping up for this fight. Relan, you and Braelax take out the trash; Andel and I will collect red hats to stop fast healing."
Andel fires on the closest of the three remaining redcaps.
The hound archon moves to the nearest redcap and attacks.
Braelex fires a cold iron bolt at the visible redcap.
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If it goes down, she will move up along the wind tunnel.
Gemel busies himself and his summoned elemental grabbing up all the red caps from the various fallen fey.
Braelex fires a bolt into the chest of the staggered little man, dropping him.
Relan ... moves?
The hound archon attacks and strikes a redcap fully, but the little man simply moves across the floor a bit and the blade doesn't harm him.
Andel hits once for minimal electrical damage.
Gemel and his elemental grab up a few red caps from the fallen ones in the corridor. They remain unconscious but stable.
Relan double moves though the tunnel. He is tempted to stop and finish the regenerating fey a long the way but trusts his friends to handle that.
Braelex moves up through the tunnel and uses a cold iron bolt to put down the unconscious fey.
Relan and Braelex rush down the corridor, Relan bypassing the redcaps to the east, missing them as he focuses on the now disappeared leader.
Gemel and others pick up hats, essentially halting any chance of those fey healing quickly on their own, although a couple of them are stable.
The two redcaps continue to engage the archon.
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With no other enemies in sight Relan moves to attack the fey in the room with him. He focuses on the southern one.
Andel fires on the red cap engaged with the archon.
The hound archon attacks.
Relan trips and kills one as Andel shocks the other one into unconsciousness. A quick doff of their caps, and the fight is over, almost before it started.
"Down the stairs gentlemen, let's keep the pressure on until we've cleared this building."
Braelex grins, "Lead the way, ladies."
[ooc]I am concerned about traps more than ambushes but if we have to cover open ground in the courtyard we will come under heavy fire I think.[/b] Relan, looking for threats heads down the stairs.
Andel follows the others down. Vuloo attempts to track the others through the windows.
THe party heads down the stairs as Vuloo waits outside.
The gatehouse’s second floor consists in a single, huge room. In the north part of the room are a round table with some chairs and a fireplace. In the center of the room, 4 huge stone blocks are suspended over a 20 x 20 section, nearly dissecting the room in half. The blocks lead to a series of cables and pulleys connected to several levers. Near to the staircase in the south sits a human-sized cage made of wood. The apparently empty cage is held together by rope and nails, and can be closed with a padlocked chain hanging from the outside.
"Well, I see no foes; they have fled. We either continue pursuit to the ground floor, or we go back upstairs and held Vuloo in. If we do pursue, let's be careful and walk around the suspended blocks, not under them, if anything in this rooms is rigged as a trap..."
10 ranks +3 trained -1 wis +6 skill focus
Continuing to look for threats Relan advances across the room.
What is that inside the red box?
A quick scan around the room doesn't reveal anything additional to Gemel
"Nobody's here, lets go down again..." Gemel follows cautiously after Relan, .
He uses Message to whisper to Vuloo "No opponents on the floor down, going to the first floor. Tell me what your plan is, are you going over the gatehouse, through the gate, going to try the arrowslits upstairs again?"
Vuloo responds back, "I can't fit through the arrow slits. Try to get to the nearest window or portal - I'll meet you there."
Relan peers down through the hole to see if he can see threats. Perhaps Voloo can look into the courtyard and warn us of what waits there for us? I wonder if we should drop these stones now. Will that totally block our way out? or can we at least disable the leavers so the enemy cannot drop them on us if we need to leave quickly. After some discussion he heads to the northern stairs and cautiously heads down.
"We can get around them. Let's keep moving."
Working your way around the blocks proves to be awkward and uncomfortable, but not dangerous, as the bizarre set up is actually fairly stable, but the levers will certainly release the blocks, and based on their weight, they will definitely go through the wooden floor to the entrance gate below.
Descending the wooden stores, you end in a relatively empty storeroom with a locked iron door that leads to the outside. Vuloo can see in through an arrow slit in the entrance area.