Vashi continues to attack the thug in front of her.
Dakkar makes a bloody mess out of the thug that had been foolish enough to charge him.
Iskender's blast of sound sends two of the thugs reeling, dropping their weapons and clapping their hands to their ears. Dilwyn's club, on the other hand, does nothing to his foe's armored breastplate.
Kit charges up next to Vashi and between the two of them, they down another of the thugs.
The remaining foes (other than the still-blinded one), angered by your success and apparently not too bright, press their attack, trying to club you into unconsciousness.
The last of the blinded enemies finally manages to clear his eyes of the glittering dust.
Iskender will 5’ step to the NE, put away his wand, and proceed to attempt to trip the opponent between Dilwyn and Kit...
With his foe down, Kit kinds another one to attack.
Dakkar steps up to help the front line. These thugs aren't even worth getting angry over. Though he does continue with his usual savage abandon.
Dilwyn uses the momentum of the bounce-back from the first staff strike to whirl it around and come from another direction. This swing has more impact, but all that extra momentum might make it harder to control, especially with that wall right next to him possibly getting in the way.
Vashi seems to be enjoying herself as she continues her assault on the thug in front of her.
Iskender's whip snaps at the air next to his target, but Kit's axe finds one of the thugs' faces, making an ugly mess out of it and ending his life. Dakkar tears the life from another of them, while Dilwyn and Vashi both injure their targets badly.
The surviving thug who had dropped his weapon warily picks it back up, and all attack the nearest target. You can see fear in their eyes... but it seems they are more afraid of something other than you.
Among whatever else Iskender does this round, he keeps performing for +2/+2.
Dilwyn gets a little confused by the fact that their opponents seem to be scared of the wrong things. By all rights, much like himself, they should probably be frightened of the creature that has been ripping and tearing through their number with reckless abandon.
Then one of them hits him pretty hard and the curiosity is shunted to the back burner for the time being. He swings his staff around for another blow against the target he's been focusing on. There will be time to figure these things out when he isn't at risk of losing all his teeth to these saps.
"Snrrrr... Maybe we should capture one of these alive?"
Dakkar attempts to relatively gingerly grab the thug attacking him... at least this once.
As long as they keep offering a fight, Kit will oblige them!
Iskender moves forward and presses his hand against Dilwyn, letting one healing magic infuse Dilwyn’s body...
Vashi nimbly dodges her opponent's attack and continues.
Between the two of them, Dilwyn and Kit down another of the thugs. Vashi's axe, however, glances off the chainmail of her target.
The thug Dakkar clumsily tried to grab clumsily misses back.
The remaining three thugs keep up their desperate assault.
Dilwyn continues to get pummeled while the rest of the thugs are still as ineffective as always.
Iskender keeps his song going and heals Dilwyn again...
Kit finds another opponent to fight.
Dilwyn briefly wonders if 'healing whiplash' is a thing. Certainly it feels extremely odd to be hurt then healed then hurt again then healed again all in the space of a few seconds. He's not complaining, obviously, it's just a sensation outside the majority of his experience. There's been a lot of that lately.
Fortunately, his muscles and his enchanted quarterstaff know what to do without his distracted thoughts getting in the way. He feels the satisfying thud! as he gets another good swing in at the only one left within his reach.
It's about now that you notice something odd--the corpses of the first thugs you killed seem to be... sinking into the ground.
Iskender points at the corpses, "that's odd."
Dilwyn couldn't put it better himself. But then again, everything since they woke up on another world has been odd. The better question is whether or not those they're fighting think its odd. He takes a look around their foes, searching for signs of the same confusion that he feels right now.
Dakkar gives up on trying to capture the thug and goes back to mauling and growling incoherently.
It seems like the thugs are terrified by this, but not surprised.
Is there a knowledge check pertinent to what we just saw happen?
At least we don't have to bury them! Kit says at the sight of the sinking corpses.
"Also reduces the chances of people finding out about this." Vashi points out.
Sorry I haven't been posting regularly. The GM forgets to tell me when it's my turn.
Kit, Dilwyn, and Dakkar injure their targets, but none of them quite go down.
You discover that the dead aren't actually sinking into the ground--they're sinking into their own shadows. Easy mistake to make, but it turns out it matters. At least when it means those shadows get up and start trying to kill you.
Kit continues his assault while keeping a wary eye on the shadows. Egad! What type of necromancy is THAT!
Iskender will move up to behind Kit (move me please) and attempt to trip the critter on Dilwyn.
”If we need to fall back, say the word, and I’ll see about getting us out of here.”
"Uhhhhh," Dilwyn's kind of at a loss for words at this development. With the dead rising into such dangerous foes, it suddenly seems much more important that they not kill any more of these thugs, and instead just knock them out. "I think we probably still got this if we're careful, but maybe let's not kill any more of them, yeah?"
Taking his own advice, he thrusts his enchanted staff at the groin of the one next to him instead of swinging for the head.
”Not a bad plan,” shouts Iskender over the din of battle.
"Enough! GrrrrrRRRAA
Dakkar retains enough sense to know that the shadows are a larger threat than the thugs. Stepping around the thug next to him he viciously assaults the shadow.
Vashi decides to try and not kill an immediate foe for probably the first time in her life.
Kit and Dilwyn both down the foes in front of them, while Iskender and Vashi both miss badly. Dakkar steps forward and tears one of the shadows to shreds, his last two attacks not quite penetrating the chain mail of the remaining thug.
Said thug desperately tries to attack Dakkar.
He just barely connects, not that the enraged dragon-man-thing notices much.
The two shadows surge forwards, reaching for Dakkar and Kit. Their deathly cold touch saps the strength of the two warriors.
"Hmmm, shadows! Don't let them hit you again!"
Iskander will attempt to trip the remaining non-shadow enemy.
Song still, so +2/+2
Kit will attack a shadow.
"Hmmm, shadows! Don't let them hit you again!"
I think I found that out!
The shadow being the last thing to attack him, Dakkar tears into it in a berserker frenzy. Again the unfortunate thug is also on the list should the shadow be shredded.
With the thug he'd been attacking (hopefully) safely knocked out, and probably sterile forever, Dilwyn moves to assist Kit using his magically enchanted staff to be able to hurt the nasty undead things.
In a final flurry of attacks, the last remaining enemies go down. The other thugs, rather than sink into their shadows, start smoking as their faces... melt.
Oh, and Dakkar seems to be in a rather agitated state.
Iskender ceases his song, and moves quietly away from Dakkar!
Kit also backs away. Easy there big fella. Remember us? We're friends!
Dilwyn, too alarmed by this new development, doesn't even notice what's going on with his new ally. "What the hell is wrong with you all?!" he fruitlessly demands of the ones with the melting faces. "This is not acceptable!"
For a frightening moment, it seems as though Dakkar may well turn on his allies now that all the foes are defeated, but he manages to get control of himself in time, slumping down a bit as the fatigue hits him.
"SSssnnnrrrr…. Okay, need to calm down now. Any clue what was with the shadows?"
Iskender will take 20 (as a standard action) on Knowledge (arcana) to answer the question posed by Dakkar...
Kit is puzzled when Dakkar suddenly changes gears from the rage-fueled creature to this inquisitive being before him.
Are you sure you are all right? For a minute there you were looking at us like we were going to be your next meal!