Hana pulls back a bit and whispers, "Should we engage from a distance? I can hold the front if Dejere starts with his gun."
Estietre nods, and prepares to send in her charmed wight as soon as Dereje gets his shot lined up.
She whispers... "I can speed everyone up.. just once a day.. is now the time?"
Lawdrak thinks for a moment. "I think if we try to fight from a distance, now might not be the time for this speed,"
"I can add a flaming sphere to the fight," he offers.
Dereje grimaces when he hears that they have even more salt wights ahead of them. I suppose I should not be surprised.
"My gun won't be very effective at this range," he says, taking the measure of the distance between them and the enemy. "But I can at least grab their attention."
Creeping to the front of the group, Dereje wades into the water and aims his gun at the nearest wight. It is well out of his gun's effective range, but he could at least get things started. He pulls the trigger, letting out a loud blast that almost assuredly misses, but is impossible not to notice.
As her wight lurches into a charge toward the enemy, Estietre treads atop the water's surface, and positions herself for the fight.
Hana rushes in side-by-side with the compelled wight to gang up on one of the enemies.
Dereje wades through the and takes aim at one of the wights assailing Hana. He whispers a quick invocation to his deity before pulling the trigger, unloading a blast of holy light.
Lawdrak and Sharpmaw rush forward to aid Hana, not quite reaching the melee.
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Sarvas runs up along the banks of the stream, before diving in and beginning to swim across to enter the battle.
The salt wight injured by Hana claws at the samurai-ko, while another wight and the blue skinned salt wight move in to attack Sharpmaw. Fortunately for the party, none of the attacks seem particularly skilled, although the heavy pick swung by the blue skinned wight does seem to be significantly more deadly than the wight's claws.
Estietre moves closer before firing a thin ghostly ray from her finger.
Her controlled wight claws at the foe in melee with Sharpmaw.
"Watch out for the blue one! Nasty thing will sap your life force!"
Hana pivots and cuts again, hitting hard with the power of her hips, trying to finish off her previous target and reduce the amount of foes on the field.
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Neither Estietre nor her pet wight are able to land any significant blow on their target while Hana cuts another serious gash into the desiccated, animated corpse she had attacked.
The female wight claws at Hana, narrowly missing the samurai-ko.
Savras moves in and attacks one of the wights with his spiked chain, landing a solid blow.
Dereje's hands blur as he loads his gun with another cartridge, before taking aim at the female wight once more.
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Dereje blasts a hole into the chest of the female salt wight, resulting in a cloud of salt dust, but the creature still stands.
Lawdrak and Sharpmaw move in, and attempt to finish off the female wight with a combined attack, but only Lawdrak manages to land his strike
Savras moves around his target, moving into a flanking position with Mum's pet before striking at, but missing the salt wight.
The salt wights move to attack Savras and Hana, both landing their attacks. Savras is badly wounded by the attack and obviously woozy. The Blue Warrior turns his attention to the rogue and plants his pick into Savras's back - dropping the rogue face first into the salty water.
(flank)
Hana lands another dangerous slash on the wight.
"Cover me, I'll see to Savras!" Lawdrak calls to his friends.
The ensorcelled wight claws again
Estietre gestures at the salt wight until a twinkling appears in front of the creature's eyes.
The young druid winces a little at the jagged scrape the wight leaves, but is able to shake off its more dire effects.
Risking further injury, he ducks back, around Shaprmaw's lashing tail, and, doing his best not to leave himself open, tries to heal their fallen friend.
Sharpmaw attacks the wight to the west of her.
Dereje grits his teeth when Savras falls, but maintains his focus on the battle at hand, his hands continuing the rhythmic motions of reloading his pistol after each shot. He takes aim at what appears to be the most dangerous of their adversaries and opens fire once more.
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Savras lays motionless, but stable in the salty water as the salt wights claw at Lawdrak and Hana, while the blue warrior swings his pick at Sharpmaw. Only the red-clad wight flanking Hana manages to land a blow.
Following his attack, the blue warrior steps back toward the pulsating orb on the island.
(starlight)
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Hana continues to slow and tire as the wights reduce her to nothing. She manages one more slash.
Estietre's wight moves in to assist Lawdrak.. while she aims a ghostly ray at the salt wight.
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Dereje takes aim at the blue warrior, blasting a hole into the walking corpse.
Estietre's wight misses its target, but Mum's bolt of radiant energy does not.
Meanwhile, the female salt wight takes advantage of the flank she has with one of the other wights, clawing at Hana and scratching the samurai-ko.
(flank)
Hana manages a perfect, desperate backhand slice that neatly cuts through the wight's throat. If it were a living creature, it would be spraying blood that makes a whistling sound from the jugular.
With another explosive report that echoes through the cavern, Dereje blasts away at the wight once more, doing his best to aim for any apparent weak points in her undead anatomy.
The dinosaur shifts south to give her human room, and bites at the long-haired wight.
GAsping a little as the effect of the undead's draining hits him, Lawdrak lays hold of thier unconcoous colleague and heaves him back five feet.
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Dereje blasts the female wight into oblivion, leaving Sharpmaw to chomp down and destroy one of remaining wights.
The blue skinned wight again steps away, taking position behind ominously glowing orb on the island. The energy surging from the orb seems to close some of the wound made in the creature's body.
The remaining salt wight not controlled by Estietre, swings harmlessly at Hana before the samurai-ko lops the head clean from the creature's shoulders.
Estietre commands her wight to follow and attack the cairn wight.
She moves closer as well, and points her finger at the creature.
LAwdrak drags Savras back out of the water, sending Sharpmaw to hunt the wight with a sharp whistle and a nod of his head.
Losing his line of fire to the remaining wight, Dereje hustles onto the little islet, eyeing the strange orb as he passes by.
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Estietre blasts the blue skinned wight with a bolt of radiant energy. Her pet wight's few wounds seem to heal as it approaches the orb.
Dereje and Sharpmaw feel drained as they step onto the island and get closer to the orb.
Seemingly emboldened by the orb, the blue warrior strikes at Sharpmaw, sinking a pick deep into the t-rex's leg.
(orb)
(orb)
Dereje grimaces as the orb saps his life force, in spite of his divine grace. Nonetheless, he has resilience enough to continue fighting. Reloading his pistol once more, Dereje calls on Abadar's power to bless his bullet with holy power, anathema to an undead creature such as his target.
Estietre and her now invigorated wight remain focused on the cairn wight.
Hana lets out a heavy breath, her sword drooping. Then she raises it above her head and rushes the orb, slicing at it with her enchanted katana.