Argug grips tightly to his axe, just in case, but seeing as he has two enemies near him, leaps up, and split-kicks both skeletons at the same time like a green skinned Jet Li.
One of the skeletons beside Astra catches Chakos greataxe with two of its claws. It moves its face close to the half elf and opens its mouth in a growl. No sound escapes its mouth.
A light magical glow surrounds Elizabeth as she backs away from her skeleton.
The first skeleton knocks aside Argug's kick with one of its four hands. The second skeleton catches the orc's foot in his face and shatters into pieces on the desert sand.
Kasatha? Astra quirks an eyebrow at the word coming out of Chakos' mouth, but she has no more time to process that as the skeletons start to haul themselves up from the sands, surprising and startling the young woman. Fortunately she has her club ready in her hand, and glancing around at the situation and who is being threatened, she will make her first priority the protection of Elizabeth. Taking a five foot step to the northwest, she will hopefully block the kasatha skeleton from following after the wizard's retreat, after which she swings her club at the skeleton west of her, but misses disastrously.
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After the initial shock of seeing skeletal remains come to live. Sneek his battle instincts kick in.
Realizing that his rapier won’t have much effect he drops it and grabs his light mace. Taking one step to flank the skeleton with Argug he takes a swing at it.
Sneek smashes his light mace into the ribs of the skeleton and breaks the creatures spine. It crumbles to the ground, claws scraping at the air.
The kasatha skeletons move and strike with an animalistic frenzy. Their claws move as though they are drowning. Their fingers seek life.
Astra takes 9 damage.
Chakos takes 0 damage.
Elizabeth takes 6 damage.
Sneek takes 2 damage.
Attack the same one as last round:
HP 10/16
AC 15/15/14
Effects
Hand of Apprentice:6/7
Liz shouts in pain as she is clawed at. 5' stepping to the east again, she sends a Magic Missle shooting at the one that clawed her.
Argug moves in to flank the skeleton that is SE of Astra, giving it a spinning kick to the head, seeing as that was previously effective on these creatures.
Chakos slams one of the kasatha to the ground. It breaks in half and becomes submerged in the sands.
Elizabeth fires a colorful bolt of magic at the kasatha skeleton near her. It raises a claw to stop the bolt, but the energy knocks the skeletons arm away. It remains standing.
Argug's spinning kick knocks the skeleton's head into the ridge to the North. Once its head is removed, the kasatha crumples to the ground.
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"Arrgh!", Astra cries out as several claws rake at her, doing a significant amount of damage, ripping some gashes into her armor and some blood starting to drench her midsection. She clutches at her side, and stumbles back a little bit, taking another five foot step toward the skeleton that is missing an arm, and swings her club wildly at it, trying to get Elizabeth safe.
Astra's club smashes in the skeleton's face and knocks its head off its spinal cord. The skeleton collapses in a heap of bones and sand. You notice its eyes no longer green, instead, the kasatha undead next to Sneek has glowing eyes.
Sneek swings his mace right between the glowing green eyes of his attacker.
He only cracks the skull and takes up a defensive position for the soon to come storm of claws.
The skeleton near Astra moves closer to her.
Skeletal claws strike out at seemingly in all directions at Sneek and Astra.
Astra takes 0 damage.
Sneek takes 3 damage.
The skeletons's draw blood, scraping wounds on Sneek.
HP 10/16
AC 15/15/14
Effects
Hand of Apprentice:6/7
Liz sends her club flying out via Hand of the Apprentice at the one menacing Astra
We need to see if we can get things like holy water and alchemist's fire!
Elizabeth's club flies towards the skeleton but loses momentum and taps the offender in the face.
Astra makes a swing at the skeleton attacking her.
Argug adjusts himself and sends a pair of kicks in the direction of the skeleton beside Astra.
Astra swings her club at the Kasatha. It raises two of its arms and blocks with its forearms. The blow causes the skeleton to shake. It seems to grin at her.
Argug kicks at the skeleton with both feet. The first blow snaps its legs and the second grazes its jaw. Without its legs, the skeleton falls apart and becomes buried in the sand.
Ah, that's right.
Seeing Argug take out those skeletons inspires Sneek. Dropping his shield, he points to a spot about 20 feet away and takes his mace in 2 hands and tries to hit the creature’s skull.
Chakos can I get a heal. While looking with a sad face at Chakos.
On Chakos' turn I take 5 points of damage away from Sneek via the Life Link.
I'll then cast CLW on myself:
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Ongoing Effects: Life Link (Sneek)
The remaining skeleton claws savagely at Sneek.
Sneek knocks aside the claws with his light mace and uses his small frame to dodge the kasatha's assault. Green eyes shine from its face, its mouth twited in a soundless snarl.
Chakos will move to the nearest skeleton and take a swing.
Woot! 9 or 28 damage, depending on if a 17 confirms
Chakos slams his greataxe into the wounded kasatha as it spreads its arms wide. He bursts through the skull, grinding bone against his blade until the skeleton is flattened into the sands.
Liz pants heavily at the first serious battle they have been in.
Chakos! I have a potion of Cure Light Wounds to heal you or anyone.
Chakos will Life Link with Elizabeth and take 5 of her damage, bringing him to 5/15.
He will then take 5 HP of Damage from Astra, bringing him to 0/15 and be staggered.
He will cast CLW on himself:
[ooc]So it doesn't get better than that![ooc]
At this point, I believe no one has more than 5 HP of damage, right?
Argug is at 25/25
Elizabeth is at 15/16
Astra is at 14/18
Sneek is at 16/20
Chakos is at 11/15
When all is said and done, he will put the Link back to Sneek.
Bah, bones coming to life, don’t like it here. Let’s move on. Sneek says Thanks for the heal Chakos and nice busting heads Argug. I’ll take a look around to see if I can’t find anything useful. Sneek looks around for tracks/traps.
Argug nods at Sneek. "It's what I do."
"How far do we have to go?"
The trail extends all the way to the edge of the circular desert 50 ft East, then dip down and follow the side of the moutain South, before lifting North to a narrow passageway. It takes a few minutes to cut through the desert.
A crisp glow of light shines from the northern wall of this cavern although no obvious source of light is apparent.
Liz scans the wall with Detect Magic to see if there is anything there.
No trace of magic, the brighter part of the cave doesn't seem to be there at all..
"Whatever do you mean it's not there?
Well..I don't really know. Trying to detect magic doesn't pick anything up.
Astra steps closer to the wall and reaches out to touch it carefully. "It's an illusion...a mirage of some kind...a deception of the eyes."
She also thinks back to the skeletons, and how some of them exhibited strange glowing eyes. Can she say anything about what might have caused that?
My goodness! I wonder why I didn't detect anything.
Astra touches air as she reaches for the bright cave wall. Her hand pierces straight through. Being this close she can see beyond the wall is an open metal door where the light is coming from.
"That is an excellent question, Elizabeth, and one I certainly hope we'll find an answer to", Astra says as she walks over to the metal door, but doesn't try to open it yet. () "There's a door over here", she says, but stops after having passed through the illusion, without moving further. She seems thoughtful, stroking her chin silently. "I think someone might be watching us. I know this is obvious, but we should be on our guard against someone who is prepared for us."
This metal room is brightly lit with glowing panels from above. To the left and right, complex machines consisting of spiral tubes and nozzles twitch and hum.
The machines look similar to the "shower" machine from earlier. There are several tiny preforations in the machine as though a liquid or gas is supposed to escape as you pass. Every few seconds, a jolt of electricity runs along exposed wires and circuits.
"This is the strangest place I have even heard about."