The earth elemental swings a fist at the ropefist, who dodges out of the way.
Kraig gets punched in the back of the head as he rushes the leader.
Garmen easily deflects Kraig's fist with his rapier.
Nyssa's longsword slices the rogue boss in the arm. He hisses from the sting.
Nortmog puts his horsechopper away, picks up his musket and loads it.
Alexis grins as she moves to strike the villian. well my blade's name is slice. Let me demonstrate why. her blade gleams as she chrges it with arcane strike.
Alexis strikes Garmen with her rapier, stabbing him along the wound Nyssa made earlier on his arm. Blood flicks out of the stab wound as she pulls out her weapon.
Garmen feints with his rapier, forcing Nyssa's eyes to miss his real attack. He stabs deeply into the Suli's stomach and pushes her to the ground. (She's down, right?)
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The remaining ropefists try to pummel Alexis, Kraig and the Earth Elemental. They either miss or punch stone.
Valt tries again to disable Garmen, but this time he will target his mind.
Garmen Ulreth clutches at his head. "What did you do?" he murmurs.
Valt's earth elemental bashes the flesh creature to the ground. She dies.
Nortmog fires a shot at the thug by Nyssa's body. The thug falls beside the Suli Fighter.
"Come here!" Kraig reaches out for Garmen.
Alexis keeps striking at garmen, still using her arcane strike
Kraig reaches a round and gives Garmen a big hug, from which he cannot move. Alexis stabs Garmen as he is grappled through the chest. The ropefist leader moans.
The last thug aims a punch at Alexis in the back. Her reach is too short and she punches air instead. Garmen doesn't move.
Alexis turns and slashes at the thug. just hang on to him kraig. I need to deal with an annoying bug.
Alexis jabs her rapier into Garmen's belly. Blood gurgles from his mouth and he spits out the rest.
Nortmog drops his musket again, takes out his horsechopper again, moves within reach of the thug and swings. The glaive-like weapon cuts the thug's hand, dealing very little damage.
Valt decides to priorize Nyssa's state, while sending his summon to deal with the last thug.
Says Valt pointing the thug.
Then, rushes to where Nyssa is, trying to stop her bleeding.
The strange creature forms a dune like form and springs to the las thug, strinking with all his body.
"You made a big mistake, buddy."
Valt stabilizes Nyssa. (Using Valt's luck) The earth elemental smacks the last thug down. Her cry of pain is cut in half from being hit by the small earth creature.
Kraig keeps his hold on Garmen Ulreth and punches him unconscious.
Alexis sings a song of healing to cure Nyssa
What do we do with that one. she then says, looking at the comatose Garmen
Nyssa feels strength return to her body. Darkness fades from her vision and she sees the room, first blurry, then focused and clear.
Nortmog collects his musket and glances at Kraig. "You're like a big old grizzly bear."
Alexis repeats her song, further curing Nyssa
You have a great voice, Alexis. Says a fascinated Valt, seeing how her magic song works on Nyssa's wounds. Being her out of danger, the man changes his interest towards the man that Kraig knocked out.
Well, now I'm interested on what they where doing here. And in that strange humm. Where is it coming from?
Valt tries to locate the strange sound, decided to investigate it, with his earth elemental at the lead just in case there are some other thugs.
Valt easily locates the sound of the humming to a large machine within a recently broken crate. A metal disk and several pointed metal sticks poke out of the top of the machine, while displays flash Androffan writing.
Alexis looked up at that.
that does not sound good. Not good at all.
Whoa, bring here that stupid Garmen, we need all the help, even from that sewer rat.
Have you ever seen a think like that?
We must stop it, even if it mean we have to dismantle it.
Valt tries to recall all the knowledge he may have in his messy head that can help with it.
Looking at the images and the Androffan writing, Valt realizes this is a power relay, that shifts power from one place to another. The images on the screen show that the reactor is somewhere below Torch and the Black Hill Caves, while the place receiving the power is some days outside of Torch to the northeast.
You believe there is a chance that dismantling/destroying the power relay could stop the transmission of power, but it could also speed up the transfer, or even cause the reactor to prematurely explode.
"I'm not a bear, I'm a fluffy kitten." Kraig kicks Garmens unconscious form. "What an idiot. What did he hope to gain from attacking us?"He lifts Val again. "What is this? Some kind of bomb. Where is my brilliant, if misguided, baby robot brother when I need him? He can fix this."
Kraig sees the door open and a repair drone missing an arm enters the room. The brawler blinks his eyes, and his baby brobot disappears. A figment of his imagination.
Did we miss something in the caves. We will have to return if so. Valt, can you make head or tale of this thing? . she points at the device.
alexis looks at the party for a response.
Nyssa groans, and sits up. It still hurts like hell. Instinct takes over; the Suli finds the hilt of her sword. Resting the tip of the blade on the floor for a moment Nyssa rests.
"Thank you for the healing, Alexis."
Finally she struggles to her feet, her face pale from the exertion. "We never followed after Kraig's metal bro. So where ever he went, we haven't explored."
Nyssa frowns at Kraig's comment. "An idiot indeed. An idiot sword master, though." Nyssa eyes the blood pooled on the floor. A lot of it is hers.
"Lets give this place a thorough search, then take Val home." Nyssa picks her shield up and slings it, then begins searching. She starts with Garmen, perhaps the fool has incriminating documents on him.
I don't dare to touch it, and this is only a transmiter, the reactor it names must be under the town, so we must hurry to the black caves again.
Lets take both Garmen and Val to the council, so they take care of him.
On Garmen
potion
magical studded leather
buckler
hand crossbow with 10 bolts
mwk rapier
mwk thieves' tools
89 gp
On Thugs
5 mwk leather
5 sunrods
5 potions
5 slings with 50 bullets
15 gp
Nyssa also finds a small chest hidden in a secret compartment of the warehouse with 50 silverdisks inside.
Valt identifies the potions as five potions of cure light wounds, and one potion of invisibility.
"I'd like to wait for Val to wake up, but we've only got a few hours. We should get miss Veshane back on her feet and be on out way."
You take Val back to the Foundry Tavern, set her beside Khonnir in a bed, and head to the Black Hill Caves. After you have prepared again and after half an hour, you head straight back to the reception lounge with the desk and flashing images.
There are double doors to the north and east, the ones to the north had blood (and you entered them before) lead to a bloody hallway.
Go to the eastern door
Valt summons Iophiel back, and then asks Alexis for help.
Alexis, I want to ask you to use this to heal all our wounds, please.
Entering the eastern door, you go into a short hallway. There are double doors immediately to your right(south), and doors further east.
Nyssa gets her sketch pad out to map the complex, just in case it grows to convoluted. "We have nothing to go on really. Might as well check the doors as we come to them, right?" After marking the doors on her map she gets her bow out and pushes the plate that opens the double doors.
alexis uses the wand on nyssa
Nyssa opens the doors to the south, and finds another short hallway that goes south. There is a single door to the east (your left) and a pair of double doors to the south.
Kraig opens the east door. "This closed floor plan isn't working well with my zen thing I got goin' on."
Kraig sees a hallway that turns north. There are single doors to the north and south before the turn, double doors to the east, and double doors to the north after the turn.
"Ah, yes. The zen of the open door. I've heard of that." Says Nyssa, all deadpan.
She moves back to support Kraig, whichever door he chooses to look into next.
Valt follows both Nyssa and Kraig, but something in the back of his head is telling him that he is missing something, so obvious that all of them overlooked it.
Valt remembers the diagram on the panel. The reactor should be one floor up, if his memories are correct.
You suddenly hear a lot of chittering laughter in the rooms around you, including the double doors to the south you passed and the single doors to the north and south.
Valt gets alarmed, and gets closer to Iophiel, waiting in silence to see what is happening.
Nyssa grips her bow and tries to spot the source of the chittering. It's probably those gremlins again.
Since the doors are closed, Nyssa doesn't see the creatures making the noises. However, she can tell that they are all hiding behind the doors.
One of the voices whispers a little loudly in another language.