The Captain hefts his blade and swings yet again.
Terra takes a breather to sense the locations of the enemies looking for the right place she can be of the best use.
sensing a few of the creatures having trouble keeping their feet, terra makes a scooping motion as though she is scooping up some earth. and as if on command several small rocks follow and then with a fast jsb the stones fly to strike an enemy
Doran raises a hand and points it towards the good captain.
"Secret Dragon Slayer Art: Speed of the Fire Dragon!"
Terra's barrage of pebbles pummel the Akata, but it remains standing despite how much damage she inflicted. Meanwhile, the Captain decapitates another one.
G-13: 4
F-10: 8
Seeing the combat well in hand, Tiriael keeps on bolstering her companions, increasing their prowess with inspiring words, their banner fully visible.
Moving forward, she cracks her whip at the Akata facing the Captain.
Tiriael's whip fails to get a good enough grip on the beast to trip it.
Slowly, two of the Akata move through the Bard's Grease spell. One towards Nebari's elemental and the other to confront the Captain.
The creatures surrounding the Elemental, attack in full fury.
While two of the Akata missed completely, the other two only caused minimal damage.
The ones by the Captain tried to take some bites themselves...
...but failed to do so.
Kizza decided to help the Captain and moved behind one of the Akata, then tried to take a bite.
G-13: 4
F-10: 8
H-11: 9
Nebari's elemental's continue to flank their target.
F-13: 3
G-11: 1
F-11: 8
In one powerful strike, Captain Piers cleaved the skull of the Akata Kizza had bitten, and used the momentum to bring the blade down on another, disemboweling it completely. At the same time, one of Nebari's Elementals moved into position and savagely beat one of the creatures, while the other summoned monster pummeled on another one nearly to death.
Tiriael shifts her positioning, cracking the whip at the Akata next to the Captain and Kizza.
these creatures seem to pose little threat, but who brought them here, and what is thier interest with this place?
these questions may have been answered already, but Terra knows she does not alway get all the information.
I wonder...she places her open hand on the wall of the structure and concentrates. viewing what reides on the other side.
crystal sight, can see through up to 5 feet of stone for 5 rounds/day. she will only observe for 1 round unless there is something interesting in there.
Doran relaxes; no one is too badly injured, and the rest of the party is moving in to mop up. He walks over to Terra. "What can you feel?
The Akata converge on one of Nebari's Elementals.
Despite their best efforts, the beasts are unable to pierce its rocky hide.
Kizza once more attacks the Akata between him and the Elemental.
With Tiriael tieing up the creature, the sentient ant sank his mandibles into its neck and squeezed. There was a resounding crunch as it fell limp.
terra concentrates one more round trying to scan as much of the other side as she can.
No enemies inside, but strange, everything covered in frost, seems to be cold in there.
Nebari's Summons attempt to finish off the enemy.
Between the two elementals, the final Akata are pummeled into the ground. Shortly after, the servants of the earth crumbled to dust. Outside the palisade, the sounds of conflict grow quieter, you are unsure if the three archers sent with you are winning or losing.
"Sound of- er, everyone good?" Piers asks, jabbing a couple of the Akata nearest him to make sure they were not just playing opossum. "We gotta get moving and once we're out of this, I'm teaching you how to fight," he says pointing to Kizza.
The intelligent ant looked at the Captain, "You want make Kizza warrior? Kizza like that much."
You make your way to the front door of the structure. Giving a push, you realize that it wasn't barricaded or locked. Causiously, you proceed inside. The temprature drops slightly as you enter the very large room, with several torches lining the walls, and three large pools. A thin layer of frost covers the ground, not enough to make it slippery however.
"What do you think the chances are that these fellows fancied a daily dip?"
Doran searches the room for magical auras, keeping a distance from the pools before moving closer to scan them as well.
"There's some serious Transmutation on those torches... light is Evocation, isn't it?"
"I doubt it, especially not in a room this chilly," Piers says, looking around as well.
"If they are magically enchanted, it is normal that they do not give off heat" - Tiriael pipes in.
Terra follows along feeling the cold floor under her feet. trying to sense what she can. scanning about for potential threats.
Piers skirts the pools cautiously and begins heading for the nearest doors.
"Why cold here?" Kizza inquired as he moved closer to one of the pools.
As Kizza drew closer to the pool, a creature suddenly burst forth from the water.
Once out of the water, this small, four armed, bone plated humanoid lashed out at the intelligent ant.
Kizza screams of agony were cut short as the monster tore him to shreds before your very eyes.
KIZZA! Terra yells out the sound of the pain and agony suffered. Terra felt the vibrations across the stone floor and with fury in her face she forces a section of stone floor to rip up and it is flung at the creature.
Tiriael's mouth drops agape as she sees Kizza being shredded to pieces, her mind racing to understand what creature could do such a thing.
Reaching for the whip, her first impulse is to charge the monster, but she checks herself, instead opting for bolstering her companions, the banner held high on her left hand.
"Aww, no, Kizza..." Doran's face falls for a moment, grief written across his expression, before he takes a deep breath and glares at the Charda.
"Dragon Slayer Art: Mighty Breath of the Fire Dragon!"
Shouting wordlessly, Piers rushes the creature sweeping his great blade at the creature's legs.
With the combined assault of Terra, Doran and the Captain, the four-armed beast was hurting, but not down.