Kai-Sovis sees Kendall take down the crewman with the nunchaku and immediately darts through the hole standing over the groaning figure. He works his hands, fingers blurring as the magic takes hold, his voice echoing and reverberating with words of magic. From his outstretched hand launches a sphere of crystal that flies like an arrow, lancing out and striking the hammer wielder in the chest, erupting into an explosion of force that looks much like an underwater explosion. He roars in pain and blood flies. The shrapnel, like icicles blow outward, but obeying Kai's precice gestures whip around Aleena and her bizarre progeny, and focus themselves on the axeman attacking Aleena and their leader Maborg. Both men leap clear of the attack which chews up the cobblestones around them and rings off of their armor.
Just throw down those rolls wherever if there weren't enough provocations.
Kai steps over the crumpled body with the nunchaku, sliding in next to Kendall's shield. He uses his arcane teaching to focus his mind for a moment in the chaos of combat... with a glance and flick of the wrist he sends two of the thugs back through the window they were leaping from.
Then with a blaze he turns back to Maborg. Kai's eyes light up, and fire springs to his call... blue, white, and red sparks of molten metal begin to rain down upon his enemies. But doing his best to not kill the already fallen foe.
So combat actually shakes out like this:
Kai: Attacked by Hammer Guy, takes 2. (1d10+1, rolled 1),
Maborg still misses...forgot he'd rolled a 4.
Aleena: Attacked by Axes Guy, take 11 (1d10+1, rolled 10)
Kai Sovis, turns and begins to incant, then turns, he can feel the gears of his powerful mind begin to translate into physical force, which he brings to bear on the two crewmen in front of him. Like ragdolls he lifts them up off their feet and tosses them crumpled through the glass strewn portal they crawled out of.
Before his intonations are done for the first spell, he is already onto the second, flaming rain pounding down upon the two who had been hurting him. They erupt in flames, desperately trying to put themselves out--though with his infernal ancestory, Maborg does not seem to be affected to quite the same degree. The crewman with the hammer however sways to and fro on his last legs--blackened and bleeding.
(Before last round is over..)
The crewman with the two shortswords licks his lips and decides to take his chances circling around the dwarf to peel off toward the shepherd girl, but no sooner does he try and slip clear than he is met with a crushing hammer blow to the back of his knee. He yelps and staggers forward, but stops far short of his target.
(Then he gets blown through the window. Man, some guys got no luck at all. Heh.)
Edie feels fey power course through her as Chuks drops like a stone and she swiftly scans the battlefield to try and identify her next victim.
Aleena beseeches Krosus to heal her most promising student.
She continues to wail on axes guy.
Edie snarls, points and blurs into shadow as she tries to get clear of the melee in front of her.
Round 3
Kendall hefts his craghammer, after Kai explodes the area with psychic power. He crosses past Kai, stepping over the downed Nunchucks guy and plants himself next to Maborg and the Hammer guy. " Enough, damn fool. Even if you did defeat us eventually, you'd not be able to pilot that ship in time to save anyone."
To reinforce the matter, he thrusts his heavy shield forward at the Tiefling, then raises his craghammer overhead to clout Maborg.
MBA for
Maborg nods grimly, slapping down the last remaining gouts of flame on his armor. "True. This fighting is folly. There are crew of mine who await me." he steps toward his fallen crewman and bends to check his injuries "I applaud your restraint. This one should be dead."
"Hey boss!" says the gruff voiced axeman, holstering his axes. "I think that one tha' done run off cursed me or something. Do I gotta' worry 'bout what that's gonna' do if I don't get it taken care of?"
A meaty blackened hand slaps the back of his helmet. "Look at me Olak!" the fire blackened warrior laughs, stowing his warhammer. "If I don't die from all this, you sure won't from what you got..."
From inside the tavern comes the sound of groans and broken glass and furniture. The bartender glares furiously out the broken hole in his shop but scurries away, unwilling to press the matter.
The ground gives another shudder, some cobblestones wiggle loose of their mortar, exhaling little puffs of dust through the cracks. Maborg gives a concerned look to the ground and sets his jaw, but says nothing.
Kai's eyes still smolder as he mentally considers the encounter, Interesting litmus test for us, we seemed to have survived the fire... I think I like these bunkmates! He flashes a quick smile to his teammates and brushes a little dust from the sleeves of his travel robes.
The rumble of the ground finally pulls Magus Eclavim's attention from the other salvage team. He focuses for a moment to see if he can discern the source.
Kendall gives Maborg the big eye for a moment, but seems sated that the fighting has stopped. " Now for the bigger question, what is causing that shaking?" He motions that he's going outside to investigate, but tries to keep this other team in view as he does so.
Kai spends a few heart beats mentally running a private checklist of causes for tremors. He subtly shakes his head no each time he rejects a theory. Finally he stops, looks straight at Edie, his eyes flash with a bit of terror...
Not a shout, but in a clear voice, "Lady Edie. Do. Not. Move. Everyone else stop." Kai-Sovis grasps Kendall's arm, trying to stop his forward progress.
Turning towards Maborg. His spine straightens and his voice deepens as if addressing an unruly student that has just set their desktop on fire (again). "It followed you into town. You've put all of these people in danger. What is it exactly? Be fast."
Kai continues to his shipmates still in a lecture-tone. Matter-of-factly, "Some subterranean creature is most probably tracking the tiefling and his thugs down from the mountains. It is the most reasonable explanation for the tremors. The cobblestones and building floors could be confusing it for now... but..." Kai tries to draw Kendall's eyes towards Edie, one of the only one of us who is standing on patch of grassy field instead of worked stone.
Kendall raises an eyebrow, "Explain." It is unclear if his order is to Kai or to Maborg.
Edie holds still, nods and vanishes. Before anyone has time to gasp, she reappears beside Kai.
"Good warning, our Kai."
"Ankhegs..." says Maborg, frowning. "Of a sort; the strange snows have...affected them. I didn't think they'd follow us out of the mountains."
He puts an arm around his unconcious shipmate and hefts him up onto his shoulders.
"Stupid mindless beasts chewed us up every time we stopped to rest. Wouldn't have been so bad, but..." His voice trails off, then he looks up as though unsure he'll be taken seriously, "they cast magic."
Nature:
He murmurs, "Yes, I can feel it, within the very earth beneath us. a stones throw straight down." He coughs once then grips his weapon hesitantly, "Without fear and mercy, the bugs are stupid, but there's a possibility we could scare them off with enough loud noise. We don't want to fight this thing in a town. My suggestion, barring anyone who has sonic powers, is that we all jump, stomp and come down with as much weight and force as we can muster at once. Hit the ground with weapons as well, that *may* do it."
Kai looks quizzically at the dwarf. "This creature followed the tiefling all the way from the mountains and you expect a little loud jumping to scare it off? ... Permanently?
Why not draw it out into the open with all of us in a strategic location and burn it down?"
"My B.B. can imitate a cacophony of sounds! Many of which could drive it away or funnel it towards a strategic location!"
Aleena's daughter tries her best to shake the cobblestones with Dubstep.
Edie scowls horribly at Maborg and his crew.
"Tha heard Sir Kendall. Sing high and jump hard. Now!"
[ooc]Intimidate
She points her wand at them to emphasise her point and starts chanting loudly.
"Yan, TAN, Tether, METHER, Pip, Azer, Sezar, Akker, Conter, Dick, Yanadick, Tanadick, Tetheradick, Metheradick, Bumfit, Yanabum, Tanabum, Tetherbum, Metherbum, JIGGIT, Yan . . ."
Aleena's strange daughter assumes the form of some great metallic contraption, squalking out strange noises, her myriad black eyespots searching around uncertainly for approval. While the sound is indeed obnoxious, it seems to do more to lure the monster than repel it--thinking it the death throes of some tasty farm animal perhaps. The ground begins to shake violently, causing those in the streets to lose their footing as they are peppered with debris falling from the buildings around them. (inflicting 3 points of damage to everyone and granting a -2 to future Dex based rolls)
Edie is tremendously effective, her wand enforced threats whipping Maborg and his team into a noisemaking machine, their blows ringing loud and perfectly synchronized. They are cowed enough that further requests made of them will gain a +2 bonus as they pitch in to do whatever is requested. It's not enough racket yet to drive off the creature, but more of this kind of effort seems to be just the thing!
Kendall eyes Aleena's...thing? "What in blazes is that?" He starts to stamp his feet, regardless as Edie starts up a chant that he doesn't know the words too. Later he may add that he totally feels foolish for doing so. With the added girth of his armor, he should easily make a lot of racket, as he smacks his craghammer into the ground.
Athletics
Kai tentatively raps on the nearest wall with his fist, tries a little harder... then gives up when the only sound is his grimace. He tries a different tactic: work smarter, not harder.
Clearing his throat, he calls out to Maborg's thugs, "Try jumping over there, a little to the left. No. Your other left. There should be a focus in the substrate that will resonate and amplify your efforts." When they stop at stare at him, he rewords it: "Stomp there and it will be louder!"
Not understanding the language (), but recognizing its sequence and assuming "JIGGIT" means to start over. Kai tries to help Edie keep time, though his pronunciation is probably off:
"Tan, TeTHER, mather, pipf, aser, SEZAR, ekker..."
Kendall, never to be one to do things halfway, and not altogether unversed in the ways of stone and steel puts boots and hammer and booming voice to good work pounding out some truly awesome levels of sound...that and Aleena's, whateveritis, seemed to be eyeballing him.
Kai-Sovis' knowledge of the accustics of sound in dungeons allows him to spread out Mabog's men into optimal positions so the soundwaves amplify downward instead of negating or bouncing outward. Just a few repositionings and the increased output is impressive.
Keeping up the beady stare, Edie maintains her focus on Maborg and his crew.
"Follow beat tha gurt numpties. Watch wand or I'll have guts for garters."
Her eyes flicker to Aleena's offspring, including the contraption in her instructions.
"Follow t'others. Not a good time for freeform work lass."
"Follow Aunty Edie's choreography, angel," urges Aleena.
Seeing that Maborg and his gang are doing what passes for their best, Edie tries a more encouraging approach.
"Eee, that's grand. Remember arm movements, up, right, up, left, up, up, Yan, TAN, Tether, Mether, Dick, Sezer . . . B.B. tha's doing good work there, don't fret about arms, just keep rhythm going."
Edie and Aleena's work with B.B. takes her awkward flailings and focuses them into precise and effective amplification of the rest of the group's efforts. The rumbling (and strange disturbing noise from B.B.) subside and people can concentrate enough for tasks requiring fine coordination again. (-2 to Dex goes away)
[Ooc]It can be. I had 8 set as the number of successes...but if it's killing people we can call it[/ooc)