Ralph shudders as the elemental ray hits him, a rib falls out of place and skitters across the floor. A heartbeat later, the entire skeleton simply collapses into a pile of inanimate bones, sending a plume of dust up into the air above the remains.
Unable to find a clear shot now, Vannevar moves next to the wall where he can better see Silian for the time being.
Susie-Q again lunges at Bosramir.
Bosramir returns the undead creature's attack, knocking Susie-Q nearly senseless. As senseless as an undead dog can get, anyway.
Susie-Q (dog 2), Bosramir, , Demise, Akasha, Lianna, Silian, Vannevar
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Demise shoots another crossbow bolt at the rat.
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Demise shoots another crossbow bolt at the DOG, but misses badly. ;)
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Akasha moves to flank Susie-Q (J6) and swings her mace, completely smashing in the blink dogs skeletal head. The rest of the bones crumple to the floor.
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With a sheen of sweat and blood trickling down his leg, Silian continues to kick the bones of the fallen blink dogs a few times before turning to see his comrades. Dropping his scimitar he kneels by Balthazar, checking for a pulse.
"Filthy curs. We have to get the gnome back up. The foul of this place is whittling us down."
After a few moments, the adrenaline seeps out of your bodies. Fatigue and hunger settle in its place.
I doubt anything else has been here in a while, this room may be as good as any. I'm damn near exhausted.
"We should set up camp here." Akasha says
Balthazar scowls as he wakes, looking up at Silian from where he fell. "I have no idea how those Dogs kept biting me. I'm usually a lot harder to hit."
Balthazar sits up and begins rummaging through his backpack, pulling out alchemical supplies and setting up his portable lab.
As he works he pulls out a small package of hard tack and begins munching on it.
After a few minutes he looks up from what he's doing, almost as an afterthought. "Thank you for healing me, Silian." He doesn't wait for a response but dives back into his preparations again.
Akasha walks over to Silian, the bite on her thigh quite clear. "Vicious little bastards"
As the wound closes Akasha can't help grinning as she notices the shift in Silian's expression. "Enjoying the view?"
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"Glad you like it." the magus says with a sly smile, beginning to set up camp. "Your shadow mark definitely adds a certain...rakishness."
Without a closer examination, Lianna sees bones, broken tables, jars, restraints, and various other artifacts of the once laboratory/torture chamber. An upside-down staircase is in the far corner. The room is extremely cluttered and definitely not Lianna's ideal place to recuperate.
"Yeah, seems like the forgotten corner of the city where all the horrible crap that shouldn't exist came to be left alone. And they don't take too kindly to visitors."Akasha mutters shaking her head.
Balthazar lets the conversation wash over him. "Not going anywhere till these concoctions are finished" he thinks to himself. The crumbs of his hard tack meal he brushes idly off his clothes as he works.
After a few hours of preparing extracts and his mutagen, Balthazar will pack everything up, unroll a bedroll and look around.
"What's the watch schedule?"
He doesn't seem to notice that this is something that should have been addressed hours before when he started his brewing.
Demise leans against the wall and smiles wickedly at Silian as he rubs the hilt of his greatsword. "Yesss. I can watch through the night... if...you trussst me now to watch over you flesh walker'sss weak bodiesss as you sssleep."
Balthazar's answer is to lie down on his bedroll and fall quickly asleep.
You think you might have heard a quiet "Thanks." as he rolled over, but you can't be sure.
Akasha gives Demise a look that while not exactly hostile, makes it clear that he is being assessed weighed and measured.
Shrugging she begins to set her bdroll up and take food out of her pack.
Demise keeps a look out as the others rest...
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Your eyes snap open. There is no blink dog, the others sleep. Demise stands quietly by the door.
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Vannevar stirs when you jostle him and sits up, "Silian, what is it? You look unwell." Vannevar glances around the room, his eyes alert for trouble.
You hear the woman's voice screaming for help again.
"Wake up f*##ers." Balthazar's angry voice rings out in the room as he pulls his newly made mutagen out and drinks it. He nudges people with his foot as he walks by, rousing the remainder of the group. He holds an extract in one hand, and a bomb in the other.
"It's time to go hunting."