The thugs now void of the elf to corner shoot at her instead
Jimmy detects that the cloaked figure is indeed evil and moves the southern path across the pillars to face the thugs next round.
The first one hitting the wall with his bolt
but the second one hitting her.
The cloaked figure casts again, but this time he casts something on himself.
Abomentolor moves on the pillars to come within reach to deliver his flames.
Wildly gesturing and shouting the command words Abomentolor douses the cloaked figure and one of the thugs in fire.
Both of them failing to evade the flames and taking the full damage.
Jimmy is going to attack the cloaked guy. Jimmy gets a feeling that the cloaked guy isn't someone you would like to see in a dark alleyway. Because the cloaked guy is an evil bastard, Jimmy decides he needs to be put down, now.
.
Niamh makes a break in her song to put out some butter, mumbling a word and snaps the butter away.
And the bottom gets slippery under the single standing thug.
she then finishs her break and continue playing her fiddle.
Niamh tries to make the floor greasy under a bad guy, but her estimate of the distance is far off and the spell fizzles as the guy is well beyond the range.
Gwenhwyfar still hides behind the throne doing nothing.
Jimmy moves next to the first thug and with his spear reaches past him to hit the cloaked figure but doesn't even manage to hit the armor.
The thug drops his cross bow, draws his sword and slashes at Jimmy
but misses by far in his hurry.
The second thug fires one more bolt at Tauriel hoping to stop her
but also fails.
Abomentolor changes his tactic, again shouting commandwords and gesturing he casts Color Spray at the same two bad guys.
The cloaked guy shakes the spell off easily
But the thug falls unconscious.
The cloaked figure incantates another spell showing his moth figure concentrating to not get hit
And fizzles his spell.
Tauriell draws another pair of arrows shooting the cloaked figure. "Will you die already?"
But misses with both arrows.
Gwenhwyfar casts mage armor on herself and moves from her hiding place behind Tauriell.
Jimmy makes another attempt to hit the evil guy, but fails again.
The thug shoots again at Tauriell
but misses again.
Abomentolor gows back to burning and not small and aimed, but again dousing them in flames. "Let's see how long you can stand the burning wrath of Abomentolor Goblinburner."
Trying to evade the fire the cloaked figure ducks away
but to no avail.
The thug on the floor also gets a full load of burning.
In desparation the cloaked figure steps away from Jimmy and showing the moth figure energy flows from it hitting Jimmy and Abomentolor
Causing Jimmy awful pain
and also Abomentolor is hurt by this evil wave of energy but not that bad.
Tauriel shoots again
the arrow finding it's way where it hurts.
Sending one more after it but missing.
Gwenhwyfar moves over to the thug mumbles a few words, and writes a symbol in the air.
Hoping she doesn't get hit. If she succeeds her hand starts to glow in with a cold blue white glow with which she tries to touch the thug
but misses.
The thug is surprised to be attacked by a caster, but he has no melee weapon in hand so he can't prevent it.
Jimmy now standing alone without an enemy in reach, seeing Gwen face the thung quickly moves over to stab the guy. This time he strikes true and almost downs the thug (taking the first roll without SE).
The thug drops the crossbow and being more afraid of the guy with the spear steps towards Jimmy and slashes at him.
Abomentolor waits if Gwen and Jimmy manage to down the last guy.
Tauriel also waits, as she doesn't want to shoot into melee.
Gwenwyfar steps in and touches the thug.
The thug get a shock from the cold, goose bumps showing all over his skin and then drops unconscious.
Combat over.
Gwenhwyfar makes little jumps "Yay we did it." and coming back for her excitement she asks worried "Is someone hurt. Besides the bad guys I mean."
And looking around she notices that she still has a charge of her spell in hand "What I am doing with that now?" she asks herself staring at her hand.
"There might be more of them outside, so maybe don't do anything with it yet?" Jimmy says, moving the unconscious thugs into a pile in the corner after he searches them
With all the back and forth over the columns there is now one way left that is shining in bright yellow. All other ways are interupted by one or more missingcolumns that dropped to 20 foot below.
"But I can't cast healing spells while I hold this."
Thinking for a moment she ask Jimmy "Are you hurt?" and after getting a positive response tries to heal him without touching with her heal hex via the scar hex.
"Did it work?"
Tauriell rips out the bolt, that hit her and replies to Gwen "I could use some healing."
"Me too." Abomentolor states stepping from the columns to the solid ground.
Gwenhwyfar heals Abomentolor from afar
but calls Tauriell "Sorry, but you have to come over here to get healed. That's the price for your freedom." Gwenhwyfar jokes. "But don't forget to bring the valueables. We don't have many pillars left to walk over."
Turning to Jimmy again Gwenhwyfar asks "What are we going to do to theese guys? Should I heal them, so we can bring them to the Sherrif?"
"Leave them unconscious. We can heal them later"
"But they might still be dying I must at least stabilize them."
Dropping the spell from her and she starts casting stabilize on the thug Abomentolor burned and on the cloaked figure.
Checking on the moth figure
she exclaims "That's a cleric of Urgathoa." retracting from her in disgust.
"Eh, what do you mean with Sheriff. These guys wanted to kill us. I'd like to return that favor, instead of endangering the Sheriff and the townsfolk by letting such scum live." Tauriell makes her opinion known lacking the least bit of empathy for that scum.
Niamh packs her fiddle away and says to Tauriell "I could help you carrying theses things away. Which ones do you like to transport over the pillar?"
"Just put everything in my backpack. We can sort through that later." Tauriel says taking off and opening her backpack holding it for Niamh to fill everything in.
Niamh puts the things into Tauriells backpack and walks then across the pillars to the other side.
Tauriel shoulders her backpack again and follows Niamh to the other side. "So may I help them out of their misery? You can wait outside if that is easier on your conscience." she suggests.
"You would kill them in cold blood? How can you do that?" Gwenhwyfar asks repelled by Tauriells hate.
"That's rather easy. You put an arrow through their temple. You think they would repent if they get some jail time? You are willing to bet some peoples life on it?"
Waiting first if there is some reaction from Gwen she adds "If it weren't for such scum I would still have parents. Don't expect me to have mercy with them."
Gwenhwyfar has tears in her eyes but doesn't know what to say.
Knocking an arrow she draws her bow and aims at the temple of the cleric "Last chance to stop me." She looks around if anyone objects.
Niamh packs out her harmonica and plays "the man with the harmonica" from the soundtrack of "once upon a time in the west".
Gwenhwyfar hides her face in her hands and turns away.
Her face stonily Tauriell releases the bowstring.
The splintering bones making a horrible noise.
Jimmy moves to hold Gwen so she can bury her face in his chest to avoid looking at it, and to avoid the noise as much as possible. "Lets go see what's happening outside Gwen."
Gwenhwyfar goes upstairs together with Jimmy crying on his shoulder.
Tauriell finishes off the other two and searches the bodies. "Abomentolor, would you check these guys for magic items please. No need to throw the good things away with them.
Abomentolor casts detect magic. "Let's see if you were worth the trouble."
Tauriel finds 5 gold with the thugs.
Also a masterwork light mace with the cleric.
Other goods are two ropes, two swords, two light crossbows with 15 bolts left, one heavy crossbow with 20 bolts left, a chainmail, two scale mails.
On the cleric the cloak detects as magic, as well as a ring she wears.
Tauriel replaces her own light mace with the better one from the cleric and bags the gold.
"You know what it is already? If not you can check with Gwen later."
The holy symbol of Urgathoa she puts on the floor and with one hard hit tramples it to pieces. Grabbing the two light crossbows and the bolts she leaves the grave.
"Let's head to the Rusty Dragon to finish this already." Tauriell suggests to Jimmy and Gwen.