Sorix moves back and calls out, "Mawl, if you step away just a bit I can try to make all these creatures drop those clubs they're wielding!"
Mawl, listens and takes the 5' step back and left as directed by Sorix. Then using his Masterwork Silver Morningstar with both hands swings a mighty swing at the skelly ape immediately in front of him.
"Feel my wrath, you lousy bag of bones!"
Horillo lets loose a couple of arrows at the right hand monster, "Let's hope these bits of bone shatter and fall before you Mawl."
Rapid Shot with Point Blank
After Sorix's spell both of the still alive skeletons fall to the ground.
Seeing the two remaining ones slip and fall, Surexeria slips by Mawl and into the far corner, waiting for an opportune target...
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Although she's unsure of the wisdom of it, Sholti decides to take advantage of the of skeletons landing on their... tailbones? She crosses deftly past Maul and the slippery portion of the floor, and slashes down onto a fallen skeleton when she finds firmer footing.
Surexeria waits to see how the battle progresses while Sorix calls for Mawl to move away. He bashes one of the skeletons ending it's unnatural undeath and then moves out of the way. Sorix casts her spell causing the remaining skeleton to fall to the ground. Surexeria moves up to the other side of the door from Mawl hoping to draw them out. Sholti deftly moves into the grease to press the attack but misses with her swing. Horillo takes two shots at the skeletons one misses and the other hits, but it doesn't seem to do any damage as it just scrapes off the edge of one of the bones.
The skeletal apes stand up to attack.
Sholti tries to cut into one when it is off balance, but she misses while she tries to maintain her own balance in the greasy spot.
With a new target they both attack Sholti with their clubs.
One of them slams her with a solid blow, nearly knocking the air out of her.
Given the difficult terrain, Mawl makes the decision to drop his Morningstar and use his Bec, though he knows it is more effective against skellies, but he needs the reach ability. Knowing the enemy is also in difficult terrain and may allow him one of his many AoOs should they try and move.
"Die again, you abominations As he swings his mighty Bec.
"Get 'em, Mawl!" Sorix calls out, unsure of what else to do at the moment.
Surexeria sighs as Sholti totally foils the greased trap that Sorix had prepared for the team, leaving herself as a totally vulnerable and cut off target.
Foolish.
Now on the other side of the grease, Sholti is committed, whether it's a good idea or not. She finds her center of balance and executes a pirouette which ends in a slashing attack across the skeleton's body.
Surexeria and Sorix wait to see how the battle unfolds while Mawl drops his weapon and pulls out his Bec. He slams it into the uninjured skeleton doing significant damage but not enough to drop it. Sholti strikes out at the one closest to her but misses. Horillo takes aim and looses two arrows.
With the quick succession though he ends up missing on both shots.
Surexeria sighs and steps around the corner, her rapier in hand. ”Guess we’re throwing down like this, then...” she grumbles to Mawl as she nimbly hops across the greased area herself.
Sorix watches anxiously but doesn't act at this time.
Sorix continues to wait while Surexeria moves into position to attack but misses horribly. Each of the skeletons attack the nearest person, one of Sholti and the other on Surexeria
The one attacking Sholti slams her again with the club nearly knocking her out.
Surexeria ducks beneath the things attack, then spins and twists away and around the creature, thrusting her rapier towards what should be a vital spot for most creatures.
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Mawl jabs and swings his bec, "Pick on someone your own size, scum"
"Too much power, not enough aim you squirmy pig "
Sorix winces as Sholti's struck hard by a skeleton's club. Sholti! Ouch! Here, I can help; one moment." Sorix retrieves a scroll from her bandolier and begins casting the spell on it.
Horillo feels for Sholti, as her body shows deep cuts made by the skeletons sharp claws. He shows his tattoo, the holy symbol of Erastil as he asks for the healing power of the god to enter all around him.
With Surexeria putting down the one skeleton Sorix pulls out a scroll and begins casting a spell from it. Mawl attacks the last skeleton remaining but misses as his Bec just slices through an opening in its skeleton frame.
Sholti strikes at the last skeleton as well but her wounds impare her movements and causes her to miss. Horillo lets out a wave of healing energy that washes over the group but with Sholti being the only one really injured she is the one who mainly benefits.
The skeleton unconcerned for anything else going on around it continues to focus on Sholti.
The skeleton bashes her with the club once again, nearly dropping her to the floor, where should definitely would have been if it hadn't been for Horillo's healing.
Surexeria twirls around and leaps up into the air, bringing her rapier down straight through the back of the things head! As it slumps to the ground, she puts her foot on the back of its skull and pushes it off her blade.
”Well...that could have gone better...”
Mawl flies into a rage and let's his Bec slash and pierce with new found strength.
With all the skeleton destroyed it is quiet in side once again, though you've drawn a few odd looks from passerby's outside with the doors left open behind you.
Mawl kicks the bones about a bit, offers Sholti a helping hand, and retrieves his morningstar and re-attaches it. Not putting away his Bec, he casually hefts it in one hand.
As Sorix finishes the spell on her scroll her hand glows with magical emanations. "Sholti, this will help you feel better." Sorix's eyes break away from Sholti's and look towards the floor for a moment as she says, "You might feel a little...well...evil for a minute, but it'll pass." With Sholti's permission, Sorix touches her to deliver the spell.
"Well, we probably don't need the whole town seeing us in here."
Mawl walks over and shuts the doors to the outside stairs while he waits to see what happens next.
"She is not in very good shape, maybe we should come back later, after she has had an opportunity to feel better."
"I have more healing I can use to help Sholti, if she needs it, but I believe Sorix's strange magics can help, although I wouldn't use them myself." Horillo says, turning his head to Sorix and smiling a friendly and warm smile. "We've made enough of a scene here to raise any more dead in this place, I think we should continue on in, before any more people get inquisitive about this place." his words come tumbling out.
After a little bit Sholti slowly starts to feel better. Once the magic of the spell subsides there are still a good amount of injuries but she is much better of than she had been.
”Yeah, we’ll have Dottari lapdogs or Hellknights on our asses soon enough, now,” Surexeria says with a snide look when she realizes someone didn’t close the door behind them. ”We better get moving and moving quick.”
With the skeletons dealt with and Sholti healed up a bit the group continues through the open doors to the west. Through a brief hallway, is a large room. A briny odor wafts from a dozen water-filled cases in this room, each a display of strange, colorful sea creatures. Puddles of water cover the floor alongside shattered glass and fish skeletons. A ten-foot-square tank of murky water stands directly ahead. It looks like the room opens to another room to the north and south east.
"I don't trust what I can't see, and that water gives me an irksome feeling." the cleric says as he follows the others into the room, bow ready.
Surexeria slips on ahead, heading to the south east to clear out that section of the building before going further in, but her boots crunch on the glass shards not so quietly.
Sorix scans this room with detect magic, concentrating on ay auras that don't originate from her fellow Ravens.
Surexeria tries to sneak down to check the southern room, but isn't very quiet. Luckily there doesn't seem to be much of anything there other than more display cases and tanks. It seems that when this building was abandoned in the past the owner left any still living creatures in these tanks behind and they have all since died.
Sorix does not find any magical auras in the main room and while the larger tank ahead with murkey waters, labeled “Quadclaw Marauder” sounds menacing it seems that there are no threats to be found there, at least not anymore.
Mawl follows Surexeria in a pattern; she moves and stops, he pauses a few seconds, and while nothing happens he moves carefully forward, comically attempting to sneak.
After making sure the lower portion is clear, Surexeria casually walks across the room and says quietly ”All clear,” before checking the northern door.
Heading to the north, plants, rocks, and hundreds of motionless specks fill the countless glass cases throughout this long hall. The preserved husks of giant insects and arachnids—including a ten-foot-tall spider—leer over the displays. A dead man’s body, swathed in red-and-black robes and covered in welts, lies on the floor near the hall that continues east out of the room.
Seeing the body, Surexeria holds up a hand halting the others as she carefully studied the rooms interior from the doorway.
As she looks about the room, she sees, near the body, a tiny spider as it moves around the corner as if in waiting.
Horillo moves behind Surexeria, covering her movements with his bow, as she tells him to look out for a spider that hid around the corner.
"Spiders?...we need to light some torches, I hate spiders"
Mawl puts his Bec in a sling and carrys his MW morningstar in one hand, getting an Alchemist's Fire in the other.