Gamon, torn between wanting to help Aloysia corner the elf and not abandoning Jolon and Majenko with the remaining zombies, shakes his head as he runs into the dining room and slashes at the nearest undead.
Jolon grunts in pain as he takes the bolt and the attacks from the zombies.
"It takes more than that to kill a son of the Skoan-Quah! GET HER!" He yells to Gamon as he raises his holy symbol once more.
Gamon's axe cuts down the nearest zombie without issue, leaving it in bits on the floor.
Pharasma's cold light emanates from Jolon's holy symbol, washing over the zombies and causing them to crumble to ash in place.
The sound of crashing plates and falling pans comes from the door before Aloysia before it is thrown open forcefully. Her eyes meet those of the particularly crazed elf, dressed in checkered red and yellow attire. The blood begins rushing in Aloysia's ears, as she feels her fate entwined with the bloodlusting woman before her.
"OH! You've found me! Time to to play tag instead!" Groaning from behind her causes her to jump, attempting to slip past Aloysia without getting cut by her blades.
She slides underneath Aloysia, twisting and contorting around the gleaming steel. She finishes moving next to another door and reloads her hand crossbow. "Let's keep the game going!"
The two zombies in the kitchen start shuffling forward, reaching for Aloysia through the doorway.
Nicolai steps back to where he can see his companions and casts a spell. says a disembodied voice as he finishes casting.
Aloysia inhales sharply as the unusual feeling washes over her from meeting this woman. She holds her breath momentarily, then starts to breathe with progressively faster. She can't help but share the sense of bloodlust with this mysterious woman. Conveniently something to stab walks right up to her...
Aloysia's flurry of attacks shreds the zombie into tiny meat slices, leaving it nearly in strips on the floor.
Majenko flies out of the now zombie cleared dining room and swings at the elf woman with his tail, aiming to distract her from you.
His silver stinger contacts something solid inches from her skin, stopping him full force.
Gamon follows Majenko out of the dining room, finally getting the chance to take a swing at their elven foe.
Gamon's axe meets the same force that Majenko's stinger does, rebounding with the sound of striking metal.
Jolon follows the others to find the elf.
"Blast! I don't have a dispelling spell!"
Jolon steps forward .
"Maybe my sword can power through!"
He takes a swing at the crazy elf.
Jolon's blade sweeps through the elf's defenses, cutting into her side and staining the golden parts of her outfit red. "Ah!" she cries out. "Now that's not very nice, is it?"
Being hit seems to have rattled her, making her movements easier to predict as she tries to slip away from the confrontation. She rushes into a small recital hall where an angelic zombie is absentmindedly strumming on a harp.
The final zombie in the kitchen stumbles towards Aloysia, arms outstretched in an effort to smash her to the ground.
Gamon sees the crazed woman run by and takes his opportunity to line up a well-aimed blow with his axe as she turns her back.
"Nice?! NICE?! YOU DESECRATE THE DEAD AND COMPLAIN WE ARE NOT NICE?!" Jolon howls in anger as he presses the attack.
Nicolai takes advantage of the separation between the homicidal elf and his friends and casts another spell, this one blanketing the conservatory with glittery motes of dust.
"Ooh, so sparkly! I can't see you, but I can still hear you my pretties!"
The zombie, unable to see, continues mindlessly strumming its harp, unable to do anything.
Aloysia tries to continue the bloodlust driven slaughter of zombies and swings wildly
Aloysia's attack draws several more strips of flesh from the zombie, giving Majenko time to dive in and start attacking with his teeth.
The zombie's batting at the dragon doesn't come close to connecting.
Majenko's bite does rip more pieces off of it though.
Gamon follows the blinded woman as she flees through the house, noting the presence of yet another zombie as he enters the recital hall to attack Jolistina.
"Remember to take her alive, Gamon!" Jolon calls as he raises his holy symbol again at the zombie on the stage.
Despite being blinded the elf manages to fire off her waiting crossbow at Gamon as he storms the room. The bolt hurts, but nothing too badly.
Again Pharasma's cold light emanates from Jolon's holy symbol, setting the nearby zombie on fire, but it continues to 'play'.
The elf drops her crossbow and pulls out a dagger, swinging awkwardly for Gamon despite being blinded by Nicolai's spell and laughing all the while. "Just wait till my Rolthy gets a hold of you! You'll make a strong servant for sure!"
She manages to catch Gamon with the knife's edge drawing another bleeding line in the man's skin. Blinking her eyes harder she laughs again, "Oh, I see I've left some marks. Goodie!"
"Rolthy?" Jolon asks when he hears the elf's words. "You are allied with Rolth Lamm?!"
She sighs prettily as she continues attempting to avoid the attacks thrown her way. "Such a sweet man. Silken tongue, pasty complexion, willing to hurt me in all the right ways. You should be happy working under him. I know I am!" The giggle she gives is high pitched, incredibly girly, and becoming more and more disturbing.
Nicolai will move to the door on the eastern side of the den and peer into the room.
If it's empty he will fire a Magic Missile spell through the open doors into the back of the unsuspecting elf.
She sighs prettily as she continues attempting to avoid the attacks thrown her way. "Such a sweet man. Silken tongue, pasty complexion, willing to hurt me in all the right ways. You should be happy working under him. I know I am!" The giggle she gives is high pitched, incredibly girly, and becoming more and more disturbing.
"What is WRONG with you?!" Jolon exclaims in disgust. "He is kin to the man who killed my mother, and he is even more a monster!"
Nicolai swings the door open to a large room, empty of everything but more blood-veiled corpses. His spell fires off only to be blocked as the elf spins waving her hand. He recognizes the shield spell protecting her now that it has blocked his missiles.
"What's wrong with me? I'm Jolistina the capering clown! I prance and I play, laughing all day, until it comes time...to slay. Hehehe!" She takes a longer look at Jolon. "I don't remember Rolth having any orc-y servants. Must have been before he found me."
The zombie in the hall continues strumming.
Aloysia smiles when she sees her little helper fly in and tries to use his distracting to finish off the zombie
"I do NOT serve Rolth, madwoman!" Jolon replies, disgust clear in his voice.
Majenko snorts, getting an idea before flying over to Jolistina, huffing a cloud of silver at the elf, who is busy talking. "You say madwoman as if its a bad thing. Madness is just so liberating! Surely you'll see my poi-*cough*cough*"
Her eyes take on a glazed look as her brows scrunch in confusion after inhaling a good amount of Majenko's breath weapon.
"She'll be confused now! Get her!" trills the tiny Drake.
Hey everyone, don't forget you're Hasted.
Following Majenko's orders, Gamon swiftly closes the space between himself and Jolistina, striking three times with his axe as she stands there helplessly.
"Gamon, don't kill her! We can find out where Rolth has hidden from her!" Jolon barely manages before Gamon hacks into her.
Despite her confusion Jolistina is just as quick as normal, only Gamon's speed allowing him to pin her down enough to strike her again.
Jolon moves to grab Jolistina by the arms and try to pin her.
Jolistina slips through Jolon's grasp easily, moving toward Gamon in her confused state and attacking with her dagger.
After getting more blood on her dagger she smiles and begins capering once again, fighting through Majenko's breath weapon.
Nicolai casts a spell and watches as his arrows of force weave their way through his comrades to strike, unerringly, the zombie beside Gamon
Nicolai's spell takes out the still blind zombie without issue.
Aloysia slides past Nicolai, the sense of bloodlust still raging in her head, but she tries to keep herself in control to take the woman alive per Jolon's call. She flips her daggers around to attack with the butt end...
Jolon glowers but smiles a bit as he sees Aloysia striking to harm but not to kill.
"She's learning!"
Aloysia manages to hit Jolistina with the pommel of her dagger, prompting another giggle from the elf. "Oh sweetie, I'm far too high to feel something little like that. Why not use your blades again? I'm certainly going to!"
Majenko takes this admission as all the proof he needs to continue using his teeth and stinger on the woman.
He stings Jolistina again but her movements are just as quick as they were a minute ago, despite her wounds.
Seeing Aloysia's change in tactics, Gamon does his best to hit their agile foe with the flat of his axe blade, but struggles to do so in such a confined space.
Jolistina is a slippery foe, but Gamon does manage to ring her bell with his axe.
Jolon takes advantage of her temporary disorientation to attempt to seize her again.
"Hmm...It's getting a little tight in here. Pardon, exsqueeze me, I'll be right through, thank you."
She tries to move through Jolon as he grabs at her, but has to stop when Gamon's axe cuts her off.
"Oh poo. Still no fun I see."
Her words are accompanied by a nasty flash of her dagger at Gamon.
Aloysia seeing that she had no impact with her last round of blows, shrugs, flips her dagger in her hand and swings for real this time
Satisfied with the feeling of blade sliding neatly through skin and the warmth of the blood that follows, she smiles cruelly at the woman, "Enough talking, it's time for you to be done."
Nicolai pulls out his new wand and zaps Gamon with it, watching with satisfaction as he doubles in size.
Jolon sees Gamon grow in size and smiles a toothy smile.
"Grab her!"