Kendra answers,"It is a rune-cast Summon Monster."
She grits her teeth and turns away.
"And a powerful one at that. Run!"
She heads off towards the bridge to put as much distance between her and the summoning as possible.
"It'll fade out on its own after a while, we just need to stay out of reach!"
A large cyclone starts to form on the bridge in front of the manse door, while Jominda and Kendra flee back to the gatehouse.
Herm Turns away and runs back as Kendra has mentioned.
"Did I set off a trap" Herm yells over the cyclone
Harrold doesn't want to stay alone with that and runs too. But the cyclone comes after the group. And it is fast. First it catches up with Herm - who is much slower than the others in his heavy armor - but it follows into the gatehouse and swipes out the whole gatehouse.
Kendra nearly dodges behind the door and out of the way, but the winds buffet her fiercely.
And then they pick her up and drag her along.
Herm manages to avoid most of the debris that the cyclone kicks, turning to make sure Harrold makes it as well.
Jominda hides in the staircase to evade the cyclone. "No! Kendra!" Jominda screams in horror as Kendra is picked up. She hurries to close the doors to prevent the cyclone to go back onto the bridge with Kendra.
Harrold is scooped up as well.
The whirlwind continues to whirl around.
Herm pulls out his rope, hoping to be able to act as an anchor so that Kendra and Harrold don't get thrown over the edge.
Kendra tries to grab hold of anything - should they still be able to be blown outside, her priority is grabbing hold of Harrold.
The whirlwind moves around the gatehouse, trying to catch the remaining two intruders.
Then the whirling stops and all caught inside drop to the floor.
Jominda gets hit once, but manages to evade from being caught and the next attempts. "What shall we do? Kendra, how are you?"
Kendra gets the wand she bought earlier out, and uses it on herself a few times
"I'll live, just don't get caught!"
Herm joins the ride in the free merry go round.
"There was a carnival that came to home town that had a spinning ride like that spun like this, always made me ill." Herm says swallowing back his bile
Herm beats at the elemental from the inside to get all free again.
Jominda tries to bomb the elemental.
Jominda and Herm keep damaging the elemental until Herm's final blow takes the life out of it. The elemental dissolves into thin air. All caught inside end up on the floor.
As the whirl spits her companions out Jominda hurries to Kendra. "Are you ok?" Seeing that she'll live she turns to Harrold "How about you?" With Herm she assumes that something like this will not knock him out.
"I am hurt but not to badly, does anyone need healing?" Herm asks as he regains his feet.
"Got that right here" Kendra says as she holds up the wand.
"For only being strong wind this thing was really unpleasant." Jominda tells. Now that the adrenaline comes down she feels the pain in her left flank.
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Spells: Bless, Knights Calling
Sun Rod x 5
Lay on Hands 4/4 (2d6)
"I have my magic as well to help."
"Do you need some assistance as well?" Kendra asks as she points the wand at herself again
Jominda uses one of her extracts.
"Shall we go check on the house now?" Jominda asks, well aware that the is still some healing that needs to be done first.
"Very carefully." Kendra comments.
"Yes. This Schloss is not nice. Herm, would you take the lead?" Jominda suggests to have someone to hide behind.
Herm takes point, moving up to the door and knocking before he enters.
"My Name is Herm Dunlaven, I am here at the request of Thomas the Beast of Lepidstadt. We are entering but mean no harm."
Herm's approach is answered by some hobbling hook-clawed apparatus the size of a horse. It comes out from under the stairs that lead to the second floor. It is a mean looking thing.
A huge portrait hangs above an enormous, lit fireplace in this large entry chamber. A set of steep stairs rises to the right.
"We are not breaking and entering but this home is determined to kill us." Herm swings his hammer at the monster.
"Do any of you know what this creature is?>"
Herm lands two heavy swings, but the effect is dimished by the thing being metal.
Kendra rolls an orb in between her hands, forming it out of thin air, and then throwing the green acid orb at the construct.
"Next time, let me check to see if I can identify any magic on every door and in every room." Kendra suggests through gritted teeth.
Kendra manages to hit the construct and causes it to start rusting.
"Will that never end? Why is there some creature that wants to fight behind every door?" Jominda asks annoyed.
Jominda too hits the thing with a bomb, and one wonders, but it catches fire.
Kendra answers Herm, "It's a mechanical construct. Kind of like the flesh golems we've been fighting so far, but made of metal instead of corpses."
The construct slams with its scythe like appendages at Herm.
Kendra rolls her hands through the air once more, and then flings another globe of acid at the construct, hitting it squarely on the shoulder.
"You still alright, Herm? Let us know if you need some healing," Kendra yells over the din of the fighting.
"Who the hell is making these things!" Harrold says throwing two bombs
Whoever makes them will be busy soon, as Harrold bombs it to pieces.
Shortly after the construct breaks apart the door to the right opens. A piece of the construct rises into the air and moves to the door left of the fireplace. The door opens and the piece drops to the floor at the wall of this coal chamber.
"That is unusual..." Harrold says watching the construct float