Searok barely processes that Lamm is dead dead. Instead his rage focuses on the one that raised such a vile, despicable creature.
He will move to where the elementals are and swings.
He hits nothing but air!
Groaning at the options she has for the skeleton infront of her, I need a better weapon for this. "Searok please stay in the doorway so he can't get away."
Shaeda will cast cure light wounds, holds the charge as she takes a 5’ step forward...
...and attempts to touch the skeleton...
Emma's rapier scrapes bone harmlessly.
You hear a voice from approximately where Vreeg must be standing as he casts another spell. Whatever it is, its effects are not immediately apparent.
Shaeda has more luck than Emma did, successfully placing her hand on the skeleton and pumping it full of life energy. With one last spasm the foul magics holding it together fail, and it collapses into mere bones.
He curses as his weapon meets no resistance.
They will find you eventually"
Makall takes out his crossbow and loads a bolt preparing for the derro's magic to fail him.
None of you speak Terran , but the body language of the two elementals seems to suggest they are perplexed. They swing their fists into the space where Vreeg was a moment ago, but then start glancing around the room in consternation.
Searok likewise connects with nothing with his hammer.
Makall quickly summons a magical force that surrounds him.
Makall is unable to identify the spell.
Emma recognizes the verbal components of the spell: Fly. Vreeg is no longer touching the ground, which stymies the elementals' ability to sense his location.
That problem solves itself, as he reappears floating in the air between you. His appearance is brief, however, as he's already casting another spell. Everything around you quickly goes black as magical darkness radiates out from the necromancer.
”We should have done this earlier, but I’ll do it now, sorry if this screws us friends. It’s all you Searok, do us proud.”
Shaeda casts silence on her whip.
Searok, angrier than ever of hitting air, let's out a howl when he sees the mage.
Shaeda's spell rings out like a crystal wineglass struck by a tuning fork, and then nothing else is heard at all. Considering most of you can't presently see either, this is somewhat troubling.
No longer able to see where the derro has gone Makall puts his trust in Granijor and Ablaszar to pummel the twisted creature.
Left in complete silence and darkness Makall loads his crossbow and stays where is.
The earthen brutes aren't bothered by the dark, coming as they do from a sunless realm of endless caverns. Both manage to pound the airborne derro. Searok is also unaffected, and brings his hammer to bear with what would almost certainly have been a satisfying crunch if it were audible.
Searok with a furious bellow, hits the derro again.
Sucking in a breath and starting to say something but no sound comes out. Tightening her grip on her rapier and simply waiting.
Vreeg tries to cast a spell, but realizes his peril when no sound comes out. The dwarf and elementals to his east are unaffected by his darkness spell, but the humans and halfling to the west don't appear so lucky.
That's the only escape route then, but the narrow hallway between chambers isn't tall enough to fly over Shaeda's head undetected, short though she is.
Oh well, sometimes mundane solutions are best. Stepping over the prone form of Lamm and drawing his dagger, Vreeg prepares to go through the halfling, knowing she can neither see nor hear him coming.
Realizing that she needs to hold the line while the darkseers handle the threat, Shaeda heals herself as a swift action...
Drops her whip, draws her dagger, and attacks the direction from which she was just attacked.
Ranged/Melee
Miss
The elementals feeling their time is almost at an end on this plane move toward the fleeing derro and then flail him with their fists.
Still left in the dark but hearing movement all Makall can hope is that the derro is nowhere near his allies that cannot see in the dark either.
"What is going on where is he?"
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Granijor and Searok silently pummel the increasingly desperate derro, who is beginning to think he chose the wrong target when he sees Shaeda's freshly inflicted wounds close up almost as fast as he can inflict them.
Breathing heavily as fatigue sets in, Searok still continues his assault on the derro.
Desperate and surrounded, Vreeg tries to shove his way past Shaeda so he can get out of the narrow hallway and take flight.
Despite his unimpressive build, the necromancer manages to push back the unseeing warpriestess and escape into the larger room.
Searok, tired from his previous frenzy, doesn't react in time to stop the fleeing derro.
The elemental swats Vreeg backwards into Searok, and he crumples to the ground bleeding. After a few more seconds the Silence spell wears off but the darkness remains, and those of you blinded and deafened by the magic realize that the sounds of combat have stopped.
"Did we win?"
Searok kicks the corpse of Vreeg and between deep breaths says, Yeah we did! Durn son of a kobald for animating such a vile bein' Searok heaves while spitting on Vreeg.
Letting out a tired sigh, "So how long is the darkness going to last?"
"I would say probably four or five minutes, give or take. These things are sommat dependent on the magical strength of the caster you know."
Shaeda determines that yes, just a couple of minutes and normal visibility conditions will return.
Sure enough, eventually light returns to the room, revealing Vreeg dead on the floor. By now the elementals have returned from whence they came. Lamm is still there and still dead, though hopefully he'll stay that way this time.
Without the chaos of combat and the magical darkness, you can now get a better look at these two rooms. The one you are standing in is, as described, a plain bedroom with a mirror, a writing desk, and a four post bed. Searok thought he saw a knife on the desk before Lamm's appearance drew his attention, and now that he can get a better look at it he realizes that it's rather singular in appearance.
The blade is of exceptional quality (masterwork) and has been filed down to resemble a sharpened key. Emma and Shaeda once found a very similar weapon when searching the senior Lamm's possessions. It was engraved "For an inspiration of a father", and was identified as the signature weapon of a notorious murderer known as the Key-Lock Killer.
The other room, where Vreeg was working, looks somewhat more lived in. More un-lived in too, if the ghastly necromantic experiment on the slab is any indication. It is the arm and torso of a man bearing Shoanti tribal tattoos. Although it occasionally twitches, Vreeg was apparently not yet successful in bringing it to full animation.
There's also a small bed in this room, a shelf with a few books and skulls on it, and a small chest.
Behind the mirror in the larger bedroom is a small niche where the owner has stashed a few trinkets of interest. A set of masterwork Thieves Tools, a pearl and silver snuffbox, and both a spoon and a vial of dust that detect as magical are within. Next to the desk there is a small box containing four onyx gems.
Vreeg's chest contains a small collection of valuables as well, including his spellbook, two silver rings, a gold and pearl bracelet, a rather fancy hip flask inlaid with a golden carving of a house drake, and a weird iron bar that radiates magic.
Vreeg himself was armed with a wand, a magical robe, a masterwork dagger, and a magical ring.
Searok swats at the twitchy arms. Do ye think we have enough of him yet? Don't like things that are supposed ta be dead twitchin' He glances balefully at Lamm's corpse As ye can tell!
If ye are all done here, let's find da rest of da lad! Searok says as he slaps the moving body part again.
"This weapon seems very similar to another we once found. What says you Emma?"
Nodding, "Yeah it does...Let's finish this though."
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Emma recognizes most of the magical items you've found. The vial contains three doses of Dust of Disappearance, the spoon is a Sustaining Spoon, the bar is aTraveler’s Any-Tool, and Vreeg was wearing a Ring of Protection +1.
She is unable to determine the function of the robe and wand.