Talon attempts to secure himself to the remaining ropes that comprise the bridge.
using his tether rope as additional support.
Talon is attempting to be secure enough to still get a bow shot off at the lizards.
Milhar grabs a rope and heads for the lizards, he uses his innate agility and tries to head for the lizardfolk above on that ledge.
With the obscuring mist, it is impossible to see more than ten feet. No one has seen where the boulders are coming from, but it is probably somewhat high up as they are striking quite hard. You assume, and William can verify, the bridges are secured to metal loops at the same level as you are on his side the same way on the side you are on. It is a simple bridge with two single tie points at each end.
Skirros tries to quickly cross the bridge and starts to wobble and cannot keep balanced.
Talon ties himself to the ropes that are twisting, but has enough stability to get off a shot, but with William completely out of sight fighting on the ledge, it could be dangerous.
The two chained lizards are fighting William and he is fighting to hold his five by five patch to maneuver. The two lizards bite at him and their nasty jaws fail to close on the skilled warrior.
The cascade of boulders continues and they bounce off the swinging ropes as they tumble to the chasm below.
Milhar sees ropes taking damage from the boulders and strain, the large multistranded ropes are beginning to fray. One of the four has less than half the strands holding it together.
Party to go
"Vardlon, GO! It is now or never!"
Sandrion abandons hope of seeing any targets to fire at and moves as quickly as possible across the bridge.
Seeing the bridge on the verge of collapsing, Skirros orders BouzzTwo across as well. "Come on, crocodile, move across. Careful of the bridge!" She herself tries to stabilize herself on the crossing.
I will try to push them back to make room! There are two lizards up here on in front and one to my left! With that William attacks the lizard to his left.
The 1400 pound crocodile moves onto the bridge and the strain on the ropes is obvious. Skirros manages to hold and avoid falling, but cannot make any progress although the crocodile manages to make it almost halfway across.
Talon realizes the risk. He takes careful aim with the bow listening to the description given by William.
but as he goes for the shot the rope sways, his balance thrown off and the arrow sails off into the fog.
Milhar moved across and made it halfway across the destroyed planks last time. He is preparing to move again.
From somewhere in the mists, you hear a bird screeching in an almost human voice. Bikmalu beats his wings furiously as he dodges around the nearby lizard, attempting a spell to burn it and make room for his allies.
From out of the mists, a flaming ball drops onto one of the lizards, rolling around toward its tough hide.
Vardlon, still not sure this is a good idea at all, but with no better specific idea, will go along with the group and try to hurry across the bridge when his turn comes.
Edit: Not hurrying so much that he jumps onto an already-overloaded fraying bridge.
Bikmalu burns the already injured large lizard badly with fiery ball. He growls in anger and pain. Blood and charred flesh coat the green creature. William is unable to penetrate the hide of the apex predators with scimitar or shield. Sandrion moves nimbly across the bridge getting almost halfway across.
Vardlon moves onto the swaying bridge at a very cautious speed and gets fifteen feet onto the bridge.
More boulders are falling onto the bridge.
Two strike the holding ropes and cut two of them on one side completely off.
The bridge manages to miraculously stay although two ropes on the far side out of four are held together by only half their original strands.
Shrugging off nasty bites, the fighter and druid continue to battle the large lizards. The bridge sways even more crazily with the ropes the left of the far side completely severed.
It is amazing the bridge has held up to such punishment and weight on it.
Party up
With the others coming up behind Willism will push the lizard back once more to make more room.
If the combat maneuver work he will take a 5 foot step following the lizard to make room behind for someone to join him.
Skirros and the crocodile take their time and make it the rest of the way across the bridge.
EDIT
Talon crosses the bridge....draws his sword and puts away the bow.
Sandrion holsters his bow and prepares to move across the last part of the bridge once an opening has presented itself.
The last twenty feet of the bridge is spanned by two ropes that are straining under Milhar's weight. Others consider crossing on them to try to get to the other side. Williams attempt to push back the large tethered lizard is unsuccessful.
Milhar scoots along the rope towards William and then flick flacks over onto the wall to the left, and starts climbing.
"Bikmalu, if that fire is your doing, the stones must stop."
"Let me finish the lizard and I'll see if I can find them Milhar." Bikmalu rolls the ball back into the lizard.
Realizing that the bridge won't hold the crocodile's weights, Skirros orders BouzzTwo back to the far side of the trench. "We'll get you later, buddy. Be safe!" She herself then struggles to make it to the far side of the bridge.
Will attempts to clear some room, but the big lizards are too hard to move.
Trying to push a lizard draws Will a bite that misses in the fog. Bouzz moves back just as the bridge collapses and all the ropes fray and break. As the bridge that is left swings to the side you started on, it rips the ropes and rings completely.
Talon grabs the ropes as the planks and much of the center ropes come undone and plummet hundreds of feet below.
Will easily dodges the clumsy bites of the lizards.
Talon puts the bow away and starts to climb to reach the top.
Sandrion lets out a yell as the bridge collapses, but manages to grab the rope hanging down from the cliff edge. Breathing rapidly, he takes stock of the situation seeing if any other party members need assistance climbing up to the top. If no one needs help, he will climb up after Talon.
William will attack the wounded lizard.
Vardlon falls to the jagged rocks below. Probably.
Vardlon, pretty much lost in a fog both literal and figurative, climbs up from the broken bridge. If he sees a big lizard that the party is whomping on, and has a free hand, he'll cast a magic missile spell at it.
RECAP
The party sent Talon across to explore. After rocks were rolled and down and two large lizards guarded the far side, the rest of the group began to move across. Wil rushed across and managed to push a lizard back and engaged two lizards in a fight while the others trailed behind. After the rocks continued to rain down and the party rushed to cross the bridge, the bridge fell into the chasm leaving much of the party clinging to a single frayed rope on the other side.
Will cannot see ahead much, but with a single rope rising to a ledge fully occupies by Will and two lizards, the rope climbers will have to wait for the flying druid and fighter to clear some space to get up.
The fiery sphere continues to burn through the hide of the lizard as the chained lizard has little opportunity to avoid it. The lizard screams in pain and is hurt quite badly, not able to take much more of the fiery sphere.
The lizards continue to attack Will, but cannot get past his defenses.
Party to go again in any order
William will leave the roasting lizard to die in the fire and focus at driving the other monster back.
"I can't see anything in this damn fog! My bow is useless! Skirros grits her teeth and drops her longbow, drawing her shield from her back and her scimitar as she advances toward the nearest lizard.
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The burning sphere finally brings the lizard down and he collapse to the ground. Not dead, he is in bad shape.
From behind the lizard in the cave, a high pitched voice speaks.
"You are killing my guards!! I desire to keep my location and people protected. Perhaps we can avoid further bloodshed?"
The lizard stops and looks warily at Will. It appears there is a break in the fighting for parley. Through the mist Will can hear the sound of more creatures like were in the vines.
Not willing to abandon the bird-shape yet, Bikmalu swoops around looking for the source of the other sounds while waiting for his companions to begin a parlay.
Sandrion could not hardly believe the good fortune after hearing the strange voice wishing to parlay.
He has us on the ropes...literally and now he wishes to talk...Thank Erastil!
"Yes...yes we do not wish you any harm. All we want is safe passage through your territory and we shall trouble you no longer!"
Talon struggles climbing up the rope, his muscles starting to ache from the initial fall. but he still holds on
Not being much of a talker, Skirros stays back with her shield and scimitar held high, moving out of range of the lizards.
Vardlon, dangling on the remains of a rope-and-wood bridge, wonders to himself what's going on this time. Maybe he'll actually be able to see something soon.
Having barely held on, the group waits for the high pitched voice to reply.
"Those of you placing your weapons and packs on the ground can come back with me. If you have a REASONABLE cause to be here, I am sure we can work this out. We do not typically accept visitors."
He adds: "The only way to get out of my territory is to turn around. This IS my territory. Why are you here?"
Milhar keeps moving through the mists along the rope towards William. He urges anyone ahead to do the same, quietly.
Pull back your guards and we can discuss options here.
William will take a full defense action while waiting for a response.