Khayal wakes with a start but it is too late for the surprise round.
Hajar shouted the alarm, and Yazi charged the bone tube floating in air.
Surprisingly, her fist manages to connect with the unseen thief's body.
Paige threw her bowl of breakfast.
ROUND ONE
Init:
Khayal jumps to his feet draws his swords and moves across from Yazi.
Bartan wakes with a start and stands up.
Yazi drinks her potion of see invisibility, knowing that if Zayifid attacked, he'd lose his advantage.
But a fist rammed into her anyway.
The geniekin appears behind Bartan, with Yazi beside him, the man stepping back from the fisticuffs. "You lot really are foolhardy." Zayifid declares. "Didn't you hear me tell you the traps reset after a day in here? And you chose to take a nap! It's almost time, and I'm not taking the chance the Scroll will be destroyed with you." Tucking the bone scroll into his green jacket, the red-head disappears again.
Hajar says You'll not escape this lair with that Scroll Zayifid! and he moves to block the stairs going up.
*facepalms* Garden? Trap? Dead Gnolls? Of course! how foolish of us. Paige takes a moment to see if she can spot the danger in the room
All you see is four sandstone sculptures chiseled into the forms of huge angry faces in random places around the room. From before, what you see is that the gnolls' weapons are still in their scabbards, for the most part, but something has ripped the bodies apart, ruining the armor. Several of the gnolls...have unusual looks of terror on their faces. As if they had been frozen in place.
ROUND TWO
Init:
Khayal rips into where he last saw the man hoping to strike a hit.
Friends, we can't stay here. If what he says is true, we may be only minutes away from being shredded alive in some terrible way by the trap in this room!
We will kill him quickly, then MOVE! Bartan, make sure our way out is not blocked.
Khayal heard some grunts as his blades connected more than once.
"Huh! Ah! Brutes! Think of a higher cause for once! Like - mine!" calls out a disembodied voice.
You feel somebody go by you quickly enough to feel the breeze made by their passing.
Khayal's blades hit Zayifid, and, bleeding, the man squeezed past the sandstone statue and the stone benches and fountain to near where Hajar is standing. He's obviously going for the exit.
A trail of splattered blood starts just before the sandstone monument next to Bartan's sleeping area and going north-northeast between Paige and the water fountain.
Hajar readies himself to block Zayifid at the exit.
Bartan moves toward the exit and, seeing that Hajar is engaged with the invisible enemy not to mention the blood trail, he pulls a card, charges it with a shocking grasp spell, and hurls it at the square of the invisible genie-dude.
But it misses.
Paige tries to jump on the invisible man with Hajar. If I can only get ahold of his ankle!
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Hajar blocks the staircase, Yazi puts her new black axe to good use, Paige jumps at the invisible assailant, and Bartan fudges a playing card.
Yazi's axe opens up Zayifid's back from left to right and rib to collarbone, and the janni falls into Hajar's arms as he becomes visible to the others. Coughing blood, Zayifid grabs Hajar's fullplate as he stares at him and whispers "Too late for second chances. Wish for me, Vardishal. Wish for us all...to be...back together..." The last comes out as the genie spy's death rattle. The red head's hands leave a bloody smear on the paladin's armor as he slumps forward.
The spirit of the former Templar of the Five Winds can only say Zayifid...oh Zayifid, my brother...
ROUND THREE
Init:
Everyone out of the room! Paige tries to help Hajar pull Zeyfrid's body up the stairs.
Grab and go! Khayal says as he sees the red haired man fall.
Bartan follows his allies out of the room as quickly as possible.
Something like a gong sounds in the garden room. The mouths of the four monolithic sandstone heads in the room yawn open to belch gouts of fire and smoke!
Those are really big summoning spells. Summon Monster V sized.
Bulbous creatures with red, yellow, and purple colors start to appear among the smoke and flickers of flame.
"There are creatures being summoned! Let's hope they cannot follow us from this room!"
Khayal steps over and attacks the nearest creature forming out of the air.
"If it hasn't all been destroyed..." Bartan mumbles.
Hajar hauls zayifid's corpse up the stairs shouting Hurry! The guardians are forming
Hearing his friend's pleas Khayal will move up the stairs when he next has the chance.
yellow doesn't count
Khayal's moving blades twice hit the monstrosity in the air. The others scrambled up the stairs.
ROUND FOUR
Init:
Saying he was going to move
Khayal will double move up the stairs.
Once everyone is on the steps, Paige casts ENTANGLE at the mouth of the stairway. That ought to slow them down! DC17
Khayal runs.
The fighter can feel the creature staring at his back as he retreats.
The other extraplanar beasts, consisting of many tangled legs, a bulging body of hot-to-the-touch, puffed flesh floating at head-level, and a mouth filled with sharp fangs, attack the corpses in the garden, ripping into them with their many claws, and lifting the chunks to their mouths.
Khayal gets past Hajar on the stairs. Everyone huddled on the stairs, the stone making for tight quarters, while Paige cast her spell.
Bartan is now positioned correctly, having used his full-round action to move up the stairs.
Ok, Paige and Bartan move up the stairs with Khayal! Yazi will cover the retreat and I will carry Zayifid. Hajar says, struggling with the weight of the dead once genie.