ROUND THREE
Init:
Khayal opens the door to the North, and sees several One Source thugs all lined up down the hallway greet him.
Bartan jumps atop the table in the middle of the room and casts hydraulic push, bowling over the whole line of thugs.
Bartan's spell produces a blast of water rising from the floor and surging towards the goons past the door. The first goon takes the brunt full-blast and staggers back, but the second supports him against the water.
The two thugs behind the first had their small hand crossbows ready.
Both -ping!- off of Khayal's armor. The two in back reload.
The two thugs in front move back from the 5-foot push, raising their saps.
Khayal slashes the man's face before continuing his assault.
Hajar attacks the man in the doorway...if he stands. If he doesn't Hajar moves into the doorway and attacks the next in line
Khayal eviscerates the first thug in the corridor, Hajar running forward and slashing the second with his falchion, downing him in one blow.
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Unable to engage the enemy in the limited space, Nasir takes a step back, kicking the dead man aside with her foot as she begins to dance, not the dance of battle but a slow sensual hip roll, reaching out to entice the arcane energies flowing throughout the city to come to her. flowing through her center. A shimmering, blue and gold radiance surrounds the Desert Rose, emanating from her in pulses as those arcane magic users among her allies feel their power bolstered.
Raising an eyebrow at Nasir's dance, Rayhan lifts a wand from the belt at his waist and aims it at the third thug down the hallway. Magical force coalesces at the tip of the wooden stick, and four near-invisible spheres fly down the hallway, striking the One Source guard in his chest.
The guard staggers in pain but remained standing.
ROUND FOUR
Init:
Bartan will draw a card, cast a ray of frost on the card, and toss it at the closest (purple) badguy.
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Hajar steps over the fallen man and swats at the next in line.
Khayal moves into the room nimbly, dodging out of the way of the remaining guard.
He then brings his kukri down on the remaining guard.
His blade impacting the guards throat.
Hajar smacked the third thug in the corridor into the wall, and after the man's face left an impression in the expensive wood paneling, he limply slumped to the floor.
Bartan threw a card around Hajar, hitting the last guard. Khayal finished the man off.
This massive room is over a hundred feet or more in length and width, but the towering stacks of crates and containers make it difficult to discern exact dimensions. The building’s floor is of hard-packed sand over stone. Some areas are completely open, while others are veritable mazes of crates stacked all the way up to the ceiling twenty feet above. The crates themselves are of wood, and no single crate is larger than five feet square, making it possible to clamber up and around on them with a little work.
Push through, do not stop and let them get away.
Rayhan hurries into the corridor.
The door to the East in the corridor opens, and an attractive half-elven
woman peers out, saying "What the flotsam is going on- Ahh!" as she spots Hajar and Rayhan. Stepping back into the room, you hear "Take care of them, my pets!" followed by a soprano voice singing a song about courage on the battlefield.
Out of the doorway come two very ugly chickens? With reptile scales, bat wings, and long tails. Each one pecks a human in the corridor.
You take DEX damage as your flesh and bones stiffen and harden at your feet.
Cockatrices, whose bite can petrify and turn a person to stone. Stupid, vicious, and repulsive creatures.
Hajar snarls Where is the Scroll you thieving scum! Give it back and you might have some of the Goddess' mercy.
Yazi's axe hits one lizard-chicken, but doesn't kill it.
ROUND FIVE
Init:
"What are those thing???" Bartan seems unnaturally afraid of these creatures for some reason.
Khayal continues to push into the complex eager to not let anyone get away and confident that his companions can handle the threat behind him.
As Khayal moves deeper into the warehouse, Bartan exclaimed surprise at the small creatures in the hallway.
You see several older male humans in ratty clothes on bedrolls near the warehouse double doors. They look surprised at seeing an armored man in the warehouse, and they wake up other thin humans near them. A few start to gather their threadbare bedrolls around them, expecting to run. All wear slave collars either around their necks or on their wrists.
"Arrgh! My precious pets! Show them the punishment!" the woman said from inside the room.
You take DEX damage as your flesh and bones stiffen and harden at your feet.
The woman starts singing again, this time directing her song at Hajar.
You are being told to stand by and let the cockatrice attack you, for the well-being of others.
Hajar attacks the Evil Chicken
Hajar resists the foul magic and poison of the evil chicken.
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Do not be afraid, we have no reason to harm you. Stay on the ground and you will not be harmed.
Yazi and Hajar kill the two chicken-lizards, chopping them into little pieces. Rayhan decides to get out of Yazi's way with that axe. "We are here," he announces loudly, adding to Hajar's shout, "to retrieve property that your One Source Guild representative stole from us!"
ROUND SIX
Init:
Khayal continues the quick search of the place heading east and then north. He moves right past the slaves unless they attack in which case he stops and attacks one non lethally.
"Yes, return our property at once, you fiends!"
Delaying until we see if they're at all willing to parlay.
The slaves look at you expectantly, but seem more like they are ready to run away then attack.
Khayal runs around the One Source Warehouse.
Seeing her pets die under falchion and axe, the woman curses in Osiriani, then turns and runs through the room, saying "That Tamir! This is unprofitable!"
You hear a door slam.
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"Thamir! That was the rats' name! Give him to us so we don't have to hurt anymore adorable little friends of yours! Please?" Yazi calls out while chasing after the woman and attempting to the open the just closed door.
"Why you're using such harmless little things that can't defend themselves as guards doesn't speak all that well to you as a momma..." she grumbles along the way.
Hajar chases after Yazi.
"After the woman, I think - she's the first non-guard we've seen." Rayhan says.
ROUND SEVEN
Init:
Yazi finds the door locked.
The area near the double doors on the southeast side is a section of wooden planking matching up with four pillars at the corners and the hard-packed floor. Looking closer, seeing ropes and pulleys on the four pillars, you realize that the ten-foot-square area is actually a large dumbwaiter or cargo lift, allowing access to a basement below.
I found the way down, finish it up and let's keep on moving.
Khayal looks for a way to activate the dumbwaiter.