Erik hangs back cautiously until someone else closes within melee of the creature.
Leo's handsome face twists slightly as he calls on Kelemvor to help him smite the abomination.
"Your existence is an affront to the natural order. I will end it."
"Taunt the damn thing! Make it follow us back to the other room!"
Snaggletooth tries to insult the beholder, "Look, Big Eye! You stink like dead fish!!" And he throws his dagger at the beast.
He then sticks his tongue out at the beholder as his dagger returns to his hand. He then turns around and moves back into the Eye Room.
Snaggletooth takes Caine's advice and hurls insults along with his dagger at the floating horror. The blades slices off a non-functional eye-stalk before returning to the kobold's hand.
Caksusa takes in Gratitude's slumped body for the first time and looks angry.
"Even that misbegotten zombie should know better than to attack him. He was harmless and a good healer. Drink blue flame undead!"
So angry is he that his arm shakes and the attack fails completely.
Blindly and inexorably, drawn by Leo's challenge, the zombie moves towards the paladin, dwarfing him as it looms over him, seeking to push him into the pit below. Leo holds his ground.
"Is this the king of the land of the blind I always here about," Perigia says as she casts Magic Missile at it.
Brujo dashes at top speed and jumos up at the beholder
Brujo swings his flaming blade into the rotting aberration
Erik moves up and slices down at the monster, his blade humming with invigorating notes.
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Caksusa takes in Gratitude's slumped body for the first time and looks angry.
"Even that misbegotten zombie should know better than to attack him. He was harmless and a good healer. Drink blue flame undead!"
So angry is he that his arm shakes and the attack fails completely.
"That right! Stupid monster kill nice Gratitude! Monster must be destroyed!" Snaggletooth reinforces Caksusa's statement.
Brujo leaps and strikes true, followed seconds later by Erik. More useless eyestalks tumble eerily into the pit below.
Leo smiles and strikes, before shifting backwards towards the comparative safety of the further room. The amount of agony the blow inflicts seems disproportionate and thick blue ooze starts to trickle like tears around the blinded socket. Implacably, the paladin renews his challenge on the undead.
"Come and get it, eyeball ..."
Caine's voice goes gravelly as he moves back into the room, poised at any second to provide Snaggletooth with a flank should he need it.
"Everyone not understand plan?" Snaggletooth asks Caine. "Idea to bring monster here in THIS room." He raises his voice for the others to hear. "Caksusa, Jervace, follow plan please, shoot then fall back. Others will follow, eventually."
He looks over at the captive Rishi. "Monster understand importance of amulet, maybe? Maybe we use it to control him?" He asks the still bound seer.
Rishi snorts derisively at Snaggletooth's suggestion. "It's got no mind left. Even you can see that. If it did, you'd be at the bottom of that pit by now."
Caksusa nods. "I understand the plan, but that thing killed a friend."
He fires another warp orb at the zombie before backing away.
The undead eye drips ichor and slams mindlessly into Erik, unable to get to Leo. Looking horribly the worse for wear, it takes Kelemvor's punishment for ignoring his servant.
"Maybe this will slow it down," Periga says as she casts Chill Strike at the monster.
Ice forms over the undead orb as Perigia's attack manages to find a way past the armoured exterior.
Jervace heeds Snaggletooth's warning and moves further back into the room.
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"You keep talking like that, Rishi, and I feed you to monster." Snaggletooth warns the captive seer. "Be nice. You still live."
""Be nice"? Nobody's said that to me since I was six." Rishi looks at Snaggletooth with open astonishment and dawning amusement.
Erik, being unable to step back, instead takes a step to the side. With a deep breath (very difficult considering the proximity of the zombie), Erik fills the chamber with his warcry, which echoes throughout the chambers. The beholder is repelled while Erik's allies are carried around on sonic waves molded and directed by the bard.
Reverberations pound through the chamber, dragging the zombie among the companions, where is thumps to the ground, clearly only just holding on by an eyelash.
Leo strikes out but can't hit the thing as the smell of death and ichor overwhelms him.
Brujo waves his blade, forming a cage of fire around the beholder.
"Well that wasn't expected" waves away his flame mask
Snaggletooth
Erik cleans the putrid filth from his shining blade and sheaths it at his waist.
"Not too bad at all. Is everyone alright?"
Caksusa kicks the zombie and moves towards the scythes.
"Give me some help Jervace. He shouldn't be left there."
Leo's eyes widen as Caksusa and Jervace brush past the zombie.
"Watch out! It's not as dead as we thought ..."
Before anyone can do anything sensible to stop it, the zombie rises once more, bumping malevolently against Leo.
"Knew that was too good to be true" Brujo flings his blade at the beholder.
"Gish," Perigia swears.
Erik looks truly startled as he unsheathes his sword again and jumps into combat. Using his soon to be less shining blade, he attempts to open up some kind of weakness in the monster's defenses.