Without waiting for a 'go ahead' sign from the dark one, Gashka casually reaches over to the door on the left of her and tries to open it. Smiling impishly and unashamedly she looks at the others, "Whoops...sorry bout that, my hand musta slipped."
The door opens to a large, lowly lit room contains a raised dais mounted with a silver throne. A man dressed in all black, a triangular hat, and flute slung over one shoulder, stands by the throne, holding Narima with a dagger drawn, flanking the dais are two feral rats the size of small dogs.
Pharnox calmly speaks in a low voice, truly a whisper...
Do not charge in just yet, position yourselves as best you can... We need to hit him from all sides...
Pharnox stealthily moves in to the chamber, he uses the dim light and whatever cover is available to position himself...
stealth
Tikkle moves to have a clear line of attack, Scizore at the ready. the sight of the flute made his stomach drop. That's gotta be what's made us go to sleep. He will charge without heed for nearly anything if the Piper so much as touches his flute.
On seeing the villain, Ash rolls his back along the wall, out into the corridor and loads his crossbow...
Taking in the sight before them, Gashka puts out an arm to stop Tikkle from doing anything rash, "Wait...if you do that, he'll kill her."
Terra peeks in, seeing the situation.
she sit on the floor Please, you have to tslk to me, I need to save Narima. she says placing her hands on the floor.
A dagger appears in Anyka's hand with barely a movement. Nodding as Pharnox whispers she speaks to the others in a whisper of her own.
"He's right on this, we need to fan out and hit him from as many directions as once as we can. If he makes a move with that dagger I'm throwing this one. Once it starts, don't stop till he's down and Narima's safe."
As you move into position, the rats hiss, alerting the Half-Elf man. Bringing Narima in front of him and putting the dagger at her throat, he spoke, "Take one step closer, and I'll end her life."
Jin draws his dagger and takes a stance with the blade pointed forward. "Let her go!" he demands.
I would love a if a pillar of stone shot out and whacked the rat holding Narima in the head forceing him to relase him (or was that a her)
Looking at Jin with the darkest eyes, "I don't think so. No. While I have this worm, you don't dare touch me."
"Why'd you take us? We're just kids. What use are we to you?"
ok half-elf, but the primary target is whoever it takes to free Narima
A sardonic smile crosses his face, "The young provide more essence." He shrugs nonchalantly, "And they're a little easier to control, supposedly."
Buuyahh
Gashka looks at him and laughs, "Then someone told you wrong you worthless piece of cow dung."
She bares her teeth menacingly, "We will NOT be controlled by the likes of " The last word comes out as a scream in hopes of throwing him somewhat off guard and to bolster the others as well.
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Pharnox grins viciously at the Piper and not knowing whether or not he can speak his tongue decides to see if he can distract the enemy... As he does this he calmly draws his gun, his eyes show absolutely no remorse, no kindness only a cold fury...
Intimidate
Multa prius noverunt accensa, vt hodie hostibus Alii temptabant interficere hominem ... in finem vitae Abyssus spirante te caput in cavum novo ...
Many times before has this gun been fired, today it will take another life... Like all the enemies who tried to kill me in the Deeps your life will end with you breathing through a new hole in your head...
Before the man could respond to the Dark Elf, Terra stepped into the room, a look of pure rage across her face as the years of abuse from her mother surfaced. Reaching a hand towards one of the side walls, and swept her hand across the room. At the same time, a cylinder of stone came flying out of the wall and struck the Half-Elf, knocking him to the floor.
Once on the floor, black vapor flew out of his mouth and formed into a vicious looking creature with bat-like wings. "And now you see my true form." Looking at the rats and Half-Elf, stretched forth his clawed hand. "Worthless." Closing it into a fist, the Piper and his minions screamed in writhing agony.
Pharnox seeing his chance lines up his shot, he aims for the head...
attack
damage
confirm, confirm!
Pharnox's shot rings loud and flies true. But all his bullet hits, it the wall behind the shadowy creature. The monstrosity just laughs, "I can see you have strong spirits. I can use such strength." It waves its arm, and you feel a cold sensation on all of your arms. A blue mark, like the one Rizzle had, appears upon your forearm. "But that essence needs to ripen. I will return when you're ready." He looked at Narima, "But I need a new body." It flies into Narima's body. The Nagaji, stood up, her eyes black as night. She smiles, "Toodles." Then vanished.
Pharnox's eyes widen as the bullet flies and then passes through the "thing"... His voice is grim and yet resolute even as the blue mark appears upon his arm...
Quidquid id est inter medium et evadere, et abscondere potest suspicari oportet per aliquam infirmitatem ... set Movere coquus e rat hanc invenire in communi est de hoc Certa media abominatio est libertas ... nos occidere, etiamsi corpus amici equitare. Dubito ... amplius ipsa veritate
Whatever this thing is it stands between us and escape, it can hide and I suspect go through walls but it must have some sort of weakness... Move out of this room in a group and find the cook the rat spoke of, this thing is an abomination that stands between us and freedom... Fight to kill it, even when it rides the body of your friend. I doubt she is truly in there anymore...
"No!!" Anyka screams out as the thing possessing Narima vanishes along with her.
Jin turns to the dark elf and calmly says. "That wouldn't kill it and it would just keep jumping from one of us to the next until none of us were left. Besides, it's not coming back."
With a defeated tone the Sylph repeats what the demon said for Pharnox.
"We need to find the way out and get home. There is nothing more that we can do here." Jin says in common.
Terra just stands there in almost on shock. she looks at her hands then at the rock that moved. all that happened after has not sunk in yet.
"Darn it!"
"You wouldn't think that if it were you. We're not letting that thing stay inside her. We'll find a way."
The Half-Elf yanked a gold chain from his neck and held it up...briefly, before his hand collapsed. A hexagonal pendant appears to be attached to the chain.
The curious Flynt will walk over slowly and examine the pendant. "What's this do?"
perception
Pharnox grabs the Pendant out of Flynt's hands (or snatch's it from the ground) and his voice suddenly seems almost..."optimistic"
Key Credo ego quoque exaudivi te dicit verbum abominationis lingua iudicatum "hic" momentum habet quisquam?Vidimus Sequere me ad ostium, si possumus nos exire nefas morte revocat hie indagentur auxilia ...
I believe this is the Key, I also heard the abomination speak a word in your tongue, pronounced "here" does it carry any special significance? Follow me to the door we saw, if we can get out we can retrieve reinforcements to assist us in putting this abomination to death...
Flynt shakes his head no.
"Maybe it's magic?"
Pharnox shakes his head at the word "magic", that word had long ago vanished from Drow elven...
Quod videtur, quid sit amet, eduxit eum si aliquid ex colligere possumus ex sola forsitan et singulis ... Spider dentibus armata, sclopis, est bellici laxata rota igneo, tasque, et cetera vasa belli restat, cannons erit haberent ...
Whatever it is this looks like the key, if we can get out I can probably gather some Drow from the Lone Spider... Each and everyone of them armed to the teeth, pistols, blunderbuss's, grenades and every other weapon of war short of cannons will be at their disposal...
Tikkle is infuriated at the slave mark on his arm, and after a moment storms out and jerks another door open (right one I suppose).
Gashka stares open mouthed in shock at everything that has happened. Trying to shake it off she looks at the others, "We have to go back to the cells and get the others first. I'm not leaving without Nate and the others." Her voice trembles, but there is no mistaking the look of resolution on her small but furious face.
Walking slowly up to the body of the piper, Anyka looks down at it. Silently she begins to shake before the sobs come, heart rending, wracking her lithe frame as she falls to her knees, overcome with the anger and rage, the loss of her friend and the reality of the violence they'd all just been through.