Katara draws her morningstar as she approaches the nearest coffin after dropping her torch and slams it against the bones of the creature that doesn't answer to Arula's call. [b]
Baldrek misses his target, breaking part of the casket in a powerful blow, and suddenly the three closest skeletons seems to freeze, waiting for something, looking in the direction of Aralu...
Then two of them, those closest to Zurka, seem to shake the effect of Aralu's dark magic.
Each skeleton gets out of his casket, ready to kill you.
Mary aims her evil eye hex at yellow, for -2 attack rolls.
Zurka smiles wickedly at the skeleton in front of his as he steps back and calls upon a simple cantrip, but very effective against undead.
Zurka bolt of energy miss its target, hitting the casket instead
Meurasod holds his ground valuing his positioning in the room more than striking first.
Baldrek steps forward, swinging his hammer madly... his efficiency would be reduced but he also made it more difficult for his enemies to counter-attack.
[dice=Damage (earth breaker), power attack, shield of swings]2d6+4+3[/dice]
Aralu orders Bob to guard her, while she advances into the room. The deadtouched girl points at Red Skull. "Rip any undead not under my control apart with your claws, starting with the closest to you "
When Mary's turn comes around, she moves into the NW of the room, and uses evil eye on orange for -2 on attacks.
Baldrek wild swing miss the skeleton by inches only, while Meurasold prepares himself for any upcoming foe.
Another skeleton turns against his comrades, following Aralu's orders. It hits, but its claws do no damage.
Smash the Orange one using last attack
Another skeleton turns against his comrades, following Aralu's orders. It hits, but its claws do no damage.
Katara smashes one of the skeleton, and Aralu's bony minion dispatch another
Two other skeleton attacks, one rushing towards Baldrek the other near Aralu's skeleton
Then Mary's hex is directed for -2 attacks on whatever skellie is still standing.
[Insert situational words play, worthy of GM spanking]
Zurka nods in approval at Aralu's combat prowess as he sends another ray of positive energy at another skeleton.
Aralu's skeleton destroy another foe,removing any threat to Meurasold.
Baldrek's earthbreaker proves to be real dangerous for frail moving bones.
Meurasod circles around and comes up behind the skeleton. He relaxes his grip on the axe and lets it slip down until the blade is just above his hand. Instead he puts his weight behind and shield and tries to slam it into the skeleton.
Katara stepped forward to take a swing at the bones with the yellowish hue when her morningstar caught on one of the sarcophagi.
It threw her shot off but didn't cause her to lose the weapon.
The last skeleton try to rip open Katara's throat, but miss horribly.
The skeleton succumbs to Mary's dark charms... but Zurka fails to hit it.
With the skeleton's focus on Katara, Meurasod swings his shield at the back of the skeleton.
Meurasold slams his shield into the last skeleton, crushing him on the nearest tomb, breaking its left arm.
Meurasod takes a quick glance around the room but keeps most of his focus on the casters under his protection. "Spread out and look around. Give a shout if you find something."
Mary casts guidance on herself and her little songbird, before the two of them take a look around.
Zurka hangs back and watches the others loot the chamber, watching for any threats coming from south door.
After ordering her skeletons to stand guard the Deathtouched girl starts to look around, checking from time to time for traces of magic.
Katara would watch over them as they inspect the place keeping an eye and ear out for trouble.
The only thing you find-apart from two others skeletons that were too badly damaged to animate- is a small horn in the southermost coffin.
There is another door that the one you came in through, but you hear nothing eerie.
"Is that horn magical?" Meurasod asks as he walks to the southern door. Not suspecting traps he moves to open the door.
A magical horn? Now why would any self respecting mage bother to enchant such a useless item?
Zurka nods to the dwarf as he takes the horn in his hand. Muttering a quick cantrip under his breath he looks the horn over. Just to humor him of course....
Katara would move to the door and once everyone was ready again she would nod to Meurasod, before opening the door slowly.
"Hey... let me check this door first, ok?"
Mary sees some frowns on Zurka's face.
"Is something bothering you about the horn?"
Eventually, she casts a guidance on the party, for safety's sake.
Zurka gives the woman a disgusted look. "This horn has an enchantment I had never heard of before. It creates a vaporous cloud when you blow it. A useful ability for sure...but why enchant a HORN?"
"Horns have a lot of symbolic propertys that give a usefull basis for enchantments, like in this case the cornucopia or the signal horn, in addition to a certain phalic imagery, which male enchanters seem to favor for some reason." Aralu finishes her explanation with a small smile.
Baldrek finds no trap on the door, and it seems unlocked.
As you push it, you quickly see that the floor of this small hallway is partially blocked by heaps of stone rubble. A skeletal human hand protrudes from one pile of rubble. The debris looks old, and the few sagging strands of web draped over the rubble seem to have been here for
some time.
Meurasod glances into the room before saying ""I don't like it. Webs, skeletal hands...Why don't you send in the twins?" He hefts his shield and axe in a comforting way as only a dwarf could. "Looks like two doors, from what I can see."
Aralu nods and sends her skeletons into the room with orders to give a signal if there are any creatures, wether alive or unded(beside them).
Zurka stares for a long moment at Aralu long after the woman has turned her attention to the hallway beyond. He fingers the horn absentmindedly .
Is she...testing me here? She definitely has talent...I shall have to watch her more...closely.
Putting the horn into his pouch he readies his weapons for the possible appearance of additional undead.
The two skeletons have a few difficulties walking among the rocks , but nothing bad happens
Meurasod watched from the doorway as the two skeletons clambered around the room. He almost giggled as one slipped slightly and nearly toppled over, but it managed to stay on it's feet and he limited his amusement to a grin. With a shrug he hefted his war axe, readied his shield and entered the room. He tried carefully to follow the path that the skeletons took, but he failed to pay close enough attention and instead simply tried not to kick too many rocks as he walked.
There are two doors, one south, one east.
There are quite unremarkable doors, a simple stone slab, as every door you meet at this level of the Spire.
Mary pulls back a lock of her hair.
"Come on, look at the doors, little one."
The thrush flies to each door and observes.