Erik tries to control the sinking feeling at the pit of his stomach as he stands back. Finally unable to resist the temptation, he steps up to Gwen.
"I'm going to make you invisible, OK? Just in case those aren't prisoners and instead are something you might need to slip behind so as to flank."
So saying, he chants the magic words, and if Gwen's willing, she disappears from view.
A smile and a wink: "I like the way you think Erik. Let's do this!" says Gwen turning her shoulder towards Erik.
"Looks like we found our arm!"
Initiative
For once, Roj is quickest to react.
Borden takes a 5 foot step back and begins to declaim!
Arise and fight o' Kinsmen of shield and spear, of blade and bow - arise and join me in display of courage and loyalty and prove t'all by the valiance of strength of heart that thou be stout men and true!
Roj steps into the doorway, sword and shield already swinging, but his blade bounces off the ruined boards.
Basil backs away from the golem, creating room for the others.
Knowing it's a futile attempt, but with absolutely nothing left in his repertoire, Eric attempts to cast daze on the monstrosity.
That done, he runs back to where the civilians are, calling over his shoulder, "I'll get the innocents out! See you guys top side!"
Trying to make good use of Erik's spell, Gwen moves into a flanking position and savagely attacks!
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Roj's scimitar glances off the thing's hide, his shield bash almost gets it, but it manages to avoid the blow narrowly.
Gwen's strike goes wide, but no one can see that.
The thing strikes back at Roj, thinking he is the only one to have attacked it so far.... It throws itself forward at him, slamming into him repeatedly.
Erik's spell seems to have no effect. Bordan Sings out, and Basil moves back....
Borden continues using his oratory.
He attacks with reach uses his longspear with arcane strike.
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Roj once again prays, and divine energy fills him, binding some of his wounds and giving him the strength to keep fighting. He whips his scimitar at the thing, following it up with a vicious slam from his shield, which lands near the thing's head. That done,
EDIT: Forgot my Fort save.
Gwen tries to move to a more favourable position:
but the golem is too big for her to pass, so she just attacks it again:
and so she becomes visible to the enemy!
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Roj slams his scimitar into the beast followed by his shield, almost as Gwen goes in herself. The thing reels back from the multiple hits, but keeps coming.
It slams again into Roj, bellowing in rage.
Erik delays a moment, unsure what to do. Bordan, still singing, shoves his spear between his friends to impale the creature. With one last scream of rage, it crashes to the ground, it's component parts splitting away from each other as the magic holding it fades. The smell is incredibly bad. The tattooed arm lies limp and gray on the floor.
"Good job, guys!"
Roj gasps as the first slam catches him in the ribs and he feels something start to give. He reaches again for his divine connection to the Dawn, but seems to lack the energy for more healing. "Is...is that the last part? If it is, can we get out of here? I'm pretty much out of strength for this..."
"Roj man, you were awesome! Are you hurt? I still have one cure potion, it's yours if you need it pal!"
Gwen takes a step inside the room and starts looking around.
"Right then, we should get those former captives out of here, then report back to our employer..."
Roj nods at Basil. "Agreed." As he begins walking back through the cave, he shakes his head at Gwen. "Thank you for your offer, but there's not likely to be more fighting. The Korvosan Guard can foot the bill for this one, I think."
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The gruesome tally shows that you seem to have found all of Ghaekhen's body, though detaching some parts from the half-golem's takes a bit of time and skill.
The trip back to Citadel Volshyenek is an easy, and strangely quiet one. You are greeted at the guard -house by a pacing Cressida Kroft.
"Were you successful?" she says, obviously uneasy.
"We were successful, but..." Basil winces, "Not all of the body was in one place. That said, we did retrieve all of the pieces..."
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"Come inside. Quickly." As you move through the essentially empty corridors to her office, Croft continues.
"I can handle the remains, Thousand Bones will not be pleased, but haveing the remains to perform their ritual is the most important thing to him. I will be able to have most of the damage recified by magic anyway. You have done a good job here, and I will want a full report on what you found later."
"Right now though, I have news you will want to hear. The queen is to hang the artist girl said to have killed the King. It is to start at sunset, so you have enough time to get over to the castle before they begin. Something doesn't feel right though, and I fear this will cause more riots."
Basil frowns.
"Just what the city needed; it was already enough of a powder keg, even before this happened!"
I thought the girl got away - did they re-capture her? I thought she was with Blackjack. She escaped when we brought her in, then she got away from us with that vilgilante-type.
Roj fixes Croft with an intense look. "We'll go, but first things first. Do you have a healer on hand? We're very low on divine favors for the day, courtesy of clearing out a necromancer's lair, and it'd be best if we had our strength back."
Erik looks mildly overwhelmed and dispirited. " I'll be of no use. I'm completely out of spells."
Captain, I am definitely interested in getting a look at this execution - I'm in. If any of you need some wounds seen to I've a bit of magic left in me. I didn't use anything in chasing down the lassie or in the necromancers lair. Maybe Basil may have something in him as well.
"Something doesn't add up here. If the girl got away... and we know she did, right... who is it that they're going to hang??? A scapegoat of sorts? A lookalike? And if that's the case... what are we going to do?"
Roj listens to Gwen's questions before stopping to think. After a minute, he looks down and frowns. "Well...we know she got away. That doesn't mean she didn't get recaptured. Look, this Blackjack person, he might have learned something about our friend that changed his mind. Or he might simply have failed to protect her from the Hellknights. If the first one is the case, I intend to go to the execution and watch it happen, not because I want to, but because, like it or not, the Queen is the legitimate inheritor to our dead king. If it seems like Miss Sabor is innocent..." Roj pauses, the furrows on his brow growing deeper. "If she's innocent, or if she's not who they claim she is...I still don't know what we can do."