Lia's anger mounts as it becomes clear that the dragons have the attention spans of dead goldfish. She swings her blade at the imp she's fighting.
"TURN! AROUND! AND! FACE ME!"
Aerodus shouts in anger, blood rapidly flowing and his faint fiendish traits calling out. He swings his blade at the imp he's flanking.
Venator grants Aerodus a bit of Luck, so hopefully he can strike with more precision next time.
Lia doesn't spend too long admiring the bisected imp, instead moving to attack another imp!
"I'm right here! Fight me! ME! COME ON!"
Unfortunately, her anger is getting in the way of her swings, causing her to miss wildly again.
Venator doesn't have a melee weapon at hand, so he is unable to hurt them while they flee.
Aerodus gives a mighty bellow as the imps flee, swinging his blade at one of them.
Lia takes her last swing at the fleeing imps!
Aerodus frowns as the imps flee. Aerodus turns to Jirani to see his condition.
"I'm alright. I didn't get hurt, what about you guys?"
Aerodus turns to Venator. [b]"It's only a scratch."[/ooc]
He nods to Aerodus and hushes the party forward. "So let's resume taking the good folk to safety, and then we can discuss what in seven seasons happened here. There could be invisible creatures around us, be careful." He takes a look around, just to be sure, and gathers the other ex-prisoners to resume.
Lia lowers her bloodied blade, panting.
"...how's Jirani doing? And where's Andando?"
Aerodus looks to Lia. "I don't know how Jirani's doing. And I have no bloody idea where Andando is!"
Venator approaches the man, worried with his current state. If he's down he will immediately cast Stabilize from afar, to prevent him from getting any worse, but if not he takes a couple minutes to see how is he doing.
If he's down and still alive Venator will heal him, converting Murderous Command into a CLW.
This is not good... thinks to himself the cleric.
"He's gonna be alright but he's paralyzed at the moment. Is one of you strong enough to carry him, or do we need a cart?" Either way he takes a look around, checking if there are any means of transportation nearby.
Grim-faced, Lia moves over to Jirani and hoists him up into a fireman's carry.
"OOF... I--*pant pant*--I think I'll be able to carry him."
Venator realizes how weak he is compared to Lia. "Freaking strong women are freaky."
"It's called--*PANT PANT HUFF*--exercise. Builds strong muscles, you know."
Aerodus takes the other side of Jirani, arm around his shoulders. "I'll help. I'm just as strong as you, magus. Besides, you seem out of breath. It might slow us down." Turning his head to Venator, he says, "Priest, see if you can figure out the Andando's whereabouts."
Lia snorts. "Gee, thanks, ranger."
Aerodus growls under his breath. "Well then, Lia. I'm only trying to help. That's what a team does, right? Or am I mistaken?" He looks at her with a critical eye.
"It'd certainly help more if you'd care to consistently use our names. Turns out people respond to you better if you call them by their name instead of their job." Lia snarks right back. She's a bit flushed--whether it's from lugging Jirani around or from Aerodus' jibes is unclear.
"Andando is nowhere to be seen. We cannot wait for him, we're in danger out in the open." He motions the party to go back to their previous track, heading to the hiding spot.
"Just because you can't see me, doesn't mean I'm not there my good Venator!" Andando says stepping from the shadows with a flourish.
A gang of kids follows him.
"Freak."
"The name calling, it wounds me Sir." Andando says, clutching his chest in mock pain.
Looking at Jiriani he quips. "Isn't usually our friend Aerodus who's stiff as a board?" he flashes a winning smile at Lia.
"These children weren't going to look after themselves, I couldn't leave them alone, that's unheroic."
"Yes and no--now come on. We need to get moving before we attract any more attention." Lia sighs, somewhat relieved that Andando didn't run off. "Bring the kids if you want."
Aerodus frowns at Lia. "Well, I apologize for not using the names of the first group of people I've ever worked with, who only met a few days ago, in this backwoods country, with me being required to just about every problem under the bloody sun!"
But before he can retort, Andando appears. When Andando calls Aerodus 'stiff as a board', Aerodus scowls slightly. It deepens when Lia somewhat agrees with him. "Very funny, Andando and Lia. You are all so hilarious."
When Andando says he was watching the kids, Aerodus snorts. "You? Look after kids? Yeah right. As if anyone would trust you with their kids."
"No one trusted me with kids, they followed me, like wayward puppies, much like yourself." Andando quips with sentiment.
"Come my children!" he says loudly, holding out his arms and beckoning for the gaggle of kids to follow.
"Yes let us be away from here. Onwards to glory and treasure."
Aerodus frowns at Lia. "Well, I apologize for not using the names of the first group of people I've ever worked with, who only met a few days ago, in this backwoods country, with me being required to just about every problem under the bloody sun!"
On the return, Andando takes a seat in a wooden high back chair, leaning it back on two legs and putting his boots on the table, he begins to whistle a bawdy tune and whittle a stick to a point.
Venator looks around, but cannot rest like Andando did. "There's something in this I do not like. I feel something is wrong."
He's going to detect magic around the place, to guarantee there's nothing wrong. "By the way, the 2k is mine."