"Ouch! That hurt!" Kakrish cries out at the skeleton rips into him. He instinctively jumps back and away from the attacking pile of bones. Then he cast a quick spell to mend the wounds.
When the undead rose, his feathers fluffed in fear. It was the first time he'd be battling something so unnatural. It was distracting enough so that one skeleton was able to claw him up before he avoided the second attack.
"This One's turn!" he cries, delivering two swift snap kicks before pecking and clawing back at the skeletons.
Hoga swings his axe, knowing it won't do #^@%. This makes him angry.
He then moves 5', drawing his morningstar.
Kakrish reposition himself and use divine energy to close some of his wounds. Red-Raven in a flurry of hits manage to bring one of the skeleton down. Hoga swing his greataxe at the skeleton. The undead dodge the hit with unholy speed. The half-orc the move back, changing weapon for something less sharp.
Tamora steps back (5 ft step), dropping her crossbow (free action), taking out her spear (move action) and blasting the skeleton in front of Taladrius, attempting to enshroud it in a blaze of holy energies from the positive plane.
(due to -4 penalty)
Again, Tamora shoot a bolt of energy at one of the skeleton, only to have it deal minor damage. She then back away and take out a melee weapon.
Garrik calls out to Thorn. "Attack!" he says pointing to the skeleton to the south.
After calling to Thorn, Garrik steps toward the next skeleton and swings away.
Thorn inches toward the chamber, but still is unsure about entering the room with the living dead.
Garrik attacks the skeleton with his staff. Aiming high with hope of hitting the undead, the staff sadly get deflected by the skeleton at the last second.
Holding his bloodied arm tightly against his side, Taladrius quickly stumbles back. A flash of bright green energy is sent flying from his uninjured arm and strikes the skeleton squarely in the chest.
Backing away, Taladrius release a bolt of pure energy at the undead, hitting it directly and sending bones flying in all direction. What was left crumble to the ground.
The skeleton tries to bring down the injured tengu. It aim straight for the throat but Red-Raven avoid the deadly claws.
Pushing forward against the retreating half-orc, the skeleton manage to score two solid again and opening bigger gashes in Hoga.
With Garrik in sight, the remaining skeleton get through his defense and seriously injured the half-elf.
Red Raven turns his fury against the next skeleton, seeing that Hoga was in danger and needed assistance in battle.
Hoga swings the morningstar, knowing that all he has to do is hit.
He resigns himself to the fact he's about to die.
Kakrish raises his sword above his head and screams fiercely. He steps towards the skeleton attacking Garrick and takes a mighty swing.
Taladrius walks to the column and leans into it. He raises his other hand and a orb of acid forms in it and flies towards the skeleton near Hoga and Red-Raven.
"Garrik, retreat and heal your wounds! Kakrish can hold it off until you recover."
Sensing that Hoga is the one that needed the immediate help, Tamora move into the area summoning a celestial eagle opposite of Hoga which then begins its assault on the skeleton.
(6) (bludgeoning/slashing)
(6) (bludgeoning/slashing)
(4)
(4) (bludgeoning/slashing)
The eagle appear behind the skeleton and attack. With a single blow, it manage to destroy a cervical vertebrae which make the skull fall to the ground, a second after the entire skeleton collapse.
Garrik takes one last swing at the skeleton before stepping away.
"Thorn! To me, now!"
The lone skeleton, distabilise by Garrik's attack try to claw it's way through the dwarf in front of it. However, it's claws only scratch the armour and can't get through.
Kakrish takes another mighty swing with his greatsword hoping to cut the skeleton in half and reduce it to a pile of bones.
And with that the fight end. The room become silent once more with the faint wailing coming from deeper in the crypt. The two exit from this room are on opposite walls. Both closed by heavy wooden doors.
"This one has never fought skeletons before." Red Raven says, holding his injury. "This one prefers fighting orcs and wolves."
Tamora tends to Hoga first using her herbs, finishing by sealing the wound with a dash of magic.
"Can someone aid me with the process again?"
Thank you. I wasn't very lucky that fight... Hoga sighs, his pain obvious.
While Tamora works with Hoga, Garrik casts a pair of curative spells on himself.
Taladrius moves to stand with everyone.
"I'll help where I can, but I'm not sure it will be much."
Once Tamora is done with Hoga, she treats Red Raven. It is a similar procedure with the barbarian. She fills the bowl with waters and herbal mixture that she mashed. Dipping the cloth into the water, she makes sure that the cloth is fully drenched. Finally, she dabs it at where the injury is made to sterilize the wound. Once she done that, she twists the cloth, letting the water drip into the wound to sooth it. She does this several time until the water is gone from the bowl.
"I would appreciate another pair of hands here."
Kakrish wanders over to where Tamora is tending to the wounded. He watches with a bit of fascination. All of the healing he does relies entirely on Gorum. He just casts a few spells and suddenly things are back to normal. He finds her ministrations, dealing with herbs and different application techniques, interesting.
Tamora wipes the sweat off her brow as she surveys her work. Content on her expression, she closes the kit.
Tamora steps to her right.
"If there is nothing more else here, which direction are we heading? Right or left? I am inclining towards right."
After the group has chosen by majority, Tamora will experiment by tossing a rock into the door and uses her senses to scan the room while remaining on the rear.
The rock tossing of Tamora doesn't seem to trigger anything.
Right it is, Tamora.
"Right. Right. That is 'right' we go 'right'" Kakrish chuckles at his own joke.
"Gotta start somewhere." He grins slightly as he moves towards the door on the right.
Taladrius holds his hand out towards the door and concentrates for a moment, trying to detect any magical effects.
Taladrius concentrates on the door and what might be beyond and find nothing magical. It's a plain heavy wooden door.
Hoga volunteers. He'll open the door and stand aside in case anyone wants to fire missiles.
Hoga opens the door and Tamora tosses a rock inside the new room. Everyone hold their breath, waiting for some sort of reaction that never come.
In the center of this room is a large pool of clear water, fed by a fountain on the wall above it. The fountain has a stone statue of a weeping maiden holding the slain body of Kassen, but his head has been broken off and is nowhere to be seen. A voice booms out from the darkness, saying, “Magic is the key.” The voice slowly fades, leaving a dreadful silence.
You also notice a trail of blood going from the door you just opened to the corpse of a dead orc lying on the floor. He has a shortsword stabbed in his back. He seem to have crawled there trying to get away from something. His right hand is extended toward a backpack in the corner of the room.
"Magic is the key? What is that supposed to mean?" Kakrish shrugs his shoulders. "Well, let's see what kind of magic there is here then." He stands in the doorway and casts a spell all around the room searching for magic.
"This one heard a voice." Red Raven observes, moving into the room after Hoga. "Hoga, this one believes we should continue the habit of removing the heads of the dead."