Percy sighs in utter annoyance and closes the door.
Everyone gather around and ready an action to murder the two ghosts that are about to come charging through there. she says as she gathers energy from her arms.
Hobbes moves and casts on Hila.
Hila moves and readies a bite.
Mule... watch our escape route.."
He began pointing and patting his horses rump as he readied to strike whatever foul thing sprang forth.
"You think you'll manage to hit us with those glowing toothpicks?" the witch raises an eyebrow, grinning "Let me tell you: I doubt that's going to work."
Moments later, the two ghosts phase through the mausoleum's walls. One glares at Percy with burning eyes as the other one strikes her with a (surprisingly solid) longsword. Simultaneously, a host of formless spirits begin to swirl around the ghosts, grasping at the gnome with incorporeal hands.
New Round
The spirits don't even phase Percy. She just steps back and levels a finger at the ghost that cut her.
Twin beans of searing flame jet toward the offending pest.
"Hey, stay away from Gorgeous!" Hobbes fires off a trio of shots at the one who hit Percy.
"That was just a lucky hit!" Zses houts as he inches closer to the ghosts.
He kicked Mule forward, well aware the noble beast woudlnt be very effective against the ghostly monsters, but he had to get percilicious from being so close to them for sure.
Hila bites at the nearest ghost to defend Percy.
One of the ghosts takes a few hits from Percy, Hobbes, and Silence. Ignoring this, it flies over to Zses and reaches out a hand, attempting to drain the witch's psyche. The other ghost follows Percy and strikes out again with its sword as the swirling spirits continue to gather.
Ghost 1: 24pts damage, misfortuned
Ghost 2: full
Percy hisses like fire sprinkled with water and touches the Ghost back.
Hobbes steps back and fires off another trio of arrows.
Hila snaps her jaws again.
Sigrun charges forward to flank the spectre facing Percy, swinging wildly.
"Whoa!" Zses winces as the ghost touches him, taking a step back. "Well, okay, maybe you managed to get us one time or two." he chuckles, before gesturing at the second ghost "But now "
Percy's curse proves to be brutally effective, and the ghost is promptly eliminated. The other guardian spirit takes some damage from Hila and Neverhome but is far from finished. Zses' spell has almost no effect on it as the ghost reaches out and touches Percy in an attempt to finish off the injured gnome.
Ghost 1: 55pts damage, misfortuned, corporeal
Ghost 2: 15pts damage
Neverhome focused on the remaining ghostly foe.
Percy delights as the first ghost falls. Her spell solidifies his form and he is promptly cut down. With so many of her allies around she doubts the other will come after her...
Then the blade is swishing toward her. It cuts before she can rise a defence. Hughhhh... Deep red blood soaks her hands. She looks up. Her friends. Her family... I don't want to go...
She hits the ground in a limp heap.
"NOOOOOO!!!" Without a thought Hobbes drops his bow and draws the want to try to bring Percy back. "Stay with me, Gorgeous!"
The heal is desperate and the wounds severe. Blood splashes as Hobbes kneels beside Percy and pumps healing into her.
She doesn't breathe. And still doesn't. Then she does. Barely. She's back, but hanging by a spider's thread.
With a very feral hiss he lashed out twice hard at the ghost. He was trying not to think of Hobbe's pained yell... or Percy's stillness.
You stupid undead monster!
Eyes glittering with icy rage, Sigrun strikes with everything she has, slamming her hammer into the undead spirit with full force.
"Damnit!" Zses curses as Percy falls to the ground. When everyone falls on the ghost, however, he can't do anything but hope that it would be enough to slay it.
"I'll try something!" Crow shouts, pulling a wand almost as big as her from her "bag". Pointing it at the ghost, she tries to activate it.
Cold seems to coalescence under the ghost, before an ice spike erupts from under the specter's feet.
The shock of Percy collapsing causes several of your attacks to miss, but you still injure the ghost rather severely. There's still a ways to go, but the spirit is definitely hurting. The wounds don't stop it from fighting, however, and it lashes out at Neverhome with its sword while the angry spirits surrounding it swirl toward Hobbes.
Ghost: 43pts damage
"Get. Back. In. To. Your. Grave." Neverhome snarls at the spirit as balefire bursts from his scars. Poisoned blood seeping across and singing his sword he hacks with abandon at the ghost.
Hobbes' eyes widen as he sees Percy start to breathe again. He continues to heal her as he takes her into his arms.
Percy still isn't awake, but she's not bleeding profusely. She's lost a lot of blood and her wounds are still deep.
Hila will take another bite out of the ghost.
Sigrun swings again, seeking to end the threat
"Damn! It just won't go down!" Zses curses as he draws his dagger, running around Hila to try approaching the ghost.
"Here comes another!" Crow shouts, summoning another ice spear.
The ghost is looking severely battered but continues to fight. Sidestepping out of the melee, it hacks repeatedly at Zses while its guardian spirits attack Silence.
End Combat
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Inside the crypt Percy opened, you find the bones of two humans and a pair of +1 ghost touch longswords.
Hobbes looks down as he continues to heal Percy. "Someone help.."
Hila nudges the gnome with her snout in an attempt to help. "C'mon. Wake up, please."
Letting the rage slip away, Sigrun tiredly kneels beside Percy as Hobbes heals her. "Do we have any potions to help?" she calls out to the others.
"Da!" Neverhome says as he quickly retrieves the healing potion he had been given earlier and hands it to Hobbes.
Hobbes takes the potion and pours it down Percy's throat.
The first sign of life in Percy isn't a gap of breath or a hacking cough or even fluttering open eyes. It's her arms. As the potion takes effect her arms glow like embers in a bellows, then burst into flame. She sit bolt upright, eyes open. Then, finally, she slumps back down and groans.
Her eyes flutter open to see Hobbes.
Hey there, sexy. Just couldn't let me go, could ya. she says.
"Oh, thank the Gods!" Zses sighs with relief when Percy open backs her eyes. "We really need to find doors without having something jump out at u-Uh..." the witch continues, before putting an hand over his side and realizing he was bleeding profusely "This kinda hurts, now that I think about it..."
"Never, Gorgeous." Hobbes says with a smile while holding her tight.
Silence slid from Mule doing his best not to overcrowd miss Percy he did however at Zsestrian's exclamation and clutching of his side.
Friend Zsestrian please calm your battle lust. You are not a warrior yet my friend.
He began moving to check the witch's wound.