Blik will yell out to silence, worry thick in his voice.
"Silence! Fall back!"
Worried about his furry friend and unwilling to risk hitting him, Blik will lob a bullet at the orange soldier, ready to dash up and help out Silence should he indeed retreat.
Blik's missile smacks the Sentinel in the head, but he remains upright. Light Blue slashes again at the intimidating Catfolk and then steps back . The archers fire another volley, and Neverhome is hit in the shoulder . There's still no sign of Mule....
New Round
Anger had overcome common sense. As the sentinal slashed at him with his guard down the samurai grunted looking in confused shock at the wound as he slumped to the ground his life ebbing slowly away.
"You are surrounded. Come out at once and you will be spared."
"SILENCE!"
Oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no
NOT AGAIN
After looking in horror at the Catfolk, he will stare with hate* at Sentinel Light Blue."You...Monsters! What have you done! Have you no souls!? Oh, sure, you probably sold them for two copper pieces to that DAMN ELK!"
*
He will furiously reach out to his scroll box and pull out a Scroll of Obscuring Mist.
"You'll pay fer that."
Hobbes steps forward and tries to avenge Silence.
Although painful the arrow sticking out of him is more akin to a thorn after seeing Silence fall to the floor. The pain actually flees further from his mind, as well the exertion from traveling in the cold, along with any sense of restraint.
He feels almost weightless as he steps across the floor to the nearest bandit and raises his sword with a dead look in his eyes.
"Silence! NO!"
Worried about his friend, Blik will sling another rock at the orange Sentinel and rush up in front of Silence to check his condition and protect him from the dangerous soldiers.
Zsestrian's hex has a marked effect on Light Blue , but Blik's distraction makes it easy for his blow to land. . Neverhome cleaves through another Sentinel, and Hobbes' shot hits home on his target. Three Sentinels remain, but two are bloodied. The archers fire another volley, and Neverhome is hit again. . Orange then drops his bow and draws a shortsword.
New Round
Hobbes takes another swing at blue.
Zses will draw his crossbow and shoot at Sentinel Orange. The battle had to be finished as quickly as possible, or Silence would have been gone for.
"You have ten seconds!Ten...Nine..." Crow started to count slowly, both by the exertion of talking that much and because he didn't really want the countdown to finish and not have anyone to barge in.
Dropping his sling, Blik will pull his small spear from it's strap on his shoulder and thrust it forward at the light blue Sentinel.
If Neverhome is even aware as he steps onto the corpse that the bandit in front of him has switched weapons, or the second arrow sticking out of him, he doesn't show it. He has that same dead look in his eye, his essence slipping more and more into oblivion as he takes his swing.
Haggard and slumping over after his swing he begins mumbling to himself. "Heal... Kill... Heal... Kill... Kill... Kill..."
Light Blue stabs Blik again
Outside, the pounding increases in intensity, when suddenly the stable doors burst open and Mule comes rushing out.
New Round
Hobbes keeps swinging at light blue.
"This is fer the pussycat."
The Bandit firing at him catches his attention after the other one falls, at which point Neverhome will lumber over to him.
Staggering and bleeding heavily, Blik dashes in to stab at the light blue Sentinel while Hobbes is slashing him.
Between the three of you, the last two Sentinels drop.
As soon as the visible threats are gone, Blik will turn and wave his hands, as if waving breath back into the fallen Catfolk. Blik will cast Stabilize on Silence.
"Don't worry Silence, you'll be okay."
Hobbes steps back towards Silence. "How's the furball?" He asks with some concern.
If told the kitty is alive, Hobbes will drop his weapon, draw his wand and heal the samurai pizza cat.
If not, Hobbes will just keep his sword out and ready.
Mule angry and horselike burst through the door, the sound of his muddy hooves clip-clopping on the ground obvious to everyone, the large warhorse had various cuts about it and was bleeding though lightly. Seeing the fallen catfolk the horse seemed to shiver and it moved to its fallen companion nuzzling him. For lack of better terms, the horse looked angry.
The large furred feline awoke suddenly with the magic of the wand eyes wide with a feral growl... then was promptly face nuzzled by the large warhorse. Glad to be back as well Mule, yes yes. He began his eyes searching for his sword and securing it. he looked a bit better, but certainly less than whole. did we win? He began from his spot on the floor.
You're just beginning to catch your breath when the door to the room to your north bursts open and two skeletons rush out. They're glowing with an unnatural cold aura. Red misses Hobbes, but Blue strikes Zsestrian hard with a claw!
New Round
Hobbes steps back and heals the crazy bird-guy.
"We could use yer help now. Anytime you wanna stop nappin' whiskers.'
Clarity slowly starts to seep back into Neverhome as Silence awakes and the undead attack. He'll move to engage the Skeleton.
"What. In. Hell?"
Happy that his beaten and bloodied allies are finally in the clear, Blik will breathe a sigh of relief when Hobbes uses the powers of the wand to help Silence. But then, when the skeletons burst into the room, Blik's mouth with drop in disbelief and horror.
"What!?"
With no time to think, Blik will drop his spear, retrieve his sling and quickly fire off a shot at the blue skeleton.
"Mule stomp them." He growled the horse wheeled and bit and kicked the skeletal horror. He rose (move action) and stepped up onto the table to get a better angle on the skeleton attacking Hobbes.(standard action)
Neverhome hits his target with a solid blow, but it does significantly less damage than expected. Zsestrian, thankful for the healing wand, takes a quick step backward and screams in anger at Blue Skeleton. It explodes, showering icicles everywhere. . The remaining skeleton swipes ineffectually at Hobbes but is unable to penetrate the Halfling's armor. Suddenly, the bodies of two of the Sentinels stand back up! The injuries still marking their bodies are clearly lethal, but they've somehow been reanimated as Zombies....
New Round
"Pull back pull back Pull Back! The feline samurai called taking a quick step away from the skeleton and slashing with is katana at the (green) zombie. His horse too spun again snorting at the unclear path.
"This... this isn't right. We should flee..."
Once more Blik's tone gets almost painfully high, the fear in his voice is obvious, his eyes growing larger, the white almost disappearing. Blik will sling a bullet at the red skeleton and run towards the door.
Neverhome will begin shouting as he takes another swing at the skeleton. "It's f$&@ing cheating if I have to kill you twice in one day!"
Hobbes, being without an actual weapon will jab the skeleton with the wand.
Blik's attack hits the skeleton right between the eye sockets,causing it to explode in a shower of icicles. . Silence and Hobbes score hits on Green Zombie, but it remains upright. Meanwhile, Zes barely misses with his crossbow.
Both Zombies narrowly miss Hobbes, and Green seems to heal slightly as this happens.
New Round
Hobbes will keep jabbing Green.
With the other strange cold exploding skeleton down and well esplodified Silence felt a bit better about their chances, though he still knew he was wounded. Another wave of the healy wand wouldnt be a bad thing. But first the zombies. Poor friend Zzestrian was probably not happy to see them there at all. With a deep breath he held high his katana, bringing it down in a violent slash. (at green if it wasnt esploded by the healy wand, otherwise the one remaining.)
With his attack complete he stepped back five feet slowly withdrawing close to Mule and his naginata.
Seeing the Skeleton shatter, Neverhome will haul around towards the Bandit Zombie, letting his body carry his sword swing in the momentum.
Working together, you're able to return the Zombies to the Boneyard.
Still freaking out a bit at seeing the dead rise. Blik will stay where he is for the moment, steadying himself and returning his breathing to normal. Blik will cast Virtue on himself and listen to the room around him, trying to determine if the threat is truly ended.
As the last Zombie falls, Blik scans the room for additional enemies. He sees none, but as he goes back for another sweep, a man materializes several feet away. He's wearing armor and carrying a shortsword. Pointing at Blik, he commands, "Your allies have betrayed you. Destroy them!"
New Round
"Mule, the man!" Silence commands as he points at the human and then moves forward to engage himself. His noble steed wheels and moves forward for a wicked bite.
Looking around wildly, Blik's fear suddenly returns with full force. Clearly panicked Blik will shout,
"Must... escape! Enemies, I never had... friends..."
Blik will whirl his sling and throw a bullet at Zsestrian.
"What are ya doin' kid? Don't listen to him." Hobbes will move, drop the wand and pick up his sword.
Feeling a painful numbness starting to take hold of him Neverhone will move in on the latest assailant. "What idiot attacks a group standing in a pile of his allies' corpses?"
The man staggers under the blows. With fear in his eyes, he drops his sword and falls to his knees. "Don't kill me! Don't kill me! They made me do it! Please, I don't want to die! It's not my fault!"
"They? who is they? speak quickly." The feline samurai begins raising his sword to threaten the man. "Where are the real sentinals?"
he added Preparing to end the man if he did anything funny. Like go to attack or appear to cast a spell.
"You betta start talkin' before the cat starts stabbin'."
Even with his breathing ragged Neverhome will stand at the ready with his sword incase the man tries anything.
Snapping out of the enchantment, Blik will shake his head vigorously as if waking from a bad dream. Blik will shout out,
"Oh no! I'm sorry, that must have been some kind of magic! I didn't mean it, please still be my friends."
Loading his sling, ready for yet another zombie or ghoul to fly from the rafters Blik will say,
"What aren't you saying human? There's more to it... much more I think."
The man raises his hands defensively. "Hey, hey, hey, there's no need for that. You got me, fair and square. I'm Rhokar, by the way. Leader of the High Sentinels - or what used to be them, anyway. We cleaned up these woods ages ago, and they've been safe ever since. But safety doesn't put coin in our pockets, so we've been 'creating' bandit activity to stay busy.
"A few weeks ago, these winter fey came to us with a way to make some real money. They wanted to set up some kind of magic portal thingy in these woods and needed our help to keep curious folks like yourselves from poking around. A couple days ago, that annoying mephit Isoze let us know they were ready to activate it. As far as I know, he's still around here somewhere. Fawfein, too. That sprite and his elk buddy stopped by yesterday to warn us about you.
"Anyway, we're just the hired muscle. If you're really wanting to keep investigating, I can lead you to the portal, but the fey and their leader are pretty tough. Might be better to stay here. You killed all my men, so I'm short some people. Hows about I cut you in on our little operation? Pay's pretty good, and it's easy work."
Rysky
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