Dimitri kills the one that is hanging back and blasts the remaining one with 3 bullets, which a smiting Geist promptly finishes off.
As the party deals with the last hezrou, the Maftets come back to deal with the injured and the dead from the Hezrou attack. The Queen comes out of her Royal chambers. ”You have saved us from a foe that we could not defeat. For that, you have my thanks.” She hands the party 12 potions of cure moderate wounds and 4 potions of lesser restoration. ”But be on your guard. – I do not think the enemy will give up so soon.”
Crummock smiles, and nods.
"Nae, 'twas no trouble at all."
When he sees that the injured are being gathered together, he frowns.
"Bring them near me, and I will do me best to heal them, by taking their suffering into meself."
Once he is done, dozens of small rivulets of blood cascade from Crummock's body, as tiny sympathetic wounds open up all over him.
He then wands Dimitri the rest of the way...
...before healing himself.
Reflecting on what the creatures said, Mr. Whiskers admits "I wish there were some way for us to take this battle to them rather than always having to defend."
Looking towards Crummock, he says "The protective bubble would allow us to breath, but it would also be a target for any of their dispelling magics. We now know that they can summon demonic entities to attack, so they must have some skilled casters."
"One thing that I will start doing is making sure that the basic armor spells are always active on you two." he says, waving his paw towards Greta and Dmitri. "We probably want to be more actively patrolling at about the time they have been attacking as well, so that we can intercept the attacks before more guards are harmed."
Too bad it requires a weapon that is both magic and aligned with good in order to hurt those creatures.
Crummock heals the injured Maftets (including the one that was backhanded into the wall). They thank Crummock for his aid and the one who was backhanded into the wall passes him a blue crystalline vial, which Mr Whiskers identifies as liquid ice.
"Why are you covered with blood?" One of the Maftets ask Crummock.
Searching of the bodies of the Hezrous yields no loot.
The party waits an hour more, but sees no sign of any enemy activity. Seeking out Rajet – he reports that the four commanders have also reported no activity in their various quadrants.
Greta immediately calls dibs for the bathroom, and takes an extremely long, hot shower, to get the smell of hezrou out of her pores. The breakfast available in the army kitchens is Spicy Ful mudammas with pita bread. After breakfast, the party goes to bed.
At 6 pm, the party wakes up and goes to have what’s available in the army kitchen, donner kebabs, then stand vigil. At about 5 am, Crummock hears Sefu’s voice in his mind, ”Crummock-i-phail, Crummock-i-phail, Crummock-i-phail”.
The party heads out towards the beach, to find a bigger wave of invading nuckelavees, Sahaugin and sea trolls. The party assists Sefu and his Maftets, but in the middle of the fighting, Crummock hears Rajet’s voice in his mind, ” Crummock-i-phail, Crummock-i-phail, Crummock-i-phail”. There are also fireworks that can be seen from the direction of the Golden City. Sefu sees the fireworks, and insists the party return to the golden city. ”Rajet wouldn’t be firing off those fireworks for no reason. We can handle these here. Return to the city, for I fear the worst.”
The party returns back to the city, to see a large 40 foot wide, 400 foot high column of water from the surface of the sea just off the coast from the Golden City, forming a bridge of water to the city’s cistern . There is a loud crash, as the palace walls are broken and water gushes into the palace, opening a passage towards the Queen and her guards!
Mr Whiskers and Crummock see from above 6 Buyan Nuckelavees and 2 Elder water elementals are swimming in the water column, headed towards Queen Esmyra’s chambers.
Mr Whiskers recognizes the water elementals are Elder water elementals
Seeing what had happened to the wall, Mr. Whiskers creates a new wall of stone to replace the broken wall, as well as any windows or doors on that side. He pours a little extra power in so as to cover a slightly larger area.
He then rushes forward yelling "I will delay them. You try to get to the queen and protect her!"
Crummock smiles wanly.
"It be because for everythin', there is a price. Pain and sufferin' do not simply go away. Fortunately, it be a cost I can afford to deal with."
Crummock nods to Mr Whiskers.
The elder water elementals pound against the wall of stone.
One of the slams miraculously misses, and there is a 5 ft hole opened in the wall of stone by the water elementals. The nuckelavees squeeze through the hole and enter the palace.
Mr. Whiskers yells "The nuckelavees have gotten through the wall, but the elementals are still here!" and then allows himself to drop 5' before hovering in place. He begins casting a summon spell.
”My Queen – the enemies have breached the palace! We must leave now!” Rajet urges Queen Esmyra.
"We'll pull back to the nearest exit." Queen Esmyra orders.
"Sound the retreat!" The guards and the Queen fly towards the nearest exit.
The water elementals continue to try to enlarge the hole in the wall.
Then they squeeze through the hole in the wall.
Mr. Whiskers completes his summons.
Mr. Whiskers quickly tells them to go protect the winged creatures -- especially the female -- that are below that section of roof gesturing towards the queen's room (E5a). Protect them from the four-legged creatures approaching from that broken wall, gesturing to where the water elementals are breaking apart the wall. Any bipeds are most likely friendly forces. He asks them to use their tremersense to locate the creatures since he can't see exactly where they are.
Then he urges them to go!
The three listen to Mr. Whisker's hurried request and then act.
The first one checks what he can see with Tremorsense.
He then relays the information and starts to move into place.
The other two can move where indicated and drop along the wall into the room.
One of them squeezes through the 10ft hole.
The two that moved and dropped down ready actions to attack when the four-legged things come in range.
The one that directed them is slightly behind the other two.
Seeing where the elementals went down, Mr. Whiskers decides the best thing for him to do is get outside the door to the east.
He flies over there, executing a sharp turn downwards in order to get just outside the door. He hopes to be able to open the door and see what is happening from there!
Crummock opens the door in front of himself, nodding when he sees the Queen and her guards.
He then casts Freedom of Movement and Quickened Divine Favor upon himself.
Geist then double moves into the room, in front of the Maftets.
Dimitri, for his part, moves up to the doorway, so that he can peer around the corner into the room.
Greta moves forwards, behind Dimitri.
One of the buyan nuckelavees runs through the earth elementals. The earth elementals readied attacks do not get through the hide of the nuckelavee.
One lucky strike clips the nuckelavee but does not seem to do full damage.
Then it breaths its cone on Geist, all the Maftets, and Dimitri. Ratjet and one of the Maftet guards do not manage to get out of the way in time, and look rather ill.
Ratjet and one of the Maftet guards look tired
One of the back nuckelavees moves up to clear some elemental out of the way with its tresses
Another nuckelavee comes up to breathe on Dimitri, Geist, Queen Esmyra and two of the Maftets.
Rajet looks shaken by the nuckelavees.
Crummock calmly moves forward, and blasts the front Nuckalevees with another trumpet sounding!
He then casts Quickened Divine Favor on Geist.
Dimitri then opens fire!
The other nuckelavees strike at the earth elemental,destroying it.
The water elementals move up.
The nuckelavees try to strike Crummock with their tresses as he approaches.
All 3 nuckelavees are paralysed.
Geist rips out the throat of one of the paralysed nuckelavees.
Queen Esmyra, Rajet and her guards fly out of the open door.
Dimitri blasts the remaining Nuckelavee he can see in view into smithereens.
Greta then moves up, poised to stab the paralysed Maftet.
Dimitri blasts the remaining Maftet he can see in view into smithereens.
Greta then moves up, poised to stab the Maftet.
Mr. Whiskers opens the door in front of him and steps in. Quickly taking stock of the situation, he casts haste on the party. He then tells the elementals to move under the four legged creatures and strike from below in such a way as to help the bipeds that are here succeed in their attacks.
The two remaining elementals sink into the ground and move into place in order to help against the one creature that isn't paralyzed.
One of the nucklelavees grabs the paralyzed one with its tresses then pulls it back to safety.
The other nuckelavee moves forward.
Then it breathes its breath weapon at Geist, Crummock, Einar and Greta.
No one is affected by the frightful presence.
The other nuckelavee moves forward, then attempts to defensively cast obscuring mist.
A cloud of mist billows from its location, obscuring vision.
Mr. Whiskers attempts to counter the obscuring mist as it is cast.
He then flies up to the ceiling where he can see slightly better and casts Wall of Force to block off the back two Nuckelavees.
Having been told the limits of the elementals, he tells them both to concentrate on flanking and attacking the green nucklavee.
In Russian, he tells the others "Я выставил невидимую стену, чтобы две назад и их элементалы воды не могли сразу добраться до нас."
The obscuring mist is dispelled by Mr Whiskers dispel magic.
Greta takes a 5 ft step back and trips, then starts stabbing at nuckelavee next to her.
She only manages to stab it once.
In terran the two elementals accept the new orders.
The one nearest the wall of force moves to a flanking position and attacks. Half of it's body is still in the ground.
The other then attacks from where it is.
As Einar moves up, it's tresses move to strike at Einar.
Which doesn't harm him, nor his doppelgangers any.
Einar moves up, then slashes at the prone nuckelavee.
And cleaves a mighty cut into it, though his weapon, like Greta's does not seem to be fully effective.
Both earth elementals hit their nuckelavees, but their slams don't seem to be doing too much damage.
Geist moves forward, and claws at turqouise...
...whilst Crummock calmly moves in, and stabs.
Dimitri then steps into the room, and unleashes upon the two Nuckalevees that he can see.
The nuckelavees drags its paralysed buddy backwards, and disappears out of sight behind the wall of force. The water elementals move up.