"Remember not ta stand too close to 'em! The stairs'll collapse!" René reminded.
Trox continues his advance sheathing his weapons as he goes and reaching for his shortbow.
Reynard smiles menacingly at the creature grappling him. "Why, you have me right where I want you. What ever shall I do?" Reynard says, and then tears into the creature with tooth and claw.
Raynard rips into his opponent as Faywen blasts it, but while doing so, the stairs under him collapse from the weight of the two combatants! The faceless stalker is dead aleready, but Reynard grasps deperately for a old to keep from falling. With those sharp claws of his, he just manages to dig into a stair and keep from falling.
The remaining creature sees how his companions fared, and turns to run - finding Druamin blocking his way! He moves to attack.
From a distance, these faceless creatures are disturbing to look at but up close, they are revolting. Druamin squirms as the thing attacks and grabs at him. He pushes back with all his strength in an attempt to get away but is unable to gain any leverage.
Cordwin will shoot a bolt.
Skarn will delay, the others appear to have this in hand, and there's not enough room for more frontlines.
Still not able to get to the fight properly Trox tries firing off one arrow.
It shoots very wide causing him to growl in frustration as he drops the bow, ready to try and run past everyone if the spot remains open.
"They're damn near suicidal!" Faywen complains, even as she focuses on another blast aimed for Druamin's attacker.
The blast hurts the creature, but does not kill it. Cordwin's shot just misses, as the others watch. Reynard climbs up to safety.
Panting, Reynard reaches stairs, cursing under his breath the whole time.
Grunting in mild annoyance as the one remaining enemy decided to stand out of his line of site, René prepared himself to try to grab Drumin's arm if the stairs collapsed beneath him.
Erond strikes twice, but it isn't enough to drop the fellow.
Druamin feels weak as the creature drains his blood. Trying to get a better grip, the creature continues to drain the dwarf.
Skarn will double move and get up to the creature, flanking it with his friend.
Druamin feels his energy draining away. "No! It's not going to be like this!" He tries to swing his battleaxe at the creature holding him.
"Someone get behind me and grab the wand from my bag! I've got a wand that helps people get out of grasps."
Cordwin will try to do as instructed by Druamin.
Skarn pushes his way past everyone, stairs creaking extremely loudly.
Cordwin ties to fins a path, but unless he can fly, no easy way to get behind Druamin.
Preparing himself, René made a mighty acrobatic "jump" from his position on a lower floor to the floor above, dragging himself up behind Druamin while making sure not to actually put any weight on the ground.
Reynard walks up behind Skarn and leans out past him to attack the creature.
Faywen all but screams as she pulls even more water from the ether, trying to pulverize the monster before it can drag them all crashing to the bottom of the tower.
Since he can't grab the wand, Cordwin will shoot a bolt instead.
He misses.
The combined onslaught kills the beast, and terrified Druamin as blow after blow comes close to killing him as well. But everyone's aim was true, and Druamin can shrug off the corpse, letting it fall to the ground below.
For now, you are all safe, but the stairs in the vicinity of Druamin a creaking loudly.
"We need to heal and move!"
"Everyone hear that creaking? I'm with Skarn. I don't think these stairs are going to hold us much longer. At least not if we're all bunched up like this." Druamin first pushes the dead stalker corpse over the side of the stairs and watches it fall to the ground then moves back down the stairs. He carefully stays several paces a way from Cordwin. "Let's all try to stay evenly spaced. And by the way, that's for saving me from that ugly thing. I'm still a bit beat up and I wouldn't survive another encounter like that!"
Trox, who is very frustrated being in the back, carefully moves so that he is near the front of the group while any healing takes place.
Cordwin will take out the Cure Mod wand and start to heal folks.
"Thanks Cordwin. I do feel quite a bit better but somehow I think something's not right. I just feel depleted."
Yes, You don't seem as hardy as you used to be. Cordwin says shaking his head. Unfortunately I do not have a wand for that.
Druamin perks right up after Erond reads the scroll. "Thanks man! That makes me feel a million times better."
Reynard stats to wave Cordwin off, but thinks the better of it. Odds are I'll need mine later anyway.
"Thank you, that wound was a little annoying."
He moves to the front of the group.
"Let me take point, a shield up front means less damage to everyone."
So, moving forward?
"Be my guest, Trox. Just be careful."
The rickety stairs lead up and over themselves out through the hole in the wall to area E4 above.
A timber cabinet with a mesh door sits against the southern wall of this room, while a boarded-up door stands in the wall to the east. The cabinet contains a single black messenger raven.
Faywen opens the cabinet and shoos the raven out the window. "Looks clear."