"Not today." Felix said as he easily deflected one of the cultist's attacks. He uses the momentum of his block to step up behind the enemy facing the dwarf and takes a swing...
...that goes wide.
The cultist senses your blade coming and is able to edge up just enough to get out of the arc.
The cultist to the far left of the room( from the doorway) moves up to Bill and swings his mace wildly.
Unfortunately for him, you manage parry his swing with your shield.
The cultist left in the hallway once again raises his unholy symbol and channels the powers of his dark gods once again.
The cultist felix struck at turns as his partner moves to block Felix's way towards the man at the back wall. They swing there weapons in slashing arcs meeting at the middle, seemingly impossible to dodge.
you manage to block one with your blade, but the others maces catches you in your ribs. You feel one of your ribs give and a faint cracking noise is heard as the full force of his blow lands home.
Bill takes the blow on his shield, deflecting the blow to unbalance his foe, then retaliates with his hammer. And again the fire within reduces the effect of the cold antilife energy. 2HP taken
The cultist, off balance because of Bill's deflection of his attack exposes himself for a second. But a second was all bill needed as his warhammer slams the side of his head.
Will save:
Arryn grits his teeth and lets fly at the channeling cultist with hook and torch.
Hook:
Damage: non-lethal
Free Intimidate check:
If enough, Arryn summons a wild look in his eyes, promising extreme torture and sinister deeds with the prongs of his grappling hook, causing the man to be frightened for 1 round.
Torch:
Damage: +1 fire
Bill- As you counter attack your off balance opponent your hammer strikes true. Such force and full contact did you land with your blow that his head burst asunder, leaving nothing but a stub. Torag has truly gifted you this day.
Arryn- The man crumbles to the ground in a heap, his cloths lite fire but he does nothing to put them out.
Arryn takes a 5-foot step north.
He lets the man burn.
Rockjaw could not help but feel the hebejeebes radiating from the bad man :( He would have to deal with him soon, but for now, he drew his hammer, the idiot in front of him was going to die...
Rockjaws arc flies upwards and catches the acolyte across his chin, completely demolishing the lower half of his face and dropping him like a stone.
Rockjaw then steps crosswise, bearing ever closer to the man at the wall...
Nitrus lines up his attack, aiming for a space where he can hit 2 of the attackers with his explosive splash, and not hitting his allies!
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As you begin to finish off the mooks. The wizard turns around, holding what seems to be a heart in his hands.
ah, Finished. hmmm. Such a shame, but, what can you expect of those so desperate.
he extends his hand and a sickening green beams slowly extends from it, wrapping the last cultist within it. The cultist begins laughing manically as if he enjoyed this. He began to shrink and when the last bit of green energy faded he was nothing but a skeleton.
Thank you, I had intended for your life forces to be the wick for the finishing ritual, but theirs will do just as well. He pulls out a wand but pauses for a split second.
Do come to the basement, or don't. Its fine to be afraid. hahahahahahah.
With that, the wizard begins to fade away.
Felix stepped back as one of the cultists is seemingly absorbed by whatever the leader held in his hand. As the wizard began to fade away Felix called out "Oh no you don't!" Before the skeletal remains of the cultist hit the ground Felix was charging for the Wizard, his katana slicing down.
"Damn it." Felix cursed under his breath before turning back towards the others. "Looks like there's more then just undead here. Any idea who that was?" Felix phrased his last question towards Daniel as he pulled a flask from his pack and drank its contents.
As the wizard fades, Rockjaw rushes at him yelling..
But wha about tha hole by Tundar!!
"I think his implication is that we're going to have to find out."
Felix looked around. "Wait, where is Daniel?" he asked. When someone pointed towards the doorway into the previous room Felix headed that way, poking his head inside the room Daniel had disappeared into. "Daniel?" he called out.
Bill looks at the body of the man he had just killed. Tragic.
How could someone become evil like that. And that...wizard, evil priest, Necromancer? How did he escape?
what have we gotten into?Sighing he turns to the others when Felix calls Daniel's name
What's wrong with Daniel? he says, concern in his voice.
As you enter and call out his name, a wheezy laugh comes from somewhere in the middle of the floor. Upon closer inspection you see it is the cultist Daniel
hehehehe.. *gasp* Ye friend took a weee tumble afore he gutted me he did..... The master's probably already got em down there. *wheeze* For his sake, you should hope he's dead.
As he utters his final mocking laugh he slumps down and becomes quite still. You see up further a bit a large hole going seemingly straight down. Much like the one from the first floor.
Arryn takes one of his extra torches, lights it on his other torch, then tosses it down the hole.
You manage to patch up the cultist just before his death, but he is unconscious at the moment. As you are patching him up, Arryn lights a torch and drops it down the hole.
Anyone around the edge can see it goes straight into the hole in the first floor. There are also Several blood stains around the edge, unlock the relatively clean first floor hole.
[b]Felix, you have taken quite a hit. Let me see if I can help with that.
Bill casts a cure spell on felix, speaking the harsh words of ignan. Felix feels a sudden warmth as his wounds reduce.
"Thanks, Bill. Appreciate it." Felix says as he turns back towards the others. "So, what's our game plan? I suggest we make our way down using some rope but I'm not sure mine is quite long enough."
Bill looks at the hole and says, I'm not very good at climbing. Actually im very bad at climbing
"This isn't climbing. It's falling."
Bill smiles at that, oh I'm really good at falling. It's the landing I'm terrible at. And noisy.
He then looks over the drop. that's quite a drop
"Aye..." Felix agrees with Bill before turning to exam the rest of the room for an easier way down than simply falling. Assuming nothing is found Felix goes to check the other rooms for anything that might be beneficial.
What do we do about the traitor?
Felix looked over at Nitrus then down at the cultist. "You saved him, you decide. If it was me I simply would have put him out of his misery. Assuming he does survive he'll just end up getting executed most likely. Unless he has some incredibly useful information." With that thought Felix walks over to the cultist and attempts to wake him up. "Hey, how does one usually get to this 'basement' of yours?" he asks him at the first sign of activity.
You see nothing in the other rooms you would particularly want to touch.
as you awaken the cultist. He laughs,
Don't no one go down there less dey dead ceptin the master you self-righteous fools! Hehehe
Felix puts pressure on the cultist's wound the man's wound. "Listen you, one of my friends is down there so you tell me the quickest way down or you're going straight through that hole and I'll decide if it's safe depending on the sound you make at the bottom." Felix's voice is barely able to contain the anger he feels and he truly considered carrying out his threat.
The cultist spits at you.
Good riddance to your FRIEND, May he rot there for wat I care, second thought! You should go n join em! Maybe the master will make use of ya!
Felix drags the cultist to the edge of the pit and pulls his rope from his pack. Taking one end of the rope he ties it securely around one ankle of the cultist and wraps the other around his arm before shoving the man into the pit and bracing himself against the sudden tug as the cultist reached the end of the rope, suspended upside down by a single leg.
"Now listen, this rope is plenty strong but my grip might not be." Felix releases a bit of the coiled rope to drop the cultist another foot or two. "So I suggest you talk quickly before I get tired."
I've Already told you!, Noone goes down there unless they be dead or its the master! Cought off guard, the cultist shouts this out.
Felix sighed. "Let me guess, you don't know how the master gets down there either, do you?" With that he began to hoist the cultist back up over the edge and recovered his rope from around the man's ankle. "You people are the worst helpers I've ever seen. Making your master do all the work while you sit up here being lazy and bleeding like a pig." Felix turned towards Nitrus, "He's all yours."
He turns back to the others. "So now what?"
Rockjaw looses a section of rope, looking at the cultist.
We take em with us. Ill carry him. Nothing else, he can be made an example out of.
With that he starts to tie up the cultist and then tie him around his back, looping the rope over his shoulders and waist like a backpack.
I say we head back down. Leas that way we got less distance to climb down. You good?
With that, 400 pounds of dwarf and rock along with 150ish pounds of human head towards those rickety stairs once more.
Bill looks at the cultist. How could someone fall so low. Didn't he have a family, friends. Bill was looking at a different world, and he did not like it.
Rockjaw, just tie him up and leave him. He not going far, and he will answer for his crimes. We must prioritize here. He, unfortunately, is a low one. And he may warn he confederates.
Bill though was not certain of his words. Did he want to leave the cultist because of pragmatism, or because he wanted to be away from him.
"If you want him knocked out, I can do it so's he sleeps until next week."
Arryn grins and hefts his grappling hook.
yeah, do it. Let's go deal with this (gulp) hole