Cronin wades through the fray (left, left, down-left, left, drawing OA from S2) and then sends Selune's light flashing over the undead in the room.
Turn Undead vs L, S1, S2, S3 Will (1d20+6=15, 1d20+6=13, 1d20+6=16, 1d20+6=24, 1d10+6=14)
Cronin's invocation sends S2 hurtling towards Fairwind's waiting blades, while S3 flinches back from the burst of divine light. The Leader and S1 are made of stronger stuff - or are perhaps too preoccupied with keeping themselves integral to notice the shifter's fury.
As it is buffeted backwards, S2 slashes at the cleric with vengeful precision, taking some small recompense for its own wounds.
Speed of the Dead OA on Cronin (1d20 12=30, 1d8 2=9, 1d6=1).
On my turn
Rev, on my turn
Snaggletooth takes advantage of the skeletal warrior's confusion and stabs him with a strike that sets it up for a counterattack if it strikes him back. "Die again, Bony dead thing!" he snarls.
Fairwind does not indulge in her trademark banter in what she sees as a pointless battle. Instead she concentrates on ending it as soon as possible.
Fairwind's blades slash expertly into her bony foe, bloodying it with some ease.
The Leader faces off against Commander Caine, marking him and hacking brutally into the warlord.
Leader v Caine (1d20 10=29, 1d8 2=7).
Snaggletooth ignores the water lapping towards his knees and concentrates on reducing S1 to the rubble it once was and Caine trades blows with the leader, clearly damaging it still further.
The genasi tries to finish S2 with a magic missile, but her attack fizzles in the rising water.
S1 manages a glancing blow at Snaggletooth, but can't move out of range. The wily kobold knew his business well and retaliates.
S1 v Snaggletooth (1d20 10=25, 1d8 2=3).
S2 attacks Fairwind, defiant to the last, ancient sinews recalling old skills as the longsword strikes true.
S2 v Fairwind (1d20 10=27, 1d8 2=8).
S3 concentrates on Commander Caine and makes a powerful attack against the warlord.
S3 v Commander Caine (1d20 10=22, 1d8 2=10).
MAP - unchanged, for reference
Rev
How do powers work against objects? Do they take normal damge or half damage?
Cause I'm thinking about using lightning lure or changing ray to open this
Brujo
Normal damage. It has a set number of hp.
Snaggletooth's carefully placed blow removes S1 from calculations.
Leo is up
Brujo[/ooc]
Leo tries again to remove the door.
Grabbing firmly to the door he yanks as hard as he can.
Between them, Leo and Brujo manage to force the door open. Water floods towards them and although more water continues to pour in, the rate of rising has slowed considerably.
Cronin repositions himself, then he gestures at the skeleton leader and a flash of silver light bursts from his arms, engulfing two skeletons, Snaggletooth, and Commander Caine. It seems to have little effect on the skeletons, but does inspire his allies.
On my turn
[ooc]All allies gain +3 attack bonus vs. Leader until the end of my next turn.
Fairwind snarls, slashes and then steps back.
Fairwind's attack damages S2 further, but doesn't quite finish it. As she sidles out of range, it lashes out at her.
Speed of the dead imm int v Fairwind (1d20 10=22, 1d8 2=9).
The Leader continues its assault on Commander Caine, clearly seeing an adversary worthy of its rusted steel in the warlord.
Leader v Caine (1d20 10=27, 1d8 2=8).
Snaggletooth sees Fairwind get attacked by a skeleton before she moves away and see that Cronin is its next target. "Grrrr. Not hurt my friends, bony dead thing." he says as he moves into position. He lashes out at the skeleton and sets up his counter attack.
Rev
Between them, Snaggletooth and Commander Caine make swift work of destroying S2 and the Leader. Only S3 remains standing, longsword at the ready and utterly unperturbed either by the lapping water or the fall of its allies.
"Nice job, little buddy. You too, soldier-boy."
"Die," Perigia whispers as she casts Magic Missile at the last skeleton.
S3 fails to comply with Perigia's whispered command, even as it rocks back on its heels from the force of the blow.
Undeterred, it continues to assault Commander Caine, but it may be that Perigia's missile had some effect as the warlord parries and takes no damage.
Water continues to rush into the room, but the open door provides an effective drain. It gets no deeper.
"Wahoo!" Leo cheers.
Its now he realises he's thoroughly soaked..."Oh!" Leo mutters as he draws his sword and steps past Fairwind and steps next to Cronin before pointing directly at the last standing skeleton.
"I CHALLENGE YOU!" Leo hollers.
Leo splashes triumphantly into the chamber, sword held high and words of challenge on his lips.
His vim and brio, while heartening, make little difference to S3, which remains firmly focused on Commander Caine.
Making his way slowly into the room Brujo sighs, "Great more undead, AND aa room full of water. This day just gets better and better"
His strange mental state persisting, Brujo joins the rest of the group, but holds himself tensely away from the last skeleton.
Cronin aims a spear of light at the skeleton, but misses badly.
S3 stays resolutely with you all.
Snaggletooth quickly sizes up the situation. He decides that finishing off the last skeleton is more important than disarming the water trap.
Snaggletooth quickly moves into position for a sneak attack and misses! Fortunately, Snaggle has trained for moments like this and gives the skeleton a nasty backswing that rips into its bony frame. Sensing he might've gotten its attention, Snaggle sneaks backward just out of melee range and waits for another opportunity.
Basic Melee Attack vs. S3 1d20+8=16, Damage 1d10+5=12, Inspiring Word 1d6=1
"Nice hit, Snaggletooth!"
Snaggletooth turns in a small tornado of fury as his shortsword darts in and out of the skeletal body and reduces it rapidly to component parts. There is nothing left to kill here, you merely have to find a way out of the room.
"I think the easiest solution to this problem is to get out of here and then close the door again Perigia says as she moved from D11 to D17.
Leo is up
"Unless you want to check out that door how about we pull back and find some dry ground to rest up perhaps make the outer room with the altar secure so we can recover from this deluge of combat, any takers?" Leo asks wondering where the party was planning on doing now.
Brujo stares as the final skeleton falls. He turns his attention to Leo "Sounds fine". He exits toward the altar room
"Fine, fine, you leave room" Snaggletooth says, "But I trigger trap, so I fix it. Maybe scary dead thing leave more stuff around."
Snaggletooth, perhaps a little embarassed that he set off the trap, starts looking for the controls.
Cronin stays in place to watch over Snaggletooth.
Snaggletooth realises that the hidden floor grille (at E15) is a drainage system. While it does not stop the water flowing, it allows it to run off faster. Combined with the open door to the mortuary, this means that the water simply flows away.
He is also aware that treading on a pressure plate will close the doors at either end of this chamber (if they're open, obviously). If the door is shut, the open drain reduces the flow of water by half, but it will still rise.
It is possible to disable the pressure plates from an adjacent square.
The coffin Perigia set fire to continues to blaze merrily in an eerie counterpoint to the sopping floor.