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Antonio steps up to the warrior and thrusts a good two and a half feet of steel out his back, leaving the warrior collapsing in a pool of his own blood. Unfortunately, as large as he is at this point, he rather has to squeeze to simply stay on the walkway! He's hard to get around.
The flow of cultists come to a momentary halt, sizing up Antonio, and letting the other warrior move up -
...who promptly faceplants in the grease.
Nia does make it up over the rail, but there really aren't any good targets for her whip, at the moment. All of the cultists in the immediate area are dead or dying, and a couple have backed away from Antonio.
Anybody that takes a count will find that there are only five cultists, one warrior, and the two casters left.
Make that one caster.
"Next!" Called Antonio giddily to his next opponent as he stepped forward.
He Improved Feinted as a move action. Success allows him to make his next attack vs enemy Flat Footed AC (and add sneak attack damage).
He attacked with his standard action.
for a possible piercing damage. If feint is successful, add precision damage.
Nia'Nikta thought about it and would put her whip back on her hip and pulls out her shortbow. It was time she started taking out targets at ranged.
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Antonio falls forward -
...slamming into the warrior.
Ugh! Hey! What the???
The voice is from under Antonio's large body, rather muffled, but accompanied by groans of pain.
The cultists look stunned. They were pretty sure they had the advantage.
Kill them, you fools! The other adept talks big, but takes a step back.
Nala moves into a defensive stance, like Sakuro. Trapped as she is behind the considerable bulk of her companion and the grease, she doesn't have any options short of diving into the water.
Antonio tries to get up.
Nia'Nikta would draw an arrow and aims for the other spellcaster.
But they slipped off the string and the arrow plopped into the water.
Antonio lashed out at the creeping cultist.
for a possible piercing damage.
During his regular turn, he gingerly steps forward, trying to stay upright.
He will again Improved Feint as a move action.
Success allows him to make his next attack vs enemy Flat Footed AC (and add sneak attack damage).
He attacked with his standard action.
for a possible piercing damage. If feint is successful, add precision damage.
He will get real sick of the grease and crawl out of the area.
Reiko turns back to the fray, the magical fear finally having worn off, only to see the massive shape of Antonio in the way. An exasperated look crosses his face for a moment, before he starts stalking back toward the enemies, his left hand beginning the shapes of a spell.
You have picked the wrong place to practice your dark magics, men. I will use that same dark power to destroy you.
As he speaks, his eyes begin to take on the crimson hue they do when he is exposed to Titan magic, usually right before he loses control and slaughters everything.
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Once beyond the Grease area, Antonio leapt to his feet again.
"Now, where were we?" He asked grinning at the next cultist.
He slashed his rapier through the air, then lunged at the cultist.
for a possible piercing damage.
Nala watches the creature slip through the waves, and tries to determine what she can recall about it.
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Springing to his feet, Antonio skewers another of the fewer and fewer cultists - and they look even less prone to fight, at this point. Blood spatters paint a fair bit of the walkway in this area, which has become littered with bodies, making a place that was eerie in the beginning positively ghoulish.
Nia'Nikta would lift her bow knotching another arrow on the string as she again aimed for the cultist adept.
So far this would be a dark story at the least.
"You won't break my will so easily. You will pay for what you have done to the villagers."
She drew another arrow and fired at him.
"Ow!" Antonio shouted as he got nicked.
He counterattacked the thinning ranks of the enemy.
He slashed his rapier through the air, then lunged at the cultist.
for a possible piercing damage.
Nala stands and waits for space to be available for moving, still. She sighs. Giant people in small spaces were annoying.
Nia's hand went to an arrow and she notched another taking aim and firing at a fleeing cultist.
Turning to the barking dog she belted out in her most commanding voice. "LAY DOWN!"
Antonio looked around for a target.
Nia'Nikta would draw another arrow as she focused on the boat.
"Antonio, Move towards them and the boat. Don't let them get away. Can anyone direct the thing in the water to attack them?"
"Not without teaching it to attack people or boats." Nala, replies, dourly.
"Can't you push it to do so? Mind you I am no animal expert. Possibly toss food in front of their boat to get it just to block them?"
"Nor am I. Things do not like me. I have worked towards being able to work with animals, but the net result has been mostly moot."
Antonio moves out to stand in the water. He'll reach out with his sword to drag it over against the sea wall, if possible.
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When we last left our heroes, there were a couple of the cultists fleeing in a boat, Antonio half submerged in water with a very large, vicious looking fish, Reiko on the walkway, and the ladies still in the riverboat with the little crew. The dogs are not putting up a fight, and are mostly hidden, and the only way to engage the escaping cultists will involve range.
Nia hissed as they were getting away but she thought it best to save Antonio. If he is within her reach she would use her whip.
"Grab on and all pull you up. Can the rest of you stop them? How much I would love web."
Antonio looked back at Nia from where he was reaching for the boat with his tremendous reach and sword length; he grinned down from his twelve foot height.
"Didn't mean to worry you Nia! Just trying to grab the boat..."
If the boat is out of reach or the fishies start nibbling, he will exit the water at speed.