The entity in the pipe has disappeared.
"Oh! He's gone!"
[ooc]Somebody's coming from the front, voices and splashing coming this way!"[/b] Galyna hisses in a sharp whisper.
Perception
"So shall we get going?" Miet as she heads to get out of the pit/room
"Yep, let's get her out of here, and go clean ourselves up."
Just after we capture Natalya...
Shiv narrows his eyes at El and emphasizes his meaning by pointing a strange coppery dagger at her face while he says, "Shut yer yap. I'm runnin' things here. Yer in danger of bein' trussed yerself." Looking around the rest of the group that just wrestled in the sewage he chortles half to himself again, "Guess I'll smell like a rose next ta you lot." Glancing Natalya's way, "Someone shut her up. Can't have her raisin' the guard as we're gettin' her back." He takes her dropped blade and gives it a test swing as he looks to see if there are any other valuables or items on the captive. He reaches into a couple of pockets and produces a wand and scroll and hands them to Uraisa, "See if'n ya kin figgur what those are about. Right, let's git back and collect our coin. Salt, if'n ya'll do the honors a carryin' the lass."
"We got friends a'comin'. Sounds like more than a few.", his low quiet tone suggests he doubts they are friendly at all. Glancing toward the sewage pipe, "No other quick way out. Everyone git out a sight an set up a warm welcome should they want trouble." Glancing Miet's direction, "Ya got a pretty face and silver tongue. Stay out in the open and see what they are about. They are less like ta hurt a little lass."
"Um okay long as your sure."
Shiv narrows his eyes at El and emphasizes his meaning by pointing a strange coppery dagger at her face while he says, "Shut yer yap. I'm runnin' things here. Yer in danger of bein' trussed yerself."
Shocked, Ellantera gives him what he wants - silence - as she stares at him, wide-eyed. Her eyes narrow, but she keeps her thoughts to herself.
Ellantera will draw her sword and wait behind her brother alongside the door.
Kassandra looks somewhat amused with Shiv ordering the group around, and even more so after he shuts up his sister so quickly. "Family drama, the best kind", she says with a chuckle, just loudly enough to be heard and then moves behind the sewer pipe.
Hee!
Stealth
Stealth
Miet moves to be closer to the door so to provide the others with better cover.
Stealth
"Brilliant idea" Erwin mutters to himself.
Making their way across the board between the doorways in the previous room, two human women appear, moving fast. They are both Varisian, wearing chain shirts and carrying hand crossbows in one hand and whips in the other. Behind and around them, a handful of human men in heavier armor carrying shields and morningstars follow along the bridge or struggle through the muck. "Ambush!" one of the women cries, while the other raises her crossbow and points it... at Natalya. "There she is! Kill her first!"
Init.
"Woah woah wait before we all start killing each other maybe we could try and talk first?"
Diplomacy
Init
Kassandra looks around at the thugs and calmly comments "I wouldn't act so quickly if I were you. Our Sczarni friends should block the exit behind you, while we have quite few other mercenaries of our own around here" as she points to Shiv.
Initiative
Ignoring Kassandra's threat, one of the two women leading the group sprints forward, leaping off the board and over the muck. The small crossbow in her off-hand tracks toward Natalya as she sails through the air.
The bolt pierces the side of the bound woman on the platform, who gives a scream of agony.
"So that would be a no to talking it over then?"
Kassandra moves towards the new enemies through the muck, and utters some strange words at the closest woman while pointing her feathered staff at her and gesturing with her hands.
The woman crumples into the muck, temporarily unconscious.
The other Varisian woman fires her hand crossbow at Natalya as well, although she has to move up right next to Kassandra to do so.
The bolt sinks into her chest, and she collapses, bleeding out on the chimney platform.
Uraisa runs up to the opponents and catches as many of them as possible in the effect of her final Burning Hands spell of the day.
DC 15 Ref for half
Damage
Shiv curses under his breath, "Salt! Hold these guys here at the door! Everyone else stop those two lasses, they are tryin' ta steal our gold!" He looks to El and spits, "Yer not all luvy over these two also right? Let's gut em!"
Uraisa moves to the doorway and fires her spell through it.
Four of the mercenaries following the two women catch the blast of flames - one manages to dive aside, avoiding the worst of it, but the others are caught full-blast and scream in pain, their flesh charring.
Shiv steps forward and stabs out, his weapon flashing, but the woman is quick and graceful, avoiding his attack with ease.
"Natalya! Erwin, you have to save her!"
Ellantera will circle Miet to stand between her and Kassandra and attack TG1.
Miet going for cover trying to shield Natalya if she can
On his turn Oscar moves in to begin engaging the thugs.
"Might as well hold them from this side of the door".
Move into doorway, and attack Thug 6.
Warhammer Attack
Damage
Galyna's crossbow jams as she tries to get a shot off at one of the women.
Oscar slams his warhammer into the thug's shield, but can't find a way to reach past it to strike at the man holding it.
Trying to staunch Natalya's wounds Erwin mostly manages to daub them with mud.
Kassandra tries to slash towards the the woman with her dagger, but her lounge is unbalanced and the women easily dodges it before firing at Natalya. As she sees their former quarry collapse and bleed heavily, Kassandra tries to stop the woman next to her with another Slumber Hex, hoping her target would not be strong enough of will to resist her magic.
Kassandra's target resists her magic, and the other woman gasps and jerks upright, spitting out the disgusting muck. She looks around her in a brief panic, then dives sideways, hoping to get out of range of Shiv's and Ellantera's weapons before she gets to her feet.
Likewise, her ally decides that standing between Shiv and Kassandra is not a good idea, and attempts to reposition herself before stabbing at the witch.
Over by the doorway, one of the warriors actually on the board over the muck reaches Oscar first and tries to lay him low with his morningstar. The swing hits home, knocking Salt back.
Kassandra's target resists her magic, and the other woman gasps and jerks upright, spitting out the disgusting muck. She looks around her in a brief panic, then dives sideways, hoping to get out of range of Shiv's and Ellantera's weapons before she gets to her feet.
Likewise, her ally decides that standing between Shiv and Kassandra is not a good idea, and attempts to reposition herself before stabbing at the witch.
Over by the doorway, one of the warriors actually on the board over the muck reaches Oscar first and tries to lay him low with his morningstar. The swing hits home, knocking Salt back.