Both the Cyclops on the ledge are badly wounded by the dual fire spells they've just been hammered with.
Green puffs for breath as he sprints around the corner.
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Orange howls for revenge and takes a shot at Rhialla.
The bolt thudding into the soil beside her.
Red keeps banging his gong.
Everyone can now act. You can hear shouts deeper in Sumitha as the Cyclops react to the alarm being sounded.
With a 'tink' sound both her thrown daggers reappear on Ashlei's magical belt. Moving up to some of the fallen rocks for cover; Alsheli quick-draws, heats, and throws the exact same daggers at the Cyclops in green.
"I see you realize you are trespassing on OUR island one-eye!"
Full ATTACK(Thrown Daggers!)
Seeing the look, Percy gives Es after looking up at the tower, Rhialla picks up on his idea, grinning as she runs over to him.
"Es, I think Percy's found a solution to your range problem!" she says, casting a spell and resting a hand on Percy's chest, sending a surge of raw physical power into her lover.
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"hold on Es... do try to stick the landing."
He said as he moved beside the roguish lady and half bent over lifting her up like a shot put onto his shoulder area one hand one her backside the other sort of steadying her before he put all his might into tossing her up onto the wall.
"Next!"
He hollared out prepparing to throw anyone else willing to the top of the wall... as he thought about being up on the wall might be safer if a bunch more came out of hiding.
Ashlei hammers Green
Percy throws Esmarelda up onto the ledge, she makes it with a little bit of scrambling.
Cassiopeia?
Cassiopeia moves into position for her dance lift.
Red moves over to remove the pest on the ledge. .
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Once per day as an immediate action, a cyclops can peer into an occluded visual spectrum of possible futures, gaining insight that allows it to select the exact result of one die roll before the roll is made. This effect can alter an action taken by the cyclops only, and cannot be applied to the rolls of others.
Percy, Rhialla, Ashlei & Esmeralda may act.
Esmarelda's eyes went wide as scarlet painted her clothes. The paint that of her own blood. Her mind went into full panic before shutting down from pure shock. Esmarelda crumpled to the ground, dead.
"No...no,no,no,no,NO!!"
The horror hits Rhialla almost as hard at the as the cyclops hits Es, a knot of loss and guilt building in the pit of her stomach as she watches Esmarelda's body reverse direction in a brutal arc, sailing off the ledge she'd landed on only seconds before.
Breaking into a run, even as her body plummets to the ground with a sickening crash, the chosen of The Black Lady calls out to her goddess in defiance and rage as she drops to her knees, cradling Es' mangled body.
"Besmara!! Don't you dare let these one eyed ^#$!&^ers take one of ours on my watch!"
Glaring up at the vile giant, she shouts with unbridled rage.
Spitting words violently, Ashlei screams.
"ON IT BOSS!"
Yanking the largest sphere from her necklace, Ashlei targets the evil red giant and throws it...making sure to hit for maximum effectiveness and missing her friends on the ground.
It looks like the head will be a bit charred as Ashlei tosses the Fireball missile from her necklace and both Red & Orange die screaming in fire.
Esmarelda blinks in confusion, wasn't she on a ledge? Now she's looking up at a furious Rhialla.
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Percy to act.
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Esmarelda gasped awake, her golden eyes blinking with confusion as she looked around. She noticed Rhialla and gave a half smirk. "Think I learned to let Ash go first in these situations." She teased then winced from the pain.
"Heh...yeah. Might not be the worst idea." Rhialla replies, momentarily flashing a grin. "We can celebrate later, I think we've still got a few giants to kill." she says with a wink, before turning an absolutely murderous glare toward the advancing cyclops.
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He killed her. His decision had killed her. He was starting to wonder if he was the best for this. Commanding his crew in battle didnt seem to be a problem but these side... things he was failing at. He let go of his breath he had been holding without realizing it when Rhialla moved to her body and brought her back to breathing...
He spun torwards the cyclops lengthening the pike and advancing to the creature stabbing at it hard.
Percy slams his pike into the advancing Green.
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Green grunts and steps forwrd, taking another shot from Percy
Cassiopeia can act, and then everyone can go
Percy staggers and sways on his feet, but stays standing and glares back at Green.
Everybody else can go.
If at all possible. Rhialla's rage seems to increase, the Besmaran cleric drawing her sword. walking forward, eyes locked on the giant, as she sends a wave of healing washing over her party.
"Cass, Ash, make him scream."
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A deadly whisper escapes her lips.
“On it.”
She quickly steps to get into range and blasts the giant with fire!
She then screams at the humanoid.
“NO!! I don’t mind if you die in flaming agony!! Wish granted!!”
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Green blinks in confusion, not having expressed any desire to die in flaming agony. He still does though.
Silence falls for a moment, and you can hear the sounds of Cyclops mobilizing as they respond to the sound of the alarm.
What are you doing now? You killed some a day or two before. They know someone probed their home and prepared. The alarm was sounded and more Cyclops are coming.
"We staying or getting outta here?" says Cassiopeia tersely.
Ashlei hises.
“Charge or retreat? If we don’t do this now, they may retaliate against the fort!”
Moving to the wall designated by the Captain, Ashlei spits on her hands and starts climbing the wall to the upper level.
"You heard him ladies, let's get up there. Give me a toss love?" Rhialla says getting into position for Percy to hurl her up.
This time Esmarelda chose to walk up the wall of her own volition thanks to her shoes which made it easy for her to join the others even while still hurt. "Higher ground better help. I did not enjoy that last bit."
sailing through the air from Percy's powerful toss, Rhialla nimbly lands on her feet with a grin. "Well at least we have a better chance of seeing them coming." she says, looing out over the battlements.
There is a clatter from the stairs beside the ledge as a tough looking Cyclops leads a group up towards you.
One round to prepare. What are you doing?
Gesturing for the others to move back from the stairwell, Ashlei draws a dagger and moves to grab some cover around the gentle curve of the wall, Ashlei sets her self for a targeted throw, the dagger already starting to glow red with heat...
Targeted Strike (Ex): At 7th level, as a full-round action the swashbuckler can spend 1 panache point to make an attack with a single light or one-handed piercing melee weapon that cripples part of a foe’s body. The swashbuckler chooses a part of the body to target. If the attack succeeds, in addition to the attack’s normal damage, the target suffers one of the following effects based on the part of the body targeted. If a creature doesn’t have one of the listed body locations, that body part cannot be targeted. Creatures that are immune to sneak attacks are also immune to targeted strikes. Items or abilities that protect a creature from critical hits also protect a creature from targeted strikes.
**Arms: The target takes no damage from the attack, but it drops one carried item of the swashbuckler’s choice, even if the item is wielded with two hands. Items held in a locked gauntlet cannot be chosen.
**Head: The target is confused for 1 round. This is a mind-affecting effect.
**Legs: The target is knocked prone. Creatures with four or more legs or that are immune to trip attacks are immune to this effect.
**Torso or Wings: The target is staggered for 1 round.
"How many do you think we can handle at once?"
"If they're coming up the stairs, thier size will limit how many can face us." Rhailla says, beginning a spell that calls something from the outer planes.
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This is gonna hurt.... hit them hard girls..." He began as he stepped forward into harms way. He kept back from the stair well to give them a bad angle to see him and lengthened his pike.. setting it for their eventual charge to the top. maybe he could survive long enought to clog their passage up the stairs.
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"I would like to state that I am so done with this place." Esmarelda said as she took her necklace off. "Let them fill the hall please. I need as many of them as close together as possible." She told them as she moved to get behind Percy.
The leading Cyclops Red tanks Percy's readied attacks as she hustles up the stairs. .
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