Thanks to the speed of her spell and her mage armor Siri avoids both blows and turns her arsenal upon her attackers. Her first attacks are directed at the duregar cook, if she falls her sickles turn upon the foe between her and Zayva.
Annoyed, Zayva muttered in infernal a variety of things, portraying her annoyance at being covered in Calamari, but luckily still moving. She took some swings at the kitchen helper now between her and Siri.
Unfortunately, as Zayva swings, the still-living octopus grasps at her arms, throwing her off entirely.
Siri's flurry of blows is blocked with utterly surprising speed by the duergar cook, who is now enormous enough to nearly scrape the ceiling with her shaved head. She coughs and spits up a loogie of blood when one of Siri's swings with her morningstar connects, and afterward, she begins to waver on her feet. Tough as she is, she can't take much more blunt punishment, between the morningstar and the tetsubo. Not to mention, y'know, lightning.
Initiative order:
Alaria
Duergar female
Muhoro, Alec
Kitchen helpers
Siri, Beldrek and Zayva
Going to go ahead and post the Duergar's turn ahead of Alaria :)
The duergar smiles and utters in a woozy voice, "Thig yer sew tough, dun'cha, snakewench? I've had soups filled with your cousins, I have! Tough, stringy..." her eyes unfocus a bit as she shakes her head to clear it, as all the tieflings circle about her. She looks a bit like a confused giant.
Her gaze falls upon Zayva once more, and the fresh reminder of her wasted seafood dish reminds her of her berserker rage! Whirling in a quick arc, she attacks everyone around her, indiscriminately, with her cleaver!
Muhoro steps up and slugs the giant dwarf again, hoping this time it goes down!
Attack-Melee:
Damage: 17
Alaria just keeps on swinging.
Muhoro, flavor your kill for the duergar, you got her. I'm not sure what Perfect Strike entails flavor-wise so feel free to include relevant details about what magic you just pulled off! Bonus points if you include your teammates in your cool moves. :)
Alec moves swiftly, stabbing his wand into the throat of the nearest helper. He responds by swinging his meat tenderizer at you with trembling limbs!
The other calls over his shoulder, "Here! They're over here!" before swinging his own rolling pin into Zayva's head *BONK*
Following the giant dwarf as she spins to attack everything around her, Muhoro sees his chance to end the creature.
Taking a deep breath and centering his chi, the Kensai focuses his power into his weapon, feeling every ounce of his strength come together to produce the maximum damage possible. While his aim was a little off, the effect remain the same!
After taking the morningstar to the head from Siri, and being struck at by Alec and Alaira, the creature was still a little 'punch drunk', and while whirling to attack everyone around her, she was off balanced, leaving herself open to his attack. Stepping into the swing as the duergar cook finished her circular attack, he cracked his tetsubo against her unprotected head, opening it like an overripe melon. Gore was sent in an arc across the room, to splat against the creatures allies.
Looking up at the remaining enemies, and slapping his gore covered tetsubo in one hand, the half-oni grunts out, "Who's next!"
Zayva gave her multi-armed attachment a glare. "मुझे जाने दो!" Before moving that look the one who thought he could hit her with a rolling pin. "कष्टप्रद अस्पष्ट वक्ताओं."
She sung her morning start at the rolling pin guy. Really. A rolling pin?
Let me go!
Annoying gibberish speakers.
Alec darts forward under the swinging meat tenderizer and ZZAAPs the worker. The other worker gapes at Muhoro after swinging at Zayva. "She's....dead...at last?" he mutters.
Initiative order:
Alaria
Duergar female
Muhoro, Alec
Kitchen helpers
Siri, Beldrek and Zayva
Newcomers
He's just amazed that the formidable duergar cook finally went down, Zayva. She is apparently a force of nature around these kitchens. You can definitely recognize his expression of shock but you also definitely don't understand what he's saying exactly - sounds like gibberish.
Beldrek, the alarm was sounded throughout the complex - but, it seems the exact location of where the alarm was sounded is unclear. The guards, with you in tow, reported to the main guardhouse to receive orders from the captain - you're waiting with them now.
Zayva's morningstar makes a heavy swooshing sound as it whirls around in a shallow arc and smashes the kitchen slave, breaking a few ribs.
From the hallway, you can hear arcane syllables being muttered! Looking outside, you can see that the alarm has brought others to investigate, and two of them are currently working on spells to cast at you.
Siri turns on the unfortuante between her and Zayva and slashes and pounds with her array of weaponary!
He's unconscious from Muhoro's Batman-style knockout punch still, Zayva.
Beldrek separates from the guards being debriefed on the main floor and makes his way up stairs, where he knows his party went. Siri whirls in a dervish of striking blows and strikes down the kitchen helper where he stands dumbfounded, with Zayva's help - but immediately after she knocks him down, she's struck by a Fireball, fired by a spellcaster in the hallway outside. He's aided by another spellcaster...
fire damage for Zayva, Siri, and Muhoro!
Initiative order:
Tieflings
Newcomers
Siri barely scorched by the fireball, managing to avoid most of the blast slides forward and turns her arsenal upon the spellcaster!
Reflex:
The fire rolls off the kensai barely scorching his hair, but does throw off his aim slightly.
Attack-melee:
Damage:
Helping Alec, she begins to backstab the man that Alec is attacking.
The fire hit Zayva and scorched her good. "ओह! ओह! ओह! आग! हॉट! हॉट! हॉट!" Zayva moved back, trying to get out of sight, before she started trying to get the Calamari off of her.
The cook's helper is electroshocked, dazing him, and leaving him vulnerable to Alaria's follow-up stab. He dies on her blade.
The drow is instantly thrown on the defensive from Siri's windmill of blades and morningstars. Using his wand to summon briefly flickering shields into existence where she attacks, he's able to deflect much of her aggression - but several cuts and blows strike home, even through his ghostly-looking mage armor. Muhoro, blinking the flash of the fireball out of his eyes and trying not to get in Siri's way, whiffs his shot, but gets into position.
The spellcaster Muhoro and Siri attacked slides away carefully from the serpentine woman, though he's still threatened by Muhoro's proximity.
So unnerved is he that Muhoro gets a +2 to his attack of opportunity that he gets to use when the spellcaster casts his spell.
The caster, shaken slightly, casts a spell. (waiting to see if Muhoro's AOO interrupts his cast before I activate it.)
The other drow smiles as he draws some filthy-looking ingredients from his spell component pouch. Hurling them into the storeroom, he casts his spell!
Everyone but Siri and Muhoro roll a DC 16 Fortitude save or be nauseated for after leaving the cloud, or continuously as long as you are in the cloud.
Muhoro's bullying shoves the spellcaster off-balance, ruining the spell before it can finish - small, irrelevant ice patches formed on the floor in various places, but no spikes arose.
As the Drow attempts to cast his spell, Muhoro swings his tetsubo at him, connecting in a bone snapping crunch.
Alaria is nauseated. For reference, the SRD link to Nauseated condition
As Muhoro's tetsubo connects with the spellcaster's face, knocking him off-balance, fear shines through the other drow's hardened expression. "Franum pah!" he exclaims.
Zayva suddenly felt like she was going to be sick. She stumbled along the wall trying to get out of this horrible cloud thing.
"यह जगह बुरी किस्मत होना चाहिए"
This place must be bad luck
On the newcomers' turn, the drow who cursed earlier smiles an evil smile. "Holsair nerembo, ta'aun, horek." he says, quietly, in Drow.
Spinning, he casts rage on his fellow spellcaster, who roars and throws his arms in the air as he gains incredible muscle mass! He draws a chakram and charges Siri!
Meanwhile, the other drow beats a hasty retreat - right at Beldrek, who is just coming up the stairs...
Initiative:
Task Force Web
Drow
As Beldrek comes up the stairs, he finds a drow that is making a sudden retreat.
"Filthy Drow!" he says as he swings with a rage that is terrifiing to behold.
Thanks to the haste spell Siri is able to dodge enough that her mage armor deflects the blow and sliding sideways to flank with Muhoro turns her thresher upon the raging drow. Her morningstar pounds home twice sending blood spraying, and a sickle strikes perilously clsoe to her foe's throat!
Flanking the Drow with Siri, Muhoro lets his tetsubo swing once again, aiming at taking down the drow warrior.
Attack-melee:
Damage:
Beldrek's blow is clumsy, but the drow mage is looking behind him and running full-tilt - an easy mark. His greataxe strike is enough to knock the mage unconscious immediately, though he doesn't look stable. If left unattended, the mage will likely die.
Down the hall, Muhoro and Siri move as one, surrounding the raging drow wizard. Though the spell has granted the drow immense strength and fury, he is still an inexperinenced combatant in melee compared to the two tieflings. Muhoro's tetsubo hangs threateningly just behind the raging wizard's head, and diverts his attention just long enough for Siri's sickle-blade to slide cleanly across his throat. He falls to the floor like a puppet with its strings cut, his throat gurgling.
The alarm is no longer sounding, and no hostiles remain standing in the area - but you can still easily hear a clamor and commotion coming from both above and below you in the tower.
Siri reaches down and searches the wizard, taking anything that might prove useful, before retreating back into the storeroom,
"It seems zip lining out is our best option. If they are not covering the grate we could exit through the sewers the way we came, that would at least limit their pursuers and if we take a random path force them to split up to search through the sewer system, while we need only find an exit."
You're pressed for time, meaning you can't do a full, thorough search of the body. You are able to find a +2 Natural Armor amulet around his neck, easily identified by the bark-like skin of the humanoid figure painted on it, and his coinpurse is quite obviously tied to his belt, which you pocket.
Beyond that and his wand, which you would have to identify as he didn't use in battle, you would have to spend more time searching him to find more. If you do, I'll tell you what you find, but know that you're increasing your risk of being discovered by more of House Lito's guards. The choice is yours. :)
Alaria's eyes are wide. She continuously points in the area of their destination.
Beldrek informs you of the situation outside - the guards are on high alert, but most of them have withdrawn inside the compound already. The courtyard should be relatively clear, for the moment.
Sir urges Muhoro to search the other downed wizard, and Alaria and Alec to search the cook, "If we hope to escape these beasts we need to be armed as well or better than they!"
Muhoro agrees and bends down to quick riffle through the dead drow's possessions.
Perception: