Once more Yasmin blasts at the surging water with her streams of ice...
Grayface, step back, so the water elemental won't kill you! I'll heal you.
Ea prays fervently, hoping the fact that she is trying to save a life will not offense the Lady of the Graves
CRUNCH
"Yeah, that was my ribs," he said after the beating. After receiving the warm healing blessing he remarks, "Thanks be to you and your goddess, Ea. Now, let's kill this sonuvab&%&*."
Grayface takes up a defensive posture and moves back to let the creature in somewhat.
Grayface flails weakly at the water elemental as he wades backwards jnto the room...the gods smile on him once more as the waves crashing down around him miss...
Rallos steps in for his wounded friend.
Moving to protect Grayface’s retreat, Rallos stabs at the surging waves…his blade plunges deep into the water but to little effect.
Pertreeko, having held his fire clear from the gushing waves, launches his first fiery orb at the elemental pouring through the corridor...it hits the over-sized target causing plumes of steam to billow into the room...
Suddenly...the waves stop pouring from the tunnel...and instead of the chaotic crashing of waves, the huge volume of water starts to spin - a terrific vortex of energy drawing water upwards and smashing it against the ceiling. With the vortex fully formed, it roars from the tunnel...slamming into Rallos...then Grayface...then Ea...then Yasmin.
"Uh oh," says the sorceress as the elemental before her begins to spin. She knew what was coming - the only question was whether she could get away!
Too slow to react, Yasmin finds herself lifted in a torrent of spinning water and thrown up against the walls of the dungeon! . She looks to be in perilous condition.
Gray was reminded of the first time he went to the shoreline, of the way the water gently tugged at your feet after a wave crashed and the waters receded back into the ocean -- only this time it was a much more powerful tugging sensation.
The fighter stood with all his strength, stepping up and away just in time to avoid the growing swirling vortex in front of him.
Taking another swing at the waters, he tried to connect his sword with a tangible part of the water devil.
Seeing Yasmin sucked into the Maelstrom, Pertreeko flings another ball of flame at the Water Elemental...but he is overly cautious and the flame fizzles to nothing before it strikes the vortex.
Yasmin tries to channel elemental power, even as she whirls about!
She just manages to call forth more power to turn this water elemental into ice!
As Grayface cleaves at the spinning water, slashing through it with a mighty blow, Yasmin thrusts ice into the eye of the storm...slowing the tumbling whirlpool...but not stopping it entirely...
Rallos switches to his mace and moves to attack the elemental
Ea is way too slow to react and is caught by the elemental
Greyface, it's nearly dead, we can finish him!
Rallos' blunt weapon crashes into the slowing vortex...but beyond creating a rainbow of water droplets illuminated by the lights in the room, his blow has little effect.
Thinking quickly, Ea steps out of range from the Elemental, uncorks a vial of Alchemist fire and send it to the otherwordly creature
Sorry for that, Yasmin!I'll heal us after
Fizzing and crackling, the flask of alchemical fire flung by Ea is caught by the swirling water and disappears from view...mere moments later, there is a flash of iridescent green within the vortex and the whirlpool visibly slows... but doesn't quite cease...
...holding Yasmin aloft within a cage of spinning water, the vortex moves back to the corridor - crashing over Rallos, Grayface and Pertreeko as it does so - and accelerates away into the room beyond...veering towards the silvery glow in the north of the room, the elemental starts to moves from view...
And then a voice rings out, "Meninggalkan Wanita!!!"
...followed by the sound of water crashing...like waves against rocks...and a phospohorescent flash of blue that illuminates the entire room...when the waves clear, Yasmin can be seen bedraggled and tossed aside in the room...
What is this now?
Rallas moves after the elemental.
Following Yasmin into the other room, Rallos pursues the elemental...moving into the tunnel, he draws closer to the shimmering light in the eastern room...
...and then, having merely fractions of a second to take in the strange vertical pond rippling on the northern wall, the missing elemental and Yasmin looking to the south eastern alcove of the room, Rallos is pounced upon by the strange crab-like creature...
We have more company here....
Grayface again deftly, and luckily, avoids the swirling mass of living water in its attempt to attack the most of the party. When the creature pulls away the fighter sees Rallos in a position blocking the hallway. Seeing it would be difficult to get through, Gray stows his weapon and pulls out his longbow.
Yasmin didn't particularly like what she was seeing, though she did appreciate the fact that she was still alive.
"Mengapa anda melawan kami? Biarkan kami melalui, dan kami akan berada di jalan kami."
Gaze locked toward the southern alcove ad she speaks, she holds out her hands in an open gesture of surrender, making no aggressive moves for now. . But she had every intention of doing something if the opportunity arose.
The voice calls out in response to Yasmin, "memberitahu rakan-rakan anda untuk meletakkan senjata mereka ... sekarang !!! tidak ada yang perlu mati di sini hari ini ... Anda mengatakan anda mahu melalui laluan? Saya mungkin boleh mengaturkan bahawa ... pada harga yang"
Although she didn't much like her position, Yasmin wasn't feeling up to working for this guy who had attacked them. Or forcing her friends to do so.
"Adakah anda beberapa penjahat biasa yang anda akan mengenakan tol bagi laluan yang selamat? Biarkan kami lulus!"
"bagaimana berani anda !!! Tempat ini adalah kepunyaan saya dan adik-beradik saya ... Bagaimana anda berani menganggap untuk menuntut laluan melalui? Untuk kali terakhir, memberitahu rakan-rakan anda untuk menurunkan senjata mereka atau portal yang di belakang anda membuka ... Saya tidak fikir anda akan menyukainya mana Herantan akan mengambil anda ... salah sedikit ..."
Pertreeko holds his remaining fireballs. The first one wasn't very effective anyway - and while Yasmin and the voice are talking, the fighting is temporarily halted. "What are you saying to them, Yasmin?" the druid asks, sweat giving his feathers a bright sheen as he holds the fireballs in each hand at the ready.
Yasmin seems to be deliberately ignoring Pertreeko's question, hoping just to buy a few more seconds.
Ea moves cautiously into the tunnel before calling on her Lady of the Graves assistance.
Yasmin’s slow wade away from the shimmering portal is all it takes for the Undine she was conversing with to lose his patience – with a hiss, he raises his crossbow yet before he can get his shot away, Yasmin blasts at him with an arc of flame.
Knocked backwards by the heat from Yasmin’s spell, the Undine fizzes a crossbow bolt past her ear and into the wall behind her.
...the crab-like creature, which now that you are closer seems to be like no natural crab you ever saw, snaps at Rallos once more as the violence erupts again.
Rallos swings his mace at the creature.
Grayface takes aim at the crab creature attacking Rallos.
"Stand aside Rallos!"
Feeling emboldened by a wave of healing energy from Ea, Yasmin wades into combat with the crossbowman. "You had your chance, Undine. Prepare to meet your fate."
Fire begins to envelop not only Yasmin's hands, but her entire body. Even the water she walks in seems to withdraw in fear. Summoning every ounce of her remaining magical reserves, she channels all of of her energy into a concentrated gout of fire!
Yasmin, having scorched the undine who was so protective of his research, steps forward and blasts him one more time with fire...
The smell of burnt flesh and steam that fills the room is momentarily unbearable... The blue-skinned humanoid screaming in pain before lifelessly slipping under the water - at the same time, the crab that was poised to bite at the retreating Rallos suddenly blinks out of existence...
Yasmin is still wracked with tension as she sees the Undine go down. She looks around for more threats, only to see that the crab they were fighting had vanished into thin air. "The water elemental went through that portal here in this room. I think the battle is over." As stillness sets in again, she let out a long exhale. She looks over the fallen Undine, feeling a mixture of anger and pity.
"You idiot, you should've shot me when you had the chance." Yasmin was pretty sure she was alive only because the Undine had shown mercy to her, commanding the water elemental to release her from its grip, and calling on her to surrender instead of just finishing her. She lifts his head out of the water so he won't drown, at least. "Ea, do you think this one might still live with some healing from Pharasma? I think he wanted to spare my life, so I owe him his."
The large room that the fight ended in is as flooded as the others that you have explored on this level of the Spire - the water level standing at waist height...only now, you have discovered the reason for the flooding: every minute or so, fresh water gushes through the strange shimmering pool on the wall...the pool that Yasmin has accurately determined to be a portal...to somewhere.
Around the room, various wooden tables - sturdy despite being semi-submerged in water - are stacked with crates and also laid out with bedding.
To the south there are two alcoves in the room (one being where the Undine had been hiding)... and through the crystal-clear water, you can plainly see metal hatches in the floor...
I am just glad we all lived through that.....that was different. S8 that elemental wen t through that portal....I hope it stays there. I am behinning to dislike elementals as much as spiders...but the day isn't over yet.....
Rallos goes to the crates and searches them....
Pertreeko lowers his hands, satisfied that combat was over, but dismayed that he was able to do so little to affect its outcome. he vows to himself.
Yasmin studies the portal, hoping for some answers.
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Ea looks at the defeated undine and silently nods to Yasmin
Yasmin remembers to bind the summoner first!
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"Excellent work everyone, and thank you for the healing magic Ea."
Grayface was incredibly relieved that the combat was over with. Nothing in all his years of combat had prepared him for the horror of a giant wall of living violent water. Not even the undead minions and giant spiders of the levels above had unnerved him so. There was something in the dichotomy of benign water and this water devil's potential for killing that unsettled him deeply. He would never look at fluids the same way.
Keeping a sharper look out in the waters surrounding him and his friends, he slogged over to Yasmin.
"You foolish girl! You could have been killed!" His visage changed from anger to one of respect -- his good eye twinkled. "And well done! Your magic was impressive. You chilled even my bones with those attacks."
Looking to the twinkling water portal on the north wall, his look of anger came back full force. "What in the nine hells is that? The water devil retreated into that...thing?"
Grayface will help Rallos look around the room and check the crates and bedding for valuables.
The fighter will then approach the southern alcoves to take a look at the metal hatches.