"That which doesn't kill me, will make me stronger!"
Caladral suddenly realizes he probably should have urinated...
Arkavus grips his quarterstaff in two hands. It had to be one of those days, kidnapped and ambushed...
Ren's hand darts to her sleeve as she tries to get her weapon out of its hiding place.
Turn Order
Marrant
Caladral
Arkavus
Masked Man
Narciso
Ren
The townspeople flee a good distance away before turning around to look.
"True strength is the flower of Wisdom, but its seed is action."
Move up closer to Marrant and use my Protective Ward, +1 Deflection to AC for every ally within 10 ft of me.
Caladral pulls out his bow and fires an arrow at the masked man.
Narciso draws his club and casts Divine Favor on himself.
Marrant lands a heavy blow into the man's chest but he nimbly dodges Caladral's arrow.
The masked man takes a step back and stabs through Marrant's shoulder.
Ren hurries into a flanking position with Marrant. Her blade has gotten stuck in her sleeve, so she improvises and swings her elbow towards the back of the masked assailant's head.
"You might as well stand and fight because if you run, you will only die tired."
Marrant will take a 5' step forward and to the right, hopefully setting up flank for someone.
Arkavus stays behind and grips his quarterstaff tightly, waiting for a moment to get into the action and flank the masked man.
Now turning to face the ninja he attempts to dance away into a better position behind Ren.
Ren is unable to take advantage of the momentary unattentiveness of her opponent, but when the masked assailant gets behind her she yanks her blade out and swings it wildly towards the man, missing by a halfling-sized margin.
Narciso moves in and attempts to attack the masked man with his club.
Caladral fires another shot!
Attack of Opportunity: (flank)
flurry of blows:
Arkavus will move with the rest to provide them an armour bonus and keeps his staff ready to strike out when the masked man is flankable.
Caladral plants an arrow into the man's stomach, he doubles over with pain. Narciso follows up with a heavy blow to his chin knocking his head back violently and the man falls to the ground.
Arkavus shuts off his aura as soon as the man falls.
"Well well, what or who do we have here?" He says as he walks up to fallen man. He removes the man's mask as he kneels beside him.
"Are there any others?" Looking around.
"Is he still alive?"
Marrant doesn't see any others.
Underneath the mask is a young man with fair hair and very pale skin. on one cheek is a long scar from ear to chin.
"What about the man he stabbed? Is he O.K."
Ren looks around nervously. "Let's just get out of here, alright? I'm still not convinced that this place won't crumble, and we don't know if there are more of these masked fellas in here."
"My sentiments exactly Ren. Let's get out of here and ask the bystanders what they know."
Arkavus moves out of the burnt church, or at least he stands in the doorway.
"What do you all know of the man that ambushed us?"
The townfolk all fled when the scuffle began, no authority figures have shown up as of yet but you assume that they will.
"I'm not in very good shape right now. Not good enough to continue exploring at any rate." Marrant glances regretfully towards the secret passage under the alter. "Has anyone searched this one yet?" Gesturing towards the unmasked man. He'll stoop down to search him.
He has the a spear, two daggers, a white mask, a heavy black cloak, and a coin sized chip of obsidian with a strange rune engraved into it. His weapons all appeared to be made of obsidian as well but upon closer inspection prove to be some strange metal.
Arkavus will wait in the doorway for any authority figures to approach. He will ask them the same question as he tried to ask the thin air outside.
If the others go into the passage, Arkavus will follow them instead of waiting around.
"So Mr. Wizard, any of this stuff magical? This obsidian chip seems to have a rune carved on it."
"Let me see that, if you please."
Arkavus looks at the obsidian chip with the rune with interest and searches his mind for anything that might be related to it. First trying Detect Magic on it.
Then he tries to interpret the rune.
Sorry Marrant, I thought that a spearhead through the neck implied that the commoner had been killed. . The townfolk all fled when the scuffle began, no authority figures have shown up as of yet but you assume that they will.
No I answered the question about the commoner. However the masked man is also dead.
Two huge muscular men run up to the church, heavy cudgels hang on their belts and shields are strapped across their backs.
In response to Akavus's question We can't talk about this here, please come with us and everything will be explained.
Arkavus doesn't recognize anything about the rune, he doesn't even know what language it is.
Marrant will ask respectfully, "May we know who you are? And who you represent?"
Ren stares coldly at the two men, examining their body language for anything that might indicate dishonesty.
We work for a group known as the children of freedom. If you would please come with us then we will explain everything in a safer location.
Arkavus follows the men hesitantly at first, then a bit more relaxed.
"Children of Freedom and the Children of Chaos? Well that would tie things together wouldn't it? I guess you have opposite goals right?"
How do you know that name! The Children of Chaos is the name given to us in history. Our foes defeated us and therefore only there story has been recorded. We tried to free Golarion from oppression but were named agents of chaos instead.
"Interesting. Opposite stories then." Marrant will follow.
"Fascninating..." Caladral mumbles as he follows.
Ren follows the two men as well, but keeps her weapons at hand.