"Shall we start dragging our fallen opponents behind our chariots while their fathers look on as well? These are not sacred creatures by any means but I would not lower myself to their level. They are dead and that is enough. Such a grizzly display would likely turn my stomach as much as a devil's."
"Cassie, keep a good eye out. You can sleep all day tomorrow if you want, but stay alert tonight. Good cat." He says as he rubs her nose. Then he curls up in a corner and tries to sleep for a bit. "Wake me up in a few hours. I'll watch the rest of the night."
The night passes without interruption, although Hobbes notes that Cassie seems uneasy and that Brujo stirs in his sleep from time to time, as though resisting a call he would rather ignore.
Brujo
"We should push deeper into this complex," Perigia says. "We need to find out why it was brought here."
"I agree. We should either go thru the choir room to the room beyond, or go down the other corridor to where the zombies came from." Hobbes says as he stretches his arms and winces a bit. He is very sore from sleeping on the cold ground. "I hope that farmer appreciated my sacrifice." He says under his breath.
Hobbes picks Cassandra up and says, "Good girl. Now take your rest." And she shrinks down and compresses back into his cat tattoo.
For her part, Ceara slept fine, though in the morning she spent some time practicing with the whip the group had found. Then, after whatever brearkfast the group had she hmmms. "What to be today." She thinks, then grins. "I know! This will be fun." Her body morphs into - Nialla! "I've never been a sucubbus before. Perhaps another talk with the cult - er, poor innocent victims is in order."
Kel will sneak down and check out the door at G31.
stealth =
thievery =
Hobbes rolls his eyes at Ceara. "Very funny, Ceara. Too bad you're not authorized to bypass my arcane lock." He smiles at her. "But if you want to stay that way, feel free to liberate yourself from your clothes at any time you choose. Succubi tend to run around naked, you know." And he beams a smile at her with that one. then winks at her.
Kel sneaks down the hallway and finds that the door is laughably easy to open for one of his talents.
From behind the door, he can hear little, just some faint scuffling.
Perigia follows Kel down the hallway. "Did you find anything" she asks.
Ceara also slips quietly down the hall.
Slowly, the companions gather outside the closed door. Brujo's senses tingle as he approaches and he voices a warning.
"Spellcarred."
"Something is scufaling inside."
Kel stands up braws his bow and kicks open the door in an attempt to suprise whatever it is and shoot it.
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Kel deftly kicks the door in to reveal a group of surprised spellscarred, engaged in a macabre picnic. Bottles of wine, wrinkled fruit, bread rolls and a pie which has seen better days are placed neatly on the bodies of two more farmers. Yet another body is being used as an inpromptu desk to support a large book.
The superficial civility of the arrangements is marred by the pair of spellcarred who are eating their table.
"Spellscarred again. This repetition will do no good for my story," says Erik with mock indignation as he draws his new blade and readies his shield.
"I'm sure you will find some way to make it exciting," Perigia says to Erik.
"What, are we interrupting your supper?"
"Spellscarred again. This repetition will do no good for my story," says Erik with mock indignation as he draws his new blade and readies his shield.
"But there's so much varity among the spellscared who would notice."
Twin Strike on G4
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arrow 2, attack vs ac, , damage =
Second arrow was a crit damage =
Hobbes sees his opportuity and launches his thumber bomb spell at the leader.
Kel's arrows sing through the air with devastating effect. One ghoul is bloodied before it can do more than raise its head from its meal.
"Time to burn," Perigia says as she steps into the room and launches a Fireball at one of the clusters of spellscarred.
Kelgan charges the ghoul struck by Kel's arrow.
The companions go immediately to work to break up the impromptu feasting. Kelgan hurtles into the room, narrowly missing G4, while Hobbes conjures a terrifying roll of thunder that slows the steps of the Commander Accordant and G3.
Perigia steps calmly into the room, flame sprouting from her staff in preparation for her next attack.
'Nialla' laughs a little as the battle starts. "This should be over quickly." she says as shadowy darts rip out towards the wounded ghoul.
"Traitorous succubus b%$*@!" cries the Commander Accordant in outrage as Ceara sends a shadowy shroud towards him before attempting to annihilate the bloodied ghoul.
As the creature staggers, the other ghouls look longingly towards it as their next potential meal.
"We just gave her a better offer, that's all." Hobbes says with a smile and pats Ceara on the shoulder.
Erik bolsters Kelgan's defenses with a harmonious spell of protection that fills the air around the fighter and deflects all forms of attack.
The daring bard then walks into the room himself and attempts to lure another ghoul into melee with him using another song.
Erik bolsters Kelgan's defenses with a harmonious spell of protection that fills the air around the fighter and deflects all forms of attack.
The daring bard then walks into the room himself and attempts to lure another ghoul into melee with him using another song.
The Commander turns himself effortlessly into an insubstantial blue shade and moves closer to the wounded ghoul, effortlessly healing it.
"And what could possibly be a better offer than the one she already took? Isn't that enough?"
Drooling with a hunger that can never be satiated, the ghouls converge on the heroes, digging claws into Perigia, Kelgan and Brujo. Brujo avoids the attack, but Kelgan isn't so lucky, and Perigia is completely unable to defend herself against the onslaught.
Laughing uproariously, Kelgan cleaves through the two ghouls next to him.