That door looks hard. Hard to break. Hard to break into. Can anyone warp the stone around it?
Verrin feels a small shock as he grabs the wand from Thaane's hand as it seems charged with electricity. Verrin's additional search yields a leather pouch with 100 silver pieces.
The cavern is near silent except for the sounds of small creatures scurrying about.
The small solid door begins to unlock slowly as perhaps two to three creatures can be heard on the other side.
Verrin enhances his sword, and then looks down at the lightning wand in his hand. With a shrug he points it at the door and waits to see what appears.
Ibrah draws his Temple Sword and quietly moves next to the door, hiding himself so that those about to come through will not see him when they do.
Khartelosch moves into position 10 ft. to the side of the door, hoping to flank with someone on the other side if possible. His weapon is at the ready.
Silvash disappeares into the shadows, his bow at the ready.
Thaane stands in front of the door dumbfounded.
I don't think it is a good idea to shoot Sandy in here.
He raises his hand towards the door yammering some indiscernable incantation.
The door finally opens and three bald-headed gray-skinned and short grumpy humanoids emerge, eyes black as coal. The first one is a bit larger, about four and one-half feet. He is flanked by two crossbowmen. They lay eyes on Thaane and stop cold.
This is not that red dwarf we were promised. mutters one of the flank.
Who are you then and why are you here? the leader mutters to Thaane.
Unaware of the others they train their crossbow upon Thaane.
I am Thaane. I am lost
Have you seen a red-haired dwarf?
The bigger bearded one asks of Thaane.
He went that way Thaane says as he points now quickly to the right tunnel.
I'll bet. the leader replies to Thaane.
Keep your bow on him He says to one of the bowmen as he tells the other one to unwillingly check the right tunnel.
The sidekick passes by Ibrah without notice towards the tunnel before slowly entering it.
The leader says to Thaane. What are you anyway?
Human. He says trying hard not to look at his friends.
Shut up! , barks the leader.
And he begins to close in on Thaane.
Hello. I am Verrin, we seem to have been trapped here by a Mayor with a tenuous regard for his own mortality, could you tell us where we are?
And you should keep your distance from our shadowy comrade while you reply. Just to avoid... misunderstanding. says Khartelosch, closing the door behind the three newcomers.
Thaane quickly retrieves his Falchion as the angry and odd dwarf advances on him and brings it down from above his head.
Round 1
Thaane (acted)
Silvash
Verrin
B3
Khartelosch
Ibrah
B2
B1
Thaane slices through the leading duergar as he falls to the cavern floor, bleeding and unconscious.
The benefit of keeping a sharp blade.
Seeing the leader (B1) down. Silvash attacks from the shadow and shoots at the one furthest away (B3).
He then shouts, "Make sure we leave one alive!"
I will see to that friend Silvash.
Verrin for once eschewing his sword, performs a running jump kick
[ooc]a charge[/dice] on b3 if he is still up, on b2 if he is not.
Non-Lethal
Silvash's arrow finds it's mark and strikes the fleeing gray dwarf squarely in the back causing him to drop. In his spot.
Verrin jump kicks the remaining dwarf standing by the door with such great force that he flies back into the stone wall adjacent to the door and nearly drops his crossbow which appears to be rather large.
The fleeing gray dwarf disappears leaving only a small pool of blood where he laid.
Confused by the dissipation of the fallen dwarf, Khartelosch sets his weapon aside and tries to grab the remaining dwarf.
Ibrah tightens the grip on his blade, bringing his fingers closer together as he mumbles something under his breath, then he moves over to where the dwarf disappeared.
Khartelosch grabs the dwarf Verrin kicked and a second later he finds himself grasping tightly to a gray-skinned leg as the dwarf begins to grow to nine feet tall proportionately making himself a large humanoid.
Silvash casts detect magic and starts looking for magical eminations trying to leave other party members out of his cone, he starts looking to the left of Ibrah and down the left tunnel.
Bolstered by the confidence of the last strike, and with the enlarged dwarf in front of him, Thaane strikes out again with the falchion at the foe.
Verrin shifts to the side to flank with Khartelosch proceeds to further pummel the enlarged dwarf.
Nothing eliminates from the left tunnel. Thaane perhaps has too much confidence as his second swing of the blade is horribly unbalanced and fumbles to the ground. Verrin's attempts barely miss the writhing giant.
Having sunk into rage at the dwarf's treachery, Khartelosch mutters "Sneaky little dwarveses. Wicked, tricksy, false!" as he attempts to adjust and maintain the grapple.
The enlarged dwarf tries to bring his hammer down upon Khartelosch in an effort to free himself.
Swinging awkwardly, he misses the half-orc, though not by much.
With two hands and a larger target, Thaane thrusts the blade at the grappled dwarf.
Promptly missing his struggling target.
Ibrah murmurs and makes another gesture, then a blast of water shoots out from him in every direction. He looks around quickly, hoping to see the water come into contact with an invisible foe.
Frustration now evident on his features, Verrin continues his assault.
"You must stop doing that, dwarf."
Khartelosch squeezes... hard.
The grappled dwarf falls unconscious in front of Khartelosch next to the dead leader.
Silvash moves to look down the other tunnel and see if he can find the other "dwarf".
Two gray dwarves are down and the third is missing.
[Ooc] Which hex did you blast it into?
Everyone quiet.
Verrin strains to hear movement with his eyes closed. He has a hand in a rather disreputable looking satchel, ready to throw something.