While Arvid fiddles around with the south east door, Rinko walks to the south west door and opens it.
The door opens onto a hallway about thirty feet long, at the other end is another door.
After Arvid finishes at his door, he follows Rinko to the Hallway and searches along the hallway and at the door at his end for traps.
Hornan follows Arvid down the hallway, keeping his musket out and loaded, ready to shoot anything that comes at them
Rinko goes down the hall to the south and takes a step past the door to the east. She looks down the eastern hallway while Arvid searches the door.
Rinko goes into the hallway, and Arvid goes in behind her. Arvid is carfully examining things as they go, with Hornan behind him.
Rinko makes it about fifteen feet into the hallway before a piece of the floor she steps on depresses and there is a whirring buzzing noise as two saw blades shoot out from the walls at calf level and sweep a ten foot long portion of the hallway.
The blades slice painfully into both Rinko and Arvid. Searching the rest of the hallway, Arvid finds nothing. The southern door appears to be both unlocked and untrapped.
The whirring blade strikes Rinko in the leg and she pitches face first onto the floor. Getting up, she takes a vial of potion from her pouch and drinks its contents. "Sorry, Arvid-kun," Rinko says when she notices the wolf-like creature has also been hit.
Arvid was knocked prone too.
While standing up:
You've nothing to be ashamed of. I didn't see this trap either. But for the future: I would propose that I walk in front. My risk is significantly less than yours. My lifeforce is bound to Dareos. If I die, I will come back the next morning.
Let me see your wounds, Arvid
Dareos casts Infernal Healing on Arvid (10 HP over 60 Seconds)
Rinko, should I treat your wounds too?
When Rinko agrees, Dareos casts Infernal Healing on her too. (10 HP over 60 Seconds)
We should come together before we open this door.
"Sounds good to me." Hornan says as he falls in behind his allies
Ok, then I think, we can go on. Arvid, would you open the door?
Of course.
The door opens onto a narrow hallway, that turns after a few yards.
"Arvid-kun, I'm not sure I like using you as a shield just because you're from some other dimension," Rinko says looking past his shoulder into the hallway past the door. "It looked like those blades cut you just like they cut me. But I suppose you're a better judge of your abilities than I am. Please lead on when you're ready.
You can trust me. It won't be the first time. But in order to come to something else. I hear some strange rustling sound. Maybe another trap. I'll call you, when it is safe.
Arvid looks with a mirror, Dareos gave him, cautiously around the corner. When he sees nothing, he moves cautiously to the next corner and looks around it in the same way. He especially looks for pressure plates or tripwires.
Hornan follows in the back, ready to snipe out anything that comes at them.
Arvid advances cautiously along the hallway peering around each corner with his mirror before advancing. He hears no further sounds, in fact it's eerily quiet, as no one talks. The group gets as far as two turns in the hallway, when suddenly a fanged human skull attached to the skeleton of a giant snake comes writhing silently out of the darkness. It's entwining dance is horrifying and the group can feel dark magic trying to get a hold on their minds.
Dareos
Arvid
Hornan
Rinko
Thingy
Initiative:
Dareos 11
Thingy 10+
Arvid 10-
Rinko 8+
Hornan 8-
Dareos joins up to the Group leaving a 10ft gap to Hornan.
What's there? I can't see anything. Fall a little bit back so that we all can see the enemy.
Round 1
Initiative 11
Dareos notices that Hornan appears to be staring blankly around the corner.
Round 1
Initiative 10+
The skeletal creature rears back and bites at Arvid.
Hornan stands there in a daze, unable to react to the attacker
Arvid stands befor the attacker unable to do anything.
"It's a large skeletal snake thing," Rinko calls back to Dareos. Then in a blur of limbs, she tries to jump and roll past Arvid and the snake thing.
Round 1
Initiative 8+
Rinko attempts to tumble past the snake creature, and she almost makes it before the head snaps to the side lightning quick and bites at her.
"Shimatta," Rinko hisses as the snake strikes her in the hip and brings her tumbling run to an abrupt halt. "Have to keep you from biting anyone else." As the snake pulls back for another strike, the monk tries to entangle its in head with her arms and legs.
Round 1
Initiative 8+
Rinko wraps the skeletal snake up nicely, and for the moment holds it's fanged skull struggling against the ground.
Initiative 8-
Hornan is dazed (1 round left)
End Round 1
Dareos makes a few steps forward behind Arvid and casts Mage Armor on Arvid.
Round 2
Initiative 10+
The creature struggles mightily in Rinko's grasp.
But her grip is like iron.
Initiative 10-
Arvid is dazed
As the abomination fights to free itself, Rinko constantly makes minor adjustments to her grip. "You're not getting away that easily, jii-san," she says calmly. Nonetheless, Rinko knows she has to do a better job of controlling the creature before it eludes her grasp.
Round 2
Initiative 8+
Rinko pins the creature firmly to the ground, for the moment in control of its movements.
Initiative 8-
Hornan is dazed.
End Round 2
Dareos tries to hit the Bone Snake with his Fauchard
Repost:
Dareos 11
Thingy 10+
Arvid 10-
Rinko 8+
Hornan 8-
Round 3
Initiative 11
Dareos strikes at the grappled snake thing, but fails to hit it as it and Rinko roll about the floor.
Initiative 10+
The creature struggles to free itself from Rinko's grasp.
Rinko's grip remains too strong for it.
Arvid makes a full attack
Finding a moment in her struggle when both her knees are securely on the floor, Rinko carefully eases some of the pressure on the snake's skull. She lets the thing raise its head a few feet from the ground and takes the opportunity to shift her own weight over her feet. With a sudden twist and a jerk, she attempts to force her opponent's head into the adjacent wall.
Hornan sees his allies have a grip on the situation, and tries to conserve ammo by only attacking if nessessary.
[ooc] Ready action to attack if it breaks the grapple.[/ooc{
Vronim and Klicktak move up to the rear of the group behind Hornan not sure if what is happening ahead he maintains a ready stance hand on the hilt of his Katana ready to draw and strike.
Round 3
Initiative 8+
Rinko slams the crature's skull into the wall with an audible crack.
Initiative 8-
Hornan shakes the clouds from his mind and levels his musket at the beast, ready to shoot if it escapes Rinko.
End Round 3
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Initiative:
Vronim 19
Dareos 11
Thingy 10+
Arvid 10-
Rinko 8+
Hornan 8-
Dareos tries another time to hit the Bone Snake with his Fauchard
Surveying the situation it would appear that the creature is under control and there is no need to further risk to another party member. Vronim will simply guage the health of his fellow party to see who may need healing.
Round 4
Initiative 19
Vronim checks out his teammates.
Initiative 11
Dareos strikes a solid blow against the snake thing, chipping off several chunks of vertebrae.
Initiative 10
The creature continues to struggle to free itself.
It thrashes so wildly that Rinko loses her grip. Hornan immediately shoots the beast, knocking more chips from it.
Arvid makes a full attack