With a powerful sweep the rat instantly dies as you she severs it in half.
Dargorath moves up finding a space behind Elliana and sends his arrow flying. The arrow hits with a forceful impact causing the ratlike man to squeal in pain. But you watch as the creature rips the arrow out and the wound begins to close instantly.
The ratlike man takes aim at Lanarial and lets loose an arrow grazing the elf along his shoulder.
Alledueces begins singing to encourage his allies moving up at the process.
The ratman snarls at Nhilune and bares it filthy teeth fighting off Nhilune's evil eye.
Amigail attempts to make an acrobatic rush at the ratman .
Gritting her teeth, she swings her falcate at the lycanthrope, hoping to hit a soft spot.
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Like Dargorath's arrow Amigail you watch as the cut made by your falcata begins to close up.
Alledueces easily recognizes the creature as a wererat. A creature afflicted with a disease known as lycanthropy. Wererats prefer cities where they can blend in with the humanoid and rat population. Wererats have three forms they can assume: human, hybrid and rat. In their hybrid form they are highly resistant able to withstand blows from most weapons unless forged from silver.
Wererats like other lycanthropes are able to pass their affliction on through their bites.
Lanarial points his newly acquired wand of burning hands and speaks the command word, causing a cone of flame to erupt from the tip and catching two of the rats in its path!
A wave of fire bursts from the black wand but the rats maneuver away from it causing them to only be partially clipped by the flames.
ROUND 2
The rats retaliate against Lanarial. Like before one rat is able to sink its teeth into Lanarial.
The other rat continues to attack Elliana but misses against the well armored paladin.
Dargorath launches an arrow at the ratman.
"Damn it!!" He curses angrily as the ratman easily sidesteps.
Elli takes a swipe at the rat in trying to attack her
Again Elliana's scythe proves effective decapitating another one of the rats.
The wererat looses another arrow at Lanarial hitting the elf directly in the right shoulder.
Amigail feels the disrespect the wererat's showing her by not even trying to move a bit before firing at Lanarial. She takes advantage of its disinterest by hacking at it once with her falcata and then again as the thing's arrow strikes Lanarial hard.
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Seeing the lack of effect her attacks are having, the young woman takes a 5-foot step away from the lycanthrope to let Dargorath try his luck from afar.
Lanarial is knocked down by the well-placed arrow, and he doesn't move again...
Alledueces steps up and casts curel light wounds on Lanarial.
The young halfling moves as quickly as he can and begins to sing his song of healing while touching Lanarial. He watches as Lanarial's eyes blink open aware of the danger they are both still in with the dire rats ready to continue their feasting.
A snicker comes from the wererat's mouth as he looks on confidently at the next target.
The wererat glares back at Nhilune only slightly phased by her hex.
ROUND 3
One rat scampers over Lanarial and bites after a fresh new meal, Alledueces. The rat misses Alledueces.
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The other rat continues to chew on Lanarial's foot.
Dargorath shoots at the rat next to Alledueces.
"Flank the wererat, I'll take care of the remainibg rats."
I'll do what i can Elliana moves and attempts to attack the wererat
Dargorath's arrow takes the rat in the back of neck killing it.
Elliana sweeps with her Scythe and while she hits she watches the wound on the wererat quickly seal up.
The wererat throws down its bow and steps back drawing it's short blade.
Amigail dances forward again, positioning herself behind the wererat . Then she readies an attack on the lycanthrope for when Elliana (or another ally) moves into flanking position with her.
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Lanarial, brought back to consciousness by Alledeuces, stands back up and casts a spell at the wererat's blade. As he completes the incantation, the metal of the blade seems to become more brittle!
As Amigail moves past the wererat the creature lashes out with his shortblade, but at the last minute his body twitches uncontrollably causing the blade to narrowly miss Amigail.
The wererat locks eyes for a brief second and shakes off Nhilune's hex.
Alledueces moves forward up to the rat trying to draw its attention away from Lanarial and maintain a defensive stance...
Watching as Lanarial comes to Alledueces races forward attempting draw the dire rat's attention. The bait works too well as the rats teeth gash into Alledueces' leg.
The action nonetheless gives Lanarial the opportunity to get to his feet and complete his incantation targeting the wererat's blade. Lanarial smiles as he watches as cracks slowly form on the blade.
ROUND 4
The dire rat again tries to sink its teeth into Alledueces and again tears off a piece of flesh from the young halfling's leg.
Dargorath moves over to shoot at the remaining rat.
The arrow misses the dire rat.
The scythe sweeps a delivers a wicked cut to the wererat. It grimaces in pain as the wound does not fully heal. It's beady eyes flash some fear and the creature begins to run.
Amigail tries something different--not gritting her teeth as she takes a swing at the fleeing wererat. It helps a little but not much.
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The wererat shrugs off the attacks and races towards the tunnel at the north end of the room.
Lanarial retrieves his sword from the ground and attacks the last rat, hoping to end this encounter!
Amigail gives up on the wererat (for now) and turns her attention to something she can kill: the last rat standing. She closes on it and swings her blade.
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The rat jumps at Lanarial as the elf picks up his blade from the ground and misses the rat. Fortunately the rat misses as well.
Amigail hacks off a piece of the dire rat's tail as it squeals in pain.
Alledueces swings his dagger at the rat as the lingering effects of his song come to an end.
The dagger slides past the matted fur covering the rat's back killing it as puncture it's lung.
With the wererat on the run you are left alone in the chamber.
"We need to find a place to rest up and heal. I will be more effective if I can replenish my magical spells...plus I need to tend to these wounds. Not sure this is the best place, but we need a secure location soon," the elf says to the group.
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Nhilune nodded her head along with Lanarial's suggestion of a rest. She'd been saying they needed a break since the beginning but others had insisted they press forward. From what she could see, a good chunk of the people who had agreed to this venture needed a good nights rest. She hadn't exactly prepared herself for a time crunched delve into the sewers and she doubted the others had either.