Ignatius listens for pursuit and tries to be as quiet as possible.
Lyall does his best to be stealthy while listening for the sounds of others not so friendly.
Auri nods and creeps along stealthily as possible, signing which path they should take.
Kareta grips her hammer as she follows the others, she slips in a puddle, accidentally knocking her weapon softly against the wall as she rights herself.
Oops... she whispers sheepishly.
Harkon does his best to be silent.
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Auriona, Harkon, and Lyall all hear faint sounds of metal rubbing against metal coming from somewhere ahead. As Auriona reaches the intersection of the two tunnels, she catches a glint of reflected light coming from the edges of her vision up ahead. They appear to be stealthily homing in on the lights coming from the group!
Harkon utters a prayer to Abadar.
"Oh Great Judge, bless us with strength to fight our enemies"
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Lyall calms himself, returning to 'normal' and then throws down his hands and howls in madness as his hands change into claws and he returns into the bestial form once more.
Auriona swiftly draws her bow, cocks an arrow and lets fly towards the front man. Please be true, she thinks to herself as she releases the bow.
The arrow misses the shadowy figures ahead, and they race forward, drawing weapons as they go.
Lyall will turn and dash towards the Hellknights, but at the intersection will duck behind the corner to the right.
Lyall's bestial form dashes along the edge of the sewer, hanging over the line between muck and cleanliness. As he reaches the edge of the intersection, he leaps, landing cleanly on the other side, then bounds to the right out of sight of the Hellknights. Janiven follows Lyall, drawing a longbow as she runs, then leaps left cross-corner across the gap. As the two race past, Morosino falls into the sewage, disappearing beneath the surface.
"Oh boy. How deep is this sewage anyway?"
Harkon whispers loudly enough to be heard by Janiven.
He drops the warhammer, kneels at the spot Morosino fell and tries to fish him out of the stinking fluid with one hand.
"I can't see a blasted thing."
Harkon desperately searches in the stinking fluid for the boy...
Great Abadar, grant me the skill to save the boy, he is just a child.
I found him!
"Get clear!" Kareta hisses softly as she shoulders past Ignatius, trying to put herself between the hellknights and spellcasters. She grips her weapon, ready to fight.
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Kareta moves toward the Hellknights, taking up a defensive position just in front of Auriona to prevent them form jumping across the sewage. Harkon drops to his knees, fishing in the much and sewage to try and find the missing Morosino. But he pulls back, apparently unsuccessful at finding the fallen boy.
"Lady Janiven, I hope Morosino has some unexpected abilities to allow him fast movement in water. Otherwise I am afraid something is dragging him away as there is no current here." Harkon whispers hopefully loudly enough for Janiven to hear.
"God's damn it all!" Auriona cocks another arrow and lets fly past Kareta.
Auriona overcorrects for the body in front of her and her arrow sails down the passage, completely missing the approaching Hellknights. The Hellknights continue forward, one moving a short distance then loading a crossbow, the other two racing ahead of him with longswords in hand.
Lyall attacks the Hellknight that is now in front of him from around the corner.
"Ah there they are!!
Ignatius moves forward and casts Grease DC14, causing a thick sheen of lubercation to coat the floor beneath the two forward hellknights.
Wary about the water, Kareta chooses to let go of her hammer with one hand, dropping it to her hip, where a short-handled axe dangled from a loop. Hey, catch! She shouts at the nearest Hellknight, hurling the axe at him.
Harkon picks up the warhammer, ready to fight again. As he is a rearguard now, he just looks for other dangers.
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Lyall slashes at the Hellknight in front of him, catching one claw on the man's sword but tearing one of the panels from the man's armor and stabbing through the chainmail beneath. He howls as blood leaks through the chain links.
Ignatius moves forward and throws a spell at the two figures, sliming the stone floor beneath the two figures. One of the Hellknights slips and slams his head against the wall on his way down, but manages to catch himself before sliding into the sewage.
Janiven lets fly with an arrow, aiming for the soldier between herself and Lyall, but her aim is spoiled as Morosino bursts forth from the sewage, stabbing at the standing Hellknight with a dagger. The arrow skitters down the tunnel, and the dagger glances off a mailed leg.
Kareta grabs an axe from her belt and hurls it at the wounded Hellknight. It slams into his shoulder and hangs there, and fresh blood pours down the man's arm.
Auriona curses and lets fly with another arrow, trying to hit the already injured opponent. Her bow snaps forward before she's ready, missing the target completely and slicing her fingers to the bone.
The injured Hellknight swings at Lyall, trying to take him down. The one next to him tries to get to his feet. He slips on his way up, and Morosino stabs him The third Hellknight fires his crossbow at Kareta, then reloads. The bolt skitters down the passageway.
Ignatius conjures a sickly green glob of goo and lobs it at the lead hellknight:
Lyall will attack the hellknight in front of him again.
Lyall slashes at the Hellknight in front of him, one claw catching on the man's chainmail but the other tearing a shred through it and deep into the man's chest. He collapses, unmoving, to the ground.
Ignatius throws a green glob at the man on the ground, hitting him in the side of the head and melting part of his scalp and one ear. The man shrieks and writhes in pain as the side of his head melts.
Morosino reaches up and cuts the throat of the screaming man, silencing him. Then he lets himself fall back into the sewage, disappearing from view. Janiven steps forward and looses a shaft at the man with the crossbow. It thuds into his shoulder, but doesn't seem to phase him.
From behind the group come shouts as another group of Hellknights comes into view down the passage.
"We have company! At least 2 of them are coming from behind. I will hold them till you deal with the first group."
Harkon prepares to meet the incoming Hellknights.
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Ugh, not again Kareta mutters to herself as she jumps into the foul waters once more. (to E,-2) Come on in, the water's fine! He says to the Hellknight as she swings the hammer at his legs, bringing the hook side around as a follow-up to try to trip him.
(Hammer head is Mwk)
Auriona curses again, cocks another arrow and lets fly at the new targets approaching.
With a splash and a stench, Kareta steps out into the sewage and moves forward to attack the remaining Hellknight, but the angle is wrong and she misses.
Harkon sets himself to receive the new attackers.
Auriona turns and fires, hitting the leader of the new targets, then curses some more as her fingers continue to bleed.
The remaining Hellknight from the original group takes a step back to give himself room, then fires down at Kareta. The bolt sinks into her chest up to the fletching, probably penetrating a lung. She collapses into the sewage as her bodies goes into shock.
The new group of Hellknights continues to race toward the group, one stopping to draw a crossbow as the others charge on with longswords drawn.
Lyall will move over the incapacitated Hellknights, and confront the remaining Hellkight from the original group.
Lyall swings at the Hellknight with his claw, after walking over the hellknights and the grease.
Ignatius steps forward (D2) and flings another magical gob of acid at the crossbow wielding hellknight (D-3)
As Ignatius hurls his gobbet of sizzling phlegm, Lyall connects with a vicious backhand swipe of his claw, knocking the man to the ground in a clatter. The glob of acid flies past him to spatter down the tunnel.
Janiven readies an arrow to shoot down the hall at the new Hellknights, while Morosino is nowhere to be seen.
Harkon is still waiting for the Hellknights to come closer.
Auriona wraps her cut fingers in cloth, and fires another arrow. "We need some healing here!"
"Good to know! Either wait or use the damn potion..." grumbles Harkon
Does she seriously think I will move off the position now?!
Should have charged them...
The first of the remaining Hellknights scrambles to a standing position from his place on the floor, ripping his longsword from the scabbard as he does so. He slashes up at Lyall, but the awkwardness of the angle sends his blade into the wall.
The new Hellknights charge toward Harkon. The first manages to slide back just in time to miss having his chest crushed, then slams his longsword into Harkon's shield arm. The second charges up behind the first. The third moves forward into the light, then levels his crossbow and fires at Harkon.