With Dagmarr and Thorgr's help, Frostine manages to find the tiny button hidden in the throne's decorative backing.
Shaking her head she finally presses the button, "Well that was still pretty hard to find."
The back wall of the throne room slides back, revealing another passage.
She points out the passage, "Well...we may not be finished here yet. Wanna go first love?" She asks as she steps aside to make room for Thorgr before following him down the passage way.
Thorgr nods and leads the way.
Dagmarr falls in behind Thorgr as they move in.
Sig lets the others ahead of her before bringing up the rear.
You come to a large chamber with glittering coins, jewels and other valuable trinkets. Among the treasures, you see two tied up guards, their gear set off to the side. A dark elf in sparkling chainmail, carrying expensive weapons stands there. She raises her reapeating crossbow at the group.
Initiative:
Roll-Off:
The dark elf fires a pair of bolts at Thorgr.
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Round 1: Dark Elf, Jerrica, Dagmarr, Frostine, Thorgr, Sig
Jerrica approaches the dark elf and attacks.
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Looking the dark elf dead in the eyes she says, "We have come to reclaim that which you have stolen. You have one chance. Leave here and never return again, or we'll kill you horribly." She stands straight and tall, puffing all of her five foot six inch self and puffing out her chest.
Dagmarr moves wide, intoning a prayer to grant her greater defensive power as she advances on the dark elf.
Seeing the dark elf visibly shaken, Thorgr rushes forward.
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Round 1: Dark Elf, Jerrica, Dagmarr, Frostine, Thorgr, Sig
DE hp: 29
Raising her axe in challenge as she strides forward, Sig begins another invigorating battle chant.
The dark elf drops her crossbow, draws her blade and attacks Jerrica.
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Round 2: Dark Elf, Jerrica, Dagmarr, Frostine, Thorgr, Sig
Jerrica strikes once more before moving away.
But the heavy hit she sustained causes her to miss.
Seeing Jerrica hurt badly she realizes they needed to finish this soon. Knowing that she couldn't do much damage like this, she touches her crossbow and casts a spell to make it hit a little harder.
Thorgr presses his attack, hoping to bring an end to this fight quickly.
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Feeling the intensity of the battle escalate, Sig intensifies the pitch of her singing, the power of her Rage Song increasing, filling her friends with the potential for greatness.
Dagmarr charges in attempting to slash the dark elven woman, though she manages to deflect the blow.
Thorgr's attack severely injures the dark elf who fights on and attacks the fighter.
But her wounds are too grievous to deliver a decent attack.
Round 2: Dark Elf, Jerrica, Dagmarr, Frostine, Thorgr, Sig
Jerrica seizes the opportunity to flank with Dagmarr and attacks.
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Jerrica puts an end to the guardian of this room.
Frostine searches the last dark elf, and then the room for the guards belongings.
Frostine spots the guards' belongings set aside from the rest of Hel's treasures.
Pointing at the guards stuff she says, "Here, go take this stuff to them while I gather this other stuff up. I'm not sure how much of this stuff will actually be useful though." She says as she starts picking the stuff up.
"Looks like good quality," Thorgr says, going to untie the guards. "We might find a use for it or perhaps just give it to Hel."
"I think I could use some healing," Jerrica says, holding her side.
She nods and takes the potion of cure moderate wounds to Jerrica, "Here...this should help you feel better. We'll get some more rest once we get this mess cleaned up and get back to Ms. Corries okay?"
Jerrica nods and downs the potion.
As she sees Jerrica drink the potion before she can say anything, Dagmaar looks up. "Sorry, I could have taken care of that. Thorgr, you look hurt as well." she says calling forth a wave of healing energy.
"If they're her's then definitely. If not, the armor and weapons could definitely go to good use," Sig says looking everything over.
She shrugs and sort of nods, "Sorry.....I had it in my hand and didn't really think about it. Thank you Dagmarr." She says before looking up at Sig from where she sits on the floor looking over the scattered things, "Well...I'm not gonna take the poison with us at any rate and I guess if we split it between us...or if someone can use that armor and stuff then we don't have to just make one person carry it all. I'd like to get these bodies taken out of her castle and get this place cleaned up before bringing Hel back here too." She says as she looks around.
"That definitely sounds like a good idea. I could actually make use of the armor." Sig says looking it over. "And with that crossbow you won't have to worry about taking that much time to reload if we encounter something resistant to your magic, but I definitely agree with getting rid of the poison."
She hands the armor over to Sig and nods.
The guards express their thanks and quickly equip themselves after Thorgr unties them and hands them their belongings.
"I suppose that's it," Thorgr says after Dagmarr heals everyone.
"Seems like," Jerrica says. "We should leave these two here to stand guard and go give Hel the good news."
She nods, "Sure....if you guys can help haul the bodies out of here I can start cleaning up. Should only take about an hour or so I think. Is that alright?" She asks as they stand there.
Sig changes into the chainmail while the prisoners are released. "Okay, let's get cleaning."
She nods and touches both Sig and Thorgr, enlarging their size so that they wouldn't have to struggle as much to get the bodies outside, while she goes around each room and rids it of blood, other bodily fluids, and just any dust or dirt in general. She leaves the scent of fresh spring flowers in every room they go through, and makes sure she gets any bathrooms and sleeping chambers spotless.
After about an hour and a half, Hel's castle is spotless.
Letting out a long sigh she wipes her brow as she sags against Thorgr, "Whew...I'm so tired now. I guess we just gotta get back to Ms. Corrie's now. Did we find the other guards belongings? We should take it to them if we can."
"It's all right here," Thorgr says.
She sighs again as she starts to pick up some of the equipment to take back to the guards at the cottage, "Okay, if we all pick up some of it I think we can get it back to them. I think I'm really gonna want a bath after we get back home." She says before yawning.
Jerrica nods, taking a set of equipment. "And a hot meal."
Thorgr walks beside Frostine as they all head back to Corrie's.
She nods, "Yeah....but I think I'm too tired to eat now." She says before yawning again and leaning into Thorgr as they walk.
"You should still have a little something."
She shrugs, "I'll try okay?"