The fop shakes his head as the spell assaults his senses.
"Get the elemental if you can, he's a spellcaster!"
As they rush in, Luthor reveals his quick reflexes.
He connects with each blow bludgeoning the guards.
Once in position, the guards begin to slash with their cutlasses.
***
Kal
Guards
Zirul
Opal
Other Guards
Luthor
Bjorkus
Sweetlips
Zirul grins, taking a swallow of one of his extracts, a pale glow emanating from his mouth.
Opal steps back and hastes the group again.
Luthor starts working over G2.
Bjorkus flies into a rage and attacks the guards.
Luthor makes short work of his target, dropping him. The minotaur's fury drops one of the guards and wounds another.
The foppish man inside the building steps closer to the battle and begins to play his flute.
He gestures briefly and a cloud of golden dust appears among the party.
Bjorkus and Luthor are rendered blind by the dust.
Air-Kal's many particles begin to condense as he shrinks and shortens, whirling like a dervish. When it's hard to tell whether it's actually Kal or a natural whirlwind, he zooms around the guards and into the room in an attempt to scoop up the flautist, after which he flies rapidly out of the building to harass the guards.
All three combatants manage to avoid Air-Kal’s whirling wrath.
The surviving guards attack. One advances to attack the vulnerable Opal while the other tangles with Luthor.
Opal cries out in pain as the pirate guard viciously cuts her twice.
Zirul downs another extract, causing a shimmering caustic field to surround him.
Opal, bleeding badly, falls back and assumes an elemental form similar to Kal’s in hopes of fending off her attacker.
Suddenly, four burly sharkmen burst from the water with a roar. They jab at those on the shore with vicious polearms.
Luthor will attempt to finish off the guards so he can start fighting the street sharks.
Bjorkus joins Luthor in continuing the assault on the guards.
The human guards succumb to Luthor and Bjorkus’s might.
The bard growls in frustration as he men continue to fall and tries his glitter spell again before exiting through a door to the south and then to the east.
This time Zirul is rendered blind.
"Don't bother with them!" yells Air-Kal, slowing in his spin and shrinking further, until he's roughly normal-sized and floating 15' above the water.
He then flies through the door into the building and through the east door the bard just used.
Air-Kal chases after the fleeing bard.
”Kal, where are you going?!” the severely wounded Air-Opal shouts as she turns to face her attacker.
With a wince, the sorceress drifts back and unleashes an enormous blast of lightning.
The sharkman avoids the worst of the blast but the lightning curves with a will of its own and slams into the next… and the next… and the next.
Two of the sharkmen are massively shocked.
Opal succumbs to her wounds and collapses.
Luthor moves closer to defend the fallen Opal and throws a series of brass-knuckled punches at one of the sharkmen.
Bjorkus’s eyes go wide with hate as Opal falls.
Ignoring the many polearms arrayed against him, the minotaur charges forward.
The sharkmen’s weapons tear bloody chunks out of the bull’s stony hide. One of them drives deep in between his ribs. Bjorkus gets some revenge by driving his trident into his target's throat killing him.
***
The bard nervously looks behind him and opens the door.
”Help!!! Intruders took the guardhouse!” he shouts.
He darts away from Air-Kal inside the building.
Kal reaches for the bard as he tries to get away.
Seeing the airy limb coming for him, the bard lashes out with his rapier.
But he misses and tumbles to the ground.
Air-Kal growls and pummels the bard.
The fop cries out as Air-Kal pummels him.
Kal hears a door from inside the building and people coming down the hall.
Zirul growls low, attempting to roll and weave out of the way, not able to see but still trying to keep himself alive and out of harm's way. Knowing that he must focus more on staying alive than swinging wildly, he takes a formerly unused stance.
Opal bleeds…
The sharkmen paddle forward and snap at Luthor with their massive jaws.
Bjorkus comes down from his rage long enough to glance at Opal.
"Opal needs help Skinny. She's hurt bad."
Resuming his frenzy, the minotaur advances on the recently shocked sharkman.
The bull's attacks tear the burly sharkman to pieces.
"I got it. Just take care of them." Luthor steps back to AC 26 and draws a potion of and pours it down the unconscious sorceress' throat.
As Luthor turns his back to tend to Opal’s wounds, the sharkmen swipe at him with their weapons.
Opal wakes with a gasp as the potion does its work.
***
The bard moans in pain from the pummeling he’s receiving and cautiously climbs to his feet to move away.
From down the hallway a beautiful woman with long dark hair in a gossamer gown moves toward the Kal with a frustrated expression on her features. On her heels a pair of massively built dwarves follows.
”Flee. Now. Or you will pay the consequences" she warns.
"I'm not here for you, but this one"—he gestures at the cowering bard—"attacked my friends and me. We're here for Bonefist; this doesn't need to involve you."
"This coward is under my protection as is Bonefist. Leave. Now."
"Then I am sorry for you, and will no doubt be seeing you again."
Kal calls forth the storm, then moves back toward his companions.
Zirul takes a step to get to S2, striking out blindly with jaws and claws, hoping to connect with something or at least make it hurt.
Zirul's blind claws manage to connect with the burly sharkmen a couple times.
Opal climbs to her feet and fires another trio of rays.
"Die you bastards!"
Together, Zirul and Opal drop another one.
The last sharkman hacks at Bjorkus one more time.
Leaving the bull a bloody mess.
Luthor steps forward to finish off the last sharkman.
The last sharkman falls under the water after suffering Luthor's beating.
Bjorkus falls to his knees clutching his massive wounds.