The alert paladin dodges most of the cone and flanks with Llyr, and although she does not aim at a crucial spot, the sheer power of her Cold Iron blade is enough to put down the weaker creatures in one hit!
!
Purple in the face is right. Between the blast and the other attack, she crumples to the ground.
-1 HP
Nev feels the ice shatter harmlessly against his skin but then staggers and swallows back bile. Seeing Karyne fall, he steps protectively in front of her and touches her with a hand glowing gold with healing energy.
Between Llyr and Elz, the first swirly bad guy dissapates. Lex's strike doesn't quite connect.
Karyne scrambles to her feet and gives Nev an appreciative nod.
Two bolts of ice shoot from the red mephits fingers, one towards Elxurian and one towards Nev. Their armor begins to get cold, but they both fight off the feeling. Elxurian gets bashed in the head by the swirly whirly for 6 damage. And blue mephit comes down to Karyne, Nev, and Grimkell and opens its mouth releasing the same attack.
Nev steps closer to Blue Mephit and stabs at it with his spear. Unfortunately, the toxicity of the recent ice blast causes him to launch into a coughing fit, and his attack goes wide.
Grimkell protects his face from the cold blast by the mephit. Once the wind passes by, he nods to Nev for healing Karyne, before unsheathing his sword and attacking the remaining elemental.
The skald swing his sword with the rythm of the saga, interleaving battle cries with the rhymes.
Annoyed that she missed the elemental, Lex tries again with little result. She can't exactly fire off area of attack spells when her allies were already in the middle of the melee.
Elxurian decides to try to finish the last elemental before switching for a ranged weapon.
!
She also swiftly heals herself, negating the damage taken by swirly wirly, whatever that is.
With the mephitis out of reach, Llyr darts around the side to sandwich the final elemental between he and Grimkell, hoping to use their practiced techniques to good use.
Llyr skewers the Elemental, and it dissipates. The mephits swoop down on Karyne and Elx. Red almost hits Karyne, but in a spot of bad luck, gets momentarily caught in a snow flurry and misses . Blue Mephit has to dodge tree branches and completely misses Elx. As the mephits fly around, Nev's able to clip Red's wing, but doesn't deal much damage .
Knowing the flying creatures have the advantage with this much snow around, Elxurian let her sword falls to the floor and draws her bow, shooting an impressive arrow at the Blue Mephit!
!
!
Standing up slowly, she brushes the snow off of her and then thrusts her hand up in the air and creates the firey snow ball she has so often before and hurls it at it.
"Stupid flying things that stay out of reach," Lex grumbles, lobbing a globe of conjured acid at the blue mephit.
Nev steps closer to Red and stabs at it again.
With the remaining foes flying out of range, Llyr gets himself clear of any area effects and hopes to limit further damage to himself.
Grimkell leaves the fight to reach for his belongings. From those, he takes out his quiver and bow.
Elxurian's arrow bounces harmlessly off her target. Nev hits Red for 4pts damage. Everyone else misses. Both mephits fly over to attack Nev. He stabs wildly with his spear as Red flies over but misses. Red appears to claw him once but ends up only scratching a bit of his cloak. It still draws blood, though . Blue, however, misses.
Grimkell grunts as he finally sees the mephits come at their level. He instantly drops his bow moves to the nearest ennemy (red) and swing his sword at it.
The paladin picks up her sword from the floor with one hand and, still with the bow on the other, moves closer to the red creature.
Llyr sees the mephit's lower into weapon range and darts around the side, limiting their escape routes.
Taking a short step back, she creates another snowball of fire and hurls it at blue.
Lex steps up to surround the red mephit, shouting as she swings her enchanted staff two-handed to smack it over the top of its head.
Nev mirrors Karyne's movement and takes another stab at Red Mephit.
Blue is dead. OH SO DEAD. It falls to the ground and melts the snow, still burning from Karyne's crazy fire spell.
Grimkell JUST misses red mephit, but it dodges into Nev's spear, then is promptly hit again By Lex, making the mocking grin it flashed at Grimkell last only a second.
Lex looks down at the Mephit she'd finished off with a blow that had probably snapped its tiny spine in half, picking it up by the ankle and casting a detection spell to see if it wasn't hiding anything on its body. "Well, look on the bright side. If they've resorted to ambushing us, means we're almost to the source, aren't we?" Lex tells the other while stifling a yawn.
"...Right, let's put more wood on the fire and get some extra sleep so we spellcasters can function properly, right?"
"Yes, sorry for waking you up, but we never know." Elxurian moves up to the creatures to guarantee they are both dead. If any is not, she finishes the job.
Karyne slumps. "I need sleep. Zhat took a good bit out of me," she whispers.
Don't worry, we'll let you sleep. It's these damnable winter touched that keep interrupting it. remarks Llyr with a wink before resuming his watchman duties, trying desperately to resist dropping snow on Lex and her magical cloak.
Grimkell doesn't seem to listen to anyone. Actually, once the battle is over he seems to be in a hurry to set a few things straight. As such, before going back to sleep, he takes the bodies of the mephit out of their camping site and buries then further away in the snow. He then proceeds to play a short dirge before coming back to the camp and diving into his covers.
As he does so, it is clear to anyone looking that Grimkell's body shape without his armor is much different than what they would imagine. His shoulders are much less large and well the rest looks strange even though he his wearing ample clothing.
From his covers, Grimkell rearranges his belonging and goes back to sleep.