Dagmarr quickly cover's her ears, anticipating the roar of Rosa's gun.
Also focusing on holding the coffin lid, Sig is unprepared for the explosive retort.
Rosa looks nervous as she goes to stand close, but not too close to Dagmarr.
Most of you hear the stone lid of one of the coffins hitting the ground as an armored skeleton wielding a longsword emerges.
Initiative:
Round 1: Rosa, Sig, Thorgr, Dagmarr, Frostine, Skeletal Champion, Jerrica
Looking at the thing come out of the coffin she exclaims as she makes sure the ones that were deafened are aware of the threat,
Having picked her gun back up before moving back over to Dagmarr, Rosa reloads it and prays that they can get through this with two of them being deafened, instantly feeling even more guilty about her thoughtless actions just moments earlier.
Too far away to immediately engage the undead, Dagmarr sends another wave of divine energy dushing forth to, hammer away at the unholy warrior, moving past her love to approach it from the left.
Having bigger things to worry about than someone making a mistake and deafening a couple of them.
Moving between two of the coffins to give herself some cover and give the others room to move, Frostine fires off a couple bolts of magic energy at the thing.
The skeleton resists Dagmarr's pulse of holy energy.
Round 1: Rosa, Dagmarr, Frostine, Sig, Thorgr, Skeletal Champion, Jerrica
Seeing the others start at something she couldn't hear and begin to react, Sig turns to face the empowered skeleton. Inspired by her current affliction she opens her mouth in what appears to be a powerful scream, yet makes no noticeable sound.
The sound is really enough however, as it hammers away at the skeleton.
Sig's shout has no effect on the undead.
Thorgr sees the commotion and the enemy and moves forward to confront it.
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Thorgr easily dispatches the undead.
Frostine makes sure her crossbow is loaded and that nothing else is moving.
Rosa looks around, "Soooo....I guess we're saving the last one for tomorrow?"
"I suppose so." Dagmarr says looking over at Frostine to see if she still insisted on them leaving now.
Frostine puts her hands on her hips, "Thorgr and Sig are both deaf, and that guy isn't going anywhere. We can go rest and finish it off tomorrow. I see no point in taking anymore risks tonight, I mean unless you want to try and make the rest of us deaf as well?" She asks, leveling a look at Rosa, her voice sounding tired as well as frustrated.
She didn't understand what the rush was, she didn't want to be down here anymore, or risk Rosa firing her gun off in another coffin.
"That's more than a little unfair." Dagmarr says giving the sorceress a level look of out own. "Rushing to get things over with is just as much at fault. But fine, we should call it a night and let everyone have a chance to recover."
Rosa knew that Frostine was just tired and lashing out, but her words still stung slightly. She didn't mean to make them deaf, she was just trying to end the thing.
Shaking her head she says, "No, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do that. We can just go if you're tired."
Though unable to hear, Dig knew people well enough that she could guess what the tense exchange between the three was about. With a sigh, she moves over to stand beside Jerrica.
Rosa looks at Dagmarr, "Oops...sorry." She ssys, realizing she spoke at almost at the same time as her love.
Frostine's face turns red, "Unfair? She fired her weapon in an enclosed space, while Sig and Thorgr were standing right there trying to hold the stupid lid to the stupid coffin open. She could have hit either one of them. I'm relieved that no one was seriously hurt, but who knows what kind of things are further down, and we can't afford to be careless or rush through this. Our safety is more impirtant than how fast we get through this place."
Rosa puts a hand on her love's arm, "It's okay, she's right. I wasn't thinking and was careless. I promise to be more careful in the future okay?" She says, speaking in a calm and even tone.
Frostine didn't know if it was her voice, or the way she looked at her with those strangely calm violet eyes of hers, but she felt herself calming almost immediately. Her cheeks return to their normal color as she takes a couple of breaths, and let's them out slowly.
She knew accidents happen, she'd made quite a few of her own mistakes. It just scared her, and she didn't react well, especially since it was something that affected the people she cared about.
Sighing she drops her arms to her sides, "Okay. I'm sorry I flipped out. I just don't like dark enclosed spaces anyways, and I'm tired and want to go....but I shouldn't have taken my frustration out on you." Frostine says, feeling bad about losing it in front of everyone.
Rosa nods while taking her love's hand and giving it a reassuring gentle squeeze, "It's okay, I'm sure we'll all feel better once we have a chance to clean up and get some rest."
Frostine nods as she moves over next to Thorgr and takes his hand, "Okay."
Rosa stretches up on her toes to give Dagmarr's cheek a kiss, "It's okay love, I'd kind of like a chance to....rest as well." She says softly, with a slight smirk on her face.
Jerrica rubs Sig's back as they others talk. "Let's go then..."
Before they completely leave the temple, or what was under the temple rather, Frostine makes sure that the iron bars are set and locked across the door they came through earlier when Ms. Arista brought them down here. Ensuring that nothing from down below could get out.
As they leave and head back to Arista's house, Frostine leans into Thorgr's side slightly. She hoped that after they got something to eat, got cleaned up, and got some rest that he would be okay.
Arista stands at the porch as you return. "You're still in one piece. Color me surprised."
She shrugs, "There were some moments, but for the most part it's cleaned out. The three super heavy coffins posed most of the problem. It's hard killin' something if you can't get to it. Then another one actually made it out of the coffin and we finished it off too. So, there's one left...but we can finish it off tomorrow." Frostine explains without getting into specifics of what happened below.
Rosa doesn't say anything, but just stands quietly next to Dagmarr.
Arista nods. "They were brave warriors...No, not just them, but we honored them as best we could."
"Sig and Thorgr went deaf," Jerrica says, not going into specifics. "Is there anything you can do for them?"
Arista looks at the group, narrowing her eyes. "Must have been some strange undead down there, but, yes, I can fix that."
She goes to Thorgr and puts her hands on his ears, a glowing energy flowing through the aasimar. "You're lucky that all I pray for are healing spells...you're even luckier that the gods still listen to me."
She then puts her hands on Sig's ears and repeats the spell. "You should be better now."
Thorgr sighs with relief as his hearing returns. "Thank you, Arista. One of the undead said a name. Does Hester sound familiar to you?"
Arista's countenance darkens. "Yes, but that's a story for another day. Are you all hungry?"
Jerrica just nods, wondering what Arista wouldn't tell them.
Frostine looks relieved as Arista heals her husband and her sister. Listening to the exchange she shares a look with Thorgr before looking back at Arista, "Yes, and thank you Ms. Arista." Frostine yawns as she leans into Thorgr a little more, "I guess I'm feeling kinda gross and tired too. Sorry...." She says, before yawning again.
Rosa tries to hide her smirk. At least Frostine was admitting when she was starting to feel tired now. That was something at least.
"I'll get started on dinner, just make yourselves as home," Arista says, gesturing at her couches.
Before sitting on her furniture, Frostine goes over all of them and sends all the nasty underground dirt, grime, and sweat into a a sparkly blue ball that dissipates into nothingness, leaving them cleaner and fresher smelling.
Satisfied that they weren't going to mess up her furniture, Frostine goes over to one of the couches and sits down with Thorgr, leaning her head against his shoulder.
Looking over at Frostine she says, "Thanks, that's a little better." Giving her love a kiss on the cheek she says, "I'm gonna see if I can help Arista with dinner."
Rosa follows Arista into her kitchen, "Is there anything I can do to help? I don't really have much experience cooking, but I can clean and cut up stuff."
Sig lets out a sigh of relief as her hearing returns, squeezing Jerrica's hand as she hums to herself quietly for a moment, the fear of having lost music, something she hadn't been willing to admit, even to herself until now.
Dagmarr slips an arm around Rosa's waist quietly, offering her comfort and support. She notes that Arista must be quite the accomplished healer since the ability to remove deafness was beyond her own ability.
Rosa gives Dagmarr a gentle squeeze before stretching up on her toes to give her cheek a soft kiss, "Thank you love, I'm alright. I'm just gonna slip into the kitchen for a moment to see if Ms. Arista needs any help." Giving her hand another gentle squeeze, she heads to the kitchen.
Arista stirs some dough in a bowl. "I'm making some biscuits, do you think you can handle putting some of this dough on a pan?"