"Why won't you die!?!"
and the lashings continue until Marcus' morale improves
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Von-Dai desperately imbues his staff with magic and flings it towards the sinspawn.
Marcus will attempt to administer a healing potion to his downed comrade (I assume we have a few).
Zeltiyeli steps back and sighs, "All this blood is staining my gear... Worse, most of it is mine."
Von-Dai says, "If we need to find a defensible place to hole up for a while, we can do that."
Zeltyieli shakes his head, "I've enough magic to heal the wounds... though I won't have much left afterward... and, as I recall, we're still in a race."
Before they move on, Von-Dai casts a spell, enhancing Marcus's strength.
Zeltyieli gestures, "There's a door hidden in the wall there. Shall I take a moment to look through it?"
"Better check it for traps. Do you mean scout ahead? That's pretty dangerous. I think sticking together is safer. If it's some magic, then by all means go ahead. "
Zeltyieli nods and approaches the door, laying his hands on it and calling upon the Walker to show him - and his party - what lies beyond.
Von-Dai looks for traps while Zeltyieli looks on the other side.
Zeltyieli says, "There's a magical alarm in there. Looks like a sight-sensor. Suggests there's something else interesting in there -- but I don't know how we'd bypass it."
"I sure can't get invisible. I guess we just go in and deal with what comes. Not like sneaking is our idiom anyway. "
"Zel, do you have a spell that will allow you to remove an existing enchantment? It isn't an option for me right now, but we might be able to open the door and then you could dispel the sensor. If not, I might have an idea."
Zeltyieli shakes his head, "I had to use the magic I'd prepared to keep myself alive earlier."
"Alright. Here's my idea. If the sensor relies on sight, it stands to reason that if all it sees is an empty room, whoever or whatever is monitoring it won't notice us." Von-Dai pulls out the Shard of Pride. "We open the door, then I use this to create an illusion of the room as though nothing has changed. We enter under the cover of the illusion, and hopefully the entity monitoring the sensor is none the wiser."
Zeltyieli nods, "Seems worth trying."
"Go ahead, it's no different than my plan if it doesn't work. "
Zeltyieli smiles, Wow, that seems to have worked, but says nothing in case the sound triggers the alarm.
Von gestures to Zeltyieli, indicating he should place his hands on the door to check the other side.
Zetyieli nods, and places his hands on the door, whispering to the Walker to allow him to see beyond it.
Marcus kept with them and his mouth shut, worried the gimmick wouldn't work.
Zeltyieli watches the room, then nods and releases the wall, watching it turn opaque once more. He points at a grey stripe on his clothing before miming himself as a woman -- repeating the sequence three times before looking for any recognition from his colleagues, and then holding up a single finger.
Marcus looks a bit confused, but nods anyway.
Von thinks a moment, then nods in understanding. There's a grey woman in the next room, but only one. They could hopefully take her before she could sound an alarm or summon others. He wondered what made her skin grey.
Marcus points at the door then Zelt. Then he points at himself and makes a motion of running into the room.
Zeltyieli pauses, then points at Marcus' weapon, then nods.
"Yes, to their regret. " and he advances to attack.
"Oh, you meant she was a Grey Maiden, not a that her skin was grey. Sorry, total misunderstanding. Marcus, what do you mean to their regret? They let us pass them without a fight."
Zeltyieli shakes his head, then laughs, "What they're trying to say, I think, is that we come in peace, but will swiftly deal with situations where that's not possible," he offers cheerily.
Zeltyeli quickly casts a spell, causing a battleaxe of force to appear and attack the maiden.
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He will move up 5' and start with the whip.
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