"EZ!" Sapher yells "That didn't turn out the best last time... let me" Sapher is slow though, if the LONG legged blonde gets to it first she can.
"Same goes for me to you, Ez." she gives the oracle a smile. "Being cursed doesn't make you any less valuable, so... my turn to deal with it, I guess." She takes a deep breath. Moving toward it she'll start to reach out.
Sapher stops and looks back at their wizard with a quizzical look on her face "If things go bad, you know the most about this stuff, Mok. We'll need your mind clear."
Veltariel moves closer to the altar silently as Esrisi boasts about taking it herself. She makes sure to remain between her and the shard at all times, though she makes no effort to stop Sapher from approaching.
When she mentions punching Mokhasi in the face, Veltariel replies ”That wouldn’t happen. I promise you that you’d never get close enough.”
Veltariel smirks knowingly. ”I’m well aware you wouldn’t. Because you couldn’t.”
Sapher's eyes go wide "Disarming, okay." she says slipping her hammer out of her belt, then her BIG hammer off her back, along with her extra hammer. Then her battleaxe, and then remembers her dagger. Throwing them one after another in a pile away from the shard. And then regretfully, her shield.
"But no, you are not tying me up." she is firm on that, no matter the logic. "Ready?" saying it loudly so the fighting couple pays attention
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Folding her arms across her chest and ignoring the dwarf because the ranger has her full attention now, she says "My, aren't we feisty today. What's gotten into you, I wonder?"
Looking at the wizard, she says "I could physically overpower that man, but I would not do so unless it was required." Turning back to Veltariel, she shakes her head and asks "Why are you taunting me so? Are you purposefully trying to get me frustrated or do you want me to escalate this with you for some reason?
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Mokhasi glares at the both of them, ”no, if I were mind controlled, I’d hope you both pummel the daylights out of me. It is better than killing anyone. And a pummeling is temporary. As my spells grow stronger - it may be the case that I could wink out your existences, possibly.” He gestures at both of them, ”that may also be true of your magical abilities. They will get much stronger as well - Vel, your sorcery and ... pathfinder... your cleric spells?” He looks confused and holds his head for a moment as he concentrates, laboriously saying the last phrase.
Signing Sapher goes to get the shard, since no one seems to care about it anymore. She'll look for traps first.
Then grab it.
”Because it distracts you enough for someone else to take it,” Veltariel answers with a look of “Gotcha” painted on her face.
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Mokhasi spent a brief time talking to the elemental he summoned about various things related to soil, water, and the liminal state between them - mud. He was very interested in how the paraelemental plane looked, and also if the elemental had any friends. Mokhasi introduced Kiir and everyone else.
The elemental did not speak much, beyond saying gloopy “yes” and “no” responses.
At the end, Mokhasi thanked the elemental for its help.
After the lengthy debate and Sapher disarming she steps into the room as the others follow a little behind her. As she does she hears a raspy voice call out in a strange tongue, then another.
She looks up to the sides of the walls just as webbing is flying toward her.
One of the webs hits pinning her to the floor, even worse there is something on the web that when it touches Sapher's skin it seems to almost numb her.
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"AGGAHAHH!" Sapher snaps/yells/squeaks slowly in utter annoyance, thinking glad I gave up all my weapons
Drask bares his teeth at the fallen bodies, spitting out the blood and gore.
Drask is pleased at the price the surgical tools will fetch, and points out the vials of blue liquid as something Mok may want to try to identify.
As they continue on Drask is completely ignorant to the extent of all the alchemical equipment, but he knows enough to know they've landed on a pretty good haul to sell back in town.
As they come upon the star-shaped altar Drask squints his eyes. "Is that the shard we're looking for?" He asks optimistically.
As the bickering starts Drask just rolls his eyes. Although he was surprised that Esrisi was the one trying to be mature this time.
Drask nods to Mok's analysis of the situation. "I'm not very good at taking someone down without making them bleed. Es would lead us on that." However his attention is focused on Sapher; as she reaches for the shard, he is prepared to spring to action. To defend her or attack her he is unsure.
As the web is fired, Drask lunges forward. "Arm Sapher, now!" He roars. He moves forward to be at her side, and as soon as he crosses the entrance he sees the spider creatures.
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Hearing the alarm, Esrisi dashes into the room and quickly takes stock of the situation. Two enemies, Drask next to one and Sapher unarmed and webbed in front of the other.
She dashes between unarmed dwarf and the spider, putting herself as the shield. "I've got you!" she says as she tries to bring her heel crashing down on the spider in front of her.
Es and Drask rush into the room, Drask heading left while Es splits right. Caroliss creates another copy of Sapher to keep her safe while giving Vel a bit of luck so she can go help the others as she notes "I'll help help Sapher get free go take care of the threats."
Drask doesn't even get close to hitting the one spider like creature that looks exactly the same as the creature you saw dead in the webbing above. Es on the other hand lands a solid blow with her fist but does minimal damage.
Each spider backs up shooting more webbing at the new targets.
Drask gets stuck to the floor just like Sapher but Es manages to dodge out of the way of the incoming webbing as it hits the wall behind her.
Veltariel strifes into the room and moves for a clear shot, loosing an arrow at the one to the left near Drask.
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Mokhasi moves up and spots one of the shriezyxes, ”these - these are afraid of fire.” He gestures and one of the runes on his face glows green, then flows through his body to his hand, where the air in his palm ignites with a merry green flame, creating a torch-like ball of fire in his hand. He draws a pinch of saltpeter and ignites the fire further, causing it to burn even hotter. He grins at the shriezyx.
Mokhasi then throws it at the one that was damaged, another ball of fire immediately reappearing in his hand.
”They said we were followers of Karzug and that we should not get the shard. However, they are also probably mad, and are very evil, so squash them.”
Stuck and lethargic the dwarf decides to take advantage of Ez being right next to her, pressing her hand against the flat of her back and whispering a prayer of Go Beat Their Asses.
Drask raises his arm as the webbing hits him, then rips it off and advanced on the spider to pin it against the wall.
Sapher casts a spell on Es, not bothering getting free for now as the others filter into the room. Vel moves in where she can get a clear shot and strikes one of the creatures with an arrow doing some minor damage. Mok moves up casting a spell as he creates a flame in his hand then lobs it at the spider Vel injured but misses. However, the flame does draw both creatures attention. Es steps up to the spider creature and throws two punches but both end up missing. Caroliss moves up a little closer so she can get a better view of the fight and then grants Vel a bit of luck.
Drask pushes through the strange toxins numbing his muscles and rips the webbing off of himself as he moves closer to the spider monster. The spider creatures talk to each other.
They both climb up the wall and skitter over to attack Mok, one circles behind him while the other stays in front so they have him between both of them.
One of the spiders bites into Mok doing some damage and he feels the burn of poison in the wound.
Seeing the creatures turn to assail her elven companion, Veltariel snarls and sends a pair of arrows at the one that actually bit him!
Sapher struggles but fails to pull herself from the webbing.
The spider put itself into a flanking situation. Not bright.
The pain drops.
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Having studied the language at Shelia's, Esrisi understands the talking spiders. She calls out "Uhhhh, Mok. The talking spiders said they need to kill you now because you made fire. You really pissed them off! I'm coming!" she says, before dodging, ducking and tumbling past both of them to come up on the other side of the one flanking Mokhasi. Once in place, she throws her boot into it.
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Mokhasi shakes off the poison, and seems barely worse for wear. He waves his hand dismissively at Esrisi, "yes, I know. The fire was intentional, they hate it, and are afraid of it." He points at his fire, "they may hurt me, but this will help everyone fight them better."
Mokhasi drops his spear next to Sapher, and pops out the wand of mage armor from his pocket, flicking it to envelop himself in armor, then stepping between Sapher and Caroliss.
Sapher struggles against the webbing trying to get free so she can help the others but the stuff is tough and she can't break free. Vel looses two arrows. Even with her lucky blessing she misses with the first, but hits with the second. Mok steps to the side to get out of his currently flanked position and then does his best to defend himself against the creatures.
Es tries to dodge and duck past the two spiders but with the tight quarters she can't get through without opening herself up to an attack from each of them.
While the first one misses the one she is trying to get behind gets a solid bite in on her, injecting her with venom.
Luckily she still lands a blow on the creature for a little damage. Caroliss moves back a bit and grants Mok a blessing as she creates a duplicate of him to hopefully help keep him safe. Drask unleashes a flurry of blows, yet only one of them connects with the quick spider creatures doing significantly more damage than anyone else thus far.
The spiders, intent on getting rid of the 'creator of fire' unleash their full might on Mokashi.
The more injured spider has a hard time hitting Mokashi, but manages to land one blow, only to find it hits the image of Mokashi and not the man himself. The less injured one though bits him and lands a couple blows with its claws one nearly knocking Mokashi to the ground. Its clear the elf won't survive another flurry of attacks like that.
Seeing Mokhasi in such dire straits sends Veltariel into a rage. She draws two more arrows and launches them at the spider near her!
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Esrisi shrugs off the spiders venom and better positions herself to help protect Mokhasi's rear. She turns and roundhouses the spider to his east with her boot, landing a solid blow right in its head that she hopes will stun it for a time. She follows it up with a right hook, trying to put this thing down as quick as possible.
Drask looks almost offended that this little spider is dodging his blows so easily. His face splits with anger and he roars, swinging again!
Sapher grabs the spear at her feet, pronounces a quick judgement and tries to kill the nearest spider.
Between Vel, Mok and Drask, they put an end to the already injured creature. Sapher and Es lay into the other one doing some solid damage. Caroliss casts a healing spell then steps up touching Mok to heal him.
The remaining spider undeterred by the damage from the others goes after the one who holds fire and just helped to kill his companion.
With Mok no longer focusing on his defense the spider creature tears into him dropping him to the ground after all the brutal blows.
Drask rips his axe away from the corpse of the surprisingly sturdy spider creature. But he is not done, for there is one more. He continues forward, his onslaught undeterred.