Marilis rushes to back Gruhx up and attacks the ogrekin.
She grumbles at her poor attack, but keeps her guard up.
Oren and Marilis rush in to attack the humanoids - who would be fairly big, were you not used to traveling with Gruhx. However, both attacks miss their targets, sliding off the creatures' tough hides.
Arren approaches the creature to Gruhx's right while muttering something under his breath, and drawing his sword.
Gruhx roars in anger, seeming to lose himself in his fury. He turns to the creature to his northeast and slashes twice!
He hits, but the creature doesn't go down!
The creature Gruhx just hits responds with a jab of its shortspear and then a lurching bite!
Both attacks miss! His ally, seeing the massive Trox still standing, discounts Marilis and attacks!
Pip moves up and taps the angry Gruhx on the ankle, "Easy there bud, we gotcha. Just keep hitting the bad guys."
Marilis smirks, noting she doesn't have the beast's attention, and swiftly steps around to his flank, her guard still up.
She then attacks!
Arren sends a chill through his hand and closes in on his target, slashing at its upper body.
Oren continues to blast the creatures from his safe perch.
Move Action: Gather Power (1 burn).
Standard Action: Sand Blast
Oren looses a blast, but it misses! Marilis moves into position and strikes, stabbing through the armor of the creature and digging deep in its hide. It yowls in pain and turns its attention to her.
Arren moves in to the south of the eastern Ogrekin and lashes out with stored arcane energy. The strike hits the big humanoid center mass, and a radius of crackling cold bursts out, seeming to stop its hard. It falls to the ground, dead.
Gruhx, seeing one remaining enemy, turns his focus on him and roars! He lashes out again with both claws, trying to rend his foe in two. It dies in an un-describable shower of tissue and gore.
Pip looks at the carnage, "Dang big man, you blew him up like a fireball against a squirrel. There are just pieces scattered all over."
He tosses a stabilize at all three bodies, or at least the pieces he can see.
The halfling then heals Gruhx again twice and then looks around, "Where too next? Where those things came from or somewhere else?"
Arren places his sword back on his hip, and gestures toward the largest remaining piece of the ogrekin as Pip stabilizes it. "Will you be stitching this one back together or will he have to make do as a bicep from now on?"
He then looks around the courtyard, weighing their options.
Satisfied that the fighting is over, Oren climbs down from the wall and joins the others. "We need to get inside before others come looking."
He points towards the door at the north end of the courtyard, specifically at the birdman slumped against it, "That one may have been going for backup, so perhaps we should avoid that door, for now."
Marilis nods in agreement. "Good call." She then moves upward, sword still in hand. "There's three doors over here, wanna pick one of those?"
Pip points to the one to the southwest, "Let's just take the one there. It's far from the door we are avoiding."
Gruhx grins wildly, blood and gore dripping from his claws. Yous good and the tingly magics...like Koya. Gruhx come wit you. He then stomps over to near Pip, and looks back at the others. Without a care for stealth, he yells across the courtyard. Yous guys comin?
Marilis shrugs. "Fair enough, let's move then." She heads to the door and opens it up.
Arren heads over to the others and places a careful hand on Gruhx's arm. "Probably best we don't shout like that out here, my friend. We don't want to draw too much attention to ourselves."
"Well, we already crashed through the door and fought a bunch of guys, I'm guessing they'll be on guard either way."
Gruhx grins. Okey dokey. He then turns towards the door, watching Marilis open it. The walls of what appear to be a wooden stable are gray with age and sag ominously, yet the building seems relatively sound. An old forge sits to the south, while five empty horse stalls stand to the north.
Before you can get far into the room, you hear a scuttling sound, and a spider the size of a large dog comes out of the darkness inside! Behind it staggers out a humanoid version with purple skin and scythe-like claws for arms...with the face of a spider!
"Some real charmers in here, huh?"
Marilis wastes no time and moves in to attack the spider. "It's a bit cramped in here, though..."
Arren follows right behind Marilis and imbues his blade with energy once more, before striking at the spider's legs.
"Perhaps we'd be better off drawing these guys out?"
Marilis and Arren slip inside quickly slashing at the spider. Both of them hit, slicing off legs and cutting deep gashes along the huge arachnid body.
The humanoid creature, seeing its pet being destroyed, lets out an odd squeal and moves in to attack Marilis with fangs and claws.
Marilis begins to feel a bit woozy!
Pip steps back and blesses his allies. The dank spidery scent is washed away with the fresh smell of trimmed foliage (aka cut grass).
The spider, nearly dead, bites out at Arren before skittering back a step and hunkering down low, seemingly trying to hide its huge form...unsuccessfully.
It misses, no doubt struck with its fear of its own imminent death.
Arren keeps the spider within his reach as it moves away, and takes a wide, poorly aimed swing at it.
Oren gathers in a modicum of extra energy from the wind and stone around him before blasting at the Ettercap from behind his friends.
Move Action: Gather Power - 1 burn
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Instead, he winds up sand-blasting the door frame, stripping a layer or two from the wood.
While the poison courses through her, causing her to lose a bit of control of her muscles, she nonetheless tries to strike back!
Marilis slams her blade home in the ettercap, bringing out a hiss of pain and anger. As the creature moves to respond, Gruhx draws out his massive sling and loads it.
The spider creature lashes out at Marilis with fangs and scythe-like arms.
It then takes a step back.
Pip rushes into the room as it seems Gruhx is trying ranged attacks out. He nods at Marilis, "I can help with that. Let me wash the wound out first."
The spider bites at Arren, then skitters away.
Once more, Oren gathers more energy, trying to get in a shot at the venomous creature.
5-Foot Move
Move Action: Gather Power - 1 burn
Standard Action:
"Thanks, Pip, I owe you one." Marilis mutters. She tries to swipe again, though the poison and her heavy wounds are definitely still making her moves sluggish.
She then takes a few steps back, hoping to build some distance between her and the ettercap, but her back is against the wall.
Oren's blast fires out through the doorway and slams into the hideous man-spider, scouring strange knobs of flesh from its appendages. Its mandibles click as it emits a terrible screech!
Marilis is still a bit shaken from the poison, and her blade misses its mark. She shakes her head at the poison.
Gruhx hurls his stone.
Arren charges at the spider once again, and imbues his blade with energy before slashing at the spider before him.
Arren moves forward and slashes at the spider. His blade only cuts a superficial wound, but the ensuing blast of cold freezes the arachnid from the inside! It falls, quite dead.
The humanoid spider creature straps towards Marilis, biting and clawing with rage and hunger.
The halfling keeps diligently working on the poison.
With the humanoid spider's latest attack, Marilis falls to the ground.
Pip quickly moves into flanking with his remaining ally in the room and raises his holy symbol high, "Bless us with healing and strength to show we deserve to survive this fight!"
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The aberration lashes out with its odd claws as Pip walks past!
Arren looks over his shoulder as the spider falls and, shocked and horrified at the current state of Marilis, makes a desperate lunge toward the humanoid.