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Xun looks with his haunted eyes at the fighting ground. From time to time he hits the drum with his hands reinforcing the music constantly sounding in the chamber.
He reaches to his belt pouch and throws in the air some dust-like substance around him. You can notice the air around Xun darkens and fills with more semi-translucent animal spirits. Some of them show up only for a moment disappearing in a magical mist, while some of them stay for a bit longer.
Half-orc speaks quietly in a foreign language and his eyes begin to glow with yellow light as the mist surrounds him. At the same time, two snakes begin to move towards fighting creatures. When they reach Linna one of them turns and speeds up towards Milosh. Then the snake climbs onto his leg and position itself onto Milosh arm.
It does not weight anything but it feels cold and creepy in many ways.
The other snake moves below the statue and quickly jumps forward flying next to its leg and bitting into Nurten ankle.
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Linna, assessing her options quickly, hops up and takes a swipe with her dagger, hoping to hit the statue, on her way down, she jabs with both weapons, and upon landing, switches her stance to put the dagger out front!
But only her first hit touches the statue, but the blow is not powerful enough to pass the hard stone!
The statue remains unscathed.
Nurten manages to wriggle free of the mummy's grip, and swings his greatpick, bashing Red to bits, and Nurten also sees that the positive energy explodes, dealing even more damage!
He then moves around to flank the statue...
Xun makes spirits dance, and soothes Nurten's wounds, while guiding Milosh!
Vargir moves up, also going into a furious rage, and designating the statue as an enemy.
The statue takes aim at Linna, and swings the fist holding the sceptre at her, hard-- but she manages to block it a little, and make it a glancing blow, avoiding a critical blow.
The statue however grabs Linna's fork-hand, blocking that arm and weapon!
The statue then tries to slap Nurten-- but misses.
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Milosh feels his blood cooling as the snake crawls into his arm. The world arround him seems to move slower, he can hear unrecognizable whispers coming from the snake. He doesn't fears, it's like if now he had more time to think and act accordingly, it's strangely soothing.
Still, the idea of having a reptile on his arm like that isn't exactly pleasing.
Use butterflies next time Xun!
Before striking the cursed undead, Milosh decides to use his given moment of magical guidance to recall knowledge about it.
Milosh has no idea of what this statue is... he does not know it is not religious, other than the fact it might represent some God.
The arrow from MJ's bow dings against the statue's stone... being, harmlessly.
Nurten bashes away, and lands his fist hit, the pick chipping part of the statue away! Even if the stone is hard
"First blood"!
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Focusing in on the statue, Vargir feels their rage flow through their muscles heightening their adrenaline spike as they duck and weave around the statues limbering blows. With a roar they strike out with their bastard Sword at the statue’s knee before stabbing in with their Main Gauche into the joint hoping to find some weakness.
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Caught up in his rage, the Ulfen warrior then spins on their heel and strikes out a third time with their bastard Sword aiming for the same spot in order to take the creature down.
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Finishing their spin they keep their main Gauche raised in order to attempt to divert the statue’s blows away from their body.
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Xun looks at the statue trying to assess the best course of action. After making his mind he comes back to playing on the drum. He sing a single note keeping the voice steady for couple of seconds.
Then he breathes in some of the magical mist surrounding him. Xun immediately starts to shiver in pain but he knows well that negotiating with Loas is frequently painful. Soon he opens his mouth releasing tens of butterflies that began to fill in space over their heads. When looking at the insects one can see glimpses of ghosts flying next to those animals.
Xun begins to chant and form with his hands a small figure that resembles the statue that they fight with. After he is done the harmless and peaceful butterflies morph into bats and charge into the copy of the statue.
From behind Xun a monkey runs towards the Linna and hides begins her legs
The furious Vargir tries to slam into the statue's knee with a blow from both weapons.
The bastard sword bounces off the hard stone of the knee--
--but the main gauche digs right into a slight crack on the inside of the knee and opens that crack wide!
The end of the spin does not hit but he does raise his weapon defensively.
Xun invokes more spirits. The monkey will help Linna--
--but the bats moving on the statue may look nice, but not to the statue.
It does not need any will to resist thing... since it seems to have no brain nor mind, and looks as though it is totally unaffected by this.
The spell sputters, uselessly...
Linna is unable to escape the statue's grasp... however she tries.
Lashing out with her knife, thanks to Nurten harassing the statue on the other side, Linna manages to hit! And, thanks to the last notes of the song and the drums... does some damage.
Actually, this little nick of the knife hits the crack running up from the knee, and you see the stone become brittle!
The statue is somewhat broken.
The statue first lashes out at Nurten, but misses...
Then it tries to bash Linna, and hits.
Linna's ribcage cracks and she goes limp, her eyes losing their spark.
The statue lets her go loose, and she drops to the ground.
Then it lashes again against Nurten, but misses...
Milosh and MJ--
moving if needed to be able to attack the statue
Milosh's bomb hits the statue, but the acid is not strong enough to eat in to its stone, thankfully, the crack in the knee has been opened, and acid seeps into there, and starts bubbling away, destroying part of the statue...
MJ does not know what to do--
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The music begins to fade so is the thick mist surrounding Xun. He comes back to playing the rhythm to inspire his allies for this last push to destroy the statue. His greenish hands hit the drum with energy as he watches Nurten running around the enemy thinking to himself
"That one is insane!"
He murmurs and begins singing of faraway lands and heroes unforgotten. The music once again inspire the adventures and gives them additional strength.
As the Bard sings the poem, he leaves his drum and reaches out for the bow and arrow.
He pulls the bowstring to his cheek waiting for a second to find a week spot of the enemy. After a moment he lets go the arrow which flies with great speed...
Nurten charges in, nearly dropping his pick, but managing to catch at the very last moment, before swinging and hitting and taking a big chip out of the statue!
Thanks to the statue being partially broken, Xun's arrow hits, and even does a slight prick of damage...
Xun's drums keep on bolstering you.
His drum rolls are good, but not great enough to last even longer--
--but, still, once again, they keep on reverberating.
Lucky is bleeding away...
As MJ and Vargir hesitate--
--the now broken statue seizes the opportunity to swing at Vargir--
--hitting him with a strong blow, and grabbing the ranger with its right arm.
The statue then tries to backhand Nurten with its other arm, but misses.
The statue is holding Vargir tight--
--by one hand, that the statue cannot use for anything else for now.
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Even in his addled state, Nurten realizes this is the time for decisive action. He launches into his goblin song! He plans on changing it and some of the rhythm is cribbed from another's piece. But he sings with heart in his altered voice, emphasizing each verse with a swing of the pick.
"Nurten's taking goblin quiz,
Show 'em he's the best there is!
Chop 'em up and make skin fizz,
Until they croak - that's just the biz!"
Nurten's first swing nearly hits the crack in the knee, but the statue moves a bit, and the Goblin misses, but his second swing does just hit the crack!
The third swing does not come close.
Nurten took the statue's leg off, and the leg clatters to the ground, leaving the statue teetering on one leg, ready to collapse!
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The Half-orc was glad to see that his arrow found its mark, yet seeing how little damage it did Xun decides to leave his short bow for other occasions. He drops it to the ground and begins incantation.
He pulls out one of the throwing darts and constantly singing puts it between his two palms. After a couple of seconds, he brings his hands close to his face and gently blows the air out. The dart flies with great speed towards the statue...
Xuns smiles seeing his dart hitting the enemy. Yet it is not time for celebration just yet. He again breathes in the mist chanting and gesticulating with his palms. Some of the mist thickens and flows towards Nurten surrounding him.
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As Xun's dart flies towards the statue, his drum beats seem to disappear, and nearly fade away, not being heard anymore...
A moment of silence as the dart hits the statue.
Then, the drums EXPLODE INTO A FRENETIC RHYTHM as the statues shatters, and collapses to the ground.
A small rat-sized creature comes from the mist quickly runs towards Linna sniffs her wounds then turns towards Milosh later MJ and then stops its glare at Vargir and smiles broadly. Its pointy teeth shine in the darkness as the mist surrounds it. Before anyone can respond the small being jumps towards Vargir and disappears inside his leg.
Vargir eyes turn black as he drops his sword, kneels next to Linna and quickly begins to administer help
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After that Vargirs eyes come back to the norm and the creature retreats and disappear into the mist.
Linna's eyes pop open thanks to Vargir's rat-induced healing.
All seems calm and quiet now.
The last sound of drums fading away as the dust settles...
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There's a groan as Vargir works, and another as Linna opens her eyes. "My ribs felt wet," she mumbles, rubbing at her face. She takes a moment to pull a potion from her belt and quaff it.
She pushes herself to her feet and stretches, wincing as she hits a certain point. "All right, keep it tight," she says, touching a spot on her chest. "That's going to need some bed rest later."
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Milosh gets close to Linna and hastily checks her, poking her and raising her arms. He spent some years studying to become a doctor before he decided to settle as a Pathfinder. The way he checks her is rather rude and intrusive though.
I'm impressed you're alive, you're one lucky Halfling... But then again all of you are.
He slightly raises his voice.
Is everyone else allright?
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As Milosh prods her, Linna growls. "Usually I charge three shiny gold pieces for that, 'Doc.'"
Xun burst in laughter on that comment, he walks between the rubble to collect his throwing darts and to check if his arrows are in good shape.
"Let's rest a moment and continue the discovery. I hope that was the last monstrosity that was here."
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Vargir gets up from his knees and places his tools away before reclaiming his dropped weapons. Rolling his shoulder the Ulfen warrior winces at the wounds caused by the golem like creature.
"Curse of the Linnorms, that thing hit hard." he mumbles as he fishes through his pocket and takes out a potion vial with cherry red liquid. "My thanks to the society for giving me this." Knocking back the liquid he sighs as the wounds start to close slightly.
Sheathing his parrying blade the Ulfen takes a swig from a lukewarm canteen, grimacing at the taste of stale water. "I do not rate desert living at all my friends - give me fresh snow any day, at least the water stays fresh."
You heal up a bit.
So, now that the statue has crashed to the floor, and you are all patched up...