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Still shaken, Kamil is not able to fight back the wave of negative energy from the priest.
With horror he sees his comrade falling again under the mighty strike of the skeleton. He could only hope that his comrade and himself will survive this deadly encounter ...
Seeing that the skeleton and the necromancer are the main threat, Kamil step to flank with Devin the skeleton and threaten the necromancer.
He then protect himself again with a shield before attacking the skeleton.
The undead having been felled by Kamil's deadly blade--
--you see Larraman start moving... and be struck by the skeleton, before tossing both his flasks, first the fire, then the acid, at the skeleton.
The first flask does not hit, and the fire splashes over the skeleton, but the fire is not strong enough to eat into the bones.
Kamil is unable to fight back the wave of negative energy.
Thanks to his placement, and making the skeleton flat footed, he manages to hit it, but his blow is not that hard against a thing made of bones with no flesh.
Devin--
Devin is hurt by the negative energy--
--and though he manages to hit the skeleton twice, both piercing blows slip along the bones, and, having no flesh or muscles to pierce, hurt very little.
Larraman misses the necromancer with the flask of acid, but burns the man's hand a little with the splash.
Larraman is holding a healing flask out for Kamil-- but he also glances at Tybalt, who is dying on the ground.
The necromancer steps back, away from Kamil, then points a finger at him, and, chanting and touching his symbol once again, sends a ray out of his finger, that his Kamil.
Kamil feels his strength flowing out of him...
Success: enfeebled 1
Failure: enfeebled 2
Critical Failure: enfeebled 3
Kamil finds some deep resource within him, to totally fight off the spell!
You see the blood stop trickling from Tybalt's wounds.
The skeleton swings once at Kamil--
--and once at Devin--
--before raising its shield to protect itself.
Both blows miss!
Larraz also misses as he sends a bolt of energy at the skeleton.
He drops his staff to the floor, and pulls out his sling.
He yells:
The skeleton somehow believes Kamil was feinting... but then no real attacks come!
Larraman tosses a flask of fire, that just manages to break against the shield in a way in which the flames wash over the skeleton. But the bones do not really burn, and are only vaguely blackened.
Source Core Rulebook pg. 545
Level 1; Price 3 gp
The bomb deals 1d8 fire damage, 1 persistent fire damage, and 1 fire splash damage
Tybalt opens his eyes as he his healed by Larraman.
Devin--
As Larraman tossed the fire at the Necromancer, even with it passing over Kamil who provided lesser cover, and the fact that it was just outside his first range of 20 feet, the alchemist still managed, just, to hit, and so he burnt the man, also splashing fire on his legs, hurting him further... and his scarf started to burn!
Devin knows that his rapier is doing very little damage.
He sees Tybalt's warhammer, that bashed away nicely at the bones.
That would do nicely.
Or some other blunt object...
His first attack manages to pass the shield, and nicks the bones--
--and the last one hits, miraculously! But not hard enough to chip the bones...
The Necromancer raises his arms, and, once again sends out a blast of negative energy.
You see the Skeleton heal up some--
--and you all must
You see that Larraz is too far to be hurt.
But Larraman does not move, and the wave blasts him like crazy--
--and he just drops to the ground!
You notice that the Necromancer's wounds heal ever so slightly!
But he is still burning.
At the same time, you hear something big and heavy rushing towards the back doors, crashing through the garden, snapping twigs and such, as though a mindless beast on a straight track, not thinking to avoid things!
You see that Tybalt, already prone, drops his head, and his eyes go out.
His skin is very pale, and you see that the successive passages from conscious to out of it have been shaking his body hard.
He seems very close to death...
The skeleton faces Devin, and swings his blade, barely managing to hit the half-elf, but barely is still a blow... and a rather strong one.
Devin goes down--
--his rapier slipping from his inert hand.
The skeleton turns to face Kamil, but his second blow, though rather good... misses.
As the skeleton lifts its shield--
--Larraz moves forward, and pulls the last elixir from Larraman's belt, and, kneeling beside Tybalt, he empties it down the dwarf's throat.
He spills a lot around and into the beard, thus it does not help Tybalt much--
--but that is enough for the dwarf to open his eyes once again.
Before Devin went down his last blow hits, miraculously, and being a deadly strike he does manage to snap an arm bone in two!
The noise in the garden is growing closer, it seems as if some large lug - it cannot be one of the behemoths you saw in the distance? Or can it? - is about to break into the room.
Kamil misses the skeleton...
Kamil is upset as he misses an opportunity to put the skeleton down, or at least to hurt it bad--
--besides, just then, you hear a CRASH as something has obviously leaped up from the garden outside, right up and over the railing, and smashed through the door...
As heads spin, you are dismayed to see a dull gray horse like that zombie one you saw in the village square.
Except that Larraz screams: "Desert Wind!"
And the horse turns its head to look at him-- and neighs!
You are relieved to see that the dull gray is just the dust from the wall and the splinters of the broken door: it is the horse you approached near the buildings around the village square.
Desert Wind glances around and... seeing the Necromancer, it snorts and rushes over, its hooves pounding on the floor, reaching the evil cleric in a rush, and--
--rearing slightly, to send a front hoof smashing right in the man's face!
Larraz calls out, his voice full of love and hope: "Desert Wind!"
The horse whinnies in answer.
You see the blood stop trickling out of Larraman's prone and passed out body...
Tybalt, his eyes open, looks around... but knows that he is in a precarious position.
Were he to stand up and fight, this might be his last stand.
He feels weak, and is sure that were he to go under once more, it would be straight to the Boneyard for him, he is at the brink of death.
Tybalt heals up.
The Necromancer rubs his bloody face, and, with his robes still burning--
--spins around and rushes over to the side, shoves the door open, and then disappears through it...
Devin's body twitches as he slips closer to death.
The skeleton turns to Kamil, one of the last standing enemies, and moves in to finish him, slashing once, and hitting Kamil--
The skeleton, seeing that Kamil managed to sacrifice his shield to remain standing--
--attacks twice more to try to drop Kamil, but misses!
Kamil--
Desert Wind steps carefully in to the space up close to the Skeleton-Knight, and lashes out at it with both fore-feet... but misses.
Larraz carefully moves around, avoiding the skeleton's sword, and comes up to Desert Wind.
He opens the saddlebags... and pulls out a pair of vials filled with ruby-red liquid.
Larraman remains prone, out of it, but not dying.
Tybalt--
Tybalt stands--
--and triggers a reaction from the Skeleton Knight, that answers Tybalt's move with an attack of opportunity--
--the Skeleton Knight's longsword slashing across the chest of Tybalt as he rises, and opens a wound.
As more blood gushes from the dwarf's wound, the weakened Tybalt drops to his knees, expiring from the blow and the exhaustion of the previous attacks.
Your companion exhales, one last breath escaping his body as his soul leaves the Material Plane.
Tybalt starts to stand, and then imagines what might happen, and so he decides to play it safe... and waits to see what will happen.
You see nor hear nothing from the Necromancer.
Devin is still bleeding away--
--while the skeleton starts slashing away at Desert Wind, once with the longsword, hitting the horse--
--then again with the longsword, hitting it again--
--before raising its shield.
Desert Wind start beating its hooves against the skeleton and its shield, first the front left hoof... missing.
Then the front right hoof... missing.
And finally a rear hoof even... missing!
Larraz moves back over to where his fallen comrades are, and takes one of the healing potions and feeds it to Devin, who feels better and open his eyes!
Kamil, and Tybalt--
Kamil--
Kamil's bolt passes over the skeleton's head.
Larraman remains lying on the ground.
The Necromancer is nowhere to be seen.
Devin--
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Tybalt is a proud dwarf. He's a member of the Radiant Oath who has trained his whole life to fight the evil and darkness that exists in the world. He last moments will not be spent squirming on the ground hoping that death does not come to him nor will he walk in a world where he lives because he would not stand up and do what was right. What had to be done. From the ground. Tybalt swings his warhammer at the skeleton once, twice, three times. "In Torag's name!"
Tybalt snaps out of his waiting pattern and swing his hammer in Torag's name!
Hitting from the floor is a bit hard, and his aim is not as good as if he were standing.
The skeleton brings his shield down but Tybalt is just able to pass that defence--
--however the Skeleton-Knight blocks Tybalt's blow with his iron shield, greatly reducing the blow, albeit cracking his shield while doing so!
The hammer would have cracked the bones well, and still does some damage.
Still standing, though badly damaged, the skeleton avoids Tybalt's following blows.
And it also sidesteps Devin's attempt to trip it-- and Devin loses his balance, but, already prone, this changes nothing.
Devin tries again--
--but he has never trained to slash out with his whip when lying door, so he is unable to even snap correctly at the enemy.
The skeleton glances at Devin, sees no threat--
--looks at Tybalt, but, knowing that Desert Wind is about to attack him, the skeleton keeps on attacking the horse.
Foregoing his broken shield, he just swings away at the horse.
The first blow is barely cushioned by the barding--
--but the second slash of the Skeleton-Knight's sword hits Desert Wind--
--nearly bring it down to its knees.
But the horse manages to remain standing--
--except that the skeleton plunges its sword straight into the horse's heart, dropping it!
The horse clatters to the ground...
The skeleton raises its sword, and screams a silent scream of triumph!
Abandoned by it master, with the zombies reduced to pulp, he has downed three enemies and a horse, and badly wounded another.
He looks around, ready to keep on moving and finish you off.
Larraz calls out: "Desert Wind, no!"
The druid once again uses words of Primal Magick and touches his holly leaves and mistletoe--
--and Desert Wind's wounds close, while its eyes open again!
The skeleton tries to frown... but cannot, since it has no muscles, or skin.
Larraz pulls out the last of the healing potions.
Kamil--
Larraman remains on the floor, out of it.
The Necromancer seems to have simply fled.
Tybalt and Devin--
Tybalt swings low, aiming for the knee cap, and his hammer, its blunt force not being resisted at all, smashes both knees, actually breaking the legs off!
The bony thighs and torso, come crashing to the ground, and the Skeleton-Knight remains motionless, in pieces, on the floor of the College's Main Hall.
All goes quiet, and you can only hear the panting of all the wounded.
Victory?
Larraz, potion in hand, feeds the healing elixir to Larraman, who opens his eyes.
You all slowly rise to your feet, and look around the battleground.
Yes... victory!
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Kamil doesn't believe his eyes, they are still alive!
Well done Tybalt!
He quickly pust aside his crossbow and takes back his katana before joining the others.
Lets get out of here as quickly as possible! This place is doomed and I don't want to die here.
He moves next to the statue to take care of it and get out of the place
Larraman gets ready to take the statue too: "I only have a couple fire bombs left, nothing to help any other way."
Larraz and Desert Wind rub faces, so happy to see one another again.
Larraz states: "I am out of spells and potions and such, it is already great some of the stock remained in the saddlebags all this time... if I pray a little bit I can heal Desert Wind more, but that can wait."
Then Larraz takes his side of the statue:
"You said you had a cart? Desert Wind can pull it along..."
You are all quite wounded, and probably not up for another fight.
Only Larraz is nearly unscathed, but he only has a sling with two remaining bullets, and wooden staff.
You see that the weapons and armor on the skeleton and the zombies are not old and rusted, but seem new and of good quality. They could be worth taking.
Devin and Tybalt look around, to see what to do-- when you all feel a slight tremor in the ground: something is coming, something VERY big, that makes the ground shake as it walks.
Those behemoths seen approaching, have they now reached the town?