Sitril does not manage to hurt Vilree-- who remains ready to keep on fighting.
Giggett hesitates:
"Do I try to stabilize Tam' or do I focus on Vilree?"
"Stabilize me, little one!", says Vilree.
”I feel that might require therapy, which our group is woefully unprepared to administer!”
"Surrender if you look for mercy, Vilree."
"No mercy from me!"
"Then you'll get none from us, either," says Natsume, whipping her flail around Vilree's ankle and yanking.
The spiked bottom lip of her shield comes down next:
And then her flail again!
She probably doesn't hit either time, despite Vilree probably being on her back.
Vilree skips away and up, avoiding the flail catching her ankle--
--and then Natsume is caught a bit unawares, and misses with her attacks.
Giggett thinks for a second, then considers that Tamerius chose for her.
She calls for the power of her blood to summon lightnings on Vilree.
lightning damage, basic Reflex DC 19.
She then moves to the potion Sitril dropped .
Vilree is--
--unable to avoid the lightning.
Vilree reloads her crossbow and shoots a fiery bolt at Sitril--
--and hits Sitril in his wounded nose!
Natsume reacts and maybe saves Sitril's life by pouring guilt over Vilree!
The Dwarf thus remains standing.
Vilree rips out a flask and tosses it at him--
--and the Dwarf has acid blast over him, burning him a little but digging deep into his skin.
Acid splashes over Vilree and Sitril.
There you stand, locked in battle.
At least Sitril still stands, feeling lucky to not be passed out cold on the wet cave-floor, beside Tamerius, who-- is either at death's gate, or has moved off into the Boneyard.
And acid burns away at the Dwarf.
Will he try to not pass out from the pain?
Or will he try and take Vilree out?
Vilree who even damages herself yet remains standing.
And what will Giggett do?
Recover the potion to maybe save Tamerius?
Or Sitril?
Or all-out attack Vilree?
As for Natsume-- will Daikitsu help her flail hit the Evil Alchemist hard? And end this battle...
Sitril swings his hammer 3 times
And falls down to the ground, fallen in battle
Sitril's hammer cracks Vilree on the skull--
--and the half-elven alchemist topples to the ground, her eyes closing.
The Dwarf, his nose smashed, acid that he feels burning into his skin--
Seeing that Vilree's finaly down, Giggett calls Sitril:
"Come to me, I have your potion!"
Sitril looks around for something to wash off or remove the acid. Natsume tail? Nah. Maybe Vilrees blood? Does it spills all around? Is there another water source in this room besides river?
Sitril sees a bubbling cauldron?
But what acid that might wash off, it would add other things to the mix that do not seem too fun.
The only water is the river, and with the current, and nice cold underwater ice-floe, it would wash the acid right off!
But maybe wash Sitril away too.
Sitril looks at the fallen body of Vilree... Shouldn't he be happy? He avenged Bort, he tied all loose ends, not one monster, alchemist survived this slaughter...
Sitril looks at his hands, covered in blood. Wondering who the real monster is here? But no his cause was just! His kin was slaughtered!
And again he looks at the twisted body of Vilree, thinking about her mom, and her end.
He does not feel happy of what they did, it does not even feel right.
He feels the acid burning on his body which snaps him back to reality. He looks around the room and sees Giggett holding his potion of healing.
He takes a step towards her, then another, and another...
Sitril falls just in front of Giggett... She prays he's not already dead to the acid while grabing the potion at her feet. But the dwarf's tough and he quickly regains counciousness when the liquid goes down his throat.
Seeing that the dward should see another round, she moves toward Tamerius.
As Sitril takes a step towards Giggett, the acid burns deep enough to hurt some inner organs--
--and Sitril goes down--
--but Giggett, who now feels tall as she looms high over prone Dwarf and Man, grabs the potion and feeds it to Sitril.
Sitril's eyes open, as he lays on the floor, empty handed once again, hammer and axe lying close.
He sees Giggett looking down at him-- and then she is gone, nothing but the rocky ceiling up high.
Giggett moves over to Tamerius.
Sitril feels the acid still eating away at him.
Tamerius - @0 hp ; Prone
Natsume hustles over to the fallen priest's side, crouching down and dropping her flail beside her feet.
"What have we got for him?" she asks.
"If you can grab me his healing kit, it may help me"
Natsume does that, then!
Natsume moves up to Tamerius, drops her flail and pulls out the Cleric's healing kit, holding it up for Giggett.
Tamerius does not move, out cold.
Giggett grabs the healing kit to help Tamerius out--
--but the Priest has left his body behind to go join the right side of Asmodeus in the fiery halls of Hell.
Natsume recovers her flail.
The acid burns away at Sitril, and does not stop until a few seconds later, once the Dwarf has gotten back to his feet and retrieved his weapons.
After a minute trying to get Tamerius' heart back on track, Giggett sighs, a tear rolling on her cheek.
"So, that's it? Everything's over?"
She looks around, trying to find anything of interest to get her mind away from the situation.
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Natsume claps a hand on Giggett's shoulder and looks her in the eye.
"Do everything in your power to keep him alive, even the tiniest bit. Pump his chest, force air into him. Ten minutes. Got it?"
She sits on her heels, closing her eyes and clapping her hands together in prayer.
After ten minutes, she uses Lay on Hands on Tamerius... but to no avail.
"Dammit."
She lets herself exhale for what feels like the first time in fifteen minutes.
"I don't think it's over," she says. "Vilree mentioned sending something to the village. ...But we're in rough shape. We need to rest, heal, and run hard if we want to help."
Giggett doesn't understand at all what Natsume is asking her, so she pumps his chest and does some mumbo jumbo so she can deal with the loss in her own way.
"Let's rest a bit, loot this place and move on. If Vilree said right, our way back to Plaguestone may be harder than we thought."
If the others are ok for a bit of rest, Giggett will now wear Tam's bandolier and try to heal the 2 others.
”Sounds good.”
She sits, and begins working out a prayer to Daikitsu.
It’s a more somber one than usual. It was likely no secret that she had conflicting opinions about Tamerius, but without him, she will be relying even more on Daikitsu’s protection.
Once she’s done, assuming everyone else hasn’t already done so, she’ll pick over the area to see what she can find, loot-wise.
"Nat', we need your help for the healing part, especially Sitril."
Giggett "works" on Tamerius, while Natsume prays and--
--fails to bring poor Tamerius back to life.
Yes, his soul has moved off to the Boneyard.
Then Giggett takes over the role of the healer, and gets Natsume healed up.
Then, while Natsume prays some more, Giggett heals Sitril, that Natsume heals also--
--before Giggett turns to healing herself, and Natsume praying yet again, applying her hands to Sitril once more.
Natsume then spends another half an hour, praying to Daikitsu, who answers each time, infusing her hands with power.
Sitril and Giggett are thus healed up to full life, also.
Finally, Natsume does another final prayer, being ready to heal if needed.
During the nearly hour and a half this all takes, you can explore and check out the cavern beyond the bridge.
The homunculus and the behemoth are quite naked and have nothing.
Vilree, who is now quite dead too has on her clothes, with cool leather armor, boots, coat, bracers...
She has a belt pouch, with some 2 pp, 38 gp, 4 sp.
She has three daggers in her belt.
The strange alchemical crossbow, with runes on it.
She has some vials on her person, but you do not know what they might do.
There are only 4 left... she used many!
You count 18 empty vials-- many, indeed.
Around her neck, is a key.
As for the room itself, you see the immense formations of cloudy, green rock.
The large black cauldron is bubbling away.
You see she was making some sort of mushroom soup.
Light filters into this chamber from above through a twisting crevasse in the ceiling.
”Let’s go,” says Natsume, shield slung over her back and flail in its holster.
Where does Natsume "go" to--?
Giggett looks at the key wondering if it could be the one to Vilree's room.
She also casts a Detect Magic spell to see if some of Vilree's stuff is magical.
"Let's move back to our 'camp' and take our stuff. We have to move to Plaguestone quickly."
Sitril looks at the body of Tamerius and is in a dire mood. Another one bites the dust. How many need to die before this is over.
"When you say camp, do you mean that whole in the ground in front of the gate?" asks Sitril
"That's it, I mean our super secret hidden camp."
Giggett looks at the runes:
"For sure she hasn't cursed her crossbow. Nat', can you transfer these runes to Sitril's axe?"
The bracers and the crossbow radiate magic.
The crossbow radiate magic because of her runes or is it also a magical crossbow?
While Natsume heals Sitril, Giggett will take some time identifying the bracers.
The mighty bracers are too powerful for Giggett to identify.
The crossbow has runes making it +1 Striking.
Too powerful to identify but not to wear. Giggett puts the bracers on.
Giggett suddenly feels-- nothing special.
After everyone finished their thing, Giggett's ready to go.
Tamerius lies on the floor, a bloody mess.
Happy to be cared about by his companions.
How easily we are forgotten when death renders us useless...
Go where?
Giggett can hardly help carrying the dead man. She's not exactly the strongest one here.
Go into the hole, to get what we left here . Then to Plaguestone, to see what's left here.
”We will need to come back for him,” says Natsume, looking down at Tamerius. If they are to help the living, the dead will need to wait.
She’ll transfer the time as soon as they get to camp and rest and level up!