Nualia laughs at the attempts to hit her and her pets and says "You will die!" angrily. They all converge on Brand.
However, Brand's defenses seem to hold yet again. The woman scowls.
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Azadi frowns as the battle continues to go poorly. He quietly curses his shortage of useful spells, mutters a quick prayer under his breath, and tosses a wad of cloud and lightning at the woman.
Elan tries again to hit the woman with his crossbow.
Being a little hurt from the fight, the woman isn't able to escape Brand's hard hitting swing nor Azadi's zap. This must have really hit her hard as she grimaces and starts casting a spell.
She fails to concentrate and tries to flee.
Meanwhile, the dogs continue biting at Brand.
The dwarf's defenses hold once more.
Elan takes aim and fires at the most wounded dog.
Elan's aim is good. His bolt finds the dog's flank, but its hardened skin makes the bolt bounce right off.
As Brand moves away, the dogs try to bit him but they fail to get past his defenses again. The dwarf swings his hammer hard and he can feel it break the woman's ribs. She falls on the ground unconscious.
The dog turn to Elan and Azadi hungrily, seemingly unconcerned that the woman fell.
Azadi takes a deep breath to hold back the fear welling back up inside him as the dogs turn his direction. Then he quietly mutters a prayer and blasts another burst of wind at the creatures.
Azadi sends a breeze towards the dogs. Since Elan is in a privileged defensive position, the dogs fly towards Azadi, biting him.
In their rush, the dogs get in the way of each other, and one of the bites the air. The other, however, manages to take a chunk of Azadi's flesh.
Elan reloads and then casts guidance on Azadi, "May Sarenrae guide your hand."
"To what end?" Azadi asks with clear frustration. Growing increasingly desperate, he contemplates summoning a mist to obscure him from the dogs' sense to see if he can reach Thakus and revive him, but when he remembers that he has exhausted his healing magic he tries once more to drive back the dogs with a blast of wind.
The dogs, tasting blood, continue thrashing at Azadi.
One of the dog bites really hard into him, cracking bone.
Seeing Azadi bit so greiviously Elan heals some of his wounds.
Azadi falls unconscious from the vicious bite and falls to the ground. His eyes flicker open when Elan heals him.
Afraid that the dog-creatures will rip him apart if he tries to stand, Azadi grasps his trident and does his best to use it defensively.
Thakus groans. Barely conscious, he mumbles the words of a healing spell from the floor.
The dogs turn their attention to Brand, definitively the scarier target at the moment.
Once again the dwarf's defenses prove too much for them.
Brand hits the hurt dog, but his swing doesn't go past its skin.
Now that he has a little breathing room, Azadi drags himself to his feet. Out of healing magic, and painfully aware that a single bite is enough to render him unconscious or dead, he thinks for a moment and suggests, "Thakus, if you move over in front of me here--and Brand takes a step to his left--it'll have a hard time pay attention to both of you, and I'll be able to help you hit a little better."
Elan fires at the wounded dog and reloads.
Thakus touches a hand to his holy symbol. Healing energy washes over everyone in the room, including, unfortunately, their enemies.
Thakus fills the room with positive energy. The dogs are confused for a moment, but the regain their focus. However, one goes for their archnemesis, Brand, and the other goes for Thakus.
Brand's attacker hurts its tooth on his shield, but Thakus is an easy target laying on the ground.
Growing desperate, and without any other helpful options, Azadi steps forward and thrusts his trident at the wounded dog.
While Brand manages to draw some blood from the dog, Azadi is sure he hit it straight in the flank. However, it's skin seems very thick.
Thakus pushes himself to his feet. If I’m going to die, let it not be from the ground.
The dog furiously bites at Thakus as he gets up.
Thakus pushes himself to his feet, preparing to lunge at the dog— but in his weakened state, the dog finds an opening, and Thakus’s yell is cut short as the dog tears into his throat. With a curse on his lips, he collapses to the ground and breathes his last.
Elan sees Thakus go do and raises his holy symbol to try and save him. He yells out "We can't damage them enough currently to kill them I think we need to get out and shut them in!"
These dogs will probably eat Thakus if he is left here.
The woman that Brand killed is probably someone the leader in this place.
The dogs turn to Brand to attack.
The dogs miss Brand.
Now fully certain that he has nothing meaningful to contribute to fighting the dogs, Azadi moves over to the woman's corpse and quickly checks it for any sign of a whistle or magical trinket that might allow him to call the creatures off.
Delays to see how things go in the room, worried neither will make it out of there. He is prepared to close the door if the others exit.
Azadi takes a look at the woman's body and notices that, beside the incredible looking breastplate and sword, she has a weird looking medallion.