Val charges round to attack the woman, his sword blade aimed for a deadly strike, but at the last second she manages to twist causing the blow to slide off her armour.
Bwess moves forward, but stumbles and has to right herself.
Elo continues to heal himself, and then redies a bomb and moves forward.
Vilree looks at you with contempt. "It doesn’t matter, you know. I’ve already won. I dispatched my minion to destroy the town just before you arrived here. Everyone in Plaguestone will be dead long before you ever get there!"
Even as she speaks she drops the crossbow, and pulls a dagger, then swipes at Val, and steps back.
Her knife finds a chink in Vals armour and draws a gush of blood.
What?! What did you deploy?
He moves up behind Bwess.
A poison bomb soon flies over her head at Vilree.
"We didn't see your minion," Bwessara says while lightly stepping towards their opponent. She cracks her whips, chanting arcane words to bring forth electricity. The leather lash buzzes and crackles with electricity when Bwessara sends it towards Vilree.
Qrik raises his shield and chucks another ball of fire.
Qrik's flamemisses the Elf as she laughs right at him. At the same time, Val steps up and attempts to strike at the woman. Also missing, he raises his shield.
Bwes has more luck, her spell infused strike hitting the woman accross the face. HWer cheek raises in a bright red welt, and her eye twitches from the after effects of the electricity. At Bwess' words, the woman ghlances up. "You wouldn't. It left while you were taking your time wandering down here. Those Orcs weren't the most intelegent of creatures, but they did well enough to delay you."
Even while Vilree is speaing, Elo's bomb finds it's mark. She shreeks in pain, and it's clear she isn't going to last in this fight much longer.
Backed into a corner, Vilree does all she can think of and stabs out with her dagger. The blow slices into Val, and after all of the hits he's taken today, his eyes open wide for a moment, and he falls to the ground.
She then moves up to Bwes and stabs her too for good measure.
Qrik focuses all of his energy and three magical darts spring out at the woman.
With one last blast of energy. Qrik blasts the woman with magical force. It's more than her frame can take. But with a grin of trumph she falls to the ground, dead.
"Val!" Bwessara calls to the fallen cleric. She kneels at his side. "Elo, we can work together to save him." She loosens the man's armor so they can better treat his wounds. "And that was well done Qrik! I should learn that spell from you."
After Vilree falls, Elo rushes over to Val and kneels down beside him.
Nope, not today.
He begins pull objects out of his pack until he gets to his healer's kit.
Qrik will search the monster and woman while the others work on Val.
Elo quickly moves to val and retrieves his healing kit. The final wound was, fortunetly, not all that bad, so patching him up takes but a moment. He's unconscious, and out of danger.
Qirk looks through the monster's things, of which it has none. It's not even wearing clothes.... Vilree on the other hand has some more interesting things about her.
As well as the fancy crossbow, her belt puch holds a suprising amoutn of cash (2pp, 38gp, 4sp). She has a fancy looking dagger, probably magical, andsome matching bracers along with an assortment of potions you could identify later. She also has a key.
Elo looks, in particular, at her "fancy crossbow."
Is it... he wonders an alchemical crossbow?
Qrik holds up the bracers and says, "These could be good. We should try and figure out what her equipment does soon."
What do you do next? If she is to be believed, despite her death the twon is still in danger...
"Should we finish trying to search this place or just head back to town now?" Qrik asks.
Elo holds up the alchemical crossbow. I think I might have some uses for this...
"Should we finish trying to search this place or just head back to town now?" Qrik asks.
Elo frowns, looking a little defeated.
I believed her. I think time is of the essence and there maybe be damage done back in town already. We should skedaddle.
Bwessara shifts her legs and sits beside Val and watches Qrik examine their opponent's possessions. "Maybe getting us to leave quickly serves some purpose for her." She thinks quietly for a moment then stands up and adjusts her shield. "But you're right Elo, we should depart now. If we need to come back in the future, we can."
"I need to catch my breath too," Bwessara says to Valericus. "Maybe along the way back to town we'll find the trail of the person, but I don't think we should spend much time looking for tracks. What do you think?"
After a breif rest to recver yourselves, you make your way back up through the complex to ground level.
As you reach the foyer area you have a choice, exit through the large main doors, or continue up and through the small tower to exit the way you came in.
Once outside its easy to find the road back to town and head out that way.
While they leave the hidden fortress, Bwessara says to her companions, "I'll scout ahead looking for any signs of trouble." She quickens her pace and disappears into the trees.
We'll follow behind quietly...
Elo's signature cigar returns to his mouth, but he does not light it.
Qrik moves his little legs as fast as he can to keep up and mutters about how kobolds are better at short sprints rather then long distance runs.
There is still a grim possibility that the town of Etran’s Folly is now a town filled with the dead and dying. Miles pass, minutes turn to hours, and finally the unsuspecting village grows ever closer. There is no sign of Vilree’s minion, but that only adds to a growing sense of dread.
Etran’s Folly comes into view at the crest of a hill. An alchemical drudge is now approaching its final destination—the plaguestone—where it will carry out its final gruesome command from Vilree!
Elo points ahead and calls out There it is! There may still be time to stop it!
Bwessara shouts "You!" hoping it will make their target slow for a step or two. She covers the distance between them with a burst of speed and draws her whip with a crack. She flicks the tip towards the alchemical drudge's feet in an attempt to trip it.
Round 1
Init 25
HP 34/34
Hero Points 2/3
Effects Mage Armor
Elo steps just forward enough to get in range of the creature, mentally launching a stone at it.
Elo scurries forward and launches a stone at the drudges back. It hits dead center, knocking a bit of metal loose.
Bwes runs forward, pulling her whip and manages to trip the creature. It lands face first on the floor.
Val moves forward to strike at the creature, and thanks to it being flat on the ground, succeeds!
The first ray burns into the creature, and though the other two rays go wide, once the steam and hiss of metal from the spell subsides you can see that the thing is no longer moving...
Bwessara coils her whip and hangs it on her hip. Looking at the burned corpse, she says, "That was good teamwork. I wonder what his plan was exactly. Do you think he has a vial of poison?"