Futin creates a link between himself and Alak, helping to heal some of the knight's wounds, while taking that pain on himself.
Talina tries to provide an advantage against her opponent, first by attempting to disarm the boggard, which is nearly successful, but only manages to weaken it's grip. Then takes a swing at it before attempting to kick the creature away, with no results.
Cicero hurls another magically-propelled projectile at the Boggard, but has a near miss. He follows this up with a hex of pain.
Just as the spots in his eyes are starting to fade, Villar manages to get in a solid hit on the boggard.
One last creature, previously hiding in the shadows of the room, comes up behind Alak's current foe, croaks something unintelligible and ominous, and tosses a javelin at the knight.
◆ Stride
◆ Terrifying Croak
Futin notices the effects that the sound seems to have had on the knight, as he starts to visibly shake, just before the javelin pierces his shoulder, drawing a cry from his mouth.
The boggard swings his club at Talina, sneaking in a back-handed attack at Villar, as well.
Both take a hit from the strong warrior.
The monkey-man makes his own attempt to fell the knight.
Again, he manages to pull Alak off his feet.
But can not land a hit on the battle-hardened Hellknight.
Getting back to his feet, Alak makes a powerful slash at his target
◆ Stand
Again, just cutting right through his target, ending the threat.
Initiative:
Red
Green
Alak; -18 HP
Talina; -22 HP
Villar; -11 HP
Futin
Cicero
Purple
Blue
Brown; -12 HP
Pink
Yellow
With the blood running down the side of her head from the devastating thwack, Talina grit her teeth together and swung her sword at full abandon.
The target is flat-footed until the end of its next turn.
Her initial attack leaving the frogman on its heels, Talina pushed the offensive.
Futin's eyes widen at Talina's brutal strike, then he once again lets the power surge through him to heal her wounds.
He then moves to keep Alak in sight.
◆◆Heal
◆Move
Villar grunted when the boggrat backhanded him. The blow was rough but he didn't let it stop him. He watched through the sparkles for another opening before lashing out twice in quick succession.
◆ devise strat
◆ strat strike
◆ strike
Talina hits the boggard so hard that it almost literally rings his bell.
Futin continues doing work by keeping his allies on their feet.
Villar takes advantage of the boggard's disoriented status stabbing it in right in the kidney.
Cicero sends another projectile at the boggard, hoping to end it quickly.
◆ Stride
The rock flies to it's target with such force, that it leaves a hole in the creatures skull, through and through. Cicero moves over for a better view of the fight going on down the hall.
The remaining boggard steps out of the shadows and attacks Alak.
◆ Step
One of the blows connects, right on the side of the temple.
Alak strikes back, trying to end this fight.
Initiative:
Red
Green
Alak; -27 HP
Talina; -12 HP
Villar; -11 HP
Futin; -4 HP
Cicero
Purple; -12 HP
Blue
Brown
Pink
Yellow
Realizing that she had nothing to work with at range, Talina sheathed her blade as she moved forward to grab some rocks from the nearby rubble pile.
Seeing Alak bravely fighting on, Futin gulps, then heads in. He gets behind the big fellow, and tries desperately to patch the large wound on his shoulder. He then calls up a shield in front of him, cautious of his placement
◆Stride
◆Battle Medicine
◆Shield spell
Cicero moves up after realizing that no one else would be able to strike the creature from range. he then hurls a projectile at it.
◆ Stride
◆◆ Telekenetic Projectile
Villar moved up to try and help take the last enemy down but ultimately found he simply couldn't get to him. Instead he stayed in the hallway in case something else attacked them.
Talina spends a few moments to gather ammunition.
Futin helps Alak with his solo fight by keeping the knight on his feet.
Cicero fires another projectile, but the narrow confines of the hallway make it difficult.
Villar moves into a place where he can be on standby to help Alak when an opportunity presents itself.
The remaining boggard swings wildly at Alak, trying to connect a solid hit.
Alak willingly returns the favor.
The two warriors trade blows, but Alak comes out the victor!
Wiping the blood from his blade and the sweat from his brow, Alak turns back to Futin. "Thank you friend. If not for your skills in healing, I would have fallen long past." As it is, he looks as if he is about to fall over at any moment.
Futin breathes a heavy sigh, then winces as his spiritual link takes its toll on me again.
No worries, buddy, you did great! If not for that sword of yours, we'd not be long for this world either! I think we may need to take a rest before moving on.
He looks around the area, then pings for magical auras. I wonder what brought this ambush down upon us...
Despite the fight being over, Talina picked up a few bullet sized stones and placed them in one of her pouches. I'll have to get something in town when this is all over. She thought to herself.
Moving back to the stairs, and picking up the broken wooden shield as she did, the warrioress pulled out a small kit and began mending the the shield as best she could.
Futin extends his senses out for anything magical, but comes up dry.
Talina takes some time to work on repairing her shield, making some success
"It seems to track that they could have heard us up above and been ready. after all, they had 3 days to prepare." Cicero will say to Futin as he returns to the hallway
"Where to next, further down the hall or into the alcoves first?"
Villar's sight finally became clear again right after the fight was over and he groaned slightly from his injuries. Still, he was in good enough shape to press on if they were cautious. "I think these passages to the sides first. I don't want anything ambushing us from them this time."
Finishing re-strapping shield and patching up some of the dings, Talina stood and said, "I agree with Villar, let's make sure there's nothing ready to come up from behind us."
as the group is moving towards the door Cicero realizes the sorry state of both Talina and Villar, he looks over at Futin
and then calls upon his patron once more to heal them
Futin lays his hands on Villar after Talina does her work on the shield, and the power of his celestial patron channels through his hands.
Futin takes some time to patch up the team before they head into the first of the branching hallways.
While Futin goes about his work, Cicero takes note of some kind of insignia emblazoned on the armors of all the bodies nearby; the symbol of a smoking dragon's claw . He recalls that this symbol is a rarely used one that is sometimes associated with the cult of Dahak, the god of evil dragons. His more well-known symbol is that of a falling burning scale, but this symbol is one used by those of his worshipers who focus more his aspect as a god of destruction than of evil dragons or greed.
Checking the first hallway, Villar immediately notices that the door was left open by cultists in a hurry to enter combat.
In the room, a broken bed frame, splintered drawers, and a smashed desk mark this chamber as a long-abandoned bedroom. Greasy tents and moldy piles of cloth reveal that someone has recently been squatting here.
Cicero will say "It seems the cultists down here follow Dahak, he's the god of Evil dragons but from the symbol they use it seems likely that they revere him more as a god of destruction" he then ventures towards the desk to see if there are any paper scraps that made it out of the destruction in serviceable enough shape to read.
Futin moves up to Villar's location and searches for any magical auras within the room.
Nothing of a magical nature can be detected in the room.
Villar nodded his thanks to Futin for the assistance and then moved into the room ahead cautiously. He began to look around for anything of interest before examining the door to the east for traps and to see if it was locked.
Futin nods back, taking the visual cues of the more heroic types of the group to try and look like a professional. He follows Villar in and begins looking around the room as well.
Talina looks around for a serviceable metal shield. The wooden one was good in a pinch, but one more hit like the last one could completely destroy it.
The room is fairly bare. Any of the old furniture is all but completely destroyed. The group can't seem to find anything noteworthy in here. Unfortunately for Talina, none of these cultists seemed to have any shields.
Villar nodded his thanks to Futin for the assistance and then moved into the room ahead cautiously. He began to look around for anything of interest before examining the door to the east for traps and to see if it was locked.
After verifying that the room is fairly unremarkable, Villar checks the eastern door, finding no traps.
As Villar checked the door, Talina moved to one side of it, ready to move into the next room if needed.
Cicero followed closely behind Talina daggers drawn
Futin follows along, dutifully ready to fix up anyone that needs patching
Villar notes that the door is not locked, and there doesn't seem to be any built-in locking mechanism available.
Opening it up, reveals a small hallway or alcove, with another door directly across.
Taking the same precautions and finding no lock or trap, he opens up the next door onto what looks like the remains of an antechamber. Once-fine seating made from mahogany and velvet has been broken to pieces and used to fashion crude shelters. To the north, a door is heavily barricaded with debris.
Hearing that there are shelters up ahead, Futin looks at Alak and silently cautions him, then goes through the hand motions from the bugbear fight. The guys was like...hah! He swings. Then Talina was like, No you don't! He mimes blocking with a shield.
Villar looked back at the others and said, "We have a hallway to the left and right and a door straight across. Do we go back tot eh southeast or clear this section first. We can't leave a completely clear area behind us."
Talina looked at the barricade, "What were they trying to keep out?"
Well, I'm pretty sure we don't wanna' go through that door. Futin looks at the northern door with the barricade. How about we cut across to that other door?
Moving off to one side of the other door, Talina made a head gesture to have a look at the door.
The group decides to continue on through the room to the opposite door. After a brief inspection, Villar finds no traps, and the door is unlocked. Opening the door reveals another door. Villar goes through the same procedure again, opening the door into some kind of lounge.
Pieces of furniture are still intact here, although hanging from the ceiling's rafters in the center of the room is a strange structure made from ripped and knotted curtains.
Meanwhile, Alak curiously moves towards the door to the north, looking at it thoughtfully before placing his ear against it. After a few moments, he pulls away and walks back to the others. "Whatever is on the other side of that door, it doesn't sound very happy," he mentions casually.