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Kyra waits impatiently for better positioning and holds her actions....
Kyra shifts into a better position and readies herself for combat. "Giri, once you have thrown your net take two steps backward. Kendra, you should take Crystal's position. Lady Rime' get behind us. That way one one of them can come at us at a time and all over us can attack that one. I go weary of giving the mindless undead advantage over us."
Kyra will join the others in taking a drink and sees about filling her waterskin with the refreshing draught. "I wonder if the enchantment will remain potent if stored within." She muses aloud.
Kyra grips her holy symbol as her eyes flutter open. "Are they gone?" She notices the piles of ash and sighs in relief before spending a moment to heal up her remaining wounds. "It is not surprise there were no survivors to return from this place. The undead filth have overrun it." "Yes, let us go south for now. Perhaps we will find somewhere safe to rest up a moment, but my injuries have been healed. I'm prepared to continue with our mission."
Barely standing and wobbling upon her feet, Kyra sees no other option than to hold up her holy symbol once more and call out to her goddess in desperation. "Sarenrae, save me!" A burst of golden, positive energy blasts out once more into the skeletons. She then immediately collapses to the ground!
Kyra enters the room in a rush to destroy the undead monstrosities. "By the Light I have seen enough of these foes! Dawnflower clear my way past these abominations!"
She looks at the others. "I will go first, I suppose, but I do not believe any of you have a way to heal me should I go down in a hail of arrows."
"An interesting mural, but meaningless at this point. Let us continue to investigate this place. I do not like remaining here any longer than we must." Kyra will move further down the hallway unless the others stop her.
"I agree. That shadow creature is beyond us at this point. I fear we would waste more time and resources now than we have. Should we have the ability to face it again once we have completed our mission, then so be it. Same with that fool who barricaded himself."
"Come now, open the door." Kyra feels wasted on the man's stubbornness and her attempt is half-hearted. "Let us spend no more time here. We have a job to do!"
"I would like to try once more with the man behind the door. Perhaps the night may have calmed him down some. If he refuses to open still, then I say we push onward. There may be others below still in need of our aide."
She glaces at the others. "Well, do we try to break it down? Or shall we rest up for now?"
"I know you can hear us in there. Please, open the door, we mean you no harm. We have come to this place on behalf of the town and found a slaughter. Were you part of this group that ventured forth? Please, we seek only information and your safety. What say you?"
Kyra will gingerly walk up to the door and knock on it. "Hello? Who is there?" She will attempt to open the door again. "We mean you no harm if you mean us no harm. We are from the village, come to gather the flame. Please open and speak with us so that we can know what happened in this place."
As the party makes their way back towards the entrance, Kyra stops as they still hear the sound of the wailing. "Perhaps we could look into that first?"
"If we find somewhere safe to take a rest, I can gain access to my positive energy which is damaging to undead."
"Giri, fall back! Let us wait here and see if this thing comes after us here. If not, perhaps it is somehow tied to that room. We can try to destroy it with the magic missiles, but I only have one spell that is going to be of any use and then I will be spent utterly."
Kyra will hold her action to see if the shadow comes after them again. Once it comes close, she will cast her one Cure Light Wounds on the undead... "My energy is tapped, this is one the spell I have that can hurt undead..."
Kyra calls for her companions as she starts moving backwards. "Fall back into the larger room so that perhaps we can surround it!"
Kyra joins her companions in a devastating assault upon this poor dung beetle, her scimitar flying down in a vicious arc!
Kyra attempts another attack, but her footing slips as her boot steps into a pile of dung that she had not noticed before...
Kyra moves into the room, hoping to quickly dispatch the menace, however, her quick strike as ill-aimed and the blade misses completely!
Kyra sheathes her blade and quietly follows the others, making even less noise than Lady Rime... which was a considerable feat given that her mail in her armor clinked softly with each move.
Kyra takes the wand. "This will definitely come in handy as my healing is quickly dwindling." She shakes her head. "I cannot believe some of these 'challenges'. These youth could have very likely met their end against just one of these, let alone this entire gauntlet."
Kyra stumbles back and catches herself on the nearby wall just as she is about to lose consciousness. "By the Light, that thing struck hard!" She gathers all her companions around and sends out a wave or two of healing energy.
Yes, I completely agree! That thing hit hard.
Kyra slides down the ramp to join Giri at the bottom! She moves into a flanking position, hoping to help out in any way she can!
Kyra draws her scimitar and begins moving towards the slide in the event she is needed to rescue Giri!
Kyra stares at the leather wrapping. "I concur with Lady Rime. I imagine the leather wrapping is to keep the recipient from being struck too hard."
"I will say a prayer for his soul to reach the Boneyard safely. Then I suggest we leave him here for now. Perhaps we can retrieve the body and return it home once we have concluded our mission here." With that, Kyra takes hold of her holy symbol and kneels next to the corpse. "Dawnflower, I beseech you to allow this fallen soul to reach their after life without the molestation that his earthly remains received from the denizens of this crypt."
"Disgusting. We must retrieve this poor man to be returned to his family."
Kyra waits where she is until Giri has a chance to examine the area for more traps...
"Kendra, are you okay?" Once she is back out of the pit, Kyra whispers a prayer to Sarenrae and places her hands upon the women to heal her injuries.
Kyra smiles at her ingenuity, but then inwardly chastises herself for such thoughts. 'It is The Dawnflower's guidance that illuminated your path.' "There is a key in the pool below that is magical. Giri, could you make sure there is nothing here that will kill me before I reach into the water?"
"'Magic is the key', eh?" Wondering if there is some sort of magic about the room, Kyra will cast Detect Magic from the doorway to check for any magical auras while she waits for Giri to give the all clear signal.
Kyra will follow Giri as a safe distance to ensure he has enough light by which to see, but far enough to keep from giving his position away immediately.
"I believe this is exactly why we were tasked to investigate the crypt. I cannot imagine any civilized group of people, other than those barbarians from the north, sending their children into a crypt infested with skeletons looking to claw them to death. We must be wary." Kyra then enters the crypt and whispers a prayer to Sarenrae before touching her scimitar and illuminating the darkness. She smiles at the sight. "No darkness can keep back the light of the Dawnflower."
Kyra smiles at Crystal's awe. "That is the power of the Dawnflower. Undead cannot abide the radiance of her fury!" Once again she raises her holy symbol high and floods the chamber with a golden light!
Kyra looks at the slope and takes a few minutes to remove her chain shirt while the others go about securing the rope and stuffs it into her backpack. She then looks at the rope and the steep slope. "While its certainly not dignified, it is more dignified than breaking my neck." With that, she takes the rope in both her hands and sits down onto the muddy slope to use the rope to assist in slowly sliding down the hill....
Kyra looks over the decayed body with a critical eye. "This man has been dead for several months. Huh. Look at his ribs, looks similar to what the river pythons do to their prey back home. He was likely compressed to death by some sort of constricting creature."
Kyra unsheathes her scimitar and cautiously approaches the form...
"I do not know much about animals; however, I am not one for killing unless absolutely necessary. I think they may simply flee in fear. Perhaps we could put some rations near the treeline? I can heal them, but you must ensure they do not return, Kendra." With that, Kyra sends out a wave of healing powers into the clear to heal not only her companions, but the injured wolves as well!
Kyra continues to press the attack, hoping to end one of the threats and heal her wounded companions in a moment. "Hold strong, just a few moments longer and the light of Sarenrae shall wash away those bites."
Kyra rushes over to help aid Kendra, by slashing at the wolf with her scimitar; however, in her haste she swings too soon and the blade cuts into the earth!
Kyra lets out a heavy sigh when the wolves return. "You just had to say that, didn't you, Lady Rime?" |