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Halmier is horrified to see his friend drop right as he had run into the fray. He takes a step back from the rearing mount, and directs his lightning balls once again to the rider.
"Danika, take my scrolls and run back!" Halmier indicates the rolls hanging out of his pack. "I will block him as long as I can!" With those words, Halmier holds up his channeling symbol, a simple wooden rod, topped with a ring and feathers, and braces himself for the Cold Rider's onslaught.
A quick glance to Wreck through his Deathwatch, and Halmier knows that he was too late...
Seeing Wreck get hit again, Halmier moves around the storm as fast as he can to close the gap.
Halmier slowly makes his way out of the edge of the storm. Then he uses his Ball Lightning scroll to plant two balls over the Cold Rider.
Halmier kneels down in the middle of the group. "This is going to be a tough storm to weather. Boo, I will not have time to use these. Bring the Fireball scroll to Daphne." Boo the weasel, quiet for some time now, digs the mentioned scroll out of Halmier's bag and shoots off into the storm for Daphne. In the meanwhile, Halmier starts to to channel positive energy.
Hamlier heals Daphne and Wreck.
Daphne:
Wreck:
Hamlier looks down at his wand. "This is losing its power. We better find the Cold Rider soon."
"Sorry Daphne!" Halmier wraps the druid and her pursuer in entangled growth. He hopes she can pick her way through the plants more easily than the invisible foe.
Halmier gazes intently, planning to point out a location as soon as he can find it.
Not able to make out a target, but seeing his friends get hit, Halmier channels energy to heal them.
Halmier also casts Detect Magic to find the target.
If he can determine the location well enough, Halmier casts Dispel Magic in an attempt to reveal the invisible foe.
Halmier casts Aid on Wreck before Wreck wades into the fray.
Halmier then follows Wreck a little closer to the gnomes, but doesn't enter the melee immediately.
After everyone splits up the nails and other things to return to Harb after hopefully a resurrection, Halmier solemnly leads the group to the ice carving contest.
"Can any of this stuff help us before we get Harb back?" Halmier slowly picks through his possessions. "We can't do him any good if we get trapped here as well." Halmier gathers Harb's magic ring and belt, and starts sizing up the dwarf's magnificent armor.
"I brought him to his doom!" Halmier mourned. With a cry of rage, Halmier casts Burning Hands on the beast.
Halmier then takes up Harb's spot flanking the minotaur with his flimsy mace, trying to keep it distracted from Wreck.
Oh geez. Glad to hear everyone's okay.
In a desperate attempt to keep Harb from falling, Halmier readies the following actions.
Halimer casts Hydraulic Push to push the minotaur away from Harb, then if it works, he places himself between Harb and the minotaur.
Seeing the devastating hit, Hamlier casts Cure Critical Wounds
Seeing the devastating hit, Hamlier casts Cure Critical Wounds
"This thing hits harder than anything I've seen before."
Halmier describes the two scenes to his companions, and holds out his scroll and charcoal stick. "Someone else write these down, I can't really see while I focus on the spell. To get to the middle of the maze, it's:" Halmier lets out a stream of left, right, and straight with some descriptions of unusual geometry, then does the same for a path to the end of the maze and between the middle and the end. "Hopefully this spell will save us some time, but no matter which way we choose, people will die in the meanwhile..." As the spell fades, Halmier continues to stare at the ground, still not over the shock of the sheer violence towards this reasonably innocent village. "Though it's likely the frozen are already dead. It's probably better to stop the minotaur sooner."
"Cover me." Halmier pulls out his scroll and casts Clairaudience/clairvoyance. He then flips the spent scroll over and starts scribbling.
"Since we ended up not using it on the Modern Wonders tent, I can use my Clairaudience/clairvoyance scroll here to get an overhead view of this labyrinth. It might be easier to navigate then."
"The nymph said something about breaking an ice crystal, right? I wonder if there will be anything there..."
Uh oh, then this probably isn't great timing. I also have to apologize. I'm traveling tomorrow, and I probably won't have internet until this weekend. (I'm stopping by my parents' house. They have bad cell service and are very old fashioned.) I'll post if I can, but my hopes aren't high. After that, I'll be back in Europe. I think the time difference didn't cause me too much trouble.
Halmier looks on at the surviving people. He tries to remember what it was like when he felt he could save every injured soul he met. "So much death, and for what purpose? How the town lasted for so long next to such hatred, I may never know..." With a sigh, Halmier sets his jaw and focuses on the rest of the scene in front of him. "I don't like these trees."
Halmier drags his arms through the air in front of himself, and murmurs to himself.
Halmier steps over to Harb and Wreck and applies his wand. Cure Moderate Wounds
Cured Wreck
Cured Harb Halmier turns and looks toward the blazing tent. "That might catch the Cold Rider's attention. Should we stick around to see what's left of the inside, or keep looking for him?"
Halmier places an Evil Eye hex on the Treant.
Halmier walks up to Harb and waves his wand.
Halmier uses his Ice Storm scroll to slow down their advance.
Assuming there are fey left standing, Halmier casts Wall of Fire to surround the brownies and set the tent ablaze.
"We probably want to focus surprise spells on the Brownies first, so that they don't pepper us with spells while fighting the big guy. Daphne, if you want to set a fire ball off at the back, it will hit the brownies and not the innocents. I can then surround them with a wall of fire to further separate them. Between those, the tent should catch on fire too. What do you think?" Halmier calls upon the wandering flame spirit and prepares to cast his spell.
"Okay, so there's no reason to look inside before torching the place, I think."
"Of course Harb. I'm amazed as always that you were able to hang in there."
"Of all the places we've seen, I think the Modern Wonders would be the most efficient in slaughtering innocents. I agree we should get quickly."
Halmier catches up with the group and unloads his Cure Moderate Wounds wand.
"I'm not sure we can handle many more foes like that... If this is a subordinate of the Cold Rider, we better hope that the vials the nymph have some protective qualities that I haven't detected yet."
Seeing no one drop immediately, and too far to channel energy, Halmier gets up and walks towards the fray, casting Ball Lightning to hover over the pig-man .
Hamlier recognizes a high level spell and shouts out. "This is an unusually strong spellcaster. Spread out!"
When trying to duck out of the way, Halmier slips in a patch of mud and falls prone to the ground. From the ground, he grasps his carved symbol of the Life Spirit and channels positive energy to those around him.
Halmier turns his Deathwatch gaze to the pie-eaters.
"What about the people inside? We can always take a peek first, if we're hesitant to go charging in. I can use this from the outside once we're reasonably close." Halmier pulls out his scroll of Clairaudience/clairvoyance. "I would much rather try to sneak out any innocents or cast some shielding on them if we can before setting the place ablaze."
"Ah, I think I have just the thing for this."
Halmier casts Hold Person on the fey. (DC 17)
"I can set up an obscuring mist to hide the lack of children. If the fey looks like he'll enter the mist, you can clear it with a fireball, Danika." Halmier casts Obscuring Mist where the children used to be and takes his place behind a nearby building.
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