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Helaku flies in a short circle, well back from the lion and uses the wand to send another shimmering ball of force toward it.
"Very well. Let's leave them and continue."
Helaku speaks to Leonar as he bends, "If you wish me to look at it, I can. But perhaps we should explore the passage first." Helaku looks and listens as the passage is revealed.
Helaku casts fly before heading up the stairs. He keep a little behind the others, but watches and istens as we move forward.
Helaku looks on with concern, "I hope Ambrose is not the next of our band to fall. Do you feel him moving around in there Shaylar?"
Much more cautious after his death in the last battle, Helaku casts greater invisibility and moves to separate himself from the others so that catching him in an area of effect will be difficult.
Helaku shares the information about the behir and his suspicions that it may be something more though he doesn't have the understanding to be more specific. He casts haste while he waits to see if anyone else can tell more about the monster.
"No time like the present. Shall we approach now? Sorry that I'm going to be a little slow due to the damned thorns in my feet and legs." Helaku hobbles up toward the structure.
"Me too Shaylar. If we didn't recognize how deadly this was becoming before, surely we do now. I'm going to be making a lot more use of flight and invisibility in the future."
"Gods. Thank you for bringing me back. It feels though that it might be quite some time before I am fully myself again."
Helaku looks around confused. Then looks down at his ragged and bloody clothes. "How am I alive? I felt it tear me apart." He struggles shakily to his feet.
Sure, let's bring him back.
Yes, we could be looking at a Call of Cthulhu-esque party wipe. Leonar, we need you to be able to wild shape away to get word to the next party if necessary.
That could be a good route to go. I'd forgotten about it. If so, let's go that route. If bringing Helaku back is going to be a big drain on resources, I'd rather bring in a new character.
If the opportunity was there, would you want to be brought back, or would you prefer to roll up a new character? I'm good either way. I have a lot of new concepts I can roll with if that seems like a better move.
Helaku is at -35 hp and dead after that assault.
Helaku fixes the hideous beast with an equally fierce glare, fighting off the creature's spell. Cayenne isn't so lucky and cowers where he stands. Helaku steps away from the creature, but knowing it can probably still reach him, he casts carefully, guarding himself against its attacks as he fires off two more bolts of fire at the dragon man he attacked before. If it drops, he twists and fires the second bolt at the beast that tried to bespell him.
Helaku dismounts from Cayenne to the rear away from the dragon creature and raises his hand to the closest one. After a quick word, a bolt of fire lances out at the creature. Moments later, a second one follows.
With the group in agreement, Helaku tries to quickly catch the ogre in a pit.
"Much as we need to keep moving we can't allow this to continue. I can probably catch the ogre in a pit. Want me to do that and the rest of you can focus on the hobgoblins?"
"I'm afraid so. We're just going to make sure everyone here gets moving to safety and then we need to continue on." He looks up to see that Ambrose and Aleste have most of the civilians on their way. "Lady. Much as I would enjoy banter with you under other circumstances, it looks like it is time for us to part ways. My companions have everyone moving to Brindol and for your safety, you should join them. I will ask around about this drunk and find out if he is likely to continue to be a problem." Helaku will leave the woman to ask around about this town guard and whether this is a frequent problem with him.
Heluku chuckles, "Tied up. Yes, I see. We have seen the horde and fought some of their troops. Tell me more of your skills. Are you sure you need to be escorted to safety. Maybe you should be the escort."
"Greetings. We've stopped them from burning the town, but we still need to get you all moving on to Brindol. We've seen the horde with our own eyes and you don't want to get caught outside the walls. We're working to try to stop it and hope you'll be able to move back once we succeed."
"I've got to agree with Ambrose here sir. We don't mean any disrespect, but its likely that if the horde comes here they'll burn it anyway. Take what they might use to Brindol and leave the empty town behind. With any luck they'll pass it by and these people will one day be able to move back."
Up to CHH obviously, but having an extra character in this game might not be a bad idea. I think you've got a couple potential cohorts around the Vale too.
Helaku smiles at the sight of Cayenne and walks up to rub his horse's nose. "Time to go on the road again friend. You look like you've been treated well." Helaku turns back to Killiar when he speaks. "Thank you Killiar. Thanks to all of your people. We truly appreciate your help and look forward to meeting you and your people again. I hope the day will come soon when we will all meet in peaceful times instead of under the storm clouds of war."
"You're probably right Sellyria, but that seems to be our fate. I don't think we can take the chance that he decides to aid the Red Hand."
"I would have thought they would steal it to try to coerce him into their service. The only other reason I can think of would be to learn from it and create a lich of their own. But it would seem there would be other ways to do that. How about the rest of you? Any ideas?"
"A good suggestion Ambrose. I can tell you all some tales I heard of this Ghostlord before I came to the Vale." Helaku shares what he knows and suggests that perhaps the answer lies in the Thornwaste.
No objections. I was thinking Helaku was probably a good candidate for the horn also, but if Shaylar wants it, I'm fine with that.
"A lich's phylactery. But whose? And why is was it there?"
"Have you heard any news from elsewhere in the Vale while we were at the old ruins?"
Level 8
Yay! Leveling is so much fun!
Directed by Leonar, we gather all of the eggs and destroy them.
"These eggs do not appear to belong to the lizardfolk so I assume they are eggs of these razorfiends. We should gather them and destroy them I think."
"I agree with you Leonar. These are very dangerous creatures. We need to end their threat in this area." Before destroying them though, Helaku comes in to have a closer look at them.
Nearly out of spells but knowing he needs to try to end this fight quickly, Helaku murmurs an incantation and casts his last glitterdust to try to limit the razorfiend.
Helaku casts haste hoping it will help Ambrose to deal with the razorfiend.
"I'm not so good at climbing or slipping through tight places. I will wait here and watch for trouble."
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