Recognizing the creature from a description in his father's notebook, Indus calls out a short warning while scooping up a handful of fine sand from the floor.
"Try not to let it touch you!"
Then he starts casting a sleep spell.
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Noticing the tracks leading downstairs, Indus lets out a soft "I wonder, whether we should fear the recent visitors or the original inhabitants more ..."
"I agree," Indus says, when Sobek talks of the dead adventurer. "Let us leave the body for now and return for it once we have finished exploring this place."
Indus helps with the searching and cataloguing of the items found as well as the historical clues from the rooms themselves, noting down things in his leather-bound journal as to better be able to recall them when they get back. When they find the fragile wedding gown, he uses an incantation to mend the fabric so as not to damage it further.
We are still here!
Seeing Seben prepare a sand bag, Indus also finds a small sack and fills it with fine sand, tying it to his belt. "Ready when you are ..."
"Are you okay? You look warm ... uncomfortable."
Indus nods in appreciation of the praise. "It was a team effort, my friend. But I agree. we must watch out for that ... doru's ... return." Indus checks if his crossbow bolts can be reused before they depart, and keeps the crossbow loaded and ready for more danger.
Almost succumbing to the pain from the terrible scream, Indus reloads his crossbow and fires another bolt at the thing, as he utters a single arcane word that makes the bolt crackle with magical energy.
Bolstered by the success of his first shot, Indus quickly loads his crossbow again [occ]with a regular bolt[/ooc] and fires at the remaining critter, hoping to repeat his feat of marksmanship.
As soon as the flying head beasts appear, Indus fires off a cold iron bolt, hoping his luck will be with him.
Indus moves to stand back to back with Seben, his crossbow at the ready if the foe should reappear.
Unable to see their assailant, Indus bends down, scoops up a big handful of sand and throws it high in the air close to where he last saw the creature, hoping the dust of sand will, at least briefly, reveal its presence.
Seeing the doru flying out of reach and taking a cue from Seben, Indus drops his melee weapon, grabs his crossbow and nocks a cold iron bolt.
Jolly Yuletide everybody!
Seeing the logic in Seben's plan to overpower the head, Indus drops his weapon and tries to catch.
"Seben, are you okay? Indus yells, not recognizing the new attacker. Rushing to her aid he drops the flail and draws his longsword, uttering an arcane word that makes the blade glow faintly.
Indus takes another powerful swing with the flail, trying to put an end on the flying enemies. "Should we do a headcount?"
"Those jokes don't have a leg to stand on ... kinda like our enemies, so stop fooling around!"
"Fascinating story, Sobek, but is this the time?" Indus says with a smile, while he moves up and takes a swing with his flail at a nearby skull, hoping his luck will guide his blow.
Indus assists in the search eyeing the headless corpse nervously.
Seeing Diorio glance at his rapier, Indus holds out the heavy flail. "Would you be more comfortable swinging this thing around?"
Indus discards his off-the-rack crossbow and replaces it with the newly-found crossbow, adding the special bolts to his bolt case. "Well, let's go then!"
"Be quiet, or we might awaken the restless undead guarding this place," Indus says in a low voice after having looked through the southern archway. "If no one else is interested in the crossbow, I'll take it, but the armor is too cumbersome for me, I fear."
Indus takes another wild swing, thinking he has gotten a hang of the weight of the weapon but nearly tumbles over in the attempt.
Hoping against hope, Indus carefully engages the sand demon while invoking a word of power, trying to catch it with another hit of his newfound flail.
Seeing Lueck's effective strike, Indus prays to the powers of luck, hoping to deliver a heroic, decisive strike against the sand fiend with his flail.
Indus takes a swing with the unfamiliar weapon, misjudging its balance and nearly falling over.
Seeing Seben collapse, Indus steps up to protect her with the flail at the ready, though it feels heavy and cumbersome. "Do not harm this girl, or you will taste this horrid thing again," he says in a clear voice in Ancient Osiriani. "We do not seek to harm you, but we will if we need to!"
I appreciate you asking. Deborah passed away near the end of June. So now I'm just back in the job search grind. My family has been really great and supportive, but it has been, and still is, incredibly difficult. Sorry for your loss!
Indus reporting for duty, though my life has taken a turn for the busier with part time job and me trying to get another university degree.
Didn't see it as an attempt at one-up me :)
I get it, Indus, and I'm sorry to hear it. I got laid off at the end of 2023. I am still out of work; partly because the economy but largely because my wife's on hospice care now. I hope your situation turns around quickly enough that you can pocket some of that severance as a bonus. Yikes, sorry to hear :( Makes my situation somewhat trivial.
When the shape moves towards Seben, Indus raises his flail to protect her, but then lowers it again, as Seben lowers her bow.
Thanks, much appreciated. I'm surviving - they were nice enough to give me a severance pay that will get us through the year - but still trying to figure out where to go from here. I've got some possible collaborations on the pipeline, but no single job that will give us enough for my share of the monthly expenses.
"Where's that silly girl off to now," Indus mutters under his breath. Sensing trouble, he picks up his newfound flail from the ground, where he put it down to have his hands free while restoring the shrine, and sets off after the others.
Pardon my inactivity lately. I was made redundant effective May 1 about two weeks ago, so everything has been a bit chaotic since. Also, if you know anyone who needs an experienced translator (EN to DA) with a focus on gaming and igaming, please let me know.
Indus takes a closer look at the hieroglyphs, then set to help Sobek restoring the shrine.
"Let's just take the closest door ... after checking them carefully for traps, of course!"
"There are some bones here. Possibly connected at some point to one or more creatures. Definitely dead!" Indus says, realising he knows nothing about forensics. "This flail looks valuable, but maybe we should save it in case we run into more skeletons?"
I was confused, but didn't bother to look it up. Sorry about that.
Indus throws his flask just after his two companions, praying to his luck that he will hit as well.
"Good thing that granary wasn't choke full of flour, or we'd be blown to straight over the Barrier Wall by the blast," Indus says when his flask bursts open raining fiery death on the beetles.
Lol, it's on me
Indus hands out alchemist's fire to those wanting one and readies one himself.
"I've got a single flask of that cocktail you had a demonstration of earlier as well as alchemist's fire, but I'm all for regrouping if you aren't fully prepared," Indus chimes in from the rear.
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