Looking very angry indeed, Kelne attempts to return the favour, skewering the archer with his sword.
Tessirda swiftly looked around the corner, and found the stairs as crowded as they had been. As soon as she found an opening she could exploit, she made her way up the stairs as well.
Zavos moves to where he can see the foe, gestures and speaks a word of power, and the bowman feels his mind start to cloud.
Kelne manages to wound the bowman with a slash of his sword, who grunts in pain. He then withdraws around the corner and through a door, but not before Zavos' spell hits him.
With no room to make it up the stairs, Uzes delays for an opportunity to rush up to help.
Zindit quickly scrambled to her feet, pressing against the wall to let the others pass freely without trampling over her. She was clearly upset at her failure to prove her worth to the priestesses, but she looked back to the other door, thinking it might be best to head around.
Zindit runs over to the other door and opens it. Another flight of stairs ascends to the second story, and like the other set of stairs there is a man with with a bow waiting on the top landing.
He shoots, but the arrow glances off Zindit and does no damage.
Not being minded to offer a chance for the so-and-so to surrender, Kelne pursues, launching another slash at his backpedaling opponent.
When it's Amunyet's turn again, she calls out "Kelne! How badly are you hurt?" If Kelne's response indicates he needs help, Amunyet will use a channel energy, making sure to exclude the bowman from the burst (channel (1d6=5)). Otherwise, she continues up the stairs, drawing her scimitar and hefting her shield as she goes.
Uzes moves over to the dor the Zindit opened and runs up to the archer at the top of the stairs. He trips on his way up and almost ends up flat on his face.
Kelne pursues his retreating foe and drops him at the doorway with a well-placed slash of his sword. Uzés rushes up the stairs past Zindit and stumbles over a step just as he is taking a swing at the bowman on the landing, who then drops his bow and draws a rapier.
Hoping to disable another foe, Zavos casts Hideous Laughter at the guard looming over Uhz, then races to the top of the stairs near Kelne.
"I could use some healing, yes," Kelne admits, spinning to face the combatants behind him.
The thug behind Kelne stabs at him with a shortsword and draws blood . The guy behind the one who stabbed Kelne throws a crate at him. It hits Kelne and bursts apart , and a cat-sized scorpion falls out of it at Kelne's feet. A warm wave of positive energy then washes over Kelne .
On the other front, the man at the top of the stairs falls to the floor laughing hilariously at Zavos's joke.
With better footing, Uzes manages to connect twice with his opponent.
flurry (1d20=16, 1d6+2=7, 1d20=15, 1d6+2=4)
Tessirda followed Kelne up the stairs as quickly as she could, and when he called out for aid, she hissed "We can trade places if you need" before hacking at one of his opponents with her curveblade.
Amunyet will follow Zindit up the back stairs, with her scimitar drawn.
Zindit wanted to call out for Uzes to come back down, to lure the men out into open space, but she also wanted to prove her worth to Amunyet.
She slashed at the first of the thugs' legs that she could reach.
Deciding that cat-sized scorpions are by no means a good thing, Kelne hacks at the cursed creature. Being poisoned would be simply perfect.
Zindit jumps over the laughing thug, then slips by the next one. She then stabs that one in the leg drawing blood. The thug, whos is just a boy, then shrieks like he is dying and drops to the floor. "Please don't kill me!"
Uzés stomps on the laughing thug's head, knocking him unconscious, and Amunyet moves up to a position behind Uzés.
On the other front, Kelne skewers the scorpion, killing it.
Tessirda moves up the stairs to the landing and a slashes the thug facing Kelne. He blow is awkward because of the intervening corner of the landing, but she cuts her opponent anyway. He then shrieks "There's too many!" and backs away. "Balston, you f*+*ing mook" says the one behind him, a hulking half-orc with a swollen left eye, as he steps forward and swings a morningstar expertly at at Kelne, danking him right on the head
Zavos casts Cure Light Wounds while behind cover, and reaches around the wall to aid Kelne.
1d8+1=2 hp
Zavos's healing awakens Kelne, but he is still badly injured .
There are two conscious opponents you can see, the boy begging for his life and the large morningstar-weilding half-orc .
Tessirda raised her blade over her head, and tried to chop down the half-orc as she had done with the other thug, but this time she misjudged her swing quite badly, and dug the blade deeply into the wooden frame that partially obscured her vision.
Tessirda:
Once confronted with someone possibly weaker than herself, Zindit was usually quick to press the advantage, but something about the boy begging for his life brought her unpleasant memories to the forefront of her mind. Peeking down the hallway, she saw where the real fight was taking place, and reached down to try and grab the boy's arm, attempting to pull him out of the way so that the others could join in the fight without trampling him.
It would not do to have a child's blood on her hand in front of Amunyet and Tessirda. I'm not that kind of person I'm not that kind of person I'm not
He complies readily enough.
Amunyet moves to C2, keeping an eye on the boy, but letting Uzes get through to the half-orc.
Tessirda would have stopped, startled, if it had been an option. But the battle was ongoing, and she could wonder about it in due time. She just ripped the blade from the wood, and chopped at the half-orc again.
Uzes moves past the boy towards the nearest opponent.
The half-orc steps over the unconscious Kelne and takes a vicious swing at Tessirda with the morningstar. The blow is wild, and the morningstar crashes into the wall. Tessirda returns in kind, and her blow hits, and the half-orc grunts in pain but does not go down.
You hear voices and a dog barking coming from around the corner.
"Knuckles, Gar, to me! They are here!"
Uzes, if you move to C6:
As his foe is too close to risk casting a spell, Zavos draws his rapier and attacks.
Attack on Half-Orc (1d20=19)
Roll to confirm crit (1d20=11)
Damage if 19 is a hit (1d6=2)
With Kelne still down and just barely within the 30' burst, Amunyet unleashes another burst of positive energy . She takes care to exclude the half-orc in C8 and the down man in D1 (the down man in C9 is out of range).
Zavos strikes at the half-orc, but he too feels a strange attraction of his rapier to the morningstar, which throws off his strike just enough to cause him to miss. Amunyet sends another healing wave Kelne's way, who then rouses to consciousness.
Uzes attacks the dog that rushes him.