Jade senses the urgency of taking down the elemental so that she can help her friend. She tries once more to lash out with her dagger before taking a 5 foot step away from it.
Alathar looks from the fallen alchemist to the cloud. "Who'd have thought a cloud could hit so hard?"
Alathar's arrow improbably sinks into the cloud, which turns its attention toward him. It flies in a rage, attempting to knock the bow from his hand.
The cloud slams into Alathar, but he is able to hold onto the bow.
Watching the cloud streak by to attack Alathar, Jade sees this as a chance to bandage Kalarra. Ripping cloths for rudimentary bandages Jade attempts to give Kalarra first aid.
Teskin directs the Eagle to attack the cloud again, after which it breaks for the sky and then vanishes. Teskin follows up the eagles attack with an acid splash.
Appearing from nowhere, an eagle bursts into view, screeching and attacking the cloud. It sinks its talons into the cloud, and with a crack of electricity, the cloud fades from existence.
Teskin directs the Eagle to attack the cloud again, after which it breaks for the sky and then vanishes. Teskin follows up the eagles attack with an acid splash.
Teskin hurries over to his fallen ally and tries to get the cure light wounds potion down her throat.
"Here let me try this. Afterwords, I will need a moment to prepare another spell."
Jade uses the magical energy prepared for her mage armor spell to spontaneously cast Cure Light Wounds on Kalarra.
You enter another room, in which a single iron lever protrudes from the wall next to the door in this otherwise empty chamber's west wall. To the east, a ten-foot-wide hallway curves to the north.
A four-armed, tripedal statue made of metal blocks access to the eastern corridor. A large, metallic key floats in the air net to it. When you enter the room, the statue whirs to life and speaks in a tinny voice:
"Please present the crest for passage."
to spot a crest in the area.
Alathar, too, looks around for a crest, both in this room and the one they just came from.
"If there's no crest here, we may as well just ignore it for now and pull the lever."
Upon the display of the crest, the statue moves aside, allowing passage to the room beyond.
As you make your way through the tower, you come upon another room. An area along the south wall is enclosed in a cage of thick iron bars that extend from floor to ceiling. Within the enclosure sit seven black iron chests. To the north, the stone wall has collapsed, revealing a rough-hewn tunnel.
Jade examines the chests. Hoping that they might hold a clue while also hoping that they are not trapped.
Alathar will peer down the tunnel, to see where it might go.
As examines the bars and chests, an eerie figure emerges from the tunnel, and lunges out at Alathar with its long, sharp teeth, but misses wide of the elf.
Teskin turns and reacts almost without thought, sending a blast of acid at the figure.
Jade wheels around and whispers a few soft words trying to lull the eerie figure to sleep. She withdraws her dagger slowly so as not to startle the creature.
Jade's words seem to have little effect on the creature.
Teskin's spell goes wide, the figure barely seeming to notice. Single-mindedly, the eerie figure moves toward Alathar, reaching out once again with its sharp claws.
Alathar feels one of the claws sink into his skin, stinging as it tear at his flesh.
Acid splash again.
Seeing that her abilities are still useless against these creatures, Jade runs up and tries to attack the figure.
Jade's attack goes wide, but both Kalarra and Teskin are able to damage the eerie creature.
The figure lunges out at Jade, but only one claw connects, sinking into her skin.