Ubaar: pick your targets for the searing lights...otherwise, this is the round.
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Rana takes a swing at the sniper at W48, who drops his Xbow and blocks with his solid, fleshy arm. The other sniper shoots at her and misses. She throws a vial of CMW potion to Kelnar. She takes a couple more swings at W48, but fails to connect. He ducks under a swipe and tackles her to the ground. They wrestle as he tries to bite her neck.
The mage sees huge, metal-clad Akharos as a big juicy target and blasts a blot of electrity from his fingertips at him. He's still faster than he looks, though, and the bolt strikes the ground nearby as he sidesteps it, only some of it arcing back towards him (19dmg)
The fighter by Ubaar and Alex realizes that he is cornered for the moment and in pain from the stake embedded not quite deeply enough in his chest holds where he is, preparing to defend against any incoming attacks.
Elone misses her move, still lying motionless on the pile of books and broken furniture.
The BB doesn't do anything quite yet, except taunt: "This is easier than I expected. I knew you'd take the bait, but your incompetence in battle took me completely by surprise. Who's next?"
Continuing with his previous plan to use Ubaar for flanking, Alex moves in on the defending warrior, but none of his staking attempts come any close to collecting.
Akharos runs forward and attacks the cleric that sent the blood whip after him. He winds up with his falcion, spinning around entirely by the time her arrives, cleaving the cleric through the chest and neck and throwing him onto the table at M48. The vampire survives the blow, however.
Calain/Therea's eyes glow with hellfire and all of the standing enemies burst into flameas C/T raises his/her fist into the air. The two standing snipers and the cleric who Akharos dropped burn to ashes in seconds (DAMN Firebrand is too powerful) The blood whip on Akharos disappears, leaving a line of splattered blood on the ground. On the table where the cleric was is a huge red crystal much like the one that was used in the ritual that Emcat watched. It is glowing intermittently.
Emcat, wrestling with the other cleric, starts morphing and shifting. The cleric uses the opportunity to pin Emcat, and moves to bite his neck. The cleric quickly realizes that he is embracing a sarbetooth tiger. Emcat whispers in the clerics ear in a throaty, rasping voice "You call THOSE fangs?!" The vampire ignores the pain of Emcat's claws and bite, and the two wrestle, Emcat getting out of the pin. The blood whip meanwhile misses Ubaar.
The Orc, who has been hanging back, now having been singed by Calain's fire meanwhile charges across the room to Akharos, and plunges his blade into Akharos' back (26dmg +46 previous = 72...70-82 = -2....), and he falls over onto the table and lays in the cleric's ashes.
Kelnar reaches out his hand and Elone comes flying towards him. He catches her and slowly lowers her to the ground, then hold her upper body up, opens her mouth, and pours the potion down it. After a slight delay, Elone opens her eyes (hp -->11), looking around dazedly. Kelnar holds her as the potion infuses her with the energy to ignore the severity of her injuries, and she gradually realizes whats going on. (Still no action next round...Stunning Fist + Pain Touch still apply even though she is no longer at negative hp)