Crossed Paths, Part III

[Manzanita]

Round 1

Tullius and Marcus spring forward, smashing their weapons down on their skeletal opponents. Perhaps nervous at their first encounter with the undead, neither swing is well-placed. Marcus' short sword clangs off the old sheild, and Tullius' axe barely clips the collar bone. (2 pts dmg after DR).

Octar steps forward to cover the door and smashes throught the ribcage of the skeleton on the East, though it seems undeterred. Ehldannis begins the familiar chanting of his conjuration spell.

Dhormium shoulders and elbows his way through to the front, past the panicked Mendicus, Grassus and wolf, but is unable to get very far with his prayer yet.

In the room, Tullius, Marcus and Octar find themselves quickly surrounded by whirling bones and steel. Miraculouly, not one of the men is struck.

Brioc, then round 2

 

[Despaxas]

Tullius whirls and dances among the skeletons, chopping here, slicing there, stabbing at another. A look of ecstacy on his face and a slightly mad glint in his eyes he dances the dervish of death.

OOC: Full attack (Dervish of Death sounds so much cooler)

 

[Jarval]

"Wolf, guard!" Brioc points to Grassus. This done, he throws his torch to the ground and starts to chant, calling out to the river behind them. The misty shape of a crocodile starts to form amid the skeletons...


(OoC: Casting Summon Nature's Ally II in place of Warp Wood.)

 

[Krilith]

"Wolf, guard!" Brioc points to Grassus.

~While Dhormium tries to get into the room he notices Briocs command and thanks the druid in thought, entering the centre of the room Dhormium starts his prayer to repel the walking dead~

ooc: walk into the room and try to turn.

 

[doghead]

Marcus the Romarian

"Try and form an arc across the door. To keep those inside safe. And give Ehldannis room to cast his magics."

Marcus continues attacking. He concentrates on taking one out at a time, while keeping a wary eye out on any coming from the side*. He tries to keep Tullius back covered, and hope Tullius is doing the same. But he takes what opportunities come up to move into position, and urges the others to do likewise.

ooc: melee +8 mw shortsword (1d6, 19-20x2), Dodge on any flanking skeleton.

 

[Manzanita]

Round 2

In the hallway, there is great changing of positions and mystical chanting, while in the room, there is the chaos of battle.

Marcus thrusts dead center into his formost opponent, smiling at his accuracy, but finds his small blade seemed to do no more than chip at a rib in the chest cavity, there being no heart whose beatings to stop.

Ehldannis' fiendish wolf appears amidst the chaos, grabbing a skeleton by its spine and shaking it to pieces. Octar and Tullius both manage to down their opponents, as well, though it takes a blow of both Tullius' weapons to do it. Their sharp blades just don't seem very effective against the fleshless creatures.

The skeletons also attack rather ineffectively. Their movements are slow and almost random. Despite completely surrounding Marcus and Tullius, they are barely able to hit once, dealing Tullius only a minor scrape (3 pts)

At last the voice of the dwarf can be heard over the din, as he reaches the climax of his incantation. Although the words mean little to the rest, the skeletons understand it well. They stagger and the light dims in their eyes. They with a weak crash, ten of them collapse to the floor in small heaps of bone and dust.

As the opposition collapses, a large crocodile appears in their midst, and smashes another with its tail.

 

[Despaxas]

Tullius looks at Dhormium with an expression of awe. "Wow, that was really something Dhormium. Can you do that again?" He spins into another skeleton and tries to use his battleaxe as a bludgeoning tool, trying to smash the skeleton instead of chopping at it*.

*No idea if this would work, I'm going to try to use the flat of the blade. Normally that would do subdual damage but in this case ... up to you manzanita.

 

[Jarval]

Checking that Wolf has followed his command, Brioc steps forwards to stand beside Marcus and Tullius, trying to form the arc as instructed. He slashes at the closest skeleton, unsure as to what effect his scimitar will have.

 

[doghead]

Marcus the Romarian

"Dhormium tötet 10!"*

Like Tullius, Marcus is impressed by Dhormium's power against the undead. And like Tullius, he uses sweeping blows of his weapon.

Marcus holds his position until Brioc and Octar move up to complete the arc. If he can, he'll attempt to strike the skeleton attacking Tullius. Otherwise, he'll hold his attack until a skeleton moves into range.

ooc: * which is (probably bad) german. which is proably not really the same as the germanic that Marcus speaks. I was really rather hoping to find something in Berber (is that a language?). Oh well.

 

[Krilith]

~Pleased with the effect Dhormium turns to the remaining skeletons and repeats his calling to Clangeddin to expel the remaining skeletons~