Dark*Matter: Discovery, the Beginning

[Falkus]

Nick and Meredith made it up to the library. Now that they knew what they were looking for, the stolen urn stuck out like a sore thumb among the other vases of flowers, being larger, and covered in hieroglyphics. The murderer must have stashed it here sometime after making the first kill.

Cade and Larry both missed with their swings and shots, but Diego and Cyrus both managed to score succesful hits with their improvised clubs. The skeleton wasn't looking too good now, missing several ribs, and with its left arm fractured, but it wasn't out of the fight yet, and riposted, sliding its sword into Diego's side, opening up a bloody wound.

((Diego takes 7 points of damage)

 

[Friadoc]

Cade will press his attack with the improvised club, as seeing the damage already done to the creature as motivation. Plus, it might take some of the focus off of Diego who was just wounded.

OOC

Per the other discussion, Falkus can roll my combat rolls. Initiative is still 19.

 

[industrygothica]

"That's it," cries Nick as he spots the urn. He rushes to it, maybe a little too quickly for the sake of his wound, and pulls it out to the middle of the floor so he can get a better look at it. He'll try to read the hieroglyphics for any sign on how to get rid of the thing (or any other useful knowledge).

 

[Shayuri]

Meredith loses her grip on Nick as he rushes forward. She follows him more carefully, snapping shots of the urn as she does.

"What should we do?" she whispers. "Break it? Or would that just trap it here?"

 

[iwatt]

Seeing his improvised club catch fire, Larry grins and turns around. "Time to warm things up, mummy boy." Taking advantage of the fact that they're all crowding the skeleton, the young man takes advantage of the distraction and tries to burn the skeleton.



OOC: I think i can score a flanking bonus. Instead of swinging., Larry is going to try to burn him with his improvised torch. Should be a touch attack. I'll leave the rolling in your hands as well.

 

[yestotom]

The sold hit on the skeleton felt good in Cyrus' hands. To good to stop. He swings again with the chair/club.

 

[kinem]

MURRDA! Jesus Christ that hurts! If this is a dream it's the worst ever. If not ...

Either way, Diego tries again to bat down the evil skeleton with his chair leg. At least it's starting to look beat up.

 

[Falkus]

OOC: yestotom, I'd appreciate it if you'd put your character sheet up in the Rogue's Gallery here: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=176370


Nick quickly begins to translate the hieroglyphics. The story it tells speaks of Akhentanen, and how his depredations had grown too much to stand, and so the Pharoh had marched against him and his army of the undead. However, as the forces engaged, the Pharoh's armies soon found themselves overmatched, as every soldier that was slain, rose again as an undead beast, intent on slaying his former comrades. The tide was turned and the battle was won when the priests joined, and, by combining their power, managed to destroy the army and burn Akehtanen to death in holy flame.

The last bit is the most interesting, and most pertinent to your present needs. The priests knew that reviving Akhentanen was a possiblity, so weaved a spell into the urn to prevent that. Once revived, Akhentanen will continually restore himself, even if defeated in combat, until a day has passed. To cut that time short, and to permanently banish him, the urn must be destroyed in fire.

Downstairs, the Akhentanen ducks under the desperate swing by Diego, but ducked into Cyrus' swing, fracturing its jaw.

Cade also missed, but gave Larry an opening to press the flaming brand against Akhentanen. The skeleton let out an unearthly scream, as the skeleton caught fire unnaturally fast, and then fell apart, collapsing into a pile of bones.

However, the bones then started to stir, and started reconnecting, with the breaks and cracks starting to disappear as well.

 

[Friadoc]

oO Sweet mother of ...Oo Cade cuts his oath short as he watches the fallen skeleton attempt to piece it's self together. oO Well, if you're coming back, it'll be without your sword! Oo

Quickly, before too much of the skeleton re-assembles, Cade reaches down and snatches up the skeleton's sword and hacks with it into the pile of bones.

OOC

This'll either be a good thing or a really, really bad thing.

 

[Shayuri]

"Burn the urn?" Meredith repeats as Nick translates.

"How do you burn something that's ceramic? I mean, without a blast furnace or something..."

She looks around...then shrugs and produces a book of matches from her purse. "I guess it makes as much sense as some...skeleton pharoh from Egypt showing up in the library," she mutters as she sparks the match and holds it...a bit tentatively...towards the urn's base.