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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 4418921" data-attributes="member: 12037">Pushing onward, the PCs found themselves in a dark room, no torchlight here to light their way. They could see pillars moving into the darkness on the far side, and the sun rod Tordek carried illuminated some stairs leading upward to the second floor. Statues stood in the two corners they could see, and old rusty chandeliers hung from the ceiling.They entered slowly, keeping their eyes out for anything lurking in the shadows. Quinn took the lead, with Korvun behind him. Then they heard a creaking from the corners, and the two statues turned their heads toward, them, stepping out into the floor toward them. Quinn and Korvun attempted to intercept the constructs, but two small creatures in cloak and dagger jumped them from behind the pillars, striking hard, a third appearing at the top of the stairs silently shooting a sling bullet into the party, striking Tordek before he could react.Quinn and Korvun did what they could to try and keep the creatures away from the other party members, but one of the statues on the far side of the room moved toward Alandra faster than expected. She managed to move away and shoot at it, but it continued after her while the small creatures attempted to move around and flank Korvun while the other statue kept Quinn busy.The party, surrounded, was having trouble keeping up with the onslaught from all sides, and Tordek moved to intercept the statue away from Alandra. He wasn't used to melee, but she needed room to shoot, and hopefully bring down one of the darting humanoid things. The one at the top of the stairs still raining down attacks from above.The small creatures proved to hit hard but be fragile, however, and with a sweep of his halberd, beheaded it. One down, he focused his attention of the statue attack him from the other side. Tordek spent more time healing himself than the injured Korvun, who was looking tired and beaten at this point, but managed to hold the creature off Alandra long enough for her to drop the enemy on top of the stairs, who was sent flailing down the staircase to the bottom where his kneck made a loud popping sound.Finally, the last humanoid died about the same time as the first statue, the former's guts spilled out onto the floor and the statue's torso breaking in half from a blast from Tordek. The others down, the party focused their attacks on the final remaining statue and pulverized it. However, they had come out of this one was many injuries, Korvun and Quinn were on their last legs, and they hoped that whatever lay up the stairs wasn't going to be the end to them.OOC:[sblock]At this point, I think Korvun had 2 healing surges, Quinn had 3, and the others were low as well. They had used their dailies in the fight with the dragon and had never had an extended rest. Basically, they were on their last legs.This battle was 2 dark creepers, 1 halfling slinger (dark creeper slinger), and 2 iron defenders (stone statues). At this point, they've had the fight with the dragon, the cultists when they came in, the jelly with the traps, and now the dark creepers. They've been pouned, in other words. Remember, they're level 2: a standard encounter for them should be 625 XP. Most of these have been higher, and this last one was 750 XP, a level 3 encounter. The one coming up? That's 875: a level 4 encounter.[/sblock]Exploring the temple, they found the second floor empty, but a staircase leading up to another story near the back of the building, on the opposite side as the entrance. Pushing onward, they ignored their aches, their pulled muscles, and the cuts littering their bodies. They needed to finish this rescue if it killed them.</blockquote>

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