Andert tries to scream as his body fails him, but his mouth is instead captured in a frozen state of silent terror. Redis is likewise terrified, but not at the cockatrice or at the state of his friend. "Wha... what is that... thing?" He points to Nissa, or what was Nissa only a moment ago. He tries to go for his dagger, but can't for the life of him seem to find it.
Nissa does a fair job of waving off the swarm, but Aedon's ball of fire seems to do the trick and gives Nissa a moment of reprieve.
Garrison strikes at the cockatrice, but his restrained attack isn't enough to bring it down. Suddenly, Clara's head seems to just fall off, and Gronde's screams of terror drown's those coming from Nissa.
"You killed her!" the half-ogre stands in shock for a moment, watching Clara's headless corpse do its death dance. His chest begins to heave, and it looks as if he's starting to foam at the mouth as he produces a large club seemingly from nowhere. He locks eyes on Justice. "You killed my friend," he says through clinched teeth. And then he charges! In his blind rage his attack thankfully goes wide. (natural 1)
With Clara's death and Gronde's dramatic rage, no one seems to notice that the swam has regrouped and found a new feast in the druid Maighan! (18 to hit for 10 damage, bringing Maighan to 0)
