Last Stand of the Dorinthians (Chapter 4- The Second Invasion)

[Leinart]

"By Casles its about time. Lets go see if its your grasshopper people." He says with a smiling spliting his face he pushes his way to the front grabs the rope and sets off down the slope as fast as possible. When he gets to the bottom he will charge the nearest enemy.

 

[hafrogman]

Ventus quickly falls silent after giving the warning. No sense in advertising his presence. He drops the sunrod to the ground, leaving it to illuminate the area as he moves to take cover among the pillars.

[sblock=ooc]FA: Drop sunrod
SA: Full defence - AC: 21
MA: Move behind (or toward) the nearest pillar while drawing shortsword.[/sblock]

 

[Kobold Stew]

OOC: apologies for being absent for a few days.

IC:

Danica takes with her the garnet and the ring as they leave the remains, and proceeds to where her comerades are tying the rope to the pillars. When Barok and Ventus separate to head down first, she quickly casts Mage Armor on herself, and steadies the rope for their descent.

When Caramip bustles past her and begins a rapid descent, Danica recognizes what is happening, and begins her descent too.

 

[Blarkon Dragonslayer]

Nikolos continues heading down, doing his best, once he gets down onto a level surface, to move towards Ventus, getting his longspear ready, and trying to get some idea of who they are fighting.

 

[Nephtys]

Barok's first impulse is to charge, but seeing Venthus take cover behing a pillar he decides to follow the imperial's example, hiding while drawing his rapier.

 

[GlassEye]

After the warning echoes up the tunnel Silas risks moving at a much quicker rate down to the area where Barok and Ventus are. Upon arriving (safely, I hope), if all seems clear for the moment, he'll cast his Mage Armor spell and ready himself for more combat.

 

[Fenris]

Dartis remains at the top, aiding each person as they head down, waiting for a signal to start pulling up. As the last member heads down he glances at the large front doors with worry, they were still open. Little could be done about that now though. With one last tug on the rope to ensure it was secure, Dartis heads down the rope as well.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Barok and Ventus charge forward, making it to the lead pillars as three sword-wielding and armored opponents begin to engage them in melee combat. The five combatants weave back and forth through the pillars, striking and parrying at one another. Ventus strikes one, severely wounding the soldier, while it counters and slices a small gash into Ventus' arm with a longsword (-5 hps of damage to Ventus). A second warrior misses Ventus, and Barok and the third soldier fare no better.

It is then that Ventus and Barok get a stronger look at their opponents. They are skeletal warriors in segmented breastplate armor decorated to look like the carapice of a locust. And yet, these creatures fight with some measure of skill and intelligence! And from the solid hit the skeleton was able to take from Ventus, you get the feeling that these won't go down so easy.

Nikolos and Caramip land at the bottom next, and although the priest barely avoids an arrow shot in his direction, the gnome is grazed by another (-1 hp to Caramip).

So far the party sees two archers and three swordsman, but there look to be three final skeletons coming to engage from the far side of the room.

Danica and Conn will reach the bottom in the next few seconds, followed by Silas and Dartis in the next space of time.

 

[Blarkon Dragonslayer]

Nikolos looks at the situation, noting the wounds suffered by his friends, and then looking at the locust armored undead. Making a decision, he drops his longspear, letting it fall to the stone with a clatter, and moves towards the three undead still approaching, raising his silver symbol of the Eye of the Seeker. "Go to the hell you so richly deserve, the power of Adeiros commands you!"

AC 18 hp 35
Free Action: Drop longspear
Move Action: Move 20' towards approaching undead
Standard Action: Turn attempt
Turn Level 4, Turn Check 1d20+1, Turn Damage 2d6+5 HD
Undead of 2HD or less destroyed, otherwise turned(fleeing) for 10 rounds

 

[Nephtys]

Barok curses, fighting his way closer to venthus to avoid getting flanked.