The two remaining Shardlings advance to attack, but are stopped in their tracks. One disintegrates in the face of Murphy's curse, and the other is stabbed by Janus's missile.
The raider howls and frustration and swipes its maul at Shorrin, but it crashes off his shield. As Shorrin throws the raider back, it reaches out to grip his wrist. Although its fingers only brush against him, he feels his scales stiffening with ice again. The Frostling calls,
"There, you have him trapped! Go and kill the others - we will rain down death on him from up here!" Obediently the raider circles around Shorrin, who is locked in place by the ice. It jumps off the end of the stairs and finally sets its feet on the bottom floor. As soon as it is out of the way, the Frostling fires a blast of icy cold at Shorrin, missing. It hisses in annoyance.
The wounded icicle hurler reappears at the railing on the northern balcony. From there is has another vantage point on the foyer below, and it has a perfect view at Murphy and Larinza huddled beneath the southern balcony. It raises its hands and chants in an unearthly language, and as it lowers them the entire foyer fills with a storm of flying ice shards. The razor-sharp shards swirl through the air, whipping past Larinza's face and impacting on Shorrin's armour - and turning aside as they approach the shroud of gloom surrounding Murphy - but amazingly nothing larger then a pellet actually strikes exposed flesh.
An icicle spear materializes in the hand of the other hurler, and from its post at the top of the stairway it launches it down at Shorrin. He raises his shield again and deflects this latest assault. The Frostling hisses again - its fury is growing!
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Murphy moves to F2, activating Shadow Walk, and puts his curse on Shardling 4, killing it. He fires an Eldritch Blast at Raider 1 and misses.
Janus hits Shardling 1, killing it.
Raider 1 regenerates 2 hp. It attacks Shorrin with its Icy Embrace as a minor action (hitting and immobilizing him again), followed by a Maul attack, which misses:
Ice Embrace (vs Fort); Maul (w/+1d6 cold damage while target is slowed) (1d20+7=27, 1d20+9=17, 1d8+3+1d6=15) Damn, a critical hit - with the attack that does no damage! Then it shifts to E6. (Shorrin gets an attack with Combat Challenge.)
The Frostling's Icy Burst fails to recharge:
Icy Burst recharge (1d6=3) It attacks Shorrin with Freezing Shot: IC is down, had to roll myself, got a 16. Miss.
Icicle Hurler 1 let itself get caught outside the Frostling's zone of regeneration, so it doesn't regenerate this round. It moves to E6, from where it can see everywhere south of it on the first floor, and casts Icicle Storm, an area burst 3 centered at F2. This misses Murphy with a 17 (would have hit except for concealment), misses Larinza with a 17, and misses Shorrin with a 17.
Icicle Hurler 2 throws an icicle at Shorrin, missing with a 15.
Balth's turn! Also, Shorrin gets a free basic attack on Raider 1.
20 - Janus (
10/22 hp + 8 thp, +3 to all defenses until EONT, +1 afterwards)
23 - Ice Warrior Raider 1 at D5 (
12 damage, marked by Shorrin)
8 - Ice Warrior Raider 2 at G3 (48 damage)
19 - Ice Warrior Frostling at G3 (
0 damage, used Icy Burst, cold creatures within 5 squares gain Regeneration 2)
19 - Ice Warrior Icicle Hurler 1 at A6 (
19 damage, used Icicle Storm)
7 - Ice Warrior Icicle Hurler 2 at D3 (
0 damage)
17 - Balth (
18/27 hp + 8 thp, +3 to all defenses until EONT, +1 to all defenses afterwards)
12 - Shorrin (
21/33 hp + 8 thp, +1 to all defenses, slowed (save ends), immobilized (save ends))
8 - Larinza (
12/29 hp, allies in LOS who spend an action point regain 4 hp)
8 - Ice Warrior Shardling 1 at J10 (7 damage)
8 - Ice Warrior Shardling 2 at J1 (1 damage)
8 - Ice Warrior Shardling 3 at A4 (7 damage)
8 - Ice Warrior Shardling 4 at C6 (1 damage)
5 - Murphy (
26/26 hp + 8 thp, +1 to all defenses, concealment until EONT)
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