*Eternity and Aglaia advance down the tunnel with Almayce just behind. Up ahead, they see a dead-end room with a pedestal on which sits a small enruned hemisphere.*
"It's a dead end here--we'd better go back and help the others," Aglaia suggests.
*Meanwhile, Hulgyr moves back towards the fight--he can't get into the action this round because he is fatigued and can't charge (and because the others block him also), but he makes it up behind them anyway.*
*Michael defensively helps Ironwolf with the attack, and Ironwolf takes out the other Afflicted. Meanwhile, the remaining four push forward, attempting to use their mass and brute strength to push through the weakest link of the blockade--Michael. Ironwolf swings and badly injures one of them as it closes in. Michael has the option to let them past or to take an attack and hope to endure the incoming onslaught.*