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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Softwind" data-source="post: 1249376" data-attributes="member: 13893">Sixteenth Session (Part 3) Hearing the flames, the party decides to rush the room, throwing all caution to the wind.  It is their hope that by being quick in action, they will overcome any resistance thrown their way by the sorcerer, if he is within.  Bursting down the door, the Companions pile into the room.  Brynn and Karazak remain near the door, Genoa and Timber move to the far side, Tombit tumbles in, near the simple cot in the corner opposite to the door, and Athena stands in the doorway, watchful.  Grimnyr finds himself outside the room, and waits there, grumbling.The room beyond has the appearance of a basic bedroom, with comforters upon the cot in the corner, a simple vase near the back window, plus a table and chair resting under the front window, with fresh scarring upon both the table top and the chair backing.   Seeing no immediate threat, the party relaxes a bit, scanning the room.  Skylar’s voice rises from the ground below, “There is someone or something in there with you.  I saw a light, but it’s gone now.  Be careful!”Heeding her advice, the Companions ready themselves, still looking vigilantly about them.  Athena works to make herself “bigger” in the doorway, on the off chance something tries to sneak past her.  Brynn tries to instruct Karazak to “sniff out” anyone else in the room, but the big cat thinks the Ranger wants to play.  Genoa tries the same with her companion, with much the same result.  Tombit decides that the best place in the room to hide would be on or near the bed, so proceeds to try and “feel out” anyone there.  And it seems his plan is with merit, as he hears movement heading towards the front window.  He backs away from the bed, then leaps at where he thinks the person is who is making the noise.  *THUD*  Tombit’s monk training takes over at the last moment, and he does not go head on into the wall.  However, his leading shoulder aches with the hit.  The noises continue to advance towards the window, and now Genoa can hear them as well.  It sounds like cautious footfalls.  Genoa readies herself for action, but is puzzled by Timber’s lack of response.“Someone here is invisible,” she thinks, but wonders why Timber can not at least smell the person moving towards them.  “Perhaps that trap in the other room put him off the scent,” she ponders, testing the air in front of her with the blade of her scimitar.  The attack, when it comes, is expected, although the direction is not.  A small figure on top of the cot in the corner waves its arms, and suddenly Tombit, Genoa and Timber are battered by a wave of intense cold.  Due to the table in front of her and Timber, the druid and wolf take less than the full brunt of the attack, and Tombit’s nimbleness removes him from harms way as well, but not in an expected way.Alerted to the location of the opposition, Brynn sends in Karazak to worry at the kobold now revealed.  The diminutive humanoid begins another series of mystic passes in preperation for another spell.  His chant is disrupted by an arrow coming in from the window, which strikes the sorcerer in the side.  “Did I get him,” Skylar’s voice floats in through the broken back window.</blockquote>

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