The swordswoman crouched, breathing heavily. She stood ready to slice the Rahib if he started to get away from his two pursuers.
“Why are mages so hard to kill?” muttered Nicolai. “There really is no need for this, if they’d just go easily.”
Still swinging his scimitar energetically, the Siswa persisted in his attempt to speak with his wordless opponent. “Release the Siswa from their trance, and take me to Elrond! If you do this, and my village is intact, I will let you leave in peace.”
“This one won’t let them go, and even if he did, he’d be back. He’s sold his soul to the dark ones.”
Confirming Nicolai’s predictions, the Rahib continued his attack, growing more fervent and aggressive as his wounds became more severe. Finally, Saeth struck the death blow with her enchanted sword, bringing the confrontaion to an end.
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With the second of the panthers laying dead at his feet, the dwarf turned to the sound of battle that came from the area behind the alter. Feldard scowled up towards the statue and then strode towards the alter. Statue be damned, he was going after the Rahib!
As soon as Feldard got near the altar, the bone golem once again came to life and started marching toward the dwarf, it’s six skeletal arms bearing the scimitars still stained with the blood of their last battle.
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August 28, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Saeth glanced from the falling corpse, to the newcomer, and back to the corpse again. Warily, she murmurred in the same elven tongue he had used. “You want his head?”
Feldard, I wish you spoke Elven and heard that. Can Saeth hear the statue come to life?
August 28, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Yes, the statue makes loud rumbling footsteps that can be easily heard.
August 28, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Hasan looked at Saeth and replyed in Elvish, “You are not Siswa, but you wear our clothes. Who are you? And who is the human you travel with?”
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(having heard Saeth’s reply to the question above or not)
Upon hearing the rumbling footsteps above, Hasan leaped up the stairs.
“The Guardian awakes!” he exclaimed. “Come, elf, danger is near. You must aid me. We cannot let more humans despoil the temple!”
August 28, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Note: Nicolai, Miklos and Maruc are also wearing Siswa robes (tattered from combat as they may be)
August 29, 2007 at 1:41 am
Feldard cussed inventively in dwarven as the golem animated at his approach. But his intent was still to aid Saeth and Nicolai with the Rahib, so the dwarf tried dodging the golems attacks and went behind the alter and made for the escape hole the Rahib used, with any luck Miklos and Maruc would be ignored after his disappearance.
August 29, 2007 at 1:44 pm
At this point, either you guys should post for Maruc and Miklos, or we hold off for a few days for Matt to get back.
August 29, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Nicolai runs out to the the main room shouting, “Everyone out of the room! The Rahib is dead! His enchantment on the Siswa should be broken! Regroup for later!”
August 31, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Miklos looked quizzically at the dwarf as he mouthed something at him in the blanket of silence that surrounded the three combatants. It took him hin a few valuable seconds and a violent (and somewhat rude in Miklos’s opinion) gesture for the young mage to get the message – follow the others.
Miklos nodded and bounded up to the dias only to trip in to top step. “Halav’s teeth!” he groaned as he picked himself up on his buised elbows and knees. Two things he noticed as he picked himself up, firstly he could hear secondly he was staring at an open concealed entrance. His mind raced, this might explain the sudden disapearance on the Rahib at their first meeting, which means the man might not be a powerful as he’d at first feared. Even a complete charletan? No time to wonder he fumbled in his cloak for the wand and limped over to the entrance. A fight was happening! He allowed his eyes to become accustomed to the gloom. For a moment he watched the fertive swordplay of Nicolai and the more graceful repostes of the elven warrioress. She jumped back and she flung a bolt of magefire at the figure at the back. The Rahib! And he was wearing chainmail. His masters he’d said – immortals! They were dealing with a cleric – not a mage! The light illuminated a Siswa guard behind him. Curses, no clear shot for the wand. A bluff to buy time for them to get out of my way.
He took a deep breath to shout down the stairs just as Seaths’ blade impailed the evil cleric. Then he heard the terrible sound of bone on stone, he slowly turned to watched the guardian unfolding again Bounding up the stairs Nicolai pushed passed him stattering the mage to the floor again. “Hey!”
Nicolai ran out to the the main room shouting, “Everyone out of the room! The Rahib is dead! His enchantment on the Siswa should be broken! Regroup for later!”
“They can’t here you! They are surrounded by a silence enchantment!” Milkos wildly called at his back as he picked himself up.
August 31, 2007 at 10:33 pm
DM:
Please note the whiles Felard is wihin 15ft of Maruc he wouldn’t be able to hear. Therefore I’d suggest altering the text slightly:
With the second of the panthers laying dead at his feet, the dwarf turned to follow the others to the area behind the alter.
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Maruc was feeling a touch lighted headed at the loss of blood but it wasn’t debilitating. the dead cats at his feet he watched Feldard mouth something at him and take off toward the statue. The priest was still recovereding from the first fight to realise the the dwarf was about to make the same mistake again.
“NO! Fool Dwarf!” He screamed ineffectually as the magic sucked the sound from his vocal chords before they had left his lips. He scrambled over the bodies of the panthers and made a grab for the the back of his armour. He missed only to watch the guardian loom back up its eyes ablase.
He fumbled for the enchanted coin an cast it to one side of the room Free the the splells effect Maruc commanded the Dwarf with the steel summoned the the finest rightious sermons. “RUN! Back Felard! I have no magic to save you a second time!”
September 14, 2007 at 3:53 am
Saeth: 10xp+10xp +75xp combat +400xp defeat Rahib
Maruc: 10xp +75xp combat +400xp defeat Rahib
Miklos: 10xp +75xp combat +400xp defeat Rahib
Nicolai: 10xp +75xp combat +400xp defeat Rahib
Feldard: 10xp +10xp +75xp combat +400xp defeat Rahib
Hasan: 10xp+10xp +75xp combat +400xp defeat Rahib
TOTAL:
Saeth: 8030/8000 +1 level
Maruc: 8210/12000
Miklos: 8220/10000
Nicolai: 7630/9600
Feldard: 8180/8800
Hasan: 7545/8000