Into the Barrier Peaks

The smoke rapidly fills the area surrounding you all, and you immediately become light-headed. Your vision blurs and you stumble a second before catching yourselves, hands and cloth covering your mouths. Fortunately, you manage to shake off the effects, but as the mist begins to clear, you see Hraefn slumped against the wall, out cold.

The golem arm begins to tighten around Caedwyn, but he is a bit too fast and strong, as he breaks free.

No. The golems have already taken their turn.

Gasping and coughing as the gas fills the corridor and your lungs, you all manage to avoid the effects, save the druid Hraefn, who has slumped to the floor where he stood. Fighting through the haze, Merriweather manages to launch an arrow with deadly accuracy as it seems to pierce through the protective magical barrier and strikes the metal thing with a solid 'ting' that echos down the hallway.

Caedwyn, aided by the distraction of an onrushing Ilwyn, wildly struggles and strikes at the golem gripping him. His blade crashes again and again on the thing and the salvo gives him just enough room to slip from the bindings of the tentacles looking to envelop him.

Etna whispers arcane words as she launches a pair of arrows from her massive Oathbow. The golems are wary, however, and manage to avoid her attacks even as they lash out at Ilwyn and Caedwyn. The first slams both of its tentacles into the nobleman, all the while squawking and beeping "Resistance shall not be tolerated. Incarceration and interrogation imminent. Cease all aggression. Incarceration and interrogation imminent."

The front of the second golem lights up in a bright flash, as a thick, blue-white beam strikes Ilwyn fully. It feels as if a massive ram has slammed into her, and she manages to dig her heels into the grating on the floor and absorb the shock fully with her shoulder to avoid being thrown backward. She feels herself giving way, when suddenly the beam stops and the golem squawks at her as well.

Caedwyn hears it say "Continued aggression requires elevated force. Cease hostility. Intensive force required."