Round three, part 1
Elowin and
Ishi look at each other;
Elowin says
"Ishi, give me a leg up to the roof," and then sprints toward the jail. Being less armored and naturally fleet of foot,
Ishi is generally much faster, but he takes a moment to process what she's said and gets a later start (first part of Elowin's action, the rest happens on Ishi's turn as he catches up).
Starting the round on his horse,
Adran quickly dismounts and rushes straight ahead, into the darkness, finding the wall of the jail with his shield. Feeling his way quickly along toward where the door must be, his feet bump into some kind of obstacle: what he will eventually learn is the limp body of the guard pierced by crossbow bolts, but right now is just something to step over.
Adran cannot see anything.
Elowin is too close to the jail to see on the roof, and both
Adran and
Ishi's views are blocked by the darkness, but
Eozindra,
Elysia, and
Morik see a
cloaked humanoid figure straighten up out of the darkness
on the roof (standing fully upright, the darkness comes up to his waist), aim a small crossbow at them, and pull the release trigger. The bows jumps with a soft
twang, and the
cloaked figure ducks back down into the sphere! The bolt - which Adran would instantly recognize if he could see it - misses
Elysia by a couple of feet. The two half-elves and the bear see a second cloaked head emerge from the darkness a little further back - it pops up just enough to see over the edge of the roof, and calls out
"Slave - keep them from following us!" There is a shimmering in the air and a
glowing blue shape appears in the street in front of
Eozindra, and the head visible
on the roof steps back out of view of the people on the street.
Ishi sprints toward
Elowin. As he skirts the edge of the sphere of blackness, a claw lashes out at
Ishi, from the
invisible creature trying to eviscerate him. The claw catches him;
Ishi takes 7 lightning damage (which uses up his temp HP). Reaching
Elowin,
Ishi cradles his hands,
Elowin stomps her boot down, saying
"There must be an entrance of a sort up there," and
Ishi nods and heaves upward, tossing
Elowin up like a caber. She grabs the eaves of the jail's roof and pulls herself up, right on the edge of the sphere.
As she is hefting herself fully onto the roof,
Elowin can see the dark fabric covering part of a hunched
figure's back sticking out above the curve of the black sphere right in front of her. It is bent over, only its back visible above the blackness. Further to the west, a
cloaked figure is walking away, further to the west on the roof.
"Hopefully we can keep them talking while we get away with the gnome..." it is saying (only
Elowin is close enough to understand the Elvish, but the others can all hear that someone is talking on the roof).
"I'm hurrying," the hunched figure near
Elowin replies,
"He's not exactly light, you know. You could help..."
The standing
cloaked figure turns back and sees
Elowin regaining her feet just as she recognizes that it is a
dark elf!
"Vartus!" he calls a warning, there is a gasp, and the exposed back disappears as the closer figure drops down fully into the black sphere.
The glowing arm with the claws that slashed at
Ishi previously retracts back into the sphere, as
that creature turns to attack
Adran in the darkness! However, it can't see him any more than he can see it, and the silent attack misses the artificer completely!
OOC:
Adran, Ishi, and Elowin each used their moves and actions to get where they are, but if any of them have bonus actions or reactions that they want to and can use, let me know and I'll adjust accordingly. For the rest - Elysia, Eozindra, and Morik - you may alter your original intent based on these developments.
[ +- ] The Unseen, middle of round three
Note: At the moment, only Elowin has line of sight to the dark elf on the roof.
24 - Elowin (17/17) (0 temp)
18 - Adran (16/19) (7 temp)
12 - Cloaked figures
10 - Ishi (25/25) (0 temp)
10 - Creatures
9 - Elysia (14/17) (0 temp)
7 - Eozindra (10/10) (7 temp)
4 - Morik bear (30/34) (7 temp)
