The Unseen, Round Three
Round three of this combat begins. There are at least two somewhat-talkative aggressors in the darkness, Elowin saw movement on the roof, and there's a monster that attacked Elowin on the street but then turned invisible just moments ago. The horses are glowing purple and not happy about it, and Elysia, Adran, and Morik start the round having just arrived.
[ +- ] The Unseen, start of round 3
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 figure ducks back down into the sphere! They 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. 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
the creature turns to attack
Adran in the darkness!
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.
runs toward the jail, yelling
"Ishi!" The barbarian has just flung
Elowin up onto the roof and doesn't have time to reset to hoist the half-elf, so she leaps for the eaves herself...and smacks into the side of the building. She's left hanging by her hands from the edge of the roof.
OOC:
On your next turn, if you're still hanging from the roof, you can take half your move to pull yourself up onto the roof, with no additional check needed.
mocks the voices for their miscasting of the spell that has highlighted the horses.
"I mean, they look very pretty now, thank you! Why don't you come on out so we can talk this through?" She presses her knuckles to her hips in a casual posture, the unsheathed blade of her rapier pointing behind her in a non-offensive stance, as she addresses the glowing figure that she can see a few feet away from her.
"Sounds like you don't care for the Duke much either so we have that in common. Maybe there's other things we can agree on." The figure shimmers but provides no reply, not even to move to attack.
Morik rushes past the glowing figure and into the dark, sniffing mightily. He reaches the northeast corner of the building and immediately senses
Adran ahead of him; there is also a lingering, unfamiliar odor of moldy earth and root vegetables. Underneath that is a faint trace of ink, pipeweed, and magpie droppings:
Findal Dinfizzle Findazzle is clearly nearby.
[ +- ] The Unseen, end of round three
24 - Elowin (17/17) (0 temp)
18 - Adran (16/19) (7 temp)
12 -
Cloaked figures
10 - Ishi (25/25) (7 temp)
10 -
Creature
9 - Elysia (14/17) (0 temp)
7 - Eozindra (10/10) (7 temp)
4 - Morik bear (30/34) (7 temp)
