ROUND EIGHTEEN
(this was preceded by round seventeen)
Ishi, realizing that he was helped by the apparition but unsure how to interact with the flying sickle, hesitates and then gives it a little bow of gratitude. For its part, it does not stop in its drift north. Following its example,
Ishi charges north through the archway into the room, taking in the sight of the two robbers and the dying half-elf between them.
"SVAKTAG!" he screams (a particularly foul orcish obscenity) and attempts to cleave
Lord Mayor's Man Nine from groin to crown. The robber, already reeling from the wound that Elysia deal him, tries to block the blow but his mace rebounds from the gigantic blade.
Lord Mayor's Man Nine takes 13 slashing damage.
[ +- ] Abbey Battle, start of round 18
OOC:
@Redamancy - please roll the death save for Eozindra.
Edit: I've rolled Eozindra's death save, since it's been two days.
moves to
Adran's side and tries to stop the bleeding from
Eozindra's skull, but is unable to staunch the flow in the first few seconds.
Lunea's sickle drifts up to attack
Lord Mayor's Man Nine, but the villain is able to dodge the scything blade.
Lord Mayor's Man Nine is starting to sweat, with two murderous intruders flanking him who have each just wounded him badly, not to mention the freaky flying weapon that has just entered the Chapel! His eyes shift back and forth as his head swivels, trying to keep both Elysia and Ishi in sight. He steps back and attacks each, then tries to make a run for it. He manages to connect with the barbarian;
Ishi takes 4 damage.
[ +- ] Path of LMM9's flight
The yellow line & arrow indicate the path that Lord Mayor's Man Nine is trying to take to escape.
As the robber starts to flee,
Elowin whips her rapier up from the ground and stabs him through the kidneys.
Lord Mayor's Man Nine takes 9 damage and dies.
[ +- ] Abbey Battle, round 18: the fall of LMM9
rushes across the Chapel past
Ishi, calling out
"Live!" to
Eozindra. The half-elf bard's nearly-transparent eyelids flutter and open again.
Eozindra gains 7 HP and is no longer dying. The bard shrieks out a gasp as she awakens in the lap of
Elowin.
Morik swings his gnarled, leafy branch, clobbering the last remaining robber in the back.
Lord Mayor's Man Four takes 11 damage.
Staggering from the huge blow to his back, Lord Mayor's Man Four sees black spots for a moment. But the sight of the cleric stabbing his last remaining buddy,
Pola, in the back is burned into his mind.
Lord Mayor's Man Four is filled with rage, a burning hatred that overwhelms any sense of self-preservation he may have been feeling. He focuses this rage on
Elowin, stabbing furiously at her. She is still crouched over
Eozindra's body, having set aside her shield, with only her rapier in her hand, still extended from the killing stroke that slew
Pola.
Lord Mayor's Man's sword plunges into her shoulder, slicing through her collarbone and down.
Elowin takes 7 damage and is dying.
Lunea's sickle vanishes like something eclipsed the moon.
The last robber standing yanks out the blade with a fountain of gore and hacks again at her body, his tears blurring his vision. The sword hacks into
Elowin's arm, taking her sword hand off midway up her forearm. The rapier lands with a clatter and splatter.
Elowin has one failed death save.
[ +- ] Abbey Battle, the end of Elowin
looks in shock at Elowin's severed arm lying on the ground at her feet.
"N-no...." she says, picking it up gingerly. She looks helplessly at her sister
Eozindra, who is blinking on the floor, and takes a step toward the dying cleric...
"NO!!!!" Adran lunges at the man and thrusts his dagger, even as he can't take his eyes off of his sister. The blade misses the robber who is as wracked with grief as the artificer is.
Having just opened her eyes with a gasp,
Eozindra continues her audible reactions with a horrified scream as she sees the arm severed from the elf who tried to protect her. Terrified purple eyes brim with tears as she tries to apply pressure to the savage wound.
"No! No, no no…" Focusing her attention behind closed eyes, the half-elf tries desperately to send healing energies from herself but finds that she is exhausted from the day already.
"I can’t, I just… I can’t … I…" she continues to babble as she looks mournfully up to
Adran, tears streaking pale lines across her gore-splattered cheeks.
A moment of realization hits her as she sees the man beside the devastated brother.
"You!" She leaps to her feet and pulls the twin daggers from her hips, attempting to re-sheathe them both within the remaining monster’s chest.
Eozindra plunges her daggers into
Lord Mayor's Man Four's chest. His look of triumph is replaced by one of bewilderment.
Lord Mayor's Man Four takes 6 damage and dies.
With all the enemies defeated, the combat encounter has ended at last, with the power of the Lord Mayor's Men robber gang broken, their leader vanquished. The sense of relief in victory is leavened with grief as the group gathers around their dying companion...there is a growing sense of tension as each of the adventurers feels a vast, dark, cold presence in the room with you.
20 - Ishi (9/35) one success, two failures
18 - Lord Mayor's Men Five and Eight
15 - Elowin (0/24) Dying one failure
13 - Lord Mayor's Men Three, Six, and Nine
10 - Morik (Dwarf 15/33) two failures
10 - Lord Mayor's Men Two, Four, and Seven
8 - Elysia (7/24) two successes
3 - Lord Mayor
1 - Eozindra (7/15) one failure
1 - Adran (18/26)
1 - Mara
