Murtle pushes through the doorway and closes with the dragon.   She snaps viciously at the dragon. 

   Lia moves up to the doorway yet again. She gestures at  her friends yet again and more healing surges into them.   She then draws her oath bow back and nocks an arrow of dragon slaying.  Speaking quietly in elvish, she activates the bow's magic versus the undead drake. The string twangs  as the arrow speeds upon its way. It is covered with swirling light.   

  She is about to move back out of sight when Velon stands up woodenly.  Her mind reels in horror at the sight. " Velon........no...no...."   She forces herself to move back to her previous position in the hall as  her grasp of reality is hanging in the balance.   

The skeletal Dragon shudders under the combined assault. Then the magical arrow causes its skull to implode. The rest of its body collapses to the floor.

The room grows quiet, at least for a moment. Velon still stands in the corner, the crystal sparks fitfully.

  Lia looks wearily upon the dragon skeleton collapsing.   " Great job everyone.   We did it.  Can someone please destroy that crystal before more mischief can be done here? " 

 She walks over closer to Velon. Tears run down her cheeks as she looks at him. " We should be able to lead him out of here. I can restore him to life but it will be better to be done in the safety of our sky castle. I am weary of this place as I'm sure we all are. We still need to find the items we came for. That should be much easier now once our opponent no longer has control here.   " She pulls a rope out of her backpack. Pulling  a dagger out she cuts it in half. " Will someone please secure themselves to Velon by the rope?  I will secure him by the other length of rope.   As long as we walk in front and back of him and keep the rope taut we will be fine. "     

Perry watches on in horror as zombie Velon rises, but screams out in anger and focuses intently on disrupting this crystal. As the voice cuts out and Velon freezes in place, a small wave of relief washes over him. The relief is short-lived however, as he realizes that Velon is now a damned undead. It's unclear to the bard what has happened to Velon's soul.

Perry looks towards Lia with sorrowful eyes, "I'm so sorry, Lia. If only I was there..."

He looks down at the ground with a guilty expression. "I'll try and keep the crystal's magic at bay for as long as I can," he says to the others.

Poljen says to the others, "Everyone get out!  I will deal with that thing!"  Feeling Lia's divine healing once more he strides forward and makes ready. Once the room is clear, save maybe for one or two others who intend to assist, he begins to attempt to smash the crystal.

Once again rising to his feet as the healing pours through him, he barely has time to open his eyes again before his prepared magic pours into him, enlarging him and changing his form into that of a giant dinosaur! With a "Wuuf?!" of surprise, his tiny brain takes a moment to realize what has happened, and he starts stomping out of the room, looking a bit confused.  Recalling the purpose he tried to accomplish two blacknesses ago, he stops and looks around. Seeing no threats, the tooth-filled maw opens and makes a “hurm” sound as he eyes the cracked crystal. Growling low as he sees the sparks, he lumbers over to the crystal and raises his claws, preparing to strike. 

Ooc - full move and dash to get there this round. No other actions. 

Poljen starts pounding on the crystal with his axe. After a few blows, it flares back to life. Perry notices a spell being cast and manages to disrupt it with a quick counterspell. For the first time the voice is showing emotion, that of rage, "One way or another, I will extract the value of that which you've destroyed today. You will be hearing from me again!"

Roaring loudly, and then snickering at the sound, Lawrance the Dino leans down to chomp hard into the cracked crystal. Teeth grinding into its substance, he makes sure he is in the way of the main group, interposing his huge body. 

Ooc- after Pols attack, and if the crystal is not destroyed, keep concentration on the Polymorph. If it is destroyed And nothing explodes after a couple of seconds,drop the spell.

bite attack 11

bite damage 27

Poljen growls, "By the gods, I hope not.  I've had enough of your blather!"  He keeps up his attacks...

  Lia looks at the crystal with anger.  " No, you will be hearing from me you bastard. I will find you and destroy you.   You are a craven who is afraid to actually put yourself in harm's way. I'll find you and end your existence. Count on it. " She looks to her friends   " Will someone please take care of Velon for a moment?" She hands the rope to whoever offers.   Lia then changes the cube face to block out all spells.   She walks rapidly over to the crystal and places it down in front of it effectively blocking it. " There, someone kill that crystal.   " She backs up and gives them space. 

Murtle moves as rapidly as she can and looks for a spot to chomp down on the crystal. 

It takes some work, but between the combined efforts of several, the crystal cracks further and begins to crumble. The magic within sparks fitfully before finally dying out.

Perry moves forward into the room as the crystal is destroyed. He immediately goes to Lia and just gives her a hug, "We'll get him back." 

He grabs the other end of the rope attached to Velon and begins thinking of the next steps. "We should find what we came for and leave quickly. What are in those rooms off to the sides? Lawrance, are we okay with..." he begins to ask a question before realizing that Lawrance is in fact a T-rex currently. Perry simply shakes his head at this and, with a sorrowful expression, softly says, "Wizards..." 

Perry is sad.

Once the crystal has given up its fight to remain intact, Lawrance-as-Dino steps back and let’s the spell fade. With a blur of energy, his form returns to Human and he drops to one knee. “I still hurt. Somehow it doesn’t seem fair. “ holding his stomach tightly he fumbles a potion from his pouch and gulps it down. The power in the potion works as expected, and some of his wounds are healed slightly. Looking around, he assesses the current situation in a moment and sighs. “I’m not an expert with undead, but I’m willing to try and dispel the undead magic upon Velon. If you think it would help.”

Once the group has decided, Lawrance also helps with searching the side rooms -with all vision types- curious about these last chambers' secrets. He also carefully picks up a fragment of crystal from the pile for research, and examines it for a moment. ”I want to see if I can trace this miscreant and then we can deal with him permanently” he states as he puts the piece in the empty potion flask.

Afterward, he seeks out a nearby spy-eye point, checking to make sure it's no longer active. 

perception on rooms adv 19, 22, 19

Potion healing 6

Arcana on crystal fragment 12

When the crystal finally stops flickering and goes dark, he gives it a final whack and is rewarded with most of the crystal breaking apart and falling to the floor.  He stands there gasping for breath as he usually does after a vicious fight for several seconds, before finally lowering his axe.  He turns and eyes the standing figure of Velon warily.  "He has not attacked anyone.  I think we can now take the time to, er, for Lia to do whatever sort of rituals and spells she must to return our leader to us.  And hopefully for Lawrence to bring Mari back from her turtle shape."  He pauses and glances about.  "I, uh, I guess I will stay out of their way, since that is probably the best thing I can do.  I will help stand guard."  He moves back over by the entrance to this room and stays ready in case any of the group call for help from the rooms to the side and across the hall.  But he also keeps his eyes and ears open for more trouble.  He worries because he does not think he can reenter his Battle Madness anytime soon.

Perception 11

Perry and Lawrence check the next room. The space within is cluttered with shelving. Most of the items on the shelves are obviously magical in nature.

A quartet of skeletons stand guard in here, but they appear to pay the group no mind. Instead they are watching the fifth figure in the room, a humanoid dressed in rags with a chain attached to the wall. The chain looks just long enough for the prisoner to reach their bed, a chamber pot in the corner, and a writing desk nearby. At present it is difficult to say if they are sleeping, unconscious, or dead.

“Oh, Lia! You want to deal with these skeletons, easily?” Lawrance calls, wary of drawing their attention “Also, any spare healing would be appreciated. “

Perry tries calling out to the figure, "Hello? Are you alive? Are you Maccath?" 

Ooc - Lawrance will have picked up the wand of MM also. If the skeletons reacts aggressively, he’ll fire a fire bolt on one of them. Otherwise taking the cue from Perry. 

Fire bolt 14, damage 5

OOC:  If someone manages to get rid of these things first, disregard.  But I figure Lia is more interested in trying to get Velon back to something approximating normal.

At word there are skeletons, Poljen wearily moves into the room.  He is unable to summon the energy to truly rage, but he moves to engage the things.

Cratol ties Velon to him so that he will be out of harms way until Lia is ready for him.  HE would have taken him out of the room until after the crystal was destroyed just to protect him from further harm.  After the Crystal was destroyed Cratol would bring Velon back to see what Lia needed.