Cratol watches as the Poljen escapes from the creature as he readies to attack it again.  When he is struck by fire He looks at the creature seeing that it has a few nice surprises in it too.  He sees it grab Mari and this causes some concern as she can not take the damage that Poljen can.  He attacks it once again with his staff adding his feet this time.

Perry angrily calls back out to the voice, "What do you want with us you spooky, ominous voice?! There are better, more polite ways to invite people to talk you know!" 

Then, he notices Mari get caught in the creature's jaws and grits his teeth, "Hang on, Mari!" He fires three more beams at the skeletal remorhaz. 

Velon pauses suddenly as the foreign voice fills the chamber and calls for Lawrance and Perry to be taken.  In jest Velon shouts "oh come on!"  "You can have the wizard, but not Perry!"

At Poljen's words Velon nods and turns to pursue the bone swarm but sees that Perry is fine and that Lia has the cube activated, blocking the passage in one way or another.  "Lia, where is Lawrance?!"

"Ah, hells" Velon says as he turns to strike at the remorhaz twice before looking back again.  "Where is he?!"

  Lia is frustrated as the swarm remains somehow in spite of her efforts.  Losing sight of Lawrance she grits her teeth.  " Velon, I don't know. The swarm..." As Lawrance teleports close to her she has a huge grin on her face.  " He's here. Lawrance is safe Velon.  " Seeing that the swarm is now blocked she looks the other way.  " Now to deal with this creature.  Lawrance, are you okay?" 

The group continues to strike at the skeletal remorhaz as it lifts Mari in the air. Lacking a stomach with which to swallow the rogue, it just keeps chewing.

As Lawrance uses a teleport to escape the swarm, the voice calls out, "Interesting, this group is better prepared than most. Nergal, fall back, Skri, weaken them as best you can."

The bone swarm, chased by Lawrance's firebolt, continues to slide away.

Lawrance cannot see any hidden foe, but there does appear to be a scry sensor embedded in the ceiling.

"Let go of her you giant meatless sardine!" Perry yells at the creature chomping on Mari. Three more rays fly straight for it's spine.

Still concentrating on his teleport spell, Lawrance zeroes in on the hidden sensor and fires off a dispel magic. “No more peeping Tom for you, friend!”  To Perry,in Infernal, he says “How’d you like to give some orders to Nergal and Skri? Think you can play a mysterious voice?”

to Lia he responds “Yes, the creature didn’t make it through my Magics.it tried to poison me, and attempted to put collar around my neck, but I teleported away.”

OOC- if threatened, Lawrance will use his Far Step BA to get to safety somewhere in the room. If nothing needs him to TP after the monster's turn, he will Step to S7.

Dispel Magic @ 3rd. 14

Poljen simply snarls and keeps hacking away.  But the others hear over their telepathic link, {I look forward to meeting the bastard that created this thing!}

  Mari screams in agony once more.  She continues struggling to get lose but her efforts are weakening as blood drips on the floor beneath her.  

Lia glances and notices the swarm retreating down the corridor.  She sees Mari being mauled and her heart stops for a moment.  Out of range to help, she races towards her friends with the barrier still in place around her.  

Velon is relieved at the news that Lawrance is ok.  He turns to the concern for their friend in the jaws of this beast, calling out "Hang on, Mari!"

"Ok, enough of this."  Velon strikes out twice more and unleashes a blast of radiant energy on the remorhaz.

With the party's fire focused on the thing, the remorhaz quickly collapses, though not before it chews a hole in Mari's gut, dropping her bonelessly to the ground. The voice calls out as the undead thing falls, "I'll have to obtain another body for him, such a bother. Creatures such as that one are fairly rare, but perhaps Skri will be content with one of your corpses for now, it has been quite some time since such potent specimens have come along after all. Oh yes, definitely time for some experimentation. Don't disappoint me by dying too soon."

Velon moves as quickly as he can to try to catch Mari or at least soften her fall.  Kneeling over her, the paladin touches Mari's bloodied abdomen, closes his eyes and mutters a few words in draconic.  The large fiery glowing wings seen when he first exited his egg form around him again, shrouding he and Mari with protection as holy light begins to knit together her most serious of wounds.  As Mari returns to them Velon switches to common and says "come back to us, my friend."  "We have a lot of work left to do, you and I."

(Heal 20 from Lay on Hands.)

Seeing the thing fall before he can strike it again he looks about to see what other threats are about.  He will especially look to where the thing came from. As he waits to see what the group wishes to do next.

Seeing the foes flee or fall, Lawrance telepaths to the group, %there is a magic eye up in the ceiling% and shows them what he can see. %thats how he’s watching the show. I tried to dispel it, but wasn’t successful. Would you like me to try again?%

%also, this collar they tried to put on me drains magic swiftly. This may be useful once we figure out how to open it when it’s locked. %

Velon lays Mari down on the ground, removing one of his furs to put under her head.  "Rest a moment, Mari."

In response to Lawrance's question about dispelling again, Velon stands, turns and says a firm "No."  The paladin walks to the middle of the room, looks up to roughly where Lawrance indicated, and speaks loudly for the voice to hear.  "Whoever you are, I am Sil'Vahlok, Shield of the Many, paladin of Bahamut, Leader of the Silver Blaze and, most simply, Velon of Dawnrun.  I would have your name and see you in the flesh, if you have the nerve to face me."

Perry watches in horror as Mari's unconscious body falls to the ground. He is relieved when Velon heals her, but rushes up and hops off Shadowsnacks to see her. "Mari, Mari! Are you okay?" he asks his wounded apprentice worriedly. He strums his mandolin once and his hands light up with yellow fey lights. Then, he gives her a hug as the fey energy surrounds her and begins magically stitching up her wounds. 

   Her world goes black as the agony becomes too much.  Mari goes limp and falls only to be caught by Velon   She knows  nothkng more until she feels healing surgimg tbrough her.  She smiles weakly up at Velon.  " Thank you.   That was...horrible   " She smiles as Perry approaches her. " Your apprentice didn't do so well this time.  " She smiles as he heals her as well. " Thanks Perry   I feel so much better.  " 

 Lia looks on in horror as Mari falls before she can help.  She deactivates the cube and places it back in her pouch. Relief floods her face as she sees Mari healing up and revived.  " Are you ok Mari?" Upon her nod she speaks to the group. " Come here, those have been hurt. It's time to renew you for the coming conflict  " She waits until whoever wishes to be healed is close and then begins praying to Sune for the healing of he friends.  A soothing white light bathes them, slowly healing them up.  

Cratol will come towards Lia to be healed by her. 

OOC  That puts him to 70 out of 74

After the healing is concluded, Perry looks around the room with a puzzled expression. "Hmm yes, I see. This is some sort of underground castle," he nods his head as if he knows something the others don't. "I say we go south through that gate down there!" Perry exclaims. "Hmm, but the gate itself looks very heavy...If only we had a couple of really strong individuals who could handle such a large gate," Perry says as he looks towards the strongs of the party. 

In response to Velon addressing the scrying orb, the voice intones, "Wrong, those things are not what or who you are. In this place, you are experimental subject number, now where did I put those labels?... Here we go, lets make you number seven hundred fifty two. If you continue to exist long enough to need a name for me, you will address me as master."

"As to meeting me face to face, I certainly invite you to try. I am in what was once the throne room of this place. Surviving long enough to make it there will be your first test. Not many subjects manage to get to the second, so be sure to give it your all."

Lia begins her prayer of healing, however a few minutes into the casting, faint noises can be heard from the hallway the boneswarm retreated down. The voice cackles, "Now, now, who said you could rest for that long?" In that moment, a flight of bolts come arcing out of the darkness, every one of them targeting the Cleric of Sune. She is struck by several of the projectiles. "Now get moving, the last thing you want to be doing is boring me."

Lawrence is the only one capable of seeing the source of the projectiles at the moment, the tunnel back down the way the group came has been packed with skeletons, mostly wielding bows and crossbows.