Pizazz's Ravenloft and Beyond

Meepo casts shield to deflect the magic missiles.

He uses his watery sphere to try and catch more of the skulls and would try to move them out of line of sight of the arrow slits, if that is possible.  He would also move out of sight of the arrow slits, back behind the stairs or pillar again, so he cannot be targeted by spells or attacks directly.

Ulthan thanks the mountain spirit for not getting blasted that one round, so he takes careful aim at the little man in the big head and lets loose two more arrows.... then curses himself for not taking better aim....
Arrow 1: 13 Damage: 20
Arrow 2: 12 Damage: 17

Mordekai, focused on the old man attempts to weaves a counterspell to stop the powerful death magic, but as the old man holds one finger up pointing at Kasimir's invisible form, his eyes flick to you and his other hand comes up, weaving a counterspell to stop your counterspell.  Kasimir falls despite your attempt to save him.

Meepo's shield comes up and the magic missiles bombard it and explode into nothing. 

Then Lionel swings to the front of the statue, and his sword jabs in through the eye holes twice, the searing bright blade slashing into the old man two times leaving horrid burning wounds of positive energy. 

Mordekai attempts to add his two blasts, but they both miss, his eldritch energy slicing through the air and one bouncing off the outside of the skull with the other just glances off the man's side. 

Two more arrows rip through the air from Ulthan, both missing, one making an eye hole but clattering inside the statue ineffectively and the other bouncing off the outside of the statue. 

The watery sphere attempts to capture the other two skulls and roll away from the arrow slits.  5.  8. 

He manages to gather them both and roll them away from the arrow slits.  He meanwhile also takes full cover from them. 

The man in the skull looks badly wounded, clutching two massive searing wounds in his side.  He weaves a spell and with a "pop" he vanishes. 

The three skulls can't see down into the room from their view, but they can still see Ismark straight across in the other arrow slits.  A spray of magical bolts strike across the open room and through the arrow slit to strike Ismark. Force Damage: 30

Everyone's action.

Mordekai you pop back into being to see the old man has vanished from his hiding spot.  The skulls are not near enough to the arrow slits to target anymore.  

Well this went well thinks Ulthan, oh so very very ... crap, my hide's still on fire.... Ok, where were my thoughts, oh yes, we've won, a short hard fraught with ... bolts strike Ismark, bodies line the floor... well crap... it's not over... for as long as I have full cover, I will start patching up the dying....

No-no-no! No! Lionel was desperate to find his enemy - Divine Sense for the area (though, would it work in this evil place?) and move to the ruined balcony if needed (searching and to avoid arrow slits).

"Find way arrow slit chamber!" Meepo calls out.  "NO can hold skulls long..."  He would try to see if he could find a way to get to that area.  With no other enemies to attack, that will end his action.

Lionel opens his sense to the vile evil of this area. There is a thick miasma of evil all around that fills his sense.  As he leaps, his wings carrying him easily across the gap from statue to ruined balcony, he finds himself safe from the arrow slits, but he notices that there are actually two more arrow slits in the back wall behind the main statue.  But there was no flaming skulls or enemies shooting from there. There are amber double doors here leading both east and north. This black marble balcony overhangs the northwest cor­ner of the temple, the floor of which lies thirty feet below. Nearly half of the balcony has fallen away, and obvious cracks have formed near its ragged edge. 

He detects no particular undead, though if they're behind full cover his sense doesn't work. 

Meanwhile, Ulthan turns away, staying in cover under the arrow slits and moves towards Olin, the nearest to him, attempting to patch up his burned, scorched flesh.  2  4  2  19. As he does so, he notices the elf that had been invisible, then fallen dead in the middle of the room twitch.  He turns, unhappily witnessing as the elf pushes himself up, his bloodshot dead eyes looking lifelessly about the room.  It hisses at Ulthan and begins approaching, his broken left leg dragging on the ground behind him.  

Ulthan touches Olin's cooling body. Unfortunately he has passed. 

Meepo figures his best way to get to the skulls is either to run up the stairs and go through the double doors there, hoping it leads around to the arrow slits.  The way Ismark was able to get to the far arrow slits was to go through the double doors on the far side.  Potentially, the east double doors on the northern broken balcony may also lead there, but there's no stairs up there, so Meepo would need to find a way to get up 30 feet.  Or he could just Misty Step through the arrow slits. 

Let me know what you'd prefer to do. 

Mordekai ? 

Ulthan moves away from the soon to come alive body, doing his best to both keep away from people and from skull filled arrow slits, there's only so much one can take after all. But as he does so, he puts two arrows into the eye sockets of the now undead elf. "The dead come back and never went away away" he mutters to himself as he looses his arrows.  And now stupid thing is doing double spaces... 

Attack: 14 Damage: 14

Attack: 17 Damage: 20

The two arrows lance into the elf zombie, it collapses before it makes it 10 feet. 

The big enemy was truly gone then, but those behind arrow slits - still there. Lionel goes through the double door to the east with intend to reach those behind arrow slits.

Conserving his spells Meepo takes the stairs up to the double doors.

(Are all of the skulls caught in the watery sphere?)

Can Mordekai get within 10ft of the arrow slits, or are they up too high in the walls?  If so, he'd like to use his movement (and dash if necessary) to do so.  Then he'll wait and hope to blink (and when he re-appears, he'll re-appear the other side of the arrow slits.).

Blink roll this turn: 14

All three skulls were caught in the watery sphere, but they've been moved back away from the arrow slits, so you can't see them anymore and aren't sure if any have managed to escape yet.  The arrow slits are 40 feet up the wall, so unfortunately the blink trick won't work unless you try to climb the amber coated wall. 

10 3 14

Meepo rushes up the stairs and to the double doors and tries shoving on the large closed amber doors. He pushes as hard as he can, but though they move slightly, it would seem something on the other side is stopping them from opening.  He sees a thin line of light along the cracks in the heavy door and hears a distinct, "Shhhhh" from the other side. 

Lionel slams open his double doors:

 Mordekai, knowing you can't get up through the arrow slits, what do you do? 

If there is no visible threat - no one attacks and no suspicious movements, then south doors is Lionel's goal, he needs to get to the skulls.

Mordekai will go to investigate the statue, to find a way up to the head where the old man was.  (He was inside the head, right?  And just vanished?)

"Little help here?"  Meepo calls, hoping the big guy they just met might be able to get these doors open.

Mordekai, as Meepo rushes to the top of the staircase yelling at Ulthan, "Help here!"  You move to the back of the statue and look around. (Roll Investigation). (and confirmed, the guy was inside teh statues head, and just vanished)

Lionel, you move to the south double doors immediately and push the heavy amber doors open.  The walls of this twenty-foot-wide, seventy-foot-longarched corridor are sheathed in amber. The southern half of the hall is scorched by fire, and a charred corpse lies on the floor here, under a burned fur cloak. Several am­ ber doors lead from this hall, and three arrow slits are cut into the east wall. Floating in the middle of the hall are three skulls wreathed in green flame. Two seem to be captured inside a large watery sphere. One floats free. All turn to face you. 

(OOC: we're still in initiative, but i'm unsure who gets to act first, so Lionel, roll init once more.)  

Flameskulls initiative: 17.  19.   11.   1 is free, 2, and 3 are in water.

At the moment Lionel was too enraged by the disappearance that devilish man he fought to even realized he is alone against 3 enemies.

Initiative: 20