Jovial Jungle Jaunt (ToA)

"That sounds a great idea. But it involves sitting around again. Since we have more than one master of stealth" Allister winks at Boosey "I could look around, too. I feel like I need to adjust to my new armor. It´s thin as paper but tough like steel and heavy, I have to get used to the extra weight"

Boosey laughs, "We should all go then," and his face turns serious, "though I may be a liability at the moment, I'm not in the best shape.  Options then.  The moving passage, we could investigate that first and see if there is anything hidden inside, but we would have to be very careful otherwise whoever goes in could be stuck in there for good.  We could look at I'jin's tomb again on the way past."

"Are you suggesting you go off by yourself? In your condition?" Nenne shakes her head in disbelief. "I know you are not the type to sit still while action can be taken, and I admire that about you, but I've almost lost you twice today already. Boosey nearly died trying to rescue you from that mirror, and he was on death's doorstep to begin with. I beg of you to exercise some patience. Don't leave us again. We just got you back."

"My condition is ready for action and eager to find the dwarves. I´m done with running these stairs up and down and up and down..." This goes on for a few moments "You get my point? And as you know I am not eager to die but neither do I want battle more Los turned into golems."

Boosey stands up and stretches.  As he does so, he inadvertently lets out a small bleat, and immediately covers his mouth with his hand, embarrassed.  "Lets go then," and he moves towards the entrance of the crawl way.  "Let's go dwarf hunting." 

Nenne grabs up the trident of the wall to pass through the water wall first, but she doesn't get very far before a noise draws the party's attention to where the illusory cubby is. Stepping out from the wall is another rotting, bolted together construct. It raises its spiked fists and bolts straight to Allister, who is closest.

With the thing rushing out at Allister, Boosey panics and grabs the first thing to hand, his crossbow, and fires a bolt straight at the things head.  The bolt vanishes inside the helmet, but seems to have no effect whatsoever on the creature.  The gnome curses when he realises that the weapon needs to be magical to cause any hurt to it.  Not having completely lost his wits, he shouts at Nenne, giving the cleric inspiration.

Not quite over the influence of Kubazan, Allister tries to muscle his way through the first two rapier pokes. The hulking monstrosity proves the stronger, so Allister adjusts his strategy. A quick slide to the left of a guantleted punch puts him in line for a thrust into the thing's arm pit. The smell of searing flesh tinges the hallway. Allister ducks low next to get past a haymaker. On his way around, the warrior draws his ywkla. A low, double thrust puts both weapons into the thing's stomach before Allister has to go into defensive mode.

Using Allister’s flashy attacks to hide his presence, Glimbul moves behind Allister with dart in hand. Right when the creature is about to go in for another punch a dart slams the soft flesh of the armpit.

Allister ducks, weaves and dodges two heavy, but clumsy blows from the badly wounded creature. The wall of water makes a bunch of noise as a second bolted together thing passes under the curtain. It stomps forward towards Allister, running into Nenne. The creature swings out in front of it, causing Nenne to throw up her shield. Metal rings against metal, but the cleric stays unseen.

A red shimmer settles on the creature engaged with Allister (Path to the Grave) as Nenne's voice disembodied voice calls out, "Get it before it can strike again!" Water swishes under her feet as she moves.

When the second golem emerges through he waterfall Allister knows that he has to kill the first behemoth quickly. He feigns high, then low and jumps forward. The creature manages to dodge his stab at its head. Suddenly the red hue of Nenneˋs power highlights the golem and he knows he has to hit more than ever. Just like during his fight with Biff he waits for his opponent to attack and extends his arm towards the advancing golem. Without any resistance the rapier punches through the body. When the hilt touches the body, he cuts down and open the golem from sternum to groin. The mass of animated meat falls to the ground and stops moving. Allister walks around it and slashes the Yklwa at the other golemˋs head. Still not used to wielding the long weapon his aim is off and he misses.

Boosey, waiting for Allister to finish with his first opponent, targets the new creature with a dart.  His throw is good and it makes a satisfying thud as it punches through the armour of the creature and into flesh.

The thing comes in at Allister again, but the warrior knows all too well to stay ahead of those blows or suffer immense pain. His companions are quite surprised to see Allister moving as quickly as he does, even while wearing that dreadful plate armor.

Running into the shadow of Allister yet again, Glimbul matches his movements well to Allister to stay hidden. Waiting for the creature to finish its swing, he fires another dart into the abdomen of the creature.

Water splashes around the creature. Suddenly, the cleric appears beside the fighter in a jet of holy fire. (Move to E3, Sacred Flame for 13, Dex 17)

The flames surround the creature, but it doesn't appear to be affected by the holy spell. The thing swings at Allister again, but he dodges. The pair of them spin over towards the wall, but a second swipe and a miss has them pivoting back towards the center of the hallway.

With the fight raging in front of him, Boosey attempts to throw a second dart at the creature.  The fluidity of the fight makes the gnome snatch at his throw and the dart flies past the creature and lands in a pool of water down the hall.

“This should help you do better than I,” he shouts at the other gnome, imbuing him with inspiration.  

Allister stabs at the monster again with his rapier, only for the thing to bring its arm up to block. The rapier pushes into one of the thing's armor plates, causing Allister to think he scored a hit, but the thing just keeps moving trying to punch the warrior. Allister is forced to let the blade go for now as he ducks another heavy fist. A carefully aimed stab with his ywkla frees the rapier, which clatters to the floor. Allister is on the blade in an instant and thrusts it up into the creature through its groin. Allister rolls free of the thing, giving Glimbul room to aim over him.

Seeing an opening above, Glimbul releases his dart and lands into the shoulder of the creature. However the creature does not slow as it continues its rampage.