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"D...d...dragon?" Marros stumbles on the word. His usual over confident demeanor replaced with one of a timid child. "I've never faced the most fearsome of creatures." He slinks closer to Kethra who seems unphased by the thought of the giant scaled beast. "I'll watch your back as we move closer." He shadows Kethra's movement, somehow always positioning her between himself and the dragon.

Kethra looks back, her bright eyes slightly dropping after seeing Marros' reaction.

"Is...is there something about that creature that I need to be worried about? That we need to be worried about? I just figured that if one of these feathered weirdos managed to break one like a horse...we should still be able to take it, right?"

"I mean, I'll be counting on you all, though. I'm no good at magic...actually now that I think of it," Kethra stops and waves over to Mr. Tyde.

She waves, makes a motion of casting with the Wand of Magic Missiles then making the motion to temporarily trade for the magic knife Reszur in her hand for exchange.

Tyde steps forward and holds out the requested item to trade with Kethra.

"That thing might be a Dragon. Dragons have fearsome reputations and they're well earned. It's hard to say what the deal is with it having a rider. Probably not good though."

(The pyramid is essentially just an ornamental structure, not anything you can enter.  Besides, the dragon looking thing is in between you and the pyramid.)

Before anyone can try the doors, the figure steps forward.

"Halt!  State your business!"

Meanwhile, still someplace across the moat(back from where the group came from) half lost in thought, Xan has moved on from idle consideration of finding a bird that can somehow scout for the group towards possibly swimming the moat. Although almost half a second later he's shaking his head at the idea. "Naw, that wouldn't work... But if we found a fish who we can somehow convince to give a look around... yea... yea, that might just be crazy enough to work..." He mutters before nodding feeling rather proud of himself.

(What is the lighting like? Is Rubin invisible or not? He would be staying to darker areas if possible, just not certain if those exist or not...)

(Unfortunately the lighting is too good for Rubin to be fully invisible.  However, you can roll a stealth check to try to be at least hidden.)

(Correct me if I'm wrong, but you didn't take any uniforms from any cultists, right?)

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As soon as Kethra hears "human bones" from Tyde she takes off the white robe she was wearing, throws it to the ground, and gives it a few good stomps.

((At this point no one is wearing cult uniforms anymore >_< ))

Not seeing an immediate response from the mounted cultist, Kethra bows politely, but alsoooo subtly bends one knee inside her cloak to take the ready action to dash to forward diagonally and a little up the side IF the dragon takes flight or takes a hostile action against them.

"If this dragon breathes fire," Kethra says under her breath quiet enough so it won't be picked up by the cultist, "I'll try to draw the creature away...I hope this dwarven god is watching over us trying to take back his place here."

Rubin stealth: 25

The guard looks faintly confused, then shrugs.

"Oh well.  Guess I'll have to kill you."

(Roll initiative.)

Cultist: 5

Mount: 2

((How far away is the guard? And as soon as the guard declares "Guess I'll have to kill you," can Kethra use her reaction to immediately use the action that was readied in #2672?))

Kethra's initiative: 9

Rubin's initiative: 16

Marros initiative 6

Xanranzan initiative: 4.

(Yes you can use your reaction, the guard is about 60 feet away.)

(Everyone is up)

Rubin sends a trio of bolts at the guard...

Attack: 24 Damage: 6
Bonus action Attack: 24 Damage: 9
Dread Ambusher Attack: 27 Damage: 5 Dread Damage: 14

Con save: 10

Mount save: 13

The guard is knocked off his mount and falls prone on the ground.  He also looks quite badly hurt, like one solid attack would finish him.  The mount however looks quite a bit sturdier and quite a bit pissed off.

(Kethra, Xan and Marros are up)

Recognizing the boom as a call of danger, Xanranzan immediately snaps out of idle thoughts and dashes to the source, crossing the bridge and drawing his swords in anticipation of things having gone terribly wrong!

(Not entirely sure how far away Xan would necessarily be from everyone else before the fight, but going to assume he needs to dash to even get into position to see anything.)

Marros briefly considers finishing off the guard but decides that Kethra may well want to question him. He leaves the kneeling warrior's fate in the white-haired woman's hands. He focuses on the mount.

In one single motion he sheaths his scimitar and flings his hand to point at the creature, releasing a bolt of orange light. It crackles its way towards the mount.

Attack: 9 Damage: 11

Kethra takes off like a wild beast as soon as the mounted cultist declared his intent to kill, circling to try to initially draw off the enemy, but then circling back after seeing the knight thrown off his mount by the Wizard's Magic.

Then acknowledging the Warrior of Light with a nod, her eyes blink bloodshot red (bonus action rage), stomps on the ground to stop, cracking stone but taking care not to desecrate dwarven decorations on the ground, bringing down a massive maul decorated with shark teeth.

Maul to-hit, advantage because prone: 25 Damage: 14