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#961"Damn heads, you think you could speak up now and let us know what is going on?" Jhoric spoke to the heads dangling from his hand. He didn't like the way the dead dwarf looked at him, but kept up the barrage of energy blasts irregardless. -
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#962Gideon's hammer came down hard, but the skeletal warrior managed to sidestep the blow. Gideons strike slammed into the ground with a shower of stone fragments.
To Jhoiric, one of the heads remarked, "I thinks it be obvious?"
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#963Taking advantage of the skeleton's temporary loss of balance, Fafnir lashed out with his scimitar. "Obvious! I think that it is obvioussss what we should do with these heads when we bring this beast down!" -
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#964"Take it like a man, you poor bony excuse for a dwarf!" Gideon yelled as he swung the impromptu flail at their undead enemy. "You're going to chill the Keeper's drinks in hell!" -
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#965"I don't doubt that this thing was in the middle of that chilling when it woke up to scuffle with us. We might as well return it to its duties."
Toboran tried to bash with the shaft of his spear instead of just stabbing between the living bones. -
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#966The dwarf, surrounded by enemies, continued to press its attack against Gideon, swinging down his hammer solidly unto Gideons leg, ringing the armor like a bell.
Jhoirc's energy blast again slammed home, and the energy enshrouded the dwarf for a moment, giving the appearance of being immolated by purple fire. While the flames petered out, Fafnir lashed in again with his frosted scimitar. Numbed by the cold, his blade barely touched the dwarf before slipping from his hand and skittering across the floor.
Toboran rushed in, the flames now gone, and grabbed his frosted spear to wrest it from the dwarven ribcage, but a last moment turn had him miss his mark and he ended up going past the Dwarf. Taking advantage of Toboran's difficulty, the dwarf extended a bony foot and attempted to trip him. Toboran's luck improved, for he managed to avoid it.
Gideon swung his hammer in a massive uppercut, and struck home hard. The breastplate buckled with the impact and numerous ribs rained down as the dwarf staggered back, a spectral gaze locked on Gideon.
Fafnir - fumble
Toboran - fumble
Gideon - took 10 points
Balin may still act.
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#967"You liked that? Then check out this!" Gideon battered the dead dwarf left and right. "You break you're broken, but I'll be patched together by Rajani... oh, wait. Anyways, you break first!" the half-ogre yelled, then stomped the ground in anger. (stomp feat. dwarf rolls balance check, methinks DC 17, or falls on his bony butt) -
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#968Fafnir was scrambling to retrieve his scimitar before the creature could turn and face him. Knowing that his hands wouldn't warm up on their own he gripped the blade more tightly and attempted to get into a more favorable combat postion. -
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#969As Fafnir reached for his blade, the Dwarf brought his hammer around and struck the lizard-man, knocking him closer to his sword. On his backswing he struck out again towards Gideon, and it glanced off his armor. Another blast from Jhoric blew by, passing above the dwarf's head and dissipating into the darkness. Fafnir, somewhat dazed, brought his retrieved blade up and looked for an opening.
Toboran lunged for his spear again, grabbed hold and wrenched it out of the dwarf, scattering more bones to the floor.
Gideon stomped down and the dwarf staggered back from the impact, and toppled to the ground.
My guess is this provokes an attack of opportunity, methinks...
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#970Fafnir saw his opportunity despite the wounds he had gained, and took it. When the creature fell flat, he dashed in and took another swipe at the monster. He only hoped that his blade would use its magic and strike true to end this unholy dwarf. -
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#971Balin felt helpless. This was obviously a champion of his kin, and most likely from a time when heroes were needed. He had been buried with honors that any dwarf would dream of. Balin could not bring himself to destroy it, as though his first two blasts had done anything. His companions had to defend themselves but he would find only remorse were he to destroy this warrior. So he just stood there, with his wand outstretched, doing nothing. -
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#972The dwarf, still on the ground, lashed his hammer out at Gideon's foot, but the half-ogre lifted it in time, leaving the hammer striking naught but air. Fafnir brought his scimitar down on the prone dwarf, slamming down hard on his breastplate. Again, his weapon channeled the supernatural cold to his hand, but only briefly.
Jhoric blasted the dwarf again, his prone form making an easy target, and the blast caught the dwarf full in the helmet. A flash of purple was answered by a brilliant white flash and a shower of bone fragments blew out of the openings of the helmet. A moment later, an empty helmet fell free from the rest of the dwarf and the bones slumped into a pile. A pale grey mist emerged from the helmet, pooled a few feet above into a vaguely humanoid form, then faded into dark.
Toboran stepped over, and pulled his spear from the dwarf's ribcage, bracing for cold that did not come.
Fafnir took 2 hp.
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#973Jhoric stopped blasting and sighed with relief.
"Are we almost done here?" He asked, and looked around. The heads, they were becoming more trouble than they seemed to be worth. And the rest of the crew was proving invaluable, which meant, in Jhoric's mind, that he knew who would be tossed back into the pile of corpses if it had to choose between them.
"Heads, what are your names? And, you're going to have to start helping out if you want me to keep carrying you." -
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#974"Shame on you, dead dwarf! Is this a way to welcome visitors?" Gideon chided the corpse. "But we'll put you to rest... darn, where is a priestess when you need one!" Truth be said, he needed Rajani for more. Guidance - and that mellow gloomy smile.
He manned up, though, and pointed to Jhoric: "You sort it out with Dead and Deader, we bury this restless fellow, and then look for the iron we came for, and get the boat moving!" -
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#975"Ugh. I'm glad that's over. I'll side with Gideon on his plans, though I don't care to bury these bones. They'll have plenty of their kin to rest among and I'd not touch a pile of something that has already gotten up from burial before." -
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#976"Lets not be to hasty, Jhoiric. I Rathurd, he's Thomey.
We'd a' helped more, but your test kind'a drained us," the first head said.
The second head, Thomey, spoke up, "The boat, that might be a rough go - it's ceryemonial. It might float. Though my sources say the way you cam might be a bit rough. Some 'friends' are waitin for you." The second head stared at Toboran with that pronouncement.
"The mines be about half hour walk that way, though no idea what might be livin' there now," Thomey pointed with his eyes somewhat parallel with the river.
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#977"Dwarven for 'lie in peace', dwarven for 'don't bother the living', dwarven for 'may your beer be plentiful and cool, though that other part may not bee too difficult', uh, Dwaven end. May whoever your god is bless you, and hold your soul close - or not, if you are not into it."
Gideon wouldn't make a good cleric, and he wondered whether no priest was better than a bad one. 'Oh, bollocks.' he thought, and pushed a stone slab over the remains of the dwarf.
"Did I hear 'mine' along with a gloomy and foreboding 'no idea what might be living there'? If so, then a-smite we go!" -
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#978"It seems the dwarves had a mine, exactly as we suspected. Is this what being lucky feels like? Ever since I came through to Respite I didn't think I'd feel lucky again." -
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#979"We had best find someone with healing skills. We cannot afford to fight off titanic cave animals in our current state." Fafnir shivered, he hated cold. The frost had left several burns all over his body and he would take a long time to heal without magic. -
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#980Jhoric looked around at the bruised group. He was feeling quite fine, but the others certainly looked battered. He looked to his hand, at the shrunken heads, "Rathurd, Thomey, is there anything you can do to mend the wounds of our injured friends? If not," He looked at the others, "We may need to apply some magic-less bandages to the group." -
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#981Balin finally put his wand away. He shivered slightly, as if he was cold, and then walked over to the slab the Gideon had pushed over. He spoke in dwarven, "Hvil i fred." Then he turned back to the rest, "Let's hope that we have to bring no more dwarves back from their rest. Now about this mine..."