Adventure #67 - To reach the other side (the Bonds...continuation)

[DM B]

Gaerred's light is as ineffective as Klaiman's fire - it hits a magical barrier and goes to waste. Tristan's swam does a little better - they reach the pale man and attack him.

Manethander: "You call upon insects to fight me? Very well, let there be insects!"

His mouth opens and flying insects pour forth. Wasps, fat flies, locusts. From above tiny spiders start falling. And from ever crack and crevasse scorpions and other stinging creatures.

Manethander: "You are weak Tristan. You will take nothing."

Suddenly he is upon you, crushing you in his embrace, wicked fangs deep in your neck. The pain. The bliss. Its excruciating!

It could not halve lasted longer than a few seconds before his is torn away from you by something falling down on top of him. It nearly tears your neck apart. Blood is fountaining from torn vessels.

To the others: With the insects and his sorcerous speed you hardly see him move. Suddenly he's upon Tirstan. And suddenly a Khinasi male falls down from above, knowing him to the floor. They are now rolling across the floor...

[X-IHH/Wallac Isilviere (Kasper)]

Lannelah using the distraction goes for his lost sword

[X-IHH/Wallac Isilviere (Kasper)]

The pale man having moved off the sarcophagi and now distracted by his with the unknown Khinasai, gives Wallac a chance to attempt to open it. Quickly he hands the Book of Law to Balter and cast “Divine Power” to go along with the already activated Divine Wrath and Divine Aura. Thus empowered with strength beyond normal for a mortal, the Pontiff goes to the sarcophagi and begins to push the lid off

[X-LPA/Gaerred Khaiarén (Gray)]

Gaerred is going to save Tristan's life.

[X-Elinie/RiD (Niels)]

"By all that is Holy! Can't you see that he is hiding behind some kind of spell-turning shield? - The spells bounce, but summoned beings pass!"

And, seeing nothing at all down the mysterious very obscure corridors, Rashid has no choice but to return to the room, covering Gaerred as he tries to stem Tristan's bleeding and taking a potshot into the furious melee on the floor. - Aiming not for the Khinasi, only for Manethander.

[DM B]

Lots good one-liners here now

Since you're squandering your temporary advantage anyway...LL is next to the coffin already so he might as well help out with the lid.

To Rashid: There are no strange corridors - there are rooms. Living rooms. Sleeping chamber. Library. Stuff a nobleman would require if he was to stay locked up for quite a while.

[X-Elinie/RiD (Niels)]

The Sunsword finally comes to life again, its flame being a kind assistance in swatting and scorching bugs.

The Patriach sees the attempt to open the casket and hurries over to join in!

[X-Points East]

IC:

"Rashid", calls Elamien, "there is no thing in the shadows, except—"

As she sees the Khinasi falling from above, she cuts the statement short; then, grabbing the sword, upon which she has come, she approaches the rolling figures as quickly as her damaged frame allows, tighmaevril in hand.

[DM B]

The Sunsword finally comes to life again, its flame being a kind assistance in swatting and scorching bugs.

The Patriach sees the attempt to open the casket and hurries over to join in!

None of the bugs come close to you with the Sunsword in hand - it's not that they veer away, they just turn to nothing as soon as they get near the blade.

The old Marshal stands guard over Gaerred. Kaleiman is doing something - suddenly there is a brief flash of light and he is gone.

The lid thunders to the floor. The sarcophagus is empty.

[X-IHH/Wallac Isilviere (Kasper)]

Wallac pour holy water into the empty sarcophagi

[X-IHH/Wallac Isilviere (Kasper)]

Lannelah with his sword back furiously attack the pale man still on the floor and Wallac comes after to join him

[X-Elinie/RiD (Niels)]

Rashid spots Elamien coming and moves to assist her attack and cover her.

[DM B]

By the time Elamien reaches the two vampires the naked one has gained the upper hand. He twists the neck of the other violently, then sinks his fang into its neck, savaging it. The vampire is remarkably similar in appearance to Karlaf Nathal, one of Rashid's lesser vassals. But it is not him. A relative perhaps? As he feeds of his kin he keeps watching Elamien, who finds her head spinning, and not solely out of pain...but the image of Karlaf's face somehow prevents her from falling under his spell...

[DM B]

Elamien presses the attack, as does Rashid and Lannelah...all three well armed with magic blades...

The naked vampire suddenly drops it's prey - and for the first time you see something other than smug confidence in his eyes. Does he fear you now?

He brings his had to his mouth. It looks like he might be ill. "Karlaaaf..." he mutters "you foul beast..."

[X-IHH/Wallac Isilviere (Kasper)]

In the name of HAELYN I command you to die vile thing!

And then Wallac attack in earnest followed by Lannelah