Age of Ruin IC: When all your friends are dead

[Moechi_Vill]

Lucidae

Lucci springs closer, avoiding the stone giant, reaching for Kizima's body and chanting the end to a spell.

[Ozzy_G]

Lucci runs into the room and sees Kizima badly wounded.
She runs forward to grab her, but the spry halfling jumps away.
Seeing that the small woman isn't coming with her, Lucci casts a spell, and disappears.

She reappears a fair distance away in the field outside.

[Brickwall]

Kizima

Kizima does her best to keep her head straight, even through all the massive bruises and cracked ribs.

Carefully moving forward, she gives a couple conservative jabs, still ducking and weaving as best she can.

Come on, guys, get out of here already.

[Moechi_Vill]

Lucidae

"I'll be back! Kizima wouldn't have a teleport!" Lucci teleports back to some sixty feet behind Orin.

"Orin!" she screams. "The halfling will not have my help. Let us both turn invisible and come back for them later!"

[Ozzy_G]

The bronze creature steps forward and slams his hands down towards Kizima, but the agile woman dodges out of the way. She's managed to get him to walk forward, a good five foot from the top of the staircase, so Krashnix, Livina and the heavily-laden mule can get out.

[Ozzy_G]

With a roar, Krashnix runs up the stairs and out at the bronze giant, delivering a mighty thwack with his flaming mace onto it.

Orin meanwhile scuttles around to the front door, seeing immediately the battle inside.

[Lycar]

Orin, meanwhile, was still making his way around to the tomb entrance.

(I must find out what is going on... would be nice if i could make sure the mule survives... and the cleric... oh well, even if they all survive it's better then loosing the mule. And this woman creeps me out... strange, the short one wouldn't think twice about cutting my throat in my sleep and still i feel safer around her then Lucidae.... maybe it is because i've seen the other two before...)

Lycar

[Moechi_Vill]

Lucidae

No reply forthcoming Lucidae starts chasing after Akim.
~I need to find a way to coordinate with these people~

[Ozzy_G]

The mule rolls its eyes in fear, but Livina manages to pull it up the stairs, behind the fighting Krashnix.
The great bronze giant swings its two heavy fists at Krashnix.

[Moechi_Vill]

Lucidae

Lucci continues to chase after Akim around the temple, feeling a comfort in the routine.

[Lycar]

Orin makes his way around the structure, reaching the entrance. Peering inside he finds Krashnix and Kizima doing battle with the golem guardian.

(Ugh... this doesn't look good. As much as i hate it, i have to do something to help .... i just hope i'll live to not regret this.)

Taking a breath, Orin puts up a cheerful face and, brandishing his staff. exclaims "Fear not! Reinforcements have arrived! This animated lump of metal is going down !"

And thus he bravely moves up to join the fray.

Lycar

[Lycar]

Orin is somewhat surprised when Livina presses the reigns of the mule into his hand and goes to engange the Golem herself.

"Er... yes that's right ! Together we shall overcome this foe like all others before him !!

(Ooookay.... well, no complaining. If they insist on taking on that thing without me....)

Lycar

[Ozzy_G]

Livina readies Draven's old mace and dodges through the melee to stand next to Kizima.

[Moechi_Vill]

Lucidae

Lucci moves closer to the fight, but carefully so, making sure there is something between her and the golem. She casts invisibility on the knight Krashnix.

[Ozzy_G]

Kizima pokes ineffectually at the golem, while Krashnix tries to smack it mightily.
The golem smashes two great fists at Krashnix.
Then Krashnix vanishes, having been touched by Lucci's spell.
You notice that what damage has been done to the bronze construct is slowly healing.

[Lycar]

Orin starts pulling the mule towards the exit.

"Forget the damn golem. It was created to guard this place and nothing else. If we go away, it will leave us well alone..."

Lycar

[Moechi_Vill]

Lucidae

"Then we could get to civilization."

[Ozzy_G]

Krashnix's mace comes swinging out of nowhere, but bounces off the creature's tough armoured skin. His second blow badly dents its back though.
Nevertheless, the bronze giant doesn't really look that injured.

Livina's blow also bounces off the construct's armour.

[Ozzy_G]

Seeing Livina and Krashnix pressing the attack, Kizima breaks her defensive stance and attacks furiously.
However, her little rapier just scratches the bronze giant ineffectually.
The golem swings one mighty fist around into the halfling's body, smashing her to the floor, bleeding and unconscious.
Then it steps on her head. There's a sound like a melon bursting, as Kizima's brains squirt across the floor.

[Ozzy_G]

Lucci casts a spell, and taps Krashnix on the back. He vanishes.

[Moechi_Vill]

Lucidae

"I can do that once more, Sir Knight. But I will render myself invisible as I cannot defend myself."

"She should have let me rescue her..." she whispers loudly and bitterly to herself.

[Ozzy_G]

The mule bucks and screams as the smell of Kizima's insides reaches it. It flees out of the tower, dragging Orin along after it.

[The Great Skenardo]

Livina Lightfoot
Livina has to repress the urge to drop the mace and flee screaming just like the mule.
"Godsdammit..." she whispers, barely able to keep up her defense as she stares at the increasingly-sticky patch of floor. When Lucci makes Krashnix vanish, however, the dusky-skinned Mokai pales a little as she sees the wheels turning in the giant's head. Even golems could count to one.
A sudden irrational rage seizes her, and she rams the mace with incredible force into the golem, before blanching once more and somersaulting backwards, out of reach.

[Moechi_Vill]

Lucidae

The sorceress laughs. "You better accept me afterwards if I survive being left with this Protector consctruct!"
"Akim, be noble and turn me invisible then run directly outside. If it gives chase I will doubleline it from behind and bail you out; promise on ancient honour."

[Ozzy_G]

Unfortunately, Akim is too busy being dragged away by the mule.
Livina's blow dents the golem's chest.
With a roar, Krashnix's mace once again appears out of nowhere, and smashes into the golem... and bounces off ineffectually.
His back-swing however, lands where Livina just hit, smashing a big crack into the thing's chest.

[Ozzy_G]

The golem hammers both its fists down into Krashnix.

[Moechi_Vill]

Lucidae

"... your faith is strong."
Lucci, still out of the golem's range runs away really fast, conserving her last invisibility spell.

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She withdraws if necessary.

[Lycar]

"I am terribly sorry Lady Lucidae, but i told you i am out of speeeeeee......."

Orin doesn't get to finish his sentence as he gets dragged along by the mule, holding on to the reins for dear life.

Lycar

[Ozzy_G]

Livina charges back and smacks the bronze golem, but her mace bounces off.
Krashnix unleashes a barrage of attacks, but only one dents the construct. Its injuries are still slowly healing, and it seems as if the group is only keeping the thing at a particular level of injury, not making it worse.
The thing lashes out at Livina with its metal fist.
Krashnix moves sideways, but it steps after him and slams its hand at him.
Orin is being dragged away down the hill by the mule, while Lucci has just run out of the door.

[Moechi_Vill]

Lucidae

"I guess those other adventurers weren't so bad after all..." Lucci continues charging after Orin.