As the members of the Irregulars stepped forward it was abundantly clear the group was going to press on. A few outliers remained Stephan and Gwen both gave their push to head back, but their votes were far out outweighed by the others. So the decision was made and the group pressed on.

Behind the doors the Ruins took on life. The sand covered floors turned into beautiful brick covered with gold leaf, The walls now clearly showed ornate drawling and pictographs telling the long lost stories of those who originally lived in the structure, even the ceiling had magnificent artwork to be shown. It was almost like walking back in time and it took all of Alm's being not to break ranks to go explore, there would be time for that later. But now more so than ever their was an eerie feel to the place. The group was defiantly being watched, every so often a snakeman would shoot past on one of the sides of the group just barely in sight and to quick even for Shion to get off a shot. It felt as if the group was being lured, ahead was another set of open doors and behind them what seemed natural light. It was clearly a trap, but the current halls were to dark for a real fight and Jing wasn't about to get his people killed in the dark, so whatever this trap was all the group could do was hope to overcome what the Snakemen had planned. 

With caution the group pressed forward and once entering the room the doors slammed shut behind them. After the bit of chaos that would follow calmed the group got a chance to look around the room. It was a large dome like room with a single sky light in the Roof providing the light that filled the room, once there had been two other doors into the room one to either side, but the door on the right hand side of the room had collapsed some time ago. There was an elevated throne of sorts in the middle of the room surrounded by a pool of water with seemingly only one path up from the rear of the pedestal, and atop that throne stood the [url=https://i2.wp.com/www.sixus1.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Lamia_4.jpg]Snakeman Queen[/url] her bow drawn and letting an arrow fly. Jing was able to swat the arrow out of the air, but that arrow seemed to be the signal for the others to move. Four [url=http://corwyn.wdfiles.com/local--files/serpent-folk/Serpent%20Folk.jpg]Armored Snakemen[/url] and 4 other sword wielding Snakemen pored out from behind the Throne rushing the Irregulars, at the same time Two more Armored Snakemen, 2 Sword Wielding and 2 Archer Snakemen came through the open door and began to advance as well. Jing quickly sized up the situation and gave out orders. "[color=7bcdc8]Alm take Shion, Pox, Sybille, Nanami, Haf and Garret. Go cover that door prevent more of them from coming in! Everyone else we are going to kill the Queen.[/color]" he shouted and began to move forward to intercept the group coming from the Throne.

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[@Lyla][@Sync][@ShwiggityShwah]

Alm and Garrett quickly fell into their places taking up the front line and ended up engaging the two armored Snakemen coming from the doorway. Alm's blade locked with the Snake's but the lock was short because with a quick adjustment of his grip Alm was able to push back the snakeman and followed up making a slash at the Snakeman's Torso. Garrett meet the other armored Snakeman trading a few blows each parrying the other's attacks until Garrett was able to knock aside the Snakeman's blade and moved in to elbow the snake in the face.
Shion knew the archers would be a major threat quickly knocking an arrow and sending it at one of the archers while Sybille sent a few ice shards at the other The final two snakemen on this front moved to the sides attempting to flank Alm and Garrett and attack from their sides.

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[@Athol][@RoccanIronclad][@HowlsOfWinter]

Jing was the first to meet an Armored Snakeman in his fight using the length of his weapon to keep two of the Snakemen at bay (one armored one normal). Each time one tried to move Jing would quickly alter his movements to force it back. Stephan used this as an advantage and moved behind Jing to strike at one of the Snakemen as soon as Jing made an opening. Allant was able to engage another of the Armored Snakemen using one blade to Parry and attempting to attack with the other. This tactic would of worked if there hadn't been other foes present as one of the Snakemen swordsman was able to stop Allants second sword and a second Swordsman moved in the gap coming at Allant with a stab from his left side. Gwen knew her target and immediately launched a fireball at the queen, but the snake was to fast and quickly hid behind the throne allowing the fireball to explode against the hard stone doing little more than scorching it. This was quickly followed by a shot from the queen aimed directly at Yui. The final two armored Snakemen moved around the sides avoiding the front line and moving after the ones in back. One made his way around Jing's spear launching an attack on Stephan, a low fast strike from it's sword. The other moved on Octavia coming at the girl with a strong diagonal slash. The Final Sword wielding Snakeman made his way after Jenramo atempting a quick slash at the man from his left side.

(Battle Stats)
Doorway 
- 2 Armored Snakemen Engaged in combat, under attack need Response!
- 2 Sword Wielding Snakemen Not engaged moving to flank!
- 2 Archers Under Fire Need Response!

Throne
- 2 Armored Engaged in Combat
- 2 Armored Not Engaged currently moving to attack Octavia and Stephan need Response! [@HowlsOfWinter]
- 3 Swordsmen Engaged In Combat, Allant under attack need Response!
- 1 Swordsmen Not Engaged Currently moving to attack Jenramo. Need Response!
- 1 Queen Attacking from Elevated Position, Yui under fire need Response! [@Athol]