[IC] The Sands of Blood (Dead)

[Afina]

Sana was falling slowly, trying to fight the sleep that was entangling her; bow and arrow slipping from her fingers as she felt an arm wrap around her. Looking at Hugh, her eyes drifting closed despite fighting it. She heard his words but could form none of her own to respond, barely able to wrap her arms around his broad shoulders to try to steady herself against him.

Sinking with him slowly to the ground, part of her wanted to push away but she couldn't. Sleep was taking a hold quickly and his grasp far too comforting after more than a day without solid rest. Feeling his other arm slip around her waist she could fight it no longer; body curling against his as fight gave way to slumber.

[Ryu]

"Dear god," Varis stated before taking out his short sword and dagger, preparing to follow the damned morally-retarded orc and kill whatever was down there.

'A long, long sleep, a famous sleep
That makes no show for dawn
By strech of limb or stir of lid, --
An independent one.

Was ever idleness like this?
Within a hut of stone
To bask the centuries away
Nor once look up for noon?'

Varis heard Ellyn's soft, rather beautiful singing. He slowly turned his head over to her with his eyebrow raised and a face that said, "What did you just sing?" The song, it sounded as if it was a song to put people to sleep -- hell, it even had the word "sleep" in it twice.

"Elf," Varis stated as he took a step forward to her, not daring to say the word "useless." "What the hell did you just play-" As Varis was mid step, he fell down to the ground in an instant, the drowsiness hitting him in an instant.

[EWillden]

Out from the darkness footsteps could be heard. It was a cloaked man. Beside him was the Wraith and several skeletons. The skeletons were that of Gnolls. The necromancer observed those at the steps. Specifically Ellyn, as he smirked. "Thank you lass for making my job easier." He then moved his hand towards her face pressing a finger to her forehead. The finger was dry and you could see the skin sag. "Now sleep,...along with your friends" he said. Seeing she was a elf he cast a spell that would knick her out. Seeing sleep spells were ineffective. The skeletons began to drag Artos, Ellyn, Garekk, and Vivian off.

Ellis began to feel a bit taken back by Hugh. Okay maybe I went over board. Then he heard Ellyn's song and crashed. The horse quit struggling as well and fell to the ground. He saw two figures leaving the entrance. A cloaked man and a shadowy creature. They were joined by skeletons shaped like dogmen and he was about to yell but sleep took him. The skeletons proceeded to grab and drag everyone into the depths of the entrance. A portal was opened and it brought them to a circular antichamber. Each of the members were placed in a cage. Locked from the outside.

Anyone else who fell victim to the sleep spell suffered the same fate. Except for two people who were being reluctant. Sana and Hugh. He walked over and leaned in. Behind him a skeleton was pulling Ellis off the wagon and carrying him off. Another grabbed the goblin and the newcomer. Then came Varis, he was farther from the group so he was taken last. The necromancer pulled his hood slightly. Hugh could see that half the mans face was gone. Green orbs filling the eye sockets. "You want to save her so badly... Too bad... So sad." He said. The wraith reached forward to tear Sana from his grasp. Once Hugh collapsed he was drug off too.

The spell of Ellyn's didnt last long. When wore off, lasting a bit less for Varis. They would find themselves in a cage. Even the spell that left Ellyn unconscious was losing its effect. The necromancer who took them was no where to be found.

[Salrynn]

Ellyn watched all her friends and the brash newcomer crash onto the floor one by one, with a worried look she didn't know what to do and dropped on her knees weakly before getting back up; she spotted a cloaked man walk towards her and she was taken aback by what he said, what did he mean by 'easier?' she was about to ask him until he knocked her out. She fell onto the floor with a large thud, at the very least she should be lucky since she was breathing peacefully with no altercations, with this was the skeletons cue to drag her away while unconscious.

Ellyn awoke slowly with a start, breathing lightly as she did. Sitting up on her knees she ran her fingers through her own hair as it was tatty from being dragged off before looking at her surroundings to see all her friends in cages. She got worried and with in a panicked state of mind she tried to look for her harp which was nowhere to be seen.

'n-no! my harp!! where is it!?' She thought out aloud as she scrambled. She remembered that she sent everyone to sleep and a weird cloaked man walking to her just to knock her out... 'shoot... where am I...? what have I got everyone into...?' she would ask herself as she gawked at her friends.

[Inertia]

Tagged; Everyone in the party,

His awakening was sudden, Artos awoke with huffed breaths and small cuts. He presumed that the cuts were from being dragged off, and sand also laced his robe. "In a cage... no use panicking... assess the situation." he said in between ragged breaths to reassure himself, eyeing the other cages that contained his fellow band members. They took Red Trinity, my armor and my pouches... I better check my hidden pockets he thought to himself, taking off his boot and feeling the small spellbook tucked away in it. Reaching inside his robe, it was ransacked too, all taken. Thorough, but not enough he continued his thought process, clutching his small spellbook.

Looking at the rather claustrophobic and rusty cages, he noticed everyone was still knocked out, save for Ellyn who looked like a mess. He also noticed her frantic disposition, "Ellyn, calm down. I am sure they took everyone's weapons and armors." he reassured, "I know you didn't fall asleep as Elves have a resistance to that, what happened?"

[Salrynn]

Ellyn looked to Artos and calmed down slightly, she didn't want to sound stupid because of something she never sung before, but she finally decided to own up since she kinda had no choice, and it could strike up something more interesting to the two. Besides she already trusts him thanks to what he did with Gurekk and she knew he probably wouldn't make fun out of her.

'W-well...' Ellyn began 'as you know... I sung that sleep song and it was my first time casting it... I didn't know it would make everyone drop like flies... I was scared... I really was, then this weird man came up and said I made his job 'easier' then knocked me out' she explained slowly as she looked at him, a few tears coming out of her eyes. 'Oh man... I am so stupid! I should have been prepared for this... why didn't I!?' Ellyn was getting more frantic now as she sighed at him.

'I am so sorry for casting that spell, Artos. Please forgive me...' She mumbled out as she slowly brung her knees to her face and cuddled them, trying not to panic as much as she felt the need to.

[Warrior in the Shadows]

Hugh felt the warmth of her body against his as he kept fighting off the drowsiness. "You can't..." He stammered, "Let it." He realized that slumber had taken her, but he felt at peace as he held her in his arms, and she held onto him. He couldn't do anything as the world around him was fading. He heard Ellis cry out, and then he saw the skeletons, and the cloaked figure. As he was still awake enough, he saw his face. It was purely terrifying. All he wished for at the time was the power to defy, but the sleep finally overtook him after the figure spoke some last words to him that pissed him off.

Hugh awoke, finding himself cranky and angrier than usual. He looked around, seeing only cages, and that he himself was locked in a personal one. His mood just kept getting worse. It dampened when he recalled that he had been holding Sana while she fell asleep. He remembered how her body felt against his. He was longing to hold her again, and not have it interrupted this time. He finally started panicking a little. "Is everyone here? Is this everyone?" He said, the fear showing in his voice. He was worried, trying to find out which cage Sana was in.

[Afina]

Sana began to awaken slowly, feeling groggy as she placed her hand to her forehead and groaned lightly. The world fading in around her as she began to hear the others, feeling the cold hard floor. She felt a shiver run through her, missing Hughs arms around her.

Hugh?!? Where was he, what happened?! Questions began to run through her mind as her eyes snapped opened. Standing up she looked around frantically to see where she was. A cell? No, it was a cage...

"Hugh?" she yelled frightened but her voice was laced with anger. "Ellyn? Ellis? Everyone?" she screamed in a guttural voice as she ran over to the bars, looking out to see if she could see anything. "Anyone there? Or have their shit? All mine is gone," she stammered as she looked for everyone.

[Ryu]

Varis' Cursing

"SON."

"OF."

"A."

"GOD."

"DAMNED."

"MOTHER."

"EFFING."

"ELF."

Varis screamed out in pure and utter rage before grabbing one of the bars of the cage and pulling on it in a useless attempt to perhaps tear it apart. More or less, he did this out of rage -- in an effort to subside his rage. He was angry -- pissed off. He wanted to kick someone, wanted to beat something or someone into submission in an effort to stop being angry.

"ONE MISSION," Varis screamed out, referencing the original reason why he was in a god damned desert, but to others it would seem as if he was referencing the group's mission that was given out by the mage.

And then it hit him. It hit him faster than a brick thrown by an elf.

That damned mage had led them here. Whether or not he knew this was going to happen, the mage had led them here. The mage had gotten him stuck in this god damned cage. This was the mage's fault, this was the god damned mage's fault. Varis screamed once more before finally slinking down, raising his hands up to his eyes. He wasn't exactly sad, nor was he crying. More or less, he was angry for his stupid naivety, for his stupid willingness to want to go with this damned group, for his idiocy.

For his wants.

"God damn it..."

For some odd reason, he had wanted to go on this mission. For some odd reason, he had wanted to be with other people -- random strangers that he didn't know. For some odd reason, after so many years of killing innocents for hire, he wanted to go adventure off with some odd, dysfunctional group of hell.

As he thought of the group, something came to mind. He quickly shot up, trying to find his allies as his eyes darted around the room. Trying to find her.

[EWillden]

Each member of the group, growing ever larger, awoke. Each one predictably freaked out as they found themselves locked in a cage. Each one, felt some relief as they would see other members of their party in the same room. Only they where in separate cages. These cages did not have a lot of room in them. To the far left wall everyones things could be seen. Piled up against a wall. The short peace would not last though....

Vivian woke up next. She felt a massive headache as the world began to spin. She woke up from a horrid nightmare and found herself in a nightmare that was all to real. She thought her kin might have had something to do with it. Until she heard Ellyn explain things. The room began to erupt with life as each one began yelling out. She looked to see Varis looking around worried. It was strange because he was looking for them. She smile half heartedly. She then noticed all of her things were missing. Everything... Her swords, her crossbows, everything. She sighed. "I think we are all accounted for.... Now how do we get out of here." She said.

Garekk woke next he felt himself alone in a cold cage. He was stripped of his weapons and armor revealing his muscular features. Some of it scarred from the casual life of an orc. He grunted rather angrily. He then recalled he was holding onto Vivian. When he found her. She was placed in a cage on the opposite side of the room. He wasn't too relieved because he failed. He tried to protect her from that thing ,but he had failed. He wanted to tear these bars apart but he knew it would be pointless.

Ellis was stuck in a smaller cage. He grunted as he woke and looked about. "Well shit,... This sucks." He said. He then saw that it was locked and decided to check his pockets and hidden compartments. Empty, all of it was taken. Damn it... "If i only had my lockpicks I could get out of here..."

Then it appeared... A large zombified Gnoll. Hugh could recognise it from the tears in its jaws. This was the one he shoved a bed roll down. It carried jiggling keys and it looked at the occupants and cages. It's eyes had no life in them and glowed a green light. It then saw its target and moved towards the cage. The cage was Sana's,... It unlocked the cage and without emotion or hesitation it reached in and grabbed the first thing its cold hands could grab a hold of. It was her hair. It pulled and drug her out if the cage and across the floor. It dragged her into the room it came out of closing the door.

Vivian went wide eyed and gasped. "Well shit.. That just happened."

[Afina]

Sana saw the beast, her eyes widening as it stepped towards her. "Oh hell no," she spat at the keys unlocked the door; kicking out did nothing. She went to flip out of the way but there was no room. It grabbed her hair and she screamed out in pain as her hands grabbed the hand gnolls in her hair and fought to free herself.

Her body dragging along the floor as she kicked and fought and struggled with everything she had; eyes darting around, she found Hugh. She looked enraged, furious but in her eyes there was fear. Deep fear that crept up in those nightmares you couldn't free yourself from.

"Let me go you oversized gorilla!" she screamed, still fighting as she was drug out the door and it shut heavily into place. Her screams could be heard growing faint until there was nothing left but silence.

[Inertia]

Tagged; Everyone in the party,

Intently listening to Ellyn, "Don't worry, already forgiven. No point in being angry, won't get us out of this mess." he reassured after listening to her tale, "But this man, what did he look like?" he asked, reaching for his hidden spellbook. Everyone started to wake up one by one, each being more frustrated than the last. He heard Varus' incessant screaming, and everyone's worried dispositions.

All of a sudden, a zombified gnoll appeared, one with a gash on the side of its jaw. "Is that the Gnoll Sir Hugh killed?" he asked outloud, eyeing the beast. It walked ever so slowly, towards... The archer, Sena's cage. With an open lock, the light thuds that echoed the dark room were replaced with Sena's screams until she was out of sight. Reaching for his spellbook that was hidden inside his boot, he began slowly chanting an escape spell.

[Salrynn]

As soon as Ellyn finished explaining to Artos what happened she felt comforted, even smiling softly at him due to the comfort she felt from him. She did however feel a bit of warmth inside her, she was confused why but she usually felt it when she pitied herself regardless. Her head turning around quickly as she spotted everyone was getting up, her hair waving around like little ripples in a river or a lake. 'I... I can't remember... sorry...' Ellyn answered as she did so.

Upon seeing the big zombified gnoll she got scared again, scared about what it was doing here. She quickly got on her knees and grabbed the bars of her cage to see the dreadful sight... 'no, it can't be... why would they drag her off like that!!?' Ellyn thought to herself upon seeing the gnoll drag Sana off, she wanted to get the gnolls attention to stop him but only thought of one thing to do.

'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' Ellyn screamed with all her might in order to try to get him to stop, knowing she couldn't do anything else 'LET HER GO!!!!!!!'

[Warrior in the Shadows]

Hugh grabbed at the cage bars, his eyes starting to water as he grasped them. "SANA! Are you alright?" His voice sounded choked with emotion as he rattled the bars of his cage. "Please be alright!" He stammered. He felt so many emotions welling up as he held onto the bars, wishing only to hold this girl again. All he wanted to hear was her voice at that point.

The moment was interrupted by a dead gnoll entering, looking very familiar, as it looked as though its jaws had been torn open. "Oh, wow. You." He stammered, realizing it was the one he had stuffed a bedroll down its mouth. His calm reaction was done for, as he soon became angrier and angrier, as the gnoll chose Sana to take with him to heaven know's where. "DONTCHU FUCKING DO IT!" He screamed, "I WILL FUCKING RIP APART YOUR FUCKING BONES AND GRIND YOU INTO FUCKING POWDER." He pulled at the cage, prying the bars. They weren't moving, but they were creaking.

He let go with one hand and reached out after Sana threw the bars, "Fight it!" Echoing the words he had said earlier, but it was too late. The creature dragged her out the doors, and they shut behind them.

Hugh broke down into tears, pressing his head against the cage, and holding it. "SANA!" He screamed in agony. It was pitiful to watch Hugh so debased. He had been this way before. "I've lost so much. Why? FUCKING WHYYYYYYYY?!" He screamed it, his sadness giving way to anger. The anger began to build up inside. "Not again. Not ever again." He started muttering, prying at the bars, only thinking of going after her. Only thinking of the end result.

He kept prying them, and prying them, pulling and pulling, delving further into anger. His anger was beginning to take hold of him, developing into full blown rage. His rage kept him pushing against the bars. His eyes looked like the eyes of an insane man, as he pried at the bars. He ignored the pain he felt in his hands, as he felt the bars start to move. He didn't stop for celebration for a little victory. He was only focused on getting out and getting to Sana.

Before he knew what happened, the latch on his cage door broke open, and he came tumbling out. The force of using all his strength to fight through the cage had sent him rolling, and he landed sprawled out on his back. He laid there for a moment, not sure what to think, before his thoughts soon became obsessed with the next obstacle. He started scouring the room for anything he could find. Wires? Metal bars? Anything?

His salvation finally came in the form of a small pack. "Ellis, is this yours?" He said, before the contents spilled out, revealing wires and different useful items to pick locks. "By heaven." He smiled, picked up the items and threw them into Ellis's cage. "They're all counting on you. Make me proud." He gave one of his charismatic smiles, before turning around to face the door.

"Alright." He growled and walked to the door. He didn't care what stood in between him and Sana. He was tired of losing people. He wanted to leave this life and live peacefully again. Maybe it could happen this time. Maybe it would be different. That didn't matter right now. All that mattered was Hugh killing everything in that place that needed to stay dead.

With a swift kick to the spot where the door latched closed, Hugh busted the door open. Splinters of wood came flying out as it announced his presence. He stepped through the door and introduced himself further, "Hey boys, I'M BAAAAAAAAAAACK!" He yelled, before he charged at the skeletons.

He grabbed the first one and tore its head off, flinging it at another. Each one he came to, he just tore into them like a rabid animal. "I'm on my way Sana. I'M COMING FOR YOU!" He yelled it through the halls, letting it echo out, as he smashed skeleton after skeleton. He didn't even pick up a weapon. There were only three weapons he needed. His holy warhammer, his falchion, his tomahawk, and his paladin powers. He began to pray aloud, still tearing into the skeletons, "Heaven, grant me the power to smite thine evil against thy creation. Make me a conduit for your power in this time of need." Obviously he had no time for an atonement ceremony. The only thing he could hope for was a miracle.

[Ryu]

"I failed you, father..." Varis stated as he slumped down in the cell once more, destructive rather saddening thoughts entering his head of his. Intrusive as they were, they were mostly accurate. Varis had a fortnight, or fourteen days, to murder his innocent target -- which was some type of merchant -- but because of this horrendous disaster, chances were, he wouldn't be able to kill the target in time.

Not like he actually needed the gold anyways. He had enough gold saved up over the years to live out a rather prosperous life, but he took on this assassination contract because simply, he had nothing else to do. Varis already tried living out a normal life, but it just wasn't for him.

"I failed..." Varis said once more, his head down, his gaze set on the metallic floor of the small cage. "I failed," Varis slammed his fist into the metal cage. "I failed, I failed, I failed," With each two words, he continually slammed his fists into the metallic floor. This was the first time he had ever failed a mission. The only thing he was good for, the only thing he was ever made for and trained for, he failed at.

After a few more punches, he stopped, raising his head as his eyes darted around once more before finally settling on one person.

"VIVIAN!" Varis instinctively shouted out as his eyes finally found her, clutching the bars that were in front of him, keeping him trapped in the damned cage like some sort of bird. He allowed for a few seconds of silence to fill the air before he finally realized what he was doing, causing him to recoil backwards and place both of his hands over his mouth just as the cocky marksman had done once before.

He had found her, and he didn't exactly know why he searched for her. Perhaps it was because he had interacted with her the most, perhaps it was caused by this unholy disaster that's occurred to them just this instant, or perhaps it was due to some other reason. Whatever it was, Varis had no idea what the reason was. It was the first time this had ever happened.

Slowly, Varis removed his hands away from his mouth just as the marksman once did, only to be interrupted by the sounds of the cocky marksman being dragged away herself.

"SANA-" Varis stopped himself before he could finish, absolutely mortified at himself as he raised his hands towards his face, looking down at them with eyes of sadness rather than anger. Why was he calling his allies -- his "teammates" -- by their names now? Why did he suddenly care for them, even if just an ounce?

"DONTCHU FUCKING DO IT," Varis could hear the anger issues man -- Hugh was his name, Varis believed so -- screaming out, causing Varis to stare at him in awe.

[Fatal Error 1337]

Bjoric woke with a snort at the sound of Sana screaming as she was being dragged by the zombie. He began reaching around for his hammer but found it missing and that he was now in a cage. As everyone began screaming at the zombie, Hugh especially, Bjoric reached under his shirt (now finding that his armor was gone too) to pull forth his second holly symbol. But by the time he had it free of his clothes, Sana has been dragged through the door.

"GRAH!" Bjoric shouted in frustration and kicked at the metal cage, the old but thick bars barely shaking. That's when he heard Hugh break the bars to his cage after sounding as if he'd gone mad. Hugh grabbed Ellis' pack and threw it to the halfling, telling him to free the other before charging through the door after Sana. Bjoric could hear him shouting like a madman as he charged, his screaming almost blocking the sounds of heavy crashes bones breaking.

"Ellis, that maniac is going to need my help. Be quick!" He could hear Hugh pummeling the undead, but if what he suspected was here...

Moradin help us.

[Horrid]

Drizzak

---

The goblin, now thoroughly derobed, awoke within his cage with a start. His paleness was easy to pick out between the bars as he hopped to his feet and attempted to walk out of the cage, only to meet with its wall with a resounding CLANG.

It didn't take long for the goblin's cries of pain and distress to turn into frustrated growls of annoyance as she rattled at the bars. His arms shook with rage as the bars rattled to and fro. They did not move much. Finally, Drizzak slumped against the bars uselessly. Yet again he is reminded of his goblinoid limitations. Bound to this shell, he was easily contained and stripped of the belongings that he held so dear.

The dragon, once proud, had been caged. This saddened Drizzak. For but a moment. From within him rose a noise. Small at first, but it grew in intensity to become a terrible cacophonous shriek of rage.

The small goblin, in all his impotent rage, began to pound and scratch and claw and bite at his confinements. No one cages the dragon. No one stops the dragon. He began to chant, powering himself on as he rebelled against his surroundings. Blood was beginning to trickle from his hands and he bashed again and again.

"RIP. TEAR. KILL. EAT. RIP. TEAR. KILL. EAT."

The little white horror ran back and forth, rebounding off the walls of its cage in a show of self-destructive force. Were the bars beginning to bend? Was the lock beginning to creak? The screams from Drizzak sounded out above all other noises as his attempt to escape surged on. His cage rocked back and forth as he threw his caution to the wind and flung himself at the wall again and again and again.

The dragon was angered now. There was no stopping it.

[EWillden]

Ellis caught the pouch and saw Hugh run off. He was about to say something ,but after what he saw. Fuck it. You work your way down that hall as much as you can big guy. While I get everyone out. He took out his tools and began to go to work on his cage. In not time flat he heard a click. He then pushed the gate open. He couldn't get these open in time though he feared. So he would pick three cages that belonged to the three who could help Hugh the best. He moved to the pile picking up their belongings. Well as much as he could. The magus's sword, the dwarf's hammer, and the goblin's vials. He even tried to carry pieces of their armor. He stopped at the dwarf's cage first. He dropped the stuff and began to pick at the cage's lock tell once more he heard a click. He opened the cage and nodded. "Go help him get Sana back,... I saw that figure for only a second before I crashed. I never felt a rush of fear like that." He said.

Ellis then went to the goblin's cage. He tossed one of the vials at Drizzak hoping he would catch it. He then began picking the goblin's lock and once he did he swung it open. "Get your stuff, their in the corner. No time to stop, bring the fight to that hooded bastard." He then ran over to Artos's cage. He began to pick the lock and did so in a fast manner. "You too, there is your sword and stuff. Get going..." He then began picking the locks on the other cages, one by one. Vivian's, Varis's, Garekk's, Ellyn's, and then the newcomers. What ever her name was. He then moved to the pile of stuff and grabbed more that was his. His short sword and dagger in hand. He charged through the door way. He could see Hugh from a distance and he kinda rose a brow. The man was beginning to glow....

Hugh's armor began to vanish from its place in the corner and placed on him on piece at a time with a shining light that began to blind the undead around him. He would feel a boost in strength as well. He was no longer just punching the heads off the skeletons. They were shattering under his might. He was slamming zombies to the ground with enough force to shatter their bones. They were still a danger though to the others for the zombies could still crawl.

Ellis saw one crawling at him. Snapping its ugly face and Ellis out of instinct lunged forward his short sword piercing through its head and skull dropping the zombie into a lifeless state. He sighed and looked about waiting for the others to join him.

Vivian heard the click of her cage and staggered out of it as the gate opened. She still could feel the ringing in her head. It had lessened now. Must have been the fall down the stairs that did this... or something dropped me on my head. She saw that Varis's was unlocked and few others as well. She smiled and simply decided to take it slow. At least her eye sight had returned. Now if only the headache would go away. I swear if I got a concussion from this I am going to be pissed. Once she made it to the pile she began to get her things. Starting with her swords, then her hand crossbows. Next came her vials. Which half of them were broken and she just tossed them down to the ground discarding them. I don't need those anymore. I got people to look after me when I need it.

She wondered if Ellyn had a remedy for this headache. Like some rejuvenation song spell or some shit....

Garekk the orc climbed out of his cage. He wasted no time grabbing his sword and his other stuff. He then grabbed the hammer belonging to Hugh as well. Putting his weapons in their respected slots. He decided to put one of the many things orcs do in situations like this. He decided to let the blood rush to his head and go beserk. His targets where the undead. He put the face of his greatest foe on them and proceeded to use Hugh's hammer to crush them into oblivion. He didn't stop swinging until they stopped moving. Once he got close enough he would toss the hammer to Hugh.

Vivian was a bit happy that the others were able to get right into action so fast. She cursed at her weakness. Her frail weak body and how a simple fall caused her this headache. It had reduced some ,but it would just have to do. She decided she would take a few of the vial's unbroken. Realizing that they could benefit the group as well. She only had three left though. The poison wouldn't work on the undead though and that she knew already. She tried moving to the door but she only managed to sit beside it. Yup,... great job Viv, you got a concussion from falling down stairs.

She looked to see if she could see Ellyn or Artos. "You don't know any spells that could fix a concussion do you?"

[Fatal Error 1337]

Bjoric took the hammer from Ellis, he didn't have time to don his armor. He knelt with his hammer resting vertically in from of him, the head of the hammer at eye level. Bowing his head he began speaking in the ancient words of his people once more. "Moradin, I ask that ye guide our hands against our foes, that their weapons may break upon our shields, that they may know your might through ours!" As he yelled out, he felt the wave of energy flow from the glowing symbol in the hammer wash over him and flow out in a wave, giving strength to the other while causing the undead in the corridor to falter.

Ellis had finished releasing the others and ran to join Hugh, stabbing one of the undead the Hugh had broken, finishing it off. He moved to join them when he saw Vivian stumble from her cage. She asked if Ellyn or the magus for help. He moved to her, "Here." placing his hand on her shoulder he spoke in ancient dwarven again. Warm healing energies flowed from his hand into her, he would have taken all her hurt away but the channeling of so much divine energy in the last twelve hours combined with the lack of sleep was beginning to wear on him. He helped her to her feet, saying "If ye plan on getting hit on the noggin again, ye should really get a helmet." With a wink he moved to the doorway.

Hugh had done a great deal of damage, crushed skeletons and zombies lay strewn about the floor with what fluids remained spilled out onto the floor creating a suffocating stench. Hughs armor seemed to be appearing back on him and Bjoric knew what it meant, but the hallway was too wide for him to hold it on his own, he was in danger of being surrounded. Fighting through them was going to take too long and Sana would likely be dead by the time they reached her.

Bjoric stomped into the hallway, bone and gore crunching under his heavy feet. He took a breath, focusing on the mass of undead before him, he poured all of his will into a single word. Thrusting his hammer before him he bellowed "BEGONE!" A bright flare of energy poured out from his hammer once more, cutting into the undead. Those that lay broken on the ground and some of the more damaged ones still standing were burned to ash, the others that could screamed in agony while they fled, those who could not flee cowered from the light. As the light faded Bjoric suddenly felt dizzy.

"Shouldn't have done that. I should not have..." Feeling his strength leave him he sank to one knee dropping his hammer, the wall being the only thing keeping him from collapsing.

[Salrynn]

Ellyn saw what was potentially going on after she screamed and she backed off feeling her throat. 'it... hurts...' she gasped out as she did, but quickly clung onto the bars as soon as she let go of them, she quickly spotted what was going on and wanted Ellis' trickery to unlock her quickly which he did so. Prancing around she collected all her things and with it dropped a song book which she grinned about. 'Hey guys! look!!! a song book!!! left from previous captors or somethin!?' Ellyn would ask her whole team in projection as she examined more of what was going on 'shoot no time to think about the new spellbook! I got my dress to put on!' she smiled as she put on her dress (she has a under-dress on underneath) and swiped her harp to hear Vivian's voice.

'Well!' Ellyn smiled 'let's see if I have a song in this book which was left!' Ellyn quickly skimmed through the pages 'so you want a song of healing??' she asked curiously as she found one, hoping that the ones who were attacking were finding everything ok untill she spotted a that the dwarf healed Vivian, looking down she sighed glumly, they were probably not going to trust her for a while after what she done.