Sherrif Hemlock brought up from Magnimar. And behind them, she hears a familiar voice, "Come on you great armored ponce! Is that all you've got? My lads mothers fight better than that!"
Poot!
Moving fast, draws her rapier and stabs Orik in the back before the man realizes she's behind him, leaving an ugly bleeding puncture in his lower back. "Poot, Poot! We're here!" She yells out to the halfling.
Orik gasps in surprise and pain and slumps against the doorway, his guard dropping for a moment, the militia see their opportunity and press him. Dyer bats away the bigger man's shield and Alpert delivers a near fatal wound to Orik's stomach. He collapses to the ground, dropping his sword and holding up one hand. "Mercy!" he gasps.
Sasha grins at this victory, but has no time to savour it, as Nualia spins around. Her face is impassive but her eyes blaze with anger as she swings again at Sasha. This time Sasha is the one caught between two foes and she has nowhere to go. Nualia's heavy blade catches her high on the shoulder, cracking bone and severing tendons. Sasha almost blacks out as her left arm hangs limply at her side.
As Sasha fights to stay standing and avoids a backhand swipe from Nualia's red clawed hand, Yola calls out and vaults across the trapped floor. Not as graceful as the roues jump earlier but no less effective, Yola clears the jump easily and charges at Nualia with a fierce cry and an overhand chop. Nualia pivots and parries the blow with her own sword. "Lyrie!" she yells out behind her. "Close the gate...Now!"
Vision still blurry from the beating Sasha gave her, Lyrie finally stumbles into the norther chamber and finds the lever that controls the trapped corridor. She yanks on it and and two heavy gates slam closed in the corridor beyond, sealing the shiny floor section between them and cutting Seoni and Gerund off from their companions. The two statues flanking that section of the hall suddenly drop their glaives into a horizontal position and begin to spin side to side, turning the space between the two gates into a whirling meat grinder.
Gerund curses in a most unpaladin-like way as he slams his shield into the gate in front of him. Seoni steps up and lets fly a pair of magic missiles, their arcane power guiding them through the bars of the gates, around the slicing glaives, over Yola's head and straight into Nualia, who grunts once, but shrugs off the attack quickly.
Sasha took 13HP from Nualia's attack! She's down to only 3 left. Orik is down and begging for quarter, but not out. Nualia is pissed off...
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Sasha tries to smile through the pain. She half stumbles and half falls as she leans against the wall bracing herself as she walks.
Hearing Olric's pleas for quarter she keeps her sword awkwardly at eye level hold him at bay as she crosses over. It's obvious her threat is empty but there's an uncertainty in her enemies eyes which keeps him at bay for a moment.
Seeing the young soldiers and hearing Poot she summons up a little more of her last strength and collapses in the Halfling's arms.
"I missed you so much. "Sasha begins to sob as she cling tightly to the Bard.
"I missed you so much. I was so angry. I tried to fix things but I couldn't. They wouldn't let me jump after you. I wanted to, but I couldn't. I blamed me. I'm so glad ... you're ... here."
Sasha opens her hand slowly and revealing the hilt of the whip. "The sorceress destroyed it. I was protecting Senoi and gerund and she destroyed it. It was all I had left of my father and now even that's gone."
For the first time since she was a little girl Sasha feels something deep inside of her break.
Clinging to Poot she begins to sob.
Yola faces N and uses her rage for two handed strike. Yola yells out " Sasha don't give him any quarter, just kill him, Poot - I heard the singing keep it up pal, we may get out of this one.
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