Then he looks around. "We need to create a kill zone, where anyone who enters is attacked instantly."
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Rod also pulls back to inside the tower. "Maybe we can build a makeshift barricade." He turns to the guards. "See what you can come up with." He then turns to the captain. "I think you might be needed to help at the top of the tower. There is a flying lady there that needs sticking with arrows."
Then he looks around. "We need to create a kill zone, where anyone who enters is attacked instantly."
Then he looks around. "We need to create a kill zone, where anyone who enters is attacked instantly."
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Toruk continues to cough and hack from the smoke due to the massive electrical current sent through his body. Brave but not stupid, the Undine knows well enough when he's been bested. He musters enough strength to get to his feet and head for the stairs.
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Toruk on the roof flees down the stairs into the top floor of the tower past a guard there moving up to join the fight. The guards along the roof fire at the flying woman, or reload the ballista.
Aya hears that grease is needed and she makes a foolish but brave move and heads out past Rod who tries to warn her. She stands outside and covers the steps with grease. It causes two of the pirates to slip and fall down the stairs. They bowl into the others there that just were on their feet, now everyone is a pile of prone and knocked over bodies. The stairs are coated now.
Down below the buccaneers are scaling the cliff, slow but steady they move up the rocks little by little unmolested. Isabella Inkskin looks as Toruk flees, "Oh come and play!" She considers the guards, but instead notices Aya step outside. She smiles ear to ear, "Who's this hussy?" She cackles and sends another bolt of lightning down into Aya! The blast is even stronger than the one that hit Toruk. Aya screams, and from inside you watch in horror as she's roasted alive from the eletrical bolt. Her body goes ridged and you almost see her bones inside her lit up body. Crumpling to the ground she is a smoking ruin of a person.
Gragol, Maggie...
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"Blasted 'ell!" Gragol exclaims. The Dwarf's Urgrosh clatters to the ground and he steps forward to scoop up Aya and bring her back into the tower.
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Maggie...
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Then the pirates press up the stairs. They all manage to get to their feet and move up the stairs, slow and steady. They don't read the door not yet, and the others down lower fire up random shots at the guards near the ballistas but they aren't ant real threat from that distance.
Rod and Toruk...
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Rod readies his bow and wants to shoot the first enemy to get into the tower, and he has the guards install some cover if they should shoot inside. "If they shoot in, get into cover" he advises the people here.
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Toruk stumbles his way across the room to the next flight of stairs. Wincing the whole way, some of the Undine's skin still smoldering while some is charred and flaking off. Circling the stairs downward, "I hope Sandara is still holed up in that room. Without some healing I'm as good as dead."
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Toruk staggers down calling out for Sandara for aid, he needs healing, and he needs it badly. Sandara comes out of a room, she's been getting up and ready, and when she spots Toruk she gasps. At once she reaches out and sooths the burn marks and charred skin. Its not much, but its a start. "Besmara's Grace, this is bad!"
Your guards down below ready blade or bow, and are ready to defend the keep from anyone that comes inside. Up top the men that have loaded the ballista fire on Isabella. One misses wide, the other however clips her in the leg. Her protection sucks up much of the blow, shimmering and weakening, but she's bruised from the impact lightly. The men with crossbows fire down now as the horde of men scaling the rocks. One good shot connects, hits a man in the shoulder and sends him falling to his death.
Isabella cackling begins to chant an incantation to summons beast atop the tower. "I will take this tower one floor at a time, starting with you fools!" It will take her a few moments, but a vague shape is starting to form atop the roof of the tower. The men and women from the second boat have scaled the rocks and have reached the tower's base now and are starting up.
That's when someone notices Captain Aya isn't breathing. She's died of her wounds, her system unable to handle the shock of the damage she's taken. There was nothing Maggie could have done, likely Aya was actually dead when Gragol dragged her inside.
Gragol and Maggie...
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"We'll 'old this 'ere entrance 'n the name'o'the Capt'n!" Gragol cries out. The Dwarf moves closer to complete the semi-circle around the entrance.