lifesapity

Althea releases the diving magic from her fingertips... nothing. Dread overcomes her.

@Cool Girl As Althea aproaches the top of the stairs, she looks around and Richard's body is gone... all the drakes left behibd is a red smear where they pulled his body parts into the alcoves.

With two swift strikes Maris breaks the bones in Richards hand, in response one of the swarms moves towards Maris and starts biting at his flesh, but they can't seem to find purchase. He reaches down grabs on of the fingers that the drakes had already started to bite off and rips it off the rest of the hand and turns and runs down the stairs past Ragash, as he does the swarm lashes out one final time but his swaying clothes intercept their strike. More pieces are ripped off Richard as they tear his body apart and take the chunks into the alcoves.

@DragonRage whats your plan for getting a piece of Richard off his body?

Althea slips past Yautja's outstretched and, passing Ragash, runs up the staircase following Maris.

@Cool Girl no, he is trying to stop you running up the stairs towards Richard's corpse and the swarms of drakes protecting it.

@Cool Girl If you want to try resist Yautja pulling you away roll 1d20+1 or you can let him take you.

@Megagun Revivable yes, saveable no.

To Maris @DragonRage The Drakes keep their eyes focused on you as you come up the stairs, they start hissing but but they don't move to attack. You watch as pieces of flesh and bone are torn off Richard's body and taken into the nearby alcoves. His hands, disfigured, lie open, whatever he was carrying, taken.

@Megagun If you want to try grab one, make a Grapple (Athletics) check and tell them to contest with their choice of Strength (Athletics) OR Dexterity (Acrobatics) if they want to resist.

Althea turns the corner, just in time to see Richards corpse getting dragged away.

As Maris and Ragash turn the corner they see the Drakes covering Richard tears pieces from his body bit by bit, his entire throat... missing, leaving no doubt in your minds he has been slain. The Drakes start to slowly drag his lifeless body back out of sight.

Some of Richards wounds heal, as he tries to push his way through the swarms of Drakes, but for each wound that closes another is opened (6 Damage). The Drakes follow Richard as he makes his way towards the mouth of the stairway, the drakes running over the runes not seeming to care as a couple die to the electricity. As Richard reaches the mouth of the stairway the drakes overtake him and swarm all over his body, a couple of teeth find their mark (5 Damage), Richard falls unconscious from shock and blood loss.

As the three other swarm of drakes move up to box Richard into the corner, the swarm of drakes covering Richard continue to snap towards his flesh, but they cant seem to find purchase through his armor.

Adronsius nods in acknowledgement to Richard "Alright I'll try help keep the doors shut after you get through." He nods his thanks to Yisan as he helps him down the long flight of stairs. The group waits patiently in the entry hall, Ragash and Adronsius prepared to close the door. Richard moves towards the alcove in the dim light of the runes, as he approaches the alcove a sharp hissing noise can be heard. As he gets even closer and starts to crouch down he sees orbs of reflected blue light appearing in all the alcoves in the room as the hissing reaches a fever pitch. Richard's hand darts forward into the alcove, unable to see inside in the darkness feels around and grabs what he can. However as his hand reaches in the drakes in the alcoves swarm up his arms and legs, tears chunks of flesh off, hissing in rage. One manages to get to his neck and tears a sizable chunk out (Critical for 16 damage). Richard scream in pain. As he retracts his hand and turns to run, drakes of all sizes, some much smaller then you saw in the last fight, erupt from alcoves on all sides of the room, double the amount you saw previously. @Cronos5010 Roll Initiative.

@Cronos5010 Roll slight of hand.

@Jace Stormkirk

"Nothing beside them filling up water casks from it." Adronsius replies to Ragash. "Sorry I never learnt how to use any weapons, I think the only one of us with any weapons training is Kartenix."

To Ragash Examining the room you find nothing of note except the fountain of water of crystal clear water, there seem to be no drake tunnels in this area. To Everyone Yautja and Yisan grab the chains and start to pull them apart with all their strength, but the think iron chains seem to be too strong for the pair of them. All of a sudden Marris walks up and in a blink of an eye the locks on the manacles are open and the Dwarf is free. With his whole weight on his injured legs he collapses to the floor and starts rubbing his raw wrists as Althea and Richard start to apply ointment and bandage up his legs. "Thanks" he says curtly while nodding at Marris. "Yea I have seen a couple, they dragged Zerriksa through the Northern doors in the entry chamber as soon as we got here, she was shouting something about turning the goblins to toads the entire way here. Sertanian was kept in the prison cells with me, they dragged me to this room to try get information about Brindol out of me, didnt tell em anything so they let those blasted drakes strip flesh from my legs and left me here to change my mind. I havnt seen any of the others since they split us apart."

@Jace Stormkirk Roll investigation. "Well I'm glad you all got it sorted out then" replies the Dwarf.

"So what one of ya is gonna get me out of these?" Adronsius asks while rattling the chains. His legs are caked with blood but seem to of started to scab over.

"The name is Adronsius" replies the dwarf before you leave. To Ragash As you step back the hissing stops and when you throw the food a number of drakes run out grab it and dart back towards their alcoves.

To Ragash You hear the skittering of little feet fill the alcoves around you. The hissing inside the egg filled alcove doesn't stop but, a small drake from an alcove to the side darts out to try grab the dried meat and run back where it came from.

"Well I aint in much a position to refuse, am I lad, can you get these chains off me?" Inspecting him you see that the bottom of his legs are full of tiny wounds that looked like they were caused with needles.

To Ragash This hissing continues as you hold out your hand close to the alcove with the meat. To Everyone Richard opens the door and moves down the short corridor, in the dark room you can just make out a small fountain and a dwarf shackled to the wall with a black bag over their head.