Nexus Heroes

[Goryokaku]

Kal mutters something under her breath , her hands moving quickly she shoots a blob of acid at one of the floating heads but the shot misses completely.

[Taria]

The floating heads begin to surround their nearest enemies, Celebrith, Kas, and Monika are damaged by a swarm of biting gnawing heads. Swarms threaten Rhialla and Garian, but they have a chance to react. (AoO)

Kasidra is staggered as a swarm bites at her limbs and covers her with acid. She is at the verge of fainting.

[Goryokaku]

Angry from the damage Celebrilith rips into the Heads south of her slashing it with one of her claws, she'd missed with her first claw strike but took a bite out of the heads endings it's life. She only had to deal with the remaining heads swarming her now.

[Lynxy]

Monika watched in horror as disembodied heads rained from the sky and started trying to bite anyone they weren't currently spewing acid on. Even as Rhialla shouted for them to take cover, a cluster of the grotesque heads descended on her, furiously biting wherever they could. Frantically, she batted the heads away with savage wipes of her claws, pummeling the attacking swarm to the ground at her feet. [4 damage, dead]

Without wasting time to consider the particulars of the attacking abominations now strewn about her (or perhaps subconsciously avoiding looking at any of them too closely), she turned back to the aasimar already struggling with a swarm of the things and noticed a second group approaching. She didn't want to risk shooting Rhialla, so when she drew her crossbows she pointed them at the approaching heads instead and fired. The tiny heads turned out to be just a bit too challenging to hit, however, and both bolts did little more than glance off the heads and cause superficial damage. [0 damage. undead]

[TCELESBHSUP]

As she was threatened by one of the swarms that surround her, Rhialla lashes out, slashing wildly and managing to cut them down. Now that she was no longer threatened, she would turn, swiping towards the second horde of heads that floated about near her person. Unfortunately, she wasn't quite as lucky, missing completely despite Suzu's inspiring tune. Damn it, she knew that the others were being attacked as well... What if Janeei couldn't protect her sister? What if Garian was in trouble, or Kal? Celebrilith was powerful, but likely couldn't keep the swarms from overrunning and assaulting her.

She needed to get out of this situation quickly so she could aid them.

[Goryokaku]

Kal and Celebrilith head south towards Garian and the swarm.

[That_One_Guy]

After killing the first floating head that entered to attack him, he saw another outside and ran out at it, sword held high and swung down to kill it, cutting the floating head in half, then he looked around, he knew he would have to rally with the others and would start off to find them.

[TCELESBHSUP]

Seeing as people don't post, the combat's over! Party emerges victorious!

As soon as she was done slaying the last swarm of heads that annoyed her, Rhialla sheathed her scimitar and burst into a sprint- regardless of what either Monika or Suzu had to say. She needed to check on everyone else- nobody else was any bit resistance to acid from what she knew, and if they were jumped by multiple swarms, they'd likely be melted quite thoroughly. In front of the manor lay her sister- definitely heavily wounded and surrounded by felled heads. She pushed herself to reach her sibling's side, armour clinking audibly and chaffing horribly as a result of her lack of clothing (damn this ability!), dropping in an instant to her knees.

"K-Kasidra!" She cried out, fiddling for her wand. She shook her sister awake, or at least tried to, her expression panicked as she began to expend several charges of her wand in an instant. Three charges... And she was fully healed. A sigh of relief escaped her- Kasidra was alive! Her wand was returned to where she stashed it away, and she fiercely embraced her sibling, just holding her there.

[Motoko]

Kasidra groans as she slowly comes to consciousness, feeling something very warm and covered in tough metal encircling her now healed body. She shook her head and slowly she realized her sister had saved her and was hugging her tight.....She would blush furiously, returning the embrac, her taiil wrapping her sisters ankle "T-thank you sis..." she would whisper, "I-I'm sorry..."

[Lynxy]

Clinging to her hope, Monika looked straight ahead as she shuffled through the severed heads and returned her bows to their holsters. She was fairly sure she would see a face she knew if she stopped to really inspect the elements of the ankle-height scene of macabre horror. So, she wasn't going to. Not now. She reminded herself that somebody needed to stop whoever was making these things, and that even if these were some of the townspeople there could still be more that needed help right now. Without looking back, she motioned for Suzu to follow and quickly walked after Rhialla who by now had sprinted around the corner.

Rounding the corner herself to see Rhialla crouched over and hugging a figure in front of the mansion, she couldn't help but feel further dismay at the number of heads she could see strewn about the field around them. "Gods, what manner of person does this?" She said, primarily to herself, as she averted her gaze toward the two in front of the mansion.

[Taria]

The air is quiet once more as the undead heads have been stilled. An eerie child's voice can be heard from inside the mansion for everyone standing around the front to hear. "Doooolllly, doooollly. Where are you?" The shut windows and front door begin violently shaking as the voice shouts, "Where are you?! I'm gonna find you dolly. I'm gonna find you..."

[TCELESBHSUP]

"It's okay... It's okay, Ka-" A voice. A voice cut her off. Her expression paled as it spoke, and the rattling caused her to shift, putting her body between Kasidra and the house in case anything- anything at all- sprung out to attack them. She would protect her sister with her very life if she had to. Her arms squeezed tighter around the draconic wizard woman, eyes shutting just as tightly. She was uttering silent prayers in Celestial to Sarenrae, hoping for Her Light to protect them. It wouldn't happen, but... Her faith was her shield regardless.

[That_One_Guy]

Garian sighed as he sheathed his blade, only to hear the voice of the girl call out and looked towards the Mansion, "What on earth was that?" He said to himself, backin away from it momentarily before runnin off towards the others, hoping to find someone to ask if they knew what that was.

[Goryokaku]

Kal swore and followed Garian whens he saw him towards the entrance of the mansion once again, Celebrilith following behind. When she gets to the front of the mansion Kal can see the doors and windows shaking, she wanted to get in now but the only way to get in was to either break the door down or smash a window and go through that way. She looked at her Eidolon she needed healing, taking some out a couple of cure light wounds potions she drank one for herself and gave two to Celebrilith. (rolls are on roll d20)

[Lynxy]

For the second time in the last few minutes Monika found a chill running down her spine. That little girl could not be just a creepy little kid, and now seemed like the time to figure out what she actually was. As she approached the group in front of the massive house, Monika's attention strayed to the building itself. There was no denying anymore that there was a serious problem, or that that problem seemed to be centered on the mansion. As such, she wasn't going to be so worried about damaging the Magisters home this time around. In fact, she was already picking out a window to smash if the front door held them, because one way or another she was going to get in there.

"So who's your friend and are they- Oh..." she asked, returning her attention to Rhialla and recoiling slightly at the sight of the demonic figure she was cradling. That was something you didn't see every day. Either of them individually were the kinds of creatures Monika thought she would only ever hear stories about, and those stories were so diametrically opposed it was nearly unfathomable to picture them embracing. There they were, though. For a breif moment she once again doubted this group and their intentions, but it was hard to deny that these two were the only ones here when she rounded the corneer, meaning the only one who could have destroyed the undead strewn about the yard was the tiefling. At length, she realized that she'd stopped mid-sentence to stare, and tried to pull herself together. "Ahem, hello."

[Taria]

Janeei suddenly appears from around the corner and tosses a small sack towards the feet of the party. "Hmmph..." She scoffs as a tiny porcelain face peeks out from the sack tumbling over onto its side. It would appear that Janeei found a doll.

[TCELESBHSUP]

Rhialla noticed Monika's hesitation once noticing who exactly that she was embracing- a small blush came to her cheeks and she pulled back after a brief pause, nodding a bit. She allowed her sister to keep her tail coiled around her ankle. Why wouldn't she? She liked the acknowledgement of affection. "Oh, umm... O-Officer K'sharr, this is Kasidra... My half-sister. We share our mother and grew up together, so umm... Please be nice." She didn't want to elaborate further on that point.

The Aasimar's attention was entirely drawn away at Janeei's scoffing, looking towards the bag. "A... A doll? Oh!" She stood, carefully (and reluctantly) prying herself away from Kasidra in order to grab the bag and look at the doll. A rather cute, porcelain doll... Thankfully, it didn't appear to be damaged by being tossed. "Thank you Janeei!" The bag was promptly brought over to Monika. "I-Is this the doll that the... The scary voice mentioned?" She had to be honest- it definitely had frightened her!

[Goryokaku]

Kal looked at Janeei, then at the doll in rhialla's hands, she then decided a repitoire of a few dwarven curse words probably wasn't going to help the situation, "Looks like we now have the dolly we need to get the creepy little child to let us into the mansion, I'm surprised you knew to look for it Janeei, perhaps you know the child in the mansion?"

Kal wasn't overly suspicious after all the only people she knew who knew to look for the dolly was herself and Officer K'sharr there, the fact the others hadn't noticed her being here yet would change but she didn't care they had a way into the mansion and she was going to speak with that child face to face, or if the child really turned out to be creepy Eidolon to Face.

[MiscChaos]

Suzu finally makes her way back to the others, deciding that since she doesn't do much in battle anyway besides Inspiring the party with her songs, she might as well just sit out and make with the music without getting pulverized again. Rhialla has enough problems on her hands without seeing her best friend melted to a bloody stain and not being able to heal that damage. But she's a little surprised when she comes back and sees that Rhialla has her sister in her arms. But Suzu's still unsure if the bridge between the two of them has been repaired and she KNOWS that the relationship between that woman and herself is still utterly terrible, so she holds herself at a distance. "Everything OK, Rhialla?" She asks to see how things are between her friend and the other woman. She notices the doll, but dismisses it for now. Her friend is far more important.

[Lynxy]

"I'm nice until I have reason not to be..." She responded to Rhialla as yet another unusual stranger sauntered up and tossed a sack with a doll on the ground. "Janeei? K'sharr." She said, poking her own chest with a thumb. She was a little tired of introducing herself, and would much rather come across someone she knew already. "I'd say it's a pleasure to meet you, but you'll forgive me if it's low on my list today." The little doll looked like nothing special, but it was worth trying to get in with it.

Then, the sack and the doll were being waved in front of her and Rhialla was asking questions like any of this made more sense to her than the others. "I... what? I don't know. Ask her" she said, flustered as much by not knowing as by being presumed to know. "...It" she corrected. Monika was still hopeful that she would find other villagers alive, but she was over any illusions that the voice was coming from a healthy, living little child. It was more likely that some kind of monster was mimicing voices, considering the way the morning was playing out.