Chapter 10

Characters Drop and Change of Guard

August 23

Agnarr doesn’t awant to continue before the trap acat the exit is disarmed, so he goes and disarms it. Ertak rests. There is some loud shouting from Agnarr, his teeth growing before their eyes. When asked about it, Agnarr just wants to go and rest.

Neiia tries to break the tubes from which the water elementals came. Critical success in this, so she channels energy to Agnarr. No so, suddenly there is no need rest, so they continue on our way.

Next they find a room with steam near the ceiling. Ahead is a doorway and stairs, above the doorway a picture of a bearded man. Walls are full of pictures with a similar theme. Doorways are recessed in the side walls. Kieron recognizes the pictures depicting Azlanti culture, which is considered a story from before the beginning of the calendar. Kieron thinks the pictures are drawn based on reality. The man is their last prince, and the pictures include an image of their capital city. And the smoke cloud-looking thing on the ceiling is a Belker from the air dimension.

Neiia creates a water portal, Ertak makes a sun bolt. After a moment, Ertak shoots the bolt at the ceiling and walks to the door on the left wall of the room. At this point, an air elemental attacks Ertak.

The air elemental hammers the surprised Ertak into a staggering condition. Neiia throws a full-powered explosive water ball into the air elemental, that is unfortunately thus at Ertak’s toes. Ertak lunges to the ground into the room behind the doorway. Neiia rushes away, hits Agnarr, and falls. Kieron avoids the damage. When Neiia looks into the room, the air elemental has disappeared.

Agnarr steps into the doorway of the room and gets into the cloud. The cloud follows when Agnarr backs very close to Neiia. The cloud is sucked into Agnarr’s throat and seems to hurt him. Ertak lies on the ground when three undead appear from the sarcophagi around him and pound him, getting him into an even weaker condition. Neiia hits the mist and shouts, “The mist is hard, hit it with a sword.”

Then Ertak shouts, “There are Bodaks here.” and Agnarr hits the mist hard, the mist transforms into a winged air elemental.

Then Ertak is fully drained of all life force and dies.

Neiia kills the air elemental. Ertak is scorched and lifeless. After this, the undead go after Neiia’s mirror image. Agnarr is about to evacuate Ertak, but Kieron shouts to kill these enemies first.

Kieron rushes at the undead enemies, and Agnarr agrees and starts picking up his actual weapon instead. Kieron rushes at the undead creatures and shouts to Agnarr that Neiia is in trouble. The real Neiia runs behind Kieron and shouts, “What’s there?” After this, Agnarr gets his weapon ready and shouts to Kieron, “Neiia is here now.” Kieron fights with the undead and manages to drop one. Then Ertak rises as undead and joins the battle. Agnarr drops the last original undead, and mirror-Neiia starts throwing explosive fireballs toward Ertak and the group. The group whacks at Ertak, and Neiia finally knocks him down. The group moves on to whack at Neiia’s mirror image. After a long struggle, Neiia’s image says disappears with a loud pop.