Thema: "A simple escort," she said ...

[Draezen]

Listening for the derro's movements with his sharp hearing, Szordrin pounces, his blades diving for the derro's body.

[warlockco]

After reloading, Xune continues to keep an eye out for any hostiles.

[Zanan]

Down at the platform, the casting continues.  Xyranma waits till the second creature reaches down at the chain before lashing out. The magical metal hammers a decent amount of bones out of the undead being,  which instantly draws back while raising its weapon.  It successfully hits the chain, but to no obvious effect. The first undead, clad in blackish robes appears on the dais, not spotting the githyanki. It looks towards the darkness which covers the bridge as Farviaan's falchion appears from behind and cleaves neatly into its back. The thing staggers forward, only to be greeted with Kylara's mace, which comes up from just below the dais. The obviously undead creature growls in anger, turning towards it first attacker while drawing its sword in one quick movement. Khalas is nowhere to be seen.

In the darkness, Zhadristan jabs twice in the general direction of the derro he fought before, the first attack is met with a satisfying grunt. That sound gives Szordrin an idea of the dwarves position and he aims all his attacks towards this derro, relying on his acute senses. Twice, his blades scrape over derro armor, but the last jab finds more meaty resistance. A gurgling sound follows as Szordrin draws back, a moment afterwards, the sound a clattering pick and an armored dwarf tell you that this enemy's fate was just sealed. As Xune and Tarinyon watch the darkness, they spot Gaess jumping straight out of it towards the ceiling of the cavern. A long and small stalagtite, some 30 feet above the bridge, lies right in her way and with an acrobatic turn, the female grabs it and remains in position like a spider, watching on to what unfolds below. Speaking of which, the remaining derro comes out on the platform side of the darkness and starts running as soon as he has a clear view of things again. Soon after, Tavia comes up from crawling under the bridge and starts pursuing of the fleeing enemy.

[Draezen]

After finishing the derro, Szordrin steps from the darkness globe and takes in the situation.

After locating all his compatriots, the lean well muscled drow spots the fleeing derro and sprints after him taking care to be as silent as possible without sacrificing speed.

[Fabius Maximus]

"Nine Hells!"
For a moment, Farviaan is stunned. By all rights, his adversary should have been cut down by a hit like that. Suddenly, his nose catches the stink of rotting meat in the air and he realizes the enemies nature. "Soddin' undead;" he growls and attacks again, the crystaline blade of his weapon leaving a trail of faint blueish light while it rushes up to cut the undead open from hip to shoulder.

[warlockco]

Xune will sling her crossbow and go over the railing and climb along side it to the other side of the darkness.

[Romaal]

Tarinyon focuses at the fleeing drow and recitates some words drow tongue. A green ray bursts out of his hand and goes into the direction of the derro.

[Phaerven]

As the derro he was fighting goes down, Zhadristan leaves the area of magical darkness. If he finds the bridge clear, he will make his way up the pillar.

[Sheiriya]

Above the darkness the sound of a crossbow launching a bolt may be heard by those near enough.

[Zanan]

Looking up to the undead, Kylara suddenly vanishes in a cloud of mist, which easily climbs up to upper level and behind her opponent. The black-clad thing hacks its blade at Farviaan, death gleaming in its burning eyes. With a deft flick of his large blade, the githyanki turns that blow aside and in a quick reply cleaves into the undead's shoulder. His second strike goes astray though, as he hits a burned out torch on the wall. Meanwhile, Xyranma lashes at the skeleton and more bones fly away. The chain still gets the feeling that its attacks deal not as much damage as they normally would. The undead raises its hand at the chain and three bolts of magic unerringly slamming into Xyranma, who unsuccessfully attempted to stop the creature from casting the spell (- 11 HP). On the dais, a nigh invisible globe of magic smashes into the dark undead and explodes in a cacophony of noise. Half the chest of the undead flies away and the being topples over. The gleefull voice of Khalas can be heard from nearby: "That's better!"
Down the tunnel, Xyranma spots something quite irritating moving its way, a slimy-amorphous form with about half a dozen eyes.

Tavia easily makes up the ground between herself and the fleeing derro and plants her dagger neatly into the dwarf's shoulder. Zhadristan steps out of the darkened area and takes in the scene, before making his way up to the platform too. Beyond the darkness, Xune looks at Tarinyon before simple climbing over the railing of the bridge and making her way up towards the platform too. Gaess looks on from above, no immediate threat in view though. A bolt appears in mid-air out of no-where, streaks towards the derro, but the erratic turn of the creature (after receiving Tavia's hit) gets it out of the way. The derro turns about and hacks at the scout, narrowly missing her. Half an instant later, the pick comes around a second time, but Tavia steps out of the way again. Szordrin is at hand now though, driving his shyrlass right through the derro's throat, his third kill of the day. On the bridge, the ghast steps out of the darkness and hurries towards the pillar too, while Tarinyon slowly follows in the footsteps of the others.

[Korach]

Even as the fight does not go the way Xyranma would have expected, he or respectively it, continues to battle the undead, and chooses to think about that eye-creature later.

[Draezen]

Szordrin gives his shyrlass lodged in the derro's throat a cruel twist, then rips the blade out of the bug-eyed creature.
Szordrin takes a second to fling the scraps of the bloody gray derro flesh caught between his blade's serrated edges aside and moves towards the pillar, though he keeps a respectful distance from the ghast.

Once at the pillar he sees if he can see any of his party's foes from the ground.
If so, he draws his crossbow and fires a few bolts into the creature's flank.

[warlockco]

Xune continues to make her way.

[Phaerven]

While he moves ahead, Zhadristan looks back for Sheiriya to see how she fares.

[Zanan]

In the tunnel, the skeleton lashes out at Xyranma again, but fails to hit the chain. Distracted by the slithering creature heading his way, Xyranma misses with his attack on the skeleton, slamming through an empty midsection and into the wall behind instead. Next round, the amorphous thing will be right next to him. Down the corridor, he spots the woman Sheiriya mentioned, clad in a red robe and having a mask before her face which looks very much like a mirror. Farviaan has a slain enemy at his feet and hears Khalas' voice saying "Now that thing looks interesting!" The githyanki does not know whether this is aimed at the undead or the slithering creature down the corridor, which just comes into view. The cloud of mist begins to swirl and out of the vortex, Kylara steps. All three on the dais see the fight of the chain and the skeleton, as well as the slimy thing approaching the chain.

Tavia spots Farviaan and dealing with the undead on the dais, so she decided to move around the upper level via the corridor on its eastern side. Soon she notices an approaching enemy and goes into hiding, vanishing from view. Szordrin closes in on the platform too and sees how the last opponent on the falls to the floor. He cannot see anything in the tunnel that leads to main quarters of the upper level from below the dais though. Zhadristan tries to spot Sheiriya, but she seems to be invisible to him. Thus he moves on towards Szordrin and below the dais. Some other skeleton creature walks past Tavia and approaches the area below the dais, where Szordrin and Zhadristan have just arrived. Tarinyon takes in the scene and moves closer to the darkened area, being observed by Gaess and Sheiriya. Xune makes her way up to the warriors too, walking slightly behind the ghast.