First blood

For a moment, greed overcomes Alast's sense of duty. should he have any. He quickly proceeds by emptying Lightning's purse and stealing the content of his backpack. Gustavius rushes forward yelling at him "Give him some potion !" and gesticulating "the green bottle!" He quickly jumps down the hole upon seeing that his commands are falling into deaf ears. The brave knight Erleothir is still standing where he was when the altar crumbled into the crypt, his mouth still open, incomprehension in his face. Griselda wields around should the noise have attracted any potential aggressors on the surface, but luckily there is none to be seen.

Meanwhile, Alast noticing an angry dwarf rushing at him, quickly stuffs the content of the last Laumspur potion into Lightning's mouth. But Gustavius quite does not make it to Lightning and Alast for he has just seen something odd: a robed man just running away from a corner of the crypt to another corner. and a gagged dwarf tied on one of the column...

In between this choice, blood talked higher and the dwarf was chosen first. Liberating the words from the dwarf mouth tied up by a piece of tissue, a request for help came along with more questions than answers. Alast even without understanding the dwarven dialect, cut the ties around him with his corsair sword.
Meanwhile; Griselda went down carefully, followed by Erleothir. Lightning limping, adapted himself to his cured leg. As none gave much interest to the robed man, the questions to the new dwarf ended in more questioning back, and only the intervention of the diplomatic Erleothir, saved the situation from escalating. Griselda and Erleothir provided him weapons. It wasn t safe to walk in the Magnamund without any defenses.

Griselda found a table with diverse equipment. Mulchanor del Shai, as he names himself, claimed the those as his belongings. None complained. He recovered everything but provided gifts to the Mage, a Staff and a dark scroll, unopened. Gustavius went to the entrance of the corridor where the man left minutes ago, ans screamed "Marghal!" A dark powerful laugh echoed in the corridor. Erleothir and Griselda opened the march in the dark tunnel; followed by Lightning and Alast, both dwarf closing the path. Disturbing chants lightened the way, stopping only to get a Skeleton rising from the path till where it started.

As Mulchanor immediately aimed and shot at the disturbing appearance, Gustavius shouted at his team-members to "Duuuckkk"! Alast threw himself on the floor while Erleothir and Griselda felt the bullet passing by to hit the head of the skeleton, destroying it. Lightning wasn't so fast, but he escaped unharmed. More chants coming from ahead, Lightning chanted a different music while Alast stood up again. Erleothir and Griselda advanced with caution, only to be stopped by 2 erupting skeletons, not as big as the first one but enough to impose respect on our heroes. Things occurred very fast, as Marghal started to chant again he was hit by Lightning's spell. Almost at the same time, Gustavius' bullet destroyed half of the skeletons on the right side, Erleothir tried to attack the skeleton facing him, he pulled his sword back but only to sink it in Griselda's shoulder, leaving her half dead, impaled with his own broadsword. He quickly used his shield to protect what was still alive in her. Alast ran to Marghal, while this one casted 3 more skeletons, leaving him behind a wall of angry bones. One of the skeletons suddenly turned back and gave chase to Alast One more bullet killed off the half skeleton, leaving Mulchanor smiling, they made the good choice when liberating him. Lightning lost his mind for a while and provided a potion to Griselda, saving her, with the sword still stuck in her shoulder, she awoke in pain. One more bullet whistled past our heroes and hit something outside the tunnel. Griselda tried to strike another one with her spear, but her wound was fresh and she stroked the wall. Another bullet gave rest to some more old bones, as Alast stroked Marghal, which seemed to talk with him before running away. Erleothir came near Griselda to take his sword back. Erleothir, seeing her still alive, killed with one strike another skeleton. 2 where now running at them, as the last one was going after Alast. Lightning prepared another spell, as the dwarven shooting squad advancing and reloading kept in making it an hard time for the bones. One more was down. Gustavius suddenly yelled a Marghal "What feeling is it to be discarded by Haldruk?" But no response came back in the heat of the battle. Griselda used her blanket to put on her wound, Alast back-stabbed Marghal in the neck. Killing him. Apparently. The 2 skeletons were sitting ducks to be killed now. Even so Alast slit Marghal throat, just in case.