<strong>Tagging:</strong>Clio<br/><br/>At Clio's prayer, the lava simply faded and went inert...mostly.  A single piece remained, one glowing rock where once there had been one of the frozen statues defeated by Luke.<br/><br/>Another elemental appeared in part, starting to surge up from the heat, but when everything cooled down, it left little more than a blobby imprint and a hand partially formed.  More elementals would have been coming; Clio stopped that from happening.<br/><br/>In one spot in particular, near the trapdoor, the power of Hephaestus was such that the lava all pushed away from the trapdoor and made a miniature volcano shape so that they'd have an easy time getting Hitomi out later.<br/><br/>For all that Clio had been pounded into shape and beaten like an ingot, it seemed that Gilbert had far less ability to withstand such a beating.  Just one solid crack to his ribs made a popping sound as he collapsed to the ground.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Enemy Turn</strong><br/><br/>Staggering back up to his feet while watching to make sure Clio didn't just pound him, he snarled, "Humans die, but the islands<em>must</em>survive.  If they fade, we lose the Atua with them!"  Then he threw a fireball in Luke's direction.<br/><br/>Had he been aiming for the ocean, it would have been an incredible shot.  He definitely hit the ocean.  Perhaps the elementals might have gone around giving him high-fives for that incredible feat of striking water with flame.  However, since he was aiming for Luke, it was far less awesome of a task, and he failed.<br/><br/>One of the elementals saw Clio and rushed over, giving her in turn a solid punch that was just enough to do some damage to her, but she wasn't hurt nearly as bad as Gilbert.<br/><br/>The other looked to JD and rushed over in that direction.  Elementals were slow and stupid, but also determined.  This one had a bit of speed on him and JD would have to try to outrun him if she didn't want to have him next to her in a few moments.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>OOC:</strong>Clio, you have a Bruised Injury Condition of Bruised Ribs.  What this means is that you have a Bruised health level filled up, you have -1 Defense (so start with 0 instead of 1), and whenever you roll Defense, you get a point of Momentum.<br/><br/>JD, you have two successes coming your way on a Rush attempt.  You can choose between keeping your cover or moving away to keep it at range, but if you stay where you are, the elemental will be Close next turn and no doubt go for a melee strike.<br/><br/><strong>Player's Turn</strong>