"Right, yer a spellslinger," Bardus said, his eye glaring at her a bit more warily. "And fight you will, if you want to live."<br/><br/>With that, he walked away and returned a few minutes later passing a crossbow and a belt containing bolts through the bars. He looked up, as if hearing something. "Just in time," he muttered, stepping back from the bars.<br/><br/>In their facing cages, Morgash and Aryn, and Luix elsewhere in the complex, felt the hairs on the back of their necks prickle. Near the ceiling of their cells, sigils began to glow a molten orange from within the rock itself.<br/><br/>And then, you are all someplace else.<br/><br/>It appears to be a massive room made of marble. That's not the most unusual thing, though. Each of you are standing atop a marble pillar, three feet in diameter and about twenty feet from the polished floor below. The room is full of the columns, each spaced with about a six foot gap between them.<br/><br/>In the center of the room, at floor level, is a statue of a gargoyle slowly turning on its base with a grinding sound. As you watch, there is a tinkling noise, and a red beam shoots from the statue's eyes. The beam bounces off of some of the pillars, ricocheting around the room. The beam never rises high enough to reach anyone atop the pillars, but if you were to stand on the floor there would be a chance of getting hit no matter where you stood in the room. The beam seems to fire about every ten seconds.<br/><br/>Beside yourself, there are three others in this room, all atop pillars and each one at one of the corners of the room, about 100' from you.<br/><br/>One is a hobgoblin, unarmored and seemingly unarmed. Another is a strange elf-like woman with an evil aspect to her, holding a crossbow. A man standing in breastplate bearing a shield and a large mace stands at one corner, and in another is a woman with streaming red hair, breastplate and a halberd in her hands.<br/><br/>To stay atop the pillars, and move about the room, will require leaping from one pillar to the next. A fall would be a drop of twenty feet to the floor below, painful but not deadly. The floor would provide a more stable fighting ground, and the pillars so fill the room it would make it easier to sneak around unseen, but it also leaves you open to being struck by the mysterious red beam.<br/><br/>OOC: For all combat actions, go ahead and state what you intend to do, but don't state outcomes. All dice are rolled on my end and I'll let you know how things turn out. Go ahead and post in any order, since it would take too much time to make you post in order of initiative. I will factor initiative into the results. When I post results, I will take them as far as I can before asking for another set of actions.