(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/34/c9/e6/34c9e6ed9c65398257cec0c7ec06e579.jpg) (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9b/5e/da/9b5eda04e4e0c8d585f4b4e0ab15ac0a.jpg) (https://cdn.inprnt.com/thumbs/eb/d5/ebd562a93037c44c7fd21f4addeff8f5.jpg?response-cache-control=max-age=2628000)(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/72/68/5f/72685fa3a589dc9feb6b738a4628a95c.jpg)<br/><br/>Seeing Evita's uncertainty, the Baroness herself had struggled to stand up, only to fall into another coughing fit, real or playacted was hard to tell, not taking any offensive action..<br/><br/><strong>Combat Round 2</strong><br/><br/><em>Initiative</em>Taris -> Aeryn -> Duckham (Enraged) -> Marquis (unconscious or dead) -> Baroness -> Guard -> Evita -><br/><br/>Taris was not here for playing, she was here for noble slaying. In particular, she had her eyes on the Marquis, who was without a doubt the ringleader of this little cult.<br/>Taris arrows impacted against a magical forcefield that the Marquis had hidden somewhere and sparks scattered left and right as arcane energy fought against burning fire.... and with a crackling, it was the Marquis shields that broke, two lines of fire impacting his chest and sending him tumbling backwards, impacting a wall and sliding down, body slack, if not worse.<br/><br/>Lady Aeryn shouted a curse in elfish, with the unmistakable accent of undercommon within it as she rushed forward, although, her blind fury made her whip strike less true than it should have been, allowing Taris to ever so barely dodge the dancing whip.<br/><br/>Lady Duckham just stared at the Marquis hunched over body, rushing towards him, letting out a pained yowl, as she turned around, her clothing tearing and aching in complaint, barely containing and finally giving into an expanding, shifting muscle-mass as her body twitched and mutated, shifting to take on a very much non-human apperance, her hands forming into claws, multiple spike-tipped appendages growing from her back, finished off by a massive scorpion-like tail, her sudden change motivating most of the nobles to flee in an audible panic.<br/>(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e0/7d/71/e07d710dbd23758caebf212159a95458.jpg)<br/><br/>".. She's gone berserk. I'll protect the soulless. Vim repellens!" She declared, lifting her hands and moving them in quick, complicated gestures that belied her feeble frame, unleashing a glittering dust of quartz-crystal and seperating the room in two with a see-through wall, 10 ft in height. Taris found herself on one side, together with the changed Lady Duckham whilest Aeryn, Evita, the nobles soulless hostage and the Baroness herself where on the other side.<br/>"What are you doing?" Aeryn complained. (recolored to avoid confusion)<br/>"Fuck, is the Marquis dead? How can this be?" ".. The intruder must have disrupted the divine energies protecting this sanctum. No mattter, with the Marquis dead, you're the only one that can provide me with what I need, so I can't risk your life." The Baroness proclaimed, rather specific, whilest Aeryn slammed her whip into the force-barrier.. the whip clattered off of it without so much as a scratch. "Don't waste your time attacking it, keep calm."<br/>"Don't tell me what to do, human filth! Rather than giving the intruder a chance to fight us one by one we should overwhelm her... and what magic is this wall anyway? Are you too weak to create a proper<em>wall of ice</em>?" They argued, with the Baroness taking a step backwards at the elfs furious suspicion. "T.. thats not it.. cha.. hah... you've not seen" The Baroness coughed slightly, seeming to have exerted herself in escaping the webs alone. "You've not seen what she's like when she loses control." The Baroness nodded to Lady Duckhams changed, insectoid form.<br/><br/>The half-orcish guard drew a large blade, but, being swarmed with now panicking nobles and uncertain what to do, he was a non-factor in this fight, for now.<br/><br/>One of the doors, as well as a higher up window, if Taris had the chance to climb, as well as a half angry, half not even aware of her surroundings Lady Duckham were on Taris side of the magical barrier.<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button"> spellcraft 20 on the wall</div><div class="spoiler_body">It's a wall of force, marking the Baroness as a lvl 9+ caster.</div></div>