Eli figures Gloria is only saying she fears the dragon less either to just sound tough; or because she has yet to meet a dragon. Watching her men get eaten alive and the nightmare-inducing screams that would follow would likely change her mind. If she lived long enough to keep what was left of her sanity.

Compare that to dying of cold weather. You go numb and quietly fall asleep.

Yeah. Eli is convinced Gloria is just acting tough or has no idea what a dragon is.

But it wouldn't help morale to speak his mind on this point. Instead, he asks, "Did the dragon have a weakness?"

"Dragons are weak to knights but super effective against princesses.  It's part of the elemental wheel!"

She smiles and thumbs-ups at Kyle.  "Thanks!"

"Then I advise you all to get some sleep for it is getting late and a long day waits us all in the morn."

Gloria yawns and nods to the floating bubble "Yes I agree as well I am going to head home for the night and I will meet you all Back here in the morn."

  Kyle is more worried from a practical standpoint, as seeing a man's face bitten off by a bear is roughly the same as seeing it bitten off by a wyvern, and so on.

  Forensics analysis of the teeth marks aside.

  "What if it was an Azer princess?" That'd be pretty metal.

Eli guesses that is code for either "the dragon doesn't have a weakness" or "I'll tell you when you're older in the morning" as far as Ivon's answer is concerned. "...g'night, Gloria."

Eli looks at Mittens and Kyle. "To the room, I guess..."

"I dunno.  Don't even know what that is.  But bed sounds good, yes."

Cat nap for kitty is go!

(So the Heroes carry there tired selves to bed after a long day of learning all that lies before them. What awaits them The next day is something that we can only imagine. Raven the nurse has set up two extra cots in the room to alow each hero there own bed.)




(Our heroes wake to a loud sound of screams from the center of town and a voice yelling out, "Take the captives to the queen now you worms!!!" What could the commotion be, and what will our heroes do next.)
Gloria busts into the tavern "There taking the townspeople we must stop them!"
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  Well, not exactly the way you want to start your day.

  Kyle mutters under his breath along the lines of "Oh your paranoid to sleep with your crossbow, riiiight

  He rolls out of bed, makes his will save vs sighing, and Heads for the door as Gloria makes her entrance and announcement  "You happen to notice how many, Gloria?"   It was probably a lot if she ran here, instead of sword first into somebody.

Eli leaps out of his bed, beckons his books which then hover and follow after him, and rushes out towards Gloria, not too far behind Kyle. He hears Kyle asking Gloria the important question. Not knowing what in the world he is dealing with, he is quickly flipping through the pages of one of his books while running.

Mittens is first to see Eli rush past with books flying behind him while Eli is opening a book to flip through its pages.

Gloria is next to see Eli emerge from the rooms with his eyes glancing over the pages of a book... while running. And half a second after he emerges, so too do two flying books.

Eli can be heard mumbling, "One over two MV squared equals GMm over r..."
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"Equals PEW-PEW-PEW-LASERS!"

Mits is firing at baddies through a window!  Why did she move her cot next to a window?  Couldn't be because she wanted to be attacking things first thing in the morning.  Not at aaaall.  *halo*

Gloria turns and leads the group out into the battle shouting to answer Kyles question, "There are only three left but one of them is big as hell so watch yourself."

(Out into the unknown our adventurers push forward unknowing of what lies ahead.)

The Giant Frost Reaver rushes Gloria and thrusts his spear into her shoulder spinning the blade, "You will die this day."

Gloria lets out a howl of pain and grabs the spear pulling in deeper into her shoulder and her prey closer and into her range, "Alright Arora its feeding time." Gloria brings Arora down into the Reavers neck but the things armor keeps him from being cut, though there is a satisfying crunch as his left arm goes limp.
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Eli stops his equation short when he sees the big guy and rushes forward. "Thunderwave!" and a loud crack of thunder flows forward in front of him, but only seems to ripple the enemies' clothes... and nothing more. Eli looks scared.

  Kyle fires a blurred crossbow bolt into the larger enemy's other arm, and follows up by throwing a packet of dust that burst in the air around the nearby enemies... Is that peppermint?

  "She is not dying for the next few moments, at the very least."

End results:
21 Damage to big guy.
-3 melee to hit rolls on big guy (to end of my next turn).
Big guy and normal guy near him:  Not allowed to take standard actions, until end of it's next turn.

Gloria Buff:  +1 AC, can cash in as a free action (such as when taking a hit) to get Her surge value+3 THP.

one of the minions tries to rush Kyle bus chokes and falls in the dust, and with a squish sound the party hears its own spear price its body killing it.

Gloria tightens her grip on the reavers spear not letting him move to attack, Kyles dust blinding and slowing the beast. She would need to buy him a round at the tavern later "Alright Arora second times the charm, DEVOUR HIM!!!" Once more she brings Arora down on the giants neck severing his left arm completely.
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Mits points, and yellow glowing targets appear in front of the enemies.  She then creates a radiant bow and fires it at the enemies, downing one!

Eli finished reading. "Sorry Mittens..." he says, "But it doesn't equal pewpew... it equals..." he thrusts a hand forward and starts circling clockwise.

A wind starts circling around the giant before a small tornado forms around him, picking him up and soon becoming a red tornado from all the blood flying around. The giant flies 10 feet into the air and then a black spot appears above the vortex... sucking the guy into it before all sound stops for a second. When the sound returns, the vortex disperses and the hole in the air vanishes. All that is left of the giant is the left arm Arora had sliced off. "...this. Um. I think I over compensated." he gulps, looking frightened by what he just did.

  "Hmm, well it's properly contained. Only your intended targets were effected.  I'll take your overshooting over the alternatives, Eli."

  He looks over to Gloria, and says "Just to be sure, is that figurative threats talk, or do you actually have a soul eating weapon?"  Said as he patches up her (thankfully limited) wounds.  He may be an Artificer, but artifacts can be pretty iffy when it comes to identification or even detection.

 We're... we're not gonna get into the full technicals of why a wizard can't recognize the magic missile spell being cast rules as written.

Ivon floats over to Eli "That was an extraordinary show of control child and the amount of synergy required to cast a spell of that magnitude is not something to joke at. You shall make a fine Sage someday with proper training, though i suggest you hold back least you drain yourself and the spell tries to drain your life force to compensate."

Gloria winces as Kyle pulls the last of the splintered spear out of her shoulder and settles as the pain begins to fade. "No Aurora has no power to devour souls, she simply needs her fill of battle or she gets restless." Gloria looks to the rest of the party scattered around and then at the empty town. "We need to get those people back, there is no telling what the Queen will do to them. The armorer is over there, (Gloria points to a large stone building), any supplies we may need should be there. The local shops all donated what they had to spare there before most of them left, so that any who needed supplies could gather them faster in one location and so the town did not starve while trying to winter this war."

"Woohoo, nice one, Eli!" Mits commends, hopping up and down.

"Keep pulling stuff like that, and you can prove me wrong aaall day long!

"Yay for personified weapons!"

She thumbs-ups at the shopping suggestion and heads for the store.

Eli glances at Ivon and ducks his head. "Sorry, Mister Ivon. I got desperate because my magic wasn't working at first..."

He double-takes. "What? I thought we just stopped the kidnappers..."

Eli heads for the store with the others. Upon seeing the inside of the store, he hurries to the nearest person. "Do you sell anything magical?"

  Ah, offscreen kidnappings.  The fastest kind.  See also: Scales of war thread.

    Kyle nods to Gloria,  "Merely bloodthirsty is fine, though I advise you void any sentient weapons.  When not trying to possess you outright, they have a habit of vanishing in the middle of a fight if you don't follow their whims."

  As for Eli, he says "While I'm not expecting it, any residium supplies mean I can likely enchant equipment to certain requests if it is not conveniently located on the shelves here."

  He turns to the glowball in confusion  "Just what half rate methods are you used to, if that is not only the first concern that comes to mind but one that does at all.

The small women behind in the store looks to the group and rubs her eyes wiping away the tears. " You must be the adventurers that have come to help us, please I beg of you take what you will, but save my husband. He was taken by those brutes with the rest of the towns people and now there is none left to forge the weapons the soldiers need to protect us."

Gloria grabs a few essentials from the tables set around the room and looks to the lady, "We will return everyone, just wait and keep safe. We will end this no matter what, I owe the people here to much to allow more harm to come to them." Gloria moves to a stone grinder and proceeds to sharpen Aurora. "We will leave out as soon as the rest of you have prepared." 


Ivon staying close to Eli offers advice on things that may help the young mage. "Remember child you have a much larger mana pool than most but it is not everlasting, I suggest something to store mana into such as a Fey stone if they have any so that you can store excess magic to use to replenish yourself in a prolonged battle."


The lady hearing Ivon walks to a nearby wall and removes a stone revealing a small iridescent stone and moves to present it to Eli. "This was something that we held onto for emergency, in case the shop ever went under. They are very rare and expensive, take and please use it how you may, jut please bring back my husband."

Mits was already toying with the wares, but crying lady snaps her back to reality.

"Rest assured we will do our utmost!"

She oohs and aahs at the magic items.

"Wow!  And our chances just improved a great deal!  Thanks!"

Eli takes the fey stone and nods. "Thanks." he says with a sad tone to his voice. He just can't be happy in the face of a crying woman who's husband got snatched.

He then finds and equips a number of other items. He's quiet throughout, mostly thinking about how best to rescue the people and what all they will have to face in the future.

  Hmm, completely ignoring the call out about the whole 'life draining magic' thing.  Obsession with a young impressionable child loaded with arcane energy.   Requests Eli put said energy into strange artifacts...  Ivon is so going to try and possess Eli at this rate.

  "We will do what we can to save as many as possible."