Eve put down the journal. "That was an interesting read." Sakamoto looked over toward her, and saw what she had been reading, and threw the apple he was polishing at her. Eve laughed and flicked her finger towards the incoming apple, which turned to ash and dropped to the floor. Sakamoto shook his head and grabbed another apple from the barrel. They had been sitting there for close to a week now. They were stuck in the castle, but only because constant winds were blowing towards them bringing snowstorms one after the other.
Talon Silverwing walked towards them. "Sakamoto, quit wasting food. Eve, quit nosing in other people's business. Scorpo, I need your assistance in tanking and luring a group of dwarves into Lornar's Pass. There's a blizzard due north that looks like it may come this way, and if we can get them lost in the storm, we may be able to sneak past the dwarves and cut through Dreadnought's Drift and directly into Kryta." Sakamoto got up, and said, "I'm coming too." Silverwing looked at him. "This isn't time for games Sakamoto. You know just as well as me or Eve that there isn't enough bodies out there for you to do any good, and the wilderness has been scared off by the blizzards that have been bombarding us." "Actually I wouldn't be surprised if he pulled something unheard of." Silverwing looked towards the source of the voice. It was Scorpo. "How?" "When I found him, he was in the process of killing Spinechill." Silverwing gave Sakamoto a look of discontent. "Fine then. Come along then I guess. You're probably just gonna rack up death penalties, but I guess I could use another bait man." Sakamoto pulled himself up and muttered, "Gee thanks for the inspirational motivation."
Sakamoto picked up his wicked staff, and followed Scorpo and Talon out the door. Eve muttered something about a moron, and resumed her chanting in attempts to summon the apple back from the ashes.
They stepped out into the cool air. It wasn't frigid, but just cold enough to keep the snow on the ground from melting. Talon Silverwing tilted his head a bit seemingly in deep though, then pointed towards a cliff. "We need to head in that direction." They started off at a gentle jog, only ten minutes later, they stopped and looked across the valley. "That's interesting," Talon muttered. "All the dolyak healers are clumped together, and the nearest actual fighter class creature is at least 30 meters from them." Sakamoto looked and saw that it was true. "Stay here," Sakamoto whispered. "I'll take care of this group." By group he meant army, for besides the 6 healers, there were close to 40 other fighter class creatures there including dwarves and enslaved ettins.
Sakamoto picked his way through the brushes, and made his way stealthily to the healers. He got to a comfortable position, and started to cast spells on the healers. Awaken the Blood, then Arcane Echo. Target one of the healers, and cast Spiteful Spirit on it. That healer recognized that it was a curse, and immediately cast orison of healing on itself not knowing that that would activate the curse. Spiteful Spirit spread to the surrounding healers, which did the same. At that point, Sakamoto cast malaise on a few of the stronger healers, and watched as the healers literally healed themselves to death.
Talon watched the scene from a distance. "Maybe I was wrong about the whole baitman and death penalty thing I was talking about earlier," he muttered. Scorpo didn't answer. Talon looked at him. He was in shock with his mouth hanging wide open. "Scorpo, you ok?" Scorpo snapped out of his shock and whispered, "Yeah that's fucking amazing.
Sakamoto made his way back to Talon and Scorpo. "Now that the healers are gone, it should only be a matter of days before the others realize that they can't stay out here for any longer, and head back. However, if you can clump them all together, I think it's possible to pull the same trick on them and get rid of them once and for all." Talon nodded. "That was incredible, but I think we'd better head back for now. I'm hoping that they will just all go back to Sorrow's Furnace for supplies and whatnot. We can use that window to get across and into Kryta." Scorpo nodded his head and said, "Yeah I think that's a good idea. Why fight when we don't have to?" Sakamoto nodded, started to say something, but fainted instead.