Alleyway Battle

Doredan's leap forward and the clash of steel begins the battle, which takes a whole different turn when Hylusi's spell first wraps the triton, then smothers the life out of him with wave after wave of grasping, squeezing hands that radiate negative energy. There are screams, but they grow weaker and weaker as more hands latch out. The remaining thugs look worried, and one or two of them take steps backward. "You didn't say they had a mage..." Utters a musclebound human. A half-elf with a mauled ear responds "Mages ain't scary if you target them. Draw your daggers and throw, you git!"

Though the crowd of thieves looks worried, some advance forward and some draw smaller throwing blades. One flies past the goreling hoard and the skeletal hand and scratches across Hylusi's cheek and the handle of another bounces off of Kunian's shoulder, both smarting a bit but causing no traumatic wounds. The musclebound human issues a bellow of challenge and charges the goreling wave, hacking and slashing at them with a exotic looking axe, but the effect against such a flow of necrotic influence is minimal, even with those straining arms. One hand is chopped in two, but this just results in the goreling splitting into two attackers, still mobile and dangerous, though the newest goreling is not yet under the thrall of the necromancer. On the other side of the alley Bil and Felicity are targeted by two ne'er-do-wells , but their weapons fail to pierce the pair's heavy armor, sparks flying as steel scrapes off of steel.

Spoiler: OOC
Show
Hylusi gets scratched by a dagger for 6 hp (shield wouldn't have prevented it), Kunian gets hit for 5 hp, and a goreling takes 12 damage, which causes it to split. Since muscles is the nearest target he's probably going to suffer the wrath of the new goreling first, but Hylusi might want to take control of the new goreling before it tries to eat a party member.