Ash Val'ron: Lalotain Defense

### *Lalotain Defense:*

Ash had never been to Lalotai, nor did they have a real reason to come to the rescue of the natives thereof... but this was a prime chance to see some of the adventurers in action! How could they refuse! Donning the persona of "Alex", they convinced a wizard to teleport them towards the front line of the Lalotain defense, and who would bring him back at the stroke of midnight. "Alex" arrived rather late in the day, and as he knew that a head-on confrontation with the elementals would be suicide, he planned to use the evening shadows to make his assault, along with use it to watch and study other adventurers fighting patterns.

Knowing his abilities wouldn't be up to par, Alex had communed with and channeled an infamous cyromancer's spirit that morning to help him deal with the elemental menace. Using the cold element destructive blasts, along with a few well placed shots from his own trusty battered pistol, he easily dispatched of a few small stragglers while stalking his way to the forefront of the battlefield.

Upon reaching the front of the battlefield, Alex decided to take his time dealing with any stragglers that got through the other adventurers. This gave him both something to do to assist while staying out of the way from any of the more experienced adventurer's fights, and an excuse to watch them in action. Wielding fantastical magics and mundane buckets of water alike, they weren't just fighting the elementals back, they were winning. Although gradually, it seemed that the elementals were being pushed back!

Though this was not to last, as a pair of Huge elementals made their way out of the forest fire. One was holding onto a flaming tree trunk, before they threw it across the battlefield at some of the artillery mages, who didn't manage to get out of the way in time. Without the backup of the mages, those fighting on the front-lines were being pushed back, fast. Alex cursed internally, and ran forward towards the flaming tree-trunk that flattened a few of the mages. He looked around momentarily, before spotting someone struggling within the flames. He used his estoc as a make-shift lever, and using all of his strength he managed to just barely push it off of a mage, burning his own arms in the process. He applied healing magic on the mage he freed, and then to his own arms as he pulled the mage up over his shoulder and began to bring him back to the tree-line. After making sure the caster was okay, he ran back over to the pair of large elementals.

It seemed that a few adventurers had come up with a tactic of distracting one with only a few defensive combatants, whilst overwhelming the other with pure numbers. Firing off a few elemental blasts at the one being overwhelmed, it soon fell. With only one remaining, Alex thought the rest of the adventurers had this under control, and began to take care of healing the wounded using alchemical salves and healing magic. They soon toppled the remaining elemental, and Alex took his leave while the rest were celebrating. He looked up to the sky, and saw that the moon had long-since passed overhead, and sighed as he realized he missed his ticket home. Oh well, guess he's sticking around for a while to help out.