There seems to be no door out of the room Sol has entered. What he does find, however, is stomach-churningly horrible - human remains pounded into mush by the demons; the stench of blood, rot and faeces; a gore-drenched heavy mace lying discarded as the abrikandilus came out to attack the group. The room appears to have been some sort of shrine, although now defiled.
The cultists are canny enough not to be drawn out of the doorway to be surrounded. The cultist attacking with the halberd leans round to try and impale Ghroth while the other casts a spell.
The cultist in the doorway staggers but somehow stays on his feet after taking an arrow in the shoulder and a glancing axe-blow to the head.
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Ghroth lunges out of a crouch with fangs spread wide and a second set of needle-like fangs ready just beyond those.
With the cultist off-balance, Ghroth slams a toothy tongue though his chest. The gory appendage emerges from the cultist's back before being dragged back into Ghroth's jaws with a meaty slurp. The man goggles before collapsing in a spreading pool of blood.
Mulluq feels a force try to sway his mind, but he is so secure in his faith in the Inheritor that he doesn't even bother to consider the enemy's spells a viable threat.
With the man blocking the door removed, Mulluq sees that the enemy is not falling for the tactic loudly shared by the others, not surprisingly. As such, he moves back in, past the door and the man in the corner. He leaves himself open to attack, in order to block any avenue of escape. With Radiance in hand, he swings cleanly at the cultist.
Mulluq drives off the stabbing polearm with his shield and his sword cuts the cultist's arm.
Kira will use another cha be of the wand on jod.
The door at the far end of the room that Mulluq has just entered opens. A scaled tiefling appears in the doorway and he throws something at Mulluq.
Mulluq is engulfed in flames and turned into a living torch. The cultist and Booam are also caught in the periphery of the explosion.
Kaygan moves to P12 and uses Diviner's Fortune on Booam, giving him +1 to attack, saving throws, skill checks and ability checks for 1 round.
Ghroth darts through the door and lifts the cultist off the ground slamming him against the wall with a crack. While he struggles there the tentacle snakes its way out of his maw and plunges directly at the cultist's own mouth.
Hannik takes advantage of the distraction and rushes in behind Ghroth to snap off a shot at the tiefling.
Ghroth tears the cultist limb from limb and throws the various bits into the nearby corners of the room. The tiefling gulps and ducks Hannik's crossbow bolt.
Booam and Jod both rush into the room, trying to reach the tiefling before he throws more bombs. Each is aware of the shooters behind them and takes a position to either side of the door.
Wendaug follows, drawing up alongside the demonblood paladin and letting fly with an arrow.
Mulluq growls though his prodigious fangs as the flames burn and cover him. The others rush in to the fight, and he decides that they will not be stymied by a doorway once again. He clops one of his cloven hooves, before springing off of his goat-like legs to rush straight at the bomb-throwing man. The fire cloying to his flesh making him a truly fearsome sight. He tries to push the man to the far wall, in order to allow all the others to follow him into the room.
Seeing Mulluq take off, Kira follows him into the room.
The two tieflings collide and Mulluq shoves the alchemist back.
The bomber wriggles clear and hurls another vial at the burning paladin.
Kaygan hurries into the side room, trying not to look at or step in the gore, and moves up beside Sol.
Mulluq growls through the pain as the fire burns at him, singeing and searing his flesh, even with his natural resistances. He swipes wildly at the man as he steps aside, but his focus is more on ignoring the pain, and his whole body is tense with it. He almost drops the sword in the attempt.
Ghroth tears through the doorway splattered with gore and charges the alchemist with an alien chittering hiss. His tentacle snakes out, snapping at the tiefling, testing it for now.
Hannik reloads her crossbow with steady hands and moves over behind Jod to keep an eye on the tiefling.
Sol grins at the ex-librarian and taps the wall. "I can try to look like Faxon. We go through here and get behind the demons. Take them by surprise."
Kaygan looks a little dubious. "Or we separate ourselves from the others and run into trouble we can't handle?"
Booam moves and throws a heavy sideways swipe at the bombthrower.
Jod is right behind the mongrelfolk warrior and makes a downward slash with his falchion.
Wendaug follows, arrow ready, but hold her fire to see if the tiefling survives the dual blades' impacts.
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Kaygan looks a little dubious. "Or we separate ourselves from the others and run into trouble we can't handle?"Sol grins at the ex-librarian and taps the wall. "I can try to look like Faxon. We go through here and get behind the demons. Take them by surprise."
"Or we get a jump on our enemies. It's so cramped in here. We can't get everyone into the fight."
Alchemical fumes surround the tiefling alchemist, stinging the eyes and obscuring sight of him.
Jod's swing misses in the murk, but Booam lands a very hefty blow, almost doubling the tiefling up.
Seeing Jod's potentially devastating blow clearly miss (from her perspective, Jod seems surprised by it), Wendaug brings the bow up, draws back, and fires as the alchemist straightens up after Booam's axe nearly cut him in half.
Wendaug's arrow thunks into the tiefling's thigh.
After a quick prayer to Iomedae, "Grant me this boon of life, that I may persist against all enemies of good.", Mulluq moves past the others, directly across the path of the tiefling enemy. The healing energy granted by Iomedae easing some of his burns, he stands across from Jod, and attempts to stab the one that burned him. His skin is still pained from the burns, and he has trouble moving through with his swing because of them. His fingers risk their very grip.
Seeing the foe retreating, Kira takes stock of the situation, then goes after Sol and Kaygan.
"The foe is nearly defeated, what have you found?"
"Look and listen before you leap Sol," advises Kaygan.