Still flanking with Absinthe Segang tries again to connect with his earth breaker, full attacking.
Seren pulls out and uses his arcane scroll. Cherias moves up to keep line of sight with the group, but stays under the cover of invisibility. Tobar moves up and stabs out with his rapier, but the blade does not penetrate her armor.
Segang moves in and slams the priestess with a crushing blow from his earthbreaker. Remarkably, Andaisin keeps her feet, but she is clearly shaken by the hit.
The rune-scribed zombies rush in, attacking Segang and Absinthe. The furthest out moves into the fray.
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"Do you mind?" Absinthe growls at the zombie targeting her.
Despite the distraction, she stabs at Andaisin again, hoping to take her out of the fight as quickly as possible.
"Sister Mel?" the Tiefling calls out after drawing blood. "You are wonderfully impressive, dear, but someaught to restrain or distract this lickspittle would be deeply appreciated."
While Melianthe flies around the statue and considers her next move, Absinthe drives her rapier deep into Andaisin's back before the cleric can climb out of reach. "No, ahhh..." she cries as she falls and slumps against the Urgathoa statue's base.
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"My regards to your rotting patron," Absinthe says to the dying Cleric, as she raises her rapier in a curt salute.
Letting his rage fall from him Segang regards the current threat more calmly. He full attacks the creature next to him hoping to kill it so that if it splashes anyone it will hit only him.
Seren will levitate up and hold his action being fairly useless against undead.
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Seren levitates up a few feet to the ceiling of the hallway.
Cherias moves forward, channeling a burst of holy energy, burning the four zombies.
Tobar shifts and stabs the nearest zombie. The borrowed blade drives right through the thing's skull, rendering it inert.
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Segang swings and slams down the next zombie.
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The two remaining rune zombies close around Absinthe, but she nimbly avoids their heavy fists.
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Absinthe stands her ground and lashes out at the zombie immediately next to her.
On his turn Segang moves and attacks a zombie.
Melianthe applies the Fortune Hex to Absinthe and begins to Cackle.
Melianthe hexes Absinthe, giving her a fortunate boost to hit her mark. The zombie's thickened hide absorbs most of the damage, however.
Everyone feels a sudden stomach-dropping dread as an otherworldly presence enters the chamber. Divine power seems to pulsate and crackle from the statue of Urgathoa for a moment before slithering into Andaisin's body. The cleric's body is lifted into the air, her sundered flesh explodes with boils and pustules while torrents of four humors flood forth and congeal into a sickening new body...
This new form bears a vague semblance to the woman it was borne from, but below the waist, its body trails off into a sinuous tentacle of bodily tissues and excretions. Its right arm ends in the form of a massive bone scythe head, and its eyes glow a sickly red.
"Urgathoa be praised! I am reborn in the Princess's image!" Andaisin screams with zealous ecstasy, her voice like a phlegmy whisper. She flies up and circles around the statue of her goddess, cackling with laughter. Her very presence seems to bolster the two zombies, imbuing them with profane power.
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"That is quite simply not fair," Absinthe says. "Can you not wait to be resurrected by an ally after the battle is fought, like a normal person?"
Seren will cast illusionary calm as he watches this horror unfold in front of him.
Still facing two of the zombies Segang tries to take both out. Wait your turn, whatever you are. he says as he swings. Anyone know exactly what that is?
"A Daughter of Urgathoa," Cherias calls out, his face a mask of restrained horror. "They are undead reincarnated from the goddess's most favored acolytes. Like everything else in here, her touch is corrupt with disease."
"That's right, little kitling," Andaisin replies haughtily. "Urgathoa's power flows through me now more than ever it did in my life! I thank you for the gift of my ascension -- and I shall repay it in kind. You may prostrate yourselves before me, and I shall make your end swift. Swifter, in any event, than the delightful end your lovely queen enjoined me to create!"
Cherias casts a prayer in an attempt to counter some of Andaisin's profane aura.
Tobar continues to fight bravely, moving by Absinthe and stabbing at the northern zombie ineffectually.
Segang also attacks. The zombie dodges clear of his first swing, but Segang connects hard on the follow-through, crushing the zombie to the ground.
The last remaining zombie cracks Absinthe hard across the jaw with a stony fist.
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"First, you," Absinthe promises the zombie. "Next, your gore-eating mistress."
The tiefling stabs out at the zombie with her magical rapier, and calls out: "Cherias! Does yon ugly freak have any weaknesses in particular?"
"Be of good cheer, friends!" Absinthe calls out. "Unless Andaisin is a liar as well as an ugly reject from the charnel pit, we now know for certain that Queen Abrogail is to blame for the city's ills! The way ahead is clear before us at last! Hei Feng hasten our blades, Sun Wukong sharpen our wits, and Qi Zhong cleanse us of this evil!"
"No vulnerabilities that I know of," Cherias responds grimly. "That thing is undead, for what its worth."
"Then mayhap sticking old pointy in where I got her last will do for her," Absinthe says, flicking her rapier up.
Melianthe, her attention focused on flying and Cackling, adds Segang to her Fortune Hex list. A slight sheen of sweat appears on her dusky brow...
Still cackling madly, Melianthe extends her fortune hex to Segang with a gesture. Absinthe stabs the zombie again, damaging it slightly and not enough to destroy it.
"No takers? Shame," Andaisin's rictus smile grows wider. She calls Urgathoa for a minor blessing, enhancing her defenses.
Segang attempts to finish off the last zombie.
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Seren casts a major image of an angelic, armored angel-like deva appearing with a thunderous noise and a blast of heat and light. A symbol of Saranrae is emablazoned on its chest. It will point a flaming white blade at Andaisan with a "come at me bro" gesture with its free hand.
Seren will concentrate on the image and use it to fight and respond to Andaisan.
Andaisin (and everyone else, I'm sure) turns in surprise as the angel appears and makes its taunting gesture. "What? How? she coughs, glaring at Cherias. "Is this your doing, kitling? No matter..."
Cherias only stares back with cold disgust. He steps back, casting a heal upon himself.
Tobar stabs at the last zombie, but Segang finishes it off with a solid blow.
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"One hopes you will bother to drag one's diseased corpse to a Cleric after this," Absinthe grumbles.
The tiefling stabs her rapier into a crack between two of the floor-tiles and unslings her heavy crossbow. Drawing a bead on the abomination, she pulls the trigger....
Melianthe flits over near the melee'ers, still cackling, and targets Andaisin with Misfortune Hex.
Andaisin cannot resist Melianthe's hex, and she hisses at the elf. Absinthe takes up her heavy crossbow and fires, but the bolt deflects off the creature's magical defense.
Andaisin focuses on the most obvious threat: the deva. She lashes out with claw and scythe-arm, raking through the illusion. Seren tries to compensate, but Andaisin catches on to the trick.
She spins away, glaring down on you. "Trickery? You will soon realize I'm not one to play foolish games!"
Seren will draw and ready an action to use the wand of magic missile in case Andaisin casts a spell.
Dropping his beloved hammer Segang moves towards the undead enemy as he pulls the spear from his back and rages once more. He stabs up at the creature hoping to score a hit.
Seren readies his wand, and Cherias stands prepared to heal himself or the creature, should she come within reach. Tobar also waits for an opportunity.
Segang takes up his longspear, jabbing Andaisin hard in the torso. She hisses, batting the weapon away, but her rage is focused against Melianthe and Cherias.
Absinthe slams the butt of her heavy crossbow against the ground, loads it, and manages to rewind it quickly.
"Anyone who can, break the spells on this freak!" she shouts before she squeezes off another bolt.