From his position on the ground, Kern swings at the hound with his axe.
Victor fires at the dog that brought Kern to the ground.
Sophy stands sobbing at the top of the stairs, afraid both of the demon dogs and of the thought that everyone downstairs might already be dead and she just sent Victor and Kern to join them.
Out in the hall, Victor plants another arrow in to the demon dog and it yelps in pain from the second arrow imbedded into it's flesh. In side the cells, Wren desperate to get out of this place scurries across the floor and grasp her Wand, her source of power and survival. At top the stairs, Sophy ponders the wisdom of sending Kern and Victor back to their doom. Kern smells the foul breath of the yeth hound over top of him and from his compromised spot on the ground lashes out with his hand axe. The axe takes a chunk of hide off the beast, yet is it still barely cling to life. Belril presses his small body against the door, holding it shut as tight as he can as Ameiko shuffles towards the other door, singing her words of encouragement, and opening it.
The hound bites Kern again.
Belril feels the door vibrate and hears the thud of someone on the other side trying to force it open, but it easily holds shut this time. Orik says, "We need to go! The mercenary hauls Eponine down the hall and opens the other door to find Kern on the ground under the attacking hound.
Unable to believe the bleeding dog still stands after being hit twice, "Why will you not die!" Victor fires again.
Victor takes a final shot at the yeth hound ending it's life and freeing the fearful of the thought that it might be able to hunt them down. It is indeed very dead.
Upon hearing that awful wailing cease, Wren is able to start moving with Ameiko towards the door that the rest of her team were streaming towards.
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Belril steps back from the door quietly, unsure if he could hold it against another slam and hoping the demon-armed woman wasted effort forcing it . He reloads his sling staff with all his swift training and starts to spin it, ready to hurl a sharpstone at her as soon as she gets the door open.
(+1 Inspire, -1 Fatigue, Crit Threat)
(Crit confirmation roll)
Damage (9 damage if 24 did not confirm)
Wren sighs in relief and rushes to aid Ameiko out of the prison cells. Kern stands up tossing aside the dead hound's corpse. Belril takes a step back and readies himself to attack Nualia as she comes through the door. Ameiko keeps singing her song and slowly moving down the hall to right behind Orik with Eponine over his shoulder. Sophy is intent on what is happening below and doesn't see Tsuto sneak up on her until the last second when he reaches out to grab her. He lunges at her, but she easily ducks under his grasping arms.
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Sophy cries out in fright as the half-elf comes up behind her and tries to grab hold of her. He didn't come by the stairs ... so there must be another way up, she reasons even in her surprise. "Tsuto!" she reproaches him tearfully. "Why are you doing this? How could you let them be so cruel to your own sister?"
Belril anticipates the door bursting open yet as the seconds pass by he feels sure the woman on the other side should have made another attempt by now. From the eastern hall the halfling hears an anguished mournful cry followed by a string of unearthly curses. Kern turns to see the demonic armed woman rushing towards the entrance hall. Orik shouts, "Get out of here!" The warrior trudges past Kern and Victor heading up the stairs carrying Eponine as gently as he can. Victor can hear Sophy saying something upstairs, but to whom?
Init: Nualia, Eponine (stable), Orik, Victor, Wren, Kern, Belril, Ameiko, Tsuto, Sophy
Victor turns his attention upstairs, "Sophy?! What's going on?! Are you alright?!" Quickly looking around and realizing there are several other members of their party unaccounted for, "Kern! Where are the others?!" Where are they? I will not leave any of them behind! I must not fail them! I cannot!
Wren moves forward, trying to get Ameiko and herself out of the compound. After 15', she looks toward the exit, and sees the demon woman coming for her again. She immediately turns and heads in the opposite direction. "The other way, Ameiko...the monsters coming to kill us all!
"They're coming!" Kern replies to Victor. He stares down the hall. "Wren, this way! Hurry up!" He waits for them to get into the room.
"I can't go that way.! The demons coming! She'll kill us all!
Kern is briefly startled at Wren's statement, but then remembers his own irrational fear from a few moments before. "It's all right! She's gone!" he calls to her. Then he moves and shuts the door on the demon-woman.
There is a flurry of motion in the hall as Victor spins about looking for his companions, Wren runs out and back into the short passage between the hall and the prison cells, Belril charges in to room, Kern slams the door shut, and Belril presses himself against it to hold it shut. Ameiko keeps her encouraging song going as she slowly works her way towards the stairs. Tsuto glares at Sophy, "My sister is deluded into thinking Sandpoint is worth saving. Nualia knows better, revenge will be ours." He strikes out at her with his bare hands but she is too quick and allows the walls to help shield her from his rapid attack.
"You think killing people will make you feel better?" Sophy replies. "You could tear Sandpoint down brick by brick and salt the earth so nothing would ever grow there again, but you'd still remember what happened to you. Did killing Mr. Kaijitsu take away the pain he caused you? Now that he's dead, can you forget him?"
Sophy tries to reason with Tsuto as she puts her arms up to protect herself.
Nualia yanks at the door trying to pull it open, but Belril is able to keep it closed. Orik sees Tsuto at the top of the stairs and bellows, "Get out of my way!" The altercation atop the stairs is blocking the way out.
Gaining a new respect for the Belril's courage, Wren wastes no time in sprinting after the others, trying to get out of harm's way.
Victor looks up the stairs as Orik yells. "What is going on, Orik?! Who is in your way?!"
Victor waits at the bottom of the stairs waiting to see what is going on at the top of them as Wren rushes over to exit via them. Orik answers "Tsuto is trying to grab Sophy."
Kern nods to Belril, but as he turns to the stairs, he hears Victor calling up and sees that people have stopped. He pauses to find out what's going on.
Eponine continues to sleep it off.
"What?!? Back out! Now! All of you back out so Sophy can get out of there!" Victor backs up to allow them room while motioning them to hurry it up.
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Victor, could you kindly stop standing around and PUT AN ARROW IN TSUTO'S EYE!? Belril says, voice rising to an incredulous and somewhat hoarse shout.
Don't know how much longer I can hold this... You have to hurry... he mutters quietly.
DC18 to ignore fatigue for the round (fail)
Strength check to hold door
"Well I will just as soon as everybody gets back down here and out of the way! Assuming he follows them, of course." He says as a matter of fact.
Noticing his sword on the ground, "My sword!" Seeing how Kern is missing his mighty flail, "Where is your flail, Kern? No matter, take the sword, it will be better than that."
"Get out of the way up there! The demon lady is coming," Wren yells, pushing everyone, trying to flee from the accursed place.
Kern waits to see what happens next as Victor backs out to the stairwell's exit. Belril continues to hold the door. Ameiko backs out of the stairs and moves to the safety of the corner, continuing her encouraging ballad.
Atop the stairs Tsuto reaches out to get a hold of Sophy, but she is able to knock his grasping arms away.
Sophy takes a step back, down onto the landing, and for the first time realizes that Orik is carrying the limp and bloodied form of Eponine. Her eyes widen in horror, and she turns back to Tsuto. "Tsuto, please! You don't want to hurt anyone else. Just and let us leave!"
Sophy bakes away from her attacker and Orders him go go away. Tsuto eyes little Sophy and snarls, "Make me."
The door that Belril is tightly holding to is yanked open, but he grits his teeth and pulls with all his might slamming it back closed and keeping the demon tainted women out. Orik gently lays Eponine in the corner of the landing, then pushes past Sophy saying, "She might not be able to make you move..but I certainly can." Tsuto laughs and retorts, "You? Really, a washed up mercenary from the sewers of Riddleport...I think not!"
Victor and Wren wait anxiously for what happens next upstairs, something is happening between Tsuto, Sophy and Orik but its difficult to tell what is going on since everyone downstairs can only hear the encounter up there.
Kern picks up the sword as directed by Victor. "Thanks, Victor," he says. He then goes to the bottom of the stairs and looks anxiously up them, but waits there for now.