Into the Obscure (A Dark Extraplanar Adventure)
Game Master Halflingtime

Kanthuun also casts Fly and dives out of the no-longer-secure extradimensional space. "Uch," he says rather ingloriously, as the smell of the swamps blows into his face.

Rohini slipped down the rope into the muck below, giving chase to the best of her ability.

The creature kept running with his powerful, translucent legs through the murk, moving with the expertise of someone who understood the terrain, his feet grasping onto tree roots and bounding from one shallow area to the next. This did not mean that it could outrun the adventurers, however.

The yamah joined their companions outside, spreading out to let them pass unhindered below the rope.

Drovya cast a spell of flight and rocketed out of the nest, leaving a gust of wind behind him that tussled Haka's hair as the halfling leapt outside. Upon landing, the halfling pegged the retreating urdhefan once in the back.

The magus ended up directly above the abductor. Give or take 35'

Rohini continued through the bog until she reached a space close enough to the rogue that she could cast a spell to keep him from bleeding out.
Kanthuun followed Drovya's example, finding flight to be an easier way of catching up to the creature than running. He ended up below Drovya, but still well out of the reach of the creature below.

Hanethes twitched- a subtle allusion to the fact he yet lived.

Talon, having no need to stop to cast a spell, managed to catch up to the creature while Kanthuun's magic was still in his system, yelling something about how the urdhefan couldn't have the rogue.

Sensing the way the tide was turning, the creature stopped and lashed its rhoka against Hanethes' neck. A sinister, quiet voice forced to a crescendo roared at the interplanar travelers, enunciating in a strange tongue without the use of its own massive one, which wriggled in the air.

Both the urd and the yams are delaying, which means we are at:
Drovya, Haka, Rohini, Kanthuun, Hanethes, Talon in init.

Drovya chants a few words and lowers his hand over his face, then disappears.

Cast vanish.

stealth: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (15) + 21 = 36

Sense motive:
1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13

does it make any difference that Rohini's move is 40 and she can use her agile feet ability to ignore difficult terrain?

Rohini wants to close and cast sanctuary on Hanethes, but she perceives the threat to Han, even though she isn't sure what the creature's plan is. She will delay, but say in common, "make me sight unseen Kanthuun"

The movement speed matters; I believe it would put you 10' away due to how Haste works. More or less right behind Talon. The murk exists, but I am not playing it as difficult terrain for the medium-sizers. Not trying to pick on Haka, but it would significantly bother him more due to where it comes up to on his person.
Seeing the magus go invisible due to its lack of eyelids, the creature tensed.
Clueing into the strategy at hand, Illyata placed a hand on Haka's head and seemed to remove him from existence in much the same way as Drovya.
Nyota flinched, but did the same to herself.
Nyota and Haka have caught the invisiblies. Unless Haka tries to resist it, mind. Haka's action pending, I can post again.

Kanthuun taps Rohini and mutters a spell, making her wink out of existence.

Ok! So Rohini is right behind Talon and invisible. If I'm understanding correctly, a 5 foot step will put her adjacent to the creature (since she's right behind Talon and Talon is adjacent to the creature). So Rohini will ready her -- revised plan -- dimension door spell and if the creature begins to take any action -- against Han or otherwise -- Rohini will stealth in (while using her agile feet ability) and touch Han, to whisk her and Han away.

stealth: 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (11) + 24 = 35

Sense: 1d20 ⇒ 11

Talon just stares at the daemon, Stark in hand. He is ready to strike if the creature makes a move to strike down Han.

Haka keeps his sling at the ready, and says in common "Any idea what the creature said, aside from warning us it'll kill Han if we do anything to threaten it?"

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17

So, I noticed we rolled three 11's in a row, so I tried again:

1d20 ⇒ 11

Weird.

"It said its own epitaph," says Kanthuun.

"No, I think that mostly covers it, if my gift of tongues is adapting correctly." Illyata responded quietly.
And I assume Haka took the invisibling?
"We have a standoff..."

Init cycling-Wonky as heck,but unless Haka intends to do something outright, we're back to Drovya.

Haka is happy to invisibilate.

Drovya, never one for great subtlety chants once again.

שביתה אמיתית!

The creature winced at the sound of the much-closer Drovya. He panicked and set the small section of Abaddon in motion as it moved to dispatch his hostage.

Rohini lunged forward and spirited Hanethes away, only turning visible at the last moment. Talon hefted his scythe backwards to gain momentum, and Drovya used the spell to try to disarm the creature, who flailed in its own defense.

Hey, Talon. Your x4 crit sucks. -____-

Tee hee.

Talon cracks his neck with a grin. "Hostage situation handled. Is Han gonna be okay?"

Rohini moves Han 50 feet away, back in the direction the group came from. She channels some stored spell energy into cure serious wounds (i.e. she spontaneously casts it, sacrificing another prepared spell), curing Han for 3d8 + 7 ⇒ (1, 8, 3) + 7 = 19 hit points.

She will follow up with a cure moderate wounds: 2d8 + 7 ⇒ (5, 2) + 7 = 14

Where does that put you, Han?

Han is at 27 hp. Yay.

The wound in Hanethes' chest knits itself shut rapidly, and the blood on his chest seems to be seeping back into it. He coughs and sputters, sitting upright suddenly. "Something out there!--Oh."

Talon jogs back to see the rogue waking up. "Hey, you alright there, buddy?" He helps Han up to his feet.

Rohini will finish the healing by casting cure light wounds: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

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"As alright as I can imagine. I was on watch, and I heard something, and then.... ohhhh.... something cold between the ribs. Don't remember much other than that."

"Yea, that." Talon says pointing to the remains of the daemon. "Tried to take you hostage. But we didn't let him."

"I didn't even see him. Just heard something behind me at the last second. You'd think I could have felt the rope move or something."

"Yea, he was a slick one. None of us heard him either, until it was too late."

"Well, shall we see if he has any valuables?" Hanethes says with a grin as he moves over to search his would be killer.

Perception (20)
20 + 12 = 32 (+3 to notice traps)

Appraise
1d20 + 11 ⇒ (17) + 11 = 28

Drovya shakes his head in amazement at Talon's strike. As always my friend, your blade placement is impeccable, although, I was hoping to ask it why it had decided to abscond with Han... He grins as he restores his vanishing spell through his pearl of power. Still, no use crying over spilt brain matter. Let's see what his remains can tell us, if anything, hmmm?

The half-elf focuses his arcane sight and examines the corpse and its belongings.

spellcraft: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (9) + 14 = 23

Ah, here we are, a fine suit of dark leather armor, a lightly enchanted rhoka a ring of the protective variety, not very powerful, and a few oils of invisibility. I'll hold onto the rhoka unless anyone has an objection.

+2 darkened leather armor, +1 ring of protection, +1 rhoka and oil of invisibility x2 (CL8)

Nevermind on the aid another, I'll just put two skill points into spellcraft when I level, that'll meet the DC.

"So ready to be up and about, that Hanethes...," Illyata remarked to a nearby invisible halfling. "Not at all worried that he'd been impaled less than two minutes ago..."

Four holes in the bogwater marked the positions of Nyota and Haka.
"Do you want me to lift that gift from you now?"

"Hanethes, welcome back. I'll trade roles for you a bit and do some scouting," Kanthuun calls invisibly from the air.

"Ah, thank you, Mr. Invisible Voice." Han says cheerfully.

"Yep, can't keep a good rogue down, for long anyway. Yea, his neck decided to run into my blade, forcefully. I'll take the truffles for a midnight snack."

Kanthuun will fly about for three minutes, in a big circle, looking for more urdefhan. If he sees any, he will head straight back to the party.

Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13
Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27
Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

A slight whooshing sound announces Kanthuun's return to the party, and he reappears in a blink once alit on the ground.

"No sign of urdefhan nor any other sentient beings. A nasty patch of mosquitoes---do they swarm around corpses? I don't think so..."

is it back to 'bed' for us all?

Yes. Fast forward to eight hours later, if you wish... And dream what you will.