Having finished the last hell hound Einar helps loot the chain shirts, "Would one of these work for Greta when she is in wolf form?"
He then nods to Crummock as he heals the party, "Thank you."
Hustling to catch up with Crummock and Geist, he follows him down the hall, "My buffs have warn out, and I'm running thin, I will try and save the last ones for something a little fiercer than the dogs."
Seeing that Greta is still quite shaken, Crummock gives her a comforting pat on the shoulder.
"I may nae be able to excise the memory, but I can at least soothe yer concern, bolsterin' yer spirits..."
He then casts Remove Fear on Greta .
The corridor widens into a large cavern before ending precipitously at the edge of a chasm filled with slow-moving magma. Across the rift, the passage continues beyond a landing where two columns of stout, black rock buttress a low wall between them. There is a drawbridge to the buttress.
As the party emerges from the long winding corridor, they are greeted by 8 angry lumbering giants with short stumpy legs and powerful, muscular arms. Its hair and beard seem to be made of fire. 4 of them are behind a stone wall, while the other four are at the ground level with their greatswords drawn.
Mr Whiskers recognizes them as Fiendish fire giants.
Dimitri opens-up on the giants!
Geist then pounces on the injured giant...
...whilst Crummock dashes forward, and pimp-slaps another one!
Dimitri kills his giant with 3 shots, then wounds another, which Geist pounces, but does not manage to do much to, as his bites and claws are not very effective and the fire does nothing to them.
Crummock pimp slaps, then drops another giant.
Mr. Whiskers decides to make life more interesting for the giants on the other side of the lava.
He casts acid fog, trying to get as many of them as possible. He makes sure he has cover from the passageway in order to avoid becoming the target of too many rocks.
All the fire giants are damaged by the acid.
'Giants, should have had my spear out, the glaive will have to do.' Stepping forward, glaive in hand, Einar begins to rage as he enlarges his cambion ancestry becomes prominent. "Don't you boys have the sense to run?" He then attacks the giant repeatedly with the glaive.
Two of Einar's blows hit the ground.
The Light blue giant moves back, and Geist bites him.
Then it tries to grab Geist and stuffs him into the magma.
Its companion, seeing its success, steps back and attempts to do it to Crummock as well.
But Crummmock slips away!
The two giants in the acid fog try to get out of it.
The other two throw stones at Dimitri.
Which he dodges, easily.
Greta steps up and starts tripping, then clobbering the red giant.
That not working too well, she starts hammering it.
She does not have much luck hammering through its chain shirt.
Mr. Whiskers immediately casts Feather Fall on Geist when the giant throws him so that the big cat doesn't immediately fall into the lava.
Then he casts Wall of Stone to give Geist a nice wide bridge to stand on. It leads from the edge where the giant threw him off to the bridge.
For a moment, it looks like Geist is going to be grabbed, but at the last second, a shield of golden mist forms around him, and he slips through the giant's fingers.
Dimitri then attempts to blow-up the Green giant.
Geist, for his part, continues to bite and claw at his target...
...whilst Crummock, ignoring the giant, flies around to Geist and casts Freedom of Movement on his poor cat.
Geist is not grabbed by the Giant and Dimitri kills the giant he is shooting at.
The giant tries to slam Crummock as he goes past.
But Crummock sidesteps.
Mr. Whiskers casts another acid fog, capturing the other two giants across the way in it. He then flies up to the ceiling so he can see past his own fog.
Mr Whiskers sees a passage into the darkness beyond.
'Stupid Giant.' Jerking his glaive out of the ground Einar swings it repeatedly at the giant again. "You and your brothers should have ran."
Einar kills the red giant with two swings of his glaive.
Greta decides to stay where she is and readies to smack any giant that moves across the drawbridge. "Sorry." She apologizes to the party, sweating heavily. "I can't really get any closer to..."She gestures at the magama, "The magma, you know."
The light blue giant, thinking it was a fluke, tries to grapple Geist again. But Geist slips away!
The rest of the giants move up, and Einar takes a swing at one of them, cutting at it.
Crummock nods understandingly, and gives Greta a sympathetic smile.
Dimitri opens-up on Dark Blue...
Geist, tail lashing angrily, continues to claw and bite at his chosen target...
...whilst Crummock grits his teeth, and flies over the chasm, disappearing into the fog, where he attempts to pimp-slap the Magenta giant into oblivion.
Dimitri kills dark blue, then helps Geist finish off his giant.
The creature resists Crummock's pimp slap, though it is hurt by it!
Einar steps forward, snarling at the giant, "Don't you have any sense? Run you fool." He than attacks the giant with his glaive repeatedly.
Einar manages to cut his giant down!
The giant in the fog...decides to bum rush Crummock, in the direction of the magma.
Crummock stabs at the giant as it does so, causing him to get distracted in the bull rush attempt.
Crummmock finds himself 5 ft away from the magma, after being bull rushed!
Einar looks at Dimtri, "Can you kill that B@$+@^D that has Crummock from there?"
Crummock stubbornly pimp-slaps the Giant again.
Crummock pimpslaps the giant to death!
After the acid fog wears off, the party finds a greatsword, 10 rocks and half plate on each giant.
Greta looks very scared at the idea of crossing the drawbridge across the magma. "Can you please tie me tightly to Geist's saddle, then get him to airwalk across? I don't trust myself to cross that bridge." Now that the fight is over, she is trembling from head to toe.
The drawbridge the giants were using to get across is a gargantuan assault bridge.
There is a camp behind them consisting of a shatterspike, figurines of wondrous power (golden lions), a wand of inflict serious wounds (17 charges), a platinum and- emerald necklace (worth 3,500 gp), a small diamond (worth 500 gp), two opals (worth 350 gp each), 360 pp, 5,300 gp, and 12,200 cp.
In addition, large metal metal locker stands against the southwestern wall. It contains charred foodstuff and barrels of bitter spirit.
Crummock makes a point of casting Remove Fear on Greta again, as well as Air Walk, hoping to assuage her fears as much as possible.
Noting with relief that everyone is unharmed, after making sure that the giants are dead (and dumping their corpses in the magma), Crummock boxes up the loot, and grimly continues down the corridor.
seeing Crummock kill the final giant, Einar releases his rage, smiling, "well done sword brother. Shall we see what treasures they have before we head on?"
He walks across the drawbridge to greet Crummock with a toothy smile, then searching the camp he finds the Shatter spike, "This is interesting, does anyone mind if I test it?"
Then finding the locker with bitter spirits, he pats his pack where the ceramic container is, winking at Crummock. "Who needs those, I have the jug Crummock game me."
The bridge holds Einar's weight and Greta tests out her airwalk, then nervously walks across, close to the celling as possible.
Gas jets erupt from the rock walls of this long hall to provide it with red-tinted illumination. Animated carvings of devils torturing the souls of the damned decorate the walls, and the floor is lined with a carpet of charred bones and cracked skulls.
Screams of pain and terror echo through the room, and the air is heavy with the stench of brimstone. Two rows of dark stone columns extend down the hall toward double doors of black iron at the far end.
The ceiling arches overhead, reaching a height of 60 feet in the center of the chamber.
A feminine fiend with twin tentacles stretching from the crown its head, with her lower body blooms in a gown of writhing tendrils, is torturing someone in blue, bloodstained robes. She lets the dead body drop, then she and six of her black winged handmaidens bearing longbows that look like fallen angels take into the air.
Mr Whiskers identfies the tenatcled fiend as a handmaiden devil. It has true seeing, DR 10/good, and Spell resistance.
The fallen angels are advanced erinyes. They have 5 DR/good, Spell resistance, and true seeing.
The black winged handmaidens shoot at Mr Whiskers. Their arrows are flaming, but Mr Whiskers is protected by his earlier energy shield.
A veritable rain of arrows land on Mr Whiskers, luckily Baba Yaga's protections save him from the worst of it.
'I hate flying archers.' Realizing he is doing no good on the ground, Einar casts fly, Glaive in hand, Rising from the ground toward the nearest fallen angel, "What? You ladies aren't going to let a tiefling pass in peace?"
"Nope, we're bound to guard this place, so Get The F*k Out!" One of the Eryines curse back.
Mr. Whiskers drops down and casts Wall of Stone to build himself a mantlet-like structure made of stone. It is large enough to hold three people with openings just large enough to cast spells or shoot out of. The back is open so he could escape or his friends enter that way.
He then reminds Einar "True seeing means mirror image will not work."
The handmaiden devil flies over, some distance to Einar and tries to attack him with her tentacles.
The tentacle bounces harmlessly off his plate armor.
Greta comes to help Einar with his handmaiden devil.
She manages to clobber the handmaiden devil some.
Dimitri attempts to blow-up the tentacled-fiend, before turning his attention to one of the black-winged archers.
Crummock casts Divine Favor on Geist.
Geist, seeing himself surrounded by flying, winged, medium-sized creatures, happily pounces on one of them!
Dimitri blows up the tentacled fiend with two shots, then turns on another erinyes, badly injuring it despite the fact his last shot misses.
Geist pounces on one of the creatures, biting and raking but his bite and claws are not fully effective. He does manage to grab it, though.
Greta walks to one of the Eryines and whacks it with her hammer.
The rest of the Eryines - seeing Dimitri as the biggest threat, fire on him. Greta smacks at the green one as it flies by, injuring it.
With Dimitri's skin now as hard as ironwood and his personal force field, only one of the arrows hit him.
The one grappled by Geist tries to wiggle out of his grasp, but doesn't get anywhere.
Mr. Whiskers starts summoning while crouching in his new shelter.
Einar smiles a toothy smile as he sees the handmaiden and the Eryine nearest him drop to the floor in a pile. Flying toward the nearest archer he slashes at her with his glaive. "You ladies should have let us pass."
Einar cuts the erinyes into two!