Corso will Antagonize the other one that is far from him, while continuing to keep the attention of the ones closest to him.
Val continues her attack on the devil
Ferod casts spiked pit under the paralyzed demon.
The demon, paralyzed, should fall in as it can't make a reflex save.
Rathis grits his teeth against the cold, refusing to let the numbness overcome him.
He continues to tear into the nearest foe, hoping to put at least one down before it can do any more harm.
The party's hard fighting finally pays off. In the space of seconds three bone devils meet their ends. Only one ice devil on the right and Corso's threatened pair remain a threat to you.
Corso remains his unhitable self. In spite of a boatload of attacks against him, he remains unscathed.
The right ice demon summons a huge wall of glistening ice. The dangerously cold room's temperature drops even lower as waves of breath stealing air flow off of it. The ice devil then moves to the western side of the room.
Valeria does a 5-foot step to flank the bone Devil with Corso
crit
confirmed
Moving around the room, hoping to get in a better position to attack, Rathis pulls a bottle from the pouch on his belt and, dropping the stopper, quickly downs it.
"Let's put an end to this. I'm tried of the cold," he growls.
Corso will Antagonize the ice devil to his left then adjust to be next to both the right ice devil and the bone devil.
Ferod moves away from the wall. And...
Keep it up! One left to go! I ever tell you guys I think you're awesome?
Ferod is keeping an eye out.
The party focus fires and the last bone devil and reduces it to nothingness in seconds. The east demon continues to attack corso, while the other steps up and attacks the quickly approaching Rathis.
Corso remains a solid bulwark, and his presence causes the demon's spear to miss at least once, but Rathis is still hit. (take 16 damage and make a DC 23 fort or be Slowed)
The party takes from the ongoing cold.
Party UP!
Valeria continues on the bone Devil
Corso will intimidate the far one to demoralize him.
Shivering from the increasing chill and starting to feel weak, Rathis steps forward toward the nearest devil and slashes brutally at it.
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The right Ice devil crunbles under the combined assault of Omar and Rathis. Valeria has trouble making her blows land, but it doen't matter now. Just one left.
That one continues to engage Corso in heated combat. Most of his blows miss, but his spear does manage to scratch the defensive specialist.
As his reactions slow, Corso will change tactics and make a defensive attack at the infernal creature next to him.
Valeria charges the last ice Devil
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Rathis move up on the last devil and lands a hit.
The devil is now hard pressed, but it does not back down. It spreads out its attacks to try to make a final good contact, but cannot seem to make anything land on either the impermeable fighter before it or any of his fellows.
Valeria continues on the Ice Devil
Corso will again act to keep the devil focused on himself.
Devil begone! Nice work guys. And ladies. Ferod winks at Valeria.
As Ferod says, so it is. With a parting swipe from Rathis the last of the foes is focefully ejected from this plane and the supernatural cold dissipates.
"I begin to wonder at the sort of people who would create such a tomb."
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"In my experience, tombs but rarely come stuffed with angels. It's always something which doesn't like intruders and lasts a long time. So you've devils, demons, elementals, and undead. Don't know if it really reflects on a family or not. Though this one does seem a bit on the nasty side as families go. "
I'm starting to wonder if removing them from the gene pool wasn't such a bad idea.
Ferod starts checking out the tomb, this much protection must be for a reason.
The ceiling of this room is fifteen feet high. Large arched niches fill the east and west walls; various bones are mortared into the niches in artfully arranged patterns, and each is packed with the jawless skulls of countless humans. Each skull has a name painted on its surface, along with dates of birth and death. A ragged hole in the ground to the northeast drops into what appears to be an even deeper cavern.
In the northwest corner of the room, a skull bearing the words “Thrasillus Daellum Adella, 4321–4418” still has its jawbone attached.
Removing the skull from its niche reveals that it has an exquisite oval ruby etched with the symbol of the cross-eyed medusa clenched between its teeth, radiating transmutation magic. This ruby is probably one of the items needed to activate the entrance teleportation circle.
"Why in the name of the gods would they defile their honored dead by removing the jawbones like that?"
Val adds
"Why indeed?"
"And What's this? A ruby..."
Zayid's slip-up causes a portion of the macabre display to cascade down on him.
You take -6 to will saves until further notice.
After Omar extricates himself from a small pile of skulls, the party descends into the hole in the floor. It leads to a crudely formed chamber who's ceiling stands only eight feet above the floor. The floor here is strewn with dust and gravel.
There is only one other tunnel, so you proceed into a similiar cavern with several off shooting chambers. These do not appear naturally formed, but they are definitely rough hewn.
Soon after you enter, a frightfully pale, dark-haired woman, wearing a soiled, old fashioned gown and with what look like tears of dried blood caked on her cheeks. She asks in a tremulous voice, Are my daughters unharmed? Have you come to rescue us?