Dropping to one knee as blood starts to pour from his nose as he continues to keep pulling more and more creatures to assist his friend Aidon will summon more Elementals -
EE1
HP 11/19
To Hit -
Damage -
EE2
10/19
To Hit -
Damage -
EE3
HP 19/19
Will Save -
To Hit -
Damage -
EE4
HP 16/19
To Hit -
Damage -
EE 5-8 will attack the mouths
EE5
HP 19/19
To Hit -
Damage -
EE6
HP 19/19
To Hit -
Damage -
EE7
HP 19/19
To Hit -
Damage -
EE8
HP 19/19
To Hit -
Damage -
Archon Attacks against the same Demon
HP 17/17
Will Save -
To Hit Touch AC -
Damage No DR -
To Hit Touch AC -
Damage No DR -
Levelle fires ineffectively but her companion swoops in and rips the head off the lower sentinel eliminating further threat from it.
Relan trips and slashes both goat demons leaving them both thrashing around in pain on the ground, but neither is out.
Vuloo does something.
Braelex pulls an extract and fades from sight, eliciting a shriek of rage from the incubus.
One of the goats on the ground grunts and points just beyond Relan's shoulder with its halberd. The incubus nods and barks another order at them.
"I'll take care of her body guard, then. You get rid of these rock things. Stay on the ground until I remove the warrior threat."
The incubus then screams in frustration, again, as Aidon's elementals appear and move to engage the cacodaemons. He slashes at one as it goes by sending chips of rocks flying.
He follows up stepping closer, his voice switching to a smooth melting tone as he directs his attention and suddenly winning smile at Relan, "OK, you don't have to kill the woman, but maybe you should move out here and clear the elementals away from my flying friends... these walking rubble piles are dangerously close to going out of control. Wouldn't want them to hurt anyone."
The goat men, prone, slash out at the flanked elemental and cut it down but not after it clobbers one of them hard. The other elementals get a strike or two in and the archon strikes once.
The cacodaemons respond to the elementals by flying back and attempting to chatter and confuse them again.
On the other side, the two remaining elementals continue their relentless assault hurting the bird, destroying one elemental and stepping to seriously harm the remaining one.
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; HIT!; ; CRIT!;
Vuloo will extend a third life link to Braelex before she goes invisible.
Vuloo will cast CLW on himself.
Since he amazingly finds himself unaffected once again Relan boasts Your spells have no effect on me demon. And he cuts into the two prone goat demons hoping to kill at least one of them.
Levelle offers a series of muttered curses as her arrows skitter about the hallway. She does offer a mental nod to her companion however, grateful for his strong abilities and fighting spirit...
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Now threatening he incubus he smiles at the demon and says I suggest you retreat from me demon.
After Relan fells the demons, Braelex will invisibly make her way to the opposite side of the room.
Aidon will cast Haste on Relan, Levelle, Talaay, Himself and Vuloo
Aidon will command 3 of the elementals to assist Relan in attacking the incubus the other two will keep attacking the other demons, and the one will keep attacking the head.
The Archon will also continue to attack the incubus
EE1 - On Sentinal
HP 11/19
To Hit -
Damage -
EE3 - incubus
HP 19/19
To Hit -
Damage -
EE5 - incubus
HP 19/19
To Hit -
Damage -
EE6 - incubus
HP 19/19
To Hit -
Damage -
EE7 - Flying Demon
HP 11/19
To Hit -
Damage -
EE8 - Flying Demon
HP 19/19
To Hit -
Damage -
Archon - incubus
HP 17/17
To Hit Touch AC -
Damage No DR -
To Hit Touch AC -
Damage No DR -
Levelle and Talaay continue their dance with the sentinel on the ceiling, damaging it a cople more times. Their elemental flanker misses his opponent.
On the other side of the melee, Relan stabs the two goat demons on the ground with quick efficient thrusts causing them both to disappear in flashes of brimstone. He then steps forward goading the incubus.
Braelex slips invisibly across the room and the incubus starts turning his head slightly as if listening to something ... he then speaks in his demonic tongue.
Aidon casts haste on part of the party as Vuloo continues his healing. His summons are not very effective this round scoring only a couple minor hits on the incubus.
The sentinels are relentless and continue their single minded assault slicing into the bird and the elemental.
The flying orbs move up and over away from the elementals drawing opportune attacks from 2 of them ... but they miss. They swarm around the archon diving in close to it to bite at its celestial body.
The incubus, face twisted in rage, spins away from the elementals and steps inside Relan's guard to slash at him with its wicked blade striking the warrior twice.
; success
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Relan, glad to be in melee with the spell caster, steps back 5' smiling triumphantly and full attacks, power attacking with furious focus.
Vuloo will heal himself.
Andel shakes off his paralysis and attempts to determine if the attacking constructs have any weaknesses that may be exploited.
Lacking anything effective to throw against the demons, Braelex tries to sneak to the south part of the room, relying on her invisibility to make up for lack of skill. There, she hunkers down and quaffs a healing extract.
Levelle swears as the sentinel continues to pick at her companion. Despite the toll, Levelle and the bird push on...
Levelle misses yet again but her companion finds purchase twice.
Relan steps back with an easy grin, knocking aside the demons guard and pierces it rapidly several times. The rage begins to turn to fear as it shuts up and fights a desperate losing retaliation.
Braelex and Vuloo heal up as the daemons swarm.
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Caco demons destroy archon and then immediately move to swarm Braelex. They seem to know roughly where she is but not exactly.
Incubus hits Relan for
Sentinels later. Actions?
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The fighter easily steps back explaining You do not want to go into melee with me creature. This is what I do. His Ranseur dances between the space separating the two cutting into the creature expertly and doing massive damage.
Levelle urges Talaay to finish the work on the sentinel
Vuloo will heal himself.
As silently as she can, Braelex slips past the swarming demons and pads back towards the tunnel.
Taalay damages the Sentinel, but doesn't detroy it quite yet. It retaliates clawing the bird twice. The other one destroys the elemental it's fighting.
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Levelle bounces a couple of arrows off the sentinel but Taalay rages on it finally dislodging it from the ceiling and it falls into a pile crushing the other one, leaving one final Sentinel behind.
Relan casually bats aside the incubus feeble defense and with a note of finality skewers it through the neck, causing the winged demon to twitch on the end of the warrior's polearm like a caught fish.
Vuloo heals more as Braelex moves invisibly back
The sentinel in the back fires at the hovering bird trying to knock it out of the sky.
; HIT!; DDC12 Fort Save or be paralyzed rounds.
Meanwhile the 4 floating orbs turn to watch Braelex leave and then with tongues lolling from their mouths disappear from sight instantly.
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Levelle offers a yell of irritation at the assault against Talaay and continues to fire...
That will destroy the remaining sentinel. Any other specific actions from the party?
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Vuloo will keep the life links in effect (both Relan and Talaay are healed another 5 hp).
Vuloo will again heal himself.
Andel will attempt to identify the demons and their weaknesses based on what he saw before they disappeared.
"Are they still chasing me?" Braelex remains invisible, but you hear her voice.
Without any visible targets Relan approaches the cloud to the south trying to peer into it. How long will this thing last? he asks. He never drops his guard.
Levelle gestures to Talaay and nods approvingly at the bird murmuring to it in elven and generally showing the bird affection. Turning to Vuloo the elf bows her head, My thanks in keeping us in the fight. Talaay is hardier than even me but he draws much attention once in the fray.
The elf cautiously peers around the other room where the bulk of the fighting was happening, anxious to see if the cloud dissipates or the attackers return...
After a few moments, nothing else seems to appear and assault you. Braelex's cloud disappears after a second or two more.
The air in this large octagonal chamber is dreadfully hot—the very air shimmers with heat and almost drips with humidity, leaving every surface within shiny with condensation. The walls, floor, and thirty-foot-high domed ceiling are of polished white marble. Ten feet into the room, the floor rises up in a three-foothigh step, then again at twenty feet in. At the center of the room, a strange gray flame dances in a central firepit. Two smaller octagonal chambers lie to the south and west, while to the east a ten-foot-square section of wall is a dull gray, contrasting with the white of the walls surrounding it. A single torch in a sconce protrudes from the middle of this gray square on the wall.
Relen's wounds continue to close as he inspects the dead and waits for the cloud to abate.
Who all is still hurt? Are we ready to proceed?
The incubus carry a masterwork scimitar each, plus a scroll each (haste & continual flame). They also each have one potion on them (levitate & remove fear). The goat demons disappeared upon death and took their weapons with them. The sentinels are just blocks of marble with metal legs.
"Ready," Braelex says, invisibly. Once the others are also, she will proceed into the chamber. She heads over towards the gray wall, checking it for hidden switches or traps.
Vuloo drops the life links after one more round . He again heals himself.
He and Andel then follow the others into the chamber once Braelex clears the room.
Braelex searches the gray wall and finds no traps nor any mechanical triggers, but she does note that the wall looks like it swings open somehow, based on scrapes on the floor and along the right side of the gray wall.
Andel will cast Acute Senses and will study the gray flame with the intent of understanding how it works and what purpose it may be for. He will also search the smaller octagonal rooms and will join Braelex in looking for a method to swing the gray wall open.
Braelex shakes her head and shrugs. "Must be something else in the room that opens it."
Andel studies the fire, but while apparently magical, he can't discern what sort of spell put it in place.
Vuloo will study the torch sconce on the gray wall and will attempt to remove the torch.
"The wall may be triggered from the opposite side. We may not be able to open it from this end."
RElan also studies the fire trying to recall what might be going on from his academic training.
Levelle follows behind the group, continuing to keep a wary eye out as the group considers its current problem..
The torch is not lit, but it seems to be charred on one end as if it were once lit at some point in time.
Relan learns nothing new from looking at the fire.
Levelle keeps an eye about, both from whence the party came and down the long corridor to the west.
Braelex ponders the torch and flame.
"Relight the torch in the pyre, then replace it into the sconce?" Braelex offers. "Seems too simple."
Relan complies, lighting the torch and replacing it.
Relan lights the torch and replaces it in the wall. The block of stone barring the passage beyond immediately pivots outward like a huge gray door.
A long stairway of polished stone steps descends nearly forty feet before ending at a ten-foot-square landing with no apparent way onward. The wall opposite the final step depicts a lascivious painting of a beautiful woman, arms outstretched as if to welcome one into an embrace, lips twisted in a faintly cruel smile. A phrase in a foreign tongue is inscribed in gold across the top of the mural.
Andel notes the image is of Sorshen.