Firinn turns his attention to the crazy tiefling with the bombs.
Firinn finds that his Arrows seem to not even penetrate into the Teifling.
Magenta Seeing Terry is almost down turns and swings his Glaive at the wounded rogue.
Seeing his comrade go down, Khaz swung his mace at the bomb cultist. He had to fight to clear the way, lest the man die. He wished that he could immediately heal him, but he remembered the rules of combat drilled into him. The situation had to be stabilized before he could stabilize the dying. Especially as the alchemist could kill Terry quite easily with his bombs. He hoped that this would finish the traitor off...
Khaz calls down the might of his Goddess, Khaz is JUST able to Strike the elusive Teifling.
The Tiefling slides around Terry, throwing a Bomb at Khaz again. A large cloud of smoke appear around Khaz.
Cyan Backs away from Jocasta swinging his Glaive at her.
Red Slices out at Khaz hoping to take down the Paladin who smote his leader.
Khaz stumbled out of the smoke. He was still on fire. His beard was singed, his skin cracked and his armor charred. One of his comrades was actively dying and he couldn’t save him until the mad bomber was dead. ”Lorena, save Terry.” He growled, as he scanned for the bomber.
”Bolka!” He shouted his goddess’ name as he swung his mace.
Jocasta advances into the spot vacated by her foe, pressing the attack against the polearm wielder.
Jocasta penetrates the mans defense's Dropping him to the group as he starts to bleed out.
"We can do that once he's out of danger. Focus on the enemy." Lorena doesn't see any way to tend to Terry without leaving him in harm's way, so she steps over his body and engages the nearby cultists to keep them busy.
And Terry bleeds.
Kahz moves forward continuing to invoke his Divine power and killing the bomb throwing Tiefling where he stands. Lorena shreds the cultist ending but watching Terry Bleed out just below her feet.
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Seeing their foes disposed of Firinn hurries forward and lays a hand on Terry's shoulder. His feathers glow for a moment and the man's bleeding halts.
Jocasta concentrates on her continued fencing match with her remaining opponent .
Jocasta distracted by the thought of her new companion dying is unable to land a blow on the remaining cultist.
Terry will wait for Lorena to move before grabbing his dagger from his belt (since picking up the rapier would provoke) and stabbing out at the moving opponent whose feet are in front of Terry's face.
Lorena steps off from above Terry towards the remaining cultist, continuing her flurry of claw strikes - though this time she isn't as successful.
Terry Steps forward drawing a small cut along the Cutlist's are, Lorena misses both claw as Terry gets up and around.
The remaing Cultist moving back swinging at the wounded rogue.
Khaz was on fire. That was not good. At. All. But one of the enemies was left and was trying to kill his companions. As such, the fire would have to wait. Walking over the ruined body of the bombardier, the paladin sought to introduce the cultist to his goddess’ holy symbol. Via direct application of mace to head.
The final Cultist swings wildly at Khaz trying to keep him away but misses.
Khaz drops the final cultist, the only fuly dead person is the Tiefling Khaz smited back to the Abyss.
"Ow. Ow. Ow." Terry whines while he finds the wand and offers it to someone to use to help the team keep moving. While the wand is being used, he retrieves his dropped equipment before beginning to look about the room.
Khaz, for his part, did his level best to put the fire out. Having it on him was not conductive to an adventuring life.
Finally able to look in the room, there is an open door to the left that looks like an office.
Blood and filth smear floor of this long room. Six white
stone statues of famous heroes line the hall—each clawed,
bloodstained, partially smashed, or otherwise defaced. At the
far end of the hall, a raised dais holds an upturned alabaster
altar. Sitting atop the upside-down altar is a hideous mass
of severed limbs that have been stitched together into a vile
monstrous insectoid shape. Before the dais, seven ratty bedrolls
have been laid out on the floor.
Terry see's what is a slight glimmer coming from a wall along the south just by the Altar.
Once no longer on fire, Khaz gave each cultist a quick death. It was the only mercy left that they could give in the middle of such a battle. He prayed for their souls to be judged fairly as he did so. After the act was done...
”Save the Wand until after I’m tapped out. I can rest and refill, the wand can’t. Plus, there will come a time when I’m the one bleeding out, and I’d like the wand to be as full as possible.”
Seeing the altar, the Paladin gasped in horror. Without thinking he strode up and tore the mass of limbs down. ”These monsters!” He exclaimed. ”Can anyone make water? The gods cannot be disrespected like this. We have to wash the blood off.”
Jocasta keeps her blade in hand for a bit longer, waiting to see if someone leaps in from another room at the sounds of combat - but once the action dies down and nobody responds, she finally wipes the blade down and sheathes it once more.
She takes a ratty blanket from one of the bedrolls and awkwardly uses it like a sack to take all of the severed limbs and entrails, ties them up into a bundle for later disposal, and puts the ad hoc sack into one corner of the room like a trash bag.
With her prestidigitation spell she is able to slowly clean away some of the bits of filth, but she says, "This will take a concerted effort to clean; buckets, brushes, and of course these body parts must be removed and buried or cremated." She lets out a heavy sigh. "Why does cleaning up after cultists feel like the horrid version of cleaning up after children?"
Lorena pokes around as the others clean up, unimpressed by the mess. She tries to call on her mysterious benefactor's vast knowledge to see if she can identify whose cultists they're dealing with, and what dangers they may pose...
The process of fully cleaning this room will take you a few hours as the entrails and remains have stuck to the surfaces they are on. The Statues like wise will need a mason's touch to fix them.
”Get the worst off. This’ll take hours and enemies remain. We will consecrate the altar once it is safe to do so.”
"Khaz, we went over this. There will time enough to clean everything after the enemy has been removed from the building. The longer we delay, the more time those who've heard our battles will have had to prepare. Would the gods rather we clean the shrines and then loose them back to the desecrators, or win the day, and clean them afterwards?"
”I know...I...you’re right.” Khaz said, sounding defeated. ”It just feel so wrong.”
"We'll do our best," says Jocasta. "That's all anyone can ask. When we've fought off the cultists and the demons, then there will be time to rebuild."
Terry points out the glowing wall, Jocasta looking over feels the phrase she learned earlier may have some relevenance right now.
Loreana feels that the crude symbol that looks like a bug is that of maybe the Demon Lord Deskari.
"There's a soft glow from this wall? Could be important. Should look for an activation or door of some kind, maybe?"
"What's that, Terry?" says Jocasta, her curiosity piqued. "You're right, best to be careful."
”Could be a trap, lad. I agree with Jocasta, best be careful.”
Terry doesn't find a trap on the door, he cannot find a a way to open the door either