Lorena stops at the top of the stairs, barely able to bring her spear to bear against the giant bull-man.
Jocasta manages to just barely get into the mix near Khaz, bringing her sword out in front in a dueling posture.
Lorena is able to score a hit against the Large Minotaur.
Jocasta simply moves in as best she can, thrusting awkwardly with her blade in the tight space.
To no avail, of course.
Don't do it! You're going to get yourself killed! Why would you do this? Terry's habitual self-deception of purely selfish motives worries at him as he moves forward and tries to slip behind the demon they had been fighting earlier.
Jocasta manages to distract the Creatures enough for Terry to Tumble past
Terry places himself in a good spot to stab the once he has recovered his footing.
The Minotaur looks down at Khaz Swinging it's Large Battle Axe at the small Dwarf swinging with both hands. Fiendish energy pulsing from the Axe.
A second swing from the Minotaur goes to Jocasta.
The Schir Demon stabs out at Khaz as well.
Khaz took a hit which might well have killed him. Rather than catch him on the neck, it instead hit his pauldron. Saved by the grace of Bolka, he returned the attack.
”Like fighting a goblin! I see the demons left chaff behind for us.” He tainted as his mace struck home, intent on keeping the creature’s attention firmly fixed on himself.
Jocasta sticks to thrusting with her blade, using the wall to try to keep the axe from getting a good swing at her, and manages to keep the fiendish minotaur on its toes (hooves?) with her repeated press of attacks.
With Jocasta moving in front of her, Lorena can't use her spear as well. Instead, she decides to try one of the new tricks that were unceremoniously pushed into her head last night. With an oddly dark flash, a cloud of black dust falls over the minotaur's head, seeming to suck up all of its fiendish glow.
Firinn remains at the back of the group and takes the time to refresh his own spells - sadly being an archer up a staircase does no good at all...
Khaz and JOcasta manage to bring the large Minotaur down, Terry stabs the demon in the back making it loose worse than it already did.
Terry tries to stop the goat-headed thing while he can.
If Lorena chooses to not attack/Kills it
The Demon seeing it is out numbered the demon retreats around his fallen comrade swinging at the daring Rogue.
If he hits and Lorena doesn't Kill him a DC 15 Fort save or
Gray Pox: Halberd—injury; save Fort DC 15; onset 1 day; frequency 1/day; effect 1d6 Str damage; cure 2 consecutive saves.
With the minotaur falling before she can cast, Lorena moves around its body into striking position on the demon.
[ooc[Infected![/ooc]
BumP
Turning to the demon, Khaz swung his mace.
”Keep up the pressure! We’ll cleanse this place one corpse at a time.”
Khaz turns and marches slowly towards the remaining demon, swinging his mace at the Demons he just manages to land a hit dropping it into a pile of extraplanar good.
With the battle over, Khaz crushed the heads of the fallen foes to make sure they were dead. He then fell down on one knee and prayed, causing a wave of healing energy to wash over the group.
Firinn hustles up the stairs with Rio as Khaz channels. After a brief look around he points to the door.
"This must be it. Nowhere else to go." He says, pulling out the wand.
"I have an arrow that should hurt any extra-planar guards, but we need someone to take this. Terry, you take and I'll shoot, or the other way around?"
"I want to check the door, first, in case. I'll take it once we're ready to try the door."
Having said that, Terry gets to work.
Lorena moves up and gets ready, charging herself with divine power while Terry tries to work the lock.
Khaz ends the Minotaur by crushing it's head with his club, Khaz lets of bursts of positive energy to heal himself and anyone else who was injured. The wound on Terry's arm grows worse, sapping his strength and starting to show some grey spots.
Despite his weakened state Terry manages to find no trap and unlock the hopefully final door to the Grey Garrison.
Firinn nocks his magical arrow and waits as Terry tries the door.
Jocasta keeps her sword out and flattens against the wall as best she can to allow people room to move back and forth while she waits for Terry to open the door.
Terry takes the wand from Firinn, holding it between fingers of his sword-hand while he uses his off-hand to open the door. As he opens it, he steps back and grabs the wand in his off-hand, hoping he doesn't see anything ready to eat his face. Again.
Khaz strode to the door, fearless in his approach. They had just slain a fiend-touched Minotaur and a creature of the abyss. What more could the enemy have to throw at them? He was ready to proceed.
As Khaz strides fearlessly into the room a cloud of thick fog drops right in front of him. Khaz didn't even get a look at the room but can see that it is nearly dark, not total darkness or bright light.
Khaz pushed forward, into the mist. He couldn’t see far, but the room wasn’t large. He stumbled out, soon enough, and to his surprise was face to face with a tiefling! He hurriedly swung at it.
Given his surprise it was a clumsy swing. Luckily, having a fully armored Dwarven paladin suddenly appear seemed to be just as shocking to the enemy.
Jocasta makes a quick twist of her wrist and four small lights burst into existence ahead, illuminating the dim area (though she can do little about the magical fog).
Casting another spell, Lorena fades from sight with a wisp of shadow. Then, she stealthily moves into the room, keeping the wall on her right until she comes to the edge of the fog.
some spell casting can he heard from the far side of the fog.
Ioun Torch in flight, Terry puts his left hand on the wall as he tires to move through the fog, until he can see a clear space, then he closes with the enemy and takes a swing at him!
Calling back to those not yet fully engaged, "Little more than 20' in. I see three of them!"
He is looking to see if he can recognize the ward stone fragment as he goes about the more mundane business, though.
Wait. Combat with infernal servants is mundane business?
Terry moves in and Strikes the Heavily Armored Figure in front of him, with the Visor down on its helm Terry Has a tough time making out who is behind the armor.
The pink tabarded figure swings his flail at Terry's feet attempting to Trip the rogue.
The Yellow Tabarded figure steps in behind Khaz swinging his flail at the Dwarf.
Terry crashes to the ground while Khaz is smashed in the back by the Flail.
[ooc]Final Battle - Round 1 - Conditions: Dim Illumination, Obscuring Mist at door
Khaz, Jocasta
Woman
Terry, Firinn
Pink, Yellow
Lorena <---
Khaz took the blow to his pauldron, the heavy armor saving him anything worse than a bruise.
It did, however, temporarily knock him off balance, making him unable to swing back.