Lynn uses the cloth on the glaive to clean it a bit and is surprised at how easy it works. She continues cleaning the whole weapon and then her armor and her face. All bright and shiny her expression becomes also bright and shiny. And the cloth still looks as fresh as new.
"Thank you. That is really helpful." She bags the cloth.
North then, I hear shouting. There might be more civilians in need of help.
"So everyone into the cart, Iko jump over with the rope, Don get your scale out - we are in a hurry again." Lynn replies.
Don does that levitaty thing gain, with a little step to the left.
As the group again floats across the rend in the ground, SteelGate turns north and pulls the wagon that way with all haste. Aniva and Aravashnial have to hold onto the sides of the wagon to avoid falling out and everyone else has to run to catch up.
Moving past destroyed buildings and burnt and mangled bodies, you arrive at a large Black stone building. The door to the building is slightly ajar and movement can be seen from with in.
"That is the last of them, no get the torch and get in the middle!"
A rough male voice shouts.
"That sounds human. Do you have some magic to calm someone down, or to send them to sleep or something? There seem to be hostages and I don't want them to get hurt. Lynn asks Arachnival.
Don is ready to advance with his crossbow.I don't suppose someone has magic that can conceal us?
"I have nothing for calming humans, my specialty is support for the Rift Wardens, conjuring beasts to assist with fighting demons." Aravashnial has a sense of urgency in his voice.
"Then swarm the place with summons. Everything that keeps that shouting guy busy."
Lynn charges the door and kicks it open. "Who's ass needs kicking here?" Lynn inquires as if she owns the place.
Lynn interrupts whatever is going on when she kicks the door in, looking around the room she notes 2 tieflings relaxing on some pews, a well armored looking man with a shield and a mace radiating light. A group of 4 people in a circle of books looking scare, 1 woman standing shaking visibly holding a torch about to drop it.
Done enters and aims his crossbow aims his crossbow at the man with the shield. No one moves or I will open fire.
Iko moves about 20 feet down the centre, walking steadily with purpose towards the scared people, his muscles twitching to act.
Moves the remainder of his movement to intercept he rushes forward and slides in to sweep the leg of his target.
"See how they show up? See how they come in the name of their GOOD GODS! The man says Good Gods with such loathing and resentment. "They came to Right the wrong, Baphoment hear me now, I will kill them all in your name then burn all the knowledge of your kind they have gathered." The man rips a holy symbol of Iomadea off his breast plate throwing it at the woman holding the Torch, starting her, the torch slips from her hand.
Lynn crosses the room towards the woman mumbles a word and douses the torch in a gush of water coming from her hand. "Your rambling is as impotent in the face of good as this fire is in the face of water. And by the end of this day you can check with Pharasma in which gods heaven you'll spend eternity."
"Traitor!" she spits the word at him.
Tink detects magic and whicpsers something to blue, who quickly flies over and struggles to fly back with the holy symbol the man threw
You moved. Don shoots him
Don't shot goes wide sticking in to one of the empty book shelves, Lynn's magical water doses the flames buying the terrified woman time to move to the far side of the circle of books. Iko flashes in and trips up the Teifling on the far east of the building, the humanoid crashes down on the pew splintering a bit of it.
The Tiefling on the far right looks at the Human than charges towards Don, drawing a wicked looking blade as it does.
Don easily side steps the sloppy charge, pushing the Tiefling aside with his bow.
The Tiefling Iko tripped attempts to stand up , Slashing at the Monk once it is standing again.
Chaleb roars at Lynn, "You will be the first, I will sacrifice you to Baphomet by FIRE!"
Lynn uses her blessing, levels her weapon in direction of the guy and challenges him. "Oh, more words. Bring it on." gesturing him with her hand to come.
Blue manages to fly back with the Holy symbol, Tink nearly flies right into the charging Tiefling. After flapping hard to fly a little higher, Blue plops it down in Tink hand, the cool metal a dark colour.
edit: The man's mace is magical and something in his pouch radiates magic.
Iko deives his new sword into the tiefling as he tries to rise.
"You would do well to stay down."
Then gets hit by the tieflings blade.
Iko then gets into a fighting stance and levels his sword and coolly replies
"Unwise."
Iko's blade slices around the leather armor of the Tiefling, drawing a dark red line across the males left shoulder.
Chaleb Moves towards Lynn, blocking her attack with his shield, he retaliates with his mace.
"Like I said your Gods are nothing, you will be abandoned"
"Baphomet, witness the deaths of these weaklings."
"Yeah, do that Baphomet. Just a moment and your weakling apprentice will meet his well deserved fate." Lynn teases him as he only manages to slide off her breast plate with his mace.
"SteelGate, please collect that pouch." Tink says indicating the pouch radiating magic.
With that SteelGate moves into the room and slams at the man
SteelGates solid metal body slams in to Chaleb, a loud "omph" comes from the man as he takes a solid impact.
Don pulls his Earthbreaker and will swing at the tiefling that charged him.
Iko goes in with a straight lunge to thew tiefling and then spins Radiance around into an upward slash.
Iko's first slash scores a solid blow, the Tiefling avoids the second slice.
Don swings his mighty hammer but the Tiefling on him sees the switching of weapons and is ready to avoid the blow, retaliating in kind with it's own blade.
The woman sees her chance and pulls out dagger, knocking over some piles of books she moves into the circle and starts to cut her fellows free.
"I will free the other librarians!" The woman shouts
Lynn steps in position to flank with Steelgate.
Tink casts a spell at the man
Tink makes a grasping motion with his hand, tugging at the air. The force of the pull is awkward and Chaleb isn't expecting it, his mace flies from his hand and is delivered into Tinks clawed hand.
"You RAT!! You will die NEXT! Burn the books, destroy the knowledge!"
The Tiefling engaged with Iko, slides away then disengages from Steelgate over to the books.
The only free librarian, sees the Tiefling coming and starts to mutter an incantation but seeing that her friends are in the way and the books she stops. Lifting a staff from beside her she sends it flying at the Tiefling.
"You won't destroy all we have worked for!"
Chaleb with no mace in hand starts to look panicked, swinging his mailed fist at Lynn
Chaleb feels the impact of his blow upon Lynn, "FEEL MY STRENGTH!"
Aravashnial and Aniva come in just after the start of the conflict, both trying to decide how to help out.
"Who do I direct my summon to attack?" A ball of shining light floats just over the shoulder of Aravashinal.
Aravashnial has a Lantern Archon with him.
Tell it to attack the man who punched Lynn!
Lynn steps back to have him at the tip of her reach weapon again. "Touché. Let's see who can keep this up longer."
With a swift touch of her hand she heals herself and then stabs at the traitor.
"<Stop the tiefling from setting everything on fire.>" she tells the Archon in Celestial as she beliefs she can take on that guy alone.
"Oh no you don't." Iko says then runs and slides at the tiefling that ran away from him.
Don will bash the tiefling next to him
Don's hammer smashes the shoulder in on the Tiefling he is fighting causing massive trauma killing the man. The puff of light lets 2 bolts of pure blinding light loose at the Tiefling.
The Tiefling avoids the first attack, but the combonation of Iko's attempt to trip and being off balance the second bolt of light slams into the Tiefling killing it.
Lynn's Glaive slices deep in to Chaleb, the mans Eyes go wide as his two flunkies are killed.
"Please don't kill me, I am sorry, I won't do it again. It was a moment of weakness, you don't know what it is like in there. The World wound does things to your mind."
He is lying, he is a coward yes but doesn't want to be here anymore and wants an easy way to power
"You know, there is a difference between a moment of weakness and trying to kill and destroy everything even if faces with resistance. The time to repent would have been when we told you, to stand down from your evil deeds. But you went on to rant about how you'd sacrifice us to Baphomet."
"But how about we ask our celestial helper?" Keeping the pointy end of her glaive set on Chaleb "<What do you say? Is he repenting or just trying to talk himself out of his well deserved punishment?>"
The Lantern Archon looks the man over with a green magical aura, it turns to Lynn, then flashes red at Lynn a few times. It makes a swishing motion like "Execute."
Seeing that fighting ha stopped, SteelGate closes distance, snaps the pouches strap and opens it, peering inside, he brings it back to Tink
Inside are two potions, the man on the ground doesn't resist as SteelGate absconds with his items.
[dice=Spellcraft 16]
2 potions of Cure Light wounds.[/spoiler]
The Librarians finally get all free and come over to the group, the female who was holding the torch speaks up.
"Thank you for your help, he came in telling us he was going to protect us. Next thing those two Tieflings come and and start pushing us around, the others were tied up before I came down the stairs." She takes a breath.
"My name is Fenna, I am the highest ranking Librarian here still."
"You're a liar and a traitor. I don't see why I should trust your word now. And the Archon who can see what's in your heart tells you're evil. This world will be a better place without you." Lynn tells after inflicting the hopefully final wound to end him.
Justice be served.
Iko's eyes widen at the seeingly senseless execution.
Edit: Lynn's Glaive gives the final stroke to the mislead mans life, he bleeds out on the ground, staining the carpet Red.
Fenna directs the others to help her with removal of the bodies, they throw them out after the group takes whatever they want.
"Did you come here to stop the walking worm? He came and left already, he was driving demons before him, they destroyed Blackwing." As she is talking Aravashnial moves further in and one of the librarians notices him calling out.
Fenna walks over to him to lend her arm for him to move about. "Sir we tried to defend the place but we are ill equipped to deal with such assaults."
There is a spell book in the stack of books that Frenna knocked over to enter the ring
There are bits of leather strips on the floor, upon closer inspection they are dried out worms.
"IT is ok, no one was prepared for this. As you can see I was wounded severely in the assault and now I must find a way to restore my sight."
Aravashnial will sit on one of the benches.
Lynn turns to Iko "You got a better idea? I'm not interested in having him backstab me at the next opportunity."
Looking around Lynn notices the dried out worms. "Ewww. What's that?"
"As I said, it was a walking worm, or a collection of them." Fenna says, directing the lesser Librarians to start with sorting books.
"When your enemy is vulnerable, compassion is what sets you apart from them. Perhaps, redemption was in his future. You could have shown him a better way."
Iko shakes his head and continues. "Death in combat and defense is admirable. This..." he says pointing to the body. "Is too cold blooded."
Then when he see's Lynn notice the worms he raises an eyebrow.
Blue spots the book and chirps in Tinks ear. He walks over, dusts the cover and flips through it quickly, counting the pages used