The injured fiendish hound approaches Salomae with a snarl but stops shorts of her. With a snort and howl it opens its mouth and expels of cone of flames that catches both Sal and Tera.
The other emaciated, hairless hound fixes its glowing red eyes on Orin and advances. When it reaches the brave watchman it snaps at him with its vicious maw.
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Oliver lets two arrows fly, one of which strikes the wounded yeth hound.
The baying was enough for Kaede to move into action. With swift prayer to her Lady, the Tian priestess swiftly moves to place herself between the hounds and Tera. Then she stabs at the injured hound, hoping to down it before it can do more.
Marcus moves to where he can get a better view of their foes and calls on Gozreh to blast the beasts with the power of the storm.
Stormburst-(Sp): As a standard action, you can create a storm burst targeting any foe within 30 feet as a ranged touch attack. The storm burst deals 1d6 points of nonlethal damage + 1 point for every two cleric levels you possess. In addition, the target is buffeted by winds and rain, causing it to take a –2 penalty on attack rolls for 1 round. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Wisdom modifier.
Tera manages to dance out of the way of the worst of the flames, but still gets singed.
"Hey! Ugly!" she shouts before trying to send an arrow down the hound's gullet.
Kaede's glaive grazes the injured yeth hound but fails to penetrate its leathery hide. Marcus and Tera, however, both land their attacks and the first fiend crumples to the floor. Sister Amet'Ra quietly lifts up a prayer for guidance, then moves into the profane chapel and touches Orin to deliver it.
Orin steps forward to begin surrounding the remaining foe and slashes at the beast again.
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The fire continues to pour from Kaelaah - only now it seems a little wilder, a little less refined and controlled... and consequently, far less accurate.
Leaping forward as Kaelaah unleashes his next blast, Zache ducks under the flames, silhouetted against the much larger man's frame. He springs into the room, vaulting over the yeth hound and striking at the creature on his way down.
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After a flurry of misses, Zache's attack finds it mark. Unfortunately, much like Orin's blow when the creature came upon him, the attack is noticeably less effective than the bard expected.
The hound snarls and snaps its wicked jaw at Orin once more.
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Marcus scowls a bit as Orins shield does little to protect him from a viscous bite.
Quietly, and reluctantly, he shifts lifelink to protect the guardsman.
Finding it difficult to get a clean shot at the remaining beast, Oliver quickly makes his way through his comrades, into the chapel and shoots.
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Tera pulls out her wand of shocking grasp and squeezes past Sal, doing her best not to give the hound a target. She says the word to complete the spell within the wand and tries to stab the beast with it.
Kaede slides her hand down the shaft of her glaive, before letting loose with bith ends of her weapon.
Oliver and Kaede both fail to wound the creature, but Tera leaves a small burn mark from the jolt she gave it. Sister Amet'Ra, now flanking with Sal, slashes at the hound's face...
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...to no effect.
In the flurry of battle, Orin does his best to ignore the painful bite. Slashing again at the creature, he prays for the best.
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After attacking, Orin steps back
The yeth hound snarls when Orin hits its, despite the attack seeming to have very little effect. Sal's blade bites deeper into the creature and in its spins and snaps at her in response...
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Marcus crouches low and reaches into the room. Waiting for the right moment, he touches the guardsman and heals his gaping bite.
ugh.....you don't even heal easy, you big lummox.....
Tera jabs at the dog yet again.
Muttering beneath his breath, Kaelaah continues to lash fire towards the beast...
Kaede continues to assualt the Yeth hound.
Oliver continues firing, hoping that his arrows are counting for something against these creatures as they seem to almost absorb the damage on impact.
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...at least the fire seems to be working
Tera gives the beast another zap, and Kaede lands one of her attacks, but Kaelaah just barely misses with his blast of fire. Zache and Sister Amet'Ra both continue to attack the yeth hound.
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The fiend snarls as both attacks hit, but for minimal damage.
Seeing his wounds close, Orin's courage is restored.
"Thank you, sister Amet'Ra" he says, assuming she is responsible.
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In a rare moment of obedience, the yeth hound does, in fact, lay down and die when Sal stabs it.
Sister Amet'Ra!?!....what?!....
"A little tender, but nothing a little rest won't mend. Glad Orin, Oliver, and Sister Amet'Ra are with us. That could have gone badly with two of the curs."
"Yeah, back when it was still a hunk of rock," Tera agrees.
Tera's search turns up very little. On top of the large stone altar are ashes and some little bits of scorched bone, but nothing of any value. The glowing kukris wielded by the statue could be removed (with a little work) but they appear to be purely decorative and enchanted merely with continual flame spells.
"This is going to be a bigger project than I expected," Sister Amet'Ra confesses as she takes in the statue and the relief carvings, and the shear size of the stone altar. Still, we should look in to the mysterious voice from below before we really get into this... Is there anything else anyone wants to do here before we continue?"
"Yep! Just a moment please," Tera says before walking up to the statue of Lamashtu and reaching up to cast a prestidigitation spell on it to make it look utterly ridiculous.
"I was quite concerned for a moment there, but thanks to Sister Amet'Ra, I'm fine now." Orin replies, to the query about his health.
Orin let's the others search, preferring to keep a guard as they do.
Looking up at the statue "Well Tera, I have to admit... I like what you have done with the place."
I noticed that my arrows and many of our weapons did not seem to do much to those over-grown dogs, Does anyone know how we can hurt them if we run into more? -Uh , without being able to shoot fire form our hands?"
"Hmm? You mean this?"
Garish colors and silly graffiti soon cover the statue and the altar. Short as she is, Tera can just barely reach the statue's head.
"I think the moustache and goatee add a nice touch."
Kaede smiles at Tera's artistic flourishes, as she cleans her glaive off. "When it comes to being a bit of a prankster, Tera's always had quite the flair," she says, chuckling at the bearded jackal head. "As for the beasts, I've been told some of my Lady's samurai that some creatures need weapons of a certain material to be fully effective. It's why my partner, raising her glaive up in front of her, " is of specially worked iron. These beasts must be effected by something else though."
Planes! Knowledge planes!?!? I was raised on a farm, near the shoreline, Nate! Where Could I possibly have learned about different planes?!?!?
As far as I know, we weren't raising Yeth hounds! Throw me a bone here! how about a fishing check once in a while!
Happy Birthday to me! :)