Sazu may have gotten lost once or twice....
The land gets worse and worse as you travel north and the ground is clearly more and more well-traveled. After about an hour of walking Ihon and Devron notice that there are lights in the distance that shine faintly even though it is the afternoon. Soft sounds, probably of talking, are audible near the lights which are about 100 ft away.
Ihon tilts his head. We have arrived.
"Yes, apparently."
"I suppose we should decide if we wish to try to move up quietly or just be bold and announce ourselves."
"For what it's worth, I personally consider stealth to be a better idea than foolhardy valor," Andre comments, running a thumb over his holy symbol. "Particularly in an unfriendly land such as this."
"If our recent welcoming is any indicator, I agree with Andre."Sazu mutters, holding onto someone's shirt so he doesn't wonder off aimlessly again.
Ihon simply nods and makes no move to move forward.
Phaedra will attempt to move up quietly, though she doesn't do a very good job at it.
Andre also attempts to move forward, though his tread isn't particularly light. He keeps an arrow nocked to his bow.
'Umm...."
Sazu hesistantly moves forward.
"I'm not condfident in my ability to go unnoticed..."
Amideo will stay back, ready for any signs of combat.
The three of you approach slowly and once you reach 20ft from the light you can finally see its source. There is an imp being attacked by three humanoid-looking demons with horns and wielding scimitars shining with Light. When you see them, they see you, stop attacking the imp, and turn to rush the scouts.
"Well, so much for being sneaky."
If possible, Phaedra tries to drop Grease under all 3 demons, if not, she settles for just getting 2 of them.
Ihon frowns as he moves forward to join his allies.
Andre, cursing, raises his bow and takes aim at the nearest demon.
"Ohdearohdearohdear."
Sazu quickly takes aim, halfhazardly, and fires.
Ihon, the creatures are Cambions. They have no special resistance to weaponry, but do have resistances to elements and spells. In particular they are immune to poison. They have the ability to enter a brief frenzy, increasing their speed and accuracy for a short time. They are also very adept at striking critical wounds. Knowing what you know about these creatures, however, these three appear to be wounded already.
The demons each charge one of your group that is closest to them, swinging a scimitar. Sazu is able to strike one with a crossbow bolt as it closes with him.
Sazu, shuddering from the slice of the steel cleanly moving across his flesh, moves back (5 ft step) and casts vanish on himself. (Invisibility for 3 rounds).
Angry at both being hit and the things not falling in her spell, Pheadra Inspires Rage.
Andre staggers as the cambion charges him with its scimitar and opens a bleeding wound in his shoulder. "E-Erastil preserve me!" Staggering back, he claps a hand to the wound in his neck and a glow spreads from it, closing some of the wound.
The wound closes almost completely and, grimly, Andre digs the scroll that the group recovered out of his backpack. "Ihon! Will this work on these fiends?!"
Amideo nestles his lance beneath his arm and yells, "Ride Mahouf!"
Amideo will spur his horse forward, galloping into the clearing and trying to strike one of the cambions with his lance
Amideo is able to connect with the creature, its positioning unstable from the rather reckless charge. His strike is powerful enough to fell the demon in one attack, leaving the creature that was previously attacking Sazu dead on the ground.
Yes. Ihon then frowns and points at one of the remaining creatures whispering a harsh magical word.
Phaedra will move up the the closest demon and strike it with her Great Sword.
Sazu, under cover of invisibility, quickly moves away and out of danger.
He prepares a shot from his crossbow.
Phaedra strikes the demon in front of her and deals a solid blow. The creature engaged with her attempts to strike her while the one next to Andre steps back into melee with him and attacks. Both of them start frothing at the mouth and enter a frenzy of speed.
Initiative 4
"Argh!" Andre grits his teeth as both blade and claw cut into him again, then steps back. "Glad to hear it, Ihon!" Unrolling the scroll, he chants a few words that complete the spell, and the scroll blazes with energy!
Phaedra managed to take another solid hit, but the follow up claw attack lays her out on the ground.
The Cambion shakes of most of the effects of the scroll, but it seems unnerved for a moment.
Spurred on by her Rage, Phaedra brutally slashed at the demon.
Phaedra is able to fell the fast-moving demon in front of her, leaving only the one near Andre remaining.
Sazu will begin a bardic performance, a boring drone the history of demon sightings in the land and the various political reactions, taking as many off-topic quotes, speeches, and citing his sources. The result is a boring lecture that puts the party in such a meditative state, they feel as if their fighting is more intuitive than usual.
Sazu glances at his like-new crossbow, wondering if it was even worth attacking the beast.
Still....
He might as well shoot.
Sazu is unable to hit the demon amidst the flurry of melee attacks.
Amideo will spur his horse forward, charging the demon with his lance.
Amideo is able to destroy the remaining demon and as it falls, the imp flies over to you, remaining in the air just in case.
Th...thank you. Those creatures are such a pain in the rear! I'm glad you came along to destroy them!
If you search the bodies you find three suits of studded leather armor, three masterwork scimitars, 260gp, a crystal skull (80gp), some nice copper wind chimes (20gp), a silver unholy symbol of Rovagug (25gp), and a gold an ivory decanter (400gp).
"And who might you be, little winged one?"
Ihon will look over the gear with detect magic as usual and then silently watch the discussion between his allies and the imp.
The imp shakes his head and speaks with a cracked voice, No way, I've learned that lesson. You first! Who are you people? The creature remains in the air, but isn't making any threatening moves at the moment.
Ihon, one of the Scimitars is magical. It is a simple Scimitar +1.
Andre lets out a tense breath. "We're servants of the throne of Cheliax, imp," he says sharply. "And you?"
As he speaks, he seizes his holy symbol and burst of golden radiance fills the clearing, healing those who were injured in the fight.
Glancing at the others, he asks, "Is anyone still injured? Phaedra, those cuts look bad. Allow me?"
Oh, good. Then you must be the ones I'm looking for. Mr. Gantry wants to know how you are doing. I'm...guessing you didn't resolve the...issue...yet but have you at least made progress? The imp moves a bit closer, still hovering. It seems eager to get the information it is requesting and leave as it is clearly on edge.