Dragash throws a single bomb at Nalan and then rushes around the corner out of field of vision of the large creature once more.
Bombed, carded and stuck, it doesn't stop Nalan from lashing out at Will.
Arion lands a hit on Dalviss but it doesn't hurt overly.
Rosa takes the hit then shifts back some 30' blinking in and out of existence. Then a wave of dark energy wells up from her healing here.
The beasts last attack left Will in a dire situation. The creatures strength was slowly wearing away his guard and their was little left. One more solid hit and it'd likely crumble completely. So now his choice was to harden up or lash out. It didn't appear to be doing any better so Will decided on the later, letting Zerisi's cards guide him in.
With a final hoarse cry, the purple-skinned giant collapses to the ground. Black and blue blood leaks from its hide, pierced and ruined in several places.
Undaunted, the bestial Dalviss ignores Arion and charges forward swinging his halberd at Zerisi.
"Bravo, bravo!" Zerisi calls out. Having returned completely to his jovial self, he moves abruptly, stepping back and spinning around in a complete circle. When he's facing Dalviss again, he and his duplicate unleash another cloud of harrow cards.
Dragash heals himself further then moved up joining the rest of the group.
Zerisi's cards swing wide.
Will nearly let his weapon droop now that the beast had finally succumb. He'd almost forgotten that Dalviss was still behind him. He holds his fauchard forward while his downs a potion at his waist. The beast last round of attacks had left him swaying and lightheaded from blood lose.
Moving forward, Dalviss slashes his halberd at Zerisi.
Rosa grips her sword and moves up to join the fight.
Will couldn't bring himself to swing his weapon at Dalviss. The man was a friend. And Rosa had shown she could remove the course if it was recent. Maybe it could work now. He drops the weapon and closes in, hammering away at the mans head with non-lethal strikes.
With a final punch, Dalviss growls, then his eyes unfocus, focus, then unfocus again. In utter silence, he keeps over and falls to the ground, unconscious.
As Dalviss falls to the ground, a cry goes up- a young child, eyes fixed, on the sky, pointing. Following his finger, you spot a strange shape falling from the sky. A dark blot lancing down from the heavens, it lands in the open plaza near you. A wave of earth is kicked up by the impact, washing over you as you shield your eyes.
Before you sits a dull shape; its surface so black that it is impossible to discern edge or curve, thus it seems almost two-dimensional. Smoke gently veils it.
Good, at least he wasn't dead. The relief is short lived as Will turns towards a child's scream and then up to the sky. He only has a moment to cover his eyes before a wave of dust washes over them. When it clears, Will is standing perfectly straight and still. His arms are parallel to the ground as he grips his weapon, its head pointing straight down touching the ground. His eyes are closed, focused on something. After a few seconds, he sweeps the weapon around and to the side. The beast hadn't revealed itself yet and he needed to use the time wisely. So he starts sucking down potions like a sailor on shore leave.
After watching the craft land with the others, Zerisi shakes the dirt out of his face, and begins spellcasting furiously.
Inbetween spells, he plucks the healing potion they'd secured earlier and tosses it towards Dragash, who he notices is looking rougher than usual. Finishing his spells, the 12' tall Zerisi, still with his doubles, takes up a flanking position off to the side of the others, and begins humming a low-pitched, slow tune while shuffling his Harrow deck thoroughly.
As she is behind the walls little of the dust and earth comes her way,
not that many spells left, but hay ho.
1: Divine Favor 9mins
2: Shield of Faith 9mins +3AC [Used]
3: Tap-inner Beauty 9mins
4: Comprehend Languages
5: Infernal Healing 9mins 90hp [Used]
-: Inflict-light-wounds
2ed DC17
1: Align Weapon [Lawful] [Cast R3]
2: Bulls strength 9mins +4STR Cast R4]
3: Eagles Splendor +4Cha 9mins
4: Summon Monster 2
5: Cure Moderate Wounds
-: Inflict Moderate Wounds
3ed DC18
*: Fly
1: Magic Vestment +2AC
2: magic-circle-against-chaos [used]
3: channel-vigor 9r [Cast R5] [Hast 9r]
4: Cure Serious Wounds Used
-: Inflict Serious Wounds
4th
*: Dimension Door 760'
1: Greater Magic Weapon 9 hours +2 [Used]
2: giant-vermin [Used R2]
3: restoration [Used R1]
-: Inflict Critical Wounds [Cast R1+R2] + Now as she is healed by both Neg and Pos this should work. back to max HP.
X: revenant-armor < [5/9 days]
Dragash moves through a flurry of actions.
On the third round of preparation, the shape cracks, and a sickly green ooze issues forth, collecting on the ground before manifesting countless eyes, tentacles and softly steaming green vapor. Collecting itself into a heaping mound not unlike rotten brain matter, a strange and alien rumbling voice resounds in all of your minds, speaking in your native tongues.
"Wow! Now that's something you don't see everyday!" Zerisi exclaims, somehow still willing to joke, even as the egress of the green 'thing' interrupts the spell he was about to cast. Caught up in wonder, he eschews further preparations for battle, to talk with the Emissary.
"Yoo hoo! Eye-missary! Do tell, what enlightenment do you bring?"
As he calls to the 'thing', Zerisi draws a card, and sneaks a peek...
...seeing The Juggler.
"Destiny in a stranger's hands. Sounds about perfect, eh Dustpawn?" he calls out loudly and proudly, hoping to inspire at least his compatriots, and at best, anyone who survived and might be watching.
Rosa 1st instinct was to attack bellowing its damnation by the Hells.
But she held herself in Check, she needed to know more, who was this Dominion of the Black and the Ebon Truth. Also she had sent her imp and the summoned Devils back to report, they should have done that by now. She had hope that aid would come before she fell facing this abomination. She had doubts this depleted of magic that she and the other could stand. She needed to play for time and find a weakness.
"I am Rosa Luminass, A Hound of HELL, my master Asmodeus lord of the Hells, of Law and Evil, will be most delighted to meet the harbinger of the Ebon Truth. Asmodeus will know doubt be interested to hear the offers you are making to the locals in far more detail. Would you like to expand in just what this transcendence and enlightenment actuality en-tales. Would it have something to do with you consuming the minds and souls of the faithful to enrich your self with such power as you can take from them. That dose so very seem to the opus memorandi of Demons."
She pits the last word out, holding her sword up, and taking a war stance.
"So speak Demon just what are you offering our world and the people in it, hold nothing back now. Lest hear it all."
Will holds his ground and continues to fumble with the potions in his waist pouch. He hoped Rosa could keep it talking long enough to done a few more. His wounds were at least closed now but it wouldn't take much to reopen them.
Dragash babbles incoherently.
An aura of darkness emanates from the creature.
Failed to slow it Rosa is hit by a wall of darkness.
Will maneuvers Arion behind the cover the tree nearby and drinks another potion . He was not about to run into a cloud of darkness without first seeing if one of the casters could do something about it.
Thrown off by the impenetrable darkness, Zerisi casts Invisibility on himself, and moves along the wall to a new position.
'Well this is incredibly inconvenient' he thinks, perplexed.
Will tries to spur Arion forward, but the silly thing seemed not to understand and stands there, head swinging, tongue flopping.
Dragash babbles incoherently; at the end however he regains his mind.
Within the darkness, the creature shifts.
The invisible Zerisi begins singing, a low, somber humming noise. Despite it's relatively dour tone, especially given Zerisi's usual high spirits, it fills the others with a familiar strength.
Arion continued to do nothing despite Will's urging. He didn't know how long this would last so he leaps off his mount and heads for different cover, downing another much needed potion for defense.
Rosa has no hesitation what to do. She is a Hound of hell, she was made to hunt such forces as this no matter where or who they may be. Her life was dedicated to the rule of law, and the protection of the world from the madness of Chaos.
Standing her full high she held up her large two handed back hell blade up pointing at the sky. As other looked on in worry and fear, she did not, a grim hard look on her face. She stood her ground, possibly facing a Demonic god and her last battle, she did not waver. She would not be remembered for weakness nor fear. She was the very embodiment of the Hells and its will to rule by what ever means, be it oneself and others. She would not falter now. Who ever survived this day would remember what Law and the hell's meant.
At the top of her voice she called so that ALL could hear.
"DEMON!!, YOU ARE JUDGED GUILTY, BY THE AUTHORITY OF HELL AND MY LORD AND MASTER ASMODEUS. I CONDEMN THEE TO ANNIHILATION."
With that she hefts her great black blade burning with dark flame and lawful might and charges into the darkness.
As she ran she calls out her death song.
"I AM DOOM!! AND I AM DEATH!! AND I WILL SHOW NO FEAR!!"
And she charged into the inky darkness.
Attack Adamantine Great Sword attack
if miss blind fight feat
Attack Adamantine Great Sword attack
DMG +2 LAwfull Magic Adamantine
Neg ange Channle
Channel smite DC18 will for 1/2, single attack [Blind fight]
As soon as Rosa steps into the darkness, she finds a vile force slamming into her.
Rosa's great bladework fails to find a target.
Within the darkness, the creature slams out at rosa.
Dragash recovers his wits, such as they are, and rushing forward, detonates a bomb in a directed blast of destruction. Awash with cold, the creature is staggered.
Her move makes her 5' in, so she gets hit there.
Meant to add,
Sword activates shield +4ac but still get hit on flat footed V invis.
As she moves in and the force hits
Then save Vs it hit 1,
Then second hits
I am not 100% what is DMG there GM, also is that temp or perm Level loss?
Will was hoping to wait out the beast's darkness and hold his ground until an opportunity arose. Neither seemed to be an option and one of their own decided to rush it. Well, he wasn't going to let her go alone so he steps into the darkness.
"Well, if we can't dispel the darkness, maybe we can even the score a bit..." Zerisi thinks, staring into the dark cloud even as the Emissary lashes out at Rosa.
He casts a spell, targeting the darkness just far away enough from Rosa that she won't be affected.
Rosa's second blow misses.
Erlend's blow pierces the darkness and connects.
Within the darkness, it is hard for Zerisi to see the effects of his spell.
Rosa winks back into being back out of the darkness.
Its plan to she has been hurt badly, she holds her chest, but she stands proud still, she heals herself.
She laughs at the demons threat shouts at the darkness, poring scorn on its rantings.
uses last 25' of Dimensional Hop to move back out the darkness.
DMG taken 51 left 24+1/75
giant-vermin 8 mins
To the others she says.
"Be careful it saps you vitality when it hits you, it hit me three times while I was in here."
She casts a spell and giant spiders come into being, they stand in front of her protecting her. They have no problems in darkness.
Though his blow connects, Erlend feels the creature resistant to his blow.
The creature briefly emerges from the darkness to slam into Will before disappearing within.
Dragash detonates a series of bombs.
'The darkness...it isn't fixed on the Emissary...' Zerisi realizes as the Emissary ducks back into the cloud of darkness.
"Will! The darkness doesn't move! Back up and make IT come to you!"
Now that it was marked, Will could follow Zerisi's advice. Though the beasts Ki was a chaotic mess, he could at least feel it. So he locked onto the hurricane and back, peddled out into the light, hoping it would follow.
Rosa casts her heal herself.
Retreating, Will attracts a strike from the emissary.
Half emerging from the darkness, a shambling green figure, the emissary lashes out at Dragash.
Dragash pales as his life is sucked from him. Regardless, he backs up and flings his bombs.
Staggered and near-blasted away, the emissary seems significantly weakened.