Sorix also does not find any magic in the room. With nothing of interest and the only other thing left, the double doors toward the meditation garden, Surexeria moves up to check the doors for traps.
Not finding anything she gives Mawl the all clear who then opens the doors.
Mawl swings the doors open. Jars of preserved fruits and vegetables and stacks of salted meat fill shelves carved into the bedrock walls. A half dozen tables in the room are heaped with scrolls, books, and parchments with several more Azmodeans around them. At the north eastern side of the room you see it opens up into a much larger room filled with a garden, which seems extremely out of place for being underground. In the entrway stands a hulking man, or maybe not completely man. In the garden, across a small river you see a woman sitting at a desk reviewing some papers. Those of you who attended the protest recognize her as the woman who took the dagger to the neck and the wound started healing. Cass recognizes her as the woman leading these Asmodeans and the one who captured her.
Cassie's hand shoots up and points at the woman, trying not to piss herself "That's her! Watch out for her!"
She closes her eyes and starts to sing once more. Softly at first, her words gain volume and emphasis as she tries to inspire her allies again.
Surexeria locks her eyes on the b%$%& at the desk. Her heart starts pounding and she tightens her grip on her rapier. ”Yeah. She’s mine.”
She then strides into the room and breaks right, rushing the first Asmodean prick she sees and thrusting her rapier into his throat!
Sorix steps forward 5 feet and quickly surveys the situation in the next room then conjures a magical cloud of golden particles around the hulking man/not-man and the two Asmodeans nearest the creature.
Horillo asks Erastil to give him strength and blessings to guide his blows with great accuracy.
Sorix blasts the large man and two of the Asmodeans with a spell as a poof of golden glitter appears out of nowhere.
While the two Asmodeans seem to avoid getting glitter in their eyes, the half-man does not and flails about trying to rub his eyes. Cass starts her inspiring song while Surexeria charges forward stabbing the nearest Asmodean, he is barely able to keep his feet. Mawl charges forward as well attacking the other closest Asmodean.
Mawl stabs the Asmodean caught off guard by the surprise attack. Horillo steps forward casting a spell on himself to aid in the battle ahead.
While still singing, Cassie moves up behind Surexeria whip in hand, cracking it loudly, hoping to cause some fear and doubt in their actions.
Surexeria grabs hold of the man behind his head, pulling him further onto her blade and giving it a twist as she locks eyes with the woman in the back. As she feels the life slipping from this mook, she pulls her blade back violently and lets his body slide down off of hers to the floor.
"You are gonna pay for what you have done, ya salty b+$@+. You have grievanced me more than anyone in recent history I can think of."
She then jogs forward and hops up onto the table next to the next Asmodean.
Mawl, highly interested in taking out the first Asmodean, Swings again at the same one. "Die you Asmodean scum!"
Horillo looses two arrows at the half-man, both seem to travel true, before he steps forward once more.
Sensing that her group could be in for a tough fight, Sorix casts bull's strength on Mawl.
Sorix casts her spell causing Mawl's muscles to bulge and grow. Surexeria finishes off the Asmodean she attacked before he even realizes what is happening he ends up on the ground, bleeding out, as she moves toward her next target.
Mawl strikes out at the man in front of him finishing him off with ease and then moving in closer to the next foe. Cass pulls out her whip and cracks it loudly which in an attempt to intimidate those nearby, which between that and the two already dead seems to work.
Horillo puts two arrows in the half-man thing still trying to get glitter out of its eyes so that it can see as it yells in pain from the two arrows now stuck in him.
The woman in the other room stands up, ignoring Surexeria's threats as she begins casting a spell. The remaining Asmodeans move forward to try and fight off the invaders while the clumsy half-man, feels around for the nearby wall to try and take cover from more arrows.
While the first one misses Surexeria the second almost hits. If it hadn't been for Cass intimidating him he would have connected. The one on Mawl doesn't even get close.
Sorix verbally shares any useful info she recalls about the creature.
Hm, these Asmodeans don’t seem like too much of a threat to us, but that big guy...And was Surexia yelling at someone else around the corner? I should just keep making Mawl more powerful.
”Time for more SuperMawl™! Don't move too far from me just yet, buddy.” Sorix retrieves a scroll from her bandolier and begins casting the spell scribed upon it.
Surexeria is quite proficient at taking advantage of odd positions in a fight, so fighting from the table is just her game. She utilizes some fancy footwork, honed from years of fighting on the open and choppy seas, to give herself an opening against the Asmodean that was trying to get past her!
Horillo edges forward and looses another two arrows at one of the cultists threatening Surexeria
Cassie stares down one of the men flanking the swashbuckler, trying to daze him with her magic.
Sorix pulls out a scroll and begins to cast the spell inscribed on it, preparing to make Mawl even more deadly than he already is. She tells the others that the half-man creature is an ogrekin, the unlikely spawn of a human and an ogre, often born with deformities, and this one seemed to have an over-sized maw likely making it easier for him to bite people. Surexeria, upon the table, bobs in and out, like she is going to strike but doesn't until the Asmodean she is fighting leaves an opening while trying to defend and she stabs him straight through the heart.
Mawl stabbed into the Asmodean that ran up to attack him, nearly knocking him off his feet. Stepping back he swings to finish the job.
He swings the massive weapon around goring the mans head with the spike as he falls to the ground dead. Cass casts a spell on the remaining Asmodean near Surexeria.
However, the zealot shrugs off the attempt at mental control, un-phased by the spell. Horillo looses two arrows in rapid succession at the remaining man. Both strike true hitting him in the shoulder and the thigh, but the man keeps his feet.
The Asmodean, wounded and outnumbered tries to retreat to regroup with the other forces in the garden. You hear the ogerkin complaining about not being able to see, still hiding behind the wall in the other room. The woman with the stark white eyes finishes casting her spell as a demon, made of gooey, fatty flesh comes into existence near the entrance to the room. She moves up toward the creature and casts another spell as she touches it and its muscles bulge and it gets a frenzied look in its eyes.
She calls out from behind the cover of the wall "You may have dispatched my redactors but you'll find I am not so easy to kill!"
As the last remaining Asmodean tries to flee Surexeria cuts him down.
Surexeria hops down from the table and rushes over to the wall the soon to be dead b!%!& and her minions are hiding behind. ”Good! I want to savor watching you die!”
With no target, Horillo moves up to cover his allies.
Sorix verbally shares what she recalls
As the spell on her scroll is completed, Mawl gets big.
- +2 size bonus to Strength
- -2 size penalty to Dexterity (to a min of 1)
- -1 on attack rolls
- -1 AC
- natural reach of 10 feet
- Melee damage dice increase (note that it says in the text to go up TWO steps on the chart from the original damage dice)
Sorix then moves in behind Mawl
Cassie keeps singing as they push forward closer to the crazy-eyed woman. She tightens her grip and marches forward into the open where she can see her and cracks her whip loudly as she stares her down. She wants to back up her threat with some taunting words, but it takes all of her strength just to stand there and not flee from this woman.
Sorix finishes her spell as Mawl grows in size. Surexeria jumps down of the table and rushes over to the wall near the woman calling out threats and the woman just laughs as she replies "We shall see who will be the one dying here today..."
Mawl, super-sized, moves up and gets in position to attack the devil that was summoned.
Mawl smacks a gaping puncture wound into the thing with a nasty sucking sound, but doesn't manage to kill it. Cass moves over cracking her whip, in addition to the oversized Mawl nearly killing the devil in a single blow, it seems to visible concern the woman. Horillo moves up to get a better aim at all the enemies.
The ogerkin finally stops rubbing his eyes and looks around starting to get his vision back while the injured devil moves up to attack.
It leaves itself open to an attack from Mawl as it scoots up to him but he ends up missing.
With Mawl's big size it makes him easier to hit and the devil claws away some of his flesh. The woman moves forward trying to slash Mawl with her glaive.
She slices a deep wound into Mawl, injuring him pretty severally, showing exactly why Cass has reason to fear the woman.
Surexeria moves to a position difficult for this blubber devil to defend against and attempts to carve away a bit of weight off the thing!
Horillo can't see what's going on now, blinks as Mawl's size increases. With a hop and a jump, he moves forward scrabbling onto the table behind the giant of his friend, Mawl. He touches Mawl and as he incants a prayer to protect Mawl in Erastil's name. A the spell ends, he speaks to Mawl, "She is within the distance of your strikes, attack her now before she does more evil."
This spell wards a creature from attacks by evil creatures, from mental control, and from summoned creatures. It creates a magical barrier around the subject at a distance of 1 foot. The barrier moves with the subject and has three major effects.
First, the subject gains a +2 deflection bonus to AC and a +2 resistance bonus on saves. Both these bonuses apply against attacks made or effects created by evil creatures.
Second, the subject immediately receives another saving throw (if one was allowed to begin with) against any spells or effects that possess or exercise mental control over the creature (including enchantment [charm] effects and enchantment [compulsion] effects, such as charm person, command, and dominate person. This saving throw is made with a +2 morale bonus, using the same DC as the original effect. If successful, such effects are suppressed for the duration of this spell. The effects resume when the duration of this spell expires. While under the effects of this spell, the target is immune to any new attempts to possess or exercise mental control over the target. This spell does not expel a controlling life force (such as a ghost or spellcaster using magic jar), but it does prevent them from controlling the target. This second effect only functions against spells and effects created by evil creatures or objects, subject to GM discretion.
Third, the spell prevents bodily contact by evil summoned creatures. This causes the natural weapon attacks of such creatures to fail and the creatures to recoil if such attacks require touching the warded creature. Summoned creatures that are not evil are immune to this effect. The protection against contact by summoned creatures ends if the warded creature makes an attack against or tries to force the barrier against the blocked creature. Spell resistance can allow a creature to overcome this protection and touch the warded creature.
Sorix pops another scroll into her hand from one of her spring-loaded wrist sheaths , runs up to Mawl, and touches his weapon.
magic weapon
Mawl listens to the words of his bowman/priest friend and swings with his freshly gained weapon at the evil scrawny witch.
"Now you shall taste my Justice, die you scrawny evil hag"
Sorix pops out a scroll from her wrist sheath and quickly casts it, touching Mawls weapon as it begins to glow with magic. Surexeria fakes out the devil and then stabs it in its already open wound causing it to disappear in a poof of smoke. Mawl strikes out at the evil woman, but she sees it coming and dodges the blow.
Cass continues her inspiring song while attempting to maintain her intimidation on the woman.
It seems to be loosing its effectivness though with Cass just flipping her whip around but not actually doing anything toward the woman. Horillo moves up toward Mawl and casts a spell on him granting him some protection for evil.
The woman looks back at her other ally who is finally able to see and shouts at him "Get in here and kill these fools! The ogerkin rushes toward Mawl with his shortspear hoping to finally do some damage.
Mawl tries to hit the ogerkin as he advances but the half-man, half-ogre is too quick and dodges the attack.
Even with Horillo's protection the ogerkin finds and opening and stabs Mawl, nearly knocking him off his feet.
The woman grins and then comments "What are you going to do without your big friend to protect you all?" She then launches her own attack on Mawl.
She scowls at Mawl as her glaive looks like it is going to slice into him but bounces off some invisible shield of force, thanks to Horillo.
"It's not him you need to worry about!" Surexeria boasts as she advances on the ugly freak. She spins around and thrusts her blade up towards his rib cage.
Surexeria is too busy threatening the woman that she mess up her feign, but still manages to at least connect, doing a little bit of damage to the ugly ogerkin.
Seeing Mawl so badly hurt, Horillo calls on Erastil to heal the hurt he feels, before retreating to gather himself.
Sorix steps back 5 feet, takes out yet another scroll, and gets ready to cast it. When we're finished with this weird place I'm gonna need to spend a few days making more scrolls.
Moving behind the swashbuckler, Cass uncoils her whips and lashes it at the feet of her target in an attempt to put it on the floor. She continues to sing but knows she is nearing the end of her capability to inspire her allies.
Mawl takes a 5' step back and lashes out w/his bec at the evil woman, "You vile witch, this shall be your end"
Sorix backs up from Mawl to give him some more room to fight as she pulls out another scroll getting ready to use it if the woman casts another spell. Surexeria goes the opposite direction and stabs the ogerkin with a solid blow tot he shoulder, but he just grunts in pain and growls at her, spit flying in her face from the roar. Mawl steps back trying to put some room between him and the woman and attacks, but as he does, the woman steps up with him to maintain the distance.
Even so, he lands a solid blow on the woman, piercing her flesh with his bec, though her armor catches the worst of it and she isn't all that injured. Cass flings her whip right past Surexeria and latches it around the ogerkins feet, pulling him to the ground with a thud. Horillo heals some of Mawls wounds before moving further back into the room.
The ogerkin, sneers and stabs its spear at Surexeria and then tries to bit her in the leg now that she has gotten his attention.
She dodges the spear, but as she does she pivots her foot closer to him and he bites into her leg tearing out some her flesh and then swallowing it with a grin.
As the woman gets ready to attack, anyone nearby can see that her recent wound from Mawl begins to heal all on its own, and you remember something similar happening at the protest when she was struck with the dagger. She shakes her head and glares at Mawl "You'll have to do better than that big guy..." She tighetns her grip on her glaive and squares her feet to put some extra force into the attack.
The blow is well placed and nearly drops him to the floor again, undoing all the healing Horillo just gave him.
Surexeria hops past the ugly prick to get closer to her true target. As she does she drinks a potion to staunch the wound she just suffered.
As Surexeria jumps past she is careful to avoid the ogerkin, but as she is drinking her potion the woman adjusts her grip on her glaive and tries to smack her with the pole.
Luckily, Surexeria sees it coming just in time to duck out of the way.
"You'll not be able to escape now..." Mawl growls as he takes another swipe at the evil woman.
When the swashbucklers moves away from her, she leaves the prone ogrekin staring at her. Slipping her dagger into her hand, she steps up and slashes at it.
Moving to the side Horillo calls on Erastil to heal his friends, by using the positive energy from the great stag of the hunt.
Sorix goes on the offensive, moving closer to the foes than she’d like and sending forth a vivid cone of clashing colors from her hands.
Sorix waits for an opening to move up and help. Surexeria jumps past the ogerkin careful to avoid opening herself up to an attack, but as she is drinking her potion the woman adjusts her grip on her glaive and tries to smack her with the pole. Luckily, Surexeria sees it coming just in time to duck out of the way.
Mawl growls and brings his weapon down, with a solid blow, smacking the woman in the chest with his weapon, leaving a pretty serious wound. Even so she seems still more than capable of continuing to fight. Horillo, stay in the back careful not to get any of the enemies in his area of effect as he unleashes a pulse of healing energy, healing some of Mawl's wounds.
Cass pulls out her dagger and stabs at the ogerkin on the ground. Being prone makes him an easy target and she stabs him in the thigh, which seems to only serve in pissing him off. Sorix gets closer to the battle, visible uneasy with being this close to the brutally efficient woman. She casts a spell unleashing a spray of vivid colors over her enemies.
The woman hears Sorix casting the spell and turns away just in time to avoid the colors hampering her, while the ogerkin is not as lucky. The colors overwhelm him and he passes out.
Again the woman's wounds continue slowly healing, undoing some of the damage Mawl has done before striking out at Mawl, hoping to finally put him down so she can turn her attention on the lesser threats.
"Alright, ugly. Just you an' me now! Time to pay for what you've done! And about time too, because your beard is really needing a trim!" Surexeria goads her as she thrusts her rapier at her.
Mawl!" Cassie cries out, seeing the big man go down. She casts a healing spell while out of range of the vile woman and holds it in herself before stepping beside Mawl and reaching down to touch him.
"Horillo! Mawl needs you!" she says, looking over to the cleric.
Horillo moves to Mawl climbing on the table and touching him with Erastils healing power.