...miss
...miss
Halvor charges into the room, sword drawn and shield raised, heading up the stairs to the pulpit on the north. Krissina follows Halvor, heading for the other stairs. While she runs, she casts a spell, causing her morningstar to glow as if lit with ghostly flames.
Kyrian steps into the room, drawing his longbow and nocking an arrow. Standing next to the larger pool, he releases and lets an arrow fly. However, the tiny demon darts out of the way of the arrow, which bounces harmlessly off the far wall.
Cerin also enters the room, eyeing the now-bubbling pool warily while calling the might of Gozreh to smite the little demon. A stormcloud materializes beside the creature, buffeting it with wind and rain.
Lynnda also runs into the room, sizing up the situation. She casts a spell and a ray of blue-white energy shoots from her hand toward the demon. Alas, the creature evades.
Round 2
The demon shouts, "Taste the wrath of the Mother!" It then seems to vanish into thin air. At the same time, from the violently bubbling larger pool rises another of the weird creatures with doglike legs and the split jaws with vestigial hands on its chin. Unlike the others you've encountered so far, this one is naked (and obviously male). As the bubbles of the pool subside, the creature's red eyes fix on Cerin. It wades over and attacks with tooth and claw. Cerin evades the creature's claws, but it manages to sink its fangs into the druid's arm. Almost instantly, Cerin's mind fills with images of Aldern Foxglove butchering the horses back in Tickwood, and Cerin feels the rage at that act bubble up within him...
...miss
...hit
Quasit: hp 36/36; 4 nonlethal
Sinspawn: hp 19/19
"Where'd the flying goblin go?" Krissina calls out, but seeing no way to locate it she instead hurls herself towards the new threat.
Halvor turns towards the new threat just in time to see Krissina wallop it across the face with her Morningstar. Figuring his companions have that challenge under hand, the fighter creeps closer to the strange pool above.
Seeing the little demon disappear and hearing something attack Cerin behind her, Krissina turns and charges the monster rising out of the larger pool. The creature's attention is apparently fully focused on Cerin, when it turns toward Krissina with a blank look on its hideous face. It hisses menacingly as Krissina swings her morningstar, connecting squarely against the side of its head. One of the spikes in her weapon crushes its temple, and the the thing gurgles as violet blood pours out of its ear, nose, and mouth. It reels sideways and falls into the water with a sickening splash, its face below the surface. Its blood begins to stain the water.
With no apparent targets, everyone mostly stays put, scanning for any signs of motion.
Round 3
From above your heads, you hear a disembodied, croaking voice chant in an unknown language.
Halvor sheathes his sword, drawing his crossbow. He listens closely, trying to determine where the little cretin is. The burly warrior keeps his eye on the pool, as well, looking out for any unexpected company.
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Cerin exclaims "Excellent hit!" to Krissina with a nod of thanks. Holding his injured arm, he listens to the chanting and calls out "Quasits are weak, cowardly creatures, relying on their ability to turn invisible to protect them. They are somewhat resistant to most energies and weapons, we need cold iron, Lawful or Good aligned weapons to really hurt them, unless someone has a spell that uses sound to harm. Fortunately, they are quite stupid and since this one is serving the quasi-deity Lamashtu, she is is probably exceptionally so."
Krissina moves around to Halvor and rests a reassuring hand on his shoulder Renisus she calls quietly.
...miss
...miss
Cerin's feelings of rage subside as realizes that they were caused by the now-dead creature's bite.
Halvor follows the sound of the chanting and looks toward the ceiling. He spies what he thinks is a shimmering in the air, raises his crossbow, and lets fly a quarrel. Following Halvor's gaze, Kyrian likewise sends an arrow flying in the same direction. Alas, both arrows hit the ceiling, bounce off, and fall to the floor.
Krissina casts a spell and touches Halvor on the shoulder. The warrior feels bolstered with a fire in his belly.
Round 4
The chanting overhead stops. There is a puff of smoke that smells of brimstone and a WOOSH next to Lynnda. An unnatural-looking six-foot-long red-and-black centipede as thick as a man's arm is suddenly in the room with you. It attacks Lynnda with vicious-looking mandibles, biting her hard in the lower leg.
At the same time, you hear a few more magical words spoken overhead. The tiny demon suddenly re-appears, flitting about near the ceiling, about 25 feet above your heads. When she reappears, she is pointing her clawed hand at Halvor. The warrior feels a strange lethargy course through him.
...success
Halvor clamps up, fear and disappointment mingling as he once again is magically immobilized. He wonders why his willpower always seems lowest when such spells are cast at him.
Lynnda shrieks at the sudden appearance of the fiendish centipede. "Gaah! That thing has WAY too many legs!"
She draws the iron wand recovered earlier, speaks an arcane word and the forked tip crackles with energy. She attempts to touch the centipede with it...
The wand crackles when she touches it to the centipede's exoskeleton. Electricity arcs over the monster.
...hit
As Halvor cocks his crossbow for another shot, the tiny demon materializes out of thin air and points its clawed finger at the warrior. Halvor suddenly freezes in place. At the same time, a fiendish giant centipede materializes next to Lynnda, biting her before she can react.
With the little demon popping back into existence, Krissina sees her chance. She rushes across the pulpit, which rises ten feet off the floor, and perches on the ledge as she casts a spell. A cone of flame jets from her outstretched fingertips, reaching just far enough to engulf the monster in flames.
However, after the flames subside, the creatures does not seem scorched in the slightest. She sneers at Krissina, and taunts, "Mmmm. That felt nice. Do it again?"
Cerin calls forth the power of Gozreh again, and the tiny stormcloud re-materializes, basting the demon with wind and rain. Alas, the creature anticipates the direction of the blast, and ducks below it.
Kyrian releases another arrow at the demon, and this time his aim is true. The arrow hits her in the shoulder. "একটি! যে ব্যাথা!"
Her attention on the summoned fiendish centipede, Lynnda zaps it with her newly-acquired shock-wand. Electricity arcs through the beast, but it keeps attacking.
Round 5
The quasit cackles. "Ha! I am beloved by the Demon Queen! Your feeble attacks are useless against me!" She flies back over the triangular pool, hovering just below the ceiling that's 15 feet above the floor of the pulpit. She pulls out Kyrian's arrow, and red-black ichor drips into the triangular pool, causing it and the larger pool to bubble violently again. However, you all see that the bubbling of the triangular pool very quickly ebbs and its golden glow noticeably diminishes, while the larger pool bubbles as before.
Meanwhile, the centipede lashes forward and snaps at Lynnda, but she manages to evade its bite.
Halvor focuses his mind, trying to put every fiber of his being into breaking the spell's hold on him.
Krissina can't see any of her abilities affecting the little creature, so focuses her attention on the pool instead.
Unless throwing spells at the pool has some awesome reaction, she'll then head over to see if she can aid Kyrian.
...miss
Halvor's eyes dart around the room frantically, but the large man still stands completely immobile.
Krissina jumps down from the pulpit and runs next to Kyrian, eyeing the bubbling pool with great suspicion. She casts a spell, purifying some of the water in the pool. The bubbles in an area about a foot in diameter subside for a moment, but then start up again.
Cerin begins casting a spell.
Kyrian fires another arrow at the quasit, but it harmlessly bounces off her scaly hide.
Lynnda tries to zap the fiendish centipede with her wand again, but the creature is too fast for her.
Round 6
...fail
...miss
As the larger pool bubbles furiously, another of the strange creatures rises to the surface. It too is naked, although this one is obviously female. It climbs out of the pool and fixes Krissina a baleful gaze with its red eyes. It lunges at Krissina, raking at her with its sharp claws, but the red-haired oracle nimbly ducks out of the way of the swipe.
The centipede darts between Lynnda's legs and delivers a nasty bite to her right thigh.
The quasit cackles maniacally and disappears from sight. Her cackles echo through the room and then are silent.
Your turn!
"Ow! Damn you! Stop moving! And... ugh" Lynnda grits her teeth at the pain of the bite and from what feel like waves of fire coursing through her veins. "I think I've been poisoned!"
She tries to zap the monster again.
Halvor continues to fight the paralysis, and this time is rewarded by suddenly feeling his limbs be freed. He almost stumbles, catching himself in time to not fall on his face. He fixes the little demon with a glare.
"Burn you" Krissina shouts, feeling her back to the wall as she swings her 'star at the creature.
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Cerin curses internally as the quasit disappears again, but keeps chanting. An eagle with bright, shining plumage appears near the demon's last position and looks down at the gnome, who calls out in celestial.
"yrittää löytäädemoni klo hyökkäys sitä , muuten taistellatuhatjalkainen !"
Hurrying over to Halvor, he arrives just as he breaks free from his paralysis. "Can you detect the demon's position?" he asks, looking around for any sign of movement or disturbance.
...miss
...hit!
With his force of will, Halvor breaks free of the magical paralysis.
Krissina attacks the abomination that grew from the larger pool, but it managed to parry her attacks. It hisses at her menacingly.
Kyrian steps back and fires at the creature attacking Krissina. The arrow grazes its shoulder, but doesn't seem to penetrate its thick hide.
Cerin finishes casting his spell. A cloud of mist appears above him, and with a flash of lightning and a crack of thunder, a beautiful golden eagle appears in the room. It scans the room for enemies, and flies at something that apparently only it can see. It collides with something invisible in the air, raking it with its talons.
Lynnda strikes the centipede with her wand, and sparks fly. With a WOOSH! and a puff of smoke that smells of brimstone, the centipede disappears without a trace.
Round 7
...hit
...1
...hit
...1
...hit
...miss
...hit
...saves
The quasit fights back against the eagle with tooth and nail, becoming visible in the process. In a tangle of flapping wings, the two extraplanar creatures descend a bit, and are now merely ten feet above your heads.
Meanwhile, the abomination claws at Krissina grabbing her weapon arm and drawing it to its mouth, and it delivers a nasty bite. With the bite, Krissina suddenly has visions of every patron at the Dragon who'd ever groped her or made rude remarks, and her fury at them wells up within her.
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Cerin points to the quasit and calls to Halvor "That eagle will not last long. Let's get that demon before it can become invisible again!" He rushes down the stairs, drawing his scimitar and slashing across the back of the abomination attacking Krissina, hoping to clear the way.
The celestial eagle continues it vicious attack, beak snapping and claws scratching as its wings buffet the demon to drive it to the ground.
Being far more effective in melee than at range, Halvor drops his crossbow, drawing the impressive ranseur from earlier. He moves down the steps behind Cerin, thrusting eagerly at the abomination that just bit Krissina.
Krissina snarls at the hateful creature, channelling her wrath towards it in a maddened, though ineffectual flurry.
...Hell, yeah!
...fails
Halvor dashes down the stairs from the pulpit and skewers the hideous creature fighting Krissina.
Cerin directs his summoned celestial eagle to continue fighting the quasit, and it attacks the demon viciously. Drawing his scimitar, Cerin then attacks the creature fighting Krissina, but it parries his attacks easily.
Krissina's face twists into a mask of anger, and she swings her morningstar furiously. But in her fury, the swing is wild and completely misses.
With three of his friends fighting one monster, Kyrian fires at the quasit. The arrow hits it squarely in center of the back, between its wings.
Lynnda casts a spell and a blast of brilliant swirling colors engulfs the quasit (and the eagle). The quasit's face becomes blank, and she stops defending herself against the eagle.
Round 8
...miss
...hit
...hit
The bipedal abomination continues its attack on Krissina. It rakes its claws across her face, then bites her weapon arm.
The quasit appears to be stunned by Lynnda's spell, and it takes no action other than to hover in place for a moment. It drifts downward, such that it's currently only about seven feet above the floor.
"Why won't you die." snarls Krissina as she takes a step back and burns her last spell on pushing fiery death towards the creature.
Not being able to get to the quasit in time to be of much use in the current state of affairs, Halvor instead focuses on dispatching the remaining, dangerous abomination that is harrying poor Krissina. If he manages to hit and drop the thing, he moves as close as he can to the little flying demon.
...success
...success
In her fury at the creature, Krissina calls to the spirits of fire, and jets of flame engulf the creature. While scorched, it continues to menace her, and takes a half-step toward her as Halvor jabs his mithril ranseur through the thing's back, twisting it as he pulls it out. Violet blood pours out of the wound, and the creature collapses to the floor.
Cerin calls forth the power of Gozreh, and a tiny stormcloud appears above the quasit, blasting it with wind and rain. However, the cloud appears smaller and weaker than normal, and the demon appears unaffected.
Kyrian lowers his bow and draws his shortsword with his right hand, stepping closer to the hovering demon, and then stabs her squarely in the chest. But for some reason, the blow fails to penetrate the thing's hide and bounces off.
In an effort to keep the thing magically disabled, Lynnda casts another spell. Tiny motes of multicolored lights appear around the demon's head. However, the demon appears to ignore the effects of spell as it regains its senses from her earlier spell.
Cerin's summoned eagle shrieks loudly as a cloud of mist surrounds it. With a flash of lightning and crack of thunder, it disappears as the magical summons ends.
Round 9
...miss
...miss
The tiny demon shakes her head, becoming aware of her surroundings again. She makes an arcane gesture and utters an unspeakably guttural phrase in an unknown language. Her words seem to shake reality, grating at your perceptions and echo through your very souls.
Lynnda and Kyrian attempt to strike her mid-casting, but she evades their strikes.
The quasit then flies over the larger pool, hovering about 12 feet above the floor. She cackles, "Ha! Ha! Ha! You thought you had me, didn't you? I am the Mother's beloved, and you shall fall before her might!"
Halvor drops all thoughts of attacking the demon as he feels a momentary panic. He grips his ranseur and heads for the double doors leading in, keeping an eye out for the thing to make sure it doesn't swoop down and get him. It's that scary.
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Cerin sighs as he sees Halvor run from the room. Poor guy! It's not his fault that magic is his Achilles Heel, but I know he is going to beat himself up about it. Resolving to have a talk with his friend later, he steps over to Krissina, draws the wand and concentrates on channeling the healing power from it into her.
Lynnda shrieks in fear at the tiny demon and runs out of the room.
...hit
The quasit vocalizes an unspeakably terrifying utterance. In reaction, Halvor and Lynnda flee in terror, running out of the room. Krissina stands her ground, but between the fear and the wrathful thoughts, she puts her hands on the sides of her head and doubles over for a moment.
Cerin uses his wand of cure light wounds to heal some of the damage the abomination had inflicted upon Krissina.
Kyrian continues fighting, letting fly another arrow. Again, this shot should have been a square hit into the demon's chest, but it simply bounces off, as if the thing was made of stone.
Round 10
The creature continues to hover over the larger pool. She casts a spell, and a ray of black energy shoots at Kyrian. Kyrian staggers a moment, as he feels his strength ebb away.
Halvor can not overcome his fear, continuing to run until he can no longer see the wretched little demon. He then stands there, breathing heavily with his eyes closed while trying to overcome his irrational fear.
Krissina moves back up the stairs, to the raised area, and removes her shield, sizing up the distance and trying to work out her chances of running, leaping and grabbing the little cretin.
Lynnda's fear subsides somewhat, and she steels herself to return to face the demon. Turning on her heels, she attempts to grab Halvor as she runs past her, but he pushes her aside. Shrugging her shoulders, she re-enters the weird cathedral, fixing the demon with a hateful glare. She raises her right hand, as if about to start casting a spell.
I'm out, used up the last of my magic worth anything to burn that last creature
...crit threat!
...Override. Comfirmed.
Krissina stands on the pulpit, contemplating whether or not to try to grab the quasit out of the air. While she ponders, Cerin uses his wand to magically heal some of her wounds.
After running out of the room, Lynnda just as suddenly returns. "Hey! Ugly! Over here!" The quasit cocks her head at the sorceress with a bemused expression.
Using the quasit's distraction as an advantage, Kyrian fires another arrow at her. This one hits her in the abdomen, and this time it doesn't just bounce off. Red-black ichor drips from the wound into the pool below.
Round 11
The quasit descends to about 15 feet above the pool and throws a tiny, black-bladed dagger at Kyrian. The dagger bounces off one of the studs in Kyrian's armor, then flies back into the demon's hand!
Halvor cowers in the corridor, out of sight of the demon. He fights his irrational fear, repeating training mantras verbally to himself. He finally manages to break through the haze of panic, anger slowly washing away fear.