Vivian continues to obey while despite multiple swings from Sabola, only one connects!
The cleric will in turn attack Sabola!
He misses!
Sonny moves out of the room and around the door frame so he and the child can't be seen and the child can't see the bloodshed in the room.
Sonny keeps the baby safe.
Pontia holds off to let the serious heavy hitters finish the priest.
Seeing the condition of the Vicar, Pontia will wait while the muscle finishes him off.
The Vicar cannot survive the dagger blows from Sabola and succumbs to his injuries.
Sabola will immediately look about to make sure the child is in safe hands. Once he confirms that, he starts rummaging through the pockets and such of the fallen foes. Any identifying information, he passes over to the smarter members of the group.
While Sabola searches the bodies, he will ask Sonny about the child.
Sonny comes back to the doorway and peers around when it gets quiet. He tells the group "We'll stay out here. The baby is fine. If anyone needs healing I can do it out here. The child doesn't need to see that."
The child seems to like Sonny and coos contentedly in his arms.
Pontia looks around the room for anything interesting, using detect magic as her initial screen.
Sonny continues to snuggle and bounce the child. He says to the group "Once you get anything useful in there we should probably return the child. I don't think it's a great idea to continue on with the baby in my arms."
"Oh, yes. Her parents must be worried sick about her, and the sooner they have her the sooner they can leave this place."
"Let's go, and get back here quickly."
Sabola defers to the human females on the proper care, and management, of the young human.
The eastern wall and ceiling of this room have collapsed, and the grand table in the center has been smashed beneath the weight of a ruined lead and glass chandelier that fell atop it long ago.
This bedroom’s furniture is soaked and reduced to rotten heaps of wood. Portions of the ceiling and east wall have collapsed, revealing the swamp outside and the room above.
Though the walls of this room are still intact, it is clear that the roof above has sustained damage. The floor of the chamber bears a sizable puddle in which the rotten remnants of a settee still sit.
A covered portico stands at the southern wing of the house and shades its door. To either side of the portico stand matching statues of rearing hippocampi upon stone pedestals. A shallow stream of water exits from beneath the door, forming small rivulets that flow off of the portico and down to the muddy road nearby.
"I suppose we should see what's upstairs. Vivian and Sabola, would you care to scout?"
Sabola nods his head, and heads out, expecting Vivian to follow.
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This room has weathered the years better than the rest of the house, as wooden shutters remain closed over the windows, keeping most of the elements out. A low hearth stands in one wall, over which hangs an elegantly rendered painting of a tall ship in the midst of a storm. Spaced about the room are three cushioned armchairs, and a wooden pipe rack hangs upon the south wall.
There is a man dressed as a high priest and vizier of the Recondite Order of the Indomitable Sea searching the room. He does not notice Sabola.
Vivian follows Sabola, impressed by his stealthiness
If permitted, Sabola will move in and take a sneak attack with his human bane dagger...
Sabola enters into the room, dagger held high when Vivian goes to the door, the floorboards make a load creak. The High Priest turns suddenly and quickly appraises the situation. You shouldn't be here! he yells.
Since he was already in position, Sabola delivers a devasting blow!
Sonny fires a crossbow bolt at the man and says "Just give up! Don't make us kill you too!"
Vivian rushes to the room and strikes with her sword, trying to flank he priest with Sabola
Sonny's bolt lands far from the vizier. You have seen too much! It is you who must die! He shouts.
Even flanking, Vivian misses the priest.
The priest will cast defensively.
A blade barrier will appear across the doorway separating Sabola and Vivian from the others.
Pontia puts her hand on Selene's shoulder. "This may make you feel a little dizzy." She concentrates, and with a pop of displaced air the two women vanish and reappear on the other side of the blade barrier.
Pontia dimensional steps past the blade barrier with Selene.
Sabola will continue to flank.
I felt the same way when a Certain Someone tried to dispel a fog cloud, and only failed because the dice module betrayed them.
Sabola misses in 2 of his attacks, but it is OK because the 2 that hit are enough to bring him down!
But suddenly the priest's head explodes in a shower of gore as a tentacled horror emerges from his neck!
Pontia's keen interest in the creature saves her from sanity loss at the sight of it. "Fascinating! Second instar of a spawn of one of the Outer Gods, if I'm not mistaken. The same one whose symbols we saw downstairs."
What now? Can't he simply die?
I read about these creature once, in an old tome, but I thought they were the ranting of a madman!
Pontia yells to the group that it is immune to mind-affecting effects and if it constricts you, it will start to feed on your vital essence!
Unable to get into the room Sonny casts a spell to bless the party.
Sabola, we need to bring this one down quick..Pontia, can you summon some help? Creatures with good morality who will be able and willing to destroy this spawn?
Vivian will try to position herself to provide a flanking opportunity to Sabola
Vivian is unable to hit the spawn!
The spawn will attack Sabola!
Surprisingly, the creature misses!
The paladin concentrates, trying to determine if the Spawn is evil.
Selene definitely determines that the spawn is evil!