Lina moves into the room, throwing a chair to the side and attacking Mongrelman #4.
Haruto slips into the room and, not wanting to spend more magic than he has to, fires a ray of Heavenly Fire at one of the mongrelmen.
mongrelman 4 also drops, seared and stabbed. Mongrelmen 2 goes after Hanna, each moving to get into position, flanking Hana with mongrelmen 4.
but the mongrelmen falls as it moves, Lina and Hanna reflexively hacking at it's legs and it drops to the ground.
Crash
the door to the north bursts open, an imposing human woman standing in the doorway in glistening Chainmail, wearing dark leather pants and a dark leather overcoat. She holds a glistening glaive tied with a red ribbon, shining in the dm light.
"looks like I have to do everything myself."
She pushes off the ground, darting forward, eyes flooded with bloodlust, leaving a small shimmering pool of silvery liquid under her feet with each step, vanishing moments after her feet leave the ground. Her glaive comes crashing down at Lina, twirling it around as it comes bearing down, practically climbing over the crude table to get to her.
The three followers are soon after, Horgus darting in, but finding no safe opening. Anvina leads avarash in, before taking a quick shot, aiming at the last mongrel.
anvina leans back to avarash
"we may need your help. Please, keep your spells at the ready."
avarash nods.
"just shout and I'll summon creatures from the outer planes."
azlana's arrow pierces the mongerelman's chest and he staggers about, just barely consious.
the mongrel drops dead.
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Lina doesn't let her surprise slow her down, nor the injury. The blade goes deep into her shoulder, it only stops when it reaches bone. She whispers a faint prayer as she steps inside of the range of the glaive. Her body is suffused with divine energy, a healing magic flows into her shoulder, and though she's far from whole, the bleeding is stopped, and the arm works.
Lina then grabs a small cloth bag from the sack Horgus gave her, and from point blank range she overhands the tanglefoot bag at the newcomer.
Haruto frowns distantly, then makes a sign in the air while speaking an arcane word. He thrusts a finger at the newcomer and what looks like a brilliant star shoots and strikes them.
the woman flinches as she is struck by the tanglefoot bag. She hisses, a guttural noise filled with anger, interrupted as she coughs up a shimmery substance as she's hit by huerto's magic missle.
"bahamat will not stand for your insolence."
the woman holds her glaive in front of her, and plunges it into the ground and the tanglefoot glue, surging with power- the judgement of bahamat has been made.
the tanglefoot bag nearly destroyed, a swift figure darts out of the same room the woman was in- a tiefling, brandishing a short sword, cuts at the woman's bindings, freeing her from the ground.
anvina is quick to take another shot at the advancing tiefling, quickly knocking a second arrow and firing again.
one arrow thunks into the tiefling's shoulder, and the other whiffs. Horgus steps a bit for a slightly better angle, drawing and throwing a flasknof alchemists's fire at the teifling.
horgus misses the throw, the vial landing north of the tief ling, slightly chatting his feet and nothing more. Horgus snarls.
Avarash waits nervously for his cue.
"Some help would be welcome now, Aravashnial," Haruto comments, almost casually, as he blasts at the glaive-wielder again.
avarash nods, and begins casting a spell.
Azlana shoots at the woman who hurt Lina.
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Hanna growls at the newcomers grouping together and it fills her with fury that they just keep coming! Well, maybe they'll stopp if she cuts the legs out from under their leadership"don't forget about me! she growls at the glave wielding human as her draconic strength and claws manifest, tearing into her back with claws and scarf
”By the stars I’ll cut you down!” Lina declares as she assaults the woman.
Lina’s wound heals a little more, and the energy is invigorating.
the woman falls forward, her glace pressing in the ground, struggling to stand. "not... not yet." her blood spills as she's cut over and over, struck by an arrow and a shimmering missle. She coughs, and her grip starts to slip as her blood glistens- her blood takes a sharper, brighter tone then normal blood- it shines- almost glows. She hefts herself up, her blood seeming to creep over her like a barrier. She glows, a moment, bright as a roaring flame- the costing of blood becomes a coating of silvery liquid, and bursts outward, the whole room bathed in light.
the woman stands, still leaning on her glace. She shudders and grits her teeth as four feathered wings violently tear from her back, coated in her blood. Her eyes light up, and she pushes herself back up off her glaive, taking to the air- what little of it there is in the cave. Her blood splatters around the room as she flaps, and she twirls her glaive around in her hands, adopting a wholly new stance.
the woman spreads her arms wide in the air, and screams "cone to me, you pretty cowards! Baphomet will not reward such behavior! her voice echoes throughout the caverns.
anvina staggers in pain at the bright light. Avarash conjures up a massive blue and white spider, and declares "attack the source of that shouting!
and the spider flings a web, only for it to be cut out of the air in a sudden flash of steel by the woman's glaive. Avarash whispers to anvina to ask what's going on, but instead, all that's heard is a hushed whine as she rubs her eyes. Horgus staggers back, his bravado gone, staring in terror.
(plus an additional 2 if we are dealing with demons (favored enemy).)
Azlana is mightily confused. Why is their enemy healing them, and what is going on? But she knows that Lina is a Paladin, and she wouldn't be fighting if this woman was good, so she shakes off the doubt and shoots again.
XD
Unsure of what to make of this development, and at the end of his spells, Haruto fires a ray of Heavenly Fire at the now-winged woman.
Lina stands her ground against the rush of wind, cursing internally. She follows the motion of the glaive with her eyes and readjusts her grip on her starknife. "Well, now, are you a traitor, or just a thief?"
Lina's prayer is swift, and she strikes with speed and power.
the woman is faster then ever, twirling her blade to stop Lina's blade, he blade lightly grazing her leg but doing no real damage as she deflects it. She is quickly struck by both the Ray of holy fire and the Magic missle, the holy fire leaving slight charring. An arrow flies by her head, and she flaps backward a bit to put Lina in reach of her glaive.
"What I am is none of your business, filth."
she twirls her glaive and brings it crashing down at Lina.
azlana takes aim again.
by some stroke of luck, she just barely hits, the arrow landing in the woman's shoulder.
The spider continues it's attempts to web the woman
but with the adrenaline coursing through her veins after getting hit so often, she cuts the webbing as it flies at her, fingers twitching on the blade. A smile creeps unto her face, some sort of manic exitement.
Avarash starts. i hear someone behind us! Anvina glances back behind them."oh... Mongrelmen are coming from behind, everyone!"
Lina closes to the boss and attacks, missing with her starknife and hitting with her dagger.
"Anvina, do what you can about the mongrelmen!" Lina calls, without taking her eyes off the boss.
Haruto keeps up his holy fire assault.
the woman flaps to the side of the holy fire, and cuts the arrow away, before a dagger digs into her side. She snarls, and raises her glaive up.
pillars of light rise from the ground under Huerto, Lina, azlana, and Hanna, spearing up an impacting the ceiling.
the woman's blood spills from the dagger wound, staining the ground silver.
meanwhile, anvina nods and steps back before taking cover behind one of the barridades, pushing aravanshul back behind her. Avanshul starts to cast another spell, after ordering the spider to block the entrance. Anvina takes a shot at one of the mongrelmen from the darkness.
the mogrelman staggers and limps, both of them taking cover behind the barricade.
Lina springs out of the light completely untouched.
Haruto staggers backward, badly injured, but fires back with yet another ray of holy fire.
the woman staggers and groans, bleeding profusely, before flying out of the room, pushing past everyone in her way, her wings making her remarkably quick. she pulls out a potion as she flies.
the mongrelmen stammer as they see the woman flee, and they begin to run as well.
and one of the mogrelman gets shot again by anvina, dropping to the floor.
After the woman leaves, Azlana positions herself so that she can heal all her allies and not her enemies.
Lina takes a swipe to no avail. ”Damn it. Come on, we can’t sit around here.”
She helps Hanna to her feet and heals her with divine power.
the woman and the remaining mongrelman quickly flee up the rope ladder, leaving the cave in silence once more.
"I do not trust those to leave us be," Haruto comments, gazing after them almost as if he could see through the stone. He hardly even seems to notice being healed.
"We should check these rooms swiftly and follow," he suggests.
Agreed, but we don't know how to defeat that silvery stuff that was dripping off her anyway. Might be best if she leaves and we don't have to fight her further.
to the south is a kitchen of sorts- the "food" seems to be mostly rats, but in the corner there's also mongrel and a few human limbs in various stages of butchery. They have a really nice, deep black knife they used to cleaving, but nothing else is of value.
the room to the north is wide open, the door broken when the woman kicked it open. It seems to be a bedroom, with a fair number more features then the simple places the mongrels slept- it's Probobly the bedroom of the strange woman.
Azlana pulls up detect magic. Is the knife magic? If so, they take it with them.
She keeps detect magic up as they proceed to the bedroom and search it.