Edmund, Andor, SK2 and Roldala hear the three rat swarms converging on your positions and are ready for them as they arrive! One of the swarms literally shoots out of the drain pipe the little devil was sitting on and completely envelops Edmund and Andor!
plus disease (Fort DC 12 to avoid)
The two other swarms arrive from the two passages to the south but don't quite make it to SK2 and Roldala. You hear the squawks of the Fushi sisters to the south who vehemently shooed the rats away upon seeing them emerge from the storm basin!
...and the crazy music continues!!!
ROUND 3 [bold may go]
Strange Little Devil [smiling, invisible, playing some music]
Edmund and Kissan
Roldala
SK2
Andor
Red
Seeing her master overrun, and her own safety threatened- the jaguar turns and attacks the rat swarm.
Andor manages to dip low and skewer 5 rats unto his rapier before backpedaling.
Down to the south, Roldala utterly decimates an entire pile of rats with her mighty long hammer, blood splattering in all directions, sending the remaining rats scurrying back towards the water! . The sound from the mighty strike reverberates throughout the entire Wasp Nest, giving pause to the other southern rat swarm before they decide to keep advancing tentatively towards SK2, drawn to the source of the crazy music.
With its defensive training kicking in, Kissan immediately reacts to Edmund's retreat by roaring and mauling the rats mercilessly, aided by a raging bipedal crocodile, which absolutely terrorizes this group of rats, causing the lucky survivors to fight over each other in order to re-enter the pipe they came from!
SK2 wisely decides to leave the honors to Roldala, and flees north towards the rest of the group to outrun the incoming rat swarm!
...which has for effect to redirect the swarm towards Roldala, who meets the incoming swarm with another mighty *BOOM!* of her lucerne hammer!
The music suddenly stops, and you can hear soft yet hate-filled arcane words whispered somewhere in the room...
ROUND 4 [bold may go]
Strange Little Devil [invisible]
Edmund and Kissan
Roldala
SK2
Andor
Red
Red, Roldala and Andor try to locate the tiny invisible creature, but they are not able to pinpoint its location.
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Immediate threat cleared, Edmund turns his attention back to finding the creature. [/b]“Desna, grant me vision”[/b]. His holy symbol glows with a pale purple light, that washes over his body and rests on his eyes for a brief moment before vanishing.
He turns to Kissan, and again commands her to search for the invisible foe. ”Find it! Find it!”
Unsure of the source of the singing and sound, Kissan again tries to locate the source- her human encouraging her to “find it!”.
If located she will move toward the scent, until she is adjacent to the source of the sound/smell.
GMs decision
No one is able to find the tiny devil. However, the heroes have other problems: an impossibly black leopard appears south of Elmund, its eyes glowing red as if alight with the fires of Hell, and pounces mercilessly after lightning fast charge!
Pounce vs. Elmund, Smite Good:
[hit]
[hit]
[miss]
Edmund succumbs to the hellish cat's claws and slumps to the ground, bleeding out...
Roldala also hears some words softly spoken into her ears, "Your big long hammer... oh my! it appears you broke it on the stones when you smashed these puny rats! look at the fine cracks near the handle... you should avoid using it until you have it looked at by a weaponsmith!
ROUND 5 [bold may go]
Strange Little Devil [invisible]
Black Cat From Hell! [eyes glowing red, mouth dripping with Edmund's blood]
Edmund [-17, dying] and Kissan
Roldala [Will save req'd]
SK2
Andor
Red
Seeing Edmund drop, Rage over takes Kissan and she turns and leaps at the familiar creature. Teeth barred, she lunges at the cats neck.
Kissan misses, blinded by sheet animalistic fury! Edmund's breathing resumes, and from the look of it, his wounds do not appear to have severe bleeding at the moment. Roldala, Andor and Red obliterate the fiendish great cat in retaliation, and it disapears in a sulfuric *POOF!*
ROUND 5 [bold may go]
Strange Little Devil [invisible]
Black Cat From Hell! [poofed out of existence when Red charged it!]
Edmund [-17, stable] and Kissan
Roldala [hammer discarded]
SK2
Andor
Red
for plus poison
Suddenly SK2 feels a hard pinch in his neck... and starts feeling... woozy... in his hazy vision he thinks he sees a... beautiful? ...tiny winged she-devil holding a tiny blowgun in her right hand... he thinks he sees her... blow a kiss at him?? ...before flying out towards the Wasp Nest's main hallway...
ROUND 5 [bold may go]
Strange Little Devil
Edmund [-9, prone] and Kissan
Roldala [hammer discarded]
SK2 [Fort save req'd]
Red
Andor [gave potion to Edmund as a full-round action]
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Slowly the blurry room begins to resolve, and Edmund finds himself on his back on the cold stone floor. The memory is patchy, and the last thing he seems to recall is an evil Kissan in front of him.
He works his way to his feet, feels woozy, and pulls out his Wand of CLW
Turning to Andor he whispers ”Thanks”
SK2 runs after the little devil, pistol in hand. As he rounds the corner, he sees her hovering 10 feet above the floor of the main hallway, near the secret entrance of the Coffeehouse basement actually!
"Ah, darling! I can't say I'm surprised you'd fall for me at first sight. Is my muscle relaxant starting to make you... more relaxed and comfortable... and attentive to a girl's needs? We could be something, me and you, you know. I'm Blosodriette by the way. Enchantée de vous rencontrer, Monsieur! This is a big universe, and I can teach you... sooooo many things... I can turn into a rat if you'd like, for one... a big, curvy rat girl, yes? would you like that?..." says the little she-devil to the Slitheren Kid The Second, turning to accentuate her most seductive features. "Or I can stay just like this... all you need is a potion of reduce person and we'd be the same size... ha ha ha!" She winks playfully at SK2, her tail flicking back and forth. "I fear... that we all got on the wrong foot, your group and I... but then again, who wouldn't? especially after some rude swashbuckling dude charges you with a rapier first and then tries to lie or deceive you so that you can be stuck more easily. How rude. What a... waste of opportunity... I used to be halfling lass, a long time ago, in a previous life. So I can smell a fight a mile away and I can smell big people trying to boss us around too. The multiverse is a big place. And by a quirk of the cosmos, I retained my memories upon dying and upon being sentenced for the dreadful Nine Hells for an eternity. I honestly, don't want to die here. If you tear my ancient contract out, which is that weird page you guys found in that Silver Ravens document, I can just return to Hell automatically... it would... be unfortunate, however... as I rather enjoy my second go at the mortal plane... but the remainder of some existence in Hell is better than forever ending my existence here at the blades of a really angry group of of folks..."
She purses her lips at the Slitheren Kid with lust.
ROUND 5 [bold may go]
Andor
Edmund [-9, wand in hand] and Kissan
SK2
Red [delaying]
Roldala [hammer unuseable]
OUT OF COMBAT:
Strange Little Devil [spends Round 6, 7 and 8... and beyond!!! talking as per the above, unless anyone other than SK2 approaches past the point where he's at right now]
Seeing that she has all of your attention, she perches on SK2's shoulder to rest her wings a little, "May I rest here a little? thank you Sir Ratfolk." Turning to all of you, she says, "My name is Blosodriette, and if you bring this page to a wizard or cleric or anyone who can see through the Secret Page enchantment that rests upon it, you will confirm that this is my true name, spelled out in the contract. I forget my manners though. I am pleased to meet you all."
She curtsies and extends a tiny hand to shake each of yours, nodding after you introduce yourselves, if applicable.
"I'm bound to this contract and as such, I cannot go further than one hundred feet from it. Which is why I've been cooped up in your Wasp Nest. I'm sorry for some of the pranks I've done. I just... got bored. And well... the devil flesh I now inhabit in the afterlife sometimes... pulls me towards unwise decisions. The legal owners of this contract would be descendants of the original owner. Those descendants may yet still live in Kintargo. If the contract is in the hands of my legal owner, then the one hundred feet limit does not apply. But since the contract is here, the one hundred feet distance clause applies. Of course, the descendants could very well pay money to anyone willing to bring back this contract; they could also be convinced to sell it to a third party such as you. As long as it is documented and the new provisions are signed and attached to the original contract, ownership can be thus transferred."
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Edmund, back on his feet but still woozy from the blood loss, shows little patience with the creature. He taps himself with the wand a couple times.
"Pardon me, miss. But I frankly don't care about your contract. That cat of of yours has made me a tad bit irritable. Why shouldn't we just dispatch you and go on with our business. Not to mention, you havent explained what you were doing with these other chaps. Your 'pranks' nearly cost us everything we are workin' for."
He turns back toward the group.
"I aint one for making deals with devils"
To Andor, she replies, "I once worked for the Sarinis, but none in that family know of me today."
To Red, she replies, "After centuries of service in Hell, I answered the call of a binder from the Material Plane, and returned to, of all places, Kintargo... my hometown.... during mortal life..."
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Andor looks at her and his demeanour changes.
”Blosodriette, do you know why I am in this city? Because people like the Sarinis exist!“ he says with contempt.
”Because innocent people ... like these poor Tieflings ... are sacrificed to gain power from evil forces!“ and it is clear that this a personal topic for Andor.
He looks into his comrades faces and then back at the devil.
”You know ... being a quintuplet is not easy. Especially when your mother is a Kitsune that fled Cheliax years ago as a pregnant woman with five unborn babies in her belly. Well, her husband was willing to sacrifice her unborn children to close a deal with a devil. You know … it sounds better when I say „ her husband“ because I do not have to say … „my father“.“
His anger rising Andor looks at Roldala and the contract that he gave her a minute ago.
”I will do everything in my power to stop evil beings like you meddling with innocent people‘s lives! Roldala, you can rip this contract apart whenever it suits you!“ he says to her.
Looking at Andor, she nods. "I understand your anger, kitsune. However, I am here now, and whether I go back to Hell is clearly up to you it seems. Yes... I feel an aura of... command... of innate leadership within you. Was your father, from the Sarini family, by any chance? if so... you are my master, and as such, any task you set upon me would both require my utter obedience to you AND give me the power to go beyond the one hundred feet limitation. Perhaps that the sins of the father can be turned into a... force for good."
You all feel a slight tremor in the ground at this point as she says that. As if some distant power was grating at the... sacrilegious words this devil has uttered. You notice her skin turning a bit less red for some reason... reaching almost a pink color. The large scar left at the site of her lost right horn also seem to heal up, and her beautiful black hair seem to regrow over that spot. Her left horn remains, however, and so does her wings and tail stinger.
A single tear comes out of her right eye.
Wiping the tear away, she holds her musical instrument in front of her, "There, kitsune. You can have this. They are pipes of the sewers, and can call forth rat swarms if you can learn to play the instrument. Take care."
The little devil lands on the ground, and curl up in a fetal position, awaiting her second eternal sentence to Hell. She starts sobbing quietly, and you see the frequent shaking of her shoulders as she does so.