Hopefully they will carry those scars back to hell with them as reminders. Who here needs healing?
Ayako uses her dwindling CLW wand on herself
"I'm fine." Tyrandro replies.
Fluffy checks on the corpses, but they smell funny and the taste of them is not worth the hassle with all those pointy ends.
Maybe make devil spike coats for Fluffy
Ayako and Mushu lean against the door that the devils were guarding, trying to see if they can detect anyone behind it.
"I'm not versed in that skill. But I think we'd have enough of that skin to create such a coat. But I'm not sure if he could put that to goo duse, or if we only hurt ourself, when fighting in close areas." Tyrandro ponders. "How about making one for your piglet? It is in much greater danger or being grabbed and such a coat would be a nice protection againt that."
Ayako can hear the wind blowing outside and a number of high pitched voices chittering and spitting foul words that Ayako doesn't understand in Infernal. Mushu smells creatures that smell like the barbed devils but not exactly the same.
Fluffy checks on the corpses,
There seem to be voices speakign something I can't understand. It also seems to be exposed to the outside and Mushu says they smell like devils, so we should be prepared for more combat
Ayako casts Resist Energy Communal-Fire on everyone
(6 people 21 minutes each of 30 points of fire resistance)
If we are facing flying enemies, we might want to start flying. I can fly with my armor.
Iolana casts Fly on Sebastian. Tyrando would you and Fluffy like to fly?" She asks.
"I could use some healing Mushu. she gives the piggy a scritch behind the ears. Then knowing Fluffy will be jealous gives him some snuggles. "You are such a big boy."
Mushu is smugpig. Knowing he got cuddled first and gives Iolana a potion.
"I'm fine on the ground." Tyrandro replies. "And I have no clue how Fluffy will react to flying."
The door opens to an open air causeway (15 ft. long and 5 ft. wide) that looks out over the rest of the castle below. The railings appear to have been sharpened to a razor sharpness. The causeway ends at a locked and heavily reinforced door on the side of a round tower rising up through the center of the castle.
The voices Ayako heard stop as soon as the door to the causeway opens although whoever opened the door senses a brief fluttering of wings. Mushu still smells devil nearby. There is also a strong smell of devil beyond the locked doorway but no sounds inside.
Tyrandro looks and listens if he can make out where those smelly devils are.
Tyrandro can't tell but he feels like he's being watched.
Oink oink!
Devils are still nearby and Mushu smells devil behind the door
"Do you have something, that can force them out of hiding?" Tyrandro asks.
I can summon a demon that can see the invisible if they have vanished
"For once you have a good idea." says Sial. "I am also capable of summoning such a creature. In fact, I can do one better and summon an Erinyes which possessed true seeing. Although I need to dismiss Asyra to do so." He turns to Asyra. "I'm sorry, my darling. I know you loathe the Shadow Plane but you lack the skills required for the task at hand. Now begone!"
With a wave of his hand, Asyra discorporates as she is banished back to her home plane. Sial then concentrates on opening a portal to the second layer of Hell and pulls forth an erinyes to serve is will.
The erinyes scans the area with a scowl. "Imps, it says in disgust. Five of them. It will not take long to dispatch them."
The erinyes begins firing arrows at the invisible foes. One is killed and becomes visible before falling 20 feet and splattering on the roof below. A second one is injured as well. The imps begin screaming but remain invisible.
"One down. Feel free to leave them to me. They cannot harm me and they cannot escape."
"Let the Eryness deal with them. I'd rather save my resources for something else." Iolana looks surprised that something here would be so easily dealt with.
"Shall I blow a hole in the door?" She offers to disintegrate the door if no one else has a different idea.
Can Tyrando handle that? Ayako asks, letting Iolana strut her stuff otherwise.
Be ready for an infernal creature
Ayako will use Align Weapon to make Tyrando and Sebastion's weapons good if the previous buff has worn off[/ooc]
"I probably could have done it. But now the keyhole is too large for my tools." Tyrandro comments on Iolana's action.
It doesn't take long for the erinyes to dispatch of the remaining imps who attempt to flee from the overwhelming odds. But with flight of its own, the erinyes does not allow any to escape.
Iolana disintegrates the door leaving the path inside open to you.
The interior of this tall, hollow tower is silent and menacing. A full forty feet overhead, an opening at the tower’s peak lets in light, as do the arrow slits set into the walls, yet nothing seems capable of dispelling the gloom of ancient evil that looms here. A shallow pool of stagnant water from past rains has formed in the center of a floor that is largely empty of furnishings. Near the far wall slumps a wide bed swathed in rotten and moldy bedclothes. The bed hangs a few feet off the floor, supported at its corners by chains hanging from a series of iron support beams above. To the side, a large gilt throne stands upon a short dais before a series of manacles inset into the floor. A nearby fire grate, long cold, holds a collection of branding irons and other torturer’s tools. A series of alcoves climbs the walls of this tower in an ascending spiral. Within each stands a statuette, art object, or polished skull.
Sitting rather uncomfortably upon the gilt throne is another barbed devil (). You can't see anything else in the tower but echoing hoots and howls from above tell you otherwise.
The erinyes looks up and shouts, "The barbed devil is a ruse. Above are two bones devils and an ashmede devil." No sooner does the erinyes speak does combat break out.
Ayako will use Align Weapon to make Tyrando and Sebastion's weapons good if the previous buff has worn off
As Barbed devils are unpleasant, and he knows he can simply shoot them, Tyrandro starts with that one.
One of the unseen devils above sucks the moisture out of each of you. You watch in horror as your bodily fluids rise up out of your bodies to the darkness of the upper tower.
In addition, the devil emits an aura of fear, visible or not, that currently catches Sebastian and the erinyes in its area. The erinyes stares down the devil without blinking.
Tyrandro unloads on the barbed devil and pins it to the chair before it can get up. Upon dying, this devil vanishes in a puff of acrid smoke.
One of the bone devils appears on the ground in front of Sebastian. The erinyes drops her arms in disgust. "Seriously?" it says. "It's an illusion."
The other teleports and intentionally breaths its fetid breath heavily on the back of Sial's neck. "One is right behind me!" Sial shouts with fear but holds his ground. The bone devil also has a fear aura, although with a much smaller radius that the ashmede devil. Only Sial is currently affected.
Black fluid erupts from Ayako's mouth, nose and eyes and drifts upeards, but it seems that whatever flows through her resists the magic somewhat.
Seeing that there is an unseen threat above, Ayako tries cutting down the number of threats to their front rank and calls forth a sheet of rock to arch over Sebastion and the Erynies to gain temporary respite.
Iolana cast Glitter dust where the Erynies says there's a devil. She staggers with the damage done by the Horrid Wilting. "This might help."
Seb only takes half of the damage, and is not afraid of the creature. He kicks off and heads toward the barbed devil he can now see outlined.
Ayako seals off the upper part of the tower.
Iolana outlines the bone devil behind Sial. While it shakes the glitter out of its eyes, Sebastian moves up and stabs it once.
The erinyes fires a volley of arrows at the bone devil behind Sial and manages to hit once. However, her attacks are not very effective against other devils. Sial uses his summoner ability to swap places with the erinyes and get out of harms way.
A bolt of lightning shoots out of an arrow slit in the wall above to strike Tyrandro. It then chains out from him hitting each off you in a line.
Although away from the bone devil, Sial can't escape Nihil's chain lightning and is nearly incapacitated. The lighting fails to affect the erinyes at all.
Tyrandro steps out of harms way evading the lightning. And you are next. he thinks, but the bone devil is the easy target for now.
Ayako steps back and Heals Sial if Iolana falls
Iolana manages to avoid all of the damage thanks to her ring. "Tyrando. Thanks for letting me have that ring so long ago."
She tries to cast hold monster on the bone devil. She can't get past it's resistance.
Seb stabs at it many times.
Tyrandro kills the bone devil coated in glitterdust with his first two shots. It becomes fully visible and collapses to the ground before it gets its chance to attack. Unlike the barbed devil, its body does not return to Hell upon death.
Tyrandro is free to then turn his remaining arrows towards the open arrow slot where the chain lightning originated from but the size of the window and the awkward angle are too difficult for Tyrandro to overcome and his last three arrows clatter off the tower wall.
The remaining bone devil dismisses its failed illusion.
The erinyes informs you, "Beware. The second bone devil vanished from the tower, likely teleported, but its destination is not within my view."
Ayako heals Sial back to full health.
"Thank you." says Sial in a rare case of acknowledgement. "Two can play at this game, methinks. Let's give that devil a taste of its own medicine." Sial moves next to Tyrandro and casts greater invisibility on him.
The erinyes flies up off the balcony to the ashmede devil's window and throws an animated rope through the gap. The rope tightly wraps around the devil's body to its frustration.
I'll post an action for Nihil in Round 3 in a little while.
Correction: Tyrandro's arrows do pass through the window because of his amazing talent with a bow and one might have even hit the devil if not for the pesky invisibility.
The entangled ashmede devil easily cuts through the rope with its scythe (but uses its action for the round to do so) and moves away from the window.
"What am I going to shoot now? Some hint please?" Tyrandro says, as he can't see any enemies.
"Are you sure you don't want to fly?" She asks where Tyrando's voice came from.
We could fly around with magic and our armor so we aren't all closely grouped.
Ayako casts Cure Critical Wounds on herself
"Can't you end the invisibility of that lightning throwing ass instead?" Tyrandro asks.
Yes, if I can see it.
While Tyrandro waits, the unseen bone devil creates a wall of ice in the hallway, blocking your only exit from the room.
"Let us move inside." Tyrandro suggests pointing with his head inside the tower.
Didn't Iolana use a glitter spell on it? We should be able to see it now if we fly around
"If you point it out, I'll try to giltterdust it." shey says to the Erinyes She casts Fly on herself.
Ayako flies after using her Celestial armor. Tyrando, you have your armor as well, right?
With nothing to see and shoot, Tyrandro flies off to a position, where he can't be shot through the arrow slits.
The central portion of the tower has windows in six directions. (NE, E, SE, SW, W, and NW). There are no windows facing north or south. Instead there are ornamental blade-shaped protrusions. Tyrandro flies up to the southern one and perches there, safe from attacks.
Ayako heals herself. Iolana casts fly on herself.
Sebastian holds.
"If you point it out, I'll try to giltterdust it." shey says to the Erinyes
"The ashmede devil is still in the tower just above the stone wall." says the erinyes. It then flies up to the top of the tower to the open skylight to get a clear shot down at the devil. The arrow hits but not hard enough to pierce its infernal skin.
Sial retreats into the tower underneath the wall of stone. "My offensive capabilities are limited but I'll be here if any of you need further enhancement."
Nihil flies upward and sunders the erinyes' bow. Its scythe cleaves through the weapon and into the erinyes chest injuring it as well.
"It's upon me!" The erinyes calls to Iolana to indicate its new position.
Iolana flies up and casts glitterdust in the area indicated. "Careful friend." she says to the Erinyes.
Seb flies up and stabs at the glittered demon, and stabs.