Tyrandro fires an arrow at the stabbed Gray Maiden first. The arrow knocks her from her seat and she falls splayed across the ground, dead. Next, the shoots a pinpoint shot that explodes the head of the woman in the rear, splattering gore against the far wall. The final Gray Maiden screams in fear before another arrow silences her permanently.
Up the hallway to the north, a green spine-covered barbed devil responds to the commotion to see what's going on. He casually saunters down the hallway, accustomed to the screams of humans. But when he seems Sebastian standing in the center of the room surrounded by the Gray Maidens' corpses, he starts and points, "It's them. They're here. Brothers, to me!" Further back, out of view, another devil's voice says, "A reward for us if we can kill them. Maybe we'll be allowed to eat one."
The devils immediately attempt to summon more of their kind, but it appears that their attempts failed.
Two of the barbed devils cast spells into the barracks to smite you with alignment-based damage. They then retreat out of line of site further back into the room where they originated.
Then a huge, bloated man appears out of thin air near the mess hall's entrance. The middle-aged obese man with a bald head, holds a chicken leg in one hand and a bottle of wine in the other. He merely let's out a grunting noise and stares at you.
Laori follows into the room to see what's going on in the room. Seeing the fat guy she casts spell resistance on Tyrandro.
Tyrandro clicks his heels and shoots the fat guy.
Iolana moves up, peeks around the corner, sees the fat guy, and casts Hold monster on him.
Seb moves up and slips into the hallway, and waits for an enemy to come in range of his rapier.
6 damage
13 Damage
Ayako casts Blessing of Fervor on everyone(Sebastion might be missed) since they seem to have landed themselves in the doo doo again.
With this blessing, you call your allies to move forth and empower them to conquer and become victorious. Each round for the duration of this spell, each of your allies can choose one of the following bonuses for that round at the beginning of its turn (their choice).
Increase its speed by 30 feet.
Stand up as a swift action without provoking an attack of opportunity.
Make one extra attack as part of a full attack action, using its highest base attack bonus.
Gain a +2 bonus on attack rolls and a +2 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves.
Cast a single spell of 2nd level or lower as if it were an enlarged, extended, silent, or still spell.
Tyrandro's arrows pass right through the rotund man's body. Tyrandro disbelieves the illusion and realizes that it was a major image likely cast by another barbed devil. Tyrandro lets Iolana know so she can stay her hand at wasting a spell on it.
The barbed devils remain hidden in the mess hall. Two of the barbed devils switch the spells cast (the one who cast Unholy Blight last turn, casts Order's Wrath this turn and the one who cast Order's Wrath last turn, casts Unholy Blight this turn). Both spells target the corner of the mess hall hallway and spill out to reach Sebastian. The third, even though his illusion was disbelieved, maintains concentration to use it to give everyone down the hallway two middle fingers and taunts you with a flesh jiggling waddle.
Knowing that they have to split the attention of the devils to keep them from focusing their magic, Ayako chants her most powerful spell that turns into a haunting tune, reaching through the planes for allies
Mothmen link
Tyrandro calls on his iron will to withstand that miasma.
Sebastian grits his teeth and steels his mind against the full force of the two effects.
Utilizing blessing of fervor to increase your speed, you all rush up and to the right into the smithy / workshop area.
Workshop: This small workshop for wood-, wicker-, and leatherworking is supplied with all the tools and equipment necessary to create and repair objects for everyday use.
Smithy: A huge angular fireplace and two anvils create a compact but well-equipped forge in this chamber. One of the anvils is a black iron, ordinary-looking implement, while the other is made of polished steel and shaped like a grotesque, squatting dwarf. Smithy tools hang on the walls and line the shelves.
Thankfully both rooms are devoid of additional enemies.
Before moving up, Iolana summons a field of rubbery black tentacles to appear, burrowing up from the floor and reaching for the barbed devils in the area. The devils' natural resistance from damage prevents the tentacles from hurting them but all three are successfully grappled in the tentacles' grasp. Immune to harm, the tentacles have no problem grabbing the devils' barbed bodies.
Ayako begins summoning a Mothman.
Two of the barbed devils remain trapped in the tentacles' grasp. One manages to free itself and scramble into a corner out of the tentacles' reach.
Then another Togomor appears in the 'T' junction of the hallway. He looks at the major image of himself in the mess hall with displeasure and he addresses the barbed devil with disdain. "I hope that this simpleton's illusion is not intended to be a mockery of me. To show such disrespect to the seneschal of the castle is a punishable offense."
The freed barbed devil responds in a panicked voice, "No, never, Togomor! The Yallops would never mock you. I will dismiss it at once. But you see we have guests that we were handling. I thought to strike fear in them with your image. As recompense, we have hippogryph on the skewer. Fresh from the Sable Company stables. We were going to eat it but it is yours to devour now, your Immenseness. Who would say a single beast could give such a double feast? Meat and fowl, cooking up from arse to jowl."
"Silence!" shouts Togomor. "I will deal with you later. As you said, we have guests." Togomor turns to the party in the workshop. "Well, well, well. What do we have here. The Merrin brat and his band of misfits. You've become quite the inconvenience to the Queen and she will suffer your meddling no longer. Begging and pleading will do you no good. No mercy will be given. All of you will die here and now!"
"All of us dead would be rather unpleasant. I prefer him to die. Let's raise the level of pain a bit, shall we." Laori activates her aura again.
"Let's see if this fat guy is more substantial than the last one." Tyrandro mocks the Seneschal of the castle. To make sure to get this dangerous enemy dead as fast as possible, he relies on his magical boots for speed and Ayako's belling for precision.
Ayako chews her lip as she sees the wizard appear, black fluid dribbling as she sends a black line of ichor at the wizard that forms into a darkened form with two blazing eyes that chatters in an alien tongue
Tyrando! Back away some!
The Mothman breaths out a thin mist right after Ayako spits off a blasphemy and stabs at the wizard's mind
A moderate wind (11+ mph) disperses the fog in 4 rounds; a strong wind (21+ mph) disperses the fog in 1 round.
The fog is thin and does not significantly hamper vision.
"Let's see if this fat guy is more substantial than the last one."
Again Tyrandro's arrows pass harmlessly through Togomor. Togomor merely laughs and taunts. "Hehehe. Nice try, but I'm on a whole nother level than you."
The mothman's mind fog similarly seems to have no effect on him.
Tyrandro and Ayako both realize the spell for what it is: a project image.
Iolana casts dispel magic on the image and succeeds. The image dispels and discorporates back into wisps of shadow that snake away.
Sebastian holds to attack if any barbed devils get close.
The mothman spots Togomor standing in the West Barracks that you just evacuated from and telepathically informs Ayako.
The two grappled barbed devils struggle against the tentacles in vain. They scream and squirm but the emotionless tentacles merely silently tighten their grasp. The one freed barbed devil teleports away. Its destination is unseen.
Togomor casts dispel magic on the mind fog and it disperses. He then casts a quickened invisibility. The mothman telepathically informs Ayako, "The fat man disappeared."
"I don't know what to do." She casts Haste on everyone. "At least we can attack more and keep our armor more effective with Blessing of Fervor if we want to."
Seb moves into the hallway near the Mothman and waits for an enemy.
"Well. That might take a while if we only fight illusions." Tyrandro tells. He then moves into the room where the grappled devils are.
He appeared in the west barracks and then vanished from sight. Maybe he teleported away or is invisible.
The mothman casts it's own great invisibility and hops south into the barracks.
Tyrando, wait a moment before you fight the devils. Ayako casts Communal Spell Immunity and protects against her Black Tentacles so the party can move freely.
Ayako considers protecting Tyrando but knows he is a big boy. Changing her incantation, Ayako conjures shadow-stuff that begins to form into a creature.
As Tyrandro sees that the room is full of tentacles and no room left to get close to the devils he decides otherwise and turns to go to the room Ayako pointed out.
Laori follows and casts invisibility purge.
Tyrandro and Laori head back to the barracks. When Laori's spell goes off, Togomor's invisibility is stripped from him and he is clear to see standing in the center of the room. He smirks, "So you found me. Do you think I'm not warded in a dozen other ways? I will show you what a master from the Acadamae can do."
"I'm curious. I've heard those fancy casters use expeditious retreat quite a lot. Will you show us improved fleeing magic now?" Tyrandro teases the fat guy.
Iolana teleports Seb into the room. "Go get him."
Seb grins and attacks using his BOF for extra chances to hit and Haste for an extra attack.
Iolana takes Sebastian's hand and the two pass through a dimensional wrinkle to appear directly behind Togomor. Sebastian takes the opportunity to plunge his weapon into Togomor's back multiple times. Togomor was unprepared for Sebastian's sudden and brutal assault and Sebastian pierces several vital organs before he can turn his bloat around. As he collapses to the floor with a thunderous boom, a strange smile of relief spreads on his face, and he speaks a few dying words, "Thank you..."
The two trapped devils still remain grappled despite their best efforts and vilest curses.
The third devil makes a reappearance by coming down the Epochal Tower staircase to confront Ayako alone in the Workshop. The devil causes the dim fires from the smithy forge to burst into blinding fireworks (pyrotechnics). "All alone, my pretty? I'll eat you first."
"How about you walk over the tentacles?" Laori offers to Tyrandro.
Tyrandro moves towards the black tentacles and then upwards until he gets a line of sight towards the devil.
The Mothman hops into the room and glares at the Devil, it's eyes seem to widen and a gleaming portal forms from them leading to heaven and a ray of pure divine light lashes out at the devil.
DESCRIPTION
You create a phantasmal image of the most fearsome creature imaginable to the subject simply by forming the fears of the subject’s subconscious mind into something that its conscious mind can visualize: this most horrible beast. Only the spell’s subject can see the phantasmal killer. You see only a vague shape. The target first gets a Will save to recognize the image as unreal. If that save fails, the phantasm touches the subject, and the subject must succeed on a Fortitude save or die from fear. Even if the Fortitude save is successful, the subject takes 3d6 points of damage.
If the subject of a phantasmal killer attack succeeds in disbelieving and possesses telepathy or is wearing a helm of telepathy, the beast can be turned upon you. You must then disbelieve it or become subject to its deadly fear attack.
Laori casts air walk on Tyrandro and as he charges down the hallway, it is as if he is running up an invisible staircase until his head is brushing the ceiling. The black tentacles nearly reaching the ceiling themselves lick at his boots but do not grapple him. Tyrandro fires a single arrow the dodges through the forest of tentacles to find the devil's fiendish flesh.
Umm...Wow. I don't know if I passed or crit failed
The burst of light temporarily blinds Ayako. She tries looking around but all she sees are dark spots dancing in front of her vision.
The barbed devil's spell resistance blocks out the phantasmal killer before it even forms in its mind.
A puff of smoke signals the arrival of the demon to the devil's right that stabs at the devil
Iolana hearing the barbed devil speak to Ayako teleports both her and Seb back into the foundry. "It worked once."
Seb grins as he appears and stabs at the devil.
What just splashed in my face? It is hot and sticky.
Ayako's babau stabs at the barbed devil but it is not very effective. The spear at least least the babau attack without fear of the barbed devil's spikes.
Then Sebastian bamfs onto the scene and eviscerates the barbed devil until there is nothing left but a puddle of putrid ooze. Ayako is not to pleases with the sudden burst of warm liquid. The barbed do leave a mark of Sebastian's arms for his intrusion however.
One of the barbed devils finally frees itself from the tentacles and makes a mad run for the north barracks. "Bloody hells! Lend aid, you b+%#&es!" it shouts and four armored Gray Maidens rush out to join the fight but are stopped short by the wall of tentacles filling the mess hall.
Tyrandro keeps shooting devils.
Laori wants to throw herself into the black tentacles. Just for the fun of it. "How long will those tentacles last?" she asks.
"Ayako Seb needs healing. He's right in front of you. We need to go help Tyrando."
"I'm fine here." Tyrandro calls back. "This tentacles here do a really good job of keeping everyone at bay."
Ayako touches Seb with her want of Cure Critical Wounds
Most of the party hangs back behind the black tentacles while Tyrandro peppers the room with arrows. He kills the fleeing barbed devil and tries two shots at the trapped one but they are batted away by the flailing rubbery arms.
Ayako heals Sebastian. His most mortal wounds close but he still bears a handful more.
The one remaining barbed devil still remains trapped.
The Gray Maidens drop their longswords and draw their longbows. They each launch a single arrow at Tyrandro. Two of the archers hit. One gets a very lucky shot.
"You're next on my list, right after that devil!" Tyrandro promises the walking tin cans.
The Babau teleports behind a Maiden and starts clawing
Mothman doublemove flys above the tentacles
Ayako casts Cure Serious Wounds on Sebastion, her finger dripping all sorts of nasty fluid
Seb shudders as Ayako heals him. "I really don't like the way you do that. It's creepy, but effective. Let's go Iolana." Once he's teleported to the room with the Black Tentacles he letss looks with his attacks on the barbed devil.
Iolana teleports Seb and herself right next to the tentacles. "Try to hold them off for a bit Seb."
Don't spend all of your teleportation