Ophelia manages to weather the green energy rather well. She readies her Wand of Magic Missile and takes a shot with it at the demon straight ahead of her. However, its spell resistance eats the spell before it can do anything. The wizard frowns at her failure and then backs up several feet just in case they plan to fire another wave at the group.
The man is almost taken down by the sheer flurry of blows that hit him, and it almost seems like Ophelia's magic missile would take him down before he resisted the magic. The jovial look on his face turns into anger as he backs up.
"You won't like me when I'm angry humans!"
The head of the man makes a sickening crunch as a giant worm emerges from the body and let's even more green energy go out and harm more of the group. The other man also loses his jovial look and he also makes even more foul green energy dance around and harm the group.
Everyone can see that the creatures actually seems to be healed by this foul energy many of its wounds closing back up.
Viktor roars in anger as the evil men radiate harmful energy instead of fighting him. "Cowards! Raise your blades!" He chops at the one who has transformed himself.
fail the 2nd and take 12
Val weaves some magic and to attempt 2 attacks..
but fails the spell and gets just 1 attack..
cold iron magic..
Telis winces and yelps a little as the green energy rips through him again... seeing his distress, Micah moves up and touches his companion while summoning a glowing white energy in his hand
While doing so, Micah also observes the worm and searches his memory for any sign of it's nature...
and he calls out any helpful information that comes to mind nothing useful.
Telis bites at the creature attempting to pull it to the ground, then claws at it as well...
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These two creatures were too strong to fight against, and Halara was not comfortable at all against that green energy, so she tried to take one monster away from the battle completely by obscuring its mind and putting it to sleep.
"Slumber!"
Viktor's longsword cuts through the worm creature's body spilling its blood to the ground. Then Vlakyrie's scimitar cuts off a chunk of the worm's head area. Still squirming around the worm is then set upon by Telis's claws as they tear great gashes in the creature. With the slew of attacks the worm is unable to continue fighting as its healing just can't keep up. It collapses on the ground in a bloody heap.
The other creature slumps onto the ground asleep.
Seeing the battle quickly wrap up, Ophelia opts not to do anything.
"Make sure it stays down!" Viktor goes to the other one, raising his longsword and bringing it down for a decapitating blow.
After Viktor's first attack the creature reawakens with a snarl, and it explodes out of the body it is using before trying to bite Viktor.
Though it's maw fails to find purchase in Viktor's armor.
Halara wasn't expecting the thing to get up, specially after Viktor's decapitating blow, but they should have been more careful. She tries to finish the fallen monster.
Val 5' steps into flanking on the worm.. She tries to attack twice again with arcane mark..
and succeeds
Micah quickly blesses his feline companion . Telis steps forward and continues trying to tear at the creature, while Micah (hoping to mitigate the effects of any further channeling) hangs back.
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Ophelia fires a magic missile. Unfortunately, the demon's spell resistance once again eats the attack. The wizard silently vows to start studying ways to bypass the common arcanist's greatest bane.
With the worm no longer benefiting from its fleshly armor it gets a horrible slash from Halara's falchard, and two cuts from Valkyire's scimitar. It collapses on the floor bleeding. Then Telis begins to bite and claw and while his attacks don't deal that much damage they are still enough to ensure that the worm won't be getting back up again.
Val pulls her wand of infernal healing and gives herself a tap.. Offering the party.. "Anyone else? Nice job.."
"Telis and I could both use a charge... Thank you."
"Not for now. I'll take care of myself at this moment."
With impressive skill, Halara heals herself with some spirit energy.
"Let's keep moving, we don't have much time." She grabs one of corpses to carry inside, and gestures for someone to pick the other.
Val will give Micah and his Kitty a pop.. "Can we wait a couple of minutes and lets this healing do its magic?" After a minute she taps herself again.. She taps the Kitty again if it still needs it..
Viktor goes wide eyes as Valkyrie begins casting evil devil magic. "What are you doing?! That is evil magic made from the blood of devils!"
"Wait, what?!?" Micah exclaims looking in shock at his slowly closing wounds...
"I will use the blood of my enemies if it helps me defeat them.. It is an arcanists only way of healing so unless you want me walking around half dead then hush an lets keep moving.."
"No need to worry, Micah. Aside from magically detecting as evil for a minute, the spell is harmless for the recipient. Also, Val speaks the truth. I personally don't care for the spell, but Infernal Healing is probably the only way we arcanists can cure wounds without a lifetime of magical device training."
Viktor stops dead in his tracks; clearly he's not so easily entertaining the idea of using evil magic. "Explaining the usefulness of the magic does not justify using it. There are plenty of us here that can heal without resorting to such lowly tools. Any one of my brothers in arms would stand against the use of such evil, and I have sworn an additional oath against fiends. We do not have to sink to their level to defeat them, we are better than that."
"I understand your cause but if this thing can keep me alive than ill use it.. I don't go telling you what you can and cant use.. Now I suggest you let it go and lets continue with whats really important, not bickering over the use of an item.. That said I will not use the wand unless it is absolutely necessary.."
Once healed Val will move into the place slowly..
Viktor stares in disbelief. "It's not just some thing that you're using, you're using evil magic, with the blood of devils!"
Ophelia rubs the side of her arm sheepishly, "Viktor, I actually agree with you on this, but can we put it aside for now? Devils and their magic are wicked, but they aren't the ones who are threatening to destroy the entire city and, by extension, all of Golarion. If we start infighting about this issue, then we risk the entire mission."
Viktor pauses. "Of course. My apologies...I just have a strong passion against evil outsiders. We'll handle this later. On with the mission."
Without stopping to argue anymore Val creeps into the Grey Garrison.. "We can talk about it later."
Valkyrie goes into the Grey Garrison and while looking around notices that along the northern wall of this room, a frieze depicts a line of mounted crusaders crashing over a horde of twisted demons. The crusaders’ faces have been obliterated and vile graffiti is carved over the entire scene. Fresh blood stains the floor. She attempts to be quiet, but as her foot knocks some of the defaced stone over she hears a few voices suddenly go silent before six tieflings walk in. You hear them cry out an alarm before getting ready to attack.
Micah cannot see the tieflings when they arrive, but noticing Val's startled reaction his reflexes kick in and he springs into action... moving forward and to his right until he can see the threat , he looses an arrow at the northern-most enemy.
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With a whistle, he calls Telis to him and the faithful creature places himself in front of his master, granting him cover from ranged attacks and preventing others from charing him.
Ophelia quickly scurries to the entrance of the Grey Garrison. However, she opts to wait for the others before entering the building proper.
One of the tieflings moves around Valkyrie to try and warn the keep while the rest of them move forward to engage Valkyire. Three of them start swinging at her with their shortswords.
Even with the advantage of speed only one of the tieflings manages to land a hit on Valkyrie. Opening a cut on her arm though Valkyrie's speed manages to keep the tiefling from making it any worse.
Viktor bellows his rage and runs into the closest enemy.
Val winces as the creature lands a fearsome blow on her.. She attacks twice it return..
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Halara tries to prevent the red one fleeing from warning other creatures. She moves until she is able to see him, although with a lot of folks in the way, and casts a curse on him. "Slumber!"
Victor manages to cut a serious blow against one of the tielfings. Valkyrie regards the one who attacked her and returns the blow she took twice causing the tefling to fall over in a pool of his blood.
The other tiefling continues to stand even after Halara attempted to cause it to sleep.
Micah fires another arrow, this time at the tiefling directly in front of Viktor.
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Then Telis bolts forward at the same target, snapping his strong jaw and trying to pull it down...
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With the entranceway blocked, Ophelia moves back to get a clearer look at the fighting. Seeing Val surrounded, the elf points her wand at the nearest enemy in sight and shoots a trio of Magic Missiles at them. Hopefully, it will be enough to drop the cultist and let Viktor slip into the melee.
With Viktor's slash opens up a horrible wound in the tiefling in front of him and as the tiefling doubles over in pain Micah's arrow slams into him causing him to fall to the ground. Telis then rushes forward and bites the other tiefling attacking Valkyrie. The tiefling falls and then has several magic missile's slam into him making him go still. The other tiefling continues his warning moving into a room ahead. The others attack Valkyrie and then they back up hiding further in the building.
The two teifling's don't have much luck with their strikes as Valkyrie dodges and blocks all of their strikes.