Val moves to check that door before moving upstairs..
Halara covers her, while also using her Healing Hex on the Magus.
Valkyrie hears the sounds of high pitched conversation in the room behind the door.
[dice=DC 20 perception check and Celestial language]
You hear two voice currently talking about the weather, and what a nice day it is for traveling.
The voices seem strange and out of place in this demon infested area.
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"Knock it down?"
You hear two voice currently talking about the weather, and what a nice day it is for traveling.
The voices seem strange and out of place in this demon infested area.
Whispering.. "Something odd behind this door.. Someone speaking in celestial oddly.. Be on your guard.." She lets Viktor go first.
Viktor opens the door into a room that was once some sort of museum, but its contents have been smashed and scattered across the room—even the shelves have been shattered and torn apart in places. The decapitated bodies of two knights, their armor and bodies broken and mangled, lie in the ruins. Two rat-faced demons chuckle as they play puppets with the knight's heads. The two demons hiss at your intrusion into their game.
"Foooooo Viktor runs strait up to them and brings down his righteous fury.
The demon cries out in pain as Viktor's blade deeply cuts into its arm. Its beady little eyes seem to fill with even more hatred towards the paladin if that's even possible.
Val moves and attacks the same one as Viktor..
"Slumber!" says the Shaman, pointing at the unharmed demon/devil/whatever. She tries to take it out of combat completely.
Ophelia trudges into the room and gets ready to lend any assitance as necessary.
The one demon falls to the floor slumbering as Micah enters the room and fires at the remaining demon.
Telis also rushes into the room and attacks.
The arrow slams into the demon, but it remains standing and it even dodges Telis's bite as the snow leopard attacks.
The demon attacks Viktor back for his attacks.
The demon is only able to have its claw pierce through Viktor's armor.
Viktor continues the onslaught relentlessly.
The only standing demon is taken down in short order. The other remains sleeping on the ground.
Viktor grunts as a bit of blood drips through his armor, but it's a minor wound. He holds his longsword over the other demon, giving a brief look to the party as if to ask Any reason to keep it alive for a moment?
Halara does not oppose killing the devil. The less enemies they had, the better. "How hurt are you, Viktor? Let me see..."
The demon squirms around the blade as Viktor slams the blade into it. Its struggles, but then goes still as it dies. The museum calms down as all of the demons within are now dead.
"So, where is the piece of the artifact we're looking for?" It was a rhetorical question, of course, just to recall their next step.
"Part of the reason we're here is to search for the artifact."
"We're here to locate the wardstone fragment and destroy it.." Val casts detect magic and has a look around before returning to head upstairs..
The only thing that sticks out to Valkyrie is the dead bodies of the two knights and an adamantine morningstar lying on the ground nearby. The morningstar detects as magical and Ophelia and Valkyrie can recognize that the morningstar is just a +1 adamantine morningstar. The rest of the knight's gear and most of their bodies seems to have been smashed by the two demons before you even got here.
"A pair of nice weapons.. Grab em and lets head upstairs.." She moves back to the stairs and waits for tank boy to lead the way.
"I wish I was more proficient with these sorts of things," Ophelia says as she examines the morningstar. "Regardless, we best start looking for that wardstone. It looks like we will have to cover all our corners."
Halara puts the Morningstar in her backpack and joined the group in leaving the room and continuing their search. She was worried about Viktor, but if he didn't want any help, she couldn't help it.
As Viktor advances up the stairs several tieflings waiting above take shots at the paladin.
But none of the bolts seem to pierce the paladin's armor.
Viktor steps forward and chops at the closest tiefling, keeping his shield high. If he remains as the wall for his allies, they will cause all the damage needed. He is the spine of the attack force.
Halara walks up to Viktor and finds some space to send a spell burning the hell of the tieflings, who were probably resistant to fire, but it wouldn't hurt to try.
Not being able to do much else Val pulls out her armor acrap and casts the leviate/blur spell on Victor..
Viktor steps forward swinging his sword at the tiefling in front of him, but the demon-spawns's natural reflexes allow him to dodge back while grinning at the paladin. His grin fades away though when Valkyrie makes the paladin start blurring and he scowls as Halara's Burning Hands burns both him and nearby allies. Two of the tieflings are able to avoid the worst of it by using their forward allies as shields and then their natural resistances seem to take care of most of the rest although some small burns do appear on them. The forward two are caught up in the flame entirely and only their natural resistance to flame seems to keep them standing up afterwords. Micah and Telis delay as they cannot get up the stairs right away and Micah doesn't yet have the training to fire into melee.
Without a line of sight or much room to move, Ophelia is left with little to do but wait patiently.
The tieflings who were wounded try and attack Viktor while the others fire at Halara with their crossbows.
A hail of crossbow bolts fly towards Halara, but she dodges them all. The wall behind her suddenly fills up with crossbow bolts. Viktor keeps his shield up and steady as the two tieflings attempt to strike him and both of their shortswords fail to penetrate his armor.
Halara touches Viktor with some of her magic, imbuing him with the power of a giant!
"Bull's Strength!"
Then she takes a step back, making room for Valky.
Viktor attack the nearest tiefling in an effort to open up some space.
Unfortunately he fails to harm the tiefling warrior in front of him as the teifling's quick reflexes keep him out of the paladin's reach.
Still confined to the hallway, Ophelia just semi-impatiently crosses her arms and waits for Viktor to chop his way through the opposition.
Halara tries to make up space at the entrance, putting one of the guys to sleep. "Slumber!"
The teiflings all attack with either their crossbows or shortswords at the paladin barreling towards them, but they are unable to get past his defenses. Then Halara attempts to send one of the tielfings into a deep slumber, but the warrior resists. His victory is short lived though as Viktor's blade comes down upon him with a thunderous smash and the tiefling warrior is slammed down onto the ground by the force of the blow. Viktor moves forward trusting in his armor to protect him as he moves into the fray.
One of the tieflings is able to get a lucky blow past the paladin's defenses as he moves forward to start swinging.
Val moves up and attack the tiefling to her left..
Valkyrie takes down another tiefling swinging around her scimitar to slice the tiefling warrior nearly in two as he falls to the floor.
Halara steps forward and join the array of attacks at the sudden breach on the tiefling wall. "You don't stand a chance against the righteous, filthy creatures!"
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Halara slices down on the tiefling warrior in front of her and opens a red wound in his side. He collapses to the ground trying to stem the flow of blood.
Viktor continues his relentless chopping. It's going to be a long fight.
The tiefling dodges under Viktor's swing with little difficulty stepping back up and ready to fight.
The teiflings unleash a barrage of blows at Viktor trying to use their numbers to bring him down while another tries to stop Valkyrie.
The teiflings just can't catch a break as they attack Viktor and the only attack to even make it past his guard fails to harm him due to his blurred form. The one tiefling attacking Valkyrie fails to even come close to touching the quick warrior let alone harming her.
"Ha! You bunch of filthy half-breeds couldn't fight your way out of a wet paper bag!"
With Viktor's boast Halara manages to catch a cursing the human, which makes of him an easy target for her spiritually guided Fauchard!