And another tiefling bites the dust as Halara begins to lay in with her fauchard.
Avoreal 5' steps, unless she can attack without moving, and attacks.. She attempts to attack twice using spellcombat, spellstrike, and arcane mark.
success!
Well that was a bunch of poop..
Ophelia moves up the stairs to get a clear view of the tieflings before getting ready to cast a spell. With the sounds of combat ringing in the room around them several cultists move into the room to see what's going on. Seeing the valiant heroes fighting up the staircase they move into attack. One of them attempts to hit the paladin while the tieflings swarm forward and continue to stab at Valkyrie and Viktor.
The tiefling swarm can't even harm the heroes as the brave adventurers advance through them like a hot knife through butter. Their fouls strikes seem to be unable to pierce the blessed armor of the heroes. Apparently being evil doesn't pay.
Viktor catches his breath as his shield doesn't block an attack, but a shift in the magic protects him. His sword comes down for another blow.
"Did I mention you have no chance against us?! Go back to where you belong!" And once again she strikes with her spear, biting another one hard!
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Val once again attacks the one to her left..
2 times
Halara cuts down a tiefling where he stands with her deft skill while Viktor steps forward and attacks the cultist who almost harmed him. The cultist falls back bleeding a bit and snarls at Viktor. Vlakyrie on the other hand manages to connect a solid blow on the tiefling to her left who stands on his feet still although a bit unsteadily. The cultists take Halara's words to heart and each one of them presents their unholy symbols.
"We'll go to hell, and take you with us fools!"
The tieflings who can move away from the party disengaging from the fight before a seething sea of unholy energy washes over the group.
The tiefling's who were caught in the unholy blast look back at the cultists as both of them remain standing. "That was it?!?!" The cultists sheepishly look at each other through their helmets.
either 3 or 5 damage depending on outcome..
She attacks her wounded one again..
twice
Viktor laughs at the pathetic display of negative energy. He continues to hound the one that almost injured him.
Although Halara does not laugh as Viktor did, she finds the situation pretty pathetic. "Did these weak guys manage to breach the city defenses?"
After the guy besides Valk dies, she moves into the room and hopefully put one of the cultists to the left to sleep with her slumber. "Slumber!"
Valkyrie strikes down the Tiefling next to her with a sudden and swift attack as the tiefling is too engrossed in yelling at his companions. Viktor also strikes down a cultist bringing his blade down on the man as he sheepishly looks at his companions sending him onto the floor in a spray of blood.
The tiefling falls to the floor snoozing as he takes a quick nap. Micah and Telis move into the room with Micah firing a shot at the tieflings and Telis rushing forward to attack the same one tiefling. Opehlia steps into the room and uses her wand of magic missiles to attack one of the standing cultists.
Micah's arrow hits home in the tiefling's arm and he flinches back. Luckily for him this prevents Telis from biting him. Opehlia's missiles strike home slamming into the cultist, but she remains standing. One tiefling to the left wakes up his friend while the other two attack Telis. The the tiefling to the right steps forward and attacks Valkyire while the three cultists try to get their act together with channeling.
The wave of unholy energy this time kills the standing tiefling and one of the cultists but they seem to revel in the death as if happy that this time their channels dealt more damage.
[oioc]Party up![/ooc]
Viktor grunts more at this surge of energy. But he is the rock upon which his allies stand, he is the spine of the righteous. With a roar he steels himself, charging back into the fray.
Halara once again manages to fail two of those saves! She's awesome!
She heals herself before anything funny happens.
Viktor rushes forward with a roar and the tiefling in front of him flinches as Viktor's sword comes around and opens a wound in his gut. He falls over onto the ground dead before he even hits the ground.
Now that she finally has a line of sight, Ophelia steps forward and takes the chance to continue throwing magic missiles at the enemy.
[ooc]Ophelia moves to M7 and uses her Magic Missile Wand on the cultist at P10.
taken 11 total..
Val moves to the east and attacks..
With Valkyire and Opehlia's attacks the cultists fall to the ground defeated. The only hope of the tieflings falls, but the devilish creatures refuse to accept defeat. Telis attacks the tiefling in front of him as Micah fires an arrow at a tiefling standing in the back.
Even with all of his natural might Telis is only able to have his claw hit the tiefling. The devil-blooded fiend grabs at his side as the wound opens up, but he tries to give back as good as he got. The other tiefling steps forward and tries to attack Viktor while the other fires a crossbow bolt at Micah.
The man holding his side seems to take an unholy pleasure as he opens up a wound in Telis's side. He seems to delight in the suffering of a celestial animal and Micah roars out in rage as he sees his animal companion wounded so.
Halara moves to finish the one Telis started, so they could finish this fast and not be subject to such cruelty.
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Val 5' steps out of channel range and taps herself with an infernal healing wand..
Viktor cuts back against the one that attacked him.
Ophelia finally gets into the room and quickly commences helping her allies take out the remaining cultists.
The tiefling jumps back from Halara's attack avoiding a swing that would have surely brought him down. Viktor's sword cleaves into the tiefling with the arrow wound and he falls to the ground overwhelmed by his wounds. The tiefling in the back is thrown even further back as Ophelia's missiles throw him backwards with overwhelming force. Then Telis attempts to take down the final tiefling standing.
Telis goes to town on the last tiefling tearing him apart with claw and teeth until not even a shred of him remains.
Val scans the room for magic! "Well that was a pile up! Nice job team!"
Ophelia joins Val in searching for anything magical.
"Well done! Give me a moment and I will see to your wounds." Viktor goes around and sticks his blade through the heart of every tiefling to make sure they are all dead, then gets ready to heal his allies.
"I took some damage from those waves, but I'm otherwise fine. I've healed myself for a bit too."
Viktor steps closer and takes a loot at Halara's wounds. "Here, let me take care of that." He places his hand on her wounds, and two pulses later all that is left is a scratch.
"Thanks Viktor. You're very kind. Now let's move!" She holds her fauchard and moves to the next door.
"I'm fine, Ophelia chirps. In a tone that oozes self-decrepitating, she adds, "I suppose that standing uselessly in the back does have its merits."
Nothing in the loot seems magical but there is a lot of loot to go over.
10 shortswords
10 crossbows, light
200 crossbow bolts
10 suits of leather armor
78 gold pieces worth of jewelry and gems
4 holy symbols of Deskari worth 25 gp each
4 glaives
4 breastplates
90 gold pieces worth of coins
The group spends a bit of time looting and currently everything seems quiet.
Val waits for the infernal healing to ware off and signals she's ready to continue..
Viktor grumbles once again at Valkyrie and her evil magic, but bites his tongue. Priorities, handle it later... He directs his anger not at Valkyrie but instead at the door through his boot.
As Viktor opens the door everyone can see a long table engraved with a relief map of Mendev stands to the east in this long room. A dozen bodies lie scattered about the room, each bearing a gaping empty hole in the chest. A creature stands in the middle of this room. It has a stag's body, a hawk's wings and talons, and the head of a slavering wolf with a rack of sharp antlers on its brow.
This creature is a Peryton. A beast with a natural resistance to any non magical attacks, and it can even link it's shadow to someone else to help it hunt them.
The creature rears back its head and smiles.
"Time for more blood!"
Not wanting to go inside before the meatshield, Halara tries to finish the combat the easy way, putting the creature to sleep:
"Slumber!"
The creature stands tall and powerful for about six seconds before it just falls onto the table taking a cat nap. It lies there sleeping peacefully waiting for the nasty adventurers to murder it in its sleep.
Viktor looks warily at the creature, scanning it with detect evil.
"Easiest battle ever." She looks in disbelief as Viktor scans it for signs of an evil soul. "Common Viktor, you don't need to be a paladin to know this creature is evil as hell! She won't sleep for long, we'd better get rid of it right now!" She positions herself inside the room, ready to take it off with the others, to prevent it from surviving the blow.
"It is not any kind of demon I know of, and looks can be deceiving."
"Who's got the heaviest blade? Lop its head off.."
"My Fauchard will do the trick, but just in case, attack all together."
She waits until Viktor has settled his doubts, tough..
Viktor does detect that the creature is evil. A cursory examination of the room reveals that the creature apparently feasted on the hearts of the bodies here.
"Then it's settled."
"Hmm, let us attack at the same time than."