...I'll just keep firing this thing until it runs out of fuel.
Ophelia aims her magic missile wand at the Yellow demon and takes another shot.
Opehlia's magic missiles strike another one of the fiends and it flinches back not able to understand how she got past his resistance. The fiends beginning to understand the powers that they are going up against move forward trying to move around the group to gain an advantage over the heroes.
The longspear wielding demon comes from behind Viktor, but he dodges it with ease. Then the next demon next to him begins to claw and bite at him with an unholy fury, but when the claws slices towards Viktor's flesh the claws slide over his flesh the feeling is disturbing, but completely harmless. It then rushes forward with a bite that leaves a small flesh wound on the paladin. The next demon seemingly thrown into an unholy rage by this bastion of purity that Viktor is presenting rushes forward but even it can only land a claw, but this time the claw does seem to cause a lot of damage damage. The other demon seems to have even less luck with Valkyrie unable to even land a single strike.
Viktor continues chopping away at the demons, setting into the flow of battle. He grunts as the wounds land, but holds his ground. It would take far more than that to move the paladin.
Val 5' steps and hacks at a new demon.. Arcane Accuracy as a swift.. Spell combat for 2 attacks..
vs DC 15..
Viktor causes a deep wound to form on the demon to foolishly provoke and attack from the holy paladin while his attack on his turn cut down the demon to his side. Both of Valkyrie's attacks draw hisses of rage and pain from the demon in front of her as her twin slices from her scimitar cut open two deep slashes in the dark creature's flesh. Halara then steps forward and strikes at the demon Valkyrie just attacked.
But she suddenly stumbles not entirely used to her new powers and abilities.
Opehlia uses her wand and blasts the demon behind Viktor trying to take it down to stop the flanking. The demon snarls at her, but turns to focus on Viktor trying to take him down before heading off to deal with the elf. The other two demons try to bite and claw Valkyrie to stop the magus from attacking anymore.
The demon behind Viktor gets it's longspear past his defenses and slams the spear into a weak point in his armor tearing a hole in Viktor's back, but even with this Viktor's wounds still begin to heal rapidly. One of the demons manages to bite and claw Valkyrie, but it's claw doesn't even seem to harm her. The bite on the other hand does cause a small wound to form on Valkyrie, but she easily shrugs it off being merely a flesh wound. The other demon manages to land at least a claw, but even this claw seem to only cause a small flesh wound. The demons seem to be breathing heavily not able to understand how these heroes continue to stand against them.
"You foul demons shall feel my wrath!"
Val attacks the same one as last round. Spell Combat/Spellstrike for an additional attack. Arcane Accuracy as a swift..
He first attack connects well, but she slips in demon ichor covering the floor on her second..
Ophelia fires another magic missile barrage at the yellow demon heading her way.
Viktor's strike and Ophelia's blast take a terrible toll on the demon all by himself. He seems to be barley standing through sheer harted and determination. Valkyrie's blade lays another horrendous wound onto the babu demon in front of her, but it tenaciously clings to life as Halara's blade comes whistling through the air towards it.
Her blade providing the final push to throw the demon onto the ground dead as another of the fiends finally meets its fate. The remaining two demons seems to be furious throwing all of their attacks out in an attempt to strike back at these heroes who dare interfere with their plans. One of them biting and clawing at Viktor while the other tries to attack Valkyrie.
One of the demons seems to be darkly blessed for while its claws fail to find any purchase in Viktor's armor it bites deeply into the paladins side before tearing out a large wound. The demon facing Valkyrie finds itself foiled again and again as its bite and one of its claws miss the as she dances back away from its attacks and even the claw that manages to catch her side merely bounces off her holy skin. The two demons seem to be on their last legs barley standing but still filled with a hatred of everything good and true.
Viktor looks in shock as the massive wound only hurts a little. Truly the gods have blessed me. He continues the fight, bringing more cold steel to meet the demons.
Viktor brings his blade down upon the demon with unwavering force going past the demon's defenses like they weren't even there. With Viktor's slash the demon falls to the ground a smoking heap of darkness and corruption finally purified by the light of Viktor's blade.
No longer being a target, Ophelia moves back toward the battlefield. Seeing that the last remaining demon is hilariously outmatched, she decides to hold her spells for the moment.
Valkyrie quickly strikes at the only remaining demon with her blade flashing out two times to cut into the demon's flesh. Her first cut opens a large wound on the demon's side while she unleashes another cut across its neck sending the demon's head down onto the floor with a flourish. The sounds of battle dim as you all look around and see the glowing light that beamed out from your skin slowly recede as you feel the power within your body stabilize and strengthen it for the trials to come.
"That went much better than expected. Normally, I would have been extremely worried, but then Victor started chopping them down like weeds."
Ophelia glances at her hand.
"...I also think that some of that power stayed with me."
"I was shrugging off blows that even I normally find crippling. Truly we are being watched over. But our mission remains and we must press onwards, we can come to terms with these abilities later."
As you all look around you can see Micah and Telis lying on the ground both of them seeming to be dead from asphyxiation. It seems whatever power saved you from the worst of the demon's magics failed to protect them as well.
"Lets get back and inform the Paladin of our success and see what the next move is!"
"That sounds like a good idea. Irabeth is probably worried sick about us by now."
As the group makes their way back towards Defender's Heart and Irabeth they creep through the halls of this once great bastion of justice now with more time to look around the true horror of what these demons will do if they win becomes apparent. They hold no respect for the living or the dead, truly these creatures are spawned from the darkest abyss with black hearts. The streets seem quiet as you wander out back towards Defender's Heart. As you approach the huge inn you can see several guards up on the roof looking down at all of you with crossbows drawn. It takes them only a moment, but they recognize you almost immediately with one of the calling out inside the inn. "Irabeth, the heroes are back!" With that you hear a flurry of activity from the front door of the inn before Irabeth stands before all of you. Her armor seems to have taken quite a few dents and scratches, but she seems for the most part alright. She looks around at all of you with a slightly hopeful glance. "How did your quest go my friends?" While her face doesn't betray much, by the posture of her body you can all tell she is currently waiting on your every word not wanting to miss a single thing.
"It feels like we were in that blasted building for a few months, but it went... fairly well... for the most part. Unfortunately, we lost Micah at the end."
Ophelia sighs wearily at the part. After taking a moment to collect herself, she continues.
"Also, some interesting things happened that you might want to know about."
Ophelia then proceeds to give a full report about what happened.
Viktor takes a moment to hang his head for Micah. There will be honor for the dead. But this is also a time of action, and mourning will need to wait. Viktor fills in any details, also giving an account of all of the outsiders they've fought. But for the most part he lets his far more superior-intellectual companion give the report.
At the end he raises up his arm where there should be a wound from the outsiders, then looks at Irabeth. "Also, after the explosion, something happened to us. Be it for good or ill I cannot tell, but it seems to have helped us against demons that should have been far beyond our abilities."
Irabeth seems impressed with the tale of all of your exploits though she nods sadly at Micah's death. "I shall have some clerics see to him and send him off with the proper rites. That being said I am not sure what to make of this knowledge that something has changed you. None of you seem to have any signs of corruption, so this must be a sign of favor from the gods." She motions for some men to come over and pick up Micah's body as she turns back to all of you to continue. "We had some luck with distracting the demons, and with you sabotaging their plans we should be able to push them out of the city, but there are several areas that still have a strong demon presence. If this ability of yours allows you to stand against demons that would be beyond you.... I simply ask that you will assist in weakening the demon's hold on this city before our reinforcements come." She looks around at each of you waiting for your answer.
"Well lets get to it then.. Where do you want us?"
Viktor hangs his head. "I would like to be there for the rites. He was my comrade and mine to protect, but I failed him." It was not the first Viktor has failed, and it will certainly not be the last, but he considers it a failure nonetheless. Regardless of how high those kinds of expectations set his goals.
Viktor looks back up with resolve in his eyes. "I am hungry to test my new abilities against the extraplanar scourge. I relish the opportunity to water the earth with their blood. Tell us where you need us."
"I will do everything in my power to help," Ophelia says with great determination. "That was always the plan."
Irabeth smiles clearly pleased at your answer. She motions behind her. "Follow me." She leads you into Defender's Heart where you see several priests praying over fallen crusaders. You see two priests of Iomedae praying over the fallen corpse of Micah as Irabeth leads you into a back room. Inside is a table with several chairs set up around it and a map of Kenabres in the center. The map has several areas circled on the map and all but two have been crossed out. Irabeth takes a seat and motions for you all to take a seat also if you wish. After everyone who wants to has been seated she motions to the map and begins. "We've done a good job of clearing out Kenabres, but we've had some disturbing reports from a few areas. Most we've cleared up, but there are still these two areas that need checking." She motions at the closer of the two uncrossed out circles. "We've heard some reports of some crazed knights in this area. They've been stopping multiple people, but they haven't done anything too harmful yet. That being said they seem to be acting erratically and it would be better to either stop them or bring them back here to clear up and misunderstandings." Motioning at the next circle Irabeth continues. "The business district of town was hit hard by demons, and looters and several scouts of mine have reported seeing several demons still taking up residence in the area. They seem to enjoy smashing everything to bits. Clearing these demons from the streets is imperative if we wish to finally cleanse the city of their presence."
Viktor frowns at the idea of these knights acting so oddly. "I wonder if they are possessed by outsiders." He thinks out loud. As the next area is pointed to he nods. "A much clearer problem. I say we handle that threat first if they have caused more damage than the rogue knights."
Ophelia nods at Viktor's logic.
"I agree. The demons are likely the more pressing problem. While I am certainly willing to deal with the knights, it seems to me like we couldpossibly send some people to scout out the situation and perhaps even resolve it peacefully if mere communication issues are to blame. Granted, given the delicate situation, that might be asking too much of our forces."
"Lets go get them demons imo.."
Irabeth nods at Ophelia's suggestion. "I'll try and send a few people to see what more they can find out." She sees all of you out before heading back into Defender's Heart. Even as she turns around you can already hear her barking out orders to several crusaders inside.
As you head out you see more signs of the demon's damage as you approach the business district. Most homes and shops appear to have been either destroyed or looted. Many bodies of both cultists and citizens are strewn about. As you approach the closest business that appears to be semi-intact you hear a couple of high pitched and squeaky voices that ring out with chittering laughter as you hear the sounds of smashing coming from further down the street. You recognize that the voices seem to be approaching your location.
"Hide quick and lets set an ambush!" Val moves quickly and tries to hide amongst the debris..
She casts shield and uses a mythic power for a swift action cat's grace..
Ophelia follows Val's lead. With a snap of her fingers and a little chant, she vanishes from sight. The Conjurer then quietly sneaks into a hiding spot.
Wizard Spells Prepared (CL 5th; Concentration +11)
3rd (2+1)— Haste (2/2), Spiked Pit
2nd (3+1)— Glitterdust (2/2), Create Pit,
1st (4+1)— Vanish,
0th (at will)—Acid Splash, Detect Magic, Light, Prestidigitation
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Val winces.. "Well I suppose it will still be a sorta ambush.."
You hear the chittering voices stop as they turn to look around for the source of the yelling. They turn to look at the paladin and begin laughing darkly. One of them yells out in a high pitched voice. "You manthing will make a fine plaything, yes yes!" As they get ready to advance will clearly ill intent you all recognize these creatures as Abrikandilu demons like the two you encountered in the Grey Garrison.
Ophelia quickly moves into a position where her spell would cover the entire group and throws up a Haste on the party.
Surprise round Val moves into postion on the northern one.. On her 1st round she casts uses a swift action to enchance her weapon to +1 keen and then casts bladed dash using spell combat. She attacks twice upon arival..
vs FF..
Viktor raises his shield and charges forward with a valiant roar.
Opehlia quickly weaves her magic around the group making them quicker as Valkyrie charges and slices the demon in front of her twice almost bringing it down. Both of her cuts leave horrible wounds on the creature as it makes a sound close between a hiss and rat-like squeal. Then Viktor charges forward and strikes the demon in front of him his holy blade blasting the creature with holy light as it leaves a gaping gash on its body.
Halara charges forward trying to bring the demon next to Viktor down, but she misjudges the distance and instead of hurting the demon her blade is deflected by the demon's thick natural hide.
Seeing that her allies have surrounded the demons, Ophelia simply opts to move closer to help if needed.
The two demons hiss at the party their rage clearly visible on their rat-like faces. One of them attempts to bite and claw Viktor while the other attacks Valkyrie. They both throw themselves into their attacks with abyssal rage hoping to destroy the hated foes in front of them.
The creatures seem utterly confused as Viktor and Valkyrie fight off their savage attack together, but the demon attacking Valkyrie gives a roar of rage and swipes forward with one of it's claws while she was backing up leaving a small gash on her arm.
Viktor laughs at the demons feeble attempts. "You shall fall by my hand!"
Viktor's strike easily bypasses the demon's guard and slices the beast down a horrific wound opened on it's chest.
Val takes the hits with stride and lashes back out.. Arcane Mark for spell combat/spellstrike. Arcane strike as a swift..
nope..