Valkyrie's strikes slash open two horrible wounds on the demon making it fall over in pain and agony as its lifeblood pours onto the street. Both demons now lie lifeless on the ground. A deathly silence falls over the street now that the demons have been dealt with, only broken by the sound of someone messing with a door further up the street.
Viktor takes a moment to execute the demons, then moves to where he hears somebody messing with the door.
Val taps herself with a wand of infernal healing before heading up the street..
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Val taps herself with a wand of infernal healing before heading up the street..
"And that we will still be talking about once this is over!" Viktor yells behind him.
Viktor comes over to a door of a small shop that seems to have avoided the worst of the fighting. The sound of a key turning in a lock can be clearly heard a small elderly man peers out of a small crack in the door. He looks at you all fearfully and quietly asks. "Are the demons gone now?"
"We have cleared some, but we can't be sure it's all of them. Come, we shall get you to safety. Are there any others?"
Ophelia remembers times that feel like ages ago.
"I never use Infernal Healing, and I always encouraged my students to just use the Cure line of spells, but there were many debates among them about its use. It is evil magic, and yet, it heals efficiently. I personally find it ironic that the Celestial version is much less effective."
When the group finds the old man, Ophelia bites her lip.
"As Viktor said, we are not entirely sure if that was all of them. I was honestly expecting more."
Viktor sighs and shakes his head. "Another time. This conversation must be had, but I am not so foolish as to let demons run amok and citizens die while I chastise my ally for using methods that are helping us."
The old man leaves the building while shaking his head at Vikor's question. "I haven't seen anyone else all I hear was the sounds of things being smashed and people screaming. The last thing I remember seeing was the Storm Lord himself leaving while having some large demons carry away the body of the dragon Terendelev towards the Worldwound. I locked myself in here and I haven't left since. You're the first people I've met in days. "
Ophelia frowns at the news.
"...We should probably tell Irabeth about poor Terendelev. Anyway, sir, as far as I know, the worst of demonic invasion is over; we were here to clean up some leftovers. We can take you to safety. As I said earlier, I am not entirely sure how safe this area is. If more demons lurk in these parts, then we can always come back."
The man seems fearful although it is muted in your presence and he vigoursly nods at Ophelia's suggestion. "I'm not sure how many more of those creatures might be here, but I'd be grateful if you would take me to someplace safe."
"Im sure we can handle that sir.. Do you think you can hide out for a bit longer while we finish searching the area. We will return for you once we're done.."
"Yes, we want to make sure we don't turn your escort into a fight." Viktor goes to sweep the surrounding area.
"Sounds like a good idea. Let's go take a thorough look of the area then."
The man gratefully nods and heads back into his home you hear the sound of a lock being turned as he does the best he can to make sure that no demons will be getting in. It truly strikes you then of how little protection the citizens will have if the Worldwound continues to fester. You continue to travel through the district looking around for any more signs of demon activity.
You can faintly hear the sounds what sounds like several more ratlike voices conversing together in a nearby broken down home. The voices seem to be discussing something though it is constantly broken up by the sounds of laughing and things breaking.
In addition to the above you can hear what appears to be a even higher and more annoying voice speaking about some sort of revenge plot.
"It looks all clear from here!"
Ophelia nods.
"Seems like the reports of demonic activity were slightly exaggerated."
Val sighs.. Clearly they don't know the meaning of a q-tip
"Quite down.. I hear more nasty voices from that house over there.. There is also a different, even more high pitched voice among them. Perhaps the rat demons leader.. We should go take care of them.."
Viktor turns around and raises his longsword. "Onwards than!" He valiantly leads the party towards where Valkyrie is pointing.
And it seems that I need to get my ears checked, Ophelia thinks to herself as she follows the others.
Val will get into position behind Viktor and cast her mirror images..
Ophelia casts her second prepared Haste on the group and then hides behind the meat shields positions herself in the back away from the enemy.
Viktor kicks down the down with a mighty roar and the demons appear to be shocked. There are three more ratlike demons standing there along with a quasit that is currently hovering above them all. It was just getting done shouting at them about some sort of plan as our brave heroes enter shocking all of them. The room around them looks to be in complete chaos with furniture being strewn about the room in pieces and with several dark stains in the corner that you can only assume are blood.
[ooc]After that it will be everybody except Opehlia, the enemies and then Opehlia.[/oioc]
Viktor charges headlong into the room and slashes the nearest evil outsider!
Val follows Viktor in and attacks the same one.. "For the light!"
She uses a mp to avoid penalties to acck for 1 minute. Her weapon was buffed outside.
vs FF..
Ophelia moves closer to combat and tries to recall what she knows about these kinds of demons. She then uses a burst of mythic power to attempt to literally Slow down the opposition.
Viktor charges into the room with a yell. The demon turns but much to slowly raising an arm as Viktor cuts open a deep wound on the demon's arm that only just misses the demon's exposed chest. Then Valkyire steps forward and with her battle cry slices forwardf quickly taking advantage of the demon being preoccupied and cuts the demon's exposed chest with a sickening squelching sound the demon falls onto its knees and then over dead while the rest of the demons cry out in anger as they begin to react slowly trying to turn and face this threat slowly.
Viktor continues his onslaught!
Val uses spell combat/spellstrike to cast arcane mark and then uses a swift action, burning a mythic point, to cast bladed dash charging the imp..
Upon Arrival she will attack 4 times..
all vs FF..
Ophelia cheers her friends on.
Viktor's strike slams into the demon spilling it's foul blood onto the floor as he opens up a nasty cut on it's side. Then Halara steps up and offers assistance in the form of a cut on the demon's other side distracting it. Valkyrie on the other hand charges forward and slices the small demon in twain with three quick strikes almost faster than the eye can see as the demon falls into pieces a look of surprise etched upon it's face as it dies. The two demons left snarl in anger and attack Valkyire and Viktor with fang as the one next to Viktor also lashes out with his claws.
But only the demon facing Viktor is able to hurt him striking out with unholy purpose as it tries to rend the paladin with it's fangs biting into Viktor's shoulder.
Viktor grunts as an attack slips past his formidable defense, but he presses the attack!
Val casts arcane mark using spell combat/spellstrike for 2 attacks on the creature..
vs DC 15
dam is magic and cold iron
The demon in front of Viktor has little time to celebrate it's victory as it falls to the ground headless after Viktor's strike cleaves off it's head without even a hint of resistance from the demon's flesh. The second demon fairs little better being cut into four pieces before it can even fall to the ground from Valkyrie's lightning fast slices.
Looking around you see a lot of destroyed furniture and a smashed open chest that still has the glint of something shinny inside.
There appears to be a couple of smashed vials of something along with 550 gold pieces in various amounts of copper, gold, and silver. Along with a potion of barkskin.
"Well, that's a few more deceased demons," says Ophelia as she examines the spoilers of war. "Hmm... a potion of Barkskin. This would probably be better for one of you two. Anyway, we should continue searching the area. I sincerely doubt that there just eight demons lurking about."
"Yes, let's keep sweeping the area. Let's get this whole area spotless."
Val follows the others.. She hands the potion to Viktor..
You all set out of the building looking around for where to go next.
You can hear the sound of some sort of chanting coming from the nearby alleyway. It sounds like several humanoid voices speaking in some sort of strange tongue.
The same as above and you can clearly hear that they are speaking in Abyssal and they seem to be chanting some name over and over. It sounds like they are calling out to Baphomet.
"...I hear some sort of chanting coming from that nearby alleyway," says Ophelia as her long ears twitch. "...And to be honest, I think I know what that means."
"Aye.. It's abyssal too, their giving homage to Baphomet.. Lets us go and show homage to the Lady of Fire.."
Val heads that way..
You arrive onto a scene that looks like it was taken straight out of a horror play from a melodrama. Four cultists stand around in a circle chanting praises to Baphomet while surrounded by a ritual circle that seems to have been painted out of blood. They turn as one as they see you approach and one of the cultists yells out. "We shall destroy thee in our unholy Father name!"
The enemy seemingly inspired charges forward to attack screaming out Baphomet's name. The ones in front all try to attack the obvious paladin hoping to strike down the holy warrior before he can act while the one in the back cast a spell to increase his might.
He is casting shield of faith.
While the other two cultists seem to be unable to strike the paladin the third one manages to get in a telling blow slicing deep into Viktor's flesh with a savage grin the cultist twists the blade before pulling it out smiling at the pain he caused to this holy warrior who would oppose his dark master.
Val will use spellcombat/spell combat to cast Frostbite and 5' step to yellow.. Burning a mythic point to negate attack penalties..
vs DC 17
Viktor grunts in pain and surprise as the attack slips past his defenses. "Not bad!" He cries back as he retaliates!
Ophelia once again taps into her mythic power and casts Haste on the party. She then moves back to a safer spot to avoid melee combat.
The cultist in front of Valkyrie stumbles and falls to the ground bleeding out as she cuts him and unleashes her magic to slow him down. The cultist in front of Viktor snarls at him when he cuts him not paying much attention to the paladin's comment. Halara steps forward and attack the cultist next to Viktor. With two vicoius cuts Halara hurts the cultist and puts him in a lot of pain. While the cultists then try to attack back with one attacking each of the front line fighters, but all of them miss horrible unable to even come close to touching let alone harming anyone.