I take a 5' step back and cast Produce Flame. I yell for Ishah to attack.
Ishah charges into the room to help the beleaguered Yod. She seizes the demon's hind leg in her mouth and rips for all she's worth, but does no apparent damage.
Sari can't believe this. "And this is what I left home for? To battle with stinky canines and stinky men? Ishah, no offense, hon. You are a right fine looking specimen. Now, if only I could find me one of the human variety to match you. I am too much of a girly girl to find much more of this entertaining. I knew I should have taken Aldern up on his offer!"
At the end of her tirade, she flings her hands out and sends two missiles dog-ward. One at each dog.
Sari's missiles batter the monsters. Apparently they're not protected from magical force. The monster facing Orik and Cha finally crumples to the ground in a heap and begins to smolder from within. Wisps of acrid black smoke rise from its corpse.
Shal comes running back into the fray by the way she left.
"I'm sorry. I couldn't get its maddening barking out of my head. It was like a echo trapped in my skull."
She retrieves her long bow from where she dropped it and nudges the other door open with her hip.
Orik steps in with the long blade and takes a massive swipe at the remaining hound but the creature is very quick and dodges away from the blow. It snaps back at the fighter but he's agile enough to knock the attack back with his shield.
I'll drop the dagger and pick up the morningstar, if I'm not killed by an AoO I'll attack the remaining dog.
Attack 20+7=27 Dmg 5+7=12 Confirm 11+7=18 +2 on the confirm if I do. Additional Dmg if a critical 6+7=13.
Oh yeh I think I also get sneak attack damage when a creature is flanked so 1+1=2 more damage. If I'm not dead of course!
Yod reaches for the larger weapon but the fiend is quick to react and goes for Yod's throat. The half orc is savaged under the monster's wretched jaws and collapses to the ground under the weight of the attack. He is dying.
I back track to 7,15 and drop to the ground by Yod. I let the spell go.
The happy little ball of fire smacks into the beast's snout causing it to yelp in pain and momentarily catch fire. This room now smells like a demon's burning arse.
As the demon dog wheels back and forth between enemies, Ishah jumps onto the monster's back and locks down on the base of its spine - a killing blow in the wild. But this creature's flesh is too hard or too vile for her to sink her jaws into. She slides off her cheated prey and rolls into a low stance.
"This ISN'T happening! That's IT! Kill the damn demon dog and let's get out of here!"
Sari realizes she doesn't have much more to give. She waves the stupid wand because she is too distraught to think about conjuring any magic spell right now.
Sari's missile flies true battering the enemy, yet still it comes on, far beyond the punishment threshold of any normal dog.
A now recomposed Shal seeks a shot in the scrum. Yod and Cha's low profile help as she slides up the right flank of the party and is lost among the pillars. Her perfectly placed shot skips off the beast, caroming into the crimson shadows beyond.
"Damned braised demon flesh!" she curses.
Orik comes in with less power and more control, finally landing a shot but again doing no apparent damage to to the hound.
"It will not bleed!" he cries as he twists to defend himself.
The beast leaps onto Yod's supine form as Cha crouches there. It then mauls the druid.
"Sari, finish him!"
d10=3
Cha growls and slides back another 5' still down low.
Cha's spell completes and the magical healing energies wash over him, mending his wound. Ishah is ape-s!#% crazy mad at not only being ineffective, but essentially being ignored by the other dog. She catches a hind leg and latches on for all she's worth, but her only reward is a black sooty tongue.
Sari takes a step forward into the doorway and shakes the wand savagely at the dog. A missile leaps out of the end and winds its way toward the smoking dog.
The beast looks up at the most consistent source of damage and snarls, tongue lolling out of its mouth like a hyena.
Shal takes a step back and wastes another shaft on the invincible dog from hell. She'd like to blame her shameful shot on her concern for the mercenary, but the truth is her shot was dreadful.
Orik takes advantage of the lack of allies to take a full swing at the monster. His arms register the shock of the blow and a hunk of demon flesh chips off the thing's shoulder.
"AaaaaaaaaaaaggggGGGHHHH!" Eberk screams in frustration and probably a bit of shame as he comes charging back into the fray weaponless. His axe lies between his feet, where he dropped it when he ran screaming from the room with the elf maiden.
"You let me pick up my damned axe, mutt, and then we'll see who's more frightening!"
"About time! Kill this thing before he kills all of us."
Any intention the dog may have had of leaping the druid and attacking the sweet-meat sorcerer is erased by the charging dwarf. Instead it wheels around and leaps off Yod to attack Orik. It gets past the warrior's guard, clamping down on the inner calf and trying the same tripping maneuver. Luckily it fails.
"About time! Kill this thing before he kills all of us."
d10=10
Sari casts a weary look at the dwarf. "About time you hauled yourself back here, my friend." She invokes the magic of the wand again, and sends a colorful spark toward the ugly doggy. "Where is a collar when you need one?"
Was I dead again? I seem to keep waking up on the floor!
Sari's missile is stronger than she expected. It knocks the monster out of the air where it had been floating. It lands awkwardly, then begins to smoke and sizzle like the first. The sound fills the otherwise silent hall.
The jackal-headed statue leers down at the group as they take inventory of one another. On closer inspection its feet are taloned like a bird's and it has a long reptile tail. The weapons are exotic blades called kukris. One glows a soft blue while the other has a flickering orange quality about it.
"I would never have believed those things would be so hard to kill!" Orik says as he examines his wounds. "There's another of them around here somewhere, so look out. And there's the witch. She didn't come back up here so she's got to be in the lower tunnels still."
By the way, there's another door in the alter chamber on the left wall. It is sealed and the group has only just noticed it.
"There's another?!" "Yod, that's all I've got."
To the group, "Let's slow down a minute, regroup and check out some of the stuff we're carrying."
I'll drink my last CLW d8=6+3=9 That puts me back to normal