Round Ten
Cultist One and Seven work on the Air Elemental. Six and Eight fire bolts at Brandark, but miss. The Ninth Cultist hits Flynn with a bolt.
Flynn begins to swoon from the fast acting poison on the bolt.
Elektra cast Haste. Her Air Elemental slams into the Seventh Cultist.
Brandark steps over a fallen Cultist to get at the Seventh. The Seventh Cultist harmlessly slashes at the Cavalier. Brandark was not so harmless. The Dwarf swings hard cutting a deep wound into the oddly dressed human. The Seventh Cultist staggers, but does not fall.
Stone sees Flynn swoon and begin to fall. He gives the Inquisitor a Touch of Goodness. The flow of divine energy combined with the divine aid of the Prayer was just enough to aid Flynn in resisting the effects of the poison.
Flynn works to recover from the poisons effects.
Garrath bounds up the stairs, makes a nifty acrobatic maneuver to avoid a swipe from the First Cultist, then sets his feet to deliver a solid blow against the First Cultist. The First Cultist falls unconscious from the blow.
Round Eleven
Flynn is alive and kicking. Stone's Touch of Goodness averted the effects of the poison. Stone does not know of a poison that so quickly could render a victim unconscious.
Brimming with the speed from the haste spell, Brandark swings hard at the seventh cultist again.
Dead Cultist!
The Sixth Cultist again loads another bolt and fires it at Brandark. The bolt glances off the Cavalier's armor.
Both the Eighth and Ninth Cultist take aim at the big Human coming at them. Neither were able to make one of the tiny bolts stick.
Three devilish creatures are summoned out of nowhere and attack.
None of the attacks were successful.
Also, appearing almost out of nowhere, you see an elf is heavy robes. You have seen this elf before. He showed up shortly after the Lord Mayor on the day the party defeated Choco's band of outlaws. You will recall that the Lord Mayor referred to him as Justice Ironbriar.
The Justice looks directly at Garrath, "These are Lemures from the pit of hell. You should leave. Now!"
Garrath stands his ground and roars in the face of the darts flying at him as he flies into a rage.
Garrath's eyes burn with rage as he feels the compulsion magic roll off of him like water. He sees the lemures appear, "Then I will send them back to the pit!"
Moving up Elektra casts SLOW all enemys in range have to save vs 19 will or be slowed.
You miserable spawn of the pit, you will be returned back.
Brandark goes into a fury of hacks and slashes at Lemure 1
Round Eleven
The Cultist can't hit a broad side of a lumber mill.
Three Lemures appear and attack. They are about as successful as the Cultist.
Judge Ironbriar appears. He gives Garrath a suggestion. Garrath just ignores it.
Elektra slows down the enemies. She moves up behind the fighters.
Brandark hacks into the the first Outsider. The devil spawn Lemure shimmers and disappears. Brandark hacks at the second Lemure. It takes the third strike to cause the second hellspawn to shimmer and disappear.
Stone readies his Crossbow.
Flynn cast Weapon against Evil. This will effect Garrath's attack.
Garrath finishes off the third Lemure with ease.
Round Twelve
Judge Ironbriar feels the effect of the slowness and sees his Lemures dissipate. He weaves a spell.
Elektra's Slow is dispelled.
The Cultist load more Hand Crossbow bolts and fire.
The sixth Cultist fires at Brandark and misses.
The eighth and ninth Cultist fire at Garrath. Both bolts hit the Barbarian, but does not cause any physical damage. However, poison begins to course through the big human's veins.
Judge Ironbriar is unaffected by Stone's spell.
Garrath doesn't even register the darts hitting his skin and he steps up to the corner, bringing his weapon to bear on the cultists there.
After attacking the cultists, Garrath growls at Ironbriar, "You're next, unless you surrender, NOW!
Grinning slightly as Garrath moves up to scrap with the poor cultists, Brandark moves up to hack into the judge.
[b]You miserable misbegotten piece of orc dung, you should have given up.
Feeling that this elf is the key elektra takes a step back and starts another incantation
Flying to flank with stone the elemental attacks the caster.
Round Twelve Recap
Judge Ironbriar dispels Elektra’s Slow spell.
The remaining Cultist fire at Brandark and Garrath. The bolt on Brandark fell harmless off the Cavalier’s armor. The other two barely stuck into the Barbarian. The effect was like a pin prick. Garrath resisted the poison from these top floor Cultist.
Elektra’s Air Elemental goes after Ironbriar. With a hand crossbow the Judge was unable to respond to the column of air. The Air Elemental tries to slam into the heavily cloaked elf, but Ironbriar was too nimble and the slam attack missed.
Elektra begins to cast another spell.
Brandark goes directly after the Judge. He passes by the other Cultist. They just stare at the Dwarf. Then the Cavalier comes down hard of the Elf. This strike draws elvish blood.
Stone attempt to hold the wicked Elf, but Ironbriar’s will power was just enough to resist the Cleric’s spell.
Flynn makes a nifty move to come up next to the Cult leader.
Garrath takes a step and slices and dices two of the remaining Cultist. One is killed the other falls unconscious.
Round Thirteen
The Judge takes a step back, pulling out a nice looking Short Sword. He calls out to the remaining Cultist standing, "Move as far away as you can. Now!" The one standing Cultist remaining moves to the far end balcony.
Seeing the remaining Cultist moving to the far side of the room, Ironbriar calls forth a wave of negative energy the engulfs everyone else in the room. The two unconscious Cultist die.
As the Cultist is moving, the remaining top floor everyday Cultist loads another poison bolt and fires it down at the Elf Mage. He misses.
Precise shot, PBS
Feeling the waves of energy wash over him, Brandark drops his shield and grips his axe better as he wades into the fray with the judge.
You misbegotten Cur
Moving to the empty space to avoid the pile of bodies around him, Garrath then rushes down next to Brandark, shrugging off the effects of the negative energy that washes forth. "Time for you to die."
The archon will raise high, to give all circle of protection from evil and then shoot a light ray.
Round Thirteen
Judge Ironbriar takes a step back. A wave of negative energy flows through the room. Everyone can feel a little of their health drain from their body.
The last standing top floor Cultist moves and fires a bolt down at the Elf Wizard. It misses.
Elektra resist some of the effects of the negative energy. Her Latern Archon fires a pair of rays down at the evil Cleric. Both rays missed the very nimble Elf.
Brandark drops his shield, takes a step and continues to hack at the wicked judge. The first blow lands solidly, but afterwards Brandark does all he can to keep from dropping his weapon.
Stone drops his Crossbow, draws out his scimitar and slashes at Ironbriar. The blade solidly hits the Judge's chainmail, but fails to penetrate the tight Mithril weave.
Flynn fires an arrow. A couple of inches more to the left, it would have hit Ironbriar's neck. But instead it sails beyond sticking into the back wall of the lumber mill.
Garrath also moves in to attack the Judge. But the surprisingly quick Elf dodged the attack.
Round Fourteen
The Judge is unaffected by the Archon's Aura of Menace.
Surrounded and realizing he cannot win, the Elf drops his shortsword, "Ok. Ok. You win. I knew you would be a meddlesome lot when you walk into my city." He scowls at the party, then orders the other Cultist to surrender.
The other Cultist seeing his dead cult members, quickly obeys and drops his hand crossbow.
Victory
"Well, I am glad that you.... understand your position well. I hope you understand... that we have to bind you!"
The judge looks at Elektra and holds his arms out toward the Mage. He brings them together at the wrist. Ironbriar let's out a sigh.
Garrath lets the rage subside, and looks at Ironbriar. "I don't trust him. We should get the other one that was working with us and bring them here. Let them take care of it. That's what they wanted us to do."
Calming down slightly.
Aye, I do not trust him either Garrath, so shall we let others decide.
He walks over and picks up his shield.
Shall we check the lower floor, after we bind these two?
I don't trust him even then, we should take him somewhere more secure before investigating further. He should be able to tell us what we need anyway
I do not trust him either.
Brandark roughly starts pulling things off the judge before binding him.
Brandark removes Ironbriar's heavy cloak. He had a quality suit of Mithril chain mail under it. He also had a buckler, a fine shortsword, a masterworks hand crossbow, five bolts, an interesting mask, a wand and a set of keys.
On the Cultist you will find 20 masterworks war razors, 12 hand crossbows, numerous bolts, 20 sets of skinsaw masks with matching leather outfits, 200gp.