Erik calls daylight to his blade and channels it at the closest ghoul. Though he is no cleric, Erik's light is just as strong as any holy fire. The brilliance of the display also helps to smother Kelgan's flames.
Erik's light incincerates the ghoul clutched in Kelgan's arms.
Brujo smile widens as his dagger bites deeps. Twisting hard, he restores death to the undead.
Now only the Commander remains. Snatching up the papers, he turns in substantial and shifts towards the far door, opening it.
"Two can play traitor, Nialla. The great project will be completed and you will not live to see it."
"You're leaving so soon? But we're just getting started!" Kelgan rushes across the room to catch the commander.
Kelgan bounds jovially across the room and pins the Commander into a corner, slicing into him as he does so.
"So nice of you to drop your defenses to open the door. Perigia, shut the door on him, will you?" Hobbes says after he casts an Acid Orb on the Commander.
Hobbes melts away more of the Commander Accordant, but he refuses to fall.
"You will not stop the union of the stars and plane below!"
"Wanna bet," Perigia says as she casts a Magic Missile at the commander.
"Wanna bet,""Yes."
The Commander easily ducks aside from Perigia's attack.
"Cowering in a corner isn't gonna save you, bastard."
Twin strike on the commander.
Arrow 1, attack vs ac, , damage =
Arrow 2, attack vs ac, , damage =
Insubstantial though he is, the Commander can't prevent the second of Kel's arrow slamming into him. Increasingly desperate, he scrabbles for the door handle.
"I'm a demon, not a devil. If I were a devil, my wings would look different. But, love.." Nialla coos "...we can put you with choir later and let you sing until you know the difference." As she speaks, more shadows reach for the man, hoping to yank him from the door.
The Commander ignores Ceara's seductive tones, clutching the papers to his bloodied body.
"Demon - you might be. But do you think your devil master will care or forgive?"
Erik strides into the room with a pointed aphorism on his lips. His words give the Commander pause, and the heartbeat of time is enough for the bard to yank the creature way from the door.
His spellscar flaring in protest or sympathy, Brujo pounds across the room, blade held high. As the blow lands, frost forms in the wound, slowing the Commander Accordant
All too aware that his minutes are numbered, the Commander Accordant shimmers slightly and moves through Kelgan and then mist-like around the edge of the opened door.
Perception DC12
Kelgan makes a grab for the commander as he drifts away.
"Going back to your masters? But we've just started!" Kelgan moves around the corner and does... something.
Kelgan misses the Commander Accordant as it passes through him, but his relentless pursuit brings him through the door and next to his victim.
Kelgan
"Don't let him get away!" Hobbes cries as he flings another acid spell at the Commander.
Hobbes strides into the room and sends a glob of acid around the tricky corner to damage the nearly hidden Commander. Spellscarred flesh sizzles, but the Commander does not fall.
Kel sees where the Commander is heading and does a double run down the side hall to G12 to head off any escape to the west.
Nialla sighs. "You know you can't run away from me. Why do you even try..." she says. "Now I have to punish you, you know that!" Her tone is like that of an annoyed wife. She follows along, whip cracking every few steps.
Kel sizes up the situation at a glance and sprints for the other door, warily watching the pulsating vine, while Ceara and Kelgan work on removing the Commander.
Ceara's whip lashes lightly into the Commander Accordant, inflicting a wound as light and cutting as her words.
Erik moves to the door, weapon and shield in hand.
Erik heads for the door.
Recognising that attack from two fronts may be needed here, Brujo puts his head down and runs to join Kel.
The vine sends roots burrowing through the floor. The shoots bloom immediately, reaching hungrily for Kelgan and Ceara. A third shoot sprouts in Kel's path, but cannot reach him.
The Commander Accordant gasps and shifts through the grasping roots, still heading for the portal.
Kelgan lashes out at the vanishing Commander, but misses, distracted perhaps by the sudden eruption of a vine in front of him.
Kelgan swipes at the root in front of him, attempting to simply uproot it.
Kelgan drives his blade into the shoot and hauls it towards him, grappling with the carnivorous plantling.
"So what's up with the Vine thing? Are we trying to kill it?" Hobbes says as he launches yet another acid orb at the Commander. "Why isn't he dead yet?"
"So what's up with the Vine thing? Are we trying to kill it?" Hobbes says as he launches yet another acid orb at the Commander. "Why isn't he dead yet?"
"It's trying to kill us! Why not return the favor!"
Hobbes moves into the doorway and casually wipes out the Commander Accordant and looks curiously at the ravenous plantlife.
From the safety of the first chamber, Perigia hurls a ball of flame into the midst of the vines. Her natural element clearly disagrees violently with the plants and all three shoots emerge from the fireball bloodied.
Shift to F12 and target the main vine with twin strike.
arrow 1, attack vs ac, , damage =
arrow 2, attack vs ac, , damage =
Dancing through the shadows of the shoots, Niala starts to weave shadows of her own around the vine creature. She casually swipes at one shoot with her scimitar as she steps from it's shadow.
Erik moves into the room rather brashly, daring Kelgan's held target to attack, and finally stabs with his blade for the first time this battle.
Erik moves lightly into the room, and stabs elegantly, but fruitlessly at the plant in Kelgan's embrace.
At the other doorway, Brujo appears beside Kel and sends a stream of debilitating blue flame into the parent vine. The plant slumps slightly under the impact.
The parent vine sends another shoot spiraling up to attack Ceara. In Kelgan's loving clasp, S1 tries and fails to add more poison to Kelgan's wounds. S2 reaches hungrily for Erik and Ceara finds herself beset by two plants. One of them tries to knock her off her feet, but the wily changeling is alert to the danger and just manages to hold herself together. Neither she nor Erik can prevent the plants from sending poison coursing into their bodies.