"It sure seems that way." Spivey bobs next to Friday.
"You guys ready?"
Friday nods.
"Before we go down; who needs magic on their weapons?" Valeria asked. If the decapus was down there, best to prepare now.
"Let's make sure we all have a potion or two handy."
Looking down at his spear Friday will sheepishly offer the weapon up to Valeria.
Once everyone has had a chance to prepare with magics & potions, it's time to press onward. Spivey pauses before everyone moves on and touches the holy symbol of Desna around her neck...
...and releases a pulse of holy power from Elysium, providing healing for those who need it. "Okay, NOW we're ready to go."
The floor of the cavern beyond is covered in some sort of... bizarre slime. It squelches underneath the party's boots as they walk forward, and the stench coming from it is a mix of brimstone and... ink?
The main cavern is decorated with disturbing paintings on the walls, some of which still drip with fresh blood. Depictions of great, winged beasts swooping down upon a terrified populace and rending them asunder are rendered alongside images of bird-like creatures offering sacrifices to a many-winged god. Hanging from the cavern's ceiling is a horrific-looking creature, its hide a sickly green mixed with a grotesque purple. Slime drips from the tips of its ten tentacles, and it bears what looks like a disgusting mockery of a human face.
It starts babbling something as the party approaches. "Вы! Я знаю, почему вы пришли. Вы ищете моей смерти, но я отказываюсь предложить вам такой подарок! Я разделит вашу плоть от костей и есть ваши бьющееся сердце во имя Отца Пазузу в!"
"What a conversationalist." Spivey cringes.
Friday looks from the fiend down to his spear. "Problem..."
Before the team went down, Valeria had laid her hand on Friday's spear and let magic flow through her, letting it run like water into the metaphysical gaps in its make-up, reinforcing its nature as a tool of combat. That it could now pierce a creature's resistance to mundane weapons was actually an unintentional side-effect of the spell - at least according to current theories and legends about the spell's origins. Those theories suggested that the spell had originally been a way to make a weapon sharper and more accurate, that the mere presence of a magical aura was enough to let it bypass such resistances.
Whatever the case, Valeria made sure to apply it to any other weapons that needed it prior to their descent.
As the creature made its declaration, Valeria didn't bother with niceties, gathering her power once more and focusing it into Friday. She'd have used this spell on Kavell, but it didn't work on outsiders like her and the aasimar.
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The decapus covers its earholes with two of its tentacles and produces a wand from underneath its bulk. "Я слышу не ваше безрассудство!"
The beast waves its wand.
And a stream of fire shoots out of the wrong end of it.
The decapus pointedly turns the wand around in its grip. "К сожалению. Если бы глупость в обратном порядке." It says, looking rather sheepish.
Spivey just rolls her eyes and points at the beast. "COME HERE." Her voice suddenly BOOMS throughout the cavern!
The holy magic of Elysium washes over the beast, but it's too busy fiddling with its wand to budge. Spivey sighs and flits over to the western side of the cavern.
He glanced to the ledge beside him wondering if he climbed upon it if he would have a platform to reach the monster.
bête Foul Vous tomberez aujourd'hui et nous allons vous renvoyer aux stands fétides vous engendré à partir !
He called out moving forward and summoning the bright fair lights of the celestial realm so they could get a real good look at the ugly monster hiding amongst the ceiling.
The decapus covers its eyes with one of its many tentacles.
A little unsteady from the increase in his size Friday nonetheless promptly walks over next to Kavell to stab up at the Fiend.
Friday's enlarged spear reaches the decapus and pierces its unholy hide fully. The beast screams in surprise!
Valeria released the magic that she'd been building, letting it flow into Friday.
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With the spell firmly anchored on Friday, Valeria quickly enhanced her crossbow the same way she had Friday's spear.
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The decapus turns its baleful eyes on Friday, and begins to summon up unholy power...
...and the air in the room chills slightly. The beast's maw drips with something vile, and it lunges at the giant warrior!
The mad creature's teeth manage to bite down hard on Friday's shoulder, and he can immediately feel that something is wrong. His shoulder starts to burn, and pain starts pulsing from his heart in waves.
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Spivey winces and casts another Celestial prayer to the heavens. A strange, translucent blue starknife that's bigger than she is materializes before her, and leaps toward the decapus' face!
This time, Spivey's magic goes through unhindered. The starknife tries to impale the abyss-spawned beast...
...and sticks into one of its tentacles, briefly pinning it to the ceiling before withdrawing.
"Ouch, Fri, are you alright? That looked painful!"
Haru draws her bow and shoots one of the silver arrows at the creature.
"I'm fine..." Friday responds with after a moment.
Seeing it lunge down at Friday the Aasimar preparred himself channeling the essence of goodness into the morning star and waiting, the next time it brought its ugly may down he would smite it into tomorrow.
Haru's loosed arrow flies true, striking the decapus square. It roars in pain and fury as its abyss-born blood flows freely from its wounds.
Grinding his teeth as his blood felt like it was on fire and melting his muscles and flesh Friday focuses on the monster before him and stabs again.
The warrior proves to be too hardy for the decapus' venom to stop him for long. His spear strikes true once again!
With her crossbow now enchanted, Valeria loosed a bolt at the creature.
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Valeria's aim is off, perhaps because of Friday's magically-enhanced bulk. The bolt bounces off the ceiling and clatters to the floor.
The decapus recoils from Friday's spear and starts channeling more unholy energy!
...except it fails. Completely and utterly. The beast's face pales in fright. "Нет... ...нет-нет-нет-нет-нет!"
It tries to fly away from the encroaching warrior's spear!
Unfortunately, it wobbles a bit, weakened from the maiming it's received.
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Perhaps in the only bit of good fortune it's received in this fight, Friday's spear misses the back of its head, though just barely. The weakened decapus starts floating closer to the ground, trying to fit through a hole in the cavern wall.
Spivey's spiritual starknife stabs at the decapus once again...
This time, it's just a glancing blow.
"You ever get the feeling we might have over-prepared for this?" Spivey quips as she picks up some rocks at her feet and channels more of Desna's divine power. The rocks start glowing a whitish-blue.
dropping the morningstar and his shield the aasimar paladin moved forward pulling out his goddesses favored implement when she was forced to use well force. He struck at the Decampus with holy fire smiting it with his glaive.
Kavell's blessed glaive drives right into the foul monster's flank. It screams, this time in terror.
Striding forward next to Kavell, Friday lunged at the monster.
The ceiling of the cavern rapidly closes the distance with Friday's head, and in his efforts to avoid hitting his head, his spear goes wide of its mark.
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Valeria scrambled up the ledge to try and get a clearer shot on the decapus (and to get a clear line of fire over Kavell). She still wasn't entirely sure it would work, but with the way the decapus' luck had been going in this fight she figured it was worth a shot.
She idly recalled one Minkaian story she'd heard Ameiko tell once, and couldn't resist the urge to quote the tale's hero as flames licked along her outstretched arm.
"Ryuu ga waga teki wo kurau!" Thinking about the story must have affected the flames, as they took the form of a serpentine dragon as they raced across the room towards the decapus.
The twin dragons arc gently, but unrelentingly, towards the decapus... and pass through it without even so much as singing it.
The decapus snorts. "Огонь по готовности!"
She didn't have to speak Abyssal to know the creature was taunting her, all it did was elicit some very un-ladylike phrases from her in Skald and Draconic (with the odd Dwarven one mixed in, though that was about the extent of her 'skill' with the language).
Hearing a few certain phrases and words that he actually understood come from Valeria made Friday arch his brow in surprise.