The cleric calls out, "Cease this foolishness! We have no desire to fight you, but your mistress gave us leave to cut down those that stand in our way. Show yourselves."
With that, she casts invisibility purge, creating a sphere with a radius of 65 feet that negates all forms of invisibility.
The archer simply readies his bow and waits for an opportunity to use it.
Both fly demons are visible on the ceilings in their respective positions. Damiel readies a s+%& to disrupt any spell casting that one of them might perform.
Arigoder pushes back against the fell magic, drawing Radiance with a quick, practiced motion -- only to see no opponents. He begins to turn his head, listening for the sound of spellcasting -- or their wings -- but smiles as Nasira's spell destroys their invisibility.
Damiel takes one shot.
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Arigoder shakes his head, "Hiding on the ceiling won't save you from the Inheritor's Light," he growls as he releases the power in his blood -- once again to fight off the weakness from the shadows -- and leaps into the air, Radiance leaving a trail of light as he flies, and strikes.
Arigoder makes a massive leap up to strike one of the demons. His blade Radiance penetrating the hide of the advanced mythic creature. As he falls back to ground though the demon take the opportunity to bite at him.
bite attack for and fort save dc 25 please or take charisma damage.
The same demon targets Nasira with a dispel magic trying to remove the invisibility purge. For its efforts it gets shot at by Damiel foiling the spell. It then uses its mythic haste to move around away from the mind fog and cast quickened invisibility once again.
concentration
The second demon also casts dispel magic on Nasira this time being successful in the attempt. It then casts quickened invisibility and moves around the room.
"Do we need to kill them? Or shall we simply walk through since they have so thoughtfully gotten out of our way?"
Just now realizing he's swinging at nothing, the barbarian throws his hands up in frustration as the demons are far out of his reach. "Blast it all!" He then cuts his attention to Nasira, "Sounds good ta me!" he responds, readily agreeing. "If they ain't gonna come down here and let me kill 'em, then I say we move on."
"Don't be so quick to throw your lives away. If the Lady in Shadow didn't want to see us, she'd put far tougher opponents than you in our path," Ansha says.
Nasira moves into the room with the archer, shield ready, watching for one of the demons to approach and make itself known.
Unable to see the demons, Damiel considers Nasira's suggestion and moves to the next door and examines it for any unpleasant surprises.
No traps but it does appear to intricately locked.
Ansha counters the slow effect with a haste of her own. Those that were unaffected originally, Arigoder, are truly hasted now.
Arigoder smiles as he feels himself speed up, but holds, waiting to leap into action the moment a demon reappears.
As everyone congregates by the door for Damiel to unlock, the demons act in tandem as one casts mind fog again while the second casts confusion on the party.
Will save DC 23 or -10 to will saves and wisdom checks
second will save DC 22 or mythically confused
Demons are visible at the ceiling.
1-25 act normal but -2 to attacks rolls, skill checks, and ability checks for the round
26-50 babble incoherently and suffer -4 to AC
51-75 deal 2d8+str to self
76-100 act nearest ally
Focused on the door, Damiel suddenly rears back and slams his head into it, shaking it afterward as if unsure what had happened.
With a whirl of robes, Nasira turns toward the demons, fire literally showing in her eyes.
Looking unsure of himself, Morgrym turns and sees Damiel. And for some strange reason feels the need to attack the rogue.
Arigoder shakes off the spells and calls on the Inheritor before leaping into the air, bringing Radiance down on the same demon as last time.
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Damiel smacks himself in the face with the door as he tries to open the lock that way. Unfortunately, the lock is too complex for that and refuses to budge. Perhaps the blood will lubricate the mechanism for an easier time later. Morgrym gets really worked up about Damiel using his face as lock picks and tries to 'help'. Smashing his earthbreaker into the other side of Damiel, more blood erupts from a broken nose.
Arigoder leaves the 2 to play at the door as he focuses on the flying coloxus in the northern corner of the room. Leaping up he slices the demon deeply. The leap does leave him vulnerable to the demon bite.
AOO bite attack for and fort save DC 25 or lose charisma
"You're really starting to annoy me," Ansha says, huffing indignantly and otherwise not seeming to do much.
will save fail
persistent success
Ansha immobilizes the southern demon causing it to fall to the ground suffering falling damage.
Nasira will move to the held demon, drawing the cold iron outsider-bane longsword as she goes. "You should have let us pass, demon, but your mistress sees you as expendable, so we shall make it so."
Fort save dc 28
The coloxus succeeds at resisting the coup attempt but still takes the damage.
Will save still held
The last coloxus drops down 5ft to assault Arigoder with a full attack.
bite for plus siphon charisma unless dc 25 fort save
slams 1 for
slams 2 for
Arigoder winces at the strikes, especially the syphoning attack, and takes a moment to ask the Inheritor for aid to heal his wounds, before turning his attention on the demon within his reach.
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Damiel begins to babble incoherently in apparent indignation that the dwarven rager has chosen to target him, waving his hands about expressively, but absolutely incomprehensible.
Nasira continues to take out her frustration on having to wander this realm of atrocities against decency to get invited only to have one thing after another try to prevent their entry.
“Come on now, no fighting!” Ansha says, hiding a dispel magic spell behind her words.
Fort save dead
Nasira finishes the paralyzed coloxus while Arigoder has a fun time chopping the demon up into sushi sized bits and then pulverizing them down into a paste. Ansha sees the murderous look Morgrym gives Damiel and snaps her fingers to wake them from the spell. It does seem to work quite as easily as she thought and snaps her fingers again more forcibly using a bit more oomph and inner power. It worked that time and Morgrym and Damiel seem back to their normal if not bloodied selves.
Just as he raises his breaker to smash the ranger into pile of pulp, the barbarian stops in mid-swing and looks curiously upon the situation. Lowering his weapon as he shakes the cobwebs from his previously addled mind, "Glad that's over." He then notices the dead demons. "Dead, huh? Good. Now that that's done, I guess we gotta keep goin', hm? That or turn around and leave and never come back ta this hell hole," he says, resting the breaker upon his shoulder. "See what I did there?" he deadpans, possibly leaving one to wonder if the dwarf was actually attempting to be cleverly funny?
”Once again, Ansha, your arts allow us to persevere. Thank you.” As she cleans the sword to place back in its scabbard, she looks around, ”Is anyone needing healing before we continue? We don’t know how close we are yet.”
Arigoder takes a moment to catch his breath, feeling especially hollowed out when he releases the power in his blood. He shakes his head, "I'm ok... The Inheritor has tended to my wounds." He sighs, "Still, I can't help but think this isn't so much a test as a gauntlet, and so I'm getting a little worried about what happens at the end."
Ansha practically preens at Nasira's praise. "Only one way to find out," she says in response to Arigoder. The elf advances on the double doors blocking their way, her eyes suddenly taking on a bluish glow as she looks them over ().
No traps Ansha but your magical sight does reveal an aura that you think is arcane lock placed upon the door. Damiel will have no trouble getting it with some time though.
The rogue moves to the door, respectfully waiting for the wizardress’ to finish her analysis before engaging in one of his own.
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Ok Damiel has no trouble with the blood slicked lock as he disable it in 6 seconds. Opening the door you see…