Alexa staggers out of the cloud, nearly running into Iomenna.
"Whoa there, Lex! Be careful! There's lots of demons in here and not a whole lot of room to maneuver in!"
Sario moves forward, unable to escape the could and not wanting to be in the way of the more martial of her companions.
The demons press forward, gibbering and moaning, a tide of flabby flesh lashing out with claws and teeth. The paladins hold firm, expertly pushing away foes, deflecting attacks, and parrying flailing blows. Iomenna and Luci are both battered a bit, but not severely. Darya holds off her enemy without trouble.
Sticking to her original plan, Luci focused on the one engaging Darya to bring it down quickly and give them more breathing room.
KA-CHUNK! Darya's demonic foe (#4) collapses under Luci's powerful, furious attack.
Sario moves out of the Stinking cloud, hoping to help flank the demons.
Sario Stabs at the demon with her spear trying to help Luci
Stepping in front of Luci to take down the other wounded demon and eliminate the threat to Sario, Darya brings her blade down hard.
SMASH! Darya trades opponents and brings down the demon near Sario (#6).
Iomenna tries to follow her heroic companions' lead and strikes out with her sword at the nearest demon.
Iomenna's cold iron sword slashes the demon grievously, but not quite enough to put it out of the fight.
The demons nearly-mindlessly continue their rage against Iomenna, mewling and occasionally screaming; one barely manages to nick her with a claw.
"We've got this!" Darya shouts encouragingly to her companions. Flashing Luci a wild grin she turns moving quickly in a wide arc to come up behind one of the demons attacking Iomenna, her blade whipping around with all the considerable power she could put behind it, directly at neck level.
Sharing Darya's grin, Luci ran forward and swung at the demon as well.
Darya absolutely pulverizes one of the demons, sending blobby chunks of fat and tissue flying through the air. A chunk splats right in Luci's eye, causing her to miss her swing.
Alexa retches.
Sario again tries to distract the creature to help out.
[Ooc]Pretty sure you'll have to run across the chamber to do that.[/b]
Sario rushes across the room to help Iomenna, but even with her distracting the demon, Iomenna's slash with the cold iron sword doesn't manage to connect.
The demon moans and squeals, and lashes back at Iomenna. As she's busy recovering from her stumbling miss, the demon snarls and slams into her, biting into her side.
With just one demon left, Luci pressed the advantage.
Spinning past Sario, Darya moves to come at the demon from the other side of Iomenna, leaving a gap for Luci to strike."I'll make you pay for that #$%^er!"
With a cry of desperation, Iomenna lashes out at the demon again, but her wounds have begun to wear on her, and he strike goes wide.
Alexa keeps retching.
Darya hits the demon hard, but her sword largely bounces off its rubbery hide. Both Luci and Iomenna have no such luck.
Sario rushes over to try to assist in distracting the demon so that the paladins can finish it.
The demon squeals and keeps clawing at Iomenna, but this time the paladin pushes it back and manages to keep it at bay with her armor.
Darya strikes out at the demon again only to mutter a curse as the rubbery hide once again repels her attack.
Alexa gets a hold of herself long enough to stab at the dretch.
And misses completely.
"Will you just go down already?!" Luci complained as she struck again.
"Go back to the Abyss," Iomenna screams at the demon as she swings her sword for what feels like the hundredth time.
With a final burst of rage the women put down the last of the demons. It melts into a gooey puddle of fatty liquid, slowly seeping into the floor and leaving behind a greasy, smelly stain.
The stinking cloud clears up shortly, leaving the cave with just its natural awful stench from the dead demons.
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Alexa, despite having been less than useless throughout the entire fight, points her sword at the dissolving demon corpse.
"That... was for... m'breakfast." She gasps.
Iomenna, breathing heavily as well, sheathes her sword and retrieves her hammer, cleaning the demonic filth from each of them in turn. Once she's gotten her gear back in order, so leans against the cave wall and clutches at her wounds. "Uff...that was awful. You ladies alright?"
She pulls one of her healing potions from the pouch at her belt and drinks it down, desperate for healing.
"A little worse for wear, and some of us lost a meal apparently but overall not that bad. You seem to have taken the worst of it." Darya says walking over to Iomenna and resting a hand on her shoulder. A warm glow and a sense of sitting in front of a blazing fireplace, washes through the angel blooded warrior.
With the demons defeated you are able to check the pile of corpses - messy, brutal work. You find one survivor in the bodies: a glassy-eyed young woman who is not physically injured, but is totally unresponsive, covered in blood and viscera. She follows limply along when helped to her feet, but does not respond to any questions or speech.
Outside, the wind picks up harder, starting to howl and crash. You hear the sound of rumbling thunder coming closer.
Darya frowns looking at the young woman in shock, then at the distant dark clouds. "Looks like we should try to make it back before that breaks."
It would be easy enough to run back to the temple and drop off your victim, but you could probably still check the next-door tunnel if you wish.
Iomenna thanks Darya for the healing, then chugs down the rest of her potions, as many of her wounds still remain. Wiping the excess from the corner of her lips she gestures to the young woman. "Let's get this one back to the temple. She's going to need time to get her mind right, if that can ever happen, and we can't afford to be distracted again when we move on the other tunnel."
Sario looks at the Storm in coming,
"We might have time to clear the tunnel and get to the chapel otherwise we will be bunking down there." Sario says reading her spear.
This could be an advantage. For instance, if you set some kind of traps, like a deadfall over the mines or a bunch of bear traps outside the cave, you could lure demons out and they might not be able to spot them in all the wind and rain. But ranged combat will be useless and normal fighting will be harder.
"This storm is going to hit once we get this woman to the safety of the chapel. I will be fine in the storm but it will be harder on everyone else. We could use it to our advantage and set traps hoping to draw the demons our cultists out to us." Sario says confidently
"Brilliant idea, Sario," Iomenna cheers enthusiastically as the wind begins to pick up and carry her voice away. "Let's get this woman back, then, and see what we can do to draw out the demons."
"Agreed, she's been through more than enough." Darya adds as they prepare to leave.
"Does anyone have any oil? I'd rather burn the bodies than leave them here to be further defiled, or corrupted and raised as something vile." Darya suggests.