The two dretches tear at Tina as Kel tries his best to help block their blows. The dretch in the maze catches Kel as he steps in the way of its attack, but Kel manages to successfully fend off a swipe from the dretch behind Tina. However, the newly summoned dretch is still able to sink his teeth and claws into the young woman.
Max moves up the hallway and readies his crossbow with a cold iron bolt.
Aravashnial hobbles back toward the fight.
Kel drops into a defensive stance and makes a fighting retreat, but he's unable to hit the enemy as he goes.
Deia moves back towards the doorway.
Anevia continues to struggle against her own stomach.
A wave of fresh air rushes over Rex as his stomach finally settles.
[ooc]I think Tina is at -1 so she falls and here is stablization check.
Tina moves so she is just south of Rex. Does anyone have that potion of Cure Moderate Wounds? I'm bleeding a lot!
Rex shakes off the last effects of the poison cloud, gripping his morningstar,"Hold the line Kel, I'm coming."
Rex charges forward at the farthest demon to the north, he swings his weapon with gusto.
Rex moves back into the cloud in an attempt to help Kel. He swings his morningstar hard, but only swishes it through the gas cloud.
Tina retreats after the mauling she took.
Lann leans against the cavern wall, trying to get over the stench.
The gas cloud dissipates as the slightly wounded dretch scrabbles all over Kel in a futile fashion.
The summoned dretch tears savagely at Rex, sinking its claws deeply into him.
Horgus keeps his crossbow lazily pointed at the door.
Aravashnial makes his way up to the barricade and stops as he hears the majority of the party in the same area.
"Is everyone all right?"
I got clawed bad by some nasty, blobby looking demons. There are two of them!
Round 8
"I have this potion of cure light wounds," suggests Max, who pulls out the potion and seems ready to either hand it off or even feed it to her.
Ahhhhhhhh. Tina takes her medicine.
Kel tries to help Rex avoid the demon's claws, but the disgusting cloud hinders his aim.
"Alright, pull back. I'll follow."
"These damn things are proving to be quite a problem,"Rex says as he begins to back out of the chamber and back to the others.
Max pulls out a potion and administers it to Tina.
Aravashnial moves forward.
Kel holds in position, waiting for Rex to clear out.
Deia makes her way through the door.
Anevia continues to be sick.
Rex pulls back to the room.
Kel pulls back right behind him and shuts the door.
Kel shut the door and leaned against it taking a deep breath of clean air.
"Demons can summon more demons. I think that's what happened in there. I don't know how long the summoned one will stick around, but we should be able to hear when it vanishes. These things aren't smart. Everyone take breather. Lets see what they do."
He was looking a little haggard, bleeding nearly black blood from multiple wounds.
"That cloud... Ugh... It's terrible..."
"Indeed. It's like standing in a cesspit. I could barely keep my stomach in check."
"Yeah, well, Demons. These are among the more pleasant ones out there." Kel said with a shrug.
I can make healing extracts in a minute if someone needs to be healed.
Tina moves back to a new position
"That would be... really nice." Kel says with a wry smile that belied how hurt he was.
"You and Rex need them more than me though. I'll be alright."
Tina moves back down the hallway.
Lann keeps leaning against the wall, gagging.
The party's breather is interrupted by the sound of claws scratching against the door and the howls of the two dretches as they fail in their attempt to break through.
Horgus jumps as the demons slam into the door and start scratching. His nervous grip on the crossbow and the sudden jerking cause the weapon to discharge in the direction of the door. The bolt hits the wall above the door and shatters, sending fragments of wood flying around the room.
Indignantly he says, "I told you I didn't want this thing! Now how do I reload it?"
Kel ducked as the bolt slammed into the wood above his head. He winced and chuckled a little. "Hold it in your left hand and swing it down to put your foot in that stirrup at the front. Now grab that middle grip with your right hand and pull. It's a lever that draws the string back into place."
Max fires his own cold iron bolt at the dretch!
; Max lodges his own arrow straight into the woodwork.
"Believe me, Horgus, it isn't easy with so many folks in the way!" Max reloads.
"Does anyone have more healing draughts? We should quickly recover our strength!" He realizes as he declares this that he is stating the obvious.
I can make two in a minute. I think we do have four Cure Light Wounds potions from the Chief left over.
Tina gets to work making a CLW extract if the others have decided to wait.
Doesn't Rex have the scale that makes his weapons blessed? That would be great to use on a devil.
"Go ahead Tina. Hopefully by the time you get finished the summoned Dretch will be gone."
Tina gets cooking, putting stuff into a tumbler and shaking it up and down.
"I have a healing vial yet Max." "Anybody need it?"
Rex looks towards the door, hoping the demons don't follow.
Horgus clumsily reloads his crossbow and sets it back on top of the barricade, this time making sure to not touch the trigger.
Tina gives Kel an extract to drink which will cure 1d8+3 damage.
When we are ready to go in, Kel and Rex should take the lead.
"Thank you."
Max will also move himself back - the front room is getting much too crowded!
A few seconds after Kel slams the door shut the scratching lessens. As the party rests and recovers for a minute, the scratching continues. After about a minute and a half, however, the scratching stops completely.
"Ok, here's the thing with Dretches. They're basically mindless, but they understand how to take orders. Those ones were probably told to guard than maze and kill any intruders who didn't have the right holy symbol or something. After we shut the door, we stopped being a threat. It lost interest and probably went back to its post. We should expect it to be waiting for us in the maze again."
You aren't even questioning how you know this things anymore.
I'm pretty quick to adapt.
"Anyway we can protect ourselves from the poison cloud, I'm sure we could defeat them if it wasn't for that."
"I'm pretty sure they can only do that once a day. We shouldn't have to worry about that again."
"So, how are we all feeling? Ready to open the door?" Before the door opens, Max calls on Aroden's guidance upon Lann, Tina, Rex and Kel.
All set