Lough feigns innocence, but the glaive-wielder doesn't fall for it. They poke him back with their glaive and makes ready to strike back.
Kka
Pink fly
Green fly
Fuìn
Glaive-wielder
Lough
Kvit
Kka wins initiative!
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Kka
Pink fly
Green fly
Fuìn
Cherry Berry
Glaive-wielder
Lough
Kvit
Kka looks into the room and immediately spots all the blood and torture implements. "Ugh! How festive." She then sees the ugly flying babies and the red horned creature.
"Oh great! The big one there looks like thaat Korlock devil we raan into upstairs, and two smaller ones look like thaat poor cleaning Zebub."
When Lough cuts to the chase and goes for the red devil, Kka sighs. "I'm kinda wishing I brought some silver weapons with me now." Nevertheless, Kka once again finds herself moving faster than the rest. Darting in, she takes a swipe at big red before retreating to relative safety behind the front line.
Kka cuts deep into Big Red, but her shortsword meets a lot of resistance, cutting not quite as deep as she would've liked. Still, it hurts a lot.
Pink and Green move in tandem, flying forward and biting Fuìn and Lough, then retreat further back into the room.
and evil.
and evil.
Lough and Fuìn, please both make me a Fortitude save as their saliva enters your bloodstream.
Kka
Pink fly
Green fly
Fuìn, 9 damage
Cherry Berry
Glaive-wielder, 20 damage
Lough, 9 damage
Kvit
Fuìn and Cherry Berry are up!
Kka rushes in to strike, but the creature lashes out at her first.
The jagged glaive tears through Kka's flesh and leaves a nasty wound that keeps bleeding.
Kka, 11 damage, 1d6 persistent bleed
Pink fly
Green fly
Fuìn, 9 damage
Cherry Berry
Glaive-wielder, 20 damage
Lough, 3 damage, shield 3 damage
Kvit
Cherry starts this combat with a bless spell, before casting guidance on Kka.
◆◆Bless
◆Guidance
Cherry Berry blesses the party, then boosts Kka even more.
Fuìn whirls his chain around and hits the weapon-wielder, aided by Cherry's protection.
Again, the creature's tough hide lessens the impact of the hammer, but you still hear bones breaking.
He then moves forward and casts a Shield on himself.
The weapon-wielder frowns at Kka and the damage she did, but they seemingly like that she's still in the hallway. They still have a chokepoint. They instead go for Fuìn. The first attack goes wide completely, the second attack misses by a narrow margin.
They then Step back out of Fuìn's reach while still being able to threaten the doorway.
Kka, 12 damage, 1d6 persistent bleed
Pink fly
Green fly
Fuìn, 9 damage
Cherry Berry
Glaive-wielder, 25 damage
Lough, 3 damage, shield 3 damage
Kvit
Lough, Kvit, and Kka are up! Glaive-wielder looks surprisingly beaten up already, but not quite bloodied yet.
The creature swings at you!
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"Nasty stick" Lough double-takes Kka's wound.
"You will pay for that"
Lough's beard grows into a gnarled knot, and bludgeons his foe while his slagged claws rips flesh from bone!
◆) Step
◆) Snagging Strike
◆) Snagging Strike
↺) Reactive Strike
The target must succeed at a Fortitude save against your class DC [22] or be slowed 1 until the end of your next turn.
Lough's claw leaves only a small scratch in the creature's flesh, but the living hair leaves a big impression!
The creature shrugs off the concussion with ease, but is pretty banged up at this point. You think that without the damage resistance they'd be out already.
Kka, 12 damage, 1d6 persistent bleed
Pink fly
Green fly
Fuìn, 9 damage
Cherry Berry
Glaive-wielder, 43 damage
Lough, 3 damage, shield 3 damage
Kvit
Kvit retrieves a handful of colored paper from a pouch and holds it out with an upraised palm. He blows on it and it swirls away. The cloud of paper appears to grow in size doubling and tripling until it settles over the creatures in the room. The individual pieces of paper fuzz out of existence and back in whole looking more faceted and crystalline. The shimmering lights dance in front of the faces of the three creatures.
With them hopefully distracted a moment, he considers the large one.
Kvit looks a moment at the red-skinned opponent and realises he has no idea what kind of creature it is. Maybe Cherry Berry would know more.
He then blows a giant cloud of confetti into existence. Two of them aren't fazed by it, but the pink fly is staring at the colours with open mouth.
Kka, 12 damage, 1d6 persistent bleed
Pink fly, fascinated
Green fly
Fuìn, 9 damage
Cherry Berry
Glaive-wielder, 43 damage
Lough, 3 damage, shield 3 damage
Kvit, 1 action left
Kka takes a cut on the way in, but leaves a bigger cut behind in payment. While she licks her bleeding wounds to little effect, she watches as the others go into action softening up the red devil. When Kka is ready to act, she wonders if the best approach would be to heal herself or try and finish off the rather beaten up devil. Shrugging, she decides on the latter. She plunges into the room and continues slicing and dicing the big guy.
Kka triggers another attack from the creature, but ducks neatly underneath it and finishes them off with her first attack.
Pink fly bobs happily up and down in the cloud of confetti, the fight completely forgotten.
Green fly however wants to get out of the distracting cloud, and the nearest way to do that is also by attacking Fuìn. Fuìn lashes out with his hammer in retaliation.
The fly then attempts to bite Fuìn, then retreats further back into the room.
plus evil
Kka, 13 damage
Pink fly, fascinated
Green fly, 4 damage
Fuìn, 26 damage
Cherry Berry
Lough, 3 damage, shield 3 damage
Kvit
Everyone is up! Kka has one action left over from previous turn.
Kvit rubs an amber rod on his fur and points it, an arc of electricity jumps from him to each of the fly devils.
[ooc]DC22 basic reflex
Kvit keeps the magical patterns of colours flickering in the air, keeping at least one of the critters
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Lough concentrates hard - snaps a piece of the glaive off with his mind, and angrily hurls it towards the bug.
◆◆) Telekinetic Projectile
◆) Step
↺) Reactive Strike
Kka cuts down big red with a slash across the throat, and with a moment to spare, applies pressure to her bleeding wound to stanch the flow. "Maan! Those infernal wounds are a b@*@@ to stop bleeding." She decides to put up her magical shield in case the flying devils decide to go after her in retaliation.
Turning her attentions to the hairy devil's flying minions, she sees the one happily distracted by Kvit's confetti cloud and decides not to join it in the fun and games. Instead, she waits for Fuìn to get within melee range of the remaining flying creature before launching herself across the room and attacking the zebub from behind.
Fuin steps into range of the green flybaby in order to psych it out enough for Kka to do some damage, but then turns to the derped out flybaby in the confetti and tries to put it out of everyone's misery.
♦
♦
♦ Cast shield.
If Green Strides/Casts a Spell:
If Either Attacks An Ally: Cast protector’s sacrifice.
If Fuìn Is Attacked: Shield Block (Hardness 10).
Fuìn runs in and conks the dazed flybaby on the head with his hammer. Again, not all of the force seems to land as hard as it should, but it still bruises Pink a fair bit.
Lough hurls a bit of the wicked glaive at Green, and it connects. Even though the glaive has all sorts of barbs, it doesn't seem to cut as much as it should.
Then Kka is up and gangs up on Green, and manages to crit twice! The first shortsword nearly bisects the baby, the second one finishes it off.
Kvit holds his turn to make sure the flybaby's still occupied.
Kka, 13 damage
Pink fly, 26 damage, heavily wounded
Green fly, 13 damage
Fuìn, 26 damage
Cherry Berry
Lough, 3 damage, shield 3 damage
Kvit
Cherry Berry is up! The baby is heavily injured!
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Cherry continues the bless, expanding its area.
Then they rush forward to be behind Lough, which they tap in the back with a quick casting of Guidance. "Go gettum Lough!"
♦Sustain Bless
♦Stride
♦Guidance
Cherry Berry expands Erastil's blessing on the party, then boosts Lough even more.
Kvit throws lightning at the entranced flybaby.
After being clobbered by Fuìn, it snaps awake and has enough presence of mind to partially dodge out of the way, but still gets zapped, and it's exactly enough to put it down.
The festive confetti cloud remains for a while until Kvit drops concentration on it.
You loot the room while patching up the minor injuries sustained during the fight. The glaive turns out to be a regular glaive, but especially wicked-looking. You might be able to upsell it if you can spin a good tale, but is otherwise not especially valuable.
The weapon rack holds several interesting items. Two more wicked glaives, but these turn out to be magical. Not super special, but worth more than the regular one, at least.
There's a shield made out of standard-grade cold iron, three moderate acid flasks, and a strange curved knife that also turns out to be magical.
Kka cuts down one of the ugly flying devil babies then turns in time to see Kvit fry the last one with some lightning. She looks down at the corpse of the big red devil. "I guess these guys aren't that tough, or maybe we're just getting better with praactice." She looks around to see how badly beat up everyone is and gets to work patching up wounds.
She then searches the room thoroughly, finding several items of value, many of which were of interest to her. The acid flasks, which she'd recently learned how to throw with some degree of skill, she carefully tucks into some pockets.
She then examines the interesting curved knife to figure out what it is.
"Niiice! A Bloodletting Kukri. This might actually come in haandy." She looks around, but unless someone objects, she tucks it into her belt.
Lifting the shield, she glances over at Lough. She hands it to him. "I think yours is already better thaan this one, but you never know."
Finding no other exits in the room, Kka frowns. "That's strange. I wonder whaat this little den of devils was doing down here." After a moment, she gives up trying to figure it out and heads for the door. "Except for dealing with the big fella in the arena, there's only one other area of this level left for us to explore."
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"No no. Not practice. It is something else" he throws the shield over his back - good to have a second shield, but, even better to have a magic shield - in any case, it has some worth.
"We are blessed to not die, don't you see?" he looks at the blade "That is a nasty looking knife. Careful not to taint your soul..." he ignores his own plight in a simple cast of projection "Might be too late for you. You are a killer Kka. Cold-blooded killer"
Looking around at his teammates, his eyes finally rest upon Cherry Berry. He thinks to himself [b]"He is innocent. The rest of us..."[/i]
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Kka frowns as she remembers something. "Hold on. There's also a bunch of doors we haaven't looked behind to the east of the arena. Still think we should take care of the area north of the arena first though, then head west."
Kvit makes a few notes in his spellbook about the creatures, the effectiveness of the Hypnotic Pattern spell, and the magical items they inspected.
"I suspect we'll continue to see more of these devils. It would be good to prepare something when we next head back to the surface."
Kvit follows Kka towards the next area. "And just to remind everyone, we are on a bit of a time limit..." Referring subtlety to the giant abomination in the arena.
Cherry Berry can indeed confirm that these creatures were devils. The fly-creatures are often used as spies and can replay information they've seen. The other one is a Barbazu devil, the foot soldiers of Hell. They're not super resilient, but their skill with glaives can leave nasty wounds.
Devils resist all forms of physical attacks, except silver weapons. So if Lough had punched them with his robo-arm, it would've been more effective. They also have an extra resistance against magic, giving them a bonus on their saves against spells.
"I hope they aren't too active in the tower. Devils are too easy as minions to not be here, I just hope they are not a dominate force."
"Lough, if we fight another one, consider punching it. Your silver arm might do excellent damage, though I guess your magical weapon might still work more effectively."
Kvit strokes his whiskers while thinking out loud, "Silver... I'd need a few things back in town, but we can definitely be more prepared next time. I could powder some silver into a salve and possibly find a different version of the telekinetic throw cantrip that might work with some silver nails, or something like that..."
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Sneakers comes out after a few minutes. "They g-gone? Good. Didn't want to get licked again... Blergh!"
Fuin mouths behind his mask 'again?' with a look that is both confused and concerned.
"You said they can replay what they've seen? Maybe these devils aren't minions. Maybe..." He rubs his chin thoughtfully. "Maybe they're scouts? Maybe they want to see if they can wrest this place from Belcorra, or work with her. Either way, we'd best dispatch any we come across. Nothing from Hell can be good news, surely." He looks mournfully at the angry black iron of his meteor hammer. "I know a silver meteor hammer would be a terrible idea for many reasons, but man, it'd look cool, wouldn't it?" He sighs. "Well, whatever. Let's go check out the other doors we missed."
He gives a little salute to Kka. "Lead the way, chum."
Kka was about to head back to the tavern so as to avoid the arena and any chance that they may engage the monster therein, but when Lough decides the arena is the better option, she pauses momentarily in indecision. After a second she shrugs and says, "Whaatever. Lead the way big maan."
As Lough opens the door to the arena, you see that the arena behemoth has moved north and has picked up one of the dead morlocks and is starting to ingest it. It then does the same to the other morlock and the snake/worm creature and is now inspecting the door leading to the tavern, music still audible through two doorways.
When Kka enters the arena, she notes the location of the behemoth and curses under her breath. "Looks like we're screwed. We're going to haave to take the long way around..." Her voice trails off as she notices the lunatic grin on Lough's face. "Uh, oh! Don't do it Lough. Do. Not. Do. It!"
Too late.
Kka watches in resignation as Lough turns and heads quietly towards the behemoth. She sighs and turns to the others. "Looks like we're taking care of this unfinished business a little earlier than expected. Let's go." A strange exhilaration overtakes her as she heads after the crazed changeling. "Today's as good a day to die as any."
"Well it did look like it was going to attack the tavern" Cherry says to themselves as they get a better grip on their staff.
Lough is surprisingly stealthy, but as soon as Lough steps within 30 feet of the behemoth, it suddenly stops squeezing through the narrow passageway and starts to turn around in Lough's direction. Seems like it has some kind of extra senses other than the ones regular creatures have. Its many heads lick their bloody lips in anticipation of their next meal.
One of the abdomens somewhere on the flesh-heap start pumping and suddenly spits out a glob of sticky webbing in Lough's direction.
It hits Lough, and he is covered with the goop, and stuck to the floor!
Its stomach then starts pumping as well, and you see bits of bone suddenly being expelled from its body, aimed straight at Lough!
Lough intercepts the attack with his shield, but the thing tries again!
Luckily, the attack goes wide.
Behemoth
Fuìn
Cherry Berry
Kka
Lough, stuck to the floor (DC 30 to escape)
Kvit
Everyone is up!
Stairs are regular movement, don't wanna bother with counting difficult terrain.
As they approach the behemoth, Kka remembers that her swords are unlikely to be of much use and balls up her fists. "This gets better and better." After witnessing the creature's attack on Lough, she realizes that her own death is imminent. She shrugs. "Whatever." Then charges up the stairs, punches the creature once and retreats back around the corner where she hopes to find some cover from the web and bone it's flinging about.
Cherry fires up Spiritual Weapon, creating a spectral version of their staff, which they direct to attack the creature.
They then quickly cast Guidance at Lough to make it easier for him to escape
◆◆
◆Guidance
Kka runs in, gives a quick bap to the giant flesh-heap, and runs back to safety.
Lough struggles and flails wildly to escape the hair, and finally with miraculous might he manages to break his bonds.
Cherry Berry casts a spectral staff into being, but it sadly misses its mark.
Behemoth, 8 damage
Fuìn
Cherry Berry, 1 action remainining
Kka
Lough
Kvit
Stairs are regular movement.
Kvit begins to whisper harshly at Lough as the unpredictable fighter moves to engage "Lough- ugh, this is not going to go well."
He moves back away from the projectiles, hoping to avoid getting hit himself.
Then fires a blast of water at the gross abomination.
Cherry Berry throws their Guidance at Fuìn.
Fuìn jumps into action and runs up the stairs, then lunges forward to hit the behemoth with his hammer.
Fuìn then moves back to his original position.
Kvit moves to a better position and hits the giant blob with a stream of water, pushing it back. Its malleable form allows it to squeeze partially into the narrow tunnel.
The behemoth got a big hit from Fuìn and focuses its attention on him, but thanks to Kvit's spell, it now has to move. It moves into the arena area, its globby form falling the short distance down and hitting the ground with a thud. It lunges at Fuìn, trying to grab hold of him as it attacks.
It manages to grab hold of Fuìn.
Behemoth, 36 damage
Fuìn, 16 damage, grabbed
Cherry Berry
Kka
Lough
Kvit
Everyone is up!
The creature is sort of half-hanging on the overlook, half-stretching down to the ground.
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Kka watches the behemoth slap Fuìn silly and then wrap its fleshy extrusion around his body. "Thaat's just wonderful! Our best bet to finish off this monster is out of commission." She slides forward and takes a punch at the grabbing tentacle to try and encourage it to release its captive before saying "protect me," and bringing up a magical pink shield to try and blunt the impact of any counterattack.
Concentrating on the aeon stone in her wayfinder, she says the words, "protect me," and the space around her shimmers a light pink.
Kvit telekinetically lifts a nearby skull and hurls it into the mass, he just hopes it doesn't just absorb it into its bulk...
Then he really hopes he didn't catch its attention and scurries back!