The heavenly fire momentarily blinds everyone not ready for it... which is everyone. When the mini-cataclysm ends only the heartiest of demons are left standing. There are still a good number remaining of various types, but they are universally burnt and PISSED.
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The heaven rained fire as his brother in arms channeled divine fury. Just as Godwyn had brought mercy and healing, Drystan brought fire and wrath.
From the fiery ruin came an Alu Demon. It was shapely female humanoid with dark hair, dark eyes, and a pair of small black horns just above her eyes. Small, black, leathery wings protruded from her shoulders, which she used to swoop over the hellknights as it went right for the source of the utter destruction which had decimated the ranks of its otherworldly kin. Godwyn braced himself, putting the end of his halberd in the ground and digging his feet in. The creature flew directly onto the weapon, impaling itself on the spear point. He lifted the halberd up, raising the demon further into the sky, before throwing it off and onto the ground.
The demon picked itself up from the ground, bleeding profusely. It lashed out at the paladin, thought it failed to connect. Before it could even regain it’s footing...
...Godwyn chopped down at it with the blade of his halberd, splitting the demon’s head in twain. He then turned, readying himself to face any more that might come.
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He turned just in time to see a muscular goat-headed demon come charging out of the flames with a sword which burned with unholy energy.
Godwyn lifted his shield to parry the blow, and...
...and swinging his halberd, lopped the demon’s head off. Boiling blood spurred out, splashing Godwyn. Even through his armor he could feel the flames burn him. Still, he held his ground.
"Thank you Ametist. I honestly didn't expect...That, but it's good to know I can do it again if I need to."
Lian spies a pair of wounded Schir demons, and cracks her knuckles, "Fire seems to work, so more would be in order!
BURNING ARC!"
The flames leap from her hands and curve into the first, burning the flesh off it's head before arcing over and piercing the torso of the second, enough to bring it down in it's wounded state.
"Burnt still works, yes?"
Loc, it's hard to make out where one demon starts and another ends, especially after the flames, but you do locate two suitably intact and relatively fresh quasit corpses that had been shielded from the flame by the bodies piled on top of them.
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"It appears it is time for me to get creative." Loc will outstretch two hands towards a pile of corpses. He will force the smoke and death rising from the scorched bodies into the form of a humanoid clouded in ash and smoke. Two flames burn where it's eyes should be, flickering as a unseen winds blows at the ash.
Drawing his bastard sword, Drystan feels a new power come over him, a new strength in his arms. He charges forward into the fray.
His initial charge brings him up against a pair of smoldering Schir demons. He cuts one down with his first swing, the next on his second. advancing past their bisected corpses, he is attacked by a badly burned Andrazku. The horned yeti-demon is no match for the paladin either, and falls headless to a single stroke of his blade.
The Crusaders descend on what's left of the demon force and start taking them apart like the well trained demon butchers they are as Loc provides backup. The Maralictor barks orders and the Hellknights file out of the inner walls. They form a shield wall behind the Crusaders and make double sure things are dead.
As you approach the outer wall the ground starts trembling like an earthquake!
Here it comes! The maralictor shouts. The trembling gets worse and worse until a huge worm with a tri-fold maw full of glistening teeth bursts from the ground! It rises at last thirty feet into the air before crashing through the wall like it was so many toothpicks! Shards of stone and debris go flying!
The worm disappears into the ground and leaves no trace of its passing. The demons flood through the gaping hole like water from a dam! The Maralictor shouts an infernal battle cry that is echoed by her troops and the battle is joined anew!
Godwyn kept to his feet as the rocks fell around him. Already his wounds were healing and he was sure this would be no different.
Through the breach came an Schir demon, which charged straight at him, holding a halberd of its own.
Godwyn parried the blow, and then...
...he nearly bisected it with two blows. Despite its magic protecting it from all things good, there was little it could do against the paladin’s might.
When the ground trembles, Drystan is caught off guard and crashes to the ground, but that saves him from a greater beating as most of the rubble of the wall flies over his head. As he climbs to his feet, a short, furry humanoid with a flaming sword charges at him.
As the Brimorak's blow glances off his armor, he laughs.
Damage: 46
Damage: 46
The first time he misses, prompting gales of laughter from the demon, but the second time he cuts it nearly in half.
No longer so mirthful, the creature vomits a spray of its own boiling blood at the paladin.
As Drystan shakes off the scalding fluid, he says
Damage (with Vital Strike): 56
Before anything else can approach, he swiftly touches the wounded areas, mostly healing the few injuries he'd sustained.
Keeping her feet, and only minorly buffeted by the rocks, Lian tisks the incoming demons.
They really should wait their turn.... Touch of Green Restraint
Lian commits Effort and places her hands on the ground, and in a 50' radius around the hole, plants erupt forth to bind every demon in the area (save to move), though leaving Hellknights and other allies unaffected.
Karen moves forward with the crusaders to help contain and destroy the demonic attackers.
Karen in thrown to the ground, Just in time to have a chunk of masonry slam into her.
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Loc will surprisingly stay on his feet as he comes up near the rear. He will take cover behind one of the hell knights in the back as the worm suddenly erupts from the ground. "Well I want one of those."
Loc will cast fly as the demons begin to swarm back in. Before he ascends towards the ceiling he will cast haste, granting it to his party, and the remainder of the spells target to the hell knights.
Ametist fights with some minor enemies, but he is really focusing on the giant worm. "I have to try to cath it next time it appears."
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The demons in general are far too numerous for any two crusaders to handle, of course. But the ones they do handle, oh my. Dead just barely begins to describe their state.
The rest flow around them like a river around a rock until Liam acts! In one great spell hundreds of demons are caught in brand new vines and brambles! As they struggle to get free the ones behind them run over their comrades and the whole things becomes a macabre rolling flood of death via friendly stampeding hoof/claw/foot/tentacle!
The Hellknights advance up to the edge of the green spell and meet the flood head on! The entire scene soon looks like they're the thin edges of a pool holding back a ravenous flood. The Crusaders are now completely surrounded!
Loc's undead horror is also there doing a number on several lesser demons!
Lian begins chanting and casting, and summons three Aurochs, one after another.
As the demons struggle against the plant binds, some of their weaker ones find their limbs snap and many of the Dretches even killed, and many have flesh flayed off as they try and pull free by the tightening plants.
The moment the third Auroch forms, she sends all three of them charging forward into the mass of demons, aiming to open a hole on their left and give them some breathing room by targeting a band of Brimorak, goat fiends with fire spewing from their weapons.
The beasts crash into the demons and over ranks of bound foes, crushing bound targets outright and killing over a half-dozen Brimorak, though in return attacks of opportunity rip into the hooved battering rams, flaming longswords felling all three.
Karen again concentrated, repairing the breach to the wall. Any demons that approached her were smashed by flying debris from the wall as it reformed itself time and again.
Drystan moves through the throngs of vine-wrapped demons like a vengeful whirlwind, slicing through the strongest ones with his demon-bane blade, while sparing the weaker ones little more than an elbow or a stomp of his armored boots.
Confident that Sir Drystan could handle the demonic champions trapped within, Godwyn fought his way to the center of the fighting. Then, once near the largest cluster of hellknights, he let loose a surge of healing energy. He was there to aid them in this fight, and he intended to keep as many alive as he could.
Karen seals the breach and the demons inside are quickly slaughtered. Just like last time a rumble begins just a few seconds after the breach is sealed. The worm bursts from under the ground with a roar that sounds like tearing metal and lifts itself high into the air in preparation to strike the wall again!
Seeing the work, Godwyn willed himself to appear next to it. In a flash of golden light the paladin vanished, materializing beside it. He struck out with his halberd...
...gouging a hole into it.
With a flash Godwyn appears next to the worm... outside the wall! He digs his weapon into the worm... and is immediately surrounded by demons!
Just to be sure, Drystan scans the beast with his sixth sense.
Assuming that the creature registers as evil, Drystan will activate Smite Evil as a Swift Action and Ready a use of his Searing Light SLA, firing it off as soon as the creature breaches the wall and comes into view.
Crit?
The creature does not register as evil.
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Now that the beast was in sight Loc could break out his stronger spells. He flew with in range of the creature. He would reach towards the creature before yanking his hands back. Black force would surround the creature as his necromancy attempted to shatter it's very bones.
If it fails it is also exhausted for 8 minutes. On a success it is only fatigued for 8 minutes.
As the Worm prepares to strike, Karen goes with a different idea and has the earth the creature is tunneling through fall away from it, forming a bowl in the earth that the Worm's body inhabits.
Lian knows that she can't help to fell the beast in any significant way, but maybe she can help buy time for the others to-
She draws power from her tails and casts Displacement on Sir Goldflame!
Once he notices the worm approaching thanks to feeling the tremors under the earth, Ametist approaches it while he throws a blast of molten metal.
The creature comes under absolutely withering assault! It's stome-like carapace is cracked, it's stabbed, dropped into a hole, and shot with scalding metal! Despite the damage, its sheer bulk seems to absorb most of your punishment. It screeches, with sounds like ripping steel, and dives into Godwyn!
It grabs him in its maw and Swallows him Whole before disappearing back under ground! The earth shakes at is passing! It's not going away any time soon!
[Ooc]Every round you take 5d6 acid damage + 1d6 slashing.
To get out, you need to successfully escape the grapple or use a light or one-handed weapon to do 30hp of damage vs AC 15. You are also now holding your breath.
Swallowed whole, Godwyn felt the world go dark. He was inside the worm! His halberd tumbled away as he went down...and down...and down...he could feel the acid burn him as he landed in it's stomach. He would not survive long in there...
As he stood up, crying out in pain as he did so, he thought back to his youth. Of how he had learned to use the blade. Of his training as a young nobleman, and then a squire, and finally a paladin. With a force of will, he summoned to him the longsword that he had trained with so long ago...
Hacking and slashing like a madman, Godwyn cut his way out of the creature. Dripping with acid, he looked out at the assembled demons, and tossed aside the now ruined longsword. He put his smouldering hands over his wounds...
...and with a golden light infusing him, the acid fell away, leaving him whole again. Finally, his halberd and shield reappeared in his hands. Looking over the army, alone but unbowed, he thought to himself:
This is going to be a long day.
A swallowed creature can try to cut its way free with any light slashing or piercing weapon
Ametist can't do much with Godwyn inside of the beast, but he stands ready in case the human managed to come out.
Godwin summons a small blade and expertly cuts his way free! Only to find himself underground. Amerist sences the exit and pulls him upward to the surface!
Meanwhile, the demons were not happy that the walls are in tact and they are piling up their dead against them in an attempt at making a ramp of their own bodies!
Godwyn, do you require defensive enchantments, or shall I save them for later? Lian asks her front-line companion, as she considers her own other, bigger options besides enchantments and similarly sorcery- she feels even their newfound, likely divine power has limits and doesn't want to waste it where it has only questionable effectiveness.
Shaking the gore off of him, Godwyn shook his head. ”I am unharmed. While I thank you, there are others who could likely use your aid more. Or you can save your power, for we might need it when the demon lords of this host commit themselves to this fight.”
Yes. Still, I must contribute somehow... and my magic reserves of other spells are by no means in threat of running low.
Seeing the demons piling on bodies, and naturally how that involves them concentrating on moving them towards a spot, she gestures, chants, and casts a spell on the rising slope of bodies to capture as many demons as possible and restrain them from their actions.
Lian's Black Tentacles!
Having seemingly been lost in a trance, the gravity of the situation snaps Zorakir back into reality. His companions were being swarmed by demons and he stood there in a catatonic state. "Allow my druidic magic to help." He concentrated on the hypocenter of Lian's spell, preparing his own spell for any demons caught in the her black tentacles.
The ground continues to rumble as the monster seeks its target. Suddenly, the ground bursts open and part of the wall where Ametiat is standing starts to drop into the things cavernous maw!
Outside, the process of the body-ramp is slowed by the druidic magic, but not stopped. The demons will soon some pouring over the wall!
Seeing the worm reappear, Drystan fires off another blast of Searing Light, then dashes toward the beast, bastard sword in hand. "I've had about enough of you!" he roars.
Even though he was expecting the best to emerge, Ametist can't keep his feet and falls directly into the big and dangerous mouth...
Ametist, the teeth have trouble piercing your defences! What do you do as the maw closes around you?
Seeing the ramp of dead demons, Karen will use her control over earth and stone to increase the height of the wall, trying to buy more time for the others to deal with the problem.
As he is falling right into the maws of the worm, Ametist concentrates and tries to move some of the big chunks of rubble and put them in the way, creating a floating platform in which to thread and safely reach the ground.