Angahaar resists the worst of the damage. However, the fight has certainly taken its toll on him. As UU’s healing washes over him he spits on the corpse of the demon and says, ”This is just the beginning for you and your ilk.” He then turns to UU, ”I could use a bit more of that magic, if you can spare it.”
UU tut-tuts over the dragon scion's wounds, "Next time, don't look so appetizing to the demons." She weaves a holy sigil over the final grievous wound and it vanishes as if it had never been.
Skalv bows his head to UU as she finishes the healing. He does a quick search of the demons, not expecting anything of note, then wipes the blood from his sword. "Forward. There are more demons to cleanse."
Keeping an arrow on the string, Melchesiech approaches the fallen demons. "Let me see if they are carrying magic." The elf murmurs a cantrip and concentrates.
Other than their scythes, which do not radiate magic, there is nothing else of value on the demonic worms.
Since nothing of the enemy's was worth using against them, UU's eyes fall on the gate. She glances at Mel, "Interested in scouting the entrance with me, in case there are traps?"
Melchesiech nods and scans the entry area.
You see the discarded human corpses that the worm demons were "wearing" and you recognize one of them as Lord Mayor Halrun from the speech he was giving during Armasse before chaos overwhelmed the city. UU and Mel check the entrance and spot no traps and determine the doors to the garrison are locked. You also spot a shutter some twenty feet above the ground and to the left of the front doors.
"Mel, can you open this door? Or would it be better to climb through that shutter for a more indirect approach?" Skalv says, seeming indifferent as long as he gets inside and is able to kill more demons.
Mel tries to pick the lock on the door, which tests his skill and patience as he realizes it is quite complicated with many backup tumblers to frustrate even the most heartened criminal. The elf prevails in the end and the door clicks open!
UU creeps nearly silently through the doorway, trusting her more-than-human vision to alert her to any threats.
Melchesiech nods and follows Udaya.
UU and Mel sneak into the garrison.
Along the northern wall of this room, a frieze depicts a line of mounted crusaders crashing over a horde of twisted demons. The crusaders' faces have been obliterated and vile graffiti is carved over the entire scene. Fresh blood stains the floor.
To the west: The faces of the portraits that hang on the walls of this room have been slashed. Two marble planters lie smashed in pieces on the ground, and mud streaks across the white stone floor. UU spots six tieflings passing the time at the table, playing a card game and using severed body parts harvested from human victims as gambling chips.
To the east: This room was once some sort of museum, but its contents have been smashed and scattered across the room-even the shelves have been shattered and torn apart in places. The decapitated bodies of two knights, their armor and bodies broken and mangled, lie in the ruins. UU hears two creatures making noise in the room, but they are outside of line of sight.
25 feet away. The only exits from the foyer where you are in are east or west.
The elf slowly unlimbers his bow, then looks over at UU and mouths something before drawing and loosing at the closest tiefling.
As Mel knocks an arrow, UU raises a hand to get Skalv's and Angahaar's attention. She makes a hard chopping motion toward to the room with the tieflings, indicating they are launching a fast attack. Putting plan to action, she rushes into the room, breaking up the macabre card game with a hopefully impaling blow on a hapless tiefling.
MODS: FOB, Charge
crit?
Mel and UU strike, downing two tieflings before they can even stand from their macabre card table!
Skalv holds his blade, tip placed in the dirt, waiting patiently for the return of his allies when the sound of combat reaches his ears.
With a quick glance to Angahaar, Skalv rushes into the room.
Six tieflings, two down. We still have the drop on them. Not quite close enough to get a strike in, Skalv keeps moving and jumps up onto the table, scattering their cards and drinks under his heavy hooves.
Melchesiech rushes forward, drawing his rapier as he closes and stabbing at the nearest tiefling he can flank with one of his fellow party members.
Angahaar runs into the room and stands next to UU, ready to attack the tieflings if they approach.
UU presses the advantage, slashing her glaive horizontally above the table, attempting to behead the slowest tieflings and add their body parts to the grisly ante.
MODS: FOB
Mel and UU unleash hell on the tieflings and three of the four drop dead, while the 4th is severely wounded. He screams for help and tries to run and is cut down by the party’s AoOs. There is no exit from this room and no valuables are present. Your only option is to explore the museum. Oddly you note that although the tieflings died violently with screams, no creature from the museum came to aid them.
"Mel, can you watch the door? Make sure nobody comes to avenge their fallen allies." Skalv searches the bodies and the room for any valuables and then looks further into the museum. "Well, I would say that plan worked well. Do we want to repeat it, this time into the museum?" He suggests.
Melchesiech pauses to clean his rapier before resheathing it. "Perhaps the other denizens of this place are used to hearing screams for help. In any case, the conditions here are an affront to good order. A moment." The elf casts the same cantrip several times, trying to clean up the worat of the desecration.
With a decisive sweep of her glaive, UU slings the gore from her blade onto one of the tiefling corpses. "Or they may be lying in wait. Either way, I'm happy to see if we can surprise them again or spring the trap."
As UU starts to sneak across the room, his movement makes some subtle noise, which alerts the creatures in the room! They are deformed, horned, hunchbacked humanoids with a forked, ratlike tail and two thumbs on each taloned hand.
Skalv reacts quickly, launching forward to put himself between the enemies and his allies, sword held ready.
One of the demons rushes Skalv and takes the readied action, taking 9 damage! It tries to bite the paladin, but the warrior's armor prevents any damage!
The other demon moves in and casts Cause Fear on UU!
The olive-skinned woman noticeably pales, turns tail, and flees with astonishing speed.
Mel steps up behind Skalv and calls upon his knowledge of defensive magics to aid the party! From his raised hand, a faintly glowing sphere rapidly grows to surround him and anyone near him.
Angahaar rushes into the room next to Skalv and tries to take a swing at the demon, arcane energies coursing through his blade.
Skalv lets the bite scrape off his armor, roaring and bringing down another crosscut. "UU, do not break!" He snarls. Damned demon tricks.
UU flees, Angahaar misses, Mel protects, and Skalv lands another blow on the Abrikandilu demon (-18 damage).
CE Medium Outsider
DR 5/cold iron
Creature's bite causes horrific and hideous wounds that not only mar beauty but supernaturally diminish a creature’s sense of self-worth
Round 2:
Wounded demon attacks on Skalv buts cannot penetrate the paladin's defenses, while other demon casts Cause Fear on Angahaar.
"Hold the line!" I need a cold iron weapon at some point.
UU races back into the grisly game room and crouches down in the corner behind the tiefling corpses, glaive at the ready.
Angahaar manages to quell his fear before saying to Skalv, ”Step back, let the demons come to us!”
Mel closes up to Skalv's left to keep the tiefling in his protective aura while still preserving his ability to fall back. If one of the abrikandlu closes, he'll stab it.
Angahaar moves next to the door and readies to attack one of the demons if it comes out of the door.