"You there. Creature. What are you doing here? We are looking for Xanesha. And by Torag's might we will find her. Puurraor! Identify yourself, and direct us to her, or stay out of our way."
Dorian let Nadesico talk to the creature wile he handled the important matters...the chests. He carefully inspected each one, trying to see if they were locked or trapped. Looking about to make sure he wasn't in danger yet, he pulled his tools from a pouch and began opening the chests.
Syrenna twitches her nose and her eyes narrow as she gazes upon the creature. She murmurs to Nadescio, "Are you really going to negotiate?" As she rests her hands on the pommels of her swords. She is too distracted by the creature to notice Dorian rummaging around the chests.
Akivar readies a haste spell to be cast if the demon looks to be aggressive.
Trenna eyes the demon flying about. She tries to determine what it's about to do. She readies herself to grab it if it comes within reach.
The circling demon does not respond to Nadesico's request and strangely enough, it does not detect as evil.
Trenna eyes the demon as it circles above, as does Hedge. Dorian meanwhile inspects the numerous chests. Trenna finds the demon looks ominous and dangerous, yet it makes no move to approach. Dorian finds all of the chests locked, needing a key he does not possess.
A voice calls out from the opposite side of the roof. Turning behind you, you see a beautiful human woman from the waist up, but below her body is the tail of an immense snake. Three images illusory images surround her, making it difficult to determine which is the real snake-lady.
The snake-lady shouts "Strike them down, Nualia!" she calls out as the demon-clawed aasimar from Thistletop emerges from seemingly thin air, wielding a beautifully crafted Earthbreaker in her hands.
Turning to Nadesico from across the tower, she frowns a pouty face and mocks "Awww. I can't wait for you and your foolish friends to try and run away again. Why don't I help you off the side of this tower and see how many lives you have left?"
The snake-lady wields a beautiful darkwood longspear in her hands, its head is a thorn-like, wide-bladed barb. Nadesico's gets an up close and personal inspection of the barbed head as it is plunged into her chest. Twice. .
When the barbed weapons strikes Nadesico, a burst of despair washes over all of your. .
"Whoah, ugly! Um, Nadesico I think we found your old hammer." Dorian stood up from the chest he'd been fiddling with and cast his own enchantment at the pair.
Nadesico gasps as she is surprised by the barbed spear attack. She spits out blood as she gets a look at her foes.
*Coughing out blood* "Nualia! My hammer! You fiend. We won't let you escape again. Torag fights with us today, and we are stronger together! Yes! I am coming for you, as soon as I deal with your little pawn here. " She holds her hand to her wound as a bright light emits around the point of impact.
She grips her shield tighly and then shouts "My turn!" She steps up to the snake lady (5') and slashes back at her with her blade.
Akivar whines like a little girl. "Go on an adventure they said. See the world they said. Become incredibly rich by doing the dirty work for the nobility... more like die trying."
In between his griping Akivar manages to cast haste on the party. He slides over behind the bleeding cat lady, looking down at the wand in his wrist-sheath.
Trenna failed to pay attention in druid class when discussing creatures of NATURE. She knows nothing of this snake-lady.
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Hedge realizes what is bothering him about the demon - the lack of sound in its flight - a moment before his true foes appear and all hell breaks lose.
"The demon is an illusion!" he cries out. He is about to explain that the two women in the tower are the real enemy, but no words come after Nadesico is impaled before him.
Despite the wave of positive and negative enchantments that washes over him, Hedge maintains his focus and springs into action, leaping towards the wall and then bounding off, using his extra momentum to deliver fists of fury direct to the demon-clawed aasimar.
(Hedge has 40' movement so he should be able to safely maneuver into position, but I threw the acrobatics in there in case the edges are constrained space or reach is further than anticipated. Also, parkour.)
Power attack, Stunning Fist on the first strike
- DC14 Fort save for Stunning FIst
After Syrenna gets out of her way, Trennape steps up and attacks Nualia, "you" she grumbles. Her teeth slam down and her claws fly through the air but she is distracted by her companion getting hit with the spear.
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Seeing her opponents, Syrenna visibly pales and feels a gut-wrenching despair flow throughout her body. moves to her left and attempts to strike Nualia with a vital strike!
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Despair 60 rounds
Xanesha cackles at Nadesico words "Little pawn? Oh foolish child." she says, flicking aside the cat's attack as if it were nothing more than a sneeze. "It's a shame you won't get to learn your place in things." Nadesico's attack is so far off the mark that it does not remove one of Xanesha's images.
Hedge circles behind Nualia, setting up a potential flanking with Syrenna. He throws three punches and only connects with the last one, nearly critically so. Syrenna moves up, but she is overcome by despair and cannot focus enough to hit the aasimar. Dorian's glitterdust takes ahold of Nualia who's hands fly to her eyes as she screams "I can't see!". Since Nualia is unable to adequately defend herself, Trennape takes full advantage of this and lands two claws and a bite, drawing lots of blood from the demon-clawed adversary.
"My turn, kitty." Xanesa says and lays into Nadesico with three rapid-fire attacks. The first two strikes with the barbed weapon pierce Nadesico's chest and seem to leach something away from her other than her health.
Nualia shouts "Die!" and throws forth a blast of negative energy, hitting all of the party.
Nadesico drops all of her life link bonds as she just about spitters out of existence. As Nadesico lets out a gasp from blow after blow, an instant bright light shines from within.
Nadesico triggers Hero's Defiance.
Seeing the wounds she is taking, and her allies, she chimes back. "I won't give up that easily. Torag! Aid me and my allies this fight!" she she glows bright again, twice.
Nadesico trembles as she continues to hold her shield steady in her arms, keeping herself between her allies and this new foe.
Dorian spun and saw Nadesico taking a huge amount of punishment. He looked at the grip the snake-lady held on her weapon. If he could rip it from her hands, then...that was chancy. He decided to focus on Nualia instead. The whip snapped sideways, wrapping around ht eblind woman's legs, and Dorian yanked her off feet.
Akivar delays until after Syrenna and Hedge have a chance to attack Naulia.
Trennape feels the buffeting positive and negative forces wash over her. When she sees Nadesico falter and rally, she decides to go help by going through Nualia, "hang in there Warri!"
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Although he only spent a brief time on the road with Akivar, Hedge recognizes a certain look in his eye.
Hedge throws a few punches and a kick at his foe, hoping to distract the aasimar from whatever his friend is about to do. He then then leaps back, out of the potential blast radius.
Power attack, Stunning Fist on the first strike, 5' step
- DC14 Fort save for Stunning FIst
Syrenna feels a wrench of pain within her from the channel! "OWWWwww" she cries as Nadesico's bless partially mitigates it.
She proceeds to attack Nualia! It almost seems like a blur as a hasted Syrenna tears into it like a swarm of rabid squirrels attacking the world's largest nut.
Nadesico performs some healing on herself and the others while Akivar waits for the right moment to strike.
Dorian succeeds in wrapping his whip around the aasimar's feet and dragging her to the ground. Blinded, prone, bleeding and pissed off, the aasimar can do little more than to watch the party gang up on her.
SSyrenna, Hedge and Trenna all combine to quickly finish off the foe before she can once more channel negative energy across the roof.
Akivar prepares to boop Nadesico with a wand while gesturing grandly (in an overly demonstrative manner) as he again summons his buddy Hound Archon. During this time he looks fearfully up at the flying demon.
Because Nadesico wasn't bleeding from enough holes already, Xanesha steps back to the edge of the roof and decides to open up a few more holes in the kitty when she thrusts her barbed weapon into the catfolk's body twice.
Try as she may, Nadesico continues to keep herself between this foe and her allies. SO much attention given to protecting her friends, she could no longer protect herself, as attack after attack from this snake creature continues to impale her. The cat has fallen.
Dorian, knowing that he wasn't likely to be tripping the giant snake-lady any time soon, instead knelt by the fallen cat-lady. With a whispered incantation, he sent a healing spell Nadesico's way, hoping that if it didn't bring her back intot eh fight, at least it might keep her from bleeding out.
"Up and at em, furball. This one ain't over yet."
Trennape races around the tower, hurtling over the dead red-armed lady and Hedge. She lashes out at the snake lady.
Syrenna quickly moves over the fallen cat, "scuse me!" as she moves to flank the snake lady!
"Time to open a can of woop..." she really didn't get to complete the thought as she's quickly backhanded by the creature in an attack of opportunity!
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HP: 50/60
AC: 23
Akivar welcomes another Hound Archon into the fray in their Celestial tongue. He gestures for him to step up to close the gap and attack Xanesha.
Akivar casts Enlarge Person on Syrenna, stepping up 5' behind Nadesico again. "I'll get you a little more heal in just a sec. Meanwhile, big booty inbound!"
Hedge tries to grab a hold of the large, snake-lady, but she is far to slippery for him and easily wriggles out of his attempt to hold her.
Akivar starts his spell to enlarge Syrenna as his hound successfully strikes Xanesha, though not critically so. Syrenna also sucessfully strikes the lamia matriarch, seeing through the images. Trenna does not however, her attack slicing away one of her images, leaving two.
Forgoing her multiple attacks, she instead goes for one powerful strike and thrusts her spear straight through Trenna's chest.
Dorian snapped his whip a few times then spat on Nualla's body and glared at the snake-lady. "This is how we treat our enemies. We beat them down and crush the life out of them when they fall. Know that you're next, and I can't wait to make a nice cape out of that scaly skin!"
Akivar steps up and boops kitty in the furry booty with his feel-good stick.
"Oh yeah! You like that??? Of course you do!"
Hound Archon attacks again. Menacingly.
Nadesico's eyes open to the sounds of flailing whips and swords, growls and hisses alike. Get up Nadesico" she thinks to herself
She looks around from her lower perspective to see more bloodshed, including her own great wounds.
Using all the strength she can she yells out "I won't let you down my friends!" as a burst of positive energy erupts from her position.
From the ground she then shouts out "Its not over yet! Through Torag's might, I shall smite you!" Nadesico's body begins to glow with more positive energy. She grabs her swords and shield as she takes a standing position.
Smite TL/DR: Nadesico gets +2 AC for 28 total (not including hound archon), bonuses to hit and damage, and bypasses all DR.
Trennape is nearly staggered by the spear. She pulls herself along it and sinks her claws and teeth into the snake lady.
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That Akivar, I like that guy thinks Syrenna as she briefly sees him touch Nadesico on the rump with this wand. She continues the assault on her target after seeing Trenna get skewered by the lamia.
Taking advantage of the chaos of the fight, Syrenna drills into the lamia once more!
Dorian's words seem shake the lamia, causing her to look away from him and focus on other, weaker-willed individuals.
Try as he may, Hedge once more fails to grapple the large snake-like creature.
Trenna lands all four attacks, but one of them wipes away the last image of the snake lady.
Only one of Syrenna's attacks strike Xanesha, nearly critically so.
Both of the hounds attacks miss the lamia matriarch.
Xanesa isn't affected by the archon's menancing aura and proceeds undeterred.
As Nadesico tries to stand, the matriach stabs her again with its barbed weapon before moving south five feet to the edge of the roof and jabbing TrennApe as well
"Ungh" Nadesico recoils as she is yet again stabbed. Looking at her shield. "Why do I even hold you?" she mutters under her breath.
She closes her eyes and one more releases a burst of positive energy.
healing her allies around her. Still feeling the pain, she quickly glows bright again, as she touches herself for another burst of healing.
She then reaches down and pick up her fallen weapon, taking a 5' step closer to the big bad lady.
"Why flee? Leave my friends alone. I am right here evil doer!"