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Rinika gives up her searching for the moment and floats out into the hallway. Seeing the Shadowknave surrounded by her new friends, she grins a predatory grin. She casts a spell, causing two things to appear in midair: herself, no longer invisible, and a ghostly umbrella, which proceeds to poke violently at Rinika's ancient foe.
Rinika’s umbrella jabs the Shadowknave in the ribs eliciting a cry of, ”OooOow!”, from the full of themselves bard. Meanwhile...
...the babau juggles their spear and lashes out at the exceptionally large person between her and her prey.
Back in the hallway the Shadowknave screams in terror, ”I surrender! Don’t kill me.”
He’s mostly being honest. If given the opportunity he’d totally slit your throat, but he’s not trying to fool you presently.
MaNik loads his crossbow, still astride that horrifying abomination called 'Horsington' and hidden inside an opaque sphere of force.
"Hey Conor, gonna smash that window? I can throw a fireball in after there's a hole."
TitaNik bolsters Horsington with a hand glowing black, somehow making his hand and a small volume around it darker until the energy flows into the shambler.
before this post
Items with limited uses per day
. 2/3 Lesser Rod of Metamagic, Extend
Supernatural Abilities
. 8/8 Power Over Undead (30' burst; DC 17 will)
. (1 at a time) Corpse Companion
Spell-like Abilities
. 6/8 Bolster (Undead) (+2 profane on attacks and saves; 1 temp hp/HD; +2 turn resistance; 4 round duration)
. 1/1 Pyrotechnics (DC 13)
Spells Prepared:
. 4th (3+1/day) Enervation (S), Black Tentacles, Dimension Door, Flaming Sphere, Greater (DC 20; +1 CL)
. 3rd (4+1/day) Vampiric Touch (S), Fireball (DC 18), Fly, Haste, Tiny Hut
. 2nd (4+1/day) Command Undead (DC 17) (S), Flaming Sphere (DC 18; +1 CL), Glitterdust (DC 17), Levitate, Resist Energy (+1 CL)
. 1st (6+1/day) Ray of Enfeeblement (DC 16) (S), Feather Fall, Grease (DC 16), Infernal Healing [x3][x2], Warp Sense (+1 CL)
. cantrips (at will) Acid Splash, Detect Magic (+1 CL), Message, Prestidigitation
Horsington continues to stand guard, not reacting to the various sounds of battle.
"Is this even our fight? Are our guys in there? I can't see them." Conor responds, looking through the window.
"One of those guys tried to put Jek in the dead book. Also, they might be in Rinika's way... and they broke my shambler..." Nik replies, forgetting about Lunk's auto-defenestration and Savi's sneaking.
Jek stretches and yawns.
"I got it Niks"
He moves off to the side of the window and takes it out with his lance.
"Is this even our fight? Are our guys in there? I can't see them."
"Hmmm... well, the Shadowknave is, but I don't know about the others yet. Niks?"
The Niks both shrug in unison and TitaNik tries to find Rinika through the newly shattered window.
The spellslinger again casts a spell, but this time there is no apparent effect, he curses.
“Aw, Lunk, he’s surrendering.”
Even though it doesn’t make sense for surrender to be an option if assassination is the goal, Savi can’t just hit a guy who gives up like this.
“Well, you gotta stay down then. And let somebody tie your wrists with the rope.”
Savi is prepared to have the rope trip the knave again if he tries funny stuff.
Lunk holds his position for now. If Rinika or Conor ties up the Shadow Knave, he’ll get vomit-girl out of the building.
For now, he casts a spell that will make him better suited for carrying a woman or beating up a guy for feigning surrender.
The barroom brawl continues, with the green gang’s daggers finding some purchase against the Babau assassin. A single member continues to guard the door tentatively asking, ”What’s going on S.K.?”
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Continuing past the window overlooking the melee in the main room, Conor heads to the window Lunk jumped through and seeing the pair and a man on the ground, hops through the window himself.
"This the guy? What's with the brawl in the main room? Your doing? Demons and embiggened thugs and everything. Crazy." then with a hard look at Savi, "your doing?"
“What? Me? Do? No! I called in Lunk to save a succubus from drowning in puke, then everything’s all lasers and giants. I’m more a lasers and feelings gal, so here’s Shadow Knave. Surrendered. You’re welcome.”
She keeps her trip vibe ready in case surrender was a lie, but does think to point the rope out to Conor in case he intends to tie up the bad guy.
Lunk moves to the unconscious fiend.
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Rinika floats over Lunk and plops down next to SK, who she proceeds to wrap up with her reinforced scarf.
"Mr. Knave, it brings me great pleasure to accept your surrender."
The Shadowknave is captured, he hangs his head dejected in defeat.
The Babau concentrates for a moment and disappears, reappearing just outside.
Huh, maybe they'll follow the Babau out...
"Hey, the Babau is getting away!" MaNik explains before deciding to not set the building with Rinika inside on fire.
MaNik gets ready to cast Grease (DC 16) under anyone that attacks Jek instead of the Babau.
TitaNik likewise prepares to retaliate against attacks against Jek, but with a magic missile (from a wand) instead of a puddle of grease.
Seeing the Shadowknave subdued, I thought we were killing this guy? Conor looks up, "There's a crazy battle with a demon in the other room, not sure how but we need to get out of here quick, and hopefully without pissing them all off." he rumbles as he slams his visor down and heads for the window and hops out.
Savi replies, “Lunk’s got a damsel in distress to rescue. Probably demon herself, but… I can’t stand leaving her as I found her.
“Can you guys get the prisoner?”
Savi waits for Lunk.
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Jek gives MaNik a nod of acknowledgement and charges the repulsive dripping Babau.
"On it!"
Jek skewers the tanar'ri and it's acidic ooze ruins the lance's paint. It's not dead but it won't be hurting anyone anytime soon. A disembodied voice by the door tells Jek, "You're on Green Marvent's turf. That bought my generosity, leave before my generosity runs out."
The voice yells, "The demon wasn't my attacker. Check the back before they gey away." The size of the people inside becomes normal.
Lunk picks up the fallen woman (alu fiend) and runs like hell to outta there!
Savi flies out too and asks Jek, “How fast can you run with two people on your back?”
She points to Lunk and the bat-winged woman in his arms.
Most of Green Marvent’s crew piles into the back hallways blocking off Lunk, Rinika, and Connor’s escape. The remaining two move towards the front entrance. One yells, ”There’s three of them and some kind of fairy. They got SK tied up.”
Another addresses the quartet with a greataxe in hand, ”We’d much rather not have to kill you. Plague-Mort’s about to slide into the Abyss. We don’t want that.”
The gang is ready to back up their threat, but they don’t have the skill. They swing at you but Lunk dodges and Connor relies on his thick armor plates.
Most of Green Marvent’s crew piles into the back hallways blocking off Lunk, Rinika, and Connor’s escape. The remaining two move towards the front entrance. One in the hallway yells, ”There’s three of them and some kind of fairy. They got SK tied up.”
Another addresses the quartet with a greataxe in hand, ”We’d much rather not have to kill you. Plague-Mort’s about to slide into the Abyss. We don’t want that.”
The gang is ready to back up their threat, but they don’t have the skill. They swing at you but Lunk dodges and Connor relies on his thick armor plates.
Lunk does not stop.
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"Hey now no reason to get all riled ..." Conor starts, clearly not surrendering, until his short speech is interrupted by the clang of axe against his heavy plate.
"That's wasn't nice" he growls and returns the query the only way he knows how, with a step forward and an upward diagonal slash followed by a sweeping back swing.
Connor's sword cuts through the man's chest, breaking his heart in the process. What remains stains the floor red.
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Rinika gives the man who swung at her an evil grin, holding up her paw with sharp, gleaming claws. The claws seem to sharpen even further as the flesh on the paw begins to dissicate, rot, and split, and her grin grows wider as her eye glints with inner fire. Her head turns to look at the Shadowknave bound at her feet, the man who started her adventuring career by knocking out her party and shoving them unceremoniously into the plane of fire. With great gusto, she brings her claws down at his throat-and she yelps in surprise as they gouge furrows in the floor next to the man's head, narrowly missing his soft jugular. She stares for a moment at her dead hand, and her brows furrow in fury as one finger waggles at her as if to say "no." She screams out a loud and backs up toward Conor, leaving the Shadowknave safe with his companions.
Conor growls in ... disappointment? at the ease in which his foe fell in a bloody mess, then looks up.
"We can talk, but I'll not drop my blade. Abyss sounds bad for all of us."
The Shadowknave is now convinced that his surrender was ill-conceived and struggles against the scarf.
MaNik dismounts Horsington with a sigh and orders it to carefully and gently collect the damsel in distress that Lunk seems to have 'saved' from the tavern.
He casts Resist Fire on himself, just in case the caster from earlier gets impatient.
before this post
Items with limited uses per day
. 2/3 Lesser Rod of Metamagic, Extend
Supernatural Abilities
. 8/8 Power Over Undead (30' burst; DC 17 will)
. (1 at a time) Corpse Companion
Spell-like Abilities
. 6/8 Bolster (Undead) (+2 profane on attacks and saves; 1 temp hp/HD; +2 turn resistance; 4 round duration)
. 1/1 Pyrotechnics (DC 13)
Spells Prepared:
. 4th (3+1/day) Enervation (S), Black Tentacles, Dimension Door, Flaming Sphere, Greater (DC 20; +1 CL)
. 3rd (4+1/day) Vampiric Touch (S), Fireball (DC 18), Fly, Haste, Tiny Hut
. 2nd (4+1/day) Command Undead (DC 17) (S), Flaming Sphere (DC 18; +1 CL), Glitterdust (DC 17), Levitate, Resist Energy (+1 CL)
. 1st (6+1/day) Ray of Enfeeblement (DC 16) (S), Feather Fall, Grease (DC 16), Infernal Healing [x3][x2], Warp Sense (+1 CL)
. cantrips (at will) Acid Splash, Detect Magic (+1 CL), Message, Prestidigitation
TitaNik stuffs the wand into MaNik's bandolier, steps out of the Tiny Hut, hops onto the deck outside the tavern, and replies "Alright, we'll pike off, then. Just let us grab our stuff."
Horsington, still under the effects of Haste, trots quickly past Lunk and relieves the half-elf of his inebriated load.
The Tiny Hut remains.
The Shadowknave is now convinced that his surrender was ill-conceived and struggles against the scarf.
“How fast can you run with two people on your back?”
Jek shrugs. "It depends on their grip."
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Jek chuckles. "And how does a kidnapper help against the Abyss? Was this demon kidnapped? He's just another body to you, right? Care to trade for this one?"
Jek shakes the babau off his lance and moves back into the sphere.