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"Your friends were going to try and help free me from Chyvvom. However, they do not appear to really mean it, and are going to abandon me here. Oh, well... I am sure that Chyvvom will appreciate me delivering you to him."
She then transforms from her appearance of a beautiful woman into that of a "tentacle woman"!
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She then reaches out at Emberwik with her tentacle. "Foolish mortal, why would Chyvvom ever give you my contract?"
"Perhaps I will just bring you to him instead!"
- x Marijkal
- => Chak
- Illia
- Balik
- Molly
- Emberwik
- Bubbles
U = Unconscious
S = Surprised
D = Delay
R = Readied Action
Conditions:
Balik: 107/112
Bubbles: 48/48
Chak: 92/100
Emberwik: 59/111
Hurrit: 95/95
Molly: 85/96
Riddywhipple: 47/47
Enemies:
Marijkal:
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Chak cuts into the woman(?), but while his strike was true, it could have been a little more true. Chak's blade cannot get a full bite into the woman's rubbery flesh, and it appears that she is not hampered by holding on to Emberwik!
Illia sems to suddenly realize who the team were talking to. She realizes that Bubbles is sitting on her head, and screams out. "Take these and let me go!" as she quickly draws her short sword and attacks the familiar!
Molly hears the empathic cries of pain from her familar, as the two stabs cause terrible wounds to Bubbles, who falls to the floor, dying!
- x Marijkal
- x Chak
- x Illia
- Balik
- Molly
- Emberwik
- Bubbles [Dying]
U = Unconscious
S = Surprised
D = Delay
R = Readied Action
Conditions:
Balik: 107/112
Bubbles: -4/48 [Dying]
Chak: 92/100
Emberwik: 59/111
Hurrit: 95/95
Molly: 85/96
Riddywhipple: 47/47
Enemies:
Marijkal: -22
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"Great treasonous devils! I'm beginnin' t'think we oughta jus' kill anyone we come across in this place! Curse ye academia!" Balik cries with a quick fist to the academic gods.
He steps forward and flurries on the devil-octopus-woman! "Woman! Ye awaken unnatural urges in me loins! Take this!"
for damage!
for damage!
for damage!
for damage!
for damage!
for damage!
for damage!
"Hit the foul wo-devil in 'er suckers, Chak! Yer King commands ye!"
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Molly hears the telepathic screams as Bubbles hits the floor. She doesn't know if he is alive or dead but she knows that Emberwik needs help right now. She moves across the room and is paralyzed by indecision.
Illia, how could you? What do I do? I can't lose Bubbles but Emberwik is in so much trouble! Kurgess, help me!
Her bow pulses with a golden glow and it thrums in her hands. At the edge of her hearing Molly thinks she hears a voice issue a command and she shakes away the water in her eyes. As she notches an arrow she calls out.
I understand. Chak, Balik, the rogue is hostile. Be wary.
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"Great treasonous devils! I'm beginnin' t'think we oughta jus' kill anyone we come across in this place! Curse ye academia!" Balik cries with a quick fist to the academic gods.
"For the first time we are beginning to speak logic." Emberwik cracks a joke between fits of coughing up blood, still trying to recall what he may know about this creature that has him in a lockdown.
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Balik lays on a flurry of smackdown, though only his first and third attacks actually hit Marijkal. She is not stunned by the assault, and it also does not seem that his attacks do much to her.
She is a Handmaiden Devil, otherwise known as a Gylou. They are medium outsiders (devil, evil, extraplanar, lawful).
Emberwik does recall that like many powerful devils, they are immune to fire and poison, resistant to acid and cold, and generally resistant to all magic.
They are natural grapplers, and Emberwik has heard tell that when they are grappling they themselves are not hindered by it, and that they can put their targets into a tentacle cage, much like a whale swallowing something whole.
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"Immune to fire and poison... Resistant to acid, cold, and generally durable to magic. She might try to swallow me with her grapple." Emberwik prays to the shadows and his lord, Zon-Kuthon, to unbind him.
Emberwik transforms into a cloud of darkness, no longer bound by the devil and her grapple! He then begins to float backwards
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Emberwik manages to get out of the grasp of the devil!
However, meanwhile, Bobbles continues to bleed out.
She shakes her head, and turns to Chak. "My, what a troublesome bird you are."
She strikes at Chak with her claws first, and then her tentacles. Chak ends up grabbled by the rubbery tentacles of Marijkal.
"Enjoy my embrace, bird-man."
- x Marijkal
- => Chak [grappled]
- Illia
- Balik
- Molly
- Emberwik
- Bubbles [Dying]
U = Unconscious
S = Surprised
D = Delay
R = Readied Action
Conditions:
Balik: 107/112
Bubbles: -5/48 [Dying]
Chak: 48/100[grappled]
Emberwik: 59/111
Molly: 85/96
Enemies:
Marijkal: -29
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Chak, who was definitely not grabbed by the tentacled woman, manages to swing and misses many times.
Illia, then rushes into the room, past Molly, her blade out and ready. "Mistress!" she calls out "I will prove my worth!" as she stabs at Balik.
Her blade strikes true, catching Balik in the back, near his kidney, a well aimed strike. As the blade comes out, she gives it a twist, leaving a nasty, bleeding wound.
- x Marijkal
- x Chak[grappled]
- x Illia
- Balik [Bleed 7]
- Molly
- Emberwik
- Bubbles [Dying]
U = Unconscious
S = Surprised
D = Delay
R = Readied Action
Conditions:
Balik: 77/112 [Bleed 7]
Bubbles: -5/48 [Dying]
Chak: 77/100 -25NL
Emberwik: 59/111
Molly: 85/96
Enemies:
Marijkal: -29
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"Gods take ye teeth, girl! Ye made me bleed my blood!" Balik feels the blade plunge deeply and grits his elderly teeth! Slipping into Snake Stance , he spends another Ki point to add to his flurry of blows on the wo-devil!
for lawful, magic cold iron silver damage!
for lawful, magic cold iron silver damage!
for lawful, magic cold iron silver damage!
for lawful, magic cold iron silver damage!
for lawful, magic cold iron silver damage!
for lawful, magic cold iron silver damage!
for lawful, magic cold iron silver damage!
If targeted, Sense Motive check as AC: .
If a hit misses me, for damage! for damage!
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Molly turns and fires at Illia, a fire of vengeance in her eye. Arrow after arrows strikes the woman, until she barely succumbs to the final shot. "I am sorry... It was this place..." the tortured woman says as she collapses to the ground.
As Emberik backs up, he receives a glance of disdain from the woman.
Balik starts pummeling... his first two blows land, though not for great effect, and then the forth. The rest all miss. She does not, however, succumb to the stunning fist.
The devilish woman looks at Balik.
She then steps towards the table, and then swats at Molly with her tentacles. Molly is grabbed by the first tentacle, and dragged towards Marijkal. She then slaps Molly with her other tentacle, and the slashes with her claws. The tentacle smacks Molly in the face, and the right hand slashes Molly's shoulder, but somehow the other claw just misses.
You hear in your head, 'See how well you shoot while I squeeze the life out of you!'
- x Marijkal
- => Chak
- U llia [bleeding out]
- Balik [Bleed 7]
- Molly[grappled]
- Emberwik
- U
Bubbles [stable]
U = Unconscious
S = Surprised
D = Delay
R = Readied Action
Conditions:
Balik: 77/112 [Bleed 7]
Bubbles: -5/48 [stable]
Chak: 77/100 -25NL
Emberwik: 59/111
Molly: 61/96
Enemies:
Marijkal: -29
Illia: -105
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Chak only manages to hit her once, but that one time was hard, earning him a strong glare.
As Balik continues to bleed all over the place, the rest of the party is up.
- x Marijkal
- X Chak
- x U lllia [bleeding out]
- => Balik [Bleed 7]
- => Molly[grappled]
- => Emberwik
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Bubbles [stable]
U = Unconscious
S = Surprised
D = Delay
R = Readied Action
Conditions:
Balik: 70/112 [Bleed 7]
Bubbles: -5/48 [stable]
Chak: 77/100 -25NL
Emberwik: 59/111
Molly: 61/96
Enemies:
Marijkal: -76
Illia: -106
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Molly's eyes light up again as strength surges through her. She looks at the lady grappling her and smiles
I will not be bound so easily!
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Emberwik focuses the powers of his dark lord upon his allies.
"May the might of the shadows empower your every strike!"
Increase speed by 30 feet.
Stand up as a swift action without provoking an attack of opportunity.
Make one extra attack as part of a full attack action, using its highest base attack bonus.
Gain a +2 bonus on attack rolls and a +2 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves.
Cast a single spell of 2nd level or lower as if it were an enlarged, extended, silent, or still spell.
Emberwik then flies as high up as he can and over closer to the fight.
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Balik tries to trip the tentacled woman, but is not able to do so.
Molly, with a feat of derring-do, is able to reverse the grapple on the woman, which leaves her surprised!
Emberwik moves back and casts a spell, enhancing the team.
With Molly slumping, she says, [b"I thought so."[/b] and attacks Balik with her final tentacle
'You are truly a vile man, aren't you?'
[ooc]Balik, Emberwik is/are up.
- x Marijkal
- X Chak
- x U lllia [bleeding out]
- => Balik [Bleed 7, Grappled]
- => Molly[bleeding out]
- => Emberwik
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Bubbles [stable]
U = Unconscious
S = Surprised
D = Delay
R = Readied Action
Conditions:
Balik: 64/112 [Bleed 7, Grappled]
Bubbles: -5/48 [stable]
Chak: 77/100 -25NL
Emberwik: 59/111
Molly: -10/96
Enemies:
Marijkal: -76
Illia: -106
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Calling upon the restorative darkness, Emberwik casts a spell to heal Chak, Molly, Balik, and himself.
Each round for the duration of this spell, each of your allies can choose one of the following bonuses for that round at the beginning of its turn (their choice).
Increase its speed by 30 feet.
Stand up as a swift action without provoking an attack of opportunity.
Make one extra attack as part of a full attack action, using its highest base attack bonus.
Gain a +2 bonus on attack rolls and a +2 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves.
Cast a single spell of 2nd level or lower as if it were an enlarged, extended, silent, or still spell.
Increase Attack Rolls/AC/Reflex by 2.
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Balik triggers his magical shirt, though this, in and of itself, does not free him. Molly bleeds until Emberwik heals the team, though he ignores Illia, who is quickly bleeding out.
Chak decides it is time to get serious, and manages to cut the devil down to size. She falls from a serious of serious cuts.
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Molly drags herself into a standing position using Balik to balance herself with one hand and grabs her bow with the other.
I don’t know where Bubbles is, but if I run to look for him I could get ambushed. Please be OK. Gods, I think that lady squeezed my organs into my legs.
That was incredible Chak. Insane swordplay at the perfect time but I worry that she telepathically raised the alarm. Her master might know we are here.
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Touches of worry and fear creeps into Molly’s voice as her eyes turn to the door. She looks like she’s ready to bolt out but her feet stay glued near her healer.
“I gave it to Illia to keep her safe. I don’t know where he is and it’s kinda freaking me out but I don’t want to split up to look...he might be dead.”
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While Molly is standing in the Path she pulls out a wand and hands it to Emberwik to heal her.
After being healed Molly picks up Illia's body and carries it piggy-back style.
"Once we are all ready we should move. My 'idea' is that we get the door to the left then prepare for combat. That lady mentioned her boss and I think he's hanging out in that room. Emberwik, do you have any spells that can enhance our weapons? Something to give us the power to channel holiness or goodness or whatever into these devils?"
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Emberwik feels the edges of the blade, his eyes looking for what would be most valuable. His fingers gently rubbing, until finally he feels it. Blood from the devil Chak just slew. Emberwik takes the blood into his hands, and then calls upon innate heat to dry it. With the remnants of dry devils blood, he drizzles the flakes between his fingers onto the sword, muttering a chant and prayer to his god.
The sword glows a deep black for a moment, then the blade reflects that darkness outward and looks pristine. "Your blade should now alloe you to effectively slay a devil." He raises the blade back to the Tengu.
When you cast this spell on a melee weapon you imbue it with a powerful holy energy, granting the weapon the bane weapon quality against evil outsiders. Furthermore, whenever you score a successful critical hit against an outsider with the evil subtype, you not only deal normal critical damage with the weapon but also nauseate the outsider for 1d3 rounds—the outsider can reduce this nauseated condition to sickened for 1 round with a successful Fortitude save.
Align weapon makes a weapon chaotic, evil, good, or lawful, as you choose. A weapon that is aligned can bypass the damage reduction of certain creatures. This spell has no effect on a weapon that already has an alignment.
You can’t cast this spell on a natural weapon, such as an unarmed strike. When you make a weapon chaotic, evil, good, or lawful, align weapon is a chaotic, evil, good, or lawful spell, respectively.
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Molly picks up Illia and throws the unconscious woman on her back. She moves into the hallway and sees what looks like a dirty pile of fur cloth. She stops in her tracks and nervously walks towards it.
"How is he still...he's alive!"
Molly gently scoops Bubbles up and, after looking around, carries him to Emberwik and folds him into his pack after covering him with a cloth.
"We can pick him up after we fight this jerk. Bubbles is fine, he'd want us to push foward."
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Convinced that the door is safe, Chak opens it up. Two summoning circles dominate this high-ceilinged room. A pair of stairways flank a set of double doors on the east wall, each leading to a balustraded balcony overlooking the open central floor beneath.
In the room, you see two creatures, arguing over something. One is a large, hovering corpse-like creature, while the other bristles with barbs from the tip of its lashing tail to the serrated features of its fang filled visage.
You see the twisted visage of a wizard peeking out from the chest of the larger creature
The larger creature is an undead known as a Devourer.
The larger of the two turns to the party, saying, "Excellent. More souls to divide!"
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- => Molly
- ??
[*} Chak
- Emberwik
- Large
- Spikey
U = Unconscious
S = Surprised
D = Delay
R = Readied Action
Conditions:
Balik: 112/112
Bubbles: 27/48
Chak: 124/124 (100) [Bear’s Endurance]
Emberwik: 111/111
Molly: 93/96
Enemies: