The demon slowly lumbers after Derrikk, chuckling to itself about Junebug's hilarious performance.
It still gets close enough to attack once, but it misses!
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Group Buffs: Inspire Courage +1/+1
~+~Round 4~+~
Derrikk (-15)
--Celery (-20, Wounded 1)
Red (-25, slowed 1, can't take reactions)
Orm (-13)
Junebug (-32, -1 Charisma checks)
Papillon
Blue
~+~Round 5~+~
Derrikk (-15)
--Celery (-20, Wounded 1)
Papillon throws her starknife from around the corner, "You two should come in here and bring that thing with you!"
Red is barely hanging on! Maybe Orm can save the day.
Orm takes the long way around (2xstrides) and ends up next to the demon. He flurries.
extra dmg due to forceful property
With that final punch, the demon is no more.
The library is a real mess. It's hard to imagine that there is much salvageable here, but you notice that the book one of the demons dropped when it attacked you is a formula book. The book contains formulas for lesser elixir of life, moderate cheetah’s elixir, and moderate eagle-eye elixir.
Catching his breath while trying not to inhale and demon stink, Orm suggests, "Perhaps we find a cell or two to hide in and rest. It was quite a hike to get here, and we are battered and bruised. A night's rest would put us in a good position to clear out the rest of the demonic taint. Unless you think we should leave this place and camp outside. I just fear once we leave it will be too easy to bar our entry."
"And get rid of the librarian's body! Makes good sense."
Inside the librarian's room, you get what rest you can. From somewhere deep inside the hermitage, you hear the howls of large animals.
Nothing disturbs your rest, and you feel rejuvenated enough to take on the corruption of the monastery.
After a tense rest, you continue to explore the interior of the hermitage.
Continuing your circuit of the rooms, you discover only more dormatory rooms, and a couple of noisome privies, their ceilings hung with herbs to mask the smell.
Decenting the steps to the north, you find yourselves in a long room lined with rusted iron cages and some tall cabinets. The air here has the smell of animals long kept indoors. The floor is covered in tile. A doors exits to the east and a short hallway to the west leads to an area with what appears to be a large animal habitat.
Wooden cupboards on the south wall of this room hold veterinary medicine, animal food, bandages, and other items necessary for the long-term care of animals of various size. A pair of sturdy gloves is nestled amid the bandages.
Papillon expresses her concern of resting inside this dangerous place, "Are you sure this is safe? I am not sure what those two priests would do it they find their demon friends slaughtered." Nevertheless, she relents, and helps patch up the group, before getting as broken up sleep as she can.
While she rest's her thoughts are of the circus, but she get's a nightmare where Mistress Dusklight invades her dreams before waking. "What is happening here, since when did I become a demon hunter? Did the Mistress set me on this path...?" She wakes up in a sweat, but quickly brushes it off to start her shift.
...
In the morning, she looks refreshed, but still worn from the previous day. "Well, at least now i can feel Desna's presence a little more potently again. I should be able to heal your wounds with her light again." She smiles at her companion, before pressing on.
She looks curiously at the gloves they find.
"Well, shall we see what's behind this zoo keeper's door? I wonder what this churge uses animals for..." She moves forward, allowing Orm to go in front of her to the unexplored room.
"What do you make of this elaborate key from the librarian? Thelonious or Papillon, could it be magical? Might it open that magically sealed door that spoke to us?"
"Those are some nice gloves, and look like they are made for Papillon."
Orm stands ready to open the door when everyone is ready, and listens to see what he can hear.
"Maybe it is, Orm. Do you think obtaining the key was what the door meant by 'purging the taint'? Like maybe it knew we'd have to slay these things to get the key?"
"Was thinking more of the last line it said, 'Or, if you are one of the chosen of the Wind and Waves, then you may enter.' Maybe the leaders here have keys that would open it. Probably best to clear it a bit more before trying."
Orm, you hear a voice chanting in a guttural language on the other side of the door.
Knowing that chanting in a demon-infested monastery is not a good thing, Orm prepares to open the door, but first looks back to make sure everyone is ready. "Any prayers or spells before we go in? Make it fast."
As prepared as you are going to be, Orm throws open the door. This large, stone chamber has a smooth tile floor bearing abstract spiral patterns that evoke whirlpools or tornados. Four small glowing orbs, one in each corner, brightly illuminate the room. Hooks on the walls hold wicker
baskets with dozens of fur, felt, and bone toys clearly intended for animals. The center of the floor bears a large circle of spiky glyphs drawn in blood. Inside the circle, a leopard rippling with dark energy is tied, struggling against the ritual.
A priest looks up from chanting and says, "Stop them. The transformation must not be interrupted."
An angry stormcloud shaped like a hawk swoops toward you.
The corrupted priest turns toward the circle and continues chanting.
~+~Round 1~+~
Blue
Derrikk
--Celery
Papillon
Junebug
Yellow
Orm
Thelonious encourages his party members, and his spiritual weapon bonks the storm cloud.
~+~Round 1~+~
Blue
Derrikk (delay)
--Celery
Papillon
Junebug
Yellow (-7)
Orm
Papillon looks into the room, and casts shield on herself before throwing her starknife towards the closest enemy.
Papillon throws her starknife at the storm cloud, shoring a hit, and Derrikk just misses his shots on the priest.
Unexpectedly, Celery darts into the room and starts gnawing on the bonds that hold the leopard in place.
The stormy hawk swoops toward Derrikk, enraged at his attempt to interrupt the ritual.
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~+~Round 1~+~
Blue
Derrikk (-10)
--Celery
Papillon
Junebug
Yellow (-11)
Orm
Orm strides up to the bound leopard, and following on Celery’s work, tries to free it from the ropes.
Orm will try again:
Orm turns his attention to the enemy, punching with a woody fist.
Orm moves into the room and bursts the bonds holding down the leopard, then turns and lands a devastating blow against the priest, who curses him for interrupting her ritual.
Freed, the leopard leopard slinks out of the ritual circle. When it crosses the circle's edge, there's an audible pop and the stink of ozone. The cat cowers behind Celery; a fiery nimbus still surrounds it, flickering in and out of visibility in the ritual chamber.
Ritual thwarted, the priest draws her trident and strikes out at Orm.
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The priest gives as good as she gets!
~+~Round 2~+~
Blue (-24)
Derrikk (-10)
--Celery
Papillon
Junebug
Yellow (-11)
Orm (-26)
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Derrikk moves (if we take it to be a grid of only the positive values of x and y with the far left column being x=1 and the bottom row being y=1) to 4, 1 (or x=4 and y=1), fires twice at yellow, and directs Celery to attack yellow from the flank with the spiritual weapon
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"Orm! Let's get this cultist first!" Papillon urges the monk to step into a flanking possition with her, before swinging.
As Thelonious continues his performance, Derrikk, Celery, and Madame P all strike the priest, and the conjured hammed bonks the enemy as well.
In return, the priest casts a spell grunts, "Gozreh protect me," casts a spell on herself and moves to get her back to a wall.
~+~Round 2~+~
Blue (-24)
Derrikk (-10)
--Celery
Papillon
Junebug
Yellow (-26)
Orm (-26)
Orm enters Mountain Stance, and since he is next to the little cloud, will strike with a flurry of blows, followed by a follow up strike.
Orm's attacks miss the cloud.
The whispy elemental swoops over and slashes twice at Thelonius, then swoops back to attack Orm.
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~+~Round 3~+~
Blue (-24)
Derrikk (-10)
--Celery
Papillon
Junebug (-16)
Yellow (-26)
Orm (-31)
Papillon looks a little bit ticked off at the priest, "Are you still using Gozrehs name in vane, or do you really believe all this devil worship is in the name of Gozreh? Do you really wish to test his wrath?" She quickly steps forward to Orm and plants her small hands on his back, "At least I know that Desna is always with me." She heals her companion.