Caliban looks up from where he was trying to straighten up, Something large has arrived outside, it is speaking in Abyssal demanding sacrifices. Perhaps we should deal with this immediately. he says, sprinting for the front doors.
Tristan looks at Junior.
Saved by the Bell!
The Inquisitor strides--Expeditiously--outside to the courtyard.
Benedic stops, and as others rush to the courtyard he looks to Junior. "Special Officer Junior, will you remain here with Horgus and Captain Jestander? I am loathe to leave them unprotected before they have shaken off the dead creatures' touch." He then strides from the room.
Selann mutters a few curses under his breath as he hears the news. He has used much of his magical ability and much of his mythic power. What could be arriving? Obviously something dangerous....
He follows his friends out of the building.
"She blessed us all for cleaning up the altars and shrines in the city," Greta offers during the conversation about rededicating the temple, "we might as well keep at it?" Despite her agreement, her usual smile fades as she realizes that without any cleaning magic she has little to offer beyond tearing some clothes off a ghoul to use as a rag and start scrubbing.
When Tristan calls out, her smile returns and she hustles towards the nearest door to the courtyard.
saved by the bell indeed... maybe this demon will have some kind of weapon I can make into a mop after we kill it...
Junior says, "Well I would protect them Prince Benny. But I think you'll need it more." He glances back Horgus and Jestander one last time. He begins to pick up the beat, continuing the song from the last fight
"And before that wolf eats my grandma
Give that wolf a banana
Give that wolf
And before that wolf eats my grandma
Give that wolf a banana
Give that wolf
Give that wolf, banana."
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Our heroes approach the courtyard. Perched atop the broken statue is a lanky fiend, its mouth filled with sharp fangs and its bat-like wings wrapped around it like a grim cloak.
Do not keep me waiting Nulkineth! I know you plucked some juicy tributes from the dullard queen's army of fools. I HUNGER!
Stepping through the southern doorway, led by Tristan the champions of Kenabres step out into the courtyard.
I see, the fools have chased their morsels to their own doom. Very well... HAVE AT THEE!
Maugla is a Nabasu, but something about him seems atypical, almost as if he is imbued with some additional abyssal power that allows him to act with supernatural speed.
Maugla! He is a Nabasu, but something about him seems atypical, almost as if he is imbued with some additional abyssal power that allows him to act with supernatural speed.
Tristan calls upon The Inheritor to protect his flock!
The Inquisitor then rushes into the fray (not Walter).
Selann hears Tristan's words and quickly casts Detect Magic to study the demon.
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Maugla! He is a Nabasu, but something about him seems atypical, almost as if he is imbued with some additional abyssal power that allows him to act with supernatural speed.
Tristan calls upon The Inheritor to protect his flock!
The Inquisitor then rushes into the fray (not Walter).
Selann hears Tristan's words and quickly casts Detect Magic to study the demon. The spell is slow acting, and at this stage all Selann learns is that magical auras exist in front of him, it will take time for that information to coalesce.
Maugla lets out a visceral screech as he launches himself from the statue at Tristan and his allies. Maugla's eyes become fogged over by a grey mist, and all all who look upon him feel a pull on their souls. Most heroes are able to anchor themselves in their body, but Maugla manages to devour a small piece of Greta. Then suddenly Maugla is there, all gnashing teeth and flashing eyes he tears a solid chunk out of Tristan and his razor teeth sink through his armor painfully striking a nerve.
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Tristan watches at Maugla the Nabasu attempt to take a bite out of him! The Inquisitor takes advantage of his allies closeness to avoid the blow!
Feeling the evil pull of his Death-Stealing Gaze, Tristan closes his eyes before pronouncing Judgment on the demon!
Avert your gaze!
Junior bravely averts his eyes, planting his sight squarely on Tristan who is speaking out of turn but can’t help but steal one little peak at the demon and his soul is sucked away. He continues to sing about wolves, bananas, and grandma-phagia a little more woozily than before.
If an ally has her own rage class ability (such as barbarian's rage, bloodrager's bloodrage, or skald's inspired rage), she may use the Strength, Constitution, and Will saving throw bonuses, as well as AC penalties, based on her own ability and level instead of those from the skald (still suffering no fatigue afterward). Inspired rage does not allow an ally to activate abilities dependent on other rage class abilities, such as rage powers, blood casting, or bloodrager bloodlines; the ally must activate her own rage class ability in order to use these features.
Amelia joins Junior’s song adding her accompaniment and wisely lets her boss fight the demon directly. She whispers to Sosiel, ”Stay back and provide support at distance, if they fall we run for it.” Something nags at the back of her mind about her plan.
Caliban closes his eyes in the face of the monster, his exaggerated elven form coursing with electricity, and his blade begins to glow and hum with its own power, flickering and becoming insubstantial in the moment, as he begins to incant a spell, lashing at the monster before him. As he strikes twice at it....
Switching to a single handed grip on the force blade, he intones a quick spell, lashing out with the sword, making the stinging bees of Calistra upon his target...
Edit: Forgot I had blind fight, closing eyes, so ignore the last fort save. Here are the miss % chances with rerolls as needed
Benedic studies the creature while it speaks, searching for any advantage that he and his allies might exploit.
Benedic steps up and stands his ground before the demon, refusing to avert his eyes to ensure his aim with Radiance is true.
He channels holy energy through his shield reliquary.
He swings!
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Benedic studies the creature while it speaks, searching for any advantage that he and his allies might exploit. Benedic steps up and stands his ground before the demon, refusing to avert his eyes to ensure his aim with Radiance is true. His faith is rewarded as his soul is girded against the Nabasu's soul stealing gaze. His energy causes some light tears in Maugla's demonic flesh to appear, but the demon parries the blessed blade with a hiss even as he screeches in pain.
Greta shuts her eyes tight and swings powerfully with her hammer and causes a crashing blow against the creature. Having felt the life-stealing gaze once she has no intention of letting it sap any more of her life-force.
Caliban closes his eyes in the face of the monster, his exaggerated elven form coursing with electricity, and his blade begins to glow and hum with its own power, flickering and becoming insubstantial in the moment, as he begins to incant a spell, lashing at the monster before him. As he strikes twice at it.... unable to wield enough concentration to cast the Arcane Mark, he channels the mythic power of the crystals lodged in his body to force the spell into his black blade and swings. Maugla narrowly dodges the magically wreathed weapon.
Still dazed from the holy pain caused by Benedic, Maugla's hypernatural speed is robbed from him for this moment.
Sosiel casts Sanctuary on himself and moves closer to the fray. Aravashnial begins chanting in celestial to summon further aid.
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Feeling the pull on his life energy Selann decides to adjust his battle plans and drops his concentration on the detect magic spell. He can't harm the thing without a magic weapon so he closes his eyes and focuses on casting Magic Weapon on his dagger.
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Feeling the pull on his life energy Selann decides to adjust his battle plans and drops his concentration on the detect magic spell. He can't harm the thing without a magic weapon so he closes his eyes and focuses on casting Magic Weapon on his dagger.
Tristan watches at Maugla the Nabasu attempt to take a bite out of him! The Inquisitor takes advantage of his allies closeness to avoid the blow!
Feeling the evil pull of his Death-Stealing Gaze, Tristan closes his eyes before pronouncing Judgment on the demon!
The Nabasu flies backwards (provoking attacks for movement) and then activates a spell-like ability. Causing Selann, Caliban and Greta to freeze in place. Then begins to draw life-force from Fred and Benedic. Fred resists with a dose of mythic energy, but Benedic, his eyes fixed on the demon feels the life force being pulled from him.
, Paralysed (New Will Save each turn)
, Paralysed (New Will Save each turn)
, Paralysed (New Will Save each turn)
Hearing the slimy slug Demon escaping, Tristan brings his weapon out wide!
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With the life quickly draining out of him Junior decides to not hold back, continuing the song he resolves to give this wolf (Maugla) a banana (his glaive). His fury intensifies as he stands next to Benedic.
If an ally has her own rage class ability (such as barbarian's rage, bloodrager's bloodrage, or skald's inspired rage), she may use the Strength, Constitution, and Will saving throw bonuses, as well as AC penalties, based on her own ability and level instead of those from the skald (still suffering no fatigue afterward). Inspired rage does not allow an ally to activate abilities dependent on other rage class abilities, such as rage powers, blood casting, or bloodrager bloodlines; the ally must activate her own rage class ability in order to use these features.
Amelia continues to strum on her guitar. She sees Sosiel run out to join the effort to take down Maugla and she curses. "M-fer. Fine we'll all die then."
She closes here eyes completely and slowly makes her way out to help drawing her glaive and holding it and using it like a white cane.
Once again, Benedic channels holy energy through his shield reliquary.
Benedic then continues his stand against the demon creature, swinging the holy sword he wields and meeting its gaze with a determined frown.
Caliban's elven mental fortitude pushes through the binding spell, shaking himself loose of the magical restraints, he stills himself, taking in the battle around him and refocusing on where the demonic figure is in relation to him and his comrades....
That was a mass hold person spell, we should expect more magical tricks from this one.
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The crusader's blind attacks and Mauglas speed manage to fend off the worst of the heroe's assault but Junior manages to get past his defenses with sheer dogged determination.
The demon becomes dazed by Benedic's plea to Iomedae. But shakes it off relatively quickly.
A pair of Lanterns apparate nearby each shooting a beam of holy energy, one is deflected by a batlike wing, but the other strikes a true blow. Aravashnial immediately starts sketching out a circle of protection to protect the weakened guards under his charge.
Sosiel moves into flanking with Junior but his averted gaze makes accuracy difficult against the wily demon.
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Selann struggles to get free of the magic holding him.
Tristan strides forward. His eyes shut, so he stumbles, falters a bit on his way closer to the filthy demon!
He then unleashes a Blistering Invective catching the filthy demon in the blast!
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Selann struggles to get free of the magic holding him.
Tristan strides forward. His eyes shut, so he stumbles, falters a bit on his way closer to the filthy demon! His blistering invective shakes the demon, but the flames find no purchase in abyssal flesh.
Frightened for the first time in its constantly starved existence, Maugla's demands, insults and blasphemies are reduced to animalistic snarls of hatred. As it wraps massive jaws around Benedic and lashes out with claws at Junior and Tristan.
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Benedic shrugs off the creature's bite and swings Radiance with all of his might.
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Caliban blinks his eyes open, calmly cleaning his blade off on the demonic Nabasau. He scans the chamber for additional threats before checking on the companions, I believe we should rest and clean this temple, many of us will require the ministrations of a priest to recover, and these things can take time. Truly this monster was a threat to us all, but today we have delivered our friends from sacrifice, and struck a blow for the Crusade.
Junior falls on his back flatly and complains, "Oooow. I need a nap."
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The blade slices through Maugla. Rending head from neck, and leaving naught but a demonic corpse in the courtyard.
With a chapel full of ghoul corpses and blashemous graffito, it takes some time but eventually, with some pious and careful work the temple is cleaned and ready to be redidicated.
Some spells and a number of undead creatures have the ability to drain away life and energy; this dreadful attack results in “negative levels.” These cause a character to take a number of penalties.
For each negative level a creature has, it takes a cumulative –1 penalty on all ability checks, attack rolls, combat maneuver checks, Combat Maneuver Defense, saving throws, and skill checks. In addition, the creature reduces its current and total hit points by 5 for each negative level it possesses. The creature is also treated as one level lower for the purpose of level-dependent variables (such as spellcasting) for each negative level possessed. Spellcasters do not lose any prepared spells or slots as a result of negative levels. If a creature’s negative levels equal or exceed its total Hit Dice, it dies.
A creature with temporary negative levels receives a new saving throw to remove the negative level each day. The DC of this save is the same as the effect that caused the negative levels.
Restoration is a spell that can be used to remove all the temporary negative levels accumulated by the party. Each casting costs 100 gp.
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You guys were very successful in your rescue mission, and only lost two soldiers from the army (killed before you even arrived), every other character otherwise recovers from their paralysis none-the-worse for wear.
Captain Jhestander rededicates himself to the cause and swears his loyalty to you all, truly believing that unlike previous commanders, you truly do care for the lives of the soldiers under your care.
Feel free to post up some RP, if you have any investigations or questions or rolls you'd like to make let me know. Otherwise we can continue for the next leg of the journey.
”I don’t feel so good,” Greta remarks as her hair returns to its typical (non-glowing) golden hue. She finds a pew to sit on for few minutes as she catches her breath and then joins in the cleansing work. While working, she mentions to Benedic, “I think I may have some lingering effects from that demon… do you, maybe, have any magic that can stop me from feeling so drained?”
Junior meekly pulls out a piece of vellum and waves it at Greta. "Here Benny will know what to do." He rolls on his side in the dirt and starts snoring.
”Will it go away on its own?” Greta asks when Junior retrieves a scroll. “Maybe I should try to sleep it off before we use up a scroll…”
Benedic also feels drained. "That is a good idea, Dame Greta," he says wearily. "Perhaps sleeping in this place will be less daunting once we have finished cleansing it of evil. Perhaps the light of a new dawn will renew our resolve. If this gloom of the soul does not fade, we may need to consult with others with more knowledge of these matters."
Junior gives Greta a half hearted shrug.
Glad to see the demon drop Selann watches for any other dangers. "We can clean and possibly re-dedicate this place. But have we cleared all of the evil creatures from it?"
Tristan just smiles at Junior.
Benedic devotes his time to removing the profane trappings from the temple, alternating with praying to Iomedae and using his few remaining spells to see to the wounded. "I know there is nothing we could have done for the two soldiers that died before we could rescue them," he confides, "but still it rankles me that evil achieved this small victory against us. I pray that these fallen heroes are rewarded for their sacrifices in the hereafter."
He attempts to organize a vigil among those of their party cursed by the demon's deathly gaze, gathering an hour before sunrise to prepare and cast spells in the hopes that they can dispel the lingering evil from their hearts.
Tristan will indeed cast Protection from Evil, communal.