Henry dodges to the side as his arcs his shards around in a circle over the horned creatures body before driving them downward at its back.
HP 14/35
AC 17
Spells: 1st 4/4 | 2nd 1/3
Focus: 0/1
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Henry manages to dodge most of the sudden blighting energy, but unfortunately the creature similarly manages to avoid his needles. It moves out of the middle of the pack, then weaves a spell targeting Demonica!
Critical Success The target is unaffected.
Success The target is stunned 1.
Failure The target is paralyzed for 1 round.
Critical Failure The target is paralyzed for 4 rounds. At the end of each of its turns, it can attempt a new Will save to reduce the remaining duration by 1 round, or end it entirely on a critical success.
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Puddins casts Heal on herself, knowing her friends need her to stay in the fight.
She then treats her remaining wounds with Battle Medicine.
Demonica, gladd to see Puddins looking healthier, darts over to attack the horned creature.
Demonica is unable to move! As she struggles to get free, she thinks about what she knows of this creature.
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While Puddins heals herself, Demonica runs in and buries her sword in the creature! Or....at least that's what she visualizes doing. Unfortunately, she finds that her body does not respond, held fast by the creature's magic!
Meitremar, meanwhile, glares at Bireli. He mutters a profane prayer, adding an extra clause to briefly compress the distance between, then unleashes a spell at the young swashbuckler as he bellows "Bow before Xar-Azmak, foolish boy!"
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Otoro reaches over to heal Henry with some life giving water.
Otoro then turns and blasts the horned creature.
Henry repositions his dagger and sends the magic from the shards into his copanions instead. "Go faster! End this quickly!"
HP 14/35
AC 17
Spells: 1st 4/4 | 2nd 0/3
Focus: 0/1
Bireli's face goes slack as he turns toward the statue and genuflects. "What the hells?" he curses as he hops back up. "Oh, sorry, that wasn't very nightly."
Empowered by Henry's magic, he darts over to avenge the indignity done upon his sister. "Hold still you villain!" he shouts as he thrusts toward the demon's heart.
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Bireli bows, but quickly recovers. His rapier just catches the fiendish creature, who seems to writhe in pain at the touch of the blade!
As if seeing Bireli as a threat for the first time, the creature turns and lays into him!
Seeing her brother being attacked, Demonica feels a surge of anger that allows her will to break through the effect holding her!
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Puddins stands up and uses her divine powers to heal Henry.
"Stay close, Otoro, and I will patch you up as well!"
Demonica, finally able to move, yells in fury as she flanks with her brother. She brings down her sword with all her might.
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Puddins heals Henry while Demonica attacks. In her haste, however, her swing goes wide, sparks flying as her sword smashes into the ground at the monster's feet.
Meitremar, meanwhile, mutters another profane incantation, hurling a glob of acid farther than seems possible where it splashes at the feet of Demonica, Henry, and Otoro!
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Otoro fails to dodge out of the way but his water finally comes to his defense with a Deflecting Wave
Still feeling the wounds adding up Otoro heals themselves.
Otoro then takes advantage of haste to close with the horned creature and blast it with 2 actions.
Henry's magical shards pulse with power as he continues to speed up his friends. "Thanks for the healing! It was getting pretty bad there."
HP 31/35
AC 17
Spells: 1st 4/4 | 2nd 2/3
Focus: 0/1
"Did you really think that your grandfather's diary was going to lead you to glory?" Bireli taunts the cultist before stabbing at the demon.
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Otoro heals himself, but his followup blast goes wide of the mark. Henry, menwhile, repositions himself, then quickens his allies' steps. Bireli feels the quickening magic, but decides to stay where he is as he taunts the mage while skewering the fiend!
The fiend responds, slashing at Bireli with its wicked claws!
It looks with disgust at his leather armor, however, and wheels around to lash at Demonica with it's wicked barbed tongue...
...causing her chainmal to rust where the tongue struck!
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Finally, it tries to lick up some of the rust!
...but can't manage it!
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Hero Point!
Demonica gathers her magical energies and swings, counting on her brother's help.
Puddins summons her healing powers gifted by Gorum to keep Demonica in the fight.
She then moves in closer to help her companions.
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Demonica feels the power of Gorum surge through her as Puddins calls down her prayer.
Meitremar, meanwhile, spits and replies to Bireli "Bah! Impudent child! You won't be laughing when the Lord of Rust is chewing on your entrails!" . As he speaks, he weaves another spell, causing a wave of black energy to wash over Bireli!
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Otoro blasts the horned creature again.
Otoro follows up with a heal on Bireli
Demonica gets closer, considers that perhaps she shouldn't step in the jagged metal, and telekinetically hurls a chunk of rock at Meitremar.
Puddins tries to patch up the worst of Bireli's wounds.
She then moves next to Demonica and does the same for her.
Ack! Hero Point on that last one.
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Bireli grins at his sister as the demon evaporates between them. He grimaces and turns around as the cultist's energy strikes him. "Dastard!"
With the scent of the ocean and Puddins' quick ministrations, he bounds around the whirling metal until he is in position to strike. He quickly thrusts and then spins to follow with a flashier strike. "Your evil will end before lunch! Ow!" The whirling metal undercuts the poignancy of his boast.
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Henry pushes past and redirects his shards from his dagger away from his companions and towards Meitremar. "Were you the one that took my Mother?"
HP 31/35
AC 17
Spells: 1st 4/4 | 2nd 1/3
Focus: 0/1
Otoro drops another 10ft burst of difficult terrain sleet.
And follows up with his own blast.
"That's enough of that, you piece of rusty garbage!"
Puddins cast Enlarge Person on herself, giving her the reach she needs to hit this thing from outside its aura.
She then takes a swing.
Bireli manages to dodge some of Meitremar's whirling metal but not all. He steps into the snow to take advantage of Puddins' distraction. He strikes with his blade and then steps away so that the cultist must choose how to use his orbiting steel.
Demonica tosses another cantrip and recharges her spellstrike.
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"No consequence... NO CONSEQUENCE!" Henry screams as his dagger continues to try and find a soft spot.
HP 31/35
AC 17
Spells: 1st 4/4 | 2nd 1/3
Focus: 0/1
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Meitremar bats away Demonica's spell, but he is not prepared for the force of Henry's fury. Razor sharp slivers of dagger streak through his cloud of debris, burying themselves deep in his chest. A look of shocked disbelief crosses his face as the light fades from his eyes and he collapses into a heap, unmoving!
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Demonica moves up next to Bireli as she looks at the scene.
"Um...Maybe I shouldn't try to summon any more demons."
"That's a wise choice," Bireli agrees, surveying his bloodied friends and nodding. "In the meantime, does what you know alert you to anything else in this room that needs to be stopped?"
Otoro picks up the horn and works on cleaning it a bit with his watery goodness.