Frankly, I just don't care for it. ; )
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So it's to be gang up on the extra-planar then, is it? You think I care?
The noise of combat continues to echo down the shaft, punctuated by shrill human screams.
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No action by Suekahn is observed.
There is no sign of activity from the fiend.
: A pair of black lids suddenly iris over top of Suekahn's eyes shielding him from the holy fire. A second later, their work done, the lids retract into the creature's skin. "Nice try war-priest, but your god is too weak."
The personified battle between good and evil explodes in the tunnel shaft as each great beast angles to secure their jaws around the other's throat. (threat!) (applies) (miss!) (n/a) (miss!) (n/a) (hit) + poison (Fortitude save DC 25) (applies) (saved!)
(confirmed!) (applies)
Moments later it appears Suekahn has proven himself the greater combatant. The desert horror bodyslams the hound against the wall and wraps his twin-rowed fangs around the archon's neck. The devil scissors its powerful jaw closed and drinks deeply of Tasem's celestial blood while at the same time injecting its stinger into the hound archon's flank, pumping it full of a sickening ichor.
Meanwhile! Suddenly a second barrier of sand springs into being inside the mosaic chamber. This one is much longer – and larger. It cuts the room off into two halves, running straight up to the ceiling. The larger half, on the east side of the barrier contains: Hurgah, Moonpate, Donkor, Karek and Halstadt. This side also contains the gigantic double-doors and the controversial “sand door”. It also contains the two small earth elementals. The much smaller half contains: Xerissa, (the taunting) Gandel , and Breach. Thanks to Moonpate’s last second intervention, it also contains Tasem, the summoned hound archon. Finally, this side contains the strange butterfly bas relief, the “song tube” the Dune Squad entered by in vapor-form, as well as the much larger cylindrical tube or stone shaft in the floor that you verified leads to another level down below. A horrid laughter echoes from somewhere within that very stone tube:
. . . (I think he's left the building. . .)
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. . . but the standard action "grope" is a potentially more effective touch attack. - Please do not encourage the PCs to resort to groping. It is not appreciated, not even by fiends.
"Now you shall instead serve me, as the next in my count!. . ." "Now you shall instead serve me, as the next in my count!. . ." "Now you shall instead serve me, as the next in my count!. . ." "Now you shall instead serve me, as the next in my count!. . ."
(hit) (applies) (miss!) (n/a) (hit) (applies) (hit) (applies) Wow! Those were some terrible rolls. not a single die above the 50% mark on any of them. Hal, are you behind this? All told that's a total of 25 points of damage (plus possibly poison). but Karek's DR will reduce that to 22.
The fiend vents his anger on Karek, shredding away at his armor, shearing it into pieces so that he can spill the mortal blood pulsing underneath. Karek, however, appears not to take notice, far more intent on lining up an angle for his next thundering swing. With a final attack the massive beast leaps towards Kogan-- --and vanishes!
The last words from the old man somehow reverberate inside your head: "Now you shall instead serve me, as the next in my count!. . ." "Now you shall instead serve me, as the next in my count!. . ." "Now you shall instead serve me, as the next in my count!. . ." "Now you shall instead serve me, as the next in my count!. . ."
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