Epic Evil: Group 2

[firemagehao]

Ia disintegrates the base of one of the spires, so that it will fall. He also commands his army to destroy the other spires. He turns to Nicos, "Try to hold them off. But don't kill them. Torture will due if possible. Drag it out if you can."

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OOC: Can't say I didn't see that coming.

[Toliudar]

Theda takes the expedient route. She and Tonn take a minute to unwrap any objects that survived their shredding of the priest, peeling them off of the bloody remains and tossing them in Tonn's bag, while swallowing the rest of the man's remains in chunks of decreasing size.

Finishing by wiping her hands on the altar, Theda smiles at Iivraena.

"Ah. I feel better already. Shall we head down?"

Considering the steep, narrow passage, Theda conveys a few simple instructions to Tonn, and then changes herself into a grey insubstantial figure. They wait for the drow to signal their readiness. Tonn then transforms again into a three-legged earth creature and slides under the stairs, while Theda floats down the stairs, along the walls.

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Tonn becomes an elder Xorn. Theda becomes a Greater Shadow.

[VirgoBushin]

~Iivraena Lil'kenafin~

Iivraena studied the path before finally nodding. "Ready as I can be." Hopefully they were only steep and not slippery also otherwise it'd very.... annoying to say the least. She kept her left hand along the wall while her right made sure to keep holding onto Alakdriirn's leash tightly, nodding to hint to him to be careful as she began silently following behind Tonn and Theda.

[Kiranvonstrom]

OOC:

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Yep.

"No, there are a limited amount of enemies I can hit with each blast, I'll try and take the other monoliths out," Blue black lighning leapt out of Nicos's fingers again, arcing from column to column.

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If after killing one creature, three more emerged, we should probably avoid killing any more before taking out reinforcements.
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[Tsumeken]

The Daemons are busy trying to protect their spires from the horde of elementals so it is easy to get a clear shot at them. the energy flows into them cracking the stone that binds them and causing ther collapse, The daemons seemed to have been linked to the towers and fade into the ether.

Theda/Iivraena

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The ceilling begins to shake from the room above you as debris and dust follw you down the stairs, apparently the roof has collapsed in the above altar room. You now enter a lower chmber room where the fllor appears to be made of wrought iron. Chains criss-cross the surface as a large lock sits in the middle.

A shadowy form appears at the end of the room, "You shall not have my key lord Cyric's powers are his own! And we shall watch them until his return!"

[VirgoBushin]

~Iivraena Lil'kenafin~

Iivraena merely smirked upon seeing the figure show itself. "Hmph... we shall see about that. So far, you've failed to do your job successfully. Why your luck should shift for the better is beyond me... but in case it does try to...." Her smirk grew as she pulled her rapier out, "I'll be more than ready to do anything and everything it takes to stop you."

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Init: (1d20+4)[13]

[Toliudar]

Theda feels that no further comment is required. It occurs to her that being an undead may be a very bad idea with priests in the room. With a nod, she and Tonn transform into floating green brains that drift down into the floor. Theda's voice drifts into the minds of her drow allies.

"I'll see if we can get close in behind him. Can you keep him interested for a couple of moments?"

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Theda and Tonn transform into unbodied and sink into the floor.

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[firemagehao]

Ia sends out the scrying orbs.

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Looking for any exit, unusual details, or anything worth notice.

[Tsumeken]

Ia/Nicos

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As the orbs circle around they find no exits but a bit of power sparks from the fallen towers not red as before but blue this time, they seem to be arcing outwards to eachother

Theda/Iivraena

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Enemy init

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The creature moves forward exposing itself. It has two long Tentacles protruding from a bulbous head like that of a sea-dwelling monster. It raises it arms ready to fight.

[firemagehao]

"This has potential to be interesting..."

[Toliudar]

Theda and Tonn slide under to the middle of the room, then pop up on either side of the huge lock. Taking the form of a strange antennaed creature, Theda slides an antennae around the lock. Meanwhile Tonn forms a massive multi-headed beast, hissing its defiance of the Cyric-priest.

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Move actions to come up adjacent to the lock. Theda uses a free action to turn into a rust monster and attempts to dissolve the big lock in the middle. If it's non magical, it falls apart automatically. If it's magical, it makes a DC 20 reflex save or falls apart.

Tonn forms a 12-headed cryohydra, and readies an action to attack if the tentacled Cthulhu-beast or anything else with hostile intent comes within 10' of them.
Head 1: Attack (1d20+23)[27] Damage: (3d6)[11]
Head 2: Attack (1d20+23)[40] Damage: (3d6)[14]
Head 3: Attack (1d20+23)[42] Damage: (3d6)[6]
Head 4: Attack (1d20+23)[36] Damage: (3d6)[10]
Head 5: Attack (1d20+23)[41] Damage: (3d6)[15]
Head 6: Attack (1d20+23)[39] Damage: (3d6)[18]
Head 7: Attack (1d20+23)[33] Damage: (3d6)[4]
Head 8: Attack (1d20+23)[33] Damage: (3d6)[5]
Head 9: Attack (1d20+23)[25] Damage: (3d6)[10]
Head 10: Attack (1d20+23)[30] Damage: (3d6)[14]
Head 11: Attack (1d20+23)[30] Damage: (3d6)[13]
Head 12: Attack (1d20+23)[33] Damage: (3d6)[6]

[Tsumeken]

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The appearance of the large beasts from seemingly nowhere takes the priest by surprise, he seems more worried about the Rust Monster though as opposed to the Cryohydra. Even more so when the lock on the door melts away. The chains fly from the door/floor as it begins to shake, somethning on the other side is trying to force the door open.

[Kiranvonstrom]

"Why must everything in this temple be 'interesting' ?" Nicos muttered, as arcane power sparked between his fingertips.
I'm beginning to grow tired of this. Let's just end this and get moving.

[Toliudar]

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So It's Iivraena & co, the tentacled creature, and then back to me, yes?

[VirgoBushin]

~Iivraena Lil'kenafin~

Iivraena turned as she heard something else trying to get out from behind the door. "Guess I'll have to try to hurry this up...." She murmured in Undercommon, laying a hand on the cleric's shoulder and sending waves of energy through his body, hoping to do something similar from when she had gone against the larva.

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Yeah.... just been feeling really out of it lately... not sure what's up and no thanks to the government, I gotta wait an extra 2-4 weeks because they were idiots and I can't see a doctor without my Medicaid card. So... until then I'm stuck here at home. *looks around* Who thinks the government sucks? *raises hand*

Anyways... enough of my ranting......

Harm Spell:

To hit roll: (1d20+19)[32]
150 Damage unless a successful Will save is made to reduce it to half but either way it still will call for a Massive Damage save.

[Tsumeken]

Ia/Nicos:

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(The energy looks the same as the kind that opened for the demons. Perhaps it'll open something else this time? If only it could focus itself together....)

Theda/Iivraena:

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Taking a hit from Iivraena's Harm Spell, the priest decides to lash back with an attack of his own, swinging a hand wrapped in red energy towards the Dark Elf.

Inflict Critical Wounds:

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(1d20+12)[26]
Damage: (4d8+20)[40]

[firemagehao]

"My magic is taxing, and though unlimited as your eldrich powers, devours. You end it, and I will jump in if necessary."

[Toliudar]

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I'm assuming that Alakdriirn will chime in with an eldritch blast before my action. IOf he does something else, it may change this.

Deciding that somewhere else would be a much better place to be when the door finally opens, Theda rushes to kill this tentacled freak. She transforms back into her pit fiend form and tries to wrap her tail around him. Tonn slithers after, unleashing a barrage of bites.

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Theda: free action to become a pit fiend. Charging attack, tail slap and attempting to grapple:
Attack: (1d20+30)[35]
Damage: (2d8+9)[16]
Opposed Grapple: (1d20+34)[46]
Constrict, if the grapple is successful: (2d8+32)[41]

Tonn: Charging attack:
Head 1 Attack (1d20+20)[24] Damage (2d8+7)[16]
Head 2 Attack (1d20+20)[33] Damage (2d8+7)[11]
Head 3 Attack (1d20+20)[29] Damage (2d8+7)[17]
Head 4 Attack (1d20+20)[26] Damage (2d8+7)[10]
Head 5 Attack (1d20+20)[36] Damage (2d8+7)[15]
Head 6 Attack (1d20+20)[25] Damage (2d8+7)[19]
Head 7 Attack (1d20+20)[37] Damage (2d8+7)[14]
Head 8 Attack (1d20+20)[29] Damage (2d8+7)[15]
Head 9 Attack (1d20+20)[31] Damage (2d8+7)[14]
Head 10 Attack (1d20+20)[21] Damage (2d8+7)[16]
Head 11 Attack (1d20+20)[24] Damage (2d8+7)[15]
Head 12 Attack (1d20+20)[40] Damage (2d8+7)[16]

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Wrapped in the barbed tail of the large fiend the Cyrohydras strikes rip into the creatures flesh as it loses one of it arms and another tentacle. It struggles against the grapple as it tries to free itself

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(1d20+16)[34] Fail still held fast

Alakdrim focus hs energies on the door trying to use his powers to hold the door shut

Ia/Nicos

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The ground is rumbling as the energy from the broken towers increases Flashes of blue lightning shoot up into the sky

[Kiranvonstrom]

"Okay, this has gone far enough," Nicos shouted, and let the arcane power playing around in his fingertips fly.
A wave of anti-magic crashed out into the room. Too late, though, Nicos remembered that the room that the girls were in was likely liked with this one.
Oh, well. Let's hope they can take it.

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Casting devour magic.

[Tsumeken]

As the magic begins to be devoured and flow into Nicos a hole in the sky opens as magic is pulled down from it and into him it would almost seem.

Theda/Iivraena

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The door suddenly pulls inward as you all fall into the area beyond. You fall farther farther and farther until you are passing through the clouds. the ground below appears to be some sort of colliseum where 4 large spires once stood, though now they have fallen to two familiar looking characters. You're fall slows as you near the ground landing you softly upon it..

[Toliudar]

Drifting downward, Tonn transforms into a more flight-friendly draconic form, and Theda finishes squeezing the life out of the tentacled horror, then methodically searches the remains for anything of interest. As they descend towards the arena, the two men and the mass of golems, Theda tries making mental contact.

"Ah, we meet again, gentlemen. How is everything proceeding?"

[VirgoBushin]

~Iivraena Lil'kenafin~

Iivraena's grip on Alakdriirn's leash instinctively tightened as they fell. It had been slightly unexpected to just suddenly begin to descend when not too long ago she and Theda had been fighting a cleric. As they landed, the sight of two familiar figures made her smirk a bit. So they did survive.... good. She brushed herself off, straightening her robes out before signing to Alakdriirn, Are you alright? Her eye, however, remained upon the two men as she spoke aloud to them each, "So are your guys' clerics... dealt with then?"

[Kiranvonstrom]

The various cuts and half-healed scars that Nicos has acquired over the past day or so seal up as he feeds on the assorted magics in the chamber.
"Our's seems to be a bit more entrenched. Not to mention that we just got into a fight with the legions of hell," Nicos shrugged, "Again,"
Nicos tossed up one of the knives, caught it on the back of his hand, and began what seemed to be a one-handed juggling act with it.
They seemed to have killed their cleric quite quickly.

[Tsumeken]

Theda:

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On the cleric, you find a curved dagger, another seal of Cyric, and an iron key on a chain.

Now that you are all together, everything seems to shift as the door that was seemingly hidden appears, most likely due to the cleric's death. It appears to be locked with many chains circling around it. The door stands alone however as you don't see any structures behind it.

[Toliudar]

Theda settles to the ground, dropping the bloodied corpse of a tentacled creature as she does so. She tucks a curved blade into her bag and holds up an iron seal.

"Good thing you have your own legion, then. But you haven't found either of your priests, then? Curious."

She gestures towards the nexus of energy.

"Have you tried sending one of your legion in there yet, to see what's beyond?"

She settles the seal carefully into her pack.

[Kiranvonstrom]

"That nexus of energy only recently appeared, and by recently I mean when you dropped in," Nicos said dryly, "We were understandably a bit busy,"
Nicos walked over to the door, poked at the lock, and looked behind it. He turned back to the group.
"By the gods, it's a door!" He says, as dramatic as he could possibly make it.

[VirgoBushin]

~Iivraena Lil'kenafin~

Iivraena turned as Nicos pointed out the door. "Well then.... no sense in staying here. Shall we go on?" With that, she gave a tug on Alakdriirn's leash and began walking to it, trying to mentally and physically prepare her for anything that may be behind it.

[Tsumeken]

As the door is approached the lock falls as do the chains as it burst open inwards. Light flashes out of it blinding (n the sense of seeing not the condition) anyone looking at it as you now find yourselves back in the temples first room, only this time some things have changed.

The first thing noticeable is that the legions of minions following the two men have seemingly not been teleported, torches now light the area as the pews seems strewn about and barricade like fashion blocking the door. The second that rather large humanoid stands at the front of the room draped in a large black cloak. He chuckles as you appear before speaking. "Welcome to the Hall of Deceit my dear interlopers. I trust the trip was pleasant." He moves forward as the cloak moves away from his body exposing a rather grotesque patchwork covering his body as it seems he is many parts of a multitude of different creatures attached to his body. Some however are only decoration as the hang limply off his frame. "I am High priest of this hall, I collect the creatures lured here and record their bodies and minds into myself... How you all look so delightful, I cannot wait to taste your flesh upon mine as I devour your very existence!" He throws his cloak back now revealing himself fully, looking much like a large worm in contrast to a human. Six large arms trail along his body leading to a elongated face and mouth filled with three rows of menacing looking teeth. From the sounds heard soon it would appear he is not alone as a skittering can be heard in the rafters above the group

[Toliudar]

The pit fiend that is Theda smiles.

"I've had practice killing a lot of your puppets in this room. It'll be fun to kill one more."

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Initiative: (1d20+8)[14]