Seeing the cultist close on Doral, Glaive focuses his energies on him instead. He invokes a blast of energy that strikes him in the chest. The recovered crystal shard in Glaive's hand pulses as the energy channels through it and his energy seems to cling to the cultist for a moment, doing additional damage. The cultist snarls out an oath in an infernal tongue. He pulls his unholy symbol from around his neck, an ugly mess of small bones wrapped with tendons, and shouts words of a spell. He strikes outward with his hand and presses the symbol to Doral's face. A painfully cold feeling erupts from the point of contact and Doral's face contorts in obvious agony. Rising from the shard fragments, the skull faced man pulls bloody crystal fragments from his chest and arms. He calls out, "You're too late! Already the power is spreading to the far flung nodes! The great beast rises! Kill me and it will be unchained and my will is done regardless! Your destruction is at hand!" He launches himself forward at Kraken in a heedless charge. His mouth opens wide revealing several rows of jagged canine fangs. His teeth sink into Kraken's arm, tearing free a bloody hunk.
Whisper focuses her spell on the crystal over head, sending the whirling jaws upward to tear at the crystal. You can hear their fangs scratching over the smooth surface and every now and then one catches hold and breaks off a fractured crystal piece. Following Whisper's example, Doral fires his wand upwards, the impact of the missiles bringing another shower of shards. Midian, his weather control spell exhausted, rushes to Garuk's side. The spreading pool of blood around his is frighteningly large. It seems like an impossible amount, even for the gorilla's massive body. He kneels beside him and touches his wand to the ape's chest. To his great relief, some of the wounds begin to knit and the apes shallow breathing strengthens.
Kraken ignores the painful bite and focuses on killing the wounded cultist first. One thing at a time. His blade chops the man once and he begins to drop, the second blow finishes what the first one started, cleaving the man's head from his body. He then turns and stares eye-to-empty-socket with the creature before him.
The vast chamber shakes again and you have the distinct impression that the massive body trapped in the stone just tried to move. You can hear frightened cries echoing up from the tunnel behind you where you entered. The glowing green energy has begun coursing down the tunnels in either direction. They seem to be following the vertebrae of the body.
Glaive
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As the crystal begins to break down even further you get the sense of something of immense power stirring within. Images dance for an instant before your eyes. Endless demon armies. Cities whose structures are built from the bodies of the dead and living. Carnage and chaos that can only come from the great abyss. Battles with great dragons from a millenia ago.
You know now what is trapped in that crystal. One of the most powerful demons ever to walk the earth. The image of a burning silhouette, wings sprouting from its shoulders, a fiery blade in one hand and a whip in the other.
If freed and it takes on a host, the creature would become an unstoppable force. Knowledge and foul intellect from time immemorial and the power gained by an eternity of existance.
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Initiative
Glaive - 22
Cultist - 19
Garuk,Whisper - 17
Doral - 16
Midian - 12
Kraken - 11
Kraken is down 17 hp
Doral is down 19 hp (The Cultist cast Inflict Moderate Wounds)
Glaive is down 4 hp
Midian is down 4 hp
Whisper is down 3 hp
Garuk is at -6 hp and stable
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). If it's close enough, he'll start the summon with his move action for this round, so he'll finish it with his standard action next round. 
