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<blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 7180626" data-attributes="member: 6777052"><p><span style="color: blue">Mishak returned to cult headquarters in the Temple of Aššur and told High Priest Balthak what had happened. The news that four demons and four angels had apparently teamed up was extremely worrying, because according to the dogma they were supposed to be on opposite sides and if this was some sort of shift in the cosmic power balance he, Balthak, needed to know about it to make sure he ended up on the winning side.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Balthak selected ten expendible cultists and charged them with returning with Mishak to the scene of battle, to search out the demons and destroy them. He promised them that if the died doing his holy work, Aššur would give them eternal bliss in any paradise of their chosing. He promised them gold for every demon they slew. He promised them promotion from Cultist to Zealot. He would have promised them the moon except the moon god Nanna-Sîn belonged to his opposite number in the temple down the street and they had an agreement.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">The cultists, led by Mishak and numbering <em>eleven</em>, which was a propitious number, set off on their mission. They soon picked up the trail of Tippy and the others, but it was slightly puzzling that, alongside the four pairs of footprints they expected, there were four pairs of slither marks resembling the tracks made by serpents. They came to the natural, but totally wrong, conclusion, that the slither marks were made by the four demons and the footprints were those of the four angels.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Hastening up the path, they espied the silver-covered demon (Tippy), the she-demon with the tusks of a boar (Tasha), and the Demon of the Papyrus Tablets (Inannyunot). There was no sign of the Demon-Who-Spat-Knives (Albert), but that was because he was silently following <em>them</em> and they hadn't noticed. Nor was there any sign of the angels but that was all to the good because they didn't want to have to fight angels. The cultists began a vigorous chant to embolden themselves and drive away evil spirits. It was a very loud chant, sung perfectly in unison, and carried all the way to the shores of the Dead Sea where, had they but known it, it alerted Johnny and his friends who started cautiously approaching to see what was going on.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">The silver-covered demon dropped some sticks on the ground and arranged them in a pattern. Perhaps this was a glyph of some kind? Best not to wait to find out. Raising his hands, Mishak signalled for the chanting to stop and spell-casting to begin. Ten cultists simultaneously threw <em>Hold Person</em> at Tippy and one of them got lucky but they didn't know which one, so they all had to maintain concentration just in case. The reason it wasn't eleven was that Albert had already double-backstabbed the rearmost cultist who immediately went to the paradise with sherbet and nubile young ladies and found it surprisingly crowded.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Then the Demon of The Tablets did something truly devastating - it conjured up a storm of ice and frozen rain[sup]1[/sup] that darkened the sky and pelted the brave cultists with hailstones so they could no longer see at all and threw their hands over their faces in fear. Not only that, but the falling hailstones covered the ground in slippery ice in a way that few of them had ever experienced and five of them lost their footing and fell over. Six of them also lost concentration on the <em>Hold Person</em> spells and, unluckily, it included the only one who was actually holding the silver-covered demon. Tippy sprang free.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">And what of the she-demon? She of the whirling blade? Tasha moved forward, just short of the edge of the magical storm, and waited to see if any cultist would be foolish enough to try to escape its ferocity. If he did, he would meet her halberd before he even saw what was coming.[sup]2[/sup]</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">It was at this moment that, unbeknownst to the cultists who couldn't see a thing, the ranks of the demons were swelled by the arrival of a tunnel demon (Johnny), a half-demon (Ha! Fling!), a clawed demon (ClaW), four furred demons (the utterwolves) and a hobgoblin-demon who all came dashing up from the shore to join forces with their old friends.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Moving blindly, bumping into each other and falling over frequently, the ten cultists tried to get out of the sleet storm. Some cast <em>Light</em> cantrips but it didn't help much. In desperation, they began a new chant which at least helped them locate each other so that they could start to spread out in a more co-ordinated way.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Inannyunot took advantage of the chanting to target a <em>Fireball</em> at where the sound seemed to be concentrated. He didn't immediately know what effect this had, except that the chanting faltered and continued again, a little less strongly.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">The twelve demons made a plan for what to do when the chanting cultists eventually emerged. The plan was this ...</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p>[sup]1[/sup] <em>Sleet Storm</em> spell.</p><p>[sup]2[/sup] Readied action. She was <em>outside</em> the storm cylinder, so she was unaffected by it, but the 10ft reach of her halberd extended <em>into</em> it so she could strike with advantage against any creature that was still just inside.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BoldItalic, post: 7180626, member: 6777052"] [COLOR=blue]Mishak returned to cult headquarters in the Temple of Aššur and told High Priest Balthak what had happened. The news that four demons and four angels had apparently teamed up was extremely worrying, because according to the dogma they were supposed to be on opposite sides and if this was some sort of shift in the cosmic power balance he, Balthak, needed to know about it to make sure he ended up on the winning side. Balthak selected ten expendible cultists and charged them with returning with Mishak to the scene of battle, to search out the demons and destroy them. He promised them that if the died doing his holy work, Aššur would give them eternal bliss in any paradise of their chosing. He promised them gold for every demon they slew. He promised them promotion from Cultist to Zealot. He would have promised them the moon except the moon god Nanna-Sîn belonged to his opposite number in the temple down the street and they had an agreement. The cultists, led by Mishak and numbering [I]eleven[/I], which was a propitious number, set off on their mission. They soon picked up the trail of Tippy and the others, but it was slightly puzzling that, alongside the four pairs of footprints they expected, there were four pairs of slither marks resembling the tracks made by serpents. They came to the natural, but totally wrong, conclusion, that the slither marks were made by the four demons and the footprints were those of the four angels. Hastening up the path, they espied the silver-covered demon (Tippy), the she-demon with the tusks of a boar (Tasha), and the Demon of the Papyrus Tablets (Inannyunot). There was no sign of the Demon-Who-Spat-Knives (Albert), but that was because he was silently following [I]them[/I] and they hadn't noticed. Nor was there any sign of the angels but that was all to the good because they didn't want to have to fight angels. The cultists began a vigorous chant to embolden themselves and drive away evil spirits. It was a very loud chant, sung perfectly in unison, and carried all the way to the shores of the Dead Sea where, had they but known it, it alerted Johnny and his friends who started cautiously approaching to see what was going on. The silver-covered demon dropped some sticks on the ground and arranged them in a pattern. Perhaps this was a glyph of some kind? Best not to wait to find out. Raising his hands, Mishak signalled for the chanting to stop and spell-casting to begin. Ten cultists simultaneously threw [I]Hold Person[/I] at Tippy and one of them got lucky but they didn't know which one, so they all had to maintain concentration just in case. The reason it wasn't eleven was that Albert had already double-backstabbed the rearmost cultist who immediately went to the paradise with sherbet and nubile young ladies and found it surprisingly crowded. Then the Demon of The Tablets did something truly devastating - it conjured up a storm of ice and frozen rain[sup]1[/sup] that darkened the sky and pelted the brave cultists with hailstones so they could no longer see at all and threw their hands over their faces in fear. Not only that, but the falling hailstones covered the ground in slippery ice in a way that few of them had ever experienced and five of them lost their footing and fell over. Six of them also lost concentration on the [I]Hold Person[/I] spells and, unluckily, it included the only one who was actually holding the silver-covered demon. Tippy sprang free. And what of the she-demon? She of the whirling blade? Tasha moved forward, just short of the edge of the magical storm, and waited to see if any cultist would be foolish enough to try to escape its ferocity. If he did, he would meet her halberd before he even saw what was coming.[sup]2[/sup] It was at this moment that, unbeknownst to the cultists who couldn't see a thing, the ranks of the demons were swelled by the arrival of a tunnel demon (Johnny), a half-demon (Ha! Fling!), a clawed demon (ClaW), four furred demons (the utterwolves) and a hobgoblin-demon who all came dashing up from the shore to join forces with their old friends. Moving blindly, bumping into each other and falling over frequently, the ten cultists tried to get out of the sleet storm. Some cast [I]Light[/I] cantrips but it didn't help much. In desperation, they began a new chant which at least helped them locate each other so that they could start to spread out in a more co-ordinated way. Inannyunot took advantage of the chanting to target a [i]Fireball[/i] at where the sound seemed to be concentrated. He didn't immediately know what effect this had, except that the chanting faltered and continued again, a little less strongly. The twelve demons made a plan for what to do when the chanting cultists eventually emerged. The plan was this ... [/COLOR] [sup]1[/sup] [I]Sleet Storm[/I] spell. [sup]2[/sup] Readied action. She was [I]outside[/I] the storm cylinder, so she was unaffected by it, but the 10ft reach of her halberd extended [I]into[/I] it so she could strike with advantage against any creature that was still just inside. [/QUOTE]
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