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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paxus Asclepius" data-source="post: 1346036" data-attributes="member: 15175">OOC: Initiatives are: Vilya (24) The Cimmerian (20) Black-skin (20) Brystasia (14) Mirror-skin (12) Antillus (12) Rynin (11) Sandorel (9) Kelnar (8)Hostilities commence with a brutal abruptness.  Before Brystasia finishes the second syllable of her chant, Vilya has leapt down the corridor, her scimitar slicing a furrow along the black-skinned devil's stomach, then dancing around behind the mirror-skinned one's back and cutting a grazing blow across its hip.  Her blades do not seem to bite as deeply as they would normal flesh, but bite they do.The Cimmerian follows swiftly in her wake, charging heedlessly into the fray, his mighty blade hammering viciously into the mirror-skinned demon's massive chest.  Despite the force of the blow, easily enough to cut an armored charger in half lengthwise, the fiend seems barely staggered.The black-skinned devil takes a step forward and lashes Brystasia brutally with its chain four times in a dizzying frenzy.  The vicious blows tear her arms and legs into bloody ribbons, and flay most of her back to the bone, but the creture seems to have deliberately spared her face.  It then snakes it long neck around, biting viciously into the Cimmerian's shoulder, and whipping a vicious tail slap at Vilya.  The wound carved into the elf's back begins pouring blood at a decidedly unnatural rate.Brystasia staggers back from the devil's blows, but succeeds in casting her spell.  However, it seems little affected by her alluring voice, save to increase its hellish hunger.The mirror-skinned fiend growls hungrily at the Cimmerian, and proceeds to maul him.  Three lashes of the barbed chain leave him too dazed to retaliate, and the creature bites into the wound its brother made.  His tail lashes at Vilya as well, leaving a second profusely bleeding wound.Antillus steps past the badly wounded half-nymph, his claws tearing at the flesh of the devil who attacked her.  Three of his claws find deep purchase in the creature's hide, and he grips the fiend in a tight and entirely unfriendly embrace.Rynin rushes from the back at the mirror-skinned devil, Zycia's Razor gleaming, but as he enters the fiend's reach, he takes a savage blow that brings him to his knees.Sandorel speaks a single word and makes a dismissive gesture, power flowing out from him like water from a burst dam.  The black-skinned devil disappears with a burst of vile smoke and a frustrated howl, but the spell seems to rebound from the mirror-skinned devil, flowing back at the godless cleric.  His indomitable will proves far too great a barrier for even his own magics, though, and he remains in the hall.OOC: Brystasia took 159 damage.  The Cimmerian received 116, and is stunned for two turns.  Vilya took 24, and is bleeding for 4 per round. Rynin took 32, and is stunned for 4 rounds.  Sandorel still has his full action, as the spell was quickened; I imagine you might like to pick a different action than a Destruction at this juncture, so I'll stop the round while you deliberate.</blockquote>

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