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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 1467921" data-attributes="member: 4441">*Darren, you charge up to the nearest demon priest, flipping your blade to the side.  He follows it, and you have a soft spot marked on his chest to sink in Shadow's Bite.  Staeven, you charge the demon priest, your sword neatly decapitating him with one stroke.  You recognize it as a maurezhi demon, those that eat corpses and can take on their features and forms.*  *Lyssia fires a ray of holy light from her hand at one of the skeletons, which burns up in the heavenly light.  Norin dances forward, his fist poised to strike.  Striking low and hard into one of the demons, his fist briefly is covered with golden ice, which seems to cover the demon momentarily, slowing it.**Sylinda calls down holy fire, targeting the devourer, while Aeric remains at her side.  The fire rains down, but the devourer stands, unmoved and laughing by her attempts.  Her magic didn't even touch it.  The devourer in its turn simply points at her, and she feels her mind clouded and feeling of confusion wash over her, though nothing else seems wrong.  The bodaks remain where they are, seemingly guarding the devourer.  All the remaining skeletons become hard to look at, seemingly there one moment and gone the next.  The clawed zombie-creatures move to confront Staeven.**Both the armored zombies move to attack Darren one whiffing, but the other cutting a narrow gash in your flank.  The hooded figure with the staff stretches it out, and points it at Staeven.  One green arrow fly from it, but flies right over the Phoenix Knight's head.  The mohrg dashes forward, next to Saint Norin and tries to slam its bony fist into him, but it flies by as the saint dodges adroitly.**The chanting demon finishes its cries, as four more undead creatures, stinking of the grave, claw their way out of the ground next to him.  The other two in the back start their own chanting, as the middle priest casts a spell on himself that seems to knit his unholy flesh back together.  The priest by Darren hastily stumbles backwards, between two horses, and casts a spell on himself to ease his pain.  The one by Norin likewise runs back, and climbs into the wagon behind the devourer.  Both of the other two; the one behind the clawed zombies and the other on the far left also beat hasty retreats, starting to chant.**Nessa quickly puts a stop to the ghoul-summoning demon priest in the back.  Her column of holy fire destroys the demon and all the ghouls in one blast of flame.**Sebastion, you have to run by one of the clawed zombies to get near the devourer, and while he claws at you, he misses you by a wide margin.  You draw closer and closer and the staff-wielding creature moves to confront you.  As you draw near though, something else catches your eye, the dead white eyes of the bodaks.  Their terrible gaze tears at your soul, and you feel the touch of absolute evil as your vision fills with darkness.**Everyone else, you see Sebastion charge along the road, then stumble and fall limp to the ground.  Aerofax screams a challenge and charges the bodaks.*  [OOC - Darren, you feinted the demon really well, and you will be sneak attacking with impunity next round.  Halivar, I am incredibly sorry.  I rolled both your Fort saves, getting a 20 the first time... and a 2 the second.  2 + 11 doesn't equal 15, the DC for the bodak's death gaze.  However, to be sure, Sebastion will have quite a tale to tell when/if he decides to come back from the veil.  Death won't stop anyone in this party for long, I'm sure.  Lyssia, you killed BG5.  Darren, you take 8 points of damage from DW 2.  Nessa, you killed P2 and all the ghouls around him.  Staeven, you killed P5 and are now confronted by the clawed zombies.The map is below.  It's nothing fancy, but I thought it would help, because this is a big combat.  The squares are five foot squares.]</blockquote>

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