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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9864289" data-attributes="member: 27780">3 players present. They spent a good 20 minutes figuring out just how many buffs they would have managed to get active considering they'd been awoken in the middle of the night with short notice, but once that was dealt with the rest of the session was non-stop action. The binder created a bunch of weaker duplicates of herself and they all charged at the devils at the other end of the gangplank, while directing her airship to fly away. The sniper had turned ethereal at this point, so he let himself slip through the floors of the ship and float towards the jetty edge where the combat was beginning. In the process he noticed there were some smaller invisible devils clinging to the hull of the ship, ready to act as tracers if the frontal assault failed. He filed that information away to deal with later, and started using his wings of flurry to wear down the same devils the binder was already targeting. The pit fiend, cornugons and barbazu continued to mob the binder and her duplicates, while the hamatula teleported onto the departing ship before it could get too much speed up. There they noticed that the top deck was empty apart from the githyanki (the minions had hid below decks, knowing even weak devils would be above their pay grade), so half of them went to attack him while the other half headed for the stairs. He summoned some cervidals in response and set them to using their banishing touches, which didn't have great odds of success individually but were still much quicker when used en masse than trying to reduce them to 0hp. They soon dealt with the ones attacking him and went for the ones on the stairs, which were being kept from advancing by the priestesses whipping. While this was taking place, the airship continued to accelerate. The devils had come in their own ship, which also tried to give pursuit, but it was neither as fast or maneuverable. What it did have though, was the ability to spit long range bursts of hellfire from the mouth on its front, which were capable of scorching the binder's ship even through its fire resistance. Seeing that they might get away, a wave of abishai rose from the deck of the devil ship and teleported in front of the PC's one, ready to grab on and start mobbing it next round. A few of them failed their grapple rolls and hit the front in a less dignified fashion, but most of them managed to match speeds and start scrabbling at the front. They spent a couple of rounds doing this, but weren't making much impact through its hardness, so some of them climbed onto the deck, while others teleported to random locations inside the ship to cause havoc. Meanwhile, near the back of the ship, the githyanki thought things were mostly under control there, but they needed to do something about the blasts of hellfire before they wore down the ships hp too much, so he took two of the cervidals and teleported onto the enemy ship. He managed to take out the amnizu at the helm straight away with two smacks of his maul. He was mobbed by the remaining abishai, but with his magical shielding up they were taking damage every time they tried to attack him. They then tried using their mind-control abilities en masse, but his saves were high enough to repeatedly no-sell that as well. Meanwhile his summons were dismissing the abishai as fast as they could, while he hung onto the helm to pull it off course, although it still took several rounds before the mouth cannon was unable to target their ship at all, as it has a fair amount of independent leeway to aim. Flipping back to our original perspective on the jetty, the binder had quickly managed to mow through the barbazu, leaving just the pit fiend and two cornugons fighting her. While her duplicates had been handy against the minions, they weren't much use against the big guys. She had to expend quite a few charges from her wand of wraithstrike to wear them down, but by the time we reached the end of the session she and the sniper working together had managed to reduce them all to negative hp. The sniper then teleported them and the bodies back to the ship, where she handed the bodies off to a minion with a blessed silver sword to coup de grace while she got busy clearing the still active abishai. The sniper then teleported onwards to the devil ship to help get that fully under their control. With the way things are going, it's looking pretty likely that they'll manage to win the battle next session, but that still leaves the big question of if they'll manage to root out all the tracers the devils have planted on their ship and whether they'll continue to run away to pursue other goals or take the fight to them remains uncertain. Either way, I'll do my best to be ready.</blockquote>

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