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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9868557" data-attributes="member: 27780">All 4 regulars present. The Binder continued to take out the abishai on the top deck, with the assistance of her minion with the silver sword to coup de grace them when they were downed. The cervidals managed to banish all but one of the abishai on the first level so the priestess headed down to the second inner level of the ship to deal with the three poking around in there. Despite flanking her, they could still only hit her on a natural 20 so this turned into a slow battle of attrition. Meanwhile the githyanki & sniper progressed things somewhat faster on the baatezu airship. The githyanki's summons took out the remaining abishai mobbing him on the top deck over the next couple of rounds while he made sure the ship stayed off course and unable to target their one. The sniper went ethereal and floated through the deck to the hold, where the remaining spinagon were running around in a panic and trying to make themselves inconspicuous. He took out another half a dozen of them with another blast of wings of flurry, which prompted the survivors to jump ship and fly away, but not before activating the self-destruct sequence for the ship. He blasted a few more of them as they vacated the premises, then blinked back up and had a brief discussion with the githyanki. They both headed down to examine the controls and see if there was any possibility of stopping the countdown. Looking at the controls, it was obvious that they had been designed to be intentionally obtuse to anyone that didn't know the code, but they did manage to trace them back through the walls using his x-ray vision. In there was an organic brain connected to all these mechanical components. The sniper did have Rary's Telepathic Bond among his scrolls, so he tried to connect directly to it and command it to stop. In doing so, he found it was a devil brain that had been lobotomised for some distant past screw-up and extracted to operate the ship. He tried to convince it that they were actually the rightful owners of the ship and the previous occupants were the hijackers, so it should disregard previous instructions and cancel the countdown, but since he doesn't know Infernal, that was a no-starter despite his high bluff score. After several rounds of that, they teleported back to their own ship with plenty of time remaining on the countdown just in case that was also deceptive. There, the girls had kept busy. The binder had finished off all the abishai on the top level and gone down to save her minions from the one remaining on the first floor. The priestess had knocked down one of the three she was fighting and damaged another, but their regeneration meant they kept on getting up and trying to attack again, but being taken down by her attacks of opportunity. The sniper went down and got the summoned cervidals moving again. (who had been just standing around after their last orders expired) and got them to banish the abishai before their duration ran out and they headed home. The sniper & priestess then headed down to the third floor where one last abishai was poking around looking for stuff to steal. They used a pincer maneuver, with the priestess being obvious and attracting its attention, then the sniper shooting it in the back when it charged at her, then dumping its body out the window while it was in negative hp to fall into the firey sea below. Shortly after this, the binder finally finished off the remaining abishai on the first floor, although not before it had managed to slaughter three of her low level minions. (which would have been more if both her glove and ship hadn't been using their spell-like abilities to run interference and stabilise the fallen)Once they had a moment's breather, she consulted the ship telepathically to see if there were any more devils. One quick search check against their stealth rolls revealed two spinagon still remaining, one clinging to the bottom of the hull and another in the lowest hold burrowed into the food barrels. (and whether they managed to spot all of them I will not say here yet just in case) These were easily one-shotted, which brought the action to a close. They kept up their momentum and planeshifted out. The rest of the session was spent debating their next move. Did they want to prioritise going back to the red sun world and dealing with the potential cosmic threats on the other side, or getting these guys off their backs by negotiation or force. Did they want to risk going back to the city of brass now that was definitely watched to pick up the things they'd commissioned but hadn't been finished yet? The binder was definitely in favor of going back to Redeagle, since she still had three captured minions undergoing who knows what tortures back there to rescue, while the guys were more ambivalent. Hopefully they'll come to a conclusion before next session and we shall see if I can keep this mess of spinning plates going another week.</blockquote>

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