The Reconquista: Part I (Shadows over Istivin)

[Branding Opportunity]

Now frozen where it stands by the nobleman's magic, the demon is unable to move as little as a finger.

Ordering Beau forward, Morley maintains his bow and rushes up to the frozen demon.

Eshanna looks unhappily over her shoulder at Mavic, and with a shrug she unlimbers her sword just in case the creature isn't expedited maliciously sooner rather than later. (OOC: Draw weapon)

Unsure whether the others will be able to finish him off completely, George stays invisible but moves around to the back of the demon.

“Good job, Mavic. This fiend is as good as dead.” Unless there are any objections, with the talk about chatting with the demon and all that, Latalya steps in and let's her sword do its work, slamming the massive but rather helpless creature to the ground with her first sweep, and then continue her furious attacks. (OOC: 5-ft. step to close in; full attack with +3 Power Attack; 1st Attack using Improved Trip (touch attack 5 + 10 = 15, hit, trip attempt succeeds automatically); Attack#2 15 + 12 = 27, hit! Damage: 2d6 + 8 + 1d6 + 6 = 31 hp; Attack#3 17 + 12 = 29, hit! Damage = 22 hp; Attack#4 11 + 7 = 18, miss)

Seeing his foe helpless, Reivik takes the time to line up a terrible blow of Bar, hoping to take the evil demon down in a single blow. The maul catches the prone demon in the side of the head, staving in his skull and biting deep into the dark tissue underneath. Released in death by the enchantment that had paralyzed him, the fiend collapses, limbs flailing lifelessly around him. Its death rattle escapes hollowly from its lungs sounding wet and dark. (OOC: Coup de grace using full power attack, automatic hit, automatic crit! Damage 1d12 + 20 X 4 = 122 hp! Creature is dead)

COMBAT HAD ENDED

 

[Rhun]

"You'll be eating no one this day, fiend!" says Reivik, spitting upon the corpse of the demon. Then, noting that foul ichor covering Bar, the dwarf snorts and looks about for something to clean his weapon on.

 

[hafrogman]

The fur and muscles seem to melt away and recede as Gregor stands up once more as a human. He wipes away a small spot of ichor that sprayed onto his face and considers the fallen creature for a moment. He turns back to Mavic.

"What did you want to ask him?"

 

[Scotley]

Morley

"And would we have been able to believe his answer?"

 

[Thanee]

Latalya

Seeing Reivik look around for something to clean his pet hammer, Latalya quickly moves back to where she has dropped her bow and picks it up again. She wipes off the fiend's blood from her own sword using some old rug or blanket, before placing it back into her sheath.

“Is the fiend's victim still alive?”

 

[Branding Opportunity]

Quickly inspecting the more than half a dozen victims of the fiend's cruelty you sadly discover that they have all perished, some of them more than a week ago. Judging from their clothing most of them were probably prisoners here, although some looked to have been guards. None of these could have made the whimpering and moaning you heard earlier. It must have come from the demon, attempting to lure you into lowering your guard.

While some are looking at the various decaying corpses, Gregor, George, Morley and Eshanna notice something about the demon (OOC: Successful Spot check). He seems to wearing two pieces of jewelry, a black pendant around his neck, decorated with red gemstones, and a large platinum ring on his left index finger, shaped to resemble a humanoid figure in torment.

 

[Rhun]

"How would a demon come to be here?" asks Reivik, cleaning off his heavy battle-sledge. "And more importantly, how many more of them lurk in these tunnels?"

 

[Bloodweaver1]

Anastasia Winterheart

"Well I would doubt that there would be anymore demons in here. Just thinking tactically, 'they' would have had a better chance of success if they put all of their 'pets' in one place." Offers the Knight as she makes her way towards the fell creature.

 

[James Heard]

Mavic sneered impatiently, "As I was saying, I wished to talk with him and see if we might find out who his "Master" was," the grim mage reported.

" A moment's thought would have perhaps indicated that as the reason I'd have studied Halson's magnificent variation on Holding just for that purpose... Not that Bigby's permutations aren't grand in and of themselves in their eloquence, but I prefer the Halson version for patriotic reasons. And, after all, it's good enough for Mordenkainen himself and it obviously worked here."

His anger diminishing, Mavic sighed as if the combat weighed heavily upon him.

" If something demonstrably demonic in an extraplanar nature is afoot in Istivin then I'm afraid of agents of the giants within our own ranks. Demonology is dirty business, and with the armies distracted elsewhere there's no telling how long it might have festered. What is happening in Istivin?" Mavic asks non-rhetorically.

 

[Scotley]

Morley

"What do you make of those jewels it is wearing?" Asks Morley, pointing for emphasis. "Perhaps a check for magic, evil and curses would be in order?"