Fianna never bothers to turn to look at the soldier indicated by Toc, instead seeing through FinFin’s eyes to locate and identify them.
When the action explodes and Jahren calls out, Fianna cannot help but think even Chen is unlikely to be able to hold such a creature..,
When the chaos erupts Fianna’s first thought is to cast Hold Monster upon it...
((But I suspect a demon may not count as a monster? If Fianna thinks the spell will work, she casts it. If she knows better, she’ll instead go for a much harsher take down and do Finger of Death instead...))
But a demon? Fianna thinks. It may call for a more serious move... with just the slightest delay, Fianna decides and casts her spell!
Loane has rope in her hands, and is ready to tie the creature up before anyone else has even thought about what to do.
Toc casts a spell at the creature. It responds with a counter-spell, which Toc responds to with a counter-spell. The brief exchange of power occurs. A large hand made of shimmering translucent force appears and grabs the creature. H 16 vs BG 22
The creature dodges out of the way of the shimmering hand.
Mirica steps forward with her hammer and a blast of blindingly bright light slashes through the air. 16. The searing light just glances across the creature leaving it singed, it lets out a wild bark of pain.
Then Chen leaps to grab it. 9.
He grabs the creature in a bear hug. Loane leaps forward with the rope to try and restrain it further, and gets two loops around the creature who struggles and continues to bark in surprise. They seem to have it mostly, so Jahren keeps his polymorph for now, but has his counterspell handy, while Fianna simply unleashes her hold monster spell.
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The creature ignores her spell, continuing to thrash.
Looking around desperately, the thing looks in a direction and then "bamf", Chen's grasp closes on air, and Loane's rope falls to the ground. You all look in the direction. The creature is 60 feet away, and turns to flee lifting up into the air.
Jahren hisses and releases his polymorph spell at the creature that is now 60 feet away. 26. The magical spell disperses away from the creature like oil on water.
SilverMark hisses and raises his hands, glittering magic swelling around them, Magic missiles fly towards the thing, which reacts by raising a shield, the darts splashing into them.
Wrath's takes a few quick steps towards the creature, his eyes sparkle and a crackling blast of energy strikes at the creature. 12. 47
The creature shrieks in pain as black necrotic energy eats away at its body. There's a sudden bright flash. Right next to the creature. where there'd just been several blasts of powerful magic, a white wriggling tendril of energy appears in mid air, motes sparkling from it. It is a strange eddy of energy simultaneously leaking energy and pulling it back in. It has causes a severe warping effect, twisting your perceptions. It is similar to the one you witnessed when you first arrived near the dark woods, though this one has a dull reddish color to it.
The demon is now 90 feet away in the woods, flying. 14 It looks fairly badly injured. Several of the 22nd fire arrows at it.
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The arrows all fly wide or smash off the magical shield. Everyone's action.
The priority was to keep creature here, of course, but distraction had to be a good thing too: while creature was teleporting around, it could not attack (much), giving others a chance to do something.
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Loane sprints after the demon, trying to follow after on the ground. Once she gets in range, she draws two daggers from her armband, and throws them up at the demon. At the very least, trying grab its attention.
The ever calm Jahren frowns slightly when his polymorph spell fails and the creature keeps getting away. He reaches to his left and puts one hand on his enchanted instrument, flourishing his hand out from there. Suddenly the escaping creature is surrounded by a twisting Hypnotic Pattern of brilliant colors. (Disadvantage on DC18 WIS save vs charmed/incapacitated/speed 0).
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A vine explodes from the ground suddenly, whipping up and trying to grab the demon's leg. 14 Mirica can't "word of radiance" though because she's not close enough. (The range says 5 feet?)
Loane runs forward through the forest with startling speed, leaping and launching two daggers. The demon pushes out another shield spell which both deflect both daggers.
A strange swirl of color flashes in the air around him. His eyes try to shake the hypntozing power. 18
Toc rushes forward as well, casting a spell at the creature, his hand outstretched trying to capture the creature with some magic. T 9 vs BG 16. Toc's magic grabs the creature, and pulls it 30 feet closer (now it's only 30 feet away). Toc drags it close enough for Mirica to run and cast her spell, the vine grasping the creatures leg and pulling it another 20 feet closer to the group.
Arrows whistle through the air from the 22nd at it: 9127124815
SilverMark blasts the creature with fire : Attack: 18 Damage: 20
Wrath rushes forward and yells, "Approach!!" 23
One of the soldiers holds out a hand letting out two beams of force blast at the creature. Attack: 12 Damage: 9. Attack: 22 Damage: 8
Chen, Fianna, you find the creature dragged within 40 feet of you by magic and the vine. The crossbow bolts graze the creature and one bolt of force strikes it. All the other arrows and magic flame and bolts fire past it, many deflecting off of it's magical shield.
It ignores the hypnotizing lights and the command from the Wrath.
Nothing is working, Fianna thinks to herself. This thing is shrugging off everything, so far. The most effective attack seems to Fianna to have been the necrotic attack cast by the one called Wrath...
Fianna steps forward towards the demon muttering "filleadh ar ifreann tú uafás" The wind seems to billow Fianna's clothing for a second, her eyes darken, there is a moment of sudden coldness around here and then she raises her hand and points at the demon... Negative energy courses out from Fianna and toward the demon with the casting of [spell[Finger of Death[/spell] ((Constitution saving throw for half damage)) for 55 damage.
Above the fray, FinFin is trying to stay out of the ruckus and instead of scouting the perimeter, keeping an eye out of approaching horde, mysteriously heavy branches (with invisible beings on them) or any other approaching dangers. [Tooltip Not Found] 19
((huh, that is supposed to be a Perception roll for FinFin))
Chen walks over to the beleaguered creature, politely saying: If you won't stay still, sir, we shall be obliged to subdue you. He then attempts to smack it with his maul
Fianna raises her hands up, ready to unleash powerful necrotic energy at the thing, but then Chen steps forward and with two massive slams of his Maul the creature drops to the ground with a heavy thud. Loane is tying it up a moment later until it's thoroughly bound.
Everyone glances around warily looking for more foes, but the forest is quiet for the moment. FinFin's eyes dart suspiciously around, but doesn't see anything untoward.
Sergeant Coon walks up, nudging the unconscious demon with his toe. "Hmmm...well....what the heck happened to Roz?"
Toc looks, "I'm unsure, I saw your soldier simply vanish, then this creature appeared in his spot, looking like him, a moment later."
SilverMark looks to the creature, "We're going to struggle to keep this thing captured when it comes to."
Wrath glances up at the strange phenomenon, getting closer to inspect it. SinSin shakes his head as he gets a closer look at the vicious demon creature, then looks up at the strange phenomenon up in the air wavering about. "Well, I mean, it's a demon, don't we just...you know..." he drags his finger across his throat. "And then we can get the heck out of here. The 22nd can get back to Hillsfar, and we can get back to a nice forest walk...."
Toc glances around, "Orcs are like a weeds in the garden, as are a few dozen Drow. Even green dragons are a natural part of the world. But Aldlas Sodhese...and demons such as this...they are a rot and they must be expunged from the forest before they can take root. I think that should be our priority."
When Toc mentions the name, Fianna catches a vision of pawns on the board, and then past it, spotting a bishop made of black stone standing tall across a field of broken and littered pieces. The vision fades and she shakes her head clear.
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"And to expunge rot you cut it out wherever you see it," Fianna says, continuing the metaphor. "I think it too dangerous to let live. I understand the desire to try to question it but you cannot expect a demon to crack under our questioning, and if it does you cannot trust it's answers. We have a chance to take one of their pieces of the board, we should take it before it slips out of our fingers..."
Fianna still holder her spell at the ready, just waiting for the sense the group agrees or for the beast to show the slightest sign of awakening...
Mirica studied the demon as a poisonous snake - it's a deadly horror, sure, but spectacular in its ... completeness. "Leaving aside declaration of dragons to be part of nature, in our case that particular nature seems to be entangled with the "rot" - they made some kind of deal with them, aren't they?" "But speaking of demons and "cracking under questioning"... You said you managed to make another demon talk. How did you do it?"She looked at Sergeant Coon with an honest curiosity.
The Sergeant shrugged to Mirica. "I'm afraid the demon we broke was a lesser demon. Something SilverMark and Wrath were able to restrain and manage while we forced answers from it. It turns out demons don't like torture anymore than the next guy, especially when it includes holy water." He grins a vicious grin, "But...this thing....is much too wild to be controlled. You tore a damned thread with all the magic it took to take it down." He motions annoyed to the thread.
SilverMark yells at Wrath, "Don't get too close or it'll compel you..."
Wrath gives him a nasty look, "Yea yea, I know."
At a questioning look from Toc, SilverMark shrugs, "Powerful magic keeps opening these tears around here for the past couple weeks. Could be the destruction of your Mythal doin this maybe? You just need to feed it the right slant of magic to heal it. But....anyone with magic in 'em is compelled to feed their magic into them if you get too close. We even seen one temporarily suck the magic out of a magic item to heal itself."
Toc nods, but clearly isn't sold on the theory. He turns his attention back to the demon. He holds out a tiny cage on his belt that glitters slightly. "Kill it and I we can question it using other means....its essence won't escape." His voice holds a dark threat in it.
Chen has been standing beside the demon with one foot on its body in case it awakens. At the direction from Toc, the barbarian wordlessly lifts his maul up high and brings it down with great force on the fiend's head...
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Loane double checks her knot work, making sure it was secure before taking a few steps back. Not that it had much use, with Chen going to deal the killing blow. "How willing would a fiend be to speak, dead or otherwise? They can be almost as tricky as fey with how they speak."
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Toc nods, but clearly isn't sold on the theory. He turns his attention back to the demon. He holds out a tiny cage on his belt that glitters slightly. "Kill it and I we can question it using other means....its essence won't escape." His voice holds a dark threat in it.
Fianna unleashes the Finger of Death which she had been holding at the ready... ((Con save for half of 63 damage))
Fianna points her finger at the creature. Under Chen's foot the body arches its back, pressing against his foot before crunching back into the ground. The body spasms slightly, curling up on itself until it's in a tiny ball, letting out a shuddering echo of breathes, before everything relaxes. Toc mutters an arcane word, holding his cage, and then with a hand reaches out to snatch something, taking his hand to the cage. He nods with a serious glance about the group. Many of the 22nd mutter, one of them curses and spits. Then the body shudders, unfurls, and rolling to one side it pushes itself up, it's eyes empty of any thought, the thing stands there.
Sergeant Coon inhales a whistling unhappy inhale, "Holy hells. Who are you people?"
Toc looks to the group, "We have several options. I can ask it a question and get a brief answer. The thing knows whatever it knew in life, and it must answer me truthfully and to the best of its ability. However, the response is no more than a sentence or two and might be cryptic. I have six questions. I can also name a place it's been, and scry there, but it consumes one of the questions."
Sergeant Coon speaks up, and still speaking in a commanding...expected to be followed...voice says, "Where's this things master at...." He cracks his knuckle.
Toc looks to the group for other suggestions.
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Fianna initiative; 9
Fianna never bothers to turn to look at the soldier indicated by Toc, instead seeing through FinFin’s eyes to locate and identify them.
When the action explodes and Jahren calls out, Fianna cannot help but think even Chen is unlikely to be able to hold such a creature..,
When the chaos erupts Fianna’s first thought is to cast Hold Monster upon it...
((But I suspect a demon may not count as a monster? If Fianna thinks the spell will work, she casts it. If she knows better, she’ll instead go for a much harsher take down and do Finger of Death instead...))
But a demon? Fianna thinks. It may call for a more serious move... with just the slightest delay, Fianna decides and casts her spell!
Loane has rope in her hands, and is ready to tie the creature up before anyone else has even thought about what to do.
Toc casts a spell at the creature. It responds with a counter-spell, which Toc responds to with a counter-spell. The brief exchange of power occurs. A large hand made of shimmering translucent force appears and grabs the creature. H 16 vs BG 22
The creature dodges out of the way of the shimmering hand.
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Mirica steps forward with her hammer and a blast of blindingly bright light slashes through the air. 16. The searing light just glances across the creature leaving it singed, it lets out a wild bark of pain.
Then Chen leaps to grab it. 9.
He grabs the creature in a bear hug. Loane leaps forward with the rope to try and restrain it further, and gets two loops around the creature who struggles and continues to bark in surprise. They seem to have it mostly, so Jahren keeps his polymorph for now, but has his counterspell handy, while Fianna simply unleashes her hold monster spell.
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The creature ignores her spell, continuing to thrash.
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Looking around desperately, the thing looks in a direction and then "bamf", Chen's grasp closes on air, and Loane's rope falls to the ground. You all look in the direction. The creature is 60 feet away, and turns to flee lifting up into the air.
Jahren hisses and releases his polymorph spell at the creature that is now 60 feet away. 26. The magical spell disperses away from the creature like oil on water.
SilverMark hisses and raises his hands, glittering magic swelling around them, Magic missiles fly towards the thing, which reacts by raising a shield, the darts splashing into them.
Wrath's takes a few quick steps towards the creature, his eyes sparkle and a crackling blast of energy strikes at the creature. 12. 47
The creature shrieks in pain as black necrotic energy eats away at its body. There's a sudden bright flash. Right next to the creature. where there'd just been several blasts of powerful magic, a white wriggling tendril of energy appears in mid air, motes sparkling from it. It is a strange eddy of energy simultaneously leaking energy and pulling it back in. It has causes a severe warping effect, twisting your perceptions. It is similar to the one you witnessed when you first arrived near the dark woods, though this one has a dull reddish color to it.
The demon is now 90 feet away in the woods, flying. 14 It looks fairly badly injured. Several of the 22nd fire arrows at it.
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The priority was to keep creature here, of course, but distraction had to be a good thing too: while creature was teleporting around, it could not attack (much), giving others a chance to do something.
Bonus action Grasping Vine - to get him closer,
Action Word of Radiance (Con save 18) for 12
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Loane sprints after the demon, trying to follow after on the ground. Once she gets in range, she draws two daggers from her armband, and throws them up at the demon. At the very least, trying grab its attention.
Bonus Action: Cunning Action to Dash
Movement: Try to move up to the 80 feet (40 base movement) she has with Dash
Action: Throw two daggers from her Bracer of Flying Daggers
Dagger 1: 18 Damage: 7 Dagger 2: 19 Damage: 6
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The ever calm Jahren frowns slightly when his polymorph spell fails and the creature keeps getting away. He reaches to his left and puts one hand on his enchanted instrument, flourishing his hand out from there. Suddenly the escaping creature is surrounded by a twisting Hypnotic Pattern of brilliant colors. (Disadvantage on DC18 WIS save vs charmed/incapacitated/speed 0).
A vine explodes from the ground suddenly, whipping up and trying to grab the demon's leg. 14 Mirica can't "word of radiance" though because she's not close enough. (The range says 5 feet?)
Loane runs forward through the forest with startling speed, leaping and launching two daggers. The demon pushes out another shield spell which both deflect both daggers.
A strange swirl of color flashes in the air around him. His eyes try to shake the hypntozing power. 18
Toc rushes forward as well, casting a spell at the creature, his hand outstretched trying to capture the creature with some magic. T 9 vs BG 16. Toc's magic grabs the creature, and pulls it 30 feet closer (now it's only 30 feet away). Toc drags it close enough for Mirica to run and cast her spell, the vine grasping the creatures leg and pulling it another 20 feet closer to the group.
Arrows whistle through the air from the 22nd at it: 9 12 7 12 4 8 15
SilverMark blasts the creature with fire : Attack: 18 Damage: 20
Wrath rushes forward and yells, "Approach!!" 23
One of the soldiers holds out a hand letting out two beams of force blast at the creature. Attack: 12 Damage: 9. Attack: 22 Damage: 8
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Chen, Fianna, you find the creature dragged within 40 feet of you by magic and the vine. The crossbow bolts graze the creature and one bolt of force strikes it. All the other arrows and magic flame and bolts fire past it, many deflecting off of it's magical shield.
It ignores the hypnotizing lights and the command from the Wrath.
Chen, Fianna, your actions.
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Nothing is working, Fianna thinks to herself. This thing is shrugging off everything, so far. The most effective attack seems to Fianna to have been the necrotic attack cast by the one called Wrath...
Fianna steps forward towards the demon muttering "filleadh ar ifreann tú uafás" The wind seems to billow Fianna's clothing for a second, her eyes darken, there is a moment of sudden coldness around here and then she raises her hand and points at the demon... Negative energy courses out from Fianna and toward the demon with the casting of [spell[Finger of Death[/spell] ((Constitution saving throw for half damage)) for 55 damage.
Above the fray, FinFin is trying to stay out of the ruckus and instead of scouting the perimeter, keeping an eye out of approaching horde, mysteriously heavy branches (with invisible beings on them) or any other approaching dangers. [Tooltip Not Found] 19
((huh, that is supposed to be a Perception roll for FinFin))
Chen walks over to the beleaguered creature, politely saying: If you won't stay still, sir, we shall be obliged to subdue you. He then attempts to smack it with his maul
Action: Attack with Maul
Attack#1: 28 Damage: 13 bludgeoning
Attack#2: 31 Damage: 19 bludgeoning
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Fianna raises her hands up, ready to unleash powerful necrotic energy at the thing, but then Chen steps forward and with two massive slams of his Maul the creature drops to the ground with a heavy thud. Loane is tying it up a moment later until it's thoroughly bound.
Everyone glances around warily looking for more foes, but the forest is quiet for the moment. FinFin's eyes dart suspiciously around, but doesn't see anything untoward.
Sergeant Coon walks up, nudging the unconscious demon with his toe. "Hmmm...well....what the heck happened to Roz?"
Toc looks, "I'm unsure, I saw your soldier simply vanish, then this creature appeared in his spot, looking like him, a moment later."
SilverMark looks to the creature, "We're going to struggle to keep this thing captured when it comes to."
Wrath glances up at the strange phenomenon, getting closer to inspect it. SinSin shakes his head as he gets a closer look at the vicious demon creature, then looks up at the strange phenomenon up in the air wavering about. "Well, I mean, it's a demon, don't we just...you know..." he drags his finger across his throat. "And then we can get the heck out of here. The 22nd can get back to Hillsfar, and we can get back to a nice forest walk...."
Toc glances around, "Orcs are like a weeds in the garden, as are a few dozen Drow. Even green dragons are a natural part of the world. But Aldlas Sodhese...and demons such as this...they are a rot and they must be expunged from the forest before they can take root. I think that should be our priority."
When Toc mentions the name, Fianna catches a vision of pawns on the board, and then past it, spotting a bishop made of black stone standing tall across a field of broken and littered pieces. The vision fades and she shakes her head clear.
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
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"And to expunge rot you cut it out wherever you see it," Fianna says, continuing the metaphor. "I think it too dangerous to let live. I understand the desire to try to question it but you cannot expect a demon to crack under our questioning, and if it does you cannot trust it's answers. We have a chance to take one of their pieces of the board, we should take it before it slips out of our fingers..."
Fianna still holder her spell at the ready, just waiting for the sense the group agrees or for the beast to show the slightest sign of awakening...
Mirica studied the demon as a poisonous snake - it's a deadly horror, sure, but spectacular in its ... completeness. "Leaving aside declaration of dragons to be part of nature, in our case that particular nature seems to be entangled with the "rot" - they made some kind of deal with them, aren't they?" "But speaking of demons and "cracking under questioning"... You said you managed to make another demon talk. How did you do it?" She looked at Sergeant Coon with an honest curiosity.
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The Sergeant shrugged to Mirica. "I'm afraid the demon we broke was a lesser demon. Something SilverMark and Wrath were able to restrain and manage while we forced answers from it. It turns out demons don't like torture anymore than the next guy, especially when it includes holy water." He grins a vicious grin, "But...this thing....is much too wild to be controlled. You tore a damned thread with all the magic it took to take it down." He motions annoyed to the thread.
SilverMark yells at Wrath, "Don't get too close or it'll compel you..."
Wrath gives him a nasty look, "Yea yea, I know."
At a questioning look from Toc, SilverMark shrugs, "Powerful magic keeps opening these tears around here for the past couple weeks. Could be the destruction of your Mythal doin this maybe? You just need to feed it the right slant of magic to heal it. But....anyone with magic in 'em is compelled to feed their magic into them if you get too close. We even seen one temporarily suck the magic out of a magic item to heal itself."
Toc nods, but clearly isn't sold on the theory. He turns his attention back to the demon. He holds out a tiny cage on his belt that glitters slightly. "Kill it and I we can question it using other means....its essence won't escape." His voice holds a dark threat in it.
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
Class.
Chen has been standing beside the demon with one foot on its body in case it awakens. At the direction from Toc, the barbarian wordlessly lifts his maul up high and brings it down with great force on the fiend's head...
How does a red dragon blow out the candles on its birthday cake?
Loane double checks her knot work, making sure it was secure before taking a few steps back. Not that it had much use, with Chen going to deal the killing blow. "How willing would a fiend be to speak, dead or otherwise? They can be almost as tricky as fey with how they speak."
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Fianna unleashes the Finger of Death which she had been holding at the ready... ((Con save for half of 63 damage))
(Happy to withhold Chen's brain-smasher in lieu of Fianna's already-readied spell)
How does a red dragon blow out the candles on its birthday cake?
Fianna points her finger at the creature. Under Chen's foot the body arches its back, pressing against his foot before crunching back into the ground. The body spasms slightly, curling up on itself until it's in a tiny ball, letting out a shuddering echo of breathes, before everything relaxes. Toc mutters an arcane word, holding his cage, and then with a hand reaches out to snatch something, taking his hand to the cage. He nods with a serious glance about the group. Many of the 22nd mutter, one of them curses and spits. Then the body shudders, unfurls, and rolling to one side it pushes itself up, it's eyes empty of any thought, the thing stands there.
Sergeant Coon inhales a whistling unhappy inhale, "Holy hells. Who are you people?"
Toc looks to the group, "We have several options. I can ask it a question and get a brief answer. The thing knows whatever it knew in life, and it must answer me truthfully and to the best of its ability. However, the response is no more than a sentence or two and might be cryptic. I have six questions. I can also name a place it's been, and scry there, but it consumes one of the questions."
Sergeant Coon speaks up, and still speaking in a commanding...expected to be followed...voice says, "Where's this things master at...." He cracks his knuckle.
Toc looks to the group for other suggestions.
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
Class.