Part MMMDCXV: On Bloody Steps
On Bloody Steps
Twenty Sixth Day of the Second Month 294 AC
As you and Dany show your power waves of twisting chaotic sorcery race across the steps of the pyramid, bathing the crimson stones in colors the tongues of men have no names for, and of the score of devils summoned for the battle only two endure. Two of the furies are trapped in tangles of withing shadows while a pair of bone devils ensnared by Teana's glamour strike each other with all the ferocity of claw and stinger, though alas the poison does naught to harm them, while Garin flings his crossbow aside to cast bolts of clinging darkness high and low until the very light of the sun seems to dim in his presence. Twelve of the devils are hit, their flesh chilling and flaking as though at the touch of the grave, but even among those for whom will and infernal resilience is not enough to endure are not blinded by the spell, for on their breast shine diamonds bright as damned men's tears and so they are released.
For his part Benerro speaks the prayers to the Lord of Light softly, for such would never be accepted into the ranks of the Sons, but his god hears him just the same for light like onto a new born sun bloom upon three of your foes who had best escaped Garin's darkness. They burn like kindling before the candle's flame, but they do not yet perish even before a god's wrath.
From high above him veiled in Illusion, for she had disdained taking on a harpy's foul seeming, Mereth strikes. Eight arrows fall upon one of the sole remaining uninjured bone devils, a hail of steel and ruinous enchantment that pins his segmented tail to the stones even as Ser Richard lunges into battle almost faster than the eye can see, the devil loses his head and the bespelled companion nearest to it an arm.
The Seeker moves almost as though in a dance, with the sort of grace and beauty that only perfect functionality can breed, and while it cannot quite match Ser Richard's strength another devil is brought to its knees.
Two devils dead already in moments, five gravely wounded with but moments of battle at hand, you can win this, of that you are certain. Then the steps underfoot shift ever so slightly and from the blood red stones rise a pair of judgment devils with skin of ash and eyes blazing embers. From their forms one might almost mistake them for mortal scions, at least until one happened to look right into those eyes from not ten feet away.
"You are no Harpy's fools," the devils speak as one inside your minds, the cold certainty of the words somehow cutting deeper than any threat could have. As one the devils utter a single blasphemous word, to wither blood in living veins. When Dany calls their judgement false, their magics undone, the agents of Asmodeus look up with narrowed eyes. "We know that defiance, that will. Tell us Child of Dragons, why do you hide in such tawdry garb?"
Your sister does not answer, too concerned with the enemy casting arcane tethers into the air, while many slide off Dany's wards or in your case flesh and blood alone, Teana, Benerro and Garin are all bound, then the erinyes strike. No less skilled are they than Mereth and her sisters, nor their arms and armor lesser. All take aim for Teana, likely for the affront of turning their companions against them, and loose arrow after arrow. All the shadows she can conjure are not enough. Wards crumble, healing light flows, yet still the arrows come and at the end she is left wounded and clutching her chest where an arrow lies embedded between her ribs.
Teana loses 40 Temp HP/Takes 57 damage/Heals 57 damage/Takes 92 Damage
- 9 Erinyes (2 Heavily wounded)
- 9 Bone Devils (3 Heavily Wounded)
- 2 Ashmedes
What next?
[] Focus on the Ashmedes, they are the leaders
[] Clear Furies out of the sky
[] Deal with the Bone Devils before they do worse than bind you to this place
[] Write in
OOC: The devils all seem to have third eye of clarity or something like it, and the Judgement Devils were Xorn Walking underfoot before they rose for their part of the attack.
Last edited:
