[ We find Our Heroes sanding over a massive salad of their own making. However, the salad is chock full of the essence of the Lower Planes, which is even worse than trans-fats, so they prolly don't want to eat it. ] [ Instead, they are faced with a choice; three hallways lead off in three different directions. For the sake of sanity, we'll call them 'north', 'east', and 'west', with 'south' leading to the obliterated entrance. Mind, there are no actual cardinal directions here that you know of, so. ] [ Session Start! ] * Kenji considers for a moment the three hallways. * Tia glances from hallway to hallway and taps her chin with a finger. Any of these hallways look better than the others to you, Kenji? * WillS takes a closer look at the statues. They're big aren't they. There's always a correct answer. In this case, the answer is to go left. Left it is, then. It's as good an answer as any. [ An odd, cavernously deep burbling comes from the 'east'. So maybe Kenji has it right, this time. ] Left? Okay! * Patrick draws his bow and gets into position. * WillS follows behind. "What made you pick left?" * Seylin gets ready to scan for traps. Seylin, you're with me. Standard hall formation, everybody. * Seylin nods and gets into position. * WillS nods and goes to hide behind Tia. Gotcha! * Tia falls into line. [ The hallway here is fifteen feet wide and thirty high. ] * Kenji walks slowly and calmly beside Seylin as she watches for traps * Tia marches along purposefully while whistling cheerfully to herself. * Seylin looks for traps! And, if she finds them, traps on the traps! And so on. * Patrick keeps lookout for any enemies that might be sneaking around, or up, on them. * WillS follows in behind, trying his best to keep an eye out around him while not tripping over Tia's tail. [ Suddenly, in the darkened room ahead, a mass of flame erupts, shrouding and highlighting a towering, muscular humanoid creature with the head of a worg, a snake head sprouding from his back, and a vast, two-handed axe. "MORTALS!", it bellows, just to remind you that he probably isn't, "YOU ARE TRESSPASSING, A HEINOUS CRIME AGAINT THE TANAR'RI! COME, AND I, KAARLAK THE ENFORCER, WILL RENDER PUNISHMENT!" ] Uh... Huh. * Tia glances at Kaarlak's axe, then at her own, and finds that she might be a little jealous. How did I know you were going to talk in a big, booming voice? * Kenji lowers his hands to his waist, and his swords literally jump out for battle. [ The wolf-head leers at Kenji. "IT IS PART OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION." You think you hear an avalanche start outside. ] So. Where I come from, the right thing to do here is CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE! Because he's big and a guardian type. I mean, we might mistake him for a statue, * Kenji suits action to words. * Patrick tdraws his bow and gets ready to shoot. * Tia unslings her axe and belts out a full-throated roar. * Seylin draws her halberd. No offense, but I think we'll have to kill you. I mean, it's in our job description. *grin* [ Kenji, go! ] * Kenji charges, drawing Seylin and Tia along in his wake, and the three slam into the demon like the fist of an angry god, tearing big holes right through his rather formidible defenses. [ The demon loses large chunks as Kenji , Tia and Seylin slam into him, and the very damned ground beneath them trembles with the force. And the demon looks up, smiles, and says "THANK YOU, MORTALS." ] [ Patrick, go! ] * Patrick draws his bow and aligns himself, quickly firing several shots in the blink of an eye at the demon. Two of them lodge into critical locations near its lower-neck and in the center of its chest, while four others manage to impact through any sort of natural protection and into its arms and shoulders. Each shot bursts in white light upon impact, causing extra minor damage. [ Patrick's assault damages Kaarlak sorely; the demon keeps grinning as it coughs blood, and then it works something in its gums and swallows, and its wounds begin closing at a trully alarming rate. ] [ And then the demons says, "NOW, SOLDIERS," and six winged, gargoylelike demons leap out at Kenji, Tia, and Seylin, striking at them! Oh, and Kaarlack starts actually fighting, too. ] Oh good! This will be a real fight after all! [ The winged things fail to hit Kenji, who parries both of his attackers into one of them, but Tia and Seylin both get hit, with Seylin's assailants going airborne to keep up with her! ] [ Kaarlak lets go of his axe. This would normally be very stupid, but the thing begins to tear into Kenji all on its own, with Kaarlak himself following up right behind. Things are going normal until the snake head whips out of nowhere and bites Kenji's arm, injecting it to overflowing with something aggressively black and runny. ] * Kenji goes all out right back at him, disregarding his own health, screaming in rage as he's poisoned by the snake head, but still lashing out again and again with Azusa, cutting great gaping holes in his hide that don't seem to do a phenomenal amount of damage, but BOY are there a lot of them. [ Kaarlak takes surprisingly little damage from Kenji. "VERY GOOD, MORTAL! SHOW ME YOUR RAGE! SHOW ME THE BUDDING DEMON THAT LURKS IN EVERY MAN'S HEART!" ] [ Tia, go! ] [ Seylin, go! ] * Seylin raises her halberd and lets out a cry. A flash of white light emenates from her and spreads outward, washing over all of the demons. [ Seylin's light washes over the demons, leaving them all badly burned. ] [ Will, go! ] * Tia turns her attention to one of the flying gargoyle beasts attacking her and tears into it with wrathful violence. As the first creature falls under her axe, she slashes into the second with razor claws, shredding its body into ribbons. [ Tia kakks two winged things! ] [ And then the session ended! ]