[ We find Our Gyros in the middle of epic combat! Which has taken forever, so far. This is getting uncomforably DBZ for the DM's tastes. ] [ Anyway, here we go! Session Start! ] * Kenji is beat to hell, or was until a moment ago, and his kimono is practically shredded. In fact, the upper half can basically be said to no longer exist. HIs topknot just fell out, too. * Patrick is pretty beat up by the two demons that flanked him after he stepped forward and scored a very damaging shot to Kaarlak. He's not out of it yet, but it's unlikely he'll be in much condition to fight if they can manage to do the same thing again. There's a grin across his face as he glances back at Kenji while dodging between two of the blows, almost as if he's waiting for something to happen. * Seylin *was* looking pretty bad, but thanks to Will, she's doing a lot better. She hasn't relaxed a bit, though, and is preparing herself for the next assault. * Tia is pretty bloody and battered herself, but she doesn't seem to acknowledge any pain. Instead, having felled a number of the smaller demons, she's grinning toothily under her winged helm and brandishing her axe as she stares Kaarlak in the face with not a shred of fear. * WillS is panting from exertion of healing more than one person at the same time. He has some strangle marks from the plant fight earlier, but is doing fine thus far. That may change with the snake demon lady staring down at him though. [ The fiends facing you are almost all battered badly, but they don't seem to mind a great deal. Kaarlak the enforcer in particular is looking shredded but hale, and the way he's recovering as you watch is rather disconcerting. ] [ One of the winged fiends near Tia attacks her while the other two mutter and wiggle their fingers; this latter results in a cold, greasy blackness exploding from the walls around Will, Seylin, and Kenji. ] [ Kenji, go! For great justice! ] * Kenji blurs into motion, literally blurring, and it becomes virtually impossible to see him. He first reappears directly behind the marilith has he grabs her by the tail, whips her around his head twice, and slams her to the ground next to Pat. He reappears again, slamming his foot into her chest, sending her flying over one long table, then takes a quick detour around Pat, flinging his harriers several feet away, to give him some breathing room. * Kenji disappears again, grabs the Marilith by her hair, turns, and pull-throws her over his back, slamming her into the ground a good thirty feet away. * Kenji disappears AGAIN, reappearing for instants as he -literally- plays tennis with himself, with the Marilith the unfortunate tennis ball, batting her back and forth across the room three times, each time letting her slam heavily into the wall, the final throw leaving a considerable crater out of which the Marilith needs to pry herself. * Kenji skids to a stop after the last throw, panting visibly, and shouts, "I hope you enjoyed the dance, milady, and if you'd like another, you've only to ask!" * Patrick takes a step back and readies his bow, firing in rapid succession. After injuring the first one, he finds a similar wound on his shoulder, just as damaging as the one he inflicted on the creature. Not phased, although a bit hurt, he moves on to the next three that are assaulting Tia and fires a shot through the heart of one,, two at the shoulder and then the head of the other, and the third one straight through the torso... * Patrick downing each of the three he hit after the first one with a small explosion of light as the arrows pass through. "Will! Some help here! I can't deal with this one, he's got a kind of link on me!" I'm on it! Will, heal Tia! Be right there. Hang on guys! * Kenji goes wide-eyed as Karlaak's massive dancing axe goes straight for Tia's throat, and in a split second, he's THERE, and she's NOT, and then his head's off, rolling to a stop a few feet away from his body. [ Kenji's body spasms and bleeds profusely as it flops to the ground. Kenji's severed head blinks in surprise at his own action. ] * Seylin starts screaming. * Tia 's expression briefly flickers to alarm, but seeing Kenji's head get lopped off in her's stead, her eyes flare up with fury, and she roars with redoubled rage. * WillS stares in disbelief in what just happened. His mouth opens and closes repeatedly, but no word comes out. FUCK. Will, get over here now! Sey, I need you to guard Will's flank. * Seylin shuts up and nods. [ Kaarlak lets his axe maul Tia some more while he spits lightning at some of you. ] Sey, take out the extras, I'm going to get that head of Kenji's back on his shoulders once and for all. If you can, distract the big guy's attention from me. Got it! * Seylin does *not* ask how Patrick plans to reattach Kenji's head. * Tia immediately focuses her unbridled rage on the demon who beheaded Kenji. Bristling with righteous furor, she tears - almost with glee - into Kaarlak's burning body with Mr. Axe, burying its blade again and again into the demon and sundering his limbs from his body as her claws dig with ferocity into his fiery flesh. She continues hacking and clawing even after the body has fallen under her assault, seemingly uncaring of the fact that Kaarlak is no longer moving. [ Seylin, go! ] ... That could work too. Seylin, take out the stragglers! * Tia is shouting at what was formerly Kaarlak, "YOU. KILLED. KENJI!" [ The marilith disappears as Kaarlak sloughs to bits after Tia's attack. ] (He'll get better!) * Seylin shoots towards the first of the remaining Nabassu, grabs it by the closest, and hurls it into the ceiling. It hits and bounces off, and she repeats the process, this time with a wall. Columns, benches, everything makes a really good surface to bounce the Nabassu! Eventually it stops moving, and she advances on the second one. * Seylin flies over to the second one, which by now has an "OH SHI-" expression on its face, and proceeds to fling it across the room. She follows up on the rebound, shoots, scores, and proceeds to attack it from every conceivable direction until it's not moving, either. Don't worry, just because Kenji lost a screw doesn't mean we can't re-attach it. * Seylin dusts her hands off. "That was satisfying." She glances over at Patrick. "Um. How?" * WillS claps in the background. Simple. * Patrick walks over and puts Kenji's head back on, putting it right where it should be. "Kenji has a ring of regeneration. Which means..." * Seylin avoids looking at Kenji's mutilated self again. She's not very good at accepting the whole headless thing right now. * Kenji spasms as the head and neck practically reach out for each other, reattaching handily... and then the ring on his left finger gives out a sputtering shower of sparks and explodes as his breathing starts back up. Well... That's a one-trick pony. * Seylin lands, breathing heavily. "Did it work?" * WillS walks over and checks on Kenji. "Yeah. Kenji's alive." * Tia 's onslaught of Kaarlak's remains gradually slows, and she eventually stops altogether and pads over to Kenji's side, where she slumps into a kneeling position. "Kenji..." * Tia blinks a few times. "I thought the bad man -- thing -- cut off his head. Is he okay?" Yeah, he's fine. Won't ask him to do that again, though. * Kenji is pretty clearly unconscious, but is definitely breathing. * Seylin says, to no one in particular, "I should really be used to this sort of thing by now, shouldn't I?" * Tia nods tearfully and chews anxiously on her lip. Yes. Tia, why don't we see if the demons had anything interesting? * WillS chuckles. "We're only fighting demons in hell. The good thing is everybody's still alive." Okay, loot the bodies, then we're backing up to recoup. * Tia nods again. "Okay." She takes one more look at Kenji, as if to make sure his head's still firmly attached, and trots off to look for treasure. Will, take care of Kenji while I take a look at what they were carrying. * Patrick goes off to loot stuff. * WillS nods and kneels down to lay a hand on Kenji. He murmurs a prayer to Bahamut and watches as the color slowly returns to Kenji's face. * Kenji opens his eyes slowly. "... ve vun, den?" * WillS grins. "Feeling better, Kenji?" tird. * Kenji looks confused. * Kenji works his tongue around his mouth a bit, then spits a ring out into the air and catches it in his fist. Rest. Everything is fine for now. * Tia throws down whatever she's found to run over to the newly recovered Kenji. "Kenji! You're okay!" * WillS blinks at the random ring that just popped out of Kenji's mouth. I would prefer not to do that again. We are leaving this cave shortly, yes? * Tia hugs him tearfully. "I'm sorry!" * Kenji laughs. Tia, relax. YOu didn't do anything wrong. That was going to be my head... You took it for me. Yup. Looks like I survived it, too. I need to sleep, though. Oh boy, do I need sleep. * Tia hugs Kenji a bit tighter. "I-I'm glad." She sniffles. "Thanks, Kenji." * Kenji works an arm free and ruffles Tia's hair. * Tia manages to grin, and she smears away some of the tears and blood on her face. "I could use a nap, too." ...And a bath. * Kenji looks down at his bare-from-the-waist-up body. "I know exactly how you feel. It's going to take forever for my kimono to fix itself." * Tia blinks in surprise. "It fixes itself, too?" * Tia suddenly blushes when she realizes Kenji's state of undress. We're heading out after we round up all the stuff they were using. * WillS nods. "Sounds good." * Tia nods too. "Okay." [ Session End! ]