Game Log 2020-06-26

The Tribe took ten minutes to recover from the previous fight with the hounds and the bone devils, letting Vimak cast his ritual healing and Vaulk cast unseen servant.  To assist in this; Arkenite, Entropy and Allyria stood around the locked door, taking potshots at any of the devilkind who stuck their heads out and tried to rush the door.  Arkenite and Entropy took a little damage, but Vimak persevered and was able to cast his heal, bringing the party up to a much healthier bearing.

The Tribe then moved down the hall into a truly horrible sigh, cages lined the walls and floors, with horrid creations braying and reaching through the bars.  While taking this in ,Haster himself walked into the room from the other side.  The Tribe, quick to act, started shooting him from afar, and began to arrange themselves around the room, when Haster opened the cages and let 2 hounds, a fire spider, a fire boar and a gibbering mouther free.  Entropy immediately froze up at the sight of the mouther, useless to the world, and the Tribe continued to fight turning their attention to the animal companions of Haster.  Throughout the fight Haster calmly talked to his Brother, taunting him about his actions, and at one point even spoke to Entropy, saying he had a present for Entropy as well before dropping the mouther upon the party.

Vaulk climbed upon Me, cast fly on her and Arkenite and proceeded to ride Me around the map, both of them holding attacks for the right opportunity, when BAM he used the water jug to shoot the spider right off the map to his death.  The rest of the fight was going well, with Vimak in all of his glory, bacon flailing around him commanding the southern flank, and Ash and Arkenite messing up some of the fire spawn.  The southern squad took a nasty fire breath attack, but Ash quickly dispatched the hound, moving on to other targets.

On the Northern flank things were not going as well, Entropy was scared out of his mind, got bit by a spider, poisoned and tripped and fell over a bannister, and Allyria and wolf took a truly brutal fire breath attack from a hound.  Wolf was then downed, and Allyria as always stood her ground, valiantly holding the line and chopping away at the Boar, Spider and mouther, and giving out an aura of safety that helped the Tribe save.  Arkenite took to the skies and started launching volleys of death upon Haster’s companions, when Haster turned to Ash and tried to lock him up in his beach ball of doom.  Ash shook this off and the fight continued.

Evresh stayed, intelligently in the back row, coaxing Zel into firing her crossbow, as she surveyed the map casting her bardic tunes out to enhance the Tribes damage and to damage and control the legions of fire.  At about this time, Haster who has grown in size stepped forward and cast a domination spell at Me, who just barely shook its effects off.  Angry at the failure of that spell Haster started chopping at Vaulk astride Me.  Vaulk took a few mighty hits, surviving but injured, and the Tribe took down the mouther, freeing Entropy to take control of himself again.

Vimak “thor’ed” himself over into the fray, bacon swirling around him, landing next to Entropy and passing him a potion of the Tears of Seren’Rae which Entropy drank to free himself from the Poisoned condition, and nodding Cleric to Cleric, Entropy turned to join the fight, stepping forward to keep the Boar off of Vimak.  While this was happening Arkenite flew well up the side of the room landing in one of the open cages, and starting firing sniper shots from cover up there, retreating back into the cage after each volley to prepare for the next, doing truly massive damage.

At this point the Boar retreated from the center of the room taking a little damage and the Tribe thought the battle was going their way.  They had held off Haster’s mental commands and spells and were about to unleash the full might of the party upon him, when a well placed halberd knocked Vaulk unconscious and he fell right in front of Haster on the ground.  Haster, with a grin spun the Halbred in his hands and drove it down through Vaulk’s chest, killing him.

The Tribe, stunned by this turn of events then watched as an enraged Polar bear, ran at Haster swiping and missing him, and then tried to grapple the massive devil, barely being held off.  And just like that, the session ended with Vaulk’s corpse slowly, ever so slowly cooling on the dungeon floor.