The Table is Set.
The white circles are the goliaths in the cage. There is immense power radiating off the Mindflayer due to the ritual. This force is so powerful it makes it hard to move towards him. The squares between the innermost large circle and the small circle count as difficult terrain. The goliaths' cages are ten feet tall and fully enclosed (you just can't see the roof of the cages in the picture). Initiative Order
Mindflayer, Dead,
Ruin HP 35/69, 5DR, concealment
Valac: HP: 46/82, +2 regen,
Kuori HP: 50/59 Regen 5, ongoing 5, 5DR
Novi HP:48/78
Thralls, T8, T16, T21 bloodied, T21, bloodied and immobilized
Irene
Ruin blasts the Mindflayer before running at the Giant. As he tumbles between his legs the giant kicks him in the gut for 15 damage.
Valac rips off the tentacles grabbing at his face before swinging at the mindflayer with his sword. However, the mindflayer commands the adjacent thrall to block the attack, causing the barbarian to cut into him instead.
Kuori bashes the mindflayer again before slipping away.
Like a living tornado, Novi does some crazy s**t with her halberd and by the time she is done several thralls lay dead at her feet.
The remaining thralls all attack. Novi gets hit by a small thrall for 7 and by the Giant for 13. Valac gets slashed by the large thrall for 13, and then stabbed for another 5. Ruin gets hit once for 4.
Irene slashes the thrall that attacked her, immobilizing him in place.
The mindflayer suddenly teleports back to the platform. Bruised, beaten and bloodied he is too weak to stand back up. Instead, he reaches into his robes and pulls out a dagger. After coughing up some blood he speaks in a raspy voice.
"I've come too far to fail now. For...Lord CHRIMARL!" The mindlflayer plunges the dagger into his chest and his body instantly disintegrates into light. The light rises into the air and begins to grow and take form. Beams of light shoot from each of the cages into the center of glowering orb until the light becomes to bright for anyone to see. There is a giant flash and everyone is blinded.
Once everyone's vison returned they saw floating before them the massive image of an enormous
Pit Fiend wreathed in fire and smoke. Yet, despite its terrifying presence, it did not move or react, its body remaining translucent. Kuori and Novi's people remained in their pens as well, though they appeared more ghostlike than before. Whatever the Mindflayer did, he seemed to further the ritual, but lacked the power to complete it. No evidence of his existence remained.
The thralls all lose their hostile stances and become just as dazed and confused as before. Several stare at the image of the pit fiend in abject horror and look ready to bolt.
Sensing the fight being over, Irene puts away her hand back underneath her long elegant sleeves and stares at the image of the archdevil in amazement.
"Is... Is that Chrimarl? Is... he really here?" End of combat
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