The Mini-Adventure!

[Zaleramancer]

The arrow strikes true, and the head cultist hisses before leaning over to rip out the arrow.

After standing unsteadily, his narrow eyes seek out whatever idiot shot him.

[Philote]

I remain melded with the shadows, and reach for another arrow, not trusting that his magic won't find me.

[Mik_Hael]

With the Cultist distracted I order the Bird demon to divebomb him from behind while summoning a mirror illusion of the bird demon to attack from the front.

[Zaleramancer]

The Head Cultist sees nothing, then reaches for his sacrificial dagger. He would finish this before anything else annoyed him.

[Zaleramancer]

No sooner than he grasps his dagger, the Cultist catches sight of the bird-demon approaching from the front. He utters a word, and a hostile wave of magic reaches out to strike it. His eyes widen when it fades and vanishes- he realizes something has tricked him.

Then the bird-demon strikes from behind. Luckily for the cultist, his wards reduced the wounds to only deep scratches, but he is knocked forward none-the-less.

The wards then shock the bird-demon and it ascends to escape.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

I charge forward and slash upward at the cultist

[Mik_Hael]

I command the two goat heads to run a diversion and for the tiger to begin throwing cultist bodies again from a distance. I command the shade to return again and to stay hidden in the shadows, and advance closer. I run forward to create a diversion with the goats.

[Zaleramancer]

With so many charging him at once, the Head Cultist decides to pull his trump card. He takes a potion from his robes and downs it in one gulp.

His form ripples- and changes. Muscles bulge, horns sprout from his head, his skin grows red and emits a fiery glow and two batlike wings sprout from his back.

With one motion, the cultist takes flight.

He laughs as he sprays fire towards the ones charging him.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

"Oh sh-.....that's not good!" I duck and roll away from the now powerful cultist

[Mik_Hael]

I take the rope I used to tie up the goblin and later the sword, tie it to the staff, spear throw it directly at the mouth of the demon priest.

[Philote]

I begin shooting at its wings, hopping to ground the creature.

[Zaleramancer]

The demon priest sees the deadly staff approaching- in panic he stops flapping his wings. As he falls, the staff grazes his shoulder, while the arrow nicks his wing.

He hisses in pain and grips his shoulder, loosing height. Then he points his injured hand towards Scurros, and sends a shaky wave of anti-magic towards him.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

While the demon priest is distracted I run around behind it and charge forward to attack.

[Mik_Hael]

I toss the guitar upward to intercept the magic while tugging on the rope connected to the staff to return it to my hand.

(If the guitar isn't entirely destroyed I'll grab it again and charge the deomo with the staff, Teleporting left and right to avoid him.)

[Zaleramancer]

Your sword cuts into the demon's flesh and it screams. Fire explodes around it.

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The wave of anti-magic strikes the flying guitar. With a discordant twang, the now smoking guitar falls to the ground singed but otherwise fine.

[Mik_Hael]

I grab the guiar teleport in a zig zag pattern as fast as possible until I am behind the demon, and stab in an upwar slizing motion aiming for the liver, kidneys base of the spine, heart, and left lung in that line.

[Zaleramancer]

The second blow bites deep into the demon priest, and he groans. Some flicker of intelligence remains, and he teleports across the room. Some measure of demonic regeneration kicks in, and the wounds begin to heal.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

I stagger back from the flames. While the others fight I consult my spellbook for something to help.

[Mik_Hael]

I grab the girl, teleport away to the tigre demon, handing her over to him, and give the signal for the shade to come out from his hiding place and attack the second the demon teleports away.

[Philote]

I aim for the creatures elbows, hoping to disable its arms for at least a moment.