We arrived to out destination and met up with the King’s confidant in another Laughing Tongue tavern (apparently it’s a franchise). She gave us a map and pointed us in the direction of the death and despair left in the cult’s wake (ew).

Into another set of woods we went (this time deadwood) and we found a broken-down church of sorts with blood all over in strange symbols. It was gross and eerie.

We entered and found some guys in tattered robes with various bladed weapons sticking out of them (that couldn’t have been comfortable). Before I could do anything, Sunshadow, scary lady, and Vanta killed them all. I can’t condone this “kill first, question later” mentality.

We traveled down the corridors to a room in the deep basement with dim torches as the only lightsource. I cast “Dancing Lights” to give us a better view to find a young girl (human 14 maybe?) chained to the wall all dungeon style. Turns out, she’s the king’s daughter that we needed to rescue. I worked at her shackles for a moment before we heard the sound of a rusty sword being drawn from it’s scabbard. We draw our weapons and turn to find ourselves being stared down by a giant freaking sword with four tentacles, each with a smaller sword at the end. I knew my purpose in this battle, protect the princess!

Sunshadow led the assault on the mindless weapon with a “Divine Smite” directly from his Sun Blade onto the main hilt. The demon was unphased. It countered with one of the smaller swords. It took a chunk out of Sunshadow’s shoulder, causing the piece to crash to the floor. Luckily, it didn’t seem to phase the warforged paladin.

Vanta tried to grab one of the smaller swords and rip it off. That was the moment when the monk realized he done screwed up. The smaller sword released barbs that stuck into Vanta’s right hand, trapping him in place. The tentacle then whipped up and back, retracting the barbs at the peak of the arc, throwing Vanta into the wall roughly 5 feet from the princess. Vanta’s left leg was VERY broken, femur shattered in the impact.

I found a stone axe nearby a pile of bones and took some bandages from my Garter of Holding (from @kimbles) and made a makeshift splint. He couldn’t move very fast, but at least he’s still conscious.

The scary lady fired a ‘Witch Bolt” directly into the demon’s eye while I was doing the medic business.

The Sword Devil (now blind) started lashing out and flailing in all directions, unleashing black lightning the entire time. I put my body in front of the princess to protect  her the best I possibly could. The lightning felt like it was made from the Nine Hells themselves, and was by no means pleasant. Worst of all, it made all my hair stand on end! Now I’m rather cross for another reason.

Sunshadow managed to evade the lightning by diffusing the negative charge with his positive Sun Blade, giving the golden blade a black aura. Sunshadow took full advantage of this power-up and use a 2-handed ‘Divine Smite” directly on the main sword, shaving off two of the tentacles with ease. The tentacles continued writhing for a few seconds before finally dropping dead.

Vanta picked up the 2 blades and used them to strike the last 2 tentacles. All 4 mini-swords broke, leaving the devil lopsided and with 2 tentacles.

The beast was desperate at this point and picked up Vanta and Sunshadow with its remaining tentacles, bashing them together in a fit of rage.

As much as she hated to admit it, the scary lady knew that the only way for us to survive this fight was work together in one final blow. She put all of her strength into one final “Witch Bolt”, and I added my “Marvelous Moonbeam” into the mix. The two beams swirled together and filled the room with a glorious green and silver light, connecting directly with the core of the devil sword. The devil dropped our comrades and writhed in pain, cracking open before releasing it’s energy into the atmosphere, becoming the sparkling dust in the cobwebs of that dungeon.

Sunshadow got up (dented as could be) and used his Sun Blade to sever the chains connecting the princess to the wall. I treated everyone’s wounds the best I could. We left the dungeon and the church, me carrying the princess piggyback style as she could barely move let alone walk.

Once we got outside, I conjured up some horses to speed up our journey back to town, where we were met by the king and queen, whom took up back to their castle by carriage.

We were then invited to a banquet. However, I will not disclose the events of that banquet. They will forever be buried in the darkest parts of my mind, for they are too horrible to even describe.

Long story short, we ended up going our separate ways, all traumatized by the events of that evening.