Gajol followed the high priest. That he was leading them towards a trap was obvious, but Gajol did not mind. She held her fullblade over her shoulder, preparing herself to make a heavy swing at the first thing to make a move at her.<br/><br/>As the group passed by the dais, there was a sudden flash of two circles around it, one an electric blue, the other about another five feet in and bright magenta. Maren, Aidan and Aya were caught in the outer circle; were they to try and move out of where it was, they would run smack dab into an invisible wall. Gajol and Inyrra trapped outside, and immediately, of the hundred or so people, fifteen had something rip them to pieces from the inside, spilling entrails everywhere. Some of them were still alive after the initial burst, sobbing and groaning in pain as they watched their guts fall and bleed all over the cold stone floor. From them came the vrock that Aidan had mentioned, two babaus, four rutterkin and eight dretches.They immediately made a charge for Gajol, who replied with a series of swings towards the vrock. Though her second attack didn't hit, others landed and devastated the fiend. It fell to the ground on the second landing blow, dropping dead in a heap as its head rolled. As it died, Gajol made another attack at the nearest fiend, a dretch. It was split in half by her massive sword, and another one almost immediately followed, following the same fate. Finally, she landed another hit, this time on a rutterkin, who in turn was felled in a single blow. She was soon surrounded by three dretches and another rutterkin, each one landing an attack on her, though the only one to penetrate the magical defenses of her armor was a dretch who gave her quite a small scratch, a bit of pain that was easily ignorable.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, inside the invisible wall, three of the priests drew their greatswords. Though more intended more for ceremony than actual combat, they would suit the situation and give them a means of self-defense.<br/><br/>((Yes, the rolls I got were legitimate on the stuff Gajol got. First landed on the vrock was a hit for twenty-two damage with four of her attack bonus taken off in Improved Power Attack, granting her another twelve in damage. The second hit was a natural twenty, so the<i>vorpal</i>effect kicked in. With Supreme Cleave, she got to make another attack at all of the demons that were within reach, which were two dretches and a rutterkin. On the bit with the dretches, they have an Armor Class of sixteen, and with the Improved Power Attack, I could take off six BAB points and still land the hit essentially automatically, save I didn't get a critical fail. The total damage with the damage bonus alone- eighteen- would kill them instantly, even with their damage reduction. On the rutterkin, I landed a critical hit with four taken from my attack bonus, equalling an automatic hit with a total bonus of twelve damage. I rolled an eight in damage, and with the critical doubling it, I did forty damage, which also immediately killed it. This is even without the plus-two bonus from my sword being magical. A lot of math, but damn, is it worth it. ))<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>