Investigation [Tag Tia]

[Kender Bard]

~I'll make a trip to the temple then~ Filly replied. ~I don't know if a tainted priest's holy water will work.~

Meanwhile, the guards immediately jumped into action. One of them wasn't too far off from the scene of the disruption. Mindful of the prince's warning, he touched his sign and muttered. When he spotted Lirium in the distance, he moved to get in range, formed a javelin of ice, and hurled it at the demon.

[Skittlebug]

The javelin catches Lirium in the side and he skids a short distance, howling. Enraged, he pulls out the ice, oozing a bit from the wound but not seeming terribly harmed. He doesn't have time for this. The spikes over his body grow and become jagged as he begins to run headlong at the guard who had attacked him. Surely it wouldn't take long to get rid of just one.

[Kender Bard]

The guard's eyes widen and he tries to avoid Lirium's charge. He pulls his sword free and tries to clip the demon at the same time of his dodge, but he's too slow about it. Meanwhile, Lirium's spikes graze the guard, tearing at his clothing and scratching the man's arm.

[Darastrix]

Unfortunately for Lirium, Khelek had more than one guard, and a good many of them--particularly those experienced with ranged weapons--were converging on the inn from multiple directions, and as they reached it, the trail of panicked people leading away from it showed them exactly which way they needed to go. An archer, running toward the inn on the path Lirium had been taking, stopped short when he saw the demon and the other guard, and drew an arrow from his quiver. He notched it and drew back quickly, but was forced to take his time about actually shooting unless he wanted to hit his fellow guardsman.

Meanwhile, Schuldig had shaken off the lingering effects of Tia's venom and was simultaneously calling for another priest from the temple to come administer holy whatever to the people left in the inn (including him), for the local healers to prepare for Lirium's victims, and for another priest to give blessed wine to the Soahcians in the temple.

[Skittlebug]

Enraged now, Lirium presses the attack, stabbing brutally at the guard and not paying much mind to the sword. If he's going to go down, he's going to make a mess first.