Without looking at the baddies, Mits shoots lightning out her tail to finish off the last demon.  Cherub flutters around giving kisses for those with booboos.

"'Darkside,' as I use the word, isn't about being on the moon, or taking shelter in the shade from the sun, or any other literal usage," Mits explains, "Rather I use it as a descriptor to make my abilities sound more gritty than, 'Glowstick parry!' or 'Sunrod spin!'  Some folks take it way to seriously as some kind of deep metaphor for the darker side of some amoral force working to ensure the quip 'power corrupts' is proven true, but meh.  I don't subscribe to that superstition."

Imp sweatdrops.  "Who would be so silly as to read that much into a fun descriptor?"

"More than you might expect."

Angel stirs awake, so healed up now that aside from sitting up from a cold, hard, sewer walkway, she almost looks like waking from a nap. She yawns, then gags and coughs from the stench. "Bluh... did I get gutted or something? Last I remember that oversized mosquito slashed me with a leg..."

  To mittens, he shrugs and says "Sounds more like something for 'my sword is haunted by angry ghosts' than glowy ones, but okay." Hey now, you should watch out for angry spooky darkside ghosts.  Campaigns suddenly end when they show up.

  He looks to Angel, and says "The enemies were so boring that you fell asleep."

Mittens chortles at Matt's explanation for Angel's narcolepsy.  "Sorry, no ghost swords here."

Imp headshakes.  "We just slaughtered a bunch of demons!  Totally awesome!"

She then begins to recount in great detail how amazing the fight was...

Cherub reaches out to snuggle Angel.  "I was so worried for you!"

"...and then Maverick does this multi-shank blitz stab that so filled the demon with poison...."

Mits rests up while the recap continues.

"...And that's why Matt was talking about ghost swords.  Pfshew!"
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Angel ohs and says, "I... sorry to have conked out."

She nods to the ghost sword bit. "Don't look to me for naming attacks. I just point and shoot."

Maverick says, "Spiraling Inferno... Flames of Vengeance... The Eye of God... Brilliance of the Sun... Dragon's Nightmare..."

Angel smiles. "On the other hand... sounds like Maverick has all kinds of ideas for attack names."

Carla smiles brightly at the group.

  But Angel, your attacks come with names right out of the box!  Oh, right, she can't read her own character sheet can she?

  "Not your fault Angel, but I can understand the feeling." Matt, literally zero attacks hit you.  Clearly the fact the healer isn't spending the entire time keeping you from dying means you are a bad tank.  That's now dungeon design works right?

Imp grins and thumbs-ups.  "Those ideas are wicked, Maverick!"

Cherub leans in for more cheek-kissing of Angel.  "No need to apologize for being attacked by a monster.  I'm just glad you're ok."

Mits eyebrow-raises at the name suggestions.  "Wow.  Those are really good!"

Maverick smiles a little proudly at the compliments and says, "Thanks..." then asks, "So what ARE these things anyway?"

Angel shrugs. "Good question. And why are they attacking?"

Carla telepaths, "We may learn as we cleanse this place of them. But cleanse we must."
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  "What is Giant bug, bug demons, miscellaneous. Why is 'because assholes'." My, how helpful.

Imp tries to imitate the badguys.  "We're monsters!  Let's fight!"

Mits shrugs.  "Probably all there is to it, really."

Cherub nods.  "What Carla said... thought...  communicated."

They head down the corridor.

The sewer channels in this chamber converge on a central
pool of foul, tainted muck.
In the southeastern corner of the chamber, a silent, roiling mass of red energy swirls in a rune-scribed alcove. Inside
the glow, insubstantial demonic figures stretch and twist.
Between you and the mass of energy stands a horrific
creature with red scales and four pale green heads. These
heads move in a hypnotizing pattern, and its four mouths
screech demonic challenges.
Arcana Check
DC 11: The swirling energy appears to be a slowly opening portal to another plane, most likely the Abyss. It looks
like it is not quite open yet.
DC 18: The creature is an abyssal spitter, a demonic breed
of hydra.
DC 23: As long as any demon remains in the vicinity, the
portal will continue to grow.
DC 25: The abyssal spitter spews acid and can regrow
severed heads.
Arcana or Insight Check
DC 18: The portal’s presence seems to be energizing the
many-headed creature.
Dungeoneering or Perception Check
DC 18: The bridge to the south appears very unstable

Carla telepaths to the group, "That beast is an abyssal spitter; it spits acid and regrows severed heads. And as long as that demon is near that portal, the portal will grow. The portal also seems to be empowering the abyssal spitter. Also; watch out for the bridge; it is unstable."

"So we aim to hack it's other bits to pieces," Mits says, flying toward the monster, "Got it."

She shoots a bolt of lightning, but the monster eats it!

"That's... new."

She gashes the monster across the leg and it roars angrily!
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Carla walks into the room while Rainbow flies towards the dragon. Carla mouths a quick prayer and Stephen shows up next to Mittens. "Hi again, Ma'am." the mech-winged cherub with glowing green eyes says before typing something on his wrist band that then causes some holographic hexagonal force field to materialize and surround him and anyone who should happen to be next to him (which at the moment is Mittens).

Carla spreads her wings and with a hard flap, thrusts herself through the air to the other side of the room before turning, landing, and shaking a finger at the hydra. It now understands it *will* get hurt if it attacks.

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Guardian Angel
ACTION POINT! (Carla gets to fly 8 for free)
Offering of Justice.
 dmg: 17

Maverick comes out of hiding and uses his wand to fire a burst of magical energy at the hydra, but the shot grazes off the creature.

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Eyebite v Spitter. Miss(16)

The four heads all attack Stephen and Mittens!  Mittens winces but shakes it off.

  Matt heads into the room, hops into the eldritchly tainted sewer water, and proceeds to slam his hammer into the spitter's knee as hard as mechanically possible.

  "What kind of dimensional incursion is something the monsters are also weak to?"  The convenient kind you can beat in a play session instead of an entire campaign.

  A close up of demonic sewer bacteria trying to harm Matt is met with failure against a deadpan cell structure.  Nevermind how a red blood cell can look stoic.

Angel fires off a crossbow bolt that JUST hits the hydra! Angel smirks confidently and heads over to disappear behind a wall...

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Begin the Hunt. +2 init, quarry on target I can see, +2 to attack quarry.
Standard: Marked for Death v Spitter. Hit(29)!
 dmg: 30
 Until end of encounter, deal 2 extra dice of quarry dmg.
Move: To other side of small bridge
Stealth: 35

Spitter HP: 648 - 30 = 618

As Cherub crosses the bridge to get closer, Mits flies around to be behind the hydra.

"Force Storm!"

She reaches out a hand and conjures a dark cloud over the hydra that continually zaps it with purple lightning!
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Maverick charges through the water and stabs the monster only to tumble past him and flank with Matt!

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Charge: Through sludge to monster!
Maverick takes 5 dmg.
As part of Charge: Handspring Assault v Spitter. Hit(35)!
 dmg: 21

Maverick HP: 72 - 5 = 67
Spitter HP: 618 - 21 = 597

Carla softly says, "Burn" and causes the monster to spontaneously combust!

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Minor: Sustain Stephen
Word of Fiery Condemnation v Spitter. Hit(30)!
 dmg: 16

Spitter HP: 597 - 16 = 581

The monster freaks out when Mits winds up next to the portal!  It gets smacked by Matt for attacking her, but it manages to make her poof!  It then grows another head and they all roar, shaking off the fire and lightning!
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  Matt activates hammer spam, and smacks the spitter's other front leg with his hammer. (Also, Hammer mc hammer hammerstein).

 "At least this one isn't on fire constantly."

Angel pops out from behind the wall and fires a rapid succession of arrows, each arrow lodging itself into a hydra neck! "The quicker we take it down, the better. Let's not fool around with this one."

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Biting Volley v Spitter. Hit(33)! Hit(32)!
 dmg: 29
 quarry dmg: 14
ACTION POINT!
Fleeting Spirit Strike v Spitter. Crit fail(26)
Basic Ranged Attack v Spitter. Hit(35)!
 dmg: 18
 SA dmg: 16

Spitter HP: 517 - 43 - 34 = 440
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Poof!  Mits reappears!  Along with another Mittens!

"Nyeah-heh!  Two can play the 'gets stronger when hurt' game!"

They activate their radiant double-staffs and raspberry the monster.  The Mits next to Steven slices it good!  It roars in rage!

"Ohright.  Hi again, Steven.  Please call me Mittens.  Feels less formal."

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costs a standard to re-summon the shaman pet.  but minor to summon the daily summon.  and minor to activate it's... oh wait.  costs a minor to sustain the zone.  so nevermind the slice.
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Maverick stabs the hydra in the lung, delivering some nasty poison. But picking up on a response to pain from the beast, Maverick takes the moment to stab again in the same spot, causing the demon much pain! "The more heads you grow... the more of you there is to suffer."

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Go for the Eyes v Spitter. Hit(31)!
 dmg: 34
 Poison attack crit(30)!
ACTION POINT!
Distracting Wound v Spitter. Hit(29)!
 dmg: 24

Spitter HP: 440 - 58 = 382 and ongoing 10 poison