Introducing: Babartus, Kael, and Seiz

[Brian]

The demons set off through the library.  As they progress, the dust does become thicker, however.  By the time the trio is a good hundred yards from the door, it's nearly a foot thick.

[Carthrat]

Seiz starts attacking the dust with his broom, shaking his head.

"Man, how one place can have so much, I won't know," he comments. "Is the roof disintegrating or something?"

[Brian]

As Seiz starts stirring the dust up with his broom, he sees a pair of largeish (about the size of himself, if he were to hunch over to waist-height, but retained the same amount of mass) lumps of dust start moving towards the trio.

[StormDragon]

Kael sneezes. "I knew it!" he says vehemently. He takes out his sabre, putting his broom nearby.

[Brian]

The dust-lumps surge closer, stopping just outside of striking distance and then rising slightly.  They look like huge dust-bunnies with glowing red eyes.  After studying the demons for a moment, they start circling slowly, like sharks.

[Carthrat]

Seiz eyes his surroundings.

Wood and paper. Nope, not a good place to start setting fires, unless he wanted to burn the entire library down...

Which left nothing for it, really.

"They're made of dust," he notes, flinging a knife at a random dust-bunny experimentally.

I bet this doesn't work.

"Maybe you should hold onto that broom."

[Yuthirin]

Babartus flourishes his duster neatly, nodding. "Agreed. If these things are made of dust, I doubt our blades will have much effect. Shall we?" he nods to Seiz and Kael.

[StormDragon]

Kael brandishes his broom after putting his sabre away. He puts his back to the other two, facing the dust bunnies that were at the back. His nose tickled again.

[Brian]

The thrown knife causes a quiet 'puff' of dust.  It also sets off the dust-...bunnies? charge at the demonic trio.

The nearest lump of dust charges into Kael's broom, to be swiftly struck atop the head by Barbartus's duster.  This decapitates the dust bunny, which bleeds a thick, vaguely lemon-scented yellow ichor.  This also (interestingly) causes that dust-bunnie's corpse to dissolve quickly, creating a large clean spot in the floor.

The second dust-bunny, however, sweeps around, and charges Seiz.  The thing's reddish eyes shrink to points as a huge, gaping maw forms on one side of the thing, and it roars a silent and dusty roar.  Dusty spittle flecks Seiz's uniform.

[StormDragon]

"Watch out!" Kael yells to Seiz, and whacks the third dust bunny with his broom.

[Brian]

The dust-bunny is smote, and quickly taken down.  This one was probably a different breed or something; its pine-scented ichor cleanses a large and irregular splotch of the surrounding area, revealing a (now) well-polished knife.

[Carthrat]

Seiz backs off a little, and tries whacking the dust-bunny across the (well, was it a head?) the head-like region.[/i]

[Yuthirin]

Babartus stares at the area of sudden cleanliness in absolute shock. "...riiiiight."

[StormDragon]

Kael grins. "This is fun," he said. He whacked another dust bunny.

[Brian]

All of the dust-bunnies immediately nearby are vanquished.  In fact, the local level of dust appears to have dropped a centimeter or two.

The demons realize with a start that the dust is actually running like thick water -- flowing into the cleaning ichor of the fallen dust-bunnies.  Soon the level of dust will be about half of its former height, and the two clean patches will be gone.  Not sure if the pine-scented dagger will remain or not, though.

Dust-bunny-like lumps await in the distant dimness....