OOC: Steve sent me a PM with a ST for Eilkhan against the fireball: It was a 15. So it looks as if evyerone made the ST - except for poor Elmo... My rolls for Rafe's characters were a 19 for Ivid and a 5 for Elmo.Round 2: The fiends win initiative.
With a low rumble, the fireball spreads out in the corridor, engulfing everyone and everything within its flames. While the fiends are obviously immune to the fire, this is not true for you.
OOC: Everyone takes 23 points of damage from the fireball with Elmo taking 46. Since he was lightly wounded before, that leaves him with only 9 hps and very close to death. Eilkhan on the other hand was still badly damaged before this fight if I can trust my notes. This fireball takes her down to -4 hps (since I'm using the death's door rule, true death comes at -9).After the flames and smoke have died down, you see Eilkhan lying motionless on the floor, badly burned and only barely breathing anymore. Asterion and Elmo look seriously wounded too.
The fiend who threw the
fireball at you gestures again, and a crackling
wall of fire appears directly behind Eilkhan and Ivid. Luckily for the two of them, the wall's heat radiates into the other direction, but a retreat is hardly possible anymore now.
The other fiend uses some magic too - not a spell but some inner magical ability that works immediately - and surrounds itself with a protective magic, similar to the circle that surrounds Kherim, only that this one holds off good creatures. Seeing
Ahi casting a spell, the creature swings its axe at the cleric, and hits him at the shoulder (DAM 14, plus Ahi's
dispel evil was interrupted
).
The fiend's protection aura makes it now more difficult for
Kherim and
Sol to hit the creature. Only the second of the paladin's two attacks hit this time (for DAM 15). Sol's second attack misses too, but the first one was a hit (for 9 points of damage).
Then two more of
Ivid's black-feathered arrows strike the creature (for another 20 points of damage), and now it staggers backwards, obviously severely wounded.
There's absolutely not enough room for a
lightning bolt to unfold without striking back at Gaderon.
OOC: My problem is that you didn't state an alternative for Gaderon, Mark, which I only noticed now! So what did he do then this round? Perhaps we can resolve this within the next DM post, so please state within your next posting what Gaderon did this round plus his intentions for the next round. The same is true for Asterion. You said that he wants to heal someone - most likely himself - but will he use a simple cure light wounds spell for this or his staff? Since I don't want to decide, please state this as well when you post his intentions for the next round. Thanks! 
<-- Ivid's facial expression, as he sends another wave of arrows...