In the Arena, Spear beats Paper

[Dracos]

OOC: Starting with Mari and Nikkolai, kinda a little ahead in time and their fallout from last session.
IC:

Oct 27 19:32:09 <Kowork>   The next morning comes for the two, the haze of the past night. As Mari eats breakfast, she can see Nikkolai going about his morning routine...
Oct 27 19:33:22 *   Mari has a vague memory of something unpleasant happening the night before, but memory retrieval is difficult when your head is filled with radioactive fallout. She remains aloof for now and concentrates intently on the task of eating.
Oct 27 19:35:27 *   Nikkolai is not particularly interested in being in public right now, much less in Mari's presence. He very pointedly ignores her and gathers a small plate of food, making his way back to his room for peace and quiet.
Oct 27 19:38:12 *   Mari coughs pointedly as Nikkolai passes by. "So, Nik, what's with the cold shoulder? Did I commit wanton acts of charity or something in your presence last night?"
Oct 27 19:39:44 *   Nikkolai pauses as he walks by, face expressionless. "Nothing quite so horrible, you'll be glad to hear."
Oct 27 19:41:59 *   Mari feigns relief. "Oh, good. I guess whatever it was can't be too bad, since I didn't wake up staring down the city guard's swords. Hey, does my head *look* three times its normal size, or is it just me?"
Oct 27 19:44:28 <Nikkolai>   "Your head is the same size it's always been." Nikkolai replied in a clipped tone. "If that is all?" He makes as if to continue down to his room.
Oct 27 19:45:40 *   Kowork is now known as Kotono
Oct 27 19:45:58 <Mari>   "That's not as reassuring as it should be. Hey, uh...things are pretty fuzzy after I started drinking. Did anything happen with whatsherface?"
Oct 27 19:48:52 <Nikkolai>   "Nothing whatsoever." Nikkolai's voice is cold and slightly contemptuous.
Oct 27 19:51:42 <Mari>   "Uh-huh. That's too bad," Mari says, shovelling bacon into her mouth. "I've met monks that needed to get laid less than you do. Sorry I couldn't help any. I'm not sure what I drank, and I'm not sure there's any way to find out short of going to Baator and asking for the recipe."
Oct 27 19:52:45 <Nikkolai>   "You drank more than enough, I should think, considering the enlightening conversation we had."
Oct 27 19:53:33 <Mari>   "Oh yeah? What'd we talk about?"
Oct 27 19:55:21 <Nikkolai>   Nikkolai states in a flat tone, "You wish it were I who had perished, not the Bard." He eyes her for a moment, then continues on to his room.
Oct 27 19:56:23 *   Mari makes a show of considering this, but sadly the display is lost on a retreating Nikkolai. "What? Hey, get back here!"
Oct 27 19:57:32 *   Nikkolai ignores her, heading straight for his room.
Oct 27 20:00:19 *   Mari drops her tableware with obvious irritation and gets up to follow Nikkolai. "So, I'm guessing you took this seriously, since your sense of humor is about as hard to find as a virgin in the abyss?"
Oct 27 20:01:53 <Nikkolai>   "If it was a joke, it was a very poor one." Nikkolai glances at her out of the corner of his eye. "You seemed quite serious to me."
Oct 27 20:02:51 <Mari>   "Right, well, I'm going to ask a very important question here: have you ever actually been drunk?"
Oct 27 20:05:14 *   Nikkolai pauses in mid-step to think, his brow furrowed ever so slightly. "I was once convinced to drink more than one tankard of mead two years ago, but that only succeeded in making me hate the taste of mead. So no, I've never been drunk."
Oct 27 20:05:36 <Nikkolai>   In spite of himself, the sorcerer is curious. "Why do you ask?
Oct 27 20:07:28 *   Mari nods. "I guess it's better that you don't do it, really. Because one of the main effects, see, is to increase someone's natural tendency to talk like an idiot by a factor of ten or so."
Oct 27 20:07:47 *   Merc (~k@c-98-196-68-69.hsd1.tx.comcast.net) has joined #evildunes
Oct 27 20:09:39 *   Nikkolai considers the girl for a long moment, a slight inkling of realization and perhaps relief flitting across his face. "When you say idiot, you mean colossal idiot, right?"
Oct 27 20:12:43 <Mari>   "Yeah. No doubt your wit would crush worlds with you under the influence. Better not to have that happen, just for the sake of innocent bystanders."
Oct 27 20:14:30 *   Nikkolai nods, letting the jab slip by, just this once. "So, do I get an apology for your inebriated words to me last night?" A trace of amusement enters his tone, though he's not smiling.
Oct 27 20:17:14 <Mari>   "It's hard to apologize for something I didn't know I did. So let's just say that if I did, theoretically, say something stupid, I may also theoretically wish I hadn't."
Oct 27 20:18:37 *   Nikkolai nods, knowing that's the closest to an apology he'll get. "Very well. Would you care to join me for the remainder of breakfast in my room?" He holds up his full plate. "It would...be nice to have some company."
Oct 27 20:19:40 <Mari>   "Sure. While we're there you can tell me who you are and what you've done with Nikkolai."
Oct 27 20:20:43 <Nikkolai>   "What?" Nikkolai asks in a slightly injured tone. "Haven't you and the others been complaining that I'm not nice enough? I'm making an effort to change."
Oct 27 20:21:47 <Mari>   "I noticed. Some day maybe I'll be able explain to you what sarcasm is."
Oct 27 20:23:10 *   Nikkolai still looks slightly puzzled, but leads the way to his room, actually looking forwards to the company.
Oct 27 20:24:49 <Kotono>   --
Oct 27 20:26:32 <Kotono>   roll 1d100 THE CHAT
Oct 27 20:26:34 <Kotono>   *chart
Oct 27 20:26:39 *   Hatbot (~Hatbot@24.174.51.230) has joined #evildunes
Oct 27 20:26:40 <Kotono>   roll 1d100 THE CHAT
Oct 27 20:26:41 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 THE CHAT and gets 96." [1d100=96]
Oct 27 20:29:16 <Kotono>   Thus Mari and Nikkolai are wandering around Stratusberg. As they are, they float along the paths and amid a sea of strange and unique people. Yet as they do...it's odd. Casually walking, you hear something above you. Something loud, something like a loud croaking.
Oct 27 20:29:55 <Nikkolai>   "..." Nikkolai peers above himself. "What in the world is *that*?"
Oct 27 20:30:18 *   Mari glances up, surreptitiously, in the manner of someone who has a long habit of observing something without actually looking interested. ...Not that it matters much this time.
Oct 27 20:31:13 <Nikkolai>   "Shall we investigate?"
Oct 27 20:31:24 <Kotono>   Many people look up - for above, you can see something amazing! A giant blue creature, the face of a frog and with long claws over it's hands, fights hand to hand with a yellow skinned, slender creature in plain sackcloth robes! They fight as they plummet downward, locked in intense struggle!
Oct 27 20:32:48 <Mari>   roll 1d20+9 K:P does Mari know WTf these are? (though I have a good guess)
Oct 27 20:32:49 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d20+9 K:P does Mari know WTf these are? (though I have a good guess) and gets 26." [1d20=17]
Oct 27 20:36:15 <Mari>   "What the--" Mari notices Nikkolai's confused expression. "Slaadi and a githzerai. Don't usually see them outside Limbo. Wonder what they're doing here? Aside from killing each other, I mean." Mari drifts closer to get a better look--not that she wants to get involved, she's just curious. Being within hearing range would be enough.
Oct 27 20:36:58 *   Nikkolai drifts behind Mari as well, wishing to merely eavesdrop and not get dragged into the conflict.
Oct 27 20:38:02 <Kotono>   The two go back and forth as they plummet through Stratusberg! With a great kiai shout the githzerai strikes at the blue slaad! Crossing his arms, the blue slaad blocks and croacks, coutering with and overhanded blow that nearly knocks the head off the githzerai! Nonetheless, he rolls with the blow, screaming something you don't understand before striking again! The slaadi just bellows laughter as it fights back and forth!
Oct 27 20:38:06 <Kotono>   The slaadi just bellows laughter as it fights back and forth!
Oct 27 20:40:24 <Nikkolai>   "Shall we intervene? These fellows look like they could cause an awful lot of collateral damage." Nikkolai murmurs to Mari.
Oct 27 20:42:43 <Mari>   "You steal someone's conscience or something when I wasn't looking?" Mari wonders. She shrugs, drawing her blades just in case she might, you know, coincidentally, wind up in the vicinity of the fight. "If we help anyone here, don't make it be the slaad. It'd as soon kill us as reward us for helping it."
Oct 27 20:43:24 <Nikkolai>   "Right. In that case, shall we sneak up and stab the ugly one in the back?"
Oct 27 20:44:01 <Mari>   "That's more like my kind of plan.
Oct 27 20:44:03 <Mari>   "
Oct 27 20:44:52 <Nikkolai>   "Well, you handle the stabbing and I'll handle the magic. Fair enough?"
Oct 27 20:45:06 *   Nikkolai is sporting a confident smirk.
Oct 27 20:45:50 <Kotono>   The two are plummeting through Stratusberg at high speed, about 40 feet away and 10 feet above the two. If they want to act, now's the time.
Oct 27 20:46:44 <Mari>   OOC: I could get there in one full turn and still attack, thanks to Eva's boots! Is this basically us getting a surprise round?
Oct 27 20:46:58 <Kotono>   OOC: Yeah, go ahead.
Oct 27 20:47:49 <Mari>   OOC: Go ahead and go first. We only get a standard action during a surprise round, so I could only move anyway.
Oct 27 20:49:00 *   Nikkolai nods and suddenly rockets into flight! He screams towards the large, blue slaad and attempts to flit about it in a show of aerial acrobatics, distracting it!
Oct 27 20:51:07 *   Mari flies towards the beast of chaos with blades drawn, borrowing some of the local winds for protection as she does so. (OOC: Air Devotion up, +2 AC)
Oct 27 20:56:11 <Kotono>   Nikkolai flies by, the blue slaad turning to it, the monk getting in a shot to it's ribs as it's attention is distracted, wihle Mari approaches it as winds gust around her! OOC: Roll init here, I think.
Oct 27 20:56:32 <Nikkolai>   roll 1d20+8 Init
Oct 27 20:56:33 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Nikkolai rolls 1d20+8 Init and gets 14." [1d20=6]
Oct 27 20:56:46 <Mari>   roll 1d20+9
Oct 27 20:56:47 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d20+9 and gets 10." [1d20=1]
Oct 27 20:58:13 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+3 Monk
Oct 27 20:58:14 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 Monk and gets 20." [1d20=17]
Oct 27 20:58:16 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+6 slaad
Oct 27 20:58:17 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 slaad and gets 8." [1d20=2]
Oct 27 20:58:29 *   Kotono has changed the topic to: Monk>Nikkolai>Mari>SLAADI
Oct 27 20:58:39 <Kotono>   The monk whirls, a flurry of quick, powerful blows into the slaad!
Oct 27 20:58:43 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+10
Oct 27 20:58:43 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+10
Oct 27 20:58:43 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 28." [1d20=18]
Oct 27 20:58:44 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 16." [1d20=6]
Oct 27 20:58:46 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+5
Oct 27 20:58:47 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 13." [1d20=8]
Oct 27 20:58:53 <Kotono>   roll 1d8+1
Oct 27 20:58:54 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+1 and gets 7." [1d8=6]
Oct 27 20:59:16 <Kotono>   Wham! He hits the slaad right in the face, jerking it's head back with a satisfying impact! Yet it rebounds immediately, barely phased by the blow! OOC: Nikkolai.
Oct 27 21:00:32 <Nikkolai>   "I hear that fried frog is pretty good!" Nikkolai shouts over the roar of the wind. Fire sparks at his fingers as he casts Scorching Ray!
Oct 27 21:00:38 <Nikkolai>   roll 1d10+8 Touch
Oct 27 21:00:38 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Nikkolai rolls 1d10+8 Touch and gets 17." [1d10=9]
Oct 27 21:00:44 <Nikkolai>   roll 1d20+8 touch
Oct 27 21:00:44 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Nikkolai rolls 1d20+8 touch and gets 25." [1d20=17]
Oct 27 21:01:06 <Kotono>   OOC: Both hit.
Oct 27 21:01:24 <Nikkolai>   roll 4d6 damage
Oct 27 21:01:25 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Nikkolai rolls 4d6 damage and gets 13." [4d6=4, 6, 2, 1]
Oct 27 21:01:28 <Nikkolai>   roll 4d6 damage
Oct 27 21:01:29 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Nikkolai rolls 4d6 damage and gets 17." [4d6=2, 6, 5, 4]
Oct 27 21:01:51 <Kotono>   The two frying beams pierce through the slaad, sending it tumbling end over end in the air! It's chest hisses with steamy, immediately cauterized wounds! OOC: Mari.
Oct 27 21:03:13 *   Mari takes advantage of the creature being engaged in combat with the monk to lash out at it from behind. "This is what happens to people who bother me during a hangover."
Oct 27 21:03:36 <Mari>   roll 1d20+12 attack 1 (assuming I get flanking with the monk)
Oct 27 21:03:37 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d20+12 attack 1 (assuming I get flanking with the monk) and gets 24." [1d20=12]
Oct 27 21:03:40 <Mari>   roll 1d20+12 attack 2 (assuming I get flanking with the monk)
Oct 27 21:03:41 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d20+12 attack 2 (assuming I get flanking with the monk) and gets 28." [1d20=16]
Oct 27 21:05:15 *   Yomi has quit (Broken pipe)
Oct 27 21:05:16 <Kotono>   OOC: Both hit.
Oct 27 21:05:43 <Mari>   roll 1d6+2+4d6 assuming it's not crit immune
Oct 27 21:05:44 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d6+2+4d6 assuming it's not crit immune and gets 22." [1d6=5][4d6=5, 2, 3, 5]
Oct 27 21:05:48 <Mari>   roll 1d6+2+4d6 and again
Oct 27 21:05:49 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d6+2+4d6 and again and gets 22." [1d6=6][4d6=3, 5, 3, 3]
Oct 27 21:07:47 <Kotono>   The slaadi is impaled in the back, blood flowing from it's wounds! It looks terrible, but it concentrates...
Oct 27 21:07:50 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+8
Oct 27 21:07:51 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 10." [1d20=2]
Oct 27 21:07:59 <Kotono>   OOC: That is a botched concentration check! You may AoO it, Mari!
Oct 27 21:08:18 <Mari>   roll 1d20+12 ahahaha
Oct 27 21:08:18 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d20+12 ahahaha and gets 28." [1d20=16]
Oct 27 21:08:40 <Kotono>   OOC: HIt.
Oct 27 21:09:08 <Mari>   roll 1d6+2+4d6
Oct 27 21:09:09 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d6+2+4d6 and gets 13." [1d6=4][4d6=2, 3, 1, 1]
Oct 27 21:10:30 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+8
Oct 27 21:10:30 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 22." [1d20=14]
Oct 27 21:10:39 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+10
Oct 27 21:10:40 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 16." [1d20=6]
Oct 27 21:11:16 <Kotono>   The slaad's magic explodes in a gust of rainbow colored air, nothing happening! You continue to plummet, falling away from Stratusberg now! The monk nods to thet wo, before laying into the slaadi again!
Oct 27 21:11:19 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+10
Oct 27 21:11:19 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 12." [1d20=2]
Oct 27 21:11:19 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+5
Oct 27 21:11:19 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 24." [1d20=19]
Oct 27 21:11:23 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+5 crit
Oct 27 21:11:23 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 crit and gets 15." [1d20=10]
Oct 27 21:11:28 <Kotono>   roll 1d8+1
Oct 27 21:11:29 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+1 and gets 8." [1d8=7]
Oct 27 21:11:46 *   Yomi (~corwin@bzq-82-81-41-6.red.bezeqint.net) has joined #evildunes
Oct 27 21:12:08 <Kotono>   With a final blow, the monk's knee knocks the slaad back! He races forward, reaching into the slaadi's chest! With a rip an eightfold heart is removed, bursting into a rainbow of color! A moment later the slaad follows, exploding out! OOC: Victory. Free act.
Oct 27 21:13:38 *   Nikkolai wipes imaginary dust off of his shoulders, looking slightly disappointed. "So short a fight?" He gives a polite bow in the direction of the monk and hails him over, hoping that he speaks a common language!
Oct 27 21:15:35 <Kotono>   The monk wobbles a moment, holding his stomach. Now that the battle is over, it's easy to see that the front of his robe is bloodstained. He looks to Nikkolai and nods, before he coughs up blood and tumbles forward, free falling in the Air!
Oct 27 21:16:39 *   Nikkolai is startled for a mere moment, before he swoops down and dives after the monk, trying desperately to catch him in mid air!
Oct 27 21:16:55 *   Mari stabilizes her position, then wipes off her swords and sheathes them. "Long way from home, aren't you?" she says to the monk--just before he starts to collapse. She follows Nikkolai to try and catch the monk.
Oct 27 21:18:27 <Kotono>   Thus the two dive forward! They catch the monk before he falls too far, his body leaving behind a trail of blood, his stomach seeming to leak it out quicker than Mari leaks gold while drunk.
Oct 27 21:20:05 <Mari>   "I, uh...you don't have any healing tricks you haven't told us about, do you? Otherwise, this guy needs to get to a temple, fast."
Oct 27 21:20:50 <Kotono>   roll 1d100
Oct 27 21:20:50 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 96." [1d100=96]
Oct 27 21:24:24 <Kotono>   Nikkolai nods his head, taking the man. OOC: Heading for the temple, basically?
Oct 27 21:25:37 <Mari>   OOC: Yes.
Oct 27 21:29:20 <Kotono>   roll 1d100
Oct 27 21:29:21 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 26." [1d100=26]
Oct 27 21:29:22 <Kotono>   roll 1d100
Oct 27 21:29:23 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 33." [1d100=33]
Oct 27 21:29:23 <Kotono>   roll 1d100
Oct 27 21:29:24 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 47." [1d100=47]
Oct 27 21:29:24 <Kotono>   roll 1d100
Oct 27 21:29:24 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 47." [1d100=47]
Oct 27 21:29:25 <Kotono>   roll 1d100
Oct 27 21:29:25 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 12." [1d100=12]
Oct 27 21:29:26 <Kotono>   roll 1d100
Oct 27 21:29:26 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 80." [1d100=80]
Oct 27 21:29:54 <Kotono>   Thus you race back to the temple! You're nearly there, but he's bleeding out fast! Blood is coming out from him rapidly, if something isn't done in a few moments, he's likely to find what plane takes his soul after death!
Oct 27 21:33:04 <Mari>   roll 1d20+2 runs off WIS, no?
Oct 27 21:33:05 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d20+2 runs off WIS, no? and gets 13." [1d20=11]
Oct 27 21:33:13 <Kotono>   OOC: Yes.
Oct 27 21:33:15 <Kotono>   roll 1d100
Oct 27 21:33:16 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 37." [1d100=37]
Oct 27 21:33:34 <Kotono>   It's getting worse, Mari unable to bind the wounds!
Oct 27 21:34:46 *   Laggy has quit (Ping timeout)
Oct 27 21:34:49 <Mari>   He'll just have to make it to the temple, then. This isn't exactly Mari's area of expertise and they can't afford to have her try until it works. (OOC: How close are we by now, anyway?)
Oct 27 21:35:27 <Kotono>   OOC: Almost there. A round or two more, maybe.
Oct 27 21:37:14 <Kotono>   roll 1d100
Oct 27 21:37:15 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 80." [1d100=80]
Oct 27 21:37:16 <Kotono>   roll 1d100
Oct 27 21:37:17 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 50." [1d100=50]
Oct 27 21:37:21 <Mari>   OOC: We'll rush there. I have no real expectation of success with Heal.
Oct 27 21:39:04 <Kotono>   Thus you rush into the temple, a trail of blood behind you! You find the priest there in prayer, looking up at the commotion! He moves forward immediately, "A githzerai...he's in bad shape. Quickly, hold him still!"
Oct 27 21:39:35 *   Mari does so!
Oct 27 21:39:52 *   Nikkolai has quit (Operation timed out)
Oct 27 21:40:51 <Kotono>   "Mishakal, heal this being's torment!" He intones, reaching out into his wound! Golden light fills the wound!...and the priest shakes his head. "Mishakal, guide his soul to his rest," he intones, "I swear I felt his being pass me by, on it's way to it's eternal judgment."
Oct 27 21:42:42 *   Mari sighs. "I don't even know what he was doing here. We were walking--er, floating--along the street, and he popped out of the sky fighting a slaad."
Oct 27 21:55:51 <Kotono>   "Ah, chaos. There was likely little you could have done then. Chaos makes itself known in strange and incomprehensible ways." Leaning forward and murmuring a few words, the blood from the gith's fatal wound cleaning itself, robes becoming whole, "Do you know anything about him, even a name?"
Oct 27 22:00:10 *   Mari shakes her head. "Nothing at all. We first saw him fighting, and he collapsed as soon as the battle was over. He could be carrying something that would give us some clue?" Mari takes a close look at the dead monk. Do his robes have any kind of symbols? Does he wear any kind of significant-looking jewelry? She's leery about searching his possessions with a priest watching over her, but it might help.
Oct 27 22:00:52 <Kotono>   His robes are very plain. The priest frowns, "Under the circumstances, it's fitting so that any next of kin or family can be notified," he murmurs, starting to pat the slain gith down. "If would check his other side?"
Oct 27 22:02:12 *   Mari does so, checking carefully for anything he might have in pockets or hidden about him (a task with which she has plenty of experience, of course...though usually her marks were living).
Oct 27 22:02:54 <Kotono>   Mari finds a small coin bag and a wrapped scroll.
Oct 27 22:04:00 *   Mari examines the scroll. Is there any kind of seal? She may as well read it, if not.
Oct 27 22:04:27 <Kotono>   It's sealed with strange wavy-blue wax.
Oct 27 22:05:20 <Mari>   roll 1d20+9 K:P I probably don't recognize the substance or whatever symbols might be in the seal, but hey, doesn't hurt to try
Oct 27 22:05:20 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d20+9 K:P I probably don't recognize the substance or whatever symbols might be in the seal, but hey, doesn't hurt to try and gets 15." [1d20=6]
Oct 27 22:08:28 *   Mari shrugs, breaks the seal and opens up the scroll. Hopefully it's in a language she can read. If not, she'll pass it on to the priest and see what he can make of it.
Oct 27 22:10:01 <Kotono>   It's written in words Mari can't understand. The priest looks over, "Curious, I don't know those glyphs and letters," he murmurs after seeing it, "There is magic to decipher such words, of course."
Oct 27 22:12:45 <Mari>   OOC: may as well make a decipher script roll, if you didn't already? Otherwise:
Oct 27 22:13:05 <Kotono>   OOC: Go ahead.
Oct 27 22:13:21 <Mari>   OOC: DS is rolled secretly by the GM, no? >.>
Oct 27 22:13:55 <Kotono>   OOC: Modifier?
Oct 27 22:14:48 <Mari>   OOC: +8
Oct 27 22:16:15 <Kotono>   It looks to be a mundane list of supplies - wheat, bricks, mortle and pestle, hay. Yet...Mari notices some of the words have a strange pattern to them. Each word to start a new line is capitalized, straight down, almost seeming to form a word of it's own.
Oct 27 22:18:26 <Mari>   "Interesting," Mari mutters. If this is some kind of code, it's a rather obvious one...but still, what is that word?
Oct 27 22:19:50 <Kotono>   "To me it means nothing, but to one who knows this script...but my magic won't be of use. It translates the literal meaning, not the hidden." Shaking his head, "One who can read this script can answer you."
Oct 27 22:20:40 *   Mari nods. "Could you direct me to someone who could help?"
Oct 27 22:21:40 <Kotono>   "If I knew what this script was, yes," He says, "But I do not."
Oct 27 22:24:08 <Mari>   "Well, one of my companions spent some time in Limbo. Maybe she'll know something. Thanks for your help regardless. You can keep the coins for your time and for whatever last rites are appropriate. I can't say I myself know anything about what a gith would want done with his body."
Oct 27 22:27:47 <Kotono>   "I'll investigate it," He says, "Thank you."


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OOC: Adail, Kamvakua, and Knight in the Arena.

Oct 27 19:33:38 <Kowork>   After some time of talking and waiting, "It is time," An airy faced elemental approaches you, about your size. "You three, for the team battle. Follow me."
Oct 27 19:34:09 *   Kamvakua nods simply, following along.
Oct 27 19:34:16 <Knight>   Resting her hand on the hilt of her sword, Knight steps after the elemental.
Oct 27 19:35:07 *   Adail nods as well, keeping his seat on Kamvakua's shoulder for the time being.
Oct 27 19:36:42 <Kowork>   Thus the three head out, lead to the arena! You find it to be a long cylender bowl, about 500 feet wide and airy. Surrounding it are vantage points and rows of seats, people watching nad settling in. A pair of elves run amid the crowd, calling, "Bets! Ten on three...15 on the new!"
Oct 27 19:37:36 <Knight>   "Ten on three?" blinks KNight, loosely drawing the unfamiliar rapier and standing in a relaxed position. "Those odds don't seem quite right."
Oct 27 19:38:59 <Kamvakua>   "It seems only about enough...can we bet on ourselves as well?" Kamvakua wondered.
Oct 27 19:39:06 <Adail>   "I admit I have no experience with gambling of this nature at all." Adail stands on his freind's shoulder, ready to leap off into action at a moment's notice.
Oct 27 19:40:46 <Knight>   "I believe it was to be an even match," murmurs Knight. "I suppose we will have to see."
Oct 27 19:41:29 *   Kamvakua strides forward into the arena, looking to see if their opponents were gathering on the other side.
Oct 27 19:41:56 <Kowork>   From the other side of the arena, you can see them approaching. Three figures. Two are man sized, made of gusty winds and howling gales. The third is double that size, looming over them like Kamvakua looms over Adail and Knight.  They are about 100 feet away, as, "The aerial battle is about to begin!" A gusting voice calls from the stands, "Get ready!"
Oct 27 19:42:42 *   Adail tenses up and the flames on his gloves flicker into life.
Oct 27 19:45:02 *   Kamvakua spins his pike about, readying himself and giving the watching crowd a bit of fanservice, his eyes narrowing as he sized up their foes.
Oct 27 19:45:41 *   Kowork is now known as Kotono
Oct 27 19:46:26 <Knight>   Knight looks mildly put out by the choice of opponent, and sighs to herself.
Oct 27 19:47:12 <Kotono>   With that, the air elementals race towards the party !OOC: Roll init.
Oct 27 19:47:23 <Knight>   roll 1d20+5
Oct 27 19:47:24 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+5 and gets 25." [1d20=20]
Oct 27 19:47:34 <Adail>   roll 1d20+8 init
Oct 27 19:47:35 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d20+8 init and gets 22." [1d20=14]
Oct 27 19:47:52 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+9 medium 1 air elementals are init whores
Oct 27 19:47:53 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 medium 1 air elementals are init whores and gets 25." [1d20=16]
Oct 27 19:47:56 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+9 medium 2
Oct 27 19:47:57 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 medium 2 and gets 15." [1d20=6]
Oct 27 19:48:02 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+11 large
Oct 27 19:48:02 <Kamvakua>   roll 1d20+2 what init
Oct 27 19:48:03 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 large and gets 13." [1d20=2]
Oct 27 19:48:03 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 1d20+2 what init and gets 22." [1d20=20]
Oct 27 19:48:45 *   Kotono has changed the topic to: Knight=Air Elemental medium 1(25)>Adail=Kamvakua(22)>Medium 2(15)>Large(13)
Oct 27 19:49:50 <Kotono>   OOC: Knight and the first medium elemental start. Do you wanna go first Knight or...?
Oct 27 19:49:56 <Knight>   OOC: He can go first.
Oct 27 19:51:43 <Kotono>   The medium air elemental travels through the air, a blur of wind! It forms up around Adail in a flurry, a single heavy SLAM right towards his mousy face!
Oct 27 19:51:52 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+10 flatfooted AC?
Oct 27 19:51:53 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 flatfooted AC? and gets 24." [1d20=14]
Oct 27 19:53:21 <Adail>   OOC: 22 flatfooted, but I'm on Kam's shoulder, so it'll provoke an AoO to reach me.
Oct 27 19:54:04 <Kamvakua>   OOC: AoO!  STAB.  ;)
Oct 27 19:54:06 <Kotono>   OOC: Okay. Kamvakua, you can AoO it as it charges in if you like.
Oct 27 19:54:31 <Kamvakua>   roll 1d20+14 I wish I set against a charge.  That'd be so awesome here if I did.
Oct 27 19:54:32 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 1d20+14 I wish I set against a charge. That'd be so awesome here if I did. and gets 23." [1d20=9]
Oct 27 19:55:08 <Kotono>   OOC: Ht.
Oct 27 19:55:10 <Kotono>   OOC: Hit.
Oct 27 19:55:27 <Kamvakua>   roll 3d6+10+1d6 (shock)
Oct 27 19:55:29 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 3d6+10+1d6 (shock) and gets 24." [3d6=2, 6, 1][1d6=5]
Oct 27 19:56:07 <Kotono>   roll 1d6+1 slam damage to Adail
Oct 27 19:56:08 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d6+1 slam damage to Adail and gets 5." [1d6=4]
Oct 27 19:57:12 <Kotono>   The impact is cataclysmic! The elemental goes for Kamvakua's shoulder, slamming into Adail! At the same time, the goliath braces, thrusting his polearm forward! Electricity crackles in the air, the form of the elemental nearly shattering apart in ag ust of wind, only loosely holding together as a few weak breezes! OOC: Knight?
Oct 27 19:59:09 <Knight>   OOC: Do I need to charge to reach the other elementals?
Oct 27 19:59:40 <Kotono>   OOC: They're 100ft away and your fly speed is 30. You couldn't even reach them this round.
Oct 27 19:59:51 <Knight>   OOC: Ah, then I'll just finish off this one.
Oct 27 20:00:29 <Knight>   Knight loops towards the foe who Kamvakua has nearly destroyed, and unleashes a short flurry of two thrusts towards the weakened creature!
Oct 27 20:00:42 <Knight>   OOC: Well, no, only one if it's further than 5ft
Oct 27 20:00:59 <Kamvakua>   OOC: Well, we'd be standing close still since we just stepped out right?
Oct 27 20:00:59 <Knight>   roll 1d20+16
Oct 27 20:01:00 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+16 and gets 32." [1d20=16]
Oct 27 20:01:09 <Knight>   OOC: I thought so
Oct 27 20:01:16 <Knight>   roll 1d6+8
Oct 27 20:01:17 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d6+8 and gets 12." [1d6=4]
Oct 27 20:01:22 <Knight>   roll 1d20+11 if possible, then
Oct 27 20:01:23 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+11 if possible, then and gets 13." [1d20=2]
Oct 27 20:02:38 *   Kotono has changed the topic to: Knight>Adail=Kamvakua(22)>Medium 2(15)>Large(13)
Oct 27 20:03:05 <Kotono>   With a devastating blow, Knight smashes through the air elemental! It's airy body breaks apart into a gust of wind, gone! OOC: Adail and Kam are up.
Oct 27 20:04:02 *   Kamvakua narrows his eyes and favors the others with a grin, beckoning them forward as he readied for their approach.  OOC: Readied attack, anyone coming within reach.  Set.
Oct 27 20:04:58 *   Adail allows the hit to carry him back off Kam's shoulder, but controls his fall so he comes up right behind his large freind, using him as cover for the time being. (OOC: Hopping behind the big guy, going Full Defensive and waiting to unload next round.)
Oct 27 20:05:04 <Kotono>   OOC: Okay.
Oct 27 20:05:34 <Kotono>   The second medium elemental hangs back, while the big one bristles! It points at Kamavua, before charging headlong at him! OOC: You can go and try and break his charge and his body, Kam.
Oct 27 20:07:08 <Kamvakua>   roll 1d20+14 first attack
Oct 27 20:07:09 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 1d20+14 first attack and gets 19." [1d20=5]
Oct 27 20:07:16 <Kamvakua>   roll 1d20+14 AoO 2
Oct 27 20:07:17 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 1d20+14 AoO 2 and gets 33." [1d20=19]
Oct 27 20:08:03 <Kotono>   OOC: The big one is large and has equal reach to you, so he doesn't provoke an AoO. Fortunately, the first one hit sanyway since charging is -2 to AC.
Oct 27 20:08:27 <Kamvakua>   roll 6d6+20+2d6 Wow, maybe I should rage.
Oct 27 20:08:28 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 6d6+20+2d6 Wow, maybe I should rage. and gets 52." [6d6=5, 2, 2, 5, 3, 4][2d6=6, 5]
Oct 27 20:10:10 <Kotono>   The elemental is ipmaled on Kamvakua's spear! It goes all the way through, while bringing it's ghostly fist right to the goliath's face!
Oct 27 20:10:19 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+14
Oct 27 20:10:20 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 29." [1d20=15]
Oct 27 20:10:32 <Kotono>   roll 2d6+2 I know your AC isn't that high.
Oct 27 20:10:34 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+2 I know your AC isn't that high. and gets 10." [2d6=3, 5]
Oct 27 20:11:21 <Kotono>   WHAM! Despite the polearm ripping it's middle apart, the air elemental slams Kamvakua right in the face! As this happens, the secon dmedium elemental races through the air, going for Knight!
Oct 27 20:11:29 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+10 knight
Oct 27 20:11:30 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 knight and gets 23." [1d20=13]
Oct 27 20:11:39 <Knight>   OOC: Misses
Oct 27 20:11:40 *   Kotono has changed the topic to: Knight>Adail=Kamvakua(22)>Large(13)>Medium 2
Oct 27 20:11:54 <Kotono>   But Knight whirls out of the way,  morning star deflecting the air around her face! OOC: Knight.
Oct 27 20:13:44 <Knight>   Knight recoils a step back, and then launches forward into another wispy pair of attacks!
Oct 27 20:13:49 <Knight>   roll 1d20+16
Oct 27 20:13:50 <Knight>   roll 1d20+11
Oct 27 20:13:50 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+16 and gets 26." [1d20=10]
Oct 27 20:13:50 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+11 and gets 22." [1d20=11]
Oct 27 20:13:53 <Knight>   roll 2d6+16
Oct 27 20:13:54 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 2d6+16 and gets 25." [2d6=4, 5]
Oct 27 20:14:18 *   Kotono has changed the topic to: Knight>Adail=Kamvakua(22)>Large(13)
Oct 27 20:14:36 <Kotono>   Piercing ahead with her rapier, Knight finishes off the second elemental swiftly! OOC: You two are up before the big one.
Oct 27 20:15:25 *   Adail calls out in Auran, "This would be a good time for you to surrender, sir elemental."
Oct 27 20:15:58 <Kotono>   Grunting, and in a single word of Auran, "Agreed."
Oct 27 20:16:23 *   Adail nods, and in common, "He's surrendered."
Oct 27 20:16:44 *   Kamvakua spins his pike back into position, giving but a breath at hearing that, the pike heading toward him...but stopping before  striking.  "You fought bravely," He grinned.
Oct 27 20:18:07 <Kotono>   Staggering back, "Far too strong," The elemental drifts back and promptly retreats away. From above, "A quick, decisive victory!" There are cheers to this, echoing about in the air.
Oct 27 20:18:12 <Knight>   Knight raises her sword up straight, saluting the crowd and the last opponent standing. With a flick of her wrist, it settles back into it's scabbard.
Oct 27 20:18:38 *   Adail climbs back up onto Kam's shoulder.
Oct 27 20:21:19 <Kotono>   The cheers grow louder as you shower in a rain of applause. From where you came, the air elemental waits. "This way," It calls.
Oct 27 20:21:43 *   Kamvakua lifts his pike up to the audience as he turns to head back.  "You are clearly comfortable in battle, though that was almost too short to see much," Kamvakua commented to knight as they walked back, not minding at all adail's weight on his shoulder.
Oct 27 20:21:52 *   Kamvakua follows the elemental of course.
Oct 27 20:23:36 <Knight>   "Without a steed, I'm incomplete," remarks Knight, starting to turn back. "But it would be an unfair contest for me to enter with such aid."
Oct 27 20:24:26 <Kotono>   You are lead back to the large elemental out front. It regards you long before speaking, "Victory?"
Oct 27 20:24:58 <Knight>   "Yes, we were the victors."
Oct 27 20:25:16 <Kamvakua>   "Of course," He grinned.  "It was over in three blows.  Two to knight's one."  He said almost reflexively.
Oct 27 20:25:57 *   Adail raises an eyebrow, "It was two and two by my count."
Oct 27 20:26:38 <Knight>   "Are elementals the most frequent of competitors?"
Oct 27 20:26:51 <Nikkolai>   The Chart?
Oct 27 20:28:08 <Kamvakua>   "Hmm, was it.  You were perhaps better placed to count my friend," He smiled, the counting of blows an old habit of his.
Oct 27 20:28:16 <Kamvakua>   OOC: Remove nikkolai's line
Oct 27 20:29:42 <Knight>   "The details are irrelevant, are they not?" points out Knight. "We won. In the end, that's all that matters."
Oct 27 20:29:53 <Kotono>   A sack full of coins is tossed to Knight. "Elementals are the most basic. Should you challenge again, a more suitable one will be arrainged."
Oct 27 20:30:47 *   Adail laughs, "It's a hobby of his, comparing blows struck, enemies fell, pretty much any part of a battle that can be counted."
Oct 27 20:31:13 <Adail>   "Drove some of the more competetive eladrin back in the Court nuts."
Oct 27 20:31:39 <Kamvakua>   "Would one be ready now?"  Kamvakua wondered casually, it'd been almost over too soon and to get a good feel for his comrades would aid well.  "Adail is right," He smiled.  "I no longer find it odd that others do not, but it is the way of things far back home.  See each day as a chance to improve."
Oct 27 20:33:06 <Knight>   Knight takes a moment to briefly check the contents of the bag. "If it aids in developing your skills, then I can see no fault in it," she acknowledges. "Cultivating strength is a necessity in this world."
Oct 27 20:35:13 <Kamvakua>   "Indeed.  It is the foundation, strength, wisdom, knowledge.  Without a foundation of these, no truly worthwhile structure can be built," He smiled, his words odd for such a brawny fellow.
Oct 27 20:35:32 <Kotono>   "Wait." The elemental says, then heads back the way you came.
Oct 27 20:36:11 <Knight>   "You seek to build something?"
Oct 27 20:36:29 <Adail>   "A legend, perhaps."
Oct 27 20:38:26 <Kamvakua>   "A legend at least," He smiled simply.
Oct 27 20:40:58 <Kotono>   After a wait of perhaps a half hour the air elemental returns. "It can be done. 800 gold." It answers.
Oct 27 20:41:08 <Knight>   "Wait. Is there no way to increase the stakes?"
Oct 27 20:41:39 <Kamvakua>   "Do you need such money?" Kamvakua blinked a bit, not seeing the hurry.
Oct 27 20:41:46 <Knight>   "I do."
Oct 27 20:42:20 <Knight>   Knight frowns. "I owe a debt of slightly under three-thousand pieces of gold," she explains a moment later. "This is my means of making up the difference."
Oct 27 20:44:10 <Adail>   "It will be more then worth the cost, though."
Oct 27 20:45:19 <Kotono>   "If you win again and continue on, yes."
Oct 27 20:45:41 <Knight>   "Ah, so be it. Lead on, then," replies Knight, shrugging.
Oct 27 20:46:43 <Kamvakua>   "Ah, well...then let us continue well," He smiled.  "We will help you make short work of it.  No matter.  We shall take such," He nodded at the elemental.
Oct 27 20:47:16 <Adail>   "We're still in good shape, and should anyone need it after this one I have some small talent at healing." Adail steadies himself on his perch and nods, "Let's go."
Oct 27 20:55:01 <Kotono>   You are lead back to th elocker room. You have some time here, time tow ait, heal or whatever else you fancy. OOC: Give me a few, I'm not going to runt wo different combats at once, it never works well. Feel free to chat amid yourselves.
Oct 27 20:55:38 <Adail>   "Now my healing is very limited. I took a small wound, and it seems you took one as well. Should I heal you now or wait?"
Oct 27 20:55:55 <Knight>   "Better now than later," replies Knight, absently.
Oct 27 20:56:55 <Kamvakua>   "It is wise, but the blow did not hurt much..tend to yourself first," He insisted.
Oct 27 20:57:22 *   Adail nods and casts a pair of healing spells, one on himself and one on Kam.
Oct 27 20:57:26 <Adail>   roll 1d8+1 self
Oct 27 20:57:27 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d8+1 self and gets 7." [1d8=6]
Oct 27 20:57:32 <Adail>   roll 1d8+1 Kam
Oct 27 20:57:33 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d8+1 Kam and gets 4." [1d8=3]
Oct 27 20:58:44 <Adail>   OOC: Casting my Cure Light and spont casting from my Inflict Light. Keeping Sheild of Faith if I need MOAR AC for some reason.
Oct 27 20:59:27 <Kotono>   OOC: Okay.
Oct 27 21:05:15 *   Yomi has quit (Broken pipe)
Oct 27 21:11:46 *   Yomi (~corwin@bzq-82-81-41-6.red.bezeqint.net) has joined #dunes
Oct 27 21:12:22 <Kotono>   After some time of this, "You three," The elemental returns, "Come."
Oct 27 21:12:57 *   Adail reclaims his perch on Kam's shoulder which he abandoned for a moment while healing, and nods his readiness.
Oct 27 21:13:39 *   Knight troops along after Adail and Kam, clenching her jaw.
Oct 27 21:17:34 *   Kamvakua follows simply ready.
Oct 27 21:20:32 <Kotono>   Thus you are lead out to the arena once more! The crowd is larger this time, a sonic cadence from above as you come out! Cheers and catcalls all over, as you reach the middle of the arena. 100 feet away are three..birds? Two of them are roughly six feet long, sleek, long and crackling with electricity. The third is much bigger, yet darts through the air with as much ease as the other two. Above, "Let the aerial battles commence!" A gusthing vo
Oct 27 21:20:37 <Kotono>   the air with as much ease as the other two. Above, "Let the aerial battles commence!" A gusthing voice calls! OOC: Init.
Oct 27 21:20:44 <Knight>   roll 1d20+5
Oct 27 21:20:45 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+5 and gets 18." [1d20=13]
Oct 27 21:21:10 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+5 medium 1
Oct 27 21:21:10 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+5 medium 2
Oct 27 21:21:10 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 medium 1 and gets 20." [1d20=15]
Oct 27 21:21:11 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 medium 2 and gets 17." [1d20=12]
Oct 27 21:21:13 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+5 large
Oct 27 21:21:13 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 large and gets 10." [1d20=5]
Oct 27 21:21:24 <Adail>   roll 1d20+8 init
Oct 27 21:21:25 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d20+8 init and gets 17." [1d20=9]
Oct 27 21:21:41 *   Kotono has changed the topic to: Medium 1(20)>Knight(18)>Adail=Medium 2(17)>Large(10)
Oct 27 21:22:11 <Kamvakua>   roll 1d20+2
Oct 27 21:22:12 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 1d20+2 and gets 18." [1d20=16]
Oct 27 21:23:13 *   Kotono has changed the topic to: Medium 1(20)>Kam=Knight(18)>Adail=Medium 2(17)>Large(10)
Oct 27 21:23:48 <Kotono>   The medium one advances 50 feet, flying as it's wings flap! A crackling ray of electricy flies from it towards Adail! OOC: Do you have lightning res/immunity? I know you have some due to  being a celestial.
Oct 27 21:23:57 <Adail>   OOC: Lightning immune
Oct 27 21:24:28 *   Adail cringes and acts badly hurt as the lighning hits!
Oct 27 21:24:50 <Kotono>   The lightning hits Adail head on, crackling around him as Adail cringes! He thrashes with it, as if greviously shocked by the impact! OOC: Make a bluff check real quick?
Oct 27 21:25:15 <Adail>   roll 1d20+1 hopefully they're not close enough to see that I'm faking
Oct 27 21:25:16 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d20+1 hopefully they're not close enough to see that I'm faking and gets 13." [1d20=12]
Oct 27 21:25:25 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+9
Oct 27 21:25:25 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 13." [1d20=4]
Oct 27 21:25:26 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+9
Oct 27 21:25:27 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 21." [1d20=12]
Oct 27 21:26:28 <Kotono>   OOC: Kam and Knight are up.
Oct 27 21:27:57 <Kamvakua>   OOC: Knight can lead.
Oct 27 21:28:07 <Knight>   OOC: Dude, just go, I can't reach him due to armour
Oct 27 21:29:56 <Kamvakua>   "Do not think to strike from there unharmed," Kamvakua rushed forward, bringing his pike in a swift impaling blow toward the nearby bird OOC: 40 foot charge.
Oct 27 21:30:03 <Kamvakua>   roll 1d20+16
Oct 27 21:30:05 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 1d20+16 and gets 29." [1d20=13]
Oct 27 21:30:31 <Kotono>   OOC: Hit.
Oct 27 21:30:37 <Kamvakua>   roll 5d6+10+1d6 (shock)
Oct 27 21:30:37 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 5d6+10+1d6 (shock) and gets 34." [5d6=2, 1, 5, 6, 5][1d6=5]
Oct 27 21:32:29 <Kotono>   The polearm stabs the bird, electricity running over it to no effect, despite the deep wound that does do considerable harm! OOC: Knight?
Oct 27 21:32:38 <Knight>   Knight drifts forward with some caution. As she closes the gap, she raises her hand, and a phantasmal, rectangular image appears before her; a playing card, with a five-pointed star etched upon the surface! "Sister, give me strength," she murmurs, and the card flickers and disperses into a wave of glittering light!
Oct 27 21:34:23 <Kotono>   Thus Knight glows with all the stars in the evening sky! As she does...OOC: Adail and the medium are up. Go ahead and go first, Adail?
Oct 27 21:35:01 <Adail>   OOC: Did I get carried forward on Kam's charge? Do I need to make a balance check or something to have stayed on?
Oct 27 21:35:37 <Kotono>   OOC: Balance check, sure.
Oct 27 21:35:52 <Adail>   roll 1d20+15 balance fu
Oct 27 21:35:53 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d20+15 balance fu and gets 16." [1d20=1]
Oct 27 21:38:01 <Kotono>   OOC: Carry on.
Oct 27 21:39:11 *   Adail leaps from his freind's shoulder to the back of the bird, striking out with a burning paw!
Oct 27 21:39:30 <Adail>   roll 1d20+15 can't flurry
Oct 27 21:39:31 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d20+15 can't flurry and gets 29." [1d20=14]
Oct 27 21:39:35 <Kotono>   OOC: Hit.
Oct 27 21:39:52 <Adail>   roll 1d3+2+1d6 (fire)
Oct 27 21:39:52 *   Nikkolai has quit (Operation timed out)
Oct 27 21:39:53 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d3+2+1d6 (fire) and gets 7." [1d3=3][1d6=2]
Oct 27 21:42:12 <Kotono>   Slamming odwn into the bird, Adail knocks it down and out! It plummets into the air, the blow enough to render it very unconcious! The second bird advances ten feet and fires a ray at Adail in retort, electricity going over him again! The large one does the same, but aims at Kamavkua instead!
Oct 27 21:42:52 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+19 touch, though at least with your AC it's not a huge difference from normal. These things have retarded to hit for the CR, by the by.
Oct 27 21:42:53 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 touch, though at least with your AC it's not a huge difference from normal. These things have retarded to hit for the CR, by the by. and gets 37." [1d20=18]
Oct 27 21:43:11 *   Adail doesn't bother acting hurt by it this time.
Oct 27 21:43:18 <Kotono>   roll 2d8 electric
Oct 27 21:43:18 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 2d8 electric and gets 11." [2d8=8, 3]
Oct 27 21:43:36 *   Kotono has changed the topic to: >Kam=Knight(18)>Adail=Medium 2(17)>Large(10)
Oct 27 21:43:39 <Kotono>   A shock gets Kamavkua right in the chest, making his muscles spasm and twitch! OOC: Top of init. Kam and Knight.
Oct 27 21:45:08 <Knight>   With a burst of effort, Knight manages to close the distance between herself and the two avians, although by the time she reaches her opponents she's forced to take a moment to recover!
Oct 27 21:46:59 *   Kamvakua rushes as well, following the shiny figure as he charges the large one, slamming his pike right against it's wide plummage.
Oct 27 21:47:08 <Kamvakua>   roll 1d20+16
Oct 27 21:47:09 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 1d20+16 and gets 24." [1d20=8]
Oct 27 21:47:15 <Kamvakua>   roll 5d6+10+1d6 (shock)
Oct 27 21:47:16 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 5d6+10+1d6 (shock) and gets 30." [5d6=5, 4, 3, 2, 1][1d6=5]
Oct 27 21:54:46 <Kotono>   As Knight positions, Kamvakua closes! He stabs out, a solid stab into the wing of the larger bird! OOC: Adail.
Oct 27 21:56:41 *   Adail rushes at the bird as well, dashing right between his freind's legs and leaping up in a blazing uppercut at the bird!
Oct 27 21:56:50 <Adail>   roll 1d20+17 charge
Oct 27 21:56:50 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d20+17 charge and gets 21." [1d20=4]
Oct 27 21:56:55 <Kotono>   OOC: Miss.
Oct 27 21:57:28 <Kotono>   Adail comes close, but the bird is rocking back with Kavakua's impalement, his mighty burning fist hitting only more Air! The medium bird flies 50 feet back, firing a ray at Kamvakua!
Oct 27 21:57:37 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+12 ranged touch
Oct 27 21:57:38 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 ranged touch and gets 16." [1d20=4]
Oct 27 21:57:50 <Kotono>   roll 2d8 assuming that hits touch AC
Oct 27 21:57:51 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 2d8 assuming that hits touch AC and gets 2." [2d8=1, 1]
Oct 27 21:57:52 <Kamvakua>   OOC: hits.  Touch AC 13
Oct 27 21:57:59 <Kotono>   OOC: Lucky bastard.
Oct 27 21:58:29 <Knight>   OOC: Hey hey HEY won't we get to AoO them?
Oct 27 21:58:39 <Knight>   OOC: I ran pretty much right next to them, Kamvakua has a massive lance, etc
Oct 27 21:59:02 <Kotono>   OOC: Yeah, yo ucould.
Oct 27 21:59:12 <Kamvakua>   OOC: Hey AoO!
Oct 27 21:59:12 <Knight>   OOC: Then I'll do that!
Oct 27 21:59:14 <Kamvakua>   OOC: :D
Oct 27 21:59:19 <Knight>   roll 1d20+17 AoO'd
Oct 27 21:59:20 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+17 AoO'd and gets 33." [1d20=16]
Oct 27 21:59:21 <Kamvakua>   roll 1d20+14 AoO'd
Oct 27 21:59:22 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 1d20+14 AoO'd and gets 30." [1d20=16]
Oct 27 21:59:25 <Knight>   roll 1d20+17 critthreat
Oct 27 21:59:25 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+17 critthreat and gets 35." [1d20=18]
Oct 27 21:59:44 <Knight>   roll 2d6+16
Oct 27 21:59:45 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 2d6+16 and gets 21." [2d6=1, 4]
Oct 27 22:00:00 *   Kotono has changed the topic to: >Kam=Knight(18)>Adail>Large(10)
Oct 27 22:00:09 <Kotono>   OOC: It's dead, you can still roll damage if you care too, Kam.
Oct 27 22:00:13 <Kamvakua>   roll 3d6+10
Oct 27 22:00:14 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 3d6+10 and gets 24." [3d6=3, 6, 5]
Oct 27 22:01:23 <Kotono>   The bird is torn apart! The large one reaches in, it's long neck letting it take a chomp at Kamvakua in revenge!
Oct 27 22:01:26 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+20 bite
Oct 27 22:01:27 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 bite and gets 38." [1d20=18]
Oct 27 22:01:45 <Kotono>   roll 2d6+9 serously, this things are way out of whack for the CR to hit ratio.
Oct 27 22:01:46 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+9 serously, this things are way out of whack for the CR to hit ratio. and gets 12." [2d6=2, 1]
Oct 27 22:02:19 <Kotono>   As the second medium plummets down, the large one leans in and takes a huge bite out of Kamvakua's shoulder in revenge! OOC: Kam and Knight.
Oct 27 22:02:54 *   Kamvakua twirls his pike about, lashing down twice in quick strikes at the bird.
Oct 27 22:02:57 <Kamvakua>   roll 1d20+14
Oct 27 22:02:57 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 1d20+14 and gets 22." [1d20=8]
Oct 27 22:03:06 <Kamvakua>   roll 1d20+9
Oct 27 22:03:06 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 1d20+9 and gets 15." [1d20=6]
Oct 27 22:03:15 <Kotono>   OOC: One hit, barely.
Oct 27 22:03:24 <Knight>   Knight drifts only a slip towards the larger creature, and quickly lunges in to cut and thrust with deceptive speed!
Oct 27 22:03:24 <Kamvakua>   roll 3d6+10+1d6
Oct 27 22:03:26 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 3d6+10+1d6 and gets 31." [3d6=6, 6, 6][1d6=3]
Oct 27 22:03:30 <Knight>   roll 1d20+17
Oct 27 22:03:30 <Knight>   roll 1d20+12
Oct 27 22:03:30 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+17 and gets 23." [1d20=6]
Oct 27 22:03:31 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+12 and gets 31." [1d20=19]
Oct 27 22:03:46 <Knight>   roll 1d20+12 threat
Oct 27 22:03:47 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+12 threat and gets 17." [1d20=5]
Oct 27 22:03:52 <Kotono>   OOC: Two normal hits.
Oct 27 22:04:03 <Knight>   roll 2d6+16
Oct 27 22:04:04 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 2d6+16 and gets 18." [2d6=1, 1]
Oct 27 22:04:46 <Kotono>   Double stabs! Stabbed and pierced, the bird is bloodied three times over! OOC: adail.
Oct 27 22:06:16 *   Adail slips behind the bird to flank and launches a quick one-two combo at the bird, fists blazing feircely! (OOC: shifting to flank if possible, Fiery Fist, Flurry)
Oct 27 22:06:22 <Adail>   roll 1d20+15 flurry 1
Oct 27 22:06:23 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d20+15 flurry 1 and gets 32." [1d20=17]
Oct 27 22:06:26 <Adail>   roll 1d20+15 flurry 2
Oct 27 22:06:27 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d20+15 flurry 2 and gets 18." [1d20=3]
Oct 27 22:06:40 <Adail>   roll 1d3+2+2d6 (fire)
Oct 27 22:06:41 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d3+2+2d6 (fire) and gets 11." [1d3=2][2d6=3, 4]
Oct 27 22:07:30 <Kotono>   Wham! That fist blow sends the bird ping-ponging back and forth between the three! WIth that, it squawks a single word of Auran, "Enough!"
Oct 27 22:08:02 *   Adail quickly translates, "It surrenders!"
Oct 27 22:10:57 <Knight>   "These bouts are swift," murmurs Knight, flicking a little blood off her blade and returning it to it's sheath.
Oct 27 22:11:09 <Kotono>   The crowd cheers the three as the bird staggers and slowly flies away! "The victors once again!" The booming, gusting voice declares.
Oct 27 22:11:42 *   Kamvakua raises his pike in victory, "That was not bad...  and a good fight is soon over,"  He turned, letting the bird escape as looked over his friends.
Oct 27 22:11:51 <Adail>   "When you hit as hard as the two of you do, most battles are."
Oct 27 22:12:52 <Kamvakua>   "Practice hard, my little friend, and you will find a way to strike just as hard with your little fists," He was so certain when he spoke, even as he carried Adail on his shoulder off the field toward the exit again.
Oct 27 22:13:07 <Knight>   "I don't often use weapons as light as this one," remarks Knight. "It takes more precision than strength, but the magic in the blade..."
Oct 27 22:14:00 *   Adail once again regains his perch and cheerfully quips, "My strength is not in offense, oh walking mountain. Or do you not recall the bout that took you nearly twenty swings to so much as graze a whisker?"
Oct 27 22:14:18 <Adail>   "Of course let us not speak of what happened when you did connect..."
Oct 27 22:15:11 <Kotono>   The elemental appears again, ushering the victors back. Another sack of gold is handed over. "Well done," it says, "For this time, that is all. Come later if you wish to compete again."
Oct 27 22:15:12 <Kamvakua>   "It is good to study many weapons, but none I find with such versatility as this pike, and with a touch of magic it becomes almost an unwordly force." He laughed at Adail's joke.  "It is not who strikes first, best, or fastest...but who strikes last."
Oct 27 22:16:27 <Adail>   "Well if that's what you're counting now, I technically struck the last blow this fight." Adail grins as he teases the man twenty times his size.
Oct 27 22:17:49 <Kamvakua>   "Too much for the day it seems, but at least a hardy token toward your debt, Knight.  And it is true, you took two, not bad at all, Adail."  He smiled, quite amused.
Oct 27 22:18:35 *   Adail nods to Knight as the elemental hands her the bag, "I'll loan you my share of this for now, to help pay off the debt a bit faster. You can pay me back as we travel on. Fair?"
Oct 27 22:18:44 <Knight>   "I wasn't keeping count, but it was clear which blows were the deadliest," remarks Knight, starting to depart the arena. "Ah, will you be taking your share?" she asks, curiously. "Thirteen hundred, altogether. A troublesome figure, about four-thirty each."
Oct 27 22:19:52 <Kamvakua>   "It is not good to owe to another.  Take it if you need to pay a debt.  The road will pay me back in kind," He agreed similarly to Adail's thinking, though his words were different.
Oct 27 22:21:47 <Knight>   "Ah, well... certainly, then. I'm not sure my road is a profitable one," admits Knight. "'tis why I must take time for excursions such as this."
Oct 27 22:22:48 *   Adail chuckles, "Our next destination is the plane of Earth, yes? I'm sure there will be profit aplenty to be found there. Though Bellaphron may not appriciate it so much."
Oct 27 22:23:55 <Knight>   Knight grimaces. "I hadn't thought of that. I've never been to the place. Is there room enough for a mount?"
Oct 27 22:24:48 <Adail>   "You spent some time there, didn't you Kam?"
Oct 27 22:25:04 <Kamvakua>   "There is sometimes...but the tunnels are oft tight," Kamvakua nodded.  "For a winged creature, it would be a most unpleasant time."
Oct 27 22:26:42 <Knight>   "Bloody..." Knight shakes her head. "Perhaps we should take the time to determine what lies beyond the closest portal. I can't take him to a place too small for him to fit."
Oct 27 22:27:31 <Adail>   "That sounds prudent. Well, why don't we head back and get some rest for now, hmm?"
Oct 27 22:28:44 <Kamvakua>   "That would be fine, that bird bit harder than I gave it credit for," He grinned, having wrapped a small cloth around the cut in the interim.
Oct 27 22:28:52 <Knight>   "It's been a tiring day," acknowledges Knight, starting back for the inn.
Oct 27 22:29:35 <Kotono>   That evening, the group gets together, discussing and eating...OOC: Mari, ball's in your court.
Oct 27 22:30:11 *   Mari doesn't waste any time in busting out the scroll. "Soooo, who knows anything about Limbo?"
Oct 27 22:30:58 <Kamvakua>   "It is a plane I have not been to, though I hear it is quite strange to folks used to solid ground."
Oct 27 22:31:01 <Knight>   "It is a terrible place, where the very world changes all about you. One can count on nothing staying the same for longer than a few moments. It's foolishness to travel there without powerful magic backing you up."
Oct 27 22:31:42 *   Adail shakes his head, "I haven't been thier either, and know rather little of the place."
Oct 27 22:34:13 <Mari>   
ACTION nods to Knight. "Yeah, no kidding. It seems like a long shot, but does anyone recognize the script on this scroll?" She pushes it into the center of the table so anyone can get a look. "Nik and I were floating along through the city earlier today, and out of nowhere this githzerai and a slaad float by, beating the tar out of each other. We killed the slaad, but the gith was hurt bad and didn't make it to a temple in time t
Oct 27 22:34:14 *   Yomi has quit (Broken pipe)
Oct 27 22:34:41 <Mari>   in time to get healed. This is all we've got to say who he might have been."
Oct 27 22:35:27 *   Knight takes a glance, but shakes her head. "I'm not familiar with it, I'm afraid. But you did right in killing the slaad. They're beings of pure madness, who cannot look upon the world without wanting to deform it in some way."
Oct 27 22:35:35 *   Adail peers at the scroll, "Sadly my gift with languages does not extend to the written word."
Oct 27 22:36:23 <Mari>   "Yeah, they're ugly too. Thanks anyway, Knight."
Oct 27 22:38:48 <Knight>   "You could always ask a cleric to contact the Gith's spirit," remarks Knight.
Oct 27 22:39:15 <Kotono>   The words mean nothing ot any of the party.
Oct 27 22:40:29 *   Yomi (~corwin@bzq-82-81-41-6.red.bezeqint.net) has joined #dunes
Oct 27 22:40:40 <Kamvakua>   "Contact the dead?  That does not sound like a gesture to be undertaken so...trivially.  This is a large city.  Surely there are some scholars here," Kamvakua suggested a different route.
Oct 27 22:41:17 <Mari>   "I guess I should have asked while I was there...Anyway, just looking at it, I can tell it's some kind of list. They've got a few of the letters made to stand out like they're supposed to spell something if you only look at them, but I couldn't say what the word means. We do need someone who knows the language, yes. Maybe our friendly innkeep could point us in the right direction?"
Oct 27 22:41:56 *   Adail nods, "I'm sure the Gith have thier own language, it's likely in that script."
Oct 27 22:42:01 <Knight>   "I suppose a scholar might be cheaper."
Oct 27 22:45:07 *   Yomi has quit (Connection reset by peer)
Oct 27 22:45:38 *   Mari raps her knuckles on the table idly. "Yeah, let's see if we can find someone to read this first." She goes off to find the innkeep and ask him about any local scholars that might know gith languages.
Oct 27 22:46:26 *   Kamvakua leans back.  "It seems an adventure has joined our path."