Do not ever GENUFLECT!

[Dracos]

Jul 27 19:35:47 <Kamvakua>   "They are probably all trapped," Kamvakua's voice was still rough and hard to follow.  "But we've got to pick one."
Jul 27 19:35:54 <Adail>   "The plain door..." Adail muses, "may have been intended as a servant's entrance, back when this place was still inhabited?"
Jul 27 19:35:56 *   Nikkolai eyes the three doors consideringly. "What do you think, Yulia? Do any of them seem safe to you?"
Jul 27 19:36:28 <Adail>   "Mari, I believe you're the resident expert on traps and such. I'll follow your lead here."
Jul 27 19:36:32 <Kotono>   "Me?" Yulia blinks, then eyes them, "I like the carvings...but was this place built as a fortress of as an actual palace?"
Jul 27 19:36:59 <Nikkolai>   "It has not the feel of a fortress to me."
Jul 27 19:38:21 * Mari nods. "I'd take the far door if I were breaking into a place normally. Less likely to be anyone watching the servant's entrance. Of course, I can't really claim to be an expert on where ice wraiths like to hang out. Regardless..." Mari approaches the furthest plain door.
Jul 27 19:38:21 <Nikkolai> "Perhaps this was once a palace...bygones of happier days."
Jul 27 19:38:09 <Kotono>   It's a door, plain and perhaps made for a normal sized person. It's long since iced over, but looks to be otherwise intact.
Jul 27 19:38:33 *   Adail sticks close to Mari, not concerned if a trap is sprung with him nearby, but wanting to be in the area to move in and distract any hostile creatures from attacking Mari should things go south quickly.
Jul 27 19:38:34 *   Mari tries opening it!
Jul 27 19:39:55 <Kamvakua>   "Wasn't the last servant we met kept alive in the curse?" Kamvakua mused, probably a bit late.  Not that it made any difference, they could all be dangerous.
Jul 27 19:40:54 *   Adail shakes his head, "The wraith was no servant, he was doomed to that fate for attacking Cryonax personally."
Jul 27 19:41:43 <Nikkolai>   "If you're going to attack a being like Cyronax, it seems to me that one would need an ace up their sleeve or a serious amount of overkill."
Jul 27 19:42:14 <Mari>   "Or desperation," Mari says with a shrug.
Jul 27 19:42:55 <Adail>   "Even having such, failure is still not only possible but likely." Adail notes sadly, "And yes, desperation was certainly a part of it. Or conviction beyond even what most paladins know."
Jul 27 19:45:56 <Kotono>   The door takes a bit of work to open as it's iced over, but it does open! Ahead is an iced over hall, plain and undecorated. Lying on the floor just within is a man in a butler's livery, and a little farther down is a woman in a maid's uniform. Both are frozen in ice and flawlessly persevered.
Jul 27 19:46:55 *   Mari approaches--slowly, cautiously, just in case these are more wraiths waiting for trouble. If there's no sign of movement, well, morbid curiosity compels her to kneel down and take a close look.
Jul 27 19:46:58 *   Nikkolai peers in and walks up to the butler, eying him curiously. He wonders if they are trapped in the ice...or simply frozen corpses.
Jul 27 19:47:33 *   Nikkolai toes the butler gently.
Jul 27 19:47:51 <Kotono>   They aren't moving nor are they breathing. They look like they simply closed their eyes to sleep and the cold overtook them. The butler looks to have been a human of middle age, balding and well groomed. Toeing the iced over body has no noticeable effect.
Jul 27 19:48:17 *   Kamvakua takes up the rear of the group heading in.
Jul 27 19:48:56 *   Mari shivers. Not because of the cold this time! "They look like they could still be alive under there. Is that possible, you think?"
Jul 27 19:49:04 <Nikkolai>   "I'm beginning to wonder...was this entire palace a foe of Cyronax? What did they do to earn his emnity?" Nikkolai wonders aloud.
Jul 27 19:49:09 *   Adail focuses on the senses given to him by Kam's amulet as he keeps his eyes open for trouble, trying to get used to the new sensory input.
Jul 27 19:49:50 <Mari>   "Cyronax sounds like the kind of guy who'd curse someone just for not bowing to him. Setting an example, you know?"
Jul 27 19:50:24 *   Adail nods absently, "That sounds likely, yes."
Jul 27 19:51:01 <Nikkolai>   "Hmph. I could perhaps...try to gently melt the ice off of one them." Nikkolai suggests in an unsure tone. "If they *are* still alive, I might accidentally kill them."
Jul 27 19:51:31 <Mari>   "The key word is 'gently.' I don't know...it might be worth a try?"
Jul 27 19:51:42 <Mari>   roll 1d20+12 spot
Jul 27 19:51:43 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d20+12 spot and gets 20." [1d20=8]
Jul 27 19:51:53 <Knight>   "I highly doubt they are alive," replies Knight, frowning. "Being frozen is not a neutral state. They have simply been preserved from overt decay."
Jul 27 19:52:14 <Kamvakua>   "Let's not try saving anyone right yet.  I agree with knight and even so, we might need every ounce of strength to survive."
Jul 27 19:52:51 <Adail>   "If they are somehow still alive in there, if that is mystical ice, it's best to leave them. Freeing them now, as we're going deeper in instead of leaving, would likely get them killed." He then shrugs, "Though Knight is most likely correct."
Jul 27 19:53:02 *   Nikkolai kneels down and stretches a hand out, casting Detect Magic on the butler, straining his senses for a sort of preserving enchantment.
Jul 27 19:53:47 *   Mari peers around the room, stands up and walks over to another door, barely noticeable beneath layers of ice. Probably it's too frozen for her to open on her own, but she'll try anyway.
Jul 27 19:54:10 <Nikkolai>   "Tsk. They're quite dead, I'm afraid." He rises to his feet. "No enchanted ice."
Jul 27 19:54:12 <Kotono>   roll 1d100
Jul 27 19:54:12 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 68." [1d100=68]
Jul 27 19:54:41 <Kotono>   Mari advances ahead, to the end of the hall and to the east wall. She tries to open the door but it's iced over. It'll take some brute force to clear that ice up.
Jul 27 19:56:02 <Mari>   "Somebody want to help me out here? Too much to open this on my own."
Jul 27 19:56:09 <Mari>   *too much ice
Jul 27 19:56:45 <Knight>   Armed with iron spikes and a hammer, Knight is willing to test her prowess against stationary water!
Jul 27 19:57:51 *   Adail spins, "Company everyone!"
Jul 27 19:58:13 *   Mari turns around to look. "What? Where?"
Jul 27 19:58:25 <Knight>   Knight drops her improvised weapons and sullenly draws her real ones, furious that she is distracted from her true calling!
Jul 27 19:58:53 *   Kamvakua has his spear readied already.
Jul 27 19:59:30 <Kotono>   The party whirls around! You see it coming from behind you, bone silent! It flickers and is barely visible, as if a humanoid shaped shadow has spawned! Wrapped around it's body are ghostly chains of ice, silent as the wind! It's silent groans can be seen erupting from it's mouth as it rushes the party! OOC: Anyone have K:R ranks? You can roll to ID it if you want, and once that's resolved we'll roll init. The natives are restless as hell.
Jul 27 19:59:34 <Kotono>   and once that's resolved we'll roll init. The natives are restless as hell.
Jul 27 19:59:56 <Adail>   roll 1d20+13 KR
Jul 27 19:59:57 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d20+13 KR and gets 26." [1d20=13]
Jul 27 20:00:31 <Kamvakua>   roll 1d20+2 init roll
Jul 27 20:00:32 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 1d20+2 init roll and gets 16." [1d20=14]
Jul 27 20:00:38 <Mari>   roll 1d20+9 speeed
Jul 27 20:00:39 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d20+9 speeed and gets 20." [1d20=11]
Jul 27 20:00:52 <Adail>   roll 1d20+8 initimative
Jul 27 20:00:52 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d20+8 initimative and gets 28." [1d20=20]
Jul 27 20:00:57 <Nikkolai>   roll 1d20+8+5
Jul 27 20:00:58 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Nikkolai rolls 1d20+8+5 and gets 28." [1d20=15]
Jul 27 20:01:11 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+7 Yulia
Jul 27 20:01:12 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 Yulia and gets 17." [1d20=10]
Jul 27 20:01:17 <Knight>   roll 1d20+1
Jul 27 20:01:18 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+7 ghostly thing
Jul 27 20:01:18 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+1 and gets 13." [1d20=12]
Jul 27 20:01:19 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 ghostly thing and gets 24." [1d20=17]
Jul 27 20:02:03 *   Kotono has changed the topic to: Adail=Nikkolai(28)>Ghost-shadow(24)>Mari(20)>Yulia(17)>Kam(16)>Knight(13)
Jul 27 20:02:06 <Kotono>   OOC: Go ADail and Nikkolai.
Jul 27 20:03:09 *   Nikkolai sends a large orb of crackling electricity at the ghostly shadow!
Jul 27 20:03:14 <Nikkolai>   roll 1d20+9 TA
Jul 27 20:03:16 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Nikkolai rolls 1d20+9 TA and gets 24." [1d20=15]
Jul 27 20:03:24 <Kotono>   OOC: Hit. Roll 1d100.
Jul 27 20:03:45 <Adail>   "It's a frozen Shadow! Don't let it touch you!" Adail dashes...towards the creature, snapping out a paw as he moved to pepper it with a Hunting Fang and hopefully get it's attention!(OOC: Moving, stoping ~10ft from it, throwing an MM. Any SR?)
Jul 27 20:04:07 <Adail>   roll 4d4+4 assuming no SR
Jul 27 20:04:08 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 4d4+4 assuming no SR and gets 19." [4d4=4, 3, 4, 4]
Jul 27 20:04:08 <Nikkolai>   roll 1d100 Also, target needs to make a fort save of 21 or be entangled, if applicable
Jul 27 20:04:09 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Nikkolai rolls 1d100 Also, target needs to make a fort save of 21 or be entangled, if applicable and gets 30." [1d100=30]
Jul 27 20:05:45 <Kotono>   The ice-chained shadow flickers as the orb passes through it! It blinks out, evading the attack entirely! A split second later Adail's hunting fangs hit it hard, making it pause in the air as it's chains crack and it's form writhes! But it's unstopped, pouncing at the celestial!
Jul 27 20:05:53 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+7 (+2 charge) touch AC, Adail?
Jul 27 20:05:54 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 (+2 charge) touch AC, Adail? and gets 13." [1d20=6]
Jul 27 20:06:22 <Adail>   OOC: 30 vs Evil. So yeah, lolno.
Jul 27 20:07:04 <Kotono>   The shadow wails in silent despair as Adail evades! It's chains rattle, yet soundless as well! Tears of solid, crystalline ice fall, like untouched gemstones on the icy floor below! OOC:Mari.
Jul 27 20:07:07 <Kamvakua>   "Can it be cut?" Kamvakua called out to Adail.
Jul 27 20:07:42 <Adail>   "With a magic weapon, maybe!" Adail hastily replies as he ducks, dodges and weaves.
Jul 27 20:08:09 *   Mari dashes in, positioning herself opposite Adail and slashing through the apparition!
Jul 27 20:08:28 <Mari>   roll 1d20+12+4+2 assuming flanking here
Jul 27 20:08:30 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d20+12+4+2 assuming flanking here and gets 20." [1d20=2]
Jul 27 20:08:31 <Kotono>   OOC: Hit. d100.
Jul 27 20:08:35 <Mari>   roll 1d100
Jul 27 20:08:36 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d100 and gets 44." [1d100=44]
Jul 27 20:08:57 <Kotono>   Mari's blade is quick, but the phantasm's body un-exists for a few moments, only air cut by Mari's slice! OOC: Yulia.
Jul 27 20:09:35 <Kotono>   Yulia raises up, "Go to rest!" she almost shrieks, a set of missiles flying!
Jul 27 20:09:45 <Kotono>   roll 3d4+3
Jul 27 20:09:45 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 3d4+3 and gets 9." [3d4=2, 2, 2]
Jul 27 20:10:51 <Kotono>   With three more missiles hitting it, the chains of ice shatter! It's shadowy body dissipates like cold mist over a churning sea. A faraway, sobbing voice can be heard very distantly, "It's...warm!" before the shadow vanishes entirely. All that is left are it's crystalline-ice teardrops, glittering on the ground. OOC: Free act.
Jul 27 20:11:11 <Kamvakua>   "Fragile thankfully.  Hurry on the door, Knight, more might come."
Jul 27 20:11:40 *   Nikkolai blinks. "That was...surprisingly easy. Well done, bright one!"
Jul 27 20:11:54 <Knight>   "It would not seem their assaults would be limited by our position," notes Knight, returning to her ice-crunching work.
Jul 27 20:12:20 *   Adail picks up one of the icy tears, "Another cursed soul." His voice flat and near emotionless.
Jul 27 20:12:26 *   Mari kneels down, picks up a frozen teardrop and looks at it curiously. "Yeah. Let's hope the whole castle's population didn't turn into these things."
Jul 27 20:12:48 <Kotono>   "I did it?" Yulia blink-blinks, "Hey, did that put it to rest? You know, slay the ghost and it can move on?" The ice-teardrop resembles an unworked diamond, colder and brighter. Within it you can see your reflection myriad times.
Jul 27 20:13:07 *   Nikkolai eyes the tears grimly. "This Cyronax seems to have a lot to answer for."
Jul 27 20:13:32 <Nikkolai>   "If only I were stronger...perhaps I could make him burn for it."
Jul 27 20:13:40 <Mari>   "I think so, Yulia. It seemed relieved when it died."
Jul 27 20:13:44 *   Kamvakua picks up any other tears.  They can be checked out more later.
Jul 27 20:14:38 <Kotono>   There are four tears in total. Meanwhile Knight works, crushing the ice over the door and opening the way ahead!
Jul 27 20:15:12 <Kotono>   Yulia manages to smile, "It's a start! We still have to help the poor man stuck inside out there, but it's a start! Did Cyronax curse all the inhabitants to roam forever?"
Jul 27 20:15:46 <Knight>   "I don't know. I am not Cyronax," replies Knight, shoving the door open and peering through the gap. "Personally, I am seeing many good reasons to restrain ourselves from incurring his wrath."
Jul 27 20:16:05 <Mari>   "Maybe. Some of 'em roaming, some of 'em stuck places, some of 'em just deadn frozen. All of 'em miserable, no doubt."
Jul 27 20:16:55 *   Adail nods, "Perhaps. As a tactical note, by the way, should any more of these incorporeal undead appear, I'll try and draw their attention towards myself. They care not about armor or a thick hide, all they have to do is touch you to start sapping the life from you. Best leave that risk to me, as I wear no armor anyway."
Jul 27 20:17:10 *   Nikkolai follows Knight through carefully, muttering as he does so, "He might need to answer for his crimes...but I must agree with Knight. Pitting yourself against a vastly higher power than you is tantamount to suicide." He pauses. "As I've aptly demonstrated."
Jul 27 20:17:35 <Mari>   "Yeah. Let's all learn from Nik's mistakes."
Jul 27 20:17:38 <Kotono>   Ahead looks to be a long room running to both sides. Dozens of beds are about. Some of the are taken, frozen corpses lying there and on the floors. A door is ahead, as well as a few others dotted about. All of the corpses are servants, frozenly aslumber in death's cold hands.
Jul 27 20:18:25 <Knight>   "It's unfortunate we can't speak to any of these ones, though. They could have given us directions. We should be trying to find a study, or possibly a vault."
Jul 27 20:19:05 *   Mari walks down the corridor, eying the dead some unease. Given what they've seen so far, it feels like one of them could get up and attack any second. "Let's try straight through?" she says, pointing to the far door.
Jul 27 20:19:12 *   Nikkolai views the corpses with distaste. "Yes, directions would be very nice. But aren't there supposed to be servants' passages dotted around places like this?"
Jul 27 20:19:19 <Kamvakua>   "Adail, do you have any spells for such?" Kamvakua wondered.  Speaking beyond the afterlife wasn't impossible...but it was beyond him.
Jul 27 20:20:02 <Nikkolai>   "No noble would suffer servants to use the same passages as themselves. Surely we'll find some servants' walkways that lead to the important chambers in the palace."
Jul 27 20:20:03 <Adail>   "No. My clerical powers are...limited at best, you know that." Adail shakes his head and shrugs apologetically.
Jul 27 20:20:35 <Knight>   "They would be as mazelike as the main corridors," replies Knight, agreeing with Mari and heading for the further entrance.
Jul 27 20:21:34 <Kotono>   roll 1d100
Jul 27 20:21:35 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 46." [1d100=46]
Jul 27 20:21:54 <Nikkolai>   "I'd rather wander through the servant's quarters than try the main ways. Who knows what nasty creatures are guarding them?"
Jul 27 20:21:58 *   Adail is letting others pick the passageways, as he's being paranoid with keeping lookout!
Jul 27 20:23:57 <Kotono>   The door ahead opens! Ahead looks to be a moderately sized kitchen, all frozen over. The hearth is cold as ice, a bag of grains lies spilled and frozen on the floor. But despite the cold, someone cooks at the fires! A maid dressed impeccably tends to a ghostly, flickering cold-blue fire. Her skin is pallid, bloodless. She turns as you enter, a happy smile without any malice at all. "Oh ho ho! Visitors, all the way in the servant's quarters!" I
Jul 27 20:24:03 <Kotono>    "Oh ho ho! Visitors, all the way in the servant's quarters!" It puts a white hand to it's mouth, hiding chuckles. "How naughty of you! You shouldn't be back here!"
Jul 27 20:24:28 <Knight>   "Uh... sorry? We're uncertain in our direction," replies Knight, stopping abruptly.
Jul 27 20:25:34 <Nikkolai>   "We're a little lost." Nikkolai agreed with Knight. "Perhaps you could point us along and we'll be on our merry way and out of your domain, mistress?" Nikkolai is almost hopeful that this shade is harmless.
Jul 27 20:25:40 <Mari>   "We just sort of picked a door and blundered around. If we're not supposed to be here, uh, don't mind us, we'll just shuffle on out?"
Jul 27 20:25:52 <Kotono>   "Are you?" With a frozen smile and a mouth full of ice-teeth, "Fu, fu, fu...if you're sorry, bow and offer your apologies to the Father of all Cold. It's not my place to give you forgiveness."
Jul 27 20:28:00 <Mari>   roll 1d20+13 K:P is that Cyronax?
Jul 27 20:28:01 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d20+13 K:P is that Cyronax? and gets 20." [1d20=7]
Jul 27 20:28:48 <Adail>   roll 1d20+10 who/what is the Father of all Cold, yeah
Jul 27 20:28:49 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d20+10 who/what is the Father of all Cold, yeah and gets 27." [1d20=17]
Jul 27 20:29:16 <Knight>   Knight inclines her head. "My most heartfelt apologies to the, er, coldfather," she responds.
Jul 27 20:29:23 <Nikkolai_>   roll 1d20+14 K:P
Jul 27 20:29:23 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Nikkolai_ rolls 1d20+14 K:P and gets 15." [1d20=1]
Jul 27 20:29:30 <Mari>   "Oh, sure," Mari bows, perfectly politely! "Our apologies to Cyronax, we didn't mean to walk into his kitchen. We'll go elsewhere posthaste if you tell else a little about the layout of this place?"
Jul 27 20:30:02 *   Adail bows politely but says nothing, still more focused on keeping watch then anything else.
Jul 27 20:30:06 <Kotono>   With the slightest chill to her voice, "Oh no, I said BOW." The last is with a completely content smile, "Grovel before him."
Jul 27 20:30:38 <Knight>   "Bowing is one thing. Genuflection is another," replies Knight, frowning.
Jul 27 20:31:01 <Nikkolai>   "I'm afraid, mistress, that I'll grovel before no one. Least of all a lord who clearly does not deserve the title."
Jul 27 20:31:05 <Mari>   "Yeah. Since you asked so nicely, how about no?"
Jul 27 20:31:15 <Nikkolai>   "I will show respect, but no more."
Jul 27 20:32:04 *   Kamvakua looks over her, detecting evil.
Jul 27 20:32:08 <Kotono>   "Oh, it's marvelous!" Now her face contorts, ice spreading from her lips to cover her nose, chin and eyes. It's an ice like claws, "I did...and now all the servants obey me!" She makes a little piroette, then stops and scowls. "Tsk, tsk, tsk. You're like all the others, too haughty to know your place. Would you like to see what happens to those who don't respect the Father of all Cold?"
Jul 27 20:32:47 <Kamvakua>   "Oh, so would that mean if you weren't here, the servants would be aimless?"
Jul 27 20:32:55 <Mari>   "I'm guessing they wind up frozen on the floor like all those bodies back there?"
Jul 27 20:33:15 <Nikkolai>   "Or perhaps...they'd be set free." Nikkolai suggests softly.
Jul 27 20:33:43 <Kotono>   "That's only half of it! Come on out, Lance!" The maid snaps her fingers...but nothing happens! The maid cocks her head to the side, "Freedom? A stupid idea...but it seems something happened to dear Lance! I sent him to keep a watch on you but he doesn't seem to be around now!"
Jul 27 20:34:00 <Mari>   "Oh, so that was his name?"
Jul 27 20:34:19 <Adail>   "Would that have been the Shadow?" Adail inquires.
Jul 27 20:35:04 <Kamvakua>   roll 1d20+2 init for stabbing at face while she's distracted?
Jul 27 20:35:04 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 1d20+2 init for stabbing at face while she's distracted? and gets 19." [1d20=17]
Jul 27 20:35:12 <Nikkolai>   "Those who find freedom stupid or distasteful...certainly do not deserve it. Are these poor souls your slaves?"
Jul 27 20:35:12 <Kotono>   Now a deeper scowl shows, "Ah, so you did meet him. How rude! That was MY servant! Cyronax gave him to me!" Now a wave of pure cold erupts from the maid, so much that it staggers you! "You won't bow, you killed one of my servants! What am I going to do with all of you?"
Jul 27 20:35:39 <Knight>   "Perhaps we should reintroduce ourselves properly," replies Knight, tapping her sword. "We are bandits! Your castle's treasure shall be ours! It's you who should be grovelling to us to spare your... unlife... augh!"
Jul 27 20:35:50 <Mari>   "Hey, he attacked us first! What did you expect us to do to him?"
Jul 27 20:36:04 <Kotono>   OOC: I presume Kam's action was something overt to start hostilities, so roll init guys.
Jul 27 20:36:16 <Nikkolai>   roll 1d20+8
Jul 27 20:36:16 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Nikkolai rolls 1d20+8 and gets 11." [1d20=3]
Jul 27 20:36:19 <Mari>   roll 1d20+9
Jul 27 20:36:20 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d20+9 and gets 15." [1d20=6]
Jul 27 20:36:23 *   Adail stands firm against the cold, even as frost starts forming on his fur.
Jul 27 20:36:28 <Adail>   roll 1d20+8 initimative
Jul 27 20:36:29 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d20+8 initimative and gets 13." [1d20=5]
Jul 27 20:36:34 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+7 Yulia
Jul 27 20:36:35 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 Yulia and gets 17." [1d20=10]
Jul 27 20:36:39 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+10 maid
Jul 27 20:36:39 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 maid and gets 26." [1d20=16]
Jul 27 20:36:47 <Knight>   roll 1d20+1
Jul 27 20:36:47 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+1 and gets 7." [1d20=6]
Jul 27 20:37:38 *   Kotono has changed the topic to: Maid(26)>Yulia(17)>Mari(15)>Adail(13)>Nikkolai(11)>Knight(7)
Jul 27 20:37:51 <Kamvakua>   OOC: Kam at 19?  ^^;
Jul 27 20:38:02 *   Kotono has changed the topic to: Maid(26)>Kamvakua(19)>Yulia(17)>Mari(15)>Adail(13)>Nikkolai(11)>Knight(7)
Jul 27 20:40:56 *   Kotono has changed the topic to: Maid=S1=S2(26)>Kamvakua(19)>Yulia(17)>Mari(15)>Adail(13)>Nikkolai(11)>Knight(7)
Jul 27 20:41:03 <Kotono>   As Kamvakua raises his spear up, the maid is faster than an avalanche! She makes a little curtsy, "Oh, so that's how we're going to do it? How uncivilized! How rude!" Down into the floor she sinks, out of sight! As she does, "Servants, punish them!" Rising up from where she was are two shadows with chains of ice! OOC: They function as summons so they go immediately.
Jul 27 20:42:13 <Kotono>   roll 1d6
Jul 27 20:42:14 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 and gets 3." [1d6=3]
Jul 27 20:42:21 <Kotono>   The first shadow howls silently, darting for Mari and reaching out to touch her!
Jul 27 20:42:29 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+7 (+2 charge) AC Mari?
Jul 27 20:42:30 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 (+2 charge) AC Mari? and gets 23." [1d20=16]
Jul 27 20:42:33 <Kotono>   OOC: Touch AC, I mean.
Jul 27 20:42:41 <Mari>   OOC: not that.
Jul 27 20:42:56 <Mari>   OOC: 16, yeah. fsk
Jul 27 20:43:19 <Kotono>   roll 1d6 dex damage you hate this, I'm sure.
Jul 27 20:43:19 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 dex damage you hate this, I'm sure. and gets 5." [1d6=5]
Jul 27 20:44:12 <Kotono>   Mari is touched on her arm, immediately feeling stiff and slow! Her entire body loses it's heat, as the shadow makes a faintly heard cry of triumph! "W-arm!" The second shadow...
Jul 27 20:44:13 <Kotono>   roll 1d6
Jul 27 20:44:14 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 and gets 5." [1d6=5]
Jul 27 20:44:20 <Kotono>   Goes for Nikkolai like a bullet!
Jul 27 20:44:30 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+7 (+2 charge) flatfooted touch AC this probably is going to hit.
Jul 27 20:44:31 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 (+2 charge) flatfooted touch AC this probably is going to hit. and gets 24." [1d20=17]
Jul 27 20:44:36 <Kotono>   roll 1d6 dex damage, yeah that's a hit.
Jul 27 20:44:36 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 dex damage, yeah that's a hit. and gets 5." [1d6=5]
Jul 27 20:46:11 <Kotono>   Nikkolai is touched on the chest, his vision turning to frost and agony spreading over him! This shadow smiles, it's chains strengthening! "H...eat!" it whispers! OOC: Kam, go. Mari and Nikkolai, note your dex in #elysium after the damage.
Jul 27 20:47:42 *   Kamvakua goes around one, being cautious as he positions it between him and mari, striking carefully at its back, his posture mobile and defensive. OOC: Fighting defensively.
Jul 27 20:47:54 <Kamvakua>   roll 1d20+17-4+2
Jul 27 20:47:54 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 1d20+17-4+2 and gets 30." [1d20=15]
Jul 27 20:48:01 <Kamvakua>   roll 1d100 go luck
Jul 27 20:48:02 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 1d100 go luck and gets 88." [1d100=88]
Jul 27 20:48:05 <Kotono>   OOC: Hit. Damage.
Jul 27 20:48:17 <Kamvakua>   roll 3d6+10+2d6 (Holy)
Jul 27 20:48:19 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 3d6+10+2d6 (Holy) and gets 31." [3d6=6, 2, 5][2d6=3, 5]
Jul 27 20:48:52 *   Kotono has changed the topic to: Maid=S2(26)>Kamvakua(19)>Yulia(17)>Mari(15)>Adail(13)>Nikkolai(11)>Knight(7)
Jul 27 20:49:13 <Kotono>   The shadow is pierced by the holy spear! It's body breaks apart, a sign of relief as it fades away! OOC: Yulia's up, holding for the moment depending. go Mari.
Jul 27 20:49:41 <Knight>   "Shoot them, Yulia!" growls Knight. "Why aren't you shooting them?!"
Jul 27 20:50:17 *   Mari closes with the one attacking Nikkolai, teeth chattering as she swings away. OOC: not close enough for an FA, I take it, so single attack.
Jul 27 20:50:29 <Kotono>   "I can only do this a few times! I'm lining up a shot before it attacks again!" Yulia calls back! OOC: Okay.
Jul 27 20:50:42 <Mari>   roll 1d20+12-3 for dex damage
Jul 27 20:50:43 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d20+12-3 for dex damage and gets 17." [1d20=8]
Jul 27 20:50:48 <Kotono>   OOC: Hit. d100.
Jul 27 20:50:53 <Mari>   roll 1d100
Jul 27 20:50:54 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d100 and gets 39." [1d100=39]
Jul 27 20:51:16 <Kotono>   Mari surges forward, frozen body slicing...but the image flickers in and out, fading away as the blade hits but misses! OOC: Bummer. Adail.
Jul 27 20:52:27 *   Adail snaps a Hunting Fang at the shadow in passing, as he rushes around it and closes with the maid, using his small size to move mush closer then she'd like in an attempt to be in position to disrupt anything she does next!(MM at the shadow, moving INTO the Maid's square, so she can AoO me if she wants)
Jul 27 20:52:34 <Adail>   roll 4d4+4 hunting fang
Jul 27 20:52:35 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 4d4+4 hunting fang and gets 15." [4d4=3, 3, 2, 3]
Jul 27 20:53:23 <Kotono>   The Maid's hand reaches up out of the floor as Adail comes to the floor above her!
Jul 27 20:53:28 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+17 AC?
Jul 27 20:53:29 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 AC? and gets 28." [1d20=11]
Jul 27 20:53:59 <Kotono>   As magic missiles slam the phantasm and make it's chains rustle and crack, Adail hops out of the way of her reaching hand! It falls back into the floor and through it, out of sight again! OOC: Nikkolai.
Jul 27 20:54:02 <Adail>   OOC: 30 touch, if she's evil. 34 normal.
Jul 27 20:55:03 *   Nikkolai gasps and winces at the phantasm's touch, activating his cloak's flaming defense even as he throws out a barrage of magic missiles!
Jul 27 20:55:38 <Nikkolai>   roll 1d6+7 fire damage
Jul 27 20:55:39 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Nikkolai rolls 1d6+7 fire damage and gets 13." [1d6=6]
Jul 27 20:55:54 <Nikkolai>   roll 5d4+5 MM
Jul 27 20:55:54 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Nikkolai rolls 5d4+5 MM and gets 20." [5d4=4, 1, 2, 4, 4]
Jul 27 20:56:50 <Kotono>   Between flames and missiles, the image breaks apart! It fades away, sighing in profound joy! OOC: Knight. No visible enemies at the moment.
Jul 27 20:56:54 *   Kotono has changed the topic to: Maid26)>Kamvakua(19)>Yulia(17)>Mari(15)>Adail(13)>Nikkolai(11)>Knight(7)
Jul 27 20:58:11 <Nikkolai>   "SHADE! ARE YOU TOO COWARDLY TO FACE US HEAD ON!? OR WILL YOU SEE YOUR SERVANTS FREED ONE BY ONE BY US!?"
Jul 27 20:58:33 <Knight>   "You can't hide from me! Gem!" yells Knight, cutting a circular hole in the floor from whence the hand did spring!
Jul 27 20:58:55 <Kotono>   OOC: To hit roll to see if you don't hilarious roll a 1.
Jul 27 20:59:15 <Knight>   roll 1d20+10 pa -lots!1
Jul 27 20:59:16 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+10 pa -lots!1 and gets 17." [1d20=7]
Jul 27 20:59:25 <Kotono>   OOC: Damage.
Jul 27 21:00:13 <Knight>   roll 1d10+21
Jul 27 21:00:13 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d10+21 and gets 27." [1d10=6]
Jul 27 21:02:26 <Kotono>   The floor below shatters! A hole is now carved out - you can see the upper body of the maid! She blinks and looks up, batting away debris! "How com pletely unacceptable! I had my servants clean this floor but yesterday! Ho ho ho! This is going to be a serious fight!" The maid winks at Knight and then blows her a kiss! "See you back by the entryway, we'll play there!" She then dives into the ground and out of sight! OOC: Knight, you and Adail c
Jul 27 21:02:30 <Kotono>   She then dives into the ground and out of sight! OOC: Knight, you and Adail can try AoOs on her as she flees since she's exposed now.
Jul 27 21:02:57 <Knight>   roll 1d20+10 I can do this PA thing
Jul 27 21:02:58 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+10 I can do this PA thing and gets 15." [1d20=5]
Jul 27 21:03:07 <Adail>   roll 1d20+18 AoO
Jul 27 21:03:08 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d20+18 AoO and gets 37." [1d20=19]
Jul 27 21:03:22 <Kotono>   OOC: Adail hits, d100. Knight misses, PA overdose ect.
Jul 27 21:03:30 <Adail>   d100 high hits
Jul 27 21:03:31 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls d100 high hits and gets 47." [d100=47]
Jul 27 21:04:49 <Kotono>   But the ghost is too quick! Knight's second blow is too slow, while Adail's goes right through her! OOC: Kam, you're up, go ahead.
Jul 27 21:05:52 <Kotono>   OCO: Go ahead and free act, actually.
Jul 27 21:06:26 <Kamvakua>   "So...shall we explore the rest of the building while she waits up front with her trap?"
Jul 27 21:06:46 <Kamvakua>   "Are you two alright?" Kamvakua eyed the two that had gotten touched.
Jul 27 21:06:46 <Adail>   "The entrance..." Adail sighs, "Shes probably going to let the dread wraith out."
Jul 27 21:07:44 <Mari>   "NO. Hells, I'm all stiff and just...ugh! Feel heavy, can't swing my swords well any more."
Jul 27 21:08:17 *   Nikkolai grimaces. "This is becoming highly annoying, very quickly." He commented in a sour tone. "I'm fine, I suppose. I say we try to beat her back to the entrance and kill her before she rouses the entire castle after us."
Jul 27 21:08:37 <Knight>   "How can we beat her back to the entrance when she can go through the walls? I say we should press onwards," replies Knight, frowning.
Jul 27 21:08:59 <Knight>   "She would likely expect us to chase her and bait us into some kind of trap. Let us not do as she wishes."
Jul 27 21:09:01 <Nikkolai>   "Would you rather her be dogging our every step, Knight?"
Jul 27 21:09:11 <Kamvakua>   "Let's see...I'll see if I can help, Fharlanghn release upon her binds," Kamvakua attempted to heal her.
Jul 27 21:09:15 <Kamvakua>   roll 1d4 Lesser Rest
Jul 27 21:09:17 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 1d4 Lesser Rest and gets 1." [1d4=1]
Jul 27 21:09:36 <Kotono>   Mari's body feels marginally better, but the cold still bitterly clings to her.
Jul 27 21:09:37 <Nikkolai>   "What's done is done. We need to kill her or our stay here will be that much more unpleasant."
Jul 27 21:09:42 <Mari>   "Kill her now. One, she's a bitch. Two, she can send others after us if we don't stop her now and might if she gets bored. Three, killing her might free the others. ...Ah, thanks Kam."
Jul 27 21:09:49 <Mari>   "And four, she's a bitch," Mari adds.
Jul 27 21:10:07 *   Nikkolai shrugs. "Can't argue with that logic."
Jul 27 21:10:38 <Kamvakua>   "...Head for danger rather than let danger head for us...well, if we want to do that, we should hurry before she readies her trap."
Jul 27 21:10:43 <Kotono>   "Five, she's a filthy bitch who sounds like she sold out the other servants!" Yulia sing-songs, "We can't run away from evil like that if we can stop it! I know it might be a trap Knight, but we just have to! We're the good guys, aren't we? We aren't the uncaring, apathetic evil that makes problems in bard's tales and then doesn't help fix it?"
Jul 27 21:11:12 <Adail>   "I have one such spell as well, but..." Adail shakes his head, "I'm going to save it, in case something that drains your very life, such as that wraith, comes along. I'm sorry, but I only have the one."
Jul 27 21:11:22 <Knight>   "If she is at the front of the castle, that is the opposite to dogging our steps. As you can see, she can escape easily at any time, and is not easily slain," replies Knight, pressing a hand to her head. "This is about what we can do, rather than what we should do."
Jul 27 21:11:28 <Nikkolai>   "It is not only practical, Knight...but the right thing to do." Nikk adds quietly.
Jul 27 21:11:43 <Knight>   "How do we defeat an opponent who can seep through the walls? How do we stop her alerting the rest of the castle if she so chooses? I don't have answers for this."
Jul 27 21:12:11 <Mari>   "I dunno, Knight, but the more time she HAS to alert the castle, the worse things get for us."
Jul 27 21:12:19 <Nikkolai>   "As I said, it's better to try than have her bring down the entire castle on us anyway."
Jul 27 21:12:25 <Adail>   "We will have to face her regardless, either now or as we leave, already depleted from whatever else lies within here."
Jul 27 21:12:52 *   Nikkolai nods, agreeing with Adail. "Knight, surely you see the sense in what we're saying."
Jul 27 21:13:44 <Knight>   "I see our opponent rushing to the gates when the thief is already within the walls," replies Knight, dimly. "Normally I would agree that any enemy we meet should be destroyed, but in this case I simply cannot see a practical method. If you have a solution, I am listening."
Jul 27 21:13:45 <Adail>   "Of course, on the other hand, this is a good opportunity to try and find our objective while she's waiting for us at the entrance."
Jul 27 21:14:44 <Mari>   "Stabbing worked with the other ones. Sort of."
Jul 27 21:16:03 <Adail>   "It would need to be a timed and concerted strike...perhaps if we baited her, waited for her to attack us then all struck at once, we could overwhelm and destroy her before she could flee again?" Adail suggests. "It's not a perfect plan, but I'm not really a strategist."
Jul 27 21:17:34 <Mari>   "Make our way back to the entrance--slowly, carefully, quietly, try and see her before she sees us so we can prepare something? I mean, I'd rather just run up and stab her face in, but whatever works for other people. Standing her gets us nowhere, though."
Jul 27 21:17:44 <Mari>   *standing here
Jul 27 21:17:52 <Kamvakua>   "Well, we shouldn't waste time.  If we do, she'll have more readied there."  Kamvakua noted, though he was somewhat indecisive as well.  It smelled of a trap, but it worked just as well as one if they ignored her as they'd have to pass that ay when coming back.
Jul 27 21:19:20 <Knight>   "Perhaps we would be best of watching her and waiting, rather than striking, then. Eventually she may become bored and give up her vigil- that would be the time to attack." Knight rubs her head. "It makes me uncomfortable, but she didn't seem that bright. Perhaps we can rely on her to be more foolish than ourselves."
Jul 27 21:20:06 <Mari>   "She seemed to know we were coming, so I wouldn't hold out much hope of her losing track of us."
Jul 27 21:20:37 *   Nikkolai shakes his head, sighing. "I fear that is a very foolish idea. Our best bet is an all out attack. Or at least some variation of what Adail suggested."
Jul 27 21:20:42 <Knight>   "What? No she didn't."
Jul 27 21:21:30 <Kotono>   "Whatever we do," Yulia says, "We should do it soon and not wait forever. What if she comes back while she's talking and she brings more shadows?"
Jul 27 21:22:01 <Mari>   "She said she sent that ghost to keep an eye on us, didn't she?"
Jul 27 21:22:44 <Mari>   "Whatever, if no one else is making a decision, I'm doing it. Let's go!" Mari turns to march back down the long room they came through.
Jul 27 21:22:53 <Knight>   "Ah, I suppose that is an issue. Their reporting cannot be instantaneous, but if we are already being watched then deception is pointless," mutters Knight, dismally. "Very well."
Jul 27 21:22:58 *   Kamvakua followed Mari, heading back with her.
Jul 27 21:23:14 *   Adail hops up on Kam's shoulder, keeping an eye out for any spying shadows along the way
Jul 27 21:23:26 <Kotono>   Yulia flutters to Knight as they go out, "If it makes you feel any better, Queen Morwel surely approves!" OOC: Make spot all.
Jul 27 21:23:27 *   Nikkolai rolls his eyes and follows, muttering about women and their inability to come to a timely decision.
Jul 27 21:23:45 <Mari>   roll 1d20+12 spot
Jul 27 21:23:45 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d20+12 spot and gets 31." [1d20=19]
Jul 27 21:23:46 <Knight>   roll 1d20+1 what are you talking about, I decided <_<
Jul 27 21:23:47 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+1 what are you talking about, I decided <_< and gets 21." [1d20=20]
Jul 27 21:23:49 <Adail>   roll 1d20+10 also blindsense 60(?)ft
Jul 27 21:23:50 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d20+10 also blindsense 60(?)ft and gets 25." [1d20=15]
Jul 27 21:23:54 <Nikkolai>   roll 1d20
Jul 27 21:23:55 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Nikkolai rolls 1d20 and gets 17." [1d20=17]
Jul 27 21:24:20 <Adail>   OOC: Adail is wanting to stop and cast a spell just before we reach the entrance area, as a note.
Jul 27 21:24:34 <Kamvakua>   roll 1d20+12
Jul 27 21:24:35 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 1d20+12 and gets 20." [1d20=8]
Jul 27 21:24:43 <Kotono>   The party races back to the door to the entryway. You don't see any waiting shadows or anything as you come out.
Jul 27 21:26:11 *   Adail incantates a spell that may help them resist the blows of the shadows, right before the reach the entrance! (OOC: Divine Protection. +1 morale bonus to AC and all saves. Lasts 4 minutes)
Jul 27 21:26:13 *   Mari pauses at the door to uncork and down her potion of protection from cold.
Jul 27 21:26:27 <Knight>   Knight slugs back a potion of protection and glances around.
Jul 27 21:26:46 <Kotono>   The servant's hallway is as you left it, down to the frozen maid and butler.
Jul 27 21:27:15 *   Nikkolai also downs a potion of cold resist!
Jul 27 21:27:33 <Mari>   "Right. Outside and let's see what she's got waiting for us." Mari opens and peers out the front door.
Jul 27 21:29:39 <Kotono>   Peering outside, you see the coldfire fountain 80 feet away is now occupied! Standing in front it in a perfect line are four shadows in chains! Each one groans silently! Floating above the tip of the coldwater fountain is the maid! She curties as you open the door, "Ah, you at least have enough refinement to answer a challenge! Now then, 5 on 6 is more reasonable odds. A worthy chastisement is coming for all of you! You have disrespected my au
Jul 27 21:29:43 <Kotono>   A worthy chastisement is coming for all of you! You have disrespected my authority and disrespected the Father of all Cold! You must be punished in the name of Cyronax!" She poitns at all of you in the last!
Jul 27 21:31:12 <Nikkolai>   "At least she plays 'fair'." Nikkolai said in a dry tone.
Jul 27 21:31:28 <Adail>   "Nik? Now's a great time to cast fireball." Adail deadpans.
Jul 27 21:32:14 <Mari>   "Come on down here face to face and I'll disrespect you good and proper!" Mari calls out.
Jul 27 21:32:16 <Nikkolai>   "I do agree with you, sir mouse." And with that, Nikkolai hurls the small bead of flame at the maid and the wraiths!
Jul 27 21:32:20 <Kotono>   "Now then!" The maid points, "Let us go to victory! Punish them, my servants!" With a grand call, the four shadows fly ahead at you! OOC: Yes, let's go to init, it's obvious this is gonna be a throwdown. If it wasn't obvious to you I think you need to brush up on violence 101.
Jul 27 21:32:37 <Nikkolai>   roll 1d20+8+5
Jul 27 21:32:38 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Nikkolai rolls 1d20+8+5 and gets 28." [1d20=15]
Jul 27 21:32:38 <Knight>   roll 1d20+1 I like dex damage do you guys like dex damage
Jul 27 21:32:39 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+1 I like dex damage do you guys like dex damage and gets 17." [1d20=16]
Jul 27 21:32:48 <Adail>   roll 1d20+8 initimative!
Jul 27 21:32:48 <Mari>   roll 1d20+9-2 dex penalty augh
Jul 27 21:32:48 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d20+8 initimative! and gets 23." [1d20=15]
Jul 27 21:32:48 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d20+9-2 dex penalty augh and gets 25." [1d20=18]
Jul 27 21:32:49 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+7 Yulia
Jul 27 21:32:49 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 Yulia and gets 18." [1d20=11]
Jul 27 21:32:51 <Kamvakua>   roll 1d20+2
Jul 27 21:32:51 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 1d20+2 and gets 14." [1d20=12]
Jul 27 21:33:08 <Kotono>   OOC: Nikkolai/Mari, remember that the dex damage reduces your init in kind since init is basically a dex check.
Jul 27 21:33:16 <Mari>   OOC; noted it in the roll
Jul 27 21:33:24 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+7 S1
Jul 27 21:33:24 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+7 S2
Jul 27 21:33:24 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+7 S3
Jul 27 21:33:24 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 S1 and gets 15." [1d20=8]
Jul 27 21:33:25 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+7 S4
Jul 27 21:33:25 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 S2 and gets 18." [1d20=11]
Jul 27 21:33:26 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 S3 and gets 20." [1d20=13]
Jul 27 21:33:26 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 S4 and gets 18." [1d20=11]
Jul 27 21:33:30 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+10 Mad
Jul 27 21:33:31 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 Mad and gets 17." [1d20=7]
Jul 27 21:33:33 <Kotono>   *Maid
Jul 27 21:34:48 *   Kotono has changed the topic to: Nik=Mari(25)>Adail(23)>Yulia(18)>Knight(17)>Kam(14
Jul 27 21:35:11 <Mari>   OOC: Nik got 26 counting the dex penalty, shouldn't he be before me?
Jul 27 21:35:18 *   Kotono has changed the topic to: Nik=Mari(25)>Adail(23)>S3(20)>Yulia=S2=S4(18)>Knight=Maid(17)>S1(15)>Kam(14)
Jul 27 21:35:34 <Kotono>   OOC: 18-5 is 13, which is from +4 dex to +1 dex, right?
Jul 27 21:35:42 <Mari>   OOC: oh, derp, you're right.
Jul 27 21:35:55 <Kotono>   OOC: Nikkolai'n'Mari luv-luv hour opens. Go.
Jul 27 21:36:00 <Mari>   OOC: Nik can act before me anyway, my action may depend on who's still alive
Jul 27 21:36:19 <Kotono>   OOC: Okay, go for it Nikkolai. Fry 'em or go down trying.
Jul 27 21:36:23 <Nikkolai>   roll 10d6*1.5 COME ON, BABY! FRY ME SOME MUNSTERS!
Jul 27 21:36:24 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Nikkolai rolls 10d6*1.5 COME ON, BABY! FRY ME SOME MUNSTERS! and gets 51." [10d6=4, 5, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 1]
Jul 27 21:36:33 <Kotono>   OOC: d100.
Jul 27 21:36:40 <Nikkolai>   roll 1d100
Jul 27 21:36:42 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Nikkolai rolls 1d100 and gets 59." [1d100=59]
Jul 27 21:37:01 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+8 DC for ref saves? S1
Jul 27 21:37:01 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+8 DC for ref saves? S2
Jul 27 21:37:02 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 DC for ref saves? S1 and gets 15." [1d20=7]
Jul 27 21:37:02 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 DC for ref saves? S2 and gets 25." [1d20=17]
Jul 27 21:37:03 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+8 DC for ref saves? S3
Jul 27 21:37:03 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+8 DC for ref saves? S4
Jul 27 21:37:03 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 DC for ref saves? S3 and gets 26." [1d20=18]
Jul 27 21:37:03 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 DC for ref saves? S4 and gets 19." [1d20=11]
Jul 27 21:37:07 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+13 maid
Jul 27 21:37:08 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 maid and gets 17." [1d20=4]
Jul 27 21:37:33 *   Kotono has changed the topic to: Nik=Mari(25)>Adail(23)>Yulia(18)>Knight=Maid(17)>Kam(14)
Jul 27 21:37:47 <Kotono>   OOC: Doesn't matter for the shadows with their HP, but it does matter for the maid.
Jul 27 21:38:27 <Kotono>   OOC: For logging math, all of thema re vulnerable to fire so this is m-m-m-mega damage.
Jul 27 21:38:46 <Nikkolai>   OOC: Oh derp. DC 19
Jul 27 21:39:09 <Kotono>   The pure, hot fire burns away the shadows into restful relief! The maid is caught flat-footed, burnt! Her face chars, a scream as she staggers in the air! OOC: MAri, go.
Jul 27 21:41:53 <Kamvakua>   OOC: x1.5 for the fire stuff
Jul 27 21:42:01 <Mari>   "Like that, bitch? There's more down here waiting for you! Just come down and get it!" Mari closes half the distance between her and the maid, calling for the winds to protect her as she does so. (OOC: move 40 ft, AD/full defense)
Jul 27 21:42:11 <Kotono>   OOC: Okay. Adail.
Jul 27 21:43:19 *   Adail springs off Kam's shoulder, snapping his hand out as he goes to send a barrage of darts at the maid, "Hunting Fang!" (OOC: Move 40ft up, throwing an MM on the way~)
Jul 27 21:43:23 <Adail>   roll 4d4+4
Jul 27 21:43:24 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 4d4+4 and gets 17." [4d4=4, 4, 3, 2]
Jul 27 21:46:05 <Kotono>   The magic missiles get her but good, her maid's dress suddenly turning bloody! Icy blood drips off, her face breaking open! Screaming, her hands reach up and tear at her face! She throws away chunks of frozen flesh by the fistful! Her skull can be seen, twisting into a smile as shards of frozen bone break off! "IMPROPER! RUDE! GAUCHE! I WILL PUNISH YOU ALL FOR THIS FILTHY FIRE AND LACK OF MANNERS!"
Jul 27 21:46:24 <Kotono>   FIRE AND LACK OF MANNERS!" OOC: All of you need to make will saves. Bonuses against fear apply.
Jul 27 21:46:40 <Adail>   OOC: remember +1 for Divine Protection!
Jul 27 21:46:42 <Mari>   roll 1d20+7 I hate will saves
Jul 27 21:46:43 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d20+7 I hate will saves and gets 18." [1d20=11]
Jul 27 21:46:43 <Knight>   OOC: would we act simultaneously?
Jul 27 21:46:49 <Mari>   OOC: okay, +1 if it matters
Jul 27 21:46:53 <Kamvakua>   roll 1d20+11
Jul 27 21:46:54 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kamvakua rolls 1d20+11 and gets 15." [1d20=4]
Jul 27 21:46:54 <Adail>   roll 1d20+18 will
Jul 27 21:46:55 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 1d20+18 will and gets 27." [1d20=9]
Jul 27 21:46:56 <Kotono>   OOC: Yes, but Yulia's up before you.
Jul 27 21:47:04 <Knight>   OOC: Hrm.
Jul 27 21:47:05 <Kamvakua>   OOC: +2
Jul 27 21:47:06 <Kotono>   OOC: This is a triggered effect and not something on her turn.
Jul 27 21:47:07 <Knight>   roll 1d20+13
Jul 27 21:47:07 <Nikkolai>   roll 1d20+14 Hoo booy
Jul 27 21:47:07 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+13 and gets 22." [1d20=9]
Jul 27 21:47:08 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Nikkolai rolls 1d20+14 Hoo booy and gets 17." [1d20=3]
Jul 27 21:47:20 <Knight>   roll 1d20+10 I'm riding a mammoth
Jul 27 21:47:21 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+10 I'm riding a mammoth and gets 29." [1d20=19]
Jul 27 21:47:45 <Kamvakua>   OOC: + KoS!  +1 more
Jul 27 21:48:36 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+9
Jul 27 21:48:37 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 24." [1d20=15]
Jul 27 21:48:52 <Kotono>   Terror spreads at her visage! Kamvakua, Mari and Nikkolai's will shatters! OOC: You three are frightened for one round. See #elysium. Yulia's up.
Jul 27 21:50:00 <Kotono>   Yulia grimaces and whimpers, but advances within 30ft! She gestures, magic missiles flying, "Go to sleep!" she whimpers, "Things like you shouldn't exist here! Go to the Abyss hwere you belong!"
Jul 27 21:50:04 <Kotono>   roll 3d4+3
Jul 27 21:50:05 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 3d4+3 and gets 11." [3d4=1, 4, 3]
Jul 27 21:51:03 <Kotono>   The missiles hit the maid, breaking her left leg off! It crumbles into ice, which makes her cackle! "Unforgivable! Impropriety! Master Father of Cold, I'll make it better!" OOC: Knight, goa head and go, I'll resolve you two at once unless you wanna hold on ehr or something.
Jul 27 21:52:06 <Knight>   "Ah, to hell with you!" snarls Knight, kicking Tusky forward and lashing out towards the ghostly woman's face! Magic weapons are magic weapons, right?
Jul 27 21:52:21 <Knight>   roll 1d20+15 PA -6, charging, lance, etc
Jul 27 21:52:21 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d20+15 PA -6, charging, lance, etc and gets 26." [1d20=11]
Jul 27 21:52:28 <Knight>   roll 1d100 ?????
Jul 27 21:52:29 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Knight rolls 1d100 ????? and gets 46." [1d100=46]
Jul 27 21:53:29 <Kotono>   Knight is able to reach in, thrusting in hard! But the maid's body flickers, nulling the attack completely! She turns to Knight, flying down into the coldfire! It hides her body as she floats within it's flows!  From her outstretched hand a small ball of cold flies at Knight!
Jul 27 21:53:35 <Kotono>   roll 1d20+17 touch AC this probably hits.
Jul 27 21:53:35 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 touch AC this probably hits. and gets 29." [1d20=12]
Jul 27 21:53:40 <Knight>   OOC: It sure does
Jul 27 21:53:48 <Kotono>   roll 5d8 cold damage.
Jul 27 21:53:49 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 5d8 cold damage. and gets 31." [5d8=7, 6, 3, 7, 8]
Jul 27 21:54:07 <Kotono>   The orb catches Knight right in the arm, freezing it solidly through! OOC:  Kam, go. You're frightened this round.
Jul 27 21:55:39 *   Kamvakua leaps back away from the skull like creature, moving to the doorway they came out of in the palace, reflexively fleeing from the deathlike abomination.
Jul 27 21:56:04 <Kotono>   OOC: Okay. Nik and Mari, go. You're both in the same boat of Kam.
Jul 27 21:56:36 <Mari>   "AAAAAAHHHHHH!" Mari flees screaming to a far corner of the courtyard.
Jul 27 21:57:24 *   Nikkolai shivers in fear as he scrambles away from the monster, flinging himself at the nearest wall away from the battle!
Jul 27 21:57:42 <Kotono>   Half of the party retreats in pure horror from the abomination, running this way and that! OOC: ADail, go.
Jul 27 21:59:32 *   Adail snaps out his paw again, sending another quartet of darts at the ghostly maid as he races even closer, "My will is stronger then yours, wretched ghost! HUNTING FANG!" (OOC: move closer, but not getting too close to the coldfire fountain. MM)
Jul 27 21:59:40 <Adail>   roll 4d4+4 MM spaaaaaam
Jul 27 21:59:40 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Adail rolls 4d4+4 MM spaaaaaam and gets 13." [4d4=1, 3, 4, 1]
Jul 27 22:00:10 <Kotono>   This time, much of the ghost's hips shatter, it's other leg falling away! It's upper body continues to float in place, howling! Yulia joins Adail, shivering, "Go away!"
Jul 27 22:00:14 <Kotono>   roll 3d4+3
Jul 27 22:00:15 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Kotono rolls 3d4+3 and gets 11." [3d4=4, 1, 3]
Jul 27 22:02:16 <Kotono>   With another volley of missiles, the maid's chest and head breaka part! For a moment her skull lingers in place before it crumbles away, "Master...I groveled...why am I fading away?! It's not fair...!" The skull falls into the bottom of the coldfire, shattering! Lying in it's remnants is a simple, soft gold pendant in the shape of a star. OOC: Free act.
Jul 27 22:02:58 *   Adail scoops up the pendant, "Hmm. You expect the likes of HIM to aid a mere servent? Seems you didn't know your own master that well at all."
Jul 27 22:03:09 <Kotono>   OOC: Reaching into the coldfire to grab it, Adail?
Jul 27 22:03:55 <Knight>   Knight scoops up the pendant with her sword, rather than do anything like stick her hand into the burning cold. "That was far easier than I expected it to be," she notes, dryly.
Jul 27 22:03:59 <Adail>   OOC: ...actually, I probably don't have the reach for it. NP.
Jul 27 22:04:20 *   Mari shakes off her fearful trance and walks back to the center of the courtyard. "That was...ugh! But Yulia, you smited the evil ghost! That was great!"
Jul 27 22:04:42 <Kotono>   "It was!" Yulia stares, "Wooooow! I'm really getting stronger, aren't I? Hey listen...I really did that? I mean, most of it was done by Master's fireball or Adail's missiles, but..."
Jul 27 22:04:52 <Mari>   "You really did!"
Jul 27 22:05:01 <Kotono>   With her reachKnight is able to use her sword to scoop out the pendant. It's undamaged from the coldfire entirely.
Jul 27 22:05:10 <Kamvakua>   "You did...that was a wicked advent of death even..." Kamvakua shivered and shook the fear of the dead from his bones.
Jul 27 22:06:23 <Knight>   "Those missiles are the only thing that can reliably assault such. That contribution is vital," notes Knight, pocketing the pendant.
Jul 27 22:06:46 *   Nikkolai manages to shake off his terror and rejoins the others. "You'll be a legend among courres, Yulia! Slayer of Undead Cold Bitches and Assorted Minions!"
Jul 27 22:07:17 <Kotono>   "Wooow!" Yulia just blinks and then grins, "So we freed those poor souls and...wow!"
Jul 27 22:07:30 *   Mari wanders over to the door they'd entered through earlier and peeks inside, wondering if anything's going to be different about the frozen corpses now.
Jul 27 22:07:50 <Kotono>   The two corpses have crumbled away into piles of dust.
Jul 27 22:08:34 <Mari>   "The dead servants, they're gone!" she calls back for the others. "Everyone's free now, I think."
Jul 27 22:08:55 <Kamvakua>   "Is everyone alright?" Kamvakua eyed.  That'd gone amazingly smoothly.  More than he would've guessed.  "...that is good, I hope, but let's not lower our guard."
Jul 27 22:09:03 *   Adail shakes his head, "I doubt the wraith is yet. Perhaps we can free him after we get what we came for...though it's a hell of a risk."
Jul 27 22:09:30 <Mari>   "Let's look through this place and find what we came for first. If we're still in good shape when we come back...maybe."
Jul 27 22:10:07 *   Nikkolai eyes the shack in the corner of the courtyard. "Yes. We *shall* stop by on our way back." He states resolutely. "Let's be about our business."
Jul 27 22:10:15 <Kotono>   Yulia grins and settles onto Nikkolai's shoulders. "Which way now, then?"
Jul 27 22:10:32 <Mari>   "Want to try the main door this time?"
Jul 27 22:12:08 <Nikkolai>   "I still say that the servant's ways would be best. Less...conspicious than the main entrance."
Jul 27 22:12:31 <Knight>   "Now that the servants are free," considers Knight, "That may be best. There would be less chance of another ghostly ambush."
Jul 27 22:12:42 <Nikkolai>   "Indeed."
Jul 27 22:13:16 <Mari>   "The puppet master's gone, so I figure there's less ghosts to be watching us now, if any. Let's just head on in." Mari strides to the main door and tries to push it open.
Jul 27 22:14:43 *   Nikkolai shrugs. "There might be more here than just the 'puppet master'...but very well."
Jul 27 22:14:56 <Kotono>   Mari opens the front door! With a great creak it opens! Ahead is an iced over stone floor, an arching dome of dark ice above you. Very little light is here. It's an open hall about 30 feet long by 20 feet wide. At the far end is another door, this one carved with yeti and polar bears at battle. Against the wall with the door, spread out, are four large creatures. Each one is made of dark blue ice and more or less humanoid, made of ice and carv
Jul 27 22:15:01 <Kotono>   Each one is made of dark blue ice and more or less humanoid, made of ice and carved to look like they're wearing armor. Each one has white runs all over their bodies.
Jul 27 22:15:32 *   Nikkolai sighs. "Can I say that I told you so, now?"
Jul 27 22:16:21 <Mari>   "You're not qualified to say that for a long, long time, Nik. But you know what, maybe we should go around and take the other way." Are the creatures moving at all, or just guarding?
Jul 27 22:17:23 *   Adail peers carefully into the room, to see if the amulet, or his own vision, reveals anything not plain to the naked eye.
Jul 27 22:17:24 <Kotono>   They aren't moving or showing any signs of life at all.
Jul 27 22:18:10 <Nikkolai>   roll 1d20+17 K:A
Jul 27 22:18:12 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Nikkolai rolls 1d20+17 K:A and gets 37." [1d20=20]
Jul 27 22:22:32 *   Nikkolai frowns thoughtfully at the creatures. "Ice golems. They're pretty nasty pieces of work. Fire magic works best against them, obviously, and ice magic heals them. They're only hostile so long as we don't violate any of the instruction criteria set by their creator."
Jul 27 22:22:55 <Knight>   "Since we don't know what that is, perhaps seeking an alterate route is our best option."
Jul 27 22:23:02 <Nikkolai>   "If you must insist on us going forward, let myself or Adail go first."
Jul 27 22:23:09 <Mari>   "Then let's not find out what those instructions were and just go around them."
Jul 27 22:23:22 <Mari>   There were some other doors in that hall before the kitchen, Mari turns away to go try those.
Jul 27 22:23:33 *   Adail nods, "Agreed, yes." Adail follows Mari!
Jul 27 22:24:22 *   Nikkolai nods and follows!
Jul 27 22:24:36 <Kotono>   You return to the servant's quarters without incident. All the frozen servant shere are now piles of dust. About there are various doors - four more of them, here and there scattered about.
Jul 27 22:25:36 <Mari>   Do any of them look like they'd lead into the main building behind the room those golems were guarding? That sounds like the way to go.
Jul 27 22:26:23 <Kotono>   Two go back west, one goes north and one goes east.
Jul 27 22:26:42 *   Mari tries the closer westward door.
Jul 27 22:27:31 <Kotono>   Ahead is a small room. Frozen here is a garden - small little herb plants, a vine of blue tomatoes, that manner of thing. Ice-grass lies about, well maintained. A tree of ice with leaves of dewy frost is in one corner.
Jul 27 22:28:18 *   Mari looks around. Any other doors? Also: "This is weird. Does it look to anyone else like these plants grew out of ice, instead of being normal plants just frozen over?"
Jul 27 22:28:26 <Kamvakua>   "Surprising.  You'd think it'd be overgrown or destroyed, not maintained."
Jul 27 22:28:48 *   Mari bends to pick a tomato.
Jul 27 22:28:51 <Knight>   Knight absently reaches up to pluck one of the tomatoes. "We already know this place is inhabited," she points out.
Jul 27 22:28:52 <Kotono>   No other doors into this little hidden away garden. Yulia nods, "Um, maybe the maid-ghost kept it our something?"
Jul 27 22:29:03 <Kotono>   The tomato is ripe and fresh. Frozen juices strain against the skin.
Jul 27 22:29:11 <Adail>   "That does sound like the kind of think a maid would do..." Adail shrugs.
Jul 27 22:29:19 <Mari>   "Yeah, maybe so." Mari tries taking a bite--carefully, in case it's actually solid ice.
Jul 27 22:29:36 <Knight>   "Why would you- don't do that! What if it's food for ghosts, or something?!"
Jul 27 22:29:49 <Kotono>   Mari bites the tomato! It's pretty good, actually. Tastes like frozen tomato soup.
Jul 27 22:30:25 *   Mari swallows, smiles. "Hey, this is actually pretty good. And I don't feel weird or anything at all--"
Jul 27 22:30:29 <Mari>   roll 1d20+7 oh god will
Jul 27 22:30:30 <Hatbot>   
ACTION --> "Mari rolls 1d20+7 oh god will and gets 15." [1d20=8]
Jul 27 22:30:39 *   Nikkolai just shakes his head, used to Mari's fascination with consuming strange foods and drinks by now.
Jul 27 22:31:13 <Kamvakua>   "Mari?" Kamvakua eyed her trailing off mid bite.
Jul 27 22:32:20 <Mari>   "Hm." Mari hands the half-eaten tomato to Kam, walks over to the tree, and starts gnawing on the trunk.
Jul 27 22:32:25 <Nikkolai>   "When *will* the girl learn?" He asks rhetorically, even as he prepares for Mari to drop dead at his feet, no doubt killed by something cold.
Jul 27 22:32:43 <Kotono>   As Mari gets to gnawing, her tail wraps around! It's tip opens up into a mouth, starting to gnaw on the wood as well.
Jul 27 22:32:55 <Knight>   "Do you think we can just leave her here?" mutters Knight.
Jul 27 22:33:05 <Kotono>   Yulia starts to speak, tries, and just fails.
Jul 27 22:33:35 <Adail>   "Mari. That desire to eat anything is the yugoloth inside you growing. Fight it! Don't give into it, or it will grow faster!" Adail encourages her to shake it off hopefully!
Jul 27 22:33:38 <Kamvakua>   "...It's admittingly hard to comment when she starts eating the trees."  Kamvakua frowned.  "Mari, you can eat once we're done.
Jul 27 22:33:43 <Nikkolai>   "...did that tomato turn her into a termite or something?" Nikkolai glances at Yulia. "It's fine, dear one. We're all thinking the same thing: 'Gods, she's an idiot.'"
Jul 27 22:34:12 *   Mari stops, stands. "Actually, I feel better. that wasn't the tomato talking though, the tomates are fine!"
Jul 27 22:34:36 <Kotono>   Mari's tail turns around, still eating at the tree, eating ravenously.
Jul 27 22:34:42 <Mari>   "Oh, laugh it up, Nik. count of times Mari's insulted wizards: zero!"
Jul 27 22:34:56 <Knight>   "Gluttony is a sin, you know! It's a sin against your own body! You'll get fat and chubby, and won't be able to swing a sword!"
Jul 27 22:35:11 <Mari>   "It was just a tomato! And a tree!"
Jul 27 22:35:41 <Nikkolai>   "Your stomach will be the doom of us all."
Jul 27 22:36:12 <Mari>   "You know, I feel a lot better now." Mari stretches a little, much less stiff. "More limber."
Jul 27 22:36:23 <Kamvakua>   "Let's hurry on," Kamvakua moved ahead, heading back out the door hoping to at least lure her away from eating.
Jul 27 22:36:44 <Knight>   "Or.. you'll.. eat a tree and get fit?"
Jul 27 22:37:34 <Kotono>   There are three doors left - one north, one west, one east.
Jul 27 22:37:44 <Mari>   "Apparently. But yeah, let's get going, I'm..." She looks very distracted for a moment, glances behind her, sees the tail chewing away. "Yeah, let's go." She turns and follows the others.
Jul 27 22:38:17 <Kotono>   OOC: Choose a door if your'e going on.
Jul 27 22:38:28 <Knight>   "Yes. We are in a dungeon of the cruellest cold and most terrible evil. We don't have time to sit and eat and play," mumbles Knight, trying the other westward door.
Jul 27 22:38:47 <Mari>   "Let's see. Up that way was the kitchen, so..." Knight has the right idea, so Mari follows her.
Jul 27 22:38:48 *   Kamvakua heads north
Jul 27 22:38:55 <Kamvakua>   OOC: west then~
Jul 27 22:39:05 <Kamvakua>   OOC: Remove the line
Jul 27 22:39:49 <Kotono>   The other west door leads to a dim, plain corridor. A few piles of dust are about. About halfway down there's a door to the north, and further on at the west end is yet another door.
Jul 27 22:40:24 <Knight>   So many doors! With girlish enthusiasm, Knight rushes towards the northerly door and swings it open!
Jul 27 22:40:41 *   Mari follows Knight further, eyeing the piles of dust as she passes. "So many of them..."
Jul 27 22:43:11 <Kotono>   The door opens wide! It leads into what looks to be a vast kitchen. Several empty hearths, prepartion areas, a door going north and two big doors going west, a stairway winding up, and a closed wooden door-slat in the far floor as well, as if hiding a cellar entrance.
Jul 27 22:43:58 <Mari>   "Another kitchen, huh? This place must be huge if we're still only finding the service areas. Want to head up and see what's around?"
Jul 27 22:44:22 <Knight>   "The kitchen probably leads out into a dining hall," states Knight. "And I'd bet some of the denizens would have meals brought to them, so the upstairs region may lead to private chambers. I think we should, yes."
Jul 27 22:44:28 <Kamvakua>   "Well, it is a palace.  There's probably far more service areas."
Jul 27 22:44:30 <Adail>   "Up works, I suppose." Adail nods
Jul 27 22:44:37 *   Mari nods and ascends.
Jul 27 22:46:13 <Kotono>   You climb up the stairs! They wind, made of solid stone with blue-ice inlays. Up and up you go! You come up in a small little room. There's doors to the north and west here. A pile of dust lies before the north door.
Jul 27 22:46:46 *   Mari heads for the northern door. Maybe the late shade was keeping watch over that room?
Jul 27 22:48:38 *   Adail keeps pace with Mari, ready to defend her if things go poorly
Jul 27 22:48:48 <Kotono>   The door opens! Ahead is a long hall, carpeted with rich white fur rugs. Chandaliers lie on the floor, broken crystalline and glass beauty. Two doors are 15ft ahead to the east and west. 15ft more ahead this repeats, then 15ft more a third repetition. Then after that are grand double-doors, carved of pure white ice and glittering with strong light.
Jul 27 22:49:20 <Knight>   Not to be outdone by Mari's door-opening rampage, Knight trundles towards the closest westwards door and pushes it open!
Jul 27 22:49:44 <Mari>   "This place is bloody huge. We really don't have any idea where in the palace this stuff would be kept?"
Jul 27 22:50:38 <Kamvakua>   "The throne room?  Personal rooms?  A treasure vault?  It could be anywhere.  Hopefully we'll be able to notice them.  Or at least even if they're hidden, Adail might be able to catch sight of their aura?"
Jul 27 22:50:47 <Adail>   "A treasure room or vault...would normally be either on a top floor somewhere or in the basement, I think?" Adail suggests with a shrug, "I'm not all that familiar with construction."
Jul 27 22:51:05 *   Adail looks around with Detect Magic just in case anyway, at Kam's suggestion.
Jul 27 22:51:05 <Kotono>   The door opens! A grand room is ahead, frozen over utterly. A four poster bed, walk in closet that's open, a dresser with a mirror and soft chair, a western window wide open. Through it you can see a breath-taking view, of a grand domed area below.
Jul 27 22:51:27 <Knight>   "I'm hoping we can find the room of the castle's owner," replies Knight. "He may also be keeping his gear in his study." Knight wanders inside to have a better glance out the window.
Jul 27 22:51:55 <Mari>   "Somebody important slept here, I bet. Maybe they had something nice?" Mari walks to the dresser, opens it to rifle through the drawers.
Jul 27 22:51:57 *   Adail gestures to a dresser, "There's something magic in one of those drawers, actually."
Jul 27 22:52:49 <Kotono>   Out the window you cans ee below. A vast domed enclosure lies below. A great table can be seen, a throne room hundreds of feet long and wide. The throne is empty, shattered apart. A feast table is before it. Lined up on it are knights in armor, bloodless corpses pinned to the table with stakes of ice in the palms, feet and chest.
Jul 27 22:53:46 <Kotono>   Inside the dresser are various nice things. Frozen bottles of perfume of crystal, a hairbrush dotted with gemstones, a hair clip made like a silver butterfly, a small golden bell.
Jul 27 22:54:28 <Knight>   "A grotesque massacre," mutters Knight, turning away.
Jul 27 22:54:34 <Kamvakua>   "Hmmm," Kamvakua took the stuff out, lining it out so Adail could discern which was which.
Jul 27 22:54:44 <Mari>   "Which one of these is magic?" Mari asks, stuffing the perfume bottles into her bag (why not?) and letting the others look at the rest.
Jul 27 22:55:33 <Mari>   "Huh, Knight? What's out there?"
Jul 27 22:57:03 <Knight>   "Dozens of knights, impaled to a table," replies Knight. "There's no blood, only ice."
Jul 27 22:57:33 <Adail>   "The bell is magic," Adail confirms.
Jul 27 22:58:49 *   Mari nods, decides to take a look at the closest and see what kind of fashions ruled before disaster came to town.
Jul 27 22:59:08 <Mari>   *closet
Jul 27 22:59:32 *   Kamvakua nods and puts them in the bag for later.
Jul 27 22:59:35 *   Adail continues looking around with Detect Magic.
Jul 27 23:00:15 <Kotono>   Inside of the closet is various fashion. Very courtly, with ice-designs and a preference for white and blue.  It's a shame most of them are fancy silk or the like and worn down to tatters by being frozen.
Jul 27 23:00:26 <Kamvakua>   "Well, it might instead speak that they weren't killed here, but set here gruesomely, as a form of warning or artistic torment."
Jul 27 23:01:15 <Mari>   "Yeah, Kam's probably right," Mari says, abandoning the clothes. "Setting an example. Feh. Want to move on to the next room? I think I'm done here."