050.2 "When did my life get so complicated?"

[Corwin]

[20:06] <Kotono> The trip to Sylvie's home is a fairly long walk. Despite winter's coming caress it is not an overly uncomfortable one for either woman, reaching the grand manor in good time. A familiar servant is at the front door, Rozalin. She musters a small smile as she steps aside, "I'll take you to Lady Anna."
[20:07] <Aaeru> "Thanks," Aaeru says, once greetings are dispensed with. "You okay?"
[20:07] * Arachiel returns the smile cheerfully. "I hope we can help."
[20:10] <Kotono> As you go upstairs, past the well kept manor's interior and decorations, "We all miss Master Janson. He was a good master, and now Miss Sylvie's gone after him. It's so empty."
[20:12] <Arachiel> "I'm sure Sylvie will be back!" Arachiel nods.
[20:12] <Aaeru> "Yeah. We miss them, too," Aaeru responds. It is a bit curt and trite, but what else can she say?
[20:15] <Kotono> "Soon," Rozalin agrees as the duo are lead upstairs. Anna awaits in a sun drenched viewing room. Various art and trinkets from Janson's adventures are about - even that damned adult painting about Goddesses and nymphs. Anna is looking out the window and turns as you enter, "Aaeru, Arachiel," she smiles sadly, "How are you?"
[20:16] <Aaeru> "No complaints," Aaeru admits, even as she feels a bit bad saying so. "How can we help?"
[20:19] <Arachiel> "I'm fine! I made a new friend yesterday! His name is Ulysses, and he's a bear! He's outside! We'll do whatever we can to help you!"
[20:20] * Aaeru shrugs slightly at Rozalin, not really sure what to think about the bear thing at all.
[20:23] <Kotono> Rozalin bows and steps out. Once gone, Anna turns her attention to you. "The last few nights, there have been strange noises coming from below. At first they were indistinct, but more and more it sounds like sobbing."
[20:24] * Aaeru winces. Will she be asked to exorcize the house, losing Archie in the process to a terrible stroke of misfortune that would take her bear with it, too? "Like, basement below?"
[20:25] * Arachiel looks concerned. "Is there anyone living down there?"
[20:26] <Kotono> "Um, there isn't a basement that we know of, but we haven't looked too hard for one," Anna admits, "It's just so strange, whatever it is."
[20:27] <Aaeru> "Well, do you, like, hear it from every room here? And is it just you?"
[20:29] <Kotono> "It's the entire first floor," Anna replies, "The servants have heard it as well. We alla gree it sounds like sobbing now."
[20:30] * Aaeru nods thoughtfully, listening for now.
[20:32] <Arachiel> "When did it start?"
[20:33] <Kotono> "A few days ago. At first it was indistinct, but it's cleared up into sobbing," Anna's reply comes with a sigh after, "Calley's crying whenever he hears it, too."
[20:34] <Arachiel> "Does it happen at any particular time?"
[20:37] <Kotono> "At night, always at night. Usually a few hours after sunet until about an hour before dawn." With a look at both of them, "Can you find out what's causing this?"
[20:39] <Aaeru> "We can totally try!" Aaeru promises.
[20:44] <Kotono> "Thank you. If you need anything..." Trailing off at that, "Just say the word."
[20:45] <Aaeru> "No," Aaeru says, taking Anna's hands in hers. "If you need anything, tell us. We'll be there, like now."
[20:48] * Arachiel nods.
[20:48] <Kotono> Anna closes her eyes, going to embrace Aaeru. "Thank you," she murmurs, holding tight. A long sigh escapes her, shoulders shuddering. "Janson's gone, Sylvie's gone off to the reaches of Creation after him and now this. When did my life get so complicated?"
[20:50] * Aaeru can't help but snort. "Remember that time I came by and stuff? Told you Sylvie's life was just as exciting as the Crimson Guard's! And just like them, I'm sure she'll get back okay! Totally!"
[20:53] <Kotono> "Gods, I hope so," Anna mutters, "Calley needs his mother in his life." Slowly letting go, "Do you have any idea how you're going to start?"
[20:54] <Aaeru> "It's like a haunted house, right?" Aaeru says quite reasonably, hiding her apprehension well. "We wait for the crying, and then we ask whatever it is that's making that noise to come out and try to help them! And if they're evil, we send them on!"
[20:59] <Arachiel> "If they're good, we should send them on, too! If they're crying, they're probably sad! We should try to help them feel better so they can move on from here!" Arachiel nods.
[21:00] <Aaeru> "Well it could be a sad fey or something and we don't have to send those on...."
[21:01] <Arachiel> "That's true."
[21:04] <Kotono> "As long as it's solved," Anna adds.
[21:08] <Kotono> Night falls. A few hours pass without incident as the duo waits downstairs. It's passed in the kitchens, a few old chairs supporting them as they wait. At last...it's a soft sound, coming from here and there and everywhere. A soft sobbing sound, as if someone is lamenting.
[21:09] <Aaeru> "Don't cry," Aaeru says, before introducing herself to the thin air, however ridiculous it might feel. "My name's Aaeru! What's yours?"
[21:09] * Arachiel peers around, looking for the source of the sound.
[21:09] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+12 Listen check?
[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+12 Listen check? and gets 28." [1d20=16]
[21:12] <Kotono> The sound seems to be coming from below.
[21:13] <Kotono> There is no immediate sound or change to Aaeru's words.
[21:14] <Arachiel> "It definitely sounds like it's coming from below the floor. Maybe there's a basement that Anna doesn't know about?"
[21:18] <Aaeru> "How far below?"
[21:19] <Arachiel> "I don't know?"
[21:19] <Kotono> As you chat the sobbing continues unabated.
[21:20] * Aaeru shrugs. "Let's... break the floor?"
[21:21] * Aaeru looks for the best place to do that without ruining the entire room.
[21:21] <Arachiel> "Do you think that Anna would get mad?"
[21:22] * Aaeru gives Arachiel a look.
[21:22] <Arachiel> "You're right, it's just a floor!"
[21:25] <Kotono> The floor is the kitchen is wood. One could break through it if they were really so inclined.
[21:26] * Aaeru picks a pair of adjustant floor boards and breaks through one. That newly-made hole is then used to pull the other board out, and would give plenty of space to peer down!
[21:27] * Arachiel looks in as well!
[21:31] <Kotono> With some breaking and pulling the flooring is removed. Beneath the wooden flooring is about two feet of emptys pace and then a stone foundation. On a casual glance, the empty space beneath the floor extends in every direction.
[21:32] <Aaeru> "See anything?"
[21:33] <Arachiel> "Not really. Empty space about two feet deep. It looks like it goes on like that in every direction. You can't see?"
[21:34] <Aaeru> "Nothing good." Aaeru shrugs. "So where now? Down? Down and left? Down and right?"
[21:35] <Arachiel> "Let me take a closer look!" Arachiel says, lowering her head into the hole and having a look around.
[21:52] <Kotono> Arachiel can see towards the west, where the foundation ends. To the east is a lot more space, no end in sight at the dge of his darkvision.You don't see anything interesting in range of your vision.
[21:54] <Arachiel> "There's a wall to the west, but the space goes off into the distance to the east! I don't see any people crying, though!"
[21:56] * Aaeru peers to the east to see if she could wiggle through the crawlspace.
[21:59] <Kotono> Aaeru thinks she could go down and crawl along, there's enough space.
[22:00] <Aaeru> "Let's give it a try!" Aaeru suggests, calling upon a helpful Light and lowering herself into the space below the floorboards.
[22:01] <Arachiel> "Okay!" Arachiel follows after her!
[22:12] <Kotono> Down the duo goes! They wander about below! Most of the space down here is empty - hwoever! On the western side of the house is stone cylender connecting to the first floor and going down. It's about ten feet in diameter or so.
[22:13] * Arachiel peers over the edge. "What's this for?"
[22:14] <Aaeru> After expertly wiggling into place, Aaeru knocks on the stone and listens for any echoes.
[22:18] <Kotono> There is indeed a soft echo, as if hollow.
[22:23] * Aaeru nods to herself, and heads back out, waving Archie to follow her. Once firmly on the floor, Aaeru then tries to determine where this strange pipelike thing would lead on the first floor.
[22:25] * Arachiel follows Aaeru around. "So do you know what is going on here yet?"
[22:25] <Kotono> Going back and retracing your steps, you find out it comes out on the eastern wing. Here's a few storage rooms...though oddly, it seems to roughly come up between two rooms - no sign of space at all. There's just a wall there instead.
[22:28] <Aaeru> "It's, like, you hear stuff just fine if you talk outside, say in a forest," Aaeru says, examining the space from the corridor, before proceeding to do the same for the walls of both rooms that would lead towards it. "But if you're, like, indoors and close the doors and windows you won't hear as much? Even though you're loads closer? I figure maybe the crying's coming through this pipe thingy and it's from really far so that's why no one knows where the crying person is?"
[22:29] <Arachiel> "Ohhh. That makes sense." Arachiel nods.
[22:29] <Arachiel> "You think this person is in the pipe then?"
[22:31] <Aaeru> "Or, like, at the other end? Cause lots of people live below the city! Or maybe some ghost is haunting the pipe, I guess." She shrugs.

[Corwin]

[20:20] * Arachiel shrugs. "Maybe! It didn't start until recently, so maybe someone's trapped down there!"
[20:23] <Kotono> Aaeru tears down the walls! It's not too hard, for they are hollow within. A small room is here, a circular hole in the ground. A stairway winds down within it.
[20:24] <Arachiel> "A hidden room?"
[20:25] <Aaeru> "Huh." Aaeru blinks, before voicing, "Hey, Archie, can you call Rozalin over? I think she stayed up. Or was it someone else? We should totally tell people where we're going!"
[20:25] * Arachiel nods and rushes off. "I'll go get her!"
[20:26] <Kotono> Finding Rosalin isn't terribly difficult. She nods to Arachiel, "A secret room? Do be careful....I fear this manor may be haunted now!" Her face is pale, a deep pallor settling over her.
[20:27] <Aaeru> "Hey!" Aaeru calls, grinning at her. "Ghosts don't need, like, secret rooms! Don't worry! We'll fix things!" And with her light still in effect, Aaeru begins her climb down the winding stairway!
[20:28] * Arachiel nods. "I'll bet it's just someone lost or trapped! Stay here and we'll be right back!" With that, Arachiel follows Aaeru down the steps!
[20:33] <Kotono> Down the stairs go! Your footsteps echo around you as you proceed down, the tight walls of the stairwell dark. They are shadowed things, only revealed with Aaeru's light passes by. As you walk down, you can hear the sound of sobbing. It grows slightly louder as you go, each step making it sound closer. As you listen you reach the bottom, a tiny little room. A single steel-hewn door shows the
[20:33] <Kotono> way ahead, untouched by the rust of the ages.
[20:34] <Aaeru> They discovered more rooms for Janson and Sylvie's huge mansion! Does its price go up when you do that? Aaeru makes a mental note to ask someone who knows that sort of thing after.
[20:35] * Arachiel eyes the door curiously. "I wonder who built a stairway and a big door here inside the wall, and why?"
[20:36] * Aaeru shrugs, casting Fly on herself. And then, recalling the incident with Yuria, Magic Circle as well. "Dunno. Let's ask?" She tries to open the door ahead of them.
[20:37] <Arachiel> "Oh yeah! Maybe whoever's inside will know!"
[20:38] <Kotono> The door does not open. It doesn't even budge.
[20:39] <Arachiel> "Hello? Can you hear us in there? Do you need help?" Arachiel calls, hoping to get through the door.
[20:40] * Aaeru peers closer at the door's hinges, and tries to determine whether a well-directed Shatter might help her cause.
[20:40] <Kotono> There are no replies save for the sobbing. Interestingly, the door has no hinges. It looks like a soild mass of steel on further inspection, albeit one that looks much like a door.
[20:41] * Aaeru knocks on the steel, following it up with a question. "Can you come in? Please?"
[20:43] <Kotono> The steel is knocked on! The rapping noise battles with the crying, fading away while the crying continues. Still no answer ahead.
[20:45] <Arachiel> "Maybe it's a magic door?" Arachiel says, looking at the door for clues.
[20:47] <Aaeru> Well, she has been going around breaking Sylvie's house so far, and she's not about to stop. First, Aaeru gives the room a glance to make sure there is no secret door she had somehow missed, and then, guided by Ilmater, her fist will go through all that steel!
[20:47] <Aaeru> roll 1d20-1 search
[20:47] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20-1 search and gets 9." [1d20=10]
[20:47] <Kotono> There's nothing hidden that Aaeru can find! OOC: Normal attack on the door, or...?
[20:48] <Aaeru> roll 3#1d8+6+8 strength devotion
[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 3#1d8+6+8 strength devotion and gets 53." [3#1d8+6+8 = 19, 18, 16]
[20:49] <Kotono> WHAM! With pure might flowing through her veins, Aaeru bends the door in half! It flies back, broken! Ahead of you is a dim hallway, Aaeru's light failing to penetrate any of the shadowy darkness. There is the loud thud of the door landing, then utter silence. The crying is silent.
[20:49] * Aaeru takes a deep breath, banishing away bad memories, and steps into the darkness.
[20:50] <Arachiel> "Wait!"
[20:50] <Aaeru> "Wha?!"
[20:51] <Arachiel> "If the darkness is too strong for your light, maybe mine can beat it!" With that, Arachiel touches her bow, infusing it with a bit of her own innate holy power! OOC: Daylight, cancels out magical darkness
[20:52] * Aaeru blinks, not having thought to consider that.
[20:53] <Kotono> The sunlight floods out, for a moment hitting against the darkness! Then it pushes the darkness back, illuminating the way ahead. It's a plain, stone shod corridor, going on 20 feet before hooking to the left and with a faint downward slope.
[20:54] * Arachiel smiles in victory. "Ha! Shall we?"
[20:54] <Aaeru> And next time she will, Aaeru promises herself that! "Yep!"
[20:56] <Kotono> As you step forward, a ker-crack echos! The sound of a whip, a moment later a howl of agony following! Again the sound repeats, as...OOC: What languages do yout wo speak?
[20:56] <Aaeru> OOC: COMMON!
[20:57] <Arachiel> OOC: Common, Celestial, Dwarvn
[20:58] <Kotono> The words that follow are unknown, horrid things that mingle with the screams of agony and the whipcracks!
[20:59] <Aaeru> "Let's go!" Aaeru cries, rushing ahead!
[21:00] * Arachiel nods, quickly pulling an arrow from her quiver!
[21:03] <Kotono> You come to the bend! The slope down grows steeper, going down ten feet to another bend! Here there is another tu rn and another, winding down! As you race down the sounds grow louder, until there is a horrific scream that fades into a gurgling grasp, then silence. At the bottom of the fourth slope is an archway, filled with heavy stone doors. The front of the door is terribly pitted, as if
[21:03] <Kotono> something was ripped out from it. Bits of stone rubble lie on the floor before it.
[21:04] * Arachiel carefully looks around for signs of life!
[21:11] * Aaeru leaves the search to Archie! She can be better-suited by trying to smash through the door, just as she had through its predecessor!
[21:29] <Aaeru> roll 3#1d8+6+8
[21:29] <Kobot> Aaeru rolled 3#1d8+6+8 --> [ 1d8=2 ]{16}, [ 1d8=5 ]{19}, [ 1d8=6 ]{20}
[21:32] <Kotono> With a thunderous series of blows, Aaeru shatters the stone door with her pure might!  Ahead of you is a a circular chamber, the center covered by a vast, heavy black stone slab. Utter silence reigns as you stare ahead.

[Corwin]

[19:54] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+16 spot
[19:54] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+16 spot and gets 24." [1d20=8]
[20:00] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Silence stretches out before you, no sign of screaming or any source for it visible in any event.
[20:01] * Aaeru charges past the door she had kicked in!
[20:01] * Arachiel head in after Aaeru cautiously!
[20:03] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> The room is strangely empty. The walls are bleak and smooth, occasionally pitted. The black slab shakes slightly as you approach.
[20:05] <Aaeru> Once she is within range of the slab, a bright light emanates from Aaeru in every direction!
[20:05] <Aaeru> OOC: 30ft from it, using turning
[20:06] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Healing energy fills the room! At first nothing happens...and then the surface of the stone slab shudders! In it the image of a goat's head appears, mostly stripped of flesh and rotting. It's mouth opens, a crackling blue ray flying out towards Aaeru!
[20:06] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+6 touch AC?
[20:06] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+6 touch AC? and gets 17." [1d20=11]
[20:07] <Aaeru> OOC: 20, 17 flat footed
[20:07] * Arachiel smiles at the burst of healing energy...then recoils at the images shown!
[20:07] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: You'd be flatfooted here, yes.
[20:07] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 3d8 cold damage
[20:07] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 3d8 cold damage and gets 11." [3d8=5, 5, 1]
[20:08] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> The beam strikes Aaeru in the arm, leaving her entire left side feeling frozen and numb! The goat's head image begins to freeze over, as...OOC: Init.
[20:08] <Aaeru> roll 1d20+3
[20:08] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20-2 slab
[20:08] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20-2 slab and gets 15." [1d20=17]
[20:08] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20+3 and gets 10." [1d20=7]
[20:08] * Infinite_Ko_Loop changes topic to 'Goat head slab(15)>Aaeru(10)'
[20:09] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+9
[20:09] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+9 and gets 17." [1d20=8]
[20:09] * Infinite_Ko_Loop changes topic to 'Arachiel(17)>Goat head slab(15)>Aaeru(10)'
[20:09] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Go Arachiel.
[20:10] <Aaeru> "What?!" Aaeru exclaims, furiously shaking her stubbornly sleeping arm.
[20:10] <Arachiel> "What is that?!" Unsure whether her arrows will do any good against the thing, she responds with an arrow to the goat's face!
[20:10] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+15
[20:10] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+15 and gets 17." [1d20=2]
[20:12] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> The arrow flies true, but bounces off the slab without even leaving a mark! At this the slab's face stirs again, a cold beam coming right for Arachiel!
[20:12] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+6 touch AC?
[20:12] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+6 touch AC? and gets 11." [1d20=5]
[20:13] <Arachiel> OOC: 15
[20:13] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> But Arachiel is too fast, leaping up as a beam flies inches below her feet! It hits the back wall, turning a good foot-wide segment of it to iced over! OOC: Aaaeru.
[20:16] <Aaeru> "Break, you goat thingy!" Aaeru cries, retaliating with a beam of her own as she swiftly replicates.
[20:16] <Aaeru> roll 1d4+2 GMI
[20:16] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d4+2 GMI and gets 6." [1d4=4]
[20:17] <Aaeru> OOC: Shatter Will DC17
[20:20] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+5
[20:20] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+5 and gets 12." [1d20=7]
[20:20] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> With a terrific shudder the entire slab seems to contort, before  shattering into a dozen pieces! Several of them fall down, a stairway beneath the slab!
[20:20] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Free act.
[20:21] <Arachiel> "Janson had this under his house?!"
[20:22] <Aaeru> "This is so creepy!" Aaeru agrees most sincerely. Her doubles mirror her as she rubs at her left arm, descending down the stairway.
[20:22] <Aaeru> roll 1d8+3
[20:22] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d8+3 and gets 10." [1d8=7]
[20:24] * Arachiel follows after, staying alert!
[20:26] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Down you go! As Aaeru's foot steps on the first stair, a freezing blast of cold air erupts out! In a mere second it is bitterly cold, everything around you flash frozen! The stairs are coated in ice now, the walls with a good fwe inches of it as a shell. The stairway winds down, your breath misting out before you.
[20:27] <Aaeru> There is not much Aaeru can do but rush below!
[20:27] <Arachiel> "Brr! I thought the underside of Balmuria was supposed to be hot and stuff!"
[20:32] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Down you go. 36 steps. For some strange reason this is a certainty to you. At the bottom are two doors, one to your left and one ahead. The one to your left is rusted, frozen metal, a tiny, barred window in it. The door ahead is decorated with a rotting goat's head, as if mostly decayed and gone. OOC: Either of youc an make K:R here if you care to.
[20:33] <Aaeru> roll 1d20+7 always
[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20+7 always and gets 19." [1d20=12]
[20:34] <Aaeru> "Who are you?" Aaeru calls, raising her voice. She smashes her fist into the rotting goat's head. "Where are you?"
[20:34] <Arachiel> "Tell us so we can help!"
[20:35] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> The goat's head shatters apart, as ever so softly, "Why...?" The voice is a mere whisper, but it seems to be coming from the door on the left.
[20:36] <Aaeru> The door to the left is the one Aaeru opens. By force, if necessary!
[20:38] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> The door is not locked. Within is a simple, bare wooden cot. A bone dry washbasin is in a corner, as well as a dirty mirror. Within sits a young girl, perhaps 10. She has her head buried in her hands, sobbing.
[20:38] <Aaeru> "Are you alright?" the flock of Aaeru ask her, making a beeline towards and girl and kneeling at her side.
[20:38] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Make a will save, Aaeru.
[20:40] <Aaeru> roll 1d20+16 (+1 vs spells/SLAs, +2 vs evil from MCaE)
[20:40] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20+16 (+1 vs spells/SLAs, +2 vs evil from MCaE) and gets 36." [1d20=20]
[20:42] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> The moment Aaeru steps into the room she feels a horrible sensation! Instinctively her body recoils back, taking her out of the room! A sense of screaming terror fills her, every aspect of her mind howling at her to run away! Only pure, sublime will hold it at bay! The girl continues to sob in the meanwhile, "Why...?" she whispers, broken-voiced.
[20:43] <Aaeru> "Did the creepy goat-faced death prince kidnap you?" Aaeru asks warily, trying to regain her bearings.
[20:43] * Arachiel blinks as Aaeru backs out of the room. "What's wrong?"
[20:43] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> There isn't a reply, only the girl's continued tears.
[20:44] * Arachiel immediately turns and nocks an arrow! "Who's there?"
[20:44] <Aaeru> "I...." Aaeru swallows and stands up, alone once more. "We're sending her over, Archie," she says, and then calls for Ilmater's mercy!
[20:45] <Aaeru> roll 6d6 holy power
[20:45] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 6d6 holy power and gets 26." [6d6=3, 3, 5, 6, 5, 4]
[20:45] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Aaeru's holy power flows...but nothing seems to happen! Meanwhile Arachiel whirls and turns, seeing nothing behind her but the stairs.
[20:46] <Aaeru> She can't get into the room, she can't get the girl's attention and her power doesn't work from the outside. The only recourse left to Aaeru is to break open the remaining door and step past it in her search for answers.
[20:47] * Arachiel looks left and right. "There's something else here! I heard a noise!"
[20:48] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Attacking the front door? Str devotion again or normal?
[20:49] <Aaeru> OOC: I'll spend a turning on it, sure
[20:49] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Damage.
[20:49] <Aaeru> roll 3#1d8+6+8
[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 3#1d8+6+8 and gets 63." [3#1d8+6+8 = 22, 21, 20]
[20:51] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> With a flurry of blows the door ahead is shattered! As the door breaks, your chests burn! It's hard to breath. As if most of the air is gone, each breath making your lungs struggle. Before you lies a small room, no bigger than a typical bedroom. It's empty of objects, yet as you look ahead, the air within occasionally seems to crease, almost splitting apart at times like a wrinkled face stretched
[20:51] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> too far.
[20:51] <Aaeru> Yet again, Aaeru calls upon Ilmater's power!
[20:51] <Aaeru> roll 6d6
[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 6d6 and gets 30." [6d6=4, 6, 5, 5, 6, 4]
[20:52] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Make a level check, Aaeru?
[20:52] <Aaeru> roll 1d20+8
[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20+8 and gets 18." [1d20=10]
[20:53] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Aaeru calls on her holy power...it comes slowly. It feels so far away, distant. As if all the light and love she knows is across a vast canyon, only faint images at the edge of her vision.  But it comes, drawn forth!
[20:53] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+10
[20:53] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+10 and gets 15." [1d20=5]
[20:53] <Aaeru> OOC: DC is Fort18
[20:54] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Within the room, the creasing air twists and howls! A soundless voice echos, as a faint image appears! It is of a towering, fat, bloated thing, green skinned and rotting! It gasps for air in vain, even as it launches itself at Aaeru! OOC: Init, you woke it up.
[20:54] <Aaeru> roll 1d20+3
[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20+3 and gets 16." [1d20=13]
[20:54] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+7
[20:54] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+9
[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+7 and gets 26." [1d20=19]
[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+9 and gets 26." [1d20=17]
[20:55] * Infinite_Ko_Loop changes topic to 'Arachiel=Bloated Thing(26)>Aaeru(16)'
[20:55] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Arachiel and the thing open. Go Arachiel, I'll line in other rooms while you go.
[20:57] * Arachiel lines up a quick series of arrows into the flying thing!
[20:57] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+15
[20:57] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+15
[20:57] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+15 and gets 18." [1d20=3]
[20:57] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+15 and gets 17." [1d20=2]
[20:57] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+10
[20:57] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+10 and gets 24." [1d20=14]
[20:57] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: One hit.
[20:57] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: ACtually, check that, the +4 from the first miss makes the second hit. Two hits.
[20:58] <Arachiel> roll 1d10+6
[20:58] <Arachiel> roll 1d10+6
[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d10+6 and gets 7." [1d10=1]
[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d10+6 and gets 7." [1d10=1]
[20:59] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: What does your weapon count as for bypassing DR? Anything besides magic?
[20:59] <Arachiel> OC: Not yet!
[21:01] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> The arrows fly, barely even piercing it's fat skin! At the same time it lunges at Aaeru at front, hands going to her neck!
[21:01] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+12 AC?
[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+12 AC? and gets 22." [1d20=10]
[21:02] <Aaeru> OOC: 28vs evil, 25 flat footed
[21:02] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> But Aaeru's aura glows around her, hands deflected away from her throat! The thing howls with all it's bloated body, echoing about you! OOC: Aaeru.
[21:04] * Aaeru steps back, but it is a mere tactical retreat! She calls upon Ilmater's distant power once more, now confident in its ability to reach even such a forgotten, evil place!
[21:04] <Aaeru> roll 6d6
[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 6d6 and gets 26." [6d6=5, 2, 6, 6, 1, 6]
[21:04] <Aaeru> roll 1d4+2 GMI, again
[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d4+2 GMI, again and gets 3." [1d4=1]
[21:06] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+10
[21:06] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+10 and gets 13." [1d20=3]
[21:06] <Aaeru> OOC: Fort 18
[21:07] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Holy power buffets the abomination, rocking it back further! It's entire flabby body gasps for air, as your lungs burn! OOC: Arachiel, go.
[21:09] * Arachiel lines up another set of shots, concentrating!
[21:10] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+15
[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+15 and gets 19." [1d20=4]
[21:10] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+15 (+4 if last is miss)
[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+15 (+4 if last is miss) and gets 28." [1d20=13]
[21:10] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+10 (+4 if last is miss)
[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+10 (+4 if last is miss) and gets 29." [1d20=19]
[21:10] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Two hits.
[21:10] <Arachiel> roll 1d10+6
[21:10] <Arachiel> roll 1d10+6
[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d10+6 and gets 14." [1d10=8]
[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d10+6 and gets 16." [1d10=10]
[21:12] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Two more arrows embed into the thing, one pucturing in it's alrady weakened flesh! A great gust of air escapes out as the entire bloated thing ruptures! Even as it does, it takes another grab at Aaeru1
[21:12] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+12 smite good, may as well since it's going down
[21:12] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+12 smite good, may as well since it's going down and gets 16." [1d20=4]
[21:12] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d4
[21:12] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d4 and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[21:13] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Hands rip through one Aaeru, but it blinks away! The entire thing seems to turn to air, breathing no longer difficult! OOC: Free act.
[21:14] <Aaeru> "And stay out, you creepy thing!" Aaeru calls after it, striding into the now-empty room.
[21:14] <Arachiel> "What was that thing?"
[21:14] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> The room is empty. There is a distinct feeling of dischord and uneasiness in here, but otherwise it's empty enough.
[21:14] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: K:R to identify it.
[21:15] <Aaeru> roll 1d20+7 sure
[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20+7 sure and gets 16." [1d20=9]
[21:17] * Aaeru scratches her cheek. "Any other goat-prince flunkies here?" she decides to ask out loud.
[21:18] <Arachiel> "I hope not." Arachiel says, looking at her mostly-empty quiver.
[21:19] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> There's no reply.
[21:20] <Aaeru> As before, Aaeru attempts to cleanse the air further!
[21:20] <Aaeru> roll 1d6 turning
[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d6 turning and gets 6." [1d6=6]
[21:25] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Aaeru turns the undead, though nothing seems to happen.
[21:26] <Aaeru> "So, like, there's only one room left," Aaeru says, turning to Archie. "And I couldn't get into it. Dunno why! Wanna try yourself?"
[21:27] * Arachiel eyes the roomwith the little girl for a moment. "What's with her?"
[21:27] <Aaeru> "Ghost?" Aaeru frowns. "But I can't send her over. That's weird."
[21:29] <Arachiel> "Well, maybe she's not a ghost then." Arachiel says, looking thoughtful. "Think we should try to take her out of here and back upstairs? We can always come back."
[21:29] <Aaeru> "Hey!" Aaeru tries once more to get the girl's attention. "The air-stealing bloaty thing's gone! You can come out!"
[21:33] <Arachiel> "Yes, come on! Let's take you out of here and above ground!"
[21:33] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> There's no reply...only a whisper of, "Why...?" again.
[21:33] <Arachiel> "Why not?" Arachiel counters.
[21:34] * Arachiel heads in to go get th girl~
[21:35] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Make a will save, Arachiel?
[21:35] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+5 (+2 MCaE if in range)
[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+5 (+2 MCaE if in range) and gets 20." [1d20=15]
[21:45] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> For Arachiel, it is much the same. Terror fills her as she walks across, her body instinctively recoiling back and out of the room!
[21:46] * Arachiel shoots Aaeru a haunted look. "Okayyy..."
[21:46] <Arachiel> "Let's try something else then."
[21:47] * Aaeru gets an idea! Picking up a broken off piece of the door, she casts Daylight upon it just as Archie had done before, and then attempts to toss it into the room none of them can enter, to land near the girl.
[22:04] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> The daylight is thrown into the room! The daylight is smothered, dimness in the room instead of true light.
[22:07] * Aaeru blinks. "So, like, she's too far away for me to grab, and we can't get it. Archie, got something to, dunno, grab her, maybe?"
[22:09] <Arachiel> "We can go back up top and get some gear maybe?" Arachiel says, looking around for anythign to make a makeshift grabber or some rope.
[22:10] <Aaeru> "I'll be back!" Aaeru tells the girl who may or may not be some sort of horror from beyond. "That's a promise!" Nodding at Archie, she decides to head back up and confer with Rozalin.
[22:12] * Arachiel nods and goes with her, not willing to stay alone with the spooky girl.
[22:13] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> The trip up is a slow one. Everything is iced over, up to near the entrance back to the manor. Coming up you find the air bitterly cold, though not quite as icy as below. Rozalin is found wrapped in a blanket before a sputtering, dying fire. "There you are!" she says, "What happened?"
[22:14] <Aaeru> "So! Can you, like, wake Anna? Cause she totally needs to hear this!" Aaeru says, herself not bothered by extreme temperatures.
[22:24] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Anna is fetched, holding Calley close. The air is cold, everyone huddled around the biggest fire they can make. Strangely it sputters out largely, barely catching at all. Once so gathered, "What's going on," Anna asks.
[22:25] <Aaeru> "Umm. Maybe, like, Calley can... go play? In, like, another room?" Aaeru asks.
[22:26] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "It's freezing," Anna shakes her head, "He needs to stay warm."
[22:29] <Aaeru> "Okay." Aaeru doesn't really agree with that choice, but she doesn't really want to tell Anna how to raise her grandchild. "So, like, this will be really short. There's more house below. I think, like, the previous owner was into this demon prince of zombies, Orcus. We beat up most of his goat minions, but there's still this freaky cold. We can't beat that, so either Sylvie had a book on evil goat princes or we need to go somewhere else to stay and I'll ask around how to get rid of it." She looks about herself. "Questions?"
[22:30] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> That gets a full round of gasps, Rozalin fainting back into her chair! Anna shudders, "Oh Gods..." she holds Calley tight all the while.
[22:32] <Aaeru> "No questions! Great! So listen up, we went there and we're totally fine! They're not, so we're winning! And the cold only goes till like the entrance so it's fine to leave for a bit, too! Still, Sylvie should totally have the right book, so who wants to help me look for it? Sooner we find it, sooner we fix this!"
[22:33] * Arachiel nods. "You should really find somewhere else to stay for the night if you can't help. I can pay for it! Just to be on the safe side!"
[22:34] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "I have a friend or two," Anna shakes, "We-we'll go."
[22:35] * Aaeru doesn't bother with money, but as she stands up her hand erupts in flames, and she puts it right next to the fire for the meantime. "Archie, if we're all leaving then I'm gonna go ask about this sorta stuff. Can you, like, make sure everyone gets where they're going safely? We'll meet back here by dawn!"
[22:36] * Arachiel nods. "Can we make it a little later, maybe when the shops open? I'm almost out of arrows. I didn't expect evil goat stones!"
[22:36] * Aaeru shrugs. "I'll be here, so just catch up!"
[22:37] <Arachiel> "Okay!" Arachiel turns to the people who actually live in this place. "Time to go! Let's grab anything you guys need and get you out of here!"
[22:45] <Aaeru> roll 1d20 me
[22:45] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20 me and gets 5." [1d20=5]
[22:45] <Aaeru> roll 1d20+3 A
[22:45] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20+3 A and gets 18." [1d20=15]

[Corwin]

[19:57] <Kotono> Thus, Aaeru and Arachiel return. With Aaeru is her familiar and Neveril, bringing your count up to four as the sun rises. Ahead of you lies the chill manor home, awaiting...
[20:00] <Arachiel> "I got some rope and some arrows, I'm all set! Let's go save that little girl!"
[20:02] <Aaeru> "Not, like, with the arrows, I hope?" Aaeru asks. Riding her shoulder and clad in worn out leather armor, a tiny fey gives Arachiel a wave. "Do you have any idea you want us all to try?" he asks the aasimar.
[20:02] <Kotono> "Are you going to...pull this young girl out?" Neveril cocks her head to the side, "Like a lasso?"
[20:04] <Aaeru> "Before, well, that... think you could have your elemental try it, Neve?" Aaeru asks her. "Just, like, summon one right inside the room and tell it to help the girl out?"
[20:04] <Arachiel> "Exactly! For some reason, we can't seem to go inside, so I'll just pull her out!"
[20:07] <Aaeru> "That sounds... painful," Auriga comments with a wince.
[20:08] <Arachiel> "I'll be as gentle as I can!"
[20:10] <Aaeru> "Alright." Auriga coughs. "How about we call it Plan C? For the first one, we can take a bit of time exploring and studying the effects of magic on those rooms you found. How does that sound?"
[20:14] <Arachiel> "Sounds good! As long as we can clear things up so that Sylvie's mom and son can move back in! It's too cold in the for them now."
[20:14] <Aaeru> "I guess we can just close the door and it'll be warmer," Aaeru muses, frowning. "But that still leaves the little girl so we won't!"
[20:15] <Arachiel> "We kind of broke the big door though, didn't we?"
[20:16] <Aaeru> "It's okay, it's okay!" Aaeru insists.
[20:29] <Kotono> Neveril listens, "No matter which we try first, let's get down there? If some little girl is suffering we have to save her."
[20:32] <Aaeru> "Of course!" Aaeru agrees, and leads the way below. From his perch on her shoulder, Auriga observes silently, and looks for any magics about.
[20:34] * Arachiel follows, telling Ulysses to lie in the shade outside!
[20:35] <Kotono> As you walk down, Auriga notices that the entire first frozen stairway down and below radiate magic. OOC: Going to spellcraft?
[20:36] <Aaeru> roll 1d20+6 sure
[20:36] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20+6 sure and gets 7." [1d20=1]
[20:37] <Kotono> As Auriga tries to puzzle it out and fails you proceed deeper in. Back to the forgotten frozen cell, where the young girl's cries await. More magic is around that room as well. OOC: She can spellcraft again.
[20:38] <Aaeru> roll 1d20+6
[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20+6 and gets 10." [1d20=4]
[20:40] <Aaeru> Since something is clearly magical and important about all this, Auriga shares that little insight with Aaeru so that she could take a look herself and then compare notes!
[20:40] <Aaeru> roll 2#1d20+4 my own spellcraft rolls
[20:40] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 2#1d20+4 my own spellcraft rolls and gets 24." [2#1d20+4 = 14, 10]
[20:40] <Kotono> Yet none can puzzle out the magics involved at all!
[20:42] * Aaeru sighs, and pats Neve's shoulder. "Plan, like, B? Let's try summoning stuff in the room!"
[20:48] <Kotono> "I'll try," Neveril says, taking her waterskin! She pours it out into the room and an elemental of water appears!
[20:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+1
[20:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+1 and gets 17." [1d20=16]
[20:51] <Kotono> The elemental steps forward! Slowly it walks into the room, mechanically! It kneels before the little girl. A moment later the girl's arms extend, bringing it into a hug! There is a horrid sound, the sound of tearing! The elemental seems to simply fall apart, water evaporating away. A moment later you can see the girl again. Her head is down and a scream echos, "WHY?! COME BACK!!!!"
[20:54] <Arachiel> "Err..." Arachiel looks disturbed. "What was that?"
[20:54] <Kotono> Neveril winces and looks away, growing pale. "What...what manner of magic or curse is this?"
[20:55] <Aaeru> "I... think I should, umm, break the wall--" Aaeru starts to say, before Auriga cuts her off by standing up.
[20:55] <Aaeru> "Let me try something," he requests, before focusing his meager magics! OOC: Targetted dispel
[20:56] <Aaeru> roll 1d20+8
[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20+8 and gets 26." [1d20=18]
[21:00] <Kotono> There is a horrific rumble of sound as black and blue energy appears, only to shatter around the room! A flash of light momentarily blinds you, and in it's wake...she floats in the air. She has no wings and yet flies. Her body is unclad, wounded in a dozen places. Her neck is snapped at an angle, hanging over her shoulder and with a blackened tongue lolling out. With a disturbingly girlish
[21:00] <Kotono> giggle, "You freed me! I'm going to make you my friends!" It giggles again, "Best friends forever!"
[21:01] <Aaeru> "I... think it's, like, time for you to go to Ilmater now," Aaeru says, calling upon the remnants of her holy power.
[21:01] <Kotono> OOC: If you're attacking I'm calling init, she's not gonna just let you drub her.
[21:01] <Aaeru> OOC: Those were befriending words, yes
[21:01] <Aaeru> roll 1d20+3 me
[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20+3 me and gets 10." [1d20=7]
[21:02] <Aaeru> roll 1d20+5 Auriga
[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20+5 Auriga and gets 7." [1d20=2]
[21:02] <Arachiel> "Gaah!"
[21:02] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+9
[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+9 and gets 17." [1d20=8]
[21:02] <Aaeru> roll 1d20+4 Neve
[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20+4 Neve and gets 11." [1d20=7]
[21:03] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10 girl
[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 girl and gets 12." [1d20=2]
[21:03] * Kotono changes topic to 'Arachiel(17)>Broken Neck Girl(12)>Neveril(11)>Aaeru(10)>Auriga(7)'
[21:03] <Kotono> OOC: Open, Arachiel.
[21:04] <Arachiel> "You're not the poor little girl we thought you were! Go back to the grave where you belong!"
[21:04] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+15 (rs)
[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+15 (rs) and gets 16." [1d20=1]
[21:05] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+15 +4 if miss
[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+15 +4 if miss and gets 26." [1d20=11]
[21:05] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+10 +4 if miss
[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+10 +4 if miss and gets 24." [1d20=14]
[21:05] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
[21:06] <Arachiel> roll 2d10+12 condensed
[21:06] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 2d10+12 condensed  and gets 28." [2d10=10, 6]
[21:07] <Kotono> Two arrows fly, sticking into the stomach of the girl! A little more dried out blood flakes away, but her wounds seem to leak no more life fluid. "You...you hit me!" she wails, crying at the top of her lungs! At that moment...OOC: Will, Arachiel.
[21:08] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+5 +2 if MCaE is up
[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+5 +2 if MCaE is up and gets 13." [1d20=8]
[21:09] <Kotono> Abruptly the arrows in the little girl's stomach vanish! Agony spreads through Arachiel's stomach as two arrows appear in it, right where they landed in the little girl! OOC: 28 damage, Arachiel. Neveril, go.
[21:10] <Arachiel> "Hurrkk!" Arachiel doubles over in pain.
[21:12] <Aaeru> Neve takes a few steps back at the turn events have taken, and though she hesitates to begin with, a beautiful melody about the wonders and mercy of Heaven soon fiils these forsaken halls!
[21:12] <Aaeru> OOC: Inspire courage +2 (attack/damage)
[21:12] <Kotono> OOC: Right-o. Aaeru and then Auriga, go.
[21:13] * Aaeru follows through on her promise! Telling the girl, "You'll have lots of friends when you move on!" she calls upon Ilmater's mercy!
[21:13] <Aaeru> roll 6d6 fort dc18
[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 6d6 fort dc18 and gets 21." [6d6=5, 5, 4, 1, 1, 5]
[21:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 12." [1d20=7]
[21:17] <Kotono> Holy power pulses through the room, the little girl pushed back into the wall! She wails in pain, golden light driving her back! OOC: Familiar, go.
[21:17] <Aaeru> One Aaeru becomes several, and they all smile at the girl reassuringly, while Auriga takes off Aaeru's shoulder and hovers in place, ready to do his part and interrupt any hostile magics while keeping watch over Aaeru.
[21:17] <Aaeru> roll 1d4+2 GMI
[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d4+2 GMI and gets 4." [1d4=2]
[21:19] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. Arachiel, go.
[21:20] <Arachiel> Leery about unleashing another storm of arrows, Arachiel nocks a single arroe
[21:20] <Arachiel> W and fires!
[21:20] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+15
[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+15 and gets 26." [1d20=11]
[21:21] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[21:21] <Arachiel> roll 1d10+6
[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d10+6 and gets 12." [1d10=6]
[21:21] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+5 will
[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+5 will and gets 24." [1d20=19]
[21:22] <Kotono> OOC: No will save needed, it was astandard action for her to use and she's using something different this round.
[21:22] <Arachiel> OOC: woo
[21:22] <Kotono> An arrow flies true, embedding into the shoulder of the dead girl! She howls further, face splitting apart! Within her broken skull is pitch darkness, a great howling darkness lancing out like a beam! OOC: Reflex saves all. Note if you have evasion in the save.
[21:23] <Aaeru> roll 1d20+12 Auriga, improved evasion
[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20+12 Auriga, improved evasion and gets 25." [1d20=13]
[21:23] <Aaeru> roll 1d20+13 Neve, evasion, she moved back a bit before
[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20+13 Neve, evasion, she moved back a bit before and gets 23." [1d20=10]
[21:23] <Arachiel> roll 1d20+12
[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Arachiel rolls 1d20+12 and gets 32." [1d20=20]
[21:23] <Aaeru> roll 1d20+16 evasion, me
[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20+16 evasion, me and gets 17." [1d20=1]
[21:25] <Arachiel> OOC: I have resistances if they apply
[21:25] <Kotono> roll 5d8 half cold and half unholy damage. Aaeru full, Arachiel half. Work out the damage from there.
[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d8 half cold and half unholy damage. Aaeru full, Arachiel half. Work out the damage from there. and gets 18." [5d8=1, 7, 3, 5, 2]
[21:25] <Kotono> OOC: 9 unholy and 9 cold damage.
[21:27] <Kotono> The torrent of darkness freezes and burns at the same time! Neveril and Auriga are too fast for it, while Aaeru is caught flatfooted and pained! Arachiel dives down, only her back grazed by it! OOC: Neve then Aaeru then Auriga.
[21:29] <Aaeru> Far less inclined to give dead mockeries of little girls slack than Aaeru is, Auriga carefully aims at the abomination and zaps her when she reveals her true nature by splitting her face apart!
[21:29] <Aaeru> roll 1d20+13 ranged touch
[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20+13 ranged touch and gets 24." [1d20=11]
[21:29] <Aaeru> roll 1d3+2 elec?
[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d3+2 elec? and gets 5." [1d3=3]
[21:30] <Kotono> Electricity crackles over the girl's body, charring her a bit! Her had is broken open now, only weeping darkness within! Yet her voice comes, "WHY WON'T YOU BE MY FRIEND?!" OOC: Neve'n'Aaeru.
[21:32] <Aaeru> Neve is about to move closer when all of Aaeru's images shake their head at her, and then approach the broken girl. Aaeru wraps her arms around the girl, her clones following suit, and she whispers, "You'll have lots of friends where you're going. Promise!"
[21:32] <Aaeru> OOC: LoH, I'll keep going till max if it's actually doing anything
[21:33] <Aaeru> roll 1d20+15 touch
[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20+15 touch and gets 26." [1d20=11]
[21:33] <Aaeru> OOC: Starting with 1, can go up to 20
[21:34] <Kotono> OOC: All 20 points. Ironically she had 20 HP left.
[21:34] <Aaeru> "You'll be fine," Aaeru whispers, smiling gently down at her. "Ilmater will protect you!"
[21:35] <Kotono> Aaeru embraces the girl as light erupts from her hands! Her body glows golden, rotting mess fading away! LIke a spring breeze a warmth passes by everyone, a girl's laughter heard. Far away, like a faint echo just reaching you, you can hear, "MOMMY! DADDY!" The horrid cold relents, the ice on the walls starting to drip-drip rapidly, breaking up and starting to fall. OOC: Free act.
[21:37] * Aaeru smiles in relief, her images winking out one by one. Auriga gives a shrug, and then flies over to retake his seat upon Aaeru's left shoulder.
[21:37] <Kotono> "Whew." Neveril exhales, "Aaeru, do you need healing magic? I'm certain Arachiel does, too."
[21:38] * Aaeru is keeping her teeth from chattering by force of habit, and gestures at Arachiel. "Sure, but start with her first? Like, I'll wait."
[21:39] <Kotono> A duo of healing spells aid Arachiel a second later!
[21:39] <Kotono> roll 1d8+5
[21:39] <Kotono> roll 1d8+5
[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+5 and gets 12." [1d8=7]
[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+5 and gets 10." [1d8=5]
[21:40] * Arachiel nods, tugging the arrows in her stomach free.
[21:40] <Arachiel> "Thanks!"
[21:40] <Aaeru> With Arachiel taken care of, Aaeru uses her remaining healing upon herself, whispering quietly, "Cold, cold, go away."
[21:40] <Aaeru> roll 1d8+3
[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d8+3 and gets 10." [1d8=7]
[21:43] <Kotono> roll 1d8+5 one more on Arachiel
[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+5 one more on Arachiel and gets 13." [1d8=8]
[21:44] <Aaeru> "So!" Aaeru brightly announces, gathering herself up. "I'm gonna clean this place up till it's super-shiny! Cause it's still part of Janson and Sylvie's house!"
[21:44] <Aaeru> Auriga palms his face.
[21:45] * Arachiel laughs. "I'll help!"
[21:45] <Kotono> Neveril blinks, "Ah," she looks about, "Why don't you two get at that while Auriga and I go talk to Sylvie's mother?"
[21:46] * Arachiel starts picking up pieces of wood from the shattered door and nods. "We can make sure there's no residual evil while we're down here!"
[21:46] <Aaeru> "Great! First, we need to toss all the creepy junk out, and then we can go all over it! Water, and then some magic--"
[21:46] <Aaeru> "Sure thing," Auriga agrees, flying across to perch on Neve's shoulder instead, now. "Aaeru said they were staying with a friend, and I think I have an address...."
[21:48] <Kotono> Cleaning up goes without incident and evil is gone. As you finish up int he forgotten cell of the young girl, Aaerut urns to leave. As she does, something catches her attention out of the corner of her eye. Something moving a moment.
[21:48] <Aaeru> "Eek!:
[21:49] * Arachiel hustles over. "What is it?"
[21:49] <Aaeru> "A roach! I saw one!"
[21:51] <Kotono> Turning to look, you can see something on the floor. Fortunately it's not a roach. Sitting where the girl was is a simple white ring. You're dead certain it wasn't there when you cleaned the floor.
[21:51] <Aaeru> "It transformed!"
[21:51] <Arachiel> "Into a ring?" Arachiel looks dubious.
[21:52] * Aaeru shudders, as her two least favorite things in the world are thus combined.
[21:53] * Arachiel bends down and picks up the ring, looking at it closely.
[21:53] * Aaeru checks it warily for magic, from a safe distance, of course.
[21:53] <Aaeru> roll 1d20+4 if spellcraftable
[21:53] * Hatbot --> "Aaeru rolls 1d20+4 if spellcraftable and gets 9." [1d20=5]
[21:54] <Kotono> The ring has runes carved deep into it. Runes of celestial, words of divine retribution.
[21:56] <Arachiel> "These are celestial runes!"
[21:56] <Aaeru> "...okay!"
[21:57] * Aaeru shrugs. "Wanna go now? It's all totally clean and stuff!"
[21:57] <Arachiel> "Okay! Let's go give Anna the good news! Maybe she'll want the ring!"
[21:58] <Aaeru> "Sure thing, let's catch up with Neve and Auriga!"
[22:00] <Kotono> Finding Anna and the others isn't hard. They've come back by the time you emerge from cleaning. Anna holds Calley, "It's back to normal," she asks, "Thank you so much!"
[22:01] <Aaeru> "And you have like three new rooms!" Aaeru adds enthusiastically, giving her a thumbs up. "We could just break some wall below and make it a huge basement, too, if you wanna. I bet it'll be totally useful, cause lots of places in Balmuria wanna have one but can't!"
[22:02] <Arachiel> "Glad we were able to help! You can use the area as a cellar now! It's pretty cool down there still!"
[22:02] <Kotono> "Um, that's alright," Anna smiles, "We have more than enough room aboveground. You put that poor child to rest, I'd rather not disturb her grave."
[22:03] * Aaeru tilts her head. "I'm, like, sure she'd be happy if it was used for better stuff than before!" she voices. Plus even she probably wouldn't be able to live on top of a place she thinks of as a grave, so it's better to nip that right in the bud.
[22:03] <Arachiel> "There's really nothing left! We cleaned it up really good too!"
[22:04] <Kotono> "It's okay," Anna says, shifting her hold on Calley. "Thank you for cleaning up."
[22:05] <Arachiel> "Oh!" Arachiel holds up the ring. "We found this down there!"
[22:05] <Aaeru> "S'okay," Aaeru responds. "Like, can you do something for me, instead? And for that girl, too?"
[22:06] <Kotono> Anna takes a look at the ring, "A ring? Is it magic?" After that she looks to Aaeru, "What is it?"
[22:07] <Aaeru> "Well, Janson and Sylvie totally didn't do any of that and, like, none of the rest of you. So it was totally whoever had the house before. Or built it. Or something like that. So if you could just, like, go to the Guard and tell them about all this stuff so they can look into, like, past owners and stuff, I think we'll both like it!"
[22:07] <Kotono> "Alright," Anna says, "I'll do that first thing tomorrow morning."
[22:08] <Aaeru> "Thanks!" Aaeru chirps.
[22:10] <Arachiel> "It's got celestial runes, but I dont know it it's magic. I can find out!"
[22:11] <Aaeru> "It totally does," Aaeru voices at the prompting. "Strange, mysterious magic! Magic man, like, wasn't meant to know!"
[22:12] <Kotono> "Find out and good luck," Anna says, "What are you going to do with it?"
[22:13] <Arachiel> "Well, we need to see what it does first." Arachiel says matter-of-factly.
[22:14] <Aaeru> "I'll be at the store, so if there's, like, anything, come get me!"