014. "They're preparing them for some sort of obscene sacrificial rite."

[Corwin]

[20:12] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d100
[20:12] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d100 and gets 44." [1d100=44]
[20:14] <Shao_Koahn> Days of work and then more travel pass. Aurora is once more fully protected, sphere of force restored via hard work and money. As you fly ahead you come past more high mountains, to a level, rocky plane. The ground is a heavy-red clay, sharp rocks occasionally jutting out. It stretches far ahead, and in the horizon, you can see great masses, hordes of soldiers in both land and sky.
[20:17] <Afina> Letting someone else drive for a change, Afina sits perched over the gatehouse, looking out through the transparent but almost impenetrable wall she recently helped restore around Aurora. Seeing all those armies, she wonders if they'll pick a fight before consenting to discuss recruitment, as seems to be the Ysgard way.
[20:17] * Ithea gives a soft whistle as she eyes all the soldiers, wondering if they're going to have to go through all of them to get to Gisfal.
[20:17] * Willim is busily playing galuh with the giants.
[20:18] * Jaela just wonders if they'll meet up with Adrian here, somewhere, her mind on running some practice drills with her spear once her shift driving the Aurora ends.
[20:21] <Shao_Koahn> As Aurora approaches closer a voice echos like a thunderclap from above! "Aurora!" It is a man's voice, a deep timbre to it. "I invite Afina, Jaela, Ithea and Willim to come forth and discuss what they came for."
[20:22] * Willim starts, fudging a boulder roll and glaring at the sky.
[20:22] <Afina> Oh, good he's well informed! Hopping off her perch and floating down closer to the ground, she waits by the gate for her comrades to catch up. Actually considering Adrian's lack of invitation, perhaps too well informed...
[20:22] <Jaela> "I'll tell you all about it later, Elena," Jaela promises, parking their fortress. Time to head outside!
[20:23] * Ithea promptly joins Afina at the gates, also waiting.
[20:24] * Willim heads over to the others. "Is fighting soon?"
[20:24] <Afina> "He said discuss, but out here who knows?" Afina shrugs, flying forth now that the party has gathered.
[20:26] <Shao_Koahn> At the gates he appears in an instant, on the wings of magic. He stands on a large carpet, a rich red that floats in the air. He is elven in apperance, scarred all over. He wears heavy plate armor, dented and damaged in a dozen spots. He eschews a helmet, wild blue-green hair spilling down his back. A heavy sword hangs on one side, while a mace hangs on the other. He gestures, "Come aboard. So
[20:26] <Shao_Koahn> I heard you gave Mistfall a good fight?"
[20:27] * Jaela is likewise sans helmet, having gone without it while piloting. "We kicked his ass till he begged for mercy," she responds with a proud smile.
[20:27] <Afina> Afina daintily floats up and lands on the carpet. "He underestimated us, and we couldn't have that," she confirms, deadly serious.
[20:29] * Ithea blinks at the appearance of the red carpet, desperately stiffling a giggle at how...pompous the action is. Instead, she just smiles and waits for more words from their guest. Afina and Jaela answered his question well enough in either case.
[20:29] * Willim boards the carpet as well, leaning forward on his hands so they too rest on the carpet.
[20:32] <Shao_Koahn> The man has elven ears and delicate facial features, marred by scars. Once on the carpet takes off like a shot, soaring ahead! Wind whips by you as you travel, the man staring out ahead as his hair flies back in the wind. "Good. There's no place for the weak here."
[20:33] <Jaela> "We could just invite you to our place," Jaela notes, briefly considering doing something about her hair before giving it up as a lost cause.
[20:36] * Afina seems entirely unruffled by the speed, not even her hat slipping out of place for all that its tails trail her. "Mistfall said we would have to face enemies far more dangerous than he to retake Lifasa. The fight was good practice, though."
[20:37] <Shao_Koahn> "Could, but Adrian and the old man are at Filundr," Glancing back once and crossing his arms as the wind hits him dead on, "He's right." He looks about and settles on Willim, "You're from one of the orders that serve the Foehammer?"
[20:37] * Willim ignores the wind whipping through his hair and notes that he at leasts can't smell sulfur anymore. "Him was good fight, even if me have to jump to hit."
[20:37] * Willim blinks, looking at the elf. "Tempus?"
[20:39] * Jaela nods in satisfaction. She figured the old man would be along as well.
[20:39] <Shao_Koahn> As you race along, you can see the armies below you. Hundreds if not thousands are gathered, at war as you pass. Arrows sail below, charges clash on the earth, winged angels and other flying creatures do war as magic calls down catastrohpe and ruin to all in globes of fire, cracks of lightning and great eruptions of cold. "Yes. I speak of Tempus."
[20:41] * Ithea observes the armies fighting below them, as the others chat, all while holding tightly onto the carpet, as opposed to the more relaxed stances of the others.
[20:41] * Willim nods. "Tempus is good god, like fighting. Me learn from monks in Lifasa."
[20:44] <Shao_Koahn> A short nod follows as well, as the carpet dips down! It plunges into the fray, arrows sailing all around you! A ball fo fire bursts before you, the carpet racing through just as it fades away! A fighting angel and bird-man soar by the side near Ithea, splattering blood raining within inches of her! The screams of battle, pain and rage are all heard, a din rising up so loud as to shake the carpet
[20:44] <Shao_Koahn> you ride on! "This is my daily offering to the Foehammer." Looking back with a serious, tight expression, "Hold on tight, all of you." He shouts over the chorus of battle, as the scent of blood, sweat and death hits your nostrils.
[20:45] <Afina> Taking the warning seriously, Afina kneels down and bunches up her hands in the carpet, looking around to take in the details of carnage as they pass.
[20:45] * Willim nods, hunkering down as he watches around him with approval and no small amount of jealousy.
[20:46] * Jaela kneels down herself and grabs the carpet with one gauntleted hand, and Ithea's leg with the other.
[20:48] <Shao_Koahn> On the carpet flies!  The song of steel is a constant echo in time to the shouts as you race! Arrows fly strong and true all around you, as dark clouds form! Winds begin to whip and hail plummets down, but you break through and past it in a moment! Past a swirl of rainbow color that forms into a wall just behind you, winged lions swooping from above at the carpet and following, keeping up!
[20:49] * Ithea continues to hold on tightly to the carpet, not needing any prompting to do so. She does wrinkle her nose and scrunch up her expression slightly at the sight of all the carnage, the last time she'd seen death on such a large scale wasn't pleasant after all, but neither does she stop observing.
[20:54] <Shao_Koahn> As you fly further on, you soar past the battlefield! You seem to come on it all at once - a vastly tall tree, closer to a tower than a true tree. Yet it is burn, charred, ruined. The broken wood is intact - for bulging out of it is green. Green scales, as if something is held within. The leafless branches spread out around the center, where the vast maw of a green-scaled dragon is held open,
[20:54] <Shao_Koahn> toothless. The carpet rises and soars up towards that mouth, as he looks back to you, "Filundr." he announces.
[20:55] <Afina> "Is it alive?" Afina asks, peering at the gigantic trapped wyrm for any signs of activity as they approach.
[20:55] <Willim> "What?"
[20:57] <Shao_Koahn> "Dead. It thought itself fearsome to burn down my home. I thought it fitting to slay it and use it as my new home." He doesn't even look back as the carpet rushes into the mouth and into it! Ahead of you is burnt wood and dragonscale floors, with doors leaderd eeper within. The walls are a mix of the same ruined wood and scale.
[20:57] * Jaela nods. "Waste not, want not."
[20:58] * Ithea raises an eyebrow at the idea of using a defeated enemy as a home, but says nothing else.
[20:58] * Willim looks around and nods approvingly. "Dragon make good home."
[21:00] <Afina> "I thought Ysgard brought everything back to life at dawn?" Afina asks, wondering if it gets rekilled every morning.
[21:00] <Jaela> "I figured it got killed off elsewhere."
[21:02] <Shao_Koahn> Leaping off the carpet and heading to a door, "Yes. Acid does drip occasionally." He adds as he goes to a door, opening it and leading you along. Ahead is a tight, winding stair, leading you deeper within! This leads to a large room. A table takes up most of it, f ull of food and drink! Adrian sits at this table, feet up and gnawing on a leg of meat. Elder Magi Tepen sits nearby, not eating,
[21:02] <Shao_Koahn> but instead simply awaiting. "A feast worthy of champions. Sup as you care to." With a gesture, and a hard look, "Filundr was a gift from Fenmarel Mestarine. I would not have such a foe rise again, so I drew his soul from his body. Without it, he could not be revived. His soul laments in whatever cursed realm would take him."
[21:03] * Willim nods, needing hear no more as he heads forward to grab himself some food!
[21:04] * Ithea nods before turning to the two at the table. "Adrian!" Ithea calls out, greeting him as she approaches, plopping down besides him. "Looks like things went well?" she asks as she glances at the elder.
[21:04] <Jaela> Sounds like the dragon lost pretty badly. "Adrian! Old man Tepen! You made it!" she exclaims, making her way towards them alongside Ithea.
[21:05] * Afina has no real issue with such harsh treatment of a hated enemy - she'd do far worse to the devils if she could. "I thought we'd lost you for a while, Adrian," she comments, flying towards him inbetween the other two women.
[21:06] <Shao_Koahn> "Yeah. What the hell happened to you, Jaela?" After a moment's grin to Ithea, "You vanished and never met back up with us." Shaking his head after, "No. Gisfal gave it a try, but the unseen hides no secrets to me."
[21:06] <Shao_Koahn> Elder Magi Tepen nods once, "We must talk," he says, voice stronger and surer, "What was found is troubling."
[21:07] <Jaela> "Huh?"
[21:10] * Ithea also looks curious about what's going on, though she does take the time to grab something from the table, while focusing the rest of her attention on Adrian and Tepen.
[21:10] <Afina> Ithea has a good idea, and Afina grabs something managable to nibble on while listening to what the new guy has to say.
[21:10] <Shao_Koahn> "The devils targeted me with a vile wound and curse," Elder Magi Tepen continues, "It was not just a wound of the body and spirit, but of the soul. A part of my soul was stolen by Baator. Most of the damage is gone, but I am not fully restored. As long as the part is away from me, I will be limited."
[21:11] * Jaela blinks, and then-- "Oh this is such bullshit! Fuckers!"
[21:11] <Shao_Koahn> "Unfortunately, it seems that Abigor prioritized the Elder Magi," Around a bite of meat before he puts his food down, "Hah, my words as well."
[21:12] * Willim looks up from his drumstick. "We fight devils then?"
[21:12] <Jaela> "Look, you're okay? No pain or anything? Forget about being useful for a sec."
[21:13] <Afina> "We could always go get it back," Afina observes idly. "They must have a place where stolen souls are stored, somewhere in hell. A small hidden group might be able to steal from it... if we can find out where it is."
[21:14] <Shao_Koahn> "Only what age has gifted me with," A wry smile follows that, "In particular, calling on the Weave weakens me. I can manage a few spells before it becomes overwhelming,a nd I could still overdue it and kill myself. Yes," A nod over to Afina, "They weren't sure, though I plan my own magical inquiries as well. Are any of you gifted with such talents or abilities to find things such as that?"
[21:15] * Ithea shakes her head. "Most of my ability with magic is purely for helping me fight. That sort of magic would be beyond me," Ithea answers.
[21:15] <Jaela> "I'm gifted with killing the fuck out of devils and getting across the planes."
[21:15] <Afina> "I'm an assassin, not a seer," Afina shakes her head.
[21:16] * Jaela tilts her head. "We do have sneaky people on our payroll who look stuff up for us."
[21:16] * Jaela snaps her fingers. "Remember I told you about that, ol-- oh right, you passed out then."
[21:16] * Willim shrugs, he doesn't know the first thing about magic!
[21:24] <Shao_Koahn> "Hm?" A question back to Jaela as Elder Magi Tepen listens and nods.
[21:24] <Jaela> "Basically, we have this sneaky guy working with us, looking into allies and enemies and all that. And we have a contact on Astral, a gith sage Adrian met with us. If we check with both, we should hit on something, right?"
[21:27] <Shao_Koahn> "With Mystra's blessings," Elder Magi Tepen seconds, and after a moment, "This does not impact one of the other main duties I possess. An Elder Magi is a master of magic, and devotes himself to teaching the next generations the finest arcane arts."
[21:28] <Jaela> "So you're gonna be our librarian?"
[21:29] <Afina> "We only have a few budding mages at Aurora - I'm sure you already knew some from before Jaela found you. But in time there will be more, and we will want them to be as strong as possible just the same as our warriors," Afina reflects, liking the possibilities.
[21:32] <Shao_Koahn> Adrian stares at Jaela, while Elder Magi Tepen shakes his head, "I hardly need books. I know almost everything there is to know, or close enough."
[21:34] <Jaela> "You're really qualified," Jaela says with unwavering approval. "Not bad at all!" She catches Adrian's stare, and decides to ask him, "So hey, did you recruit anyone in the meantime?"
[21:35] <Ithea> "We recruited a bird and some sports-loving giants," Ithea adds.
[21:36] <Jaela> "Yeah, these guys are pretty strong. They can almost take a serious hit!"
[21:36] <Shao_Koahn> "I spread the word out around the House of the Triad, but Gisfal asked me not to do anything here until you all arrived." A glance over at your host, who has gone to sit and relax.
[21:36] * Jaela follows Adrian's glance. "How about it?" she asks the elf. "Wanna join our crusade? It's for the best cause there is, and there'll be fighting nonstop."
[21:41] <Shao_Koahn> "You want our help?" Gisfal asks, gesturing. As he does, a drip of clear fluid falls out, whizzing by Ithea's head! It hits the ground and sizzles there, a faintly nauseating odor rising up. "Yeah, you all are good. Bring me the heart of a green dragon and offer it up to Filundr."
[21:42] <Jaela> "Where do we find one?" Jaela asks, shrugging. "And if we do, you're joining us?"
[21:43] * Ithea grimaces, Gisfal did warn about that little...'house feature' though. "Any particular reason for a green dragon, also?"
[21:44] * Willim is naw paying full attention. "We fight dragon?"
[21:45] <Afina> The reason seems quite obvious to Afina, and she has no qualms about obliging - assuming they can find an appropriately hued wyrm.
[21:45] <Shao_Koahn> "Up to you. The bigger and older the dragon, the better. As for the reason?" He pointedly looks at a wall.
[21:45] <Ithea> "Well, okay, but why just the heart? Wouldn't you need the whole thing?"
[21:46] <Jaela> "No, seriously," Jaela insists. "You're not gonna turn around and say 'Oh I meant one of my followers will come with you' or anything like that? We take down an evil green dragon, you're gonna be killing mountains of devils with us?"
[21:49] <Shao_Koahn> "The heart is symbolic," The answer back is short, "You do it and I will."
[21:50] * Ithea shrugs. Probably some magic ritual if it involves symbolism then. Good enough an answer for her curiosity anyway. "Well, the question now is where we find one. Wonder if Tannin can find that out for us."
[21:50] <Jaela> "Awesome." Jaela offers her hand to Adrian. "Let's get back and start looking for one, guys?"
[21:50] <Afina> "It is a fair bargain," Afina speaks up. "We will hunt a dragon for you."
[21:53] <Shao_Koahn> With that Gisfal takes the party back! Again through the war you swoop, back to Aurora! As the party arrives before the gates, Gisfal looks up. "I'd heard about Medicant, thought it was a lie or distorted truths. Impressive."
[21:55] <Ithea> "It's only going to get more impressive from this point on," Ithea comments.
[21:55] <Afina> "We've renamed it Aurora," Afina explains, "Better not to be tied to the past and its failures."
[21:55] <Jaela> "Yeah. The whole 'can't' thing."
[21:56] <Shao_Koahn> A short nod, "Good hunting then."
[21:57] <Shao_Koahn> Adrian hops off and helps Elder Magi Tepen down, "Yeah, we'll find one."
[21:58] * Willim nods, hopping down from the rug. "Will be good fight."
[21:58] <Afina> Flying through the gate, Afina asks, "Where can we find green dragons out here, anyway? I know they lived mostly in forests on Lifasa, but the rules are different in outer realms, aren't they?"
[21:59] <Jaela> "Guess we have to decide where we're going, now?" Jaela voices. "We can always get back to Ysgard, and it's all sorts of creepy to take a heart from something killed here."
[22:00] <Shao_Koahn> As you step in, you find that someone is waiting just past the gates. Tannin is there, holding a cloth wrapped bundle in his arms, almost like a baby. He carefully raises a hand, "Afina!" he calls.
[22:00] <Ithea> "Well timed appearance, Tannin!" Ithea says with a short grin at the sight.
[22:01] * Afina perks up and instantly zips over to Tannin without delay, almost surprising herself with her own enthusiasm in hopes that he's found something.
[22:01] <Jaela> "Any chance you heard of one in your travels?" Jaela asks Adrian, keeping back. "A green dragon, that is."
[22:03] <Shao_Koahn> Tannin's face is tired and drawn, pulling back the cloth. In his arms rests a pixie - one with pallid gray skin and a slack, unexpressive face and eyes that stare out and seem to see nothing. It's wings are atrophied and broken, more like gossamer scraps forgotten. "Hades. The grays," he says quietly, "I know where more of them are...this one got away, but succumbed to the grays before I could
[22:03] <Shao_Koahn> get him out."
[22:03] <Shao_Koahn> Adrian glances back, "I heard of a few dragons but I usually didn't get deeply involved with them. What about any of you?"
[22:05] <Afina> Her eyes narrow but that's the only show of emotion Afina shows in her disappointment, reaching down to stroke a hand through his hair and down his cheek. "I'm indebted to you, Tannin," she murmurs softly. "Where?"
[22:05] <Jaela> "I'll need to think back on it. Only really thought of devils at the time, but maybe I'll recall something?" She shrugs. "Oh, and sorry over the whole Triad thing. Helm marked me for death and kicked me out, so I couldn't take you back."
[22:05] * Ithea grimaces at the sight of what Tannin carries, pausing in silence, thinking on waiting a bit before asking Tannin about any green dragons.
[22:06] <Shao_Koahn> "The third gloom, Pluton," He goes on, "A 'loth stronghold is collecting escaped fey from Lifasa. According to Lief here," Pausing to adjust the bundle in his hands, "They're preparing them for some sort of obscene sacrificial rite."
[22:07] <Shao_Koahn> "Oh that-" Adrian starts, before staring at Jaela. "WHAT?"
[22:07] <Willim> "Loth is devil?" Willim asks, coming up. "We go kill and free little fairies?"
[22:08] <Afina> "How many? What sort of defences?" Afina asks, not recognising this particular pixie but wondering if any of her fellows - or enemies - from the Gloaming Forest are there. Even if not, it hardly matters to what she must do.
[22:08] <Willim> "Dragon wait, lots out there, not going anywhere."
[22:08] * Jaela waves Adrian off. "It's fine, it's fine. I believed you'd make it, so things worked out alright."
[22:09] <Ithea> "Agreed," Ithea says at Willim's words, waiting for Tannin to say what he can add about the situation with Afina's people.
[22:09] <Shao_Koahn> "A few score at least, perhaps more. A fortress made of gray-bodied corpses, standing beneath a waterfall of gray ice. I didn't get past the first layer myself. Lief made it all the way up himself." With a look down, "Yugoloths are fiends of pure evil,c aring nothing for law or chaos."
[22:10] <Shao_Koahn> Elder Magi Tepen steps forward, "The grays can be cured," he says, "If you have strong enough magic to make it so."
[22:11] <Afina> "Lets take him to the infirmary, if he can be cured and tell us about what's in there, we can attack immediately," Afina decides, her tone brooking no argument.
[22:12] <Shao_Koahn> "Healing magic won't help," Tepen says, "It requires divine intervention or a wish to change reality to reverse."
[22:13] * Afina clenches her fists at her sides almost painfully. As if the divine would bother themselves over one pixie. "Then we'll make sure he's comfortable until we can heal him, and all the others we'll rescue." she bites out.
[22:26] <Shao_Koahn> "I can," Elder Magi Tepen speaks in a gentler tone, "It will take much out of me, but I believe I can do it."
[22:28] <Ithea> "Can we help in any way? Make sure you're not as drained in the attempt or something?" Ithea asks.
[22:29] <Afina> "You can?" Afina turns towards him with hopeful surprise. "If it's just fatigue then the infirmary will definitely help you, and we're going to get the rest of your soul back so you definitely recover."
[22:30] <Shao_Koahn> "Have restorative magic ready," Elder Magi Tepen replies, "My body is damaged with each spell. A ninth circle one will leave me deeply drained."
[22:33] <Afina> The restoration pods sadly don't live up to their name, so it'll be all on Jaela!
[22:34] <Jaela> "So what's our plan?" Jaela asks, finally coming up to the others while tagging Adrian along.
[22:35] <Afina> "The Magi will cure Lief, but you'll need to cure him after," Afina begins. "Then we find out about this fortress in Hades from Lief so we can attack it and get the fey out."
[22:35] <Jaela> "Works for me. About Hades, wanna just plane shift over and beat on the residents till they tell us where it's at?"
[22:37] <Afina> "We can just follow the directions Tannin used to get there?"

[Corwin]

[19:54] <Shao_Koahn> Going deeper into Medicant, Elder Magic Tepen requests to be taken to somewhere quiet. This leads to a simple room in the officer's quarters, where in Lief is laid on the bed. The Elder Magi leans on his staff and sits down in a chair besides the bed, "Be ready, in case the strain is too much for me," he warns, "I haven't cast a ninth circle spell since the final day of Lifasa."
[19:55] * Afina can't really do anything but hope for the best, herself.
[19:55] <Jaela> "I've got your back," Jaela promises. And she is, even literally, by supporting the frail elderly wizard.
[19:55] <Shao_Koahn> Tannin goes to rest against a wall, eyes half closed. He nods slightly, otherwise just keeping quiet.
[20:02] <Shao_Koahn> Elder Magi Tepen raises his staff as he intones words! Words that reach to the ceiling and reverbate throughout the room, "Reality, hear my desire through the endless mystery of the Weave! Restore to Lief what was stolen by the gray apathy of Hades!" At that last word the gray leeches away from Lief, flowing out from his body like sludge. It forms in an orb above the pixie, taking the shape of
[20:02] <Shao_Koahn> a face. A face of utter despair, yet in its eyes you see a gleam of malice within. A deep chill comes over you as the gray face shudders and winks out! Lief looks alive again, healthy, breathing fully. His eyes open - wondrously bright green eyes, like the forest at summer's highsun. "Where...what..." He looks around once, stopping on Afina. "Is this Aurora? I remember stories as I fell asleep,
[20:02] <Shao_Koahn> stories about a magical place where they weren't." His voice is a whisper, shaking. Meanwhile Elder Magi Tepen shudders and leans back heavily, a cold sweat on his brow. He takes in a deep breath of air, sagging deeply after, almost slipping out of the chair and Jaela's hands.
[20:02] <Jaela> "Heal!" Jaela intones.
[20:03] <Shao_Koahn> Elder Magi Tepen straightens up at that, "My thanks," he murmurs.
[20:04] * Jaela considers it, before touching the fey as well once she is certain Tepen won't be falling out of his seat. "You heal, too!"
[20:09] <Afina> "Aurora, yes," Afina nods placidly, her own duller green eyes meeting his. "You heard? We only found it recently... I am Afina, of the Gloaming Forest. Where were you from, Lief?"
[20:13] <Shao_Koahn> Healing magic flows into Lief, freshening him up a little more. "He told me," Pointing at Tannin, "I was from Silverwood, a forest not far from elven and human lands. You serve Queen Ilsenine?"
[20:14] <Afina> "I did, I don't know if she survived, though. Were any others from my home kept in the same place as you?" she asks, her voice betraying her hope. Even if it's a hated enemy it would still be familiar.
[20:17] <Shao_Koahn> "She did," Lief says, "There are, and two claimed to have seen her. Abigor's forces captured her and..." Lief's face darkens, "Gathgorian is the commanding cornugon there. A devil, the horned ones. He took her with Abigor's permission."
[20:19] <Jaela> "...took her?" Jaela repeats dangerously. "Where?"
[20:19] <Afina> "Death would have been kinder by far... we'll get him, but first things first, we have to get everyone out of the fortress you were held in. Can you tell us everything you know about its layout and defences, Lief?
[20:22] <Shao_Koahn> "They said he took her as a wife," Lief shakes his head, "I don't know as much as I'd like. Until I escaped, they held us in lightless cells. The grays didn't get us there - Tannin said with the time I'd been there, I should have been overcome. Let me start from the outside and work my way in, okay?"
[20:22] <Jaela> "Go for it." Wife. Yeah, right. Jaela grimaces.
[20:23] * Ithea also grimaces at the 'wife' part.
[20:23] <Shao_Koahn> Tannin shakes his head at this, "Bastard," he murmurs, a hand going to his rapier's hilt.
[20:23] * Willim clearly has no idea what's going on, and is picking his nose.
[20:24] <Afina> "Do that," Afina says, utterly calm and composed despite the monstrous further indignity heaped upon her people. Dying in the fighting or being lost to the planes were both expected, she'd even resigned herself to it. But for her Queen to be reduced to... servicing, a devil... she'll never forgive any of them.
[20:28] <Shao_Koahn> "The fortress is made of bodies," A grimace comes over Lief's face, "Gray faces. They stare ahead with empty eyes, except when they weep. They weep whenever the robed ones sound the gong. I saw them weeping, I got away and a gong was rang halfway through. They...they were in the courtyard and..." Lief shudders, "It was a dwarf. It was like...it was like the big one took him and ripped him up
[20:28] <Shao_Koahn> like a leaf in a human's hand! Then his face was in the wall and crying with the rest of them and...andnand!" Shivering again, "I got away, I kept flying. There was the waterfall - the gray ice. It moves like water but it's ice. It's not right, it's not natural. It flows over the fortress like a cover, and the mists glisten in the air above the fortress.
[20:29] <Afina> "Does the ice cover the fortress completely?"
[20:29] <Jaela> Creepy. Jaela leaves the questioning to Afina at this point, merely content to take that in and listen.
[20:30] <Shao_Koahn> "The front. The back is against stone, like a mountain," Lief goes on, "I got past the ice by rushing - there's gaps in it, you can get through if you're fast. I don't know what would have happened if I got mixed up in the ice, but I didn't have a good feeling about it." A faint, wan smile comes to his face, "Like everything there."
[20:31] <Afina> "Fast we can do," Afina doesn't smile though. "Anything else? You mentioned robed ones..."
[20:33] <Shao_Koahn> "T-they're dogs. They're like humans but have snouts and fur like dogs." Shaking his head back and forth quickly, "When they smile it's all sharp teeth. The others listen to them, except for the sleek one."
[20:34] <Afina> "We fought one when we took Aurora, didn't we?" Afina recalls. "He was a strong opponent." An army of them doesn't sound appealing to hit head on.
[20:35] <Shao_Koahn> "Arcanaloths." Elder Magi Tepen replies in a quiet voice, "Sorcerer-hounds of the daemons. They're powerful sorcerers first and foremost."
[20:37] <Afina> "Good fistfighters, too," Afina nods. "What's that sleek one, then, Lief?"
[20:40] <Shao_Koahn> "Red. Red and sleek. Curved, like a woman. It is a woman, I think," Lief says thoughtfully, "It spoke like one. The robed ones - arcanaloths like you said - listened to her. She wasn't out there when I escaped, but she came to see us occasionally. She'd open the door and look in and leave, always smiling." OOC: K:P check applies here, since I'm sure you guys are curious.
[20:40] <Jaela> roll 1d20+18
[20:40] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+18 and gets 30." [1d20=12]
[20:40] <Ithea> roll d20+21 (+5 if collector of stories applies here)
[20:40] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+21 (+5 if collector of stories applies here) and gets 28." [d20=7]
[20:42] <Jaela> "Probably one of those weird pit fiends that are sneaky bitches," Jaela voices.
[20:44] <Afina> "We can be sneaky, too," Afina comments. "Anything else that could help us, Lief? Are the cells bound in any strange way? Are there any other guardians aside from the ones you've mentioned?"
[20:46] <Shao_Koahn> "The big one - it had a lot of arms and was green. It has a battle-axe." Shaking her head, "It didn't use them to rip that dwarf up..." Murmuring, "There were maybe two dozen people at the ceremony, though the sleek one wasn't there. There weren't many defenses inside that I saw - I mean, I got the impression that it was harder to get in than to move around or get out, once I got out of the
[20:46] <Shao_Koahn> cell."
[20:47] <Jaela> "How did you get out of the cell, anyway? Did I miss that part?"
[20:48] <Shao_Koahn> Lief shakes his head, "They got careless. Most of us didn't even bother to get up when the door opened anymore. We tried and...trying to get out didn't work." A massive shudder, "Not like that. But I was able to slip out the top. They usually made sure to check and have several robed ones there, but the last few times they only had a couple or even just one."
[20:50] <Afina> "They must be getting complacent, or the captives must be so weak it's not worth the bother," Afina muses. "Unless they let Lief escape to lure us into a trap. Will that stop us?" she asks, though there's no doubt what she thinks.
[20:51] * Jaela taps her fingers against her armor impatiently. "Not if it's a trap, no. But what we need to decide is if we're going against them to level the place, or try to sneak in."
[20:52] <Afina> "We split up and do both," Afina suggests. "One group can sneak in to make sure there's no ambush or attempt to kill the captives before the other group attacks and we hit both sides."
[20:52] <Shao_Koahn> "They need to be saved," Elder Magi Tepen, "The survivors of Lifasa can't be abandoned. A two pronged strike, then?"
[20:53] <Jaela> "Adrian and me have to be there. Only we have reliable means of escape from Hades, once we get out. Up to it, Adrian?"
[20:56] <Willim> "We going fighing now?" Willim asks, finished with his personal grooming. "Save little fairies from Lifasa?"
[20:56] <Shao_Koahn> "I'm in for it," he says, "That devil needs to meet the business end of my blade." A glance over at Willim, "I hope so."
[20:56] <Jaela> "Old man, do you know Gate? The spell?" Jaela asks next. "Think you could manage to pen a scroll or two? I could use them, and I bet Afina and Ithea could, too."
[20:57] <Shao_Koahn> "I do." With a thin smile, "It's why we're here right now. If not, Adrian and I would not have escaped the fall of Lifasa."
[20:58] <Jaela> "Yeah, but it could've been some artifact-- never mind. Let's have a scroll as an extra option?"
[20:58] <Shao_Koahn> "It will take some supplies and funds to craft," he notes, "Can those be provided?"
[20:59] <Jaela> "Yeah sure." Moving on, Jaela says, "We'll also need some defense against the grays. Poison cures and the like, especially if we're going in two groups. Anything else? Tannin? Lief?"
[20:59] <Afina> "So could Annalise," Afina adds. "If we go in with six of us a short distance from the fortress, three can sneak in and make sure it's safe, then the other three attack openly. The first three can hit their leaders at the same time to set their response in disarray and hopefully ensure a decisive victory."
[21:00] <Shao_Koahn> "How about we get some of those giants to toss boulders as well?" Tannin speaks up, "I saw a galuh board out there, anyone who can play that can do that."
[21:02] <Jaela> "Does everyone know about that retarded game?" Jaela mutters to herself quietly, shaking her head in disbelief. "Yeah sure," she voices, raising her eyes. "The assault team could have them for the extra spotlight on itself."
[21:02] <Afina> "Good idea, they'd get a lot of attention."
[21:05] <Ithea> "They'll probably score points by how many devils they bowl over," Ithea mutters with a shake of her head. "Who's on the sneaky team then, and who stays to assault with the giants?"
[21:05] <Jaela> "I'll go with Annalise, wherever that is," Jaela states. "Like Hell I'm gonna let her become some loser devil's wife!"
[21:05] * Willim shakes his head. "Willim not so sneaky."
[21:07] <Afina> "Hmm, I was going to suggest Annalise join Adrian and I in the forward group, but I'm sorry Jaela you wouldn't work well for that. Just Adrian and myself, then?" she looks over at the hagspawn to see if he's confident in surviving with just her for protection.
[21:07] <Ithea> "I can probably manage with you and Adrian, I can move pretty quietly," Ithea offers.
[21:08] <Afina> "Can you hide as well?" Afina asks. "Invisibility can't be relied on in a place where pixies are held prisoner."
[21:08] <Jaela> "A direct assault is more of my thing, anyway," Jaela responds with a shrug. "Feels more honest."
[21:10] <Ithea> "Not to the degree that you and Adrian can, I'm sure, but certainly better than some of the others. I'm not entirely sure if my level is good enough though, I admit."
[21:11] <Afina> Deciding to trust that, Afina nods, "Three of us have better chance of fighting past trouble anyway. So us three go in first, Jaela, Annalise, Willim, and two of our giants make up the assault?"
[21:13] <Shao_Koahn> Adrian nods back, "The three of us should be fine."
[21:13] <Jaela> "Actually, let's bring all of them for it. If we can Gate in, I'll Heal the old man once he opens the way and we rush across."
[21:14] <Afina> "That'd be even better," Afina agrees. "We'll leave as soon as the scrolls are ready, then?"
[21:14] <Jaela> "Yeah. Let's check with Misalea as well. If she can ward at least some of us with Delay Poison, that's a great boost."
[21:35] <Shao_Koahn> Preparation passes by in a blur of activity. People prepare for the battle ahead, Gate scroll prepared and the party gathering in the courtyard. OOC: Ball is in all of your courts, go 'head.
[21:36] * Willim stands ready, looking bored and stupid!
[21:36] * Afina is an oasis of calm amidst the activity, knowing her time is not now and that there's little she can do. Her time is soon, though, and she waits by Tepen for the portal to be opened for her first step onto Hades. It probably isn't much different from Gehenna, there were lots of yugoloths there, too.
[21:42] <Jaela> Mithral armor, enchanted. Check. Gae Bolg, ready to send any fiends to an early grave. Check. Greater Heroism and Divine Vigor to keep her strong while in enemy territory. Check. Longstrider, Light of Lunia and Shield of Faith are there as well in the mix, just in case, as are boosted energy resistances from fire, cold and electricity. Seems like her preparations are done!
[21:45] <Shao_Koahn> As everyone gathers, Annalise steps forward. "Well then," she drawls, "I believe it's customary to ask if everyone is ready now."
[21:45] <Afina> "They've waited for us long enough," Afina replies simply, looking over the rest of their strike force.
[21:45] <Jaela> "We're taking those fuckers down," Jaela asserts, her spear summoned with a thought.
[21:47] <Shao_Koahn> Adrian nods, "Time to raise hell in one of the Hells."
[21:50] * Willim grumbles uncomfortably.
[21:56] <Shao_Koahn> Elder Magi Tepen steps forward, calling on words of magic!  A dull black and gray portal appears, swirling and twisting into itself! As it turns you can feel a faint melancholy touch you, a despair that nestles into your heart like a long forgotten loss.
[21:56] * Afina leads the way to ensure all is clear!
[21:58] <Jaela> A Heal is more than enough to restore the magi to his ancient glory, and that is the only thing that accounts for her apparent slowness! She strides past the Gate into Hades, the shining light surrounding her doing its best to keep the drab grayness at bay!
[21:58] * Ithea takes a deep breath as she crosses through next, holding tightly onto her weapon. "See you soon," she says to the others before vanishing into the portal as well.
[21:59] * Willim heads through, looking about at all the complete lack of color.
[22:00] <Shao_Koahn> Through the portal one and all passes, into gray-ness. Into soft nothingness, the softness of a sagging heart. Stepping through you feel the losses. The death of Lifasa and the failures thereafter, digging into your heart. In each of your minds you feel a thought, your own and at the same time foreign, whispering about how it is all futile and hopeless. Then you stand in the darkness. It is dark
[22:00] <Shao_Koahn> here - there is a distinctly dim light all over. About are withered trees and rocky ground, sloped. A great volcano rises up on the far horizon, dominating the bleak sky. A good ways ahead, hundreds and hundreds of feet, you can see what looks to be some sort of oozy, misty gray waterfall. Yet the water looks strange, chunky, almost solid.
[22:01] <Jaela> "We follow the ice water?"
[22:02] <Afina> "There it is," Afina points out the objective after making sure everyone's come over. "I'll go ahead with Ithea and Adrian, we'll position ourselves inside to stymie any ambush or wreak the most havoc. Follow us in five minutes and make the most showy attack you can?"
[22:03] <Jaela> "You can bet on it," Jaela promises.
[22:03] * Willim nods, eager to begin breaking things.
[22:03] <Afina> "C'mon you two," Afina tells her companions. "Stick low and use the rocks for cover, we don't want to give any warning we're coming," she suggests, flitting ahead in said manner but pacing herself to their speed.
[22:04] * Ithea nods as she quietly follows after Afina, giving a wave to the others as they pull away from them.

[Corwin]

#d

[22:11] <Shao_Koahn> Once they're going, Annalise glances back at the others, "Well then," she observes, "Ready Jaela?" After amoment she glances at Willim, "You'd best remember your lessons, Willim. These enemies can defeat you by attacking your mind if they so choose."
[22:12] * Willim nods silently.
[22:12] * Jaela sits cross-legged in midair, keeping herself afloat with periodic flapping from her wings. "Sure thing, Annalise," she responds, peering ahead towards their destination. "If this goes sour, you're Gating everyone out while I hold the devils back. No heroics."
[22:13] <Shao_Koahn> "More than ready," One giant says, hefting a big ol' galuh rock. "Ugh, it smells like...depression here." He decides, sniffing the air.
[22:13] * Jaela nods. "It's like Elysium except shitty. Don't worry, we won't be spending a week here."
[22:14] <Shao_Koahn> "As you wish," Annalise says with a slight smile again.
[22:15] * Jaela can't really bring herself to smile. Not where they are, not while she knows just what's been happening to the prisoners.
[22:16] <Shao_Koahn> OOC: Make a listen check, all of you.
[22:16] <Jaela> roll 1d20+7
[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+7 and gets 16." [1d20=9]
[22:16] <Willim> roll 1d20+12
[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+12 and gets 25." [1d20=13]
[22:18] * Willim spins about, peering behind the group!
[22:18] <Willim> "Heard noise, thumpy." Willim says lowly.
[22:19] <Shao_Koahn> The giants and Annalise turn as well, yet there is nothing behind the group that you see offhand...OOC: Spot checks if you care to, all.
[22:19] <Willim> roll 1d20+12
[22:19] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+12 and gets 17." [1d20=5]
[22:19] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+35
[22:19] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+35 and gets 46." [1d20=11]
[22:20] <Jaela> The light around Jaela brightens, almost to the point of blurring her features!
[22:20] <Jaela> OOC: Rather than looking about, I'll cast Veil of Shadows
[22:21] <Shao_Koahn> "Don't see anything," One of the giants grunts, as...OOC: Darkness, eh? Make a caster level check.
[22:21] <Jaela> roll 1d20+14
[22:21] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+14 and gets 16." [1d20=2]
[22:22] <Shao_Koahn> Gloom settles over the party, a deep, dark gloom that seems to cling to you. As you look you swear you can see images of shadows - of things forgotten and lost, of regrets that sap your will to do anything but curl up.
[22:25] <Jaela> roll 1d20+21
[22:25] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+21 and gets 24." [1d20=3]
[22:25] * Willim grunts, looking into the distance but ignoring the shadows as best he can. Hopefully they'll go away.
[22:26] <Shao_Koahn> "How pathetic," Annalise sniffs, "To think we'd curl up and cry at this. Really now. I had always assumed Hades was far more fearsome than this."
[22:26] * Jaela grits her teeth in agitation. "Ignore that! Just my magic all messed up from this fucked up place."
[22:30] <Shao_Koahn> "Is it?" A voice asks from behind the party, a grating, soft thing, like whispers shredded over a cheese grater.
[22:32] * Willim spins again! Dizzy!
[22:33] * Jaela snorts. "We'll see, won't we?" But rather than do that, she calls upon the magic of Blindsight! Will it be reliable? Only one way to tell!
[22:35] <Shao_Koahn> Turning, the party can see a creature stands 50ft away. It is shadow. A man cast of shadow, of utter darkness. It has no facial features save for a too large smile full of perfect white fangs. "Few are so foolish to enter this realm. What is it you search for in the gloom?"
[22:37] <Jaela> "We took a wrong left at Acheron. Wanna point us the right way to the House of the Triad?"
[22:38] <Shao_Koahn> "Are you lost, little ones?" It asks in that discordantly soft voice, "I know of a portal, for the right price..."
[22:38] <Jaela> "Ah, so it comes to that?" Jaela sighs, spreading her arms helplessly. "'Fraid I'm broke."
[22:40] <Shao_Koahn> The creature begins to speak, as its eyes cross Annalise. It stops and licks its lips, before smiling wider. "Ah, I see. Thirty larvae for that one, services or soul."
[22:40] <Jaela> "Fuck off or die for good," Jaela snaps, amusement gone.
[22:41] * Willim looks back and forth between Annalise and the shadow man. "Bitey girl know toothy man?"
[22:42] <Shao_Koahn> Annalise's smile doesn't even crack, "I think you misunderstand." Annalise slowly licks her own teeth, red tongue running over her fangs. The two meet eyes for a long time, perhaps a good twenty seconds. At last Annalise replies, "We know each other from reputation. He would be useful, but I suspect you aren't willing to pay his price."
[22:43] <Jaela> "Is he smart enough to go away on his own?"
[22:44] <Shao_Koahn> The creature merely steps back and fades out of sight, as if stepping back into the shadows. "It's professional courtesy. Besides, there's nothing to betray by attacking us here."
[22:45] <Jaela> "Whatever." Putting the annoying shadow out of her mind as much as she can, Jaela addresses the giants. "Got your rocks and everything? We're gonna go in a few."
[22:47] <Shao_Koahn> "It's terribly rude to tell secrets about that sort of being, but I wasn't what got its attention," A glance over at Willim, "You two were."
[22:47] <Willim> "Me not do anything."
[22:47] <Jaela> "Well I'm not sleeping with him either!"
[22:56] <Shao_Koahn> "Indeed," Annalise just chuckles and turns back to watching and waiting...
[23:01] * Jaela is reduced to grumbling and muttering.
[23:22] <Jaela> "Alright, you brutes!" Jaela calls out, flying up for as much as thirty feet. "Let's go! Charge!" She leads that charge towards the waterfall, of course. Who else would?
[23:23] <Shao_Koahn> Annalise takes forward to the air, flying along like a ghost and keeping pace! The giant take to running, vast legs eating up the ground in an instant!
[23:24] * Willim surges forward, hooves thumping down on the ground as he full-out runs with the giants. He could fly, but running is better!
[23:28] <Shao_Koahn> The party races ahead! The waterfall is ahead now - gaps sighted in it as the party races on! OOC: Go ahead, describe how you're going past the waterfall.
[23:29] * Jaela draws her wings towards her body to place herself into a steep dive through the first opening large enough to accomodate her!
[23:39] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+35
[23:39] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+35 and gets 52." [1d20=17]
[23:39] <Shao_Koahn> As you race towards it, Annalise points to the side, "This way," she calls, flying towards a little, well hidden cleft in the waterfall.
[23:40] <Jaela> It is an easy thing to adjust her dive with Annalise's directions!
[23:42] <Shao_Koahn> With the party adjusting direction, you find a little open slit in the waterfall! Racing through is simple, though the giants need to duck and crawl. Once through you see the way ahead is a 10ft wall of gray, faces seen on it. Past that you can see a keep rising up.
[23:44] <Jaela> "Blast through it!" Jaela commands, rising above the group once more and calling upon the most powerful part of her heritage!
[23:44] <Jaela> OOC: Holy Aura!
[23:47] * Willim speeds up, launching himself at the monstrous wall with barely-contained violence!
[23:48] <Shao_Koahn> OOC: Str check, Willim?
[23:49] <Willim> roll 1d20+11
[23:49] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+11 and gets 21." [1d20=10]
[23:51] <Shao_Koahn> roll 5#1d20+31
[23:51] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 5#1d20+31 and gets 205." [5#1d20+31 = 40, 50, 46, 34, 35]
[23:51] <Shao_Koahn> Rocks and Willim slam into the wall as others soar above! Thew all cracks and shatters to the onslaught, crumbling apart! A hole is open, the faces of the walls sobbing in audible, miserable pain as you advance on! The courtyard is empty, but the other side has doors leading within!
[23:52] * Jaela races through the opening! "Your time's come up, bitches!" she yells, glowing a bright silver for good measure!
[23:54] * Willim completely ignores the walls, as they are no longer his problem! He dashes in and engages the first freakish monster he sees in savage combat!
[23:56] <Willim> OOC: Raging upon initiation of combat.
[23:57] <Shao_Koahn> The courtyard is empty...but as you approach, something appears! It is winged and with four arms, vaguely fat. It has a greataxe in one hand, a shield in another. It is almost as large as the giants, roaring furious defiance! "How did you...?!" It's further words are lost as it faces towards the party, ready to fight! OOC: Init. Creature is 30ft away near the doors from the party. Roll init

[23:57] <Jaela> "Dead assholes don't need to know that!" Jaela screams, diving down upon him, spear-first!
[23:57] <Willim> roll 1d20+4 plus RAAAGE
[23:57] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+4 plus RAAAGE and gets 18." [1d20=14]
[23:57] <Jaela> roll 1d20+6
[23:57] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+6 and gets 21." [1d20=15]
[00:00] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+10 Annalise
[00:00] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+10 Annalise and gets 22." [1d20=12]
[00:00] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20-1 using group init for the giants
[00:00] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20-1 using group init for the giants and gets 4." [1d20=5]
[00:01] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+7 creature, K:P on it is valid if you want to.
[00:01] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+7 creature, K:P on it is valid if you want to. and gets 17." [1d20=10]
[00:01] <Jaela> roll 1d20+22 K:P devotion!
[00:01] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+22 K:P devotion! and gets 23." [1d20=1]
[00:04] * Shao_Koahn changes topic to 'Annalise(22)>Jaela(21)>Willim(18)>Green four-arms(17)>Giants(4)'
[00:08] <Shao_Koahn> Annalise steps forward and frowns, "Nycaloth," she calls, as she fires fourth two rays! One of the rays quickly splits into two, three total plunging at the daemon! "Don't use acid or enchantment!" OOC: Split ray enervation+sudden empower from spellwarp sniper, quickened enervation after.
[00:08] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+16
[00:08] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+16 and gets 26." [1d20=10]
[00:08] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+16
[00:08] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+16
[00:08] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+16 and gets 18." [1d20=2]
[00:08] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+16 and gets 34." [1d20=18]
[00:09] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+15 vs SR
[00:09] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+15 vs SR
[00:09] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+15 vs SR and gets 28." [1d20=13]
[00:09] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+15 vs SR and gets 18." [1d20=3]
[00:09] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+15 vs SR
[00:09] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+15 vs SR and gets 32." [1d20=17]
[00:09] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d4*1.5
[00:09] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d4*1.5 and gets 4.5." [1d4=3]
[00:09] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d4
[00:09] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d4 and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[00:09] <Shao_Koahn> OOC: -7 total.
[00:10] <Shao_Koahn> Two of the beams successfully strike the thing, its great bulk shriveling up like dried meat! The entire thing looks smaller now, as if it shrunk into itself! OOC: Jaela.
[00:10] <Jaela> "You're gonna get skewed!"
[00:11] <Jaela> roll 1d20+33+2+9-14 (14PA, dive/charge, smite, divine might, haste)
[00:11] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+33+2+9-14 (14PA, dive/charge, smite, divine might, haste) and gets 35." [1d20=5]
[00:11] <Shao_Koahn> OOC: Hit.
[00:11] <Jaela> roll 1d8+27+2d6+15+28 good-aligned
[00:11] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8+27+2d6+15+28 good-aligned and gets 88." [1d8=7][2d6=5, 6]
[00:12] <Jaela> OOC: Wait
[00:13] <Jaela> OOC: Yeah, my bad, dives do x2 damage
[00:13] <Jaela> roll 1d8+27+2d6+15+28 good-aligned again!
[00:13] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8+27+2d6+15+28 good-aligned again! and gets 78." [1d8=1][2d6=5, 2]
[00:13] <Shao_Koahn> OOC: There's really no point in rerolling it if you rolled correctly in the first place, y'know.
[00:14] <Jaela> OOC: No, I do double damage. The original roll was the normal damage.
[00:14] <Jaela> OOC: 159 good-aligned damage from the dive, tallied up.
[00:14] <Shao_Koahn> Jaela charge slams right into the withered brute, impaling his chest! Blood pours out from the wound, minimal resistance from its fiendish body! It staggers from from the blow, thrashing wildly1 OOC: Willim.
[00:15] * Willim charges in right behind Jaela, roaring!
[00:15] <Willim> roll 1d20+29-9 PA
[00:15] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+29-9 PA and gets 29." [1d20=9]
[00:16] <Shao_Koahn> OOC: That be a hit.
[00:17] <Willim> roll 1d10+15+9 silver
[00:17] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d10+15+9 silver and gets 26." [1d10=2]
[00:17] <Willim> OOC: Still +2
[00:17] <Shao_Koahn> With the beast withered and impaled, Willim's roaring punch hits it in the stomach! A gush of blood is forced out of its ruined chest from the impact, making the beast totter back and fall! It falls and bleeds on the ground, unmoving! OOC: Ow. Free act, rolled the shit outtat that Nycaloth.

[00:18] <Jaela> "Owned!" Jaela cheers, drawing her spear from the corpse, bits of 'loth flying all over. "Who's next, you dog-faced motherfuckers? Come on! I'll kill you all!"
[00:19] <Jaela> And she prepares herself for those future fights by calling upon Greater Vigor. The giants can go bust the front door for them while she does that, the lazy bums!

[Corwin]

#t

[22:09] <Shao_Koahn> On you walk, the others left behind as you creep along...OOC: All three of you make hide checks? Note if you have darkstalker or anything unusual like that.
[22:10] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+18
[22:10] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+18 and gets 20." [1d20=2]
[22:10] <Ithea> roll d20+16 hide
[22:10] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+16 hide and gets 27." [d20=11]
[22:10] <Afina> roll 1d20+24 stalkin' in the dark
[22:10] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+24 stalkin' in the dark and gets 27." [1d20=3]
[22:11] <Afina> OOC: +4 on mine for 31, sorry
[22:12] <Shao_Koahn> On the party approaches! You get closer - you can see the waterfall clearly now. It is ice that flows like thick fluid, occasional gaps in it. From these gaps you can see something ahead - something shadowed and hidden, something large and gray.
[22:14] * Afina silently motions for the others to follow her, skirting to the side as they get closer to the waterfall, once closer to it they can hopefully see any sentries watching and know to avoid them. That big grey thing might be one but it's too indistinct so far.
[22:14] <Shao_Koahn> Adrian squints ahead, taking a good look. The waterfall hits the ground, a river to the side flowing away from all of this. It covers the way ahead. OOC: Make spot checks, all.
[22:15] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+19
[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+19 and gets 27." [1d20=8]
[22:15] * Ithea nods as she sticks close to Afina, keeping her eyes open for trouble.
[22:15] <Ithea> roll d20+22
[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+22 and gets 42." [d20=20]
[22:15] <Afina> roll 1d20+22
[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+22 and gets 39." [1d20=17]
[22:17] <Shao_Koahn> Ithea and Afina can note nothing is about, however, they notice there is a tiny, subtle gap in the waterfall. Almost a natural slit that opens up, a doorway. It's slightlyr recessed, hidden by the angle and the rest of the water. But it looks to be a clear, unchanging path within.
[22:18] * Ithea prods Adrian and gestures to the slit, then looks towards Afina to see if she saw it as well.
[22:20] <Afina> Going in the front door is a terrible idea, though she'd like to mark it for the others when they make their attack. "Front door," she whispers, "We can't hide going in that way, we have to dodge through the ice like Lief did. I'll haste us when we're close - ready?" she asks, working her way closer to the waterfall away from the easy path.
[22:21] * Ithea nods. "Whenever you are," she whispers back.
[22:21] <Shao_Koahn> "Ready," Adrian says, following along.
[22:24] <Afina> Getting close enough now, Afina casts haste, making sure to face away from the waterfall to reduce her quick intonation carrying. With the comforting increase of speed, she turns and darts towards the waterfall, her tiny size and absurd reactions helping her flit between the glacially falling shards as she dashes through before diving to the nearest cover once on the other side!
[22:26] <Shao_Koahn> Adrian follows, dashing along through, head up as he tries to time a perfect dive through! OOC: Reflex saves, all.
[22:27] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+12 Adrian
[22:27] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+12 Adrian and gets 19." [1d20=7]
[22:27] <Ithea> roll d20+19 evasion
[22:27] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+19 evasion and gets 34." [d20=15]
[22:27] <Afina> roll 1d20+26 evasion
[22:27] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+26 evasion and gets 32." [1d20=6]
[22:28] <Shao_Koahn> Ithea passes through with dazzling speed, a nimble leap propelling her through a hole! Afina is more mobile, simply flying through a larger gap! Adrian tries to run through one but stumbles a bit, a hair too slow! Gray ice washes onto him, as...OOC: He gets a fortitude save.
[22:28] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+20
[22:28] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+20 and gets 29." [1d20=9]
[22:29] <Shao_Koahn> Adrian stumbles through as his flesh turns a pallid gray, but with a grunt he shakes his head back and forth! With a quick motion he whips his cloak off, much of the ice falling away and the rest wiped away. The gray-ness to him retreats, his breathing strangely slow.
[22:30] <Afina> The first thing is to make sure they're not seen and forced into an immediate fight, then they can tend to Adrian.
[22:32] <Shao_Koahn> No one is about. Ahead you can see a 10ft tall wall, nothing but gray, writhing flesh. Past that you can see some sort of squat, square fortress rising ahead, made of the same. Faces are a large part of the wall, slack and apathetic. There is no immediate gateway within it - just smooth wall.
[22:33] <Afina> Pushing up against the wall and putting its disgustingness out of mind, Afina turns to Adrian, her voice low. "Are you able to keep going?"
[22:33] * Ithea grimaces at the sight of the walls, and turns back to Adrian, checking him to make sure he's fine, looking concerned as Afina makes her question.
[22:36] <Shao_Koahn> The face takes on a look of uncaring pain at that touch, eyes full of utter misery. At the same time Adrian nods, "I can climb."
[22:38] <Ithea> Still looking concerned, Ithea takes the time to cast Cat's Grace on Adrian, and then herself for good measure, whispering her incantation. "Please, none of your cat jokes," Ithea whispers afterwards as a joke, though a smile doesn't really reach her face.
[22:38] <Afina> Afina doesn't touch it! she just gets close enough for shelter to hide. "Okay, I'll look over first to make sure we're clear," she whispers, floating up to the top of the wall and peering over.
[22:39] <Ithea> ooc: just on Adrian actually, bonus wouldn't stack with circlet for me.
[22:41] <Shao_Koahn> "Meow," With a moment's impudent grin that banishes the last of the grays away, "Got it."
[22:42] * Ithea smacks him on the back of the head, though without a lot of force. "Jerk," she says, as she turns to look upwards to Afina, waiting for word on which way to move next.
[22:45] <Shao_Koahn> Afina flies up, able to see ahead! A large courtyard is ahead, empty. The ground has deep rusty stains all over, several smaller doors leading deeper within.
[22:46] <Afina> Far too quiet, it feels like a trap already... Any doors up on the wall or anything?
[22:47] <Shao_Koahn> The doors are all ground level.
[22:50] <Afina> Floating back down. "There's nobody at all, not on the walls or in the courtyard," she whispers. "It definitely feels like a trap. We'll go over the wall and then in the nearest door - I'll go first and make sure it's clear of traps, but we'll be exposed so you better hurry." Her spiel done, she zips over and towards the nearest door, quickly scanning it over.
[22:50] <Afina> roll 1d20+23 search
[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+23 search and gets 29." [1d20=6]
[22:56] * Ithea nods at Afina's statement, and moves closer to the walls, grimacing as she presses her hand against one of the faces, preparing to climb using the facial features as holds to help her climb.
[22:56] <Ithea> roll d20+12 climb
[22:56] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+12 climb and gets 16." [d20=4]
[22:57] <Shao_Koahn> Afina finds no traps, as Ithea attempts to climb! She can'tq uite make it up any appreciable distance on her first attempt.
[22:57] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+26 Adrian
[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+26 Adrian and gets 38." [1d20=12]
[22:57] * Ithea just keeps trying!
[22:57] <Ithea> roll d20+12 climb
[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+12 climb and gets 23." [d20=11]
[22:58] <Shao_Koahn> The second attempt is good enough, as Adrian makes the ascent as well. The trio are in now, into the gloomy and silent courtyard.
[22:58] * Afina opens the door now, making sure there's no surprises on the other side before her companions catch up. Being out in the middle of the courtyard feels horribly exposed.
[22:58] * Ithea quickly moves towards Afina, dashing as quickly as she can with the assistance of Afina's haste.
[23:02] <Shao_Koahn> On the door opens! As you open it you find a dull, gray, dark hallway. As you do so...OOCL Listen you three.
[23:02] <Afina> roll 1d20+22
[23:02] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+22 and gets 33." [1d20=11]
[23:03] <Ithea> roll d20+17
[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+17 and gets 32." [d20=15]
[23:06] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+19
[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+19 and gets 38." [1d20=19]
[23:06] <Shao_Koahn> As you step in, you can hear chanting. Dull, thudding chanting.
[23:07] <Afina> "This might explain the lack of guards..." Afina whispers, flying up to the ceiling inside the hallway and flitting silently forwards, intending to follow the halls towards that chanting. If everyone's gathered in the one place they might be able to do some real damage with a surprise attack.
[23:09] <Shao_Koahn> The hall stretches down to an archway. Ahead you can see reddish light - candles. Hundreds of candles area head. Amid them you can see robed, hooded beings chanting around what looks to be an ashen white vessel of some sort. It's roughly rectangular, engraved with something - you can't tell what from here. OOC: Languages?
[23:09] <Afina> OOC: Common, Sylvan, Elven, Gnome, Auran, Aquan
[23:09] <Ithea> ooc: Common, Feline, Draconic, Sylvan, Elven, Infernal
[23:12] <Shao_Koahn> Ithea can tell the chanting is in infernal - something about slavery and sacrifice.
[23:13] <Ithea> "...they're chanting something about slavery...and sacrifice," Ithea whispers back to Afina with a grimace. Concern over the prisoners just jumped a great deal.
[23:13] <Shao_Koahn> The vessel is perhaps 10 to 20 ft long? It's hard to tell from here. It's maybe 10ft wide if not less.
[23:16] <Afina> "We waited too long," Afina hisses. "Hide and get ready, the others should attack any minute. Ithea, if you think it's near the climax attack without delay, otherwise count to sixty and go," she instructs, silently ghosting into the sacrificial chamber and taking a hidden position at an upper corner, readying a spell to turn this ceremony into a riot...
[23:18] * Ithea nods at that, holding her weapon ready to attack.
[23:23] <Shao_Koahn> OOC: HIde check.
[23:24] <Afina> roll 1d20+28
[23:24] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+28 and gets 30." [1d20=2]
[23:27] <Shao_Koahn> As Afina enters, one of the robed figures happens to look up. It's absolutely terrible timing, canine snout poking out as it sees Afina! You can see one shaggy eyebrow raise, saying something in sizzling, dreadful words that Afina can't comprehend.
[23:30] <Ithea> "Tch," Ithea mutters, as she motions for Adrian to come, so they can jump to Afina's defense together while they at least have an element of surprise.
[23:39] <Shao_Koahn> OOC: Init there. There are 8 of the hooded men in there, since it was asked.

[23:39] <Afina> roll 1d20+19
[23:39] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+19 and gets 39." [1d20=20]
[23:39] <Ithea> roll d20+9 init
[23:39] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+9 init and gets 29." [d20=20]
[23:40] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+6 Adrian
[23:40] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+6 Adrian and gets 12." [1d20=6]
[23:40] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+7 using group for the 8 hooded 'loths
[23:40] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+7 using group for the 8 hooded 'loths and gets 8." [1d20=1]
[23:40] * Shao_Koahn changes topic to 'Afina(39)>Ithea(29)>Adrian(12)>'loths(8)'
[23:40] <Shao_Koahn> OOC: Go Afina.
[23:42] <Afina> Nothing for it now but to attack. The ritual should be ruined anyway, and that's a plus! There should be others somewhere in the complex to occupy the assault group, but in the meantime Afina turns these fiends against each other with a mocking chorus of her own sylvan language!
[23:42] <Afina> roll 1d20+16 SR DC 25 incite riot
[23:42] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+16 SR DC 25 incite riot and gets 32." [1d20=16]
[23:42] <Shao_Koahn> OOC: Mind affecting?
[23:42] <Afina> OOC: yes
[23:44] <Shao_Koahn> The magic washes over the hooded men...but nothing happens at all! OOC: Ithea.
[23:47] * Ithea steps into the room, dashing towards one of the arcanaloths, and stabbing him quickly, not trying anything fancy, just testing how his defenses compare to that of the menace they had to deal with when they came upon Aurora.
[23:47] <Ithea> roll d20+23
[23:47] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+23 and gets 38." [d20=15]
[23:47] <Shao_Koahn> OOC: Hit.
[23:47] <Ithea> roll d10+13 does SA apply?
[23:47] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+13 does SA apply? and gets 20." [d10=7]
[23:48] <Ithea> roll 5d6 sneak attack if it does, otherwise ignore
[23:48] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls 5d6 sneak attack if it does, otherwise ignore and gets 14." [5d6=3, 3, 3, 1, 4]
[23:49] <Shao_Koahn> OOC: Yes, flatfooted.
[23:50] <Shao_Koahn> Ithea catches the 'loth completely offguard, stabbing into its side! Blood trickles out and stains its robe as a canine face scowls at you, "A foolish and terminal mistake, mortal," it observes coldly, as Adrian follows! With haste granted speed he leaps atop the vessel, pincering the 'loth with Ithea and stabbing into its back!
[23:50] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+20 (+1 haste, -10 PA)
[23:50] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+20 (+1 haste, -10 PA) and gets 38." [1d20=18]
[23:50] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+20 (+1 haste, -10 PA) crit?
[23:50] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+20 (+1 haste, -10 PA) crit? and gets 38." [1d20=18]
[23:52] <Ithea> "No, it wasn't. The mistake was yours," Ithea growls at the arcanaloth in the same infernal language they were chanting, as she draws back her blooded weapon and Adrian deals his own damage.
[23:52] <Shao_Koahn> roll 4d6+62+5d6 and 2 str
[23:52] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 4d6+62+5d6 and 2 str and gets 90." [4d6=2, 3, 6, 1][5d6=2, 1, 1, 6, 6]
[23:52] * Willim (~Dis@c-71-57-26-119.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has joined #terrorofdunes
[23:54] <Shao_Koahn> Pincered and stabbed in the back, this 'loth staggers terrifically! It says not a word as it concentrates, vanishing away! A second later the other seven turn, seven voices as one speaking, "Interference?!" A moment later the room explodes in acid seven times over, like molten death! OOC: Anyone have SR? I know Adrian does.
[23:54] <Afina> OOC: SR 29
[23:54] <Ithea> ooc: sr 24
[23:56] <Ithea> ooc: no wait, 25
[23:57] <Shao_Koahn> roll 7#1d20+13 vs 24 for Adrian, 29 for Afina, 25 for Ithea
[23:57] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 7#1d20+13 vs 24 for Adrian, 29 for Afina, 25 for Ithea and gets 157." [7#1d20+13 = 33, 19, 22, 17, 25, 25, 16]
[23:57] <Shao_Koahn> OOC: 3 reflex saves for Adrian, 1 for Afina, 3 for Ithea.
[23:58] <Afina> roll 1d20+26 evasion
[23:58] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+26 evasion and gets 44." [1d20=18]
[23:58] <Shao_Koahn> roll 3#d1d20+12 evasion
[23:58] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 3#d1d20+12 evasion and gets 54." [3#d1d20+12 = 15, 22, 17]
[23:58] <Ithea> roll d20+18 evasion #1
[23:58] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+18 evasion #1 and gets 37." [d20=19]
[23:58] <Ithea> roll d20+18 evasion #2
[23:58] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+18 evasion #2 and gets 29." [d20=11]
[23:58] <Ithea> roll d20+18 evasion #3
[23:58] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+18 evasion #3 and gets 25." [d20=7]
[23:58] <Shao_Koahn> roll 20d8 took 2 of these, full damage. Everyone else passed their saves with evasion. He really does need to boost his reflex save, doesn't he?
[23:58] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 20d8 took 2 of these, full damage. Everyone else passed their saves with evasion. He really does need to boost his reflex save, doesn't he? and gets 82." [20d8=4, 2, 8, 3, 6, 1, 6, 3, 1, 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 4, 1, 4, 6, 6, 2]
[00:00] <Shao_Koahn> Acid fills the room,e xploding out seven times! The world is a haze for Afina as she dodges and dodges, frantically evading as parts of magic fade on her and other gouts of acid are dodged! Ithea is much the same, both somehow untouched! Adrian is slower, bathed in acid from head to toe! His body burns and skin peels grotesquely, but he remains standing! OOC: Afina.
[00:02] <Afina> Mentally cursing at her spell's failure and the result of Adrian's maiming because of it, Afina draws Pixiestick and dashes through the massed arcanaloths, tiny silver sword flashing out to stab into the vitals of two of them as she passes before coming to rest on top of the white vessel opposite them.
[00:02] <Afina> roll 1d20+24 tumble or else provokes 4 AoOs
[00:02] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+24 tumble or else provokes 4 AoOs and gets 37." [1d20=13]
[00:03] <Afina> roll 1d20+30 2nd level arcane strike, hitting the one hurt by Ithea
[00:03] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+30 2nd level arcane strike, hitting the one hurt by Ithea and gets 39." [1d20=9]
[00:03] <Afina> roll 1d20+25 2nd level arcane strike, hitting random one, holy surge
[00:03] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+25 2nd level arcane strike, hitting random one, holy surge and gets 42." [1d20=17]
[00:04] <Afina> roll 1d4+12+2d6+5d6+1d6+2d4 holy/skirmish/swift/magic #1
[00:04] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+12+2d6+5d6+1d6+2d4 holy/skirmish/swift/magic #1 and gets 43." [1d4=2][2d6=5, 5][5d6=1, 3, 4, 1, 4][1d6=2][2d4=1, 3]
[00:04] <Afina> roll 1d4+12+5d6+5d6+1d6+2d4 holy/skirmish/swift/magic #2
[00:04] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+12+5d6+5d6+1d6+2d4 holy/skirmish/swift/magic #2 and gets 40." [1d4=2][5d6=1, 4, 3, 3, 1][5d6=1, 1, 2, 1, 1][1d6=5][2d4=1, 2]
[00:05] <Shao_Koahn> AFina darts through the 'loth ranks, stabbing into two of them as she flies! Wounds are ripped open, blood flowing as curses are uttered! The dog-daemons exchange quick looks between one another! OOC: Ithea.
[00:06] <Shao_Koahn> "Perhaps...our services are not being adequately compensated. Tell me," One of the 'loths looks up, deep black fur over its face. "Are you interested in negiotiating in hiring our services against our current contract? WE aren't obligated to continue this if we have another client."
[00:07] <Afina> "Seven gold and you get to live," Afina replies quickly, not intending to let them use this as a stalling tactic. Anything other than immediate assent is unworthy of any response bar her blade.
[00:08] <Ithea> "I can't say I'm interested in hiring you, not in the business of enslavement," Ithea answers as she switches back to common, before stabbing a pair of them with arcane-powered strikes. (OOC: vampiric touch, arcane strike lv 4)
[00:08] <Ithea> roll d20+20 (PA-8 vs 1)
[00:08] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+20 (PA-8 vs 1) and gets 30." [d20=10]
[00:08] <Ithea> roll d20+20 (PA-8 vs 2)
[00:08] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+20 (PA-8 vs 2) and gets 34." [d20=14]
[00:08] <Ithea> roll d20+15 (PA-8 vs 1)
[00:08] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+15 (PA-8 vs 1) and gets 34." [d20=19]
[00:09] <Ithea> roll d20+10 (PA-8 vs 2)
[00:09] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+10 (PA-8 vs 2) and gets 20." [d20=10]
[00:18] <Shao_Koahn> OOC: Two hits. SR for vampiric touch.
[00:19] <Ithea> roll d20+17 SR #1
[00:19] <Ithea> roll d20+17 SR #2
[00:19] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+17 SR #1 and gets 25." [d20=8]
[00:19] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+17 SR #2 and gets 26." [d20=9]
[00:19] <Ithea> roll d10+29+4d4 vs #1
[00:19] <Ithea> roll d10+29+4d4 vs #2
[00:19] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+29+4d4 vs #1 and gets 46." [d10=9][4d4=4, 2, 1, 1]
[00:19] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+29+4d4 vs #2 and gets 38." [d10=3][4d4=1, 2, 2, 1]
[00:21] <Shao_Koahn> Two swift stabs impale another 'loth, blood flowing! ADrian stumbles forward, silvered, undamaged blade coming down on the arcanaloth to his side! He grins despite the obvious damage, "You think eight of you mean anything to us? We defeat Shards of Selune and cornugons without even blinking!"
[00:22] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+26 (+1 haste, -4 PA)
[00:22] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+26 (+1 haste, -4 PA) and gets 27." [1d20=1]
[00:22] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+26 (+1 haste, -4 PA)
[00:22] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+26 (+1 haste, -4 PA) and gets 32." [1d20=6]
[00:22] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+21 (+1 haste, -4 PA)
[00:22] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+21 (+1 haste, -4 PA) and gets 22." [1d20=1]
[00:22] <Shao_Koahn> roll 1d20+16 (+1 haste, -4 PA)
[00:22] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 1d20+16 (+1 haste, -4 PA) and gets 19." [1d20=3]
[00:22] <Shao_Koahn> roll 2d6+26
[00:22] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 2d6+26 and gets 31." [2d6=2, 3]
[00:23] <Shao_Koahn> Adrian stabs down, only managing a graze into the 'loth's shoulder! Several of thema re bleeding now, as they nod as one! Abruptly the room is filled with fire seven times over, as the 'loths vanish away! OOC: Same battery of SR checks.
[00:24] <Shao_Koahn> roll 7#1d20+13 vs 24 for Adrian, 29 for Afina, 25 for Ithea
[00:24] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 7#1d20+13 vs 24 for Adrian, 29 for Afina, 25 for Ithea and gets 159." [7#1d20+13 = 14, 15, 27, 31, 17, 24, 31]
[00:24] <Afina> OOC: still 29
[00:24] <Shao_Koahn> OOC: 4 for Adrian, 2 for Afina, 3 for Ithea. Reflex saves.
[00:24] <Afina> roll 2#1d20+26 evasion
[00:24] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 2#1d20+26 evasion and gets 70." [2#1d20+26 = 32, 38]
[00:24] <Shao_Koahn> roll 4#1d20+14 (+1 haste, +2 cat's grace)
[00:24] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 4#1d20+14 (+1 haste, +2 cat's grace) and gets 96." [4#1d20+14 = 29, 18, 17, 32]
[00:24] <Ithea> roll 3#d20+19 evasion
[00:24] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls 3#d20+19 evasion and gets 89." [3#d20+19 = 34, 29, 26]
[00:25] <Shao_Koahn> roll 20d6 fire damage full to Adrian. Owwies. He hopes this isn't unusually high for 20d6.
[00:26] * Hatbot --> "Shao_Koahn rolls 20d6 fire damage full to Adrian. Owwies. He hopes this isn't unusually high for 20d6. and gets 64." [20d6=4, 2, 1, 6, 4, 3, 1, 6, 4, 3, 6, 2, 5, 4, 2, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3]
[00:27] <Shao_Koahn> Fire erupts, scorching the room further! Again Ithea and Afina dodge, avoiding fire and magic in every direction and untouched! Adrian is far less lucky, charred and burned all over! His face is a mask of black burns and his hair is sizzling, but he somehow stands! OOC: Free act, the 'loths all teleported.

[00:27] * Afina can't do anything for Adrian, so she looks for a way to open the vessel, imagining any number of tortured and contorted fey trapped inside.
[00:28] * Ithea quickly presses her hands against Adrian's chests and heals him up as much as she can. "You really need to be quicker on your feet, you fool!" Ithea admonishes him.
[00:28] <Ithea> roll 4d8+14
[00:28] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls 4d8+14 and gets 39." [4d8=7, 5, 7, 6]
[00:29] <Shao_Koahn> The vessel is carved with scenes of denuded forests burning, charring to ash before your eyes. It looks like the lid can be lifted normally, as meanwhile Adrian is healed. Couching as his burned face mends somewhat, "T-thanks," he says, stumbling off the vessel and using his sword to keep himself up, "Fuck, fuck, fuck!"
[00:29] <Shao_Koahn> After a moment, "Gonna work on that," he grunts out, "You can count onthat, dammit!"
[00:30] <Afina> "Help me move this!" Afina hisses over at the two bigger people, putting her own not considerable strength to opening it.
[00:30] <Ithea> "You do that," Ithea says as she moves to help Afina with the vessel.
[00:34] <Shao_Koahn> With two hands the vessel is opened! A puff of sulphuric air escapes out as within - you see them. Easily three or four dozen pixies, lying still in the vessel. They are nude and stacked together, bodies painted with sooty black symbols. For long moments you don't see any movement...then you can notice breathing. They're breathing.
[00:57] <Afina> Waving her hand to clear the nasty air, Afina leans in to lift the closet one out, intending to get them all out of that cramped hell and lay them down on the floor. If any show any signs of rousing she can ask if they know of others - it'd be passing strange if all the prisoners were pixies. If any are familiar faces it'd be a relief, at least... of a sort.
[00:57] <Shao_Koahn> Looking through them, Afina can see a pair of familiar faces. Skye, a beautiful lady in waiting of the Queen, lies with them. Crystal is a knight of the Queen, taken out as well. None of the pixies are stirring at the moment.
[00:57] <Shao_Koahn> Adrian staggers over, "That's them?" he asks, coughing and pounding his chest. His gaze is a bit glazed, but he looks down at them all the same. "Any friends of yours, by any chance?"
[00:57] <Ithea> "Seems like. All of them too, I hope," Ithea comments.
[00:57] <Afina> "That's Skye," Afina dully points out one, "I didn't know her well. Crystal," she points out another, "I sometimes sparred with. She fought in the last battle with me, but we lost sight of each other towards the end. I don't know how to heal them and we can't just leave them here. I'll use the Gate to send them to Aurora, if there's anyone else here we'll have to get them out with Jaela's group." Reaching up under her hat, she procures said scroll. "Carry as many as you can, you two, it'll take a few trips and the Gate won't last two minutes."
[00:57] <Shao_Koahn> "Alright," Adrian says, "I can carry a few each time. Do we want reinforcements? I'm not much good like this, and I've been burned like this before. It doesn't start hurting right away, but it's crippling once it does."
[00:57] <Afina> "If no one can heal you while the Gate's open then swap places with Elrisa or Dana?" Afina suggests. "Don't take long either way, remember this won't last long." Waiting for the pair to carry as many as is reasonable, Afina invokes the Gate to arrive in the courtyard of Aurora near the front door/portal. "Make sure they get taken to the infirmary for rest, that's the best thing now."

[Corwin]

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[20:00] <Ko-LaggyisLebronJames> As the party races ahead, you can see several doors lead to within the yugoloth fortress.
[20:01] <Jaela> "Each of you, bust a door!"
[20:02] * Willim immediately latches onto a door and hauls with massive strength!
[20:02] <Willim> roll 1d20+15 strength checkkkk
[20:02] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+15 strength checkkkk and gets 29." [1d20=14]
[20:03] <Ko-LaggyisLebronJames> 6#1d20+12
[20:03] * Hatbot --> "Ko-LaggyisLebronJames rolls 6#1d20+12 and gets 124." [6#1d20+12 = 21, 31, 21, 15, 20, 16]
[20:06] <Ko-LaggyisLebronJames> The doors are not overwhelmingly strong - between Willim and the giants, they are busted down without any great difficulty. Several passages lead further in, as well as one descending downwards. As you crack the doors, the fortress begins to rumble, an earthquake sweeping over! It's not a powerful one, but the shaking lasts a good few seconds.
[20:07] * Jaela picks the one leading further in, flying straight ahead!
[20:07] * Willim throws bits of door aside, following Jaela.
[20:08] <Ko-LaggyisLebronJames> OOC: There's several that go further in. Any particular preference?
[20:11] <Jaela> OOC: We choose randomly
[20:13] <Ko-LaggyisLebronJames> roll 1d5
[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Ko-LaggyisLebronJames rolls 1d5 and gets 2." [1d5=2]

[Corwin]

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[20:01] <Ko-LaggyisLebronJames> OOC: Okay. Str socre, Ithea?
[20:05] <Ithea> ooc: 27
[20:07] <Ko-LaggyisLebronJames> Thus the trio begin to race along, exacuating pixies with all haste! Soldiers come to exacuate the pixies away, Adrian collapsing against a wall once done. Oh, he gives her a glare - which she returns - but Elrisa steps forward after and through the portal, while Adrian stays behind. As this happens, the ground begins to shake! The earthquake only lasts a few seconds nor is it very
[20:07] <Ko-LaggyisLebronJames> strong, but it's felt all the same.
[20:09] <Afina> "That must be the others attacking," Afina notes with grim satisfaction at the rumble, closing the gate once all pixies are away and their reinforcement has arrived. "No point using stealth now, lets hunt down those yugoloths and kill them!" she declares, zipping back into the hallways to start scouring the fortress of its inhabitants!
[20:10] * Ithea nods as she chases after Afina.

[Corwin]

[20:14] <Ko-LaggyisLebronJames> As Jaela, Willim and the others race in, they find an archway ahead. From this archway Afina, Ithea and Elrisa emerge out, "How many are there," Elrisa asks, heard as the trio comes into sight.
[20:15] <Jaela> "Anyone left alive in there?" Jaela asks, not wishing to waste any time.
[20:16] <Afina> "We saw eight in that chamber before," Afina replies, stopping as she sees their companions. "There were a lot of pixies, they're already back in Aurora. The Yugoloths teleported away but we haven't found any others," she then rattles off quickly.
[20:16] <Jaela> "We got one!" Next door! Jaela doubles back and charges in once more!
[20:17] * Afina blinks and looks around. "Did anyone else just hear that?" she asks, hardly believing the message could have been intended for her.
[20:18] <Jaela> "Yeah! Come on, plenty left to kill!"
[20:18] <Ko-LaggyisLebronJames> The Jarl nods, "Are we to keep kill-" He stops and looks about, "Who said that?"
[20:18] * Willim blinks. "Who is talking?"
[20:18] <Afina> "Did you hear it as well? It said 'my son, the gates are open'?" Afina checks to make sure they're all on the same page.
[20:19] <Ithea> "I just heard the word 'mother'," Ithea replies.
[20:20] <Willim> "It tell me to kil fo seven starry flag."
[20:20] <Ko-LaggyisLebronJames> Charging ahead, Jaela finds that this passage leads on to a stout looking wood door. In the middle the image of a leafless, barren tree is engraved.
[20:20] * Jaela opens the door!
[20:22] <Ko-LaggyisLebronJames> "I heard someone saying it was going to be alright,a nd that the healers are...it stopped there," Elrisa notes, wrinkling her nose. Meanwhile ahead, Jaela finds this room to be packed dirt. Leafless, dead trees are about. Dozens of them, forming a thick forest of deadwood. A single path leads into it.
[20:23] <Jaela> Creepy! But she goes on!
[20:23] <Afina> Could be echoes of the dead, Afina resolves to ignore it and continue looking for fiends to kill.
[20:24] * Ithea has no problems ignoring the whispers either.
[20:27] <Kotono> With that, the group plunges into the forest path.  As you walk you find the path just large enough to pass, branches grazing your arms several times - yet this is in spite of afina being small and the giants being much, much bigger. The size doesn't even seem to change - it just is, despite what all logic should say. As you walk along the earth shakes again, harder and longer this time! It
[20:27] <Kotono> staggers the party for several seconds before the ground grows still once more. But...what's this? Ahead, around a turn in the path, you can see a dim glow.
[20:28] * Jaela heads towards that glow with all due haste!
[20:28] <Afina> Afina is flying and unmoved by the motions of the earth! "This all fits inside the fort?" she wonders at the false forest surrounding them as she flies onwards.
[20:29] <Ithea> "The earth shaking wasn't you guys attacking?" Ithea asks with a small frown at the same time as Afina makes her own question.
[20:31] <Willim> "Maybe. Giants is heavy." Willim says.
[20:33] <Kotono> "Apparently, but I have never seen a forest quite this dead, even in winter's heart!" Elrisa calls as you race on! Past that turn you go - ahead is a clearing of sorts. Ahead you can see a vast circle with eight more within, for a total of nine. Each circle occasionally glistens with dark red, sooty light. Within the center stands but one creature, before an altar made pristine white ivory. She
[20:33] <Kotono> is red scaled and lithe, entirely feminine in apperance. She is as tall as Jaela twice over, a smirk on her face. In her hand is a stone dagger, made of obsidian or some other dark stone. It is polished to a mirror gloss. As you come into view the creature cocks her head to its side, "Hm?" Tapping a finger to her lips, "Ah, I see. Clearly I underpaid," she observes, in a sweet, beautiful voice.
[20:33] <Kotono> OOC: K:P on her if ou care to.
[20:34] <Jaela> roll 1d20+22
[20:34] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+22 and gets 29." [1d20=7]
[20:35] <Ithea> roll d20+23
[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+23 and gets 35." [d20=12]
[20:36] <Jaela> "You're the boss, right?" Jaela declares, pointing her spear at the creature. "The pit fiend chick? Tell me you ain't gonna run away from this."
[20:36] <Afina> "If we kill her here she doesn't really die?" Afina checks, her understanding of outsiders shaky but having had enough experience to consider that point. "I can't accept that. Make sure no one deals a fatal wound to her." That's all she has to say, really.
[20:38] <Kotono> "I had no words for one who sounds like an inbred yokel," The creature sniffs and turns away from Jaela with a look of supreme, utter disdain. "Come then. If you come to claim my body, here I am." She spreads her arms wide. "Let us begin this farce, as it seems my main entertainment is ruined. You'll have to do as a substitute." OOC: Init.

[20:38] <Afina> roll 1d20+19
[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+19 and gets 28." [1d20=9]
[20:38] <Jaela> roll 1d20+6
[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+6 and gets 26." [1d20=20]
[20:38] <Ithea> roll d20+9
[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+9 and gets 15." [d20=6]
[20:38] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 Elrisa
[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 Elrisa and gets 6." [1d20=1]
[20:38] <Willim> roll 1d20+4
[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+4 and gets 11." [1d20=7]
[20:38] <Kotono> roll 1d20-1 giants group init
[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-1 giants group init and gets 0." [1d20=1]
[20:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9 Bitch in the circle
[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 Bitch in the circle and gets 18." [1d20=9]
[20:39] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(28)>Jaela(26)>Ithea(15)>Elrisa(6)'
[20:40] <Ithea> "I don't plan on holding back. I doubt she's weak enough to die from a few hits though," Ithea comments to Afina.
[20:40] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(28)>Jaela(26)>Paeliryon(18)>Ithea(15)>Willim(11)>Elrisa(6)>Giants(Mikoed)'
[20:40] <Afina> Those circles clearly have some function, and it wouldn't do to blunder in if they serve as a warding or protection...
[20:40] <Kotono> OOC: K:A, anyone who cares to make it.
[20:40] <Afina> roll 1d20+23 spellcraft on the circles
[20:40] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+23 spellcraft on the circles and gets 33." [1d20=10]
[20:40] <Jaela> roll 1d20+19 K:A
[20:40] <Afina> OOC: -2 for my arcana check.
[20:40] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+19 K:A and gets 20." [1d20=1]
[20:40] <Ithea> roll d20+23 arcana
[20:40] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+23 arcana and gets 42." [d20=19]
[20:42] <Kotono> OOC: Afina, open.
[20:44] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(28)>Jaela(26)>Paeliryon(18)>Ithea(15)>Willim(11)>Elrisa(6)>Giants(Mikoed)>-(DM note and reminder)'
[20:45] <Afina> The first thing Afina does is naturally hasten all of her allies, then she flies to the side then she casts an area dispel over the layered circles!
[20:45] <Afina> roll 9#1d20+10 dispel checks
[20:45] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 9#1d20+10 dispel checks and gets 184." [9#1d20+10 = 30, 20, 13, 19, 16, 19, 18, 21, 28]
[20:46] <Afina> roll 1d20+10 if the fiend has any buffs since she's in the radius too
[20:46] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+10 if the fiend has any buffs since she's in the radius too and gets 30." [1d20=20]
[20:47] <Kotono> With a shimmering pop the outermost circle grows dark! Then it hits the second layer and nothing happens, no more magic undone! OOC: Jaela.
[20:48] <Ithea> "They have to be dispelled in order...what a pain!" Ithea scowls, debating between trying to force her way in, or helping with dispelling the barriers.
[20:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10 Annalise, one of the many reasons I hate pausing mid combat for several days. It's so easy to forget shit.
[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 Annalise, one of the many reasons I hate pausing mid combat for several days. It's so easy to forget shit. and gets 20." [1d20=10]
[20:49] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(28)>Jaela(26)>Annalise(20)>Paeliryon(18)>Ithea(15)>Willim(11)>Elrisa(6)>Giants(Mikoed)>-(DM note and reminder)'
[20:51] * Jaela doesn't charge in for a change, circling around while she gathers holy energy in her fist. "Dispellings? Okay, then!" She glams it into the ground before her to annihilate the second protective circle!
[20:51] <Jaela> OOC: Dispel Evil, I want to put her between myself and the others
[20:51] <Kotono> OOC: Link me to dispel evil?
[20:55] <Kotono> Jaela gathers her energy in hand, the second circle shuddering! It blink-blinks a moment before sputtering out, the second one gone! OOC: Annalise.
[20:56] <Kotono> "Well, if that's how it is?" Annalise looks on, "A fine soul trap, but nothing to slow us down, devil," With an idle gesture of her hand, Annalise attempts to shatter the magic!
[20:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 circle 3, rolling one at a time until she clears them all or hits a stopper
[20:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 circle 3, rolling one at a time until she clears them all or hits a stopper and gets 16." [1d20=1]
[21:01] <Kotono> But yet, none of the magic shatters at all! A moment later, "It really is too bad." Licking her lips as she looks right at Afina, "The spiritual essence of your kind from Lifasa is a delicacy." At the same time three pentagrams appear, one besides Jaela, one besides Afina and a third before Annalise! From each one it appears - a huge thing, coal-black and with vast wings. Each one carries a
[21:01] <Kotono> greatsword in hand, as terror takes to the battlefield! OOC: Jaela and Afina need to make a save vs fear. Let me know if you're immune.
[21:01] <Jaela> OOC: Temporarily immune due to greater heroism
[21:02] <Afina> roll 1d20+17
[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+17 and gets 21." [1d20=4]
[21:02] <Jaela> "So what am I, bitch? Chopped liver?" Jaela scoffs. "Are you just gonna hide behind your fancy circles while we carve them up one at a time?"
[21:03] <Kotono> As terror spreads into Afina, liqufying her courage, the three titanic terrors attack!
[21:03] <Afina> As soon as the huge fiend appears before her, Afina vanishes instantly!
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 Jaela's attacker first greatsword
[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 Jaela's attacker first greatsword and gets 37." [1d20=12]
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 23." [1d20=3]
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 22." [1d20=7]
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 bite
[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 bite and gets 36." [1d20=14]
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 tail
[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 tail and gets 37." [1d20=15]
[21:04] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
[21:05] <Jaela> OOC: AC29, 20% miss chance unless he has true seeing, Fort27 on every hit due to http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/holyAura.htm
[21:06] <Kotono> roll 1d100 sword 1
[21:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 sword 1 and gets 81." [1d100=81]
[21:06] <Kotono> roll 1d100 tail
[21:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 tail and gets 40." [1d100=40]
[21:06] <Kotono> roll 1d100 bite
[21:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 bite and gets 13." [1d100=13]
[21:07] <Kotono> roll 3d6+15 and fortitude for Jaela
[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+15 and fortitude for Jaela and gets 26." [3d6=3, 2, 6]
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 fortitude cornguon
[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 fortitude cornguon and gets 27." [1d20=11]
[21:08] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(28)>Jaela(26)>Annalise(20)>Cornugon 1=C2=C3=Paeliryon(18)>Ithea(15)>Willim(11)>Elrisa(6)>Giants(Mikoed)>-(DM note and reminder)'
[21:08] <Jaela> roll 1d20+35
[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+35 and gets 43." [1d20=8]
[21:09] <Kotono> roll 2d8+5 bite
[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+5 bite and gets 13." [2d8=1, 7]
[21:09] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 fortitude cornguon
[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 fortitude cornguon and gets 36." [1d20=20]
[21:09] <Kotono> Jaela gets a sword in her side and a bite into her shoulder, as the nightmare looms over her! In a hideous voice it screams at her, screaming nameless words that make her soul ache, living again those horrible last moments on Lifasa! Meanwhile...
[21:09] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 Afina
[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 Afina and gets 40." [1d20=15]
[21:09] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 30." [1d20=10]
[21:09] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 18." [1d20=3]
[21:10] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 bite
[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 bite and gets 34." [1d20=12]
[21:10] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 tail
[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 tail and gets 26." [1d20=4]
[21:10] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
[21:10] <Afina> OOC: 44
[21:11] <Kotono> roll 2d6+5 sub out that last hit on Jaela, also note you have an infernal wound now.
[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+5 sub out that last hit on Jaela, also note you have an infernal wound now. and gets 16." [2d6=6, 5]
[21:11] <Kotono> Meahwhile Afina is just too fast, the huge devil next to her unable to connect! Finally, the last one is on Annalise!
[21:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 and gets 41." [1d20=16]
[21:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 23." [1d20=3]
[21:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 24." [1d20=9]
[21:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22
[21:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 and gets 36." [1d20=14]
[21:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22
[21:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 and gets 33." [1d20=11]
[21:12] <Kotono> roll 3d6+15
[21:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+15 and gets 23." [3d6=3, 1, 4]
[21:13] <Kotono> Annalise is grazed by the sword, her eyes flashing a moment as she is shallowly cut! OOC: Doesn't bypass DR, so 3 damage to her. Paeliryon is taking her swift then Ithea is up.
[21:14] <Kotono> A moment later, as the chaos of battle takes, the foul creature just stares at Willim! OOC: Will save.
[21:14] <Willim> roll 1d20+13
[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+13 and gets 28." [1d20=15]
[21:14] <Kotono> OOC: +5 since in battle, but that passes anyway.
[21:14] <Kotono> Willim feels his mind being suppressed, just like with Annalise! But this time it's not nearly so strong, a surge of wills hattering the foreign presence! OOC: Ithea.
[21:15] * Ithea decides to help with dispelling the circles, quick casting an area dispel like Afina and Annalise, and holding ready a second casting of the spell as a follow-up as it'll probably be needed. Willim, the giants and Elrisa can help out with the paeliryon's bodyguards in the meantime.
[21:15] <Ithea> roll d20+10 circle 3
[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+10 circle 3 and gets 29." [d20=19]
[21:15] <Ithea> roll d20+10 circle 4 (assuming that works)
[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+10 circle 4 (assuming that works) and gets 24." [d20=14]
[21:16] <Ithea> ooc: keep going or casting second dispel magic?
[21:16] <Kotono> OOC: Keep going.
[21:17] <Ithea> roll d20+10 circle 5
[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+10 circle 5 and gets 19." [d20=9]
[21:17] <Ithea> roll d20+10 circle 5 (second casting of dispel magic)
[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+10 circle 5 (second casting of dispel magic) and gets 17." [d20=7]
[21:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 18." [1d20=2]
[21:17] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(28)>Jaela(26)>Annalise(20)>Cornugon 1=C2=C3(Blind)=Paeliryon(18)>Ithea(15)>Willim(11)>Elrisa(6)>Giants(Mikoed)>-(DM note and reminder)'
[21:18] <Kotono> Calling on all the Weave to shatter, Ithea channels double dispels! The third and fourth circles shatter, leaving only five remaining!  OOC: Willim.
[21:19] * Willim lunges at the monster menacing Jaela, ignoring the demon/devil/whatever girl for now, too much magic-y stuff! OOC: Assuming in or near melee since we all kind of came in together.
[21:20] <Kotono> OOC: That's fine. What's yoru reach?
[21:20] <Willim> OOC: 5 ft
[21:20] <Jaela> OOC: No way
[21:20] <Jaela> OOC: I went all the way around
[21:20] <Kotono> OOC: Good point, Jaela.
[21:20] <Kotono> OOC: So did Afina, thinkin' abouti t. Annalise is still close, she didn't move.
[21:20] <Willim> OOC: Grand
[21:21] * Willim lunges at the monster menacing Annalise, ignoring the demon/devil/whatever girl for now, too much magic-y stuff! OOC: Assuming in or near melee since we all kind of came in together, striking last line
[21:22] <Willim> roll 1d20+29-9 PA
[21:22] <Willim> roll 1d20+29-9 PA
[21:22] <Willim> roll 1d20+24-9 PA
[21:22] <Willim> roll 1d20+19-9 PA
[21:22] <Willim> roll 1d20+24-9 PA bite
[21:22] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+29-9 PA and gets 39." [1d20=19]
[21:22] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+29-9 PA and gets 24." [1d20=4]
[21:22] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+24-9 PA and gets 25." [1d20=10]
[21:22] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+19-9 PA and gets 18." [1d20=8]
[21:22] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+24-9 PA bite and gets 29." [1d20=14]
[21:22] <Kotono> OOC: One hit. Damage and make a will save due to fear aura.
[21:23] <Willim> OOC: 01 to attack due to haste, sorry
[21:23] <Willim> OOC +1
[21:24] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits. Will save as well.
[21:24] <Willim> roll 3#1d10+15
[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 3#1d10+15 and gets 58." [3#1d10+15 = 18, 20, 20]
[21:25] <Willim> OOC: Wait, which three hit?
[21:25] <Kotono> OOC: 1st, 3rd and 5th.
[21:25] <Willim> OOC: Ok, scratch that last roll.
[21:25] <Willim> roll 1d6+15
[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d6+15 and gets 19." [1d6=4]
[21:25] <Willim> roll 1d20+13 will
[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+13 will and gets 31." [1d20=18]
[21:26] <Willim> OOC: Silver weapons!
[21:26] <Kotono> Willim tears into the baatezu, ripping flesh and breaking bone! Its body does not overly resist the strikes, scales cracking under the beating! OOC:  Elrisa.
[21:29] <Kotono> Elrisa is moving in a split-second! She is across the battlefield in a dance, springing forward to strike with breathtaking grace! She moves in a single bound, blade slashing at the cornugon menacing Afina!
[21:29] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28
[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 and gets 47." [1d20=19]
[21:29] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28 crit?
[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 crit? and gets 36." [1d20=8]
[21:29] <Kotono> roll 2d10+24 and 2 str damage
[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d10+24 and 2 str damage and gets 38." [2d10=4, 10]
[21:29] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(28)>Jaela(26)>Annalise(20)>Cornugon 1=C2(-2 str)=C3(Blind)=Paeliryon(18)>Ithea(15)>Willim(11)>Elrisa(6)>Giants(Mikoed)>-(DM note and reminder)'
[21:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12
[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 and gets 30." [1d20=18]
[21:30] <Kotono> Like a flash she strikes, ending up 10ft away from it as she finishes! A gash is across its chest, trickling blood down its black scales! At this the giants stand back, a rain of boulders coming!
[21:32] <Kotono> roll 6#1d20+31 targeting the one on Annalise since its closest
[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6#1d20+31 targeting the one on Annalise since its closest and gets 226." [6#1d20+31 = 37, 32, 45, 42, 38, 32]
[21:33] <Kotono> roll 8d8+80 DR already taken into account
[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 8d8+80 DR already taken into account and gets 113." [8d8=1, 3, 3, 7, 3, 2, 7, 7]
[21:34] <Kotono> The one already with Willim is slammed and smashed, a hail of boulders nearly bowling him over entirely! Each one leaves a deep cracter in its scales, smashed! OOC: Ow. ??? is up.
[21:34] <Kotono> As the battle rages on, a cry of of pure agony can be heard! It seems to come from somewhere behind the party, a thousand voices screaming and wracked with sobs! OOC: Afina.
[21:35] <Kotono> "Oh yes, they're coming," The creature within the circles laughs, "Perhaps I didn't quite underpay as much as I thought. Hmmm," Tapping her lips again, "If you beg, I'll take your soul instead of letting the cabal get to it."
[21:36] <Afina> Unreasonably terrified of the devil before her, Afina's sword drops from nerveless fingers and she turns to flee back the way she came, unseen by any except those who can penetrate invisibility the no-longer-brave fairy zips away from the battle with excessive speed!
[21:36] <Kotono> OOC: Any particular direction?
[21:37] <Afina> OOC: back the way we came, out of the fortress, through the icefalls, and across the barren plains of hades
[21:37] <Kotono> OOC: What's your movement speed each round?
[21:37] <Afina> OOC: 400 feet
[21:39] <Kotono> Like a flash Afina is out of the forest, back to the archway! As she reaches it she finds the air growing thick. Around her are faces with withered, bleeding bodies. Each one is ghostly, faces too big and locked into expressions of sobbing agony. "Help us...save us...let us take you..." They say, trying to reach Afina as she races into them!
[21:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10 touch AC, Afina?
[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 touch AC, Afina? and gets 14." [1d20=4]
[21:39] <Afina> OOC: 36. I'm invisible remember
[21:39] <Kotono> OOC: They can see invis.
[21:40] <Kotono> The touches come close to Afina, but none quite reach her! OOC: Jaela, go.
[21:40] <Jaela> "Annalise," Jaela says, giving the pit fiend a look of disdain. "Shut this bitch the fuck up, will you? I'll play with her toys." She returns her attention to the cornugon that thought he could be her better, then, and retaliates in earnest!
[21:40] <Jaela> roll 1d20+30 divine might, 4pa
[21:40] <Jaela> roll 1d20+30 divine might, 4pa
[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+30 divine might, 4pa and gets 42." [1d20=12]
[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+30 divine might, 4pa and gets 47." [1d20=17]
[21:40] <Jaela> roll 1d20+25 divine might, 4pa
[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+25 divine might, 4pa and gets 44." [1d20=19]
[21:41] <Jaela> roll 1d20+20 divine might, 4pa
[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+20 divine might, 4pa and gets 24." [1d20=4]
[21:41] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits. Is 19 a crit checkf or you? I forget.
[21:41] <Jaela> roll 3#1d8+28+8+2d6 sadly no
[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 3#1d8+28+8+2d6 sadly no and gets 135." [3#1d8+28+8+2d6 = 43, 46, 46]
[21:41] <Kotono> OOC: What does your weapon count as?
[21:41] <Jaela> Meanwhile, spears of pure force surround Jaela in a perfect ring!
[21:42] <Jaela> OOC: Good
[21:42] <Kotono> Jaela's wrath rips into the cornugon, scoring wound after wound! She rips its sides and wings, causing torrents of blood to flow! She can't quite land the decisive blow, weakening but not slaying! OOC: Annalise.
[21:43] <Kotono> "Very well," Annalise nods once, calling on magic to be undone again as she concentrates past the cornugon on her and boulders! OOC: Auto passes concentration check, onto dispel checks.
[21:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 circle 5
[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 circle 5 and gets 35." [1d20=20]
[21:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 circle 6
[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 circle 6 and gets 19." [1d20=4]
[21:44] <Kotono> The fifth circle shatters apart, only four remaining now! A moment later Annalise leisurely reaches out, attempting to touch the cornugon before her, as it recovers from boulder-rain!
[21:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 35." [1d20=19]
[21:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 SR
[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 SR and gets 31." [1d20=16]
[21:45] <Kotono> roll 7d6 temp HP for her
[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 7d6 temp HP for her and gets 17." [7d6=1, 1, 4, 3, 5, 1, 2]
[21:46] <Kotono> The touch withers the cornugon further, leaving it broken and bloodied! At this the first one retorts, closing on Jaela again and concentrating instead! Around Jaela the force of pure law explodes, wrath concentrated into a cube that slams into her! OOC: SR, Jaela?
[21:46] <Jaela> OOC: 25, yes
[21:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 17." [1d20=2]
[21:47] <Kotono> But the magic crumbles against her! Meanwhile the second one roars in victory, before shifting and going after Elrisa!
[21:47] <Jaela> "Hey, hey! The fuck was that?! Fight me properly, you asshole!"
[21:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 and gets 38." [1d20=13]
[21:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 28." [1d20=8]
[21:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 25." [1d20=10]
[21:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22
[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 and gets 29." [1d20=7]
[21:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22
[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 and gets 24." [1d20=2]
[21:48] <Kotono> roll 3d6+15 and she needs fort
[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+15 and she needs fort and gets 22." [3d6=2, 4, 1]
[21:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 19." [1d20=4]
[21:48] <Kotono> roll 1d4 stunned for 1d4 rounds
[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 stunned for 1d4 rounds and gets 4." [1d4=4]
[21:48] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(28)>Jaela(26)>Annalise(20)>Cornugon 1=C2(-2 str)=C3(Blind)=Paeliryon(18)>Ithea(15)>Willim(11)>Elrisa(6; stunned 4 rounds)>Giants(Mikoed)>-(DM note and reminder)'
[21:49] <Kotono> roll 3d6+15 unfortunately, stun destroys her AC somethign fierce
[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+15 unfortunately, stun destroys her AC somethign fierce and gets 27." [3d6=4, 5, 3]
[21:49] <Kotono> roll 3d6+15 unfortunately, stun destroys her AC somethign fierce
[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+15 unfortunately, stun destroys her AC somethign fierce and gets 27." [3d6=3, 5, 4]
[21:50] <Kotono> roll 2d8+5
[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+5 and gets 10." [2d8=3, 2]
[21:50] <Kotono> roll 2d6+5
[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+5 and gets 13." [2d6=3, 5]
[21:50] <Kotono> OOC: Plus infernal wound.
[21:51] <Kotono> The creature slashes viciously, blow after blow raining! The first one is a lucky shot, catching Elrisa in the crown of her brow! It sends her staggering back in a complete stunned daze, a rain of blows nearly ripping her apart as she is unable to defend herself! Meanwhile the third one simply staggers, a fireball exploding around its body! OOC: Reflex saves, Annalise and Willim.
[21:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 and gets 27." [1d20=2]
[21:53] <Willim> roll 1d20+13
[21:53] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+13 and gets 18." [1d20=5]
[21:53] <Willim> OOC: Immune to fire, though
[21:54] <Kotono> OOC: Irrelevant then.
[21:54] <Kotono> The burst of fire explodes around the two, but does nothing at all! OOC: Paeliryon.
[21:56] <Kotono> This time the creature within merely raises a hand up, as four spheres of fire come from it! They dart out, exploding within the giants!
[21:57] <Kotono> roll 6#1d20+8
[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6#1d20+8 and gets 96." [6#1d20+8 = 10, 11, 11, 22, 22, 20]
[21:57] <Kotono> roll 6#1d20+8
[21:57] <Kotono> roll 6#1d20+8
[21:57] <Kotono> roll 6#1d20+8
[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6#1d20+8 and gets 113." [6#1d20+8 = 25, 11, 23, 20, 10, 24]
[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6#1d20+8 and gets 107." [6#1d20+8 = 9, 21, 26, 19, 14, 18]
[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6#1d20+8 and gets 120." [6#1d20+8 = 25, 27, 23, 17, 16, 12]
[21:57] <Kotono> roll 6d6
[21:57] <Kotono> roll 6d6
[21:57] <Kotono> roll 6d6
[21:57] <Kotono> roll 6d6
[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6 and gets 11." [6d6=4, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2]
[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6 and gets 19." [6d6=1, 3, 3, 5, 6, 1]
[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6 and gets 19." [6d6=1, 4, 2, 3, 6, 3]
[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6 and gets 21." [6d6=6, 6, 4, 1, 2, 2]
[21:58] <Kotono> Fiery hell erupts amid the giants, scorching them! They take many a nasty burn, still up and roaring defiance! The Jarl steps forward, a boulder readied, "Is that your best, WOMAN?!" OOC: Ithea.
[21:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 20." [1d20=2]
[21:58] <Kotono> OOC: Strike that then.
[21:58] <Kotono> Fiery hell erupts amid the giants, fizzling before them! The Jarl steps forward, a boulder readied, "Is that your best, WOMAN?!" OOC: Ithea.
[21:59] <Jaela> "Moron! Where are you aiming?" Jaela can't help but taunt their enemy.
[21:59] * Ithea cancels her original plan of repeating her actions as she sees Elrisa's status. Though she quickly casts another area dispel, her second spell is different. Instead, her second spell is used to summon Elrisa to her, even as she repositions herself so as to ensure if that devil wants to get to the stunned instructor, it will have to go through her glaive. (OOC: using regroup to summon Elrisa)
[21:59] <Ithea> roll d20+10 circle 6
[21:59] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+10 circle 6 and gets 26." [d20=16]
[22:00] <Ithea> roll d20+10 circle 7
[22:00] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+10 circle 7 and gets 14." [d20=4]
[22:00] <Ithea> ooc: well, vampy-chan can handle the rest of the circles.
[22:00] <Kotono> Elrisa appears behind Ithea, dazed and half dying! At the same time the 6th circle fades away, only the inner three-most ones remaining! "Persistent, aren't you?" The creature now frowns, "Lie down and die properly, I order you to!" OOC: Wililm.
[22:01] <Jaela> "Who'd lie with you, anyway? I bet ordering flunkies is the only way for you!"
[22:02] <Ithea> "You think we'd take orders from you? Hah!" Ithea retorts, though she keeps her eyes on the devil that Elrisa was fighting throughout this.
[22:03] * Willim swings at the injured cornugon, threatening to rip its throat out!
[22:03] <Willim> roll 1d20+29-9 PA
[22:03] <Willim> roll 1d20+29-9 PA
[22:03] <Willim> roll 1d20+24-9 PA
[22:03] <Willim> roll 1d20+19-9 PA
[22:03] <Willim> roll 1d20+24-9 PA bite
[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+29-9 PA and gets 36." [1d20=16]
[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+29-9 PA and gets 26." [1d20=6]
[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+24-9 PA and gets 16." [1d20=1]
[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+19-9 PA and gets 16." [1d20=6]
[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+24-9 PA bite and gets 27." [1d20=12]
[22:03] <Willim> OOC: +1 to all
[22:03] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits.
[22:03] <Willim> roll 2#1d10+15+9
[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 2#1d10+15+9 and gets 63." [2#1d10+15+9 = 31, 32]
[22:04] <Willim> roll 1d6+15+9
[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d6+15+9 and gets 30." [1d6=6]
[22:04] <Willim> OOC: Silver
[22:04] <Kotono> With beastial fury Willm does just that! The devil is unable to defend itself, throat torn open and body slumping over! After a moment it vanishes in a whiff of brimstone, banished back to the Hell that spawned it! OOC: Elrisa, stunned. Giants are up.
[22:04] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(28)>Jaela(26)>Annalise(20)>Cornugon 1=C2(-2 str)=Paeliryon(18)>Ithea(15)>Willim(11)>Elrisa(6; stunned 4 rounds)>Giants(Mikoed)>-(DM note and reminder)'
[22:05] * Willim looks disappointed that he won't be able to turn the beast into a proper meal, and looks to the rest of the fight hungrily.
[22:11] <Kotono> This time a rain of boulders comes at the now enemy free cornugon that nearly slew Elrisa, another volley of them!
[22:11] <Kotono> roll 6#1d20+31
[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6#1d20+31 and gets 242." [6#1d20+31 = 38, 40, 43, 42, 33, 46]
[22:11] <Kotono> roll 10d8+100
[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d8+100 and gets 136." [10d8=2, 1, 3, 4, 8, 4, 6, 2, 4, 2]
[22:11] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(28)>Jaela(26)>Annalise(20)>Cornugon 1=Paeliryon(18)>Ithea(15)>Willim(11)>Elrisa(6; stunned 4 rounds)>Giants(Mikoed)>-(DM note and reminder)'
[22:12] <Kotono> 'Under that train of agony the cornugon is crushed into dust, boulders coming away clean and no sign of the defeated fiend! At this...they come. Ghosts with giant heads screaming in sorrow and despair! They have small, withered bodies trailing behind them! As one they fill the battlefield, attempting to touch everyone! "Help us...free us...let us take you...!"
[22:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10 touch AC vs everyone
[22:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 touch AC vs everyone and gets 13." [1d20=3]
[22:12] <Kotono> OOC: Touch AC, all?
[22:13] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(28)>Jaela(26)>Annalise(20)>Cornugon 1=Paeliryon(18)>Ithea(15)>Willim(11)>Elrisa(6; stunned 4 rounds)>Giants(Mikoed)>Disembodied ghosts'
[22:13] <Jaela> OOC: Touch AC13, 17 vs evil, 20% miss chance
[22:13] <Ithea> ooc: 18
[22:13] <Willim> OOC: 26
[22:14] <Kotono> roll 1d4 negative levels Elrisa only
[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 negative levels Elrisa only and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[22:14] <Kotono> Only Elrisa, already wounded terribly and dazed, is unable to resist! The touch on her shoulder makes her entire body weaken, sagging inward! OOC: Afina, go.
[22:15] * Ithea gives the giants a thumbs up gesture, and scowls at the ghosts. "We're trying to help, you fools! Let us kill these damned devils and you'll go free!"
[22:15] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(28)>Jaela(26)>Annalise(20)>Cornugon 1=Paeliryon(18)>Ithea(15)>Willim(11)>Elrisa(6; stunned 3 rounds)>Giants(Mikoed)>Disembodied ghosts'
[22:16] <Kotono> OOC: Anyone can make K:R on the ghosts if they care to.
[22:16] <Jaela> roll 1d20+22
[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+22 and gets 33." [1d20=11]
[22:16] * Afina keeps right on running in mindless fear!
[22:17] <Afina> Flying, rather. Fleeing!
[22:17] <Ithea> roll d20+23 (I doubt collector applies, but +5 if it does)
[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+23 (I doubt collector applies, but +5 if it does) and gets 37." [d20=14]
[22:17] <Kotono> Past the ghosts she goes, outside! The outer wall of the fortress is gone, no more faces marked in pain! Trenches are in its place, gray ice-water bubbling up into them! Afina races ahead as...OOC: Make a reflex save for goin' through the water.
[22:17] <Ithea> ooc: wait, K:R not K:A. should be +12 instead of +23, so actual result would be 26
[22:17] <Jaela> "Annalise!" Jaela cries again. "I'll save them all! Take care of the rest!"
[22:18] <Afina> OOC: I'll go through the safe path I saw earlier, no concern for stealth this time just gotta go gotta go gotta go fast!
[22:18] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[22:19] <Kotono> Out Afina flies, hurrying away! Meanwhile Annalise nods, smothering a yawn in her hand. "Is that it?" she says in a note of boredom, "I've met lemures with better strategies, darling." OOC: Jaela.

[Corwin]

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[22:22] <Kotono> Blind panic. It is all Afina knows - until it stops, shatters, pauses. Before her in the endless gloom stands one thing. It is a man-shape of pure ebony shadow, save for a far too large smile filled with perfectly white teeth. It speaks without words to you, captivating Afina's attention. 'A morsel escapes after all.' OOC: K:N if you wanna try to ID this thing.
[22:23] <Afina> roll 1d20+23
[22:23] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+23 and gets 26." [1d20=3]
[22:25] <Afina> Her wits finally return to her, and she realises she no longer holds the sacred blade of fiendslaying... fortunately she'd taken to carrying and using another blade of late, so Shieldshard's presence remains a comfort on her back. Manifesting back into visibility, because clearly being invisible is of no help just as she'd known ever since the fall of Lifasa, she spares little time for
[22:25] <Afina> the one who stopped her. "I've little time to bandy words with you, for the battle surely still rages. Say your piece quickly?" He wouldn't have dispelled her fear if he intended to fight her, after all.
[22:32] <Kotono> 'You act as if you have a choice. You would make a fine prize to trade about, pixie,' The thing whispers into your mind.
[22:34] <Afina> Done talking, Afina casts dimension door to take her to the courtyard of the fortress she just left.
[22:34] <Kotono> OOC: Int check? It'll attempt to contest that.
[22:34] <Kotono> OOC: Init, I mean.
[22:34] <Afina> roll 1d20+19 good luck dude
[22:34] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+19 good luck dude and gets 21." [1d20=2]
[22:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 It's still obscenely fast
[22:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 It's still obscenely fast and gets 20." [1d20=2]

[Corwin]

[22:19] * Jaela goes to one knee, clasping her hands together in prayer, and a bright, soothing golden light erupts all over the clearing! It might heal even the minion harrassing her, but there is no time to think about that when the fate of the souls is at stake!
[22:20] <Jaela> roll 7d6 turning
[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 7d6 turning and gets 17." [7d6=2, 3, 2, 6, 2, 1, 1]
[22:20] <Jaela> roll 1d20+14 close wounds as swift
[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+14 close wounds as swift and gets 27." [1d20=13]
[22:21] <Jaela> roll 1d4+5
[22:21] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d4+5 and gets 6." [1d4=1]
[22:23] <Kotono> Healing light fills the room! Several of the souls grow brighter, becoming less twisted and tormented! This does heal the cornugon next to her, even as she mends her own wounds! Meanwhile Annalise once again assails the remaining circles!
[22:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
[22:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 33." [1d20=18]
[22:24] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
[22:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 21." [1d20=6]
[22:26] <Kotono> Another circle shatters, leaving only the two more to go! "I'm coming," Annalise steps forward and closer, almost to the eight circle. She licks her lips, fangs showing, "Really now, the First sired me. Do you think you have any hope against my companions and I?" OOC: Cornugon 1 and Paeliryon.
[22:26] <Kotono> The first cornugon tries again, a fireball exploding around it!
[22:26] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 SR
[22:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 SR and gets 29." [1d20=14]
[22:26] <Kotono> OOC: Ref.
[22:27] <Jaela> roll 1d20+30 fire res 30
[22:27] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+30 fire res 30 and gets 37." [1d20=7]
[22:27] <Kotono> roll 10d6 halve this
[22:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 halve this and gets 40." [10d6=3, 5, 4, 6, 5, 4, 2, 4, 6, 1]
[22:29] <Kotono> But the fire doesn't even touch Jaela, leaving not a mark on her! At this the fiend within scowls deeper, "Utterly impossible, all of you! But I will not be denied so easily!" A cruel smirk shows on her face instead, eyes shining with bloody red malice! "Watch your friend die!" At this fours pheres come forth again, landing just besides Elrisa and Ithea, exploding around them! OOC: Any SR, Ithea?
[22:29] <Ithea> ooc: yes, 25
[22:29] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 20." [1d20=2]
[22:29] <Jaela> "Parlor tricks," Jaela hisses as the blast of fire washes over her, and her conviction leaves her unharmed. "You will regret not facing me properly!"
[22:31] <Kotono> roll 4#1d20+16 ref
[22:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4#1d20+16 ref and gets 122." [4#1d20+16 = 36, 33, 36, 17]
[22:31] <Kotono> roll 6d6 fire halve Elrisa
[22:31] <Kotono> roll 6d6 fire halve Elrisa
[22:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6 fire halve Elrisa and gets 28." [6d6=6, 6, 6, 4, 1, 5]
[22:31] <Kotono> roll 6d6 fire halve Elrisa
[22:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6 fire halve Elrisa and gets 19." [6d6=6, 1, 5, 2, 2, 3]
[22:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6 fire halve Elrisa and gets 21." [6d6=1, 5, 5, 2, 6, 2]
[22:31] <Kotono> roll 6d6 fire full Elrisa
[22:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6 fire full Elrisa and gets 26." [6d6=3, 6, 2, 5, 5, 5]
[22:34] <Kotono> The flames flow into Ithea instead of bursting around her, but it does nothing to save Elrisa! Already wounded and dazed, she throws her arms up...and her body is immolated! She burns with a scream, falling onto her back and thrashing! For af ew moments she does so until she goes still, burning and smouldering on the ground! "Now then, which one of you will perish next? Resistance is futile!"
[22:34] <Kotono> OOC: Ithea.
[22:34] <Ithea> "...Elrisa!" Ithea exclaims, looking horrified, not having been able to do more to save the woman. Turning to the paeliryon with fierce anger in her eyes, she gives a silent prayers to whatever gods might be listening, to let her bring down the remaining barriers with her next spell.
[22:34] * Willim blinks slowly, looking at the others, then at the devil girl in the circle.
[22:35] <Ithea> roll d20+10 circle 8
[22:35] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+10 circle 8 and gets 14." [d20=4]
[22:35] <Ithea> ooc: You suck Hatbot
[22:35] <Ithea> ooc: So do the Balmuria gods.
[22:36] <Kotono> Despite her magic, another circle fails to fall! Elrisa lies there, like a used up bit of firewood. "The last two barriers are the strongest! Die trying to break them!" OOC: Willim.
[22:37] <Ithea> ooc: question, to break in by force, does it require standard/full action, or just trying to move past them?
[22:37] <Kotono> OOC: Trying to move past them.
[22:37] <Ithea> ooc: I'm going to be reckless and try to move in then. I have some HP for it >_>
[22:38] <Jaela> "Just kill the smug devil bitch!"
[22:38] * Ithea stares at the devil in anger at her words, and despite the barriers still being up attempts to charge into the circles, even though she knows it might hurt. As long as she gets through, she can make it hurt even more for the devil!
[22:38] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(28)>Jaela(26)>Annalise(20)>Cornugon 1=Paeliryon(18)>Ithea(15)>Willim(11)>Giants(Mikoed)>Disembodied ghosts'
[22:39] <Kotono> OOC: Str check.
[22:39] <Ithea> roll d20+8
[22:39] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+8 and gets 18." [d20=10]
[22:39] <Kotono> Ithea slams into the 8th circle, frozen momentarily before being pushed back hard! OOC: 16 points of cold damage.  Willim.
[22:45] * Willim turns, ignoring the cornugons and charging down the devil woman, magic circles and fancy spells or no! OOC: Charging, bull rushing. Eat it.
[22:46] <Kotono> OOC: Str check.
[22:46] <Willim> roll 1d20+15
[22:46] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+15 and gets 16." [1d20=1]
[22:46] <Kotono> Willim charges in, but hits the barrier like a pebble against a rock-face! Cold flashes through his body at this, chilling him deep! OOC: 16 points of cold damage. Ow. Giants.
[22:48] <Kotono> OOC: Giants will hold, hoping to pelt the hell outta that bitch once the barriers are down. Ghosts are up.
[22:48] <Kotono> The ghosts flood the room, attempting to touch everyone once more, howling despite the weakening to them!
[22:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 touch AC, all? (-4 turning damages)
[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 touch AC, all? (-4 turning damages) and gets 22." [1d20=16]
[22:49] <Willim> OOC: 24
[22:49] <Jaela> OOC: 17, 20% miss chance unless true seeing
[22:50] <Kotono> roll 1d100 for miss chance
[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 for miss chance and gets 70." [1d100=70]
[22:50] <Kotono> OOC: Ithea?
[22:51] <Kotono> roll 1d2 negative levels Jaela, giants(Jarl is immune, though), maybe Ithea depending on her touch AC.
[22:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d2 negative levels Jaela, giants(Jarl is immune, though), maybe Ithea depending on her touch AC. and gets 1." [1d2=1]
[22:53] <Kotono> The touches are weaker, but yet still drain those about, weakening them further! As this happens space nearby twists, Afina appearing through a dimensional door! OOC: Go Afina.
[22:54] <Ithea> ooc: sorry, 18
[22:55] <Afina> It only takes an instant for the fairy to appraise the situation before she zips by the cornugon near Jaela, cutting it twice with her frozen blade and trying with all her might not to get swept away by an unreasonable fear of a foe she can easily best.
[22:55] <Afina> roll 1d20+17 might as well roll my save first
[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+17 might as well roll my save first and gets 22." [1d20=5]
[22:55] <Kotono> OOC: Feared again.
[22:56] <Afina> And then she turns invisible and runs away! Again!
[22:56] <Kotono> OOC: Ow. Jaela, go.
[22:56] <Jaela> "Remember Lifasa!" Jaela pleads, raising her hands skywards in prayer as her holy power bursts out of her in every direction once more. "Remeber, and pass on! Your next life awaits!"
[22:57] <Jaela> roll 7d6 this is the same, at least
[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 7d6 this is the same, at least and gets 25." [7d6=3, 1, 2, 6, 6, 2, 5]
[22:57] <Kotono> OOC: Level check this time.
[22:57] <Jaela> roll 1d20+13
[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+13 and gets 28." [1d20=15]
[22:57] <Afina> She also drops her sword so there's two tiny swords lying around on the ground here!
[22:58] <Kotono> Once again calling on holy power, Jaela floods it into the souls within the room! There is a scream of all too human voices that comes from nowhere, but it's not like those of the spirits! Instead they begin to rise up and fade away, silence coming once more! OOC: Annalise.
[22:58] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(28)>Jaela(26)>Annalise(20)>Cornugon 1=Paeliryon(18)>Ithea(15)>Willim(11)>Giants(Mikoed)'
[22:58] <Kotono> "See? What sort of fiend uses money as a weapon like that?" Annalise wonders as she gestures again, the barriers shuddering!
[22:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 25." [1d20=10]
[22:58] <Jaela> "Know peace!" Jaela proclaims, before staring balefully at the paeliryon as a ring of spears surrounds her once more. "You're next!"
[22:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 16." [1d20=1]
[23:02] <Kotono> The eighth circle shatters, leaving only the ninth! It writhes with pure darkness, like a cloak of shadows covering the fiend within! "No, this ends NOW!" she calls, firing a single red ray at Annalise!
[23:02] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
[23:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 35." [1d20=17]
[23:02] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
[23:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 33." [1d20=10]
[23:03] <Kotono> roll 20d6 fire damage, she has fire res 10.
[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 20d6 fire damage, she has fire res 10. and gets 66." [20d6=3, 3, 6, 5, 4, 1, 5, 6, 4, 2, 2, 3, 1, 1, 4, 1, 5, 1, 6, 3]
[23:05] <Kotono> The beam of fire hits Annalise head on, flames bursting about her body! She stands there despite them, smile unflinching as she stares at the paeliryon within! Meanwhile, the cornugon again fires up another fireball around Jaela!
[23:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 24." [1d20=9]
[23:05] <Kotono> But this one fizzles out entirely, doing nothing! OOC: Ithea.
[23:06] <Ithea> "C'mon...." Ithea mutters, trying to take out the last barrier. If that doesn't work, she'll try to force her way in again, but it'd be more helpful to get rid of it altogether.
[23:06] <Ithea> roll d20+10
[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+10 and gets 12." [d20=2]
[23:06] <Ithea> ooc: *sigh*
[23:06] * Ithea scowls but just tries to force her way in then.
[23:06] <Ithea> roll d20+8 str
[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+8 str and gets 21." [d20=13]
[23:06] <Jaela> "Oh you've got to be fucking kidding me!" Jaela exclaims, quite strongly insulted. "You! Retard! I'll show you how to fight!"
[23:07] <Kotono> Despite her efforts, Ithea finds the last circle almost impossible to touch! Agonizing fire wracks her, forcing her back! OOC: 18 points of hellfire damage. (Hell fire ignores res/immunity) willim.
[23:08] <Willim> Completely ignoring Ithea's agony, Willim pounds on the barrier relentlessly!
[23:08] <Willim> roll 1d20+15
[23:08] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+15  and gets 25." [1d20=10]
[23:09] <Kotono> Willim charges ahead and past, body burning with unnatural flames! But with a supreme effort of strength, he isa ble to force through the barrier OOC: 18 hellfire damage. If you're gonna take a swing at her, go ahead.
[23:09] <Willim> Through the barrier, Willim rears back and swings a massive, roaring punch!
[23:10] <Willim> roll 1d20+29-9+1 PA
[23:10] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+29-9+1 PA and gets 36." [1d20=15]
[23:10] * Ithea looks with wide eyes. "KNOCK HER OUT OF THE CIRCLE, WILLIM!" Ithea yells out.
[23:10] <Willim> OOC: Wait, cn I bull rush without charging?
[23:10] <Willim> OOC: If so, I'll do that instead
[23:11] <Kotono> OOC: Yes.
[23:11] <Willim> OOC: Bullrushing then, strike attack
[23:17] <Willim> roll 1d20+29 Bull Rush
[23:17] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+29 Bull Rush and gets 37." [1d20=8]
[23:18] <Willim> roll 1d20+16 Tumble to avoid AoO from Bull Rush
[23:18] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+16 Tumble to avoid AoO from Bull Rush and gets 25." [1d20=9]
[23:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+27 let's resolve the AoO first
[23:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+27 let's resolve the AoO first and gets 37." [1d20=10]
[23:18] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
[23:19] <Willim> OOC 32 with HA
[23:19] <Willim> OOC: 33 with Haste
[23:19] <Kotono> roll 1d4+7 and make a fortitude save
[23:19] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4+7 and make a fortitude save and gets 11." [1d4=4]
[23:20] <Willim> OOC: Yes, +1 to CMB check from Haste, sorry. Forgot that we ruled on that last week
[23:21] <Willim> roll 1d20+25
[23:21] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+25 and gets 28." [1d20=3]
[23:21] <Kotono> roll 1d4 charisma damage
[23:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 charisma damage and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[23:22] <Kotono> The dagger stabs into Willim's side, drawing blood as a  moment later she is knocked back! She stumbles back about 5 feet, just out of the dark ninth circle! OOC: Giants are up.
[23:22] <Kotono> "Finally!" The Jarl calls, "Now! Boulder her until she can't take any more!"
[23:22] <Kotono> roll 6#1d20+30
[23:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6#1d20+30 and gets 234." [6#1d20+30 = 32, 42, 38, 36, 43, 43]
[23:23] <Kotono> roll 10d8+100
[23:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d8+100 and gets 146." [10d8=4, 6, 5, 5, 1, 5, 7, 3, 7, 3]
[23:24] <Kotono> The paeliryon barely has a chance to speakb efore a rain of rocks flattens her, knocking her about terrifically! She stumbles and weaves, spitting out vile blood, "Impossible! Know your place and DIE!" OOC: Afina.
[23:25] * Afina keeps on running away! But this time she flies into the air and goes in a different direction than what took her to meet the shadow thing earlier.
[23:25] <Kotono> Afina flies into the forest in a tizzy, flying away and away and away! The forest stretches as far as she flies, dead wood ahead! OOC: Jaela.
[23:25] <Jaela> "What are you, twelve? You die!" And Jaela does her very best to bring that about, forgetting about the inept cornugon near her as she charges the villain behind the abduction of these fey from her world!
[23:26] <Ithea> "Who are you to tell us our place?" Ithea yells back. "You don't get away with hurting our people!"
[23:26] <Jaela> roll 1d20+34-1+2+9-5 charging smite, divine might, 4pa
[23:26] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+34-1+2+9-5 charging smite, divine might, 4pa and gets 40." [1d20=1]
[23:27] <Jaela> OOC: Divine retaliation as swift. Does the cornugon want to AoO me?
[23:27] <Kotono> Jaela channels all her might, but her swing is just too high! She misses above the fiend, whizzing past her! At this Annalise steps forward, "Now then," she intones easily, three motes of lightning becoming one and firing at the devil!
[23:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
[23:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 21." [1d20=6]
[23:28] <Kotono> +2, excuse me. +1 haste and +1 wrong number.
[23:28] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 SR
[23:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 SR and gets 20." [1d20=5]
[23:29] <Kotono> A torrent of lightning hits the devil, but fizzles against her skin helplessly! A moment later she rights herself, "Next time..." she growls, "This is only the beginning! I'll have lal of you brought to me in chains and tormented for eternity!" And just like that, the fiend vanishes away on the wings of teleportation!
[23:30] <Kotono> Scowling, "My service is done," The cornugon says darkly, before vanishing as well! OOC: Free act.

[23:30] <Ithea> "...god dammit!" Ithea says pissed off beyond belief, looking at the spot where the fiend vanished with hateful disbelief, then towards the spot where the other devil vanished, not even remaining to let her work out frustrations.
[23:31] * Willim sags, his rage fading as he looks around. "Someone help dancy elf girl?"
[23:31] * Jaela tosses down her spear in a fit of utter rage.
[23:32] * Ithea slams the blunt end of her glaive against the floor, hard enough to embed an impression, shaking her head at Willim. "...not much we can do to help her now, I'm afraid," she says, shaking from the anger and frustration.
[23:33] <Kotono> "Coward," Jarl Bigansdir goes and kneels next to what remains of Elrisa, "A good death," he says, picking her charred body up. "There is no greater way to leave a mortal life than striving against evil. But...the Soothing Wind may be able to help her."
[23:33] <Jaela> "Afina? Afina! Where the fuck are you? Let's go kill the rest of these assholes! There must be some below!"
[23:34] <Kotono> Annalise sniffs the air, "The magic will take time to work through her," she speaks up, "The fear devils inspire got her. At her speed, there's little hope of finding her before it wears off."
[23:34] * Willim nods at the Jarl. "We help after helping fairies. Where fairy girl go?"
[23:35] <Jaela> "Fuck this shit!" Unable to proceed without stranding Afina here, Jaela goes to vent her anger on the dead trees.
[23:36] * Willim eyes the crazy half-angel warily.
[23:38] * Ithea closes her eyes and counts silently in her head, trying to calm down, and while frustration is still present in her eyes once she opens them again, she's not feeling like following Jaela's example anymore. "You did good, Willim," she offers the half-troll. "At least you gave us a chance of hurting her a bit."
[23:39] * Willim nods. "We see again soon. Me crush. Crush good."