028.1 "As long as you know what you're getting into."

[Corwin]

[20:21] <Kotono> Filbrez is found closing up shop that 'evening', whistling as he tidies up. As the pair enter, "Sorry, we're clos-oh! It's an honor, both of you. Are you here to purchase something? I just traded for the most quaint shield."
[20:22] <Jaela> "Quaint how?" Jaela asks, walking into the shop at that invitation and checking that they are truly alone.
[20:23] <Kotono> You don't see anyone else around. "It's made of tanned leather, but it's stronger than steel. About as hard as a diamond, according to my tests," Going on with a grand gesture, "It's a sublimely useful shield. Make your opponent think you have backwater gear and in fact you have the best shield money can buy!"
[20:23] <Afina> "Is it a glamer or incredible construction?" Afina asks curiously, fluttering along by Jaela.
[20:24] <Jaela> "Maybe a frog made it?" Jaela suggests with a shrug.
[20:25] <Kotono> "It doesn't radiate magic at all," Filbrez goes on, "It's a magic neuter as far as I can tell. Most peculiar. If either of youa re interested in it, I'll have a price figured out at the start of business tomorrow. Of course, I'd be happy to sell it to either of you now for 40,000 gold."
[20:26] <Afina> "I don't have that sort of money," Afina shakes her head.
[20:26] <Jaela> "Likewise, sorry," Jaela echoes Afina. "Ah well. Still, this means you get all sorts of weird things, right?"
[20:28] <Kotono> "Oh yes....except for books right now. Vel somehow seems to be able to buy them all up like that," Snapping his fingers, "Ah well, let him have his musty tomes. It's pocket change for most."
[20:28] * Jaela snorts. "It's lucky that we're looking for something else, then. You know about potions of youth? That sort of stuff?"
[20:30] <Kotono> "Of course! Mortals will spend entire kingdoms on ways to regain lost youth," Filbrez goes on, going behind the counter and grabbing a broom. He begins to sweep the floor, "Go to a Prime with money and they're as good as having your own gold mine. Sadly, they're about as rare as smiles from Beshaba."
[20:31] <Afina> Maybe to mortals. Afina wonders if she's heard much about sylvan treasures with similar rejuvenating properties...
[20:31] <Afina> roll 1d20+27 nature
[20:31] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+27 nature and gets 36." [1d20=9]
[20:32] <Jaela> "We're looking to make a gift for an old man," Jaela continues, having anticipated the difficulty from the start. "Any chance you could get your hands on something? Knock a year or two off?"
[20:35] <Kotono> "I can try, but I can't guarantee results, I'm afraid," Stroking his chin and resting it down on his broom, "The demand far outstrips the supply. I do know of a few back doors..." He pauses, "A few tales about magical sites and locations that can do it, too. I'v enever verified any of them, as they tend to be distinctly dangerous."
[20:36] <Afina> "We tend to be dangerous as well," Afina notes with a smile.
[20:36] <Jaela> Afina speaks for the both of them, and Jaela can't keep a smile off her face as well. "How about it, then?"
[20:40] <Kotono> "As long as you know what you're getting into," Filbrez says, "Deep in Water, surrounded by an ocean of pitch black water, there's a citadel within an air bubble. A long lost citadel, ancient indeed. Within that citadel the purest water flows from one particular fountain. This water can wash away even age, it's said."
[20:41] * Afina looks at Jaela. "Water's no trouble for me. How about you?"
[20:42] <Jaela> "Only if it washes too much of my age away," Jaela responds. "I can breathe in it, if that's what you mean, so long as my magic works."
[20:43] <Afina> "Any further clues, Filbrez?" Afina asks their resident merchant. "If we're lucky there might be something in Medi's library to lead us there as well."
[20:47] <Kotono> "One other. This one's...difficult and hard to deal with. There's a special game of gambling held in Ysgard. You convert your lifespan into tokens and gamble with them. Win and you can convert the winnings into an extended lifespan. Lose and..." He lets that trail off.
[20:48] <Afina> "Water's a fairer bet, I think," Afina decides from that, disliking putting things to chance. It's not her life anyway!
[20:48] <Jaela> "Water it is," Jaela agrees.
[20:50] <Kotono> "Well, fair hunting," Filbrez starts, and then snaps his fingers, "Oh yes, I just got a potion of water breathing in, if either of you are interested."
[20:51] <Afina> "Sorry, I'm covered," Afina apologises for not being a better customer.
[20:51] <Jaela> "Just learned the spell for it."

[20:52] <Kotono> OOC: Okay, what's your plan now?
[20:52] <Afina> OOC: hit the books!
[20:53] <Jaela> OOC: Sure, let's read up on the Water citadel!
[20:53] <Kotono> OOC: Go for it.
[20:55] <Jaela> roll 1d20+20+5+15 planes
[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+20+5+15 planes and gets 46." [1d20=6]
[21:01] <Kotono> Reading deeply, Jaela eventually finds a tidbit in the library. It reads as follows, "Past lost Vulanas are the darkest waters. Beware the shield of the purity, for they came from it for Vulanas and will come again. Fear the four accursed monoliths, for they are of the Scions of Sorrow."
[21:01] <Jaela> "Anything ring a bell?" Jaela asks, waving Afina over. Her other hand conceals a persistent yawn.
[21:03] <Jaela> roll 1d20+20+15 planes Vulanas
[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+20+15 planes Vulanas and gets 42." [1d20=7]
[21:03] <Jaela> roll 1d20+20+15 planes SoS
[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+20+15 planes SoS and gets 37." [1d20=2]
[21:04] <Afina> "I don't know much at all about these places," Afina points out as she goes to read what Jaela's found. "Shield of purity sound like... it depends what Vulanas is, but the best equivalent is Unseelie Fey destroying a human city after emerging from a dark forest. The accursed monoliths sound like sentinels if ever I heard of them."
[21:06] * Jaela grimaces. "I think Vulanas is some sorta ancient lost city. It doesn't really help us find the lost citadel since I dunno where the city used for reference is, either. Scions might be 'loths, though, and it's pretty unhelpful to us."
[21:07] <Afina> "Do you know of any old cities on Water that might hold clues to where Vulanas is?"
[21:07] <Jaela> roll 1d20+20+15 let's hope so! Do I?
[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+20+15 let's hope so! Do I? and gets 36." [1d20=1]
[21:14] * Jaela needs to think a really long while about this one. "The Marids might know, but let's steer clear of them unless we have no other choice. That leaves the City of Glass and Corellia. Former's a trade city like Vulanas used to be, but keeping what we're doing private will probably be difficult. The latter's a monastery, and a pretty prominent at that. If we get a lead from there, it's pretty much been sanctioned by Water."
[21:17] <Afina> "If we highlight our interest in Vulanas - maybe we think there's something worth finding in there, it could throw off enquiry so we can press on to the dark water without trouble," Afina points out.
[21:18] <Jaela> "Well, I figured that if we make it seem like there's treasure to be found and we have a lead, people might come after us. Not like I think they'd kill us, but it'd be a complication."
[21:19] * Jaela shrugs. "But I'm fine with the City of Glass. Wanna go now?"
[21:20] <Afina> "Lets let people know what we're doing, but yes," Afina nods, having no other pressing engagements that supercede helping out someone that's helped them so much.

[Corwin]

[21:45] <Kotono> Woosh! You appear in air. In clear air. You stand on a simple stone platform, heavy and massive. Around you are buildings of all types, rising up. Above you can see what looks to be a glass dome, water flowing around it outside. The air is warm and rather humid, smelling of city streets, humidity and something else. Something not quite foul, but certainly not pleasant. Very city-like.
[21:47] <Jaela> Since they are not there to sightsee, Jaela decides to try a few inquiries about Vulanas and where it was rumored to exist.
[21:47] <Jaela> roll 1d20+22+15 GI!
[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+22+15 GI! and gets 44." [1d20=7]
[21:47] <Afina> To any eyes, Afina would look just like a rather slender and well defined small elemental, having prepared appropriately for the environment. Yet her wings, planes of sharply restricted water that they are, remain fully effective in allowing her to fly through the air as easily as ever. Sticking close to Jaela, she keeps her eyes alert for trouble while she focuses on chasing stories.
[21:49] <Kotono> roll 1d100
[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 11." [1d100=11]
[22:02] <Kotono> The streets are twisting and meandering, dozens of stream-like streets whirling about. Buildings often go up multiple stories, hanging over the streets from above. Water elementals of the smaller sizes walk the streets, as do creatures of all types, foul and fair alike. Searching about, Jaela comes onto the third floor of a rambling inn. In this floor's small taproom there is a beautiful woman
[22:02] <Kotono> - stunningly gorgeous, hair a vibrant brown, brown like rich chocolate and with a body too perfect to be mortal. No sag, no weakness, only a breath stealing beauty. She wears a dress of lxurious, soft material that clings to her hips and surely swishes around her legs. In a honeyed voice that momentarily dulls your senses to anything but the sound of it, "Oh my, you're looking for the lost city?"
[22:04] <Jaela> "Sure thing," Jaela responds, forcing her eyes to focus on the other woman's face. It must be Annalise's fault, or some curse of Helm's, she just knows it. "Lost cities have the best things, don't you agree?"
[22:06] <Afina> That voice, that sensation... Afina finds herself wondering if the woman is a Leanan Sidhe. But it doesn't greatly matter either way to her. "Have you ever been yourself?" she asks, her voice crystal clear despite her watery form.
[22:08] <Kotono> "What is lost often holds great value from the ebbing of time," The woman's concurrence is a gentle murmur as she smiles at Afina, "My my, I've been many things - but most of all, always myself, and yet not. What are we, but seeds in the wind of life?"
[22:12] <Jaela> "I can't deny that there's value in it," Jaela muses. "That's really why we're after Vulanas. 'Course, if it were that easy, it wouldn't stay lost through the ages. Unless someone kept the knowledge to themselves, that is?"
[22:15] <Afina> "I've ben many things as well, but only once myself," Afina replies if they're going on that tangent. "But I meant, have you ever been to Vulanas yourself?"
[22:19] <Kotono> "Oooh." A light chuckle in her voice to Afina's reply, "I haven't been. It wouldn't be much of a lost city of people visited. But I've been close. The trouble isn't finding it," Going on, "Get too close and things tend to happen. Bad things. All the locals think evil spirits or servants of Olhydra run amok there. Why," That word is said slowly, looking into Jaela's eyes, "Get too close and you're
[22:19] <Kotono> liable to become naught but a memory. Stories of dark giants are whispered amid night-time stories."
[22:20] <Afina> "Doesn't that make you wonder what they're protecting, then?" Afina wonders aloud.
[22:21] * Jaela grins at her. "Who will become a memory if we get close enough, I wonder."
[22:23] <Kotono> "Of course. I'm curious about many things. What lies in Chronias, protected just as devoutly by the vanishment of all who go? What is the secret of the Elemental Planes? What is the answer to infinity that the Gods hold so readily? Asking the wrong questions too stridently informs you why these are still questions and not knowledge. Of course, few survive this informing."
[22:26] <Afina> "Even so, there are a great many questions asked that can still be answered, even if it takes hundreds of aeons," Afina retorts, thinking of how 21 was created to answer a question back at the supposed dawn of time.
[22:27] <Jaela> "And where it comes to satisfying your curiousity, we could help with that," Jaela adds, deciding to make her an offer. "At least where it comes to the secrets of Vulanas, for starters. Would you like to be our guide?"
[22:31] <Kotono> "Mmm-hmmm," Humming at that, "Well..." she drawls, eyes flashing just a moment. Her eyes are normally a rich brown to match her hair, but they shine a stormy gray. "It could be interesting," she allows at last. "What sort of compensation are you offering?"
[22:33] <Jaela> "Name your fee. On top of that, there'll be one less mystery to worry about, and we open the door to future cooperation. We'll keep you out of anything dangerous, and if something does happen, I plane shift you to a spot of your choice. How does that sound?"
[22:37] <Kotono> "Lovely," The woman replies, leaning forward a little bit. "Mmmm, you wouldn't happen to have a brother, would you?"
[22:38] <Jaela> "I actually do," Jaela admits. "Why?"
[22:39] <Kotono> "I think I'd like to get to know him," The woman confesses, "Introduce us and it's a deal."
[22:39] * Afina looks curiously at Jaela, not having heard about relatives! Then again, Hanna has been around a while, so that probably explains it.
[22:40] <Jaela> "Is that okay if I do it after we're done? Cause he's on a whole different plane, so it's a huge pain to divert when we're so close."
[22:42] <Kotono> "Welllll," Smiling at Jaela, "Why not?" Licking her ruby lips slowly, tongue like a red tendril of fire, "Agreed." She reaches into her dress, withdrawing a small flask. She takes a small sip from it and passes it to Jaela, "Let's seal this with a drink. To the vagaries and chances of adventure."
[22:44] * Jaela shrugs. "Sure, if that's how you do it." Her word is her bond, but there's no harm in observing the customs of others as long as they get her where she needs to be faster. Jaela accepts the flask and sips from it herself.
[22:45] <Kotono> The fluid tastes sweet. Sweet but strangely nondescript, forgettable. Jaela blinks. Why is she holding this flas-oh right, drinking to a partnership. She shakes off a mental lethargy she wasn't even aware of, mind clearing.
[22:49] <Jaela> roll 1d20+20+15 K:P
[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+20+15 K:P and gets 47." [1d20=12]
[22:51] <Jaela> "Nice. Sweet!" Jaela hands it back. "Brought it from home?"
[22:53] <Kotono> The woman passes it to Afina after, "An old taste," she demurs, "I get nostalgic for the good old days, occasionally."
[22:54] <Jaela> "A slight sip won't hurt," Jaela tells Afina, even as her eyes remain on the woman with them. "And as long as it's something from the past, it's fine by me."
[22:55] <Afina> Being included after all, Afina takes the glass in two watery hands, bringing it to her barely perceivable lips and imbibing a small sip, mindful of her problems with big-people sized beverages. What little liquid there is becomes swiftly absorbed and dispersed amidst her fluidic makeup.
[22:56] <Kotono> Afina feels tingly and numb all over a moment, but nothing more. To this the woman shrugs, "It wasn't any of our choices." Taking the flask back and sealing it, "You learn to get philosophical about it."
[22:56] <Jaela> "Jaela," she finally introduces herself, offering the woman her hand. "And we know how that feels."
[22:57] <Afina> "Afina," the pixie water elemental thing adds for herself, a tiny hand going out afterwards. Having shared drinks she's now obligated for this stranger turned guide, a fact that she takes quite seriously.
[22:58] <Kotono> "Canderella Stormfury," Her answer is light on the lips, "How fast can the two of you travel in Water?"
[23:00] <Jaela> "Not very," Jaela admits. "But we could manage a precise plane shift if you described where we're going. Unless that place is blocked off?"
[23:00] <Afina> "As fast as any elemental," Afina replies for herself.
[23:00] <Afina> Probably faster, actually.
[23:01] <Kotono> "Of course it is," Drawling that with a pleasant chuckle after, "If anyone could teleport to it...well, you know. It wouldn't be a lost city. Whatever is there or causing this is probably enough to destabilize the area and ruin teleportation. Utterly bothersome."
[23:02] <Jaela> "How far from here is it?" Jaela asks, to narrow their options down. "And how far from it does the dimensional lock extend, roughly?"
[23:02] <Afina> "What's the nearest landmark we might be able to teleport to?" Afina then asks. "Or watermark, rather."

[Corwin]

[20:05] <Koaway> "The Kelpwaves," Canderella rises and stretches, "Ah good, can the lot of you teleport?"
[20:06] * Afina nods her head towards Jaela, her own teleportation abilities not worth mentioning.
[20:08] <Jaela> "Not teleport, but I'm decent with precise planar travel," Jaela affirms. Although she really should work on the regular teleportation as well some time. "Just describe it for me and we'll get there in a flash."
[20:19] <Koaway> "It's a big field of swaying strands of kelp. Water elementals tend it." Going on from that, "It's a ways from where you want to go, but it's the closest thing I can think of."
[20:21] <Jaela> "Works for me." Jaela gives her a few moments to object, and then shifts the three of them over to Air, before bringing them back to water at the desired location.
[20:34] <Kotono> The gentle swaying of seaweed. As you breath in the pure, planty waters around you, you see them. Great rows and strands of seaweed floating in the Water, not a single one tangled with another. Small water elementals are sprinkled about, going to and fro and preventing tangles, tending to the strings of seaweed. Each one is thousands of feet long - you can't see the end of any of them! All around
[20:34] <Kotono> you are these great stands of kelp, crisscrossing.
[20:35] <Afina> It's rather dizzying, and Afina instinctively orients herself with the kelp as her vertical before looking to Canderella to guide them in the proper direction.
[20:36] <Jaela> "Speaking of," Jaela wonders, "you said it was dangerous, didn't you? What did you come across when you tried this before?"
[20:42] <Kotono> Starting to swim ahead, "Hm, you mean the dark giants?"
[20:43] <Jaela> "Sure," Jaela responds, trying her best to keep up. "Or any terrible magic that zaps you if you get too close. Either's fine."
[20:48] <Kotono> "Zaps?" Raising an eyebrow as she starts to swim backwards, easily making a good pace.
[20:48] * Afina limits herself to matching speed with the other two, her watery form barely distinguishable against the surrounding fluid that she displaces her way through with minimal effort.
[20:49] <Jaela> "With electricity." Jaela shrugs. "It's what I'd use if I made traps here in Water. But you get me? I can probably ward you off ahead of time if there's anything like that."
[20:53] <Kotono> "Oh, I don't need that," Canderella's voice is naught but a purr now, "I like how you think." Makin ga show of licking her lips, "Ward yourselves. When things get intense, lightning strikes all around me like a holocaust of destruction."
[20:54] <Jaela> Sounds sensible, so Jaela makes sure to protect herself.
[20:54] <Afina> Confident in her dodging skills, Afina still goes through the motions and wordlessly wards herself more for form's sake than anything else.
[21:00] <Kotono> roll 1d100
[21:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 76." [1d100=76]
[21:02] <Kotono> It takes a few hours of slow, manuevering swimming to clear the Kelpwaves. Nothing unusual happens during it. Once free, you see clear waters ahead. Canderella points, "We'll be continuing this way," she says, "We shouldn't run into any locals past this point, so there's good odds any encounters will be violent and short."
[21:03] <Afina> "Used to that anyway," Afina remarks as she breezes through the fathomless depths.
[21:03] <Jaela> Judging it as good a time as any, Jaela reaches out towards their guide. "This is just a precaution to keep our promise," she says, casting the protective spell upon her. "Still, if it's just some guard, keep back. If it's more serious, we'll do something to keep you out of it entirely."
[21:07] <Kotono> "How kind of you," With a warm smile as she swims along, "My sisters were always talking about how celestials were the most fun to play with. I'm starting to see what they meant.:
[21:09] * Jaela shrugs. "Just as long as you stay serious enough when you have to." Keeping her eyes out for any lurking dangers might be futile, but she tries to do so anyway.
[21:10] <Kotono> roll 1d100
[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 95." [1d100=95]
[21:15] <Kotono> Another hour passes. As you swim ahead the waters ahead begin to tint shadowy and then dark. Ahead of you is a vast horizon of dark waters, opaque and lightless.
[21:17] <Afina> "The city's supposed to be near the dark waters, isn't it?" Afina asks generally, since Jaela knows of the place to start with and Canderella obviously is familiar with it.
[21:21] <Kotono> "Yes," Canderella's reply is gentle, falling back, "We may just encounter these problems soonly."
[21:22] * Jaela nods at Canderella, and takes the time to refresh her protective spells before they expire.
[21:22] <Afina> Not that Afina particularly wants to bother with the city, but they can tell their guide that when they reach it and then push into the dark waters that hide their true goal.
[21:24] <Jaela> "Did you hear anything about a shield of purity?" Jaela asks Canderella, swimming alongside her. "It's supposed to be here somewhere, whatever it is."
[21:24] <Kotono> As you swim ahead, the water turns colder. A shivery sort of cold that your wards only just hold at bay, making your flesh prickle. As you swim along...OOC: What are your spot checks, and do you have any special means of detection?
[21:25] <Afina> OOC: +25, darkvision 60, low-light vision, blindsense 30
[21:25] <Jaela> roll 1d20+7 blindsight 30ft, darkvision 60ft
[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+7 blindsight 30ft, darkvision 60ft and gets 20." [1d20=13]
[21:26] <Afina> roll 1d20+25
[21:26] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+25 and gets 35." [1d20=10]
[21:28] <Kotono> Ahead in the endlessly dark waters. Afina spots something moving, 250ft away. Something massive, black on the black of the waters, coming towards them!
[21:29] <Afina> "Trouble two hundred feet ahead, huge water elemental could be," Afina warns, quickly casting greater heroism on herself.
[21:29] <Kotono> OOC: Encounter spotted, so I'm calling for init here.

[21:30] <Jaela> roll 1d20+6
[21:30] <Afina> roll 1d20+20
[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+20 and gets 21." [1d20=1]
[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+6 and gets 22." [1d20=16]
[21:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+1 Canderella
[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+1 Canderella and gets 21." [1d20=20]
[21:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 black thing
[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 black thing and gets 19." [1d20=13]
[21:31] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jaela(22)>Afina=Canderella(21)>Black shape(19)'
[21:31] <Kotono> OOC: It is 250ft away, whatever it is. Go Jaela.
[21:33] <Jaela> Greater Heroism is Jaela's spell of choice as well, as she summons Val'Finnegan to her. "Get back," she urges Canderella, and takes up position before her, as much as she can on a plane with no ground. Ghostly replicas of the spear surround Jaela in a wide ring, ready to retaliate against anything that would dare strike at her!
[21:34] <Kotono> Canderella promptly swims 30ft back and holds there!OOC: Afina, you be up.
[21:35] <Afina> Hasting the three of them, Afina becomes even more at ease within the water, moving as if she were flying as she advances forward a further fifty feet and casts greater heroism upon herself.
[21:36] <Kotono> At this, the behemoth is moving! Oh, it moves fast! Too fast, cutting through the water like an arrow! It comes to within 15ft of Afina, before slamming down at her with a huge, oversized fist!
[21:37] <Afina> OOC: AC 45, 50% miss chance
[21:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+32 (+2 charge, +2 water mastery, -10 PA, smite good)
[21:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+32 (+2 charge, +2 water mastery, -10 PA, smite good) and gets 51." [1d20=19]
[21:38] <Kotono> roll 1d20+32 (+2 charge, +2 water mastery, -10 PA, smite good) ow
[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+32 (+2 charge, +2 water mastery, -10 PA, smite good) ow and gets 49." [1d20=17]
[21:38] <Kotono> roll 1d100
[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 91." [1d100=91]
[21:39] <Afina> OOC: immune to crits
[21:39] <Kotono> OOC: Lucky you.
[21:39] <Kotono> roll 6d8+42
[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d8+42 and gets 63." [6d8=4, 2, 2, 7, 1, 5]
[21:40] <Afina> OOC: lets sac a 7th level spell for -35 damage shall we~
[21:42] <Kotono> As the fist slams down, a shield of pure energy surrounds Afina! It slows the fist before shattering apart into eldritch energy, slamming into the fairy with lessened momentum! The blow gleams with dark energy and is still a terrible one, smacking her hard! OOC: Jaela, go. It is 65ft away from you and has a huge amount of reach. It's all the size ofa n inn or so.
[21:42] <Jaela> "Need my help?" Jaela calls through the water, mindful of their guide.
[21:43] <Afina> "Better get Candrella to safety," Afina warns, surprised. "This thing's not playing around!"
[21:44] <Kotono> "I warned you!" Canderella calls, "There's a good reason this is a LOST CITY, not a found city!"
[21:44] <Jaela> "You got it!" Jaela agrees, pointing Val'Finnegan at the monstrosity. Bright energy gathers at the tip, and she discharges it towards the elemental before she swims back towards Canderella, still staying between her and any enemies.
[21:44] <Jaela> roll 1d20+24 devotion
[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+24 devotion and gets 36." [1d20=12]
[21:45] <Jaela> roll 1d20+31 ranged touch
[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+31 ranged touch and gets 45." [1d20=14]
[21:45] <Jaela> roll 15d6 lucent lance, any SR?
[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 15d6 lucent lance, any SR? and gets 56." [15d6=6, 1, 3, 2, 6, 3, 3, 2, 4, 3, 6, 5, 3, 4, 5]
[21:45] <Kotono> OOC: Nope.
[21:46] <Jaela> OOC: Cool. Blinded for 1 rounds if it can be, dazzled for 18
[21:46] <Kotono> OOC: You do know you're in dark wate rand light is at a premium, right?
[21:48] <Jaela> OOC: I can take out Gae Bolg when I shoot it, it has Celestial Brilliance on it. And I'll watch this in the future, k?
[21:49] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[21:49] <Kotono> The Lucent Lance flies in the darkness,  piercing into the vast dark hulk! A blast of pure light surrounds it, seeming to momentarily bedazzle it, the creature's movements stopping! OOC: Afina, go.
[21:51] <Afina> Taking full advantage of its momentary distraction, Afina darts in and stabs it twice with Hywelbane before looping around and hurrying back towards Jaela and Candrella, wanting to gauge the effects before deeming if the battle is worth pursuing.
[21:51] <Afina> roll 1d20+46 5th level arcane strike
[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+46 5th level arcane strike and gets 50." [1d20=4]
[21:51] <Afina> roll 1d20+41 5th level arcane strike
[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+41 5th level arcane strike and gets 60." [1d20=19]
[21:52] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
[21:52] <Kotono> OOC: No skirmish damage, elemental type.
[21:52] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+2d6+5d4
[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+2d6+5d4 and gets 35." [1d4=3][2d6=1, 5][5d4=2, 1, 3, 1, 2]
[21:52] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+2d6+5d4
[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+2d6+5d4 and gets 40." [1d4=2][2d6=4, 3][5d4=4, 2, 2, 4, 2]
[21:54] <Afina> OOC: is it evil, actually?
[21:54] <Kotono> OOC: Yes.
[21:54] <Afina> roll 4d6 holy
[21:54] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 4d6 holy and gets 12." [4d6=4, 3, 3, 2]
[21:54] <Kotono> Dual slashes cut into the elemental! Afina finds it painfully hard to wound, watery form flowing around her blade and resisting being severed! Yet she does manage some tears as she flies around it and back, but it doesn't seem to have done a lot of damage to the giant elemental - it's still going, screaming something unknown - a sound loud enough to make the water violently ripple around all of
[21:54] <Kotono> you as it swings in the air! OOC: Jaela, go. It's evil.
[21:58] * Jaela swaps her weapon for Gae Dioltas. Once ready and in her usual stance, she fires a dark purple beam from it at the elemental to slow it down further.
[21:59] <Jaela> roll 5d4 str damage, Fort24 half
[21:59] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 5d4 str damage, Fort24 half and gets 15." [5d4=3, 3, 4, 4, 1]
[21:59] <Jaela> OOC: Moon Bolt
[22:01] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28 fort
[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 fort and gets 36." [1d20=8]
[22:01] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jaela(22)>Afina=Canderella(21)>Black shape(19; -7 str)'
[22:02] <Kotono> The moon bolt fires, hitting the vast beast dead on! It indeed looks slowed yet further, shrinking under the assault! OOC: Afina, go.
[22:02] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jaela(22)>Afina=Canderella(21)>Black shape(19; -7 str; dazzled)'
[22:04] <Afina> Preparing herself for a long battle to come, Afina halts the subjective flow of time for an instant, giving her enough time to shield herself as she moves in to attack. Time catches up with her just at the instant her blade penetrates and she retreats back to the other two!
[22:04] <Afina> roll 1d20+46 5th level arcane strike
[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+46 5th level arcane strike and gets 63." [1d20=17]
[22:04] <Afina> roll 1d20+41 5th level arcane strike
[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+41 5th level arcane strike and gets 50." [1d20=9]
[22:04] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
[22:04] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4
[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4 and gets 45." [1d4=2][2d6=3, 1][2d6=4, 3][5d4=4, 1, 4, 3, 3]
[22:04] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4
[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4 and gets 50." [1d4=4][2d6=5, 5][2d6=2, 4][5d4=3, 2, 4, 1, 3]
[22:05] <Kotono> Afina flies in and out, stabbing swiftly into the elemental! Again it resists but again she manages several wounds, escaping with the elemental hot on her heels! IT comes before Jaela at 20ft away from her, slamming a fist down at the interposing half celestial! Meanwhile Canderella continues to retreat back!
[22:07] <Kotono> roll 1d20+31 (+2 charge, +2 water mastery, +4 gambit, smite good, -4 str damage, -1 dazzled, -10 PA)
[22:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+31 (+2 charge, +2 water mastery, +4 gambit, smite good, -4 str damage, -1 dazzled, -10 PA) and gets 39." [1d20=8]
[22:07] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
[22:07] <Jaela> OOC: AC26
[22:08] <Kotono> roll 6d8+46 (OOC: Forgot water mastery adds to damage too last time, so +2 more than in the last roll. It's why that+gambit that it's doing a little more, even weakened.)
[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d8+46 (OOC: Forgot water mastery adds to damage too last time, so +2 more than in the last roll. It's why that+gambit that it's doing a little more, even weakened.)  and gets 75." [6d8=6, 2, 6, 4, 8, 3]
[22:09] <Kotono> The blow is heavy enough to rattle Jaela from skull to toes, smashing her like a stubborn nail beneath the hammer! Despite blood squiring out of her nose and ears she stays up, beaten but not down from that assault! During it, she feels something hideous leak into her, corroding her inner core! OOC: Ow. Jaela, go.
[22:10] <Jaela> After taking the hit that she was due, Jaela closes in with the elemental and strikes back with her lance!
[22:10] <Kotono> OOC: What's your reach?
[22:10] <Jaela> OOC: I'll move 10ft, no gambit this time (reach 10ft)
[22:11] <Kotono> OOC: You'll eat an AoO, you okay with that?
[22:11] <Jaela> OOC: No other way
[22:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 (+2 water mastery, -4 str damage, -1 dazzled, -10 PA)
[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 (+2 water mastery, -4 str damage, -1 dazzled, -10 PA) and gets 31." [1d20=6]
[22:11] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
[22:11] <Jaela> OOC: Protection Devotion as immediate for 32?
[22:13] <Kotono> OOC: Carry on.
[22:13] * Jaela retaliates! There is no reason to hold back, and she puts as much of the might of the Seldarine into her lance as it could handle!
[22:14] <Jaela> roll 1d20+30+4+5 (smite, divine might, 10pa)
[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+30+4+5 (smite, divine might, 10pa) and gets 44." [1d20=5]
[22:14] <Kotono> OOC: HIt. Sec, go on with damage.
[22:15] <Kotono> OOC: Where's the PA tallied into that, by the way? Anyway sec.
[22:15] <Jaela> roll 1d8+22+5+10+20+8 and Will26 half on Harm
[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8+22+5+10+20+8 and Will26 half on Harm and gets 66." [1d8=1]
[22:16] <Jaela> OOC: +10 smite -10 pa
[22:16] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[22:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 33." [1d20=17]
[22:16] <Jaela> roll 66+75
[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 66+75 and gets 141."
[22:17] <Kotono> Jaela charges in fiercely, skewing it as its fist narrowly misses her! Thrusting into it and channeling holy power, bands of white run up the creature's body and out the wounds Afina made! The entire black mass shudders, bits of water bursting into white steam! OOC: Ow. Afina, go.
[22:18] <Afina> It looks like they've almost got it, so Afina zips by over Jaela's shoulder and rakes the monster with a pair of stabs on her way past it, clearing a safe distance of fifty feet on the other side.
[22:19] <Afina> roll 1d20+41
[22:19] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+41 and gets 48." [1d20=7]
[22:19] <Afina> roll 1d20+36
[22:19] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+36 and gets 44." [1d20=8]
[22:19] <Afina> roll 1d4+18+2d6+2d6
[22:19] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+18+2d6+2d6 and gets 31." [1d4=3][2d6=3, 5][2d6=1, 1]
[22:19] <Afina> roll 1d4+18+2d6+2d6
[22:19] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+18+2d6+2d6 and gets 39." [1d4=2][2d6=4, 6][2d6=5, 4]
[22:22] <Kotono> Two more series of slashes leaves the giant beast wounded even further! Despite these wounds, despite a fury that should kill it as its body breaks apart, mor eof it stays together! It focuses on the nearest, only target for wrath - Jaela! Two giant fists slam down at her, one after the other!
[22:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 (+2 water mastery, -4 str damage, -1 dazzled, -10 PA)
[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 (+2 water mastery, -4 str damage, -1 dazzled, -10 PA) and gets 37." [1d20=12]
[22:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 (+2 water mastery, -4 str damage, -1 dazzled, -10 PA)
[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 (+2 water mastery, -4 str damage, -1 dazzled, -10 PA) and gets 26." [1d20=1]
[22:23] <Jaela> OOC: AC still 32
[22:23] <Kotono> roll 6d8+22
[22:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d8+22 and gets 52." [6d8=5, 5, 4, 6, 5, 5]
[22:24] <Kotono> Jaela takes two more blows, but she stops one! Raising Val'Finnegan she pierces into its hand, stopping one blow as the other catches her in the ribs! The crack of shattering bone is followed by the metallic taste of blood in her mouth, but Jaela keeps her self concious and breathing, overpowering the painful need to close her eyes, to stop resisting, to fall asleep! OOC: Ow. Jaela, go.
[22:25] <Jaela> "You fucked up abortion of a gutter whore!" Jaela snaps, Val'Finnegan readily appearing in her arms as if sensing her desire for vengeance. "Know your place!" Jaela strikes at her enemy as her blood spreads in a misty cloud through the waters surrounding her, and the certainty of putting this farce to an end is unshaken within her!
[22:26] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32+4+5 divine might
[22:26] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32+4+5 divine might
[22:26] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32+4+5 divine might and gets 42." [1d20=1]
[22:26] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32+4+5 divine might and gets 59." [1d20=18]
[22:26] <Jaela> roll 1d20+27+4+5 divine might
[22:26] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+27+4+5 divine might and gets 55." [1d20=19]
[22:26] <Jaela> roll 1d20+22+4+5 divine might
[22:26] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+22+4+5 divine might and gets 48." [1d20=17]
[22:26] <Jaela> roll 1d20+17+4+5 divine might
[22:26] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+17+4+5 divine might and gets 35." [1d20=9]
[22:26] <Kotono> OOC: Four hits.
[22:27] <Jaela> roll 4#1d8+25+10+5+2d6
[22:27] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 4#1d8+25+10+5+2d6 and gets 222." [4#1d8+25+10+5+2d6 = 53, 56, 58, 55]
[22:28] <Jaela> OOC: +12 more
[22:29] <Kotono> Under that assault, even as Jaela coughs up a shard of her shattered ribs, the monolith falls! Black water crumbles apart and sucks itself inward! There is a POP sound as it does so, the creature fading away and leaving only the dark expanses of water ahead. OOC: Free act.

[22:30] <Jaela> Gesturing rudely at it with her spear, Jaela wastes no time in bringing herself back to top form. She's not about to take this expedition lightly anymore.
[22:32] <Kotono> Canderella swims forward after its all over, "Oh, that sort of language makes me nostalgic," She sighs, full of longing, "Where'd you learn to talk like that?"
[22:32] <Jaela> "Talos isn't into that anymore?" Jaela asks her curiously. "Huh, weird."
[22:33] <Afina> Regrouping back with Jaela, Afina settles down from the high of battle. "So was that one of the monoliths?" she asks, "I'd hoped for golems."
[22:33] <Jaela> "I was so sure the monoliths were these fucked up 'loths," Jaela laments. "Just goes to show how much you can trust musty old books."

[Corwin]

[19:52] <Kotono> "Things change, no matter what we want," Canderella's reply is easy as she looks about, "You two are strong, aren't you?"
[19:52] <Jaela> "In a nutshell."
[19:57] * Jaela turns herself into a beacon by casting Daylight into her mithral armor. Now shining like a convenient torch, she muses, "So the dark waters meant we were getting close. And I think there were supposed to be four of those things, so just three more and we've got this in the bag."
[19:58] <Kotono> "I hope you're right," Canderella says, "Though as no one knows the truth of what lies ahead, I worry that it may not be the only ordeal."
[19:59] <Afina> "Yes. Since we're this close and away from other ears, we may as well tell you, Candrella. We don't actually care about Vulanas," Afina tells the succubus, pointing to the black waters. "We're after what's in the middle of that."
[20:00] <Jaela> "Yeah, pretty much," Jaela agrees with a grin. "Vulanas might be fun to explore some time, but we've got a better lead for now. It's just the closest landmark to our goal."
[20:01] <Kotono> "Reaaaaally?" Now Canderella's mouth opens up into a little 'o', "So what exactly IS it your after?"
[20:02] <Afina> "A lost citadel hidden in the centre, where a very special fountain is supposed to be hidden," Afina explains to that, little reason to hide it from their guide now they're out here.
[20:02] <Jaela> "The Fountain of Youth," Jaela adds. "What better place to hide one than Water, yeah?"
[20:09] <Kotono> "Oooooh, now that's fun. No wonder it's hidden away. All the mortals would be lusting after it," Canderella replies, "Well then, shall we?"
[20:10] <Afina> "If you're still interested in staying with us, lets," Afina agrees, starting to push through the water and onwards once more.
[20:14] <Kotono> On you swim into the black waters. It's about ten minutes of swimming ahead when it happens. The waters around you grow ice cold, a silibant voice uttering all around you, "TURN BACK. ONLY RUIN LIES AHEAD."
[20:15] <Jaela> "Oh yeah we'll get right on that," Jaela mutters, rolling her eye.
[20:17] <Afina> "If the citadel's in ruins that means it must be poorly defended," Afina cracks a faint smile, barely perceptible on her washed out watery form.
[20:31] <Kotono> There is no reply to that, only the cold waters lessening once more.
[20:33] <Jaela> With no immediate resistance in sight, Jaela presses on!
[20:36] <Kotono> OOC: Make spot, both of you?
[20:37] <Afina> roll 1d20+29
[20:37] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+29 and gets 47." [1d20=18]
[20:37] <Jaela> roll 1d20+11
[20:37] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+11 and gets 22." [1d20=11]
[20:41] <Kotono> It is Afina who spots it, 300ft away. Another great black mass like before ,coming in your direction! It's coming right at the trio, sparing nothing! OOC: INit. The bad guys are rollin' in.

[20:41] <Afina> roll 1d20+20
[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+20 and gets 27." [1d20=7]
[20:41] <Jaela> roll 1d20+6
[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+6 and gets 7." [1d20=1]
[20:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+1 Canderella
[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+1 Canderella and gets 14." [1d20=13]
[20:42] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 Black Monolith
[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 Black Monolith and gets 13." [1d20=7]
[20:43] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(27)>Canderella(14)>Black Monolith(13)>Jaela(7)'
[20:43] <Kotono> OOC: Open Afina. 300ft away and moving in.
[20:43] <Afina> "Another one, coming in fast," Afina warns, moving forward twenty feet and adopting a defensive stance.
[20:44] <Afina> OOC: total defence
[20:44] <Afina> OOC: also hasting us!
[20:47] <Kotono> Canderella swims back 30ft, defending herself! Meanwhile the monolith advances 120ft, 160ft from Afina, 180ft from Jaela and 210ft from Canderella! OOC: Jaela.
[20:48] <Jaela> A prayer to the Triune Goddess causes holy power to descend upon Jaela and Afina, and she draws Val'Finnegan out to channel a Harm spell into it!
[20:48] <Jaela> OOC: Holy Aura
[20:49] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. Afina, go.
[20:51] <Afina> Too far for her to safely attack just yet, Afina backs off to position herself just in front of Jaela, still keeping her defences up.
[20:53] <Kotono> Canderella backs up just a bit more as well, keeping her guard up! At this the monolith charges ahead, coming to within 20ft of Afina and its fist coming to try and pulp her into little fairy bits!
[20:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+32 (+2 charge, +2 water mastery, smite good, -10 ICE)
[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+32 (+2 charge, +2 water mastery, smite good, -10 ICE) and gets 34." [1d20=2]
[20:54] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
[20:54] <Afina> OOC: 59
[20:55] <Afina> OOC: 58, sorry
[20:56] <Kotono> The blow is heavy but too slow, too careful. It's arm stays up in what is largely a parry, defending itself! OOC: Jaela.
[20:57] <Jaela> "Let's get the uppity bitch," Jaela says with a grin, placing a hand on Afina's shoulder. Fell the Greatest Foe enhances the pixie elemental, and then Jaela retreats ten feet more.
[21:00] <Kotono> OOC: Duly noted. Afina is 20ft from the elemental, Jaela 30ft, and Canderella 50ft. Go Afina.
[21:01] <Afina> "Thanks," Afina nods gratefully at having the helpful spell put in place, flying forward to stab into the elemental and then retreat back to her previous position!
[21:01] <Afina> roll 1d20+45 4th level arcane strike
[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+45 4th level arcane strike and gets 60." [1d20=15]
[21:01] <Afina> roll 1d20+40 4th level arcane strike
[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+40 4th level arcane strike and gets 47." [1d20=7]
[21:02] <Kotono> OOC: TWo hits.
[21:02] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6+4d4
[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6+4d4 and gets 57." [1d4=3][5d6=3, 4, 3, 5, 3][2d6=2, 5][2d6=2, 2][4d4=3, 1, 3, 1]
[21:02] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6+4d4
[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6+4d4 and gets 58." [1d4=4][5d6=3, 2, 2, 1, 6][2d6=1, 5][2d6=3, 2][4d4=4, 2, 2, 4]
[21:04] <Kotono> Twin slashes rip into the elemental, so fast that it can't even react! Cuts appear all over it, the dark waters resisting the pull of damage, but still cut in several places! Meanwhile Candrealla backs up another ten ft, holding back and defending herself! OOC: Monolith.
[21:04] <Kotono> With a roar of fury that quakes the water around you, the black monolith slams both its fists down at Afina!
[21:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30 (+2 water mastery, smite good, -10 ICE) AC?
[21:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30 (+2 water mastery, smite good, -10 ICE) AC?
[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30 (+2 water mastery, smite good, -10 ICE) AC? and gets 42." [1d20=12]
[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30 (+2 water mastery, smite good, -10 ICE) AC? and gets 36." [1d20=6]
[21:05] <Afina> OOC: 52
[21:08] <Kotono> Again both slams come, but somehow Afina avoids each of them! It still puts its guard up, defending! OOC: Jaela.
[21:08] <Jaela> Casting True Strike, Jaela swims forward until she is just behind Afina.
[21:08] <Jaela> OOC: I'll be 5ft behind her
[21:09] <Kotono> OOC: 25ft away from the monolith, then?
[21:09] <Jaela> OOC: Correct
[21:09] <Kotono> Jaela positions, channeling in her magic into her lance! OOC: Go Afina.
[21:11] <Afina> Sensing Jaela's intent, Afina dashes towards the elemental and past it, puncturing ripping holes in its surface as water meets water under the water before comint to rest on its opposite side, hemming it in between them.
[21:11] <Afina> roll 1d20+44 2nd level arcane strike
[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+44 2nd level arcane strike and gets 47." [1d20=3]
[21:11] <Afina> roll 1d20+39 2nd level arcane strike
[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+39 2nd level arcane strike and gets 53." [1d20=14]
[21:11] <Afina> roll 1d4+18+5d6+2d6+2d6+2d4
[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+18+5d6+2d6+2d6+2d4 and gets 48." [1d4=2][5d6=5, 3, 4, 4, 1][2d6=2, 2][2d6=2, 3][2d4=1, 1]
[21:11] <Afina> roll 1d4+18+5d6+2d6+2d6+2d4
[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+18+5d6+2d6+2d6+2d4 and gets 51." [1d4=2][5d6=6, 1, 5, 2, 4][2d6=2, 2][2d6=1, 2][2d4=2, 4]
[21:13] <Kotono> More cuts are ripped into its body all over as Afina dashes by, easily avoiding massive fists and making good her flanking! Meanwhile Canderella continues to defend itself, as the monolith turns, striking at Afina once more!
[21:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30 (+2 water mastery, -10 ICE) AC?
[21:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30 (+2 water mastery, -10 ICE) AC?
[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30 (+2 water mastery, -10 ICE) AC? and gets 48." [1d20=18]
[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30 (+2 water mastery, -10 ICE) AC? and gets 38." [1d20=8]
[21:14] <Kotono> But Afina dodges all the blows, zipping past the huge but clumsy fists! OOC: Jaela.
[21:14] * Jaela swims onwards! She gets to the elemental's outer envelop and then penetrates it just the slightest bit. When it seems that the elemental would arrest her approach with its customary violence, Val'Finnegan suddenly elongates and strikes out at her enemy!
[21:15] <Jaela> OOC: stretch weapon as swift to attack from 15ft
[21:15] <Jaela> roll 1d20+24 devotion
[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+24 devotion and gets 39." [1d20=15]
[21:15] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32+4+2+5+20-17 (racial smite, 17pa, true strike)
[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32+4+2+5+20-17 (racial smite, 17pa, true strike) and gets 48." [1d20=2]
[21:16] <Jaela> roll 1d8+25+5+34+2d6 and Will26
[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8+25+5+34+2d6 and Will26 and gets 73." [1d8=5][2d6=2, 2]
[21:17] <Kotono> OOC: You'll still trip an AoO since it has 20ft reach, you okay with this?
[21:17] <Jaela> OOC: +17 to it
[21:17] <Jaela> OOC: No other choice
[21:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30 (+2 water mastery, -10 ICE) AC?
[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30 (+2 water mastery, -10 ICE) AC? and gets 42." [1d20=12]
[21:17] <Jaela> OOC: Hits
[21:17] <Kotono> roll 6d8+18 bypasses your DR
[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d8+18 bypasses your DR and gets 47." [6d8=2, 8, 8, 2, 1, 8]
[21:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14 will
[21:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 will and gets 30." [1d20=16]
[21:18] <Jaela> roll 73+17+75 overall damage, holy/silver
[21:18] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 73+17+75 overall damage, holy/silver and gets 165."
[21:19] <Kotono> Jaela rushes in, the back foot of the elemental kicking out! It catches Jaela dead on, but doesn't stop her! Instead she rips into its ankle and leg, swimming forward and dragging Val'Finnegan through its leg up to the hip! More water flows out as holy power bursts inside the limb of the black monolith! OOC: Afina.
[21:20] <Afina> With another pair of stabs that send shockwaves through the surrounding water, Afina holes the much larger elemental again and moves across it to Jaela's side!
[21:20] <Afina> roll 1d20+41
[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+41 and gets 44." [1d20=3]
[21:20] <Afina> roll 1d20+36
[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+36 and gets 54." [1d20=18]
[21:21] <Afina> roll 1d4+18+5d6+2d6+2d6
[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+18+5d6+2d6+2d6 and gets 54." [1d4=2][5d6=5, 4, 4, 4, 2][2d6=1, 6][2d6=4, 4]
[21:21] <Afina> roll 1d4+18+5d6+2d6+2d6
[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+18+5d6+2d6+2d6 and gets 54." [1d4=3][5d6=1, 1, 6, 5, 6][2d6=4, 3][2d6=5, 2]
[21:22] <Kotono> OOC: One hit - second one misses.
[21:23] <Jaela> OOC: Were you flanking with me?
[21:23] <Afina> OOC: depends on whether the stretch is a one attack or a one round deal?
[21:24] <Kotono> Amazingly, one blow misses - the elemental manages to dodge with geniune watery grace! Yet the second rips in, the elemental's watery form sporting dozens of cuts that j ust won't blend back in and fade away! OOC: +2 won't matter for hit/miss. Canderella is up.
[21:24] <Kotono> Canderella holds back an dstays out of it! A moment later, the wounded monolith whirls, this time on Jaela - and turns its hurt, pained wrath on her!
[21:24] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30 (+2 water mastery, -10 ICE) AC?
[21:24] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30 (+2 water mastery, -10 ICE) AC?
[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30 (+2 water mastery, -10 ICE) AC? and gets 47." [1d20=17]
[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30 (+2 water mastery, -10 ICE) AC? and gets 32." [1d20=2]
[21:25] <Jaela> OOC: 30
[21:25] <Kotono> roll 6d8+18+6d8+18
[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d8+18+6d8+18 and gets 82." [6d8=1, 1, 5, 1, 8, 7][6d8=1, 7, 8, 4, 2, 1]
[21:28] <Kotono> Jaela is slammed twice more, beaten around and crushed between two black fists! Despite her bones being cracked and shattered like a fallen glass chandelier, she stays up! Sure, bits of bone poke through her skin and blood clouds the water around her, but she lives yet! OOC: Jaela.
[21:28] <Jaela> "One motherfucker after another, thinking they can win--" Jaela pushes that last five feet stretch onwards, and her own wrath is far more terrifying to behold!
[21:28] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32+4+5
[21:28] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32+4+5
[21:28] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32+4+5 and gets 60." [1d20=19]
[21:28] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32+4+5 and gets 51." [1d20=10]
[21:28] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32+4
[21:28] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32+4 and gets 47." [1d20=11]
[21:28] <Jaela> roll 1d20+31
[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+31 and gets 41." [1d20=10]
[21:29] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits.
[21:29] <Jaela> roll 1d20+26
[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+26 and gets 42." [1d20=16]
[21:29] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits.
[21:29] <Jaela> roll 3#1d8+25+5+3+2d6
[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 3#1d8+25+5+3+2d6 and gets 130." [3#1d8+25+5+3+2d6 = 45, 43, 42]
[21:30] <Kotono> Under that assault, Jaela slides in! She pieces the elemental in the stomach, ripping her lance out! The entire thing breaks apart in holy power, black water sucked in water a moment before fading away! OOC: Free act.

[21:31] <Jaela> Another Heal, even as she is starting to feel tired at doing so. "Fuck, but healing broken bones in a flash hurts a bitch," she complains, waving Canderella over.
[21:31] <Afina> "I got sloppy at the end. Sorry, Jaela," Afina apologises, not liking that her killer instinct could be waning.
[21:31] <Kotono> "It seems the natives are restless," Canderella swims up, dabbing her finger through some of the bloodied water around Jaela. Tasting it, "Aaah, so nostalgic. The half dead but triuphant champion, standing in defiance of all who oppose her."
[21:32] <Jaela> "Screw these assholes. Two more, right? Two? We'll kill them if they don't run away crying to mommy!"
[21:32] * Afina looks at the sight of a beautiful human-looking woman consuming Jaela's blood and raises an eyebrow.
[21:33] * Jaela just shrugs at Afina, not understanding the appeal at all.
[21:34] <Afina> "Anyway, lets continue?" the watery fairy suggests, turning and continuing deeper into the darkness.
[21:35] <Jaela> "Next time, I'll bust out the long range spells," Jaela promises. "If you catch it far enough, maybe something will even stick." She is reduced to muttering, then, about her most powerful holy spell and how it never ever works.
[21:44] <Kotono> Thus the party swims along! It's a solid hour of swimming, not much happening - until ahead? You can see it on the horizon - a great ragged bed of what looks ot be seaweed. Resting atop it is a great city, shining with a pale, ethereal light much like pure moonlight.
[21:44] <Jaela> "Lost city, found?" Jaela voices, glancing back at Canderella.
[21:46] <Kotono> "That should be it," Canderella replies, voice coming out muffled from the waters, "Still alive to see it, too. I am impressed. Most people are swept away, unable to make change. Instead, the two of you made your own change."
[21:47] <Jaela> "Do or die," Jaela responds with a shrug. "That's what we live by, among other things. Victory is all, losing is horrifying death."
[21:47] <Afina> "The guardians weren't weaklings, but that's all I can really say for them," Afina remarks, hapyp enough to do a swimby of the city for all that it isn't their real goal.
[21:51] <Kotono> "The strong survive, the weak suffer and die." Chuckling now, Canderella is all smiles, "I have known many who hold that exact philosphy." As you start to swim by, "Are you not going to explore the lost city? I confess that there may well be treasures within, or lost things of value, awaiting someone to recover them."
[21:53] * Jaela snorts. "I think we differ in how we apply it, because the reason for being strong and winning is to help the weak we're protecting."
[21:54] <Afina> "A city takes a long time to explore. We'll swim over it in case we see anything at a glance, but a proper exploration will have to wait until we've got the waters of youth," Afina replies, not having any particular problem with Canderella's philosophy. Perhaps suffering is a bit excessive, but it's nature's way for the most part.
[21:55] <Kotono> OOC: Okay, make a spot check if you're swimming around/over, then.
[21:56] <Afina> roll 1d20+25
[21:56] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+25 and gets 44." [1d20=19]
[21:56] <Jaela> roll 1d20+7 I'll aid?!
[21:56] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+7 I'll aid?! and gets 9." [1d20=2]
[22:06] <Kotono> As you swima round the city, you can notice one thing. From about 50ft above the highest buildings and on down, there's no water. No barrier - the water just stops. The ethereal radiance casts the entire city like a dream of a mirage, flickering in your view. It is empty, abandoned and crumbling.  A forgotten city, streets covered in rubble and shattered remnants of long ago dreams. Yet amid
[22:06] <Kotono> the rubble, one building shines. Pearled gates surround a large, palatial structure, untouched by the weathers of age and time.
[22:08] <Afina> "Something's moving down there," Afina warns, her eyes flicking across the ruined streets. "Something very fast."
[22:08] <Jaela> "Towards us?"
[22:11] <Afina> "No. In the shadows, always at the corner of my vision," the fairy shakes her head. "When I turn to look it's already gone." Letting that stand, she points to the intact building, "That building looks worth investigating, just remember we won't be alone down there."
[22:12] <Jaela> "Got it," Jaela responds curtly, casting Shield of Faith upon herself and then asking Afina and Canderella, "Want the extra protection when we go take a look?"
[22:13] <Afina> "Wouldn't go amiss," Afina nods, starting to descend and trying to keep an eye on the movement.
[22:14] * Jaela extends the magic towards her companion, and then Divine Vigor completes her preparations. She descends after Afina, armor glowing with Daylight and Val'Finnegan out. The spear holds Color Spray within it, just in case.
[22:18] <Kotono> "Of course," Canderella replies, as the trio go down! Descending down to the pearl-gate surrounded palace is without incident. Coming closer, you can see it is indeed untouched and unweathered. The door to within is wide open, revealing a great hallway, decorated with what look to be dozens of life-sized statues of marid, mermen and other aquatic humanoids, all made of what looks to be shining
[22:18] <Kotono> pearl, polished bright.
[22:18] <Jaela> Canderella gets her own protective spell, and then Jaela casts Detect Magic to take a closer look at the structure.
[22:21] <Afina> "Either this place was built to last, or it's been maintained," Afina remarks at its spotless condition. "It could be nothing more than bait," she warns, alert for any trap about to be sprung as she descends to the door and hallway.
[22:22] * Jaela lurches forward and Val'Finnegan slips from her grasp! She fumbles after it sluggishly, and then shakes her head. "Not bait, at least."
[22:22] <Jaela> roll 1d20+21
[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+21 and gets 38." [1d20=17]
[22:23] <Afina> "What happened?" Afina looks at Jaela worriedly, such clumsiness unlike her.
[22:24] <Jaela> "Magic," Jaela responds, her eye trying to take it all in. "On the level of the Aurora. Pretty trippy."
[22:25] <Afina> "Interesting..." Afina muses, deciding to investigate further and fly into the entrance.
[22:26] <Jaela> "Make sure you're warded against the cold!" Jaela calls out in warning. "And the sneaky little shit you saw? Probably the work of this magic, too."
[22:26] <Kotono> As Afina flies in, she can note it's turning colder. Cold and colder as she flies in. Ahead she can see two doors leading deeper in at the end, and about half a dozen doors on the side walls, here and there, leading further within to the sides.
[22:27] * Jaela glances over at Canderella. "Can I assume you're good against a little chill?"
[22:28] <Afina> Although she's quite inured against realistic cold temperatures, Afina takes the hint and protects herself from magical cold. "Lets follow this corridor as far as it goes before spreading out?" she suggests, going to open those double doors.
[22:29] <Kotono> "Of course," Canderella laughs gaily, "My old job requirements often required going without little things like clothing."
[22:30] <Jaela> "Sure, except for the part where we spread out," Jaela responds to Afina. "The whole place's warded against scrying, and who knows if it can keep us separate. No dimensional travel means we would be screwed." She glances back at Canderella, starting to head after Afina. "And speaking of your old job, I presume, what's your new one?"
[22:30] <Kotono> The doors at the end of the entry hall are opened. A roofed garden is here - full of sand, coral grown into patterns, weaves and shapes, and various patches and walls of colored algae. A path leads along through it and to another set of doors ahead.
[22:31] <Kotono> "I'm currently studying the four main elemental forces." Pausing to shake a bit of water out of her hair, "This century it's Water."
[22:32] * Afina nods and flutters along the path. At least the flora here doesn't look advanced enough to be carniverous.
[22:32] <Kotono> OOC: Spot checks, and note nay unusual senses like blindsight/sense or anything else.
[22:32] <Jaela> "Just for fun, or working on retainer?" Jaela wonders, following after Afina. Close enough to assist if needed, but realistically counting on her to spot any danger to them.
[22:33] <Jaela> roll 1d20+7 blindsight 30/darkvision 60
[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+7 blindsight 30/darkvision 60 and gets 27." [1d20=20]
[22:33] <Kotono> "Assignment. I am to learn. Thunder I understand. I am born from thunder," A momentary grin at this, "Water, fire, wind, earth? I understand them far less."
[22:33] <Afina> roll 1d20+25 blindsense 30/darkvision 60/low-light
[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+25 blindsense 30/darkvision 60/low-light and gets 40." [1d20=15]
[22:34] <Jaela> "Which did you cover so far?" Jaela asks curiously.
[22:37] <Afina> "Candrella, duck!" Afina snaps, lunging straight at the succubus, intending to go past her and engage the invisible stalker.
[22:38] <Jaela> Forgetting all about her question, Jaela sticks even closer to their guide! Val'Finnegan will deter any assault!
[22:40] <Kotono> Canderella does just that, ducking and rolling to the side! Afina is just fast enough, coming forward with blade out to block! What is before you is a humanoid. A human, perhaps. Or perhaps once was. He wears only ragged, torn pants. A blood-dripping knife is in hand. His entire body that you can see - from face to torso - is covered in scars. His entire skin is defaced in such a manner, often
[22:40] <Kotono> forming gaping faces within his flesh. His lips are split open, slashed upwards into a permanent, macabre smile. Afina blocks the bloody blade, the eyes of the man pure white and without any definition. He brings one scarred finger to his lips, as if to shush Afina with great joy, before his knife slashes out again! OOC: INit, avoided da ambush.

[22:40] <Jaela> roll 1d20+6
[22:40] <Afina> roll 1d20+20
[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+6 and gets 13." [1d20=7]
[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+20 and gets 37." [1d20=17]
[22:40] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 Canterella
[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 Canterella and gets 24." [1d20=18]
[22:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 Scarred humanoid
[22:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 Scarred humanoid and gets 24." [1d20=11]
[22:41] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(37)>Canterella=Scarred Humanoid(24)>Jaela(13)'
[22:41] <Kotono> OOC: Go Afina.
[22:41] <Afina> That slash is parried, Afina counterattacking with impossible speed before retreating back alongside Jaela to lure him into reach of her deadly spear! Also she hastes everyone.
[22:41] <Afina> roll 1d20+36
[22:41] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+36 and gets 49." [1d20=13]
[22:41] <Afina> roll 1d20+31
[22:41] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+31 and gets 49." [1d20=18]
[22:42] <Afina> OOC: evil/outsider?
[22:42] <Jaela> roll 1d20+20 devotion
[22:42] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+20 devotion and gets 25." [1d20=5]
[22:43] <Kotono> OOC: Evil.
[22:43] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6
[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6 and gets 45." [1d4=3][5d6=2, 2, 1, 1, 4][2d6=4, 1][2d6=5, 5]
[22:43] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6
[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6 and gets 52." [1d4=1][5d6=4, 2, 4, 3, 6][2d6=3, 6][2d6=3, 3]
[22:46] <Kotono> Afina rips into the body of the scarred humanoid! He says not a sound - does not make a peep. His flesh is cut again, blood sluggishly trickling out and leaking down his scars. Instead his eternal smile stays in place as he turns, going towards Jaela! OOC: AoO Jaela, since you have CR.
[22:47] * Jaela obliges, striking out with Val'Finnegan!
[22:47] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32+2+4
[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32+2+4 and gets 52." [1d20=14]
[22:47] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[22:48] <Jaela> roll 1d8+25+2+2d6
[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8+25+2+2d6 and gets 40." [1d8=6][2d6=4, 3]
[22:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+31 (+5 masochism) AC?
[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+31 (+5 masochism) AC? and gets 39." [1d20=8]
[22:51] <Jaela> OOC: Not that, hit
[22:51] <Kotono> OOC: -2 from that, forgot the scarring strike modifier.
[22:51] <Jaela> OOC: Still easy hit!
[22:51] <Kotono> roll 1d4+15 plus more coming in the next roll, doesn't beat your DR at least.
[22:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4+15 plus more coming in the next roll, doesn't beat your DR at least. and gets 17." [1d4=2]
[22:51] <Kotono> roll 2d4 vile cha damage
[22:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d4 vile cha damage and gets 6." [2d4=4, 2]
[22:53] <Kotono> Even as Jaela strikes out and impales the scarred man, he does not stop. His knife lashes out at Jaela's face, slashing across it! Her flesh is ripped part, dozens of red, angry scars spreading across it! Her beauty is utterly shattered, the wounds quickly turning into ugly, throbbing scars! OOC: Ow. Jaela, go.
[22:54] <Jaela> "You bitch! Choke on a mouthful of dicks!" Jaela snaps, retaliating far more furiously than she ever had against the menacing water monoliths.
[22:55] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32+2 divine might
[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32+2 divine might and gets 51." [1d20=17]
[22:55] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32+2 divine might
[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32+2 divine might and gets 45." [1d20=11]
[22:55] <Jaela> roll 1d20+27+2 divine might
[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+27+2 divine might and gets 36." [1d20=7]
[22:55] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits.
[22:55] <Jaela> roll 1d20+22+2+7 divine might, smite
[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+22+2+7 divine might, smite and gets 47." [1d20=16]
[22:55] <Jaela> roll 1d20+17+2 divine might
[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+17+2 divine might and gets 36." [1d20=17]
[22:55] <Kotono> OOC: Make that five.
[22:56] <Jaela> roll 5#1d8+25+2+7+2d6
[22:56] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 5#1d8+25+2+7+2d6 and gets 215." [5#1d8+25+2+7+2d6 = 42, 47, 44, 41, 41]
[22:56] <Jaela> roll 215+8
[22:56] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 215+8 and gets 223."
[22:57] <Kotono> With rage born from raw indignation and hurt, Jaela ravages the scarred man! He is stabbed five times in the chest, leaving a h uge gaping hole where his heart should be! He falls to his knees, gushing out blood! He looks up at Jaela, the same scarred smile looking at her for a moment, before he falls face down dead! OOC: Free act.

[22:57] * Jaela stabs the freak through his head just to ensure it won't be rising back up.
[22:58] <Kotono> Brain and skull are shattered, leaving the dead man before you deader.
[22:58] * Afina looks at the state of Jaela's face and then examines the knife that was used. "That was surprisingly vicious," she opines.
[22:59] <Kotono> It's a bloody knife. It seems surrounded in blood - it doesn't smear onto th eground or stain it, she notes.
[22:59] <Jaela> "Yeah okay can you keep guard while I fix this?" Jaela mutters, touching the scars with a wince. "Dammit, what the fuck? This shit'll take some specialized work."
[23:00] <Afina> Well it looks like shit to her master artisans eye! But maybe it's magic tells a deeper story? Detect magic is used to find out!
[23:00] <Jaela> With a force of will, Hallow is called upon the roofed garden. Then, Jaela sets to the arduous task of trying to repair the damage to her face. Appearance is important, even when exploring lost cities!
[23:01] <Jaela> roll 1d4 lesser restoration
[23:01] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d4 lesser restoration and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[23:01] <Jaela> roll 1d4 lesser restoration
[23:01] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d4 lesser restoration and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[23:01] <Jaela> roll 1d4 lesser restoration
[23:01] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d4 lesser restoration and gets 4." [1d4=4]
[23:02] <Afina> "The knife isn't anything special at all," Afina tells her companions after her examination. "Our friend here just has a unique talent, it seems. I'll focus on disarming the next one, you can be sure there'll be more."
[23:02] <Kotono> Blessing the roofed garden, a sense of peace comes to the air, even as the air grows yet colder. Bitterly cold, cold as winter's numbing cudgel. Calling on her deity's power, Jaela mends her wounds successfully.
[23:03] <Kotono> "Body mutilatiors," Canderella speaks up, "I've seen mortals do it before. Certain creatures revel in shattering the natural shape of mortal bodies," Wrinkling her nose, "There's an entire school of vile knowledge about it."
[23:04] <Jaela> "Freaks. I've seen one too, I guess. Some insane regenerator I killed a few times on Limbo before bringing Annalise his head for study."
[23:04] <Afina> "There's always people with too much time on their hands," Afina shrugs. "We'll just have to efficiently kill them as they appear."
[23:05] <Afina> Crisis over for now, the fairy starts flying through the garden to the next doors once again.
[23:08] <Kotono> The door ahead is opened. Your breath mists out before you as you open it wide, revealing another hall leading deeper in. It's like the first one, richly decorated with pearl statues. More doors to the side, and double doors at the end again. However, spiral staircases ascend upward to the left and right of the double doors at the end.
[23:10] <Jaela> This method has worked for them so far, so Jaela relies on Afina taking the lead while she herself stays close to Canderella.
[23:11] <Afina> Keeping on a straight line for now, Afina contents herself with a glance up the staircases but moves on to the door and opens it up.
[23:11] <Kotono> "I've known witch's tits that were warmer than this," Canderella observes, looking about, "Pretty statues. It's a shame they've been left here so long," Pausing to run a finger down the cheek of a marid-statue, "I wonder what you would think, locked awa yfro an eternity and forgotten in the river of time. What would be the answer you came to?"
[23:12] <Afina> "Twenty one," Afina answers without missing a beat.
[23:12] <Jaela> "Good one!"
[23:13] <Kotono> Canderella stops and blinks, "Oh hell, I hate that." Making a face, "That isn't some endlessly tiring numerology, is it? It sounds like numerology."
[23:13] <Jaela> "No, it's just an in-joke for 'we'll kill it'," Jaela is all too happy to fill her in.
[23:14] <Jaela> "Someone's gotta be responsible! They'll die."
[23:15] <Afina> "I don't feel like waiting eternity for an answer so I just stole someone else's," Afina admits readily.
[23:17] <Kotono> Going ahead and opening the next door, you find another garden. This one is of tiny, shrunken trees and rocks, artfully arrainged and trimmed. Of course, that's not what you notice at all. No, what you notice is who stands just beyond the door. She wears nothing but a ragged cut-off shirt, old and stained. Her entire body is scarred terribly, all in endless whorls that seem to spin and shift
[23:17] <Kotono> into points of miserable, inky, frosted over blackness. Her hands and feet are black with frostbite, her mouth sewed shut with a dozen metal pins. Her limbs are long - too long, stretched an broken, reaching to the floor. In one hand is a bloody knife. Her head lolls to the side, neck clearly broken. Yet her brown eyes are criss-crossed with bloody wounds, staring at Afina as her knife comes
[23:17] <Kotono> up! OOC: Init, the natives are again restless.

[23:17] <Jaela> roll 1d20+6
[23:17] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+6 and gets 22." [1d20=16]
[23:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 Canderella
[23:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 Canderella and gets 10." [1d20=4]
[23:18] <Afina> roll 1d20+20
[23:18] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+20 and gets 37." [1d20=17]
[23:18] <Kotono> "Again?" Canderella grimaces, "The novelty wears off the first time. Now it's another endless repetition, where in the same questions are posed and the same answer is reached."
[23:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9 woman
[23:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 woman and gets 23." [1d20=14]
[23:18] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(37)>Woman(23)>Jaela(22)>Canderella(10)'
[23:19] <Kotono> OOC: Open Afina.
[23:19] <Kotono> OOC: She is 5ft from Afina, 10ft from Jaela and 15ft from Canderella.
[23:19] <Afina> "There won't be any stabbing this time," Afina declares, willing the woman's knife to melt as she flies forward twenty feet towards her.
[23:19] <Afina> OOC: DC 24 will
[23:19] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
[23:19] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 30." [1d20=16]
[23:20] <Afina> OOC: and haste
[23:20] <Kotono> OOC: Uh, how can you fly 20ft towards her if she's 5ft away from you?
[23:20] <Afina> OOC: oh, sorry. I'll fly twenty feet back, then.
[23:20] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[23:21] <Kotono> The woman's knife shudders a moment, turning liquid - but firms back up! A moment later her arms - too too too long, fast as she is gaunt, come up and slash towards Jaela's face!
[23:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 (-2 mutilation) AC?
[23:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 (-2 mutilation) AC? and gets 28." [1d20=9]
[23:23] <Jaela> OOC: 29 flat footed
[23:24] <Kotono> Her knife slashes out, right to Jaela's lips! Somehow the attack is perfect, slipping between her closed lips, going for her tongue - but at the last moment Jaela jerks back, avoiding harm! A moment later the woman shambles back 5 feet, taking slow, wobbling steps! OOC: Whew. Jaela, go. 15ft away now.
[23:25] * Jaela advances upon her with a cold fury, and Val'Finnegan serves to display her displeasure!
[23:25] <Jaela> roll 1d20+20 devotion
[23:25] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+20 devotion and gets 34." [1d20=14]
[23:25] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32+4
[23:25] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32+4
[23:25] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32+4 and gets 42." [1d20=6]
[23:25] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32+4 and gets 49." [1d20=13]
[23:25] <Jaela> roll 1d20+27+4
[23:25] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+27+4 and gets 46." [1d20=15]
[23:25] <Jaela> roll 1d20+22+4
[23:25] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+22+4 and gets 36." [1d20=10]
[23:25] <Jaela> roll 1d20+17+4
[23:25] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+17+4 and gets 40." [1d20=19]
[23:26] <Kotono> OOC: All hit.
[23:26] <Jaela> roll 5#1d8+25+4+2d6
[23:26] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 5#1d8+25+4+2d6 and gets 213." [5#1d8+25+4+2d6 = 37, 47, 46, 45, 38]
[23:27] <Kotono> In that cold fury Jaela exacts her revenge! The woman's head is pierced, brains sent flying out along with the shards of the back of her skull! Her body falls backwards, arms shattering like ice on the impact! A frozen mass of blood and bone lie where her arms hit, as the woman lies dead! OOC: Free act.

[23:28] <Afina> "Nicely done," Afina approves of the violence, catching up again.
[23:29] <Jaela> "Got enough scars already."
[23:29] <Kotono> "They never tell you the downsides of body mutilation," Canderella observes, "If you stretch a body part that far, it's thinner and more liable to snap or sever off." Tsking, "I wonder what's behind this?"
[23:31] <Afina> "The shield of purity?" Afina wonders, "All seeking their 'pure' perfection of the body in their own way?"
[23:32] <Jaela> "Or being kept away from it," Jaela muses. "Just like the water was, outside?"

[Corwin]

[20:51] <Kotono> "One way of looking at it," Rubbing her chin a moment as she looks down at the broken, scarred body of your assailant, "Purity rejects those who seek it, and those who push past this rejection are transformed?"
[20:51] <Jaela> "Guess we'll see if we find it?"
[20:52] <Afina> "Better not try and transform us," Afina remarks stiffly as she proceeds into this new garden.
[20:52] <Kotono> Ahead of you is another garden - of stones and small, shrunken trees. Ahead is another door going on, a path leading from here straight ahead to it.
[20:53] <Afina> Barring sight of anything interesting or deadly, especially both, Afina goes and opens the next door.
[20:56] <Kotono> "Unless you've ever wanted to be human sized. A few months on the rack," Canderella holds her hands up, making a square with her fingers. Putting it in front of her eyes as she looks at Afina, "Then some burning metal rods to extend the bones, and you could pass as human. Minus the wings, of course." Pausing to smile, "I remember when one of my sisters went through a body modification phase.
[20:56] <Kotono> Every year she'd show up with some new twisting.  There was the time she was so fat she had to be rolled in like an overstuffed ball. Then there was the time she stretched herself apart until she resembled a thin sheet of bleeding meat with eyes and a face." Meanwhile Afina opens the next door, breath misting in the air. Ahead is a narrow hall. Each wall is nothing but glass, the front of
[20:56] <Kotono> aquariums on either side of you. The aquariums are full of fish - flash frozen, for the water has frozen over into solid ice. A rainbow of colorful fish, all perfectly frozen in clear white ice. Far ahead the hallway opens up again, a fountain glanced ahead - an affair with what looks to be a mermaid, its mouth spewing out water.
[20:58] <Jaela> "This was fun for you guys? Really?"
[20:58] <Afina> "If I want to be big I can use magic for that," Afina waves that aside. "Personally I don't know how you can stand stamping around as big clumsy giants," she adds, taking a curious look at the fish as she drifts along towards the fountain.
[20:59] <Kotono> "You wouldn't understand," Canderella sighs gustily, "I don't even half understand it now. I understand what it is to be a demon, as much as any demon does...perhaps more, because I can tell you that there is no reason, no why, no point. You do it because you can. Because you're a lunatic with no limits, in part." Afina knows enough to know these are all rare fish, or even ones she doesn't know.
[20:59] <Kotono> A single live specimen is worth thousands of gold to a collector.
[21:02] <Afina> Amusing as the thought of asking the Jarl to tru and resurrect them may be, Afina refuses the temptation. "Boredom?" she suggests.
[21:02] <Jaela> "Yeah, I guess I really wouldn't," Jaela agrees. "Not even out of boredom."
[21:05] <Kotono> "No. A demon hates, kills, murders, hates, hates and hates. A demon destroys...but isn't usually bored. At the same time, there is always a drive to do. It's..." she struggles here, frowning, "A few millenia of philosophy and that's as close as I've come. Ah well, maybe I make a poor philosopher?"
[21:08] <Afina> "A shame there isn't an elemental plane of philosophy to add to your journey, then," Afina muses, taking a curious look over the fountain in case it's got any sort of magic on it to avoid freezing or anything like that, and checking the surroundings.
[21:08] <Kotono> OOC: Make a spot check, both of you?
[21:08] <Kotono> OOC: Also note any special perceptions.
[21:08] <Jaela> roll 1d20+7 30ft blindsight/60ft darkvision
[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+7 30ft blindsight/60ft darkvision and gets 24." [1d20=17]
[21:09] <Afina> roll 1d20+25 blindsense 30/darkvision 60/low-light
[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+25 blindsense 30/darkvision 60/low-light and gets 33." [1d20=8]
[21:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 flatfooted AC, Afina (-2 scarring strike)
[21:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 flatfooted AC, Afina (-2 scarring strike) and gets 37." [1d20=15]
[21:13] <Afina> OOC: 39, 40 if haste is still up
[21:16] <Kotono> Out of nowhere as Afina takes the lead ahead, it plunges from above! This one wears nothing. Its body is nothing but scars - scars all over. Ears, lips, nose, eyelids, fingers, toes and even groin are all gone, cut away and smoothed over. Over his skin the scars form no pattern, yet on his arms and legs hooks nad spurs of bone jut out. In one hand is a bloody knife, held in place by what looks
[21:16] <Kotono> to be straps of bloody leather wrapped around his fingerless hand. As he falls down he takes a slash at Afina, but she's just fast enough to sidestep the assault! OOC: Init.

[21:17] <Afina> roll 1d20+20
[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+20 and gets 32." [1d20=12]
[21:17] <Jaela> roll 1d20+6
[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+6 and gets 11." [1d20=5]
[21:17] <Kotono> OOC: I assume the two of yo uwere following, so the freak is 5ft from Afina and 10ft from Jaela'n'Canderella.
[21:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 Canderella
[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 Canderella and gets 7." [1d20=1]
[21:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 freak
[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 freak and gets 18." [1d20=7]
[21:17] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(32)>Freak(18)>Jaela(11)>Canderella(7)'
[21:17] <Kotono> OOC: Go Afina.
[21:18] <Jaela> "Oh fucking hell why?!" Jaela exclaims. "It hurts just looking at that thing!"
[21:20] <Afina> Having seen far worse in her time, Afina calmly dodges to the side as she gets over her surprise at someone getting the drop on her, countering with two piercing stabs of her own before rushing away behind Jaela and Canderella!
[21:20] <Afina> roll 1d20+37 1st level arcane strike
[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+37 1st level arcane strike and gets 42." [1d20=5]
[21:20] <Afina> roll 1d20+32 1st level arcane strike
[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+32 1st level arcane strike and gets 35." [1d20=3]
[21:20] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
[21:20] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6+1d4
[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6+1d4 and gets 52." [1d4=4][5d6=6, 1, 1, 2, 3][2d6=2, 5][2d6=4, 3][1d4=4]
[21:20] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6+1d4
[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6+1d4 and gets 51." [1d4=3][5d6=1, 4, 4, 5, 2][2d6=6, 1][2d6=6, 1][1d4=1]
[21:21] <Kotono> Ripping into the freak before it can react again, Afina carves into its flesh! Blood doesn't come. Instead, sizzling hot molten metal leaks out, burning and causing little fires to form over the body of the freak! The scent of rancid, charring meat fills the air, as a moment later it is moving at the nearest target! A simple five foot step and Jaela in range of its knife!
[21:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+27 (+5 masochism, -2 mutilation) Flatfooted AC, Jaela?
[21:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+27 (+5 masochism, -2 mutilation) Flatfooted AC, Jaela? and gets 43." [1d20=16]
[21:22] <Jaela> OOC: 29
[21:23] <Kotono> roll 1d4+10+3d6 and more in description, does not beat your DR at least.
[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4+10+3d6 and more in description, does not beat your DR at least. and gets 22." [1d4=1][3d6=4, 2, 5]
[21:27] <Kotono> The knife is too fast and goes low! With a sickening deftness it slices into Jaela's leg just above the knee, severing it! Her left leg from the knee down falls over, a bloody, roiling black stump left where the wound was! The creature looks up after, rubbing the flat of the bloody knife into his chest and groaning silently! OOC: Land movement speed is quartered, fly speed isn't impacted. Go
[21:27] <Kotono> Jaela.
[21:30] * Jaela just stares in shock, alternating between the stump, the knife and her blood surrounding her once more. She falls back before regaining a semblance of balance and striking out at that knife again and again. And once it had been shattered, so will the creature holding it.
[21:30] <Jaela> roll 1d20+20 K:R
[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+20 K:R and gets 39." [1d20=19]
[21:31] <Jaela> roll 1d20+23+1+5 sunder
[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+23+1+5 sunder and gets 41." [1d20=12]
[21:31] <Kotono> OOC: Success.
[21:31] <Jaela> roll 1d8+25+5
[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8+25+5 and gets 37." [1d8=7]
[21:31] <Kotono> OOC: WEapon's shattered. Carry on with mayhem on the baddie.
[21:32] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32+5
[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32+5 and gets 50." [1d20=13]
[21:32] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32
[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32 and gets 37." [1d20=5]
[21:32] <Jaela> roll 1d20+27
[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+27 and gets 30." [1d20=3]
[21:32] <Jaela> roll 1d20+22
[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+22 and gets 37." [1d20=15]
[21:32] <Kotono> OOC: All hit.
[21:32] <Jaela> roll 4#1d8+25+5+2d6
[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 4#1d8+25+5+2d6 and gets 168." [4#1d8+25+5+2d6 = 38, 46, 38, 46]
[21:33] <Kotono> In a disbelieving fury, Jaela strike sout! A single blow shatters the knife, sending shards to the ground and into the leg of the freak! The secondary thrusts impale the freak over and over, silent groans as it falls over onto its side, going still as blood pools out around it! OOC: Free act.

[21:33] * Jaela follows him to the ground as she sags.
[21:34] <Afina> Wide-eyed at the sudden dismemberment, Afina hurries over and tries to support the stricken Jaela. "Can you focus to cast Plane Shift?" she asks tersely, "We need a proper healer to deal with this."
[21:35] * Jaela just stares dumbly at Afina.
[21:36] <Kotono> "Give her time. The first major dismemberment is always the hardest." Canderella comes over, picking up Jaela's severed leg and holding it by the boot.
[21:37] <Jaela> "But... mithral full plate? Shitty rusted knife?"
[21:38] <Afina> "That's why she needs a healer urgently. But she's the only one that can get us to one in a hurry," Afina snaps, looking down and deciding to be relieved that the stump is that weird black stuff rather than just pouring blood from a major artery and killing her. "They're not unskilled Jaela. You've seen me kill much bigger and better armoured things with a knife the same size," she adds as Jaela
[21:38] <Afina> shows she has her wits.
[21:39] <Jaela> "But... magic?"
[21:39] <Kotono> "You or Afina could probably cut through mithral with an old knife, with how skilled you are," Canderella points out, "Exactly. Hell, you could probably beat a vrock to death with your own leg here if you really wanted to."
[21:42] <Jaela> "What a fucking awful mental image," Jaela grumbles. She shakes her head. "We have to get out of this shitty place 'cause dimensional travel's blocked here. Grab some of that water from the fountain and... geez. This is horrible."
[21:44] <Afina> Taking the bag of holding off of Jaela's back, Afina promptly opens it up and sets the angel down, going to scoop the bag through the fountain without asking questions. "You're in no shape to swim however far we need to get free of the block."
[21:48] <Kotono> "Use your wings?" Canderella points out, "Those still work, don't they? At worst, I can push you along in the water."
[21:48] <Jaela> "I hate my life."
[21:49] <Kotono> "Ah damn it! Why didn't I have more angels break down like this when I was a demon?" Canderella huffs, waving an arm, "It's just a leg. Get some angel friend to regenerate it."
[21:50] <Afina> "Most mortals would be screaming their heads off, passing out, and dying. She's doing pretty well," Afina tells the succubus, returning with a load of water.
[21:51] <Jaela> "Is it the fucking purest water of all, a paragon to water everywhere that puts this entire fucking plane to shame?"
[21:51] * Afina looks at the water to judge.
[21:52] <Kotono> It look slike plain enough water. It isn't frozen like the aquarium, despite being bitterly cold. OOC: Looking with DM or anything like that?
[21:52] <Afina> OOC: I have that up
[21:52] <Kotono> OOC: Spelclraft.
[21:53] <Afina> roll 1d20+27
[21:53] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+27 and gets 39." [1d20=12]
[21:56] <Afina> "No... but it's actually really useful anyway," Afina remarks, taking a good look at Jaela's stump and her armour greaves. "Come over here and stick your bad leg in it?"
[21:57] * Jaela narrows her eye, but then reaches out for Canderella to have some help getting back to her feet. They've been through too much with Afina to consider some sort of stupid prank, and she tries her best to hobble over to the fountain.
[21:58] <Kotono> Canderella helps, getting Jaela in position as requested. "What does it do?"
[22:00] <Afina> Once Jaela's stump is in contact with the water, Afina focuses her attention on the water. "It obeys the command of water creatures, and can assume a somewhat solid consistency much like my own. So..." she starts visualising the end result as she does when fabricating equipment or sculpture for the crusade, forming a false leg of a matching size to her remaining one that braces itself into her
[22:00] <Afina> stump and her armour to remain solidly affixed through the rigours of walking and running. It's good practice for making golems later on, anyway! "Pull your leg out, now?"
[22:01] * Jaela steps back.
[22:01] <Kotono> roll 1d100
[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 7." [1d100=7]
[22:03] <Kotono> Pulling it out, Jaela sees a leg made of water replacing what she lost! It looks solid! Where it attaches to her stump the darkness creeps into it - and yet, at the same time? Veins extend down from the stump into the watery leg! A flash of sublime pain fills Jaela, all the way down to the toes of her watery foot! OOC: Make a fortitude save, followed by an K:P check.
[22:03] <Jaela> roll 1d20+31
[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+31 and gets 40." [1d20=9]
[22:03] <Jaela> roll 1d20+20+15 I really want to know
[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+20+15 I really want to know and gets 36." [1d20=1]
[22:06] <Kotono> Slowly the dark energy fades away, soaking up into Jaela's skin and away. Veins flow into the water, extending out and down all the way to her toes. The water is perfectly clear, allowing the blood flow to be seen.
[22:06] <Afina> "I... didn't expect that," Afina admits readily, looking fascinated at the see-through circular system. "What does it feel like? Does it hurt?"
[22:07] <Kotono> Canderella knees down, "That's...that is fascinating," she says, studying as well. "Look at it, you can see the veins twitch slightly with her heartbeat!"
[22:07] <Jaela> "It hurts," Jaela responds curtly. "Let's keep at it till we've killed every last one of these sick motherfuckers."
[22:10] <Afina> "Right. Lets hurry if we can, I'll keep any others busy," Afina promises, looking for their next avenue to pursue.
[22:10] <Kotono> Past this fountain are three doors - one to the right, to the left and dead ahead. The one dead ahead is granted, decorated with beautiful coral inlaid into the door.
[22:11] <Afina> Dead ahead, no reason to change direction until they can't go any farther. Flying forward, Afina opens the door in question.
[22:14] <Kotono> The door ahead leads to a gleam! A gleam of white and gold, momentarily blinding Afina! Ahead you can see that the walls are inlaid with pure gold and thousands of pearls, each one sparkling with a pin-point of light. The entire room shines with it. 20ft ahead is magic, though you don't see anything. 30ft ahead is a plush divan. Here a lithe elf lies, clad in rich black tunic and pants. He rests
[22:14] <Kotono> on his side, a bowl of reddish, bloody bits before him. He brings one up to his lips and pops it into his mouth, swallowing. "Ah, our estwhile visitors. I hope you found my three entertainers adequate? Please, come in. Let me get to know my guests."
[22:15] <Afina> "You only have three of those things? Good to know," Afina remarks, quite poised to murder the elf at a second's notice. Perhaps even less!
[22:17] <Afina> roll 1d20+27 what's up with the magic? (spellcraft)
[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+27 what's up with the magic? (spellcraft) and gets 41." [1d20=14]
[22:17] <Jaela> "I don't fucking know what to say," Jaela admits. "I'm beyond pissed, though, so how about we go with 'die, freak'?"
[22:17] <Kotono> "Ah, I should have prepared more of a welcoming for such esteemed company," The elf reaches down and takes out an eyeball from his bloody bowl, popping it into his mouth and eating it like a grape. A soft but audible pop is heard as he does, a bit of optic nerve dangling out of his mouth before he swallows. "You may call me the Baron of Happiness. Now now, instead of that, introduce yourselves."
[22:20] <Jaela> "And now we have a name for the tombstone," Jaela deadpans. "Just do the universe a favor and die."
[22:21] <Afina> "He has walls guarding him, I'll deal with it, though," Afina tells her companions, intending to spring into action!
[22:21] <Kotono> "Try." Not even pausing as he gets another bloody snack, "We shall see." Utterly unconcerned, the elf watches, as...OOC: Let's roll init, this looks to be getting hostile.

[22:21] <Jaela> roll 1d20+6
[22:21] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 Canderella
[22:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 Canderella and gets 12." [1d20=6]
[22:21] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+6 and gets 7." [1d20=1]
[22:21] <Afina> roll 1d20+20
[22:21] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+20 and gets 28." [1d20=8]
[22:26] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 Baron
[22:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 Baron and gets 17." [1d20=4]
[22:26] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(28)>Baron(17)>Canderella(12)>Jaela(7)'
[22:27] <Kotono> OOC: Open Afina. Walls are 20ft away, for reference.
[22:30] <Afina> This fool has no idea who he's dealing with. Considering all the paranoid and powerful fey she's murdered, this is practically straightforward. Channelling her magic into drastically speeding herself up, Afina slows the rest of the plane to a subjective crawl which she uses to cast shadow form. With that she flies up and through the ceiling five feet before the walls...
[22:30] <Afina> OOC: 7th level spell sacced for 2 rounds of time stop. Round 1 spent casting shadow form and phasing through the ceiling...
[22:31] <Kotono> OOC: How far up are you going?
[22:32] <Afina> OOC: enough to get to the next floor/roof. Then I'll cast shadow form again and phase through on the other side of the magic walls. Then time will return to normal and I'll attack.
[22:33] <Kotono> Flying up, Afina finds herself in another room. This room is empty and dark - nothing immediately interesting, at least.
[22:35] <Afina> And she'll be gone before anything could ever know she was there, recasting shadow form as well as hasting herself, she descends through the ceiling and positions herself in the far corner of the bedchamber behind the elf to better add to the shock value of her attack. For as she slows down enough to interact meaningfully with the rest of reality, she springs forward and stabs the elf twice,
[22:35] <Afina> hovering directly above him as a menacing spirit of watery vengeance!
[22:35] <Afina> roll 1d20+42 6th level arcane strike
[22:35] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+42 6th level arcane strike and gets 43." [1d20=1]
[22:35] <Afina> roll 1d20+37 6th level arcane strike ffffff
[22:35] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+37 6th level arcane strike ffffff and gets 39." [1d20=2]
[22:36] <Kotono> Afina is speedy, down there in an instant! Yet somehow the Baron reacts fast enough, as the first slash misses him! He brings up a hand, a silver ring with green stones on it flashing, the second blow deflected away by his hand! OOC: Rotten luck. Baron is up.
[22:38] <Kotono> The Baron gapes, "Well..." he says for amoment, before scowling and two black, corsucating beams come from his eyes, "Then just die, if you won't entertain me!"
[22:38] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28 touch AC 1
[22:38] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28 touch AC 2
[22:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 touch AC 1 and gets 47." [1d20=19]
[22:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 touch AC 2 and gets 45." [1d20=17]
[22:39] <Afina> OOC: 41. 50% miss chance?
[22:39] <Kotono> roll 1d100 1
[22:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 1 and gets 75." [1d100=75]
[22:39] <Kotono> roll 1d100 2
[22:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 2 and gets 42." [1d100=42]
[22:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 spell resistance (+2 spell penetration)
[22:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 spell resistance (+2 spell penetration) and gets 26." [1d20=6]
[22:39] <Afina> OOC: SR 33
[22:39] <Kotono> The beams fire - but one wobbles out of the way of Afina and the other breaks against her, doing nothing! OOC: Canderella is up and holding. Go Jaela.
[22:42] * Jaela clucks her tongue at the exchange she witnesses, and then her hair is bleached of color and her eyes turn silver as holy power pours into her! Now a deva, she carefully gets within ten feet of where the magical walls Afina had warned her about connect with the masonry making up this room, setting herself for an attack with Val'Finnegan.
[22:42] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. Go Afina.
[22:46] <Afina> Since he's not entirely ineffective, Afina pushes herself a bit farther. Drawing on her magical reserves, she stops time once more from her perspective, using the opportunity to cast both greater heroism and toxic weapon, her watery blade lined with black and yellow stripes as the spell settles and she moves to the other rear corner opposite the one she emerged from last time. In that instant
[22:46] <Afina> as time returns to its normal flow, she rushes from nowhere to hover above her prey and redo her earlier attack!
[22:46] <Afina> roll 1d20+48 6th level arcane strike
[22:46] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+48 6th level arcane strike and gets 58." [1d20=10]
[22:46] <Afina> roll 1d20+43 6th level arcane strike
[22:46] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+43 6th level arcane strike and gets 51." [1d20=8]
[22:46] <Afina> OOC: evil?
[22:46] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
[22:46] <Kotono> OOC: Yes.
[22:46] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6+6d4 and DC 24 fort save
[22:46] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6+6d4 and DC 24 fort save and gets 62." [1d4=1][5d6=2, 3, 5, 1, 3][2d6=2, 5][2d6=5, 3][6d4=3, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2]
[22:47] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6+6d4
[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6+6d4 and gets 65." [1d4=2][5d6=3, 4, 2, 3, 4][2d6=5, 4][2d6=4, 3][6d4=1, 4, 1, 4, 1, 3]
[22:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 and gets 30." [1d20=11]
[22:52] <Kotono> Blood is drawn! The elf's body is torn open across his back and back-neck, caught unawares and crying out! "Enough of this! No more! Now...EVERYONE DIES!" he screams at the top of his lungs, "SUFFER!" His finger is at Afina, as he withdraws a scroll from his tunic! A scroll of some sort of stretching, bloody material, reading words that blacken the air around him! "Receive the embrace of Orcus!"
[22:52] <Kotono> A pool of blood appears before him, the elf slamming the pool with his fist! A great geyser of blood erupts out over Afina! OOC: Does your miss chance apply to radius attacks?
[22:54] <Afina> OOC: nope!
[22:54] <Kotono> OOC: Ref save and a will save.
[22:54] <Afina> roll 1d20+33 evasion
[22:54] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+33 evasion and gets 52." [1d20=19]
[22:54] <Afina> roll 1d20+24
[22:54] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+24 and gets 29." [1d20=5]
[22:55] <Kotono> OOC: Fort save and will save, excuse me. Also yes, it does trigger an AoO.
[22:56] <Afina> roll 1d20+48 lets AoO first
[22:56] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+48 lets AoO first and gets 52." [1d20=4]
[22:56] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6+6d4
[22:56] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6+6d4 and gets 63." [1d4=3][5d6=3, 6, 4, 1, 2][2d6=5, 2][2d6=2, 5][6d4=3, 2, 2, 2, 1, 3]
[22:56] <Afina> roll 1d20+18 fort if needed
[22:56] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+18 fort if needed and gets 29." [1d20=11]
[22:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+46 (+5 inspiration) concentration check
[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+46 (+5 inspiration) concentration check and gets 58." [1d20=12]
[22:59] <Kotono> But before he can finish the casting, Afina strikes again! She draws blood across his arm with a quick strike, the scroll fading as the spell is ruined!  Stumbling back he glares at Afina, a single eye-beam firing out at her this time!
[22:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28
[22:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 and gets 48." [1d20=20]
[22:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28 crit?
[22:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 crit? and gets 42." [1d20=14]
[22:59] <Kotono> roll 1d100 miss chance
[22:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 miss chance and gets 45." [1d100=45]
[23:00] <Kotono> But this beam misses Afina as well, as the elf gapes, "How...dare you?!" OOC: Jaela, go.
[23:01] <Jaela> "Fuck you and die, you incompetent loser!" Jaela calls to the elf. She doesn't intend to be left behind any longer, and as Haste settles over her Val'Finnegan strikes at the wall to the room where it meets the magical defenses she can sense. One strike, then two and three... once this barrier had been overcome, Jaela intends to step into the breach and tunnel back into the room!
[23:02] <Jaela> roll 1d20+34-16 (16pa, divine might)
[23:02] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+34-16 (16pa, divine might) and gets 23." [1d20=5]
[23:02] <Jaela> roll 1d20+34-16 (16pa, divine might)
[23:02] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+34-16 (16pa, divine might) and gets 24." [1d20=6]
[23:02] <Jaela> roll 1d20+29-16 (16pa, divine might)
[23:02] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+29-16 (16pa, divine might) and gets 18." [1d20=5]
[23:02] <Jaela> roll 1d20+24-16 (16pa, divine might)
[23:02] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+24-16 (16pa, divine might) and gets 18." [1d20=10]
[23:03] <Kotono> OOC: All hit, it's a wall. It ain't dodging those. DAmage.
[23:03] <Jaela> roll 1d20+19-16 (16pa, divine might)
[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+19-16 (16pa, divine might) and gets 6." [1d20=3]
[23:03] <Kotono> OOC: Well, cept the 6.
[23:03] <Kotono> OOC: That's an impressive miss.
[23:04] <Jaela> roll 4#1d8+25+3+10
[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 4#1d8+25+3+10 and gets 164." [4#1d8+25+3+10 = 43, 40, 39, 42]
[23:04] <Jaela> roll 4*32
[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 4*32 and gets 128."
[23:05] <Kotono> Jaela plummels the wall and steps through! Brekaing it down and then breaking down the next segment, she sees that it opens up into another garden - this one of stakes and bodies, dozens of skeletons skewed on stakes. It reveals the way past the wall, opening up a path to the elf! OOC: Afina.
[23:05] <Jaela> Even as she tries to break through the much more feeble masonry, an aura of protection springs up all around Jaela!
[23:08] <Afina> "You have no idea who you're dealing with," Afina tells the elf, her watery visage twisting into a reaper's smile as she stabs her aquatic blade down into his already cut up chest before throwing a haste Jaela's way and retreating to the opposite side of the room.
[23:08] <Afina> roll 1d20+44 2nd level arcane strike
[23:08] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+44 2nd level arcane strike and gets 52." [1d20=8]
[23:09] <Afina> roll 1d20+39 2nd level arcane strike
[23:09] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+39 2nd level arcane strike and gets 46." [1d20=7]
[23:10] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
[23:10] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6+2d4
[23:10] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6+2d4 and gets 58." [1d4=3][5d6=6, 4, 1, 5, 4][2d6=4, 3][2d6=3, 4][2d4=1, 3]
[23:10] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6+2d4
[23:10] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+5d6+2d6+2d6+2d4 and gets 59." [1d4=1][5d6=3, 5, 6, 1, 6][2d6=5, 1][2d6=5, 4][2d4=3, 2]
[23:11] <Kotono> The two staps rip the elf's chest open! His heart's blood gushes out in a jagged wave, as he puts a hand to his chest as he falls face down! "Darkness, consume them..." he whispers as he tries once to get up...and fails, falling down and still. OOC: Free act.

[23:11] <Jaela> Jaela's face falls. "I guess it's the thought that counts?" she offers Afina, stepping back into the room.
[23:12] <Afina> "I feel his death was long overdue," the fairy comments, deciding to see if he has anything valuable in his inner sanctum that can be requisitioned for the crusade. Giving Jaela a nod, she adds, "It's better not to take things for granted."
[23:13] <Afina> roll 1d20+31 search, with DM up?
[23:13] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+31 search, with DM up? and gets 46." [1d20=15]
[23:14] <Jaela> roll 1d20+3 I'll help, likewise
[23:14] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+3 I'll help, likewise and gets 20." [1d20=17]
[23:14] <Kotono> On the Baron you find a magical ring and three magical scrolls. That's hit for the magical items. Beyond the gold adn pearls in the walls there's nothing else of wealth note.
[23:15] <Afina> roll 4#1d20+31 spellcraft on each
[23:15] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 4#1d20+31 spellcraft on each and gets 136." [4#1d20+31 = 35, 33, 34, 34]
[23:19] <Kotono> The ring is a ring of protection+5. The scrolls are scrolls of Belial's Mercy(Houserules), Masochism(BoVD) and Rapture of Rupture(BoVD).
[23:21] <Jaela> "We toss the place, now, and then head back?" Jaela suggests.
[23:21] <Afina> "Nice ring, the spells are all horrible," Afina comments, pocketing the former and discarding the scrolls. "We could take the gold and pearls from the walls at least, and I think we have liberty to explore the building as we like, now."
[23:21] <Jaela> "Seems like we're in agreement. Can you trash the scrolls?"
[23:22] * Afina nods. "Do you want to come with us after fixing Jaela's legs, Canderella?" Afina asks their guide, "Our next foray will take us into the dark water itself." As asked, she picks up the scrolls again and tears them to little bits.

[Corwin]

[20:16] <Kotono> "You people are interesting, which appeals to me," Smiling a little bit as she looks down at the dead Baron, "Talos respects power, too, which you have plenty of. Hmmm..."
[20:18] * Jaela shrugs. "The perks of being immortal is that you can always get back to finishing your century in Water, but this is more of a one time deal."
[20:18] <Afina> "Good," Afina nods, intending now to start trawling the building for anything else of use to the Crusade before resorting to scraping the walls.
[20:20] <Kotono> As you begin to walk out adn back into the previous garden, the chill of the air becomes more pronounced. "So what are the two of you really about?" Canderella asks instead, "You've mentioned...interesting...things."
[20:21] <Afina> "We're from a world that was conquered by Hell a few years ago. We're not planning to let that stand," Afina informs the succubus. "Interested? Devils are weak against lightning."
[20:22] <Jaela> "We're using a demiplane fortress to gather allies, build up an army and drive them off," Jaela adds to that. "The Aurora. Any chance people on Water heard of it?"
[20:24] <Kotono> "Mmmm, I may have heard something," A coy smile follows, "Tell you what." Cracking her knuckles and stretching back, "I would imagine our trials are not over yet. If you can keep up with my magic, I'll seriously consider your offer."
[20:26] <Jaela> "All this fighting made you antsy for some of it?"
[20:27] <Afina> If she's that confident after having seen what they can do, she must have some impressive tricks up her sleeve. "If you can keep up yourself you can get a fair share of what we find."
[20:30] <Kotono> "Fine," Canderella agrees, as...OOC: Make a spot check, all?
[20:30] <Jaela> roll 1d20+7
[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+7 and gets 26." [1d20=19]
[20:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
[20:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 25." [1d20=2]
[20:33] <Afina> roll 1d20+29
[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+29 and gets 40." [1d20=11]
[20:35] <Afina> "Two behind us!" Afina abruptly snaps, whirling about and raising her blade!
[20:36] <Kotono> Behind you they approach - vague black shapes, shrouded in chains of glittering, clinking ice! The chains entirely cover their faces and dance around them like a defensive weave! OOC: Init here.

[20:36] <Afina> roll 1d20+20
[20:36] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+20 and gets 29." [1d20=9]
[20:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 Canderella
[20:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 Canderella and gets 22." [1d20=16]
[20:36] <Jaela> Val'Finnegan remains drawn, but Jaela comes about at Afina's warning!
[20:36] <Jaela> roll 1d20+6
[20:36] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+6 and gets 11." [1d20=5]
[20:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2 Ice-chain 1
[20:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 Ice-chain 1 and gets 16." [1d20=14]
[20:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2 Ice-chain 2
[20:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 Ice-chain 2 and gets 10." [1d20=8]
[20:36] <Kotono> OOC: They are 30ft from you and coming from the direction of the Baron's room.
[20:37] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(29)>Canderella(22)>Ice-Chain 1(16)>Jaela(11)>Ice-Chain 2(10)'
[20:37] <Kotono> OOC: Open Afina.
[20:39] <Afina> Killing before she questions, Afina lunges for the pair, delivering a stab to each of them as she passes between them and stops twenty feet away on the other side.
[20:39] <Afina> roll 1d20+36
[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+36 and gets 51." [1d20=15]
[20:39] <Afina> OOC: +4 on that
[20:39] <Afina> roll 1d20+35
[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+35 and gets 52." [1d20=17]
[20:39] <Afina> OOC: evil/outsiders/crittable?
[20:39] <Kotono> OOC: Does your weapon have ghost touch qualities?
[20:39] <Afina> OOC: nope!
[20:40] <Kotono> OOC: Yes/no/no. d100 on both hits. Target to beat is 50.
[20:40] <Afina> roll 2#1d100 blind-fight
[20:40] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 2#1d100 blind-fight and gets 150." [2#1d100 = 55, 95]
[20:40] <Afina> roll 2#1d100 blind fight
[20:40] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 2#1d100 blind fight and gets 156." [2#1d100 = 90, 66]
[20:42] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+2d6+2d6
[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+2d6+2d6 and gets 32." [1d4=3][2d6=4, 2][2d6=4, 2]
[20:42] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+2d6+2d6
[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+2d6+2d6 and gets 37." [1d4=3][2d6=2, 6][2d6=4, 5]
[20:44] <Kotono> Both icy spirits get slashed, some of their chains severed and black, wispy forms recoiling from Afina's holy blade! Meanwhile Canderella merely gestures with a look of curiosity, as lightning leaps out from her gesture! It strikes them both, turning ghostly as it does!
[20:44] <Kotono> roll 20d6
[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 20d6 and gets 72." [20d6=4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 4, 1, 3, 3, 1, 5, 3, 4, 2, 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 2]
[20:44] <Kotono> roll 10d6
[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 and gets 32." [10d6=4, 6, 1, 2, 5, 1, 1, 3, 4, 5]
[20:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
[20:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 6." [1d20=1]
[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 18." [1d20=13]
[20:45] <Kotono> Both figures are hit by the lightnign, shuddering apart as pure current tears them asunder! Bits of icy chain litter the ground, as the spectral figures fade away entirely. OOC: Free act.

[20:46] <Afina> Floating back to rejoin the other two, Afina spares Canderella an approving nod. "Not as empty as the elf made it sound."
[20:46] <Jaela> "Wanna check where these losers came from?" Jaela suggests, swapping her weapon for Gae Dearg.
[20:49] * Afina looks for obvious tracks left by the incorporeal spirits. Maybe they frosted the ground as they passed above?
[20:50] <Kotono> There are patches of frost they left behind. It leads back to the way the Baron was.
[20:50] * Afina follows the trail!
[20:51] <Kotono> The trail leads back into the Baron's office! As you enter, you can see you are not alone! Now three of the black, ice chain covered spirits are rising up from the 10ft before the walls of magic! OOC: Init, there are moooore of them. They're 20ft away from where you three are now.

[20:51] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 Canderella
[20:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 Canderella and gets 8." [1d20=2]
[20:51] <Jaela> roll 1d20+6
[20:51] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+6 and gets 8." [1d20=2]
[20:51] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2 Ice-Chain 1
[20:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 Ice-Chain 1 and gets 15." [1d20=13]
[20:51] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2 Ice-Chain 2
[20:51] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2 Ice-Chain 3
[20:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 Ice-Chain 2 and gets 16." [1d20=14]
[20:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 Ice-Chain 3 and gets 7." [1d20=5]
[20:52] <Afina> roll 1d20+20
[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+20 and gets 40." [1d20=20]
[20:52] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(40)>Ice-Chain 2(16)>Ice-Chain 1(15)>Canderella=Jaela(8)>Ice-Chain 3(7)'
[20:52] <Kotono> OOC: Open Afina.
[20:53] <Afina> Looping forward and around the spirits, Afina stabs a pair of them before returning to position just in front of Jaela and Canderella.
[20:53] <Afina> roll 1d20+40
[20:53] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+40 and gets 60." [1d20=20]
[20:53] <Afina> roll 1d20+35
[20:53] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+35 and gets 37." [1d20=2]
[20:53] <Afina> roll 2#1d100
[20:53] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 2#1d100 and gets 83." [2#1d100 = 5, 78]
[20:53] <Afina> roll 2#1d100
[20:53] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 2#1d100 and gets 21." [2#1d100 = 18, 3]
[20:53] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+2d6+2d6
[20:53] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+2d6+2d6 and gets 32." [1d4=3][2d6=6, 2][2d6=2, 2]
[20:57] <Kotono> The ghostly warriors prove resistant to stabbing, only the first one cut as her blade passes throgh the rest harmlessly! A second later the second one pursues, coming to be in front of Afina and...OOC: What's your reach, Jaela?
[20:57] <Jaela> OOC: 10ft
[20:57] <Kotono> OOC: You can AoO it, if you like. It provoked.
[20:58] <Jaela> Gae Dearg finally sees use, as Jaela's anti-specter spear strikes out at their enemies!
[20:58] <Jaela> roll 1d20+20 K:R
[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+20 K:R and gets 32." [1d20=12]
[20:58] <Jaela> roll 1d20+29+4+4
[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+29+4+4 and gets 54." [1d20=17]
[20:58] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[20:59] <Jaela> roll 1d8+18+4
[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8+18+4 and gets 23." [1d8=1]
[20:59] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(40)>Ice-Chain 2(16)>Ice-Chain 1(15)>Canderella=Jaela(8)>Ice-Chain 3(7)'
[21:00] <Kotono> Jaela thrusts out, stabbing the chained horror through the chest! As holy power ripples through it, it brings one hand down onto Afina!
[21:01] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 (+5 profane ????) touch AC?
[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 (+5 profane ????) touch AC? and gets 20." [1d20=9]
[21:01] <Afina> OOC: touch AC 41, 50% miss chance
[21:01] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 regular AC
[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 regular AC  and gets 21." [1d20=10]
[21:01] <Kotono> The hand comes out ,but Afina is infinitely too fast! A moment later the chains lash out, trying to clumsily bludgeon Afina, but neither touches her! A moment later the first shadow follows, coming to Afina as well! OOC: Jaela, do you have another AoO?
[21:02] <Jaela> OOC: 3 per round!
[21:02] <Jaela> roll 1d20+37
[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+37 and gets 57." [1d20=20]
[21:02] <Jaela> roll 1d8+22
[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8+22 and gets 27." [1d8=5]
[21:02] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(40)>Ice-Chain 2(16)>Canderella=Jaela(8)>Ice-Chain 3(7)'
[21:02] <Jaela> Once more, Gae Dearg does the job it was forged to do!
[21:03] <Kotono> This apparition is woudned as it closes in, side pierced! With a rippling shudder the creature vanishes, chains falling to the ground! OOC: Jaela and Canderella. Go Jaela.
[21:03] <Jaela> "I'll take this one, you deal with the straggler?" Jaela suggests, striking at the wounded ghost near Afina.
[21:03] <Jaela> roll 1d20+29+4
[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+29+4 and gets 46." [1d20=13]
[21:03] <Jaela> roll 1d8+22
[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8+22 and gets 23." [1d8=1]
[21:04] <Jaela> roll 1d20+29+4
[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+29+4 and gets 46." [1d20=13]
[21:04] <Jaela> roll 1d8+22
[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8+22 and gets 28." [1d8=6]
[21:04] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(40)>Canderella=Jaela(8)>Ice-Chain 3(7)'
[21:07] <Kotono> As Jaela thrusts out, shattering the other apparition apart into nothing but motes of fading, misty darkness, Canderella concentrates and points! A familiar spell forms - three motes of lightning gather above Canderella, but these do not turn into a ray! Instead each one flies out and turns ghostly, slamming into the last phantasm!
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 ironically even her to hit is the same, though that's purely coincidental
[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 ironically even her to hit is the same, though that's purely coincidental and gets 34." [1d20=18]
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 ironically even her to hit is the same, though that's purely coincidental
[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 ironically even her to hit is the same, though that's purely coincidental and gets 27." [1d20=11]
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 ironically even her to hit is the same, though that's purely coincidental
[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 ironically even her to hit is the same, though that's purely coincidental and gets 19." [1d20=3]
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 30d6
[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 30d6 and gets 109." [30d6=2, 1, 6, 4, 2, 3, 4, 4, 6, 5, 5, 2, 6, 1, 4, 4, 6, 4, 2, 2, 5, 2, 6, 3, 3, 1, 3, 4, 6, 3]
[21:09] <Kotono> The blast of lightning utterly rends the last shadow apart, leaving nothing but a hint of ozone in the air! OOC: Free act.

[21:09] <Afina> With the threat, such as it was, dealt with, Afina looks for any frost trails signalling where the chained spirits came from.
[21:09] * Jaela takes a moment to look about the area, as Detect Magic still haven't run its course. Is there anything that's calling the ghosts over?
[21:10] <Kotono> No new magic that Jaela detects. The frost tracks end where the three phantasms came up through the floor.
[21:11] <Jaela> "Yeah I'm gonna be breaking the floor now," Jaela says, raising her spear and preparing to do just that.
[21:11] <Afina> "Go ahead," Afina allows, staying well back.
[21:12] <Jaela> A series of swift attacks is all that's needed!
[21:14] <Kotono> The floor is shredded! Beneath you see - ack! Dozens and dozens and dozens of phantasms are below, in what looks to be a deep, dark basement! So many icy chains, all staring at the hole and the three...before as one they begin to move upwards! OOC: Heeeere we go. Init time.

[21:14] <Jaela> roll 1d20+6
[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+6 and gets 8." [1d20=2]
[21:14] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 Canderella
[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 Canderella and gets 18." [1d20=12]
[21:14] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2 waaay too many fucking phantasms
[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 waaay too many fucking phantasms and gets 3." [1d20=1]
[21:15] * Kotono changes topic to 'Canderella(18)>Jaela(8)>Phantasm Army(3)'
[21:16] <Afina> roll 1d20+20
[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+20 and gets 34." [1d20=14]
[21:19] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(34)>Canderella(18)>Jaela(8)>Phantasm Army(3)'
[21:19] <Kotono> OOC: Afina, go.
[21:20] <Afina> "I'll keep them busy but you two will have to kill them unless you want to wait a while," Afina says to her companions, her tone indifferent as she descends into the dungeons with another casting of haste, stabbing a pair of of spirits as she gets into their midst!
[21:20] <Afina> roll 1d20+40
[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+40 and gets 43." [1d20=3]
[21:20] <Afina> roll 1d20+35
[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+35 and gets 41." [1d20=6]
[21:20] <Afina> roll 2#1d00
[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 2#1d00 and gets Error: Number of sides must be integer greater than 0."
[21:20] <Afina> roll 2#1d100
[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 2#1d100 and gets 69." [2#1d100 = 52, 17]
[21:20] <Afina> roll 2#1d100
[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 2#1d100 and gets 140." [2#1d100 = 67, 73]
[21:20] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+2d6+2d6
[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+2d6+2d6 and gets 33." [1d4=3][2d6=3, 3][2d6=2, 5]
[21:20] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+2d6+2d6
[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+2d6+2d6 and gets 30." [1d4=1][2d6=1, 4][2d6=5, 2]
[21:22] * Kallen (~Kallen@ppp59-167-140-198.static.internode.on.net) Quit (Ping timeout)
[21:22] <Kotono> Two of the phantasms are sliced as Afina flies down into mists of the spirits! A moment later Canderella hums, pointing down! Another stroke of chain lightnign follows, turning ghostly as it strikes!
[21:23] <Kotono> roll 21#1d20+5
[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 21#1d20+5 and gets 320." [21#1d20+5 = 11, 15, 6, 12, 11, 25, 10, 20, 23, 23, 8, 9, 15, 9, 17, 15, 21, 20, 14, 17, 19]
[21:23] <Kotono> roll 20d6
[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 20d6 and gets 69." [20d6=1, 6, 3, 5, 3, 5, 6, 5, 2, 2, 6, 2, 3, 2, 5, 1, 1, 3, 2, 6]
[21:23] <Kotono> roll 10d6
[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 and gets 45." [10d6=6, 2, 1, 6, 6, 3, 6, 6, 4, 5]
[21:25] <Kotono> The first victim of the lightning fades away entirely, while chaos spreads from the secondary bolts! None are quite lethal, but nearly two dozen shadows are suddenly electrified! OOC: Jaela, go.
[21:25] <Jaela> "On it," Jaela says curtly, grabbing for Angharradh's interlocking silver symbol and channeling all the holy power available to her into it!
[21:25] <Jaela> roll 10d6 Will29 half
[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 10d6 Will29 half and gets 35." [10d6=3, 5, 1, 5, 1, 3, 2, 6, 6, 3]
[21:25] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 18." [1d20=11]
[21:25] <Kotono> OOC: Doesn't really matter with chain lightning softening them up, to be honest.
[21:26] <Kotono> Under this assault of holy energy, dozens of the phantasms shrivel away! A great empty patch is now in the basement, about half the phantasms gone just like that! The remaining ones are of two schools - several swarm Afina first, attacking from every angle!
[21:26] <Kotono> roll 6#1d20+11 touch, 20fishing really.
[21:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6#1d20+11 touch, 20fishing really. and gets 137." [6#1d20+11 = 29, 29, 24, 15, 24, 16]
[21:26] <Kotono> roll 6#1d20+11 regular, 20fishing really.
[21:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6#1d20+11 regular, 20fishing really. and gets 112." [6#1d20+11 = 19, 22, 12, 15, 15, 29]
[21:27] <Kotono> Yet amid a surrounded storm, Afina is untouched! The rest charge up at Canderella and Jaela! OOC: Jaela, about a dozen phantasms are coming up at you and Canderella. You can AoO to your heart's content since you have reach on them.
[21:28] * Jaela strikes at those spectres coming after Canderella!
[21:28] <Jaela> roll 3#1d20+29+4+4-16 (16pa)
[21:28] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 3#1d20+29+4+4-16 (16pa) and gets 84." [3#1d20+29+4+4-16 = 26, 34, 24]
[21:29] <Jaela> roll 3#1d8+18+4+32
[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 3#1d8+18+4+32 and gets 174." [3#1d8+18+4+32 = 62, 56, 56]
[21:30] <Jaela> OOC: +1 to attacks, if it matters
[21:33] <Kotono> Three more phantasms are skewed, fading away! YEt more come - a bevy of attacks beset both women, as silent, unseeing images assail them!
[21:33] <Kotono> roll 3#1d20+11 touch AC, Jaela?
[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3#1d20+11 touch AC, Jaela? and gets 68." [3#1d20+11 = 23, 30, 15]
[21:35] <Jaela> OOC: 24
[21:35] <Kotono> roll 1d4 dex damage
[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 dex damage and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[21:35] <Kotono> roll 3#1d20+11 regular AC, Jaela?
[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3#1d20+11 regular AC, Jaela? and gets 62." [3#1d20+11 = 27, 14, 21]
[21:35] <Jaela> OOC: 37
[21:35] <Jaela> OOC: Sorry, now 36 with damage
[21:37] <Kotono> Chains strike out at Jaela, her spear parrying each one! The touches are harder - faster, tougher! One grazes her arm, a deathly chill going up her arm, shoulder and to her heart! Her entire body feels sluggish and numb after it! Meanwhile none make it to Canderella - and six hang back, linking together, the icy chains of each one connecting to the others! OOC: Afina, go.
[21:38] <Afina> Seeing six linking together, Afina departs from her current foes and darts over to cut up the third one in the series to break their chain!
[21:38] <Afina> roll 1d20+31 tumble to avoid AoOs from swarm around me
[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+31 tumble to avoid AoOs from swarm around me and gets 47." [1d20=16]
[21:38] <Afina> roll 1d20+40
[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+40 and gets 55." [1d20=15]
[21:38] <Afina> roll 1d20+35
[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+35 and gets 38." [1d20=3]
[21:38] <Afina> roll 2#1d100
[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 2#1d100 and gets 104." [2#1d100 = 77, 27]
[21:38] <Afina> roll 2#1d100
[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 2#1d100 and gets 114." [2#1d100 = 32, 82]
[21:39] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+2d6+2d6
[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+2d6+2d6 and gets 35." [1d4=4][2d6=2, 2][2d6=6, 4]
[21:39] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+2d6+2d6
[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+2d6+2d6 and gets 35." [1d4=3][2d6=1, 6][2d6=4, 4]
[21:40] <Kotono> Afina darts forward, striking!  The third one is cut apart, the chain broken! At this - no! Suddenly the entire mansion shudders terrifically, walls shaking! Then again adn again! OOC: Canderella's up.
[21:41] <Kotono> "Goo-" She begins, looking about as everything wobbles! She concentrates...
[21:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22
[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 and gets 41." [1d20=19]
[21:41] <Kotono> Before steadying herself and firing off another ghostly chain lightning!
[21:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 just gonna do group ref for this rather than sorting through that many saves again.
[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 just gonna do group ref for this rather than sorting through that many saves again. and gets 16." [1d20=11]
[21:42] <Kotono> roll 20d6
[21:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 20d6 and gets 69." [20d6=1, 3, 3, 6, 5, 3, 4, 2, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 2, 5, 3, 6, 4, 3, 2]
[21:42] <Kotono> roll 10d6
[21:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 and gets 33." [10d6=3, 1, 2, 5, 3, 6, 1, 2, 5, 5]
[21:43] <Kotono> Another chain lightning devastates the phantasms nearby, as the ground and walls shake again and again! It only eliminates one, but the others are looking ragged! OOC: Jaela, go. Spellcastign will require a concentration check now, fair warning.
[21:43] <Jaela> OOC: What about Turning?
[21:44] <Kotono> OOC: SU, those generally don't require concentration checks.
[21:46] <Jaela> It takes some consideration, but the shaking building doesn't leave Jaela much choice. Raising Angharradh's holy symbol above her head, she loudly calls upon her patron deity's name!
[21:46] <Jaela> roll 10d6 Will29 half
[21:46] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 10d6 Will29 half and gets 31." [10d6=6, 4, 2, 3, 4, 1, 3, 3, 4, 1]
[21:50] <Kotono> Already shocked and stabbed, the rest of the phantasms yield to the holy power! They crumble away, leaving the area clear as the shaking continues anew! OOC: Free act.

[21:52] <Afina> Flying back up out of the hole as the building shakes, Afina points down the hall towards the garden. "Quick, back to the garden. Safer if this is going to fall on us," she instructs, showing consideration and slowing her own pace to match her comrades as they escape.
[21:52] <Jaela> "Feels like we're not wanted," Jaela agrees, using the Haste Afina had cast earlier as a way to keep up.
[21:53] <Kotono> Racing back to the garden just before the Baron's room, the party stubmles a few times from the shaking - which continues! Nothing is immediately around, at least.
[21:54] <Afina> Once in the garden Afina deems it prudent to fly up above the rooftop so she's absolutely safe from falling masonry, waiting to see if it settles down or collapses utterly.
[21:58] <Kotono> Like the previous garden, this one is roofed as well. As Afina looks up and sees this, she sees the entire roof shudder and bulge downward massively, in the shape of a fist! Meanwhile the shaking continues!
[21:59] <Afina> Regretting that oversight, Afina keeps moving through the halls in that case to get outside!
[21:59] * Jaela follows Afina, taking care to keep near Candarella and with Val'Finnegan guarding the two of them.
[22:01] <Kotono> Canderella follows as fast as she can! As you reach the fountain, 30ft away? Croching on the lip of the fountain is a scarred humanoid. Its skin is a polished sand-color, made that way by thousands of tiny, interlocking scars. It has no hair ,no clothing, no head. Instead its head is attached to its stomach, looking upward and with a blackened tongue lolling out the side. In one hand is a bloody
[22:01] <Kotono> knife, raised up even as the shaking continues! OOC: Init here. Shaking imposes a DC 10 balance check to move on land in combat, and requires concentration checks to use spells.

[22:02] <Jaela> OOC: Flying is okay?
[22:02] <Jaela> roll 1d20+6
[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+6 and gets 12." [1d20=6]
[22:02] <Kotono> OOC: Flying is fine.
[22:02] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 Canderella
[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 Canderella and gets 8." [1d20=2]
[22:02] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 headless stomachhead freak
[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 headless stomachhead freak and gets 16." [1d20=1]
[22:02] * Kotono changes topic to 'Stomachhead(16)>Jaela(12)>Canderella(8)'
[22:03] <Afina> roll 1d20+20
[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+20 and gets 23." [1d20=3]
[22:03] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(23)>Stomachhead(16)>Jaela(12)>Canderella(8)'
[22:03] <Kotono> OOC: Go Afina.
[22:04] <Afina> "Just ignore it, better to get out now," Afina tells the other two, flying past the supposed obstacle and reaching the opposite side of the water. From there she commands the water within to swell up and envelop the mutant, pulling it down and holding it there. It still needs to breathe, hopefully. Even if not, this should keep it busy while the building collapses.
[22:06] <Kotono> OOC: Mmm. I'd allow a reflex save at the least.
[22:06] <Afina> OOC: up to you, I have no idea how to adjudicate this
[22:07] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14 ref
[22:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 ref and gets 15." [1d20=1]
[22:07] <Kotono> The waters swell up, enveloping the freak! He's pulled in and surrounded by molded water! OOC: Free act, the bad guy can't effectively get out of that.

[22:07] <Jaela> Giving the scarred beast a baleful look with her good eye, Jaela nonetheless follows Afina outside!
[22:08] <Kotono> The two continue to escape out! Past the frozen, cracking aquariums! The glass shatters as you pass, the shaking getting worse! From behind you hear terrible crashing sounds, but on you go! To the hallowed garden, empty! Yet more shudders, terrifically bad and worse than before, but racing on! You hear the sounds behind you, the sounds of explosive collapse and ruin!
[22:09] <Afina> Afina follows those two!
[22:09] <Jaela> They're really close to the exit now! Nothing to do but keep going!
[22:10] <Kotono> As you reach the entry hall, the ceiling above you shudders, collapsing above you as you race ahead!OOC: Reflex saves, all.
[22:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12 Canderella
[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 Canderella and gets 17." [1d20=5]
[22:11] <Jaela> roll 1d20+30
[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+30 and gets 39." [1d20=9]
[22:11] <Afina> roll 1d20+33
[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+33 and gets 53." [1d20=20]
[22:12] <Jaela> OOC: I'm right next to Canderella, can I do anything?
[22:12] <Kotono> OOC: You could shove her out of the way, but you'd get collapsing ceilinged in her place.
[22:13] <Jaela> Not wasting any time, Jaela gives Canderella that last shove that she needs to clear the collapsing building!
[22:15] <Kotono> Afina and Canderella stumble out of the building - but the roof collapses on Jaela, entombing and crushing her! OOC: Jaela into #terror. More coming.

[Corwin]

#t

[22:16] <Kotono> roll 20d6 crushing damage and a fortitude save, Jaela.
[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 20d6 crushing damage and a fortitude save, Jaela. and gets 78." [20d6=2, 5, 6, 6, 1, 2, 5, 4, 1, 5, 2, 6, 5, 5, 6, 4, 3, 3, 5, 2]
[22:16] <Jaela> roll 1d20+37
[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+37 and gets 45." [1d20=8]
[22:18] <Kotono> Pain. Agonizing pain as bones crack and great weight presses Jaela down. She can barely move, all is darkness. But the pain -the lances of crushing agony keep her awake. Aware. Buried in rock, face down and pressed hard into ungiving stone - but aware.
[22:20] <Jaela> A while ago she would either be panicking at the situation, or hungrily welcoming her impending demise, but Jaela is different now! She focuses her mind, braces her body against the rock surrounding her and sorts through her dwindling repertoir of spells.
[22:23] <Jaela> It is then that Jaela recalls the spell she had prepared for just such an occasion. Although she expected it to be during a battle and not buried under ruined masonry, she still tries to find enough wiggle space where one normally wouldn't to cast another spell to boost her strength.
[22:26] <Jaela> She calls upon Righteous Might, and then her mass suddenly doubles, forcing the rock lined over her to move!
[22:27] <Kotono> OOC: Str check with a +2 bonus for reasons that will becom eapparant.
[22:28] <Jaela> roll 1d20+7+2+2+2 strength check
[22:28] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+7+2+2+2 strength check and gets 19." [1d20=6]
[22:31] <Kotono> Jaela tries to move the rubble as her body grows! With that and her effort it's enough to push up - as she feels the rubble above her loosening, moving! OOC: Act again.
[22:32] * Jaela braces herself better and immediately tries to break through the layers of rock above her!
[22:33] <Jaela> roll 1d20+13
[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+13 and gets 32." [1d20=19]

[Corwin]

#d

[22:16] <Kotono> Racing outside, you barely have time to see the entire manshion collapse behind you! Above you can see greater luminesence. The water above and around the city has frozen solid! The entire lost city is entombed in ice, but you have greater concerns! A mere 20ft away, a great black monolith is finishing pounding the roof of the entry hallway down!
[22:18] <Afina> "Jaela!" Afina cries as she sees the angel buried under the rubble... but she can do nothing for her now. "If you can move rock with magic in a hurry, Canderella, please do something. I'll take care of the elemental," she tells the succubus, focusing to the matters at hand.
[22:18] <Kotono> OOC: Init.

[22:18] <Kotono> "I might have something, maybe," Canderella says, voice cool as she looks up, "Time to get serious."
[22:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
[22:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 7." [1d20=1]
[22:19] <Afina> roll 1d20+20
[22:19] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+20 and gets 25." [1d20=5]
[22:19] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 monolith
[22:19] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 monolith and gets 19." [1d20=13]
[22:19] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(25)>Monolith(19)>Canderella(7)'
[22:20] * Afina rushes the elemental, stabbing both of its arms as she rakes its form before stopping tauntingly right in front of its face!
[22:20] <Afina> roll 1d20+45 5th level arcane strike
[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+45 5th level arcane strike and gets 62." [1d20=17]
[22:20] <Afina> roll 1d20+40 5th level arcane strike
[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+40 5th level arcane strike and gets 57." [1d20=17]
[22:20] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
[22:20] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4
[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4 and gets 43." [1d4=4][2d6=4, 3][2d6=1, 3][5d4=3, 1, 3, 3, 1]
[22:20] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4
[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4 and gets 49." [1d4=3][2d6=3, 3][2d6=2, 6][5d4=3, 2, 4, 2, 4]
[22:23] <Kotono> Twin slashes cut into the black, watery elemental! It glares down at Afina, eyes glazed with black water! Its fists come up, trying to crush Afina between them!
[22:24] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28 (smite good, -10 PA)
[22:24] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28 (smite good, -10 PA)
[22:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 (smite good, -10 PA) and gets 38." [1d20=10]
[22:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 (smite good, -10 PA) and gets 30." [1d20=2]
[22:24] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
[22:24] <Afina> OOC: 49
[22:25] <Kotono> The fists come together with a deafening splash of water, but Afina isn't there, already diving down and away! OOC: Canderella.
[22:30] <Kotono> Canderella hurries 30ft away, to the edge of the ruin, chanting a few words! As she does a cloak of pure lightning appears on her shoulders, as she chants, "Talos, Stormfather of old and champion of change now, cloak me in your mantles!"  Around Canderella a 40ft wide and 60ft tall cylendar of black clouds and raging winds appear! They blow and jostle the collapsed stone, the winds howling around
[22:30] <Kotono> her and clouds obscuring Canderella! OOC: Okay. Afina, go.
[22:32] <Afina> While Canderella does her work, Afina continues the grim task of cutting the massive elemental down to her size, spiralling around it and constantly moving as she assails it.
[22:32] <Afina> roll 1d20+45 5th level arcane strike
[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+45 5th level arcane strike and gets 57." [1d20=12]
[22:32] <Afina> roll 1d20+40 5th level arcane strike
[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+40 5th level arcane strike and gets 58." [1d20=18]
[22:32] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4
[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4 and gets 48." [1d4=1][2d6=4, 4][2d6=1, 6][5d4=4, 4, 4, 2, 1]
[22:32] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4
[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4 and gets 36." [1d4=3][2d6=2, 3][2d6=1, 2][5d4=2, 2, 1, 1, 2]
[22:33] <Kotono> Two more cuts! The elemental is sliced up over its huge body...and as this happens?
[22:33] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(25)>Monolith 2(20)>Monolith(19)>Canderella(7)'
[22:34] <Kotono> Stomping 'round the side of the collapsed manshion, 60ft away, is another black monolith! It approaches as well, coming to within 30ft of Afina, just behind and to the side of the othe relemental! OOC: Monolith 1 is up.
[22:36] <Kotono> The first monolith continues its rampages on Afina, trying to clobber her into paste!
[22:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28 (smite good, -10 PA)
[22:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28 (smite good, -10 PA)
[22:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 (smite good, -10 PA) and gets 46." [1d20=18]
[22:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 (smite good, -10 PA) and gets 38." [1d20=10]
[22:36] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
[22:38] <Afina> OOC: 49
[22:39] <Kotono> But Afina is still too fast, dodging each blow! Meanwhile Canderella begins to gesture within the storm, three motes of lightning appearing above her head and firing each of them off at the wounded elemental!
[22:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[22:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 24." [1d20=8]
[22:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[22:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[22:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 33." [1d20=17]
[22:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 21." [1d20=5]
[22:39] <Kotono> roll 30d6*1.5
[22:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 30d6*1.5 and gets 141." [30d6=6, 5, 5, 3, 3, 3, 1, 2, 6, 1, 5, 4, 1, 3, 6, 5, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 5, 3, 1, 3, 4, 1, 2, 6, 3]
[22:41] <Kotono> The three motes hit the watery elemental, electricity spreading throughout it! It vibrates and steams, water evaporated by the electric charge! Meanwhile, the bit of ruin the outer ring of clouds buffers shudders and moves! Slowly an enlarged Jaela manages to stand, bloodied but not beaten! OOC: Init, Jaela.

[Corwin]

[22:41] <Jaela> roll 1d20+6
[22:41] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+6 and gets 24." [1d20=18]
[22:42] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(25)>Jaela(24)Monolith 2(20)>Monolith(19)>Canderella(7)'
[22:42] <Kotono> OOC: Go Afian.
[22:42] <Jaela> "You the bitches that buried me?" Jaela snarls, now much larger and looking terribly intimidating with bones protruding from her at odd places.
[22:42] <Afina> Grinning ferally at Jaela's return, Afina redoubles her efforts to kill the stricken elemental that dared to do battle with them first!
[22:43] <Afina> roll 1d20+45 5th level arcane strike
[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+45 5th level arcane strike and gets 63." [1d20=18]
[22:43] <Afina> roll 1d20+40 5th level arcane strike
[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+40 5th level arcane strike and gets 45." [1d20=5]
[22:43] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4
[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4 and gets 36." [1d4=1][2d6=4, 5][2d6=2, 1][5d4=1, 1, 1, 2, 1]
[22:43] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4
[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4 and gets 41." [1d4=3][2d6=5, 2][2d6=1, 2][5d4=2, 1, 3, 3, 2]
[22:44] <Kotono> Again the elemental is rocked, stabbed terrifically by the blows! It's leaking water but not down, wobbling like jelly! OOC: Ow. Jaela, go.
[22:44] <Jaela> roll 1d20+20 devotion
[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+20 devotion and gets 23." [1d20=3]
[22:45] <Kotono> "Still up?" Canderella screams over the winds that blow near her, "Get 'em!"
[22:46] <Jaela> One of the elementals is taking a hell of a beating, and it is the one Jaela decides to put down! Gae Dioltas makes an appearance, and then she is off to deliver justice!
[22:46] <Kotono> OOC: Reach?
[22:47] <Jaela> OOC: 15ft with righteous might, 20ft with stretch weapon as swift
[22:47] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32+2+2+10-1+2-5 (5pa, charging smite)
[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32+2+2+10-1+2-5 (5pa, charging smite) and gets 56." [1d20=14]
[22:47] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[22:48] <Jaela> roll 1d8+138+30+6+18 smite~
[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8+138+30+6+18 smite~ and gets 198." [1d8=6]
[22:48] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(25)>Jaela(24)Monolith 2(20)>Canderella(7)'
[22:49] <Kotono> With a charge of pure aggression, Jaela impales the head of the monolith! It shudders and collapses into tidal waves of black water for a second, before sucking inward adn vanishing! Now ther eis only one - one who roars loud enough to shatter stone, incoherent fury as it steps forward, attempting to utterly ruin Jaela!
[22:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+36 (+8 rage, -10 PA)
[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+36 (+8 rage, -10 PA) and gets 54." [1d20=18]
[22:50] <Jaela> OOC: AC is like 27
[22:52] <Kotono> roll 6d8+32 does not beat DR and fortitude save.
[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d8+32 does not beat DR and fortitude save. and gets 63." [6d8=4, 5, 4, 8, 8, 2]
[22:52] <Jaela> roll 1d20+41 vs evil
[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+41 vs evil and gets 46." [1d20=5]
[22:52] <Kotono> OOC: Sickened for 1 round.
[22:53] <Kotono> The blow is as heavy as any monolith before, nearly crushing Jaela under its assault! Despite being pounded down like a disobedient doll, she rises back up and is still ready to fight! OOC: Canderella.
[22:54] * Jaela glares at the monolith in revulsion. "Is that all a fucking building-sized monster can do? You think you'll take me down with that light tap? Bitch, please."
[22:55] <Kotono> Canderella continues to chant within the pillar of stormclouds, this time the sky above the monolith grows dark! A great fist the size of a dragon appears, made of nothing but lightning! It hovers just a moment, before slamming down into the elemental with a fury unknown to man or beast!
[22:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 touch AC
[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 touch AC and gets 26." [1d20=10]
[22:55] <Kotono> roll 25d8*1.5
[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 25d8*1.5 and gets 189." [25d8=8, 1, 7, 4, 3, 8, 6, 2, 5, 4, 2, 8, 1, 3, 7, 4, 2, 8, 8, 4, 6, 8, 4, 6, 7]
[22:56] <Kotono> The fist slams through the elemental, electrocuting it from head to toe! As this happens the storms around Canderella fade, winds stopping and black clouds gone! OOC: Afina.
[22:57] <Afina> Since this one seems a bit feistier than the other three, Afina rapidly speeds herself up with her magic, buying the time to cast shield and hedge her bets against lucky hits before she flies right up in this elemental's face, stabbing it a few times for its trouble!
[22:57] <Afina> roll 1d20+45 5th level arcane strike
[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+45 5th level arcane strike and gets 52." [1d20=7]
[22:57] <Afina> roll 1d20+40 5th level arcane strike
[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+40 5th level arcane strike and gets 52." [1d20=12]
[22:57] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4
[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4 and gets 39." [1d4=1][2d6=2, 1][2d6=6, 5][5d4=2, 1, 2, 1, 1]
[22:57] <Afina> roll 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4
[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+17+2d6+2d6+5d4 and gets 44." [1d4=2][2d6=1, 6][2d6=2, 5][5d4=2, 1, 1, 3, 4]
[22:58] <Kotono> Two more stabs cut open the enraged elemental, further wounding it but doing nothing to dull its fury! OOC: Ow. Jaela.
[22:59] * Jaela grimly steps into the elemental's massive reach, Val'Finnegan appearing in her arms once more. It seems fitting to finish this off with it, and Jaela launches into the strongest attack she can bring herself into making at this time!
[22:59] <Jaela> OOC: 5ft step
[22:59] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32+2+2-2-1+2+3
[22:59] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32+2+2-2-1+2+3
[22:59] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32+2+2-2-1+2+3 and gets 49." [1d20=11]
[22:59] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32+2+2-2-1+2+3 and gets 46." [1d20=8]
[22:59] <Jaela> roll 1d20+27+2+2-2-1+2+3
[22:59] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+27+2+2-2-1+2+3 and gets 41." [1d20=8]
[22:59] <Jaela> roll 1d20+22+2+2-2-1+2+3
[22:59] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+22+2+2-2-1+2+3 and gets 39." [1d20=11]
[22:59] <Jaela> roll 1d20+17+2+2-2-1+2+3 divine might
[22:59] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+17+2+2-2-1+2+3 divine might and gets 31." [1d20=8]
[23:02] <Kotono> OOC: All hit.
[23:02] <Jaela> roll 5#2d6+25+3+3+10+2+3+2d6 should've used 2d6 on the charge too
[23:02] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 5#2d6+25+3+3+10+2+3+2d6 should've used 2d6 on the charge too and gets 308." [5#2d6+25+3+3+10+2+3+2d6 = 60, 64, 64, 59, 61]
[23:03] <Jaela> OOC: -10 to that
[23:03] <Kotono> The elemental is beaten, stabbed, bloodied! It looks ready to collapse, but it hangs on, just barely! Bringing one huge fist up and then another, it sends one slam at Afina and one at Jaela, trying to finish both foes off!
[23:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+36 (+8 rage, -10 PA) Afina
[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+36 (+8 rage, -10 PA) Afina and gets 53." [1d20=17]
[23:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+36 (+8 rage, -10 PA) Jaela ACs?
[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+36 (+8 rage, -10 PA) Jaela ACs? and gets 47." [1d20=11]
[23:04] <Afina> OOC: 53 on the dot. 50% miss chance, earn your pay!
[23:04] <Jaela> OOC: Cleanly hits
[23:04] <Kotono> roll 1d100
[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 99." [1d100=99]
[23:05] <Kotono> roll 6d8+32 does not beat DR and fortitude save Afina
[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d8+32 does not beat DR and fortitude save Afina and gets 62." [6d8=1, 6, 5, 7, 3, 8]
[23:05] <Afina> OOC: sac a 6th level spell for -30 damage
[23:05] <Afina> roll 1d20+18
[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+18 and gets 38." [1d20=20]
[23:06] <Kotono> roll 6d8+32 does not beat DR and fortitude save Jalea?
[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d8+32 does not beat DR and fortitude save Jalea? and gets 66." [6d8=7, 3, 6, 5, 8, 5]
[23:06] <Jaela> roll 1d20+41
[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+41 and gets 42." [1d20=1]
[23:06] <Kotono> OOC: Jaela is sickened one round. Afina got a 20 and escapes. Hatebot.
[23:07] <Kotono> Both women are too slow for this desperate attack, slamming them hard! A spellshield and pure, raw endurance keep both up -b attered but alive! OOC: Canderella is up.
[23:07] <Kotono> Canderella chants and points, an orb of lightning flying from her fingertips!
[23:07] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[23:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 25." [1d20=9]
[23:08] <Kotono> roll 15d6
[23:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 15d6 and gets 55." [15d6=1, 2, 4, 1, 4, 6, 5, 5, 5, 1, 6, 4, 2, 6, 3]
[23:08] <Kotono> With a final shocking blow, the elemental quivers once before splashing out, then sucked in and gone! OOC: Free act.

[23:09] <Jaela> "We should've brought Dana along," Jaela mutters, healing her multitude of broken bones.
[23:09] <Afina> "Glad you made it out of there, Jaela," Afina smiles now the fight is over, floating up alongside her. "Dana'd be dead but she'd die happy?"
[23:10] <Jaela> "Way happy." She grins back at Afina, and takes a look about herself. "Shame about all that gold and pearls?"
[23:11] <Afina> "We could dig through the ruins but I don't care enough to do that. If the four monoliths are dead now, we could have a clear path into the dark water, though."
[23:12] <Jaela> "That's what I've been thinking," Jaela admits. "We can't shift back anyway, and maybe those assholes respawn or something. Let's give it a try?"
[23:14] <Afina> "Thanks for your help with those two," Afina thanks the succubus since it's only polite. "Do you want to continue on with us now?"
[23:15] <Jaela> "We'll do our best to keep you safe, even though you're not some meek guide," Jaela asserts, slowly shrinking back to her normal size while her color regains its natural fiery red.
[23:16] <Jaela> roll 1d4 lesser restoration
[23:16] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d4 lesser restoration and gets 4." [1d4=4]

[Corwin]

[21:38] <Kotono> As wounds heal silence takes over the lost city. Canderella looks about once, "Who's Dana?"
[21:39] <Jaela> "This crazy chick that fights like me but does it for the pain," Jaela responds with a snort. "So where to now?"
[21:40] <Afina> "Lets leave the city behind and go into the dark water to get what we really came for," Afina suggests, taking flight to leave the city behind and orienting herself towards the centre of the dark water as best she can.
[21:44] <Kotono> As one could have briefly noted before the final battle began, there's a problem with that. Above you can see greater luminesence. The water above and around the city has frozen solid! The entire lost city is entombed in ice.
[21:45] <Jaela> "My only fire spell is pretty shitty," Jaela admits. "Don't suppose anyone has a better option, here?"
[21:45] <Afina> "Does anyone have any good fire magic?" Afina asks on the off chance. "If not we'll have to wait for me to rest and regain my more powerful magic."
[21:46] <Kotono> "Lightning yes, fire no," Canderella admits, "I can't do much with fire."
[21:47] <Afina> "Lets find a good place for us to hide and rest a while, then," Afina says, using the high vantage to look for easily defensible spots in the ruined city.
[21:49] <Jaela> "I might as well try my stuff first, then?" Jaela muses, taking a closer glance at the shield of ice with senses magical and mundane.
[21:50] <Kotono> The ice looks thicker - thick enough to stop you from seeing anything past it, and deep enough to do that. You can't estimate how far it goes because of that. OOC: Spellcraft real quick.
[21:50] <Jaela> roll 1d20+21
[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+21 and gets 25." [1d20=4]
[21:53] <Jaela> "Right! Get back a bit to avoid debries and shit, but be ready to get going if I make a hole here!" Jaela announces, holding a hand out towards the dome of ice. And then, as if in answer, a pillar of fire attempts to breach it!
[21:54] <Jaela> roll 13d6 flame strike
[21:54] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 13d6 flame strike and gets 54." [13d6=5, 5, 3, 6, 5, 3, 2, 3, 6, 2, 5, 3, 6]
[21:55] <Kotono> The flame strike soars into being, bursting around the ice above! A 10ft radius of ice 40ft tall is carved out! Beyond it you can see black waters, starting to fall into the hole.
[21:56] <Jaela> "Go!" Jaela calls, intending to be the last one through. She can always open another hole if this one closes, after all.
[21:56] <Afina> Afina zips up, slipping into the water with nary a splash to mark the entrance of her own watery form.
[21:57] <Kotono> Canderella follows, cloak of lightning receding into her shoulders as she zooms up! OOC: Do you have any cold resist up, Afina?
[21:57] * Jaela is the last to follow!
[21:57] <Kotono> OOC: Same question to you, Jaela.
[21:57] <Afina> OOC: resist 30
[21:57] <Jaela> OOC: resist 30
[21:58] <Kotono> The falling water is bitterly cold, the air in the hole aching in your lungs as they go numb! But you rise up and through the water, out of the cold! The black waters are notably colder now, but not painfully so. Up and out past the great entombing sphere of ice, surrounding all of Vulanas.
[21:59] <Afina> Looking back at the sphere of ice, Afina wonders aloud, "Did someone put that there, or was someone keeping it from forming that we killed down there?"
[22:00] <Jaela> "No idea. Maybe we can ask at the fortress?"
[22:01] <Afina> "I'm sure it'll be full of talkative people when we find it," Afina seems to agree, turning to orient herself at the dark water and plunging forward to try and find its soft gooey centre.
[22:01] <Kotono> "A good question, but perhaps we aren't done with resistance yet?" Canderella agrees. OOC: How are you searching for the center?
[22:02] <Jaela> "That would be too easy," Jaela agrees. "So what do you think? Keep on going towards where it's coldest and darkest?"
[22:02] <Afina> OOC: Figure ot the edges of the dark water as we saw them from a distance, go towards the middle. Also survival?
[22:02] <Kotono> OOC: Sure, go ahead.
[22:02] <Afina> roll 1d20+27 survival
[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+27 survival and gets 38." [1d20=11]
[22:04] <Kotono> The party swims on for another three hours. Fatige begins to prickle a bit at the party but they swim on, on and on and on. The waters are growing darker when, ahead? Something is ahead - something indistinct and large, looming in the darkest waters yet.
[22:05] <Jaela> "Our goal?" Jaela asks hopefully at the sight.
[22:06] <Afina> Seeing that big shape, Afina casts cold resistance in case it's the source of the cold waters. "Or a leviathan. One way to find out..." she swims onwards...
[22:06] <Kotono> As you begin to swim ahead...OOC: Do any of you have effects like freedom of movement active on your persons?
[22:06] <Afina> OOC: only when I cast haste
[22:06] <Jaela> OOC: Not at present
[22:07] <Kotono> As you try and swim ahead, the current becomes heavier, resisting and starting to push the trio back!
[22:08] <Jaela> After steadying herself, Jaela calls upon Detect Magic to try and decide if the resistance is natural or supernatural!
[22:10] <Jaela> "I can't believe it all comes down to swimming ability!" Jaela complains, fighting against the current in what seems to be an increasingly futile gesture.
[22:10] * Afina propels her watery body faster to push through the resistance. Considering she's likely the fastest one here and has been limiting herself to a snail's pace before, she has a lot of leeway to work with. "We're in infinite water. What did you expect?"
[22:10] <Jaela> "Scary monsters!"
[22:11] <Kotono> OOC: Swim check, Jaela and Canderella. No need for Afina with her move speed+swim speed. (If you have a swim speed speak up now, Jaela.)
[22:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+1
[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+1 and gets 16." [1d20=15]
[22:13] <Jaela> "Got an idea," Jaela calls to Canderella, seeing that Afina is doing just fine. "Wanna try it with me?"
[22:15] <Kotono> Canderella struggles a bit before turning to Jaela, "Yes, swimming isn't my strongest talent," she admits, "You can't just charm the waters."
[22:19] * Jaela wraps her arms around Canderella before grinning at her. Then, she turns her body into stone and chooses to sink in the direction of the dark, ominous shape. "I'll steer us, you blast it if it's not friendly?"
[22:24] <Kotono> With a body of stone and a passenger, Jaela sinks heavily against the current! The current does resist and slow down her fall, but it doesn't stop it! With Afina swimming herself, the trio plunge forward! Deeper you go, into pure darkness! For a few moments you can see nothing, then? It sits surrounded by 100ft of air - air that tints a sickly green. It curls around what lies within like a thick
[22:24] <Kotono> miasmic blanket. A simple citadel awaits - one great big thing, made of a deep blue material or rock of some sort.
[22:26] <Afina> Poison is no fear to a creature of pure water, so Afina plunges into the 'air' bubble without fear!
[22:27] * Jaela can somehow fly even as a creature of rock, albeit slower than in her usual full plate. And thus she follows Afina without any fear.
[22:27] <Kotono> OOC: Are you two immune to poison or gasses?
[22:27] <Afina> OOC: yep
[22:27] <Jaela> OOC: yes
[22:29] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 33." [1d20=18]
[22:29] <Kotono> As you pass into the gasses, Canderella begins to cough and weeze! Her color turns pale, but she waves Jaela on. In her mind she can hear, 'Keep going. The sooner we're through, the better!'
[22:30] * Jaela does stop, however, and long enough to neutralize any poison in Canderella's system! And then they're off once more.
[22:39] <Kotono> To the citadel you go! As you get closer, you can see that the citadel is made of gemstone of some sort - cut into perfect angles and lines, impossibly large gemstones without a single flaw to them. There is an entry gate - and as yo uget closer, you begin to feel a gentle pull towards it, a tug of gravity.
[22:40] <Afina> One gravity's as good as any others in this place, and Afina lets herself drop down towards the gate...
[22:41] <Jaela> They can hardly separate! And they're here to seek entrance, anyhow, not break the fortress apart. If it helps them, then it should remain in place helping many others in the future.
[22:49] <Kotono> Within the gate is darkness. You can see nothing but - hm? Stepping out of the darkness is a gray being. It wears a black wrapping and robe, flaring around its legs and arms. It has an expressionless face - except when he sees you, a terrifying, toothy smile on it. In one hand is a sword crackling with lightning, gleaming lile silvery mithral. 'Not dogs of the Adversary.' He makes no immediately
[22:49] <Kotono> aggressive move, instead speaking in your minds. 'Not the Poisoned Feathers. Not a threat?'
[22:50] <Jaela> roll 1d20+21
[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+21 and gets 39." [1d20=18]
[22:50] <Afina> "That depends on whether we have to be," Afina replies, her watery form wavering as it lands. "There is a fountain within that we seek, nothing more."
[22:52] <Kotono> 'Not a threat.' Continuing from that, not a question this time, 'Not the Poisoned Feathers. Not a known.' The creature's head tilts to the side, 'Not something I wish not to know.'
[22:53] <Jaela> "Who are you?" Jaela asks, deciding to stick to the more abstract questions against something so strange. "What is your purpose?"
[22:55] <Kotono> 'Not of the Adversary. Not of the Oinoloth. Not of not preparing the Lethanic Waters. Not of not Otpal.'
[22:56] <Jaela> "Is your real self here? Can we go get the water from the fountain and leave?"
[22:58] <Kotono> Now the creature lowers its blade entirely, 'Not free. Not of not the offering of one memory. Not of not resistance if you offer a memory.'
[22:59] <Jaela> "Sounds agreeable," Jaela muses. "Tell us the terms? Is it gone or copied? Just the one, or one each?" She glances at Afina and Canderella. "I did this before, so I'm a pro."
[23:00] <Kotono> 'Not of multiple. Not of kept.' So it answers back, 'Not of happy memory. Not of not sad memory.'
[23:00] <Jaela> "Oh wow, you're in such luck! That's most of mine!"
[23:00] <Afina> "I have more memories than one lifetime can hold. It is not a problem," Afina shakes her head.
[23:01] * Jaela nods. "It sounds like we have a deal. But before that, to confirm. The water from this fountain, if we take it with us, can make someone too old to leave Astral become young enough to do that?"
[23:03] <Kotono> 'Not of held to years. Not of logical thought. Not of aged limits.' The creature  replies once more, 'Not of not kneeling and thinking of the memory to be lost.'
[23:06] <Afina> "You want me to kneel and think of the memory I will surrender?" Afina confirms, parsing the double negative at the end.
[23:06] <Jaela> "I didn't actually get the first part but the rest sounds simple enough?" Jaela agrees, shrugging.
[23:06] <Kotono> Finally the creature speaks aloud, "Yes." It says to Afina. It's voice is like the rustling of snakes under leaves, "Kneel."
[23:16] <Afina> Trusting Jaela to be on guard for treachery, Afina kneels and and focuses on an inconsequential memory. The air smells of sweetness and decay, she's been hiding amidst a glade of bloody flowers, fed by the butchered corpses of pixies decorated garishly about the crooked trees, their entrails strung out and dripping wetly with rot. She has been asked to murder an unseelie nymph at the edge of
[23:16] <Afina> the Gloaming Forest, a courtier of Duke Ulsalan that Queen Ilsenine deemed an unsightly figure best removed from their fair forest. It's been hours now, the time blending into an interminable wait, but Afina knows that the nymph - Valessia is her name - always comes here after her kills to string up her prey. She just has to be patient, and eventually that patience will be rewarded. Here. She's
[23:16] <Afina> a beautiful figure, ripe curves and long lush hair the colour of autumn leaves, her hands stained red as she holds a carved up pixie in fingers with too-sharp nails. The pixie is indisinguishable, a flash of purple hair barely seen amidst the ruined skin. Humming merrily, the nymph has her back to Afina, her hands busy hooking the still twitching pixie into sharp branches. She's distracted,
[23:16] <Afina> occupied. Afina strikes. Flashing out of the corrupt growth, she buries her cold iron feybane sword between the shoulderblades of the nymph, before carving up her spine. She twitches and vomits, but still lives, spinning around with a flash of impossible corrupt beauty, yet Afina is already gone. A shambling mound of plantlife is called to her aid, but it's too late, Afina returns from her
[23:16] <Afina> vantage up in the treetops, descending and burying her blade in the nymph's crown. She sags bonelessly and drops. Just another kill. Just another day in the Gloaming Forest...
[23:23] <Kotono> The memory rises. Afina feels it right in her head, up and up and up and up...and out! With a soft sliding sensation the memory is lost to her, a sense of loss, a small hole in her mind. The image speaks in Afina's voice, "The air smells of sweetness and decay..." It begins before going silent. In your minds, 'Not of bad result.  Not of staying out here.' The image begins to walk into the keep at this.
[23:23] <Jaela> "Are you showing us to the fountain, now?" Jaela asks, pausing by Afina to make sure the pixie is alright.
[23:24] * Afina nods to Jaela. She knows she's lost something, she doesn't know what, but she knows it was something inconsequential and mundane. Fluttering watery wings, she takes flight and follows the gatekeeper.
[23:25] <Jaela> Reassured at that nod, Jaela starts following herself even as she keeps very near Canderella.
[23:28] <Kotono> Canderella follows along. In Jaela's mind and then Afina's, 'You do know what that is, don't you? Don't ever trust a 'loth. Eyes open.'
[23:29] * Afina is always alert!
[23:30] <Jaela> 'I know it's not his real form,' Jaela thinks back, and really. She's wearing her armor even in the safety of the Aurora's dimensional lock, and her spears are never farther than a flick of a wrist away.
[23:35] <Kotono> On you go. Into hallways of deep blue gemstone, footsteps silent as you walk on. Everything is cast blue here, yet the walls are covered in writing. Dozens and dozens of languages, including some you now. Each phrase you can read is the same: 'Sinner in stone'.
[23:36] * Afina does ponder the meaning, but doesn't expect a straight answer if she asks, so holds her tongue.
[23:36] <Jaela> "Who is the Sinner in Stone?" Jaela asks, having no such compunctions.
[23:43] <Kotono> 'Not of not the Scion of Sorrow.' Is the answer Jaela gets. 'Not of not the Silibant Serpent.'
[23:44] <Jaela> So a 'loth, probably? Jaela frowns slightly, but asks no other questions as she walks.
[23:48] <Kotono> Through the blue gemstone hallways, up a flight of stairs. Just past the flight of stairs you come to a dead end - a carved blue gemstone, princess cut. It's the size of the hallway, blocking everything solidly. Here the image stops, 'Not a barrier,' it instructs, stepping into it as if it isn't solid.
[23:49] * Jaela steps through after the image.
[23:49] <Afina> Illusory walls aren't a big deal for pixies, so Afina follows readily.
[23:53] <Kotono> Through the wall you go! Ahead of you lies a fountain. A fountain carved of shimmering walls of force, semi visible. A fountain that gently gushes with water, the image before you, 'Not of not your destination. Not of not claiming the water.'
[23:55] * Jaela retrieves her bag of holding, even as she pauses and asks, "Afina, the other water listens to you, doesn't it? Think you could get it to line up around the walls to create another container, just to be safe and all?"
[23:56] <Afina> "Inside the bag, you mean?" Afina confirms, leaning over said bag.
[23:57] <Jaela> "Yeah. You know what happens if someone breaks it while I'm carrying it, and I have to be the one to carry it. So I'm thinking of precautions."
[23:58] <Afina> "Well, it's seemed sturdy enough so far," Afina glances at Jaela's new foot, before she opens the bag and concentrates on moulding the water so it lines the interior of the bag, leaving a hollow cavity in the middle.
[23:59] <Kotono> This goes without incident.
[23:59] <Afina> "Done," Afina nods, stepping back.
[00:00] <Jaela> "How do we use the water to deage someone?" Jaela asks their guide, stepping forward to try and gather the water in their bag of holding. "Bath in it, drink it, something else?"
[00:01] <Kotono> 'Not of not drinking,' He answers, 'Not of not tasting.'
[00:02] <Jaela> "And the effect? Is it instanteneous, or do we need to wait? Even though he's pretty old, I don't want to take him so far back he ends up a kid."
[00:04] <Kotono> 'Not of delay,' It replies to Jaela.
[00:05] <Jaela> She supposes that there is only one question left, then. "Any side effects? Memory loss? Horribly painful death?"
[00:10] <Kotono> 'Not of not consequences. Not of not mortal fantasies.'
[00:11] <Jaela> "No harmful consequences?" Jaela ascertains, before clarifying, "Consequences mortals will find harmful?"
[00:11] <Afina> "Will someone still die at their appointed time, no matter how young they become?" Afina clarifies, guessing it works like how mortal druids become one with nature in their own flawed way.
[00:13] <Kotono> 'Not of consequnces,' Answering, 'Not of bound to time. Not of not granting more time.'
[00:14] <Jaela> "Works for me." Jaela nods, tying up the bag just before it would fill up and securing the opening. "Time for us to head back, then. Unless we can plane shift out from here?"
[00:16] <Kotono> 'Not of connected to planes,' The creature replies. 'Not of a short trip. Not of delaying.'
[00:17] <Jaela> "Let's go, then," Jaela suggests to Afina and Canderella, starting to head back out towards the gates.
[00:17] <Afina> "Our business is concluded here," Afina agrees, nodding to the gate guard and following Jaela out.

[00:22] <Kotono> OOC: Going to do anything but head out?
[00:22] <Jaela> OOC: No. Just going to the kelps or wherever we can plane shift out
[00:23] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[00:23] <Kotono> roll 1d1000
[00:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d1000 and gets 387." [1d1000=387]
[00:23] <Kotono> roll 1d100
[00:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 40." [1d100=40]
[00:23] <Kotono> The trip back is mercifully without incident. Tired and worn by the end by hours and hours of swimming, the trio reach the end of the black water! Canderella stretches in the water, "If I were mortal, I'd be tired," she burbles in the water.
[00:25] <Afina> "You just go on and on and on, hmmm?" Afina asks, hardly mortal herself but still not inured to fatigue even in this body. And swimming is far less effort for her than it is for the other two.
[00:25] <Jaela> "If you were tired," Jaela responds with a grin, "I'd use magic on you to help you recover." Exhaustion doesn't play a factor, not when they are successful. "So how about coming with us? See the planes, meet exciting new people? We have just about anything from ancient sages to prismatic dragon abominations!"
[00:27] <Afina> "Yes, did we keep up with your magic earlier?" Afina asks, recalling the succubus's challenge after they invited her.
[00:28] <Kotono> "I have to admit that you did," Canderella says, "So let's see what your realm is made of."
[00:29] <Jaela> "I was thinking of making a jump straight to Astral," Jaela admits. "I knowe we've been through a lot of shit, but maybe we can get Vul'lath before his queen decides to eat him and bring him with us to the Aurora? I've got enough for three trips in me."
[00:30] <Afina> "Lets do that, then. He's waited long enough," Afina nods, taking Jaela's hand in her watery grasp.
[00:31] * Jaela extends the other to Canderella, and once permission had been secured aims for the gith sage's entranceway, same as the previous plane shift.

[Corwin]

[20:04] <Kotono> In an instant, time stops. The unreality of timelessness grasps the three travelers, the stillness of the Silver Sea a sudden stop. Water drips off the three women as they stand at Sage Vul'lath's entryway,
[20:05] <Afina> Water does indeed drip off of Afina, cascading off of her completely as her elemental form is washed away to leave a flesh and blood pixie behind. She celebrates by taking a deep breath of... astral? Close enough to air, anyway.
[20:07] * Jaela can't quite match Afina in that, as she still needs her prosthetic leg. But having Prestidigitation, she dries herself while waiting to be received.
[20:09] <Kotono> In moments, a robed acolyte comes forth. The robed gith bows deeply, "Do you seek audience with the Master?"
[20:10] <Jaela> "Yes," Jaela returns, nodding back in acknowledgement.
[20:13] <Kotono> You are lead inside, where Sage Vul'lath awaits you. It is the same place you have met him before, the gith watching and waiting impassively. "You have returned?" he asks, "Have you obtained the Apples of Idun?"
[20:14] <Jaela> "That's a no on the apples," Jaela responds, shaking her head. "But we found something else. You were gonna be using the apples in a ritual, right? We brought you water that'll take the years off without all that bother."
[20:16] <Kotono> "Water of Youth?" Vul'lath suddenly looks interested, "From where? I've heard and read of many legends of it, but never have I seen it."
[20:17] * Jaela glances down meaningfully at her replacement leg. "Ever hear any of those legends in connection to the lost city of Vulanas?" She shrugs, then. "Listen, if you don't trust the water, I'm pretty sure you could still use it in your ritual. Should work, from how I know magical theory."
[20:18] <Afina> "It was not freely obtained," Afina confirms.
[20:19] <Kotono> "I have." Here he pauses, "I have also heard rumors of Olhydra hoarding it away." Here he pauses, "I would like to see it, yes."
[20:21] * Jaela carefully retrieves the bag of holding with the water within, and holds it out to Vul'lath. "We easily brought back enough for two, so keep that in mind. From what we learned, you drink it and have no harmful effects, but the one saying it was a 'loth. Still, legend bears out on what we saw there."
[20:25] <Kotono> "Never trust a daemon," Sage Vul'lath agrees solemnly, "I will need to test a small sample of this water." Taking out a silver bell and ringing it, a robed gith comes forth. A few words of instruction follow, a glass eyedropper brought on a silver tray. Sage Vul'lath uses it and extracts a few droplets from the bag, "If you require anything while I test this water, speak the word and they will provide."
[20:28] <Jaela> "A nice rest would do," Jaela responds with a shrug. "Just be ready to go if it's legit and does what you need? Something tells me that even on Astral, you'll be tempting fate if you drag your feet while gathering your things and preparing to leave."
[20:28] * Afina nods silently. She's a bit hungry but it won't get worse on the astral and she can feed herself back on Aurora.
[20:29] <Kotono> "I have made...preparations," Sage Vul'lath agrees, before departing the room. Canderella watches him go, but otherwise holds her tongue for the moment.
[20:32] <Kotono> It is later, as little as that means on the Astral. Canderella is quietly staring off into space and a robed acolyte stands waiting for any needs. It is then that Sage Vul'lath returns, his voice full of energy, "Amazing. The water does all you claim! There is but one side effect, and it is not prohibitive."
[20:33] <Jaela> "Huh. So there was one after all? What's that?" Jaela asks curiously.
[20:36] <Kotono> "Some degree of learned knowledge is lost. A relatively minor amount - you may forget a language, lore or some manner of training. A wizard may lose some skill in spellfcrafting or knowledge, while a warrior may lose athletic training or climbing, I believe."
[20:36] * Jaela glances at Afina. "We should've expected it, considering the price."
[20:37] <Afina> "Fitting," Afina agrees. "It would have been a double loss if I wished it for myself. The choice, though, is yours," she defers to the sage.
[20:38] <Jaela> "If it were me," she tells Vul'lath, "I'd do it. Skills can be regained. Ancient tomes could be reread. But you can only do those things if you're actually alive and out in the world."
[20:38] <Kotono> "I find the fact that a daemon was involved with it unsurprising. This aspects reminds me of the Styx." Sage Vul'lath sits down once more, "I have already made my choice and my preparations. My servants and possessions are ready to be moved and I have a scroll of Gate prepared."
[20:39] <Jaela> "Then I won't be needed for the transport?" Jaela snorts. "How novel. Let me just describe the courtyard, then, so you could aim properly."
[20:39] <Afina> "Then let us proceed? Take as much water as you feel is necessary," Afina nods, ready to go home.
[20:41] <Kotono> Sage Vul'lath opens the bag and drinks! His body glows as he swallows, before he nods. "It is done." Taking out his silver bell once more and ringing it thrice, several robed servants emerge. Each carries a tan bag with both hands, cradling it to them. "We are ready."
[20:44] <Afina> "It would be easier if Jaela or I were to use the Gate scroll," Afina suggests, "Are all of your servants going to be safe to leave the astral?"
[20:45] <Jaela> "Just save the scroll," Jaela suggests. "If everyone's safe and ready to go, I'll just plane shift us in groups. Afina, you'll come with the first, and I'll follow with the second?"
[20:45] <Kotono> "They are safe to do so," Sage Vul'lath asserts.
[20:46] <Afina> "Very well," Afina floats over to Jaela.
[20:46] <Jaela> "Okay. Join hands and hold a sec. You'll appear next to a temple to the Triune Goddess, and it's pretty out of the way so no one will bother you. On three, as always. One, two--" And seven of them disappear along with Afina, before Jaela takes Canderella, Vul'lath and the rest of the gith with her in the second wave.
[20:50] <Kotono> The transport is without incident. On the party getting there, they find the giths looking about. Before you is Aurora - within the temple Mirima is looking up from kneeling, joined by a few members of the Graceful Blow on either side of her. Out in the courtyard you can see a charge of humanoid soldiers, impacting into straw dummies set up. As they charge air elementals above and earth elementals
[20:50] <Kotono> from below harry them, trying to disrupt the charge. Just outside the temple is Tannin, sitting against the wall of it and watching.
[20:50] <Jaela> "Hey!" Jaela greets Mirima and her fellow warriors. "Wanna meet one of our oldest allies, pun and all?"
[20:51] <Afina> "Welcome to Aurora, once known as Medicant," Afina tells the new arrivals, giving them a moment to get their bearings. "Come, we'll set up your quarters and you can look around at your leisure."
[21:01] <Kotono> "Greetings," Mirima greets the sage at that, who is captivated looking about. His gaze sweeps in everything, before turning to Mirima. "Greetings," he returns.

[Corwin]

[21:23] <Kotono> You find Elder Magi Tepen at the library, deep into reading a thick tome...
[21:23] <Afina> "Tepen," Afina greets the aged human that's still a few centuries her junior, "Do you have a moment?"
[21:24] <Kotono> Marking his place in the tome with a bit of colored cloth and closing it, "I do," he replies, smothering a yawn into his hand.
[21:26] <Afina> "Although we've had no luck finding devils connected to the pit fiend that ravaged your soul, we've found something else that could benefit your health," Afina explains. "A water of youth that could restore you to young adulthood. Though not without a catch - you would have to surrender some memory or skill  or knowledge upon consuming it."
[21:29] <Jaela> "The sage that you sent Adrian over to, Vul'lath, already tried it on himself after testing the water properly," Jaela adds. "The loss is not serious, from all appearances, while the benefits numerous."
[21:30] <Kotono> "Youthening water?" Elder Magi Tepen blinks once, "I had thought it nothing but myth and hopeful legend. Truly there are wondrous things out here."
[21:31] <Jaela> "And a lot of horrible shit guarding it. But yeah, you said you wanted to see Lifasa again, right? And fight in the battle to take it? This is gonna be your chance, I figure, if anything."
[21:42] <Kotono> There isn't a reply as Elder Magi Tepen looks down at it, "I rejected a sham of immortality before," he says, "But even more than before I know our fight is a long, hard struggle." He hesitates before nodding. "I shall momentarily."
[21:45] <Jaela> This time it's not Annalise's offer of eternal self-hate and loathing as a vampire, and so Jaela has pretty high hopes for the old man recovering even more from his condition as a result.
[21:46] <Kotono> With a gesture of his hand, Elder Magi Tepen's beard smoothly falls away, leaving his face clean. Gathering up the shed hair and going to dipose of it before returning, "Now I'm ready."
[21:47] * Jaela offers the bag of holding to the elder magi!
[21:48] <Kotono> The water is drank! Elder Magi Tepen glows - his hair becomes lustrious once more, taking on a medium-brown shade. His lines and liver spots smooth back into his skin, his shoulders straightening! Before you stands a brown haired young man of his early 20s, slender-bodied.
[21:49] <Jaela> "Are you still a wizard?" Jaela confirms.
[21:50] * Afina covers her mouth to restrain a snorted laugh at that question. "You're a very handsome young man," she commends him.
[21:52] <Kotono> "I am." Raising his hands and arms up to look at them, then going to feel his face, "By the Weave, I feel so much more alive!" He slowly and tentatively stretches back a bit, starting to smile, "The ache in my back is gone, of course it's gone."
[21:53] <Jaela> "Superb!" Giving Tepen a grin, Jaela tells him, "Hold onto the bag for me? It's got some neat water for Afina, too. I'm just gonna go stop being a cripple now."
[21:55] <Afina> "Actually the water's good for any water elemental to play with. But how much water of youth do we have left?" She peers into the bag to see for herself.
[21:56] <Kotono> There's not much left - just a few dregs.
[21:57] <Jaela> Hoping that no ancient kobolds join them on the verge of death, Jaela leaves the two to their own devices and goes to see her mother about a regeneration.
[21:57] <Afina> Either Jaela did a bad job filling it or those two old men were really thirsty. "All gone, it looks like anyway. Oh well, it was enough. Anything you want to do now that you have your youthful vigour back, Tepen?"
[21:59] <Kotono> "Take a walk," Tepen replies, "Just take a walk for now."
[22:00] <Afina> "I'll go put the rest of the water away for later, then," Afina says, conjuring a floating disc to carry the heavy bag of holding around.