223.8 Demedais, Pollyanna and the battle against Desert Cthulhu

[Corwin]

[19:54] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> -----(Bouncy Ko!!!!)
03[19:54] * taislp is now known as Demedais
[19:55] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> A day or two passes without incident. On the morning of the third day, Demedais prepares himself for another day of life. As he prepares in his room, he notices whirls of white mist starting to form in front of him, a small circular condensation.
[19:57] <Demedais> "White mist... Uatu, you call for me?" Demedais murmurs, before quickly taking up his shield and sword, and making sure he has his knapsack over his shoulder, before advancing toward the mist.
03[20:01] * Ebiris (WinNT@user-5af0e4f7.wfd96.dsl.pol.co.uk) has joined #terrorofdunes
[20:10] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> The mists slowly form into an image! Through the image Demedais can see. He can see himself carrying a familiar, loathesome black belt into a barren desert. Then an ethereal, faraway voice speaks in his mind. 'Take the cursed belt...to the lost Shrine of Eternal Watch...Lost three day's journey southwest of Arad. On thet hird night...destroy the veil of sand and travel below...two of you must go, one for each soul...'
03[20:12] * Ebiris is now known as Alicia
[20:14] <Demedais> "I understand, and shall obey, under the guidance of the Evervigilant." Demedais says once he is sure the voice is done speaking.
03[20:15] * Rei-chan (Rei-chan@user-5af0e4f7.wfd96.dsl.pol.co.uk) has joined #terrorofdunes
[20:16] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> The mists fade away at that, leaving only a faint chill in the room.
[20:19] <Demedais> "A lost shrine, hmmm...?" Demedais thinks for a moment, before heading out to go find Pollyanna and notify Oberuth of his planned absence.
[20:20] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Finding Pollyanna is easy enough. Commander Oberuth listens and then nods to him, "Going to the Desert then?" he asks.
[20:21] <Demedais> "Indeed. This shouldn't take too long, but it's something that must be done." Demedais confirms.
[20:22] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Pollyanna nods to that quietly, "If Demedais feels it has to be done, then we should do it right away." With the faintest moment of a teasing smile, "Don't want him to get cranky, sir."
06[20:23] * Demedais glances to Pollyanna with a small smile, before shaking his head. "It's to break a belt that was made by shoving the souls of two babies into it."
[20:23] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "I remember the report," With a curt nod, "By all means, get going. How long do you think you'll be gone?"
[20:26] <Demedais> "We'll likely ask Stronger to get us to Arad proper, before journeying from there. I will locate a scroll of Sending to contact here once we are finished there." Demedais replies. "Thus, I'd expect about a week."
[20:27] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Travel safely," Oberuth wishes, "Careful, too."
[20:28] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: So you're gonna get a scroll of sending and then get Elle to TP you guys over?
[20:28] <Demedais> "Thank you, Commander." Demedais replies.
[20:28] <Demedais> OOC: Yeah, that's the plan.
[20:32] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Post buying scrolls and stuff in the loot topic real quick and then w'ell move on?
[20:52] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d100
[20:52] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=30 ]{30}
[20:53] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Woosh! The three appear in a back alley of Arad! Outside, the early morning bazaar can be heard, squawks and nosies and conversation flying freely. Elle dusts herself off, "Good luck out there, you two."
[20:54] <Demedais> "Thank you for your time and effort." Demedais nods slightly. "I will use the Sending when we're ready to return."
[20:54] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Until then." With a few words, Elle blinks and vanishes!
[20:54] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d100
[20:54] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=44 ]{44}
[20:54] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Sniffing the warm, sandy air, "At least the seasons are turning, or so I hear. It's only unpleasant instead of baking?"
06[20:55] * Demedais nods. "After the first night, I will prepare spells to assist in enduring the elements. For now, it's endurable."
[20:56] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Will we get horses or travel on foot," Pollyanna asks, walking out of the alley. "Three days and then we're supposed to remove the veil of sand, or some such?"
06[20:57] * Demedais considers this. "One thing I've always disliked about this sort of thing is that it leaves the method of travel obscure. I would say we travel by foot, however; the desert is treacherous. Worst comes to worst, we utilize Horse."
[21:03] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> AT this, the two head out of Arad and into the desert! It's windy but not sandstormy today, not quite. OOC: Could both of you make fort saves?
[21:04] <Demedais> roll 1d20+18 kay
[21:04] <Rei-chan> Demedais rolled : 1d20+18 kay --> [ 1d20=11 ]{29}
[21:06] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+7
[21:06] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+7 --> [ 1d20=13 ]{20}
[21:06] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> It's a hard day's travel. Both Demedais and Pollyanna feel it by sunset, the latter sighing and wiping sand out of her face. The winds continue steadily, not rising but not really slackening. "Two more days of this...ugh. I have sand everywhere."
[21:08] <Demedais> "Indeed. Yet another reason I'm not terribly fond of the desert." Demedais grimaces. "We can set up tents once the sun's last light falls."
[21:12] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "It should be soon." Looking up at the sky, as the sun sinks down, "I'm going to sleep like a log tonight."
06[21:13] * Demedais nods. "Tell me if I'm setting too hard of a pace."
[21:18] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "I'm fine." Thus the two continue on with a smile. Camp is soon made, sleep and rest coming quickly. OOC: Keeping watches, yout wo?
[21:19] <Demedais> OOC: Yeah. Deme stays awake until Pollyanna's rested, then he takes his two-hour nap and the two move on.
[21:19] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d100
[21:19] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=18 ]{18}
[21:21] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> The night passes well enough. Day two opens with the same wind, sand blowing lightly. Pollyanna coughs and scowls, "You had protections you were going to cast, at least?"
[21:25] <Demedais> "They won't stop the sand, but it will stop the heat from being overbearing." Demedais nods, casting Endure Elements on both himself and Pollyanna.
[21:29] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> So warded, the two continue on the second day!
[21:29] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d100
[21:29] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=100 ]{100}
[21:33] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> It's a little past lunch right now. The two are travelling a stretch of relatively shallow dunes. The sandy wind continues to blow, though the heat is mercifully held at bay. Your pace is a little better without the heat being such a concern. Yet, as you walk along, the ground starts to tremble and shake! Ane arthquake?!
06[21:34] * Demedais quickly looks around, attempting to spot anything that might be large enough to cause them.
[21:34] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Spot check?
[21:34] <Demedais> roll 1d20+25
[21:34] <Rei-chan> Demedais rolled : 1d20+25 --> [ 1d20=15 ]{40}
06[21:36] * Demedais grabs Pollyanna and uses his boots to dash away from this area!
[21:41] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Grabbing Pollyanna, Demedais sprints away at the last moment! Just as he flees away, making it 60 feet away in total, the groud they were on erupts with a pair of tentacles! Horrid tearing claws line it, each of them dozens of feet long! Erupting out from the sand is a horror that should have stayed buried! It's as large as a barn, a dead-gray skin color and with two huge, unblinking eyes! It's tendrils attached to a head, wit
[21:41] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> unblinking eyes! It's tendrils attached to a head, with six 'arms' of sorts attached to the head! OOC - You're immune to fear, Deme?
[21:41] <Demedais> OOC: Yeeep.
[21:41] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+6
[21:41] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+6 --> [ 1d20=17 ]{23}
[21:41] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d4
[21:41] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d4 --> [ 1d4=1 ]{1}
[21:42] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Pollyanna views it and lets out an earth shattering scream! OOC: INitiative. Polly is paralysed with fear for a round.
[21:42] <Demedais> roll 1d20+1 joy
[21:42] <Rei-chan> Demedais rolled : 1d20+1 joy --> [ 1d20=19 ]{20}
[21:42] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+7 Polly
[21:42] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+7 Polly --> [ 1d20=9 ]{16}
[21:42] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+4 OH SHIT
[21:42] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+4 OH SHIT --> [ 1d20=2 ]{6}
03[21:43] * Infinite_Ko_Loop changes topic to 'Demedais>Polly(1 round paralysis)>OH FUCK IT'S DESERT CHTULU'
[21:43] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Go Deme. It's sixty feet away.
06[21:46] * Demedais moves out a bit further while carrying Pollyanna, calling for the protection of Helm as he does so! "Why today..."
[21:46] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Moving your full normal move+haste? What's that?
[21:49] <Demedais> OOC: 40 feet, 20 for armor + 20 for haste boost, I believe.
[21:50] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Hurrying away, Demedais and Polly are now 100 feet away from the horror! Pollyanna screams and screams, face twisted into an impossible nightmare! At this, those horrible dry tentacles are raised up towards the air! The cry of the dead echos from below, moans! "Water....so thirsty...help me....help me...I don't want to die...!" (More)
[21:50] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 2d8
[21:50] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 2d8 --> [ 2d8=14 ]{14}
[21:51] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> From up to fourty feet away to close to the horror, they rise from the sand! OVe ra dozen of them, horrible dried out corpses! Ashen Dusks! Demedais can remember fighting these abominations before, fending them off in a horrible sandstorm. They wear little to nothing, bodies as dry and dessicitated as the desert itself! Somehow they speak, crying out for water and mercy! OOC - Demedais.
03[21:52] * Infinite_Ko_Loop changes topic to 'Demedais>Polly(1 round paralysis)>OH FUCK IT'S DESERT CHTULU=Ashen Husks(14)'
03[21:53] * Infinite_Ko_Loop changes topic to 'Demedais>Pollyanna>OH FUCK IT'S DESERT CHTULU=Ashen Husks(14)'
[21:59] <Demedais> "Oh. Oh, well, isn't this just icing on the proverbial cake of annoyance." Demedais mutters, before turning to Pollyanna. "Pollyanna... Don't let these things near you, if you can avoid it." Tapping her and chanting the Shield Other spell, he then prepares himself for the assault of the husks!
[21:59] <Demedais> OOC: Shield Other, Law Devotion, Kensai Charge.
[22:00] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Thus Demedais braces! Pollanna shakes her head, peering as she readies her bow! "Get away from me, in the name of Helm," she cries, arrows flying at the closest ones!
[22:00] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+16
[22:00] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+16 --> [ 1d20=6 ]{22}
[22:00] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+16
[22:00] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+11
[22:00] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+16 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{17}
[22:00] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+11 --> [ 1d20=16 ]{27}
[22:00] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d8+7+1d6
[22:00] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d8+7+1d6 --> [ 1d8=4 1d6=1 ]{12}
[22:00] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d8+7+1d6
[22:00] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d8+7+1d6 --> [ 1d8=2 1d6=2 ]{11}
[22:05] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Two arrows go into the closest one, fourty feet away! The twin arrows cause fire to break out amid it's body!  The arrows have trouble penetrating the dry flesh, but the fires sweeps it, making it rock and stagger where it stands! It survives as the horde approaches! The closest is a mere 10 feet away now, coming in close! The others follow behind, up to 70 feet away at the rear! Meanwhile, the abomination burrows back beneath
[22:05] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> he abomination burrows back beneath the sand, vanishing! OOC - Demedais.
[22:09] <Demedais> "Oh for..." Demedais curses, before considering his options. After a moment, he shrugs and casts Eagle's Splendor on himself, moving twenty feet toward Pollyanna so that only the nearest one can reach him!
[22:11] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Demedais moves twenty feet, putting himself between Pollyanna and the horrors! MEanwhile Pollyanna fires arrows aplenty, targeting the wounded one first!
[22:11] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+16
[22:11] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+16 --> [ 1d20=16 ]{32}
[22:11] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+16
[22:11] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+16 --> [ 1d20=3 ]{19}
[22:11] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+11
[22:11] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+11 --> [ 1d20=16 ]{27}
[22:11] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d8+7+1d6
[22:11] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d8+7+1d6 --> [ 1d8=2 1d6=1 ]{10}
03[22:11] * Infinite_Ko_Loop changes topic to 'Demedais>Pollyanna>OH FUCK IT'S DESERT CHTULU=Ashen Husks(13)'
[22:11] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d8+7+1d6
[22:11] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d8+7+1d6 --> [ 1d8=8 1d6=2 ]{17}
[22:11] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d8+7+1d6
[22:11] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d8+7+1d6 --> [ 1d8=4 1d6=3 ]{14}
03[22:11] * Infinite_Ko_Loop changes topic to 'Demedais>Pollyanna>OH FUCK IT'S DESERT CHTULU=Ashen Husks(12)'
[22:13] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Two of the horrible zombies are mowed down, crumbling into dry hunks of flesh and dust! Pollyanna moves another thirty feet back at that! Twelve more approach, the closet 10 feet away from Demedais and the farthest 60 feet away! OOC - Deme, you're up.
[22:13] <Demedais> OOC: How many are within 30 feet?
[22:13] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Say 4.
06[22:15] * Demedais nods gratefully to Pollyanna, stepping back another 20 feet as he surveys the land to see if he can spot where the monster's at!
[22:16] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Demedais is now 30 feet away from the vanguard and 90 feet away from the rear of the zombies! Pollyanna is 10 feet away, readying her bow again! OOC - Spot check.
[22:16] <Demedais> roll 1d20+25
[22:16] <Rei-chan> Demedais rolled : 1d20+25 --> [ 1d20=10 ]{35}
[22:17] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> The sand beneath the zombies is moving every so slightly, something beneath the sand heading right in Demedais' direction!
[22:18] <Demedais> "Be careful - he's heading our way again!" Demedais says to Pollyanna!
[22:19] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Pollyanna nods, moving another 20 feet back an dfiring more arrows! "I swear to HElm, if you come at me, I'll destroy you!" she screams in terror! "Begone, creature!"
[22:19] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+16
[22:19] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+16
[22:19] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+16 --> [ 1d20=11 ]{27}
[22:19] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+16 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{18}
[22:19] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+11
[22:19] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+11 --> [ 1d20=5 ]{16}
[22:19] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d8+7+1d6
[22:19] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d8+7+1d6 --> [ 1d8=6 1d6=2 ]{15}
[22:19] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d8+7+1d6
[22:19] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d8+7+1d6 --> [ 1d8=6 1d6=4 ]{17}
[22:19] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d8+7+1d6
[22:19] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d8+7+1d6 --> [ 1d8=7 1d6=4 ]{18}
03[22:19] * Infinite_Ko_Loop changes topic to 'Demedais>Pollyanna>OH FUCK IT'S DESERT CHTULU=Ashen Husks(11)'
[22:21] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> More arrows fly, more Ashen Husks being destroyed! One falls, another arrowed in the face and surviving, even as it's skull sizzles! As they advance again, once again within ten feet at the closest and 50 at the farthest, the ground beneath Demedais cracks as a tentacle rips out!
[22:21] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+18
[22:21] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+18 --> [ 1d20=17 ]{35}
[22:21] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: AC?
[22:22] <Demedais> OOC: 38.
03[22:22] * Infinite_Ko_Loop changes topic to 'Demedais>Pollyanna>OH FUCK IT'S DESERT CHTULU=Ashen Husks(12)'
[22:23] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> The tentacle comes deadly close to Demedais, but the Fifth REsort stops it in front of his waist! It lingers in the air, connecting to the horror beneath the sands! OOC - Demedais.
[22:24] <Demedais> "And as for you..." Demedais says softly, before ripping into the tentacle with his sword in an attempt to render at least one tentacle helpless!
[22:25] <Demedais> roll 1d20+20 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -4 PA)
[22:25] <Rei-chan> Demedais rolled : 1d20+20 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -4 PA) --> [ 1d20=12 ]{32}
[22:25] <Demedais> roll 1d20+20 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -4 PA)
[22:25] <Rei-chan> Demedais rolled : 1d20+20 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -4 PA) --> [ 1d20=10 ]{30}
[22:25] <Demedais> roll 1d20+15 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -4 PA)
[22:25] <Rei-chan> Demedais rolled : 1d20+15 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -4 PA) --> [ 1d20=5 ]{20}
[22:25] <Demedais> roll 1d20+10 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -4 PA)
[22:25] <Rei-chan> Demedais rolled : 1d20+10 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -4 PA) --> [ 1d20=20 ]{30}
[22:25] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC - Three hits, no crits.
[22:26] <Demedais> roll 6d6+48
[22:26] <Rei-chan> Demedais rolled : 6d6+48 --> [ 6d6=29 ]{77}
[22:27] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Demedais finds the tentacle hard as stone, and resiliant as diamond! It's hard to hack into, yet he does so! He cuts great big chunks from it, leaving it decimated! It lies on the ground, limpid, evne as the dead flesh restores itself in sickening, disguisting agility, starting to mend the wounds! The ashen husks advance, three of them coming in close range to Demedais! OOC: Thre efort saves?
[22:27] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Strike, Polly goes first.
[22:28] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Demedais finds the tentacle hard as stone, and resiliant as diamond! It's hard to hack into, yet he does so! He cuts great big chunks from it, leaving it decimated! It lies on the ground, limpid, evne as the dead flesh restores itself in sickening, disguisting agility, starting to mend the wounds! Pollyanna meanwhile draws more arrows, firing away as she holds her ground!
[22:28] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+16
[22:28] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+16
[22:28] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+16 --> [ 1d20=16 ]{32}
[22:28] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+16 --> [ 1d20=9 ]{25}
[22:28] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+11
[22:28] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+11 --> [ 1d20=16 ]{27}
[22:28] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d8+7+1d6
[22:28] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d8+7+1d6 --> [ 1d8=2 1d6=2 ]{11}
[22:28] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d8+7+1d6
[22:28] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d8+7+1d6
[22:28] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d8+7+1d6 --> [ 1d8=1 1d6=5 ]{13}
[22:28] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d8+7+1d6 --> [ 1d8=1 1d6=6 ]{14}
03[22:28] * Infinite_Ko_Loop changes topic to 'Demedais>Pollyanna>OH FUCK IT'S DESERT CHTULU=Ashen Husks(11)'
[22:28] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Another husk goes down, another wounded! Yet the advanc eon! With Demedais immobile, two are able to reach him! OOC - Two fort saves.
[22:29] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Actually, no need, you have endure elements on.
[22:30] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> YEt even as they approach, about to strike, the sand around you bursts! Tentacles lash and whirl about, the wounded one weak but moving now! The ground around Demedais is send flying! OOC - Ref save, Deme. Normal ref.
[22:31] <Demedais> roll 1d20+8 augh, normal reflex checks, my one weakness!
[22:31] <Rei-chan> Demedais rolled : 1d20+8 augh, normal reflex checks, my one weakness! --> [ 1d20=9 ]{17}
[22:31] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Do you have your feather fall ring on?
[22:31] <Demedais> OOC: I would not, no.
[22:32] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 3d6
[22:32] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 3d6 --> [ 3d6=15 ]{15}
[22:32] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: 15 falling damage. Ow, near max.
[22:32] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Demedais plummets down, the sandy floor whirled about! He lands HARD on the face of the horrible abomination! The two Ashen Husks near him bite at him as he falls and lands!
[22:32] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+5
[22:32] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+5
[22:32] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+5 --> [ 1d20=5 ]{10}
[22:32] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+5 --> [ 1d20=14 ]{19}
[22:33] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> They are rejected, the Fifth Resort moving down and stopping them! However, sands from the sides of the improptu hole is already starting to fall around Demedais! The momentary hole is collapsing, sand up to his ankles already and more coming like a load of bricks! OOC - Deme.
[22:35] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "DEMEDAIS!" Pollyanna can be heard screaming!
[22:36] <Demedais> "Sorry, creepy, but I can't stay to chat." Demedais grimaces, before calling back up, "THROW SOME ROPE!" OOC: Stalling until Pollyanna's action.
[22:40] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Coming! Hold on just a little, it's in my pack!" she calls! At the last moment, a rope comes flying down! OOC - Go for it. Declare your action and make a climb check.DC 15, remember to apply ACP.
[22:40] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Wait, check that.
[22:40] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: DC 5, you have the wall to bank against while it's holding.
06[22:43] * Demedais quickly grabs the rope and hauls himself up, cursing his armor somewhat as he goes!
[22:43] <Demedais> roll 1d20+1 (+7 Str -6 ACP)
[22:43] <Rei-chan> Demedais rolled : 1d20+1 (+7 Str -6 ACP) --> [ 1d20=15 ]{16}
[22:45] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Demedais is ablet o climb most of the way up! As he does, he sees more of the undead lumber! Three of them work around, coming close to Pollyanna! Another reaches the edge, leaping down and at Demedais with a slamming!
[22:45] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+7 (Calling this a charge)
[22:45] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+7 (Calling this a charge) --> [ 1d20=9 ]{16}
[22:46] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "DEMEDAIS! HURRY! THEY'RE COMING AND I HAD TO DROP MY BOW!" Pollyanna screams at teh top of her lungs! The zombie whizzes past Demedais, hitting against the sandy slope! Meanwhile, the two tentacles lash out at Demedais! OOC - I'm calling you flatfooted here.
[22:46] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+18
[22:46] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+18
[22:46] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+18 --> [ 1d20=6 ]{24}
[22:46] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+18 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{20}
[22:46] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: AC?
[22:47] <Demedais> OOC: 37. I lose 1 AC from flatfootedness. >_>
[22:47] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> The tentacles miss, as the slope crumbles! A wave of sand passes Demedais, the horror below cloaked and hidden now! Three of the Ashen Husks are covered with sand as well! The slope's crumbling fast! OOC - You're up.
03[22:47] * Infinite_Ko_Loop changes topic to 'Demedais>Pollyanna>OH FUCK IT'S DESERT CHTULU=Ashen Husks(8)'
06[22:48] * Demedais finishes scrambling up the slope, before waving Pollyanna back! "I'm fine now - be careful!"
[22:49] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: You need another climb check, deme. DC 5.
[22:49] <Demedais> roll 1d20+1 (+7 Str -6 ACP) kay
[22:49] <Rei-chan> Demedais rolled : 1d20+1 (+7 Str -6 ACP) kay --> [ 1d20=3 ]{4}
03[22:49] * Infinite_Ko_Loop changes topic to 'Pollyanna>Demedais>OH FUCK IT'S DESERT CHTULU=Ashen Husks(8)'
[22:50] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> But Demedais isn't able to make any progress! Pollyanna looks about as three Ashen Husks come at her, clawing and clubbing! OOC - Polly's having to hold on with all her might. She's flatfooted as well.
[22:50] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+5
[22:50] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+5
[22:50] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+5 --> [ 1d20=6 ]{11}
[22:50] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+5
[22:50] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+5 --> [ 1d20=15 ]{20}
[22:50] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+5 --> [ 1d20=9 ]{14}
[22:51] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d6+6
[22:51] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d6+6 --> [ 1d6=6 ]{12}
[22:52] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+2 calling for a strength check to hold on after being hit. Don't let go, Polly!
[22:52] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+2 calling for a strength check to hold on after being hit. Don't let go, Polly! --> [ 1d20=3 ]{5}
[22:53] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> So hit, Pollyanna staggers! She drop the rope and Demedais goes falling! It's in to sand only ten feet down, soft enough to prevent any damage, thankfully! A moment later, two tentacles are on him after he lands, poking out of the collapsing sands!
[22:53] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+18
[22:53] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+18
[22:53] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+18 --> [ 1d20=16 ]{34}
[22:53] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+18 --> [ 1d20=9 ]{27}
[22:54] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Demedais is able to roll and avoid them, armor blocking one from lashing into him! Yet sand collapses around him, over his head! He's up to his chest in it, the hole collasping rapidly now! "DEMEDAIS!" Pollyanna screams again!
[22:54] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Polly acts but outside of your view of seeing anything. You're up, Deme, and the sand is coming down like a shitstorm from above.
[22:54] <Demedais> OOC: What sort of a check would be needed to effectively keep on top of the sands by pushing myself up?
[22:55] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: I'd just call it a a str or dex check, I suppose. Whichever. DC 12, say.
[22:56] <Demedais> OOC: Include ACP?
[22:56] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Nah, it's just a straight stat check.
[22:57] <Demedais> roll 1d20+7 using Str check to try and keep up on top of things
[22:57] <Rei-chan> Demedais rolled : 1d20+7 using Str check to try and keep up on top of things --> [ 1d20=2 ]{9}
[22:57] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Demedais can't move in the sand! He's stuck where he is! He can dimly hear carnage above! (Ashen Husks resolve now)
[22:57] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+7
[22:57] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d20+7 --> [ 1d20=14 ]{21}
[22:57] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d6+6
[22:57] <Rei-chan> Infinite_Ko_Loop rolled : 1d6+6 --> [ 1d6=2 ]{8}
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[22:59] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> The world goes dark as sand covers Demedais from head to toe! He can't see anything! Yet in the darkness, two tentacles lash out at him!
[22:59] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Flatfooted, and I'm giving you a fiat -2 to AC due to being effectively blind.
[22:59] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+18
06[22:59] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+18 and gets 19." [1d20=1]
[22:59] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+18
06[22:59] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+18 and gets 35." [1d20=17]
[22:59] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC - AC?
[22:59] <Demedais> OOC: 35.
[23:00] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 2d8+12
06[23:00] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 2d8+12 and gets 19." [2d8=2, 5]
[23:01] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Demedais is lashed! Further, there's a problem! He can't breath with sand everywhere! OOC: You're effectively having to hold your breath now. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to double your con score. Each time you take damage you lose two rounds of air. What's your con?
[23:01] <Demedais> OOC: 17, +3 mod.
[23:01] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: So you can hold your breath for 34 rounds. You're currently at 32/34 from the single hit. You're up, Deme.
06[23:02] * Demedais attempts to push himself up through the sands again!
[23:02] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: I'll resolve Polly after you, since I daresay this round is the important one right now.
[23:02] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Str check.
[23:02] <Demedais> roll 1d20+7 using Str check, I figure the DC's higher now but.
06[23:02] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+7 using Str check, I figure the DC's higher now but. and gets 18." [1d20=11]
[23:03] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Struggling up, and launching himself like a torpedo, Demedais is able to get a few feet up! He can take in air for a few seconds, his chest free of thes and! The falling is starting to slacken at least, only 15 feet from the top now! BUt he's still chest deep in sand! Meanwhile...
[23:03] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+16
[23:03] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+16
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+16 and gets 29." [1d20=13]
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+16 and gets 25." [1d20=9]
[23:03] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+11
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+11 and gets 24." [1d20=13]
[23:03] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d8+7+1d6
[23:03] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d8+7+1d6
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d8+7+1d6 and gets 14." [1d8=5][1d6=2]
[23:03] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d8+7+1d6
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d8+7+1d6 and gets 14." [1d8=2][1d6=5]
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d8+7+1d6 and gets 11." [1d8=1][1d6=3]
03[23:03] * Infinite_Ko_Loop changes topic to 'Pollyanna>Demedais>OH FUCK IT'S DESERT CHTULU=Ashen Husks(7)'
[23:03] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Get AWAY!" Pollyanna screams! "DEMEDAAAIS!" OOC - Baddies are up.
[23:03] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+6
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+6 and gets 12." [1d20=6]
[23:04] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: +7, excuse me.
[23:04] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+7
06[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+7 and gets 19." [1d20=12]
[23:04] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d6+6
06[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d6+6 and gets 10." [1d6=4]
[23:04] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Even as Demedais takes in air, trying to free himself, the cursed tentacles strike at the flatfooted paladin again!
[23:04] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+18
[23:05] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+18
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+18 and gets 34." [1d20=16]
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+18 and gets 29." [1d20=11]
[23:05] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Demedais is able to stop them, the Fifth Resort surging out of the sand to block the closest in front of his face! Disturbingly, the wounds on the tentacle he struck are about mended now! More sand falls, covering Demedais just about to his mouth as it slows! OOC - Deme.
06[23:06] * Demedais attempts to surge upward again!
[23:06] <Demedais> roll 1d20+7 using Str check, I figure the DC's higher now but.
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+7 using Str check, I figure the DC's higher now but. and gets 23." [1d20=16]
[23:06] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> This time Demedais is ablet o pull himself out! He's standinga t the bottom of a 15 foot deep hole with narrow, steep sides! The sandslide seems to have stabilized for now! Meanwhile...
[23:07] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+16
[23:07] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+16
[23:07] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+11
06[23:07] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+16 and gets 35." [1d20=19]
06[23:07] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+16 and gets 32." [1d20=16]
06[23:07] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+11 and gets 14." [1d20=3]
[23:07] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d8+7+1d6
06[23:07] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d8+7+1d6 and gets 12." [1d8=3][1d6=2]
[23:07] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d8+7+1d6
06[23:07] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d8+7+1d6 and gets 11." [1d8=2][1d6=2]
[23:07] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d8+7+1d6
06[23:07] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d8+7+1d6 and gets 14." [1d8=6][1d6=1]
03[23:07] * Infinite_Ko_Loop changes topic to 'Pollyanna>Demedais>OH FUCK IT'S DESERT CHTULU=Ashen Husks(5)'
[23:07] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Give him BACK!" Pollyanna's call is heard, as more scents of burning dead flesh fills the air! "DEMEDAAAIS!" OOC - BAddies are up.
[23:07] <Demedais> "I'm alright, just being, you know, attacked by elder horrors of the depths, same as you." Demedais calls up. "This'll take me a minute, though - keep yourself protected!"
[23:08] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Thank Helm! I'm trying!" She calls back, "Get out of there!" Meanwhile, again two tentacles come up to harrass Demedais!
[23:08] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+18
[23:08] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+18
06[23:08] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+18 and gets 28." [1d20=10]
06[23:08] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+18 and gets 33." [1d20=15]
[23:08] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Able to stop them with a careful flick of hsi sword, Demedais stays safe for now! Meanwhile...
[23:08] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+7
06[23:08] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+7 and gets 15." [1d20=8]
[23:08] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d6+6
06[23:08] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d6+6 and gets 9." [1d6=3]
[23:09] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Go ahead and go, Deme. Pulling yourself out was pretty much a full round attempt anyhow.
[23:10] <Demedais> OOC: The sand's stopped falling, correct?
[23:10] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: There's a little loose sand still raining but yeah, basically.
06[23:11] * Demedais grimaces. "That'll be a bit harder - these tentacles will likely stop those attempts! Focus on eliminating the husks, and stay close to the pit if you can so the protection aura can assist you!" With that, he begins hacking at the tentacles again as much as he can, praying to Helm for assistance as he strikes out!
[23:13] <Demedais> roll 1d20+26 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion +8 Smite -6 PA)
06[23:13] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+26 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion +8 Smite -6 PA) and gets 45." [1d20=19]
[23:13] <Demedais> roll 1d20+18 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion +8 Smite -6 PA)
06[23:13] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+18 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion +8 Smite -6 PA) and gets 37." [1d20=19]
[23:13] <Demedais> OOC: Strike the smite in the list there.
[23:13] <Demedais> roll 1d20+13 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -6 PA)
06[23:13] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+13 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -6 PA) and gets 31." [1d20=18]
[23:13] <Demedais> roll 1d20+8 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -6 PA)
06[23:13] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+8 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -6 PA) and gets 25." [1d20=17]
[23:13] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC - Three hits.
[23:15] <Demedais> roll 6d6+66
06[23:15] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 6d6+66 and gets 81." [6d6=1, 6, 1, 4, 1, 2]
[23:16] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Again the tentacle caught is hacked up, rendered limpid and maimed! As this happens...OOC - Pause, work. Holy shit I lost track of time.
[23:16] <Demedais> OOC: Kay!

[Corwin]

[17:35] <Kotono> > Again the tentacle caught is hacked up, rendered limpid and maimed! As this happens...OOC - Pause, work. Holy shit I lost track of time.
[17:35] <Kotono> <Demedais> OOC: Kay!
[17:35] <Kotono> OOC: Baddies are up now
[17:36] <Kotono> At this, the abused tentacles slink back down into the ground for the moment! Meanwhile, unseen and above..
[17:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
06[17:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 7." [1d20=2]
[17:36] <Kotono> OOC: Polly's up now.
[17:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[17:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 18." [1d20=2]
[17:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[17:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 18." [1d20=2]
[17:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[17:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 13." [1d20=2]
[17:36] <Kotono> roll 1d8+7+1d6
06[17:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+7+1d6 and gets 16." [1d8=6][1d6=3]
[17:36] <Kotono> roll 1d8+7+1d6
06[17:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+7+1d6 and gets 11." [1d8=2][1d6=2]
[17:36] <Kotono> roll 1d8+7+1d6
06[17:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+7+1d6 and gets 15." [1d8=7][1d6=1]
03[17:37] * Kotono changes topic to 'Pollyanna>Demedais>OH FUCK IT'S DESERT CHTULU=Ashen Husks(3)'
[17:37] <Kotono> The scent of burning, dry flesh continues to fill the air! OOC - Demedais.
[17:42] <Demedais> "Pollyanna, keep aware! The tentacles have reburrowed!" Demedais calls up, before eyeing the walls. Judging that they're loose enough, he cuts at the ground perpendicular from where he heard Pollyanna's voice and eight feet up, doing this until he has a far more even slope to work with!
[17:43] <Kotono> OOC: Okay, so you're basically gonna start cutting the sand to create a bit of a fall and hopefully a smoother slope up?
[17:44] <Demedais> OOC: Yeah, that's the intent. Figure since I'm controlling the pace I can easily stay on top of it as I create the fall, at least presuming I remember my sand physics from beach visits.
[17:45] <Kotono> OOC: Your sword is like a giant sand shovel.
[17:45] <Kotono> OOC: You get four attacks a round?
[17:45] <Demedais> OOC: Three, not using Haste for this round.
[17:47] <Kotono> Hacking and manuvering with Threadsplitter, Demedais cleaves large amounts of sand away! Sand pours around him as he works, chunks of it crumbling! It does the desire effected, making a more manageable slope by the end! Still not easy to climb up of, but doing this did seem to help! OOC: Baddies are up.
[17:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
06[17:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 6." [1d20=1]
[17:49] <Kotono> Above, the moans of the dead are heard! Below, Demedais finds the sandy ground beneath him starts to quiver and shake erratically! OOC - Polly's up.
[17:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[17:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[17:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 24." [1d20=8]
[17:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[17:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 17." [1d20=1]
06[17:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 18." [1d20=7]
[17:49] <Kotono> roll 1d8+7+1d6
[17:49] <Kotono> roll 1d8+7+1d6
06[17:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+7+1d6 and gets 11." [1d8=2][1d6=2]
06[17:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+7+1d6 and gets 13." [1d8=5][1d6=1]
03[17:49] * Kotono changes topic to 'Pollyanna>Demedais>OH FUCK IT'S DESERT CHTULU=Ashen Husks(2)'
[17:50] <Kotono> More arrowfire can be heard above, "Demedais, you alright," Pollyanna calls, "There's just a few left up here!"
[17:50] <Kotono> OOC: Deme, you're up.
[17:51] <Demedais> No time like the present... Dismissing his armor, Demedais quickly half-runs, half-scales the new slope, using haste to give him enough push to get out!
[17:52] <Kotono> OOC - Climb check here, since you're trying to scale the not quite so steep sandside now
[17:52] <Kotono> .
[17:53] <Demedais> roll 1d20+7 c'mon bot
06[17:53] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+7 c'mon bot and gets 12." [1d20=5]
[17:54] <Kotono> Struggling and without his armor, Demedais has deep difficulty climbing this steep slope! But nonetheless he just barely manages to escale up and out, over the lip and back to terra firma! A few zombies are dmaned close to Pollyanna, both able to claw at her!
[17:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
[17:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
06[17:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 22." [1d20=17]
06[17:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 25." [1d20=20]
[17:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 crit?
06[17:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 crit? and gets 17." [1d20=12]
[17:54] <Kotono> 1d6+6
06[17:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6+6 and gets 7." [1d6=1]
[17:54] <Kotono> 2d6+12
06[17:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+12 and gets 17." [2d6=3, 2]
[17:54] <Kotono> roll 24/2
06[17:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 24/2 and gets 12."
[17:56] <Kotono> Pollyanna is beaten and bruised around again, staggering back! Blood comes from a few cuts and clawings over her body, echoing all over Demedais! Meanwhile, mere seconds after he escaped it, the entire pit below collapses far deeper! The edges of the sand he's on quake and shudder, the pit growing far deepers as tentacles can be glimpsed 50 feet below! OOC: Polly.
[17:56] <Kotono> Stepping back again, huffing and wiping away a bit of blood from her forehead, "Thank Helm!" she glances at Demedais, letting arrows fly!
[17:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[17:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[17:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[17:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 28." [1d20=12]
06[17:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 36." [1d20=20]
06[17:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 26." [1d20=15]
[17:56] <Kotono> roll 1d8+7+1d6
[17:56] <Kotono> roll 1d8+7+1d6
06[17:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+7+1d6 and gets 12." [1d8=2][1d6=3]
[17:56] <Kotono> roll 1d8+7+1d6
06[17:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+7+1d6 and gets 17." [1d8=4][1d6=6]
06[17:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+7+1d6 and gets 15." [1d8=5][1d6=3]
03[17:56] * Kotono changes topic to 'Pollyanna>Demedais>OH FUCK IT'S DESERT CHTULU'
[17:57] <Kotono> In this hail of burning arrows, the last of the Ashen Husks are shattered! They fall and die, burning back into true oblivion! OOC - Demedais.
06[17:59] * Demedais quickly moves away from the pit and toward Pollyanna, healing her with a touch as he does so. "I don't know if we can kill that... It regenerates all my blows as if it were nothing." A slight shake of his head. "Not sure it's even worth trying fire against it."
[18:00] <Demedais> OOC: 28 HP healing
[18:01] <Kotono> "What do we do then? Run away?" Even as Demedais asks that, the edge of the sandpit he was on crumbles, expanding in a five foot ring on all sides. No sign of the abomination for the moment...OOC: Deme and Polly are up.
[18:02] <Demedais> "...It may be our best option, if sacred blows fail to halt its regeneration. Neither of us are mages capable of piercing such things with fire and acid..." Demedais shakes his head, slowly leadng Pollyanna away while keeping a level eye out for any more tremors or shifting earth.
[18:11] <Kotono> Thus the two creep away! Nothing happens immediately...OOC: You two are up again.
06[18:14] * Demedais stares at the hole for a long, long moment. "Pfeh. This leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but we can return with Seira and Alicia and have a far more even chance at it that way. There's no sense in risking our lives here when we have other duties."
06[18:15] * Demedais continues to constantly look around as he and Pollyanna slowly continue their journey.
[18:15] <Kotono> "How about you summon Horse and we make some distance away from this...thing?" Pollyanna asks. "In case it wants to follow."
[18:16] <Demedais> "I'm... vaguely worried that it can follow footsteps. It explains why it focused on me and not you - the armor's not good for being quiet."
[18:17] <Demedais> A slight pause, before Demedais turns to Pollyanna with a warm smile. "Still, you managed to fend off all of those husks? ...Thank you."
[18:17] <Kotono> Smiling back, "Let's save it for when we're sure we're safe?" she says, hurrying along.
[18:18] <Demedais> "Alright."
[18:21] <Kotono> Fortunately, it doesn't seem game to immediately follow. The two travel along for ten minutes, before Pollyanna looks back and sighs in relief. "I was so scared there! I thought it got you, Demedais!"
[18:22] <Demedais> "It almost did, twice." Demedais grimaces, still looking around cautiously even as he then smiles at Pollyanna. "I was worried you might have been overwhelmed by the husks when the rope went slack."
[18:24] <Kotono> "They weren't too bad. I could have fought them more carefully, but I was trying to kill them as fast as possible," Rubbing a bleeding gash in her side, the last of it's kin to survive healing, "What miserable luck to run into it."
06[18:26] * Demedais nods and gently touched the gash. "Still, you did an excellent job. I remember my first time fighting them - they almost overwhelmed us that night with their consistent assaults, if I recall properly. It's ironic - the spell I cast earlier to shield from the elements also stopped their dehydrating aura. I had forgotten about that."
[18:27] <Kotono> "Fortunate." Sighing again as she leans into Demedais briefly, "I don't suppose this is going to be an easy trip anymore."
[18:28] <Demedais> OOC: Saccing Omen of Peril for a CLW to heal the gash. Minimum healing is
[18:28] <Kotono> OOC: Is enough?
[18:29] <Kotono> The wound heals, Polly then looking over Demedais, "Wht about your wounds? You're fairly well hurt too."
[18:33] <Demedais> "I'll heal as we go." Demedais nods, beginning to heal himself as well. "All things considered, however, I'm just relieved we both survived."
[18:34] <Kotono> OOC: What healing are you gonna do? Go ahead and declare/roll it.
[18:36] <Demedais> 2 CSW, one CMW, two CLW, I'll update which spells I'm sacrificing for this in the topic.
[18:36] <Kotono> Sure, okay.
[18:36] <Kotono> OOC: Sure okay, evne.
[18:40] <Demedais> roll 6d8+12 the two CSW
06[18:40] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 6d8+12 the two CSW and gets 50." [6d8=8, 5, 7, 8, 3, 7]
[18:41] <Kotono> OOC: Advancing on from here?
[18:41] <Demedais> roll 2d8+6 CMW
06[18:41] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 2d8+6 CMW and gets 15." [2d8=4, 5]
[18:41] <Demedais> OOC: Not using the two CLW. And yeah, advancing from here.
[18:43] <Kotono> The rest of the day passes. Th ewinds start to pick up ever so slightly at times, spraying a fine mist of gritty sand. But evening comes, camp made. Pollyanna sinks into her bedroll after dinner, "Tired....wake me up when you need to sleep, Demedais?"
[18:44] <Demedais> "I will. Rest up." Demedais nods slightly.
[18:44] <Kotono> OOC: What light sources are you going to have tonight. Any?
[18:46] <Demedais> OOC: Um, either a small fire if materials/weather permit, or a sunrod otherwise.'
[18:46] <Kotono> OOC: You can nurse a fire, and it'll feel nice with how cold it is at night here. Okay.
[18:46] <Kotono> OOC: Make a spot check?
[18:46] <Demedais> roll 1d20+25 right
06[18:46] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+25 right and gets 36." [1d20=11]
[18:47] <Kotono> A few hours past sunset, Demedais is looking about. The fire casts light in about a 30 foot hollow. He happens to glance to the edge of it, when he notices the sand tilting upward a bit, as if something below is pushing it up again.
06[18:48] * Demedais quickly wakes Pollyanna quietly, using a Lesser Restoration to rid her of fatigue. "We've got company, I think..."
[18:50] <Kotono> The spell fires quickly, stirring Pollyanna. She has her bow besides her, grabbing it and her chain shirt nearby. "What is it?" she asks quickly, even as the ground under the tent begins to slightly shake!
[18:51] <Demedais> "Unless I miss my guess, it's the same damn thing!" Demedais curses. "Helm guard us, how much longer will we have to deal with this thing?" With that, he quickly pulls Pollyanna away from the campsite!
[18:53] <Kotono> A split second after the two flee from the tent back into the firelight, the tent erupts out! Canvas flies upward as the abomination appears once more! It leaps out of the sand this time, straight up thirty feet! The tent is sent flying hundreds of yards by this, the abomination then landing hard down and into the hole in the sand it momentarily created! It's just below ground level right now! Sand splatters all over, the fire slightly
[18:53] <Kotono>  Sand splatters all over, the fire slightly sputtering because of a sandy bath! OOC - Initiative.
[18:53] <Kotono> roll 1d20+4 abomination
06[18:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+4 abomination and gets 15." [1d20=11]
[18:53] <Demedais> roll 1d20+1
06[18:53] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+1 and gets 3." [1d20=2]
[18:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
06[18:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 25." [1d20=18]
03[18:54] * Kotono changes topic to 'Pollyanna>DESERT CHTULU OH FUUUCK> Demedais of Hino'
[18:54] <Demedais> "Now's our best chance to see if it's weak to fire... pepper the damn thing!" Demedais hisses.
[18:55] <Kotono> Pollyanna lets her chains hirt drop, only thin underpadding and pants worn as she braces herself, a mere 20 feet away from the abomination! "In the name of Helm, return to the hole that spawned you, monster!"
[18:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 (+2 helmet)
06[18:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 (+2 helmet) and gets 32." [1d20=14]
[18:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[18:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 18." [1d20=2]
[18:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[18:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 24." [1d20=13]
[18:55] <Kotono> roll 1d8+9+1d6
06[18:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+9+1d6 and gets 23." [1d8=8][1d6=6]
[18:56] <Kotono> The flaming arrows fly! One of them burrows into the main body of the creature, sneding hissing smoke out! It's body thrashes as it burns far too easily! OOC - Evil one is up.
[18:57] <Kotono> With the flaming arrow embedded into it's flesh, it raises it's tentacles into the air! The sounds of the restless dead fill the air! "Water....kill me....kill me....it hurts....so thirsty...Why...."
[18:57] <Kotono> roll 2d8
06[18:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8 and gets 3." [2d8=1, 2]
03[18:58] * Kotono changes topic to 'Pollyanna>DESERT CHTULU OH FUUUCK=Ashen Husks(3)> Demedais of Hino'
[18:59] <Kotono> Three of the Ashen Husks abruptly appear around Pollyanna and Demedais, groaning! They are on the unprepared party fast, two on Polly and one on Demedais!
[18:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 Polly
06[18:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 Polly and gets 14." [1d20=9]
[18:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 Polly
06[18:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 Polly and gets 6." [1d20=1]
[18:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 Deme AC?
06[18:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 Deme AC? and gets 13." [1d20=8]
[18:59] <Kotono> OOC: The first one hits polly since she doesn't have her armor on. Ow.
[18:59] <Kotono> roll 1d6+6
06[18:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6+6 and gets 7." [1d6=1]
[18:59] <Demedais> OOC: No armor, so 22.
[19:00] <Kotono> The two are beseiged! As they defend themselves frantically, Pollyanna gets a claw raked across her stomach! She grunts at that, "These things aren't anything, they can't take much punishment, Demedais!" OOC - Deme.
[19:01] <Demedais> "You're the only one that can hurt the big one... focus on it! I'll be your shield!" Demedais replies, calling forth Helm's blessing of protection forth once again as he begins dissecting the husks!
[19:03] <Demedais> roll 1d20+14 (+1 Haste -6 PA), Protection Devotion again (+5 AC to Polly/self)
06[19:03] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+14 (+1 Haste -6 PA), Protection Devotion again (+5 AC to Polly/self) and gets 29." [1d20=15]
[19:03] <Kotono> OOC: HIt.
[19:03] <Kotono> OOC: Resolve attacks one by one.
[19:03] <Demedais> roll 2d6+20 Yeah, 's what I'm doing
06[19:03] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 2d6+20 Yeah, 's what I'm doing and gets 32." [2d6=6, 6]
[19:04] <Kotono> OOC: Cleave.
[19:04] <Demedais> roll 1d20+14 (+1 Haste -6 PA) cleave
06[19:04] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+14 (+1 Haste -6 PA) cleave and gets 31." [1d20=17]
[19:04] <Demedais> roll 2d6+20 Yeah, 's what I'm doing
06[19:04] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 2d6+20 Yeah, 's what I'm doing and gets 25." [2d6=4, 1]
[19:04] <Kotono> OOC: Attack 2, only one left up.
[19:05] <Demedais> roll 1d20+14 (+1 Haste -6 PA) right, lost Mighty Cleave
06[19:05] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+14 (+1 Haste -6 PA) right, lost Mighty Cleave and gets 17." [1d20=3]
[19:05] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[19:05] <Demedais> roll 2d6+20
06[19:05] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 2d6+20  and gets 27." [2d6=3, 4]
03[19:05] * Kotono changes topic to 'Pollyanna>DESERT CHTULU OH FUUUCK> Demedais of Hino'
[19:06] <Kotono> AS Demedais sweepshis blade, Pollyanna leaps up! It's just in time, the coordination letting him sweep his blade through the torsos of both zombies on Polly! There after he casually thrusts his blade forward, impaling and ruining the zombie that clawed at him! OOC - Pollyanna's up.
[19:06] <Kotono> "Good," she breathes out, focusing intently on the abominatino as she fires antoher flurry of arrows!
[19:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 (+2 helmet)
06[19:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 (+2 helmet) and gets 21." [1d20=3]
[19:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 (+2 helmet)
06[19:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 (+2 helmet) and gets 23." [1d20=5]
[19:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[19:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 16." [1d20=5]
[19:07] <Kotono> But these arrrows aren't well aimed, landing around the abomination without actually hitting it! OOC - It's up.
[19:08] <Kotono> The horror plunges back into the sands, the hole itw as poking out of crumbling behind it as it burrows out of sight! OOC - Demedais.
06[19:11] * Demedais curses silently. "We can't fight it while it's burrowi-" A pause. "If this works, slap me afterward for not thinking of it, dear." A wall of boiling water suddenly spring up fifteen feet away from the duo as Demedais moves thirty feet diagonally away from it, gesturing for Pollyanna to follow as he asks Helm for accuracy and insight! (OOC: Movement, Standard action wall of boiling water, swift action law devotion.)
[19:12] <Kotono> The wall of boiling water appears as the two hurry along thirty feet diagonally away! "Hoping it scares it off," Pollyanna asks, only stopping to grab her chain shirt before following!
[19:13] <Demedais> "Hoping it's attracted by the water, actually." Demedais replies. "The burning heat of the water and the arrows might be enough..." he replies, trying to trace where the monster is with his eyes!
[19:14] <Kotono> OOC: Spot again?
[19:14] <Demedais> roll 1d20+25
06[19:14] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+25 and gets 34." [1d20=9]
[19:16] <Kotono> Demedais can see the sand trail! It's taking the long way around the wall of water, it looks like. It'll take a round or two to get around it and over to you at the rate it's going.
[19:20] <Demedais> "It's avoiding the water...?" Demedais curses. "I must be forgetting something... let me try this." With this, Demedais drops concentration on the first wall, creating a circular wall of boiling water around where he's spotted the beast!
[19:23] <Kotono> The wall of water appears for a second time! It hisses and boils! Demedais can notice that it's trail doesn't dance in any direction at that point. Meanwhile, Polly quickly puts on her chain shirt! OOC - Polly acted and it's doing soimething you can't see. You're up, Deme.
[19:24] <Kotono> OOC: Also bear in mind it's pretty dim here and getting dark quickly the more you heada way from the fire.
06[19:25] * Demedais moves away from the direction he last saw it in, before fumbling in his pack for a sunrod to get a second source of light out.
[19:27] <Kotono> The party moves away! Demedais can't really see the wall well now. The sunrod helps, but there's not a whole lot of light. Still, no sign of the abomination at all. "Demedais," Readying her opw again, "If it's distracted or scared off, we should take the chance and get out of here. We're having real problems fighting this thing, and if it gets either of us in a hole again..."
[19:28] <Demedais> "You're right. And this time, screw caution, it was able to track us anyway." Calling Horse and quickly mounting, offering his hand to Pollyanna. "Let's get out of here. We'll have to buy another tent, but so it goes."
[19:30] <Kotono> Horse so appears! Getting on and holding onto Demedais, "Let's go!" OOC - How fast does Horse go/how far are you going to go?
[19:34] <Demedais> OOC: Base speed is 60 ft, we're gonna push his speed the first thirty minutes for as fast as possible and then just move double speed after that.
[19:35] <Kotono> A half hour apsses, Horse running like the wind! They leave the horror behind them, slowing down after that time. Pollyanna leans against Demedais's back, the sandy wind chafing. "Whew. But now what? Travel for the rest of the night or so and hope it takes us where we're supposed to be tomorrow night?"
[19:38] <Demedais> "We didn't exactly check direction when we fled, but I... think we went in the correct direction? Or close to it." Demedais confesses, looking up at the sky for any directional markers - moon, star constellations he knows, anything.
[19:38] <Kotono> OOC: Do you have survival or any relevant knowledge skill?
[19:39] <Demedais> OOC: Nope!
[19:40] <Kotono> OOC: Make a wis check?
[19:40] <Demedais> roll 1d20+3 If Polly has anything, she's free to check too!
06[19:41] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+3 If Polly has anything, she's free to check too! and gets 12." [1d20=9]
[19:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+1
06[19:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+1 and gets 7." [1d20=6]
[19:41] <Kotono> Demedais thinks he's more or less going in the right direction. He thinks.
[19:42] <Demedais> "We'll call it good enough... worst comes to worst, we ask Helm for guidance after tomorrow night." Demedais shrugs after a moment.
[19:47] <Kotono> Thus the two travel to sunrise. The part of desert they're at doesn't look any different offhand. The long, sleepless night is wearing on Demedais, his body starting to cry out for it's brief refreshment.
06[19:50] * Demedais grimaces. "I... must rest sometime soon, and prepare spells for the new day." Slowing Horse down, he takes off the helmet and hands it to Pollyanna. "Could you cover guard for the next two hours? I hope we've made enough distance away..."
[19:51] <Kotono> Changing out helmets, "I will. Try to sleep as well as you can without a tent," she smiles sadly at that, "I think I can rig up something with the other sleeping roll to at least keep the sand out of your face."
[19:53] <Demedais> "It'll be okay." Demedais shakes his head, touching himself with a Lesser Restoration. "I wouldn't bother, normally, but if we are to have the benefits of the spells for another day, this must be done. If you must wake me, do not hesitate."
[19:54] <Kotono> "I won't," Smiling to him, "Sleep well." OOC - Skip along two hours?
[19:55] <Demedais> OOC: Yeah.
[19:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22
06[19:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 and gets 34." [1d20=12]
[19:57] <Kotono> Two blessed hours of sleep pass. It's now fully into the morning heat when Demedais awakens. The sand has  continues to blow, picking up a bit of intensity. Further...is that a cloud in the sky? Or two? The desert is usually blue-skied and empty.
06[19:57] * Demedais rolls awake and quickly glances to Pollyanna.
[19:59] <Kotono> Pollyanna is keeping watch and waiting. She takes off Deme's helmet as he wakens, "Here. It's been quiet. The wind's picking up, though we might have a sandstorm if our luck continues to go wrong."
03[19:59] * Celenu (WinNT@user-514d69c8.l2.c2.dsl.pol.co.uk) has joined #terrorofdunes
[20:04] <Demedais> "That's annoying, but I suppose it's also expected." Demedais mutters, casting Endure Elements on himself and Pollyanna before looking to the helm. "Keep it on for ten more minutes. I'd like to make sure we're going the right way first." With that, he begins a prayer for guidance from Helm, placing four sunrods around him for directional guidance. (more)
[20:04] <Demedais> "Helm, in which direction lies the safest road to the temple we seek?
[20:06] <Kotono> "The path is not yet created; it is born in the fall of light and the rise of sand."
06[20:10] * Demedais pauses at this, before accepting the helmet from Pollyanna. "Our current direction is satisfactory, I suspect. Let's keep a good pace for now."
[20:12] <Kotono> "On foot or Horse?" Pollyanna asks.
06[20:13] * Demedais thinks. "Let's... I'll be honest, from the response, I'm not sure it matters. So let's take Horse; we can outpace the creature fairly easily that way." With that, he resummons Horse!
[20:16] <Kotono> Thus the two take off on Horse! The morning and afternoon pass, Pollyanna occasionally napping as they ride. The winds steadily pick up, coming closer and closer to an outright sandstorm.  By about 4 PM, the howling of the wind is becoming a serious problem. Visibility is dropping, sand is getting everywhere. It's not quite flying fast enought o hurt of flay, but it's a not a far sight removed from that.
06[20:18] * Demedais nudges Pollyanna into covering up everything except her face, doing the same for himself. He also tries to find some quite thin cloth he can drape over the face opening for his and Pollyanna's helmet.
[20:21] <Kotono> This takes a littel bit but they're able to rig something up. "Are we going to keep going," Pollyanna asks.
06[20:24] * Demedais muses. "Let's... we should at least let you rest here, yes." he nods after a moment. "I think the sandstorm will only get worse from here, so..." A quick glance around for anything that can be used as a temporary wall before the sand gets much worse.
03[20:24] * Celenu is now known as Alicia
[20:24] <Kotono> There's not much of anything but endless sand about.
[20:26] <Demedais> "We'll have to make an impromptu shelter." Demedais shakes his head after a moment, dismounting and dismissing Horse as he prepares to do just that.'
[20:28] <Kotono> OOC: Describe what you'll do then?
[20:32] <Demedais> OOC: Using climbing gear, spare outfits, and rope to try and create a small cover from the sandstorm. Nothing impressive, and pretty ramshackle, but hopefully it works.
[20:33] <Kotono> OOC: I'll call that an untrained survival check. Wis check?
[20:33] <Demedais> roll 1d20+3 sure
06[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+3 sure and gets 10." [1d20=7]
[20:34] <Kotono> Demedais is able to make a ramshackle, shaky emergency cover. IT's not perfect, but it stops the majority of the sand.
[20:36] <Demedais> "Get some sleep, I'll keep watch." Demedais then replies, waiting for the third night.
[20:38] <Kotono> Pollyanna falls fast asleep! Within an hour, the wind has picked up even more. Sunset looms, but a full out sandstorm has broken out! Sand is starting to cover the wind deeply, the howling making sound muffled and broken and the wind making it difficult to stand up. The wind is blowing from the southeast, bringing great heaving loads of sand.
[20:38] <Kotono> OOC - Strike.
[20:38] <Kotono> Pollyanna falls fast asleep! Within an hour, the wind has picked up even more. Sunset looms, but a full out sandstorm has broken out! Sand is starting to cover the wind deeply, the howling making sound muffled and broken and the wind making it difficult to stand up. The wind is blowing from the northeast, bringing great heaving loads of sand.
[20:41] <Demedais> "'Destroy the veil of sand, and travel below...'" Demedais murmurs, looking into the sands with sword drawn, even as he braces himself upright. "With my faith and my sword...?"
[20:43] <Kotono> Demedais can see that the sandstorm only looks to be starting. Great heaving waves of sand are starting to fly, like waves coming forth from the ocean. The improptu shelter is also starting to buckle in the wind.
06[20:45] * Demedais holds up the shelter a bit as he prays for guidance on destroying this veil of sand. While he has ideas, he doesn't want to disrupt anything that might come after...
[20:46] <Kotono> OOC: Doing anything or just praying generically?
[20:48] <Demedais> OOC: Since I already used my divination, directed prayer toward this, but no spell involved.
[20:49] <Kotono> The wind continues to blow! It blows out of the northeast steadily, sending sand over your head and around/through out! The wind continues unabated, Pollyanna stirring at this. "Demedais?" she asks as she peeks out, coughing. "Ugh! Sandstorm?"
[20:51] <Demedais> "Yes... 'Destroy the veil of sand and travel below...' This must be the veil of sand, but how to destroy it...? Any ideas?" Demedas murmurs.
[20:52] <Kotono> Putting on her chain shirt quickly, "I'm not sure. It's blowing from the way we came, if I read the wind right. Okay, what do we know again? Can you repeat it? If this is the third night, it's time to figure this out."
[20:53] <Demedais> " 'Take the cursed belt...to the lost Shrine of Eternal Watch...Lost three day's journey southwest of Arad. On the third night...destroy the veil of sand and travel below...two of you must go, one for each soul...'" Demedais repeats dutifully, still mulling it over.
[20:55] <Kotono> "Anything else? I know you've cast Divination a time or two," Pollyanna scowls as she thinks. "Destroy the veil of sand. We need to go below...go down...does that mean that stupid burrowing monster is the key?"
[20:57] <Demedais> "If it is, Helm's sense of humor is grand indeed." Demedais mutters. "And as for the divination...'The path is not yet created; it is born in the fall of light and the rise of sand.'"
[20:57] <Demedais> "Thus I've concluded the path is born by destroying the veil, and that's how we travel below. Thus why I'm trying to figure out how to destroy the veil."
[21:00] <Kotono> "The fall of light and the rise of sand...well..." Tapping her chin, "It is sunset and the sand is certainly rising with the sandstorm," Raising her voice to be heard over it, "So the path is being made or has been made now? So we need to do something about this sand?"
[21:01] <Demedais> "I suspect so. My first idea is a wall of boiling water to block out as much sand as we can." Demedais replies, also speaking up.
[21:05] <Kotono> "Maybe? Worth a try." Pollyanna agrees.
06[21:06] * Demedais nods and conjures a wall of boiling water to impede the ways of the sand, right in front of the and with the heat emenating away!
[21:09] <Kotono> The wall appears at Deme's command! IT blocks the sand, wet sand particals falling in and out of the barrier! It's a handy, wet shield against the blowing sand! It starts to stack up around the wall of boiling water, wet, heavy sand.
06[21:09] * Demedais then looks to the southwest to see if anything is revealed!
[21:12] <Kotono> The view to the southwest has a narrow band of little to no sand flying. Nothing's revealed by it, beyond seeing the sunset.
[21:13] <Demedais> "Hmph. It did say third night... perhaps we must wait until then..." Demedais says keeping concentration on the wall. "Any further suggestions?"
[21:14] <Kotono> "At the moment, no? Let's wait a bit?" Pollyanna suggests after some thought.
06[21:15] * Demedais nods and does so, content with maintaining the wall and keeping watch. If he's supposed to cut the sand with his sword, well...
[21:18] <Kotono> Night falls! With only minimal light Demedais can observe the following things. The sand continues to blow, stacking up outside of the wall. There's a few feet of sand around the boiling water wall now!  Sand blows high in the air from the northeast, the ground outside of the spherical wall eroding down several feet.
[21:22] <Demedais> "The sand level's going down around us..." Demedais says, musing. "On the one hand, this could very well be the travel below that was mentioned... on the other hand, what of destroying the veil of sand?"
[21:27] <Kotono> Thinking for a time, "WE have to go down below. A sandstorm is superb at removing sand. But..." Looking to the side as she thinks, "I'm not sure about that part. Maybe more has to blow, or we overshot it with Horse after all?"
[21:30] <Demedais> "From how I phrased my question and the resulting reply, I don't think that we could have overshot it, but..." Demedais muses, concerned. "It sounded like another temple I've been to, where the mist contracted distances - if you were meant to be heading there and going in the general right direction, you'd reach it."
[21:30] <Demedais> After a moment, "Could you pull a sunrod from my pack?"
[21:31] <Kotono> Pollyanna does so, presenting it to Demedais.
06[21:32] * Demedais slowly lights it and uses it to try and peer out farther.
[21:34] <Kotono> Looking ahead, Demedais can see that more and more sand blows from the northeast. It's starting to form a downward hill far to the northeast, moving more and more and more and more sand.
06[21:36] * Demedais points over there to Pollyanna. "Should we investigate?"
[21:37] <Kotono> "It's a good an idea as any," she says, peering ahead as well.
06[21:38] * Demedais nods and begins heading in that direction slowly, letting Pollyanna use him as a small wall as they advance!
[21:40] <Kotono> Thus the two advance into the blowing, flaying sandstorm! As they bear it, eyes running and irritated from teh sand, they begin to see a great, gradual dip is being blow open! From five feet to ten to twenty as you advance on over several minutes, you see that the wind is acting like a shovel, tearing this particular segment of sand out in particular. It starts to go down a little more steeply.
[21:42] <Demedais> "Righty-o, here we go!" Demedais calls out, beginning to head down and trying to keep his eyes open enough to spot any threats or relevant beings!
[21:44] <Kotono> It's a grueling, tiring trip! As you walk through the sandstorm...OOC: Both of you make con checks?
[21:44] <Kotono> OOC: Er, fort saves.
[21:45] <Demedais> roll 1d20+18 kay
06[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+18 kay and gets 33." [1d20=15]
[21:45] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
06[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 21." [1d20=14]
[21:46] <Kotono> The both endure the long walk down, going about 200 feet down. Around them teh sands continue to rip and whip the gash in the earth! At last, Demedais can see a bottom in earnest! Here, a few ancient, broken pillars lie about, surrounded by a simple cave just visible out of the sands.
[21:47] <Demedais> "This must be it..." Demedais murmurs. "Let's go. At least the cave should be safe."
[21:55] <Kotono> THus the two go into the cave! The respite from the howling sand is a merciful one! It's a path leading into the earth, unremarkable at a glance. "Sot his lost temple must be down here somewhere?"
[21:55] <Demedais> "I suspect so." Demedais nods.
06[21:56] * Demedais continues in, holding the sunrod to provide light.
[22:01] <Kotono> The path twists and winds for a good 100 feet deeper. Then you come to a narrowing. Here the cave path dead ends, only a small, broken hole a few feet wide by a few feet wide visible. Beyond it  you can glimpse what looks like stoneworked walls, far different from natural earth.
06[22:04] * Demedais sticks the sunrod through in an attempt to see what's beyond the hole more clearly.
[22:07] <Kotono> Ahead is a large room. There is an ancient, dust covered font decorated with eternally seeing eyes. There is no water in it, bone dry and covered with dust. The room is covered with faded, ancient symbols. There's a door on the far wall and a door on the left wall.
[22:07] <Demedais> "Helm, forgive me for this." Demedais murmurs, before attempting to knock out a lower section of the wall in a burst of strength!
[22:08] <Kotono> OOC: STr check?
[22:09] <Demedais> roll 1d20+11 (+4 using Kensai Strength)
06[22:09] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+11 (+4 using Kensai Strength) and gets 30." [1d20=19]
[22:10] <Kotono> CRAAACK! The wall shatters, a large hole now in place of the small one! It would be simple to walk through now.
06[22:11] * Demedais winces. "Didn't mean to do that much damage..." Regardless, he ducks under and in, a prayer to Helm uttered as he enters and looks to the font!
[22:13] <Kotono> It looks like a font for holy water. It's long since dried out, however. It's made of a plain stone. They're often used for scrying by priests, something Demedais isf amiliar with considering his domains.
06[22:14] * Demedais nods at this, before looking to the other two doors. Choosing the far one, he opens it once Pollyanna's ready.
[22:18] <Kotono> Pollyanna readies her bow and nods once. The door opens out into a curved hallway. The walls are made of stone, long faded paintings of a great, all seeing eye all over. Periodically, there are doors on this side of the hall. The hall goes too far to see the end of it in either direction.
06[22:19] * Demedais heads down the hallway, opening the first door!
[22:21] <Kotono> This door leads into a room like the previous, save no hole in the far side wall. It has no doors on it's side either. Instead of the font, there is a large, man sized mirror made of metal. It's not rusted, but it's very dull and hard to tell what it is.
06[22:22] * Demedais looks it over for magic before moving on
[22:22] <Demedais> OOC: Strike.
06[22:22] * Demedais looks it over for magic before moving on and opening the next door.
[22:30] <Kotono> No magic. The next door leads to another room like the first, a dried up, old font.
06[22:32] * Demedais nods at this and looks ahead to see how many doors there are before the end of the hall.
[22:33] <Kotono> Four more, before a studden iron and wood door is found at this end of the curved hall.
06[22:33] * Demedais checks the four rooms on his way to the iron and wood door.
[22:34] <Kotono> Two more have the mirrors and two more have holy water fonts. The third also has a dusty, creaky, ancient wooden dresser and case in the back.
06[22:35] * Demedais makes note of all this before going to open the large door at the end.
[22:36] <Kotono> The door's stuck pretty good. The metal's rusted and the wood has warped. Merely opening it won't suffice.
06[22:36] * Demedais grimaces, before trying to force it open!
[22:37] <Kotono> OOC: STR check.
[22:38] <Demedais> roll 1d20+7
06[22:38] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+7 and gets 21." [1d20=14]
[22:38] <Kotono> CRACK! The wood gives way and t he metal parts fall apart! It's not so much forcing it off as the entire door succumbs to age and force. Over the wreckage of it you can see a three-set of arches leading into a bigger hall.
06[22:39] * Demedais sets the wreckage aside with another grimace. "I feel like a temple looter, but I know this is where we need to be..." he murmurs with a slight smile to Pollyanna.
06[22:40] * Demedais then looks ahead into the big hall.
[22:40] <Kotono> "I suppose, but I don't think anyone's been here in years. Well no, centuries, if not longer." Sniffing the air, "Smell that ahead? The air's stale." Sure enough, as you step ahead and move, the air coming out smells dead, musty, ancient.
06[22:42] * Demedais nods. "Probably before the war with Daa-vid, was this built, and possibly abandoned in that war." A look around at the three-set of arches and this section of the temple.
[22:43] <Kotono> The arches were once superb stonework, now forgotten. The hall ahead is dead dark, only Deme's sunrod lighting the way. Viewing everything by the light of Deme's rod, you can see that this hall connects to a stair going down. It's decorated all over with unknown writings and occasional images of an eye.
[22:45] <Demedais> "Down we go, then." Demedais muses, looking around with a careful eye for any other entrances to this room before he descends.
[22:46] <Kotono> There's a door on the far side, made entirely of rusted metal. There's a few doors dotted on the opposite hall as well. OOC: Ooops, I knew I forgot part of it.
06[22:46] * Demedais nods, descending anyway!
[22:47] <Kotono> As you descend, you find a moderately long, twirling stair. As you descend it, the wall besides you abruptly shakes and shudders hard!
06[22:50] * Demedais pauses at this, before quickly pushing Pollyanna back up the stairs quickly! "If this is what I think it is I'm going to be more than mildly annoyed."
[22:50] <Kotono> The two ascend back up quickly! As they do, they can hear a shattering of stone below! Looking back as they run back up to the previous floor, they can see withered, dessicated tentacles lashing in the new hole in the wall!
[22:50] <Kotono> "Oh, for the mercy of Helm!" Pollyanna growls, "It's this persistant!?"
[22:51] <Demedais> "I'm more concerned about how in blazes it's able to track us!" Demedais curses. "Fire arrows at the tentacles? Maybe they'll do lasting damage..."
[22:53] <Kotono> OOC: I'll call initiative here, say? Your'e about thiryt feet up and at the start of the stair now. You can look down and see the tentacles thrashing. The wall has crumbled, as well as about a five foot segment of thes tair. A small wave of sand has also gushed in.
[22:53] <Kotono> roll 1d20+4 Desert Cthulu does not give up
06[22:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+4 Desert Cthulu does not give up and gets 15." [1d20=11]
[22:53] <Demedais> roll 1d20+1 joy, Desert Rapesquid
06[22:53] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+1 joy, Desert Rapesquid and gets 9." [1d20=8]
[22:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
06[22:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 27." [1d20=20]
03[22:54] * Kotono changes topic to 'Pollyanna>DESERT CHTULU OH FUUUCK> Demedais of Hino redux 2.0'
[22:54] <Kotono> Drawing her bow swiftly, Pollyanna fires three arrows!
[22:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[22:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[22:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 24." [1d20=8]
[22:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[22:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 25." [1d20=9]
06[22:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 22." [1d20=11]
[22:55] <Kotono> Yet none of the arrows can land on target, clattering on the stairs or whizzing into the wall instead! The creature's tentacles withdraw at that, retreating into the hole in the wall and sands, vanishing from sight. OOC: Go ahead and go, Deme?
[22:57] <Demedais> "... We need to kill this thing." Demedais says after a moment. "Your arrows are our best bet...  But let's not engage it here, we need the stairwell, I suspect." With that, he moves back into the great hall, triggering his aura of protection with a prayer to Helm!
[23:00] <Kotono> Demedais triggers his protective aura, Pollyanna following! No sign of the creature yet...OOC: Goa head and go, Deme?
06[23:01] * Demedais motions Pollyanna 30 feet away to the end of the room, before standing about right in the middle of the room and waiting.
[23:02] <Kotono> Pollyanna does so, still no sign of the beast...OOC: go ahead if you're doing anything besides waiting?
06[23:04] * Demedais calls his armor on and asks for Helm's guidance for attacks, before looking to Pollyanna for a moment... and then beginning to jump on the floor hard while in his armor.

[Corwin]

[20:19] <Koaway> <Demedais> "... We need to kill this thing." Demedais says after a moment. "Your arrows are our best bet...  But let's not engage it here, we need the stairwell, I suspect." With that, he moves back into the great hall, triggering his aura of protection with a prayer to Helm!
[20:19] <Koaway> > Demedais triggers his protective aura, Pollyanna following! No sign of the creature yet...OOC: Goa head and go, Deme?
[20:19] <Koaway> * Demedais motions Pollyanna 30 feet away to the end of the room, before standing about right in the middle of the room and waiting.
[20:19] <Koaway> > Pollyanna does so, still no sign of the beast...OOC: go ahead if you're doing anything besides waiting?
[20:19] <Koaway> * Demedais calls his armor on and asks for Helm's guidance for attacks, before looking to Pollyanna for a moment... and then beginning to jump on the floor hard while in his armor.
06[20:21] * Demedais takes a quick moment to cast Eagle's Splendor and Divine Favor on himself, ready to move if the being strikes underneath him as he's casting. If not, he goes back to jumping.
[20:23] <Koaway> So casting and then after, Demedais clatters around loudly! The stomping sound makes a lot of noise, metal clanging against ancient stone! Thump thump thump THUMP! The last jump gets an extra jolt as the floor moves as Demedais lands! OOC - Balance check.
[20:24] <Demedais> roll 1d20-5 damn.
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20-5 damn. and gets -1." [1d20=4]
[20:25] <Koaway> OOC: You're prone.
[20:25] <Koaway> OOC: More coming.
[20:27] <Koaway> Demedais is unbalanced by this, falling over onto his side! HE lands heavily with his armor clattering! The entire floor is a cobweb of cracks, debris rattling down from the ceiling! OOC: You're up, Deme, w'ell pick up from your initiative tick.
[20:28] <Demedais> "Well, that was stupid of me." Demedais says, standing quickly. "No sign of the damn thing, either."
[20:28] <Koaway> OOC: Just talking or doing anything else your turn?
[20:29] <Demedais> OOC: If I can move, I'll move a bit away from the area.
[20:30] <Demedais> OOC: Else... uh, hell. Protection/Law devotion are triggered already, so... no.
[20:31] <Koaway> OOC: Standing up is a move-equivalent. You can use a 5ft step by that's it.
[20:31] <Demedais> OOC: Step 5 ft diagonally away so Pollyanna's still 30ft away.
[20:32] <Demedais> OOC: Scratch that.
06[20:33] * Demedais moves about fifteen feet away from the crack, keeping Pollyanna within 30 ft as he waits for a reaction in that area.
[20:40] <Koaway> A moment later, the floor shatters! Flying stones go everywhere, the entire floor ripped open! It's baaaaaaaaack! This time the spray is not one of sand displaced, but of heavy, ancient stones! OOC - Ref save, Deme, you're too close to the burst.
[20:41] <Demedais> roll 1d20+20 concentrate!
06[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+20 concentrate! and gets 24." [1d20=4]
[20:41] <Koaway> roll 4d10
06[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Koaway rolls 4d10 and gets 24." [4d10=1, 4, 9, 10]
[20:42] <Koaway> OOC: Halve that.
03[20:42] * Ebiris is now known as Alicia
[20:43] <Koaway> The rain of stones slams on Demedais hard, though his quick concentration an dreflexes let him evade the worst of it! OOC - Deme, you're up.
[20:44] <Demedais> OOC: How much of it do I see? The tentacles? The head?
[20:46] <Koaway> The tentacles and the top of the head are out, yes.
[20:46] <Koaway> OOC: Gah.
[20:46] <Koaway> OOC: Anyway, carry on.
[20:47] <Demedais> "Take it down!" Demedais bellows, rushing at the head and belting out a huge upward slash in an attempt to split it in half!
[20:48] <Demedais> roll 1d20+26 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Dev., +8 Smite, +2 Charge, -8 PA)
06[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+26 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Dev., +8 Smite, +2 Charge, -8 PA) and gets 30." [1d20=4]
[20:49] <Koaway> OOC: Hit.
[20:49] <Demedais> roll 2d6+30
06[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 2d6+30 and gets 34." [2d6=2, 2]
03[20:49] * Koaway is now known as Kotono
[20:50] <Kotono> Leaping and letting out huge slash, Demedais cuts deep into the resiliant 'flesh' of the abomination! He opesn up a reasonably wide gash, face to fae with it at last! A moment later, arrows come flying in support!
[20:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 (+2 helmet)
[20:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 (+2 helmet)
06[20:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 (+2 helmet) and gets 24." [1d20=6]
06[20:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 (+2 helmet) and gets 29." [1d20=11]
[20:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[20:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 14." [1d20=3]
[20:52] <Kotono> OOC: Polly also has to make a will save since it's been 24 hours since you've dealt with it.
[20:52] <Demedais> OOC: Feh, right.
[20:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 16." [1d20=10]
[20:52] <Kotono> roll 1d4
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[20:52] <Kotono> OOC: Saves the helmet uses at least. 1/3 down.
03[20:52] * Kotono changes topic to 'Pollyanna(2 rounds paralysed)>DESERT CHTULU OH FUUUCK> Demedais of Hino redux 2.0'
[20:53] <Kotono> Pollyanna starts to fire, but a primale fear takes her over! She screams in utter terror! At this, it's pair of tentacles and the gruesome 'arms' around it's head all concentrate on Demedais!
[20:53] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[20:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 23." [1d20=5]
[20:53] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[20:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 26." [1d20=8]
[20:53] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[20:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 35." [1d20=19]
[20:53] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[20:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 30." [1d20=14]
[20:53] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[20:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 35." [1d20=19]
[20:53] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[20:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 29." [1d20=13]
[20:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 23." [1d20=7]
[20:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 28." [1d20=12]
[20:54] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
[20:54] <Demedais> OOC: 37. (+1 Haste, +5 Prot. dev., -2 charge)
[20:55] <Kotono> Somehow amid the storm of utter carnage, Demedais is an island of sanity! He deflects and stops each blow, his blade, hsi armor and his shield all working triple time to keep him untouched, somehow! OOC - Deme, you're up.
[20:56] <Demedais> "Like hell I'm letting this go any further!" Demedais bellows, going overtime on the undead creature's skull!
[20:56] <Demedais> roll 1d20+28 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Dev., +8 Smite, -4 PA)
06[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+28 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Dev., +8 Smite, -4 PA) and gets 46." [1d20=18]
[20:56] <Demedais> roll 1d20+20 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Dev, -4 PA)
06[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+20 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Dev, -4 PA) and gets 38." [1d20=18]
[20:56] <Demedais> roll 1d20+15 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Dev, -4 PA)
06[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+15 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Dev, -4 PA) and gets 18." [1d20=3]
[20:56] <Demedais> roll 1d20+10 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Dev, -4 PA)
06[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+10 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Dev, -4 PA) and gets 18." [1d20=8]
[20:56] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
[20:57] <Demedais> roll 4d6+38
06[20:57] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 4d6+38 and gets 50." [4d6=1, 3, 6, 2]
03[20:58] * Kotono changes topic to 'Pollyanna(1 rounds paralysed)>DESERT CHTULU OH FUUUCK> Demedais of Hino redux 2.0'
[20:59] <Kotono> As Pollyanna screams her heart out, Demedais hits the monster again! He finds it exceedingly difficult to injure, body like steel and repairing steadily as he strikes! Nonetheless, he rips into it's head twice, gouging into one of it's too large eyes deeply! AT this, the creature rears it's head back! From it's 'mouth' a vile purple gas flows out, choking in a 10 foot radius around the creature! OOC - Fort save, -4 modifier.
[21:00] <Kotono> choking in a 10 foot radius around the creature! OOC - Fort save, -4 modifier.
[21:00] <Demedais> roll 1d20+16 (+2 Eagle's Splendor, -4 mod)
06[21:00] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+16 (+2 Eagle's Splendor, -4 mod) and gets 36." [1d20=20]
[21:02] <Kotono> Demedais avoids the gas, sweeping his blade around to create a momentary zone of clear air around his body! However, the gas is lingering and not dissolving quickly! OOC - Deme, you're up.
[21:04] <Demedais> "Oh, great. Hurry up, dear..." Demedais grimaces, continuing his brutal assault on the beast!
[21:04] <Demedais> roll 1d20+20 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Dev, -4 PA)
[21:04] <Demedais> roll 1d20+20 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Dev, -4 PA)
06[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+20 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Dev, -4 PA) and gets 32." [1d20=12]
06[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+20 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Dev, -4 PA) and gets 26." [1d20=6]
[21:05] <Demedais> roll 1d20+15 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Dev, -4 PA)
06[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+15 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Dev, -4 PA) and gets 34." [1d20=19]
[21:05] <Demedais> roll 1d20+10 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Dev, -4 PA)
06[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+10 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Dev, -4 PA) and gets 18." [1d20=8]
[21:05] <Kotono> OOC - Two hits.
[21:05] <Demedais> roll 4d6+32
06[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 4d6+32 and gets 49." [4d6=5, 4, 5, 3]
[21:06] <Kotono> Demedais hacks into it further, hitting and slashing and bashing! He does more damage, even as his first great bit slash has fully mended itself! However, a foursome more have come to take it's place! OOC: Last round of paralysis for Polly. It's up now.
03[21:06] * Kotono changes topic to 'Pollyanna>DESERT CHTULU OH FUUUCK> Demedais of Hino redux 2.0'
[21:06] <Kotono> The gas continues to linger in the air! OOC: Fort, -3, Deme.
[21:07] <Demedais> roll 1d20+17 (+2 Eagle's Splendor, -3 mod)
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+17 (+2 Eagle's Splendor, -3 mod) and gets 24." [1d20=7]
[21:07] <Kotono> roll 1d6 int
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 int and gets 1." [1d6=1]
[21:09] <Kotono> As Demedais feels his mind go hazy, the beast takes a single whipping tentacle at Demedais!
[21:09] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 19." [1d20=1]
[21:10] <Kotono> It misses completely, then it leaps up slightly, hitting the room and making it shake, and burrows rapidly down and away! OOC - It's right in front of you, you can AoO it if you like.
[21:10] <Demedais> roll 1d20+20 sure.
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+20 sure. and gets 31." [1d20=11]
[21:10] <Demedais> roll 2d6+16
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 2d6+16 and gets 22." [2d6=5, 1]
[21:12] <Kotono> Slashing into one of it's arms as he goes, Demedais manages to sever that 'arm' off completely! Thereafter it is gone, down the gaping hole in the floor! Pollyanna recovers her wits a moment too late, readying her bow! "Dammit!" she swears! OOC - You're up, Deme. Act. The gas is also still around.
06[21:26] * Demedais curses violently and incoherently, before slamming a wall of boiling water on the vertical wall of the tunnel that the monstrosity fled down in an attempt to burn it alive!
[21:28] <Kotono> OOC: Going to try and catch it in the wall directly?
[21:28] <Demedais> Yeah.
[21:30] <Demedais> OOC: Damnit, forgot OOC. Anyway, yeah, presuming the idea works.
[21:31] <Kotono> OOC: Roll damage? 2d6+15
[21:31] <Demedais> roll 2d6+15 burn, muthaf****, burn!
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 2d6+15 burn, muthaf****, burn! and gets 23." [2d6=6, 2]
[21:31] <Kotono> roll 23*1.5
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 23*1.5 and gets 34.5."
06[21:32] * Demedais then stumbles out of the gas as far as he can.
[21:33] <Kotono> Stumbling back, Demedais gets fresh, sweet air! The tunnel has steam rise from it, the entire thing shaking! The gas obscures what happens for a bit, but Demedais can hear the collapsing of stone and sand and the boiling water!
[21:33] <Kotono> OOC: Go ahead and act?
[21:34] <Demedais> "You okay, Pollyanna?" Demedais curses, using a Lesser Restoration on himself.
[21:34] <Demedais> roll 1d4
06[21:34] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d4 and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[21:34] <Kotono> "Just shaken," She checks herself ove,r "Dammit! When I saw it again, it was like the first time all over again. My heart wouldn't stop throbbing."
[21:35] <Demedais> "Don't worry about it." Demedais shakes his head. "Hopefully the burning water will score some lasting damage..."
[21:37] <Kotono> As the gas clears, you see that most of the floor ahead is ruined in a large radius. The very sides remain intact, and it's collapsed down into a 10 foot deep pool of broken stone and loose sand. "We have to figure out some way to stop it from fleeing if it comes again. Anything."
06[21:38] * Demedais shakes his head. "I'm all ears if you get an idea - I've got nothing at this point, myself.
[21:39] <Kotono> "Hmmmm." Thinking long and hard, "My best idea is...to tie a rope to an arrow on one end and attach it to something heavy and immobile on the other."
06[21:41] * Demedais nods slowly at this. "Might work, though I'm worried about what we'd tie it to. It's likely strong enough to be able to drag a lot of things with it." A pause and a grimace, "Whatever. Let's do what we came here for, so we can dedicate more resources to killing the thing when it returns."
[21:41] <Kotono> "Right," Pollyanna agrees, ready to follow Demedais.
06[21:42] * Demedais heads back toward the stairwell, cautiously eyeing the hole made by the beast as he slips down.
[21:45] <Kotono> Walking back down, you find a five foot section of the stair is gone. It's going down, making it an easy jump to go down past it, however.
06[21:46] * Demedais looks to see if it's decently easy to get back up as well.
[21:46] <Kotono> IT's a five foot jump up. A little harder but doable.
06[21:47] * Demedais shrugs and slips down, keeping a weather eye down the tunnel the monster presumably made.
[21:50] <Kotono> OOC: What's your jump mod?
[21:50] <Demedais> OOC: +1 total.
[21:52] <Kotono> OOC: Make a jump check? It's DC 5.
[21:52] <Demedais> roll 1d20+1 right
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+1 right and gets 20." [1d20=19]
[21:52] <Kotono> Hop! Demedais easily makes it over! Pollyanna does so easily as well, the two across the gap now!
06[21:53] * Demedais nods and continues down the stairwell.
[21:55] <Kotono> It bottoms out another fifty feet below. A door waits here, a door of old wood and steel. From the looks of it, it might have the same problems as the previous door you had to batter down. The wood is anciently warped, the metal is rusted.
06[21:56] * Demedais grimaces, and yet again moves to push the door down after a quick focusing of strength!
[21:56] <Demedais> roll 1d20+11 (+4 Kensai Bam)
06[21:56] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+11 (+4 Kensai Bam) and gets 30." [1d20=19]
[21:56] <Kotono> WHAM! The door collapses into rubble once more! Ahead is a T-shaped hallway, coming in from the top-left of the T. At the top-center is another door, as is one directly opposite you at the far end of the T.
[21:57] <Kotono> OOC: Gah.
[21:57] <Kotono> WHAM! The door collapses into rubble once more! Ahead is a T-shaped hallway, coming in from the top-left of the T. At the top-center is another door, as is one directly opposite you at the far end of the T. The walls here are plain enough, made of long worked and long forgotten stone.
[21:58] <Demedais> "...I think I guessed right, but I may not have." Demedais curses. "And this is going to be expensive to repair..." Muttering a bit, he heads to the door directly opposite him and opens it.
[22:00] <Kotono> IT leads to a short stone stairway going down 20 feet. At the bottom of it, straight ahead and down at an angle, is another door. This door is made entirely of metal and not rusted at all.
[22:00] <Kotono> Also, you can see down the T juncture as you passed it. There's a few doors on the walls there and one at the end.
06[22:01] * Demedais nods and continues advancing down the hallway! "If I'm right, we're to ascend as low as we can... Or at least, that's my guess." Demedais says as they walk. "I might be wrong on this, but this looks right."
[22:09] <Kotono> OOC: Down the T shaped juncture's split hallway or down the stairway you saw and found?
[22:09] <Demedais> OOC: Down the stairway and opening the door. Sorry.
[22:11] <Kotono> The door opens with a creak! Ahead is a short hallway leading to another door. This door is warded with the signs of the all seeing eye on the back of a gauntlet. Helm's symbol is lined with a steey gray fire.
06[22:12] * Demedais looks it over for magic, also trying to recall if this symbol on the door holds religious significance.
[22:12] <Kotono> OOC: K:R, +5 competence bonus since this is right up your clerichood?
[22:13] <Demedais> roll 1d20+19
06[22:13] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+19 and gets 30." [1d20=11]
06[22:14] * Demedais advances to the door and opens it without hesitation!
[22:17] <Kotono> The door opens! Ahead, you see a great archway. Past it are rows and rows of shelves built into a long, narrow hall. The shelves are lined with coffins, each one with carved symbols of an eye over them, with a golden plaque attached to the shelf just below. They are several rows on each wall...there must be thousand sand thousands of coffins here, lying in eternal repose.
[22:20] <Kotono> "So many coffins..." Pollyanna advances to the closest one, checking a few plaques. "I can't read them, but there must be...I can'te ven see the end of the hall from here. Hundreds. Maybe more."
06[22:20] * Demedais pauses at this for a moment. "Gratifying to see there's nothing wrong here, at least on the surface." A glance to Pollyanna, before advancing to the plaques and checking them himself.
[22:21] <Kotono> OOC: What languages do you speak?
[22:21] <Demedais> OOC: Celestial, Gnomish, Infernal, Draconic
[22:22] <Kotono> Demedais can't read the writing here. Much of it is faded as well, time's ravages slowly erasing what once was.
06[22:25] * Demedais takes out a piece of paper before casting Amanuensis, glancing to Pollyanna. "Unfamiliar to me, too. I'd like Seira to identify this script, at the least..." With Amanuensis, he copies down the writing of about fifteen of the plaques onto the sheets of looseleaf paper.
[22:27] <Demedais> Once he's done with the copying, he leads Pollyanna back to the T-section, opening the door at the center.
[22:30] <Kotono> This door leads to what looks to be a practice room at front, with heavy steel doors with the gauntleted and firey sigil of Helm on them. There's bits of old weapons and armor about, rusted and forgotten. It's rather big, lots of room for many a warrior or priest to go at once.
06[22:31] * Demedais nods very slightly, glancing around for magic as he looks over the room once. If nothing's found, he'll go through the door at the end of the T-junction next.
06[22:34] * Demedais heads for the left-most door in the back and opens it first.
[22:36] <Kotono> The door opens! There is a stairway going down, with a plaque written in several languages embedded into the floor. One of them is Celestial, letting Demedais read the following: 'Captured Weapons of Chaos stored here. No admittance!'
[22:37] <Demedais> "Right, we'll deal with this later." Demedais shakes his head. "Worth looking into for... ah, fixing, but." With that he checks the second door!
[22:39] <Kotono> The second door has another plaque just inside, another downward stairway. In Celestial in one line, 'Weapon Storage. No admittance without permission!'
[22:41] <Demedais> "If there's actually anything in these, Seira will have a field day." Demedais muses, before checking the final two quickly, making sure to close the doors behind him once he's done unless one says they're not to weapons of some sort.
[22:43] <Kotono> The third is armor and miscellanious items. The last has only this, 'WARNING: DO NOT ENTER. GUARDIAN WILL ATTACK AND ASSUME ALL ARE TAKING THE TRIAL TO TAKE ORDERIUM.'
[22:45] <Demedais> "... We are definitely waiting on that one until the desert zombie squid is dead." Demedais mutters before heading to the door at the end of the T-junction and opening it.
[22:45] <Kotono> This door leads to a glowing white and blue circle. Symbols of magic adorn the circle, a second small circle in the center that glows with it's own yellow light.
[22:46] <Demedais> OOC: K:R check apply here?
[22:46] <Kotono> OOC: No. K:A if you have any.
[22:48] <Demedais> roll 1d20+3 come on K:A
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+3 come on K:A and gets 23." [1d20=20]
[22:51] <Demedais> "Aaaaand we aren't touching this until we have Seira or Alicia with us." Demedais comments, checking in the two side rooms on the way. "No desire to fail this just because we can't get back through the teleport."
[22:55] <Kotono> The first side room looks to be ancient storage. Nothing of note beyond supplies far too aged to be any worth except to a history professor. The other leads to a long, long hallway, sloping ever so gently down. It goesf arther than you can see.
[22:56] <Demedais> OOC: For mapping purposes, from the teleport room, the long hallway is the left or the right door? (I presume one door is on the left, one on the right)
[22:56] <Kotono> Same side as the far T door, the one that leads to the crypts.
06[22:57] * Demedais follows the hallway down curiously.
[22:59] <Kotono> It stretches hundres and hundreds of feet. As you walk forward, you can begin to hear a song. A song in Celestial, a song of praise to Helm. It sounds like a thousand voices sing it from very far away, down the hall.
06[23:01] * Demedais continues to follow, wondering if this is where the belt should go, taking Pollyanna's hand as he goes on down.
[23:03] <Kotono> Down the hall you go, further and further! You seem to walk for hours, but you know it's only a few minutes. Each step becomes more important, heavier. The tone of the song begins to change. It signs of protection - protecting those little ones that cannot protect themselves, those who are innocent of the world's wearying pains and troubles.
06[23:03] * Demedais continues to listen devotedly as he continues on.
[23:07] <Kotono> Ahead you can see a heavy door of pure steel, untarnished by the ages. It's twenty feet wall and fourty wide, enough to admit an entire battle host through easily. The song slows now as you get closer, then stops into gentle echos and reflection. The echo is, 'Now it is the time...'
[23:08] <Demedais> "Open wide the gates, and let eternity begin?" Demedais murmurs, advancing to the door slowly and opening it reverently, after a prayer of thanks to Helm.
[23:12] <Kotono> The door opens as if a hundred men were laboring to open it! The gates spread wide! Ahead you find this is one of many doors, leading to a grand room. Here statues of Helm and his sigil are all over. His deeds are painted on walls, such as the armored Helm grappling with a horrible, venom spitting Marilith that looks to rend him asunder, or crossing swords with a giant slaadi! A great painted, tiled circle of an eye and gauntlet serve a
[23:12] <Kotono> slaadi! A great painted, tiled circle of an eye and gauntlet serve as an altar of sorts. Standing in that circle is an angel...no. It looks like an angel, but it's wings are of metal. It's face is smootha nd metallic, unliving but keenly aware. It does not move, yet it's eyes on perfectly on you.
06[23:14] * Demedais looks toward the angel with more than a bit of awe on his face, before looking to the altar, and then back to the angel. "I see..." he whispers, before looking to the angel as he takes three slow steps forward, watching to see if the eyes follow him.
[23:15] <Kotono> The eyes are on him, watching the two intently. In perfect words without emotion, "You who have been given revelation to this place by Helm, come no closer. Speak your mind and your duty that takes you to this forgotten refuge."
[23:17] <Demedais> "We have come to destroy an accursed artifact made by followers of Shar." Demedais states clearly, pulling the belt from his backpack at this. "For this purpose have we come here."
[23:22] <Kotono> "I see. I understand why you have been sent here. I am a blank slate...I will be able to give body to the vile energies within this belt." The angel appears in front of Demedais intsantly, one moment far away and the next close. "Give it to me and prepare yourselves for battle."
06[23:24] * Demedais nods slightly at this, hoping he's prepared for this after the battles with the abombination as he hands the belt to the angel, quickly preparing his focus upon law and protection as he does so! OOC: Law/Protection devotions up.
[23:27] <Kotono> The belt is taken! The mechanical angel's body twists, metal smoothly turning black! One head splits into two small ones, it's wings turning into talons that jut out of it's back, long enough to reach around! From each of it's two mouths little pained cries come out, and in the cries a constant chant of 'Mommy...Mommy...Mommy!' can be heard! It's stomach distends, turning into a black disk! In the center of this disk is a hungry mouth,
[23:30] <Kotono> It's stomach distends, turning into a black disk! In the center of this disk is a hungry mouth, full of oynx teeth that snap and drool!  It's legs twist into snake bodies, lined with dozens of black blades that burst out from the snakescales! It begins to float in the air of it's own accord, not bound by mere gravity and longer! The mouth in it's black guts writhes, "I will consume...I will return everything to the void! The fate of all
[23:30] <Kotono> "I will consume...I will return everything to the void! The fate of all existance is oblivion! Come and join all those that have fallen to it!" As it speaks, it's two tiny heads cry out in pain, calling for Mommy in babyish, horrifying terror! OOC - Initiative?
[23:31] <Demedais> roll 1d20+1 c'mon desert cthulhu, come kick this thing's ass?
06[23:31] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+1 c'mon desert cthulhu, come kick this thing's ass? and gets 17." [1d20=16]
[23:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2 Horrible horrible thing
06[23:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 Horrible horrible thing and gets 12." [1d20=10]
[23:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 Polly
06[23:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 Polly and gets 20." [1d20=13]
03[23:31] * Kotono changes topic to 'Pollyanna>Demedais>What is best not named'
[23:33] <Kotono> "Oh...Oh...." Pollyanna steps back, eyes wide! She shudders and retches as it transforms, going to her knees to vomit! She is able to stagger and rise as it speaks, wiping her mouth away with the back of her arm. Grabbing her bow, "No! Begone!"" she fires quickly at the stomach as she takes a five foot step backwards!
[23:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 (+2 helmet since fuck this shit)
06[23:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 (+2 helmet since fuck this shit) and gets 24." [1d20=6]
[23:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 (+2 helmet since fuck this shit)
06[23:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 (+2 helmet since fuck this shit) and gets 30." [1d20=12]
[23:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[23:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 26." [1d20=15]
[23:34] <Kotono> roll 3d8+25+3d6
06[23:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d8+25+3d6 and gets 48." [3d8=1, 6, 6][3d6=2, 3, 5]
[23:36] <Kotono> The arrows fly swiftly, embedding into the stomach and torso of the creature! They slam in hard as Pollyanna's aim proves true! OOC - Deme.
06[23:39] * Demedais does not hesitate in quickly drawing his sword and carving a brutal sheath across the chest of the mechanic-angel-turned-monster!
[23:39] <Demedais> roll 1d20+16 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -8 PA)
06[23:39] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+16 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -8 PA) and gets 19." [1d20=3]
[23:40] <Kotono> D
[23:41] <Kotono> Demdais swings heavily, but just misses the body as he overcorrects! THe creature acts all at once! First, it's two tiny heads cry out for Mommy! Waves of ear splitting sound come out! OOC - Fort saves, both of you.
[23:42] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
06[23:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 26." [1d20=19]
[23:42] <Demedais> roll 1d20+18
06[23:42] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+18 and gets 38." [1d20=20]
[23:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14 CL check for Deme's SR
06[23:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 CL check for Deme's SR and gets 31." [1d20=17]
[23:43] <Kotono> roll 5d6 you both halve this, man Hatbot is being tsundere for you lately.
06[23:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d6 you both halve this, man Hatbot is being tsundere for you lately. and gets 13." [5d6=1, 3, 1, 2, 6]
[23:44] <Kotono> As cones of sound burst around the two, devastating but endured, your ears ringing with the sound, the twisted wing-talons on it's back twist around to strike Demedais!
[23:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
[23:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
06[23:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 and gets 43." [1d20=18]
06[23:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 and gets 42." [1d20=17]
[23:44] <Kotono> OOC - AC?
[23:44] <Demedais> OOC: 38.
[23:44] <Kotono> roll 2d8+18
06[23:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+18 and gets 29." [2d8=8, 3]
[23:45] <Kotono> Demedais is raked by the talons, devastated and staggered as his blood is ripped out from them! At that, the two bladed snake legs spring up! One slashes at Demedais, while the other spews a load of bladed scales out at Pollyanna!
[23:45] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 Deme
06[23:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 Deme and gets 33." [1d20=8]
[23:45] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 Polly
06[23:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 Polly and gets 32." [1d20=12]
[23:46] <Kotono> roll 1d6+9
06[23:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6+9 and gets 14." [1d6=5]
[23:47] <Kotono> Then the twisting mouth on it's stomach laughs! A spew of pure black acid gushes from it's mouth at Demedais, burped up to engulf him! OOC - Ref Deme. This is also single target.
[23:47] <Demedais> roll 1d20+8 drat.
06[23:48] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+8 drat. and gets 12." [1d20=4]
[23:48] <Kotono> roll 6d8
06[23:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d8 and gets 31." [6d8=3, 5, 6, 8, 4, 5]
[23:48] <Kotono> As acid bathes Demedais, his flesh turns black! Youc an see nothing but oblivion in the acid-burns, as if his scarred body was nothing at all! OOC - Polly's up.
[23:50] <Kotono> Grimacing in pain, "Shar, or whatever you are...begon in the name of Helm! Return to the shadows that you rutted from, bitch!" With that, more arrows fly!
[23:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 (Helmet again)
06[23:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 (Helmet again) and gets 35." [1d20=17]
[23:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[23:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 34." [1d20=18]
[23:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[23:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 30." [1d20=19]
[23:50] <Kotono> roll 3d8+25+3d6
06[23:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d8+25+3d6 and gets 54." [3d8=3, 5, 4][3d6=6, 5, 6]
[23:50] <Kotono> Firing arrows as fast as she can, Pollyanna successfully perforates it with three more! These aren't light wounds in the least, peppering all over it's body! The heads turn to Pollyanna at that, crying, "Mommmmy!" to her in pain. "It hurts, Mommy! Why did you let the bad men do this to us?!" OOC - Deme.
06[23:52] * Demedais almost howls, letting loose four sharp blows as he tries to level the opponent as fast as possible!
[23:53] <Demedais> roll 1d20+18 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -3 PA -3 CE)
06[23:53] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+18 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -3 PA -3 CE) and gets 35." [1d20=17]
[23:53] <Demedais> roll 1d20+18 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -3 PA -3 CE)
06[23:53] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+18 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -3 PA -3 CE) and gets 22." [1d20=4]
[23:53] <Demedais> roll 1d20+12 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -3 PA -3 CE)
06[23:53] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+12 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -3 PA -3 CE) and gets 16." [1d20=4]
[23:53] <Demedais> roll 1d20+7 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -3 PA -3 CE)
06[23:53] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+7 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -3 PA -3 CE) and gets 17." [1d20=10]
[23:53] <Kotono> OOC - Two hits.
[23:53] <Demedais> roll 4d6+20
06[23:53] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 4d6+20 and gets 38." [4d6=4, 6, 4, 4]
[23:55] <Kotono> Demedais defends himself carefully as he hacks into the THING! He scores two more hits, it's wounds mercifully not regenerating like that of your other recent foe! At this, it's entire body starts to pulse black! The pulse appears all over, draining from it's extremeties down into it's stomach! From that leering, screaming mouth of the profane, a thick black mist escapes! OOC - Ref, both of you. Area effect, Deme.
[23:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
06[23:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 30." [1d20=20]
[23:56] <Demedais> roll 1d20+20 right
06[23:56] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+20 right and gets 25." [1d20=5]
[23:56] <Kotono> OOC: She has evasion, so no effect on Polly.
[23:57] <Kotono> roll 8d8 half damage, Deme, and no other effect.
06[23:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 8d8 half damage, Deme, and no other effect. and gets 33." [8d8=7, 1, 6, 2, 1, 4, 5, 7]
[23:58] <Kotono> Demedais is able to duck, avoiding the worst of the mist! Pollyanna leaps gracefully up, bouncing against the wall to throw herself well up and away, landing safely! The mist gnaws at Demedais skin, a cloying darkness that nearly gets his eyes! Yet he resists, only weakened somewhat! Thereafter, the creature falls back thirty feet! OOC - You can AoO it if you like.
[23:59] <Demedais> roll 1d20+12 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -3 PA -3 CE) Dewey decimal? Do we ever!
06[23:59] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+12 (+1 Haste +4 Law Devotion -3 PA -3 CE) Dewey decimal? Do we ever! and gets 14." [1d20=2]
[23:59] <Demedais> OOC: Should be 5 more. Whoops.
[23:59] <Demedais> OOC: ... actually, 6 more. I suck at math today.
Session Time: Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 2009
[00:00] <Kotono> OOC: 20 total? Hit.
[00:00] <Demedais> roll 2d6+10
06[00:00] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 2d6+10 and gets 20." [2d6=6, 4]
[00:01] <Kotono> Just as it falls back, Demedais takes the chance to slash into it's side! Yet as he does it manages to make it back, leaving a wound in it's body! But a second later...SLAM! THe ground beneath Demedais shakes like a rotten tooth from below! OOC - Balance check?
03[00:01] * Kotono changes topic to 'Pollyanna>Demedais>What is best not named>DESERT CTHULU'
[00:02] <Demedais> roll 1d20-5 Demedais and dex
06[00:02] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20-5 Demedais and dex and gets 9." [1d20=14]
[00:02] <Kotono> The shaking is considerable but not so great as to knock Demedais over, thankfully! "Oh..." Pollyanna sputters in utter disbelief. "You are not serious, are you?!?!"
[00:03] <Demedais> "Angel, if we could have a slight pause on this battle, I believe we have an intruder! If you could help kill it, that'd be nice too." Demedais bellows.
[00:04] <Kotono> "Waht should I do," Pollyanna calls as Demedais bellows! Meanwhile, the tiled sigil of the eye on the floor begins to glow! The creature, the abomination in front of you, makes no signs of having heard! OOC - Goa head and act first, Deme?
06[00:05] * Demedais retreats toward Pollyanna, healing himself in the process! "Brace yourself for seeing it again!" he replies.
[00:05] <Demedais> OOC: 28 HP healing
[00:10] <Kotono> Demedais soothes his wounds as he retreats back! Pollyanna braces herself, all while taking aim at the unresponding angel-horror in the meantime!
[00:10] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[00:10] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[00:10] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[00:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 34." [1d20=18]
06[00:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 28." [1d20=12]
06[00:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 23." [1d20=12]
[00:10] <Kotono> roll 3d8+21+3d6
06[00:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d8+21+3d6 and gets 44." [3d8=7, 1, 1][3d6=6, 6, 2]
[00:11] <Kotono> "Helm must have a good reason for this. Right, Demedais?" She says as she draws more arrows in a hurry! "Right?"
[00:11] <Demedais> "Well, I've always been a firm believer that he has one of the weirder senses of humors you'll find out there..." Demedais says, before nodding. "That, and I suspect the defenses on this part of the temple won't take kindly to this..."
[00:13] <Kotono> The three arrows hit the beast fast and hard, staggering it! It looks momentarily disoriented as it takes to the air! IT's snake-barbed concentrate, throwing several scales, three at each Pollyanna and Demedais!
[00:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 Deme
06[00:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 Deme and gets 33." [1d20=13]
[00:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 Deme
[00:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 Deme
06[00:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 Deme and gets 26." [1d20=6]
06[00:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 Deme and gets 33." [1d20=13]
[00:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 Polly
[00:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 Polly
06[00:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 Polly and gets 32." [1d20=12]
[00:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 Polly
06[00:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 Polly and gets 22." [1d20=2]
06[00:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 Polly and gets 40." [1d20=20]
[00:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 Polly crit?
06[00:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 Polly crit? and gets 25." [1d20=5]
[00:13] <Kotono> OOC: Do you have protection devotion up?
[00:13] <Demedais> OOC: Yep.
[00:13] <Kotono> OOC: How much?
[00:13] <Demedais> OOC: +5
[00:14] <Kotono> OOC: One hit and a crit to her then.
[00:14] <Kotono> roll 3d6+27
06[00:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+27 and gets 38." [3d6=2, 4, 5]
[00:15] <Kotono> The blades are stopped by Demedais, but Pollyanna is raked three times! Blood comes freely, but one barely has a chance to look! The floor they were at bursts open...and then...light gushes down from above, as the tiled eye glows with pure fire!
[00:15] <Kotono> roll 20d8
06[00:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 20d8 and gets 108." [20d8=7, 8, 6, 8, 8, 6, 5, 2, 4, 3, 2, 7, 4, 5, 6, 4, 8, 3, 6, 6]
[00:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 fort save
06[00:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 fort save and gets 8." [1d20=2]
[00:16] <Kotono> A shining bolt of power comes from the Heavens! It strikes the horror just as it breaks out, stopping it in it's tracks! It reels momentarily! OOC - Polly's up.
[00:17] <Kotono> "Which one?" Pollyanna grits her teeth and staggers back, blood flowing down from her stomach to stain her legs and pants! "Which one should I shoo-shoot?"
[00:18] <Demedais> "...Focus on the angel! The abombination will have to deal with me!"
[00:18] <Kotono> Firing quickly, Pollyanna does just that, aiming over the desert horror to shoot at the Shar based horror!
[00:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[00:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[00:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 17." [1d20=1]
06[00:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 29." [1d20=13]
[00:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[00:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 29." [1d20=18]
[00:18] <Kotono> roll 2d8+14+2d6
06[00:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+14+2d6 and gets 32." [2d8=7, 6][2d6=3, 2]
[00:22] <Kotono> Those two arrows are aimed perfectly! They go right into the vile mouth in it's stomach, penetrating straight through! It's mouth twists into a look of shocked agony, "No....oblivion.....hahahahahahhahaa!" It twists and screams as the mouth turns white and fades away! The horrible wing-talons crumble into dust, the snakes turning back to legs! The two heads detatch from the body, turning to gentle motes of light! The crying of children
[00:22] <Kotono> turning to gentle motes of light! The crying of children stops, the two lights flying around Demedais and Pollyanna now! For a moment, he can hear the happy laughter of a baby...then they are gone! On the floor, at his feet, are a pair of perfect white diamonds, each the size of an apple. The angel staggers momentarily before it's vision fixes. "It is done...and an intruder dares?!" OOC - Deme, your'e up.
03[00:22] * Kotono changes topic to 'Pollyanna>Demedais>Mecha Angel>DESERT CTHULU'
[00:23] <Kotono>  "It is done...and an intruder dares?!" OOC - Deme, your'e up.
[00:24] <Demedais> "Any assistance you can lend to us in killing it once and for all would be much appreciated, thank you kindly!" Demedais yells, charging at it while it's stunned and attempting to impale it!
[00:24] <Demedais> roll 1d20+19 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion, +2 Charge, -7 PA)
06[00:24] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+19 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion, +2 Charge, -7 PA) and gets 24." [1d20=5]
[00:25] <Kotono> OOC - Whiff.
[00:25] <Kotono> Demedais charges in, the creature's eyes blank and it's tentacles not moving at the moment besides a few twitches! However, it's still as tough as ever, Deme's sword failing to find a weak point! The angel flies in quickly, it's fist striking out! "You will be eliminated!"
[00:25] <Kotono> roll 1d20+27
06[00:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+27 and gets 42." [1d20=15]
[00:25] <Kotono> roll 1d8+9
06[00:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+9 and gets 12." [1d8=3]
[00:26] <Kotono> OOC: DESERT CHTULU is stunned this round. Polly's up.
[00:26] <Kotono> Pollyanna draws yet more arrows, breathing out in relief. A tired smile crosses her face as she fires at the abomination!
[00:26] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[00:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 22." [1d20=6]
[00:26] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[00:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 28." [1d20=12]
[00:26] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[00:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 29." [1d20=18]
[00:26] <Kotono> Yet she can'tq uite land a blow on it, arrows missing by inches! OOC - Deme.
06[00:27] * Demedais continues to try and hack the beast to pieces!
[00:27] <Demedais> roll 1d20+22 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion, -2 PA)
06[00:27] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+22 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion, -2 PA) and gets 29." [1d20=7]
[00:27] <Demedais> roll 1d20+22 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion, -2 PA)
06[00:27] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+22 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion, -2 PA) and gets 24." [1d20=2]
[00:27] <Demedais> roll 1d20+17 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion, -2 PA)
06[00:27] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+17 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion, -2 PA) and gets 21." [1d20=4]
[00:27] <Demedais> roll 1d20+12 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion, -2 PA)
06[00:27] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+12 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion, -2 PA) and gets 27." [1d20=15]
[00:27] <Kotono> Despite his best efforts, Demedais can't land a single blow! He hacks and hacks and hacks and does little! THe angel strikes twice again!
[00:28] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
[00:28] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
06[00:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 and gets 32." [1d20=7]
06[00:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 and gets 40." [1d20=15]
[00:28] <Kotono> roll 2d8+18
06[00:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+18 and gets 23." [2d8=3, 2]
[00:28] <Kotono> The horror is plummeled, damaged but surviving! OOC - It's stunned one more round. Polly's up.
[00:28] <Kotono> Following the trend, Pollyanna fires three more arrows!
[00:28] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[00:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 21." [1d20=5]
[00:28] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[00:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 25." [1d20=9]
[00:29] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[00:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 29." [1d20=18]
[00:29] <Kotono> Yet again, she can't quite find a weak spot in it's disgustingly hard body! OOC - Deme.
06[00:29] * Demedais grimaces! "Will that eye fire again?" he calls to the angel as he continues slashing!
[00:29] <Demedais> roll 1d20+24 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion)
[00:29] <Demedais> roll 1d20+24 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion)
06[00:29] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+24 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion) and gets 32." [1d20=8]
03[00:29] * Celenu (WinNT@user-544627a2.lns2-c12.dsl.pol.co.uk) has joined #terrorofdunes
06[00:29] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+24 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion) and gets 31." [1d20=7]
[00:30] <Demedais> roll 1d20+19 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion)
06[00:30] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+19 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion) and gets 35." [1d20=16]
[00:30] <Demedais> roll 1d20+14 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion)
06[00:30] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+14 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion) and gets 25." [1d20=11]
[00:30] <Kotono> OOC - Three hits.
[00:30] <Demedais> roll 6d6+24
06[00:30] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 6d6+24 and gets 42." [6d6=1, 1, 5, 3, 4, 4]
[00:31] <Kotono> Demedais cuts into it over and over, tearing it's unholy body! Yet somehow it lives through blows that would cut a normal man asunder, even as the angel continues to pound it hard!
[00:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
[00:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
06[00:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 and gets 40." [1d20=15]
06[00:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 and gets 35." [1d20=10]
[00:31] <Kotono> roll 2d8+18
06[00:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+18 and gets 30." [2d8=4, 8]
[00:32] <Kotono> Plummeled again, the beast is considerably beaten! It thrashes wildly, striking out with it's tentacles and arms at the two surrounding it!
[00:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 Deme
06[00:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 Deme and gets 19." [1d20=1]
[00:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 Angel
06[00:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 Angel and gets 30." [1d20=12]
[00:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 Deme
06[00:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 Deme and gets 20." [1d20=4]
[00:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 Deme
[00:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 Deme
06[00:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 Deme and gets 32." [1d20=16]
06[00:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 Deme and gets 29." [1d20=13]
[00:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 Angel
06[00:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 Angel and gets 24." [1d20=8]
[00:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 Angel
06[00:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 Angel and gets 29." [1d20=13]
[00:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 Angel
06[00:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 Angel and gets 21." [1d20=5]
[00:32] <Kotono> OOC - AC, Deme?
[00:33] <Demedais> OOC: 39. Angel also gets +5 AC benefit, I'd guess.
[00:33] <Kotono> OOC - Handy.
[00:33] <Kotono> The creature strikes and strikes and strikes and strikes, yet neer a blow lands successfully! More arrows come in support!
[00:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[00:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[00:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[00:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 24." [1d20=8]
06[00:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 25." [1d20=9]
06[00:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 22." [1d20=11]
[00:33] <Kotono> Again Pollyanna can't seem to find the right spot on this one! OOC - Deme.
06[00:34] * Demedais continues his relentless assault in an attempt to break the thing once and for all!
[00:34] <Demedais> roll 1d20+24 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion)
06[00:34] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+24 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion) and gets 30." [1d20=6]
[00:34] <Demedais> roll 1d20+24 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion)
06[00:34] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+24 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion) and gets 33." [1d20=9]
02[00:34] * Alicia (WinNT@user-544627a2.lns2-c12.dsl.pol.co.uk) Quit (Ping timeout)
[00:34] <Demedais> roll 1d20+19 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion)
06[00:34] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+19 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion) and gets 33." [1d20=14]
[00:34] <Demedais> roll 1d20+14 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion)
06[00:34] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d20+14 (+1 Haste, +4 Law Devotion) and gets 27." [1d20=13]
[00:34] <Kotono> OOC - Three hits.
[00:34] <Demedais> roll 6d6+24
06[00:34] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 6d6+24 and gets 45." [6d6=1, 6, 2, 3, 6, 3]
[00:35] <Kotono> With a savage, desperate fury, Demedais stabs down into the abomination! His blade cuts apart it's eyes, and with a last drive, severs a tentacle! It
[00:35] <Kotono> With a savage, desperate fury, Demedais stabs down into the abomination! His blade cuts apart it's eyes, and with a last drive, severs a tentacle! It's too much for it, the entire thing breaking apart into horrible chunks and going still, sliding back down the hole it came! OOC - Free act.
06[00:37] * Demedais looks to the hole, then to the angel with sheer exhaustion before muttering "I'll see what can be done about repairing this in a bit." With that, he goes to mend Pollyanna's wounds! OOC: Saccing Magic Circle. from Chaos
[00:37] <Demedais> roll 3d8+6
06[00:37] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 3d8+6 and gets 15." [3d8=1, 5, 3]
06[00:37] * Demedais frowns and heals again. OOC: Sac MCfromEvil
[00:37] <Demedais> roll 3d8+6
06[00:37] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 3d8+6 and gets 23." [3d8=5, 8, 4]
03[00:37] * Celenu is now known as Alicia
[00:38] <Kotono> Pollyanna falls to her knees in exhaustion, "We did it..." she sighs as her wounds mend. "We really did it....that was the point, wasn't it?" As she's healed, Demedais can see her color isn't quite right. She looks drained and tired and pale. "That energy from above was enough..." She leans forward onto Demedais. "That was much too much."
06[00:39] * Demedais also expends a lesser restoration. "It was. But now it's over." With that, he prepares magical sight, before looking to the diamonds and then to the angel.
[00:39] <Demedais> roll 1d4 if it's relevant
06[00:39] * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d4 if it's relevant and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[00:40] <Kotono> The diamonds aren't magical, nor is there any magic around of note. Pollyanna's color improves at that. "Whew. I'm running on magical restorations and I've been torn up and survived and sandstorm and we've dealt with that damned belt...all of that..."
06[00:41] * Demedais nods slightly, before looking to the angel. "May we rest here for the night? We've been chased by that thing for two nights now. I thought we had lost it twice and scared it off two other times..."

[Corwin]

[18:56] <Kotoro> > Pollyanna falls to her knees in exhaustion, "We did it..." she sighs as her wounds mend. "We really did it....that was the point, wasn't it?" As she's healed, Demedais can see her color isn't quite right. She looks drained and tired and pale. "That energy from above was enough..." She leans forward onto Demedais. "That was much too much."
[18:56] <Kotoro> * Demedais also expends a lesser restoration. "It was. But now it's over." With that, he prepares magical sight, before looking to the diamonds and then to the angel.
[18:56] <Kotoro> <Demedais> roll 1d4 if it's relevant
[18:56] <Kotoro> * Hatbot --> "Demedais rolls 1d4 if it's relevant and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[18:56] <Kotoro> > The diamonds aren't magical, nor is there any magic around of note. Pollyanna's color improves at that. "Whew. I'm running on magical restorations and I've been torn up and survived and sandstorm and we've dealt with that damned belt...all of that..."
[18:56] <Kotoro> * Demedais nods slightly, before looking to the angel. "May we rest here for the night? We've been chased by that thing for two nights now. I thought we had lost it twice and scared it off two other times..."
[18:57] <Kotoro> "There are rooms that should still suffice," The mechanical angel informs you. "Come, this way."
[18:57] <Demedais> "Thank you." Demedais nods, picking up the diamonds before he follows the angel.
[18:59] <Kotoro> You go into another door that connects to this room(There are several, notably), and are lead to ancient private rooms. They're ancient and creaky but usable. Sleep comes quickly to both, rest occuring. OOC: Go ahead and refresh your spells, unless you had something you wanted to do before resting?
[18:59] <Demedais> OOC: Not at this time, no. Exploration can occur after rest.
[18:59] <Kotoro> OOC: Refreshj spells and declare any healing you'll do before that?
[19:03] <Demedais> OOC: First, a CMW on Pollyanna.
[19:03] <Demedais> roll 2d8+6
[19:03] <Rei-chan> Demedais rolled : 2d8+6 --> [ 2d8=8 ]{14}
[19:03] <Demedais> OOC: Next, two CSWs on self.
[19:03] <Demedais> roll 6d8+12
[19:03] <Rei-chan> Demedais rolled : 6d8+12 --> [ 6d8=31 ]{43}
[19:05] <Demedais> OOC: CMW self.
[19:05] <Demedais> roll 2d8+6
[19:05] <Rei-chan> Demedais rolled : 2d8+6 --> [ 2d8=3 ]{9}
[19:05] <Demedais> OOC: Two CLWs to top off.
[19:05] <Demedais> roll 2d8+12
[19:05] <Rei-chan> Demedais rolled : 2d8+12 --> [ 2d8=9 ]{21}
[19:06] <Demedais> OOC: Finally, and before I forget, Identify on the diamonds. Subtracting the 100 gp right now.
[19:07] <Kotoro> OOC: The diamonds weren't magical.
[19:07] <Demedais> OOC: Scratchscratchscratch
[19:09] <Kotoro> OOC: Okay. Doing anythign else before rest then?
[19:09] <Demedais> OOC: No.
[19:11] <Kotoro> OOC: Got spells refreshed?
[19:13] <Demedais> OOC: Now I do.
[19:16] <Kotoro> The morning dawns. After resting and recovering spells, the two find the angel waiting for them just outside of the room. It stands impassively, timelessly.
06[19:17] * Demedais nods slightly to the angel. "You have waited for us to wake? I apologize."
[19:19] <Kotoro> "There is no need. Time means nothing to me." So answering, "Helm has guided you to this lost sanctuary. What will you do now?"
06[19:22] * Demedais pauses at this, looking to the angel. "I have some interest in seeing this place used as a training ground and temple once again, if it is Helm's will that it be so rejuvenated."
03[19:23] * Kotoro is now known as Kotono
[19:26] <Kotono> "The sandstorms that revealed it will cover it again in due time," The angel speaks, "The sands consume all. As long as you understand that...you may do with it as you will."
06[19:27] * Demedais nods slightly at this. "I understand. I feel at least obligated to oversee repairs where the monster attacked. Will you stay here?"
[19:28] <Kotono> "I will. It is my duty," The mechanical angel-creature responds. "Should you desire, I will explain thet emple to you, should you wish to use it."
[19:29] <Demedais> "I would appreciate that." Demedais nods slightly.
[19:30] <Kotono> "There are three wings to the temple," STart to walk back, "This is the Ring of Guarded Rest, where quarters and rooms are. The wing you came from is the Wing of Vigiliant Seeing. It is a wing of training, of scrying, of our duties. It is also where are dead lie in honor. The last Wing is the Wing of Eternal Worship. There the faithful pay service to He Whom Watches."
[19:35] <Demedais> "I see." Demedais muses. "So we were entirely in the Wing of Vigilant Seeing until we found the path into here." A pause, before, "There was a room with a teleport marked in it near the hallway into here. What would that be?"
[19:39] <Kotono> "That would lead to a temple near Lake Bural. It has not been used since before this temple was abandoned," He answers.
[19:40] <Demedais> "Lake Bural...?" Demedais murmurs.
[19:42] <Demedais> roll 1d20+11
[19:42] <Rei-chan> Demedais rolled : 1d20+11 --> [ 1d20=18 ]{29}
[19:42] <Kotono> Demedais remembers now! Lake Bural! That was the lake where Zariel, Torm and the celestial host fought the God-King! It lies in what is now the endless, blasted, frozen wastelands. You traveled in that area as you passed through a forest of crystallined, petrified trees and angelic ghosts.
[19:44] <Demedais> "... Right. Lake Bural. Are there any other portals?" Demedais then inquires.
[19:44] <Kotono> "There are not," the mechanical angel answers.
06[19:45] * Demedais nods slightly. "And what is the Trial To Take Orderium?"
[19:47] <Kotono> "Orderium is a weapon left behind by a traveling priest long ago. You must defeat a powerful guardian to obtain it. THus the Trial to Take Orderium."
[19:48] <Demedais> "Right, should've expected a literal interpretation. ...Is the temple shielded from magical reach?"
[19:50] <Kotono> "There was a shield long ago, but if that creature was able to attack in and penetrate successfully, it may have degraded over time."
06[19:53] * Demedais nods slightly at this. "That'll likely be part of any repairs if we can manage it, along with seeing if we can redirect the teleporting room." A pause, at this. "I apologize for the scattershot nature of my questions, I've got three different things I'm sorting through at once here... and in all this I've failed to precipitate introductions. I am Demedais of Helm, and this is Pollyanna."
[19:55] <Kotono> "I am Guardian. It is not a name, but what I am called." It answers.
[19:57] <Demedais> "I see. Thank you, Guardian." Demedais nods slightly to this, a touch embarrassed. "When was this temple abandoned?"
[20:00] <Kotono> "I am not sure. Time is not something I was designed to track," I t answers. "It has been countlessly long."
[20:01] <Demedais> "...there was no reason for the departure of the people from here?" Demedais asks.
[20:01] <Kotono> "There were battles and conflicts, and then...the temple was lost," It answers.
06[20:04] * Demedais nods. "I understand. I believe I can guess when the temple was lost, then." A slight pause, at this, before, "Is there anything you wish from us in all this?"
[20:08] <Kotono> "I am sufficient," Guardian answers. "I will continue to be sufficient as long as I hold my vigil."
[20:09] <Demedais> "Very well. Are there any other major points of interest in the temple?"
[20:16] <Kotono> "There are libraries of religious works in the Wing of Eternal Worship," It answers.
06[20:16] * Demedais raises his eyebrows in interest at that. "Alright. Are there records of the construction of the shield or the teleport room?"
[20:17] <Kotono> "I do not know. I have never read the books in there, as it is not my duty," he answers.
[20:18] <Demedais> "I understand." A slight pause, before Demedais looks up to the eye that blasted the squid. "How many of those are there in the temple, and what triggers them?"
[20:20] <Kotono> "They are over important doors that must be guarded in lesser form. The greater one lies only in the center room of worship between all three Wings."
[20:21] <Demedais> "So this is... the center room, if I understand you correctly?" Demedais says, looking around. "I'd believe that."
[20:22] <Kotono> "Yes."
[20:22] <Kotono> Pollyanna continues to be quiet for a little longer, then, "What should we do first?" she asks. "Oh, and is there a source of water here?"
[20:24] <Kotono> "There is a well in the Wing of  Guarded Rest. I do not know if it still draws water."
[20:27] <Demedais> "I'm trying to decide. The main thing of import is to depart here and return to Balmuria to report the task as complete. Since the temple seems safe, we should be able to have Elle teleport here, presuming that would work." Demedais says with a look to Guardian. "In the meantime, we could check the water, yes."
[20:29] <Kotono> "Let's do that, then," Pollyanna says, "Water's so rare in the desert. If this has a real spring, this could really work."
06[20:31] * Demedais nods. "Maintaining a food and water supply here would be the most difficult task, yes, but I do not think it impossible if the teleport rings were to be fixed."
[20:32] <Demedais> "Thank you, Guardian." he nods again to the protector of the temple, before glancing to the other doors. "Which leads toward the well?"
[20:36] <Kotono> You are lead deep into the Wing of Guarded Rest. Past a door with the sigil of Helm, you find a room with a twenty foot wide stone well in it. Several ancient buckets are attached to rotted ropes around the edge of it.
06[20:38] * Demedais pulls out his rope and ties a bucket to it, before lowering it down the well slowly.
[20:40] <Kotono> Demedais lowers the bucket ten feet! Twenty feet! Thirty feet! Fourty feet! Fi-plunk! A splash of water, at about 45 feet or so. It echos up and above.
[20:41] <Demedais> "The other question is, is it drinkable." Demedais muses, letting it fill before he pulls it back up.
[20:47] <Kotono> The bucket comes back! Water is dripping out of it from several holes, the ancient bucket quite leaky! There's still enough to have a drink, though!
[20:49] <Demedais> "Oh, right. Holes." Demedais rubs head, tilting the bucket to preserve as much water as possible, a quick glance to make sure it's not green or something before he hands it to Pollyanna.
[20:50] <Kotono> The water is fairly pure, no signs of obvious disease in it. "You want me to drink it?" she asks.
[20:52] <Demedais> "If you're thirsty. I'm guessing it's safe? I'll take a sip to see if I taste anything, but I'm not the most optimal person to determine if something will cause illness." Demedais shrugs.
[20:54] <Kotono> Pollyanna takes a moment, then takes a sip. "It tastes fine, a bit dusty, but fine. Besides, I'm fairly sure I won't get sick and die from drinking water from one of Helm's temples. No way, not after all that we went through to get here."
[20:56] <Demedais> "If you get sick I can heal disease in most situations... unless the disease is infernal in nature, mainly." Demedais shakes his head. "So."
[20:59] <Kotono> "So now what?" Pollyanna asks.
06[21:00] * Demedais rubs his head. "One final question while I think of it: do you know anything about the creature that attacked during the trial, Guardian?"
[21:06] <Kotono> "No. My duties involve the temple, not what lies beyond. It was smote by the power of Helm and our skill at arms. Let the abomination lie forever silent."
06[21:08] * Demedais nods slightly to this, deciding not to press the subject. "Then... our next priority is to find a room our friend could safely scry and teleport into."
[21:09] <Kotono> "There are rooms of scrying in the Wing you came from," The Guardian speaks, "They are receptive to it, moreso if the shields have failed."
06[21:10] * Demedais nods. "We will head there, then. Thank you, Guardian."
[21:15] <Kotono> Thus the two head back to the scrying rooms! It's quiet here, quiet and very silent. The dusty rooms of scrying lie untoucehd yet still.
06[21:16] * Demedais pulls out the scroll and attempts to cast the sending therein!
[21:16] <Kotono> OOC: What's your message?
[21:19] <Demedais> OOC: "Elle: At temple of Helm in desert. Requesting scry and teleport to current location. Temple is secure, no issues. Will pay scry on return. Demedais."
[21:23] <Kotono> The message returns! "Understood. Do not resist, hour casting time. Elle."
[21:28] <Kotono> An hour passes, then...
[21:28] <Kotono> roll 1d100
[21:28] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=74 ]{74}
[21:29] <Kotono> Elle appears! She sniffs the air, "Sand and dust," she sneezes a second after, rubbing at her nose. "This is it? It looks...ancient."
[21:31] <Demedais> "It is. Abandoned during the war with the False God-King, I suspect. The one resident knows little about the circumstances." Demedais replies softly. "The temple is huge, and I would like to see it used as a training ground for the temple of Helm in Balmuria. This likely means you'll get a few more orders of teleport rings for the temple as soon as I can arrange the funds, idly."
[21:34] <Demedais> "Alternately, we can try and re-set some of the other features here. It's infeasible to manage direct transportation here, however, since the temple will likely be covered by sand soon."
[21:36] <Kotono> "That's a helluva lot of work. You'll need a good pile of gold to fund that, fair warning," Elle says, already starting to look around.
[21:38] <Demedais> "Understood." Demedais nods. "We also may look into other solutions, but the teleport rings are the best I can think of. We'd give you a short tour, but there's seals on many doors, and I'm not sure how well they'd interact with you."
[21:42] <Kotono> OOC: Where all are you going to show her?
[21:43] <Demedais> OOC: We weren't going to just now. That's why the whole "we'd give you... but..."
[21:44] <Demedais> "Well." Demedais says after a moment. "I'm sorry I'm not up for a tour now, though I'd like to later - especially if we can make sure you'd pass the seals - but... wait, hold on just a minute."
[21:45] <Demedais> Demedais runs over to the corpse of the monster - whatever it is - and cuts off a tentacle and part of an eye so that Elle might be able to identify it - before returning back. "Sorry. This is the other thing - we fought this monster here. The corpse is too huge, but it's also not going anywhere in this place - perhaps you can identify it from these?"
[21:46] <Demedais> "Once we teleport back, that is."
[21:46] <Demedais> "We can also get further items from it later, but for now, I'd rather get back."
[21:47] <Kotono> Elle examines the entire thing...."I'd need to see more of it," she says. "It looks properly disgusting and twisted."
[21:48] <Demedais> "We'll see what we can bring back later, then. If we run into one again I'd like to have a good battle plan - it pursued us halfway across the desert." Demedais shakes his head. "If you want these for spell components or think you can do something with them, go ahead. Either way, let's get going?"
[21:49] <Kotono> roll 1d100 seeing if there are crazy TP botches?
[21:49] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d100 seeing if there are crazy TP botches? --> [ 1d100=60 ]{60}