227.6 Alicia

Corwin · March 28, 2012, 07:12:16 AM

[21:13] <Anastasia> ----
[21:17] <Anastasia> Home. Rest. Alicia gets a good, long night's sleep in her bed. No troubles. No dreams of Abyssial maidens, no dreams of family lost, just a deep sleep that is oblivion until near dawn. Come morning, as Alicia rises, she can smell something. Something really good. It smells like fruits and milk and cream and honey.
06[21:18] * Alicia sniffs a bit, wondering who's been experimenting in the kitchen. Getting up and making her bed, she cleanses herself thoroughly with a magical scrub-down and ties up her hair, before getting dressed and following her nose...
[21:21] <Anastasia> In the kitchen, you find a Dawnhope fluttering about. She's setting the table, while Antenora carries a pot behind the eladrin, a resigned expression on her face and a sigh uttered. "Oh, good morning Alicia! Since neither of us sleeps much, I thought it would be good to do something nice for you."
[21:24] <Alicia> "It does smell nice," Alicia agrees, shooting a brief grin at Antenora as she goes to sit down. "How you talked Antenora into helping must be a story in itself, though..."
[21:25] <Anastasia> "I have my ways," Dawnhope sits down on the edge of the table, as Antenora turns away and goes to get something else. Giggling now, "It's a secret."
[21:27] <Alicia> "I guess Jessica's still sleeping... where's Marie, though?" Alicia asks. She can sense Marie's presence somewhere through the empathic link, but that doesn't give away too much information.
[21:34] <Anastasia> "She's out getting some flowers for the table setting," Dawnhope chirps.
06[21:36] * Alicia just shakes her head. "You really don't need to go to such trouble," she insists, smiling nonetheless. It is rather sweet.
[21:38] <Anastasia> "You didn't need to risk your life to get me out of there," Dawnhope sing-songs back, "But I'm free and I can do this for you!"
[21:41] <Alicia> "A fair point," Alicia admits as Marie flutters in and deposits a small basket of crysanthenum's on the table.
[21:41] <Alicia> "Good morning!" the normally resident eladrin chirps, receiving the same greeting back from her master.
Session Close: Fri Apr 10 21:49:48 2009

Session Start: Fri Apr 10 21:49:48 2009
Session Ident: #evildunes
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02[21:50] * Attempting to rejoin channel #evildunes
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03[21:50] * Topic is 'The Caretaker>Gelugons>Alicia=3 gelugons'
03[21:50] * Set by Kotono on Wed Apr 08 00:19:26
[21:51] <Anastasia> "She seems devoted to you," Going to get some more spoons, fluttering int he air all the while, "How do you get through to a fiend, anyway? Magic?"
[21:54] <Alicia> "Well, it partly helped that she was already something of a rogue when I met her, although she perhaps hoped that bringing me in would help her return to Hell in triumph," Alicia begins.
[21:54] <Alicia> "In the time we spent together I was able to persuade her that the baatezu approach to life is ultimately unfulfilling and self-defeating, although you should probably ask her herself exactly what made her change her mind."
[21:56] <Anastasia> "You did it with just words? Really? Do you have a gold tongue? Forget gold, maybe platinum." Hesitating int he air, Dawnhope doesn't advance. Meanwhile, Antenora returns with a face and puts it in the cente rof the table without comment again.
[21:59] <Alicia> Marie puts a few flowers into the vase while Alicia elects to take pity on the erinyes by suggesting something she might find more enjoyable, "Do you want to help me with training at the garrison today, Antenora?" she offers.

Corwin · March 28, 2012, 07:12:48 AM

[19:20] <Kotono> <Alicia> "Well, it partly helped that she was already something of a rogue when I met her, although she perhaps hoped that bringing me in would help her return to Hell in triumph," Alicia begins.
[19:20] <Kotono> <Alicia> "In the time we spent together I was able to persuade her that the baatezu approach to life is ultimately unfulfilling and self-defeating, although you should probably ask her herself exactly what made her change her mind."
[19:20] <Kotono> > "You did it with just words? Really? Do you have a gold tongue? Forget gold, maybe platinum." Hesitating int he air, Dawnhope doesn't advance. Meanwhile, Antenora returns with a face and puts it in the cente rof the table without comment again.
[19:20] <Kotono> <Alicia> Marie puts a few flowers into the vase while Alicia elects to take pity on the erinyes by suggesting something she might find more enjoyable, "Do you want to help me with training at the garrison today, Antenora?" she offers.
[19:21] <Kotono> "Certainly," Antenora's words come all too quickly. Amid that, a strange broth is poured in a bowl for Alicia. "Eat up!" Dawnhope says brightly.
06[19:23] * Alicia takes a spoon, digs up a scoop, and puts it in her mouth! Then, assuming no horrifying surprises, she swallows it!
[19:26] <Kotono> Alicia finds that it's quite good and worths wallowing. Kind of sweet and creamy at once. As everyone starts to eat, save Antenora, "You know, I flew around a bit and I got a lot of attention," Dawnhope says between tiny mouthfuls. "But it was like surprise was tempered by it being expected now, like how one person said when I asked. Balmuria's had a lot of big events happen recently, and from the way people talk about you, you're one of th
[19:26] <Kotono> and from the way people talk about you, you're one of the big players?"
[19:29] <Alicia> "Mmm, this is good," Alicia compliments the chef, having another spoonful before continuing the conversation. "Yes, when Marie first arrived I polymorphed her into an aasimar a lot to avoid attention, but by now people are quite used to coure flying around," she explains.
[19:32] <Kotono> "It's good! The people here all treat religion and magic and flying coure as something still new, but they're used ot it. It's really strange, so..." With a bright, bubbly smile, "I can teach people here. I also heard about shadows attacking and demons and worse. In light of that, you need someone to teach them how to be good, loving and happy."
[19:33] <Kotono> "You're being useful." Antenora observes, though her gaze is right on Marie. "I suppose you could laze around here if you wished, but going out and helping people is a far better use of your time."
[19:35] <Alicia> Marie's jaw drops at the blatant insult, too stunned even to speak.
06[19:35] * Alicia somehow ignores it, even though her familiar's indignation is felt loud and clear - she can speak for herself, after all. "Well, if that's what you want to do you'll have my full support," she offers approvingly.
[19:36] <Kotono> Antenora winces a little, "Too obvious?" she murmurs.
[19:38] <Kotono> Dawnhope eyes Antenora, but doesn't comment either. "There's a lot of interesting churches here. Mystra's not so bad. I'm not a big fan of old Helm, but Waukeen's fun. Still, there's no one to really have fun. No church to Lliira or Sune or even Sharess? Any big city needs those so people can unwind. I'll have to compensate."
[19:38] <Alicia> Marie just sniffs and turns her head away from Antenora, crossing her arms huffily. "I'm not even going to dignify you with a response."
[19:39] <Kotono> "I thought you'd have fun with Dawnhope, that's all," Antenora almost snaps, looking away as well, then burying her face in her hand.
[19:40] <Kotono> "Less venom, maybe?" Dawnhope wavers a hand back and forth.
[19:41] <Alicia> "Settle down, you two," Alicia waves her hand between Marie and Antenora, before addressing Dawnhope. "I wouldn't say Mystra isn't fun, but I can see the merit in Sune, Lliira, and Sharess's messages. I suppose Balmuria's somewhat choked with competing religions already, though, so it might be hard to squeeze in."
[19:43] <Kotono> "Well, I'm not planning to preach for them as much as the themes they embody." Dawnhope flutters up from her food now, "I need to check out the temple of Waukeen and see exactly which way they lean. Seira sounded pretty sensible, but some temples of Waukeen can be rougher."
[19:44] <Alicia> "I've met some who were pretty cut-throat, but the one in Balmuria seems fairly gentle," Alicia agrees, continuing to work away on her breakfast. "Anyway, whatever you can do to spread love and joy around will surely be well received," she beams at the little eladrin.
[19:45] <Kotono> "Right. Waukeen's nice, but she's still ultimately about the money. Oh well." Fluttering a little more, "See you three around!"
[19:48] <Alicia> "Watch out for crazy Tormites!" Marie calls after her.
[19:48] <Kotono> Getting up, "How about we get going then," Antenora says, looking ahead at the door.
06[19:50] * Alicia gets up and clears the table, leaving the dishes aside to be cleaned later. "I'll just get my armour and sword first," she nods.
[19:50] <Alicia> "I'll come too!" Marie offers sweetly. "Don't want anyone thinking I'm lazy, after all!"
[20:00] <Kotono> They day begins to unfold like any other. Training goes well in the morning, Alicia's charges showing slow, steady improvement over the time she's trained them. Breaking up for the noon meal and a short break, the trio begins to walk away from the garrison training yard. But just as you do, a private approaches, saluting. "Sir," he begins, "Commander Oberuth requests your presence, sir."
06[20:01] * Alicia gets up and returns the salute. "Where will I find him, private?"
[20:02] <Kotono> "In the general briefing room, sir," he salutes a second itme.
[20:02] <Alicia> "Alright, I'll be there presently. Thank you," Alicia dismisses the man before turning to Marie and Antenora. "Wait here, you two? I'll be back shortly," she tells them before heading off.
[20:04] <Kotono> "Sure," Antenora says, as she heads along. Finding Commander Oberuth in the briefing room, you find a familiar face with him. Darryl's look brings back flashes of Erenholm and the dead, empty village that was left behind in the wake of tragedy. He now wears leather armor and has a heavy pack on the floor besides him. He stands as Alicia enters. "Alicia," Commander Oberuth's gaze is on her, "One of the Erenholm survivors wanted to talk to yo
[20:04] <Kotono> "Alicia," Commander Oberuth's gaze is on her, "One of the Erenholm survivors wanted to talk to you."
[20:06] <Alicia> "Ah," Alicia pauses for a moment as she calls up the man's name from the vault of her memory, "Darryl, right? You didn't have to go through the Commander - you could have just visited me at home," she offers kindly. "What can I do for you?"
[20:08] <Kotono> "I didn't want to impose. I wanted to thank you again, forI feel I won't return to the United Baronies. At least not for a long time. There's also the matter of what I'll be doing, and I wanted you to know. Ever since this happened, I haven't been able to forgive or forget what the Sharrans did to Erenholm."
06[20:09] * Alicia nods understandingly, not blaming him at all for feeling that way. "Go on."
[20:10] <Kotono> "I realize that these times are changing. With all the religious revivals, there may be other Erenholms. Other pointless sacrifices to Shar. I...I can't allow that." Looking down, hand on the hilt of a shortsword belted to his side, "I've decided what I want to do with the rest of my life now."
06[20:11] * Alicia has a good idea, but prefers not to state any conclusions. "What will you do, Darryl?"
[20:12] <Kotono> "Hunt them. If even another single Sharran appears anywhere I can reach, I'll kill them." He draws his shortsword out, then a dagger with his other hand. "I want you to see that by my most sacred vow, these weapons will run red with the blood of anyone who bows to that abomination of a Goddess."
[20:17] <Alicia> "Living for vengeance is a sad thing indeed, Darryl," Alicia begins, before shaking her head, "But one I understand all too well. And regardless, by opposing their ilk you'll be protecting others from their future depredations, which is laudable in itself. Just... be careful that you do not find yourself adopting their ways to fight them - that would be handing her a victory like none other."
[20:18] <Kotono> "I'll never become like them," Darryl's voice has a hint of winter in it as he sheathes his blades. "I swear that to you."
[20:18] <Kotono> "Alicia's words are wise. Hunt them, but remember that you're not a cold blooded killer like them. When you have to kill, kill for the right reasons. Kill to protect others, not to satisify an endless emptiness in you."
[20:21] <Alicia> "Have you ever killed a thinking being before, Darryl?" Alicia asks, curious on that point.
[20:22] <Kotono> "No." Admitting this as he locks eyes with Alicia, "When the time comes, I will."
[20:26] <Alicia> "It's a shame that this tragedy would turn you into a killer, but," Alicia shrugs, "Speaking as a killer like few the world has seen, it's not my place to judge. You have your reasons and I respect that this is a decision you've made after many months to consider, rather than a spur of the moment choice."
[20:26] <Alicia> She cocks her head to the side, studying the man intently, "My last concern is whether your skills are up to the task you've set before yourself."
[20:27] <Kotono> "I've begun to train hard and well," he says, "Using both of these at the same time to efficiently eviserate my foes."
[20:29] <Alicia> "The two-bladed style is a very difficult one to master, though it's also one that I have learned in my time..." Alicia takes on a speculative tone. "Perhaps I might be able to provide you with a few pointers before you set off?"
[20:31] <Kotono> "Before you say anything rash, if that's what you're thinking, I was going to have the garrison assemble you travel supplies and a small donation of traveling money," Commander Oberuth now looks Darryl over carefully, "This would compliment this gift. Going to stop Shar's schemes is admirable, but do so when you're fully prepared."
[20:33] <Kotono> After listening to both, "I don't want to dally forever, but I know your offer is a good one. Thank you, ma'am, I accept."
[20:35] <Alicia> "There's little point running off without a plan, either," Alicia notes. "But there are other dangers to the people besides cultists, and perhaps you might put an end to them on your travels if you're so inclined. Lets step outside so I can properly gauge your skills?"
[20:47] <Kotono> Darryl follows Alicia out, back to the yard where Antenora and Marie wait. Antenora hangs back and watches, while Darryl looks about, "Are there practice weapons, or will we use our real ones?"
[20:49] <Alicia> "Practice weapons," Alicia confirms, going to one of the weapon-racks and picking out two short swords for herself and a short sword and dagger for Darryl, all with appropriately dulled edges. Handing over the weapons, she gives him a moment to get a feel for them as she steps back.
[20:49] <Alicia> "Now, lets spar so I can see what you can do already, then we'll see what advice I can give you," she offers, bringing up her weapons with one high and one low to guard herself.
[20:54] <Kotono> OOC: Basically just going to be trying to figure out how good he is?
[20:55] <Alicia> OOC: yeah, just light sparring I'm not looking to start a proper fight
[21:01] <Kotono> An hour of sparringa nd duelling commenses! Darryl is soild but not great. He knows what he's doing and for a normal person he's capable of defending himself. He's not anywhere close to your league.
06[21:06] * Alicia gives him advice throughout, not just on basics like how to best hold his weapons and what strikes to use, but also useful tactics about positioning and accepting risks to get in hits to disarm or trip an otherwise difficult foe.
[21:06] <Alicia> In conclusion, "There's more I could teach, but you have the basics established and there's no better teacher than genuine experience in a real battle. If you pick your battles properly you could go far," she encourages him.
[21:12] <Kotono> Taking a moment to rest before getting up, "Thank you." he says, "I'll remember what you taught me and repay it ten fold to the Sharrans."
[21:13] <Alicia> "So where will you be going first?" Alicia asks, wondering if he has any leads.
[21:15] <Kotono> "Malmuth. It's a large empire and it's recently lost something. From what I've studied about Sharran rituals, this appeals to them." Brushing himself off, "From there, I'll see what I've found and how I feel."
[21:18] <Alicia> "As good a direction as any," Alicia agrees. "One last piece of advice then; there's only so much a person can do alone."
[21:18] <Alicia> "You'll be hunting those who delight in striking from the shadows and going after you at your weakest. Having someone to watch your back out there can be more important than any skill with a blade - keep an eye out for those sympathetic to your cause for any help they can offer." Plus it helps to keep you more grounded and less crazed with vengeance, but no need to belabour that.
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03[21:52] * ChanServ sets mode: +qo Anastasia Anastasia
[21:54] <Anastasia> "I will." Leaning, one hand on a hip, "I hope I'll make a lot of people grateful to me, then."
[21:56] <Alicia> "Good luck out there, Darryl," Alicia offers her hand to him.
[21:57] <Anastasia> The hand is taken, a firm handshake. "Thank you, Alicia. Thank you for everything." He then goes to Antenora and Marie, "I remember seeing both of you at Erenholm as well. Thank you." He bows to them. Then back to Alicia, "I'll prepare my supplies and leave on the 'morrow,then."
[21:58] <Alicia> "Remember to speak to Commander Obureth about those supplies he offered," Alicia advises, giving him a wave before she joins Marie and Antenora.
[22:02] <Anastasia> "Mystra travel with you and watch you," Antenora smiles to him, "May you succeed to your wildest dreams, Darryl." As he travels back into the garrison, "You know...it was enlightening to see that happen again. From the ashes of evil rises another person to oppose it."
[22:04] <Alicia> "Hopefully he has what it takes," Alicia nods thoughtfully. "It's a hard path to walk, but... he seems set on it anyway."
[22:06] <Anastasia> "Did you have any plans for the afternoon," Antenora asks, "Or were you going home?"
[22:08] <Alicia> "I think I'll check up on things in Wetwind, then go shopping if need be. It's been about a week since we last looked in, so best to make sure everything's under control there," Alicia muses.
[22:10] <Anastasia> "Mmm. I think I'll stay here and visit Jessica," Antenora says after some thought. "I wanted to do some things in Balmuria today."
06[22:11] * Alicia nods. "We'll have to head home and get changed there first, anyway, so we'll head back now," she states, starting out of the garrison.
[22:11] <Alicia> "What are you going to be doing today, Antenora?" Marie asks curiously, fluttering along with the duo.
[22:17] <Anastasia> "Catch up with Jessica, visit the Temple of Gond, study at the Temple of Mystra, train," Ticking off fingers, "That's about it."
[22:18] <Alicia> "Sounds like a full day ahead," the eladrin agrees cheerily, seemingly having forgiven Antenora for her earlier ill-founded implication.
[22:19] <Anastasia> "You know..." Antenora hesitates, "Maybe you could come with me, Marie?"
[22:21] <Alicia> "You can if you like," Alicia quickly offers, eager to have those two make up with each other. "There's no need for both of us to visit the festhall."
[22:21] <Alicia> "Alright then!" Marie agrees happily, alighting on Antenora's head.
[22:21] <Anastasia> OOC: Skip ahead a bit then?
[22:22] <Alicia> OOC: sure
[22:22] <Demedais> I'll do that once WMUnet stops failing.
[22:22] <Demedais> OOC: ...strike
[22:26] <Anastasia> After going home and changing, Alicia's off and gone. Antenora and Marie find Jessica just leaving. "Oh hello," she says, "You two must be in a good mood."
[22:26] <Alicia> "I'm always in a good mood!" Marie replies brightly.
[22:28] <Anastasia> "Something like that," Antenora's eyes roll up towards Marie.
[22:29] <Anastasia> "Well, I'm going to visit Roald. We were going to have a picnic today, but two of his workers are sick so he's stuck at the bakery all day." Frowning with an exaggerated sigh, "I said I'd keep him company there."
[22:31] <Alicia> "The sacrifices you must make for the one you love," Marie sighs wistfully. "Oh! You better watch out - Alicia was talking about going to Kelara yesterday and she was saying it might be nice if you could introduce Roald to your parents!" she warns.
[22:33] <Anastasia> Antenora smirks a touch at that, while Jessica pales. "Oh, that means Mother will...oh Mystra." She sighs. "Thanks, Marie. Though speaking of...have you two seriously met Roald yet? I don't think you have, Antenora. You might have, Marie?"
[22:34] <Alicia> "I've seen him once or twice but we haven't talked that much," the eladrin admits, shrugging cutely.
[22:35] <Anastasia> "Why don't you two come with me?" Smiling brightly, "It'll brighten his day up to meet the two of you."
[22:36] <Alicia> "Sure! We're not doing anything urgent, anyway!" Marie answers for the two of them.
[22:37] <Anastasia> "I was going to..." Antenora starts, before facepalming. "Oh well, I suppose. The Temple of Gond can wait until tomorrow."
[22:38] <Anastasia> "See, that's the right attitude. What's a few more bits of synchronized metal versus meeting someone," Jessica picks up her pace, "Let's go and have some fun!"
[22:39] <Alicia> Marie hangs down over Antenora's face, regarding her quizzically from her upside down vantage. "Come on, the temple'll still be there afterwards - there's plenty of hours in the day for two non-sleeping fun-loving girls like us!"
[22:40] <Anastasia> "See," Antenora begins, "Those 'syncronized bits of metal' are like mana to my sensibilities." Rolling her eyes up, "And-" There's a cutoff there, Jessica butting in. "Antenora, really. I know you like them, but that's bordering on the asocial. Come on, loosen up." Taking Antenora's arm, "Marie, tell her to loosen up or we'll need to take her back to Arborea. Maybe a few more wild nights of eladrin parties will help in that case?"
[22:41] <Anastasia> Maybe a few more wild nights of eladrin parties will help in that case?"
[22:44] <Alicia> "Well, it's nice that she has interests beyond just smiting evil and looking down on chaos - I mean, everyone has to have hobbies, right?" Marie offers in Antenora's defence. "It's a bit surprising since it doesn't really fit you, but that just makes it cuter."
[22:46] <Anastasia> "Hobbies are well and good, but come on. Didn't you tell me awhile ago now nice it was to be close to people? That requires going to meet and talk with them, not spending it with some bits of metal." Smiling along as she walks, "Please, Antenora."
[22:46] <Anastasia> "Cuter, eh?" Antenora shakes her head as she laughs, "Fine, I'll go. You don't have to argue that strongly. I'm going."
[22:48] <Alicia> Marie takes off from Antenora's head and flutters cheerily between her and Jessica as they leave the house and start the walk across town to Roald's family's bakery.
[22:48] <Anastasia> As they walk...
[22:48] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+19
03[22:48] * Hatbot (~Hatbot@cpe-70-113-75-254.austin.res.rr.com) has joined #evildunes
03[22:48] * Anastasia sets mode: +v Hatbot
[22:48] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+19
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+19 and gets 31." [1d20=12]
[22:51] <Anastasia> The three take a relaxed, easy walk. They head to the side of the hill with Seira's inn and Elle's shop, walking northward on the throughfare there. As you do, passing fairly busy streets and crowds of people, Antenora stops. In Marie's head, 'Hold on a moment. 20 feet ahead, walking towards us. The two men in studded leather, with the battleaxes and falchions? See them, Marie? Nothing. They're not there as far as my mind sees.'
[22:52] <Anastasia> Marie? Nothing. They're not there as far as my mind sees.'
[22:53] <Alicia> Marie surreptitiously looks over the three indicated for magic and evil.
[22:55] <Anastasia> Jessica stops as well, glancing back at Antenora. She frowns at her.
[22:57] <Alicia> 'They've got magic weapons and armour that I can detect, so it can't be an anti-divination effect,' Marie replies inaudibly. 'Better keep moving unless you want to look suspicious, by the way,' she adds.
[22:57] <Anastasia> Antenora walks to the side, away from those men. 'This way,' she sends to Marie. JEssica frowns even more, but follows after Antenora.
[22:58] <Alicia> Marie gives Jessica a little shrug and follows Antenora as requested.
[23:01] <Anastasia> The men pause as they approahc, watching the two. They lean in and talk to each other briefly. One's aburly blonde man, the other is a lean black haired man. Both are tall, over six feet and in good shape and form. "Excuse me," the blonde man calls in a pleasing voice, "Are you Jessica Reynes and Antenora?"
[23:02] <Alicia> Marie has a baaaad feeling about this.
[23:04] <Anastasia> Antenora looks them over, "What do you want," she asks, as Jessica slinks back behind Antenora. The passing crowds look back and forth, a few giving long, unkind looks to Jessica as the men are 15 feet away.
[23:05] <Alicia> Poor Jessica. You'd think by now people would've gotten over her trying to kill that archbaron guy... Marie would give them a piece of her mind, but she's more worried about the armed men that Antenora can't sense.
[23:08] <Anastasia> "We'd like to talk about Alicia. We came to meet her. We had friends who the Crimson Guard saved and we'd like to thank her in person." The black haired man smiles.
[23:09] <Alicia> "She's not here right now," Marie informs them, relaxing a little bit - Alicia does lots of nice things, it's natural that there should be grateful people out there. "Who are your friends?"
[23:14] <Anastasia> "They were victims of Malmuth's aggression," Ten feet away, the two approaching with warm smiles. "The quick victory in the war ensured they would not be further harmed."
[23:17] <Alicia> Marie looks up directly above Antenora, gauges a distance of 100 feet, and elicits a burst of purple faerie fire in the sky at that point to reveal any hidden foes!
[23:17] <Alicia> OOC: SR?
[23:18] <Anastasia> OOC: Yes.
[23:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16
06[23:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 and gets 35." [1d20=19]
[23:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16
06[23:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 and gets 17." [1d20=1]
[23:25] <Anastasia> Above, one of two figures appears lined in Faerie fire! It has long wings, flapping in the air! It's body is more or less humanoid. The other target fizzles. The two men start to draw their weapons a split second later! Jessica quickly sprints back several feet, fumbling in her pouch for a tiger statuette! Antenora flies straight up 50 feet, before plummeting down at them in a speedy surprise charge down at the blonde one! OOC: Party has
[23:25] <Anastasia> speedy surprise charge down at the blonde one! OOC: Party has a surprise round. Jessica saw the drawing weapons and is getting her tiger ready, while Anteora's going on the offensive.
[23:27] <Alicia> Marie tries again with the faerie fire, trusting Antenora that there's a second foe up there!
[23:27] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16
06[23:27] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 and gets 20." [1d20=4]
[23:27] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+25 (+2 charge, +1 flying, +2 FS 9/10, +7 smite, +2 bane, -10 PA)
06[23:27] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+25 (+2 charge, +1 flying, +2 FS 9/10, +7 smite, +2 bane, -10 PA) and gets 33." [1d20=8]
[23:28] <Anastasia> roll 2d8+1d6+2d6+66
06[23:28] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 2d8+1d6+2d6+66 and gets 79." [2d8=6, 2][1d6=1][2d6=2, 2]
[23:42] <Anastasia> As a Dire Tiger springs into life, and Marie's spell fails, Antenora charges forward! She impales the blonde soldier with ease, ripping away her spear from his body! Despite a grotesque wound, red blue turning frozen as it falls away from the man's body! "Begone from this place! There's nothing here for you but oblivion and defeat!" OOC: Let's roll initative here.
[23:42] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+5 Antenora
06[23:42] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+5 Antenora and gets 17." [1d20=12]
[23:42] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7
06[23:42] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 and gets 27." [1d20=20]
[23:42] <Anastasia> "Get out of here, now," Jessica calls to the people, who gawk and stare at the battle springing up around them! A few are already starting to run!
[23:43] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+10
06[23:43] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+10 and gets 25." [1d20=15]
[23:43] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+5 Blonde
06[23:43] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+5 Blonde and gets 19." [1d20=14]
[23:43] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+5 Black
06[23:43] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+5 Black and gets 12." [1d20=7]
[23:43] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+11 faeriefired thing
06[23:44] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+11 faeriefired thing and gets 15." [1d20=4]
[23:44] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+8
06[23:44] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+8 and gets 11." [1d20=3]
[23:44] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+2 TIGER
06[23:44] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+2 TIGER and gets 13." [1d20=11]
03[23:45] * Anastasia changes topic to 'Marie>Jessica>Blonde>Antenora>Winged creature>TIGER>Black>?????'
[23:46] <Anastasia> OOC: Your'e up, Marie.
[23:46] <Alicia> Marie wonders if she's missing, but nonetheless she tries to paint the sky with faerie fire again to reveal the other flying interloper, before quickly moving beside Jessica to guard her!
[23:46] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 SR, constant guardian on Jessica
06[23:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 SR, constant guardian on Jessica and gets 35." [1d20=19]
[23:47] <Anastasia> This time, another figure appears! It's a man covered with horrid barbs, quite large adn with a bow in it's hands! OOC: Taking yourm ove action?
[23:48] <Alicia> "Stay back until there's an opening, Jessica!" Marie warns Alicia's sister, not wanting her to run in and get clobbered like she did against that troll.
[23:48] <Alicia> OOC: move was spent positioning near Jessica
[23:48] <Anastasia> "Got it!" Jessica shouts back, readying a bracelet on her arm, "Everyone! Run! Call the Crimson Guard! Hurry!" Jessica shouts! OOC: Readying an actino to use her bracelet of friends in case things get really bad really fast. Right, Marie. Blonde man is up.
[23:49] <Anastasia> The blonde man changes in an instant! In it's place ia horrid gelugon! It's body is clad in studded leather, shifting to fit it's size! In one hand is a battleaxe of human size, in the other is a falchion! It makes a quick swipe with the battleaxe at Antenora!
[23:50] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+26
06[23:50] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+26 and gets 29." [1d20=3]
[23:51] <Anastasia> Antenora deflects the axe with her spear, spinning it back! A split second later, a massive vaccum of deathly cold air enamnates out from him in a cone! OOC: Ref saves you threea fter it checks SR for Anty.
[23:51] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 How many actions does this guy get?
06[23:51] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 How many actions does this guy get? and gets 24." [1d20=11]
[23:52] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+15 (Move equivalent+standard+swift)CL check
06[23:52] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+15 (Move equivalent+standard+swift)CL check and gets 35." [1d20=20]
[23:52] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+15 Jessica reflex
06[23:52] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+15 Jessica reflex and gets 30." [1d20=15]
[23:52] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+21 Antenora
06[23:52] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+21 Antenora and gets 28." [1d20=7]
[23:53] <Anastasia> roll 15d6 half cold, half unholy typed. Jessica evades, other two take half damage.
06[23:53] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 15d6 half cold, half unholy typed. Jessica evades, other two take half damage. and gets 46." [15d6=2, 5, 6, 1, 1, 2, 5, 4, 1, 2, 6, 1, 3, 4, 3]
[23:53] <Alicia> OOC: Marie has improved evasion, so no damage for her
[23:53] <Anastasia> OOC: Just Antenora then. 23 damage. Say the base wins out over the corrupted part, so 12 cold and 11 unholy. Antenora has a bit of cold res to soften that. 5 I think?
[23:54] <Alicia> OOC: yeah, so 18 damage
[23:54] <Anastasia> OOC: Yeah. 7 cold and 11 unholy. 18 total, right. Just walking through it myself.
[23:54] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+1
06[23:54] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+1 and gets 11." [1d20=10]
[23:54] <Anastasia> roll 1d20-1
06[23:54] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20-1 and gets 9." [1d20=10]
[23:54] <Anastasia> roll 1d20
06[23:54] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20 and gets 16." [1d20=16]
[23:56] <Anastasia> Antenora blocks most of the cold with her spear, while Jessica and Marie duck and miss most of the air! A few people nearby are flashfrozen, nothing but ice statues in that horrible blast! Antenora snarls, "Die now!" She calls, moving out of his range and repeating her diving charge of last time! "Listen to her! Flee!"
[23:56] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+29 (+2 charge, +1 flying, +2 FS 8/10, +7 smite, +2 bane, -6 PA)
06[23:56] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+29 (+2 charge, +1 flying, +2 FS 8/10, +7 smite, +2 bane, -6 PA) and gets 34." [1d20=5]
[23:57] <Anastasia> Antenora charges again, but her spear is blocked by crossed battleaxe and falchion! The gelugon clatters back at her, "Your lives are forfiet by decree!" OOC: Winged creature is up.
[23:58] <Anastasia> Above, one can hear laughter. The winged figure shakes in cackles! "Oh, the spirits of the dead are crying out already! Such a cold death knocked them right out of their bodies!" As he does, a bolt of lighting slams down from above, going right for Antenora's head, crackling all the while!
[23:59] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+12 CL check
06[23:59] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+12 CL check and gets 29." [1d20=17]
[23:59] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+21 Antenora reflex again
06[23:59] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+21 Antenora reflex again and gets 32." [1d20=11]
[23:59] <Anastasia> roll 10d6 half lightning half unholy, made the save.
06[23:59] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 10d6 half lightning half unholy, made the save. and gets 34." [10d6=3, 4, 2, 6, 2, 4, 2, 1, 4, 6]
Session Time: Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 2009
[00:00] <Alicia> "It's the Spark Hunters... call for Alicia! Now!" Marie yells stridently to Jessica as she sees the devils able to fend off Antenora's attacks.
[00:00] <Anastasia> "Got it!" Jessica acts, even as Antenora is grazed by it, only some of the lightning crackling into her body! She grimaces but stays up in one place! OOC: JEssica's acting now.
03[00:00] * Anastasia changes topic to 'Marie>Jessica>Blonde>Antenora>Winged creature>Jessica>TIGER>Black>?????'
03[00:01] * Anastasia changes topic to 'Marie>Blonde>Antenora>Winged creature>Jessica>TIGER>Black>?????'
[00:02] <Anastasia> Pulling on her bracelet, "Alicia Reynes!" Jessica calls! OOC: Alicia is aware Jessica's trying to summon her. She can come or stay as sh ewishes.
[00:02] <Alicia> OOC: Do I act immediately?
[00:03] <Anastasia> OOC: You'll be able to and appear next to Jessica, yes.
06[00:04] * Alicia promptly appears adjacent to Jessica. She doesn't look like herself, more like a middle aged and slightly overweight woman with greying hair and black robes worn. Rather than waste time with questions, she immediately begins to cast a spell, turning her sister invisible! "Jessica, hide!" she instructs, reaching for her portable hole.
03[00:04] * Alicia changes topic to 'Marie>Blonde>Antenora>Winged creature>Jessica>Alicia>TIGER>Black>Barbed'
[00:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 knowledge devotion for Alicia
06[00:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 knowledge devotion for Alicia and gets 28." [1d20=8]
[00:04] <Anastasia> "Spark Hunters!" Antenora shouts to Alicia, "Above too!" Meanwhile, the tiger pounces on the black haired man as Jessica points at him!
[00:05] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+22 (+2 charge) claw 1
06[00:05] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+22 (+2 charge) claw 1 and gets 41." [1d20=19]
[00:05] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+22 (+2 charge) claw 2
06[00:05] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+22 (+2 charge) claw 2 and gets 37." [1d20=15]
[00:05] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+16 bite
06[00:05] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+16 bite and gets 29." [1d20=13]
[00:06] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+20 rake
[00:06] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+20 rake
06[00:06] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+20 rake and gets 33." [1d20=13]
06[00:06] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+20 rake and gets 30." [1d20=10]
[00:07] <Anastasia> roll 2d4+8
06[00:07] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 2d4+8 and gets 15." [2d4=3, 4]
[00:07] <Anastasia> roll 2d4+8
06[00:07] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 2d4+8 and gets 16." [2d4=4, 4]
[00:07] <Anastasia> roll 2d4+4 rake
06[00:07] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 2d4+4 rake and gets 9." [2d4=3, 2]
[00:08] <Anastasia> roll 2d4+4 rake
06[00:08] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 2d4+4 rake and gets 7." [2d4=1, 2]
[00:08] <Anastasia> roll 2d6+4
06[00:08] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 2d6+4 and gets 8." [2d6=1, 3]
[00:08] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+24 grapple for tiger
06[00:08] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+24 grapple for tiger and gets 37." [1d20=13]
[00:09] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+20
06[00:09] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+20 and gets 24." [1d20=4]
[00:09] <Anastasia> Pouncing ont he untransformed creature, the tiger pounces and claws and bites and rakes it! It holds it down hard, grappling with it and mauling away! The black haired one grunts and tries to escape the grapple!
[00:09] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+24
06[00:09] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+24 and gets 33." [1d20=9]
[00:09] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+20
06[00:09] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+20 and gets 36." [1d20=16]
[00:10] <Anastasia> It staggers and manages to break the hold the tiger has on it, stumbling slightly back! From above, a voice with terrible, terrible tones speaks! Each word is like a furnance blast of boiling hate! "Now, perish inferior creatures!" WIth that, a rain of arrows comes from above!
[00:11] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+33 arrow Antenora
06[00:11] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+33 arrow Antenora and gets 47." [1d20=14]
[00:11] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+33 arrow Antenora
06[00:11] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+33 arrow Antenora and gets 42." [1d20=9]
[00:11] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+28 arrow Tiger
[00:11] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+28 arrow Tiger
06[00:11] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+28 arrow Tiger and gets 33." [1d20=5]
06[00:11] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+28 arrow Tiger and gets 38." [1d20=10]
[00:11] <Anastasia> OOC: -5 from the second
[00:11] <Anastasia> OOC: So 33.
[00:11] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+18 Tiger
06[00:11] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+18 Tiger and gets 20." [1d20=2]
[00:12] <Anastasia> roll 4d8+22+4d6
06[00:12] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 4d8+22+4d6 and gets 56." [4d8=5, 7, 6, 4][4d6=3, 2, 3, 4]
[00:12] <Anastasia> roll 4d8+16 tiger
06[00:12] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 4d8+16 tiger and gets 37." [4d8=1, 6, 7, 7]
[00:14] <Anastasia> The arrows fly like the wrath of a vengeful God! Both the tiger statue and Antenora are considerably wounded, pincushioned! Antenora cries in pain, wobbling! OOC: Marie's up.
[00:14] <Anastasia> More people run, seeing the horrible gelugon and beating a hasty retreat away from it!
[00:15] <Alicia> "Marie, get Antenora out of there! Plan B!" Alicia tells her familiar, wanting to pull Antenora out of range from a full attack and buy her room for a charge.
[00:16] <Alicia> "Got it!" Marie replies, using her bracelet to switch places with Antenora before she immediately flies back to join both her and Alicia, protecting them with her aura, and Antenora with her constant guardianship. Without armour Alicia's going to get hit no matter what happens, anyway.
[00:18] <Anastasia> Antenora shudder,s "Careful of those arrows," she pants, "Evil. Sickening evil!" The blonde gelugon licks at it's hand, a tiny tongue coming out from it's mouth! Another horrible vaccum of cold comes from it, going for the clustered heroes!
[00:18] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+15 CL
06[00:18] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+15 CL and gets 32." [1d20=17]
[00:18] <Anastasia> OOC: Ref saves, all.
[00:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 A
06[00:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 A and gets 29." [1d20=11]
[00:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 M
06[00:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 M and gets 19." [1d20=6]
[00:19] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+21 Antenora
06[00:19] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+21 Antenora and gets 31." [1d20=10]
[00:19] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+15 Jessica
06[00:19] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+15 Jessica and gets 20." [1d20=5]
[00:19] <Anastasia> roll 15d6 Halves for Alicia and Anty, Jessica evades, Marie hates her dice and takes full.
06[00:19] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 15d6 Halves for Alicia and Anty, Jessica evades, Marie hates her dice and takes full. and gets 60." [15d6=1, 1, 2, 6, 6, 4, 4, 6, 2, 6, 3, 4, 3, 6, 6]
[00:19] <Alicia> OOC: improved evasion, still half for Marie
[00:20] <Anastasia> OOC: Right.
[00:20] <Anastasia> OOC: Pure cold damage this time.
[00:20] <Anastasia> The gelugon then runs around to the side of the street, near the end and alleys! He's ten feet to the north of the clustered party! OOC: Antenora.
[00:21] <Alicia> "Wait, Antenora, don't go just yet," Alicia cautions.
[00:22] <Anastasia> Antenora sags on her spear, "Shit...we need reinforcements." She grimaces. Pain lingers in her voice, "We're outmatched right now!" OOC: She's holding.
[00:25] <Anastasia> LAughing even more, "They're asking why they had to die! It's so fucking funny!" The invisible winged creature continues to cackle! "Oh, they're so scared!" A moment later, another lightning bolt comes down at Antenora!
[00:25] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+12 CL
06[00:25] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+12 CL and gets 29." [1d20=17]
[00:25] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+21 ref
06[00:25] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+21 ref and gets 28." [1d20=7]
[00:25] <Anastasia> roll 10d6 pure lightning this time halved
06[00:25] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 10d6 pure lightning this time halved and gets 34." [10d6=1, 3, 1, 2, 4, 6, 6, 4, 4, 3]
[00:26] <Anastasia> Antenora is hit again! She twists her body to miss most of the lightning botl, but she still gets shocked! SSmoke rises from her body, frozen patches dripping blood from arrow wounds! "Go...to...Hell..." She grinds out to him. OOC: Jessica's up.
[00:28] <Anastasia> Jessica meanwhile hides unseen for now, ducking into an alley invisible! OOC: I'll her hide, it's nottoo relevant but it's worth checking anyway.
[00:28] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+18
06[00:28] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 34." [1d20=16]
06[00:28] * Alicia had been planning to turn Antenora invisible, but now even a lucky shot could see her off it calls for a change in approach. Touching Antenora's shoulder, she channels healing energy into the renegade erinyes. "Go for the archer, destroy or take away his bow," she hisses urgently. "Now, before he has a chance to fire again!"
[00:28] <Anastasia> OOC: Alicia.
[00:28] <Alicia> roll 18d4+18
06[00:28] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 18d4+18 and gets 73." [18d4=4, 1, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 1, 4, 3, 4, 2, 2, 4, 2]
[00:29] <Alicia> That done, she withdraws Hell Striker from her portable hole. She wishes dearly she had time to put her armour on, but she'll have to make do...
02[00:29] * Demedais (~ferixstad@resnet211-066.resnet.wmich.edu) Quit (Back later, heading home.)
[00:30] <Anastasia> "Thanks," Antenora breathes in raggedly, taking to the air! She charges upward, spear bursting into light as she does, going right for the highlighted archer!
[00:33] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+36 (+2 charge, +4 two handed, +2 FS 7/10, +7 smite)
06[00:33] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+36 (+2 charge, +4 two handed, +2 FS 7/10, +7 smite) and gets 40." [1d20=4]
[00:34] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+25
06[00:34] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+25 and gets 44." [1d20=19]
[00:35] <Anastasia> Antenora's unseen spear lances out, hitting with a barely seen bow! But no bow is seen flying from him, no disarming obviously successful! OOC: Tiger is up.
[00:36] <Anastasia> "Dammit!" Jessica whimpers, "Get the other one! The tiger breaks away, the black haired one unable to have a weapon handy due to grappling and at least unable to attack ita s it pounces on the blonde gelugon!
[00:36] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+22 charge
[00:36] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+22 charge
06[00:36] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+22 charge and gets 34." [1d20=12]
06[00:36] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+22 charge and gets 27." [1d20=5]
[00:36] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+16
06[00:36] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+16 and gets 22." [1d20=6]
[00:36] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+16
06[00:36] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+16 and gets 18." [1d20=2]
[00:36] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+18
06[00:36] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 32." [1d20=14]
[00:36] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+18
06[00:36] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 19." [1d20=1]
[00:37] <Anastasia> But this time, the gelugon is ready! It blocks each blow with it's blades, enduring the tiger's charge with perfect, cold deflections! The black haired man shifts, turning into another gelugon! It then positions, advancing right towards Alicia and swinging it's battleaxe at her unarmoed body!
[00:38] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+18 (-6 PA)
06[00:38] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+18 (-6 PA) and gets 28." [1d20=10]
[00:38] <Anastasia> OOC: AC?
[00:38] <Alicia> OOC: 22
[00:38] <Anastasia> roll 1d8+11
06[00:38] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d8+11 and gets 18." [1d8=7]
[00:38] <Anastasia> A split second later, a cone of cold erupts around Alicia, billowing out to freeze her solid! OOC: Ref, Alicia and Marie.
[00:39] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 A
06[00:39] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 A and gets 24." [1d20=6]
[00:39] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 M
06[00:39] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 M and gets 27." [1d20=14]
[00:39] <Anastasia> roll 15d6 pure cold damage, both passed
06[00:39] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 15d6 pure cold damage, both passed and gets 50." [15d6=1, 4, 3, 6, 2, 4, 6, 1, 6, 6, 5, 1, 1, 1, 3]
[00:40] <Anastasia> Alicia endures the cone, Hell Striker's flaming blades parrying some of the freezing air current! It provides warmth and respite, dulling hte worst of the cone! Meanwhile, above, the faintly seen archer moves 10 feet down and away, before snapping off an arrow at Alicia!
[00:40] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+33
06[00:40] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+33 and gets 48." [1d20=15]
[00:41] <Anastasia> roll 2d8+11+2d6
06[00:41] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 2d8+11+2d6 and gets 27." [2d8=4, 3][2d6=6, 3]
[00:41] <Anastasia> The arrow flies straight down, hitting Alicia right int he shoulder! The touch of it reviles her entire body, as if pure hate burns in her wound! (More)
[00:42] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+14
06[00:42] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+14 and gets 31." [1d20=17]
[00:43] <Anastasia> roll 10d6
06[00:43] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 10d6 and gets 38." [10d6=2, 2, 2, 6, 6, 6, 1, 6, 2, 5]
[00:43] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+19 ref
06[00:43] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+19 ref and gets 20." [1d20=1]
[00:44] <Anastasia> From the right, the hilltop has a figure on it! Elle's hands crackle with lightning, as a lighting bolt hits the barbed devil head on! Besides her, Donald sprints down the hill, leaping over grasses and with his sword out! "We're coming, we're coming!" he calls! OOC: Marei's up.
[00:44] <Alicia> Gritting her teeth and using her flaming blade to ward off the cold and reeling from the arrow penetrating her vulnerably flesh, Alicia nonetheless continues to command the battle despite all that assails her. "Marie, thin out their numbers - banish the fliers!"
03[00:44] * Anastasia changes topic to 'Marie>Blonde>Antenora>Winged creature>Jessica>Alicia>TIGER>Black>Barbed>Elle>Donald'
[00:45] <Alicia> "Got it!" Marie nods, using her devil-slaying bow to fire off her precious banishing arrows, first at the mouthy spellcaster!
[00:45] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24
06[00:45] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 and gets 27." [1d20=3]
[00:45] <Anastasia> OOC: Hit.
[00:46] <Alicia> OOC: will save, DC 20 +2 for each DR component Marie beats (silver and holy)
[00:46] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+15 DC 24
06[00:46] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+15 DC 24 and gets 26." [1d20=11]
[00:46] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19 arrow 2
06[00:46] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 arrow 2 and gets 31." [1d20=12]
[00:46] <Anastasia> OOC: Hit.
[00:46] <Alicia> OOC: same will save
[00:46] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+15 DC 24
06[00:46] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+15 DC 24 and gets 20." [1d20=5]
[00:46] <Alicia> roll 2d4+6+6d6+6 damage to take on her way back to Hell
06[00:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d4+6+6d6+6 damage to take on her way back to Hell and gets 35." [2d4=2, 4][6d6=1, 2, 2, 6, 2, 4]
03[00:47] * Anastasia changes topic to 'Marie>Blonde>Antenora>Jessica>Alicia>TIGER>Black>Barbed>Elle>Donald'
[00:47] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 regular arrow at rival archer
06[00:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 regular arrow at rival archer and gets 33." [1d20=19]
[00:47] <Anastasia> OOC: Whiff.
[00:47] <Anastasia> OOC: Wait no hit, sorry.
[00:47] <Alicia> roll 1d4+3+3d6+3
06[00:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+3+3d6+3 and gets 24." [1d4=3][3d6=5, 6, 4]
[00:48] <Alicia> "You guys can thank Esthan for that - his gift actually came in handy after all!" Marie jeers at the devils after sending one of them packing and wounding another.
[00:49] <Anastasia> Two arrows fly! They both hit, the faeriefired figure winking in the air, then gone, banished away! A moment later, an arrow hits the rival archer, grazing and sticking into it's leg! The blonde gelugon fires off another vaccum of freezing air at Alicia and Marie, before turning his attention to the tiger!
[00:49] <Anastasia> OOC: Ref, you two.
[00:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 A
06[00:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 A and gets 24." [1d20=6]
[00:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 M
06[00:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 M and gets 25." [1d20=12]
[00:49] <Anastasia> roll 15d6 both passed
06[00:49] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 15d6 both passed and gets 44." [15d6=3, 5, 5, 6, 2, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 4, 4, 3, 1, 1]
[00:49] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+25
06[00:49] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+25 and gets 28." [1d20=3]
[00:49] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+20
06[00:49] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+20 and gets 39." [1d20=19]
[00:49] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+20 crit check
06[00:49] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+20 crit check and gets 38." [1d20=18]
[00:49] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+15
06[00:49] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+15 and gets 33." [1d20=18]
[00:50] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+15 crit
06[00:50] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+15 crit and gets 28." [1d20=13]
[00:50] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+10
06[00:50] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+10 and gets 18." [1d20=8]
[00:50] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+25
06[00:50] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+25 and gets 36." [1d20=11]
[00:50] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+20
06[00:50] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+20 and gets 21." [1d20=1]
[00:50] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+15
06[00:50] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+15 and gets 30." [1d20=15]
[00:50] <Anastasia> OOC: Also erase the +10 attack, by the by.
[00:50] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+24 bite
06[00:50] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+24 bite and gets 37." [1d20=13]
[00:50] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+24 tail
06[00:50] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+24 tail and gets 37." [1d20=13]
[00:52] <Anastasia> 10d4+55+3d8+33+2d6+5+3d6+5
06[00:52] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 10d4+55+3d8+33+2d6+5+3d6+5 and gets 154." [10d4=3, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 4, 2, 2, 2][3d8=3, 1, 2][2d6=3, 6][3d6=4, 4, 5]
03[00:52] * Anastasia changes topic to 'Marie>Blonde>Antenora>Jessica>Alicia>Black>Barbed>Elle>Donald'
[00:52] <Anastasia> The tiger is ripped apart savagely! It shatters into stone, slain and the magic forever ruined! OOC: Antenora's up.
[00:56] <Anastasia> Antenora glides a bit in the air, going for the archer's bow full out! OOC: Also using FS 6/10 and healing herself 10 HP. Five foots tepping to use range to get to him and full attack/disarm.
[00:56] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+26 (+4 two handed)
06[00:56] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+26 (+4 two handed) and gets 42." [1d20=16]
[00:57] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+25
06[00:57] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+25 and gets 31." [1d20=6]
[00:58] <Anastasia> Spear thrusting out, something falls from above! A sleek black longbow, a notch to fire through in the center, shaped like a screaming face! It lands in an alley a little away from it all! Thereafter, Antenora attacks him head on!
[00:58] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+16
06[00:58] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+16 and gets 36." [1d20=20]
[00:58] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+11
06[00:58] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+11 and gets 30." [1d20=19]
[00:58] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+16 crit check 1
06[00:58] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+16 crit check 1 and gets 21." [1d20=5]
[00:58] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+11
06[00:58] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+11 and gets 20." [1d20=9]
[00:59] <Anastasia> roll 2d8+4d6+22
06[00:59] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 2d8+4d6+22 and gets 46." [2d8=3, 7][4d6=6, 1, 1, 6]
[00:59] <Anastasia> Antenora rips into his body twice, unseen bloods sending flecks of green, hissing blood raining down! OOC: Jessica's up.
[01:00] <Anastasia> Jessica continues to hide as instructed! OOC: Alicia.
[01:01] <Alicia> "Hell Striker, you better get me through this..." Alicia whispers, calling upon her holy blade to sustain her ravaged flesh as she lays into the Gelugon before her with unmatched fury, putting her all into killing it before it has a chance to kill her!
[01:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+31 bracers, divine might, raging, 1 5th, 2 3rd, 1 2nd level arcane strike
06[01:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+31 bracers, divine might, raging, 1 5th, 2 3rd, 1 2nd level arcane strike and gets 44." [1d20=13]
[01:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+31 bracers, divine might, raging, 1 5th, 2 3rd, 1 2nd level arcane strike
06[01:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+31 bracers, divine might, raging, 1 5th, 2 3rd, 1 2nd level arcane strike and gets 34." [1d20=3]
[01:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+31 bracers, divine might, raging, 1 5th, 2 3rd, 1 2nd level arcane strike
06[01:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+31 bracers, divine might, raging, 1 5th, 2 3rd, 1 2nd level arcane strike and gets 42." [1d20=11]
[01:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 bracers, divine might, raging, 1 5th, 2 3rd, 1 2nd level arcane strike
06[01:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 bracers, divine might, raging, 1 5th, 2 3rd, 1 2nd level arcane strike and gets 38." [1d20=12]
[01:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 bracers, divine might, raging, 1 5th, 2 3rd, 1 2nd level arcane strike
06[01:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 bracers, divine might, raging, 1 5th, 2 3rd, 1 2nd level arcane strike and gets 27." [1d20=1]
[01:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21 bracers, divine might, raging, 1 5th, 2 3rd, 1 2nd level arcane strike
06[01:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+21 bracers, divine might, raging, 1 5th, 2 3rd, 1 2nd level arcane strike and gets 39." [1d20=18]
[01:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21 bracers, divine might, raging, 1 5th, 2 3rd, 1 2nd level arcane strike
06[01:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+21 bracers, divine might, raging, 1 5th, 2 3rd, 1 2nd level arcane strike and gets 32." [1d20=11]
[01:03] <Anastasia> OOC: 4 hits.
[01:04] <Alicia> roll 4d8+88+8d6+4d6+52d4
06[01:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 4d8+88+8d6+4d6+52d4 and gets 259." [4d8=3, 2, 3, 5][8d6=4, 3, 4, 4, 4, 1, 6, 4][4d6=1, 2, 5, ]
03[01:04] * Anastasia changes topic to 'Marie>Blonde>Antenora>Jessica>Alicia>Barbed>Elle>Donald'
[01:06] <Anastasia> Alicia staggers and thrusts, throwing all her arcane might into it! It's barely enough, ripping into the gelugon! It's far tougher than a normal one, only breaking apart on the very last blow! IT shatters into ice, melting away into black smoke! The glowing barbed devil vanishes a moment later! Donald continues charging down, as Elle advances, calling on more arcane words!
[01:06] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+14 sR check
06[01:06] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+14 sR check and gets 24." [1d20=10]
[01:06] <Anastasia> Yet this time, her words amount to nothing at all! Donald approaches within 30 feet of the blonde gelugon, his bastard sword drawn, "Hey bug, over here!" OOC: Marie.
[01:07] <Alicia> "Don't... don't let the other one escape, Marie," Alicia whispers to her familiar. "We need to question it!"
[01:07] <Alicia> Marie nods, drawing her bow and aiming at the gelugon, waiting for it to lose its combat focus as it prepares to use its magic so she can interrupt it with a furious salvo of arrows!
[01:07] <Alicia> OOC: readied action
[01:09] <Anastasia> The blonde gelugon eyes Marie, before starting to run for one of the alleyways nearby! OOC: You can react to this and shoot if you'd like.
[01:10] <Alicia> OOC: can it reach the alleyway and get cover from Marie with a move action? If so she'll move to get a clear shot and shoot it while its in the alley
[01:10] <Anastasia> OOC: It cna, yeah.
[01:11] <Alicia> Marie flits off to the side so she's still facing the gelugon, able to shoot straight down the alleyway at it as it starts to cast!
[01:11] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 inevitable
06[01:11] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 inevitable and gets 27." [1d20=2]
[01:11] <Anastasia> Marie moves fast, moving to get a view into the alleys as she pursues! Once in it's protection, the gelugon begins to concentrate...And also, a few allies away, Marie can see the bow that fell! However, the faeriefire glowing barbed devil is right besides it now! OOC: Make your AoO?
[01:12] <Alicia> OOC: AoO?
[01:12] <Anastasia> OOC:Er, held action. Dur.
[01:12] <Alicia> OOC: that was the 27, which surely misses
[01:13] <Anastasia> A moment after Marie fires and misses, the gelugon vanishes away! Above, Antenora looks around - and in a moment, begins to plummet for the alley the bow fell into!
[01:13] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+22 (+2 FS 5/10, +2 charge, +1 flying, -4 PA)
06[01:13] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+22 (+2 FS 5/10, +2 charge, +1 flying, -4 PA) and gets 35." [1d20=13]
[01:14] <Anastasia> roll 2d8+2d6+38
06[01:14] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 2d8+2d6+38 and gets 47." [2d8=4, 1][2d6=1, 3]
[01:14] <Anastasia> Diving into the alley, Antenora can be heard calling out, "Return to the Pit!" OOC: Jessica's still hiding. Alicia, are you doing anything?
03[01:15] * Anastasia changes topic to 'Marie>Antenora>Jessica>Alicia>Barbed>Elle>Donald'
[01:15] <Alicia> "Alicia, it fled but the barbed devil is still there!" Marie yells over, pointing down said alleyway.
[01:16] <Alicia> "We need to take it prisoner! Incapacitate it!" Alicia yells, quickly moving to get a lead down said alleyway and drawing the smaller blade she was able to hide within her robes earlier. Getting a bead on the hamatula, she hurls the Sword of the Sealed Gate at it with all the force she can muster, the blade whirling through the air on wings of magic!
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[01:16] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 -4 nonlethal, 5th level arcane strike
06[01:16] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 -4 nonlethal, 5th level arcane strike and gets 41." [1d20=15]
[01:16] <Alicia> OOC: divine might, too
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[01:17] <Anastasia> OOC: Hit.
[01:17] <Alicia> roll 1d8+24+5d4
06[01:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+24+5d4 and gets 46." [1d8=7][5d4=3, 3, 4, 2, 3]
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[01:18] <Alicia> OOC: -4 since that was 1-handed, not 2-handed
[01:19] <Anastasia> The Sword of the Sealed Gate flies like a boomerang, taking a chunk out of the Faerie Fired side of the invisible barbed devil! With a furious roar, the Barbed Devil tears into Antenora!
[01:19] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+30 claw
06[01:19] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+30 claw and gets 47." [1d20=17]
[01:19] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+30 claw
06[01:19] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+30 claw and gets 42." [1d20=12]
[01:20] <Anastasia> roll 6d8+16
06[01:20] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 6d8+16 and gets 35." [6d8=6, 2, 1, 3, 6, 1]
[01:21] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+34 grapple on Antenora
06[01:21] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+34 grapple on Antenora and gets 45." [1d20=11]
[01:21] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+19
06[01:21] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+19 and gets 31." [1d20=12]
[01:21] <Anastasia> roll 4d8+9
06[01:21] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 4d8+9 and gets 31." [4d8=8, 8, 1, 5]
[01:22] <Anastasia> Antenora is embraced and shredded by the devil, hugged against it's body! Her blood runs down her armored form, impaled in a dozen spots! Elle trots along, casting more support magic from the rear!
[01:23] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+14
06[01:23] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+14 and gets 20." [1d20=6]
[01:27] <Anastasia> But again it fizzles! Donald runs on the wings of haste, reaching the side of the barbed devil! He takes a quick swing at him, all while activating an aura of protection!
[01:27] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+20 (+1 haste)
06[01:27] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+20 (+1 haste) and gets 27." [1d20=7]
[01:27] <Anastasia> roll 1d8+7
06[01:27] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d8+7 and gets 9." [1d8=2]
[01:28] <Anastasia> Donald manages to open a minor wound on the body of the barbed devil as he reaches down! OOC: Marie?
[01:29] <Alicia> Marie looks expectantly at Alicia, only to be told, "Get me next to it. It's time to end this." With her orders clear, Marie zips over to the opposite side of the barbed devil from Donald, then promptly trades places with Alicia!
[01:29] <Anastasia> Antenora tries to escape the horrid grapple she is in, desperate!
[01:29] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+34
06[01:29] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+34 and gets 45." [1d20=11]
[01:29] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+19
06[01:29] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+19 and gets 26." [1d20=7]
[01:30] <Anastasia> But Antenora's stuck on it's painful, terrible barbs! OOC: Jessica's still hiding as instructed. Alicia?
06[01:30] * Alicia attempts to take the hamatula down, dropping her longsword so she can use her two-bladed sword to the fullest brutal effect!
[01:31] <Alicia> roll 1d20+28 +2 flanking, -4 nonlethal, divine might, 4th and 2 1st level arcane strike
06[01:31] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+28 +2 flanking, -4 nonlethal, divine might, 4th and 2 1st level arcane strike and gets 42." [1d20=14]
[01:31] <Alicia> roll 1d20+28 +2 flanking, -4 nonlethal, divine might, 4th and 2 1st level arcane strike
06[01:31] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+28 +2 flanking, -4 nonlethal, divine might, 4th and 2 1st level arcane strike and gets 36." [1d20=8]
[01:31] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 +2 flanking, -4 nonlethal, divine might, 4th and 2 1st level arcane strike
06[01:32] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 +2 flanking, -4 nonlethal, divine might, 4th and 2 1st level arcane strike and gets 31." [1d20=8]
[01:32] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 +2 flanking, -4 nonlethal, divine might, 4th and 2 1st level arcane strike
06[01:32] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 +2 flanking, -4 nonlethal, divine might, 4th and 2 1st level arcane strike and gets 24." [1d20=1]
[01:32] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 +2 flanking, -4 nonlethal, divine might, 4th and 2 1st level arcane strike
06[01:32] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 +2 flanking, -4 nonlethal, divine might, 4th and 2 1st level arcane strike and gets 19." [1d20=1]
[01:32] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 +2 flanking, -4 nonlethal, divine might, 4th and 2 1st level arcane strike
06[01:32] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 +2 flanking, -4 nonlethal, divine might, 4th and 2 1st level arcane strike and gets 29." [1d20=11]
[01:32] <Anastasia> OOC: All hit except the two 1s.
[01:32] <Alicia> roll 4d8+88+8d6+4d6+24d4 nighty-night
06[01:32] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 4d8+88+8d6+4d6+24d4 nighty-night and gets 222." [4d8=3, 8, 4, 4][8d6=6, 2, 5, 5, 6, 6, 4, 5][4d6=5, 3, 3, 2][24d4=3, 1, 3, 4, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 4, 3, 1, 4, 4, 4, 2, 4, 3, 2]
[01:33] <Anastasia> With a furious onslaught, Alicia rips into the hamatula! She clobbers it over and over, knocking it down and out! Antenora falls to her knees, bloodied and huffing for air! OOC: Battle's over. Free act.
06[01:34] * Alicia promptly heals herself as much as she can!
[01:34] <Alicia> roll 12d4+12+20
06[01:34] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 12d4+12+20 and gets 66." [12d4=2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 2, 1, 2, 2]
[01:34] <Anastasia> "We...we won..." Antenora has her head bowed, coughing as she heals herself with her hands. OOC: +12 HP.
[01:35] <Anastasia> "Man, you think they'd get the idea that they're gonna lose if they attack us. But noooo, they have to keep trying." Donald kicks the downed Hamatula.
[01:35] <Alicia> "It's a good thing you summoned me," Alicia shakes her head. "That was brutal..." she trails off, looking over to the frozen statues of passersby caught in the cone of cold and wincing.
[01:35] <Alicia> Belatedly she drops the old-lady disguise as well.
[01:36] <Anastasia> "I got lucky." Antenora looks up, pale. "I only noticed them because they didn't appear to my mind's eye. If I hadn't and they had been free to ambush us or surprise us, we'd be dead now."
[01:36] <Anastasia> "You only noticed them because you didn't see them?" Elle approaches with a frown on her face, "That doesn't really make sense."
[01:37] <Alicia> "How did they do that, anyway?" Marie sounds confused. "I mean, I could detect their magic gear but not any magic on them, nor their evil auras... and your spear didn't light up, either. Isn't it supposed to do that around them?"
[01:37] <Anastasia> "Oh, Alicia, heya," Donald turns. "I was about to ask who the old lady was."
[01:37] <Anastasia> "We'll find out," Antenora uses the alley wall to help herself stand up, shakinga ll over. Undoing her rope, she kneels. "Can someone dispel it's invisibility?"
[01:38] <Anastasia> "And I mean, I saw them but I couldn't see them with my mind. It made them stand out, like they were an illusion or protected." she clarifies.
[01:38] <Alicia> "Have some respect for your elders, sonny," Alicia snorts, dumping the hamatula's bow into her portable hole and then picking up her longsword and sheathing it. "Let me heal you some more, first," she says. "Marie, use your bracelet on me a few times?"
[01:39] <Alicia> Marie nods, using her bracelet except she and Alicia don't switch places. After a few attempts Alicia nods, "That's enough," she says, reaching over to heal Antenora a little.
[01:39] <Alicia> roll 5d4+5
06[01:39] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 5d4+5 and gets 15." [5d4=1, 2, 3, 1, 3]
[01:39] <Anastasia> As Alicia handles the longbow, it's screaming mouth howls out. It speaks in Infernal, "All praise to the master of the Pit!"
06[01:40] * Alicia is quite glad to have it dumped in the hole where no one can hear it. "I'll get the gear left by the gelugon gathered up then deal with our prisoner," she says, going to quickly dump anything left by the dead ice devil in the hole as well.
[01:40] <Alicia> "What about those poor people?" Marie asks, looking at the icy statues in subdued horror.
[01:41] <Anastasia> Antenora straightens further, "Shut up," she snaps at it, as Donald follows along. You find studded leather, a pouch, it's weapons and a ring. "So how come you were disguised like that, anyway?"
[01:41] <Anastasia> Elle looks and then shakes her head, "The wrong people in the wrong place," she goes over to one, touching it with her fingers before jerking them back. "Frozen solid."
[01:41] <Alicia> "Travelling incognito," Alicia waves it off before regarding the statues. "We have to get them off the street. People shouldn't have to see this..."
[01:42] <Anastasia> "More victim's of Hell's endless, pointless hate." Antenora sighs as she works with the invisible hamatula.
[01:42] <Anastasia> "I'll take care of it," Elle says quietly. "Go ahead."
06[01:43] * Alicia conjures up a tent from her survival pouch. "You can use that to cover them up as you move them," she tells Elle, wanting the unfortunate dead to have at least that much dignity afforded to them. She then approaches the Hamatula and attempts to dispel its invisibility, while leaving the other spells intact on it.
[01:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+12
06[01:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+12 and gets 22." [1d20=10]
[01:44] <Anastasia> The first attempt fails, it's magic clinging to it's body.
06[01:45] * Alicia just shrugs. "It's improved invisibility, it'll wear off long before the faerie fire does," she notes, conjuring up another tent. "Lets get it wrapped up and we can take it to the garrison?"
[01:45] <Anastasia> Donald looks them over, humor dropping. He goes to help Elle without further comment. As they do, a detachment of guards comes from the south, Commander Oberuth and Pollyanna at point. They come at a sprint, "How's the situation," Oberuth says as he looks around, eyes lingeirng on the statues.
[01:46] <Alicia> "Four devils attacked me, Jessica, and Antenora while we were walking," Marie informs the Commander. "Two were disguised as men and two were invisible in the air. We summoned Alicia as soon as we realised how strong they were... they were really liberal with their area effect spells, though..."
[01:47] <Alicia> "The Spark Hunters," Alicia adds as she sees about wrapping the comatose Hamatula up. "Esthan said they'd come for us. I suppose they got tired of waiting..."
[01:47] <Anastasia> "Damnation." Looking at the three as Elle and Donald deal with them, covering them, "Let's get you to the garrison for debriefing and healing if you need it..." Trailing off as he looks into the alley where Antenora finishes her bindings, "What's that?"
[01:48] <Anastasia> "What Alicia said. A personal assassination attempt on us." Standing up, a hand on her hip, "We're lucky it wasn't far worse. If I hadn't gone with Jessica..."
[01:48] <Alicia> "One of the devils," Alicia fills in. "If it's one of Hell's elite mortal hunters I want to know everything it knows before I send it howling back to the pit."
[01:48] <Anastasia> "I'd be okay," Jessica speaks up quietly, unseen yet. "I know how to take care of myself and they couldn't hit me with any of those spells."
[01:49] <Anastasia> "Bring it along," Oberuth says, "I'll have clerics summoned to get all of you patched up that need it." OOC: Ready to skip along a bit?
[01:49] <Alicia> OOC: sure
[01:52] <Anastasia> The Spark Hunter is kept bound up and dragged along. Once in the garrison and with it tied, knocked out and secured, "Run down everything that happened," Looking to Marie, "You were there for all of it?"
[01:57] <Alicia> The eladrin nods. "We were walking up market road when two men approached us. Antenora said she couldn't sense their minds, and I checked them over for evil and magic - nothing on them, but I did sense magic on their gear. They recognised Antenora and Jessica and said they wanted to thank Alicia for what she did in the war with Malmuth."
[01:57] <Alicia> "Then Antenora said she could sense two outsiders in the air above us. I painted them with faerie fire so we could see them, then the other two drew their weapons - that's when the fight started, and they turned into ice devils."
[01:57] <Alicia> "After one of them blocked Antenora's attack I realised they weren't normal devils, that's when I told Jessica to summon Alicia, while they sprayed ice cones at us."
[01:57] <Alicia> Taking a deep breath, she forges on! "Alicia got Jessica to hide, and Jessica's magic tiger was destroyed. I banished their flying spellcaster back to Hell and Alicia killed one ice devil before the other teleported away. Then she knocked out the barbed devil after Antenora had disarmed it."
[01:57] <Alicia> "And that's about when you showed up!" she concludes.
[01:59] <Anastasia> "I could detect the flying two, which is what tipped us into combat and maybe saved our lives. The two gelugons were shielded better, though not invisible like the two above. Of course, they were high enough up where most means of detection would fail from the ground."
[02:00] <Anastasia> Antenora goes to sit heavily in a chair, as a few clerics from the temple of Helm and Mystra come in. They tend to the party, casting healing magic and bandaging. OOC: You can recover full HP.
06[02:01] * Alicia is grateful for the healing, also taking the time to ditch her robes (her normal clothes are underneath) and put on her armour. Finding the book amidst the devil's things, she opens it up and takes a quick flick through to see if it reveals anything before they interrogate their captive.
[02:01] <Anastasia> "We got two of them. It could have been worse," Oberuth says after some thought, the hamatula referred to visible now, it's magic having worn off. It looks like a normal hamatula, but a pentagram is carved into it's forehead, penetrated by a crackling spark of black.
[02:02] <Anastasia> The book looks to be a book of Baatorian riddles. They are cold and sometimes gruesome, yet make all too much logical sense when the answers are read.
[02:02] <Anastasia> "We'll need to question this one now," Nudging it with her foot again, "We'll have to try our best to get it to talk."
06[02:03] * Alicia wonders if it's actually some sort of code, but puts it away for now. "Anyway, we need to securely restrain our friend here then wake him up and see about answers. Even secured he'll still be dangerous, though... we shouldn't take too long with him."
[02:04] <Anastasia> "I recommend having af ew archers ready to shoot him if he tries to conjure magic or do anything dangerous, just in case," Antenora speaks up.
[02:04] <Alicia> "Can do!" Marie salutes.

Corwin · March 28, 2012, 07:14:02 AM

[22:04] <Kotono> > Antenora goes to sit heavily in a chair, as a few clerics from the temple of Helm and Mystra come in. They tend to the party, casting healing magic and bandaging. OOC: You can recover full HP.
[22:04] <Kotono> * Alicia is grateful for the healing, also taking the time to ditch her robes (her normal clothes are underneath) and put on her armour. Finding the book amidst the devil's things, she opens it up and takes a quick flick through to see if it reveals anything before they interrogate their captive.
[22:04] <Kotono> > "We got two of them. It could have been worse," Oberuth says after some thought, the hamatula referred to visible now, it's magic having worn off. It looks like a normal hamatula, but a pentagram is carved into it's forehead, penetrated by a crackling spark of black.
[22:04] <Kotono> > The book looks to be a book of Baatorian riddles. They are cold and sometimes gruesome, yet make all too much logical sense when the answers are read.
[22:04] <Kotono> > "We'll need to question this one now," Nudging it with her foot again, "We'll have to try our best to get it to talk."
[22:04] <Kotono> * Alicia wonders if it's actually some sort of code, but puts it away for now. "Anyway, we need to securely restrain our friend here then wake him up and see about answers. Even secured he'll still be dangerous, though... we shouldn't take too long with him."
[22:04] <Kotono> > "I recommend having af ew archers ready to shoot him if he tries to conjure magic or do anything dangerous, just in case," Antenora speaks up.
[22:04] <Kotono> <Alicia> "Can do!" Marie salutes.
[22:04] <Kotono> "Pollyanna will return shortly as well," Oberuth speaks up now. "Once you do, two should be enough with the rest of us here."
[22:07] <Alicia> "Okay, lets drag it down to a cell... and get a blindfold or a bag to put over its head or something?" Alicia asks. "Restraining or gagging it won't stop it using magical abilities, but if it can't see anyone that'll stop it from targetting a lot of them."
[22:08] <Kotono> "Right," With that, the hamatula is dragged to a cell. The thickest, biggest one they have. Thick black clothes are tied around the devil's eyes, his body held in rope and with chains bolted to the floor added on as well. Antenora and Oberuth stay in front, while Pollyanna has her bow ready, by the door to the cell.
06[22:13] * Alicia has Marie use her bracelet to top off her spellfire first of all so she can heal the thing, then taps it with the Sword of the Sealed Gate to renew its dimensional anchor. That done, she casts Voice of the Archon and begins to slowly heal it, intent on stopping as soon as it stirs.
[22:14] <Alicia> OOC: rather than rolling, how about we assume average and I heal 3hp per round until it wakes up? How many charges would that take?
[22:15] <Kotono> OOC: 5 charges, 15 HP restored. Lining.
[22:15] <Kotono> On the fifth invocation of spellfire, the hamatula's forehead pentagram sparks black. It begins to stir instantly, straining hard against it's chains! They shudder under the immediate strain, but there aren't any signs of breaking.
[22:17] <Alicia> "Be still!" Alicia orders harshly in infernal, stepping back and resuming in common. "I have questions for you."
[22:18] <Kotono> "There are no answers for you. You have been sentences to die for high crimes." It's voice is a terrible thing to listen to. Pollyanna's color turns paler as it's voice is heard, Comamnder Oberuth going to grasp the hilt of Wrath of the Mundane, knuckles going red and white.
[22:19] <Kotono> *sentenced
[22:22] <Alicia> "I care not for your laws," Alicia replies, voice dripping with contempt. "The gelugon who fled the battle and left you to be taken prisoner," she begins with an easy one, "What was the contingency plan for if you were forced to flee without carrying out your primary mission?"
[22:23] <Kotono> The hamatula does not reply to that. Instead, it's face looking at Alicia, blindfolds and all, "Your only hope is surrender yourself. No mortal has survived the Spark Hunters long."
06[22:25] * Alicia laughs in its face. "We both know I wouldn't receive any mercy if I were to gift-wrap myself and sit politely on Hell's doorstep, so don't insult us both by offering any sort of choice."
[22:27] <Kotono> "Bow to the powers of the Pit and you will be remade in their image. It is the only mercy you can hope for." As it speaks, sparks and cinders crackling out of it's mouth in a smoky miasma, Antenora shakes her head.
[22:28] <Kotono> "We're not interested. Shouldn't you be the one asking for mercy? If you're lucky, we'll only imprison you or take you to the Heavens. If you're unlucky, your master will be able to tell you all about your failure in person, when you reappear in Baator."
[22:32] <Alicia> "Better to die than become a lemure," Alicia remarks. "Now, I actually have a lot of questions, but it's clear you're uncooperative, and I don't particularly feel like indulging your theatrics. So you will answer all of my questions honestly and in full, so that we can both get through this far more quickly," she concludes, magical force put behind her statement.
[22:32] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 SR
06[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 SR and gets 29." [1d20=13]
[22:32] <Alicia> OOC: DC 22 will save
[22:34] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
06[22:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 and gets 34." [1d20=15]
[22:34] <Kotono> OOC: That should be several points lower, wrong save. It still passed.
[22:36] <Kotono> "You will learn nothing," The hamatula spits out. It seems unmoved, Antenora grimancing.
[22:40] <Alicia> "This will hurt, but understand it is not out of some misguided belief that you'll tell me what I want to know if I inflict enough pain," Alicia explains, sighing. "It's simply to weaken your defences enough that I can compel the information out of you magically instead of continuing this tiresome runaround."
[22:40] <Alicia> With that said she gestures to the fiend and utters one word, "Whither," as a crackling beam of red energy lances forth!
[22:40] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 SR
06[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 SR and gets 20." [1d20=4]
[22:40] <Kotono> This time, Alicia's enervation withers itself, unable to effect the hamatula at all.
[22:41] <Alicia> "I have lots of spells," Alicia feels compelled to explain after that falls flat, trying again.
[22:41] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16
06[22:41] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 and gets 22." [1d20=6]
[22:41] <Kotono> Once again Alicia cannot conjure strong enough magic to effect the chained devi.
[22:41] <Kotono> Devil.
[22:42] <Alicia> And again! Why not?
[22:42] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16
06[22:42] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 and gets 25." [1d20=9]
[22:42] <Kotono> Once again, Alicia's spell can't penetrate it's unholy defenses!
06[22:43] * Alicia rubs her head briefly. "I swear, it's like outsiders are immune to this spell..." she mutters under her breath before trying once more.
[22:43] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 and gets 31." [1d20=15]
[22:43] <Alicia> roll 1d4
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[22:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 maybe I'll crit?
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 maybe I'll crit? and gets 38." [1d20=20]
[22:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 maybe I'll crit? hahaha
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 maybe I'll crit? hahaha and gets 26." [1d20=8]
[22:44] <Alicia> roll 1d4
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[22:45] <Kotono> This time the Hamatula's body twitches with the spell, the power impact of Enervation making it's body wither visibly!
[22:45] <Kotono> 'They do seem highly resistant,' Antenora replies in Alicia's mind. 'I wish we had their fortune. The shadows the Sharrans had applied it to us liberally.'
06[22:45] * Alicia proceeds to heal it a bit, albeit stopping short of waking it up again hopefully, so she can get another enervation in before rousing it for the interrogation.
[22:46] <Alicia> roll 5d4+5
06[22:46] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 5d4+5 and gets 17." [5d4=2, 3, 2, 4, 1]
[22:46] <Kotono> The hamatula is sitll out.
[22:47] <Alicia> 'This is the first time I've had it work on an outsider... makes me glad I never became a pure sorceress or I'd be truly impotent against fiends,' Alicia replies irritably as she casts another one for luck.
[22:47] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 SR
06[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 SR and gets 30." [1d20=14]
[22:47] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18
06[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 31." [1d20=13]
[22:47] <Alicia> roll 1d4
06[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[22:48] <Kotono> Another beam hits it, withering it even more! It lies on the gorund, inert and far less fearsome!
06[22:48] * Alicia heals it awake so Marie can deliver the suggestion to it.
[22:48] <Alicia> roll 5d4+5
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 5d4+5 and gets 18." [5d4=3, 1, 3, 3, 3]
[22:49] <Kotono> After another healing, the hamatula bolds awake again! It struggles, but barely disturbs it's chains this time.
[22:49] <Alicia> "Marie, tell it what we want again," Alicia requests her familiar who still benefits from her earlier cast voice of the archon spell.
[22:50] <Alicia> Marie is only too happy to oblige. "Answer all of Alicia's questions truthfully and to the full extent of your knowledge," she tells it.
[22:50] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 SR
06[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 SR and gets 29." [1d20=13]
[22:50] <Alicia> OOC: DC 22
[22:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
06[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 6." [1d20=1]
[22:52] <Kotono> The hamatula's head bobs forward slightly at this, no immediate reply to that coming as the magic weaves around it.
03[22:52] * Taishyr is now known as tai-extremelysick
[22:52] <Alicia> "Firstly, tell us what your contingency plan was if you failed to kill your targets on the initial attack," Alicia asks it.
[22:54] <Kotono> "Use several short range, field of vision teleports and establish a temporary base in a location to be determined," It answers, as the pentagram on it's forehead crackles with black sparks again.
06[22:56] * Alicia frowns slightly at that. "What does the sparking on the scar on your head signify?" she asks.
[22:59] <Kotono> "It is the mark of the Spark Hunters. The finger of Aesmadeva carves it into our skulls. When it sparks like this, one of it's powers is activating."
[23:00] <Alicia> "Which power?" Alicia asks, annoyed at the interpretation it's putting on 'full extent of your knowledge'.
[23:02] <Kotono> The sparks are growing brighter! "When our minds are compromised, it will negate the magic or kill us if it fails, to prevent loss of important information to targets who get lucky and defeat one of us."
[23:03] <Alicia> "Marie, tell me when the magic goes away from the spark?" Alicia asks her familiar as she casts a targetted dispel on the spark, leaving the dimensional anchor and suggestion spells alone.
[23:03] <Alicia> Marie dutifully studies the magical auras on the hamatula!
[23:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+12 dispel
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+12 dispel and gets 15." [1d20=3]
[23:03] <Kotono> Alicia's first dispel does nothing to stop the magic coming from the pentagram on it's head. (Strong magic, by the way. You can roll for school if you wish.)
[23:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+9 no reason not to
06[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+9 no reason not to and gets 28." [1d20=19]
06[23:04] * Alicia tries again, not wanting to have her interrogation cut short nor have their prisoner return to Baator.
[23:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+12
06[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+12 and gets 15." [1d20=3]
[23:05] <Kotono> Once again, Alicia's magic fails! The sparks are starting to shroud the face of the hamatula in shadows!
[23:06] <Alicia> "You're not getting away that easily!" Alicia growls. "Mark of the spark, be cast to the dark!" she falls back on an old spellcasting crutch, not wanting to leave this to chance!
[23:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+12
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+12 and gets 17." [1d20=5]
[23:07] <Kotono> Again, Alicia's magic cannot stand up to the pentagram! Antenora narrows her eyes, "Dammit..." she swears low. "Is there anything we can do?"
[23:10] <Alicia> "You're not going to dispel it with weak spells like that, Alicia - cut it off his head instead!" Marie suggests urgently, having been counting Alicia's spell usage and knowing she's running dry anyway.
[23:11] <Alicia> "Dammit!" Alicia curses, knowing her familiar is right. Stepping forward, she grabs the top of the barbed devil's head and brings Hell Striker to bear, flaying the skin from the hamatula's forehead to remove the magically sparking scar, even if she has to cut down to bone to do it!
[23:14] <Kotono> Alicia does improptu surgery, hacking at the pentagram! As she begins to cut it, she has an intense feeling of woe and danger. It makes her palms sweaty, her skin turning clammy.
[23:15] <Alicia> "It's not going to work!" Alicia trusts her instincts, stepping back. Surely they took precautions against this as well? She's going to have to dispel it! "Mystra, heed my call! Strip away this hateful dweomer from my sight, that this assassin may answer for his crimes!"
[23:16] <Alicia> roll 1d20+12
06[23:16] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+12 and gets 26." [1d20=14]
[23:16] <Kotono> This time, the sparking ceases!
[23:28] <Alicia> "Aura's gone! Quick, ask him stuff in case it comes back!" Marie calls over.
06[23:29] * Alicia has been utterly thrown off from her interrogation after all of that, but forges on after a second to compose herself! "What do you know of a devil named Esthan?" she asks impulsively. Wait, that wasn't what she... oh, who cares. He's probably a well connected fiend, so it's a good chance!
[23:35] <Kotono> "Esthan stands in the graces of the Constable of Nessus. He serves Aesmadeva as well. He trains our servants in magic at times. He embodies the perfect truth of Nessus, as any Pit Fiend does."
06[23:36] * Alicia snaps her fingers. Wheels within wheels here... but this is useful information, at least. "Do you know anything of his recent activities on the Prime?"
[23:37] <Kotono> "No, yet he stood behind us when Aesmadeva gave us our orders. He was to talk to him after we had left his infernal presence." The Hamatula's body quivers.
[23:38] <Alicia> "Aesmadeva personally gave you your orders for this mission? And Esthan was present at the time?" Alicia asks, raising an eyebrow. Well if this doesn't put a brand new spin on things...
[23:39] <Kotono> "Yes." The Hamatula's pentagram is starting to spark again, magic starting ot radiate once more.
[23:41] <Alicia> She doesn't have much time, nor the spells left to dispel it properly, she's going to have to go through her next questions quickly. "How many Spark Hunters are there in total?" Now to get to what she originally meant to ask - knowledge she can use to destroy the entire organisation.
[23:42] <Kotono> "13 True Spark Hunters. I am 11 of 13."
[23:44] <Alicia> "Tell me where your headquarters are, and describe them and their immediate surroundings in as much detail as you can remember," Alicia orders next, wanting information she could use to target a teleport.
[23:51] <Kotono> "They lie in Fortress Malsheem, within the Third Circle of Malsheem. It is nine chambers, each nine miles large. Each area is guarded by the True Blooded," More sparks start to come, it's pentagram going again, "The walls are of brass and gold, the floors of the stone of Nessus. The face of the King of Hell watches over us from every wall. There is no light."
[23:53] <Alicia> She was afraid it would be in Nessus, but it's perhaps unavoidable... Regardless, assaulting it would be far more difficult than taking the Halls of the Vanquished. "We're done," she announces, waving her hand and dismissing the Suggestion spell.
[23:54] <Kotono> The sparks on it's head start to sizzle and then stop entirely. Antenora looks to Alicia, then, 'Now what?' In a terse voice, 'What he is said is not light words.'
06[23:54] * Alicia thinks for a moment...
[23:54] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 planes Aesmadeva
06[23:54] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 planes Aesmadeva and gets 30." [1d20=10]
[23:54] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 planes Malsheem
06[23:54] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 planes Malsheem and gets 34." [1d20=14]
[23:55] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 planes Who would be happy to take a Spark Hunter off our hands?
06[23:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 planes Who would be happy to take a Spark Hunter off our hands? and gets 25." [1d20=5]
[23:59] <Alicia> "Now... you've been as helpful as you could be, but you're too dangerous for us to keep around here while you're conscious, even while weakened," Alicia explains to the Hamatula before striking it on the side of the head with the flat of Hell Striker!
[23:59] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22 -4 nonlethal
06[23:59] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 -4 nonlethal and gets 23." [1d20=1]
[23:59] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 -4 nonlethal
06[23:59] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 -4 nonlethal and gets 28." [1d20=11]
Session Time: Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 2009
[00:00] <Alicia> roll 1d8+15+2d6
06[00:00] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+15+2d6 and gets 26." [1d8=5][2d6=2, 4]
[00:00] <Kotono> Clang! Another blow to the hamatula's head is enough to knock him back out!
[00:00] <Kotono> "What did all those names mean?" Commander Oberuth asks, as Pollyanna at last lowers her bow. "Aesmadeva, Malsheem, all of it."
06[00:01] * Alicia takes a deep breath and turns to the others. "I hate to admit it, but destroying the Spark Hunters is beyond us. I know little of Aesmadeva, but Malsheem is Asmodeus's personal fortress in the deepest layer of Hell. We won't be able to get in there easily, and getting out would be far harder."
[00:01] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 Marie planes Aesmadeva
06[00:01] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 Marie planes Aesmadeva and gets 23." [1d20=3]
[00:03] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 Antenora wanted to roll too, but SR was laggy
06[00:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 Antenora wanted to roll too, but SR was laggy and gets 24." [1d20=8]
[00:03] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 Antenora wanted to roll too, but SR was laggy
[00:03] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 Antenora wanted to roll too, but SR was laggy
06[00:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 Antenora wanted to roll too, but SR was laggy and gets 36." [1d20=20]
06[00:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 Antenora wanted to roll too, but SR was laggy and gets 21." [1d20=5]
[00:04] <Kotono> "It is beyond us," Antenora hangs her head, murmuring words under her breath in Celestial. "It is said that only a handful of mortals have ever been to that darkest pit of Hell. Perhaps one day, but if we can barely withstand a Spark Hunter's attack..."
[00:05] <Alicia> "We would've done far better if Alicia hadn't been caught by surprise without her gear!" Marie argues. "And there's only thirteen and we've taken down two - we could bleed them if they keep coming to us!"
[00:05] <Alicia> *bleed them dry
[00:05] <Kotono> "Alright." Oberuth grunts to all of that, "Fortunately, Seira's school is showing results and our new class in the Guard is gaining experience. Adding to the city's defenses is going to become an even larger priority."
[00:06] <Kotono> "Marie," Antenora turns to her, "Do you think that if we somehow reach Malsheem, that only the Spark Hunters will bother to fight us?"
[00:06] <Alicia> "No, I meant that if they keep coming here then eventually they'll run out," Marie explains.
[00:07] <Kotono> "If we live that long. Plus, he said he was 11 of 13. I'm not sure, but if that means he's one of the weakest?" Spreading her hands, "I'm not optimistic, that's all."
[00:07] <Alicia> "Be that as it may," Alicia raises her hand in a calming gesture, "We still have number 11 here to deal with. I'm not inclined to send him back to Hell where he can inform his superiors of everything he told us, and Antenora's earlier suggestion has some merit. Do you know of anywhere in Elysium we could take this fiend where he'd be kept safe from causing trouble ever again?"
[00:08] <Alicia> Marie thinks that over...
[00:08] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 plus whatever circumstance bonus she gets from having lived there?
06[00:08] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 plus whatever circumstance bonus she gets from having lived there? and gets 24." [1d20=4]
[00:08] <Kotono> "You know, why don't we take him to Dweomerheart or Celestia?" Antenora adds. "WE have friends in both places, or even Arborea."
[00:10] <Alicia> "I'm not sure where specifically, since it's outside my usual area," Marie admits, "But if we appeared with him in Elysium we'd probably get attention from people who do know what to do with him pretty quickly."
[00:12] <Alicia> "Alright..." Alicia nods to that. "So Marie and I will take him to Elysium tomorrow morning. For now just keep him under guard and bash his head every few hours to make sure he doesn't wake up?"
[00:14] <Kotono> "He won't," Oberuth says, drawing hsi sword. "I'm going to ensure that myself. If you're done with him, dismissed for now. Go rest and recover, that was not an easy battle from your report."
02[00:15] * tai-extremelysick (~ferixstad@adsl-76-235-216-208.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net) Quit (Ping timeout)
[00:15] <Alicia> "There's still that ice devil probably in town, since he said they wouldn't teleport far," Marie cautions. "We could try searching for it?"
[00:16] <Kotono> "The three of us I can do that. Marie and I can fly without limit and detect evil." Antenora volunteers.
[00:16] <Kotono> *The three of us can do that
[00:17] <Alicia> "It would probably be best to stick together, considering how dangerous a combatant it could be. And... where's Jessica?" Alicia belatedly asks. Leaving her sister alone when she's a target doesn't sit well at all.
[00:18] <Kotono> "She's outside," Pollyanna speaks up.
[00:18] <Alicia> "Thanks, Pollyanna," Alicia gives the younger woman a smile. "Lets go get her?" With that she and her familiar head out.
[00:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[00:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 22." [1d20=6]
[00:27] <Kotono> roll 5d8
06[00:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d8 and gets 25." [5d8=7, 6, 4, 5, 3]
[00:27] <Kotono> roll 25*1.5
06[00:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 25*1.5 and gets 37.5."
[00:30] <Kotono> -------
[00:31] <Kotono> Thus Elle goes back to work! As Alicia, Antenora, Jessica and Marie linger, work goes on apace. It's only when Elle's scream comes from the back room that the tranqulity is shattered, Alice tearing away from her post and hurrying back in a run.
06[00:31] * Alicia likewise bolts into the room, Marie flying right behind her and both with weapons ready!
[00:33] <Kotono> Antenora and Jessica bring up the rear! Elle is working in a small room, a magic circle engraved onto the floor. A bench of stone and wood is where the bow sits, hissing and the mouth of it leering while emitting wisps of red and black. She is on one knee, clutching her chest.
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[00:33] <Kotono> "Elle!" Alice goes to her side in a bolt, "Do you need help?"
06[00:35] * Alicia likewise approaches Elle and attempts to heal her while Marie hangs back and covers the room with her bow.
[00:35] <Alicia> roll 10d4+10
06[00:35] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 10d4+10 and gets 31." [10d4=2, 4, 2, 1, 3, 1, 1, 2, 4, 1]
[00:35] <Kotono> "I'm...okay. My protections got the worst of it," As you get closer, you see that the front of Elle's dress is gone. If there were men here, it would be indecent...if her flesh wasn't cracked and ruined, until Alicia heals it. "Someone left a present for someone trying to analyse the bow."
[00:37] <Alicia> "Accursed thing..." Alicia uses a mending cantrip to fix Elle's dress before she regards the bow. "Are you sure it's a one-time thing? It spoke earlier... it might have a fiendish intelligence all of its own."
[00:37] <Kotono> A few moments later, she scowls, looks down and murmurs words fo magic. Her dress mends as Alicia also casts, fixing doubletime. "It might. I got some information, but not all of it. Fortunately, I saved it for last. Regardless, I'm not trying it again."
06[00:40] * Alicia opens up her portable hole and promptly tosses the bow in. "If it's intelligent it can be confined along with its owner. I want nothing to do with it, either."
[00:48] <Kotono> "That's wise," Antenora murmurs. "What about the rest of it?"
[00:50] <Alicia> "We sell it all to Elle here," Alicia gestures to the mage, "Who gets a quarter herself for her part in the battle, naturally, and the rest gets split between you, me, and Donald." Alicia then sighs, "And I'll give my share right back to Elle, since I need a new bracelet of Friends for Jessica, and some more banishing arrows for Marie."
[00:50] <Kotono> Going over to it, Elle lists off the items and effects. After abit of discussion, "And you want more banishing arrows and another bracelet? Give me a few days."
[00:50] <Kotono> "I'll help pay for the arrows and bracelet," Antenora speaks up, "It's worth the money."
[00:51] <Alicia> "Thanks," Alicia gives the erinyes a brief smile. "Shame about the tiger, though..." she deflates. "I'll need to see if there's something else I can get for Jessica that might last a bit longer."
[00:53] <Kotono> "I'll look into it. It's for a good cause for both of us," Chuckling now, "That's about all, I'm going to call it a day after that."
[00:54] <Alicia> "Oh, before we go," Alicia pauses, "Have any potions of invisibility handy? I'll buy one for Jessica, in case she gets caught by herself it'll give her a chance to retreat."
[00:55] <Kotono> "Sure," Elle says, going to get just that. OOC: Good here? Also, add that to your purchases and retabulate totals for Anty chipping in half and that new purchase?
[00:56] <Alicia> OOC: done
[00:56] <Kotono> OOC: Going to do anything or just move along to the next morning?
[00:57] <Alicia> OOC: nothing further I can do right now
[00:57] <Kotono> OOC: Who's going with you to drop off the devil?
[00:59] <Alicia> OOC: I'll take Marie, and suggest that Anty and Jessica maybe hang out near the garrison until I get back
[01:00] <Kotono> While Antenora and Jessica linger outside, Alicia and Marie go inside. They find the Spark Hunter still tied up, bound and unconcious. Guards salute as the two pass, Commander Oberuth in the room. "Going now," he asks, "It shouldn't be waking up for a year if I hit it as hard as I thought I did."
[01:05] <Alicia> "Good," Alicia nods. "Although its innate spell resistance could still be a problem, I have a way around that." Removing the chains pinning it to the wall, she opens up her portable hole and dumps the Hamatula inside before folding it up.
[01:05] <Alicia> "Should be back after noon, sir," she salutes to the commander before she and Marie vanish to Beleirin, the swampy layer of Elysium most commonly associated with imprisoning horrible evils best left forgotten.
[01:07] <Alicia> roll 5d100 if it matters, not aiming for anywhere in particular
06[01:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 5d100 if it matters, not aiming for anywhere in particular and gets 252." [5d100=82, 59, 46, 53, 12]
[01:08] <Kotono> Thus Alicia appears! A light mist is around you, as you stand on a sandbar in a swamp. Water moves sluggishly about, the swamp quiet. Yet the fog seems to have it's own light, like tendrils of illumination weaving around you. The air is clean and clear.
06[01:09] * Alicia promptly opens up the portable hole (wouldn't do to have the prisoner suffocate) and dumps out the hamatula on the sand. She then folds it back up and pockets it. "So now we wait?" she asks her familiar.
[01:10] <Alicia> "Yeah, someone'll probably notice soon enough," Marie agrees amiably.
[01:13] <Kotono> Light bursts around you. Ahead, overwhelming radiance shines. It glows as the mists curls around it, it's form impossible to look at. Silver fire runs along it's body, the size of a titan, floating a foot over the water. Blue fire throbs in it's angelic wings, like the auras of magic made into a fiery form. In words that overwhelm you to hear, "In the name of the Mother of All Magic, I come." It's voice is neither male or female.
[01:13] <Kotono> "In the name of the Mother of All Magic, I come." It's voice is neither male or female.
[01:13] <Alicia> "Well that was quick!" Marie cheers.
[01:13] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 planes, who's this? Alicia
06[01:13] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 planes, who's this? Alicia and gets 21." [1d20=1]
[01:13] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 planes, who's this? Marie
06[01:13] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 planes, who's this? Marie and gets 30." [1d20=10]
[01:16] <Alicia> "Honoured one, I am Alicia Reynes, servant of Mystra," Alicia bows respectfully before the deific servant, a hand over her chest. "I regret to sully this place with evil, but I bring with me number 11 of the 13 Spark Hunters."
[01:16] <Alicia> "We have not the capabilities to effectively bind such a creature on the Prime, nor do we wish to send it back to the Pit where it can report to its superiors and potentially regain its station."
[01:20] <Kotono> The hamatula rises into the air, shrieking. It's scream sounds far away, insignifigant. In a flash, it is emtombed in a clear gem, which glides into the swampwaters and vanishes below into it. "It will so be done. In this morning, a miracle has been given in Balmuria. While there are many difficult trials ahead for you, do not falter, for the Mother of All Magic will continue to watch over you."
[01:23] <Alicia> "Thank you," Alicia looks up and smiles. She'd avoided going directly to Dweomerheart rather than disturb her goddess with this, but it looks like She's taking an interest anyway. "I also have the creature's weapon, which we believe is intelligent. Likely it would be better kept safe here than anywhere else," she explains, opening up her portable hole and producing the vile longbow.
[01:26] <Kotono> The bow flies in the air, the mouth on it twisting into a grimace of terrified agony. It hovers around the Star of Mystra like a moon, up and down, swirling about in no pattern. "The enchantment on this weapon cannot be purified, true. However, your charge has the unique chance to destroy it. One of the conditions to lay it low is for a creature born of Baator's heritage to bear it as they preform a sacred deed. Mystra asks that you send yo
[01:26] <Kotono> they preform a sacred deed. Mystra asks that you send your charge Antenora out with the bow, so that she may sever it's magic apart once and for all."
[01:28] <Alicia> "Really?" an expression of surprise briefly flashes across Alicia's face. "What deed must she perform?"
[01:29] <Kotono> "That will be revealed to her, for this is her test and her trial as well." The bow flies away from the Star of Mystra, landing before Alicia. "It will be a matter she must overcome on her own, another step on the path she has chosen to walk."
[01:31] <Alicia> It's all Marie can do not to squeal happily at that, while Alicia simply picks up the bow and places it back in the hole. "I understand, and will see if she's willing," the paladin nods. She's a bit nervous to send Antenora out alone considering the current threat, but Mystra will surely provide...
[01:34] <Kotono> "She will provide," The Star of Mystra speaks, "Assay your nervousness. Know that Mystra is pleased with you and will continue to provide Balmuria and Kelara with her blessings. While the devil Esthan walks amid you, have no fear. As long as you have faith and hope, you will emerge triumphant."
06[01:36] * Alicia does feel considerably relieved to have this sort of backing. "Thank you - it sets my heart greatly at ease to hear that," she smiles at the star, having to squint a little in the face of its overwhelming light.
[01:37] <Kotono> "It is time. Return." With that, the light is gone. Alicia stands in the cell she was just in, back in the garrison.
[01:38] <Alicia> Well, that saves her having to wait a few hours. Alicia swaps the plane shift ring for the freedom of movement one and looks to see if the Commander is still around.
[01:38] <Kotono> Commander Oberuth is gone. The cell is empty now.
06[01:40] * Alicia heads out to find Antenora and Jessica while Marie flies along happily beside her. "Did you hear that?" the eladrin carols, "Mystra's got our backs on this one, Alicia!"
[01:41] <Kotono> Jessica and Antenora are watching some soldiers train while chatting. The chat stops as Alicia approaches, "How'd it go?" Jessica asks.
[01:43] <Alicia> "A Star of Mystra appeared to personally seal the fiend away," Alicia begins, "And also reassured us that Mystra is pleased and watching over us," she goes on with a slight smile.
[01:48] <Kotono> "Oh, I remember the one we saw! Isn't that an honor?" Jessica falls in step with Alicia, while Antenora hangs back.
[01:49] <Alicia> "Certainly more than I expected," Alicia admits. "The Star also said something else," she turns to the renegade erinyes, "Something for Antenora."
[01:49] <Kotono> "Huh?" Antenora blinks, turning her attention to Alicia, as a little surprised look blooms. "For me?"
[01:52] <Alicia> "That bow of the Hamatula's," Alicia begins. "Supposedly it can only be destroyed one way - if a creature born of Baator wields it in the performance of a sacred deed." From behind Alicia, Marie grins at Antenora with immeasurable good cheer.
[01:53] <Kotono> "Oh." Antenora blink-blinks. "Oh. I see, that means me, doesn't it?"
[01:56] <Alicia> "If you're willing, it would be a test you must overcome on your own, and a step along the path you've chosen," Alicia explains with all due seriousness.
[01:56] <Alicia> Said effect is ruined by Marie blurting out, "You could get those fluffy white wings you've dreamed of!"
[01:57] <Kotono> "Then..." Antenora looks to Alicia, "If that's what Mystra's saying, that's what I'll do. But, will everything be alright here, if I'm gone and you have to go off, Alicia?"
[02:00] <Alicia> "I don't think it's necessary that you go immediately," Alicia shakes her head. "We can wait until either Demedais or Seira returns before you shoulder this burden."
[02:01] <Kotono> "Then I'll wait for one of them," Antenora agrees, "I need a little time to think. Can I talk to you later, Alicia?"
[02:02] <Alicia> "Of course," Alicia replies gently, "Take all the time you need - I'll be there when you're ready."
[02:04] <Kotono> Antenora goes off without further word. Once she's gone, "As happy as I am for Antenora, it's going ot be strange if she's gone awhile." Jessica opines, before looking towards the path home, walking in that direction.
[02:06] <Alicia> "Hopefully it won't be anything that'll take too long," Alicia agrees, walking along with her sister. "Still, it'll be a good experience for her to go out and do something by herself outside of my shadow."
[02:08] <Kotono> "That might be the point." So considering as she walks, "What about you? How do you feel about it? I think Marie made her thoughts known."
[02:11] <Alicia> Marie grins happily at that while Alicia gives it more serious thought. "I've probably taken her for granted, thinking on it... I'm used to her always being around, or at least being safe at home while I'm out doing something dangerous. It's strange to be on the other side, even though realistically I know she can handle herself."
[02:12] <Kotono> "Yes. That and...I keep reading and hearing about outsiders. It's not like they're like us. They have a purpose, which isn't just lying around and keeping me company. But..." Looking over her shoulder at Alicia, "I also don't really think of her like that. She has wings, but she's my friend, too."
[02:13] <Alicia> "Outsiders are people too!" Marie chirps.
[02:14] <Kotono> "I'm sure you are, no matter what Antenora says," Jessica laughs.
[02:15] <Alicia> "They might think and feel differently from most people, but they're not impossible to relate to," Alicia shrugs. "Some are more notably inhuman, but that only makes them as different as an elf or a dragon. There's all sorts of creatures to be found, and enough similarities if you care to look."
[02:16] <Kotono> "Something to remember," Jessica says as the group heads towards home.

Corwin · March 28, 2012, 07:19:27 AM

[20:29] <Kobrb> --------------(NINJA KO)--
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[20:33] <Kobrb> Alicia returns home, her trip to the Outer Planes done. The noon hour passes, hunger and thirst ritually slaked once more. It's after that when Alicia's door is knocked on. A bowing acolyte from the Temple of Mystra is there, "Sir Alicia, you are requested in the Temple of Mystra."
[20:37] <Alicia> "Please don't call me sir," Alicia requests as she stifles the urge to wince. "Marie, I'm just going over to the temple," she calls to her familiar before stepping out after the acolyte and closing the door behind her. "What's it about?"
[20:39] <Kobrb> "Priest Shankar entered into a trance this morning. On leaving it, he asked for you to be summoned immediately." The acolyte nods rapidfire, his head hidden by a wizard's cowl and robe.
06[20:40] * Alicia doesn't ask anything further as they walk the short distance to the temple. The Star did mention a miracle, although at the time she thought that was just referring to dealing with the Spark Hunter for her...
[20:45] <Kobrb> Lead inside, past worshippers and students and visitors, Alicia comes to a back room. It's a small prayer room, dotted with books of Mystra's word and scriptures. Here Shankar sits heavily on the floor, head bowed. Around him are several scraps of parchment and scroll paper, a few quills tossed about.
[20:45] <Alicia> "Shankar?" Alicia announces her presence, briefly glancing at the papers before focusing her attention on the cleric.
[20:47] <Kobrb> The papers are covered head to toe in arcane symbolism and clerical works. It would take a bit of time and brainpower to get anything intelligable out of them. Shankar looks up, a shaking hand holding against the floor. "Alicia."
06[20:48] * Alicia is silent for a moment, waiting to see if he'll go on. When nothing seems forthcoming she squats down opposite him, "I heard you had a vision and then asked for me?" she prods.
[20:50] <Kobrb> "It was GLORIOUS," He takes Alicia's hand in both of his, eyes wide as twin stars. "I felt so close to everything. As I wrote, I felt like I could see and hear magic. It was everywhere, Alicia!"
06[20:51] * Alicia smiles at his enthusiasm. "What did you see?" she asks, interested.
[20:54] <Kobrb> "I saw magic throbbing through the world. I saw flowing through my quills as I wrote. I saw it take into the scrolls. I heard no words, but I understood." Using Alicia to get up to his knees, starting to gather papers up. "There are four of them, I think..." He looks through, putting three aside and presenting the last to Alicia. "Here. This one is for the Crimson Guard. I think...no, I know...it's a blessing."
[20:54] <Kobrb> "Here. This one is for the Crimson Guard. I think...no, I know...it's a blessing."
06[20:56] * Alicia helps Shankar up and taking the proferred parchment, briefly looking over it. "A magic scroll? What does it do?" she asks, perversely piqued a bit more by the ones he's holding onto than what she's been given.
[20:59] <Kobrb> "A callback from beyond. All four are, three are spoken for." Getting up, "The victims of the diabolical attack yesterday, that is. That's where I have to go, the garrison, I need to find them as soon as possible."
[21:01] <Alicia> "Really?!" Alicia looks delighted. "Lets go, I'll take you there myself!" Rolling up her gifted scroll with all due care for such a precious item, she slots it into her bandolier for the moment.
[21:04] <Kobrb> The trip to the garrison is without incident. The city has more guards about, Xavier and Morund passed briefly as they lead a patrol around. The garrison is bustling - Alicia can see more than usual and hear a mixture of things if she cares to as she walks. Finding Commander Oberuth inspecting a group of troops, he departs away as Alicia
[21:04] <Kobrb> OOC:G AAAH.
[21:04] <Kobrb> The trip to the garrison is without incident. The city has more guards about, Xavier and Morund passed briefly as they lead a patrol around. The garrison is bustling - Alicia can see more than usual and hear a mixture of things if she cares to as she walks. Finding Commander Oberuth inspecting a group of troops, he departs away as Alicia approaches, finishing it up. Shankar doesn't even let him get a word in, words tumbling out, "I have to see t
[21:04] <Kobrb> words tumbling out, "I have to see the fallen men in yesterday's attack."
[21:05] <Alicia> "It's urgent, sir," Alicia speaks up on his behalf, not wanting to waste much time. "Mystra has seen fit to bestow a miracle on us!"
[21:08] <Kobrb> "Two have been passed onto the families," Oberuth replies, lowering his own voice, "The third isn't a native of Balmuria, and we're holding him a few days to see if we can find a family or a home nearby. He's in the garrison morgue. The guards should let you in, they're under standing orders to cooperate with the Crimson Guard in case you need to speak with the dead again."
[21:08] <Kobrb> "Where are the families," Shankar asks quickly, "I must have the locations."
[21:09] <Kobrb> "I'll have the information scribed and brought to you. What manner of miracle is it, now?" Oberuth crosses his arms, scratching his chin. "The two of you look like you saw Mystra herself walking around."
03[21:11] * Kobrb is now known as Kotono
[21:11] <Alicia> "They can be brought back," Alicia replies simply, deadly serious.
[21:13] <Kotono> "Hurry then. A few less to bury," With a smile that youthens his face showing, "Seriously, go. I'll have the information passed onto you in the morgue, start there?"
06[21:14] * Alicia nods then turns to Shankar. "Come on, I'll show you the way," she suggests, heading towards the garrison morgue.
[21:17] <Kotono> The garrison morgue is a quiet, somber place. The guards outside let Alicia pass afte r a few words. INside, you find the victim. He's a man of maybe his mid twenties. The ice has been thawed from him mostly, only bits of frost lingering over his eyes and midsection. He had dirty blonde hair, a few light scars criss-crossing his body.
[21:18] <Kotono> Shankar takes the first scroll, going to the man. Smoothing over his brow with hsi hands, "He's still as cold as Auril's touch," he shivers, "Not a hint of warmth in his body."
[21:20] <Alicia> "They were all dead even before I arrived, but to hear Marie tell it, it was no ordinary cone of cold that slew them," Alicia murmurs softly. "I should probably do something, so he's not cold when he... returns. I've never... I mean," she shakes her head as if to clear it, "I've seen Reincarnation, twice, but that creates a new body. This will just be like waking up for him, won't it?"
[21:25] <Kotono> "It should be like waking up from a dream." Shankar begins to read from the scroll, "It takes several minutes to call on the proper names and rituals, so you have time."
06[21:27] * Alicia casts prestidigitation and does her best to clean up the corpse, melting any frost and evaporating the moisture away, and giving him a bit of a clean otherwise.
[21:31] <Kotono> The spell works only with a stubborn slowness. The ice fades gradually, drying the body in little spurts. Shankar calls on the Gods themselves, words of great power spilling as the scroll starts to glow alight. It begins with a little twilight glimmer, expanding into a star's radiance as the final words are called! The walls reverbrate with a silent, motionless shaking, the ground somehow unstable and unsolid beneath you. Shankar's words shift
[21:32] <Kotono> the ground somehow unstable and unsolid beneath you. Shankar's words shift from whispered to shouted whispers, echoing about as if you were in a deep cave. Drawing his hands over the body in a circular motion, "Hear my words, soul far away! Return!" Shankar slashes his palm with his thumbnail, a droplet of blood splashing down onto the man's face!
06[21:34] * Alicia hangs back a little, watching events proceed with great interest. Who knows, the scroll she carries herself might one day be used in this fashion on her. She hopes not, though...
[21:38] <Kotono> The blood ripples into the man's face, a dozen lines of red fading into his flesh! His eyes move first, a blink. Another blink. He sits up, rubbing his neck. "Huh...monsters? What the hell?" He says groggily, then rubs his eyes. "Ugh. Nightmare...where am I?"
[21:40] <Alicia> "You're in the Balmuria garrison," Alicia tells him as practical concerns outweigh the desire to simply gawp at life being were death once held sway. No need to dump all of it on him at once, though... "How are you feeling?"
[21:40] <Kotono> Shankar nods, "You are blessed." He leans back heavily against the wall, breathing hard.
[21:41] <Kotono> "I feel good. Better than good, my back isn't bothering me." He blinks again, "...Captain Alicia?"
06[21:45] * Alicia nods. "You were caught up in a battle you should not have been," she explains. "Devils seeking to slay myself and those close to me - they were indiscriminate with their attacks and you suffered for it."
[21:46] <Kotono> "I...I think Ir emember something. Something cold." He rubs his arms, "I still feel a little cool. Did I get knocked out?"
[21:48] <Alicia> "Worse," Alicia shakes her head, glad he's still sitting. "You died. In her mercy, however, the Mother of All Magic saw fit for you to have your life restored to you."
[21:49] <Kotono> "Wel, that isn't-" He begins, before his eyes widen, "W-w-wait, what? I died?"
[21:49] <Kotono> "Mystra gave you another chance at life," Standing back up now, "I am Shankar, Priest of Mystra." He offers a hand out ot the man.
[21:50] <Kotono> "Dornath," He takes the hand with a dumb look on his face, going back and forth between Alicia and Shankar. "But you make it sound like I'm alive. I mean, when you kill someone, they're dead.
[21:50] <Kotono> "
[21:53] <Alicia> "The Gods have the power to reverse even death," Alicia replies with a reassuring smile. "It is very rare for it to happen, but your unjust death as a simple bystander at an assassination attempt on those who follow Mystra has moved our Goddess to action."
[21:55] <Kotono> "I..." Dornath tries tos peak a few times, before shaking his head. "I'd heard amazing things happen in Balmuria, but I never imagined this."
[21:56] <Kotono> "It is a miracle, nothing less," Shankar takes the man's hand again, "But there are two others who need this miracle. Live with the blessings of Mystra, Dornath." He says, starting to go.
[21:58] <Alicia> "It's amazing, but also dangerous. Every day from here on is a gift, Dornath - enjoy it," Alicia tells him. "Anyway, if you can walk we'll take you out of the morgue here, then we have to find the other two."
[21:59] <Kotono> Dornath follows along with Alicia and Shankar, looking out at the garrison as you exit. He shakes his head, "I still don't believe it, but...thank you," He says to both of them. "It was an honor to meet you, too."
[22:02] <Alicia> "You're welcome," Alicia clasps his shoulder. "I'd tell you to be careful, but from the sounds of it there was nothing you could have done to avoid dying - it's like that for most people, really," she briefly looks down before taking a deep breath and moving on, "Few people get second chances, so make the most of it."
[22:02] <Alicia> With that she follows along after Shankar, looking around to see if anyone is looking for them at Obureth's behest with the addresses they need.
[22:05] <Kotono> You soon find a page who passes you a quickly written parchment page. Shankar looks them over, "One's in the older part of the city, southeast near the southern walls. The other's in the new part of the city."
[22:06] <Alicia> "Go to the southeast then swing by the other on our way back to the temple?" Alicia suggests.
03[22:07] * aisarerukedoaisenai is now known as aisarerukedoaisenairabite
[22:13] <Kotono> Going to the southeast, the streets become a little dirtier. The buildings are plain enough here, people passing by giving Alicia a wide berth. You find a very plain, simple house is your destination, no yard to speak of. It's wooden door is half open, draped with a black cloth.
06[22:14] * Alicia walks up to the entrance and raps her knuckles gently on the doorframe.
[22:16] <Kotono> Inside you can hear bustling. "It's open," A man's voice calls.
[22:16] <Alicia> After a brief glance to check Shankar is ready, Alicia opens the door fully and steps inside.
[22:18] <Kotono> Inside a plain family room you see a dozen or so people. They are talking, with a few sitting. A few children sit with adults, crying and sniffling. The air is somber, a man with a cane and perhaps thirty approaching. "Wel...oh!" Looking at Alicia, "...Thank you so much for coming, Captain. I don't want to presume, but did you know my wife?"
[22:19] <Kotono> A quiet settles over the room, attention on the two. "We come on a mission of mercy," Shankar speaks up. "Good man, where is your wife now?"
[22:20] <Alicia> "I'm afraid I didn't have the pleasure, no," Alicia shakes her head before deferring to the priest.
[22:21] <Kotono> "She lies in the undertaker's, the funeral is this evening," he answers, "Mercy? Anything, please," he casts his eyes down and low, "Our family sorely needs it now, sirs."
[22:22] <Alicia> "If you could take us to the undertaker's, sir?" Alicia suggests. "Mystra was not unmoved by your wife's senseless death."
[22:24] <Kotono> "Mommy," A young irl sniffles in the background, as the man advances to the two. "What are you saying?"
[22:24] <Kotono> "Sir, Mystra will help. Just take us to her and you'll understand then," Shankar takes his arm, "Please."
Session Close: Wed Apr 15 22:33:12 2009

Session Start: Wed Apr 15 22:33:12 2009
Session Ident: #dunes
02[22:33] * Disconnected
02[22:33] * Attempting to rejoin channel #dunes
03[22:33] * Rejoined channel #dunes
03[22:33] * Topic is 'Seira>DEME MIKOCHAN!'
03[22:33] * Set by Kotono on Tue Apr 07 22:31:02
06[22:34] * Alicia hangs back to let them enjoy their reunion, smiling sappily at the sight. If they have any questions she'll be here.
[22:35] <Kotono> "Oh...you're so warm," Anna hugs her husband back, the two spending some time together. As they do, "Both were cold to the touch and complaining of cold afterwards. What vile magic did those devils use?" Shankar whispers.
[22:37] <Alicia> "Most gelugons have access to the cone of cold spell at will. Marie said it was different in this case, more like a freezing unholy blight," Alicia supplies in a whisper of her own.
[22:40] <Kotono> "Oh thank you," The man turns back, going to embrace Shankar and then Alicia, the whispering being most largely interrupted. "I owe both of you a debt that I can never repay!
[22:41] <Alicia> "Just make the most of it," Alicia suggests as she returns the hug. "You've seen how easily it can be taken away, so make every day count from now on."
[22:44] <Kotono> "I won't! Thank Mystra as well!" The man says. Anna approaches slower, going to take Alicia's hand. "Miss Reynes, I thank you. Priest, I thank you," Over to Shankar now, her touch not cold, but heatless.
06[22:47] * Alicia clasps Anna's hand back, bestowing some healing energy of her own on the contact. Reincarnation left its subjects very weak, and Anna's low temperature implies she still needs to recover a little as well.
[22:47] <Alicia> OOC: 5hp lay on hands
[22:48] <Kotono> "Be well," Shankar says, as Anna takes the healing. Her skin turns slightly more warm from that contact. "There is naother we must go to, to do the same. Be blessed by the Mother of All Magic."
[22:48] <Kotono> "Thank you," Anna says, "Your touch is like warmth and light," she smiles to Alicia.
06[22:51] * Alicia smiles back. "Mystra grants smaller blessings as well," she explains. "Go home and rest with your family, be grateful for having a second chance. Goodbye for now," she nods to husband and wife before following after Shankar.
[22:53] <Kotono> Once outside of the house now, heading northwest, "It warms me to see Mystra passing on these blessings. Let not Hell destroy what is innocent and removed by it in it's enmity to you."
[22:55] <Alicia> "I was feeling horrible that people had been killed like that when they were trying to get at me," Alicia agrees. "I never imagined that something like this would happen, though."
[22:57] <Kotono> "One more," Shankar leads Alicia along as he processes it. The last is a house in the nwe section of the city, two stories and tucked away from the main streets. The door to it is closed, a small, fenced in yard around it. A few dogs lie in the fenced in yard, dozing in the sunlight.
06[22:59] * Alicia opens the gate to the yard and approaches the door without hesitation. Hopefully the dogs will just stay sleeping and not bother her...
[23:01] <Kotono> Shankar hurries. As you do, one dog lifts it's head up, panting at Alicia but doing nothing else. The door is knocked on with a metal knocker, nothing ocming for a time. An older woman answers, gray hair and wearing a black dress. "Can I help the two of you...oh! Captain Reynes." She steps back, a bow. "Have you come to the viewing? I was not aware you knew the departed."
[23:02] <Kotono> "We must see the departed," Shankar speaks up, "It is a matter of mercy."
[23:03] <Alicia> "I didn't," Alicia shakes her head, before cocking her head towards Shankar in a 'what he said' gesture.
[23:04] <Kotono> "If you wish." She stands aside, and then, "To offer apologies to Sina? I hear that you were invovled in the incident."
[23:06] <Alicia> "The devils were there for me," Alicia confirms. "But we'll do better than apologise, if you could show us the way, ma'am?"
[23:07] <Kotono> The woman shrugs and leads Alicia inside. The trappings inside are rich and comfortable. There are paintings and elven works about, the back room converted where a coffin lies. In this coffin a man sits, a black veiled woman standing next to it.
[23:08] <Alicia> "You are about to bear witness to the greatest of miracles, ma'am," Alicia explains to the woman, leaving Shankar to do his thing. "Would that all could be so lucky..."
[23:10] <Kotono> The veiled woman looks up, "Sir, ma'am, what are you doing here," she asks. "A miracle? My husband is gone."
[23:12] <Alicia> "And can be brought back," Alicia replies. "He was caught up in a battle that did not concern him, a senseless victim of fiendish bloodlust. The Mother of All Magic has granted Shankar with the power to undo yesterday's meaningless deaths."

Corwin · March 28, 2012, 07:19:42 AM

[20:16] <Kotono> <Alicia> "I didn't," Alicia shakes her head, before cocking her head towards Shankar in a 'what he said' gesture.
[20:16] <Kotono> > "If you wish." She stands aside, and then, "To offer apologies to Sina? I hear that you were invovled in the incident."
[20:16] <Kotono> <Alicia> "The devils were there for me," Alicia confirms. "But we'll do better than apologise, if you could show us the way, ma'am?"
[20:16] <Kotono> > The woman shrugs and leads Alicia inside. The trappings inside are rich and comfortable. There are paintings and elven works about, the back room converted where a coffin lies. In this coffin a man sits, a black veiled woman standing next to it.
[20:16] <Kotono> <Alicia> "You are about to bear witness to the greatest of miracles, ma'am," Alicia explains to the woman, leaving Shankar to do his thing. "Would that all could be so lucky..."
[20:16] <Kotono> > The veiled woman looks up, "Sir, ma'am, what are you doing here," she asks. "A miracle? My husband is gone."
[20:16] <Kotono> <Alicia> "And can be brought back," Alicia replies. "He was caught up in a battle that did not concern him, a senseless victim of fiendish bloodlust. The Mother of All Magic has granted Shankar with the power to undo yesterday's meaningless deaths."
03[20:16] * Ebiris is now known as Alicia
[20:21] <Kotono> "You can do that?" The woman's face is hidden by her veil, her voice uncertain. "Ah..ah...are there not those worthier for it?"
[20:22] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 sense motive, she didn't like her husband, did she?
06[20:22] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 sense motive, she didn't like her husband, did she? and gets 11." [1d20=1]
[20:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
06[20:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 11." [1d20=8]
[20:26] <Alicia> "It's not a question of worth," Alicia shakes her head, not showing anything of her doubts regarding this woman's sincerity. "Mystra has made her feelings clear on the matter, and her judgement cannot be questioned."
[20:26] <Kotono> "I will bring mercy to him," Shankar approaches the coffin, unrolling the scroll. "Mystra has deemed him worthy. That is enough."
[20:27] <Kotono> "But..." The woman's voice catches, "But..."
[20:27] <Kotono> The older woman goes to the veiled woman, whispering into her ear.
06[20:27] * Alicia doesn't look like she's trying to overhear...
[20:27] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 but she is anyway
06[20:27] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 but she is anyway and gets 13." [1d20=6]
[20:34] <Kotono> Alicia can't quite tell, but the woman steps back. "Th-then I am grateful," she says quietly.
[20:36] <Alicia> "Ma'am, ah- Sina, was it?" Alicia asks, stepping towards the temporary widow. "Perhaps we could talk in the other room while Shankar performs the spell? Your husband may be disoriented upon his restoration and it would be best not to overwhelm him."
[20:38] <Kotono> "O-Of course, captain," Sina follows along, going into a quiet kitchen. Not much is going here, beyond a cat curled up in a sunbeam on a table. It yawns as the two enter, briefly looking up.
[20:43] <Alicia> Closing the door so they're alone, Alicia does her best to put up a non-judgemental front. She doesn't know the specifics of the marriage, after all. "It must be a lot to take in," she begins gently. "One moment everything's normal, then he's dead in an instant of meaningless violence. And before you can even adjust to that, we come breezing in on a mission from our Goddess to pull him back."
[20:43] <Alicia> Stepping closer she cocks her head as she speaks gently, "How had you been coping, if I might ask?"
[20:44] <Kotono> "I-I'm just not sure. It's all been so sudden," Sina looks down and away, going over to the table. She scoops the cat into her arms, stroking it's fur. "It hadn't even sunk in yet."
[20:47] <Alicia> Hmm. She's not opening up too much there. Perhaps another approach? "Do you have any children? Does he have any other family who'll want to know?" she prods. Maybe this'll get her to reveal a bit about the overall situation in the house.
[20:47] <Kotono> "No children," She answers, "HIs parents died a few years ago from disease."
[20:50] <Alicia> "Have you ever thought about having them?" the paladin asks.
[20:55] <Kotono> "Oh, on occasion," Sinal focuses on her cat, "My husband did...does...I don't know...but...he's made good money in trade over the past year or so."
[20:57] <Alicia> "I bring it up because it's the sort of thing someone might put a lot more thought to after receiving a second chance like this. Your husband may be far more keen to secure his legacy after feeling how easily his life could be taken away," Alicia explains, studying Sina's reaction carefully.
[21:00] <Kotono> Sina continues to focus on the cat, her eyes half lidded. She strokes it quickly, the cat's skin being molded around. OOC: Make a sense motive check here?
[21:00] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10
06[21:00] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 and gets 11." [1d20=1]
[21:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
06[21:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 16." [1d20=13]
[21:01] <Kotono> "I don't know, maybe." she says at last. "I...I can talk to him about it after this."
[21:05] <Alicia> She's not really biting despite Alicia's best efforts. Well, one other approach... it's somewhat uncouth, but she wants to get past Sina's defences. "Conversely, he might view it as a chance to have a 'clean slate' of sorts, and re-examine all aspects of his life and relationships - after all, many obligations are said to end with death..." Take the hint, woman!
[21:06] <Kotono> "I..." She shakes her head, "I just don't know. Who comes back after being dead? I heard the stories about it as a child, but...who really has it happen to them? Fairy tales are for children and heroes like you."
[21:11] <Alicia> "Heroes like me..." Alicia repeats with a soft sigh as that statement pierces her own defences. "After my husband and son died I prayed desperately for a mercy such as this, to no avail. The Gods have their own reasons, Sina, that we just have to trust are the right ones."
[21:12] <Kotono> "What?" Looking up fromj her cat, "B-but you're a hero. You can kill dragons and defeat armies. Why wouldn't you have your husband and son back?"
06[21:17] * Alicia can only shrug in reply. "Why indeed? Why is your husband more deserving than mine?" She looks away, rubbing her temple, "I confess I felt guilty for the deaths yesterday, as those devils were hunting me personally, but to choose between them would hardly be a choice at all. However, the choice is not yours or mine to make. Mystra has made her will in this matter clear."
[21:18] <Kotono> As you talk, there is a soft rumble. The world itself seems to pulse, thew alls of the house shimmering. "I see. Then I don't have a choice if it's up to the Gods. If they want him back, he's coming back."
[21:20] <Alicia> "And that's probably him back now," Alicia states, unperturbed by the flow of powerful magic as she looks up to regard the former-widow once more. "Forgive me for saying this so bluntly, Sina, but are you unhappy in your marriage?"
[21:21] <Kotono> "I..." Sina freezes, hands curling around the cat. It hisses, clawing at her arms. This snaps her out of it, dropping the cat and wincing. "Ah! Aaah...well...since he's been making so much money and being so busy..."
06[21:26] * Alicia reaches over and brushes her fingertips across Sina's arm, bestowing the tiniest amount of healing to mend the scratches. "There's no shame in staying with a man for security and comfort," she reassures non-judgementally. "Do you want to talk about it?"
[21:26] <Alicia> OOC: 1hp lay on hands
[21:27] <Kotono> "I..." Sniffling as her scratches heal, "Magic? Thank you." She whispers, "I don't know. Right now, I just don't know.
[21:27] <Kotono> "
[21:30] <Alicia> "I can't perform miracles like Shankar - as you said before, my talents are more destructive - but I have some skill at healing," Alicia shrugs. "Your husband will be up now I imagine - talk to him, see how it feels," she then suggests,
[21:30] <Alicia> "An experience like this may change him for the better. But if you ever need an ear to listen, come see me at my house or the temple. I wouldn't want you to be troubled by what was supposed to be a joyous miracle."
[21:32] <Kotono> "I...I'll remember that," Sina says at last, standing. She then goes back out of the kitchen, towards her husband.
06[21:33] * Alicia goes to join Shankar if he's ready to leave.
[21:36] <Kotono> Shankar is breifly talking with the raised man, coming over to Alicia as he does. Sina approaches, hesitantly going to embrace him. While that goes on, "Our work is done. After the third casting I am completely exhausted as well. Shall we depart?"
[21:38] <Alicia> "Lets go back to the temple - I imagine today will see it busier than normal as word spreads," Alicia agrees before addressing the couple. "Farewell, both of you. Please come by the temple if you have any questions or just wish to talk about things," she asks before starting to leave.
[21:41] <Kotono> As you walk out, Shankar going slow, "What did you talk to his wife on? She seemed to have odd reactions to the joyous news."
[21:45] <Alicia> "She married him for his money," Alicia admits, offering an arm to Shankar if he needs it. "I've given her a few things to consider, and invited her to visit if she ever needs to talk - she didn't strike me as a bad sort and I can sympathise with her situation."
[21:46] <Kotono> "Mystra will show them the way," Shankar nods as he takes the arm. The temple isn't far, the pair soon returning. "I will need to lie down for a time," he says as the temple comes in sight. "I will instruct the other priests on what must be done. What of you, Alicia?"
[21:47] <Alicia> "I'll stay here and help with services where I can," Alicia nods. "If it gets very busy I might get Marie to assist as well, we'll see how the day progresses."
[21:58] <Kotono> It's quite the busy day. Mystra's Temple gets more people than Alicia can recall in recent memory. It's a long, tiring day of thanks and celebration spreading throughout Balmuria. Near sunset a feast has broken out for dinner. After this night comes, Alicia taking the short walk home. As she does, 'Ah, celebration. Does your heart soar, Alicia?' Esthan's voice soundlessly speaks in Alicia's mind.
06[22:04] * Alicia stops and briefly considers her reply. "You must be exceptionally bored," she begins, somewhat mindful of the word limit but not really caring. Exchanging banter with Esthan is hardly a priority.
[22:05] <Alicia> "And not at all shy about broadcasting your complicity in the Spark Hunter attack. Almost makes me feel like I wasted my time getting number eleven to spill his guts about you... and we're over the word limit." Shrugging it off, she continues homeward.
[22:08] <Kotono> AS Alicia walks, 'I come with a warning. This is just the beginning. All I ask of you is: How many more will die for your arrogance? How many more will have to pray that Mystra has mercy on them because of you? How many more will you sentence to death?'
[22:13] <Alicia> "Oh, I thought that was a sending spell you were using," Alicia stops again, looking around warily, realising he must be nearby and using telepathy. Any evil auras in sight? "Regardless, don't try and make me feel guilty for your decisions. Your kind started this, not me."
[22:15] <Kotono> Alicia doesn't detect any. 'But you hold the keys to end it. Were I not so merciful, how many would have died by your sins? A thousand, perhaps? Ten thousand? I and my Master offer you and your friends a chance to do better than that.'
[22:19] <Alicia> "You're starting to sound like that pathetic despair creature," Alicia remonstrates. "Look, Esthan, you're responsible for your actions, and I'm responsible for mine. Trying to lay the blame at my feet when you or your cohorts go off on a destructive rampage is infantile at best. I'm not holding a knife at your throat and telling you what to do."
[22:27] <Kotono> 'Ah, hope. How deeply it springs in you in the face of nightmares unbound!' Esthan laughs, a long laughter that seems to go on forever. 'The nightmares for you are just to begin, if you will not see reason. I will ask again: Ally with us. Keep your trappings of good and light. Cooperate with my master and we will aid you and your fledgling friends greatly.'
[22:35] <Alicia> "You don't understand me at all, do you?" Alicia shakes her head as she looks around her surroundings. "It's strange, what little we've heard of you paints you as a fantastic diplomat of peerless skill... are you just not trying with me? Is that it? I suppose the fact that you won't even talk to me face to face is telling enough..."
[22:35] <Kotono> OOC: You can amke a spot check if you like.
[22:37] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7
06[22:37] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 and gets 20." [1d20=13]
[22:37] <Kotono> Alicia is halfway between her home and the Temple of Mystra. Behind her she can see lots of lights, the celebrations continuing. Her home is quiet, nothing obviously going on there. 'Ah, if it is only a face to face meeting you crave, we can do that if you wish. Come, you can come and entertain your dreams of valor and heroism this night, then.'
[22:43] <Alicia> He has to be pretty close if he can hear her talking at conversation-level. Maybe he's invisible? "Said meeting would involve me doing me best to skewer you, yes," she admits honestly, pulling down her blindfold for a moment. "We really have nothing else to talk about, after all. You just keep repeating the same tired and unappealing offer, I keep saying no... it's very tiresome."
[22:46] <Kotono> Esthan is standing a mere twenty feet ahead of you, smiling wide. "Here I am, paladin." His hood is drawn, standing so that his shoulder faces you, a narrow shilouette. "I had hoped these lessons would be sufficient, but it seems that you require a more direct touch." OOC: Roll initiative?
[22:47] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7
06[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 and gets 15." [1d20=8]
[22:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (nerveskitter)
06[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 (nerveskitter) and gets 28." [1d20=8]
03[22:47] * Kotono changes topic to 'Esthan>Alicia'
[22:47] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 Marie
06[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 Marie and gets 14." [1d20=7]
03[22:47] * Kotono changes topic to 'Esthan>Alicia>Marie'
[22:49] <Kotono> "Come." He says a single word, a beam of purple-black light coming from an outstretched hand! As it arches at Alicia, it splits into two!
[22:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+29 touch AC
[22:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+29 touch AC
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+29 touch AC and gets 42." [1d20=13]
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+29 touch AC and gets 33." [1d20=4]
[22:49] <Kotono> roll 1d4
[22:49] <Kotono> roll 1d4
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and gets 2." [1d4=2]
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[22:49] <Kotono> roll 2*1.5
[22:49] <Alicia> OOC: 15, spellfiring it
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2*1.5 and gets 3."
[22:49] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[22:50] <Kotono> A moment later, a green ray follows, going right for Alicia again!
[22:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+29 touch AC again
06[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+29 touch AC again and gets 37." [1d20=8]
[22:50] <Kotono> The green ray follows as the black rays are absorbed into Alicia! This one makes her feel like chains grip her body all over! OOC: Alicia, you can go.
[22:52] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 6." [1d100=6]
[22:53] <Kotono> OOC: 4 negative levles then.
06[23:05] * Alicia winces a bit at the enervation getting through her spellfire defences. Damn metamagic... Still, she has plenty of fight left in her. Casting a spell of her own, she promptly turns invisible and then moves twenty five feet to the right, unsheathing the sword of the sealed gate as she does.
[23:06] <Kotono> OOC: Marie?
[23:06] <Alicia> Marie hears the noise outside as well as Alicia's bloodlust coming up, and turns incorporeal before peeking out through the wall of the second floor of the house.
[23:07] <Kotono> Marie can't see much of anything, since both do seem to be invisible. Hm. Crazy that. OOC: Both targets aren't visible to Marie. Is she doing anything else?
[23:08] <Alicia> OOC: no, she took a standard and a move anyway
[23:10] <Kotono> Esthan moves a little more back, passing out of range of Alicia's blind sight! Nothing else can immediately be seen to happen, though Alicia can hear Esthan's chuckling in her mind. 'If that's what you want, we can do this as well.' OOC: Alicia.
06[23:12] * Alicia can be patient. She casts fly on herself and then takes to the air, crossing her previous path and moving fifty feet forward, only stopping if it looks like she'll bump into Esthan.
[23:12] <Kotono> OOC: Were you moving up at all or just forward?
[23:13] <Alicia> OOC: my feet aren't touching the ground but I'm not actually climbing more than five feet.
[23:13] <Kotono> Alicia flies around but doesn't see Esthan at all! OOC: Marie's up. She still doesn't see anything.
[23:13] <Alicia> Marie is confused and just... looks around for now. What's going on?
[23:14] <Kotono> roll 1d20+42
06[23:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+42 and gets 50." [1d20=8]
[23:15] <Kotono> A second later, golden dust bursts all around Alicia, glittering wildly! OOC: Will, Alicia.
[23:15] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24
06[23:15] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 and gets 40." [1d20=16]
[23:16] <Kotono> Golden dust clings to Alicia, revealing her outline! But she's able to blink her eyes fast, clearing the glitter and blinding reflections from her vision! OOC: Alicia.
[23:17] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 A
06[23:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 A and gets 10." [1d20=3]
[23:17] <Alicia> roll 1d20+6 M
06[23:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+6 M and gets 8." [1d20=2]
[23:19] <Alicia> So much for concealment. Now to rely on misdirection! Another spell is cast and multiple transluscent and glittery Alicias appear all around her! As soon as that's done she flies up thirty feet.
[23:19] <Alicia> roll 1d4+5
06[23:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+5 and gets 6." [1d4=1]
[23:19] <Kotono> Alicia flies up, but still no sign of Esthan! OOC: Marie?
[23:20] <Alicia> Marie gathers that Alicia is fighting an invisible foe - and doing rather badly it seems, and waits for a chance to help out...
[23:20] <Alicia> OOC: readied action to faerie fire any noise she hears

Corwin · March 28, 2012, 07:20:04 AM

[18:09] <Kotono> > Alicia does so, lying on her bed. A faint chill passes through her body, making her extreminites shiver. The ring feels heavy on her hand.
[18:09] <Kotono> <Alicia> "Just come off, then," Alicia tells it wearily. "In victory or defeat, you're of no help anyway."
[18:09] <Kotono> > Alicia's hand is cold, but there's no sign of the ring coming off or anything. If anything...she feels kind of tired. Sleepy.
[18:09] <Kotono> * Alicia briefly toys with the thought of cutting her finger off. It's not as if regeneration magic is out of reach... but she just can't muster up the will to care.
[18:09] <Kotono> <Alicia> Despite the looming death sentence it holds over her, the ring is no real hindrance, and it does offer some small benefit even if most foes she encounters these days can easily see past its protections. "Hmph. Greatest research indeed..." she snorts, rolling onto her side and closing her eyes.
[18:09] <Kotono> > Sleep comes quickly for Alicia...(More)
[18:17] <Kotono> Alicia is walking. Kelara is gorgeous in the summer. The sunlight of a clear blue sky - such a luxury! - gleams off her armor. She strides along the path towards home. Mother and Father should be waiting for her. Such a beautiful day indeed. The warm sun seems to bleed the worries and pain out of her. It feels so good to be here, so right.
[18:19] <Alicia> As happens in dreams Alicia simply walks home because it feels appropriate, going entirely with the flow and bereft of her waking worries and concerns.
[18:22] <Kotono> As she walks home, her mind gives in to whimsy. Images flicker through. She remembers the battle against the Hamatula last night. Fighting it, taking the powerful devil down like nothing more than a worthless bit of prey. The Spark Hunters(They're coming for you), attacking with freezing cold and overwhelming might and cursed lightning from above. The Magus of Time and the Lord of the Hunt. Facing each of them down, struggling against impossibl
[18:22] <Kotono> Facing each of them down, struggling against impossible odds. The sun shines bright and clear as these images make Alicia smile. A sense of pride fills her from top to bottom. She can see home in the distance, hearing the sounds of laughter and conversation carried by the wind. Home. Home is waiting for Alicia.
[18:24] <Alicia> A shadow briefly flits across Alicia's thoughts, something nagging, something wrong... but it flits away like smoke in the wind before she can grasp it. Hearing the noise ahead, she picks up her pace a bit.
[18:27] <Kotono> As Alicia walks, her pace slows. The sun starts to hide behind clouds. Shadows form from every blade of grass. Home seems to fall farther away, as if falling back. The sound of happiness and laughter fades, home twisting away into a mote of light into nothingness. She feels it around her, a hand. A hand like burning hot lava, grasping her from neck to knees. It pulls her backwards, her heart skipping beats as animalistic terror spreads throug h
[18:27] <Kotono> her heart skipping beats as animalistic terror spreads throug her.
06[18:32] * Alicia struggles against her restraint, almost looking back to see what has hold of her before terror freezes her. Whatever it is, she just can't face it! Straining at the giant hand, she feels like a feebled and sickly child, her strong limbs treacherously becoming more like wet noodles despite her panicked efforts!
[18:33] <Kotono> Alicia's efforts do little! She's being dragged backwards, one step at a time! Behind her, she can hear a wretched paean, whispering, moaning voices lamenting. Over them, one voice speaks. "It's time to go to sleep, Alicia. You couldn't even compete with me. What use is there for a hero when they're powerless?"
[18:37] <Alicia> It's true. She's worthless and weak. Her magic impotent. Her blade slow. Her strength insufficient. When the chance to prove herself came, she'd been found wanting. What use is a guardian who can be tossed aside with such casual ease?
[18:40] <Kotono> She feels herself being dragged away. The sun withers in the sky, turning into a tear of blood that falls to the ground. Her own tears are coming, bloody tears that stain her cheeks red. She feels a cold emptiness spreading in her, aching. "I'll let you sleep peacefully. You amused me for a short little time." Esthan's whispers grow louder as Alicia is dragged back. "You'll sleep besides the other people you failed to protect. How sad...you cou
[18:40] <Kotono> "You'll sleep besides the other people you failed to protect. How sad...you couldn't protect family, friends...and even yourself."
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[18:45] <Alicia> The taunts sting with brutal truth. But more than that, they stir up the wellspring of hot fury within Alicia. He's making a mistake! He should have killed her, like she would have done if their positions were reversed! She'll find a way to make him regret his complacency, somehow!
[18:47] <Kotono> Crying. Alicia can hear crying. Broken sobs. She looks up, finding her vision drawn. She looks out of a vast chasm, only a tiny bit of light coming from it. "...lay to rest," A voice above drones, "To the earth to sleep forever." It speaks amid the sobs, even as Alicia feels pulled back further, pulled DOWN, deeper. Her ring finger throbs with burning cold, pulsing throughout her body, in time to Alicia's racing heartbeat.
[18:48] <Kotono> in time to Alicia's racing heartbeat.
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[18:54] <Alicia> She wants to rest... wants to rest so badly. But she won't. She rejected paradise itself, so how could she accept oblivion? Railing against her fate, Alicia struggles against the pulling sensation! If she goes down, let her foes at least bear the scars to remember she did not go down easily!
[18:57] <Kotono> Alicia struggles! She writhes and fights against the hand! At last it lets her go as she whirls around! Ahead of her is an endless chasm. It surges to the highest heaven with burning fire. From it the screams of a million souls cry out, lamenting lives wrongly lead. Amid the flames you see familiar figures, clad in naught but flames, crucified to crosses of bleeding flesh. Antenora, Jessica, your parents, Commander Oberuth, Dawnhope, Marie, Sei
[18:57] <Kotono> Antenora, Jessica, your parents, Commander Oberuth, Dawnhope, Marie, Seira, Demedais, Taldeer...so many and more, screaming and weeping. At the edge of the chasm, waiting with arms outspread, is Esthan. His cloak blows back, a frentic wind revealing his face. A smile frames it from ear to ear. "Welcome home, Alicia! Come, it's time to rest!"
06[19:02] * Alicia replies. What she says is utterly profound and meaningful, piercing the very core of Esthan's withered black heart. Dreams being what they are, it's the sort of thing she won't remember when she wakes up, only that it was incredibly brilliant and will never be repeated. Then she attacks the devil head on, knowing it may be futile but determined to fight it out to the bitter end!
[19:05] <Alicia> OOC: strike
[19:11] <Alicia> Alicia repeats words she used once in the past against an enemy who seemed insurmountable, but who eventually fell to her superior tactices when her strength and skill proved insufficient. "Die, Monster! You don't belong in this world!" before hurling herself into attack!
[19:13] <Kotono> Alicia surges forward! From the cold within her, she feels a calm take over her body. Bravery and courage surge forth as she lunges forward at the fiend at the edge of the endless chasm of Hell-sitting upright in bed. Her covers are thrown aside, landing against the wall. Her hand feels completely numb. Her breath comes in a jagged burst. But in her mind, something stirs and focuses.
06[19:20] * Alicia sits hunched forward, sucking in great lungfuls of air. Even before she's woken fully, her mind grasps onto the new feeling, her numb hand instinctively tracing a magical pattern in the air while her left grasps the bedsheet, words to a spell she's never practiced tumbling forth. "Courage, stir my heart! Hold fast against the night!"
[19:22] <Kotono> A cloak of bravery settles over Alicia, instilling her with courage. The spell fires, burned into her mind and body!
06[19:25] * Alicia flexhes her hand a few times, working the feeling back into it as she rouses herself properly. "That... wasn't an ordinary dream..." she murmurs aloud, wondering just what would've happened had she let herself give in...
[19:27] <Kotono> It takes time for her hand to regain feeling. It feels almost alien to her for a long while. Her heartbeat slows, reality returning. It's early, the first hints of dawn's rising peeking through Alicia's window.
[19:31] <Alicia> Exhaling, Alicia collapses back against the mattress, her ring-wearing hand held up before her face as she stares vacantly to the ceiling. She feels like she could take on the world right now, but how justified is it really?
[19:31] <Alicia> Likely as not she still requires a lot of work if she's to defeat fiends of Esthan's rank... although what rank means when a no-name pit fiend like him could utterly squash a duke like Agares, she's not quite sure.
[19:35] <Kotono> Alicia prepares herself and goes out that morning. Elle is hired to cast Analyse Dweomer. When it's done, she invites Alicia back. She taps Alicia's book, holding it in her hands. "So how did you come across these again, exactly?"
[19:38] <Alicia> "A 'gift' from Esthan's master," Alicia replies unhappily. "Likely as not I'm just going to destroy mine or send it back, but I thought it best to have them checked out before giving Seira and Demedais their's, for whatever they want to do with them."
[19:39] <Kotono> "They're books of improvement. Very rare, very powerful and impossible for me to recreate." Sighing as she raps the cover with her knuckle, "This one will increase your force of personality. Seira's will sharpen her mind, Demedais' will strengthen his body. You've found a few of these before, but I've never seen two together, let alone three."
06[19:41] * Alicia rubs her eyes briefly. "Even if there's no catch in them, that just makes me more wary. There's no way I want to put myself that much in debt to any devil. I certainly won't be using mine."
[19:44] <Kotono> "I can't blame you and I won't stop you," Elle begins, while there is a knock on the door. Alice pokes her head in, "Sorry to interrupt, but Eudard and Engan are here early for their appointment." Elle looks away, "Keep them company out there with my apologies," she says, before turning back to Alicia. "Anyway, if you're sure, I'll get them to Seira and Demedais the next time Is ee them."
[19:47] <Alicia> "I can trust you to hold onto them," Alicia nods, putting her own book back into the portable hole for now. "Anyway, if you have an appointment I won't keep you further."
[19:56] <Kotono> "Is there anything else?" Elle inquires. "They're early, there's no deathly hurry to race out to meet them."
[19:58] <Alicia> "Well, actually yes," Alicia admits. "If you have the time for a Sending spell. Latha's been chasing after Esthan for a while, so I want to give her an update and warn her just how powerful he is."
[20:00] <Kotono> "Alright, I can do that. What's the message," Elle stands, stretching, "Gah. It's gotten to the point where I memorize at least two of those every morning."
06[20:03] * Alicia smiles sympathetically. "At least you're well paid?" She counts out 450gp and puts it on Elle's desk before writing her message on a note and handing it over. "Message from Alicia: Esthan appeared in Balmuria yesterday. Tried fighting, he penetrated invisibility and could not be touched by blade or spell. Be very careful."
[20:03] <Kotono> "Depressing," Elle smiles, nodding as she reads it. "Got it. Going to wait around for the answer?"
[20:05] <Alicia> "How a Pit Fiend could be so much more powerful than a Duke I really don't know," Alicia just shakes her head. "Anyway, I'd like to hear what she has to say, so I'll stick around, yes."
[20:06] <Kotono> "I'll ask the first devil I find," Elle smiles warmly as she casts! Ten minutes later, she nods. "Her reply was, "Understood. Will be in Balmuria by day's end. Will want to talk. Blessings protect you.'"
[20:07] <Alicia> "Antenora's as stumped as I am," Alicia exhales irritably before putting a smile on. "Thanks for all your help anyway, Elle. I'll get out of your hair now," she waves to the redhead before heading out.
[20:14] <Kotono> Thereafter, Alicia reports to Commander Oberuth. On reporting her defeat, he leans back in his chair. "Hmph. He was in the city and no one knew, and you couldn't even touch him?" he summarizes?
06[20:18] * Alicia nods glumly. "He saw right through my invisibility - I don't know whether his divinations were powerful enough to bypass my protections or he heard the air moving around me or saw the distortion of the invisibility spell. I wouldn't put any of that past him. Marie couldn't get her spells to stick, and she's better at that than I am."
[20:18] <Alicia> "The worst part was that he dodged my sword - I've sometimes slipped and missed, but otherwise people have to rely on armour protecting them from my blades. Esthan *dodged* a perfect shot and made it look easy."
[20:18] <Kotono> "I know how good a sword master you are. That's magic, su rely," Oberuth scowls as he steeples his fingers together. "It's still disturbing. If the Crimson Guard can't compete with him..."
[20:23] <Alicia> "At least he seems to want to use us rather than kill us... humiliating as it may be," Alicia replies. "As it stands I doubt I or Seira could strike him without relying on True Strike spells - which he could dispel handily before we could strike - and Demedais would have an even harder time of it."
[20:23] <Alicia> "We're all going to have to improve a lot before we think about battling him again - I shudder to think what would have occured had we went through with our assault at the meeting Seira arranged in Pallanth."
[20:25] <Kotono> "A massacre," Oberuth's scowl twists even deeper. "Practically, we'll need to find some way to stop him, but at least we have time."
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06[20:29] * Alicia nods. "The thing that worries me most is that if one devil can be as powerful as Esthan, there must surely be others just like him who can come here at will. And they would have no reason to coddle us as he does. We need to become far stronger if we're to defend ourselves."
[20:31] <Kotono> "I'll be needing to look into that," Commander Oberuth says after some long thought. "Any ideas yourself?"
[20:35] <Alicia> "I had one, actually, although it would mean leaving Balmuria for a time... but if I can't fight off the likes of Esthan I'm of little use, anyway," Alicia smiles thinly. "Not all of the Upper Planes are places of peace and beauty."
[20:35] <Alicia> "The heroic realm of Ysgard is said to be where the greatest of warriors go to fight on for all eternity. Perhaps there I could find instruction, or at the very least fresh opponents to sharpen my skills against."
[20:36] <Kotono> "If that's what it takes, do it," Oberuth nods very curtly to that.
[20:37] <Alicia> "I'll see if anyone else has any other fresh ideas, but likely as not that's where I'll be headed," Alicia agrees. "By your leave, sir," she salutes before heading out and back home.
[20:38] <Kotono> OOC: Skip along now?
[20:39] <Alicia> OOC: yep
[20:41] <Kotono> That evening, Jessica and Marie are in the kitchen, making dinner. Antenora sits and watches them, done with her training. It's a serene, peaceful night. Alicia's door is knocked on as this all goes on, as everyone waits.
06[20:43] * Alicia is starting to get a bit worried about Dawnhope, not having seen her for over two days. That's probably Latha, though, since Coure never knock. "Coming!" she calls, getting up and going to answer the door.
[20:45] <Kotono> Latha is there, drawing her hood back. In one hand she carries a little coure eladrin; Dawnhope snores softly. "It's been too long," Latha steps inside, "I found this guest of yours weaving in the air out of a tavern. Inquiries before a drunken sleep overtook brought your name up."
[20:46] <Alicia> "I was just thinking about her, actually," Alicia smiles, clasping Latha's free hand and closing the door as the deva enters. "Glad to see she's well... relatively speaking. And yourself as well."
[20:47] <Kotono> As she enters inside, Latha deposits Dawnhope down onto the table. Once she returns that clasp and sits, "As well as I can be with that fiend travelling free and clear int he world."
[20:47] <Kotono> Antenora turns and looks at Dawnhope with a raised eyebrow, before sighing.
[20:50] <Alicia> "Hi, Latha," Marie greets the deva, a bit less intimidated now that her decision not to attack Esthan when she first met him appears somewhat vindicated.
06[20:50] * Alicia seats herself at the table as well. "I'd so been looking forward to facing him, as well. I couldn't have dreamed he'd be so far above my level..."
[20:51] <Kotono> "I'm distressed," Resting herself, "Esthan shows a vast reserve of power that even a normal pit fiend would not have at beck and call. He rivals the lowest nobility of Hell for power if this is true. Mastery of the arcane and such aptitude is frightening. I worry that even if I find him now, I will find myself in a hopeless battle."
[20:52] <Kotono> "I'll add some more dinner," Jessica calls, "It's good to see you again!"
[20:52] <Kotono> "It won't be hopeless. Hard, but never hopeless, if we work together," Antenora lightly bangs a fist onto the table. Dawnhope doesn't even stir.
[20:55] <Alicia> "When I fought Agares, he eventually overwhelmed me," Alicia begins. "Nonetheless it took him some time, and I was able to shrug off his magic while landing several admittedly minor blows in return. Considering how vastly I've improved since then, and how easily Esthan played with me, I'm confident in saying he could manhandle any Duke he felt like," she concludes.
[20:57] <Kotono> "Perhaps." Latha considers, "Regardless, the point is that we need a better plan and more strength."
[21:00] <Alicia> "We've been thinking about that a bit - ways to train and prepare ourselves," Alicia nods. "The best idea I've had is to go to Ysgard - as a plane of heroic battle, I think we could either find someone capable of teaching us, or at least worthy opponents to practice against."
[21:02] <Kotono> "That is a good idea," Latha nods at last, "There is no risk there, for even the dead slain there in it's heroic battles rise come the morning."
06[21:06] * Alicia is about to reply when she suddenly remembers something else. "Oh, I forgot to say, since it was overshadowed by Esthan, but the day before yesterday we were attacked by Spark Hunters. We took one prisoner and it confirmed Esthan does work for them, although he still attempted to recruit me on behalf of his mysterious master."
[21:07] <Kotono> "...ugh." Latha rubs her temple now, "More complications. Glad to see all of you made it through safely, at least."
[21:07] <Kotono> "Mmmm...Marie, get more syrup..." Dawnhope mutters as the eladrin turns over in sleep.
[21:08] <Kotono> "I hate to be narrow," Antenora's eyes drawn down to Dawnhope, "Narrow minded, but we may be best to simply focus on defeating Esthan for now, isntead of wasting time detangling all the threads he's woven around us."
[21:09] <Alicia> "They killed three bystanders with their wild and ill-considered attacks, but Mystra saw fit to..." she trails off and stares at Dawnhope for a long moment. Shaking that off, she goes on, "Ah, Mystra had them brought back. Of course when I was so happy with that, that's when Esthan chose to show up."
[21:09] <Alicia> Marie just shrugs. "We cook together," she explains innocently.
[21:11] <Kotono> "How merciful," LAtha bows her head, "I thank Mystra for giving that blessing."
[21:11] <Kotono> Dawnhope giggles in sleep, "Oh Marie...careful...don't wanna have to clean it off the others too...pain to clean off."
[21:12] <Kotono> "It..." Antenora begins, before sighing. She takes Dawnhope, "I'll put Dawnhope in the guest room," she says. "I'll be back in a moment."
[21:12] <Alicia> "She didn't do any cleaning!" Marie huffs before Alicia shushes her.
[21:12] <Alicia> "Thank you, Antenora," Alicia nods gratefully to the erinyes.
[21:12] <Kotono> "Drunken dreams," Latha waves a hand, "It's expected from an eladrin. When will you go to Ysgard, Alicia?"
[21:14] <Alicia> "Probably tomorrow, unless something occurs to offeset my plans," Alicia replies. "What of yourself?"
[21:14] <Kotono> "I've ran out of immediate leads." As the air is filled with the hungering scents of cooking dinner, "I would go with you as well, if I am able."
06[21:18] * Alicia smiles. "I'd love to have you along," she agrees. "Marie will stay here to keep an eye on things in my absence - she'll benefit from any improvement I see anyway, due to how we're linked. And Antenora will come as well, if she's willing."
[21:18] <Kotono> "I'm willing," Antenora answers as she returns. "By the way, Jessica? Could you make pancakes for breakfast on the morrow? Our guest will appreciate it, she babbled about eating pancakes as I put her to bed."
[21:19] <Kotono> "I will," Jessica calls back, "Dinner will be ready soon!"
[21:20] <Alicia> "That's three of us, then," Alicia nods, craning her neck to her sister. "Thanks, Jessica."
[21:32] <Kotono> The next morning, the three gather after a pleasant breakfast. As Dawnhope stirs and comes in, you can hear her call, "Pancakes? Oh, just what I wanted!" But the others are in the back training yard. "I'm ready," Antenora announces.
[21:33] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 planes, general info on Ysgard, focusing on good places to train
06[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 planes, general info on Ysgard, focusing on good places to train and gets 40." [1d20=20]
[21:45] <Alicia> "I remember hearing a story once about a deva named Strength of Light who maintains a great battle near the Gates of the Moon," Alicia explains first. "I think Jessica read about it in Judgement's realm, it seems to stand out over the others, so I'll aim for Selune's realm and we'll make our way from there. That work for you two?"
[21:47] <Kotono> "I'm fine with it," Antenora says, "Selune's the ancient enemy of Shar, isn't she?"
[21:49] <Alicia> "That's right," Alicia smiles briefly. "She was there in the beginning, along with her dark sister. Mystra herself was born of their struggles," she recites briefly. "A goddess worthy of our respect, she is."
[21:51] <Kotono> "Let us trust that her realm will guideus," Latha says, "Are you ready, Alicia?"
[21:52] <Alicia> "Ready," Alicia confirms, taking the hand of each outsider and focusing on the Gates of the Moon as she uses the magic of her ring to send them to its outskirts.
[21:52] <Alicia> roll 5d100
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 5d100 and gets 219." [5d100=34, 46, 81, 20, 38]
[21:55] <Kotono> You appear standing in serene moonlight. You stand on a beach that stretches farther than you can see, the night sky dominated by the full moon. It's radiance dances on the waves that lap agaisnt the shore.
06[21:58] * Alicia breathes in deeply, entranced for a moment by the play of sparkling moonlight against the waves. Such soothing beauty is a balm for her soul...
[21:59] <Kotono> Antenora stares at it as well, hand still held by Alicia as she stares. "So pretty..." she murmurs.
[22:02] <Alicia> "It's glorious," Alicia agrees, savouring the tableau for a moment longer before she gets to business, letting go of both hands before looking up and down the beach and then inland in search of habitation.
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[22:03] <Kotono> Antenora lingers several moments longer. She only reluctantly turns away, following. "When we're done, maybe we can come back here. That view is divine."
[22:05] <Alicia> "I'd like that," Alicia agrees easily enough as she looks around. "We're going to need directions first of all - both of you can see better than me in the dark, can you see any sign of locals around here?"
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[22:17] <Kotono> "No, just a lot of beach." Away from the beach, hills and then mountains rise. Pointing ahead, "I see a few footpaths, though."
[22:18] <Alicia> "Lets see if we can find someone to give us directions, then?" Alicia suggests, following the pointing finger towards the footpaths.
[22:22] <Kotono> The trio takes to walking. It's a moonlit walk, amid rising hills full of white roses. Motes of light rise from them, playing around the three before they drift upwards to the moon. You find yourself in a reverse rain of light, making each of you glow with moonlight. Amid the hills as you walk, you see a beautiful church sitting. It's traditional, down to a church bell and stone walls. Yet it's walls are lined with glowing silver, as if the moo
[22:22] <Kotono> Yet it's walls are lined with glowing silver, as if the moonlight has settled on the walls forever.
06[22:24] * Alicia finds herself walking slower than normal, as if to draw out the pleasant experience of their journey. Upon seeing the church she suggests to her companions that they might find directions there, and alters course to approach it.
[22:25] <Kotono> LAtha agrees, "Yes, that's a fine idea," she says, as the three walk. As they approach the church, they find a river bisets it. A silver bridge crosses the river, here a man sits. His legs dangle over the edge, as he stares up at the sky. He moongazes with rapt attention.
[22:26] <Alicia> Probably a petitioner, Alicia guesses. Starting over the bridge, she stops near the man. "Excuse me, sir," she attempts to get his attention, "Might we trouble you for a moment?"
[22:28] <Kotono> "It is no trouble. Selune's light frames you all with beauty. You are good souls, one and all." He offers a hand as he hops back off the edge, landing standing right up. "Are you heading to the Church of the Silver Gables ahead?"
06[22:30] * Alicia shakes his hand agreeably. "My name is Alicia, these are my friends Antenora and Latha," she introduces first off. "We were heading for it, but we're actually looking for a path to Ysgard - we're trying to find a deva named Strength of Light who resides near Selune's realm."
[22:30] <Kotono> "We may be, though it is not our ultimate goal," Latha steps forward now, hood back and wings visible. "We quest for a realm outside of Selune's in Ysgard, we seek directions to it."
[22:31] <Kotono> His grip is firm and strong. "Ah. I can direct you. To reach there, you must go out to the see. Swim long and far, as far as you can. Swim until the ocean becomes the air. Trust your courage and travel along the wind's wings and you will land where you wish."
06[22:33] * Alicia tilts her head and smiles a bit. "That makes as much sense as anything else of the planes. Thank you for your help." Turning to the others, "Shall we pay our respects at the church before departing, given how graciously Selune's realm has treated us?"
[22:34] <Kotono> "It's only good manners," Antenora agrees, starting to walk again. "Can either of you swim very well?"
[22:36] <Alicia> "Thank you again," Alicia bows to the petitioner before heading on with Antenora to the church. "I learned when I was young and visiting Darlina keeps me in practice. The water seems very calm, anyway."
[22:36] <Kotono> "When I do not fly, I walk. I confess that my own aptitude in swimming is not great. Still, I should be able to do well enough," Latha says with glowing confidence in her voice. "My stock is that of the heavens. I will suffice.'
[22:36] <Kotono> "As long as no one picks a fight. I'll sink like a stone if I try to swim in this," Antenora raps her breastplate.
[22:37] <Alicia> "You've got tough skin, anyway," Alicia pats Antenora on the shoulder.
[22:40] <Kotono> As you approach the Church, it's gates open wide for any to enter, "Small consolation. I'm more worried of you if that happens."
[22:44] <Alicia> "I'm quite adept in the water," Alicia reassures her, heading into the church.
[22:45] <Kotono> The church is carved of silver-rock and mithral, windows on the sides letting in ample moonlight. A stone hill rises ahead, where an altar of silver rests. A pair of men kneel there, arms raised to the moon in the sky above.
[22:52] <Kotono> Antenora approaches them, and after several moments, audibly clears her throat. "We come to pay respects to Selune," she announces.
06[22:52] * Alicia approaches the altar herself, looking around the church as she passes before kneeling behind the duo already here. From this position she prays to the Moonmaiden, thanking Her for Her aid on the icy mountain watched over by her and Auril, complimenting Her on her beautiful realm, and offering her heartfelt support in Selune's eternal war against Shar.
[22:52] <Alicia> She learned a lot about Selune at the temple and she's a goddess Alicia's always been quite fond of.
[22:54] <Kotono> There isn't an audible reply to Antenora's words or Alicia's prayer. However, the moonlight becomes brighter. In it's dance Alicia feels her senses sharpen. For in the moonlight a soft whisper-current of noise hides. 'Be well in this realm, for those who are good hearted foes of the Black Bitch are always welcome here.'
06[22:57] * Alicia smiles and stands up, retrieving a single white pearl from her portable hole where she keeps all her money in various denominations of coins and jewels. This one was valued at about two hundred gold when she traded for it. Stepping forward between the men, she places it on the altar as an offering before retreating back and looking to see if Latha and Antenora are done.
[23:02] <Kotono> The men do not stop their beckoning to the Heavens as Alicia places the pearl on the altar. It rises up, breaking into moonlight that ascends out the windows, towards the full moon. The two men sing as one, "The Moon Maiden appreciates your generosity and sacrifice to her, given of your own free will. Her light will always shine truthfully and faithfully on you."
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[23:05] <Alicia> "I honour the friendship between the Lady of Silver and the Lady of Mysteries," Alicia replies pleasantly. "Peace to you both." At that she checks on Antenora and Latha.
[23:06] <Kotono> The two are waiting below. "Listen in the moonlight, for the blessings of Selune are heard in it," They wing back to her, "Walk in the light of the moon."
[23:08] <Alicia> "Thank you," Alicia calls back to the duo before rejoining her friends. "Ready to go for a swim, then?" she asks them.
[23:10] <Kotono> "Let's go," Antenora says, as the two walk along. It's a pleasant walk to the beach. As you reach it, sandy shores like specks of silver, Alicia can hear the whispers in the moonlight once more. 'Open your hearts to the innocence lumination of Selune. Trust yourself into Her revelry for a time.'
[23:14] <Alicia> "Selune asks that we open our hearts to Her," Alicia relays to the other two as she stops. "She has my trust," she adds, spreading her arms and gazing up at the massive white orb hanging in the sky, lowering her mental defences, opening herself up to the experience fully...
[23:15] <Kotono> Latha shrugs and does the same. "If Selune wills it, so be it."
[23:15] <Kotono> Antenora hesitates, then look sat Alicia and mimics what she does. For a few moments there is nothing, then? (More)
[23:18] <Kotono> What happens next is not really in Alicia's full control. What possesses her is something she cannot fully answer. But yet what happens is celebration. The three women begin to celebrate under the moon. They dance, laugh, play, swim. They make shapes in the sand, laughing like children. They swim near the shore together, flicking water at one another. They lay in the sand, armor and cloaks cast aside, gazing up at the moon. At the end, they fal
[23:18] <Kotono> They lay in the sand, armor and cloaks cast aside, gazing up at the moon. At the end, they fall asleep in a loose circle. (More)
[23:19] <Kotono> Waking up. Alicia finds herself waking up, Antenora and Latha doing the same. She is clear minded and headed, her soul light and free. A little spasm of laughter passes involuntarily, lightening her mood further. The three lie in a circle around something lying atop the sand. Hell Striker lies there, glowing silver in the eternal moonlight of the Gates of the Moon.
06[23:21] * Alicia giggles a little more. That might not have been the most dignified thing she's ever done, and she hardly wants to make a habit of losing control, but... it was fun. "Well..." she sits up, half-blushing and half-laughing, "That was a nice way to relax before we throw ourselves into training?"
[23:22] <Kotono> Antenora is more blushing outright, her underarmor clothes still damp. She shakes sand out of her hair, like a rain of silver dust. "I..." Antenora chortles, "I want to say I'm embarrassed, but it was so much FUN."
[23:23] <Kotono> Latha shakes her wings full of sand, "It was Selune's blessing. There is nothing embarrassing about revelry in it when the time is right."
[23:25] <Kotono> "At least Marie wasn't here," Antenora mutters under her breath.
[23:25] <Alicia> "Well, I certainly needed it," Alicia nods, still grinning. Getting up, she opens her portable hole and starts to put her armour and heavier clothes within, leaving her dressed just in a tightly belted tunic, along with Hell Striker's baldric. "Anything you don't want weighing you down as you swim, put in here," she suggests.

Corwin · March 28, 2012, 07:20:28 AM

[15:56] <Kotono> > Antenora is more blushing outright, her underarmor clothes still damp. She shakes sand out of her hair, like a rain of silver dust. "I..." Antenora chortles, "I want to say I'm embarrassed, but it was so much FUN."
[15:56] <Kotono> > Latha shakes her wings full of sand, "It was Selune's blessing. There is nothing embarrassing about revelry in it when the time is right."
[15:56] <Kotono> > "At least Marie wasn't here," Antenora mutters under her breath.
[15:56] <Kotono> <Alicia> "Well, I certainly needed it," Alicia nods, still grinning. Getting up, she opens her portable hole and starts to put her armour and heavier clothes within, leaving her dressed just in a tightly belted tunic, along with Hell Striker's baldric. "Anything you don't want weighing you down as you swim, put in here," she suggests.
[15:58] <Kotono> Antenora puts everything in save simple, white undergarments and her spear. Latha puts everything in, entirely forgoing things to get in her way while swimming. She then goes to the water, walking in up to her shoulders and taking a few strokes. "Come. Ysgard's battles await."
06[16:01] * Alicia picks up Hell Striker and slides the sword into its harness, the sword not any sort of bother to her while swimming thanks to her ring of freedom of movement. "Hope you didn't mind the wait," she pats the silvery-seeming blade before following into the water. "Remember it's not a race. Just keep a pace you can sustain easily," she suggests to her friends.
[16:01] <Kotono> OOC: Make swim checks?
[16:01] <Kotono> "Slow and steady, not fast spurts. Swimming's about endurance," Antenora says as she begins.
[16:02] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 Antenora
06[16:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 Antenora and gets 17." [1d20=12]
[16:02] <Alicia> OOC: taking 10 for 18
[16:02] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
06[16:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 22." [1d20=16]
[16:04] <Kotono> The three begin to swim! The water is calm and cool, dappled with moonlight. It's an easy swim for the first hour, no one having any problems. OOC: Waiving the roll for nonlethal damage after an hour of swimming, since everyone in Ysgard gets fast healing 2. No point.
[16:04] <Kotono> OOC: Gah.
[16:05] <Kotono> The three begin to swim! The water is calm and cool, dappled with moonlight. It's an easy swim for the first hour, no one having any problems. In the second hour and third hour, the water gradually comes cooler and cooler, bordering on the cold. The cold jars your body, not bringing numbness, but enhanced feeling in contrast to the warmth of your body. OOC: Waiving the roll for nonlethal damage after an hour of swimming, since everyone in Ysgar
[16:05] <Kotono> OOC: Waiving the roll for nonlethal damage after an hour of swimming, since everyone in Ysgard gets fast healing 2. No point.
[16:06] <Kotono> Between careful, long breaststrokes, Antenora thinks to Alicia, 'Holding up fine?'
[16:08] <Alicia> It's quite bracing, but the strenuous exercise is keeping Alicia's muscles from numbing to the cold. She's grateful for Antenora's telepathy, however, since she doesn't want to waste air on speaking if she doesn't have to. 'It feels good,' she replies. 'Normally I transform myself into a sea elf when I go swimming - this is harder but makes better exercise. How're you doing?'
[16:09] <Kotono> 'I'm fine. Latha says she's fine, too. The water's chilling but it feels refreshing. We're both good to continue on for as long as we need to. WE can stop to tread water for awhile if any of us need a break further down the line.'
[16:10] <Alicia> 'I'll let you know if I need a rest, you two do the same,' Alicia replies, trusting the duo to know their limits.
[16:11] <Kotono> The fourth hour passes in relative quiet. The waters start to gain a current tugging the way they are swimming. It increases your speed, swimming with the current. About a half hour later, the current gets stronger. Ahead, you can see something - a beautiful horizon of the night sky, dominates by the moon. The ocean ends here, a vast waterfall over the very edge of this landmass.
[16:14] <Alicia> Keeping her head above as her arms cut through the water before her, Alicia calls out to the two outsiders. "That's it! The winds will carry us to Ysgard!" she gets out amidst sucking in great lungfuls of air, feeling a nervous thrill of excitement at what lies ahead.
[16:16] <Kotono> "Let's go! The sooner done, the sooner we reach our goal!" Latha picks up her swimming pace, while Antenora tarries a moment. 'Not that I don't trust the plane here, but you have a fly or feather fall spell ready just in case, Alicia?'
[16:18] <Alicia> 'Of course I do!' Alicia replies as she works her limbs to catch up with Latha. 'Don't worry, you won't have to repeat what you did with Demedais,' she adds in a more amused tone.
[16:18] <Kotono> Antenora blushes as she swims, 'It's not even that! I don't think you'd weigh as much as he did, either. I'm just being careful!'
06[16:20] * Alicia laughs a little, sputtering in the water before she clamps it down and focuses her body on swimming and breathing. 'It's fine, you know all the spells I can cast and I've only used one today.'
[16:22] <Kotono> 'Good. Besides, I hope you don't weigh as much as he does. If you did, I'd know why you'd need to train harder.' Antenora seems to linger here, before starting to laugh herself. 'Is it peculiar that I just had the idea of an overweight paladin of Sharess, who believes in the doctrine of the pleasure of eating good foods and smites the tasteless?'
06[16:26] * Alicia sputters some more. 'Stop making me laugh!' she insists, slowing a bit to recover her breathing before resuming her determined strokes. '... Gourmandin?' she wonders afterwards, her snickers purely mental this time.
[16:27] <Kotono> Antenora swims along, Latha a fair bit ahead now. 'Certainly. It would be an enjoyable contrast to the image one gets with any other paladin of Sharess. Nine beautiful waifs of battle, and then the Gourmandin.''
[16:29] <Kotono> 'Then again,' Antenora reflects after a pause, 'The three of us probably qualify as the former.'
[16:30] <Alicia> 'It would at least show the dangers of excess,' Alicia muses as she swims a bit harder to catch up with the deva. 'And while I'll happily accept beautiful, none of us are particularly waif-like.'
[16:32] <Kotono> Latha starts to slow and turn as Alicia and Antneora catch up, then swims ahead again with a little shrug. 'True, but the three of us are gorgeous by mortal standards. We could do a passing-fair imitation...but no matter. Let's continue onward before Latha wonders why we continue to tarry and laugh?'
[16:35] <Alicia> 'I wouldn't want to be that skinny,' Alicia replies, more than capable of holding a mental conversation and maintaining a swift pace - the only reason she hasn't caught up with Latha is to avoid leaving Antenora behind, 'I always feel so delicate when I transform myself into an elf.'
[16:36] <Kotono> Antenora picks up her own pace, 'I don't know. I've seen you as an elf. It's not an unflattering look for you.'
[16:40] <Alicia> 'No, and I'm still as sturdy as ever since it's only a disguise, it just feels strange to be so slender,' Alicia responds. 'It's not healthy for humans, anyway. We need a bit of meat on our bones.'
[16:41] <Kotono> Antenora doesn't really reply for a bit, looking haead as the edge draws closer. 'An interesting conversation, but really, we draw on our goal. Another time?'
[16:42] <Alicia> 'Sure,' Alicia replies, falling silent and focusing on cutting a path through the water, not wanting to be swept away by the turbulent current as they near the edge. She'll go over, but in a controlled fashion, hopefully.
[16:44] <Kotono> The three get closer! As they do, they find the current starts to pick up dramatically! It'll be difficult not to be swept along with it if you go any farther. Latha doesn't stop, however, swimming along with it. Antenora lingers a moment, 'Ready?' she asks.
[16:46] <Alicia> 'Don't hesitate,' Alicia replies. 'You've got wings and I've got magic if we need it, but trust in the wind to take us where we want to go.'
[16:47] <Kotono> With that, the two continue on! The current becomes quite swift, pulling them along. OOC: Make swim checks? Alicia, you have that Freedom of Movement thing going so you'r eokay.
[16:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 Latha
06[16:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 Latha and gets 15." [1d20=9]
[16:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
06[16:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 10." [1d20=5]
[16:48] <Kotono> While Alicia is able to resist the current's obvious pull thanks to her ring, she soon notices Latha and Antenora are swept up with it. They are hurried along, faster and faster as the water drags them towards the edge!
06[16:50] * Alicia pushes herself harder to keep up with the other two despite ignoring the current, not wanting the group to get seperated.
[16:52] <Kotono> The groups wims and is dragged to the edge! They tumble over, the water gushing down! As they do, they find themselves falling, falling in a vast, arching waterfall! It's a fast plummet, falling freely amid the water! Far below, you can see several islands floating in the sky! You are above one of them, a ring of sharp mountains surrounded by a dramatic, glacier covered bay below that the waterfall plunges into.
[16:52] <Kotono> Latha falls without changing her expression, spreading her arms out as the wind buffets her bare body. Antenora turns to Alicia as they tumble, a few looks at each other as they spill end over end! 'I really hope this works,' she sends.
[16:54] <Alicia> 'Have faith,' Alicia returns, doing the same as Latha to keep from tumbling end over end through the air. If she has to she can use feather fall before they strike the ground, but she'll trust the winds for now, hoping they'll take the group to their goal, the battle overseen by Strength of Light.
[16:56] <Kotono> Woooooooosh! They fall and they fall and they fall! Alicia falls like she never has before, plummeting down from lofty heights! Yet as the watery fjord and the glaciers that dot it come closer, the wind picks up! IT shears against them, buffeting the water into a narrow line! Your fall begins to subtly slow and slow and slow, taking the edge off of it! One only has so long to consider this, before you crash down into the freezing waters! It's
[16:56] <Kotono> One only has so long to consider this, before you crash down into the freezing waters! It's achingly, bone chillingly cold as you plunge several feet below the surface of the water. The wind is knocked from you and your body freezes, but you don't seem hurt otherwise.
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06[16:57] * Alicia angles herself into a dive as she hits the water, arcing her body as she curves beneath the surface and kicks her legs to burst back above the waves, treading water for a moment as she confirms the other two have managed to recover safely as well.
[16:59] <Kotono> Antenora and Latha emerge seconds later. Antenora is shivering all over. You are in the middle of the fjord, several hundred feet away from any dry land. Latha emerges out, flapping her wings and unbothered as she starts to fly. "That was glorious. I must do it again another time," she concludes, "Are the two of you well? The water is rather chill."
[17:00] <Kotono> Antenora shivers all over, lips turning blue with remarkable speed. She flaps out of the water as well, shaking all over. "C-c-c-c-cold!" she sputters. "Gaaaah!"
[17:01] <Alicia> "Lets get to land and dry off!" Alicia calls, pointing to the nearest shore and then immediately angling herself to swim for it. Now that they can fly her friends will easily outpace her, so she doesn't need to worry about going slow.
[17:03] <Kotono> There's a narrow strip of beach here and there, the three swimmming to it. By the time Alicia and company reach it, Antenora's extremities look blue, her entire body shaking. Alicia feels frozen head to toe, like a statue of ice. Going to lie on the sand, "S-s-someone make a fire or do something to warm us? Alicia, how about H-Hellstriker?"
[17:04] <Kotono> Latha lands, going to dally at the edge of the water. "I'm fine," she answers back, "Cold is of no concern to me. Warm yourselves first."
06[17:06] * Alicia nods shakily to Antenora, drawing Hell Striker and igniting its flames on one end as she stabs the non-burning end into the sand. She works her freezing fingers a few times, holding them close to the flames until enough feeling returns that she can confidently spellcast.
[17:07] <Kotono> Antenora does much the same, rubbing her arms, chest and sides. "I-aaah." Sighing as she gets as near to the fire as she can, "My muscles ache from the swimming and I'm freezing. If nothing else, the swim was good endurance training."
[17:10] <Kotono> "Look past the discomfort. It was a marvelous experience of the physical body." Latha dries herself, shaking her wings and running her hands over her form. "Ysgard values bravery; to take that plunge was a sublime act of it."
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[17:11] <Alicia> "It was," Alicia agrees with the both of them, casting prestidigitation once the feeling has returned to her fingers. That done she proceeds to mimic Latha's gesture on her own form and Antenora's, albeit just shy of touching and instead using magic to dry and warm them.
[17:11] <Alicia> That said, it doesn't help too much against the chill in the air considering their lack of dress. She promptly opens up the portable hole and starts get changed into warmer clothing. "Lets all get dressed."
[17:27] <Kotono> Warmth and water return, the three re-dressing. Once that is done, "Strenght of Light's battle should not be far," Latha shakes her wings out one last time, "Flight should allow us to see it with enough ease."
[17:30] <Alicia> "I'll be a bit slower than you two, but I can manage that," Alicia nods agreeably, dousing Hell Striker's flames as she picks it up and looking to see if it still shows the same silvery sheen outside of Selune's domain.
[17:30] <Kotono> The silvery sheen has faded, leaving only a faint sprinkling hint of silver deep in Hell-Striker's blade.
06[17:32] * Alicia wonders briefly what it could mean, but the sword isn't forthcoming and she can't imagine it's anything bad. Sliding the sword into its baldric, she casts Fly and then kicks off the ground, starting to ascend upwards.
[17:34] <Kotono> At a much more leisurely pace than the previous fall, the party is able to ascend and get a view. It's beautiful - a island in the sky, all fjords and tall mountains. It's currently nighttime, the aurora borealis glowing on the horizon. As you look, Latha narrows her eyes and points at once open topped mountain. Steam rises up from it. "That." she says, "I think there's something there."
06[17:37] * Alicia is mostly distracted simply by the view. So much more majestic than the muddy valleys of Kelara, or the gentle coast of Balmuria. Looking in the same direction as Latha, she nods. "I'll take your word for it. Lets start heading for it - see if we can find a good path to take, since it'd take most of my spells to fly the whole way there."
[17:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
06[17:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 and gets 37." [1d20=18]
[17:40] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
06[17:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 and gets 28." [1d20=3]
[17:40] <Kotono> As you fly, Antenora points down. "There's a mountain path there," she declares, descending down. "Follow me."
[17:41] <Alicia> "Right," Alicia nods, flying after the erinyes.
[17:42] <Kotono> The two descend down. As you do, you can notice a few things. Thes teamy open mountain has a hint of red beneath the steam. The mountain path is long, steep and winding, hugging to the sides. It's only a few feet wide, walkable but not easy. Antenora and Latha both stay airborne.
[17:44] <Alicia> A volcano... Alicia recalls her first meeting with Antenora, which was already put fresh in her mind recently by that 'alternate' for lack of a better description that the Time Magus set upon them. Still, that's in the past. With her boots she's at least able to keep a somewhat respectable pace and not hold her flighty friends back too much, but she has to focus on the path to keep from tripping.
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[17:46] <Kotono> A half hour of walking or so passes in silence. As you ascend higher and higher, Antenora turns around, flying in reverse. "You know," she says, as a chilly wind blows, "This is nostalgic."
[17:48] <Alicia> "At least it's not snowing," Alicia smirks a bit, looking up.
[17:48] <Kotono> Indeed, the skies are clear and starry. "We may still fight a dragon, however, or find ourselves wounded in the back."
[17:52] <Alicia> "That we may. It needs to be a challenge, though - we won't learn much just sweeping aside those weaker than us," Alicia reasons, hoping they'll find someone here who could give Esthan a run for his money and be willing to train them.
[17:53] <Kotono> Antenora considers that as the two climb. Another hour passes - Alicia's stomach starts to rumble, but they're within another 15 minutes of the path's end. You can see it above, curling into a little cave below the top of the mountain.
[17:55] <Alicia> Come to think of it, she hasn't eaten since breakfast and that was seven or eight hours ago... she's not especially tired, but she is starting to get very hungry. Pushing herself a bit more, she resolves to call a break for food when they reach the cave entrance.
[17:57] <Kotono> Thus you climb up further! The cave entrance is reached under just fifteen minutes. However, as you get close, you see someone stepping out of it. A giant of a man, bronzed skin and enough muscles to scare a troll. He wears a brown fur shirt and boots, with thick cloth pants. A huge axe rests in his hand, a horned helmet atop his head. "And what do we have here? An angel, a bastard creature and a human?"
[17:57] <Kotono> "And what do we have here? An angel, a bastard creature and a human?"
[17:59] <Kotono> "We seek Strength of Light," Latha declares, "We have traveled from far to find him."
[18:00] <Alicia> "And you'll watch your tone," Alicia warns the giant after Latha speaks, not liking his description of Antenora.
[18:01] <Kotono> The man strokes his long brown beard, a necklace of wicked looking teeth jangling beneath it. "Ah, fuck you." He makes a rude gesture, "Fuck your mother, fuck your father, fuck each other at once with that fancy double sword you have."
[18:01] <Kotono> Antenora stares at him, eyes turn ing into little slits. "I daresay that someone is looking for a fight."
[18:02] <Kotono> "While I'm at it, fuck your bastard self with that spear," Smirking as he hefts his axe, "Gonna do something about it, bitches?"
[18:02] <Alicia> "I heard even if you die here you'll be restored the next day," Alicia remarks, drawing her own sword. "Shall we test that?"
[18:03] <Kotono> Grinning, "Why not? By Helm's rusty balls, I'll not lose to some dainty women who want to pretend to fight!" With a battle cry that echos in the mountains, the axeman is coming at you! OOC: Initiative?
[18:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7
06[18:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 and gets 15." [1d20=8]
[18:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 Latha
06[18:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 Latha and gets 21." [1d20=13]
[18:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 Antenora
06[18:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 Antenora and gets 22." [1d20=17]
[18:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 Man
06[18:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 Man and gets 15." [1d20=9]
03[18:04] * Kotono changes topic to 'Antenora>Latha>Man=Alicia'
[18:05] <Kotono> Antenora flaps her wings, "Well, if there's no sin in holding back here, as you'll never die...goodbye," With a vicious smirk, she swoops down in a charge at him!
[18:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 (+2 charge, +1 flying, -10 PA)
06[18:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 (+2 charge, +1 flying, -10 PA) and gets 29." [1d20=14]
[18:05] <Kotono> roll 2d8+58
06[18:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+58 and gets 73." [2d8=8, 7]
[18:06] <Kotono> Antenora surges forward, a massively powerful thrust impaling the brozned skinned warrior through the chest! To that he just grins wider, despite the horrible wound! "Is that it? I've felt babies nursing at the teat that have hit me harder!"
[18:07] <Kotono> "If you desire battle and the point of this realm is battle," Latha allows, advancing forward to deliver a heavy handed mace blow to him!
[18:07] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17 (+2 charge, -8 PA)
06[18:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 (+2 charge, -8 PA) and gets 19." [1d20=2]
[18:08] <Kotono> roll 1d8+30
06[18:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+30 and gets 35." [1d8=5]
[18:09] <Kotono> CLANG! A massive mace-blow slams into the helmeted head of the insulting warrior! He just grins more, even as blood flows down from the tip of his helmet! OOC: Man and Alicia are up.
06[18:10] * Alicia elects to use some magic to weaken him before moving to attack as well. "Insufferable oaf, wither and be weak!" she calls, casting her spell to send a crackling ray of negative energy at him before she moves into melee!
[18:10] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 ranged touch
06[18:10] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 ranged touch and gets 33." [1d20=15]
[18:10] <Alicia> roll 1d4 negative levels
06[18:10] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 negative levels and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[18:10] <Kotono> OOC: Hit. This'll effect him after his turn since you're on the same tick.
[18:11] <Alicia> OOC: Greater mod breaks tie?
[18:11] <Kotono> As the black beam strikes, the large man goes after Antenora! His reach is exemplary, able to swing at her despite the reach her spear offers!
[18:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 (-7 PA)
06[18:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 (-7 PA) and gets 29." [1d20=6]
[18:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 (-7 PA)
06[18:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 (-7 PA) and gets 26." [1d20=8]
[18:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 (-7 PA)
06[18:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 (-7 PA) and gets 16." [1d20=3]
[18:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 (-7 PA)
06[18:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 (-7 PA) and gets 28." [1d20=20]
[18:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 (-7 PA) crit?
06[18:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 (-7 PA) crit? and gets 24." [1d20=16]
[18:13] <Kotono> roll 1d12+28+1d10-5
06[18:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d12+28+1d10-5 and gets 37." [1d12=10][1d10=4]
[18:13] <Kotono> The behemoth staggers under the beam, even as one wild swing hits squarely into Antenora's wing, ripping it badly! With a low growl in her throat, she attacks him all out!
[18:14] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 (-4 PA)
06[18:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 (-4 PA) and gets 22." [1d20=4]
[18:14] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 (-4 PA)
06[18:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 (-4 PA) and gets 25." [1d20=12]
[18:14] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 (-4 PA)
06[18:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 (-4 PA) and gets 23." [1d20=15]
[18:14] <Kotono> roll 3d8+51
06[18:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d8+51 and gets 62." [3d8=6, 1, 4]
[18:15] <Kotono> Stab, stab, stab! Antenora impales the withered warrior thrice, the three new chest holes enough to make him drop his knees. Even as he gushes out his blood, clunching his chest, "Hahahahaha...gurgkg...glad to have you aboard!" With a big grin, "Go in...guh!" He falls over, face down.
06[18:16] * Alicia just shakes her head. "This must be how they say hello here?" she muses, stepping back from the fallen figure. "Want me to heal that for you, Antenora?"
[18:17] <Kotono> "Ugh." Antenora flicks her spear clean of blood, "I feel faintly guilty, but I suppose there's no harm since he'll just rise with the next day. And no. Look." Flexing her wing, you can watch the flesh healing at an accelerated rate, repairing visibly every few seconds. "See how fast it's healing? The pain's already fading."
[18:17] <Kotono> "This is a realm of bravery. There should be no guilt for battles done willfully here," Latha clasps Antenora's shoulder. "Death is meaningless here, as long as you have bravery. Let's go inside?"
[18:18] <Alicia> "Good," Alicia nods. "I don't imagine anyone here would actually steal his belongings, but we might as well drag him into the cave in case it rains..." She feels vaguely unsettled by the lack of mortality, but doesn't let it show as she grabs the figure's ankles and drags him just past the overhang of the cavern.
[18:19] <Kotono> As they do this, Alicia's stomach rumbles audibly. A hunger pang wracks her body. Antenora helps with the dragging, her wing repairing all the while.
[18:21] <Alicia> "Um, he distracted me, but I was going to say I really need to eat," Alicia admits, feeling oddly embarrassed by her mortal frailty in comparison to her companions. "Rather not do so right by a bloody corpse, though. Lets head in a little and then stop for a break?"
[18:22] <Kotono> "Let's," Latha leads the way in. After about five minutes of walking you come to a few old stones lying besides the plain cave pathway. The alls radiate a faint light, just enough to see by for Alicia. During this time, Antenora's wound has recovered fully.
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06[18:24] * Alicia sits on one of the stones and produces some dried jerky from her survival pouch. "Here works," she announces, biting off a section and starting to chew. "I suppose that man back there just wanted to make sure we were willing to stick up for ourselves and that we could back it up?" she wonders.
[18:25] <Kotono> "Probably." Antenora sits next to Alicia, lying her head against the back of the wall. "He also wore no armor and made little effort to deny our blows. I swung overly reckless on my charge, but I still had little difficulty hitting him. I suspect it was intentional."
[18:26] <Kotono> "I was wondering why you swung so hard." Latha sits opposite the two, "But since it worked so well, I did the same. Did his words trouble you?"
[18:27] <Alicia> "He got a good hit on you, though," Alicia leans over to examine Antenora's wing. "Not that you could tell to look, now..."
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03[18:27] * ChanServ sets mode: +qo Anastasia Anastasia
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[18:29] <Alicia> "He got a good hit on you, though," Alicia leans over to examine Antenora's wing. "Not that you could tell to look, now..."
[18:29] <Anastasia> Alicia finds Antenora's bat wing as batty and soft as ever, not even a scar lingering. "A little. Alicia is not a whore to be told to go violate her weapon." Crossing her arms with a scowl of pique, "Admittedly, I knew on a level that was his goal, but since he was obviously picking a fight here..."
[18:30] <Anastasia> "It wasn't so bad. It was a strong hit, but he could've done more with some control. He swung much, but connected little."
[18:31] <Anastasia> "If people want ot fight here, indulge them," Latha's radiant face lights up the dark tunnel, her expression intense. "Those words, while crude, were simply a way to facilitate that."
[18:32] <Alicia> "He was rather crude..." Alicia blushes at Antenora's restatement of the man's words, getting out a waterskin and taking a drink.
[18:33] <Anastasia> "I say that we facilitated farm ore than he could endure," Antenora snorts violently. "I...is something wrong, Alicia?" She turns to her. "You're red."
[18:33] <Anastasia> "Are you choking?" Latha leans forward now, "Are you alright?"
06[18:36] * Alicia coughs at all the sudden attention on her. "You'd think you two had never seen someone blush before," she shakes her head. "Just, hearing his words repeated without my battle-focus to distract me, they really were appalling."
[18:36] <Anastasia> "It seemed odd to right now, that's all. They were, but...oh." Antenora blinks, her voice changing tone entirely. "Oh. Sorry."
[18:37] <Anastasia> "No matter," Latha stands and stretches. "I'll go a little ahead, I'm restless."
[18:38] <Alicia> "We've spent hours of swimming and walking and flying, crossed between the planes, revelled under Selune's light, and killed a man simply to prove we could... and you're restless?" Alicia boggles at the deva.
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[18:40] <Anastasia> "Alicia, I'm a purpose and morality given form. I desire to advance, so that we may obtain the strength to lay Esthan low. I need not sleep or food. All of this is merely the preparation for our main goal here, nothing more. Let us not tarry on."
[18:41] <Anastasia> "In other words, you're restless," Antenora does laugh a little there. "You also enjoyed the reverie with Selune's blessing. Why the urge to hurry now when we tarried for several hours already?"
[18:41] <Alicia> "Ah... sorry," Alicia flushes with shame. "I can eat and walk at the same time," she gets up as well.
[18:42] <Anastasia> Antenora rises as well, dusting her legs off.
[18:43] <Anastasia> Pausing a moment as Latha looks ahead, one can see that a little red touches her face. "There's no need for that. I apologize, Alicia. I find this realm invigorating. I have focused largely on the spiritual save for combats against evil since I emerged from my imprisonment. I find this trial of the body more exciting and refreshing than I perhaps would at other times."
06[18:45] * Alicia shakes her head. "I'm going to have to sleep in a few hours, so we might as well avoid further delay where we can - I really can eat and walk at once, don't worry about it," she bites off another chunk of jerky and starts walking onwards down the tunnel.
[18:46] <Anastasia> The group advances for another ten minutes. Here you find bits of steam hissing forward from further down the tunnel. The temperature rises several degrees, going from chilly to warm. Ahead, you can see steam tingled light and an opening.
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06[18:48] * Alicia wonders what they'll find ahead, feeling a bit better after satisfying her hunger even though she wishes she could've had a few minutes to let it settle in her stomach...
[18:51] <Anastasia> Ahead, you come out of the tunnel! Here a vast, vast volcanic crater expands out around you! The center is full of little pools of magma and fresh formed black stone, slightly shifting as you watch, some stone sinking and other parts forming anew. Bodies casually little about, as if war couldn't be bothered ot take home it's dead. On either far side of the crater, cities of tents spring up. From the closer one you can hear song, music and ba
[18:52] <Anastasia> From the closer one you can hear song, music and bawdy celebration all about. Some wander openly in the tents - men and women both, many a warrior of various stripes. Some drink, some sing, some dance, some laugh and play, some slink away to corners to do more private things. Also about on each tent side are catapults and various weapons, lying quiet for now under the night sky. Steam is everyone, obscuring and warming.
[18:52] <Anastasia> Steam is everyone, obscuring and warming.
[18:52] <Anastasia> *everywhere
[18:53] <Anastasia> "How..." Latha bites her lip, before smiling. "It's certainly chaotic. If Marie were more martial, she would have wanted to come, surely."
[18:54] <Alicia> While she's safe if she keeps her distance, Alicia doesn't know if the tides of battle might drag her towards the magma, so she casts a quick spell to ward away the heat. Knowing Antenora's immune, she turns to Latha, "Do you want me to ward you against fire before we head over, Latha?" she asks.
[18:54] <Alicia> Then at the comment about her familiar she shrugs, "She says I'm a bad influence in that respect, but I know she's proud of her new skill with the bow."
[18:56] <Anastasia> "I'mf ine. If I require it, I'll ask. Besides, it does not look like battle rages right now." Latha hurries along, "We should find Strength of Light."
[18:56] <Anastasia> "Mmm. Magma." Antenora eyes it, "This battlefield favors me already."
06[18:58] * Alicia follows after Latha, casting another two spells to increase her persuasiveness and ward the group against fear as she goes.
[18:59] <Anastasia> OOC: If you guys are looking for Strenght of Light, make a GI check? Alicia, you have the highest mod, odn't you?
[19:00] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16
06[19:00] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 and gets 30." [1d20=14]
[19:01] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+7 Antenora will aid
06[19:01] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+7 Antenora will aid and gets 11." [1d20=4]
[19:01] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+5 Latha will aid too
06[19:01] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+5 Latha will aid too and gets 13." [1d20=8]
[19:03] <Anastasia> After a few minutes of looking about and talking, you come to a scrawny man with a few scars over his face. Short swords rest on each hip, a greatsword on his back. He wears leather armor and drinks deeply from a mug of ale. "STrenght of Light? Oh, you're looking for the boss," he says, relaxing between two tents. "Keep going that way, look for the tent with the sunburst and fist banner flying from it."
[19:05] <Alicia> "Thanks," Alicia gives the man a little salute, "Good fortune in your battles," she bids before following the directions given.
[19:06] <Anastasia> As you walk down the path,a few tents later, Antenora's spear begins to glow. She stops cold, looking about. "What in the...Isn't this a good aligned plane?"
[19:07] <Alicia> "It could be a spy or a prisoner..." Alicia looks around in all directions for evil auras. "Or maybe even someone trying to change their ways as you did?"
[19:07] <Anastasia> Inside of a tent a few down is an overwhelming evil aura.
[19:08] <Anastasia> "It's worth looking into," LAtha says briskly, "If it's not hidden, I doubt it's a spy, but no reason to be lax."
[19:09] <Alicia> "Hell Striker, can you sense anything about that evil aura?" Alicia asks her sword as she approaches the tent in question. The sword could tell if its owner is a being a conflict, hopefully.
[19:12] <Anastasia> 'It's evil,' Hell striker responds shortly.
[19:13] <Alicia> "Hell Striker senses no good in it," Alicia tells Latha. Although given how long Antenora spent in conflict, that's not necessarily the be all and end all. Before charging in, she decides to ask one of the locals, looking for any warriors milling about near the tent.
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[19:15] <Anastasia> There's a big old man wearing nothing but a loincloth, bald as Demedais. He's half asleep, staring upat the sky. "Yeah," he sits up, scratching his stomach. "Oh, Zezzy? The boss has him as a pet project. I don't know how that's going, but we get to pound the hell out of a demon anytime we get a chance in battle."
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[19:16] <Alicia> "Well... if you know what you're doing with it, I'll let it be," Alicia nods after a moment. Maybe something to ask Strength of Light about? "Good day," she adds, starting off to resume her search for the deva's tent.
[19:17] <Anastasia> After about a half hour, you find it. It's a large white tent, a banner of sunlight held in a clenched fist flapping from the top. You can hear laughing song from inside and calls and arguments.
[19:19] <Alicia> "Well, hopefully he's good enough for what we need, although we might have to prove ourselves first. You two ready?" Alicia asks her friends as they draw near.
[19:20] <Anastasia> Latha merely advances forward by answer. Antenora look sto Alicia, "I am...though I do wonder what it feels like to die. Perhaps we'll find out here?"
[19:21] <Alicia> "Lets make sure no one despoils our corpses if that happens?" Alicia replies with a sickly wince.
[19:22] <Anastasia> "I promise," Antenora says, "I'll try if that happens. Return the favor if I fall?"
[19:23] <Alicia> "Definitely," Alicia nods earnestly. Taking another deep breath, she goes to enter the tent.
[19:26] <Anastasia> Inside, you find a rowdy crowd of warriors. They drink and are in a livid discussion. At the head of it all, a vast map of the crater bottom behind him, is an angel. It's wings are snow white, his top bare and bottom clad in steel and cloth. "No!" He demands as a fist hits the map's middle, "For we shall have a grand melee this coming dawn! For we must hone our skills of mass combat as surely as we other skills!"
[19:26] <Anastasia> we other skills!"
[19:26] <Anastasia> There are several loud complains - a mix of catcalls, cheers and generall aughing.
06[19:30] * Alicia briefly considers how to approach this before deciding that Ysgard favours the bold and the direct. "We seek Strength of Light!" her voice booms as she stands at the tent entrance. "For stories tell of his power and talent, and we would see if there is truth to them!" After all, he can't teach them if he doesn't have the ability.
[19:33] <Anastasia> The angel at front strides forward, "Why, what brave souls dare interrupt my tactical meeting?!" He demands, a heavy mace in hand from where none was before. He looks Alicia over long, then to Latha and Antenora. "I see a brave human warrior who has the testicles most men lack, the courage to interrupt me!" Looking then to Latha, "I see a sister in arms for righteousness, and a winged warrior as well. Tell me, why do you come to Ysgard and t
[19:33] <Anastasia> and a winged warrior as well. Tell me, why do you come to Ysgard and this field?"
[19:37] <Anastasia> "I come to strengthen myself, so that a fiend who opposes all that is right will be laid low by my force of arms," Latha replies, looking STrenght of Light in the eye with a resolute look.
[19:37] <Alicia> "We three are warriors, true," Alicia speaks back in a dramatic tone, performing as much for the others present as the deva. "Great wyrms and fiends and ancient hunters all have fallen before us. But now roams a foe with the strength enough to eclipse our own!"
[19:37] <Alicia> "Hearing of your prowess, we travelled far to find a warrior strong enough to sharpen our blades and skills, that we might stand against this threat!"
[19:37] <Anastasia> "I come to strengthen myself as well, and to aid Alicia," Antenora speaks, "And to further cast off what I once was."
[19:39] <Anastasia> Coming forward, Strength of Light extends a hand out to Alicia. "I understand. You have come well to this place, vaunted battlers. Then you shall be as iron in this forge of searing magma and flame."
06[19:40] * Alicia grins, unable to not enjoy the theatrics as she clasps his hand in her own. While many of her adventures are grand in scope, this is far more like being in one of those heroic ballads.
[19:40] <Anastasia> OOC: Make a strength check?
[19:40] <Alicia> roll 1d20+6
06[19:40] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+6 and gets 25." [1d20=19]
[19:40] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+14
06[19:40] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+14 and gets 26." [1d20=12]
[19:42] <Anastasia> Alicia finds his grip like twin presses of iron, a crack of obliterated bones following. "This dawn shall be a grand melee from first to last light. I bid you, prepare for the coming dawn and participate. Show us your bravery and be accepted by all as a true warrior."
[19:43] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22 bluff to avoid looking pained
06[19:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 bluff to avoid looking pained and gets 38." [1d20=16]
[19:43] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+14 sense motive
06[19:43] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+14 sense motive and gets 30." [1d20=16]
[19:43] <Anastasia> OOC: You beat him pretty haindly.
06[19:44] * Alicia channels her blessed healing into her own hand to mend it in the Deva's grip, her expression staying level even as he mauls her hand. "Tomorrow then, we will see what is to be learned," she replies, doing her best to keep her voice even.
[19:45] <Anastasia> "Outstanding! The dawn is in an hour!" Letting Alicia's poor hand go, he goes over to Latha. He embraces her in a hug, lifting her up like a doll. "Oh, sister of righteousness! I am blessed to meet you! From what realm have you come?"
[19:46] <Anastasia> Latha gasps, eyes bugging out of her head, "C-C-Celestia..." she says as she coughs, wind exiting out of her mouth in a gush.
06[19:47] * Alicia puts her abused hand behind her back and wriggles her fingers to restore the feeling, not wanting to betray any weakness to the Ysgardians. She does sympathise with poor Latha, though... and Antenora will surely have a hard time as well.
[19:47] <Anastasia> "Superb!" Half tossing Latha out of his arms, making her land as she winces visibly, "And you?" He looks Antenora over long. "A succubus has forsaken her evil roots?"
06[19:48] * Alicia winces. Ordinarily she'd hope Antenora wouldn't hurt him too badly, but she wonders if the erinyes would even be able should she try...
[19:49] <Anastasia> Antenora's eyes narrow sharply, "I am hardly some whore of the Abyss." She looks him right in the eye, stepping up. "I would rather face oblivion than to be considered one like that! I was formerly an erinyes."
[19:51] <Anastasia> "Hmph. A winged devil hardly matters from a winged demon," Grabbing forward and taking Antenora's hand in his own with sure agility, "I bet your grip is as limp as a man after you drain them dry!"
[19:51] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+14
06[19:51] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+14 and gets 16." [1d20=2]
[19:51] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+5
06[19:51] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+5 and gets 19." [1d20=14]
[19:52] <Anastasia> Antenora glares, her blue eyes radiating fury. Somehow, you don't hear a crunch of bone from her handshake. Strenght of Light tosses his head back and roars laughter, shaking Antneora up and down! "Beautiful! As beautiful ins trength as you are in body! Your spirit has been purified as well, no less! I've never had a child born of formerly infernal blood. You're strong enough, perhaps we should remedy that."
[19:52] <Anastasia> You're strong enough, perhaps we should remedy that."
06[19:54] * Alicia really hopes he's as skilled as he is strong, or this could be a difficult tuition...
[19:54] <Alicia> Well, it'll be difficult either way, but it better be worthwhile.
[19:54] <Anastasia> Flapping her wings to balance herself in the air, "While not spoken for, I'm devoted to my cause and Alicia for pulling me from that pit. I'll have to decline," she says, able to break away as he lets go of her hand.
[19:55] <Anastasia> "Hmph." Grinning now, "We'll see, I'm sure I'll rub off on you. There is about an hour before dawn. Go prepare. The grand melee is anything goes. Don't put out a poor showing! Bravery until the end, fall or live!"
[19:56] <Alicia> "We'll look forward to it," Alicia nods, turning and striding back out of the tent. "Are you two okay?" she asks in a far more quiet and less dramatic voice once outside. "He broke some of my fingers!"
[19:57] <Anastasia> "My ribs..." Latha grimaces in sublime agony, "They're still healing from being shattered like glass!"
[19:57] <Anastasia> Antenora rubs her hand, "A little sore, but no serious injury," she reports, "I wonder if chaos has driven that noble angelhalf mad?"
06[19:59] * Alicia reaches over to Latha and heals her with spellfire. "He's boistrous... but if he's as skilled as he is strong this will be worth the trip."
[19:59] <Alicia> roll 10d4+10
06[19:59] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 10d4+10 and gets 32." [10d4=1, 1, 3, 2, 2, 4, 1, 1, 3, 4]
[19:59] <Anastasia> "I prefer to believe that he's deeply ingrained into his ethos of training the righteous to strength." Latha starts to laugh, which ends in a little grimace. "And yes, if he is, it will be and then some."
[19:59] <Anastasia> "Ah." Latha breathes easier, "Thank you, Alicia."
[20:00] <Alicia> "Think nothing of it," Alicia nods to the deva. "Anyway, lets see if we can find a spot to make camp for ourselves and take a break before this grand melee?"
[20:01] <Anastasia> OOC: Going to do anything but make camp and wait for the dawn?
[20:02] <Alicia> OOC: just that
[20:06] <Alicia> OOC: I'll cast greater magic weapon on Anty's spear, actually, but that's it
[20:07] <Anastasia> An hour passes in rest. Just before the time is up, as the night sky begins to lighten, the warriors in the tents all come out on both sides. They begin to line up at the edge of thet ents, the magma pool laced center of the crater standing between them. In the sky above, in the center, Strength of Light flies and waits.
06[20:08] * Alicia casts shield at this point, although all her other long-duration spells are still in effect so she's quite prepared. "Looks like it's time," she tells the others, getting up and moving towards the crater-rim.
[20:09] <Anastasia> Around you are warriors of all stripe and size. Antenora leans over to Alicia, "Remember the promise," she whispers. "Want me to try and stay close to you?"
[20:10] <Alicia> "Lets all stick together," she replies, nodding to Latha as well. "We want to be the last ones standing out there so he'll take us seriously."
[20:11] <Anastasia> "I'll try. From the size of the battle, being seperated may be inevitable."
[20:12] <Anastasia> "Try," Antenora agrees, as the first ray of dawn crests over the sky! The dead in the center all rise, some even emerging from pits of magma as fresh and new as ever! As these grab their weapons and prepare, Strength of Light's words can be heard, "It is dawn and the dead have risen! BEGIN!" With that, the horde on the other side charges, while those around you charge as well!
[20:12] <Alicia> "Lets do our best, then," Alicia nods grimly. It's so strange, knowing she's about to be enmeshed in a brutal fight to the death with hundreds of warriors she has no quarrel with... and no matter what happens they'll all be fine tomorrow.
[20:13] <Alicia> "Go!" Alicia yells suddenly as everyone starts, bounding off the crater-rim and leaping down to join the charge, drawing Hell Striker as she goes!
[20:18] <Anastasia> Like two tides crashing together, the melee is joined! A burly man with a scythe charges at Antenora, while Latha takes to the air and clashes with a slender man with bird wings! For Alicia, a greatsword slinging giant comes her way! OOC: Initiative, let's see where this takes us.
[20:18] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+5 Antenora
06[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+5 Antenora and gets 16." [1d20=11]
[20:18] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+8 Latha
06[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+8 Latha and gets 28." [1d20=20]
[20:18] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+5 Scythe
06[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+5 Scythe and gets 23." [1d20=18]
[20:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7
06[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 and gets 22." [1d20=15]
[20:18] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+3 birdy
06[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+3 birdy and gets 9." [1d20=6]
[20:19] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+4 Greatsword
06[20:19] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+4 Greatsword and gets 24." [1d20=20]
[20:19] <Anastasia> roll 1d20 ????1
06[20:19] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20 ????1 and gets 17." [1d20=17]
[20:19] <Anastasia> roll 1d20 ????2
06[20:19] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20 ????2 and gets 12." [1d20=12]
03[20:20] * Anastasia changes topic to 'Latha>Greatsword>Scythe>Alicia>????1>Antenora>????2>Birdy'
[20:20] <Anastasia> Latha takes to the air, charging her foe with a battlecry, one amid a thousand!
[20:20] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+2 (-3 PA, +2 charge
06[20:20] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+2 (-3 PA, +2 charge and gets 8." [1d20=6]
[20:20] <Anastasia> OOC: +21 more, total of 29.
[20:20] <Anastasia> roll 1d8+18
06[20:20] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d8+18 and gets 25." [1d8=7]
[20:21] <Anastasia> Slam! LAtha starts the blow with a maceshot right to the bird-man's stomach! Alicia's foe comes at her like a lightning bolt, a single deadly charge coming at her!
[20:21] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+22 (+2 charge, -2 PA)
06[20:21] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+22 (+2 charge, -2 PA) and gets 25." [1d20=3]
[20:21] <Anastasia> OOC: Flatfooted AC?
[20:21] <Alicia> OOC: 28
[20:22] <Anastasia> Clang! Alicia deflects it away with Hell Striker, a trail of flames stopping the greatsword! The scythe wielder charges Antenora in the meanwhile, going right for her!
[20:22] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+20 (+2 charge, -4 PA)
06[20:22] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+20 (+2 charge, -4 PA) and gets 40." [1d20=20]
[20:22] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+20 (+2 charge, -4 PA) crit?
06[20:22] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+20 (+2 charge, -4 PA) crit? and gets 28." [1d20=8]
[20:22] <Anastasia> roll 18*4
06[20:22] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 18*4 and gets 72."
[20:23] <Anastasia> roll 8d4+74
06[20:23] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 8d4+74 and gets 101." [8d4=3, 2, 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4]
[20:24] <Anastasia> Unfortunately, Antenora isn't fast enough! Her neck gets cut deeply, only a desperate move stopping Antenora from an outright decapitation! As it is, blood sprays all over as she wobbles horribly, a fountain of red, one of the first! Her scream of pain joins the din rising from the battle! OOC: Alicia. As a note, remember everyone has fast healing 2 on Ysgard.
[20:26] <Alicia> Dammit... at least she knows these warriors are capable, if nothing else. Raising up her blade to ward off any blows, Alicia backflips away from her current foe and withdraws towards Antenora, quickly healing her with as much spellfire as she can channel at once!
[20:26] <Alicia> roll 18d4+18
06[20:26] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 18d4+18 and gets 67." [18d4=1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 1, 3, 2, 4, 4, 1, 3, 2, 2]
[20:26] <Anastasia> "Than-thank you," Antenora hisses as her neck's wound partially closes! As this happens...
[20:26] <Anastasia> roll 1d100
06[20:26] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d100 and gets 95." [1d100=95]
[20:27] <Anastasia> roll 20d6
06[20:27] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 20d6 and gets 74." [20d6=5, 6, 5, 4, 5, 3, 4, 4, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 4, 2, 6, 5, 3, 6]
[20:27] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+9 ref
06[20:27] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+9 ref and gets 14." [1d20=5]
[20:27] <Anastasia> As the brawl commenses, a fireball bursts to the sides! While it doesn't catch Alicia or her friends, the greatsword wielding goon who missed Alicia was caught in it and burned horrifically on his back! OOC: Antenora's up.
[20:28] <Alicia> Well... good thing she retreated, that's for sure.
[20:28] <Anastasia> Antenora's eyes blaze white as she channels holy power to heal her wounds, before she takes to the air and plunges right at her nemesis! OOC: 9/10 FS, +12 HP total from fast healing and divine succor.
[20:28] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+21 (+2 charge, +1 flying, +2 weapon, -5 PA)
06[20:28] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+21 (+2 charge, +1 flying, +2 weapon, -5 PA) and gets 36." [1d20=15]
[20:29] <Anastasia> roll 2d8+42
06[20:29] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 2d8+42 and gets 55." [2d8=7, 6]
[20:29] <Anastasia> Antenora retorts by impaling the scytheman right in the guts! As they clash...
[20:29] <Anastasia> roll 1d100
06[20:29] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d100 and gets 9." [1d100=9]
[20:29] <Anastasia> Nothing of note occurs! OOC: Birdy's up.
[20:30] <Anastasia> As a female warrior falls besides Alicia, cut in twain by a massive sword, the bird man stabs and slices at Latha!
[20:30] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+21
[20:30] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+21
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+21 and gets 32." [1d20=11]
[20:30] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+21
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+21 and gets 28." [1d20=7]
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+21 and gets 30." [1d20=9]
[20:30] <Anastasia> roll 1d6+12
[20:30] <Anastasia> roll 1d6+12
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d6+12 and gets 13." [1d6=1]
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d6+12 and gets 13." [1d6=1]
[20:31] <Anastasia> Latha is stabbed and mauled repeatedly, but no blows land seriously! Latha retorts, trading overwhelming blows with him!
[20:31] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+23
06[20:31] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+23 and gets 32." [1d20=9]
[20:31] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+18
06[20:31] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 22." [1d20=4]
[20:31] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+13
06[20:31] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+13 and gets 23." [1d20=10]
[20:31] <Anastasia> roll 1d8+12
06[20:31] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d8+12 and gets 20." [1d8=8]
[20:32] <Anastasia> SLAM! Another mace blow,s taggering the flier further! Ahead, a blast of boiling water knocks a charging brute down, sending him tumbling into a pool of magma! OOC: Greatsworder is up.
[20:33] <Anastasia> The greatsworder staggers around, before charging along and colliding at Alicia once more! "You won't get away that easily!"
[20:33] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+22 (+2 charge, -2 PA)
06[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+22 (+2 charge, -2 PA) and gets 38." [1d20=16]
[20:33] <Anastasia> OOC: AC?
[20:33] <Alicia> OOC: 33
[20:33] <Anastasia> roll 2d6+24+1d4 (sonic for the extra d4, your resistance applies.)
06[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 2d6+24+1d4 (sonic for the extra d4, your resistance applies.) and gets 32." [2d6=1, 5][1d4=2]
[20:34] <Anastasia> Alicia gets stabbed in the shoulder, the cleaving retort a painful for her! OOC: Scythe dude is up.
[20:35] <Anastasia> Standing firm against Antenora, he grins! Murmuring a few words of magic, he tosses his weapon like a spinning blade of death at her!
[20:35] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+20 (-2 PA)
06[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+20 (-2 PA) and gets 23." [1d20=3]
[20:36] <Anastasia> Antenora deflects the thrown scythe, a chasho f metal on wood as the blow is warded away! OOC: Alicia.
[20:36] <Alicia> "Ahh, who said I wanted to get away?" Alicia replies, adrenaline and the nature of this realm dulling the pain of his strike as she swivels back with the blow and then slides in under his guard, slicing and dicing in a blur of silvery steel!
[20:36] <Alicia> roll 1d20+2 knowledge
06[20:36] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+2 knowledge and gets 12." [1d20=10]
[20:37] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike
06[20:37] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike and gets 42." [1d20=18]
[20:37] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike
06[20:37] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike and gets 31." [1d20=7]
[20:37] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike
06[20:37] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike and gets 30." [1d20=11]
[20:37] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike
06[20:37] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike and gets 32." [1d20=13]
[20:37] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike
06[20:37] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike and gets 18." [1d20=4]
[20:37] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike
06[20:37] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike and gets 21." [1d20=7]
[20:37] <Anastasia> OOC: 4 hits.
[20:38] <Alicia> roll 4d8+72+4d6+8d4
06[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 4d8+72+4d6+8d4 and gets 132." [4d8=3, 8, 3, 6][4d6=5, 6, 5, 2][8d4=4, 4, 4, 2, 1, 2, 2, 3]
03[20:38] * Anastasia changes topic to 'Latha>Scythe>Alicia>????1>Antenora>????2>Birdy'
[20:38] <Anastasia> Hacking and cutting, the greatsword hero is split apart! He grimaces and smiles as he falls to the brittle ground, "W-Well played..." he whispers, closing his eyes! Then...
[20:38] <Anastasia> roll 1d100
06[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d100 and gets 11." [1d100=11]
[20:39] <Anastasia> Nothing happens! Antenora takes this chance, charging down at her foe once more!
[20:39] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+18 (+2 charge, +2 weapon, +1 fly, -8 PA)
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+18 (+2 charge, +2 weapon, +1 fly, -8 PA) and gets 37." [1d20=19]
[20:39] <Anastasia> roll 1d20+18 (+2 charge, +2 weapon, +1 fly, -8 PA) crit?
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d20+18 (+2 charge, +2 weapon, +1 fly, -8 PA) crit? and gets 37." [1d20=19]
[20:39] <Anastasia> roll 27*14
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 27*14 and gets 378."
[20:39] <Anastasia> roll 27*4
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 27*4 and gets 108."
[20:40] <Anastasia> roll 4d8+108
06[20:40] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 4d8+108 and gets 129." [4d8=7, 5, 5, 4]
03[20:40] * Anastasia changes topic to 'Latha>Alicia>????1>Antenora>????2>Birdy'
[20:41] <Anastasia> Diving down, Antenora runs the man through the skull! He freezes in death mortis, brains sent flicking into magma as Antenora frees her spear!
[20:41] <Anastasia> roll 1d100
06[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Anastasia rolls 1d100 and gets 8." [1d100=8]
02[20:49] * Anastasia (~dunefar@ip68-99-109-25.hr.hr.cox.net) Quit (-=SysReset 2.53=-)
03[21:27] * Kotono (~dunefar@ip68-99-109-25.hr.hr.cox.net) has joined #dunes
03[21:27] * ChanServ sets mode: +qo Kotono Kotono
[21:28] <Kotono> Again nothing happens! The bird winged foe staggers in the air, before beating a retreat back and charging someone else! For the moment, no forces directly engage the three! (More)
[21:29] <Kotono> roll 1d100
[21:29] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 48." [1d100=48]
[21:29] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 68." [1d100=68]
[21:29] <Kotono> roll 1d100
[21:29] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 21." [1d100=21]
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 16." [1d100=16]
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 50." [1d100=50]
[21:29] <Kotono> As the battle rages, a stray arrow comes by Latha!
[21:29] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 37." [1d20=17]
[21:30] <Kotono> roll 1d8+9+3d6
06[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+9+3d6 and gets 23." [1d8=2][3d6=6, 4, 2]
[21:32] <Kotono> It gets her right in the shoulder as the battle rages on, a painful bolt! Fortunately, there is time enough for fast healing to restore all. How long have you been battling? It's all a haze for Alicia, but her wounds are healed. She has fought and been pushed towards the center, Antenora staying close to her. Latha is about 40 feet away. It is at this point that a pair of identical looking dwarves with hand axes come at Alicia, while an Astral
[21:32] <Kotono> looking dwarves with hand axes come at Alicia, while an Astral Deva comes at Antenora, mace in hand! OOC: Roll initiative again as the chaotic battle continues on?
[21:33] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7
06[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 and gets 19." [1d20=12]
[21:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 Antenora
06[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 Antenora and gets 22." [1d20=17]
[21:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 Latha
06[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 Latha and gets 10." [1d20=2]
[21:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 dwarf 1
[21:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 dwarf 2
06[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 dwarf 1 and gets 16." [1d20=5]
06[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 dwarf 2 and gets 23." [1d20=12]
[21:34] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 deva
06[21:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 deva and gets 16." [1d20=8]
[21:34] <Kotono> roll 1d20 ????1
[21:34] <Kotono> roll 1d20 ????2
06[21:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 ????1 and gets 9." [1d20=9]
06[21:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 ????2 and gets 14." [1d20=14]
03[21:35] * Kotono changes topic to 'Dwarf 2>Antenora>Alicia>Dwarf 1=Deva>????2>Latha>????1'
[21:36] <Kotono> The second dwarf nimbly tumbles past Alicia, going to flank her! Meanwhile, Antenora raises her spear in a gesture of salute, before charging the Astral Deva head on!
[21:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 (+2 charge, +2 weapon, -4 PA)
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 (+2 charge, +2 weapon, -4 PA) and gets 23." [1d20=2]
[21:37] <Kotono> Antenora charges hard, but the sidesteps her spear thrust swiftly! Around you the battle rages fiercely, the sun rising the sky. It's been an hour? Three? Six? Alicia isn't really sure. The constant exertion burns in her muscles, a distant reminder of the exertion. OOC: Alicia?
06[21:40] * Alicia grins at the dwarf setting up to flank her, turning on it with her blades. "No good setting up a team attack if it leaves you vulnerable before you can strike!" she chastises, her blades singing through the air in a macabre dance!
[21:41] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 divine might, 4th level arcane strike
06[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 divine might, 4th level arcane strike and gets 32." [1d20=7]
[21:41] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 divine might, 4th level arcane strike
06[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 divine might, 4th level arcane strike and gets 34." [1d20=9]
[21:41] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 divine might, 4th level arcane strike
06[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 divine might, 4th level arcane strike and gets 25." [1d20=5]
[21:41] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 divine might, 4th level arcane strike
06[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 divine might, 4th level arcane strike and gets 34." [1d20=14]
[21:41] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 divine might, 4th level arcane strike
06[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 divine might, 4th level arcane strike and gets 30." [1d20=15]
[21:41] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 divine might, 4th level arcane strike
06[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 divine might, 4th level arcane strike and gets 32." [1d20=17]
[21:41] <Kotono> OOC: Amazingly, no hits. Horrible rolling when it counted.
[21:42] <Kotono> The dwarf nimbly dodges and weaves each blow, not a single speck of spellfire or divine might touching him! He grins back, patting her side with the blunt of his axe. "It's only a mistake if you can hit me!" A moment later, the first dwarf charges in at Alicia, flanking her with his twin!
[21:42] <Kotono> roll 1d20+26 (+2 flanking)
06[21:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+26 (+2 flanking) and gets 40." [1d20=14]
[21:42] <Kotono> roll 1d6+4+6d6
06[21:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6+4+6d6 and gets 34." [1d6=6][6d6=2, 2, 5, 5, 6, 4]
[21:42] <Kotono> OOC: d100 for light fort, Alicia.
[21:43] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 10." [1d100=10]
[21:43] <Kotono> OOC: What are the odds on it? 25?
[21:43] <Kotono> OOC: 10 damage then.
[21:43] <Alicia> OOC: yeah
[21:43] <Kotono> A blow right into Alicia's chest! Her armor deflects much of it, turning it into a mere flesh wound! Meanwhile, the deva strikes back at Antenora! "If you have truly turned away from your past, then rejoice in my blows!"
[21:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 25." [1d20=2]
[21:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 40." [1d20=17]
[21:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 22." [1d20=4]
[21:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 30." [1d20=17]
[21:44] <Kotono> roll 1d8+12
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+12 and gets 14." [1d8=2]
[21:45] <Kotono> A single blow slips past Antenora's guard, hitting her in the ribs! DEspite that she replies, "I'll rejoice when I'm strong enough to protect Alicia!" Meanwhile...
[21:45] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 62." [1d100=62]
[21:45] <Kotono> In the melee, a flying blade is knocked crazy, going right at Antenora!
[21:45] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22
06[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 and gets 34." [1d20=12]
[21:46] <Kotono> roll 1d10+20
06[21:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d10+20 and gets 25." [1d10=5]
[21:47] <Kotono> The flying blade clips Antenora's face, leaving a sharp, smooth slice across her cheek! Latha meanwhile is busy, being pushed away as she struggles to get closer, only making it a little as she dodges two others locked in aerial combat! OOC: Dwarf 1.
[21:48] <Kotono> Having Alicia right where he wants her, the first dwarf grins, "Goodnight, sweet warrior!" he carols in his deep voice!
[21:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+26
[21:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+26
06[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+26 and gets 29." [1d20=3]
06[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+26 and gets 34." [1d20=8]
[21:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21
06[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 and gets 38." [1d20=17]
[21:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21
06[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 and gets 34." [1d20=13]
[21:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 23." [1d20=7]
[21:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 34." [1d20=18]
[21:48] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
[21:48] <Alicia> OOC: 33
[21:48] <Kotono> roll 1d100 hit 1
06[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 hit 1 and gets 7." [1d100=7]
[21:48] <Kotono> roll 1d100 hit 2
06[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 hit 2 and gets 71." [1d100=71]
[21:48] <Kotono> roll 1d100 hit 3
06[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 hit 3 and gets 11." [1d100=11]
[21:48] <Kotono> roll 1d100 hit 4
06[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 hit 4 and gets 73." [1d100=73]
[21:48] <Kotono> OOC: Lucky.
[21:49] <Kotono> roll 4d6+16+12d6
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d6+16+12d6 and gets 70." [4d6=1, 1, 1, 4][12d6=2, 6, 6, 2, 1, 6, 5, 3, 2, 4, 6, 4]
[21:50] <Kotono> Alicia is caught between a maelstrom of blades! Her back and flank are torn savagely open, only her armor stopping her from being rent apart like tissue paper! Nonetheless, grevious wounds are suffered! As Antenora fights, divine succor fills Alicia's wounds and mends them! OOC: +10HP Alicia.
[21:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 (+2 weapon)
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 (+2 weapon) and gets 29." [1d20=6]
[21:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 34." [1d20=16]
[21:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 14." [1d20=1]
[21:50] <Kotono> roll 1d8+11
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+11 and gets 14." [1d8=3]
[21:51] <Kotono> Antenora manages to land one blow, but has trouble injuring the deva inthis battle! OOC: Alicia.
[21:53] <Alicia> "Well, I certainly underestimated you two," Alicia grimaces at the wounds she's taken. Tensing her legs, she rolls to the side and away, springing to her feet and leaping back so she's fifteen feet behind the nearest dwarf.
[21:53] <Alicia> "I shan't do that again!" she calls as she releases Hell Striker from her underarm grip, the blade whizzing along and gouging a path through the rock before it arcs up and slices through the duo before reappearing in her hand!
[21:53] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 devotion
06[21:53] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 devotion and gets 35." [1d20=15]
[21:54] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -2pa divine might, 3rd level channel
06[21:54] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -2pa divine might, 3rd level channel and gets 39." [1d20=9]
[21:54] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -2pa divine might, 3rd level channel
06[21:54] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -2pa divine might, 3rd level channel and gets 44." [1d20=14]
[21:54] <Kotono> OOC: Bot hit.
[21:55] <Alicia> roll 1d8+27+1d6+3d4
06[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+27+1d6+3d4 and gets 41." [1d8=3][1d6=5][3d4=3, 1, 2]
[21:55] <Alicia> roll 1d8+27+1d6+3d4
06[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+27+1d6+3d4 and gets 46." [1d8=8][1d6=1][3d4=4, 3, 3]
[21:55] <Alicia> OOC: +4 damage as well, forgot to add there
[21:55] <Kotono> The boomerang of a blade cuts through both, inflicting flaming, terrible injuries! They both stagger from it, before the second one nods to the first, holding on a moment. Meanwhile, the deva is locked in combat with Antenora!
[21:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
[21:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[21:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 29." [1d20=6]
06[21:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 30." [1d20=7]
[21:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[21:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 24." [1d20=6]
[21:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[21:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 14." [1d20=1]
[21:56] <Kotono> But he can't land a single blow on her yet! Meanwhile...
[21:56] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 81." [1d100=81]
[21:56] <Kotono> roll 1d3
06[21:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d3 and gets 2." [1d3=2]
[21:56] <Kotono> A stray lightning bolt flies, coming across Antenora's path!
[21:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20 what's Antenora's ref save, Alicia?
06[21:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 what's Antenora's ref save, Alicia? and gets 19." [1d20=19]
[21:56] <Kotono> OOC: Moot anyway, likely.
[21:57] <Alicia> OOC: +21
[21:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
06[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 29." [1d20=15]
[21:57] <Kotono> roll 10d6+10 halve this
06[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6+10 halve this and gets 36." [10d6=1, 4, 3, 2, 3, 1, 2, 4, 1, 5]
[21:58] <Kotono> The bolt grazes Antenora, spreading shocking lines of power throughout her body! She wobbles in the air but endures the agony! Latha meanwhile...
[21:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+4
06[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+4 and gets 11." [1d20=7]
[21:58] <Kotono> She manages to weave past more combatants, coming closer to Alicia! 'How bad are your wounds,' she sends to the paladin, as meanwhile...
[21:58] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 77." [1d100=77]
[21:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
06[21:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 16." [1d20=2]
[21:59] <Alicia> 'Not fatal, but considering the opposition I may be in more danger than I think,' Alicia replies.
[21:59] <Kotono> roll 10d6 moot because Astral Devas are immune to acid, but.
06[21:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 moot because Astral Devas are immune to acid, but. and gets 37." [10d6=3, 2, 6, 2, 4, 2, 4, 6, 5, 3]
[22:00] <Kotono> A great spray of acid comes flying to the side, a powerful spell narrowly missing others and splashing the deva! It's skin endures it like it's merely rainwater, unburnt! 'I'm coming then!' she sends! OOC: Dwarf 1 is up. Dwarf 2 is also acting now.
03[22:00] * Kotono changes topic to 'Dwarf1=Dwarf 2>Antenora>Alicia>Deva>????2>Latha>????1'
[22:00] <Kotono> "Got you!" Both dwarves call as one, throwing a pair of glass bottles at the volcanic ground at Alicia's feet!
[22:01] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 touch AC here, damned hard for one to miss
[22:01] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 touch AC here, damned hard for one to miss
06[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 touch AC here, damned hard for one to miss and gets 27." [1d20=9]
06[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 touch AC here, damned hard for one to miss and gets 25." [1d20=7]
[22:01] <Kotono> roll 5d6
06[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d6 and gets 23." [5d6=6, 2, 5, 5, 5]
[22:01] <Kotono> roll 5d6
06[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d6 and gets 17." [5d6=2, 5, 3, 3, 4]
[22:01] <Kotono> The blasts are short and narrow, directed downward! However, the ground Alicia is on crumbles, crumbling into hot lava below, heat gushing up and out! OOC: Ref save.
[22:02] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 and gets 18." [1d20=2]
[22:02] <Kotono> Alicia isn't fast enough! Her footing slips, as she goes right down into the lava bath! The burning magma sears her skin, trying to burn the noble paladin alive!
[22:03] <Kotono> roll 20d6 owwwies
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 20d6 owwwies and gets 60." [20d6=1, 2, 3, 5, 5, 3, 3, 5, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 1, 2, 6, 2, 1, 3, 3]
[22:05] <Kotono> Alicia burns merrily, her flesh cooking like a lobster in the oven! Agony fills her vision, red and dimming at the edges! OOC: Alicia, you failed your save but you survived the pain anyway. Your gear won't even with resistance if you don't do something PDQ, though. Deva's up.
[22:06] <Kotono> "ALICIA!" Antenora screams, as the deva takes advantage to strike at Antenora hard!
[22:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
[22:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 39." [1d20=16]
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 28." [1d20=5]
[22:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 19." [1d20=1]
[22:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 14." [1d20=1]
[22:06] <Kotono> roll 1d8+12
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+12 and gets 18." [1d8=6]
[22:07] <Kotono> OOC: STrike those rolls and damage, I don't know why I had the deva go. Antenor'as up instead. DUR.
[22:08] <Kotono> "ALICIA!" Antenora screams, as Antenora disengages her foe wantonly to go assist her friend! OOC: DEva moved into be able to melee her, so it get sna AoO.
[22:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 38." [1d20=15]
[22:08] <Kotono> roll 1d8+12
06[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+12 and gets 14." [1d8=2]
[22:08] <Kotono> OOC: DR applies.
[22:08] <Kotono> Antenora's side gets a macing, as she swoops down at the first dwarf, all while healing energy sooths Alicia's wounds! OOC: 8/10 FS, +10 HP Alicia. +2 Antenora, fast healing.
[22:09] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 (+2 charge, +2 weapon, +1 flying, -5 PA)
06[22:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 (+2 charge, +2 weapon, +1 flying, -5 PA) and gets 25." [1d20=4]
[22:09] <Kotono> But the dwarf turns and leaps back, avoiding Antenora's charge entirely! OOC: Alicia. You're also submerged in Lava, which will trigger again on the dwarve's turn. This is for 1d3 rounds afte ryou get out, which I'll roll when you get and note in the initiative.
[22:10] <Kotono> *When you get out
[22:12] <Alicia> Glad she's not heavy enough to actually sink in magma, and more glad of her protections against fire, Alicia scrambles for the crumbling edge away from the dwarves and hauls herself out, channelling a fly spell into Hell Striker since she doesn't trust herself to successfully cast the spell while burning from the lava stuck to her.
[22:12] <Kotono> roll 1d3
06[22:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d3 and gets 2." [1d3=2]
03[22:13] * Kotono changes topic to 'LAVA(2 rounds)=Dwarf1=Dwarf 2>Antenora>Alicia>Deva>????2>Latha>????1'
[22:14] <Kotono> Alicia's body glows like a coal from the furnace, burning stone scorching her skin with every movement she makes! Meanwhile, the deva gives Antenora a long look, before circling around int he air to be over Alicia! "Sister, I will challenge you," He declares to Latha! Meanwhile...
[22:14] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 3." [1d100=3]
[22:14] <Kotono> Nothing happens! LAtha advances, "Out of the way!" She declares, charging in and going at the AStral Deva, as the two fight a mere ten feet above Alicia!
[22:14] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 (+2 charge, -2 PA)
06[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 (+2 charge, -2 PA) and gets 29." [1d20=6]
[22:15] <Kotono> But the Astral Deva barely blocks her mace, the two colliding in a song of steel as the battle continues around! Bright sunshine comes down all the while, barely noticed amid the frantic battle! Meanwhile...
[22:15] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 98." [1d100=98]
[22:15] <Kotono> roll 1d3
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d3 and gets 2." [1d3=2]
[22:15] <Kotono> roll 25d8
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 25d8 and gets 135." [25d8=5, 7, 6, 5, 6, 4, 3, 2, 2, 4, 6, 6, 7, 8, 3, 2, 8, 7, 7, 6, 6, 5, 5, 8, 7]
[22:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
06[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 23." [1d20=9]
03[22:16] * Kotono changes topic to 'LAVA(2 rounds)=Dwarf1>Antenora>Alicia>Deva>????2>Latha>????1'
[22:17] <Kotono> From the sky, meteors are called from the blue! One slams right into the second dwarf, catching him off guard! His body is crushed into a paste, the ground under him collasping for further insult to death! Meanwhile, Alicia continues to sizzle!
[22:17] <Kotono> roll 10d6
06[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 and gets 31." [10d6=1, 3, 1, 5, 2, 2, 6, 6, 4, 1]
[22:17] <Kotono> OOC: 1 damage. Fear.
03[22:17] * Kotono changes topic to 'LAVA(1 rounds)=Dwarf1>Antenora>Alicia>Deva>????2>Latha>????1'
[22:18] <Kotono> The first dwarf gawks, "Aaaah, what horrible luck!" He laments, "Brother!" With a long look and then a shrug, "I may as well go down fighting!" With that, he charges flat out at Alicia, bullrushing her! OOC: You get an AoO, Alicia.
[22:19] <Alicia> OOC: he does know there's a lava bath between us, right? I climbed out the side away from them.
[22:19] <Kotono> OOC: Oh, you did. My bad. Strike then.
[22:19] <Kotono> The first dwarf gawks, "Aaaah, what horrible luck!" He laments, "Brother!" With a long look and then a shrug, "I may as well go down fighting!" With that, he circles around, coming within 10 feet of Alicia's side! OOC: Antenora.
[22:20] <Kotono> Antenora scowls, charging the manuerving dwarf flat out!
[22:20] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 (+2 charge, +2 weapon, +1 fly, -3 PA)
06[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 (+2 charge, +2 weapon, +1 fly, -3 PA) and gets 36." [1d20=13]
[22:20] <Kotono> roll 2d8+34
06[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+34 and gets 41." [2d8=6, 1]
[22:21] <Kotono> Antenora gets im right in the back, the dwarf gasping as he goes face down! He struggles a bit, but stays down for the count!
03[22:21] * Kotono changes topic to 'LAVA(1 rounds)>Antenora>Alicia>Deva>????2>Latha>????1'
[22:21] <Kotono> OOC: Alicia.
06[22:21] * Alicia taps herself with her sword to commence flight and then takes to the air, lifting up on the opposite side of the male deva from Latha, forcing him to split his attention between them.
[22:22] <Kotono> The deva hesitates a moment, before going for Latha! "My battle is with you!" he declares, striking out at her!
[22:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 35." [1d20=12]
[22:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 36." [1d20=13]
[22:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 30." [1d20=12]
[22:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 30." [1d20=17]
[22:22] <Kotono> roll 1d8+2 (-10 DR)
[22:22] <Kotono> roll 1d8+2 (-10 DR)
[22:22] <Kotono> roll 1d8+2 (-10 DR)
[22:22] <Kotono> roll 1d8+2 (-10 DR)
06[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+2 (-10 DR) and gets 10." [1d8=8]
06[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+2 (-10 DR) and gets 3." [1d8=1]
06[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+2 (-10 DR) and gets 6." [1d8=4]
06[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+2 (-10 DR) and gets 9." [1d8=7]
[22:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 fort for stun
06[22:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 fort for stun and gets 21." [1d20=6]
[22:23] <Kotono> roll 1d6 Not Latha's day, she hates saves
06[22:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 Not Latha's day, she hates saves and gets 4." [1d6=4]
03[22:23] * Kotono changes topic to 'LAVA(1 rounds)>Antenora>Alicia>Deva>????2>Latha(stunned 4 rounds)>????1'
[22:24] <Kotono> Latha is battered, each blow hitting hard! The flurry leaves her stunned! She falls besides Alicia, mace clattering on the volcanic rocks you stand on! Meanwhile...
[22:24] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 96." [1d100=96]
[22:24] <Kotono> roll 1d3 FYI since you might be curious, 1 Alicia 2 Anty 3 Latha
06[22:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d3 FYI since you might be curious, 1 Alicia 2 Anty 3 Latha and gets 1." [1d3=1]
[22:25] <Kotono> As the melee roars on, a massive lance of cold rockets right at Alicia, barbed and filled with power, shot by an unknown assailant! OOC: You can spellfire this if you like.
[22:25] <Alicia> OOC: yes please
[22:25] <Kotono> OOC: 7 spell levels.
[22:25] <Kotono> The lance breaks apart, absorbed into Alicia's being! Latha is meanwhile stunned, as...
[22:25] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 35." [1d100=35]
[22:26] <Kotono> Nothing happens! OOC - Lava damage, Alicia.
[22:26] <Kotono> roll 10d6
06[22:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 and gets 28." [10d6=1, 4, 6, 1, 3, 2, 4, 1, 1, 5]
03[22:26] * Kotono changes topic to 'Antenora>Alicia>Deva>????2>Latha(stunned 3 rounds)>????1'
[22:26] <Kotono> Alicia's skin has half dried stone clinging to it and her armor, but the sizzling magma's worst effects are done! OOC: Antenora's up.
[22:26] <Kotono> Antenora advances, charging as Latha is stunned, more healing energy mending Alicia! OOC: +10 HP Alicia, +@ Antenora. 2, that is.
[22:26] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 (+5 bonuses, -5 PA)
06[22:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 (+5 bonuses, -5 PA) and gets 24." [1d20=3]
[22:27] <Kotono> But the Astral Deva whirls, deflecting her blow once more! OOC: Alicia.
[22:27] <Kotono> 'How are you,' Antenora sends sharply, 'Thank Mystra you survived that lava...your'e growing as tough as a dragon.'
[22:29] <Alicia> 'I was more worried that if I sank in there all my belongings would be destroyed - I'm not sure if you can resurect an intelligent sword,' Alicia returns, breathing heavily as she regards the remaining deva. "You fight well, but few can survive this!" she calls as she begins her dance of steel, ignoring the molten rock caked to her form!
[22:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 divine might, 5th and 2 2nd level arcane strike, bracers
06[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 divine might, 5th and 2 2nd level arcane strike, bracers and gets 37." [1d20=7]
[22:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 divine might, 5th and 2 2nd level arcane strike, bracers
06[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 divine might, 5th and 2 2nd level arcane strike, bracers and gets 41." [1d20=11]
[22:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 divine might, 5th and 2 2nd level arcane strike, bracers
06[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 divine might, 5th and 2 2nd level arcane strike, bracers and gets 45." [1d20=15]
[22:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 divine might, 5th and 2 2nd level arcane strike, bracers
06[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 divine might, 5th and 2 2nd level arcane strike, bracers and gets 26." [1d20=1]
[22:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 divine might, 5th and 2 2nd level arcane strike, bracers
06[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 divine might, 5th and 2 2nd level arcane strike, bracers and gets 28." [1d20=3]
[22:30] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 divine might, 5th and 2 2nd level arcane strike, bracers
06[22:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 divine might, 5th and 2 2nd level arcane strike, bracers and gets 24." [1d20=4]
[22:30] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 divine might, 5th and 2 2nd level arcane strike, bracers
06[22:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 divine might, 5th and 2 2nd level arcane strike, bracers and gets 23." [1d20=3]
[22:30] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits.
[22:30] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits still.
[22:30] <Alicia> roll 1d8+21+9d4
06[22:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+21+9d4 and gets 48." [1d8=1][9d4=4, 2, 4, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2]
[22:30] <Alicia> roll 1d8+21+9d4
06[22:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+21+9d4 and gets 50." [1d8=3][9d4=4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 3, 3, 4]
[22:30] <Alicia> roll 1d8+21+9d4
06[22:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+21+9d4 and gets 51." [1d8=7][9d4=4, 1, 2, 2, 4, 2, 1, 4, 3]
[22:31] <Alicia> OOC: +4 on each, keep forgetting devotion adds damage
[22:31] <Kotono> The combined power of blows and wounds is just enough! The last blow makes the AStral Deva sag. In a voice filled with valor and love, "I am impressed. You are a champion of bravery...and power...Alicia...and...devil...who is not..." With that, he falls to the ground! The battle continues to rage around you! (More)
[22:31] <Alicia> OOC: wait, no, I did add
[22:32] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 56." [1d100=56]
[22:32] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 32." [1d100=32]
[22:32] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 48." [1d100=48]
[22:32] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 73." [1d100=73]
[22:32] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 24." [1d100=24]
[22:32] <Kotono> roll 1d3
06[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d3 and gets 3." [1d3=3]
[22:32] <Kotono> As Latha is stunned, another stray arrow is shot for her!
[22:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
06[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 38." [1d20=18]
[22:32] <Kotono> roll 2d6+10+4d6+1d4
06[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+10+4d6+1d4 and gets 31." [2d6=2, 2][4d6=5, 4, 3, 3][1d4=2]
[22:33] <Kotono> The powerful bolt hits Latha in the shower, but soon the three of you are swept up in combat again! OOC: Each of you roll fort saves now?
[22:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 fort
06[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 fort and gets 17." [1d20=2]
[22:33] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22
06[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 and gets 27." [1d20=5]
[22:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 Latha really hates saves. A 2? Again? Really?
06[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 Latha really hates saves. A 2? Again? Really? and gets 26." [1d20=1]
[22:33] <Kotono> OOC: So does Antenora.
[22:36] <Kotono> How long as it been? How long as it been since the sun passed it's zenith? Alicia doesn't know. She's stained with stone, blood, dirt, sweat. Many have fallen, yet more remain. It is then that the three, sticking together, see it come for them in the center. They are away from any magma pools, relatively alone at the moment. It emerges from another battle, a cry from deep in it's lungs! It's head is that of a wolf, a snake attached to the back
[22:36] <Kotono> It's head is that of a wolf, a snake attached to the back of it's neck, snapping out and around! It's body is an angry blood red, muscled and carrying a bloodied axe! It wears a pair of silver bracers, as it points! "I will rip you to shreds!" The creature bellows! OOC:Initiative.
[22:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 Latha
06[22:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 Latha and gets 17." [1d20=9]
[22:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 Antenora
06[22:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 Antenora and gets 13." [1d20=8]
[22:37] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7
06[22:37] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 and gets 23." [1d20=16]
[22:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10 ????
06[22:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 ???? and gets 12." [1d20=2]
[22:38] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17 Anty rolls KP to identify it.
06[22:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 Anty rolls KP to identify it. and gets 31." [1d20=14]
03[22:38] * Kotono changes topic to 'Alicia>Latha>Antenora>????'
[22:38] <Kotono> roll 1d20 ????1
[22:38] <Kotono> roll 1d20 ????2
06[22:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 ????1 and gets 19." [1d20=19]
06[22:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 ????2 and gets 10." [1d20=10]
03[22:39] * Kotono changes topic to 'Alicia>????1>Latha>Antenora>????>????2'
[22:39] <Kotono> "Spawn of the Abyss!" Antenora bellows, "Why do you appear before us in this hallowed battlefield?"
[22:40] <Kotono> OOC: Alicia, you're up.
[22:40] <Kotono> Latha sags, and despiteher words, Antenora does as well. The fatigue on their faces is obvious. Alicia's body is sore all over, overexerted and tired.
[22:41] <Kotono> "No words!" It bellows back, "Only the glorious roar of battle speaks here!"
[22:42] <Alicia> "I'll keep it busy, don't overextend yourselves!" Alicia tells her flagging colleagues, quickly rattling off a mirror image spell before she moves forward, putting herself ten feet outside the reach of its axe and ensuring it has to go through her to reach the other two!
[22:42] <Alicia> roll 1d4+5
06[22:42] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+5 and gets 7." [1d4=2]
[22:43] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 53." [1d100=53]
[22:43] <Kotono> Meanwhile, a stray arrow is fired, whizzing by at the molydeus!
[22:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 35." [1d20=15]
[22:43] <Kotono> roll 1d8+4+3d6
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+4+3d6 and gets 26." [1d8=8][3d6=3, 6, 5]
[22:45] <Kotono> The arrow embeds in the demon in the back, but it hardly notices! LAtha hangs back, "I'll support you," she says, touching Antenora's shoulder. "Take this sacred energy and help Alicia when it's time." From Antenora to Alicia, 'I think I can charge it again now. When?' OOC: Heal on Antenora, fatigue removed.
[22:45] <Alicia> 'Wait till I have its attention,' Alicia cautions.
[22:45] <Kotono> Antenora holds! The molydeus roars, as...
[22:45] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 true seeing CL check
06[22:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 true seeing CL check and gets 31." [1d20=12]
[22:46] <Kotono> It quickly bellows a profane word as it charges Alicia! OOC: Will, -2.
[22:47] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22
06[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 and gets 23." [1d20=1]
[22:47] <Kotono> OOC: Dazed for 1 round and 2d6 str loss for 2d4 rounds. Man.
[22:47] <Kotono> roll 2d6
06[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6 and gets 2." [2d6=1, 1]
[22:47] <Kotono> roll 2d4
06[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d4 and gets 4." [2d4=2, 2]
[22:47] <Kotono> OOC: Lucky there. -2 STR for 4 rounds.
[22:47] <Kotono> The word leaves Alicia reeling, as the molydeus closes in, a single axe chop!
[22:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 (+2 charge, -5 PA)
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 (+2 charge, -5 PA) and gets 36." [1d20=11]
[22:48] <Kotono> roll 1d8 images
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8 images and gets 7." [1d8=7]
[22:49] <Kotono> The molydeus cleaves through the images, destroying one with a savage swipe, cutting off it's arms! Meanwhile...
[22:49] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 54." [1d100=54]
[22:49] <Kotono> roll 1d3
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d3 and gets 1." [1d3=1]
[22:49] <Kotono> A crackle of fire soars at the meantime, coming at Alicia!
[22:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 26." [1d20=6]
[22:49] <Kotono> roll 1d7
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d7 and gets 2." [1d7=2]
[22:49] <Kotono> It hits an image, a stray bolt from another battle, or perhaps a sneak attack? A moment later, Antenora is charging in relief o Alicia!
03[22:50] * Kotono changes topic to 'Antenora>Alicia>????1>Latha>????>????2'
[22:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30 (+2 weapon, +2 charge, +1 flying, +2 FS 9/10, +7 smite, +2 bane, -7 PA)
06[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30 (+2 weapon, +2 charge, +1 flying, +2 FS 9/10, +7 smite, +2 bane, -7 PA) and gets 40." [1d20=10]
[22:51] <Kotono> roll 2d8+1d6+58 Antenora can't wait for next level and favored PA, by the by.
06[22:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+1d6+58 Antenora can't wait for next level and favored PA, by the by. and gets 71." [2d8=1, 6][1d6=6]
[22:52] <Kotono> The spear wound digs deep into the molydeus, even as it's wounds mend at a terrifying rate! Alicia is stunned in the meanwhile, unable to act! Meanwhile...
[22:52] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 91." [1d100=91]
[22:52] <Kotono> A stray shot of lighting strikes down at the demon, but it seems unfazed by the lightning entirely! OOC: Latha.
[22:54] <Kotono> Latha slowly advances, going to envelop herself and Antenora in holy auras! OOC: +4 resistance to saves and +4 deflection to AC for Latha. +2/+2 for Antenora since she already has +2/+2 of that. She'd get Alicia ifs he wasn't MI'ed up and unable to do much to direct her. Molydeus is up.
[22:54] <Kotono> The spear wound is mending fast, as the molydeus roars! It turns it's attention to Atnenora, no words as it slices into her!
[22:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28
06[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 and gets 47." [1d20=19]
[22:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28 crit
06[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 crit and gets 38." [1d20=10]
[22:55] <Kotono> roll 1d4
06[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and gets 4." [1d4=4]
[22:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 36." [1d20=13]
[22:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 23." [1d20=5]
[22:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 24." [1d20=11]
[22:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 wolf head bite
06[22:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 wolf head bite and gets 39." [1d20=14]
[22:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 snake heat
06[22:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 snake heat and gets 29." [1d20=4]
[22:56] <Kotono> 9d6+42+3d6+14+2d6+4
06[22:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 9d6+42+3d6+14+2d6+4 and gets 111." [9d6=5, 6, 4, 6, 1, 2, 3, 5, 2][3d6=6, 2, 2][2d6=3, 4]
[22:57] <Alicia> OOC: don't forget saves vs the aura
[22:57] <Kotono> Antenora is horribly maimed! Her chest is ripped open in a bite, but the molydeus isn't done as her blood gushes out! It swings low, catching her leg above the knee! With a sickening ease Antenora's leg is severed there, falling to the ground as she bleeds profusely! She screams, wings errattically flapping to prevent her from falling over! OOC: Okay, I'll roll those now.
[22:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21
06[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 and gets 37." [1d20=16]
[22:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21
[22:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21
[22:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21
06[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 and gets 25." [1d20=4]
06[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 and gets 37." [1d20=16]
06[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 and gets 35." [1d20=14]
[23:00] <Kotono> The beast is engulfed in Atnenora's holy aura, but stays unblinded! Meanwhile...
[23:00] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[23:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 37." [1d100=37]
[23:00] <Kotono> Nothing happens! OOC: Antenora.
[23:01] <Kotono> Even as her now stumpy, bloodgushing legs spills her lifeblood out, Antenora smiles weakly! She withdraws back for now, healing herself! 'Sorry...Alicia...' OOC: +12 HP for Antenora. OOC: Alicia.
[23:03] <Alicia> "Don't apologise, dammit!" Alicia snaps as she finally manages to snap out of the funk elicited by that baleful utterance. If she'd not been so lax she could've kept the bastard off of her friend... She'd wanted to save this, but the foe warrants no less.
[23:03] <Alicia> Grasping Hell Striker tightly, white hot fury envelops her as she leaps at the tanar'ri, stabbing at its vitals and ripping through its organs to bring it down quickly!
[23:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 raging, divine might, 1 5th, 1 4th, 4 1st level slots arcane strike, bracers
06[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 raging, divine might, 1 5th, 1 4th, 4 1st level slots arcane strike, bracers and gets 39." [1d20=9]
[23:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 raging, divine might, 1 5th, 1 4th, 4 1st level slots arcane strike, bracers
06[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 raging, divine might, 1 5th, 1 4th, 4 1st level slots arcane strike, bracers and gets 48." [1d20=18]
[23:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 raging, divine might, 1 5th, 1 4th, 4 1st level slots arcane strike, bracers
06[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 raging, divine might, 1 5th, 1 4th, 4 1st level slots arcane strike, bracers and gets 50." [1d20=20]
[23:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 raging, divine might, 1 5th, 1 4th, 4 1st level slots arcane strike, bracers crit check
06[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 raging, divine might, 1 5th, 1 4th, 4 1st level slots arcane strike, bracers crit check and gets 46." [1d20=16]
[23:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 raging, divine might, 1 5th, 1 4th, 4 1st level slots arcane strike, bracers
06[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 raging, divine might, 1 5th, 1 4th, 4 1st level slots arcane strike, bracers and gets 43." [1d20=18]
[23:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 raging, divine might, 1 5th, 1 4th, 4 1st level slots arcane strike, bracers
06[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 raging, divine might, 1 5th, 1 4th, 4 1st level slots arcane strike, bracers and gets 42." [1d20=17]
[23:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 raging, divine might, 1 5th, 1 4th, 4 1st level slots arcane strike, bracers
06[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 raging, divine might, 1 5th, 1 4th, 4 1st level slots arcane strike, bracers and gets 29." [1d20=9]
[23:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 raging, divine might, 1 5th, 1 4th, 4 1st level slots arcane strike, bracers
06[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 raging, divine might, 1 5th, 1 4th, 4 1st level slots arcane strike, bracers and gets 28." [1d20=8]
[23:04] <Kotono> OOC: 3 hits, 1 crit too.
[23:05] <Alicia> roll 1d8+21+2d6+1d6+13d4
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+21+2d6+1d6+13d4 and gets 67." [1d8=7][2d6=2, 4][1d6=2][13d4=2, 3, 2, 4, 1, 1, 3, 4, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3]
[23:05] <Alicia> roll 1d8+21+2d6+1d6+13d4
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+21+2d6+1d6+13d4 and gets 68." [1d8=8][2d6=2, 6][1d6=2][13d4=3, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4, 2, 1, 1, 3, 4, 1, 3]
[23:05] <Alicia> roll 1d8+21+2d6+1d6+13d4
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+21+2d6+1d6+13d4 and gets 69." [1d8=8][2d6=1, 3][1d6=2][13d4=4, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 1, 3, 3, 3, 2]
[23:05] <Alicia> roll 2d8+42+2d6+1d6+13d4
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d8+42+2d6+1d6+13d4 and gets 92." [2d8=4, 4][2d6=6, 1][1d6=6][13d4=2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 4, 4, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3]
[23:06] <Kotono> roll 67+68+69+92
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 67+68+69+92 and gets 296."
[23:06] <Kotono> roll 296-60
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 296-60 and gets 236."
[23:06] <Kotono> Alicia wounds the monstrosity beyond all compare! She rips it to shreds, tearing it's body in a dozen places! It's scorched by fire and maimed! Yet somehow it's cursed life clingss a little longer, as...
[23:06] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 53." [1d100=53]
[23:07] <Kotono> Yet another stray arrow comes flying!
[23:07] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
06[23:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 35." [1d20=15]
[23:07] <Kotono> This time, the dying molydeus deflects it with a snap of it's teeth, biting it in half! LAtha gawks for a moment, before going to advance in, striking the demon! OOC: It has reach, it gets an AoO.
[23:07] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28
06[23:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 and gets 46." [1d20=18]
[23:07] <Kotono> roll 3d6+14
06[23:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+14 and gets 19." [3d6=1, 2, 2]
[23:08] <Kotono> Latha takes an axeblow in the side, even as she charges!
[23:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
06[23:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 and gets 33." [1d20=8]
[23:08] <Alicia> OOC: save vs blindness, remember
[23:08] <Kotono> But her blow is blocked! The molydeus roars it's defiance as...
[23:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20
06[23:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 and gets 8." [1d20=8]
[23:08] <Kotono> OOC: +it's mod, which passes I think.
[23:08] <Kotono> OOC: +21, yes.
[23:08] <Kotono> OOC: 'deus is up.
[23:09] <Kotono> In a fury, the molydeus barks another quick word of obscene power! OOC: Will, -2, both of you. CL echeck against Latha's SR, which also gets Exalted spell resistance checking in.
[23:09] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
06[23:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 and gets 29." [1d20=10]
[23:09] <Kotono> OOC: Will -2, Alicia.
[23:10] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22
06[23:10] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 and gets 38." [1d20=16]
[23:10] <Kotono> Then, it's fury filled axe strikes come surging, even as it continues to heal obscenely fast!
[23:10] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28 tring to maim Alicia, it's pissed at her
06[23:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 tring to maim Alicia, it's pissed at her and gets 30." [1d20=2]
[23:10] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 43." [1d20=20]
[23:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 crit
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 crit and gets 32." [1d20=9]
[23:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 33." [1d20=15]
[23:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 27." [1d20=14]
[23:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 wolf bite
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 wolf bite and gets 27." [1d20=2]
[23:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 snake bite AC Alicia?
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 snake bite AC Alicia? and gets 30." [1d20=5]
[23:11] <Alicia> OOC: AC 35
[23:11] <Kotono> roll 1d6 attack one
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 attack one and gets 1." [1d6=1]
[23:11] <Kotono> OOC: No crit, at least. That means...1 hit.
[23:11] <Kotono> roll 3d6+14
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+14 and gets 29." [3d6=6, 5, 4]
[23:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21
06[23:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 and gets 37." [1d20=16]
[23:12] <Alicia> OOC: MI, remember
[23:12] <Alicia> OOCL oh, wait
[23:12] <Kotono> Alicia gets an axe in the stomach for her troubles, but manages to block a strike that would've severed her left arm clean off! Meanwhile..
[23:12] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[23:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 62." [1d100=62]
[23:12] <Kotono> The ground near Alicia cracks, starting ot give way to lava! OOCL Antenora's up!.
[23:13] <Kotono> Shuddering, seeing Alicia in trouble, Antenora girds all she has left! With a cry, she charges the molydeus head on!
[23:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+33 (+16 bonuses including smite and stuff, -4 PA)
06[23:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+33 (+16 bonuses including smite and stuff, -4 PA) and gets 41." [1d20=8]
[23:13] <Kotono> roll 2d8+1d6+46
06[23:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+1d6+46 and gets 56." [2d8=2, 6][1d6=2]
[23:14] <Kotono> That, on the wings of a desperate chargte, is finally enough! The molydeus falls, knocked down and over! Antenora shudders all over after, as her severed leg continues to bleed on the ground. "Are...you okay?" she asks Alicia in shudders, tears coming from her eyes.
[23:16] <Alicia> "Forget me!" Alicia blurts out, quickly moving away from the crumbling ground and grabbing Antenora's seperated leg. "Lie down!" she instructs, pointing to a section of ground that seems reasonably safe and unbloodied. "Latha, keep anyone else off of us!" She needs to do this quickly while the adrenaline's flowing - once her fury wears off she'll be even more of an easy target.
[23:16] <Kotono> Antenora lies down, shaking horribly. Meanwhile, LAtha goes to do that, just as a soaring warrior on the wings of magic approaches her!
[23:17] <Kotono> OOC: Goin to roll out a round in #evil between the two real quick.
06[23:18] * Alicia grabs Antenora's leg and braces it against where the jagged and bloody stump where it used to belong. "This works for trolls, it should work for us, here!" she reassures her friend, using her spellfire to speed the process as Ysgard's natural properties hopefully do their job.
[23:18] <Alicia> roll 9d4+9
06[23:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 9d4+9 and gets 29." [9d4=2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 2, 3]
[23:19] <Kotono> The healing mends the gap between the leg and body, attaching it weakly! Meanwhile, Latha swings at the red haired man, missing! In retort, he casts a spell, a thing reen ray hitting Latha! Much of her body simply vanishes, leaving her utterly devastated! OOC: 99 damage to Latha.
[23:20] <Kotono> "T-thanks," Antenora says, flexing her leg very slightly. "I think it's on."
[23:20] <Alicia> "No time to rest," Alicia glances in Latha's direction, her eyes widening as she scoops up her blade and stands up. "Latha's in trouble!"
[23:21] <Alicia> "Keep to the air, don't put any weight on it!" she tells Antenora, preparing a spell.
[23:21] <Kotono> OOC: Initiative. You two roll, I'll ad you into it.
03[23:21] * Kotono changes topic to 'Latha(18)>Spellman(17)'
[23:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7
06[23:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 and gets 19." [1d20=12]
03[23:21] * Kotono changes topic to 'Alicia=Latha(19)>Spellman(18)'
[23:21] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
06[23:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 24." [1d20=19]
03[23:21] * Kotono changes topic to 'Antenora>Alicia=Latha(19)>Spellman(18)'
[23:21] <Kotono> Antenora takes to the air, charging the impudant man! "Latha!"
[23:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 (+5 bonuses, -6 PA)
06[23:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 (+5 bonuses, -6 PA) and gets 34." [1d20=15]
[23:22] <Kotono> roll 2d8+46
06[23:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+46 and gets 55." [2d8=4, 5]
[23:22] <Kotono> IT's a deep wound into his stomach, catching him offguard! OOC: Alicia and Latha.
[23:22] <Kotono> Latha shudders but retorts by swinging hard at him!
[23:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[23:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 43." [1d20=20]
[23:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[23:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 25." [1d20=7]
[23:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[23:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 32." [1d20=19]
[23:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 crit check
06[23:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 crit check and gets 28." [1d20=5]
[23:23] <Kotono> roll 3d8+36
06[23:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d8+36 and gets 45." [3d8=2, 6, 1]
[23:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 fort
06[23:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 fort and gets 12." [1d20=1]
[23:23] <Kotono> Clubbing him twice hard in retort, the man is brained badly and stunned!
[23:23] <Kotono> roll 1d6 OOC: Alicia, you're up.
06[23:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 OOC: Alicia, you're up. and gets 6." [1d6=6]
[23:23] <Alicia> OOC: how high in the air is he?
[23:23] <Kotono> OOC: 10 feet up, not very.
06[23:24] * Alicia rushes after her friends, jumping up to slice Hell Striker through him in passing before she lands on the other side!
[23:25] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 -7pa, charging
06[23:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 -7pa, charging and gets 20." [1d20=2]
[23:25] <Kotono> Alicia charges, but despite it all she can't quite land a blow! However, the man is stunned, Antenora swinging fast!
[23:25] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[23:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 37." [1d20=14]
[23:25] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[23:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 36." [1d20=18]
[23:25] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[23:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 16." [1d20=3]
[23:26] <Kotono> With two more stabs, the man collapses down, slain! Thus the battle rages on, as your wounds heal as you fight thanks to Ysgard's powers. OOC: FUll HP, more.
[23:27] <Kotono> Sunset. At last. After a day of battle and carnage, it's nearly sunset. Only afew stay standing, the elite of the elite. Battles are starting to slacken, the last rays of the day lingering. You stand in the center of the crater, no ome immediately around. Youv'e almost made it. But then..."I applaud your bravery and skill!" Strength of Light's voice booms down from above. "In a few moments, the dya's battle will end! You've impressed me, surviv
[23:27] <Kotono> "In a few moments, the dya's battle will end! You've impressed me, surviving your first grand melee! But...can you survive until the very end?"
[23:28] <Alicia> "Our last opponent is you?" Alicia asks with a feral grin, readying her blade.
[23:29] <Kotono> Antenora holds an arm where an old wound once was. "Almost..." she sighs out, looking drained. Latha looks utterly exhausted. But Strenght of Light grins. "Your goal is to survive until sunset! It's not much longer...can you withstand a shard of my wrath?" With that, he is on you like a bullet!
[23:29] <Kotono> OOC: Initiative.
[23:29] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 Antenora
06[23:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 Antenora and gets 24." [1d20=19]
[23:29] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 Latha
06[23:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 Latha and gets 22." [1d20=14]
[23:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7
06[23:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 and gets 25." [1d20=18]
[23:29] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 Strenght of Light
06[23:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 Strenght of Light and gets 30." [1d20=19]
03[23:29] * Kotono changes topic to 'Strength of Light>Alicia>Antenora>Latha'
[23:29] <Kotono> OOC: We'll resume tomorrow with that throw down.
[23:29] <Alicia> OOC: exciting~

Corwin · March 28, 2012, 07:21:31 AM

[20:41] <Kotono> The blow cuts through Latha's defenses like water and tissue paper! The impact hits Lath aright in the chest, sending her reeling back 20 feet! The sound dominates the battlefield, fault lines and cracks appearing in all the black volcanic rock you stand on! LIttle burbles of magma gush out, stirred up! OOC: Alicia?
[20:42] <Kotono> "Ugh!" Latha finally stops her wild ride back, balancing back with a hand on the ground. "Such strength. Careful, everyone!"
[20:44] <Alicia> "Don't hold anything back!" Alicia yells, whether to her friends or her foe doesn't really matter. She needs to know if Strength of Light has what it takes to prepare them for Esthan, and she has no intention of giving him an easy ride.
[20:44] <Alicia> "Kossuth, I call! Lend your servants to my aid!" she gestures upwards as several small fire elementals crawl out of the furnace all around the larger deva, intent on distracting him from Latha!
[20:44] <Alicia> roll 1d4+1
06[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+1 and gets 4." [1d4=3]
[20:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 aid another AC for Latha
06[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 aid another AC for Latha and gets 19." [1d20=14]
[20:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 aid another AC for Latha
06[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 aid another AC for Latha and gets 9." [1d20=4]
[20:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 aid another AC for Latha
06[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 aid another AC for Latha and gets 7." [1d20=2]
[20:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 aid another AC for Latha
06[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 aid another AC for Latha and gets 16." [1d20=11]
[20:45] <Alicia> OOC: +4 AC for her vs SoL for next round
03[20:46] * Alicia changes topic to 'Strength of Light>Alicia=Elementals(4)>Antenora>Latha'
[20:46] <Kotono> The fire elementals swarm around, shielding Latha from harm! "Oh, I won't!" Strenght of Light grins, as the evening sun continues to set! Antenora springs into action, charging Strenght of Light outright! She screams like a wild woman, putting all her power into it!
[20:46] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 (+2 charge, +2 weapon, -4 PA)
06[20:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 (+2 charge, +2 weapon, -4 PA) and gets 23." [1d20=2]
[20:48] <Kotono> Strength of Light barely moves, the Black Horn Spear deflecting away from him of it's own accord! A moment later, Latha huffs in air, defending herself for the moment! OOC: Latha's protecting herself after being hit really hard. Strength of Light is up.
[20:49] <Kotono> To Antenora Strength of Light turns, a powerful blow going for her! "Endure this!" He says, as the last rays of dusklight begin to slip away!
[20:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30 (-10 PA)
06[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30 (-10 PA) and gets 43." [1d20=13]
[20:49] <Kotono> roll 2d8+60
06[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+60 and gets 62." [2d8=1, 1]
[20:51] <Kotono> Antenora is knocked back like a pinball, sent flying twenty feet away in the air end over end! Meanwhile, his gaze travels to Alicia. "Do you think mere images are enough to stop me," he asks, as abruptly, a great geyser of lava erupts out around Alicia, reaching to the heavens, hundreds of feet tall, like a spike of lava pounded out from below! OOC: Ref save, Alicia?
[20:51] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 I don't even have MI up but ok
06[20:51] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 I don't even have MI up but ok and gets 20." [1d20=4]
[20:52] <Kotono> OOC: I'll rework his line, for some reason I was sure you did. Must've...oh, I see what I did. Okay.
[20:52] <Kotono> Antenora is knocked back like a pinball, sent flying twenty feet away in the air end over end! Meanwhile, his gaze travels to Alicia. "Do you think you can stop me," he asks, as abruptly, a great geyser of lava erupts out around Alicia, reaching to the heavens, hundreds of feet tall, like a spike of lava pounded out from below! OOC: Ref save, Alicia?
[20:52] <Kotono> roll 20d6 no, you didn't pass the saves. Ref saves are not your goo dday today.
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 20d6 no, you didn't pass the saves. Ref saves are not your goo dday today. and gets 65." [20d6=1, 4, 3, 1, 4, 5, 5, 4, 6, 1, 4, 1, 3, 4, 1, 5, 6, 2, 3, 2]
[20:53] <Kotono> The lava flies up around Alicia, engulfing her in a burning inferno that reaches to the sky itself! Lava surrounds her on all sides! OOC: You're effectively immersed in lava at the moment. You're also up.
[20:55] <Alicia> She wanted to test his responses to some of her more potent spells, but she can hardly cast will burning to death in red hot lava. With a scream of mixed pain and fervour, she comes careening out of the geyser and straight at Strength of Light, her summoned minions doing their bit to distract him as she stabs out!
[20:55] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 elemental aid another to hit
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 elemental aid another to hit and gets 16." [1d20=11]
[20:55] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 elemental aid another to hit
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 elemental aid another to hit and gets 25." [1d20=20]
[20:55] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 elemental aid another to hit
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 elemental aid another to hit and gets 13." [1d20=8]
[20:55] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 elemental aid another to hit
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 elemental aid another to hit and gets 21." [1d20=16]
[20:56] <Alicia> roll 1d20+40 divine might, 5th level arcane strike, raging, +8 aid another, -4 power attack
06[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+40 divine might, 5th level arcane strike, raging, +8 aid another, -4 power attack and gets 53." [1d20=13]
[20:57] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[20:57] <Alicia> roll 1d8+34+5d4
06[20:57] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+34+5d4 and gets 47." [1d8=5][5d4=2, 1, 1, 1, 3]
[20:58] <Kotono> roll 1d3 rounds for continued half damage, will apply on SoL's turns
06[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d3 rounds for continued half damage, will apply on SoL's turns and gets 2." [1d3=2]
03[20:58] * Kotono changes topic to 'LAVA(2 rounds Alicia)=Strength of Light>Alicia=Elementals(4)>Antenora>Latha'
[20:58] <Alicia> OOC: that was a charge as well, so -2 AC
[21:01] <Kotono> Charging past, Alicia feels a powerful force as she swings! It strives to deflect her blade, Strength of Light turning! HE locks eyes with Alicia, her blade nearly knocked aside! But with one more feral cry, she slashes it into him! It leave a wound on his arm, brought up at the last moment to protect his chest! "Well, I'll be the spawn of a succubus," he murmurs in wonder. OOC: Antenora's up.
[21:03] <Kotono> Antenora jets away from Strenght of Light in a breeze, before coming back with another charge, despite her crushed ribs!
[21:03] <Alicia> "I hit you," Alicia grimaces. It was hard, but she did it. Objectively she marks that as a superior strike to the one she tried on Esthan, and she had help, but... "That puts the fiend I'm after above you."
[21:03] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 (+4 bonuses)
06[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 (+4 bonuses) and gets 35." [1d20=10]
[21:04] <Kotono> Antenora charges, but Strength of Light holds his hand up! The tip of her spear jerks away, as he focuses on Alicia, Latha hanging back and circling around his flank! "I prefer to value offense." With a smirk to her, "Defense isn't my strongest suit. Let's see if you'r still talking like that after this!" With that, Strenght of Light assaults Alicia!
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30 (-10 PA) Alicia
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30 (-10 PA) Alicia and gets 39." [1d20=9]
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 (-10 PA) Alicia
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 (-10 PA) Alicia and gets 27." [1d20=2]
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 Antenora
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 Antenora and gets 21." [1d20=1]
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 Antenora
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 Antenora and gets 19." [1d20=4]
[21:05] <Kotono> roll 2d8+60 Alicia owwies
06[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+60 Alicia owwies and gets 71." [2d8=7, 4]
[21:05] <Alicia> OOC: AC 25
[21:06] <Kotono> roll 2d8+60 Alicia owwies x2, I thought your AC was higher
06[21:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+60 Alicia owwies x2, I thought your AC was higher and gets 68." [2d8=2, 6]
[21:06] <Alicia> OOC: raging and charging take their toll
[21:07] <Kotono> OOC: Oh yes, and save vs stun. Fort.
[21:07] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 and gets 28." [1d20=6]
[21:07] <Kotono> roll 1d6 yeah, the ave is str based and he has lots of it
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 yeah, the ave is str based and he has lots of it and gets 3." [1d6=3]
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 10d6 lava too
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 lava too and gets 35." [10d6=4, 2, 4, 5, 3, 6, 2, 3, 2, 4]
[21:09] <Kotono> Alicia is hit twice in the chest! The pair of blows send her flying back fourty feet, utterly dazed, confused and dying! Her mind is nearly blank, vision blinded with blood and pain! Yet she feels courage welling in her, keeping her hanging on the cusp of life! OOC: Alicia, you're stunned. Elementals?
[21:10] <Alicia> As Alicia staggers dazedly in the background, the elementals assail Strength of Light, distracting him so Antenora can survive his attacks!
[21:10] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 aid another AC for Anty
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 aid another AC for Anty and gets 23." [1d20=18]
[21:10] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 aid another AC for Anty
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 aid another AC for Anty and gets 20." [1d20=15]
[21:10] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 aid another AC for Anty
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 aid another AC for Anty and gets 17." [1d20=12]
[21:10] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 aid another AC for Anty
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 aid another AC for Anty and gets 25." [1d20=20]
[21:10] <Alicia> OOC: +8 AC for her
[21:10] <Kotono> Antenora stands there, healing fury restoring Alicai as she fights defensively at him!
[21:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 (+2 weapon, -4 fighting defensively)
06[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 (+2 weapon, -4 fighting defensively) and gets 32." [1d20=13]
[21:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
06[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 20." [1d20=6]
[21:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9
06[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 25." [1d20=16]
[21:11] <Kotono> She can't land a blow, each attack deflected away! At that, Latha charges a moment later!
[21:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 chaaarge
06[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 chaaarge and gets 38." [1d20=13]
[21:11] <Kotono> But this blow comes for naught as well, stopped! And then...as Alicia burns...
[21:11] <Kotono> roll 10d6
06[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 and gets 35." [10d6=5, 2, 3, 3, 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 1]
[21:13] <Alicia> OOC: oh, +2 on my fort save, forgot raging. Doubt it helps if his str mod is +15 and he has a ton of hd, though
[21:14] <Kotono> The last rays of dusk vanish! "CEASE!" Strenght of Light bellows, "For the day has passed!" IN her daze, Alicia can faintly hear cheering, then...warm hands on her. Warm hands healing her, banishing her agonies. OOC: HP restored, Alicia. "You're as tough as a steel golem and as persistent as a ghost." Strength of Light says, at her side, mending her. "Come, it is time to feast and be merry, then we shall talk of matters."
06[21:17] * Alicia nods tiredly, wiping some of the caked on magma from her face... "And you're as strong as a titan, and tough as an adamantine golem," she returns with a crooked grin. That was one of her better strikes, and neither Antenora nor Latha could touch him. Speaking of those two, she looks over to see how they fare.
[21:17] <Kotono> Antenora approaches, Latha as well. They lean on each other, shoulder to shoulder. "Celestia's light, you are fierce," Latha praises. "Let us celebrate, yes. You must be famished, Alicia."
[21:18] <Kotono> "Yes, yes I am," Strenght of Light laughs, "Yes, come! Food, drink and celebration under the night sky!"
[21:19] <Alicia> "Starved!" Alicia agrees with a nod. "A bath would also be lovely, but food first!" she starts moving back to camp. "By Mystra, Antenora..." she looks sidelong at the erinyes. "I can't believe you killed that demon while your leg was off. How's it feeling?"
[21:20] <Kotono> "Fine. I'm healing back already," She grins, going to stagger over. Latha leans on Alicia's left shoulder, Antenora her right. Both look bone-exhausted. "How'd you take both of his hits, lava and not collapse into death? Is till don't believe my eyes."
[21:21] <Alicia> "I warded myself against fire, so the lava wasn't worse than the odd fireball. As for Strength of Light's attacks... Hell Striker kept me going," Alicia pats her sword fondly. "Of course, he makes me more reckless and likely to take hits I wouldn't otherwise, so it evens out."
[21:22] <Kotono> "You felt the bravery of Ysgard and proved yourselves worthy," Strength of Light leads along, going to Antenora, helping her along as well. "I saw the battle against Zezzy. Impressive again."
[21:24] <Kotono> As you talk, ou find your way back to Strength of Light's tent. A few others are waiting there, battleworn heroes. A feast is laid out here, roasted meat and mead, giant fruits and cool ale. Strength of Light sits at the head, tearing into a leg of mutton. "Come, feast with us!"
[21:25] <Alicia> Putting her blade back in its harness, Alicia leans to Antenora briefly. "It'd be rude to refuse," she whispers to the erinyes before they approach the table and she grabs the limb of some cooked beast and bites into it, utterly famished.
[21:27] <Kotono> Antenora just smiles, whispering back into Alicia's ear, "It's fine. Somehow...it feels right here." She sits next to Alicia, the party feasting! Antenora eats a fair bit, and also has a few thick glasses of mead. Latha nibbles a little, before looking to Strength of Light for a few moments, who just laughs and waves towards the door. In Alicia's mind, 'I'll return shortly, there's something I want to see. I don't require food, anyway.'
[21:27] <Kotono> there's something I want to see. I don't require food, anyway.'
[21:28] <Alicia> 'You'll know where we are,' Alicia sends back agreeably, happy to eat and sing and drink and swap tales of battles fought with her boon companions!
[21:29] <Kotono> The drink is strong, the food good. After perhaps an hour of this, Alicia feels good all over. A bit drunk, but loud and boisterous. Antenora seems to be acting the same way, joining in as songs of war and courage are sung. After these die down a bit, Strength of Light ambles on over to the two, Latha still gone. He goes to sit on the edge of the table next to them. "So you came here so you could get stronger, since a fiend needs killing?"
[21:29] <Kotono> "So you came here so you could get stronger, since a fiend needs killing?"
[21:32] <Kotono> "Yeah, he does." Antenora grabs a fork, making several stabbing motions into a bit of meat. "He's like the exemplar of too powerful, smug, irritating baatezu. I should know, too, and it still pisses me off. HE's all going long, like everything that's happening is part of some great, grand, convoluted plan."
[21:33] <Alicia> "Yes," Alicia turns grim. "A pit fiend, but no ordinary one. I've fought a Duke of Hell once, and I've no doubt this Pit Fiend could chew that duke up for breakfast. An archmage, but from how he dodged my blade and the capabilities of a normal pit fiend I've no doubt he'd be a terror in melee if he chose."
[21:33] <Alicia> Slamming her tankard irritably on the table, "Never have we been so horribly outmatched by a foe - I only live because he wants our spirit broken so we'll serve him."
[21:34] <Kotono> "That's right!" Antenora agrees, grabbing another mug and drinking from it, before mimicing Alicia's motion. "I mean, it's absurd. Fiends are powerful, but only the strongest also have those capacities. How the hell does a pit fiend who's also an archmage get senta fter us? Do they care about a little erinyes that much? Gee, you'd think I was Mephisto's daughter or something."
[21:36] <Kotono> "Well, I think you're quite worth chasing," Strength of Light looks to both of them, "Hell, if I were a pit fiend, I'd relocate to your pit-...er, but..." Laughing a little, "Anyway. I understand. So you're looking for someone to teach you how to fight more effectively? Well, let's see," he strokes his chin, "Antenora, you're all about charging and striking decisive blows? I saw the techniques of a Hellreaver from you. Alicia, you're a magic kn
[21:36] <Kotono> I saw the techniques of a Hellreaver from you. Alicia, you're a magic knight? Interesting style. Where'd you learn it? The double sword, arcane fires and armor is an interesting combination."
[21:38] <Kotono> "That's right," Antenora admits, "I don't have any magic or innate magic like most outsiders do, just a smidge that isn't very useful. I lost what I had from Hell when I chose to end that chapter of my existance. So it's all about attacking for me now."
[21:38] <Alicia> "The double-sword is the famous weapon of my homeland, Kelara!" Alicia announces boldly, letting his come on pass with naught more than a smile. "As for the blend of magic and divine, that's mostly self taught, and granted by Mystra's blessings."
[21:40] <Kotono> "I can help both of you." He declares, raising a mug up. Cheers fill the tent at that! "The angel as well, she'll be the simplest. She's a bit better than the average Astral Deva, but she fights exactly the same as an average one."
06[21:42] * Alicia raises her mug in a cheer as well. "I knew coming here was a good idea!" she proclaims. "Next time Esthan won't know what hit him!"
[21:43] <Kotono> Antenora joins it, before draining her mug. She laughs then, "Wasn't it? I love it when you have good ideas, Alicia! It always leads me somewhere better." Going to knock mugs with her, clattering side to side, "Got any more good ones while you're at it?"
[21:45] <Kotono> "We'll begin in the morning. Whatever battle starts in the morning, don't join it," Strength of Light stands, "I'll get the rest of it out of you then. Be in this tent instead. Now then, I'm going to go take a walk," Stretching as he stands, "Either of you like to join me? The view at the mountaintop is absolutely epic."
[21:46] <Alicia> Noting that Antenora seems rather tipsy, Alicia gets up. "Some fresh air might do us some good," she agrees. "Then we should probably find a bath. We're absolutely filthy!" It'll take a few mending cantrips to fix up her burn-ravaged clothes as well.
[21:47] <Kotono> "Ah, I can show you a bath on the way," With a growing smirk as he stands, Strength of Light heads out. Antenora stands, wobbling a little bit. "Maybe it would, but I feel so good already," Antenora grins, starting to follow him. "As long as it's not that fjord again. Brrr."
[21:48] <Alicia> "We're on top of a volcano. There's bound to be a hot spring somewhere," Alicia nods, stretching as she heads out of the tent.
[21:50] <Kotono> Deepening her voice into a rumble as they head out, "And I have a hot spring going on now," Antenora imitates in a faux-male voice. That sends her into a tizzy of giggles, nearly doubling over.
[21:51] <Alicia> "You are smashed," Alicia takes Antenora's arm to steady her, shaking her head. "We should find a way to get you immune to poison again..." She's a little merry herself, but nowhere near as bad as Antenora seems.
[21:52] <Kotono> "Well, I tried! It seemed like a good idea!" Antenora puts her hands on her hips after she balances. "I'm sure Marie will tell me it was just what I needed! Well, that or the bath with you coming up..." Tapping her chin, "Hey Alicia!" She leans in, whispering to her, "You'd never guess what people say sometimes!"
06[21:54] * Alicia sense Strength of Light a long suffering look and shrugs. "What do they say, Antenora?" she enunciates.
[21:56] <Alicia> sends*
[21:57] <Kotono> "Well," Whispering a littlet oo loudly to Alicia, "That we like each other a lot! Like Marie likes me and you!" Now with a bit of a curious, confused scowl, "It doens't make sense! If Iw anted that, I'd have seduced you when I was trying to corrupt you! Can't two women just be friends? Do people think Demedais and Eudard or Donald and Oberuth are like that if they're seen together?"
03[21:58] * Taishyr is now known as taiFUD
[21:59] <Kotono> Strength of Light smiles despite it all, "Come, walk and talk. People see the bonds of friendship and friendly love between you. I heard you cry that you were fighting to protect Alicia. Innocent mistake for mortals that don't know better to make."
06[21:59] * Alicia sighs. "I think it's just wishful thinking on their part," she replies, giving Strength of Light an amused look.
[22:01] <Kotono> "If we were the wishful ones, it would at least work a lot better," Antenora follows along, clinging close to Alicia. "I'd rather call you...mmm." Antenora thinks, rolling her eyes up, "I'd call you Mother. I'd call you Sister. I'd all you my best friend. I'd call you the person I'd die for. But that doesn't mean I want you!" Rolling her eyes, she stops, "Then again...it's not fair. I bet if we were lovers, you'd open up to me more!" Antenora e
[22:01] <Kotono> "Then again...it's not fair. I bet if we were lovers, you'd open up to me more!" Antenora eyes Alicia. "I was just telling Marie how I wished you'd let me in closer."
[22:05] <Alicia> Alicia's eyes widen in alarm at the horrible, horrible turn that this conversation has taken. "Who can say what might have been?" she pushes the clingy erinyes off a little. "And we're very close already - you're my best friend, Antenora! You shouldn't worry about me not being open enough."
[22:06] <Kotono> "Yes, but it huuurts. It hurts when you won't let me get closer. Alicia, I wanted to comfort you that night. You were so hurt and so sad, but you went on alone and kept it inside again. It's really not fair...you saved me from Hell and I can't save you back."
[22:08] <Kotono> Strength of Light starts to speak a few times, shaking his head and laughing. "Alicia, I can cur eher drunkenness if you'd like."
06[22:11] * Alicia despairs as she can only imagine what their prospective teacher is making of all of this. The mortification has some effect of removing her merry state, at least. "She'd just be embarrassed... look, Antenora," she takes the erinyes by the shoulders, "Really, I don't need to be saved."
[22:11] <Alicia> "You're a good friend and your... steadfast and dignified, presence is a great comfort to me in times of stress. I'll... I'll try to be less remote in future if it causes you pain, though."
[22:12] <Alicia> She never thought a devil, former or otherwise, would be more touchy-feely than her, though...
[22:13] <Kotono> "I just don't want you to be alone and sad. You've lost so much in your life," Antenora looks into Alicia's eyes, "That's all. You've lost so much and given me so much in return. I know I say it a lot, but...I can never repay you for changing me. Never. I'm happier every day than I was for all 600 years I spent in Hell. I just..." She shakes her head, wobbling a little again. "I just want to repay that."
[22:15] <Alicia> "You do! Your friendship is more than enough payment!" Alicia affirms. "Look, you've had a lot to drink and it's been a long day. How about I put up a tent and you can get some sleep, okay?" she suggests soothingly, wanting the normal Antenora back.
[22:16] <Kotono> "But I wanted to go to the bath with you," Antenora looks up at Alicia. "But maybe that's a good idea, too. You always have good ideas."
[22:17] <Alicia> "We can get cleaned up in the morning, when you're feeling better," Alicia reassures, looking for an empty spot she could set up a tent nearby.
[22:18] <Kotono> There's empty spots about the sea of tents. Alicia can get one without difficulty. Strength of Light glides up to Alicia at this, "I'd like to talk to you a moment before you lie down now, if you're going to sleep with h...I mean, go to...If you're going to rest now instead of coming along."
[22:21] <Alicia> "I'm just going to put her to bed," Alicia confirms, using her survival pouch to put up a tent which she then guides Antenora into. "There, you can lie down here and sleep and no one will bother you," she carols soothingly. "I'll even leave Hell Striker with you to make sure of it, okay?"
[22:22] <Kotono> "Alright." Antenora lies down on command, stopping to remove her armor. Lying in her undergarments now, she looks up to Alicia before closing her eyes. "Good night, Alicia."
[22:23] <Alicia> "Good night," Alicia smiles, putting a waterskin beside her sword in the tent a few feet from the prone erinyes. "Drink that when you wake up - Hell Striker, you remind her as well, she'll be dehydrated."
[22:24] <Kotono> "Okay." Antenora yawns wide before settling, "Have a good time with him..." She seems to fall asleep after that, breathing becoming regular and slow, no more comments following.
[22:25] <Alicia> Closing the tent as she withdraws, Alicia turns to Strength of Light with some embarrassment. "She doesn't eat or drink much at all, so I suppose it hit her harder than it should've," she explains apologetically.
[22:27] <Kotono> "It's fine. The fact that she's risen from the Hells excuses any gaps in behavior. That's how a risen fiend thinks and feels, hm? No wonder. Every warrior that's been seduced to evil would kill to be in your position." Still chuckling low, Strength of Light leads to a little side cave, a path starting to ascend. "Then again, I wonder. All the ballads of love overcoming all, but I've never really seen proof of a fiend changing for love. Strange,
[22:27] <Kotono> but I've never really seen proof of a fiend changing for love. Strange, isn't it?"
[22:31] <Alicia> "I suppose one might change their behaviour to please the one they love, but when love fades or their lover dies there's nothing to hold them in check?" Alicia muses, falling in step with the deva.
[22:31] <Alicia> "I once met a succubus that seemed quite fond of me, and even helped me escape the Abyss, but it was clear neither of us had any interest in changing to suit the other... it was an altogether odd experience," she concludes thoughtfully, wondering how G'Renna's doing now. She both hopes that the succubus is well and that they never meet again.
[22:34] <Kotono> "You have a strange, strange life." Strength of Light looks askance at Alicia. "You have an erinyes and a succubus throwing themselves at you and yet..." He shakes her head. "Do you worship Sharess as well as Mystra, or perhaps Sune? But still, risen fiends are so rare regardless of cause."
[22:36] <Alicia> "It wasn't so fun when a Radiant Sister locked me in its cheerfully named 'rape-room'," Alicia snorts. "Fortunately I escaped with my virtue intact. To be honest I never really had much time for Sune, but recently I developed a new appreciation for Her and consider Her fondly. Mystra is the one I'm devoted to, though."
[22:38] <Kotono> You walk up and up and up a sharp slope. As you do, the light very dim save for a radiance around Strength of Light, "She's lucky to have you. You're a skilled warrior, a brave soul, and a gorgeous woman."
[22:40] <Alicia> "Well, I don't think the Mother of all Magic really cares about my looks," Alicia chuckles as she climbs up. "But your compliment is well taken."
[22:46] <Kotono> Strength of Light laughs very loud and very long. As you come to a path, taking the left branch away and downward. "This way," h e says, laughter in his voice, just barely held back.
[22:49] <Alicia> "You're very easily amused, Strength of Light," Alicia opines with a faint smile as she walks along. "It's a good thing you nearly beat me to death, or I might not take you seriously."
[22:51] <Kotono> "Your life is best enjoyed. There is no time for cowardice and fear." He leads along a few more minutes, coming to a cavern filled with steam. A small hot spring is here, water bubbling up. "LIfe is to be enjoyed long and fully, with the blessings of the light." He looks right to Alicia as he says that. "Being good doesn't mean you can't have fun."
[22:56] <Alicia> "Oh, certainly," Alicia agrees, looking over the water. "But I came here to learn to fight, not to enjoy a vacation. Besides, considering what you did to my hand when you introduced yourself, your idea of fun might snap me in half," she concludes dryly, a smirk tugging at her lips.
[22:57] <Kotono> With his own smirk, "I can be very gentle when I need to be. Besides," He looks over the spring, it's waters warm and steamy, "Baths are boring alone."
06[23:02] * Alicia is... slightly tempted. Just a little. It's not the perverse sexual lust that a certain succubus inspired, but he is very handsome, and does make for intriguing company. Still, even if she was interested she's not the type to do this with a man she just met. "Perhaps they are, but it wouldn't be appropriate if I'm going to be your student," she demurs with a smile to take the sting out.
[23:04] <Kotono> "I thought you'd say that," He crosses his arms there, "You radiate personality and charisma, and are lovely for a mortal. Yet you come off as chaste from what I see." Despite that, he looks pleasantly amused. "Perhaps to celebrate when you are no longer my student?" He turns away, going to stand just outside of in the hall. OOC: Anyway, skip along now?
[23:05] <Alicia> OOC: sure
[23:06] <Kotono> The next morning, the three women gather in Strength of Light's tent. Antenora looks a little red eyed but otherwise okay. Latha is serene and calm, waiting. Outside you can hear a din of battle, Strength of Light not here yet.
06[23:07] * Alicia is polite enough not to embarrass Antenora by mentioning any of her indiscretions of the previous evening. As far as she's concerned it never happened! "Did you find what you were looking for last night, Latha?" she asks the deva.
[23:07] <Kotono> "Yes. I apologize for not coming back," A nod of her head downward to Alicia, "I tarried in the cold waters below."
[23:08] <Kotono> Antenora smothers a yawn in her hand, rubbing the bridge of her nose and her temple. "You didn't miss anything," she says wearily.
06[23:09] * Alicia nods agreeably. "It was a nice evening, but nothing too exciting happened. You probably wouldn't want to sit around waiting while we slept, anyway. What were you doing in the water?"
[23:11] <Kotono> "Bathing, then enjoying the swimming further." Latha stretches out, "I found that I enjoyed it greatly." As she answers, Strength of Light answers, "Alright!" He booms, "Let's begin."
06[23:12] * Alicia perks up and regards Strength of Light, wondering what he'll have them doing today.
[23:13] <Kotono> "First, I'll have you answering questions. Alicia, if I ask it to none in particular, I'd like you to answer them." He says. "First, tell me about this fiend you're fighting. Tell me as much about his capacity as you can. Every ability, every spell, ever trick."
[23:16] <Alicia> "According to secondary sources he's a Pit Fiend, but that's unconfirmed," Alicia begins. "He always appears shapeshifted as a human. I've never seen him fight in melee but he easily dodged a sword-strike only a little less well done than the one I hit you with, yesterday."
[23:16] <Alicia> From there Alicia goes on to list all the spells she's seen or heard of Esthan using, and mentioned his ability to see through her invisibility despite her own anti-divination precautions.
[23:19] <Kotono> "A deadly adversary. What of your victories and defeats then? What are your mightiest victories? Your worst defeats? Have you ever been slain by a foe and brought back?"
[23:24] <Alicia> "My worst defeat was against Duke Agares of Stygia. He would have killed me if not for a potion of regeneration I'd drank beforehand - I've never actually died, though. My greatest victory..." she considers that a moment before speaking, discounting battles where she had too much help,
[23:24] <Alicia> "I'd say that was when I killed Shar's Champion on our world, Prince Kort, with a stick and no armour, while he was fully outfitted and wielding an artifact blade stolen from a friend of mine." That one never fails to bring a smile.
[23:25] <Kotono> "Such bravery and skill. What are the ballads written of you?" He considers that a short time, "All of you answer this. What are you afraid of? Answer honestly."
[23:26] <Kotono> Antenora bites down on her lips, blushing. "Failing myself, failing Alicia, or failing the people I care about. That or falling back into Hell."
[23:26] <Kotono> "That I grow weak or lax and allow evil to spread farther from my failure," Latha replies, steady.
[23:27] <Alicia> "Being powerless to protect myself and those I care about," Alicia replies, grimacing. "A fear that Esthan has made into stark reality."
[23:28] <Kotono> He considers this words again, "I've heard enough for now. Today, I will give each of you a task to complete. Antenora and Latha, leave. I will task Alicia first. Do not tell the others of you rtask, for it is unique to each of you."
06[23:28] * Alicia nods, staying where she is.

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[20:43] <Kokokokokoko> <Alicia> "I'd say that was when I killed Shar's Champion on our world, Prince Kort, with a stick and no armour, while he was fully outfitted and wielding an artifact blade stolen from a friend of mine." That one never fails to bring a smile.
[20:43] <Kokokokokoko> > "Such bravery and skill. What are the ballads written of you?" He considers that a short time, "All of you answer this. What are you afraid of? Answer honestly."
[20:43] <Kokokokokoko> > Antenora bites down on her lips, blushing. "Failing myself, failing Alicia, or failing the people I care about. That or falling back into Hell."
[20:43] <Kokokokokoko> > "That I grow weak or lax and allow evil to spread farther from my failure," Latha replies, steady.
[20:43] <Kokokokokoko> <Alicia> "Being powerless to protect myself and those I care about," Alicia replies, grimacing. "A fear that Esthan has made into stark reality."
[20:43] <Kokokokokoko> > He considers this words again, "I've heard enough for now. Today, I will give each of you a task to complete. Antenora and Latha, leave. I will task Alicia first. Do not tell the others of you rtask, for it is unique to each of you."
[20:43] <Kokokokokoko> * Alicia nods, staying where she is.
[20:44] <Kokokokokoko> Once Antenora and Latha are gone, "Give me your weapons," Strength of Light says. "The double sword and your backup longsword."
06[20:46] * Alicia unclasps the sheath for the sword of the sealed gate and hands it over without complaint. She then removes Hell Striker from its baldric and offers it, "Careful, Hell Striker is an intelligent blade," she cautions. "He shouldn't give you any trouble, though."
[20:46] <Kokokokokoko> "I wouldn't have guessed. Most of them are on the chatty side," Both weapons are taken to the back of the tent, put down there. "What other magical artifacts and gear do you wear?" he continues on.
[20:51] <Alicia> "These boots make me run faster," Alicia raises a leg and taps her heel. "The bracers make me strike more quickly. This headband can be pulled over my eyes to grant blindsight. Belt and Cloak improve physical strength and strength of personality, respectively," she takes a breath before forging on.
[20:51] <Alicia> "Mithral armour, enchanted for durability and to ward against mortal blows - it also improves my ability to dispel magic. An amulet to toughen my skin, a ring to protect against paralysis and bindings, and another ring to protect against divinations - I can't take that last one off," she concludes.
[20:51] <Alicia> Looking thoughtful afterwards. "It takes a lot of magic for a human to match what so many creatures have naturally," she muses. "I also have a nondimensional space I use to carry other items around in. And a magic pouch that conjures food and basic travelling gear."
[20:53] <Kokokokokoko> "For a human to compete is difficult. Here, we are to get to the very beginnings of your skill." Coming forward, Strength of Light taps Alicia's head. "Big muscles aren't worth much if there's nothing but air to direct them. Besides the ring you can't take off, remove all your magical items and put them over in the back. Including your dimensional space, too."
[20:56] <Alicia> "Alright," Alicia smiles a bit, proceeding to remove all of the listed gear which is put inside her portable hole. Said hole is then folded up neatly and placed underneath Hell Striker. Wriggling her now bare toes, she stands expectantly before the deva.
[20:57] <Kokokokokoko> Handing a small pocketknife to Alicia, "Go out of this volcano. I want you to find a large branch about the size of a quarterstaff, then whittle it down into one. This will be something you'll be using, so do it with pride. When you have one you're proud of, return."
06[20:58] * Alicia tries to recall if she saw any woods nearby from the cave she passed through yesterday.
[20:59] <Kokokokokoko> Alicia does recall seeing what might've been trees as she plummeted down the waterfall. She'd have to go back out to the fjord and look.
[21:00] <Alicia> That was very very far away. Probably better to just fly up from here to get a good view and go from there. "I'll return then," she nods as she takes the pocketknife and heads out of the tent.
[21:03] <Kokokokokoko> "Oh, tell Antenora to come in here when you go out," STrength of Light calls.
[21:03] <Alicia> "Got it," Alicia nods, intending to do that.
[21:03] <Kokokokokoko> Antenora and Latha wait outside, watching the battle beyond the tents. Here two great forces collide again, battles erupting.
[21:03] <Alicia> "You're next, Antenora," Alicia tells the erinyes. "Good luck," she adds with a smile, casting Fly and promptly taking off to rise above the crater-rim and cast her view over the volcano slopes to see if she can see any handy trees.
[21:04] <Kokokokokoko> As Alicia goes, "Alicia, why aren't you wearing any armor or..." Antenora asks as Alicia takes off, but shrugs and heads inside. Flying up, Alicia takes to the air and ascends! It's cool today, winds blowing off the fjord with icy intensity. Outside of the warm enbrace of the crater, it's chilly. Taking her time and looking about, Alicia can see some trees on the far side of the fjord, dotting a bit of sloping land.
[21:08] <Alicia> Probably be a couple of hours to get there and back... Flying in that direction over the rim of the volcano, Alicia aims for an easy part of the slope to take on the way down once her spell ends, not really wanting to negotiate jagged rock and magma in her bare feet, bee-lining straight for the forest in question.
[21:12] <Kokokokokoko> Coming down, Alicia finds the best slope she can and begins to descend. The time passes as she walks...fortunately, despite some stubbs, cracks and general feet malaise, the fast healing of the realm keeps the injuries from being anything more than momentary irritations. It's perhaps noon(Hungry, Alicia is definetly getting hungry) as she reaches the fjord's water. Across water and glaciers is the forest, waiting on the far side. About,
[21:12] <Kokokokokoko> Across water and glaciers is the forest, waiting on the far side. About, a few gold and silver animals frolic about, while a large trout leaps in and out of the water a few times, fish scales like gleaming platinum.
06[21:14] * Alicia now wishes she'd had a bigger breakfast. She briefly considers killing and cooking a fish, but then she recalls that celestial animals are intelligent, which rapidly puts a stop to that line of thinking. On the plus side, if she's going swimming it's best not to have eaten beforehand, right?
[21:14] <Alicia> Casting a spell to inure herself to the cold, she wades into the water and starts to swim across to the other side.
[21:16] <Kokokokokoko> OOC: MAke a swim check in general to see where you end up?
[21:16] <Alicia> OOC: taking 10 for 16
[21:18] <Kokokokokoko> With long, overhead strokes, Alicia crosses the fjord! It's so freezing-cold across it, yet it doesn't bother Alicia at all now. After several minutes of swimming, Alicia comes over to the other side. Here, ahead, the trees can be seen. A few dozen of them, shady and cool amid the rising mountains.
[21:20] <Alicia> Hauling herself out of the water, Alicia shakes herself off a bit and wonders at the relative sparsity of woodland around here. But she's no ecologist so what does she know? Wandering amidst the trees, she decides to look for nuts and berries and edible mushrooms so she can prepare something of a lunch.
[21:21] <Alicia> OOC: taking 10 for 11 on survival, will cast detect poison on the gathered foods once done
[21:23] <Alicia> OOC: actually 13, since knowledge planes gives a synergy bonus
[21:23] <Kokokokokoko> Alicia finds some edible mushrooms and a large berry bush. They look like blueberries but taste like spicy-sweet fire. They aren't poisonous and make a very tasty meal.
[21:25] <Alicia> Now with her belly somewhat filled, Alicia starts looking for an appropriate branch, something 5-6 feet in length and a couple of inches around, and as straight as possible.
[21:26] <Kokokokokoko> As you look about, you find that all the sticks are either small or terribly curved. Not a single long, straight one, or anything close to long enough to serve Alicia! As she hunts around, she notices that a fox is watching her. It sits at the base of a tree, golden furried and with animal eyes following her every move.
[21:27] <Alicia> "Hello," Alicia greets the fox in celestial. It looks like the sort that a summon monster spell might produce.
[21:27] <Kokokokokoko> "Are you looking for a tree branch?" It asks, voice a collection of yips and yaps.
[21:29] <Alicia> "Yes!" Alicia replies brightly, hoping a local might be better able to help her. "A sturdy and straight one, about this long," she holds up her hand about face-height. "Have you seen any like that?"
[21:35] <Kokokokokoko> "Oh yes. Follow me, you won't find any here!" The fox takes off, hurrying along upward, past the trees and to a steep, rocky road ahead.
06[21:36] * Alicia happily jogs along after the fox, glad for the help. And very glad she didn't try to eat any adorable intelligent animals.
[21:40] <Kokokokokoko> You hurry up the mountains. The fox is quite fast, always keeping ahead of you, it's pace unrelenting. You job for perhaps an hour, until you come to where it's too steep to continue. However, at this point, there is a small cave entrance. The fox scurries on in. Alicia could follow if she wishes, though she'd need to get down and crawl on her hands and knees to fit in past the narrow entry.
[21:41] <Alicia> If she really has to she can always assume the form of a goblin or something similarly tiny, but hopefully that'll be unnecessary. "It doesn't get any narrower, does it?" she calls to the fox, getting down on the ground so she can crawl in.
[21:43] <Kokokokokoko> Alicia doesn't get a reply until after she crawls in. Despite a few healing scrapes, she wiggles in! Past it, the cave opens enough to be able to walk at a slouch! "This way!" The fox calls back, "Be careful!" Hurrying along, it vanishes ahead around a corner about 60 feet away.
[21:44] <Alicia> Careful for what? Hopefully just jagged rocks and nothing else, Alicia hopes as she straightens up a little to better move her legs and hurries onwards.
03[21:45] * Kokokokokoko is now known as Kotono
[21:47] <Kotono> Past the corner is a large cavern. It is filled head to toe with iron vines, full of sharp thorns. The fox runs around the ground, leaping through tiny gaps to proceed deeper into it! Passing through this barrier will be quite a difficult feat for someone Alicia's size, unless they desire to be torn apart and ripped by the thorns.
[21:50] <Alicia> Well, nothing much for it, then. "Wait a moment!" Alicia calls after the fox, hesitating as she casts a spell. A moment later she shrinks down to the size of a small child, albeit retaining her adult proportions. She briefly considers rolling up her sleeves and leggings but it's just not going to work - it's like wearing a tent.
[21:50] <Alicia> So she strips off, bundling her clothes up into a ball and then hurrying after the fox once more. It's not like an animal would care about her nudity, after all.
[21:50] <Alicia> OOC: alter self to gnome
[21:52] <Kotono> OOC: Make a tumble check, Alicia, say? +4 bonus.
[21:52] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 and gets 25." [1d20=6]
[21:54] <Kotono> Woosh! Alicia ducks! She rolls through a small hole between two vines, then lightly leaps over a few low hanging ones! She whirls and passes through, doing her damnest to pass through! Dozens of thorns come close, the tips of them occasionally brushing against her skin! The flesh is cut smoothly by the barest proximity, minor wounds bu tnothing more thanks to Alicia's speed, healing almost instantly! She reaches the other side! The fox is sixty
[21:54] <Kotono> healing almost instantly! She reaches the other side! The fox is sixty feet ahead, the path sloping up. It curves again around the corner, the fox calling, "It's this way! Hurry!" before vanishing behind the next corner.
06[21:55] * Alicia wonders just what the rush is, but supposes the fox is just impatient. Her shorter legs might be a difficulty on open ground, but down here it's quicker to run as a gnome than crawl as a human.
[22:00] <Kotono> Turning the corner, you see a strange slope indeed! It goes gently upwards! Every fifteen feet there are twenty foot wide patches of pure lava, boiling like a kettle over the flame! The walls and ceiling of each lava gap are decorated with frescoes of celestials and angels, engaged in some great celebratory battle. Alicia can almost hear the battlecries. The fox hops over each twenty foot wide gap with swift speed, running to the next and repe
[22:00] <Kotono> The fox hops over each twenty foot wide gap with swift speed, running to the next and repeating it. With good reason, for each 15 wide space between lava patches starts to sink as the fox lands on it, lava lapping over from the sinking side! But the fox is faster, making each hop in time! At the end, past the fourth gap is another corner, which the fox goes back after a look back. "Hurry!"
06[22:03] * Alicia is fairly out of practice at jumping, and her current stubby legs certainly won't help. Luckily the reason she's out of practice remains at her disposal, and a quick casting of Fly has her zipping after the fox above the lava!
[22:05] <Kotono> As Alicia passes through the first gap, the frescoes of the battling celestials break into song! The song is a song of bravery and courage, a powerful din all around her! OOC: Make a fort save?
[22:05] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 and gets 39." [1d20=17]
[22:06] <Kotono> Alicia zips through, the sound crashing like palpable forces behind her, but doing no harm to her at all!
[22:06] <Kotono> OOC: Sorry, meant to say ref. Hardly matters with your saves and a 17.
06[22:06] * Alicia lands on the far side and continues to run after the fox as only a nude gnome clutching a ball of crumpled clothing and a pocket-knife can!
[22:10] <Kotono> Alicia hurries along, past the next corner! Ahead is a long tunnel, narrow! All of it is taken up by a giant golden lion, roaring in fury! It fills the tunnel from ceiling to floor, from side to side! The fox sprints under it's bottom, just making it through by the skin of it's fur!
[22:11] <Alicia> "Don't mind me!" Alicia yelps at the lion as she follows after the fox, attempting to dive into a somersault and pass underneath the lion as it did!
[22:21] <Kotono> OOC: Tumble check?
[22:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15
06[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 and gets 25." [1d20=10]
[22:23] <Kotono> Alicia dives under and just makes it past the maw of the lion, who snaps at her and misses by an inch! She's under and through, at the lion's rear and gone! Ahead is a long, steep rise, the fox about sixty feet ahead and hurrying up it. "Come on, follow me!"
[22:24] <Alicia> "I'm coming, I'm coming!" Alicia calls back, scrambling up the rise. Idly she wonders just how the lion got wedged into a tunnel like that and hopes it doesn't starve to death.
[22:28] <Kotono> Running and running! Alicia barely keeps pace with the fox, huffing air in and out! Around another bend after several minutes of ascending! Ahead is a gentle footpath up and up, sunlight sparkling ahead. The fox looks back once more, laughing as it vanishes into it. "It's right past here! You're almost there!"
[22:30] <Alicia> Only in Ysgard could finding a stick of wood be an adventure, Alicia thinks as she rushes out into the sunlight.
[22:32] <Kotono> Alicia races out! It is a small grove, as if a scoop of the mountain had been taken out and tossed aside. A path leads to the center, a little dirty trail going fourty feet. At the end of it the fox sits, and just behind it? A tree blossoms. A tree as tall as the tallest oak, branches spreading long and far. Hanging from the branches are apples like golden nuggets. The fox sits upright there, and in a very human voice, "Persistant and brave, ar
[22:33] <Kotono> The fox sits upright there, and in a very human voice, "Persistant and brave, aren't you?"
Session Close: Tue Apr 21 22:35:03 2009

Session Start: Tue Apr 21 22:35:03 2009
Session Ident: #dunes
02[22:35] * Disconnected
02[22:35] * Attempting to rejoin channel #dunes
03[22:35] * Rejoined channel #dunes
03[22:35] * Topic is 'LAVA(2 rounds Alicia)=Strength of Light>Alicia=Elementals(4)>Antenora>Latha'
03[22:35] * Set by Kotono on Mon Apr 20 19:59:08
02[22:36] * Seira (~corwin@bzq-79-181-132-222.red.bezeqint.net) Quit (Broken pipe)
[22:36] <Kotono> The fox shimmers. In it's place is a being of light, a woman with hair like white energy scuplted into form. While unclad, her body is as covered with light as clothes would render it. A mace is in her hand, golden wings at her back. An Astral Deva, shedding with holy radiance. "Turn away now. Only the strongest shall have anything from this sacred tree. A mere human alone, with no magic and aid, is doomed to failure!"
03[22:36] * Anna is now known as Seira
03[22:36] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Seira
[22:38] <Alicia> Well fine then! Alicia shimmers and replaces her tiny gnome form with her tall and sexy human form! She starts to glow with holy radiance of her own as she tosses her wadded up clothing and pocket-knife to the side. "My magic is a part of my soul. Even like this you'll find me a difficult opponent," she warns.
[22:40] <Kotono> "Not running with your tail between your legs? Courageous! I will sing a song of praise over your cooling corpse!" The angel declares, mace crackling with pure electric light! "Nature itself shall smite you!" OOC: Roll initiative then?
[22:40] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5
06[22:41] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 and gets 18." [1d20=13]
[22:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
06[22:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 18." [1d20=10]
03[22:42] * Kotono changes topic to 'Astral Deva>Alicia'
[22:43] <Kotono> "Oh verdant life, come forth! Attack!" The angel calls in a song, the land responding! Emerging from the ground is a dire wolf, snarling and snapping as it charges at Alicia!
03[22:43] * Kotono changes topic to 'Astral Deva=Dire Wolf>Alicia'
[22:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 charge
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 charge and gets 16." [1d20=3]
[22:43] <Kotono> OOC: Flatfooted AC? 11 or 12, isn't it?
[22:43] <Alicia> OOC: AC 11 flat footed
[22:44] <Kotono> roll 1d8+10 and it gets a free trip
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+10 and it gets a free trip and gets 12." [1d8=2]
[22:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 opposed checks time. Linking in #elysium.
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 opposed checks time. Linking in #elysium. and gets 17." [1d20=6]
[22:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 dex is higher than str for once
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 dex is higher than str for once and gets 6." [1d20=1]
[22:45] <Kotono> Alicia is bitten on the ankle, dragged down and hitting the soft, bouncy ground hard! "Give up! You have no chance to win against Mother Nature's fury!" The Astral Deva declares! OOC: Alicia?
[22:48] <Alicia> "Ooohf!" Alicia grunts as she falls on her rump. "I've barely begun!" she promises, clambering to her feet and accepting that she's going to get bitten again, before stepping away from the wolf and casting a spell to turn her into a giant naked woman!
[22:48] <Alicia> OOC: standing up (provokes AoO), 5ft stepping, and casting.
[22:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 chomp sure
Session Close: Tue Apr 21 22:49:11 2009

Session Start: Tue Apr 21 22:49:11 2009
Session Ident: #dunes
02[22:49] * Disconnected
02[22:49] * Attempting to rejoin channel #dunes
03[22:49] * Rejoined channel #dunes
03[22:49] * Topic is 'Astral Deva=Dire Wolf>Alicia'
03[22:49] * Set by Kotono on Tue Apr 21 21:43:52
03[22:50] * Anna is now known as Seira
03[22:50] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Seira
[22:50] <Kotono> Alicai indeed gets bit, right on the shoulder! But she stumbles back and up, growing in size! A moment later, the Astral Deva raises her arms ot the sky, "Mantle of the free clouds, bring forth a champion of the sky!" Ripping into existance, a giant eagle appears, diving down at Alicia!
[22:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9 charge
06[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 charge and gets 27." [1d20=18]
[22:50] <Kotono> roll 1d6+4
06[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6+4 and gets 6." [1d6=2]
03[22:50] * Kotono changes topic to 'Astral Deva=Dire Wolf=Giant Eagle>Alicia'
[22:51] <Kotono> The Giant Eagle swoops down, clawing Alicia's side! The dire wolf steps forward five feet as well, biting at Alicia!
[22:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 17." [1d20=6]
[22:52] <Kotono> oOC: AC?
[22:52] <Alicia> OOC: 15
[22:52] <Kotono> roll 1d8+10 and trip
06[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+10 and trip and gets 12." [1d8=2]
[22:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 31." [1d20=20]
[22:52] <Alicia> roll 1d20+9 down I go
06[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+9 down I go and gets 19." [1d20=10]
[22:52] <Kotono> Wham! Alicia is bitten again, taken down once more, large sized and all, glowy body hitting the turf! OOC: Alicia.
[22:54] <Alicia> To hell with it, she'll kill this damn dog with her bare hands. Snarling, she lashes upwards with a fist to shatter the beast's jaw, then grabs its head under her arm and attempts to twist and snap its neck!
[22:54] <Alicia> OOC: gets an AoO for me unarmed striking
[22:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 AoO days
06[22:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 AoO days and gets 13." [1d20=2]
[22:54] <Kotono> OOC: Carry on, it sucked.
[22:54] <Alicia> OOC: AC -4 for prone, hits
[22:54] <Kotono> OOC: Oh, right.
[22:54] <Kotono> roll 1d8+10
06[22:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+10 and gets 15." [1d8=5]
[22:55] <Alicia> OOC: regular wolf or celestial?
[22:55] <Kotono> OOC: REgular.
[22:55] <Alicia> roll 1d20+2 knowledge devotion
06[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+2 knowledge devotion and gets 13." [1d20=11]
[22:57] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 -4 prone, 4th level arcane strike, divine might
06[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 -4 prone, 4th level arcane strike, divine might and gets 26." [1d20=8]
[22:57] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 -4 prone, 4th level arcane strike, divine might
06[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 -4 prone, 4th level arcane strike, divine might and gets 29." [1d20=16]
[22:57] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 -4 prone, 4th level arcane strike, divine might
06[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 -4 prone, 4th level arcane strike, divine might and gets 25." [1d20=17]
[22:57] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits.
[22:58] <Alicia> roll 3d4+33+12d4
06[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d4+33+12d4 and gets 67." [3d4=2, 3, 3][12d4=3, 1, 4, 2, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 1, 3]
[22:59] <Kotono> Despite being bitten by the wolf in the stomach, Alicia hits, clubs, beats and spellfires the wolf into oblivion! It's neck cracks, vanishing away and the summoning broken! A moment later, the eagle is on her again, clawing and pecking at her!
Session Close: Tue Apr 21 23:03:04 2009

Session Start: Tue Apr 21 23:03:04 2009
Session Ident: #dunes
02[23:03] * Disconnected
02[23:03] * Attempting to rejoin channel #dunes
03[23:03] * Rejoined channel #dunes
03[23:03] * Topic is 'Astral Deva>Alicia'
03[23:03] * Set by Kotono on Tue Apr 21 22:04:02
[23:04] <Kotono> The giant eagle is lanced all over, it's body bursting into flame and falling to the ground, where it then winks back intot he magical ethers that summoned it! A moment later, the Astral Deva charges you flat out, mace going for your head! "If Nature will not subdue you, I shall!"
02[23:04] * Seira (~corwin@bzq-79-181-132-222.red.bezeqint.net) Quit (Ping timeout)
[23:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14 (+2 charge, -12 PA)
06[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 (+2 charge, -12 PA) and gets 33." [1d20=19]
[23:05] <Kotono> roll 1d8+36 owwies.
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+36 owwies. and gets 44." [1d8=8]
[23:05] <Kotono> The deva charges Alicia fiercely, slamming her mace right into her chest! The titantic blow leaves her gasping for air, body greviously injured on top of her already worn form! OOC: Alicia.
06[23:06] * Alicia reels from the blow, but can't help but feel a sense of smug satisfaction at the overconfident deva playing right into her hands. Stepping back to capitalise on her superior reach, she snakes her hands in under her foe's reckless swing, immobilising her wrist and snagging the mace away from her hand!
[23:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 knowledge
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 knowledge and gets 21." [1d20=1]
[23:07] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 5th level arcane strike, disarm. She has to use the same pa mods as she just used on her opposed roll. -4 for unarmed, +4 for large
06[23:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 5th level arcane strike, disarm. She has to use the same pa mods as she just used on her opposed roll. -4 for unarmed, +4 for large and gets 38." [1d20=14]
[23:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12
06[23:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 and gets 13." [1d20=1]
[23:08] <Alicia> Having grabbed the mace, Alicia then smacks the deva about the head with it before she even knows what hit her!
[23:08] <Alicia> OOC: +3, right?
[23:09] <Kotono> OOC: Yes.
[23:09] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22 divine might, 5th level arcane strike
06[23:09] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 divine might, 5th level arcane strike and gets 41." [1d20=19]
[23:09] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 divine might, 5th level arcane strike
06[23:09] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 divine might, 5th level arcane strike and gets 26." [1d20=9]
[23:10] <Kotono> OOC: One hit.
[23:10] <Alicia> roll 1d8+18+5d4
06[23:10] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+18+5d4 and gets 31." [1d8=1][5d4=1, 4, 2, 4, 1]
[23:11] <Kotono> Wham! Alicia catches the AStral Deva right in the gut with the blow! Her eyes widen, "My mace! You little thief!" She protests, "Fine then, if Nature and my mace won't smite you, my fists will!" With that, she makes a wide, wild swing at Alicia's jaw!
[23:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9 (-12 PA)
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 (-12 PA) and gets 24." [1d20=15]
[23:11] <Kotono> roll 1d8+21
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+21 and gets 24." [1d8=3]
[23:12] <Kotono> WHAM! Alicia gets a retort right across her chin, a powerful blow that puts thet wo right in melee combat! It rocks her world, dimming her vision and making her head swim like it's a foot underwater! OOC: Alicia.
06[23:13] * Alicia tumbles away briefly to buy some room, holding her prize protectively before her. Despite Ysgard's properties, she's cut and scraped and bit and bruised all over, so uses some spellfire to fix that. "I'll give it back when I've finished beating you up, I promise!"
[23:13] <Alicia> roll 18d4+18
06[23:13] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 18d4+18 and gets 66." [18d4=4, 1, 3, 3, 4, 1, 4, 1, 3, 2, 2, 3, 1, 4, 3, 4, 2, 3]
[23:14] <Kotono> "Oh, I won't take this lying down!" With that, the Astral deva is coming at her, charging again! "I'll knock you down for good!"
[23:14] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 (-13 PA)
06[23:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 (-13 PA) and gets 16." [1d20=8]
[23:14] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
[23:14] <Alicia> OOC: 15
[23:14] <Kotono> OOC: And oh yeah, you do have reach on her since you're large and armed now.
[23:15] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22 AoO sure
06[23:15] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 AoO sure and gets 38." [1d20=16]
[23:15] <Alicia> roll 1d8+12
06[23:15] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+12 and gets 15." [1d8=3]
[23:15] <Kotono> OOC: Hit, you both hit.
[23:15] <Kotono> roll 1d8+22 slam damage owies.
06[23:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+22 slam damage owies. and gets 30." [1d8=8]
[23:16] <Kotono> Charging in, Alicia takes the chance to smite the angel with her own mace across the head! IT barely slows her down, as she socks Alicia right in the kisser! Her face is contorted with pique, "Give up! You're never going to win, even with my mace!" OOC: Alicia.
[23:18] <Alicia> "Owww!" Alicia's head snaps back from the blow. "I liked you better as a fox," she grumbles, attempting to cast a spell without dropping her guard...
[23:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+11 DC 18 concentration
06[23:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+11 DC 18 concentration and gets 20." [1d20=9]
06[23:18] * Alicia then promptly vanishes from sight, shifting slightly to the side but remaining close to her wily foe.
03[23:19] * Anna is now known as Seira
03[23:19] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Seira
06[23:20] * Alicia stops glowing, too!
[23:21] <Kotono> The angel flies 15 feet up into the air, looking about intently, but glowering. "I don't care how you're hiding yourself, I'll find you!" OOC: You're up, Alicia.
06[23:22] * Alicia casts another spell from her current position, "Mystra, bless my bla- mace! I mean mace!" she incants a bit sloppily, but the job is done and she then floats up fifteen feet herself, remaining adjacent to her unknowing foe.
[23:24] <Kotono> The angel herself glides twenty feet back, before vanishing from sight as well! "I will find you," Her voice calls as she vanishes! "You cannot hide!" OOC: Alicia.
[23:24] <Alicia> OOC: I get an AoO as she moves away
[23:24] <Kotono> OOC: Go for it.
[23:25] <Alicia> roll 1d20+29 -13pa, divine might
06[23:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+29 -13pa, divine might and gets 45." [1d20=16]
[23:25] <Alicia> roll 1d8+43
06[23:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+43 and gets 50." [1d8=7]
[23:26] <Kotono> As the angel flies bakc, a powerful mace blow staggers it immensly! It still manages to vanish away, despite the blow! OOC: Alicia.
06[23:29] * Alicia channels a dispel magic into the mace and then promptly hurls it at where the deva vanished! "Have your mace back, at least!" she calls!
[23:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 -5 pa, divine might, 4th level arcane strike. Whirling Blade targets a line, so concealment shouldn't matter.
06[23:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 -5 pa, divine might, 4th level arcane strike. Whirling Blade targets a line, so concealment shouldn't matter. and gets 37." [1d20=13]
[23:30] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[23:30] <Alicia> roll 1d8+29+4d4
06[23:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+29+4d4 and gets 44." [1d8=5][4d4=3, 1, 3, 3]
[23:30] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 CL check for invis
06[23:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 CL check for invis and gets 13." [1d20=3]
[23:30] <Alicia> OOC: any other spells I could potentially dispel on her?
[23:30] <Kotono> OOC: One.
[23:30] <Kotono> OOC: Go for it.
[23:30] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10
06[23:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 and gets 28." [1d20=18]
[23:31] <Kotono> The hammer slams right into the invisible angel! A few moments later, something slams hard into the base of the tree, as the mace falls straight down! A few golden apples fall from it, as well as a long, straight perfect branch. You hear a groan, "Ugh...stop..." The angel's voice is dazed.
[23:32] <Alicia> The mace then reappears in Alicia's hands, as per the spell! She's quite happy to drop down to the ground and remove the cloak of invisibility from herself, walking over to the sound of the pained groans and extending the weapon hilt-first with a smile on her lips.
[23:33] <Kotono> The weapon isn't immediately taken. The angel appears, invisibilty gone. She's rubbing her head, wincing. "Selune in the night sky, you really don't give up."
06[23:35] * Alicia puts the mace down next to the deva's legs and shrinks back to normal size, going to grab two apples and tossing one gently to her not-so-gentle sparring partner. "My name's Alicia," she introduces herself cheerily, taking a bite of her fruit.
[23:37] <Kotono> "Alic-" The angel begins, looking up and catching the apple a bit offhandedly. She stops then as Alicia bites into the apple! "Wait, don't! Those aren't meant for you!"
06[23:38] * Alicia hasn't even chewed it yet and stops immediately, staring at the deva with a chunk of apple in her mouth. She delicately spits it out into her hand, looking very sheepish. "Sorry, where I come from the rule is that if it's on the ground it's fair game..."
[23:39] <Kotono> As it touches Alicia's tongue, her entire body starts to warm up. A wave of strange sensation passes over her...
[23:39] <Kotono> roll 1d6
06[23:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 and gets 2." [1d6=2]
[23:41] <Kotono> The deva blanches, before sighing. "Oh Gods." She sighs. "Those aren't for you, they're the property of another celestial being. Too late now with that apple, it's magic is invoked. You're supposed to take the branch. Strength of Light sent you for that, not to have a snack!"
[23:43] <Alicia> "Well... it was on the ground!" Alicia protests. "How was I to know? It's not like... well, okay, you did tell me I wasn't to have anything to do with the tree..." she trails off, that avenue of justification blocked off. "It's only one apple, at least?" Without being able to pinpoint the feeling beyond 'strange', she's not even sure what to make of that.
[23:44] <Kotono> It's very warming. She feels somehow lighter overall. A little more limber. "It's only one. It's not like you're going to turn back into a child, but Gods. My superior is going to be disapointed in me for letting that happen." Sighing once more and patting the ground, "Sit down."
[23:46] <Alicia> Alicia's eyes widen in alarm. "They'd do that? I never even swallowed!" she cries in alarm, nonetheless going to sit next to the foxy celestial, setting the bitten into apple and the bitten off chunk to the side and wiping her saliva-slicked palm on the grass.
[23:49] <Kotono> "This tree is one of the trees of Idun. These golden apples," she holds up the one she caught, "Are a form of food for the divinities and greater celestials who live in this realm. Mortal bodies are so rejuvenated that it turns back the flow and ebb of time." Rubbing her temple, "That apple's going to give you a few years of your life back, in essence."
[23:51] <Alicia> "I... do feel a bit more supple," Alicia admits, stretching out her right arm and examining her skin tone. She briefly looks down at her exposed chest and squints before blushing and raising her gaze. "How much trouble are we in, now?"
[23:53] <Kotono> "You?" A shrug, "You'll be okay. It's not like they're going to smite you. If Strength of Light send you for this errand, you're not some random thief. You might get a geas or a questing spell. You may as well finish the apple, by the way, that cat is out of the pouch."
[23:53] <Alicia> "If just a taste of it on my tongue did that, won't eating the whole thing turn me into a child?" Alicia asks uneasily.
[23:55] <Kotono> "Each apple works on a mere bite. Once you do that, the magic channels into you. Your mortal body instinctively hoards that sort of otherworldy rejuvenation." A shrug again as she polishes her apple, putting it down. "You won't get any younger from that apple you bit into now."
[23:56] <Kotono> After a moment, "Do you kno whow lightning travles towards metal over most other things? It's somewhat like that."
[23:57] <Alicia> "I suppose I might as well get a chance to taste it, if it's no good to anyone else," Alicia shrugs, picking up her discarded apple and taking a proper bite.
[23:58] <Kotono> Alicia bites the apple! It tastes like...Alicia isn't sure. It doesn't really taste like food. It tastes -good-. No, better than good. Great. Outstanding. It's like biting into childhood and sunshine and rainbows and life. To describe it as eating mere food is a disgrace to what it is.
06[23:59] * Alicia polishes off the apple in record time, leaving naught but a ravaged and nearly bare core, which she sets down beside her. "Mmmm, that was good... at least I don't look too much younger, I suppose. Probably should avoid any questions if I'm lucky."
Session Time: Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 2009
[00:01] <Kotono> "Syala," She says, "My name is Syala." The angel looks up to the heavens, "Why in the world did you take off your clothes midway through that chase?"
[00:02] <Alicia> "I had to turn into a gnome so I could fit through those tunnels!" Alicia replies indignantly. "I'd have been tripping all over myself if I'd kept them on!" She looks over the deva clad in naught but plays of light, "Besides, I thought you were just a fox, so it'd hardly matter."
[00:03] <Kotono> "I think you have a serious problem with making assumptions," Syala retorts, "Oh, the fox is just a fox! Oh, the apple is just an apple!"
06[00:04] * Alicia winces. "Yes, well..." she can't really think of a good comeback to that. "We're both women anyway, at least."
[00:07] <Kotono> "Truth. I care little about the physical body anyway. It's merely a shell fo rthe spirit." Now her gaze travels to the fine branch lying there, knocked over. "There's your real prize. You should get started on it."
[00:11] <Alicia> "You're right. I'll get dressed first, anyway," Alicia clambers to her feet, surreptitiously pressing her palm against the bark of the tree behind her as she rises and channelling her remaining twelve levels of spellfire into it. It has some strange abilities she doesn't fully understand, so maybe it'll help the tree bear more fruit to cover the one she took.
[00:11] <Alicia> Walking over to her wadded up clothing, she starts to get dressed, glancing sidelong at Syala as she does so. "By the way... you remind me a lot of a friend of mine. Were you an eladrin at an earlier stage of your existence?" she asks curiously.
[00:11] <Kotono> "No." With a long look at Alicia, "Who do I remind you of, exactly?"
[00:14] <Alicia> "A coure eladrin named Marielle," Alicia shrugs innocently as she ties her brasierre in place. "She's a servant of Mystra and she sometimes talks as if she might become a deva instead of a greater eladrin herself, in time. I just wondered how common that might be."
[00:14] <Alicia> She doesn't mention that Syala doesn't seem much at all like any of the other astral devas she's met.
[00:17] <Kotono> "I suppose it's possible. I'm not sure myself, I've spent most of my time at this tree."
06[00:19] * Alicia nods after tugging her tunic down over her neck. "You'd probably like her, you have somewhat similar mannerisms," she concludes, letting the matter drop as she collects her knife and goes over to examine the fallen branch.
[00:29] <Kotono> It's about five feet long and a litle change. It's bark is a soft, deep gray-brown. A few flecks of it are missing, showing ash-white and gold wood beneath.
[00:30] <Alicia> OOC: does my pocket-knife count as an appropriate tool for craft checks?
[00:30] <Kotono> OOC: Yes, it seems unusually well suited to it.
[00:30] <Alicia> OOC: enough so to be considered masterwork?
[00:30] <Kotono> OOC: Yes.
[00:31] <Alicia> OOC: phew!
06[00:31] * Alicia sits down cross-legged with the stick across her knees and hums to herself as she gets to work on whittling the wood down to a smooth finish to make herself a servicable quarterstaff.
[00:32] <Alicia> OOC: taking 10 for 13 on the DC 12 check to make a simple weapon
[00:35] <Kotono> Alicia finds that time whizzes by her as she works! Cutting and trimming and polishing and going! In some vague sort of way she knows that she's utterly absorbed, noting with a detached air that Syala comes to shine by her during the night. The thought of sleep passes her mind, but it seems...irrelevant as she works. Another day comes, noon passing. It's only then that Alicia stirs, feeling drained. But in her hands is a quarterstaff that looks
[00:35] <Kotono> It's only then that Alicia stirs, feeling drained. But in her hands is a quarterstaff that looks like bands of ashwood and gold molded together. It's weight is comforting in Alicia's hands, just right.
06[00:39] * Alicia folds up her pocket-knife and... pockets it, before using the quarterstaff as a lever to stand up with, stretching her legs and arms out.
[00:39] <Alicia> "Mmmm..." she hefts her new weapon in her hands, testing its weight for a moment before abruptly lashing out at thin air, performing a quick series of dizzying strikes using both ends of the wood to full effect. She then stops abruptly and nods in satisfaction. "I think I had help making this," she confesses to her angelic companion.
[00:40] <Kotono> "It's the wood. It's far removed from normal wood as an angel is removed from a mortal." Syala shrugs, "You did decent work. Go ahead and go when you're ready; take a last look and go. Once you walk out, you'll find yourself back in the forest grove near the fjord. Don't bother looking for the cave to here, you won't find it again."
[00:42] <Alicia> "Don't worry, I'm not going to come running back trying to gain eternal youth or anything silly like that - I'd never have eaten the thing if I'd known," Alicia apologises embarrassedly. "Anyway, good luck to you in your future battles, Syala of the Tree of Idun," she salutes to the deva with her staff before turning and heading back to the cave.
[00:44] <Kotono> Alicia finds it to be a straight down slope, short passage to an exit now. On exiting out of the changed cave, Alicia stands in the grove where she met the fox. No cave entrance is around. The air blows clear and cold, the fjord's freezing waters below.
06[00:47] * Alicia decides to gather up a few of those berries, just something to take the edge off her hunger before casting a spell of protection against the cold and swimming across the fjord and walking back to the volcano.
[00:49] <Kotono> The trip back is without incident. Alicia is decidedly fatigued when she returns, coming back to STrength of Light's tent. Antenora is there, armor and gearless. She wears a simple, rough homespun dress of white. She's half lying down on the floor, eyes slipping shut off and on. She sits up as Alicia enters. "Alicia," Around a yawn, "You're back!"
06[00:50] * Alicia wonders if the erinyes had to make that dress herself. "No sign of Latha or Strength of Light?" she asks, coming in and sitting next to her friend.
[00:52] <Kotono> "Strength of Light is seeing to the battles. Latha's not back yet, he told me to wait here and tell anyone else who came to wait." Lying back down now, "I don't know how long he's going to be, but I'm exhausted."
[00:54] <Alicia> "I could do with a rest, anyway," Alicia admits, looking for a comfy spot to lay down as well. "Are we allowed to talk about our tasks after they've been done?"
[00:54] <Kotono> There's several, including pillows and a few blankets. "He said it was fine." Yawning again herself, "Oh, and Alicia?"
[00:55] <Alicia> "Yes?" Alicia asks, setting up a pillow next to Antenora and laying down before pulling a blanket over herself.
[00:55] <Kotono> "Sorry." Blushing now, "I wasn't expecting to be effected so much by drinking." Her gaze is pointedly not looking at Alicia, not at all.
[00:57] <Alicia> "Nothing to apologise for," Alicia waves it off, reaching over to pat the erinyes on the shoulder. "You only meant well by what you said." Letting that settle for a moment and then seeking to draw a line under it, "So, what was your task?" she asks.
[01:00] <Kotono> "Well, I had to leave all of my gear behind. I was supposed to find a special sheep and shear it. I flew around a time until I came onto a valley and village. Beautiful place, full of warriors and maidens." Antenora's eyes close, a yawn rippling through her. "I found out that sheep with fleeces as white as snow lived up the nearby mountains. After some work I found one...and chased. It ran off into a cave. The problem was?" Wincing now, "It wa
[01:01] <Kotono> and chased. It ran off into a cave. The problem was?" Wincing now, "It was a cave full of dwarves who wanted to fight. I had to hold them off without a weapon, while chasing down the sheep. The worst part? It was a low ceiling. I couldn't fly."
06[01:02] * Alicia tries not to snicker at the mere concept of Antenora's adventures in sheep shearing, only urging her friend to go on. "So how did you get past them?" she asks, smiling.
[01:04] <Kotono> "A got a club from one of them and cracked a few heads, fighting a running battle while I chased the sheep around the entire Mystra cursed cavern. I eventually got it and got out. I was nearly dead, wobbling, and my clothes had been so torn up that they'd fallen off entirely. So there I was, naked, with just a club in one hand, a sheep under the other, and a pair of shears pressed against my chest."
06[01:05] * Alicia raises an eyebrow. Nudity seems to be a prevalent theme here... "Was the sheep at least agreeable?"
[01:07] <Kotono> "No." With an open scowl, "It bit me, but it wasn't strong enough to penetrate my skin. Anyway, I got to town, was able to hastily get someone's attention and borrow a dress, and then get walked through how to quickly make a dress. Once I started, it mostly worked out on it's own accord."
[01:09] <Alicia> "And a very nice dress it is, too," Alicia compliments nicely. "For my part, I had to make a quarterstaff," she explains her task to return the favour. "I found some trees near that fjord we arrived in, but no suitable branches. Then a celestial fox appeared and offered to lead me to a suitable branch when I asked for help."
[01:09] <Kotono> "Go on," Antenora listens, focusing on Alicia. "It can't have been as trying as mine."
[01:11] <Alicia> "Probably not," Alicia admits. "The fox led me into a small cramped cave filled with sharp thorns which were hard for me to negotiate, so I turned myself into a gnome to more easily fit. Of course, that made my clothes stop fitting, so I had to strip lest I trip all over them."
[01:11] <Alicia> "Anyway, I followed the fox past the thorns, then over a few pits of lava, then we ducked under an ill-tempered lion that was blocking the tunnel, before finally leaving the cave and coming into a clearing..."
[01:12] <Kotono> "Huh." Antenora scowls a moment, "You...no. Even at the worst, he's an angel. There's no way, it's just coincidence. So go on. It sounds dangerous so far, but you made it through those intact"
06[01:14] * Alicia nods. "The clearing had a single tree in it, and the fox then transformed into an astral deva and said she wouldn't let me have anything from the tree. This being Ysgard, those were fighting words..." she chuckles.
[01:14] <Alicia> "She summoned animals to attack me at first, but after I snapped a wolf's neck and burnt an eagle to ash she attacked me herself. She overextended, though, and I snagged her mace away before beating her up with it until she surrendered."
[01:15] <Kotono> "Good!" Antenora returns that laugh with a triumphant smirk of her own.
[01:18] <Alicia> "Anyway, she'd gotten pretty riled up by me taking her mace, and during the fight a nice branch as well as some apples had fallen from the tree. So after I returned her weapon I picked up some apples for us to both eat while we recovered - she wasn't happy about that, though, and said I should only take the branch."
[01:18] <Alicia> "So I wound up carving it down to make this very nice staff," she holds it up for Antenora to see.
[01:22] <Kotono> "Nicely done," Antenora looks thes atff over. "Strength of Light said my dress was well made. I think he'll say the same about that, too."
[01:23] <Alicia> "It's like a magic staff except I somehow know it'll only function that way for me," Alicia admits, laying back on her pillow. "Is your dress like that as well?"
[01:23] <Kotono> "Yes. It makes me fly faster." Antenora smiles faintly, letting her eyes close. "I'm happy with the work."
[01:25] <Alicia> "I'm glad," Alicia smiles pleasantly, closing her eyes as well, doing her best to ignore the din of battle outside and hoping they don't have a party in here while she's sleeping. "Good night."
[01:25] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
06[01:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 and gets 39." [1d20=20]
[01:26] <Kotono> "Sleep well, Alicia." Antenora says, lowering her voice to a whisper. "You look so refreshed and radiant. Try not to lose that the next time Esthan appears."
06[01:27] * Alicia looks a bit guilty, knowing that not all of her refreshed appearance merely comes from clean living and a positive demeanour. "I'll try," she nonetheless promises.

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[20:15] <Kotono> -----------
05[20:16] -batcave.dejatoons.net:@#dunes- Alicia invited Hatbot into the channel.
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03[20:16] * Alicia sets mode: +v Hatbot
[20:18] <Kotono> Sleep comes long and deep for Alicia. It's a sleep of heroic dreams. In her mind's eye she sees battles fought and battles to be, slaying all and overcoming incredible obsticles. Her blood boils with righteous fury in her dreams, a haze of forgotten, ethereal victories. On awakening, Alicia finds that nature's most basic calls are what stir her. She's hungry, too. Antenora is sitting up nearby, Latha sitting next to her.
06[20:19] * Alicia does have to tend to herself, but a reunion with a friend takes precedence. "Mmm..." she rubs her eyes and yawns as she sits up before seeing the deva and brightening. "Latha! How was your task?" she asks interestedly.
[20:20] <Kotono> Latha holds up a halo in her hands. It looks forged of silver. "I succeeded," she answers, "AT some difficulty and a long trip. How are you?"
[20:20] <Kotono> "You've been asleep about 20 hours," Antenora answers, "I slept for about 12 myself."
[20:21] <Alicia> "That long?" Alicia looks somewhat alarmed. No wonder she needs to go so badly... but she can afford to wait a moment longer. "What did you have to do?" she asks.
[20:22] <Kotono> "I had to descend deeper into Ysgard and mine a vein of silver, then create this," She answers, "Cold forged with my own hands."
06[20:24] * Alicia nods, climbing to her feet. "I'm glad you succeeded without permanent harm," she smiles. "I have to go do something, but I'll be back in a moment - do either of you want me to bring any food back?"
[20:26] <Kotono> "We're fine," Latha says. "Go on."
06[20:27] * Alicia scurries out to find either a water closet or an appropriately drained and private ditch so she can do her dirty business, cleans herself off, sees about scavenging some breakfast, and then returns to join her friends.
[20:29] <Kotono> Personal matters go without incident. Food is found, leftovers from the feast of the night before. The battles rage beyond here, but in the tent is silence and peace, mostly. STrength of Light is there when you return, waiting. "It looks like all three of you more or less succeeded."
[20:30] <Kotono> "Barely." Antenora rubs her side, "Those dwarves were as persistant as hungry lemures."
[20:30] <Kotono> "I was expecting nothing less than success." Smirking to all three, "Though Alicia?"
[20:31] <Alicia> "Yes?" Alicia asks, inwardly cringing at the rebuke to come. She'd never have touched those damn apples if she'd had any sort of warning!
[20:32] <Kotono> "Watch what you put in your mouth." He smirks, "It fell on the ground and you still put it right in. You're probably going to end up with a geas at some point soon over that. You're lucky you had a reason to be there, or you'd have been smitten on the spot."
[20:32] <Kotono> "What?" Latha looks askance at Alicia. "What did you do?"
[20:36] <Alicia> "I ate an apple from the Tree of Idun," Alicia winces unhappily. "I wouldn't have touched the damn thing if anyone had warned me - where I come from the rule is that if it's on the ground then it's fair game, and as far as I knew it was just a normal Ysgardian apple..."
[20:37] <Kotono> "Look at it this way. You'll have a chance to prove your bravery again soon." Strength of Light's smile grows, "You'll be taske dot smite something, or defeat a terrible foe! Enjoy what you've gotten back, I say."
[20:39] <Alicia> "It's true I don't mind being asked to go and do something nice," Alicia admits. "I just hate feeling so guilty over an honest mistake." Sighing and looking upwards, "At least it seemed to have a minimal effect on me. I don't feel or look that different."
[20:39] <Kotono> "What did it do?" Antenora peers at Alicia closely.
[20:40] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21
06[20:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 and gets 38." [1d20=17]
[20:40] <Alicia> "Made me younger," Alicia replies flatly. "I didn't ask it to," she then reiterates.
[20:40] <Kotono> "I've heard of those. Something to do with reju-ah."
[20:40] <Kotono> Latha stops midsentence.
[20:42] <Kotono> "Don't pout," Strength of Light interjects. "It'll give you wrinkles right back. Let's move on."
[20:42] <Alicia> "Yes, lets!" Alicia nods decisively, very keen to move past her fruity faux pas.
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[20:46] <Kotono> "Each of you got what you need. Now then, Alicia's is a powerful weapon, Antenora's increases her speed of flying, LAtha's increases the power of her protective aura. Now it's time to put those to the test. Go out and travel to the northwest, until you come to a valley surrounded by glacers and high mountain peaks. Lairing there is a spawn of the Serpent that wraps around the world, Jormungandr. Prove yourselves by subduing it to your will and
[20:46] <Kotono> Jormungandr. Prove yourselves by subduing it to your will and ride it back to me."
[20:46] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 planes, Jormungandr?
06[20:46] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 planes, Jormungandr? and gets 29." [1d20=9]
[20:47] <Alicia> OOC: and spawn thereof
[20:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 Latha
06[20:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 Latha and gets 30." [1d20=9]
[20:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
06[20:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 21." [1d20=4]
[20:50] <Alicia> "Should be fun..." Alicia remarks after a moment to digest that, only belatedly noticing the word 'spawn' and damping down her utter incredulity at the task. "You two think we're up to it?" she asks her brave companions.
[20:51] <Kotono> "I am." Antenora eyes Strength of Light, "Of course we are. What are we, cowards?"
[20:52] <Alicia> "Being a coward and knowing your limits are two different things," Alicia cautions. "Regardless, I think we can handle this."
[20:53] <Kotono> "Good! Go ahead, I expect to see you back with success," Strength of Light boasts, "With glorious victory and bravery behind you!"
[20:54] <Alicia> "Alright. I'll see if I can grab some supplies from the encampment before we depart, so we won't need to spend much time foraging. Shall we?" she asks her friends, grabbing her staff and starting for the tent-flap.
[20:55] <Kotono> Alicia can gather up food and a bag to carry it in if she wishes. Once she's taken what she desires, Antenora and Latha await.
06[21:10] * Alicia brings enough food to last her and Antenora the next three days, tieing the bag to the end of her quarterstaff which she balances on her shoulder. Reuniting with her friends, they set off for the Northeast!
[21:12] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 90." [1d100=90]
[21:16] <Kotono> The trio heads northwest as commanded! The first day takes fly spells and time. By the late afternoon, the trio is past the immediate mountains. They are travelling a hilly dale, a gap between the various peaks. As you travel it, they see something coming down, af ew hills away. It looks like a few dozen quadrapeds.
[21:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
06[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 and gets 28." [1d20=3]
[21:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21
06[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 and gets 29." [1d20=8]
[21:17] <Kotono> "Half ram, half human. They are bariaur, guardians of Ysgard," Latha peers ahead, a hand over her eye to shield from the sun above.
[21:18] <Alicia> "Think they'll want to pick a fight?" Alicia asks warily.
[21:18] <Kotono> Latha shrugs. "To that, I don't know. They are nomadic wanderers who enjoy battle and vanquishing evil."
[21:20] <Alicia> "Hopefully they won't give us any trouble," Alicia muses, nonetheless casting Voice of the Archon to give her a bit more authority in dealing with them should they press the group. "Lets keep going and leave them alone if they leave us alone."
[21:21] <Kotono> The three advance along. As they get closer, Alicia can see they resemble tanned, muscled humans for the upper body, with the lower body being like that of a ram, and with a pair of impressive horns on their heads. The pack is lead by one hefting a large greataxe. They come your way, "Ho there!" The lead one calls.
[21:25] <Alicia> "Hail!" Alicia calls back in the bombastic tone that this plane seemingly calls for, her voice coming out powerfully thanks to the spell she has augmenting it. "Brave Bariaurs of Ysgard, we three warriors seek a mighty spawn of Jormungandr in the glaciers ahead! What quest currently drives your pack onwards?" Surely everyone here is doing something suitably heroic, right?
[21:26] <Kotono> "Hail!" The lead one trots forward, raising his axe in salute, "I am Jargard, defender of Ysgard! We hunt the scent of a vile pack of barbazu and erinyes that have dared to set foot in this holy land! We will hunt them down and banish them from this place forevermore!"
[21:29] <Alicia> "Truly?" Alicia glances briefly at her companions. "My friends and I have experience in battling fiends such as those, and the serpent we seek is unlikely to move elsewhere. If you would have us, we would be glad to postpone our quest and aid you in expelling these baatezu."
[21:29] <Kotono> Antenora smiles tightly and nods.
[21:31] <Kotono> "Brave words!" The lead one trots forward a few more steps. "We would welcome you to our aide! After these fiends are vanquished, I shall escort you to the valley where the serpent dens."
[21:33] <Alicia> "A fair trade," Alicia nods. "If you know where the devils you seek are, lead the way and we will follow to lend our might to your own."
[21:34] <Kotono> "We are hot on their trail. Within a fe days we hope to finish the hunt," Jargard declares. "We shall night here, to celebrate finding some fast friends, and begin the hunt anew tomorrow!"
[21:36] <Alicia> "Very well," Alicia agrees. "My name is Alicia Reynes. My friends here are Latha and Antenora," she introduces each in turn. "We are honoured to stand with you and yours against the tyranny of Hell, Jargard."
[21:51] <Kotono> "We are the Tribe of the Golden Horn." Jargard introduces.
[21:53] <Alicia> "Well met," Alicia inclines her head. "Do you have a means to banish the fiends and prevent them from simply resurrecting as all others do on Ysgard?" Latha could plane-shift them, but depending on how many there are that could be a lot of pressure on one person.
[21:57] <Kotono> "This axe." Hefting it high, "It will banish them bakc to Hell. My archers are armed with silver arrows of banishing as well."
[22:00] <Alicia> "Good," Alicia smiles. "We'll fight to disable and distract them so that you can finish them off, when battle is joined."
[22:00] <Kotono> "You will be welcome! Until that time," The bariuars dismount supplies carried on their backs, food and drink, "We shall celebrate!"
[22:00] <Kotono> "Brave battle and loud celebration. IT seems to be a theme here," Antenora observes.
[22:01] <Kotono> "They're very dedicated to it," Latha hides a smile with her hand, scratching her face. "It is not a bad eternity at all."
[22:03] <Alicia> "It's nice," Alicia replies thoughtfully. "For all the fantastic and epic adventures we have, we never really exult in it the way people do here - we treat it more like a very serious job. I suppose the fact no one can die here helps, but overall everything just feels so much more... storybook."
[22:04] <Kotono> "Here, it's to live in fantasy and the moment. Desires are channeled into positive results, little is held back. In bravery there is no evil or wrong, only justice and good deeds." Latha does smile at that, "A pleasing place for a stout hearted warrior."
[22:04] <Kotono> "Well, let's celebrate?" Antenora speaks up here, "It sounds like a fine idea."
06[22:05] * Alicia agrees and breaks off from their little huddle to mingle freely with the goat-men. Eat, drink, and be merry; for tomorrow we may die. And then get back up again the next day.
[22:06] <Kotono> OOC: Going to do antyhing in particular or just celebrate?
[22:07] <Alicia> OOC: just that, basically
[22:09] <Kotono> The night passes well. Fortunately, Antenora says quite sober this time and nothing of note happens. The next morning is another bright, cold day, the group heading alongwards on the hunt. (More)
[22:15] <Kotono> The afternoon has lead the group to a rock cliffside. It can be ascended straight up, slowly. There's about 120 feet to go, the group advancing on. As they do...
[22:15] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 and gets 41." [1d20=20]
[22:15] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 18." [1d20=8]
[22:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[22:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
06[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 17." [1d20=1]
06[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 21." [1d20=11]
[22:16] <Kotono> Latha stops here, and in Alicia's mind, 'I can see something peeking over the edge of the top. I saw a barbazu's glaive, too.'
06[22:19] * Alicia stops as well. 'Tell Antenora and Jargard,' she suggests. This is the Bariaur's hunt, after all. She has a few ideas, but doesn't want to run off without coordination, and the devils would surely hear them talking this close.
[22:20] <Kotono> Jargard is already reacting, motioning the bariaur forward! "Our prey has been spotted! Come, noble warriors, it is time to lay Hell low! Charge and show them the power of Ysgard!"
[22:20] <Kotono> 'Already did,' Latha replies back as this happens.
[22:21] <Alicia> "Lets go, then!" Alicia calls, casting Fly and taking to the air!

Corwin · March 28, 2012, 07:23:30 AM

[20:09] <Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 18." [1d20=8]
[20:09] <Kotono> > roll 1d20+16
[20:09] <Kotono> > roll 1d20+10
[20:09] <Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 17." [1d20=1]
[20:09] <Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 21." [1d20=11]
[20:09] <Kotono> > Latha stops here, and in Alicia's mind, 'I can see something peeking over the edge of the top. I saw a barbazu's glaive, too.'
[20:09] <Kotono> * Alicia stops as well. 'Tell Antenora and Jargard,' she suggests. This is the Bariaur's hunt, after all. She has a few ideas, but doesn't want to run off without coordination, and the devils would surely hear them talking this close.
[20:09] <Kotono> > Jargard is already reacting, motioning the bariaur forward! "Our prey has been spotted! Come, noble warriors, it is time to lay Hell low! Charge and show them the power of Ysgard!"
[20:09] <Kotono> > 'Already did,' Latha replies back as this happens.
[20:09] <Kotono> <Alicia> "Lets go, then!" Alicia calls, casting Fly and taking to the air!
[20:11] <Kotono> OOC: Let's roll initaitve here?
[20:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 Antenora
[20:12] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5
06[20:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 Antenora and gets 21." [1d20=16]
06[20:12] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 and gets 15." [1d20=10]
[20:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 Latha
06[20:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 Latha and gets 19." [1d20=11]
[20:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20 group bariuar init
06[20:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 group bariuar init and gets 3." [1d20=3]
[20:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20 Jargard
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 Jargard and gets 10." [1d20=10]
[20:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 21." [1d20=15]
[20:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
[20:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 15." [1d20=10]
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 14." [1d20=9]
03[20:14] * Kotono changes topic to '????1=Antenora(21)>Latha(19)>Alicia(15)=????2>????3>Jargard(10)>Bariuar(3)'
[20:15] <Kotono> Antenora takes to the air, flying up and ahead a total of one hundred feet! A moment later, a beautiful woman with wings of black fire crests the ridge, her face a mask of contempt! "Hordes of Perdition, come!" she calls!
[20:15] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[20:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 82." [1d100=82]
[20:16] <Kotono> But nothing happens, only a few burning pentagrams appear that bring no reinforcements at all! Latha meanwhile flies about, bestowing Holy Aura on Alicia, Jargard and other allies! OOC: Alicia.
06[20:17] * Alicia casts shield and flies straight up, only covering fifteen feet with her slower method of flight.
03[20:18] * Kotono changes topic to 'Erinyes=Antenora(21)>Latha(19)>Alicia(15)=????2>????3>Jargard(10)>Bariuar(3)'
[20:18] <Kotono> "Surrender!" Antenora demands of the erinyes, "Surrender and listen! There's a better way than this!" Meanwhile, a Bearded Devil crests the ridge as well, bellowing a cry of infernal fury!
[20:19] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[20:19] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 27." [1d100=27]
[20:19] <Kotono> roll 2d10
06[20:19] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d10 and gets 14." [2d10=8, 6]
03[20:19] * Kotono changes topic to 'Erinyes=Antenora(21)>Latha(19)>Alicia(15)=Bearded Devil=Lemures(14 of them)>????3>Jargard(10)>Bariuar(3)'
[20:20] <Kotono> Brimstone and fire fill the air as a small horde of groaning lemures stumble forth! They start to slide down the hill, like a tidal wave of blobby, cursed flesh! A moment later, another erinyes flies up! This one is male, much more 'traditional' in appearance He has a wicked scythe in hand, too large for him and yet held easily! He draws infernal patters in the air with it!
[20:20] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[20:20] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 66." [1d100=66]
03[20:23] * Kotono changes topic to 'Erinyes=Antenora(21)>Latha(19)>Alicia(15)=Bearded Devil=Lemures(14 of them)>Erinyes 2>Jargard(10)>Bariuar(3)'
[20:23] <Kotono> But nothing happens! Jargard charges up the slope, leading the ram like celestials as they ascend 80 feet in a wild hurry! A split second later, the flaming erinyes sneers at Antenora, "A traitor? Suffer5!" she calls, as a black miasma springs up around Antenora!
[20:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12
06[20:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 and gets 16." [1d20=4]
[20:24] <Kotono> But the spell parts around Antenora, as if it never was at all! Antenora sighs, before charging the erinyes with her own quick movement!
[20:25] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 (+2 charge, +2 weapon, +7 smite, +2 FS 9/10, -4 nonlethal, -12 PA)
06[20:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 (+2 charge, +2 weapon, +7 smite, +2 FS 9/10, -4 nonlethal, -12 PA) and gets 28." [1d20=10]
[20:25] <Kotono> OOC: +2 more for bane, but still a hit.
[20:27] <Kotono> roll 1d6+1d6+36
06[20:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6+1d6+36 and gets 43." [1d6=6][1d6=1]
[20:29] <Kotono> With a powerful blow right to the head of the erinyes, Antenora staggers it, sending her wobbling in the air! A moment later Latha surges forward, a holy smite bursting amid the gathered lemure horde! OOC: I'll call it getting six of them since it's a 20ft burst and they're mindlessly sliding down the hill.
[20:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
[20:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
[20:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
[20:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 22." [1d20=19]
[20:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
[20:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 14." [1d20=11]
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 12." [1d20=9]
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 8." [1d20=5]
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 17." [1d20=14]
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 7." [1d20=4]
[20:30] <Kotono> roll 10d6 likely moot
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 likely moot and gets 35." [10d6=3, 3, 2, 2, 5, 5, 5, 3, 6, 1]
03[20:30] * Kotono changes topic to 'Erinyes=Antenora(21)>Latha(19)>Alicia(15)=Bearded Devil=Lemures(8 of them)>Erinyes 2>Jargard(10)>Bariuar(3)'
[20:32] <Kotono> The center of the lemure horde is burst open, six of them sent back to Hell with a powerful smite! OOC: Alicia and the bearded devil are up.
06[20:34] * Alicia flies forward forty feet and up a further five, targetting male erinyes with a crackling red ray of negative energy! "Be wracked and crippled!" she calls as the spell lances forth!
[20:34] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 devotion
06[20:34] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 devotion and gets 39." [1d20=19]
[20:34] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 ranged touch
06[20:34] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 ranged touch and gets 29." [1d20=6]
[20:34] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 SR
06[20:34] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 SR and gets 25." [1d20=9]
[20:35] <Alicia> roll 1d4 negative levels (also takes 5 negative energy damage)
06[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 negative levels (also takes 5 negative energy damage) and gets 2." [1d4=2]
03[20:35] * Kotono changes topic to 'Erinyes=Antenora(21)>Latha(19)>Alicia(15)=Bearded Devil=Lemures(8 of them)>Erinyes 2(-2 lvl)>Jargard(10)>Bariuar(3)'
[20:36] <Kotono> AS the beam flies out, withering the male erinyes massively, the bearded devil bellows again! It charges forward, going ahead to meet Jargard with it's glaive out!
[20:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 (+2 charge, -2 PA)
06[20:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 (+2 charge, -2 PA) and gets 25." [1d20=14]
[20:36] <Kotono> roll 1d10+9
06[20:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d10+9 and gets 14." [1d10=5]
[20:38] <Kotono> The fiend draws a jagged wound on Jargard's flank, bleeding profusely! Meanwhile, the lemures surge forward, reaching the front of the bairuar line!
[20:39] <Kotono> roll 8#1d20+4 (+2 charge)
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 8#1d20+4 (+2 charge) and gets 99." [8#1d20+4 = 13, 17, 20, 16, 5, 5, 15, 8]
[20:39] <Kotono> roll 5#1d4
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5#1d4 and gets 12." [5#1d4 = 2, 2, 1, 3, 4]
[20:40] <Kotono> Various minor woulds are drawn on the bariuar, but no serious ones at all! The scythe erinye sstaggers, before charging right at Alicia! "I know you!" His face is half excited, yet with a glimpse of something else - fear. "Alicia Reynes! I will claim your head for Hell!"
[20:40] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 (+2 charge, -2 lvl, -2 PA)
06[20:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 (+2 charge, -2 lvl, -2 PA) and gets 20." [1d20=4]
[20:40] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
[20:41] <Alicia> OOC: 23 (25 if within 20ft of Latha)
[20:41] <Kotono> Clang! Alicia brings up her quarterstaff, the metal of the scythe clanging off it, yet the wood is silent! At this, Jargard lays into his opponent!
[20:42] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12 (-2 PA)
06[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 (-2 PA) and gets 17." [1d20=5]
[20:42] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 (-2 PA)
06[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 (-2 PA) and gets 12." [1d20=5]
[20:42] <Kotono> roll 1d12+12
06[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d12+12 and gets 16." [1d12=4]
[20:42] <Kotono> A moment later, the barier lay into the foes ahead of them, while archers hang back and fire arrows at the male erinyes and Bearded Devil!
[20:43] <Kotono> roll 10#1d20+3
06[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10#1d20+3 and gets 106." [10#1d20+3 = 4, 10, 9, 16, 7, 8, 6, 23, 6, 17]
[20:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3 crit check
06[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 crit check and gets 13." [1d20=10]
[20:43] <Kotono> roll 1#1d6+2
06[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1#1d6+2 and gets Error: Numeric values only." [1d6=4]
[20:43] <Kotono> roll 3#1d6+2
06[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3#1d6+2 and gets 16." [3#1d6+2 = 5, 8, 3]
[20:45] <Kotono> The various lemures are slashed back, the battleline pushed back slightly! As the female Erinyes snarls, she exchanges blows with Antenora! "Begone, traitor!"
[20:45] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
06[20:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 17." [1d20=3]
[20:45] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9
06[20:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 24." [1d20=15]
[20:45] <Kotono> roll 1d8+5
06[20:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+5 and gets 10." [1d8=5]
[20:46] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 (+3 weapon, +2 FS 8/10, +7 smite, -4 nonlethal, -9 PA)
06[20:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 (+3 weapon, +2 FS 8/10, +7 smite, -4 nonlethal, -9 PA) and gets 24." [1d20=6]
[20:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 (+3 weapon, +2 FS 8/10, +7 smite, -4 nonlethal, -9 PA)
06[20:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 (+3 weapon, +2 FS 8/10, +7 smite, -4 nonlethal, -9 PA) and gets 20." [1d20=7]
[20:47] <Kotono> OOC: -2 to that.
[20:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20-1
06[20:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-1 and gets 4." [1d20=5]
[20:47] <Kotono> roll 1d6+1d6+30
06[20:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6+1d6+30 and gets 36." [1d6=2][1d6=4]
[20:49] <Kotono> With another massively staggering blow, Antenora takes a sword wound as she clubs the erinyes right over the head! Latha once again lets a holy smite out, getting 5 lemures this time!
[20:49] <Kotono> roll 5#1d20+3
06[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5#1d20+3 and gets 88." [5#1d20+3 = 23, 19, 9, 15, 22]
[20:49] <Kotono> roll 10d6 halved if it matters
06[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 halved if it matters and gets 30." [10d6=5, 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4]
03[20:49] * Kotono changes topic to 'Erinyes=Antenora(21)>Latha(19)>Alicia(15)=Bearded Devil=Lemures(3 of them)>Erinyes 2(-2 lvl)>Jargard(10)>Bariuar(3)'
[20:50] <Kotono> More lemures are vaporized, reduced to naught by ruin and ash! OOC: Alicia.
[20:51] <Alicia> "You know who I am but still think you can claim my head?" Alicia asks the erinyes in disbelief after parrying aside his scythe. "Insane," she shakes her head, laying into him with a flurry of bludgeoning strikes!
[20:52] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 -4 nonlethal, divine might, 5th and 2nd level arcane strike
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 -4 nonlethal, divine might, 5th and 2nd level arcane strike and gets 29." [1d20=5]
[20:52] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 -4 nonlethal, divine might, 5th and 2nd level arcane strike
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 -4 nonlethal, divine might, 5th and 2nd level arcane strike and gets 26." [1d20=2]
[20:52] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19 -4 nonlethal, divine might, 5th and 2nd level arcane strike
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 -4 nonlethal, divine might, 5th and 2nd level arcane strike and gets 25." [1d20=6]
[20:52] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19 -4 nonlethal, divine might, 5th and 2nd level arcane strike
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 -4 nonlethal, divine might, 5th and 2nd level arcane strike and gets 30." [1d20=11]
[20:52] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 -4 nonlethal, divine might, 5th and 2nd level arcane strike
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 -4 nonlethal, divine might, 5th and 2nd level arcane strike and gets 24." [1d20=10]
[20:52] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 -4 nonlethal, divine might, 5th and 2nd level arcane strike
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 -4 nonlethal, divine might, 5th and 2nd level arcane strike and gets 28." [1d20=14]
[20:52] <Kotono> OOC: All hit.
[20:52] <Alicia> roll 1d6+20+7d4
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d6+20+7d4 and gets 37." [1d6=1][7d4=4, 4, 1, 1, 4, 1, 1]
[20:52] <Alicia> roll 1d6+20+7d4
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d6+20+7d4 and gets 45." [1d6=6][7d4=2, 4, 3, 2, 2, 4, 2]
[20:52] <Alicia> roll 1d6+20+7d4
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d6+20+7d4 and gets 37." [1d6=5][7d4=2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 2, 1]
[20:52] <Alicia> roll 1d6+20+7d4
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d6+20+7d4 and gets 39." [1d6=3][7d4=3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 3, 2]
[20:52] <Alicia> roll 1d6+20+7d4
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d6+20+7d4 and gets 39." [1d6=3][7d4=2, 1, 4, 4, 3, 1, 1]
[20:52] <Alicia> roll 1d6+20+7d4
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d6+20+7d4 and gets 45." [1d6=5][7d4=4, 3, 3, 4, 1, 1, 4]
03[20:53] * Kotono changes topic to 'Erinyes=Antenora(21)>Latha(19)>Alicia(15)=Bearded Devil=Lemures(3 of them)>Jargard(10)>Bariuar(3)'
[20:54] <Kotono> The erinyes is battered and broken, knocekd around before it collapses to the slope in a beaten heap! The Bearded Devil swears at this, but fights on!
[20:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 12." [1d20=1]
[20:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 19." [1d20=13]
[20:55] <Kotono> roll 1d10+5
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d10+5 and gets 6." [1d10=1]
[20:55] <Kotono> He lands another scraping wound on the bariuar leader, but it's not enough to down him! It only seems to drive him on, as the last few lemures claw mindlessly!
[20:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2
[20:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 and gets 9." [1d20=7]
[20:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 and gets 11." [1d20=9]
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 and gets 15." [1d20=13]
[20:55] <Kotono> roll 1d4
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and gets 4." [1d4=4]
[20:56] <Kotono> But the wounds they inflict are pointless and weak, only a single one of any minor note! Jargard retorts, holding bakc for the moment as the arrows fly, belated but going!
[20:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 arrows Bearded
[20:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 arrows Bearded
[20:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 arrows Bearded
06[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 arrows Bearded and gets 23." [1d20=18]
06[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 arrows Bearded and gets 24." [1d20=19]
06[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 arrows Bearded and gets 25." [1d20=20]
[20:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 arrows Bearded crit?
06[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 arrows Bearded crit? and gets 13." [1d20=8]
[20:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
06[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 8." [1d20=3]
[20:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
06[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 10." [1d20=5]
[20:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
06[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 12." [1d20=7]
[20:57] <Kotono> Three arrows impale the bearded devil, gleaming with silver before the fiend vanishes away to whence it came! Arrows and blades tear into the remaining lemures!
[20:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 arrows lemures
[20:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 arrows lemures
[20:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 arrows lemures
06[20:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 arrows lemures and gets 7." [1d20=2]
06[20:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 arrows lemures and gets 7." [1d20=2]
06[20:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 arrows lemures and gets 20." [1d20=15]
[20:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
06[20:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 16." [1d20=13]
03[20:57] * Kotono changes topic to 'Erinyes=Antenora(21)>Latha(19)>Alicia(15)=Bearded Devil=Lemures(2 of them)>Jargard(10)>Bariuar(3)'
[20:58] <Kotono> 10#1d20+3
06[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10#1d20+3 and gets 139." [10#1d20+3 = 14, 17, 11, 22, 6, 13, 14, 15, 21, 6]
03[20:58] * Kotono changes topic to 'Erinyes=Antenora(21)>Latha(19)>Alicia(15)>Jargard(10)>Bariuar(3)'
[20:58] <Kotono> Under those slashes and hits, the lemures are finished off! Meanwhile, the last erinyes staggers, trying to withdraw as Antenora strikes!
[20:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (-3 PA, +2 FS 7/10)
06[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 (-3 PA, +2 FS 7/10) and gets 39." [1d20=19]
[20:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 29." [1d20=16]
[20:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
06[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 26." [1d20=18]
[20:59] <Kotono> roll 3d6+1d6+48
06[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+1d6+48 and gets 65." [3d6=4, 2, 5][1d6=6]
[21:00] <Kotono> As the erinyes tries to withdraw, Antenora's blows are too much! She falls as well, the battle over! OOC: Free act.
[21:00] <Kotono> "Back to Hell with you," Latha declares, as the bariaur cheer!
[21:00] <Alicia> Before the erinyes can be banished away, Alicia looks to see if the female has similar sized feet as her, and if so was she wearing any footwear?
[21:01] <Kotono> The female has slightly smaller feet than Alicia. She's wearing open sandals.
[21:02] <Kotono> Antenora kneels before the downed female erinyes, studying her face as she brushes back her hair.
[21:03] <Alicia> Well, sandals can be easily adjusted, and Alicia's sick of walking everywhere barefoot, even if the healing properties of Ysgard look after her feet. "Recognise her?" she asks gently, landing next to Antenora.
[21:04] <Kotono> "No. Just one in a countless infinity of damned souls." Antenora looks on at her, down. "I asked her in voice and in her mind, and both times she sneered. Just like I did...would she ever reach the same conclusions I did, if given a chance?" Keeping her voice very low, barely carrying over the loud cheers behind you, "The other one knew you?"
[21:06] <Alicia> "Recognised me, anyway," Alicia shrugs, looking back down the slope at where he fell. "As to her potential, you're more qualified than I to answer that question. If she's not even willing to pay lip-service to the idea, though..."
[21:07] <Kotono> "I know." Antenora sighs with a soft murmur of breath escaping her lips. "If we try, we risk her getting away if she can teleport." Below, the male erinyes is surrounded. His scythe has been removed, several bariuar smashing and hacking at it with their scimitars.
[21:12] <Alicia> "And we can't force her to change if she doesn't want to. I learned that with Aym," Alicia sighs as well. It doesn't feel right to steal her shoes when they're brooding like this.
[21:14] <Kotono> Reaching out to smooth the fallen erinyes' face again, "Can you heal her enough to waken? I want to ask, even if it's futile and a risk. If there's any chance of making her see hope for something better, I have to try. It would be too easy to send her back to Hell and forget. Even if it's a gamble and it's a waste of time, I need to try."
[21:15] <Alicia> "The situation's under control, there's really no risk in trying," Alicia agrees, happy to support Antenora in this - it would be wonderful if she succeeded, after all. "First, though," she channels a voice of the archon spell into her staff and then taps Antenora on the head, giving her a wink before healing the prone erinyes.
[21:15] <Alicia> OOC: 10hp lay on hands
[21:16] <Kotono> "Hitting me with a long, phallic object. I didn't know you cared." Antenora smiles weakly to that, grasping her club. Her voice is richer now, enrapturing. "Thanks."
06[21:20] * Alicia looks a bit less amused at that implication and silently continues her healing.
[21:20] <Alicia> OOC: 5hp
[21:21] <Kotono> The erinyes stirs a little to that, but not much. "Sorry," Antenora looks away. "Just trying to make light of all of that. Nevermind."
[21:22] <Alicia> "It's fine, I suppose I'm just being overly sensitive," Alicia sighs, wondering just how hard Antenora hit this fiend. A bit more healing and after that they'll have to rely on Ysgard, unless she wants to waste spellfire.
[21:23] <Alicia> OOC: wait, no more lay on hands since I lack my cloak
[21:23] <Alicia> roll 1d4+1 spellfire why not, wake up you ditz
06[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+1 spellfire why not, wake up you ditz and gets 2." [1d4=1]
[21:24] <Kotono> "Another reason to never get drunk again," Antenora sighs with open regret, "Sorry Ali-" She cuts herself off as the erinyes stirs. Her eyes flutter open, a dazed look over her face.
06[21:26] * Alicia stands back, ready to intervene if the fiend resists violently but leaving Antenora to negotiate. She'll probably have to talk to the poor girl later, but now's not the time.
[21:28] <Kotono> Antenora looms over her, face to face and eye to eye. Her hair falls down in a cascade, "Listen to me and listen to me very well. You stand at a crossroads. You can return to Hell and be punished for your failure. You can wallow in pain and impotent fury for centuries as you try and recover from this setback. You can craft a hundred schemes against us in revenge, trying to bring something to soothe the frusturating inside. Alternatively, you ca
[21:28] <Kotono> trying to bring something to soothe the frusturating inside. Alternatively, you can listen to me. You were right, I am a traitor. I turned away from Hell because there's something far better than it. Better than being in an endless competition you can never wind, better than being another cog in the machine. I offer the same chance to you, a chance to find meaning and happiness in your existance."
[21:29] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 her diplo isn't as high as you might think, despite being a charisma whore.
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 her diplo isn't as high as you might think, despite being a charisma whore. and gets 41." [1d20=18]
[21:29] <Alicia> It's a good speech. Alicia would be convinced, but then she's not a fiend herself...
[21:32] <Kotono> "Della...Bloodflier..." Coughing up a few flecks of blood as the erinyes glares up with hate, "Alicia Reynes." Her eyes lock with Antenora's, before she twists her head aside and closes her eyes tight. "You're doomed."
[21:33] <Kotono> "No, I'm far from doomed," Antenora reaches out, taking her chin and dragging her head back up. "You're going to listen to me." Her other hand goes, pulling an eyelid back. "You're not going to hide from my words or my eyes."
[21:35] <Kotono> The erinyes stares up with a haughty contempt, but in her face and eyes is something else again - fear. A fear hidden but not hidden well at all.
[21:36] <Kotono> "Afraid? Afraid of what your superior is going to do to you?" Antenora presses on, "Afraid of what torments you're going to suffer? What will happen? Pain? Degredation? Rape? Humiliation? Demotion? Oblivion?"
[21:38] <Alicia> "It's not as bad as it could be," Alicia interjects. "Since we can't kill you here you'll be going home without having to endure respawning - only the mercy of whichever devil sent you here."
[21:38] <Kotono> "Shut up," The erinyes struggles a bit, voice rising louder.
[21:40] <Kotono> "You can escape all of it. Come with us. Simply say you want to repent." Antenora locks into her eyes again, "Please. For your sake, for the sake of having a life worth living."
[21:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 29." [1d20=6]
[21:43] <Kotono> "I'm already damned if my enemies find out I've talked to you two," Hissing low, "Kill me or banish me back, I care not, just do it!"
[21:43] <Kotono> "Mercy?" Antenora raises an eyebrow. "Since when does a devil ask or expect mercy?"
06[21:44] * Alicia thinks Antenora's stretching the point a little, but is content for her to try it her way.
[21:45] <Kotono> "When you're so desperate that you have no other choices?" Antenora looms over her yet, then rises up, kneeling over her. "Take my hand if you want something besides an existance not worthy of a bug."
[21:46] <Kotono> To that, the erinyes snarls. It's fierceness is tempered by open fearn ow, as she spits at Antenora! It splats against her cheek, "The lowliest lemure is superior to you!"
[21:47] <Kotono> "Alicia?" Antenora asks, her eyes closing shut as she sighs.
[21:48] <Alicia> "Then why did she beat the hell out of you?" Alicia asks, wanting to make a point before they send this little princess on her merry way back to the pit. "Even bereft of her heritage, robbed of the supernatural powers you claim as birthright, she still stands tall. Only a few days ago she slew a Molydeus - you can't even fathom how high she's risen, in all respects!"
[22:00] <Kotono> The erinyes shakes, "S-shut up! You sicken me! You're a fool who's turned away from the only thing that matters!"
06[22:03] * Alicia turns and waves for Latha to come over. "Just think on this, though. Is whatever fate Hell has planned for us really that much worse than what gets done to any devil who fails, whether through incompetence or bad luck?"
[22:10] <Kotono> With blanching cheeks, "B-b-better to suffer than to be destroyed!"
[22:13] <Alicia> "You've never known a devil to be obliterated for failure? Or demoted to a defenceless lemure and sent to be ripped apart by tanar'ri on Avernus? It amounts to the same thing..." Alicia trails off and shakes her head. "I don't even know why I'm bothering."
[22:13] <Alicia> "You don't want to repent, fine - we can't force you, and I'm not going to lie and say everything will be perfect if you do. Latha here will send you back to Hell and you can forget all this and go back to doing whatever it is that gives your life meaning."
[22:16] <Kotono> There ia pause as Alicia speaks, then, "....wait," The erinyes croaks.
06[22:17] * Alicia looks back down at the flame-winged baatezu. "What?" she asks, wondering just when Antenora became the good cop and she became the bad cop...
[22:19] <Kotono> "Why?" She looks to Alicia and then Antenora, "You turned down a promotion and struck out against your betters to escape Hell. What madness has gripped you to act like a paladin? Is it her? She talks as sweetly as a Pit Fiend. Were you bribed? Do you sit on a throne of gold in the wretched heavens? Was it souls? Do you feast on the souls of the foolish good dead now?""
06[22:21] * Alicia ... thinks that was a compliment. Of sorts. Nonetheless she lets Antenora explain her own reasons for her change in nature.
[22:21] <Kotono> 'Promotion?' Antenora sends to Alicia a moment, 'News to me.'
[22:22] <Alicia> 'Didn't number eleven offer something like that?'
[22:23] <Kotono> 'Oh yes, that's true. Then again, why would a random erinyes know that?' Antenora says, and then aloud, "I have a reason to live that isn't self destroying hate and tyranny. I was never bribed with anything. I've gained the world: Friends, family, happiness. On this side, you need not bribe anything. Riches of immeasurable value are free."
[22:27] <Kotono> "What a fool..." The erinyes looks up at Antenora, and then back to Alicia. "Fools, both of you. What of power? What of nobility?"
[22:28] <Alicia> "Power we have, in case you haven't noticed the fact that you're the one on the ground right now," Alicia points out. "Nobility... well, I think we have entirely different definitions of that particular term..." Replying mentally to Antenora she says, 'You could ask what her source is?'
[22:32] <Kotono> "You can have everything if you come with us." Antenora smiles to her, 'I will in a moment. One last try, maybe something's sunk into her. Maybe, Mystra willing.'
[22:34] <Kotono> "You defeated us so easily..." The erinyes murmurs, casting her eyes down. "But what about when greater devils come to punish you?"
[22:35] <Kotono> "Ask the Spark Hunters what happens, if Asmodeus or Aesmadeva deigns to leave anything left of the ones that failed," Antenora smiles, a chilly little edge to it. "Ask Agares, former Duke of Stygia. Ask the last curator of the Halls of the Vanquished."
[22:37] <Alicia> "Antenora paints perhaps too rosy a picture. The Pit Fiend Archmage Esthan is too powerful for us right now, although he would rather recruit us for his rebellion against Asmodeus rather than slay us, there may be others matching his power," Alicia puts in, worried that Antenora paints too rosy a picture. "Regardless we strive to become stronger, so that none may threaten us with impunity."
[22:38] <Kotono> "But there is one thing. We are going to triumph." Antenora says, "That I promise you."
[22:41] <Kotono> "I..." Lingering on that...OOC: Make a diplo check, Alicia?
[22:41] <Alicia> roll 1d20+29
06[22:41] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+29 and gets 39." [1d20=10]
[22:42] <Kotono> "I...I...don't...don't send me back," At last, the erinyes whispers that.
[22:45] <Alicia> "Stand up," Alicia instructs, stepping back.
[22:46] <Kotono> Antenora's eyes widen, standing at Alicia's side. The erinyes stumbles, standing up with shaking legs.
[22:47] <Alicia> "What's your name?" Alicia asks the devil. Unlike with Antenora she doesn't press for the True Name, however.
[22:49] <Kotono> "Jezebel," she answers.
[22:55] <Alicia> "Well, Jezebel, you've made a big decision just now," Alicia tells her. "It doesn't matter whether you're sincere or you're just hoping to get the promotion Antenor declined by betraying us, the days ahead are going to be hard for you."
[22:55] <Alicia> "I hope you appreciate that I'm not simply running a care-centre for wayward fiends - redemption may never be closed off, but that doesn't make it easy, despite the rosy picture Antenora may paint."
[22:57] <Kotono> "It's hard," Antenora agrees, "But at the end, the rewards are beyond counting. "
[22:59] <Kotono> Jezebel looks Antenora in the eye, but doesn't say anything. Fear plays over her face again. "If you're sincere," Antenora smiles now, "You don't have anything to fear from us."
06[23:01] * Alicia looks over towards Latha and the Bariaur, curious how they're taking this.
[23:03] <Kotono> The bariaur are celebrating by and large. Latha is standing about thirty feet back, watching quietly. She inclines her head to Alicia when she turns back to her.
06[23:05] * Alicia nods back to Latha before following up on Antenora's earlier musing. "Jezebel," she begins. "You said Antenora turned down a promotion. The Spark Hunter who offered that was being held in captivity at the time and has since been imprisoned on Belierin. How did you know about it?"
[23:08] <Kotono> Biting her lip, "I know of you two from the words of my superior. It was a cautionary tale of the insidious morals of the Heavens. A fiend gaining more power, stolen by the empty words of the Heavens, dooming herself to the inevitable justice that will follow for a high crime."
[23:09] <Kotono> Antenora snorts out loud.
[23:10] <Alicia> Alicia's lip twitches and she bites down for a moment as she starts to convulse, but all too soon her mouth opens and laughter flows forth freely as she has to look away for a moment as she tries to bring her mirth under control.
[23:10] <Kotono> Antenora look sto Alicia, snorting again, shivering and falling into laughter. She leands forward, hands on her knees.
[23:12] <Kotono> Jezebel scowls at the two, but holds her tongue.
[23:13] <Alicia> It takes a moment before Alicia composes herself, still twitching a little bit. "Oh, my... I'm sorry, I don't mean to make fun, it's just too funny. I'm a cautionary tale for upstanding devils!"
[23:14] <Kotono> "About the MENANCE OF GOOD!" Antenora chimes in, wiping her e yes. "Really, I almost think that's brilliant satire."
[23:16] <Kotono> "That's how we know we've really gotten to them." Antenora smirks now, going to thump Alicia's back. "We're the glowing white boogeymen that will get a devil doomed to oblivion."
[23:17] <Alicia> "Ahh... anyway," Alicia shakes her head, trying to put aside the amusing distraction, "You can travel with us for now - give Antenora your sword, though. I want your word that you won't try to sneak away or backstab us, and that you'll seriously consider our words - regardless of how empty you've been told they are."

Corwin · March 28, 2012, 07:23:51 AM

[20:11] <Kotono> > Biting her lip, "I know of you two from the words of my superior. It was a cautionary tale of the insidious morals of the Heavens. A fiend gaining more power, stolen by the empty words of the Heavens, dooming herself to the inevitable justice that will follow for a high crime."
[20:11] <Kotono> > Antenora snorts out loud.
[20:11] <Kotono> <Alicia> Alicia's lip twitches and she bites down for a moment as she starts to convulse, but all too soon her mouth opens and laughter flows forth freely as she has to look away for a moment as she tries to bring her mirth under control.
[20:11] <Kotono> > Antenora look sto Alicia, snorting again, shivering and falling into laughter. She leands forward, hands on her knees.
[20:11] <Kotono> > Jezebel scowls at the two, but holds her tongue.
[20:11] <Kotono> <Alicia> It takes a moment before Alicia composes herself, still twitching a little bit. "Oh, my... I'm sorry, I don't mean to make fun, it's just too funny. I'm a cautionary tale for upstanding devils!"
[20:12] <Kotono> > "About the MENANCE OF GOOD!" Antenora chimes in, wiping her e yes. "Really, I almost think that's brilliant satire."
[20:12] <Kotono> > "That's how we know we've really gotten to them." Antenora smirks now, going to thump Alicia's back. "We're the glowing white boogeymen that will get a devil doomed to oblivion."
[20:12] <Kotono> <Alicia> "Ahh... anyway," Alicia shakes her head, trying to put aside the amusing distraction, "You can travel with us for now - give Antenora your sword, though. I want your word that you won't try to sneak away or backstab us, and that you'll seriously consider our words - regardless of how empty you've been told they are."
[20:12] <Kotono> Jezebel looks at the two, open skepticism passing over. But she hands over the longsword without incident.
[20:19] <Alicia> "I'll admit, this is a bit strange for me," Alicia admits. "Antenora jumped at the chance to serve me in hopes of bringing me back to Hell with her, and her claims that she could be reformed reeked of being desperate lies. This situation is entirely different, and I'm not even sure whether it makes your prospects better or worse."
[20:19] <Alicia> "Still, I want your word that you won't harm anyone while you travel with us, nor will you attempt to sneak off for the purposes of harming others. It's a fair trade in exchange for our protection, I think."
[20:20] <Kotono> "I promise I won't do so," she says quickly, not really meeting Alicia's eyes.
[20:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 sense motive
06[20:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 sense motive and gets 21." [1d20=11]
[20:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 you know, it's odd erinyes don't have ranks in bluff by default.
06[20:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 you know, it's odd erinyes don't have ranks in bluff by default. and gets 22." [1d20=17]
06[20:24] * Alicia studies the fiery-winged fiend for a moment longer before nodding. "You're getting off easy compared to what I forced Antenora to do," she notes. "Don't make me regret trusting your lawful nature."
[20:25] <Kotono> 'Now what?' Antenora asks in the vaults of Alicia's mind.
[20:27] <Alicia> 'Now we resume our quest. I'm a bit leery over how easily she surrendered herself to us - don't get too attached,' Alicia cautions in reply.
[20:31] <Kotono> 'I know.' Antenora says quietly.
[20:31] <Kotono> "Come with us," Antenora instructs, turning away and starting to walk.
[20:33] <Alicia> "What were you doing in Ysgard, anyway?" Alicia asks the fiend, hanging back a little to make sure she starts walking before she follows suit.
[20:34] <Kotono> Between Antenora and Alicia, Jezebel walks at their pace. "Looking to find the home of Yurgander, Champion of Selune."
[20:35] <Alicia> roll 1d20 who's that? (+20 if planes, +10 if religion)
06[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20 who's that? (+20 if planes, +10 if religion) and gets 18." [1d20=18]
[20:40] <Alicia> "I can probably guess what you intended to do once you found him, but indulge me anyway?" Alicia asks as they approach Latha and the Bariaur.
[20:43] <Kotono> "Report back, nothing more," Jezebel says neutraly, as Latha walks up, falling in step with Alicia. She and Jezebel lock eyes, but nothing is said.
06[20:47] * Alicia nods briefly to Latha before she approaches Jargand. "This erinyes has chosen to try and follow the example of Antenora and escape from the grind of Baator," she holds up a hand to forestall the inevitable protest.
[20:47] <Alicia> "I realise it's likely to be a trick, but for a long time Antenora also harboured allusions towards returning triumphantly to Hell with myself in tow. Until she proves herself not to be acting in good faith, Jezebel will enjoy our protection."
[20:48] <Kotono> Jargard grinds his teeth, eyeing Jezebel with harsh looks. But he relents, "Very well. You are champions of power beyond our pack. I do not agree, but I will not interpose myself."
06[20:53] * Alicia looks back at the other erinyes for a moment before turning back to the Bariaur. "It does not particularly thrill me, either, but mercy is not always easy. She will be watched."
[20:55] <Kotono> Jargard nods, "We will celebrate this night," he says, "What of the three of you? Will you celebrate as well? It would be best if she is not there." A look to Jezebel, "If you wish to leave immediately, I will leave the pack behind to begin to take you to your destination."
06[20:57] * Alicia nods. "It would be best if we not tarry further. I apologise for troubling you with this, Jargard,"
[21:03] <Kotono> "It will be a few days travel. We had best leave immediately." OOC: Ready to skip ahead?
[21:04] <Alicia> OOC: sure. Latha can watch Jez while Anty and I sleep. We'll chat as we travel to start impressing our morals onto her, much as I used to do with Anty
[21:08] <Kotono> The day passes without incident. Jezebel is mostly quiet, the party setting up camp. As Alicia gets ready for bed, she can note Antenora going to a nearby river to bathe, while Jezebel sits on a log. Latha lingers nearby, keeping a watch on her. Jargard looks up to the stars, lost in his own thoughts.
06[21:11] * Alicia decides to engage Jezebel in conversation for now, going to sit on the log a respectable distance from the erinyes. "What layer of Baator are you originally from, Jezebel?" she begins with something fairly innocuous.
[21:11] <Kotono> "Dis," She answers after a moment, a distant smile on her face. "The realm of Dispater, Father of Iron."
[21:12] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 what do I know of it?
06[21:12] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 what do I know of it? and gets 31." [1d20=11]
[21:23] <Alicia> "City of paranoia and despair," Alicia nods with a sardonic smile of her own. "Given your wings I'd almost pegged you as coming from Phlegethos. It's interesting the variety in form that comes among your kind - I'd be hard pressed to tell two osyluths apart, but every erinyes has its own unique appearance."
[21:26] <Kotono> "We are unique." Jezebel says, ever so slightly cooing in her voice. "The walls of Dis are iron as hot as magma. You have never known their embrace, I see."
[21:29] <Alicia> "No. For all that Dis may be the most cosmopolitan place in Hell, my trips there have been limited to icy Stygia... although Cania is even colder, so Antenora tells me," Alicia shrugs. "Have you done it often? Tormented those without your immunity to heat by pressing them to those walls?"
[21:30] <Kotono> "Of course. Shower them with kisses as they burn to death." Jezebel's eyes sparkle at Alicia. "Have you ever heard someone scream as they are cooked like a roast in the fire?"
[21:34] <Alicia> "It's fun, isn't it?" Alicia edges closer to the fiend. "Torturing your lessers? Using them for your pleasure and discarding them in the most painfully amusing ways when they no longer hold your interest?" Her voice is breathy and excited as she straddles the log and faces Jezebel fully. "Every scream a testament to your superiority, every corpse a stepping stone to greater heights?"
[21:37] <Kotono> "My, I'd think you're getting into it." Demurely lowering her eyes, "Should I continue talking dirty while you position on that log? I can tell you all about it. Yet somehow, I doubt that is your intent."
[21:39] <Alicia> "I could send you back," Alicia offers instead, her gaze hardening along with her tone. "Since you love it so much. Say the word and we can end this charade."
[21:41] <Kotono> "Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you weren't supposed to lie and play up sarcasm, paladin." Looking Alicia dead cold in the eyes, "Of course, if you think tormenting your lessers if fun, I can show you. Della is your servant, after all, and a perfect test subject."
[21:45] <Alicia> "Considering how swiftly she incapacitated you, I doubt you'd be in a fit state to do much tormenting at all," Alicia replies dryly. "And I'm being perfectly sincere about one thing - if you find yourself homesick, please tell me. I can send you back without you having to endure the pain of respawning, and we can all forget this ever happened."
[21:47] <Kotono> After a moment, Jezebel nods. "Do it. I've had enough of this to last me an eternity."
[21:53] <Alicia> "It's not for everyone, much as we might wish otherwise," Alicia agrees. "Should you ever have second thoughts, know that the door never closes." Focusing on her innate ability to dispel evil, Alicia is surrounded by a ring of shimmering white energy...
[21:54] <Kotono> Jezebel waits, eyes on Alicia. "Do you think I'm bluffing? Do it." she challenges.
[21:56] <Alicia> Antenora will be sad, Alicia realises, but hopefully she'll understand... "Don't resist," she instructs gently, reaching over and tapping the erinyes on the forehead.
[21:56] <Alicia> OOC: there's SR and she gets a save if she wants it, otherwise she's banished.
[21:58] <Kotono> With that, Jezebel is gone. Latha approaches once she vanishes, "Sorry." she says aloud. "You did all you could, but her heart is still defiance and full of evil."
06[21:59] * Alicia shakes her head, closing her eyes. "It was never going to work. Still, I feel terrible for Antenora - I know how much it would mean for her to be able to guide another out of the pit."
[22:00] <Kotono> "I know she'll understand on one level, even if she's hurt." Latha sits next to Alicia. "Be honest with her...though..." Latha hesitates. "Has something been wrong between the two of you? I heard you arguing before waking Jezebel up earlier today. She kept aplogizing for something."
[22:01] <Kotono> *apologizing
06[22:03] * Alicia didn't think it could be called an argument, but a deva is probably more sensitive to such things... "She's just beating herself up because she got drunk and said some embarrassing things. I'm not holding it against her at all, but she's been walking on eggshells around me lately," she sighs.
[22:04] <Kotono> To that, Latha laughs. It is a golden sound, a melody that turns away darkness and anxiety that festers in your heart. "What a lovely, mortal concern. I do not desire to make light of it, but go and make things right. If that's all that's bothering her, she's truly risen far."
[22:07] <Alicia> "I need to tell her about Jezebel, anyway," Alicia agrees, feeling a bit better after talking to Latha. Getting up, she starts to head towards the river where Antenora is bathing.
[22:08] <Kotono> Antenora is sitting in the river. Brisk, cold waters move around her up to her midsection. She gets doublehandfuls of water, pouring them over her head and splashing her body. "Alicia?" she turns as Alicia approaches.
[22:10] <Alicia> "Jezebel asked to go home," Alicia says without pre-amble as she stands on the bank, wanting to get this over with before moving onto Antenora's recent trepidation.
[22:11] <Kotono> Antenora's arms drop down, the water they were scooping up splashing into her lap. "Damn it back to Hell." She sighs. "Better sooner than later...and we did try," she says, "Thanks."
06[22:14] * Alicia nods, feeling like a heel for having done it even though it was necessary. "I was baiting her, about what her life was like. I told her if she didn't want to go through with this, if she'd rather just forget it and go home, I'd send her back. She called me on it, and so I did as she asked," she concludes honestly.
[22:15] <Kotono> "It's for the best." Antenora looks up at Alicia, a sad smile. "Maybe she was calling your bluff, I don't know. It's alright. It hurts, but I know it's long odds to succeed."
06[22:19] * Alicia doesn't bother with any platitudes, knowing the odds of Jezebel taking her parting words seriously are infintesimal.
[22:19] <Alicia> Instead she elects for a physical gesture that will hopefully provide some comfort as well as reassure Antenora to stop acting so awkwardly, stepping into the river and embracing her friend, heedless of her undress and the water soaking Alicia's own clothes. "I'm sorry," is all she offers.
[22:24] <Kotono> Antenora's back stiffens, before returning the hug. "I'm sorry I lacked self control. Alicia, I love you. But if I ever say I love you in a carnal way, hit me. If I start to get drunk again, hit me twice. It's just stupid, but...It felt like you locked everyone out that evening, brooding and hurting by yourself."
[22:28] <Alicia> "I know," Alicia sighs. "It's how I've always been - that doesn't mean the support you and Marie gave didn't mean a lot, though. You've got nothing to be ashamed of," she gives her friend a squeeze before seperating and holding her gaze, "I know what you really meant, past the drunken veneer."
[22:31] <Kotono> "Good. I know you did, at heart." Antenora smiles to Alicia, holding her gaze as well. " But you know, it bothers me when people start talking about us like that, just like you'd be bothered if people said you and Jessica were lovers because you were close. Just because I love you as a friend and so much more, doesn't mean I love you like THAT." Making a face, "Besides, I'd be with Marie if I was interested in that. Opposites attract, don't the
[22:31] <Kotono> "Besides, I'd be with Marie if I was interested in that. Opposites attract, don't they?"
06[22:35] * Alicia smiles lopsidedly. "She might be thrilled to hear you say that, but I get the feeling she's more interested in the chase," she notes. "Anyway, it does bother me a little as well but you just have to rise above it. There are worse things to be called, after all."
[22:35] <Alicia> Pulling back and climbing back onto the back, she concludes with, "I'll let you finish bathing, now." A quick cantrip will dry and clean herself off in one go, after all.
[22:36] <Kotono> "True. Endurance is a virtue as well." Antenora goes back to bathing, "Oh, and Alicia?"
[22:37] <Alicia> "Yes?" Alicia looks back.
[22:39] <Kotono> Biting her lip, "Something's been bothering me. Just bear with me amoment here. On the Abyss, well..you know what happened in Malcanthet's realm. There was Brightwater and all of that, and now Ysgard. Am I making something out of nothing, or..." spreading her hands. "I mean, we even had a heart to heart talk while I was bathing just now."
06[22:42] * Alicia blinks. "That was me trying to show you that I'm still comfortable around you so you don't need to feel bad," she explains. "We've seen each other naked plenty of times before, and we are both women, so..." she shrugs eloquently. "What about those other places?"
[22:43] <Kotono> "Nevermind." Laughing, "I'm just making something out of nothing again. I must be a bit skittish because of the chaos here, nothing more. We'll see each other in the morning?"
[22:45] <Alicia> "Or even tonight once you come out of the river," Alicia replies dryly. "We still have to eat before going to bed, after all. Anyway, I'll see you in a bit," she wanders off to rejoin Latha and Jargard, drying herself off with prestidigitation en route.
[22:45] <Kotono> OOC: SKip along?
[22:46] <Alicia> OOC: sure
[22:47] <Kotono> The next day of travel...
[22:47] <Kotono> d100
06[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls d100 and gets 36." [d100=36]
[22:49] <Kotono> The next day of travel passes without incident. A few days go on like this, a pleasant blur. One morning, as noon creeps close, you come to a nearly vertical ring of mountains, rising up like towers. "Past these mountains is the valley where your goal lies." He begins, pointing upward. "There are caves to pass through, or you can fly high enough to cross the mountain tops to get in."
[22:50] <Alicia> "Thank you, Jargard," Alicia smiles at the bariaur. "Besides the spawn we seek, do you know of any other creatures around here who might give us trouble?"
[22:52] <Kotono> "Yes. The caves and higher sky have the spawn of the spawn of Jormungandr. They will fight any they see. Further, there are other creatures who nest here, either to look for battle, or drawn in by the presence of the spawn. These are creatures that know not death, for they will rise on the sun's ascension. They are fearless and love battle."
[22:53] <Kotono> "Also, there are glaciers and cold to worry of deeper into the valley and mountains."
06[22:53] * Alicia nods and looks towards Latha and Antenora. "Either of you two have a preference between going through the caves or flying overhead?"
[22:56] <Kotono> "Caves." Anenora considers, "More defendable if we get in trouble. If one of us is defeated or stunned, it will be a long fall indeed. Besides, without my spear, charging is a less attractive option."
[22:57] <Kotono> "I'll defer to which the two of you prefer," Latha says, looking upward towards the sky.
[22:57] <Alicia> "It'll let me preserve spells I'd otherwise have to use on flying, so caves suit me better as well," Alicia nods. "Besides," she grins savagely, "We'll be flying on our way back."
[23:00] <Kotono> "Right!" Latha nods, "Jargard, do you know of any cave entrances?"
[23:01] <Kotono> "I'll take you to one," he agrees, "You'll be on your own from there. If you need to beat a retreat, most of the spawn and troublemakers won't pursue you out of the caves."
[23:02] <Alicia> "I can teleport us to safety if need be, but hopefully we can handle anything in the cave if we're to actually tame the elder spawn itself," Alicia offers as they march onwards.
[23:06] <Kotono> You come closer to the mountains. Here, lying against the base, is a pile of boulders. After moving them, Jargard reveals a cave mouth, leading inside. "Good luck, all of you. You're warriors that made me proud to fight with."
[23:08] <Alicia> "And you've been a joy to travel with," Alicia salutes the bariaur with her staff. "Safe travels on your way back to your pack, and fortune in your future battles."
[23:08] <Kotono> "Be safe," Antenora bids, before turning to the cave. "Shall we?"
[23:10] <Alicia> "Lets," Alicia nods as she heads into the cave, casting Light on her staff to provide illumination within (and feeling a bit guilty that she's the only one who actually needs it).

Corwin · March 28, 2012, 07:24:05 AM

[16:16] <Blondezilla> > "Caves." Anenora considers, "More defendable if we get in trouble. If one of us is defeated or stunned, it will be a long fall indeed. Besides, without my spear, charging is a less attractive option."
[16:16] <Blondezilla> > "I'll defer to which the two of you prefer," Latha says, looking upward towards the sky.
[16:16] <Blondezilla> <Alicia> "It'll let me preserve spells I'd otherwise have to use on flying, so caves suit me better as well," Alicia nods. "Besides," she grins savagely, "We'll be flying on our way back."
[16:16] <Blondezilla> > "Right!" Latha nods, "Jargard, do you know of any cave entrances?"
[16:16] <Blondezilla> > "I'll take you to one," he agrees, "You'll be on your own from there. If you need to beat a retreat, most of the spawn and troublemakers won't pursue you out of the caves."
[16:16] <Blondezilla> <Alicia> "I can teleport us to safety if need be, but hopefully we can handle anything in the cave if we're to actually tame the elder spawn itself," Alicia offers as they march onwards.
[16:16] <Blondezilla> > You come closer to the mountains. Here, lying against the base, is a pile of boulders. After moving them, Jargard reveals a cave mouth, leading inside. "Good luck, all of you. You're warriors that made me proud to fight with."
[16:16] <Blondezilla> <Alicia> "And you've been a joy to travel with," Alicia salutes the bariaur with her staff. "Safe travels on your way back to your pack, and fortune in your future battles."
[16:16] <Blondezilla> > "Be safe," Antenora bids, before turning to the cave. "Shall we?"
[16:16] <Blondezilla> <Alicia> "Lets," Alicia nods as she heads into the cave, casting Light on her staff to provide illumination within (and feeling a bit guilty that she's the only one who actually needs it).
03[16:16] * CC is now known as Seira
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03[16:17] * Alicia sets mode: +v Rei-chan
[16:18] <Alicia> OOC: Anty has greater magic weapon on her sword, btw. If Latha has scavenged a weapon at any point it also as gmw.
[16:18] <Blondezilla> OOC: She hasn't. Noted for hers.
[16:20] <Blondezilla> Thus the trio proceed in! After about five minutes of walking, a slightly downsloping path of water-worn stone, you come to a carved archway in the stone. It stands out, made of perfectly fitted red bricks. Atop the arch a drawing of a snake can be seen. It's twisted into the infinity symbol, it's mouth devouring it's tail.
[16:23] <Alicia> "Probably a warning," Alicia muses, taking a moment to cast Shield on herself. "Keep an eye out, chances are the spawn of the spawn are nearby," she cautions as she heads onwards.
[16:26] <Blondezilla> Antenora hefts her club. Grinning wickedly, "I'll just brain them. Will that do, Alicia?"
06[16:29] * Alicia wonders why she isn't using the sword, but assumes it's for the same reason she eschewed using any of the erinyes bows during the desert campaign, so doesn't comment. "If they're looking for a fight, that's what they'll get," she confirms.
[16:33] <Blondezilla> The three progress on. The cave widens out, the walls scraped out in massive strokes. (More)
[16:33] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+25
[16:33] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+25 --> [ 1d20=4 ]{29}
[16:33] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+17
[16:33] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+17 --> [ 1d20=9 ]{26}
[16:33] <Blondezilla> Latha stops, holding out her arm. "Wait...I hear something below us." she whispers.
06[16:36] * Alicia looks down at the floor for a moment before she moves towards the nearest wall. "Careful, it could attack through the floor," she cautions worriedly.
[16:38] <Blondezilla> The party quickly moves to the wall with Alicia! It's a good thing, for a moment later, the ground below the pair moves out of the way, like flowing wet stone! Coming up is a large, gray wyrm, dozens of feet long and snapping and twirling about! Hisses of green mist come from it's nostrils and mouth, making the air reek of sickly sour scents! OOC: Initiative, you guys avoided the hunter's ambush.
[16:38] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5
[16:38] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+5 --> [ 1d20=18 ]{23}
[16:39] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+5 Antenora
[16:39] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+5 Antenora --> [ 1d20=20 ]{25}
[16:39] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+8 Latha
[16:39] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+8 Latha --> [ 1d20=7 ]{15}
[16:39] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+3 Spawn
[16:39] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+3 Spawn --> [ 1d20=2 ]{5}
03[16:39] * Blondezilla changes topic to 'Antenora>Alicia>Latha>Spawn'
[16:39] <Blondezilla> Antenora reacts quickly, pouncing forward with her club striking out!
[16:40] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+21 (+2 charge, -3 PA)
[16:40] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+21 (+2 charge, -3 PA) --> [ 1d20=18 ]{39}
[16:40] <Blondezilla> roll 1d6+16
[16:40] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d6+16 --> [ 1d6=4 ]{20}
[16:41] <Blondezilla> The heavy club strike catches the wyrm right in the side, smashing aside a few scales! Yet the blow almost rings hollow, the club pushed back! OOC: Alicia.
[16:41] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 knowledge devotion as well as specific info on abilities/weaknesses
[16:41] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+20 knowledge devotion as well as specific info on abilities/weaknesses --> [ 1d20=20 ]{40}
[16:47] <Alicia> "Watch out, it's breath is poisonous!" Alicia warns, doing what she can to hopefully dilute its effectiveness by sending a ray of negative energy straight at the beast!
[16:47] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 ranged touch
[16:47] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+23 ranged touch --> [ 1d20=18 ]{41}
[16:47] <Blondezilla> OOC: Hit.
[16:47] <Alicia> roll 1d4 negative levels and 5 negative energy damage
[16:47] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d4 negative levels and 5 negative energy damage --> [ 1d4=1 ]{1}
03[16:47] * Blondezilla changes topic to 'Antenora>Alicia>Latha>Spawn (-1 lvl)'
[16:48] <Blondezilla> The crackling black ray strikes the spawn, making it twist wildly in the air! A moment later, Latha joins the battle with a single slam at it's face!
[16:48] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+18 (+2 charge, -4 PA)
[16:48] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+18 (+2 charge, -4 PA) --> [ 1d20=5 ]{23}
[16:48] <Blondezilla> roll 1d8+13
[16:48] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d8+13 --> [ 1d8=2 ]{15}
02[16:49] * Not_Related_By_Blood_Mikain (~Melanchth@pool-96-231-68-41.washdc.east.verizon.net) Quit (-=SysReset 2.53=-)
[16:51] <Blondezilla> Latha closes in on it, slamming her fist into the side of the snake! "It's hard as steel!" Latha calls back, as...
[16:51] <Blondezilla> The twisting, writhing snake bites at Antenora!
[16:51] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+18 (-5 PA)
[16:51] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+18 (-5 PA) --> [ 1d20=8 ]{26}
[16:52] <Blondezilla> roll 2d6+14 and fort save needed
[16:52] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 2d6+14 and fort save needed --> [ 2d6=6 ]{20}
[16:52] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+22
[16:52] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+22 --> [ 1d20=7 ]{29}
[16:53] <Blondezilla> Antenora is bit right on the shoulder! The hissing green mist sprays about, sizzling on the stones where it lands, the stench from it becoming stronger! IT then writhes upwards, twisting around and and around, before flowing up into the ceiling! OOC: Antenora and Latha can AoO it.
[16:54] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+16 Latha
[16:54] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+16 Latha --> [ 1d20=4 ]{20}
[16:54] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+19 Antenora
[16:54] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+19 Antenora --> [ 1d20=5 ]{24}
[16:54] <Blondezilla> roll 1d6+16
[16:54] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d6+16 --> [ 1d6=6 ]{22}
[16:56] <Blondezilla> As it does so, Antenora slams her club into the beast! It's another heavy blow to it, but one resisted as it vanishes into the stone ceiling! Antenora holds her position a moment...OOC: +2 HP for her. Alicia?
[16:56] <Blondezilla> "It's not far in the ceiling," Antenora reports back, "It's just twisting around up there."
[16:57] <Alicia> "It'll be back, but lets not wait for it," Alicia suggests, starting to move through the cavern. "Come on, if we keep moving it'll have a harder time ambushing us."
[16:57] <Blondezilla> "They're not that smart - like a slow mortal, perhaps." Antenora hurries as well, Latha doing the same! Looking back, "It's not pursuing," she reports.
[16:58] <Alicia> "It could be confused because the energy drain I inflicted isn't healing," Alicia muses. "Lets keep going, anyway. We'll probably run into more."
[16:59] <Blondezilla> Hurrying along, the party follows this path for about ten minutes. It tightens up for a time, b efore coming to a left/right intersection. The left way is bigger, easily able to walk abreast through it. To the right is a narrow crack in the wall, a squeezer of a path leading deeper in.
[17:00] <Blondezilla> OOC: Antenora's HP has replenished.
06[17:01] * Alicia elects to go left, since they'd have a hard time dodging any attacks coming through the walls or floor/ceiling if they were trapped in that cramped passage.
[17:02] <Blondezilla> Latha and Antenora follow Alicia's lead. After a few more minutes of walking, the cave walls lined with deposits of some sort of heavy metal, Alicia notices the temperature is dropping. It's going from chilly to cold.
[17:04] <Alicia> "Hmm... cold iron?" Alicia wonders, tapping the metal with her staff.
[17:07] <Blondezilla> The metal is a faint, off gray color. It doesn't budge or react to the tappling. Antenora peers at it...
[17:07] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+14
[17:07] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+14 --> [ 1d20=7 ]{21}
[17:08] <Blondezilla> "Looks like it," Antenora reaches out, tapping it with her knuckles. "I'm not entirely certain, though. I don't really know minerals, just enough magical lore to make a good guess."
[17:11] <Alicia> "We'd need cold iron to really hurt the spawn we hunt," Alicia admits... "Latha, do you still have whatever you used to make that halo of yours?" she asks the deva, recalling how she said her quest was to mine the ore herself and then craft it into the halo.
[17:12] <Blondezilla> "Yes." Latha comes out with a crude pick, handing it over to Alicia. "I have some skill crafting armor, but that doesn't mean I can craft weapons well, let alone cold iron."
[17:13] <Blondezilla> "I've picked up a bit of experience with emtalworking," Antenora speaks up, "I could try? I don't know if I'll have any success."
[17:14] <Alicia> "At worst we could probably melt some down and make a crude mace-head for your club?" Alicia suggests, having enough fiery magic to make an attempt.
[17:15] <Blondezilla> "Melting cold iron ruins the properties," Antenora shakes her head, "You're supposed to craft it and cold forge it."
[17:16] <Alicia> "Oh..." Alicia deflates a bit. "Well, it might be worth the effort of trying anyway. I'll help however I can."
[17:17] <Blondezilla> "I can pick some and Antenora and I can try making something?" Latha suggests. "You can try melting some, too? Even crude metal weapons would be an improvement for Antenora over a club."
[17:18] <Blondezilla> "I feel like a primitive, trying to make tools in the cave as winter rages," Antenora feels the iron with her open palm. "Next we'll be making wyrm scale dresses to wear."
[17:18] <Alicia> "Alright, lets get to work," Alicia smiles, happy to follow whatever direction is required so she can aid the two who have actual knowledge of metalworking. "It's just another part of the adventure, isn't it?"
[17:19] <Blondezilla> "That's the point, I think." Latha turns to the wall, starting to work her pick. OOC: ARe you going to try melting some or just wait around, Alicia?
[17:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20-1 aid another (-2 for lack of tools on my part)
[17:19] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20-1 aid another (-2 for lack of tools on my part) --> [ 1d20=5 ]{4}
[17:19] <Alicia> OOC: I'll just do whatever they tell me to to help out in the process. I don't know much about metalworking.
[17:20] <Blondezilla> About a half hour passes. Latha picks away large deposits of cold iron, gathering several chunks of it. As she works, Antenora looks up, "Coming from the wall you're mining, about 100 feet away still. Looks like another snake."
[17:22] <Alicia> "Lets drive it off, then," Alicia steps back from the wall and readies her quarterstaff.
[17:22] <Blondezilla> OOC: How long is the duration on light, Alicia?
[17:24] <Alicia> OOC: 2 and a half hours
[17:25] <Blondezilla> Antenora readies her club, as Latha drops her pick and readies her fists! As the seconds pass, Antenora points at one spot on the wall. "It's coming from there in a second!" Her club is raised, poised to strike. Latha does the same, ready to pounce on that spot.
06[17:26] * Alicia positions herself next to Latha as well, wanting to take down the spawn swiftly as soon as it appears. It's possible that its teeth could be used as weapons to hurt its sire as well, perhaps.
[17:28] <Blondezilla> At that, the snake comes out! IT twists and turns, but the party isr eady, pouncing on it! OOC: Surprise round.
[17:28] <Blondezilla> Antenora is on it, club striking out swiftly to maim it!
[17:28] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+18 (-4 PA)
[17:28] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+18 (-4 PA) --> [ 1d20=7 ]{25}
[17:28] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+13
[17:28] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+13 --> [ 1d20=11 ]{24}
[17:28] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+8
[17:28] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+8 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{10}
[17:28] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 devotion
[17:28] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+20 devotion --> [ 1d20=10 ]{30}
[17:28] <Blondezilla> roll 1d6+18
[17:28] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d6+18 --> [ 1d6=4 ]{22}
[17:28] <Blondezilla> roll 1d6+18
[17:28] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d6+18 --> [ 1d6=6 ]{24}
06[17:29] * Alicia strikes out with a flurry of bludgeoning strikes to the head!
[17:29] <Blondezilla> Antenora clobbers it over the head twice, landing severe, heavy blows!
[17:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+29 divine might, 4th level arcane strike
[17:29] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+29 divine might, 4th level arcane strike --> [ 1d20=14 ]{43}
[17:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+29 divine might, 4th level arcane strike
[17:29] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+29 divine might, 4th level arcane strike --> [ 1d20=12 ]{41}
[17:30] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 divine might, 4th level arcane strike
[17:30] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+24 divine might, 4th level arcane strike --> [ 1d20=7 ]{31}
[17:30] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 divine might, 4th level arcane strike
[17:30] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+24 divine might, 4th level arcane strike --> [ 1d20=11 ]{35}
[17:30] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19 divine might, 4th level arcane strike
[17:30] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+19 divine might, 4th level arcane strike --> [ 1d20=8 ]{27}
[17:30] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19 divine might, 4th level arcane strike
[17:30] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+19 divine might, 4th level arcane strike --> [ 1d20=6 ]{25}
[17:30] <Blondezilla> OOC: All hit. Bring on the pain.
[17:30] <Alicia> roll 1d6+20+4d4
[17:30] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d6+20+4d4 --> [ 1d6=6 4d4=11 ]{37}
[17:30] <Alicia> roll 1d6+20+4d4
[17:30] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d6+20+4d4 --> [ 1d6=4 4d4=9 ]{33}
[17:30] <Alicia> roll 1d6+20+4d4
[17:30] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d6+20+4d4 --> [ 1d6=1 4d4=14 ]{35}
[17:30] <Alicia> roll 1d6+20+4d4
[17:30] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d6+20+4d4 --> [ 1d6=6 4d4=11 ]{37}
[17:30] <Alicia> roll 1d6+20+4d4
[17:30] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d6+20+4d4 --> [ 1d6=5 4d4=8 ]{33}
[17:30] <Alicia> roll 1d6+20+4d4
[17:30] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d6+20+4d4 --> [ 1d6=1 4d4=7 ]{28}
[17:30] <Blondezilla> roll 37+33+35+37+33+28
[17:30] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 37+33+35+37+33+28 --> {203}
[17:31] <Blondezilla> Alicia's flurry is far more savage! Each flaming blow clobbers the snake, it's body sliding out of the wall and to the floor like a giant hose! It is down there, head smashed and ruined before Latha even strikes! OOC: Ow. Free act.
06[17:33] * Alicia examines the wyrm for a moment in thought. "There might be something we can use besides cold iron," she muses, grabbing its jaw for a moment and attempting to wrench out one of its fangs, careful to avoid cutting herself and getting poison in her bloodstream.
[17:35] <Blondezilla> OOC: MAke a dex check I suppose, Alicia?
[17:36] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5
[17:36] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+5 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{7}
[17:37] <Blondezilla> Alicia works, yanking out a fang! This part is quite easy, it's mouth and head already smashed! However, as she does, a spray of green hissing mist lands on her hands and arm, soaking into her skin! OOC: Fort.
[17:38] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26
[17:38] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+26 --> [ 1d20=13 ]{39}
[17:38] <Blondezilla> The poison hisses on Alicia's skin, but she's able to reflexively wipe it away before anything ill happens! "Alicia," Antenora is at her side, "You alright?"
[17:39] <Alicia> "It's fine," Alicia gives her arm a shake. "Just a little left over poison. Anyway, let me try something," she uses her purloined fang to cut into the beast's scaly hide to see if it offers the same sort of resistance as it does to other weapons.
[17:43] <Blondezilla> The fang cuts into the beast's scales easily and without resistance.
06[17:45] * Alicia smiles triumphantly. "It'll look very primitive, but you could make a pick by tying one of these to your club, or even use it as a dagger. We'll see how we do with the cold iron anyway, though, shall we?"
[17:47] <Blondezilla> "Right," Latha continues to work! After another half hour she has enough, Antenora beginning. "This is going to be crude, but I'm going to do my best," she says.
[17:47] <Alicia> "Let me know if there's anything I can do to help," Alicia offers.
[17:48] <Blondezilla> OOC: You already made an aid another check, didn't you?
[17:48] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+2 aid another Latha
[17:48] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+2 aid another Latha --> [ 1d20=5 ]{7}
[17:55] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+1 Antenora craft check
[17:55] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+1 Antenora craft check --> [ 1d20=16 ]{17}
[17:57] <Blondezilla> Antenora spends hours and hours working. It's hard work, half frozen sweat trickling down her face. Latha and Alicia try to help, bu tthey find themselves getting in the way more often than not. But come six hours later? Antenora leans back, a crude, heavy sword-like object in her lap. "Whew." She droops, wiping her forehead with her arm. "It's not going to be a great weapon, but it should work."
[18:00] <Alicia> "The elder spawn is likely far more resistant than its progeny, so you'll probably need it," Alicia nods. In the interim she's busied herself by tearing strips off her leggings (and regenerating them with the mending cantrip) and using them to tie the fang tightly to Antenora's club, which she gives to Latha.
[18:00] <Alicia> "And this'll help your sword anyway," she presses her palm on it, calling on Mystra to bless the weapon.
[18:00] <Alicia> OOC: greater magic weapon on sword
[18:01] <Blondezilla> Latha takes the spiked club and hefts it. Antenora stands, swinging her blade. "It's more like a club anyway," she smiles as she swings the sword, "Very heavy, I used too much metal. Thanks." Stretching out now, "Are we ready to continue?"
[18:01] <Alicia> "Lets go," Alicia agrees, continuing through the chilly cave.
[18:02] <Blondezilla> After another half hour of walking, the path widens out a little more again. Ahead is a bend, but that's not the only notable thing. You can smell smoke in the air, a rich, thick, pleasing smoke. It smells like good moss and meat.
06[18:03] * Alicia sniffs a few times. "Smells like someone's cooking," she notes, approaching the bend. "Hope they're friendly..."
[18:04] <Blondezilla> Antenora puts a hand to her stomach as it rumbles aloud. "I miss my ring," she mumrurs, "I just realized I'm starving."
[18:06] <Alicia> "It's been a while since we ate," Alicia agrees, pressing on. "We'll stop to eat once we're past here if there isn't anyone friendly."
[18:07] <Blondezilla> Going around the bend, the party sees a larger cavern. The left wall is not stone but pure white ice, the edge of a glacier mashed against stone. By this wall is a large bonfire, meltwater from near the fire accumulating into a little dug trench. Objects are piled around here - barrels, stonework, tools, boxes, even a wheelless covered wagon. In front of the fire are three huge, horned creatures. They have golden fur all over their bull-li
[18:08] <Blondezilla> They have golden fur all over their bull-like bodies. Gigantic hammers rest nearby them. On the fire roasts a large chunk of a wyrm, cooking away.
[18:10] <Alicia> "Ho there," Alicia greets the creatures openly from a respectable distance, hoping they don't want any trouble.
[18:12] <Blondezilla> The three creatures turn, one of them bellowing, "Ho there! Why are you in these caves?" It's voice is like earthen rocks clashing together.
[18:13] <Alicia> "We're travelling to the valley on the other side of the mountains where a spawn of Jormungandr is said to roam," Alicia replies. "And yourselves?"
[18:15] <Blondezilla> "We are Earthlight Clan." Grabbing his hammer, "You are warriors, then? Excellent! Do us the honor of battling with us, brave heroes!"
[18:15] <Blondezilla> 'Do you want to fight?' Antenora asks in Alicia's mind right after. 'They're about average intelligence.'
[18:18] <Alicia> 'It's how people say hello here. Besides, there's no permanent harm in it,' Alicia returns mentally as she hefts her quarterstaff. "If battle is what you seek then be prepared. Shall we fight to the end or merely till the victor becomes obvious?"
[18:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+2 nature, devotion and what are they?
[18:18] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+2 nature, devotion and what are they? --> [ 1d20=11 ]{13}
[18:19] <Blondezilla> "To the end! Should we fall, feast on our dinner and make merry!" He invites, as the other two ready hammers as well, "For nothing is as pure and glorious as battle!" With that, the three charge! OOC: Init.
[18:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5
[18:19] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+5 --> [ 1d20=7 ]{12}
[18:19] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+5 Antenora
[18:19] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+5 Antenora --> [ 1d20=20 ]{25}
[18:19] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+8 Latha
[18:19] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+8 Latha --> [ 1d20=1 ]{9}
[18:19] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20-1 Minotaur 1
[18:19] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20-1 Minotaur 2
[18:19] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20-1 Minotaur 1 --> [ 1d20=3 ]{2}
[18:19] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20-1 Minotaur 2 --> [ 1d20=13 ]{12}
[18:19] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20-1 Minotaur 3
[18:19] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20-1 Minotaur 3 --> [ 1d20=15 ]{14}
03[18:20] * Blondezilla changes topic to 'Antenora>Minotaur 3>Alicia=Minotaur 2>Latha>Minotaur 1'
[18:21] <Blondezilla> "So be it, then," Antenora raises her crude sword, charging the head minotaur flat out!
[18:21] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+20 (+2 charge, -4 PA)
[18:21] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+20 (+2 charge, -4 PA) --> [ 1d20=18 ]{38}
[18:21] <Blondezilla> roll 2d6+18
[18:21] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 2d6+18 --> [ 2d6=9 ]{27}
[18:27] <Blondezilla> Antenora charges headlong into the first minotaur, clubbing him in the side with the blade! It doesn't cut much, but it makes a boneshattering impact nonetheless! The third minotaur roars, charging LAtha!
[18:27] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+16 (+2 charge, -5 PA)
[18:27] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+16 (+2 charge, -5 PA) --> [ 1d20=1 ]{17}
[18:27] <Blondezilla> But his massive hammerblow misses, shattering the floor nearby as he swings and misses! OOC: Alicia and the second minotaur are up.
06[18:28] * Alicia steps towards the one attacking Latha and strikes out with several incapacitating blows at his limbs before trying to take his head!
[18:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike
[18:29] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+24 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike --> [ 1d20=10 ]{34}
[18:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike
[18:29] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+24 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike --> [ 1d20=3 ]{27}
[18:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike
[18:29] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+19 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike --> [ 1d20=17 ]{36}
[18:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike
[18:29] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+19 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike --> [ 1d20=9 ]{28}
[18:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike
[18:29] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+14 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike --> [ 1d20=13 ]{27}
[18:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike
[18:29] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+14 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike --> [ 1d20=20 ]{34}
[18:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike crit check
[18:29] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+14 divine might, 2nd level arcane strike crit check --> [ 1d20=4 ]{18}
[18:29] <Blondezilla> OOC: All hit and you scored a crit.
[18:29] <Alicia> OOC: any relevant DR?
[18:29] <Blondezilla> OOC: No.
[18:30] <Alicia> roll 7d6+119+18d4
[18:30] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 7d6+119+18d4 --> [ 7d6=28 18d4=45 ]{192}
03[18:30] * Blondezilla changes topic to 'Antenora>Alicia=Minotaur 2>Latha>Minotaur 1'
[18:30] <Alicia> OOC: strike
[18:30] <Alicia> roll 7d6+119+12d4
[18:30] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 7d6+119+12d4 --> [ 7d6=13 12d4=25 ]{157}
[18:31] <Blondezilla> Slam! Alicia hits the minotaur over and over, dropping it down and out with a flurry of arcane fire! Meanwhile, the second one charges Alicia as she does that!
[18:31] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+16 (+2 charge, -5 PA)
[18:31] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+16 (+2 charge, -5 PA) --> [ 1d20=1 ]{17}
[18:32] <Blondezilla> But this blow is weak as well, missing Alicia entirely! Latha turns to Alicia, smiling as she takes her club and closes in, taking a shot as she goes to hit the minotaur after Alicia!
[18:32] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+16
[18:32] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+16 --> [ 1d20=5 ]{21}
[18:32] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+16 (+2 charge, -6 PA)
[18:32] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+16 (+2 charge, -6 PA) --> [ 1d20=11 ]{27}
[18:33] <Blondezilla> roll 1d6+36
[18:34] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d6+36 --> [ 1d6=4 ]{40}
[18:35] <Blondezilla> Latha slips a mace blow into it's ribs, knocking the minotaur back! Meanwhile, the one on Antenora grins as it attacks her flat out!
[18:35] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+16 (-7 PA)
[18:35] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+16 (-7 PA) --> [ 1d20=4 ]{20}
[18:35] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+11 (-7 PA)
[18:35] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+11 (-7 PA) --> [ 1d20=5 ]{16}
[18:35] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+6 (-7 PA)
[18:35] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+6 (-7 PA) --> [ 1d20=6 ]{12}
[18:36] <Blondezilla> Antenora weaves and dodges around the strikes, deftly avoiding every crushing blow! She then retorts with a threesome of slashes of her own!
[18:36] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+18 (-4 PA)
[18:36] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+18 (-4 PA) --> [ 1d20=13 ]{31}
[18:36] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+13 (-4 PA)
[18:36] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+13 (-4 PA) --> [ 1d20=14 ]{27}
[18:37] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+8 (-4 PA)
[18:37] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+8 (-4 PA) --> [ 1d20=9 ]{17}
[18:37] <Blondezilla> roll 6d6+54
[18:37] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 6d6+54 --> [ 6d6=22 ]{76}
[18:37] <Blondezilla> The second minotaur is clubbed and hacked with extreme force, staggered but not out of it yet! OOC: Alicia? There's a minotaur on you, obviously.
06[18:38] * Alicia rectifies the situation of having a minotaur on her, with extreme prejudice!
[18:38] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19 divine might
[18:38] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+19 divine might --> [ 1d20=12 ]{31}
[18:38] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19 divine might
[18:38] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+19 divine might --> [ 1d20=13 ]{32}
[18:38] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 divine might
[18:38] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+14 divine might --> [ 1d20=13 ]{27}
[18:38] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 divine might
[18:38] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+14 divine might --> [ 1d20=14 ]{28}
[18:38] <Alicia> roll 1d20+9 divine might
[18:38] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+9 divine might --> [ 1d20=16 ]{25}
[18:38] <Alicia> roll 1d20+9 divine might
[18:38] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+9 divine might --> [ 1d20=20 ]{29}
[18:38] <Alicia> roll 1d20+9 divine might crit check
[18:38] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+9 divine might crit check --> [ 1d20=11 ]{20}
[18:38] <Blondezilla> OOC: Damage. You're rolling a lot of it. All hits and a crit.
[18:39] <Alicia> roll 7d6+119
[18:39] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 7d6+119 --> [ 7d6=25 ]{144}
03[18:39] * Blondezilla changes topic to 'Antenora>Alicia>Latha>Minotaur 1'
[18:39] <Blondezilla> As Alicia minces the minotaur on her, it assails her in it's dying moments!
[18:39] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+16 (-3 PA)
[18:39] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+16 (-3 PA) --> [ 1d20=9 ]{25}
[18:39] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+11 (-3 PA)
[18:39] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+11 (-3 PA) --> [ 1d20=13 ]{24}
[18:39] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+6 (-3 PA)
[18:40] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+6 (-3 PA) --> [ 1d20=5 ]{11}
[18:40] <Blondezilla> OOC: AC?
[18:40] <Alicia> OOC: 16
[18:40] <Blondezilla> roll 6d6+47
[18:40] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 6d6+47 --> [ 6d6=20 ]{67}
[18:41] <Blondezilla> Alicia is hit twice, both blows leaving her reeling in pained, crushing strenght! But it's for naught, as the minotaur collapses into defeat and death! Latha nods to Alicia, flying over to assist Antenora, weathering an attack as she does!
[18:41] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+16 (-7 PA)
[18:41] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+16 (-7 PA) --> [ 1d20=6 ]{22}
[18:41] <Blondezilla> Latha flies right past it, before slamming her club home!
[18:42] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+16 (+2 charge, -6 PA)
[18:42] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+16 (+2 charge, -6 PA) --> [ 1d20=14 ]{30}
[18:42] <Blondezilla> roll 1d6+36
[18:42] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d6+36 --> [ 1d6=4 ]{40}
[18:42] <Blondezilla> The minotaur is hit right in the face! Its taggers and then roars, a surge of power making it's muscles bulge, before it unloads on the two women!
[18:43] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+20 (-7 PA, +4 surge) Antenora
[18:43] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+20 (-7 PA, +4 surge) Antenora --> [ 1d20=11 ]{31}
[18:43] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+15 (-7 PA, +4 surge) Latha
[18:43] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+15 (-7 PA, +4 surge) Latha --> [ 1d20=14 ]{29}
[18:43] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+10 Antenora
[18:43] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+10 Antenora --> [ 1d20=8 ]{18}
[18:44] <Blondezilla> roll 3d6+33+1d8 Antenora
[18:44] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 3d6+33+1d8 Antenora --> [ 3d6=10 1d8=5 ]{48}
[18:44] <Blondezilla> roll 3d6+33+1d8 Latha
[18:44] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 3d6+33+1d8 Latha --> [ 3d6=18 1d8=5 ]{56}
[18:44] <Blondezilla> Antenora and Latha are both hit tremendously over the head! They both wobble like punch drunk fighters, but Antenora retorts!
[18:45] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+20 (-2 PA)
[18:45] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+20 (-2 PA) --> [ 1d20=10 ]{30}
[18:45] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+15 (-2 PA)
[18:45] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+15 (-2 PA) --> [ 1d20=20 ]{35}
[18:45] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+15 (-2 PA) crit?
[18:45] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+15 (-2 PA) crit? --> [ 1d20=2 ]{17}
[18:45] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+10 (-2 PA)
[18:45] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+10 (-2 PA) --> [ 1d20=19 ]{29}
[18:45] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+10 (-2 PA) crit?
[18:45] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 1d20+10 (-2 PA) crit? --> [ 1d20=16 ]{26}
[18:46] <Blondezilla> 10d6+70
[18:46] <Blondezilla> roll 10d6+70
[18:46] <Rei-chan> Blondezilla rolled : 10d6+70 --> [ 10d6=32 ]{102}
[18:46] <Blondezilla> That's the end of it. Antenora slams her sword into him over and over, breaking bones before the minotaur collapses with an earth shattering thump! OOC: Free act.
[18:47] <Blondezilla> Antenora exhales air, "That wasn't so bad, in a maiming sort of way," she says, wincing as she rubs her head.
[18:47] <Alicia> "Well... that's what they asked for," Alicia remarks, a bit dumbfounded at the casual brutality, even knowing that the Earthlight Clan will be up and about tomorrow as if nothing happened.
[18:48] <Blondezilla> "They wanted battle and this is a realm of battle." Latha goes over to the fire, "They will grow from it. See the gold of their coats, celestial lineage is obvious. This will help make them into better warriors. Not that they have far to go, for they hit quite hard already."
[18:49] <Alicia> "That they did," Alicia agrees, wheezing softly as he crushed chest slowly but surely reforms, bruises fading rapidly. She proceeds to drag the warriors to lay on the far side of the cavern from the fire, before going to examine what they'd been cooking.
[18:50] <Blondezilla> Antenora helps Alicia, wounds vanishing as they do so. It looks like a well cooked bit of de-scaled wyrm. It smells faintly sour and meaty. Below, moss burns in the fire, the overwhelming smell that of moss.
[18:52] <Alicia> "I feel a bit dubious at eating the flesh from an intelligent creature," Alicia remarks, eyeing the wyrm-flesh. "Although I suppose I already made a weapon from one, and it's going to be resurrected tomorrow anyway..."
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[21:02] <Blondezilla> Antenora trots over, sniffing. Her stomach rumbles, but she turns away. "Maybe you're right, Alicia. I didn't even think of that over my grumbling hunger."
[21:06] <Alicia> "We're going to have to eat something... I still have food from when we were foraging on the way here," she goes to recover her bag and opens it up, giving some nuts and berries to Antenora and taking some for herself before drinking from the glacier-melt. "We might find some mushrooms in the cave, as well."
[21:11] <Blondezilla> "That will work." Antenora munches on berries and drinks glacier water. It's cold and pure, though flat. "Will we sleep the night here, too?"
[21:12] <Alicia> "Lets keep going - it's not too late, after all," Alicia replies, looking to see if the cave continues past this area or if they'll have to double-back and go through the narrow passage glimpsed earlier.
[21:13] <Blondezilla> The cave continues on, stretching far ahead. Antenora starts to walk, the women's wounds healing as they go. OOC: Full HP, more.
[21:14] <Blondezilla> After about ten minutes, the caverns are narrowing down. Further, the stone end and the glacier begins. It's freezing cold here, the passage continuing in the glacier proper.
[21:15] <Blondezilla> Antenora looks back to Alicia, "How is it for you? Too cold without magic?"
06[21:16] * Alicia decides she's going to try and make shoes out of the next wyrm that attacks them, this barefoot nonsense is getting ridiculous. "I'll probably need magic, yes, since these clothes aren't really suited to the weather," she tugs briefly at her black tunic before incanting a spell to ward off the elements.
[21:16] <Alicia> "Lets scout forward until we reach open air, then double back so we can rest where it's a bit warmer and then battle the spawn fresh in the morning?"
[21:18] <Blondezilla> "Do you need more clothes? You can have my cloak, I require none since my form is superior to cold," Latha asks.
[21:19] <Alicia> "Would you?" Alicia smiles at Latha. "Thank you - I wasn't allowed to bring my own cloak since it's magic... same for my shoes," she concludes with a grumble as she looks down at her abused feet.
[21:20] <Blondezilla> Latha disrobes, passing her cloak and boots over to Alicia. She doesn't seem bothered by the cold at all, even in this lack of dress. "No apologies. I should have thought of it before or at least when we first saw the glacier."
06[21:22] * Alicia wriggles her toes happily in her new footwear, even if it is a little bit too big. "Thank you," she beams at the deva, slinging the cloak on before continuing onwards.
[21:24] <Blondezilla> You enter into a world of sparkling ice. Alicia's light magic winkles in a dozen refraction in the ancient, eternal glacier. You walk back to back to back, a narrow, long passage dug out of the glacier. After about ten minutes of this, Antenora stops, tensing. "Problem. Four of them, about 75 feet ahead and 10 down. They're coming this way fast."
[21:26] <Alicia> OOC: is the passage we're in big enough for four of them to move around in?
[21:27] <Blondezilla> OOC: Not a lot, no. One could poke a head or part in if they wanted, but not really get all on out. There's not a lot of space here, though the snakes haven't seem bothered by rock before and moved through it just fine.
[21:29] <Alicia> OOC: how wide/tall is it, and how far till the next bend (if we can see it at all)?
[21:29] <Blondezilla> A couple of feet wide. You can walk in a line together but not a lot more. You can't see another bend ahead, it stretches on this way for awhile. It's about 10 feet from floor to ceiling, give or take a foot.
[21:30] <Alicia> "Latha, can you put a wall of blades along the left wall close enough for it not to touch us if we stay to the right?" Alicia asks, the beginnings of a plan forming.
[21:31] <Blondezilla> "I can," Latha says, looking to it, "Say the word and I will."
[21:34] <Alicia> "Do it now, stretching as far along the corridor as it will go. I'll block them from the right," Alicia nods, casting her own spell as she calls,
[21:34] <Alicia> "Invincible shield of my will, block all who would come!" as an invisible wall of force sticks sheer to the right wall from floor to ceiling and running 150 feet ahead, or as far as possible before the path curves. Now they won't be able to attack from the right, and as big as they are they won't be able to avoid Latha's blades if they come from any other direction.
[21:37] <Blondezilla> Blades on the left and force on the right springs up! As it does, you can see the wyrms approaching! They are flowing under in the ice, looking up! They hesitate ten feet away and ten feet down, twisting around below as they eye the blades, another butting uselessly against the wall of force!
[21:39] <Blondezilla> Antenora smiles to them, "Beautiful. I wonder if they're stupid enough to try past the blades anyway?"
[21:40] <Alicia> "Keep your backs to the right side, they can't get you from there," Alicia suggests to her friends as she advances, somewhat annoyed that the ice is crystal clear and easy for their enemies to see the danger.
[21:40] <Alicia> "It's no good if they just wait till we're past this area and then attack. I'd hoped they'd blast right through the floor or left side and into the blades so we could quickly finish them off," she complains.
[21:43] <Blondezilla> Thus the trio advances ahead. Fortunatately, your guests don't seem to be doing the same. They follow for twenty feet, then break off and go off the way you came, out of sight. After a few moments, "They're going straight back," Antenora reports. "I don't know if they figure out to go around, but they're going in the wrong direction for tha tanyway."
[21:44] <Alicia> "Maybe they assumed we could keep up our defences indefinitely?" Alicia wonders. "Lucky for us if so - lets keep going?"
[21:46] <Blondezilla> Thus, the trio advances! They go on for about an hour now, out of the glacier after 45 minutes. They pass into a large cave. Here it's even colder - well below freezing. If Alicia were not dressed warm and warded, she would be freezing to death now. Antenora is starting to shiver noticiably, rubbing her arms and shoulders, wings wrapped to her body.
[21:48] <Alicia> "Here," Alicia leans over to Antenora and casts a spell to protect her from the elements.
[21:48] <Blondezilla> Antenora's shivering ceases. "Thanks," she smiles to Alicia, then with an envious glance to Latha, "Hopefully we're nearly through now."
[21:50] <Alicia> "If need be I can always teleport us somewhere warmer when it's time to rest," Alicia smiles cheerily as she advances into the larger cave.
[21:52] <Blondezilla> You walk another 25 minutes. The cave continues to open wider and wide - until, on the horizon, you see the red embers of sunset fading into the cave mouth. Fresh air can be smelled, too, coming in windy tickles.
[21:52] <Alicia> "Oh, that looks like the valley ahead," Alicia points uselessly, well aware that her companions can see better than she can. "Lets go and take a look at what we can see out there before finding someplace to rest?"
[21:54] <Blondezilla> "Yes. We'll want to be at full power before facing the wyrm," Latha says as the three advance ahead! Thus you come outside! In the sunset, the glaciers that penetrate and ring the mountains around and behind you glow like bloodfires. Ahead is a deep, deep, deep cut valley. It stretches out long, longer, and out of sight, the far mountains not visible from here. IT is full of green grasses and meadows. At the bottom, a swift, vast river rac
[21:55] <Blondezilla> meadows. At the bottom, a swift, vast river races along.
[21:57] <Alicia> "Hmm... it's a lot warmer here," Alicia muses, looking over the healthy green vegetation. "And big enough that it'll take some time to find the wyrm. Lets look for a sheltered spot here where we could make camp?" she suggests, heading down towards the river.

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[17:08] <Kotono> <Alicia> "If need be I can always teleport us somewhere warmer when it's time to rest," Alicia smiles cheerily as she advances into the larger cave.
[17:08] <Kotono> > You walk another 25 minutes. The cave continues to open wider and wide - until, on the horizon, you see the red embers of sunset fading into the cave mouth. Fresh air can be smelled, too, coming in windy tickles.
[17:08] <Kotono> <Alicia> "Oh, that looks like the valley ahead," Alicia points uselessly, well aware that her companions can see better than she can. "Lets go and take a look at what we can see out there before finding someplace to rest?"
[17:08] <Kotono> > "Yes. We'll want to be at full power before facing the wyrm," Latha says as the three advance ahead! Thus you come outside! In the sunset, the glaciers that penetrate and ring the mountains around and behind you glow like bloodfires. Ahead is a deep, deep, deep cut valley. It stretches out long, longer, and out of sight, the far mountains not visible from here. IT is full of green grasses and meadows. At the bottom, a swift, vast river races
[17:08] <Kotono> > meadows. At the bottom, a swift, vast river races along.
[17:08] <Kotono> <Alicia> "Hmm... it's a lot warmer here," Alicia muses, looking over the healthy green vegetation. "And big enough that it'll take some time to find the wyrm. Lets look for a sheltered spot here where we could make camp?" she suggests, heading down towards the river.
[17:10] <Kotono> As the three walk along, Antenora falls in step with Alicia. "Far better than that cave." Her eyes sweep around the massive, sharp hilled valley. "This is so primal. Making our own weapons, struggling with just our own powers and not a single magical item."
[17:12] <Alicia> "It is nice to get back to basics," Alicia agrees. "You don't really realise just how much magic you accumulate, but when I was listing everything I had to Strength of Light I was actually surprised at just how much there was."
[17:16] <Kotono> "Perhaps it's to build strength?" Latha trots along behind you, "To rely on the most fundamental parts of yourself and not a dozen baubles?" As you look along, you see a small cluster of trees. They shade a little depression in the ground, not too far from the raging river.
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[17:19] <Alicia> "It's a lesson worth learning, since possessions can be taken away at any time," Alicia hums thoughtfully. "This looks like a good spot - the trees should afford us some cover in case the spawn happens to pass overhead."
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[17:24] <Kotono> OOC: What are you going to do? Just use it as as place to sleep under the trees?
[17:25] <Alicia> OOC: we'll forage for some food in the immediate area and make camp here, yeah.
[17:26] <Kotono> OOC: Make a survival check then?
[17:27] <Alicia> OOC: I'll take 10 for 13
[17:28] <Kotono> OOC: Antenora will attempt to assist.
[17:28] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 wis check
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[17:28] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 wis check
[17:28] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+5 wis check --> [ 1d20=17 ]{22}
[17:29] <Alicia> OOC: if that's survival she gets +2 synergy from her planar knowledge
[17:30] <Kotono> The two make up a fine meal of mushrooms and a deep red berry. As you gather it up, "I remember a snippet about these," Holding up a few of them as she kneels besides a bush, "They're nutritious, but they make the blood burn with bravery."
[17:32] <Alicia> "I wouldn't be surprised if most food here had that effect," Alicia laughs as they settle down to eat by their improvised shelter. "Tastes nice, regardless."
[17:42] <Kotono> Antenora follows along, sitting by Alicia as they eat. The berries taste good, like fire. As you finish them, Alicia can feel her skin warming. Her blood can be felt pulsing through her body, tinged with burning heat.
[17:43] <Alicia> Hopefully it'll keep her warm through the night. Using Latha's cloak as a makeshift blanket, Alicia curls up to sleep, trusting Latha will alert them of any surprise night-time serpent attacks.
[17:44] <Kotono> roll 1d100
[17:44] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=40 ]{40}
[17:51] <Kotono> Sleep comes...dreams. Dreams of battle, dreams of fire. Alicia wakes with as tart, her vision a haze of red. Her breathing is quick, sweat dappling her forehead. Battle. She is in battle. That she knows for certain. Yet, why is she lying in her bedroll? Adrenaline surges through her body, words of magic on the cusp of her lips, ready to tumble out.
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06[17:53] * Alicia doesn't even have a bedroll! She's on the ground with just a cloak over her, and she swiftly rectifies that by grabbing her quarterstaff from beside her and rolling quickly to her feet, ready to take on all comers!
[17:56] <Kotono> She sees two people. Latha is far away, watching towards Alicia with a look of surprise. Antenora is closer, her sword in hand. Her face is battle ready, sweaty and intense. Her gaze travels about, sweeping and settling on Alicia.
06[17:59] * Alicia blinks a few times as her mind catches up with her, before she starts to blush. "I don't think those berries agreed with me."
[18:00] <Kotono> Antenora starts to pounce forward, before skidding toa stop. She wobbles, feet making ripples in the dirt as she manages to arrest her movement. Taking a moment to pant, "They were...they must be more literal than I envisioned."
[18:04] <Alicia> "Let's have a cool drink?" Alicia suggests. "I need to get back to sleep quickly so I can properly regain my spells in the morning," she adds in a mutter, trotting over towards the river, intending to scoop out a handful of water to drink.
[18:05] <Kotono> The water is as cold as ice, making your body shiver all over. It helps, making you feel less overheated. Antenora does the same, also splashing the cold water onto her face. "At least they weren't poisonous."
[18:07] <Alicia> "They're probably better eaten as breakfast rather than supper. Gives you plenty of vim to face the day," Alicia muses, wiping her soaked hand on her brow and then her leg before she heads back to their shelter so she can go back to sleep. "Sorry, Latha," she calls over to the deva, apologising for the disruption.
[18:08] <Kotono> "Go back to sleep," Latha calls. "It's been quiet."
06[18:10] * Alicia mumbles a goodnight as she curls up and tries to resume her slumber.
[18:11] <Kotono> roll 1d100
[18:11] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=7 ]{7}
[18:12] <Kotono> The rest of the night passes without incident. Alicia wakes up an hour past the dawn, feeling refreshed. Antenora does about the same, preparing for the day. "So," Over a mouthful of food, "This spawn is here somewher ein the valley. We need to find it. Any suggestions or just wander ahead until we stumble on it?"
[18:14] <Alicia> "Lets follow the valley to see how far it goes, first," Alicia replies thoughtfully. "If it can flow through earth and ice like air, chances are it won't leave much in the way of tracks for us to follow, anyway."
[18:17] <Kotono> "Agreed," With Antenora's words, the three begin to travel! They follow the river, stretching long and far ahead! After a few hours the river is still going - though on the far horizon you can see more vastly tall mountains. As you travel...
[18:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30
[18:17] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+30 --> [ 1d20=4 ]{34}
[18:17] <Kotono> OOC: Make a listen check, Alicia?
[18:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7
[18:18] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+7 --> [ 1d20=4 ]{11}
[18:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
[18:18] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+19 --> [ 1d20=8 ]{27}
[18:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
[18:18] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+25 --> [ 1d20=4 ]{29}
[18:21] <Kotono> As you walk, it happens out of the blue! It emerges from the river, ripping out in a hurried gust! It is as wide as the biggest, oldest oak you've ever seen and a hundred feet long if it's a foot! It surges out of the ground in a hurry, coming right out of the river! As water splashes about, drenching the party in waves of cold, the vast wyrm roars! With it's roar, a green mist sprays out in a cone around the party! OOC: Bad day for everyone to
[18:21] <Kotono> mist sprays out in a cone around the party! OOC: Bad day for everyone to suck at listen checks. Fort saves, all?
[18:21] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22
[18:21] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+22 --> [ 1d20=7 ]{29}
[18:21] <Kotono> OOC: This counts as poison, by the b y.
[18:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26
[18:21] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+26 --> [ 1d20=4 ]{30}
[18:21] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
[18:21] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+19 --> [ 1d20=16 ]{35}
[18:22] <Kotono> roll 1d8 con damage, Alicia and Antenora.
[18:22] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d8 con damage, Alicia and Antenora. --> [ 1d8=1 ]{1}
[18:22] <Kotono> roll 1d4-1
[18:22] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d4-1 --> [ 1d4=1 ]{0}
[18:22] <Kotono> OOC: Surprise rounded. Initiative.
[18:22] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5
[18:22] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+5 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{6}
[18:23] <Kotono> The cone of green mist blows over the party with a sickening speed, leaving Antenora and Alicia feeling half dead, drained and poisoned! Latha quickly draws her mace, "Damnation, it snuck up on us!"
[18:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 Antenora
[18:23] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+5 Antenora --> [ 1d20=6 ]{11}
[18:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 Latha
[18:23] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+8 Latha --> [ 1d20=2 ]{10}
[18:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+4 wyrm
[18:23] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+4 wyrm --> [ 1d20=3 ]{7}
03[18:23] * Kotono changes topic to 'Antenora>Latha>Wyrm>Alicia cosplays Rei. AGAIN.'
03[18:23] * Kotono changes topic to 'Antenora>Latha>Wyrm>Alicia cosplays Rei. AGAIN. (Counter: 10 rounds)'
[18:25] <Kotono> Staggering under the noxious green mist, Antenora's eyes blaze with holy fury! Like a comet, she charges fearlessly at the wyrm!
[18:25] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (+3 weapon, +2 charge, -4 PA)
[18:25] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+20 (+3 weapon, +2 charge, -4 PA) --> [ 1d20=4 ]{24}
[18:26] <Kotono> Her blow, powerful and heavy, clangs right off the wyrm, as if it's body was made of steel!At that, Latha flies straight up, vanishing from sight! OOC: Wyrm's up.
[18:27] <Kotono> The wyrm roars it's fury in the air, twisting about like an endless infinity of movement! "Watch out," Antenora calls, "It's smart!" But a moment later, it's maw goes to snap Antenora up!
[18:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24 (-7 PA)
[18:27] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+24 (-7 PA) --> [ 1d20=19 ]{43}
[18:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24 (-7 PA) crit?
[18:27] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+24 (-7 PA) crit? --> [ 1d20=5 ]{29}
[18:27] <Kotono> roll 6d10+44 and a fort save
[18:27] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 6d10+44 and a fort save --> [ 6d10=32 ]{76}
[18:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22
[18:28] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+22 --> [ 1d20=17 ]{39}
[18:28] <Kotono> Antenora is bitten deeply, engulfed in green mist! Hacking and coughing, she spins her sword to air away most of it! OOC Alicia.
[18:29] <Alicia> Since Antenora and Latha are the ones most able to hurt the beast, Alicia elects to play support. Rushing over behind the erinyes, she casts a spell of disillusionment to hide her from sight! Leaving her in the unenviable position of being the only visible threat...
[18:29] <Alicia> OOC: greater invis on Anty
[18:30] <Kotono> Antenora vanishes from sight! 'Thanks,'s he says in Alicia's mind, voice pained and slow. 'Careful..." At that, she weaves around the writhing wyrm, taking strikes at it!
[18:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24 (+2 invis)
[18:31] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+24 (+2 invis) --> [ 1d20=1 ]{25}
[18:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 (+2 invis)
[18:31] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+19 (+2 invis) --> [ 1d20=6 ]{25}
[18:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14 (+2 invis)
[18:31] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+14 (+2 invis) --> [ 1d20=17 ]{31}
[18:31] <Kotono> roll 2d6+10
[18:31] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 2d6+10 --> [ 2d6=6 ]{16}
03[18:31] * Kotono changes topic to 'Antenora>Latha>Wyrm>Alicia cosplays Rei. AGAIN. (Counter: 9 rounds)'
[18:32] <Kotono> The sound of metal on metal rings as the wyrm is stricken unseen by Antenora! Meanwhile...
[18:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24 (+2 invis, +2 charge, -3 PA)
[18:32] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+24 (+2 invis, +2 charge, -3 PA) --> [ 1d20=18 ]{42}
[18:32] <Kotono> roll 1d6+18
[18:32] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d6+18 --> [ 1d6=5 ]{23}
[18:36] <Kotono> Latha appears at the very head of the serpent, slamming into it's snout! However, it's eyes lock onto Alicia! It draws in air in a raging current at Alicia! OOC: Fort.
[18:36] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25
[18:36] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+25 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{26}
[18:36] <Kotono> roll 1d4+2 and 8 con damage. Bad time to roll a 1 when it decides to use maximize breath.
[18:36] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d4+2 and 8 con damage. Bad time to roll a 1 when it decides to use maximize breath. --> [ 1d4=4 ]{6}
[18:43] <Kotono> Alicia is covered head to toe with green mist! Her body feels wretched, vision swimming and limbs barely functioning! It whirls around Antenora and Latha, engaging them with it's vast length! OOC: Alicia.
03[18:45] * Kotono changes topic to 'Antenora>Latha>Wyrm>Alicia cosplays Rei. AGAIN. (Counter: 9 rounds) (Counter 2: 10 rounds) (6 rounds 'till breath)'
06[18:45] * Alicia coughs and hacks as she backs away from the melee, shivering and shaking and not considering herself a fit state to fight. Nonetheless, she still has a few tricks, and fires off a crackling crimson ray of negative energy at the wyrm!
[18:45] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 devotion
[18:45] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+20 devotion --> [ 1d20=8 ]{28}
[18:45] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21
[18:45] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+21 --> [ 1d20=7 ]{28}
[18:46] <Alicia> roll 1d4 negative levels and 3 negative energy damage
[18:46] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d4 negative levels and 3 negative energy damage --> [ 1d4=3 ]{3}
[18:46] <Kotono> OOC: Hit. Yeah, like you're missing it's touch AC.
03[18:46] * Kotono changes topic to 'Antenora>Latha>Wyrm(-3 lvls)>Alicia cosplays Rei. AGAIN. (Counter: 9 rounds) (Counter 2: 10 rounds) (6 rounds 'till breath)'
[18:47] <Kotono> The beam hits the wyrm dead on! It's entire scales writhe at that beam, shriveling! Antenora takes this chance while it's weakened, invisible and hacking at it wholeheartedly!
[18:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 (-1 PA, +2 invis), 9/10 FS +10 HP to her since ouch.
[18:48] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+23 (-1 PA, +2 invis), 9/10 FS +10 HP to her since ouch. --> [ 1d20=14 ]{37}
[18:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
[18:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
[18:48] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+18 --> [ 1d20=10 ]{28}
[18:48] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+13 --> [ 1d20=13 ]{26}
[18:48] <Kotono> roll 2d6+12
[18:48] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 2d6+12 --> [ 2d6=10 ]{22}
[18:48] <Kotono> Unseen, Antenora lands another hard blow on the feisty wyrm, slamming into it's body with her sword! Meanwhile, Latha goes right for it's face as it's turned away from her, having breathed on Alicia!
[18:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 (+2 invis, -3 PA)
[18:49] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+22 (+2 invis, -3 PA) --> [ 1d20=2 ]{24}
[18:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
[18:49] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+17 --> [ 1d20=14 ]{31}
[18:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12
[18:49] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+12 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{13}
[18:49] <Kotono> roll 1d6+18
[18:49] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d6+18 --> [ 1d6=4 ]{22}
[18:50] <Kotono> AS the wyrm wraps around Antenora and Latha, it's body thrashes about, attacking all of them with wild movements!
03[18:50] * Kotono changes topic to 'Antenora>Latha>Wyrm(-3 lvls)>Alicia cosplays Rei. AGAIN. (Counter: 8 rounds) (Counter 2: 9 rounds) (5 rounds 'till breath)'
[18:51] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (-3 negative levels, -4 PA, -4 alla round attack)
[18:51] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+20 (-3 negative levels, -4 PA, -4 alla round attack) --> [ 1d20=10 ]{30}
[18:51] <Kotono> roll 3d10+19 antenora and latha both take this, pending a d100 for invis on Antenora
[18:51] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 3d10+19 antenora and latha both take this, pending a d100 for invis on Antenora --> [ 3d10=10 ]{29}
[18:51] <Kotono> roll 1d100 51 or above hits
[18:51] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d100 1 or above hits --> [ 1d100=10 ]{10}
[18:53] <Alicia> roll 1d100
[18:53] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=8 ]{8}
[18:53] <Alicia> roll 12d8 sorry Anty, reflex 24
[18:53] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 12d8 sorry Anty, reflex 24 --> [ 12d8=55 ]{55}
[18:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
[18:54] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+18 --> [ 1d20=19 ]{37}
[18:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 wyrm
[18:54] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+11 wyrm --> [ 1d20=8 ]{19}
[18:55] <Kotono> As Alicia shudders, spellfire rips out from her body! It fires off in a lance, grzing Antneora and ripping through the wyrm in a hostile fury! OOC: Alicia, you're up.
06[18:57] * Alicia winces as her body struggles to contain the pent up magic, but continues her assault on the wyrm, sending another ray of negative energy at it! "Spawn of Jormangandr, you will submit to us!" she promises!
[18:57] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21
[18:57] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+21 --> [ 1d20=18 ]{39}
[18:57] <Alicia> roll 1d4 negative levels plus 3 negative energy
[18:57] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d4 negative levels plus 3 negative energy --> [ 1d4=3 ]{3}
03[18:57] * Kotono changes topic to 'Antenora>Latha>Wyrm(-6 lvls)>Alicia cosplays Rei. AGAIN. (Counter: 8 rounds) (Counter 2: 9 rounds) (5 rounds 'till breath)'
[18:58] <Kotono> Alicia hits iwth with another beam, weaking it further! Yet somehow it still lives, surviving even that! Antenora seeks to remedy this, slamming and hitting it again!
[18:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24
[18:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
[18:58] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+24 --> [ 1d20=9 ]{33}
[18:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
[18:58] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+19 --> [ 1d20=6 ]{25}
[18:58] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+14 --> [ 1d20=20 ]{34}
[18:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14 crit?
[18:58] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+14 crit? --> [ 1d20=13 ]{27}
[18:58] <Kotono> roll 4d6+20
[18:58] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 4d6+20 --> [ 4d6=10 ]{30}
[18:58] <Kotono> Unseen, Antenora continues to slam and club it with her crude blade, while Latha lays into it's face, "In the name of the light, surrender!" she calls!
[18:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (-5 PA)
[18:59] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+20 (-5 PA) --> [ 1d20=5 ]{25}
[18:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
[18:59] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+15 --> [ 1d20=2 ]{17}
[18:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
[18:59] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+10 --> [ 1d20=11 ]{21}
[18:59] <Kotono> Yet Latha can't land a single blow! The wyrm writhes and charges forward, going right to Alicia, hundreds of feet of wyrm riding past Antenora and Latha! OOC: They can AoO it, they will.
[19:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24 Antenora
[19:00] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+24 Antenora --> [ 1d20=10 ]{34}
[19:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 Latha
[19:00] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+20 Latha --> [ 1d20=5 ]{25}
[19:00] <Kotono> roll 2d6+10
[19:00] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 2d6+10 --> [ 2d6=9 ]{19}
[19:00] <Kotono> Despite slamming parts of it's body, the wyrm continues to surge forward at the paladin!
03[19:00] * Kotono changes topic to 'Antenora>Latha>Wyrm(-6 lvls)>Alicia cosplays Rei. AGAIN. (Counter: 7 rounds) (Counter 2: 8 rounds) (4 rounds 'till breath)'
[19:01] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24 (-6 levels, -2 PA)
[19:01] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+24 (-6 levels, -2 PA) --> [ 1d20=2 ]{26}
[19:01] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
[19:01] <Alicia> OOC: AC 16
[19:01] <Kotono> roll 3d10+17 and fort
[19:01] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 3d10+17 and fort --> [ 3d10=8 ]{25}
[19:01] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21
[19:01] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+21 --> [ 1d20=15 ]{36}
[19:02] <Kotono> Alicia finds herself bitten as the wyrm wraps all around her! The bite is painful, but she twists out of the way of a surge of the rolling, noxious venom that comes from it's mouth! OOC: Alicia?
[19:04] <Alicia> Already weakened from the vile poison in her system, the impact feels all the more brutal to Alicia. "Latha, I'm going to need healing!" she calls to the deva as she puts her all into pummelling the scales on all sides of her, hoping against hope that she can put the beast down!
[19:05] <Alicia> roll 1d20+27 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike
[19:05] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+27 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike --> [ 1d20=5 ]{32}
[19:05] <Alicia> roll 1d20+27 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike
[19:05] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+27 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike --> [ 1d20=17 ]{44}
[19:05] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike
[19:05] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+22 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike --> [ 1d20=11 ]{33}
[19:05] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike
[19:06] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+22 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike --> [ 1d20=12 ]{34}
[19:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike
[19:06] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+17 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike --> [ 1d20=8 ]{25}
[19:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike
[19:06] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+17 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike --> [ 1d20=15 ]{32}
[19:06] <Kotono> OOC: All but the 25 hit. You're just using your quarterstaff, I believe?
[19:06] <Alicia> OOC; yes
[19:06] <Kotono> OOC: Roll each hit seperately?
[19:06] <Alicia> roll 1d6+17+13d4
[19:06] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d6+17+13d4 --> [ 1d6=1 13d4=25 ]{43}
[19:06] <Alicia> roll 1d6+17+13d4
[19:06] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d6+17+13d4 --> [ 1d6=6 13d4=27 ]{50}
[19:06] <Alicia> roll 1d6+17+13d4
[19:06] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d6+17+13d4 --> [ 1d6=6 13d4=38 ]{61}
[19:06] <Alicia> roll 1d6+17+13d4
[19:06] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d6+17+13d4 --> [ 1d6=3 13d4=27 ]{47}
[19:06] <Alicia> roll 1d6+17+13d4
[19:06] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d6+17+13d4 --> [ 1d6=1 13d4=22 ]{40}
[19:07] <Kotono> roll 43+50+61+47+40
[19:07] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 43+50+61+47+40 --> {241}
[19:08] <Kotono> Alicia strikes and slams the beast over and over and over! Scales break and it's body shakes! From it's mouth comes, in a torrent of twisting words, "YOU DESIRE TRUE BATTLE? THEN SO BE IT! YOU SHALL COME TO RUIN HERE, TO THINK THAT YOU CAN MAKE ME SUBMIT!"
[19:08] <Kotono> OOC: Antenora's up.
[19:09] <Kotono> Antenora, still unseen, races to charge the flank of the vast wyrm, all while channeling healing energy to Alicia! OOC: 8/10, +10 HP Alicia.
[19:09] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (+2 charge, +2 invis, -6 PA)
[19:11] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+20 (+2 charge, +2 invis, -6 PA) --> [ 1d20=9 ]{29}
[19:11] <Kotono> Antenora narrowly misses, all unseen to Alicia's eyes! OOC: Latha.
[19:12] <Kotono> "I'm coming!" Latha calls, "Hold on just a little longer!" Flying closer, Latha hits the snake as she gets closer to Alicia. "To me!"
[19:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
[19:12] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+25 --> [ 1d20=17 ]{42}
[19:12] <Kotono> roll 1d6+10
[19:12] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d6+10 --> [ 1d6=6 ]{16}
[19:12] <Kotono> Antenora hits it's side, another wound! The wyrm roars in a deadly fury as...(More)
03[19:12] * Kotono changes topic to 'Antenora>Latha>Wyrm(-6 lvls)>Alicia cosplays Rei. AGAIN. (Counter: 6 rounds) (Counter 2:78 rounds) (3 rounds 'till breath)'
[19:13] <Kotono> With all it's animalistic rage, it assails Alicia head on, trying to bite her in twain!
[19:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24 (-6 levels, -6 PA, +4 rage)
[19:13] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+24 (-6 levels, -6 PA, +4 rage) --> [ 1d20=8 ]{32}
[19:13] <Kotono> roll 3d10+21 and fort
[19:13] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 3d10+21 and fort --> [ 3d10=27 ]{48}
[19:14] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21
[19:14] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+21 --> [ 1d20=3 ]{24}
[19:14] <Kotono> roll 1d8 lemme know your con in #elysiuma fter this
[19:14] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d8 lemme know your con in #elysiuma fter this --> [ 1d8=3 ]{3}
[19:15] <Kotono> The world goes dark for Alicia as she feels her body ripped apart. It's...it doesn't hurt. It's just like closing her eyes, falling asleep. She can feel carelessness over take her. It doesn't matter...it's good to...fall asleep...OOC: Fast healing 2 prevents you from dying at least, so -7 HP. Antenora's up, will forgo descriptions as long as you're out.
03[19:16] * Kotono changes topic to 'Antenora>Latha>Wyrm(-6 lvls)>Alicia cosplays Rei. AGAIN. (Counter: 6 rounds) (Counter 2:78 rounds) (Counter 3: 10 rounds) (3 rounds 'till breath)'
03[19:16] * Kotono changes topic to 'Antenora>Latha>Wyrm(-6 lvls)>Alicia cosplays Rei. AGAIN. (Counter: 6 rounds) (Counter 2:7 rounds) (Counter 3: 10 rounds) (3 rounds 'till breath)'
[19:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 (+2 invis, -6 PA) 7/10 FS +10 HP Alicia.
[19:17] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+18 (+2 invis, -6 PA) 7/10 FS +10 HP Alicia. --> [ 1d20=2 ]{20}
[19:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
[19:17] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+13 --> [ 1d20=20 ]{33}
[19:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 crit?
[19:17] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+13 crit? --> [ 1d20=17 ]{30}
[19:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
[19:17] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+8 --> [ 1d20=11 ]{19}
[19:17] <Kotono> roll 4d6+44
[19:17] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 4d6+44 --> [ 4d6=18 ]{62}
[19:19] <Kotono> Antenora hits the wyrm hard as Alicia's vision clears. She wakes up, in pain but coherent, slipping away from a pleasant, dark slumber. "ALICIA!" Antenora's shout echos in her ears as Latha ins on her, touching her arm! OOC: Heal. Removes the ability damage to con, too, and the ongoing poisons.
03[19:19] * Kotono changes topic to 'Antenora>Latha>Wyrm(-6 lvls)>Alicia cosplays Rei. AGAIN. (3 rounds 'till breath)'
03[19:19] * Kotono changes topic to 'Antenora>Latha>Wyrm(-6 lvls)>Alicia cosplays Rei. AGAIN. (2 rounds 'till breath)'
[19:20] <Kotono> The wyrm roars and twists around all over, writhing and striking all with its' body!
[19:20] <Kotono> roll 1d20+32 (-6 levels, +4 rage, -10 PA) ACs?
[19:20] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+32 (-6 levels, +4 rage, -10 PA) ACs? --> [ 1d20=11 ]{43}
[19:20] <Kotono> OOC: -12 from that, total of 31.
[19:20] <Alicia> OOC: 16
[19:21] <Alicia> OOC: 12, actually, since I'm prone
[19:21] <Kotono> roll 3d10+27 all three take this
[19:21] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 3d10+27 all three take this --> [ 3d10=21 ]{48}
[19:21] <Kotono> roll 1d100 for Antenora's invis
[19:21] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d100 for Antenora's invis --> [ 1d100=18 ]{18}
[19:21] <Kotono> OOC: Just alicia and LAtha then.
[19:22] <Kotono> OOC: Alicia.
06[19:23] * Alicia doesn't even take the time to get up on her feet, she simply rolls on her back and spins her staff above her, lashing out to cleave through scales on every side!
[19:23] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike, -4 for prone
[19:23] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+23 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike, -4 for prone --> [ 1d20=7 ]{30}
[19:23] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike, -4 for prone
[19:23] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+23 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike, -4 for prone --> [ 1d20=5 ]{28}
[19:23] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike, -4 for prone
[19:23] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+18 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike, -4 for prone --> [ 1d20=20 ]{38}
[19:23] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike, -4 for prone crit check
[19:23] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+18 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike, -4 for prone crit check --> [ 1d20=16 ]{34}
[19:23] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike, -4 for prone
[19:23] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+18 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike, -4 for prone --> [ 1d20=2 ]{20}
[19:23] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike, -4 for prone
[19:23] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+13 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike, -4 for prone --> [ 1d20=1 ]{14}
[19:23] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike, -4 for prone
[19:23] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+13 divine might, 5th, 3rd, 2 2nd, 1st level arcane strike, -4 for prone --> [ 1d20=16 ]{29}
[19:23] <Kotono> OOC: One hit and one crit.
[19:24] <Alicia> roll 1d6+17+13d4
[19:24] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d6+17+13d4 --> [ 1d6=5 13d4=30 ]{52}
[19:24] <Alicia> roll 2d6+34+13d4
[19:24] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 2d6+34+13d4 --> [ 2d6=5 13d4=33 ]{72}
[19:25] <Kotono> With that pair of blows, at last the wyrm relents! It's body slams down hard to the ground,s huddering! It's movements cease, it's body shivering all over! It's eyes are open, dazed but open! OOC: Free act, it's not fighting any more.
[19:25] <Kotono> "Alicia," Antneora goes straight for her, "Are you alright? Y ou took it bad there."
[19:27] <Alicia> "Latha got to me just in time..." Alicia shakes her head groggily as she clambers to her feet, before she staggers over to the Wyrm's head, her gait becoming firmer with each step before she stops directly before its maw. "We have defeated you, spawn of the world-serpent," she pronounces formally. "We will not take your life, but you will owe us a boon instead."
[19:28] <Kotono> The wyrm gazes up at Alicia, green mist escaping it's mouth with every hiss. In Alicia's mind, 'You are a warrior of great capacity. Only once before have I been so defeated. None have ever survived a determined assault by me, let alone a spellcaster. What do you want from me, then?'
[19:30] <Alicia> "There is a volcano to the Southeast, several days for us to walk but surely far less time for yourself," Alicia replies. "Carry us there, and you will have earned your life back."
[19:31] <Kotono> 'So be it. Climb on behind my head,' The spawn lowers it's head to the ground.
06[19:32] * Alicia gestures for Latha and Antenora to follow her as she carefully climbs up into position. "Who were the others who defeated you like this?" she asks curiously once she's confident in her seat.
[19:34] <Kotono> 'An angel who sought my services, many centuries before.' As the three mount, the wyrm takes to the air! It flies up high, up and up and up and up and up! Above the mountains, you can see dozens of lesser spawn writhing and flying about, yet all stay clear! 'He defeated me, and asked that I fight the others he would send me at a time.'
[19:35] <Kotono> Antenora sits on the neck, leaning back on her hands and letting the wind whip her hair. She closes her eyes.
[19:35] <Kotono> Latha stands on the wyrm, club in hand as you ascent. She keeps her gaze about, unbothered by the cold winds blowing on her flesh.
[19:36] <Alicia> "You must mean Strength of Light, for he sent us to battle you," Alicia replies, holding on tightly and watching the land pass by far below. She's rather impressed if he won all by himself.
[19:37] <Kotono> 'Yes. He defeated me by luring me into a cave and collapsing it on me. He taught me the value of fighting intelligently, for I had charged forward, only wanting to thoughtlessly devour him.'
[19:38] <Kotono> "Telepathy?" Antenora asks, "You're having a conversation with no one that I can hear." Below, the grounds you covered seem tiny, soaring along.
[19:40] <Alicia> "You did well to ambush us on open ground as you did, we had no chance to prepare anything clever," Alicia pats the back of the serpent's head. She then turns her head back and nods to Antenora. "It's how the serpent communicates."
[19:40] <Kotono> 'I lost because I underestimated your endurance. You survived both my breath and my bite.' Meanwhile, Antenora smiles. "What's it saying?"
[19:42] <Alicia> "He told me how Strength of Light defeated him by luring him into a cave and then collapsing it down, now we're comparing notes over the battle," Alicia tells her friend before addressing the serpent once more. "Never have I felt a poison more potent. If Latha hadn't been able to cure me the result would likely have been different."
[19:43] <Kotono> 'You would be dead.' The wyrm agrees. OOC: Skip alon ga bit or do you wanna chat it up?
[19:43] <Alicia> OOC: skip is fine
[19:44] <Kotono> It is sunset. Night has fallen as you reach the volcano. Under the cover of the stars the wyrm flies closer, flying down into the crater! The various people out can be seen below, warriors pointing and calling! In response, the wyrm roars!
06[19:47] * Alicia grins approvingly, certain that they must be making quite the entrance. "Fly us over so all can see, then double back so we can get off by that large white tent," she leans forward so that she can point where the wyrm's eye can see her hand, indicating Strength of Light's tent.
[19:47] <Kotono> Antenora stands up now as you ascend lower, raising her sword up in salute. She grins ear to ear, "How perfectly heroic, isn't it?"
[19:47] <Alicia> "Never underestimate the value of a good entrance," Alicia nods cheerily.
[19:47] <Kotono> The wyrm does so! As you come closer, amid the stares of the day's surviving warriors, Strength of LIght comes from his text. He breaks into the biggest grin you've ever seen, shouting, "You did it?!"
[19:48] <Alicia> "This serpent isn't the sort to give free rides to the weak, is it?" Alicia asks as she clambers off, patting the spawn's neck once before she approaches the deva.
[19:49] <Kotono> Antenora hops down, landing in a crouch. Latha floats down, politely nodding and going right into Strength of Light's tent. "Well done!" Going to pat the wyrm's head before turning to Alicia, "We'll have to celebrate like we've never celebrated before! You're the first ones who didn't come back with their tales between their legs, whimpering with how many times they died!"
[19:52] <Alicia> "He made us fight for it, but having the right tools helped - ugly as they might be," Alicia indicates Antenora's thick greatsword and Latha's fang-spiked club. "Of course," her voice lowers, "The fact that we could do this only emphasises the dire nature of the enemy we can't defeat."
[19:54] <Kotono> "Naturally." Still smiling and thumping Alicia on the back, "That is a matter we will worry about on the next dawn, when we begin our training in earnest. For this night, we shall celebrate this great occasion."
06[19:55] * Alicia nods, turning and waving to the wyrm. "Farewell, child of the world-serpent," she calls. At least he didn't thump hard enough to shatter any bones, this time...
[19:59] <Kotono> With another roar, the serpent coils and writhes into the sky, away! Once inside the tent, Strength of Light looks to all three. "Amazing! The first ones to complete that quest!" He goes to the back, coming out with a large barrel. "We'll drink and eat and make merry. This here?" Patting it, "Millenia aged noble ale. I've been saving it for such an occasion. Tell me, how did you triumph over him?"
[19:59] <Kotono> Latha has gotten a blanket, wrapping it around her body and sitting. Antenora puts her sword aside, casting a wary eye at the barrel, while settling down.
[20:05] <Alicia> "It caught us by surprise," Alicia begins with an appropriately dramatic flair, "Lunging from the river with a fury and letting loose a bellow as it spewed noxious fumes all over us!"
[20:05] <Alicia> "Antenora and Latha concealed themselves with illusions to strike at it in retaliation, using the fang of its own progeny and a sword of cold iron to inflict severe wounds while I sought to weaken it with spells and negative energy. Still it fought on, snapping at shadows and continuing to breath its poisonous vapours all over us."
[20:05] <Alicia> "Then it charged! I was surrounded on all sides by its thick coils, desperately weakened by poison! Though I struck out with all I had, I still succumbed to weakness, drifting on the very verge of death while Antenora and Latha continued to assail it and heal my wounds."
[20:05] <Alicia> "As I regained consciousness, still surrounded on all sides by enormous scales, I lashed out wildly with all my strength, finally inflicting enough cumulative injuries for the weakened serpent to submit to us.""
[20:08] <Kotono> Food and drink is passed to all as Alicia tells the tale. Latha indulges, while Antenora only sibs and nibbles lightly. "Brilliant! The fang of one of it's spawn is inspired thinking. I assume you made that sword from the cold iron desposits in the mountains?" Strength of Light drinks as the tale is told, "So close, yet you rallied and brought back a win? INcredible tenacity!"
[20:09] <Kotono> "Alicia's faced down horrors. She's not giving up that easily," Antenora smiles to her, beaming.
06[20:11] * Alicia imndulges with far less restraint than Antenora, glad to finally have some real food. She even drinks some of the wine, despite that she has little taste for the stuff. "It was a very close run thing, even with my dare I say hardy constitution and the cumulative blessings of Mystra and the Heavens, that poison tore right through me."
[20:13] <Kotono> Antenora drinks a little more, following Alicia's lead. "It is said that Jormungandr's poison can kill even the Gods. It's spawn's poison is not so severe, but to survive it is an amazing feat for a mortal."
[20:13] <Kotono> "Amazing feats are what Alicia does," Antenora's smile grows larger.
[20:14] <Alicia> "Still, it told me of how you defeated it, Strength of Light - very cunning, I must say," Alicia tells the deva, before looking to Antenora and then Latha, "I myself would have been utterly lost without my friends, though."
[20:15] <Kotono> "We would be food for the wyrm if not for you and Antenora," Latha declares.
[20:16] <Alicia> "It was a team effort," Alicia nods resolutely.
[20:16] <Kotono> "The lesson of that is meant to teach you how important wise tactics are against overwhelming opposition. A lesson you've learned well." Strength of Light refills drinks and brings more food as he speaks. "I had other exercises set, but there's hardly a need for them now."
[20:18] <Alicia> "As you said, the real training begins tomorrow," Alicia agrees. "So just what do we have in store?"
[20:19] <Kotono> "Tomorrow morning, be in this tent. Store everything, wear underclothes and bring no weapon. We will train where fire and ice reigns, where every breath is an ordeal to be overcome. There," His smile twists a little, into a fearsome, holy thing, "I will retrain you from the bottom up."
06[20:21] * Alicia raises a suspicious eyebrow. "And for that we have to be nearly naked?"
[20:22] <Kotono> Antenora's eyebrows both raise, "You know..." she looks at Strength of LIght quite levelly, crossing her arms.
[20:22] <Kotono> "Rightly or wrongly, give them the chance to at least maintain their dignity," Latha says, "No matter the reason. Have they not proven themselves enough?"
[20:23] <Alicia> "I'm sure he has a perfectly valid reason," Alicia reassures her friends, giving Strength of Light a probing look. "Right?"
[20:24] <Kotono> "You know, all three of youa re gorgeous. I won't mind this training a bit. The point is to push it to the very edge and a little past that. Enduring the elements is part of that." He looks back at Alicia, serious.
[20:25] <Kotono> "How about we decide what we'll wear?" Antenora glowers, "I'm just curious now, would you require those conditions if we were men?"
[20:26] <Kotono> "Yes." Now with easy good cheer, "I suppose more modest clothes won't affect things that much. I'll leave the choice to the three of you, then." He raises his mug to Alicia and then Antenora.
[20:29] <Alicia> "Oh, fine," Alicia relents. "If that's how the training should be done, that's what we'll do. No sense taking half-measures. Just remember that outsiders can tolerate extremes of temperature far better than humans can."
[20:30] <Kotono> "I'm aware. It can't be helped entirely, but..." He opens his hands wide before shrugging. "Ah well."
[20:30] <Kotono> Antenora glares and drinks deep of her ale, with a long look at Alicia. She doesn't comment aloud.
[20:33] <Alicia> "If it helps us to defeat Esthan I can endure it," Alicia resolves as she spears a slice of undetermined glazed meat and bites into it.
[20:36] <Kotono> "Cheers to that," Strength of Light raises his mug. "Until the morning!"
06[20:36] * Alicia picks up a mug of her own and clinks it against his before drinking. "Until then!"
[20:39] <Kotono> OOC: Skip along? Anything you want to do that evening besides eat and sleep?
[20:40] <Alicia> OOC: not really, no
[20:42] <Kotono> The next morning, the three gather in STrength of Light's tent. Antenora wears a cutoff cloth shirt and underwear, while Latha much the same. They wait and talk quietly. Strength of Light is also there, waiting.
06[20:45] * Alicia is attired in her usual black brasierre and underwear, sadly without the usual tunic and leggings that go on top. Despite her embarrassment she does her best not to show any inkling of it, looking for all the world as if this is how she usually dresses while wandering around in the morning.
[20:46] <Kotono> Strength of LIght steps forward, a rolled up carpet under his arm. He lays it down on the ground, quite large and wide, enough for ten people to easily sit on it. "Get on board. This will take us in comfort and style to our destination."
06[20:48] * Alicia had been hoping they'd teleport, but supposes once they get there she could arrange transport there and back with little difficulty. "I've heard of flying carpets but never seen one," she muses as she steps onto it and kneels with her legs primly tucked beneath her.
[20:49] <Kotono> Antenora is at Alicia's side, Latha behind. The carpet takes up and off, flying out of the tent with easy manuverability. It then soars upward at quite the fast clip! "This one's rather improved for speed. Just relax and enjoy the terrain. We'll be leaving this floating land behind and travelling to another one. It'll take until the mid afternoon."
[20:51] <Alicia> "Muspelheim?" Alicia wonders aloud, thinking of the fiery realm of Ysgard. Then again, he also said it would be cold...
[20:56] <Kotono> The trip is a long one indeed. By late morning you go over the edge of this land, descending down. Far, far below are lands of pure flame and magma, burning far below the floating islands that make up the top layer of Ysgard. You come within a thousand feet of them, heat roiling off like bomb blasts. Alicia finds herself drenched in sweat, Latha looking no better off. Only Antenora looks unbothered. You fly along this for a time, a floating isl
[20:56] <Kotono> You fly along this for a time, a floating island coming in sight, distantly. Strength of LIght points to it, "There! It's still a long ways away, but that's our destination."
06[20:57] * Alicia leans forward and squints in the distance to see what he's pointing at.
[20:58] <Kotono> As you come closer, you get a look. It's a large island. It's all jagged mountains, not a single bit of flat land. Yet it has rivulets where burning lava flows from volcanos, side by side with bands of ice frozen rock. At the places these meet, great clouds of steam are born. "It's said that a primal ice paraelemental was slain here, eons ago. It's essence resulted in this island, a place where arctic cold and magma's heat coexist."
06[21:01] * Alicia is not really looking forward to spending much time there, especially without any shoes. "Can't see why an ice elemental would want to come here..."
[21:02] <Kotono> "The story claims a mortal wizard summoned it," Strength of Light continues on, "No one naturallly lives there. We'll have it all to ourselves."
[21:03] <Alicia> "So what will we be doing?" Alicia asks. Surely more than just getting alternately burnt and frostbitten?

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[20:14] <Kotono> > The trip is a long one indeed. By late morning you go over the edge of this land, descending down. Far, far below are lands of pure flame and magma, burning far below the floating islands that make up the top layer of Ysgard. You come within a thousand feet of them, heat roiling off like bomb blasts. Alicia finds herself drenched in sweat, Latha looking no better off. Only Antenora looks unbothered. You fly along this for a time, a floating i
[20:14] <Kotono> > You fly along this for a time, a floating island coming in sight, distantly. Strength of LIght points to it, "There! It's still a long ways away, but that's our destination."
[20:14] <Kotono> * Alicia leans forward and squints in the distance to see what he's pointing at.
[20:14] <Kotono> > As you come closer, you get a look. It's a large island. It's all jagged mountains, not a single bit of flat land. Yet it has rivulets where burning lava flows from volcanos, side by side with bands of ice frozen rock. At the places these meet, great clouds of steam are born. "It's said that a primal ice paraelemental was slain here, eons ago. It's essence resulted in this island, a place where arctic cold and magma's heat coexist."
[20:14] <Kotono> * Alicia is not really looking forward to spending much time there, especially without any shoes. "Can't see why an ice elemental would want to come here..."
[20:14] <Kotono> > "The story claims a mortal wizard summoned it," Strength of Light continues on, "No one naturallly lives there. We'll have it all to ourselves."
[20:14] <Kotono> <Alicia> "So what will we be doing?" Alicia asks. Surely more than just getting alternately burnt and frostbitten?
03[20:15] * Ebiris is now known as Alicia
05[20:15] -atarians.dejatoons.net:@#dunes- Alicia invited Hatbot into the channel.
03[20:15] * Hatbot (~Hatbot@24.174.51.230) has joined #dunes
03[20:15] * Alicia sets mode: +v Hatbot
[20:15] <Kotono> "I'm going to be putting you through the most intense, difficult training I've been able to come up with over the millenia," Stregth of Light smiles now as the carpet approaches closer. "Physical as well as spiritual. Sit back and relax, it's going to be the last time you do that for a few weeks." He rubs his hands together, "I've waited so long to have someone worthy to train like this."
06[20:17] * Alicia feels a shiver of anticipation. No matter how much it might hurt, she's certain she'll come out stronger in the end. Looking to her two friends and smiling gamely, she amends that in her head - they'll all benefit. "We'll try not to disappoint you, then."
[20:18] <Kotono> "We won't," Antenora promises, smiling back to Alicia. She takesa long, deeeeep breath, however. (More)
[20:19] <Kotono> Once you land, it all begins. Training: Physical battles, while every breath is a labor to take. While freezing half to death you battle Strength of Light with your bare hands. You climb mountains of pure ice, fending off flyby attacks all the while. You endure burns as you withstand powerful lightning bolts cascading around you. All of you go through this, overwhelming. Dozens of times you feel like you are a breath away from collapsing, yet s
[20:19] <Kotono> Dozens of times you feel like you are a breath away from collapsing, yet somehow you are pushed on and harder.(More)
[20:21] <Kotono> At times when your body can truly take no more, you are lead into meditation and rest. You sit in steam as you meditate, perfectly balanced between hot and cold. Your exhausted mind takes in something easily - you aren't really sure what, but you feel a strange, battle-clear enlightenment come over you at these times. Days blend together, endless trials. Time is lost, only meals and sleep breaking your progression. (More)
[20:21] <Kotono> Time is lost, only meals and sleep breaking your progression. (More)
[20:22] <Kotono> OOC: Roll a d100, Alicia?
[20:22] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[20:22] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 71." [1d100=71]
[20:24] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 62." [1d100=62]
[20:24] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 52." [1d100=52]
[20:25] <Kotono> Alicia finds her very flesh becoming more resiliant. After a dozen wounds and a hundred more, the pain lessens. Everything seems less painful. This brews in the back of her mind, until one morning, sleeping lying on warm stone, with chilly ice on one side and hot stone on the other? Strength of Light sits besides you. Antenora and Latha are nowhere to be seen. "Good morning," he greets.
06[20:27] * Alicia sits up, fully alert in an instant thanks to the harsh training regime which has had little concern for her sleeping habits. "Good morning," she returns, briefly looking around for the other two before looking curiously at the deva. He'll surely explain.
[20:28] <Kotono> In Strength of Light's hand is a metal pin. He hands to Alicia. "Here." he says, "I noticed you've been taking your lumps better. Hold this a moment?"
06[20:35] * Alicia takes the pin without comment, wondering what this is about.
[20:36] <Kotono> "It's just an iron pin. Take it to your palm and try pressing it in? Just enough to break the skin and draw a bit of blood." Strength of LIght instructs. "Don't try and impale your hand or anything."
06[20:37] * Alicia spreads her left hand out and then pushes the pin into the fleshy pad below the thumb. She knows her skin is a bit tougher than a normal human's, thanks to the blessing of the storm she received, but it's a far cry from Antenora and Latha's supernatural toughness.
[20:38] <Kotono> Alicia pushes in! Her skin stays firm and taunt. Surprisingly, the pin refuses to press in, as if it's encountering some form of force stopping it.
[20:39] <Alicia> "You're right, that should be enough to draw blood..." Alicia marvels for a moment before pushing incrementally harder to see just how much it takes.
[20:43] <Kotono> It takes quite a bit to break the skin, Alicia having to put a real effort behind it! Watching as his smile grows, "Here," Strength of Light hands over another pin, this one gleaming, polished silver.
06[20:46] * Alicia sees where this is going, although she never thought herself a werewolf. Nonetheless she takes the new pin without comment and gently presses it into her flesh.
[20:47] <Kotono> The pin penetrates in with startling ease. Holding it makes Alicia feel momentarily off, the silver feeling slightly greasy to her touch. "I thought so. Alicia, have you ever been to Mount Celestia, or had any dealings with them?"
[20:49] <Alicia> "I've visited twice," Alicia nods slowly, her brow creasing as she regards the silver pin suspiciously. "And I read a magical tome of the Hebdomad's teachings which blessed me - that's what this is," she concludes, starting to glow with a soft nimbus of golden light.
[20:49] <Kotono> "I thought so. No, the pin's not magic or enchanted. I'll explain," Leaning back onto his hands, "Let me start with the full legend of this island."
06[20:50] * Alicia sets the two pins aside and listens attentively, very curious as to how this could have come about.
[21:01] <Kotono> "Long ago, so long that the amount of time is meaningless to you, forces of Limbo and the Abyss made an unholy alliance. Demogorgon of the Abyss and Ssendam of Limbo desired to cast away the Good in Ysgard, breaking it apart into cosmic treasure for Limbo and the Abyss. Thus began a millenia long war for the soul of Ysgard. One of the climatic battles that took place was between the forces of li ght and a vile, Abyss corrupted archmage of archm
[21:01] <Kotono> the forces of li ght and a vile, Abyss corrupted archmage of archmages." (More)
[21:03] <Kotono> The wizard, chased and pinned down in Muspelheim, lifted a chunk of land into the sky to forge a defense. He summoned an ice paraelemental of unimaginable power to protect him. IN the battle he was ultimately defeated by the intervention of Selune herself. In the aftermath, this island remained. His magic lingered after death, as did the essence of the ice paraelemental. It was declared a holy land, forbidden for all but a few to set foot in it
[21:03] <Kotono> forbidden for all but a few to set foot in it."
[21:07] <Alicia> "Selune... the Moon has power over lycanthropes, doesn't it?" Alicia muses quietly. However, any thoughts of her developing a furry alter-ego are put off - "But you mentioned Celestia earlier, and silver is anathema to law as cold iron is to chaos. I know that well enough from fighting baatezu. Just how exactly have I been changed?"
[21:08] <Kotono> "If it was normal, I'd assess to Selune's influnece here." Rubbing his chin, "But you mentioned that tome of the Hebdomad. It wasn't given, was it? You found it here or there, perhaps in a lost ruin or as battle pickings from a superior foe?"
[21:11] <Alicia> "It was in the hoard of a silver dragon with an overenthusiastic appreciation for necromancy," Alicia replies dryly. "None of my friends could open it, which is presumably why the dragon never used it itself - the tome disintegrated after I read it."
[21:13] <Kotono> "That would fit," Muttinger that as her rubs his chin further, "Alicia, you're the best student I've ever had. Your tales are mighty and I need look no farther to those you travel with to assess the purity that shines within your soul. I'm not the only one that's noticed. I would bet an artifact that your book wasn't just randomly found by the dragon. That's not the way it works. It was meant to be found by someone like you."
[21:14] <Kotono> It was meant to be found by someone like you." (More)
[21:16] <Kotono> "The Hebdomad sees long and plans longer, to spread seeds of good. They don't force, they don't cajole. They work in ways like that. Subtle ways, ways that you can always turn away from if you like. But you continue to walk the path they approve of." Waving his arm about, "That this place drew out a quality associated with law or good for you is not a surprise. Had I known ahead, I would have expected it."
[21:16] <Kotono> Had I known ahead, I would have expected it."
06[21:20] * Alicia just shakes her head, chuckling a little. "Not exactly what I expected to gain from this training, but what devil would wield a weapon of silver? It's a nice bonus on top of the other improvements in my abilities... for all that fine dining may become awkward for me in future."
[21:22] <Kotono> "Help from above comes in ways you seldom expect. They don't usually send out armies of angels to smite every evil in the world." Laughing along with Alicia, "If you weren't so obviously dedicated to Mystra, I'd say they were opening a path for you to join them. But then again..." A shrug, "It's not like there's a Blood WAr between Celestia and Arborea and Elysium."
[21:24] <Alicia> "My familiar sometimes complains that they're trying to steal me away," Alicia laughs openly at that, wiping a mirthful tear from her eye as she pictures Marie's reaction. "Oh, she'll be mortified when she hears of this..."
[21:26] <Kotono> "I don't know." Rubbing his chin again, "Oh, it wouldn't be stealing in that sense, but...it's possible you could be one of blessed to ascend without death. Hells, if it were up to me, I'd make you a saint for bringing Antenora over to our side."
[21:27] <Kotono> *one of the
[21:30] <Alicia> "I did receive a blessing for that," Alicia admits. "Latha delivered it - improved my constition. Still, it's all starting to add up..." she tugs at her flesh experimentally, as if expecting to find it rigid like wood, or underlined with scales. "I almost wonder if I can really be called human any longer..."
[21:31] <Kotono> "If you keep going, I think you'll be called angel one day," Strength of Light follows Alicia's hand as she tugs, finding it soft and pliant to her touch. "If you keep this up, I really think it may be your destiny."
[21:34] <Alicia> "Maybe... I've got a friend who's turning into a dragon, if you can believe it," Alicia chuckles, before looking up at Strength of Light. "I always thought of it for something after I died and was reborn in Mystra's realm, never really considered it could be a gradual transformation... of course that still assumes I live long enough to start with."
[21:38] <Kotono> "It can happen. In rare cases, saints and exalted warriors have transcended the mortal frame without dying or as a gift from a divinity. You'd make a good avenging angel." Now standing up, "Latha's found her own benefit, for her innate magic has gained a new facet. Antenora's change is more prozaic, just tougher skin. I've done for you what I can, helping you find what you were traveling towards. This, and what they gained, is something that wa
[21:38] <Kotono> This, and what they gained, is something that was in you already."
[21:41] <Alicia> "More than that," Alicia stands up and offers her hand to the angel, "You've given me back my confidence. That alone is worth more than anything else," she beams.
[21:42] <Kotono> Shaking that hand, and with a little smile-smirk, "To spend time with you was thanks enough."
[21:44] <Alicia> "Flatterer. Maybe I'll stop by again once I have my wings," Alicia gives him an indulgent smile, "But for now, if our training is complete, we shouldn't neglect matters back home for any longer."
[21:45] <Kotono> "Hehehehe. No need to pretend too much, I'm not that foolish. Come, let's gather up the other two. Can you cast teleport, by any chance? It would be faster on the return trip than taking the carpet."
[21:47] <Alicia> "I can indeed," Alicia affirms. "First spell I learned once I reached that circle of magic - it breeds laziness at times, but considering the distances I often have to travel there's really nothing else for it."
[21:49] <Kotono> Gathering up Latha and Antenora is easy enough. The two are wearing ripped clothing that doesn't really hide much, exhausted, dirty, tired - and triumphant. The stains of training shows on them, walking tall and approaching Alicia. "We're ready to go back," Antenora asks.
[21:50] <Alicia> "Alright, I'll teleport us to the volcano so we can get changed and cleaned up, then we'll return to the Prime?" Alicia makes sure everyone's okay with that plan of action.
[21:51] <Kotono> Latha nods, "We'll do that. You know..." She lingers, "I had a morbid curoisity to find out what it would be like to die here, with no real risk. Yet the fact that none of us found out buoys my spirit and confidence."
[21:53] <Alicia> "I'm happy for it to remain a surprise," Alicia affirms with an emphatic nod. Then, taking everyone's hands, she attempts to teleport to Strength of Light's tent at the caldera.
[21:53] <Alicia> roll 1d100 studied carefully
06[21:53] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 studied carefully and gets 72." [1d100=72]
[21:54] <Kotono> Woosh! The four appear just there, as desired! Strength of Light goes outside the tent, stopping in the flap out. "The three of you have the tent to yourselves. It was an honor to meet each of you." He bows to the three, "Kick that devil's ass for me."
06[21:55] * Alicia goes to where she'd left Hell Striker placed atop the portable hole containing all their belongings, hoping everything's as she left it there. "He won't know what hit him!"
[21:57] <Kotono> Hell Striker is there. On touching it, Alicia finds that it feels fine to her. Nothing unusual at all.
[21:57] <Kotono> Sniffing herself before grimacing, "Magic or a real bath, Alicia," Antenora approaches behind her.
[22:01] <Alicia> "Magic is no substitute, we need a proper bath," Alicia nods with certainty as she first picks up the folded portable hole and slots it snugly into her undergarments for safe-keeping, then picks up the sword. "Latha, how about you take us to the Prime, then I'll teleport us to that oasis in the desert so we can get cleaned up properly, then I'll take us to Balmuria?"
[22:02] <Kotono> "Right," Latha says, the three drawing together!
[22:02] <Kotono> roll 1d9
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d9 and gets 8." [1d9=8]
[22:02] <Kotono> roll 5d100
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d100 and gets 213." [5d100=1, 34, 44, 98, 36]
[22:03] <Kotono> The three-some appear in the desert. It's sandy and windy here, desolate as far as the eye can see. "Alicia," Latha says to her now.
[22:04] <Alicia> Knowing it's her show, Alicia proceeds to teleport to the oasis they used as their base in the campaign against the diabolical invasion.
[22:04] <Alicia> roll 1d100 studied carefully
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 studied carefully and gets 49." [1d100=49]
[22:05] <Kotono> Woosh! The three teleport! OOC: Ready to skip along to the next TP, or do you have anything you wanna do while bathing or whatever?
[22:05] <Alicia> OOC: we'll make sure we're all clean and non-smelly then get dressed and I'll teleport to the house
[22:06] <Kotono> OOC: Right, the three of you lather each other extra long and good, then clean each other off. Slowly. Roll another d100?
[22:06] <Alicia> roll 1d100 very familiar
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 very familiar and gets 54." [1d100=54]
[22:08] <Kotono> Alicia's house is like Alicia's house tends to be. If it wasn't for all the dogs and cats lying around the living room, it would be quite normal. Dawnhope is there, floating amid them and passing out scraps of meat. There must be a few dozen animals here, most of them stray and smelly.
[22:09] <Alicia> Oh, Marie is going to have some explaining to do!
[22:09] <Alicia> "Hello, Dawnhope," Alicia instead greets the other coure with a friendly smile.
[22:10] <Kotono> Antenora raises an eyebrow, not commenting a bit.
[22:10] <Kotono> "Hm? Oh, Alicia!" Whirling around, spilling a few bits of meat about, "Hi! You're back!"
[22:12] <Alicia> "Yes I am!" Alicia agrees. "I'm sure we've got all sorts of catching up to do on both ends, but how about we start with something simple? Like when did my living room become a menagerie?"
[22:13] <Kotono> A few fo the dogs and cats trot up to Latha, rubbing against her legs. "Um, well...I noticed there were some stray animals in town that could use a warm place and a nice meal..." Grinning nervously, "You don't have to be kind to only sentinent creatures!"
06[22:17] * Alicia opens her mouth and then shuts it again. Dammit, she would have to put it like that, wouldn't she? "Be that as it may," she finally gathers her thoughts, "It's not hygenic for them all to stay here. Leaving the smell and the fleas aside, some of them might be diseased."
[22:18] <Kotono> "I can help with that," Latha smiles and kneels, petting the animals. "A cantrip could help with the smell."
[22:19] <Kotono> Antenora starts to grin, all while facepalming down. "I think what Alicia's really getting at is that her house isn't an animal shelter."
[22:20] <Alicia> "Well, we'll deal with it later," Alicia finally shrugs. "Where are Marie and Jessica, do you know?"
[22:24] <Kotono> "Oh, Jessica's off at her fiancee's, and Marie's off doing something or other." Waving her hand lightly, "Say," Going to one big, golden, shaggy dog, "Do you like this one?"
[22:27] <Alicia> "I've never been much of a dog person," Alicia admits, repressing a shiver. "Anyway, I'll go check in at the garrison - Marie's probably there. We'll... deal with the animals when I get back."

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