244. Alicia, Seira and the assault on Pale Night

[Corwin]

[20:52] <Kotono> The door opens, Alicia and Antenora entering. OOC: Feel free to intro yourself, Ailcia.
06[20:54] * Alicia comes in as invited. "I'm glad to hear you had better luck with that assassin than I did, Seira. Jessica warned me to dodge the first strike, but the second came before I could even draw my blade, and I was turned into stone in the blink of an eye. Just a pity you couldn't kill it."
01[20:55] <Seira> "She hit me, I hit her back, she teleported. I've been trying to scry on her, but my first attempt went south." Seira shrugs. "I'll get her tomorrow. Want in on this?"
06[20:59] * Alicia shakes her head. "We have more immediate concerns. We managed to gain the aid of Xerona, guardian of Celestia's pinnacle, to aid us when we go to Mother's Mountain. With her power she should be able to hold off Pale Night long enough for us to hopefully find what binds the children to Androlynne and destroy it."
[20:59] <Alicia> "But she is eager to make haste, and furthermore Latha has had to take her station in Celestia until we are done... something she may not be able to leave easily afterwards. I would prefer to follow her to Androlynne today and plan for our attack. Would you be able to come?"
06[21:00] * Seira blinks. "You want to attack... today?"
[21:01] <Alicia> "Ideally tomorrow," Alicia replies. "Ascending Mount Celestia was some exertion and I'd rather have all my spells."
[21:02] <Kotono> "To free Xerona to wield the Liath-Flail, Latha had to take her place. Standing before the light of Chronias, she risks stepping into it and ascending Celestia. If that happens, she'll be lost to us." Antenora starts to explain, her voice level with a quick undercurrent, words tumbling out. "That's why."
06[21:05] * Seira glances at Amaryl. "That's why," she repeats to herself. "You're certain she can neutralize Pale Night entirely? What about the Neverborn?"
[21:06] <Kotono> Amaryl looks to Seira and nods slightly, "If it's for Latha, we have to do what we have to do, but I do wish I had that armor for it."
[21:09] <Alicia> "That's for the future," Alicia shakes her head. "The objective here is solely to free the children. Once that's been accomplished we can deal with the Dark Six and the Neverborn without the threat of Pale Night's plans for the sacrifice hanging over us. Hopefully with Latha back among us."
[21:09] <Alicia> "I do not know if Xerona can neutralise Pale Night entirely, but she is among the greatest of Celestia's wardens, and wields an artifact composed of Celestia's purest essence, which should prove a threat even to a demon lord. She is our best chance at holding off Pale Night long enough to search the mountain."
06[21:10] * Seira nods. "We'll go," she answers simply. "Is there a spot on the team for Agathaiel? I contracted with her on a long-term basis, and even without that, I know she would want to help with something like this."
[21:11] <Kotono> "Who will go? The more forces we have the better, surely." Antenora looks to Alicia.
[21:13] <Alicia> "If she understands the risks and is willing, I'd gladly have her support," Alicia agrees. "I'll collect Marie and Jessica, then we can regroup here for transport. Ask Donald as well?"
06[21:15] * Seira nods. "I'd like us to delay leaving for an hour to settle some affairs, mostly regarding the aforementioned armor," she says. "That doesn't present a problem, I hope?"
[21:16] <Alicia> "It'll take me that long to go home and back," Alicia shakes her head. "Assuming Marie and Jessica are there, but it's the best place to start looking."
[21:16] <Kotono> "You'll be going off? The Guard needs to talk once this matter is settled," Commander Oberuth says, "But for now, go and bring justice to those who would defile our lands."
01[21:17] <Seira> "You wanted to talk to us both, didn't you, Sir?" Seira asks. "There is no reason to delay that, if you had something to say."
06[21:17] * Alicia nods her agreement with Seira.
[21:17] <Kotono> "It's complicated," Commander Oberuth waves it off, "The Dark Six are what need to be stopped right now.
[21:17] <Kotono> "
[21:18] <Alicia> "Very well. Until then, sir," Alicia gives him a salute and a smile before she exits.
[21:19] <Kotono> OOC: Who all is getting athered up?
[21:21] <Alicia> OOC: Alicia, Seira, Amaryl, Anty, Marie, Agatha, Donald, Jessica?
06[21:21] * Seira heads over to her writing desk and prepares several missives for Abagail to distribute to their close allies. That should take care of everything she can't handle in person in the time she has, and recruiting Donald and Agathaiel wouldn't take long, so the rest of the time would be spent waiting on Pollyanna's response and gathering supplies to negate poison and detecting the true natures of those going.
[21:25] <Kotono> As all this happens, Seira meets up with Pollyanna in her back rooms. Pollyanna carries a backpack with her, "So I talked to Demedais. He gave me two items for you to choose from, your choice."
06[21:25] * Seira is eager to see the selection!
[21:28] <Kotono> She takes out two things - a pair of bracers and a suit of heavy clothing. "These are his bracers of wrathful smiting." Placing them down on top of the clothes, "He was toying with selling them, so why not use them for a better cause? The other is a suit of clothing enhanced by the wild magic of the jungle ruins."
01[21:30] <Seira> "I personally think that channeling divine energy to smite things is of higher compatibility to a celestial armor," Seira voices. "If it were an arcane archmage armor, then the wild magic, definitely. But here, that probably wouldn't fit as well."
[21:32] <Kotono> Pollyanna hands over the bracerst o Seira. "Use them well." she offers to her.
06[21:32] * Seira accepts them gratefully, chirping, "My thanks!"
[21:34] <Kotono> OOC: That it, Seira? Antyhing else or ready to move along?
01[21:35] <Seira> OOC: If Alicia has something to give me, I'll TP over to the friendly smith, give him stuff, and TP back so we can plane shift
[21:35] <Kotono> OOC: Alicia, where you?
[21:38] <Alicia> As everyone regroups, Alicia presents Seira with a single white-feathered quill. "I've used this on some of my latest treatises on battling demons," she explains, before glancing sidelong at her familiar. "Marie tells me it's terribly gauche to use one of your own feathers like that, but what's done is done. It has a nice symbolism for what you're trying to achieve, at any rate."
01[21:42] <Seira> "Yes, quite!" Seira agrees. "I'm supplying a new source of magic to rekindle the fading one in the armor, and besides, Dad suggested that symbolism would round out the arcane part quite nicely. I won't take more than a few minutes to teleport over and back." Beaming, she extends her hands to Agathaiel and Amaryl, ready to teleport the three of them over to just outside Mercer's house.
[21:44] <Kotono> Woosh! The three of you blink and appear over there without incident. IT's cloudy and smoky here, the air thick with the smell of burning metal.
01[21:45] <Seira> "We have our support from the core of the Guard, Alicia and Demedais," Seira voices, before they would enter. "And an equally symbolic tie in to Waukeen, if you want to ask Agathaiel's help for it, as she had offered, Amaryl. Have you decided on the magical catalyst?"
[21:46] <Kotono> "What do you think? Is this enough already or...?" She looks to Seira.
06[21:47] * Seira shrugs. "I think the answer lies in the importance in which you hold Waukeen. If I were to answer, it would be meaningless."
[21:48] <Kotono> "Let's do it," She decides after a moment, "If you're willing."
01[21:56] <Seira> "In my opinion, for what it's worth, you can't ruin an armor made at least partially from symbolism and goodness by suffusing it with the love and respect of your friends and patron deity," Seira voices, as the decision has already been made and she would no longer affect it with her words. "Is the amulet your choice for the final component?"
[21:58] <Kotono> Amaryl nods, "I think so. I think it'll work." With a hesitant smile to Seira, "Thank you for all of this."
06[22:00] * Seira draws the Flash and nicks her index finger, letting a drop of blood fall on the amulet's surface. "And that seals it, then. I've always felt it incomplete, but that all ends now. It might not be my heartblood, but in all this, it's the thought that counts, doesn't it?"
[22:02] <Kotono> "Yes." Amaryl matches Seira's smile, "Let's go in. Let's reforge this armor now?"
06[22:02] * Seira needs no further prompting!
[22:05] <Kotono> Inside you find Mercer with the armor, having it laid out over a table. He's waiting, arms crossed and hammer in hand. "So that's it?" he asks, "Have you gathered everything?"
01[22:06] <Seira> "It seems so. I won't be able to leave Lagann here, as I expected to, but I'll likely return before you're done."
[22:08] <Kotono> "Alright." he says, "What are you going to give me to work with here?"
01[22:10] <Seira> "Dragons and arcane magic are interchangeable," Seira states, showing Mercer the amulet, no traces of her blood remaining on it. "And to compliment it, symbolic gifts from those close to us, all with a distinct divine nature. Together, they should give birth to a beautiful armor."
[22:12] <Kotono> Looking them all over, "Right, I'll get on it." He looks over each, "With this and the knowledge I have, it should be easy."
01[22:13] <Seira> "I'm glad you're confident," Seira tells him with approval. "We'll stop by as soon as we're able to, in this case, in two to three days."
[22:14] <Kotono> "Sure." Taking them up, "I'm going ot get to work." He looks meaningfully to the door.
01[22:15] <Seira> "We'll be taking our leave, then," Seira says, teleporting them back to her home.
01[22:15] <Seira> roll 1d100
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 and gets 75." [1d100=75]
[22:16] <Kotono> OOC: That i for you guys?
01[22:16] <Seira> OOC: Yeah
[22:17] <Kotono> Thus, everyone gathers. Alicia, Seira, Amaryl, Antenora, Marie, Agathaiel, Donald and Jessica. It's a crew, half celestial, partially draconic and with a few odds and ends. Donald is the one that speaks first, "Well, since I'm the only man here - again - how about we get going?"
01[22:18] <Seira> "Just don't scream like a little girl again," Seira stage-whispers to him.
[22:19] <Kotono> "I will take us," Agathaiel steps forward, "Join in a circle with me."
06[22:20] * Alicia speaks up beforehand. "Before we go I should caution you that regardless of what Xerona looks like, she is a peerless champion of Celestia and possessed of great wisdom. Treat her with respect." Despite saying it's for everyone she's mostly looking at Donald as she makes this warning.
01[22:21] <Seira> "Well, at least if she's that smart and important, she must have experience in dealing with certain types of men," Seira says hopefully, also looking at Donald.
[22:22] <Kotono> "Oh, by..." Donald glares at both, "Thank you for your support."
06[22:22] * Seira grins back at him.
[22:23] <Kotono> At this, you are taken through the folds of reality, passing into another dimension! You stand in the wild forest once more, around a vast tree. This is familiar, having been here several times in the last few days.
[22:24] <Alicia> "It seems we always arrive at the same place regardless of who does the plane shift," Alicia notes thoughtfully. "At least I know the way well enough," she concludes, setting off for Pascorel.
01[22:25] <Seira> "The wards here are quite impressive," Seira agrees. "Maybe one day, we could do something like this back home as well?"
[22:26] <Kotono> Thus the partyhurries to Pascorel! You find it at peace - a soft blue light suffuses the entire town. The children play and laugh, the men at arms at peaceful rest. Reaching Lady Honeydip's abode, you find her with Xerona. The two are discussing things in low words, a conversation aborted as the party enters.
[22:26] <Kotono> Xerona steps forward, the Liath-Flail held to her bosom. "I am Xerona, Judge of al-Sihal."
06[22:28] * Seira waves, her eyes drawn to the Liath-Flail briefly. "Seira. Nice to meet you!"
[22:28] <Kotono> Donald holds his tongue and stays back. Amaryl comes forward, "Amaryl Gaial, Lady of the House of Gaial."
01[22:29] <Seira> It's still as impressive-sounding as the first time she heard it, and Seira wishes her bum of a father got them a last name as well. Something to consider when they return Celebrimbor's soul, definitely.
06[22:30] * Alicia performs the requisite introductions for anyone too shy to speak before getting to business. "We came as soon as we could, although we won't be fully ready until tomorrow when we can prepare our magic. What's the situation here?"
[22:30] <Kotono> "Agathaiel of Waukeen," The astral deva is otherwise quiet. To this, "I am ready, whenever Mother's Mountain is to be challenged." Xerona speaks. "Most of my power will be involved in the Liath-Flail, generating a protective field to shield you."
01[22:31] <Seira> "I have a couple questions about our plan, then. Would a mere Undetectable Alignment be enough here to shield and you and the Liath-Flail? Would Pale Night be able to feel your approach?"
[22:32] <Kotono> "I doubt mortal magic will conceal the full Truth of the liath-Flail." Xerona so answers, "With it's power, subtlety will be difficult."
01[22:34] <Seira> "Teleportation is impossible here, and it's at least several hours at our top speed. If there is something we can do to approach with a degree of subtlety, I feel it better than the alternative. What are our options, in this case?"
[22:34] <Kotono> "There is some respite. LEsser evils will not be able to come close to the Liath-Flail."
01[22:35] <Seira> "What's a lesser evil, to have a sense of scale?"
[22:36] <Kotono> "Approximately around the level of a glabrezu." Xerona answers.
[22:36] <Alicia> "I could cast a Veil as before, but given the presence of the flail I doubt it would meaningfully disguise our presence. Some sort of diversion might be our best bet at clearing a path as much as possible - do you have anything to offer on that track, Lady Honeydip?" Alicia asks the fairy general who lives in a gingerbread house.
[22:36] <Kotono> "So we can't be mobbed to death," Antenora considers, "Between that and a diversion, we surely can reach the mountain."
[22:37] <Kotono> "We can, if we really need to," Lady Honeydip agrees. "I've had some preparations made, just in case."
[22:37] <Alicia> "I don't want you to overcommit and risk being exposed to a counterattack, but some sort of feint would be ideal," Alicia nods.
01[22:38] <Seira> "Since we're not leaving today, it would also help if we knew more about its capabilities," Seira voices. "I'll freely admit I know next to nothing, beyond it being crucial to our plan. If no lesser evils can approach, does it mean they can't even target us with spells? Can they spot us? How close can they come?"
[22:38] <Kotono> "We'll take care of it. When are you going?" Lady Honeydip then looks to them, "Tomorrow?"
[22:38] <Kotono> "They won't be a threat," Xerona promises. "The feeble darkness they embody is nothing compared to the Liath-Flail's light."
06[22:39] * Alicia nods, comforted by that. "It's when we reach the Mountain itself that the real danger arises. Aside from the mother of demons herself, there are likely powerful fiendish abominations best left unknown lurking there. We'll be busy." To Honeydip, "Tomorrow morning would let Seira and I use our magic to the fullest."
[22:41] <Kotono> "Once we ascend to her fortress, then the real battle will begin. Doubtless we'll face things best unknown, as well as the Dark Six." Amaryl looks to Seira, "One night's rest until that."
[22:41] <Kotono> "That's fine. We'll be ready in the morning," Honeydip agrees, "Finally...succeed and this nightmare ends."
[22:43] <Alicia> "If we do succeed, it's likely the demons will throw everything they have across the river to try and wreak as much havoc as they can before anyone leaves," Alicia cautions. "It would be a good idea to try and get things subtly in place for evacuation - if the children can leave there is no need to hold Androlynne."
[22:43] <Kotono> "I know." Honeydip smiles, "We've taken that into account, too."
[22:44] <Alicia> "Good," Alicia matches that smile. "Did you learn anything useful from Lyscrea after we left you?"
01[22:44] <Seira> "And it seems we'll get to taste Roald's latest creation sooner than we expected," Seira says, sighing. "Alright, that was my one moment of depression before my enthusiasm and optimism bounce right back! Tomorrow, we'll destroy the fiends that keep the children bound here. Makes me wish we had a bard along, in some ways."
[22:44] <Kotono> "Enough information to make a good feint." Honeydip smiles grimly, "As much as a demon's plans will hold."
[22:45] <Alicia> "Excellent," Alicia nods. "For all that this is sooner than we'd expected, it's surely sooner than our foes expect as well. With the grace of heaven we might catch them napping."
[22:46] <Kotono> "Yep, and we'll send them to oblivion," Donald grins now, "Marilith, dretch, balor or whatever else, they're all going to lose."
[22:48] <Kotono> "So then...let's rest and prepare?" Amaryl asks.

[Corwin]

[18:06] <Kotono> -----
01[18:06] <Seira> roll 1d10+10 FL
[18:06] <Kobot> Seira rolled 1d10+10 FL --> [ 1d10=1 ]{11}
06[18:06] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d10+10 FL and gets 12." [1d10=2]
03[18:06] * Kotono sets mode: +m
03[18:06] * Kotono sets mode: +v Kobot
[18:07] <Alicia> Oh, Marie will test to see if benign transposition works on Androlynne while we're resting. Does it?
[18:08] <Kotono> OOC: It's a teleportation effect so it fails.
[18:09] <Kotono> A night's rest passes in peace. The following morning Pascorel is alive! Soldiers, celestials and the heavenly host about are girded for battle, the children of the city laughing and playing around them. On meeting with Lady Honeydip and Xerona, you find the former clad in a breastplate and carrying a spear. "We're ready to strike; the Court of Stars will bless us."
06[18:11] * Alicia nods. "We'll wait till the diversion is under way before we fly high and straight to the mountain," she suggests. "Once we accomplish our mission, we'll contact you immediately just in case it isn't felt, and you can handle the withdrawal?"
[18:12] <Kotono> "We have means in place to," Lady ?Honeydip nods tersely, "Is there anything else? I fnot, we're going to begin immediately."
01[18:13] <Seira> "Nothing we didn't take care of, yet," Seira responds. "Best of luck to us all."
06[18:14] * Alicia spends a moment empowering the weapons of Antenora, Donald, Jessica, and Amaryl. "May the heavens smile upon us, today."
[18:16] <Kotono> Thus Lady Honeydip hurries away. You are left alone for a time, and as you settle in, Xerona is in front of you. She holds the Liath-Flail in her hands, eyes closed. Glorious light spills forth from the Liath-Flail! "The power of Celestia's light will shield you for the battles ahead. Most of my energies will be in controlling and protecting us with the Liath-Flail, so I will invest what power I can into you."
[18:16] <Alicia> "Thank you," Alicia bows her head. "We will make sure that any demon who can approach despite the flail will not be able to disrupt your focus."
[18:17] <Kotono> The light from the Liath-Flail fills your bodies, energies strenghtening you and protecting! OOC: All of you gain a +7 sacred bonus to AC and saves and a +3 sacred bonus to constituion.
[18:19] <Kotono> "This..." Antenora's words cease as the light fills her body. "Chronias...?"
03[18:21] * Merc-zzz is now known as Merc
[18:21] <Kotono> "I feel like energy was just magicked into my blood," Donald flexes a nd rubs his neck, "Much better."
[18:24] <Alicia> "It's hard not to feel confident with such power on our side, but a lot will still come down to our own skill and will," Alicia resolves as they wait to hear word that the demonic forces are engaged.
[18:25] <Kotono> Thus time passes in anticipation. But soon enough, a pixie flies in! "Ma'ams!" She calls, "Lady Honeydip sends word that the battle is to be joined!"
[18:26] <Alicia> "Lets go, then," Alicia steps outside. "Agathiel, would you be able to carry Amaryl?" she asks the resident deva, sadly not the one she's used to, though. "We're going to have to fly as fast as we can, now."
01[18:27] <Seira> "It shouldn't be a problem," Seira muses, eyeing the deva and then Amaryl.
[18:29] <Kotono> "I can do so," Agathaiel goes to Amaryl, picking her up. "You are not heavy enough to be a burden."
[18:29] <Kotono> Amaryl blushes but simply nods.
[18:29] <Kotono> "Then let's go." Antenora is heading for the doo rout, "Today we're going to strike a blow that the entire Abyss feels!"
06[18:30] * Alicia nods and takes off once out the door, ascending as she heads North. "Lets try and stay at least three hundred feet up, that way we shouldn't be troubled by anything on the ground."
[18:33] <Kotono> Thus you fly ahead! At first, the vivid backdrop of Androlynne is gorgeous in it's wildflower colors, magnificient below! The light of the Liath-Flail glows warmer around you, Xerona flying in the center of the formation, holding the Liath-Flail to the sky. Hoppenstain Run is quiet - faraway you can see shadows running away from the banks, momentary things that are lost into crevices and crannies. (More)
[18:33] <Kotono> crevices and crannies. (More)
[18:37] <Kotono> As you fly ahead, the ground below becomes emptier. The sky begins to twist and turn a dulling gray. The air is cool and without heat, yet your path is unopposed. On the horizon, you can begin to see it. A vast mountain reaching higher than any of Golmendicoria's towers, going so high into the sky that your eyes cannot find it's peak. Before it lies an endless vast lake before the mountain, still a way's away. IT's waters are pitch black, the surface unmoving
[18:37] <Kotono> still a way's away. IT's waters are pitch black, the surface unmoving.
01[18:38] <Seira> "That's our destination?" Seira asks, peering ahead. "And nothing's come to greet us yet?"
[18:39] <Alicia> For now Glaciante's orb remains safely inside the portable hole, in case Alicia needs both her hands to fight. That will change once they get closer to the mountain, though. "We're a long ways off yet, Seira. Just enjoy it while it lasts."
[18:39] <Kotono> "Which only  means it'll be worse when something does come." Donald says, "Even I can figure that one out."
[18:50] <Kotono> As you continue to fly, drawing closer and closer to the vast Lake Lambrador...OOC: Make spot checks? For the sake of expediencey just have the people with goodchecks make them first?
01[18:51] <Seira> roll 1d20+23 Amaryl
[18:51] <Kobot> Seira rolled 1d20+23 Amaryl --> [ 1d20=10 ]{33}
[18:51] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 I'll roll for Anty
[18:51] <Kobot> Alicia rolled 1d20+23 I'll roll for Anty --> [ 1d20=8 ]{31}
03[18:52] * Kobot (~dunefar@ip68-99-109-25.hr.hr.cox.net) has left #dunes
03[18:52] * Alicia sets mode: +v Hatbot
03[18:52] * Kotono sets mode: -m
[18:53] <Kotono> Amaryl looks downward, "Seira..." she murmurs, "Look at the waters of the lake!"
[18:54] <Kotono> Antenora, meanwhile, turns her eyes upward. She squints, "A star...?" she mutters under her breath.
06[18:54] * Seira peers below at the prompting, drawing closer to Amaryl and Agathaiel.
06[18:54] * Alicia glances upwards at whatever Antenora's looking at.
[18:56] <Kotono> Below, Seira can see the waters of the lake are starting to move. Just below the surface she can see transparent faces bubbling up, yet unable to quite reach the surface.
[18:56] <Kotono> Above, Alicia can see a slowly growing dot of light far in the sky, like a star descending downward.
01[18:57] <Seira> "Creepy faces in the lake," Seira mutters in disgust. "Let's gain some more altitude?"
[18:57] <Alicia> Alicia's eyes glow blue to better perceive the flows of magic as she draws Hell Striker. "Could be trouble from above, too," she replies to Seira, nonetheless ascending another fifty feet.
06[19:02] * Seira ascends as well, calling upon defensive magic to protect her, should a fight break out soon.
[19:02] <Kotono> As the party ascends, the lake bubbles with faces just below the surface! Above ,th epoint of light grows bigger and bigger, racing down towards the ground in a suicidally fast plummet! It glows with white alabaster light, even as Antenora readies her spear. "Will this be the first line of defense?"
[19:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 spellcraft
06[19:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 spellcraft and gets 45." [1d20=19]
01[19:04] <Seira> "Death from above and below? If that's what it is, I'll take my chances in the air," Seira says with a bravado which is not entirely false, drawing the Resort.
[19:06] <Kotono> Donald ascends as well, even as he has his sword and shield ready. He starts to speak, but the falling star glows brighter! In time with it, the lake below erupts in a chorus of cries! Voices all screaming out as one, of orgasmic bliss and indeniable agony!
[19:08] <Alicia> "Something terrible will come from the lake!" Alicia calls in alarm, suddenly flaring with bright undead-slaying light, trying to get a bead on the star and intending to try and core it with a blast of spellfire when it gets within two hundred feet. Maybe if they destroy it before it hits the lake...?
01[19:10] <Seira> "Terrible how?"
[19:11] <Kotono> Antenora peers down at the lake, spear on guard! Donald glowers at Alicia, "Terrible...what Seira said! Can we do anything abou tit?"
[19:13] <Alicia> Does it matter? Good Mystra, do they want her to tell them exactly how many tentacles it will have or what? "A horrible amalgamation of tortured souls bent on consuming us to be digested for all time in endless torment?" she replies irritably, trying to keep her focus on the falling star. "Maybe if we stop the star it might not finish forming."
[19:13] <Kotono> The star continues to plummet, coming closer and closer, within Alicia's range as it races for the lake!
[19:13] <Alicia> As soon as the chance appears, Alicia lets loose with a powerful beam of pure magical force in hopes of destroying it or knocking it off course or at least weakening it.
[19:14] <Alicia> roll 18d8 DC 27 reflex half
06[19:14] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 18d8 DC 27 reflex half and gets 71." [18d8=3, 4, 5, 6, 2, 7, 2, 3, 2, 4, 4, 3, 8, 1, 4, 2, 6, 5]
01[19:15] <Seira> Knocking the star off course gives her something to fight, and Seira charges a spell of her own, waiting to first see the results of the spellfire before committing herself fully.
[19:18] <Kotono> CRACK! The 'star' stops in midair, exploding out! Debris rain down all over, shattered alabaster rock!...for merely a moment, then it floats around the light like a protective ward! The light floats where the stone was, dimming. Within it is an old elf - his body is immaculate, a perfect doll-white. It's figure is ghostly and transparent, a ruby-red smile painted onto his face. Diagrams of magic are tattooed into it's ghostly form, each one a heresy of madnes
[19:18] <Kotono> Diagrams of magic are tattooed into it's ghostly form, each one a heresy of madness. With ghostly eyes that stare into your souls, Celebrimbor begins to advance towards the party! OOC: Roll initiative.
[19:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 Alicia
06[19:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 Alicia and gets 20." [1d20=13]
[19:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 Marie
06[19:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 Marie and gets 19." [1d20=11]
[19:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 Anty
06[19:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 Anty and gets 6." [1d20=1]
01[19:19] <Seira> roll 1d20+8 A
06[19:19] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 A and gets 14." [1d20=6]
01[19:19] <Seira> roll 1d20 L
06[19:19] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20 L and gets 7." [1d20=7]
01[19:20] <Seira> roll 1d20+8 Agatha
06[19:20] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 Agatha and gets 9." [1d20=1]
01[19:20] <Seira> roll 1d20+6 me
[19:20] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3 Donald
06[19:20] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 Donald and gets 14." [1d20=11]
06[19:20] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 me and gets 15." [1d20=9]
[19:20] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3 ghost
06[19:20] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 ghost and gets 6." [1d20=3]
03[19:20] * Kotono changes topic to 'Alicia(20)>Marie(19)>Amaryl(14)>Lagann(7)>Antenora(6)'
03[19:21] * Kotono changes topic to 'Alicia(20)>Marie(19)>Seira(15)>Amaryl=Donald(14)>Agatha(9)>Lagann(7)>Antenora=Ghost(6)'
[19:21] <Kotono> OOC: Alicia, you start.
[19:22] <Kotono> "C-Celebrimbor!" Amaryl cries out, "Seira, that's...!"
06[19:23] * Seira just stares in shock, the tip of her sword dipping.
01[19:24] <Seira> roll 1d20+25
06[19:24] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+25 and gets 32." [1d20=7]
[19:26] <Alicia> "Don't call him that!" Alicia hisses sharply, knowing it could cause a fatal hesitation. "It's an abomination that wears his face as a mockery!" Flapping her wings, she flies sixty feet closer and prepares some magic missiles for when he tries to cast, deciding it the most efficient spell she has against a ghost.
[19:27] <Kotono> OOC: Marie.
[19:27] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 Jessica init
06[19:27] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 Jessica init and gets 31." [1d20=18]
03[19:27] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jessica(31)>Alicia(20)>Marie(19)>Seira(15)>Amaryl=Donald(14)>Agatha(9)>Lagann(7)>Antenora=Ghost(6)'
[19:27] <Kotono> OOC: Jessica then Marie then Seira. Anyway, sec.
[19:29] <Alicia> Jessica flies close to Xerona. "I know you said you need to keep your focus on the flail, but Mystra has granted me the power to borrow the magic of others. If you'd allow it, I could use one of your abilities against our foes here," she suggests delicately, not sure how the manners on this go.
[19:29] <Alicia> Marie meanwhile flies up alongside Alicia, ready with her own magic missiles.
01[19:29] <Seira> "That's not it, either!" Seira exclaims. "We can't let those bastards keep his soul, like they did with Alice! Agathaiel, dispel this heresy, please!"
[19:33] <Kotono> "As you wish it." Xerona speaks softly, her eyes closed as blue radiance flares about you! Meanwhile, Agathaiel holds Amaryl, "Take Amaryl then, Seira!"
06[19:34] * Seira has little problem with complying, and she could still cast in a pinch.
[19:34] <Kotono> OOC: Amaryl and Donald are up.
[19:34] <Alicia> Jessica taps Xerona to borrow her ability to unleash holy smites, preparing to use it herself!
[19:35] <Kotono> Donald holds back for the moment, readying magic!
01[19:36] <Seira> Amaryl will wait, delaying the decision to attack until the last possible moment in the hopes it won't be necessary.
01[19:36] <Seira> OOC: She'll ready an action as well
[19:36] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. Agathaiel. Go ahead and run her, Seira, she's a stock astral deva.
01[19:38] <Seira> Calling upon her divine power, emboldened by Xerona's radiant presence and the righteousness of their quest, Agathaiel seeks to destroy the vile chains keeping Celebrimbor's soul in such bondage!
01[19:38] <Seira> OOC: Dispel evil, yes
[19:40] <Kotono> OOC: Dispel evil is a touch and he's just about 200 feet away before he moves. She'd have to move for more than a round to reach him.
01[19:41] <Seira> OOC: I see, 200ft. She can't charge if it's a touch?
[19:41] <Kotono> OOC: It takes a standard action to cast it, Cor. Charge is a full round.
[19:42] <Kotono> OOC: She could hold until he moves and hopes that's enough to eliminate the distance problem.
01[19:43] <Seira> And first, Agathaiel moves until she is close enough to reach out and touch the spirit.
01[19:44] <Seira> OOC: She'll double move 200ft, then
[19:44] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[19:44] <Kotono> OOC: Lagann.
01[19:44] <Seira> OOC: He'll likewise hold
[19:44] <Kotono> OOC: Antenora and the ghost are up. What's Antenora planning on doing?
[19:45] <Alicia> Antenora flies one hundred and fifty feet closer, intending to use her rope at the first opportunity!
[19:46] <Kotono> Celebrimbor looks to Agathaiel! Words of terrible blasphemy and arcane might t umble from his ghostly  mouth! OOC: If any of yo uholders are going to act...
[19:47] <Alicia> A furious barrage of magic missiles suddenly erupt from both Alicia and Marie to hammer at the ethereal elf and steal away his arcane focus!
[19:47] <Alicia> roll 10d4+10
06[19:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 10d4+10 and gets 34." [10d4=3, 4, 4, 3, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1]
[19:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+35
06[19:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+35 and gets 41." [1d20=6]
[19:48] <Kotono> Under a hail of magic missiles, Celebrimbor's ghostly body rocks! The magic words are disrupted, energies fizzling about him! OOC: Any other holders going or is that it?
01[19:49] <Seira> Amaryl waits until the last possible moment to see whether Alicia and Marie's efforts would mean she doesn't have to stop Celebrimbor's ghost from attacking them.
[19:49] <Kotono> Celebrimbor's dead eyes stare at Agathaiel! OOC: Make will, Agathaiel. Bonus against evil applies.
01[19:50] <Seira> roll 1d20+23
06[19:50] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+23 and gets 38." [1d20=15]
03[19:51] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jessica(31)>Seira(15)>Amaryl=Donald(14)>Agatha(9)>Lagann(7)>Alicia=Marie=Antenora=Ghost(6)'
[19:51] <Kotono> Agathaiel feels overwhelmed, but shr esists the terrible sensation! OOC: Initiative ticks over. Jessica?
[19:52] <Alicia> Jessica channels the awesome might of a solar onto Celebrimbor, a pure white smite of holy power encompassing him!
[19:52] <Alicia> roll 5d8 DC I dunno
06[19:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 5d8 DC I dunno and gets 27." [5d8=4, 8, 6, 4, 5]
[19:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[19:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 17." [1d20=1]
[19:54] <Kotono> OOC: Snerk.
[19:55] <Kotono> The blast of pure holy radiance sends Celebrimbor's soul spinning in the air, dazed! OOC: Seira.
01[19:56] <Seira> Neither Seira nor Amaryl will do anything to jeopardise Agathaiel's attempt to purify Celebrimbor's soul, although that may well change if even she is unable to save him.
[19:56] <Kotono> OOC: Agatha then.
01[19:57] <Seira> Having looked into the face of death point blank and stood firm, Agathaiel reaches out to drain the vile heresy from the spirit!
[20:00] <Kotono> Celebrimbor screams as Agathaiel touches him! His eyes fill with pain and life, his hands going to his head! Amid his cry of agony, "SEIRA!" he calls out.
01[20:00] <Seira> "I'm here!" Seira instantly calls back. "She's trying to save you! Fight against the Dark Six and their magic!"
[20:03] <Kotono> "It hurts..." Celebrimbor shakes all over, "The mist is creeping in my mind...I can feel it moving in my thoughts!"
01[20:08] <Seira> "What if... what if..." Seira says, frantically searching for an idea. "I've got a gemstone, a pure ruby! If you-- it might hold your soul! We'll cure you!"
[20:10] <Alicia> Since Seira seems to have Celebrimbor handled, Alicia chances a glance down at the lake, not wanting any unpleasant surprises from that direction.
06[20:10] * Seira approaches, still holding Amaryl. Agathaiel can keep the vileness dispelled from Celebrimbor's form, and if they save his soul, not all is lost!
[20:11] <Kotono> The lake roils below, the faces jus tbelow th esurface! They stare up, pleading silently! OOC: Make a diplo check, Seira?
01[20:11] <Seira> roll 1d20+37 this is one check I never expected to have to make
06[20:11] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+37 this is one check I never expected to have to make and gets 47." [1d20=10]
[20:16] <Kotono> Celebrimbor's eyes are full of pain, but his body moves! It drifts ahead, soaring towards the ruby gemstone!
06[20:17] * Seira holds it out towards the spectre, hoping that Celebrimbor's days of suffering are close to an end.
[20:26] <Kotono> Celebrimbor flows into the gemstone! The white rocks fall away below as the gemstone turns white! Little cracks begin to line the surface of it, the ruby bulging!
06[20:28] * Seira looks at the process with growing concern, trying to estimate whether the ruby will break. And if so, how long it might last them.
01[20:32] <Seira> "We don't have much time," Seira says tersely. "If someone has a purer gem than this, it's really the time to say so."
[20:33] <Alicia> "If you're doing what I think you're doing, not a chance," Alicia shakes her head. "All my currency together wouldn't be enough."
01[20:34] <Seira> "Two options, then. Either Agathaiel plane shifts someone back to Prime, along with my ring of teleportation, so that Elle could put his soul back into his body before the gem breaks... or a Wish, even a Limited Wish, to reinforce the construct. What do you think? I like the former option more."
[20:35] <Kotono> "I can go alone," Agatha says, "Any more than that will weaken our assault on Pale Night, won't it?"
01[20:35] <Seira> "You could just send someone over, which is just as good."
[20:36] <Kotono> As you talk, the gemstone buckles, more cracks running up and down it's surface!
[20:36] <Kotono> "Uh, I think someone needs to go sooner rather than later," Donald eyes the gemstone, "Before we'd doging ruby fragments."
[20:40] <Kotono> *we're dodging. Man.
[20:40] <Alicia> Seeing that Seira seems unwilling to let Agathiel go, Alicia sacrifices her familiar. "Marie, you go," she tells the courre, who promptly flies over to Seira so she can receive the ring and the ruby.
[20:41] <Kotono> "I'll teleport you to the Prime," Agathaiel takes Mari'es hand, "From there you'll have to reach Balmuria on your own as fast as possible."
06[20:41] * Seira promptly hands those over, along with a pair of teleportation scrolls. As Marie has the ability to cast Alicia's magic, she might be able to call upon one of the teleport variants as well.
[20:42] <Alicia> She really can't, and has her hands full with the ruby anyway, so declines the scrolls after putting on the ring and handling the ruby, flying over to Agathiel to be sent back to the prime.
[20:43] <Kotono> "Someone who can teleport will need to go," Agathaiel points ou tnow, "Plane Shift isn't accurate and you need to reach a specific location."
[20:43] <Alicia> "That's why Seira gave me the ring of teleportation," Marie replies. "Hurry, I don't want this exploding on me!"
[20:43] <Kotono> With that, Agathaiel takes Marie! Marie and the ruby vanish, leaving the rest behind! OOC: #evil, Marie.

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[20:44] <Kotono> ---
[20:44] <Kotono> roll 5d100
06[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d100 and gets 277." [5d100=70, 9, 42, 71, 85]
[20:44] <Kotono> roll 1d9
06[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d9 and gets 9." [1d9=9]
[20:44] <Kotono> Marie appears  standing on a tinyr ock on the ocean! A large wave is coming her way, looming above her!
[20:45] <Alicia> Wow, Alicia's right. Every time! Marie doesn't hang about though, and teleports to Elle's shop, where she and Alicia have spent lots of time.
[20:45] <Alicia> roll 1d100 very familiar
06[20:45] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 very familiar and gets 92." [1d100=92]
[20:45] <Kotono> OOC: Tease bot.
[20:47] <Kotono> Woosh! Maire appears in Elle's shop! Elle is there, kneeling down as she polishes a suit of armor. Her expression is distant, her work automatic.
[20:48] <Alicia> "Elle!" Marie cries, holding out the steadily cracking ruby. "We've got Celebrimbor's soul, but something's been done to him! Seira said you'd be able to fix him!"
[21:08] <Kotono> Elle looks up sharply, "The ruby's also going fast...to me, quick!"
[21:09] <Alicia> Marie flies over and offers the ruby. "He appeared as a ghost but Seira talked him into the ruby - she said he could be restored to his body!" she rattles out quickly.
[21:10] <Kotono> Taking Marie in hand, Elle barks off words of power! A second later, you are in the garrison room holding Celebrimbor! "I can do it quickly enough - is there anything else I need to know, Marie?"
[21:12] <Alicia> "They might still have some control over him, I don't know!" Marie replies quickly. "He was fighting it, but said he felt them in his mind."
[21:13] <Kotono> "Magic Circle," Elle Marie down, quickly tracing lines of arcane magic about! A warding circle flares into light around Elle, as she hurries to Celebrimbor. "This will hopefully hold a possessing presence at bay, at least. I don't have time to do anything stronger."
[21:14] <Alicia> "My aura does the same thing anyway," Marie points out. "Agathiel used dispel evil on him, that made him act himself again, but like he said he still felt them in his mind."
[21:14] <Kotono> "Damn." Elle nods, "We'll have to chance it. Give me the gem."
[21:14] <Alicia> The cracking gem is readily handed over.
[21:15] <Kotono> The gem is starting to fall apart in Elle's hands as she quickly places it into Celebrimbor's mouth. "Gods willing, it should flow right back in."
[21:17] <Alicia> Marie holds Alicia's spells in reserve in case something bad happens. Rainbow Pattern might've been a good idea, after all.
[21:42] <Kotono> The gem shatters in Celebrimbor's mouth! There is a silent moment, before Celebrimbor shakes all over! His eyes fly open, leaping his to his feet! He clutches his head, lines of white alabaster starting to trickle down his face! (More)
[21:42] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[21:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 29." [1d20=11]
[21:43] <Kotono> Celebrimbor goes tense, before falling to his knees in a heap. He breathes in and out and hacks for air.
[21:43] <Alicia> "Lord Drake?" Marie flies down to his level, looking at him worriedly and checking for any signs of malign influence.
[21:44] <Kotono> OOC: He radiates overwhelming evil.
[21:44] <Kotono> "It's...purge it." Celebrimbor looks up, eyes wide and terrified. "It's in my mind. I beg of you, purge it away!"
[21:45] <Alicia> "I don't have any magic that can help," Marie admits, looking pleadingly at Elle.
[21:47] <Kotono> Elle nods, "Then I'll call on the Weave itself." Elle thus begins to call, "Mystra, hear me! I call on the Weave...purge away this taint!"
[21:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 29." [1d20=14]
[21:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+24 and gets 33." [1d20=9]
[21:51] <Kotono> Celebrimbor grunts, for a moment his eyes clearing...but it lasts only the barest moment! Celebrimbor shakes all over, "It's still there. His voice, his words."
[21:53] <Alicia> "If I stay close then my aura should suppress any compulsion or domination," Marie offers, flying next to him once more. "At worst we can wait for Alicia and the others to come back... do you have any spells of your own that might help, though?"
[22:02] <Kotono> "I can get them. Just stay here." Elle says, turning away and hurrying out of the room. "Call for help if anything happens, Marie."
[22:03] <Alicia> Marie nods and focuses as hard as she can on bolstering her innate aura to ward off any evil from Celebrimbor. "Just hang on, Lord Drake. You'll be okay, soon!"
[22:05] <Kotono> "Marie." Celebrimbor's voice shakes, "LIsten. Someone should hear this. Alabaster...Dralen...whatever he calls himself now. He's waiting at the top of Mother's Mountain. His servants are there with him to bar further passage into Pale NIght's realm."
[22:06] <Alicia> "What's past the top of the mountain?" Marie asks. "We thought it led to Bleak Rendor, but we weren't planning to go that far - we'd hoped to find what's keeping the children bound to Androlynne somewhere on the mountain itself."
[22:08] <Kotono> White starts to creep from CElebrimbor's brow, reaching into his eyebrows and turning them pale. "Pale Night's realm. That's where the children are...six of them. Six spheres. Six spheres of souls. Every single eladrin child murdered in Androlynne is there in agony."
[22:09] <Alicia> "You mean like this?" Marie asks, producing an illusion of Glaciante's orb. That said things were vile is not news, sadly, but now she at least knows who's souls went into them. "Is it the orbs themselves that bind the still living children, too?"
[22:11] <Kotono> "The orbs are the key to that realm and to Bleak Rendor. In Bleak Rendor lies the final sphere...the seventh sphere. It's where Glaciante's soulf esters, forming a new body. As long as the final sphere is intact, the Dark Six will never die. But listen...Dralen is not the only one there. Beyond there, with madness as his crown, is Sylian."
[22:13] <Alicia> He's not reformed yet? Good news there, at least. "What about the mountain, though? Do you know how Pale Night keeps the children from ever leaving Androlynne?" she presses, considering this a more immediate concern.
[22:20] <Kotono> "A curse... as long as the six spheres are intact, the seventh sphere will live. As long as the six spheres are intact, the children of Androlynne are cursed. Smash the six spheres and I believe the children will be set free."
[22:21] <Alicia> Oh, fiddlesticks! They're going to have to hold off Pale Night, defeat six monstrously powerful liches, a semi-divine undead fetus, and innumerable hordes of undead and demon minions? This is so not what they'd planned for! And Marie can't even warn them...
[22:23] <Alicia> "Yeah... that's really not what we were expecting," she admits quietly. "None of them have any of the protection they need to face the Neverborn - or even survive on the negative energy plane at all, really."
[22:24] <Kotono> "No." Shaking his head, "You don't understand. The six spheres arein Pale Night's realm. Six spheres, suspended in the air." Shaking ihs head back and forth, "As large as a house."
[22:26] <Alicia> "Oh, I thought you meant those spheres!" Marie gestures to the illusion she made of Glaciante's orb. "Almost makes me wish for some angles... But they're still gonna have to go to Bleak Rendor for sphere seven, right? And that's where the Neverborn and Dark Six hang out."
[22:28] <Alicia> "Would Bleak Rendor be accessible without going up the mountain if those six spheres are broken? That's make things a lot easier."
[22:28] <Kotono> "Six and one...six and one..." Celebrimbor mutters as he holds his head. His eyes turn white, irises bleaching of color. "That's what it always is. Six and one. Six and one. Seven. Six are the key, seventh is the power. Do you understand? Six orbs, six powers, six liches, six spheres. One Neverborn, One Pale Night, A Seventh Sphere...do you?"
[22:30] <Alicia> "I think so," Marie nods, straining her aura as best she can while hoping Elle hurries up. She's not sure Celebrimbor can last much longer. "I'll send word to the others to blow up those spheres and then they can leave, but Bleak Rendor will remain vulnerable? There'll be nothing tying them to Androlynne anymore?"
[22:34] <Kotono> "Free the eladrin. They're the key. Six spheres of them." Celebrimbor nods horsely, coughing. His hands are turning white, as he holds his head in them. "Sylian understands it. It's him. It's all him. He scares me more than the Neverborn, Marie. Older. Too old. Too many secrets in his eyes. They're all afraid of him. Glaciante, Dralen, Mudan." As he babbles, Elle rushes into the room. Gilartal is with her, as is Abagail. "More's coming, so get out of the
[22:34] <Kotono> Gilartal is with her, as is Abagail. "More's coming, so get out of the way, Marie." Elle barks.
[22:38] <Alicia> Marie zips behind Celebirmbor as ordered, but makes sure he isn't out of reach of her aura. She trusts it more than the magic circle Elle drew, anyway.

---

[20:44] <Alicia> And so they are diminished, even in victory... "Come on, lets hurry to the mountain before something else tries to stop us," Alicia says, starting to fly onwards!
[20:45] <Kotono> Antenora sighs deeply, "Mystra guide her," she says, "For all our sakes."
[20:47] <Kotono> Amaryl looks to Seira, carried by her. "Marie will make it. Right?"
01[20:48] <Seira> She won't forget this, not in a hundred years. However things work out, Seira will try to do something nice for Marie for helping her during such difficult times. "Of course," she lies easily to Amaryl. "Let's catch up to Alicia."
[20:49] <Kotono> Thus the party flies along! Below, the lake is silent now. Yet it burbles with suppressed faces as you draw closer! Ahead, Mother's Mountain looms high and higher and highest! The peaks stretch up endlessly, looming above! The sky is a dead, empty gray. No clouds, nothing.
[20:50] <Alicia> As they draw closer to the mountain, Alicia sheathes her sword and unfurls the portable hole, reaching in to withdraw Glaciante's orb. "We've a lot of ground to cover, so we'll start at the base and move quickly," she suggests. "Anyone who can detect magic, do so - whatever's binding the fell magic of this realm, it won't be subtle."
01[20:51] <Seira> "If it's there, I'll do my best to find it," Seira agrees, calling upon the magic to do so.
[20:52] <Kotono> As Alicia takes out the orb, her body grows dead as ice! The heat is gone from her body...but she can feel it. Power. Power at her fingertips. Seira can feel it too. She wants to take the orb, hold it. So much power is there for the reckoning, waiting to be taken. The orb begins to turn a dead gray, whirling like the sky in a blender!
06[20:53] * Seira is already reaching for it before she realizes what she is doing and stops herself.
06[20:53] * Alicia is almost used to to the orb's unpleasant temptations by now, and does her best to ignore them, even hanging back a little to catch the light of the Liath-Flail in her field of vision as they draw ever closer, counting on this key to let them reach the mountain itself.
[20:53] <Kotono> "Fear not," Xerona's voice carries, the light of the Liath-Flail growing stronger. "We will not be stopped. Ignore the temptation of evil, for our calling is righteous."
[20:56] <Kotono> Thus the party begins to ascend! Within moments, the ground below is gone! Below you is only a gray haze of indistinctness, the mountain looming higher and higher! As you fly, higher yet by 100 feet! The sky begins to cry out! The side of the mountain throbs and explodes out, a thick wave of blood splashing over from you! Amid the rubble, several pairs of red, glowing eyes can be glimpsed...
[20:57] <Alicia> Jessica and Antenora both use their own Mystra-granted ability to detect magic, and do their best to ignore the plethora of nearby artifacts so as not to be distracted from any powerful magic they might see on the mountain.
06[20:58] * Seira calls for water to cleanse the blood away from them as swiftly as she can.
[20:59] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 spellcraft
06[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 spellcraft and gets 29." [1d20=3]
06[21:00] * Alicia is about to draw the third resort as the only one-handed weapon she has right now, before remembering she left it with Latha. Not wanting to discard the orb in case they're not past the barrier yet, she has to settle for spells and turns her gaze towards the glowing eyes, trying to identify what they belong to.
01[21:00] <Seira> "This... is just too much," Seira admits, shaking her head even as she proceeds to try and find something unique. "Almost on a level of divinity, wherever I look."
[21:02] <Kotono> OOC: K:P check, Alicia.
[21:02] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 planes
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 planes and gets 28." [1d20=4]
[21:02] <Alicia> "Can you hold this?" Alicia asks Seira, offering the orb to her. "I think we're going to have to fight..."
[21:03] <Kotono> What comes from the hole is myriad! Each one is the size of a ball, dominated by two large red eyes! They are like tiny orbs of moaning discomfort! Like a storm of terror, they cascade down towards the party! OOC: Roll init here.
[21:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 Jessica
06[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 Jessica and gets 14." [1d20=1]
[21:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 Alicia
06[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 Alicia and gets 19." [1d20=12]
[21:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 Anty
06[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 Anty and gets 10." [1d20=5]
06[21:04] * Seira accepts the orb with a simple nod, leaving her sword in Lagann's care.
01[21:04] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 15." [1d20=9]
01[21:04] <Seira> roll 1d20+8 Amaryl
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 Amaryl and gets 13." [1d20=5]
01[21:04] <Seira> roll 1d20+8 Agatha
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 Agatha and gets 10." [1d20=2]
01[21:04] <Seira> roll 1d20 L
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20 L and gets 1." [1d20=1]
[21:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3 Donald
06[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 Donald and gets 23." [1d20=20]
[21:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 swarm
06[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 swarm and gets 29." [1d20=14]
03[21:05] * Kotono changes topic to 'Alicia(19)>Seira(15)>Jessica(14)>Amaryl(13)>Antenora(10)'
03[21:06] * Kotono changes topic to 'Swarm(29)>Donald(23)>Alicia(19)>Seira(15)>Jessica(14)>Amaryl(13)>Antenora=Agatha(10)>Lagann(1)'
[21:07] <Kotono> Like a shot, the swarm is over everyone, ravaging the warriors! OOC: Fort all.
01[21:07] <Seira> roll 1d20+25 me
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+25 me and gets 30." [1d20=5]
01[21:08] <Seira> roll 1d20+27 Amaryl
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+27 Amaryl and gets 42." [1d20=15]
[21:08] <Alicia> roll 1d20+33 Alicia
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+33 Alicia and gets 44." [1d20=11]
[21:08] <Alicia> roll 1d20+37 Anty
01[21:08] <Seira> roll 1d20+26 Agatha (+4 vs poison)
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+37 Anty and gets 53." [1d20=16]
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+26 Agatha (+4 vs poison) and gets 38." [1d20=12]
[21:08] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 Jessica
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 Jessica and gets 26." [1d20=6]
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 10d4 beats DR evil and nothing else.
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d4 beats DR evil and nothing else. and gets 29." [10d4=1, 3, 4, 1, 4, 3, 4, 2, 4, 3]
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 1d4 wisdom damage Jessica
06[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 wisdom damage Jessica and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[21:09] <Kotono> The passage of the strange orbs leaves you feeling drained! You feel a grayness overtake you, a ghostly emptiness! You can feel yourselves becoming lighter, more like airy apparitions with each moment, ready to abandon the mortal shell for eternal wandering torment! OOC: Donald's up.
[21:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20 Donald save dur
06[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 Donald save dur and gets 16." [1d20=16]
[21:11] <Kotono> OOC: Just damage for him too.
[21:11] <Kotono> Donald holds for themoment, fending for himself in the swarm! OOC: Donald knows he can't do much to a swarm. Alicia.
[21:13] <Alicia> OOC: are they undead?
[21:14] <Kotono> OOC: For KD? Yeah.
[21:14] <Alicia> roll 1d4 also damage from my holy radiance (-1 to a bunch of stuff from consecrated presence, too)
06[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 also damage from my holy radiance (-1 to a bunch of stuff from consecrated presence, too) and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[21:14] <Kotono> OOC: Okay, carry on.
06[21:16] * Alicia tries to focus despite the flapping horrors whirling all about her, a holy smite bursting over the swarm!
[21:16] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 concentration
06[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 concentration and gets 34." [1d20=20]
[21:17] <Kotono> OOC: Carry on.
[21:17] <Alicia> roll 1.5*5d8 DC 22
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1.5*5d8 DC 22 and gets 43.5." [5d8=6, 5, 8, 2, 8]
[21:17] <Kotono> OOC: Where's the 1.5 from?
[21:18] <Alicia> OOC: Swarms take 50% more damage from area effects
[21:18] <Kotono> OOC: Oh right. Okay.
[21:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
06[21:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 16." [1d20=2]
[21:18] <Kotono> The swarm is blasted hard by Alicia's holy power, buckling under it but not giving at all! They flail against the light of the Liath-Flail, even as they ravage against you! OOC: Seira.
06[21:19] * Seira sears a section of the swarm with her fiery breath, using the carnage to cover a tactical retreat as she flies twenty feet back to better position herself!
01[21:19] <Seira> roll 10d10+2d8 fire+holy
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 10d10+2d8 fire+holy and gets 74." [10d10=6, 8, 1, 10, 10, 4, 9, 7, 6, 6][2d8=5, 2]
[21:19] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 and gets 33." [1d20=12]
01[21:19] <Seira> roll 1.5*74 at least
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1.5*74 at least and gets 111."
01[21:19] <Seira> roll 1d4
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d4 and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[21:19] <Kotono> The blazing fire and holy light leaves the swarm even more decimated! It remains, torn up but not out from Seira's blast of breath! OOC: Jessica.
[21:21] <Alicia> Jessica still remains close to Xerona, and once again borrows her holy smite to use for her own ends.
[21:24] <Kotono> OOC: Amaryl, sorry, was a moment.
01[21:24] <Seira> Amaryl can't do much against a swarm, but every little bit helps, and she tries to put four of the horrible, undead orbs out of their misery!
01[21:25] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+26
01[21:25] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+26
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+26 and gets 67." [2#1d20+26 = 30, 37]
01[21:25] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+21
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+26 and gets 89." [2#1d20+26 = 46, 43]
01[21:25] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+21
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+21 and gets 62." [2#1d20+21 = 33, 29]
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+21 and gets 60." [2#1d20+21 = 25, 35]
[21:25] <Kotono> OOC: Does her weapon have energy damage or anything like that at all?
01[21:25] <Seira> OOC: It's sacred, which directly hurts undead, but nothing past it
01[21:27] <Seira> OOC: Doesn't help here?
[21:27] <Kotono> The arrows fly into the swarm, perhaps downing a few more of the myriad pests! OOC: Antenora and Agatha and not really no. Swarms are a bitch to damage.
01[21:29] <Seira> Agathaiel smites the swarm right in the middle, certain in the knowledge that the righteous will be spared the purifying flames!
[21:29] <Kotono> OOC: Concentration check.
[21:29] <Alicia> Antenora follows Alicia's example with a smite of her own!
[21:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 concentration
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 concentration and gets 32." [1d20=15]
[21:29] <Kotono> OOC: Carry on, Antenora.
[21:29] <Alicia> roll 1.5*5d8 DC 22
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1.5*5d8 DC 22 and gets 45." [5d8=4, 8, 7, 7, 4]
01[21:29] <Seira> roll 1d20+20 concentration
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+20 concentration and gets 22." [1d20=2]
[21:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
06[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 29." [1d20=15]
[21:30] <Kotono> AGathaiel finds her concentration shatter under the assault, but Antenora manages a smite! The swarm buckles even more, almost gone, vast holes in it from another holy smite! OOC: Lagann.
01[21:31] <Seira> Lagann rages at the inability to do more than carry Seira's sword for her.
[21:32] <Kotono> At this, the gap in the mountain twists! A flash of hot red pulses through the air! A split second later, it towers above you like Death incarnate! A purple, vast dragon - you've seen this before! The howling dragon roars insane fury! Perched atop it's back is a six armed marilith, snarling and snapping! "Tothe flanks! Crush them and listen to the lamentations of their souls!"
[21:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+0 OH FUCK DRAGON
06[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+0 OH FUCK DRAGON and gets 15." [1d20=15]
03[21:32] * Kotono changes topic to 'Swarm(29)>Donald(23)>Alicia(19)>Dragon=Seira(15)>Jessica(14)>Amaryl(13)>Antenora=Agatha(10)>Lagann(1)'
[21:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+4
06[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+4 and gets 14." [1d20=10]
03[21:33] * Kotono changes topic to 'Swarm(29)>Donald(23)>Alicia(19)>Dragon=Seira(15)>Marilith=Jessica(14)>Amaryl(13)>Antenora=Agatha(10)>Lagann(1)'
[21:33] <Kotono> OOC: Swarm is up.
[21:33] <Kotono> "Dragon!" Donald gasps, as dragonfear washes over the party! OOC: Those who need to save against, it, get saving.
[21:34] <Alicia> roll 1d20+33 Alicia
06[21:34] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+33 Alicia and gets 44." [1d20=11]
[21:34] <Alicia> roll 1d20+37 Anty
06[21:34] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+37 Anty and gets 39." [1d20=2]
[21:34] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 Jessica
06[21:34] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 Jessica and gets 27." [1d20=7]
01[21:34] <Seira> roll 1d20+23 Agatha
06[21:34] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+23 Agatha and gets 31." [1d20=8]
[21:34] <Alicia> OOC: wait, those were fort saves vs swarm
01[21:35] <Seira> roll 1d20+19 Amaryl
[21:35] <Kotono> OOC: Just roll out the fort saves first then.
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 Amaryl and gets 21." [1d20=2]
[21:35] <Alicia> roll 1d20+35 Alicia dragonsave
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+35 Alicia dragonsave and gets 54." [1d20=19]
[21:35] <Alicia> roll 1d20+35 Anty dragonsave
01[21:35] <Seira> roll 1d20+27 Amaryl, fort
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+35 Anty dragonsave and gets 36." [1d20=1]
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+27 Amaryl, fort and gets 47." [1d20=20]
01[21:35] <Seira> roll 1d20+25 me, fort
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+25 me, fort and gets 30." [1d20=5]
[21:35] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 Jessica dragonsave
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 Jessica dragonsave and gets 20." [1d20=2]
01[21:35] <Seira> roll 1d20+26 Agatha, fort
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+26 Agatha, fort and gets 42." [1d20=16]
[21:36] <Kotono> OOC: DC 30 for the swarm, DC 33 for the fear. I'll let you guys detangle it and hash it out.
[21:36] <Kotono> roll 10d4 swarm damage
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d4 swarm damage and gets 21." [10d4=2, 2, 1, 3, 2, 2, 2, 1, 3, 3]
[21:36] <Kotono> roll 1d4 wis damage if applicable
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 wis damage if applicable and gets 4." [1d4=4]
[21:36] <Kotono> roll 4d6 rounds shaken if you fail dragonfear.
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d6 rounds shaken if you fail dragonfear. and gets 10." [4d6=2, 2, 2, 4]
[21:37] <Kotono> The waves of agony and fear pass through the party, leaving them shaken and wounded! OOC: Donald's up.
[21:38] <Kotono> Donald promptly concentrates and flies up, enduring the swarm as...
[21:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 concentration checks
[21:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 concentration checks
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 concentration checks and gets 32." [1d20=12]
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 concentration checks and gets 35." [1d20=15]
[21:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20 ranged touch this only misses on a 1
[21:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20 ranged touch this only misses on a 1
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 ranged touch this only misses on a 1 and gets 13." [1d20=13]
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 ranged touch this only misses on a 1 and gets 1." [1d20=1]
[21:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 SR screw you bot.
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 SR screw you bot. and gets 34." [1d20=19]
[21:39] <Kotono> roll 1d4 negative levels
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 negative levels and gets 4." [1d4=4]
[21:40] <Kotono> Donald flies up, enduring as enervations fire out at the dragon! One strikes right into it's gullet, withering it's form and body deeply! OOC: Alicia.
[21:40] <Alicia> roll 1d4 I hurt undead by my mere presence
06[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 I hurt undead by my mere presence and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[21:41] <Alicia> OOC: 1.5*3 for 5, I guess?
[21:41] <Kotono> OOC: Hilariously, it had 3 HP left.
03[21:41] * Kotono changes topic to 'Donald(23)>Alicia(19)>Dragon=Seira(15)>Marilith=Jessica(14)>Amaryl(13)>Antenora=Agatha(10)>Lagann(1)'
[21:41] <Kotono> Under Alicia's light, the last of the swarm sputters out and collapses! They fall away, freeing the party from this torment!
[21:42] <Alicia> Knowing how poor dragons are at flying, Alicia hesitates a moment, intending to throw up a wall of force directly in front of it, which will stop any breath attacks it tries as well as cause a painful crash and send it plummetting to the ground!
[21:43] <Alicia> OOC: readied action to fuck with dragon
[21:44] <Kotono> OOC: Dragon and Seira. Go ahead and go first, Seira.
01[21:48] <Seira> Regrettably, Seira can't really fly up quickly enough to do much, and so she chooses to return back to Agathaiel and heal her up as much as she is able to.
01[21:48] <Seira> roll 3d8+15
06[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+15 and gets 36." [3d8=7, 7, 7]
[21:50] <Kotono> The marilith barks a word of Abyssal! "Fall!" It demands, and thus, the dragon simply stops it's wings, plummeting to the party like a giant ballista shot of draconic fury! OOC: Aliica, if you want to Wall of Force or something, this might be a fine time. Since you have a freaking dragon falling your way. A biiig ass dragon.
[21:52] <Alicia> Alicia can't make a wall of force anything but vertical... on the other hand, just what would happen if a several ton behemoth were to fall directly onto an impossibly thin wall of force from directly above? Alicia bets it wouldn't be pretty, so she quickly completes the spell in her mind and conjures the wall positioned to potentially bisect the dragon and its rider straight down the middle!
[21:54] <Alicia> She's also ready to cast feather fall if any large chunks look about to hit the group painfully after it passes the wall.
[21:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+26 I think a fortitude save is going to be involved here.
06[21:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+26 I think a fortitude save is going to be involved here. and gets 44." [1d20=18]
[22:01] <Kotono> Thus the dragon falls! It whistles through the air, as if a large chunk of Balmuria was plummeting at the party! And then...the gush of blood is a waterfall that dretches all of you, pouring down! The dragon's body is cut terrifically apart, marilith screaming as it is send flying down adn down and down! The dragon roars as it falls, nearly half it's body gone! It's one wing tries to flap and ascent but fails!
[22:01] <Kotono> OOC: Go ahead and free act.
[22:02] <Alicia> "Oooh... nasty," is about all Alicia can say to that as she finally hands the orb over to Seira, before healing her sister.
[22:02] <Alicia> roll 3d8+15
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d8+15 and gets 23." [3d8=4, 1, 3]
[22:03] <Kotono> Antenora stands there, stone still. She stares at where the dragon was. "...Alicia..."
06[22:03] * Seira shivers in disgust, calling upon waves and waves of water in futile attempts to cleanse them, while Agathaiel removes the unnatural fear some of them are feeling.
[22:03] <Kotono> Amaryl jerks her vision away, "Even killing things is wrong in the Abyss."
[22:03] <Kotono> Xerona's body flashes with light, the filth gone from her. "Let us ascend further. Evil will cut itself apartin front of us."
01[22:04] <Seira> "Stupid things have stupid deaths," Seira responds quietly to Amaryl, trying to sound flippant about it.
[22:05] <Alicia> "More and more I see that the marilith reputation for tactical genius is entirely undeserved," Alicia comments, scanning the mountain as she flies onwards.
[22:05] <Alicia> "Do you have any restorative magic I could borrow?" Jessica asks Xerona, twitching a little as she tries to keep pace with the youthful solar. "That swarm didn't just scratch my skin."
01[22:06] <Seira> As they ascend, Agathaiel tries to help each of them recover a bit, applying light healing magics as she is able to.
[22:06] <Kotono> "I do," Xerona agrees as you continue to fly. Antenora cracks a shaky grin, "Of course it's undeserved. Demons aren't anything ot us."
01[22:06] <Seira> roll 7#1d8+5
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 7#1d8+5 and gets 59." [7#1d8+5 = 8, 6, 11, 6, 13, 7, 8]
01[22:07] <Seira> OOC: Ah, Anty isn't hit. Donald can take two of them, then. I'll edit it all.
[22:07] <Alicia> Jessica proceeds to borrow a lesser restoration and cast it on herself, and then another for good measure.
[22:07] <Alicia> roll 2d4
06[22:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d4 and gets 5." [2d4=1, 4]
[22:07] <Alicia> And a third for luck!
[22:07] <Alicia> roll 1d4
06[22:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[22:12] <Kotono> Thus you ascend higher and higher up the mountain! As you do there seems to be no end in sight - it roars and races up above you, each moment up taking you closer, yet seeming to show almost no progress at all. But yet as you do, the orb of the dark six glows colder in SEira's hands! She can feel th epower within it! The power to open the way ahead, if she only taps into the orb...
01[22:13] <Seira> "To open the way ahead, I need to use the orb's power," Seira warns, coming to a halt. "Alicia, is this the way the orb was trying to trick you into using it, or a genuine thought?"
06[22:14] * Alicia casts heroism on herself as they fly, turning to Seira. "The orb wanted me to use it with my spells. This could be what Lyscrea was talking about, although in truth I had thought we'd already breached that defence."
01[22:14] <Seira> "Wish me luck, then," Seira requests, tapping into the orb to allows them to proceed fully into Pale Night's sanctum!
[22:20] <Kotono> OOC: roll a d100.
01[22:20] <Seira> roll 1d100
06[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 and gets 49." [1d100=49]
[22:23] <Kotono> In a moment, you feel as if you have ascended higher! Seira feels cold from tip to toe, as if she has never been warm. But higher ahead...the mountain starts to narrow! You can almost see something ahead...a peak?
06[22:26] * Seira shivers, careful not to dislodge Amaryl. "The sooner we can put this away," she says, referring to the orb, "the better. Let's get to the peak."
[22:27] <Alicia> "The fiercest defenders are yet to come," Alicia remarks, healing Jessica and herself some more. And casting Heroism on her sister to boot.
[22:28] <Alicia> roll 9d4+9 me, 20hp lay on hands Jessica
06[22:28] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 9d4+9 me, 20hp lay on hands Jessica and gets 38." [9d4=2, 4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, 2]
06[22:28] * Seira uses a wand as she hangs near the back, healing up Amaryl and Agathaiel.
01[22:29] <Seira> roll 5d8+5
06[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 5d8+5 and gets 31." [5d8=4, 3, 8, 5, 6]
01[22:29] <Seira> roll 1d8+1 Agatha
06[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+1 Agatha and gets 5." [1d8=4]
01[22:29] <Seira> roll 1d8+1 Agatha x2
06[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+1 Agatha x2 and gets 7." [1d8=6]
01[22:29] <Seira> roll 1d8+1 Amaryl x2
06[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+1 Amaryl x2 and gets 4." [1d8=3]
01[22:29] <Seira> roll 1d8+1 Amaryl x3
06[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+1 Amaryl x3 and gets 6." [1d8=5]
[22:29] <Kotono> Thus you ascend higher! As you do, you feel ripples in the air. A soft voice calls, "Higher...I want to see you with my own eyes."
[22:31] <Alicia> "Is that her?" Alicia asks, glancing to Xerona with a feeling of momentary trepidation.
06[22:31] * Seira shivers again, this time directing the healing energies towards herself.
01[22:31] <Seira> roll 5d8+5
06[22:31] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 5d8+5 and gets 23." [5d8=2, 3, 6, 3, 4]
01[22:31] <Seira> roll 1d8+1
06[22:31] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+1 and gets 4." [1d8=3]
01[22:31] <Seira> roll 1d8+1
06[22:31] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+1 and gets 7." [1d8=6]
[22:32] <Kotono> Xerona's gaze is upward, "I feel an evil almost without par...but it is not Pale Night. Her voice would be far worse than that."
01[22:33] <Seira> "An evil she-lich, then?"
[22:33] <Alicia> "One of the Dark Six then... or the Neverborn," Alicia concludes, steeling herself and unsheathing Hell Striker as she continues upwards.
06[22:36] * Seira makes her own preparations by extending Shield and Bear's Endurance to their limits, still intent on bringing up the rear along with Amaryl.
[22:36] <Alicia> Noticing Seira hasn't done her customary buffing of her girlfriend, Alicia steps into the breach and tries to offer a similar service, casting another Heroism. Her arrows are likely to win this for them, once she's set on solid ground at least.
[22:37] <Alicia> And she follows Seira's example by casting shield on herself, before finally deeming herself ready and focusing solely on the flight upwards.
[22:38] <Kotono> Thus you ascend to the peak of Mother's Mountain! Here is is perfectly flat - wide, about 500 feet. In the very dead center rests an altar of bone. "Come." A voice whispers again, "Come to your destiny."
06[22:39] * Seira lands on the platform, midway to the altar.
06[22:40] * Alicia keeps an eye out for any magical signatures that could mark an invisible creature or illusiory hiding place as she floats over the table-top like summit. "So which one are you?"
03[22:46] * Retrieving #dunes modes...
[22:46] <Kotono> As the party lands 250 feet away from the altar, there is a shifting of light. Five of them...five stand. Six molydeus, each as alabaster as a doll. They kneel in deep reverence, axes in hand. Resting against the altar, lying back against it as if a toy left by a bored child, is a skeleton. It wears steel braclets around it's wrists, clad in perfect, unfrayed white robes. It's face is that of a doll, painted into a cheerful smile that reaches far too much upw
[22:46] <Kotono> It's face is that of a doll, painted into a cheerful smile that reaches far too much upward. It's lips barely move as it speaks, "You've broken so many of my toys to reach here? You crave a magnificient demise so much?" (More)
[22:47] <Kotono> *Six of them stand, whoops.
[22:49] <Kotono> "But you won't have it. Celebrimbor wasn't a very good toy, his soul is too old and frayed for me. But yours...youth, vitality and energy! Oh, the toys you'll make!" It's head bobs with a laugh. OOC: Any of you with detection spells up, make a caster level check.
[22:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19 Alicia
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 Alicia and gets 33." [1d20=14]
[22:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 Anty
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 Anty and gets 24." [1d20=7]
01[22:49] <Seira> "You're a horrible stain on the universe and we're here to remove you. One day, it will happen for good," Seira tells the skeleton acidly, taking in the situation.
01[22:49] <Seira> roll 1d20+19
[22:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 Jessica
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 and gets 21." [1d20=2]
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 Jessica and gets 28." [1d20=14]
01[22:50] <Seira> roll 1d20+12 Agatha?
06[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+12 Agatha? and gets 15." [1d20=3]
[22:50] <Alicia> roll 1d20+28 spellcraft
06[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+28 spellcraft and gets 33." [1d20=5]
[22:52] <Alicia> "Shut up and get ready to join Glaciante," Alicia challenges, in no mood to humour this arrogant corpse.
[22:52] <Kotono> "Your time is over, heretic. You abuse Mystra's gifts for such vile peversity!" Antenora takes a single step forward, "Beg to whatever demon who cares to claim your soul for mercy!"

[Corwin]

[19:46] <Kotono_Ibis> <Seira> "You're a horrible stain on the universe and we're here to remove you. One day, it will happen for good," Seira tells the skeleton acidly, taking in the situation.
[19:46] <Kotono_Ibis> <Seira> roll 1d20+19
[19:46] <Kotono_Ibis> <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 Jessica
[19:46] <Kotono_Ibis> * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 and gets 21." [1d20=2]
[19:46] <Kotono_Ibis> * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 Jessica and gets 28." [1d20=14]
[19:46] <Kotono_Ibis> <Seira> roll 1d20+12 Agatha?
[19:46] <Kotono_Ibis> * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+12 Agatha? and gets 15." [1d20=3]
[19:46] <Kotono_Ibis> <Alicia> roll 1d20+28 spellcraft
[19:46] <Kotono_Ibis> * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+28 spellcraft and gets 33." [1d20=5]
[19:46] <Kotono_Ibis> <Alicia> "Shut up and get ready to join Glaciante," Alicia challenges, in no mood to humour this arrogant corpse.
[19:46] <Kotono_Ibis> > "Your time is over, heretic. You abuse Mystra's gifts for such vile peversity!" Antenora takes a single step forward, "Beg to whatever demon who cares to claim your soul for mercy!"
[19:48] <Kotono_Ibis> In front of Dralen an orb appears. It is a familiar orb, screaming with the souls of the fallen! His bony hands play over it, caressing the vile artifact. "Here I am. I have six dolls prepared for you to to play with!" With a snap of his bone fingers, the molydei rise as one, axes at the ready! OOC: Let's just roll init here, say.
[19:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 Alicia
06[19:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 Alicia and gets 17." [1d20=10]
[19:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 Jessica
06[19:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 Jessica and gets 32." [1d20=19]
[19:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 Anty
06[19:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 Anty and gets 25." [1d20=20]
01[19:49] <Seira> roll 1d20+6 me
06[19:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 me and gets 23." [1d20=17]
01[19:49] <Seira> roll 1d20+8 Agatha
06[19:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 Agatha and gets 23." [1d20=15]
01[19:49] <Seira> roll 1d20+8 Amaryl
06[19:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 Amaryl and gets 17." [1d20=9]
01[19:49] <Seira> roll 1d20 L
06[19:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20 L and gets 6." [1d20=6]
03[19:49] * Kotono_Ibis changes topic to 'Jessica(32)>Antenora(25)>Alicia(17)'
03[19:50] * Kotono_Ibis changes topic to 'Jessica(32)>Antenora(25)>Seira=Agatha(23)>Alicia=Amaryl(17)>Lagann(6)'
[19:50] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+3 Donald
06[19:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+3 Donald and gets 8." [1d20=5]
03[19:50] * Kotono_Ibis changes topic to 'Jessica(32)>Antenora(25)>Seira=Agatha(23)>Alicia=Amaryl(17)>Donald(8)>Lagann(6)'
[19:50] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 6#1d20+10 molydei
06[19:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 6#1d20+10 molydei and gets 118." [6#1d20+10 = 18, 17, 19, 27, 20, 17]
03[19:51] * Kotono_Ibis changes topic to 'Jessica(32)>Antenora(25)>Seira=Agatha(23)>M3(19)>M1(18)>M2=Alicia=Amaryl(17)>Donald(8)>Lagann(6)'
03[19:51] * Kotono_Ibis changes topic to 'Jessica(32)>M4(27)>Antenora(25)>Seira=Agatha(23)>M5(20)>M3(19)>M1(18)>M6=M2=Alicia=Amaryl(17)>Donald(8)>Lagann(6)'
[19:51] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+9 Alabaster
06[19:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+9 Alabaster and gets 23." [1d20=14]
03[19:52] * Kotono_Ibis changes topic to 'Jessica(32)>M4(27)>Antenora(25)>Alabaster=Seira=Agatha(23)>M5(20)>M3(19)>M1(18)>M6=M2=Alicia=Amaryl(17)>Donald(8)>Lagann(6)'
[19:52] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Jessica opens.
[19:52] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Remember, they're all 250ft away from the party. There's a lot of space to play with here.
[19:55] <Alicia> A pity these things can pierce her invisibility, so Jessica has few realistic options to contribute. So she decides to borrow one of Xerona's greater dispel magic abilities for future use, sticking close to the solar for now.
[19:58] <Kotono_Ibis> The fourth molydei sprints forward 80 feet, coming to within 170 feet of the party! As it does, a tendril of force strikes at Alicia's weapon! OOC: Disarm checks.
[19:59] <Alicia> roll 1d20+33
06[19:59] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+33 and gets 35." [1d20=2]
[19:59] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+28
06[19:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+28 and gets 39." [1d20=11]
[20:00] <Kotono_Ibis> Alicia's startled grip isn't strong enough to hold onto Hell Striker, sending the jeweled blade clattering to the ground a few feet away! OOC: Antenora.
[20:01] <Alicia> Antenora flies fifty feet straight up before erecting a barrier of whirling force blades in a large sphere just barely surrounding the lich and five molydeus around him!
[20:02] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Alabaster+Seira+Agatha are up. I'll go ahead and resolve himf irst.
[20:03] <Kotono_Ibis> Holding the vile orb in his hands, Alabaster murmurs words of profane power. "Play now...play, play, play, play!" So he calls, a white mist creeping out to the party, engulfing them! OOC: Fortitude saves all except Antenora, who flew high enough away to miss it.
[20:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+35 Alicia
06[20:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+35 Alicia and gets 41." [1d20=6]
[20:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22 Jessica
06[20:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 Jessica and gets 32." [1d20=10]
01[20:04] <Seira> roll 1d20+29 Amaryl
06[20:04] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+29 Amaryl and gets 47." [1d20=18]
01[20:05] <Seira> roll 1d20+27 me
06[20:05] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+27 me and gets 40." [1d20=13]
01[20:05] <Seira> roll 1d20+26 Agatha
06[20:05] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+26 Agatha and gets 28." [1d20=2]
[20:05] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+26 Donald
06[20:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+26 Donald and gets 36." [1d20=10]
[20:06] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 10d6 cold, all of you take full but no other effects except to Agathaiel.
06[20:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 10d6 cold, all of you take full but no other effects except to Agathaiel. and gets 36." [10d6=5, 2, 6, 4, 6, 2, 3, 1, 2, 5]
[20:06] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 2d6 dex damage to Agathaiel
06[20:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 2d6 dex damage to Agathaiel and gets 6." [2d6=1, 5]
[20:08] <Kotono_Ibis> The mist leaves you frozen and profoundly slowed! It's difficult to move after that, Agathaiel seems almost stuck! Her flesh is tinted with icy alabaster, droopings terrifically down! A moment later, Dralen snaps his fingers!
[20:09] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+20 dispel check on blade barrier, Antenora's CL?
06[20:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+20 dispel check on blade barrier, Antenora's CL? and gets 39." [1d20=19]
[20:09] <Alicia> OOC: 17
[20:09] <Kotono_Ibis> The barrier blinks away, the magic untangling and whirling wall of cutting gone! OOC: Seira and Agatha. Agatha resolves at the same time so the dex damage doesn't bother her until after this.
01[20:11] <Seira> Agathaiel decides to follow Antenora's example, and tosses a barrier of her own on its outer range!
[20:12] <Kotono_Ibis> Another blade barrier springs into being! Alabaster laughs at this, doll-face rocking! "Persistent play?" OOC: Seira.
01[20:12] <Seira> Seira briefly contemplates charging into melee or tossing an orb, but instead can't ignore everyone clustered so nicely together, and so calls for an insanely-powerful fireball to erupt in the midst of the pale-faced freaks!
01[20:13] <Seira> OOC: Maximized empowered fireball, SR?
[20:13] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Yes. Demons and all that.
01[20:14] <Seira> roll 1d20+19 FIRE
06[20:14] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 FIRE and gets 21." [1d20=2]
06[20:14] * Seira cloaks herself in stoneskin at the same time.
[20:15] <Kotono_Ibis> The fireball bursts with the fury of a sun, charring the ground - but the molydei are untouched, Alabaster unburnt! OOC: Anything else this round, Seira?
01[20:15] <Seira> OOC: I'm good. Shame on the fire.
[20:15] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Hatebot.
[20:15] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Antenora, roll a CL check for the blade barrier. SR.
01[20:16] <Seira> OOC: Agatha!
[20:16] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Oh, dur. Sorry
[20:16] <Kotono_Ibis> .
01[20:16] <Seira> roll 1d20+12
06[20:16] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+12 and gets 22." [1d20=10]
[20:18] <Kotono_Ibis> The three molydei who erupt next endure the barrier, magic refusing to slice their bodies! They fan out loosely, burst of telekinetic force assailing the party! The first one slams at Seira's weapon! OOC: Disarm check.
[20:18] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+28
06[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+28 and gets 38." [1d20=10]
01[20:18] <Seira> OOC: I'm not holding a weapon, just the orb
01[20:18] <Seira> OOC: Lagann's got the resort
[20:18] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Nevermind then, dur. It'll disarm Antenora then.
[20:19] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Disarm check, Antenora?
[20:22] <Alicia> roll 1d20+34
06[20:22] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+34 and gets 36." [1d20=2]
[20:23] <Kotono_Ibis> Antenora's spear is sent flying down to the flat mountaintop, wreched out of her hands! A moment later, the second one tries the same with Lagann!
[20:23] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+28
06[20:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+28 and gets 44." [1d20=16]
01[20:23] <Seira> roll 1d20+25
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+25 and gets 32." [1d20=7]
[20:24] <Kotono_Ibis> The resort is send down and out of Lagann's grasp as well! A second later, Amaryl's bow is the third victim!
[20:24] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+28
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+28 and gets 42." [1d20=14]
01[20:25] <Seira> roll 1d20+34
06[20:25] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+34 and gets 37." [1d20=3]
[20:27] <Kotono_Ibis> Amaryl's bow is the last victim in ths warm of disarmings, the molydei relentless even from far away! OOC: Alicia, Amaryl and two 'dei. I'll do the molydei first.
[20:27] <Kotono_Ibis> The last two molydeus emerge, fanning out as Donald and Jessica are targetted by the disarming force as well!
[20:27] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+28 Jessica first
06[20:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+28 Jessica first and gets 42." [1d20=14]
[20:28] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25
06[20:28] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 and gets 31." [1d20=6]
[20:28] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+28 Donald
06[20:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+28 Donald and gets 33." [1d20=5]
[20:28] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+28 Donald's roll, he's kinda has a chance
06[20:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+28 Donald's roll, he's kinda has a chance and gets 39." [1d20=11]
[20:29] <Kotono_Ibis> Jessica's rapier is disarmed as well, while Donald manages to hold onto his weapon, despite it nearly jerking entirely out of his hand! OOC: Alicia and Amaryl areu p.
01[20:32] <Seira> Amaryl casts a shield about herself, picking up her bow afterwards.
06[20:39] * Alicia grumbles as she picks up her sword, freezing time for a moment to do some things. Said thing effectively entails flying at full speed across the battlefield until she comes to a stop adjacent to Alabaster around the same time that everyone else speeds back up to normal. Then she casts antimagic field and grins in a not a all reassuring manner should you be a wizard on the end of it.
[20:42] <Alicia> OOC: wait a sec
[20:42] <Alicia> OOC: wait, no. Carry on.
[20:44] <Kotono_Ibis> Alabaster smells of paint and rot, a heady stench that is enough to make Alicia's head spin. His face is still a smile as he watches Alicia close, the Orb of the Dark Six writhing in his hands! OOC:  Donald's up.
[21:01] <Kotono_Ibis> Donald takes to the air and flies like a blur, racing over the molydei and ground, coming to within 50 feet of Alicia and Dralen! OOC: Lagann.
01[21:04] <Seira> Although he regrets it, Lagann can do no more beyond picking up the Resort and hoping to do better next time.
[21:04] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+33
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+33 and gets 53." [1d20=20]
[21:04] <Kotono_Ibis> "...Behind me!" Xerona's voice calls from the rear, "There is a foe behind me!"
03[21:04] * Kotono_Ibis changes topic to '????(34)>Jessica(32)>M4(27)>Antenora(25)>Alabaster=Seira=Agatha(23)>M5(20)>M3(19)>M1(18)>M6=M2=Alicia=Amaryl(17)>Donald(8)>Lagann(6)'
[21:04] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Go Jessica.
01[21:05] <Seira> "On it!" Seira calls back.
[21:06] <Alicia> "How far?" Jessica asks as she bends down to collect her rapier, intending to use the solar's dispel magic on whatever it is.
[21:06] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Any sort of scanning magic up, jessica?
[21:07] <Alicia> OOC: detect magic
[21:07] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Caster level check.
[21:07] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 and gets 21." [1d20=7]
[21:07] <Kotono_Ibis> But Jessica doesn't see anything behind Xerona! "Twenty feet behind me," Xerona calls, "A figure of white, with an axe!"
[21:08] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Make a check as well, Seira.
01[21:08] <Seira> roll 1d20+19 RAGE
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 RAGE and gets 27." [1d20=8]
[21:08] <Alicia> With a shudder, Jessica recalls exactly who that is, and promptly unleashes an area dispel centred twenty feet away, just far enough not to bother Xerona and herself but hopefully nail the would be assassin.
[21:08] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 and gets 36." [1d20=16]
[21:09] <Kotono_Ibis> To your eyes, the assassin appears! She is clad in a tight fitting leather dress, face as a doll. She is expressionless, a dreadful ice-axe in hand as approahces Xerona from behind! OOC: M4 is up then.
[21:12] <Kotono_Ibis> The fourth molydei advances ahead another 80 feet, coming to within 90 feet of the party! This time it sends a crackling lightning bolt at Amaryl! OOC: ref, Amaryl.
01[21:13] <Seira> roll 1d20+30
06[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+30 and gets 35." [1d20=5]
[21:13] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 10d6 electric halve this
06[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 10d6 electric halve this and gets 33." [10d6=3, 2, 6, 1, 3, 5, 1, 2, 5, 5]
[21:13] <Kotono_Ibis> The bolt grazes Amaryl as she yelps anddives down, avoiding the worst of the electric shock! OOC: Antenora.
[21:15] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Strike.
[21:15] <Kotono_Ibis> The bolt flies out, but crashes against the aura around Agatha, fizzling out! OOC: Antenora.
[21:16] <Alicia> Antenora drops down to where her spear has landed, healing Jessica with righteous vigour as she calls a holy smite down atop the remaining Molydeuses that are still clustered together!
[21:16] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 SR
06[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 SR and gets 31." [1d20=14]
[21:17] <Alicia> roll 10d6 DC 22
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 10d6 DC 22 and gets 36." [10d6=3, 3, 6, 5, 5, 5, 1, 2, 5, 1]
[21:17] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+18
[21:17] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+18
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+18 and gets 34." [1d20=16]
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+18 and gets 31." [1d20=13]
[21:18] <Kotono_Ibis> The smite of holy power blasts amid the demons! It flays at them, yet the greater demons are far too strong to yield to only a single one! OOC: Alabaster/Seira/Agatha.
06[21:27] * Seira follows Antenora's example as she discharges another powerful fireball in the midst of the clustered molydeuses, moving resolutely to stand in front of Xerona, shielding her from the assassin's attack. "If it isn't the one who got away," she tells the doll mockingly, willing her to combust. "Come on, let's play."
01[21:27] <Seira> roll 1d20+19 fireball (empowered/maximized)
06[21:27] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 fireball (empowered/maximized) and gets 26." [1d20=7]
01[21:27] <Seira> roll 1d20+19 vs assassin, channeled pyroblast
06[21:28] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 vs assassin, channeled pyroblast and gets 34." [1d20=15]
01[21:28] <Seira> roll 9d4 fire, dc27 ref/half on the pyroblast
06[21:28] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 9d4 fire, dc27 ref/half on the pyroblast and gets 21." [9d4=1, 2, 1, 1, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3]
01[21:29] <Seira> In the meantime, Agathaiel shields everyone she can possibly reach with a holy aura.
[21:40] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+27 sadly ref is it's really damned good save
06[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+27 sadly ref is it's really damned good save and gets 44." [1d20=17]
01[21:41] <Seira> OOC: I'll use soothsayer's spite to call for orb of fire next round
[21:41] <Kotono_Ibis> Fires of intense flame burst, as the assassin is charred! She leaps into the air, avoiding the worst and landing othewrise undamaged once the flame of storms is gone! Meanwhile Agathaiel turns the party aglow, holy energies transforming the heroines nearby, save for Donald, Antenora and Alicia! OOC: Okay. Molydei are up en masse
[21:42] <Kotono_Ibis> .
[21:42] <Alicia> OOC: Anty's back in the middle of the group herself
[21:43] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Okay, Antenora's in it then.
[21:43] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Oh wait, sorry, strike. Forgot him in my comingbackness.
[21:44] <Kotono_Ibis> Dralen looks up at Alicia menacing over him, "You want to play, child?" he asks with his smile, as the Orb of the Dark Six flares into life unde rhis hands! OOC: Make a will save.
[21:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 and gets 35." [1d20=12]
[21:45] <Kotono_Ibis> Alicia dies. Her breath is gone, her body rots. In it's place is a walking corpse, a feelingless agony gripping her bones...but no! Somehow Alicia's light glows brighter, barely resisting a fate worse thna death, her body whole and intact! OOC: Lucky on that save. Molydei swarm.
[21:49] <Kotono_Ibis> The three molydeus advance another 80 feet as well! As one, three lightning bolts arc out, going right for Amaryl! OOC: Three ref saves, Amaryl.
01[21:49] <Seira> OOC: Unless they're lvl4+....
[21:49] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Strike, sorry, brain fart.
[21:50] <Kotono_Ibis> The three molydeus advance another 80 feet as well, in position to strike the next round! OOC: Go ahead and go, Amaryl/alicia.
[21:51] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 knowledge
06[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 knowledge and gets 31." [1d20=16]
01[21:52] <Seira> 'Reduce their numbers, I'll do something about the assassin!' Seira thinks to Amaryl, which makes the latter's choice easy. She picks the nearest molydeus to her, and calmly unloads iron-tipped arrows into its hateful form!
01[21:52] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+28
[21:52] <Alicia> With the lich safely in the grasp of her antimagic field, Alicia sets herself busily to disarming and tripping him so he can't cause any more trouble!
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+28 and gets 169." [4#1d20+28 = 42, 39, 48, 40]
01[21:52] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+23
01[21:52] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+18
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+23 and gets 72." [2#1d20+23 = 35, 37]
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+18 and gets 71." [2#1d20+18 = 35, 36]
01[21:53] <Seira> roll 1d20+28 crit?
06[21:53] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+28 crit? and gets 33." [1d20=5]
01[21:56] <Seira> roll 4#1d8+16+4d6 if ac 39
06[21:56] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d8+16+4d6 if ac 39 and gets 132." [4#1d8+16+4d6 = 34, 35, 33, 30]
[22:01] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: 39s and up hit.
[22:01] <Kotono_Ibis> The molydeus is riddled with arrows, unrelenting and stonefaced under Amaryl's assault! Alabaster looks up at Alicia with amusement, even as she strikes! OOC: Go Alicia.
[22:02] <Alicia> roll 1d20+35 disarm orb, raging
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+35 disarm orb, raging and gets 42." [1d20=7]
[22:03] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+25 all things said he's suprisingly able at this.
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+25 all things said he's suprisingly able at this. and gets 30." [1d20=5]
[22:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 melee touch for trip attack
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 melee touch for trip attack and gets 41." [1d20=15]
[22:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+6 opposed str/dex
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+6 opposed str/dex and gets 13." [1d20=7]
[22:04] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+10
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+10 and gets 28." [1d20=18]
[22:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21 melee touch x2 for trip attack
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+21 melee touch x2 for trip attack and gets 29." [1d20=8]
[22:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+6 opposed str/dex
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+6 opposed str/dex and gets 14." [1d20=8]
[22:04] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+10
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+10 and gets 17." [1d20=7]
[22:05] <Kotono_Ibis> Alicia knocks the orb away with one sweep of her blade! THe Orb of the Dark Six bounces away, rolling along the ground! Dralen avoids the rest of her strikes, hopping about and bowing after. "A lovely dance for fun, child." OOC: Other two deus.
[22:07] <Kotono_Ibis> The other two molydeus do the same, though these both sent telekenetic force at Amaryl again!
[22:07] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+28 disarm 1o n Amaryl
06[22:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+28 disarm 1o n Amaryl and gets 41." [1d20=13]
01[22:08] <Seira> roll 1d20+30
06[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+30 and gets 36." [1d20=6]
[22:08] <Kotono_Ibis> Amaryl's bow goes flying once more! OOC: Donald.
[22:10] <Kotono_Ibis> Donald races ahead towards the lich in all due haste, his speed slowing as he nonetheless slashes at it as he passes into Alicia's field of magic!
[22:10] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+21
06[22:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+21 and gets 22." [1d20=1]
[22:11] <Kotono_Ibis> But Dralen sidesteps the blow with surprising grace, parrying it away from his body! OOC: LAgann.
01[22:11] <Seira> This time, Lagann is positioned quite well to kill the opposition! It matters not whether that opposition is undead, demonic or just plain creepy, and so Lagann stabs the assassing with the Resort!
01[22:11] <Seira> roll 1d20+25 charge~
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+25 charge~ and gets 37." [1d20=12]
[22:11] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Hit.
01[22:11] <Seira> roll 3d8+4
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+4 and gets 16." [3d8=2, 4, 6]
[22:14] <Kotono_Ibis> Lagann strikes quick on the assassin, drawing blood on it's arm with a ripping slash down! The assassin tumbles to the side of Lagann, racing for Xerona against the glowing light of the Liath-Flail!
[22:14] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+30
06[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+30 and gets 47." [1d20=17]
[22:14] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+25
06[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+25 and gets 39." [1d20=14]
[22:15] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Strike.
[22:15] <Kotono_Ibis> Lagann strikes quick on the assassin, drawing blood on it's arm with a ripping slash down! The assassin tumbles to the side of Lagann, racing for Xerona against the glowing light of the Liath-Flail! Seira is in the way, so it's blade goes for her! OOC: Any immediates? If so I'll reroll the attack rolls since that alters the situation enough to warrant it.
01[22:16] <Seira> A translucent shield springs up before Seira, warding her from the first, more dangerous strike!
01[22:16] <Seira> OOC: Deflect
[22:16] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+30
06[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+30 and gets 38." [1d20=8]
[22:17] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+25
06[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+25 and gets 37." [1d20=12]
[22:17] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: AC?
01[22:17] <Seira> OOC: 52 vs first attack, 48 vs second
[22:19] <Kotono_Ibis> But both blows deflect off Seira's field of force, whizzing away from her body! OOC: Jessica.
01[22:19] <Seira> "Now you're talking!" Seira calls to the doll-faced assassin. "Ready to die, yet?"
[22:20] <Alicia> Jessica promptly turns herself invisible and then sneaks up next to the assassin, preparing her own sneaky attack!
[22:20] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 move silently
06[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 move silently and gets 41." [1d20=15]
[22:21] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+27 listen
06[22:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+27 listen and gets 34." [1d20=7]
[22:21] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Molydeus 4.
[22:21] <Kotono_Ibis> At lastin range, this molydeus charges ahead, going right for Antenora, looking ot hack her apart!
[22:22] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+25 (-5 PA, +2 charge)
06[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+25 (-5 PA, +2 charge) and gets 32." [1d20=7]
[22:22] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: AC?
[22:22] <Alicia> OOC: 44
[22:23] <Kotono_Ibis> Antenora's far too quick, stopping each blow with a quick counter-spin o fher spear!  OOC: She's up.
[22:23] <Alicia> Actually Antenora hasn't picked her spear up yet, but she does that now!
[22:23] <Alicia> OOC: AoO
[22:24] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+25
06[22:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+25 and gets 27." [1d20=2]
[22:24] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Carry on.
[22:24] <Alicia> And she then counters with a stab of her own, healing Amaryl into the bargain!
[22:25] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30
06[22:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 and gets 42." [1d20=12]
[22:25] <Alicia> roll 1d8+17+2d6
06[22:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+17+2d6 and gets 31." [1d8=5][2d6=4, 5]
[22:27] <Kotono_Ibis> Antenora lands a blow that struggles to slay the 'deus, her spear not going too much past a flesh wound into it! OOC: Seira/Agatha, go first. I'll do Alabaster last.
01[22:27] <Seira> The air heats around Seira's free hand to a degree that would be uncomfortable to anyone else. She merely watches it burn merrily, before tossing it at the assassin on a curve the doll would be hard-pressed to defend against!
01[22:28] <Seira> roll 1d20+18 orb of fire
06[22:28] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+18 orb of fire and gets 26." [1d20=8]
[22:28] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Just barely a hit.
01[22:28] <Seira> roll 15d6+15 barely is fine too, fire damage, fort 31 please
06[22:28] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 15d6+15 barely is fine too, fire damage, fort 31 please and gets 70." [15d6=4, 1, 3, 4, 6, 1, 5, 2, 3, 5, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5]
[22:29] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+17
06[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+17 and gets 32." [1d20=15]
[22:29] <Kotono_Ibis> The assassin is staggered with the orb of fire, clothes set ablaze and body merrily charring black! Yet even in this, it does not die, but clings to what life it has! OOC: AGathaiel.
01[22:31] <Seira> Agathaiel doesn't like her options much, but positions herself so that no molydeus can reach her just yet, trying to smite the one Amaryl had shot at earlier.
01[22:31] <Seira> roll 1d20+12 sr
06[22:31] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+12 sr and gets 26." [1d20=14]
[22:32] <Kotono_Ibis> But the magi fizzles out in front of the greater demon! As it does, Dralen regards Alicia and Donald. "Now we can play!" His blows rain out with strength and speed, "If that's what you like, we'll play until I break you!"
[22:33] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+25 Alicia
06[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+25 Alicia and gets 39." [1d20=14]
[22:33] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+20 Donald
06[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+20 Donald and gets 40." [1d20=20]
[22:33] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+20 Donald wow
06[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+20 Donald wow and gets 25." [1d20=5]
[22:33] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+15 Alicia
06[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+15 Alicia and gets 35." [1d20=20]
[22:33] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+15 Alicia ...
06[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+15 Alicia ... and gets 23." [1d20=8]
[22:33] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: ACs?
[22:33] <Alicia> OOC: AC 26
[22:34] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 2d6+10 hit one alicia
06[22:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 2d6+10 hit one alicia and gets 16." [2d6=2, 4]
[22:34] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 2d6+10 hit two alicia
06[22:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 2d6+10 hit two alicia and gets 16." [2d6=3, 3]
[22:34] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 4d6+20 Donald
06[22:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 4d6+20 Donald and gets 35." [4d6=4, 3, 4, 4]
[22:35] <Kotono_Ibis> The blows are surprisingly hardy, striking both warriors with massive intensity and bruising impact! OOC: Molydei swarm is up but I gotta BRB. Back in 3.
[22:48] <Kotono_Ibis> The molydeus surround Antenora and the others, one of them able to take as wing at her as the rest position!
[22:48] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+32
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+32  and gets 34." [1d20=2]
[22:49] <Kotono_Ibis> But this swing is wild as well, erring by! OOC: Alicia and company, go.
[22:50] <Alicia> Deciding to eschew further fancy footwork, Alicia puts her sword to its intended use in hacking Alabaster into boney shrapnel, Hell Striker's divinely enhanced power not at all troubled by the antimagic field as she positions to flank with Donald while striking!
[22:50] <Alicia> roll 1d20+33
06[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+33 and gets 52." [1d20=19]
[22:50] <Alicia> roll 1d20+28
06[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+28 and gets 29." [1d20=1]
[22:50] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23
06[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 and gets 27." [1d20=4]
[22:50] <Alicia> roll 1d20+33 crit check
06[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+33 crit check and gets 46." [1d20=13]
[22:50] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: One hit but it's a crit.
[22:51] <Alicia> OOC: +2 on each, forgot bane.
[22:51] <Alicia> roll 4d4+36+2d6+2d6+1d6+2d6+1d8 for the crit
06[22:51] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 4d4+36+2d6+2d6+1d6+2d6+1d8 for the crit and gets 76." [4d4=1, 3, 4, 1][2d6=6, 5][2d6=5, 4][1d6=1][2d6=3, 2][1d8=5]
01[22:52] <Seira> It is only her upbringing that prevents Amaryl from cursing at having to pick her bow up once more. She resists the urge, however, and then targets the same molydeus all over again with a cold iron arrow that she hopes will count.
01[22:52] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+30
06[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+30 and gets 88." [2#1d20+30 = 50, 38]
01[22:52] <Seira> roll 1d20+30 crit?
06[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+30 crit? and gets 47." [1d20=17]
01[22:53] <Seira> OOC: +1 to attacks due to being within 30ft now
[22:53] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: No help on the bane Alicia, but that is a crit Seira.
01[22:53] <Seira> roll 3d8+51+4d6+1d8+17+4d6 it counted!
06[22:53] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+51+4d6+1d8+17+4d6 it counted! and gets 109." [3d8=4, 7, 1][4d6=3, 2, 5, 1][1d8=5][4d6=1, 1, 5, 6]
03[22:54] * Kotono_Ibis changes topic to '????(34)>Jessica(32)>Antenora(25)>Alabaster=Seira=Agatha(23)>M5(20)>M3(19)>M1(18)>M6=M2=Alicia=Amaryl(17)>Donald(8)>Lagann(6)'
[22:55] <Kotono_Ibis> With a perfect shot, Amaryl gets the molydeus right in the eye! It falls back and shatters apart into white alabaster, obliterated! OOC: Donald's up.
[22:55] <Kotono_Ibis> Donald draws back his blade, "Oh yeah? Dodge THIS!"
[22:55] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+20
06[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+20 and gets 31." [1d20=11]
[22:55] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+15
06[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+15 and gets 24." [1d20=9]
[22:55] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+10
06[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+10 and gets 30." [1d20=20]
[22:55] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d10+5
06[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d10+5 and gets 10." [1d10=5]
[22:56] <Kotono_Ibis> Donald closes in and hacks, but his blade has trouble doing anyd amage at all, sliding off and not cutting his thick bones! OOC: Lagann.
01[22:56] <Seira> OOC: 20!
01[22:57] <Seira> OOC: So cool!
01[22:57] <Seira> Lagann tries to get a shot in, just like everyone seems to be able to!
01[22:57] <Seira> roll 1d20+23
06[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+23 and gets 24." [1d20=1]
01[22:57] <Seira> roll 1d20+18
06[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+18 and gets 23." [1d20=5]
01[22:57] <Seira> roll 1d20+13
06[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 and gets 14." [1d20=1]
[22:58] <Kotono_Ibis> As it dodges blows, the assassin tumbles to the side, going to hack Seira apart again! OOC: Any immediates?
01[22:59] <Seira> OOC: Another Deflect on the first attack
[22:59] <Alicia> roll 1d20+27 flat footed
06[22:59] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+27 flat footed and gets 39." [1d20=12]
[22:59] <Kotono_Ibis> OOC: Hit.
[23:00] <Alicia> roll 1d6+5+6d6 2 str damage
06[23:00] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d6+5+6d6 2 str damage and gets 25." [1d6=3][6d6=2, 1, 1, 5, 4, 4]
[23:00] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+30 Yes, it's using finessee but owwies Seira attacks resolve now
06[23:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+30 Yes, it's using finessee but owwies Seira attacks resolve now and gets 35." [1d20=5]
[23:00] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+25 ACs Seira?
06[23:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+25 ACs Seira? and gets 40." [1d20=15]
01[23:00] <Seira> OOC: 52 vs first, 48 vs second
[23:01] <Kotono_Ibis> The slashes and hacks with her axe are inaccurate, as you fight against Xerona's back! The angel holds the Liath-Flail, it's blue light radiating all about! OOC: Jessica.
[23:02] <Alicia> Jessica moves over to continue her assault on the rival rogue!
[23:02] <Alicia> roll 1d20+27 flat footed
06[23:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+27 flat footed and gets 33." [1d20=6]
[23:02] <Alicia> roll 1d6+5+6d6 2 str
06[23:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d6+5+6d6 2 str and gets 31." [1d6=1][6d6=2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 4]
[23:04] <Kotono_Ibis> Leaping over, Jessica impales the assassin throughthe stomach! It's blood stains it's dress, but it continues to live despite being torn, stabbed and thrust through! OOC: Antenora.
[23:06] <Alicia> Beset by Moledeus on all sides, Antenora drops a holy smite on top of herself to hit them all before she flies up out of range before they can all start pummelling her!
[23:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 concentration DC 19
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 concentration DC 19 and gets 28." [1d20=11]
[23:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 SR
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 SR and gets 35." [1d20=18]
[23:06] <Alicia> roll 10d6 DC 22
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 10d6 DC 22 and gets 32." [10d6=2, 3, 6, 3, 6, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4]
[23:06] <Alicia> OOC: AoOs for any who aren't blinded by this
[23:06] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+18
[23:06] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+18
[23:06] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+18
[23:06] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+18
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+18 and gets 20." [1d20=2]
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+18 and gets 22." [1d20=4]
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+18 and gets 30." [1d20=12]
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+18 and gets 23." [1d20=5]
[23:06] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+30 AoO swarm begins
[23:06] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+30 AoO swarm begins
[23:06] <Kotono_Ibis> roll 1d20+30 AoO swarm begins
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+30 AoO swarm begins and gets 33." [1d20=3]
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+30 AoO swarm begins and gets 34." [1d20=4]
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+30 AoO swarm begins and gets 32." [1d20=2]

[Corwin]

[20:35] <Kobrb> <Alicia> Beset by Moledeus on all sides, Antenora drops a holy smite on top of herself to hit them all before she flies up out of range before they can all start pummelling her!
[20:35] <Kobrb> <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 concentration DC 19
[20:35] <Kobrb> * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 concentration DC 19 and gets 28." [1d20=11]
[20:35] <Kobrb> <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 SR
[20:35] <Kobrb> * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 SR and gets 35." [1d20=18]
[20:35] <Kobrb> <Alicia> roll 10d6 DC 22
[20:35] <Kobrb> * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 10d6 DC 22 and gets 32." [10d6=2, 3, 6, 3, 6, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4]
[20:35] <Kobrb> <Alicia> OOC: AoOs for any who aren't blinded by this
[20:35] <Kobrb> > roll 1d20+18
[20:35] <Kobrb> > roll 1d20+18
[20:35] <Kobrb> > roll 1d20+18
[20:35] <Kobrb> > roll 1d20+18
[20:35] <Kobrb> * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+18 and gets 20." [1d20=2]
[20:35] <Kobrb> * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+18 and gets 22." [1d20=4]
[20:35] <Kobrb> * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+18 and gets 30." [1d20=12]
[20:36] <Kobrb> * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+18 and gets 23." [1d20=5]
[20:36] <Kobrb> > roll 1d20+30 AoO swarm begins
[20:36] <Kobrb> > roll 1d20+30 AoO swarm begins
[20:36] <Kobrb> > roll 1d20+30 AoO swarm begins
[20:36] <Kobrb> * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+30 AoO swarm begins and gets 33." [1d20=3]
[20:36] <Kobrb> * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+30 AoO swarm begins and gets 34." [1d20=4]
[20:36] <Kobrb> * Hatbot --> "Kotono_Ibis rolls 1d20+30 AoO swarm begins and gets 32." [1d20=2]
[20:36] <Kobrb> * Alicia is now known as Ebiris
[20:36] <Kobrb> <Ebiris> OOC: Anty heals Seira as she goes, forgot divine succor
03[20:36] * Kobrb is now known as Kotono
03[20:38] * Ebiris is now known as Alicia
[20:39] <Kotono> Amid the blasts of holy light, the Molydei swing back at Antenora! She glides up through the air, dodging each of them as one's eyes blaze with white flame! OOC: Alabaster and Seira and Agatha. Go ahead and go first, Seira/Agatha.
01[20:44] <Seira> Mace in hand, Agathaiel resolutely moves towards the pale-faced assassin, ending between the woman and Xerona, while she attempts to use the same ability to dispel evil that helped when they encountered Celebrimbor's trapped spirit. There might always be a chance the assassin is also being controlled in some form.
[20:44] <Kotono> OOC: Melee touch to otuch her with dispel evil.
01[20:44] <Seira> OOC: That wasn't only for the second power?
01[20:45] <Seira> roll 1d20+18 okay
06[20:45] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+18 okay and gets 26." [1d20=8]
[20:46] <Kotono> The assassin is touched...but nothing seems to happen! Her attacks do not falter in the least! OOC: Seira.
01[20:46] <Seira> 'Let's trade,' Seira suggests curtly to Amaryl, extracting herself from this engagement and meeting the molydeuses slightly over halfway, while she calls upon the magic to boost her next spell sufficiently enough to count!
01[20:47] <Seira> OOC: Tumbling to get away from the assassin, if needed, moving to be about 20ft from Xerona and between she and the molydeuses, true casting
[20:48] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. Anything else
[20:48] <Kotono> ?
01[20:48] <Seira> OOC: I'm good
01[20:51] <Seira> OOC: Ah, yes. Sorry. Gonna be using greater fireburst next round, soothsaying thing.
[20:52] <Kotono> Meanwhile, as Seira tumbles ahead, Alabaster parries another blow and then flips backwards! He lands 20 feet away, kneeling down. "A lovely bit of play, but..." Flaring into life with a word of slippery power, a radiant sphere of the rainbow surrounds Alabaster, brililant lights dazzling to the eyes! OOC: Okay Seira. 'dei swarm is up.
[20:53] <Kotono> With a new target tumbling into range, the molydei fall onto Seira, surrounding her and looking to hack her into bits! OOC: Any immediates, Seira?
01[20:54] <Seira> OOC: I can take it (famous last words)
[20:54] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 spellcraft, I think I know what that is but best to confirm
06[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 spellcraft, I think I know what that is but best to confirm and gets 45." [1d20=19]
[20:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30
[20:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30
[20:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30  and gets 48." [1d20=18]
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30  and gets 39." [1d20=9]
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30  and gets 40." [1d20=10]
[20:55] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
01[20:55] <Seira> OOC: 48, stoneskin is on
[20:55] <Kotono> roll 3d6+14
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+14 and gets 25." [3d6=3, 6, 2]
[20:56] <Kotono> An axe blow cuts into Seira's side as she's surrounded, the molydeus all over her now! They try to cut her apart, as Seira endures and defends herself as best she can, ducking and rolling with the blows! OOC: Two more 'deus, Alicia and Amaryl. Goa head and go first, yo utwo.
01[20:59] <Seira> Amaryl isn't quite sold on Seira's plan or even knows what it entails, but since Seira is already committed to it, Amaryl moves farther from the swarm of greater demons and brings herself closer to the assassin, where she proceeds to release three arrows that swiftly become six!
[20:59] <Alicia> "That restricts him as much as us," Alicia whispers to Donald. "Don't touch it, but get ready to attack if he pokes his head out."
01[20:59] <Seira> roll 6#1d20+27 manyshot
06[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 6#1d20+27 manyshot and gets 235." [6#1d20+27 = 43, 33, 28, 41, 47, 43]
[20:59] <Alicia> OOC: readied action to attack if he emerges from sphere
01[21:00] <Seira> roll 1d20+27 a twenty, I see
[21:00] <Kotono> OOC: Four hits, Amaryl. 41 and up are the hits.
06[21:00] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+27 a twenty, I see and gets 37." [1d20=10]
[21:00] <Kotono> OOC: No crit.
01[21:02] <Seira> roll 1d8+17+6d6++1d8+17+1d8+17+6d6+1d8+17
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+17+6d6++1d8+17+1d8+17+6d6+1d8+17 and gets Error: Check syntax." [1d8=2][6d6=2, 3, 2, 5, 3, 2][1d8=8][1d8=7][6d6=4, 1, 3, 3, 3, 6][1d8=6]
01[21:02] <Seira> OOC: 128
01[21:03] <Seira> OOC: Ah, no. Moment.
01[21:04] <Seira> OOC: 100
[21:05] <Kotono> The assassin is riddled with arrows, rocking back hard! Blood stains her alabaster skine verywhere, her body wobbling from each arrow! BUt it seems to live, despite pouring it's lifeblood out with every breath! OOC: Last two 'dei are up.
[21:06] <Kotono> The last two molydeus come closer, both barking a word of profane power at Seira! OOC: Two will saves vs blasphemy, remember the modifier.
[21:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 holy aura SR
[21:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 holy aura SR
06[21:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 holy aura SR and gets 23." [1d20=4]
06[21:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 holy aura SR and gets 28." [1d20=9]
[21:06] <Kotono> OOC: Or one save, okay.
01[21:07] <Seira> roll 1d20+28 (-4, right?)
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+28 (-4, right?) and gets 38." [1d20=10]
[21:08] <Kotono> Seira resists the vile intonation, rocking but not defeated by the utterance! OOC: Donald's up.
[21:09] <Kotono> Donald holds back, "Right," he says, peering at the prismatic sphere! OOC: Lagann.
[21:09] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 20." [1d20=2]
01[21:10] <Seira> OOC: Amusingly enough, Holy Aura dc for her is 23
[21:10] <Kotono> OOC: Wrong save, that was will not for.t
[21:10] <Kotono> OOC: It's fort is +21, so.
[21:10] <Kotono> OOC: Lagann is up.
01[21:11] <Seira> Lagann sends the Resort flying to stab the blinded molydeus, hoping for good fortune!
01[21:11] <Seira> roll 1d20+25
06[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+25 and gets 44." [1d20=19]
01[21:11] <Seira> roll 1d20+25 crit?
06[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+25 crit? and gets 38." [1d20=13]
[21:12] <Kotono> OOC: Normal hit. So close.
01[21:12] <Seira> OOC: Come to think of it, is the one Anty blinded in melee with me?
[21:13] <Kotono> OOC: It's in the vicinity.
01[21:13] <Seira> roll 3d8+6+2d6
06[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+6+2d6 and gets 23." [3d8=6, 4, 1][2d6=3, 3]
[21:16] <Kotono> Lagann stabs into the blinded molydeus, wounding it further as they struggle! Meanwhile the assassin, despite it's wounds, tumbles to the side of Agathaiel and tries to shred her apart!
[21:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30
06[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30 and gets 48." [1d20=18]
[21:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
06[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 and gets 37." [1d20=12]
[21:16] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
01[21:16] <Seira> OOC: 37 due to dex damage
[21:16] <Kotono> roll 1d8+17+6d6
06[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+17+6d6 and gets 41." [1d8=6][6d6=5, 5, 1, 2, 2, 3]
[21:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17 fort blind
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 fort blind and gets 23." [1d20=6]
[21:17] <Kotono> roll 1d8+17+6d6
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+17+6d6 and gets 44." [1d8=3][6d6=4, 3, 5, 2, 6, 4]
[21:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17 fort blind
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 fort blind and gets 36." [1d20=19]
[21:17] <Kotono> Agathaiel is dreadfully wounded, each axe slice cutting into her celestial form! Her blood stains the ground, the hacks critically wounding her - but yet, her body stays as it was created! OOC: Jessica.
[21:20] <Alicia> Wishing that doll-like axe murderer would stay still, Jessica moves after her, positioning herself between Agathiel and her elusive quarry, making a more careful stab since she's giving her position away this time and might suffer reprisals.
[21:20] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22 flat footed, -5 combat expertise
06[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 flat footed, -5 combat expertise and gets 23." [1d20=1]
[21:21] <Kotono> Despite her thrusting speed, Jesscia can't land a finishing blow! Instead she misses by an inch, rapier hitting the blue glowing air around! OOC: Antenora.
[21:23] <Alicia> Antenora descends upon the leather-fetish-doll like the vengeance of heaven, spear striking down to explode her head like an over-ripe melon covered in white mould! The power of her simile is such that even Agathiel feels invigorated and refreshed by it!
[21:23] <Alicia> roll 1d20+32 charge
06[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+32 charge and gets 40." [1d20=8]
[21:23] <Alicia> OOC: +1 for attacking from above!
[21:23] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[21:23] <Alicia> roll 2d8+30 -1 con
06[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d8+30 -1 con and gets 39." [2d8=7, 2]
03[21:23] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jessica(32)>Antenora(25)>Alabaster=Seira=Agatha(23)>M5(20)>M3(19)>M1(18)>M6=M2=Alicia=Amaryl(17)>Donald(8)>Lagann(6)'
[21:24] <Kotono> Antenora impales her head straight through! The assassin crumples to the ground, not a word spoken as her axe falls besides her slain form! She bleeds only a little more, lying in a pool of her own life! OOC: Alabaster, Seira and Agatha. Goa head and go first you two.
06[21:25] * Seira takes a step back, as if still reeling from the blow she took earlier, yet that is but a feint. She gestures grandly, and the air itself seems to fill with flame. It consumes Seira hungrily, and not content to immolate her alone, spreads outwards in every direction faster than the eye can see, burning the flesh off the demons gathered around her!
01[21:25] <Seira> OOC: Maximized greater fireburst, I'll 5ft step/tumble in a direction that will give me as few AoOs as possible while still getting them all
[21:26] <Kotono> OOC: I'll say one due to the blindness that has two of them. Going to basically just take the AoO for casting or cast defensively or what?
01[21:26] <Seira> OOC: I'll take the AoO
[21:26] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30 fingers crossed
06[21:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30 fingers crossed and gets 49." [1d20=19]
[21:26] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30 fingers crossed crit!
06[21:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30 fingers crossed crit! and gets 35." [1d20=5]
[21:26] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
01[21:27] <Seira> OOC: Geez, 48
[21:27] <Kotono> OOC: Terrifuckingble luck this fight.
[21:27] <Kotono> roll 3d6+14 and make a concentration check after DR applies
06[21:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+14 and make a concentration check after DR applies and gets 28." [3d6=6, 2, 6]
[21:27] <Kotono> OOC: DC 28.
01[21:28] <Seira> OOC: I pretty much can't. Well, it's not like I've been useful so far.
[21:28] <Kotono> OOC: What's your concentration modifier, curiously?
01[21:28] <Seira> OOC: +7, if it matters
01[21:30] <Seira> roll 1d20+17
06[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+17 and gets 31." [1d20=14]
[21:30] <Kotono> OOC: Your lucky day. Carry on.
01[21:31] <Seira> OOC: It seems to defy belief, but this succeeds. Damage is 150+15, dc is 28+4. I'm assuming both soothsaying benefits apply when the spell has a save and deals damage? Ref half, fire.
[21:32] <Kotono> OOC: Yeah, basically.
01[21:32] <Seira> OOC: Roll low, pls
[21:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
[21:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
[21:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
[21:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
06[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 28." [1d20=11]
06[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 33." [1d20=16]
06[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 36." [1d20=19]
06[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 20." [1d20=3]
[21:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
06[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 35." [1d20=18]
01[21:32] <Seira> OOC: 3 pass, 2 get the full 165 damage
01[21:33] <Seira> OOC: And that lamer should roll fort for hitting me
[21:33] <Kotono> The blats of hellacious fire leaves two of the molydeus nearly dead and melted, while three deftly avoid the flames entirely! In the aftermath of the fire blast...OOC:  Agatha's up.
01[21:34] <Seira> roll 1d20+29 belated sr, but this should autopass, right?
06[21:34] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+29 belated sr, but this should autopass, right? and gets 42." [1d20=13]
[21:34] <Kotono> OOC: Yes.
[21:34] <Kotono> OOC: Also, one of the deus is down from previous damage on top of that.
03[21:34] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jessica(32)>Antenora(25)>Alabaster=Seira=Agatha(23)>M3(19)>M1(18)>M6=M2=Alicia=Amaryl(17)>Donald(8)>Lagann(6)'
01[21:37] <Seira> Agathaiel sees no better option than to try to smite the melted demons!
01[21:37] <Seira> roll 1d20+12
06[21:37] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+12 and gets 23." [1d20=11]
[21:41] <Kotono> But the magic fizzles around them! Meanwhile, if Alabaster does anything, it's unseen! OOC: 'deus swarm is up.
[21:41] <Kotono> The blinded deus barks a word of blasphemy!
[21:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
06[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 and gets 39." [1d20=20]
[21:41] <Kotono> OOC: Save Seira.
01[21:42] <Seira> roll 1d20+28 (-4)
06[21:42] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+28 (-4) and gets 43." [1d20=15]
[21:43] <Kotono> The seeing ones attempt to continue to rip SEira limb from limb! The one that AoOed her goes first, looking to shred her entirely! OOC: Any immediates?
01[21:44] <Seira> OOC: I'm good
[21:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 and gets 34." [1d20=6]
[21:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 32." [1d20=9]
[21:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 35." [1d20=17]
01[21:44] <Seira> OOC: AC 48
[21:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 bite
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 bite and gets 28." [1d20=3]
[21:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 bite snake head
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 bite snake head and gets 33." [1d20=8]
[21:44] <Kotono> But all the blows are in vain, Seira's defense almost impossible to breach! Another comes forward, going to take a singles wing!
[21:45] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28 (This is actually one of the two on Alicia's same tick, but eh, I'll just resolve them now since it's a nice lump of them.)
06[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 (This is actually one of the two on Alicia's same tick, but eh, I'll just resolve them now since it's a nice lump of them.) and gets 46." [1d20=18]
[21:45] <Kotono> The last is blind, but manages a word of power as well! OOC: Blasphemy save if it makes SR.
[21:45] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
06[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 and gets 26." [1d20=7]
01[21:45] <Seira> roll 1d20+28
06[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+28 and gets 47." [1d20=19]
[21:46] <Kotono> But Seira endures even this! OOC: A and A are up.
01[21:46] <Seira> Amaryl decides to return her attention to the demons, first dealing with the ones who faces Seira melted off. She very carefully picks her targets, ready to switch as soon as one gives up the ghost.
01[21:46] <Seira> OOC: Is she within 30ft of them?
01[21:47] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+28 melted face #1
06[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+28 melted face #1 and gets 71." [2#1d20+28 = 38, 33]
[21:47] <Kotono> OOC: She could be easily enough, ifs he wants.
01[21:47] <Seira> OOC: +1 if so
[21:47] <Kotono> OOC: One hit then.
01[21:47] <Seira> roll 1d8+17+4d6
06[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+17+4d6 and gets 31." [1d8=2][4d6=1, 5, 4, 2]
03[21:47] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jessica(32)>Antenora(25)>Alabaster=Seira=Agatha(23)>M1(18)>M6=M2=Alicia=Amaryl(17)>Donald(8)>Lagann(6)'
01[21:48] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+28 melted face #2
06[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+28 melted face #2 and gets 74." [2#1d20+28 = 30, 44]
01[21:48] <Seira> OOC: Bah, +1 again, but still
01[21:48] <Seira> roll 1d8+17+4d6
06[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+17+4d6 and gets 36." [1d8=8][4d6=3, 1, 2, 5]
[21:49] <Kotono> OOC: Last set.
01[21:49] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+24 got two more after this!
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+24 got two more after this! and gets 78." [2#1d20+24 = 38, 40]
01[21:49] <Seira> roll 1d8+17+4d6
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+17+4d6 and gets 30." [1d8=2][4d6=6, 1, 2, 2]
03[21:49] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jessica(32)>Antenora(25)>Alabaster=Seira=Agatha(23)>M1(18)>M2=Alicia=Amaryl(17)>Donald(8)>Lagann(6)'
01[21:49] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+19 blinded
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+19 blinded and gets 53." [2#1d20+19 = 32, 21]
[21:50] <Kotono> OOC: One hit on no xed blindness.
01[21:50] <Seira> roll 1d8+17+4d6
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+17+4d6 and gets 36." [1d8=8][4d6=4, 1, 2, 4]
03[21:50] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jessica(32)>Antenora(25)>Alabaster=Seira=Agatha(23)>M1(18)>Alicia=Amaryl(17)>Donald(8)>Lagann(6)'
[21:50] <Kotono> The wounded molydeus are picked off like ducks on the pond, three of them finished off in the wake of Seira's fiery detonation! OOC: Alicia.
06[21:52] * Alicia continues patiently waiting for Alabaster to poke his head out - his forces are being gutted by Amaryl so she's no need to concern herself with them, and he's bound to poke his head out sooner or later, if only to see what's happening outside his impenetrable opaque barrier.
[21:52] <Kotono> Donald holds as well, "Come on out, chicken!" he cries! OOC: Lagann.
01[21:53] <Seira> Encouraged by the carnage, Lagann attempts to tackle the last demon together with Seira!
01[21:53] <Seira> roll 1d20+27 flankings
06[21:53] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+27 flankings and gets 41." [1d20=14]
[21:53] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
01[21:53] <Seira> roll 3d8+6+2d6
06[21:53] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+6+2d6 and gets 28." [3d8=7, 6, 3][2d6=2, 4]
[21:53] <Kotono> With a powerful stab, Lagann staggers the last molydeus! It's bad off, bloodied but surviving yet! OOC: Jessica.
[21:57] <Alicia> Not liking her chances against a molydeus, even wounded, Jessica returns to Xerona's side to respectfully borrow another greater dispel.
[21:58] <Kotono> OOC: Right-o. Antenora.
[21:58] <Alicia> Antenora charges the last remaining molydeus, attempting to skewer it right through its blackened heart!
[21:58] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -4pa charge
06[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -4pa charge and gets 33." [1d20=3]
[21:58] <Alicia> OOC: heal agatha
[21:59] <Kotono> But Antenora's aim is errant, all of her holy power missing even as Agatha's wounds further meand! OOC: Alabaster/Seira/Agatha, go ahead and go first yout wo.
01[22:00] <Seira> Agathaiel continues to practice her smiting!
01[22:00] <Seira> roll 1d20+12
06[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+12 and gets 17." [1d20=5]
[22:01] <Kotono> But her smiting continues to fail! OOC: Seira.
06[22:02] * Seira decides to use this chance to try and draw attention from Antenora and onto herself, confident that Amaryl will destroy this fiend soon enough!
01[22:02] <Seira> OOC: Aid another to boost Anty's AC
01[22:02] <Seira> roll 1d20 not one?
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20 not one? and gets 19." [1d20=19]
[22:03] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. The last 'deus is up.
[22:03] <Kotono> The molydeus retorts, attempting to rend Antenora limb from limb!
[22:03] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 and gets 47." [1d20=19]
[22:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28 uh oh
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 uh oh and gets 30." [1d20=2]
[22:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 29." [1d20=6]
[22:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 36." [1d20=18]
[22:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 bite 1
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 bite 1 and gets 36." [1d20=16]
[22:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 bite 2
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 bite 2 and gets 25." [1d20=5]
[22:04] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
[22:04] <Alicia> OOC: 46
[22:04] <Kotono> roll 3d6+14 does not beat dR
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+14 does not beat dR and gets 28." [3d6=5, 5, 4]
[22:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 hly aura
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 hly aura and gets 31." [1d20=10]
[22:05] <Kotono> Antenora dodges as Seira distracts it, but a blow still lands! Not a deep one, only leaving ab it of blood down her leg! Perhaps if it had driven deeper... OOC: Alabaster's going now, he held briefly.
03[22:05] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jessica(32)>Antenora(25)>Seira=Agatha(23)>M1(18)>Alabaster>Alicia=Amaryl(17)>Donald(8)>Lagann(6)'
[22:06] <Kotono> To the side, Alabaster emergies from the Prismatic Sphere! His wounds are gone, his body whole and intact in undeath as...OOC: ARe you guys going?
06[22:06] * Alicia immediately rushes in to position herself between Alabaster and his sphere, Hell Striker lashing out to replace those wounds!
[22:07] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -3pa
06[22:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -3pa and gets 43." [1d20=13]
[22:07] <Alicia> roll 2d4+22+2d6+2d6+1d6+2d6+1d8
06[22:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d4+22+2d6+2d6+1d6+2d6+1d8 and gets 57." [2d4=2, 2][2d6=3, 6][2d6=5, 5][1d6=2][2d6=2, 6][1d8=2]
[22:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+42 concentration
06[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+42 concentration and gets 54." [1d20=12]
[22:08] <Kotono> As Alicia charges in, disrupting his magic, Donald pursues and does the same thing!
[22:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 chaaarge
06[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 chaaarge and gets 24." [1d20=2]
[22:08] <Kotono> But even like this, Donald's quick movements aren't enough, his attack missing! OOC Amaryl.
01[22:09] <Seira> Amaryl shoots the molydeus until it dies from it! The time for finesse is over!
03[22:09] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jessica(32)>Antenora(25)>Seira=Agatha(23)>M1(18)>Alabaster=Alicia=Donald>Amaryl(17)>Lagann(6)'
01[22:09] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+29
06[22:09] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+29 and gets 161." [4#1d20+29 = 42, 33, 49, 37]
01[22:09] <Seira> roll 1d20+29 I see
06[22:09] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+29 I see and gets 40." [1d20=11]
01[22:10] <Seira> roll 1d8+17+4d6+3d8+51+4d6
06[22:10] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+17+4d6+3d8+51+4d6 and gets 115." [1d8=4][4d6=5, 5, 3, 3][3d8=5, 5, 5][4d6=4, 6, 1, 1]
03[22:11] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jessica(32)>Antenora(25)>Seira=Agatha(23)>Alabaster=Alicia=Donald>Amaryl(17)>Lagann(6)'
01[22:11] <Seira> OOC: She has 4 more attacks
[22:11] <Kotono> OOC: Goa head.
01[22:11] <Seira> Now that the demon is dead, Amaryl attempts to target the distant arch-lich, even though it may be a forlorn hope.
01[22:12] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+19 (-2 for range)
06[22:12] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+19 (-2 for range) and gets 61." [2#1d20+19 = 30, 31]
01[22:12] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+14 (-2 for range)
06[22:12] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+14 (-2 for range) and gets 50." [2#1d20+14 = 26, 24]
[22:13] <Kotono> OOC: It's -4 for range, Seira. Two range categories, -2 each.
01[22:14] <Seira> OOC: My bad
[22:15] <Kotono> The arrows come flying, lthe last molydeus slain! More arrows travel much farther, but fail to quite connect with the lich! OOC: Lagann.
01[22:17] <Seira> Lagann obediently returns the Resort to Seira.
[22:17] <Kotono> OOC: Jessica and Antenora.
[22:18] <Alicia> "I'm going to use your magic to try and take down whatver spell he's put over the top of the mountain," Jessica explains for the child-like solar's benefit as she remains next to Xerona, attempting to dispel the overwhelming magical aura that's suffusing the entire area!
[22:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20
06[22:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 and gets 35." [1d20=15]
[22:20] <Kotono> With that, the entire peak shakes! Great bursts of magic fade out, passing into oblivion! OOC: Antenora.
[22:20] <Alicia> Antenora meanwhile puts all her effort into flying across towards where the battle is occuring with the lich, not able to enter the fray just yet.
[22:22] <Kotono> OOC: Seira and Agatha.
01[22:23] <Seira> Agathaiel debates what to do, a choice made easy when Seira calls, "Protect Xerona!" over her shoulder and rushes after Antenora.
[22:23] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. Go ahead and go first Alicia, gotta get up a sec.
01[22:24] <Seira> OOC: Agatha will hold in case Xerona hears another attacker or something, I'm running to get closer.
06[22:28] * Alicia continues her vicious and unrelenting assault on Alabaster, attempting to dismember the gussied-up cadaver!
[22:28] <Alicia> roll 1d20+35 lets flank with Donald
06[22:28] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+35 lets flank with Donald and gets 51." [1d20=16]
[22:28] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 lets flank with Donald
06[22:28] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 lets flank with Donald and gets 35." [1d20=5]
[22:28] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 lets flank with Donald
06[22:28] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 lets flank with Donald and gets 42." [1d20=17]
[22:28] <Alicia> roll 1d20+35 lets flank with Donald crit check
06[22:28] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+35 lets flank with Donald crit check and gets 53." [1d20=18]
[22:28] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 lets flank with Donald crit check
06[22:28] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 lets flank with Donald crit check and gets 39." [1d20=14]
[22:32] <Kotono> OOC: All hits, your luck yday.
[22:33] <Alicia> roll 10d4+90+6d6+6d6+3d6+6d6+3d8
06[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 10d4+90+6d6+6d6+3d6+6d6+3d8 and gets 208." [10d4=4, 1, 3, 2, 1, 1, 3, 2, 3, 2][6d6=5, 5, 4, 5, 3, 6][6d6=5, 1, 4, 2, 4, 3][3d6=5, 5, 5][6d6=5, 3, 1, 2, 5, 1][3d8=5, 7, 5]
[22:34] <Kotono> Alicia cuts into Alabaster hard, staggering him back! His body is shredded, yet as he does, "In one blow..." he intones, "LEt this play end!"
[22:34] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 on Alicia
06[22:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 on Alicia and gets 40." [1d20=15]
[22:35] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
[22:35] <Alicia> OOC: 28
[22:35] <Kotono> OOC: Fort, -6.
[22:35] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17
06[22:35] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 and gets 35." [1d20=18]
[22:36] <Kotono> The blow is nigh overwhelming, but yet Alicia endures it! A dreadful feeling of stasis comes and passes, as if she was frozen between seconds! Donald charges in, going for it as well!
[22:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
06[22:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 29." [1d20=9]
[22:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
[22:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
06[22:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 22." [1d20=7]
06[22:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 19." [1d20=9]
[22:36] <Kotono> But he can't land a single decisive blow, either!
[22:37] <Kotono> OOC: Amaryl.
01[22:38] <Seira> Amaryl likewise runs towards the melee, overtaking Seira along the way.
01[22:38] <Seira> OOC: 160ft closer it is
[22:39] <Kotono> OOC: Lagann.
01[22:39] <Seira> OOC: He'll hold
[22:39] <Kotono> OOC: Jessica'n'Antenora.
[22:39] <Alicia> Jessica looks around, trying to discern if any other inordinately powerful magical auras remain.
[22:40] <Alicia> OOC: concentrating on detect magic, next round she'll get aura strength
[22:40] <Kotono> OOC: Right. Antenora.
[22:40] <Alicia> Antenora charges Alabaster from above, braving the anti-magic to do so!
[22:41] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 charging, airborne
06[22:41] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 charging, airborne and gets 30." [1d20=5]
[22:41] <Kotono> OOC: Bare hit.
[22:41] <Alicia> OOC: -1, forgot to subtract her weapon enhancement
[22:42] <Kotono> OOC: Bare miss then.
[22:42] <Kotono> Antenora plunges down with all her might, but once again can't quite connect! OOC: Seira'n'Agatha.
06[22:44] * Seira can only continue to run, hoping to close in and contribute soon. Agathaiel, for her part, requests of Jessica and Xerona to point out any vile magics she could tear down with Dispel Evil, fully aware of her capabilities and feeling no shame in admitting any perceived shortcoming in not being able to detect such effectively.
01[22:44] <Seira> OOC: This is 240ft I've traveled already, so I should be in melee or damn near it
[22:44] <Alicia> "All the magic's way over there," Jessica points to the battle near the altar. "Which is farther than I can detect magic," she then shrugs apologetically.
[22:44] <Kotono> OOC: You can, yeah.
[22:46] <Kotono> OOC: Go ahead and go Alicia, sec again.
[22:48] <Alicia> "Just die!" Alicia snaps as she rolls back from the skeleton-punch with a bisecting upwards strike before she reverses her grip to slash downwards and then across, thoroughly sick of his ridiculous resilience to harm even when bereft of magic. Undead wizards are supposed to be fragile, no matter what martial arts secrets they might have!
[22:48] <Alicia> roll 1d20+35
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+35 and gets 55." [1d20=20]
[22:48] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 and gets 33." [1d20=3]
[22:48] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 and gets 31." [1d20=6]
[22:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+35 crit check
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+35 crit check and gets 44." [1d20=9]
[22:49] <Kotono> OOC: Hits.
[22:50] <Alicia> roll 8d4+80+6d6+6d6+3d6+6d6+1d8 should've been +100 not +90 on last round so feel free to toss that in
06[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 8d4+80+6d6+6d6+3d6+6d6+1d8 should've been +100 not +90 on last round so feel free to toss that in and gets 176." [8d4=2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 3, 3, 4][6d6=4, 3, 4, 6, 1, 6][6d6=5, 2, 6, 5, 5, 5][3d6=3, 1, 1][6d6=1, 6, 3, 4, 1, 4][1d8=2]
[22:51] <Kotono> Thrusting forward with all she has, Alicia leaps up in an upward strike! IT severs Alabaster in twain, his body curmbling to dust, bracelets landing on the ground! His skull hovers in the air, cackling, "Beautiful play...oh, we'll play again...!" And thent he skull is gone to, cracking into dust! OOC: Free act.
01[22:51] <Seira> "Maybe we'll crush his phylactery before he reforms," Seira mutters in disgust.
[22:52] <Kotono> Antenora lands on the ground, "Two of them down."
[22:52] <Alicia> "Oh, I hope so," Alicia grimaces, dispelling her antimagic and looking over towards that altar for any magic.
[22:52] <Kotono> The altar radiates overwhelming magic.
[22:53] <Alicia> roll 1d20+28 spellcraftin' 'dis
06[22:53] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+28 spellcraftin' 'dis and gets 39." [1d20=11]
01[22:53] <Seira> "I'm thinking, the altar needs to go?" Seira muses, eyeing it with distaste.
03[23:20] * Alicia is now known as Ebiris
03[23:28] * Kotono is now known as Kowork
Session Time: Tue Dec 08 00:00:00 2009
02[00:40] * Ebiris (WinNT@95.146.4.32) Quit (Quit: bedtime -=SysReset 2.55=-)
03[07:17] * Kowork is now known as Kotono
03[08:13] * Kotono is now known as Xornko
03[08:50] * Merc is now known as Merc-zzz
03[15:30] * Xornko is now known as Kotono
03[19:58] * Ebiris (WinNT@95.146.4.90) has joined #dunes
03[19:59] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Ebiris
03[20:00] * Ebiris is now known as Alicia
[20:15] <Kotono> > Thrusting forward with all she has, Alicia leaps up in an upward strike! IT severs Alabaster in twain, his body curmbling to dust, bracelets landing on the ground! His skull hovers in the air, cackling, "Beautiful play...oh, we'll play again...!" And thent he skull is gone to, cracking into dust! OOC: Free act.
[20:15] <Kotono> <Seira> "Maybe we'll crush his phylactery before he reforms," Seira mutters in disgust.
[20:15] <Kotono> > Antenora lands on the ground, "Two of them down."
[20:15] <Kotono> <Alicia> "Oh, I hope so," Alicia grimaces, dispelling her antimagic and looking over towards that altar for any magic.
[20:15] <Kotono> > The altar radiates overwhelming magic.
[20:15] <Kotono> <Alicia> roll 1d20+28 spellcraftin' 'dis
[20:15] <Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+28 spellcraftin' 'dis and gets 39." [1d20=11]
[20:15] <Kotono> <Seira> "I'm thinking, the altar needs to go?" Seira muses, eyeing it with distaste.
06[20:19] * Alicia begins the process of invoking her holy aura but absorbs it as spellfire instead of allowing it to manifest. She then raises her hand over the altar and channels Mystra's power to neutralise the altar much as she'd done with the altar to Shar in Kesse that displayed a similar potency.
[20:21] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[20:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 15." [1d100=15]
[20:22] <Kotono> Alicia channels the spellfire in! Yet as she does, the altar glows a pale gray! The spellfire crackles around the altar, fading into ethereal mist! At this, the flesh of the party crawls. The hairs on the back of your necks rise, your hearts skipping a beat.
06[20:22] * Seira backs away from the altar.
06[20:24] * Alicia chances a glance at Xerona, seeking reassurance from the presence of the Liath-Flail. Between it and her own consecrated presence supposedly cutting off any divine connection, this altar must be something very special... or the one its dedicated to is very close. "I'll try it the old fashioned way," she decides, taking a half step back before attempting to dispel the magic upon the altar!
01[20:24] <Seira> roll 1d20+13 K:R
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 K:R and gets 23." [1d20=10]
[20:24] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+21 and gets 32." [1d20=11]
[20:25] <Kotono> Xerona steps forward. "I feel the evil ahead." The LIath-Flail's light clashes horribly with that of the altar, as Alicia magic fails to undo the magic on the altar.
06[20:25] * Seira enhances the edge on the Resort at that, and decides to use the brief time they have to prepare for the inevitable confrontation.
[20:26] <Alicia> "I had hoped to suppress it... but perhaps we're letting ourselves be distracted," Alicia shakes her head. "The altar is not responsible for binding the children here - we still haven't found our goal."
01[20:27] <Seira> "Pale Night wouldn't let it be destroyed, I suppose," Seira reluctantly agrees. "Listen, we got here with one key. That creep had another, right? Maybe we need both to proceed onwards."
01[20:27] <Seira> roll 1d6
06[20:27] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d6 and gets 4." [1d6=4]
[20:28] <Alicia> Since Seira's still got Glaciante's orb in hand, Alicia nods to where Alabaster dropped his. "Pick it up and see if having two of them makes any difference?"
[20:28] <Kotono> "There has to be some point to this altar, Alabaster fought to the death to defend it," Amaryl comes closer, looking over Seira's shoulder.
06[20:29] * Seira entrusts Lagann with her sword once more, and attempts to see if having both orbs together makes any sort of difference.
[20:30] <Kotono> Seira holds both orbs! OOC: Make an immediate will save, -6.
01[20:30] <Seira> roll 1d20+26
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+26 and gets 40." [1d20=14]
06[20:33] * Seira forces herself to move towards the altar, placing the orb on it.
01[20:33] <Seira> *orbs
[20:34] <Alicia> "Seira?" Alicia asks cautiously, hoping she knows what she's doing.
[20:38] <Kotono> In a moment, the light of the Liath-Flail is gone! Mist surrounds you - a gray, endless mist. Decay, death, perversion, ruination...you are all those things. You feel it, alongside an endless wrath of nothingness. It pollutes you, overwheming- The light of the Liath-Flail shines like the sun, cutting through the fog! Xerona is incandescant, entire form blazing glory. "Pale Night is close!" Xerona's voice roars louder than a dragon's rage, "Blasphemer of spiri
[20:38] <Kotono> Xerona's voice roars louder than a dragon's rage, "Blasphemer of spirits, I abjure you! In the name of He who sits atop the Mountain, BEGONE!" There is a titanic shake, sending you all to your knees. Ahead, you see a path...a path in the mist? A path towards a gate, Xerona lighting the way. "Go! As long as Pale Night contends with the Liath-Flail, she can do nothing else!"
[20:40] <Alicia> Still this damnable mountain continues? Will four more liches bar their way before they find what they seek? If it is to be so, Alicia swears that her blade will taste their marrow before the day is done. "You heard her, lets move!" she barks, taking point on the path ahead.
06[20:41] * Seira takes a shuddering breath, teaching her lungs how to take in air all over again. "Lock opened," she says as she follows after Alicia, woodenly at first but then far more normally as feeling returns to her extremeties.
[20:46] <Kotono> Thus the party hurries down the path! Ahead lies a wrought iron gate. It is tall and pointed, crafted of iron faded into a misty gray. Shawls hang from bars, wrapped around them like bandages. As you come closer, there is a roar that shakes the heavens! Coming out from the mists and in front of the gate are two twin terrors! A pair of balors, each carrying a flaming whip and a sword like lightning! Each has an open forehead, as if it's top was cut off. Inside
[20:46] <Kotono>  A pair of balors, each carrying a flaming whip and a sword like lightning! Each has an open forehead, as if it's top was cut off. Inside tiny children are bound, tormented by crawling maggots. One raises it's lighting-blade to Alicia on point, "I will watch your soul scream in terror for an eternity before I deign to eat your spirit!"
01[20:47] <Seira> "You will die the most painful of deaths!" Seira declares, launching a spell at the horror that dared to speak and drew her attention and ire.
[20:47] <Alicia> For all her resolve, Alicia can't help but shudder at the sight presented within the brow of these two balors. Raising her curved flaming blade in response, she steels herself, "Only oblivion awaits you!"
[20:48] <Kotono> Amaryl makes a little cry, averting her gaze for a moment as she steels herself! Antenora growls deep in her throat, pouncing ahead with her spear drawn! OOC: There's really no chance of parley here, let's just do init.
01[20:48] <Seira> roll 1d20+8 Amaryl
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 Amaryl and gets 27." [1d20=19]
01[20:48] <Seira> roll 1d20+8 Agatha
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 Agatha and gets 15." [1d20=7]
01[20:48] <Seira> roll 1d20+6 me
[20:48] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 Alicia
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 Alicia and gets 20." [1d20=13]
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 me and gets 22." [1d20=16]
[20:48] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 Anty
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 Anty and gets 20." [1d20=15]
01[20:48] <Seira> roll 1d20 L
[20:48] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 Jessica
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20 L and gets 2." [1d20=2]
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 Jessica and gets 33." [1d20=20]
[20:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3 Donald
06[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 Donald and gets 16." [1d20=13]
03[20:49] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jessica(33)>Amaryl(27)>Antenora(22)>Alicia(20)>Donald(16)>Agatha(15)>Lagann(2)'
[20:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12 b1
[20:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12 b2
06[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 b1 and gets 17." [1d20=5]
06[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 b2 and gets 19." [1d20=7]
03[20:50] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jessica(33)>Amaryl(27)>Antenora(22)>Alicia(20)Balor 2(19)>Balor 1(17)>Donald(16)>Agatha(15)>Lagann(2)'
[20:50] <Kotono> OOC: Jessica, go.
03[20:51] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jessica(33)>Amaryl(27)>Seira(22)>Antenora=Alicia(20)Balor 2(19)>Balor 1(17)>Donald(16)>Agatha(15)>Lagann(2)'
[20:54] <Alicia> Jessica flies forward a bit off the path, moving to engage the Balor on the left before it can react, no matter if it can see through her invisibility. She strikes carefully, paying focus to defence and relying on the bulk of her target to shield her from attacks by the other fiend.
[20:54] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 -5 expertise flat footed go
06[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 -5 expertise flat footed go and gets 33." [1d20=13]
[20:55] <Kotono> OOC: HIt.
[20:55] <Alicia> roll 1d6+4d6+2d6 -2str, -6 sr, stealing Dominate Monster
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d6+4d6+2d6 -2str, -6 sr, stealing Dominate Monster and gets 29." [1d6=1][4d6=4, 4, 6, 3][2d6=6, 5]
[20:56] <Kotono> The blow leaves the balor only slightly bloodied, the children within it's head chattering, "Thief, thief, thief...!" The sob as one, "It hurts, you thief! You took our precious!" The tiny voices plead and beg, "Give it back!" OOC: Amaryl.
01[20:57] <Seira> Steeling herself, Amaryl ignores the terrible chanting and advances until she is within optimum range, before she targets the wounded balor with a swarm of iron-tipped arrows.
01[20:58] <Seira> roll 6#1d20+25 should be right, within 30ft
06[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 6#1d20+25 should be right, within 30ft and gets 231." [6#1d20+25 = 45, 43, 33, 31, 43, 36]
01[20:58] <Seira> roll 1d20+25 crit?
06[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+25 crit? and gets 30." [1d20=5]
[20:58] <Kotono> OOC: All hits. Balors aren't all that great on defense flatfooted.
01[20:59] <Seira> roll 3d8+51+4d6+6d6+1d8+17+4d6+1d8+17+4d6+6d6+1d8+17+4d6+1d8+17+4d6+6d6+1d8+17+4d6 okay
06[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+51+4d6+6d6+1d8+17+4d6+1d8+17+4d6+6d6+1d8+17+4d6+1d8+17+4d6+6d6+1d8+17+4d6 okay and gets 340." [3d8=8, 6, 8][4d6=4, 5, 3, 6][6d6=4, 6, 5, 3, 1, 4][1d8=8][4d6=6, 2, 4, 5][1d8=3][4d6=5, 2, 3, 6][6d6=5, 3, 5, 1, 4, 2][1d8=3][4d6=1, 3, 1, 2][1d8=7][4d6=6, 2, 6, 5][6d6=3, 4, 5, 2, 5, 6][1d8=6][4d6=1, 2, 3, 4]
03[20:59] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jessica(33)>Amaryl(27)>Seira(22)>Antenora=Alicia(20)Balor 2(19)>Donald(16)>Agatha(15)>Lagann(2)'
[21:00] <Kotono> The balor's body crumbles in a swarm of arrows! It burns away to ash, save for the maggots and children! They hover int he air, screaming as one, "Nmo...no...we don't want to die...you..." A heartrending cry echos, before they all melt into a black goo and gushes about! OOC: Fort saves all.
01[21:01] <Seira> roll 1d20+29 Amaryl
06[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+29 Amaryl and gets 36." [1d20=7]
[21:01] <Alicia> roll 1d20+35 Alicia
06[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+35 Alicia and gets 36." [1d20=1]
[21:01] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 Donald
06[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 Donald and gets 29." [1d20=8]
01[21:01] <Seira> roll 1d20+27 me
06[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+27 me and gets 31." [1d20=4]
[21:01] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 Jessica
06[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 Jessica and gets 20." [1d20=2]
01[21:01] <Seira> roll 1d20+26 Agatha
06[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+26 Agatha and gets 33." [1d20=7]
[21:01] <Alicia> roll 1d20+37 Anty
06[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+37 Anty and gets 46." [1d20=9]
[21:02] <Kotono> roll 1d6
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 and gets 1." [1d6=1]
03[21:02] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jessica(33)(1 rnd)>Amaryl(27)>Seira(22)>Antenora=Alicia(1 rnd)(20)Balor 2(19)>Donald (1 rnd)(16)>Agatha(15)>Lagann(2)'
[21:02] <Kotono> OOC: 1 point of wisdom drain to Jessica/Donald/Alicia. More.
[21:05] <Kotono> The goo flies about! Most resist a strange senstation, but Alicia and Donald look staggered, horror-stricken! Jessica is the same, falling down as her wings seize up, plummeting into the grey mists off the path! OOC: Seira.
01[21:08] <Seira> She would have liked to save them as her trump card, but Seira has several of those already as is. She strides forward, boots splashing in the disgusting, horrifying goo, finally coming to a stop before Amaryl, shielding the elf with her body. "Abominations like you should never have existed," Seira declares, sending two waves of ghostly unicorns crashing straight on against the remaining balor.
01[21:08] <Seira> roll 10#1d20+18 ranged touch
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 10#1d20+18 ranged touch and gets 295." [10#1d20+18 = 33, 36, 32, 21, 28, 37, 35, 27, 20, 26]
[21:10] <Kotono> OOC: All hit it's touch flatfooted. Damage.
01[21:10] <Seira> roll 10#1d8+8+5d8
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 10#1d8+8+5d8 and gets 333." [10#1d8+8+5d8 = 30, 31, 28, 39, 34, 34, 36, 33, 36, 32]
[21:12] <Kotono> Before it can act, the second balor is cut apart by flying unicorns! It expldoes out, it's body gone! The same thing happens as before, children pleading as they explode and burst out! OOC: Fort for all the non-stunned people.
01[21:12] <Seira> roll 1d20+29 Amaryl
06[21:12] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+29 Amaryl and gets 44." [1d20=15]
01[21:13] <Seira> roll 1d20+27 me
06[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+27 me and gets 28." [1d20=1]
01[21:13] <Seira> roll 1d20+26 Agatha
06[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+26 Agatha and gets 28." [1d20=2]
[21:13] <Alicia> roll 1d20+37 Anty
06[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+37 Anty and gets 49." [1d20=12]
[21:14] <Kotono> roll 1d6
06[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 and gets 1." [1d6=1]
[21:14] <Kotono> OOC: 1 wis drain to Seira/Agatha. See PM too.
[21:15] <Kotono> In a flash, the battle is over! The balors are torn apart, the path to the gate unprotected, even as Seira and AGatha fall to their knees! OOC: Free act. Everyone but uh...Amaryl and Antenora are stunned ar ound.
[21:15] <Kotono> "Seira!" Amaryl hurries to Seira's side, as Antenora flies out! "Jessica," she shouts, diving.
06[21:19] * Alicia shudders, releasing her hands from gripping the side of her head as she comes to her senses. "Not real..." she reassures herself, before noting the balors are gone, along with Antenora and Jessica. "What... what happened?" she asks with a sinking feeling of dread.
01[21:19] <Seira> "It was the best way," Seira insists, voicing the mantra she had been chanting in her head.
[21:23] <Kotono> Donald looks up, "Damn..." He holds his head, saying nothing else at all.
[21:24] <Kotono> "The balors exploded and Jessica fell. Antenora dived after her," Amaryl explainds, holding Seira and pointing out into the mist where Jessica was.
06[21:25] * Alicia picks up her sword from where it was dropped when she had her panic attack. "I better make sure they're okay," she states, deciding four remaining here will be safe enough but worried for the other two. "If we're not back in a minute then go on without us," she instructs, descending into the mist below where she last saw her sister.
[21:26] <Kotono> Thus Alicia dives into the mist! OOC: #evil.

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[21:27] <Kotono> ---
[21:28] <Kotono> Creeping mist surrounds Alicia as she plunges down! Mist all over, a silent, cold mist. Ahead of her she sees light, a faint light through the mist...
06[21:29] * Alicia glows quite brightly herself, not having dimmed her radiance at all since beginning the climb up this mountain - hopefully if her sister and Antenora are below they'll see it. "Jessica? Antenora?" she calls loudly, flying downwards through the fog.
[21:32] <Kotono> Smoke. Alicia smells smoke. Ahead of her flames leap. The valley is on fire. Fire is everywhere. The old dirt path is ruined, blood stained. Ahead she can her the laughter of rough men, cruel. She can hear the crying of a child, agonized. Ahead she can see her house burning. Her head throbs, a headache exploding out. Bandits...the sound of them, the noise of them, the smell of them...the cry of her child...her head...
[21:32] <Kotono> the smell of them...the cry of her child...her head...
[21:35] <Alicia> "No..." Alicia grimaces, fighting to shake it off. It's a cruel illusion, nothing more. "Jessica! Antenora!" she calls out their names again, more loudly this time. She tries to look out for magical signatures shining through the mist, hoping arcane sight will avail her if normal vision fails, if she can catch any trace of their familiar magical items.
[21:36] <Kotono> OOC: Make a will save.
[21:36] <Alicia> roll 1d20+36
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+36 and gets 37." [1d20=1]
[21:39] <Kotono> Alicia...can't. She can't look away. Her magic is lost as she stares and finds herself walking ahead. Her house is a burning ruin. Her husband's head sits on a planted spear, a grimce of agony his final expression. Her child lies on the ground, beaten and somehow alive, despite his brains lying about around him. Bandits are everywhere...her friends are there. Antenora...Latha...Jessica...Marie...Seira....Amaryl...all lie there, broken. Bandits violate the
[21:39] <Kotono>  Antenora...Latha...Jessica...Marie...Seira....Amaryl...all lie there, broken. Bandits violate them while they are dismembered, mocked. Utter despair cascades through Alicia...she failed again. Too late. Too late. Too late. Too late. Too late. Too late. Too late. Her lips move, mouthing this over and over.
06[21:43] * Alicia tries to summon the familiar fury, righteous anger that has served her in the past to overcome adversity and take vengeance... but it just won't come. What's the use? It won't change anything. Even if she derives some temporary satisfaction, they're still dead. Slackening her grip on Hell Striker, she curls up and awaits her own death...
[21:44] <Kotono> They're around her. Laughing. Leering. Failure. They see her failure. They  know what she is - weak, pathetic, false. She feels sorrow overwhelm her..."ALICIA!" Antenora's voice screams, yet is only heard distantly, faraway. "ALICIA!"
[21:46] <Alicia> Poor Antenora, crying out for her even as she suffers. She was foolish to ever put her trust in someone like Alicia. A pity there's nothing she can do, though.
[21:46] <Kotono> "ALICIA!" Antenora's voice is louder, more focused. She feels a pain in her arm, a sharp one! (10 points of nonlethal damage.) "Open your eyes!"
[21:49] <Alicia> Her own torture comes now? It's not as if anything they do to her can compare to the horrors she's seen. Let them do their worst - she'd spit at them if she could work up the will to care.
[21:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 14." [1d20=5]
[21:50] <Kotono> roll 1d3+9
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d3+9 and gets 12." [1d3=3]
[21:51] <Kotono> The next blow is harder, overwhelmingly painful! (12 nonlethal damage) Her cheek stings from a slap, her head clearing slightly. "Alicia!" Antenora's voice is even louder, "I said open your eyes! Please!"
[21:51] <Alicia> OOC: Can I?
[21:51] <Kotono> OOC: You can try, sure.
[21:53] <Alicia> Has... has Antenora recovered and beaten back her tormentors? Alicia looks up, trying to look past the leering men towards where she last saw her friend lying broken on the ground.
[21:53] <Kotono> OOC: Make a will save.
[21:54] <Alicia> roll 1d20+35 forgot the wis damage on the last roll
06[21:54] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+35 forgot the wis damage on the last roll and gets 38." [1d20=3]
[21:54] <Kotono> Alicia's eyes open! Antenora is flying in the gray mist, unscathed! Jessica is slung over her shoulder like a sack of potatoes, her hand raised and slightly bloodied. The taste of blood fills Alicia's mouth. "Alicia, wake up!" Antenora calls, "Can you hear me now?"
[21:55] <Alicia> Memories ebb back into Alicia's mind, slowly at first and then in a torrent as she realises what just happened. Harshly biting out the words to the spell, she invokes a sphere of anti-magic around herself to ward off the terrible mind-sapping effect of the mist here!
[21:56] <Kotono> Alicia's mind clears! Antenora smiles broadly, as Jessica stirs and groans. "Welcome back. Let's go back up before something worse happens...whereever this is."
[21:58] <Alicia> OOC: Do I have my sword?
[21:58] <Kotono> OOC: It's in hand.
[21:59] <Alicia> "Thank you," Alicia shelves her self recriminations for the moment, rewarding Antenora with the grateful smile she deserves, "You saved us both." Sheathing Hell Striker so there's less risk of dropping it, she fans out her wings, "Straight up and stay close, the mist can't hurt us while my antimagic holds, but we need to catch up with the others quickly."
[21:59] <Kotono> "Right," With that, Antenora begins to fly up! OOC: Move you two back to #dunes now, unless you want to do anything else here?
[22:00] <Alicia> OOC: Hell no

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[21:27] <Kotono> Agathaiel is shaking, "Vile magic. Filthy, poor magic." She picks her own weapon back up, "But those balors barely lasted ten seconds. Your powers are without peer."
06[21:27] * Seira nods curtly as Alicia departs. "If we stop here, after going so far and forcing a direct confrontation with Pale Night, the children we're here to save will be slaughtered," she states. "Donald, Amaryl, can you keep guard while I check the gate?"
[21:28] <Kotono> "Got it," Donald readies his sword and shield again, "Lathander will kick our asses in the afterlife if we fail now. No way we're going to."
06[21:29] * Seira snorts. "The thing you've wanted to do all your life? Be Lathander's holy vessel? This is it, Donald. I can't think of anything more 'it' than this."
[21:30] <Kotono> "No shit!" Donald calls, "Get going, Seira!"
01[21:31] <Seira> If she weren't still depressed over the loss of those children, she would be introducing Donald's behind to her boot right now. Instead, Seira proceeds to examine the gate blocking the way ahead, as she had intended to.
[21:33] <Kotono> OOC: Going to attach a search or other check to that?
01[21:33] <Seira> OOC: Search traps, then normal search, yes
01[21:33] <Seira> OOC: Taking 10 gives me 40
[21:35] <Kotono> The gate isn't trapped or locked. It could be pulled open if one wishes. Ahead in the mist past it the path continues, towards a hazy, vast citadel. Far far away, Seira can hear the crying of children.
01[21:41] <Seira> It is not trapped, or if it is, the mechanism is far too advanced for Seira to truly grasp, the analytical part of her realizes. "Until the minute has passed," she voices, counting.
[21:42] <Kotono> 12...13...14...15..."Damn it," Donald keeps his gaze out, "See them yet? Anything, Seira?"
01[21:42] <Seira> "Alicia asked for a minute. She'll get her minute, no matter what," Seira snaps back.
[21:44] <Kotono> "I know that!" Donald snaps right back, "I mean have you seen them come out or heart anything? Something?"
01[21:45] <Seira> "You're the one on the lookout! Idiot!"
[21:46] <Kotono> "It's not like they don't communicate with magic and telepathy!" Donald snaps right back. With an obscene gesture, "Of course they'd contact you before me!"
01[21:46] <Seira> "It takes ten minutes to cast! Why would anyone bother?!"
06[21:47] * Seira can at least do something productive, however, and that is to use her wand to help them recover as they wait.
[21:48] <Kotono> OOC: Go ahead and dole out a few.
01[21:48] <Seira> roll 10#1d20+24 umd
06[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 10#1d20+24 umd and gets 331." [10#1d20+24 = 25, 40, 35, 42, 28, 32, 33, 29, 25, 42]
01[21:48] <Seira> OOC: Amusing, but I have two wands of CLW, so this works.
[21:48] <Kotono> OOC: You notice the first one is a natural 1. Snort.
01[21:48] <Seira> OOC: And the 9th, yes
[21:49] <Kotono> OOC: Go ahead and switch to another wand then.
01[21:49] <Seira> roll 1d8+1
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+1 and gets 2." [1d8=1]
01[21:49] <Seira> roll 1d8+1
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+1 and gets 9." [1d8=8]
01[21:49] <Seira> roll 1d8+1 Agatha, those were to Amaryl
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+1 Agatha, those were to Amaryl and gets 2." [1d8=1]
01[21:49] <Seira> roll 1d8+1 Agatha again
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+1 Agatha again and gets 7." [1d8=6]
01[21:49] <Seira> roll 1d8+1 Agatha again
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+1 Agatha again and gets 9." [1d8=8]
01[21:50] <Seira> roll 2d8+2 Donald
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2d8+2 Donald and gets 17." [2d8=7, 8]
[21:53] <Kotono> The wounds given heal further! "Damn it, Alicia..." Donald stares down, "Antenora, one of you come back up!"
06[21:56] * Seira waits by the gate, now-useless wands tucked away. "Just ten more seconds, and we press on," she announces. "Get ready."
[22:00] <Kotono> Just as a minute is reached, Antenora and Alicia ascend up! Antenora carries Jessica up, as they fly back to the path!
06[22:01] * Seira exhales, nodding at Alicia, even as she asks Antenora, "Is Jessica alright?"
[22:02] <Kotono> Jessica makes a loud groan, "I'm okay..." as Antenora puts her down, "It was strange. I didn't know what I was seeing...but it terrified me and drove me into despair. It was cold everywhere, ice and gelugons and devils. They were all around me and I couldn't get away."
[22:03] <Alicia> "Thanks for waiting," Alicia tells the others, dismissing her antimagic as they land. "The mist, it gets into your head... you don't want to go into it, trust me," she warns the others before turning her attention to her sister. "I'd say you're safe now, but Hell or the Abyss..." she can only shrug, reaching over to hug Jessica.
[22:04] <Kotono> Antenora smiles, "It almost worked on me. When I saw you as an erinyes, Alicia...I knew it was a lie." Smiling briefly to Ailcia before turning ahead, "Can we proceed on?"
01[22:04] <Seira> "A few more seconds, and we would've left," Seira responds. "We would've tried to return for you afterwards, but I don't think we can divert here, for whatever reason."
[22:05] <Alicia> "We should," Alicia nods, before noticing Jessica is bereft of her sword. "We can't go back for your sword, though," she tells her sister, instead producing a shortbow from her survival pouch, along with a quiver of arrows. Casting greater magic weapon on it, she hands it over. "We'll have to make do for now."
01[22:06] <Seira> "I have a sword you could use," Seira also offers. "And so does Amaryl, if she doesn't mind."
[22:06] <Kotono> "Really, let's move." Donald peers ahead, "I don't want any more exploding mind destroying balors with children."
[22:07] <Kotono> "You can use my sword," Amaryl volunteers, "I'm going to be using my bows anyway."
[22:08] <Alicia> Letting Jessica pick her weapon of choice, Alicia continues onwards...
06[22:09] * Seira is in the lead this time around, pushing the gate open to proceed.
[22:12] <Kotono> Jessica takes the sunblade, then follows along. As the gate is opened, a deep creak follows! In a spilt second they appear within. Within a fortress of white bone and gray stone interlaced. The walls writhe, twisted wildflowers of colors like blood, bile, acid, pain, dischord and six other things compressed into colors that must not be, growing out of the wall all over. Gently you hear singing, far away down the hall ahead. "Mother...watch over us Mother..."
[22:12] <Kotono> Gently you hear singing, far away down the hall ahead. "Mother...watch over us Mother..." Giggling. So much giggling.
01[22:14] <Seira> And so many more still alive, who could still be saved. That thought gets Seira to refocus on her priorities.
06[22:14] * Alicia draws her sword once more - it just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it? Paying loose attention to the magic around them, Alicia advances down the hallway.
[22:15] <Kotono> "Completely wrong...!" Antenora growls from deep within her throat, spear at the ready as she follows along.
[22:20] <Kotono> Thus you walk ahead. You walk through twisting halls and straight curves, up downward slopes and down upward climbs. Upside down you pace through the ceiling, dancing through solemn halls. As you do, passing through incorporeal walls and solid air, "Turn back...or come play..." Voices whisper, children giggling inanely. "Mister Alabaster taught us how to play with you...but if you aren't serious, go home! We only want serious people to play with us!"
01[22:23] <Seira> "They were driven insane," Seira whispers in disbelief. "Just killing them wasn't enough, they had to be twisted into... into this."
[22:23] <Kotono> Antenora's eyes are narrow, tears leaking out of her eyes, "Twisted into...insanity and chaos. It's never enough for a demon. Burning the entirity of Creation on a pyre isn't enough for a demon."
06[22:24] * Alicia is starting to grow seriously concerned that they've walked into a maze. It was bad enough when their task consisted of searching a mountain, but this... where the hell are they? Xerona's fighting desperately to buy them time to find something they don't even know to recognise, and they're waltzing through some architectural nightmare without any sense of direction.
[22:24] <Alicia> "We don't want to play," she speaks back, recalling the lich's nature.
02[22:25] * Alicia (WinNT@95.146.4.90) Quit (eldrasia.cv.uk.lunarnet.org rpgcafe.ca.us.lunarnet.org)
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03[22:27] * Seira sets mode: +o Rei-chan
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[22:29] <Kotono> Twisting. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. You stand in bile and waste. Everything around you is filth. 100 feet up and 60 feet away chains hold up a vile thing. It was perhaps once a succubus, but it is fat and bloated, the size of a titan. It's stomach is transparent, children digesting within her. Her maw is stuffed with children, acrid stenches coming from her. "No fun...no fun...no fun..." The children chant from within her stomach, "No play?"
[22:29] <Kotono> The children chant from within her stomach, "No play?"
[22:32] <Kotono> Antenora's mouth moves as if to speak, but only a mask of furious anger shows. "Kill it."
06[22:32] * Seira avoids the question, avoids the conversation, as she rakes her mind for a way -- any way -- to save these children.
[22:32] <Kotono> OOC: K:A
[22:32] <Kotono> .
01[22:32] <Seira> roll 1d20+25
06[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+25 and gets 36." [1d20=11]
[22:33] <Alicia> "Is this it? This is what binds them here and captures their souls?" Alicia asks in horror. In retrospect she should have been prepared, but she'd expected some clean and neat artifact or structure, not... this.
[22:34] <Kotono> "It is gorgeous," A soft voice whispers, magnificent and chill. "It is Her masterpiece, one of many."
06[22:34] * Seira nods grimly. "Antenora is right. Killing it is our best chance of freeing them from this torment."
06[22:36] * Alicia looks around at the sound of that incongruous whisper, not fitting in with the maddened requests to play from the children...
[22:38] <Kotono> The voice is everywhere. Nowhere. In you, outside of you. "I could waste a thousand demons to weaken you, but yet...what meaning is there in senseless death? You have overcome Glaciante and Dralen, let me see if you can overcome this."
[22:38] <Kotono> The succubus groans through her mouthful of children! "Hungry...more...more...more!" The children inside of her that are still mostly intact bang against her stomach, looks of agonized panic on their faces as stomach acid rises up to consume them!
[22:40] <Alicia> Dralen? Wasn't that one called Alabaster? Bah, it hardly matters, really... "Lets not give it one second more of existence," she resolves, taking flight towards the receptacle, preparing to rend it asunder with her blade!
01[22:40] <Seira> "More talk is pointless!" Seira cries out, calling upon the magics to destroy the fell, twisted container of the souls.
[22:42] <Kotono> OOC: Let's roll init then.
[22:42] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 Alicia
06[22:42] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 Alicia and gets 9." [1d20=2]
[22:42] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 Anty
06[22:42] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 Anty and gets 20." [1d20=15]
[22:42] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 Jessica
06[22:42] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 Jessica and gets 21." [1d20=8]
01[22:42] <Seira> roll 1d20+8 Amaryl
06[22:42] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 Amaryl and gets 12." [1d20=4]
01[22:43] <Seira> roll 1d20+8 Agatha
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 Agatha and gets 16." [1d20=8]
01[22:43] <Seira> roll 1d20 L
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20 L and gets 13." [1d20=13]
03[22:43] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jessica(21)>Antenora(20)>Agatha(16)>Lagann(13)>Amaryl(12)>Alicia(9)'
01[22:43] <Seira> roll 1d20+11 Lagann uses nerveskitter on me
[22:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 17." [1d20=14]
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+11 Lagann uses nerveskitter on me and gets 19." [1d20=8]
03[22:43] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jessica(21)>Antenora(20)>Seira(19)>Donald(17)>Agatha(16)>Lagann(13)>Amaryl(12)>Alicia(9)'
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[22:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3 bloated succubus
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 bloated succubus and gets 11." [1d20=8]
[22:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 ?
[22:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 ?
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 ? and gets 17." [1d20=11]
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 ? and gets 25." [1d20=19]
03[22:45] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jessica(21)>Antenora(20)>Seira(19)>Donald=?1(17)>Agatha(16)>Lagann(13)>Amaryl(12)>Bloated Succubus(11)>Alicia(9)'
03[22:45] * Kotono changes topic to '?2(25)>Jessica(21)>Antenora(20)>Seira(19)>Donald(17)>Agatha(16)>Lagann(13)>Amaryl(12)>Alicia(9)'
[22:46] <Kotono> From all about, howling ghosts writhe! The twisted faces of children strike out at Seira, engulfing her!
[22:46] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 touch ac, flatfooted(Yeah yeah I know.P)
06[22:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 touch ac, flatfooted(Yeah yeah I know.P) and gets 22." [1d20=7]
[22:46] <Kotono> roll 10d6 force and fort, Seira.
06[22:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 force and fort, Seira. and gets 41." [10d6=4, 3, 2, 1, 6, 3, 6, 6, 6, 4]
[22:46] <Alicia> roll 1d4 if they're ghosts they can take damage from my aura
06[22:46] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 if they're ghosts they can take damage from my aura and gets 2." [1d4=2]
01[22:48] <Seira> OOC: MA and Shield are +4 each, sacred is 7 more, so flatfooted touch ac vs ghosts should be about 25?
01[22:48] <Seira> OOC: 26 if insight counts
[22:48] <Kotono> Howling ghosts roar around Seira, buts omehow they deflect away from her and leave her unwounded! OOC: Jessica.
[22:51] <Alicia> Wielding Amaryl's sunblade, Jessica sweeps it through the swarm of ethereal spectres surrounding Seira!
[22:51] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 -5 expertise
06[22:51] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 -5 expertise and gets 36." [1d20=16]
[22:52] <Alicia> roll 2d10+12
06[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d10+12 and gets 29." [2d10=7, 10]
[22:53] <Kotono> The spectres flicker slightly in the golden glow of the sun, a bit of the unnatural gloom clinging to you held back at bay! The faces writhe and mock, laughing and crying in pain! OOC: Antenora.
[22:54] <Alicia> Healing Alicia as she takes off, Antenora makes good use of her aerial mobility to charge straight up at the receptacle, her spear stabbing into its stomach to puncture it!
[22:54] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 -8pa charge
06[22:54] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 -8pa charge and gets 44." [1d20=18]
[22:55] <Alicia> roll 2d8+86+2d6 -1 con
06[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d8+86+2d6 -1 con and gets 97." [2d8=2, 1][2d6=3, 5]
[22:55] <Kotono> OOC: Hold on a sec, topic crapped out.
03[22:55] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Alicia
03[22:56] * Kotono changes topic to '?2(25)>Jessica(21)>Antenora(20)>Seira(19)>Donald=?1(17)>Agatha(16)>Lagann(13)>Amaryl(12)>Bloated Succubus(11)>Alicia(9)'
[22:57] <Kotono> Antenora charges ahead and up full steam, speaing out to impale the succubus! Her overflowing fat does nothing to resist the blade, a jet of greasy blood gushing out! The blood hisses in the air, splashing at Antenora! OOC: Ref, Antenora.
[22:57] <Alicia> roll 1d20+29
06[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+29 and gets 45." [1d20=16]
[22:58] <Kotono> roll 6d6 acid halve this
06[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6 acid halve this and gets 22." [6d6=3, 6, 2, 6, 4, 1]
[22:58] <Kotono> Antenora twists out of the way of the blood, only her wings grazed by the hissing brew of blood! OOC: Seira.
03[23:02] * Merc-zzz is now known as Merc
06[23:04] * Seira thinks for longer than perhaps necessary, before deciding to focus solely on the destruction of the unnatural succubus to the exclusion of all else. She tries to dart past the ghosts surrounding her to find a freer spot closer to her target, and summons a swarm of unicorn to bash the succubus from above and, perhaps, to knock her from the chains holding her.
01[23:04] <Seira> roll 5#1d20+18 ranged touch, sniper shot
06[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 5#1d20+18 ranged touch, sniper shot and gets 123." [5#1d20+18 = 28, 20, 20, 24, 31]
[23:05] <Kotono> OOC: She's flatfootd and huge. Eaaasy hits there.
01[23:05] <Seira> roll 5#1d8+8+5d8 and the bullrush dc is 29
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 5#1d8+8+5d8 and the bullrush dc is 29 and gets 170." [5#1d8+8+5d8 = 28, 42, 34, 27, 39]

[Corwin]

[20:30] <Alicia> * Seira thinks for longer than perhaps necessary, before deciding to focus solely on the destruction of the unnatural succubus to the exclusion of all else. She tries to dart past the ghosts surrounding her to find a freer spot closer to her target, and summons a swarm of unicorn to bash the succubus from above and, perhaps, to knock her from the chains holding her.
[20:30] <Alicia> <Seira> roll 5#1d20+18 ranged touch, sniper shot
[20:30] <Alicia> * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 5#1d20+18 ranged touch, sniper shot and gets 123." [5#1d20+18 = 28, 20, 20, 24, 31]
[20:30] <Alicia> <Kotono> OOC: She's flatfootd and huge. Eaaasy hits there.
[20:30] <Alicia> <Seira> roll 5#1d8+8+5d8 and the bullrush dc is 29
[20:30] <Alicia> * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 5#1d8+8+5d8 and the bullrush dc is 29 and gets 170." [5#1d8+8+5d8 = 28, 42, 34, 27, 39]
03[20:30] * Seira changes topic to '?2(25)>Jessica(21)>Antenora(20)>Seira(19)>Donald=?1(17)>Agatha(16)>Lagann(13)>Amaryl(12)>Bloated Succubus(11)>Alicia(9)'
[20:31] <Kotono> OOC: No bullrush, she's chained up really tight. Damage stands though.
01[20:31] <Seira> OOC: Aww, chains don't break?
[20:32] <Kotono> OOC: The bad guys clearly invested in sturdy chains.
[20:32] <Kotono> OOC: Considering they're holding a titan sized bloated succubus..
[20:34] <Kotono> Seira's unicorns flash out! The vast whale of a woman is impaled over and over, chains shaking as she's slammed hard! The chains seem to withstand the pressure amazingly well, staying strong and sturdy! Gushes of blood come from the beast's wounds, splashing out at th enearby Antenora! OOC: Ref again, Antenora.
[20:35] <Alicia> roll 1d20+29
06[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+29 and gets 44." [1d20=15]
[20:35] <Kotono> roll 6d6 halve this
06[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6 halve this and gets 12." [6d6=3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1]
[20:36] <Kotono> More steaming acid erupts from the demoness, Antenora dodging the splashes as she can, only lightly singed by the hissing, foul substance! OOC: Donald and ?1 are up.
[20:37] <Kotono> Donald flies up and closer, closing the distance! As he does, he fires a pair of black beams off at the bloated woman, barking words of power desperately!
[20:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 CL
[20:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 CL
06[20:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 CL and gets 24." [1d20=9]
06[20:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 CL and gets 24." [1d20=9]
[20:38] <Kotono> But both spells wither away on her, the children inside of her laughing and screaming endlessly! Her stomach bulges as the acids eat away at them! Meanwhile, howling ghosts appear around Antenora, striking all about her!
[20:38] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 touch
06[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 touch and gets 29." [1d20=14]
[20:38] <Kotono> roll 10d6 and fort
06[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 and fort and gets 46." [10d6=5, 4, 6, 4, 6, 6, 4, 5, 4, 2]
[20:38] <Alicia> roll 1d20+33
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+33 and gets 35." [1d20=2]
[20:39] <Kotono> OOC: Just the damage.
[20:39] <Kotono> The howlings rip through Antenora, writhing through her! For a few moments her skin breaks open, blood pouring! The wail of the children comes out through her, a face erupting out of her mouth! OOC: Agath and then Lagann.
01[20:40] <Seira> Agathaiel calls upon the holy powers invested in her by Waukeen, surrounding those of her friends still on the ground with an inner radiance that pushes away at the madness of Pale Night's sanctum.
01[20:40] <Seira> OOC: Holy Aura, yes
01[20:40] <Seira> OOC: Lagann will hold
[20:41] <Kotono> OOC: Amaryl.
01[20:42] <Seira> Amaryl judges the succubus to be the biggest threat, dangerous as ghosts have been to her before. Taking steady aim, she unleashes a hail of arrows at the suspended monstrosity!
01[20:42] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+26 (-2 range)
06[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+26 (-2 range) and gets 133." [4#1d20+26 = 29, 36, 32, 36]
01[20:42] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+21 (-2 range)
06[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+21 (-2 range) and gets 68." [2#1d20+21 = 39, 29]
01[20:42] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+16 (-2 range)
06[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+16 (-2 range) and gets 41." [2#1d20+16 = 21, 20]
[20:43] <Kotono> OOC: One hit.
01[20:44] <Seira> roll 1d8+16+4d6
06[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+16+4d6 and gets 33." [1d8=2][4d6=3, 6, 4, 2]
[20:44] <Kotono> The arrows fly, one of them getting the succubus in the stomach! A jet of acid erupts out, splashing the nearby Antenora again! OOC: Ref.
[20:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+29 this is becoming tiresome
06[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+29 this is becoming tiresome and gets 34." [1d20=5]
[20:45] <Kotono> roll 6d6 halve this
06[20:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6 halve this and gets 20." [6d6=6, 2, 3, 2, 5, 2]
[20:45] <Kotono> Antenora blocks with her arms this time, skin hissing as most of the acid splashes away from her! OOC: Succubus.
[20:46] <Kotono> The succubus leans forward, it's bulk writhing in the chains! It's mouth opens as wide as Antenora is, a writhing red tentacle lashing out! It is covered with serrated barbs all over, lashing out at the deva!
[20:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+36
06[20:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+36  and gets 55." [1d20=19]
[20:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+36 crit?
06[20:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+36 crit? and gets 41." [1d20=5]
[20:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+36 second attack AC Antenora?
06[20:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+36 second attack AC Antenora? and gets 55." [1d20=19]
[20:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+36 second attack AC Antenora man
06[20:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+36 second attack AC Antenora man and gets 51." [1d20=15]
[20:47] <Alicia> OOC: 40
[20:48] <Kotono> 12d6+40 Dr applies, two fort saves.
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 12d6+40 Dr applies, two fort saves.  and gets 81." [12d6=3, 6, 3, 2, 4, 2, 4, 1, 2, 2, 6, 6]
[20:48] <Alicia> roll 1d20+33
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+33 and gets 51." [1d20=18]
[20:48] <Alicia> roll 1d20+33
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+33 and gets 40." [1d20=7]
[20:49] <Kotono> The tongue cuts across Antenora like a whip, drawing sprays of blood as it feasts on her flesh! As this happens, the vast stomach splits open! The children wail out, intenstines coming to hold them against the wall of the stomach! With a great burbling gush, a long spray of acid flies out at Seira! OOC: Ref.
01[20:51] <Seira> roll 1d20+33
06[20:51] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+33 and gets 42." [1d20=9]
[20:51] <Kotono> But Seira leaps high, the acid sizzling in the bile beneath her instead of on her flesh! The bloated fiend's stomach slams shut, a fleshy clank as it returns to normal! OOC: Alicia.
01[20:52] <Seira> "Oh you did not just do this!" Seira screams up at the freakish fiend.
06[20:54] * Alicia decides to focus on the ghosts assailing Seira at the moment, wading into their midst with several sweeping strikes from Hell Striker!
[20:54] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 knowledge
06[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 knowledge and gets 35." [1d20=18]
[20:54] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -4pa divine might bracers
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -4pa divine might bracers and gets 32." [1d20=2]
[20:55] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -4pa divine might bracers
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -4pa divine might bracers and gets 34." [1d20=4]
[20:55] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 -4pa divine might bracers
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 -4pa divine might bracers and gets 45." [1d20=20]
[20:55] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 -4pa divine might bracers
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 -4pa divine might bracers and gets 30." [1d20=10]
[20:55] <Alicia> OOC: it's undead which I can crit, but also a swarm which I can't, right? So no crit check?
[20:55] <Kotono> OOC: No crit check, no.
[20:55] <Kotono> OOC: All hits.
[20:55] <Alicia> OOC: +2 on all those, forgot bane
[20:56] <Alicia> roll 4#1d100 incorporeal miss chance?
06[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 4#1d100 incorporeal miss chance? and gets 264." [4#1d100 = 76, 77, 20, 91]
[20:56] <Alicia> OOC: are they chaotic evil?
[20:56] <Kotono> OOC: Yes.
[20:57] <Alicia> roll 6d4+84+6d6+6d6+3d6+6d6+3d8
06[20:57] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 6d4+84+6d6+6d6+3d6+6d6+3d8 and gets 181." [6d4=1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3][6d6=2, 6, 4, 6, 3, 2][6d6=5, 3, 6, 3, 6, 5][3d6=1, 2, 1][6d6=2, 4, 4, 5, 3, 4][3d8=1, 7, 3]
03[20:57] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jessica(21)>Antenora(20)>Seira(19)>Donald=?1(17)>Agatha(16)>Lagann(13)>Amaryl(12)>Bloated Succubus(11)>Alicia(9)'
[20:57] <Kotono> With Alicia's blade, the ghostly images are torn apart! They fade back away, plauging Seira no more! They are gone, but yet howls can be heard...OOC: Jessica.
[20:59] <Alicia> Jessica starts flying upwards after Antenora and Donald, but lacking the former's aerial mobility she can only cover sixty feet.
[20:59] <Kotono> OOC: Antenora then.
[21:01] <Alicia> Calling down a holy smite atop the bloated fiend and the spectres surrounding her, Antenora backs off a healthy fifty feet from the chained succubus, buying room for another charge.
[21:01] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 DC 19 concentration casting defensively
06[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 DC 19 concentration casting defensively and gets 29." [1d20=12]
[21:02] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 SR if applies
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 SR if applies and gets 28." [1d20=11]
[21:02] <Alicia> roll 10d6 DC 22 for outsiders
[21:02] <Kotono> OOC: Success, continue on.
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 10d6 DC 22 for outsiders and gets 40." [10d6=6, 3, 5, 1, 1, 6, 6, 5, 3, 4]
[21:02] <Alicia> roll 5d8 DC 22 for undead
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 5d8 DC 22 for undead and gets 21." [5d8=4, 2, 5, 4, 6]
[21:02] <Kotono> roll 1d20+26 succubus
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+26 succubus and gets 34." [1d20=8]
[21:02] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 11." [1d20=2]
[21:03] <Alicia> OOC: divine succor on self
[21:03] <Kotono> The holy smite shines like a candle in the eternal night, striking at the evil! Both relent slightly, but do not fall! The succubus writhes, tentacle-tongue lashing! "Food...food...food!" OOC: Seira.
06[21:03] * Seira gestures at the mockery of a succubus, and her hand is suffused with light briefly, before it elongates into a beam to stab into its center of mass.
01[21:03] <Seira> roll 1d20+18 ranged touch, targetting ray
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+18 ranged touch, targetting ray and gets 34." [1d20=16]
01[21:04] <Seira> OOC: +5 insight on any ranged attack vs her
01[21:04] <Seira> OOC: For any of us
[21:04] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. Anything else Seira?
01[21:04] <Seira> OOC: I'm good
[21:04] <Kotono> OOC: Donald and ?1.
[21:05] <Kotono> Donald scowls, but gestures a final black ray as he holds his position!
[21:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 SR
06[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 SR and gets 31." [1d20=16]
[21:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20 ranged touch
06[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 ranged touch and gets 7." [1d20=7]
[21:05] <Kotono> roll 1d4
06[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[21:06] <Kotono> This time the black beam hits the succubus in the gut, the flesh shrinking back like rotted fruit! Meanwhile, the ghosts around the demon fly out, charging for Antenora and bursting around her!
[21:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[21:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 33." [1d20=18]
[21:06] <Kotono> roll 10d6 and fort
06[21:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 and fort and gets 36." [10d6=6, 3, 6, 3, 5, 4, 1, 5, 1, 2]
[21:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+33 mettle <3
06[21:06] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+33 mettle <3 and gets 44." [1d20=11]
[21:07] <Kotono> But again, Antenora glows white! The spirits recoil back, unable to touch her! OOC: Agatha and Lagann.
01[21:07] <Seira> Agathaiel calls upon Waukeen's glory to smite the swarm of ghosts bothering Antenora!
01[21:07] <Seira> roll 1d20+12 sr?
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+12 sr? and gets 32." [1d20=20]
01[21:07] <Seira> roll 5d8
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 5d8 and gets 20." [5d8=1, 3, 7, 4, 5]
[21:07] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 17." [1d20=8]
01[21:07] <Seira> OOC: dc19
[21:08] <Kotono> The ghosts buckle again, the crying voices howling the agony of holy fury! OOC: Lagann.
01[21:08] <Seira> OOC: He's holding until further notice
[21:09] <Kotono> OOC: Amaryl.
01[21:09] <Seira> Invigorated by Seira's support, Amaryl attempts once more to put the nasty fiend down with extra prejudice!
01[21:10] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+31 (-2 range)
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+31 (-2 range) and gets 159." [4#1d20+31 = 32, 43, 35, 49]
01[21:10] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+16 (-2 range)
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+16 (-2 range) and gets 46." [2#1d20+16 = 21, 25]
01[21:10] <Seira> OOC: +10 to each of those
01[21:10] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+21 (-2 range)
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+21 (-2 range) and gets 55." [2#1d20+21 = 32, 23]
[21:10] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
01[21:11] <Seira> roll 2#1d8+16+4d6
06[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d8+16+4d6 and gets 67." [2#1d8+16+4d6 = 31, 36]
[21:12] <Kotono> TWin arrows stab into the succubus' leg, the entire bloated thing gushing acid! Yet no one is close enough to be sprayed, thankfully! The succubus howls as it's stomach opens up, a great jet of acid heading towards Amarylt his time! OOC: REf, Amaryl.
01[21:12] <Seira> roll 1d20+30
06[21:12] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+30 and gets 35." [1d20=5]
[21:12] <Kotono> OOC: Does she have evasion?
01[21:12] <Seira> OOC: No
[21:13] <Kotono> roll 12d12 acid halve this
06[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 12d12 acid halve this and gets 69." [12d12=6, 5, 8, 2, 5, 12, 1, 9, 7, 4, 3, 7]
[21:18] <Kotono> Acid nicks Amaryl's side! Her flesh dissolves to it almost immediately, searing agony as it eats away at her! It's mouth opens wide in the meantime, a vile phrase of utter hunger directed at Antenora!
[21:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 SR check
06[21:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 SR check and gets 37." [1d20=16]
[21:18] <Kotono> OOC: Fort.
[21:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 and gets 43." [1d20=20]
[21:19] <Kotono> OOC: Isn't Antenora's fort higher?
[21:19] <Kotono> OOC: Doesn't matter but.
[21:19] <Alicia> OOC: +33 should've been
[21:19] <Kotono> Antneora's flesh tries to rip away, but she glows with sacred protections once more! The magic recoils away from her, her flesh staying still! OOC: Alicia.
06[21:20] * Alicia flies up alongside her sister and follows Donald's example in sending a ray of negative energy at the bloated hanging fiend!
[21:20] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 knowledge
06[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 knowledge and gets 27." [1d20=1]
[21:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 ranged touch
06[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 ranged touch and gets 38." [1d20=13]
[21:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21 SR
06[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+21 SR and gets 34." [1d20=13]
[21:21] <Alicia> roll 1d4 and 3 negative energy damage
06[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 and 3 negative energy damage and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[21:22] <Kotono> The black beam leaves a mark on the succubus's throat, weakening her further as she coughts up bile and flesh! OOC: Jessica.
[21:24] <Alicia> Seeing everyone is favouring ranged attacks and honestly not keen to get too close herself, Jessica sheathes Amaryl's sword and flies up to come within thirty feet of the succubus, readying the bow Alicia loaned her as she goes.
[21:24] <Kotono> OOC: Antenora.
[21:24] <Alicia> Antenora charges to stab the succubus in the face, hoping that there wouldn't be any stomach acid coming out of there.
[21:25] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -4pa charge, divine succor on self
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -4pa charge, divine succor on self and gets 33." [1d20=3]
[21:33] <Kotono> Antenora's charge this time is errant, missing by the side of the succubus! OOC: SEira.
06[21:33] * Seira sears the succubus's head with a fireball she calls into being without much effort, willing the flames to reduce it to cinders!
01[21:33] <Seira> roll 1d20+20 sr, SLA
06[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+20 sr, SLA and gets 34." [1d20=14]
01[21:33] <Seira> roll 10d6 dc19, can she even dodge?
06[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 10d6 dc19, can she even dodge? and gets 40." [10d6=4, 6, 3, 2, 5, 1, 5, 4, 5, 5]
[21:34] <Kotono> The blast of fire scorches her face, leaving her front a charred mess! OOC: Donald and ghosts are up.
[21:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 21." [1d20=6]
[21:35] <Kotono> Donald channels searing rays into his hand, firing them away! They hurtle towards the demon, but simply cease to be a foot away from her, harmless! Meanwhile, the ghosts charge ahead, this time going for Jessica!
[21:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 35." [1d20=20]
[21:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 ow
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 ow and gets 31." [1d20=16]
[21:36] <Kotono> roll 20d6 and fort owwies
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 20d6 and fort owwies and gets 69." [20d6=2, 2, 5, 5, 6, 1, 4, 4, 4, 6, 4, 4, 1, 4, 1, 5, 1, 5, 1, 4]
[21:36] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 and gets 29." [1d20=9]
[21:36] <Kotono> OOC: Just the damage.
[21:37] <Kotono> Jessica is slammed hard by the ghosts, erupting throughout her and all over! She staggers in the air, nearly dropping odwn into the filth! OOC: Agatha and Lagann.
01[21:39] <Seira> Agathaiel smites the ghosts as persistently as they attack her companions, while Lagann continues to wait in case something decides to sneak up on his mistress and stab her in the back.
01[21:39] <Seira> roll 1d20+12 sr
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+12 sr and gets 14." [1d20=2]
[21:40] <Kotono> But this time, the smite dissipates around the abomination chained in the air! OOC:Amaryl.
01[21:41] <Seira> Amaryl steadily improves her aim as she has more time to estimate the proper distance to her target, and she hopes for better results this time as she releases her arrows towards the succubus!
01[21:41] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+31 (-2 range)
06[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+31 (-2 range) and gets 151." [4#1d20+31 = 35, 32, 39, 45]
01[21:41] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+26 (-2 range)
06[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+26 (-2 range) and gets 79." [2#1d20+26 = 38, 41]
01[21:41] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+21 (-2 range)
06[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+21 (-2 range) and gets 56." [2#1d20+21 = 29, 27]
[21:41] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits.
01[21:41] <Seira> roll 3#1d8+16+4d6 she really is improving by one hit per round
06[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3#1d8+16+4d6 she really is improving by one hit per round and gets 103." [3#1d8+16+4d6 = 37, 34, 32]
[21:43] <Kotono> The succubus is riddled with arrows! They pass through her stomach, the entire mass groaning! With a shudder, it simply falls apart! The great blobs of flesh fall, chains splashing down into the filth below! In a moment, reality twists! (More, but everyone make a will save first.
01[21:44] <Seira> roll 1d20+21 Amaryl
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+21 Amaryl and gets 32." [1d20=11]
01[21:44] <Seira> roll 1d20+32 me
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+32 me and gets 34." [1d20=2]
01[21:45] <Seira> roll 1d20+23 Agatha
06[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+23 Agatha and gets 34." [1d20=11]
[21:45] <Alicia> roll 1d20+36 Alicia
06[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+36 Alicia and gets 40." [1d20=4]
[21:45] <Alicia> roll 1d20+31 Anty
06[21:46] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+31 Anty and gets 48." [1d20=17]
[21:46] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22 Jessica
06[21:46] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 Jessica and gets 31." [1d20=9]
[21:49] <Kotono> The room shatters into a trillion pieces! You stand...above? ABove you it roils. Endless gray chaos, malevolence unchecked bringing pure terror to your veins. You stand on a stone platform, a vast island in this sea.  Ahead of you, below the cursed sky, lies a single seat. A skeleton sits there, pondering the sky above. It wears finery of gold and black, lost in contemplation. It's eyes...it's eyes lure you inexorably.  It's voice is smooth and commanding, po
[21:49] <Kotono> It's eyes...it's eyes lure you inexorably.  It's voice is smooth and commanding, possessing an unearthly dignity and command. At his side they flicker - Abyssal hordes. Endless hordes of abominations new and familiar both, straining against the air.
[21:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20 let's see if Donald' sin the blalpark
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 let's see if Donald' sin the blalpark and gets 4." [1d20=4]
[21:50] <Kotono> Donald falls to the ground next to you, twitching violently! His limbs jerk apart, a twisting smile manifesting on his face!
01[21:52] <Seira> Agathaiel immediately tries to cast the evil out of Donald, kneeling next to him!
[21:54] <Kotono> Donald cackles as Agathaiel calls on the removal of evil! Yet even as she does, "It is no use. His mind cannot comprehend chaos." The skeleton looks to you...those eyes...those eyes are endless, endless, endless. Empty and yet endless, possessing more than you can put to words. "To cope with chaos, his mind has shattered into inanity."
01[21:55] <Seira> Agathaiel rolls her eyes at the answer supplied to her so readily, and casts Heal upon Donald's shaking form!
[21:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 41." [1d20=18]
01[21:56] <Seira> "So which one are you, number three?" Seira asks the skeleton far too casually.
[21:56] <Kotono> Donald's shaking and cackling stops, as meanwhile Antenora averts her gaze from the skeleton like a dart, her face twisting.
[21:57] <Kotono> "I am he who sits at the side of Chaos, Sylian." The lich holds in it's hands death and insanity, cascading as pure force down his armbones. "Even with the aid of the Liath-Flail, being able to maintain your sanity in this place is far from a trivial feat."
[21:58] <Alicia> "We've seen that which lies outside reality," Alicia speaks confidently. "This chaos may seek to mimic such, but in the end it is only an imitation."
01[21:58] <Seira> "Yes, you're so insane it's infectious, it is true," Seira agrees, for her part. "Are you insane enough to give us what we sick and commit suicide in the most painful way you can think of?"
01[21:59] <Seira> *seek, sigh
Session Close: Wed Dec 09 21:59:53 2009

Session Start: Wed Dec 09 21:59:53 2009
Session Ident: #dunes
02[21:59] * Disconnected
02[22:00] * Attempting to rejoin channel #dunes
03[22:00] * Rejoined channel #dunes
03[22:00] * Topic is 'Jessica(21)>Antenora(20)>Seira(19)>Donald=?1(17)>Agatha(16)>Lagann(13)>Amaryl(12)>Bloated Succubus(11)>Alicia(9)'
03[22:00] * Set by Kotono on Wed Dec 09 21:05:05
03[22:00] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Yomi
[22:00] <Kotono> With a bonerustling chuckle, "Yes, you are well versed. But the Beyond is not the subject on which you came to discuss. Or is it?"
[22:01] <Alicia> "No, it is not," Alicia confirms, stepping forward. "We will end Pale Night's binding of souls that were never to be hers, and kill that which was never to be born. If you stand in our way, you will only meet the same fate as your two colleagues."
01[22:02] <Yomi> "I'm pretty certain it's going to happen," Seira asserts. "But I still wouldn't mind to be pleasantly surprised."
02[22:04] * Seira (~corwin@bzq-109-66-1-186.red.bezeqint.net) Quit (eldrasia.cv.uk.lunarnet.org obsidian.ab.ca.lunarnet.org)
03[22:04] * Yomi is now known as Seira
[22:06] <Kotono> "Very well." Sylian steps back, "I will surrender this place and the Orb given to me by the Neverborn, removing myself from the rest of this affair. With the seal of Androlynne defeated, Bleak Rendor lies open to the cosmos. Not even Ao's curse will protect him now. However..."
01[22:08] <Seira> "However?" Seira obediently asks.
06[22:09] * Alicia tensely waits for the other shoe to drop. Chaos being unpredictable is one thing, but she can't believe it would be this simple.
[22:12] <Kotono> Pointing to Alicia, Antenora and Seira, "A drop of each of your blood is required. Fear not, I have no desires to waste it on petty revenge, nor would I need it to do so."
Session Close: Wed Dec 09 22:12:04 2009

Session Start: Wed Dec 09 22:12:04 2009
Session Ident: #dunes
02[22:12] * Disconnected
02[22:13] * Attempting to rejoin channel #dunes
03[22:13] * Rejoined channel #dunes
03[22:13] * Topic is 'Jessica(21)>Antenora(20)>Seira(19)>Donald=?1(17)>Agatha(16)>Lagann(13)>Amaryl(12)>Bloated Succubus(11)>Alicia(9)'
03[22:13] * Set by Kotono on Wed Dec 09 21:05:05
03[22:13] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Seira
[22:13] <Kotono> Pointing to Alicia, Antenora and Seira, "A drop of each of your blood is required. Fear not, I have no desires to waste it on petty revenge, nor would I need it to do so."
[22:13] <Alicia> "Our blood can be found easily, spilled across the battlefields we have crossed on our way here," Alicia comments, frowning thoughtfully. "Yet that would not suffice, would it? It must be freely given. There is power in such things... even if not used against us, I would question its ultimate purpose."
06[22:14] * Seira just directly asks, "What would you use it for?"
[22:17] <Kotono> "You spoke of the Beyond? Truly, this is but a pale reflection." Sylian looks to the sky, "Ask no more. The madness of my answer will be a curse you will lament to have never heard."
01[22:18] <Seira> "I might consider it if we get the full deal," Seira tells Sylian. "The way to break the seal, once and for all, without having to fight three more of your pals. Can you deliver that, in the here and now?"
[22:22] <Kotono> "Here, the magic of the pact is vulnerable. Should I leave, none will be able to defend it." The hordes of demons flickering around Sylian howl, reaching out, so close to you and yet not touching! "Sanctify this place and the souls shall race free."
06[22:23] * Seira glances at Alicia and Antenora before shrugging. "As long as it doesn't harm me or mine, or is used to create creepy duplicates of me in any form, I don't particularly care if a lesser evil goes free while we save the children. That's where I stand."
06[22:26] * Alicia recalls how when devils wished to capture their souls, it required the use of a specialised artifact keyed solely to them and would only work should they die within a small radius of said artifact. Whereas the Dark Six seem capable of claiming the souls of all they slay, indiscriminately and effortlessly.
[22:26] <Alicia> The thought of what they could do with her blood freely given, though... "Nothing good can come of this," she shakes her head, a primal thrill of terror coursing through her as she absorbs the possibilities. Even if he cares nothing for revenge, the things he might do for perverse curiousity, or to defend himself should they have cause in the future to go after him...
[22:28] <Kotono> "It is your choice...you can face me here, in the seat of my power." Sylian's eyes are utterly terrible, portals of utter incomprhensibility. "For as long as I am here, your goal is impossible. Yet, your goal is impossible if you raise arms against me."
01[22:30] <Seira> "I sincerely doubt it is impossible," Seira protests. "Incredibly difficult, yes. But merely that."
[22:30] <Kotono> Antenora looks to Alicia, "...damn it." She shakes her head, "Bloodsheed or giving up our blood. Alicia, I will support you no matter your choice."
01[22:34] <Seira> "Sylian, since negotiations haven't broken down, I'll need to know more about this deal. Are you planning on betraying your buddies?"
[22:36] <Kotono> "My business with them is concluded. If you wish to call that betrayal, then yes," Sylian's eyes bore into Seira. Visions of things her mind can't process plague her, things...things...things...no words, only utter terror.
01[22:38] <Seira> "Please don't look at me, you're beyond horrible," Seira insists, though she doesn't quite avert her own gaze in some gesture of surrender. "We wish to attack Bleak Rendor. Does this mean you won't lift a finger to aid the others or impede us?"
[22:38] <Kotono> "That is correct."
03[22:38] * Zeph|Zzz is now known as Zephyrus
01[22:38] <Seira> "Amaryl has beautiful blood. Why don't you want it?"
[22:40] <Kotono> His gaze burns into you, through Seira, into her. "Her blood is not of interest to me. The blood of the three of you now...the answer is one you are happier never knowing."
01[22:41] <Seira> "I thrive on mysteries. You can tell it to me telepathically if you wish to not offend anyone's sensibilities."
[22:41] <Alicia> "You said it had to do with Beyond," Alicia asks, being pulled along by Seira's questioning, her words tumbling out as she realises this could all be a ploy to stall them while Xerona weakens. "Would it only involve that and nothing within the planes?"
[22:42] <Kotono> With a curved, dark smile, "You took part in the slaying of the creature from Beyond. It has nothing to do with your matters in Creation. Your blood is rich in the matter of the Beyond, having slain it."
01[22:43] <Seira> "Are you going to go there and never come back? Or try to bring some of it back here?"
[22:46] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
06[22:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 and gets 35." [1d20=16]
[22:47] <Kotono> "What happens will not trouble you or the planes,"Sylian promises with a look that makes Seira's souls cream.
01[22:48] <Seira> "This is where one directly implores Waukeen and Mystra, I feel," Seira says in a seeming nonsequitur, pausing afterwards as she finally finds something more interesting than Sylian to observe. "So we get the orb you have, you leave, and sanctifying this place will break the seal and free all the children of Androlynne?" she asks.
[22:49] <Alicia> "Tch..." Alicia scowls as she nods. "You're a fine match for whatever horrors lie there. I'm willing to accept, if it will ensure ruin for Pale Night and the Neverborn's machinations."
[22:49] <Kotono> "That is correct," Sylian answers, and cocks his head. A smile passes his face, "Even with the Liath-Flail, Xerona cannot last forever against Pale Night in her realm. If you accept, come. Let us conclude this, so that Pale night does not have freedom to come here."
01[22:50] <Seira> "I just have one last question," Seira responds. "Why is it that I strongly believe that all of the orbs must be destroyed for the seal to break, and not just yours?"
[22:51] <Kotono> "The best lie has a kernel of the truth. To destroy the pylacteries of the other liches, you will need to destroy the Orbs in the right place. Yet that lies in Bleak Rendor...no matter what information others may have given you to mislead you. Here, the Orbs are at their strongest."
06[22:51] * Alicia looks between Sylian and Seira, unsure what to think, now...
[22:52] <Kotono> "Come," Sylian extends a hand out, Xerona's strength is beginning to waver."
06[22:53] * Seira nods curtly. "I don't doubt I'll regret this in a personal sense, but I don't mind making the attempt. I'll save you the threats for if you pointlessly double-cross me, so just give me the orb, tell me where to destroy them all, and we'll proceed."
[22:55] <Kotono> An orb appears in front of Seira! It is another Orb of the Dark Six, the souls within writhing! Sylian waits, patient. "Within Bleak Rendor. There is a sphere there - the seventh sphere of the Dark Six. Within lies the phylachteries of the others. Gather the six orbs there and consecrate the ground in the name of a God, any God. That will end them."
[22:57] <Alicia> "What of freeing the children of Androlynne?" Alicia asks, having gotten a little lost sadly and not sure how it all fits together anymore.
[22:57] <Kotono> "When I am gone, sanctify this ground. That will suffice."
01[22:57] <Seira> "Last time I took one of those, it tried to stop my heart," Seira states, imbuing herself with magical confidence before grasping the sphere in question. "Where do you need my drop of blood? And just so it's clear, I'm not signing over my soul or anything dumb like that."
[22:58] <Kotono> "Of course not." The orb chills Seira, her mind going nearly blank! But yet...Sylian opens his hand, a tiny strip of parchment there. "On this."
01[23:00] <Seira> 'I'm sorry if this is a trick. If he turns me against you, destroy me without reservation,' Seira thinks to Amaryl, biting lightly on her thumb before proceeding towards the parchment to let a drop of her blood fall on it, licking the wound clean afterwards.
[23:01] <Kotono> The blood falls onto the parchment, staining it red! "Excellent. Alicia?"
06[23:01] * Alicia approaches after Seira, her own presence consecrating the ground as she walks. Running her thumb against the sharp blade of her sword, she holds the cut digit above the parchment and lets a drop fall. Out of politeness she reduces the glow of her holy light to not harm the lich, but she doesn't let up on her consecrated presence at all.
[23:03] <Kotono> Antenora follows, biting her thumb and doing the same. She stares a momen tinto Sylian's eyes, but jerks her head away. On all three droplets being there, "It is done." Sylian is simply gone there, "Consecrate this ground and..." But a split second later, a howling takes over the sky! The chaos spins and twirls about, a shattering heard from horizon to horizon!
[23:04] <Alicia> Treachery?! Alicia immediately raises her blade, staying focused on the lich who better start explaining right now.
[23:06] <Kotono> Sylian is gone. The chaos screams as one, as...laughter. You hear joyful, delirious laughter all around you. The chaos-sky turns golden, light shining bright! Around you, motes of white light begin to rise up, rising high into the golden sky!
01[23:08] <Seira> "Lagann, we must contact Waukeen," Seira states instantly, forgetting to resort to telepathy. "Ask her, please, if we have succeeded in our mission!"
[23:08] <Alicia> "Seira, can you use Limited Wish to get a sending to Xerona? I'll do the same for Honeydip then we can leave," Alicia turns to the colonel, hoping this really is it and not a masterful bluff.
[23:08] <Alicia> "Or that," she appends.

[Corwin]

[20:08] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> > Antenora follows, biting her thumb and doing the same. She stares a momen tinto Sylian's eyes, but jerks her head away. On all three droplets being there, "It is done." Sylian is simply gone there, "Consecrate this ground and..." But a split second later, a howling takes over the sky! The chaos spins and twirls about, a shattering heard from horizon to horizon!
[20:08] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> <Alicia> Treachery?! Alicia immediately raises her blade, staying focused on the lich who better start explaining right now.
[20:08] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> > Sylian is gone. The chaos screams as one, as...laughter. You hear joyful, delirious laughter all around you. The chaos-sky turns golden, light shining bright! Around you, motes of white light begin to rise up, rising high into the golden sky!
[20:08] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> <Seira> "Lagann, we must contact Waukeen," Seira states instantly, forgetting to resort to telepathy. "Ask her, please, if we have succeeded in our mission!"
[20:08] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> <Alicia> "Seira, can you use Limited Wish to get a sending to Xerona? I'll do the same for Honeydip then we can leave," Alicia turns to the colonel, hoping this really is it and not a masterful bluff.
[20:08] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> <Alicia> "Or that," she appends.
06[20:14] * Seira is silent for a moment, before she exhales. "Waukeen answers to the affirmative."
[20:15] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Then let's leave this Gods forsaken place now!" Antenora turns back, "...how do we get out of here, though?"
[20:15] <Alicia> "Can you contact Xerona?" Alicia asks as she immediately casts her own Limited Wish to mimic a sending spell to Honeydip. "The seal is broken. Start getting everyone out of here - we're leaving ourselves."
06[20:16] * Seira focuses all her mind and will into creating a path back to the altar with Xerona, intending to tap into the orb she received to make one, if necessary.
[20:18] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Make an intelligence check, Seira?
[20:18] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Got it...things are going insane here!" Honeydip answers, "The demons are screaming and the sky's gold!"
01[20:18] <Seira> roll 1d20+15 (I'll use the +1 ignorance bonus here)
06[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+15 (I'll use the +1 ignorance bonus here) and gets 22." [1d20=7]
[20:19] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> The sky burns brighter, the heaven shining! The chorus of laughter grows brighter! As Seira concentrates, a path appears behind you, laughing cries of bliss coming from it. "Hurry!" A child's voice beckons.
[20:19] <Alicia> "Honeydip understands - demons are flipping out all over," Alicia relays to the others, before looking hopefully at Seira so she won't have to risk another Limited Wish to tell Xerona it's time to bug out.
01[20:19] <Seira> "Let's go, then!" Seira calls out, following the path immediately. "We have to get those orbs, too, but no more than one per person!"
06[20:20] * Alicia digs out her scroll of haste and casts it, hitting Seira, Amaryl, Antenora, and Donald, since they're all the slowest under normal circumstances. Then she starts flying down the revealed path as fast as she can!
[20:23] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Antenora slows, "I can take one," she offers? "What about the third?"
01[20:23] <Seira> "Alicia handled it just fine before!"
06[20:25] * Alicia has no objection to this suggestion and focuses primarily on reaching Xerona before it's too late.
[20:26] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Antenora takes one of the orbs! Her flesh crawsl openly, a grimace as her eyes narrow. But she holds it, teeth clattering as she starts to run out with the others. Alicia's own skin crawls as she holds an orb, as does Seira's! As they feel so cold, they rush along! Within moments they find themselves before Xerona! She kneels atop Mother's Mountain. She coughs up blood, her body transparent. The Liath-Flail burns like a star in the night, each wave
[20:26] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> She coughs up blood, her body transparent. The Liath-Flail burns like a star in the night, each wave of power pushing back a silent, overwhelming gray mist.
06[20:27] * Alicia rushes over to Xerona, shuffling the orb in the crook of her arm a moment to swap on her plane shift ring before taking the solar's hand and then Antenora's. "Everyone join hands quickly, we're leaving!"
06[20:28] * Seira takes Xerona's other hand, holding onto Amaryl and leaving Donald and Agathaiel to close the circle.
[20:28] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Success..." Xerona pants, "Pale Night's power...is overwhelming in her...realm!" She holds the Liath-Flail high, "To the shores of Celestia! Hurry!"
[20:29] <Alicia> As soon as everyone's linked, Alicia whisks them away! She'd wanted to go straight to Jovar to find Latha more quickly, but doubts other first timers would be allowed that high, so defers to Xerona's advice and goes to the shores of Lunia.
[20:29] <Alicia> roll 5d100 if it matters
06[20:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 5d100 if it matters and gets 280." [5d100=9, 46, 68, 100, 57]
[20:35] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> For a moment, the magic screams and stops! The light of the Liath-Flail pauses, the dark mist running into you...but you vanish just in time! You appear on the shores of Celestia, the holy waters glowing bright. Immediately Xerona is solid again, standing true. She stands as an impossibly tall Solar, glowing with all the overwhelming light of Chronias! To look at her is to fele awe, her gaze looking skyward. "I must return to my duty. Latha has stoo
[20:35] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> her gaze looking skyward. "I must return to my duty. Latha has stood before Chronias...if there is any hope of her turning away, it is with those she cares of. Will you come with me?"
[20:36] <Alicia> "Of course!" Alicia replies, as if there was every any doubt. That was why they rushed through this whole thing to start with!
[20:37] <Alicia> Hopefully she won't be shamefully distracted by the light herself this time and make things worse...
01[20:37] <Seira> "I think I can table the victory celebrations that long," Seira responds with a roll of her eyes, immediately adding, "That means 'of course, no question'."
[20:38] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "If you have not been to before Chronias before...those who are not of order and purity are not meant to see this light. You may come, but be prepared for what it may do to you." Xerona bids.
01[20:39] <Seira> "I could keep my eyes closed?" Seira says with less certainty.
[20:40] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "I'll go, no matter what," Donald says, "Latha needs us."
[20:40] <Alicia> "That does help," Alicia nods to Seira. "But regardless, I want to see Latha."
[20:42] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Brace yourselves, then," Xerona says, "If you are to come, step forward."
01[20:42] <Seira> "We all risked everything for success, and there's still the part about getting her back remaining. I signed up for it knowingly, and I'll keep at it," Seira states, stepping forward. "See you in a few, Amaryl?"
[20:43] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Amaryl blushes, hesitating...and stepping forward with Seira. She takes her hand but says nothing else.
06[20:43] * Alicia steps forward without reservation.
[20:44] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Antenora steps forward, "Close your eyes...it overwhelmed us. It was...it was like a century." Thus as the party steps forward...OOC: More, are you going in eyes closed or open?
[20:44] <Alicia> OOC: I'll close my eyes
06[20:45] * Seira decides to close her eyes, having already considered it before and submitting to Antenora's expert advice.
[20:46] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Jessica steps forward as well, her eyes closed. Thus the party is transfixed! Through your shut eyes, you feel an unimaginable radiance, overwhelming! Even through this, you can feel the TRUTH. You can feel truth, so close and...OOC: Will saves except for Alicia and Antenora. All of you closed your eyes so you get a +5 bonus.
[20:46] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 Jessica (+7 if Xerona's buff is still in effect)
06[20:46] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 Jessica (+7 if Xerona's buff is still in effect) and gets 17." [1d20=1]
01[20:47] <Seira> roll 1d20+40 (sacred, aura, greater heroism, +5 bonus)
06[20:47] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+40 (sacred, aura, greater heroism, +5 bonus) and gets 60." [1d20=20]
01[20:48] <Seira> roll 1d20+26 Amaryl
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+26 Amaryl and gets 43." [1d20=17]
[20:48] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20 donald he prettymuch needs a 20 here.
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20 donald he prettymuch needs a 20 here. and gets 13." [1d20=13]
[20:49] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> How long you endure in this beauty is unknown. Seira feels...she feels an understanding, yet  maintain herself somehow. A voice cuts through into your minds, Xerona speaking. "Speak to Latha...she is here! Speak your hearts to her!"
[20:53] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Damn it..." Donald's voice is faraway, "I...Latha...just come back!" he calls, "It's so beautiful here, but...please!"
01[20:53] <Seira> "If you're waiting for a confession, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed, Latha," Seira says, trusting in Xerona's words. "But I want you back! No amount of pretty words and dressing them up fancily will change this basic truth! It may not be the same as the one we have here, but I think it's worth coming back for!
01[20:53] <Seira> I think it matters more than anything else in the world, and giving up on this is beyond saddening. I don't want to lose a friend, not like this!"
[20:54] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Latha...we still need you. I still need you, Alicia still needs you." Antenora's voice is a whisper, projected loud and far. "Perfection doesn't. Please...for us."
[20:55] <Alicia> "Latha, we've freed the children of Androlynne. Xerona can resume her duties and you can resume yours," Alicia begins, daring to open her eyes, wanting to see her friend if she really is intending to vanish into Chronias forever. "I know you feel the pull of Chronias, and how important it is to you."
[20:55] <Alicia> "But there's still so much for us to do! We need your help, facing the Dark Six and the Neverborn, learning how to be angels. We'll always be grateful for all you've done for us, but there's still so much more we can do! I won't begrudge you if you follow this path, but I'd rather you walked ours."
[20:56] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Latha..." Amaryl gasps, "I...come back to us! There's still so much to see and do in the world!"
[20:57] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+35
06[20:57] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+35 and gets 40." [1d20=5]
[20:59] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Alicia can see the light. The glorious relevations of Chronias, Latha standing at the edge of that light. Her gaze looks towards the party, conflicted. "I..." She speaks a single letter of beauty, like ethereal music.
01[21:02] <Seira> "You're the most hands-on angel I've seen on Prime," Seira says suddenly. "You were always doing thankless chores, because helping people and striking down fiends seeking to enslave and entrap them was its own reward. Don't tell me a feisty deva like that wants to stand in a light, motionless for all of time!"
[21:03] <Alicia> "It's your choice, Latha," Alicia concludes heavily as she seems struggling to decide. "You'll probably have regrets no matter what... maybe that's the real price of our victory. What I can say is Chronias will always be here, if you give it up today it doesn't mean you'll never get a chance at it again. But if you do go there now, that will be forever, with no turning back."
[21:06] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+35
06[21:06] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+35 and gets 51." [1d20=16]
[21:07] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "I..." Latha extends a hand out, reaching out towards the party. "I..."
06[21:07] * Alicia steps towards the stairway to heaven, offering her hand towards Latha but letting her make the final move. She wouldn't want to drag her out, after all.
01[21:08] <Seira> "It might be your choice," Seira speaks, "but I'll do everything in my power to make sure you never regret staying with us, if you do."
[21:09] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d20+35
06[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d20+35 and gets 47." [1d20=12]
[21:10] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "I..." Latha takes Alicia's hand! She takes a single step forward then...you stand on the beaches of Celestia once more. The gentle holy waters splash against your feet, cool and restful. Latha simply collapses down, splashing into the water.
06[21:10] * Seira risks a peek, since there definitely was no water back at the light.
06[21:11] * Alicia sinks to her knees along with Latha, embracing her. "Thank you, Latha. I know this was the right choice," she reassures.
01[21:12] <Seira> "Victory is so sweet, isn't it?" Seira asks with a wide grin.
[21:13] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Amaryl stands besides Seira, eyes closed and mouth slack-open.
[21:13] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Antenora joins Alicia, smiling and watching.
06[21:14] * Seira gently pushes Amaryl's jaw back, nudging her side.
[21:14] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Donald stands, eyes open and utterly, utterly glazed over. Amaryl blinks and looks to SEira, dazed.
[21:14] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "I..." Latha tries to speak, but rests against Alicia instead.
[21:15] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "We won." Antenora smiles broadly, "That's good enough."
01[21:15] <Seira> "Let's welcome Latha back?" Seira suggests, hoping that the daze will pass and leading them into the surf, towards Latha's resting form.
[21:15] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Jessica blinks slowly several times, "Oh Mystra..."
[21:16] <Alicia> "Take some time to relax. We're not going anywhere," Alicia tells Latha, supporting her without complaint and using her knee to slightly nudge away the nasty evil orb she dropped a moment ago, not really wanting to be in contact with it during an ostensibly happy occassion.
[21:18] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> For a time Latha is silent around everyone. After some time of this she stands up, "Alicia, give me your hand."
06[21:19] * Alicia stands up and presents her right hand to Latha palm up without question.
[21:20] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Latha's eyes are transfixed, far distant and glowing with a golden light. Alicia feels a slight fatigue overtake her as Lathas queezes her hand! She then turns to Seira, "Seira, give me your hand." OOC: 7 damage to Alicia. DR does not apply.
[21:21] <Alicia> "Oww," Alicia winces at the harsh squeeze, looking at Latha questioningly. Is she angry at them nagging her away from the end of the archon's journey?
06[21:21] * Seira does more, enveloping Latha in a hug. "It's good to have you back! I'll say it as many times as I have to!"
[21:22] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Latha embraces Seira, a slight fatigue overtaking her! Latha lets SEira go after, "Antenora, give me your hand." OOC: 7 damage to Seira. DR does not apply if you have stoneskin up.
01[21:22] <Seira> OOC: I do, and okay
06[21:23] * Seira looks puzzled at this, but she'd taken worse, much of it just minutes previously, in fact.
[21:24] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Antenora does the same, sagging slightly. Then it goes ot Amaryl, Donald, Jessica and Agathaiel. Once done, "And I am seven." she finishes, kneeling in the sand, waves lapping against her. She begins to mold the sand, forming it with her hands into what looks to be a mace.
06[21:26] * Alicia had planned on finding a new bludgeoning implement for Latha but perhaps it won't be necessary after all... Opening up her portable hole, she dumps the evil orb inside and gets the other two in after it, not wanting their presence to taint what Latha's doing.
03[21:29] * Merc (~kayeich@c-98-196-68-69.hsd1.tx.comcast.net) has joined #dunes
[21:31] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Thus does Latha work, forming it out of sand wetted by the sacred waters of Celestia. When it is done, Latha picks it up and holds it to the sky! It does not crumble, but instead pulses bright! "The power that brought me back and lays evil low...let this be my cudgel to punish evil!" In her hand is a mace of metal, plain and unadored. Yet in Latha's hand is is the sun, glowing so bright as to make everything else dim.
[21:31] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> glowing so bright as to make everything else dim.
01[21:31] <Seira> "Evil is definitely gonna get punished," Seira mutters appreciatively.
06[21:32] * Alicia smiles, glad to have had a part in replacing Latha's weapon of choice. "It's good to have you back with us," she says earnestly.
[21:33] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "In all of you my strength shall grow," Latha now smiles back, "Let us return to Balmuria. We must rest and prepare."
[21:34] <Alicia> "Before that, Jessica lost her weapon recently as well - can you give her the third resort?" Alicia asks, before glancing at her sister. "It'd be a good fit for you, I think. Better than that rapier."
[21:35] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> The Third Resort is passed over without incident. OOC: Are you guys otherwise ready to move along a bit? Also sec.
[21:35] <Alicia> OOC: lets
01[21:35] <Seira> "We can touch base with Lady Honeydip later, at her leisure," Seira agrees to Latha's suggestion.
[21:44] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Also, are you guys aiming to do anything else this day or just heal/rest up?
01[21:44] <Seira> OOC: Not this day, but the next one I'll go see my smith and have Lagann help him finish the armor
[21:45] <Alicia> OOC: lets see how Cel's doing!
[21:46] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Thus the party returns to the garrison. Inside Celebrimbor's room you find Marie, Elle and Gilartal. Celebrimbor lies on his bed, face smooth and calm. He snores gently. Elle sits next to him, head drooping. "Don't worry," Elle says around a yawn, "We did it."
01[21:48] <Seira> "I trust you blindly and without reservation," Seira insists, taking Elle's hand. "Once we got Celebrimbor over to you, I knew it would turn out alright."
[21:48] <Alicia> "You look exhausted," Alicia tells Elle, going to take a seat next to her. "If you want to get some rest, I'll take over keeping an eye on him."
[21:48] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "It took a lot of magic," Elle says with a faint, tired smile. "Gilartal's up because he had a restoration left over..."
[21:49] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> With a thin smile, "Sir Drake will be fine, we think. We'll want to have him watched for a few days, but it appears the enchantment on him is broken."
01[21:50] <Seira> "You can get through the most horrible of experience if your closest friends are with you, there for you," Seira insists. "He will be just fine, yes."
06[21:51] * Seira fishes out a pearl. "In the immediate range, however, Gilartal could help ensure you get home and to your bed without falling asleep along the way."
[21:52] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Gilartal does so, handing the pearl back after. Elle perks up, "I still need to go rest," she declares, "Come see me tomorrow?"
01[21:53] <Seira> "Without a doubt."
[21:53] <Alicia> "We will," Alicia nods, settling in while Marie alights on her head. "Good night, Elle."
[21:54] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> OOC: Hop into #evil, Alicia?
[21:55] <Alicia> OOC: sure