048: When silence drowns the screams

[Sierra]

<El-Cideon> Ione lands on the outer surface of one of the asylum's numerous globular extrusions. The main door is fashioned as a circle, and the medusa pushes it open against the protests of rusty hinges to allow view of the immediate interior:
<El-Cideon> The entryway of the asylum is dim in a way that contravenes the nature of the plane--under normal circumstances Air itself seems to generate light from nothingness, with no distinct source, but within the structure some oppressive force rejects the world's attempts at illumination. From outside, you can see only vaguely what lies before you: an open, domelike foyer with a reception desk for handling guests, some old chairs--all the furniture by now thoroughly decrepit and broken--and an open door immediately across from you leading into a black corridor.
<El-Cideon> The asylum was evidently built with the architectural possibilities of Air in mind; at a glance one could guess that flight was the principal and intended method of locomotion for the establishment's minders when it still functioned as a sanitarium. A quick peek inside shows two additional doors, perfectly circular, set into the middle of the walls to the left and the right.
<El-Cideon> The light from outside is not so dim that it cannot illuminate a small, rounded white shape resting on the wall by the door opposite the main entrance.
<El-Cideon> "Well I didn't promise it would be a very picturesque trip," Ione says preemptively.
<Steph> "It's okay, we were just in Arcadia recently and I'm sick to death of picturesque hills and meadows," replies Stephanie, with a snort. "Do any nasties hang out around here?"
<El-Cideon> "I can only repeat wild rumors of ghosts and such," Ione says. "I can say that there weren't any such things last time I was here--in fact it was my business then to remove every thing living from the premises--but that was many years ago."
<Steph> "Hmm. So, uh... let's just say we run into anything. How selective are you with the stone thing?"
* Julia goes to look at the white thing while she still has use of her eyes. She'll be closing them at the first sign of trouble!
<El-Cideon> "Unless by supreme coincidence none of you happen to be looking in my general direction at the time, I'm afraid you're quite at risk," she admits.
* Franceska simply takes out her wand of magic missiles, deciding to be prepared.
<Steph> Stephanie frowns, and then walks to go and peek through the open door into the black corridor.
<El-Cideon> Julia finds that it is a human head--or a remarkably good recreation of one. It has the consistency and faintly greasy sheen of wax. The face is locked in a scream.
<El-Cideon> Beyond, Stephanie can see rows of circular doors lining a corridor that arcs out of sight along the bend of the structure. For a moment, a split second, she could swear she glimpses someone--or someones, a group of men and women, somewhat translucent--rounding the bend to proceed further into the asylum, but before she can say anything the image is gone.
<El-Cideon> Rosemund sets down next to Julia. "What is that?" she asks, mildly aghast.
<Steph> "I swear there are ghosts this way," she mutters.
<Julia> "Have you ever been to one of those shows where they have copies of famous people made out of wax?" Julia asks with a fond smile of remembrance at her trips. They're not creepy at all! "I think it's like that. Just missing the rest of its body."
<El-Cideon> "That is, alas, our destination," Ione answers Stephanie. "We want the workshop beneath the late caretaker's quarters. Beyond the garden, we'll descend deep into the structure. These other doors here were just guard quarters."
<Franceska> "How delightful."
<El-Cideon> "What happened to the rest of it?" Rosemund wonders.
<Julia> "Maybe it's hidden somewhere else in the asylum?" Julia suggests, drifting off to follow Stephanie.
<Steph> Stephanie starts to head down the corridor. "Julia, teach me a spell to make ghosts go away," she suggests, drawing her weapons.
<Julia> "Just remember, what a ghost wants most of all is attention," Julia says calmly. "There's nothing you can do to a ghost that's worse than ignoring it."
<El-Cideon> The corridor leading deeper into the asylum is tubelike, and twenty feet in diameter. There's plenty of space for two to drift side by side if desired. The doors you pass lead into open cells, spherical oubliettes that might once have held Azure's most unfortunate but now just loom with quiet emptiness. Some bear writing on the walls--letters to forgotten loved ones in one case, one evidently total random association, another covered with an endless string of numbers. As you proceed inside the asylum, light becomes scarcer and Rosemund is obliged to light up her mace to show the way.
<El-Cideon> "This was the passive wing of the asylum," Ione points out. "She kept the more docile patients here. It looked more reputable that way in case anyone visited."
<El-Cideon> OOC: any particular formation here?
<Steph> OOC: I'll be kind of in front
<Steph> OOC: By like 30 feet or so?
<Franceska> OOC: Next to Rosemund
<Julia> OOC: next to Stephanie
<El-Cideon> OOC: if Steph's taking point, Rosey will be rear guard. Ione can benefit from the party buffer in the middle~
<El-Cideon> OOC: Perception for those in the lead?
<Julia> roll 1d20+2 oh no I should not be here
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+2 oh no I should not be here and gets 3."12 [1d20=1]
<Steph> roll 1d20+12
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+12 and gets 22."12 [1d20=10]
<El-Cideon> Stephanie hears it first--there are voices here, within the walls themselves. They cry and they moan, they weep and they pray. Stephanie can only pick up stray syllables and outbursts of raw emotion, but what is plain is that something is here, and it's all around you.
<Steph> "Oh, fuck this shit," mutters Stephanie, deciding to make earplugs out of cloth and stick them in her ears rather than listen to this sort of whining.
* Julia looks somewhat concerned by this behaviour. "Are you practicing for Pandemonium, dear?"
<Franceska> "The mind is the first thing to go," Franceska mutters derisively.
<El-Cideon> Yet as Stephanie dithers and delays, a presence manifests itself: shapes emerge from the floor and walls, seemingly born from the structure of the asylum itself. Man-shaped, but indistinct, the color and texture of tallow with blue striations that might be suggestive of arteries or just structural impurities. Some appear clothed, others simply displaying incomplete anatomy. They seem to flicker in and out of phase as you watch, one moment physical and the next an apparition. There are six of them altogether, and they have boxed the party in on all sides:
<El-Cideon> Further down the corridor are a winsome, feminine creature whose form mimics a dress billowing in a private breeze; and a man with grieving expression and the appearance of slowly melting before a fire.
<El-Cideon> Appearing in open cells to the left and to the right are a girlish form, painfully thin and ragged; and a graceful woman with an expression of contemplative serenity.
<El-Cideon> And finally, behind you, are a potbellied, slope-shouldered manlike form with doleful countenance and hempen rope for arms; and a robed figure with hands over its eyes, bent double, sobbing.
<El-Cideon> Gibbering softly to themselves and all unfortunate enough to hear in tones of wistfulness and pain, bitter remembrance and agonized reflection--but overall, in every case, of madness--the figures lurch forward and reach out for their guests.
<El-Cideon> OOC: init
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+2 Rosey
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+2 Rosey and gets 12."12 [1d20=10]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+3 Ione
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+3 Ione and gets 21."12 [1d20=18]
<Julia> roll 1d20+2
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+2 and gets 21."12 [1d20=19]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+13 breezy girl
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+13 breezy girl and gets 30."12 [1d20=17]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+7 sobbing
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+7 sobbing and gets 12."12 [1d20=5]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+1
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+11 ragged girl
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+1 and gets 2."12 [1d20=1]
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+11 ragged girl and gets 19."12 [1d20=8]
<Steph> roll 1d20+9
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+9 and gets 15."12 [1d20=6]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+8 melty
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+8 melty and gets 28."12 [1d20=20]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+6 serenity
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+6 serenity and gets 13."12 [1d20=7]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+11 rope arms
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+11 rope arms and gets 28."12 [1d20=17]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+2 ???
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+2 ??? and gets 12."12 [1d20=10]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  CAPRICE (30) > REGRET = RESIGNATION (28) > Ione = Julia (21) > LONGING (19) > Steph (15) > REMINISCENCE (13) > Rosey = DESPAIR = ??? (12) > Franceska (2)'
<El-Cideon> roll 6d100
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 6d100 and gets 382."12 [6d100=51, 43, 50, 74, 84, 80]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  CAPRICE (30) > REGRET = RESIGNATION (28, ph) > Ione = Julia (21) > LONGING (19, ph) > Steph (15) > REMINISCENCE (13) > Rosey = DESPAIR = ??? (12) > Franceska (2)'
<El-Cideon> The man with the rope arms and the ragged girl flicker as if transitioning to spirit form, while the rest of the group remains obviously corporeal. "And these definitely were not here last time I visited!" Ione says defensively as the girl traveling through her own private wind tunnel lunges forward to punch at Stephanie with a playful giggle.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+20 charge
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+20 charge and gets 23."12 [1d20=3]
<El-Cideon> OOC: AC?
<Steph> OOC: Sec, sorry
<Steph> OOC: Touch AC is 24
<Steph> OOC: Regular AC is 29
<El-Cideon> OOC: normal AC in this case! I'll specify touch when that's what it is
<El-Cideon> The melting man similarly rushes forward to try and belt Julia. As he enters her proximity, she's assaulted with a low cacophony of babbling--things you should've done, things you should've said, if only you'd had the chance!--that eats at her senses. Meanwhile, rope arms focuses his gaze on Rosemund: "Don't struggle. It will be over soon."
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+15 charge vs Julia, also roll will
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+15 charge vs Julia, also roll will and gets 33."12 [1d20=18]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+8+2 Rosey will
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+8+2 Rosey will and gets 30."12 [1d20=20]
<Julia> roll 1d20+9 +2 vs sleep, stunning, paralysis, poison, disease, +4 vs negative energy, +2 vs mind affecting
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+9 +2 vs sleep, stunning, paralysis, poison, disease, +4 vs negative energy, +2 vs mind affecting and gets 20."12 [1d20=11]
<Julia> OOC: AC 22
<El-Cideon> OOC: resisted!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d8+4 damage to Julia
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d8+4 damage to Julia and gets 10."12 [1d8=6]
<Julia> OOC: is it negative energy damage?
<El-Cideon> OOC: nope, just normal punchy damage
<Julia> OOC: or bludgeoning?
<Julia> OOC: I mean bludgeoning and magic, rather
<El-Cideon> OOC: bludgeoning, not magic
<El-Cideon> Julia fights off the malign mental influence, but doesn't evade getting a good crack on the jaw in the effort!
<El-Cideon> OOC: Ione and Julia
<El-Cideon> Ione draws her bow--quite in spite of not having brought any arrows--and lets loose three times at the more solid of the figures in the cells. Three shafts of pure sound ring out and fly towards the serene woman.
<Julia> "All undead bow before the necromancer!" Julia howls, striking a dramatic pose and radiating her malign influence outwards!
<Julia> roll 1d20+8 rebuking check
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+8 rebuking check and gets 22."12 [1d20=14]
<Julia> OOC: hits undead of hd up to 15. Does that count any of these?
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+19 Ione
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+19 Ione and gets 39."12 [1d20=20]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+14 Ione
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+14 Ione and gets 22."12 [1d20=8]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+9 Ione
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+9 Ione and gets 11."12 [1d20=2]
<El-Cideon> OOC: no...but unexpectedly relevant query, is that sort of a burst that can get anything around you, or does it need to be in sight?
<El-Cideon> roll 2#2d6+4 sonic damage from Ione
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2#2d6+4 sonic damage from Ione and gets 18."12 [2#2d6+4 = 11, 7]
<Julia> OOC: if they have total cover then it doesn't touch them. I have to roll to see how many hd total I affect, but if they're all too high it's moot.
<Julia> OOC: if they're invisible and 15hd or under undead then yes, they're hit.
<El-Cideon> OOC: right. The enemies around you ignore the effect to the point that Julia should realize they aren't proper undead.
<El-Cideon> Two of Ione's arrows strike home, but Julia finds that these strange entities quite confound her efforts to control them!
<Julia> "They're... they're not undead," Julia says in a shocked and appalled tone. "What trickery is this?!"
<El-Cideon> The ragged girl zooms in towards Ione, reaching out one hand. "Please, share with me your warmth...it's been so long..."
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+16 touch
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+16 touch and gets 19."12 [1d20=3]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d6 cold
<Franceska> "They sound undead!"
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d6 cold and gets 2."12 [1d6=2]
<El-Cideon> OOC: Steph is up
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+17 belated Ione will check
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+17 belated Ione will check and gets 29."12 [1d20=12]
<Steph> "Wait, wait, should I kill them? Take them alive? What's the go?" snaps Stephanie, tense as a cat.
<El-Cideon> "As someone being groped by a spirit, I should suggest that you destroy them!" Ione answers, though Stephanie is unlikely to hear with her ears plugged.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d4 force to Ione's attacker, forgot this too!
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d4 force to Ione's attacker, forgot this too! and gets 1."12 [1d4=1]
<Steph> Stephanie shakes her head to herself, and then stamps her foot, conjuring up an apparition of fire whilst she assaults the giggling deviant before her.
<Steph> roll 1d20+16
<Steph> roll 1d20+16
<Steph> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+16 and gets 26."12 [1d20=10]
<Steph> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+16 and gets 33."12 [1d20=17]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+11 and gets 19."12 [1d20=8]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+11 and gets 26."12 [1d20=15]
<Steph> OOC: Er, add 2 to all those hits
<El-Cideon> OOC: all but 19 hit. It is of course crit immune.
<Steph> OOC: ff
<Steph> roll 1d6+8
<Steph> roll 1d6+8
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+8 and gets 10."12 [1d6=2]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+8 and gets 11."12 [1d6=3]
<Steph> roll 1d4+6
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d4+6 and gets 8."12 [1d4=2]
<Steph> roll 18d6/2
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 18d6/2 and gets 34.5."12 [18d6=4, 1, 6, 1, 6, 5, 1, 5, 4, 3, 2, 6, 6, 5, 2, 3, 4, 5]
<El-Cideon> Even with its curious composition proving somewhat resistant to Stephanie's strikes, this whirlwind of blades is enough to down her playful foe!
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  REGRET = RESIGNATION (28, ph) > Ione = Julia (21) > LONGING (19, ph) > Steph (15) > REMINISCENCE (13) > Rosey = DESPAIR = ??? (12) > Franceska (2)'
<El-Cideon> The serene woman floats out of her cell towards Ione. "My sweet child, it's been so long...please come back to mother's arms..."
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+12+2 flank
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+12+2 flank and gets 33."12 [1d20=19]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d8+2
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d8+2 and gets 3."12 [1d8=1]
<El-Cideon> "Whatever they are, they are trying to hurt my friends!" Rosemund announces. "I will not permit that!" She breaks from her rear position to charge at the woman lovingly punching the pinned medusa.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+14
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+14 and gets 32."12 [1d20=18]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d8+5
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d8+5 and gets 8."12 [1d8=3]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+8+2 will for Rosey
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+8+2 will for Rosey  and gets 14."12 [1d20=4]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+17 belated Ione will again!
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+17 belated Ione will again! and gets 35."12 [1d20=18]
<El-Cideon> The sobbing woman peers through her hands at Franceska, and a wave of grief seems to wash over her--
<El-Cideon> OOC: will, Fran
<Franceska> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+11 and gets 16."12 [1d20=5]
<El-Cideon> --but Franceska fights off the sensation!
<El-Cideon> OOC: you're up
<Franceska> Ghosts or not, this is exactly why Franceska has her wand of killing spirits and now it's used once more!
<Franceska> roll 1d20+18 umd
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+18 umd and gets 32."12 [1d20=14]
<Franceska> roll 5d4+5 RESIGNATION
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 5d4+5 RESIGNATION and gets 15."12 [5d4=1, 4, 1, 3, 1]
<El-Cideon> Force bolts batter the ropey-armed man and it sighs sadly. "Why fight? I will send you to a better place..."
<Franceska> "You first!"
<El-Cideon> roll 5d100
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 5d100 and gets 291."12 [5d100=60, 87, 28, 58, 58]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  REGRET = RESIGNATION (28) > Ione = Julia (21) > LONGING (19, ph) > Steph (15) > REMINISCENCE (13) > Rosey = DESPAIR = ??? (12) > Franceska (2)'
<El-Cideon> The melting apparition punches twice at Julia, moaning mournfully all the while, as the rope-armed man (now plainly physical) lashes out twice from a safe distance of ten feet at Franceska!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+13 vs Julia
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+13 vs Julia
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+13 vs Julia and gets 19."12 [1d20=6]
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+13 vs Julia and gets 21."12 [1d20=8]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+16 vs Fran
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+16 vs Fran
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+16 vs Fran and gets 36."12 [1d20=20]
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+16 vs Fran and gets 21."12 [1d20=5]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+16 vs Fran crit?
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+16 vs Fran crit? and gets 21."12 [1d20=5]
<Julia> OOC: AC 22
<El-Cideon> OOC: Ac, Fran?
<Franceska> OOC: AC21
<El-Cideon> roll 3#1d6+1 also free grapple check
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 3#1d6+1 also free grapple check and gets 13."12 [3#1d6+1 = 7, 4, 2]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+16 CMD?
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+16 CMD? and gets 23."12 [1d20=7]
<Franceska> OOC: 19
<El-Cideon> roll 1d6+1 constrict
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d6+1 constrict and gets 7."12 [1d6=6]
<El-Cideon> The creature's arm nimbly wraps itself about Franceska's throat and squeezes!
<El-Cideon> OOC: you are grappled, and suffocating. You are unable to speak, and if this persists for rounds greater than 2x your CON score, may lead to death
<El-Cideon> OOC: Ione/Julia
* Franceska wriggles in his grasp, flailing for air!
<Julia> Alright, if they're not undead then hopefully they can feel fear! "Flee! Run cowards!" Julia shrieks, unleashing a cone of pure terror up the hallway!
<El-Cideon> Ione focuses masterfully on avoiding any attacks that might come her way while she shoots at the enemy right in front of her!
<Julia> OOC: DC 23 will or panicked 12rnds. Shaken 1rnd if save passes.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+19
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+14
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+19 and gets 25."12 [1d20=6]
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+14 and gets 16."12 [1d20=2]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+9
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+9 and gets 19."12 [1d20=10]
<El-Cideon> roll 2d6+4 sonic
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d6+4 sonic and gets 9."12 [2d6=2, 3]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+12 DESPAIR
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+12 DESPAIR and gets 26."12 [1d20=14]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+6 LONGING
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+6 LONGING and gets 7."12 [1d20=1]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+6 REGRET
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+6 REGRET and gets 9."12 [1d20=3]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+6 REMINISCENCE
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+6 REMINISCENCE and gets 19."12 [1d20=13]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+6 RESIGNATION
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+6 RESIGNATION and gets 14."12 [1d20=8]
<El-Cideon> Whatever these entities are, fear still reaches them--all but the sobbing woman stop in their tracks to wail in sheer horror!
<El-Cideon> The ragged girl grabbing at Ione ceases her attack, and sinks right into the wall to disappear from sight altogether!
<El-Cideon> OOC: Steph
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  REGRET = RESIGNATION (28) > Ione = Julia (21) > Steph (15) > REMINISCENCE (13) > Rosey = DESPAIR = ??? (12) > Franceska (2)'
<Julia> "I've still got it!" Julia says in satisfaction.
* Franceska chokes her approval.
<Steph> Stephanie drops her useless dagger in disgust, and pulls out her other sword as she jumps and rolls towards the thing molesting Franceska to cut it apart!
<Steph> roll 1d20+14
<Steph> roll 1d20+13
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+14 and gets 20."12 [1d20=6]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+13 and gets 28."12 [1d20=15]
<El-Cideon> OOC: both hit
<Steph> roll 1d6+8
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+8 and gets 10."12 [1d6=2]
<Steph> roll 1d6+6+1d6
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+6+1d6 and gets 17."12 [1d6=6][1d6=5]
<Steph> roll 12d6/2
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 12d6/2 and gets 22.5."12 [12d6=5, 1, 3, 5, 3, 6, 5, 4, 4, 2, 1, 6]
<El-Cideon> Still tangled with Franceska as it is, her attacker has little means to evade Stephanie's blades, and the dolorous figure is cut down before he can even flee. And the serene--now terrified--woman slips into the floor just like her partner did!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+14 Rosey AoO
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+14 Rosey AoO and gets 30."12 [1d20=16]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d8+5
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d8+5 and gets 7."12 [1d8=2]
<El-Cideon> "That is right!" Rosemund crows in triumph. "You had better run!" She charges down the hall to batter at the lone figure not cowering in terror--just as living shadows emerge from the walls to grab at her and Julia!
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  REGRET > Ione = Julia (21) > Steph (15) > Rosey = DESPAIR = shadow x2 (12) > Franceska (2)'
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+14 Rosey vs DESPAIR, her mortal foe
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+14 Rosey vs DESPAIR, her mortal foe and gets 30."12 [1d20=16]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d8+5
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d8+5 and gets 9."12 [1d8=4]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+6 touch vs Rosey
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+6 touch vs Rosey and gets 22."12 [1d20=16]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+6 touch vs Julia
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+6 touch vs Julia and gets 25."12 [1d20=19]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+7+2 will Rosey also
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+7+2 will Rosey also and gets 19."12 [1d20=10]
<Julia> OOC: touch AC 14
<El-Cideon> roll 1d8 STR drain Rosey's touch AC sucks
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d8 STR drain Rosey's touch AC sucks and gets 7."12 [1d8=7]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d8 STR drain Julia
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d8 STR drain Julia and gets 4."12 [1d8=4]
<El-Cideon> The shadows swell in satisfaction as they successfully leech the living strength from their foes!
<El-Cideon> OOC: Fran
<Franceska> "How horrifying," Franceska gasps, one hand on her throat while the other gestures at Rosemund's foe.
<Franceska> roll 1d20+16 spellcraft
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+16 spellcraft and gets 26."12 [1d20=10]
<Franceska> roll 10d6 ref dc21 half DESPAIR
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 10d6 ref dc21 half DESPAIR and gets 33."12 [10d6=5, 2, 6, 1, 4, 3, 2, 3, 3, 4]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+11 ref
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+11 ref and gets 25."12 [1d20=14]
<El-Cideon> The sobbing woman is pierced, but not quite impaled as thoroughly as Franceska would like!
* Franceska snaps her fingers in irritation.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 and gets 13."12 [1d100=13]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  Ione = Julia (21) > Steph (15) > Rosey = DESPAIR (phased) = shadow x2 (12) > Franceska (2)'
<El-Cideon> The melting man assaulting Julia flees in terror, leaving her free to wreak whatever havoc she likes!
<El-Cideon> OOC: Ione/Julia
<El-Cideon> Ione looks around and seems to identify the shadow attacking Rosemund as the most important foe, pinned as the girl is between enemies now, and looses three bolts at the dread apparition!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+19
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+14
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+19 and gets 30."12 [1d20=11]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+9
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+14 and gets 25."12 [1d20=11]
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+9 and gets 22."12 [1d20=13]
<Julia> Now confronted with actual undead, Julia sets to the business of making them cower! "Cower!"
<El-Cideon> roll 3d100 incorpo miss chance bs
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 3d100 incorpo miss chance bs and gets 80."12 [3d100=33, 23, 24]
<Julia> roll 1d20+8 rebuking check
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+8 rebuking check and gets 24."12 [1d20=16]
<El-Cideon> OOC: they're 9hd each
<Julia> roll 2d6+11+8 total hd rebuked
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 2d6+11+8 total hd rebuked and gets 27."12 [2d6=5, 3]
<Julia> OOC: both are now cowering
<El-Cideon> The shadows shiver in sudden fright!
<El-Cideon> OOC: Steph is up
<Steph> OOC: Targets?
<El-Cideon> OOC: 2x shadow, both cowering, DESPAIR still present but presently incorp
<Steph> OOC: Within 5ft?
<El-Cideon> OOC: You could be with DESPAIR. She never moved from her start position next to ropey man
<Steph> OOC: What does 'phased' mean?
<El-Cideon> OOC: just incorporeal. Shorter to write! Limited space in headling y'know
<Steph> Stephanie glowers at the incorporeal woman before her, but sets to assaulting it anyway, flanking it alongside Rosey.
<Steph> roll 1d20+13
<Steph> roll 1d20+14
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+13 and gets 24."12 [1d20=11]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+14 and gets 26."12 [1d20=12]
<Steph> roll 1d20+8
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+8 and gets 16."12 [1d20=8]
<Steph> roll 1d20+9
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+9 and gets 21."12 [1d20=12]
<El-Cideon> OOC: all connect, they lose natural armor bonus while incorp. Roll miss chance?
<Steph> roll 1d100 low = hit
<Steph> roll 1d100 low = hit
<Steph> roll 1d100 low = hit
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d100 low = hit and gets 85."12 [1d100=85]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d100 low = hit and gets 29."12 [1d100=29]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d100 low = hit and gets 48."12 [1d100=48]
<Steph> roll 1d100 low = hit
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d100 low = hit and gets 9."12 [1d100=9]
<Steph> roll 1d6+8
<Steph> roll 1d6+8
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+8 and gets 12."12 [1d6=4]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+8 and gets 10."12 [1d6=2]
<Steph> roll 1d6+6+1d6
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+6+1d6 and gets 14."12 [1d6=2][1d6=6]
<Steph> roll 18d6/2
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 18d6/2 and gets 30."12 [18d6=6, 4, 2, 4, 2, 2, 1, 5, 3, 5, 1, 1, 2, 5, 4, 4, 4, 5]
<El-Cideon> Stephanie's blades lash out through dimensions and cut the ghostly figure to spectral ribbons! And both of the shadows, terrorized by their quasi-living better, exercise the better part of valor and disappear into the walls like so many others today.
<El-Cideon> OOC: free act
<El-Cideon> "Oh...I think I have felt better than I feel right now," Rosemund pants, blinking in surprise at her own lack of strength as she suddenly has trouble holding up the weight of her armor.
<Steph> Stephanie goes to retrieve her nasty dagger, and makes a digusted noise before taking out her earplugs. "Are we good to go?"
<Franceska> "They're in the walls! Even now! Waiting!"
<Julia> "Hey, get back here!" Julia yells in outrage. "I was going to make you into minions!"
<El-Cideon> Rosemund digs in her pack for her wand of restoration--though, as she quickly finds, it's not sufficient to cure the strength drained from her. For that, she has to rely on her own, more powerful magics!
<Steph> "Well, maybe they'll come back and you'll get your chance?" says Stephanie, frowning. "Anyway, why worry? There's always more death where we're going."
<El-Cideon> "Ah, Julia, it got you too, did it not?" Rosemund notes, approaching to resolve Julia's drained condition with a touch of her hand as well.
<El-Cideon> "Is anyone else hurt?" she asks. "There could be monsters around every corner in this place!"
<Julia> "You only need one shadow and then you can have as many as you want..." Julia mutters morosely, tensing up in readiness for Rosemund's healing. It doesn't hurt her like a cure spell does, but any positive energy is unpleasant and often leads to an unsightly rash.
<Steph> "What, are they infectious?"
<Franceska> "In the worst way." Franceska shudders.
<El-Cideon> "There may be more," Ione guesses, helpfully perhaps, given Julia's mood.
* Franceska rubs at her throat.
<El-Cideon> Rosemund eyes Fran's abraded neck with dismay and sets to healing her!
<El-Cideon> roll 2d10+14 cure moderate
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d10+14 cure moderate and gets 30."12 [2d10=8, 8]
<Julia> "Thank you Rosemund," she says, starting to top herself off with healthy negative energy. "I suppose we'll have to continue on... this was the passive ward, you said?"
<Steph> Stephanie frowns. "So they're ghost vampires, huh." Stephanie starts to head along down the corridor again.
<El-Cideon> "Yes," Ione confirms. "The violent patients--or those in whom she cultivated violence--were kept deeper within the asylum."
<Steph> "I'm never going to plead insanity," decides Stephanie.
<El-Cideon> As Stephanie proceeds along the corridor, more images flicker into existence before--yet this new contingent does not attack, and now stays in sight for all to see. Indeed, they do not appear cognizant of your presence, but merely go about their own business: sheathing weapons, mending hurts, and evidently recovering in the aftermath of some unwitnessed battle. They demonstrate the somewhat transparent character of ghosts, yet retain more of the vibrant color of life than the creatures you just fought--and they cannot be specters as several you know from personal experience yet live:
<El-Cideon> -Perhaps most personally familiar to the asylum's visitors, Marcus may draw the eye first. He's much younger here, not graying, not maimed, well armored and carrying a warhammer. Though much more imposing physically in this image than in recent life, his expression betrays a certain youthful uncertainty.
<El-Cideon> -Brijid is also here, albeit more lively in aspect here than she was when met in person. Her eyes in this encounter dance with a vigor and humor nowhere evident at your last meeting. She wears the lightest possible armor and is not obviously armed. A harp is slung over her back.
<El-Cideon> -Standing next to Brijid is a human in plate armor, a heavy mace in his hand. A solid jar of a man with blond hair shaved short, recruit style, the deep blue of his eyes hints at relation to Brijid but in no way does he carry himself with the same grace.
<El-Cideon> -A grizzled human man in well-worn leathers, a touch of gray taking hold in a mane of chestnut curls and a bow in hand, stands with a gray wolf of imposing dimension loitering by his side.
<El-Cideon> -An elven man with long, silvery hair, whose arcane robes cannot entirely obscure a build slender even for his race, almost to the point of gauntness. He indeed wears a hungry expression but not, one should think, for food.
<El-Cideon> -A tall woman in heavy armor, white-gold hair braided to her lower back, pale northern complexion, rather long in the face but with an open, guileless look to her. She bears an amulet instantly recognizable to the party, as Stephanie herself presently wears it.
<El-Cideon> -And of course, Galina herself--much younger, less weathered, but just as resolute in her purpose. Her arms and armor are identical to those seen on Arcadia, yet in this rendition the sunburst devices are fresher and retain their color.
<El-Cideon> Ione inhales a sharp breath and then, quite boldly, floats forward to wave a hand through the elven apparition's head. It does not react in any way.
<Steph> "Hey! These guys aren't dead!" protests Stephanie. "This is bullshit!"
<Franceska> "How about this? Was this here before?"
<Julia> "Well these definitely aren't ghosts. And you say none of these apparitions have appeared before, Ione?" Julia asks.
<El-Cideon> She shakes her head. "The asylum was quite, ah, subdued when I was here so many years ago," she confirms. "The violence was fresh, then. I suppose something has festered here in the interim."
<El-Cideon> They talk as well, quite without acknowledgement of the party's standing before them having their own conversation:
<El-Cideon> "They--they attacked us," Marcus is saying with eyes still wide from the shock of battle. "We came here to help them and they attacked us. Is this what you had to deal with all the time during the war?"
<El-Cideon> "War's not over yet, chum," Phibous chirps.
<El-Cideon> "Not this specifically," Galina answers with a sigh, observing, "but when dealing with demons or their thralls, one should not set expectations extending beyond prodigious awfulness."
<El-Cideon> "So you must all be used to scenes like this," Marcus concludes. "I'm sorry to slow you all down, then."
<El-Cideon> "I should worry the day we ever become accustomed to this," Jill says with an encouraging if somewhat worried smile for the group's younger companion. "We should steel ourselves against this wickedness, but not such that we become immured to it."
<El-Cideon> "That proper sense of horror you might be feeling only means you've still got your conscience," William adds in gruffly.
<El-Cideon> "I expected guards," Galina admits. "Men mortgaging their virtue for a handful of gold, or perhaps demons. I did not expect this, although I suppose I should have. Victoria did have a talent for convincing better men to waste themselves dying in her defense."
<El-Cideon> "So what do we do?" Marcus asks, uneasily.
<El-Cideon> "We press on," Galina states in a tone that should dispel all consideration of alternatives.
<El-Cideon> "I'm in no way happy about killing these people myself," Jill announces with an eye towards assuaging Marcus's discomfort.
<El-Cideon> "Might be a mercy for some of them," Phibous mutters, casting a dim eye over the floor, studying some human ruin long since gone to dust.
<El-Cideon> "Nor should you be," Galina agrees with Jill, quite ignoring the elf.
<El-Cideon> "So what plan do we have to avoid this raid descending into rote butchery?" Jill asks.
<El-Cideon> "The enemy knows the ground, we do not, and we are outnumbered. Few plans survive contact with madness," Galina sighs. "I understand misgivings. I have little regard for a man who kills merely because he is ordered to do so, but these forsaken souls lack even the faculties to know what we are about."
<El-Cideon> "I would spare the inmates if it's within our power," Jill insists.
<El-Cideon> "So would I," Galina says. "Spare who you can--but not at such risk that you endanger yourselves in the effort. If their madness seems a mild enough sort to talk through, do so. By all means incapacitate or wound whenever possible. I would wish to save whomever may be saved, and see those yet with some tether on reality returned to someone capable of tending to afflictions of the mind. But our victory is paramount. Victoria's death spares far more souls in the future than our fall brought about by hesitancy would today."
<El-Cideon> "Just so long as we're clear," Jill answers, "it's our mercy that distinguishes us."
<El-Cideon> "I'd hardly forget," Galina concludes. "I only ask you to remember our mission, that cause which brought us all so far from home. I wouldn't suggest we ever be so driven that we overlook opportunity for individual salvation, but consider what course of action serves the broadest possible good. A warrior should always be prepared to sacrifice--yet not be eager. One day's pain, though overwhelming in the moment, may serve as foundation for the wisdom and prosperity of tomorrow--so long as we persevere to see it."
<El-Cideon> They turn as if to move on down the corridor, and flicker out of sight.
<Steph> "I think they talk about their issues too much for people on the job," says Stephanie, after a moment of silence.
<Julia> "Yes, we're much more professional," Julia agrees sagely.
<El-Cideon> "We do not talk things over at all," Rosemund confirms, perhaps without irony?
<Franceska> "Yes, it is in no way similar to us," Franceska likewise agrees, before asking Ione, "So who did they kill here, again?"
<Julia> "Victoria Crane. You remember that statue you were so fond of?" Julia tells Franceska. "Speaking of professional," she goes on to the group at large, "Do you think we should have a name? Something to encompass our shared power and purpose, that people can know instead of just 'those four women from Solata'?"
<El-Cideon> "Victoria Crane," Ione says. "I'm led to believe she was some noble from their nation back on the Prime, though I'd suggest the Prime has perhaps questionable standards for such if that was true. That was who they came here to kill, at least. It's no secret they had to fight their way through the patients Victoria turned against them as well, however."
<Franceska> "Oh, I remember about Victoria," Franceska says. "It's just that I was made to understand that the patients were all taken away. So some of them were killed, then?"
<El-Cideon> "Ah, I am not good with that sort of thing," Rosemund admits. "I will leave it all up to you, Julia!"
<Steph> "We don't need a name! If we have a name we're easier to target!"
<Julia> "But wouldn't it be nice to hear bards sing of our exploits? That'd be easier if they had a name to attach to us," Julia says wistfully.
<El-Cideon> Ione nods. "Difficult thing to stop an insane mage. I confess it made things somewhat easier for me that the most violent patients died assaulting this group of heroes."
<Steph> "The bards don't sing about heroic necromancers, dagger-wielding gutter-trash, or lawyers!"
<El-Cideon> "It is fine," Rosemund reassures Stephanie. "I know very well what you all have done!"
<Julia> "But they do sing about brave slave-freers and hero-rescuers!" Julia retorts.
<El-Cideon> Rosemund nods. "Yes, you see, focus on the deeds, not the misdeeds!"
<Franceska> "If at all possible, I would rather there were no songs which serve as records of myself killing people I don't like."
<El-Cideon> "What would you rather your song be about?" Ione queries.
<Steph> "Hero-rescuers are meant to enhance the heroes, not be remembered themselves. Besides, if everyone knows about us then everyone will know what we can do, right?" replies Stephanie, stuffily. "So bad guys will know how to handle us! Besides, we'd end up with some dumb name like 'The Liberating Lasses' or something..."
<Franceska> "The lamentation of my enemies."
<Julia> "Not if we made our own name up!" Julia insists. "Like... the Gutter Queens? How's that?"
<El-Cideon> "Perhaps you could provide me with a list latter?" she suggests with a smile.
<Franceska> "No."
<El-Cideon> Rosemund wrinkles her nose at this suggestion. "But, ah, we did not all come from a gutter...ah, not that there is anything wrong with that if someone did!"
<Steph> "Our reputations will go there if we take that name, though."
<Franceska> "I do, in fact, keep a list of those I crushed quite thoroughly," Franceska says, perking up and ignoring all thise talk about the gutter.
<Julia> "I think it sounds quite catchy and easy to remember," the necromancer says, trying to think of something else that might work.
<El-Cideon> "Something that suggests our collective virtue, but not too boastfully," Rosemund suggests, adding for Stephanie's appeals: "And without being TOO specific about what we have done?"
<Steph> Stephanie frowns. "Come to think of it, though, if we had a powerful reputation and some awesome name, I could make people pay just for the honor of doing business with me!" She sinks her fist into her palm. "Freedom Guard?"
<Julia> "Sounds too militaristic..." Julia says, shaking her head. "Keep Freedom but drop Guard."
<El-Cideon> Rosemund thumps her palm excitedly. "The Avenging Angels! Or the Freedom Angels! Or the Angels of Liberation!"
<Julia> "The Avengers!"
<Steph> "Femme Fatale a'la Freedom?"
<Franceska> "I never fail to regret leaving my home," Franceska confides to Ione sourly.
<El-Cideon> "Ah, there are so many good options," Rosemund enthuses. "We should put it to a vote when we are all relaxing back in town later."
<Julia> "Yes, give the ideas some time to percolate while we explore this awful asylum," Julia nods, getting back to business.
<El-Cideon> "Ah, well, I do apologize for the nature of this little diversion," Ione says, evidently not getting Franceska's meaning. "I thought they were only rumors, you understand."
<Steph> Stephanie nods to herself, and starts heading onwards. "We'll get them to make little figurines of us, then sell them as collectors items..."
<El-Cideon> The corridor bends along the curve of this wing of the asylum, and finally opens up at ground level in a grand atrium, some two hundred feet across. Here there is somewhat more light, a dusty skylight far above admitting illumination of a gray pallor into the room. This looks like it might once have been a pleasant garden, but the flower beds are long since barren and the only lingering trace of the room's once verdant nature is a single tree--though to call it simply a tree is approximately as accurate as calling an erinyes an angel. Fifteen feet tall, bark a greasy black, leafless and with branches a collection of unholy squiggles, it's as unsightly a plant as one could ever hope to not see. It rises from a pool of what looks remarkably like blood. Red torii gates flank the square pool on all sides.
<El-Cideon> Corridors branch off from the atrium across from you as well as to the left and the right. And, up near the roof, tiny orbs of light dance about seemingly with a will of their own.
<El-Cideon> "We want the left passage," Ione advises. "That will descend deeper into the asylum."
<El-Cideon> OOC: Perception for the vanguard again?
<Steph> roll 1d20+12
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+12 and gets 22."12 [1d20=10]
<Julia> roll 1d20+2 why am I here?
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+2 why am I here? and gets 17."12 [1d20=15]
<Franceska> "What about the other one?" Franceska asks. "Where does it lead?"
<El-Cideon> Stephanie recognizes the tell-tale murmur of the asylum in agitated state again, nagging at her mind--there's something here, or waiting to be here.
<El-Cideon> "Recreation wing across the way," Ione points out. "Delirium wing to the right. Not violent patients, but...restive."
<Franceska> "Wonderful."
<Steph> "Oh, boy, I think somethin's coming," says Stephanie, readying herself.
<El-Cideon> "And I must confess," Ione adds, with suggestion of raised eyebrow despite that anatomy not being visible, "I don't think that tree looked half so unwholesome last time I was here."
<Julia> "I think we should smash a big rock into this place when we're done," Julia says, casting false life for a bit of extra protection.
<Julia> roll 1d10+10
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d10+10 and gets 14."12 [1d10=4]
<El-Cideon> "We should have razed it years ago," Ione agrees. "And I have every intention of doing so today."
<Steph> Stephanie snorts, and focuses on her amulet, which empowers her against Death after a moment's pause. "I'd pay to see that."
<El-Cideon> "If there is going to be more trouble, then--" Rosemund chants a blessing over the party, and then steps forward to see what awaits you this time!
<Franceska> "I think we paid admission," Franceska says dryly, following Rosemund closely.
<El-Cideon> OOC: +2 STR/DEX, +5 movement speed for all
<Franceska> OOC: I'll cast Barkskin
<El-Cideon> The moment you set foot in the atrium, the asylum's inhabitants rise to assault you again. This time three of them emerge, one before your doorway and the others to either side: one's form seems to bubble and boil continuously as if experiencing difficulty maintaining its humanoid form; one is serious, stern, adorned with the ceremonial wig of a judge; and the last is a man seemingly rent all over with gashes and gaping wounds.
<El-Cideon> Something emerges from the crimson pool, a misty, wraithlike form with burning eyes, and then the tree itself begins to lift its roots ponderously, a vile warbling breathing out through perforations in its branches!
<El-Cideon> OOC: init again
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+3 Rosey
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+3 Rosey and gets 5."12 [1d20=2]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+4 Ione
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+4 Ione and gets 8."12 [1d20=4]
<Steph> "Is... is this an undead tree?"
<Steph> roll 1d20+9
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+9 and gets 15."12 [1d20=6]
<El-Cideon> OOC: K:P on it if anyone wants
<Franceska> roll 1d20+1
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+1 and gets 4."12 [1d20=3]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+10 K:P
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+10 K:P and gets 15."12 [1d20=5]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+10 boiling
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+10 boiling and gets 12."12 [1d20=2]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+11 judge
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+11 judge and gets 25."12 [1d20=14]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+6 wounded
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+6 wounded and gets 16."12 [1d20=10]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20-2 tree
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20-2 tree and gets 3."12 [1d20=5]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+13 wisps
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+13 wisps and gets 21."12 [1d20=8]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+9 red cloud
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+9 red cloud and gets 20."12 [1d20=11]
<Julia> roll 1d20+2
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+2 and gets 6."12 [1d20=4]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  PERSECUTION (25) > wisp x2 (21) > red ghost (20) > SUFFERING (16) > Steph (15) > DISHARMONY (12) > Ione (8) > Julia (6) > Rosey (5) > Fran (4) > tree (3)'
<El-Cideon> roll 3d100
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 3d100 and gets 200."12 [3d100=40, 67, 93]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  PERSECUTION (25, ph) > wisp x2 (21) > red ghost (20) > SUFFERING (16) > Steph (15) > DISHARMONY (12) > Ione (8) > Julia (6) > Rosey (5) > Fran (4) > tree (3)'
<Julia> roll 1d20+13 planes on that tree!
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+13 planes on that tree! and gets 25."12 [1d20=12]
<El-Cideon> The judgelike figure focuses a moment and begins to crackle with ghostly electricity! Curiously, its hand detaches itself and begins to float around the body proper. Meanwhile, the orbs of light wobble down from the ceiling to take up careful positions fifty feet from the party in the air. The red mist rises from its pool and creeps along the ground towards the party, closing to within sixty feet. The ghastly wounded man staggers up to Ione and reaches out one sickly hand for her--
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+12 touch
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+12 touch and gets 23."12 [1d20=11]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+9 fort
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+9 fort and gets 20."12 [1d20=11]
<El-Cideon> --the medusa gasps but appears to overcome whatever malign influence was intended here!
<El-Cideon> OOC: Steph
<Steph> Stephanie steps lightly around the creature menacing Ione before striking out to cut it down!
<Steph> roll 1d20+14
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+14 and gets 19."12 [1d20=5]
<Steph> roll 1d20+13
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+13 and gets 16."12 [1d20=3]
<Steph> roll 1d20+14
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+14 and gets 26."12 [1d20=12]
<Steph> OOC: er, scratch that one
<Steph> roll 1d20+9
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+9 and gets 29."12 [1d20=20]
<Steph> roll 1d20+8
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+8 and gets 13."12 [1d20=5]
<El-Cideon> OOC: 26 and 29 hit, also roll will
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+17 belated Ione will
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+17 belated Ione will and gets 30."12 [1d20=13]
<Steph> roll 1d20+16 will, you say
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+16 will, you say and gets 20."12 [1d20=4]
<Steph> OOC: moPm
<El-Cideon> OOC: passed
<El-Cideon> OOC: damage?
<Steph> OOC: Undead?
<El-Cideon> OOC: nope
<Steph> OOC: Ah, so I critted?
<Steph> roll 1d20+9 conf.?
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+9 conf.? and gets 27."12 [1d20=18]
<El-Cideon> OOC: still crit immune jerks
<Steph> OOC: oh. :(
<Steph> roll 1d6+8
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+8 and gets 13."12 [1d6=5]
<Steph> roll 1d6+5
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+5 and gets 9."12 [1d6=4]
<Steph> roll 12d6/2 ff
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 12d6/2 ff and gets 21."12 [12d6=4, 5, 6, 4, 2, 5, 2, 1, 3, 4, 4, 2]
<El-Cideon> Stephanie adds more wounds to the creature's tally. "Pleaaaase, finish it!" it begs in response, while not faltering evidently in its assault. The indistinct figure shambles forward and, clutching its head, howls a hideous scream of existential uncertainy for all to hear and suffer from!
<El-Cideon> OOC: fort all
<Franceska> roll 1d20+12
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+12 Rosey
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+12 and gets 32."12 [1d20=20]
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+12 Rosey and gets 17."12 [1d20=5]
<Steph> roll 1d20+10
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+10 and gets 11."12 [1d20=1]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+9 Ione
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+9 Ione and gets 25."12 [1d20=16]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+7 DISHARMONY doesn't care about his friends
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+7 DISHARMONY doesn't care about his friends and gets 15."12 [1d20=8]
<Julia> roll 1d20+4 +2 vs sleep, stunning, paralysis, poison, disease, +4 vs negative energy, +2 vs mind affecting
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+4 +2 vs sleep, stunning, paralysis, poison, disease, +4 vs negative energy, +2 vs mind affecting and gets 15."12 [1d20=11]
<El-Cideon> roll 8d4 sonic damage +1 CON damage (Fran/Rosey/Ione halve this and ignore CON damage)
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 8d4 sonic damage +1 CON damage (Fran/Rosey/Ione halve this and ignore CON damage) and gets 19."12 [8d4=3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 4, 4, 3]
<El-Cideon> The dreadful oscillation seems to tear at the very fiber of your being as soundwaves rip through you!
<El-Cideon> OOC: Ione and Julia
<El-Cideon> Ione steps back from her attacker and, instead of immediately defending herself, takes aim at the monstrosity assaulting the entire party!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+20
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+20 and gets 39."12 [1d20=19]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+15
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+10
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+15 and gets 33."12 [1d20=18]
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+10 and gets 17."12 [1d20=7]
* Julia sets to work summoning up some help!
<El-Cideon> roll 2#2d6+4 sonic
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2#2d6+4 sonic and gets 24."12 [2#2d6+4 = 13, 11]
<El-Cideon> Rosemund steps forward to try and club the noisy, tormented figure into submission!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+15
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+15 and gets 17."12 [1d20=2]
<El-Cideon> OOC: whiff. Fran is up
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+8+2 Rosey will!
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+8+2 Rosey will! and gets 22."12 [1d20=12]
* Franceska tries to impale Rosemund's target after considering her options.
<Franceska> roll 1d20+16 spellcraft
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+16 spellcraft and gets 29."12 [1d20=13]
<Franceska> roll 10d6 ref dc21 half
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 10d6 ref dc21 half and gets 39."12 [10d6=5, 6, 1, 6, 3, 3, 1, 4, 4, 6]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+14 ref
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+14 ref and gets 34."12 [1d20=20]
<El-Cideon> Again Franceska is only partially successful in her efforts--pierced, yet not impaled!
<Franceska> "Doesn't work that well on Air," she laments.
<El-Cideon> The tree trundles slowly, ever so slowly, out of its pool. From some hundred feet off yet, it warbles a hideous tune for the consumption of the nearest enemy--Rosemund!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+8+2 will first
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+8+2 will first and gets 12."12 [1d20=2]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+12 fort to the rescue?
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+12 fort to the rescue? and gets 24."12 [1d20=12]
<El-Cideon> 3d6 damage!
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 3d6 damage! and gets 5."12 [3d6=2, 2, 1]
<El-Cideon> A ghastly, ghostly image forms before Rosemund for a moment, and she shrieks in fright--but is not quite overcome!
<El-Cideon> roll 3d100
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 3d100 and gets 80."12 [3d100=2, 13, 65]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  PERSECUTION (25, ph) > wisp x2 (21) > red ghost (20) > SUFFERING (16, ph) > Steph (15) > DISHARMONY (12) > Ione (8) > Julia (6) > Rosey (5) > Fran (4) > tree (3)'
<El-Cideon> The judge glides forward and grabs at Rosemund--it seems unable to harm her in its present state, but it can still whittle away at her sanity with its cries for dread punishment! The wisps bolt down from the air to stab at Rosemund and Franceska both, while the red ghost slithers out after Stephanie.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+8+2 Rosey will
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+8+2 Rosey will and gets 11."12 [1d20=1]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+16 touch vs Rosey
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+16 touch vs Rosey and gets 33."12 [1d20=17]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+16 touch vs Fran
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+16 touch vs Fran and gets 31."12 [1d20=15]
<Franceska> OOC: Hit
<El-Cideon> roll 2d8 elec Rosey (she resists this)
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d8 elec Rosey (she resists this) and gets 12."12 [2d8=4, 8]
<El-Cideon> roll 2d8 elec Fran
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d8 elec Fran and gets 9."12 [2d8=5, 4]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+11 touch vs Steph
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+11 touch vs Steph and gets 20."12 [1d20=9]
<El-Cideon> The wounded, nigh-dying figure stumbles after Ione to reach out for her with one ghostly hand!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+11 touch vs Ione
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+11 touch vs Ione and gets 19."12 [1d20=8]
<El-Cideon> OOC: strike, just misses her
<El-Cideon> OOC: Steph
<Steph> Stephanie steps about this miserable creature before her, and lashes out with a terrible fury of... poorly-aimed blows, hoping that quantity will make up for quality against this rot.
<Steph> roll 1d20+12
<Steph> roll 1d20+12
<Steph> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+12 and gets 26."12 [1d20=14]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+12 and gets 18."12 [1d20=6]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+11 and gets 15."12 [1d20=4]
<Steph> roll 1d20+7
<Steph> roll 1d20+6
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+7 and gets 24."12 [1d20=17]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+6 and gets 8."12 [1d20=2]
<El-Cideon> OOC: vs SUFFERING? All but the last hit
<Steph> roll 1d6+8+1d6 vampirism
<Steph> roll 1d6+8+1d6 vampirism
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+8+1d6 vampirism and gets 15."12 [1d6=2][1d6=5]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+8+1d6 vampirism and gets 13."12 [1d6=3][1d6=2]
<Steph> roll 1d6+6
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+6 and gets 8."12 [1d6=2]
<Steph> roll 1d6+8+1d6 vampirism
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+8+1d6 vampirism and gets 16."12 [1d6=6][1d6=2]
<Steph> roll 24d6/2
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 24d6/2 and gets 38."12 [24d6=1, 3, 2, 4, 1, 3, 1, 4, 6, 1, 6, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 6, 5, 3, 5, 4, 6, 2, 1]
<El-Cideon> With a final, hissed, "Thank youuuuu..." this apparition dissipates into dust in the air!
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  PERSECUTION (25, ph) > wisp x2 (21) > red ghost (20) > Steph (15) > DISHARMONY (12) > Ione (8) > Julia (6) > Rosey (5) > Fran (4) > tree (3)'
<El-Cideon> The boiling, bubbling figure before Rosemund clutches its head and HOWLS--but this time for her and her alone!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+8+2 Rosey will
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+8+2 Rosey will and gets 26."12 [1d20=16]
<El-Cideon> But she resists!
<El-Cideon> OOC: Ione & Julia
<El-Cideon> "Enough of your ghastly noise!" Ione calls out in frustration, aiming her bow again at the screaming monstrosity.
<Julia> A mummy appears!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+10
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+10 and gets 27."12 [1d20=17]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+15
<Julia> OOC: DC 16 will or paralysed, baddies!
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+15 and gets 20."12 [1d20=5]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+20 backwards sure
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+20 backwards sure and gets 39."12 [1d20=19]
<El-Cideon> roll 2#2d6+4 sonic
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2#2d6+4 sonic and gets 25."12 [2#2d6+4 = 13, 12]
<El-Cideon> roll 2#1d20+9 wisps (Everything else is immune)
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2#1d20+9 wisps (Everything else is immune) and gets 32."12 [2#1d20+9 = 10, 22]
<Julia> The mummy floats up to punch the bad tree!
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  PERSECUTION (25, ph) > wisp x2 (21, one paralyzed) > red ghost (20) > Steph (15) > DISHARMONY (12) > Ione (8) > Julia (6) > Rosey (5) > Fran (4) > tree (3)'
<Julia> roll 1d20+13 charge
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+13 charge and gets 22."12 [1d20=9]
<El-Cideon> Alas, the mummy's fist harmlessly rebounds off its tough hide!
<El-Cideon> Meanwhile, Ione's foe falls under the onslaught of more disciplined noises!
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  PERSECUTION (25, ph) > wisp x2 (21, one paralyzed) > red ghost (20) > Steph (15) > Ione (8) > Julia (6) > Rosey (5) > Fran (4) > tree (3)'
<Julia> Meanwhile Julia floats up to disharmony and tries to suck the life out of him!
<Julia> roll 1d20+7 touch
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+7 touch and gets 27."12 [1d20=20]
<Julia> roll 1d20+7 touch crit?
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+7 touch crit? and gets 14."12 [1d20=7]
<El-Cideon> OOC: no crit. He's actually dying from Ione's shots anyway though
<Julia> OOC: then I go for PERSECUTION
<Julia> roll 6d6 DC 24 fort or sickened for 5 rounds
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 6d6 DC 24 fort or sickened for 5 rounds and gets 23."12 [6d6=5, 1, 4, 6, 6, 1]
<El-Cideon> OOC: he's incorporeal at the moment, so roll your d100 (still hit but no crit with those numbers)
<Julia> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d100 and gets 23."12 [1d100=23]
<El-Cideon> Unfortunately, Julia's hand passes harmlessly through the self-righteous figure! And Rosemund, hemmed in by the judge and a wisp, opts to batter at the foe that is both paralyzed and presently in this dimension.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+15 vs wisp
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+15 vs wisp and gets 17."12 [1d20=2]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+10 vs wisp
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+10 vs wisp and gets 22."12 [1d20=12]
<El-Cideon> roll 2#1d8+6 thank you mummy-man~
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2#1d8+6 thank you mummy-man~ and gets 27."12 [2#1d8+6 = 14, 13]
<El-Cideon> OOC: Fran
* Franceska summons the remaining spike she has under the tree, hoping that something is getting impaled today!
<Franceska> roll 1d20+16 spellcraft
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+16 spellcraft and gets 21."12 [1d20=5]
<El-Cideon> OOC: 15 + spell level, so that should pass
<Franceska> roll 10d6 ref dc21 half
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 10d6 ref dc21 half and gets 32."12 [10d6=1, 5, 2, 1, 6, 6, 3, 2, 1, 5]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+8 ref tree is not fast
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+8 ref tree is not fast and gets 28."12 [1d20=20]
<El-Cideon> The tree takes only a grazing blow before pausing in its tracks to whip three of its branches at the mummy in its way!
<El-Cideon> roll 3#1d20+24
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 3#1d20+24 and gets 90."12 [3#1d20+24 = 30, 27, 33]
<El-Cideon> OOC: AC?
<Julia> OOC: 20
<El-Cideon> OOC: mummy have some kind of DR?
<Julia> OOC: 5/-
<El-Cideon> roll 2d8+14
<El-Cideon> roll 2d8+14
<El-Cideon> roll 2d8+14
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d8+14 and gets 27."12 [2d8=6, 7]
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d8+14 and gets 22."12 [2d8=3, 5]
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d8+14 and gets 25."12 [2d8=6, 5]
<El-Cideon> The monstrous tree is fearsomely accurate and brutal in its counterattack!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 and gets 70."12 [1d100=70]
<Julia> OOC: dead
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  PERSECUTION (25) > wisp x2 (21, one paralyzed) > red ghost (20) > Steph (15) > Ione (8) > Julia (6) > Rosey (5) > Fran (4) > tree (3)'
<Julia> roll 1d4 belated, rounds paralysed for wisp
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d4 belated, rounds paralysed for wisp and gets 1."12 [1d4=1]
<El-Cideon> The judge phases back into existence, and now reaches an earthly hand out for Rosemund! Franceska's wisp continues to pester her as the red ghost slinks after Stephanie with grabby hands!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+13 touch vs Rosey
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+13 touch vs Rosey and gets 21."12 [1d20=8]
<El-Cideon> roll 5d6 elec
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 5d6 elec and gets 21."12 [5d6=3, 6, 4, 5, 3]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+16 touch vs Fran
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+16 touch vs Fran and gets 25."12 [1d20=9]
<El-Cideon> roll 2d8 elec vs Fran
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d8 elec vs Fran and gets 10."12 [2d8=7, 3]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+11 touch vs Steph
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+11 touch vs Steph and gets 17."12 [1d20=6]
<El-Cideon> Rosemund and Franceska crackle with baneful electricity, while Stephanie continues to evade all foes!
<El-Cideon> OOC: Steph
<Steph> "Come at me, you delusions!" snarls Stephanie, conjuring her up faithful flaming companion to cover her while she assaults the red ghost. "Yeah, keep on trying to touch me!"
<Steph> roll 1d20+16
<Steph> roll 1d20+15
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+16 and gets 18."12 [1d20=2]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+15 and gets 32."12 [1d20=17]
<Steph> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+11 and gets 15."12 [1d20=4]
<Steph> roll 1d20+10
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+10 and gets 15."12 [1d20=5]
<El-Cideon> OOC: first two hit. It is evil if that matters for your weapons
<El-Cideon> OOC: also incorp, obv
<Steph> roll 1d100 low = hit
<Steph> roll 1d100 low = hit
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d100 low = hit and gets 6."12 [1d100=6]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d100 low = hit and gets 24."12 [1d100=24]
<Steph> OOC: Is it undead?
<El-Cideon> OOC: yes
<Steph> OOC: Or an evil outsider?
<El-Cideon> OOC: to the first
<Steph> roll 1d6+8
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+8 and gets 9."12 [1d6=1]
<Steph> roll 1d6+5+1d6
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+5+1d6 and gets 11."12 [1d6=1][1d6=5]
<Steph> roll 12d6/2
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 12d6/2 and gets 23."12 [12d6=3, 5, 4, 6, 2, 5, 5, 6, 2, 3, 2, 3]
<El-Cideon> The spectre wails in frustration at the stabbiness of its meal, and begins to look around at other potential meals...
<El-Cideon> OOC: Ione & Julia
<El-Cideon> Seeing the woeful damage done to the short-lived mummy by that tree, Ione evidently concludes it a priority target and unleashes three arrows from afar!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+19
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+19 and gets 32."12 [1d20=13]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+14
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+14 and gets 34."12 [1d20=20]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+9
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+9 and gets 14."12 [1d20=5]
<El-Cideon> roll 2#2d6+3 no crits vs plant
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2#2d6+3 no crits vs plant and gets 25."12 [2#2d6+3 = 13, 12]
<Julia> Julia is of like mind, backing away from the judge and firing off an enervation right at the evil tree!
<Julia> roll 1d20+8 ranged touch
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+8 ranged touch and gets 28."12 [1d20=20]
<Julia> roll 1d4 negative levels
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d4 negative levels and gets 4."12 [1d4=4]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  PERSECUTION (25) > wisp x2 (21, one paralyzed) > red ghost (20) > Steph (15) > Ione (8) > Julia (6) > Rosey (5) > Fran (4) > tree (3, -4NL)'
<El-Cideon> As the tree withers and shivers from the negative energy coursing through it, Rosemund tries to batter down that bothersome gnat electrifying her constantly!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+15
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+10
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+15 and gets 28."12 [1d20=13]
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+10 and gets 20."12 [1d20=10]
<El-Cideon> OOC: wisps are jerks when not paralyzed :( Fran is up
* Franceska decides to deal with the annoying wisp bothering her by vigorously shaking her magic missile wand in its direction!
<Franceska> roll 1d20+18 umd
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+18 umd and gets 22."12 [1d20=4]
<Franceska> roll 5d4+5
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 5d4+5 and gets 15."12 [5d4=1, 2, 2, 2, 3]
<El-Cideon> Unfortunately, Franceska discovers to her inevitable irritation that targeted magic dissipates before striking the bothersome creatures!
* Franceska glares at it.
<El-Cideon> The tree shambles forward another few feet. At its slothsome pace it will take it some time to reach any of the combatants, but this doesn't stop it from hooting and warbling and summoning up a dire image of fearsome aspect before its immediate tormentor!
<El-Cideon> OOC: will first, Julia
<Julia> roll 1d20+9 (+2 vs sleep, stunning, paralysis, poison, disease, +4 vs negative energy, +2 vs mind affecting)
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+9 (+2 vs sleep, stunning, paralysis, poison, disease, +4 vs negative energy, +2 vs mind affecting) and gets 27."12 [1d20=18]
<El-Cideon> Julia rallies her senses and recognizes the lethal illusion for what it is, however!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 and gets 35."12 [1d100=35]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  PERSECUTION (25, ph) > wisp x2 (21) > red ghost (20) > Steph (15) > Ione (8) > Julia (6) > Rosey (5) > Fran (4) > tree (3, -4NL)'
<El-Cideon> The judge abruptly veers away from Rosemund to irritate Franceska instead! "Know your sins and repent!" it taunts her! The bothersome wisps continue to batter at Rosemund and Franceska as the ghost slips away from Stephanie to grab at Ione.
<El-Cideon> OOC: Steph, you can AoO here
<El-Cideon> OOC: will Fran
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+15 Rosey AoO as well
<Franceska> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+15 Rosey AoO as well and gets 24."12 [1d20=9]
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+11 and gets 28."12 [1d20=17]
<Franceska> "I admit to nothing!" Franceska calls back curtly.
<El-Cideon> Perhaps unsurprisingly, Franceska resists the judge's malign influence!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100 Rosey vs incorp
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 Rosey vs incorp and gets 89."12 [1d100=89]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d8+6
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d8+6 and gets 9."12 [1d8=3]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+16 wisp touch vs Rosey
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+16 wisp touch vs Rosey and gets 25."12 [1d20=9]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+16 wisp touch vs Fran
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+16 wisp touch vs Fran and gets 28."12 [1d20=12]
<El-Cideon> roll 2d8 elec Rosey
<Steph> roll 1d20+16 AoO?
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d8 elec Rosey and gets 9."12 [2d8=7, 2]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+16 AoO? and gets 32."12 [1d20=16]
<El-Cideon> roll 2d8 elec Fran
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d8 elec Fran and gets 9."12 [2d8=4, 5]
<El-Cideon> OOC: hits Steph, d100?
<Steph> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d100 and gets 4."12 [1d100=4]
<Steph> roll 1d6+8
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+8 and gets 12."12 [1d6=4]
<Steph> roll 6d6/2 flank?!
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 6d6/2 flank?! and gets 11."12 [6d6=3, 3, 4, 6, 3, 3]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+11 touch vs Ione
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+11 touch vs Ione and gets 29."12 [1d20=18]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d8 CON drain
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d8 CON drain and gets 5."12 [1d8=5]
<El-Cideon> The vile specter leeches off a goodly portion of the medusa's life force, and somehow manages to latch onto her physically despite its incorporeal state!
<El-Cideon> OOC: Steph
<Steph> "Come back here! I'm not done with you!" snaps Stephanie, rushing at the specter swords akimbo!
<Steph> roll 1d20+14
<Steph> roll 1d20+13
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+14 and gets 32."12 [1d20=18]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+13 and gets 20."12 [1d20=7]
<Steph> (wolf fang striku!)
<El-Cideon> OOC: both hit
<Steph> roll 1d100 incorp?
<Steph> roll 1d100 incorp?
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d100 incorp? and gets 52."12 [1d100=52]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d100 incorp? and gets 39."12 [1d100=39]
<Steph> roll 1d6+5+1d6
<Steph> roll 6d6/2
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+5+1d6 and gets 10."12 [1d6=3][1d6=2]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 6d6/2 and gets 12."12 [6d6=3, 1, 6, 6, 2, 6]
<El-Cideon> The specter seethes and hisses in dismay, but clings on tenaciously to life and its victim!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+12 CMB for escape?
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+12 CMB for escape? and gets 13."12 [1d20=1]
<El-Cideon> Ione struggles to break free, fruitlessly!
<El-Cideon> OOC: Julia
<Julia> With a word from the necromancer a loathesome life-sucking mist appears billowing in front of the tree, forcing it to spend a long time wading through the fog if it hopes to reach its foes!
<Julia> roll 1d6 damage, fatigued, and one negative level
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d6 damage, fatigued, and one negative level and gets 3."12 [1d6=3]
<Julia> OOC: cold damage
<El-Cideon> OOC: any save?
<Julia> OOC: nope
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  PERSECUTION (25, ph) > wisp x2 (21) > red ghost (20) > Steph (15) > Ione (8) > Julia (6) > Rosey (5) > Fran (4) > tree (3, -5NL, fatigued)'
<El-Cideon> Merely annoyed by the wisp, Rosemund looks around for friends in greater distress than she--and focuses on Ione. Pointing a finger and emitting a beam of light at the monster: "Let go of her, you abomination!"
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+11 ranged touch
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+11 ranged touch and gets 25."12 [1d20=14]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100 not technically positive energy so may still miss
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 not technically positive energy so may still miss and gets 68."12 [1d100=68]
<El-Cideon> roll 10d6 nope, dead
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 10d6 nope, dead and gets 38."12 [10d6=5, 3, 4, 5, 1, 5, 5, 2, 2, 6]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  PERSECUTION (25, ph) > wisp x2 (21) > Steph (15) > Ione (8) > Julia (6) > Rosey (5) > Fran (4) > tree (3, -5NL, fatigued)'
<El-Cideon> With a final wail, the specter vanishes and relinquishes its victim, who gasps a pained thanks!
<El-Cideon> OOC: Fran
<Franceska> Since magic had failed her, Franceska turns into a fearsome devil bear and attacks that nuiscence of a wisp!
<Franceska> roll 1d20+14
<Franceska> roll 1d20+14
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+14 and gets 18."12 [1d20=4]
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+14 and gets 16."12 [1d20=2]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+9
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+9 and gets 15."12 [1d20=6]
<El-Cideon> OOC: all miss :(
<El-Cideon> The benighted tree lumbers forward through the fog, hooting and whistling and trying one last time to try and curse Julia out of existence--
<El-Cideon> OOC: will again
<Julia> roll 1d20+9 (+2 vs sleep, stunning, paralysis, poison, disease, +4 vs negative energy, +2 vs mind affecting)
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+9 (+2 vs sleep, stunning, paralysis, poison, disease, +4 vs negative energy, +2 vs mind affecting) and gets 29."12 [1d20=20]
<El-Cideon> --but having survived this ordeal once, she easily shrugs it off a second time!
<Julia> roll 1d6 cold, 1 negative level and exhausted
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d6 cold, 1 negative level and exhausted and gets 1."12 [1d6=1]
<El-Cideon> OOC: how wide is the cloud, for reference?
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 and gets 52."12 [1d100=52]
<Julia> OOC: 20ft radius
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  PERSECUTION (25) > wisp x2 (21) > Steph (15) > Ione (8) > Julia (6) > Rosey (5) > Fran (4) > tree (3, -6NL, fatigued)'
<El-Cideon> OOC: it can shamble all of 10 ft, so it's got one more turn in there unless it's one of those expanding cloud spells.
<Julia> OOC: it's not
<El-Cideon> The judge materializes and reaches out a hand for Franceska, crackling with dark energy. "From your suffering shall the righteous recover," it intones. Meanwhile, the irritiating wisps continue battering away methodically at their targets.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+11 touch vs Fran
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+11 touch vs Fran and gets 16."12 [1d20=5]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+16 wisp touch vs Rosey
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+16 wisp touch vs Rosey and gets 34."12 [1d20=18]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+16 wisp touch vs Fran
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+16 wisp touch vs Fran and gets 25."12 [1d20=9]
<El-Cideon> roll 2d8 elec Rosey
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d8 elec Rosey and gets 9."12 [2d8=7, 2]
<El-Cideon> roll 2d8 elec Fran
<Franceska> OOC: Both hit, of course
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d8 elec Fran and gets 13."12 [2d8=5, 8]
<El-Cideon> roll 6d6 negative energy Fran
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 6d6 negative energy Fran and gets 20."12 [6d6=4, 4, 1, 4, 5, 2]
<El-Cideon> The judge easily heals off its mild wounds at Franceska's expense!
<El-Cideon> OOC: Steph
<Steph> Stephanie pounces towards the judgemental judge, as strangely alluring as the sight of a judge coming down hard on a persecutor might be- and then unleashes her usual volley of spiteful thrusts into this stirring symbol of the law.
<Steph> roll 1d20+14
<Steph> roll 1d20+13
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+14 and gets 31."12 [1d20=17]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+13 and gets 18."12 [1d20=5]
<Steph> roll 1d20+9
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+9 and gets 15."12 [1d20=6]
<Steph> roll 1d20+8
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+8 and gets 18."12 [1d20=10]
<El-Cideon> OOC: first hits
<Steph> roll 1d6+8+1d6
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+8+1d6 and gets 15."12 [1d6=5][1d6=2]
<Steph> roll 6d6/2
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 6d6/2 and gets 6.5."12 [6d6=1, 3, 6, 1, 1, 1]
<El-Cideon> "Justice imperiled!" the judge cries in dismay as its stabbed in the back of the head.
<El-Cideon> OOC: Ione and Julia
<El-Cideon> Ione continues to focus on shooting down that tree before it can shamble into attack range.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+19
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+19 and gets 38."12 [1d20=19]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+14
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+14 and gets 18."12 [1d20=4]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+9
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+9 and gets 27."12 [1d20=18]
<El-Cideon> roll 2#2d6+3 sonic
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2#2d6+3 sonic and gets 25."12 [2#2d6+3 = 11, 14]
* Julia floats close to the wisp that Rosemund hit earlier and then unleashes a burst or horrifying negative energy around herself!
<Julia> roll 11d4 DC 21 fort half
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 11d4 DC 21 fort half and gets 29."12 [11d4=2, 2, 1, 1, 3, 3, 4, 2, 4, 4, 3]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+3 not their good save
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+3 not their good save and gets 20."12 [1d20=17]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  PERSECUTION (25) > wisp (21) > Steph (15) > Ione (8) > Julia (6) > Rosey (5) > Fran (4) > tree (3, -6NL, fatigued)'
<El-Cideon> Its light goes out and it withers into ash!
<El-Cideon> OOC: Rosey & Fran
* Franceska shows her objection to being drained like only an angry bear can!
<El-Cideon> Rosemund approaches just close enough to the tree to fire off another beam of light!
<Franceska> roll 1d20+16
<Franceska> roll 1d20+16
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+16 and gets 21."12 [1d20=5]
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+16 and gets 35."12 [1d20=19]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+11 ranged touch
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+11 ranged touch and gets 30."12 [1d20=19]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+11 and gets 21."12 [1d20=10]
<El-Cideon> roll 5d8
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 5d8 and gets 22."12 [5d8=3, 3, 7, 7, 2]
<El-Cideon> OOC: 35 hits, Fran
<Franceska> roll 1d8+9
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d8+9 and gets 15."12 [1d8=6]
<El-Cideon> Fran rips into the judge ferociously! Meanwhile, the tree--
<El-Cideon> OOC: Julia, do your thing?
<Julia> roll 1d6 cold, 1 negative level, can't get more tired
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d6 cold, 1 negative level, can't get more tired and gets 1."12 [1d6=1]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  PERSECUTION (25) > wisp (21) > Steph (15) > Ione (8) > Julia (6) > Rosey (5) > Fran (4) > tree (3, -7NL, fatigued)'
<El-Cideon> The tree soldiers on stubbornly, stumbling forward another twenty feet towards the melee by the door. Its branches reach out trying to reach the mortals assailing it, and though they reach admirably far, another twenty feet or so separate it from its closest enemy.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 and gets 1."12 [1d100=1]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  PERSECUTION (25, ph) > wisp (21) > Steph (15) > Ione (8) > Julia (6) > Rosey (5) > Fran (4) > tree (3, -7NL, fatigued)'
<El-Cideon> The judge, stubbornoly, perniciously, reaches its hand through Franceska's body, while her persistent wispy foe tries for another jolt.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+11 touch
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+11 touch and gets 20."12 [1d20=9]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+16 wisp touch
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+16 wisp touch and gets 34."12 [1d20=18]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d6 elec judge
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d6 elec judge and gets 2."12 [1d6=2]
<El-Cideon> roll 2d8 elec wisp
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d8 elec wisp and gets 6."12 [2d8=1, 5]
<El-Cideon> OOC: Steph
<Steph> Stephanie assails the target that assails Franceska again- wondering, perhaps, what it's like to have more than one way to hurt your opponents.
<Steph> roll 1d20+16
<Steph> roll 1d20+15
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+16 and gets 22."12 [1d20=6]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+15 and gets 16."12 [1d20=1]
<Steph> roll 1d20+11
<Steph> roll 1d20+10
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+11 and gets 24."12 [1d20=13]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+10 and gets 21."12 [1d20=11]
<El-Cideon> OOC: all but that 1 hit
<El-Cideon> OOC: also incorp again
<Steph> roll 1d6+8
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+8 and gets 11."12 [1d6=3]
<Steph> roll 1d6+5+1d6
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+5+1d6 and gets 10."12 [1d6=2][1d6=3]
<Steph> roll 1d6+8
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+8 and gets 13."12 [1d6=5]
<Steph> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d100 and gets 74."12 [1d100=74]
<Steph> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d100 and gets 36."12 [1d100=36]
<Steph> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d100 and gets 73."12 [1d100=73]
<Steph> roll 6d6/2 fff
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 6d6/2 fff and gets 8."12 [6d6=4, 2, 1, 5, 1, 3]
<Steph> OOC: So that's 18 damage. Augh
<El-Cideon> OOC: Ione & Julia
<El-Cideon> "What is this fiendish monstrosity and why will it not die?" Ione complains as she continues to pepper the demon tree with arrows
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+19
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+19 and gets 21."12 [1d20=2]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+14
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+9
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+14 and gets 16."12 [1d20=2]
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+9 and gets 15."12 [1d20=6]
<El-Cideon> OOC: :(
<Julia> Determined to reduce the threat of that mummy-crushing tree as much as possible before it enters the melee, Julia fires off a strength-debilitating ray at it before backing off behind Stephanie and Franceska!
<Julia> roll 1d20+8 ranged touch
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+8 ranged touch and gets 27."12 [1d20=19]
<El-Cideon> OOC: hit
<Julia> roll 1d6+5 strength penalty
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d6+5 strength penalty and gets 9."12 [1d6=4]
<El-Cideon> The tree sags under its own weight as negative energy robs it of its vigor!
<El-Cideon> Rosey decides to ignore the tree, slow moving as it is, and piles on to bludgeon the foe assaulting Franceska. "Oh, you awful thing--she is a lawyer, you should demonstrate some mutual professional respect!"
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+15
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+15 and gets 30."12 [1d20=15]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 and gets 55."12 [1d100=55]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d8+6
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d8+6 and gets 14."12 [1d8=8]
<El-Cideon> The judge wavers and shifts--but remains coherent, for now!
<El-Cideon> OOC: Fran
* Franceska has no compunctions about defending herself vigorously from the judge, summoning positive energy to attack him!
<Franceska> roll 1d20+18 casting defensively
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+18 casting defensively and gets 21."12 [1d20=3]
<El-Cideon> OOC: believe it's 15 + spell level? Should be good
<Franceska> OOC: Double the level, which is good, yes
<Franceska> roll 1d20+14 touch
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+14 touch and gets 22."12 [1d20=8]
<El-Cideon> OOC: hits
<Franceska> roll 1d8+5
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d8+5 and gets 6."12 [1d8=1]
<El-Cideon> Franceska successfully channels the judge full of positive energy--but, no doubt much to her frustration, discovers that they do not share this trait with the undead. Franceska only appears to have reinforced its wavering form!
<El-Cideon> The tree trudges every forward while everyone else is distracted, only a couple steps from being within attack range at this point.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 and gets 9."12 [1d100=9]
<El-Cideon> "Though we die here, alone and forgotten, we shall leave our mark upon you!" the judge promises, reaching out once again.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+11 touch vs Fran
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+11 touch vs Fran and gets 14."12 [1d20=3]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+16 wisp touch vs Fran
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+16 wisp touch vs Fran and gets 28."12 [1d20=12]
<El-Cideon> roll 2d8 elec wisp, does 14 hit?
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d8 elec wisp, does 14 hit? and gets 10."12 [2d8=4, 6]
<Franceska> OOC: Bear, so yes
<El-Cideon> roll 1d6 more
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d6 more and gets 5."12 [1d6=5]
<El-Cideon> OOC: Steph
<Steph> "You're already dead!" protests Stephanie, assaulting the judge again. "C'mon, make this easy! You know you want to!"
<Steph> roll 1d20+16
<Steph> roll 1d20+15
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+16 and gets 31."12 [1d20=15]
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+15 and gets 30."12 [1d20=15]
<Steph> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+11 and gets 30."12 [1d20=19]
<Steph> roll 1d20+10
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+10 and gets 30."12 [1d20=20]
<El-Cideon> OOC: all hit, still incorp
<Steph> roll 4d100
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 4d100 and gets 43."12 [4d100=9, 14, 8, 12]
<Steph> roll 1d6+8+1d6
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+8+1d6 and gets 15."12 [1d6=1][1d6=6]
<Steph> roll 1d6+8+1d6
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+8+1d6 and gets 18."12 [1d6=6][1d6=4]
<Steph> roll 1d6+5
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+5 and gets 6."12 [1d6=1]
<Steph> roll 1d6+5
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d6+5 and gets 7."12 [1d6=2]
<Steph> roll 24d6/2
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 24d6/2 and gets 41."12 [24d6=4, 1, 4, 5, 3, 2, 6, 4, 1, 5, 4, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 5, 6, 6, 4, 2]
<El-Cideon> With one last, anguished wail, the judge dissipates into a harmless cloud of dust. Left alone, the remaining wisp quivers with frustration and simply vanishes from sight...leaving only the fiendish tree lumbering ever forward.
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  Steph (15) > Ione (8) > Julia (6) > Rosey (5) > Fran (4) > tree (3, -7NL, fatigued)'
<El-Cideon> OOC: Ione & Julia
<El-Cideon> "Fall, damn you stubborn thing, you'll never reach us!" Ione promises.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+19
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+14
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+19 and gets 20."12 [1d20=1]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+9
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+14 and gets 21."12 [1d20=7]
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+9 and gets 28."12 [1d20=19]
<El-Cideon> roll 2d6+3 sonic
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d6+3 sonic and gets 12."12 [2d6=6, 3]
<Julia> Out goes another enervation ray, Julia selflessly moving herself in front of Franceska since her lawyer friend seems to be in a sorry state.
<Julia> roll 1d20+8 ranged touch
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+8 ranged touch and gets 18."12 [1d20=10]
<Julia> roll 1d4
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d4 and gets 1."12 [1d4=1]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  Steph (15) > Ione (8) > Julia (6) > Rosey (5) > Fran (4) > tree (3, -8NL, fatigued)'
<Julia> OOC: exhausted!
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: subjective gravity, air magic enhanced, earth magic impeded |  Steph (15) > Ione (8) > Julia (6) > Rosey (5) > Fran (4) > tree (3, -8NL, exhausted)'
<El-Cideon> OOC: Rosey & Fran
<El-Cideon> "Why can some creatures not understand when to quit?" Rosemund complains, firing another beam of light.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+11 and gets 26."12 [1d20=15]
<El-Cideon> roll 5d8
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 5d8 and gets 20."12 [5d8=5, 1, 6, 2, 6]
<Steph> "Can't we just move back?"
<El-Cideon> "I'd suggest walking around it, but we will have to come back this way on our way out," Ione observes.
* Franceska settles for casting greater vigor upon herself and backing away.
<El-Cideon> The tree lumbers ever forward, another ten feet. That is all the battered, horrible thing can do.
<El-Cideon> OOC: Steph
<Steph> "It's... it's a tree! Do I have to fight the tree?" complains Steph, glancing at Ione. "Shoot it! Shoot it again!"
<Steph> OOC: holding
<El-Cideon> "That's what I've been doing!" Ione calls back with something less than her usual level-headedness.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+19
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+14
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+19 and gets 37."12 [1d20=18]
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+14 and gets 28."12 [1d20=14]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+9
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+9 and gets 22."12 [1d20=13]
<El-Cideon> roll 2#2d6+3
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2#2d6+3 and gets 23."12 [2#2d6+3 = 13, 10]
<El-Cideon> It clings to life, barely, branches broken, bark peeling off, a sickly sap swelling from its myriad wounds.
<El-Cideon> OOC: Julia
<Julia> "Did you see what it did to my mummy? That's no ordinary tree!" Julia yells, sending out a wave of despair to make the tree really think about what it's done with its life.
<Julia> OOC: DC 19 will
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+6
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+6 and gets 18."12 [1d20=12]
<Julia> OOC: -2 to basically everything
<El-Cideon> "This one must finish it!" Rosemund declares. "It has to!"
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+11 touch
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+11 touch and gets 31."12 [1d20=20]
<Steph> "Yeah, that's why I'm worried about what it'll do to me!" sputters Stephanie.
<El-Cideon> roll 5d8
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 5d8 and gets 26."12 [5d8=8, 8, 3, 4, 3]
<El-Cideon> Finally, mercifully, the awful thing shudders to a halt--but not before one last, final wail channeled for its killer's ears alone!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+8 Rosey will
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+8 Rosey will and gets 16."12 [1d20=8]
<El-Cideon> Rosemund looks shaken and white as a sheet...but basically unharmed physically.
<El-Cideon> OOC: free act
<El-Cideon> "I--I think I am okay," she says uncertainly, checking over herself for mysterious wounds. "Is everyone else?"
* Julia sags as much as a free-floating person can do. "That took a lot... I really hope there are no more decorative plants in here."
* Franceska reverts to her human form sourly. "Slowly getting there."
<Steph> "I could use some help," admits Stephanie. "Fucking evil screams."
<El-Cideon> "Right, of course!" Rosemund replies, administering wand heals to those in need of light restoration and a proper Restoration for Ione, who looks grateful to swell with robust health once again.
<El-Cideon> roll 2d10+14 Rosey heals
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d10+14 Rosey heals and gets 19."12 [2d10=2, 3]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d10+7 more Rosey heals
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d10+7 more Rosey heals and gets 10."12 [1d10=3]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d10+7 more Rosey heals for Ione
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d10+7 more Rosey heals for Ione and gets 9."12 [1d10=2]
<El-Cideon> Rosemund looks around and nods, satisfied that everyone seems to be in proper health once again. "Ah, where was that we were to go now?" she asks again. Ione points to the leftward door where, for a second, one might fancy she could see again images of your predecessors walking. But they're gone before one can closely focus to be sure.
<Julia> Prepared for things to get even worse, Julia floats down that way. Or falls, rather.
<El-Cideon> ~