To war once again (Moore)

[Nephrite]

'It probably has to be opened out here. Don't worry about it for right now, if it's an emergency we'll have someone bring the book up into the darkness if Afina can't dispel it.' Moore replies.

[Anastasia]

Going to hold here then and try and survive, pixie?

[Nephrite]

Yes. His idea is going to try and hold them off with various walls and he'll try and shout out commands to the other soldiers to hopefully have them cast some spells to help, like Magic Circle Against Evil and so on and so forth. Or just have people use things like channel energy which should work fine even without them being able to see.

[Anastasia]

It'll matter, so lay out a round by round strategy of what you're doing, I'll interject as needed and we can mark off resources used.

[Nephrite]

"Anyone who can cast Magic Circle against Evil, please do so! I'm going to lay down cover in front of everyone and will communicate with you! I'll be your eyes, so listen to my voice!" Moore calls out. "We're going to use indiscriminate healing against them!"

First order of business is to drop a Wall of Stone about 10 ft ahead of the soldiers. I'm guessing there has to be existing stone around somewhere close so he'll try and cover as much as he can forward. He's aware that it isn't going to do a lot against the incorporeal creatures, of course. He's got 85 feet of wall to work with and each wall is 4 feet thick.

[Anastasia]

You form the wall as casters cry out, surely managing the spell you ask. They're coming closer now - about 20ft to 40ft away, almost to your wall. The soldiers are stumbling about blind, doing the best they can to close ranks.

Go.

[Nephrite]

Quick question: I know we don't use death spells for the most part, but is http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/disruptingWeapon.htm fair game?

[Anastasia]

It is not.

[Nephrite]

Note to self, pick another spell for that level later.

Moore gestures and springs up a wall of dispelling magic right behind the wall of stone! If they get through the first, they still have to pass through the second!

170 ft of Wall of Greater Dispel Magic along the wall and anywhere extra that he can see the undead advancing from. Ideally he wants it so they can't just go around it, but that may be impossible from their vantage point.

[Anastasia]

Spot check. Also, note what modes of vision you have beyond the usual.

[Nephrite]

Take 10 for 63. He has True Seeing currently. If that doesn't work then I don't think he's got much else besides low light vision which probably will not help.

[Anastasia]

You can see it. It's not light. It's still dark. An illusion of light floods over everything, covering the intact utterdark, the phantasms still approaching, going through your wall.

[Nephrite]

An illusion of it being fine... how despicable!

"Don't be fooled by the illusion -- it is still completely dark! The fiends are coming, prepare yourselves!" Moore shouts to everyone.

The best they can do for now is to hold out until a solution can be found... Maybe some of them will be dispersed by the wall -- he's not really equipped to deal with massive amounts of undead creatures, but he'll hold his ground for now!

He's going to cast Life's Grace on Mirima to give her ghost touch on her armor and immunity to death effects and ability drain since he's pretty sure regardless of what happens there's going to be some fighting.

'There is an illusion of the darkness being gone on top of the utterdark spell, please do not be fooled!' Moore sends to everyone.

[Anastasia]

"Rally! Defend!" Mirima calls out as the ghosts reach all of you and...

> roll 1d20+34 Mirima (+4 Moore, -10 trickery)
<Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+34 Mirima (+4 Moore, -10 trickery) --> [ 1d20=5 ]{39}
> roll 1d20+40 ghosts
<Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+40 ghosts --> [ 1d20=13 ]{53}

It's bad. They're defending but the ghosts are heavily at the advantage, some able to see...absolute darkness past the illusion, the forces fighting blindly, desperately. You see warriors touched, withered, falling. The lne is being pressed hard, and at this rate it won't last long.

[Nephrite]

"Continue to use positive energy to heal yourselves and harm the undead! Use it indiscriminately if you must!" Moore calls out.

It's times like this he really regrets not having more in the way of healing magic...

'It's impossible for anyone to fight like this -- we're rapidly losing ground. We either need a solution to this problem or some sort of immediate reinforcements who can cast wide-ranged healing magic to help us and also damage the undead at the same time!' Moore will send along to the others.