Walking to Rosewater

Anastasia · October 17, 2019, 12:39:06 PM

CLANG!

The clash of blade on blade is resonant throughout the air, Alicia holding her ground against Pazuzu's avatar. Winds batter you yet even as Alicia's hair blows back, she holds her position. The charge is stopped for the moment, the assault halted. It is then that Syala appears above, passing through the warped space.

"Pazuzu," she shouts, the barest glance her way as Syala points. A great elder treant appears, slamming into the fiend.

> roll 1d20+75 (+16 various)
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 93 > [d20=18]

Yet with a rich clang of steel the blow is blocked, the Demon Prince not even knocked back. In that moment Latha meanwhile emerges below, as a sunrise follows, engulfing the wounded dragons.

Sunstorm. Vivacious since it's free for sun domain spells for her. She's also making it a sunweave spell for +51 damage.

> roll 1d20+34 any SR
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 36 > [d20=2]
> roll 34d8+51 she's lucky dragon SR sucks
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 213 > [d8=1,5,4,7,1,7,7,7,1,5,8,4,6,3,8,2,5,6,4,8,5,3,3,1,8,6,2,6,6,4,8,6,3,2]

> roll 1d20+25
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 31 > [d20=6]
> roll 1d20+28
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 33 > [d20=5]
> roll 1d20+28
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 42 > [d20=14]
> roll 1d20+35 evasion
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 50 > [d20=15]
> roll 1d20+21
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 30 > [d20=9]
> roll 1d20+23
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 32 > [d20=9]
> roll 1d20+28
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 30 > [d20=2]
> roll 1d20+30 improved evasion
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 41 > [d20=11]
> roll 1d20+29
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 45 > [d20=16]
> roll 1d20+45
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 56 > [d20=11]
> roll 1d20+31
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 39 > [d20=8]

DC is 40.

Dragons come crashing down, the ground shaking with their fall amid a new sunrise. The reds fall, the greens behind them. Somehow the blacks endure as the blues wobble in the air, draconic fury as the last white dragon plummets down as well. With their numbers decimated, Antenora comes through the warped space. With a loud battlecry she charges right at Pazuzu, "Repent or face judgment!"

Init is Alicia (Supreme Init) > Violet (65) > Pazuzu (53) > Syala (43) > Latha (31) > Antenora (30) > Dragons (19) > ???? (0)

Antenora pops opal fury as one of her swifts as she charges.

> roll 1d20+91 (+4 charge, +16 various, +4 fiends, +16 furious strike, +14 smite evil, +2 opal fury, -20 PA)
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 93 > [d20=2]

Yet Pazuzu checks her advance with a gust of wind, slowing her enough for another parry. Amid this, as the two exchange glares, "Demon," Antenora hisses.

"Retreat!" One of the surviving dragons call, chaos as they flee, "Betrayal!"

Meanwhile, the waters of the Styx churn faster and faster.

Alicia, go.

[spoiler]

Antenora
HP: 986+175/986
Negative Conditions:
Aura: Protective 20ft (+4 deflection/+4 resistance vs evil) Courage 10ft (+4 morale vs fear)
Bonuses: Attack+16 (+5 blessing, +4 sacred, +3 luck, +4 morale), Damage+14 (+7 blessing, +4 sacred, +3 morale), AC+15 (+5 blessing, +4 sacred, +3 morale, +3 luck), Saves+21 (+10 blessing, +4 sacred, +3 luck, +4 morale), Skills+9 (+19 stealth)(+5 blessing+4 morale), Checks+5 (+5 blessing) extra attack per round +2d6 if weapon isn't holy
Resources: Holy Fury 37/37 (enc) Divine Retribution 1/1 Smite Evil 12/12 Channel Energy 17/17 Lay On Hands 476/476 Remove Disease 10/10 (week), Spiritual Connection 3/3 Blinding Speed 25/25 Divine Blast 17/17
Spells Used: Opal Protection
SLAs Used:
Spells Active: Mind Blank (CL35), Nondetection (CL35), Epic Mage Armor (CL39), Pass Without Trace (CL34), Mass Camouflage (CL34), Mass Energy Immunityx2 (Acid, Sonic) (CL34), Recitation (CL34), Righteous Wrath of the Faithful (CL34), Mass Power of the Huntress (CL34), Opal Protection (CL35), Celestial Valor (CL35), Power of the Huntress (CL34), Opal Fury (CL35)
Notes: Can always inflict nonlethal with attacks, spells, SLAs and abilities.
Smite Notes: +2 damage/paladin level on a charging smite. Each point of favored PA on charge is worth 9 points of damage, post charge multiplier (15 on crit).
Typical Charging Numbers: 34 for base smite damage, 68 for charging smite +2 per per level. So 102 bonus damage baseline. Raw attack plus smite is 1d8+135+2d6+2d6 (+4/+4d6 if fiendbane hits). Doesn't include other factors.
Remember everything triples and x5 on a crit when adding things.

Latha
HP: 756+20/756
Negative Conditions:
Aura: Holy Light 30ft (7d6+7 damage vs evil/round) Protective 20ft (+4 deflection/+4 resistance vs evil)
Bonuses: Attack+16 (+5 blessing, +4 sacred, +3 luck, +4 morale), Damage+12 (+5 blessing, +4 sacred, +3 morale), AC+15 (+5 blessing, +4 sacred, +3 morale, +3 luck), Saves+21 (+10 blessing, +4 sacred, +3 luck, +4 morale), Skills+9 (+19 stealth)(+5 blessing+4 morale), Checks+5 (+5 blessing) extra attack per round +2d6 if weapon isn't holy
Resources: Channel Energy 14/14 Sun Devotion 4/4 Sunweave 2/3
Spells Used: Vivacious Empowered Righteous Smite, Celestial Valor, Mass Energy Immunityx2, Sunstorm.
SLAs Used:
Spells Active: Mind Blank (CL35), Nondetection (CL35), Epic Mage Armor (CL39), Pass Without Trace (CL34), Mass Camouflage (CL34), Mass Energy Immunityx2 (Acid, Sonic) (CL34), Recitation (CL34), Righteous Wrath of the Faithful (CL34), Mass Power of the Huntress (CL34), Opal Protection (CL35), Celestial Valor (CL35), Power of the Huntress (CL34)
Notes: Level + 17 extra damage per hit vs undead during sun devotion.
Channel Energy: Multiply by 1.5 due to empower turning.

Syala
HP: 680+20/680
Negative Conditions:
Aura: Protective 20ft (+4 deflection/+4 resistance vs evil) Divine 10ft (various)
Bonuses: Attack+16 (+5 blessing, +4 sacred, +3 luck, +4 morale), Damage+14 (+7 blessing, +4 sacred, +3 morale), AC+15 (+5 blessing, +4 sacred, +3 morale, +3 luck), Saves+21 (+10 blessing, +4 sacred, +3 luck, +4 morale), Skills+9 (+19 stealth)(+5 blessing+4 morale), Checks+5 (+5 blessing) extra attack per round +2d6 if weapon isn't holy
Resources: Rage 7/7 Divine Blast 14/14 Family Domain 2/2 Wrath Domain 2/2 Add Twin 7/7 (non epic only)
Spells Used:
SLAs Used:
Spells Active: Mind Blank (CL35), Nondetection (CL35), Epic Mage Armor (CL39), Pass Without Trace (CL34), Mass Camouflage (CL34), Mass Energy Immunityx2 (Acid, Sonic) (CL34), Recitation (CL34), Righteous Wrath of the Faithful (CL34), Mass Power of the Huntress (CL34), Opal Protection (CL35), Celestial Valor (CL35), Power of the Huntress (CL34)
Notes: Automatically converts vile damage to normal damage.

Ebiris · October 17, 2019, 12:43:17 PM

So where's Violet now? She was 300 feet up in the air and now she's in the Styx? Does the Styx wind through Rosewater or is it at the edge going around/under or whatever?

Anastasia · October 17, 2019, 12:51:16 PM

Her aquatic form mixed into the Styx. It's at one edge, yes.

Ebiris · October 17, 2019, 12:52:55 PM

Are we at the edge of Rosewater ourselves then? How far away is she and can I discern where she is specifically in the water?

Anastasia · October 17, 2019, 01:04:30 PM

You are about 250ft away from it. For the second, give me a Spot checkaroo.

Ebiris · October 17, 2019, 01:06:31 PM

[17:06] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+80
[17:06] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 95 > [d20=15]

Anastasia · October 17, 2019, 01:10:32 PM

You can - it's almost impossible to tell, but your eyes are beyond impossible. You can spy a faintly different part of water - deep in there, a twisting in the depths.

Ebiris · October 17, 2019, 01:16:43 PM

How did she move so fast?

Legitimate question, she moved over 400 feet after casting a spell and changing her shape, that's a lot of actions.

Regardless she's still close enough. Stopping Violet from escaping with all her new gains is the priority right now - she won't be able to pull this off again once word gets around what happened to her allies today. On that note, 'Allow retreating demons to flee, they'll spread word,' she sends to her allies. "Patience, I'll get to you in a moment," she tells Pazuzu, gesturing as the Styx begins to fall out of the air like rain nearby and then her magic pulses.

Space Compression to link Violet's location with the same spot she was floating in last turn. Casting quickened Unbinding.

[17:16] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+37 CL on quickened unbinding
[17:16] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 53 > [d20=16]

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Anastasia · October 17, 2019, 01:46:38 PM

It's legit, she has a big movement rate and things like quickened spells aren't new.

'Understood,' Antenora sends back as she parries Pazuzu's on counter, the two eye to eye as Syala throws a blast of divine power. This is only dodged by Pazuzu's head momentarily detaching from his body, the shot zipping through the empty space between neck and head, before it reattaches.

Your Unbinding hits, a snarling cry from the waters as more souls erupt out. It's a barrage, a shaking shudder as yet more escape. She's surely lost more than half she's gained here now. Souls erupt out by the moment as she flees away, down the Styx and away and out of sight, howling all the while.

Anything else this turn?

Mechanically she hasn't moved yet just FYI, that's just flavor texting.

Ebiris · October 17, 2019, 01:53:39 PM

Yes, more where that came from.

Alicia snaps off another, a pulse of white light radiating off her and travelling through the warped space to illuminate the dark waters of the Styx around Violet!

[17:53] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+37 CL on quickened unbinding
[17:53] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 57 > [d20=20]

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Anastasia · October 17, 2019, 01:56:00 PM

For a mere mortal or even most immortals, you sense that this would fail. That this would be folly. Yet for you, in your portfolio and with mighty magic? You see yet more souls ripped away - even a barrage of colored souls, glimpsed but a moment as the Radiant Sisters are freed. You may not have gotten all of them, but you've come really close now if you haven't.

Violet flees, out of sight and lost in the river, her howls of fury dimming.

Ebiris · October 17, 2019, 02:09:50 PM

It's not that she has any love for any of the demons involved here, and they're sure to cause more trouble in the future assuming they don't degrade too much in form when they respawn... even then, the long term's a thing.

But every one of them and everyone they talk to is going to have serious concerns about Malcanthet and Violet and that at least will make their lives more difficult. It also means that all of this was for nothing, all those powerful servants spent and favours with allies cashed to no effect.

That makes this bad day a little bit better for Alicia.

That leaves Pazuzu, who's been oddly silent throughout all of this... "You can leave now and we'll say no more of it. Only offer I'll make you," she says coldly to the other demon lord avatar remaining after she butchered the last. She's been careful not to strike him and avoid escalating things so far, but after he's already tried striking at her that patience is about evaporated.

Anastasia · October 17, 2019, 02:22:37 PM

Pazuzu...lowers his blade. "Accepted, Reynes. My role here is over, and nothing is to be gained battling with you now." He slowly licks his beak, "I will feast on your purity another day."

Antenora stares on balefully, but holds herself back. "If I did not understand all too well how valuable honorable surrender and parley is..." she says slowly.

Pazuzu begins to rise, but banters back, "How much you depend on the loyalty of your master, erinyes, that you would roll over on her command? Or do you still secretly crave to taste her purity as well?"

Antenora's voice is cold as a tomb now, "Be grateful I understand what honor is."

"Devilish purity...perhaps it will be your purity I feast on another day, for the novelty of it." Pazuzu laughs, a strange, almost birdsong like sound. Yet it is discordant and makes goosebumps break out on your arms and legs. He rises into the sky and is gone, leaving the dragons that flee and whatever stragglers remain.

Ebiris · October 17, 2019, 02:29:36 PM

Alicia's face is stony as she allows the retreat, shrinking back to normal size while the Styx churns and likely rises to swallow Rosewater into its depths. "Syala, Latha. Do as much damage as you can to destroy this place before the Adversary claims it," she says. She might have let herself be predicted to Malcanthet's benefit but she's not so dense she can't see who's going to take the final prize here for the least effort. In the meantime she unfurls her portable hole and telekinetically pulls all the items scattered by the fallen into it.

Copying Moore's quick gather for the looting. Want Syala to drop some earthquakes and Latha some heavenly vengeance to wreck what we can here.

Anastasia · October 17, 2019, 02:35:46 PM

Latha rises and calls, "Let the wicked be broken!" The ground shakes as you gather equipment, while Latha's cries send lances of sunlight slamming down, bursts of fire burning buildings.

"Unless..." Antenora suddenly scowls, "The Adversary is the Oinoloth. Surely he could take it if he wanted to, unless...it isn't the prize at all. What about a succubus with great power, fleeing in the Styx and vulnerable, angry and not thinking clearly?"

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