Crossed swords

[Anastasia]

Init is Shar's Avatar (Supreme) > Amaryl's Avatar (Supreme) > Seira's Avatar (Supreme) > Donald = Ranbar (23)

Seira's fury is unleashed against Shar, but it's like hitting steel smoke. Hard and almost impossible to touch, and somehow not a single other strike lands.

Meanwhile Amaryl dashes to the sides, staying back but letting her arrows loose. "Don't give up now," she cries over the battle.

> roll 1d20+69
> roll 1d20+69
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 89 > [d20=20]
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 79 > [d20=10]
> roll 1d20+69
> roll 1d20+69
> roll 1d20+69
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 74 > [d20=5]
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 70 > [d20=1]
> roll 1d20+69
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 70 > [d20=1]
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 83 > [d20=14]
> roll 1d20+69 crit?
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 77 > [d20=8]

> roll 1d8+48+8d6+6d6+2d6
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 104 > [d8=5][d6=4,2,5,1,5,6,3,1,4,1,4,2,6,1,5,1]

Amaryl's arrows pepper Shar, and one even sinks in, but it seems to have a minimal impact at best. As this happens?

'You got an idea?' Donald sends to you lightning fast.

[Corwin]

'We can force a hit, and we can force our magic to take hold, but she's negating it. Since overpowering her is a bust, let's treat it like a puzzle and try other ideas. Light?'

[Anastasia]

Donald points at Shar, a flare of light around her...that fades into the shadows, unable ot pierce Shar's darkness at all.

You are far from your master's power over the sun.

Then acid rain in the shape of tiny dragons pummel Shar, but yet not a one burns her.

No roll, he can't beat her SR.

Ranbar looks on, a moment of indecision before she says, "I'll stop you," she declares, as a burst of power from above joins a massive burst from all around her. Yet like Donald's magic, it simply can't scratch someone of Shar's power.

Same as Donald.

Shar's laughter is sweet and vile all at once. Is that all, Seira?

[Corwin]

You do hold the home court advantage, Seira notes. Not to mention you're hiding yourself in a wall. What's up with that?

[Anastasia]

You think I'm hiding, Seira?

[Corwin]

Obviously, Seira responds. You invited us over for a spar, but then merged with a wall. That's not very exciting, you know? Stabbing a wall. Even if it has a decent likeness of you on it.

Meanwhile, she considers her options. She failed to adjust this realm before, but perhaps Amaryl and the others could do it? Alter the rules so that light triumphs over shadow?

[Anastasia]

Okay, on thinking about it, give me a Diplo check here. It'll matter for Shar's response to something important there.

[Corwin]

20:45 <Corwin> roll 1d20+72
20:45 <Penuche> Corwin invokes Penuche's magic: < 89 > [d20=17]

[Anastasia]

Suddenly there's a tremendous burst around you - pressure and darkness, a squeezing vice around your mind all at once, an overwhelming barrage together.

Fort, Ref and will saves.

[Corwin]

21:12 <Corwin> roll 1d20+69+10+30 Fort, MMoP
21:12 <Penuche> Corwin invokes Penuche's magic: < 121 > [d20=12]
21:12 <Corwin> roll 1d20+66+10+30 Ref, MMoP, improved evasion
21:12 <Penuche> Corwin invokes Penuche's magic: < 113 > [d20=7]
21:12 <Corwin> roll 1d20+68+10+30 Will, MMoP
21:12 <Penuche> Corwin invokes Penuche's magic: < 117 > [d20=9]

[Anastasia]

You draw in all your power - and somehow you're perfect. Somehow you fend off the three fold assault, leaving yourself shaking all over but unharmed.

Your lucky day. Go.

[Corwin]

I wish I could say it's my turn, now, but....

Actually, she'll try saying that anyway. Contacting her friends only, Seira tells them, Focus your divine powers on this place, as if you were on a highly morphic plane. Shar deals in secrets, darkness and evil, and she's merged with it, so if you change its very nature to be her antithesis, it might reject her! We'll go on my mental command, so each of you pick a concept that counters her!

I presume that if the plane is actually morphic, we can adjust it with non-competing effects and they would be additive, ie like making a plane Good-aligned and Fire-dominant, as they don't clash against each other.

[Anastasia]

Okay, sure.  Just make sure to elaborate what you're doing in your post. Are you all doing it together now?

[Corwin]

Yes. For example, I want Amaryl to try and counter darkness with light, Donald to use truth against lies, Ranbar will go for Good to oppose Evil, something along those lines? Since I tried to drop the darkness before and got countered, I don't know if I can mechanically roll here, but I do want my friends to try a similar approach, just together.

It's not exactly a common modification to morphic planes, but if Shar's merging her nature to this place it's worth to try an unconventional (aside from Good) modification on our side.

[Anastasia]

Sure. Charisma checks all.