[22:07] <Kotono> Once back home, Jaela goes to find her mother. She finds her after a lot of searching, waiting outside her room. "Jaela!" She calls, bounding over as soon as her daughter comes into sight, "Why didn't you tell me about that vampire?" she asks right away, "You should have told me!"
[22:10] <Jaela> The one time she didn't just yell for Elena, and it takes ages. Jaela makes a mental note to never ever just look on her own again. "How did you find out already?" she asks crossly, pushing the door open and heading inside. "Dammit, I'm gone for just a couple hours--" She shakes her head, waving her mother in. "I would've told you as soon as we got back, but I made a promise to help Kascha first. So I guess now's the time to fill you in. I'll talk, you'll listen without interrupting me, and then you can hit me all you want after. Deal?"
[22:15] <Kotono> "It's alright, Jaela," Hanna shakes her head, "I heard all about it. Willim and his friend told me some, and Afina the rest. I approve," she smiles, coming right in with her. "I know what you're doing with Annalise and I approve."
[22:17] <Jaela> "Why is everyone talking about that?!" Jaela not quite shrieks, before she holds out a hand, palm first. "Wait. This is like the toga sheet thing, isn't it? When you say that, what do you mean?" Because there is no way her mother can be bringing up something like that on her own after being coy about her on and off boyfriend, is there?
[22:22] <Kotono> "I mean I know about you trying to save her," Hanna says, "I completely respect that. If you can get her to renounce what she is, you'll have saved a soul and ended a monster for good." With a bemused smile, "Why are you so worried over it? I would shout it to the heavens."
[22:23] <Jaela> Oh geez. Jaela rubs at her forehead. "Look, I don't know what all you got told, so I'll just go into it like I planned to from the start, okay? That's true, that's definitely true, but it's not all."
[22:24] <Kotono> "What else is there?" Hanna cocks her head ot the side, all smiles.
[22:27] <Jaela> "So. Torm imprisoned Annalise, and by imprisoned I mean that he sanctioned her being impaled naked to an altar on a floating church in Astral. She was awake, aware, alone and in pain." Jaela considers going into the shady dealings behind the scenes, and decides to go for it. "The church itself was previously her property that got stolen in the process, and the Tormite that did this to her used to be her lover who was too weak to resist her when she offered him to become a vampire. I can understand going batshit when you realize you made a huge fucking mistake, but where it comes to responsibility, it's pretty much shared." She shakes her head. "Anyway, this was pre-Fall Torm, so she was there for two thousand years while everyone forgot about her and didn't give a shit. I made the choice to free her from that, and then I made the vow to watch over her and make sure she didn't do anything wrong." Fighting embarrassment, Jaela continues. "I wanted to show her that she was wrong about the gods and our side, and that decent people existed. You know, paladins or the Seldarine, that sort of thing. It sort of became me wanting to help her, and not just watch over her. I think she'd be better off if she saw things my way, and hell, pretty much all of Creation will be better off. So I'm giving it a try, and I told Lady Angharradh and Lady Hanali Celanil that. I told Helm too, though I dunno how much stock he puts into me."
[22:31] <Kotono> "So you vowed to watch over her after you freed her?" Frowning a little bit, "You're taking responsibility, this is good. That's about what I figured. Mistakes can be made, or well meaning actions that can lead to ruin. You're doing the right thing, trying to watch over her and guide her to a better path."
[22:36] <Jaela> "And if we're in a situation where she can't go without blood and we don't have the animals here, I help with that. It's not like I can let anyone else do it, not with my responsibility for her. I told Helm to shove it because of that vow, and because of what I'm hoping to do. His way won't save anyone. He even knows it, since he can't kill her. It's just pointless vengeance over what she is, and what she's done thousands of years ago." Jaela coughs. "Anyway, that's how it started." Just as sheepish as her mother had been back at the Court, she echoes her. "You're all grown up, so I won't hide it either. I ended up sleeping with Annalise." She scratches at her cheek. "I really like her. Can you come meet her with me?"
[22:38] <Kotono> Stop. Full stop. That smile freezes in place, Mother seeming to become an unmoving chunk of ice for a split-second. Jaela's brain barely has time to process this, before she finds herself lifted up, eye to eye with Hanna! Her eyes are glowing white, face twitching! "Jaela, you're FUCKING THE VAMPIRE!?" Her shout is loud enough to rattle the windows!
[22:39] <Jaela> "What, I wasn't clear enough?!" Jaela snaps back. "Do you need a fucking demonstration?"
[22:45] <Kotono> "MY DAUGHTER IS A NECROPHILIAC EXHIBITIONIST?!?!" Hanna's shout is even louder this time, "Jaela, you don't just SLEEP with a vampire like that! She's a walking corpse! Her entire body is suffused with the energy of death! She's probably been mounted by demons and zombies! Do you want to be on the level of a zombie's sloppy seconds?!" Twitching violently, "...and you're going to say you love her, don't you?"
[22:51] <Jaela> Jaela reddens worse than her hair, although she manages to keep her anger in check. "Zombies, Mother? Really?" she grinds out. "How about tossing in dretches and lemures for good measure?" She clenches her fists tightly. Hitting her wouldn't do; she's the one who promised to take any hits, so retaliation is impossible if she wants to get Hanna to accept her. "Annalise is ancient, so I know she's not a blushing virgin. Helm and Lady Angharradh showed me exactly what her life has been, and what it means to be her, so I'm not under some stupid self-inflicted illusion. And I can still see just fine even with one eye, so I know she runs on death and blood. But that's just her body, and I wouldn't care even if she decided to reincarnate into a troll. You want to hit me? Fine, do as you like. But don't talk like that about her without even meeting her, or I won't be able to hold myself back."
[22:56] <Kotono> Hanna doesn't raise her hand. Instead she sighs and lets Jaela go, rubbing her temple. She flops back onto Jaela's bed, face down. "How in all the Hells did you fall in love with a vampire!? The sight of one should make you want to send it off!" Kicking one foot into the aira s her wings twitch, "Why couldn't you just be pregnant," she groans. After that and bashing her head into the bed a few
[22:56] <Kotono> times, "I'm not going to hit you. Despite popular belief, you can't smack common sense into someone. Trust me, I've tried. So let me guess - you're devoted to this, you won't give her up and you think you can get through to her?"
[23:01] <Jaela> "I know what people must think." Jaela grimaces. "Even those who can get past the first impression. They think that I went for her, and so I decided to free her and keep her around. But that's not how it is. I thought what was done to her was wrong. I figured she deserved better. I was ready to fight for her, even against Celestia, if I had to. So I got to know her a bit, and she's, uh, irresistible or something. You know that I can't be forced against my will, right? And I was worried it was just physical after all, but when Helm killed me and I was just a soul, I still felt the same way. It wouldn't happen if it's just a shallow crush." She shrugs. "I'm doing this. I really want to get through to her. But the only thing I'm confident about is that she can't convert me, because for that to happen, the Seldarine would need to betray me." And she would actually have to want immortality. "That, and I don't want to become a vampire. I'm fine like this. That won't change and I'm not lying to her about it."
[23:04] <Kotono> "I'm surprised you haven't fallen out of grace," Hanna admits with a long sigh again, "Your patrons must have great faith in you." Sitting up now, "Does she care about you at all?"
[23:05] <Jaela> "Do you want the optimistic answer or the truthful one?"
[23:07] <Kotono> "Truthful," Hanna says immediately.
[23:08] <Jaela> "I don't know," Jaela says with a slight shrug. "Fuck, I'm even ready for the possibility that I get through to her only to find out she's not really into me at all like that. So... that puts me right about where everyone is, when they're dating?"
[23:10] <Kotono> "Except everyone isn't dating an unholy monster," Hanna points out with a huff, "If she's so strong and horrible, how come she doesn't just take you by force if she wants you?"
[23:16] <Jaela> That might actually be fun-- yeah she's not saying that to her mother. "It's pretty much how Annalise is," Jaela says in resignation. "When she's with someone, she tries to get them to become a vampire like her, but they all just go nuts afterwards. Which is understandable, 'course, since they were too weak to resist her in the first place. How can you expect someone like that to deal with that shit? Anyway, that's the one thing I'm sure of. Both Lady Angharradh and Helm agree that when Annalise is with someone like that, she's being on the level." Jaela gives her a weak smile. "It's not much, but I see it as Annalise putting in effort and showing interest in me. And if she is, then if I just keep at it, I might see results. You can't be around someone all this time, and not have something rub off on you."
[23:16] <Jaela> That smile blossoms into a grin, then. "And hey, now you know why I told you there was no way I'd get pregnant." Ready to duck, Jaela raises her voice slightly and calls out, "Elena!"
[23:20] <Kotono> "Hmph. I wonder." Hanna crosses her arms, "Vampires are natural liars and charismatic manipulators. She has powerful enemies, too." Still she goes quiet at all of that, "JAELA!" At the same moment Elena appears as Hanna goes on, "I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT'S NO OBSTICLE IF SOMEONE REALLY WANTS TO GET KNOCKED UP, DAMMIT! WITH YOUR JUDGMENT I'M STARTING TO WONDER!"
[23:20] <Kotono> "Uh...hi?" Elena waves gingerly, "Bad time?"
[23:21] <Jaela> "Oh thank Hanali," Jaela mutters, shaking her head. "Perfect time. Quick, tell me where Annalise is while Mom's doing her Baleruk impression? Oh, and ask her to wait for me?"
[23:22] <Kotono> "Um, she's...um..." Looking over at a glaring Hanna, Elena skitters back, "Shesatthemainportalwaygonnagohelpgalarielbye!" With that she's off and gone!
[23:23] <Jaela> "Got the rage out of your system?" Jaela asks, eyebrow raised. "Should've made a dumb joke way back, then. Come on, I really do want you two to meet. Why do you think I hurried all the way back instead of staying at the Cauldron after securing them as our new allies?"
[23:32] <Kotono> "May as well," Hanna finally says after some silent contemplation. "Are you sure she's not just using you?"
[23:35] <Jaela> "If I said I'm sure, it'd be wishful thinking, wouldn't it?" Jaela snorts, leading the way. It shouldn't be that far; a portal is there next to her room on the top floor, and she can shift it to exit right next to the main portal. "But I want to think I mean something to her." Keeping the portal keyed for her mother, she steps through first.
[23:38] <Kotono> Thus the two go through! You appear in the entry hall, by all the portals! Sitting by the sealed portal to Medi's quarters is Annalise. Her eyes glow blue, intently studying it. Not so much that she can't look up, "Hello Ja-" A stop as she sees Hanna, Hanna likewise freezing.
[23:40] <Kotono> "Well. Well, well, well," Hanna cracks her knuckles slowly, popping them loudly. The sound echos against her words, "Annalise, is it? So that's your true name, or is it just the name you're using now?"
[23:40] <Jaela> "Ah, I see Elena didn't tell you ahead of time," Jaela says nonchalantly, cursing the flighty, easily-spooked spirit in her mind. "Annalise, this is my mother Hanna. We met at the Court of the Stars and Lady Gwynharwyf commanded her to come to us. Mom, this is Annalise, and does ti really matter if she had other names before?"
[23:42] <Kotono> "Hanna? Better than Lena," Annalise says lightly as she rises, smirking as she comes forward, putting an arm around Jaela. "Oh, Silbeth named her first child after you."
[23:42] * Jaela raises her head. "Tell me you two didn't used to date. Please."
[23:43] <Kotono> "Charmed," Hanna observes, cold enough to freeze Fire solid. "It's too bad I never got to put my axe into yo-" Abruptly Hanna glares at Jaela. She says not a word, but the gaze is enough to make Jaela's blood run icy cold. "We were opponents in a game of political chess on the Prime, ages ago."
[23:44] <Kotono> "Hm, hm, hm." Annalise merely smiles, "I'd forgotten all about you. A game I won. Hardly worth playing when your opponent can be goaded into sacrificing place at the board to eliminate a mere pawn."
[23:44] <Kotono> "A lesson I learned from," Hanna replies right back, "I should thank you for that. It was a lesson that helped me control my anger better."
[23:45] <Jaela> "Please, behave," Jaela asks Annalise quietly. Her mother is a lost cause, without a doubt, but surely someone used to winning all these games of politics will recognize the need to play nice if nudged!
[23:45] <Kotono> "You're welcome," Annalise says airily, "A pleasure to meet you again, Hanna."
[23:46] * Jaela beams at her, even though that greeting comes off so fake even she can tell that much, and rewards Annalise with a kiss.
[23:47] <Kotono> "Strange how these things work out, eh?" Hanna goes on, starting to smile just a tiny little bit. "Things rep..."A stop there as Hanna takes a deep breath, "Things tend to repeat themselves eventually, don't they?"
[23:47] <Kotono> Annalise is all smiles, "Isn't it? Medicant has returned, we meet again. By the rule of three, something else is due to repeat, too."
[23:48] <Kotono> After a moment, Annalise snaps her fingers, "Of course! When the three of us have a night to pass, we really should eat dinner together. You remember the Vale, don't you, Hanna? We can go, for old times sake."
[23:51] <Jaela> It is all Jaela can do not to palm her face. They're both idiots. And she is the third one, for sticking with them. "There's no fucking way to play nice here, is there?" she asks brightly.
[23:52] <Kotono> That smile remains on Hanna's face, "Jaela doesn't really fit the role of Horatio, does she?" Hanna just nods to Jaela, "Jaela dear, shhh. Mother's talking to an unholy abomination that's going to transition to being an axing victim in the near future."
[23:53] <Kotono> "Oh, I think she is passing similar with her armor," Annalise continues to answer with an airy irrelevancy, "And don't be like that." Holding Jaela close, "We're virtually family now, you know, Hanna dear."
[23:54] <Jaela> "Have fun with this, you two." Giving Annalise another kiss, Jaela extracts herself from her embrace. "Since I can't stop that, at least don't make me sad by causing injuries I can't heal or seeding discord for our troops when they see their officers fight in the open." She heads back for the portal. "I'll go hang out with someone mature like the old man."
[23:55] <Kotono> "Have fun," Hanna calls, and as Jaela steps through, she can hear, "Now Annalise, speaking of Silbeth..."
[20:12] <Kotono> Civility. One can suppose that glares and quiet is good enough? Jaela gets her mother and lover together, as the two exchange the equivalent of ice bomb glares.
[20:13] <Jaela> "Isn't this great?" Jaela asks, playing her part at being entirely oblivious to that atmosphere. "I think we'll have lots of fun looking for those dragons we killed and then bringing them back. Any spells before I shift us over?"
[20:15] <Kotono> "I'm fine," Hanna says, while Annalise merely smiles.
[20:16] <Jaela> Divine Vigor will tide Jaela over in case something horrible happens, along with resistance from the five elements. But that is easily taken care of, and then she shifts the three of them to the scene of the battle with the pair of planar dragons!
[20:18] <Kotono> Travel like that is in the blink of an eye! You are surrounded by rainbow light from all directions! The powerful light immediately dazzles your eyes, overpowering! OOC: Fortitude save, all. Pass or fail you're all dazzled.
[20:18] <Jaela> roll 1d20+29
[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+29 and gets 35." [1d20=6]
[20:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 and gets 39." [1d20=14]
[20:19] <Kotono> "Tsch...like an hyper rainbow," Hanna squints her eyes and uses her hand to shield them. Ahead of you, you see a great conflux of rainbows where Baleruk's lair was. Twisting and twining in impossible directions, knitting together and twitching like blood vessels bringing rainbow colors to some hidden heart.
[20:20] <Jaela> "Pretty colors," Jaela finds herself murmuring, hating herself for that almost instantly.
[20:21] <Kotono> Annalise chuckles, "How fascinating," she drawls, "Now then, I believe our dragons should be a considerable distance downwards, as they fell on being slain."
[20:22] <Jaela> "Then let's try heading below?" Jaela suggests, leading the way.
[20:22] <Kotono> roll 1d100
[20:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 14." [1d100=14]
[20:23] <Kotono> Down you go! It takes a goodly timeto pass out of the neutral but ultimately agreeable rainbow colors. When you do, you find yourselfs plunging into icy cold waters! Hunks of ice and swirling bubbles of air fly through it. As you do, you notice something. Hanna and Annalise both glow like rainbows still, radiating all over their bodies. In fact, so does Jaela.
[20:24] <Jaela> "I feel so pretty," Jaela deadpans, calling upon Detect Magic to tell just what's happening to them and how bad it might be.
[20:26] <Kotono> "So pretty, happy and gay," Hanna drawls as well, as Jaela detects! OOC: Spellcraft real quick.
[20:26] <Jaela> roll 1d20+21
[20:26] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+21 and gets 40." [1d20=19]
[20:27] <Kotono> The colors have saturated into them. Harmless enough, but the three of you are going to glow like rainbows for awhile. Meanwhile after those words Hanna abruptly coughs, cold water filling her lungs! Quickly she starts to swim downward, as Annalise smirks as follows.
[20:28] * Jaela grimaces, but does her best to swim past this obstacle. She can always turn into stone if it becomes an issue.
[20:30] <Kotono> Down the trio swims! It takes a good minute of swimming before you reach the bottom! Below is what looks to be a roaring windstorm, bits of flaming, burning earth and larger molten rocks flying around in it! Annalise lookso at it and shrugs with a smirk, as if unimportant. Hanna glares at her and then points down, before gritting her teeth and taking the plunge!
[20:31] <Jaela> Are they taking it as a really involved dare? Jaela grits her teeth and follows her mother, to be better placed to get them out, if it comes to that.
[20:33] <Kotono> Annalise follows last, as the three of you plunge into the hellish windstorm! Immediately winds throw you about and flames lick you, casting you about wildly! OOC: Reflex save, you three.
[20:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 Hanna
[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 Hanna and gets 40." [1d20=19]
[20:33] <Jaela> roll 1d20+22
[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+22 and gets 41." [1d20=19]
[20:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+29 Annalise
[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+29 Annalise and gets 47." [1d20=18]
[20:34] <Kotono> roll 3d10+3d10 fire and bludgeoning damage. Latter does not beat any of your DRs.
[20:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d10+3d10 fire and bludgeoning damage. Latter does not beat any of your DRs. and gets 27." [3d10=7, 4, 2][3d10=1, 8, 5]
[20:48] <Kotono> The trio of women are tossed in the storm, battered by flaming rocks! Your sense of direction is lost as you're tossed about and about, like a set of tavern dice! Despite that, your magic and natural toughness absorbs most of the pain. As you are tossed about with one final throw, you find yourselves slamming hard into something! OW! Mrgh. At least the flaming wind has stopped, though dizziness
[20:48] <Kotono> wracks Jaela hard.
[20:49] <Jaela> "I violently don't like Limbo," she mutters, taking a moment to gather her faculties. Once she's sure she has all her limbs intact, she'd need to look after her mother and Annalise.
[20:50] <Kotono> Annalise is already up, utterly untouched and unperterbed. Hanna is getting up as well, wiping off some soot from her toga. "Annoying," is her opinion in a single word, as you get a look around. You stand on the deck of a ship? A ship that looks to be in fine condition, untouched and undamaged. ABove you cans ee the raging firestorm, still going on. The ship's mast and sails are long gone, but
[20:50] <Kotono> the deck looks entirely intact. There's a door leading into an aft cabin, as well as stairs leading belowdecks.
[20:51] <Kotono> "My, my. Limbo is always something new." Annalise steps forward.
[20:51] <Jaela> "Can we plane shift this ship?" Jaela finds herself wondering out loud.
[20:52] <Kotono> "No. Plane Shift only works on creatures, Jaela," Hanna says, "You'd need a large portal to get this anywhere."
[20:52] <Kotono> "My my, you think you'd have taught Jaela that. Oh that's right, you weren't there to teach her," Annalise muses, "I've been helping fill in a few holes in her education, but it's such a monumental undertaking."
[20:53] <Kotono> "Excuse me?" Hanna whirls towards Annalise, "I'm sorry, did I hear someone asking to be decapited?"
[20:54] <Jaela> "What is this, a two for one deal?" Jaela mutters, heading for the stairs leading below. "It's just a dumb question, no need to insult me over it."
[20:54] <Kotono> Annalise follows with a chuckle, "Perhaps your hearing is going in your advanced age, Hanna."
[20:55] <Jaela> "How many millennia ago was this, anyway? The way you two hold a grudge is beyond impressive."
[20:56] <Kotono> "That wasn't an insult," Hanna retorts levelling, following. "Holding a grudge? That implies I don't have reasons to turn Annalise into a greasy smear on the floor right now."
[20:56] <Kotono> Down belowdecks you find a long hall. Doors, dozens of doors! All leading intow hat may be cabins, stretching farther than you can see.
[20:57] <Jaela> Detect Magic is, as ever, her friend. Jaela opens the doors methodically, one by one, to take a look within each room. "Why don't you get it out of your system, then? I'm sure both of you are dying to tell me your side of that story."
[20:57] <Kotono> "So violent!" Annalise gasps, "I haven't raised a hand or made a threat to anyone today, but you're accruing them at an amazing speed. Perhaps you missed your calling being a war demon, hm? My, you seem to enjoy the thought of killing friends and family."
[20:58] <Kotono> "It's a long, stupid story," Hanna mutters, as Jaela casts detect magic! OOC: Spellcraft first.
[20:58] <Jaela> "Right, then. Annalise, you wanna start?"
[20:58] <Jaela> roll 1d20+21
[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+21 and gets 34." [1d20=13]
[20:59] <Kotono> There's magic, but Jaela can't make heads or tails of it at all. Whatever it is, it's most unusual. Going to the first door...
[20:59] <Kotono> roll 1d100
[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 19." [1d100=19]
[20:59] <Kotono> Within this room you find what looks to be a normal enough cabin. Bed, table, chair, portside window. Nothing awry or immediately interesting.
[21:00] <Jaela> Time to move on to the next cabin, and then onwards, until either something of notice can be spotted or it looks like it belonged to an important passanger or an officer.
[21:01] <Kotono> "Honestly, it's really rather simple. We competed in a royal court. Poor Hanna couldn't control her temper and killed a cousin of the King that I had gifted with this transcendant state. Of course, the King wasn't aware of this, and it just so happened guards came by at precisely the right time! Oh, your mother lead them on a merry chase across the castle as the elites were awoken. I hear she
[21:01] <Kotono> took most of themdown before one managed to slide a blade right into her chest. Isn't it amazing that the guards were so sure and fanatical of your guilt that they ignored your revealed angelic traits as you tried to negotiate?"
[21:03] <Kotono> "More like trickery and manipulation," Hanna drawls out, as Jaela checks the next room!
[21:03] <Kotono> roll 1d100
[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 92." [1d100=92]
[21:03] <Jaela> "They would've been dumb to, because illusion and enchantment magics exist," Jaela says with a shrug, exploring further. "How about trying to surrender? That might work."
[21:04] <Kotono> In this room you find that the walls turn to white stone marbled with black, polished to a mirror sheen. The room is vast, a red carpet leading further into it. Far away, at the edge of your vision, you can see some sort of rising ahead, but you aren't sure exactly what it is.
[21:05] <Kotono> "For some reason, the soldiers were all beyond reasoning. I wonder wh-hm?" Hanna stops, "Yeah, it's Limbo."
[21:06] <Jaela> "Also, from what I've learned, angels don't want blind obedience," Jaela muses, deciding to take a few steps into the room and have a closer look. "If you could just reveal yourself and get them to drop everything and follow you around, it'd be like they don't get to choose anything on their own."
[21:07] <Kotono> "Exactly," Hanna follows, "Free choice is important. Mortals aren't children to be herded and forever sheltered. I'd say it worked out well with you, Jaela."
[21:08] <Kotono> As you step in, your footsteps clatter. Each one is loud, echoing despite the large size of the 'room'. The carpet does nothing to silence them.
[21:09] * Jaela snorts. "I never thought I'd hear you approve so quickly." She decides to continue into the room until she can see the rising clearly.
[21:12] <Kotono> "Of course she would. If she didn't, I could easily point out how I was correcting her failures again," Annalise follows, floating just above the floor. "Besides, those who take my fancy are inevitably superior specimens."
[21:14] <Jaela> Topic change, topic change.... "So who were all those people you were talking about before? Horatio, Silbeth?"
[21:18] <Kotono> "People involved with the court," Hanna says, "Silbeth was my best friend there. Horatio was a minor nobleman who somehow became both our friends despite us hating one another." As you walk along, you can see the rise is a marble bier. Atop it lies a golden, gilded coffin. Engraved is what looks to be the repose of a bearded king, arms crossed over his chest.
[21:19] * Jaela raises an eyebrow. "Huh. Do we look inside? I think it's the thing to do when raiding tombs, even if the tomb is a strange Limbo-changed ship in a firestorm."
[21:21] <Kotono> "Of course we do," Annalise says, "What's the worst that can happen?"
[21:21] <Jaela> "Just for that, you're opening it."
[21:22] <Kotono> "Tymora's send countless souls to the hereafter who speak just those words," Hanna retorts, stepping back as well.
[21:22] * Jaela steps back to stand near her mother.
[21:22] <Kotono> Annalise shrugs and goes to open the tomb! She gives it a single casual push, the gold top sliding off! It lands with a deafening CLACK! Within Annalise peers in, "Ah, how quaint."
[21:23] <Jaela> Since it seems safe, Jaela heads over to take a curious peek.
[21:23] <Kotono> Within the tomb is empty space, turning to a silently twisting vortex. A portal?
[21:24] * Jaela rubs at her forehead. "I can only handle one level of diversions, I think. Let's go look at the other rooms."
[21:25] <Kotono> Walking back, you go to the next room!
[21:25] <Kotono> roll 1d100
[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 79." [1d100=79]
[21:25] <Kotono> roll 1d100 subtables time glee.
[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 subtables time glee. and gets 19." [1d100=19]
[21:26] <Jaela> "How long ago was this?" Jaela asks curiously. "Your Vale thing, I mean?"
[21:27] <Kotono> The third door is opened! Within you find three frog-men. Slaads, each one a pale gray. They sit around a table, playing cards. Abruptly one of them bolts up, pointing a rather sharp sword at the open door! "Jackpot! Visitors are a triple score on the red board!" he declares, cards and what looks to be gaming chips flying alla bout.
[21:28] <Kotono> "No! We are on the tasty purple wave instead!" The second rises, a meaty slap as he slaps the first across the face! "You fool, that is one step closer to a forfeit!"
[21:28] <Kotono> The third looks on and yawns, taking one of the cards and biting it in half. "More angels. Needs more angels."
[21:28] <Jaela> "Did you see a pyroclastic dragon and a radiant dragon floating together past these parts?" Jaela asks the frogs.
[21:29] <Kotono> As one the tree stop, staring at the party! The first one points and screams, so loud that the wood around you splinters! The second thrusts upward, gouging out his own eyes and curling into a fetal ball! The third shrugs and goes back to eating playing cards. "Who cares? They're not very tasty and certainly not stone-like food substances."
[21:30] <Kotono> Annalise shakes her head, "Slaad," she mutters, "Charming, butn ot high on the list of helpful beings."
[21:31] <Jaela> "Good day," Jaela says, closing the door back. "So, the Vale? Do you want me to guess? I'm thinking... ten thousand years. Hit it right?" She tries the next door.
[21:31] <Kotono> "That's-" As the third door closes, all the ship shimmers once, like a heat mirage! Then it is gone, the trio falling in an empty void, plunging towards what looks to be a rather rocky and windswept hunk of land!
[21:32] <Kotono> Annalise and Hanna immediately correct themselves in midair, "It's been..." Hanna murmurs, "At least that long. After all this centuries, exact times slip away from me," she admits, "Most centuries blur together."
[21:33] <Jaela> With a string of curses at that sudden loss of balance, Jaela is the last to correct her course and keep herself balanced in mid-air.
[21:34] <Jaela> "So, where to next?"
[21:34] <Kotono> "Jaela, watch your mouth!"Mother immediately corrects, then points down, "Down there and workf romt here? We've been heading down so far."
[21:35] <Jaela> "This time around, let's try tunneling through?" Jaela suggests, putting her mind to it.
[21:35] <Jaela> roll 1d20+5 wis?
[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+5 wis? and gets 13." [1d20=8]
[21:45] <Kotono> No good, Limbo refuses to obey! Hanna glowers at it, "My daughter said tunnel!" she retorts, focusing on it!
[21:45] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 wi
[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 wi and gets 25." [1d20=19]
[21:45] <Kotono> To that effort, a tunnel into the earth appears!
[21:45] <Jaela> "Nice."
[21:48] <Kotono> With that the trio fly downward! The earth is only 15ft or so deep, before opening up to a slab of solid metal!Atop the slab lies your two dragons! They are half skeleton, huge chunks of them gone! Lying besides it is a man that is reed thin. He is elven, spetacles on his face. His eyes are narrow and slanted, a serious expression on his face.
[21:49] <Jaela> "Hi. You are?"
[21:51] <Kotono> He wears a torn black tunic and leggings, well worn leather boots and a slender knife hangs from his belt. "The Operator. Unacceptable. Absolutely unacceptable." He looks up, "There is no secret in them."
[21:52] * Jaela first glances at Annalise and her mother to see if there is any recognition of either the man or his self-given title.
[21:52] <Jaela> "You like secrets?" she asks in the meantime. "What sort?"
[21:53] <Kotono> Hanna shrugs, while Annalise looks vaguely disinterested.
[21:54] <Kotono> "The secrets are in the flesh," he mutters, drawing his knife. More like a scapel, really. "Nothing from them. No secrets. Nothing special. Empty. Nothing but dead flesh."
[21:55] <Jaela> "You seem bored," Jaela comments, her eye lingering a moment on that scalpel. "Are you strong? What do you think about devils?"
[22:00] <Kotono> "Dead flesh," The Operator mutters again, shaking his head, "Devils? Are they living flesh? Do they have the secret?"
[22:00] <Kotono> "Jaela," Hanna murmurs under her breath, just audible to her daughter, "This man seems unhinged."
[22:01] <Jaela> "It's Limbo," Jaela responds. But she has to agree, here. If the man doesn't even know what devils are, he is useless. "I guess it wasn't meant to be. These things without secrets are ours. We came to take them back."
[22:03] <Kotono> "Why?!" He looks up, glasses falling from his face. He twitches all over, "Why?! Why do you want the things without secrets?! Are you telling me you can find the secret in these! No! Tell me! Where is the secret in them!?" With a howl he races at the remnants of the radiant dragon, slicing into it! Rotting flesh and dark hunks of innards splash on him, "WHERE IS THE SECRET?!?"
[22:03] <Kotono> "An utter lunatic," Annalise concludes, "Shall I kill him so we can cease his worthless prattling?"
[22:05] * Jaela purses her lips. "Let's put him down without killing him. That's a nice handicap." She raises her voice, summoning her armor and Val'Finnegan. "Yo, Operator! Step away from the dragon corpses or you'll get smacked around!"
[22:05] <Kotono> The Operator turns up and glares at the women, "NO! THE SECRET IS IN HERE AND YOU'RE GOING TO STEAL IT! I WON'T LET YOU STEAL THE SECRET!!!!!" With a howl of utter lunacy, the battle is joined! OOC: Init.
[22:06] <Jaela> roll 1d20+6
[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+6 and gets 18." [1d20=12]
[22:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 Hanna
[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 Hanna and gets 25." [1d20=17]
[22:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14 Annalise
[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 Annalise and gets 34." [1d20=20]
[22:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10 The Operator
[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 The Operator and gets 26." [1d20=16]
[22:07] * Kotono changes topic to 'Annalise(34)>The Operator(26)>Hanna(25)>Jaela(18)'
[22:08] <Kotono> Annalise yawns idly, "Merely knocking him out? Not the strongest suit of my magic," Annalise confesses, "I'm sure you two are better at this than I."
[22:09] <Jaela> "How hard can it be? Can't you Maze that fucker or something?"
[22:09] <Kotono> "If I must," Annalise yawns again, making a bored gesture, "Be mazed or something,"she intones, as...
[22:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12
[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 and gets 26." [1d20=14]
[22:11] <Kotono> He vanishes, only for a series of slashes to appear a moment later! Space rips apart as the Operator reappears, untouched! OOC: He used his turn on that. Go Hanna.
[22:13] <Kotono> Hanna plunges down, axe raised up sideways, before the flat of it slams down at the Operator!
[22:14] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (+2 charge, -4 non-lethal, -6 PA)
[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 (+2 charge, -4 non-lethal, -6 PA) and gets 31." [1d20=11]
[22:14] <Kotono> But the Operator dives back, rolling out of the way of the axe instead! OOC: Jaela.
[22:14] * Jaela winks out, only to materialize boots-deep in radiant dragon corpses. Leaving herself utterly open to retaliation, she strikes in tandem with her mother while doing her best to avoid his vitals!
[22:15] <Jaela> OOC: Knight's Move as swift, haste from armor as free, divine might, flanking
[22:15] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32-4 (nonlethal)
[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32-4 (nonlethal) and gets 32." [1d20=4]
[22:15] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32-4 (nonlethal)
[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32-4 (nonlethal) and gets 29." [1d20=1]
[22:15] <Jaela> roll 1d20+27-4 (nonlethal)
[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+27-4 (nonlethal) and gets 26." [1d20=3]
[22:15] <Jaela> roll 1d20+22-4 (nonlethal)
[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+22-4 (nonlethal) and gets 37." [1d20=19]
[22:17] <Kotono> Yet somehow not a single blow lands! The Operator dodges and weaves, seeming to almost trip, yet every time he evades injury! His eyes start to burn with furious malice, "The seeecret!" he howls, "Where is it?! WHERE IS THE SECRET?!" OOC: Annalise.
[22:18] <Jaela> "I've got your secret," Jaela calls to him with an insufferable smirk. "Try and take it from me!"
[22:18] <Kotono> "You're still alive? Untouched? Really?" Annalise observes, "Perhaps you're amusing enough to look at it after all!" At that her eyes glow a moment...but nothing happens, Annalise scowling. "...Such madness! Utterly depraved madness, completely untethered to reality. Don't bother trying to cloud his mind, it's far too sickened to affect!" OOC: Operator is up.
[22:20] <Kotono> As the dodges happen, The Operator grins, "The first secret...I'll show you!" With that, he draws his scapel inward, slicing deep into his left shoulder! Blood sprays out terrifically, as...
[22:20] <Kotono> roll 1d20+34 AC Jaela and Hanna both, Jaela first. This doesn't trigger or benefit from gambit, as it's not a direct physical attack.
[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+34 AC Jaela and Hanna both, Jaela first. This doesn't trigger or benefit from gambit, as it's not a direct physical attack. and gets 45." [1d20=11]
[22:20] <Kotono> roll 1d20+34 Hanna
[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+34 Hanna and gets 39." [1d20=5]
[22:21] <Kotono> roll 1d4+18+4d6+2d10 and fortitude saves, you two.
[22:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4+18+4d6+2d10 and fortitude saves, you two. and gets 47." [1d4=2][4d6=5, 1, 6, 6][2d10=4, 5]
[22:22] <Kotono> OOC: Beats both of your DRs.
[22:22] <Jaela> roll 1d20+29
[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+29 and gets 37." [1d20=8]
[22:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 and gets 28." [1d20=3]
[22:23] <Kotono> Great slices appear in your left shoulders, matching his and more! While Jaela's is merely a deep cut, Hanna's left arm is severed at the shoulder! It falls away as blood gushes from her horrific wound, a primal scream of agony and fury erupting from Hanna! OOC: Hanna's up.
[22:23] <Jaela> "Screw this, take this crazy asshole out!" Jaela decides. "The fuck?!"
[22:25] <Kotono> Hanna grimaces and concentrates, flying back, "I'll support, I can't fight well witho ne arm!" With that she gestures, a holy smite of pure power erupting around the madman!
[22:25] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28
[22:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 and gets 40." [1d20=12]
[22:27] <Kotono> But somehow it retreats away from him, leaving the bloodied and soiled and bleeding elf without further damage! His smile grows as his blood sprays out and mingles with the blood of the two women trying to kill him, "Secreeet," he carols, reaching up to lick his scapel clean, cutting his tongue apart at the same time! OOC: Jaela.
[22:27] <Jaela> After a full-body shudder, Jaela rips into this freak with all the fury she can muster!
[22:27] <Jaela> roll 1d20+30
[22:27] <Jaela> roll 1d20+30
[22:27] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+30 and gets 41." [1d20=11]
[22:27] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+30 and gets 43." [1d20=13]
[22:27] <Jaela> roll 1d20+25
[22:27] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+25 and gets 40." [1d20=15]
[22:27] <Jaela> roll 1d20+20
[22:27] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+20 and gets 27." [1d20=7]
[22:28] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits.
[22:28] <Jaela> roll 3#1d8+23+9+2d6
[22:28] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 3#1d8+23+9+2d6 and gets 132." [3#1d8+23+9+2d6 = 43, 44, 45]
[22:28] <Jaela> roll 1d4+5 close wounds on Hanna
[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d4+5 close wounds on Hanna and gets 8." [1d4=3]
[22:33] <Kotono> WIth a surge of disgust, Jaela thrusts forward! His chest is now homet o a hole instead of a heart, but not like that stops him! His blood sprays out endless, not dimishing from splurt after splurt! Within that hole you can see...no, you don't. No. Your eyes refuse. You feel your eyes burn and water, vision flashing out, as if the colors of the world were reversed into harsh pain. Meanwhile
[22:33] <Kotono> above, "Die," Annalise says in a single word, motes of electricity above her her gathering and morphing into a single beam of utter destruction!
[22:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 (Split ray+empower)
[22:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 (Split ray+empower)
[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 (Split ray+empower) and gets 29." [1d20=13]
[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 (Split ray+empower) and gets 17." [1d20=1]
[22:34] <Kotono> But somehow the creature before you evades both of the beams! Annalise stares a moment before growling low in her throat, a third beam riposting out of her finger!
[22:34] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 (Qquicken)
[22:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 (Qquicken) and gets 26." [1d20=10]
[22:35] <Kotono> But even this one is dodged, as The Operator brings his scapel up! Despite his split tongue he speaks, "The SECOND SECRET!" He declares, drawing his scapel across his face at eye level, his eyes popping with a wet PLOP!
[22:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20+34 Jaela AC?
[22:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+34 Jaela AC? and gets 35." [1d20=1]
[22:35] <Kotono> A cutting force breezes by Jaela's face, but misses by a mere inch! Blood pours from his popped eyes! OOC: Hanna.
[22:36] <Jaela> "Eye! Watch the eye!"
[22:36] <Kotono> Hanna gestures, as a beam of fire erupts down fromt he heavens to immolate this heretic!
[22:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+32 reflex
[22:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+32 reflex and gets 34." [1d20=2]
[22:37] <Kotono> Again, somehow the column of fire is avoided! Not a single bit of The Operator is burnt! OOC: Go Jaela.
[22:38] <Jaela> "Annalise!" she snaps angrily. "This fucker doesn't last another second! Let's get him!"
[22:38] <Jaela> And Val'Finnegan strikes out repeatedly to do her bidding, filled to the brim with holy energy!
[22:38] <Kotono> "Shred him," Annalise growls now, "How dare you avoid our magic?!"
[22:38] <Jaela> roll 1d20+30 racial smite
[22:38] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+30 racial smite and gets 48." [1d20=18]
[22:38] <Jaela> roll 1d20+39 smite
[22:38] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+39 smite and gets 44." [1d20=5]
[22:38] <Jaela> roll 1d20+34 smite
[22:38] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+34 smite and gets 51." [1d20=17]
[22:38] <Jaela> roll 1d20+29 smite
[22:38] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+29 smite and gets 46." [1d20=17]
[22:38] <Kotono> OOC: All hit.
[22:39] <Jaela> roll 4#1d8+23+9+2d6
[22:39] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 4#1d8+23+9+2d6 and gets 175." [4#1d8+23+9+2d6 = 44, 47, 43, 41]
[22:39] <Jaela> roll 175+5+5+5+15
[22:39] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 175+5+5+5+15 and gets 205."
[22:40] <Kotono> Jaela channels every drop of power within her, stabbing forward! With a burst of holy power the body of The Operator is vaporied! All that is left is its head, lying there...and then veins. Veins come out, thousands of them, like a milling of tiny feat! His empty eyes have veins come out of them as well, like long, fine whips!OOC: Annalise.
[22:40] <Kotono> Annalise channels all her power, firing three more beams with a growl of utter disgust!
[22:40] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 (Split and empower)
[22:40] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 (Split and empower)
[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 (Split and empower) and gets 24." [1d20=8]
[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 (Split and empower) and gets 33." [1d20=17]
[22:40] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 (Quicken plus sudden maximize)
[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 (Quicken plus sudden maximize) and gets 36." [1d20=20]
[22:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 (Quicken plus sudden maximize) crit?
[22:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 (Quicken plus sudden maximize) crit? and gets 22." [1d20=6]
[22:41] <Kotono> roll 27d6*1.5 sudden empower, I mean
[22:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 27d6*1.5 sudden empower, I mean and gets 145.5." [27d6=2, 4, 5, 5, 3, 3, 4, 6, 4, 4, 1, 1, 6, 2, 6, 2, 4, 4, 5, 5, 1, 5, 1, 1, 6, 4, 3]
[22:42] <Kotono> The beamed Moonbows fly, one catching the head right on! It swells with electricity, parts of his hair exploding out and burning! But the head is still going, still fighting! The thousands of veins from its eyes erupt out, trying to enwrap Jaela!
[22:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30 CMD, Jaela?
[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30 CMD, Jaela? and gets 46." [1d20=16]
[22:43] <Jaela> OOC: 33
[22:43] <Jaela> OOC: Do I get an AoO or something?
[22:43] <Kotono> OOC: No, he has the relevant feat for it.
[22:44] <Kotono> roll 15d8 damage
[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 15d8 damage and gets 56." [15d8=8, 5, 2, 1, 1, 4, 2, 7, 3, 2, 2, 6, 3, 3, 7]
[22:44] <Kotono> The veins lash against Jaela, digging into her skin! Blood flows through them, out of Jaela and towards the head! Its wounds begin to mend, a pair of full sized feet and ankles now coming out of the severed neck, supporting the head further! OOC: Hanna.
[22:45] <Kotono> "What...what is this?!" Hanna stares in utter disgust, limping forward just enough to touch Jaela and Heal her wounds! OOC: Heal. Go Jaela.
[22:46] <Kotono> "I...AM...THE...PERFECT....LIFEFORM!" The Operator howls, each word garbled and sending blood out of its mouth, "I HAVE...EVOLVED...PAST DEATH!"
[22:47] <Jaela> Grimacing, Jaela attempts to eradicate the thing before her. Just one more time, this isn't the first time they are fighting something that needs to be killed twice, so once more--
[22:47] <Jaela> roll 1d20+30
[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+30 and gets 34." [1d20=4]
[22:47] <Jaela> roll 1d20+30
[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+30 and gets 45." [1d20=15]
[22:47] <Jaela> roll 1d20+25
[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+25 and gets 43." [1d20=18]
[22:47] <Jaela> roll 1d20+20
[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+20 and gets 39." [1d20=19]
[22:47] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
[22:48] <Jaela> roll 2#1d8+23+9+2d6
[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 2#1d8+23+9+2d6 and gets 79." [2#1d8+23+9+2d6 = 40, 39]
[22:48] <Kotono> With one concerted thrust, Jaela impales the Operator through the head! There is a heavy crack as skull gives way, blood pouring out once more! To this it tries to twitch once and then twice...and then goes still! Is it over? OOC: Free act.
[22:49] * Jaela uses a Heal on her mother, eyeing this monster warily. "Get your, umm, arm? Before it goes too far?"
[22:50] <Kotono> Annalise does it for her, picking up Hanna's arm. She sniffs it curiously a moment, dabbing her tongue against the stump. "Mmm, I see where Jaela gets it," she says, her eyes on the remnants of the Operator, "Rarely have I see something so viserally unpleasant," Annalise says, "I have seen worse, but not all that many."
[22:51] <Jaela> "Hey, don't lick-- oh, I can't say it." Jaela slumps in defeat. "Just-- just don't. Please."
[22:52] <Kotono> Hanna glares at Annalise, taking the arma nd cradling it to her, axe held as well. "Jaela had the right idea. There wasn't any reason to kill it until we realized how perverse it was," She says tiredly.
[22:52] <Kotono> As you talk...you begin to hear a slurping, wet noise.
[22:53] <Jaela> "I'm sorry," Jaela says uncomfortably. "It was dumb to do it when others could be put in danger." She shudders, then, and channels her magic. "Quick. Can this thing survive being plane shifted to the plane of positive energy?"
[22:54] <Kotono> "I don't know, I really don't," Hanna replies, as the blood splattered about begins to move! It flows towards the head of the Operator!
[22:54] <Kotono> "...now this is curious and curiouser," Annalise pauses entirely, kneeling down to the running blood. "Could he...? No, I know all of them, but..." she murmurs, "It's still impressive regenerative ability."
[22:56] <Jaela> "Fuck! Let's try this, then!" Jaela impales the head again and again, before tossing it aside and calling out, "Mom, Annalise, seal it in magma!"
[22:56] <Kotono> OOC: Tryign to control Limbo?
[22:56] <Jaela> OOC: I want them to, yes
[22:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 Hanna
[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 Hanna and gets 9." [1d20=3]
[22:57] <Jaela> OOC: For me, let's just say I'm countering his regen and then some
[22:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+4 Annalise
[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+4 Annalise and gets 11." [1d20=7]
[22:57] <Kotono> Despite effort, no magma comes! Meanwhile Jaela stabs the head over and over! As she does...
[22:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 AC?
[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 AC? and gets 33." [1d20=13]
[22:58] <Jaela> OOC: 25
[22:58] <Kotono> roll 1d4+12+1d6
[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4+12+1d6 and gets 15." [1d4=2][1d6=1]
[22:58] <Kotono> OOC: Bypasses DR.
[22:58] <Kotono> A shooting, stabbing pain flares in the back of Jaela's right leg, as if she was stabbed!
[22:58] <Kotono> "Again," Annalise says evenly, "Limbo, obey!"
[23:00] * Jaela decides to join them, this time, rather than feel the unique experience of stabbing herself.
[23:00] <Jaela> roll 1d20+5 wis
[23:00] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+5 wis and gets 20." [1d20=15]
[23:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+4
[23:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+4 and gets 18." [1d20=14]
[23:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
[23:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 18." [1d20=12]
[23:00] <Kotono> This time magma comes flowing, forming all around the head! Magma pours onto it and burns it, burying it hot!
[23:02] <Jaela> With that taken care off, Jaela focuses on that thing's blood, commanding it, "Burn!"
[23:02] <Jaela> roll 1d20+5
[23:02] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+5 and gets 22." [1d20=17]
[23:02] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
[23:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 11." [1d20=5]
[23:02] <Kotono> roll 1d20+4
[23:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+4 and gets 17." [1d20=13]
[23:02] <Kotono> Fire erupts around all the moving blood, burning it away!
[23:03] <Jaela> "If-- if it survived, at least that weird link with us from our blood mixing should be gone, now," Jaela says, sounding a bit uncertain. "Uh, let's just... get our dragons and go."
[23:03] <Kotono> "If it did, let another fret over it," Annalise says, though she goes to kneel besides the puddle of already cooling magma. She murmurs a few words, peering down.
[23:04] <Kotono> Hanna nods with a slight shake, "How are we getting them back?"
[23:05] * Jaela calls upon Righteous Might and Holy Transformation in quick succession. It might seem a bit heartless to do this instead of getting her mother to Jarl, but returning to Limbo yet again would be a horrible prospect that her mind shies away from. "Annalise, you've got a spell to boost your strength, too, right?" Jaela asks her, now larger. "If we two work together, we should pick one of these things up long enough for the transport."
[23:06] <Kotono> "...hm?" Annalise doesn't even look up, intent on the magma-buried head before her. "What was that?"
[23:06] <Jaela> "Having fun? I'm thinking we leave Limbo with the magma dragon. Up to it?"
[23:07] <Kotono> No reply at first, "I'm staying for a time," Annalise announces, "This merits further study. Do you need my aid to return to Aurora?"
[23:08] <Jaela> "It... does?" Jaela asks simply, blinking. "...why?"
[23:08] <Kotono> "This sort of incredibly potent regeneration is rare. One of the few who can grant it was the First." She doesn't even look up, "What is he but a vampire, with how he reveled in blood and sucked your own?"
[23:09] <Jaela> "But... you are one. An immortal one. Isn't it a step down for you?"
[23:10] <Kotono> "Of course. He's nothing but trash compared to me," Annalise still doesn't look up, "It does not mean that I'm not curious to precisely what it is now."
[23:11] * Jaela nods curtly. "Okay. Pick that thing up. Let's return, dump his ass in a prison cell and then you'll get to study it all you want."
[23:12] <Kotono> Picking up the cooling lump of stone-magma, Annalise ignores the smouldering burns it makes. They begin to heal seconds after they appear, "Let's," she says.
[23:13] <Jaela> It would require a bit of effort, but Jaela can certainly take them across to the Aurora's courtyard, dump the magma dragon and return for a second trip with the radiant one before her spells expire.