D 001

[Corwin]

[14:58] <Alicia> [21:32] <Kotono> "Have you eaten a courre, Marie?" Antenora doesn't turn her gaze away from Alicia, though she does smirk. "Everything include some unusual choices of food."
[14:58] <Alicia> [21:33] <Alicia> Marie just blushes. "Everything that actually counts as food, I meant..." she amends embarrassedly.
[14:58] <Alicia> [21:33] <Kotono> Aym watches all of them, those his gaze almost always stay son Alicia. "I am done eating, when you wish to go."
[14:58] <Alicia> [21:36] <Alicia> "Alright, wait here for a moment," Alicia rises and departs, gesturing for Marie to follow her. She returns a moment later, now sans familiar and carrying the planetar's greatsword. "Antenora, can you look after Hell Striker while I'm gone?" she asks, holding out her usual blade to the erinyes.
[14:58] <Alicia> [21:37] <Kotono> Antenora takes it, holding it down the middle. "Good fortune, and may the Hebdomad watch over you as well as Mystra."
[14:58] <Alicia> [21:40] <Alicia> "Thanks," Alicia smiles. "Take care of the place while we're gone," she adds warmly before turning her attention to Aym. "Now we go to find out what must be done to cleanse this weapon. A far easier process than changing a person, I might add."
[14:59] <Kokokokokoko> Aym follows Alicia, Hell Striker left behind for the Fallen's greatsword in her hand.
[14:59] <Kokokokokoko> OOC - Gaaah.
[15:00] <Kokokokokoko> Aym follows Alicia, Hell Striker left behind for the Fallen's greatsword in her hand. As the two head to the streets, "Mystra?" he asks quietly, his gaze seemingly uninterested in anything but Alicia. "One of the inferiors to Torm?"
06[15:06] * Alicia stops. "I suggest you have a care with such words, Aym," she tells him, turning to face the heavily built planetouched. "Mystra does not perform gaudy demonstrations nor is she a braggart, but in truth I know that she is second to none. None may call her inferior."
[15:11] <Kokokokokoko> Aym does not blink or turn away, though people on the same street generally give the two space or looks, or both. "Then what of the Torm you spoke of just a little while ago?"
[15:14] <Alicia> "Torm held to an admirable doctrine. One of honour, chivalry, and justice," Alicia nods briefly. "There is much to be respected in that, and it is not incompatible with Mystra's teachings. But he has never been and never will be superior to the Mother of All Magic."
[15:15] <Kokokokokoko> Aym moves to speak once, then again, though at the second he bites his tongue. He starts to walk instead.
[15:17] <Alicia> "If you have something to say then say it," Alicia suggests, keeping in step with her charge. "I am ever willing to debate theology and morality with you."
[15:18] <Kokokokokoko> "Torm is superior," He stops there and turns to Alicia, veins in his neck bulging. "What heresy is this, claiming that Mystra is stronger?"
[15:25] <Alicia> "It's quite simple. Mystra has always been among the strongest of the gods. From what I understand, Torm was the junior member of the Triad - both Ilmater and Tyr are greater in stature, from what I know," Alicia explains. "But really, a deity's power isn't as important as what they do with it. Shar rivals Mystra in power, and I hold no respect for her, after all."
[15:32] <Kokokokokoko> "I find your claim foolish...but...at least you are correct on one point. Rage used for nothing is worthless. Rage used to to destroy in the name of Torm is not."
[15:34] <Alicia> "What's ironic is that you're likely more privy to Torm's desires than I am to Mystra's," Alicia shakes her head, sighing softly as they head into her temple. "Regardless, if you at least acknowledge that focused and directed rage is better than mindless and random fury, I'll consider that a start."
[15:36] <Kokokokokoko> The Temple of Mystra bustles. Worshippers come and go, as a young man dressed in light robes talks to a small crowd. He waves his hand, colored lights playing in the air around him. Aym only glances at them once or twice, then, "Why do you not radiate like before?" he asks after a pause.
[15:40] <Alicia> "It loses its impact if maintained constantly," Alicia replies honestly, looking around for Shankar. "Either that or it attracts undue attention. Regardless, it's something I choose to use sparingly in circumstances when it can have the best effect."
[15:41] <Kokokokokoko> Shankar is found in the libraries, reading deeply of an old leather bound tome. On Alicia's arrival, "Blessings of the Weave," he says earnestly, "Welcome, champion. What brings you to the home of Mystra today?"
[15:42] <Alicia> "Hello, Shankar," Alicia smiles, holding up her greatsword, "I have another unholy weapon that needs to be repurposed towards the light."
[15:43] <Kokokokokoko> "Turning a tool of darkness into a tool of light using the Weave pleases Mystra. Come," Putting the book aside and glancing at Aym with a raised eyebrow, "Have you brought another to see the wonders of Mystra's will?"
[15:45] <Alicia> "Aym is a servant of Torm," Alicia explains, her tone making it very clear that this isn't exactly a good thing. "I intend for him to come with me on this quest to better appreciate what's involved in serving the cause of justice."
[15:49] <Kokokokokoko> Shankar bows his head, "Then so be it, by Mystra's will." Aym doesn't comment to this, as Shankar leads you to the altar. He takes the greatsword and puts it there, going into prayer for a time. For perhaps an hour he is in trance, before rising to his feet. He looks to Alicia, "Pray to Mystra, for I feel she will give you revelation this day."
06[15:52] * Alicia does her best to conceal her surprise, and the sense of giddy anticipation that follows from those words. "I understand," she nods with a solid show of composure, settling herself down by kneeling before the altar with head bowed. Focusing her mind towards her deity, she begins to silently pray to the Lady of Mysteries...
[15:54] <Kokokokokoko> roll 1d20+1
06[15:54] * Hatbot --> "Kokokokokoko rolls 1d20+1 and gets 21." [1d20=20]
[15:56] <Kokokokokoko> The noise of the temple becomes dimmer and dimmer as Alicia prays. The world drowns out to the soft, steady beating of her own heart. In her mind's eye, she sees the FAllen once more. His words echo in the vaults of Alicia's soul, "Never again will I bow to creatures of dust!" The rage on his face is recalled as he was stricken down. Mists. Mists are coming. Alicia will/shall/has already walked down the crystalline steps, through the mist
[15:56] <Kokokokokoko> Alicia will/shall/has already walked down the crystalline steps, through the mists. Through the mists, into an incorpreal realm, a silver sea of nothingness. (More)
[15:59] <Kokokokokoko> Deep within this silver sea Alicia flies, proceeding on. Somewhere in it, a Beast lies. Somewhere an incarnation of hatred and rage is about to awaken. It must be stopped. Sanctify this sword on the blood of the creature that would rend any it sees apart!
[15:59] <Kokokokokoko> (More)
[16:02] <Kokokokokoko> The voice speaks in Alicia's mind for the barest moment, a whisper telling her of what must be done. Stop this beast, triumph over it's unreasoning hatred. Prove that you are superior to mindless fury while bearing the curse of the blade and the reduced insight it suffers on you. The voice bids Alicia to stand and thus she does. It is quiet in the temple now, dark. Torches and lanterns are lit, often flickering with purple and violet tint
[16:02] <Kokokokokoko> Torches and lanterns are lit, often flickering with purple and violet tinted flames. Alicia's body aches a bit, stiff. Shankar awaits behind the altar, waiting.
[16:04] <Alicia> "Mmm..." Alicia rolls her neck, feeling and hearing the resulting crick. "Uatu..." she whispers distantly before focusing on the here and now. "How long was I...?" she lets the question trail off leadingly, her intent clear.
[16:06] <Kokokokokoko> "About nine hours, asleep and yet awake." He reacehs out, clasping Alicia's shoulder. Despite the stiffness, Alicia doesn't feel tired at all - rested, vitality coming as she works out the kinks. "Did you see what you wished to see?"
[16:07] <Alicia> "Yes," she nods, "I must go to Pilltain, and from there find a creature of purest rage and hatred. By this blade must it be felled," she picks up Soul's Enslavement before turning to see if Aym is still here.
[16:09] <Kokokokokoko> Aym sits a ways away, eyes on Alicia. He stands as she turns, "I am ready," he says simply. As Alicia grasps Soul's Enslavement, she feels a weight on her. A weight of muted fury, seeming to surge from the sword itself. In her mind flashes a thousand screams for battle, a million broken foes beneath her bloodied boot. 
06[16:14] * Alicia shivers briefly at the pull the sword now has on her, now wanting to depart immediately despite what her usual better judgement would show. Still, she does have to report to Oberuth first... "It's late. We'll rest until dawn and then depart after I report to the Commander and requisition horses for us," she decides.
[16:16] <Kokokokokoko> "Mystra be with you," Shankar intones, af ew words murmured under his breath. Silver and violet fire arcs in the various lights around the temple proper, casting burst of light and shadow about.
02[16:16] * Hatbot (~Hatbot@70.114.129.129) Quit (Hatbot)
[16:17] <Alicia> Leading Aym to her home, Alicia sets up a bedroll in the study for him to sleep in tonight and is reunited with her familiar before going to bed, who is then tasked with keeping an eye on him through the night. Which she's able to do from a different room in the house simply by using detect evil.
03[16:18] * Rei-chan (Rei-chan@user-5440f0c1.wfd81a.dsl.pol.co.uk) has joined #dunes
03[16:18] * Alicia sets mode: +v Rei-chan
[16:21] <Kokokokokoko> The night passes for Marie well enough. Aym sleeps until about dawn, so there's no problems at all. Later in the night Antenora stirs to go out and practice, but that's hardly of note. Come dawn Alicia rises...
[16:24] <Alicia> Marie makes sure to harass Antenora a bit during her practice by saying how she was convinced to become lawful herself during their earlier impassioned speeches to Aym and asking if Antenora can teach her. She still keeps half an eye on the evil aura in the house throughout and then leaves once Antenora gets sufficiently irritated.
[16:24] <Alicia> Come morning Alicia takes Aym towards the garrison so she can report her impending absence to the commander and grab a pair of fast horses.
[16:26] <Kokokokokoko> Commander Oberuth is up and with the dawn, getting the overnight report as Alicia arrives. As he listens to how a goodwoman chased off someone trying to rustle around her front door, "We'll finish this a little later," he says to the guardsman, turning to Alicia. "Coming by this early...you're leaving soon?"
[16:27] <Alicia> "That's right," Alicia nods. "I've been tasked with eliminating some manner of beast that I can only reach with Uatu's help. Since it's a bit of a trip to get there it's best to depart immediately."
[16:29] <Kokokokokoko> "Good fortune to you then." With a curt, quick look to Aym, "Safe travel then."
[16:31] <Alicia> Getting the requisite pair of horses, Alicia and Aym leave Balmuria, with Marie following perhaps half a mile behind in her incorporeal form and making a cursory effort at not being seen by any other travellers on the road. Whenever they make camp or stop at an inn, she'll catch up in order to watch over her sleeping Mistress as they agreed the previous day.
[16:33] <Kokokokokoko> roll 1d100
[16:33] <Rei-chan> Kokokokokoko rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=66 ]{66}
[16:33] <Kokokokokoko> roll 1d100
[16:33] <Rei-chan> Kokokokokoko rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=60 ]{60}
[16:33] <Kokokokokoko> roll 1d100
[16:33] <Rei-chan> Kokokokokoko rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=41 ]{41}
[16:36] <Kokokokokoko> The trip is a quiet enough one, travel taking the place of conversation. It's a mix of campouts and inn visits - though Alicia finds her money is no good in most inns, reconized and treated like a queen instead.  Aym seems content enough to travel along, the rising hills of Pilltain ahead. One afternoon, Alicia and Aym ride towards the monastery where Uatu rests. As they approach it, they find a bank of mist ahead, blocking the way.
[16:36] <Kokokokokoko> As they approach it, they find a bank of mist ahead, blocking the way.
[16:40] <Alicia> And here they also find Marie waiting for them, since she can't very well stay hidden while they negotiate passage with Uatu. "What took you so long?" the eladrin chirps, doing her best to maintain a cheery outlook inspite of the creepy empathic feedback she's been getting from Alicia throughout this quest. It's better than the hunger, anyway.
[16:40] <Alicia> "We can't all fly as well as you, Marie," Alicia replies with a smile as she dismounts. "This place is watched over by Helm," she adds for Aym's benefit. "You may find the aura within the mists either unsettling or comforting - it's different for everyone, so I understand."
[16:40] <Alicia> "Seems a bit creepy to me," the eladrin mutters, glancing suspiciously at the mists ahead.
[16:42] <Kokokokokoko> The mists seem to slightly part as Alicia comes close. "The Etherial?" Aym peers ahead into the mists, sending Marie hardly a look at all, his attention on Alicia otherwise.
[16:43] <Alicia> "Something like that, yes," Alicia nods. "The being within is connected to all places through it. Come," she slowly leads her horse into the mists.
[16:46] <Kokokokokoko> Into the mists the party goes! Aym looks about as white fog surrounds the party, a soft frown on his face. Marie feels...like she was in Dweomerheart, connected. Connected to Mystra, like the distances of the Prime Material Plane matter little. For Alicia, it's like a forgotten third eye opening, a closeness filling her body and mind.
[16:48] <Alicia> Well, that takes care of the creepiness for Marie, while Alicia feels considerably more together than she has since taking up Soul's Enslavement. "I wonder where the guardians are?" she muses as they carefully advance onwards.
[16:57] <Kokokokokoko> As they advance onward, a misty gate can be seen ahead. Four men in full armor are there, keeping an unblinking vigil, open faced helmets worn with the heavy plate. "Who comes to the protected realm?" one of the men calls.
[16:59] <Alicia> "Alicia Reynes, Marielle, and Aym," Alicia answers as she comes to a stop before them. "I have been tasked to seek out Uatu once more by the Mother of all Magic."
[17:01] <Kokokokokoko> The four guards part, the gate ahead opening wide. Mist comes forth from it as it is opened, obscuring everything. "The path ahead is open. Go for what you seek, Alicia Reynes."
[17:03] <Alicia> "Can our horses be stabled here?" Alicia asks before proceeding. They certainly wouldn't be able to negotiate the razor sharp staircase ahead, anyway.
[17:05] <Kokokokokoko> "It shall be done," One of the guards says. Aym glances ahead at the misty passage, crossing his arms over his ches.t
[17:06] <Alicia> "Thank you, servants of the Watcher," Alicia nods graciously to them, handing the reins of her horse over before leading her little troupe onwards.
[17:13] <Kokokokokoko> As they three walk in, they find themselves seamlessly walking down a stair of razors, as if a blink a great dream occured. A stair of crystalline mists and fog, for dancing here and there in the mists around, you can see armored men on patrol, glimpsed.
06[17:14] * Alicia is somewhat comforted by the strong presence of the guardians here. Hopefully it'll keep the likes of Esthan away. "Let me do the talking," she cautions Marie and to a lesser extent Aym, "Uatu is... different. We don't want any misunderstandings."
[17:15] <Alicia> "I've got experience talking to things with strange mindsets. I've even been told I have a strange mindset!" Marie chirps brightly in reply. "But okay, sure, this is your vision and everything."
[17:16] <Kokokokokoko> At the thought of Esthan, there is a momentary ripple in the air. To the side a brief image appears, mists framing around it. You see a blasted landscape, fireballs crashing down and around - then a bleak, black icy wasteland, black oil overtaking all with endless lethargy - then a burning lake of fire, silent screams glanced for the barest second.  Aym glances about, "As you wish..." he murmurs distractedly.
06[17:19] * Alicia frowns slightly at the glimpse of baator, knowing that one day she'll probably return there. But not today, even though she's likely going somewhere that could be just as bad, wherever this creature of rage and hate stirs.
[17:24] <Kokokokokoko> Each step takes you deeper into the mists, closer away from what you may have known before. Alicia feels a rapture pass over her, serenity calming her nerves. At last the stairs end, a platform in the mists. Beyond it, outside of it, surrounded by a thousand walls and thorns of transparent crystal, cloaked in light, Uatu sits. Eight men surround it, each with unyielding gazes as they stand at full posture, watching all that approach, stna
[17:24] <Kokokokokoko> each with unyielding gazes as they stand at full posture, watching all that approach, standing in the mists as if it were solid. Each wears armor engraved with the eye of Helm, each has the mist cling to them like a second skin.
06[17:26] * Alicia approaches, not disturbing the guards if they don't disturb her. "Uatu," she speaks up. "I am sorry to disturb you once more, but I come on the errand of a goddess. Will you help me this day?"
[17:28] <Kokokokokoko> Each guard faces a directional point; one faces Alicia and company directly because of this. "Uatu shall open the way for you, for you are blessed and honored by us," he speaks then, his eyes sweeping the endless, misty horizons. "Champion of Mystra, step forward and proceed."
06[17:29] * Alicia smiles at the guard. "Thank you," she tells him, advancing towards the crystal with Marie fluttering just behind her.
[17:31] <Kokokokokoko> Aym follows, a frown bored onto his face. As the trio advances, all is lost in mist! Thus in the mist they walk, cloaked! It is not long until it parts this time, showing them what is ahead - no, what is around them now. An endless silver sea of nothing as far as the eye can see and farther...OOC - Go ahead and make an K:P check here, it's relevant.
[17:32] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16
[17:32] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+16 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{17}
[17:32] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 for Marie
[17:32] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+16 for Marie --> [ 1d20=14 ]{30}
[17:36] <Alicia> "We're on the astral plane," Marie announces for the benefit of everyone else, sensing Alicia's confusion. "Time doesn't flow here, but it will catch up to you when we leave, so you'd still better eat and drink even if you don't feel hungry. It's really easy to cast spells, though, and you can fly just by thinking where you want to go."
[17:36] <Alicia> "It's so... empty," Alicia looks around in all directions, looking for any sort of landmark.
[17:38] <Kokokokokoko> Alicia can see none at all. All about is simple emptiness. Aym rumbles from deep in his chest, "I've been here once before," he says, starting to move, moving without walking or seeming to exert anye ffort at all. "Think to move."
[17:39] <Alicia> "Antenora said she's been here once as well, but I never asked her much about it," Alicia admits, experimentally trying to propel herself straight onwards in the direction she was already facing upon arriving here, since it's as good as any.
[17:43] <Kokokokokoko> It's simple enough, Alicia finding herself jetting along at quite a good clip! Aym follows, a little slower than her.
06[17:44] * Alicia slows down to match Aym's pace. "So if you've been here before, what do you know about the place?" she asks the berserker. Marie seems to have little trouble zipping along at the same speed as everyone else.
[17:47] <Kokokokokoko> "It's mostly empty, but danger canc ome on you at a moment's notice. We were nearly swept into a psychic storm that may have cast us about to any corner of the cosmos," The answer is short, though Aym's voice strains at the end. "We overcame it."
[17:49] <Alicia> "I know the Githyanki live here as well... they have a bad reputation, but can be reasoned with," Alicia muses as they zip along through the astral.
[17:49] <Alicia> "You want to watch out for coloured pools - they're portals that can take you anywhere. Great if you wind up in Elysium, not so great if it takes you to the Negative Energy Plane," Marie notes helpfully.
[17:51] <Kokokokokoko> roll 2d6
[17:51] <Rei-chan> Kokokokokoko rolled : 2d6 --> [ 2d6=10 ]{10}
[17:52] <Kokokokokoko> roll 1d100
[17:52] <Rei-chan> Kokokokokoko rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=78 ]{78}
[17:53] <Kokokokokoko> Alicia finds that any real sense of time is meaningless here. She isn't sure how long they've been going until they see the first thing of note on the horizon.  Great gray clouds drift ahead, with sparkles of silver and violet coursing through them like a perverse electricity.  It's a small bank of them, seemingly stationary.
[17:53] <Alicia> OOC: any knowledge to identify it?
[17:54] <Kokokokokoko> OOC: K P.
[17:54] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 A
[17:54] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+16 A --> [ 1d20=17 ]{33}
[17:54] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 M
[17:54] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+16 M --> [ 1d20=12 ]{28}
[17:56] <Alicia> "Pretty," Marie opines.
[17:56] <Alicia> "I think it's harmless. Antenora mentioned something like this," Alicia adds as they press on.
[17:57] <Kokokokokoko> Aym nods as he follows, "It reminds me of the colors the Temple of Mystra liked in it's flames."
[17:59] <Alicia> "Violet is often used in Mystra's symbols, and silver fire is one of her most potent symbols," Alicia informs him helpfully. "Since this cloud is pure arcane energy, I suppose it gives a clue of why those colours were chosen."
[18:00] <Kokokokokoko> "It makes sense," Aym admits, not pressing the conversation as the party progesses past the clouds. They crackle and perhaps ever so slowly drift as...
[18:00] <Kokokokokoko> roll 1d100
[18:00] <Rei-chan> Kokokokokoko rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=23 ]{23}
[18:01] <Kokokokokoko> A period of time passes without incident, only afew far off clouds and tiny bits of soil like debris passed, then...
[18:01] <Kokokokokoko> roll 1d100
[18:01] <Rei-chan> Kokokokokoko rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=62 ]{62}
[18:01] <Kokokokokoko> roll 1d100
[18:01] <Rei-chan> Kokokokokoko rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=53 ]{53}
[18:02] <Kokokokokoko> roll 1d100
[18:02] <Rei-chan> Kokokokokoko rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=14 ]{14}
[18:04] <Kokokokokoko> A long while has passed. Enough to wear it feels sort of perhaps right to eat and drink like Marie suggested. This is a brief pause, then the travel resumes. Ahead, the sky begins to glow faintly - several, rainbow like pools dance in the sky, whirlng and twisting ahead and just slightly off course.
[18:06] <Alicia> "Are those the coloured pools?" Alicia asks, glancing towards them but not intending to actually go through any. Her vision made clear that the foe she must fight does reside within the astral, not elsewhere.
[18:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 for Marie (planes)
[18:06] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+16 for Marie (planes) --> [ 1d20=16 ]{32}
[18:07] <Kokokokokoko> OOC - Make a spot check, Alicia?
[18:08] <Alicia> roll 1d20+6
[18:08] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+6 --> [ 1d20=14 ]{20}
[18:10] <Alicia> "That's them," the eladrin nods, "That black one goes to Limbo and the fiery one goes to Acheron. Don't know about the rest... Want to go visit Limbo, though?" she concludes hopefully.
[18:13] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 planes do I know what a slaad is
[18:13] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+16 planes do I know what a slaad is --> [ 1d20=4 ]{20}
[18:15] <Alicia> "We don't have time for that," Alicia chastises her familiar, peering at the cluster as they pass. "Looks like there's some creatures by the Limbo one. I don't think they're what I'm looking for, though."

[Corwin]

[20:21] <Alicia> [16:08] <Alicia> "Are those the coloured pools?" Alicia asks, glancing towards them but not intending to actually go through any. Her vision made clear that the foe she must fight does reside within the astral, not elsewhere.
[20:21] <Alicia> [16:08] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 for Marie (planes)
[20:21] <Alicia> [16:08] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+16 for Marie (planes) --> [ 1d20=16 ]{32}
[20:21] <Alicia> [16:10] <Kokokokokoko> OOC - Make a spot check, Alicia?
[20:21] <Alicia> [16:10] <Alicia> roll 1d20+6
[20:21] <Alicia> [16:10] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+6 --> [ 1d20=14 ]{20}
[20:21] <Alicia> [16:12] <Alicia> "That's them," the eladrin nods, "That black one goes to Limbo and the fiery one goes to Acheron. Don't know about the rest... Want to go visit Limbo, though?" she concludes hopefully.
[20:21] <Alicia> [16:15] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 planes do I know what a slaad is
[20:21] <Alicia> [16:15] <Rei-chan> Alicia rolled : 1d20+16 planes do I know what a slaad is --> [ 1d20=4 ]{20}
[20:21] <Alicia> [16:17] <Alicia> "We don't have time for that," Alicia chastises her familiar, peering at the cluster as they pass. "Looks like there's some creatures by the Limbo one. I don't think they're what I'm looking for, though."
[20:25] <Kotono> "Slaad," Aym eyes them, "Creatures of Limbo and chaos. They may be aggressive or they may be harmless, depending on the tides of their mood."
[20:26] <Alicia> "Uh, yeah..." Marie suddenly looks nervous. "They're actually quite friendly to eladrin, but only because most eladrin can give them a bloody nose. Um... Coure don't fall into that category, so they actually have a bad habit of, well... eating us."
[20:27] <Alicia> "Oh, Marie..." Alicia gives her familiar a sad look. "How many food chains are you at the bottom of?"
[20:28] <Kotono> "The devil said the same thing, didn't it?" Aym asks as the party glides past the pools. If the Slaad see you, they don't seem to be reacting.
[20:29] <Alicia> "It'd probably be quicker to list the ones we're not in," Marie admits sadly. "That's why we like to make friends with more powerful celestials. Or paladins, like you!" she alights on Alicia's head.
[20:29] <Alicia> "Well, they don't seem interested in us, and I'm not interested in them. Lets keep going," Alicia decides, giving Marie a reassuring pat.
[20:29] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[20:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 60." [1d100=60]
[20:30] <Kotono> More 'time' passes. You pass by a few long banks of tube like clouds, red and white and green and orange and blue and silver at different times and angles. Alicia notices her Greater magic weapon spell has expired.
[20:31] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 planes do those clouds mean anything to Alicia
06[20:31] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 planes do those clouds mean anything to Alicia and gets 34." [1d20=18]
[20:31] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 planes do those clouds mean anything to Marie
06[20:31] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 planes do those clouds mean anything to Marie and gets 19." [1d20=3]
06[20:34] * Alicia pauses to recast the spell on her sword, noting how swiftly the magic flows through her. "When this spell runs out we'll have been here for about a day," she informs the other two as they continue onwards. "Since my internal clock isn't working at all, it's a good enough way to tell time here."
[20:35] <Kotono> Aym merely nods to this, the party continuing deeper in! As more 'time' passes...
[20:35] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 47." [1d100=47]
[20:35] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 4." [1d100=4]
[20:35] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 97." [1d100=97]
[20:35] <Kotono> roll 1d100 special now
06[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 special now and gets 35." [1d100=35]
[20:36] <Kotono> roll 1d100 special now 2, required another d100. Scary.
06[20:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 special now 2, required another d100. Scary. and gets 55." [1d100=55]
[20:39] <Kotono> It's Marie that spots it first, though not by much. A little to the 'west' you begin to glimpse something.  It's quite big, visible even from here. It's bulk is mammoth, easy to see. A dragon sits in the Astral Plane, it's scales like burnished brass.  You can see hints of something behind and under it's mammoth body, though your angle isn't right to really get al ook.
[20:41] <Alicia> "Hey, look, a brass dragon!" Marie points out the wyrm for the other two. "I think they're supposed to be good, but really who can tell these days?"
[20:42] <Alicia> Since it's only a little bit off their path Alicia doesn't terribly mind investigating. Though she does briefly murmur a spell that gives Marie and herself a more commanding presence, and allows her holy radiance to manifest as a golden cloud amidst the silvery backdrop. "Lets say hello," she suggests, starting to fly closer at a slow enough pace to seem nonthreatening.
[20:44] <Kotono> Aym hangs back. At about 100 feet away, the dragon roars! In it's roar comes these words! "Oh, hello there! If you don't have the sign, don't come any closer! This is a guarded gate and my duty is to prevent anyone without the sign from coming in.  You don't look like bad sorts, so I really don't want to have to fight you."
[20:46] <Alicia> "Oh, that's fine," Alicia stops agreeably. "No, we don't have any sign, at least that I'm aware of. Since it sounds like you've been here a while though, do you know much about this area?"
[20:48] <Kotono> "A little bit," he calls back, "I don't get around much, since the purpose of my being here is to guard this. Going out and looking around is really counter productive to that, which is a shame, since I never get to talk to anyone; the Gith come around once in a great while but it's either I have to fry them or they're not in the mood to talk since they're passing by, this is sooo boring but that's fine, since I can't let anyone walk into Arcad
[20:48] <Kotono> this is sooo boring but that's fine, since I can't let anyone walk into Arcadia without the sign and that's really why I'm here, did I mention that, since I really don't want to have to fry you. I mean, you're a courre and courres are great, and you look all shiny and noble, and the golden skin there looks like an aasimar, but..."
[20:51] <Alicia> "Thanks!" Marie beams in reply, glad that at least one dragon doesn't want to eat her.
[20:51] <Alicia> "What is the sign, anyway?" Alicia asks curiously. "I'm busy right now but just in case I ever need to go to Arcadia, you know. How long have you been here, anyway?" she goes on, fascinated by such a talkative and friendly dragon. They're either laconic and intimidating or out and out murderous in her sad experience.
[20:58] <Kotono> "Oh, it's something you give me so I can let you by. It's so that not anyone can go barging in here. I'm afraid I can't tell you more than that, rules are rules. I can point you towards another portal to Arcadia if you really need to get there, this one just needs to be protected. Oh say, how's your homeland, courre? I haven't gotten to go there in a long while? Do you know Estarim, a firre of festivals and celebration? How about Sanarel? But a
[20:58] <Kotono> How about Sanarel? But anyway, I've been here...oh, a hundred years? You see, part of this is because my master said I needed to learn to think and not talk all the time, but I'm not sure, since I think plenty, but now I'm just talking more when I get the chance, since it's so rare to get good talkers here and Ic an't really invite anyone, since that ruins the point of protecting this place, which is a shame since some golems or outsiders could
[20:58] <Kotono> which is a shame since some golems or outsiders could do it well enough, but nooooo, master said I had to learn, pfft to that. I can be talkative and thoughtful at once, don't you think?"
[21:01] <Kotono> Aym eyes the dragon, and then lowering his voice marginally, "It's mouth is beyond it's control."
[21:03] <Alicia> "I'm actually from Elysium," Marie admits. "I got sent to the Prime to look after her but now here I am back in the planes - I feel for you, though, since lots of people said I needed to learn pointless things by doing it - people and outsiders and dragons should all be free to follow their own path, that's what I say!"
[21:03] <Alicia> "All the better, for it might tell us something interesting. Too many of its race are close-lipped and insular," Alicia replies to her newest protege before coughing over the top of Marie's tirade. "Anyway, my name's Alicia Reynes. This is Marie and Aym. What's your name, guardian of Arcadia?"
[21:06] <Kotono> "Nexumbra, pleased to meet you Alicia! So what are you doing in the Astral Plane if your'e not going to Arcadia? You aren't up to dealing with those nasty Gith, aren you, since they're dangerous and that damned Queen of theris is a menance if you get on her wrong side or if you stumble on them at the wrong time. Well, as long as you're not going to a lower plane I suppose it's nothing too dangerous at least, since I was in the Abyss this one ti
[21:06] <Kotono> since I was in the Abyss this one time and I never want to go back, especially since I made the mistake of eating a bar-lgura when I was hungry and THAT was a mistake. I was so horribly sick that those vrocks nearly got me, but I pulled it together by the end!"
[21:07] <Kotono> "Oh courre, you make so much sense! Someone made your head right and full of good knowledge!"
[21:09] <Alicia> Marie beams at having found a kindred spirit.
[21:09] <Alicia> "I've never been to the Abyss," Alicia admits, "But I've been to Baator. Horrible place, though fortunately I avoided the local cuisine. I don't actually plan on dealing with the Gith while I'm here - I've actually been tasked with hunting for a Beast - an incarnation of rage and hatred that slumbers within the astral and is close to awakening. I don't suppose that description means anything to you? It's all I have to go on."
[21:10] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 26." [1d20=6]
[21:14] <Kotono> "Beast, beast, beast...mmmm. Well, I know that some horrible entities are called a Beast. I think an old ruler of the Sixth Layer of Hell and is a complete brute who I heard is still kicking...or was it for Sammael, the venom...no, he's the venom one. Or was it Grazz...mmm. Well, there's a lot called beasts related to hatred and rage. Oh wait! I remember now!" His eyes open wide, visible even from here, "A long while ago, I saw an angel heading
[21:15] <Kotono> "A long while ago, I saw an angel heading in the direction you were going. HE stopped on the way back to use the gate I guard and he mentioned an imprisoned spirit in passing. Something about a ward of time or some such. I was wondering why I was thinking evil spirit so strongly there. That was why, silly me! Something about a time ward...or was it a timed ward, or an expiring time ward? Hmph. I was talking about something when he said that and
[21:15] <Kotono> or an expiring time ward? Hmph. I was talking about something when he said that and I think I missed the details. It was only an astra deva, at least, so it wasn't anything too out of control Iw ould imagine, since you'd think they'd send a solar or twenty if it was something like a former Lord of the Nine or a Demon Lord."
[21:18] <Alicia> "Hmm..." Alicia digests that before nodding to herself. It sounds like a solid enough clue. "That could be it, yes. So just straight on the path I was already headed? A shame you never heard the details - perhaps that sort of thing is what your master was concerned about - but you've still been helpful so I won't hold it against you, Nexumbra," she favours the brass wyrm with an appreciative smile.
[21:20] <Kotono> "Oh, you're welcome! Eladrin, what was your name?" Nexumbra asks, "Since whenever I get out of here I might go look you up and we can spend a few years having some fun! You're even kind of cute...tell me, do you like dragons? Half dragons with celestial blood make superb heroic champions, you know, and one with eladrin blood would have a good sense of humor while opposing all that's wrong in creation! IT would be so much better than some stuffy
[21:20] <Kotono> IT would be so much better than some stuffy angel who's more worried about this ro that, or an archon whow would rather spend a few lifetimes reading a law book!"
[21:21] <Kotono> "..." Aym shakes his head, "...the thing must be horribly lonely, or perhaps mad."
[21:23] <Alicia> Marie blushes and giggles. "You're so bold! My name's Marielle and you can look me up any time! When do you think you'll be getting out of here?"
[21:23] <Alicia> "It has been here for a hundred years," Alicia notes with some measure of sympathy.
[21:23] <Alicia> *He
[21:23] <Kotono> "Oh, whenever my master thinks I need to move on. Hopefully soon, within a century!" Chirping that out, "Marielle, I'll see you then!"
[21:26] <Alicia> "A century? By then I'll probably be something besides a Coure, but that'd probably be for the best if we were to have a relationship," Marie nods to herself. "You should try your best to listen to everyone that comes by without talking over them so that you can leave sooner!"
06[21:26] * Alicia just shakes her head at her familiar's shameless flirting. "Anyway, just before we go, Nexumbra - I have a friend who's somewhat involved with red dragons. I don't suppose you know about some sort of planar valley where they congregate?" she asks on Seira's behalf.
[21:26] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
06[21:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 30." [1d20=10]
[21:28] <Kotono> "Red dragons, red dragons...ew, they're so evil." Making a giant, draconic EW face, "Try Baator's more fiery layers or the plane of fire? They like it hot. There's an old fallen angel that hangs out in the plane of fire, though I wouldn't mess with him unless you want to shuffle off this existance. There's also Kossuth, and all the elementals...one of them should know something if it's on the plane of fire. If it's in the Nine Hells, well, you
[21:28] <Kotono> If it's in the Nine Hells, well, you know how that goes. Evil outsiders this, pain that, enslavement or destructino or lies or what have you."
06[21:30] * Alicia nods understandingly. "Yes, well, it's not for me anyway. Still, you've been very helpful, Nexumbra - good luck on your guard duty!" she waves before starting to move off on their original heading.
[21:30] <Alicia> "If I'm not on the Prime I'll probably be in Dweomerheart!" Marie calls herself as she follows Alicia.
[21:31] <Kotono> "Oh, you follow Mystra? I wondered why you said you were from Elysium! I'd have spent awhile looking for you elseware!" Nexumbra calls as the party starts to fly away. "Stop back on your way back so we can chat!"
[21:33] <Alicia> "I will if we're able!" Alicia calls before they leave before eyeing her familiar. "You weren't serious about all that, were you Marie?" she asks uncertainly.
[21:33] <Alicia> "Mmmmaybe," the eladrin replies with a smug little smile. "You're not the only one that can turn heads, you know."
[21:34] <Kotono> "The dimensions of it are painful to think of." Aym notes with a little smile, "That would not be love, tha twould be painful torture. I approve, perhaps that torture would inspire fury into yo8ur heart."
[21:35] <Alicia> "I'm sure he can shapeshift," Marie waves it off blithely. "And so can I, with Alicia's help. Besides, in a hundred years I'll probably be something a lot bigger. Maybe I'll even be a Planetar?"
[21:36] <Kotono> As Aym shakes his head at that, the party continues onward!
[21:36] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 45." [1d100=45]
[21:36] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 39." [1d100=39]
[21:36] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 1." [1d100=1]
[21:36] <Alicia> "Love takes many strange forms..." is all Alicia says, looking faintly disturbed.
[21:36] <Kotono> roll 1d100 special
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 special and gets 32." [1d100=32]
[21:36] <Kotono> roll 1d100 special calling a reroll
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 special calling a reroll and gets 91." [1d100=91]
[21:38] <Kotono> OOC - Marie, make a will save?
[21:39] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 +2 vs evil
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 +2 vs evil and gets 30." [1d20=16]
[21:41] <Kotono> Thus the travel continues on. Alicia notices that greater magical eapon has expired again.
06[21:42] * Alicia pauses briefly, conjuring both rations and water from her survival pouch and sharing them with Aym before she recasts the spell and continues onwards. "It is rather monotonous," she notes. "I suppose it's for the best that we don't get unduly sidetracked, though."
[21:43] <Kotono> Aym nods once asthe party continues into the monotous plane!
[21:43] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 100." [1d100=100]
[21:43] <Kotono> roll 1d100 oh shit
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 oh shit and gets 27." [1d100=27]
[21:44] <Kotono> OOC - Marie, make another will save?
[21:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 +2 vs evil
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 +2 vs evil and gets 27." [1d20=13]
[21:45] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 17." [1d20=1]
[21:45] <Kotono> OOC - What's your SR, Marie?
[21:45] <Alicia> OOC: SR? What's that?
[21:45] <Kotono> OOC: Oh, okay!
[21:48] <Kotono> It happens abruptly! One moment the empty plains of silver stretch out and the next they are all around Alicia! The one in front is 15 feet ahead of her, a horrible gelugon with it's spear extended out to her! Two other horrible, cruel, barbed hamatula flank her 15 feet away on the other side, with Aym being flanked on the right as well! From the gelugon's mouth, "In the name of Hell, your soul is forfeit! You shall be enslaved and tormented fo
[21:48] <Kotono> "In the name of Hell, your soul is forfeit! You shall be enslaved and tormented for eternity!" With that, they are coming at you in the silvery void! OOC - Initiative.
[21:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 A
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 A and gets 25." [1d20=20]
[21:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 M
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 M and gets 24." [1d20=17]
[21:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 gelugon
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 gelugon and gets 12." [1d20=7]
[21:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 barbed 1
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 barbed 1 and gets 26." [1d20=20]
[21:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 barbed 2
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 barbed 2 and gets 26." [1d20=20]
[21:51] <Kotono> OOC - Strike, you're lucky today.
[21:52] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 78." [1d100=78]
[21:52] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 27." [1d100=27]
[21:53] <Kotono> More travel passes. For a while, winds batter your face as clouds of black roil below, but this passes as well. More time passes by...
[21:53] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 59." [1d100=59]
[21:53] <Kotono> Alicia notices the enchantment on her sword has expired once more.
[21:55] <Alicia> "Been here one and a half days," Alicia informs the others, pausing for a quick lunch break before she casts the spell on her blade once more and continues on.
[21:55] <Kotono> "AS much as time matters here. Only fury and patience matter here." Aym observes.
[21:57] <Alicia> "Perhaps, but as long as we remain here the world passes us by," Alicia notes. "I'd say fury doesn't matter that much when there's nothing but empty void to rage against, though."
[21:58] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 55." [1d100=55]
[21:58] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 90." [1d100=90]
[21:58] <Kotono> roll 1d100 special
06[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 special and gets 40." [1d100=40]
[21:58] <Kotono> roll 1d100 special 2.0 return of the special
06[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 special 2.0 return of the special and gets 34." [1d100=34]
[21:58] <Kotono> roll 1d100 special 2.0 return of the special
06[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 special 2.0 return of the special and gets 60." [1d100=60]
[21:59] <Kotono> roll 1d8
06[21:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8 and gets 5." [1d8=5]
[22:01] <Kotono> Thus the travel continues onward even more.  Marie happens to spot it, coming at an angle from the west-southwest and well below you, glimpsed only by dumb luck. It makes no move to hide or shield itself, it's golden body radiating light. Even from here, Marie can sense and feel the waves of calming good and justice that flow from the angelic creature before her. IT is nearly a dozen feet tall, wearing armor carved of pure platinum.  A greatswo
[22:01] <Kotono> IT is nearly a dozen feet tall, wearing armor carved of pure platinum.  A greatsword is on it's back, a bow in it's hands as it continues to fly.
[22:02] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 M what is it?
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 M what is it? and gets 22." [1d20=6]
[22:02] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 A what is it?
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 A what is it? and gets 24." [1d20=8]
[22:03] <Alicia> "Look! Look!" Marie grabs Alicia's arm and points insistently. "It's a Solar! Lets say hello!"
[22:04] <Alicia> "Goodness!" Alicia looks wide-eyed at the greatest of angels passing her by. "Best behaviour," she reminds Aym before descending a bit towards the Solar, her radiant aura still present as she felt no real need to relinquish it after meeting the dragon. It almost feels a bit lacking in comparison, though. "Hail!" she calls over.

[Corwin]

[20:09] <Alicia> [20:15] <Alicia> "Alright. Hopefully the ward is just to keep it in and not me out," Alicia declares before she and her illusory doubles make an attempt at moving the slab.
[20:09] <Alicia> [20:17] <Kobrb> Alicia touches the slab! It glows hot to the touch, and as she pulls it, the stone cracks in several places! It half moves, half falls away, revealing the inside of the shrine! Inside is...!!! OOC - Alicia, make a will save with a -3 modifier? Marie isn't subject to this attack so her save is moot.
[20:09] <Alicia> [20:17] <Kobrb> roll 1d20+2
[20:09] <Alicia> [20:17] * Hatbot --> "Kobrb rolls 1d20+2 and gets 9." [1d20=7]
[20:09] <Alicia> [20:17] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 (+2 vs evil)
[20:09] <Alicia> [20:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 (+2 vs evil) and gets 27." [1d20=10]
[20:09] <Alicia> [20:19] <Alicia> "Brrr!" Alicia shivers for a moment, composing herself as she draws Soul's Enslavement and channels an Enervation spell into it, looking down through the now open passage.
[20:09] <Alicia> [20:19] <Kobrb> The thing defies name and shape for moments as it rushes forward! It's body rushes forward, shifting! Alicia can see faint images over it - little horrors and yet powerless, nothing to her. Beneath is is a roiling miasma in the shape of a human! OOC - Initiative.
[20:09] <Alicia> [20:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 A
[20:09] <Alicia> [20:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 A and gets 10." [1d20=5]
[20:09] <Alicia> [20:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 M
[20:09] <Alicia> [20:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 M and gets 8." [1d20=1]
[20:09] <Alicia> [20:21] <Kobrb> roll 1d20+3
[20:09] <Alicia> [20:21] * Hatbot --> "Kobrb rolls 1d20+3 and gets 6." [1d20=3]
[20:09] <Alicia> [20:21] <Kobrb> roll 1d20+2
[20:09] <Alicia> [20:21] * Hatbot --> "Kobrb rolls 1d20+2 and gets 18." [1d20=16]
[20:15] <Kotono> It's shame seems to roil as it approaches, like something of no form at all! Yet Alicia can see a vast maw like a wolf's head coming from it's front, long claws and a spined tail jutting out! It is rather large, as...
[20:15] <Kotono> roll 1d3
06[20:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d3 and gets 1." [1d3=1]
[20:16] <Kotono> Aym screams! He holds his sides, going straight backwards! "No..." h e groans, "I'm not that! I'm not! AAAAAAH!" OOC - Alicia.
[20:17] <Alicia> OOC: any knowledge to ID this thing?
[20:18] <Kotono> OOC: K:P if you wish.
[20:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 I do
06[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 I do and gets 20." [1d20=4]
[20:20] <Alicia> "Hold strong, Aym!" Alicia calls back bravely, firing off an enervation spell at the speed of thought towards the beast as she settles into a defensive posture.
[20:20] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 ranged touch
06[20:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 ranged touch and gets 24." [1d20=8]
[20:20] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 since it probably has SR
06[20:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 since it probably has SR and gets 21." [1d20=8]
[20:21] <Kotono> The spell crackles and fades around the mysterious Beast, fizzling into nothing! It's maw opens wide, looking to chomp down on Alicia! OOC - MAre.
[20:22] <Alicia> Floating above and behind Alicia, Marie fires forth a barrage of arrows and magic missiles to pepper the creature before it closes into melee!
[20:22] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 SR for magic missile
06[20:22] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 SR for magic missile and gets 22." [1d20=8]
[20:22] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21
06[20:22] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+21 and gets 32." [1d20=11]
[20:22] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16
06[20:22] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 and gets 31." [1d20=15]
[20:22] <Alicia> roll 1d20+11
06[20:22] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+11 and gets 29." [1d20=18]
[20:23] <Kotono> OOC - All hit.
[20:23] <Kotono> OOC - Besides the MM.
[20:23] <Alicia> OOC: any relevant DR or energy resistance?
[20:23] <Kotono> OOC - Roll the energy damage seperately, the arrows can be rolled as one.
[20:24] <Alicia> roll 3d4+3 good piercing
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d4+3 good piercing and gets 9." [3d4=2, 3, 1]
[20:24] <Alicia> roll 1d6+1d4 electricity/sonic
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d6+1d4 electricity/sonic and gets 8." [1d6=4][1d4=4]
[20:24] <Alicia> roll 1d6+1d4 electricity/sonic
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d6+1d4 electricity/sonic and gets 6." [1d6=4][1d4=2]
[20:24] <Alicia> roll 1d6+1d4 electricity/sonic
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d6+1d4 electricity/sonic and gets 6." [1d6=3][1d4=3]
[20:25] <Kotono> While the magical projectiles wink out into nothing, the real arrows riddle the creature! The electricity does little do it, but the sonic bursts leave little pockmarks and tears across it's form! As this happens, a great roar comes from it's mouth, as it also bites Alicia!
[20:25] <Kotono> roll 5d6 and make a fort save, Alicia. This is sonic damage so youc an apply your resistance to it.
06[20:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d6 and make a fort save, Alicia. This is sonic damage so youc an apply your resistance to it. and gets 18." [5d6=1, 3, 3, 6, 5]
[20:26] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22 (assuming evil)
06[20:26] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 (assuming evil) and gets 26." [1d20=4]
[20:27] <Kotono> OOC - Half damage on the sonic.
[20:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 bite charge -2 pa
06[20:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 bite charge -2 pa and gets 24." [1d20=2]
[20:28] <Alicia> OOC: AC 40, image AC 15
[20:28] <Kotono> roll 1d6 image
06[20:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 image and gets 5." [1d6=5]
[20:28] <Kotono> The sonic sound around Alicia buffets her delicate eardrums, making them throb! Yet even amid this she brings up her arm, delicately using the side of it to deflect it's mawed bite! Meanwhile, Aym continues to scream and flee! OOC - Alicia.
[20:32] <Alicia> "Marie! Follow Aym and make sure he doesn't get lost!" Alicia orders her familiar before she lays into the creature with a series of divinely empowered slashes! And some magic missiles!
[20:32] <Kotono> OOC - I forgot to apply a -2 to your save there, but you made the DC anyway.
[20:32] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 SR for MM
06[20:32] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 SR for MM and gets 18." [1d20=5]
[20:32] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 divine might
06[20:32] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 divine might and gets 24." [1d20=4]
[20:32] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 divine might
06[20:32] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 divine might and gets 30." [1d20=15]
[20:32] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 divine might
06[20:32] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 divine might and gets 21." [1d20=11]
[20:33] <Kotono> OOC - Two hits.
[20:33] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 SR for enervation
06[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 SR for enervation and gets 28." [1d20=15]
[20:33] <Kotono> OOC - Success.
[20:33] <Alicia> roll 1d4 negative levels
06[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 negative levels and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[20:33] <Alicia> roll 1d4 wis drain
06[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 wis drain and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[20:33] <Alicia> roll 3d6+20
06[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+20 and gets 34." [3d6=4, 5, 5]
[20:33] <Alicia> roll 3d6+20
06[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+20 and gets 35." [3d6=6, 3, 6]
[20:33] <Alicia> OOC: DC 20 will save or rage
[20:34] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 (-1 wis loss)
06[20:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 (-1 wis loss) and gets 25." [1d20=10]
[20:35] <Kotono> The blows rip into the beast, tearing it's shadowy body like nothing at all! The blows are superb, the blade flashing each time it rends the foul creature of darkness! Each time a slight glow of light escapes the sword, glittering all around! OOC - Marie.
[20:36] <Alicia> "Good luck!" Marie tells Alicia, splashing some purple faerie fire onto the creature in case it tries to go invisible or use some clever illusions before she jets off after Aym. "Wait up, Aym!"
[20:37] <Kotono> The beast unleashes it'sf ury now, even as Alicia feels a strange stirring in her soul! OOC - Will save first, -2.
[20:37] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18
06[20:37] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 33." [1d20=15]
[20:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 claw (-1 drain)
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 claw (-1 drain) and gets 22." [1d20=1]
[20:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 claw (-1 drain)
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 claw (-1 drain) and gets 39." [1d20=18]
[20:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 rake (-1 drain)
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 rake (-1 drain) and gets 34." [1d20=15]
[20:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 rake (-1 drain)
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 rake (-1 drain) and gets 35." [1d20=16]
[20:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 bite (-1 drain)
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 bite (-1 drain) and gets 32." [1d20=13]
[20:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 tail
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 tail and gets 20." [1d20=1]
[20:40] <Alicia> OOC: AC 32 (I miss you already, Marie), image AC 15
[20:40] <Kotono> OOC +1 to the tail, so it's moot.
[20:40] <Kotono> OOC - But it's moot rather.
[20:40] <Kotono> roll 1d5 claw 2
06[20:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d5 claw 2 and gets 4." [1d5=4]
[20:40] <Kotono> roll 1d4 rake 1
06[20:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 rake 1 and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[20:40] <Kotono> roll 2d4+8+1d12+8 and make a will save, Alicia?
06[20:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d4+8+1d12+8 and make a will save, Alicia? and gets 26." [2d4=1, 3][1d12=6]
[20:41] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18
06[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 35." [1d20=17]
[20:42] <Kotono> The blows assault Alicia's body, making her want to cry as she feels violated, vile pains flowing in her injuries! She feels something within her trying to unravel, held at bay by force of will! OOC  Alicia.
[20:44] <Alicia> "Urgh..." Alicia staggers a bit, severely taxed by this assault. "Underestimated you," she grimaces, before promising, "Won't happen again!" as she blasts the creature with another enervation spell and attacks with a careful series of defensive strikes, bolstering her strikes with magic!
[20:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 ranged touch
06[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 ranged touch and gets 35." [1d20=18]
[20:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 SR
06[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 SR and gets 18." [1d20=5]
[20:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 divine might, fighting defensively, 4th level slot channelled
06[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 divine might, fighting defensively, 4th level slot channelled and gets 38." [1d20=18]
[20:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 divine might, fighting defensively, 4th level slot channelled
06[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 divine might, fighting defensively, 4th level slot channelled and gets 32." [1d20=17]
[20:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 divine might, fighting defensively, 4th level slot channelled
06[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 divine might, fighting defensively, 4th level slot channelled and gets 26." [1d20=16]
[20:44] <Kotono> OOC - All hit but the enervation.
[20:45] <Alicia> roll 3d6+20+4d4
06[20:45] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+20+4d4 and gets 39." [3d6=1, 4, 4][4d4=3, 4, 1, 2]
[20:45] <Alicia> roll 3d6+20+4d4
06[20:45] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+20+4d4 and gets 35." [3d6=3, 3, 1][4d4=3, 1, 1, 3]
[20:45] <Alicia> roll 3d6+20+4d4
06[20:45] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+20+4d4 and gets 35." [3d6=4, 3, 1][4d4=1, 1, 2, 3]
[20:45] <Alicia> OOC: DC 20 save or rage
[20:45] <Alicia> roll 3d4 wis drain first
06[20:45] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d4 wis drain first and gets 9." [3d4=2, 4, 3]
[20:46] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10 (-6 wis)
06[20:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 (-6 wis) and gets 28." [1d20=18]
[20:47] <Kotono> Alicia utterly savages the Beast, finding it's body to resist her skillfull, powerful blows! Even as she tears it apart, it clings to it's existance tenaciously! It seems content to ravage her, as she again feels something gnawing within her! OOC - Will save -2.
[20:47] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18
06[20:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 27." [1d20=9]
[20:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 claw (-1 drain)
06[20:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 claw (-1 drain) and gets 40." [1d20=19]
[20:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 claw (-1 drain)
06[20:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 claw (-1 drain) and gets 40." [1d20=19]
[20:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 rake (-1 drain)
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 rake (-1 drain) and gets 39." [1d20=20]
[20:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 rake (-1 drain)
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 rake (-1 drain) and gets 34." [1d20=15]
[20:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 rake (-1 drain) crit?
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 rake (-1 drain) crit? and gets 37." [1d20=18]
[20:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 bite (-1 drain)
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 bite (-1 drain) and gets 33." [1d20=14]
[20:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 tail
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 tail and gets 28." [1d20=9]
[20:48] <Kotono> OOC - AC and images left?
[20:48] <Alicia> OOC: AC 35, image AC 15 (3 of them)
[20:49] <Kotono> roll 1d4 claw 1
06[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 claw 1 and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[20:49] <Kotono> roll 1d3 claw 2
06[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d3 claw 2 and gets 2." [1d3=2]
[20:50] <Kotono> roll 1d2 rake 1
06[20:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d2 rake 1 and gets 2." [1d2=2]
[20:50] <Kotono> Alicia finds her images shredded into oblivion, even as she manages to stand tall against the creature! She feels something coming so close to slipping within her, but she holds fast and true to it at the last moment! OOC - Alicia.
[20:52] <Alicia> "Mystra, guide my blade to fell this vile foe!" Alicia calls, more magic channelled to deliver a cleaving blow down its middle before she flips backwards and retreats to gain some room.
[20:52] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -10 power attack true strike
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -10 power attack true strike and gets 44." [1d20=14]
[20:52] <Alicia> OOC: divine might as well
[20:52] <Alicia> roll 3d6+40
06[20:53] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+40 and gets 52." [3d6=3, 3, 6]
[20:53] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 DC 15 tumble
06[20:53] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 DC 15 tumble and gets 26." [1d20=11]
[20:53] <Alicia> roll 1d4 wis drain
06[20:53] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 wis drain and gets 4." [1d4=4]
[20:53] <Alicia> OOC: DC 20 or rage
[20:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
06[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 22." [1d20=14]
[20:55] <Kotono> OOC - -1 more, but mooooot.
[20:55] <Kotono> Alicia cleaves the beast right down the middle! She nearly bisects it, it's body shaking and quivering! She then tumbles backwards, rolling smoothly out of the shrine and into the silver void! Even devastated, the Beast follows! It charges Alicia full out, another tugging at her insides! OOC - Will save -2.
[20:56] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18
06[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 30." [1d20=12]
[20:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 claw -4 PA
06[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 claw -4 PA and gets 25." [1d20=5]
[20:56] <Kotono> It's charge is a mighty one, but Alicia deflects it with the blade of the Fallen! As she brings the sword back around, she again has to resist the horrible fraying feelings burning within her soul! OOC - Alicia.
[21:19] <Alicia> Feeling that the tide of battle is in her favour, Alicia spares a moment to hope Marie's having luck dealing with Aym, and delivers a brutal hacking stab into the Beast's chest before she soars straight up, jinking this way and that to avoid its claws!
[21:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -10 power attack true strike divine might
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -10 power attack true strike divine might and gets 38." [1d20=8]
[21:19] <Alicia> roll 3d6+40
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+40 and gets 50." [3d6=1, 5, 4]
[21:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 DC 15 tumble
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 DC 15 tumble and gets 32." [1d20=17]
[21:19] <Alicia> roll 1d4 wis drain
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 wis drain and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[21:20] <Alicia> OOC: DC 20 will or rage
[21:20] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
06[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 17." [1d20=9]
[21:20] <Kotono> Alicia hacks at it's chest, shadowy blood and matter dripping away! Even as it pursues foolishly, it can only try and bite her with it's huge maw!
[21:21] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 (+2 rage, -1 drain, +2 charge, -2 PA)
06[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 (+2 rage, -1 drain, +2 charge, -2 PA) and gets 32." [1d20=9]
[21:21] <Kotono> OOC - AC?
[21:21] <Alicia> OOC: 32. Damn you, rage!
[21:21] <Kotono> roll 1d6+10
06[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6+10 and gets 15." [1d6=5]
[21:23] <Kotono> The bite is a little too fast, chomping down hard on Alicia's hand! She feels a thirll of pain there and a horrible twisting of her flesh, an agony that will not stop assaulting her senses! OOC - Alicia. If you're curious, Marie+Aym are still merrily chasing each other.
[21:25] <Alicia> "Dammit," Alicia winces and pulls her hand back. "Fall!" she calls, striking hard before retreating away to gain more ground and conjuring forth more mirror images.
[21:25] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 -6 power attack, smite, divine might
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 -6 power attack, smite, divine might and gets 32." [1d20=12]
[21:25] <Alicia> roll 3d6+34
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+34 and gets 48." [3d6=4, 6, 4]
[21:25] <Alicia> roll 1d4 wis drain
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 wis drain and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[21:25] <Alicia> roll 1d4+4 MI
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+4 MI and gets 8." [1d4=4]
[21:29] <Kotono> Alicia cuts deeply into The Best! This time it's entire form seem sto collapse into itself, winking out into a burst of screams! A thousand cries of fury muted into oblivion! Her blade crackles white after, trailing behind it's finishing arc. For a moment, Alicia hears a sigh of relief from where the Beast was, then silence.
[21:30] <Alicia> "Oh..." Alicia sags in relief. "Thank goodness," she rests a hand over her bleeding ear and attempts to heal what she's able to, floating back down towards the shrine. Hopefully Marie and Aym will return soon, but in the meantime she'll need to meditate and recentre herself after all that so she'll be in a fit state to help the assault on the demon fortress.
[21:34] <Kotono> Returning to the shrine, Alicia sees that the insides are barren enough. There's some runes on the inside that she can notice with a glance now that she's not under direct assault.
06[21:35] * Alicia takes the time to read over them, though she doesn't unduly stress herself about it. Summoning a fireplace from her survival pouch she intends to simply rest beside it until it vanishes, at which point she'll refresh her magic and depart. Hopefully Marie and Aym will have returned before then.
[21:40] <Kotono> It's the story of a man who was a mighty warrior, but could not overcome his own anger. It grew to dominate him, and in one battle against Yugoloth mercenaries, became it's own living terror.  It often took over his body, wrecking havoc. It eventually gained it's own form, but was sealed away as normal weapons could not lay it to rest.
[21:41] <Alicia> Soul's Enslavement is anything but normal. Well, it's a pertinent lesson, one hopefully Aym can learn from as well... when he returns. With nothing much else to do, Alicia settles in to rest and wait, doing her best to bandage up her vile unhealing wounds as a stop-gap until proper healing can be sought.
[21:43] <Kotono> It's some measure of time for Aym and Marie to return. Aym is shamefaced, going to sit dejectedly and not say a word.
[21:44] <Alicia> "That creature was a mighty foe, and its mere presence unnatural. There is no shame in falling victim to its trickery," Alicia consoles him as she relaxes, before indicating the writings within. "Still, you might want to read the story of how it came to be, for it surely holds relevance to yourself."
[21:45] <Alicia> Meanwhile Marie fusses over Alicia, seeming entirely distraught over the horrific wounds her mistress has endured.
[21:47] <Kotono> Aym doesn't speak, but goes to read. HIs expression is a mix of anger and shame, going to rest against a back wall. He doesn't say much ofa nything, though, bowing his head.
[21:48] <Alicia> "When the fire burns out, we depart. For now, rest," Alicia suggests, smiling indulgently at her familiar's fussing.
[21:52] <Kotono> The fire burns out without incident. Alicia refreshes herself, the time having passed in the same nothingness as all 'time' in the Astral does.
06[21:54] * Alicia rises. "Now, everyone focus upon the description given to us by the solar - a six-tiered castle amid a bank of blank clouds, for that is our destination." At that she takes off in the direction the solar was heading in earlier. "It's a pity you never saw me battle the beast, Aym. Perhaps there is still more yet to be learned on this journey, though."
[21:55] <Kotono> "I have had enough humiliation for a lifetime," Aym says, the sound of gritting teeth behind his words.
[21:57] <Alicia> "In that case do you wish to prove your valour in battle when we reach the demon-held fortress?" Alicia asks curiously, not really wanting to humiliate him any more herself. She's already done that plenty and it's time to move on.
[21:59] <Kotono> As the travel begins, "Right now...I would tear apart anything," Aym growls.
[22:02] <Alicia> "That's not good enough," Alicia reprimands. "Focus, Aym! Focus is the most important thing for a warrior. We'd be fighting alongside a number of allies who would all be counting on us to perform our role exactly - a warrior who runs wild in battle is a liability to the group. And heaven help us if while lost in your rage you were to strike out at an ally."
[22:06] <Kotono> "I will focus...on tearing something demonic limb from limb." Aym grinds out, continuing on. "And not an ally, at least."
[22:10] <Alicia> "That's something I can accept - for now," Alicia nods. "Though your motivations may be suspect, I will grant you some trust. Here," she removes the sheath buckled to her belt containing the Sword of the Sealed Gate and holds it towards Aym as they fly along with their shared goal in mind.
[22:10] <Alicia> "Perhaps smaller than you are used to, but demons struck by it will be unable to teleport away, and its mere presence inhibits their ability to summon reinforcements. It is in every way a worthy blade."
[22:11] <Kotono> Aym takes the blade and nods, continuing his flight along. "Yes...good. Soon..." He doesn't seem to vocalize it beyond that, hurrying along with grim determination on his face.
[22:12] <Kotono> roll 2d6
06[22:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6 and gets 8." [2d6=4, 4]
[22:12] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 93." [1d100=93]
[22:12] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 15." [1d100=15]
[22:12] <Kotono> roll 1d100 special you just draw the 90+es out here
06[22:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 special you just draw the 90+es out here and gets 15." [1d100=15]
[22:13] <Kotono> roll 1d100 special you just draw the 90+es out here reroll that, DM's choice
06[22:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 special you just draw the 90+es out here reroll that, DM's choice and gets 72." [1d100=72]

[Corwin]

[17:42] <Kotono> > Aym takes the blade and nods, continuing his flight along. "Yes...good. Soon..." He doesn't seem to vocalize it beyond that, hurrying along with grim determination on his face.
[17:42] <Kotono> > roll 2d6
[17:42] <Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6 and gets 8." [2d6=4, 4]
[17:42] <Kotono> > roll 1d100
[17:42] <Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 93." [1d100=93]
[17:42] <Kotono> > roll 1d100
[17:42] <Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 15." [1d100=15]
[17:42] <Kotono> > roll 1d100 special you just draw the 90+es out here
[17:42] <Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 special you just draw the 90+es out here and gets 15." [1d100=15]
[17:42] <Kotono> > roll 1d100 special you just draw the 90+es out here reroll that, DM's choice
[17:42] <Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 special you just draw the 90+es out here reroll that, DM's choice and gets 72." [1d100=72]
[17:45] <Kotono> Some more 'time' has passed. As Alicia and friends fly through the silvery sky, past roiling, boiling clouds of silver and violet, something can be seen above. Far above, coming to the side and generally opposite to the party's path. It is a vast ship, made of stout wood and passing through the Astral with ease.
[17:45] <Alicia> Does it look like the Githyanki ships that appeared above Balmuria?
[17:45] <Kotono> Alicia can see that it does.
[17:46] <Kotono> Same rough design, same flying in nothingness. It's pretty far away,t hough.
[17:46] <Alicia> "Githyanki," Alicia states for the benefit of Aym and Marie. "Still, we have more pressing concerns than to let ourselves get sidetracked by them - lets ignore them so long as they ignore us," she suggests, keeping her mind on the six-tiered fortress as she presses on at the speed of thought.
[17:47] <Kotono> Aym glances at the ship as well. For it's part, it seems to pay no mind to you either. It passes by without incident. Thus the journey continues...
[17:48] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[17:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 70." [1d100=70]
[17:48] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[17:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 62." [1d100=62]
[17:48] <Kotono> Alicia notes that her magical weapon enchantment has expired.
[17:49] <Alicia> Since she'll likely need a lot of spells for the assault, Alicia doesn't refresh it. She does produce some food and drink from her survival pouch, however, knowing that the waterskin will vanish in eight hours provides its own degree of timekeeping.
[17:50] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[17:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 37." [1d100=37]
[17:50] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[17:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 56." [1d100=56]
[17:50] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[17:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 83." [1d100=83]
[17:50] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[17:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 20." [1d100=20]
[17:54] <Kotono> At last Alicia can see it! On the horizon, like a burning sun! The celestial host is like a hundred tiny stars glowing in the night sky, surrounding the vast fortress! It sits on solid earthen ground, a vast, six tiered fortress made of bright red stone. There are two rings of the celestials - an outer ring with supplies, tents and visible healers, including some mortals from the looks of it, as well as pegasus, unicorns, a great flaming bird o
[17:54] <Kotono> as well as pegasus, unicorns, a great flaming bird of the purest flames and other such creatures. The inner ring assaults the fortress steadily, attacking it's outer walls and engaged in combat all over against a throng of darkness. In this throng Alicia can glimpse familiar horrors - vrocks, glabrezu, succubi and a dozens he cannot. Further, there are others in it - humans and mortals, often twisted, but still notably...mortal.
06[17:55] * Alicia looks to see if the solar is visible as they approach, and if not him then someone else visibly in command of the situation.
[17:57] <Kotono> The Solar stands out, like his own nimbus of purity and light in the darkness and silver. He is between the two lines, occasionally casting support and organizing.  In the rearguard, there are several that look to be running things - lantern archons help direct, often to mortals who tend to wounds or bolster the injured.
06[17:59] * Alicia decides to follow what appears to be the chain of command, and heads for one of the lantern archons. Besides which it'd be odd to barge through everyone else to reach the solar. "Alicia Reynes and Marielle, servants of Mystra, and Aym, servant of Torm," she introduces the group. "We're here to help."
[18:00] <Kotono> The nearest lantern archon bobs as Alicia approaches, it's voice mature. "Excellent, more are always welcomed. We'll add you to an assault group-hm? You're injured?" The archon floats around Alicia's body and near her wounds, "You need healing first. " He then goes around Marie, "You're not hurt, and the big man isn't either."
[18:02] <Alicia> "The wounds are vile. Unless there's a consecrated area the wounds won't heal," Alicia explains, glancing down at her bandaged but still oozing arms.
[18:03] <Kotono> "We can take care of that," The lantern archon's voice is soothing, a sense of caring and compassion filtering from it. "This way." He starts to fly towards the front of the outer ring.
06[18:04] * Alicia follows onwards with her own followers in tow. "How fares the battle?" she asks, looking over towards the fortress.
[18:10] <Kotono> The battles are pitched, with everything looking fairly even from a glance. "I've heard that it's a very difficult battle. The Abyss is entrenched." Your flight path takes you towards a woman who is currently unoccupied. She is middle aged, the fading remnants of beauty hinted at but not preserved. With blonde hair with silver streaks kept in a bun and plain greycloth robes, she stands serenely in the void. "Adorned One, we need your services a
[18:10] <Kotono> "Adorned One, we need your services again to remove the taint of vile wounds."
[18:12] <Alicia> "Greetings," Alicia gives the older woman a respectful look, glad to see a fellow human out here. At least she probably is - most outsiders seem as ageless as elves, anyway. "My name is Alicia Reynes."
[18:14] <Kotono> "Ena Painbearer." She returns the words laconically, "Come and I will call on the Crying God to lessen your suffering. His dictates have made me as sacred as a church." 
06[18:15] * Alicia pulls off her bandages and then kneels before the honoured servant of Ilmater. "Do the demons here inflict vile injuries with their attacks?" she asks curiously.
[18:17] <Kotono> "Some do, as do some of their misguided followers," Her hands go out, a prayer murmured. "Crying God, bear this suffering so that pain will come to an end..." Several minor spells are cast, each one lessening the wounds, until they are gone. "Be cautious of vile damage. If you find yourself getting injured, fall backa nd come for healing. We need not win in one suicidally brave rush."
[18:22] <Alicia> "Indeed," Alicia rises, flexing her mended limbs in no small relief. "You have my thanks. Now," she turns to the lantern archon. "We are at your disposal - I am a skilled swordswoman and have no small magic at my command - the walls of that fortress are not so strong that they can withstand Spellfire. Aym is a tremendously strong warrior and his blade will inhibit any demonic summoning magics in the vicinity."
[18:22] <Alicia> "And Marielle is a superbly skilled archer, although her arrows strike better against devils than demons," she explains, wanting to ensure their talents are put to the best use in the coming battle.
[18:24] <Kotono> "Mmm, mmm. Spellfire, you say? As in Mystra's spellfire? Well, your armor does say it all..." Thoughtfully fluttering around Alicia, "Come this way. You'll be sublimely useful for the next penetrating assault."
[18:24] <Kotono> Aym has kept to himself the entire time, a half grimace often showing on his face. His hand goes to the Sword of the Sealed Gate's hilt a few times, knuckles turning golden-white as he grips it.
06[18:27] * Alicia follows along. "Are you sure you can go through with this, Aym?" she quietly asks her planetouched companion. "If you have any reservations or doubts I won't stop you from backing out."
[18:28] <Alicia> Marie idly looks around for any familiar faces as she trails Alicia, though she doubts anyone from Elysium would expect to see her actively taking part in such a battle.
[18:28] <Kotono> Aym hesitates but only briefly. "No. I will kill something this day." He looks ahead as the lantern archon leads you along, from the outer ring, starting to go to the inner.
[18:28] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[18:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 83." [1d100=83]
[18:29] <Kotono> Marie doesn't see anyone she identifies offhand. Of course, since most everything ahead is som form of pitched battle, it's hard to really get good looks.
[18:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 sense motive Does Aym seem on the level?
06[18:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 sense motive Does Aym seem on the level? and gets 25." [1d20=17]
[18:32] <Alicia> "Then keep your mind focused on the enemy," Alicia tells him firmly. "Show all the forces of the heavens and the abyss today that Torm's fury can once again be a force for righteousness."
[18:39] <Kotono> Aym's eyes narrow, "So be it," he growls as you are lead along. A bit away from the fighting - but close enough thear the cries, the death wails, the invocations to light and dark by both sides - you come to about level with the fourth tier of the fortress. Ahead a group of astral devas and shiradi eladrin are pushing back the demonic hordes from a section of the wall. Hanging back relatively safely are three - three creatures of the purest lig
[18:40] <Kotono> Hanging back relatively safely are three - three creatures of the purest light, crafted flawlessly. Each wears a breastplate with a golden dawn shown on it, greatswords at the ready. These angels await, studies of utter inhuman perfection in waiting. "Sandriel, Star, Hopiel, this is Alicia Reynes. She has spellfire and will aid your attempt to breech thew alls. Alicia, these three are planetar angels, waiting to attempt to disintegrate a part o
[18:40] <Kotono>  Alicia, these three are planetar angels, waiting to attempt to disintegrate a part of the walls, then proceed in just far enough to ensure no one attempts magic to reseal the hole."
[18:42] <Kotono> Ahead, vrocks and glabrezu are slowly pushed to the sides, being routed back in a vicious battle. Bursts of pure lighta nd greasy darkness alternate, cries as combatants put everything on the line, bleeding but withstanding as best they can. 
[18:43] <Alicia> "If I can get close enough to the fortress I can blast apart an area far too big for them to dream of resealing," Alicia affirms confidently. "Of course, you'll all need to maintain a safe distance - say around seventy feet away - since the release will be uncontrolled. But as soon as its done you can swoop right into the breach."
[18:45] <Kotono> "We are going to attempt to use distinegration. There are two problems," The archon named Sandriel is gloriously beautiful, a man that dominates almost any other Alicia has ever seen. "The demons and followers will use wall of iron and wall of stone to temporarily patch holes, and further, this fortress itself has a slow form of regeneration. Secondly, the walls are extrodinarily tough and resistant to attempts to break them. The Abyss prepared
[18:46] <Kotono> Star is a woman with a blindfold over her eyes, voice very quiet but easy to hear. "Spellfire is very potent, SAndriel. I do not know if itwill overcome the protections fully or not, but it will be as effective as our magic, if not more effective."
[18:46] <Kotono> The Abyss prepared well."
[18:47] <Kotono> Hopiel is a jovial looking man, yet does not look out of place. "Still, welcome Alicia and fair eladrin." His smile stays even as he looks to Aym long...very long.
[18:49] <Alicia> "Thus far I've encountered nothing that can withstand it - and the sheer area it can encompass will make patching it difficult even if any demons who remain near the wall actually survive," Alicia offers, spending a half second to cast shield as they prepare. Seeing the scrutiny Aym is placed under, she volunteers, "Aym is a follower of Torm. He follows me to better understand and channel his rage."
[18:49] <Alicia> "Hi," Marie volunteers, readying her bow and smiling. "Don't worry, I'm a better shot than most coure you've probably met."
[18:50] <Kotono> Hopiel's good cheer does not fade at all, "Then follow her well, Aym. It's not often you find a gem of a woman like that," Chuckling aloud, "Who would be willing to try and fix you up."
[18:51] <Kotono> Sandriel looks to Marie, "You're in her service, eladrin?" he asks. "Then you have more combat experience than most of your kind?"
[18:52] <Alicia> "He mostly has an erinyes to thank. It was Antenora's idea," Marie offers before nodding cheerily at Sandriel. "I blew up a... what was it called again, Alicia?" she glances at her mistress briefly. "Oh, yes! A necronaut! Yes, I took down one of those, once. It was great!"
[18:53] <Kotono> Meanwhile, there is a cheer. Three vrocks are caught in one vast blast of holy power, dissipating! A few Shiradi push the remainder up and to the sides, the way to the red wall clearing!
[18:53] <Alicia> As Marie brags Alicia spends a moment to cast greater magic weapon upon Soul's Enslavement, the Sword of the Sealed Gate, and Thunderstrike.
[18:53] <Kotono> Sandriel shakes his head, "A fascinating story there to be sure, but this is not the time. Prepare now," Sandriel warns, "For it looks like our chance comes.
[18:54] <Alicia> "Remember, it won't be safe within seventy feet of me when I go to breach the wall," Alicia cautions one more time, casting enlarge person as she readies herself to push forward.
[19:02] <Kotono> "Go ahead," Star murmurs, "The Court of the Stars will guide you on this path of righteousness."
[19:03] <Kotono> "We'll be right behind," Sandriel vows, "If your spellfire does not accomplish the matter fully, or disintegration will follow."
[19:03] <Kotono> *our
[19:05] <Alicia> "Then lets go!" Alicia takes off full speed towards the fortress, intending to position herself against the wall at the third tier so that her spellfire nova will take out the largest area. Marie follows just behind her, intending to stop about a hundred feet before Alicia does so she can employ cover fire from there.
[19:07] <Kotono> The planetars follow as well, Aym just a bit ahead of them. With the forces of the Abyss and the Heavens at war a few hundred feet away, Alicia reaches the wall! As she does, she can see that the walls stare at her! The red stone is more like a semi hard jelly, with eyes coming out to stare at her endlessly, dozens of tiny eyes.
06[19:09] * Alicia stops and smiles with soul's enslavement dangling at her side as she sweeps her free hand through the air before her, a swarm of duplicates springing up before all of the identical Alicias rest their hands on the wall. "Bang," she announces before unleashing a massive nova of pure discorporating magic.
[19:09] <Alicia> roll 1d4+4 MI
06[19:09] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+4 MI and gets 5." [1d4=1]
[19:09] <Alicia> roll 18d8 spellfire (DC 24 reflex for anyone nearby. Stuff behind the wall probably gets +2 from cover) 60ft radius
06[19:09] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 18d8 spellfire (DC 24 reflex for anyone nearby. Stuff behind the wall probably gets +2 from cover) 60ft radius and gets 81." [18d8=5, 7, 5, 4, 2, 6, 7, 5, 6, 5, 1, 5, 7, 4, 1, 3, 5, 3]
[19:11] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[19:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 43." [1d100=43]
[19:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9
06[19:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 13." [1d20=4]
[19:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9
06[19:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 16." [1d20=7]
[19:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
[19:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
[19:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
06[19:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 4." [1d20=1]
[19:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
[19:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
06[19:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 6." [1d20=3]
06[19:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 12." [1d20=9]
06[19:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 21." [1d20=18]
06[19:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 15." [1d20=12]
[19:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[19:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 32." [1d20=16]
[19:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[19:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 24." [1d20=8]
[19:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
06[19:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 34." [1d20=14]
[19:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21
06[19:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 and gets 30." [1d20=9]
[19:16] <Kotono> The wall reacts strangely with the spellfire, jelly slowly dissipating! It's like the burst goes in slow motion, eyes popping! However, the powerful burst seems to win the day, crumbling a hole ahead! IN this layer you see the insides are like a jelly, blubbery and shaking! You catch glimpse of several piteous Manes just inside the wall, vaporised! TWo twisted, perhaps one human...things are beyond them, longsword in one hand and a twisted claw
[19:16] <Kotono> longsword in one hand and a twisted claw in the other!  Behind them are two multiarmed women, turning into snakes at the bottom. Each arm has a longsword, gleaming in the spellfire's light! Behind them are two in robes, already starting to call words of arcane power! OOC - I'm going to call initiative here for organization.
[19:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 CL
06[19:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 CL and gets 22." [1d20=6]
[19:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 CL
06[19:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 CL and gets 28." [1d20=12]
[19:17] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 A
06[19:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 A and gets 20." [1d20=15]
[19:17] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 M
06[19:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 M and gets 8." [1d20=1]
[19:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2 Aym
06[19:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 Aym and gets 17." [1d20=15]
[19:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 twisted man 1
06[19:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 twisted man 1 and gets 12." [1d20=7]
[19:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 twisted man 2
06[19:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 twisted man 2 and gets 25." [1d20=20]
[19:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+4
[19:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+4
06[19:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+4 and gets 17." [1d20=13]
06[19:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+4 and gets 7." [1d20=3]
[19:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
[19:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
06[19:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 28." [1d20=20]
06[19:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 17." [1d20=9]
[19:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 planes
06[19:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 planes and gets 28." [1d20=12]
03[19:20] * Kotono changes topic to 'Robe 1(28)>TM2(25)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)=Marilith 1=Robe 2>TM1(12)>Marie(8)>Marilith 2(7)'
[19:21] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 SAndriel
06[19:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 SAndriel and gets 22." [1d20=14]
[19:21] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 Star
06[19:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 Star and gets 9." [1d20=1]
[19:21] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 Hopiel
06[19:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 Hopiel and gets 10." [1d20=2]
03[19:22] * Kotono changes topic to 'Robe 1(28)>TM2(25)>Sandriel(22)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)=Marilith 1=Robe 2>TM1(12)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)>Marilith 2(7)'
[19:24] <Kotono> The first robed one raises it's gaze to Alicia. It's face is horribly twisted, it's eyeballs poking out several feet, eyestalks dripping blood! "Oh, ruin ruin ruin! Seal it!" So he calls, much of the bottom part of the blasthole now having an iron wall blocking entry! As this happens, one of the twisted...things, burned by spellfire as it may be, rushes Alicia headlong!
[19:24] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 +2 charge
06[19:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 +2 charge and gets 27." [1d20=11]
[19:24] <Kotono> roll 1d6
06[19:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 and gets 5." [1d6=5]
[19:26] <Kotono> It gets up close to Alicia, a foul rot from it's body making her nose protest! However, it harmlessly cuts through one of her images! As this happens, Sandriel surges ahead, a thin green ray coming from him as he advances, going to the iron wall!
[19:27] <Kotono> A chunk of the iron wall disintegrates into dust, ruined! At Alicia's side now, Sandriel brandishes his greatsword, "Begone, impure one!" he calls, lashing out at it!
[19:28] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 (+2 charge, -4 PA)
06[19:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 (+2 charge, -4 PA) and gets 30." [1d20=9]
[19:28] <Kotono> roll 3d6+19
06[19:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+19 and gets 26." [3d6=2, 4, 1]
[19:29] <Kotono> The creature's head is severed from it's body, white flames burning it's corpse into nothingness! "We have come for you! There is nor esisting the power of the HEavens!" he cries, pointing his sword at one of the Mariliths!
03[19:30] * Kotono changes topic to 'Robe 1(28)>Sandriel(22)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)=Marilith 1=Robe 2>TM1(12)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)>Marilith 2(7)'
[19:30] <Kotono> OOC - Alicia, you're up when you respawn.
[19:32] <Alicia> OOC: is there enough room for me to get sixty feet away from Sandriel within the fortress?
[19:33] <Kotono> The fortress itself has a lot of space here. The room is about one hundred feet large or so, the walls a blobby jelly. It shakes and writhes on occasion, with no clear doors. The robes nad mairlith are about 30 feet away from you.
06[19:35] * Alicia flies into the chamber, past the demons and positioning herself at the ceiling before another burst of spellfire surges out in a nova to decimate the interior of the fortress and vastly widen the scope of the breach. Following that she'll fire some magic missiles at whatever still lives nearby.
[19:36] <Alicia> roll 15d8 DC 24 spellfire 60ft radius
06[19:36] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 15d8 DC 24 spellfire 60ft radius and gets 72." [15d8=5, 8, 5, 2, 1, 6, 5, 8, 5, 7, 1, 8, 5, 4, 2]
[19:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
06[19:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 22." [1d20=15]
[19:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14 M1
06[19:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 M1 and gets 31." [1d20=17]
[19:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14 M2
06[19:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 M2 and gets 24." [1d20=10]
[19:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[19:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 32." [1d20=14]
[19:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
06[19:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 and gets 37." [1d20=18]
03[19:37] * Kotono changes topic to 'Robe 1(28)>Sandriel(22)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)=Marilith 1=Robe 2>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)>Marilith 2(7)'
[19:38] <Kotono> roll 72/2
06[19:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 72/2 and gets 36."
[19:40] <Kotono> The burst of spellfire disintegrates the other twisted man! The rest of the Mariliths and the robes men are scorched, though none are caught offguard! The fortress walls are scorched! Inside you can see more chambers, more demons, more horrors beyond, the way to deeper insanity opened! At this Aym rushes forward, a feral cry as he closes in, reaching to inside the fortress! OOC - Marilith 1 and robe 2 are also up this tick.
[19:40] <Kotono> The first Marilith turns to Alicia, a sneer on it's face. "A mortal tries to disrupt my plans? Absurd! How do you defy my plans and my seeing? To the Abyss with you! Come, my servants!"
[19:40] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[19:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 98." [1d100=98]
[19:40] <Kotono> OOC - Ack, I'ms orry, I forgot the MMs. Resolve this?
[19:41] <Kotono> OOC - Those, I mean?
[19:41] <Alicia> Since the marilith just identified it as a leader, it gets shot!
[19:41] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 SR
06[19:41] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 SR and gets 19." [1d20=6]
[19:43] <Kotono> Alicia's magic crumbles against the Abyssial horror, as a black aura comes to life around it! Meanwhile, the second robed one looks up, it's face...empty for nothing but dripping slime! Burbled words come from it's maw as it gestures at Sandriel!
[19:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[19:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 22." [1d20=4]
[19:44] <Kotono> Yet nothing happens to him at all! With a scowl, the robed one then chants at length in it's inhuman words! A ball of black fire bursts around Alicia! OOC - Ref save.
[19:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14
06[19:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 and gets 25." [1d20=11]
[19:44] <Kotono> roll 10d6
06[19:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 and gets 35." [10d6=3, 2, 5, 6, 6, 3, 1, 6, 1, 2]
[19:45] <Kotono> roll 35*1.5
06[19:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 35*1.5 and gets 52.5."
[19:45] <Kotono> OOC - 52 damage halved. Half of that is fire and half is unholy if it matters.
[19:47] <Kotono> The black power that erupts around Alicia makes her body want to cry forth, the power of destruction wrecking against her pure white soul! AT this, however, Hopiel joins the battle! He covers ground with a stunning ease, coming to twenty feet of the first Marilith, "Your time in this world is over!" Two thin green beams come from his hand at her!
[19:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
[19:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
06[19:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 29." [1d20=12]
06[19:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 24." [1d20=7]
[19:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 fort
06[19:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 fort and gets 25." [1d20=2]
[19:48] <Kotono> roll 5d6
06[19:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d6 and gets 23." [5d6=3, 6, 5, 6, 3]
[19:50] <Kotono> The rays flicker in front of the unholy pussiance of the Marilith, only removing a bit of her back's flesh! Star follows, blindfolded eyes seeming not to slow her at all! She goes closer to Alicia, but points at the first robed man! "Return to the void that spawned you, creature!" As a green ray arches at him!
[19:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 fort
06[19:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 fort and gets 28." [1d20=17]
[19:50] <Kotono> roll 5d6
06[19:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d6 and gets 15." [5d6=6, 1, 1, 4, 3]
[19:51] <Kotono> As one of the cultist's eyes turns to dust, as now a burst of holy power follows that!
[19:51] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 will
06[19:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 will and gets 30." [1d20=10]
[19:51] <Kotono> roll 5d8
06[19:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d8 and gets 24." [5d8=3, 7, 2, 8, 4]
03[19:52] * Kotono changes topic to 'Sandriel(22)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)=Marilith 1=Robe 2>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)>Marilith 2(7)'
[19:52] <Kotono> The cultist tries to withstand the holy power, even evading some of it! However, even a partial blast is too much,a s it's body is consumed by the light! OOC - Marie.
[19:53] <Alicia> From outside the fortress Marie fires in a barrage of cold iron arrows towards the closest marilith!
[19:53] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23
06[19:53] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 and gets 42." [1d20=19]
[19:53] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18
06[19:53] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 36." [1d20=18]
[19:53] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13
06[19:53] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 and gets 22." [1d20=9]
[19:53] <Kotono> OOC - Two hits.
[19:53] <Alicia> roll 2d4+6+2d4 not rolling electric damage
06[19:53] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d4+6+2d4 not rolling electric damage and gets 17." [2d4=4, 2][2d4=2, 3]
[19:54] <Kotono> The arrows fly mostly true, embedding into the many arms of the snake demon! It howls in it's displeasure, even as it's twin acts! "Grr...stupid celestials!  I'm not going to let my first battle be ruined by you!"
[19:54] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[19:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 21." [1d100=21]
[19:54] <Kotono> roll 1d4
06[19:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and gets 1." [1d4=1]
03[19:55] * Kotono changes topic to 'Sandriel(22)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)=Marilith 1=Robe 2>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)>Marilith 2(7)=Hezrou'
[19:56] <Kotono> A horrible, lumbering creature of the abyss appears in front of the marilith, who immediately charges Star! However, Aym is within that range as...
[19:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9 will
06[19:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 will and gets 11." [1d20=2]
[19:56] <Kotono> The hezrou blinks and vanishes away!
03[19:56] * Kotono changes topic to 'Sandriel(22)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)=Marilith 1=Robe 2>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)>Marilith 2(7)'
[19:56] <Kotono> Meanwhile, from the holes Alicia tore open, more demons come forth! Another twisted man lumbers out, as well as a pair of vrocks!
[19:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5 twisted man
06[19:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 twisted man and gets 14." [1d20=9]
[19:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2 vrock
06[19:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 vrock and gets 17." [1d20=15]
[19:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2 vrock
06[19:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 vrock and gets 4." [1d20=2]
03[19:57] * Kotono changes topic to 'Sandriel(22)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)=Marilith 1=Robe 2=Vrock1>TM3(14)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)>Marilith 2(7)>Vrock 2(4)'
[19:59] <Kotono> Sandriel flies up, so that Alicia is within twenty feet! A burst of holy power detonates, surrounding her with a holy aura of radiance! At the same time, a burst of white strikes the first Marilith, "Are you hurt?" Sandriel calls even as this happens.
[19:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17 sr
06[19:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 sr and gets 21." [1d20=4]
[20:00] <Kotono> However, the white power fizzles in the face of the Marilith's might! OOC - Alicia, you're up.
[20:02] <Kotono> "How?" The second marilith spits in disbelief, turning it's attention towards Sandriel and Star, "You little bastards, dispelling my summons!"
[20:02] <Kotono> From outside the clash of arms can still be heard, a steady pounding that leaves echos as a backdrop to the furious battle within the fortress!
[20:03] <Alicia> "A little, but nothing severe yet," Alicia nods, grateful for the concern. "Mystra, guide my blade," she whispers under her breath before rushing forward to hack apart the robed being, her attention more on the marilith who just spoke. "This is your first battle? Who did you sleep with to earn your station, then?" she asks mockingly, trying to keep their momentum up and the demons off balance.
[20:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -10pa divine might
06[20:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -10pa divine might and gets 35." [1d20=5]
[20:03] <Kotono> OOC - Hit.
[20:03] <Alicia> roll 3d6+40
06[20:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+40 and gets 47." [3d6=2, 3, 2]
[20:03] <Alicia> roll 1d4 wis drain
06[20:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 wis drain and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[20:04] <Alicia> OOC: DC 20 will or rage
03[20:04] * Kotono changes topic to 'Sandriel(22)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)=Marilith 1=Vrock1>TM3(14)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)>Marilith 2(7)>Vrock 2(4)'
[20:04] <Kotono> OOC - Moot, but make a ref save.
[20:05] <Kotono> "Grr..." Thes econd marilith spits again, "How did you know?! This form doesn't even look like my old one except for up here! I'll kill you and eat your entrails for a year!"
[20:07] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14
06[20:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 and gets 32." [1d20=18]
[20:09] <Kotono> As her sword severs the cultist in twain, it's entire body bursts like a bloody, slimy zit! It's slime goes flying, but Alicia avoids the stinking, steaming substance by flying straight and then rolling to the side, batting it away by spinning her blade! OOC - Aym.
[20:09] <Kotono> Aym lets forth a primal scream from his throat, before he charges the Marilith, uncaring even as she swipes at him as he does so!
[20:09] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 AoO
06[20:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 AoO and gets 31." [1d20=6]
[20:10] <Kotono> roll 2d6+9
06[20:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+9 and gets 16." [2d6=6, 1]
[20:11] <Kotono> Even as Aym is cut open, he returns the favor heartily!
[20:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 (-3 PA)
06[20:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 (-3 PA) and gets 38." [1d20=17]
[20:12] <Kotono> roll 1d8+15
06[20:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+15 and gets 21." [1d8=6]
[20:12] <Kotono> Aym tears into the bladed woman's flesh, even ignoring the fact that his sword struggles to cut in! Marilith and the vrock are up.
[20:13] <Kotono> The vrock screetches loud, before charging Alicia head on! It's one becomes several, mirror images appearing even as it strikes!
[20:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 18." [1d20=15]
[20:13] <Kotono> roll 1d4+3 ooops
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4+3 ooops and gets 7." [1d4=4]
[20:14] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 claw
06[20:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 claw and gets 28." [1d20=10]
[20:14] <Kotono> OOC - AC?
[20:14] <Kotono> roll 1d5
06[20:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d5 and gets 3." [1d5=3]
[20:15] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 claw cleave
06[20:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 claw cleave and gets 20." [1d20=2]
[20:15] <Kotono> roll 1d4
[20:15] <Alicia> OOC: AC 36, image 15
06[20:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and gets 4." [1d4=4]
[20:16] <Kotono> As it strikes, a mass of horrible spores erupt from it's feathered body! They touch like fire to Alicia's skin, making her flesh crawl!
[20:16] <Kotono> roll 1d8
06[20:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8 and gets 4." [1d8=4]
[20:16] <Kotono> The Marilith turns to Hopiel with a look of disdain, "Is that...it? Piteous!" she cries, before pouncing on him!
[20:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 charge -4 PA
06[20:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 charge -4 PA and gets 31." [1d20=8]
[20:18] <Kotono> CLANK! Her blade cuts onto Hopiel's breastplate, hitting that instead of his neck by a bare inch! Meanwhile, the twisted, piteous follower goes to charge Sandriel!
[20:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 +2 charge
06[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 +2 charge and gets 20." [1d20=4]
[20:18] <Kotono> roll 1d3
06[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d3 and gets 3." [1d3=3]
[20:19] <Kotono> Alicia has another image butchered, but she's not stricken or hurt in the slightest! To this, Hopiel grins wide, "Superb! I will strike you down where you stand, demon!" Divine power comes from him, clashing against the unholy aura around the snake demon!
[20:19] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17 greater dispel magic
06[20:19] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 greater dispel magic and gets 19." [1d20=2]
[20:24] <Kotono> Yet that fails, and instead, Hopiel gestures easily, "Fine then. Come to strike down the wicked," he calls, as a great lion-like warrior appears behind the marilith, striking!
[20:24] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 and gets 37." [1d20=15]
[20:24] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 and gets 42." [1d20=20]
[20:24] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 crit?
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 crit? and gets 25." [1d20=3]
[20:24] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 23." [1d20=6]
[20:24] <Kotono> roll 1d6+8
[20:24] <Kotono> roll 1d6+8
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6+8 and gets 10." [1d6=2]
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6+8 and gets 12." [1d6=4]
[20:25] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 fort 1
06[20:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 fort 1 and gets 24." [1d20=11]
[20:25] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 fort 2
06[20:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 fort 2 and gets 28." [1d20=15]
[20:25] <Kotono> roll 1d6
06[20:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 and gets 2." [1d6=2]
[20:26] <Kotono> The unholy aura around the marilith flickers even as she's clawed, the body of the leonal withering!
[20:26] <Kotono> Star glides forth, going to engage the vrock that has not yet moved, as a burst of white surrounds the one that has assaulted Alicia!
[20:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (+2 charge, -5 PA)
06[20:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 (+2 charge, -5 PA) and gets 21." [1d20=1]
[20:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17 CL
06[20:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 CL and gets 23." [1d20=6]
[20:27] <Kotono> roll 10d6
06[20:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 and gets 41." [10d6=2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 3, 5, 6, 2, 5]
[20:28] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
06[20:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 20." [1d20=10]
[20:29] <Kotono> The vrock on Alicia is buffeted by holy, sacred powers but stands in front of her, even as it screetches in the angel's direction! Meanwhile, Marie notices something. The wall slowly starts to slither closed, just a tiny bit, like a slow moving tide of slime. OOC - MArie.
[20:30] <Alicia> "Everyone! Get to the breach while it's wide open!" Marie calls towards the battling celestials outside before taking careful aim to fire at the marilith near Aym in order to give him some support.
[20:30] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 cold iron arrows still
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 cold iron arrows still and gets 27." [1d20=4]
[20:30] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18  and gets 21." [1d20=3]
[20:30] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 and gets 20." [1d20=7]
[20:30] <Alicia> OOOC: -4 to all those
[20:31] <Kotono> This time Marie finds her arrows ill aimed, missing the marilith entirely, whizzing into the jellywalls behind it! The second vrock screetches at that, retorting on Star as images appear around it!
[20:31] <Kotono> roll 1d4+3
06[20:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4+3 and gets 5." [1d4=2]
[20:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[20:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 29." [1d20=13]
[20:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[20:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 17." [1d20=1]
[20:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
[20:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
[20:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
06[20:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 27." [1d20=13]
06[20:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 17." [1d20=3]
06[20:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 18." [1d20=4]
[20:32] <Kotono> It attacks in a flurry of feathers and pain, nothing taking even as spores lash out from it's body!
[20:32] <Kotono> roll 1d8
06[20:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8 and gets 8." [1d8=8]
[20:33] <Kotono> From the holes more come! From just back in one you see it - a beautiful woman with a bats' wings, unclad and hypnotically attention getting. She holds a robed man on a chain, who bows his head and murmurs. "Get him, my pet!"
[20:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
06[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 24." [1d20=19]
[20:34] <Kotono> roll 1d20+4 succubus
06[20:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+4 succubus and gets 13." [1d20=9]
03[20:34] * Kotono changes topic to 'Robed man(24>Sandriel(22)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)=Marilith 1=Vrock1>TM3(14)>Succubus(13)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)>Marilith 2(7)>Vrock 2(4)'
[20:35] <Kotono> The robed man looks up, his hood falling back. HIs mouth is empty of teeth, only cockroackes and bugs gushing out! In incomprehensible words he speaks towards Star!
[20:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 29." [1d20=11]
[20:35] <Kotono> A vast swarm of bugs surround Star, yet they vanish as each tries to touch her sanctified body! A moment later it happens again, this time at Hopiel!
[20:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[20:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 21." [1d20=3]
[20:36] <Kotono> Yet again, the fell magic is no match for the power of the heavens! Sandriel nods back to Alicia, before going down to aid Star, going right after the robed man with a charge!
[20:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (-5 PA, +2 chargE)
06[20:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 (-5 PA, +2 chargE) and gets 26." [1d20=6]
[20:37] <Kotono> roll 3d6+23
06[20:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+23 and gets 36." [3d6=3, 6, 4]
[20:37] <Kotono> As he cuts into the man's side, bugs falling down from the gash in his body, "Purity of light, destroy these wicked creatures!"
[20:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17 CL
06[20:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 CL and gets 30." [1d20=13]
[20:37] <Kotono> roll 10d6
06[20:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 and gets 35." [10d6=2, 2, 4, 4, 5, 2, 6, 2, 4, 4]
[20:37] <Kotono> roll 5d8
06[20:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d8 and gets 26." [5d8=8, 3, 6, 6, 3]
[20:38] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 succubus
06[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 succubus and gets 27." [1d20=12]
[20:38] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12 robed
06[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 robed and gets 29." [1d20=17]
[20:38] <Kotono> Both are burned by the sacred light, but both yet remain as the battle rages! OOC - Alicia.
[20:39] <Kotono> roll 1d4
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[20:39] <Kotono> OOC - Going to resolve the vines effect on your turn for the sake of easy bookkeeping in this big battle.
[20:39] <Alicia> OOC: can do, but didn't you skip over marilith 2? Is she holding?
[20:40] <Kotono> OOC - I'll just pretend she did, yes. She'll go now.
03[20:40] * Kotono changes topic to 'Robed man(24>Sandriel(22)>Marilith 2(21)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)=Marilith 1=Vrock1>TM3(14)>Succubus(13)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)>Vrock 2(4)'
[20:40] <Kotono> Stunned a moment by the onslaught, the marilith turns it's deadly attentions to Aym, trying to rip him limb from limb!
[20:40] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 (-3 PA)
06[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 (-3 PA) and gets 37." [1d20=15]
[20:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
06[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 19." [1d20=2]
[20:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12
06[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 and gets 28." [1d20=16]
[20:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
06[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 25." [1d20=18]
[20:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 (-3 PA)
06[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 (-3 PA) and gets 33." [1d20=11]
[20:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 (-3 PA)
06[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 (-3 PA) and gets 36." [1d20=14]
[20:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 (-3 PA)
06[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 (-3 PA) and gets 27." [1d20=5]
[20:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 (-3 PA)
06[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 (-3 PA) and gets 26." [1d20=4]
[20:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 (-3 PA)
06[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 (-3 PA) and gets 35." [1d20=13]
[20:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 (-3 PA) tail
06[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 (-3 PA) tail and gets 28." [1d20=6]
[20:42] <Kotono> 18d6+108+4d6+7
06[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 18d6+108+4d6+7 and gets 199." [18d6=6, 5, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 6, 6, 5, 5, 6, 1, 6, 3, 3, 2][4d6=2, 6, 5, 1]
[20:43] <Kotono> Aym's body is torn apart! Half of his skull is torn away, his intenstines flicked aside by a pair of sword slashes! His body is nothing more than rotten meat, but he doesn't seem to notice! Even as most of his lifeblood exits his body in amazing gushes and trickles, he doesn't even pause against the marilith!  OOC - Alicia.
[20:45] <Alicia> "Gods! Someone heal Aym, quickly!" Alicia calls, conjuring up more mirror images as she moves to flank the demon and distract its attention away from him. "You might be new, but I won't deny your skill," she admits begrudgingly, hoping she can survive this herself.
[20:45] <Alicia> roll 1d4+4
06[20:45] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+4 and gets 6." [1d4=2]
[20:46] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 -4 pa, smite, divine might
06[20:46] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 -4 pa, smite, divine might and gets 34." [1d20=9]
[20:46] <Kotono> OOC - HIt.
[20:46] <Alicia> roll 3d6+30
06[20:46] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+30 and gets 39." [3d6=3, 3, 3]
[20:47] <Alicia> roll 1d4 wis
06[20:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 wis and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[20:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
06[20:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 20." [1d20=6]
[20:47] <Kotono> OOC - -1, which 'saves' you.
[20:49] <Kotono> Teh blow seems to be too much! It rips into the marilith, who lets forth a terrifying scream of the uptmost fury! Meanwhile, Aym smiles like a predator with what remains of his lips as he attacks!
[20:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (+2 flank, -4 PA)
06[20:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 (+2 flank, -4 PA) and gets 28." [1d20=8]
[20:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (+2 flank, -4 PA)
06[20:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 (+2 flank, -4 PA) and gets 35." [1d20=15]
[20:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[20:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 16." [1d20=1]
[20:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
06[20:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 19." [1d20=9]
[20:50] <Kotono> roll 1d8+17
06[20:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+17 and gets 25." [1d8=8]
[20:51] <Kotono> The marilith's body is torn again, ripped into even as it resists his blade! Not that the marilith seems ot notice or care, really, screaming in fury instead! Meanwhile, the other one turns it's full attentions onto Hopiel!
[20:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24 (-1 PA)
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+24 (-1 PA) and gets 40." [1d20=16]
[20:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 and gets 36." [1d20=17]
[20:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 29." [1d20=15]
[20:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 12." [1d20=3]
[20:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+24 and gets 25." [1d20=1]
[20:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+24 and gets 30." [1d20=6]
[20:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+24 and gets 32." [1d20=8]
[20:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+24 and gets 34." [1d20=10]
[20:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+24 and gets 26." [1d20=2]
[20:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24 TAIL SLAP
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+24 TAIL SLAP and gets 42." [1d20=18]
[20:54] <Kotono> 8d6+40+4d6+10
06[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 8d6+40+4d6+10 and gets 95." [8d6=1, 2, 6, 1, 3, 6, 4, 6][4d6=2, 2, 6, 6]
[20:56] <Kotono> Hopiel is maimed and battered, perfect visage torn apart viciously! Even as he is brought close to his end, the vrock on Alicia wheels and goes to doubleteam Star with the other vrock!
[20:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 +2 charge
06[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 +2 charge and gets 19." [1d20=1]
[20:56] <Kotono> However, this assault is pointless and a failure, doing no harm at all to Star! The last twisted man goes for Star as well, charging her unflanked side!
[20:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 +2 charge
06[20:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 +2 charge and gets 22." [1d20=6]
[20:58] <Kotono> Yet again, however, she stands unharmed! The succubus tosses her fire red hair back, laughing richly. "Oh, this is too good...but you." Her eyes narrow, "A little foolish human...and a wounded angel...oh, which to choose. Oh, both, that's right! I so love this plane!"
[20:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14 CL
06[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 CL and gets 30." [1d20=16]
[20:59] <Kotono> A beam of green light arches out at the wounded Hopiel, a pale green light that is far too familiar to Alicia, having seen it thrown around several times already!
[20:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14 fort
06[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 fort and gets 32." [1d20=18]
[20:59] <Kotono> roll 5d6
06[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d6 and gets 15." [5d6=2, 4, 1, 4, 4]
[21:00] <Kotono> The beam buckles Hopiel's body, half of his left wing sagging and missing feathers! Meanwhile, Alicia...OOC - Will save.
[21:00] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24
06[21:00] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 and gets 26." [1d20=2]
[21:02] <Kotono> Fortunately for Alicia, her superb protective will saves her mind from a horrible rotting miasma! Hopiel swears, disentangling from the Marilith, who swipes at him even as he flees!
[21:02] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+24  and gets 25." [1d20=1]
[21:03] <Kotono> However, the blow glances off his armor safely! He flies over near to Aym, and with a breathless word, "Light...HEAL!" Great restorations take over Aym and Hopiel, their wounds gone!
[21:04] <Kotono> Star, meanwhile, turns to the vrocks on her, and with a smile, two bursts of sacred power detonate around them!
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 20." [1d20=3]
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 20." [1d20=3]
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 10d6
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 and gets 42." [10d6=1, 2, 2, 6, 6, 6, 2, 5, 6, 6]
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 10d6
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 and gets 36." [10d6=5, 3, 5, 1, 2, 5, 3, 3, 4, 5]
[21:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
[21:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
06[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 27." [1d20=17]
06[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 20." [1d20=10]
[21:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
[21:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
06[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 30." [1d20=20]
06[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 18." [1d20=8]
[21:06] <Kotono> The two vrocks are rocked by the holy power, both burn and one blinded and dazed! OOC - Marie.
[21:07] <Alicia> Not wanting Alicia to look like Aym did a moment ago, Marie unleashes a full power barrage on the surrounded marilith, arrows and magic missiles flying out in a mass salvo of pain!
[21:07] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 SR for MM
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 SR for MM and gets 30." [1d20=16]
[21:07] <Alicia> roll 5d4+5
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 5d4+5 and gets 11." [5d4=2, 1, 1, 1, 1]
[21:07] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 and gets 37." [1d20=18]
[21:07] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 and gets 27." [1d20=13]
[21:08] <Alicia> roll 1d20+9
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+9 and gets 10." [1d20=1]
[21:08] <Kotono> OOC - one hit.
[21:08] <Alicia> roll 1d4+3+1d4 cold iron/good
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+3+1d4 cold iron/good and gets 6." [1d4=2][1d4=1]
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 1d4
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[21:09] <Kotono> The arrows and magic missiles have some impact, but not enough to take down the marilith in it's towering fury! The second vrock is blinded, blinding falling back and giving Star a chance to slice him open!
[21:09] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 36." [1d20=13]
[21:09] <Kotono> roll 3d6+13
06[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+13 and gets 24." [3d6=3, 5, 3]
[21:11] <Kotono> Blind and wounded, the vrock's left leg is nearly severed! It weakly glides back against hte jelly, rubbing it's eyes in agony, screaming! The robed man giggles to himself, two swarms of bugs surround Star!
[21:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 CLs
[21:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 CLs
06[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 CLs and gets 34." [1d20=16]
06[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 CLs and gets 24." [1d20=6]
[21:12] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
06[21:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 26." [1d20=12]
[21:12] <Kotono> roll 15d6
06[21:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 15d6 and gets 52." [15d6=1, 1, 5, 2, 3, 2, 5, 5, 3, 1, 3, 6, 6, 5, 4]
[21:12] <Kotono> roll 52/2
06[21:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 52/2 and gets 26."
[21:13] <Kotono> The bugs crawl all over Star, biting and chewing at her mercilessly! Sandriel meanwhile turns his attention to the situation, before a pair of holy smites engulf the enraged marilith as he glides backwards a bit, disengaging from anyone too close!
[21:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
[21:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
06[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 30." [1d20=13]
06[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 28." [1d20=11]
[21:13] <Kotono> roll 10d6
[21:13] <Kotono> roll 10d6
06[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 and gets 42." [10d6=6, 1, 3, 4, 4, 2, 6, 5, 6, 5]
06[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 and gets 43." [10d6=3, 1, 4, 5, 6, 4, 5, 3, 6, 6]
[21:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
[21:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 29." [1d20=16]
06[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 31." [1d20=18]
03[21:14] * Kotono changes topic to 'Robed man(24>Sandriel(22)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)=Marilith 1=Vrock1>TM3(14)>Succubus(13)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)>Vrock 2(4)'
[21:14] <Kotono> The two sacred bursts of power are enough! They do no harm to Alicia, but the marilith melts away, screaming in impotent rage all the while! "Alicia, can you help Star," Sandriel calls. "She's getting overwhelmed!"
[21:17] <Alicia> "I'll distract the whore and her friend!" Alicia calls back. "Aym, with me!" she then orders before hurling herself at the succubus to slash open her adorable tummy with magic guiding her blade!
[21:17] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -10 pa, divine might, true strike
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -10 pa, divine might, true strike and gets 33." [1d20=3]
[21:18] <Kotono> OOC - Hit, and make a will save.
[21:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24
06[21:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 and gets 41." [1d20=17]
[21:18] <Alicia> roll 3d6+40
06[21:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+40 and gets 51." [3d6=6, 2, 3]
[21:18] <Alicia> roll 1d4 wis
06[21:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 wis and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[21:20] <Kotono> Alicia skillfully cleaves into the body of the succubus, marring her incredible form! She looks at Alicia with a thinly disguised contempt, "What a plain little woman. What right do you have to be near me?" OOC - Aym and Marilith one and vrock 1 are up.
[21:20] <Alicia> "Belay that, go deal with the vrocks instead, Aym!" Alicia calls back, not wanting the berserker to be affected by that aura.
[21:20] <Kotono> Aym doesn't seem to notice or particularly care, but he does go for the vrock that seperated away from Star, charging it headlong!
[21:21] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 (+2 charge, -6 PA)
06[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 (+2 charge, -6 PA) and gets 29." [1d20=11]
[21:21] <Kotono> roll 1d8+21
06[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+21 and gets 28." [1d8=7]
03[21:21] * Kotono changes topic to 'Robed man(24>Sandriel(22)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)=Marilith 1=Vrock1>TM3(14)>Succubus(13)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)'
[21:22] <Alicia> "What right do you have to be on the battlefield you wanton harlot?" Alicia replies fiercely as she presses her assault. "This is no place for a glorified bedwarmer."
03[21:23] * Kotono changes topic to 'Robed man(24>Sandriel(22)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)=Vrock1>TM3(14)>Succubus(13)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)'
[21:23] <Kotono> The vrock's wounded form crumbles under this overwhelming sword blow, turned to dust and ash under one finishing strike! Meanwhile, the first marilith growls a moment, before vanishing away! The surviving vrock meanwhile tears into Star!
[21:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[21:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 22." [1d20=6]
06[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 23." [1d20=7]
[21:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
06[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 32." [1d20=18]
[21:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
[21:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
06[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 25." [1d20=11]
06[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 25." [1d20=11]
[21:23] <Kotono> roll 1d8+3
06[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+3 and gets 10." [1d8=7]
[21:23] <Kotono> roll 1d4 vines
06[21:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 vines and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[21:25] <Kotono> STar is cut once by the creature, a stabbing, slashing bite that chomps into her! The spare twisted one ambles about, going for Alicia with a charge!
[21:25] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 charge
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 charge and gets 21." [1d20=5]
[21:25] <Kotono> roll 1d2
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d2 and gets 1." [1d2=1]
[21:25] <Alicia> OOC: if it lacks reach I'll AoO it
[21:25] <Kotono> OOC - Go for it.
[21:25] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 still have -10 pa from last attack
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 still have -10 pa from last attack and gets 26." [1d20=16]
[21:25] <Kotono> OOc - Hit.
[21:25] <Alicia> roll 3d6+40
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+40 and gets 50." [3d6=3, 2, 5]
[21:25] <Alicia> roll 1d4 wis
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 wis and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[21:26] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
06[21:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 19." [1d20=13]
[21:27] <Kotono> The blow nearly cuts the twisted being in half, sending what life remains into it into an instinctive fury, even as it's own blow fails to hit Alicia! The succubus laughs, words coming! "You are worthless! Nothing! You are nothing but my inferior! Bow to me!" OOC - Will save.
[21:27] <Alicia> OOC: absorbed if that's an SLA
[21:28] <Kotono> OOC: +9 spell levels then.
[21:28] <Alicia> "Hah! Do that again, it felt nice!" Alicia laughs mockingly as she absorbs the magic into her without harm.
[21:29] <Kotono> Even as her words seem to do nothing, she scowls, "You little stuck up bitch," she scowls, "Calling me a bedwarmer? Oh, fine, I'll show you what I feel!" Brazenly she reaches out to touch Alicia!
[21:29] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16 touch AC
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 touch AC and gets 23." [1d20=7]
[21:29] <Kotono> roll 1d2
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d2 and gets 2." [1d2=2]
[21:29] <Alicia> OOC: 18, image 15
[21:29] <Kotono> OOC - Oh wait, you refreshed them. Sorry, strike that then.
[21:30] <Kotono> Even as her words seem to do nothing, she scowls, "You little stuck up bitch," she scowls, "Calling me a bedwarmer? Oh, fine, I'll show you what I feel!" Brazenly she snaps her fingers, as...
[21:30] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 100." [1d100=100]
[21:30] <Kotono> Nothing at all happens!
[21:31] <Alicia> "You feel pretty useless," Alicia opines honestly.
[21:31] <Kotono> Hopiel comes to join the battle, going to assault the vrock still on Star with a holy smite and a sword blow!
[21:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17 CL
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 CL and gets 36." [1d20=19]
[21:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (+2 charge, -5 PA)
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 (+2 charge, -5 PA) and gets 29." [1d20=9]
[21:31] <Kotono> roll 10d6
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 and gets 42." [10d6=3, 2, 2, 5, 6, 5, 6, 3, 5, 5]
[21:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
06[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 30." [1d20=20]
[21:32] <Kotono> roll 3d6+23
06[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+23 and gets 28." [3d6=3, 1, 1]
03[21:32] * Kotono changes topic to 'Robed man(24>Sandriel(22)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)>TM3(14)>Succubus(13)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)'
[21:33] <Kotono> Seemingly undeterred by the images the vrock called, Hopiel dispatches the vrock back to the Abyss that spawned it! Star takes a moment to murmur a few words, the vines falling from her body, before she goes to attend to the man thing that was nearly bisected by Alicia!
[21:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
06[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20  and gets 23." [1d20=3]
[21:33] <Kotono> roll 3d6+23
06[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+23 and gets 39." [3d6=6, 6, 4]
03[21:33] * Kotono changes topic to 'Robed man(24>Sandriel(22)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)>Succubus(13)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)'
[21:34] <Kotono> It's dying cry is weak as it fizzles away, body destroyed and spirit plummeting into the endless ravine of chaotic evil! OOC -Marie. The slime continues to inch forward, but from out here you can see that the demons are being held at bay well enough at least.
[21:35] <Alicia> Since the hole Alicia carved is over a hundred feet wide Marie is hardly worried about it sealing them in at this rate. Angling for a better shot, she fires a salvo of arrows at the robed man, saving her cold iron ones since he seems more like a mortal freak of nature than a demon.
[21:35] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 and gets 42." [1d20=19]
[21:35] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 21." [1d20=3]
[21:35] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 and gets 31." [1d20=18]
[21:35] <Alicia> OOC: any relevant DR or energy resistance?
[21:35] <Kotono> OOC - No, but two hits. Botched the middle one.
[21:35] <Alicia> roll 2d4+6+2d6+2d4
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d4+6+2d6+2d4 and gets 22." [2d4=3, 4][2d6=1, 3][2d4=4, 1]
03[21:36] * Kotono changes topic to 'Sandriel(22)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)>Succubus(13)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)'
[21:37] <Kotono> Marie fires true! The pair of arrows penetrate and kil the bug-creature-man, making it fall apart into useless bugs! However, at this, the entire fortress seems to shake! A horrible feeling of pure terror washes over everyone as it stands! It is as tall as a giant, cruel wings and flaming body seemingly composed of not matter...but pure hatred given flesh! A flaming whip is in one hand, a jagged sword of lighting in the other! A black aura flar
[21:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[21:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 29." [1d20=18]
[21:37] <Kotono> a jagged sword of lighting in the other! A black aura flares around it, and in it's inhuman, agonizing voice, "This shall go no further! Your lives end here forevermore!"
03[21:37] * Kotono changes topic to 'Balor(29)>Sandriel(22)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)>Succubus(13)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)'
[21:39] <Kotono> With a gesture of contempt, a great sea of fire engulfs Alicia, Hopiel, Star, Aym...and even the succubus, a massive storm of flames!
[21:40] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 CL
06[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 CL and gets 23." [1d20=3]
[21:40] <Kotono> OOC - Ref save, Alicia and Aym.
[21:40] <Kotono> roll 20d6
06[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 20d6  and gets 74." [20d6=4, 3, 4, 6, 1, 2, 3, 1, 6, 2, 1, 5, 6, 4, 6, 4, 3, 2, 5, 6]
[21:40] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 remember holy aura gives SR 25
06[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 remember holy aura gives SR 25 and gets 32." [1d20=14]
[21:40] <Kotono> OOC - You're off the hook then.
[21:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
06[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 10." [1d20=4]
[21:41] <Kotono> While the flames only lick Aym, Alicia feeling safe and protected within her sphere of radiant holiness, Aym is burned horribly! A moment later...
[21:41] <Kotono> roll 1d4
06[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[21:42] <Kotono> A pair of hezrou appear at either side of the balor! In one word the balor speaks, carrying seeds of terror within it! "Kill!"
03[21:42] * Kotono changes topic to 'Balor(29=Hezrou x2>Sandriel(22)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)>Succubus(13)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)'
[21:42] <Kotono> A four some of unholy blights fire - Alicia is caught in two herself!
[21:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 CLs
[21:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 CLs
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 CLs and gets 19." [1d20=6]
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 CLs and gets 31." [1d20=18]
[21:43] <Kotono> OOc - will save.
[21:43] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 and gets 29." [1d20=5]
[21:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 CLs for non Alicia ones
[21:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 CLs for non Alicia ones
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 CLs for non Alicia ones and gets 23." [1d20=10]
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 CLs for non Alicia ones and gets 24." [1d20=11]
[21:43] <Kotono> roll 5d8 halved for you
06[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d8 halved for you and gets 25." [5d8=6, 6, 8, 1, 4]
[21:46] <Kotono> The unholy blights don'ts eem to penetrate the resistances of the angels so well, but it does Alicia stinging! Sandriel turns towards the balor, "You...creature of the Abyss, I shall have your head!" Righteous might surrounds Sandriel, making him nearly as large as the lord of the Abyss! OOC - Alicia.
[21:46] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 CL of Balor's true seeing vs Alicia.
06[21:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 CL of Balor's true seeing vs Alicia. and gets 27." [1d20=7]
06[21:48] * Alicia has to catch herself from staring at the balor for a moment before the unholy blight shocks her to her senses. "One thing at a time," she mutters, turning back to the malefic beauty before her. "I don't think you'll see how this ends," she commiserates before unleashing a flurry of strikes at her!
[21:48] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 divine might -5 power attack
06[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 divine might -5 power attack and gets 17." [1d20=2]
[21:48] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 divine might -5 power attack
06[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 divine might -5 power attack and gets 13." [1d20=3]
[21:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 divine might -5 power attack quickened true strike
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 divine might -5 power attack quickened true strike and gets 42." [1d20=12]
[21:50] <Kotono> OOC - Last one hit. Rotten luck
[21:50] <Kotono> .
[21:50] <Alicia> roll 3d6+30
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+30 and gets 41." [3d6=1, 4, 6]
[21:50] <Alicia> roll 1d4 wis
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 wis and gets 2." [1d4=2]
03[21:50] * Kotono changes topic to 'Balor(29=Hezrou x2>Sandriel(22)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)'
[21:53] <Kotono> With a cleaving blow, Alicia splist the succubus in twain! It vanishes away with nary a mocking word, defeated! OOC - Let's pick up here tomorrow with Aym's turn. I need a bit of time prework.

[Corwin]

[21:57] <Alicia> Also, what happened to the Leonal that Sandriel summoned?
03[22:00] * Kotono changes topic to 'Balor(29=Hezrou x2>Sandriel(22)=Leonal>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)'
[22:00] <Kotono> I'll have it have held and act before Aym.
[22:01] <Alicia> -------
[22:01] <Alicia> [19:50] * Alicia has to catch herself from staring at the balor for a moment before the unholy blight shocks her to her senses. "One thing at a time," she mutters, turning back to the malefic beauty before her. "I don't think you'll see how this ends," she commiserates before unleashing a flurry of strikes at her!
[22:01] <Alicia> [19:51] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 divine might -5 power attack
[22:01] <Alicia> [19:51] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 divine might -5 power attack and gets 17." [1d20=2]
[22:01] <Alicia> [19:51] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 divine might -5 power attack
[22:01] <Alicia> [19:51] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 divine might -5 power attack and gets 13." [1d20=3]
[22:01] <Alicia> [19:51] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 divine might -5 power attack quickened true strike
[22:01] <Alicia> [19:51] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 divine might -5 power attack quickened true strike and gets 42." [1d20=12]
[22:01] <Alicia> [19:52] <Kotono> OOC - Last one hit. Rotten luck
[22:01] <Alicia> [19:52] <Kotono> .
[22:01] <Alicia> [19:52] <Alicia> roll 3d6+30
[22:01] <Alicia> [19:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+30 and gets 41." [3d6=1, 4, 6]
[22:01] <Alicia> [19:52] <Alicia> roll 1d4 wis
[22:01] <Alicia> [19:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 wis and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[22:01] <Alicia> [19:52] * Kotono changes topic to 'Balor(29=Hezrou x2>Sandriel(22)>Alicia(20)>Aym(17)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)'
[22:01] <Alicia> [19:55] <Kotono> With a cleaving blow, Alicia splist the succubus in twain! It vanishes away with nary a mocking word, defeated! OOC - Let's pick up here tomorrow with Aym's turn. I need a bit of time prework.
03[22:08] * Kotono changes topic to 'Balor(29=Hezrou x2>Sandriel(22)l>Alicia(20)>Leonal(18)>Aym(17)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)'
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03[22:15] * ChanServ sets mode: +qo Kotono Kotono
[22:21] <Kotono> The leonal, it's lion's visage noble even in the battle amid the blown apart walls of red jelly, charges the leftmost Hezrou, even as a fireball bursts amid all three evil outsiders!
[22:21] <Kotono> roll 10d6 fireball resolves first
06[22:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 fireball resolves first and gets 39." [10d6=6, 2, 4, 2, 4, 6, 2, 5, 4, 4]
[22:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
[22:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
06[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 16." [1d20=9]
06[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 19." [1d20=12]
[22:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 Balor
06[22:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 Balor and gets 38." [1d20=19]
[22:24] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10 CL d'oh
06[22:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 CL d'oh and gets 16." [1d20=6]
[22:25] <Kotono> The fireball shorts out even as the leonal closes in, the horrible stench of the hezrou wafting towards it1
[22:25] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[22:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 33." [1d20=20]
[22:25] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 claw
06[22:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 claw and gets 23." [1d20=1]
[22:25] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 claw
06[22:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 claw and gets 42." [1d20=20]
[22:26] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 claw crit?
06[22:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 claw crit? and gets 24." [1d20=2]
[22:26] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 rake
06[22:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 rake and gets 34." [1d20=12]
[22:26] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22 rake
06[22:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 rake and gets 38." [1d20=16]
[22:26] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17 bite
06[22:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 bite and gets 35." [1d20=18]
[22:27] <Kotono> roll 2d8+16+1d8+8+1d8+8+1d8+4
06[22:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d8+16+1d8+8+1d8+8+1d8+4 and gets 57." [2d8=4, 5][1d8=3][1d8=1][1d8=8]
[22:27] <Kotono> The hezrou is torn apart, ripped deeply into by the graceful fury of the leonic champion! A second later Aym is chasing after him, purusing to do the exact same thing!
[22:28] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14 fort
06[22:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 fort and gets 20." [1d20=6]
[22:28] <Kotono> However, coming in closer, Aym is stopped! HE doubles over in agony, holding his stomach! OOC - Hopiel's up.
[22:29] <Kotono> "Then...return to the abyss that spawned you!" he points ahead, flying in! From his body, waves of rippling energy come forth!
[22:29] <Alicia> OOC: DC 20 will save or hezrous vanish!
[22:29] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9
06[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 26." [1d20=17]
[22:29] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9
06[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 11." [1d20=2]
[22:29] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10 the leonal is summoned too
06[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 the leonal is summoned too and gets 27." [1d20=17]
[22:29] <Alicia> OOC: it does discriminate
03[22:29] * Kotono changes topic to 'Balor(29)=Hezrou>Sandriel(22)l>Alicia(20)>Leonal(18)>Aym(17)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)'
[22:30] <Kotono> OOC: Does it?
[22:31] <Kotono> However, the mildly wounded hezrou flickers and banishes away as the waves of energy come forth!
[22:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17 CL
06[22:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 CL and gets 36." [1d20=19]
[22:34] <Kotono> The hezrou and the balor both seem to sag slightly, as if the vitality has been torn from them! Star turns towards them as well, soaring towards the hezrou! A word of power comes from her mouth, a word that seems to shake everything around the hezrou!
[22:34] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
06[22:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 33." [1d20=16]
[22:34] <Kotono> roll 1d5
06[22:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d5 and gets 5." [1d5=5]
[22:34] <Kotono> OOC - STrike.
[22:34] <Kotono> roll 1d4
06[22:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[22:35] <Kotono> As she approaches carefully, her wounds heal away! OOC - Marie.
[22:36] <Alicia> Since the Balor is likely out of her league, Marie helps out by shooting at the remaining hezrou.
[22:36] <Kotono> The balor stays at it's fulll, terrible height and laughs! "This will make your murders all the richer! Show me how much power you have"
[22:36] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23
06[22:36] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 and gets 27." [1d20=4]
[22:36] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18
06[22:36] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 31." [1d20=13]
[22:36] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13
06[22:36] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 and gets 19." [1d20=6]
[22:36] <Kotono> OOC - Two hits.
[22:36] <Alicia> roll 2d4+6+2d4 not rolling electricity
06[22:36] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d4+6+2d4 not rolling electricity and gets 18." [2d4=2, 3][2d4=4, 3]
[22:38] <Kotono> The arrows mostly fly true...but Marie notices something! THe red, jelly like ooze of the walls is starting to surge forward! Almost abruptly it gushes, more than half closing the vast gap into the tower! OOC - Balor is up.
[22:39] <Kotono> Turning to gaze at Hopiel, a fearsome word of power comes from the Balor!
[22:39] <Kotono> roll d20+20
06[22:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls d20+20 and gets 24." [d20=4]
[22:40] <Alicia> "Someone better do something about the gap, it's closing real fast!" Marie yells towards the melee, hoping someone is in a position to act on her advice.
[22:40] <Kotono> However, nothing happens! A moment later the lord of the abyss says another word, a word and blasphemy so horrid that it makes Alicia's stomach wrench within itself! Waves of arcane, dark power flow forth around Hopiel, Star, the leonal and Aym, even if Aym doesn't seem bothered!
[22:40] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 CL
06[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 CL and gets 40." [1d20=20]
[22:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 Hopiel
06[22:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 Hopiel and gets 23." [1d20=10]
[22:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 Star
06[22:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 Star and gets 25." [1d20=12]
[22:42] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
06[22:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 15." [1d20=7]
[22:42] <Kotono> roll 2d6 str
06[22:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6 str and gets 4." [2d6=3, 1]
[22:43] <Kotono> roll 1d10
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d10 and gets 3." [1d10=3]
[22:44] <Kotono> Of this, Hopiel and the leonal rear back, unmoving! Star resists the horrible, deadly power, standing true even amid such a forbidden word! Sandriel advances forward, blade engaging the balor even as his allies are stunned! "Alicia! The hole's sealing! Do you have another blast?"
[22:45] <Kotono> roll 1d20+29
06[22:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+29 and gets 39." [1d20=10]
[22:45] <Kotono> roll 4d6+18
06[22:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d6+18 and gets 32." [4d6=5, 5, 1, 3]
[22:47] <Kotono> HIs blade cuts into the balor, even as the two are face to face! The whip of the demon grazes by the angel's side, the two locking in deadly combat! As this happens, he reaches out to touch Hopiel, the angel beginning to move again!  OOC -  Alicia, you're up.
[22:49] <Alicia> "Yes, I'll re-open it in a second!" Alicia calls back as she moves to aid the melee, jinking around the combatants until she reaches the balor and lashes out, trying to knock his sword away and likely flying straight out of the fortress. Hopefully Marie can grab it before it becomes lost in the astral.
[22:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+51 +20 true strike +4 large +4 two handed +3 3rd level channel disarm
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+51 +20 true strike +4 large +4 two handed +3 3rd level channel disarm and gets 55." [1d20=4]
[22:51] <Alicia> OOC: forgot, he gets an AoO, if it lands the disarm becomes moot
[22:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+33
06[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+33 and gets 52." [1d20=19]
[22:52] <Kotono> roll 1d20+33 crit
06[22:52] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+33 crit and gets 43." [1d20=10]
[22:52] <Kotono> OOC - How many images?
[22:52] <Alicia> OOC: 7
[22:52] <Kotono> roll 1d7
06[22:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d7 and gets 3." [1d7=3]
[22:53] <Kotono> roll 1d20+33 cleave
06[22:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+33 cleave and gets 51." [1d20=18]
[22:53] <Kotono> roll 1d6
06[22:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 and gets 2." [1d6=2]
[22:53] <Kotono> OOC -3 for exhaustion, but it hardly matters.
[22:53] <Alicia> OOC: opposed roll go
[22:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30
06[22:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30 and gets 40." [1d20=10]
[22:56] <Kotono> The lightning-sword of the balor is knocked aside, Alicia's magic able to ensure it goes clattering away! The Leonal meanwhile does nothing, as Aym is also sick and vomiting, drifting backwards in a daze! OOC - Hopiel.
[22:57] <Kotono> Hopiel grows larger, righteous power gathering into him! He goes for the hezrou, blade lashing out at the stunned demon to the side!
[22:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 (-10 PA)
06[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 (-10 PA) and gets 37." [1d20=18]
[22:58] <Kotono> roll 4d6+36 ow
06[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d6+36 ow and gets 48." [4d6=6, 3, 1, 2]
03[22:58] * Kotono changes topic to 'Balor(29)>Sandriel(22)l>Alicia(20)>Leonal(18)>Aym(17)>Hopiel(10)>Star(9)>Marie(8)'
[23:00] <Kotono> The hezrou is levelled, arm cut off and gigantic body crumbling into abyssal ashes! Star shudders after the blasphemy rocks her, a pair of holy smites striking the balor as she drifts a little back, "WEll done, Alicia!"
[23:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
[23:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
06[23:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 35." [1d20=18]
06[23:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 27." [1d20=10]
[23:00] <Kotono> roll 10d6
06[23:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 and gets 37." [10d6=5, 5, 3, 6, 1, 5, 6, 1, 3, 2]
[23:01] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 w ill
06[23:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 w ill and gets 39." [1d20=20]
[23:03] <Kotono> The holy sm ites detonate around the balor, white beams of energy coming from the heaven sto pound the abyssal fiend! PYEt even then it stands solid, barely phased! OOC - Marie.
[23:04] <Alicia> OOC: how far is Marie from the balor's sword?
[23:04] <Kotono> OOC - It flew maybe twenty feet away, so sixty back or so? A Fair bit but she could reach it this round easily enough.
[23:06] <Alicia> Marie zips on over to where the Balor's sword fell, doing her best to grab its oversized hilt in her tiny grasp. She'll turn incorporeal along with it in a moment, and then the weight will be trivial.
[23:06] <Kotono> OOC - MAke a will save, Marie?
[23:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 +2 vs evil
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 +2 vs evil and gets 16." [1d20=2]
[23:08] <Kotono> The moment Marie touches the sword of the balor, her hands scream in the utmost agonies! It's like the lignting blade is alive, alive as she is! She can feel it's crackling electricity...or what one may think it is, but...all too late she can tell it is pure hatred, pure genocidal fury. IT blasts past her will and her protections like it isnothing, a thousand laughing demons heard in her mind as she is overwhelmed! OOC - more.
[23:08] <Kotono> a thousand laughing demons heard in her mind as she is overwhelmed! OOC - more.
[23:09] <Kotono> roll 1d6
06[23:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 and gets 4." [1d6=4]
[23:09] <Kotono> OOC - 4 points of wisdom and charisma damage and Marie is stunned for 1 round.
[23:11] <Kotono> The balor draws itself high, another horrible word coming from it's mouth, another blasphemy rocking all around him!
[23:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 CL
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 CL and gets 29." [1d20=9]
[23:11] <Kotono> OOC - Moot on the leonal, t he angels resist it. Alicia, will?
[23:12] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24
06[23:12] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 and gets 44." [1d20=20]
[23:14] <Kotono> Despite the word's pure concentration making her body sick, Alicia valiantly resists the terrible word of power that balor utters! A moment later it draws itself up, vanishing away! OOC - For a moment you guys have free action. Go ahead and state immediate actions.
[23:16] <Alicia> "Marie, forget about the sword, just get out of here!" Alicia yells at her familiar after wincing in sympathy at the pain felt through their empathic link. Flying over to the corner of the blasted out chamber so she has some room away from the others, she detonates another spellfire blast to create a second breach in the wall and tear apart more of the fortress's interior!
[23:17] <Alicia> roll 12d8 DC 24 reflex (with +2 for cover) for anyone on the other side of those walls (casting a third level slot on myself and absorbing it to power spellfire)
06[23:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 12d8 DC 24 reflex (with +2 for cover) for anyone on the other side of those walls (casting a third level slot on myself and absorbing it to power spellfire) and gets 49." [12d8=6, 6, 4, 5, 3, 3, 2, 1, 7, 2, 8, 2]
[23:17] <Kotono> Hopiel shakes it's head, "THere are certainly reinforcements coming...we'll need a heavier blow to penetrate than this!" Flying towards Alicia and stopping by Marie to offer his hand to her if she needs it.
[23:18] <Kotono> The blast tears another hole in the wall, the silvery expanse of the Astral seen outside! Star flies to Alicia after the spellfire detonates, "LEt's go!"
[23:18] <Alicia> Marie is currently shaking like a leaf as she recovers from the horrible feeling of touching that weapon, unable to muster the wits to reply.
[23:19] <Kotono> Hopiel gently picks her up, putting his sword in it's sheath and carrying her. "Come, little one," he pats her gently.
[23:20] <Kotono> Sandriel lingers a moment, dark words said under his breath, "You're right...but if we can cut through the fortress walls like paper now, next time WILL claim a bigger victory." He stares at the red, jelly-glob walls inside, before flying in the newly opened hole.
[23:20] <Alicia> Marie manages to recover after that. "Wait, my bow..." she looks back to where she dropped it when she was overcome. "I'm okay, don't worry about me - I'll go back to sniping from outside where it's safe," she tries to smile although it comes off somewhat shakily.
[23:21] <Kotono> Hopiel drifts back there in a moment, grabbing the bow up with his other hand. "Talk later," he says, racing out then after! THus, the four escape outward, finding the outside area emptier than before. There's a large radius of no combat, the vrocks and other demons pushed well away from the target point.
[23:22] <Alicia> "Where are the demons?" Alicia looks around at the massive sphere of empty space that she disintegrated within the fortress, trying to see any sign of the occupants or even a hint of habitation.
[23:23] <Alicia> Well, it's more a half-sphere, but still. It's a big area.
[23:23] <Kotono> Looking back, Alicia can see that the immediate area is clear. However, in the secondary holes she blasted, she can glimpse far away demons, approaching and seen on the horizon. One type is easily familiar and see, bringing back memories Alicia would prefer to forget - Nalfeshnee, several of them.
03[23:25] * Sierra_WorkhellThenSleep is now known as Sierra_NotAKoFangirl
[23:25] <Alicia> "There's reinforcements coming," Alicia points, now starting to appreciate just how vast the fortress really is. "How's everyone holding up?" In particular, has Aym ceased vomiting?
[23:26] <Kotono> Aym has finally joined the others outside, sagging and tired. "I survive," he says, drifting along to Alicia's side. "I'm not hurt," Sandriel says, "But our resources have been taxed. We'll go back, rest, and then use your spellfire to engineer a bigger, reinforced strike into the fortress. Since it's so effective, we can focus all of our power in breaking the lines within."
[23:28] <Alicia> "Alright," Alicia nods, willing to follow the strategy set by those in charge. "A shame we never slew the balor, but we still exacted a heavy toll while keeping all our forces intact. Lets return for now, then."
[23:30] <Kotono> Retreat back is well enough and simplistic. As you fly back towards the outer ring, you see that most of the battle is muted. There's a gap where you blasted in, with the demonic forces trying to compensate to close th ehole, but it seems to be enough to where the counter pressure by the celestials on the new weak spot simply complicates the problem. The battle looks exceedingly fluid, with more and more demons trying to hold the situation down
[23:30] <Kotono> with more and more demons trying to hold the situation down. As you do fly back, "Alicia, how much spellfire can you have at once?" Sandriel asks.
[23:32] <Kotono> Hopiel continues to hold Marielle, and jovally smiles, "Little one, that was brave of you to try and remove the balor's sword from it's reach. What happened?"
[23:33] <Alicia> "It works by absorbing magic cast at me - typically I use excess spells I have at the end of the day to keep myself topped up before going to bed, although if you have any magic that can be used at will that would be far more efficient," Alicia explains. "Effectively I can contain four ninth level spells worth of magic, or thirty six first level spells. I typically keep some empty though, since if I'm full I can't absorb any more."
[23:33] <Kotono> Aym is muted still, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. His sword is in his other hand, his flight just keeping up.
[23:34] <Kotono> "We'll want you to be loaded to capacity in that case," Sandriel pauses as you reach the edge of the outer ring. A lantern archon comes up, surveying the party. "I'll take us to the healer sas needed directly, archon. I'll be gathering for a new strike afte,r pass the word."
[23:34] <Alicia> "I thought it would make a neat trophy, since they normally get destroyed even if the balor dies," Marie admits. "But when I touched it it shocked me - I could feel it in my mind," she shudders. "Alicia has an intelligent weapon back home. It was like that but... well, bad."
[23:35] <Kotono> AFter that, "Two large holes where two prongs can rush in is what I'm thinking. We'll have a couple of our supporting healers come with you to refill you as you need, for as we open holes we'll be able to pressure more. If this succeeds we'll have broached the outer line and force the fight inside."
[23:37] <Kotono> "Yes, but Alicia's a worthy warrior as well. Using her purely as a seige engine isn't entirely optimal," Star points out, blindfolded face serene as she slows down, the ring reached.
[23:38] <Alicia> "I won't be able to fight much if I'm doing that," Alicia agrees, "Spellfire can lay waste to demonflesh just as easily as the walls of that fortress, so if any come to try and plug the gap I can still do that much, but it's not as effective as my sword unless a lot of them cluster together."
[23:38] <Kotono> Hopiel murmurs a few words, the damage in Marie's body vanishing. "Live and learn. You're right,  you're a good archer. "
[23:39] <Alicia> "Thanks," Marie smiles, perking up as she's healed. "I have some banishing arrows that I never had a chance to use, but they might be useful next time."
[23:40] <Kotono> "For now, go rest, all of you. I need to go gather and do tactical work," Sandriel says, "When you're recovered, have a lantern archon bring you to me."
[23:41] <Alicia> "If anyone needs healing I can at least do a little," Alicia offers. "I might as well use it now since it'll be refreshed after I pray, anyway."
[23:42] <Kotono> "I need it," Star says, as the group begins to break up. OOC - Want to pause here? We can resume after rest tomorrow.
[23:42] <Alicia> OOC: sure

[Corwin]

[17:55] <Kotono> ---
[17:58] <Kotono> Alicia's wounds are mended by a cheerful, perky young blonde elf. Thereafter she has time to go rest deep in the outer ring, meditating and recovering to refresh her spells in the Astral. Aym is content to hold now, brooding and rippling.
[17:58] <Kotono> OIOC - Gah.
[17:59] <Kotono> Alicia's wounds are mended by a cheerful, perky young blonde elf. Thereafter she has time to go rest deep in the outer ring, meditating and recovering to refresh her spells in the Astral. Aym is content to hold now, brooding and rippling. A lantern archon lingers nearby, waiting patiently and occasionally shrinking back from rather unhappy looks from Aym.
[18:02] <Alicia> Since she doesn't actually need to sleep here, Alicia is happy enough to converse while resting. "So, Aym, before I give my appraisal, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the battle we just took part in," she invites, sitting cross-legged by a campfire she's set to mark the time.
[18:06] <Kotono> There's not much of a reply at first, wisps of smoke rising up from Alicia's campfire. The lantern archon stays close to it's warmth, though Aym barely pays it any mind. He does look at Alicia's radiant face more than anything, yet he doesn't say a word.
[18:11] <Alicia> "Nothing?" Alicia cocks her head, before shrugging. "Very well, here's what I think - in battle one must always play to their strengths. In your case its plain to see that getting close to a foe and hacking them apart is what you're good at, so you should indeed take any chance to do just that."
[18:11] <Alicia> "But! You should also be wary of playing to your enemy's strengths - there was no way you'd win a slugging match with a marilith. Even I'd doubt my chances in such a melee, and that's my own strongest suite. So..." she pauses a moment, regarding him seriously, "Did you simply not consider the situation, or do you truly wish to die?"
[18:17] <Kotono> Aym's gaze bores into Alicia, before he stands up. "You're right. I want to die." He draws his sword with a lethal smoothness, "Torm or 'true' Torm or what have you, no matter which I serve in the end, I want to die. My desire is combat and to throw myself into a furious rage. There's nothing purer...and this reminded me of it. You spoke of refinement and skill and discretion...and I don't care."
[18:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 sense motive I don't suppose he's bluffing at all?
06[18:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 sense motive I don't suppose he's bluffing at all? and gets 22." [1d20=14]
[18:21] <Alicia> "Then you'll die a meaningless death, and I will have no part in it," Alicia replies firmly, even as she despairs inside. "Give me my sword back," she holds out a hand expectantly.
[18:24] <Kotono> "No." He points the blade at Alicia, "I want you to kill me. You're so gorgeous and radiant that you made me believe that there might be another path for a few amazing days. There's no one better I could fight against. I want to die against someone worthy of killing me."
[18:25] <Kotono> "W-what?" The little lantern archon waiting by the fire sputters and shakes, like a lamp dropped to the floor, "Why are you two talking about killing now?"
[18:29] <Alicia> "It seems that I've failed," Alicia hangs her head for a moment before she works up the courage to stand, though she doesn't draw her own blade. "Is death truly all that you crave?"
[18:32] <Kotono> "I can't be like all the angels and perfect beings here," His sword goes on a sweep, cutting the Astral air easily. "All I am is rage...and does it truly matter what way it aims and cuts for? I could have cut down every demon in that room and then began cutting the angels down without pausing."
[18:35] <Alicia> "So say I do kill you, then what?" Alicia asks bluntly. "Do you expect to find peace? Your soul will just wing its way straight back to Torm, and be used to continue the same wretched cycle."
[18:36] <Kotono> With a twisting smile there, "I will still serve Torm then. No matter which Torm I serve...I will serve him."
[18:38] <Kotono> "Wait, slow down," The lantern archon splutters between Alicia and Aym, "Um, you're upset, so we shouldn't do anything rash!"
[18:45] <Alicia> "I'm not upset," Alicia shakes her head. "Just disappointed. More in myself than anything..." she looks upwards for a moment, although there are no heavens above here. "Letting you see combat so soon was a mistake, I can see that, now."
[18:45] <Alicia> She tries one last time to persuade him, "This is it, then? No interest in bettering yourself, becoming a true warrior? Even experiencing things beside violence and war? Just a mindless berserker to hurl himself on my blade and hope I finish the job this time?"
[18:51] <Kotono> "I can't be them," With a wave of his sword, the hosts a little off are referred to, mostly busy, none seemingly having quite caught wind of this yet, save for the little lantern archon. "I may have some of their blood flowing in my veins, but my soul is Torm's, now and forever. What you saw in me...was the illusionary glimpses of what was once was. Now, I am Aym, sworn to Torm! I can be nothing else. All the betterment, all the light you could
[18:51] <Kotono> I can be nothing else. All the betterment, all the light you could ever want is in them." (More)
[18:57] <Kotono> "So....finish with me and go back to your crusade." He finishes, looking ready to advance onto Alicia!
06[19:03] * Alicia stands up with a heavy heart, glancing at Marie who was in the process of nocking an arrow. "No one interfere," she instructs firmly, not drawing her sword although her stance is one of readiness.
[19:03] <Kotono> The floating beachball between Alicia and Aym flutters, "You aren't really going to fight and spill each othe'rs blood, are you?"
[19:05] <Alicia> "I could banish him!" Marie volunteers, not having lowered her bow just yet.
[19:05] <Alicia> "That's only passing the problem elsewhere. Back off, the both of you," Alicia repeats her desire to have no interference.
[19:07] <Kotono> "Good," Aym says as the archon scoots back in a hurry, "Really, can't we just talk about this?" the little celestial adds. OOC - Let's go ahead and do initaitive here, I suppose?
[19:07] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 A
06[19:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 A and gets 16." [1d20=11]
[19:07] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 M
06[19:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 M and gets 17." [1d20=10]
[19:07] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2
06[19:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 and gets 9." [1d20=7]
[19:07] <Kotono> roll 1d20 lanterna rchon in case it's relevant
06[19:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 lanterna rchon in case it's relevant and gets 6." [1d20=6]
03[19:07] * Kotono changes topic to 'Marie>Alicia>Aym>Lantern Archon'
[19:08] <Kotono> OOC - Marie and then Alicia's up.
[19:08] <Alicia> Marie drifts back a bit to give the two room, keeping her bow ready but not aiming at anyone.
[19:08] <Alicia> OOC: how far away is he from me?
[19:09] <Kotono> OOC: Say 20 feet? You two were pretty close and talking and all.
03[19:10] * CC is now known as Seira
[19:12] <Alicia> Surging forward over the campfire with speed that Aym likely wasn't expecting, Alicia lashes out with the knife-edge of her hand at the berserker's wrist, her other hand coming in quickly to grab the now freed sword away from him!
[19:12] <Alicia> roll 1d20+33 +20 true strike -4 unarmed
06[19:12] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+33 +20 true strike -4 unarmed and gets 42." [1d20=9]
[19:12] <Alicia> OOC: disarm, opposed rolls
[19:14] <Kotono> roll 1d20+22
06[19:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+22 and gets 41." [1d20=19]
[19:19] <Kotono> Swiftly Alicia closes in, knocking the blade away and grabbing it with her other hand! Aym growls from low in his throat at that, before tackling Alicia! OOC - Grapple times of joy. You'd normally get an AoO here, but I'm inclined to rule that you're not set to use the weapon you just grabbed until your turn.
[19:20] <Alicia> OOC: harsh, but okay. Touch AC 15
[19:21] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[19:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 32." [1d20=14]
[19:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+32 to avoid grapple
06[19:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+32 to avoid grapple and gets 37." [1d20=5]
[19:21] <Kotono> OOC - +12 base attack, excuse me. Though I think his touch is thes ame as his grapple anyway.
[19:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 opposed grapple fn times
06[19:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 opposed grapple fn times and gets 37." [1d20=19]
[19:23] <Kotono> OOC - You win thanks to better modifier.
[19:23] <Kotono> Alicia manages to repel Aym, pushing him away from locking her in a crushing bear hug! At this the Lantern ARchon sighs, "That's right, disarm him!" OOC -Marie.
[19:24] <Alicia> Marie just watches for the moment, feeling rather awkward about the whole thing.
[19:26] <Kotono> OOC - 'licia.
[19:27] <Alicia> "You're fighting with more intelligence now," Alicia compliments as she avoids the grapple, before her tone turns harsh while the Sword of the Sealed Gate is brought into a guard position. "But it's not enough - you want me to sully my honour to satisfy your vanity, but it's not going to happen! You're not worth killing, Aymm."
[19:28] <Alicia> OOC: total defence
[19:32] <Kotono> Aym brings his hand up, diving at Alicia again once more! A roar comes from him this time, a roar of pure fury!
[19:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 ranged touch
06[19:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 ranged touch and gets 33." [1d20=15]
[19:32] <Kotono> OOC: AoO if you like.
[19:33] <Alicia> OOC: i refrain
[19:34] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 GRAPPLE
06[19:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 GRAPPLE and gets 29." [1d20=11]
[19:34] <Alicia> roll 1d20+32
06[19:34] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+32 and gets 41." [1d20=9]
[19:35] <Kotono> Once again Alicia forces him back, this time with more ease and aplomp!
[19:35] <Kotono> "You two should really stop this, it's immature and dangerous!" The lantern archon says, "Really, calm yourself!" OOC - Marie and then Alicia.
[19:36] <Alicia> "Alicia's pretty calm," Marie speaks up in Alicia's defence.
[19:38] <Alicia> "Give it up, Aym," Alicia tries to reason with him as she keeps her defence up. "Killing you like this would be an empty gesture."
[19:49] <Kotono> OOC - Diplo check here, say?
[19:50] <Alicia> roll 1d20+28
06[19:50] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+28 and gets 37." [1d20=9]
[19:51] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 +2 bonus by trying to talk him down
06[19:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 +2 bonus by trying to talk him down and gets 23." [1d20=16]
[19:52] <Kotono> Somehow Alicia's words work. The raging man about to strike Alicia bear handed stops and sags. The fury seems to leave him, a momentary look of bitter despair coming over his face.
[19:54] <Kotono> OOC - Goa head and act, Alicia. He's not fighting you right now.
06[19:56] * Alicia lowers her weapon. "This other way that you glimpsed, Aym - it's not an illusion," she tries to raise his spirits. "I told you that the path you must walk is a hard one, but I won't bloody my hands by helping you cheat it."
[20:01] <Kotono> Aym doesn't reply, turning his gaze away from Alicia. He turns towards the silvery emptiness of the Astral, looking ot that instead.
[20:04] <Alicia> "Sit down and rest," Alicia tells him, going to do that herself. She's honestly not even sure if what she did was the right thing just now, but she does know that she couldn't have brought herself to kill him.
[20:09] <Kotono> Aym doesn't reply, before without a word, he begins to move into the void.
[20:12] <Alicia> "Aym, stop!" Alicia stands up. "Don't give up, please!"
[20:12] <Alicia> "What can you do, Alicia?" Marie asks as she approaches her mistress. "He's not like Antenora. He doesn't want to change, and you can't intimidate someone who wants you to kill them."
[20:19] <Kotono> Aym doesn't reply - he just continues to head off into the silvery Astral that looms all around you.
[20:21] <Alicia> "I could still banish him," the eladrin adds as the planetouched fails to answer.
[20:23] <Alicia> "No," Alicia shakes her head dispiritedly. "What good would sending him back to Torm do? It's exactly the same as me killing him. At least like this there's a chance what I've tried to teach will eventually sink in... when he's ready."
[20:26] <Alicia> "Would you have let Antenora run off like this back when you first knew her?" Marie queries dubiously.
06[20:27] * Alicia shakes her head. "It's not the same, though. Antenora begged to be given a chance after committing some truly heinous crimes. Aym hasn't actually done much, and I forced him to follow me. It's not the same at all."
[20:27] <Kotono> The little lantern archon has listened to all of that, "What's an Antenora...and was he..evil? He didn't sound like the mortals I know."
[20:29] <Alicia> "Antenora's an erinyes," Marie volunteers. "She used to be really bad but now she's really good." She then turns to Aym's retreating back, "I guess you can't win 'em all, though."
[20:30] <Alicia> "Aym follows Torm," Alicia tells the archon as if that explains everything. "I had wanted to show him a better way, but..." she shrugs sadly, "I can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped."
[20:31] <Kotono> "I see...maybe you should seek council with one of the angels? They're always so wise and seem to know just what to do?" The lantern archon suggests. "You'll feel better."
[20:34] <Alicia> "Mmmm... everyone's so busy, right now," Alicia looks over the seige camp uncertainly. "And I need to rest so I'm ready for the next assault."
[20:35] <Alicia> "Plus he stole the sheath for that sword," Marie comments, pointing at the sword of the sealed gate. "Where are you going to put it, now?"
06[20:35] * Alicia gives her familiar a hooded glare. "I'll make do."
[20:37] <Kotono> "Alright..." Thel antern archon settles back down, voice light and airy, "Tell me when you're ready? Sir Sandriel waits."
[20:37] <Alicia> While Alicia does her best to meditate Marie decides to do a good deed on her behalf by trying to scrounge up a swordsheath or at least the materials to make one from somewhere within the camp.
[20:43] <Kotono> There's an area where basic supplies can be obtained on demand. Marie gets a sheath there without incident at all. The rest of the rest is restful and rest is put to rest with a fully restored set of spells. "Ready," The lantern archon asks. "I'll take you to Sir Sandriel."
[20:44] <Alicia> Since greater magic weapon lasts so long, Alicia doesn't even need to recast it on their weapons! "Lead on," she nods as she straightens up and stretches.
[21:01] <Kotono> Near the inner part of the outer ring, Sandriel awaits. Star and Hopiel are there, as well as a squad of Astral Deva, a fe glorious man-like creatures made of blue and shining like the sun, and several Shiradi. Sprinkled in amid these area  few mortals, stout and bright eyed. "Good, we are prepared," Sandriel says as Alicia approaches, "What of your cohort?"
[21:04] <Alicia> "He has chosen to depart, and I could not keep him," Alicia replies. "All I can do now is hope that he will make proper use of what little I had managed to teach."
[21:07] <Kotono> "I see. May the light reach him." After Sandriel bows his head a moment in respect, "Are you ready to absorb the magic you need for spellfire?"
[21:08] <Alicia> "Yes," Alicia nods. "Cast each spell one at a time, for I can only absorb so much at once, and it must be a spell that only targets me. Otherwise it matters little what you use."
[21:10] <Kotono> From there a barrage of prayers and incantations come, one measured after another. Alicia absorbs them all, nearly to bursting with Mystra's energy inside of her by the time it ends. Once this is done by the same blonde elf as yesterday and a reserved, wise looking old man, "We are going to blast a hole inside and penetrate deeply. Our priorities are clearing away opposition and protecting Alicia, for her spellfire is extremely potent in oblite
[21:10] <Kotono> for her spellfire is extremely potent in obliterating the walls of the demonic fortress."
[21:12] <Alicia> "After what she did in the last battle they'll probably be targetting her, so we'll have our work cut out!" Marie notes cheerily.
[21:13] <Alicia> "Yes... and you'll need to keep your distance when I'm detonating the spellfire, since it doesn't discriminate," Alicia warns. "Should I aim to affect a wide area on the exterior or push inwards to destroy the innards of the fortress?"
[21:13] <Kotono> "If we need to retreat, protect Alicia for she can easily open up escape routes! OTherwise, listen to your superiors as needed and be careful! For the light and to end this threat!" After that Sandriel comes to Alicia, "The first hole will need to be wide so we can overwhelm the initiatial front of demons. Later holes will likely be more focused, depending on how the battles proceed."
[21:16] <Alicia> "I'll use three blasts on the exterior then, since that'll give the assault force time to get inside before I go to take down more," Alicia agrees, casting shield and enlarge person on herself. "If anyone can make me invisible it'd lend more surprise to the initial blast," she then asks.
[21:24] <Kotono> With a chuckle, the young blonde elf comes over and does just that. "Here you go!" she singsongs. Sandriel nods, "We have the top floor more or less free of demons, we'lll approach and blast straight down."
[21:26] <Alicia> "From the top going down, got it," Alicia replies, not nodding since it'd be redundant. "I'll go get into position - it should be plainly obvious once I start." And so she flies up to the top of the fortress, while Marie stays with the assault force.
[21:41] <Kotono> The angels come with Alicia for a time , positioning well above, like a force about to thunder down. The 'top' of the tower is indeed barren, most of the outer battling around the middle layers right now.
06[21:42] * Alicia tries to get an idea of the dimensions involved so she can better plan out her blast pattern.
[21:45] <Kotono> The top of the tower is massive. It's over a thousand feet circular, taking up most of the view below from her position. There's a ton of space for Alicia to work with.
[21:45] <Kotono> *fortress, blame Seira.
[21:46] <Alicia> That is big. Okay, intending to go for a triangular pattern, Alicia moves down to a spot about fifty feet from the centre, quick casts mirror image, and then explodes in a blinding nova of spellfire!
[21:46] <Alicia> roll 1d4+4 MI
06[21:46] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+4 MI and gets 7." [1d4=3]
[21:46] <Alicia> roll 12d8 DC 24 reflex half for any dudes beneath me
06[21:46] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 12d8 DC 24 reflex half for any dudes beneath me and gets 59." [12d8=5, 8, 5, 3, 8, 6, 1, 7, 2, 5, 7, 2]
[21:47] <Kotono> OOc- How far down does it penetrate?
[21:47] <Alicia> OOC: 60 feet in all directions
[21:50] <Kotono> roll 13#1d20
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 13#1d20 and gets 145." [13#1d20 = 20, 19, 5, 2, 15, 8, 5, 4, 8, 11, 19, 18, 11]
[21:53] <Kotono> As the blast of spell fire clear,s Alicia rubs her eyes away of the light. She can see a devastated group of demons below reeling, but a second later the host of the heavens comes down from above! "For the glory of the Light1" Sandriel can be heard, "Charge, decimate them!" As this happens, the blonde elf, the reserved old man and a single Astral Deva settle in near Alicia, keeping a loose screen around her.
[21:54] <Alicia> Marie hangs back, happy to provide fire support rather than get into the thick of things.
06[21:56] * Alicia doesn't hang about, moving one hundred feet forward and ten feet down so she'll hopefully catch more of the fortress's innards with the next blast as she widens the breach!
03[21:57] * Alicia is now known as Ebiris
Session Time: Sun Nov 02 00:00:00 2008
02[02:45] * Ebiris (WinNT@user-5440f521.wfd81a.dsl.pol.co.uk) Quit (bedtime -=SysReset 2.53=-)
03[04:33] * Kotono is now known as Ko-XorntoroFangirl
03[04:39] * Ko-XorntoroFangirl is now known as Koaway
03[14:29] * Ebiris (WinNT@user-544582b3.lns1-c13.telh.dsl.pol.co.uk) has joined #dunes
03[14:29] * ChanServ sets mode: +ao Ebiris Ebiris
03[15:45] * Sierra_DeadToTheWorld is now known as Sierra_UghMornings
03[16:27] * Ebiris is now known as Alicia
03[16:28] * Koaway is now known as Kotono
[16:28] <Alicia> [19:56] <Kotono> As the blast of spell fire clear,s Alicia rubs her eyes away of the light. She can see a devastated group of demons below reeling, but a second later the host of the heavens comes down from above! "For the glory of the Light1" Sandriel can be heard, "Charge, decimate them!" As this happens, the blonde elf, the reserved old man and a single Astral Deva settle in near Alicia, keeping a loose screen around her.
[16:28] <Alicia> [19:56] <Alicia> Marie hangs back, happy to provide fire support rather than get into the thick of things.
[16:28] <Alicia> [19:58] * Alicia doesn't hang about, moving one hundred feet forward and ten feet down so she'll hopefully catch more of the fortress's innards with the next blast as she widens the breach!
[16:28] <Kotono> As below you the battle rages, Alicia surges to another part of the roof! THe screams of the demonic hordes and the valiant cries of the celestials echo like the din of a thousand souls in flux! OOC - Go, Alicia.
[16:30] <Alicia> Once more Alicia releases a massive blast of spellfire to tear through the roof above and the demons and possibly floor below!
[16:30] <Alicia> roll 12d8 DC 24 reflex half
06[16:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 12d8 DC 24 reflex half and gets 72." [12d8=8, 3, 1, 8, 8, 7, 8, 8, 4, 5, 8, 4]
[16:31] <Kotono> roll 8#1d10
06[16:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 8#1d10 and gets 48." [8#1d10 = 9, 9, 6, 4, 4, 10, 5, 1]
[16:31] <Kotono> OOC - Strike, wrong die.
[16:31] <Kotono> roll 8#1d20
06[16:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 8#1d20 and gets 58." [8#1d20 = 8, 13, 8, 12, 9, 1, 5, 2]
[16:33] <Kotono> Foosh! The spellfire wracks down below, a second hole! Below, ravaged demons are stunned as celestials plummet down to engage them! As this happens Alicia's cohorts of sorts catch up to her.
[16:35] <Alicia> "I'll be empty after one more blast," Alicia warns her guardians, "Someone hit me with something now and we'll fall back after I've widened the hole some more."
[16:36] <Kotono> "Right," The spry young elf carols, "Here you go! Oh light, surround her with raiments of restoration!" The magic flows into Alicia's waiting body, strenghtening her vitality! OOC - 6 spell levels.
[16:38] <Alicia> "Okay, going over there now!" Alicia points before she takes off one hundred feet away so that the centre of each blast would form a triangle pattern. Once in position safely away from the battling celestials but likely above any demon reinforcements, she unleashes Mystra's gift for the third time!
[16:38] <Alicia> roll 12d8 DC 24 reflex half
06[16:38] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 12d8 DC 24 reflex half and gets 59." [12d8=5, 3, 8, 5, 2, 2, 8, 6, 4, 4, 5, 7]
[16:43] <Kotono> roll 7#d20
06[16:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 7#d20 and gets 68." [7#d20 = 7, 14, 12, 13, 5, 3, 14]
[16:46] <Kotono> The third blast is just as potent as the others, the final hole opened! Below Alicia can clearly see the pitched battles below. Forces of demons are hard pressed by the onrushing celestials, often to the point of near disintegration. A marilith fights bravely against several astral deva, scoring solid hits but being stunned and overwhelmed into oblivion. A horde of nalfeshnee battle against a contingent of Tulani and a few Planetars, an apocaly
03[16:46] * Sierra_UghMornings is now known as Devourlord_Sierra
[16:46] <Kotono> a contingent of Tulani and a few Planetars, an apocalyptic battle going firmly the way of good. Lesser demons are blasted away by the score, holy power flying like rain from the heavens.
06[16:48] * Alicia floats up fifty feet above the roof and waits for her escort to reach her so they can refuel before she goes to breach the next level. Part of her chafes, wanting to take part in the fighting directly, but she's not going to jeapordise the entire assault to satisfy her vanity.
[16:49] <Kotono> "...yes," The reserved old man says as he approaches, looking down at the battle. As the Marilith falls into oblivion once more, "Here," he whispers, touching Alicia's forehead, "Ready?" Thereafter, the AStral Deva touches Alicia as well, more power absorbed. OOC - 10 spell levels.
[16:51] <Alicia> "Seems like it's going our way, but this is only the beginning," Alicia comments, watching the battle below as she's energised with magic. "Keep going, I'll say when I'm ready to go again."
[16:52] <Kotono> More touches and absorptions, the cheerful young elf whistling as she does so. "I hope this ends soon. I don't knwo what the Abyss is doing here, but it's digusting."
[16:52] <Kotono> OOC - 10 more spell levels.
[16:53] <Kotono> The battles below are starting to slow. With the overwhelming advantage the demons have been beaten back. A few are isolated and being finished, but matters are on solidfying at the moment and recovering.
[16:55] <Alicia> "Okay, one more and I'll be good to go," Alicia nods, trying to pick out a spot below that she can detonate without catching any celestials.
[16:55] <Kotono> The third hole has the least celestials. You could blast there and perhaps connect it to one of the other two gaping chambers. Meanwhile more energy fills into her! OOC - 10 more levels.
[16:57] <Alicia> OOC: There's only one hole - all three of my blasts were close enough to be merged into one big hole
[16:59] <Alicia> Diving down into the fray, Alicia aims for an isolated spot and yells at any nearby friendlies to clear the area before she explodes to breach the next level of the abyssal fortress!
[17:00] <Alicia> roll 12d8 DC 24 yadda yadda
06[17:00] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 12d8 DC 24 yadda yadda and gets 48." [12d8=1, 4, 1, 3, 3, 3, 6, 5, 4, 2, 8, 8]
[17:08] <Kotono> roll 12#1d20
06[17:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 12#1d20 and gets 106." [12#1d20 = 16, 11, 10, 1, 5, 12, 15, 1, 2, 11, 17, 5]
[17:10] <Kotono> With Alicia's burst, more spellfire disintegrates the blobby red walls! A path below is shown, a gentle throbbing of them! Ahead, she can see something - it's like a pillar of the red stuff in a room, a glittering field of translucent light surrounding it in a perfect sphere. Jelly ooses out of it, slowly flying and throbbing to the walls. Below, Alicia sees it - the horrible Balor, it's presence like an intoxicating hate. PErhaps two dozen gre
[17:10] <Kotono> PErhaps two dozen greater demons surround it - Marilith, Nalfeshnee and other horrors Alicia cannot put a name to. (More)
[17:11] <Kotono> The Balor says nothing, yet all the other demons vanish in a moment! With a triumphant smile in the vast chamber below, he points his sword at Alicia, "Your soul is mine, mortal!"
[17:12] <Kotono> OOC - Roll initiative here, since the Balor's threatening you directly?
[17:12] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5
06[17:12] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 and gets 12." [1d20=7]
[17:12] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 Marie, wherever she is
06[17:12] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 Marie, wherever she is and gets 19." [1d20=12]
[17:13] <Kotono> OOC: I assumed Marie was following with the others, honestly.
[17:14] <Alicia> OOC: yeah, she's hanging back and sniping demons in the overall battle, but in case it matters
[17:14] <Kotono> Okay.
[17:15] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[17:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 23." [1d20=12]
[17:15] <Kotono> roll 1d20+4
06[17:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+4 and gets 18." [1d20=14]
[17:15] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
06[17:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 18." [1d20=12]
[17:15] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
06[17:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 9." [1d20=1]
03[17:16] * Kotono changes topic to 'Balor>Marie>Peppy Elf=Solemn old man>Alicia>Astral Deva'
[17:19] <Kotono> An unholy aura of darkness surrounds the balor, before a vast storm of fire erupts around Alicia! OOC - Ref save.
[17:19] <Kotono> roll 20d6
06[17:19] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 20d6 and gets 74." [20d6=3, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 5, 5, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 5, 5, 4, 3, 6]
[17:20] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 someone should've cast holy aura on me :(
06[17:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 someone should've cast holy aura on me :( and gets 20." [1d20=6]
[17:23] <Kotono> The fire that erupts around Alicia flays her flesh and burns her bones, leaving her entire body screaming in the utmost agony of burning torment! Yet even in spite of that Alicia survives! OOC - Marie.
[17:25] <Alicia> Seeing the big explosion around Alicia that didn't look like spellfire, Marie makes her way down a bit so she can see through the hole while still keeping well above any potential blast radiuses to see if she can see what caused it, and if so shoot it.
[17:25] <Alicia> OOC: if the balor is directly below the 120ft wide hole Alicia made, Marie will shoot it, otherwise she can't see it.
[17:25] <Kotono> OOC: It is.
[17:25] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 cold iron
06[17:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 cold iron and gets 28." [1d20=5]
[17:27] <Kotono> The arrow flies well, but deflects away from the vile aura around the demon leader! Meanwhile, both elf and man rush to Alicia! The elf touches Alicia's shoulder, relief coming to sooth her agonies!
[17:27] <Kotono> roll 4d8+12
06[17:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d8+12 and gets 37." [4d8=8, 7, 8, 2]
[17:29] <Kotono> The old man touches Alicia's forehead quickly! A feeling of being protected passes over her body, "Careful...A balor's power is unmatched by lesser demons. Fighting one head on is folly!) OOC - +7 resistance bonus to your next save.
[17:29] <Kotono> OOC - Alicia.
[17:31] <Alicia> "There's an army right behind us," Alicia notes confidently, shifting position so that she has a line going through the balor to reach that glowing pillar which she assumes is fuelling the fortresses regeneration. Taking aim, she proceeds to fire a full power blast of spellfire directly through the both of them!
[17:31] <Alicia> roll 18d8 DC 24 reflex half
06[17:31] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 18d8 DC 24 reflex half and gets 73." [18d8=7, 4, 7, 3, 2, 6, 1, 3, 3, 6, 4, 4, 3, 1, 7, 7, 4, 1]
[17:34] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[17:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 31." [1d20=8]
[17:37] <Kotono> The balor stays where he is! His sword comes up, meeting the line of spellfire head on! For a moment the two are locked in deadly combat, a feral grin as the balor pushes his sword forward...and yet, the spellfire keeps going! It penetrates through the blade, pushing onward to the throbbing node! The spellfire fizzles considerably against the field of translucent light, but still punches through and pierces! The burn does considerable harm to i
[17:37] <Kotono> The burn does considerable harm to it, leaving it smouldering and holed!
[17:37] <Kotono> OOC - Astral Deva is up.
[17:47] <Kotono> The AStral Deva surges forth, now at Alicia's side! A pair of smites rock the fiend of the abyss, as, "Yes, but look! The demons just got reinforcements," The Astral Deva says grimly!
[17:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12
06[17:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 and gets 32." [1d20=20]
[17:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12
06[17:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 and gets 29." [1d20=17]
[17:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
[17:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[17:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 27." [1d20=4]
06[17:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 43." [1d20=20]
[17:47] <Kotono> roll 10d6/2
06[17:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6/2 and gets 20." [10d6=6, 2, 5, 3, 4, 5, 4, 2, 6, 3]
[17:47] <Kotono> roll 10d6/2
06[17:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6/2 and gets 14." [10d6=2, 2, 2, 5, 2, 3, 3, 6, 2, 1]

[Corwin]

[23:10] <Alicia> [15:39] <Kotono> The balor stays where he is! His sword comes up, meeting the line of spellfire head on! For a moment the two are locked in deadly combat, a feral grin as the balor pushes his sword forward...and yet, the spellfire keeps going! It penetrates through the blade, pushing onward to the throbbing node! The spellfire fizzles considerably against the field of translucent light, but still punches through and pierces! The burn does
[23:10] <Alicia> [15:39] <Kotono> The burn does considerable harm to it, leaving it smouldering and holed!
[23:10] <Alicia> [15:39] <Kotono> OOC - Astral Deva is up.
[23:10] <Alicia> [15:49] <Kotono> The AStral Deva surges forth, now at Alicia's side! A pair of smites rock the fiend of the abyss, as, "Yes, but look! The demons just got reinforcements," The Astral Deva says grimly!
[23:10] <Alicia> [15:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12
[23:10] <Alicia> [15:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 and gets 32." [1d20=20]
[23:10] <Alicia> [15:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12
[23:10] <Alicia> [15:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 and gets 29." [1d20=17]
[23:10] <Alicia> [15:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
[23:10] <Alicia> [15:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
[23:10] <Alicia> [15:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 27." [1d20=4]
[23:10] <Alicia> [15:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 43." [1d20=20]
[23:10] <Alicia> [15:50] <Kotono> roll 10d6/2
[23:11] <Alicia> [15:50] <Kotono> roll 10d6/2
[23:11] <Alicia> [15:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6/2 and gets 20." [10d6=6, 2, 5, 3, 4, 5, 4, 2, 6, 3]
[23:11] <Alicia> [15:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6/2 and gets 14." [10d6=2, 2, 2, 5, 2, 3, 3, 6, 2, 1]
05[23:11] -betamax.dejatoons.net:@#dunes- Alicia invited Hatbot into the channel.
03[23:11] * Hatbot (www-data@70.114.144.25) has joined #dunes
03[23:11] * Alicia sets mode: +v Hatbot
[23:12] <Alicia> OOC: also I never cast any spells on my turn so lets say I did a quickened resist energy (fire)
[23:12] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC - Strike thes econd smite. And okay, that's fine.
[23:13] <Ko-VoteTaitori> The Astral Deva soars in, a Holy Smite coming from above to devastate the balor! As it withstands the holy power with sickening ease, a white aura spring up around Alicia and her friends, a holy ward!  OOC - Balor is up.
[23:16] <Ko-VoteTaitori> In a moment the Balor is there, surging forward! It stops 15 feet away, a potent word coming from it's mouth as it's unholy aura continues to writhe around it's body!
[23:16] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+20 CL vs Astral Deva
06[23:16] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+20 CL vs Astral Deva and gets 39." [1d20=19]
[23:17] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d4
06[23:17] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d4 and gets 3." [1d4=3]
03[23:17] * Ko-VoteTaitori changes topic to 'Balor>Marie>Peppy Elf=Solemn old man>Alicia>Astral Deva(stun 3)'
[23:19] <Ko-VoteTaitori> The Deva cries as it goes limp, eyes dazed over! A moment later, with a sneer, it turns to Alicia! The magic around Alicia shudders and shivers!
[23:19] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC - What effects do you have up?
[23:19] <Alicia> OOC: shield, enlarge person, mirror image, resist energy all at CL 13. Holy Aura at astral deva's CL (14?)
[23:20] <Alicia> OOC: if it's a targetted dispel I'll absorb it
[23:20] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC - Okay.
[23:21] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Even as the Deva reels, the potent magic dispellation has no effect. The Balor laughs derivisely, "So be it! I will tear you apart, mortal!" OOC - Marie's up. Also more.
[23:21] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Behind you, the sound of battle picks up, intensifying. "Reinforcements!" Can be heard a few times, intensities and calls to the light for power!
[23:22] <Alicia> OOC: since Marie is about 80 feet behind/above us, what's her situation?
[23:23] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Marie can see a swarm of demons appear, teleporting in! The battle, nearly mopped up, has suddenly become far more fierce! None seem interested in immediately attacking the innocent little courre, thankfully.
[23:24] <Alicia> Since the balor appears to be well out of Marie's league, she decides to do her bit for the rest of the battle to take out a few fiends before they can do too much. Drawing her potent banishing arrows she targets the nearest marilith and lets fly!
[23:24] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23
06[23:24] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 and gets 41." [1d20=18]
[23:25] <Alicia> OOC: DC 24 will save or banished
[23:25] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+23 if he rolls a 1...
06[23:25] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+23 if he rolls a 1... and gets 35." [1d20=12]
[23:25] <Alicia> OOC: marilith, not the balor
[23:25] <Alicia> OOC: she's just hitting a random greater demon in the melee above
[23:25] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC - Oh, I'm sorry. My bad. Stirke the roll.
[23:26] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+14
06[23:26] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+14 and gets 22." [1d20=8]
[23:26] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 attack 2 goes to nearest hezrou
06[23:26] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 attack 2 goes to nearest hezrou and gets 30." [1d20=12]
[23:26] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Under seige, an Astral Deva desperately and bloodily holds off against a raging Marilith! It's fury is incomprehensible, yet an arrow lands in it's back! For a moment it shimmers like baking glass, than vanishes away!
[23:26] <Alicia> OOC: DC 22 for that
[23:26] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+9
06[23:26] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+9 and gets 20." [1d20=11]
[23:27] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 attack 3 goes to nearest vrock
06[23:27] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 attack 3 goes to nearest vrock and gets 32." [1d20=19]
[23:27] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+
06[23:27] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+ and gets Error: Check syntax." [1d20=3]
[23:27] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC - Ack. Suffice to say he failed with a three.
[23:27] <Alicia> roll 1d4+3+1d4 no save, that was a regular arrow since she only had 2 cold iron ones
06[23:27] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+3+1d4 no save, that was a regular arrow since she only had 2 cold iron ones and gets 10." [1d4=3][1d4=4]
[23:27] <Alicia> OOC: cold iron banishing ones, that is
[23:29] <Ko-VoteTaitori> A hezrou fights against a planetar with a pair of nalfeshnee and babau, flanking him! It vanishes into the wind, gone! A vrock battles against several of the radiant blue constructs, shot in the back! The Astral Deva looks Marie's direction, raising it's mace to her before it goes back into the fray for a new battle! OOC - Elf is up
[23:32] <Ko-VoteTaitori> "No...no, no, no!" Backing up quickly and behind Alicia nad away from the Balor, "Oh...! Alicia, here!" Touch Alicia's arm again, powerful healing fills her body!
[23:32] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 4d8+12
06[23:32] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 4d8+12 and gets 35." [4d8=4, 4, 8, 7]
[23:34] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Alicia's flesh mends, the agony of being cooked alive fading to a dull throbbing in a few patches! The old man gestures, a golden lion appearing behind the balor and promptly assaulting it's flaming body!
[23:34] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+7
06[23:34] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+7 and gets 19." [1d20=12]
[23:34] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+7
06[23:34] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+7 and gets 24." [1d20=17]
[23:35] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+2
06[23:35] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+2 and gets 12." [1d20=10]
[23:35] <Ko-VoteTaitori> It fights at the demon lord ferociously, but cannot penetrate the inky black aura around it's body! OOC - Alicia.
[23:37] <Alicia> "Better than you have tried, demon!" Alicia replies to the fiend's taunting as she moves to engage it. Recalling what Marie said about the balor's sword she has no designs on claiming it now, and merely seeks to remove it from play in the swiftest and most brutal manner possible. Firstly stabbing out the wound the balor itself, she then whirls about to cleave his blade in two with Soul's Enslavement!
[23:37] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 divine might, 4th level channel, generic stab
06[23:37] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 divine might, 4th level channel, generic stab and gets 35." [1d20=9]
[23:37] <Alicia> OOC: +2 flanking
[23:38] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC - Whiff thanks to unholy aura.
[23:38] <Alicia> roll 1d20+49 divine might, 4th level channel, sunder (+4 large, +4 two handed)
06[23:38] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+49 divine might, 4th level channel, sunder (+4 large, +4 two handed) and gets 63." [1d20=14]
[23:38] <Alicia> OOC: he gets an AoO before sunder resolves but even if he hits it doesn't stop it
[23:38] <Alicia> OOC: true strike on sunder attack, as if it wasn't obvious
[23:39] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+33 AoO he's not afraid of holy aura
06[23:39] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+33 AoO he's not afraid of holy aura and gets 42." [1d20=9]
[23:39] <Alicia> OOC: 7 images
[23:39] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d7
06[23:39] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d7 and gets 1." [1d7=1]
[23:39] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC - Make a will save.
[23:39] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24
06[23:39] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 and gets 30." [1d20=6]
[23:39] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 2d6+12
06[23:39] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 2d6+12 and gets 15." [2d6=1, 2]
[23:39] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC +1.
[23:39] <Alicia> OOC: save for him as well
[23:39] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+23
06[23:39] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+23 and gets 41." [1d20=18]
[23:40] <Alicia> OOC: now opposed roll for the sunder?
[23:40] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+33
06[23:41] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+33 and gets 46." [1d20=13]
[23:41] <Alicia> roll 3d6+20+4d4 damage
06[23:41] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+20+4d4 damage and gets 40." [3d6=2, 2, 4][4d4=2, 4, 3, 3]
[23:43] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 attack 3 on the off chance of a crit
06[23:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 attack 3 on the off chance of a crit and gets 31." [1d20=15]
[23:43] <Alicia> OOC: wait, make attack 3 a sunder attempt as well, so add 8 to that and have him make an opposed roll?
[23:43] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+33
06[23:43] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+33 and gets 51." [1d20=18]
[23:43] <Alicia> OOC: worth a shot
[23:46] <Ko-VoteTaitori> The balor's blade is carved deeply into, the squeal of metal on metal ear splitting! Alicia cuts deep into the lighting-blade, almost deep enough to ruin it! The blade is cracked and horribly disfigured, but it survives yet! Even as the Astral Deva reels in a stunned state, the Balor smiles horrifically as it lays into Alicia!
[23:46] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+31 (-2 PA)
06[23:46] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+31 (-2 PA) and gets 49." [1d20=18]
[23:46] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC - Will save.
[23:46] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 and for him
06[23:46] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 and for him and gets 40." [1d20=16]
[23:46] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+23
06[23:46] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+23 and gets 32." [1d20=9]
[23:46] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+26 attack 2
06[23:46] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+26 attack 2 and gets 31." [1d20=5]
[23:46] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC - AC?
[23:47] <Alicia> OOC: 36
[23:47] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+21 attack 3
06[23:47] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+21 attack 3 and gets 40." [1d20=19]
[23:47] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+21 attack 3 crit?
06[23:47] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+21 attack 3 crit? and gets 22." [1d20=1]
[23:47] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC - Will?
[23:47] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 and for him
06[23:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 and for him and gets 34." [1d20=10]
[23:47] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+23
06[23:47] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+23 and gets 42." [1d20=19]
[23:47] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+19
06[23:47] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+19 and gets 32." [1d20=13]
[23:47] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+28 WHIP IT GOOD
06[23:47] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+28 WHIP IT GOOD and gets 45." [1d20=17]
[23:48] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC - Opposed strength checks.
[23:48] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+12
06[23:48] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+12 and gets 28." [1d20=16]
[23:48] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 if he's trying to net me I point to freedom of movement and laugh
06[23:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 if he's trying to net me I point to freedom of movement and laugh and gets 22." [1d20=15]
[23:49] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC - You do, yes.
[23:49] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+23 whip
06[23:49] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+23 whip and gets 35." [1d20=12]
[23:50] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 6d6+42+1d4+6
06[23:50] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 6d6+42+1d4+6 and gets 64." [6d6=1, 4, 1, 2, 5, 2][1d4=1]
[23:50] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+23 last whip blow
06[23:50] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+23 last whip blow and gets 29." [1d20=6]
[23:50] <Alicia> OOC: will save for the whip that hit, btw?
[23:50] <Ko-VoteTaitori> That was it right there.
[23:50] <Alicia> OOC: ah, sorry, missed amidst all the rolling
[23:51] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Alicia is stabbed and gutted, each blow making her visions wim - of a horrible place, endless and endless and endless! But she stays somehwo together, somehow here! Her lifeblood trickles down, her arm ripped open and her armor torn across her chest! OOC - OOC - Mroe.
[23:53] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Marie can see that the battle below is fierce! However, her banishing arrows seem to have helped turn the tide. Even with reinforcements the demons are on the defensive! Amid all of this, she can hear Sandriel's voice! "Forward! Press onward!" OOC - Marie.
[23:53] <Alicia> "If anyone wants to help Alicia, now would be a great time!" Marie suggests to any nearby celestials as she treats to balor to one of her rare full power barrages!
[23:53] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 CL for magic missile
06[23:53] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 CL for magic missile and gets 16." [1d20=2]
[23:53] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23
06[23:53] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 and gets 34." [1d20=11]
[23:54] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18
06[23:54] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 27." [1d20=9]
[23:54] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13
06[23:54] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 and gets 28." [1d20=15]
[23:56] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Marie fires magic and mundane arrows, but none bother the balor at all! It seems locked in combat with Alicia! As the arrows whizz by, "What a pure soul..." It spits, "You resist your base urges? Slaughter, kill, rend. You have the potential and the power. Why hold yourself back?"
03[23:56] * Ko-VoteTaitori changes topic to 'Balor>Marie>Peppy Elf=Solemn old man>Alicia>Astral Deva(stun 2)'
[23:56] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Star, currently finishing off a vrock, calls back to Marie, "I'll get there," she says.
[23:57] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Meanwhile, the young elf behind Alicia blanches in coloration, even as she hangs just behind Alicia and touches her again, before fleeing back twenty feet! "Come on, just hold on," she encourages Alicia!
[23:57] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 4d8+12
06[23:57] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 4d8+12 and gets 25." [4d8=2, 7, 2, 2]
[23:59] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Raising his hand to the sky, "Sacred ones, guide my hand!" he calls, as lighting crackles from his outstretched fingers at the balor!
[23:59] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+13 CL
06[23:59] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+13 CL and gets 21." [1d20=8]
[23:59] <Ko-VoteTaitori> The lightning sizzles blue-white, yet fizzles in front of the horrible being! OOC - Alicia.
Session Time: Wed Nov 05 00:00:00 2008
[00:01] <Alicia> "Because I'm not a beast!" Alicia replies fiercely to the balor as she tries to finish off his horrible blade with her own perhaps more horrible weapon!
[00:01] <Alicia> OOC: he gets an AoO, might as well resolve that first
[00:02] <Ko-VoteTaitori> "Are you? Hahahahaha...I can see your future, mortal. Alicia, the knight of a hundred massacres, defiler of Mystra!"
[00:02] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+31 he'll take it, sure
06[00:02] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+31 he'll take it, sure and gets 41." [1d20=10]
[00:02] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d7
06[00:02] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d7 and gets 1." [1d7=1]
[00:02] <Alicia> OOC: 1d8, btw
[00:02] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC - Will save, man.
[00:02] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d8
06[00:02] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d8 and gets 7." [1d8=7]
[00:02] <Alicia> OOC: 7 images + 1 alicia
[00:02] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d7 cleave
06[00:02] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d7 cleave and gets 2." [1d7=2]
[00:03] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Two images are cut away in one deep thrust, winking both out, but Alicia is safe!
[00:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+34 opposed roll, divine might, 4th level channel, +4 large +4 two handed +2 flanking
06[00:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+34 opposed roll, divine might, 4th level channel, +4 large +4 two handed +2 flanking and gets 49." [1d20=15]
[00:03] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+31
06[00:03] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+31 and gets 38." [1d20=7]
[00:04] <Alicia> roll 3d6+20+4d4 die
06[00:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+20+4d4 die and gets 40." [3d6=1, 3, 3][4d4=4, 3, 3, 3]
[00:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+39 attack 2, true strike, divine might, 4th level channel, hitting balor himself since sword should be dead after that
06[00:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+39 attack 2, true strike, divine might, 4th level channel, hitting balor himself since sword should be dead after that and gets 56." [1d20=17]
[00:05] <Alicia> roll 3d6+20+4d4
06[00:05] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+20+4d4 and gets 37." [3d6=3, 2, 5][4d4=1, 2, 3, 1]
[00:05] <Ko-VoteTaitori> CRACK! With that slash the Balor's sword shatters into a million tiny shards! Cleaving through it breaks it like glass, each one a tiny nova of electrical fury and screaming! Each shard screams horrifically! OOC - Hit, damage and a fort save for the unholy aura effect.
[00:05] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 fort save
06[00:05] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 fort save and gets 32." [1d20=8]
[00:05] <Alicia> roll 1d4 wis drain
06[00:05] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 wis drain and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[00:05] <Alicia> OOC: DC 20 rage save
[00:05] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+22
06[00:05] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+22 and gets 29." [1d20=7]
[00:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 attack 3 in case of a crit
06[00:06] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 attack 3 in case of a crit and gets 33." [1d20=17]
[00:07] <Ko-VoteTaitori> The second blow cuts into the balor's flesh, incredibly resistant and like slicing layered diamonds! Yet Alicia manages to carve into it's flaming shoulder, making a wound of no small import! OOC Astral Deva is stunned. Rolling initiative for STar.
[00:07] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+8
06[00:07] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+8 and gets 14." [1d20=6]
03[00:08] * Ko-VoteTaitori changes topic to 'Balor>Marie>Peppy Elf=Solemn old man>Alicia>Star>Astral Deva(stun 2)'
[00:08] <Ko-VoteTaitori> "Alicia!" Star's voice can be heard as she begins to soar ahead towards her, "Reinforcements are coming!" OOC - Balor's up since the deva is still horribly stunned.
[00:09] <Alicia> It knows her name! They're not supposed to know her... wait. People have been shouting it all during the battle. And she wears Mystra's symbol proudly on her breast. Well, that puts the balor's bullshit into proper perspective. "As if I'd listen to the lies of a demon!"
[00:09] <Ko-VoteTaitori> The balor rears it's head back, "ENOUGH!" In one unholy word Alicia is buffered!
[00:09] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+20 CL for PW:S
06[00:09] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+20 CL for PW:S and gets 21." [1d20=1]
[00:12] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Yet the sacred aura around Alicia flares up, the profane power of the balor crumbling before it! "Lies? What do you have, fighting here so desperately? Nothing! No children, no family, no hope! You won't find meaning with them...but one day, you'll find your meeting beneath the shattered bodies of an entire nation!" With that, the balor glides back...OOC - You can AoO here if you want.
[00:12] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 certainly
06[00:12] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 certainly and gets 43." [1d20=19]
[00:12] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 certainly crit check
06[00:12] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 certainly crit check and gets 38." [1d20=14]
[00:12] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC - Just missed a crit. Damage and a fort save.
[00:13] <Alicia> OOC: hang on! +2 for flanking!
[00:13] <Alicia> OOC: the lion!
[00:13] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 fort save anyway
[00:13] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC - I forgot about it completely since I forgot to put it into initaitive. Dur.  Okay.
06[00:13] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 fort save anyway and gets 40." [1d20=16]
03[00:13] * Ko-VoteTaitori changes topic to 'Balor>Marie>Peppy Elf=Solemn old man=Lion>Alicia>Star>Astral Deva(stun 2)'
[00:13] <Alicia> roll 6d6+40+4d4
06[00:13] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 6d6+40+4d4 and gets 74." [6d6=2, 1, 5, 3, 6, 6][4d4=4, 2, 3, 2]
[00:13] <Alicia> roll 2d4 wis drain
06[00:13] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d4 wis drain and gets 5." [2d4=3, 2]
[00:13] <Alicia> OOC: DC 20 will save
[00:14] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC - Stat damage doesn't double on crits.
[00:14] <Alicia> OOC: it doesn't? Harsh. I'll take the 3, then.
[00:14] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC: It's bailed you guys out a few times. <_<
[00:14] <Alicia> OOC: what goes around comes around
[00:15] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Alicia cuts and severs far into the balor, deeply striking it's arm! It goes back to the holed, light sheathed node that has one spellfire drilling! OOC - Marie. The battle below is quite hectic but continuging to more or less go your ways, though a few devas hav efallen.
[00:16] <Alicia> Since it's again been proven that she can't touch the balor, Marie helps out where she can by firing on a vrock that seems entirely too merry.
[00:16] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23
06[00:16] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 and gets 26." [1d20=3]
[00:16] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18
06[00:16] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 26." [1d20=8]
[00:16] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13
06[00:16] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 and gets 33." [1d20=20]
[00:17] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 crit check
06[00:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 crit check and gets 21." [1d20=8]
[00:18] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC - 3 normal hits.
[00:18] <Alicia> roll 3d4+9+3d4 they have AC 22 normally, lets assume this one does
06[00:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d4+9+3d4 they have AC 22 normally, lets assume this one does and gets 21." [3d4=2, 3, 2][3d4=1, 2, 2]
[00:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 CL lets magic missile it as well
06[00:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 CL lets magic missile it as well and gets 18." [1d20=4]
[00:18] <Alicia> roll 5d4+5
06[00:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 5d4+5 and gets 14." [5d4=2, 2, 3, 1, 1]
[00:19] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Three arrows go into the back of a bloodied vrock, then magical missiles hit the back of it's head! The avian demon breaks into a fould ust, shattered by Marie's potshotting! Meanwhile, the peppy elf surges forward to Alicia, "Careful," she chides as more healing embraces her!
[00:19] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 3d8+12
06[00:19] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 3d8+12 and gets 25." [3d8=6, 4, 3]
[00:19] <Ko-VoteTaitori> The solemn old man continues to chant, lightining flowing towards the balor once more!
[00:20] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+13
06[00:20] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+13 and gets 25." [1d20=12]
[00:20] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Yet again, the balor's resistance turns the sacred lightning into nothing of power at all! OOC - Alicia.
[00:21] <Alicia> "It's on the run, now!" Alicia doesn't seem especially careful, although she does give her elven friend a smile in thanks for the continued healing. Dropping Soul's Enslavement into a loose one-handed grip she performs a quick prayer for her aim to be blessed before surging forward and drawing the Sword of the Sealed Gate to stab into the balor!
[00:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+38 true strike
06[00:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+38 true strike and gets 39." [1d20=1]
[00:22] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Alicia charges, her longsword thrusting out, but even True Strike cannot save this blow! It is lost in the unholy aura that flows around it's body, deflected away!  Star flies forward to Alicia's side, "Demon, your time is now!"
[00:23] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+28 (+5 charge and buffs, -2 PA)
06[00:23] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+28 (+5 charge and buffs, -2 PA) and gets 39." [1d20=11]
[00:23] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 4d6+21
06[00:23] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 4d6+21 and gets 40." [4d6=5, 4, 5, 5]
[00:23] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+16
06[00:23] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+16 and gets 33." [1d20=17]
[00:24] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Surging in and hacking at the balor's leg, Star manages a successful strike, even as the Astral Deva is -still- dazed and confused! OOC - Balor is up.
[00:26] <Ko-VoteTaitori> The balor glances at the node, the light around it vanishing in an instant! He raises his fist up, slamming it at the exposed point!
[00:26] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+21 (-10 PA)
06[00:26] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+21 (-10 PA) and gets 33." [1d20=12]
[00:27] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 1d20+21 (-10 PA)
06[00:27] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 1d20+21 (-10 PA) and gets 36." [1d20=15]
[00:27] <Ko-VoteTaitori> roll 2d10+42
06[00:27] * Hatbot --> "Ko-VoteTaitori rolls 2d10+42 and gets 58." [2d10=10, 6]
[00:28] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Two slams rock the node, already bored into by Alicia's spellfire! The entire tower shakes and wobbles like a bowlful of jelly shaken by a rowdy child! Turning towards Alicia, "Then...die in a tide of slime!"
[00:28] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Marie can see the entire fortress shake horribly, even as the battle below goes better, demons being isolated and beaten!
[00:28] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC - Marie.
[00:29] <Alicia> Fortress shaking is good. Them being in it is... wait a second. There's no gravity here. It's not like anything can fall *down* onto them. "Haha, stupid demon! That's not going to work at all!" Marie taunts, gaily firing a few arrows at the balor to punctuate her disapproval.
[00:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23
06[00:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 and gets 25." [1d20=2]
[00:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18
06[00:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 25." [1d20=7]
[00:30] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13
06[00:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 and gets 31." [1d20=18]
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[20:19] <Alicia> [22:31] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Two slams rock the node, already bored into by Alicia's spellfire! The entire tower shakes and wobbles like a bowlful of jelly shaken by a rowdy child! Turning towards Alicia, "Then...die in a tide of slime!"
[20:19] <Alicia> [22:31] <Ko-VoteTaitori> Marie can see the entire fortress shake horribly, even as the battle below goes better, demons being isolated and beaten!
[20:19] <Alicia> [22:31] <Ko-VoteTaitori> OOC - Marie.
[20:19] <Alicia> [22:32] <Alicia> Fortress shaking is good. Them being in it is... wait a second. There's no gravity here. It's not like anything can fall *down* onto them. "Haha, stupid demon! That's not going to work at all!" Marie taunts, gaily firing a few arrows at the balor to punctuate her disapproval.
[20:19] <Alicia> [22:32] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23
[20:19] <Alicia> [22:32] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 and gets 25." [1d20=2]
[20:19] <Alicia> [22:32] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18
[20:20] <Alicia> [22:32] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 25." [1d20=7]
[20:20] <Alicia> [22:32] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13
[20:20] <Alicia> [22:32] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 and gets 31." [1d20=18]
[20:21] <Kotono> The arrows come flying, whizzing by the balor as he seems to barely notice, locked close with Alicia and Star!  The peppy elf hangs back for the moment, holding her action, as more sacred lightning comes from the solemn old caster!
[20:21] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
06[20:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 33." [1d20=19]
[20:21] <Kotono> OOC - -1.
[20:22] <Kotono> roll 10d6, half is non resistable divine typed
06[20:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6, half is non resistable divine typed and gets Error: Numeric values only." [10d6=6, 2, 6, 2, 5, 2, 2, 5, 2, 5]
[20:22] <Kotono> roll 10d6
06[20:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 and gets 32." [10d6=1, 6, 4, 4, 2, 2, 6, 2, 3, 2]
[20:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 ref
06[20:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 ref and gets 39." [1d20=16]
[20:24] <Kotono> The lightning singes the balor, leaving gleaming white marks on it's flaming body! The Lion isn't very fast here, chasing after the faster moving heroes! OOC - Alicia.
06[20:25] * Alicia continues trying to give the sword of the sealed gate it's first taste of blood since being reforged, praying for that all important hit!
[20:25] <Alicia> roll 1d20+38 true strike again
06[20:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+38 true strike again and gets 53." [1d20=15]
[20:26] <Kotono> OOC - Hit.
[20:26] <Kotono> OOC - Make a fort save after damage.
[20:26] <Alicia> roll 2d6+11 dimensional anchor with no save
06[20:26] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d6+11 dimensional anchor with no save and gets 18." [2d6=5, 2]
[20:26] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24
06[20:26] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 and gets 32." [1d20=8]
[20:27] <Alicia> Having landed her attack, Alicia proceeds to sheathe the sealing sword and regain her two-handed grip on Soul's Enslavement, grinning triumphantly but not in any mood to tell the balor why she's so happy. He can figure it out when he tries to teleport next.
03[20:29] * Kotono changes topic to 'Balor>Marie>Peppy Elf=Solemn old man=Lion>Alicia>Star>Astral Deva'
[20:29] <Kotono> Star closes in, a grim smile on her face, "It's over, demon!" Her blindfolded eyes see nothing, yet her aim is flawless as she strikes, also deftly reaching out to touch Alicia even as she fights!
[20:30] <Kotono> OOC-  Healed for Alicia. +170 HP, that tops that off.
[20:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+26 (-2 PA)
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+26 (-2 PA) and gets 38." [1d20=12]
[20:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 and gets 27." [1d20=6]
[20:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 33." [1d20=17]
[20:31] <Kotono> The Balor's defenses are just a little too good, the black aura swallowing the accurate but not accurate enough sword cuts! From behind the Astral Deva surges forward, a pair of holy smites bursting around the Balor!
[20:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
[20:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[20:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 15." [1d20=2]
06[20:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 26." [1d20=13]
[20:33] <Kotono> Yet both bursts shatter around the Balor, it's flaming body rendering even that powerful magic into obilvion! The vile creature looks up, amid all it's wounds, "SUFFER!" Even as it speaks that terrible word, it lays into th enode again! OOC - Will saves at -2 after CL check.
[20:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
06[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 36." [1d20=16]
[20:34] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 (-10 PA)
06[20:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 (-10 PA) and gets 27." [1d20=4]
[20:34] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 (-10 PA)
06[20:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 (-10 PA) and gets 28." [1d20=5]
[20:34] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22
06[20:34] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 and gets 32." [1d20=10]
[20:34] <Kotono> roll 2d10+42
06[20:34] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d10+42 and gets 53." [2d10=2, 9]
[20:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 Star
06[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 Star and gets 33." [1d20=18]
[20:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12 deva
06[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 deva and gets 13." [1d20=1]
[20:36] <Kotono> roll 2d6 str damage
06[20:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6 str damage and gets 5." [2d6=2, 3]
[20:36] <Kotono> roll 1d10 paralysed
06[20:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d10 paralysed and gets 1." [1d10=1]
03[20:36] * Kotono changes topic to 'Balor>Marie>Peppy Elf=Solemn old man=Lion>Alicia>Star>Astral Deva(Paralysed 1 minute)'
[20:38] <Kotono> As the Astral Deva is stunned again, the battle above rages! The forces are starting to su rge forward in earnest, coming to support! However, as they do, the walls scream as one! The node cracks and melts under the balor's blows, starting to leak downward in a horrible red rain all around you, surging downward with stunning speed, walls dissipating! OOC - Fort saves all, including MArie.
[20:39] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 A
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 A and gets 26." [1d20=2]
[20:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14 deva
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 deva and gets 19." [1d20=5]
[20:39] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 Marie who protests at the lack of gravity not being any help
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 Marie who protests at the lack of gravity not being any help and gets 24." [1d20=14]
[20:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14 planetar
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 planetar and gets 28." [1d20=14]
[20:40] <Alicia> OOC: +2 for Marie if this is vs evil
[20:40] <Kotono> OOC - Mmm, okay.
[20:41] <Kotono> roll 1d4
06[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[20:41] <Kotono> roll 1d4
06[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and gets 4." [1d4=4]
[20:42] <Kotono> roll 1d4
06[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[20:43] <Kotono> Alicia feels ill. Her flesh burns a cool, a sliminess coating her flesh. Her eyes are slightly hazy-red, yet through them...she cans ee tiny little pustules forming on her skin rapidly, bursting over with red jelly! OOC - Marie's up.
[20:44] <Kotono> Marie can see that the celestials are so affected - most are, a few are lucky as the raining continues!
[20:44] <Alicia> OOC: I'm not too clear on the situation. Has the fortress imploded and are we all cocooned/submerged entirely or what?
[20:45] <Kotono> The fortresses walls continue to melt down in a red rain! You can begin to see holes opening, things about half dissolved! Below the node, 100 feet down or so, the slime seems to be gathering at the juncture to the fourth floor, welling there lik a lake and flowing into it.
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[20:47] <Alicia> [18:46] <Kotono> Alicia feels ill. Her flesh burns a cool, a sliminess coating her flesh. Her eyes are slightly hazy-red, yet through them...she cans ee tiny little pustules forming on her skin rapidly, bursting over with red jelly! OOC - Marie's up.
[20:47] <Alicia> [18:47] <Kotono> Marie can see that the celestials are so affected - most are, a few are lucky as the raining continues!
[20:47] <Alicia> [18:47] <Alicia> OOC: I'm not too clear on the situation. Has the fortress imploded and are we all cocooned/submerged entirely or what?
[20:47] <Alicia> [18:48] <Kotono> The fortresses walls continue to melt down in a red rain! You can begin to see holes opening, things about half dissolved! Below the node, 100 feet down or so, the slime seems to be gathering at the juncture to the fourth floor, welling there lik a lake and flowing into it.
[20:47] <Alicia> OOC: btw, I don't suppose this shit counts as poison, does it?
[20:47] <Kotono> OOC - No.
06[20:51] * Alicia keeps her mouth firmly shut and so doesn't say anything as she flies up through the descending filth before exploding in a burst of spellfire. It'll hurt her allies a bit, but if she positions herself right it'll also form a clear channel from where she made the initial incursion on the top floor all the way down to where they are now, and provide everyone with some relief from the seemingly sentient slime.
[20:51] <Alicia> roll 2d8 DC 24 reflex half
06[20:51] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d8 DC 24 reflex half and gets 14." [2d8=7, 7]
[20:51] <Kotono> OOC - Uh, Marie's up, not you.
[20:51] <Alicia> OOC: whoops, shit, sorry
[20:51] <Alicia> OOC: strike all that
[20:52] <Alicia> OOC: got confused, had a line for her earlier but it got lost in OOC stuff
[20:52] <Alicia> Marie turns incorporeal!
[20:55] <Kotono> Marie turns incorpreal without incident, the slimy rain now bypassing her, even as her body feels so gross, so slick and red! A scream comes from the peppy elf's mouth, her arms running red with a jelly-goo! "This is disgusting! This damned disease...It's slimy doom! Get magic, it's working faster than it should!" With that, she calls to the light, touching her arms!
[20:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 and gets 13." [1d20=1]
[20:56] <Kotono> Yet nothing happens - light flows from her hand, but the jelly-slime on her body refuses to budge!  EVen as he grimaces, slime trickling down his face, the old man keeps his lightning going!
[20:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 27." [1d20=14]
[20:56] <Kotono> It crackles amid the falling rain of goop, but cannot penetrate the balor's resistance this time! The lion runs with the goop but comes even closer to Alicia and company! OOC - Alicia.
06[20:57] * Alicia keeps her mouth firmly shut to avoid swallowing and so doesn't say anything as she flies up through the descending filth before exploding in a burst of spellfire. It'll hurt her allies a bit, but if she positions herself right it'll also form a clear channel from where she made the initial incursion on the top floor all the way down to where they are now, and provide everyone with some relief from the seemingly sentient slime.
[20:58] <Alicia> roll 2d8 DC 24 reflex half, hopefully enough to disintegrate the slime at least
06[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d8 DC 24 reflex half, hopefully enough to disintegrate the slime at least and gets 12." [2d8=7, 5]
[20:58] <Alicia> roll 1d100 to see if Marie is affected
06[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 to see if Marie is affected and gets 59." [1d100=59]
[20:58] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10
06[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 and gets 22." [1d20=12]
[21:00] <Kotono> The slime from the top vanishes for moments, burned away by Alicia's spellfire! It provides moments of respite and a corridor out, free of falling slime! Star is seren through all of this, the slime not touching her celestial form, "You can melt our flesh to slime, but we will not relent. Demon, farewell!" This timet here is no restraint, Star assaulting the balor as a thin green ray of energy comes from her as well!
[21:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17 CL
06[21:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 CL and gets 29." [1d20=12]
[21:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
06[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 and gets 36." [1d20=11]
[21:01] <Kotono> roll 5d6
06[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d6 and gets 18." [5d6=6, 5, 1, 5, 1]
[21:01] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30
06[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30 and gets 31." [1d20=1]
[21:01] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
06[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 and gets 44." [1d20=19]
[21:01] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 crit check
06[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 crit check and gets 27." [1d20=2]
[21:01] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
06[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 37." [1d20=17]
[21:02] <Kotono> roll 4d6+
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d6+ and gets Error: Check syntax." [4d6=2, 5, 4, 3]
[21:03] <Kotono> A litlte of the balor disintegrates, a bit of it's leg gone! It's main body isn't deterred, fighting on even as it's gashed, it's unholy aura flaring around Star as she strikes!
[21:03] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
06[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 28." [1d20=14]
[21:04] <Kotono> The Astral Deva is not so fortunate, melting in a tide of red goo! It manuvers into Alicia's safe tunnel, touching it's arms as a white burst assails the balor!
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 CL slime
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 CL slime and gets 19." [1d20=6]
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 CL balor
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 CL balor and gets 26." [1d20=13]
[21:07] <Kotono> Yet neither effort seems to do much at all! The balor looks on at Star now, the slime rain continuing! Most of the form of the upper two floors is gone now, about 90% fallen and meeting the top of the fourth! With no words the Balor grins and assaults star with it's bare claw and whip!
[21:07] <Alicia> OOC: isn't the deva paralysed, or did the disease knock that off?
[21:07] <Kotono> OOC - Oh sorry, forgot. Assume it just floated there then.
[21:07] <Kotono> OOC - Thanks.
[21:07] <Kotono> roll 1d20+33 slam
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+33 slam and gets 53." [1d20=20]
[21:07] <Kotono> roll 1d20+33 slam crit
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+33 slam crit and gets 40." [1d20=7]
[21:07] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30 whipping
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30 whipping and gets 42." [1d20=12]
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 and gets 22." [1d20=10]
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 16." [1d20=9]
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 2d10+24+1d4+6
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d10+24+1d4+6 and gets 49." [2d10=8, 7][1d4=4]
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 6d6-10
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6-10 and gets 10." [6d6=4, 5, 1, 6, 2, 2]
[21:11] <Kotono> Star is slammed hard enough to send her reeling back, the blow to her face sending red blood to contrast ther ed slime raining! A moment later it's whip comes out, ensnaring her and dragging her form across the balor's burning body! OOC - Marie, more.
[21:12] <Kotono> Marie cans ee that the battle is just about over. As the segment of the fortress disintegrates and rains down, the last of the demons are being exterminated. However, many of the celetials drip slime of their own, sagging and a few stumbling into Alicia's corridor.
[21:14] <Alicia> With not much else she can do, Marie fires her last magic missiles at the balor, hoping that solar or somebody high up can do something about the slimy doom before it kills all of them.
[21:14] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 CL
06[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 CL and gets 32." [1d20=18]
[21:14] <Alicia> roll 5d4+5
06[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 5d4+5 and gets 23." [5d4=4, 3, 3, 4, 4]
[21:15] <Kotono> Marie's magical missiles slam down like a torrent of fury, even as the female elf retreats up to Alicia, "Ew, it's not going away,"s hes ays, trying again on herself!
[21:15] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12
06[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 and gets 25." [1d20=13]
[21:16] <Kotono> But again, nothing seems to happen! The old man stays his place, unmooved as he continues to assail the balor!
[21:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 24." [1d20=11]
[21:16] <Kotono> But again, his magic does nothing to it! OOC - Alicia.
[21:19] <Alicia> Alicia's expression is grim as their likely fate settles on her. There's not even any point retreating if the disease will kill them anyway. "It's not over yet, though," she affirms defiantly, surging forward and lashing out with Soul's Enslavement... but not at the balor, instead at his whip so she can free Star!
[21:19] <Alicia> OOC: he gets an AoO
[21:20] <Kotono> roll 1d20+33
06[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+33 and gets 38." [1d20=5]
[21:20] <Kotono> roll 1d6
06[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 and gets 6." [1d6=6]
[21:21] <Kotono> roll 1d20+33 cleave
06[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+33 cleave and gets 34." [1d20=1]
[21:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+51 true strike, 3rd level channel, +4 large, +4 two handed opposed roll go
06[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+51 true strike, 3rd level channel, +4 large, +4 two handed opposed roll go and gets 52." [1d20=1]
[21:24] <Kotono> Channeling in arcane weaves and power, Alicia strikes out! Her blade is incredibly accurate, too accurate! It hits the whip right on, but at the wrong angle! The flat of the blade does little to free Star!  STar, however, tries to free herself!
[21:24] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12 opposed strength ooomph
06[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 opposed strength ooomph and gets 25." [1d20=13]
[21:24] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 she has as hot
06[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 she has as hot and gets 18." [1d20=11]
[21:24] <Kotono> But Star is kept on the balor, unable to burst form the whip's tyranny! Concentrating, another beam of green comes from her very eyes at the Balor!
[21:24] <Kotono> roll 1d20+17
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+17 and gets 28." [1d20=11]
[21:25] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 31." [1d20=8]
[21:25] <Kotono> roll 5d6
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d6 and gets 16." [5d6=1, 4, 2, 5, 4]
[21:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 escapea rtist then
06[21:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 escapea rtist then and gets 34." [1d20=13]
[21:27] <Kotono> Star is able to work free of the bonds, her distinegrating ray dissolving a litlte bit more of the balor! The beast is torn up, wounded, with small chunks of it's body simply gone! OOC - Balor is up.
[21:28] <Kotono> The balor grins, "You couldn't even finish it!" He leers, as...he does not vanish at all! With a look of momentary fury, he turns his attention to the two! His fist lashes out at Alicia, his whip at Star once more!
[21:28] <Kotono> roll 1d20+31
06[21:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+31 and gets 49." [1d20=18]
[21:28] <Kotono> roll 1d20+30 whip
06[21:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+30 whip and gets 36." [1d20=6]
[21:29] <Kotono> roll 1d5 images
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d5 images and gets 1." [1d5=1]
[21:29] <Alicia> OOC: will save for him, at least
[21:29] <Kotono> roll 1d10+12 wham
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d10+12 wham and gets 17." [1d10=5]
[21:29] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 will
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 will and gets 41." [1d20=20]
[21:30] <Kotono> roll 1d4+6
06[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4+6 and gets 9." [1d4=3]
[21:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12
06[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 and gets 26." [1d20=14]
[21:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7
06[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 and gets 25." [1d20=18]
[21:30] <Kotono> roll 6d6-10
06[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6-10 and gets 18." [6d6=6, 6, 4, 4, 6, 2]
[21:33] <Kotono> Alicia is slammed in the chest, Star entangled once more! The balor's body is bloodied and wounded, surviving even as he lashes out! As this happens, the horrible rain stops! You are now completely in the Astral, below, the remaining fortress writhes with slime flowing into it! The hosts of the heavens are about perched to come down to help finish this! OOC - Marie.
[21:34] <Alicia> Marie turns corporeal again since she's not in any danger of further slime. Though from what she's heard it seems the damage has been done.
[21:35] <Kotono> As Marie reappears, the cute elf flies up and away, looking sick and slimy! The solemn old man at last relents, shoulder slumping forward and looking drained! Meanwhile, the lion at last closes in, pouncing on the balor!
[21:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+33 AoOing
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+33 AoOing and gets 43." [1d20=10]
[21:36] <Kotono> roll 1d10+12
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d10+12 and gets 13." [1d10=1]
[21:36] <Alicia> She does stop to consider that if the slime could fall in one direction it could certainly fall in the other, given the whole lack of gravity that it's already ignored... This could get messy.
[21:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 19." [1d20=10]
[21:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 11." [1d20=2]
[21:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+4
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+4 and gets 14." [1d20=10]
[21:36] <Kotono> The lion is painfully slammed, the balor otherwise ignoring it's noble attempts ot wound it's demonic form! OOC - Alicia.
06[21:38] * Alicia wheezes a bit from her dissolving innards and the punch she just took, really not looking anything close to her best. Nonetheless she manages a bitter smile for the demon. "I wonder whether your body or your mind will give out first?" she muses, before laying into the fiend with a fury!
[21:38] <Alicia> roll 1d20+31 4th level arcane channel, smite, divine might
06[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+31 4th level arcane channel, smite, divine might and gets 48." [1d20=17]
[21:38] <Alicia> roll 1d20+39 4th level arcane channel, divine might, true strike
06[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+39 4th level arcane channel, divine might, true strike and gets 55." [1d20=16]
[21:38] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 in case of crit
06[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 in case of crit and gets 17." [1d20=3]
[21:38] <Kotono> OOC - Two hits.
[21:38] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 fort save #1
06[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 fort save #1 and gets 35." [1d20=11]
[21:39] <Alicia> OOC: -1 to that
[21:39] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 fort save #2
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 fort save #2 and gets 32." [1d20=9]
[21:39] <Alicia> roll 3d6+22+4d4
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+22+4d4 and gets 41." [3d6=3, 6, 1][4d4=3, 1, 4, 1]
[21:39] <Alicia> roll 3d6+20+4d4
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+20+4d4 and gets 47." [3d6=2, 4, 6][4d4=4, 4, 4, 3]
[21:39] <Alicia> roll 2d4 wis drain
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d4 wis drain and gets 5." [2d4=1, 4]
[21:39] <Alicia> OOC: DC 20 save vs rage
[21:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 35." [1d20=17]
[21:41] <Kotono> The balor's body is torn open at last! Alicia plunges Soul's Enslavement deep into it's flaming body, the hateful flames licking at her exposed flesh! The demon's eyes flare with fury, "Die...then....you foolish...mortal!" It's face disintegrates as a giant blast of fury erupts from it's body! OOC - Ref save.
[21:41] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18
06[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 20." [1d20=2]
[21:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 Star
06[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 Star and gets 20." [1d20=7]
[21:42] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 elf girl
06[21:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 elf girl and gets 16." [1d20=8]
[21:43] <Alicia> OOC: didn't she flee?
[21:43] <Kotono> OOC - Strike, she moved out of range.
[21:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 old man who didn't
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 old man who didn't and gets 20." [1d20=13]
[21:43] <Kotono> OOC - Lion's save is moot. The deva is paralysed and thus unable to make a ref save.
[21:45] <Kotono> The burst leaves Alicia's vision misted over. Her entire body hurts like it never has. One eye doesn't work, the other only showing a few glimpses of the Astral sea all around her. She feels agony, but deatched, as if her body is barely worn, slipping away like a bit of clothing a size too large. She is very cold, yet parts of her burn with a mind shattering heat! OOC - Alicia, go ahead and act?
[21:48] <Alicia> Even though it's likely postponing the inevitable, Alicia clutches her sides and heals herself a little. If she can do that much maybe she can try and heal any survivors who aren't about to melt into goo... it's a bitter taste, the balor surely having the last laugh despite all their efforts.
[21:48] <Alicia> OOC: 17hp lay on hands
[21:50] <Kotono> Alicia's vision mostly clears. Angels are coming down - some dripping slime, a few untouched. The demons are gone, only a four story fortress above! More wings of angels are ascending carefully from below, keeping a few demons well at bay. Dimly, Alicia notices Star is gone - parts of her greatsword linger where she was, but nothing else. The solemn old man's body is broken and ruined, though the Astral Deva, while unmoving, seems to survive. S
[21:50] <Kotono> though the Astral Deva, while unmoving, seems to survive. She can hear, "Gather the wounded and fall back!" A glorious voice calls, almost tkaing her mind off the slimy pain all over her body.
[21:54] <Alicia> "Star..." Alicia's heart sinks at the absence, though it's nothing compared to what she feels upon seeing the old man's shattered body. She never even knew his name... Sheathing Soul's Enslavement, she takes the planetar's sword and the broken corpse of her elderly protector, cradling them both as she pushes the paralysed deva labouriously in the direction everyone else is going.
[21:54] <Alicia> During this her ravaged and pustule-covered familiar floats over to join her, for once uncharacteristically silent.
[21:55] <Kotono> As they float out, one of the untouched comes to them. An Astra Deva, a proud but sorrowful look on his face. "Thank you," he murmurs, touching Alicia's body.
[21:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 23." [1d20=10]
[21:55] <Kotono> OOC - +130 HP.
[21:56] <Kotono> The nurmeous wounds that cover Alicia's body are gone. However, red slime continues to leak forth. "Come back to the outer ring with me. We're going to see what we can do abotu this plague that has overtaken us."
[21:57] <Alicia> "Devils have got nothing on those things," Alicia remarks bitterly, accepting the deva's aid in returning to their siege camp.
[21:59] <Kotono> "It's why I fight them," The Astral Deva speaks with a respectful tone as he leads her back to the ring. As you fall back, you see that the four remaining layers only have light fighting in front of them. There don't look to be so many demons about now. "Was this your first time fighting them?"
[22:01] <Alicia> "Seriously, anyway," Alicia nods. "Had a few small group battles, but nothing on this scale."
[22:11] <Kotono> "Demons relish this - even if they lose, kill and maim as many as they can. "Devils...yes, they're more...civilised? They'd rather put chains around you as you fall into Hell than to slaughter."
[22:11] <Kotono> "Vigliance Nova," he says after a moment, "I heard about you, you're Alicia? The human with the spellfire that works so well on the walls?"
[22:13] <Alicia> "That's right," Alicia nods, briefly coughing and wincing as she feels something shift painfully in her slowly disintegrating lungs. "Was just passing by when I ran into your leader and was, *cough* invited to join. If I helped end it sooner I can at least be glad of that."
[22:14] <Alicia> Marie looks worriedly at Alicia as she floats along with them, not even sure what to say. She'd always expected that when Alicia was about to die then she wouldn't be hot on her heels. Hopefully someone can cure them before it's too late.
[22:17] <Kotono> With a warm smile that eases the tension inside of Alicia ever so slightly, "Let's get you somewhere where you can rest and get looked at." The trip back to the Outer Ring is otherwise peaceful. A large tent has been set up in the very rear, silvery and blending into the Astral Sea around. Inside Alicia and Marie are taken to a cot. "Don't worry," Vigliance Nova says to break the silence, "At worst, I'm sure you'll get taken to the Heavens to b
[22:17] <Kotono> "At worst, I'm sure you'll get taken to the Heavens to be healed there, if we can't do it here. Alicia," he says to her, "Want the company right now? I can stay if you'd like." Around them, celestials lie on the beds, staining the pristine white sheets slimy.
[22:22] <Alicia> "And even if you do die, you'll go to heaven anyway," Marie finally breaks her self-imposed silence, grinning weakly at her wit.
[22:22] <Alicia> "I don't mind," Alicia nods to the deva as she sits down, still holding onto Star's sword even after setting aside the body of the old man along with the other casaulties of the day. Despite his reassurance she recalls how the elf's magic availed her not at all, and feels resigned to her fate. "Vigilance Nova's a bit of a mouthful. Is Vigilance or Nova by itself okay?" she asks, trying not to show her maudlin feelings.
[22:25] <Kotono> "Nova's fine. And she's right. Surely you'll rise to Mystra when your time as a mortal has concluded?" Vigliance Nova stands in the empty air as Alicia sits, his eyes going to the broken greatsword held. "The Planetar that wielded that died bravely. I saw the balor as it died."
[22:29] <Alicia> "I hope that time won't end soon... I suppose Star's back in whichever upper plane she called home?" Alicia changes the subject halfway through her spoken thought.
[22:29] <Alicia> "I don't, *cough* understand this, though. We float here because there's no gravity, so how did that slime fall on us? We don't age here because there's no time, so how can disease progress in our bodies?" She shakes her head, wheezing quietly and resisting the urge to squeeze a particularly large pustule on the back of her hand, "I don't understand."
[22:30] <Alicia> "It surprised me as well," Marie nods sadly, wishing she hadn't made fun of the balor so.
[22:33] <Kotono> "Nor do I." Vigliance Nova is silent for moments, "...perhaps that was the appeal to him. What more would a demon like than bringing suffering when none should be able to be brought? Demons..." Vigliance Nova reaches out, gently touching Alicia's hand, a reassuring gesture on some of her still not pustuled skin. "I'd like to know what they're doing here now very much. This reeks of Jubliex and his slimy horrors. I don't understand it...but I wi
[22:33] <Kotono> This reeks of Jubliex and his slimy horrors. I don't understand it...but I will wreck and rend evil for this deed."
[22:34] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 planes what do I know about jubilex
06[22:34] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 planes what do I know about jubilex and gets 29." [1d20=13]
[22:40] <Alicia> "You should probably be careful in case you catch what I've got," Alicia comments dryly as her hand is touched. Her attempt at poise is somewhat ruined by the weak coughing that follows it. "A pity I'm not one of those paladins who're immune to disease, really."
[22:44] <Kotono> Laughing at that and brushing back his silver hair, "Not so tender, are you?" As this occures, a feeling of love and respite washes over Alicia. Light fills the tent, gleaming like the sun itself. The solar steps in, his majestic gaze sweeping over the slimy infirm. His steps take him to Alicia's cot, going to stand slightly below her cot, so that his gaze is on eye level with hers. "Give me your hand, brave warrior."
06[22:46] * Alicia carefully reaches out to take the solar's hand without risking any pressure on the pus filled boils decorating her own hand. She's again struck that she doesn't know his name either. It's rather depressing to be so oblivious.
[22:47] <Kotono> He shakes it gently, "Let me try this first...and if not, I'll use more direct measures," he says, divine fire crackling around his hand!
[22:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
06[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 34." [1d20=14]
[22:48] <Kotono> Relief. Alicia sees the slime flow off her body, boils withering away into flesh that rejoins her body normally. The faint pain and slimy feeling is gone from Alicia. "Superb," he says, "It is possible to break it this way, if difficult. Now you, noble eladrin?"
[22:49] <Alicia> "Oh, yes please!" Marie lands herself on the solar's hand as Alicia sighs in relief and rubs her now smooth skin.
[22:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 37." [1d20=17]
[22:50] <Kotono> The boils on Marie fade, the elardin no longer a slimy plague as fire crackles on the solar's hand. "I hear the two of you fought bravely and are responsible for our breakthrough."
[22:52] <Alicia> "We did our part as best we could," Alicia agrees before demuring, "Others fought just as bravely and lost more, however."
[22:57] <Kotono> "I know." The solar gently pats Marie once before putting her down on the bed. "There will be a reckoning with the remaining demons. Because of your sacrifices and the sacrifices of those valiant souls, we are closer to ending this struggle once and for all. In the coming hour, I will lead our reserves in a strike to attempt to decapitate the rest of the demonic forces. They are reeling, let us end it while they are weakened."
[22:59] <Alicia> "We'll be ready," Alicia replies to that, quite happy to send a few more demons to the Abyss today.
[23:00] <Kotono> "I'll be glad to have you, but only if you're ready," The solar cautions, "Will you be able to fight in an hour?"
[23:04] <Alicia> "Thanks to the healing you've provided, yes," Alicia nods. "I have enough spells."
[23:06] <Kotono> The solar offers his hand again. "Alicia, you will be at my side then. Your power to destroy the slime will be valuable. You as well, Marie. Now...I must go attend to the others. Immortal will or not, they suffer too long with this oozing."
[23:08] <Alicia> "Yes, I won't keep you," Alicia nods, briefly clasping the solar's hand in her own.

[Corwin]

[20:48] <Tiny_Ko_Army> <Alicia> "We'll be ready," Alicia replies to that, quite happy to send a few more demons to the Abyss today.
[20:48] <Tiny_Ko_Army> > "I'll be glad to have you, but only if you're ready," The solar cautions, "Will you be able to fight in an hour?"
[20:48] <Tiny_Ko_Army> <Alicia> "Thanks to the healing you've provided, yes," Alicia nods. "I have enough spells."
[20:48] <Tiny_Ko_Army> > The solar offers his hand again. "Alicia, you will be at my side then. Your power to destroy the slime will be valuable. You as well, Marie. Now...I must go attend to the others. Immortal will or not, they suffer too long with this oozing."
[20:48] <Tiny_Ko_Army> <Alicia> "Yes, I won't keep you," Alicia nods, briefly clasping the solar's hand in her own.
03[20:50] * Ebiris is now known as Alicia
[20:50] <Tiny_Ko_Army> Vigliance Nova keeps quiet, bowing his head with a murmur of respect as the solar leaves. Once he is, "IT's done, thank the Heavens. You're going to fight at Jamais's side? What an honor!"
[20:57] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 do I know that name? (planes)
06[20:57] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 do I know that name? (planes) and gets 19." [1d20=3]
[20:57] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 does Marie know that name? (planes)
06[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 does Marie know that name? (planes) and gets 33." [1d20=17]
[21:04] <Alicia> "I've never even seen a solar fight before," Alicia admits. "Just hope I can give a good account of myself. Hmm..." she eyes Marie for a moment then reaches out to tap her, a silvery light briefly transmitted between the two of them as the eladrin is healed.
[21:04] <Alicia> "I know you devas can't heal indefinitely but you do have other magic that you can use without limit. If you want you could use some of that on me and I can then convert it into healing energy for the wounded?" she suggests, wanting to do something in the time before battle is rejoined.
[21:04] <Alicia> roll 2d4+2 for Marie
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d4+2 for Marie and gets 7." [2d4=1, 4]
[21:08] <Alicia> "Maybe you should clean us first?" Marie suggests hopefully, since they're both still somewhat slimy.
[21:08] <Tiny_Ko_Army> "I can," Nova stands up and goes over to Alicia, magic flowing into her over several moments. As Jamais goes around, the smile infections are cured in the meantime.
[21:09] <Alicia> "Oh, right... yuck," Alicia makes a face at their state, nodding and casting prestidigitation before she sets to thoroughly cleaning the two of them. Then with Nova's help she goes to help mend any non-disease-based wounds for those that need it.
[21:15] <Tiny_Ko_Army> The healing goes well. Alicia gets looks of thanks and support, including one from Hopiel, who lies on a bed near the door. "Well fought," he compliments both with a smile as his wounds are mended. "What of Star? I lost track of her in the battle, but I last saw her around you."
06[21:17] * Alicia shakes her head sadly. "The balor made sure to take two lives with him as his own was snuffed out," she explains.
[21:20] <Tiny_Ko_Army> Hopiel reaches out, closing his hand around Alicia. His face is composed and resolute, "Star's happy that she helped defeat the balor. Of that I have no doubt. Still...you survived the balor's blast? Most celestials can't withstand it after defeating a balor, let alone a mortal."
[21:23] <Alicia> "I probably wouldn't have if Star hadn't healed me as she entered the fray," Alicia admits, squeezing the planetar's emerald-hued hand in reply. "As is I was close enough to my limit... Listen, Hopiel," she glances back to where she left Star's sword, "She left her sword behind. Would you be able to take it back to her?"
[21:24] <Tiny_Ko_Army> "You saved it for her? Thank you," His eyes follow Alicia's glance, "It will be done."
[21:26] <Alicia> "I appreciate it," she gives him a smile. "Anyway, I better get moving. The more people I can heal with spellfire the more everyone else can save their cure spells for the next sortie."
[21:31] <Tiny_Ko_Army> "Godspeed," Hopiel lets Alicia's hand go, "Good luck and may you come back safely."
[21:32] <Alicia> "You too," Alicia nods to Hopiel, resuming her rounds with Nova's help.
[21:35] <Tiny_Ko_Army> The rest fo the healing goes weill, with praise and thanks given. Thereafter, Vligiance Nova looks about as the tent empties, "Well then," he offers his hand, "I need to help prepare and give you time to prepare for the coming battle."
[21:37] <Alicia> "I'm going to see if I can scrounge up some more cold iron arrows," Marie notes as she zips off, leaving the two alone.
06[21:38] * Alicia clasps Nova's hand warmly. "Thanks for all your help, Nova. Stay safe so we can see each other again after the battle," she encourages him.
[21:39] <Tiny_Ko_Army> "You as well," The clasp is returned, and after a moment, "You'll be facing the worst the Abyss has as the side of Jamais. Don't get yourself killed trying to keep up, don't go over your limit."
[21:40] <Alicia> "Do you think there's still something worse than the balor in there?" Alicia asks seriously, having thought this would be a mopping up exercise.
[21:40] <Tiny_Ko_Army> "I don't know. I pray not, but..." He shrugs his shoulders, "Assumptions get you killed."
06[21:42] * Alicia nods. "True. Well, I better go find Jamais - I have a few ideas on how we can do better than last time, anyway," she muses before giving the deva a wave and turning away. "Take care."
[21:57] <Tiny_Ko_Army> Finding Jamais goes well enough. He is gathering all he can, a great horde of angels, eladrin, guardials and archons, as well as mortal heroes. He listens well enough to Alicia's suggestions. "Yes, that is good. Especially if they are so weakened that they have no viable rush out."
[21:58] <Alicia> "Either they rush out and we fight them on our terms instead of theirs, or they stay inside and we can bombard them with impunity. Either way we win," Alicia summarises.
[22:01] <Tiny_Ko_Army> "Agreed," Jamais says, each word like a force that cuts the looming evil past the Outer Ring like a knife, opposing it with each breath. "ARe you prepared for this?"
06[22:02] * Alicia casts her usual suite of combat spells - shield, enlarge person, and mirror image. "Ready," she affirms.
[22:02] <Alicia> roll 1d4+4
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+4 and gets 8." [1d4=4]

[Corwin]

[18:54] <Alicia> [19:42] <Tiny_Ko_Army> "I don't know. I pray not, but..." He shrugs his shoulders, "Assumptions get you killed."
[18:54] <Alicia> [19:44] * Alicia nods. "True. Well, I better go find Jamais - I have a few ideas on how we can do better than last time, anyway," she muses before giving the deva a wave and turning away. "Take care."
[18:54] <Alicia> [20:00] <Tiny_Ko_Army> Finding Jamais goes well enough. He is gathering all he can, a great horde of angels, eladrin, guardials and archons, as well as mortal heroes. He listens well enough to Alicia's suggestions. "Yes, that is good. Especially if they are so weakened that they have no viable rush out."
[18:54] <Alicia> [20:01] <Alicia> "Either they rush out and we fight them on our terms instead of theirs, or they stay inside and we can bombard them with impunity. Either way we win," Alicia summarises.
[18:54] <Alicia> [20:03] <Tiny_Ko_Army> "Agreed," Jamais says, each word like a force that cuts the looming evil past the Outer Ring like a knife, opposing it with each breath. "ARe you prepared for this?"
[18:54] <Alicia> [20:04] * Alicia casts her usual suite of combat spells - shield, enlarge person, and mirror image. "Ready," she affirms.
[18:54] <Alicia> [20:04] <Alicia> roll 1d4+4
[18:54] <Alicia> [20:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+4 and gets 8." [1d4=4]
[18:58] <Blondezilla> So Alicia prepares! Jamais turns to the gathering celestials, speaking in a great voice, "We will sever into the tower and then lay in with overwhelming ranged force. We will break them as far as they can be broken. Prepare!"
06[19:01] * Alicia is ready to perform her role by blowing apart the walls and letting the rest do their thing to the unsuspecting demons within.
[19:07] <Blondezilla> "Now...!" Jamais leads the heavenly host ahead through the silver astral sea! You come to the tower, it's red-jelly walls throbbing and pulsing faster, beating with a more open, thicker motion. Most demons ahve been driven from the outside now, Jamais pointing to the third floor. "Sever into there. Be ready to strike as soon as you see the demons!"
[19:09] <Alicia> "On it," Alicia nods, flying over to position herself on the roof of the second floor where it meets the wall of the third so that her blast will displace more volume of slime. Tensing a moment, she explodes in incandescent spellfire before jetting up and out of view so that she won't suffer any immediate reprisals from within!
[19:09] <Alicia> roll 12d8 DC 24 reflex half
06[19:10] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 12d8 DC 24 reflex half and gets 46." [12d8=2, 6, 1, 8, 5, 2, 4, 6, 2, 2, 5, 3]
[19:11] <Blondezilla> roll 7#1d20
06[19:11] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 7#1d20 and gets 86." [7#1d20 = 13, 13, 3, 14, 3, 20, 20]
[19:22] <Blondezilla> The spellfire bursts in, a massive hole torn open! As Alicia sees into the slimy fortress, she sees several burnt demons and followers for a few scant moments. "FIRE!" Jamais calls, a virtual hail of arrows, Holy Smites, fire, lightning and even sonic bursts blasting inside in a terrible, glorious focused range!
06[19:24] * Alicia holds position above the hole - if any demons come out to meet the celestials she can dive down to engage them, but otherwise she's happy to wait for this group to be cleared before she makes another hole and they continue their assault in a methodical and inexorable fashion.
[19:26] <Blondezilla> Indeed, amid the storm, Alicia can see a demon working it's way out, flying up like a shot - no, actually, it's not a demon. A man in armor with a skull helmet, surging out with his two handed greataxe dripping blood, coming forth! OOC - Alicia, you can go engage it if you like or hold or whatever. Ball's in your court.
06[19:28] * Alicia zooms down from above, hoping to catch this vanguard of the demonic horde by surprise!
[19:28] <Alicia> OOC: init?
[19:32] <Blondezilla> OOC: Sure.
[19:32] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20
06[19:32] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20 and gets 11." [1d20=11]
[19:32] <Blondezilla> OOC +5, excuseme.
[19:32] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5
06[19:32] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 and gets 15." [1d20=10]
03[19:33] * Blondezilla changes topic to 'Skull Knight>Alicia'
[19:34] <Blondezilla> Surging in the silver sea, the armored knight charges Alicia! He's not as big as her, giving her reach and a free shot on him if she wants.
06[19:36] * Alicia takes it, her greatsword scything through the astral air to hopefully bisect him before he can reach her!
[19:36] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 -5 power attack
06[19:36] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 -5 power attack and gets 27." [1d20=12]
[19:37] <Blondezilla> OOC - Bare miss.
[19:37] <Alicia> OOC: taking into account the charge?
[19:37] <Blondezilla> OOC - That's why it's a bare miss.
[19:37] <Blondezilla> Alicia thrusts out, cleaving by him! She cuts into his armor, but the weight of it deflects her blow! As this happens, the knight cleaves his axe into Alicia!
[19:38] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+24 (+3 smite, +2 charge, -3 PA)
06[19:38] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+24 (+3 smite, +2 charge, -3 PA) and gets 37." [1d20=13]
[19:38] <Blondezilla> OOC - AC?
[19:39] <Alicia> OOC: 32, image 15
[19:40] <Blondezilla> roll 1d9
06[19:40] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d9 and gets 2." [1d9=2]
[19:40] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+24 (+3 smite, +2 charge, -3 PA) cleave
06[19:40] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+24 (+3 smite, +2 charge, -3 PA) cleave and gets 26." [1d20=2]
[19:40] <Blondezilla> roll 1d8
06[19:40] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d8 and gets 7." [1d8=7]
[19:40] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+24 (+3 smite, +2 charge, -3 PA) cleave
06[19:40] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+24 (+3 smite, +2 charge, -3 PA) cleave and gets 34." [1d20=10]
[19:40] <Blondezilla> roll 1d7
06[19:40] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d7 and gets 2." [1d7=2]
[19:41] <Blondezilla> The skull knight's helmet twists like it's alive, deathface scowling in fury as he cleaves through a tandem of Alicias that are not real! The realm one is still safe, unharmed! OOC - Go.
[19:42] <Alicia> He's dangerously competent, so Alicia unfortunately has to pull out the stops when she makes her retaliatory attack, trying first to sever his axe inbetween her strikes on the man himself.
[19:43] <Alicia> roll 1d20+28 divine might, +4 large, +4 two handed opposed rolls (no AoO for him since I 5ft step back and have reach)
06[19:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+28 divine might, +4 large, +4 two handed opposed rolls (no AoO for him since I 5ft step back and have reach) and gets 36." [1d20=8]
[19:45] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+23
06[19:45] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+23 and gets 37." [1d20=14]
[19:46] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 divine might, +4 large, +4 two handed opposed rolls attack #2
06[19:46] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 divine might, +4 large, +4 two handed opposed rolls attack #2 and gets 28." [1d20=5]
[19:47] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+23
06[19:47] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+23 and gets 35." [1d20=12]
[19:47] <Alicia> roll 1d20+38 divine might, +4 large, +4 two handed opposed rolls attack #3 true strike dammit
06[19:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+38 divine might, +4 large, +4 two handed opposed rolls attack #3 true strike dammit and gets 53." [1d20=15]
[19:47] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+23 Well, he can't win this even with a 20, so yay?
06[19:47] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+23 Well, he can't win this even with a 20, so yay? and gets 43." [1d20=20]
[19:47] <Alicia> roll 3d6+20
06[19:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+20 and gets 24." [3d6=1, 1, 2]
[19:49] <Blondezilla> Alicia carves a fairly deep gash into the axe of the skull knight, as arrows and smite sand divine power continues to rock inside of the tower! The axe is intact and surviving, however, even ashe whirls it around for another go! "Die!"
[19:49] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+20 (-2 PA)
06[19:49] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+20 (-2 PA) and gets 38." [1d20=18]
[19:49] <Blondezilla> roll 1d6
06[19:49] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d6 and gets 2." [1d6=2]
[19:50] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+20 (-2 PA) cleave
06[19:50] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+20 (-2 PA) cleave and gets 32." [1d20=12]
[19:50] <Blondezilla> roll 1d5
06[19:50] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d5 and gets 2." [1d5=2]
[19:50] <Blondezilla> roll 1d4 cleave
06[19:50] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d4 cleave and gets 4." [1d4=4]
[19:50] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+15 attack 2
06[19:50] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+15 attack 2 and gets 33." [1d20=18]
[19:50] <Blondezilla> roll 1d3
06[19:50] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d3 and gets 2." [1d3=2]
[19:50] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+10 attack 2 whew
06[19:50] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+10 attack 2 whew and gets 30." [1d20=20]
[19:50] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+10 attack 2 whew crit?
06[19:50] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+10 attack 2 whew crit? and gets 24." [1d20=14]
[19:50] <Blondezilla> roll 1d2
06[19:50] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d2 and gets 1." [1d2=1]
[19:50] <Blondezilla> roll 1d12+20
06[19:50] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d12+20 and gets 21." [1d12=1]
[19:52] <Blondezilla> Alicia finds her images cut down like ripe wheat under the scythe! Onlyone remains, bypassed, as with his last swing the knight cuts into Alicia's forearm, drawing a shallow but dragging cut all the way up to her elbow! OOC - Alicia.
[19:54] <Alicia> "Urgh..." Alicia grimaces at the wound she just took. "You're not bad. Pity you picked the wrong side," she concludes upon resuming her efforts to destroy his weapon and kill him.
[19:55] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 divine might +4 large +4 two handed -2 power attack opposed roll (he also has his pa penalty on his opposed rolls, btw)
06[19:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 divine might +4 large +4 two handed -2 power attack opposed roll (he also has his pa penalty on his opposed rolls, btw) and gets 40." [1d20=14]
[19:55] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+20 more or less moot
06[19:55] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+20 more or less moot and gets 31." [1d20=11]
[19:55] <Alicia> roll 3d6+22 die
06[19:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+22 die and gets 33." [3d6=5, 2, 4]
[19:55] <Alicia> OOC: +2
[19:55] <Blondezilla> CRACK! Alicia cleaves through the knight's axe, making it shatter all about into useless metal!
[19:55] <Alicia> That done she can now beat on him with impunity!
[19:56] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13
06[19:56] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 and gets 20." [1d20=7]
[19:56] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8
06[19:56] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 and gets 23." [1d20=15]
[19:57] <Alicia> She also casts mirror image again, because she can.
[19:57] <Alicia> roll 1d4+4
06[19:57] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+4 and gets 5." [1d4=1]
03[19:59] * Haruka is now known as El-Cideon
[20:02] <Blondezilla> As the battel rages, the knight finds himself weapon less! He flies back a little bit...OOC - You can AoO.
[20:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 sure
06[20:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 sure and gets 35." [1d20=17]
[20:03] <Alicia> roll 3d6+24
06[20:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+24 and gets 36." [3d6=4, 6, 2]
[20:03] <Alicia> roll 1d4 drain
06[20:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 drain and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[20:03] <Alicia> OOC: DC 20 or rage
[20:06] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+14
06[20:06] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+14 and gets 28." [1d20=14]
[20:07] <Blondezilla> Despite the ripping wound into the knight's side, he stands firm! His face twists and contorts, before a cloud of pale white dust comes from his helmet's mouth! OOC - Fort save.
[20:08] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 (+4 if this is poison)
06[20:08] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 (+4 if this is poison) and gets 33." [1d20=13]
[20:09] <Blondezilla> roll 8d8 halve this
06[20:09] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 8d8 halve this and gets 40." [8d8=3, 8, 2, 8, 3, 3, 8, 5]
[20:12] <Blondezilla> Alicia is covered in the white powder, making her skin throb and itch! However, she bravely resists the worst of it! OOC - Go Alicia.
03[20:12] * El-Cideon is now known as El-Deadeon
06[20:14] * Alicia pursues her foe, intending to finish this with a devastating final blow - he's proven far too resilient to pussyfoot around at this stage when she needs to be paying attention to the overall battle.
[20:14] <Alicia> roll 1d20+29 true strike -11 power attack
06[20:14] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+29 true strike -11 power attack and gets 46." [1d20=17]
[20:14] <Alicia> roll 3d6+35
06[20:14] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+35 and gets 52." [3d6=6, 6, 5]
[20:14] <Alicia> roll 1d4 drain
06[20:14] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 drain and gets 4." [1d4=4]
[20:17] <Blondezilla> This last blow is enough! Alicia claims his head, severing it from his body! The skull helmeted head goes limp, his lifeblood globbing out into the Astral all around! Alicia can see that the barrage is slowing, most of the front wave of demons very very dead.
06[20:18] * Alicia floats back towards the celestial lines, seeking out Jamais. "Shall I penetrate deeply into the hole already made or open a second front?" she asks/
[20:41] <Blondezilla> Jamais is readying the troops, "Blast in," he says, "Go in and penetrate deeper. There's has to be some focus to this."
[20:49] <Alicia> "Got it," Alicia nods, racing off through the massive gap she's already carved and towards the far wall of the exposed chamber.
[20:52] <Blondezilla> It's a long, vast chamber inside. Past the first wave of blasted demons is a fair bit of emptied space. In the back, the wall throbs as Alicia approaches! AS she does, two blobs of reddish jelly the size of basketballs detach, coming at her! OOC - Go ahead and roll initiative, neither side is particularly surprised or has ac hance to act first.
[20:54] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5
06[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 and gets 12." [1d20=7]
[20:54] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+1
[20:54] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+1
06[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+1 and gets 13." [1d20=12]
06[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+1 and gets 5." [1d20=4]
03[20:55] * Blondezilla changes topic to 'THE BLOB>Alicia>THE OTHER BLOB'
[20:57] <Blondezilla> The blob drifts towards Alicia, tendrils of red forming from it's body and lancing at her!
[20:57] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+5 touch aC?
06[20:57] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+5 touch aC? and gets 22." [1d20=17]
[20:58] <Alicia> OOC: 14, mirror 15
[21:02] <Blondezilla> roll 1d7
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d7 and gets 7." [1d7=7]
[21:02] <Blondezilla> OOC - Wait, strike, I'm sorry, blindsense.
[21:02] <Blondezilla> *sight
[21:03] <Blondezilla> roll 4d6 and a fort save, Alicia.
06[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 4d6 and a fort save, Alicia. and gets 15." [4d6=1, 6, 3, 5]
[21:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 and gets 21." [1d20=1]
[21:05] <Blondezilla> roll 1d4 yeah, slimy doom. Hatbot hates you.
06[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d4 yeah, slimy doom. Hatbot hates you. and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[21:06] <Blondezilla> Alicia is startled when the blob goes right for her! It just gets past her, attaching onto her back! Her flesh burns, a horrible slimy feeling covering her body as it attaches! OOC - Alicia, you're up.
[21:09] <Alicia> "Not again," Alicia grimaces as her body is wracked, starting to melt away into vile slime from the inside. How far is she from a: the far wall, and b: the flying blobs?
[21:09] <Blondezilla> The other blob is perhaps 25 feet away. The wall is 50, not too far at all.
[21:11] <Alicia> Alicia's devotion to the mission eclipses her desire to kill the blobs (though hopefully all those celestials back there will fry them within a few seconds), so she moves to the far wall and readies herself to detonate and then immediately flee to seek healing.
[21:11] <Alicia> OOC: moving to position adjacent to the wall 50 feet away
[21:13] <Blondezilla> So Alicia moves! The other blob comes towards her, taking it's cheap shot as well!
[21:13] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+5
06[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+5 and gets 24." [1d20=19]
[21:13] <Blondezilla> roll 4d6 and no fort save needed
06[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 4d6 and no fort save needed and gets 11." [4d6=3, 2, 3, 3]
[21:14] <Blondezilla> Alicia gets one on her front now, attaching and burning in! She feels horrible for a moment, but then a bevy of smites explode around her! You can hear Jamais, "Support her! Purify the wicked slime!" he calls!
[21:14] <Blondezilla> roll 7#d20 saves
[21:14] <Blondezilla> roll 7#d20 saves
06[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 7#d20 saves and gets 62." [7#d20 = 5, 7, 8, 17, 8, 6, 11]
06[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 7#d20 saves and gets 57." [7#d20 = 2, 15, 5, 5, 5, 17, 8]
[21:17] <Blondezilla> roll 5d8
[21:17] <Blondezilla> roll 5d8
[21:17] <Blondezilla> roll 5d8
[21:17] <Blondezilla> roll 5d8
[21:17] <Blondezilla> roll 5d8
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 5d8 and gets 21." [5d8=8, 5, 3, 2, 3]
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 5d8 and gets 23." [5d8=3, 6, 2, 8, 4]
[21:17] <Blondezilla> roll 5d8
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 5d8 and gets 23." [5d8=8, 2, 3, 3, 7]
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 5d8 and gets 19." [5d8=3, 8, 5, 1, 2]
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 5d8 and gets 23." [5d8=8, 2, 4, 3, 6]
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 5d8 and gets 21." [5d8=8, 5, 3, 2, 3]
[21:17] <Blondezilla> roll 5d8
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 5d8 and gets 21." [5d8=5, 1, 4, 4, 7]
[21:17] <Blondezilla> The bursts of holy power utterly decimate the slimes, turning them into a vaporised goo within an instant and leaves Alicia unharmed!
[21:17] <Blondezilla> OOC - Go ahead and act.
06[21:18] * Alicia detonates her spellfire to bore another vast hole in the fortress interior before immediately fleeing back to rejoin the celestial forces arrayed outside.
[21:19] <Alicia> roll 12d8 DC 24 reflex half
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 12d8 DC 24 reflex half and gets 60." [12d8=5, 3, 5, 8, 5, 3, 8, 4, 6, 5, 1, 7]
[21:19] <Blondezilla> roll 23#1d20
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 23#1d20 and gets 248." [23#1d20 = 5, 12, 10, 17, 16, 6, 11, 15, 19, 18, 11, 2, 7, 15, 4, 14, 7, 2, 10, 11, 5, 15, 16]
[21:20] <Blondezilla> As Alicia allows the spellfire to gush from her body, she falls back! For a moment later as she reaches back to Jamais and his healing touch, a few words being murmured even as he looks ahead, a great horde of demons lies behind that wall! Inside is a vast throbbing node, bigger than the last and surrounded by a field of light1 The demons within, even those badly burnt, waste no time in charging forward! "Attack! Destroy them before they c
[21:21] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+20 healed, HP maxed, CR check for slimy.
06[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+20 healed, HP maxed, CR check for slimy. and gets 36." [1d20=16]
[21:23] <Blondezilla> "Attack! Destroy them before they can get out!" Jamais calls!
[21:23] <Alicia> OOC: distance to the node?
[21:23] <Blondezilla> OOC: Several hundred feet. 300? There's alos a shitload of demons coming between that and the node.
[21:23] <Alicia> OOC: distance from us to the fortress?
[21:24] <Blondezilla> OOC: 80. Enough space to avoid your spellfire but not enough to compromise ranged attacks much.
[21:24] <Alicia> OOC: could I get within 240 feet of the node without entering the fortress? (by say going up to the next tier and aiming diagonally down)
[21:25] <Blondezilla> OOC: Just, but you'll be closer to the surging demons.
[21:26] <Alicia> "Don't enter the fortress itself!" Alicia cautions her own warning. "We don't want a repeat of the last time."
[21:28] <Blondezilla> Thus a great battle of ranged attacks begin! As the demons surge forward, fireballs and horrible blights and worse peper the angels as well! One blight happens to burst around Alicia! OOC - Make a will save, Alicia? Do you have SR from Holy Aura going?
[21:28] <Alicia> OOC: not unless one of the celestials nearby popped one off at the start of this attack
[21:29] <Blondezilla> OOC: No, they're all focusing on reducing the demons into dust. Make a will save then?
[21:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 (i'm surely within 20 feet of someone with a protective aura)
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 (i'm surely within 20 feet of someone with a protective aura) and gets 30." [1d20=6]
[21:29] <Blondezilla> roll 5d8 halved, yes.
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 5d8 halved, yes. and gets 17." [5d8=1, 5, 2, 5, 4]
[21:29] <Blondezilla> The unholy blight leaves Alicia feeling dimly sickened and violated, but the darkness is no match for her often tested and devleoped inner mettle! OOC - Go ahead and act, Alicia?
06[21:31] * Alicia decides to wait a moment until the demons are just about to exit the breach in the fortress, at which point she intends to surge into their midst and detonate her spellfire, hopefully finishing off a large number of already weakened fiends.
[21:33] <Blondezilla> roll 1d2
06[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d2 and gets 1." [1d2=1]
[21:34] <Blondezilla> As Alicia positions and waits, a fireball is directed at her, bursting around her in a cloud of incandesant fire! Beyond this, the demons and celestials batter each other with power, a vast light show that overwhelms the normal silver tint of the Etherial like an eternal play of light and dark! OOC - Ref save.
[21:34] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 I have fire resistance still up, anyway
06[21:34] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 I have fire resistance still up, anyway and gets 27." [1d20=9]
[21:35] <Blondezilla> roll 10d6 halves, I doubt this gets past your defenses anyway
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 10d6 halves, I doubt this gets past your defenses anyway and gets 39." [10d6=4, 5, 4, 3, 2, 5, 6, 2, 4, 4]
[21:36] <Blondezilla> As Alicia's ward stops the fiery inferno from burning her, she can see that the demons are gushing out! Many fall, but more come! They are lead by a marilith with ruby red skin and a short spear in each hand, gushing outwards!
06[21:38] * Alicia rushes to meet them, ducking and weaving in their midst as several rocket past her in search of celestial blood before she comes to a stop making sure not to stop within melee range of the marilith. Situated properly, she proceeds to detonate the last of her spellfire reserves, slightly widening the initial breach and more importantly decimating the onrushing fiends before they can get into melee!
[21:38] <Alicia> roll 12d8 DC 24 reflex half
06[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 12d8 DC 24 reflex half and gets 45." [12d8=4, 2, 7, 5, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 7, 7, 1]
[21:39] <Blondezilla> roll 15#d20
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 15#d20 and gets 184." [15#d20 = 11, 17, 13, 20, 15, 17, 16, 1, 5, 14, 8, 13, 15, 10, 9]
[21:47] <Blondezilla> The burst leaves the demon ranks decimated, many crackling away into nothing! Amid the warfare chaos erupts out, one in particular coming for Alicia even after her spellfire erupts: A massive glabrezu, it's pincered claws snapping at her! OOC -I'm going to go ahed and call initaitive here. All sorts of shit is flying around you, being in the middle of a battlefield might lead to some randomf ire going your way. Fair warning.
[21:49] <Alicia> OOC: I'm hoping most of the stuff from our side will be holy smites anyway
[21:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 and gets 22." [1d20=17]
[21:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 Marie will shoot whomever attacks Alicia this time
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 Marie will shoot whomever attacks Alicia this time and gets 13." [1d20=6]
[21:53] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20
06[21:53] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20 and gets 19." [1d20=19]
03[21:53] * Blondezilla changes topic to 'Alicia>Mr. Friendly Crab that is not a Marilith>Marie'
[21:55] <Alicia> Having done her part, Alicia doesn't actually plan on sticking around out in the open and so promptly retreats back to the front lines of the celestial ranks so she can benefit from their protective auras, ignoring the glabrezu and firing an enervation at the marilith on her way.
[21:55] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 ranged touch
06[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 ranged touch and gets 27." [1d20=12]
[21:55] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 CL
06[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 CL and gets 21." [1d20=8]
[22:01] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+13 CL
06[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+13 CL and gets 28." [1d20=15]
[22:01] <Blondezilla> The spell crumbles before the marilith as the battle continues! Many demons are falling, as well as a few angels, devastated by unholy magics! Jamais fires great arrows from his bow, dealing devastating injuries and peppering the marilith with fire! The glabrezu declares as it chases Alicia, "YOU! You took Gremm's head!" His pincer goes out for Alicia, as a hammer of pure chaos is thrown her way!
[22:02] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+22 pincer, it has reach on you so no AoO
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+22 pincer, it has reach on you so no AoO and gets 33." [1d20=11]
[22:02] <Blondezilla> roll 1d7
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d7 and gets 4." [1d7=4]
[22:03] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+22 you know, they give all these upper tier demons at least cleave. Kinda wasted feats except for this
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+22 you know, they give all these upper tier demons at least cleave. Kinda wasted feats except for this and gets 42." [1d20=20]
[22:03] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+22 you know, they give all these upper tier demons at least cleave. Kinda wasted feats except for this crit?
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+22 you know, they give all these upper tier demons at least cleave. Kinda wasted feats except for this crit? and gets 33." [1d20=11]
[22:03] <Blondezilla> roll 1d6
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d6 and gets 2." [1d6=2]
[22:03] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+22 And great cleave? C'mon now, that's two feats when one at most is reasonable.
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+22 And great cleave? C'mon now, that's two feats when one at most is reasonable. and gets 40." [1d20=18]
[22:03] <Blondezilla> roll 1d5
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d5 and gets 1." [1d5=1]
[22:05] <Blondezilla> roll 2d8+10 and guess what time it is? Improved grapple time!
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 2d8+10 and guess what time it is? Improved grapple time! and gets 26." [2d8=8, 8]
[22:05] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+30 grapple checks I'm sure you're just gushing enthuiasm right now.
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+30 grapple checks I'm sure you're just gushing enthuiasm right now. and gets 31." [1d20=1]
[22:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+36 hate for the freedom of movement nerf
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+36 hate for the freedom of movement nerf and gets 48." [1d20=12]
[22:06] <Blondezilla> OOC - Will save for Chaos hammerings.
[22:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 and gets 28." [1d20=4]
[22:06] <Blondezilla> roll 5d8 halved
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 5d8 halved and gets 26." [5d8=2, 5, 6, 5, 8]
[22:07] <Blondezilla> Alicia finds her body pincered and hammered, a bit of a dazed moment coming over her before she manages to push out of the grasping claw! OOC - Marie's up, then I'll deal with the round by round stuff ot he melee and various smites and blights flying.
[22:08] <Alicia> Marie unloads a barrage of arrows upon the glabrezu in support of her mistress!
[22:08] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23
06[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 and gets 28." [1d20=5]
[22:08] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18
06[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 and gets 25." [1d20=7]
[22:08] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13
06[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 and gets 17." [1d20=4]
[22:09] <Blondezilla> OOC - First two hit.
[22:09] <Alicia> roll 2d4+6+2d4 not rolling electricity
06[22:09] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d4+6+2d4 not rolling electricity and gets 19." [2d4=4, 4][2d4=4, 1]
[22:10] <Blondezilla> The glabrezu, already burnt and wounded, takes the arrows badly! It screams it's fury out, "Die, die, die, die, die, die, die, DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE WITHER AND DIE WORTHLESS TRASH!"
[22:11] <Blondezilla> Smites detonate all around, 3 coming to Alicia's direct aid!
[22:11] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+13
[22:11] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+13
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+13 and gets 15." [1d20=2]
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+13 and gets 25." [1d20=12]
[22:11] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+17
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+17 and gets 33." [1d20=16]
[22:11] <Blondezilla> roll 10d6
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 10d6 and gets 42." [10d6=5, 5, 6, 5, 4, 6, 1, 2, 6, 2]
[22:11] <Blondezilla> roll 10d6
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 10d6 and gets 35." [10d6=3, 2, 5, 5, 2, 2, 6, 1, 3, 6]
[22:11] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+11
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+11 and gets 27." [1d20=16]
[22:11] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+11
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+11 and gets 21." [1d20=10]
[22:12] <Blondezilla> Battered by this, the glabrezu rocks back, still up but maimed like Tyr himself, claw nearly broken and cut away from righteous flames of judgment!
[22:12] <Blondezilla> roll 1d3 less demons now to fire
06[22:12] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d3 less demons now to fire and gets 3." [1d3=3]
[22:12] <Blondezilla> No bursts of unhoyl power detonate around Alicia, none too close at all! OOC - Alicia.
[22:13] <Alicia> "Grem?" Alicia asks mockingly. "I'm sorry, I've killed so many demons lately, but the name doesn't mean anything to me. Just as you'll only be another stain on my blade!" And at that she lashes out with a flurry of strikes to hopefully finish this particular fiend off for good!
[22:14] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20
06[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 and gets 22." [1d20=2]
[22:14] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15
06[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 and gets 27." [1d20=12]
[22:14] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 true striked
06[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 true striked and gets 39." [1d20=9]
[22:14] <Blondezilla> OOC - Two hits.
[22:14] <Alicia> roll 6d6+26
06[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 6d6+26 and gets 52." [6d6=5, 3, 1, 5, 6, 6]
[22:14] <Alicia> roll 2d4 wis
06[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d4 wis and gets 8." [2d4=4, 4]
[22:16] <Blondezilla> The pair of blows is enough! As his eyes grow dull, the glabrezu expands and thins out, fading into nothing as it's form rushes past Alicia! Meanwhile, the rest of the battle is going well - many of the demons are down, only a few left. Jamais has advanced, greatsword out as he goes to fight the battered marilith directly.
[22:19] <Alicia> Marie does her best to help Jamais by plinking a few arrows in the marilith's direction!
[22:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 cold iron
06[22:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 cold iron and gets 35." [1d20=12]
[22:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 cold iron
06[22:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 cold iron and gets 29." [1d20=11]
[22:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 cold iron
06[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 cold iron and gets 22." [1d20=9]
[22:20] <Blondezilla> OOC - Two hits.
[22:20] <Alicia> roll 2d4+6+2d4
06[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d4+6+2d4 and gets 18." [2d4=2, 3][2d4=3, 4]
[22:24] <Blondezilla> The paired arrows slam into the marilith as the battle is joined, leaving the snake-demon with even vaster wounds! OOC - Adding them to the initaitive.
[22:24] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+9
06[22:24] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+9 and gets 17." [1d20=8]
[22:24] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+4
06[22:24] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+4 and gets 16." [1d20=12]
03[22:25] * Blondezilla changes topic to 'Alicia>Jamais>Marilith>Marie'
[22:25] <Blondezilla> The battle is settling out. Only a few demons remain - a hezrou that has reached a few Astral Devas, locked in combat with it. A succubus has slipped away and to the side of the tower, it's unclad, magnificent body doing an amazingly good job of dodging as she soars away, and the marilith.
[22:26] <Alicia> Jamais probably can handle the marilith quite easily, so Alicia spends a second to quickly survey the battlefield to see if any celestials are in more pressing need of aid. Seeing the succubus seeming to be maneuvering around them, she considers her a priority target and so charges up to deeply penetrate into her! With her sword.
[22:26] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 -2 power attack, charge
06[22:26] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 -2 power attack, charge and gets 23." [1d20=3]
[22:29] <Blondezilla> Much to Alicia's surprise, the succubus rolls backwards and evades the penetration! Her hair is wild and unkempt, blood running down from a gash across her left leg. "Leave me alone! You win, just let me get out of here," she snaps, tumbling backwards out of Alicia's reach and flying even further away! Alicia can meanwhile hear the death cry of the marilith, a cheer going up amid the celestials, as well as the cries of the Astral Devas as
[22:29] <Blondezilla> Alicia can meanwhile hear the death cry of the marilith, a cheer going up amid the celestials, as well as the cries of the Astral Devas as they fight on against the hezrou.
[22:31] <Alicia> "Hah! And let you spread your wickedness elsewhere? Not a chance!" Alicia snaps in reply.
[22:31] <Blondezilla> OOC - Go ahead and go, Alicia?
[22:32] <Alicia> OOC: how far away is the succubus?
[22:32] <Blondezilla> OOC - It flew 140 feet away last round.
[22:32] <Alicia> OOC: close enough to charge, then!
06[22:32] * Alicia doggedly pursues the succubus, albeit somewhat aware that she could be facing a diversion to take her away from the bulk of their forces she still presses on heedlessly.
[22:33] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22
06[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 and gets 33." [1d20=11]
[22:33] <Blondezilla> OOC - Hit. Make your jokes and roll damag.e
[22:33] <Alicia> roll 3d6+13
06[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d6+13 and gets 20." [3d6=2, 3, 2]
[22:33] <Alicia> roll 1d4 wis
06[22:34] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 wis and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[22:34] <Blondezilla> The succubus has it's stomach thrust into, a gurgling cry as she winces! "You...stupid...bitch!" she hisses, "You just won't leave me alone! Why! I didn't sleep with your boyfriend, did I?" Even as she staggers from the wound, Alicia's mind is assailed! "Just...go fight the other demons!" OOC - Will.
[22:35] <Alicia> OOC: she has to make her rage save as well
[22:35] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+12
06[22:35] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+12 and gets 21." [1d20=9]
[22:35] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20
06[22:35] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 and gets 35." [1d20=15]
[22:36] <Blondezilla> "Grr..." Wincing again, "Just...please! I'm not so bad! You like to kill demons, not a nice succubus!" OOC - Will again. Astral spamming is fun.
[22:36] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20
06[22:36] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 and gets 26." [1d20=6]
[22:37] <Blondezilla> OOC - Alicia, you're up.
[22:39] <Alicia> OOC: she's still in melee range?
[22:40] <Blondezilla> OOC: Yes.
[22:40] <Alicia> "Oh, come on! How many people have you tortured and killed in your existence?" Alicia replies bitingly to the fiend, even if her desperation does prompt comparisons to Antenora's initial behaviour. "You're not nice at all!"
[22:40] <Alicia> She punctuates her statement by stabbing the fiend.
[22:40] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20
06[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 and gets 22." [1d20=2]
[22:40] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15
06[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 and gets 34." [1d20=19]
[22:40] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 crit check
06[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 crit check and gets 33." [1d20=18]
[22:40] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10
06[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 and gets 24." [1d20=14]
[22:40] <Blondezilla> OOC - One hit, but it's a c-c-crit.
[22:41] <Alicia> roll 6d6+26
06[22:41] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 6d6+26 and gets 44." [6d6=3, 4, 3, 3, 3, 2]
[22:41] <Alicia> roll 1d4 wis
06[22:41] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 wis and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[22:43] <Blondezilla> The succubus is impaled in the chest, sliding limply off Alicia's sword! As her blood flows out, "Stupid...stupid...paladin. Just like men...use me for their egos...and then kill me." With a look of pure disdain and hatred, "I hope...only dying children...spawn from your oh so sacred womb...bitch...." With her last words the succubus fades away, raining down black rain from where she was.
[22:44] <Alicia> "That ship has sailed," Alicia replies bitterly to the fading demonic remnant, flicking the ichor off her blade before she flies back down to rejoin the bulk of their forces.
[22:46] <Blondezilla> The celestials seem to have won! There are no demons about, only a force going inside, while a few planetars, including Sandriel, fire green rays of distingration at the edges of the established openways, slowly helping keep them closed. Jamais is deep inside, at the throbbing node itself.
06[22:48] * Alicia follows after Jamais. "If we take down the node it'll probably collapse a large portion of the fortress, but we should probably do so with long range bombardment from outside," she suggests, idly glancing around and wondering slightly at just what this fortress functions as. It seems to be nothing more than a collection of large and entirely empty rooms so far as she can tell, which doesn't make much sense.
[22:48] <Blondezilla> roll 1d20+33
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Blondezilla rolls 1d20+33 and gets 36." [1d20=3]
[22:50] <Blondezilla> Jamais is examining the node, floating a bit here and there as he views it. Closer, you can see that droplets of slime ooze out of it, spreading. "See that," He says, "These nodes control the slime. It'll have to be destroyed once we take samples. Those blobs were able to infect you again on contact, Alicia?"
[22:50] <Blondezilla> "By range is my preferred method, yes. I heard about the last battle," he adds after a moment.
[22:50] <Alicia> "That's right," Alicia nods slowly. "But what would we want samples for?"
[22:52] <Blondezilla> "You saw the slime? It works instantly and even on the Astral, where time doesn't flow, and it's difficult to cure. It's quite advanced, learning from it may indicate an easier remedy or a way to stop it altogether. Especially if this occurs again, be it by the hand of the Faceless Lord or another, I have concerns that it may be in more bulk than this."
[22:54] <Alicia> "True," Alicia concedes. "So we dispel the barrier, take a sample, then retreat so our forces can blast it away from outside?" she summarises.
[22:56] <Blondezilla> "That's exactly it. Light willing, this will be an infection that has no chance to claim any more lives." Jamais turns to Alicia, his presence lightening her spirit. "The entire situation here, while requiring ample force to defeat, was fortunately unsophisticated. Once this is done, I can begin leading the efforts to track down more of this and bring justice to those that perpetrated this horror."
[22:57] <Alicia> "I would like to join you, but I cannot leave my duties on the Prime unattended for much longer," Alicia replies respectfully. "Lets end this quickly, at least."
[22:58] <Blondezilla> "Yes," With a momentarily sad smile that seems to bring comfort in it despite it, "I understand. I was going to ask you to join me for this matter if you were not so occupied, but I will not take from your mortal duties."
06[23:02] * Alicia gives the solar a smile, "If you require me for any important battles you can certainly call on my aid, but a prolonged campaign is not something I can commit to. Anyway, we can surely talk about this after the immediate matter is resolved," she turns her attention to the node, praying quietly to Mystra. "Mother of all magic, strip away the enchanted protections of this fell nexus of disease and decay!"
[23:02] <Alicia> roll 1d20+12
06[23:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+12 and gets 25." [1d20=13]
[23:02] <Blondezilla> With a ripple, the field of light is gone! "Nicely done. Go now...I'll deal with the collection." Jamais says, "Then we will end this for good."
06[23:03] * Alicia nods and flees out of the slimy fortress to rejoin the others.
[23:04] <Blondezilla> Soon enough Jamais emerges as well, everyone out! Most of the troop has survived, as the solar points far ahead, "On my call...level that abomination with all you have!"
[23:05] <Alicia> Unfortunately none of Alicia's spells have that sort of range, but she's ready in case anything unexpected pops up closer to home while the others are focused on their long range strikes.
[23:06] <Blondezilla> Thus comes a vast arrange of smites and magic! Colors and sounds burst as the node is obliterated under a heavy fire! The entire tower seems to contract, flowing inward! It gushes deeper and deeper inwards, a huge sucking sound as it all fades away into a tiny hole, which then itself is gone! As that happens, a great cheer overtakes the celestial host. "VICTORY!"
[23:10] <Blondezilla> Sometime later...
03[23:10] * Blondezilla is now known as Kotono
03[23:10] * ChanServ sets mode: +q Kotono
[23:11] <Kotono> Back in the Outer Ring, celebrations have been going on for a time. Alicia has been healed and had time to recover when she goes to see Jamais, floating just outside the Astral Ring, watching the celebration with a gentle smile.
[23:13] <Alicia> "Jamais, might I have a moment before I depart?" Alicia asks the solar as she approaches him, alone since Marie is off organising some strange game or performance involving all the lantern archons as her contribution to the celebration.
[23:14] <Kotono> "By all means," He turns to Alicia, the void vast and endless all around him. Again his raw presence touches Alicia, the feeling of his very existance impossible to deny and all the good that encapsulates.
06[23:15] * Alicia does feel rather pleasant around the solar but also oddly on edge, like she has to be on her best behaviour. "Marie tells me that you've fought in many campaigns against both demons and devils. I myself have... considerable, problems with devilkind, and was wondering if you might have some knowledge or advice regarding a few notable foes of mine," she explains.
[23:16] <Kotono> "Who are they," Jamais asks, a sternness of war overtaking him. "I'll be glad to tell you anything I know."
[23:17] <Alicia> "Thank you," Alicia smiles. "The first one is a devil named Esthan - he appears to be a courtier for a more powerful fiend, probably a duke or perhaps even a lord, and has been making himself particularly busy on the Prime of late. Unfortunately we've been able to learn next to nothing about him - not even his true form."
[23:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+33
06[23:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+33 and gets 35." [1d20=2]
[23:21] <Kotono> "The name isn't familiar," Jamais replies after some thought, "Do you have any clue on who his superior is, or what lord he's toadying for?"
[23:24] <Alicia> "This is somewhat indirect, but I know that Martinet, the Constable of Nessus, has taken an interest in my destruction."
[23:24] <Alicia> "Esthan came to my familiar professing friendship and an alliance - when she pointed out the hostility from Martinet he said that wasn't a concern."
[23:24] <Alicia> "I could read that as being that his master is already hostile to Martinet, or so powerful as to not be worried, or that the whole thing is an elaborate ruse and he actually works for Martinet himself," Alicia explains, wishing she had more to go on. "Also, I understand that Helm himself owes Esthan or his master some sort of debt."
[23:24] <Kotono> roll 1d20+33
06[23:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+33 and gets 38." [1d20=5]
[23:25] <Kotono> "Helm...?" Jamais' eyes narrow at that, "I do know a story of one devil who could be it.":
[23:26] <Alicia> "Yes?" Alicia prods hopefully, seeing progress dangled teasingly just out of reach.
[23:28] <Kotono> "Irrylan, Knight of Dis, Member of the Order of the Iron Shield. He was said to be able to bring even good and evil together in agreement, serving an ambassador for Dispater in other realms. But...he was slain over eons ago. The legend goes that a divine priest saw through his lies and smote him in a titantic battle."
[23:29] <Kotono> "He had negotiated an agreement with Helm amid others, even giving up going after some of their souls in exchange for benefits."
[23:31] <Alicia> "Hmm... well, I'll try dropping the name if - when - I run into him again, see what reaction it gets," Alicia nods slowly. "But a devil presumed dead by all likely wouldn't have reason to fear Martinet's wrath, it's true. Alright, the next one is one that I've had numerous dealings with and have a fairly good handle on, but any further information couldn't hurt - are you at all familiar with Duke Agares of Stygia?"
[23:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+33
06[23:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+33 and gets 36." [1d20=3]
[23:33] <Kotono> "I've heard of Agares. He abodes in Stygia and is a Duke of Entropy?" Jamais answers. "He resembles an overgrown Osyluth? He comamnds legions of gelugons and stands high in the infernal hierachy. I do know some of him, yes."
[23:35] <Kotono> After a pause, "What I'm asking is that if you want anything specific or just general information."
[23:36] <Alicia> "Specifics, hopefully," Alicia confirms, "I've fought him personally and heard of his weakness for water from Arborea from a deva I know, but any additional specifics you've heard of would be appreciated."
[23:40] <Kotono> "You've been to Hell then?" Raising an eyebrow to that, "And I assume STygia? Then you know that Levistus is frozen in an iceberg by Asmodeus' hand. The Dukes and nobility of Stygia have a lot of freedom because of this, Levitus can only do so much from his prison. Agares is an ambitious one, willing to take risks. He likely desires the throne of Stygia directly." (More)
[23:43] <Kotono> "It's a contrast - he wants Entropy, but desires to grow himself. I heard that he's often frusturated in his attempts, for he sets his own house against itself. To dominate everything in entropic loss, but he himself is limited by his own beliefs. You understand that us - angels, devils, demons, all of us - aren't like you mortals. What we represent is what we are. It's why you need a holy weapon to truly wound a greater devil...and Agares is a
[23:43] <Kotono> ...and Agares is a great devil and very hard to wound. I know of one, a Tome Archon, who confronted him. She gave her life, scoring a dozen blows on him that barely had any effect at all. For Dukes of Hell and greater, you may not just need sacred power, but a repudiation of what they are."
[23:46] <Alicia> "Tch," Alicia scowls, "I was afraid of that. My holy blade barely scratched him, but I'd hoped a silvered holy weapon would suffice - in terms of martial and magical prowess I'd hesitate to place Agares above the balor I battled today. But that's a tricky thing - weapons are made to kill. Even the most sacred blade is still an instrument of entropy, isn't it?"
[23:47] <Kotono> "Yes," Smiling a little bit to that, "You understand and I was afraid you'd have found that out if you did combat with him. Yet he also desires his own growth, a paradox. I would recommend something that affirms life, that affirms growth and freedom and change, and the defeat of his entropic control, a rejection of him forcing you down an ever narrowing path into shorn oblivion."
[23:50] <Alicia> "Hmm... perhaps some kind of weapon that devastates undead but has little affect on the living?" Alicia wonders, groping for ideas. "I'll admit this is rather beyond my expertise. At worst we have the Hammer of the Shard, which should be equally effective against any devil, but its nature runs counter to my own tendancies as well."
[23:57] <Kotono> "It's not common," Admitting that, "Facing a Duke of Hell is no easy matter. You'll be opposing a tyrant that has had countless eternities to polish his dominating craft. Finding such a weapon could be the difference."
[23:58] <Alicia> "Something to bear in mind, and knowing that will certainly help me avoid what could have been a disaster if I were to challenge him again with my normal weapons," Alicia agrees. "Okay, the only other high profile devil I've had any involvement with is the one mentioned earlier - Martinet."
[23:58] <Alicia> "It's not been anything direct so I don't anticipate battling him in the near term, but anything you know about his tactics and methodology could help in countering him."
[23:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+33
Session Time: Sun Nov 09 00:00:00 2008
06[00:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+33 and gets 39." [1d20=6]
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[00:03] <Kotono> "The Constable of Nessus? You're aquiring a plethora of foes. I suppose that means you're very good at what you do," Jamais does smile at that, his words pressing a soothing relaxation out with his mirth. "Oh, I know of him. He's a very famous devil. Asmodeus uses him as a diplomat, he's even been to the Seven Heavens. His arrogance is legendary."
[00:05] <Alicia> "Arrogance is a weakness, but that doesn't necessarily make it unjustified," Alicia notes. "Do you know how he prefers to deal with troublemakers such as myself?"
[00:07] <Kotono> "By afar. He considers himself above combat. If you ever cornered him, he'd summon and stay well away," Jamais answers. "So very hands off, using lots of minions and third parties."
06[00:08] * Alicia nods. "It's those minions and third parties that concern me for the moment far more than any threat of direct confrontation. What sort of devils is he most likely to employ - and for that matter what third parties would he utilise?"
[00:10] <Kotono> "Any he can. As standing as a Duke of Nessus, I doubt he would use any but Pit Fiends...or..." A moment here, a pause. "The worse horrors. There are whispers that truly abominable things lie within Nessus."
[00:10] <Alicia> "Well so long as they stay there," Alicia replies, not at all comforted by the thought of creatures to give a solar pause. "I've no intention of visiting that dark hole any time soon."
[00:11] <Kotono> "Good. No one should.' Jamais turns back to the revelry at that, "Except to obliterate it."
[00:13] <Alicia> "Which sadly is beyond me, and probably always will be," Alicia admits honestly. "Well, I think that's all the major players covered. So I suppose now I had best get moving, and wish you luck on your future campaigns."
[00:13] <Kotono> "Are you returning home now?" Jamais asks.
[00:15] <Alicia> "Yes," Alicia nods. "I'm hoping I can convince someone to plane shift me and Marie back to the Prime, but failing that I'd take directions to a portal or one of those coloured pools."
[00:16] <Kotono> "I can return you," Jamais offers. "It's the least I can do after your brave service."
[00:18] <Alicia> "Oh. If you're willing, certainly," Alicia nods, a bit dumbfounded. She hadn't expected he'd be willing to perform essentially the role of a taxi himself. "Let me just call Marie over, then," she asks, going to summon her familiar, surely to the disappointment of all her new friends.
[00:21] <Kotono> Getting Marie goes without relative incident, the eladrin in tow for Alicia. "Now then," Jamais says, even despite Alicia's surprise, "The Prime Material? Where?"
[00:24] <Alicia> "The city of Balmuria, on the coast of the Bay of Sparkling Stars. My home is near the West gate, just behind the Temple of Mystra," Alicia replies, giving as much detail as possible for an accurate location. She also quells her golden holy radiance for the first time since arriving on the astral in readiness to return to more earthly surroundings.
[00:26] <Kotono> "I must warn you that this magic is not always accurate," Jamais warns, offering both his hands. "Each of you take one of my hands and form a circle."
[00:27] <Alicia> "I'm familiar with how it goes, yes," Alicia admits, forming a rather lopsided circle with herself, the large solar, and the tiny eladrin. Maybe Uatu will help in some way, at least? It's hard to say just what that crystal is capable of...
[00:27] <Kotono> roll 5#d100
06[00:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5#d100 and gets 198." [5#d100 = 62, 30, 80, 14, 12]
[00:28] <Kotono> There is a moment, then a strange, cloying mist about you. It is merely an instant, but you stand before Uatu once more. It doesn't feel that different from the Astral, really, even as the mysterious artifact glows briefly, surrounded by protectors at every directional point.
[00:29] <Alicia> "Well, it seems I was right," Alicia smiles ruefully. "We're several days from my home, but perhaps this was the best place to return to."
[00:29] <Kotono> "This place...is the Prime?" Jamais looks about, uncertainness in his voice.
[00:30] <Alicia> "Not... exactly. I think," Alicia replies. "We're half in the prime and half in the ethereal, as I understand it. Uatu here was the one who sent me to the astral in the first place," she graciously indicates said crystal.
[00:31] <Kotono> Jamais looks at Uatu, before simply vanishing abruptly, Uatu flashing white.
06[00:33] * Alicia blinks at the abrupt departure, doubting it was the solar's own doing. "Why did you send him away?" she asks the crystal guardedly. Helpful as it has been in the past, she can't say she understands it on any meaningful level.
[00:34] <Kotono> The artifact flashes thrice and then twice more, each time brighter. There is a moment - and then OW! Alicia winces as she falls a few feet, brain needing a moment to register. Alicia is in her bedroom, Marie having plopped down besides her.
[00:35] <Alicia> "Ow..." Alicia rubs her head. "I get the feeling we're not going to be welcome around there in the future, Marie," she notes to her familiar.
[00:36] <Alicia> "I don't know, maybe it was trying to be helpful and save you having to come back on foot?" Marie hazards groggily as she picks herself up and takes to the air.
[00:41] <Kotono> Returning to the temple of Mystra, Alicia finds that it's the evening. Shankar is there, Antenora listening to him lecture on Mystra in front of the altar. Jessica's there as well, though she's fallen asleep, half leaning on the outsider.
[00:44] <Alicia> "Dawwww!" Marie makes her feelings known upon seeing the trio, while Alicia just gives an indulgent smile.
[00:44] <Alicia> "It's nice to see you all," she greets them, unsheathing Soul's Enslavement as she approaches the altar. She knows there will be questions about Aym, but she really wants to rid herself of this burden before getting into that.
[00:46] <Kotono> Antenora glances over, wearing her armor, though sleeping against metal doesn't seem to bother Jessica. 'Aym?' Antenora asks in one silent word to Alicia.
[00:48] <Kotono> The sword begins to thrub with purple-white flame as Alicia approaches the altar. Shankar looks to the blade, "Alicia, place this sword for Mystra to see and to turn this magic to her service!"
06[00:51] * Alicia stops her approach to the altar and turns her attention to Antenora at her question, almost ignoring the flaming sword in her hand. "He refused to follow the path I set for him, and I could not convince him to stay," she tells the erinyes openly.
[00:51] <Alicia> "A lot happened on our journey, which I'll share with you after I relieve myself of this burden," she lifts the blade to be held between both open palms, waiting for Antenora's assent before she turns her attention back to the altar.
[00:51] <Kotono> Antenora nods, her expression betraying nothing.
06[00:52] * Alicia proceeds to lay the weapon out on the altar, bowing her head in respect to her goddess.
[00:55] <Kotono> The blade is consumed in fire! The silver-purple flames melt the sword, the melted metal rising into the air! Before your eyes it reforms as a thick blade with a slight curve, words written on the blade in silver: 'In the name of the treasure of the soul,' is on one side, and the other, 'My acts will never be deterred in anger.'
[00:57] <Kotono> *by
06[00:57] * Alicia lifts the now reshaped blade, turning it in her grip a few times before giving an exploratory swing well clear of any bystanders to try and get a feel for it.
[00:58] <Kotono> As Alicia swings the blade, she feels contentment in her. She feels like she can see her trials in a new light of understanding.
[01:02] <Alicia> "Hmmm..." Alicia smiles after a moment, sheathing the blade before her expression turns more serious and she goes to take a seat on the bench with Antenora and Jessica. "I was sent to the astral plane to defeat a creature of rage - someone who was once a warrior of the light who fell to rage and darkness battling the yugoloths, who was sealed away because normal weapons could not kill him," she begins to recount events.
[01:04] <Kotono> Antenora starts to shift, before Jessica moans, "Oh, Roald...don't move..." she murmurs, making Antenora half smile, half sigh and crane her neck instead. "I assume you found a way to kill it for good?"
06[01:06] * Alicia eyes her sister suspiciously for a long moment. "It was surprisingly simple," she admits after that awkward pause. "It seems Soul's Enslavement was indeed the perfect weapon in this case - honestly, though, that battle was nearly inconsequential compared to other events that transpired out there."
[01:07] <Kotono> "She has been tired today,' Antenora murmurs and glances at her, before turning back to Alicia, craning her neck. "...What? Did the yugoloths come for a second round with him at the same time, perhance? Your words are exceedingly ominous."
[01:09] <Alicia> "We ran into a solar named Jamais on our travels, actually. He was going to lead a siege against a fortress manned by demonic servants of Jubilex and their mortal followers. I offered my aid in the coming battle after concluding my business with the sealed creature," Alicia explains.
[01:09] <Alicia> "She killed a balor!" Marie finally exclaims, seeming to have been having trouble keeping quiet for a while.
[01:09] <Alicia> "Yes, Marie," Alicia gives her familiar a level look. "We'll get to that soon."
[01:10] <Kotono> "A sol-" A full stop there, "You defeated a Balor in combat?!" Antenora's jaw drops a little, "That's extraordinarily impressive!"
[01:12] <Alicia> "Not as much as it sounds," Alicia shakes her head humbly, "I had help, and two brave souls lost their lives in the battle. But like I said, I'll get to that soon. Anyway, we arrived at the site of the demon fortress, and I offered Aym a chance to take part in the battle - he'd seemed ashamed after fleeing from the rage-beast and I thought this would serve as a chance for him to put my lessons to the test."
[01:12] <Alicia> "I also managed to beat a marilith with just one shot!" Marie interrupts. "Speaking of that, I'll need more of those banishing arrows..."
06[01:17] * Alicia goes on past Marie's interruption. "In the first sortie Aym went berserk and rushed to engage a marilith in melee. We were able to slay it, but not before it inflicted utterly horrendous wounds upon him - he was tremendously lucky that one of the planetars was nearby with a heal spell. After we withdrew I challenged him on his recklessness, and he admitted that he wanted to die - and demanded that I be the one to kill him."
[01:18] <Alicia> She sighs heavily, "I refused, and after I disarmed him when he pressed the issue, he simply turned around and left. I couldn't really force him to stay after that."

[Corwin]

[20:51] <Alicia> [23:15] <Alicia> "Not as much as it sounds," Alicia shakes her head humbly, "I had help, and two brave souls lost their lives in the battle. But like I said, I'll get to that soon. Anyway, we arrived at the site of the demon fortress, and I offered Aym a chance to take part in the battle - he'd seemed ashamed after fleeing from the rage-beast and I thought this would serve as a chance for him to put my lessons to the test."
[20:51] <Alicia> [23:15] <Alicia> "I also managed to beat a marilith with just one shot!" Marie interrupts. "Speaking of that, I'll need more of those banishing arrows..."
[20:51] <Alicia> [23:20] * Alicia goes on past Marie's interruption. "In the first sortie Aym went berserk and rushed to engage a marilith in melee. We were able to slay it, but not before it inflicted utterly horrendous wounds upon him - he was tremendously lucky that one of the planetars was nearby with a heal spell. After we withdrew I challenged him on his recklessness, and he admitted that he wanted to die - and demanded that I be the one to kill him."
[20:51] <Alicia> [23:21] <Alicia> She sighs heavily, "I refused, and after I disarmed him when he pressed the issue, he simply turned around and left. I couldn't really force him to stay after that."
[20:53] <Kotono> Antenora sighs a tthat, "No, you're right. You couldn't have made him stay. It sound as if he'd given up hope or fallen into despair."
[20:53] <Alicia> "He looked really sad," Marie agrees.
[20:54] <Alicia> "All I can hope is that something of what I tried to impress on him sticks and he doesn't just end up exactly where he started. It's up to him, though," Alicia nods gloomily.
[20:55] <Kotono> Antenora reaches out, clasping Alicia's shoulder. Jessica murmurs at this, "No...sleepy..." even as Antenora speaks over her. "You've planted a seed in him. It's up to him on if it ever blooms, yes."
06[20:57] * Alicia smiles at the supportive gesture. "Anyway," she moves on, "Has anything happened while we were gone? I think we managed to keep a decent track of time on the astral, since I wasn't that hungry when we left, so it should only have been a bit over a week since we left Balmuria, right?"
[21:07] <Kotono> "About," Antenora nods, "It's been fairly quiet. I've helped the Guard a few times patrol and kept a watch out for evil, but there's not been too much of notice."
[21:07] <Kotono> Shankar clears his throat.
[21:07] <Kotono> "And some time here," Antenora adds in, even as Jessica murmurs, "...Roald...shh..."
[21:10] <Alicia> Marie and Alicia both smile at Antenora's interest in the church. It's almost eerie. "Oh, I also learned a thing or two from the solar - Jamais, about some of our foes in Hell. Apparently not even a sacred silvered weapon is sufficient to truly wound a Duke, so it seems we'll have to get something special for Agares," the paladin goes on after registering her approval.
[21:14] <Kotono> "Yes, we'll have to look into that," Antenora's smile becomes predatory, "If we can do that and we can defeat a Duke of Hell..." Antenora's voice becomes hopeful, "To defeat a spirit that has spent innumerable eternities tormenting and twisting reality to it's own whims would be a true victory and a blow against Hell."
[21:17] <Alicia> "As he's the self styled duke of entropy, it sounds like most weapons wouldn't work, but I was thinking something that harms the undead while sparing the living might also work on him - Jamais said we need to think in terms of opposed concepts when dealing with such powerful beings," Alicia explains. "The other bit of information I got concerns Esthan."
[21:21] <Kotono> "It sounds like life energy might do it, or healing energy?" Antenora proposes that, "But go on about Esthan." Her eyes narrow even more, lenaing forward. This dislodges poor Jessica, who falls to the pew with a heavy THUMP! "OW!" she groggily sits up, rubbing her forehead.
[21:23] <Alicia> "Oh, Jessica..." Alicia shakes her head slowly, offering her unfortunate sister a hand up.
[21:31] <Kotono> Jessica rubs her head and blinks, "Oh, sister," she yawns, smiling. "You're back!"
[21:32] <Alicia> "Just got back a few minutes ago," Alicia confirms. "Anything interesting happen while I was gone?"
[21:35] <Kotono> "Oh...not much..." Rubbing her eyes clear, "You didn't get hurt or anything?"
[21:37] <Alicia> "Nothing that wasn't easily healed," Alicia replies with a smile. "Anyway, I was just telling Antenora something I'd learned about or friend Esthan. It's somewhat sketchy and uncomfirmed, but still rings true to my ears - I believe that Esthan is a servant of a devil named Irrylan. Supposedly long dead, but perhaps just in hiding instead. It would explain a few things, and Irrylan's history fits with a few others."
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[21:38] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[21:38] <Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+16 --> [ 1d20=16 ]{32}
[21:40] <Kotono> "Irrylan...has something to do with Dis and the second layer?" Antenora replies after a few moments. "The name is very faintly familiar."
[21:42] <Kotono> "Good," Stretching back as she awakens, Jessica makes a face. "Oh, Hell Talk. It's like discussing court politics, only with impossibly powerful and evil beings."
[21:44] <Alicia> "It's depressing, I know," Alicia agrees sadly. "But since they keep trying to kill us we do need to pay attention. Anyway, Irrylan was a Knight of Dis and member of the Iron Shield, an ambassador for Dispater to other realms. The key thing is that he apparently negotiated some sort of agreement with Helm in exchange for the souls of some of his followers, which reminds me of Esthan's hold over Demedais."
[21:44] <Alicia> "Allegedly he was slain by a priest but I don't know of what god."
[21:47] <Kotono> "Oh yes," Antenora perks up a little more, "I remember a fragment of that story now. Some imps were singing a perverted version of it; about how Dispater's lapdog grovelled at the feet of the powers beyond Hell. They didn't live long past that, stupid creatures."
[21:49] <Alicia> "Do you remember the words?" Marie asks innocently. "It could be important."
[21:51] <Kotono> "Do you need to hear a detailed, bawdy tale of how a devil fellated worthless non-devil powers," Antenora raises an eyebrow at Marie. "The main perversion was showing a devil as openly subservient to others beyond Hell."
[21:51] <Alicia> "I just wanted to hear you sing it, honestly," Marie admits without shame, prompting a long-suffering look from Alicia.
[21:53] <Kotono> "I'll pass on that," Antenora shoots a withering glare at Marie, before turning back to Alicia. "What role does this Irrylan play, then, if he is involved? Does this mean Dispater is involved, or another powr of the second? Or is he working for himself or another lord after all this time?"
06[21:55] * Alicia shakes her head. "Irrylan's name is a tenuous lead by itself, and we know nothing beyond that. If I had to guess I'd say Irrylan perhaps faked his own death and is now in hiding, pulling the strings in secret - it would explain why he doesn't fear Martinet's retribution for 'aiding' us. If he is working for another lord, it would have to be one who doesn't care about the constable - know any who fit the bill?"
[21:59] <Kotono> "No." That comes quickly, "Martinet has the authority of Asmodeus behind his words and actions. I doubt any of them would truly not care about his wrath, for it may extend up to his master. If he is in secret, perhpas Irrlyan is manipulating matters for a Lord who wishes to stay anonymous, or perhaps a Duke or other lesser lord?"
[22:01] <Alicia> "Also possible," Alicia agrees. "And it's still possible that Irrylan's dead and irrelevant. Still, it's a lead - should any of us encounter Esthan again we can perhaps get confirmation, then."
[22:09] <Kotono> "You know," Jessica continues, "Weren't you saying something about concepts or something like that? With allt hese ifs and maybes, how about hitting them with some hard facts and truth? It can't be any harder than hitting them with life."
[22:09] <Kotono> "It's a lead," Antenora agrees to that.
[22:11] <Alicia> "You heard that?" Alicia eyes her sister for a moment. "Tricky..." she murmurs before forging on, "Anyway, the problem is that the uncertainty is on our side. I'm sure Esthan and his mysterious master know exactly who they wre without any doubt, after all."
[22:14] <Kotono> Smiling sunnily to Alicia, "Yes, I suppose." Smoothing her clothing, "Alicia, why don't we talk about this at home? I'll mkae you a late dinner and you can tell us all about it."
[22:16] <Alicia> "So all that talk about Roald while you were pretending to be asleep was just you having fun, right?" Marie asks impishly as she alights on Jessica's head, leaning over to look down and meet her gaze.
[22:17] <Kotono> The faintest blush coverss Jesscia's face as she turns away, starting to walk out with Marie on head. "O-Of course. Now let's go home. I'll make you a small bowl of dinner too, Marie."
[22:19] <Alicia> "You're the best!" Marie grins as she settles herself.
[22:19] <Alicia> Chuckling, Alicia gets up to follow. "It'll be nice to eat something besides trail rations. I'll see you tomorrow, Shankar," she waves to the priest as she heads out after her sister and familiar.
[22:49] <Kotono> Alicia happens to be watching Antenora and Marie 'talk' when it happens. "Yes, because that lack of control is so much more favorable," Antenora rolls her eyes as she spears a dummy. The trio is out back, a normal day's training and upkeep passing by. As she can hear this, a voice sounds in her mind. 'Esthan situation worsened. Would need a lot of capable forces to handle it. We may only have a few days. Returning to Balmuria today. Seira.'
[22:49] <Kotono> Returning to Balmuria today. Seira.'
[22:52] <Alicia> Familiar with how the sending spell works, Alicia replies with an economy of words, no doubt to the confusion of her companions. "Understood. Demedais still not back, will alert Commander and discuss when you arrive." That done she turns her attention to the embodiments of law and chaos. "That was Seira, it sounds like she's had a run-in with Esthan and needs help. She'll be arriving in the city today."
[22:53] <Alicia> Wait. Was it Seira?
[22:54] <Alicia> Who's voice was it?
[22:54] <Alicia> Oh, wait.
[22:54] <Alicia> The name was mentioned at the end, not the start.
[22:56] <Kotono> "Really now?" ANtenora stops her work, putting down thet raining spear. "Good, I'd love another attempt at him."
[22:56] <Alicia> "Aww, we should've fixed that bow first," Marie complains. "I bet it'd turn into a great anti-devil weapon, too."
[22:57] <Alicia> "We'll just have to make do," Alicia pats her familiar. "The message said that the situation has worsened and she'd need a lot of capable forces to handle it - that really doesn't sound like Seira, so he must have done something to frighten her a lot," she then concludes worriedly.
[22:59] <Kotono> "Not good," Antenora does agree with that, "Did she say why it went bad?"
[23:00] <Alicia> "No details," Alicia shakes her head, "But she should be on her way. I'd better inform the Commander about this."

[Corwin]

[20:27] <Kotono> ----
03[20:27] * Celenu is now known as Ebiris
03[20:27] * ChanServ sets mode: +ao Ebiris Ebiris
03[20:28] * Ebiris is now known as Alicia
[20:29] <Kotono> Heading over to Elle's shop, you find her assistant talking with one of the new women mages in the guard. Abagail leans against the counter, the two locked in a rapt discussion. It seems to be the merits of basic metamagics - about how empowering a spell works and when it's relatively merited to use. Elle's not in immediate site, the story is otherwise quiet right now.
[20:32] <Alicia> "That sort of metamagic is a waste unless you're limited in how many spells you know," Alicia invites herself to join the conversation. "A fireball is better than an empowered burning hands spell in nearly any situation."
[20:36] <Kotono> Abagail turns, looking over Alicia, "Oh, yes, I rather agree in principal," she says, "Unless precision is more worthwhile. For someone who has innate magic, it's entirely different, yes."
[20:39] <Kotono> "Like you?" Alice smiles faintly at Alicia, "As I recall, yes?"
06[20:44] * Alicia smiles in reply to Alice. "I've sometimes considered it for myself based on that, yes. But since most of my spells go to protecting and enhancing myself rather than striking directly, it probably wouldn't be the best use of effort anyway," she concludes.
[20:44] <Alicia> "I've considered learning to boost my magic missiles that way, but I can only shoot a few of them a day so it'd probably be overspecialising for nothing," Marie pipes up beside Alicia.
[20:44] <Alicia> Meanwhile the paladin turns her attention to Abagail, "I've seen you at the garrison but we've never been formally introduced. Alicia Reynes," she offers a hand, "And this is Marielle. It's always nice to meet another magic user... well, except when they're trying to kill me."
[20:47] <Kotono> "Abagail," She offers a polite smilte, "Naturally, I've heard about you and your deeds." The hand is taken briskly, shook. "Seira has mentioned you as well."
[20:48] <Kotono> "Oh yes, natural magic," Alice asks Marie, "That would be a lot of work for little return, yes."
[20:51] <Alicia> "That's right, you're her apprentice... one of many, I understand. How is she as a teacher?" Alicia asks curiously while Marie nods to Alice.
[20:51] <Alicia> "This bow you and Elle made for me is just as good as my magic missiles anyway, so they're even less needed," she smiles brightly, indicating the lightning-themed bow fastened to her hip.
03[20:53] * Kotono is now known as Infinite_Ko_Loop
[20:54] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Quite well enough. She is very generous, as is fitting one of her rank," Smiling with a regal air to herself as she lightly preens the sides of her dress,
[20:54] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Quite well enough. She is very generous, as is fitting one of her rank," Smiling with a regal air to herself as she lightly preens the sides of her dress,.
[20:55] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "She'll appreciate that compliment. If you're here for her, she went home for lunch. She should be back within the hour." Alice explains.
[20:57] <Alicia> "I was hoping to see about her casting a spell for me, but I don't mind waiting around," Alicia nods in response to Alice before turning back to Abagail. "Waukeen smiles on her, so she can certainly afford to be generous." Although really most of Seira's wealth acquisition falls under a very very loose definition of 'trade'.
[20:59] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Countess Stronger says much the same," Alice smiles more earnestly here, yet reserved, "You three bring back the most interesting artifacts and curios."
[21:01] <Alicia> "There's always something, yes," Alicia nods, happy to talk shop. "Remember that fallen planetar and his friends? We sold you the berserker's swords, but I kept hold of the planetar's. It was a very strange weapon, one that coursed with unholy power and would strip away the mind and reason of any unfortunate enough to be struck by it."
[21:04] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "The Countess mentioned it," Alice says agreeably, "Oh yes, I remember the story now. A fallen angel that spat fire with every word it spoke?"
[21:05] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "How fascinating," Abagail murmurs.
[21:07] <Alicia> "He stunned Antenora with a word of power as well!" Marie pipes up, before glancing at Alicia. "So I heard. I wasn't there."
[21:07] <Alicia> "Anyway, I was instructed in the means to purify that same weapon - I won't bore you with the details, but having accomplished it the weapon is now a bane to fiends and the wielder has their own reason and will significantly bolstered. It's like a sword and one of those periapts of will all rolled into one," Alicia concludes after giving Marie a brief nod.
[21:19] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Excellent." Abagail agrees to that, "Anything to boost our reserves of magical power. I love this shop," she says, with an imperious look around it, "More concentrated magic than most large cities lies within these walls. It's superb that we keep having those things come to us."
[21:20] <Alicia> "There wasn't anything like this back in Kelara. Or even in the Desert Fiefdoms that I saw while travelling there," Alicia agrees. "Although I understand this shop is fairly new, so who knows what's sprung up there recently?"
[21:27] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "One would imagine that opportunity would find the right sorts," Elle's voice is cheerful as she enters, whistling a merry tune. She has a cute rabbit in her arms, "Here to shop or just for the chatter, you two?"
[21:29] <Alicia> "Well I was hoping to ask for a favour, but the conversation has been pleasant," Alicia smiles while Marie flutters over to Elle.
[21:29] <Alicia> "Oh, that's a cute little rabbit!" she exclaims. "What's his name?"
[21:30] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Flopsy, my familiar." With a slight smile as she holds the rabbit, "Well, it's mine now...but it's a long story. Anyway, what's the favor, Alicia?"
[21:32] <Alicia> "Was hoping I could talk you into doing a Sending for me," Alicia replies as Marie pats the rabbit and talks about familiar solidarity - not that anyone except the rabbit and Elle can understand her since she's using Tongues to share their secret mistress/familiar language.
[21:34] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Flopsy seems to like Marie, lightly touching it's nose to her hand. "You familiars do need to stick together." She agrees, "After all, if something happen sto Alicia or I..." Petting Flopsy, "That's how I got Flopsy in the first place." Her smile is a wistful one, "But...yes, a Sending? What for?"
[21:36] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Meanwhile Abagail and Alice quietly go back to their previous discussion, albiet at a lower tone of voice.
[21:38] <Alicia> "I don't know if you've spoken to Seira lately but she had a run in with a devil who is also an archmage - he cast time stop after she attacked him."
[21:38] <Alicia> "For some reason he didn't kill her and she's set up a 'meeting' with him which is likely going to be a horrible battle. So I'm hoping to contact a friend I recently made on the astral plane who might be able to offer some assistance," Alicia explains while Marie makes a sad face at Elle's hinted tale.
[21:41] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Flopsy whimpers, sinking into Elle's arms. She takes a moment to pet the rabbit reassuringly, before, "A devil...Archmage?" With an open, undisguised grimace, "That's as bad as a demon vampire or a troll cleric. Time Stop? That's..."
[21:42] <Alicia> "The very limit of mortal magic imposed by Mystra herself," Alicia concludes grimly.
[21:43] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> You notice the conversation Abagail and Alice were having has abruptly stopped. "So...By Mystra, what are you going to do? Fighting an archmage is supposed to be like trying to swim through a lake of lava - short, painful and a complete failure that ends in your burning death."
[21:49] <Alicia> "You can swim through lava if you take the proper precautions," Alicia reasons. "That's part of why I'm seeking help like this - on the astral plane I fought alongside a planetar who cast Mass Heal. Also a ninth circle spell as I understand it, and within the abilities of any of their kind."
[21:49] <Alicia> "Regretfully one of the other planetars was killed by the destruction of a balor we were fighting. I also heard of a planetar being killed by an orthon back in the desert campaign. Sad fates, true, but also proving that simply having access to that level of magic does not make you invulnerable," she concludes levelly.
[21:59] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Alright, alright," Elle agrees to that, "You made your point. What's the name and what do you want to say in your sending?"
[22:03] <Alicia> "Thanks, I really appreciate you doing this. Address it to Jamais the Solar," Alicia begins gratefully. "Message from Alicia Reynes. Going to battle Esthan, devil is also archmage, ninth circle spells. Require any forces you can spare. One week. My house."
[22:04] <Alicia> "Twenty five words on the nose!" Marie exclaims, having been counting along.
[22:09] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Going back into her private rooms in the rear of the shop, Elle begins to cast!
[22:09] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d100
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[22:10] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> roll 1d100
06[22:10] * Hatbot --> "Infinite_Ko_Loop rolls 1d100 and gets 76." [1d100=76]
[22:13] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> At last the spell is done, the arcane rituals and casting finished! Opening her eyes from her intense concentration, "He said that he will endevour to do so, though he is uncertain as of now to how many and how strong."
[22:16] <Alicia> "It's a pity that sending limits how much information we can impart, but it's better than nothing," Alicia smiles. "He's led many campaigns against the lower planes, so hopefully his judgement will be sound in whomever he sees fit to send my way."
[22:21] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Yeah," Picking up Flopsy once more and going to sit, Elle pause and instead gets a glass of wine. She sits, sipping. "We could use an archmage of our own. We would almost have one by now if..." Looking down at her rabbit, Elle continues to gently pet Flopsy. "Bleh, and next I'll be acting all miserable for the rest of the day. Stupid devil archmages."
[22:24] <Alicia> "I think you're be selling yourself short, Elle," Alicia offers kindly. "Besides, Esthan's probably had thousands of years to practice. It's hard for mortals to match that."
[22:24] <Alicia> "Even so, most outsiders don't actually learn magic or improve themselves the way mortals do - any skills we learn that way usually don't carry over if we evolve into a more powerful form so it's usually not worth it in the long term. Esthan must be very satisfied where he is if he's went to all that effort," Marie puts in.
[22:27] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "That level of practice, eh?" Elle rubs her chin as she listens, "So he's likely unusual for a devil? Since isn't the point of their psychology to advance on the corpses of their former superiors?"
[22:39] <Alicia> "Well, I'm not really an expert on devils even with all my experience," Marie admits with a shrug, "And Alicia's fought devil monks and warlocks and blackguards and so on. But generally for an outsider to follow a profession they get pulled away from the core of their being - remember, we're not just physical beings of flesh and blood like you, we're belief and ethos given form."
[22:39] <Alicia> "Take me as an example. I'm limited right now as a familiar but lets ignore that - if I were to say try to learn magic like a wizard, or develop my skills as a fighter, I could do so. But in doing that rather than focusing on my innate eladrin-ness - that core of pure chaos and good that defines my existence as a spirit - I'm actually stunting my growth, clinging to something more suited to mortal life."
[22:39] <Alicia> "I could become the most fantastically powerful coure archmage or warrior, but I'd never become anything greater than that. And if I changed my mind after a while and followed my innate being, I might achieve the transformation to a firre or a ghaele, but all the magic or skill at arms I'd learned would be forgotten as I changed into the most basic expression of the next step up."
[22:39] <Alicia> "Of course," she shrugs, "Devils have their own promotion mechanic which is determined more by the approval of their superiors than their own personal connection to their ethos, but I suppose that's one of the differences between Law and Chaos."
06[22:39] * Alicia looks impressed. "That was surprisingly deep, Marie."
[22:39] <Alicia> "Yeah, and Antenora wasn't even here to be impressed by it..." the eladrin grumbles.
[22:41] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "That's really interesting, Marielle," Marie can hear the approval in Elle's voice, "So by strenghtening yourself you advance, and taking on more focused, 'mortal' pursuits is a regression? But in the case of a devil, say...what of his superior ordered him to do that? What if there wasn't any sort of dissonance between that?"
[22:46] <Alicia> "Well, I think for devils they basically get promoted by the say so of their superiors - and their superiors and their superiors. Basically a big fiendish committee. So a devil that hasn't really done any proper introspection could possibly get advanced anyway, but they'd be doing so at the whim and power of their superior rather than actually evolving by themselves."
[22:46] <Alicia> The eladrin smiles a bit smugly, "That's a big part of Law though, isn't it? Stifling evolution?"
06[22:46] * Alicia coughs and glares, prompting Marie to look a bit apologetic. "Well, for some more than others. Anyway, the thing is though that even if they get promoted, they're likely to lose a lot of their previous skill. So say a very powerful ice devil might become a pit fiend, but the transformation is actually a loss for them, at least at first."
[22:46] <Alicia> "So you see, those sort of pursuits become a self-enforcing cycle that ultimately limits the one following them."
[22:48] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "That's what I don't get. A devil combined with the power of an archmage would rock our world to the foundation if he wanted to. That's the sort of power that a wizard can only dream of at his absolute utter pinnacle, if everything he tries goes without flaw. I have trouble accepting that it's some sort of deviation, and that's not a sign of superiority over his caste instead of inferiority. My instinct is to assume that he's out of t
[22:48] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> My instinct is to assume that he's out of the normal mold of a devil." (more)
[22:50] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Even with that aside, why? Why would he be acting like this then? He could wink away, appear when one of us is weak, and pick us off one by one. Or poison us in our sleep, or banish you to the Abyss or Hell with a few words. He has power that's staggering, and he's a regression from the norm AND...mgh." Stoppping there and rubbing her forehead, "Urgh."
[22:58] <Alicia> "Well, he could have reached his limit," Alicia thinks for a moment. "What Marie said is right, a devil can't be promoted without the approval of their superiors. So a renegade has to seek other paths to power. Or conversely he might have reached the pinnacle of power for the normal advancement track - a pit fiend with nothing to do except practice his magic?"
[22:58] <Alicia> "You also need to remember that we don't think the same way mortals do," Marie puts in. "Every one of us has a fundamental impetus to embody our morality and ethics to the fullest extent - it's why fallen angels and risen fiends are so fantastically rare, it's almost impossible to reject the very stuff that gives us form."
[22:58] <Alicia> "Hmmm..." Alicia hums at Elle's comment. "Perhaps he fears escalation? Powerful though Esthan may be, there are beings just as powerful in opposition. He limits himself because he believes he can accomplish his goals even without 'going all out' and it keeps him from drawing the attention of his peers?"
[23:04] <Alicia> "Also," Marie raises her hand, "He wants to use us to kill his enemies, not kill us himself. At least that's the impression I got."
[23:05] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "About that," Elle speaks up, "His enemies, if they're other devils, are also our enemies? I mean, he's not so foolish as to try and sell you on killing angels and eladrin?"
[23:07] <Alicia> "Probably," Alicia shrugs. "But I'm not buying into any 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' rubbish. He's my enemy's enemy, nothing more. If I battle fiends I'll do it on my own terms, not as an attack dog for their just as vile rivals.""
[23:08] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Yes, but there is one point. If his enemies are here..." Elle spreads her hands, "It would be nice to know that before sending him away."
06[23:09] * Alicia smiles thinly. "I'll try to ask him about that before one of us dies."
[23:10] <Alicia> "And then he can lie!" Marie chirps brightly.
[23:11] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Yes, but...it's also notable that one came to you in friendship, even if it's just a mockup of one. You've done much to inflame Hell, so why you and why take that risk if you're so anti-devil?"
[23:14] <Alicia> "I have my theories on that, actually," Alicia admits, going to lean on the counter. "It's nothing concrete yet, but I believe Esthan serves a devil that all believe to be dead. Likely his master is hiding on the outskirts of Avernus, hoping to marshall his power and weaken his rivals in order to stage a triumphant return. Or perhaps he simply wishes to see his rivals suffer."
[23:14] <Alicia> "In any case, the mere fact that I've inflammed hell so and still live proves that I would make a useful... assassin, I suppose."

[Corwin]

[18:58] <Alicia> [21:11] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Yes, but there is one point. If his enemies are here..." Elle spreads her hands, "It would be nice to know that before sending him away."
[18:58] <Alicia> [21:11] * Alicia smiles thinly. "I'll try to ask him about that before one of us dies."
[18:58] <Alicia> [21:13] <Alicia> "And then he can lie!" Marie chirps brightly.
[18:58] <Alicia> [21:13] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Yes, but...it's also notable that one came to you in friendship, even if it's just a mockup of one. You've done much to inflame Hell, so why you and why take that risk if you're so anti-devil?"
[18:58] <Alicia> [21:17] <Alicia> "I have my theories on that, actually," Alicia admits, going to lean on the counter. "It's nothing concrete yet, but I believe Esthan serves a devil that all believe to be dead. Likely his master is hiding on the outskirts of Avernus, hoping to marshall his power and weaken his rivals in order to stage a triumphant return. Or perhaps he simply wishes to see his rivals suffer."
[18:58] <Alicia> [21:17] <Alicia> "In any case, the mere fact that I've inflammed hell so and still live proves that I would make a useful... assassin, I suppose."
[19:13] <Kobreakfast> "Perhaps it is so," Elle agrees, "This entire thing is discoordinating to me, I grow weary of Hell." SIpping from her wine deeply, "Go give them enough Hell to make them homesick, Alicia."
[19:15] <Alicia> "Heh, I will," Alicia nods. "I think I still have those notes we took from one of Esthan's underlings who was operating in Parsifal - I should probably refresh my memory in case there's anything relevant there. Thanks for your time," she nods before waving to Abagail and Alice, "And nice talking to you two as well," she finishes as she departs with Marie in tow.
[19:20] <Kobreakfast> Returning to home passes without incident. Reading the old notes of a gelugon provides Alicia with quite the embarrassing surprise. Antenora curses openly on hearing this, gloomy and out of sorts. There's not much of a mood to be had over an early dinner, none at all. Antenora's there, though she's mostly glaring holes into the wall. Only Jessica is openly cheery, whistling as she serves salads. "Hm?" she asks as there is the sound of a kn
[19:20] <Kobreakfast> "Hm?" she asks as there is the sound of a knocking. "I'll get it, you guys can dig in."
[19:21] <Alicia> "Go ahead, Jessica," Alicia puts on a smile, not wanting to take her bad mood out on her poor sister.
[19:21] <Kobreakfast> There's the sound of the door opening and some polite chatter. "Alicia," Jessica calls, "It's someone from the Temple of Mystra in Kelara. It's a message for you."
[19:24] <Alicia> "Oh? Invite them in!" Alicia calls back as she gets up in surprise. The last messenger probably hasn't even made it back to Kelara yet, so she wonders what it could be.
[19:27] <Kobreakfast> The person in question is a young woman, a limp and a cane to help walk. She wears the garb of Mystra, slanted eyes and ears telling of non-human ancestry in part.  Her hair is russet red and gold, her eyes a piercing, unmatching blue. "It's an honor,' she says quickly, offering a hand to Alicia. "I've heard some of the stories that have trickled into Kelara."
[19:28] <Alicia> Is it someone Alicia recognises from her own time back home?
[19:28] <Kobreakfast> Her face is dimly familiar - Alicia thinks she might've seen her at the temple at time or two, but not as a regular. Her name starts with a B, you think? Bi-something Bianna?
06[19:29] * Alicia isn't about to risk saying the wrong name and so defaults to introductions. "Alicia Reynes," she confirms her identity as she shakes the half-elf's hand. "You've met Jessica, obviously, and this is Antenora and Marielle," she indicates the other two.
[19:29] <Alicia> "Hi!" Marie waves cheerily as she takes off from the dinner table and flutters over.
[19:34] <Kobreakfast> "Biranna," She offers her hand, nodding to both. She goes to sit once the hand is shaken, "Recently of The Lady of Mysteries. As honored as I am to meet you, I'm here on business." She blinks at Jessica a moment oddly as she glances at her again, before going back to Alicia. "Taldeer needed a message to reach you and the temple at good speed."
[19:36] <Alicia> "Well, I'm all ears," Alicia replies as she goes to sit down as well. "Would you care to join us for dinner? We always cook too much for some reason," she smiles briefly at Antenora and her lack of a plate.
[19:38] <Kobreakfast> Antenora looks up to politely smile in brief. "No thank you. I need to hurry to see...Shankar right after this. Now then, Taldeer wanted to let you know that your mother was wounded yesterday." Immediately going on, "However, first and foremost, she's going to be alright. She's in no danger of death, the arrows only grazed her."
[19:39] <Alicia> "What?" Alicia's posture turns more rigid, food forgotten. "Who attacked her?"
[19:40] <Kobreakfast> "Rebels," The answer comes quickly, smoothly. "The rebel situation is getting out of hand in Kelara. Yesterday, several attacks were launched in the city against the rich and nobles. Several were wounded and a few were killed. Your mother was at one of the attacks."
[19:43] <Alicia> "Bandits more like..." Alicia all but snarls, guilt welling up in her for not having been there. Again. "You say this was just yesterday, does that mean you can teleport?" she asks as the compulsion to do something about these brigands takes hold.
[19:43] <Kobreakfast> Jessica puts down her fork, "Oh no..." Shaking her head a little bit, "It's not serious, though?"
[19:45] <Kobreakfast> "Taldeer lent me the scrolls," With a slight blush at that, "To get to the crux of the matter, the Church in Kelara believes that the rebellion has fair odds of succeeding now. They've won the majority of the sorties and used effective hit and run tactics to whittle down the Kelaran counterattacks. We're going to be requesting aid and funds from the other temples to ensure the safety of the one in Kelara, including refuge for religion work
[19:45] <Kobreakfast> Kelara, including refuge for religion works, icons and even people if need be."
[19:47] <Alicia> "Horrible timing, since we have our own problems here," Alicia admits, "But I'm not going to stand by while my home is overrun by thieves and murderers. How long do you think Kelara can hold out?" she asks, all business.
[19:49] <Kobreakfast> "Realistically?" With a sigh, a soft and slight one, "A month. Our best leaders were assassinated, at times by their own bodyguards. This civil war - there's really no pretending it's not one now - has gone bad and worse for us. People are starting to send feelers out to surrounding kingdoms. Frankly, the rich and the nobles are preparing to flee if they have to."
[19:53] <Alicia> "Their own bodyguards?" Alicia repeats, looking appalled. Just how low has her country sunk? "Were they bribed or have they actually fallen in with these brigands?"
[19:55] <Kobreakfast> "It varies. Some admitted to bribes, some spotued revolutionary dogma when captured. That's the gossip," Bowing her head low a moment, "Lady of Mysteries, protect Kelara..." After that and raising her head back up, "They're supremely good at unorthodox tactics. Hita nd run, assassinations, attacking supply depots, blending into the citizens."
[19:59] <Alicia> "And more die by the day..." Alicia concludes with a heavy heart. "Alright," she then nods after coming to a decision. "I'm coming with you back to Kelara. I'll have to return to Balmuria within a week to deal with that other problem I mentioned, but that's more than enough time to make a difference, as the Malmuthians learned."
[20:00] <Kobreakfast> "I'll come with you, then," Antenora speaks up, "Two are better than one."
06[20:02] * Alicia nods gratefully to the erinyes. "Marie, you stay here in case any of Jamais's forces arrive early," she then tells her familiar. "How about you, Jessica? I don't expect you to take part in this, but you could come with us to see the rest of your family if you want?" she offers, although she'd hoped the trip would be under better circumstances.
[20:06] <Kobreakfast> "I'd love to see Kelara," She answers brightly, "Pallanth was so much fun, and even if this isn't, I'd like to see it at least once."
[20:06] <Kobreakfast> "Alright then." Standing up and using her cane to lean on, "That's my message. I'll come back here in an hour or two once I finish matters with Shankar. Alicia, would you walk with me to the Temple?"
[20:07] <Alicia> "Of course," Alicia nods to her guest, getting up to walk alongside her out the door.
[20:08] <Kobreakfast> Once outside into the late afternoon warmth, a sea breeze blowing in from the bay, "Jessica?" She asks with a wry smile on her face "I've heard of and I met your sister once ages ago, but she wasn't called Jessica then."
[20:10] <Alicia> "No," Alicia shakes her head. "It's a long and rather sad story... did you know she very nearly assassinated the ruler of the United Baronies?" she asks as they slowly walk the short distance to the temple next door.
[20:10] <Kobreakfast> "No. I won't pry," She smiles, "I'm sorry, but I was simply curious. Excuse the question then."
[20:12] <Alicia> "I don't mind," Alicia shakes her head, "Anyway, to make the story short she lost her memories while trying to better herself. As her old name carried so much baggage, she chose to take a new one for a fresh start."
03[20:17] * Kobreakfast is now known as Kotono
[20:17] <Kotono> "Ah.' With a slight nod there, "From what I heard, that was a good choice."
[20:18] <Alicia> "I wasn't so sure at first, but... she does seem happier this way," Alicia concludes with a wistful smile.
[20:21] <Kotono> As you approach the Temple, people coming in and out as bells ring, "Then bless Mystra for it," Biranna smiles at that, slowly advancing in.
[20:22] <Alicia> "It was the Mother of All Magic who even granted her the chance to escape her fate, yes," Alicia smiles in reply there as they head in, looking around for Shankar.
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[20:34] <Kotono> Shankar is found at the altar, as a prayer for the sunset and the mystical signifigance it holds is gone through. Once that finishes, he goes to meet the two of you. "Biranna? News from Kelara?" He nods, "Alright, we'll go to my study. Will you be coming, Alicia?"
[20:35] <Alicia> "Ah, so you two already know each other," Alicia smiles before she shakes her head in response to the question. "I'll need to go inform Commander Obureth that I'll be indisposed for a while - matters in Kelara demand my attention. If you'll excuse me..." she nods respectfully to each before departing.
[20:39] <Kotono> OOC - Skip ahead?
[20:39] <Alicia> OOC: certainly
[20:42] <Kotono> Once you return home to prepare, Antenora is waiting. "Jessica's getting her things together," she says, wearing her armor and weapon at the ready. "What about you, any packing to do?"
[20:46] <Alicia> "Just my usual supplies... well," Alicia manages a slight smile. "One more thing, actually." She then heads up to her bedroom and returns a moment later, Marie edging far away as Alicia enters with a coiled black whip in her hand and an unsettling smile on her lips. "I think I'll give this to Taldeer," she concludes, resisting the urge to give it a hearty crack.
[20:50] <Kotono> "......" Antenora looks at the whip without comment, "Yes, that would be just as well. That....thing makes you rather unsettling."
[20:51] <Alicia> "Why do you think I want to get rid of it?" Alicia replies as she caresses the hilt seemingly without noticing.
[20:52] <Kotono> "Unless you wish to impersonate a succubus," Antenora raises an eyebrow, "Then again, I can almost see it while you hold that whip. Yes, let's give it to your friend straight away."
[20:55] <Alicia> "She'll appreciate the humour, trust me," Alicia insists still with that same vaguely off-kilter smile as she sizes Antenora up and slowly uncoils and recoils the implement between her hands.
[20:55] <Alicia> "Maybe you should keep it in your backpack for now, then?" Marie suggests, hoping she's out of reach in case Alicia decides she's speaking out of turn.
[20:56] <Alicia> "I..." Alicia looks to be having a difficult internal struggle before she finally nods, "I suppose you're right," she agrees, forcing herself to stow the whip away, even though her hands linger overlong on its smooth leathery surface.
[20:57] <Kotono> "Maybe you should, unless you're going to whip me," Antenora smirks and chuckles, putting away her look of uneasiness. "Yes, do put that nicely away, would you? Marie is completely correct."
03[20:58] * Sierra_Deadness is now known as Sierra_MomentaryLife
[20:59] <Alicia> "It has an... odd effect on me," Alicia admits uncomfortably after having safely put the whip out of sight. "As if harming someone with it would actually be an act of kindness..." she shakes her head before chuckling slightly, "Still, it's not overwhelming."
[21:00] <Kotono> "Really?" Antenora asks, "If you say so, Mistress." Laughing a bit, "I'm ready to go to Kelara when you are. Jessica should be ready soon, I hope."
[21:03] <Alicia> "And likewise so should Biranna arrive," Alicia goes over to pat Marie on the head. "You'll get to visit Kelara some day, Marie. For now just look after things here while we're gone, okay?"
[21:03] <Alicia> "You can count on me!" the coure insists with a wide grin.
[21:03] <Kotono> "I'm reassured," Antenora drawls.
[21:05] <Alicia> "Well, I'm counting on you to make sure Alicia doesn't get her throat slit in her sleep by any so-called 'bodyguards'," Marie rounds on the erinyes. "You better be careful out there, you two!"
[21:09] <Kotono> "Of course," Antenora says, watching Marie as she flies around to her. "I won't let bodyguard or whip cause her to get into any trouble. After all, I have discipline and patience.
[21:14] <Alicia> "Discipline is no good without enthusiasm!" Marie counters brightly. "And patience is hardly a lawful-only trait."
[21:15] <Kotono> "Really? You spout off at the slighted provocation without any thought. It certainly SEEMS chaotic to me. Little eladrin, as flighty and chaotic as a child who chases after pretty lights and colors."
[21:17] <Alicia> "What does being provoked have to do with anything?" Marie asks. "There are plenty of eladrin who spend decades in isolation, patiently contemplating existence or perfecting their craft. I don't think they'd appreciate being called lawful, though."
[21:18] <Alicia> "Ladies, ladies," Alicia wearily comes between the two of them. "This is unseemly. Can you please let it lie? Or do I have to get the whip out again?" she concludes, her tone sounding quite serious.
[21:24] <Kotono> "Oh Mistress," Antenora simpers, "Whip me!" After that, Antenora straightens herself up, calm now. "Yes, let's move ona nd wait for Jessica now. Enough of this petty bickering."
[21:26] <Alicia> "I'm so glad," Alicia smiles warmly at each of them, even as she knows it won't last.
[21:29] <Kotono> IT may not last long, but it's enough for Jessica to come out. Biranna returns after just about an hour, escorted in by Jessica. "If the three of you are ready," she says, "We'll leave immediately."
[21:31] <Alicia> "All set," Alicia confirms with one last look at Marie that says 'stay out of trouble'.
[21:33] <Kotono> "Of course," Jessica says brightly, "Have fun while we're gone, Marie!"
[21:33] <Alicia> "I will!" Marie promises too quickly.
[21:33] <Kotono> "Mystra," Taking out a scroll, Biranna begins to chant, "Oh Mystra, open the pathways of the dimensions to us, let us go to where we wish!"
[21:33] <Kotono> roll 1d100
[21:33] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=5 ]{5}
[21:38] <Kotono> "Ma-" Antenora begins, but the teleportation has occured! The three stand the desert in the late afternoon. Wind and sand flickers, a town ahead of the party. It looks like an oasis, rich and cool and bubbly. "One down," Biranna says, preparing another scroll. "One to go."
[21:40] <Alicia> "Are we going straight to the temple?" Alicia asks, recalling the trouble she had with the gate guards on her last visit.
[21:42] <Kotono> "Yes, the city's locked up well with security." Answering that as she reads the second scroll, "Mystra..." she begins again!
[21:42] <Kotono> roll 1d100
[21:42] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=4 ]{4}
[21:46] <Kotono> The Temple of Mystra hasn't changed much. You appear in the main worship room, mostly empty. Only a few priests are about, walking together close and in deep, quiet discussions. The mood is heavy, the normal day noise of the temple not present.
06[21:48] * Alicia looks around for any familiar faces after their abrupt arrival. "Only here for a moment and already I can tell things are not right." Since the sad fact is that there likely are going to be a lot of people around that she doesn't know and she won't have time to really find out how trustworthy they are, she keeps her eyes alert for evil and intends to stay that way for the duration of her time in Kelara.
[21:53] <Kotono> No evil that Alicia sees offhand. Biranna takes the lead, "I'll take you to Taldeer," she says, leading them out of the main room. As Antenora follows and Jessica looks about, the four-some head to the back parts of the temple. They are busy, filled with worshippers, and also what look to be men at arms at a few doorways, nodding curtly to Biranna as she passes.
06[21:56] * Alicia follows Biranna obediently enough for the moment.
[21:57] <Kotono> Lead to the back, you find Taldeer in a large room. She sits at a table, baggy eyed and drinking a fouls melling, steaming mug of something or another unknown. "Alicia," she stands up, "I wish this was under better circumstances."
[22:00] <Alicia> "I didn't think it would come to this, myself," Alicia admits as she goes to hug Taldeer in a rare but unreserved gesture of friendship. "If it wasn't for the difficulty of getting here..."
[22:02] <Kotono> The hug is returned tightly, "It's alright. Your mother's doing fine; a minor spell took care of the worst of it and she's resting at home. And..." She looks over
[22:02] <Kotono> The hug is returned tightly, "It's alright. Your mother's doing fine; a minor spell took care of the worst of it and she's resting at home. And..." She looks over Alicia's shoulder. "Guests?"
06[22:04] * Alicia nods as she parts. "This is my sister, Jessica," she indicates one, "And this is Antenora," she gestures to the other.
[22:06] <Kotono> "Welcome to Mystra's House," She greets them, "Will you be going to see your parents now?"
[22:07] <Alicia> "I'd like to do that first, yes," Alicia confirms. "Will there be problems coming and going from the city?"
[22:17] <Kotono> "Yes. The city's guards are on high alert." Going to the table, she takes several sheets and writes a few lines on each of the bottom of them. "These are city papers to get in and out, they'll help. You can probably get as et from your family as well, both sets should make sure that no one bothers you too much."
[22:19] <Alicia> "Thanks," Alicia takes the papers and hands one each to Jessica and Antenora while keeping one for herself. "We'll probably be staying at my family's estate while we're here, but we'll be back shortly so we can properly discuss what's happening."
[22:21] <Kotono> "Good luck and be careful. Not even Kelara proper is safe now," Taldeer warns, drinking deep from her mug. "The entire city is in a near panic after yesterday's attacks. A single spark could set off a reaction. For Mystra's sake, don't be that spark."
06[22:22] * Alicia smiles grimly. "I'll try to keep my head down," she relents. "But I expect I'll be in the thick of things before long."
[22:28] <Kotono> "You have that look on your face..." Taldeer shakes her head, "Stay safe. The rebels are dangerously competent and fanatical. If you cross blades with them, they don't take prisoners."
[22:30] <Alicia> "All the more reason for us to take a stand against them," Alicia affirms before putting it aside, "But we can discuss that later - for now I'd like to see my family. Until then, dweomerkeeper," she bows respectfully to the head of her church before departing.
[22:31] <Kotono> Once outside thet emple, you see that the streets are busy. Yet soldiers are everywhere, the citizens cowed and often nearly running from place to place. The sky is cloudy and dark. As you walk about, "You can taste the fear in the air," Antenora observes.
[22:32] <Alicia> "It should never have come to this..." Alicia shakes her head bitterly. "I wonder if they've had any victories at all against these 'rebels'?" she wonders aloud as she starts walking to the East gate.
[22:33] <Kotono> "It's sad," Jessica looks about, as soldiers often look your way. A few look at Alicia and company harshly, some apathetically. But almost all of the certainly look. "Sister..." She hurries up, going to Alicia's side, "You're not blaming yourself for this, are you?"
06[22:36] * Alicia hesitates for a moment before shaking her head. "No. I was half the world away when all this broke out. And I hardly have any love for the noble council... but I won't stand to see the people suffer at the hands of glorified brigands. I'm here now and I intend to do something about it." She walks tall and proud through the streets, but doesn't rise to the bait of any harsh looks.
[22:40] <Kotono> "Well said," Antenora smiles at Alicia, "You're right. Y ou can't be everywhere and you can't-" Antenora stops abruptly as an egg hits Alicia's side! The runny, shelly  mess runs down her armor, as a man from the side calls, "We know what you're doing! You and all of your limp wristed friends are going to magic out of here and leave us for the rebels!" He looks like a normal man, dressed in peasant clothes and balding.
[22:40] <Kotono> A moment later, a pair of guards diverges towards him, weapons drawn. "Down!"
[22:41] <Kotono> OOC - Strike.
[22:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3 thrown
[22:41] <Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d20+3 thrown --> [ 1d20=10 ]{13}
[22:42] <Kotono> "Well said," Antenora smiles at Alicia, "You're right. Y ou can't be everywhere and you can't-" Antenora stops abruptly as an egg just misses Alicia's side! It lands on the street, as a peasant bellows to her, "We know what you're doing! You and all the limp wristed Mystraites are going to run off and let the rebels have us! You aren't fooling anyone!" As he speaks, a normal man in peasant clothes, two guards peel away and at him, spears out, "
[22:42] <Kotono> two guards peel away and at him, spears out, "Down!" they instruct sharply.
06[22:45] * Alicia turns to the man and walks towards him, speaking up over the guards. "I just *arrived* here, sir," she replies firmly, her voice loud enough to carry. "And I'm not afraid of any glorified bandit who pretends to have a political agenda!"
[22:48] <Kotono> Antenora stays back, protectively staying in front of Jessica. As Alicia turns to the man, the two guards are on him. He begins to go down, the soldiers pinning his arms behind his back. He looks at Alicia even as this happens, "Oh yeah?" he says, even as many a gaze turns to Alicia, "Well, you certainly don't give a damn about us if you just arrived!"
[22:52] <Alicia> "You have no way of knowing who I do or don't give a damn about," Alicia replies scathingly, "You're just lashing out because you know I have the decency to not rise to your baiting. Would you be so quick to stand up and hurl invective if I was one of those rebels you claim to hate so much?"

[Corwin]

[20:36] <Alicia> [20:45] <Kotono> two guards peel away and at him, spears out, "Down!" they instruct sharply.
[20:36] <Alicia> [20:47] * Alicia turns to the man and walks towards him, speaking up over the guards. "I just *arrived* here, sir," she replies firmly, her voice loud enough to carry. "And I'm not afraid of any glorified bandit who pretends to have a political agenda!"
[20:36] <Alicia> [20:51] <Kotono> Antenora stays back, protectively staying in front of Jessica. As Alicia turns to the man, the two guards are on him. He begins to go down, the soldiers pinning his arms behind his back. He looks at Alicia even as this happens, "Oh yeah?" he says, even as many a gaze turns to Alicia, "Well, you certainly don't give a damn about us if you just arrived!"
[20:36] <Alicia> [20:55] <Alicia> "You have no way of knowing who I do or don't give a damn about," Alicia replies scathingly, "You're just lashing out because you know I have the decency to not rise to your baiting. Would you be so quick to stand up and hurl invective if I was one of those rebels you claim to hate so much?"
[20:38] <Kotono> "Who cares?" Glaring back balefully even as his back his thumped, his wind knocked out enough so his next words are gasping, "We're all going to lose everything! All because your church and the nobles and the army sat on their asses!" Around you, the street people often hurry along, though with eyes that turn to the scene playing out in front of them. The stationed guards have hands on weapons, keeping a sweeping gaze out.
[20:39] <Kotono> keeping a sweeping gaze out.
[20:45] <Alicia> "The church of Mystra is not an arm of the government," Alicia tells him, before gesturing back to the temple. "And for your information, the people in there are just as terrified as you are. As for what the nobles and the army have been doing... that's a very good question. One I intend to find out the answer to." Although she suspects they've been doing what they've *always* been doing; protecting the city at the expense of the villages.
[20:46] <Alicia> "Would you let him up, please?" she then asks the over-enthusiastic guards. "He might be ill-mannered but he's not a threat."
[20:46] <Kotono> The guards are rough with the peasant man, knocking the wind from him harder this time, before shaking their heads. "Standing orders. This is inciting a riot and that's mandatory arrest and hard time in the stocks."
[20:47] <Kotono> "Go to...hell..." The man manages to pant out, his discourse fading as his wind is knocked from his body quite unpleasantly.
[20:48] <Kotono> "That-" Jessica's voice can be heard, but it's cut off before much else can be said.
06[20:49] * Alicia shakes her head at the sad state her home has come to. "I understand that, but there's no need to beat the hell out of him," she tells the guard who spoke. If any of her subordinates behaved like this in Balmuria there'd be harsh words.
[20:51] <Kotono> One of the guards simply shrugs. "Orders are orders." As the man is hauled up, "C'mon, you, off to the stocks." The man is dragged away, a final look at Alicia managed. His eyes are wide and full of fear and confusion and desperation, even as he tries to show hateful scorn at Alicia.
[20:52] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 sense motive what's up with him
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 sense motive what's up with him and gets 13." [1d20=3]
[20:52] <Kotono> "Tch," Antenora quietly says, "Back, Jessica," she murmurs.
[20:53] <Alicia> The confusion's what gets Alicia's attention. "Hold on a second," she tells the guards, casting detect magic. His behaviour was entirely irrational and she wonders if there was an unnatural provocation.
[20:53] <Kotono> Quickly casting magic, Alicia sees that there's no magic around the man at all.
[20:54] <Alicia> "Oh, nevermind..." Alicia looks at the loutish shell of a man with vague pity as he's dragged away before returning to her two companions. "Come on, the sooner we're off the streets the better, I think."
[20:56] <Kotono> As Alicia falls back in step, Antenora murmurs, "The city's on edge. Just how bad were those assassinations?"
[20:57] <Kotono> Jessica's face is stricken, looking long at the man as he is dragged out of sight and around a corner. "He doesn't need to spend that long there...Orders are orders can go take a soak."
[20:59] <Alicia> "Kelara's always been short of strong leadership," Alicia admits, keeping her voice low. "The noble council is a joke, and this situation is only making things worse." Then to Jessica, "They're trying to show that they're still in control by coming down hard on anything they can, but it sounds like they can't even touch the real problem."
[21:00] <Kotono> "Lead by brute force in the city and let everything go to hell outside of it? How marvellously heartless," With a cold look at nothing at particular as you hurry through the tense streets, "That's not control, that's self centered tyranny."
[21:01] <Kotono> Jessica sighs at Alicia's words, "I didn't want to come here and see something like that! This isn't fair; home should be a good place!"
[21:03] <Alicia> "It used to be," Alicia sighs. "But the underlying problems were always there. People here in the city didn't care if those in the villages suffered, so long as they were kept fed and safe - now they're reaping the harvest of their neglect." Making sure no one's close enough to overhear, "I almost wonder if these rebels aren't somewhat justified, but their methods are too extreme to elicit sympathy."
[21:05] <Kotono> "Tch," Antenora shakes her head, "Reform it from the inside instead of tearing the entire rotten structure down. The latter is far too destructive." As they reach the outside gates, you see that there are about twenty five people on duty there, the going slow for inside. Going out is somewhat easier, only a cursory inspection. The line's short.
06[21:06] * Alicia leads the group along to show their passes and head out so they can walk the mile or so to the Reynes estate.
[21:08] <Kotono> The guards take a glance at it and then Alicia's armor, before motioning them through. Once out of the city, you see that ther e are several patrols keeping a tight perimeter. The Reynes estate has a small detachment of soldiers outside of it, a few tents pitched at the sides of the house for them. A squad of four of them interdict as the party approaches. "Identification? What's your purpose of coming here?"
[21:10] <Alicia> "I used to live here," Alicia replies showing her pass in lieu of her family signet ring which is sitting at the bottom of her jewellery box back in Balmuria. "Alicia Reynes, daughter of Arthur and Beatrice," she identifies herself if it's necessary.
[21:11] <Kotono> The papers are inspected thrice, gone over with a critical eye. "Alright," they relent at last. We'll escort you in until they confirm who you are."
[21:14] <Alicia> "Well, I'm glad my family's safety is being taken seriously at least," Alicia notes, even if she can't help but think these troops would be better employed hunting down the rebels. What happened to all the great Kelaran warriors she admired growing up? She hopes they aren't on the rebel side...
[21:15] <Kotono> Thus you are lead inside, upstairs. You're lead to your mother's bedroom, the soldiers knocking on the door. "Sir, are you in there? An Alicia Reynes is here. Sir Arthur?"
[21:16] <Kotono> The knocking is answered after a short pause, a voice coming from beyond. "Alicia?" Arthur Reynes's words are weary, the door opened. Your father is there, looking pale and waxen. "Oh, Alicia. You're home again."
[21:17] <Alicia> "Hello father," Alicia gently embraces her father and kisses his cheek. "I'm not alone, either," she steps back to reveal the prodigal daughter in question.
[21:22] <Kotono> Alicia is gently kissed back, before Arthur's face shows a look of momentary surprise. "Beth...?" he asks, looking her over. He focuse son her face, solemn. "You look...happy."
[21:23] <Kotono> "...Father." Jessica answers with a dazed voice, looking him over. She reaches out, taking his hand. "My name's Jessica, but...Hello, father."
06[21:24] * Alicia discreetly hangs back in order to give the pair a moment together.
[21:25] <Kotono> "Hello Jessica," Arthur Reynes responds, before hugging his daughter. It's surprisingly tight, Jessica gasping. "It really is true. I've never seen you look so happy since you were a young child."
[21:26] <Kotono> "...Alicia...?" The voice of Alicia's mother carries outward, rather subdued. "Arthur, I thoguht I just heard Alicia's voice. But she's off magicking and killing again."
06[21:27] * Alicia winces at how that was put. "I'm right here, mother," she calls back through the door from behind her sister and father.
[21:29] <Kotono> "Alicia?" Looking over, you can see that Beatrice Reynes lies in her bed, covers up to her chin. She is propped up on several pillows, a thin white bandage over a small cut on her cheek. "Oh Alicia, you have come home! Arthur, get someone to make her something warm to eat. It's so ghastly these days; even when the weather is good, everything's so worried."
[21:31] <Alicia> "Here," Alicia carefully moves past Jessica and Arthur before approaching her mother, going to sit by her bed and reaching out a hand towards her cheek to bestow as much healing as necessary. "We came as soon as we heard," she tells her mother.
[21:31] <Alicia> OOC: 17hp lay on hands or whatever gets her to full
[21:31] <Kotono> OOC: 2 HP is fine. She's not an HP tank or anything.
[21:33] <Kotono> "Aaah..." Sighing in relief, "Thank you, dear. But yes, things are becoming ghastly. Now the bandits strike in Kelara proper! Lord Roth is trying, but they always seem to outsmart him.
[21:33] <Kotono> "
[21:34] <Kotono> A grunt comes from Arthur at that name, even as he hugs his daughter. "Well, sooner or later bracing mediocrity rises to the top."
[21:34] <Kotono> Antenora quietly enters in the meanwhile, going to stand behind Alicia.
[21:35] <Kotono> Tsking lightly, "Arthur, don't speak like that! He's doing a good a job as he can being thrust into the position."
[21:35] <Alicia> "This is Antenora," Alicia provides by way of introduction, "She's come to help. Since we have experience in war, hopefully we can provide better direction than Kelara has at the moment."
[21:36] <Kotono> "Good day to you," she offers a smile to Beatrice, but doesn't press the matter.
[21:36] <Kotono> "Oh, is she a friend of yours? Another warrior friend from that Balmuria?" Beatrice asks.
[21:39] <Alicia> "We met elsewhere, but yes, we're both living in Balmuria right now," Alicia confirms, the memory of that odd illusory scene with Antenora and her family tugging at her. "How are Charles and Rose?" she asks, making with the pleasantries before they get down to business.
[21:43] <Kotono> "They're preparing for a trip." Arthur says quietly, "Theyr'e going to see about business matters in the east, maybe even go as far as the first oasis in the desert."
[21:45] <Alicia> "Hoping to escape the trouble here?" Alicia summarises. "I just hope they're careful - the desert is very dangerous to travellers."
[21:45] <Kotono> "Yes," Beatrice says, "It was your father's idea. Just in case."
[21:46] <Kotono> "What about you," Your father speaks up then, "How long are you going to be here, Alicia?"
[21:47] <Alicia> "At least a week," Alicia replies. "I'll have to return to Balmuria then to deal with another problem, but if necessary I'll return to Kelara after its resolved. I intend to do something about this rebellion."
[21:49] <Kotono> "How noble of you," Arthur turns, "Quite the right spirit. ARe you going to enlist in the city's army as an officer?"
[21:51] <Kotono> Jessica is at last released, hanging back behind Arthur for now.
[21:51] <Alicia> "I'm not sure - I'll see how things pan out after I discuss things with Dweomerkeeper Taldeer. To be honest, I know hardly anything about this rebellion." She looks between her two parents hopefully, "Just how did things come to this?"
[21:52] <Kotono> "Oh, that's all the gossip," Beatrice gestures, "Arthur, get the servants to bring tea, pastries and get the chairs in position. We can't have a proper discussion standing up like savages!"
[21:53] <Kotono> "Yes dear," Arthur goes out past Jessica into the hall. As he does, Alicia's mother's gaze happens on Jessica. Her face parts into a slight frown, though she doesn't say anything.
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06[21:53] * Alicia looks over to Jessica expectantly, since this would be a good time for her to meet her mother before they get back to business.
[21:54] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Hello...Mother." Jessica smiles slowly as she approaches, "I don't remember you because of what happened, but I'm glad to see you again." She approaches her bed, smiling warmly despite the scowl. "I'd wanted to meet you."
06[21:55] * Alicia hopes her mother won't be difficult. She seemed to miss Beth last time Alicia spoke to her. Nonetheless she lets this play out without interfering, for the moment.
[21:55] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Beatrice looks at that smile and that face, "Beth, you look happy now," she says in soft wonder. "Gods, you haven't looked like that since you dunked Alicia in that mudhole as a young girl."
[21:57] <Alicia> Thanks to the passage of two decades, Alicia can at least look back and laugh. Barely.
[21:57] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Oh." Coloring faintly at that, and murmuring sorry to Alicia, "I'm very happy now. My name's Jessica now, though."
[21:57] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Antenora cracks a smile, but doesn't speak overtly.
[21:58] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Beth," she says this with emphasis, "It's the name I gave you when I held you the first time, and that's what I'll call you until my deathbed." Sitting up more alertly on her pillows, "Have you finally gotten over your rebellous streak?"
06[21:59] * Alicia shrugs as her mother proves where they got their stubborness from. Hopefully Jessica can indulge such idiosyncracies.
[22:00] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> With a slightly straining smile, "Mother, I don't even remember that, so I suppose I am."
[22:00] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Good," Brightening at that, "Beth, sit down and have some tea with us. Your father should be back soon and the servants should have it ready shortly."
06[22:02] * Alicia blushes slightly but gives Jessica a reassuring smile that basically says 'just go with it'.
[22:02] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Beth goes and gets a soft sitting chair, bringing it over to the bed. As she does, "Heavens, Beth! That's what the help is for! You'll ruin your back!" With a reproachful look, "Arthur," she raises her voice, "Do hurry now."
[22:02] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Antenora starts to smile, creeping up her face.
[22:03] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Beth just blushes and smiles back as much as she can to Alicia and her mother. "Sorry," she says, sitting down and putting her hands into her lap.
[22:04] <Alicia> "Really mother, she'll be fine," Alicia admonishes, "She's probably in better shape than any of the help, anyway."
[22:06] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Arthur returns, a servatn bringing a tray with tea and pastries. He sets it on a table, getting chairs into position. "Nonsense," Beatrice dismisses. "Now then, sit down and we can talk like civlized people."
[22:08] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Antenora sits down as well, smiling quite widely. "Thank you, ma'am."
06[22:09] * Alicia thanks the servant and picks up a cup and saucer to drink from. "So... just what's happened to bring Kelara to this state?" she returns to her earlier question.
[22:12] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Arthur gets his own tea, as JEssica gets right to the pastries. "Well, at first it was just loose banditry. We're familiar with that. But then, as time passed, it's begun to become more organized. I believe this was around the time you visited last, Alicia? There were signs it might be serious, but it was still far away.{"
06[22:13] * Alicia nods, sipping on her tea as she takes in the background details.
[22:22] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "A little after you left, the rebels began to be felt. The army was sent after them in ernest, but a series of setbacks sent them staggering back. Betrayls, ambushes, guerilla tactics and good knowledge of the terrain lead to several piercing victories. Thanks to our leadership they were prevented from becoming routes...an d then the first wave of assassinations started."
[22:23] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Beatrice interrups Arthur here, "The army leadership lost several people, as well as nobles. Further, a message began coming out in earnest; the nobility was going to fall and fall hard. The scariest part is that it's come from many, but it doesn't seem to have a direct source. It's always the rebels or a few isolated prisoners who claim not to know, or traitors who say the same."
[22:24] <Alicia> "Do you know anything about who's behind this rebellion?" Alicia asks. Surely to have any popular support it must have at least a visible figurehead.
[22:26] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Arthur nods, "The stories began to spread like wildfire along with the assassinations. It reached a cresendo yesterday with the coordinated attacks in Kelara proper." A stop there, "No, I don't. The rumor mill is abuzz - it's a disgrunted noble, it's someone making a power play, it's a foreigner, it's him or her or it. I don't know if Lord Roth knows, though."
[22:26] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Of course," Beatrice says with disdain there, "They're all stationed in the country sticks and away from Kelara proper. It's probably some farmer with a gift for being a pest."
[22:27] <Alicia> "Mother, that's where I used to live," Alicia dryly reminds Beatrice.
[22:29] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "And we know how that worked out. THere are downright savages in the countryside," Beatrice jabs, "Savages with no respect for law and order."
[22:31] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Dear," Arthur interjects there, "Be that as it may, this situation is very serious."
[22:32] <Alicia> "That's because they never get to experience it," Alicia retorts. "Everyone outside those walls is left to fend for themselves. If that effete noble's council had actually shown a firm hand all across Kelara then you can be sure this rebellion would never have had fertile ground to sprout from."
[22:33] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Arthur starts to speak, then at last stops. Instead, after a breath, "Maybe so, but hindsight is without merit to us. Lord Roth is not the man to save Kelara, but he's entirely too good to holding onto power, like a baby who refuses to give back his rattle."
[22:35] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Charming," Antenora murmurs. "How badly beaten is the army?"
[22:35] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "There's been losses of competent commanders; the officer corps are depleted. Many of the enlisted are suspected of having sympathies with the rebels. In short, not good." Arther grunts now, "Or so the rumors go, but I suspect these are tragically close to the truth."
[22:38] <Alicia> "They think they're beaten, it's no wonder," Alicia surmises. "But I just don't understand how a rebellion could flourish so much in secret - certainly secrecy makes sense in the beginning, but at this stage when they're poised for victory? Where's the rallying figurehead? What's actually drawing them together?"
[22:40] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "It's always the rebellion, or taking down the nobility," Arthur answers, drinking his tea. "It's quite disturbing.
[22:40] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "
[22:41] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "You're right," Antenora speaks up, "Rebellions don't last on word of mouth and rumor alone. I could perhaps believe one very capable or a small cadre of capable people were managing several isolated cells or small divisions, but someone has to be directhing everything."
[22:44] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> Jessica has been lsitening, often paying more attention to her parents than the words. "Don't worry. If Alicia says she'll save it, she'll save it. I haven't seen her fail yet."
[22:45] <Alicia> "And none of the prisoners have offered anything? The loyalists don't have any spies to call on?" Alicia asks, despairing at the what she has to work with. She then smiles at Jessica. "I've never had to put down a revolution before."
[22:46] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "The rumors vary a little, but...Then again, Lord Roth could have the leader delivered to him ona  silver platter and he'd manage to bumble it." Arthur Reynes sharply scowls.
[22:46] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "If we're not hearing about that, it means that surely Lord Roth has the discretion not to spread his state secrets into the gossips," Beatrice chides, "The man is not so incompetent, dear."
[22:47] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "It can't be harder that saving Antenora or killing a dragon," Jessica smiles even brighter at that, "Or going to fight a pit fiend.?
[22:49] <Alicia> "I haven't done that last one yet," Alicia deflects with a smile. "But it sounds like it might be better if I went directly to Lord Roth rather than simply enlisting way down the chain of command," she turns her attention to her father, "Do you think that could be arranged, father?"
[22:51] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Ask your mother," With a sour look, Arthur passes it to Beatrice! She nods and smiles, starting ot getup, "I feel better now, and that pain relieving herb should be wearing away soon. Of course, dear. I'm sure he'll be happy to see you."
[22:52] <Alicia> "I'd like to talk things over with Taldeer first, but if it could be arranged for sometime tonight or tomorrow morning..." Alicia turns back to her mother.
[22:54] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "I shall." Standing up, and after a moment, "Beth, you're going to come with me," she decides, "If you're forgotten everything, then it is paramount to have you begin to make social ties again. Starting with Lord Roth and staff would be splendid."
06[22:56] * Alicia maintains perfect poise and composure, and certainly does not sigh. Much as she wants to. "Alright then," she puts down her teacup. "In that case I'll return to the temple and discuss things with Dweomerkeeper Taldeer."
[22:57] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "...Mother?" Jessica blinks, even as Beatrice approaches her and taps her shoulder. "Of course. Come, Beth," she says, leading your sister away with her. Arthur looks on at them go, a curious smile on his face for a few moments.
[22:58] <Alicia> "Good luck, sister," Alicia mouths as they leave, before smiling at her father. "At least they're getting along... I think."
[22:59] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Close enough." Arthur then turn sto Antenora, offering her a hand after approaching her. "It's nice to meet you. I'd love to talk to you more under better circumstances, but life is difficult these days."
[23:01] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Thank you," Antenora shakes the hand briefly, which makes Alicia's father stop. "You have a grip of iron, just like Alicia," he says, wringling his hand. "My word."
[23:03] <Alicia> "The armour isn't just for show," Alicia smiles, recalling that Antenora didn't always wear armour... or clothing at all. "Anyway, we'd best head back to the temple for now, but we'll return tonight if it's not an imposition."
[23:04] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "It's a side effect of my calling," Antenora joins Alicia, "Until then, sir."
[23:04] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "Good luck with him. The man's as hard headed as a living rock." Arthur says.
[23:05] <Alicia> "I can be very persuasive," Alicia assures her father as she heads out.
[23:06] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> As you head downstairs, "It's bad. I think it's recoverable unless something unpleasant is at the bottom of it," she surmises, pace brisk, "As long as the army hasn't distingrated, they can still be rallied. Your family's minor nobility or close to it, if I recall?"
[23:08] <Alicia> "They're about as high up as it's possible to be without sitting on the council," Alicia confirms. "What worries me most is that there doesn't really seem to be anyone fit to lead - it's no good putting down the rebellion if Kelara is just going to lurch along like a zombie afterwards. Something needs to be done about the way this country is run."
[23:10] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "That's harder. You can kill the leaders or subdue them, but do you want to spend your life leading them?" Antenora looks at her askance, "You're talking about your own sort of rebellion there, even if it's a peaceful one."
06[23:12] * Alicia snorts. "Weren't you the one who wanted her own kingdom to rule?" she asks as they begin the walk up the road to Kelara's gates. "I couldn't, though. Even if I could break my ties with the United Baronies, the fact is I still need to be there to continue the work in those ruins, to eventually confront Daa-vid."
[23:13] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "We all make mistakes," Antenora smiles a little there, warmth creeping into her features, the cloudy weather overcast and dim. "Anyway, the point I'm making is that if you want to change Kelara, someone has to do the heavy lifting. Unless you're as lucky as a fairy tale, something's going to happen, or they'll simply revert to the old behaviors otherwise."
[23:16] <Alicia> "I know," Alicia sighs heavily. "First we'll see if Taldeer has any ideas - she's lived here since before my parents were even born, so she knows the place better than anyone. Then we'll see what we can make of this Lord Roth... he's not someone I remember much of offhand, anyway."

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[20:54] <Alicia> [21:15] * Alicia snorts. "Weren't you the one who wanted her own kingdom to rule?" she asks as they begin the walk up the road to Kelara's gates. "I couldn't, though. Even if I could break my ties with the United Baronies, the fact is I still need to be there to continue the work in those ruins, to eventually confront Daa-vid."
[20:54] <Alicia> [21:16] <Infinite_Ko_Loop> "We all make mistakes," Antenora smiles a little there, warmth creeping into her features, the cloudy weather overcast and dim. "Anyway, the point I'm making is that if you want to change Kelara, someone has to do the heavy lifting. Unless you're as lucky as a fairy tale, something's going to happen, or they'll simply revert to the old behaviors otherwise."
[20:54] <Alicia> [21:19] <Alicia> "I know," Alicia sighs heavily. "First we'll see if Taldeer has any ideas - she's lived here since before my parents were even born, so she knows the place better than anyone. Then we'll see what we can make of this Lord Roth... he's not someone I remember much of offhand, anyway."
[20:59] <Kotono> With those words, the two proceed back into Kelara. It takes some time to get through the gates - each person is searched, frisked and interrogated. As the two wait in line, a drizzly-cool rain begins to fall from the skies, making everyone damp but not truly wet, like a sheen of cool water. When at last Alicia and Antenora are up, the guards look her over, "Papers?" they ask.
[21:00] <Alicia> "Exact same ones we had half an hour ago," Alicia smiles as she presents hers once again.
[21:01] <Kotono> The papers are examined carefully, the two armored women looked at intently. At last the papers are passed back, "Enter," the guard annouces briskly, rain drops falling all around.
06[21:02] * Alicia folds up her papers and puts them back into her backpack so that the rain won't ruin them and heads directly for Mystra's temple once inside the city.
[21:07] <Kotono> The trip back to the Temple of Mystra is a tense one. The city is wet, on edge, busy. Once back in thet emple and dried of the rain, the two go to meet Dweomerkeeper Taldeer. She is sitting where you last saw her, drinking from her strange smelling mug and penning a scroll, writing swiftly.
[21:10] <Alicia> "Taldeer?" Alicia speaks softly in greeting to the cleric as she enters her chambers to get her attention.
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[21:13] <Kotono> "Alicia." Putting down her pen and then sprinkling sand on the scroll to dry the ink, "How's your mother?"
[21:16] <Alicia> "Quite well, now," Alicia replies as she takes a seat. "She's going to arrange a meeting between me and Lord Roth, and is busy helping my sister make... social ties." She smiles lopsidedly at said concept.
[21:17] <Kotono> Antenora stays standing, hovering over Alicia. "Social ties? Oh dear, even now she's acting like that? She's feeling better." With the faintest smile at this occurance, "How're things out there? I've heard they're tense, but I haen't had the chance to go out and see it."
06[21:19] * Alicia makes a face. "The church doesn't seem to be popular right now," she admits. "A man threw an egg at me and spouted all sorts of abuse about 'limp wristed Mystrans'. The guards were none too gentle in apprehending him, either." Shaking her head and leaning on Taldeer's desk, "I see now why you were so worried."
[21:21] <Kotono> "Yes. It's gone from a background worry to a serious threat in a most alarming way. The panic that is gripping Kelara proper is a grave threat. The people are lashing out at established authority, alternating between needful terror to be saved and fear tinted anger for letting 'the end come' as they see it."
[21:24] <Alicia> "And no one seems to know anything about these rebels," Alicia sounds entirely unconvinced as she says it. "I just don't understand how an uprising could develop into such a threat and yet remain so wholly unknown - where's the charismatic figurehead? The attention getting propaganda? The sugar-coated ideology? If the council does fall, what's going to replace it?"
[21:27] <Kotono> With a bitter smile, "I don't know. That's what keeps me up at night, Alicia. There's nothing running it but apparently hate of the current regime and fear and all the damned rumors."
[21:30] <Alicia> "I don't think this is a real rebellion," Alicia shakes her head. "I've heard nothing to indicate any sort of popular support - it's all cloak and dagger assassinations, banditry, and bribery. No... my instinct is telling me that someone powerful is trying to make the council fall so they can sweep in and pick up the pieces."
[21:39] <Kotono> "Who then?" Taldeer asks. "This is looking to be well organized at some level, so it' snot some bumpkin attempting to stir shit up." With a grimace as she rubs her temples, "I'm worried the Fiefdoms or maybe someone to the west is trying to get lucky."
[21:42] <Alicia> "Speaking of West, the crown prince of Kesse is a devout follower of Shar, so I wouldn't expect anything friendly from them," Alicia tells Taldeer. "But there's a huge jungle between here and there, so I doubt they'd have any real interest. The Fiefdoms... maybe, though they often talk as if Kelara is utterly unimportant to them. As for our other neighbours... I don't know. How are relations these days?"
[21:48] <Kotono> "Kesse...Oh yes, I think I read of that region once. It's past the jungle, so let Mystra care of that for now." As she settles in, Antenora's expression briefly flickers into anger at the mention of Shar. "The Fiefdoms lent us some money to help put the invasino down. Relations are good, they seem content not to attack our borders. Thankfully they're generally not expansionist. The others? We haven't been getting along with Bath - a few of thei
[21:48] <Kotono> The others? We haven't been getting along with Bath - a few of their traders got drunk and raped a few women in a bar. The problem was that it happened to be the daughter of Sir Lahn, an officer in the army and a well respected land owner. Relations have been strained because of the incident. Past that? Nodlitz hasn't caused any trouble either."
[21:52] <Alicia> "Hmm..." Alicia digests that. "Nothing obvious, but then if they've managed to pull off their fake rebellion so well so far we could hardly expect them to be. It could even be a Kelaran seeking power - but what it comes down to is that everything points to this being a coup led by a secretive - by definition small - group rather than a genuine popular uprising."
[21:52] <Alicia> It could even be an outsider of some sort, although Alicia prefers not to think of that.
[21:54] <Kotono> "That makes a strike of decapitation quite viable," Antenora speaks up now, "If we can pinpoint the leader and deal with him, the rotten body will wither."
[21:54] <Kotono> "Or her," Taldeer corrects, "Antenora, wasn't it? There's a few ambitious women in Kelara as well, make no mistake. Like Alicia's mother," With a faint smile, "Always working to get ahead in her social standings."
[21:56] <Alicia> "At least she's harmless, if somewhat trying at times," Alicia smiles slightly before her expression turns grim, "But even if we defeat the rebellion, it still leaves Kelara in a precarious state - the people won't soon forget the impotence of their rulers, and the government likely will continue overreacting to try and maintain the illusion of control - I've heard little of Lord Roth but none of it inspires confidence."
[21:58] <Kotono> Holding a hand out, Taldeer waves it side to side. "He's not incompetent. He's not really risen to the occasion, either. He also has the inpolitical tendency to not care what people think of him once he has power."
[21:59] <Alicia> "Really?" Alicia looks somewhat buoyed. "My father didn't seem to think much of him. I suppose I'll reserve judgement till I meet him myself, then."
[22:02] <Kotono> "But you're still right. This has really frayed the basic social fabric of Kelara. Win or lose, the confidence in the council has been critically wounded. At best it will take a long time for it to be restored. AT worst..." Lowering her hand and then her head, "Mystra only knows what could follow."
[22:04] <Kotono> "Chaos, anarchy, bloodshed." Antenora surmises gloomily. "Do you think the council could recover after this?"
[22:05] <Alicia> "We really need a strong leader, something that the political backstabbing of the council has never really encouraged..." Alicia furrows her brow in thought, but no easy solution becomes obviously apparent. "With all the assassinations, how many are actually left besides Lord Roth?"
[22:07] <Kotono> "Six more or less have power right now. Lord Roth, Lord Lahn, Lord Kesper, Lord Anders, Lord Kelvan, Lord Frost. Your parents are getting very close to cracking that, between the various deaths and the discord. A lot of the lesser nobles are busy being officers in the army, trying to hold things together, so they're not as much of a factor."
[22:07] <Kotono> "Of course, Lord Roth commands the army. Lord Lahn and Kesper more or less deal with the city here. Lord Anders, Kelvan and Frost are serving as commanding generals under Lord Roth."
06[22:08] * Alicia shakes her head. "It's been so long, I can hardly even remember any of those names... anything noteworthy I should know about any of them?"
[22:10] <Kotono> "Lord Lahn's an old school sort - you probably would remember the face, he's been at your mother's parites a few times. Lord Kesper is relatively newly risen, but he's dealing with all the guards and patrols. Lord Anders is a patient old man, good defensive strategist. I hear he's dealing with defending if the rebels attack Kelara proper. Lord Kelvan's a trader who recently retired and bought his way into things, coming with lots of money. Lord
[22:10] <Kotono> bought his way into things, coming with lots of money. Lord Frost is another old one. I don't think he's on good terms with your family."
06[22:13] * Alicia nods as she takes in that information. "Defence isn't the problem, though - we should be focusing on finding the ringleaders. Are there any prisoners from the assassins, do you know?"
[22:15] <Kotono> "Lord Roth might know, but all I've heard is rumors on it," Taldeer answers.
[22:16] <Alicia> "Alright," Alicia drops the matter as she shifts her backpack onto her lap. "On a lighter note," she smiles slightly, "I brought you a present."
[22:17] <Kotono> Antenora steps back a few feet.
[22:18] <Kotono> "Really?" Smiling at that, "Mystra knows I could use something to bolster my spirits! What is it?
[22:18] <Kotono> "
06[22:19] * Alicia digs out the coiled black whip and sets it down on the desk in front of Taldeer with a proud smile, looking for all the world like a cat who just brought a dead rat before its owner.
[22:20] <Kotono> "It's..." Taldeer blinks as she gazes the black whip, "It's...a whip. Alicia, I didn't think you'd give me something like that...I mean, it must be ensorcelled, yes?"
[22:21] <Alicia> "Of course it is!" Alicia replies quickly. Then, after an awkward silence, "Don't you feel... different?" she hazards.
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[22:23] <Kotono> "I..." Taldeer reaches out for it, "I kind of...oh!" As her hand closes around the handle, Taldeer's words stop. She picks up the whip, and with a strangely  mischevious smile, cracks it! "Oh...my, Mother of All Magic!"
[22:23] <Kotono> Quietly behind her, Alicia can hear someone quietly slipping out of the room.
[22:25] <Alicia> "You see!" Alicia looks pleased. "It has a very interesting-" she pauses and glances at the door before turning back to Taldeer, "Don't mind Antenora. Honestly, the way she acts you'd think I'd done something improper with it."
[22:26] <Kotono> CRACK! The whip lashes out again, cutting through the air. "Oh, it's just marvelous. Where did you find such a wonderful item?" Taldeer can't seem tos top grinning, cracking it a second time.
[22:28] <Alicia> "In a treasure chest belonging to a suicidal undead nalfeshnee," Alicia replies, managing to keep a straight face. "Anyway, as I was saying, it has a very interesting history that I thought you'd appreciate - in addition to the obviously entertaining enchantment."
[22:31] <Kotono> "Yes," A fourth crack comes a little close to Alicia, as Taldeer preens. "I feel like being called a Queen now...oh yes, I just like this so much." Going to sit back down and rubbing the whip's handle happily, "Even if it's the enchantment talking, who cares?"
06[22:34] * Alicia is just glad to have brought a smile to her mentor's face, even as she's unsure whether to avoid the lash or accept it. "Its name is Shar's Caress - it was actually made by servants of the Lady of Loss as an implement to torture followers of Mystra. But as you can see, they botched the job."
[22:34] <Alicia> "It still functions admirably as a weapon - if you're into that sort of thing - but it also draws those who venerate Mystra to it in a rather pleasing fashion."
[22:36] <Kotono> "What ac urious history and a curious origin..." The whip lashes out again, at least not at Alicia this time. "Mmmmmm...." After a long moment she gets up, going to put it into a drawer. Shaking her head wearily, "As much fun as it is, this isn't the time for games...I think."
[22:37] <Alicia> "I suppose it's not," Alicia agrees, "But still an entertaining diversion." Leaning back towards the door she calls out, "It's safe to come back now, Antenora."
[22:39] <Kotono> "Good," Antenora enters again after that, "I'd have hated to have spoiled your two special alone time with the whip."
[22:40] <Alicia> "Very considerate of you," Alicia nods, deciding to just go with it. Any protests would surely just make things sound worse.
[22:41] <Kotono> Taldeer gives Antenora an even look, though she doesn't press it. Instead, "Are the two of you going to linger much longer? Not to be a rude hostess, but I'm quite busy. In case the worst does happen, I'm preparing the temple to preserve our sacred texts and keepings."
[22:42] <Alicia> "I told my mother to meet me here after she'd spoken to Lord Roth," Alicia admits. "So in that case is there anything we can do to help out?"
[22:55] <Kotono> Taldeer looks at Alicia and Antenora critically, before smiling. "There is. Both of you are fairly strong?"
[22:58] <Alicia> "Oh, yes," Alicia nods. "Even without this belt of giant strength a mage in Balmuria made for me, I haven't gotten any weaker over the years."
[23:00] <Kotono> "It's humble work, but humility helps one appreciate how wonderous Mystra's gifts are." Clapping her hands, "There are some shelves we need to move, but the soldiers are on orders to maintain guard, all the strapping young men are being drafted into the army, and all the casters capable of doing it with magic are busy preparing. If the two of you would be so kind?"
[23:02] <Alicia> "Of course," Alicia smiles agreeably as she gets up, happy to help in whatever capacity is needed.
[23:04] <Kotono> Thus shelf movements take up Alicia's next few hours. Antenora helps, the two removing books, moving shelves and then restocking in an underground cellar, secured and protected. As thet wo work, "It's humble work." Antenora snorts as the two of you lug a particularly heavy, wooden behemoth of a shelf. "Does this mean you have stories of all sorts of hard labor as an acoylte at the temple?"
[23:07] <Alicia> "I suppose I do," Alicia grunts as they negotiate the stairs with their burden, idly wondering just what's taking her mother so long, "But since it's hard to work an unexpected twist and heartwarming moral into this sort of thing, they're not very good ones."
[23:13] <Kotono> As they manuver downward, "Speaking of twists and stories, what DID Marie say?" As the two put the bookshelf down at last, another one done, "You look like you could use a few moments of a break anyway."
[23:17] <Alicia> "Oh, that," Alicia dusts her hands off as they set the shelf in place. "She thought she could explain my distaste of drinking with the idea that Beth nearly drowned me in a wine vat when we were children," she explains in exasparation. "No one seems able to grasp that I just don't like the taste of alcohol."
[23:18] <Kotono> "Oh." Leaning agaisnt the massive bookshelf and wiping her head clean, "It is hard to believe, since you grew up on a vinyard.  Imagine if a farmer said he hates the taste of food."
[23:21] <Alicia> "I love grapes," Alicia volunteers with a smile. "Making wine just seemed like a horrible waste to me."
[23:21] <Kotono> "Ask Marie to feed you grapes for breakfast." Starting to smile coyly, "She stays in your room anyway, so she can make it breakfast in bed." Brushing her armor off briefly, "Ready to get back to work?"
[23:23] <Alicia> "They're hard to get in Balmuria. Better when I can just eat them straight off the vine," Alicia replies as she heads up to collect their next load.
[23:29] <Kotono> About a half hour later respite comes. A young acolyte comes and leads Alicia and Antenora back to Taldeer's chambers. Here Beatrice and Jessica are waiting, both rather rain wetted. Jessica sneezes a few times as the pair enters, while Beatrice simmers, arms crossed.  "There you are, Alicia! Do you believe it? I got stuck waiting in the RAIN for a half hour and THEN we got caught in a downpour! Abominable!"
[23:30] <Alicia> "You were kept waiting outside?" Alicia asks in disbelief. Either her mother is very unpopular or noble hospitality has taken a severe downturn in this city.
[23:32] <Kotono> After another sneeze, "It wasn't like that. The -achoo!- problem was that Sir Roth was inspecting a legion of soldiers, and we ended up waiting and watching him do -achoo!- that." Rubbing her nose, Jessica sniffles. "Mother," With a hint of irritation, "I believe you said, 'It is only proper that we stay here and show our support to our beloved nation's troops in this difficult time,'?"
[23:34] <Kotono> "Even if I did, I was obviously at fault for Lord Roth's timing," With a scowl she uses a hankerchief to dab at her face and clothes, drying them slightly. "Irregardless, we did see him."
[23:34] <Alicia> "Here, at least let me dry you both off before you continue," Alicia offers, casting a cantrip and proceeding to briskly run her hand over each woman just above the surface of their clothes as she magics away the accumulated drizzle.
[23:34] <Kotono> "Aaah. Thank -achoo!-" Jessica sneezes again, sharply, "Thanks, sister. But yes, Mother, if you weren't so worried over my social status..."
[23:35] <Kotono> "It's only proper, Beth," With a quick look back to her daughter, and then back to her other daughter, "He'll see you at dinnertime."
[23:36] <Alicia> "Tomorrow?" Alicia asks, frowning a bit at the delay. She really doesn't want to waste her time on this.
[23:37] <Kotono> "Today. It's not that late out yet." Beatrice answers.
[23:38] <Alicia> "Oh..." Alicia shakes her head, "We actually had dinner before coming to Kelara... so how long till then?"
[23:39] <Kotono> "I can explain that," Taldeer speaks up, "When you move very far west or east very quickly, as with teleport, you'll find that time isn't exactly the same. When going westward, you find it gets earlier in the day."
[23:40] <Kotono> "A half hour, if that. You shouldn't dally too much longer," Beatrice replies.
[23:41] <Alicia> "Really?" Alicia looks askance at Taldeer. "I'd never actually noticed... but I suppose that does make sense. Anyway," she shakes her head, "That should be fine - where will I find Lord Roth?"
[23:42] <Kotono> "At the administration center for the city garrison," The answer comes after, "It should take you about twenty minutes to get there in this weather."
[23:43] <Alicia> "We'll wait five minutes then head off," Alicia nods, knowing the way. "What does Lord Roth look like?" she asks so as to hopefully avoid any faux pas by not recognising him.
Session Time: Wed Nov 19 00:00:00 2008
[00:03] <Kotono> "Tall man, small nose, white uniform," Jessica recounts between a few sneezes.
[00:05] <Alicia> "Thanks. Now, the two of you should go home and have something warm to drink in front of the fire," she suggests to her mother and sister, her tone not brooking any argument.
[00:06] <Kotono> "That would be nice. Come along, Beth, we can talk about some gentleman callers who could come by once this unpleasant business concludes." Rising up, Beatrice takes Jessica along with her.
06[00:07] * Alicia just shakes her head. Her mother would never have dreamed of foisting Beth off on some suitor back when they were young.
[00:08] <Kotono> As she's gone, the Dweomerkeeper hides a smile with her hand. "It's rather funny to see, when you consider the past. She really doesn't remember a scrap of it, though?"
[00:11] <Alicia> "The waters of the Styx took a heavy toll," Alicia concludes. "I still don't know if it's better this way, but she seems happy and I suppose that's all I can ask for."
[00:11] <Kotono> "The Styx strips everything away in it's blank hunger. In a way, even this loss was it's own blessing. I'm not sure if Beth would have ever been happy from what I saw of her," Antenora adds.

[Corwin]

[20:14] <Alicia> [22:09] <Kotono> "That would be nice. Come along, Beth, we can talk about some gentleman callers who could come by once this unpleasant business concludes." Rising up, Beatrice takes Jessica along with her.
[20:14] <Alicia> [22:10] * Alicia just shakes her head. Her mother would never have dreamed of foisting Beth off on some suitor back when they were young.
[20:14] <Alicia> [22:11] <Kotono> As she's gone, the Dweomerkeeper hides a smile with her hand. "It's rather funny to see, when you consider the past. She really doesn't remember a scrap of it, though?"
[20:14] <Alicia> [22:14] <Alicia> "The waters of the Styx took a heavy toll," Alicia concludes. "I still don't know if it's better this way, but she seems happy and I suppose that's all I can ask for."
[20:14] <Alicia> [22:15] <Kotono> "The Styx strips everything away in it's blank hunger. In a way, even this loss was it's own blessing. I'm not sure if Beth would have ever been happy from what I saw of her," Antenora adds.
[20:15] <Kotono> "Alright." After a nod to that, "Get going, you two.  Good luck with Roth."
[20:17] <Alicia> "One thing to help with that perhaps..." Alicia smiles slightly before gesturing before her and saying a few magic words, after which her voice seems to possess some indefinable quality that makes it so much better to listen to. "A spell I invented to make negotiations go more smoothly," she smiles at Taldeer. "I'll talk you through it later if you're interested," she offers before departing.
[20:21] <Kotono> "Fascinating! Do so!" With an interested look Taldeer bids them off, the duo heading out into the rain. It's intolerably rainy, wet and even a touch chilly in this sort of downpour. The streets are slick and muddy, most of the foot traffice now finished. The administration center is busier than most of the city now, many, many troops here or on patrol. You are ushered through no fewer than four checkpoints before you get insisde the old, grand
[20:21] <Kotono> You are ushered through no fewer than four checkpoints before you get insisde the old, grand stone and marble building. A well trained old man in bulter's clothes bows as he waits for you. "Lady Alicia?" he greets her. "Lord Roth is waiting for you."
[20:23] <Kotono> Antenora shakes her head lightly, freeing it of the moisture that has soaked her. She stays behind Alicia otherwise for now.
[20:25] <Alicia> While ordinarily she prefers Mrs Reynes, Alicia decides that grandiose titles are likely to be of a benefit in this situation and so goes with it. "Excellent," she nods, quickly prestidigitating all the water off herself and briefly fussing over Antenora to do the same for her. "If you'll show us in, please?" she then asks.
[20:26] <Kotono> The servant doesn't seem alarmed by the magic at all. He simply bows again, leading you within. You go past grand offices for generals and marshals, past a dining hall grand as any a noble lord might have in his home. You go into a smaller dining hall, ornate but more restrained. It's dominated by a single table, smooth darkwood and showing an etched in, moving, very much alive scene of a band of mounted knights breaking up a defensive line. (M
[20:26] <Kotono> mounted knights breaking up a defensive line. (More)
[20:28] <Kotono> Lord Roth is a tall man. Even sitting he flows above his chair like a perched pelican. He has fine gray-blonde hair, kept very short. He wears a perfectly kept white uniform and white gloves, the latter supporting his chin as he waits, balled up. A jewelled saber rests attached to his belt. His nose is absolutely tiny, more like a miniscule speed bump on his face. "Alicia Reynes, Lady; daughter of Beatrice and Arthur Reynes." He does not stand,
[20:29] <Kotono> "Alicia Reynes, Lady; daughter of Beatrice and Arthur Reynes." He does not stand, though he does look to you. (More)
[20:30] <Kotono> Only a few servants are in the room, bringing in trays of roasted bird and vegetables for dinner. They are silent and well trained, fading into the background and away once the food is put down. "Your timing is impeccable. Please, introduce me to your friend and come sit."
[20:35] <Alicia> "This is Antenora," Alicia introduces the erinyes simply as she goes to take a seat at the side of the table. "Thank you for taking the time to see us on short notice, Lord Roth." she goes on, on her best manners since she doesn't want to wind up at odds with someone she needs to work with to save Kelara.
[20:35] <Kotono> Antenora goes to sit net o Alicia, taking a moment to go through the motions of a curtesy, even if she lacks a skirt. "Allow me to second those thanks."
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[20:37] <Kotono> As a servant makes plates up for each of the three, Lord Roth peers past them and to Alicia. "Your absence from Kelara is an excuseable one after that barbaric business with your husband. Again, allow me to express my condolences to your family and yourself." After a second for that to set in, "I also hear the stories that travel the gossip circles about you in the United Baronies far to the east. Reports speak of you as a competent warrior and
[20:38] <Kotono> Reports speak of you as a competent warrior and spellcaster." (More)
[20:39] <Kotono> He stops a moment as a servant pours him a glass of water, taking pause to drink it. "You are coming to offer services and succor to our nation in our time of need?"
[20:43] <Alicia> "Succinctly; yes," Alicia confirms. "As I'm a serving captain in the army of the United Baronies, I cannot formally enlist myself here. But I have no desire to see Kelara fall to ruin - so therefore I am offering my services as an advisor, of sorts. And if necessary I will have no hesitation in taking up my blade against this conspiracy against Kelara."
[20:44] <Kotono> "I will second Alicia in that. She is my master; I will join my wrath to hers," Antenora adds, not eating even as plates are put in front of her.
[20:46] <Kotono> "Your nobility to your homeland is appreciated." Lord Roth nods, "Your timing is superb. I need a sword that can sever the snake's head of this rebellion. You," He stops here, his gaze boring into Alicia, his will virtulaly felt along her, almost oppressively potent, "Will be my sword. Tell me, Lady Alicia, what do you know of the rebellion thus far?"
[20:50] <Alicia> He has presence, Alicia will give him that. "I know that it first emerged several months ago in the periphery, though as little more than banditry with a political facade. While it has grown more threatening since then, there still seems to be a lack of any rallying figurehead or public ideology behind it. Yesterday several nobles were assassinated, in some cases by their own guards."
[20:50] <Alicia> "Those assassins either admitted to bribery or spouted revolutionary dogma when questioned - though I have not been informed of any specifics regarding who bribed them or what the dogma entails, so I assume it's not public knowledge," she concludes, listing the facts without her interpretations.
[20:51] <Kotono> "You are correct." For a moment he smiles, a sharp thing, even as his eyes do not relent. "Of what you said, what is the morest vital, telling fact?"
[20:51] <Kotono> *most
[20:55] <Alicia> "To me it's the lack of a leader or defining ideology," Alicia replies, meeting his gaze calmly while her own potent and attention-getting voice issues forth.
[20:56] <Kotono> He smiles at that, "You are correct again. You will serve me well, Lady Reynes. There is no idealogy behind it, beyond rabble rousing. But before we continue, stand up." He does the same, "The following information is a state secret. I require an oath and bond before these words are shared."
[20:57] <Alicia> OOC: after this much interaction I'm taking 10 for 20 on sense motive to get a gut feeling on whether this dude is trustworthy or not
[21:00] <Alicia> "You can rest assured that I only have Kelara's best interests at heart," Alicia replies smoothly. "I would not share any secrets if it was contrary to the nation's best interests."
[21:01] <Alicia> *nation's wellbeing
[21:10] <Kotono> "Good. Then repeat this: I, Alicia Reynes, do solemnly swear to serve and protect Kelara, to obey the lawful orders I am given, and to uphold these until I reach the life beyond this life."
06[21:13] * Alicia is silent for a moment after the oath, letting the stillness hang in the air just long enough to become awkward before she finally speaks. "I cannot," she states with finality. "My first duty is to Mystra, and my second is to the United Baronies. If an order conflicted with either of those, I would refuse it. I will not make myself an oathbreaker, Lord Roth."
[21:21] <Kotono> OOC - Make a diplo check?
[21:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+38
06[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+38 and gets 55." [1d20=17]
[21:23] <Kotono> Lord Roth listens well ot that, before he goes on. "I suppose that you speak well for how intensly you take your duties, speaking with moving clarity and candor." He nods very shortly, "Very well, I will accept that. Sit again." Once Alicia does so, "We know that this rebellion is the act of one man and a few advisors whom he whispers poison into. A dreadfully capable man, no less."
[21:24] <Alicia> "Everything points to a small conspiracy rather than a popular uprising, yes," Alicia agrees. "So if you know who this man is..." she trails off leadingly.
[21:26] <Kotono> "He's capable of magic, shielding himself from casual divination. Further, he is very skilled at blending into things and disguising himself. He is a plague on us, a pervsion of the highest order. He has killed our best operatives, slicing them apart." A moment here to let the air grow heavier, "We do not know his name, only his mode of operation and his gear."
[21:27] <Alicia> "Go on..." Alicia invites, it sounding like she's going to be up against someone who blends swordplay and magic as she does. And is immune to divination, as she is. This should prove interesting.
[21:30] <Kotono> "He fights most precisely, tearing oppoents apart with a pair of barbed, hooked daggers. He calls them Shame and Blame and they sever apart limbs as easily as scroll-paper is cut. He tumbles wildly about the battlefield. Further, he uses several wands for magic. He is an overwhelming opponent and always wears a steel mask of a fearsome bearded man.
[21:33] <Alicia> "So there are those who have fought him and lived? Or has this information come from prisoners?" Alicia clarifies, narrowing her eyes at how his entire style seems way too similar to her own. Except she has a true warrior's weapon in her sword.
[21:34] <Kotono> "One of our agents got away, if barely. Most of our information comes from him, a few fragments from prisoners who have managed to trade this as repreive from the executioner's axe." Stopping to take a bite of his food, before putting his silverware down, "As of a week ago he was in the vincinity of a farmstead four days northwest of Kelara. We haven't gotten any newer information than that."
[21:35] <Alicia> "If he has any sense - and I'm sure he does based on what we know - he'll be far away by now," Alicia concludes. "So I take it we have no informants or spies amidst the 'rebellion'?"
[21:39] <Kotono> "We've had a few in cells we've been able to use to snuff each cell out. The problem is...imagine this rebellion like a vast mansion. Each room is self contained, there is no doors. Even if you clean one room otu of this menance, it offers no path to the other rooms."
[21:40] <Kotono> "In essence, it's not organized as a rebellion. Our problem comes, lays his poison out and forms a cell, and fades away to repeat the process."
[21:40] <Alicia> "What we need, then, is a lure," Alicia states decisively. "What are the circumstances in which our ringleader has personally involved himself in combat?"
[21:41] <Kotono> "Snuffing out spies and those who found him and attempted to end his life," Lord Roth answers. "When simple underlings would not suffice, I suspect."
[21:45] <Alicia> "Hmm... I could attempt to infiltrate them myself as a spy, but that would take time, and I must return to the Baronies in a week's time, even if only briefly. Any thoughts, Antenora?" she glances at the erinyes to see if she has any insight.
[21:47] <Kotono> "Do you have any cells you know of, but haven't been broken up yet? If we're going to bait him, perhaps one of us could be the bait in one. Does he have a weakness for women? Anything exploitable like that?"
[21:49] <Kotono> "We have the hints of one; but we haven't confirmed it yet. We don't knwo much of his habits beyond his role as our troublemaker." With a pause there, "His personality is largely a blank slate to us, beyond all the trouble he makes.
[21:49] <Kotono> "
[21:51] <Alicia> "Speaking of that, have you received any clues as to his motivation?" Alicia asks. "Clearly he wants the noble council to fall, but to what end? Does he plan on replacing it himself? Is he acting at the behest of another nation that plans to take over? Does he simply enjoy anarchy?"
[22:00] <Kotono> "He speaks with overwhelming eloquence of overthrowing the old order and replacing it with the new, but...nothing of him. No real motivations, only a doctrine of hate and revolution. It's all about the now and the overthrow, nothing of the later."
06[22:04] * Alicia looks thoughtful for a moment. "Attempting to pass myself off as a spy is probably the best approach, although given the recent round of assassinations it's quite likely that the finaly push is imminent. What do we know of this suspected cell?"
[22:06] <Kotono> "It's about six hours outside of Kelara on horseback. A small farming community named Whitewall; it's being lead by a goodwoman named Jane. We know that our revolutionary entered the town, and further, that he likely talked to her. We just haven't managed to prove it yet, since the information is new as of today."
[22:11] <Alicia> "I could go there to investigate while posing as someone sympathetic to the rebellion," Alicia offers. "Either I successfuly infiltrate the group, or they suspect me and the leader comes to kill me - although preferably I'd kill him first. Thoughts?" she looks between Lord Roth and Antenora.
[22:12] <Kotono> "It could work," Antenora allows, then mentally, 'Alone, or...?'
[22:13] <Kotono> "You speak well of yourself. I will entrust that to you," L ord Roth agrees, his meal only half eaten at best. "Your absence will likely render you as an unknown, unless a spy identfies you and this information quickly reaches the rebellion."
[22:15] <Alicia> "I'd disguise myself anyway," Alicia replies. To Antenora 'I'd prefer to give the appearance of being alone, but if I was truly alone then I'd likely have my throat slit in my sleep. We'll need to practice deception ourselves in this.'
[22:15] <Kotono> 'I understand.' As Antenora replies, "This is acceptable and proposes a good chance of success, the best we may have. Begin immediately," Lord Roth says.
[22:17] <Alicia> "I'll make preparations with what's left of the day and depart for Whitewall in the morning," Alicia nods as she rises at the dismissal. "Thank you for your time, Lord Roth."
[22:18] <Kotono> "Thank you," Antenora echos, thus the two leaving. As they walk out of th eroom, 'So...deception?' Antenora broaches.
[22:22] <Alicia> 'Either we keep you out of sight,' Alicia begins, leading the way out out and back to the temple. 'Or give you a disguise as well... Something unexpected.'
[22:23] <Kotono> Antenora is silent for a little bit, 'Like a naked bat winged devil from Hell who wants to slither in and help them?' Suggesting that with half a smile and half a look of disgust, 'You get the idea, at least.'
[22:27] <Alicia> 'I was going to suggest succubus,' Alicia banters back, 'But magic permits lots of options - you could pose as my imp or quasit familiar, for example. Although perhaps we'd be better off to not be quite so showy, to ensure our foe properly underestimates us.'
[22:29] <Kotono> 'I'm glad we're on the same page then,' Antenora glares at Alicia, 'Pervert. But no matter, the point I'm making is that I'd rather not wear my armor to this. Something far less conspicious would do as long as it' sfitted for wings.'
[22:32] <Alicia> 'Yes, our armour and weapons are perhaps too showy for this,' Alicia regretfully agrees. 'Keeping you hidden or shapechanged into another form is the best way of hiding them in that case - although there's little point in you carrying my armour, anyway.'
[22:39] <Kotono> 'Agreed.' As you head back towards the outside, the rain having stopped as night has fallen heavily over the city, 'Going to return to your parent's home and plan from there?'
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[22:46] <Kotono> 'Agreed.' As you head back towards the outside, the rain having stopped as night has fallen heavily over the city, 'Going to return to your parent's home and plan from there?'
[22:48] <Alicia> 'Church first,' Alicia replies. 'At the very least I need to organise travel back to Balmuria in time to go after Esthan - hopefully we can get some teleport scrolls, since if not we'll need to rely on Seira picking up which'll take a few days using her ring.'