D2 001

[Corwin]

[20:04] <Kotono> <Seira> "I gave up for a while," Seira admits, biting on her lower lip. "I should've just trusted in Waukeen more, but it was just so hard... I was afraid all along, and then the worst happened...." Rather than continue, she buries her face in Amaryl's hair. "I'm happy that you came back."
[20:04] <Kotono> > "Waukeen says she understands and..." Amaryl leans in, kissing Seira. As she does, white light engulfs the party! The light soaks into you, washing away your pains and exhaustion like water removes dirt! OOC: Your spells are restored, as are SLA and daily item uses. Your HP is restored, ability drain is reversed and all negative status is negated.
[20:04] <Kotono> > OOC: This applies to the entire party.
[20:04] <Kotono> > Amid the light, Latha laughs. "Come then...we have righteous fury to dispense."
[20:04] <Kotono> > Antenora chuckles, "A shame Marie's not here..." She murmurs a little too loudly.
[20:04] <Kotono> > At this...far away, from the door you came, as you stand amid your gear and all the riches otherwise...crying. The crying of babies can be heard, a mournful, eternal sound. Babies are crying in pain, crying for warmth, crying for Mother...
06[20:07] * Alicia is quite glad her familiar isn't here, since she'd almost certainly have been killed long before now given the sort of creatures they're facing. She doesn't say this, however, pausing in the act of pulling up her leggings at the current interruption.
[20:07] <Alicia> "I read a story once," she comments, "About a little boy who was turned into a vampire. Even though he lived for hundreds of years, he forever retained a child's perceptions and mindset. I wonder if the Neverborn is the same way?"
[20:08] <Kotono> "A sad, lonely child?" Antenora has her spear in hand, dressed. "It may be, but..." Antenora abruptly peers ahead, "Problem, three minds, 100 feet away. Two of them are likely wraiths, but the last one is smarter than that by a fair margin. Smarter than any of us but Seira."
[20:09] <Kotono> Amaryl leans into Seira, only looking away as Antenora speaks, "Again...Seira, let me get dressed?"
01[20:09] <Seira> "Be sure to tell the ancient lich that," Seira tells Antenora, letting go of Amaryl.
06[20:10] * Alicia quickly yanks up her leggings and grabs Hell Striker, having to forget about getting the rest of her equipment. Her sword is the most important thing right now for defending herself.
06[20:11] * Seira works together with Lagann to imbue a set of arrows to be extra fiery and extra piercing to give Amaryl a much better chance at defending herself.
[20:11] <Kotono> OOC: Go ahead and roll init then, since bad things are coming.
01[20:12] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[20:12] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 15." [1d20=9]
01[20:12] <Seira> roll 1d20+6 A
06[20:12] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 A and gets 7." [1d20=1]
[20:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
[20:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 16." [1d20=3]
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 33." [1d20=20]
[20:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 21." [1d20=12]
01[20:13] <Seira> roll 1d20 L
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20 L and gets 4." [1d20=4]
03[20:13] * Kotono changes topic to 'Wraith 2(33)>????(19)>Wraith 1(16)>Seira(15)>Amaryl(7)>Lagann(4)'
[20:13] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 Alicia
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 Alicia and gets 27." [1d20=20]
[20:13] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 Anty
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 Anty and gets 12." [1d20=7]
[20:13] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 Latha
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 Latha and gets 18." [1d20=10]
03[20:14] * Kotono changes topic to 'Wraith 2(33)>Alicia(27)>????(19)>Latha(18)>Wraith 1(16)>Seira(15)>Antenora(12)>Amaryl(7)>Lagann(4)'
[20:14] <Kotono> Racing into the treasure room is one of wraiths! Like the previous is roils with black power, but it sings not the words of the Dark Speech! Instead it goes right for Alicia's heart!
[20:14] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[20:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 25." [1d20=9]
[20:14] <Kotono> OOC: Touch AC?
[20:15] <Alicia> OOC: 21
[20:15] <Kotono> roll 2d6 and fort, you know the drill by now.
06[20:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6 and fort, you know the drill by now. and gets 10." [2d6=6, 4]
[20:16] <Alicia> OOC: Can you take into account the -1 to attack/damage/saves from consecrated presence? A few hits yesterday would've missed/dinged off DR and a few saves would've failed if it was remembered, I think
[20:16] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30
06[20:16] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 and gets 36." [1d20=6]
[20:16] <Kotono> OOC: I didn't, I keep forgetting. Remind me when I roll, thanks.
[20:16] <Kotono> Alicia is touched, the graze weakening her flesh, but only momentarily! The wraith menances, as it's pure darkness seems to drive the life out of all of you! OOC: 1 damage except to Seira, who immunes.
[20:17] <Kotono> OOC: Alicia.
[20:18] <Alicia> Now properly armed, Alicia has no hesitation in slashing out at this new wraith, burning its ragged shadowy form with holy flames as her shining blade rips through it again and again!
[20:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 knowledge
06[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 knowledge and gets 34." [1d20=18]
[20:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -2pa divine might
06[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -2pa divine might and gets 31." [1d20=1]
[20:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 -2pa divine might
06[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 -2pa divine might and gets 30." [1d20=5]
[20:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 -2pa divine might
06[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 -2pa divine might and gets 22." [1d20=2]
[20:18] <Kotono> OOC: One hit. d100.
[20:18] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[20:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 71." [1d100=71]
[20:19] <Alicia> roll 2d4+30+2d6+1d6+1d8
06[20:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d4+30+2d6+1d6+1d8 and gets 49." [2d4=2, 4][2d6=6, 3][1d6=1][1d8=3]
[20:20] <Kotono> Ailcia duels with it, Hell-Stirker glowing red hot and white as it slashes into the abomination of undeath before her! It rocks back with the blow, but it's fury refuses to die! OOC: Latha, go. Whatever ???? is, it's not doing anything you can see.
[20:21] <Alicia> Latha follows Alicia's lead, joining her in confronting the wraith with her gleaming holy mace!
[20:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 -2pa
06[20:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 -2pa and gets 33." [1d20=8]
[20:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 -2pa
06[20:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 -2pa and gets 37." [1d20=17]
[20:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 -2pa
06[20:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 -2pa and gets 31." [1d20=16]
[20:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 -2pa
06[20:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 -2pa and gets 19." [1d20=9]
[20:21] <Alicia> roll 3#1d100
06[20:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3#1d100 and gets 66." [3#1d100 = 3, 5, 58]
[20:21] <Alicia> roll 1d8+16+2d6
06[20:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+16+2d6 and gets 26." [1d8=3][2d6=1, 6]
[20:22] <Kotono> Braining the ghostly being, Latha confronts it with her own light! The blows mostly pass through, but one slams satisfyingly into it's chest! OOC: Wraith 1 is up.
03[20:22] * Kotono changes topic to 'Wraith 2(33)>Alicia(27)>Latha(18)>Wraith 1=????(16)>Seira(15)>Antenora(12)>Amaryl(7)>Lagann(4)'
[20:23] <Kotono> Another black wraith advances into the room! Just behind it, floating behind it's ghostly head...it's a tiny mote of black. In it you can see a baby's arms, legs, body...and crying. So much crying! From it, a cone of pure deathly cold erupts out!
[20:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 SR
06[20:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 SR and gets 30." [1d20=10]
[20:23] <Kotono> roll 15d6+2d6 ref half for Amaryl/Seira
06[20:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 15d6+2d6 ref half for Amaryl/Seira and gets 55." [15d6=3, 1, 4, 3, 3, 2, 6, 2, 2, 3, 5, 1, 6, 5, 1][2d6=6, 2]
[20:24] <Kotono> roll 15d6 mortalbane, so the angels halve this automatically
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 15d6 mortalbane, so the angels halve this automatically and gets 58." [15d6=6, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 3, 5, 1, 2, 2, 6, 3, 6]
01[20:24] <Seira> roll 1d20+20 A
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+20 A and gets 25." [1d20=5]
01[20:24] <Seira> roll 1d20+30
06[20:24] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+30 and gets 31." [1d20=1]
[20:25] <Kotono> The terrible cold is all pervading, as after a black beam of freezing ice jets out from the being, aiming right for Antenora!
[20:25] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 ranged touch Antenora
06[20:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 ranged touch Antenora and gets 25." [1d20=10]
[20:25] <Kotono> OOC: Touch AC Anty?
[20:25] <Alicia> OOC: 25, sadly
[20:26] <Alicia> OOC: 23, actually
[20:26] <Kotono> roll 20d6*1.5 half ice and half untyped
06[20:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 20d6*1.5 half ice and half untyped  and gets 99." [20d6=3, 4, 4, 3, 2, 2, 5, 2, 4, 2, 2, 1, 6, 3, 5, 3, 5, 2, 4, 4]
[20:26] <Alicia> OOC: Any SR?
[20:26] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 dur
06[20:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 dur and gets 34." [1d20=14]
[20:27] <Kotono> The beam freezes into Antenora, turning her body a black streaked frostburned all over! The first wraith stands on guard in the meantime! OOC: Seira.
06[20:30] * Seira snaps a sharp arcane command, and with a quick prayer to Waukeen advances towards the wraith at the doorway, the Sun Blade trailing her in all its glory. Once there, Seira commands it to strike at the unclean thing with all its might, before she and the holy sword retreat into a flanking position with Alicia on the other side of the wraith menacing her.
01[20:31] <Seira> roll 1d20+32 dancing blade!
06[20:31] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+32 dancing blade! and gets 35." [1d20=3]
01[20:32] <Seira> roll 1d10+15
06[20:32] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d10+15 and gets 24." [1d10=9]
[20:33] <Kotono> The golden blade glows as it cuts into the guardian wraith, making it's form shimmer with Lathander's light! It's black body roils, like boiling oil! OOC: Antenora.
[20:33] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 lets ask auntie Latha wtf this new arrival is?
06[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 lets ask auntie Latha wtf this new arrival is? and gets 30." [1d20=5]
[20:35] <Alicia> Antenora follows up after Seira by unravelling the rope coiled at her hip. "I've been waiting all day for this," she remarks with a feral grin, tossing it lightly towards the undead, before the innocuous seeming rope lashes out like a snake of its own volition, coiling tightly around the shadowy figure and binding it to the physical world!
[20:35] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21 ranged touch
06[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+21 ranged touch and gets 31." [1d20=10]
[20:36] <Kotono> The rope coils around the wraith, binding it as it's body appears as soild as a mountain, no longer flickering in and out of visibility! OC: Amaryl.
01[20:36] <Seira> At a mental prompting, with only her bow and arrows in hand, Amaryl waits just a moment for Lagann to imbue her with the Greater Heroism spell, before picking up her belt in what would seem comical if it weren't key to her survival and hastily putting it on. Immediately afterwards, she snaps off two arrows towards the wraith caught by Antenora, which swiftly become four!
01[20:37] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+18
06[20:37] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+18 and gets 112." [4#1d20+18 = 19, 36, 29, 28]
[20:37] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits. Shame about the 19.
01[20:38] <Seira> roll 3#1d8+3+2+1d6+1d6
06[20:38] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3#1d8+3+2+1d6+1d6 and gets 42." [3#1d8+3+2+1d6+1d6 = 14, 11, 17]
[20:39] <Kotono> The arrows find an easy target this time, embedding into the bound, soild phantom! Struggling against the rope, it reaches out for Alicia again!
[20:39] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 (-2 entangle, -1 aura)
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 (-2 entangle, -1 aura) and gets 22." [1d20=9]
[20:40] <Kotono> OOC: Touch aC?
[20:40] <Kotono> roll 2d6 and fort save if that hit.
06[20:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6 and fort save if that hit. and gets 9." [2d6=5, 4]
[20:40] <Alicia> OOC: divine succor on Amaryl, btw. My touch AC is 21, and this wraith isn't entangled - it's the one at the door
[20:41] <Kotono> OOC: Oh, moment then. Lemme strike that line, it'll still hit you so go ahead and make your save.
[20:41] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30
06[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 and gets 38." [1d20=8]
[20:41] <Kotono> The wraith grabs Alicia as it slips intothe ground, tearing away a tiny fragment of her vitality as solid floor shields better than an army of shields! OOC: Alicia.
[20:42] <Alicia> OOC: AoO?
[20:42] <Kotono> OOC: It has spring attack and the like, so no for you. Seira's flanking it with you so she'd get one though.
[20:42] <Alicia> OOC: You must move at least 5 feet both before and after you make your attack in order to utilize the benefits of Spring Attack.
[20:43] <Alicia> OOC: Also Latha's in melee with it as well
06[20:43] * Seira currently lacks a convenient weapon, but tries to wrack her claw across the wraith's back as it flees all the same!
[20:43] <Kotono> OOC: Then it moves 5 to the side as it spring attacks you and still triggers those two AoOs.
[20:43] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 -2pa for Latha
06[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 -2pa for Latha and gets 29." [1d20=4]
[20:43] <Alicia> roll 1d100
01[20:43] <Seira> roll 1d20+20
06[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 29." [1d100=29]
06[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+20 and gets 26." [1d20=6]
01[20:43] <Seira> roll 1d100
06[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 and gets 4." [1d100=4]
[20:44] <Kotono> But both attacks pass throughthe phantom as it escapes away safely! OOCAlicia now for real.
06[20:44] * Alicia hesitates, now knowing the thread posed by the squalling infant floating in a blot of umbral darkness, holding Hell Striker ready and preparing to attack when it next casts at them.
[20:45] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. Latha.
[20:45] <Alicia> Latha on the other hand has few qualms about blasting both wraith as well as Talos and Malcanthet's grandchild with a holy smite!
[20:45] <Alicia> roll 5d8 DC 19
06[20:45] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 5d8 DC 19 and gets 29." [5d8=5, 3, 7, 6, 8]
[20:46] <Kotono> OOC: CL check.
[20:46] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16
06[20:46] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 and gets 25." [1d20=9]
[20:46] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
06[20:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 17." [1d20=3]
[20:46] <Kotono> roll 1d20+27 (+10 ???)
06[20:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+27 (+10 ???) and gets 35." [1d20=8]
[20:48] <Kotono> The holy power bursts...but it seems to be lackluster and impotent against the black child! It barely even touches it, the light healing away in a mere instant after! The bound wraith struggles in the bonds, while the child's eyes glow...OOC: Alicia, were youg iong to act when it acts?
[20:49] <Alicia> In an instant Alicia whips her arm forward, unleashing her blade in a spinning crescent that scythes through the wraith and then the floating baby before returning back to her hand!
[20:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -4pa divine might wraith
06[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -4pa divine might wraith and gets 48." [1d20=18]
[20:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -4pa divine might baby
06[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -4pa divine might baby and gets 49." [1d20=19]
[20:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -4pa divine might wraith crit check
06[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -4pa divine might wraith crit check and gets 40." [1d20=10]
[20:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -4pa divine might baby crit check
06[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -4pa divine might baby crit check and gets 49." [1d20=19]
[20:49] <Kotono> OOC: Two crits. Ow.
[20:50] <Alicia> roll 4d4+68+2d6+1d6+1d8 wraith
06[20:50] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 4d4+68+2d6+1d6+1d8 wraith and gets 91." [4d4=1, 2, 4, 4][2d6=6, 2][1d6=2][1d8=2]
[20:50] <Alicia> roll 4d4+68+2d6+1d6+1d8 baby
06[20:50] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 4d4+68+2d6+1d6+1d8 baby and gets 91." [4d4=4, 4, 2, 1][2d6=5, 1][1d6=1][1d8=5]
[20:51] <Kotono> Hell-Striker smoothly rips through both of them, greatly devastating in it's wake! But even as the wraith is nearly bisected and the black orb of a child flickers, twin black beams come from it's eyes, one at Seira and one at Antenora! OOC: Not rolling the Seira one, it's irrelevant due to her stopping energy drain.
[20:51] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[20:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 25." [1d20=10]
[20:51] <Kotono> OOC: Antenora's touch aC?
[20:51] <Alicia> OOC: still 23. SR?
[20:52] <Kotono> OOC: Su.
03[20:52] * Kotono changes topic to 'Wraith 2(33)>Latha(18)>Wraith 1=????=Alicia(16)>Seira(15)>Antenora(12)>Amaryl(7)>Lagann(4)'
[20:52] <Kotono> OOC: Two negative levels on Antenora.
[20:52] <Kotono> The twin beams fly out! Seira's woven armor glows as the beam flows around her, while Antenora's body crackles with unlife, weakening all over! OOC: Seira.
01[20:54] <Seira> As her target fled into the ground cowardly, Seira breathes holy flames at the abominations by the doorway, coming on her breath's wake and directing the Sun Blade to take another stab before withdrawing to stand protectively by Amaryl's side.
01[20:54] <Seira> roll 8d8+2d8
06[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 8d8+2d8 and gets 52." [8d8=3, 1, 5, 4, 8, 6, 6, 7][2d8=6, 6]
[20:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 wraith
06[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 wraith and gets 15." [1d20=2]
01[20:54] <Seira> OOC: DC... haha, it failed
[20:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 black
06[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 black and gets 21." [1d20=10]
03[20:54] * Kotono changes topic to 'Wraith 2(33)>Latha(18)>????=Alicia(16)>Seira(15)>Antenora(12)>Amaryl(7)>Lagann(4)'
01[20:54] <Seira> roll 1d20+32 BLADE on ???
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+32 BLADE on ??? and gets 40." [1d20=8]
[20:55] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
01[20:55] <Seira> roll 1d10+15
06[20:55] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d10+15 and gets 24." [1d10=9]
[20:55] <Kotono> Amid gold fires, the first wraith burns away, Antenora's rope falling ot the ground! The little black baby-orb is stabbed, but withstands the fury with a startling ease! OOC: Antenora.
[20:55] <Alicia> Antenora tries to stand tall even against the unpleasant effects of negative energy draining her, waiting for the reappearance of the other wraith so she can bind it with her rope...
[20:56] <Kotono> OOC: Amaryl. To be clear, Antenora's going for her rope and then holding?
01[20:57] <Seira> Amaryl independantly arrives at the same idea as Antenora, intending to put as many arrows into the wraith as she is able to once it resurfaces.
[20:57] <Kotono> OOC: Lagann?
01[20:57] <Seira> Lagann gleefully attempts to stab the creepy baby thing with the Resort!
01[20:58] <Seira> roll 1d20+22
06[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+22 and gets 24." [1d20=2]
[20:58] <Kotono> But the child drifts between the blade, it's cries seeming to ward of Lagann! OOC: Wraith 2.
[20:59] <Kotono> The second wraith erupts at the ground, going for Alicia again...OOC: Unload on it.
01[20:59] <Seira> Amaryl is only too happy to try and intercept the wraith!
03[20:59] * Kotono changes topic to 'Wraith 2=Amaryl=Antenora(33)>Latha(18)>????=Alicia(16)>Seira(15)>Lagann(4)'
01[20:59] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+19
06[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+19 and gets 113." [4#1d20+19 = 28, 25, 34, 26]
01[20:59] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+14
06[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+14 and gets 53." [2#1d20+14 = 20, 33]
[21:00] <Alicia> OOC: Anty doesn't need to go for it, she already had a hold on it, and can control it remotely anyway
[21:00] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19 ranged touch bondage
06[21:00] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 ranged touch bondage and gets 22." [1d20=3]
[21:01] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. No luck since wraiths are all touch AC. Roll your incorpreal misses, Seira? 5 hits.
01[21:01] <Seira> roll 5#1d100
06[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 5#1d100 and gets 296." [5#1d100 = 88, 43, 72, 4, 89]
[21:01] <Alicia> OOC: divine succor on Anty
[21:01] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits.
01[21:01] <Seira> roll 3#1d8+5+1d6+1d6
06[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3#1d8+5+1d6+1d6 and gets 48." [3#1d8+5+1d6+1d6 = 14, 20, 14]
[21:02] <Kotono> Belt and bow is all Amaryl needs, shooting off arrow after arrow after arrow! They pass through the wraith as it goes into the arrows to avoid Antenora's lasso, then claws at Alicia!
[21:02] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 30." [1d20=15]
[21:02] <Kotono> roll 2d6 and fort
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6 and fort and gets 3." [2d6=1, 2]
[21:02] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 and gets 38." [1d20=8]
[21:02] <Kotono> Once again Alicia endures the terrible touch, her blessed skin resisting the vitality drain! OOC: Latha.
[21:03] <Alicia> Latha does her best to bludgeon the wraith to re-death now that it's appeared in their midst once again!
[21:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 -2pa
06[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 -2pa and gets 29." [1d20=4]
[21:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 -2pa
06[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 -2pa and gets 29." [1d20=9]
[21:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 -2pa
06[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 -2pa and gets 22." [1d20=7]
[21:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 -2pa
06[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 -2pa and gets 17." [1d20=7]
[21:03] <Alicia> roll 2#1d100
06[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2#1d100 and gets 172." [2#1d100 = 98, 74]
[21:03] <Alicia> roll 2d8+32+4d6
06[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d8+32+4d6 and gets 58." [2d8=8, 5][4d6=2, 6, 4, 1]
[21:05] <Kotono> Latha brains the black wraith into near oblivion, beating them down over and over and over! OOC: Incidentally, everyone but Seira takes another point of damage, I forgot it's aura.  Alicia and the spawn are up.
06[21:06] * Alicia flies over to engage the wretched thing that should not be in melee, Hell Striker swinging in a wide horizontal arc as she bears down upon it!
[21:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 -7 pa
06[21:06] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 -7 pa and gets 41." [1d20=16]
[21:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 -7 pa crit check
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 -7 pa crit check and gets 38." [1d20=13]
[21:07] <Kotono> OOC: Crit
[21:07] <Kotono> .
[21:07] <Alicia> roll 4d4+64+2d6+1d6+1d
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 4d4+64+2d6+1d6+1d and gets 86." [4d4=3, 3, 1, 3][2d6=3, 6][1d6=2]
[21:07] <Alicia> roll 1d8
06[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8 and gets 1." [1d8=1]
[21:07] <Alicia> OOC: 87
[21:08] <Kotono> Alicia charges, slashing through the tiny thing! It endures even this, it's unholy make up refusing to meet true death! Instead, a dreadful wave of cold emits from it once more!
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 CR
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 CR and gets 33." [1d20=13]
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 15d6 ref half all, all cold damage. Latha immunes cold so no point in rolling ofr her.
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 15d6 ref half all, all cold damage. Latha immunes cold so no point in rolling ofr her. and gets 61." [15d6=6, 3, 1, 4, 5, 4, 1, 3, 6, 4, 6, 4, 4, 6, 4]
01[21:09] <Seira> roll 1d20+30
06[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+30 and gets 41." [1d20=11]
01[21:09] <Seira> roll 1d20+26 A
06[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+26 A and gets 45." [1d20=19]
[21:09] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 Alicia
06[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 Alicia and gets 44." [1d20=19]
[21:09] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 Anty
06[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 Anty and gets 36." [1d20=10]
[21:09] <Kotono> OOC: All passed.
[21:10] <Kotono> A split moment later, a dreadful black, icy ray comes out, this one at Antenora!
[21:10] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 ranged touch
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 ranged touch and gets 27." [1d20=12]
[21:10] <Kotono> roll 20d6*1.5 (half cold half non typed)
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 20d6*1.5 (half cold half non typed) and gets 114." [20d6=3, 2, 5, 4, 2, 4, 1, 3, 6, 6, 4, 3, 6, 4, 4, 2, 4, 6, 5, 2]
[21:10] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 SR
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 SR and gets 33." [1d20=13]
[21:12] <Kotono> The beam turns Antenora's body into a near black icicle, limbs barely moving and face with a mask of suffocating ice all over it! OOC: Amaryl.
[21:12] <Kotono> OOC: Er, Seira.
01[21:14] <Seira> As Alicia is engaging the creepy thing in melee, Seira decides to swap targets and takes to the air, swooping down on the wraith! Giving Latha a curt nod, she skewers the wraith on the Sun Blade, using its distraction to attack it in earnest!
01[21:14] <Seira> roll 1d20+34 blade
06[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+34 blade and gets 47." [1d20=13]
01[21:14] <Seira> roll 1d20+21
01[21:14] <Seira> roll 1d20+21
06[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+21 and gets 24." [1d20=3]
06[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+21 and gets 36." [1d20=15]
01[21:14] <Seira> roll 1d20+16
06[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+16 and gets 32." [1d20=16]
[21:14] <Kotono> OOC: Everything but the 24 hits, roll d100s.
01[21:14] <Seira> roll 2#1d100
06[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d100 and gets 105." [2#1d100 = 78, 27]
01[21:15] <Seira> roll 1d10+15+1d4+5+2d8
06[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d10+15+1d4+5+2d8 and gets 34." [1d10=2][1d4=2][2d8=3, 7]
03[21:15] * Kotono changes topic to 'Amaryl=Antenora(33)>Latha(18)>????=Alicia(16)>Seira(15)>Lagann(4)'
[21:15] <Kotono> Wounded oncem ore, the wraith flickers away into oblivion, form dissipating into foulness in the air! OOC: Lagann.
01[21:15] <Seira> Lagann maneuvers the Resort into a flanking position to assist Alicia, attempting a precise strike.
01[21:16] <Seira> roll 1d20+24
06[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+24 and gets 30." [1d20=6]
[21:16] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
01[21:16] <Seira> roll 3d8+4 Lagann is happy
06[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+4 Lagann is happy and gets 18." [3d8=3, 6, 5]
[21:17] <Kotono> The scion is grazed by Lagann, drawing another wound into it's inky black oblivion! OOC: Amaryl'n'Antenora.
01[21:18] <Seira> Amaryl decides to use her maneuverability, now that no wraiths are present, and shoots off four arrows at the thing that should not exist.
01[21:18] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+18
06[21:18] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+18 and gets 132." [4#1d20+18 = 36, 31, 33, 32]
01[21:18] <Seira> roll 4#1d100
06[21:18] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d100 and gets 124." [4#1d100 = 4, 22, 43, 55]
01[21:19] <Seira> roll 1d8+5+1d6+1d6 a shame
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+5+1d6+1d6 a shame and gets 20." [1d8=5][1d6=5][1d6=5]
[21:19] <Kotono> OOC: The baby doesn't have incorpreal.
01[21:19] <Seira> OOC: My bad!
01[21:19] <Seira> roll 1d8+5+1d6+1d6
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+5+1d6+1d6 and gets 16." [1d8=3][1d6=5][1d6=3]
01[21:19] <Seira> roll 2#1d8+5+1d6+1d6+6d6
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d8+5+1d6+1d6+6d6 and gets 70." [2#1d8+5+1d6+1d6+6d6 = 40, 30]
[21:20] <Alicia> Antenora grimaces, flexing her limbs and causing brittle black ice to fall off of her. She's in a bad way now, and the only way to make it better is to kill the source of her pain! Telepathically asking Latha for help, she charges alongside Alicia to impale the powerful spellcasting infant!
[21:20] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 -2pa divine succor on Amaryl
06[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 -2pa divine succor on Amaryl and gets 40." [1d20=15]
[21:20] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[21:20] <Alicia> roll 2d8+38
06[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d8+38 and gets 48." [2d8=2, 8]
[21:21] <Kotono> Arrows rain into the orb, punctuated by a spear stabbing into the center! The cursed baby is wounded twice and twice again, a foul red-black blood trickling out of the orb, but it still lives in whatever existance it has! OOC: Latha.
[21:22] <Alicia> Hearing Antenora's plea, Latha approaches behind the erinyes and bestows powerful healing magic upon her!
[21:23] <Kotono> Antenora's wounds vanish away, healed! OOC: Alicia and the baby.
06[21:24] * Alicia attempts to finish the wounded thing off, slicing into it again and again as she senses the kill!
[21:24] <Alicia> roll 1d20+34 -4pa divine might 4th level arcane strike
06[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+34 -4pa divine might 4th level arcane strike and gets 45." [1d20=11]
[21:24] <Alicia> roll 1d20+29 -4pa divine might 4th level arcane strike
06[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+29 -4pa divine might 4th level arcane strike and gets 49." [1d20=20]
[21:24] <Alicia> roll 1d20+29 -4pa divine might 4th level arcane strike crit check
06[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+29 -4pa divine might 4th level arcane strike crit check and gets 43." [1d20=14]
[21:24] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 -4pa divine might 4th level arcane strike
06[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 -4pa divine might 4th level arcane strike and gets 27." [1d20=3]
[21:25] <Kotono> OOC: All but the 27 hit.
[21:25] <Alicia> roll 6d4+102+4d6+2d6+2d8+8d4
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 6d4+102+4d6+2d6+2d8+8d4 and gets 168." [6d4=4, 3, 3, 1, 3, 1][4d6=3, 2, 4, 5][2d6=3, 3][2d8=5, 4][8d4=4, 4, 1, 1, 4, 3, 4, 1]
[21:25] <Kotono> Alicia chops straight through the baby! It's body spilts apart, breaking into oblivion! BUt even as it dies, a cone of cold erupts from it, then a black ice beam at Antenora!
[21:26] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 SR on cone
06[21:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 SR on cone and gets 39." [1d20=19]
[21:26] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 SR on beam
06[21:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 SR on beam and gets 21." [1d20=1]
[21:26] <Kotono> roll 15d6 cold on all, ref half, Antenora lucked out on more beam rape.
06[21:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 15d6 cold on all, ref half, Antenora lucked out on more beam rape. and gets 48." [15d6=1, 6, 3, 5, 6, 4, 4, 1, 3, 1, 3, 4, 1, 5, 1]
01[21:26] <Seira> roll 1d20+30
06[21:26] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+30 and gets 33." [1d20=3]
01[21:26] <Seira> roll 1d20+26 A
06[21:26] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+26 A and gets 37." [1d20=11]
[21:26] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 Alicia
06[21:26] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 Alicia and gets 32." [1d20=7]
[21:26] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 Anty
06[21:26] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 Anty and gets 31." [1d20=5]
[21:26] <Kotono> OOC: All passed.
[21:26] <Kotono> The cone and beam pass over, coming to little as the treasure room is covered with ice...OOC: Free act.
[21:27] <Alicia> "What a revolting creature..." Alicia shudders, stepping back from the disintegrated orb. "Is everyone okay?"
01[21:28] <Seira> "More or less," Seira admits, glancing at Amaryl.
[21:28] <Kotono> "I'll live," With a shaky smile as she leans on her spear, alighting to the ground, "We need to hurry and find the lich. We can't fend off attacks for ever."
[21:28] <Kotono> Amaryl blushes, moving to cover herself, "I'm okay, just let me dress?" Which she promptly begin to.
01[21:29] <Seira> "Do you think you could ward her from the cold, in case there's more freaks like that here?" Seira asks Alicia quietly.
06[21:29] * Alicia has Latha fill her up with more dispel evils which she can convert to spellfire, nodding to Seira and proceeding to heal Latha and cast said spell on her once she's appropriately dressed. Meanwhile Latha makes up for Antenora's weakness by inspiring heroism within her.
[21:30] <Alicia> roll 12d4+12
06[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 12d4+12 and gets 46." [12d4=4, 1, 1, 2, 1, 4, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4]
[21:31] <Alicia> OOC: heal Amaryl, that is
[21:31] <Kotono> "If the lich wishes to be found, he's probably on the level we left behind," Latha says, as she slides her bracers into place, "The fact that it took raw destruction to reach here makes me wonder if he meant us not to ever find our gear before facing him, naked and vulnerable."
06[21:31] * Seira bestows Heroism upon Amaryl as well, as the one Lagann had is soon to disappear, giving her a chance to cast Stoneskin upon herself while she's at it, just in case.
[21:32] <Alicia> "Or we just missed the stairs, but the logic is sound," Alicia nods to Latha, regarding Hell Striker for a moment. "What happened after we were seperated?" she asks the sword, wondering if it has any useful insight.
06[21:34] * Seira finds this a great idea, shamelessly stealing it.
06[21:34] * Alicia nods. "Sounds like our host did appear here long enough to box up Seira's familiar, but it said nothing," she informs the others. "Lets head back to the lower level, then?"
01[21:35] <Seira> "If he expects us downstairs, why not trash this level first, then?"
[21:36] <Alicia> "One way or another we're going to have to clean this place top to bottom, but I'd prefer to kill the lich first to ensure we can do so with as few interruptions as possible," Alicia reasons.
01[21:37] <Seira> "I was thinking in terms of allies it might call to his side, and eroding those before making our way to face him," Seira elaborates.
[21:37] <Alicia> "Besides, better to face him at full strength than once we've been weakened by his minions."
01[21:37] <Seira> "I'm easily convinced. Let's go?"
[21:38] <Kotono> Thus the party returns to the gaping hole leading to above and below. Antenora is on guard the entire time, shaking her head, "No reinforcements that I can sense, but I didn't sense that stone creature, so if there's more unliving beings?" With a shrug, "Who takes point?"
06[21:38] * Alicia nods. "Lets - if he summons wraiths we can easily see them off with the power of the sun, after all," she smiles confidently, pausing long enough to cast greater magic weapon on Antenora's spear before she leads the way back down the tunnel.
06[21:38] * Seira follows closely, trusting in her senses and Lagann's to warn them if need be.
06[21:39] * Alicia heals Seira some as they go.
[21:39] <Alicia> roll 10d4+10
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 10d4+10 and gets 31." [10d4=1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2]
[21:39] <Alicia> Latha also casts Aid on everyone.
[21:40] <Alicia> roll 1d8+10 Seira
06[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+10 Seira and gets 17." [1d8=7]
[21:40] <Alicia> roll 1d8+10 Alicia
06[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+10 Alicia and gets 13." [1d8=3]
[21:40] <Alicia> roll 1d8+10 Latha
06[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+10 Latha and gets 14." [1d8=4]
[21:40] <Alicia> roll 1d8+10 Antenora
06[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+10 Antenora and gets 13." [1d8=3]
[21:40] <Alicia> roll 1d8+10 Amaryl
06[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+10 Amaryl and gets 18." [1d8=8]
[21:40] <Kotono> Thus the party descends down into the hole. The air down here is smoky, the bodies having burned. Farther ahead, much farther ahead, you can see fires continue to burn, more bodies roasting.
[21:41] <Alicia> "Lets go in the other direction?" Alicia points to the opposite passage that remains unexplored. It's better than walking through a field of burning bodies.
06[21:41] * Seira is only too eager to put distance between that thrice-accursed place and them.
[21:46] <Kotono> Thus you return to the hallway of imprison ment, passing by the door of your captivity. You find a few more doors like the one you were sealed in, then a bleak, dark door. It is carved like a black maw, bands of iron filled with glowing green stone in between them.
[21:47] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 glowing stone surely means magic?
06[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 glowing stone surely means magic? and gets 40." [1d20=14]
01[21:48] <Seira> roll 1d20+30 and surely means search?
06[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+30 and surely means search? and gets 46." [1d20=16]
01[21:49] <Seira> "It's very trapped," Seira mutters. "How about just trying to wear it down with anti-magic?"
[21:51] <Alicia> "Antimagic won't work, this is beyond the ninth circle," Alicia shakes her head. "Also it'll trigger defences when dispelled. Lets try going around it instead?"
01[21:52] <Seira> "I would wonder if he hadn't thought of that, but we did skip the staircase earlier," Seira agrees. "Sure. If that doesn't work, I'll give the door a try."
06[21:53] * Alicia moves back twenty feet from the door and then proceeds to fire a blast of spellfire at a forty five degree angle towards it, tunnelling through the wall on the right-hand side!
[21:53] <Alicia> roll 10d8 DC 27 should it matter
06[21:53] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 10d8 DC 27 should it matter and gets 36." [10d8=6, 1, 2, 5, 2, 2, 3, 3, 7, 5]
06[21:53] * Seira steps even farther back, ready to react if this brings down guardians upon them.
[21:53] <Kotono> OOC: Basically bypassing the door?
[21:53] <Alicia> OOC: yes
[21:56] <Kotono> Alicia carves a tunnel out! Beyond the door, you can see a pitch blackness, save for a single path. It is held up by infinite skeletal hands, each palm providing a 10 feet wide path in the darkness. Utter cold blows out of the hole, twisted, ghost-white faces erupting out and howling! OOC: Make will saves all.
01[21:56] <Seira> roll 1d20+15 A
06[21:56] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+15 A and gets 31." [1d20=16]
[21:56] <Alicia> roll 1d20+31 Alicia
06[21:56] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+31 Alicia and gets 49." [1d20=18]
01[21:57] <Seira> roll 1d20+23
[21:57] <Alicia> roll 1d20+32 Anty
06[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+32 Anty and gets 42." [1d20=10]
06[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+23 and gets 37." [1d20=14]
[21:57] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22 Latha
06[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 Latha and gets 28." [1d20=6]
[21:57] <Kotono> OOC: Make a fort save Latha, +10 bonus.
[21:57] <Alicia> roll 1d20+34
06[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+34 and gets 41." [1d20=7]
[21:58] <Kotono> The howling surrounds all of you, trying to worm into your bodies! It's a battle of the soul taking place over a moment, each of you true...save for Latha! One burrows into her head, Latha screaming! Her body glows white, the spirit dissipating as it flies out of her mouth! OOC: Go ahead and act.
[21:59] <Alicia> OOC: are we still being assailed by the ghostfaces or is it over?
[21:59] <Kotono> OOC: It's over.
06[21:59] * Seira scowls, before throwing Latha a worried look.
[21:59] <Alicia> "Latha! Are you alright?" Alicia turns to the deva in concern.
[22:00] <Kotono> Latha falls to her knees, babbling in Elven, "ChildrunchildrunnoAbrosorunchildrunchildrun!" She splurts out, before shaking her head, holding it in both hands. "I...I am...I am alright." With a shaking gaze as she does, "The spirit tried to take my physical form. It's memories overwhelmed me."
06[22:02] * Seira shudders, kneeling next to the deva and putting her arm around her shoulders comfortingly.
06[22:02] * Alicia remains besides Latha for a moment, putting an arm around her and rubbing her shoulders. "Take a moment, we seem to be safe for now," she reassures.
[22:02] <Kotono> Latha uses the two to help rise, "No, I will not rest. That woman was a victim of the evil here. To rest after seeing her torment would be an insult to her pain. We advance."
[22:03] <Alicia> "Alright," Alicia nods, respecting that commitment and starting through the tunnel she just dug.
06[22:04] * Seira silently imbues Amaryl with the Blur spell, nodding at the elf as she places her hand on her shoulder and resolving to keep to the back for the time being.
[22:07] <Kotono> Thus you walk onto the path. Each step is dry, as if the bones beneath you are about to crumble. In the darkness around you, ghostly faces soar. Faces of humans, elves, dwarves and so many other things that you don't know, too twisted or too alien to identify. Each one weeps tears of ghostly mist, lamenting in silence. Yet the lamentation begins to form something, silence transforming into words. In Abyssal, "Praise to the Eternal, glory be to
[22:07] <Kotono> silence transforming into words. In Abyssal, "Praise to the Eternal, glory be to He who sits in Bleak Rendor! Accursed of neverlife, the once and future king!"
06[22:08] * Alicia grimaces at the souls being forced to honour the one responsible for their suffering. "Is there any way we can release them?" she asks quietly, wings tense and ready to take flight at any moment.
[22:08] <Kotono> OOC: Make an K:R check, Alicia or anyone else who cares to answer that.
01[22:08] <Seira> roll 1d20+15 I care
06[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+15 I care and gets 18." [1d20=3]
[22:09] <Kotono> "Be silent." Antenora continues to peer ahead, "Soon you will sing a far more blessed song."
[22:09] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 Latha's the expert
06[22:09] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 Latha's the expert and gets 28." [1d20=3]
[22:09] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 but I'll roll too
06[22:09] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 but I'll roll too and gets 20." [1d20=4]
[22:10] <Kotono> "We may be able to, but this is on such a level that a simple dispel magic will do nothing. It will take something profound to free them." Latha advances onward, "As for what exactly, I do not know, but it iwll be a matter I attend to once our host is brough to justice."
06[22:11] * Alicia nods, trying to tune out the horrid dirge as they continue.
01[22:11] <Seira> "Whatever help you need in that, you'll get it," Seira promises.
[22:13] <Kotono> "Thank you." Latha smiles to her, as the party advances ahead. As you do, a single indistinct white face gusts in, appearing 20 feet before the party! It screams and twists, forming into a transparent body. "Good day..." Alice murmurs in a whisper, hooded face devoid of flesh even in this, empty save for glowing points of darklight, "Welcome to oblivion. I'll be happy to help you find what you're looking for...eternal penance and torment." Aro
[22:13] <Kotono> I'll be happy to help you find what you're looking for...eternal penance and torment." Around her, white faces and souls swirl, screaming the dirge so loud as to nearly deafen you.
01[22:14] <Seira> "It's a trick!" Seira exclaims. "Elle made sure Alice was put to rest!"
[22:15] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 religion, shouldn't killing wraith-alice have sent her properly on her way?
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 religion, shouldn't killing wraith-alice have sent her properly on her way? and gets 25." [1d20=9]
[22:15] <Kotono> "There is no escape from this fate. My fate was sealed when my mortal body died. But fear not, for I was freed. Let me have you join me." The spirits around her howl, "Prepare."
[22:15] <Kotono> OOC: Roll init? She's not standinghere and chatting old times.
[22:15] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 Alicia
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 Alicia and gets 8." [1d20=1]
[22:15] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 Anty
06[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 Anty and gets 15." [1d20=10]
[22:16] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 Latha
06[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 Latha and gets 10." [1d20=2]
01[22:16] <Seira> roll 1d20+6 LIES
06[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 LIES and gets 25." [1d20=19]
01[22:16] <Seira> roll 1d20+8 A
06[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 A and gets 11." [1d20=3]
01[22:16] <Seira> roll 1d20+8 L
06[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 L and gets 26." [1d20=18]
[22:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 15." [1d20=2]
01[22:16] <Seira> OOC: Minus the +8, so Lagann is on 18
03[22:17] * Kotono changes topic to 'Seira(25)>Lagann(18)>Alice=Antenora(15)>Amaryl(11)>Latha(10)>Alicia(8)'
[22:17] <Kotono> OOC: Go Seira.
01[22:17] <Seira> roll 1d20+15 is there basis for my disbelief?
06[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+15 is there basis for my disbelief? and gets 27." [1d20=12]
[22:17] <Kotono> OOC: What check are yourolling exactly?
06[22:19] * Seira grimaces. "If this is for real, then I'm sorry I wasn't there to save you, Alice, and I'm sorry I didn't have a chance to get along with you. Whether before, with Elle, or now... you'll have your rest!"
06[22:19] * Seira breathes fire upon the wraith.
01[22:19] <Seira> roll 8d8+2d8
06[22:19] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 8d8+2d8 and gets 55." [8d8=4, 5, 8, 6, 4, 5, 7, 8][2d8=4, 4]
01[22:19] <Seira> roll 1d100
06[22:19] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 and gets 62." [1d100=62]
01[22:20] <Seira> roll 1d4 dc is 18
06[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d4 dc is 18 and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[22:20] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
06[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 20." [1d20=6]
[22:20] <Kotono> Alice's body is turned aflame, dodging some of it as souls appear to form a barrier around her! But some still gets through! "We'll have forever to get along. If you listen, you can hear His hunger."
[22:20] <Kotono> OC: Lagann.
01[22:21] <Seira> Lagann borrows Amaryl's Sun Blade, going straight for the kill.
01[22:21] <Seira> roll 1d20+22
06[22:21] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+22 and gets 35." [1d20=13]
[22:21] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
01[22:21] <Seira> roll 1d10+4
06[22:21] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d10+4 and gets 13." [1d10=9]
[22:22] <Kotono> The sunblade slices through Alice, making her form flicker! But she raises a hand to the sky, "Become one of us!" She calls, as white faces scream and hurtle at the party! OOC: Will saves, all.
01[22:22] <Seira> roll 1d20+15 A
06[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+15 A and gets 16." [1d20=1]
01[22:23] <Seira> roll 1d20+23
06[22:23] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+23 and gets 25." [1d20=2]
[22:23] <Alicia> roll 1d20+31 Alicia
06[22:23] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+31 Alicia and gets 33." [1d20=2]
[22:23] <Alicia> roll 1d20+32 Anty
06[22:23] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+32 Anty and gets 37." [1d20=5]
[22:23] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22 Latha
06[22:23] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 Latha and gets 34." [1d20=12]
[22:23] <Kotono> OOC: Seira and Amarly need to make fort saves in one of the worst rolling sessions I've seen lately. Ow.
01[22:23] <Seira> roll 1d20+22 A
06[22:23] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+22 A and gets 42." [1d20=20]
01[22:23] <Seira> roll 1d20+23
06[22:23] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+23 and gets 41." [1d20=18]
[22:24] <Kotono> OOC: Both of you two take two points of con drain but nothing more.
[22:24] <Kotono> Spirits erupt out around you! This time, all but Seira and Amaryl are able to resist! The two are overwhelmed, meaningless regrets and knowledge unknow flooding them as they are nearly taken over! OOC: Antenora.
[22:27] <Alicia> Warding off the spirits assailing her, Antenora lets her rope do the talking as it snakes outwards to curl around Alice's form, binding her to the physical realm!
[22:27] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21 ranged touch
06[22:27] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+21 ranged touch and gets 33." [1d20=12]
[22:27] <Kotono> The rope wraps around Alice, her body becoming soild and corpreal! OOC: Amaryl.
01[22:29] <Seira> That's exactly what Amaryl needs as she maneuvers herself before shooting four arrows at Elle's unfortunate assistant to send her soul towards her judgement.
01[22:29] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+18
06[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+18 and gets 129." [4#1d20+18 = 35, 34, 32, 28]
[22:29] <Kotono> OOC: All hits
[22:29] <Kotono> .
01[22:30] <Seira> roll 4d8+24+4d6+4d6+12d6
06[22:30] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4d8+24+4d6+4d6+12d6 and gets 104." [4d8=1, 6, 3, 5][4d6=6, 4, 5, 3][4d6=3, 3, 5, 2][12d6=4, 2, 2, 6, 3, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 5, 3]
[22:30] <Kotono> Alice is arrowed through her, the arrows embedding into her spiritual chest! She staggers back, held tight in the rope! OOC: Latha.
01[22:31] <Seira> "Maybe the sun can ward the ghosts off?" Seira asks Latha.
[22:33] <Alicia> Latha looks sorrowfully at Alice, Latha speaks a single word of the language of creation, the effort weakening her slightly but hopefully bolstering her power enough to bring peace to the surrounding spirits.
[22:33] <Alicia> roll 2d4 nonlethal for words of creation
06[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d4 nonlethal for words of creation and gets 4." [2d4=3, 1]
[22:33] <Alicia> OOC: DC 22 will for CL 17 holy word
[22:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 20." [1d20=7]
[22:34] <Alicia> roll 2d4 again, should've been 4d4
06[22:34] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d4 again, should've been 4d4 and gets 3." [2d4=2, 1]
[22:35] <Kotono> The word is of beauty that momentarily draws the spirits to rest. Many of them recoil, some vanishing away entirely! Alice staggers back from it, "FILTHY!" Her voice hisses, "FILTHY!" OOC:  Alicia.
06[22:35] * Alicia is distracted momentarily, her attention drawn to the side...
[22:40] <Alicia> roll 1d20+31 you whore
06[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+31 you whore and gets 34." [1d20=3]
[22:43] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 devotion
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 devotion and gets 24." [1d20=8]
[22:44] <Alicia> Alicia's eyes narrow at the blasphemous taunting, focusing her attention back on Alice. "They say the Gods have no power here," she begins with icy calm, whether the spirit can hear her or not. "And yet they let me in. I am Mystra's sword, and I bring Her will wherever I go."
[22:44] <Alicia> "Be at peace, Alice, for I send you to rest that was denied. She has not forgotten you," she reassures, voice turning sofer, almost comforting as she strides up to the hissing spectre, a lightning-fast flash of silver trailing flames as she hopefully makes good on her promise.
[22:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 -8pa divine might 4th level arcane strike
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 -8pa divine might 4th level arcane strike and gets 27." [1d20=1]
[22:45] <Kotono> Alicia comes forth! Yet as she does, twisting souls appear, stopping her blade! Mystra's distended, bloated, dead face appears in them, biting Alicia's sword back! "FILTHY!" Alice howls, "FILTHY GODDESS! FILTHY WHORE OF A GODDESS!" OOC: Seira.
01[22:47] <Seira> "You don't need us to tell you that you haven't been forgotten," Seira tells Alice's apparition, boxing it off along with Alicia even as she attempts to bring it peace with the Resort. "I'm only sorry it took this long to help you."
01[22:47] <Seira> roll 1d20+22
06[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+22 and gets 25." [1d20=3]
[22:47] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
01[22:47] <Seira> roll 1d100
06[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 and gets 86." [1d100=86]
[22:48] <Kotono> OOC: No d100, Antenora roped it.
01[22:48] <Seira> roll 3d8+9+2d8 sorry
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+9+2d8 sorry and gets 34." [3d8=5, 3, 8][2d8=7, 2]
[22:49] <Kotono> With that final thrust, Alice's form shudders. Like the night at the glorious dawn, it is filled with light. Her head bobs down, "...cold...tell...Countess....I'ms orry I can't...mind her...shop..." she sighs, "But I'm so...tired..." Her ghostly form rises upward, fading away.
[22:49] <Kotono> OOC: Free act.
06[22:50] * Seira says a prayer to the loyal mage, hoping that she finds her peace in Mystra's domain.
[22:50] <Kotono> "Hurry." Latha steps forward, "The foul ones await us."
06[22:50] * Alicia briefly eyes Hell Striker, frowning at how she was denied after making such a big production of things. At least things worked out, but even so... she'll save the profound commentary for *after* she hits things in future. "Perhaps we'll meet again one day, Alice," she whispers, watching it go before nodding to Latha and pressing on.
06[22:52] * Seira once more resigns herself to bringing up the rear along with Amaryl.
[22:53] <Kotono> Thus you walk along the dead path. You walk and you walk and you walk for a good five minutes, souls raging around the road. But at last, you come to a doorway. It's carved of the skull of a gigantic creature, long, narrow mouth full of teeth. At the back of it's throat is pure darkness, forming the shape of a door.
[22:53] <Alicia> Is it magic?
[22:54] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 spellcraft for useful info?
06[22:54] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 spellcraft for useful info? and gets 28." [1d20=2]
[22:55] <Alicia> "The door's magic, but the ward is designed to keep the spirits in. It shouldn't trouble us," Alicia opines, going to push the door open.
[22:58] <Kotono> Thus you step through the darkness! Ahead of you darkness dwells. You stand in a room of black. Above, a dead sky can be seen, a hole in the center of the 'roof' showing utter oblivion. Pillars support the ceiling along the walls, each one carved as if giant demons and skeletons were supporting them. Fourty feet away, at the back, lies a great throne. Below it is a rug of lips, chanting wordless paeans of blasphemy.  BEfore this throne three c
[22:58] <Kotono> Pillars support the ceiling along the walls, each one carved as if giant demons and skeletons were supporting them. Fourty feet away, at the back, lies a great throne. Below it is a rug of lips, chanting wordless paeans of blasphemy.  BEfore this throne three charnel hounds sit, ringed in front by six dread wraiths. Sitting on the throne is your tormentor, standing. "Absurdity!" He says in a cold bellow, "That mere bugs dare to live in my pres
[22:58] <Kotono> "Absurdity!" He says in a cold bellow, "That mere bugs dare to live in my presence! Know your place and die!"
[23:00] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 I won't be foooled twice! (what magic does he have?)
06[23:00] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 I won't be foooled twice! (what magic does he have?) and gets 27." [1d20=1]
[23:01] <Kotono> "Cursed spawn of oblivion!" Latha points the head of her  mace forward, "Defiler of all that is living and right! Face judgment for your sins on the innocent!"
01[23:01] <Seira> "Beg for your filthy soul to be released to its judgement," Seira spits at their enemy. "Cry for it to come quickly!"
[23:02] <Alicia> "Too long have you dodged Kelemvor's grip, odious corpse that walks," Alicia throws in some flowery language of her own. "If you will not make peace with any Gods, then make peace with your own ego. For you will end now."
[23:02] <Kotono> "Good night. No one will mourn you," Antenora speaks in Celestial, wings ready to take her ot the air.
[23:03] <Kotono> "I'm not afraid of you. I'm not afraid of any of you." Amaryl stays close to Seira, "Because we can't let you go on any more! You killed so many for what? Power...you killed me for your twisted pleasure!" Her voice turns into a shout, "Die!"
[23:04] <Kotono> "Meaningless prattle!" He growls, "You are naught but gnats to my magic! Know the name that will be the last you hear in this mortal life: Glaciante Devarim! Silence shall be your tombstone, Bleak Rendor shall be your prison!" OOC: Init here, I think.
[23:05] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 Alicia
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 Alicia and gets 17." [1d20=10]
[23:05] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 Anty
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 Anty and gets 10." [1d20=5]
[23:05] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 Latha
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 Latha and gets 18." [1d20=10]
01[23:05] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 22." [1d20=16]
01[23:05] <Seira> roll 1d20+8 A
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 A and gets 23." [1d20=15]
01[23:05] <Seira> roll 1d20 L
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20 L and gets 5." [1d20=5]
03[23:05] * Kotono changes topic to 'Amaryl(23)>Seira(22)>Latha(18)>Alicia(17)>Antenora(10)>Lagann(5)'
[23:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 wraith 1
[23:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 wraith 2
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 wraith 1 and gets 30." [1d20=17]
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 wraith 2 and gets 29." [1d20=16]
[23:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 wraith 3
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 wraith 3 and gets 24." [1d20=11]
[23:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 wraith 4
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 wraith 4 and gets 22." [1d20=9]
[23:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 wraith 5
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 wraith 5 and gets 14." [1d20=1]
[23:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 wraith 6
06[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 wraith 6 and gets 19." [1d20=6]
[23:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2 hound 12
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 hound 12 and gets 15." [1d20=13]
[23:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2 hound 2
[23:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2 hound 3
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 hound 2 and gets 3." [1d20=1]
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 hound 3 and gets 9." [1d20=7]
[23:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 11." [1d20=2]
03[23:06] * Kotono changes topic to 'Wraith 1(30)>Wraith 2(29)>Wraith 3(24)>Wraith 4(22)>Amaryl(23)>Seira(22)>Latha(18)>Alicia(17)>Antenora(10)>Lagann(5)'
03[23:07] * Kotono changes topic to 'Wraith 1(30)>Wraith 2(29)>Wraith 3(24)>Wraith 4(22)>Amaryl(23)>Seira(22)>Latha(18)>Alicia(17)>Wraith 5(14)>Antenora(10)>Lagann(5)'
03[23:07] * Kotono changes topic to 'Wraith 1(30)>Wraith 2(29)>Wraith 3(24)>Amaryl(23)>Wraith 4=Seira(22)>Latha(18)>Alicia(17)>Wraith 5(14)>Antenora(10)>Lagann(5)'
03[23:08] * Kotono changes topic to 'Wraith 1(30)>Wraith 2(29)>Wraith 3(24)>Amaryl(23)>Wraith 4=Seira(22)>Wraith 6(19)>Latha(18)>Alicia(17)>Hound 1(15)>Wraith 5(14)>Glaciante(11)>Antenora(10)>Hound 3(9)>Lagann(5)>Hound 2(3)'
[23:09] <Kotono> The first three wraiths dart out as one, going straight for Antenora!
[23:09] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 1
[23:09] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 2
[23:09] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 3
06[23:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 1 and gets 24." [1d20=9]
06[23:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 2 and gets 19." [1d20=4]
06[23:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 3 and gets 27." [1d20=12]
[23:09] <Kotono> OOC: Touch AC?
[23:09] <Alicia> OOC: 23
[23:09] <Kotono> roll 2d6 and fort 1
06[23:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6 and fort 1 and gets 8." [2d6=3, 5]
[23:09] <Kotono> roll 2d6 and fort 3
06[23:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6 and fort 3 and gets 10." [2d6=5, 5]
[23:10] <Alicia> roll 1d20+32
06[23:10] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+32 and gets 43." [1d20=11]
[23:10] <Alicia> roll 1d20+32
06[23:10] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+32 and gets 50." [1d20=18]
[23:10] <Alicia> OOC: Remember the -1
[23:10] <Kotono> Antenora is surrounded by wraiths, but keeps herself only wounded and moving, not drained to a lifeless husk! OOC: Okay. -1 to those damages. Amaryl.
01[23:13] <Seira> Heading twenty feet to the right so that the lich would have trouble targetting them all, Amaryl just barely hangs in range of Latha's aura even as she concentrates her fire on one of the wraiths that have yet to move.
01[23:13] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+18
06[23:13] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+18 and gets 106." [4#1d20+18 = 20, 32, 33, 21]
[23:14] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits. Choose a number of the nont moved ones, by the way.
[23:14] <Kotono> *not
[23:14] <Kotono> OOC: Also d100s.
01[23:14] <Seira> roll 2#1d100 wraith 4
06[23:14] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d100 wraith 4 and gets 179." [2#1d100 = 96, 83]
01[23:14] <Seira> roll 2d8+12+2d6+2d6+6d6
06[23:14] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2d8+12+2d6+2d6+6d6 and gets 48." [2d8=3, 7][2d6=2, 3][2d6=3, 1][6d6=1, 1, 4, 1, 5, 5]
[23:15] <Kotono> The arrows are true and fast, the fourth wraith being perforated! It charges at Amaryl in retort, going right at her! OOC: Wraith and Seira are up, lemme resolve the wraith first.
[23:15] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
06[23:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 28." [1d20=12]
[23:15] <Kotono> OOC: Touch AC?
01[23:16] <Seira> OOC: 26
[23:16] <Kotono> roll 2d6 and fort
06[23:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6 and fort and gets 7." [2d6=3, 4]
01[23:16] <Seira> roll 1d20+21
06[23:16] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+21 and gets 29." [1d20=8]
[23:17] <Kotono> Amaryl's stone blessed skin stops the pain, the wraith's touch unable to syphon away her life this time! OOC: Seira.
06[23:18] * Seira is but half a step behind Amaryl, only pausing to sheathe herself with flowing acid before stepping in front of the elf, Resort drawn and images springing up all around her!
01[23:18] <Seira> roll 1d4+5
06[23:18] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d4+5 and gets 8." [1d4=3]
[23:19] <Kotono> Thus Seira is surrounded by steaming acid, protecting her body as she shields Amaryl! OOC: Wraith 6.
[23:19] <Kotono> The sixth wraith is relentless, going right for Latha, ready to rip out her heart!
[23:19] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[23:19] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 33." [1d20=18]
[23:19] <Kotono> roll 2d6 and fort
06[23:19] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6 and fort and gets 3." [2d6=2, 1]
[23:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21
06[23:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+21 and gets 38." [1d20=17]
[23:20] <Kotono> Latha resists, pushing the ghostly hand out of her chest and from claiming her eternal life and soul! OOC: Latha.
[23:20] <Alicia> Doing as she just did a moment ago, Latha speaks a single clear word in the language of creation!
[23:20] <Alicia> roll 4d4
06[23:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 4d4 and gets 11." [4d4=3, 3, 3, 2]
[23:21] <Alicia> roll 6#1d100 assume only wraiths have low enough hd
06[23:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 6#1d100 assume only wraiths have low enough hd and gets 130." [6#1d100 = 14, 2, 5, 62, 13, 34]
[23:21] <Alicia> OOC: DC 22 for one of them
[23:21] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9
06[23:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 10." [1d20=1]
[23:21] <Alicia> roll 2d4 blinded rounds
06[23:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d4 blinded rounds and gets 5." [2d4=3, 2]
[23:21] <Kotono> The fourth wraith in front of Seira howls, rocking back as Latha's sacred power blinds it, taking away it's cursed vision! OOC: Alicia.
[23:23] <Alicia> Hopefully this is the real deal... Alicia first of all employs the magic of her boots, freezing time around her! With everything frozen, she channls a greater dispel magic into Hell Striker and casts Might of the Planetar. Then she casts Fires of Purity and flies over to hover above Glaciente as time resumes and she attacks!
[23:23] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 devotion
06[23:23] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 devotion and gets 21." [1d20=5]
[23:25] <Alicia> roll 1d20+35 divine might, raging, 7th 4th and 3rd level arcane strike -5pa
06[23:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+35 divine might, raging, 7th 4th and 3rd level arcane strike -5pa and gets 39." [1d20=4]
[23:25] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 divine might, raging, 7th 4th and 3rd level arcane strike -5pa
06[23:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 divine might, raging, 7th 4th and 3rd level arcane strike -5pa and gets 40." [1d20=10]
[23:25] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 divine might, raging, 7th 4th and 3rd level arcane strike -5pa
06[23:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 divine might, raging, 7th 4th and 3rd level arcane strike -5pa and gets 27." [1d20=2]
[23:25] <Kotono> OOC: One hit, d100.
[23:26] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[23:26] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 28." [1d100=28]
[23:26] <Kotono> Alicia so appears, but the mage is not surprised! He side steps the blows, yet one goes through his head! BUt he flickers, sitting back on the throne instead! "Pathetic worm, your martial power cannot compare to my power!" He sneers, "You claim to stop time? Pathetic!" OOC: Hound 1 is up.
[23:27] <Kotono> The first hound snarls, charging Latha head on!
[23:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
06[23:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 and gets 36." [1d20=17]
[23:27] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
[23:28] <Alicia> OOC: 41 vs evil
[23:28] <Kotono> But the snapping maw is stopped by a flow of pure holy energy around her, buffering the huge corpse-hound back! OOC:Wraith 5.
[23:28] <Kotono> The fifth wraith turns, darting for Alicia's back and reaching out for her neck!
[23:28] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[23:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 17." [1d20=2]
[23:28] <Alicia> OOC: 16 touch AC, Latha's too far away
[23:29] <Kotono> But Alicia is too fast, whirling Hell-Striker back and knocking the ghost-hand away from her! OOC: Mage is up.
[23:29] <Alicia> OOC: 15 damage from fires of purity, though
[23:30] <Kotono> In his hand an orb appears. It is an orb of black, sitting in his skeletal hands. In it skull-faces writhe and scream with nary a sound. "Now this is power!" He calls, a word of such dreadful potetency that it turns the very room pitch black for a moment, before a field of darkness engulfs Alicia! OOC: Ref.
[23:30] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20
06[23:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 and gets 32." [1d20=12]
[23:30] <Kotono> roll 21*6
06[23:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 21*6 and gets 126."
[23:30] <Kotono> OOC: 126 vile damage and 1 negative level.
[23:31] <Kotono> The orb in his hands glows as the skulls within chant, as a swarm of black laced meteors appear, aimed at Latha! "Be silent, angel!"
[23:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+27 SR
06[23:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+27 SR and gets 44." [1d20=17]
[23:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 ranged touch Latha
[23:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 ranged touch Latha
[23:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 ranged touch Latha
[23:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 ranged touch Latha
06[23:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 ranged touch Latha and gets 35." [1d20=20]
06[23:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 ranged touch Latha and gets 23." [1d20=8]
06[23:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 ranged touch Latha and gets 32." [1d20=17]
06[23:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 ranged touch Latha and gets 24." [1d20=9]
[23:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 ranged touch Latha crit
06[23:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 ranged touch Latha crit and gets 27." [1d20=12]
[23:32] <Kotono> OOC: Touch AC?
[23:32] <Alicia> OOC: 20
[23:32] <Kotono> roll 4d6+12d6 half fire half non typed
06[23:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d6+12d6 half fire half non typed and gets 67." [4d6=4, 5, 6, 4][12d6=6, 5, 3, 4, 6, 5, 5, 1, 2, 1, 6, 4]
[23:33] <Kotono> roll 2d6+6d6 half fire half non typed
[23:33] <Kotono> roll 2d6+6d6 half fire half non typed
[23:33] <Kotono> roll 2d6+6d6 half fire half non typed
06[23:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+6d6 half fire half non typed and gets 36." [2d6=3, 6][6d6=5, 5, 6, 5, 4, 2]
06[23:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+6d6 half fire half non typed and gets 14." [2d6=1, 1][6d6=2, 1, 4, 2, 2, 1]
06[23:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+6d6 half fire half non typed and gets 26." [2d6=2, 1][6d6=3, 5, 5, 2, 3, 5]
[23:35] <Kotono> As Alicia's flesh is ripped away, vileness nearly turning her into a skeleton, LAtha is knocked down, each meteor turning her blacker and dimmre! Glaciante sits on his throne, "You cling to life? Do you know now the difference between what you call power and what I know as power, worm?" OOC: Antenora.
[23:36] <Alicia> Antenora doesn't waste time on the wraiths surrounding her, knowing they'll be sent running in a moment when someone unleashes the power of the sun. Instead she focuses her attention on Glaciante, waiting for an opening so she can support and shut him up...
[23:36] <Alicia> OOC: readied action to charge him when he casts
[23:37] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. Hound 3 is up.
[23:37] <Kotono> The third hound snarls, charging Seira head on!
[23:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
06[23:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 and gets 20." [1d20=1]
[23:37] <Kotono> But it misses even the images, snapping into thin air! OOC:  Lagann.
01[23:38] <Seira> Manipulating the Sun Blade with the powers of its demented mind, Lagann raises it high in the center of the chamber, calling upon the sun to grace this desolated landscape with its presence!
[23:41] <Kotono> Thus Lagann spreads the light of the sun, the chamber being lit by pure sunlight! The wraiths seem to shimmer in it, shimmer and howl! OOC: Hound 3.
[23:42] <Kotono> The third hound hisses in the sunlight, before nonetheless charging Seira as well!
[23:42] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 (-4 sunlight)
06[23:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 (-4 sunlight) and gets 33." [1d20=18]
[23:42] <Kotono> roll 1d9
06[23:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d9 and gets 9." [1d9=9]
01[23:42] <Seira> OOC: Touch or normal?
[23:43] <Kotono> An image is torn apart, bu tnothing more! OOC: Normal. Image 8 goes bye bye.
[23:43] <Kotono> OOC: Wraiths are up.
[23:43] <Kotono> As one, the wraiths shriek and fly back towards the throne, away from the sun! OOC: Amaryl.
01[23:45] <Seira> Amaryl takes a step back, unloading six arrows straight at the first of the hounds to attack Seira.
01[23:45] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+19
06[23:45] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+19 and gets 129." [4#1d20+19 = 38, 32, 23, 36]
01[23:45] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+14
06[23:45] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+14 and gets 58." [2#1d20+14 = 31, 27]
[23:45] <Kotono> OOC: Al but the twenty three hit.
01[23:45] <Seira> roll 5#1d8+6+1d6+1d6
06[23:45] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 5#1d8+6+1d6+1d6 and gets 89." [5#1d8+6+1d6+1d6 = 19, 21, 16, 18, 15]
[23:47] <Kotono> Amaryl's arrows of fire burn away at the corpse-hound, it's bodies within steaming and smoking from the embedded arrows! THe fourth wraith flees towards the throne as well! OOC: Seira.
06[23:48] * Seira decides to finish the job, striking out at the wounded hound with all she's got, her claw dripping acid!
01[23:49] <Seira> OOC: First time trying arcane claw for corrosive grasp~
01[23:49] <Seira> roll 1d20+20
06[23:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+20 and gets 22." [1d20=2]
01[23:49] <Seira> OOC: +2
01[23:49] <Seira> roll 1d20+17
06[23:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+17 and gets 28." [1d20=11]
01[23:49] <Seira> roll 1d20+12
06[23:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+12 and gets 20." [1d20=8]
01[23:49] <Seira> roll 1d20+13
06[23:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 and gets 29." [1d20=16]
01[23:49] <Seira> roll 1d20+13
06[23:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 and gets 23." [1d20=10]
01[23:50] <Seira> roll 1d20+17 sr on acid
06[23:50] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+17 sr on acid and gets 34." [1d20=17]
[23:50] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits, terrible dice. SR passed.
01[23:51] <Seira> roll 3d8+9+3d8+9+1d4+2+1d8+1 resort+claw+acid from claw
06[23:51] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+9+3d8+9+1d4+2+1d8+1 resort+claw+acid from claw and gets 58." [3d8=8, 1, 4][3d8=7, 6, 6][1d4=1][1d8=4]
[23:52] <Kotono> The hound is wounded over, body scorched by smelly acid as well! Seira is relentless in her clawing, ripping more and more of the dead flesh away! OOC: Wraith 6.
[23:52] <Kotono> The sixth wraith flees as well from the sun, towards the throne! OOC: Latha.
[23:53] <Alicia> Latha steps into the middle of the room under Lagann to protect everyone with her aura, and unleashes a holy smite atop Glaciente and his wraith cronies!
[23:53] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 liches have SR?
06[23:53] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 liches have SR? and gets 26." [1d20=10]
[23:53] <Kotono> OOC: d100 for the wraiths, roll damage.
[23:53] <Alicia> roll 6#1d100
06[23:53] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 6#1d100 and gets 372." [6#1d100 = 96, 96, 13, 27, 51, 89]
[23:53] <Alicia> roll 5d8 DC 19
06[23:53] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 5d8 DC 19 and gets 19." [5d8=5, 1, 6, 4, 3]
[23:53] <Kotono> roll 4#1d20+13
06[23:53] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4#1d20+13 and gets 85." [4#1d20+13 = 23, 19, 16, 27]
[23:54] <Alicia> OOC: remembered the -1?
[23:54] <Kotono> OOC: Yes.
[23:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25
06[23:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 and gets 28." [1d20=3]
[23:54] <Kotono> The holy energies rip into the battle, the dread lich barely effected, while the wraiths howl! OOC: Alicia.
[23:57] <Alicia> roll 1d20+40 -4pa divine might 7th 5th 2nd level arcane strike bracers
06[23:57] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+40 -4pa divine might 7th 5th 2nd level arcane strike bracers and gets 60." [1d20=20]
[23:57] <Alicia> roll 1d20+40 -4pa divine might 7th 5th 2nd level arcane strike bracers crit check
06[23:57] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+40 -4pa divine might 7th 5th 2nd level arcane strike bracers crit check and gets 45." [1d20=5]
[23:57] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[23:57] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 77." [1d100=77]
[23:57] <Alicia> OOC: Greater Dispel Magic. How many rolls?
[23:57] <Kotono> OOC: I think you actually forgot to describe your attack first, to be fair.
[23:58] <Alicia> OOC: I'll do that now!
Session Time: Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 2009
[00:00] <Alicia> Wilting slightly under the assault of vile necromantic magic, Alicia tightens her grip on Hell Striker and glares down at the lich. "I underestimated you..."
[00:00] <Alicia> "Now I won't hold back," she promises, wanting to make him regret his transition to undeath and the accompanying loss of healthy vitality as she slices downwards with a dweomer-shattering strike to tear apart his protections before blowing past his defences and ripping his skeletal frame and starched skin to shreds!
[00:00] <Kotono> OOC: Crit.
[00:00] <Alicia> OOC: how many dispels so I can strip his defences before continuing my full attack?
[00:00] <Kotono> OOC: Six dispel checks.
[00:01] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19
06[00:01] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 and gets 32." [1d20=13]
[00:01] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19
06[00:01] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 and gets 28." [1d20=9]
[00:01] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19
06[00:01] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 and gets 23." [1d20=4]
[00:01] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19
06[00:01] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 and gets 31." [1d20=12]
[00:01] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19
06[00:01] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 and gets 20." [1d20=1]
[00:01] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19
06[00:01] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 and gets 38." [1d20=19]
[00:01] <Kotono> OOC: Stop there.
[00:01] <Kotono> OOC: Make a will save.
[00:01] <Alicia> roll 1d20+33
06[00:01] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+33 and gets 34." [1d20=1]
[00:02] <Kotono> OOC: -4 drain to all stats. Go ahead and roll damage.
[00:02] <Alicia> OOC: I'll do my remaining attacks first
[00:02] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[00:02] <Alicia> roll 1d20+40 -4pa divine might 7th 5th 2nd level arcane strike bracers
06[00:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+40 -4pa divine might 7th 5th 2nd level arcane strike bracers and gets 44." [1d20=4]
[00:02] <Alicia> roll 1d20+35 -4pa divine might 7th 5th 2nd level arcane strike bracers
06[00:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+35 -4pa divine might 7th 5th 2nd level arcane strike bracers and gets 54." [1d20=19]
[00:02] <Alicia> OOC: -2 to both those
[00:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+34 -4pa divine might 7th 5th 2nd level arcane strike bracers smite
06[00:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+34 -4pa divine might 7th 5th 2nd level arcane strike bracers smite and gets 43." [1d20=9]
[00:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+33 -4pa divine might 7th 5th 2nd level arcane strike bracers crit check
06[00:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+33 -4pa divine might 7th 5th 2nd level arcane strike bracers crit check and gets 41." [1d20=8]
[00:03] <Kotono> OOC: All hits, no d100 needed, you got the right enchantment at least.
[00:05] <Alicia> roll 12d4+88+126+8d6+4d6+4d8+56d4
06[00:05] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 12d4+88+126+8d6+4d6+4d8+56d4 and gets 448." [12d4=2, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 3, 3, 4, 2][8d6=1, 3, 6, 2, 4, 6, 3, 2][4d6=5, 6, 1, 1][4d8=2, 2, 2, ]
03[00:07] * Kotono changes topic to 'Wraith 1(30)>Wraith 2(29)>Wraith 3(24)>Amaryl(23)>Wraith 4=Seira(22)>Wraith 6(19)>Latha(18)>Alicia(17)>Hound 1(15)>Wraith 5(14)>Antenora(10)>Hound 3(9)>Lagann(5)>Hound 2(3)'
[00:07] <Kotono> Alicia severs forward! She thrusts into the undead horror with all she has, a skull bursting around her! It drains her very life-force, weakening her all over! Nonetheless, her blade makes the lich burst aflame! He looks down at the blade as his unholy body burns to ash, "Haha...hahahahhahahaha! Impossible! That a bug could do this to me!?" He looks up, "Impossible...!!!!" In a flash the lich's body burns away, dropping behind it's robes, circ
[00:07] <Kotono> "Impossible...!!!!" In a flash the lich's body burns away, dropping behind it's robes, circlet and the orb it held! OOC: Hound 1 is up.
[00:07] <Alicia> OOC: Anty acts now
[00:08] <Kotono> OOC: Go ahead then.
03[00:08] * Kotono changes topic to 'Wraith 1(30)>Wraith 2(29)>Wraith 3(24)>Amaryl(23)>Wraith 4=Seira(22)>Wraith 6(19)>Latha(18)>Alicia(17)>Antenora>Hound 1(15)>Wraith 5(14)>Hound 3(9)>Lagann(5)>Hound 2(3)'
01[00:08] <Seira> "A lot of the impossible's being done, right?" Seira can't help but comment.
[00:08] <Alicia> Seeing Alicia's gotten the job done, Antenora allows a moment of grim satisfaction before she charges the wounded hound Seira and Amaryl are focusing on, healing Latha on the way!
[00:08] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 -11pa charge
06[00:08] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 -11pa charge and gets 34." [1d20=14]
[00:09] <Alicia> roll 2d8+78
06[00:09] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d8+78 and gets 90." [2d8=4, 8]
[00:10] <Kotono> Antenora impales the hound from behind, wounding it even deeper, it's corpse-body quaking! The first hound, meanwhile, turns back and goes for the airborn Antenora, snapping up at her!
[00:10] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[00:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 23." [1d20=8]
[00:11] <Kotono> But misses, jaws hitting only the air instead! The fifth wraith flees away, down into the ground and out of sight! The third hound bites at Seira!
[00:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[00:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 17." [1d20=2]
[00:11] <Kotono> OOC: Image AC?
[00:11] <Kotono> roll 1d8
06[00:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8 and gets 2." [1d8=2]
01[00:11] <Seira> OOC: Images regen each round, so it doesn't matter
[00:11] <Kotono> Another image is shredded, but Seira isn't touched by it's loathesome jaw! OOC: Lagann.
01[00:11] <Seira> Lagann continues to spread the glow!
[00:13] <Kotono> Sunlight spreads further in the room, as the third hound also mauls Seira!
[00:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[00:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 27." [1d20=12]
[00:13] <Kotono> roll 1d7
06[00:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d7 and gets 1." [1d7=1]
[00:13] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
01[00:13] <Seira> OOC: More than that
[00:13] <Kotono> But Seira is like the wind, dodging and evading! The remaning wraiths flee below, fleeing away from the dreadfulsunlight and out of sight! OOC: Amaryl.
01[00:14] <Seira> Amaryl directs her attention on the other hound by Seira's side, taking another step back.
01[00:14] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+19
06[00:14] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+19 and gets 111." [4#1d20+19 = 20, 30, 27, 34]
01[00:14] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+14
06[00:14] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+14 and gets 43." [2#1d20+14 = 25, 18]
[00:15] <Kotono> OOC: 4 hits.
01[00:15] <Seira> roll 4#1d8+6+1d6+1d6
06[00:15] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d8+6+1d6+1d6 and gets 71." [4#1d8+6+1d6+1d6 = 20, 10, 22, 19]
[00:15] <Kotono> The other hound gets it's own batch of arrows, hissing in the sunlight as it's mauled! OOC: Seira.
03[00:15] * Kotono changes topic to 'Amaryl(23)>Seira(22)>Latha(18)>Alicia(17)>Antenora>Hound 1(150>Hound 3(9)>Lagann(5)>Hound 2(3)'
03[00:15] * Kotono changes topic to 'Amaryl(23)>Seira(22)>Latha(18)>Alicia(17)>Antenora>Hound 1(15)>Hound 3(9)>Lagann(5)>Hound 2(3)'
06[00:16] * Seira decides to finish the more battered hound, stepping back herself and launching an orb of acid at its face.
01[00:16] <Seira> roll 1d20+19 ranged touch
06[00:16] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 ranged touch and gets 22." [1d20=3]
[00:16] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
01[00:17] <Seira> roll 15d6+15 acid
06[00:17] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 15d6+15 acid and gets 71." [15d6=1, 3, 3, 6, 6, 3, 4, 4, 3, 6, 1, 6, 1, 6, 3]
03[00:17] * Kotono changes topic to 'Amaryl(23)>Seira(22)>Latha(18)>Alicia(17)>Antenora>Hound 1(15)>Lagann(5)>Hound 2(3)'
[00:17] <Kotono> Hit with acid, the last hound melts away into a pile of freed bodies, tormented flesh at last saved! OOC: Latha.
[00:17] <Alicia> Latha unleashes a holy smite to pummel the two remaining hounds, blinding and battering them!
[00:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16
06[00:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 and gets 33." [1d20=17]
[00:18] <Alicia> roll 5d8 DC 19
06[00:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 5d8 DC 19 and gets 23." [5d8=1, 7, 8, 3, 4]
[00:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
[00:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
06[00:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 23." [1d20=15]
06[00:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 28." [1d20=20]
[00:18] <Kotono> The hounds are zapped by Latha's fury, weakening a little more, bodies smouldering with white and fading! OOC: Alicia.
[00:19] <Alicia> Glad that she's put the arrogant mage down but also cognisant of the fact that nothing more than magic and fury are keeping her upright, Alicia retreats towards Latha and the shelter of sunlight, offering the deva a smile as she heals herself.
[00:19] <Alicia> roll 18d4+18
06[00:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 18d4+18 and gets 57." [18d4=2, 1, 1, 4, 2, 2, 4, 1, 4, 3, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2]
[00:19] <Kotono> Alicia heals her many vile wounds, restoring some of her life force! OOC: Antenora.
[00:20] <Alicia> Antenora turns to the hound that attacked her, stabbing out repeatedly with her spear as she flies around it, not giving it an easy target as she fights back!
[00:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 -4pa
06[00:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 -4pa and gets 39." [1d20=14]
[00:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 -4pa
06[00:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 -4pa and gets 25." [1d20=5]
[00:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 -4pa
06[00:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 -4pa and gets 18." [1d20=3]
[00:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 -4pa
06[00:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 -4pa and gets 27." [1d20=17]
[00:21] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
[00:21] <Kotono> OOC: Er, 3.
[00:21] <Alicia> roll 3d8+75
06[00:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d8+75 and gets 88." [3d8=4, 5, 4]
[00:21] <Alicia> OOC: divine succor on Latha
[00:22] <Kotono> The hound is stabbed repeatedly, body collapsing onto itself, but not quite finished yet! The hound snaps at Antenora in retort!
[00:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[00:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 24." [1d20=9]
[00:23] <Kotono> But it misses again, Antenora infinitely more agile than it is! OOC: Lagann.
01[00:23] <Seira> Lagann just keeps the sunlight spreading.
[00:25] <Kotono> The second hound weakly bites at Seira!
[00:25] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[00:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 20." [1d20=5]
[00:25] <Kotono> roll 1d9
06[00:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d9 and gets 1." [1d9=1]
[00:25] <Kotono> But gets a faceful of acid for it's troubles! It's head eats away, it's form collapsing! OOC: Amaryl.
03[00:25] * Kotono changes topic to 'Amaryl(23)>Seira(22)>Latha(18)>Alicia(17)>Antenora>Hound 1(15)>Lagann(5)'
06[00:26] * Seira decides to try and put it out of its misery, stepping back all the way towards Latha as she sacrifices accuracy for power!
01[00:26] <Seira> *Amaryl
01[00:27] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+18
06[00:27] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+18 and gets 121." [4#1d20+18 = 32, 37, 28, 24]
[00:27] <Kotono> OOOC: All hit.
01[00:27] <Seira> roll 4d8+24+4d6+4d6+12d6
06[00:27] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4d8+24+4d6+4d6+12d6 and gets 104." [4d8=4, 5, 1, 1][4d6=6, 3, 3, 1][4d6=3, 3, 3, 4][12d6=1, 6, 3, 5, 3, 5, 5, 3, 1, 3, 3, 5]
[00:28] <Kotono> Under this hail of arrows, the last hound withers and dies! The throneroom is clear! OOC: Free act.
[00:28] <Kotono> Latha descends to the ground, holding her ribs. "We won."
01[00:28] <Seira> The first thing Seira does is head towards Alicia to congratulate her and mend her wounds!
01[00:28] <Seira> roll 3d8+15
06[00:28] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+15 and gets 33." [3d8=2, 8, 8]
[00:28] <Kotono> Amaryldraws more arrows, looking about, "I think we really did. We did win!"
06[00:28] * Alicia heals herself some more, since you can never have enough of that. "Made us work for it, and there's no telling when those wraiths will be back. But yes, we did."
[00:28] <Alicia> roll 3d8+15
06[00:28] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d8+15 and gets 30." [3d8=5, 5, 5]
[00:29] <Kotono> Antenora approaches Alicia, lightly clasping her shoulder. "Good work, Alicia." OOC: 16 lay on hands.
[00:29] <Alicia> OOC: only need 7
01[00:29] <Seira> "Before they do, let's find his immortal, horribly wilted soul in a jar and smash it?"
06[00:29] * Seira doesn't neglect Latha either, now that Alicia seems better.
01[00:30] <Seira> roll 2d8+10
06[00:30] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2d8+10 and gets 21." [2d8=8, 3]
06[00:30] * Alicia nods to Seira. "It'll likely be in a place with corpses he can use to reform himself, and supplies to get back on his feet - like a spellbook and such. But we've probably got free run of the place now, so we can turn it top to bottom till we find it."
[00:30] <Kotono> "What about that?" Antenora jerks her head towards the orb, robe and circlet. "Smash them or take them?"
[00:30] <Alicia> Are they evil and/or magical?
[00:31] <Kotono> "What if it's not here?" Latha slowly rights herself, standing and wincing. "If I were a mage, I wouldn't have my weak point at the same place my slayers were."
01[00:31] <Seira> "We can't smash any orbs!" Seira exclaims. "One of them might have Celebrimbor's soul!"
[00:31] <Kotono> OOC: Cl check, Alicia.
[00:31] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17
06[00:31] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 and gets 27." [1d20=10]
06[00:31] * Seira blinks at Latha. "You wouldn't put it at your secret base of power no one knows about, that you have had millennia to defend?"
[00:32] <Kotono> "For all his arrogance, he had more than sufficient traps and forces to nearly kill us," Approaching, "Arrogant, but not a fool."
01[00:32] <Seira> "You know, there are mages who carry the important things with them, where they can protect them. Like me and my spellbook."
[00:32] <Alicia> "They're all magical, and the robe is vile, as if the decoration didn't give it away. We might as well grab everything and sort it out later," Alicia opines, opening up the portable hole and shuffling everything inside. "If it's not here it's not here. But we should at least look for it."
[00:33] <Kotono> Smiling now, despite all of it, "I hope you're right and I pray that you are, Seira."
06[00:33] * Seira gives her a thumbs up, before carefully looking over the room to ensure they haven't missed anything, including any secret doors.
[00:34] <Kotono> OOC: Search.
06[00:34] * Alicia doesn't pay overmuch attention to the orb for the moment, simply putting it in the hole. Now's not the time for experimenting with strange magic that seemed to be the focus for very very evil and nasty magic that hurt her a lot.
[00:34] <Alicia> "Also, it seemed your words were able to send those souls onwards in the last chamber, at least coupled with Mystra's blessing. Shall we try and clear it out before anything else?" Alicia asks Latha once she's folded the hole up.
01[00:35] <Seira> roll 1d20+30 search
06[00:35] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+30 search and gets 45." [1d20=15]
06[00:35] * Alicia helps Seira look around a bit, pointing out here and there.
[00:36] <Alicia> roll 1d20+2
06[00:36] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+2 and gets 17." [1d20=15]
[00:36] <Alicia> OOC: -2 from my int drain, actually
01[00:37] <Seira> "If he kept anything in this base, it's not here," Seira asserts, silently calling for the power to sense any orbs, much like ones that would hold souls from her arcane teachings. Between that, her ability to see the invisible and Lagann's senses, they might be able to come up with something as they explore the rest of the compound.
01[00:38] <Seira> OOC: If it needs to happen, I'll just take 10 on search at random intervals as we go along to make sure there's nothing we're missing?

[Corwin]

[20:06] <Kotono> <Alicia> "Also, it seemed your words were able to send those souls onwards in the last chamber, at least coupled with Mystra's blessing. Shall we try and clear it out before anything else?" Alicia asks Latha once she's folded the hole up.
[20:06] <Kotono> <Seira> roll 1d20+30 search
[20:06] <Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+30 search and gets 45." [1d20=15]
[20:06] <Kotono> * Alicia helps Seira look around a bit, pointing out here and there.
[20:06] <Kotono> <Alicia> roll 1d20+2
[20:06] <Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+2 and gets 17." [1d20=15]
[20:06] <Kotono> <Alicia> OOC: -2 from my int drain, actually
[20:06] <Kotono> <Seira> "If he kept anything in this base, it's not here," Seira asserts, silently calling for the power to sense any orbs, much like ones that would hold souls from her arcane teachings. Between that, her ability to see the invisible and Lagann's senses, they might be able to come up with something as they explore the rest of the compound.
[20:06] <Kotono> <Seira> OOC: If it needs to happen, I'll just take 10 on search at random intervals as we go along to make sure there's nothing we're missing?
[20:07] <Kotono> OOC: Okay, so Seira's going to search behind while Alicia/Latha holy word/aura combo?
[20:07] <Alicia> OOC: in the bone-bridge chamber filled with distraught spirits, yes
01[20:08] <Seira> OOC: Not so much behind as alongside, but yes
03[20:11] * Retrieving #dunes modes...
[20:12] <Kotono> Thus the two get to work, Seira searching with them, while Amaryl and Antenora are on guard. Each utterance of Holy Word brings light to this forsaken chamber, faces screaming and yet sighing in relief. Souls dissipate, floating away into what ether awaits beyond. Seira searches as they do so, finding the platform to be plain, with no obvious end to the void all around in sight, nor anything interesting or telling in it. The song of the chambe
[20:12] <Kotono> nor anything interesting or telling in it. The song of the chamber begins to change as you word. In Celestial, a song of release and hope is sung. Amid this, an image appears before you. It is of a man dressed in battleworn armor and carrying a silver dragon's claw from a band on his neck.
01[20:13] <Seira> "Oh, hi!" Seira greets the man, ceasing with her pointless searching.
06[20:13] * Alicia eyes this new spirit warily, recalling how Alice treated them. "We seek only to grant you release that was denied," she says, for whatever it's worth.
[20:14] <Kotono> "...Before you do..." His voice is the rustling of leaves in the fall wind, "Listen to my words, for I attempted to stop the Dark Six before."
01[20:14] <Seira> "A worthy, honorable persuit," Seira agrees with approval. "What is it?"
06[20:15] * Alicia relaxes, seeing that this spirit means them no harm. He must have tremendous will to have retained his sense of self in a place such as this, so she regards him more respectfully. "If your words will help us bring low your tormentors, we will gladly listen."
[20:17] <Kotono> "His name...is Sylian, he who sought to vie with the Unspoken Chaos...His name...is Mudan Scylion...master of undeath..." He breathes, "Of those two...Sylian...treats with the Unspoken Chaos, the Pale Mother of Demo...gorgon. Long did I oppose the Pale Mother's plans...finding that the Dark Six...are tied to her goals."
[20:18] <Alicia> That's two more names for the six, leaving only two others unknown. "What goals are those?" she asks.
[20:20] <Kotono> "I found...only after my death...they revere what should not be...it claims to be a Godling, yet is Neverborn." The image flickers back and forth, "The Pale Mother...I know not how deep the connection goes, but I know this. For as long as the sacrifice of the innocent children of loving chaos...continues in Her realm...Bleak Rendor...shall never be seen. Such is the pact of the Pale Mother."
01[20:21] <Seira> "We can't even get there unless we achieve what generations of celestials have tried and failed to bring about?" Seira asks incredulously.
[20:23] <Kotono> "There...is...hope." His breath seems to blow past you, his image flickering like a candle in the winter wind. "The keys...to the freedom of the lost children...lies in your hands. I feel it's nightmarish might...the orb...one of the orbs of the Dark Six...keys of the pact. I paid for this knowledge with my life. In your hands...you have...the chance to free them."
01[20:24] <Seira> Seira's eyes widen at this tidbit, and she nods at the apparition. "We'll continue your quest, rest assured of that."
[20:25] <Alicia> "Then it looks like we'll be returning to the Abyss after all, for all that Gurlan retains his reprieve," Alicia nods her head resolutely. "I did sense immense power in the orb, for all that it troubles me... if it can be used to free Pale Night's captives, so much the better."
[20:27] <Kotono> "It is the key...but I have faced the Pale Mother's machinations long...you will face horrors...before you have your chance. Be brave and true, for the Triad...will protect you..." With a gaze to Alicia, "The curse...the spiteful wrath...of Glaciante Devarim pollutes you...be warned, that magic will be immortal to your words...until it is undone."
[20:28] <Alicia> "What do you mean immortal?" Alicia asks in confusion, as Antenora helpfully casts remove curse on her.
[20:30] <Kotono> "That you will never be able to undo magic...until it is undone." The spirit sighs, as Alicia feels no different after the remove curse. "Go now. Finish freeing those souls...and free...the children from Pale Mother's...grasp. Please."
[20:31] <Alicia> roll 1d20+14 knowledge arcana for any helpful info on such curses?
06[20:31] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+14 knowledge arcana for any helpful info on such curses? and gets 26." [1d20=12]
01[20:31] <Seira> "You should get going towards your own reward, then, too," Seira tells him. "You've certainly earned it."
01[20:32] <Seira> roll 1d20+26
06[20:32] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+26 and gets 46." [1d20=20]
[20:33] <Kotono> The images fades away. As it leaves, "Androlynne..." Antenora murmurs, "Right back into the Abyss."
[20:35] <Alicia> "Not until we've cleansed this pit from top to bottom. We don't want any of the Dark Six to find anything useful here after we've left," Alicia says briskly, deciding she'll figure out what to do about this curse once they're back home.
01[20:35] <Seira> "If I got it right, it's almost ingenious," Seira voices. "Each party has a weakness, but they're using the other side to cover for it. I'm somewhat baffled they can trust each other to such a level, but once you get past that...."
[20:35] <Alicia> "Hmm?" Alicia cocks her head, looking at Seira for her to elaborate on her insight.
01[20:36] <Seira> "I might be overanalyzing it, but it sounds like the eladrin children can't be freed as long as those keys exist. And the keys were taken to Bleak Rendor, which in turn cannot be accessed for as long as the children remain prisoner and are slowly being sacrificed."
06[20:37] * Seira shrugs. "If I'm anywhere near the target here, as long as both sides stick to their agreement, they serve as the other's immunity for their one weakness."
[20:38] <Kotono> Antenora's face explodes into a scowl, "I have trouble believing a demon could stick to it's word for so long," A deep growl comes out, "Yet...if you're correct, it's a scheme worthy of a devil."
01[20:39] <Seira> "Maybe Malcanthet is more active in her cursed child's life than we were lead to believe?"
[20:39] <Kotono> "Maybe. The Pale Mother meant Pale Night, right?" Amaryl asks, "The demon princess of Androlynne?"
[20:39] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 planes, relations between mal-chan and pale night?
06[20:39] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 planes, relations between mal-chan and pale night? and gets 43." [1d20=20]
01[20:42] <Seira> roll 1d20+28
06[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+28 and gets 46." [1d20=18]
[20:43] <Alicia> "Pale Night surely gets something out of the deal. As for Malcanthet?" Alicia looks somewhat uncomfortable, knowing more about the Queen of Succubi than she'd honestly like, but given her interest it's unavoidable.
[20:43] <Alicia> "She and Pale Night have nothing to do with each other. Malcanthet is very involved in Abyssal politics, but Pale Night holds herself above it all. She's... different, than the usual tanar'ri. Older."
01[20:43] <Seira> "At the risk of derailing the conversation, Alicia," Seira then mentions, having thought on the issue for a while until then, "Ajan may be able to remove this curse, much like he was able to break the chains that bound me to the ground. As we'll see him soon enough, you could inquire with him, and perhaps negotiate something."
[20:45] <Alicia> "Well, we'll see," Alicia shrugs, not particularly enthused about putting herself in debt to the ancient wyrm. "For now lets focus on the task at hand?"
01[20:46] <Seira> "Of course," Seira agrees. "On the matter of Pale Night, aside from the obvious, does she gain benefit from slaying and converting the crusaders that come to try and free the captive eladrin? Is there a way to channel all that senseless sacrifice into power?"
[20:47] <Kotono> "I don't know," Latha says as she utters naother Holy Word, more spirits freed, "That's the most salient question - what does Pale Night gain from this?"
[20:48] <Alicia> "I don't know," Alicia shakes her head. "The story I got from Marie was just that she tormented them for amusement. Considering demonic behaviour it's easy to see why such an explanation would be accepted."
01[20:48] <Seira> "The obvious would be tribute, spoils of war, training her forces and amusement," Seira voices.
[20:49] <Kotono> "If that's just a cover," Antenora's color drains, "The thought of an ancient demon able to manage that level of subtle plotting is a nightmare."
01[20:49] <Seira> "Well, if anyone has the patience to plot like that, it would be an ancient demon, right?"
01[20:49] <Seira> *any demon
[20:50] <Alicia> "Yes," Alicia looks askance at Antenora. "They're not all foaming-mouthed idiots."
[20:50] <Kotono> "I suppose I can accept that in rare cases," Antenora looks right back at Alicia. "No matter. Let's finish this affair before we lose our heads in the clouds of scheming?"
[20:50] <Kotono> As Latha finishes, the spirits have faded away. The song is gone now, only blackness and a peaceful silence left behind in the wake of the spirits.
06[20:51] * Seira hardly has anything else to contribute, observing as she is. Once the song fades away, she jerks her head towards the entrance to the corridor. "Let's move on?" she proposes.
[20:52] <Kotono> "Where to? Back above? But I haven't seen any stairs," Amaryl asks, "How are you supposed to move about here otherwise?"
[20:52] <Alicia> "We never explored all the way past the field of corpses," Alicia notes. "But we can always just go back up the tunnel, anyway."
01[20:53] <Seira> "Dimensional Door, maybe?" Seira voices. "And we can search more. Perhaps even one of the rooms with the forcefields actually has something, hiding itself amongst others appearing just like it."
[20:53] <Kotono> OOC: So going to go back and search the forcefield rooms, then go ahead back to the room of corpses?
[20:54] <Alicia> OOC: sure
01[20:54] <Seira> OOC: I'll take 10 for 40, others can probably boost it to the 45-50 area?
[20:54] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[20:56] <Kotono> Thus the party searches the forcefield rooms - nothing of note is found. Each of them seem to be exactly as they advertise. On heading back to the room of corpses, you find most of them have burnt off. The stench of death lingers in the room as you proceed on. After a few minutes of walking down this vast corridor, Seira finds hidden door on a side wall.
06[20:56] * Seira gives the room a far closer look, gesturing for the others to stay back in case it is trapped.
01[20:56] <Seira> OOC: 40 again to search traps
[20:57] <Kotono> The door is not trapped.
01[20:58] <Seira> Just the same, Seira makes sure she is the only one in the vicinity before saying, "Okay, here goes, I'm opening it," and following her own words.
[20:59] <Kotono> The door is opened! Inside is a chamber of black metal. Six skulls are embedded into the back wall, the room only ten feet deep and wide. In each skull's mouth, six strange, sickly, bloody scrolls rest.
06[20:59] * Alicia naturally is alert to point out any magic or evil auras present.
06[21:00] * Seira is on the lookout for evil as well, and resolves to keep at it until they return to Balmuria.
01[21:01] <Seira> "Do the scrolls seem explosive?"
[21:01] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 spellcraft
06[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 spellcraft and gets 36." [1d20=13]
[21:02] <Alicia> "They're thick with vile necromantic magic," Alicia replies distastefully. "Might not explode but could suck the life right out of you."
06[21:02] * Seira examines the door, and whether it would block Lagann's power when closed right back.
[21:04] <Kotono> The door is thick, solid metal. It would block detect spells and the like due to sheer thickness. Metal doesn't generally block Lagann's powers.
06[21:04] * Alicia moves to look over the leftmost scroll, being careful not to touch it.
01[21:05] <Seira> "I think I'll just burn the whole thing. Are you sure you want to look at them?"
[21:05] <Kotono> "I do like Seira's suggestion. The fact that they're here suggests they're to raise the undead," Latha hangs back, out of the room.
01[21:05] <Seira> "I'm usually very curious, but in this case, I can live with the not knowing. Emphasis on live."
06[21:07] * Alicia pauses. "Very well," she relents. She'd hoped to find useful information, but they'd hardly write a journal on paper so rife with necromancy. Stepping back out of the room, she lets Seira do the honours.
06[21:08] * Seira takes six of Amaryl's remaining fiery arrows, breaking off the tips, and tosses them into the room, closing the door behind them. "Lagann, make sure these get to their destinations?" she instructs the sentient orb.
[21:08] <Kotono> Thus Lagann works! You can faintly smell a horrible stench of burning, competeting with the lingering aura in here, but it soon passes.
06[21:08] * Seira opens the door again after a few more moments.
[21:10] <Kotono> There is only ash where thes crolls were.
01[21:10] <Seira> If the aura of evil is now safely dissipating, Seira will search the room like all the others!
01[21:11] <Seira> "A bit disappointing, but better safe than sorry."
[21:11] <Kotono> "Infinitely better," Antenora wrinkles her nose, "Let's continue on?"
01[21:11] <Seira> OOC: 40 to search traps
01[21:12] <Seira> OOC: then 40 to search, if no traps
01[21:12] <Seira> "Yeah, we can safely move on," Seira agrees after her brief glance of the room.
06[21:13] * Alicia nods and proceeds onwards, alert for any magical or evil auras as they go, leaving Seira to identify anything hidden beyond her sight.
[21:13] <Kotono> After about ten minutes of walking, you find the burnt corpses and room comes to an end. No sign of anything of note, Seira's searching not turning up much besides a dead end. Alicia's magical eyes find little of note as well.
[21:15] <Alicia> "Looks like we'll have to head back upstairs... it's rather wasteful if he has to teleport everywhere, though, isn't it?" Alicia muses, turning around. "That lich we killed, it was the same one that sealed up Lagann?" she double-checks with Hell Striker.
01[21:15] <Seira> "Well, this is definitely strange," Seira admits. "Want to try digging down as well as up?"
[21:15] <Kotono> "You know, that's not a bad idea. If they use magic to get around..." Latha looks down at the ground.
01[21:16] <Seira> "Huh." Seira looks at Latha speculatively, and then at Antenora. "What if it wasn't wasteful at all, but something he had readily available, like those smites?"
[21:17] <Alicia> "Fair point," Alicia agrees with Seira. "Anyway, I'll try digging a tunnel down when we get back to the corridor? It's probably more likely to hit something there."
[21:17] <Kotono> OOC: REturning to the tunnel?
[21:18] <Alicia> OOC: yes
[21:18] <Kotono> The party returns to the tunnel without incident.
06[21:20] * Alicia steps to the side of the corridor, and after Latha drops a pair of dispel evils on her she aims downwards at a slight angle to make a slope rather than a vertical drop as she excavates a 280 feet deep path!
[21:20] <Alicia> roll 10d8 DC 24
06[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 10d8 DC 24 and gets 45." [10d8=4, 6, 5, 5, 1, 8, 5, 1, 4, 6]
[21:21] <Kotono> Thus Alicia fires in! The spellfire burrows deep...Alicia can see light below, then more light then...with a woosh, the spellfire is returning BACKWARDS, coming back up the tunnel like a ball on the rebound bounce!
[21:22] <Alicia> "Dive!" Alicia yelps, diving to the side and out of the line of fire, although with everyone spaced it shouldn't threaten anyone else.
06[21:22] * Seira dives towards Amaryl, shielding her with her body!
[21:23] <Kotono> The party dives out of the way! The spellfire bursts in this room, hitting the ceiling before fading, leaving a slight, ten foot indent in it.
[21:23] <Kotono> Antenora looks up from being face down, coughing, "What...how?"
01[21:23] <Seira> "How about we dig in all directions... but with less power?"
[21:24] <Alicia> "I really don't know..." Alicia peers down the newly excavated tunnel. "I think that's enough, though."
[21:24] <Kotono> "How about we explore first?" Latha dusts herself off, "If this gets us far enough, no need to risk further tunnels."
06[21:24] * Seira looks down the fresh passage, absent-mindedly refreshing the extended spell keeping her healthy and safe.
[21:26] <Kotono> A faint light comes from sixty feet down, a black floor below seen.
06[21:26] * Seira flips a golden coin!
01[21:26] <Seira> roll 1d2
06[21:26] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d2 and gets 1." [1d2=1]
01[21:26] <Seira> "Waukeen says up. Works?"
[21:26] <Kotono> Past that, the hole continues, down 120 from your place, something only glimpsed.
[21:27] <Alicia> "We're going to cover it all eventually, but we can go back up first, yes. Lets clear out the rest of the treasure we found with our belongings?" Alicia suggests, flying up into the ascending tunnel and starting to climb.
[21:28] <Kotono> You return to the room of black velvet, flying up with Seira giving Amaryl a lift. There's a door you haven't gone in, as well as the opposite door that leads to the treasure room and four other unexplored doors.
06[21:29] * Alicia heads to the left, flying over the pit with a golem somewhere at the bottom.
06[21:29] * Seira certainly doesn't mind flying with Amaryl in her arms, keeping safely in the center.
[21:31] <Kotono> You return to the center room without incident. There are six doors, one came through and one leading to th etreasure room. There are four other unexplored doors here.
06[21:31] * Alicia goes to the treasure room, all the wealth before that was ignored in favour of their own possessions now regarded with a critical eye.
[21:31] <Alicia> OOC: any magic/evil?
01[21:31] <Seira> "Get the treasure while I check the doors for traps?" Seira proposes, doing her part.
01[21:32] <Seira> OOC: Any evil? Also, taking 10 for 40 again on traps.
[21:33] <Kotono> (Line coming after PMs.)
[21:35] <Kotono> Seira doesn't find any traps, just great piles of wealth. A shard of glass crusted with diamond, a beautiful ceramic doll of an elf child, a painstaking flagon of crystal, wine still inside, a blue diamond with a green, pupil-less eye inside, the silver deathmask of a dwarf. Yet there are terrible things in it as well. A circle of pure obsidian can be opened, showing Shar sacrificing and violating Mystra. Another is of a unicorn, a tentacled m
[21:35] <Kotono>  showing Shar sacrificing and violating Mystra. Another is of a unicorn, a tentacled mass ripping it's body apart into insane angles and distortions. Of the magic items, there are six: (More)
[21:37] <Kotono> A scroll, a set of green chainmail, glowing, a black book with nine points of red on the cover that radiates strong evil, a heavy crossbow, an ornate crown and a golden armband.
01[21:38] <Seira> "If the curse that hit you is in that book, it might be even easier to devise a counterspell to it," Seira muses.
[21:39] <Alicia> Pretty much everything gets shuffled into the portable hole to be dealt with later. However, Alicia exercises her art critic side and makes a point of shattering the pieces she finds objectionable. Shar vs Mystra and Zetsubokou's work on a unicorn among them. "Perhaps. We can sort through it all in detail when we return to Balmuria."
[21:40] <Kotono> roll 9d8
06[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 9d8 and gets 38." [9d8=3, 3, 2, 6, 6, 6, 4, 7, 1]
[21:40] <Kotono> On touching the black book, a deathchill passes through Alicia as she sweeps things into her hole! OOC: 38 cold damage.
[21:41] <Alicia> "Brrr!" Alicia pulls back her suddenly numb hand and gives it a shake. "Make sure you're protected against cold if you read that book."
01[21:41] <Seira> "I hate magical books. They have these magical book cooties that just hate me."
[21:42] <Kotono> "Cooties..." Antenora shakes her head, "By Mystra, sometimes I wonder about you, Seira. The archmage of the Baronies speaking like that."
01[21:42] <Seira> "You haven't been hated by books as I have," Seira states sagely.
[21:43] <Alicia> "Well, don't expect this one to befriend you," Alicia rolls up the hole and stands up. "Lets check the other rooms?"
01[21:43] <Seira> "Yeah, I'd be worried if it did," Seira agrees, already on her way to examine the next door clockwise.
01[21:44] <Seira> OOC: 40 for traps?
[21:44] <Kotono> Thus the party returns out. The next door is not trapped or locked.
06[21:44] * Seira opens it, taking a peek past it.
[21:45] <Kotono> Inside is a chamber of skulls. The walls are nothing but skulls, layer on layer of them. The ceiling is black oblivion. The floor is bone-white stone, unfinished.  Here and there bone-white sand lies in small piles.
[21:45] <Kotono> The room radiates overwhelming evil and strong magic to those who are scanning.
[21:45] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 spellcraft
06[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 spellcraft and gets 27." [1d20=4]
01[21:46] <Seira> "I've got nothing," Seira admits, glancing at Alicia. "Some kind of evil sand room?"
[21:48] <Alicia> "This is probably where they made corporeal undead," Alicia muses, grimacing at the overwhelming taint emanating from within. "Let me find out just how far reaching Glaciante's curse was," she adds, a glowing white field of holy energy surrounding her as she steps into the room and discharges it into the magic, seeing if Dispel Evil works where Dispel Magic fails.
[21:51] <Kotono> The dispellation fizzles away, Dispel Evil coming to nothing.
[21:53] <Alicia> "Hmph..." Alicia glowers. "Well played," she mutters, deriving no small amount of satisfaction from the fact that she ripped the arrogant lich to shreds not half an hour ago. "Latha, could you do the honours?"
[21:54] <Kotono> Latha steps in, glowing with holy energies! Reaching out, the magic in the room shatters! Immediately, the skull walls start to crumble! The ceiling groans, the floor withering! OOC: Make a reflex save for Latha?
06[21:55] * Seira is ready to try and get Latha out of there at the groaning sounds of failing architecture!
[21:55] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22
06[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 and gets 27." [1d20=5]
[21:56] <Kotono> Fortunately for all, Latha moves out of the way like a bullet! The room collapses into itself, a vast groan as the room is now utter emptiness, save for a single spot of pure black in the air, standing out from the other oblivion with a terrible intensity.
01[21:57] <Seira> "Good job!" Seira says approvingly, closing the door and moving on to the next one.
[21:57] <Alicia> "Er, Seira?" Alicia puts out a hand to hold the door open, indicating the umbral blot in the room. "We should probably figure out what that is, first."
[21:58] <Alicia> OOC: Such as, is it magic or evil?
01[21:58] <Seira> "Creepy black spot?"
[21:59] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 spellcraft
06[21:59] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 spellcraft and gets 36." [1d20=13]
[22:00] <Kotono> OOC: You two can make K:A here.
[22:00] <Alicia> roll 1d20+13 sure
06[22:00] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+13 sure and gets 24." [1d20=11]
01[22:00] <Seira> roll 1d20+26 right
06[22:00] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+26 right and gets 28." [1d20=2]
[22:01] <Kotono> "Um..." Antenora looks ahead, "It's alive. Intelligent."
[22:01] <Alicia> "I..." Alicia takes half a step back. "We really don't want to touch that. I think it's a sphere of annihilation..."
01[22:02] <Seira> "Sounds about right," Seira agrees. "Can we close the door now? Maybe it'll go away."
[22:02] <Kotono> As yo uspeak, the orb begins to advance towards you! OOC: Roll init.
01[22:02] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 25." [1d20=19]
01[22:02] <Seira> roll 1d20+8 A
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 A and gets 20." [1d20=12]
01[22:02] <Seira> roll 1d20 L
06[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20 L and gets 8." [1d20=8]
[22:03] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 11." [1d20=1]
[22:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 Alicia
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 Alicia and gets 8." [1d20=1]
[22:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 Anty
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 Anty and gets 25." [1d20=20]
[22:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 Latha
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 Latha and gets 20." [1d20=12]
03[22:04] * Kotono changes topic to 'Seira=Antenora(25)>Amaryl=Latha(20)>Spot of black(11)>Alicia=Lagann(8)'
[22:04] <Kotono> OOC: What a strange init.
[22:04] <Kotono> OOC: ?You two are up.
06[22:04] * Seira decides to try that which has worked consistently in the past and kill it with fire!
01[22:04] <Seira> roll 8d8+2d8
06[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 8d8+2d8 and gets 53." [8d8=1, 8, 4, 6, 7, 2, 7, 8][2d8=7, 3]
01[22:05] <Seira> roll 1d4
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d4 and gets 2." [1d4=2]
[22:05] <Kotono> Fire bathes the sphere, washing over it! It smokes and smoulders, making no effort to dodge! OOC: Antenora.
06[22:05] * Seira steps back after that, drawing the Resort.
[22:06] <Alicia> Antenora throws up a blade barrier to fill the doorway, hoping it'll somehow stop the thing with the scary name from coming any closer!
[22:07] <Kotono> OOC: Amaryl and Latha.
01[22:08] <Seira> Amaryl retreats from the scary blot as well, trying her luck with the arrows at her disposal.
01[22:08] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+18
06[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+18 and gets 107." [4#1d20+18 = 26, 19, 37, 25]
[22:08] <Kotono> OOC: One hit.
01[22:09] <Seira> roll 1d8+6+1d6+1d6+6d6
06[22:09] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+6+1d6+1d6+6d6 and gets 30." [1d8=1][1d6=5][1d6=1][6d6=3, 1, 5, 1, 5, 2]
01[22:09] <Seira> OOC: I moved 30ft back, she'd move 40ft.
[22:09] <Kotono> The arrows fly past it! One hits, burrowing into it for a split second, before it's utterly vaporized into nothingness! The spot of black advances at this, through the blade barrier! OOC: Roll damage.
[22:10] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[22:10] <Alicia> roll 15d6
06[22:10] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 15d6 and gets 45." [15d6=2, 4, 6, 1, 4, 4, 2, 5, 1, 6, 1, 2, 1, 1, 5]
[22:11] <Kotono> As it passes through, the blade barrier vanishes! It continues on it's path, going straight for Antenora!
[22:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 touch
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 touch and gets 41." [1d20=16]
[22:11] <Kotono> OOC: Fort, Antenora.
[22:11] <Alicia> roll 1d20+32
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+32 and gets 37." [1d20=5]
[22:11] <Kotono> roll 20d6 full damage but no more.
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 20d6 full damage but no more. and gets 71." [20d6=3, 2, 3, 2, 5, 5, 6, 5, 1, 2, 1, 2, 6, 1, 5, 6, 3, 6, 2, 5]
[22:11] <Alicia> OOC: Latha would like to go now
[22:12] <Kotono> Antenora dives quickly out of the way! Only her arm is grazed, but he entire body nearly vaporizes! She screams, black racing all over her nearly fading body! OOC: Whoops, sorry, go.
[22:14] <Alicia> "Our attacks do nothing, we must retreat!" Latha suggests urgently, moving over behind Antenora and preparing to plane shift once everyone joins her.
[22:15] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. In the meantime, Lagann and Alicia can go.
01[22:15] <Seira> Lagann hardly cares either way, but as long as he's in combat, the sentient orb flings magic missiles at the hateful blot.
01[22:15] <Seira> roll 5d4+5
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 5d4+5 and gets 17." [5d4=4, 1, 4, 2, 1]
[22:16] <Kotono> The missiles hit the orb, slamming into it and vanishing a split second later! OOC: Alicia.
[22:16] <Alicia> Alicia things Latha's onto something, but on the off chance this thing is from the negative energy plane she attempts to banish it back there before she moves over to take the deva's hand. "Return to whatever void you came from!"
[22:16] <Kotono> OOC: Turning it?
[22:16] <Alicia> OOC: DC 22 will, +/- difference between my hd and its (currently 17 here)
[22:17] <Alicia> OOC: Dismissal
[22:17] <Alicia> OOC: No need to save if it's native, obviously
[22:17] <Kotono> The magic flows...but nothing happens! OOC: Seira and Antenora are up.
[22:18] <Alicia> Antenora heals herself and smites it, taking Latha's hand and preparing to be plane shifted away from the void that hungers!
[22:19] <Alicia> roll 5d8 since it's clearly not an outsider, DC 22
06[22:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 5d8 since it's clearly not an outsider, DC 22 and gets 23." [5d8=6, 2, 3, 7, 5]
06[22:19] * Seira doesn't particularly likes this plan, and thus proposes, "What if I try to use dimension door to get us to where we started?" The blot may not be able to detect them at a distance, and likely wouldn't find them.
[22:19] <Kotono> The smite bursts over the orb, washing over it before the light itself vanishes!
[22:20] <Alicia> "Just so long as we're away from here," Antenora replies worriedly, not liking the look of things.
06[22:20] * Seira waits for Amaryl to shoot the orb and rejoin Latha, which the elf swiftly does!
01[22:20] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+18
06[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+18 and gets 116." [4#1d20+18 = 34, 23, 27, 32]
[22:21] <Kotono> OOC: No hits.
[22:21] <Kotono> The arrows simply fade away before touching the orb, undamaging to it! OOC: Seira, taking your held action now?
06[22:22] * Seira is the last one to the group, and then attempts to shift them away. She can move them for a bit over a thousand feet, and will do so for a safe spot far beyond sight.

[Corwin]

[20:12] <Alicia> * Seira doesn't particularly likes this plan, and thus proposes, "What if I try to use dimension door to get us to where we started?" The blot may not be able to detect them at a distance, and likely wouldn't find them.
[20:12] <Alicia> <Kotono> The smite bursts over the orb, washing over it before the light itself vanishes!
[20:12] <Alicia> <Alicia> "Just so long as we're away from here," Antenora replies worriedly, not liking the look of things.
[20:12] <Alicia> * Seira waits for Amaryl to shoot the orb and rejoin Latha, which the elf swiftly does!
[20:12] <Alicia> <Seira> roll 4#1d20+18
[20:12] <Alicia> * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+18 and gets 116." [4#1d20+18 = 34, 23, 27, 32]
[20:12] <Alicia> <Kotono> OOC: No hits.
[20:12] <Alicia> <Kotono> The arrows simply fade away before touching the orb, undamaging to it! OOC: Seira, taking your held action now?
[20:12] <Alicia> * Seira is the last one to the group, and then attempts to shift them away. She can move them for a bit over a thousand feet, and will do so for a safe spot far beyond sight.
[20:12] <Kotono> OOC: Small ret-con: The orb touched Antenora, but somehow she resisted it. What direction are you going in with the TP, Cor?
01[20:14] <Seira> OOC: If the middle level we originally appeared at is within ~1100ft from us, there. If not, as far back as 1080ft takes us at this level, into a spot out of sight. It's DD, so it'd work flawlessly unless blocked.
[20:15] <Kotono> OOC:  You mean the level where you fought Melancton?
01[20:15] <Seira> OOC: No, the one with the lich and the corpses
[20:23] <Kotono> Woosh! In a moment, you appear in the battleground below, where Amaryl gave her life and the wraiths were once againd efeated.
[20:24] <Alicia> "Lets hope it stays put with nothing to get its attention, now?" Alicia offers hopefully, glancing upwards. "If it really is a sphere of annihilation I'm not sure how we can destroy it, or even hold it in place."
01[20:24] <Seira> "So it's possible to travel like this here, at least," Seira says upon noticing their whereabout and then studiously ignoring them. "I was worried outright escape from this prison wouldn't work, much like with that returned spellfire."
[20:25] <Kotono> "Hmph," Antenora looks upward, then to downward hole Alicia made, "How about we explore downwards then?"
[20:25] <Kotono> Amaryl looks about, before simply sliding closer to Seira.
[20:25] <Alicia> "Considering I can't dispel any anchoring magic, it would place us in a sticky situation," Alicia agrees. Nodding to Antenora, she starts heading down the hole.
01[20:26] <Seira> "I can manage a few tries," Seira muses. "But we're not there yet, I think. And if we do have to face that thing again, it's sufficiently different from a sphere of annihilation that we might simply wear it down."
[20:27] <Kotono> Alicia leads the party down the slopes hole. After sixty feet of this, you come out in a vast, long corridor. It's ten feet wide, somewhat cramped. Yet it stretches farther than you can see in either direction. The wallsa re lined with a strange, flesh colored parchment, each one about five feet wall and two wide, lined up to each other so that almost none of the real wall is seen. Each one is covered with writing in Abyssal, Draconic, Elven,
[20:27] <Kotono> the real wall is seen. Each one is covered with writing in Abyssal, Draconic, Elven, Ignan, Auran, and a dozen other scripts of past, present and planar origins.
[20:27] <Alicia> "The only thing I can think of that might harm it would be the First Resort. Any melee weapons would likely be destroyed on contact, and spells didn't seem to affect it," Alicia muses, looking over the text thoughtfully.
[20:28] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[20:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 4." [1d100=4]
01[20:28] <Seira> "How about your own dagger?"
[20:28] <Kotono> This particular bit of text is on refuting the will of the Gods. It instructs the supplicant on being an apostate, promising near invincibility to divine magic. It is only one of many, nearly endless parchments spread about.
[20:29] <Alicia> "Well I don't really want to lose it," Alicia replies distractedly as she reads, before snorting. "Garbage," she summarises, starting to head down the corridor to the left.
[20:29] <Kotono> Antenora happens to glance at once as well.
[20:29] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[20:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 62." [1d100=62]
[20:30] <Kotono> Antenora takes her spear, ripping down one of the parchments roughly, sending it tumbling down in a few pieces. "Seira, would you burn this?"
01[20:30] <Seira> "An artifact wouldn't be so easily lost," Seira muses out loud, breathing a flame narrow enough to set the requested parchment ablaze. "And maybe a channeled spell in a blade that can strike into the sphere and discharged within would work better."
[20:32] <Alicia> "Lets not torch the place until we leave?" Alicia suggests, not keen on breathing smoke. "It's not something I really want to test, Seira. Not when the First Resort offers a far less risky option."
[20:32] <Kotono> The parchment burns, a stench of must, dust and and meat filling the air. As you walk along, you find the corridor to continue for quite some time. Walls covered with profane knowledge, coming to a door after a few minutes. It is a door with four skeletal arms shielding it, written in Abyssal carved into those arms, "Death comes eternal!"
[20:33] <Alicia> Is it magic?
[20:33] <Kotono> OOC: Alicia Strong magic.
[20:33] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 spellcraft
06[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 spellcraft and gets 40." [1d20=17]
[20:35] <Alicia> "The magic will drain the life out of anything that tries to open the door," Alicia summarises, stepping back. "I don't believe Lagann would suffer from it."
06[20:37] * Seira places Lagann on the ground, within range of the door, and steps back to let him try it.
[20:38] <Kotono> Lagann pulls at the door! The hands reach out, but touch nothing as the door is pried open on it's own merits! Inside you see a room divided into six layers, each layer six feet tall. Each one has small bookshelves about, the middle layer full of scrolls in six scroll cases. The room radiates overwhelming magic all over, dazzling.
01[20:39] <Seira> "This would be their library?" Seira states rather needlessly.
[20:40] <Kotono> "It's likely a nest of knowledge that has no place in this world," Latha peers inside, "Of secrets best cast down into the deepest Pit."
[20:40] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 spellcraft
06[20:40] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 spellcraft and gets 35." [1d20=12]
06[20:41] * Alicia chuckles slightly to herself. "Hold on, no one go in just yet," she holds up a hand.
01[20:41] <Seira> "How do you expect to fight them if you don't know their methods?" Seira asks Latha at that puzzling statement. "How can you hope to counter their vileness if you just throw it away?"
06[20:43] * Alicia casts a spell upon the room, subverting the evil summoning spell and turning it to something altogether more pleasant before she steps inside.
[20:43] <Alicia> OOC: Perfect Summons
[20:46] <Kotono> For a moment, dreadful things appear! They appear almost to be...balors! Balors with wings of bone and claws, heads of skulls! They roar, but the light around Alicia flares! Instead, three visions of utter perfection light up the room. The books hiss with pure white steam, darkness retreating. Dazzling, overwhelming light fills the room at each of these majestic figures. Each bears six wings, a vision of light and perfection. "We have been cal
[20:47] <Kotono> these majestic figures. Each bears six wings, a vision of light and perfection. "We have been called to this place...yet this place reeks of vile darkness!"
01[20:47] <Seira> "Help us burn it down?" Seira can't help but ask.
[20:48] <Kotono> Another speaks, flames of searing white playing around her face. "It shall be."
[20:49] <Alicia> "My apologies, exalted ones," Alicia bows her head respectfully. "The owners of this vile library sought to summon balors to defend it against interlopers such as ourselves, but I subverted their trap and you were called instead."
[20:49] <Kotono> The third turns to Alicia, "Very well. Stand aside - the evil in this cursed place must be purified in sacred fire and light."
[20:51] <Alicia> "That is what we were in the process of doing," Alicia therefore has no qualms in stepping back out of the library to make way for the solars.
01[20:51] <Seira> "Can you wait just a tiny moment with that, please?" Seira requests. "One of those books holds the curse that one of the Dark Six cast on Alicia before she slew him. We believe that to remove the curse, we should know its specifics, unless you could help direct us into a better direction?"
[20:52] <Kotono> Latha does the same, a deep bow as she does so. Antenora follows along. Two go out into the halls, the parchments bursting into white flame. The third turns to Alicia, offering a hand. "A curse? Come to me, celestial. It shall not stand."
06[20:53] * Alicia approaches as invited, taking the offered hand. "Glaciante Devarim cursed me such that any attempt I make to dispel magic will always fail. A remove curse spell didn't seem to have any impact on it," she volunteers.
[20:56] <Kotono> The words that come are of Celestial, so pure that your hearts throb with love. "Look not to the dark scrawlings of this blasphemy. I shall remove this curse myself. In the name of the Heralds of Holiness, I call on all that is just and right to break this curse!" What comes next is a pulse of raw power, of golden light passing through Alicia's body! OOC: The curse is gone and the -4 to your ability scores is restored.
01[20:57] <Seira> "Wow, that's great!" Seira exclaims at the lightshow. "I actually hate going through evil books that hate me right back, so this is pretty awesome! Thanks!"
06[20:57] * Alicia smiles in relief as she feels something inside her return to rightness once more. "You have my thanks - my name is Alicia Reynes and I am in your debt," she tells the solar so he can find her if he ever needs to collect.
[20:58] <Kotono> "Now then," Turning his gaze to the room ahead, "I shall purge this taint. There is no debt - the blasphemy in this place saddens my soul. It is my utmost honor to destroy it. Each of you, I thank you for this chance."  He turns towards the room of books and scrolls, aura flaring intensly bright.
01[20:59] <Seira> "Hey, feel free to come and visit us back home in Balmuria," Seira adds with a bright smile, as she tends to. One day a solar might even take her up on that offer and come.
[21:01] <Kotono> The being of light stops. "Balmuria, you said?" It turns, "Romiel has spoken of that city. Your name as well, Alicia Reynes, is familiar. Fortuitous. I am Zankamaiel. I am helping to prepare for the assault on fallen Duke Agares."
06[21:03] * Seira waves. "Seira, here. Give that ex-Duke hell, bad pun intended."
[21:03] <Alicia> "Oh?" Alicia brightens even more at that. "Well, we'll be working together soon. Hopefully we can resolve things with the Dark Six first, though - we're going to be heading to Androlynne after this, since apparently this group is the key to Pale Night's imprisonment of the eladrin children."
[21:03] <Alicia> Since these liches thrive on secrecy, Alicia has utterly no qualms at all about disseminating all their findings so they can be spread far and wide.
[21:06] <Kotono> "I understand." At that word, the library behind him explodes in holy fires, gold and white. "Until that time...be well." With a word of power, your words and fatigue vanish! OOC: MAss heal on all of you, CL 23.
[21:07] <Alicia> "Farewell, Zankamaiel," Alicia waves to the helpful solar, ready to go see what lies at the other end of this blasphemous corridor.
01[21:08] <Seira> "Since we're exchanging information, do you mind helping us one more time, Zankamaiel?" Seira wonders out loud. "We've come across some ancient, evil, sentient sphere of annihilation-like being. Any chance you'd know how we could deal with it?"
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+33
06[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+33 and gets 46." [1d20=13]
[21:10] <Kotono> "A Blackball?" Now the angel's expression is grave, "A rare calamity. They are spots of un-being on the cosmos, moving about through the Realms material and spiritual as they please. The only mercy is that they seldom stay in one place or realm longer than a few minutes. The realities themselves cannot bear to have them, they burn through and past them at whim."
[21:11] <Alicia> "So it might already be gone?" Alicia asks, glancing upwards. "But where to, then?"
01[21:11] <Seira> "Run away and keep it from the kids. Got it." Seira nods. "I'll be sure to thank you again for all you've done for us when we go kick the duke's ass."
[21:13] <Kotono> "To whatever realm chance takes it to. They have no pattern," The solar says, "We shall meet again then. Until that time..." With a flash of light, the celestial is gone.
[21:14] <Alicia> "Well, that was altogether productive," Alicia smiles as he departs. "I knew that spell was going to come in handy one day."
[21:15] <Kotono> Antenora smiles as she looks at all the burnt heresy, in the room and in the hall. "Superb. Shall we continue on below now?"
[21:16] <Alicia> "Lets see what we can find at the other end of the corridor first," Alicia suggests, starting off in that direction.
01[21:16] <Seira> "Wouldn't it be funny if it had the exact same setup?"
[21:17] <Kotono> You walk down the now denuded hall. All the parchments are gone. You walk past the hole, coming to the other end. Here an untouched door sits. It is plain metal, with a pull ring.
[21:17] <Alicia> Any magic?
06[21:18] * Seira looks for traps!
01[21:18] <Seira> OOC: 40 it is
[21:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 spellcraft
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 spellcraft and gets 38." [1d20=13]
01[21:19] <Seira> "Don't pull the ring," Seira, master of the obvious that she is, states and moves back.
[21:20] <Alicia> "Get Lagann to open it from a distance?" Alicia suggests, moving back. It's a metal door, after all.
01[21:22] <Seira> "I've actually been meaning to practice my skills at disarming things from a distance," Seira returns, withdrawing to thirty feet away from the door before attempting to disable the trap!
01[21:22] <Seira> roll 1d20+29 (dc goes up by 5)
06[21:22] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+29 (dc goes up by 5) and gets 32." [1d20=3]
[21:22] <Kotono> Seira works hard, the trap on the door surprisingly easy to disarm!
[21:23] <Alicia> "Always good to stay in practice," Alicia nods agreeably.
01[21:23] <Seira> Gleeful at her success, Seira checks the doorway for further traps! If ancient gnomes could do it, so would ancient liches.
01[21:23] <Seira> OOC: Another 40
06[21:24] * Seira gets Lagann to open the door, nodding to herself.
[21:24] <Kotono> Ahead is a room lined with shiny silver. Most of it is a large circular pool of mercury or strangely silver water, perhaps, with a pair of metal plates at the front of it. Each one has a space to put a human sized hand in.
[21:25] <Alicia> Any magic?
06[21:26] * Seira checks for horrible, evil auras.
[21:28] <Kotono> No evil, though it radiates moderate divination.
[21:28] <Kotono> Antenora peers in, "Silver? Different." She takes a few steps in, looking about. "Does any of this mean anything to either of you?"
01[21:30] <Seira> "I thought of that ingot Alicia's got, but that's about it. Just because they're evil doesn't mean the liches can't be practical, right?"
[21:31] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 spellcraft
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 spellcraft and gets 40." [1d20=15]
[21:31] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 arcana
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 arcana and gets 18." [1d20=3]
[21:32] <Alicia> "It's some sort of divination pool - I think it's for predicting future events. Although clearly it's less than infallible, given what happened to the resident lich..." Alicia explains.
[21:32] <Kotono> "Like that forest of time you visited?" Antenora kneels next to the pool, peering down into it.
[21:33] <Kotono> "I remember that...wasn't it a mirror that showed our future selves, potentially?" Amaryl speaks up, "The same sort of magic?"
01[21:33] <Seira> "By observing the future, you interact with it and alter it," Seira reasons. "So it can't be useful as more than a guideline, really. Still, can't hurt to have a look, right?" And she does.
[21:34] <Kotono> Seira looks down in the pool - but nothing happens. It's simply a silvery pool of liquid to her eyes.
[21:34] <Kotono> Looking sidelong at Alicia and Seira, "If you wish to try it, how to you activate it then? The hand-plates on the ground?"
06[21:34] * Alicia isn't sure and defers to Seira's wisdom on activating unknown magic items.
03[21:35] * Mystia is now known as Mystia_LennierBuiltMyHotrod
01[21:35] <Seira> roll 1d20+26 mirror, mirror on the wall....
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+26 mirror, mirror on the wall.... and gets 29." [1d20=3]
01[21:37] <Seira> "I think it was designed for--" Pausing, Seira steps to one of the metal plates. "Amaryl, think you can touch the other one? Let's see the future together!"
[21:37] <Kotono> Amaryl does so and advances, the two placing hands down! OOC: Both of you roll concentration checks?
01[21:37] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 20." [1d20=14]
01[21:39] <Seira> OOC: Amaryl would take 10 for 24, and +2 for me for 22
[21:39] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 23." [1d100=23]
[21:40] <Kotono> The mirror you see a beautiful, sunwarmed day. Seira and Amaryl watch Balmuria from the windows of their room, sunlight spilling in. The hold hands and watch, quietly living another peaceful day. Such can be seen in the silvery pool, bubbling with the images.
[21:40] <Kotono> *pool
06[21:41] * Seira observes, in case the images changes further, a smile coming on her face.
[21:41] <Kotono> "Pleasant. Better than I can say of most here." Antenora looks down, "Perhaps we an try it as well?" Antenora look sto Latha and Alicia. "Even if it's the mundane, seeing a future may prove insightful."
[21:41] <Kotono> The images stay that way, showing the warm day. Amaryl smiles as well, watching. After about twenty seconds, the images fade away, the pool returning to normal.
01[21:42] <Seira> "Wanna give it a try with me, Alicia?" Seira offers.
[21:43] <Alicia> "I prefer the future to remain unknown until I get there," Alicia shakes her head. Those mirrors in the Quarut's museum even got it right about her, which is somewhat eerie when she thinks about it. So she prefers not to.
03[21:44] * Nikkolai (~chatzilla@76.177.147.50) has joined #dunes
06[21:44] * Seira pouts. "Antenora? You were eager to try it, at least!"
03[21:44] * Nikkolai is now known as Zephyrus
[21:44] <Kotono> "I'll try it, if you please," Antenora volunteers, "I admit, I find the future fascinating these days. Hope is a wonderful thing." Amaryl steps aside to let Antenora have the other hand slot.
[21:45] <Kotono> OOC: Both of you make concentration checks?
01[21:46] <Seira> roll 1d20+8
06[21:46] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 and gets 19." [1d20=11]
[21:46] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17
06[21:46] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 and gets 24." [1d20=7]
[21:46] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[21:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 56." [1d100=56]
[21:47] <Kotono> Heat is all around Seira and Antenora. The fire caves of Mihail are here, a pool of pure molten lava. The two women are unclad, Seira murmuring magic before the two dive in, swimming into the fiery depths. They chatter idly as they do, talking away.
[21:47] <Kotono> "Innocent enough," Antenora peers down, "Though doing this has been suspended by circumstance."
01[21:48] <Seira> "Not as much as you'd think," Seira comments. "All I need is one spell to allow us to breathe down there, and we should be reasonably safe even without the extra precautions.. How long can it possibly take?"
[21:49] <Kotono> "Depends on how deep and complex the lava depths are," Antenora watches as the image fades away.
06[21:50] * Seira shrugs, and glances at Latha. "Wanna see if we're taking a completely innocent bath together some time in the future?"
[21:50] <Kotono> Latha suppresses a slightly amused chuckle, chuckling into her hand. "I have no wish to treat with the magic here, innocent or no."
[21:51] <Kotono> "If that's it then," Antenora says, "Let's see the next level and what bounced back the spellfire?"
01[21:51] <Seira> Mildly disappointed, Seira nods, stepping away from the device, unless Amaryl wants to rope Antenora into trying it again.
06[21:51] * Alicia nods, not having any desire to destroy this particular magical artifice since it seems so inoffensive.
01[21:52] <Seira> "I do wonder just what they were really using it for," Seira mutters to herself. "Surely not with each other...."
[21:52] <Kotono> "
[21:53] <Alicia> "Perhaps it was an experiment that didn't work out as they hoped?" Alicia muses as they head back to the burrowed tunnel.
[21:53] <Kotono> "A curiosity," Latha shrugs as the party goes back. Descending down another 60f eet, they come to the bottom. The ground here is slightly charred but nothing else. Everything here is on the walls - painting of myraid undead marching ahead, marching ahead and dragging the dying, dead and living with them. Farther ahead, a pure blackness pollutes everything, blocking vision.
[21:55] <Alicia> "Can you see through this darkness, Antenora?" Alicia asks the reformed baatezu.
[21:56] <Kotono> "No." Antenora squints and rubs her eyes, blinking several times. "I can't see anything at all. She takes af ew steps forward, "No, it's just nothing at all. I can't see into it."
06[21:56] * Alicia tries casting Daylight to see if it can rival the darkness. Be nice if the spell was actually good for something.
[21:57] <Kotono> The light of the day sun fades at the darkness, failing to illuminate it.
06[21:57] * Seira draws a small dagger and hands it over to Lagann to manipulate into the darkness and through it, in order to see whether his control over it and ability to detect it remains.
[21:58] <Kotono> Lagann takes the dagger into the darkness! Lagann can sense there is a stairway in the center here, going straight down.
[21:58] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 spellcraft, it's clearly magic
06[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 spellcraft, it's clearly magic and gets 35." [1d20=10]
01[22:00] <Seira> "Last time I saw something like this was in that nasty temple, right above the elevator to the shadow dragon," Seira mutters. "Seems like there's a way down, too, a bit into the darkness."
[22:01] <Alicia> "Unfortunately it would sap away at your life force, just like being on the negative energy plane," Alicia explains. "We can't pass it without protections, and it's too strong for antimagic to block out. I could put my newly rediscovered dispelling skills to use on it, though." And she attempts just that.
[22:01] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19
06[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 and gets 28." [1d20=9]
[22:03] <Kotono> The magic doesnot break to Alicia's power.
01[22:03] <Seira> "It just so happens I might have the protections necessary," Seira mentions. "I could check it out briefly, and if need be, teleport right back to the rest of you."
[22:04] <Alicia> "Alright," Alicia nods, deflating and not bothering to waste more spells. "Hopefully it won't take you out of message range, so keep us posted?"
[22:05] <Kotono> Thus Seira heads into the oblivion! She can't see anything once she steps in, utterly blind.
01[22:05] <Seira> "If it takes me out of telepathy range, then we just might have a bigger problem on our hands," Seira responds with a snort, tentatively stepping into the darkness and using Lagann to navigate over to the stairway.
[22:07] <Kotono> Using Lagann, Seira reaches thes tairway! But...she just can't advance. Her body freezes solid, refusing to obey her commands.
06[22:08] * Seira tries to command it to retreat.
[22:08] <Kotono> Seira finds her legs working, retreating away from the stairway.
06[22:09] * Seira leaves the zone of powerful magic with a scowl on her face. "Either it managed to override my mental commands to stop me from going down the stairway," she reports, "or just did it the old-fashioned way. Either way, I had no prayer of resisting, and the change came very suddenly."
06[22:10] * Alicia slips off a silver ring from her hand. "This should help with that," she offers it to Seira, also slipping off the black headband from her brow. "This'll also let you see despite the darkness."
[22:10] <Alicia> OOC: iron ring, actually
06[22:11] * Seira nods, and also requests the ring of teleport from Amaryl, so that she might have an escape route if her body freezes outright, but she is still able to marshall her magic. "Another try, then!"
[22:12] <Kotono> Thus Seira advances in! The blindsight lets her see - the stairway goes down and down and down into oblivion. Yet on reaching the stair...Seira simply can't move. Her body refuses to move forward, utterly frozen in place. As she stands there...she hears something. Crying. Thesound of something crying.
06[22:13] * Seira tries to see if there's anything the blindfold helps her sense, or if Lagann is getting a clearer reading from their perspective. She doesn't dawdle, however, returning to regroup once more.
01[22:14] <Seira> "My only other guess is that something here, perhaps that skull orb, would serve as the key, but I don't much feel like testing that theory right now," she elaborates upon return.
[22:15] <Kotono> "It could be, or perhaps..." Latha says, "Bleak Rendor can't be entered as long as the eladrin children are captive?"
[22:16] <Alicia> "Perhaps it leads to a Gate there?" Alicia finishes the thought. "Well, we'll just have to leave it for now. Back upstairs?"
06[22:17] * Seira finishes returning her borrowed accessories, and nods. "I figure it's been more than enough."
[22:18] <Kotono> The party returns to the black velvet room without incident. The air is quiet and stagnant now.
[22:19] <Alicia> Deciding it best to wait a bit in case the blackball has lingered, Alicia goes to open the door on the right-hand side of the room.
01[22:20] <Seira> OOC: I'll take ten on searching for traps for every single entrance/doorway/room for the score of 40, please

[Corwin]

[20:08] <Catgirl_Ko_Army> * Seira tries to see if there's anything the blindfold helps her sense, or if Lagann is getting a clearer reading from their perspective. She doesn't dawdle, however, returning to regroup once more.
[20:08] <Catgirl_Ko_Army> <Seira> "My only other guess is that something here, perhaps that skull orb, would serve as the key, but I don't much feel like testing that theory right now," she elaborates upon return.
[20:08] <Catgirl_Ko_Army> > "It could be, or perhaps..." Latha says, "Bleak Rendor can't be entered as long as the eladrin children are captive?"
[20:08] <Catgirl_Ko_Army> <Alicia> "Perhaps it leads to a Gate there?" Alicia finishes the thought. "Well, we'll just have to leave it for now. Back upstairs?"
[20:08] <Catgirl_Ko_Army> * Seira finishes returning her borrowed accessories, and nods. "I figure it's been more than enough."
[20:08] <Catgirl_Ko_Army> > The party returns to the black velvet room without incident. The air is quiet and stagnant now.
[20:08] <Catgirl_Ko_Army> <Alicia> Deciding it best to wait a bit in case the blackball has lingered, Alicia goes to open the door on the right-hand side of the room.
[20:08] <Catgirl_Ko_Army> <Seira> OOC: I'll take ten on searching for traps for every single entrance/doorway/room for the score of 40, please
03[20:09] * Yomi is now known as Seira
03[20:09] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Seira
03[20:13] * Catgirl_Ko_Army is now known as Kotono
03[20:21] * Ebiris is now known as Alicia
[20:21] <Kotono> The door is not trapped, Seira finds. Alicia opens the doorway! The room ahead is full of large, human size measuring scales, scaled of silver and brass and pitted iron. The scales are filled with chunks of rotted meat, each one measuring in the balance against each other. Arms, legs, torsos, chests, heads, and other parts unidentifable of a dozen skin colors and shades are all about in the scales.
06[20:22] * Alicia looks faintly sickened at the implications of this room, not particularly eager to explore it further if there's no passageways beyond it. "Lets just burn everything?" she suggests.
01[20:23] <Seira> "This can only be cleansed with fire," Seira agrees, her face twisting.
[20:23] <Kotono> "Let's," Latha says, as a jet of flame from the heavens strikes one of the scales. Acrid smoke bunrs immediately, flames spreading. "Seira, if you would help?"
06[20:24] * Seira is already burning down anything to the left of the entrance with her breath.
[20:25] <Kotono> Flames sweep over the scales and meat! The stetch spreads rapidly, a terrible odor that seems to assail your senses! OOC: Make fort saves, everyone.
[20:25] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 Alicia
06[20:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 Alicia and gets 31." [1d20=1]
[20:25] <Alicia> roll 1d20+32 Anty
06[20:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+32 Anty and gets 48." [1d20=16]
01[20:25] <Seira> roll 1d20+19 A
06[20:25] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 A and gets 32." [1d20=13]
01[20:26] <Seira> roll 1d20+20
06[20:26] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+20 and gets 22." [1d20=2]
[20:26] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22 Latha
06[20:26] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 Latha and gets 31." [1d20=9]
[20:26] <Kotono> OOC: Carry on.
06[20:27] * Alicia backs off a bit at the stench. At least it's not as bad as downstairs in the half-mile long chamber of cadavers, but it's a small mercy.
06[20:28] * Seira staggers back from the room, truly sickened.
[20:28] <Kotono> Latha closes the door, a hand over her arm, "Filth," she coughs several times, "Let us leave it to burn away in it's own offal."
[20:29] <Alicia> "Lets see if the blackball has gone?" Alicia suggests, moving to fly over the passage formerly spanned by a corridor of force with a golem at the bottom.
[20:30] <Kotono> Thus you return to the six doored circle. Here there is no Blackball or any signs of it - just quiet emptiness like it was before you saw the blackball.
01[20:30] <Seira> "I just can't get over people existing, who consciously chose to commit such acts," Seira states, shaking her head. "Every time we see another example of their work... it's just...."
[20:31] <Kotono> "It's why we live," Latha looks about, hand on her mace as she does so. "Astral Devas are created to defeat these evils and protect existance from these abominations of thought, mind and deed."
01[20:32] <Seira> "But how can it happen?" Seira insists, stuck on that same thought. "Were they born rotten? What... what can possibly make a person turn out like this?"
[20:32] <Kotono> "When you only care about yourself, only care for your power and profit, what's everything else?" Antenora's armored shoulders shrug, "Evil lacks the slightlest compassion for others. If you do that, killing a dozen to youraims, it's merely worthless pawns being lost for your benefit."
[20:34] <Kotono> "A question for the sages," Latha's own smile becomes gentle, going over to Seira. "Demons, devils, yugloths are 'born' evil. But mortals..." She shakes he head, "Some by circumstances, some by choice. Mortals have the choice to do this. Everyone has the choice to take these paths. Why...as to why, the wisdom of it is beyond me."
01[20:35] <Seira> "I don't know if we can really guide people unless we understand," Seira says sadly.
[20:35] <Alicia> One minute it's freezing here the next it's boiling? So annoying. Alicia nods to Seira as she wipes her brow. "They're insane. They cut themselves off from the real world in live out their arrogant power fantasies, shuttering himself off from the consequences. Fiends are born from such minds."
06[20:36] * Seira nods slowly, acknowledging Alicia's words and weighing them.
06[20:37] * Alicia goes to open the next door to the left of the one they found the blackball in.
[20:39] <Kotono> "I don't know about other evils, but I was completely sane when I was a devil. That made it far worse." Antenora goes to another door, studying it briefly, then deferring to Alicia. Seira checks this door over, finding no trap on it. Thus the door opens...inside, you see a metal table. It is stained dark all over, a pentagram drawn in the center of it. PAst that is another door, this one carved of long leg bones and sinews, wrapped together in
[20:39] <Kotono> PAst that is another door, this one carved of long leg bones and sinews, wrapped together in a mold of steel.
06[20:41] * Alicia opens her mouth to say something before pausing, bracing her hand against the doorframe. "I feel sick..." she suddenly announces woozily.
01[20:42] <Seira> "You too?" Seira asks, closing her eyes altogether to stave off the vertigo and lowering herself to the ground as best she can manage. "Magic?"
[20:42] <Kotono> "Alicia?" Antenora hurries to her side, supporting her other side with her body, "What's wrong?" Even as she does so, she murmurs, "Let me sooth it."
[20:43] <Kotono> OOC: Could you have Antenora roll a CL check on cure disease?
[20:43] <Alicia> "Fever," Alicia gasps, throat raw. "Dizzy..."
[20:43] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16
06[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 and gets 27." [1d20=11]
[20:43] <Kotono> Latha hurries over to Seira as well, kneeling next to her. "I feel fine," she glances back to Alicia, "Let me try this and see if it's pestilence. LAthander only knows what lurks here."
[20:43] <Kotono> OOC: Make one for Latha as well.
[20:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 words of creationing it up
06[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 words of creationing it up and gets 21." [1d20=4]
[20:44] <Alicia> roll 1d4
06[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[20:45] <Kotono> The feverish pain leaves Alicia...but continues to burn in Seira. Her vision begins to tint dead white, everything around her cold as ice. But her body burns like an inferno! OOC: Another point of wisdom and charisma damage, Seira.
[20:46] <Alicia> "Oooh... That's better," Alicia blinks away the blurriness in her vision, straightening up. "Thank you, Antenora."
[20:46] <Kotono> "Seira!" Amaryl eeps, coming behind her, kneeling down behind her back. "Do you feel better now?"
[20:47] <Kotono> Antenora sighs in relief, "Good." Helping Alicia straighten herself, "Seira?"
01[20:47] <Seira> "Dying here," Seira mutters, slamming her head against the ground woozily.
[20:48] <Kotono> "Antenora, with me!" Latha calls, "Mine seems to have failed!" Antenora nods, the two going to hold and touch Seira! OOC: MAke CL checks for both of them, please?
[20:48] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 words of creation, it's personal for Latha
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 words of creation, it's personal for Latha and gets 30." [1d20=13]
[20:48] <Alicia> roll 1d4
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[20:48] <Kotono> The freezing, burning agony leaves Seira. Her vision returns to color, her temperature returning to normal.
01[20:49] <Seira> "Death averted," Seira reports, gulping in deep breaths. "Thanks, guys."
[20:50] <Kotono> Amaryl hugs Seira from behind, "Gave me a scare there. I don't think both of us need to see Waukeen today."
[20:50] <Kotono> As she stands up, "Was it the wounds we suffered? The exposures to the energies here? This room? The foul smoke?" Latha considers, "Still, shall we press on while we can?"
[20:51] <Alicia> "I wonder if we breathed something bad in from all that burnt flesh?" Alicia muses, before narrowing her eyes, "But a mundane sickness wouldn't resist magical healing... By Mystra these liches are obnoxious."
[20:52] <Alicia> "I started feeling bad just after we burnt that room, but I didn't think it severe till just now when it nearly bowled me over," she then tells Latha.
[20:52] <Kotono> "Mystra help me, I hope in a few thousand years I've devised the same amount of goodness as these liches have vileness," Antenora steps into the room, glancing at the metal table. "Alicia, can you make any sense of anything in here?"
[20:52] <Kotono> "Quite possible." Latha says, "If you begin to feel that way again, speak up immediately."
01[20:52] <Seira> "I like the heat, so I didn't think much of it at the time," Seira says, nodding to Latha. "Sure thing."
[20:53] <Alicia> "I will," Alicia promises, moving into this new room and checking it over for magic.
[20:54] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 spellcraft
06[20:54] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 spellcraft and gets 28." [1d20=3]
[20:57] <Alicia> "There's some minor necromantic magic attached to that pentagram," Alicia points it out, walking around it. "I think it would kill a very sick person within, but it's not dangerous to a healthy person. Might as well destroy it, anyway, though." She draws Hell Striker and proceeds to severely deface the pentagram, carving through the floor like a hot knife through butter.
[20:58] <Kotono> The pentagram is thus impaled, it's symbols destroyed.
01[20:58] <Seira> "What's the purpose of it?"
[20:58] <Kotono> The ground shakes! Abruptly, the entire floor quivers! It's a faint shaking at first, then much much stronger, tossing you about wobbling to keep your balance!  OOC: Balance checks, all.
[20:59] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 Alicia
06[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 Alicia and gets 6." [1d20=1]
[20:59] <Alicia> roll 1d20+4 Latha
06[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+4 Latha and gets 5." [1d20=1]
01[20:59] <Seira> roll 1d20+15
06[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+15 and gets 18." [1d20=3]
[20:59] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 Anty
06[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 Anty and gets 7." [1d20=2]
01[21:00] <Seira> roll 1d20+6 A
06[21:00] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 A and gets 7." [1d20=1]
[21:00] <Kotono> roll 1d6 damage to all
06[21:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 damage to all and gets 4." [1d6=4]
[21:01] <Kotono> The shaking sends the party falling and bouncing around, like little gnats on the back of a giant! The shaking continues, the entire group prone as it goes on! OOC: You're all prone and it's obviously going to be tough getting up. Go ahead.
[21:01] <Kotono> OOC: Except Seira, sorry, saw the 3 and forgot you actually have ranks!
06[21:02] * Seira uses her ability to remain steady in the face of shaking rooms to help Amaryl to her feet and keep her on them!
[21:02] <Kotono> OOC: Amaryl can make a second balance check with a +5 bonus.
[21:02] <Alicia> "That wasn't me!" Alicia insists, having seen no magic to indicate the area's structural stability was tied to that piddly little bit of necromancy. Bracing Hell Striker into the floor to act as a lever, she tries to haul herself back up to her feet. If it doesn't stop in a few seconds they may want to leave...
[21:03] <Kotono> Latha and Antenora are both prone, struggling to get up! OOC: Balance checks, you three.
01[21:03] <Seira> roll 1d20+14 A, actually miscalculated by 3 before
06[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+14 A, actually miscalculated by 3 before and gets 28." [1d20=14]
[21:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 Alicia
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 Alicia and gets 7." [1d20=2]
[21:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 Anty
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 Anty and gets 21." [1d20=16]
[21:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+4 Latha
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+4 Latha and gets 9." [1d20=5]
[21:04] <Kotono> Antenora is able to get up as well, while Alicia and Latha are both being tossed around, up and down, slamming into the ground!
[21:05] <Kotono> roll 1d6 damage you two (more)
06[21:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 damage you two (more) and gets 5." [1d6=5]
[21:05] <Kotono> As Antenora leans on her spear and wobbles, the shaking intensifies! It's as if the earht itself is revolting! Creeping into th eroom, you can see a bleak mist beginning to arrive!
01[21:05] <Seira> "Oh come ON!" Seira exclaims at the shoddy construction, and leaves Amaryl by the doorway for extra balance, returning to aid Alicia.
[21:05] <Alicia> Does the mist look like the same mist they saw after round one with Melancton?
[21:06] <Kotono> OOC: No.
[21:06] <Kotono> Antenora goes to help Latha at the same time! OOC: Balance checks you two, +5.
[21:06] <Alicia> Is it magic?
[21:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 Alicia
06[21:06] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 Alicia and gets 11." [1d20=1]
[21:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+9 Latha
06[21:06] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+9 Latha and gets 13." [1d20=4]
[21:06] <Kotono> roll 1d6 DAMN, Alicia. You are unbalance.d
06[21:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 DAMN, Alicia. You are unbalance.d and gets 6." [1d6=6]
[21:07] <Kotono> But Alicia and Latha are still prone, as the shaking gets worst! The mist gushes into the room now, starting to obscure your vision! You feel a crackling cold lick at you!
[21:08] <Kotono> "Alicia, get up," Antenora calls, "Below us, wraiths are coming I think!"
01[21:08] <Seira> "This is ridiculous!" Seira exclaims. "Ignore the stupid mist for a bit and try to get up one more time?"
[21:09] <Alicia> "If the ground would just stop moving!" Alicia grumbles as she struggles some more to haul herself upright, spreading her wings to balance on air rather than treacherous floor.
[21:09] <Kotono> OOC: Checks +5 again, yout wo.
[21:09] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10 Alicia
06[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 Alicia and gets 15." [1d20=5]
[21:09] <Alicia> roll 1d20+9 Latha
06[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+9 Latha and gets 17." [1d20=8]
01[21:09] <Seira> roll 1d20+13 concentration
06[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 concentration and gets 18." [1d20=5]
[21:10] <Kotono> Amaryl casts shield, as Alicia and Latha are barely able to rise! As the world itself quakes around you, "They're coming!" Antenora calls over the din, mist swirling in! OOC: Init.
01[21:10] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 17." [1d20=11]
01[21:10] <Seira> roll 1d20+8 A
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 A and gets 19." [1d20=11]
01[21:10] <Seira> roll 1d20 L
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20 L and gets 6." [1d20=6]
[21:10] <Alicia> roll 1d20+6 Alicia
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+6 Alicia and gets 25." [1d20=19]
[21:11] <Alicia> roll 1d20+3 Anty
06[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+3 Anty and gets 4." [1d20=1]
[21:11] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 Latha
06[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 Latha and gets 19." [1d20=11]
[21:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
[21:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
[21:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13  and gets 20." [1d20=7]
06[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13  and gets 24." [1d20=11]
06[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13  and gets 18." [1d20=5]
03[21:11] * Kotono changes topic to 'Alicia(25)>Latha=Amaryl(19)>Seira(17)>Lagann(6)>Antenora(4)'
03[21:11] * Kotono changes topic to 'Alicia(25)>Wraith 2(24)>Wraith 1(20)>Latha=Amaryl(19)>Wraith 3(18)>Seira(17)>Lagann(6)>Antenora(4)'
[21:12] <Kotono> OOC: Alicia.
06[21:13] * Alicia waits for the first wraith to appear, wondering if this shaking is ever going to end. Or if the whole place will collapse and entomb them. One of the two.
[21:13] <Kotono> A wraith bursts from the floor, lunging up for Amaryl! OOC: Alicia, you can act just before it if you like.
06[21:13] * Alicia flies over to the wraith, her burning blade arcing down to meet it!
[21:14] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 knowledge
06[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 knowledge and gets 28." [1d20=13]
[21:14] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 -10pa
06[21:14] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 -10pa and gets 21." [1d20=1]
[21:14] <Kotono> Alicia surges forward, but her blade cuts only air, the wraith too fast as it goes for Amaryl!
[21:15] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 touch
06[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 touch and gets 21." [1d20=6]
01[21:15] <Seira> OOC: AC 24!
[21:15] <Kotono> But a field of force blocks the wraith, appearing in front of Amaryl's face! Another wraith emerges up, going right for Latha!
[21:15] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 touch
06[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 touch and gets 32." [1d20=17]
[21:15] <Kotono> roll 2d6 and fort
06[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6 and fort and gets 8." [2d6=5, 3]
[21:16] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23
06[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 and gets 36." [1d20=13]
[21:16] <Kotono> The thouch is terrible, but Latha avoids the worst of it, enduring! OOC: Latha and Amaryl.
[21:17] <Alicia> Only three wraiths isn't enough to justify using her trump card, so Latha instead brains the nearby wraith with her mace!
[21:17] <Alicia> roll 1d20+27
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+27 and gets 47." [1d20=20]
[21:17] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 and gets 40." [1d20=18]
[21:17] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 and gets 28." [1d20=11]
[21:17] <Alicia> roll 1d20+12
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+12 and gets 24." [1d20=12]
[21:17] <Alicia> roll 3#1d100
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3#1d100 and gets 192." [3#1d100 = 17, 75, 100]
[21:17] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits. A 100, too!
[21:17] <Alicia> roll 2d8+24+4d6
06[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d8+24+4d6 and gets 41." [2d8=3, 4][4d6=6, 1, 1, 2]
01[21:18] <Seira> Amaryl takes a hesitant step back!
01[21:18] <Seira> roll 1d20+9 balance
06[21:18] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+9 balance and gets 27." [1d20=18]
[21:18] <Kotono> With a massive slam of her mace, Latha knocks the wraith a step back!
01[21:18] <Seira> And then proceeds to unload six arrows into the wraith assaulting her!
01[21:18] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+19
06[21:18] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+19 and gets 120." [4#1d20+19 = 30, 33, 37, 20]
01[21:18] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+14
06[21:18] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+14 and gets 57." [2#1d20+14 = 24, 33]
[21:18] <Kotono> OOC: Four hits. d100s.
01[21:19] <Seira> roll 4#1d100
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d100 and gets 215." [4#1d100 = 32, 48, 36, 99]
[21:19] <Kotono> OOC: One hit. 99. Scary.
01[21:19] <Seira> roll 1d8+6+1d6+1d6
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+6+1d6+1d6 and gets 11." [1d8=1][1d6=2][1d6=2]
[21:20] <Kotono> Amaryl's arrows fly, one of them grazing the wraith's ghostly body and slightly wounding it! OOC:  Wraith 3.
[21:20] <Kotono> A third wraith erupts up, this one darting right for Seira! OOC: Using any immediates?
[21:20] <Kotono> OOC: Oh wait, flatfooted. Nevermind.
01[21:20] <Seira> OOC: Can't
[21:20] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 35." [1d20=20]
[21:20] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 crit
06[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 crit and gets 24." [1d20=9]
[21:20] <Kotono> OOC: Flatfooted touch?
01[21:20] <Seira> OOC: Hits me
[21:20] <Kotono> roll 4d6 and fort
06[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d6 and fort  and gets 10." [4d6=3, 1, 1, 5]
01[21:21] <Seira> roll 1d20+19
06[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 and gets 39." [1d20=20]
[21:21] <Kotono> Seira is caught right on the throat! The wraith nearly rips her vocal cords out, but Seira takes a deep breath and shoves it off her ,narrowly averting disaster! OOC:  Seira and then Lagann.
06[21:24] * Seira waits on Lagann to distract the wraith attempting to gouge out her throat, and while he stabs what passes for its back with the Sun Blade, she breathes fire at it, taking a step back and drawing the Resort.
01[21:24] <Seira> roll 1d20+24 L
06[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+24 L and gets 29." [1d20=5]
01[21:25] <Seira> roll 8d8+2d8 fire+holy
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 8d8+2d8 fire+holy and gets 42." [8d8=8, 3, 2, 6, 6, 7, 3, 3][2d8=1, 3]
01[21:25] <Seira> roll 1d100
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 and gets 51." [1d100=51]
[21:25] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 24." [1d20=11]
01[21:25] <Seira> roll 1d10+4 Lagann
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d10+4 Lagann and gets 6." [1d10=2]
01[21:26] <Seira> roll 1d4 rounds
06[21:26] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d4 rounds and gets 1." [1d4=1]
[21:26] <Kotono> Fire and sword burn the third wraith, singing it's unholy body! OOC: Antenora.
[21:27] <Alicia> "Really, you should wait for me before wasting your attacks," Antenora scolds good naturedly, loosening her rope once more which comes alive and coils around the first wraith to appear
[21:27] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21 ranged touch
06[21:27] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+21 ranged touch and gets 29." [1d20=8]
[21:28] <Kotono> The wraith is surrounded by the rope, entangled in it entirely and solid!
[21:28] <Kotono> As this happens, the mist freezes terribly cold around you!
[21:28] <Kotono> roll 6d6 cold damage
06[21:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6 cold damage and gets 22." [6d6=3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 3]
[21:28] <Kotono> OOC: Alicia.
03[21:28] * Kotono changes topic to 'Alicia(25)>Wraith 2(24)(roped)>Wraith 1(20)>Latha=Amaryl(19)>Wraith 3(18)>Seira(17)>Lagann(6)>Antenora(4)'
[21:29] <Alicia> "I thought it was worth a try," Alicia replies irritably, taking her frustrations out on the now much easier target.
[21:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 -5pa
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 -5pa and gets 40." [1d20=15]
[21:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 -5pa
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 -5pa and gets 36." [1d20=16]
[21:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 -5pa
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 -5pa and gets 30." [1d20=15]
[21:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 -5pa crit check
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 -5pa crit check and gets 37." [1d20=12]
[21:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+20 -5pa crit check
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+20 -5pa crit check and gets 29." [1d20=9]
[21:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 -5pa crit check
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 -5pa crit check and gets 22." [1d20=7]
[21:30] <Alicia> roll 10d4+135+6d6+3d6+3d8
06[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 10d4+135+6d6+3d6+3d8 and gets 208." [10d4=2, 2, 1, 4, 1, 1, 4, 1, 4, 1][6d6=5, 4, 6, 4, 1, 3][3d6=3, 5, 2][3d8=6, 7, 6]
03[21:30] * Kotono changes topic to 'Alicia(25)>Wraith 1(20)>Latha=Amaryl(19)>Wraith 3(18)>Seira(17)>Lagann(6)>Antenora(4)'
[21:31] <Kotono> Caught helpless in Antenora's rope, the wraith is utterly shredded apart, vanishing away to it's final rest! The first wraith whirls on Latha, striking her again!
[21:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 34." [1d20=19]
[21:31] <Kotono> roll 2d6 and fort
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6 and fort and gets 6." [2d6=1, 5]
[21:31] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 and gets 27." [1d20=4]
[21:32] <Kotono> The touch is poison to Latha, but her holy spirit once again endures! OOC: Latha'n'Amaryl.
02[21:32] * Mystia_Dead (~Melanchth@pool-96-231-68-153.washdc.east.verizon.net) Quit (Ping timeout)
[21:33] <Alicia> Latha holds her mace back a little and gives Antenora an expectant smile.
[21:33] <Alicia> OOC: waiting till Anty can rope it
[21:33] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. Amaryl
[21:33] <Kotono> .
01[21:34] <Seira> Amaryl would love to wait and have a better target, but opts to try and shoot the wraith that has yet to attack Seira, as Latha and Alicia would have no problem dealing with the other undead once Antenora's done her part.
01[21:34] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+19
06[21:34] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+19 and gets 108." [4#1d20+19 = 22, 28, 28, 30]
01[21:34] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+14
06[21:34] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+14 and gets 65." [2#1d20+14 = 32, 33]
01[21:34] <Seira> roll 5#1d100
06[21:34] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 5#1d100 and gets 270." [5#1d100 = 12, 77, 61, 59, 61]
01[21:35] <Seira> roll 4#1d8+6+1d6+1d6
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d8+6+1d6+1d6 and gets 77." [4#1d8+6+1d6+1d6 = 16, 20, 20, 21]
[21:35] <Kotono> The wraith is shredded with arrows, impaled over and over in the storm! As this happens, the wraith that struck Seira creeps forward, going for Seira again! OOC: Any immediates?
01[21:36] <Seira> OOC: Deflect!
[21:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 26." [1d20=11]
[21:36] <Kotono> OOC: AC?
01[21:37] <Seira> OOC: Latha's +6 aura brings it up to 30
[21:37] <Kotono> Seira rolls back out of th eway, it's blow deflecting away from her at the same time as she utteres an arcane word! OOC: Seira.
06[21:38] * Seira lets Lagann lead, swiftly following her familiar's weapon!
01[21:38] <Seira> roll 1d20+24
06[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+24 and gets 25." [1d20=1]
01[21:38] <Seira> roll 1d20+19
06[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 and gets 26." [1d20=7]
01[21:38] <Seira> roll 1d20+14
06[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+14 and gets 23." [1d20=9]
01[21:38] <Seira> roll 1d20+24 me
06[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+24 me and gets 43." [1d20=19]
01[21:39] <Seira> roll 1d20+19
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 and gets 26." [1d20=7]
01[21:39] <Seira> roll 1d20+14
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+14 and gets 21." [1d20=7]
01[21:39] <Seira> roll 1d20+15
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+15 and gets 33." [1d20=18]
01[21:39] <Seira> roll 1d20+15
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+15 and gets 33." [1d20=18]
01[21:40] <Seira> roll 1d10+4
06[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d10+4 and gets 6." [1d10=2]
01[21:40] <Seira> roll 4#1d100
06[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d100 and gets 214." [4#1d100 = 33, 48, 45, 88]
01[21:40] <Seira> roll 1d6+2+2d8
06[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d6+2+2d8 and gets 12." [1d6=2][2d8=6, 2]
[21:41] <Kotono> Seira bites and stabs at the wraith, knocking it bad in a furious frenzy of offense! OOC:  Antenora.
[21:41] <Alicia> Returning Latha's smile, Antenora commands her animated rope to sneak up on the wraith in melee with the deva and ensnare it!
[21:41] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21 ranged touch
06[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+21 ranged touch and gets 32." [1d20=11]
[21:42] <Kotono> The wraith is covered with rope again, bound and held! OOC: Alicia.
[21:42] <Kotono> OOC: Wait.
[21:42] <Kotono> roll 9d6 cold
06[21:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 9d6 cold and gets 23." [9d6=2, 1, 2, 1, 4, 3, 3, 6, 1]
[21:42] <Alicia> OOC: Latha takes her held action first
[21:43] <Kotono> The cold in the room grows sharper, ice covering the walls and heat leeching from your bodies! OOC: Go ahead, Latha.
[21:43] <Alicia> With the wraith now an easy target, Latha brings the hammer down!
[21:43] <Alicia> roll 1d20+27
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+27 and gets 47." [1d20=20]
03[21:43] * Kotono changes topic to 'Alicia(25)>Wraith 1(20)>Amaryl(19)>Wraith 3(18)>Seira(17)>Lagann(6)>Antenora(4)>Latha'
[21:43] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 and gets 35." [1d20=13]
[21:43] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 and gets 30." [1d20=13]
[21:43] <Alicia> roll 1d20+12
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+12 and gets 18." [1d20=6]
[21:43] <Alicia> roll 3d8+36+6d6
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d8+36+6d6 and gets 76." [3d8=5, 8, 6][6d6=2, 3, 6, 1, 3, 6]
[21:44] <Kotono> The wraith is maimed badly, beaten body slumping and semi-dissipating under the assault! OOC: Alicia.
[21:45] <Alicia> Alicia scoots over to support Latha, hopefully finishing off her bound target with a single strike!
[21:45] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 -6pa
06[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 -6pa and gets 42." [1d20=18]
[21:45] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 -6pa crit check
06[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 -6pa crit check and gets 31." [1d20=7]
[21:45] <Alicia> roll 4d4+58+2d6+1d6+1d8
06[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 4d4+58+2d6+1d6+1d8 and gets 94." [4d4=3, 3, 4, 4][2d6=3, 6][1d6=5][1d8=8]
03[21:46] * Kotono changes topic to 'Alicia(25)>Amaryl(19)>Wraith 3(18)>Seira(17)>Lagann(6)>Antenora(4)>Latha'
[21:46] <Kotono> The wraith is vaporized again, Alicia's blade sending it to final rest! OOC: Amaryl.
01[21:46] <Seira> Just one last chance before Seira is threatened again!
01[21:46] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+19
06[21:46] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+19 and gets 137." [4#1d20+19 = 34, 35, 33, 35]
01[21:46] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+14
06[21:46] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+14 and gets 49." [2#1d20+14 = 23, 26]
01[21:46] <Seira> roll 5#1d100
06[21:46] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 5#1d100 and gets 330." [5#1d100 = 68, 18, 64, 87, 93]
01[21:47] <Seira> And four of the arrows make their way all the way through!
01[21:47] <Seira> roll 4#1d8+6+1d6+1d6
06[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d8+6+1d6+1d6 and gets 70." [4#1d8+6+1d6+1d6 = 22, 14, 22, 12]
[21:47] <Kotono> Under that assault, the wraith withers but barely survives, lunging for Seira again! OOC: Immediates?
01[21:47] <Seira> OOC: Deflect, again
[21:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 31." [1d20=16]
[21:47] <Kotono> roll 2d6 and fort
06[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6 and fort and gets 6." [2d6=3, 3]
01[21:48] <Seira> roll 1d20+20
06[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+20 and gets 34." [1d20=14]
[21:48] <Kotono> Once again, Seira fends off the wraith with her claws, holding it back! OOC: Seira.
06[21:49] * Seira waits for Antenora to pitch in, while Lagann has no such compunctions, hoping to finish the wraith off as its blade lunges forward recklessly!
01[21:49] <Seira> roll 1d20+24
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+24 and gets 34." [1d20=10]
01[21:49] <Seira> roll 1d20+19
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 and gets 38." [1d20=19]
01[21:49] <Seira> roll 1d20+14
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+14 and gets 21." [1d20=7]
01[21:49] <Seira> roll 1d20+19 crit?
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 crit? and gets 23." [1d20=4]
01[21:49] <Seira> roll 3d10+12
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d10+12 and gets 34." [3d10=8, 9, 5]
01[21:49] <Seira> OOC: Sorry, minus 9
[21:49] <Kotono> With those final stabs of sunlight, the wraith breaks apart into nothingness! OOC: Free act after this roll.
[21:50] <Kotono> OOC: No worries, itw as nearly dead anyway.
[21:50] <Alicia> Latha and Antenora both promptly turn their attention to dispelling the magical cold mist!
[21:50] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 and gets 14." [1d20=4]
[21:50] <Alicia> roll 1d20+10
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+10 and gets 21." [1d20=11]
06[21:50] * Seira takes off the ground, flying over to the spot she had left Amaryl at.
[21:50] <Kotono> The room continues to shake as the mist envelops everything, not dispelling at all! (More)
[21:51] <Kotono> roll 12d6 cold and 1 dex damage
06[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 12d6 cold and 1 dex damage and gets 33." [12d6=6, 4, 1, 4, 2, 1, 2, 5, 2, 2, 3, 1]
[21:51] <Kotono> The freezing cold leaves ice over everything, your limbs slowing and growing numb under the assault! Antenora shivers, "Starting ot feel it too?"
[21:51] <Alicia> Alicia also tries to dispel it with her greater magic! "It's getting worse every second!"
[21:51] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19
06[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 and gets 37." [1d20=18]
[21:52] <Kotono> But the mist resists even this, not bowing or breaking to Alicia's words of power, as Seira flies over to Amaryl, as the room shakes and twitches!
06[21:53] * Seira focuses on helping Amaryl leave the room and its deathtrap, intending to return afterwards for the others if the problem persists. "Forget about the mist and let's just leave for now!" she calls over.
[21:53] <Alicia> "Latha, take us somewhere nice," Alicia agrees, going to convene by the deva and taking her hand, holding her other out for someone else to take so they can form a circle.
[21:55] <Alicia> roll 1d20+15 sure why not
06[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+15 sure why not and gets 32." [1d20=17]
01[21:55] <Seira> roll 1d20+26
06[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+26 and gets 30." [1d20=4]
[21:56] <Kotono> Antenora flies over, taking Latha's hand, "Retreatin gthen?" she nods, "All together!"
06[21:57] * Seira alters her course at that, heading towards the others as well with Amaryl in tow. "Unless we want to use dimension door again. Either way, let's leave."
[21:57] <Alicia> "The whole place is shaking apart, we should leave altogether," Alicia supports a temporary full retreat.
[21:58] <Kotono> With that, Latha calls on the Planes themselves to take them! In a flash, you stand hip deep in wine-dark waters. Above you, a glorious mountain rises, higher than you can see. Light sheds from it, illuminating your souls! Flocks of Lantern Archon fly and play in the air above and above and above.
[21:59] <Kotono> "Ah." Antenora sighs in deep, long relief. "Should we return to Balmuria now, or rest a time here an consider what to do next?"
01[21:59] <Seira> "Nice call," Seira congratulates the deva, before turning towards Alicia. "You really think the entire place will be destroyed? It had that gate we couldn't come through, and the throne room. Would they really build something that collapses on itself like that?"
[22:01] <Alicia> "Ahh, this is nicer," Alicia smiles, splashing a bit in the warm water and sloughing off the frost that had gathered on her form. "Why don't we see if we can find someone to heal our undead-inflicted ailments before heading back to see if the shaking has stopped?"
[22:01] <Alicia> "I don't know, Seira - the shaking certainly wasn't natural, since an earthquake would have made it collapse and crushed us within seconds," she extrapolates from her experience with spellfiring structurally unsound caverns.
01[22:03] <Seira> "I don't really think it's because of that pentagram being destroyed, either," Seira adds, trailing a hand through the waters slowly. "But maybe it was something-- Antenora, was there a sentience, a mind behind the mist?"
[22:05] <Kotono> "Not that I felt. For my two copper, I suspect it was simply a counter attack from the Dark Six. We took the base, but they weren't going to let us keep it easily." Washing herself as well in the warm, holy waters, "But we did damage, looted it and defeated Devarim. It's a good bit of progress."
01[22:05] <Seira> "We didn't burn it all down to the ground, either," Seira grumbles. "It's not quite a full victory without leaving the place utterly in ruins."
[22:06] <Alicia> "The shaking may have been building up to ruining it utterly to deny us any further benefit from going over their belongings," Alicia points out, starting to wade towards the beach. "We'll return later and see if there's anything left to see?"
[22:06] <Kotono> "I can get us aid to heal our afflictions," Latha begins to fly just over the water and forward, "From there, we can decide on our next move?"

[Corwin]

[20:07] <Kotono> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[20:08] <Kotono> The Seven Heavens of Celestia are peaceful and restorative. Latha is able to lead you to friends to get healed, this taking two hours. Once done, Latha transports the party back to the Prime Material!
[20:08] <Kotono> roll 5d100
[20:08] <Kotono> roll 1d9
06[20:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d100 and gets 139." [5d100=8, 11, 42, 70, 8]
06[20:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d9 and gets 7." [1d9=7]
[20:09] <Kotono> You appear in mountains, in a jagged cleft in the rocky ground! Around you, spots of electric blue light up the faint sunlight that reaches here. Shocker Lizards crawl about, voltage traveling between them.
[20:09] <Alicia> "Hmm. I suppose it's not all desolate wasteland after all," Alicia remarks, pointing out the ubiquitous lizards. "I suppose if anything can thrive in the worst of climates it would be those."
[20:10] <Kotono> "Like cockroaches," Antenora has her spear in hand, "If you would, before we have to eliminate them?"
01[20:10] <Seira> "I was just about to say magical cockroaches," Seira agrees, smiling at Antenora.
[20:11] <Alicia> "Right," Alicia nods, recalling her image of the room with all the doors that was half ravaged by spellfire when she sent the golem plummetting. "It's not the best mental image but I'll do my best," she promises, teleporting the group.
[20:11] <Alicia> roll 1d100 seen once
06[20:11] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 seen once and gets 33." [1d100=33]
[20:13] <Kotono> Alicia calls on the words of magic...but nothing happens! Around you, more electricity crackles, shocker lizards staring at the party!
01[20:13] <Seira> "Want to try for a more familiar location and aim for the shore by the original entrance?"
[20:14] <Kotono> "Something, rather fast," Amaryl shrinks back from a crackle of lightning.
[20:14] <Alicia> "That's odd... alright, I'll give it a shot," Alicia nods, trying that instead.
[20:14] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[20:14] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 60." [1d100=60]
[20:15] <Kotono> The shoreline is bitterly cold as you stand on it. The wastelands behind you stretch on, the ocean waters ahead lapping against the half frozen beach.
[20:17] <Alicia> "Time to get wet again?" Alicia concludes, resisting the urge to sigh as she starts wading into the water.
06[20:17] * Seira nods, following her in.
[20:19] <Kotono> Thus the party takes to the water again! As you swim down, you find the water bitterly cold, small chunks of ice floating about as you descend.
[20:20] <Alicia> "It was cold but not that cold before... do you think maybe the freezing fog leaked through the portals?" Alicia asks as they swim downwards.
01[20:20] <Seira> "They might've destroyed the entire base," Seira suggests. "If they can't have it, no one can?"
[20:22] <Kotono> "If they did that, I hope it means we've shaken them," Latha whispers as they continue to swim into the frozen depths. Coming to the bottom, you find the sea floor nothing but a thick sheet of rock and ice. The platform lies there, shattered apart amid grasping bursts and pillars of frost.
[20:22] <Alicia> "I think we can call this theory confirmed," Alicia notes, eyeing the ice. "That'll be why it wouldn't let me teleport inside, since it's frozen solid. A pity we couldn't search it more thoroughly, but we got what we needed at least."
[20:23] <Kotono> "Now what?" Amaryl says as she shivers in the water, a small floe of ice floating past the party, "Return to Balmuria?"
01[20:24] <Seira> "Yeah, let's retreat for now," Seira agrees. "When Marie returns, she could try and take a look, perhaps? Or I could see if Abagail's location spell could be adapted to determine just where the place itself was located."
[20:25] <Alicia> "I'm willing to bet Balmuria is too far away for me to teleport us," Alicia admits. "Seira, could you perhaps see if you can get us to that place you explored in the wastes south of the desert and then I'll get us the rest of the way home?"
01[20:27] <Seira> "I could do that," Seira agrees quite readily, calling up the image of the fortress her father claimed for himself after Irenes's defeat and teleporting them all to its main entrance.
01[20:27] <Seira> roll 1d100
06[20:27] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d100 and gets 64." [1d100=64]
[20:29] <Kotono> Woosh! The party appears amid the wastelands! The stairs into Irenes' old fortress go down, as bitter cold blows about you. In the sky, black lightning plays, criss crossed with  vivid, bruiselike clouds that whiz by as fast as a fallen angel plummeting from the Heavens.
06[20:30] * Alicia pauses a moment to look around, curious since she's never been here. But she doesn't hold things up overly long, only taking the time to dry everyone off with prestidigitation before she teleports to her house.
[20:30] <Alicia> roll 1d100
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d100 and gets 47." [1d100=47]
[20:31] <Kotono> Thus you appear in Alicia's house. It's quiet here, no one immediately about. Antenora takes a long breath, "Home. Shall we go see if Saul and the others have returned?"
[20:31] <Alicia> OOC: can I sense Marie?
06[20:31] * Seira figures Alicia would be the first to know, and thus looks expectantly towards her.
[20:35] <Alicia> "They're definitely back, I can sense Marie," Alicia confirms, assuming Jessica and Dawnhope have went somewhere with Hugo. She's not sensing any alarm from her familiar that would indicate anything bad's happened. "Lets go to the garrison and see from there? If Noonbreath is around we might as well tell him what happened with Melancton."
[20:38] <Kotono> Thus the party meets together at the garrison. The garrison itself is swollen - soldiers, outsiders and more, bustling and preparing Balmuria for the worst. Getting Noonbreath is done, as well as Saul, Eudard and Marie. With Commander Oberuth listening and watching in one of the meeting rooms, ""Alicia, Seira," A nod to them, "Report first."
01[20:45] <Seira> "Sir," Seira says, saluting. "As the result of investigating the location retrieved by Alicia, we found a portal to a stronghold of the Dark Six, who were as the result confirmed as our enemies without any shred of doubt. Once there, we have faced Melcanton, who refused to be swayed to surrender." She looks towards Noonbreath as she continues.
01[20:45] <Seira> "Regrettably, we were unable to subdue him in that situation."
[20:46] <Kotono> Noonbreath's face darkens with sadness, but he nods none the less. "I do not fault you for it. There are few worse foes than a titan. Was his death final or will his soul spirit back to the Outer Realms to reform?"
06[20:47] * Seira hesitates, before nodding slightly. "There is that possibility. Once we pressed on further into the base, we have encountered a spectre of Alice, despite Elle Stronger ensuring that she would be able to pass on. Given Elle's skill and knowledge, she would not have made a mistake in that."
[20:49] <Alicia> "I wouldn't be surprised if his soul was claimed by the Neverborn, in which case it will be irrevocably gone," Alicia interjects. "If he were to reform anywhere, though, it would likely be in Pale Night's care."
[20:49] <Kotono> As Commander Oberuth scowls, Noonbreath nods slightly, "If you come across his path again and can capture him, we will be greatful. Ah, Pale Night? Has she come into this again?"
01[20:51] <Seira> "We believe a connection might exist, yes," Seira affirms. "A slain hero's spirit we've encounterd in that place, after freeing the captive souls, insisted that the keys to freeing those eladrin children were held by the Dark Six, and that in turn as long as the sacrifice was ongoing in her realm, entry to Bleak Rendor, their place of power, was impossible."
[20:51] <Alicia> "And we have one of those keys right here," Alicia takes a moment to unfurl her portable hole, taking out the orb and holding it up for all to see.
[20:52] <Kotono> "Events are coming to a head," Noonbreath sits back in his seat, "Are you aware more celesitals have been traveling to - oh!" He stares at the orb. As Alicia holds it, skulls writhe within!
[20:53] <Alicia> "It's a really nasty thing," Alicia admits, putting it away after a few seconds. "It has a will and tries to tempt me with power whenever I touch it, but given how it empowered the spells of Glaciante Devarim, I'm not particularly interested in using it that way."
[20:54] <Kotono> Saul peers at it, "It should be identified, if not analysed. If it is as you say it is, you may hold a true artifact in your hands."
[20:56] <Kotono> After clearing his throat, "It truly is. But, on the subject I was, are you familiar that more celestials are headed to Androlynne? On discussing this matter with Queen Morwel," He pauses here, "She passes this information on and asks that it stays in your confidences. Not that itw ill be a great surprise to you now, I think."
[20:56] <Alicia> "We'll likely be following them shortly anyway," Alicia nods. "Go on?"
[20:57] <Kotono> After that, "The eladrin children in Androlynne are beginning to die out. Omens and portents have warned the Court of Stars that a great evil is coming to them. They are unclear, but meaning is abundant."
01[20:59] <Seira> "The Neverborn might be making its move, then, whatever it is," Seira voices. "At least we should have a way to counter it, now. The first thing we should should be identifying the workings of that orb, I feel."
[21:00] <Alicia> If they were all dead that would satisfy the conditions for reaching Bleak Rendor just as much as freeing them. Not that Alicia cares to so much as suggest this. "We have precious little time. If we can get the orb and any other magic items we recovered analysed today, we might be able to depart tomorrow?"
[21:00] <Alicia> She pauses a moment to regard Noonbreath, "We retrieved Melancton's belongings as well - is there anyone back home who would want them?"
[21:01] <Kotono> "Yes. We would like them." He agrees to Alicia, "Also to ensure that he never uses them again."
[21:01] <Kotono> At this, Saul considers, "Seira, the two of us should work on that once this is finished, then."
01[21:02] <Seira> "It'll have to be scrolls, but that works well enough for me."
[21:03] <Kotono> "As for our end of things?" Saul clears his throat, "We succeeded in meeting with Talos. We received information about the Neverborn, as well as a weapon assured to be able to wound it."
[21:03] <Alicia> "Also, don't even think about going near it without death ward magic," Marie speaks up for the first time. "Even if you survive the aura, you'll be horrendously weakened."
[21:04] <Kotono> "You'll need living weapons beyond mortal craft to wound it," Eudard says, drawing his own blade. It's like lightning, pure electricity crackling as forged steel.
[21:05] <Kotono> Saul clears his throat, "There is another concern as well. Namely, Malcanthet."
06[21:05] * Seira is far too aware of lacking one, but her father's words draw her attention. "How so?"
[21:05] <Alicia> "Does that describe you well enough, Hell Striker?" Alicia asks her sword hopefully. It certainly did a good job on the lich! Her expression darkens at Saul's interjection. "What about her?"
[21:07] <Kotono> "Talos warned us that she would be interested in this matter." Saul looks to Alicia, face blank and without expression. "He warned us that if we choose to parley with her, she is a serpent of wily and cunning. He warned us if we choose to ignore her, that her machinations are sure and devastating." Folding his hands together, "It does propose an unfavorable idea, but one worth considering. Namely, to come to some sort of understanding with her
[21:07] <Kotono> "It does propose an unfavorable idea, but one worth considering. Namely, to come to some sort of understanding with her, rather than her scheming and interfering becoming tangled with our own efforts."
[21:09] <Alicia> "If she tries to interfere she'll end up entangled with Pale Night, the Dark Six, and us. Would she really want to risk that?" Alicia asks hopefully, disheartened at her sword's lack of reply.
[21:10] <Alicia> Oh, there it is! She chooses to believe he's tough enough, and pats the hilt reassuringly.
[21:11] <Kotono> "I wouldn't put it past her." Saul answers right back, "I find the idea near folly, but..." At this, "The Abyss is Chaos. Perhaps we can use one arm of it to attack the other, or at least not bother us."
[21:11] <Kotono> Now bowing his head to rub his temples, "I also fear more trouble that we already have."
[21:12] <Kotono> "She's a demon," Antenora's own smile is dark and grim, "I wouldn't put the stupidity of it past her, nor the self important malice to do so. On the other hand, why bother? She's our enemy as well, just not an active one."
[21:13] <Kotono> "Interestingly, the demons sided with the Gods, while the devils did not, regarding the past war here," Noonbreath clears his throat, "I would have expected the other way, so perhaps there are more wrinkles to this as well."
01[21:14] <Seira> "We shouldn't get involved," Seira states her own opinion. "Regardless of success, at its core the idea to approach Malcanthet means that we won't be able to use that time and energy to focus on our real enemies."
[21:15] <Alicia> "We don't have time to go begging other demons to please leave us alone. This will likely see us coming into direct conflict with Pale Night as it is," Alicia seconds Seira.
[21:15] <Alicia> "If Malcanthet wants to try knocking over Pale Night while she's distracted with us, good for her. I'll wish her luck and stand clear. If she decides to go after us instead, well two demon queens against us isn't much different from one."
[21:16] <Kotono> "Agreed." Oberuth slams a hand down onto the table, "Unless we have no other choice, we won't go pissing around the Abyss, hoping for cursed help. If Malcanthet gets in our way, she'll be dealt with. Now then, Seira, Saul, get on that orb."
[21:17] <Kotono> "In a way, I'm glad you didn't listen," Saul says with the faintest smile, "Even if it's the wrong choice, it's the better one as far as I care." Standing now, "Let's go to to the Countess' shop, Seira. We'll do it there."
06[21:18] * Alicia takes the time to fish out Melancton's armour, hammer, and jewellery, letting Noonbreath have them before she follows Seira and her dad to get the big bag of magic items inventoried.
[21:50] <Kotono> ---

[Corwin]

[23:02] <Kotono> -------
[23:04] <Kotono> That evening, everything is said and done. In Seira's room, Amaryl comes up. She wears a soft green nightgown, going to sit next to Seira. She puts her head on Seira's shoulder, closing her eyes. "This day. Has there every been another day like this, at least for me?"
01[23:05] <Seira> "It's something most people never experience," Seira responds quietly. "Something you never should have gone through."
[23:08] <Kotono> Amaryl's body breathes in and out, a soft sigh that is felt from contact. "It wasn't so bad. I mean...everyone's afraid to die, aren't they? But it was like waking up from a bad dream, nothing worse. I've seen the Heavens now and I've died and...I'm not afraid of it. I...I almost want to go back, just to be there. It's so right there, Seira."
01[23:12] <Seira> "For most people, the order is reversed," Seira responds with a snort. "Yeah. I don't really fear death, either. But you know, strange as it might sound, I think it's more about who you leave behind. People who depend on you, those who love you. They're the ones who'll suffer if you die, and that's why...." She trails off with a helpless shrug.
[23:13] <Kotono> "I know. That's why I came back," Amaryl whispers into Seira's ear. "For you, for Donald, for everyone. But," She curls up against Seira, "I can see why few come back from beyond the grave. The happiness there is superior to the greatest joy I've felt while alive. It was transcendant."
01[23:15] <Seira> "But more for me than for Donald, right?" Seira teases.
02[23:15] * Mystia (~Melanchth@pool-96-231-68-153.washdc.east.verizon.net) Quit (Ping timeout)
[23:17] <Kotono> "Of course. With the choices I had...Heaven or Seira. Hmmm." Giggling to that, "I mean, Heaven or Seira and three angels running around naked," With a tint of red to her cheeks, her giggles increasing, "I'm lucky to have you...though it seems everyone in the Guard is very beautiful."
01[23:20] <Seira> "They are," Seira agrees, admiring Amaryl.
[23:21] <Kotono> Amaryl blushes, her green gown cascading down her body, clinging around her hips and body. "Is it true that good is beautiful and evil is ugly?"
01[23:23] <Seira> "I think it speaks of spirit, really," Seira muses in response to the question. "There are certainly plenty of breathtaking fiends out there, but I wouldn't consider even for a moment to spend my life with them."
[23:24] <Kotono> "Hm. Of course." Amaryl's blush lingers, "...but Seira, can I ask you something?"
01[23:26] <Seira> "Anything," Seira responds, even as her hand draws to Amaryl's side, trailing up lazily.
[23:27] <Kotono> "Am I...pretty enough. Alicia, Antenora, Latha...you...all of you were like watching Goddesses. I...I'm smaller and..." she murmurs, looking down. "Am I pretty enough for you?"
01[23:35] <Seira> "I worried quite a bit, myself," Seira says in a seeming nonsequitur, drawing Amaryl closer. "About our social positions, or if I would be seen by you as most elves do, even when they're trying to be kind. I also worried for a time that there were people you liked more. Then, there was the added worry of having you right there beside me as we face things that no one should ever have to face.
01[23:36] <Seira> But if there's anything I learned from all that, is that I shouldn't think about it like that, because that's my doubt talking, trying to mask itself as some sort of analysis. You're beautiful, Amaryl. There is no need to compare yourself to anyone, but if you'd like to, then yes; you're wrong to list yourself as being in a different league from the resident celestial team.
01[23:36] <Seira> And, as an added bonus, the Guard's only getting prettier with time, so us vain people are certainly in the right place for a makeover or two!"
[23:36] <Kotono> With a warming red glow to her face, "Oh...thank you," Amaryl hugs Seira tightly, squeezing her.
01[23:38] <Seira> "Don't you draw your share of lovestruck stares when you walk through Balmuria's streets?" Seira asks Amaryl in a light tone of voice. "I find that hard to believe."
[23:41] <Kotono> "Well..." Amaryl merely blushes even hotter. "Still..." Fiddling with her dress, "Seira, do you have the energy for..." Pressing her fingers together, "There was a lot of visual...ah, appeal to the day."
01[23:43] <Seira> "I'm weak for beautiful people seducing me," Seira affirms, although she ends up blushing herself at the end. "In fact, if they happen to be my girlfriend, I don't think I could possibly resist."
[23:45] <Kotono> "Good," Amaryl's own heat turns her entire face red, "Then..." Amaryl reaches up and...OOC: Good to cut there, Seira?

[Corwin]

[19:45] <Kotono> ---
[19:47] <Kotono> There's many a way to wake up. Seira has had the good and the bad ways...and this is a good one. Having Amaryl's warm, soft body curled against your side is a lovely thing to wake up to. Doubly so is the smell of eggs, porridge and bacon, a bowl on a table moved right besides the bed. "Morning," Amaryl murmurs into your ear.
03[19:48] * Yomi is now known as Seira
01[19:49] <Seira> "Morning," Seira returns with a smile, just lounging for now. "Sleep well?"
[19:51] <Kotono> "Well." Whispering and rubbing against Seira, warmth spreading all over, "Donald said that Elle wants to see you when you wake up and have breakfast. Mmm." She closes her eyes, holding ot Seira as she smiles in contentment.
01[19:52] <Seira> "In an hour, then," Seira announces lazily. "If it were urgent, they wouldn't wait for me to wake up on my own."
[19:54] <Kotono> "Mm-hmm," Amaryl curls into you, "We're going to the Abyss today?"
01[19:56] <Seira> "So it seems. I never thought we would get a chance to do something about that problem so soon, but maybe if we can help in solving it, the issues we're dealing with here, on our world, would feel more manageable."
[19:59] <Kotono> "Mmmm." Amaryl murmurs something, lost between the sheets and body heat. "Before we go, Seira..."
06[20:00] * Seira shifts until she's facing her. "Before we go?"
[20:03] <Kotono> "Let me rest against you a while longer," she replies, doing just that. "We may not have a chance for a time if we spend it in the Abyss."
01[20:04] <Seira> It's exactly why she is in no hurry to pay Elle a visit that morning. Seira hardly objects, using this chance to relax.
[20:06] <Kotono> All good things do eventually pass in the mortal realms. Seira gets dressed and begins her day. She finds Elle in her shop, still clad in mourning black. "Good morning," she says to Seira, face drawn, tired. She leans against the wall of her shop, back slumping.
01[20:08] <Seira> "Morning," Seira responds, nodding in greeting, before she takes another look at Elle's devastated appearance and asks spontaneously, "You'd tell me if you needed anything? If there was anything I could do for you?"
[20:12] <Kotono> "I feel...a little better today. It was just sobbing my eyes out half the night." Wearily straightening up and going to a chair, "I'm going to go back to sleep after this. I know I can't mope around forever, and wandering like a sleepless zombie won't do anyone any good."
01[20:14] <Seira> "I think... it's normal to break down when you lose someone," Seira finds herself saying. "Even if you know you shouldn't, you can't help it."
[20:18] <Kotono> "Yeah." Looking away, "I wanted to ask you - are you prepared and equipped adequately for the coming battles?"
01[20:19] <Seira> "To fight demon queens at their home ground, or even undead godspawn?" Seira asks rhetorically.
[20:20] <Kotono> "Who ever is? Are you equipped as well as you can be, then?"
[20:20] <Kotono> Elle runs a hand over her face, "Are you going to face Pale Night herself?"
01[20:23] <Seira> "Hard to say, isn't it? I like to think not, but her level of involvement would depend on how interested and invested she is in her scheme. If entertainment is truly key to her, perhaps not. If there are far more practical reasons at play, well...."
06[20:23] * Seira shrugs. "I don't know about facing her, but to face her higher tier servants adequately, I was going to wonder if you had any rods of metamagic available. It would be a bit of a gamble, to see if I can use that as an invesment and make good on it."
[20:24] <Kotono> "I do." Elle goes back behind the counter, "What do you need?"
01[20:25] <Seira> "Vanilla flavored, pretty much. Empower and maximize. You can't go wrong with the classics, can you?"
[20:26] <Kotono> "I do," With a weak, watery smile, "You're welcome to borrow them under the circumstances."
01[20:28] <Seira> "I'm hoping to outright buy them, when we've secured our future and our currency is stable," Seira admits. "On my own, I'm not really a match for any of the things that threaten us, so this is the way I came up with of keeping up."
[20:32] <Kotono> "Then it's a loan until then," Elle gets a pair of staves out, one carved of smooth blackwood and the other made of iron with lines of silver plated in. "Take them."
01[20:39] <Seira> There is so much she wants to say. That Alice's last words were to Elle, and that she always kept on thinking about her. That Seira herself understand what she is going through all too well. But she just takes the staves and nods. "I'll return. I'll definitely return," Seira promises.
[20:40] <Kotono> Elle's smile is tired, worn, drawn. It's the smile of a woman exhausted, but it's one that matches the eyes that meet Seira's. "You will. You're too stubborn to die, even if it's Pale Night herself. I'm absolutely sure of it."
01[20:42] <Seira> "I still have a mark to leave on the world, don't I?" Seira muses with a small smile of her own. "A Mythal to build, one to protect Balmuria and its residents for all time? You're right. I can't die before I accomplish at least that."
[20:43] <Kotono> "By the Gods, yes." Elle reaches out, patting Seira's shoulder, "Go show them that you hvae a lot to live for. We aren't going to go under to a horde of undead tyrants."
[20:58] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 18." [1d100=18]
[21:02] <Kotono> That morning, as Seira prepares, Donald knocks and peeks into Seira's room. "Hey Seira," he calls, "Got a visitor. Some guy, looks nad smells like a traveler. Want do you want me to do withhim?"
01[21:04] <Seira> "I'll see him in my library," Seira responds, tapping her lips thoughtfully before glancing at Donald askance. "Unless he smells really badly? Then please use prestidigitation, first."
[21:06] <Kotono> "Eh, just like the road. He's not going to burn your delicate nostrils off," Donald makes a flippant gesture, going out. Soon Seira is in her library, Donald leading the man in. He has short blonde hair, cut slightly unevenly but very short. He's perhaps twenty, wearing a brown cloak andtravel stained clothes. He offers a small bow to Seira, "Thank you for taking the time to meet me."
01[21:07] <Seira> "I generally try to see those who come to meet me, if I happen to be home," she responds, gesturing at a comfortable armchair opposite her. "Would you like something to drink?"
[21:08] <Kotono> "Water." He sits down, resting his legs and sinking deep into the chair. "I'd heard the stories from all the way down in Malmuth, about an elf-dragon archmage."
01[21:09] <Seira> "A few of them good, I hope?"
[21:10] <Kotono> "Heh, heh. They got better once I got into the Barony of Valandia," Donald gets him a glass of water, sipped down in a few sipping gulps. "How true is that? Are you truly dragon blooded?"
06[21:12] * Seira studies the man a moment longer, before replying, "I have draconic blood, if that is the question, even though it might seem improbable."
[21:13] <Kotono> "I do admit, I thought dragons were bigger." He answers back, a slight stubble on his cheeks. His features are well defined and sharp, his body showing hinted muscle beneath his clothes. "Then again, the Bard's more bawdy tales insist that dragons are, ah, adaptable."
06[21:14] * Seira shrugs. "Dragons and mages can shapeshift, whenever it suits them, which is adaptable enough."
[21:17] <Kotono> Rubbing his chin and grinning, "Ah yes, that's how the stories go. So, what sort of dragon are you? Red? Gold?"
01[21:18] <Seira> "A sane red dragon. Gold ones are nice enough, but they tend to have a horribly uptight manner, from observation."
[21:20] <Kotono> "Really?" He considers that, "Well, there's that old bard's tale about the red and gold dragon that fell in love."
01[21:21] <Seira> "I'm hoping I get to meet them, one day," Seira says, sounding happy at the topic being discussed. "They sound like a very nice couple!"
[21:23] <Kotono> "They're still alive...then again, I hear dragons live forever. If you can find one." Finishing off his water, "I've never actually seen a giant flying dragon. I hear there was one here years back, but the Crimson Guard slew him."
01[21:25] <Seira> Has it really been years? Seira almost shakes her head, before leaving it be. "There's been a few of them, but we only managed to deal with the reds and golds. It seems every other dragon is either a nasty piece of work or just happened to be driven insane by the passage of time."
[21:27] <Kotono> "Curious." Thinking on that, "Are any other dragons known of and sane?"
01[21:31] <Seira> "There's plenty across the planes, for one," Seira muses, thinking of several examples that would qualify. "But if you had such magic available, you wouldn't need me to tell you that. There is Ajan, the father of the red dragon in the legend you brought up. Aside from those two, he's very nice and quite mentally stable."
[21:32] <Kotono> "Could I meet him, perhaps?" The man's eyes narrow a little, "If he'd be willing to, of course."
01[21:33] <Seira> "Not for a year, at least, I'm afraid," Seira says regretfully. "He intends to settle on a new home before even considering such matters as visitors, and it should take that long."
[21:35] <Kotono> "Ah. A pity."  The man cocks his head at an angle, "Do you know of any others more receptive to visitors?"
01[21:36] <Seira> "Dragons tend to be secretive and reclusive, but if I knew, perhaps, why you wished to have this audience with them, it could be arranged," Seira responds, hedging her words.
[21:37] <Kotono> "Who doesn't want to see a dragon!" With widenening eyes, "They're creatures of legend. Anyone can go find a goblin or a troll in the Barbarian Lands, but a dragon?"
01[21:39] <Seira> "Oh, I'm sorry." Seira raises a hand to stop him. "What I really meant was, is there a good enough reason for an ancient dragon to see a human? They might not take kindly to being exhibits or curios for mortals."
[21:41] <Kotono> "Oh." He stops there. "...well, I'll need to think about that, won't I?"
01[21:44] <Seira> "Yes. Because to a dragon, you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."

[Corwin]

[20:10] <Kotono> -----
[20:13] <Kotono> That late morning, the party gathers together in Seira's inn. Amaryl is dressed in her battle clothes, quiet and resolute. Latha sits and waits patiently, while Antenora paces near the fireplace, waiting for the time to go. OOC: Ball's in your court, go ahead.
01[20:14] <Seira> "No time like the present," Seira voices, herself ready to depart, adorned in the latest fashions of Kelara.
[20:15] <Alicia> "Before we go, perhaps we could get Lord Saul to cast another divination on Glaciante's orb?" Alicia suggests. "It might reveal hidden legends or forgotten lore that would help us properly use it as a key in Androlynne."
01[20:16] <Seira> "That shouldn't be too hard," Seira agrees. "He usually keeps a spell like that ready, just in case."
[20:18] <Kotono> "Let's do that, then," Latha rises, "Go over to Malmuth and bring him back to do it?"
01[20:18] <Seira> "We can just head there, and it won't take us much time," Seira proposes in return. "It hardly matters where we leave from."
[20:21] <Kotono> Thus the party heads to Malmuth. A small slice of the city is restored, magic wrought each day to repeal the ravages of the Dark Six. You find Saul resting in one such house, his spellbook in front of him. On coming to him, "This orb?" He asks, "Let me see it."
06[20:22] * Alicia takes it out of the portable hole and hands it over. "Careful, don't let it tempt you into using it," she cautions.
[20:26] <Kotono> Saul takes the orb, his eyes widening. "Waukeen's treasury...!" He gasps, his gaze locked into the orb! Skulls and screaming faces can be seen inside, as very slowly, Saul puts it down. He rubs his hands together, "So cold. It's like holding a heart of ice." He shuffles, taking out a few ivory sticks. "Be quiet. This isn't a hard ritual, but it's one of the longer ones."
[20:26] <Kotono> roll 1d4
06[20:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4 and gets 4." [1d4=4]
[20:29] <Kotono> IT takes Saul the better part of an hour to work his magic. At the finish he grasps the orb with both hands, then puts it right back down. "Long ago, a dark wizard took on the name Sylian. He rose into the sky to face the Unspoken Chaos. From her the secret of hateful chaos was learned, and woe onto existance, for in those are the Eyes of Oblivion, the end of life."
[20:30] <Alicia> Flowery, but not particularly helpful. "Anything else?" she asks hopefully.
01[20:30] <Seira> "Chaos is a girl?" Seira asks, unable to move past that one herself.
[20:31] <Alicia> "Why not?" Marie asks. "Were you hoping she'd be a hermaphrodite?"
01[20:32] <Seira> "Hoping is a bit much. I don't expect concepts to have gender. Or physical form."
[20:32] <Kotono> "Eladrin," Rubbing his temples at that, "Be silent." Saul then clears his throat, "There are two more legends."
[20:32] <Alicia> Marie pouts as only a physical embodiment of good and chaos can, but allows herself to be lectured by the elf and dutifully pipes down.
[20:33] <Kotono> "I believe it's referring to Pale Night," Latha glances back at Seira. "Didn't the spirit we met in Silence mention the Unspoken Chaos was the Pale Mother, who is likely Pale Night?"
01[20:36] <Seira> "I'm actually relieved to hear this."
[20:40] <Kotono> "The second is this: Bleak Rendor is where life ends, a legendary ground that is the terminal point for all life. It is said that a dread lich tamed even this, encasing it into physical form. Doing so is said to have caused the downfall of six righteous empires into civil war and anarchy."
[20:41] <Alicia> It seems like they're only getting background on the Dark Six and nothing on the device in question... hopefully legend number three is more helpful.
01[20:41] <Seira> "How would one follow from the other?" Seira inquires curiously.
[20:45] <Kotono> "It's a legend." Saul shrugs, "It's truth or what it refers to is beyond the scope of the spell. As for the third? An eladrin prophet spoke of the coming of 'Sixfold Eyes. When they are as one in death made blessed ground, a miracle shall happen. But if not and they see what must not be seen, The End comes in a sacrifice of the righteous.'
01[20:46] <Seira> "So this implies we need the other five keys to actually do anything?"
[20:46] <Alicia> That perhaps puts a crimp in their plans. "Does this mean there are five other orbs and we require all six of them?"
[20:48] <Kotono> "Perhaps. It's only a legend, though..." Saul rubs his hands now, wringing warmth into them, "A sacrifice of the righteous sounds like what you're going off to prevent. Those eladrin children?"
01[20:49] <Seira> "We might learn more by virtue of going there," Seira muses. "We don't know if a single orb is enough to break the curse on those children. Well, what if neither do our enemies? Once we head there, they will inevitably show up to stop us, and we'll get our hands on more of those orbs, or discover more information about their plans in the process."
[20:50] <Alicia> "That was the plan," Alicia nods. "The spirit we met in Glaciante's desmense said the orb was a key that could free them, and until they were freed Bleak Rendor would be forever barred. Seira's right, we need to lure them out somehow."
[20:51] <Kotono> "Then if Androlynne and Pale Night are a part of it, it follows that we go threaten her plans there. If we can turn the tide and threaten Pale Night's plans, the Dark Six will likely intervene, no?" By the end of it, Antenora's starting to smile, "It's rudimentary, but it's a plan."
[20:52] <Kotono> "If we seek more insight," Latha says, "There are still questions to be answered, spoken from what we've learned and the prophecy Helm passed to Demedais. Perhaps these can shape our actions further and refine them?"
[20:53] <Alicia> "Perhaps," Alicia allows, for all that she dislikes trying to puzzle out purple-prosed-prophecies. "Shall we depart, then?"
06[20:54] * Seira thinks that if Helm is aware of something that caught Waukeen by surprise and actually wants them to act to prevent it, he could just say so directly. "All for it, once I've cast my spells," she says out loud, casting her almost-day-long spells at this point.
[20:55] <Kotono> "It's probably best. Once we get the situation in Androlynne, we can add that into what we know and see what directions we should take," Antenora readies her spear, "Marie, over here," she says, tapping her head.
[20:57] <Alicia> Marie obligingly settles herself on Antenora's head.
[20:58] <Kotono> "Are we ready then?" Amaryl asks, voice quiet.
06[20:59] * Seira is prepared.
[20:59] <Alicia> "As we'll ever be," Alicia affirms, taking Latha's hand and then Amaryl's as they form up.
[20:59] <Kotono> "Then...Celestia's light guide us," Latha intones, the party vanishing! (More)
[21:01] <Kotono> Trees? Trees. The forest spreads out all around you. Trees large and small, some twisted into strange, alien shapes. Splashes of vivid green, red and yellow are the leaves, so intense as to make your eyes water, as if those colors were distilled down to the ultimate essence they possess.  You stand amid the trees, appearing without incident. In the center of your hand-holding circle, a tall, impossibly slender tree reaches high above.
[21:02] <Kotono> In the center of your hand-holding circle, a tall, impossibly slender tree reaches high above.
01[21:03] <Seira> "Let's go and find someone?" Seira proposes with a shrug.
06[21:04] * Alicia takes a quick look around, confirming they're alone. "Better than the last Abyssal layer we visited, but appearances can be deceiving," she warns. "We'll try and make contact with local eladrin and get the lay of the land from there," she agrees with Seira.
[21:04] <Kotono> "We dont' need to go far," Antenora peers about, "I can sense minds all around. The trees are alive."
01[21:04] <Seira> "If you ask them nicely to guide us, will they help?"
[21:04] <Alicia> At that comment Alicia naturally checks if the trees are evil.
[21:06] <Alicia> "They seem inoffensive..." Alicia murmurs, letting the telepaths handle actual communication.
[21:06] <Kotono> "Alive and around..." The tree in the center of all of you sing songs...? A barkskinned, somewhat female form pokes it's head out of the tree, writhing up and down it as she spins around, taking in the party. "We welcome you to Androlynne and the Boldybingian Woods! You have come ot protect the lost children?"
[21:07] <Alicia> "We have," Alicia approaches the head poking out of the tree. "And perhaps even more. Can you tell us where we can find them?"
01[21:07] <Seira> "Or where whatever that wishes to harm them is," Seira adds, likewise coming closer.
[21:09] <Kotono> "To the southeast lie Eddleston's Blessing and Melantonberg," The woman answers, "Were the children and the defenders live. To the north is Hoppenstain Run, a fearsome river where many battles rage. North of that lies the demons."
[21:10] <Alicia> "So that becomes our first decision. Do we confer with the defenders first, or plunge into battle and hope to make an impression?" Alicia turns to her friends for their thoughts.
01[21:12] <Seira> "I vote for battle," Seira states. "By being there, we might alter its outcome. We lose nothing by meeting with the defenders at a later time, but missing the chance to help turn a battle around would definitely be a shame."
06[21:13] * Alicia smiles and nods her agreement with Seira's reasoning. "I was thinking much the same thing."
[21:13] <Kotono> "Both are appealing choices, but I believe Seira is right. If a battle is going on right now, let's turn that tide then find out what we need." Latha starts to walk now, "Let us not tarry."
01[21:14] <Seira> "How far away is it?" Seira asks the helpful tree. "Can we teleport over?"
[21:16] <Kotono> "About ten miles north," It points in that direction, "You can't miss the river, or the hordes of demons and eladrin preparing for, on defense or in battle."
[21:17] <Alicia> "We'd best get moving, then," Alicia nods, starting to walk in the indicated direction.
[21:18] <Kotono> "The eladrin prevent teleportation magic," Going no now, the spirit twists towards Seira, "So that the hordes of the Abyss cannot appear right by the children to slaughter them."
01[21:18] <Seira> That's all Seira needs to start heading for the battle on foot!
[21:21] <Kotono> OOC: Who's on point?
[21:21] <Alicia> OOC: I'll go
01[21:21] <Seira> OOC: I'll cast extended heroism on myself and Lagann on Amaryl
01[21:22] <Seira> OOC: I'll also stick with her near the back
01[21:23] <Seira> OOC: And an extended dragonskin, because why not
[21:24] <Kotono> The woods stretch a little farther. You walk out of it without problem. But as you walk to the edges of the forest, flat plains full of wildflowers of every color ahead...(More)
06[21:28] * Seira raises a hand and rubbery tentacles rise out of the ground, snaking up to ensnare her quarry, while she calls out, "Three Molydeus-like demons, one hundred and fifty feet ahead!"
01[21:29] <Seira> OOC: Black tentacles on the group
01[21:30] <Seira> roll 3#1d20+26 grapple
06[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3#1d20+26 grapple and gets 105." [3#1d20+26 = 33, 33, 39]
[21:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+32 1
06[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+32 1 and gets 37." [1d20=5]
[21:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+32 2
06[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+32 2 and gets 46." [1d20=14]
[21:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+32 3
06[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+32 3 and gets 41." [1d20=9]
[21:30] <Kotono> A field of tentacles springs upa head on the open, flower filled planes! They seem to grapple at something unseen, whipping back and forth! OOC: Something's obviously up. Roll init?
[21:31] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 Alicia
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 Alicia and gets 18." [1d20=11]
[21:31] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 Anty
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 Anty and gets 11." [1d20=6]
[21:31] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 Latha
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 Latha and gets 11." [1d20=3]
[21:31] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 Marie
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 Marie and gets 17." [1d20=9]
[21:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10 1
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 1 and gets 12." [1d20=2]
[21:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10 2
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 2 and gets 19." [1d20=9]
[21:31] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10 3
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 3 and gets 29." [1d20=19]
01[21:31] <Seira> "Spell's centered on the one in between, the others flank him by about ten feet!" Seira reports, drawing the Resort.
01[21:31] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 19." [1d20=13]
01[21:31] <Seira> roll 1d20+8 A
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 A and gets 28." [1d20=20]
01[21:31] <Seira> roll 1d20 L
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20 L and gets 3." [1d20=3]
03[21:32] * Kotono changes topic to 'Molydeus 3(29)>Molydeus 2(19)>Alicia(18)>Marie(17)>Molydeus 1(12)>Antenora=Latha(11)'
03[21:32] * Kotono changes topic to 'Molydeus 3(29)>Amaryl(28)>Molydeus 2=Seira(19)>Alicia(18)>Marie(17)>Molydeus 1(12)>Antenora=Latha(11)>Lagann(3)'
[21:34] <Kotono> Seira can see one of them sprint forward, coming to within 70 feet! It abruptly appears to all, as a lightning bolt comes from it's axe, arching in the air towards Seira! OOC: Ref, Seira.
01[21:34] <Seira> OOC: Half speed
[21:35] <Kotono> OOC: I'm aware of how the spell works and that's how far they move under the circumstances. >_> Ref save.
01[21:36] <Seira> roll 1d20+30
06[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+30 and gets 50." [1d20=20]
[21:36] <Kotono> Seira simply sidesteps through the lightining bolt, whipping amid the very crackles of it as she avoids being even shocked slightly! OOC: Amaryl.
01[21:37] <Seira> Amaryl roughly knows where the lightning bolt came from, and aims for its point of origin, hoping for the best!
01[21:38] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+25
06[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+25 and gets 123." [4#1d20+25 = 30, 26, 32, 35]
01[21:38] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+20
06[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+20 and gets 76." [2#1d20+20 = 36, 40]
01[21:38] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+15
06[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+15 and gets 38." [2#1d20+15 = 22, 16]
01[21:38] <Seira> roll 1d20+20 crit?
06[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+20 crit? and gets 25." [1d20=5]
[21:39] <Kotono> OOC: One normal hit.
01[21:39] <Seira> roll 1d8+16+4d6
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+16+4d6 and gets 30." [1d8=1][4d6=2, 3, 4, 4]
[21:40] <Kotono> The arrows fly in a hail, one of them sticking into the arm of the visible molydeus! It's skin is dead white, like a porcelin doll instead of a fearsome demon! It makes not a sound as it advances! OOC: Molydeus 2 and Seira are up.
01[21:40] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+26 grapple
06[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+26 grapple and gets 66." [2#1d20+26 = 32, 34]
[21:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+32 1
[21:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+32 2
06[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+32 1 and gets 49." [1d20=17]
06[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+32 2 and gets 36." [1d20=4]
[21:41] <Kotono> Seira is able to see the second one advance to within seventy feet of the party as well, about ten feet away from the first, but still invisible ot the rest! OOC: Seira, go.
02[21:44] * Merc (~k@c-98-196-68-69.hsd1.tx.comcast.net) Quit (atarians.dejatoons.net betamax.dejatoons.net)
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01[21:46] <Seira> Unfortunately, her magic's failed to stop any of the demons, but Seira hardly lets that bother her. Instead, she leaves the Resort in Lagann's care and clads herself in acid.
01[21:47] <Seira> roll 1d10+10 FL, didn't roll before
06[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d10+10 FL, didn't roll before and gets 18." [1d10=8]
[21:47] <Kotono> A sheathe of acid surrounds Seira, shielding her! OOC: Alicia, you're up, then Marie. One Molydeus is visible, taken an arrow wound. You can't see the other one.
[21:51] <Alicia> Three Molydeus? Really? Alicia can scarcely believe it. "Did they know we were here?" she wonders aloud, the trio of greater demons representing a stunning show of force far beyond anything she'd expected to find outside of Pale Night's throneroom.
[21:51] <Alicia> Still, they're not the only ones that can play the stealth game, and with a word Alicia vanishes from sight, moving sixty feet forward and planting herself between the wolf-headed fiends and the rest of the group.
[21:51] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 CL echecks for Nondetection
[21:51] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 CL echecks for Nondetection
[21:51] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 CL echecks for Nondetection
06[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 CL echecks for Nondetection and gets 37." [1d20=18]
06[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 CL echecks for Nondetection and gets 35." [1d20=16]
06[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 CL echecks for Nondetection and gets 38." [1d20=19]
[21:52] <Kotono> OOC: Go Marie.
[21:52] <Kotono> Alicia advances forward, coming to within ten feet of the pai rof greater demons!
01[21:52] <Seira> roll 1d20+18 can I see her?
[21:52] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 knowledge planes, how likely are molydeus to summon stuff?
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+18 can I see her? and gets 24." [1d20=6]
06[21:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 knowledge planes, how likely are molydeus to summon stuff? and gets 36." [1d20=13]
[21:54] <Alicia> Marie holds for the moment, protecting Amaryl and waiting for any tell-tale signs of demon summoning that she can promptly divert into calling friendly reinforcements instead.
[21:55] <Alicia> OOC: readied action to cast perfect summons if any demons try to summon stuff
[21:55] <Kotono> The first Molydeus advances out of the tentacles, hanging back 80 feet from the rest, 20 feet away from Alicia! OOC: Antenora and LAtha.
01[21:56] <Seira> "The second's ten feet to the right -- our right -- from the first, the third is hanging ten feet back," Seira updates them, given that the other two have yet to reveal their presence.
[21:57] <Alicia> Latha drops a flame strike on the visible molydeus, coincidentally catching the one behind it, before she flies forward to support Antenora's advance, positioning herself above Alicia while Antenora charges the visible target!
[21:57] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 SR
06[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 SR and gets 24." [1d20=7]
[21:57] <Kotono> OOC: No luck on the SR. Antenora, more coming before you resolve.
[21:58] <Kotono> Antenora charges in! As she does, she feels unsettled, the air around the porcelin-like demon unnatural and wrong! OOC: -1 morale to your attack.
[21:59] <Alicia> Despite the unnaturalness, Antenora is bolstered by the holy auras of both Latha and Alicia nearby and attacks fearlessly, savagely driving her spear into the target!
[21:59] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -6pa charge flying furious strike
06[21:59] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -6pa charge flying furious strike and gets 43." [1d20=13]
[21:59] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[22:00] <Alicia> roll 2d8+74+2d6+2d6 -1 con
06[22:00] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d8+74+2d6+2d6 -1 con and gets 94." [2d8=5, 3][2d6=4, 3][2d6=1, 4]
[22:01] <Kotono> Antenora darts ahead, impaling the molydeus in the chest! It stands there, wounded and yet healing, bringing it's axe up in revenge! OOC: Go Lagann.
01[22:01] <Seira> roll 1d20+15 planes
06[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+15 planes and gets 25." [1d20=10]
01[22:02] <Seira> Lagann directs the Resort forty feet ahead, advancing it to its maximum range as it holds its ground protectively between Seira and the demons!
01[22:03] <Seira> roll 1d20+27 arcana
06[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+27 arcana and gets 45." [1d20=18]
[22:03] <Kotono> OOC: Visible 'deus is up then.
01[22:04] <Seira> "So some powerful wizard changed these demons, and they just happened to come across us," Seira calls out. "Coincidence? Don't think so!"
[22:05] <Kotono> The visible one takes a single five foot step forward, it's height roaring as it slashes right for the invisible Alicia, looking to sever her in twain!
[22:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 and gets 29." [1d20=1]
[22:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 38." [1d20=15]
[22:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 38." [1d20=20]
[22:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 crit
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 crit and gets 20." [1d20=2]
[22:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 29." [1d20=16]
[22:05] <Kotono> OOC: AC, Alicia?
[22:05] <Alicia> OOC: AC 36
[22:05] <Kotono> roll 3d6+14 This one hits DR
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+14 This one hits DR and gets 26." [3d6=4, 2, 6]
[22:05] <Kotono> roll 3d6+14 This one bypasses DR.
06[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+14 This one bypasses DR. and gets 23." [3d6=2, 3, 4]
[22:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 snake
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 snake and gets 29." [1d20=4]
[22:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 wolf bite
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 wolf bite and gets 30." [1d20=5]
[22:06] <Kotono> Alicia is axed in the gut, a followup strike hitting her in the face with the flat of it's blade! A split second later, a lightning bolt crackles out from it's snake head, arching up at Antenora in the air!
[22:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19 SR
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 SR and gets 26." [1d20=7]
[22:07] <Kotono> OOC: What's Anty's SR?
[22:07] <Alicia> OOC: 25
[22:07] <Kotono> roll 10d6 ref half
06[22:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 ref half and gets 32." [10d6=1, 6, 3, 5, 1, 1, 1, 6, 5, 3]
[22:07] <Alicia> roll 1d20+28
06[22:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+28 and gets 35." [1d20=7]
[22:07] <Kotono> OOC: Halved.
[22:08] <Kotono> The lightning bolt arches through Antenora's leg, a light but shocking injury to her flesh! OOC: Amaryl.
01[22:09] <Seira> With a whispered word, Amaryl steps back twenty feet, positioning herself with a direct line to the sole visible molydeus. She pauses only long enough to draw three arrows, but once launched, they twin, each seeking its blood!
01[22:09] <Seira> OOC: sniper shot it is
01[22:09] <Seira> roll 6#1d20+25
06[22:09] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 6#1d20+25 and gets 235." [6#1d20+25 = 35, 38, 33, 42, 44, 43]
[22:10] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits.
01[22:11] <Seira> roll 1d8+16+4d6
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+16+4d6 and gets 36." [1d8=5][4d6=2, 1, 6, 6]
01[22:11] <Seira> roll 1d8+16+4d6
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+16+4d6 and gets 40." [1d8=8][4d6=1, 6, 3, 6]
01[22:11] <Seira> roll 1d8+16+4d6+6d6
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+16+4d6+6d6 and gets 54." [1d8=4][4d6=4, 6, 3, 6][6d6=6, 4, 1, 2, 1, 1]
[22:12] <Kotono> Slammed with arrows all over it's body, the molydeus rocks on it's heels, yet utters not a sound as it fights on! OOC: Molydeus 2 and Seira.
06[22:13] * Seira advances, both to support the rest of her friends and to give Lagann a fighting chance, calling for an orb of acid to strike the molydeus receiving all this abuse without fail!
01[22:13] <Seira> roll 1d20+20 ranged touch, lesser orb
06[22:13] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+20 ranged touch, lesser orb and gets 39." [1d20=19]
[22:14] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
01[22:14] <Seira> roll 5d8+5
06[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 5d8+5 and gets 31." [5d8=6, 5, 7, 2, 6]
01[22:14] <Seira> OOC: moving 30ft forward
[22:15] <Kotono> Behind the visible molydeus, pentagrams burn into the ground, a terrible howling of the wind! OOC: Marie, if you're going to try PErfect Summons off that, go ahead.
[22:15] <Alicia> Marie immediately expends some of Alicia's borrowed magic, creating a forty foot wide zone centred on that pentagram that will divert away any demons and call in friendly celestials instead!
03[22:16] * Kotono changes topic to 'Molydeus 3(29)>Amaryl(28)>Molydeus 2=Seira=Ghaele(19)>Alicia(18)>Marie(17)>Molydeus 1(12)>Antenora=Latha(11)>Lagann(3)'
03[22:17] * Alicia changes topic to 'Molydeus 3(29)>Amaryl(28)>Molydeus 2=Seira=Ghaele(19)=Marie>Alicia(18)>Molydeus 1(12)>Antenora=Latha(11)>Lagann(3)'
[22:17] <Kotono> Besides the pentagrams appear an elf without flaw, jaw set in determination, uttering forth a word of the most profound holy power!
[22:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
06[22:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 11." [1d20=1]
[22:18] <Kotono> OOC: Whoops, too low on the CL check but the 1 makes it moot
[22:18] <Kotono> .
[22:18] <Kotono> But nothing happens! OOC: Seira, go.
[22:18] <Kotono> OOC: Oh wait, you did. Duuuur.
[22:18] <Kotono> OOC: Alicia, you're up.
[22:19] <Kotono> "Defiler! You shall be punishes for your wickedness," it declares, "Submit to the righteous power I wield!"
06[22:20] * Alicia hides her surprise at being attacked, the ring of eternal celerity finally running out of juice so it seems. But she has a few tricks of her own, and meets the demon's challenge head on, her falchion scything out to rend flesh from its arm before she flicks upwards through the writhing snake at its neck and down again to impale its chest!
[22:20] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 planes
06[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 planes and gets 38." [1d20=14]
[22:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+35 divine might 3rd level arcane strike
06[22:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+35 divine might 3rd level arcane strike and gets 49." [1d20=14]
[22:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 divine might 3rd level arcane strike
06[22:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 divine might 3rd level arcane strike and gets 39." [1d20=9]
[22:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 divine might 3rd level arcane strike
06[22:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 divine might 3rd level arcane strike and gets 40." [1d20=15]
[22:21] <Alicia> roll 1d20+25 divine might 3rd level arcane strike crit check
06[22:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+25 divine might 3rd level arcane strike crit check and gets 35." [1d20=10]
[22:21] <Kotono> OOC: Three normal hits.
[22:21] <Alicia> roll 6d4+81+6d6+6d6+3d6+9d4
06[22:21] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 6d4+81+6d6+6d6+3d6+9d4 and gets 169." [6d4=2, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3][6d6=1, 3, 6, 5, 6, 6][6d6=1, 5, 1, 1, 1, 3][3d6=3, 1, 1][9d4=3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 1, 2, 2, 3]
03[22:22] * Kotono changes topic to 'Amaryl(28)>Molydeus 2=Seira=Ghaele(19)=Marie>Alicia(18)>Molydeus 1(12)>Antenora=Latha(11)>Lagann(3)'
[22:23] <Kotono> The molydeus is ripped apart! It falls on it's knees, fading away with nary a sound. Only a bit of a strange, gummy paste is left in it's wake, it's axe dissolving into a puddle of black ichor! OOC: Molydeus 1.
[22:23] <Kotono> Unseen until now, the first molydeus takes a slight step forward, using it's reach to assault the summoned Celestial!
[22:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28
06[22:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 and gets 37." [1d20=9]
[22:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[22:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 41." [1d20=18]
[22:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18
06[22:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 and gets 38." [1d20=20]
[22:23] <Kotono> roll 1d20+18 crit
06[22:23] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+18 crit and gets 30." [1d20=12]
[22:24] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[22:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 26." [1d20=13]
[22:24] <Kotono> roll 15d6+70
06[22:24] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 15d6+70 and gets 125." [15d6=6, 3, 4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 6, 3, 4, 3, 1, 2, 4, 5]
03[22:24] * Kotono changes topic to 'Amaryl(28)>Molydeus 2=Seira=Marie>Alicia(18)>Molydeus 1(12)>Antenora=Latha(11)>Lagann(3)'
[22:26] <Kotono> The ghaele's arm is severed, as a strkoe goes upwards! It continues, cutting it's head in two as it's body abruptly vanishes! A second later, it gestures at Amaryl! OOC: TK attempt to send her bow flying. Opposed rolls.
[22:26] <Alicia> Marie looks like someone just gave her a pony and then told her it was lame and had to be put down.
[22:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20+28
06[22:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+28 and gets 46." [1d20=18]
01[22:27] <Seira> roll 1d20+33
06[22:27] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+33 and gets 53." [1d20=20]
[22:29] <Kotono> Amaryl's bow is nearly ripped from herhands, but her iron grip lets her hold on, despite nearly being sent flying along with it! OOC: Antenora and Latha. The one that attacked and killed the poor Ghaele is visible now.
[22:32] <Alicia> Antenora would probably say something mean about eladrin right now if she were that way inclined, but settles for simply charging into the molydeus as Latha hits it with a holy smite!
[22:32] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 SR for Latha
06[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 SR for Latha and gets 22." [1d20=5]
[22:33] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -4pa charging, divine succor on Alicia
06[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -4pa charging, divine succor on Alicia and gets 34." [1d20=4]
[22:33] <Kotono> But Antenora's spearthrust misses by a hair, bouncing off the porcelin skin like it's steel, as Latha's spell fizzles around the molydeus! OOC: Lagann.
01[22:33] <Seira> Happy that he's finally in range to stab himself some demons, Lagann directs the Resort to sink into the visible molydeus's thigh!
01[22:33] <Seira> roll 1d20+27 charge~
06[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+27 charge~ and gets 38." [1d20=11]
[22:34] <Kotono> OOC: Bare miss.
[22:35] <Kotono> Lagann flies out, but the molydeus is a hair too fast for it! OOC: Amaryl.
01[22:35] <Seira> Since that molydeus wants her bow so much, Amaryl retraces her steps, and empowers her three cold iron arrows with magic to strike with surprising force!
01[22:35] <Seira> roll 6#1d20+25
06[22:35] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 6#1d20+25 and gets 229." [6#1d20+25 = 36, 43, 40, 30, 39, 41]
[22:35] <Kotono> OOC: Four hits.
01[22:37] <Seira> roll 4d8+64+16d6+12d6
06[22:37] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4d8+64+16d6+12d6 and gets 179." [4d8=6, 8, 3, 8][16d6=2, 4, 4, 3, 3, 4, 5, 4, 1, 5, 2, 4, 1, 1, 6, 3][12d6=6, 2, 3, 1, 2, 4, 1, 5, 6, 3, 2, 3]
[22:39] <Kotono> The molydeus gets arrowed all over, shafts embedded all about it's albaster skin! OOC: Second 'deus and Seira and Marie are up.
01[22:40] <Seira> Dismayed that the freakishly strong demon remains standing, Seira steps ten feet closer to it, and releases a powerful orb of acid it won't be able to deflect!
01[22:40] <Seira> roll 1d20+20 ranged touch, impromptu sneak attack, orb of acid
06[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+20 ranged touch, impromptu sneak attack, orb of acid and gets 26." [1d20=6]
[22:40] <Kotono> OOOC: Hit.
01[22:41] <Seira> roll 15d6+15+5d8 acid+sa
06[22:41] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 15d6+15+5d8 acid+sa and gets 84." [15d6=1, 2, 3, 2, 6, 1, 4, 6, 4, 2, 5, 4, 1, 4, 3][5d8=8, 7, 1, 4, 1]
01[22:41] <Seira> OOC: Now 30ft away from it
[22:42] <Kotono> The second molydeus, unseen by all but Seira, whirls! It goes for Alicia in one charging, visible as it appears strike of utter destruction!
[22:42] <Kotono> roll 1d20+31 flatfooted AC, Alicia?
06[22:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+31 flatfooted AC, Alicia? and gets 39." [1d20=8]
[22:43] <Alicia> OOC: not that
[22:43] <Kotono> roll 3d6+14 DR catches this
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6+14 DR catches this and gets 25." [3d6=4, 3, 4]
[22:43] <Kotono> Alicia gets stabbed in the back, an axe penetrating shallowly between her shoulderblades and wings! OOc: Marie? It's visible now that it struck.
[22:44] <Alicia> Flying up for a better line of fire, Marie fires a barrage of arrows into the one that Seira and Amaryl have thus far ravaged, hoping to kill it and free Alicia to concentrate on the newcomer!
[22:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+29
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+29 and gets 33." [1d20=4]
[22:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 and gets 34." [1d20=10]
[22:44] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 and gets 29." [1d20=10]
[22:45] <Kotono> OOC: This is really not Marie's day.
[22:45] <Kotono> The arrows fly, but they plink off the molydeus like raindrops on an armored knight! OOC: Alicia.
[22:47] <Alicia> Surrounded, Alicia has little choice but to call upon her magic items for help. Arms suddenly blurring with uncanny speed, she flicks her blade out in a dismissive backhand slash to disembowel the arrow and acid-ravaged fiend before focusing her full wrath on the new arrival, flaying its porcelain flesh and shattering its bones!
[22:47] <Alicia> roll 1d20+38 bracers, divine might, 6th and 2nd level arcane strike Molydeus 2
06[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+38 bracers, divine might, 6th and 2nd level arcane strike Molydeus 2 and gets 47." [1d20=9]
[22:48] <Alicia> roll 1d20+38 bracers, divine might, 6th and 2nd level arcane strike Molydeus 1
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+38 bracers, divine might, 6th and 2nd level arcane strike Molydeus 1 and gets 43." [1d20=5]
[22:48] <Alicia> roll 1d20+33 bracers, divine might, 6th and 2nd level arcane strike Molydeus 1
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+33 bracers, divine might, 6th and 2nd level arcane strike Molydeus 1 and gets 45." [1d20=12]
[22:48] <Alicia> roll 1d20+28 bracers, divine might, 6th and 2nd level arcane strike Molydeus 1
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+28 bracers, divine might, 6th and 2nd level arcane strike Molydeus 1 and gets 45." [1d20=17]
[22:48] <Alicia> roll 1d20+28 bracers, divine might, 6th and 2nd level arcane strike Molydeus 1 crit check
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+28 bracers, divine might, 6th and 2nd level arcane strike Molydeus 1 crit check and gets 48." [1d20=20]
[22:48] <Alicia> roll 2d4+27+2d6+2d6+1d6+8d4 deus 2
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d4+27+2d6+2d6+1d6+8d4 deus 2 and gets 69." [2d4=4, 4][2d6=1, 2][2d6=6, 5][1d6=3][8d4=1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 4, 4, 1]
[22:49] <Alicia> roll 8d4+108+6d6+6d6+3d6+24d4 deus 1
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 8d4+108+6d6+6d6+3d6+24d4 deus 1 and gets 239." [8d4=1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 4, 4][6d6=5, 2, 6, 4, 6, 2][6d6=2, 2, 1, 5, 2, 3][3d6=3, 6, 1][24d4=3, 3, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1, 4, 4, 1, 3, 4, 3, 1, 2, 4, 3, 4]
03[22:49] * Kotono changes topic to 'Amaryl(28)>Molydeus 2=Seira=Marie>Alicia(18)>Antenora=Latha(11)>Lagann(3)'
[22:50] <Kotono> The wounde dmolydeus crumbles away, leaving behind only a strange smear of paste and the ichor of it's melting axe! The other is maimed badly, porcelin chest torn open, yet it does not relent! OOC: Antenora and Latha.
[22:53] <Alicia> Inspired by Alicia's example of furiously tearing the hell out of the wounded molydeus long after it actually died, albeit puzzled by her failure to do much about the more pressing threat, Antenora charges the remaining demon!
[22:53] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -4pa divine succor on Alicia
06[22:53] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -4pa divine succor on Alicia and gets 50." [1d20=20]
[22:53] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 -4pa divine succor on Alicia crit check
06[22:53] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 -4pa divine succor on Alicia crit check and gets 45." [1d20=15]
[22:53] <Kotono> OOC: Battle's over, it's dead. Roll damage as a formality.
[22:54] <Alicia> roll 4d8+124+2d6
06[22:54] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 4d8+124+2d6 and gets 147." [4d8=6, 2, 8, 4][2d6=2, 1]
[22:54] <Kotono> Antenora charges dead ahead, inspired by Alicia! She impales the neck of the last one, as it collapses into oblivion! It leaves behind only a strange smear and the ichor of it's axe, like it's previous two friends! OOC: Free act.
01[22:54] <Seira> "So, uh, Lagann's upset he didn't get to kill anything," Seira voices, looking about for any other invisible fiends. "We don't believe this was a coincidence, right?"
[22:54] <Kotono> Flicking her spear clean of blood, "How in the hells," Antenora scowls, "Seira, you said these werew wizard enchanted?"
[22:55] <Alicia> Latha makes a point of calling on her magic to see the invisible, while Marie and Alicia settle for simply detecting magic, the latter far more efficient than the former at it. "They didn't look normal, but that's all relative for demons," Alicia offers.
01[22:55] <Seira> "Pretty serious magic. Past me. Yet."
[22:56] <Kotono> "Such insane resistance." Latha shakes her head, "To face this level of opposition, I fear the Dark Six is trying to end us before we can interfere further."
[22:56] <Alicia> "I feel so bad about that poor Ghaele..." Marie whimpers, disconsolately flying over to join the group. "He must be feeling so awkward right now."
01[22:56] <Seira> "Well, they wanted to stop us from getting to that river and the battle taking place? I'm thinking, this means we're on the right path."
[22:57] <Kotono> "He did what he could," Antenora pats the top of her head, "It was a lucky shot."
[22:57] <Kotono> "Perhaps. Let's hurry?" Latha starts to press forward.
06[22:58] * Alicia also dismisses her invisibility, since it's plainly worthless, while Latha heals her and Antenora a little. "Three molydeus, enchanted or not, is a massive commitment for any demon to make," she observes as Marie consoles herself by hugging Antenora's scalp.
[22:58] <Alicia> roll 1d8+5 Alicia
06[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+5 Alicia and gets 8." [1d8=3]
[22:58] <Alicia> roll 1d8+5 Anty
06[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d8+5 Anty and gets 11." [1d8=6]
01[22:58] <Seira> Linking arms with Amaryl, Seira proceeds after Latha. "Those arrows, an excellent investment," she compliments her quietly. "Marie's definitely onto something there. Maybe we should even get a few banishing ones!"
[22:59] <Kotono> Reaching up to pat Marie, "If it's Pale Night, she's serious abouts topping us. If it's the Dark Six...who knows? They seem to have deep resources. If it's another or mere bad luck...Mystra only knows."
[23:01] <Alicia> "For greater demons like them to be modified by arcane magic I can only think of one possibility," Alicia muses. "Considering how Glaciante was so focused on death, I wonder if another member of the group has talents more suited to altering living creatures - a necromancer could never have bred those mighty remorhaz, after all."
[23:02] <Kotono> "It makes sense that each one would have different fields of specialization. The Guard has the same de-facto setup." Antenora hums to herself, "We know at least a bit about several members, too."

[Corwin]

[20:06] <Kotono> --------------------------
[20:09] <Kotono> Thus the party hurries along! Hoppenstain Run is a long, winding river ahead, muddy banked and surrounded by wild flowers of all colors. The ground is overwhelmingly beautiful, so many incredibly vivid sights drawing your eyes. But over the river and ahead, you see battle in the air above it! Courre eladrin and pixies fire arrows from one bank, as a swarm of quasits attempt to break through them! Behind the vast swarm is a woman wrapped in fla
[20:09] <Kotono> Behind the vast swarm is a woman wrapped in flaming wings, hair like tendrils flowing in the wind. She watches, jet black lances erupting from her hand to weaken the lines further!
01[20:11] <Seira> "Break the leader, and the attack will collapse?" Seira states, already moving towards the woman to engage her!
[20:12] <Kotono> "Smash them!" Antenora calls, "Those of us with effective magic, break holes in the quasit formations!"
[20:12] <Alicia> "Latha, you help defend the coure, the rest of us attack!" Alicia seconds, drawing her sword and flapping her wings to take off!
[20:13] <Kotono> OOC: Roll init. You guys are about 140 ft away from the river and courre/pixie line and about 150-200 ft away from the quasits, and 210 from the woman. Go.
[20:13] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 Alicia
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 Alicia and gets 20." [1d20=13]
[20:13] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 Anty
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 Anty and gets 6." [1d20=1]
[20:13] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 Latha
01[20:13] <Seira> roll 1d20+11 nerveskitter
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 Latha and gets 11." [1d20=3]
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+11 nerveskitter and gets 18." [1d20=7]
[20:13] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 Marie
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 Marie and gets 22." [1d20=14]
01[20:13] <Seira> roll 1d20+8 A
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 A and gets 11." [1d20=3]
01[20:13] <Seira> roll 1d20 L
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20 L and gets 17." [1d20=17]
[20:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 quasit swarm
06[20:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 quasit swarm and gets 14." [1d20=7]
[20:14] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 pixie/courre swarm
06[20:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 pixie/courre swarm and gets 16." [1d20=9]
[20:14] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2 woman
06[20:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 woman and gets 19." [1d20=17]
03[20:14] * Kotono changes topic to 'Marie(22)>Alicia(20)>Seira(18)>Amaryl=Latha(11)>Antenora(6)'
03[20:15] * Kotono changes topic to 'Marie(22)>Alicia(20)>Woman(19)>Seira(18)>Lagann(17)>Pixie/Courres(16)>Quasits(14)>Amaryl=Latha(11)>Antenora(6)'
[20:15] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 knowledge devotion in general, what's the woman?
06[20:15] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 knowledge devotion in general, what's the woman? and gets 43." [1d20=19]
[20:17] <Kotono> OOC: MArie, you start.
[20:17] <Alicia> "Why do we keep seeing mutant succubi in battle?" Alicia wonders aloud as they move to engage. Marie starts things off by flying closer to the friendly lines, calling up an illusion of thick black smoke surrounding the spellcasting succubus to slow her down a little!
[20:19] <Kotono> Smoke wells up amid the succubus's face, shielding her from view and vice versa! OOC: Alicia.
[20:19] <Kotono> A few pixies look back, "Reinforcements! Lady Honeydip sent reinforcements, everyone!" A high pitched, girlish voice cheers.
06[20:20] * Alicia follows Marie and then overshoots her, covering 120 feet to place her within the lines of pixies and eladrin. "We'll make short work of these demons," she confidently assures the flying archers.
[20:21] <Kotono> The succubus flies out 20 feet ahead and out of the smoke, waving her hands in front of her face! With a scowl she looks haead, and with a gesture, snaps off a lance of utter darkness at Antenora!
[20:21] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 touch
06[20:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 touch and gets 12." [1d20=1]
[20:22] <Kotono> But the quick fired bolt is errant, whizzing down and splashing into Hoppenstain Run well short of anything at all! OOC: Seira.
01[20:24] <Seira> Given the large presence of archers, Seira decides to act as their support, gesturing at the succubus in mid-flight with her clenched fist as a luminous ray stabs out at the demon's face suddenly! "Take that bitch down!" she calls out to the pixies. "Do it, and the rest will fall in place!"
01[20:25] <Seira> roll 1d20+20 ranged touch, targetting ray
06[20:25] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+20 ranged touch, targetting ray and gets 25." [1d20=5]
[20:25] <Kotono> OOC: CL check if that allows SR, by the way.
01[20:25] <Seira> OOC: No
01[20:25] <Seira> OOC: +5 insight bonus on any ranged attack to all my allies (and me)
[20:25] <Kotono> The luminous ray hit sthe succubus in the forehead, aiming right for her and hitting! OOC: Okay. Lagann.
01[20:26] <Seira> Lagann waits! He is still too far from the battlefield, but his time will come!
01[20:26] <Seira> OOC: I'm 30ft closer, he's holding
[20:26] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. Pixies/courre are up.
[20:26] <Kotono> "Let's finish 'em, guys!" A courre calls, "For the children!" With that ,a great swarm of arrows flies at the succubus!
[20:27] <Kotono> roll 24#1d20+11
06[20:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 24#1d20+11 and gets 534." [24#1d20+11 = 24, 23, 31, 29, 29, 27, 12, 27, 16, 15, 24, 31, 24, 23, 22, 16, 21, 25, 22, 15, 21, 13, 20, 24]
[20:27] <Kotono> roll 18d4+36
06[20:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 18d4+36 and gets 77." [18d4=1, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 3, 4, 2, 4, 1, 3, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1]
[20:28] <Kotono> The succubus is riddled with arrows! She throws her arms up over her face as tiny, pionty arrows embed into her! Covered in them she sags in the air, bleeding profusely! The quasits counter, pushing ahead!
[20:28] <Kotono> roll 24#1d20+8
06[20:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 24#1d20+8 and gets 447." [24#1d20+8 = 11, 27, 9, 25, 27, 23, 22, 18, 22, 21, 16, 14, 24, 11, 15, 18, 26, 21, 10, 21, 9, 20, 12, 25]
[20:29] <Kotono> roll 13d3-13
06[20:29] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 13d3-13 and gets 13." [13d3=3, 2, 1, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3]
[20:29] <Kotono> The courre and pixies are pushed back, several bloodied by the near mindless charge of the quasits, but few go down for good! OOC: Amaryl and Latha.
[20:32] <Alicia> Latha flies forward faster than Marie and with less effort than Alicia, stopping just a short distance behind the lines of eladrin defenders before she calls upon a bright aura of holy white light to surround spearhead of the quasit advance, protecting the defenders!
[20:32] <Kotono> OOC: Holy Aura on herself or the defenders or...?
01[20:33] <Seira> Amaryl decides to spread her fire evenly as she observes the situation, first seeking to put down the succubus for good and then distributing the rest of the fire on the various quasits closest to their leader.
01[20:33] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+32
06[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+32 and gets 92." [2#1d20+32 = 42, 50]
[20:33] <Alicia> OOC: the defnders of course!
[20:33] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[20:33] <Kotono> OOC: Both hit, Amaryl.
01[20:34] <Seira> roll 2#1d8+16+4d6
06[20:34] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d8+16+4d6 and gets 70." [2#1d8+16+4d6 = 34, 36]
03[20:34] * Kotono changes topic to 'Marie(22)>Alicia(20)>Seira(18)>Lagann(17)>Pixie/Courres(16)>Quasits(14)>Amaryl=Latha(11)>Antenora(6)'
01[20:34] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+27 quasit #1
06[20:34] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+27 quasit #1 and gets 70." [2#1d20+27 = 29, 41]
01[20:34] <Seira> roll 2#1d8+16+4d6
06[20:34] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d8+16+4d6 and gets 65." [2#1d8+16+4d6 = 33, 32]
01[20:34] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+22 quasit #2
06[20:34] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+22 quasit #2 and gets 62." [2#1d20+22 = 30, 32]
01[20:35] <Seira> roll 2#1d8+16+4d6
06[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d8+16+4d6 and gets 64." [2#1d8+16+4d6 = 28, 36]
01[20:35] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+17 quasit #3
06[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+17 quasit #3 and gets 37." [2#1d20+17 = 19, 18]
01[20:35] <Seira> roll 1d8+16+4d6
06[20:35] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d8+16+4d6 and gets 39." [1d8=8][4d6=5, 5, 2, 3]
[20:36] <Kotono> The succubus screams as Amaryl's arrows penetrate her! She utters nary a word, vanishing into foul black glass that shatters on the top of the riverwater! Meanwhile the front of the allied lines now glow with holy auras! After, Amaryl fires arrows into the quasits, downing a trio of them! OOC: Antenora.
[20:37] <Alicia> Antenora flies forward alongside Marie and hits the flank of the quasit lines with a holy smite, counting on Latha to have done her bit to protect the centre!
[20:37] <Alicia> roll 10d6 DC 22 will
06[20:37] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 10d6 DC 22 will and gets 35." [10d6=6, 1, 4, 5, 2, 1, 4, 6, 2, 4]
[20:38] <Kotono> OOC: No saves needed, they still croack even on half.
[20:38] <Kotono> Several quasits evaporate in pure holy power! The lines of fey and eladrin cheer, "Push 'em back, in the name of General Honeydip!" A cry goes out! The quasits have holes in them now, several of the foul beasts down! OOC: Marie.
[20:38] <Kotono> "And what reinforcements!" Another calls, "Angels! Astral Devas! Elves! Dragons!"
[20:41] <Alicia> Marie sends forth a desultory flurry of arrows that might put one or two quasits down if she's lucky, resisting the urge to look enviously at Amaryl now that she's been so thoroughly eclipsed.
[20:42] <Alicia> roll 1d20+29
06[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+29 and gets 47." [1d20=18]
[20:42] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24
06[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 and gets 30." [1d20=6]
[20:42] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19
06[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 and gets 22." [1d20=3]
[20:42] <Alicia> roll 1d4+3+1d6+1d4
06[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+3+1d6+1d4 and gets 8." [1d4=1][1d6=1][1d4=3]
[20:42] <Alicia> roll 1d4+3+1d6+1d4
06[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+3+1d6+1d4 and gets 11." [1d4=1][1d6=5][1d4=2]
[20:42] <Alicia> roll 1d4+3+1d6+1d4
06[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4+3+1d6+1d4 and gets 12." [1d4=2][1d6=5][1d4=2]
[20:43] <Kotono> Arrows fly, another quasit going down! The numbers are thinning out rapidly! OOC: Alicia.
06[20:44] * Alicia follows Antenora's example, blasting the next biggest concentration of quasits from existence with a holy smite of her own!
[20:44] <Alicia> roll 10d6 DC 22
06[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 10d6 DC 22 and gets 36." [10d6=2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 6, 6, 3]
[20:45] <Kotono> More quasits fall! IT's less ofa line and more of a scattered smattering now, several more vaporised! OOC: Seira.
01[20:45] <Seira> "It doesn't look like you'll have anything to do here as well, little buddy," Seira tells Lagann affectionately, blasting the largest concentration of demons she could get without harming the pixies and other defenders, gaining altitude to help her aim better.
01[20:46] <Seira> roll 10d6 dc19 fireball
06[20:46] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 10d6 dc19 fireball and gets 37." [10d6=3, 1, 4, 1, 2, 4, 6, 6, 4, 6]
[20:46] <Kotono> roll 4#1d20+6 Fire res
06[20:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4#1d20+6 Fire res and gets 65." [4#1d20+6 = 17, 11, 22, 15]
[20:47] <Kotono> The fireball roasts most of what remains, only a handful left at all, and one of them terribly scorched! The pixies and courre shoot more arrows at that into the ranks! The few remaining quasits fall down in a tumble of arrows, a cheer going up amid the host! OOC: Freeact.
[20:48] <Kotono> One of them flutters up to Seira, a female pixie, "Thank you! The children thank you!" She gushes, "Where is Lady Honeydip?"
01[20:48] <Seira> "Back where she is supposed to be, at a guess?" Seira voices. "Southeast with the children, isn't that so?"
[20:48] <Kotono> Another courre flutters over to Marie, "Soala," he offers a hand out, "Are you a replacement for our line?"
[20:49] <Kotono> "We weren't sent by her," Antenora alights to the ground, "We're new here."
[20:49] <Alicia> "Oh, no. I'm her familiar," Marie replies demurely, gesturing towards Alicia who's currently landing on the bank of the river.
[20:49] <Alicia> "Marie," she adds belatedly.
[20:50] <Kotono> "Ooooooooh." Nodding, "Thank you!" With a giggle she hugs Seira's neck, spinning around on her.
[20:50] <Kotono> Antenora glances over to Alicia, "So now what, then?"
[20:50] <Kotono> Amaryl smiles and watches the scene ahead, giggling. "Donald would fit right in here, wouldn't he?"
01[20:50] <Seira> "Don't suppose we could talk to whomever's in charge?" Seira asks the pixie, rolling her eyes and gliding down to the ground, while keeping her passanger stable and safe.
[20:50] <Kotono> "Ooooh, nice to meet you," He offers to Marie anyway. "Lucky you...an angel-wizard's familiar. That's so prestigious!"
[20:51] <Kotono> "Lady Honeydip is in Pascorel to the west," Pointing that way, "It's not far from here. One of us can escort you there if you like," The pixie replies.
[20:51] <Alicia> "She lets me cast spells for her and everything!" Marie gushes happily. "She prefers to be called a witch, though," she adds, with an uncaring shrug.
[20:52] <Alicia> "Do you know of any other places that might need our help, first?" Alicia asks on the off chance they've heard of further demon assaults.
[20:52] <Kotono> "Really?" Scratching his head, "That rhymes with rude words too well. Do demons ever taunt her with that?"
[20:52] <Kotono> Latha merely chuckles to all of this, holding her quiet despite a few pixie and courre fluttering around her.
[20:53] <Alicia> "If they do then those would be their last words!" Marie declares proudly.
[20:53] <Kotono> "We haven't heard or seen anything, but there's been a lot of attacks. Lady Honeydip would know if anyone," The pixie replies to Alicia, "She and Lady Champion Alana send out the reinforcements."
01[20:54] <Seira> "We might need to go see her, but can you guys handle the healing?" Seira interjects. "Some of you were mauled pretty badly by the quasits, it looked like."
[20:54] <Kotono> A wincing look comes from a few wounded, "The reinforcements are supposed to bring the healing," one whimpers.
[20:54] <Alicia> "Line up, then," Alicia offers indulgently, ready to oblige as needed. "Most wounded first."
01[20:54] <Seira> "I can help some," Seira announces. "I'm good for about three."
[20:55] <Kotono> "You guys are really strong? Are you going to try and defeat one of the eney leaders?" Marie gets asked, "You completely obliterated the quasits!"
[20:55] <Kotono> About eight pixies and courre line up in all, from badly bloodied to lightly thumped about.
[20:55] <Alicia> "Probably. We ran into three Molydeus on our way here. Are they common around here?" Marie asks.
[20:55] <Alicia> OOC: I'll use spellfire, assume 2hp per charge as average on a d4 and I'll subtract as many as needed?
[20:56] <Kotono> That stops everyone cold. The goodly horde stares at Alicia, gapemouthed. "M-M-Molydeus?!?!?!!??!?" raises to the skies as one shout of terror. "THREE OF THEM, BEHIND OUR LINES?!?!
[20:56] <Kotono> "
[20:56] <Kotono> OOC: That's fine, 8 ranks of spellfire then.
[20:56] <Alicia> "Oh, don't worry, we killed them," Marie assures the group, smiling blithely.
[20:57] <Kotono> "R-really?" One asks Marie in a tiny little voice.
[20:57] <Alicia> "Chopped and shot and stabbed and melted into disgusting white goop," Marie nods earnestly. "Right down to their ugly limb-removing axes!"
[20:59] <Kotono> The silence is like a fog for a brief time, then, "Yaaaay! We're saved! Paragons and true champions have  come to beat up the demons! We'll advance on Colmendicoria and raze it to the ground!"
[20:59] <Kotono> Smiling, Antenora watches this.
[20:59] <Alicia> "Well we'll do our best," Alicia promises, not wanting to raise hopes needlessly by mentioning their true goal here. "But for now we could use an escort to see Lady Honeydip and confer with her on the situation."
[21:00] <Kotono> "Me!" The female pixie raises her hand, going down and taking Seira's hand, "I'll lead you to Pescorel!"
[21:00] <Kotono> *pascorel
01[21:01] <Seira> "Lead on!" Seira agrees, giving her a smile.
[21:05] <Kotono> Thus you are lead along. The sky is full of gigantic, puffy purple clouds. They stretch as far as you can see, the ends turning into screaming faces, shapes of angel's wings, furniture, or dozens of other things. Wildflowers lie all about, full of verdant life and vitality. Ahead, after about an hour of travel, you come to a large city not far from Hoppenstain Run. It's dozens of classical village houses, well built and kept. Cobblestone stree
[21:05] <Kotono> It's dozens of classical village houses, well built and kept. Cobblestone streets are about, fairy-glass windows of candy colors and raidance. The streets are full of both mortal and immortal, many soldiers and men at arms. Yet about them are bursts of innocence - little gaggles of elf-like children, running and playing. The others often smile at them. Your guide points at thatm, "Oh yes, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Sunni! You see the ch
[21:05] <Kotono> Your guide points at thatm, "Oh yes, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Sunni! You see the children there?"
[21:06] <Alicia> "They're the ones we're all here to protect?" Alicia surmises, smiling wistfully and glad they're able to find some happiness even in the Abyss thanks to the efforts of such selfless defenders/
01[21:07] <Seira> "They don't grow old, while trapped here?" Seira asks, her eyes lingering on the playing children.
[21:15] <Kotono> "They don't," Sunni bobs her head, as a pair of children play tag around a group of soldiers sharpening longspears. "Eternal children, trapped in Androlynne. It's so sad, but..." Lowering her voice, "Leave them be for now, there's ground rules about how to treat them, and Lady Honeydip can tell you them!"
[21:16] <Alicia> "Of course," Alicia nods, not wanting to do anything that could trouble these poor innocents.
01[21:16] <Seira> "Let's meet with all due haste, then," Seira relents, tearing her eyes away.
[21:19] <Kotono> You are lead to a grand building in the center. It is made of gingerbread, crafted to rise high in an impossibly tall and narrow tower spire. The windows are frosted white, the doorway the shade of honey. You are lead inside, lead past grand rooms of playful statues and full of wooden blocks and toys. A room where two women pour over a map. One is only a little bigger than Marie, yet has long blonde hair about three feet long, far longer than
[21:19] <Kotono> yet has long blonde hair about three feet long, far longer than her height.  It twitches in the air, reaching out to point to things on the map on occasion. The other is a tall humanoid with pale gold skin, wearing the pelt of a lion. She towers to nearly nine feet in height, hands like giant blocks of stone.  On your entry, the small pixie looks to you...
[21:19] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 and gets 33." [1d20=10]
[21:20] <Kotono> "Sune's Light!" She exclaims, "Has the vaunted Crimson Guard come to this sanctuary to lend aid to us?"
[21:20] <Kotono> The giant of a woman cocks her head, "Famous heroes? Hail and well met," She comes around, offering a hand out, "I am Alana, champion of the Court of Stars."
01[21:21] <Seira> "Do you think anyone will notice if I take a bite?" Seira whispers to Amaryl quietly, before she guiltily turns towards the golden-skinned woman. "Seira of the Crimson Guard. I wish I could say it was nice to be here, but given the circumstances...."
[21:21] <Kotono> "I'm hungry now..." Amaryl whispers back as she blushes, nodding away towards both women.
[21:22] <Alicia> "How famous are we?" Marie whispers quietly to Antenora as Alicia shakes hands with the large woman.
[21:22] <Alicia> "Alicia Reynes," she offers.
[21:23] <Kotono> "We've made a reputation for ourselves," Antenora whispers back to Marie. "I daresay it means we're doing well for ourselves."
[21:23] <Kotono> Her hand is soft and gentle, yet matches Alicia's strength perfectly. "Welcome to Pascorel. Have you come to aid in the battle for the children?"
[21:24] <Alicia> "Alicia always says you can tell you're doing a good job by how many people try to kill you..." Marie mutters quietly.
[21:24] <Alicia> "We have, and perhaps more," Alicia nods, hoping they don't get brushed off for offering something others have likely tried and failed in the past. "We may have found the key to Pale Night's dominion that keeps the children here captive."
01[21:24] <Seira> "Certainly, while we're here," Seira responds, stepping forward. "But perhaps, we could do even more. We hold a key, you see, which might be able to shift the status quo around these parts."
[21:25] <Kotono> "Snuff out the brightest light and the smaller ones will be swalloed by your darkness," Antenora whispers back, quiet.
06[21:25] * Seira raises an eyebrow, a smile playing across her lips. "As you can see," she adds, "we are very much in sync over this matter."
[21:26] <Kotono> Lady Honeydip gestures, chairs moving ahead. They move of their own volition, legs scampering them towards you. "Sit down. Many have made that claim, but to our lamentation, none have followed through. Speak then, speak of what you will."
01[21:26] <Seira> "First, might I ask what you know of the cabal of liches known as the Dark Six, and their pact with the Pale Night?"
[21:29] <Kotono> "Very little. The name of the Dark Six has been mentioned by a few seekers across the millenia," Honeydip sits on a tiny chair, one that runs up the side of the table and onto it for her to sit on. Her hair curls around her like a shawl. "Never any more than that, and the rare few either leave or cross the river, seeking answers. None have ever come back. Be it because of what they seek or simply the dangers past Hoppenstain Run...only Pale Ni
[21:29] <Kotono> Be it because of what they seek or simply the dangers past Hoppenstain Run...only Pale Night herself may know."
06[21:29] * Alicia takes a seat, Marie going to settle on her head. "Our world has recently been attacked by the Dark Six, serving a Neverborn created from the union of Talos and Malcanthet," Alicia elaborates. "The titan Melancton served them as well, if that name means anything to you."
[21:29] <Alicia> "We recently defeated one of the liches and retrieved from him a magical orb that a captive spirit indicated was key to the captivity of these children - and that so long as the children remain captive, the way to the fortress of the Dark Six will be forever barred."
[21:30] <Kotono> "Heavy. Your swords are as heavy as fate." Alana sits in a chair, one that sweats and strains with her bulk. She leans forward, chin supported by one fist. "I know of the traitor Melancton, though a Neverborn is a word I do not know...but mercies of the Stars, I know of Malcanthet and Talos."
06[21:31] * Seira takes a seat at one of the proffered chairs as well, adding, "It is unknown to us at the time whether other orbs are necessary to do anything or not, but we have good reason to believe that our mere appearance here has stirred the Dark Six into deeper involvement. If they do come, then so would more keys."
[21:31] <Kotono> "Events are showing signs of reaching a cresendo," Honeydip admits, "Within the past six years there has been a slow but marked increase in the danger poised to the children, and..."
[21:32] <Alicia> "We encountered three magically altered molydeus not long after arriving here in the Boldybingian Woods. I can't imagine such creatures are common even here," Alicia supplies.
[21:33] <Kotono> "And the children are starting to lose their hope and energy," Alana finishes, "It is a well kept secret so far, but...what?" Now standing up out her chair, "Three molydeus in the Boldybingian Woods?!"
[21:33] <Kotono> "Three of them got past our defenses?" Honeydip grimaces, "Terrible. That could have been a catastrophic occurance. The last time greater demons snuck through, we lost dozens and dozens of volunteers."
[21:34] <Alicia> "They were invisible and came directly upon us," Alicia nods. "Fortunately we were able to defeat all three of them, but it makes us suspect they were looking for us."
01[21:34] <Seira> "You have measures against teleportation in place, so it shouldn't be much more difficult to do something about common invisibility, would it?" Seira inquires.
[21:35] <Kotono> "We've struck at the Dark Six and they've shown the ability to mount devastating attacks and counter attacks," Latha's voice is heavy, nothing but a serious look adorning her face. "They were likely meant to slay us, but the fact is they did penetrate far past Hoppenstain Run."
[21:36] <Kotono> "We use invisibility as well, for one point. The pixies love it," Ticking off fingers, Alana shakes her head, "Secondly, the enchantment against teleportation in place is great magic woven long ago. We can't easily alter or expand it."
[21:37] <Kotono> Clearing her throat, "If I may a moment?" Honeydip says. "I believe there is a salient matter here to all our attentions."
01[21:37] <Seira> "By all means," Seira agrees.
[21:39] <Kotono> "Let's combine our information. Once that is done, there is a matter going on here that may be relevant to your interests...and I would personally request that you take the request that comes with it. Tell us of the Dark Six and the pact they have with Pale Night."
[21:41] <Alicia> "The exact words the spirit gave us..." Alicia has to think for a moment. "As long as the sacrifice of the innocent children of loving chaos continues in her realm, Bleak Rendor shall never be seen. Such is the pact of the Pale Mother."
[21:42] <Kotono> "The Pale Mother is an archaic name for Pale Night," With a faint frown, Honeydip leans back and closes her eyes. "If true, this Bleak Rendor is tied to all of this? What is Bleak Rendor? What role does it play with Pale Night and the petty act of revenge by the Obyrith that imprisoned the Eladrin?"
01[21:42] <Seira> "As Alicia has mentioned, we believe that the two side have struck a mutually-lucrative deal," Seira responds. "Sacrifice here of the innocent children prevents anyone from accessing Bleak Rendor, and we further believe that as long as Bleak Rendor, the realm of the undead abomination born of Talos and Malcanthet, remains isolated, the keys to keeping the eladrin children chained to this place are there."
[21:43] <Alicia> "Bleak Rendor is a place in the Negative Energy Plane. Very little is known, but the Dark Six and the Neverborn make their home there, and a few references speak of it as being a terminus of all life," Alicia volunteers the scant information they have on it.
01[21:44] <Seira> "On top of any power and prestiege they might draw from such an arrangement, the phylacteries of the liches, their one and only weak point, are forever protected. From their side, at least, it's easy to see why they would cooperate, don't you think?"
[21:44] <Kotono> "I see." Alana slams a fist into her open palm, "Perhaps now some of the truth comes to light, and truth will set you free...to be punished righteously." Cracking her neck after, "It sounds like a good scheme. More of a yugoloth's scheming than a demon's, but it's good."
[21:45] <Kotono> "I thought it was more diabolical," Antenora has a slight upturn of her lips, "But no matter what, the Dark Six are not to be underestimated. This entire situation is a near perfect defense."
01[21:45] <Seira> "Before we go any further, perhaps we should show the orb we've mentioned to you?" Seira proposes.
[21:45] <Kotono> "Go ahead," Honeydip inclines her tiny head.
06[21:45] * Alicia nods to Seira and unfurls the portable hole, reaching in for the cold orb and placing it on the table with a slight shiver.
01[21:46] <Seira> "We've managed to learn all we could from it, but our world was cut off from the planes for millennia," Seira elaborates. "Perhaps, a fresh outlook might reveal more to us all."
[21:46] <Kotono> The orb's faces scream inside, as Alicia's hands turn numb as ice from the contact. Honeydip looks into it for several moments, before throwing her hands over her face and jerking her head away. "Terrible! Cursed thing!"
[21:46] <Alicia> "It promises great power, but its vileness is physically palpable," Alicia agrees gravely.
[21:46] <Kotono> Alana growls, "It despoils this room with the stench of EVIL." Her fists ball up, "Put it away."
01[21:47] <Seira> "So I guess the first question is, what happens if we break it?" Seira voices. "Do we open that very path we seek to, or lose our only shot at getting to Bleak Rendor?"
[21:47] <Alicia> Without further ado, Alicia places the orb back into the hole and furls it up again.
[21:48] <Kotono> "That...perhaps we can help you with," Honeydip says, "But first, listen."
06[21:48] * Alicia gives the small general her undivided attention.
[21:51] <Kotono> "This information must stay secret at all costs. About 500 years ago, I had the occasion to become friends with a green slaad. As insane as it was - as insane as any slaad is - it seemed eternally fond of the children here, staying for a time and never once raising a hand to them. Years later, we recieved a message from it, outlining plans of attack that let us route the demon attacks for a time. Since then, every few years he'll do so, ensuri
[21:51] <Kotono> Since then, every few years he'll do so, ensuring a temporary reprieve for our forces. Last month, he sent special word - he was in Golmendicoria and he needed to meet to meet with one of our agents there. His message promised that he had found something important out...about a cursed orb. We sent the agent out, but alas, he has not returned."
[21:52] <Alicia> Sounds like a good lead. "Do you think the slaad is still in there?"
01[21:55] <Seira> "Perhaps we could use a Sending to ascertain his location, and willingness to meet us?"
[21:58] <Kotono> "Magic to contact him or find him has failed, which only raises our concern. We believe so, yes." A nod to Alicia, "This information dovetails with what you've told us. If you can sneak to Golmendicoria and find him, it would be a boon to us. With fortune, it will aid your own cause as well."
[22:00] <Alicia> "Tell us about Gomendicoria," Alicia asks, leaning forward. "How might we find one slaad in a city of demons?"
[22:02] <Kotono> "It is where the demons gather and ready attacks to overwhelm us. It is a nightmare city of cracked cobblestones, tilted towers and demons walking the streets. It is mostly populated by demons, but other creatures are said to have set up camps there as well. A single slaad will not be as easy to find as you may think."
[22:03] <Kotono> Alana growls after, "The agent to go was Starrel, my teacher. He was a mighty champion...and yet...he is feared lost. It will not be a trifling affair."
[22:04] <Alicia> "If the agent is lost and the slaad doesn't respond to Sendings, it doesn't look good," Alicia admits. "At best we might just have to hope for finding the information he held on our own, which would be no mean feat."
[22:06] <Kotono> "Very likely. His name is Tiririramt, though if he is marked or was marked, spreading his name lightly may be a mistake. Slipping in as you are will be difficult, however, we can provide some aid. A pair of rings that will mask the innate goodness you shed, so that the simplest divinations cannot reveal you for what you are."
[22:09] <Alicia> "I'm already protected against divination, although some greater demons are able to overpower it," Alicia holds up her right hand briefly, the inconspicuous ring of eternal celerity glinting on her finger.
[22:09] <Kotono> "With two more and apt magic, maybe..." Antenora considers, "Still, should all of us go, or should we focus on a smaller group suited to inflitrate?"
01[22:10] <Seira> "Just to clarify, you don't believe there's any other approach for us but to sneak in there?" Seira voices, mulling over what they had been told about the unfortunate slaad.
[22:10] <Kotono> "Force, even if it works, will be a pitched battle against thousands of demons. If anything is there and knows you, it would expose you completely." Honeydip says, "Few among us can defeat a hundred worthy demons, let alone an entire blighted city of them."
01[22:11] <Seira> "And I don't suppose there's any other contact in that city? You did mention not all residents were demons, and if that nice slaad frequented it, perhaps he was not the only one?"
[22:12] <Alicia> "Not to mention if Starrel or Tiririramt are held prisoner then arriving in force could seal their fates," Alicia notes.
[22:13] <Kotono> "No active ones. Most contacts don't last very long," Honeydip admits, "If we had any, we'd be using them to try and find out more."
06[22:15] * Seira glances at Alicia askance. "It might be worth the try. If we're exposed, we can certainly withdraw."
[22:16] <Alicia> "Hopefully," Alicia nods. "So the question is, who goes?"
[22:17] <Kotono> "How many will go, too," Latha follows up, "I can change my shape to go, and Alicia can do the same with magic. Surely Seira can as well."
01[22:18] <Seira> "I could, if need be," Seira assers with a shrug. "With rings capable of masking our presence, this process becomes simpler."
[22:18] <Kotono> "Perhaps three and three, in case some of us ar eneeded to defend the children?" Amaryl murmurs, "Or four and two?"
06[22:20] * Seira nods in agreement. "You and Latha should stay on defense. You would accomplish far more for the sake of the eladrin than by sneaking around."
[22:21] <Alicia> "There's no one here sneakier than Marie," Alicia reaches up to pat her familiar. "So, Seira, myself, and Marie attempt the infiltration. Latha, Antenora, and Amaryl hold the fort here?"
[22:22] <Kotono> "That works then," Antenora says, "Careful over there."
01[22:22] <Seira> "We'll see about that," Seira teases. "I can't already be rusty at my age!"
[22:23] <Alicia> "You can't help it, you're just too big," Marie tells Seira comfortingly.
[22:23] <Kotono> "Golmendicoria is to the northwest, past Hoppenstain Run," Honeydip says, "It shouldn't be hard to find, the roads lead to it."
01[22:24] <Seira> "Is the dimensional travel forbidden there as well by the ancient ward you've mentioned?" Seira inquires, mentally running through her available spells.
[22:25] <Kotono> "Teleportation isn't valid throughout the entire layer, usually. I've heard of a couple of greater fiends teleporting, but I've never seen it with my own eyes." Alana says, "It may be possible to overcome to the north, where our presence is far far weaker."
01[22:26] <Seira> "So plane shift, if an escape is absolutely needed, or ethereal travel?"
[22:26] <Kotono> "Plane shifting should work," Honeydip nods, "When will you want to leave?"
01[22:28] <Seira> "As soon as we know enough about what to expect, I'd imagine," Seira returns. "Are there tieflings in Golmendicoria, or would one seem out of place?"
[22:29] <Kotono> "There's all sorts of rabble there from reports, including tieflings."
06[22:30] * Seira nods. "There's my disguise, then. Any rules we should abide by? Sunni, our guide, mentioned that there was a code of conduct for all that comes to the eladrin children. I'd like to learn of it, of course, as well as if you'd know of any laws the demon city might have in place."
[22:31] <Kotono> "Treat them with respect and innocence - and don't mention the darker goings on. Don't plane shift around them. We're worried they might give into despair and it would strike a terrible blow against us. As for the demon city? Strength rules. If you're not strong, you're a slave or a corpse. Obey the stronger and dominate the weaker.'
01[22:32] <Seira> "How much strength can be shown, before it gains the wrong sort of notice, then?"
[22:33] <Kotono> "Hard to say," With a little shrug, "It's something you feel out. Don't make big displays or attract attention, mostly."
[22:33] <Alicia> "Do you have any maps of the city?" Alicia asks hopefully.
[22:34] <Kotono> "Nothing current. When towers fall over, I hear that they revise that part of the city, so it's not entirely stable regardless."
[22:35] <Alicia> "We'll just have to feel our way around, then," Alicia settles back. "How far away from the river is it?"
[22:36] <Kotono> "
[22:36] <Kotono> "About fifty miles. It's over a day by foot and less by air. Once you're over the river, be wary of anything you come across. We'll direct you to the best crossing that has minimal battles going on, so you can slip in as smoothly as possible."
[22:38] <Alicia> "We'll want to fly. The journey will push our spells as it is," Alicia decides. "That being the case we should probably leave while the day's still young."

[Corwin]

[20:16] <Kotono> ----
[20:17] <Kotono> Thus the party heads north and a bit to the west. Sunni leads you along to a quiet bank of the Hoppenstain Run, only a few pixies on one side and nothing in sight on the other. She points ahead, "Nothing's happened here lately. You should be able to cross fine. Be careful!"
[20:17] <Alicia> roll 4d4+4 spellfire healing before we leave
06[20:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 4d4+4 spellfire healing before we leave and gets 14." [4d4=3, 3, 2, 2]
[20:18] <Alicia> "Okay, time to disguise ourselves," Alicia prepares to cast some heavy duty magic, having put Marie's bow and the sword of the sealed gate away in the hole as neither are needed for this. "Any requests?"
[20:18] <Alicia> "Surprise me!" Marie beams in reply.
01[20:20] <Seira> "And you," Seira tells Sunni, waving for good measure, before pondering Alicia's question. "How about stylish horns and a tail? Demonic, but nothing too slutty?"
[20:20] <Alicia> "More alu-fiend than succubus?" Alicia checks with Seira.
01[20:23] <Seira> "Sounds like it could be a fun experience."
[20:27] <Alicia> "Alright, here we go." Taking a deep breath, Alicia casts! "Weave of deception, surround our forms! Delude the senses and let our foes see that which mirrors themselves!" As the spell completes, Alicia's form is concealed by the illusion of a muscular amazon-like figure with jet black skin, her wings bat-like and sinister and her eyes glowing red below slicked black hair with two small horns poking out.
[20:27] <Alicia> Hell Striker changes from an elegantly curved falchion to a wicked looking lightning bolt of jagged steel, looking more at home in a balor's hands, while her armour changes appearance to black full plate adorned with baroque spikes and ornamentation.
[20:27] <Alicia> Marie undergoes a far more horrifying transformation, becoming a grotesque parody of a dead pixie, bones poking out from putrescent skin while her delicate gossamer wings are replaced by ragged scraps of tattered flesh that flail behind her, keeping her aloft in defiance of their useless appearance.
[20:27] <Alicia> Seira gains a few inches in height, becoming a statuesque and pale-skinned figure, her hair now a lurid purple in shade while her wings become more delicate in aspect. She nonetheless retains her claws and fangs for all to see, a prehensile and narrow tail flicking out lazily from her bottom.
[20:30] <Alicia> Seira also has gently curving ram's horns coming out of the side of her head, as requested.
06[20:31] * Seira takes out Lagann to admire herself in its shiny reflection, posing this way and that before nodding in satisfaction. "It's an interesting new look!" she tells Alicia in approval.
[20:31] <Alicia> "Why do I feel I got the short end - ahhh, my voice!" Marie cries in a scratchy echoing voice of the damned, as if rasping out from beyond the veil. "You put way too much thought into this," she accuses bitterly, landing her disgusting form on Alicia's head.
[20:32] <Alicia> "Get off," Alicia gives Marie a nudge. "You're an undead puppet now, so act the part. Come on, the sooner we do this the sooner we can go back to normal."
[20:33] <Alicia> OOC: strike the bit about Marie's altered voice
01[20:33] <Seira> "Oh, I don't know," Seira muses, mulling it over. "I might just keep this look for a while, when we finally get back home."
[20:34] <Alicia> "I can keep it up as long as I concentrate but as soon as I'm distracted the clock starts ticking for nineteen hours. Should be more time than we need," Alicia affirms. "Goodbye, Sunni," she gives the pixie a little wave, taking off and flying over the river with Marie close behind.
[20:37] <Kotono> Thus the party flies ahead! For the first hour it's mostly quiet, the terrain growing sparser of flowers, cracked and weathered, gray dirt. About an hour and a half in, you spot something below. A bellowing Hezrou holds several chains, dozens of shambling dretch walking in chain gangs. The hezrou screams curses in Abyssal you can hear even from here, demanding the dretch hurry up.
06[20:39] * Alicia ignores it, flying level a hundred feet above. They'll likely see far worse before they get to Golmendicoria.
06[20:39] * Seira doesn't intend to intervene, but if it looks like the hezrou is headed towards the river and into battle, she'll just signal Amaryl with the details.
[20:41] <Kotono> The hezrou is heading in the direction of the river, yes.
01[20:43] <Seira> It's certainly time to report all the details, such as heading, speed and the amount of dretches the hezrou has chained up, then.
[20:44] <Kotono> Thus the party flies along. About a half hour later, they spot a twisting, cracked road. It slowly leads along. A little bit past it, only a few minutes, there are tall metal spikes on the ground. Each one is like a shish-kebob stick, lined with hundreds of green, bloody eyeballs, crammed thick and heavy onto the sticks. From here, the pattern of the sticks almost seems to make some sort of pattern, something about it catching your eyes.
06[20:45] * Alicia looks down from above as they pass, vaguely curious as to what the pattern resolves into but certain it won't be anything good.
[20:45] <Kotono> OOC: Make an int check, Alicia
[20:45] <Kotono> .
[20:46] <Alicia> roll 1d20+2 what int
06[20:46] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+2 what int and gets 21." [1d20=19]
[20:46] <Kotono> OOC: Make a will save?
[20:46] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 +2vs evil
06[20:46] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 +2vs evil and gets 38." [1d20=14]
[20:47] <Kotono> OOC: K:P check.
06[20:47] * Seira can't help but wonder if the pattern signifies some sort of early warning system, in case the celestials push their advantages too far.
[20:47] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24
06[20:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 and gets 44." [1d20=20]
[20:50] <Alicia> "Don't look down," Alicia earnestly tells Marie and Seira, turning her gaze back up and flying a little bit faster. "It's a trick, you don't want to look at it."
[20:51] <Alicia> Marie obeys, flying above just behind Alicia and matching pace.
01[20:52] <Seira> "A defensive line?" Seira wonders, gaining a bit of extra speed by trading some of her altitude for it.
[20:53] <Alicia> "A portal," Alicia tells Seira. "Made by ancient demons, just looking at the design from above can induce madness even when it isn't active. We don't want anything to do with it, trust me."
01[20:54] <Seira> "Demons can be so pointlessly creepy," Seira mutters in response, content to put the portal behind her as fast as she is able to.
[20:56] <Kotono> Thus the party flies on. You see one or two groups of least demons below on occasion, mostly dretches and manes shambling along towoards the south, occasionally with a hezrou herding them along. The skycolors turns to a glaring, ugly purple-gray, the clouds twisting into faintly comprehensible screaming faces. More roads can be seen below, crooked, jagged and often going off in no direction at all or having no useful start or end. (More)
[20:56] <Kotono> direction at all or having no useful start or end. (More)
[20:59] <Kotono> Far ahead, you begin to see it. On the horizon are twisting towers, leaning at obscene, impossible angles as they twist into the sky, the tops shrouded with purple-gray clouds. Spots of them are taken up by strange patches of color, vibrant colors identical to the wildflowers farther south, and yet...and yet...so beautifully repellent. You begin tos ee more demons below, mustering and gathering. Occassional tents are about, scattered here and
[20:59] <Kotono> mustering and gathering. Occassional tents are about, scattered here and there. Once in awhile there are solid houses too, or things best described as houses...maybe.
[21:01] <Alicia> "Should we start here or get into the city centre before we start searching?" Alicia asks ambivalently.
01[21:02] <Seira> "Before that, I was thinking we'll need names, just in case. I'll go by Xerandalla," Seira mentions. "How about you? Lyssa?"
[21:05] <Alicia> "I've used that too often," Alicia makes a slight face at Seira's needlessly complex name. "How about Miline?" she picks randomly.
[21:05] <Alicia> "I'll just be a mindless corpse," Marie adds cheerily.
01[21:07] <Seira> "Don't forget to moan and shamble occasionally!"
[21:08] <Alicia> "I vant to suck your blood!" Marie cackles, holding up her decaying skeletal arms in a threatening posture.
06[21:09] * Alicia clears her throat. "Anyway. City or outskirts?"
01[21:10] <Seira> "Wrong undead," Seira cheerfully points out. "And outskirts. Let's observe as much as we can."
[21:11] <Alicia> "Alright. Lets all make sure to speak like natives, then," Alicia says in Abyssal, starting to descend and look for a place to land.
[21:12] <Kotono> One can land pretty much anywhere they wish to, be it on an empty spot in the roads, behind a building, atop one, on the gray ground, wherevere.
[21:14] <Alicia> The road is good enough for Alicia! Marie sticks close as only a hideous undead parody of the natural order can, her every movement seeming like a spasm of tortured agony. Naturally Alicia is entirely unsympathetic.
[21:14] <Kotono> Thus the party lands...OOC: What's your basic thing going to be? Just walk and listen? Walk and gather information? Walk and watch? What?
01[21:16] <Seira> OOC: Let's walk and listen and watch for half an hour or so?
06[21:17] * Seira glides towards the ground, touching down lightly just past Alicia ignoring Marie's deathly form altogether, while her attention is seemingly consumed with everything around her.
[21:20] <Kotono> Thus the three wander the streets. Out here it's mostly riff-raff, one can note. Dretches, Manes, miscellanious mortals. They congregate about, in talk, trade and vile things best not looked at.  The buzz is about a dozen different things - killings, murder, hatreds, backstabbings and othersuch things. As you walk down the road, past a giant stone that's been hacked into to form a house of sorts, a great beast comes stomping down the path ahea
[21:20] <Kotono> a great beast comes stomping down the path ahead. A hezrou leads six succubi, each one with it's beauty shattered. Their faces are scarred and ruined, blinded with metal spikes driven through their eyes. They weep tears of a brown, foul bile that sizzles on the ground. "Out of the way!" The hezrou barks ahead, as lesser demons scurry out of the way.
06[21:22] * Alicia isn't inclined to get into a fight here, so angles her path a bit to the side so she can bypass the procession without looking like she's scurrying aside in fear.
01[21:22] <Seira> With daintly steps, Seira places herself well outside the hezrou's path before she would even be forced to move by his approach.
[21:24] <Kotono> Thus the hezrou goes past. As it does, a few people nearby mutter, "Balalm's at it again," A quasit hisses, sitting on the shoulder of a pale looking, emancipated elf. "Such a waste of beauty..." The elf retorts, coughing.
01[21:26] <Seira> "Serves them right for not knowing when to scurry out of the way," Seira comments quietly, introducing herself to the conversatoin between quasit and elf.
06[21:27] * Alicia doesn't particularly care how one demon chooses to abuse other demons, but since Seira's talkative she sidles up behind her, looming over the elf and quasit while her familiar flaps spasticly in the air beside her.
[21:28] <Kotono> The elf's eyes bore into Seira as he coughs. "Serves 'em right for crossing Balalm." He smothers another cough, as the quasit eyes Marie first, then Alicia and then Seira. "It always serves them right! Chaos Seargeant Balalm will crush you if you get in his way!"
[21:29] <Alicia> "The weak get crushed by the strong. What else is new?" Alicia asks disinterestedly, folding her armour-plated arms.
06[21:29] * Seira looks surprised. "They actually went out of their way to cross him?" she asks incredulously, her eyes widening slightly.
[21:30] <Kotono> OOC: Make diplo, Seira?
01[21:31] <Seira> roll 1d20+39
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+39 and gets 57." [1d20=18]
[21:32] <Kotono> "Oh yeah." With a smirk now before he coughs, "Saw it myself by Arrentock. Threw 'em outta about the third story then came falling out, wrestling with a marilith. Ripped the marilith in half then got to punishing the succubi." With a twisted smirk before he coughs hard, his quasit picking up, "Only idiots try to kill Balalm!"
01[21:33] <Seira> "A marilith?" Seira whistles, sounding impressed.
[21:35] <Kotono> "Yeah, Balalm's said to be old for a hezrou. Really old, like this realm." Kicking his foot at the ground, the elf rubs his pale temples, his hair a thinning, balding line of brown.
01[21:35] <Seira> "And just a sergeant, at that? Can't imagine what sort of insane assassination attempts a general'd be dealing with."
[21:36] <Kotono> "The whispers are that Malcanthet or Demogorgon's trying to take him down," The quasit leans into Seira, it's rotting, meat fouled breath assaulting her nose.
[21:37] <Kotono> The elf smothers another cough, wiping his nose with the back of his arm. "Strange one. Strange, old and dangerous. Really dangerous. No one tells a demon what to do, but you especially don't tell Balalm what to do."
[21:38] <Alicia> "The snake surely thought differently. If those rumours are true then he'll get something worse next time," Alicia comments roughly, looking around in seeming disinterest. So much for no Malcanthet involvement...
01[21:38] <Seira> She survived the Dark Six's fortress of the damned, and far fouler things. The quasit's disgusting odor is nothing to her, nothing she can't block out with her mind. "Trying?!" she all but exclaims, and it is all she can do to keep her voice down. "Now you're just fooling with me. Come on, Malcanthet and Demogorgon, trying? Against a hezrou, however strong?"
[21:39] <Kotono> "You don't know the Seargeant," The quasit insists, poking at Seira's nose. "No one gets in his way!"
[21:40] <Kotono> "His days might be numbered or they might not." With a grin that makes his breath wheeze out, "He's formidible to have lived this long."
06[21:41] * Alicia snorts. "Lived this long keeping tabs on children and fairies," she notes in an entirely unimpressed tone. "If he'd lived that long fighting baatezu I might be impressed."
01[21:42] <Seira> "He surely fights the fodder that's being ground down pointlessly trying to save them," Seira points out, waggling her finger.
[21:43] <Kotono> "Your mistake to make," The elf shrugs as his breathing calms back down. "Spent some time in the Blood War myself. It took a lot of devil-powre to take down a marilith. Anyone who can kill one then deal with a bunch of succubi after isn't to be crossed."
01[21:43] <Seira> 'Are you in a situation where you could talk?' Seira mentally asks Amaryl, even as she listens to the elf.
[21:44] <Kotono> 'Yes,' Amaryl answers back, 'We're playing with some of the children...well, more as Antenora and Latha are right now. They're trying to get them see who can win a sky-race. What's going on?'
[21:45] <Alicia> "Maybe..." Alicia concedes, returning to bored disinterest and looking elsewhere as she waits on Seira finishing up.
01[21:45] <Seira> 'There's this name that's come up already. Some hezrou going by chaos sergeant Balalm. Supposed to be pretty strong, having drawn the attention of Malcanthet or Demogorgon, and existed for as long as this realm has been here. Did our friends come across the name? Any truth in these rumors?'
[21:46] <Kotono> 'I'll ask, hold on.' Amaryl replies.
[21:46] <Kotono> The elf coughs again, "Need to be going," he says, starting to walk away. "Cross 'em if you wanna see oblivion."
01[21:47] <Seira> "Oh, I'm sorry, am I keeping you?" Seira asks Alicia, noticing her disinterested look. "You were looking to get more of those things, were you?" she asks, gesturing at Marie's undead form.
[21:49] <Kotono> 'Lady Honeydip says that he's a known demon involved in Golmendicoria,' Amaryl answers, 'A very strong hezrou, but still just a hezrou...but he's never gone down, so don't underestimate him, either. He can take more pain than most balors.'
[21:49] <Alicia> "Skin's almost all fallen off this one," Alicia agrees grudgingly, not quite sure where Seira's going with this. Does she want to split up?
01[21:51] <Seira> "Want me to ask around, so we don't waste time just wandering?" Seira offers, figuring that if any of the Dark Six are involved, their main trade might have left a trace for them to find.
06[21:54] * Alicia takes a moment to grasp Seira's meaning before she smiles and nods. "Probably best off heading into the city proper. Doubt anyone here knows a devourer from a mohrg."
[21:55] <Kotono> OOC: Roll GI, Seira. Alicia, you can assist.
[21:55] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 aid another
06[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 aid another and gets 19." [1d20=11]
01[21:56] <Seira> "Your wish is my command," Seira asserts with a grin, strolling further into the city.
01[21:57] <Seira> OOC: I'll take 10 for 24, which becomes 26 with the aid?
[22:01] <Kotono> Heading further into the city, it seems to spring up around in a single step, from outskirts to city. Buildings of all sorts of twisted types are here, towers rising higher and higher and highest at points. Terrible things of all sorts walk about, mostly lesser demons and mortals. Buildings are sometimes sane, brick and normally constructed. At other times they seem to be of things you can't quite pin down, somehow wrong and shifting. Occasion
[22:01] <Kotono> things you can't quite pin down, somehow wrong and shifting. Occasionally wildflowers grow on the wall of a building, painfullly bright with color. (More)
[22:02] <Kotono> At some point in this living un-reality, you find yourselves in a back alley. A smirking succubus wears a leather bustier and panties, something standing behind it in the shadows. Something huge, menacing and yet not quite visible, only massive arms glimpsed, escaping your vision. "Ah, the undead," the succubus purrs. "I know just the place."
01[22:04] <Seira> "How delightful," Seira responds, matching her pleasant, happy tone quite well.
[22:04] <Kotono> "Of course," She slinks against a wall of red brick, "What's it worth to you?"
01[22:06] <Seira> "Do it for the satisfaction of doing a good deed?" Seira suggests, her voice thick with sarcasm.
[22:06] <Kotono> OOC: Make a diplo check?
01[22:06] <Seira> roll 1d20+37
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+37 and gets 44." [1d20=7]
[22:06] <Alicia> "What kind of undead?" Alicia asks, not being entirely belligerent on account of the large shadowy presence, "We don't care about some Orcus-loving hedge wizards strapping together old bones and making them dance."
[22:07] <Kotono> "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" The succubus throws her head back, roaring with laughter.  The unseen THING growls low in it's throat, a palpable feeling of menace from it, as if it soaked into the marrow of your boens and was born into your bloodstream. "Moxie, little creature," the succubus purrs, going to stroke Seira's chin, while looking to Alicia. "Any and all horrors you can imagine, and many you can't."
[22:07] <Kotono> "Any and all horrors you can imagine, and many you can't."
06[22:09] * Seira smiles at the succubus, batting her eyes at the lovely fiend coquettishly. "That sounds like what we're looking for, alright. What would you like, then?"
[22:09] <Alicia> "I can imagine a lot," Alicia demurs, reaching up to pet Marie who makes a terrifying noise that sounds like someone in high heels just stepped on a cobra in the process of eating a cat.
[22:11] <Kotono> "Your soul would be good," Going to pat Seira's cheek and run a sharp nail down it, almost enough to cut her flesh open, "But I'll settle for gold. Say..." She reaches up, twirling a bit of Seira's hair around her horn, "600 gold coins or so."
06[22:12] * Seira thinks it's fairly reasonable, but intends to let Alicia speak for them here.
06[22:14] * Alicia is quiet for a moment because she thought Seira was handling this negotiation, but as the silence stretches on with the succubus fondling Seira's illusory horn she finally picks up. "I'll give you a ruby worth four hundred," she haggles as a matter of course.
[22:15] <Kotono> OOC: Diplo check.
[22:15] <Alicia> roll 1d20+34
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+34 and gets 48." [1d20=14]
06[22:15] * Seira leans into the succubus's caress, smiling innocently at her. "Pretty please?"
[22:16] <Kotono> "Hmph, fine, on one condition." The succubus answers, eyeing Alicia now. "I have someone offering good money to find another person. Tell me if you know this person or where they are."
06[22:16] * Alicia shrugs. "Haven't been here long, but go on," she allows.
[22:17] <Kotono> "Her name is Lissa, or perhaps Alicia." Thinking just amoment, "She's a human, but she has magic to change her shape. If you can give me goo dinformation, you'll be VERY," A lean into Alicia, whispering into her ear, "Well rewarded."
06[22:19] * Alicia rolls her eyes at the fiend's misguided charms. "Don't know any humans by that name," she replies with perfect honesty. "But if she can change her shape that hardly means much, does it? What's so special about her, anyway?"
[22:20] <Kotono> "Honestly, I don't know. But you can make an easy 10,000 gold or other...special...things if you can tell her where she's found. Just don't kill her, she's wanted alive." Smiling now as she slinks back, "If you know, come find me."
[22:21] <Alicia> "Sure, whatever," Alicia replies disinterestedly, reaching into her money-bag and fishing out a small oval-shaped ruby. "So, what about our question?"
06[22:22] * Seira looks confused, and looks between Alicia's disguised form and the succubus, though her eyes brighten up at Alicia's actions.
[22:23] <Kotono> "Go find Graylung Ordorory. It's that ways - there's a lovely skeleton who stands outside the door, colored like the flowers here. Tell them O sent you." With a teasing smirk, "Have fun."
[22:24] <Alicia> "Oh, we will," Alicia leers, petting Marie once more who makes another vicious hiss in reply as her ravaged form quivers in the air. Tossing the ruby over with her free hand, she starts to back out of the alleyway.
06[22:26] * Seira waves at the nice succubus, lingering behind just enough to need to skip after Alicia to catch up.
06[22:27] * Alicia is content to move on in silence, not intending at all to talk about the interesting request made by the succubus where anyone can hear.
[22:28] <Kotono> Thus for a time you walk. Eventually through the chaotic streets you come to a single story, small building about the size of a small house. Standing outside of it is a skeleton, colored a vibrant gree and blue. The door inside is closed, heavy stone.
06[22:29] * Seira is far too dainty to push a heavy, stone door open!
06[22:31] * Alicia knocks on the door, naturally.
[22:32] <Kotono> The door opens as you knock on it, moving aside like mist. Inside you see a pair of hezrou dominating, the stentch of them headily offensive.  Past them, you can just glimpse a stairway going down. They eye the opening door and say not a word.
[22:33] <Alicia> "This Graylung Ordorory?" Alicia asks the fiends, enduring the stench. "O sent us."
[22:33] <Kotono> Without a word, the two step asid eenough to allow passage. A steep stone stair goes into darkness, not a single spot of light to be seen.
06[22:34] * Seira looks upset at the overwhelming smell, but doesn't say anything either, ready to follow Alicia within.
06[22:35] * Alicia relies on her ability to see in the dark to proceed down the stairs, Marie fluttering erraticly behind her.
[22:37] <Kotono> The stairs are little better than a straight drop down, so steep that if you couldn't fly, it would be easy to tumble down them. After going down and down and down and down, you find yourselves in a small square room. A pair of red eyes can be seen far ahead, and a steady, dispassionate voice speaks. "What do you seek here?"
06[22:43] * Alicia gauges the strength of their host. Better than her, but no match for the Dark Six. "Information. We've heard rumours of great necromancers visiting this realm, ones who have transcended death and crafted works of flesh and spirit far beyond what most would even dare to dream of," Alicia explains.
[22:43] <Alicia> "As we have an interest in such matters," she gives Marie a fond smile, "We decided to come and investigate for ourselves."
[22:44] <Kotono> The voice is ever so faintly silibant as it continues, "What makes you think I know of this matter?"
01[22:45] <Seira> "How could you not, being in the trade?" Seira asks, joining the conversation.
[22:47] <Alicia> "I can tell of your learning just from looking at you, master of the eighth circle," Alicia replies respectfully. "More than perhaps any other who dwells here, you might perhaps have an inkling of whom I speak."
[22:47] <Kotono> OOC: Diplo check, one of you.
01[22:48] <Seira> roll 1d20+39 sure
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+39 sure and gets 41." [1d20=2]
[22:49] <Kotono> "Even if so, information is not free." The eyes are motionless in the air, as the voice continues. "No, information is the most valuable thing in all the cosmos."
01[22:50] <Seira> "So it is," Seira agrees. "And what if we should hold some of that valuable currency, readily available for trade?"
[22:51] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 spellcraft for fun
06[22:51] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 spellcraft for fun and gets 30." [1d20=4]
[22:51] <Kotono> "Then, what valuable information do you offer?" The voice asks.
01[22:52] <Seira> "Since we are still negotiation, you know of what we seek," Seira responds. "As we have come here to inquire about that matter, it stands to reason that we also know something of relevance. In the end, I believe we could all benefit from an exchange of information."
01[22:52] <Seira> *negotiating
[22:54] <Kotono> "Yet I see nothing to tempt be, beyond vague promises. Speak truer, lest you waste my time, seeker of knowledge."
[22:54] <Kotono> *me
01[22:55] <Seira> "We are here, at your domain," Seira states reasonably. "We are hardly about to cut and run after hearing the first tidbit, even if it weren't certain to annoy someone as powerful as yourself. We have far less reason to hold back on what is known to us. However, what if I were to start with by saying that this rumor and the one we heard from O are perhaps related?"
[22:57] <Kotono> "This rumor O spoke of, tell me." The voice demands now, "What is she blathering on?"
06[22:57] * Alicia keeps quiet to let Seira handle this, trusting her ability to spin a tale.
01[22:59] <Seira> "Would you agree to the simplest of exchanges of information, then?" Seira inquires. "A question to be asked by either side, one following the other. At any point that an equal amount of questions had been answered by both side, any of them would be able to call for a pause. Would that be acceptable? If so, I will consider that your first question, and answer it."
[23:00] <Kotono> You feel a chill in the air. "Unacceptable. You will answer MY question first, then we will talk. What is O doing? You will tell me...NOW."
06[23:01] * Alicia decides to cut to the chase rather than play games with their source of information. "She talked of a reward for information about a shapechanging human called Alicia." It's surely common knowledge.
[23:02] <Kotono> The room grows colder, the eyes flaring. "How DARE she not tell me this? Why? Why is she looking for this Alicia?"
01[23:03] <Seira> "Then you might find this part of interest to you," Seira responds. "I did say both rumors seemed connected, did I not? I've heard of an Alicia featuring in tales involving the party of interest to us, usually taking the spot of an antagonist."
[23:03] <Alicia> "She only said that someone else was offering good money to find her," Alicia shrugs apathetically.
[23:05] <Kotono> There is utter silence, then, "Leave now. We shall barter in good faith come the morrow, of that you have my word. I have matters to attend to," It's voice is rough, clipped, gurgling with anger.
06[23:06] * Seira can't help but wonder whose words brought on this reaction, but finds the arrangement proposed agreeable enough, and glances at Alicia sideways for confirmation.
06[23:06] * Alicia really wants to push it, but considering he isn't even physically here it's not like they can do much. "Very well," she demurs, making to head back up the stairs.
01[23:06] <Seira> "Of course," Seira agrees for her part, and follows Alicia on her way out.
[23:06] <Kotono> Thus you climb back outsider. The hezrou stand aside to allow you back out without incident, back into the chaotic streets.
[23:07] <Alicia> "An unfortunate delay," Alicia remarks when they're back on the street.
01[23:09] <Seira> "But an unavoidable one and, all things considered, worth the wait," Seira counters, before proposing, "We could pass the time looking further into those rumors. That reaction wasn't normal, so there might be more below the surface."
[23:11] <Alicia> "We've little else to do," Alicia agrees with a shrug. Maybe Ebony hasn't given up on revenge after all, but why ask for information in the Abyss of all places?
01[23:12] <Seira> roll 1d20+14 GI on Alicia rumors
06[23:12] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+14 GI on Alicia rumors and gets 15." [1d20=1]
[23:13] <Kotono> Seira pokes around for about two hours, listening and chasing leads. But nothing useful comes up at all during this time. OOC: 2 hours passed.
01[23:14] <Seira> Looking dejected, and sighing for good measure, Seira spreads her arms in a gesture of helplessness. "The matter must not be as widely-known as we've suspected."
06[23:15] * Alicia eats some dry rations for lunch as they come up empty on chasing her tail. "Only information brokers know it, I suppose. We could try asking around about the slaad, but I'd rather be more subtle," she suggests quietly. "Lets look around, see if we can find a prison or dungeon or something like that?"
01[23:16] <Seira> "Actually, let's get acquainted with our surroundings, first. Catch up on the local powers, the recent history, say the past two months?"
01[23:16] <Seira> There's nothing against approaching the problem from a different angle, after all, and it might not be that conspicious.
[23:17] <Alicia> "That works too," Alicia nods agreeably.
[23:18] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 aid
06[23:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 aid and gets 26." [1d20=18]
01[23:18] <Seira> OOC: Amusing! I'll take the +1 ignorance bonus and 10, for a result of 25.

[Corwin]

[20:11] <Kotono> -----
03[20:11] * Ebiris is now known as Alicia
[20:12] <Kotono> Two hours pass as you gather information. Knowledge comes easily, a chaotic mess of truth, lies and everything in between as follows:
[20:12] <Kotono> - Golmendicoria has swollen with hordes lately. Something big is happening, that much everyone agrees on. As to what? Some claim Pale Night's will is that the eladrin are finally taken now. Others claim a war is in the offing, that Demogorgon is going to attack and take the eladrin for his own pleasure. Yet others claim Jubliex wants the flowers of this realm to create a great slimy doom. A babau who always stares and smirks at you says he has
[20:12] <Kotono> A babau who always stares and smirks at you says he has the real truth: A dragon born of chaos is going to take this city over. A whispering tiefling insists instead that war is going to break out between various factions. A laughing succubus murmurs that Malcanthet will take this layer, using the eladrin as the base for a new race of succubi and a second Abyssal paradise. Scribbed on a wall in vivid green paint is a claim that 'THE GENERAL OF
[20:12] <Kotono> Scribbed on a wall in vivid green paint is a claim that 'THE GENERAL OF GEHENNA COMES!' (More
[20:12] <Kotono> )
[20:12] <Kotono> - In whispers, you hear that more balors have been seen in Golmendicoria lately.
[20:12] <Kotono> - Word is that an attack that will rival a Blood War battle is about to happen at Pale Night's command. Several mercenaries believe that great riches are to be given out on victory.
[20:12] <Kotono> - A drawn, pale faced man holds a book of scripture to his chest. He murmurs to you that a great reconciliation is at hand. The love of the eladrin will redeem the entire layer, transforming the demons into celestials and taking Androlynne to Arborea as a new layer. Praise be to the Seladrine!
[20:12] <Kotono> - A ragged dretch mutters over and over to you that the 'Crimson Guard is coming...' before tumbling down and alley as if all the terrors of the Abyss were after him.
[20:12] <Kotono> - There are rumors that a new breed of demons has been seen. Blessed by Pale Night, they are without color, like murderous dolls. Any who see them have been torn apart with perfect, uncaring glee. Many repeat it, yet none can attribute it to themselves.
[20:12] <Kotono> - The tower of Pinura has been profaned. It is said you can see Mother's Mountain with perfect clarity there, so much that even demons have gone mad staring at it.
[20:12] <Kotono> - A pierced, bare chested humanoid with gills cackles to you. The whores have all been looking for a few certain people. Important, powerful people, people worth a fortune in gold and pleasure.
[20:12] <Kotono> - Malcanthet is coming. Thus a smirking Marilith assures you. She will mate with Pale Night herself, the two spawning a pair of horrors that will drag the eladrin then all the multiverse into oblivion.
[20:13] <Kotono> - A nervous, twitching tiefling trusts you with this knowledge: Gehenna is collapsing. The celestials, the devils and the various factions are in an all out war. Any 'loth worth his skin is getting out for awhile. Word is the Oinoloth's shuffled off this mortal coil, too. The 'loth have a plan, though! They're going to take some of the Abyss for themselves as a temporary home and Androlynne is going to be one of them.
[20:13] <Kotono> - Scribbed on a scrap of paper nailed to an alley wall is a skull, with six pentagrams in it's gaping mouth.
[20:16] <Alicia> "That was entirely unhelpful," Alicia remarks as they take a breather after taking in the rumours. "Every thing we hear from one person gets disputed by the next." Not to mention nothing about their wayward slaad.
01[20:17] <Seira> "Not quite," Seira begs to differ. "I'd say it means that we won't find him in any jail. Whatever happened, it probably wasn't public."
[20:21] <Alicia> "I hope we get something useful tomorrow. There aren't many leads we can use right now," Alicia considers their situation. "I wonder where people go when those in charge here want them to disappear quietly?"
01[20:22] <Seira> "Since there's no unified authority, my guess would be the other factions willing to take them in? Barring that, away from this place."
[20:25] <Alicia> "Maybe we could follow up something in more detail - those doll-like demons, for example?" Alicia suggests, tossing ideas around. "We suspect someone other than Pale Night is responsible for them, after all."
06[20:27] * Seira considers the suggestion. "And if so, that skull drawing might well be related to the same group, but it might well be better to wait until tomorrow to learn about that. What if we try to look up information on the most powerful individuals in this city before making our next move?"
[20:28] <Alicia> OOC: was there any magic in the alley with the skull/pentagram drawing?
[20:28] <Kotono> OOC: No, the drawing was nonmagical.
[20:29] <Alicia> "Might as well know who's likely to come down on us when the time comes," Alicia agrees softly.
01[20:30] <Seira> "That, and we know that it has to be someone with clout and strength to silence our target," Seira comments just as quietly.
01[20:30] <Seira> roll 1d20+12 GI
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+12 GI and gets 30." [1d20=18]
[20:30] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 aid
06[20:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 aid and gets 18." [1d20=10]
[20:34] <Kotono> Two hours pass as you follow basic leads. Eventually you find yourselves in a building, where animals are butchered, demons feasting the still warm meat. A Mercane watches all of this with utter, dispassionate disinterest. "An interesting query." he says, keeping his voice very low.  "Quick quick quick or slow slow slow? The choice is yours for as much time as you want to invest into it? But I like you three," he eyes you, "Three's a very luck
[20:34] <Kotono> want to invest into it? But I like you three," he eyes you, "Three's a very lucky number."
06[20:35] * Seira is momentarily overwhelmed by the innate weirdness the Mercane projects, opting to indicate that she's listening and see where it takes her.
[20:36] <Alicia> "We have some time," Alicia nods slowly. "Better to be thorough than hasty when it comes to learning."
[20:37] <Kotono> "Right. Wise words." The Mercane glances away, as a small horde of dretch set on a still convulsing deer, it's life going out a split second before they devour it, bones and all. "Pale Night is the first, yet she is rarely if ever seen. Just as well. There's no profit or no gain in dealing with a demon lord like that."
[20:39] <Alicia> "Very hard to deal with such beings, yes," Alicia agrees. "We're more interested in the more immediate powers."
01[20:40] <Seira> "Unless, of course, other demon lords appear here in person from time to time," Seira adds quietly.
[20:42] <Kotono> "Well." He strokes his chin with his long, spindly fingers. "There's the balor Lsyscrea. He 'runs' the Golmendicoria War College. When the demons care to attempt to organize a big action, a bunch of high demons are usually there. He's a classical balor, it's all about the rage, killing, raping, torturing. A renaissance demon. He stays too busy to make too much trouble about, as long as his warbands get enough fodder. Of course, cross them and
[20:42] <Kotono> as long as his warbands get enough fodder. Of course, cross them and you'll end up dead, deader, and deadest."
[20:45] <Alicia> Sounds like a good target if they want to hurt the demons' ability to make war on the eladrin across the river, but sadly not a current priority. "Sounds like we should be able to avoid him easily enough, at least."
[20:47] <Kotono> "Mmm-hmm. Then there's the marilith Asdroba. She used to work for Lsyscrea but they've parted ways. Amazingly, it didn't end in murder and violence. She's recruiting demons, or so the stories go. I hear there's a new demon lord who made a name for himself...and get this. It used to be a devil, if you believe the stories. Still, 'recruiting' can mean anything from buying mercenaries to demons just vanishing in the night."
01[20:48] <Seira> "What's the name he's made for himself?" Seira inquires, wondering if it could somehow be her old pal, the crazy pit fiend.
[20:48] <Alicia> "The former devil isn't Zquujaj, is it?" Alicia asks. "I heard of a pit fiend causing a lot of trouble teaming up with demons in Avernus last year but he's dropped out of sight since then."
[20:49] <Kotono> "His name is Zquujaj, I think. I-oh yes. I heard the same. The stories are that he gave Bel a good thrashing before being forced back. He's a Blood War Super Hero. No one's gotten that far before. It takes a devil to beat a devil, maybe, but...don't let any demon hear you say that." With a faint look of disgust as he lowers his voice, "She works out of the Shrieking Dungeons beneath the city."
01[20:51] <Seira> It is her old pal! Ah, what a small world she lives in. "And she recruits demons for the same purposes as Lsyscrea, or as fodder to take another shot at Bel?"
[20:51] <Alicia> "I take it you just follow the shrieks to find it?" Alicia asks the obvious question.
[20:52] <Kotono> "Not quite. Lsyscrea is about the eladrin here, Zquujaj is doing whatever he does, be it another shot at Bel or internal politics." He stops then, waving his hand. A dead cow is brought in, a pair of vrocks tearing into it. "Sometimes. It's below ground, so it's more of knowing where to look. Easy enough to find, though. It's th biggest dungeon in the city."
[20:54] <Alicia> "The city have many dungeons?" Alicia asks offhandedly.
[20:58] <Kotono> "Of course. Speaking of, there's the lilitu Estaci. She runs the Screaming Pleasure, the biggest brothel in town...and a respectable dungeon is tied into it, too, for pleasure and for more mundane use. She doesn't out and out swear loyalty to Malcanthet, but I hear she's been seen in Malcanthet's realm before. She's not directly involved in the eladrin hunt, but she has a lot of swing in this city. Lsyscrea tolerates her...and shows it by occa
[20:58] <Kotono> Lsyscrea tolerates her...and shows it by occasionally dragging her out and, ahem, violating her in the streets. Demons." Snorting and running a hand down his blue face, "There's some sort of arraingment there, or maybe that's the sort of display that's normal for a balor's love life. I don't try to think about it."
06[20:59] * Alicia makes a face. Even if she's trying to act like a native there really are limits. "Yes, lets hope we don't get the pleasure of seeing that while we're here."
01[21:00] <Seira> And that's where the bounty on Alicia must have come from. "So those three would be the true powers?"
[21:01] <Kotono> "Do be careful though. The upshot to the entire affair is that Estaci has several spawn from Lysyscea at her beck and call. They're...just avoid them," The Mercane bids. "Moving on, there's the Graylung Ordorory. Graylung is a potent wizard - lich or mortal or something else, no one's quite sure and no one questions a wizard of that power."
[21:02] <Kotono> "Graylung is the forth," A slight nod to Seira. "They're the four biggest powers that are remotely stable here. There's a lot of ebb and flow, so don't assume those are the only heavy hitters around, but merely the ones you can expect to run afoul of."
[21:04] <Alicia> "Graylung must do well for himself to have such standing here without being a demon," Alicia notes. "Does he take any active interest in the city or keep to himself?"
[21:06] <Kotono> "Lsyscrea commissions things best left unsaid from him. I've seen one of them and..." The Mercane nearly doubles over, shaking his head. "No one's going to cross a powerful wizard that's an ally of a balor. I hear he's on friendly terms with Estaci and has succubi visit his shop often. Another thing I prefer not to think of." Coughing there, "So he's established and tolerated."
01[21:06] <Seira> "Pale Night, Malcanthet, Zquujaj." Seira lists. "There's been a lot of talk about Demogorgon also aiming for a piece of the pie, so does he sponsor someone as well? That wizard, perhaps? Or it's all just unsubstantiated rumor?"
[21:08] <Kotono> "Rumor. Of course, if someone's in town..." He spreads his hands wide open, "Or maybe one of those four is a turncoat. It wouldn't be the first time in Abyssal history."
01[21:10] <Seira> "I would be shocked, yes," Seira agrees dryly.
[21:12] <Kotono> "Now then," Ticking off three fingers, "Three is a very lucky number. There are three of you, and there just happens to be something I could use some good luck to help solve."
[21:12] <Alicia> "We heard rumours about yugoloths looking to move in as well. Sounds like all sorts of fun's in the offing, there," Alicia sighs before regarding the Mercane curiously at his request. "Go on."
[21:14] <Kotono> "The yugoloths...who knows?" The Mercane smiles a little, "I hear a new Nether Fiend has risen. But...nevermind that." Clearing his throat, "A mercenary captain has pled poverty to a debt he owes me. I do believe a dose of good luck would help to remedy his misfortunate poverty."
[21:16] <Alicia> "You're looking for us to shake the poor sap down?" Alicia cuts through the double-talk.
[21:16] <Kotono> "If need be, or find a way to see his debt resolved. He owes me 500 gold." Flexing his fingers now, "The sooner I get it, the sooner everyone's luck improves."
06[21:18] * Seira is quite happy that he didn't think they came from a brothel and sought his good fortune that way. "Who is he, and where can we find him?" she asks as eagerly as only a demon could while contemplating the imminent humiliation of lesser fiends.
[21:19] <Kotono> "His name is Baram Bloodstar, leader of the Eager Ravens mercenary band. They're holed up in the Piteous Wailings inn at the edge of the city."
[21:23] <Alicia> "You've been helpful to us, I suppose we could do you a turn," Alicia shrugs. Who knows, maybe their luck will improve as well from it?
[21:23] <Kotono> "Good. May your luck improve in turn as well," The mercane nods, "Good hunting."
[21:24] <Alicia> "What was your name, so we can tell him who the debt is owed to?" Alicia asks before they leave.
[21:24] <Kotono> "Vann." The mercane ever so slightly tilts his head towards Alicia.
06[21:25] * Alicia nods and departs, Marie fluttering erraticly alongside her.
01[21:26] <Seira> "We need an inn to stay at, as it is," Seira comments, skipping lightly alongside Alicia. "Piteous Wailings sounds like a great name for an inn, doesn't it?"
[21:27] <Alicia> "Sounds cheap," Alicia grunts in reply.
[21:33] <Kotono> You walk down a crooked, jagged street of cracked cobblestones.  This one happens to be quiet as you do, until a door flies open. What comes stomping out is big - bigger than Demedais with extra muscles, brutish face scowling. It's fists are the size of small boulders, slamming into the wall next to the door. "DAMMIT!" The creature bellows, wearing dirty, tanned leathers. "DAMMIT!"
06[21:34] * Alicia stops as the man mountain bursts out before her. "Problem?" she asks dryly as he throws his temper tantrum.
06[21:35] * Seira does her very best to look intimidated and hide halfway behind Alicia.
[21:35] <Kotono> "Stolen! My fucking hammer was stolen!" He whirls on Alicia, "That's what's fucking wrong!"
[21:37] <Alicia> What does he expect living among demons? Still, Alicia isn't going to provoke him by being unhelpful. "Was it a special hammer?"
[21:38] <Kotono> "Yes! It's handle was forged from the ivory of the heaven-blessed elephant! It's iron was mined from the iron within the bones of a hundred vrocks! It's irreplacable!"
[21:40] <Alicia> "Sounds distinctive, alright. You should hire a wizard - I hear there's magic that's good for locating lost objects, especially if they stand out like that," she suggests helpfully.
01[21:40] <Seira> At that prompting, Seira quietly calls upon such a power out of sheer curiousity, to find out whether the hammer in question is still in range.
[21:41] <Kotono> "Of course, a wizard can do it," Growling now, "Guess I won't paste ya...thanks." With that, the giant starts to stomp off. OOC: Link me?
[21:43] <Kotono> Seira can sense it about six hundred feet away, to the rough north-northeast.
06[21:44] * Seira nudges Alicia subtly, a feat quite easy to achieve given the way she's using her form to hide behind, and indicates the northeast with a light nod of her head.
[21:45] <Alicia> "As it happens, my shy friend here knows the spell I just mentioned," Alicia calls after the giant. "Perhaps we might be able to assist you."
[21:46] <Kotono> The giant turns and whirls, "Can you find it?" He asks, coming up, "Can you really?"
01[21:46] <Seira> Drawing in upon herself, Seira nods hesitantly.
[21:47] <Alicia> "Perhaps afterwards you might even be able to help us," Alicia smiles, baring her needle-like teeth.
[21:47] <Kotono> "I'll help!" The giant says, "I'll help if I get my hammer back!"
[21:48] <Alicia> "Excellent," Alicia nods in satisfaction. "Why don't you lead the way, Xerallana?"
06[21:50] * Seira steps out of Alicia's shadow, glancing at the giant briefly before lowering her eyes, and then returns her gaze towards Alicia. Nodding briefly, she starts heading down the street, seeing to close the distance between herself and the unique hammer in question.
06[21:50] * Alicia shadows Seira closely, since she's acting so vulnerable and meek right now.
[21:51] <Kotono> Thus Seira leads to an alley between two dark, rickety-leaning houses. In the shadows, one can see a cloaked humanoid kneeling, running his hands over a great hammer. It's carved with designs and lines, glowing a soft blue as the humanoid touches it. On that, "You THIEF!" The giant screams, rushing ahead, "Give it back!"
06[21:52] * Seira quietly checks for the presence of evil in the immediate area, melting into the shadows to stay out of battle.
[21:54] <Alicia> "Perhaps you should return what was stolen before you're ground into paste?" Alicia interjects softly as she enters the alleyway, voice carrying nonetheless.
[21:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 (-4 PA)
06[21:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 (-4 PA) and gets 23." [1d20=8]
[21:54] <Kotono> roll 1d4+11
06[21:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d4+11 and gets 13." [1d4=2]
[21:56] <Kotono> Your giant friend doesn't listen. Instead he charges in, slamming the cowled man into the wall with his bare hands! The hammer falls to the ground in the meanwhile!
[21:56] <Kotono> "How..." Coughing, the man's voice is weak, "S-s-spare me! Take it!" He whimpers, "Damn you!"
[21:57] <Kotono> The cloaked man is tossed ahead and out of the alley, the giant going for the hammer with both hands, grabbing it up and looking it over immediately.
[21:57] <Alicia> "Let it go," Alicia sidles up behind the giant. "He's learned his lesson, and he'll tell all the other thieves what happens when they steal from you..." she turns a dark look towards the thief. "Won't you?" she adds with an edge of menace, hoping he takes the hint.
[21:58] <Kotono> The thief hears Alicia's words midflight, landing and nodding, before running off as fast as his feat will take him.
01[22:00] <Seira> "It is a very pretty hammer," Seira states, appearing by Alicia's side once more as the danger has passed.
[22:01] <Kotono> Turning to them, "You got my hammer back. What do you want me to do for you?" The giant smiles, hefting it onto his shoulder.
[22:04] <Alicia> Hopefully this is serendipity, since Alicia doesn't want this to have been for nothing. "Nothing more than information," she smiles toothily. "You see, we were looking for a green slaad, but no one in this city seems to know anything about him... or maybe they just don't want to talk. But I had a good feeling when I saw you, my friend. So can you help us as we helped you?"
[22:05] <Kotono> O
[22:05] <Kotono> OOC: Make a diplo check, +15 modifier?
[22:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+49
06[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+49 and gets 51." [1d20=2]
01[22:06] <Seira> OOC: I'll aid?
[22:07] <Kotono> The giant abruptly stops there, color draining, "Um..." He bites his lip, "I do. Have you heard of the Screaming Pleasure? I get gold by working as an enforcer there."
[22:07] <Alicia> "The Lilitu's brothel?" Alicia nods, still smiling encouragingly.
[22:09] <Kotono> "A few weeks ago, we all gathered up. It wasn't to deal with a bad customer, but to go raid a house. It was really secret, we were unseen...what's the name of it? In...insomething." Snapping his fingers, "We get there, find a deep basement and get into a big fight there. Nasty fight...but we hold them off while the sneaky ones come back dragging a green slaad out, then we all get unseen again and run away. We took the slaad back to the Screami
[22:09] <Kotono> then we all get unseen again and run away. We took the slaad back to the Screaming Pleasure and downstairs, then haven't seen him since."
[22:11] <Alicia> "Oh. Well, I suppose he's long gone by now," Alicia affects a disappointed look. "Nevermind, at least you helped us. Thank you, and do enjoy your hammer," she forces a smile back on.
[22:11] <Kotono> "Maybe," With a slight scratch of his head, "People go down in the dungeons and don't come out for a long time sometimes, but I hear Estaci talking about a slaad sometimes still. When we're not supposed to be listening."
01[22:13] <Seira> So just the slaad was taken, and not the one set to meet him? It might be useful to know the house this took place at, but it's probably not worth it to show such open interest here, so Seira remains quiet.
[22:13] <Alicia> "Maybe, but it's probably best if we just forget about it," Alicia shakes her head. He might like them but she can hardly trust his discretion around a lilitu so it's best if he forgets about this. "Nevermind, I suppose we can just go to Limbo and look for a slaad there."
[22:14] <Kotono> "Okay," nodding to that, "I'll forget about it too. Don't tell Estaci. She's been in a really bad mood lately, too."
[22:15] <Alicia> "We won't be patronising her establishment, fear not," Alicia assures the giant, giving him a little wave before they go their seperate ways.
[22:16] <Alicia> "This isn't the usual type of dungeon we deal with..." Alicia mutters to Seira, grimacing once they're away from the giant.
01[22:17] <Seira> "It seems good luck has been with us ever since we accepted the Mercane's job offer, at least?" Seira responds with a shrug. "Since applying for a job is tedious and humiliating, we won't do that, right?"
[22:19] <Alicia> "Certainly not," Alicia shudders at the thought of it. "We'll sneak in."
01[22:20] <Seira> "Probably better then going as customers," Seira agrees. "Tomorrow, then?"
[22:21] <Alicia> "Before or after our meeting with Graylung?" Alicia asks. She's not sure if they might be headed for a trap there, all things considered.
01[22:22] <Seira> "After. That's the only reason to stick around that long, but it's well worth it."
[22:25] <Kotono> The Piteous Wailings is a wood and stone affair, shaped at odd angles and nearly falling apart. Inside you step straight into a tap room, full of mostly mortals of all stripes and shapes.  Few pay you any mind as you enter, a thick aroma of booze and sweat mingling into your noses. Card cames go on, dice games as well. Lying in a corner is a deadman, a knife through his throat and left to bleed out on the floor.
[22:26] <Alicia> "You sure you want to stay here?" Alicia quietly asks Seira as they head in the door, eyeing the corpse dubiously.
01[22:28] <Seira> "Might as well," Seira responds. "I'm not made for the high-profile places, and we can hardly stay on the streets or rent a lovely, happy torture suite at one of the dungeons."
06[22:30] * Alicia nods in resignation and heads fully inside, her undead companion flapping close to her. Hopefully their appearance will deter the foolhardy from trying anything.
06[22:31] * Seira thinks much along the same lines, except she counts more on Alicia's menacing amazonian figure to do all the deterring.
[22:32] <Alicia> Bypassing the tap room, Alicia looks to find out who's on duty here so they can arrange a room.
[22:33] <Kotono> Thus the three blend in. A few looks bu tnothing more. Towards the back there's a surly looking, grotesquely fat creature, it's stomach yellow and distended larger than a pregnant woman's belly at the very end. Tiny horns dot it's head. "Looking' for a room?" He asks, "5 gold for one, 15 for a nice one."
06[22:34] * Seira can't help but wonder if the Mercane tricked them for some reason. Would beggars really be staying here at such prices?
[22:38] <Alicia> "We'll take a nice one," Alicia fishes into her money-pouch, putting the requisite number of coins on the counter in Kesse currency, and then takes out a single platinum coin, letting the fat demon see. "You could also help us out by telling us which room Baram Bloodstar is staying in."
[22:39] <Kotono> The platinum coin is eyed, "Room 33." He answers, "Room 33."
[22:40] <Alicia> "You're a prince," Alicia smiles sweetly, giving him his bribe. "Which room's ours?"
[22:41] <Kotono> "Room 49," He answers, "Just keep going and going and going and going and going down the hall."
06[22:42] * Alicia nods to Seira and starts down the hall, Marie hissing briefly before she flaps wildly after her.
06[22:42] * Seira falls into step, looking this way and that as she seeks out both rooms.
[22:44] <Kotono> You pass Room 33 first. It's a solid wood door, quiet and dark. Only a red painted on 33 lets you know it's room 33. Past that a ways, you can come to room 49 as well, much the same on the outside.
06[22:44] * Alicia heads inside to see what half of a United Baronies Captain earns in a month can buy them.
06[22:44] * Seira slows down ever so slightly as she passes room 33, using both her own senses and relying on Lagann to take a peek past the door.
[22:50] <Kotono> Inside is a comfortable room. The chairs and tables are kept well, a fire burning in the fireplace. It only smells mildly bad here, and the bed looks clean. Not bad at all.
01[22:51] <Seira> "Not bad," Seira voices her thoughts, dropping into one of the chairs.
[22:52] <Alicia> It'll do. Alicia closes the door behind her and goes to take a seat, producing some food and water from her survival pouch and flavouring them into something more appetising with a cantrip before she dines. "It'll do," she agrees. "So what's your plan for Baram?"
01[22:53] <Seira> "It was to rest up, prepapre for a beautiful new day and then sneak in," Seira reports cheerfully. "But I don't think anyone's home right now, so maybe now's the best time to sneak in after all?"
[22:54] <Alicia> "But will there be anything worth taking right now?" Alicia asks.
01[22:55] <Seira> "I doubt that very much, but knowing the lay of the land might help. I doubt I'll need it, however, and there is the slight risk of tipping our hand. Let's just stick to the original plan, then?"
06[22:57] * Alicia nods agreeably. "I can secure the place before we sleep, and my familiar can keep watch over us as well," she offers, idly scanning the room for any magic besides what they came in with.
01[22:58] <Seira> "My little buddy doesn't need sleep. Or any maintenance, really. So between the two of them and magic, we should be well-protected."
[23:00] <Alicia> "We can hope, anyway. I might as well do it now - it's a long lasting spell and things seem quiet." At that, Alicia gestures and calls upon powerful magic to ward them from intrusion.
[23:00] <Alicia> OOC: Limited Wish to cast Greater Alarm (SpC 8), mental alarm. Won't trigger for us four.

[Corwin]

[19:27] <Ko-Nightmareof1691> ---
[19:28] <Ko-Nightmareof1691> Thus Seira is ready. Alicia has message up as asked, while Marie flutters about in the late 'night', as much as any part of the Abyss has a night. OOC: Ball's in your court.
01[19:29] <Seira> A single charge from a wand she's carrying is enough to give her three minutes of grace, and that should be enough unless the paupers are a lot more skilled than she had imagined. Becoming hidden from curious eyes and enabling herself to see magical signatures, Seira steps out of their shared room and makes her way towards room thirty-three.
01[19:29] <Seira> OOC: Invis and DM are up
[19:32] <Ko-Nightmareof1691> The hall is mostly quiet. A few doors down, at room 40, a woman is slumped against the door. Her face is bruised and bloodied, her gaze a thousand miles away. Past her, you can see Room 33 has no one outside of it or anythign maiss?
[19:32] <Ko-Nightmareof1691> The hall is mostly quiet. A few doors down, at room 40, a woman is slumped against the door. Her face is bruised and bloodied, her gaze a thousand miles away. Past her, you can see Room 33 has no one outside of it or anything amiss.
06[19:34] * Seira has to wonder whether it really is a mortal woman, and finds herself giving her more than a cursory glance as she looks for that unmistakable taint present in evil outsiders.
[19:35] <Ko-Nightmareof1691> OOC: Make an MS check for reference?
01[19:36] <Seira> roll 1d20+21
06[19:36] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+21 and gets 36." [1d20=15]
[19:37] <Ko-Nightmareof1691> The woman radiates faint evil. She makes no sign of stirring as Seira looks at her. She wears a torn dress, filthy. Perhaps long ago it was a beautiful gown, but now it's in tatters, stained with myriad filths.
06[19:41] * Seira finds herself at a loss over what to do for a moment, but then resolves to follow one basic guideline. As long as a person asks for help, or makes an effort to extract themselves from an unpleasant, perhaps inescapable life, she would be there to support them. On her own, however, she can't just keep on intruding and forcing such change to appear, not in the Abyss and with so much at stake.
01[19:41] <Seira> With the woman unlikely to see past her cloak of invisibility, Seira finally makes her way to her destination and observes the door for traps and alarms both mundane and magical.
[19:42] <Ko-Nightmareof1691> OOC: Search check?
01[19:42] <Seira> OOC: I'll take 10 for 40, please
[19:42] <Ko-Nightmareof1691> The door isn't trapped. I tis locked, however.
06[19:43] * Seira asks Lagann to glance past the door for any concentrations of metal, while she does the same, searching for evil auras. It's always possible the room's occupants are too good for this sinful place, but such an occurence would test her disbelief too much.
[19:45] <Ko-Nightmareof1691> There's a small concentration of gold inside. No evil, though.
01[19:47] <Seira> Well, then. Either she's in luck, or... preferring not to think too much, Seira fiddles with the lock quietly.
01[19:47] <Seira> OOC: Open Lock, I'll take 10 for 25?
[19:48] <Ko-Nightmareof1691> Click! It's not allt hat great a lock, Seira able to do undo it without overt difficulty.
06[19:50] * Seira gives it a slight push, splitting her attention between the listless woman further down the hall and the room she's breaking into.
[19:51] <Ko-Nightmareof1691> The woman does not stir. The door opens a bit at the push. The room inside is dark, quiet. On a very casual glance it looks much like your room.
06[19:54] * Seira would have expected them to be using a cheaper room. Or to actually be staying in it at such an early hour. Still, she gives it a cursory glance, scanning the grounds with her eyes while trying to match the location Lagann had pinpointed with the information now available to her.
[19:56] <Ko-Nightmareof1691> Half tucked under the bed is what looks to be a heavy burlap sack. It bulges slightly, the entire thing tied closed with a bit of string.
01[19:57] <Seira> Seems like things would go as easily as she had expected, Seira muses to herself, nevertheless checking it for both magic and traps before even considering opening the string.
01[19:59] <Seira> OOC: 10/40 for search, again, if needed
[20:00] <Ko-Nightmareof1691> The bag is trapped. There's some sort of powder ready to puff out of the bag is opened.
01[20:01] <Seira> This is all about making sure her skills don't rust, so Seira attempts to work around the trap, disabling its mechanism.
01[20:01] <Seira> roll 1d20+27 DD
06[20:01] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+27 DD and gets 43." [1d20=16]
[20:02] <Ko-Nightmareof1691> Seira is able to circumvent the powder, able to carefully and safely open the bag if she wishes.
06[20:03] * Seira checks it once more methodically, and only opens it if she is certain no second layer of traps exists.
[20:07] <Ko-Nightmareof1691> No more traps. Inside, past a little bit of arrayed powder, is a pile of gold. There are several heavy, oversized gold coins.  A balor's face is engraved into them, eyes of raging flame. Beneath those are several small, golden sticks, no bigger and longer than a slice of carrot. They are unadorned.
06[20:08] * Seira checks for magic once more, in case the seemingly-innocuous bag was preventing magical detection previously, even as she mentally tallies up the sum held by the golden bars.
03[20:09] * Ko-Nightmareof1691 is now known as Kotono
[20:09] <Kotono> No magic. OOC: Appraisal check.
01[20:10] <Seira> roll 1d20+18
06[20:10] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+18 and gets 38." [1d20=20]
[20:12] <Kotono> The coins are each worth about 30 GP each. The tiny slivers of gold are worth about 15 each. All together, it's about 350 GP or so.
01[20:12] <Seira> roll 1d20+17 K:N
06[20:12] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+17 K:N and gets 22." [1d20=5]
01[20:16] <Seira> Luck's on her side, then. Seira gets the sack, tying it closed once more, and then searches for a more mundane metal in the room. Lagann's talents at shaping metal would come in useful for what she has in mind, should she discover a surface large enough to write across.
[20:16] <Kotono> There's not much of note. A few screws in the table and bed, that sort of thing, but it's mostly wood.
01[20:18] <Seira> Time for her to leave, then. It is a shame, but Vann would have to live without a message proclaiming the debt owned to him was collected. If the goons in question have any intelligence to their name, they'll draw the right conclusion on their own.
[20:21] <Kotono> Thus Seira slips back without incident, reaching her room safely...OOC: We'll wait for Eb now, I also have ot sec anyway.
03[20:28] * Ebiris (WinNT@user-5445f5bc.lns4-c13.telh.dsl.pol.co.uk) has joined #dunes
03[20:28] * ChanServ sets mode: +ao Ebiris Ebiris
03[20:31] * Ebiris is now known as Alicia
[20:32] <Kotono> ---
[20:32] <Kotono> Thus the night passes. Come to what morning Androlynne has, the two awaken. It was a sleep...a sleep servicable but little more, anxiousness gnawing at your dreams. OOC: Ball's in your court for what to do and stuff.
[20:34] <Alicia> First thing Alicia does in the morning is imbue Marie with a selection of spells to use on her behalf, then cast Veil to replenish their disguises, with no material changes. Then she chooses to take a leisurely breakfast and pass the hour in relative peace until her spellcasting faculties are fully restored.
06[20:35] * Seira intends to head over to the Mercane and be done with returning the favor to him, before focusing on the more immediate concerns of meeting with Graylung.
[20:39] <Kotono> The hour passes peacefully enough, with nothing quite terrible happening.
[20:41] <Alicia> Then naturally its off to see the Mercane.
[20:42] <Kotono> The Mercane is found where he was before. Amid the rending feasts of the demons he awaits, patient and watching them.
06[20:43] * Seira hands over the sack of ill-gotten gains, its trap ineffective. "This should be close enough to cover the debt owned to you," she voices, while waiting for him to inspect it.
[20:44] <Kotono> He takes the sack, hefting it. "It's heavy as gold," He agrees, "Good. Has your luck turned for the better now?"
[20:45] <Alicia> "I'd say things are looking up, yes," Alicia agrees, wondering how much the inscrutable merchant knows.
[20:45] <Kotono> "Outsandingly good luck." Smiling now as he nods to them, "Perhaps you'd like to further curry good luck?"
[20:47] <Alicia> "I'm not sure how much longer we'll be here, but more luck never goes amiss. We're listening," Alicia inclines her head slightly, not committing just yet but willing to hear him out.
[20:51] <Kotono> "Ah, excellent choice." With a slight nod to Alicia, "One can have the luck to find a jackpot of wealth if they're diligent and persistant. There are certain parties searching for a few people. A female human named Alicia Reynes, who may go by Lissa. A human warrior in full plated armor by the name of Demedais, a servant of the God Helm. An angel named Antenora, a servant to Alicia. A half dragon magiciant with a jeweled blade and fiery breath
[20:51] <Kotono> An angel named Antenora, a servant to Alicia. A half dragon magiciant with a jeweled blade and fiery breath named Seira. A human woman archer, very skilled, named Polly." He smiles to them, "If one can find them, I'm sure they'd have outstanding luck...not to mention the large reward offered would be a jackpot."
[20:52] <Alicia> "Funny. We heard someone yesterday was looking for a human called Alicia," Alicia remarks, not giving anything away.
01[20:52] <Seira> "How large?" Seira asks, equal parts curiousity and being obliged to inquire about the sum.
[20:53] <Kotono> "Ah yes." With a nod, "Such a bounty naturally creates many an interested party. I believe it's around 10,000 GP per head...but oh yes, they must be brought alive. Especially Alicia."
[20:53] <Alicia> "What's so special about her?" Alicia asks, frowning as if displeased at the thought of bringing anyone in alive.
[20:54] <Kotono> "I don't know. The instructs are what they are. Perhaps she has offended the offerer of the bounty?"
[20:55] <Alicia> "Who's offering, anyway? One of the four you told us about yesterday?"
[20:56] <Kotono> With a serene smile, "This party has taken discretion, but from the avenues of the word spreading, I would suspect it is Estaci or someone tied to her works. The succubi of Golmendicoria seem to have had the information first."
06[20:58] * Alicia nods shortly. "That's who we heard the first name from yesterday," she admits. "Well, we'll keep an eye out for them, I suppose. Sounds like a lot of cash if we can get all five... how tough are they supposed to be?"
01[20:59] <Seira> "But how realistic is any of this?" Seira asks at Alicia's words. "I mean, what, angels and humans? What's the chance of just stumbling upon them here?"
[21:00] <Kotono> "Well, that is the question. It would take both skill and much good fortune to defeat them. Have you heard of the Crimson Guard, a group of mortals from the Prime? They are quite skilled from all stories. Also, if word comes here, I suspect it is quite possible they will come here. Where there is smoke, there is fire."
01[21:00] <Seira> "Draw them in with the persistent rumors of them?" Seira muses. "Might actually work, given how humans operate."
[21:01] <Kotono> "Naturally." With a faint smile now, "May your luck continue to rise."
01[21:01] <Seira> "And yours," she returns with that same smile playing across her own lips.
Session Close: Fri Nov 06 21:02:45 2009

Session Start: Fri Nov 06 21:02:45 2009
Session Ident: #dunes
02[21:02] * Disconnected
02[21:02] * Attempting to rejoin channel #dunes
03[21:02] * Rejoined channel #dunes
03[21:02] * Topic is 'Marie(22)>Alicia(20)>Seira(18)>Lagann(17)>Pixie/Courres(16)>Quasits(14)>Amaryl=Latha(11)>Antenora(6)'
03[21:02] * Set by Kotono on Tue Nov 03 20:40:55
01[21:03] <Yomi> <Seira> "And yours," she returns with that same smile playing across her own lips.
[21:06] <Kotono> The streets of the city are bustling and busy, mindrending sights glimpsed as your eturn to Graylung's Ordorory. Yet nothing of note occurs on the way, the hezrou standing aside to allow you ingress deeper in without incident.
06[21:07] * Alicia heads downstairs without fear, even as she half-expects a double-cross.
02[21:07] * Seira (~corwin@bzq-82-81-151-184.red.bezeqint.net) Quit (fantasy.dejatoons.net betamax.dejatoons.net)
03[21:07] * Yomi is now known as Seira
03[21:07] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Seira
06[21:08] * Seira doesn't think they've tipped their hand, or they wouldn't have been allowed to leave the day before, likewise displaying no fear as she ventures further inside.
[21:12] <Kotono> Thus you ascend down! You find the bottom as you left it, the eyes peering ahead at you once more. "The filth dared to entertain the notions and command of another," Graylung's voice can be heard, spitting out every word with disgust. "I thank you for bringing this information to me. She will be re-educated to her proper role."
01[21:14] <Seira> Make one friend, lose another. Seira figures the succubus deserved whatever fate she'd drawn.
[21:15] <Alicia> And so ends the story of O? "If you are able to help with our question from yesterday we will consider that to be thanks enough," Alicia replies respectfully to the necromancer.
[21:15] <Kotono> "Ask them anew. I confess that my righteous indignation has blotted some of what you asked from my memories." THe eyes stare ahead at you all the while, motionlessly peering into your own eyes.
[21:18] <Alicia> "We are interested in a conclave of extremely powerful necromancers, whom we suspect have had dealings with this layer of the Abyss," Alicia restates their question, more plainly than yesterday. "There are six, all told, but we do not know how many have actually visited here or the full extent of their involvement."
[21:20] <Kotono> "Ah. I have heard rumors of such," He begins, "But if they are here, I have not heard or seen them. OF course, such rumors are as likely to be worthless scuttlebutt as anything else.
[21:20] <Kotono> "
01[21:22] <Seira> "Perhaps so," Seira admits, "but our main reason to suspect their involvement is the rumors of magically-augmented demons, pale and powerful. We have heard such rumors before, and in those other cases, there was correllation between the augmentation and the conclave in question."
[21:24] <Kotono> "I have not heard much beyond rumor of this as well. My guess is that the Abyss once more mutated demons, rather than the works of intelligent wizards. Pale, powerful beings would be to the fancy of the Pale Mother, no?"
06[21:25] * Alicia nods. "It seems rumours are all we have... in any case, thank you for granting us your time, Graylung," she offers him a short bow as she makes to leave.
01[21:27] <Seira> Well, that was shorter than she had expected, but if that's the way things turned out....
[21:27] <Kotono> "If that is all, good travel to you. If you have business to be done, my doors are open to you."
06[21:30] * Seira nods at the offer, and walks outside, as the interview had come to an end.
[21:31] <Alicia> Leaving the necromancer's abode, there's little else to do but go check out Screaming Pleasure, intending to get a good look from the outside at its surroundings before anything else.
[21:34] <Kotono> Your trip to the Screaming Pleasure is mercifully without incident. The building is a grand, sprawling miniature palace within th ecity. IT is painted soft pink and gold, four stories of utterly rich, decadent stonework.  There are grand doors leading inside, surrounded by statues of Mariliths, bare chested and alluring as they make come hither motions with all six hands. There are no windows, notably.
06[21:35] * Seira is somehow able to resist their charms, perhaps due to being severly creeped out.
06[21:37] * Alicia just shakes her head in despair. Aren't these things supposed to be the brilliant generals of the Abyss? Not one she's met has lived up the billing, and this just makes them even sadder. "I have a scroll of locate creature," she whispers to Seira as they stop halfway down the street leading to the ostentatious brothel. "It should give us an idea of where he is, if he's down there."
01[21:38] <Seira> "Didn't the divinations fail, before?" Seira asks, relying on Message to carry her words while making them impossible to overhear.
[21:40] <Alicia> "I thought it was just sendings they tried?" Alicia replies. "In any case, it doesn't hurt to try. If it works it makes things a lot easier for us, if not then we've lost nothing."
01[21:42] <Seira> "Certainly, we should try it," Seira agrees, before thinking to Amaryl, 'Is this a good time? It would be helpful to know if our friend had any sort of unique weapons or possessions I could magically look for.'
06[21:43] * Alicia fishes out the scroll as she steps into a nearby alley to be screened from curious onlookers, casting the spell to direct her to any green slaadi within 680 feet.
[21:43] <Kotono> '...mmm....Seira?' Amaryl's voice is sleepy, 'Mmm, I tranced off! Gaah. What time is...' After a few moments, 'Oh, Seira! Um, say that again? Sorry, the children wanted to play late last night.'
[21:43] <Kotono> Alicia casts the spell...but she doesn't sense any green slaad nearby.
06[21:44] * Seira positions herself in such a way as to shield Alicia from curious eyes, should anyone choose to pay them any attention. 'Anything the nice slaad had in his possession that Locate Object might work on.'
[21:44] <Alicia> Well, they're still a ways from the actual brothel, so now Alicia starts walking towards it, intending to circuit the building.
[21:45] <Kotono> As Alicia circles, she senses no green slaad. As this happens, 'Hold on...' After a few minutes, 'No. How is it going over there, Seira?'
01[21:46] <Seira> 'Still a mixed bag. The chat with the necromancer didn't go anywhere, though it turns out Alicia's not the only one with a ten thousand gold bounty on her head. There's also one for Antenora, Demedais, Pollyanna and myself. Go figure.'
[21:46] <Kotono> 'Careful,' Amaryl sends back, 'I'll tell Antenora and Latha that. Anything else ot pass on?'
06[21:47] * Alicia shakes her head to Seira after completing her circuit. "Going straight in the door is too obvious, but a dungeon is sure to have secret exits and things. Why don't we try and look for hidden doors or things like that in the area around it?"
01[21:49] <Seira> "That's something I can do," Seira agrees, paying extra attention to such things as they linger near the building. And Lagann could pitch in as well, even if it's a metal lock so well concealed she can't see any traces of it. 'There's this brothel, the Screaming Pleasure, run by a lilitu called Extasy or something. We think the slaad's there.'
[21:50] <Kotono> OOC: Just looking/scouting, basically, and having Lagann search for metal?
01[21:51] <Seira> OOC: Yeah. I don't need to paw stuff for search, right?
[21:53] <Kotono> OOC: It doesn't say, but I generally assume you do. I'll let you do it at -10 here and you have Lagann going to help, so it's possible.
01[21:54] <Seira> roll 1d20+22 (-10 calculated in)
06[21:54] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+22 (-10 calculated in) and gets 24." [1d20=2]
[21:55] <Kotono> Between this and Lagann, it's not too hard to find two hidden doors. On the far back side of the brothel is a hidden door, slotted into the back almost flawlessly and with a metal lock.  On the right side, underneath a pleasant hedge and wildflowers, is another metal lock and a trapdoor.
01[21:56] <Seira> After completing her survey of the building, Seira estimates which one is better hidden, and farther from any main roads. It would hardly be serving its true purpose otherwise.
[21:58] <Kotono> The back one is away from any roads, there werne't any demons about. The side one is within sight of a road, various horrors and mortals shambling along towards and away from the brothel.
01[21:59] <Seira> Shielding her mouth from view, Seira mouthes, "Two more doors in, one by the side, and another in the back, away from sight. If I had to guess, the latter's the real back entrance."
[22:01] <Alicia> "The door at the back will come out in the ground floor, though. The trapdoor's more likely to lead down into the dungeon," Alicia reasons. "We could have Marie scout them both before we commit, though."
01[22:03] <Seira> "I question the existence of a secret door where those using it would be in plain sight while coming and going," Seira muses, "but I suppose if invisibility and the means to detect it aren't as common... yes, it's certainly worth a try. Let's go for it now?"
06[22:05] * Alicia goes to find an alleyway in sight of the pretty hedgerow and wildflowers, settling just inside it. "I'll turn you invisible," she whispers to her familiar. "Go incorporeal and make a quick in and out through both doors. Don't go any further, just check what's there and come back."
[22:06] <Alicia> At Marie's nod of assent, Alicia casts greater invisibility on her familiar, holding out a hand to collect the ring that drops when she turns incorporeal and dashes low across the street and through the trapdoor!
01[22:06] <Seira> "How about connecting us all telepathically?" she suggests.
[22:07] <Alicia> Marie abruptly stops and comes back so Seira can cast that spell.
01[22:08] <Seira> Telepathic Bond should hold for more than enough time, and Seira links the three of them with it!
[22:08] <Alicia> Once that's done Marie jets off once more!
[22:09] <Kotono> Thus Marie flies to and through the trapdoor! It leads to a 10 foot drop, with only a few iron rungs on the wall, then a hallway can be seen sloping sharply downward.
[22:09] <Alicia> Marie bobs down the ten feet so she can see where the hallway slopes down to.
[22:11] <Kotono> The hallway slopes down about thirty feet, coming to a wooden door, plain and unadorned.
[22:12] <Alicia> Seems clear, so Marie flies back up to ground level and circles around to the hidden door at the rear, before phasing gently through it to take a peek.
[22:15] <Kotono> Inside you see a largish room, a few crates about. A table is near the back, a few doors on the rear wall. Sitting at the table is a dark skinned man, playing cards with a slightly old, ugly woman with a long, demonic tail. An arrow demon has bows at it's side, arms crossed as it glares at the door MArie came through. "Three aces and a dragon," The man says, scooping up a pile of silver and gold coins in the center of the table."
[22:17] <Alicia> Marie promptly retreats, having seen all she needs to, and flies back to Alicia, turning corporeal and sitting on her mistress's hand as she replaces the magic ring on her finger. "Back door's guarded by an arrow demon, and two others playing cards," she relays quietly. "Trapdoor leads down to a steep passage before another wooden door, it's empty."
01[22:20] <Seira> 'How about we just try to sneak through the trapdoor under cover of invisibility?' Seira suggests. 'Marie could stay ahead and warn us of anything lying ahead. I have plenty of casting of it, each lasting three minutes, which should get us far enough in, and leave enough to get out afterwards.'
[22:22] <Alicia> 'Sounds good to me,' Alicia agrees, remembering to take advantage of telepathy. 'Before we go in can you get Amaryl to check with Lady Honeydip if Tiririramt has any code words to recognise friends of the eladrin, or something we could ask that only he knows? I don't want to end up rescuing a demon plant.'
01[22:24] <Seira> 'On it,' Seira responds, before thinking to Amaryl, 'We're about to go in and search for the slaad with the unpronounceable name. Do our hosts know of a way to tell him from any shapeshifted fiend that's been placed there as a decoy?'
01[22:24] <Seira> After a brief pause, she adds, 'And the same for the one sent to contact him, in case they're held together.'
[22:26] <Kotono> 'Hold on...' Amaryl thinks, 'Ask either of them what the secret of Applelight is. They should answer 'A big smile'.
06[22:27] * Seira snorts. 'I bet there's a story behind that. Tell me when I get back?' To Alicia and Marie, she dutifully relays the phrase and the answer. 'And if we have any doubt, or a chance our thoughts are being read, I'll ask Amaryl for something new as a follow up on the spot.'
[22:30] <Alicia> 'I should be able to tell if anyone's using magic, but it's best to be sure,' Alicia nods. Taking a moment to ensure no one's too close, she casts a shield spell. 'Ready to go?'
01[22:33] <Seira> 'Just about,' Seira responds, her own preparations involving a Keen Edge spell placed on the Resort, and storing one of her Unicorn Arrow spells into a matrix. That done, she uses her wand of Invisibility to bestow it to the three of them.
[22:34] <Alicia> Now safely invisible, Alicia and Marie head over to the trapdoor nestled amidst the pretty hedges.
01[22:34] <Seira> roll 1d10+10 FL
06[22:34] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d10+10 FL and gets 13." [1d10=3]
01[22:34] <Seira> roll 1d6 lesser spell matrix
06[22:34] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d6 lesser spell matrix and gets 3." [1d6=3]
[22:34] <Kotono> Thus ready, the party sneaks over to the trapdoor without incident. IT awaits them, as at the street a little away, demons and mortals come and pass. A dim buzz can be heard, drifting in and out of audible range.
01[22:35] <Seira> 'No magic?' Seira mentally asks Alicia, examining the lock for traps.
01[22:35] <Seira> OOC: Search, 10/42?
06[22:36] * Alicia checks.
[22:36] <Alicia> 'Clear.'
01[22:37] <Seira> 'Lagann, open the lock as quietly as you can, please?' Seira requests.
[22:38] <Kotono> Quietly as possible, the lock undoes! It shifts a bit, af ew soft clacks of metal as Lagann works.
01[22:40] <Seira> 'Let's go,' Seira relays to the others. 'I'll enter last, and try to close it so no one suspects a thing.'
[22:41] <Alicia> 'Got it,' Alicia nods, hopping down the hole and landing with cat-like grace at the bottom, while Marie flies down after her. They then make way for Seira, Alicia scanning down the sloping passage for magic or evil.
06[22:42] * Seira is the last to drop down the passage, instructing Lagann to repair the lock to stand to a cursory inspection, in case someone patrols around the building routinely.
[22:42] <Kotono> The door ahead radiates no magic, though you can see several auras of strong and overwhelming evil ahead.
[22:43] <Alicia> roll 1d20+28 spellcraft
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+28 spellcraft and gets 35." [1d20=7]
[22:45] <Alicia> 'There's a magic alarm on the door,' Alicia reports, 'And three evil beings on the other side, one a lot stronger than the others.'
01[22:47] <Seira> 'Thinking of trying to dispel it and then go in?'
[22:48] <Alicia> 'That'd be a bit pointless since they'd hear me casting and then see us as we open the door,' Alicia observes dryly. 'You should be able to disable it more quietly if we want to go down that road.'
06[22:49] * Seira doubts it somewhat, but decides to first see if she can tell the trap is even there.
01[22:49] <Seira> OOC: Search, 10/42?
01[22:49] <Seira> roll 1d20+29 DD
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+29 DD and gets 40." [1d20=11]
[22:50] <Kotono> Working quietly, Seira disables the trap!
01[22:50] <Seira> As always, Seira checks for a second layer, even as she relays this to Alicia and asks her to look at things from an arcane viewpoint.
[22:53] <Alicia> 'Marie, take a peek through - don't go through the door, go through the wall so it's less obvious,' Alicia instructs her familiar, catching the ring of mind shielding as Marie goes incorporeal and skirts the wall, poking just a little bit out to see into the room beyond.
[22:54] <Kotono> In the room beyond, Marie sees a dark, forgotten dungeon room. Chains are on the walls, a spiked coffin resting against a far wall. The door out is pure metal, a scampering succubus hurrying out of it. Another one stands behind a towering beast, a foul, sour looking hezrou, who stares at the door while cracking his knuckles.
[22:57] <Alicia> 'There's a hezrou and a succubus. Another succubus is running out the far door,' Marie reports. 'They're looking right at the door, so I don't think we're as hidden as we'd like.'
01[22:59] <Seira> 'Shame, that. Even with invisibility and the rings... well, let's not keep the nice hezrou waiting?'
[23:00] <Alicia> 'Is the door locked?' Alicia asks Seira while Marie keeps an eye on things through the door.
01[23:01] <Seira> 'Lagann, open the door,' Seira commands, as Alicia's question is about to become moot.
[23:01] <Kotono> OOC: So Marie's poking through the door to - well, hold that thought anyway.
[23:02] <Kotono> Lagann opens the door! The hezrou stares ahead, "The hell?" it growls, as it's stench hits you like a load of bricks. "Can't see a damned...who goes? Who goes?"
06[23:02] * Seira slips into the room, ready to back up Alicia and cut off the retreat routes, if the succubus decides to flee.
[23:03] <Alicia> 'Let's try to sneak around them if they really can't see us?' Alicia suggests, unsure if Marie's suspicion was justified. She pockets Marie's ring of mind shielding before creeping after Seira.
[23:04] <Kotono> OOC: Make MS checks?
01[23:04] <Seira> roll 1d20+23
06[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+23 and gets 30." [1d20=7]
[23:04] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5
06[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 and gets 22." [1d20=17]
[23:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+26
06[23:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+26 and gets 28." [1d20=2]
[23:05] <Kotono> "Footsteps," Growling low in his throat...OOC: Go ahead and roll init here so we see in what order things resolve.
01[23:06] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 10." [1d20=4]
01[23:06] <Seira> roll 1d20 L
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20 L and gets 13." [1d20=13]
[23:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 and gets 14." [1d20=14]
[23:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+1
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+1 and gets 9." [1d20=8]
[23:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 Alicia
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 Alicia and gets 13." [1d20=6]
[23:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 Marie
06[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 Marie and gets 12." [1d20=4]
03[23:07] * Kotono changes topic to 'Hezrou(14)>Lagann=Alicia(13)>Marie(12)>Seira(10)>Succubus(9)'
[23:09] <Kotono> The hezrou gestures, a pentagram burning into the ground!
[23:09] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[23:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 23." [1d100=23]
[23:09] <Kotono> roll 4d10
06[23:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d10 and gets 10." [4d10=3, 3, 3, 1]
[23:10] <Kotono> About a dozen dretches appear all about the room, feebly sniffing and eyeing about! "One warning," The hezrou growls, "Then they'll use your bones to pleasure themselves after I rip them out of you!" OOC: LAgann.
01[23:11] <Seira> Seira warns Lagann to bid his time!
01[23:11] <Seira> OOC: So he holds
[23:11] <Kotono> OOC: Alicia.
[23:14] <Alicia> 'Lets just go through the far door then block them off with a wall. They can't teleport through it,' Alicia suggests, creeping around the demons and through the metal door at the opposite end of the room.
[23:15] <Kotono> The metal door is ajar, a bit of soft light coming through it as Alicia reacehs it! OOC: Marie then Seira.
[23:16] <Alicia> Marie follows after Alicia, flying through the metal door and holding position there, ready to place a wall of force to block off pursuit once Alicia and Seira catch up.
[23:17] <Kotono> Marie flies through! This leads to a small little antechamber, essentially empty. Five feet ahead is another door, this one open as well, leading into a nicely lit, rich hallway. OOC: Seira.
06[23:17] * Seira likewise follows, her footsteps light, and once she's made her way out of the room signals, 'I'm out.'
01[23:18] <Seira> roll 1d20+18 do I see Alicia?
06[23:18] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+18 do I see Alicia? and gets 22." [1d20=4]

[Corwin]

[19:29] <Kotono> ---
[19:29] <Kotono> <Alicia> 'Lets just go through the far door then block them off with a wall. They can't teleport through it,' Alicia suggests, creeping around the demons and through the metal door at the opposite end of the room.
[19:29] <Kotono> > The metal door is ajar, a bit of soft light coming through it as Alicia reacehs it! OOC: Marie then Seira.
[19:29] <Kotono> <Alicia> Marie follows after Alicia, flying through the metal door and holding position there, ready to place a wall of force to block off pursuit once Alicia and Seira catch up.
[19:29] <Kotono> > Marie flies through! This leads to a small little antechamber, essentially empty. Five feet ahead is another door, this one open as well, leading into a nicely lit, rich hallway. OOC: Seira.
[19:29] <Kotono> * Seira likewise follows, her footsteps light, and once she's made her way out of the room signals, 'I'm out.'
[19:29] <Kotono> <Seira> roll 1d20+18 do I see Alicia?
[19:29] <Kotono> * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+18 do I see Alicia? and gets 22." [1d20=4]
[19:29] <Kotono> OOC: Succubus is up.
[19:32] <Kotono> "Aaaah!" The succubus hides behind the hezrou, nearly hanging off it's gigantic arm! It takes a step forward, uttering a terrible word of vileness...but you've moved too far, too fast, the spell doing nothing to you! OOC: Lagann'n'Alicia.
06[19:33] * Alicia follows Seira through the door. 'I'm through... it's a metal door, can Lagann jam it so they can't open it?' She asks in order to save Marie a spell.
01[19:34] <Seira> 'He'll do his best!' Seira promises. 'But can't the hezrou can't bash it down?'
[19:34] <Alicia> 'It'll buy us some time and Marie or I can use walls of force if it becomes necessary.'
[19:34] <Kotono> OOC: Marie's up, by the by.
[19:35] <Alicia> OOC: Marie will wait to see how Lagann resolves?
01[19:36] <Seira> Sounds reasonable enough. 'Lock the door we just came through and keep it that way!' Seira relays to her familiar.
[19:38] <Kotono> Thus Lagann acts, the door slamming shut as the lock tinkles! OOC: Marie.
[19:39] <Alicia> Marie scouts ahead, going through the door past this small antechamber the party finds itself in.
[19:42] <Kotono> Ahead is a rich, beautiful hallway. Fine stonework, inlaid with pink and peach colored paints, stretch in either direction. The floor is a carpet so thick you could backstroke in it. Ornate pillars are about, carved with frolicking nymphs, succubi, dryads, elves, fey and other such, often with exaggerated features, yet each one is beautiful. The air smells exceedingly sweet, like perfume distilled down. The doors dotted about are all ove long,
[19:42] <Kotono> The air smells exceedingly sweet, like perfume distilled down. The doors dotted about are all ove long, tall slits in the wall. OOC: Seira.
01[19:44] <Seira> Nothing for her to do but to proceed onwards! They're committed, now, and if this path leads to their quarry, the best they could do is to reach is as quickly as possible.
[19:44] <Kotono> Thus Seira heads out! Then...
[19:45] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15
06[19:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 and gets 25." [1d20=10]
[19:45] <Kotono> roll 1d8+6
06[19:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d8+6 and gets 10." [1d8=4]
[19:45] <Kotono> The door is hit! It buckles a bit, but doesn't immediately give. OOC: Alicia/Lagann, go.
06[19:46] * Alicia follows Marie into the sumptuous hallway, looking around quickly for any magical signatures. 'Marie, check all the doors on the right hand side, just sweep the rooms - we don't have much time,' she instructs her familiar.
[19:47] <Kotono> OOC: Go ahead and free act for the moment, people.
01[19:47] <Seira> 'Let's sweep the rooms for the strongest sources of evil, and take them out before they mobilize?' Seira suggests.
[19:47] <Kotono> At one far end of the hallway is an archway that narrows into a slit passage beyond, gauze yellow curtains blocking vision further. At the other end is a more mundane, normal door, mostly covered with a crimson silk curtain.
[19:48] <Alicia> Marie obediently phases through the first door on the right-hand side and then simply flies parallel to the hallway and through the intervening walls to quickly scan all the rooms on this side in one pass.
[19:50] <Kotono> Marie quickly sweeps the right hand side! One has a pair of succubi, currently giving lavish attentions to a grizzled looking human. Another is empty, but has a man and a woman chained to the walls, unclad.  The next is a room full of food on tables, a small company of mortals eating...except the tables are artfully posed succubi. 
[19:51] <Alicia> 'We can't afford to get bogged down fighting, lets try to stay invisible as long as possible,' Alicia flies to the far end of the corridor to avoid leaving footprints in the plush carpet as she nears the door covered in crimson curtains. Marie doesn't linger, just coming back out. 'This isn't the real dungeon, I think we have to go further down,' she reports.
01[19:52] <Seira> 'How about you taking a look straight down, Marie? Maybe you'll see a way up that's concealed from this end.'
06[19:53] * Seira for her part takes a bit of time to search for any such concealed passageways or doors.
[19:53] <Kotono> OOC: Taking 10 or...?
01[19:53] <Seira> OOC: Yeah
[19:53] <Kotono> OOC: Total?
01[19:54] <Seira> OOC: 42
[19:54] <Alicia> Back in the centre of the hallway, Marie flies down thirty feet (or as far as needed to reach another open space) to take a quick look around for any ascending stairs to tell what direction to go in before she pops back up to report her findings!
01[19:54] <Seira> At Alicia's initiative, Seira also casts Pass Without Trace upon herself, to lower any chance of tracking her down, even should she be forced to walk.
[19:56] <Kotono> Seira makes a quick search of things, finding the pillars all have hollow interiors. Inside each rests a curious red powder.
[19:57] <Kotono> Marie flies down twenty feet, finding herself in a darkened hall. A pair of hezrou stand a little ahead, arm crossed and foul. There are cell doors, and to the direction of the crimson curtain above is a door, to the direction of the slit-door is twisting path that sinks into the ground deeper.
[19:58] <Alicia> 'Door by the crimson curtains goes down! Two hezro down there as well,' Marie reports, Alicia attempting to open said door.
01[19:58] <Seira> roll 1d20+15
06[19:58] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+15 and gets 22." [1d20=7]
[20:01] <Kotono> Alicia finds the door locked.
06[20:01] * Seira heads towards the door past the crimson curtains, having heard Marie's message.
[20:01] <Alicia> 'Seira, can you unlock this door?' Alicia asks, reluctant to bash it down.
06[20:01] * Seira checks the door for traps or alarms!
01[20:02] <Seira> OOC: 42
06[20:03] * Seira has Lagann open this lock as well, drawing her jeweled blade in its altered, dull, scimitar-shaped form.
[20:04] <Kotono> IT is not a terribly difficult lock, undone! Ahead is a short hall, leading to a plain iron door thirty feet away. Strange, pink shaded patterns cover the door.
[20:05] <Alicia> OOC: Magic?
06[20:06] * Seira ensures that the path down the hall is safe, and only afterwards examines the iron door as well.
[20:09] <Kotono> The door radiates strong magic. Seira checks it over, finding the door is indeed warded.
[20:09] <Alicia> roll 1d20+28 spellcraft
06[20:09] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+28 spellcraft and gets 44." [1d20=16]
06[20:09] * Alicia steps in and closes the door behind her before examining the magic on the door.
06[20:10] * Seira idly has Lagann to lock it behind them.
01[20:12] <Seira> 'My turn?' Seira asks Alicia. 'Or it's a trap that's easier to open with magic?'
[20:13] <Alicia> 'It'll make you want to become a customer,' Alicia gives a mental snort at the concept. 'Marie's aura should block it, but if you have Lagann open the door while we stand back at the far end of the hall it won't reach us anyway. Twenty foot radius.'
06[20:15] * Seira can't argue with that suggestion, following it to the letter.
[20:15] <Kotono> The door opens, the pink letters glowing bright! Nothing happens as the way ahead is revealed. It's a simple stairway going down and around in a u-turn, twisting.
06[20:16] * Alicia advances to the stairs and starts heading down, Marie in tow as she keeps an eye out for magic.
06[20:17] * Seira brings up the rear, watchful for anyone descending after them, and once she is at Lagann's maximum range, has him close the door back, so nothing would seem out of place.
[20:17] <Kotono> There's no magic here as you plunge down! Walking to the bottom, you find a simple iron door here, leading onward.
01[20:17] <Seira> OOC: 10 for 42 search
[20:20] <Kotono> Seira does not find any traps, but it is locked.
01[20:20] <Seira> 'Opening it,' Seira relays, and sends the command to Lagann.
[20:21] <Kotono> The lock is undone! Ahead you see the hall MArie saw, the way ahead completely blocked by two beefy, smelly hezrou 50 feet from where you are. They peer ahead, like giant boulders.
01[20:22] <Seira> Are they peering at us?
[20:23] <Kotono> They look to be peering ahead in general. "Who goes?" One calls out, "Mistress?"
01[20:24] <Seira> 'Let's take them down while they're distracted?' Seira suggests, moving out of the way and almost melding to a wall. 'I can blast them with two fireballs at once.'
[20:24] <Alicia> OOC: what's the light level here?
[20:25] <Kotono> OOC: Very dim. There's a bit of ambient light here and there without any source, but it's not much at all.
[20:26] <Alicia> 'Marie, distract them,' Alicia asks, her familiar producing an illusion of a bezekira flitting through the shadows briefly as it stalks towards the hezrou, its form only barely visible thanks to the darkness. 'Lets see if we can distract them, or at worst mislead them as to who's here.'
[20:27] <Kotono> "Devil SCUM!" One of the hezrou roar, as the both pounce at the bezekira, trying to smash the illusion apart!
06[20:27] * Seira decides to sneak ahead, as hostilities might yet be averted.
[20:28] <Alicia> Alicia likewise tries to sneak around while they're busy, Marie able to move more swiftly without care for stealth, keeping her focus on the illusion to make the cat move like lightning to avoid their blows!
[20:29] <Kotono> OOC: MS checks, all. Since they're really distracted I'll give you a +6 bonus to them.
[20:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+11
06[20:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+11 and gets 17." [1d20=6]
[20:30] <Alicia> OOC: Marie is perfectly silent by default while incorporeal
[20:30] <Kotono> OOC: Oaky.
01[20:31] <Seira> roll 1d20+29
06[20:31] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+29 and gets 34." [1d20=5]
06[20:32] * Seira glances into the cells as she passes them by, ready to command Lagann to unlock them if those held within can be determined to help their efforts.
[20:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 Hezrou are ridiciously good at listening
[20:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 Hezrou are ridiciously good at listening
06[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 Hezrou are ridiciously good at listening and gets 41." [1d20=18]
06[20:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 Hezrou are ridiciously good at listening and gets 25." [1d20=2]
[20:34] <Kotono> The hezrou slam and stab at the cat, finding the blows to go through it, hitting the illusion as the party passes! They glance about back and forth, mostly in the direction of the party! OOC: Goa head and act.
[20:35] <Kotono> The doors don't have little windows into thetm or anything, just heavy metal barring the way. One would need to peer past or go into the cells to see what's inside.
01[20:36] <Seira> 'How about letting the jailers face the inmates?'
[20:37] <Alicia> 'Marie, check the cells. Quickly,' Alicia requests as she advances to the far door, ready to invoke a wall of force to block off pursuit if it becomes necessary. Marie does as asked, using her superior speed and maneuvrability to quickly flit through the walls of the cells in one big circuit.
[20:38] <Kotono> Marie finds the cells are about half full. Common mortals, nude and often looking haggard and pale, lie about listlessly. Meanwhile the hezrou snarl, "Devil scum?" One calls, "Over there!" He points in the general direction of the party, the two starting to stomp forward.
01[20:40] <Seira> 'Lagann, there's all that metal in the doors, when it could be put to better use by stabbing the hezrou guards,' Seira thinks to her familiar. 'Isn't that just wrong?'
[20:40] <Alicia> 'No slaad, and it'd end messily if any of them had to face a hezrou,' Marie reports as she rejoins the party.
[20:44] <Kotono> OOC: Make a pair of attack rolls with Lagann then, Seira?
01[20:45] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+19 the doors come alive!
06[20:45] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+19 the doors come alive! and gets 52." [2#1d20+19 = 32, 20]
[20:46] <Kotono> roll 6d6
06[20:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6 and gets 28." [6d6=6, 3, 5, 2, 6, 6]
[20:47] <Kotono> Iron from the doors goes flying, stabbing and impaling the hezrou all over like a thousand needles! They roar at this, striking out at the flying steel with claws!
06[20:47] * Seira uses chance to sneak further down the hallway and out of their detection range.
[20:48] <Kotono> Further down the hall is a twisting stairway, going deeper and deeper down.
01[20:48] <Seira> 'Down the stairway, while they're distracted?'
06[20:48] * Seira is already following her own advice.
[20:49] <Alicia> 'Lets hurry,' Alicia agrees, heading down the stairs with Marie on her heels.
[20:50] <Kotono> Thus the three travel downstairs! At about halfway down, roughly 30 feet, the last of the light vanishes. It's pitchblack to the bottom of the stairs, where you find a door. It's hazy, a luminous, rainbow colored wall shimmering in front of the passage ahead.
[20:50] <Alicia> roll 1d20+28 this is surely magic (spellcraft)
06[20:50] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+28 this is surely magic (spellcraft) and gets 37." [1d20=9]
01[20:51] <Seira> OOC: And as always, a search for 42
[20:52] <Alicia> 'Wall of chaos,' Alicia reports. 'It won't hurt but might block me - you two should be fine and I can probably bear it,' with that confident assertion she attempts to breach the wall!
[20:52] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 will
06[20:52] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 will and gets 45." [1d20=19]
[20:54] <Kotono> Seira finds the Wall of Chaos. There's not any traps besides the obvious one here.
06[20:55] * Seira decides to try and brave it!
[20:55] <Alicia> Marie certainly isn't bothered by the chaotic wall and follows Alicia without complaint.
[20:57] <Kotono> Alicia feels sa if she's forcing herself through solid steel, but somehow emerges on the other side! You find yourself in another hallway - yet here...silver. The walls and doors are made of silver. Alicia feels her skin crawl and itch. Cell doors are on either side, with the end having a slightly raised metallic circlein the ground.
[20:57] <Alicia> Any magic?
[20:58] <Kotono> Each of the cell doors are enchanted, as is the raised platform.
[20:58] <Alicia> OOC: take 10 for 38 spellcraft on all of them
06[20:59] * Seira tries to concentrate on what's important during what seems to be the final stretch, examining each and every cell door.
01[20:59] <Seira> OOC: More searching, taking 10 for 42
06[21:00] * Alicia shudders a bit as she enters this hallway. 'Marie, check the cells?' she asks, her familiar phasing throuh the silver wall and performing a circuit to lap all the cells once more.
[21:01] <Alicia> They really don't want devils or archons or modrons down here, do they? 'The doors are basically harmless, but I don't know what that circle does - something transmutation,' she reports.
[21:02] <Kotono> Seira finds each cell door is warded against law by a magic circle. The rooms have various things - a barbazu in one, a Marut in another, a hound archon in a third, a cornugon in a fourth, a gelugon in a fifth, another Marut in the sixth. Regardless, each creature is pinned into the wall, often with heavy spikes, barely able to move at all.
[21:03] <Alicia> 'No slaad,' Marie reports. 'A bunch of devils and an archon in the third and an inevitable in the sixth.' At that, Alicia walks up to the third cell, hoping she can see through the bars.
[21:03] <Kotono> The door has no bars. It's solid silver.
01[21:03] <Seira> 'Quite a bit of hatred for law, yes,' Seira agrees. 'So, let's get the archon out and see if he's not a plant?'
[21:04] <Alicia> 'We should help the Marut, too,' Alicia suggests. 'Can Lagann open those two doors? Marie, take a quick check through the floor to see if there's anything further below.' Marie obediently phases down through the floor to investigate.
[21:05] <Kotono> Marie phases below, but stops cold at 20 feet. She can't seem to press any farther down.
[21:05] <Alicia> Is there a magical wall of force blocking her way?
01[21:05] <Seira> 'Stand back,' Seira requests, likewise making her distance, before commanding Lagann to melt the doors to the cells holding the maruts and the hound archon, to gather at the sides of each doorway.
[21:06] <Kotono> OOC: What senses does Marie have to detect such?
[21:06] <Alicia> OOC: detect magic
[21:06] <Alicia> OOC: and +27 spellcraft
[21:06] <Kotono> OOC: roll it?
[21:06] <Alicia> roll 1d20+27
06[21:06] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+27 and gets 44." [1d20=17]
[21:08] <Kotono> Seira destroys the three doors! At this, one of the Marus crackles lsightly, "Sensory imput...who goes...?" It asks, wihle the Hound Archon starts to snarl, "Demon," it pants, "Show...your vile flesh...!"
[21:09] <Alicia> Makes sense for eladrin, Marie reckons. Floating back up she studies the circle in hopes of upstaging Alicia. 'Chamber below is blocked by wall of force and dimensional lock,' she reports.
[21:09] <Alicia> roll 1d20+27 on circle of transmutation
06[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+27 on circle of transmutation and gets 31." [1d20=4]
01[21:09] <Seira> "I'll get right on that," Seira says sarcastically. "This is a jailbreak. You don't want to rot in here for all time, do you?"
[21:10] <Kotono> "Who...are you..." The hound archon stares into the invisibility, seeing nothing. "If you speak true, free me!"
[21:10] <Kotono> "We must...finish our objective," The Maruts state as one, "We must be freed to continue our objective."
[21:10] <Alicia> "We're here to help," Alicia whispers to the archon, approaching him. "Hold still while I remove these spikes, I'll heal you in a moment." With that promise she works to extricate the archon from his predicament.
01[21:11] <Seira> "Let's save the introductions for once we're out," Seira suggests. "Are there more imprisoned?"
[21:11] <Alicia> 'Marie, check the walls for any hidden passages leading down. I can use spellfire if we have to but I want to avoid that,' she adds to her familiar, who proceeds to phase into the walls and circle the perimeter of the chamber for a path downwards.
06[21:12] * Seira proceeds to observe the raised platform in the meantime, studying it.
01[21:13] <Seira> 'Do we want to know what the devils are here for?' Seira consults with Alicia. 'Anything to thwart their plans or this lilitu's.'
[21:15] <Alicia> 'Have Lagann free them as we leave? It'll lend credence to the seed we planted with the bezekira illusion, and they can cause some trouble to distract the demons while we carry out our mission,' Alicia replies while carefully releasing the hound archon.
01[21:16] <Seira> 'Oh, certainly,' Seira agrees. 'But I was thinking of questioning them, at least as to their masters and purpose here.'
[21:16] <Alicia> 'We really don't have time,' Alicia shakes her head despite the invisibility. 'The demons upstairs are surely mobilising as we speak.'
01[21:17] <Seira> 'Any idea whether this place is shielded from planar travel? We could just use that to escape, if not.'
[21:17] <Alicia> 'It isn't here but the level below is,' Marie replies.
01[21:19] <Seira> 'Think you could ask the devils for their names and who they serve, while I try to find a way below?' Seira suggests to Marie. 'If nothing else, it might lead credence to trying to find the one we're here to free.'
[21:20] <Kotono> The spikes are driven deeply into the archon, but they are slowly removed. Once freed, it looks about, "My thanks...is there a blade about? I must attempt to end them, even if it ends with my soul racing back to Celestia." (More)
[21:20] <Alicia> Marie is busy searching for secret passages and if she finds one she doesn't want to waste time chatting up devils.
[21:22] <Kotono> OOC: Spellcraft, Seira.
01[21:22] <Seira> "Or you could just help us and return there on your own," Seira mutters loudly enough for the archon to overhear, even as she focuses further.
01[21:22] <Seira> roll 1d20+28
06[21:22] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+28 and gets 30." [1d20=2]
[21:27] <Kotono> Marie sweeps about, finding no passages save one. The ground underneath the raised metallic rise is electric, passing through Marie harmlessly.
[21:27] <Alicia> OOC: Solid ground or a tunnel?
[21:28] <Kotono> "As you wish." The archon says, it's body bleeding. "Is there a weapon I can use?"
[21:28] <Kotono> The maruts march out, despite injuries to their frame. "Which way is out? We must continue our mission immediately."
01[21:29] <Seira> "Any chance anyone knows what's going on with this platform?" Seira voices.
06[21:31] * Alicia decides the archon and inevitable would likely be too obvious and a liability on their mission. "I'll banish you both home - please don't resist my dismissal spell," she requests, hesitating a second in case either can help Seira before she starts casting.
[21:31] <Kotono> "We can report on that," A marut speaks up, marching towards Seira, it's heavy metal body clinking against the silver floor. "Fiends walk to it and then speak words of Abyssal and then there is a sound, much like something melting."
01[21:32] <Seira> "Weird. What were the words?"
[21:32] <Alicia> Marie pops back up. "It probably phases them downstairs, but the electricity would hurt you two," she comments.
[21:32] <Kotono> In Abyssal, "Open the gate to seclusion."
01[21:33] <Seira> "Well then, let's try it?" Seira suggests. "As for you two, we could send you back, and you'd be able to pick your mission once you got healed and all that."
[21:34] <Alicia> "Alright, hold still while I dismiss the three of you," Alicia requests, starting with the archon. "I'll ward us against electricity before we try it."
[21:34] <Kotono> The Hound Archon speaks now, "Unseen saviors, heed my words. I was sold to a succubus as a plaything after being captured defending the innocent children here. The lord of this foul place, Estaci, may have ties to Malcanthet, for I have heard this name spoken by the fiends here."
01[21:35] <Seira> "That's what we think as well," Seira agrees.
[21:35] <Alicia> "We've heard the same. Worry not, things are going to change here hopefully," Alicia asserts before attempting to banish him back to the safety of Mount Celestia.
[21:36] <Kotono> With a momentary wink, the Hound Archon is gone.
[21:36] <Kotono> "We must continue our mission, though being sent back to Mechanus for repair and refocus is acceptable," The maruts agree.
[21:37] <Alicia> "What is your mission?" Alicia asks before dismissing them, in case it intersects their own. 'Seira, can Lagann weld the walls together to seal this chamber off at the doorway? I'm worried about how long this is taking.'
[21:37] <Kotono> "We must slay the wizard Graylung." The maruts answered, "For he has profaned against the laws of life."
01[21:38] <Seira> "A minor setback is better than certain death and failure," Seira voices. "Good luck." Alicia's idea is a good one, and all that silver is now just going to waste, so she commands Lagann to mobilize it towards the doorway, making layers upon layers of silver over it.
[21:38] <Kotono> At Seira's command, the door leading back up now has layer after layer of silver stacked and pressed into it.
[21:39] <Alicia> "Be more careful next time, or come with a larger force," Alicia suggests before dismissing the first Marut, and then the second.
[21:39] <Kotono> The Maruts are gone, send back to whence they came.
06[21:40] * Alicia then wards herself and Seira against electricity before she approaches the disc. Marie turns corporeal and lands on her shoulder. 'Release the devils and then we'll activate this?' she asks Seira.
01[21:41] <Seira> 'Free the fiends once I speak the words,' Seira commands Lagann, saying the Abyssal phrase for activating their means of transporation.
[21:43] <Kotono> Seira sees metal flying for a moment, then...the ground rise sup, enveloping you! You are propelled down, electricity rippling through you as you do! (More)
[21:43] <Kotono> roll 15d6 no save but res 30 helps
06[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 15d6 no save but res 30 helps and gets 51." [15d6=6, 4, 1, 6, 3, 4, 3, 1, 1, 5, 6, 2, 1, 3, 5]
[21:45] <Kotono> You feel shocked to the bone, bodies thrashing! But you endure it, landing hard. Ahead of you is an open room, large. Crumbling pillars and broken metal chains lie about. You hear a clapping, a hooded woman about 50 feet away. She wears a hooded robe, hands a beautiful, pure white. A split second later, a monstrosity steps in front of her! (More)
[21:48] <Kotono> It has the roaring, furious head of a balor. Fire burns around it's body, it's wings short and stunted. Writhing from it's burning back are tentacles, thrashing and licking out, six in total. It's body is beautifully, overwhelmingly masculine and human, covered in scarlet red bodypaint, obscene symbols drawn in. It wields no weapon, wears no armor or clothes. With a roar, "Dogs of the Dark Six...die!" It bellows at the top of it's lungs, in ho
[21:49] <Kotono> "Dogs of the Dark Six...die!" It bellows at the top of it's lungs, in howling Abyssal! OOC: Init. It looks -very- unfriendly, even for a demon.
[21:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 Alicia
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 Alicia and gets 14." [1d20=7]
[21:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 Marie
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 Marie and gets 24." [1d20=16]
[21:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 27." [1d20=16]
[21:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 27." [1d20=19]
01[21:49] <Seira> roll 1d20+11 nerveskitter
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+11 nerveskitter and gets 26." [1d20=15]
01[21:50] <Seira> roll 1d20 L
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20 L and gets 20." [1d20=20]
03[21:50] * Kotono changes topic to 'Tentacled man-balor=Hooded woman(27)Seira(26)>Marie(24)>Lagann(20)>Alicia(14)'
[21:52] <Kotono> The woman approaches, a hand on the monster. The creature looks confused, "Why?" It asks to her, then, furrowing it's brow, "Your names!" It points at Seira. "Tell me your names!"
01[21:54] <Seira> Oh please. Seira merely raises an eyebrow, invisible as she is.
[21:56] <Alicia> Given the vast bounties on their names, Alicia isn't particularly inclined to give them. It's best if they never have a clue just who's responsible here. "We're no dogs of the Dark Six, but that won't make us friends to you," she retorts, since invisibility isn't helping them anyway.
[21:58] <Kotono> There is another pause, the monstrosity roaring. But the woman puts another hand on it's side. It looks to them again, "My Mistress says that if you oppose the Dark Six, there is no reason to fight." It bites those words off, "This is not right! There is only violence and rape!" It turns to her, but immediately turns away from her, face pale. It quickly adds, "T-there is no reason to fight i-if you oppose the Dark Six."
[21:58] <Kotono> "T-there is no reason to fight i-if you oppose the Dark Six."
01[21:59] <Seira> Since those idiots can't decide what to do with them, Seira takes this chance to look around, curious as to whether they fell into a trap or there actually is a cell of sorts here.
[21:59] <Kotono> Past the chains and broken pillars there is a heavy door, engraved with shifting, hissing runes of Abyssal.
06[22:00] * Alicia doesn't particularly like this setup. At all. "Be that as it may, the green slaad held here has important information about the liches. We're here for Tiririmant."
[22:01] <Kotono> The demon cowers before the hidden woman. It speaks after a pause, "S-show yourselves to her if you wish to see him."
[22:02] <Alicia> 'Seira, the invisibility isn't helping so you might as well end it. I'll keep the veil up, though,' Alicia suggests telepathically.
01[22:03] <Seira> 'I actually think it might be helping against the woman, at least, but I can always recast it. Let them think we've lowered our guard,' Seira responds, relinquishing her control over the invisibility cloaking them.
[22:13] <Kotono> On appearing, the woman laughs. Her voice is absolutely thrilling, dazzling with it's mirth and utter perfection. She draws back her hood - a gorgeous woman, crimson red hair and flawless white skin. The image of a scourge superimposed over a pair of red lips burns on her forehead. Her every movement is intoxicating to watch, as if wine itself was made into motions. "I am G'Renna, blessed of Malcanthet. The Queen has an interest the affairs of
[22:14] <Kotono> "I am G'Renna, blessed of Malcanthet. The Queen has an interest the affairs of the Dark Six, and I am here to represent her interests in Androlynne."
01[22:15] <Seira> "So what would those interests be?" Seira inquires.
[22:16] <Alicia> Oh, dammit! Alicia is fortunately spared from commenting by Seira beating her to it, but damn if this doesn't put a crimp in her plans.
[22:17] <Kotono> "LEt us meet like civilized people," Stretching back, her cloak covering her body, G'renna walks forward. "Now then. If you'd introduce yourselves...or should I do it for you?" With a smirk that reaches her eyes, "The undead pixie is cute, but she's such a giveaway."
01[22:19] <Seira> "Shouldn't you show us yours, now?" Seira counters. "We're visible, so where's that slaad?"
06[22:19] * Alicia resists the urge to sigh and dismisses the veil, revealing her true angelic form. "It seems we've both moved up in the world since our last meeting, G'renna," she tells the succubus in a measured tone.
[22:21] <Alicia> Marie promptly turns incorporeal, since she's rather naked without the veil.
[22:21] <Kotono> "Behind us. We can meet with him at our leisure." With warm eyes, "Ah, Alicia. How you're risen!" She approaches, going to lightly run her fingers over her feathery wings. "The stories we could tell each other about how we reached these points would be worthy, no?" Turning away, "Myskretch, begone." she says in a word, the symbol on her forehead writhing with fire. The masculine creature takes a fearful step back, retreating away behind a brok
[22:21] <Kotono> The masculine creature takes a fearful step back, retreating away behind a broken pillar. "But just for you, Alicia...let's go see the slaad first."
06[22:22] * Seira looks at Alicia in disbelief, but doesn't say a thing.
[22:23] <Alicia> "Do I have you to thank for the bounty we've been hearing about as well?" Alicia asks the succubus archly.
[22:24] <Kotono> "Oh no. Estaci is such a petty woman. To think, she's threatened by her Queen sending good wishes and help." Twirling her fingers around one of Alicia's feathers, "Love," She leans in closer, "It's all petty politics. Pay it no mind. As long as the symbol of Malcanthet's favor is mine, she will not openly oppose me."
06[22:25] * Seira coughs into her fist. "To get us back on track, Malcanthet wants the Dark Six reach their final death?"
06[22:26] * Alicia fluffs her wings out and away from G'renna's touchy fingers. "Regardless, we're here for Tiririrmant, not to play Abyssal politics. Let us leave with him and that will be the end of it - we can use the information he has against the Dark Six and Malcanthet won't have to involve herself."
[22:27] <Kotono> "You're welcome to try talking to him, but...well, you'll see. Alicia," She murmurs, "There is no need to be defensive. I bear you nothing but good will. Why, if you had found me or contacted me, I would have saved you the trouble of sneaking in." Thereafter she smiles brightly to Seira, "That is one of her wishes. You are familiar with what the Dark Six are doing?"
01[22:28] <Seira> "Working with Pale Night, from what we could tell. Is there more to it?"
[22:29] <Alicia> "You helped me before, but I wouldn't want to push your good nature," Alicia replies with a half-smile, knowing how important it is to keep on her guard with this particular succubus above any other.
01[22:30] <Seira> If they had relied on the nice succubus to achieve their goals, there would still be a tortured hound archon left behind, not to mention a pair of inevitables. Seira figures that alone makes the sneaking in worth it.
[22:31] <Kotono> "For you, most interesting sainted angel of all," G'renna stays close to her, but doesn't touch, "My good will is endless. My help is yours for free. You've piqued me like none other." After, slowly walking towards Alicia's side, "Malcanthet's spawn is tied ot the Dark Six. She objects to his particular fate. Who dares to take a useful servant from her and allow him to operate without her guidance?"
06[22:32] * Seira blinks at the revelation. "We honestly didn't imagine she'd care. Our mistake!"
[22:33] <Alicia> "I'd think Ao bears ultimate responsibility for that," Alicia remarks. "But one might as well aim for what's in reach."
[22:35] <Kotono> "Exactly." To both she smiles like silk, "So you are Seira of the Crimson Guard, and you're Marie? Why Alicia, you keep deliciously beautiful friends. I see why Malcanthet sees potential in you yet again. But...let us talk of that later. Of the slaad, we found out he had information, but do did other forces. By the time we tracked him down, the other side had taken a go at him. He's here for his own protection, for what they did to him is terr
[22:35] <Kotono> He's here for his own protection, for what they did to him is terribly unpleasant."
01[22:36] <Seira> "Oh, please, you are far prettier. Your beauty has taken on a life of its own, that's how much of a difference exists," Seira compliments the exceedingly nice succubus. "And I'm fairly confident we could protect him and make use of that information towards our mutual benefit."
[22:37] <Alicia> It perhaps sounds somewhat plausible, but Alicia isn't quite sure. "Lets see what state he's in. If it's possible we'll heal him and take him somewhere even safer," Alicia suggests, hoping he hasn't shared Lord Drake's fate.
[22:38] <Kotono> "Malcanthet's blessings enhance me deeply...but yet, I can still appreciate the fine elven beauty of your form, or the delicate, energetic features of the eladrin." Reaching out for Alicia's hand, "I believe we could be of much mutual...benefit to each other, hm?"
01[22:40] <Seira> "Is that an unusual euphemism?"
[22:40] <Alicia> "Well, at least you don't have many angles," Marie replies grudgingly as Alicia lets her hand be taken. G'renna's new station makes her ultimate loyalties far clearer, but despite it all she wants to give the demon a chance based on their history.
[22:41] <Kotono> Thus you are lead ahead ot the door. Taking out a golden key, G'renna undoes the lock. "Oh yes. The four of us together...so many...mutually beneficial things happening..." With a lick of her lips, "Alicia has an inkling of the pleasure I can provide."
01[22:42] <Seira> Seira's eyebrows climb through the roof at that. "Maybe in another lifetime," she responds. "So who were the goons you rescued this slaad from?"
[22:43] <Alicia> "Lets focus on business, G'renna?" Alicia asks hopefully. "There's a cabal of exceedingly powerful liches and their undead godspawn leader out there who want us all dead, after all. Not to mention the owner of this layer might not approve of what we're doing."
[22:45] <Kotono> G'renna chuckles as she opens the door. "Local servants of Lsyscrea, the balor lord of this city. Through disorganization or subterfuge, they had not taken the slaad to an inassaultable position." Ahead is a simple cell, a lush bed out of place with the broken, empty feel of the room. Lying on it is a green, toad like creature. He stares up at the ceiling, "Red blue scentless the river world sin bloodied diamond diadems glowlight tripled..." i
[22:45] <Kotono> "Red blue scentless the river world sin bloodied diamond diadems glowlight tripled..." it's voice is steady, word after discoherent word coming out.
[22:46] <Kotono> G'renna stands aside, "Slaad are insane. But this goes beyond any slaadi whims and incomprehensible works I have ever seen."
01[22:46] <Seira> "And what about his celestial contact? Was he driven insane as well?"
[22:46] <Alicia> OOC: Any magic on the slaad?
[22:47] <Kotono> "A celestial contact?" G'renna raises an eyebrow, "That I know nothing of. Perhaps he was with the slaad and taken elseware, or slain?"
[22:47] <Kotono> "Sunday Monday mercenary feast it crow-blackbird," The slaad continues without a pause for breath.
[22:48] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 sense motive laf
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 sense motive laf and gets 33." [1d20=17]
01[22:48] <Seira> roll 1d20+13
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 and gets 19." [1d20=6]
01[22:49] <Seira> roll 1d20+27
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+27 and gets 47." [1d20=20]
[22:49] <Alicia> "It's relatively simple to cure insanity with magic. If you let us leave with him we can see to that, and then use what he knows against the Dark Six," she asks her favourite succubus.
[22:50] <Kotono> G'Renna leans in, going to hug Alicia. "Try, by all means there are. We have, but the normal counters have failed." Goin to whisper into her ear, "I'll be very, very pleased with all of you if you succeed."
01[22:51] <Seira> "We don't have to beat up on the defenders on our way back, do we?" Seira asks, making a face. "Is there another way out of here that doesn't require bullying?"
[22:51] <Kotono> "Oh, no fighting. When you walk here with me, you will be as Goddesses. None will dare raise a hand to you," G'renna smiles to Seira. "Not even Estaci will dare."
01[22:52] <Seira> "That must make her so angry!" Seira exclaims. "I'm all for seeing it."
06[22:53] * Alicia returns the hug, giving G'renna credit for not forcing a confrontation here after all. "We can plane shift away once we're out of the dimensional anchor in this room. There's no need to expose ourselves and risk any unpleasantness."
01[22:53] <Seira> "But I want to ask her about the bounty!"
[22:54] <Kotono> "Hahahaaaaa." Smirking to Seira, "Oh yes. We could go right in front of Estaci and she could only stand there, impotent. I could give Alicia all the pleasure she denies herself in front of her, and she could only watch," Running a finger down Alicia's cheek, "But if that's what the two of you wish."
06[22:55] * Alicia coughs delicately. "Thank you, G'renna. Really, that's almost sweet," she mutters. "But I think it's best if we leave more subtly. Not everyone here would be cowed by Malcanthet's shadow, even if Estaci is."
[22:56] <Kotono> "Of course, but..." G'Renna's eyes twinkle, "We'll all leave with plane shift then."
01[22:56] <Seira> "Is there a way to drop the shielding on this chamber for a few moments for us to do that?"
[22:56] <Alicia> "All?" Alicia catches that.
[22:59] <Kotono> "Oh, of course I'm going with you. If anyone can defeat the Dark Six, it's the legendary Crimson Guard. It only furthers Malcanthet's wishes..aaaaand..." Drawing the last word out, "Such incredible purity, Alicia! Most mortals are nothing compared to you, burning brighter than Lathander! I am a moth, caught drawn to the fires. Oh, we will go...and oh, the seduction. Every battle, every step, the intoxicating, overwhelming back and forth. I hav
[22:59] <Kotono> Every battle, every step, the intoxicating, overwhelming back and forth. I have only shown you the very beginnings of my depths. I will make every waking moment a bliss that even the Heavens feel futile envy for. Plus your friends...oh yes. Seira, you interest me as well." Then she reaches up, going to stroke Marie's head, "Even you...and the others I have heard of...oh Alicia, I will show you true happiness."
[23:02] <Alicia> "Ah... G'renna, not that I don't appreciate your good graces, and that you really do think I'd be better off following your example, the fact remains that I don't really see much long term happiness in serving Malcanthet," Alicia demurs. "Not to mention the friction you'd cause among my friends who don't quite know you as I do."
[23:02] <Alicia> "Plus you'd get hurt by all the holy smites we throw around when fighting the undead!" Marie chimes in.
[23:04] <Kotono> "So? The seduction is not one sided," Going to play with a bit of Alicia's hair, twirling it ot the side, "Seduce me to the light...would surely not your Gods of the Heavens wish you to do so? There is already another you told me of, Alicia. Surely it is a task they have given the Crimson Guard?"
01[23:04] <Seira> "Maybe she'd like it," Seira whispers to Marie.
[23:06] <Alicia> "Turning to the light is generally less a warm and inviting seduction and more a bitterly painful and hard ordeal that makes you long for the brutal simplicity of the Abyss even as you come to loathe it and yourself," Alicia returns with a smile of her own that doesn't reach her eyes. Marie meanwhile bobs in the air in the approximation of a nod to Seira.
[23:08] <Kotono> "Alicia. Why such hardness in your eyes?" Going to look Alicia in the eyes, "Must all the eternal wards of light and dark be bitter and full of hate? Cannot love blossom together? Is there no place for passions in your heart? Surely you...you...and you...and the others," G'renna looks to each of them, "Would be worthy members of this seduction, no? Besides, painful, hard...what is that to a succubus? Perhaps Seira has the right of it there."
[23:08] <Kotono> .what is that to a succubus? Perhaps Seira has the right of it there."
01[23:09] <Seira> "Alright, much as I hate to cut through all the sappy stuff, here, I don't care if you want to pretend to follow Alicia into the light or whatever fancy words you use for that," Seira states. "Our world, our rules. The same applies for anywhere we go. As long as you can accept that, it really depends on whether Alicia wants to put in the effort. I'll get our higher ups to accept it."
[23:12] <Alicia> "It's not for the faint hearted, G'renna," Alicia shakes her head. "If you were to follow my path, you would find it very difficult and so easy to slip off. If you were to lead me down yours, conflict would be inevitable."
[23:12] <Alicia> Putting her hands on the fiend's shoulders and willing her to listen and understand as she meets her eyes, she concludes, "I said the last time it would be best if we never met again, and this is why. Whatever we have together, it can't endure. You won't reject Malcanthet any more than I'd betray Mystra.""
06[23:13] * Seira wishes she were a bard as she observes silently.
[23:15] <Kotono> "How will we know if we won't try. I saw how much Malcanthet's charms tempted you." Going to look Alicia in the eyes, "You felt it, did you not? How hot your love burned, how wet you grew. You cannot deny it. Yet...would I be drawn to you so much if the light's warmth did not intrigue me? Would I, truly? And even if we fail...so what? What is life if you live it without chasing your passions? What is existance without striving for your dreams?
[23:15] <Kotono> What is life if you live it without chasing your passions? What is existance without striving for your dreams? Alicia, my dream is you. Tell me...tell me you have not dreamed of me. Tell me that you hold nothing in your heart for me and I will let you go."
[23:17] <Alicia> "Oh, yes, I dreamed of you," Alicia replies, on a far more even footing now. "A few months ago, you promised all sorts of fun... then I checked for magic as soon as I woke up and saw it hanging off me like a cloud."
[23:17] <Kotono> "A pleasant reminder, wishing you were here," G'renna merely smiles.
[23:23] <Alicia> "Uh huh," Alicia returns dryly. "It won't work, G'renna. I'd have to stand against you the moment you jeapordised our mission, or hurt an innocent."
[23:23] <Alicia> "And much as I like you, I know it would come to that - even if you avoided the temptation to sow a little disorder on our way, I'm sure Malcanthet has some plan to bring her offspring to heel that you're part of, and that would conflict with our goals. It's better for us both to part."
01[23:24] <Seira> "Well, then. You'll have other chances?" Seira tells G'renna, looking apologetic.
[23:26] <Kotono> "Naturally she does, but Malcanthet gave me a great deal of...discretion to acheive her goals." Looking into Alicia's eye, "But you never said what I asked, did you? What are your reason and logic to the passions of the heart? Besides, I can...sweeten the deal."
[23:29] <Alicia> "Please, G'renna," Alicia shakes her head. "Don't resort to bribery. Heaven help me, but I like you. And I don't want to be put in a position where I'd have to hurt you - that's what my feelings say."
[23:32] <Kotono> G'Renna smiles, leaning in to kiss Alicia's cheek. "Once again, you prove that I'm never going to forget you. Your will power is extrodinary." She steps away, pulling up her hood. "Malcanthet's original desires were to not care of what the Dark Six did. But your words on Ebony's failings had inspired me to return to the Razor Throne and Her Court. I had returned into Her favor and spoke strongly to intervene...for your sake."
06[23:35] * Alicia inclines her head. "I do appreciate your concern, G'renna. And I trust your motives, at least in regards to me." It's just everyone else she's worried about. "Out of curiousity, how is Ebony, anyway?" She's been wondering for a while, and Marie's theory about the blackrock triskelion seems shot.
[23:37] <Kotono> "She has fallen on harder times. Malcanthet agreed she mishandled you. As news of your successes reached Her ears, they became all the more damning." Chuckling now, "She is ill in the Queen's Favor, scrambling to regain it before it is too late." After a moment then, pulling her hood back down, "As part of an attempt to seduce you to Her wishes, Malcanthet gave me a sacred treasure she had seduced away long ago. I am only supposed to give it t
[23:37] <Kotono> Malcanthet gave me a sacred treasure she had seduced away long ago. I am only supposed to give it to you on cooperation, but...to choose between you and Malcanthet on this matter, I choose you."
[23:39] <Alicia> "You don't need to give me anything, G'renna, especially if it puts you at risk," Alicia shakes her head. "We're only interested in Tiririmant."
[23:40] <Kotono> "I want to give it to you." G'renna shakes her head, "Alicia, can you trust me on this one matter? It is the purified love of a solar and his passions. Up to six of you can bask in it. The charismatic beauty it would bestow on you would be legendary."
[23:42] <Alicia> "I take it it would harm a demon?" Alicia guesses as to why it's never been used.
[23:43] <Kotono> "Naturally. Seira can benefit from it, Marie can...your dearest Antenora can...Demedais can, any of you can." With a little smirk teasing at her lips now, "It is in my private villa in Malcanthet's realm. Worry not, it is safe and I can take you there. I only ask one thing in return. Alicia, spend a night with me talking. I wish to grow to understand you."
[23:46] <Alicia> "We're pressed for time at the moment, with the Dark Six attacking at will and Glaciante likely to reform his body any day now," Alicia admits. "But you've earned some trust, G'renna. When this is over we can talk."
[23:47] <Kotono> "Good. Come." G'Renna goes to the slaad, picking it up with ease and carrying it. "Let us go above, and we will planeshift there, so you can return to it when it's the proper time?"
01[23:48] <Seira> "Since you're being so nice, would it be too much to ask you to free everyone held in the cells at the level above that?"
[23:49] <Kotono> "The playthings of Estaci?" With a shrug, "A simple order, and one that will cause her a certain anguish." Smirking at that, "Naturally, I will ensure that she has to pay for them to be planeshifted away, so that they can't interrupt Malcanthet's plans."
06[23:51] * Seira smirks back. "You've read my mind. Let's go?"
[23:52] <Kotono> G'renna stops and hesitates as you walk to whence you came, "As I'm sure you noticed, the trip up will be somewhat discomforting. Can you endure it again?"
01[23:53] <Seira> "Can the slaad? That's the only real question."
06[23:54] * Alicia smiles a little at that, almost reconsidering her decision to reject G'renna's help. Maybe someday... but for now, Marie turns corporeal and settles on Alicia's head. "We're warded against electricity but some got through. I can do the same for Tiririmant and heal us once we're through. We might want to leave quickly if the devils are still up there, though."
[23:54] <Alicia> Leaning over to G'renna, she proceeds to ward the slaad against electricity.
[23:55] <Kotono> "His physical wounds are not serious," G'renna replies, "They have healed." G'renna returns Alicia's smile, "Then..." With a few words of Abyssal, you rise up, electricity snapping at you!
[23:55] <Kotono> roll 15d6
06[23:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 15d6 and gets 66." [15d6=5, 4, 3, 5, 5, 5, 6, 4, 6, 4, 6, 6, 4, 2, 1]
[23:55] <Kotono> OOC: Thematic.
[23:56] <Kotono> The lightning blasts and scorches you, but you emerge up! A cornugon is not far away, even as G'renna calls, "Ready, let's go now!"
06[23:59] * Alicia does not resist G'renna's spell, if it turns out to be a dominate spell instead then that's what Marie's here for.
[00:00] <Kotono> G'renna takes your hands, concentrating! In a moment, the scene is gone! You stand amid a orange and yellow feast, a sunset. You stand in front of a window, a breattaking view of a rocky shore and sea below.  The air is warm, smelling of cinnamon and perfume. You feel a warmth briefly crawl over your bodies, as G'renna sets down the slaad. "Welcome to The Vines Manor."
Session Time: Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 2009
[00:02] <Alicia> Ahh Shendilvari. At once so inviting and so disquieting... at least she's not sticking around long enough to kill anything this time. Taking a look around to familiarise herself with the area, Alicia slips on her ring of plane shift to replace the freedom of movement one.
[00:02] <Alicia> "I bought this after my first visit here, to ensure I could get away easier after future portal mishaps," she confesses. "I'll stop by after we've settled things with the Dark Six."
06[00:03] * Seira picks up the slaad, waving at G'renna despite her burden. "Take care!"
[00:03] <Kotono> G'renna turns, going to wrap her arms around Alicia's shoulders, "If you have even a free night, come earlier," she promises. "When you have a moment, bring yourself and five others you wish for the gift."
06[00:04] * Alicia isn't even sure if she'll accept the gift. "Until then," she squeezes the oddly nice fiend back, before she heals the slaad and shifts them back to Androlynne, hopefully on the eladrin side of the river.
[00:04] <Alicia> roll 3d8+15
06[00:04] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d8+15 and gets 23." [3d8=3, 4, 1]

[Corwin]

[19:26] <Kotono> ----
[19:29] <Kotono> As the momentary haze of plane shifting leaves you, you find yourselves standing in the Boldybingian Woods, in what looks to be aroughly the same place as last time.
06[19:31] * Alicia replaces the plane shift ring for the freedom of movement one and gives the portable hole to Marie so she can recover her clothes. "Want to do the honours, or shall I?" she asks Seira, indicating the babbling slaad.
01[19:32] <Seira> "I guess this is where everyone gets deposited when they plane shift for that destination," Seira mutters, placing the slaad down and alerting Amaryl to their return. "I've got it, let me try?" she tells Alicia in response to the paladin's prompting, and calls upon the highest magic in her possession to cure the unfortunate victim!
[19:36] <Kotono> The green slaad buckles and thrashes as Seira invokes primal magics! It's storm of babbling ceases as it sits straight up, holding it's head between it's clawed hands. For a long while it just sits there, as the trees erupt with dryads! They stare on at the scene, a few murmuring, "Who calls on such magic here?!"
01[19:37] <Seira> "That would be me," Seira says absent-mindedly, observing the slaad with a critical eye. A wish, even a limited one, should not have failed with cases of insanity and variants.
[19:37] <Alicia> "Tiririmant?" Alicia looks at the frog with concern. "Are you alright?"
[19:38] <Kotono> Tiririmant coughs as it shakes it's head, "Throbbing. Head throbbing," it says. "Like crystals of ice were stuck into my eyes."
[19:39] <Alicia> "I think the demons did something to affect your mind. Lets check your memory," Alicia asks with an ulterior motive, "What's the secret of Applebright?"
01[19:39] <Seira> "Ah, so it worked!" Seira almost exclaims, but manages to calm herself lest she aggravate the slaad's headache. Those can be quite the pain, especially after evil mind control.
[19:41] <Kotono> "Her smile," The slaad rubs his temples, "Hahahahahaa...the eladrin sent you, eh?"
06[19:42] * Alicia smiles herself. "Yes, you're among friends now. If you're fit to walk we can take you to Lady Honeydip - they got your message about the orb, but it sounds like Starrel wasn't able to meet you and you were captured yourself."
01[19:43] <Seira> "This is actually a good question. Do you know if he, too, were taken?"
[19:52] <Kotono> "I don't. My mind...my mind feels clear now." The slaad stands, "A dead man walking carries an orb that is a living nightmare. The saga of Androlynne is about to reach it's climax. We must hurry to Honeydip."
01[19:53] <Seira> "No time like the present, then."
06[19:53] * Alicia looks around at the lingering dryads. "Can one of you guide us to Pascorel? I think I know the way but I'd rather not risk getting lost in these woods."
[19:54] <Kotono> "We can't leave our trees," One of the rubbernecks says, "If you get lost, head north to the Hoppenstain Run and find a defender there."
06[19:54] * Alicia nods. "Oh, well, I think I remember the way Sunni led us," she remarks, setting off. "I'm Alicia and this is Seira," she introduces them to the slaad.
[19:59] <Kotono> Fortune is with the party, for they travel back to Pascorel without incident. You are whisked into see Lady Honeydip immediately, your friends joining you as well. As the six of you settle in with Lady Honeydip and the slaad, "I will speak first. My mind is not right. It is clear, but it is not right." It says, standing before all of you in the gingerbread house.
06[19:59] * Alicia settles in patiently to listen.
01[20:00] <Seira> "We can try to see about helping you after you've spoken," Seira agrees, likewise listening.
[20:00] <Kotono> Amaryl sits next to Seira, listening as well. Antenora and Latha sit by themselves, quiet and waiting.
[20:02] <Kotono> "About three months ago, fortune lead me to falling into the good graces of Lsyscrea, balor lord of Golmendicoria's War College. I was able to hear much of the being's ruminations; at first it was what a demon would think of. But within the past month or so, Lsyscrea grew anxious, different. His demeanor was near silent in private, the few words he spoke being ones of gloating and demonic exultation."
[20:02] <Kotono>  gloating and demonic exultation."
06[20:03] * Alicia wonders if this will lead to the balor being in the Dark Six's pocket. She certainly wouldn't mind an excuse to trash the war college.
[20:07] <Kotono> "A month ago, Lsyscream called several of his cowed servants to his private chambers. He was waiting there, a dead man walking, like a rotted white doll. In his hands was an orb, an orb of death. The demons howled and cackled when they saw it, but I could only stare."
[20:07] <Kotono> *Lsyscrea
06[20:08] * Alicia would wager that's the lich responsible for the freakish molydeus from yesterday as well, but doesn't interrupt until Tiririmant is finished.
03[20:08] * Adahn (WinNT@user-514c08c9.l1.c5.dsl.pol.co.uk) has joined #dunes
06[20:09] * Seira can't help but wonder how someone decent could befriend an unrepentant balor in the first place, but it would probably be rude to ask. Not to mention that she would be interrupting.
02[20:09] * Alicia (WinNT@user-514c08c9.l1.c5.dsl.pol.co.uk) Quit (NickServ (GHOST command used by Adahn))
03[20:09] * Adahn is now known as Alicia
03[20:09] * ChanServ sets mode: +ao Alicia Alicia
[20:10] <Kotono> "He spoke in the Dark Speech. He spoke it with more purity and hate than a demon, every word making the souls within his orb scream. Oh, the things he spoke of...such marvelous, perfect chaos married to sublime hate. He spoke that the end of Androlynne was coming in due time and that at last they would all be sacrificed at the right moment."
[20:10] <Alicia> "All? Does that include the demons as well?" Alicia clarifies uncertainly.
[20:13] <Kotono> "It wasn't specificed, but the meaning was clear - the long time prey of Pale Night. The demons grew happy, a demonic howl of hunger and pleasure rocking the rooms. Over them he spoke in the Dark Speech: In three months the final battle comes. On that day Pale Night shall triumph."
01[20:14] <Seira> "In person?"
Session Close: Mon Nov 09 20:20:07 2009

Session Start: Mon Nov 09 20:20:07 2009
Session Ident: #dunes
02[20:20] * Disconnected
02[20:20] * Attempting to rejoin channel #dunes
03[20:20] * Rejoined channel #dunes
03[20:20] * Topic is 'Tentacled man-balor=Hooded woman(27)Seira(26)>Marie(24)>Lagann(20)>Alicia(14)'
03[20:20] * Set by Kotono on Sat Nov 07 21:57:44
03[20:20] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Seira
01[20:21] <Seira> "Let's move on to the way they're going to do it, and how to prevent it, then?" Seira suggests, rather than keeping in with the gloominess. "It all comes back to that orb?"
[20:21] <Kotono> "There is still some time, but I would not wish to test it to it's limits." Latha murmurs.
03[20:28] * Retrieving #dunes modes...
Session Close: Mon Nov 09 20:28:05 2009

Session Start: Mon Nov 09 20:28:05 2009
Session Ident: #dunes
02[20:28] * Disconnected
02[20:28] * Attempting to rejoin channel #dunes
03[20:28] * Rejoined channel #dunes
03[20:28] * Topic is 'Tentacled man-balor=Hooded woman(27)Seira(26)>Marie(24)>Lagann(20)>Alicia(14)'
03[20:28] * Set by Kotono on Sat Nov 07 21:57:44
03[20:28] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Seira
[20:28] <Alicia> "Did he give any details about how they would triumph, what they were planning?" Alicia asks hopefully. If not they're probably going to have to kidnap and interrogate a balor.
[20:32] <Kotono> "No." As the slaad shakes his head, Lady Honeydip frowns, sitting in her tiny chair. "This is is going to be bad...if we have to assail Mother's Mountain? No one's ever come back from challenging it's peaks. It's said that Pale Night herself resides within."
[20:34] <Alicia> "One more thing, Tiririmant," Alicia braces herself, opening up the portable hole and reaching inside, her skin crawling as she takes out Glaciante's orb. "Was the orb you saw like this one, or are there differences you can percieve?"
[20:34] <Kotono> "We'll need all the might we can muster if we're to face a demon lord," Antenora says, half ot herself, but her voice carries.
[20:34] <Kotono> Tiririrmant recoils back, "That...that orb! How did you...
[20:34] <Kotono> OOC: Gah.
01[20:35] <Seira> "Can we return to the creepy dead person, too, for a moment?" Seira requests. "It might help if you described the one you saw, so we could tell if it's the same one we took it from."
[20:35] <Kotono> Tiririrmant recoils back, "That...that orb! How did you..." Transfixed as he stares at it even as his body reacts, Alicia's mind filled with whispers promising arcane power, her soul turning to ice as she holds it, "It is very much like it!"
06[20:36] * Alicia nods, not holding onto the horrid thing for much longer before she puts it away again. "We took it from a lich on the prime material named Glaciante Devarim - we believe him a colleague of youe doll-faced lich."
[20:36] <Kotono> "He was like a doll, a rotting doll. His flesh was like an expensive, delicate doll a mortal noblewoman might own. His voice was quiet, but there was an air about him. An air of unnaturalness. He wore black robes and had a heavy iron necklace-pendant, with whatever it held behing hidden beneath his robes.
[20:36] <Kotono> "
01[20:38] <Seira> Creepy, as expected. "Allow us to fill you in," she tells Tiririmant. "We strongly believe that this orb, or others like it, are somehow key to freeing the trapped children. Does that make any sense to you?"
Session Close: Mon Nov 09 20:38:31 2009

Session Start: Mon Nov 09 20:38:31 2009
Session Ident: #dunes
02[20:38] * Disconnected
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03[20:38] * Topic is 'Tentacled man-balor=Hooded woman(27)Seira(26)>Marie(24)>Lagann(20)>Alicia(14)'
03[20:38] * Set by Kotono on Sat Nov 07 21:57:44
02[20:38] * Seira (~corwin@bzq-82-81-151-184.red.bezeqint.net) Quit (Connection reset by peer)
01[20:38] <Yomi> Creepy, as expected. "Allow us to fill you in," she tells Tiririmant. "We strongly believe that this orb, or others like it, are somehow key to freeing the trapped children. Does that make any sense to you?"
03[20:39] * Yomi is now known as Seira
03[20:39] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Seira
[20:39] <Kotono> "The power they have cannot be denied, and he who spoke of the end of Androlynne held one. It would make sense," the slaad answers as he tears his gaze away once Alicia puts it back in the hole.
01[20:40] <Seira> "I don't suppose the how part makes sense, too?"
[20:41] <Kotono> "That is beyond me," Tiririmant says, rubbing his head. "But I do not doubt his words."
06[20:43] * Seira glances at Lady Honeydip in puzzlement. Rescuing an ally of theirs was vital and she does not regret doing it one bit, but wasn't he supposed to have news to help them, not deliver more doomsday prophecies to hang over their heads?
Session Close: Mon Nov 09 20:43:32 2009

Session Start: Mon Nov 09 20:43:32 2009
Session Ident: #dunes
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03[20:43] * Topic is 'Tentacled man-balor=Hooded woman(27)Seira(26)>Marie(24)>Lagann(20)>Alicia(14)'
03[20:43] * Set by Kotono on Sat Nov 07 21:57:44
02[20:43] * Seira (~corwin@bzq-82-81-151-184.red.bezeqint.net) Quit (Broken pipe)
[20:43] <Kotono> "It may be wise to take some time to think about this. We know the Dark Six are here now beyond a doubt. We know that this Lsyscrea is a part of it and that Mother's Mountain is going to have a part in this. If it's so mysterious and now cited, odds are that it'll be a place of importance to us."
[20:43] <Kotono> OOC: Gah.
03[20:43] * Yomi is now known as Seira
03[20:43] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Seira
06[20:44] * Seira glances at Lady Honeydip in puzzlement. Rescuing an ally of theirs was vital and she does not regret doing it one bit, but wasn't he supposed to have news to help them, not deliver more doomsday prophecies to hang over their heads?
[20:44] <Kotono> "It may be wise to take some time to think about this. We know the Dark Six are here now beyond a doubt. We know that this Lsyscrea is a part of it and that Mother's Mountain is going to have a part in this. If it's so mysterious and now cited, odds are that it'll be a place of importance to us." Antenora ticks off fingers as she goes over points, "And if the legends are true, Pale Night has influence there."
[20:45] <Alicia> "It's possible simply retaining the orb we hold will thwart their objectives, but it's no guarantee and I think we can aim for better than a stalemate," Alicia shakes her head. "But we need more information, and it looks like Lyscrea is the one who holds it."
01[20:46] <Seira> "Or we could ask Malcanthet," Seira suggests, just so that it's there. "She's nasty, but she wants to meddle in Pale Night's affairs due to a weird grudge, so why not let her?"
Session Close: Mon Nov 09 20:46:29 2009

Session Start: Mon Nov 09 20:46:29 2009
Session Ident: #dunes
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03[20:46] * Topic is 'Tentacled man-balor=Hooded woman(27)Seira(26)>Marie(24)>Lagann(20)>Alicia(14)'
03[20:46] * Set by Kotono on Sat Nov 07 21:57:44
02[20:46] * Seira (~corwin@bzq-82-81-151-184.red.bezeqint.net) Quit (Broken pipe)
[20:46] <Kotono> "It's also possible that Lsyscrea will have powerful protections, and perhaps even draw the wrath of the Dark Six if we take him," Latha turns in her chair to Alicia, "If we have two months, perhaps we should strengthen and prepare before we challenge them again?"
03[20:46] * Yomi is now known as Seira
01[20:46] <Seira> "Or we could ask Malcanthet," Seira suggests, just so that it's there. "She's nasty, but she wants to meddle in Pale Night's affairs due to a weird grudge, so why not let her?"
03[20:47] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Seira
[20:50] <Kotono> "A distinctly unattractive option," Antenora scowls, voice dripping with disgust. "I would like that to be an absolute last resort."
[20:51] <Kotono> "It's a risk, but it's another option versus a blind attack on Mother's Mountain," Amaryl murmurs, glancing up at Seira.
01[20:51] <Seira> "It makes far more sense to abduct a balor from a demon city, or worse," Seira agrees, nodding.
01[20:51] <Seira> *than to
[20:52] <Kotono> "Both of those options are bad," Latha cracks a smile to Seira, "But are better than inaction."
01[20:53] <Seira> "Besides, let's be realistic, here. She's already meddling. That can't be stopped. Do you want to storm some mountain while that capricious bitch decides to nurse a grudge against us instead?"
03[20:53] * Retrieving #dunes modes...
[20:54] <Kotono> "There is a third option, though it's not directly addressing the issue," Latha's own smile goes away slowly, "The idea of the ruins was bandied around. We'll need strength and more strength in the coming trials. While we consider our options, perhaps the best one is to use the time constructively and grow mightier?"
[20:54] <Kotono> "What ruins?" Lady Honeydip's brow furrows. "Are those related to Androlynne at all?"
06[20:55] * Seira blinks at the non sequitur. "Well, yes, we could do that." Or go on a crusade on some plane to grow stronger, or any number of things.
[20:55] <Alicia> "Anything's better than going cap in hand to a demon and begging for help," Alicia frowns at the suggestions of going to Malcanthet.
[20:55] <Alicia> "No, it's gnome stuff on the Prime," Marie tells Honeydip.
[20:56] <Kotono> Antenora smiles warmly at Alicia. "Alicia's right. If we absolutely have to consider it, we'll do it then. But otherwise, courting Malcanthet's help is a gamble with a terrible risk."
[20:59] <Kotono> ""We could," Latha agrees, "If we fight Pale Night, we'll need all the powers at our command to have a chance to survive. If we have some time before this reaches a head, preparation is only wise."
01[21:02] <Seira> "So where is this mountain, anyway?"
[21:03] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 planes, sure why not
06[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 planes, sure why not and gets 33." [1d20=7]
[21:04] <Kotono> "To the east and north of Golmendicoria, past haunted Lake Lambrador." Lady Honeydip flies out briefly, coming back with a scrap of parchment, "Here. The map is very rough, but it'll give you a good idea of how things tend to lie here."
01[21:08] <Seira> "What if we just forced Lyscrea out by a strong advance towards Golmendicoria that shatters the demon lines and pushes them back?" Seira suggests, studying the parchment. "With his pride on the line as the one who had trained those forces and their commanders, as well as us threatening a city he had claimed for his own, he might appear on the front lines himself."
[21:08] <Kotono> "That would be a major committment of our forces," Lady Honeydip points out, "It might work, butw e'd be gambling a lot to try and draw him out. If we fail and left the eladrin children unprotected..."
01[21:10] <Seira> "Harsh as this might sound, how would our worst case projections differ? A loss now rather than two months from now?" Seira states firmly. "If we don't try to alter the status quo, it will remain so until our enemies make their move."
[21:11] <Alicia> "And with no guarantee he'd appear in person?" Alicia adds. "If our advance succeeds, and if he chooses to come and meet it... it's not to count on."
01[21:12] <Seira> "It needn't be a rigid plan; we could see how the demons react and adjust our own advance or lack thereof by it. If nothing else, we have a couple contacts in that town, now, that if need be we could call upon to find out the state of things."
[21:14] <Alicia> "I don't see why we need to throw hundreds of lives away in a pitched battle," Alicia shakes her head. "With Tiririmant here to tell us all about the inner workings of the war college, it makes far more sense to attempt an infiltration to catch Lyscrea by surprise and then spirit him away somewhere safe to be interrogated."
01[21:25] <Seira> "A battle is already being fought here ceaselessly, and will continue to be fought until the situation has been resolved," Seira points out.
[21:26] <Kotono> "Even if we try an attack, it will take several days to prepare. This army is defensive, not mobile," Honeydip points out, leaning forward and resting on her tiny fist to her chin. "The risk is there. We fight low-risk because we can't afford to lose, for the children. A possible deadline to this does change the situation somewhat, though..."
01[21:31] <Seira> "Being a guest, my best bet is defaulting to the generals here on the scene," Seira says at last, looking towards the celestials in charge.
[21:33] <Alicia> "You're in charge of the children's defence, Lady Honeydip, the decision is ultimately yours," Alicia deflates. "Still, I advise against committing to an all out assault for only the possibility of drawing out a single demon."
[21:33] <Kotono> "If we have to try and wage an offensive war, we can. But it's an absolute last resort; we're here to protect the children. If we lost or even suffered a hard victory, we'd leave them exposed and vulnerable to the Abyss." Honeydip shakes her head, "Try any other means at your disposal first."
[21:37] <Alicia> "Alright," Alicia turns to the slaad. "Tiririmat, what can you tell us about Lyscrea and his war college?"
[21:39] <Kotono> "It's full of demons and untrapped, but highly guarded. Besides Lsyscrea, he has two marilith generals who devise plans for him, a smattering of hezrou and other demons as lieutenants and seargents and squaling heaps of least demons. Getting in is easy, but be wary of statues of Lsyscrea. They're enchanted to see through all illusions, and if they see certain things they'll react, alerting the demons. A recent addition, after an elven prince s
[21:39] <Kotono> alerting the demons. A recent addition, after an elven prince stole critical warplans a few hundred years ago."
01[21:41] <Seira> "So sneaking in is basically impossible?"
[21:41] <Alicia> Sounds like it'd be tricky to catch him easily inside. "What about his habits? How often does he leave?"
[21:42] <Kotono> "It's not impossible. I know of a few back doors. He's in there most of the time, save when he goes out to walk Golmendicoria. He usually has various underlings with him, including some most can't see or detect. His quarters are deep within - six suites of rooms in all."
[21:42] <Kotono> "I'd say he goes out a few times a week, though there's no pattern or rhyme or reason to it. He goes out when he desires to."
[21:43] <Alicia> "Maybe we could catch him when he's busy with Estaci?" Marie suggests, looking faintly ill.
01[21:44] <Seira> "Thank you for that lovely image," Seira mutters, making a face.
[21:44] <Kotono> Lady Honeydip gags, "Ugh...I've heard of those stories. That is a terrible thought!"
[21:45] <Kotono> "The last thing I want is to have to worry about flaming balor cock," Antenora scowls at Marie, "Let's pretend you never said that."
[21:45] <Alicia> "He'd certainly be distracted, but it wouldn't be pleasant for anyone involved," Alicia agrees sternly. "Tell us about these back doors?"
01[21:45] <Seira> "Or you." Seira grimaces, turning to the slaad to listen about the war college's inner design some more.
[21:46] <Alicia> "At least you're immune to fire," Marie mutters at Antenora.
[21:47] <Kotono> "There's some underground passages into the dungeons of varying levels of guarding and usefulness. There a literal back door, but it's  not hard to find and it's well guarded. There's a few places where the construction has crumbled and you could sneak in if you were smaller." Thinking, "Any of those would be better but still have their own problems."
01[21:49] <Seira> "Could a path be plotted from one of such spots of entry towards his private chambers?"
06[21:49] * Seira blinks. "That doesn't go past the statues, that is."
[21:52] <Kotono> "The statues are an outer defense. The interior it's more about demons who can detect the invisible and the illusions of others," The slaad continues, "Getting past the statues can be done. The best way..."
[21:55] <Kotono> "We'd have to go through the bottom. I know where we can slip in...we'll need to be able to overwhelm three hezrou and three vrocks almost immediately - vrocks that can see the unseen, no less. We'll travel underneath - it's not as well guarded past that, since the water drippings of Golmendicoria rain down, foul and poisonous to non-demons. You'll need to have a way to protect yourself. We can slip inside and from there..."
[21:55] <Kotono> We can slip inside and from there..."
01[21:57] <Seira> "I should be able to get the drop on two, maybe three," Seira muses. "Unless we resort to strong area attacks. Would the passage hold, in that case?"
[21:58] <Kotono> "We'll head through the halls. It's still a fairly long trip from there and there's fair odds of running into one of the mariliths or a greater demon, but we'd have a shot of reaching his quarters. Then, if he's in and you make it that far, you could overpower him and grab him. He's a demon - you won't catch him asleep or unawares."
[21:59] <Alicia> "Probably pointless to ask, but is there any time we're more likely than not to catch him there?" Alicia asks.
[22:00] <Kotono> "No. He's patternless." With a smile, "Patterns for creatures with locked minds."
06[22:00] * Alicia smiles thinly. "I thought as much."
[22:01] <Kotono> "It could work," Antenora says at last, "If there's no way to draw him out or cut through this, then we'll have to try this and hope our luck holds."
[22:01] <Kotono> "The passage is sturdy enough. It shouldn't crumble easily."
01[22:02] <Seira> "It would certainly work," Seira muses in response to Antenora, nodding at the slaad in gratitude. "If we make it all the way to his inner sanctum, slaying his guards, and not find him there, we can just leave him a note. He would be bound to come after us, then, or lose face. Even demons worry about this, don't they?"
[22:03] <Kotono> "If he appears weak to his lessers, they'll think they can take over," Lady Honeydip agrees, "Demons think lik ethat."
01[22:05] <Seira> "What if he were abducted?" Seira raises the question. "How soon before can we expect a response? Which forces would be mobilized, and in what ways?"
[22:06] <Kotono> "It depends? Will his forces stay loyal, will someone ust try and take over?" Lady Honeydip smiles a little, "We've seen turnover in the high ranks before. The response varies wildly each time."
[22:07] <Kotono> "Of course, if the Dark Six are involved, I doubt they'll let him just sit in our hands," Antenora coughs, clearing her throat. "Demons may not be rational, but they seem to be."
[22:07] <Alicia> "I doubt any demons would care enough to rescue him, but I can see the Dark Six trying to silence him," Alicia agrees with Antenora.
01[22:09] <Seira> "In that case, how about questioning him as we capture him, rather than taking him all the way back? The longer we travel with him, the more there's that chance an assassin sent by the Dark Six would succeed in silencing Lyscrea."
[22:11] <Alicia> "Well, staying in the college invites disaster, but we could plane shift elsewhere to interrogate him, then return to the Abyss to kill him once we've got what we need?" Alicia suggests, glancing to Latha, "What about your friends who took Esthan off our hands - could they help with this?"
[22:12] <Kotono> "If we can get him there, yes." Latha smiles, "If."
[22:14] <Kotono> "Unless any of us have a better idea?" Amaryl asks, "It sounds like our best one."
01[22:15] <Seira> "Sounds like a pretty decent plan to me," Seira agrees, shrugging. "How many of these rings do you have in store?" she asks Lady Honedip.
[22:15] <Kotono> "The two are it. When an agent doesn't come back..." She merely spreads her hands out, "A ring is lost."
[22:17] <Alicia> "They might be lesse necessary with us not being so enmeshed with the populace, but there's probably other magic we can use to accomplish the same result," Alicia posits.
01[22:17] <Seira> "Nondetection, say?"
[22:22] <Kotono> "Those could work. When will we do this?" Antenora asks, "Now? After a night's rest? Later?"
01[22:23] <Seira> "I'm good with either. Heading out the next day will let us prepare better, but we could try an assault even as we are now and have good odds of success."
[22:24] <Alicia> "Or undetectable alignment or misdirection. They're more limited but simpler spells, assuming we can find someone to cast them or provide potions for us," Alicia shrugs. "I suppose that will determine whether we go today or after we've acquired them?"

[Corwin]

01[19:12] <Seira> roll 1d20+14
06[19:12] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+14 and gets 18." [1d20=4]
[19:12] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 aid
06[19:12] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 aid and gets 27." [1d20=19]
[19:13] <Kotono> After some chatting around Pascorel, you find a wizard who can sell you the potions or scrolls you wish at normal market price. If you want them, post the purchases in the loot topic.
[19:17] <Kotono> -------------
[19:17] <Kotono> OOC: Oh yes, who's going? All of you or just you three again or..?
01[19:18] <Seira> OOC: All of us, hence the scrolls
[19:18] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[19:18] <Kotono> Thus the six prepare and gird themselves, scrolls obtained. As they gather at the edge of Pascorel, "So we'll go over again?" Antenora asks, "How long do the spells last and how long does it take to get there?"
01[19:19] <Seira> "These ones?" Seira asks, gesturing at the scrolls. "Through the day. It'll be more than enough."
[19:19] <Alicia> "Took about four-five hours for Seira and I flying. Although if we have to walk it'll take longer, I imagine, and it'll be harder to avoid trouble on the way," Alicia replies.
[19:21] <Kotono> "Well, all of us can fly except Amaryl," Latha looks sidelong at her, "Two of us could carry her, I suppose?"
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01[19:24] <Seira> "It wouldn't even take two," Seira muses, proceeding to activate the scrolls in sequence.
01[19:24] <Seira> roll 6#1d20+30
06[19:24] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 6#1d20+30 and gets 252." [6#1d20+30 = 40, 50, 36, 39, 44, 43]
[19:25] <Kotono> The scrolls are invoked one after another. "Who carries me then?" Amaryl blushes, looking about, "Seira, if you can and you don't mind..."
01[19:25] <Seira> "It would be my pleasure!"
[19:25] <Kotono> OOC: What's your str, Seira?
01[19:25] <Seira> OOC: 20?
[19:26] <Kotono> OOC: That should be fine, Amaryl's a female elf and should weigh less than that even with gear.
[19:26] <Kotono> OOC: I figured you were right on the border.
[19:28] <Kotono> OOC: Which one of you is casting Veil?
[19:28] <Alicia> OOC: I will when we get to the river
[19:30] <Kotono> Thus the party flies to the Hoppenstain Run. Being on the friendly side of things, the trip is without incident. You come to a quiet spot on it, pixies an dcourre on patrol...
06[19:32] * Alicia reassures any nearby fairies not to be alarmed before she casts her spell to veil their forms. Since according to G'renna she gave herself away by being too clever last time, now they all just get generic demon forms. Amaryl's an arrow demon, Seira's a vrock, Marie's a quasit, and the three angels become nabassu.
[19:33] <Kotono> "Revolting, so let's not tarry," Latha takes to the air, "To Golmendicoria?"
[19:34] <Alicia> "We'll pass some pillars forming a symbol on the ground as we go - I'll tell you when. Make sure not to look down at them," Alicia cautions, flapping her wings and taking off over the river.
01[19:35] <Seira> "Even without them, there's not much to see," Seira tells Amaryl quietly, picking her up and taking off after Alicia. "Just nothingness and demons."
[19:37] <Kotono> Thus the party flies for a time. They pass by the pillars without incident, only seeing a few demons below. But not long after...OOC: Spot checks, all.
01[19:38] <Seira> roll 1d20+13
06[19:38] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 and gets 22." [1d20=9]
01[19:39] <Seira> roll 1d20+23 A
06[19:39] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+23 A and gets 41." [1d20=18]
[19:39] <Alicia> roll 1d20+2 Alicia
06[19:39] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+2 Alicia and gets 15." [1d20=13]
[19:39] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 Anty
06[19:39] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 Anty and gets 39." [1d20=16]
[19:39] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 Latha
06[19:39] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 Latha and gets 46." [1d20=16]
[19:41] <Alicia> Latha starts in alarm at realising a massive reptilian demon has suddenly appeared right on top of them with no warning, and alerts anyone blind enough to have missed it by pointing with a clawed finger to the right.
[19:43] <Kotono> As Latha starts, Antenora turns as well! Amaryl eeps, "D-Dragon!"
[19:43] <Kotono> The creature is purple with spines, flying from the right towards you and about 50 feet above. It's face is twisted into a howling grimace, madness shining in it's eyes as it flies closer.
01[19:44] <Seira> "Let's take a detour," Seira suggests, already veering off to the left.
06[19:45] * Alicia starts moving down and away from the dragon, but if it looks like it's trying to intercept then she'll stand her ground.
01[19:45] <Seira> roll 1d20+27
06[19:45] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+27 and gets 30." [1d20=3]
[19:46] <Kotono> The dragon  barely seems to notice the party, flying above and past them with barely a glance at the 'demons'.
[19:47] <Kotono> OOC: Relevant people ned to roll wills aves for dragonfear, it flew above you.
06[19:47] * Seira waits until it is long gone, and then waits some more before grimacing and muttering, "A genuinely insane, creepy dragon."
[19:47] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 Alicia
06[19:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 Alicia and gets 45." [1d20=15]
[19:47] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22 Marie
06[19:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 Marie and gets 26." [1d20=4]
[19:47] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21 Latha
06[19:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+21 Latha and gets 40." [1d20=19]
[19:47] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 Anty
06[19:47] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 Anty and gets 34." [1d20=4]
[19:47] <Kotono> OOC: How many HD does Marie have?
[19:48] <Alicia> OOC: 19
01[19:48] <Seira> roll 1d20+14 A
06[19:48] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+14 A and gets 23." [1d20=9]
[19:48] <Kotono> roll 4d6 Antenora, Amaryl and Marie are shaken for this number of rounds.
06[19:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d6 Antenora, Amaryl and Marie are shaken for this number of rounds. and gets 14." [4d6=4, 2, 3, 5]
[19:49] <Kotono> "C-Celestia help us...!" Antenora stares at it in rapt terror, hands shaking all over. "T-t-that dra-dragon...!"
[19:49] <Kotono> "Seira!" Amaryl cries, burying her face into Seira's chest.
01[19:50] <Seira> "It makes you crazy by just being near. Let's not be near," Seira states succintly, holding Amaryl comfortingly.
[19:50] <Alicia> Marie latches onto Alicia's side in fear, hoping she'll be safe here. Latha more calmly calls upon her innate ability to ward others from the effects of supernatural fear.
[19:50] <Alicia> "At least it didn't want to trouble us," Alicia watches it go. "Come on, lets not get distracted."
[19:51] <Kotono> Latha does so, taking a calming breath as her defenses against fear soothe everyone. "We have a mission, but..." She watches it go, "Such a terror will not allow others to live freely and without suffering. Perhaps this is a chance to remove a nightmare from existance?"
[19:52] <Alicia> "I doubt we could even catch it now with how fast it's going," Alicia shakes her head. "Besides which, Lyscrea is more important right now. We should avoid battle if we can until we reach the balor."
[19:53] <Kotono> "Alicia's right," Antenora flies closer to her, "But I wonder what it's doing here? Is it joining with Golmendicoria's forces, or perhaps it owes alleigance to Pale Night...or the Dark Six?"
01[19:54] <Seira> "It's not really heading for the front lines, anyway, unless I'm misjudging its course," Seira comments. "As for what it's doing outside of Pandemonium, no real idea. Who knows how crazy dragons think?"
[19:55] <Alicia> "Could be a mercenary, like the dragon working for Agares during the invasion in the desert," Alicia guesses.
[19:56] <Kotono> "It may not even be connected. Logic is a shaky proposition in the Abyss. Still, if we must face it later, at least we won't be surprised. What sort of dragon was it?" Latha starts to fly on again.
01[19:58] <Seira> "The Howling kind. Destroys your mind, uses sonic attacks. Pretty nasty piece of work," Seira fills her in. "Just in case we come across it again for some weird reason."
[19:59] <Kotono> "Coincidences are plots you haven't found out about yet," Antenora's chuckle is a grim one, "Perhaps it is mere fortune, but I sincerely doubt it."
01[20:01] <Seira> "Look on the bright side! If by some chance it does attack the defensive line, we might actually be there in time to stop him, since we're not flying all the way back."
[20:01] <Kotono> "Small consolation," Latha continues her flight. "To review, we're sneaking into the underground and into the War College, yes?"
01[20:02] <Seira> "I suspect there would be an attempt at sneaking followed by quite a deal of hitting demons."
[20:03] <Alicia> "We'll maintain stealth as long as possible. The passage is well guarded from what Tiririmant said, but I still think it's our best chance at doing this cleanly, or at least with the fewest obstacles to get past."
01[20:04] <Seira> "Our sneaking attempt starts with the need to disable or destroy six of the guards, doesn't it?" Seira wonders. "But maybe we can continue to sneak after that."
[20:05] <Alicia> "We have to get into the passage without raising a fuss first of all," Alicia shrugs her gargoyle-like shoulders. "After that the gloves are likely to come off."
[20:06] <Kotono> "There's that poison water to deal with as well," Antenora rubs her eyes, her disguisted form scraping scales against yellow pupils, "Any ideas there?"
01[20:06] <Seira> "Poison water?" Seira asks, momentarily drawing a blank.
[20:07] <Alicia> "Seeping down from the ground above," Alicia reminds Seira. "I have a potion of neutralise poison if anyone needs it."
[20:07] <Kotono> "The water drippings of Golmendicoria. He mentioned that the passage had that and that the drippings were toxic to non-demons." Antenora says, "Did anyone bring anything to stop that? I'd rather not be half dead from poison when we get there."
[20:10] <Kotono> "We will endure," Latha flies on, "Onward to this cursed city?"
01[20:11] <Seira> "Mmm. Poison, right? I have a potion to delay it, if someone succumbs, and there's always Wish."
[20:13] <Kotono> AS you fly, it happens. You are above the outskirts of Gomendicoria in a blink of an eye, the cracked, twisting roads below showing tents and a few buildings. You have reached the outskirts of the city without incident, the scum of mortal and demonkind below.
[20:15] <Kotono> "Where is our entry-point to underground," Latha's eyes swep the horizon.
06[20:15] * Alicia follows Tiririmant's directions to the secret entrance to Lyscrea's private chambers at the war college, leading the others to their destination.
[20:17] <Kotono> You come to a pair of ramshackle buildings, surrounded by twin wobbling, vast towers that reach far into the purple-gray nightmare sky. They look unremarkable, neglected but not falling apart. Only a few dretch are nearby, being whipped along by a hezrou.
01[20:19] <Seira> Dretch and hezrou alike would be gone soon enough, and Seira waits for them to pass before casting a few spells in preparation.
[20:20] <Alicia> While circling the area in the air, Alicia casts shield on herself and puts away Marie's belongings, the disguised courre turning herself incorporeal for safety during the impending assault. A casting of heroism is added to enhance her abilities, Latha doing the same, before they head down to the secret entrance.
[20:20] <Kotono> They barely seem to pay attention to the party, the pained least demons lead along by the massive, foul creature. The street looks to be relatively quiet as they descend...
[20:24] <Kotono> "Well then?" Antenora alights ot the ground, glancing about. "This seems like our best chance."
06[20:25] * Seira decides to proceed, searching for the entrance specified by the slaad.
[20:28] <Kotono> You find a forgotten, dusty door in the back of the side walls, tilting downward as if built at the wrong angle. A thick layer of dust and grime coats it.
[20:28] <Alicia> Any magic?
[20:29] <Kotono> The door isn't magical.
06[20:29] * Alicia opens the door up!
06[20:29] * Seira pushes it open, taking a glance past it.
[20:31] <Kotono> Beyond is a solid stone stairway, leading down into a dim basement. Looks normal enough ot a glance, but there should be a hidden door on the far wall.
06[20:32] * Alicia heads down the stairs, Marie floating beside her as she scans for any magic before approaching the supposed hidden door.
01[20:32] <Seira> If it's there, Seira will find traces of it! She lets everyone step inside, before closing the door behind her and moving towards the front once more.
[20:34] <Kotono> The back wall is thick, heavy stone. Finding the secret door is easy enough, near the center. It can be opened if one wishes. Marie can detect magic past the wall.
[20:34] <Alicia> roll 1d20+28 spellcraft, it's Alicia
06[20:34] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+28 spellcraft, it's Alicia and gets 41." [1d20=13]
[20:39] <Alicia> "There's evocation magic behind the door, but I think it's a sending derivative. Probably to warn someone when anyone comes this way," Alicia comments.
01[20:40] <Seira> "Want to disable it, as we head in?"
[20:41] <Alicia> "Latha and Antenora can try," Alicia suggests, the spell not seeming that powerful.
[20:42] <Kotono> LAtha does that, stepping forward to cast Dispel Magic!
[20:42] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
06[20:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 12." [1d20=2]
[20:42] <Kotono> Regretably for her, it doesn't seem to work.
06[20:43] * Seira nods, preparing to get the hidden door opened the moment this succeeds, in case someone happens to be keeping tabs on the spell.
[20:44] <Alicia> "The door itself blocks any attempts to dispel what lies beyond until it's opened," Alicia interjects gently.
[20:46] <Kotono> Latha turns very red, "Ah...it seems my attentions are on the glorious battle ahead..." she replies.
[20:46] <Alicia> "Marie, I'll place an antimagic field on you and you can go ahead for us?" Alicia asks her familiar, casting the spell on her familiar which proceeds to suppress their illusions - at least until Marie flies through the door.
[20:50] <Kotono> Thus Marie flies through - the next room is a stairwell in the center of earth, leading deeper down. A red gem slightly sparkles in the wall, where the aura was coming from.
[20:51] <Alicia> Once the magic aura winks out from Marie's presence as she settles above the gem, Alicia opens the door!
[20:51] <Kotono> The door opens without incident, the stairway ahead.
01[20:51] <Seira> "Is it keyed to the door being open?" Seira asks. "Or just to presences nearby?"
06[20:52] * Alicia shrugs. "Couldn't tell you. Lets close the door and go down the stairs a bit before Marie catches up?" she suggests, advancing ahead and alert for further magic.
06[20:54] * Seira nods, and spends a few moments observing the suppressed gem as everyone files into the room, intending to close the door behind everyone and follow herself.
[20:54] <Alicia> Marie waits till Seira's went down the stairs before following.
[20:55] <Kotono> Thus the party descends downward! The stairs go down and down and down for a time, until you come to a damp, stone basement. Here a single heavy, solid metal door looms, the walls natural, crudely cut out thick stone.
[20:55] <Alicia> Any magic?
[20:56] <Kotono> None on the door, Alicia can't detect past it.
01[20:56] <Seira> "Same as before?" Seira suggests.
[20:57] <Alicia> "No magic," Alicia reports.
06[20:58] * Seira opens the door!
[21:02] <Kotono> Thus the door ahead opens! Beyond, you see them - terrible things! Three hezrou lie in wait, three vrocks besides them! The deadly creatures are waiting, lying in wait! They stand at the beginning of a long tunnel, foul water lingering on the ground, dripping down from the ceiling! OOC: Go ahead and roll init then?
[21:02] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 Alicia
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 Alicia and gets 16." [1d20=9]
[21:02] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 Anty
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 Anty and gets 12." [1d20=7]
[21:02] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 Latha
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 Latha and gets 23." [1d20=15]
[21:02] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 Marie
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 Marie and gets 12." [1d20=4]
01[21:02] <Seira> roll 1d20+8 A
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 A and gets 21." [1d20=13]
01[21:02] <Seira> roll 1d20 L
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20 L and gets 3." [1d20=3]
01[21:02] <Seira> roll 1d20+6
06[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+6 and gets 9." [1d20=3]
03[21:03] * Kotono changes topic to 'Latha(23)>Amaryl(21)>Alicia(16)>Antenora=Marie(12)>Seira(9)>Lagann(3)'
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 and gets 17." [1d20=17]
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 and gets 20." [1d20=20]
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 and gets 14." [1d20=14]
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 and gets 21." [1d20=19]
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 and gets 5." [1d20=3]
06[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 and gets 6." [1d20=4]
03[21:04] * Kotono changes topic to 'Latha(23)>Amaryl(21)>Hezrou 2(20)>Hezrou 1(17)>Alicia(16)>Hezrou 3(14)>Antenora=Marie(12)>Seira(9)>Lagann(3)'
03[21:04] * Kotono changes topic to 'Latha(23)>Vrock 1=Amaryl(21)>Hezrou 2(20)>Hezrou 1(17)>Alicia(16)>Hezrou 3(14)>Antenora=Marie(12)>Seira(9)>Vrock 2(6)>Vrock 3(5)>Lagann(3)'
[21:05] <Kotono> OOC: Latha starts.
[21:05] <Alicia> OOC: How close are they?
[21:07] <Kotono> OOC: Closest is 20ft away, farthest is 40. They're reasonably well packed together.
[21:09] <Alicia> How nice of them to bunch up close like this, Latha only has to step through the door and slightly to the side to let the others through after her before they're treated to the unusual sight of a nabassu speaking in the words of creation, a single clear word to censure the demons!
[21:09] <Alicia> roll 4d4 nonlethal
06[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 4d4 nonlethal and gets 7." [4d4=2, 1, 1, 3]
[21:09] <Alicia> roll 1d20+18 SR
06[21:09] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+18 SR and gets 20." [1d20=2]
[21:09] <Alicia> OOC: DC 22 holy word if that hits anything
[21:10] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 vrocks have shitty SR
[21:10] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 vrocks have shitty SR
[21:10] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8 vrocks have shitty SR
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 vrocks have shitty SR and gets 27." [1d20=19]
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 vrocks have shitty SR and gets 9." [1d20=1]
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 vrocks have shitty SR and gets 24." [1d20=16]
[21:10] <Kotono> OOC: 10 HD, calculate from there.
[21:10] <Alicia> roll 1d10 minutes paralyzed
06[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d10 minutes paralyzed and gets 1." [1d10=1]
[21:11] <Alicia> roll 2d4 rounds blinded
06[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d4 rounds blinded and gets 5." [2d4=3, 2]
[21:11] <Alicia> roll 1d4 rounds deafened
06[21:11] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d4 rounds deafened and gets 4." [1d4=4]
03[21:12] * Kotono changes topic to 'Latha(23)>Vrock 1=Amaryl(21)>Hezrou 2(20)>Hezrou 1(17)>Alicia(16)>Hezrou 3(14)>Antenora=Marie(12)>Seira(9)>Vrock 2(fucked)(6)>Vrock 3(5)>Lagann(3)'
[21:12] <Kotono> One of the vrocks reels back, staggered and down on the ground, twitching from the Holy Word! OOC: Amaryl and Vrock 1.
01[21:12] <Seira> Absolutely not wishing for the hezrou and their inherent stench to get anywhere near any of them, Amaryl singles out one of them, unleashing a hail of cold iron upon him!
01[21:13] <Seira> roll 4#1d20+28
06[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d20+28 and gets 169." [4#1d20+28 = 38, 48, 40, 43]
01[21:13] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+23
06[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+23 and gets 70." [2#1d20+23 = 34, 36]
01[21:13] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+18
06[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+18 and gets 44." [2#1d20+18 = 25, 19]
01[21:13] <Seira> roll 1d20+28 crit?
06[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+28 crit? and gets 39." [1d20=11]
[21:14] <Kotono> OOC: All hits save the single 19.
01[21:15] <Seira> roll 6#1d8+17+4d6
06[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 6#1d8+17+4d6 and gets 222." [6#1d8+17+4d6 = 40, 36, 32, 42, 34, 38]
01[21:15] <Seira> roll 3#1d8+17
06[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3#1d8+17 and gets 58." [3#1d8+17 = 20, 18, 20]
01[21:15] <Seira> roll 4d6
06[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4d6 and gets 11." [4d6=4, 1, 3, 3]
01[21:15] <Seira> roll 222+58+11
06[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 222+58+11 and gets 291."
03[21:16] * Kotono changes topic to 'Latha(23)>Vrock 1=Amaryl(21)>Hezrou 2(20)>Alicia(16)>Hezrou 3(14)>Antenora=Marie(12)>Seira(9)>Vrock 2(fucked)(6)>Vrock 3(5)>Lagann(3)'
[21:18] <Kotono> The hezrou is penetrated with as torm of holy, anti-demon arrows! It's body shatters apart like glass on the impact, obliterated! THe vrock screams, charging right at Latha and letting loose a dreadful screetch! OOC: Will all.
[21:18] <Kotono> OOC: Er fort.
[21:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+30 Alicia
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+30 Alicia and gets 32." [1d20=2]
[21:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 Latha
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 Latha and gets 31." [1d20=7]
01[21:19] <Seira> roll 1d20+19
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 and gets 35." [1d20=16]
[21:19] <Alicia> roll 1d20+32 Anty
06[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+32 Anty and gets 35." [1d20=3]
01[21:20] <Seira> roll 1d20+21 A
06[21:20] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+21 A and gets 23." [1d20=2]
01[21:20] <Seira> OOC: 25 for Amaryl
[21:21] <Kotono> The screetch is terrible, but the party endures it! OOC: Hezrou 2.
[21:21] <Kotono> The second hezrou curses, approaching as well and barking off a word of blasphemy! OOC: What's Amaryl's HD?
01[21:21] <Seira> OOC: 14
[21:23] <Kotono> But nothing happens, the vile power not enough to faze the party! OOC: Alicia.
06[21:25] * Alicia follows Latha, stepping out to the other side of the door before she casts her spell, causing a riot of vibrantly coruscating colours to tear through the tunnel, assaulting the demons' senses with visions to sear the eyes and brain alike!
[21:25] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21 SR
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+21 SR and gets 26." [1d20=5]
[21:25] <Alicia> roll 15d6 DC 25 will half
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 15d6 DC 25 will half and gets 47." [15d6=5, 6, 1, 3, 1, 6, 5, 4, 1, 1, 3, 1, 5, 1, 4]
[21:25] <Alicia> roll 1d6 dazed/dazzled if saves
06[21:25] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d6 dazed/dazzled if saves and gets 1." [1d6=1]
[21:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10 vrock 1
[21:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10 vrock 2
06[21:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 vrock 1 and gets 30." [1d20=20]
[21:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10 vrock 3
06[21:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 vrock 2 and gets 13." [1d20=3]
06[21:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 vrock 3 and gets 29." [1d20=19]
[21:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 hezrou
[21:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11 hezrou
06[21:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 hezrou and gets 17." [1d20=6]
06[21:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 hezrou and gets 28." [1d20=17]
03[21:27] * Kotono changes topic to 'Latha(23)>Vrock 1=Amaryl(21)>Hezrou 2(dazed 1 round)(20)>Alicia(16)>Hezrou 3(14)>Antenora=Marie(12)>Seira(9)>Vrock 2(fucked x2)(6)>Vrock 3(5)>Lagann(3)'
[21:28] <Kotono> The radiant burst leaves the demons staggered and wounded, disoriented! The third hezrou falls back, a hammer of pure chaos striking out at the party!
[21:28] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13 SR check
06[21:28] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 SR check and gets 16." [1d20=3]
[21:29] <Kotono> OOC: Will Alicia/Seira/Amaryl.
01[21:29] <Seira> roll 1d20+16 A
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+16 A and gets 29." [1d20=13]
[21:29] <Alicia> roll 1d20+32 Alicia
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+32 Alicia and gets 43." [1d20=11]
01[21:29] <Seira> roll 1d20+26
06[21:29] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+26 and gets 32." [1d20=6]
[21:31] <Kotono> roll 10d6 Alicia halve this
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 Alicia halve this and gets 28." [10d6=3, 1, 1, 4, 3, 1, 6, 2, 6, 1]
[21:31] <Kotono> roll 5d8 Amaryl is chaotic and immune, whoops, Seira quarters this
06[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 5d8 Amaryl is chaotic and immune, whoops, Seira quarters this and gets 18." [5d8=4, 3, 1, 7, 3]
[21:32] <Kotono> The hammer strikes, leaving minor wounds over the party in it's aftermath! OOC: Antenora andMarie.
[21:33] <Alicia> Antenora follows Alicia and Latha through the door, calling down a flame strike atop the demons and healing Alicia besides!
[21:33] <Alicia> roll 1d20+17 SR
06[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+17 SR and gets 36." [1d20=19]
[21:33] <Alicia> roll 15d6 DC 23 reflex half
06[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 15d6 DC 23 reflex half and gets 53." [15d6=1, 2, 2, 2, 5, 1, 1, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 2, 4, 4]
[21:34] <Alicia> Marie hangs back for now, but if she sees any demon about to summon anything she'll race in and put a stop to that with her antimagic field.
[21:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
[21:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 18." [1d20=10]
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 14." [1d20=6]
[21:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9
[21:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20+9
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 10." [1d20=1]
06[21:35] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+9 and gets 25." [1d20=16]
[21:35] <Kotono> OOC: Pretty pressed together still. There's not a ton of space here.
[21:36] <Kotono> The flame strike slams down, burning away more demon flesh and staggering the entire group of demons! OOC: Seira.
06[21:38] * Seira follows through with a sudden burst of cold, and before the fiends can even feel the chill settling into their bones she advances to within fifteen feet of the hezrou, culling it down further with her fiery breath!
01[21:38] <Seira> roll 1d20+21 sr
06[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+21 sr and gets 38." [1d20=17]
01[21:38] <Seira> roll 15*6 cold
06[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 15*6 cold and gets 90."
01[21:38] <Seira> roll 10d8+2d8 fire+holy
06[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 10d8+2d8 fire+holy and gets 62." [10d8=5, 2, 8, 3, 5, 8, 5, 3, 6, 6][2d8=4, 7]
01[21:39] <Seira> roll 62*1.5
06[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 62*1.5 and gets 93."
[21:39] <Kotono> OOC: There's no point in rolling, all off this is wretched overkill.
01[21:39] <Seira> OOC: DC for breath-- ah, okay
[21:40] <Kotono> Under a devastating volley of fire and ice, the demons are eradicated before some of them can even react! OOC: Go ahead, that was brutal.
[21:41] <Alicia> "That's the first line," Alicia remarks, waving for Marie to fly ahead of them and take the lead with enough distance for her aura not to interfere with anyone, before she starts walking ahead once more, alert for magic and evil.
06[21:42] * Seira pauses just long enough to call upon Stoneskin, and ward Amaryl with Blur, opting to bring up the rear together with her.
[21:42] <Kotono> Ahead, the dark passage is full of foul, dripping water coming down here and there, like a haphazard rain of brown filth. The stench is terrible, filling your noses and stomachs with nausea.
06[21:43] * Alicia pulls up her hood - not that it's seen under the illusion - hoping that will keep the foulness off of her as they advance.
[21:49] <Kotono> Thus the party walks down the passage for a little time! It's long, narrow and foul, the waters drip-dropping off! The smell is absolutely wretched, your bodies feeling miserable! OOC: Make fort, all. Bonuses against poison apply, but not evil.
[21:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 Alicia
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 Alicia and gets 36." [1d20=12]
[21:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+28 Anty
06[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+28 Anty and gets 37." [1d20=9]
[21:50] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22 Latha
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 Latha and gets 34." [1d20=12]
01[21:50] <Seira> roll 1d20+19
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 and gets 20." [1d20=1]
01[21:50] <Seira> roll 1d20+23 A
06[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+23 A and gets 38." [1d20=15]
[21:51] <Kotono> roll 1d6 dex damage Seira
06[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 dex damage Seira and gets 5." [1d6=5]
[21:51] <Kotono> roll 1d2 wis damage
06[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d2 wis damage and gets 1." [1d2=1]
[21:52] <Kotono> You walk for a time, progressing through as best you can. Somehow most of you endure the utter filth of demonkind all about you, but Seira feels her body weaken. Her hands shake all over, her mind addling with pain.
01[21:52] <Seira> "I hate the Abyss," Seira mutters miserably, fumbling for her sole potion of countering the effects. "Does anyone need it more than I do?"
[21:53] <Kotono> "I'll be okay," Antenora's smile is shaky, "I'll never bow to chaos in any form."
[21:53] <Alicia> "I'm okay," Alicia replies, seeing Seira has the situation in hand and reserving her own potion in case anyone else comes down later on.
[21:53] <Kotono> "Take it if you need it," Latha advises, her wings wrappeda round her body.
06[21:55] * Seira sips it down and pockets the empty vial, keeping track of the time she has before her body metabolizes it and her condition begins deteriorating once more.
[21:58] <Kotono> Thus you continue to walk. The filth is overwhelming, your bodies recoiling from it. Ahead the ground sinks into a vile lake of filth, the shores of it lapping ahead. Past it the path continues on.
06[22:00] * Alicia continues on the path, naturally, not inclined to go swimming here.
[22:01] <Kotono> As the party starts to walk around the lake, one can notice the air getting warmer - going from tepid to warm/hot.
[22:03] <Alicia> Until she sees any magic or evil, Alicia just assumes it's 'natural', and it's not yet hot enough to justify protective measures. Does wonders for the smell, though. Yuck.
[22:05] <Alicia> Oh, check that. "Trouble," Alicia warns. "Something in the pool." She draws her sword with one hand and casts a spell to ward off the heat with the other!
[22:06] <Kotono> Antenora jerks her head towards the pool, "What is it?" she asks quickly, readying he rspear.
06[22:06] * Seira steps in front of Amaryl, her own sword ready at her side for Lagann's use.
[22:06] <Kotono> The air becomes blazing hot, an inferno! Filth boils away into a miasma of foul colored smoke! The pool of filth lights aflame, burning into pure magma within a single breath! A dreadful earthquake strikes and rising up from the newly formed pool of magma...(More)
[22:07] <Kotono> The creature that rises out of the lava pool towers above you like a mountain. It ignores the mere confines of space, mocking physics as it looms over you! It's skin is the color of boiling bronze, insectoid body with four extrodinarily long, muscled arms protruding out. No words are said, but you feel in your very bones that you have arrived at your grave.
[22:07] <Alicia> OOC: knowledge to ID it?
[22:07] <Kotono> OOC: Planes.
[22:07] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26
06[22:07] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 and gets 27." [1d20=1]
[22:08] <Alicia> roll 1d20+23 lets ask Marie instead
06[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+23 lets ask Marie instead and gets 24." [1d20=1]
01[22:08] <Seira> roll 1d20+13
06[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+13 and gets 19." [1d20=6]
[22:08] <Alicia> roll 1d20+26 How about Latha?
06[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+26 How about Latha? and gets 34." [1d20=8]
[22:08] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22 Anty
01[22:08] <Seira> "Abyss-damned dragon wannabe," Seira hisses, glaring at the insectoid monster.
06[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 Anty and gets 37." [1d20=15]
[22:10] <Kotono> "I never...thought..." Antenora holds her spear, "I've heard of these! They're called the Abyssial Guardians! They're said to be formed out of the hate of the Abyss itself, to kill those who stand a chance of truly weakening the chaos or evil of the Abyss!"
[22:10] <Kotono> OOC: Roll init, there's a giand vile horror trying to do things to you best left unsaid.
[22:10] <Alicia> "How flattering," Alicia remarks, readying her sword. "Lets kill it." She killed Death a few days ago. She is not impressed.
[22:10] <Alicia> roll 1d20+7 Alicia
06[22:10] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+7 Alicia and gets 13." [1d20=6]
[22:10] <Alicia> roll 1d20+5 Anty
06[22:10] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+5 Anty and gets 10." [1d20=5]
[22:11] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 Marie
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 Marie and gets 9." [1d20=1]
[22:11] <Alicia> roll 1d20+8 Latha
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+8 Latha and gets 9." [1d20=1]
01[22:11] <Seira> roll 1d20+3
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+3 and gets 19." [1d20=16]
01[22:11] <Seira> roll 1d20+8 A
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+8 A and gets 23." [1d20=15]
01[22:11] <Seira> roll 1d20 L
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20 L and gets 10." [1d20=10]
[22:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
06[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 25." [1d20=20]
03[22:12] * Kotono changes topic to 'Abyssal Guardian(25)>Amaryl(23)>Seira(19)>Alicia(13)>Lagann=Antenora(10)>Marie=Latha(9)'
[22:13] <Kotono> Raging from the distorted ceiling and taking the miasma of filth as a coating, the four fists of the terror slam down at Alicia, Seira, Latha and Amaryl!
[22:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+34 flatfooted AC Alicia
06[22:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+34 flatfooted AC Alicia and gets 38." [1d20=4]
[22:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+34 flatfooted AC Seira
06[22:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+34 flatfooted AC Seira and gets 48." [1d20=14]
[22:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+34 flatfooted AC Latha
06[22:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+34 flatfooted AC Latha and gets 37." [1d20=3]
[22:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+34 flatfooted AC Amaryl
06[22:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+34 flatfooted AC Amaryl and gets 54." [1d20=20]
[22:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+34 flatfooted AC Amaryl ow
06[22:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+34 flatfooted AC Amaryl ow and gets 47." [1d20=13]
01[22:14] <Seira> OOC: Not... that
[22:14] <Kotono> OOC: Yeaaaah.
[22:14] <Alicia> OOC: 41 for Latha (uncanny dodge), 29 for me
01[22:14] <Seira> OOC: She has blur, though!
[22:14] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 48." [1d100=48]
[22:14] <Kotono> roll 6d6+20 Alicia does not beat DR
06[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6+20 Alicia does not beat DR and gets 34." [6d6=1, 1, 4, 2, 3, 3]
[22:14] <Kotono> roll 6d6+20 Seira Ditto
06[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6+20 Seira Ditto and gets 41." [6d6=4, 3, 1, 2, 5, 6]
[22:15] <Kotono> roll 12d6+40 Amaryl ow
06[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 12d6+40 Amaryl ow and gets 89." [12d6=6, 4, 4, 4, 3, 1, 5, 5, 6, 3, 5, 3]
[22:17] <Kotono> The slams send the women reeling before they have a chance! Alicia is hit back into the wall, ribs cracked! Seira is knocked to a knee, winded! AMaryl is caught right under a dreadful fist, nearly driven intot he ground, vision swimming from the titantic strike! A moment later, the creature raises it's hands to the unseen sky! Pentagrams erupt around you!
[22:17] <Kotono> roll 2d5
06[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d5 and gets 10." [2d5=5, 5]
[22:17] <Kotono> roll 2d4
06[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d4 and gets 4." [2d4=1, 3]
[22:17] <Kotono> Four Babau appear, forming from filth and magma, striking in pairs - two on Antenora, two on Seira!
[22:17] <Alicia> OOC: DC 20 will or gtfo losers
[22:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
[22:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
[22:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
[22:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
06[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 14." [1d20=8]
06[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 25." [1d20=19]
06[22:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 10." [1d20=4]
06[22:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 18." [1d20=12]
03[22:18] * Kotono changes topic to 'Abyssal Guardian=Babau 1(25)>Amaryl(23)>Seira(19)>Alicia(13)>Lagann=Antenora(10)>Marie=Latha(9)'
[22:18] <Kotono> But all but one disappear, only one getting to strike at Antenora!
[22:18] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12 flatfooted?
06[22:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 flatfooted? and gets 15." [1d20=3]
[22:18] <Alicia> OOC: 32
[22:18] <Kotono> But Antenora blocks with her spear, deflecting the claw away! OOC: Amaryl.
01[22:20] <Seira> Amaryl hurriedly retreats as far as forty feet! Her head clearing, she sends three arrows back at her assailant, calling out an arcane word that guides their path!
01[22:20] <Seira> roll 6#1d20+25 sniper shot
06[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 6#1d20+25 sniper shot and gets 213." [6#1d20+25 = 45, 29, 30, 28, 36, 45]
01[22:21] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+25 you can be critted, right?
06[22:21] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+25 you can be critted, right? and gets 72." [2#1d20+25 = 43, 29]
[22:21] <Kotono> OOC: It can. One crit, one normal hit.
01[22:22] <Seira> roll 3d8+48+4d6+6d6+1d8+16+4d6
06[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+48+4d6+6d6+1d8+16+4d6 and gets 144." [3d8=8, 3, 2][4d6=6, 6, 2, 2][6d6=4, 5, 4, 6, 5, 3][1d8=5][4d6=3, 6, 4, 6]
[22:23] <Kotono> A swarm of arrows go into the impossibly huge giant, leaving deep wounds that start self sealing almost instantly! OOC: Seira.
01[22:26] <Seira> Pushing back from her kneeling position, Seira angrily roasts it with golden, holy flames!
01[22:26] <Seira> roll 8d8+2d8 DC is negligible
06[22:26] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 8d8+2d8 DC is negligible and gets 43." [8d8=2, 7, 4, 2, 8, 7, 1, 1][2d8=5, 6]
[22:26] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[22:26] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 23." [1d20=10]
01[22:26] <Seira> roll 1d4
06[22:26] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d4 and gets 4." [1d4=4]
[22:27] <Kotono> The flames lick at the behemoth before you, the Abyssal Guardian holding it's arms out, as if beckoning you into it's embrace! OOC: Alicia.
[22:28] <Kotono> OOC: Also I forgot, each one of you slammed takes one point of vile. Dur.
06[22:30] * Alicia remains where she is, channelling an enervation spell into her blade before she swings underarm and sends it flying at the guardian, Hell Striker now eminently more suited for killing demons than devils of late, and hopefully this paragon of abyssal-kind will feel its sting!
[22:30] <Alicia> roll 1d20+34 divine might
06[22:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+34 divine might and gets 50." [1d20=16]
[22:30] <Alicia> roll 1d20+34 divine might crit check
06[22:30] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+34 divine might crit check and gets 40." [1d20=6]
[22:31] <Kotono> OOC: Crit.
[22:31] <Alicia> roll 1d20+21 SR for enervation
06[22:31] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+21 SR for enervation and gets 23." [1d20=2]
[22:31] <Alicia> roll 4d4+56+2d6+2d6+1d6
06[22:31] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 4d4+56+2d6+2d6+1d6 and gets 82." [4d4=2, 2, 1, 1][2d6=5, 1][2d6=6, 2][1d6=6]
[22:32] <Kotono> Alicia's blade scythes through the Abyssal Guardian, hacking into one of it's arms and loyally returning to her! Blood falls into the burning pool, hissing and sending terrible stenches about! OOC: Lagann/Antenora.
01[22:33] <Seira> With a shriek only Seira can hear, Lagann launches the Resort at the Abyssal Guardian's arm that dared to bring Seira to her knees, however briefly!
01[22:34] <Seira> roll 1d20+27 CHARGE
06[22:34] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+27 CHARGE and gets 42." [1d20=15]
[22:34] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
01[22:34] <Seira> roll 3d8+6+2d6
06[22:34] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+6+2d6 and gets 28." [3d8=8, 3, 3][2d6=6, 2]
[22:35] <Alicia> Antenora bravely charges the demonic guardian, her spear thirsting for tanar'ri blood, healing Alicia as she goes!
[22:35] <Kotono> The Third Resort dances amid the arms of the insectile beast, striking hard and cutting into it's resistant flesh!
[22:35] <Alicia> roll 1d20+33 -9pa smite charge
06[22:35] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+33 -9pa smite charge and gets 53." [1d20=20]
[22:35] <Alicia> roll 1d20+33 -9pa smite charge crit check
06[22:35] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+33 -9pa smite charge crit check and gets 39." [1d20=6]
[22:35] <Kotono> OOC: On the number crit. Lucky you.
[22:36] <Alicia> roll 4d8+192+2d10 and -2 con. It counts as good and epic, should it matter.
06[22:36] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 4d8+192+2d10 and -2 con. It counts as good and epic, should it matter. and gets 210." [4d8=4, 3, 7, 1][2d10=1, 2]
[22:39] <Kotono> Antenora charges in with all the energy she can muster, taking a weak spot! With a hole in it's chest from one of Amaryl's well aimed arrows, she dives into it's burning form! Her spear penetrates deep, ripping out to the side as burning blood falls like a waterfall, yet even as the wounds try to repair! OOC: Marie/Lath.a
[22:40] <Alicia> Marie wonders how its physics defying attributes would react from some good old fashioned antimagic. Hopefully it won't turn into a many-angled horror and drive her insane, again, but she wants to find out. So she flies up to the demon's face. If nothing fun happens she'll retreat again so as not to interfere with everyone else's spells.
[22:40] <Alicia> roll 2d6 additional Anty love
06[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 2d6 additional Anty love and gets 10." [2d6=5, 5]
[22:40] <Kotono> Marie flies in...but the antimagic seems to have no effect at all on it's dimensions, as impossible as they may be!
[22:41] <Alicia> So she flies back again, disappointed and with nothing to do.
[22:42] <Alicia> Latha goes to help Amaryl, since her arrows have the best chance of killing this thing, barring lucky charges from Antenora, and promptly heals her to almost full health.
[22:42] <Kotono> Latha retreats back, mending Amaryl's terrible wounds shut! OOC: It's up and it's pissed.
[22:43] <Kotono> The Abyssal Guardian focuses on Antenora! Two fists slam out at her, while the other two go for Alicia and Seira!
[22:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+29 slam Antenora (-5 PA)
[22:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+29 slam Antenora (-5 PA)
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+29 slam Antenora (-5 PA) and gets 37." [1d20=8]
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+29 slam Antenora (-5 PA) and gets 33." [1d20=4]
[22:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+29 slam Alicia
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+29 slam Alicia and gets 44." [1d20=15]
[22:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+29 slam Seira
06[22:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+29 slam Seira and gets 42." [1d20=13]
[22:43] <Kotono> OOC ACs?
01[22:44] <Seira> Images spring all over Seira in hopes of fooling the abomination!
01[22:44] <Seira> roll 1d4+5
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d4+5 and gets 6." [1d4=1]
[22:44] <Kotono> roll 1d7 Seira
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d7 Seira and gets 5." [1d7=5]
[22:44] <Alicia> OOC: 33 for Anty, 38 for Alicia with deflect. Latha has abandoned us.
[22:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+29 cleave
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+29 cleave and gets 43." [1d20=14]
[22:44] <Kotono> roll 1d6 Seira
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 Seira and gets 5." [1d6=5]
[22:44] <Kotono> roll 1d20+29 great cleave
06[22:44] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+29 great cleave and gets 35." [1d20=6]
[22:45] <Kotono> roll 1d5
06[22:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d5 and gets 1." [1d5=1]
[22:45] <Kotono> OOC: AC, Seira?
01[22:45] <Seira> OOC: Just a few below it, sadness
[22:45] <Kotono> OOC: Rotten luck.
[22:45] <Kotono> roll 12d6+60 Antenora
06[22:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 12d6+60 Antenora and gets 95." [12d6=2, 1, 4, 3, 2, 6, 6, 3, 5, 1, 1, 1]
[22:45] <Kotono> roll 6d6+30 Alicia
06[22:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6+30 Alicia and gets 54." [6d6=2, 6, 4, 3, 6, 3]
[22:45] <Kotono> roll 6d6+30 Seira
06[22:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6+30 Seira and gets 54." [6d6=1, 6, 6, 6, 2, 3]
[22:47] <Kotono> The heroes are slammed terrifically! Antenora is caught between two fists, dragged downt o the surface of the lava and gushing blood from a shattered arm! Alicia and Seira are driven into the wall, wind knocked out of them! Then it turns to Amaryl, gesturing! A dusky red fireball comes from it's hands, racing at her!
[22:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14 ranged touch Amaryl
06[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 ranged touch Amaryl and gets 27." [1d20=13]
[22:48] <Kotono> OOC: Touch AC, Amaryl?
01[22:48] <Seira> OOC: Touch AC would be 24 near Latha, but maybe Blur will help at least now?
[22:48] <Kotono> roll 1d100
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 39." [1d100=39]
[22:48] <Kotono> roll 20d6 fire no save for Amaryl
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 20d6 fire no save for Amaryl and gets 62." [20d6=6, 2, 3, 6, 4, 3, 4, 1, 4, 2, 5, 2, 4, 2, 2, 1, 2, 4, 3, 2]
[22:48] <Kotono> roll 10d6 fire radius Latha, ref for half.
06[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6 fire radius Latha, ref for half. and gets 26." [10d6=6, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 4, 3, 5, 1]
[22:48] <Alicia> OOC: No SR?
[22:49] <Kotono> OOC: It's an SU.
[22:49] <Alicia> roll 1d20+22
06[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+22 and gets 38." [1d20=16]
[22:49] <Kotono> OOC: Halved.
[22:50] <Kotono> The dark red fireball erupts around Amaryl, scorching her to the bone! Latha is lightly licked by these fires, but she has the speed toa void the worst of it by flying ahead! OOC: Amaryl.
[22:50] <Kotono> OOC: Wait, Babau.
[22:50] <Kotono> The surviving Babaumakes itself useful by running at Alicia and trying to claw her!
[22:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+13
06[22:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+13 and gets 22." [1d20=9]
[22:51] <Kotono> But misses, bouncing off her armor and scraping only steel! OOC: Amaryl
[22:51] <Kotono> .
[22:53] <Kotono> OOC: Strike.
[22:54] <Kotono> As the babau uselessly attacks Alicia, Amaryl sees the fireball coming! She hurls herself flat, the dusky red orb flying past her! Further down the hall, a massive detonation of fire erupts out! OOC: Amaryl now.
01[22:55] <Seira> After shielding her eyes from the fiery storm, Amaryl continues her attempts at pinpointed strikes to turn the guardian into a pincushion!
01[22:55] <Seira> roll 6#1d20+26 she's moving 30ft back to be within 30ft
06[22:55] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 6#1d20+26 she's moving 30ft back to be within 30ft and gets 231." [6#1d20+26 = 31, 41, 44, 28, 43, 44]
[22:56] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits.
[22:57] <Kotono> OOC: Oh wait, four, sorry.
[22:57] <Kotono> OOC: 2, 3, 5, 6. So two skirmish and two non skirmish.
01[22:57] <Seira> roll 4#1d8+17+4d6
06[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 4#1d8+17+4d6 and gets 136." [4#1d8+17+4d6 = 36, 35, 35, 30]
01[22:57] <Seira> roll 136+12d6
06[22:57] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 136+12d6 and gets 184." [12d6=3, 6, 2, 6, 6, 5, 3, 6, 5, 3, 2, 1]
[22:59] <Kotono> The Abyssal horror can take no more! Under a hail of arrows it sinks back into the pool of magma! A crust of rapidly drying lava-stone seals it off, yet the netire floor begins to shake! OOC: Go ahead and act, all.
[23:00] <Kotono> OOC: Oh wait, forgot the Babau. Dur. Go Seira. I blame the weather.
06[23:01] * Seira turns on the babau that doesn't know when to quit, sending her claw straight through it in an attempt to pierce its heart!
01[23:02] <Seira> roll 1d20+19
06[23:02] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+19 and gets 35." [1d20=16]
[23:02] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
01[23:03] <Seira> roll 1d20+21 claw the second, should've been higher
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+21 claw the second, should've been higher and gets 36." [1d20=15]
01[23:03] <Seira> roll 2#1d4+3+5d8
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d4+3+5d8 and gets 66." [2#1d4+3+5d8 = 24, 42]
[23:03] <Kotono> OOC: Hit again. Roll reflew saves for both for acid.
01[23:03] <Seira> roll 2#1d20+25
06[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 2#1d20+25 and gets 67." [2#1d20+25 = 33, 34]
[23:04] <Kotono> Seira deftly avoids it's acid, slaying the babau in one pierce into it's chest, ripping out it's heart before the entire thing vanishes away! OOC: We'll stay in init. Alicia, go. No visible enemies, but there is that shaking.
02[23:05] * Nikkolai (~chatzilla@173-98-14-55.pools.spcsdns.net) Quit (ChatZilla 0.9.85 [Firefox 3.5.5/20091102152451])
[23:05] <Alicia> "Everyone, hurry - we need to get out of this section before it collapses!" Alicia calls as the reality defying physics start to fail without the demon backing them up. She dismisses Marie's antimagic now in case they need Latha to plane shift them away, but hopefully if they beat feet they can get to comparative safety without such drastic measures.
[23:06] <Kotono> OOC: Which direction are you going? Back the way you came with Amaryl/Latha, or ahead past all this?
01[23:07] <Seira> "Read my mind!" Seira calls back, giving Lagann mental instructions to shift them home should she become incapacitated and this becomes a necessity.
[23:07] <Alicia> OOC: Ahead! If it collapses we'll be blocked off from our goal!
[23:07] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. Antenora's up then, as is Lagann.
01[23:08] <Seira> Lagann acknowledges the order, and helpfully sheathes the Resort!
[23:08] <Alicia> Antenora converges on Alicia and waits for Latha and Amaryl to catch up.
[23:08] <Kotono> OOC: Marie and Latha.
[23:08] <Kotono> OOC: How far ahead did you move? 120ft?
[23:08] <Alicia> OOC: Alicia hasn't moved. She's waiting on the others.
[23:08] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
01[23:08] <Seira> OOC: And I'm next to her so far
[23:09] <Alicia> Marie and Latha both hurry over to Alicia, the latter ready to plane shift the group if they can't avoid a collapse.
[23:09] <Kotono> OOC: Guardian is 'up'.
[23:10] <Kotono> Latha hurries along. But at this, there is a terrible burp! In a great gusting gasp of fire and stone, the entire pool of magma erupts out in a filling burst, everything turning to flying rock an dhellish fire! OOC: Reflex saves, all, unless you're going to have Latha plane shift you - do note Amaryl is out of range, though.
[23:10] <Alicia> Some fire isn't enough to persuade Latha to leave so suddenly. Only a complete cave in would do that.
[23:10] <Kotono> OOC: Reflex saves all.
[23:11] <Alicia> roll 1d20+19 Alicia
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+19 Alicia and gets 37." [1d20=18]
[23:11] <Alicia> roll 1d20+16 Latha
01[23:11] <Seira> roll 1d20+25
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+16 Latha and gets 24." [1d20=8]
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+25 and gets 37." [1d20=12]
[23:11] <Alicia> roll 1d20+24 Anty
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 1d20+24 Anty and gets 28." [1d20=4]
01[23:11] <Seira> roll 1d20+25 A
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+25 A and gets 35." [1d20=10]
[23:11] <Kotono> roll 10d6+10d6 fire and bludgeoning, respectively. Everyone but Latha passed. Seira has evasion so she takes zappo.
06[23:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d6+10d6 fire and bludgeoning, respectively. Everyone but Latha passed. Seira has evasion so she takes zappo. and gets 80." [10d6=2, 4, 3, 4, 5, 4, 5, 3, 4, 6][10d6=4, 5, 2, 2, 5, 4, 4, 6, 3, 5]
[23:14] <Kotono> In the aftermath the fire and stone are gone. The lake of filth is besides you, undisturbed. Not a bit of damage to the passage can be seen, nor anything else or remnants.
01[23:15] <Seira> "I hate the Abyss," Seira repeats with feeling.
06[23:15] * Alicia node in firm agreement as she heals herself as much as she can.
[23:15] <Alicia> roll 18d4+18
06[23:15] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 18d4+18 and gets 56." [18d4=3, 4, 1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1, 3, 3, 2, 3]
[23:15] <Kotono> Antenora gets to her feet, "Ugh..." Coughing several times, "Abyssal Guardian. Legends have it that they're...wait, I said that." Shaking her head, "What's important is that they're said only to appear when true good or true law can be inflicted on the Abyss. In other words, something important."
01[23:16] <Seira> "I'm thinking, it was afraid of you," Seira tells Amaryl with a wide grin, healing her wounds.
01[23:16] <Seira> roll 3d8+15 A
06[23:16] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 3d8+15 A and gets 29." [3d8=5, 5, 4]
[23:17] <Alicia> "Looks like we're on the right track, then," Marie observes as Alicia continues to heal herself.
[23:17] <Alicia> roll 9d4+9
06[23:17] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 9d4+9 and gets 40." [9d4=3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3]
[23:17] <Kotono> Antenora goes over, rubbing Alicia's shoulders with her healing touch. "I think you're right, Marie."
[23:18] <Alicia> "I'm fine, heal yourself," Alicia suggests to Antenora, helping her out with some of her own healing.
[23:18] <Alicia> roll 3d8+15
06[23:18] * Hatbot --> "Alicia rolls 3d8+15 and gets 27." [3d8=2, 8, 2]
[23:18] <Kotono> Antenora does the same, healing her wounds. As Latha brushes off her clothes, "I'll third that. There is not a thing of value in this wretched Abyss."
06[23:20] * Alicia mends Latha with her healing hands as well, since at least they seem to have time to recover after this unpleasant battle.
[23:20] <Kotono> "Besides stolen things, like the eladrin." Antenora stretches out, flapping her wings clean. "Nothing but chaos and evil farther than any rational mind can comprehend. Gods help me, Baator's right about that much - The Abyss is worthless, yes."
01[23:22] <Seira> It goes against her hoarding desires, but this is one spot where her Heal scroll would be at its most useful, and so Seira tries to get it to work!
01[23:22] <Seira> roll 1d20+28 wis
06[23:22] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+28 wis and gets 34." [1d20=6]
01[23:22] <Seira> roll 1d20+28 go
06[23:22] * Hatbot --> "Seira rolls 1d20+28 go and gets 36." [1d20=8]