Date night

[Anastasia]

The sphere is absolutely radiant with magic. Overwhelming power rests within, an incredibly ancient and crystallized spell that's transcended magic. A focus of filth, of waste and poison, left to accumulate power for unthinkable eons.

It is alive.

As you talk, the sphere shakes. One side of it bursts open and then the other, massive arms of pure, black filth erupting out. The flow of waters in and out stops, spraying about everywhere. Two legs follow from the bottom of the sphere, and from atop it a neck and head emerges. It consumes General Faridoon with this, who speaks from within.

"Do you think enriching ourselves was our only purpose here, Saint Alicia? Eons and eons of poison siphoned away as treasure is removed from the waters here. This Heart of Poison shall be your end."

[Ebiris]

I wasn't talking! But fine, supreme init lets do this.

Dance of the unicorn negates whatever poison abilities it has if it has less hd than Alicia (33), otherwise we get a +4 bonus on our saves.

Spoiler: ShowHide

Alicia: 920+60/920
Active spells: Many moments of prescience (CL 33), extended mind blank (CL 33), extended nondetection (CL 33), sensual blessing (CL 33), epic mage armour (CL 33), recitation (CL 33), greater heroism (CL 33), repelling shield (CL 33), spell turning (CL 33), dance of the unicorn (CL 33), foresight (CL 33), vision of the omniscient eye (CL 33), extended ray deflection (CL 33), telepathic bond (CL 33)
Defences: AC 99, CMD 115, spell resistance 48, energy immunity (fire and cold), status immunity (polymorph, petrification, disease, poison, stunning, sleep, paralysis, death effects, disintegration, energy drain, ability damage, ability drain, mind-affecting, and fear, dazzled & blinded), nondetection (DC 48), ray deflection, freedom of movement
Stat buffs/penalties: +25 competence perception, doubled crit range, +10 armour AC, +3 luck attack/saves, +9 shield AC, +4 morale skills, +2 insight AC/reflex, +10 insight perception, +8 morale attack/damage, +6 morale saves/dodge AC, +4 competence attack, +3 competence fort, +16 str, -4 dex, +8 con, +5 natural armour, -2 size attack/AC
Perceptions: Darkvision, tremorsense, blindsight 3 miles, scent, arcane sight, perception +89
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/16/16/10/8/9/15/8/8/4/8/6/6/6/4
Duskblade spell slots: 6/23/23/20/10/7/7

Marie: 711+20/711
Active spells: Extended mind blank (CL 33), extended nondetection (CL 33), sensual blessing (CL 33), epic mage armour (CL 33), recitation (CL 33), greater heroism (CL 33), repelling shield (CL 33), extended ray deflection (CL 33), greater arcane sight (CL 33), bibliotheca arcana (CL 33), telepathic bond (CL 33), freedom of movement (CL 33)
Defences: AC 92 (CMD 86), spell resistance 48, energy immunity (electricity), status immunity (petrification, polymorph, form-altering, energy drain, ability drain, ability damage, mind-affecting), nondetection (DC 48), ray deflection, freedom of movement
Stat buffs/penalties: +25 competence perception, +3 luck attack/saves, +9 shield AC, +4 morale skills, +15 insight knowledge, +8 morale attack/damage, +6 morale saves/dodge AC, +4 competence attack, +3 competence fort
Perceptions: Darkvision, tremorsense, blindsight 60, scent, greater arcane sight, perception +77
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/10/10/9/7/8/9/8/7/8/7/3/4/4

Elementals 2, 3, 4: 228/228 hp, AC 23, attack +28/+28/+28 (2d10+11 19-20/x2), DR 10/-, +1 attack/damage when it and foe are touching ground
Elemental 1: 457/457 hp, AC 40, attack +43/+43/+43 (2d10+11 19-20/x2), DR 10/-, +1 attack/damage when it and foe are touching ground, 2/day limited wish, improved evasion, spell resistance 38, deliver touch spells

[Anastasia]

As he talks, an editing snafu. Dur.

Noted about the dance. The creature is about 120ft away and 15ft in the air or so. Go ahead and go since Supreme Init, I'll figure out init after that.

[Ebiris]

"You're a fool if you think poison will suffice against me," Alicia says contemptuously, asserting her divine will to purify what the dao have spent so many years harvesting.

Alter reality for an at range neutralise poison style effect, I have the purification domain so this is on brand.

[Anastasia]

That was an extremely apt choice.

I'm going to rule that on top of anything else, this deals 1d12 points of damage to the creature per hit die of yours, so 33d12 damage. Roll it before anything else.

[Ebiris]

[19:26] <@Ebiris> roll 33d12
[19:26] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 235 > [d12=10,7,6,12,7,7,12,2,10,5,4,9,8,2,7,11,3,5,11,11,10,2,4,10,1,11,9,2,6,8,3,9,11]

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+23 constructs do not have good saves
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 36 > [d20=13]

The wave of purification makes the entire thing stagger desperately, black limbs becoming more of a dirty brown. The entire thing wobbles violently from this spell, the air surely growing more breathable beyond your purified zone around you.

Meanwhile...

> roll 1d20+20 Sanzha
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 35 > [d20=15]
> roll 1d20+15 Heart of Poison
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 25 > [d20=10]

Init is Alicia (Supreme Init) > Sanzha (35) > Heart of Poison.

Anything else on your turn, Alicia?

[Ebiris]

I have two swifts.

"Now do you see how poorly conceived this was?" she asks archly. A pair of invisible walls of force spring up to partially bisect the chamber, a gap through which spells could be thrown but only something the size of a human could walk through. Of course it's not big enough to cover the entire chamber so one could walk around the long way as well, if they could see the walls of force to navigate past them anyway.

2 quickened walls of force.

Spoiler: ShowHide

Alicia: 920+60/920
Active spells: Many moments of prescience (CL 33), extended mind blank (CL 33), extended nondetection (CL 33), sensual blessing (CL 33), epic mage armour (CL 33), recitation (CL 33), greater heroism (CL 33), repelling shield (CL 33), spell turning (CL 33), dance of the unicorn (CL 33), foresight (CL 33), vision of the omniscient eye (CL 33), extended ray deflection (CL 33), telepathic bond (CL 33)
Defences: AC 99, CMD 115, spell resistance 48, energy immunity (fire and cold), status immunity (polymorph, petrification, disease, poison, stunning, sleep, paralysis, death effects, disintegration, energy drain, ability damage, ability drain, mind-affecting, and fear, dazzled & blinded), nondetection (DC 48), ray deflection, freedom of movement
Stat buffs/penalties: +25 competence perception, doubled crit range, +10 armour AC, +3 luck attack/saves, +9 shield AC, +4 morale skills, +2 insight AC/reflex, +10 insight perception, +8 morale attack/damage, +6 morale saves/dodge AC, +4 competence attack, +3 competence fort, +16 str, -4 dex, +8 con, +5 natural armour, -2 size attack/AC
Perceptions: Darkvision, tremorsense, blindsight 3 miles, scent, arcane sight, perception +89
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/16/16/10/8/9/15/6/8/4/8/6/6/6/4
Duskblade spell slots: 6/23/23/20/10/7/7

Marie: 711+20/711
Active spells: Extended mind blank (CL 33), extended nondetection (CL 33), sensual blessing (CL 33), epic mage armour (CL 33), recitation (CL 33), greater heroism (CL 33), repelling shield (CL 33), extended ray deflection (CL 33), greater arcane sight (CL 33), bibliotheca arcana (CL 33), telepathic bond (CL 33), freedom of movement (CL 33)
Defences: AC 92 (CMD 86), spell resistance 48, energy immunity (electricity), status immunity (petrification, polymorph, form-altering, energy drain, ability drain, ability damage, mind-affecting), nondetection (DC 48), ray deflection, freedom of movement
Stat buffs/penalties: +25 competence perception, +3 luck attack/saves, +9 shield AC, +4 morale skills, +15 insight knowledge, +8 morale attack/damage, +6 morale saves/dodge AC, +4 competence attack, +3 competence fort
Perceptions: Darkvision, tremorsense, blindsight 60, scent, greater arcane sight, perception +77
Sorcerer spell slots: 6/10/10/9/7/8/9/8/7/8/7/3/4/4

Elementals 2, 3, 4: 228/228 hp, AC 23, attack +28/+28/+28 (2d10+11 19-20/x2), DR 10/-, +1 attack/damage when it and foe are touching ground
Elemental 1: 457/457 hp, AC 40, attack +43/+43/+43 (2d10+11 19-20/x2), DR 10/-, +1 attack/damage when it and foe are touching ground, 2/day limited wish, improved evasion, spell resistance 38, deliver touch spells

[Anastasia]

"Aaaaaagh!" The cry of General Faridoon is heard as Lady Sanzha titters. It's not a very kind laugh at all, openly mocking.

Sanzha's holding with the walls in place and will move to counter or contain if it can get past them.

Weakened or no, the Heart of Poison lumbers forward, hands coming together in a titanic double axe handle, slamming into the unseen wall.

> roll 1d20 1 check
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 13 > [d20=13]

The blow hits - and the wall flickers visible. Hissing sections of it seem to recoil from the poison, but nothing more.

"What did you do?!" Faridoon growls from within the creature, voice echoing now. "What did you do to it?!"

Suffice to say that I made this well before Alicia both gained another DvR and chose Purification, let alone before she was the one to face it. Talk about an encounter running into a cooler. Alicia, go, that was meant to do a lot more but didn't.

[Ebiris]

She's actually always had purification, it was liberation she picked up recently.

"You don't hoard poison, you neutralise it. I'm doing what you should have been doing yourselves all this time," Alicia says, leaving her walls up as she aims through the gap to continue purifying the whole sordid mess.

Alter reality again, rolling the same dice?

[20:06] <@Ebiris> roll 33d12 assuming same again
[20:06] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 198 > [d12=5,9,1,8,10,5,1,12,10,1,1,8,11,11,7,8,7,8,5,8,1,1,1,3,8,6,4,10,5,8,2,2,11]

[Anastasia]

Dur. You can see I'm together today.

Anyway, yes.

> roll 1d20+23 constructs do not have good saves
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 34 > [d20=11]

The Heart of Poison staggers again, this time draining to a lighter brown, going to fall in a heap, rolling about as arms and legs thrash in the air. Lady Sanzha's snickering becomes downright contemptuous, "Really, this is it? Your great hope writhes about like a dying vermin? Oh General, you are a fool. Fortunately, the reward of all fools is coming to embrace you."

Sanzha holds again.

The Heart of Poison struggles to rise, managing to do so. It rears back and spews light brown waters...that do nothing at all. Most is blocked by the wall and what gets through fizzles out in the radius of your protective magic.

Go.

[Ebiris]

"Actions really do speak louder than words," Alicia says, slowly but surely neutralising that poison, rendering it harmless as water.

[20:17] <@Ebiris> roll 33d12 more of the same
[20:17] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 216 > [d12=7,7,3,5,5,12,2,9,2,12,3,6,10,3,10,9,12,4,8,1,10,2,12,10,10,8,2,2,1,8,6,10,5]

[Anastasia]

At this the waters become clear and pure. The limbs of water break apart, spilling about. These clean waters meet the befouled waters all about, cleansing them as they touch them. The sphere does not move any further, only the sounds of rushing water.

It's over.

Free act.

[Ebiris]

"It looks like his body was consumed by the poisons. Nothing left, what a fool," Alicia shakes her head and removes the walls of force, her voice heard once more across the fortress.

The heart of poison is purified, General Faridoon is dead. Surrender and you will be treated honourably, otherwise you will join him soon.

[Anastasia]

With your sudden and decisive victory, with Marie managing and Jessica striking from the shadows?

It happens.

Dao begin to surrender, resistance ceasing everywhere Alicia can see and here.