023. "Oh come on, it wasn't that bad."

[Corwin]

[20:38] <Kotono> Afina, Willim, Jaela, Ithea, Adrian. The five gather together quietly and with a solemn air to them. Adrian looks about, "Ready as I'm ever going to be."
[20:40] <Jaela> Her spells are precast, her weapons sharpened, however redundant that might be with a magical arsenal. Her armor is ready, for all the good that it will do her. "I'll just be taking us across, then. On three, one, two--"
[20:45] <Kotono> With that, reality around you breaks! 666 pieces of reality, whirling around you like a tempest! It all fades away into the darkness, into the eternal darkness that wraps around you. Feelings of agony writhe within you - all contact is gone. Solitude. Alone. Nothing. Black. Knowledge slips from you, names forgotten, faces blurring, facts distorted. It reaches into each of your cores and is THERE,
[20:45] <Kotono> touching, pulling, groping in your mind. Then - the groan of wood beneath your feet. Old splintered floorboards, groaning. A bedroom. Bed. An ancient bed, dusty and forsaken. Portraits on the wall of people you've never seen before. A nightstand, a shut closet, a door on the side wall and one ahead. A great grandfather clock, silently ticking off time. Your minds clear of the haze and horrible
[20:45] <Kotono> sense of being touched. There are no windows.
[20:45] <Kotono> It is also pitch black - Afina can't see a thing of this.
[20:46] * Jaela casts Daylight into her armor. They are certainly not going to be sneaking about!
[20:47] <Kotono> Light fills the room. All it does is part the shadows enough to see without darkvision, but little more. The sunlight is feebly weak, as if coming form a dying, sputtering sun.
[20:48] * Willim stamps a hoof, testing the strength of the floor and inhaling through his nose to detect unusual smells! OOC: Scent
[20:48] <Afina> "That felt horrible," Afina mutters, rubbing the side of her head and squinting as she looks around. "Not what I expected to see, either."
[20:48] <Jaela> "First time I plane shift into someone's home like that," Jaela voices, approaching the closet and nudging it open. "As for the whole trip, what did you expect? Abyss."
[20:49] <Kotono> Adrian looks about, "Urgh...what was that? I feel like my thoughts just got pulled apart."
[20:49] <Kotono> The closet is full of clothes suitable for a baby. Colors that should be bright are muted, each one in pristine condition.
[20:49] <Willim> "...dusty here. Lots of dust, but underneath it all is a fait smell of fire...and metal." Willim says to the others.
[20:50] <Jaela> "Fuck it, let's go outside and look for demons to beat for info," Jaela states, heading for the front door, now.
[20:50] <Kotono> The front door to the room does not open.
[20:50] <Afina> Since there's no windows, Afina goes to try opening the other door.
[20:51] <Kotono> The other door opens. Within looks to be a chamber pot, a mirror on the wall, a basin empty of water and a brass bathtub.
[20:51] <Jaela> Ah, then she must be polite to the residents of the Abyss, and-- rolling her eye, Jaela draws Gae Bolg and strikes through the lock.
[20:52] <Kotono> Jaela strikes out with Gae Bolg! The sound of metal on metal is a sharp rapport that rattles the house...and does nothing. The lock holds firm against the lance.
[20:52] <Afina> Rather expecting something out of the ordinary, Afina looks in the mirror. Perhaps a portal to another area/dimension, or else it'll show a hidden interloper. Something other than plain reflection.
[20:53] <Kotono> Afina sees her own reflection in the mirror.
[20:53] <Jaela> Oh that just should not be happening! Detect Magic is cast instantly, and Jaela takes a closer look at everything, instantly on alert.
[20:54] <Kotono> Jaela detects no magic.
[20:54] <Afina> "We must have been diverted into some form of prison," Afina opines as banality is confirmed.
[20:54] <Ithea> "Want some help trying to knock down the door?" Ithea offers, reading to jab her weapon on same count with Jaela.
[20:55] <Jaela> "Possible," Jaela admits. "But also pointless. That implies prison guards, and this was a buffer, wasn't it?"
[20:56] <Kotono> As the party talks, there is a soft click from the front door.
[20:57] * Afina eyes the door intently, presuming someone's going to open it and then 'welcome' them.
[20:57] * Jaela gestures for Ithea to get the door, while she points Gae Bolg towards the ground; not immediately offensive, but ready to strike at a moment's notice.
[20:58] <Kotono> Nothing else happens, the click from the door becoming silence.
[20:58] * Ithea nods, and tries to open the door.
[20:59] <Kotono> The door opens with a great creak. The creak is heavy as you see out - a hallway. Upstairs. The far wall is not a wall, but railed landing with stairs. The hallway stretches in either direction and there are stairs going down into a dark foyer. More paintings decorate the walls.
[21:00] <Ithea> "Whomever opened the door moves fast," Ithea notes as she slowly starts heading into the hallway.
[21:00] <Jaela> "Or invisible," Jaela notes.
[21:00] <Afina> Fluttering out, Afina decides the front door at the bottom of that foyer is a likely avenue, even if surely blocked. "Not invisible," the fairy replies. "Probably incorporeal."
[21:01] <Kotono> OOC: Flying downstairs, Afina?
[21:01] <Afina> OOC: over the railing rather than over the stairs.
[21:03] <Kotono> The hallway continues in both directions. Doors. Lots of doors, lots of rooms. Dead ends eventually, both with mirrors. Afina flies down. The foyer has a front door with no windows. Ther eis an open passage connecting to what may be a kitchen. Behind the stairs you can see a hallway. No paintings down here. There is a pair of couches but nothing else besides an empty fireplace.
[21:04] <Jaela> "Anything? Or anyone?" Jaela calls down.
[21:04] <Kotono> No response.
[21:05] * Afina tries to open the front door.
[21:05] <Kotono> The front door is locked.
[21:06] * Afina turns towards the distracting noise...
[21:06] <Kotono> Afina sees nothing awry.
[21:07] <Afina> Deciding she might as well get it over with, she casts see invisibility.
[21:07] <Ithea> "You know, this isn't exactly what I was expecting from the Abyss..." Ithea mutters.
[21:07] * Ithea tries some of the other doors just randomly until she hopefully finds one that does open.
[21:07] <Kotono> "Except the unexpected and land on your feet afterwards," Adrian murmurs, staying close to Ithea. "It's supposed to be like Limbo,o nly evil. So I'm expecting anything."
[21:08] <Kotono> OOC: Down the hallway, Ithea?
[21:08] <Jaela> "So this weird place managed to not be like you were expecting?" Jaela asks with a raised eyebrow. "Anyway, guys, we're not fucking splitting up. Let's all catch up to Afina downstairs." She does so, then.
[21:08] <Ithea> ooc: yeah
[21:08] <Kotono> Afina cast see invisibility! Afina sees nothing invisible.
[21:08] <Kotono> The next door opens! It opens into another bedroom, similar to the one before.
[21:09] <Afina> Floating back up to rejoin the party, "Front door won't open. I heard rattling metal but couldn't see a cause. I suppose we can try teleporting out, but the gate to our destination might well be hidden inside here anyway."
[21:10] * Ithea closes the door and keeps checking other doors, seeing if they're all bedrooms.
[21:11] <Kotono> The third door leads to another bedroom as meanwhile Afina and Jaela meet halfway down. The fourth room...OOC: Flatfooted AC, Ithea?
[21:12] <Ithea> ooc: 32
[21:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 24." [1d20=8]
[21:13] <Kotono> The fourth room is the same, save for that the closet is ajar.
[21:15] <Afina> For now Afina just follows Ithea on her door-quest.
[21:16] <Jaela> Likewise, Jaela decides to stick with Afina and Ithea, although she takes position further down the corridor to avoid them being overrun.
[21:16] <Ithea> "Afina, you said something about rattling metal?" Ithea calls back as Afina approaches. "I just heard that too..."
[21:16] <Kotono> Adrian follows as well, keeping his gaze about, especially behind him.
[21:18] * Willim looks around. "I didn't expect the Abyss to look like this, to be honest. I expected it to be more...horrible."
[21:18] <Afina> "Strange, I didn't..." the sharp eared fairy frowns. "I wonder if it's in our minds?"
[21:18] <Ithea> "Do you guys want to check the bedrooms or anything? It seems every door here leads to another," Ithea says.
[21:19] <Afina> "We won't know for sure until we look."
[21:19] * Jaela shrugs. "If that fails, we'll try breaking down the walls."
[21:19] * Ithea shrugs and starts with the room she's already looking into then, leaving any of the first three rooms to the others.
[21:20] <Kotono> OOC: Searching the room, Ithea?
[21:21] <Ithea> ooc: yessir
[21:21] * Afina searches through the one before Ithea's...
[21:21] <Afina> roll 1d20+25
[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+25 and gets 41." [1d20=16]
[21:22] <Kotono> It is the same. Bed. Bathroom. No windows. Closet full of baby clothes. Nothing is dissimilar. It is the same for Afina. Bed. Bathroom. No windows. Closet full of baby clothes. Nothing is dissimilar.
[21:22] <Ithea> "...just baby clothes. Why are there -baby- clothes in the freaking Abyss?" Ithea asks as she steps out of the room.
[21:22] <Jaela> "It's a hint. Start reproducing, I guess?"
[21:24] <Afina> "We probably should if our Crusade goes long enough, but this is hardly the place," Afina frowns as she leaves her room. "Lets try the other doors, there's no point searching bedrooms if they're all the same."
[21:24] * Afina abruptly stops, looking in the direction of the noise. "There it was again."
[21:25] <Kotono> Afina sees nothing awry.
[21:25] <Willim> "I didn't hear anything."
[21:25] <Jaela> "I'll keep watch or whatever," Jaela volunteers herself.
[21:25] <Ithea> "I didn't hear anything that time," Ithea admits.
[21:25] <Kotono> "Not a sound," Adrian adds.
[21:25] <Ithea> "I think you might have been right when you said it was in our minds?" Ithea adds
[21:26] <Kotono> OOC: Searching the rest of the rooms and checking them?
[21:27] <Afina> "Something already got in there when we arrived, after all," the fairy nods, becoming tempted to turn invisible. Leaving behind the open doors, she starts opening others just to see if any are not copycat bedrooms.
[21:27] <Afina> OOC: no searching for me unless it's not a bedroom
[21:28] <Kotono> The fifth room is the same. Bed. Bathroom. No windows. Nothing is dissimilar. The sixth room is the same. Bed. Bathroom. No windows. Nothing is dissimilar. The seventh room is the same. Bed. Bathroom. No windows. Nothing is dissimilar. The eighth room is locked.
[21:29] <Jaela> "If you are not a devil we don't kill you on sight," Jaela promises, raising her voice. "How about saying hi?"
[21:29] <Kotono> No response.
[21:29] <Afina> OOC: is that everything on this floor?
[21:30] <Jaela> "Fuck you too!"
[21:30] <Kotono> No response.
[21:30] <Kotono> OOC: Yes.
[21:31] * Ithea tries to break the locked door.
[21:31] <Willim> "I smell...fire. Strongly now." Willim says, sniffing at the air.
[21:31] <Afina> "Adrian, are you any good with picking locks?" Afina asks. already anticipating a failure to break it.
[21:31] <Kotono> The door does not give way to Ithea.
[21:31] <Ithea> "...I just heard the rattle of metal again," Ithea says.
[21:32] <Kotono> "Yeah," Adrian says, glancing about, "Didn't hear anything," he says, as he starts to work on the lock.
[21:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+19
[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+19 and gets 29." [1d20=10]
[21:32] <Kotono> But after a moment of touching it, "...it's not locked," he says, "The lock's not set."
[21:32] * Ithea tries to open the door at Adrian's words.
[21:33] <Kotono> The door opens. The eighth  room is the same. Bed. Bathroom. No windows. Nothing is dissimilar.
[21:33] <Ithea> "Okay, is the rattling noise meaning that doors are unlocking? Should we try the front door again?"
[21:33] * Willim peeks in as well.
[21:33] <Jaela> "Fucked if I knew. Maybe one of the closets has a way out?"
[21:33] <Afina> "Annoying... lets try the ground floor at least. Even if not the front, there are surely others."
[21:34] * Ithea nods and heads back down the hallway towards the path Afina originally started exploring.
[21:34] <Kotono> Downstairs again. The front door is bricked. Four foot brick wall, half completed, as if stopped. Stopped cold. Up to about chest level. Bricked over just like that.
[21:35] <Jaela> "Willim, wanna try breaking through the wall right next to it?" Jaela suggests, swapping Gae Bolg for Val'Finnegan. "Just to see if it works?"
[21:36] <Ithea> "...oooookay, I don't think that was there before or Afina would have said something," Ithea mutters before shouting and calling to the others. "GUYS?"
[21:36] <Afina> "That wasn't there before," Afina sighs. "It seems we can't trust anything in here." In any case, she turns to see what other avenues are available on the ground. She's sure they need to do something here to reach the next layer, anyway.
[21:36] <Willim> "It's really strong down here." Willim says. "Fire and metal. Yeah, I can give it a shot."
[21:36] <Willim> Willim goes up to the wall, rears back, and gives it a mighty kick!
[21:36] <Jaela> "Not the door. The wall, five feet to the left," Jaela indicates. "On three!"
[21:36] * Ithea casts a spell as Willim works on the wall.
[21:37] <Kotono> OOC: Both ofyou attacking the same point on the wall?
[21:37] <Jaela> OOC: Y
[21:38] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12 AC if helpless, Afina?
[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 AC if helpless, Afina? and gets 19." [1d20=7]
[21:38] <Willim> OOC: Yep
[21:39] <Afina> OOC: 23
[21:39] <Kotono> The wall is struck. There is no damage.
[21:39] <Afina> OOC: wait...
[21:40] * Jaela purses her lips. "Anyone got a spell that eats through walls with acid or some shit like that?"
[21:40] <Afina> OOC: 18, forgot -5 dex
[21:40] <Kotono> OOC: Duly noted.
[21:40] <Kotono> roll 3d8 carry on Afina, this is not damage.
[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d8 carry on Afina, this is not damage. and gets 10." [3d8=7, 2, 1]
[21:41] * Willim screws up his face in confusion. "Now I smell milk coming from the kitchen."
[21:43] <Afina> "Only if it's metal," Afina shakes her head. "I can move through walls, but lets look around more before I try that? Might not like being alone on the other side, after all." With Willim's prompting she starts heading towards the kitchen.
[21:43] * Jaela sighs, keeping up with Afina and waving the others to follow and stay together.
[21:44] <Kotono> The kitchen has a table. The table is full of bottles of milk. Besides the table is a tall thing, tall as a human. Metal pole, two strange spherical half-cups attached to metal cables and the pole. Counter, baby food. Blended baby food, fruit and soft things. A rack of butcher's knives. A door with boarded over windows.
[21:44] * Ithea follows after them, staying outside the kitchen though, so she can somewhat keep an eye on the front door.
[21:45] <Jaela> "Maybe we can pull the boards away to glance out?" Jaela suggests, muttering, "the windows are probably unbreakable somehow."
[21:46] <Willim> "What the hell is that thing?"
[21:46] <Afina> "Give it a try?" Afina agrees, though obviously not doing it herself since everyone is much stronger.
[21:47] * Jaela uses Val'Finnegan for this ignoble task, using the spear for leverage. If she fails, Willim can always try next.
[21:48] <Kotono> The boards are pried away. Behind it are broken windows and wall. Wall with drawings. Crude drawings of paint and colors. Flowers, dogs, cats, people from the neck down. Children's drawings.
[21:48] <Kotono> OOC: Listen checks, all.
[21:48] <Jaela> roll 1d20+7
[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+7 and gets 18." [1d20=11]
[21:48] <Afina> roll 1d20+23
[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+23 and gets 40." [1d20=17]
[21:49] <Willim> roll 1d20+14
[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+14 and gets 27." [1d20=13]
[21:49] <Ithea> roll d20+21
[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+21 and gets 31." [d20=10]
[21:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 Adrian
[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 Adrian and gets 40." [1d20=20]
[21:50] <Willim> "Metal! I hear metal and pounding below us." Willim looks at the floor. "Is there a basement or a cellar door we missed?"
[21:50] <Afina> "There's something below us," Afina suddenly looks down. "Pounding on the floor..." That draws her to look for any hidden trap door. Of course there could be stairs elsewhere, but may as well check here.
[21:50] <Kotono> OOC: Search check.
[21:50] <Ithea> "Okay, that's more of us hearing it now," Ithea says, as she also looks for some sort of trap door.
[21:51] <Ithea> roll d20+6 search (aid if I can make it an aid check, otherwise just searching)
[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+6 search (aid if I can make it an aid check, otherwise just searching) and gets 17." [d20=11]
[21:51] <Afina> roll 1d20+25
[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+25 and gets 42." [1d20=17]
[21:52] <Kotono> Beneath the table the floor becomes rotted and weak. There are holes to look down through. It could giv eway easily, looks like.
[21:53] <Afina> "Willim, shove that table aside and jump down on the floor hard, that'll open a way down," Afina suggests.
[21:53] * Willim shoves the table out of the way in response! He looks down and smashes the floor in!
[21:53] <Willim> OOC: With my hands! I don't want to fall in.
[21:54] <Kotono> The table is pushed away! As Willim smashes the floor, it splinters! Amid this there is a gray metal streak, coming right at Willim!
[21:54] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 flatfooted AC?
[21:54] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 flatfooted AC? and gets 28." [1d20=8]
[21:54] <Willim> OOC: 33
[21:55] <Kotono> Chain! A long burning red chain. Barbed tip, right at Willim's eye! Pure reflex causes him to duck, the chain missing! Red light looms up from the hole! OOC: Initiative.

[21:55] <Jaela> roll 1d20+6
[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+6 and gets 9." [1d20=3]
[21:55] <Willim> roll 1d20+4
[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+4 and gets 21." [1d20=17]
[21:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 Adrian I'll run him here
[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 Adrian I'll run him here and gets 25." [1d20=18]
[21:55] <Ithea> roll d20+9
[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+9 and gets 13." [d20=4]
[21:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14 chain
[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 chain and gets 29." [1d20=15]
[21:55] <Afina> roll 1d20+19
[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+19 and gets 20." [1d20=1]
[21:56] * Kotono changes topic to 'Chain(29)>Adrian(25)>Willim(21)>Afina(20)>Ithea(13)>Jaela(9)'
[21:56] <Kotono> The chain is a red blur, coming at Willim again!
[21:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 flatfooted AC?
[21:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 flatfooted AC? and gets 25." [1d20=5]
[21:57] <Willim> OOC: Still 33
[21:57] <Kotono> But again Willim dodges, the chain again going right for his eye! OOC: Adrian.
[21:57] <Ithea> roll d20+24 K:A
[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+24 K:A and gets 25." [d20=1]
[21:57] <Kotono> With a steely slither Gaelach is drawn, striking out through the chain!
[21:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24 (-6 PA)
[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+24 (-6 PA) and gets 32." [1d20=8]
[21:58] <Kotono> roll 2d6+33
[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+33 and gets 40." [2d6=2, 5]
[21:58] <Kotono> With a single stroke the chain shatters apart! OOC: Free act.

[21:59] <Jaela> roll 1d20+17 what were you?
[21:59] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+17 what were you? and gets 31." [1d20=14]
[21:59] * Willim peers down into the hole at where the chain came from!
[21:59] <Afina> "That was fast," Afina comments, which coming from her must be true. Hovering behind Willim's shoulder, she likewise peers down.
[21:59] <Afina> roll 1d20+17
[21:59] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+17 and gets 28." [1d20=11]
[22:00] <Willim> roll 1d20+23
[22:00] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+23 and gets 32." [1d20=9]
[22:03] * Afina abruptly vanishes, fear-borne survival instincts overriding her typical poise and disdain for her natural invisibility. She's still heard a second later casting greater heroism, though.
[22:04] * Willim sits up. "Well. Now we're in the Abyss. That's FUCKED."
[22:04] <Kotono> There is a soft click coming from the foyer.
[22:04] <Willim> "Don't look in there."
[22:04] * Willim points at the hole in the floor.
[22:05] <Afina> Shivering a little as the spell helps her work through her fear, Afina reappears. "I don't like this at all... feels like I'm going to be torn apart by them just for looking..." Like Willim she turns away. "There's nothing for us down there."
[22:05] <Jaela> "Yeah okay I'm gonna go look at the front door," Jaela says, heading back and taking out Gae Bolg.
[22:05] <Kotono> The bricks surrounding the front door are gone.
[22:05] * Ithea resists the urge to look down there, instead trusting in the others' warning, and heading back to the front door.
[22:06] * Jaela tries opening it.
[22:06] * Willim calmly overturns the table and uses it to cover the hole.
[22:07] <Kotono> The door opens! Outside is gray. Gray, gray, gray. Gray dead earth. A porch. A porch leading to gray dead earth. A path leading through gray dead earth. A sign just past the porch. A weathered sign with writing on it. The sky is gray clouds and greasy drizzle.
[22:07] <Ithea> "...okay, this place really is mad," Ithea mutters as she eyes the bricks, or lack thereof.
[22:07] <Jaela> "Door's open!" Jaela calls back nonchalantly, waiting for everyone to exit.
[22:07] <Willim> On hearing that, Willim immediately exits the kitchen and heads for Jaela.
[22:08] * Ithea heads outside, stepping some distance away before turning to get a good look of just where the heck they were trapped for a while.
[22:08] * Afina glances back down the unexplored hallway, wondering if it should be pursued. But leaving does appeal a lot...
[22:08] <Kotono> Outside is gray. Gray, gray, gray. Gray dead earth. A porch. A porch leading to gray dead earth. A path leading through gray dead earth. A sign just past the porch. A weathered sign with writing on it. The sky is gray clouds and greasy drizzle.
[22:08] * Willim looks at the sign.
[22:09] <Kotono> In broken letters is the following: "B or  dell o."
[22:11] <Willim> "Bor..dello?"
[22:11] <Kotono> Following along, Adrian stops, "What?" he asks Willim, looking at him with open surprise.
[22:11] * Willim points at the sign.
[22:12] <Afina> Recalling what was seen downstairs, Afina shudders noticably with this new connotation. Floating outside with the others, she opines, "This place is bleaker than Hades, isn't it?"
[22:13] <Kotono> Adrian reads the sign once and then twice, before kicking with a sharp, sudden blow. The wood cracks at the kick as he looks away, "All those baby clothes..." he mutters, abruptly turning away from thet wo story house behind you and hurrying along.
[22:14] <Kotono> There are no windows, but otherwise it looks like a run down, once splendid house. The paint is mostly gone. Empty. Silent.
[22:14] <Jaela> "One wrong step and we'll be put to work at a place like that," Jaela adds with false cheer. "So what was so horrible past the chain?"
[22:15] <Willim> "Go and look if you want to, but I wanted you." Willim says.
[22:15] <Jaela> "It will have to be unrequited."
[22:15] <Afina> "Meat... metal and pounding. Twisting," Afina explains as best she's able, closing her eyes and shivering horribly in the air.
[22:16] * Ithea frowns. "Let's just go find some demons to kill and a way on. The sooner we get out of this place, the better."
[22:16] <Afina> "But where?" Afina finally opens her eyes, seeing nothing but grey from horizon to horizon.
[22:16] <Jaela> "How about up? Maybe we'll see something eventually. Or something will see us and come over."
[22:17] <Willim> "We're here looking for an entrance to the next layer, right?"
[22:18] <Jaela> "Essentially. And if this Anna found it, all alone, then we're bound to."
[22:19] <Ithea> "I'll wait on the ground with Adrian if you want to scout from up above," Ithea says.
[22:19] <Jaela> Recasting Daylight if only to see if it will work better once they are out of that house, Jaela flies up!
[22:19] <Afina> Up seems good, since the horrible things were down, so Afina flies up after Jaela.
[22:22] <Kotono> The sunlight that comes is now gray, only illuminating enough to see and little else. Thus the two arise. Endless fields of gray. A single path leading along. Far ahead, buildings. A village.
[22:22] <Afina> "There?" Afina asks Jaela, pointing at the path and attendant village.
[22:23] <Jaela> "Demon village, probably," Jaela agrees. "We can get information there. Though it could be petitioners or something. Let's send Willim in alone and cover him."
[22:24] <Afina> "It's probably more like that mansion below," Afina cautions, not expecting to find much intelligible.
[22:26] <Jaela> "We'll stay close enough. Regular detection magic is what, under a hundred feet? If I keep to the back and the others shield me from clear view, even if it's filled with demons he might be able to learn something. And if it's empty like that creepy whorehouse, no big, we'll just catch up."
[22:28] <Afina> There's no cover for me to use, so I'll just have to stay invisible," Afina decides, flying down now to give the others directions and suggesting Willim take point before she shadows the troll invisibly.
[22:31] <Willim> "I hear...rattling metal. Again." Willim says.
[22:31] <Afina> It never portends anything good... but there isn't anything she can do about it, either.
[22:33] <Kotono> With that, the party begins to travel! After a few minutes of walking, the village isn't in sight. Yet...they come. Sides. Front. Back. Black and gray cockroaches. Hundreds of them, approaching the party from all directions. A tide of them.
[22:35] <Afina> roll 1d20+25 i think they do
[22:35] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+25 i think they do and gets 26." [1d20=1]
[22:36] <Willim> "That's not good." Willim mutters.
[22:36] <Afina> "We can't fly away from these, Willim. We'll have to fight," Afina whispers to the nearby troll, flashing back into sight and drawing her frozen blade.
[22:36] <Jaela> With a scream that sounds remarkably like "No, go away!" Jaela blasts away with a Holy Smite!
[22:36] <Willim> "Not surprised. They fly too."
[22:36] <Kotono> OOC:If you're going hostile, init here. They're not friendly. They never are.

[22:37] <Jaela> roll 1d20+6 I will never feel clean
[22:37] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+6 I will never feel clean and gets 24." [1d20=18]
[22:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6 roach swarm
[22:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 roach swarm and gets 21." [1d20=15]
[22:37] <Willim> roll 1d20+4
[22:37] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+4 and gets 16." [1d20=12]
[22:37] <Ithea> roll d20+9
[22:37] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+9 and gets 26." [d20=17]
[22:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 Adrian
[22:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 Adrian and gets 27." [1d20=20]
[22:38] <Afina> roll 1d20+19
[22:38] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+19 and gets 21." [1d20=2]
[22:38] * Kotono changes topic to 'Adrian(27)>Ithea(26)>Jaela(24)>Afina=Roach Swarm(21)>Willim(16)'
[22:40] <Kotono> Adrian growls low in his throat, "Fucking vermin," he mutters, words sharp! Drawing back, a gust of cold air erupts out of his mouth!
[22:40] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 reflex save quick little bastards
[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 reflex save quick little bastards and gets 28." [1d20=8]
[22:40] <Kotono> roll 1d6/2
[22:40] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6/2 and gets 0.5." [1d6=1]
[22:40] <Kotono> The gust of cold air frosts the ground slightly, but little else! OOC: Ithea.
[22:41] <Ithea> ooc: any knowledge check for anything useful about demon roaches?
[22:41] <Kotono> OOC: K:N.
[22:42] <Ithea> roll d20+21
[22:42] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+21 and gets 32." [d20=11]
[22:47] <Ithea> "Oh, yuck, they're poisonous buggers," Ithea exclaims with an ugly face as she holds her action for now, waiting for them to move a little closer since she doesn't particularly want to move closer either.
[22:47] <Kotono> OOC: Okayo. Jaela.
[22:47] * Jaela zooms up as best as she can make it, and from her superior vantage point forty feet up she is better able to have a Holy Smite blossom in the midst of the onrushing swarm! Gae Bolg is out, ready to defend her, but she knows it will not be enough, nothing will ever be enough if they get too close--
[22:49] <Jaela> roll 5d8 20ft radius Will23 half
[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 5d8 20ft radius Will23 half and gets 22." [5d8=1, 6, 5, 4, 6]
[22:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10 will
[22:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 will and gets 21." [1d20=11]
[22:50] <Jaela> OOC: Blinded for 1 round!
[22:52] <Kotono> The blast of holy power strikes, several roaches reduced to cinders! Yet they keep coming, oh god they keep coming! OOC: Afina, go. Ithea, if you wanna go for the swarm go ahead. Also they took 1.5 from that as it's an area attack.
[22:53] <Afina> Lacking much in the way of appropriate attacks against such foes, Afina settles for hurling a glob of acid into their midst and flying upwards, hasting herself and Willim as she goes!
[22:53] <Afina> roll 1d20+26
[22:53] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+26 and gets 36." [1d20=10]
[22:53] <Afina> OOC: ranged touch
[22:53] <Kotono> OOC: What spell?
[22:53] <Afina> OOC: Acid Splash
[22:53] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[22:53] <Afina> roll 1d3+2+1d6
[22:53] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d3+2+1d6 and gets 6." [1d3=2][1d6=2]
[22:53] <Kotono> OOC: How far upwards?
[22:54] <Afina> OOC: 55 feet
[22:54] <Kotono> OOC:Okay. Ithea?
[22:54] <Kotono> OOC: Going to go before them or keep holding?
[22:54] <Ithea> ooc: I wanted to attack as soon as they got within 20ft range.
[22:55] <Kotono> OOC: Normal melee attack or what?
[22:55] <Ithea> ooc: yes. I have no area spells.
[22:55] <Kotono> OOC: Does your weapon have any damage properties like elemental damage?
[22:56] <Jaela> OOC: He has duskblade spell channeling!
[22:56] <Ithea> ooc: duskblade channeled spells, that's about it
[22:56] <Kotono> OOC: Goa head and attack, I'll work them into the swarm going.
[22:58] <Ithea> As soon as the swarm gets close enough to hit, Ithea starts jabbing her glaive at the demonic roaches in a flurry, channeling electric magic through it to hopefully do some more damage.
[22:58] <Ithea> roll d20+27
[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+27 and gets 40." [d20=13]
[22:58] <Ithea> roll d20+27
[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+27 and gets 39." [d20=12]
[22:58] <Ithea> roll d20+22
[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+22 and gets 30." [d20=8]
[22:58] <Ithea> roll d20+17
[22:58] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+17 and gets 36." [d20=19]
[22:58] <Kotono> OOC: All hit.
[22:59] <Ithea> roll 4#d10+15+5d6
[22:59] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls 4#d10+15+5d6 and gets 154." [4#d10+15+5d6 = 33, 46, 37, 38]
[22:59] <Kotono> OOC: Just roll the shocking grasp damage.
[22:59] <Ithea> roll 4#5d6
[23:00] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls 4#5d6 and gets 57." [4#5d6 = 18, 14, 12, 13]
[23:02] <Kotono> Acid splashes amid the vermin as they come closer! They don't stop, oh oh aaaah! Ithea bravely strikes out and fries a dozen of them, but they're coming! They're coming! Some take to the air! Some fly up, surrounding Jaela...but doing nothing! Others fly up towards Afina, but can't quite reach her! Others surround Willim, doing nothing! And...and...the others swarm! Ithea and Adrian are covered
[23:02] <Kotono> in them, biting and crawling! They go up arms and legs, into armor, up noses and into mouths! OOC: Damage then two fortitde saves you two.  Also you need to make a fort save on your turn or be nauseated as long as you're in the swarm.
[23:02] <Kotono> roll 3d6
[23:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d6 and gets 11." [3d6=1, 6, 4]
[23:03] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 Adrian 1
[23:03] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 Adrian 2
[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 Adrian 1 and gets 29." [1d20=6]
[23:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 Adrian 2 and gets 41." [1d20=18]
[23:05] <Kotono> OOC: Ithea?
[23:05] <Ithea> roll d20+22
[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+22 and gets 36." [d20=14]
[23:06] <Kotono> OOC: Two fort saves, kitty. <_<
[23:06] <Ithea> roll d20+22
[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+22 and gets 31." [d20=9]
[23:06] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. Go Willim.
[23:08] <Kotono> "Ugh!" Adrian grunts as he tries to shake them off, swinging his blade wildly!
[23:08] * Willim scratches his head at being ignored, before realization strikes him. "Oh, yeah. Half demon. Maybe I can..." Willim switches to Abyssal. "Hey! Stop! Can you leave them alone?"
[23:09] <Kotono> The vermin do not stop. OOC: Anything else, Willim?
[23:13] <Willim> "Uhh...I accept you? Come on!"
[23:15] <Kotono> At this dozens of cockroaches begin to swarm onto Willim! They cover him from head to toe, swarming over him! There are still yet others on Adrian and Ithea, and flying ones going after Jaela and Afina! OOC: Adrian.
[23:15] * Kotono changes topic to 'Adrian(27)>Jaela(24)>Ithea=Afina=Roach Swarm(21)>Willim(16)'
[23:15] <Kotono> Adrian bellows out more breath, trying to shake them off! "OFF!" he screams, "OFF!"
[23:15] <Kotono> roll 1d6
[23:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6 and gets 1." [1d6=1]
[23:15] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 oi vey
[23:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 oi vey and gets 24." [1d20=4]
[23:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 fort first, actually
[23:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 fort first, actually and gets 25." [1d20=2]
[23:16] <Kotono> But instead he doubles over, vomiting miserably! Vermin crawl in it and up it as it spews out, getting into his mouth and body! OOC: Ew. Jaela.
[23:18] <Jaela> "Oh, Goddess," Jaela breathes, her eyes darting all about her. "Back! Stay back!" she warns the vile creatures, and Gae Bolg's replicas appear all around her in every direction, warding her off. "P-Photon Lancer--" The real spear is pointed directly below, and her hands briefly shudder before she steadies them. "Fuck it, Genocide!" That is all her magic needs to blast down with multicolored ribbons of light that slice into the demonic roaches between herself and Ithea and Adrian!
[23:19] <Jaela> roll 15d6 radiant assault, 20ft radius launched 20ft below me, Will26 half
[23:19] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 15d6 radiant assault, 20ft radius launched 20ft below me, Will26 half and gets 54." [15d6=1, 6, 2, 5, 1, 3, 5, 3, 4, 2, 5, 4, 2, 5, 6]
[23:19] <Kotono> roll 1d20+10
[23:19] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 and gets 15." [1d20=5]
[23:19] <Jaela> roll 1d6 dazed rounds
[23:19] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d6 dazed rounds and gets 3." [1d6=3]
[23:20] <Kotono> More of the roaches are vaporized under this assault! At this the swarm starts to break up, overwhelmed by the assault, even the ones on Willim, scurrying away. OOC: Free act. Will save, Jaela. -4 modifier.
[23:20] <Jaela> roll 1d20+29-4
[23:20] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+29-4 and gets 33." [1d20=8]

[23:21] * Willim blinks. "That was weird."
[23:21] <Ithea> Tears of disgust begin to stream down Ithea's face as she scratches all over her body, wanting to make sure there's not a single cockroach left on her.
[23:21] <Ithea> "WEIRD?!? THAT WAS DISGUSTING!!!" Ithea screeches.
[23:22] * Ithea begins to release a stream of profanity using every single curse word she has ever heard Dana and Jaela utter.
[23:22] <Kotono> Adrian continues to vomit, dozens of roaches spewing out of his mouth. Ergo he cannot add his own thoughts.
[23:22] <Willim> "Oh come on, it wasn't that bad." Willim waves dismissively.
[23:23] <Willim> "They were just roaches."
[23:23] * Jaela flies towards Afina as steadily as she can manage, her eyes darting about. "I need a favor," she asks curtly.
[23:23] * Afina flutters slowly back down, keeping her distance from everyone else and the bugs. "Roaches that like to swarm into people's mouths," she points out before looking at Jaela expectantly.
[23:24] <Jaela> "Kill me if they-- you know." She shudders. "Please. I'll do the same for you if you want!"
[23:24] <Willim> "They seemed to like me, though." Willim says. "They weren't so bad."
[23:26] <Afina> "Alright," Afina nods, "As for me, only kill me if I'm about to be captured by devils. I'll accept resurrection afterwards."
[23:26] <Kotono> Coughing hard, Adrian looks up with wild eyes, "Not so..." he coughs again, shuddering. Using Gaelach as a cane to help him rise, "Gods, this is so cruel, all of this. So wrong."
[23:26] <Jaela> Jaela's arm twitches. "Will do."
[23:27] * Ithea starts walking away, wanting to move away from that spot.
[23:27] * Willim shrugs. "I thought they were nice. Loving, even. Maybe they just wanted to be friendly!"
[23:28] <Ithea> "They were poisonous bugs. Fuck your friendly roaches!" Ithea calls over her shoulder.
[23:28] <Jaela> "What are you saying, you moron?!" Jaela screeches. "They wanted to violate me! You too, probably, but you just liked it!"
[23:28] <Afina> "They wanted a place to lay their eggs," Afina retorts curtly, pushing onwards quickly to leave all this behind.
[23:29] <Willim> "More metal!" Willim says abruptly.

[Corwin]

[19:53] <Afina> It's not like they can do anything about it. Can they? It defies all normal and extraordinary methods to identify beyond a noise, likely inside their heads. So Afina ignores it and focuses on what can be dealt with, her senses alert for more tangible input.
[19:54] * Ithea just keeps moving in the direction they'd been heading before the bugs, not wanting to stop and talk about the rattling of metal that only some of them can hear some of the time.
[19:54] <Jaela> "We're... gonna go with our old plan," Jaela states, storing her weapon away for now.
[19:55] <Willim> "Whatever makes you happy." Willim grumbles.
[19:55] <Kotono> Forward. Forward again. Down the gray path. Down into the gray world. Forward. Forward again. Whisper. A whisper. A whisper all of you hear. A whisper of something all can't quite make out.
[19:56] * Willim looks around warily.
[19:56] <Kotono> "What?" Adrian casts his gaze about, face pale as fresh milk. "Did you hear that?"
[19:56] <Jaela> "No."
[19:57] <Willim> "I did. Dunno what it was."
[19:57] <Ithea> "Well, it wasn't metal rattling at least," Ithea says.
[19:57] <Afina> "Still no help," Afina puts in sullenly.
[19:59] <Kotono> Forward. It looms over you. Buildings too tall. Too tall, like talons. The gray path leads into this village of too tall buildings. There is a sign ahead, just before the too tall buildings that claw into the gray sky.
[19:59] * Willim reads the sign!
[20:00] <Afina> Every building looks tall to Afina...
[20:00] <Kotono> In broken, rusty-red letters the following can be read: "Home."
[20:00] <Willim> "'Home?' What kind of name is that?"
[20:02] <Afina> "A name given by someone with little imagination," Afina provides, going to look into the window of a nearby building.
[20:04] * Willim goes to a random building and looks for a way inside.
[20:04] <Kotono> The buildings are all windowless. Six of them. Six buildings, each with a door in and a sign besides the door. In the center, between them, wooden gallows. Hanging rope, empty over trap doors. No wind to blow them, only hanging there sullenly. Besides the gallows is another sign.
[20:05] * Willim checks the signs, looking for clues as to what's going on here!
[20:09] <Kotono> The six buildings have the following signs, written in old, worn script: "Butch ery" "Apothecary" "S ug ry" "Church" "Freedom" and "Ithea". When he goes to check the sign at the gallows...OOC: PM.
[20:10] * Willim stops and stares at the gallows. "Guys...I think I found a portal here."
[20:12] <Afina> "Is it a portal we want to use?" Afina asks pertinently, fluttering over to take a look.
[20:12] <Jaela> With no one around to greet them, Jaela decides to step up to the gallows and guard them from the inevitable demon attack.
[20:13] <Willim> "...probably not. To open it, I think we have to hang someone." Willim points at the gallows. "And even then, the dead that came before will resist us. I think."
[20:13] <Afina> "It might still lead to the next layer even with that," Afina muses, looking at the sign.
[20:13] <Kotono> OOC: Reading the sign, Afina?
[20:14] <Afina> OOC: yes
[20:14] <Ithea> "What about the other buildings?" Ithea asks, not having gone to read their signs. "Anything special about them?"
[20:15] <Jaela> roll 1d20+7
[20:15] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+7 and gets 9." [1d20=2]
[20:15] <Afina> "Mm. To the point," Afina frowns after reading. "It says body, though, We could use a corpse if we find any around here."
[20:16] <Willim> "An apothecary, a church, a butchery I think...sumething about sugar, one called "Ithea", and Freedom."
[20:16] <Willim> "So...more weirdness."
[20:16] <Kotono> Stopping his look around, "...Ithea?" He repeats, "As in, Ithea?"
[20:16] <Ithea> "...wait, what? Which one said that?" Ithea asks.
[20:16] * Willim points at the building clearly marked "Ithea."
[20:18] * Ithea goes look at the sign for that building, almost disbelieving.
[20:18] * Jaela is abruptly encased in stone, the incantation practically skipped past.
[20:18] * Willim turns to Jaela. "What-!?"
[20:19] <Kotono> The building is too tall. The sign reads exactly "Ithea". Too tall, windowless, just like the others.
[20:19] * Jaela can't stop shuddering, and forces herself to walk towards the sign Afina and Willim had been examining. "It needs to someone to hang, doesn't it?" she mumbles from behind the hand she has over her mouth and nose. "I can do it and not die from it."
[20:20] <Afina> Wincing at Jaela's volunteering, Afina looks the stone angel over. "You'll probably break the rope."
[20:20] <Jaela> "I will gladly accept death."
[20:21] <Afina> "The drop isn't that high..."
[20:21] <Willim> "That's crazy, Jaela. Even for you."
[20:21] <Jaela> "There is a chance."
[20:21] * Ithea looks disturbed by the sign and decides to move away from the building. Nobody else seems interested in the mystery anyway, and it probably refers to some -other- Ithea. Right?
[20:21] <Willim> "Whyyyy don't we look around first before e go hanging ourselves?" Willim suggests.
[20:22] <Kotono> "Jaela, you're not thinking straight," Adrian speaks up, "What we need to do is all escape alive, no matter how bad it is."
[20:22] <Afina> "I prefer my corpse dummy plan," Afina agrees. Since Ithea's hanging out by a building, she floats over to that one and opens its door. Maybe there'll be a zombie inside or something!
[20:25] <Kotono> Afina flies over to the building with the sign of Ithea. The door opens. Within are rickety wooden floors, old. A dim red light filters up through cracks. Lined up in the back, dozens. Dozens of Itheas, sitting against the back of the wall. The side walls, shelves. Hundreds of dolls, hundreds of Ithea dolls. Above that, paintings. Paintings of Ithea, dozens of them. Stairs, going up.
[20:26] * Afina pauses. Then slowly backs away. "Chaotic planes really like you, Ithea."
[20:28] * Ithea can't help but look inside at Afina's declaration and gapes at the inside. "Okay, yeah, that's...creepy," Ithea finally says in a shocked voice.
[20:28] <Willim> "Damn." Willim lightly pounds his fist against his thigh. "I forgot to go see Mother. Now I'm late." He peers into the room past the girls. "Wow. Free hang-ees. Lucky."
[20:29] <Afina> "Think a doll would work?"
[20:29] <Willim> "What could go wrong?"
[20:30] <Ithea> "I almost worry that if you hanged the doll I'd start choking, with how messed up this place is. I liked Limbo, but this place creeps me out," Ithea says.
[20:30] <Afina> "Worth a try, I suppose," Afina agrees, fluttering inside and grabbing the closest doll so she can go hang it. At Ithea's comment she abruptly stops and pinches the doll's leg while looking at the catgirl.
[20:30] <Jaela> "Try stabbing a doll in a hand or something?"|
[20:31] * Willim reaches forward and grabs a doll by the neck, throttling it.
[20:31] <Kotono> Ithea feels pain in her leg, and a moment later she starts to choke! OOC: 5 damage.
[20:31] * Willim immediately lets go. "Ooookay."
[20:32] <Ithea> "...hey!" Ithea exclaims at the pinch, only to start choking at Willim's action. "You...bastard..."
[20:32] <Afina> "I'm sure the pinch would've been enough if you'd let her talk before choking her," Afina remonstrates Willim, putting the doll back. Searching for alternatives, she goes to try opening the Butch ery door.
[20:32] <Willim> "Hey, relax. You're fine. I didn't hurt the doll. Or you."
[20:32] * Ithea gasps. "...that. Is. NOT. How you check that sort of theory, you moron!!!"
[20:33] <Ithea> "Afina's pinch was a lot more reasonable, YES!"
[20:33] <Jaela> "You can't leave these things here!" Jaela protests, joining Ithea by the Ithea building. "What happens when the roaches come to molest them? You've gotta take them all with you!"
[20:34] <Afina> "Th-there's a lot..." Afina hesitates at Jaela's comment, intimidated by the sheer scale of dolls. "And what if we drop some?"
[20:34] * Jaela winces. "Bag of holding...?"
[20:35] * Willim lets the girls figure that out and goes to check out the Freedom building.
[20:35] <Kotono> As the rest of the party argues and Jaela keeps watch, Afina goes to the butchery. The door opens. Meat. Hanging meat. So much meat. All made by him. HIM. Six feet tall, just as wide. Huge gut. Huge gut with a leather apron that doesn't come close to covering it all. Dead gray skin. Waddling forward, cleaver in hand. Face covered in leather strips, save for a torn mouth, as if smooth flesh was
[20:35] <Kotono> ripped open. He does not move. He watches Afina.
[20:35] * Jaela shudders anew. "You'll get raped. You'll definitely get raped. And eaten. They're watching you!"
[20:36] <Ithea> "I'm wondering if Willim's being mind controlled again or something! He's usually not that dumb...and I have something in my head saying it has to do with a Mother Tamani and the bordello," Ithea says, rubbing her forehead. "This place is insane."
[20:36] <Afina> "We have a zombie for hanging, at least?" Afina calls over, not taking her eyes off of HIM.
[20:38] <Kotono> As Afina calls, the creature comes forward. Its cleaver comes up...and slices off a strip of its own gut! Rancid black blood spills out, the smell enough to make Afina want to die. It beckons death. The new butcher-steak is taken in hand, tossed at Afina. "1 soul." HE demands.
[20:39] <Afina> "I don't want it!" Afina yelps, jerking back.
[20:39] <Jaela> "Zombies I can deal with!" Jaela declares at Afina's words, suddenly reinvigorated. "Let's fuck it up!" She takes to the air, to better strike at this timely enemy!
[20:40] <Kotono> OOC: I'll call init here. Afina's at the door to this building, Jaela's outside, as is Ithea and Adrian. Willim's over by the Freedomb uilding, say he hasn't opened it quite yet.

[20:41] <Jaela> roll 1d20+5
[20:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 Adrian
[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+5 and gets 13." [1d20=8]
[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 Adrian and gets 9." [1d20=2]
[20:41] * Kotono changes topic to 'Jaela(13)>Adrian(9)'
[20:41] <Afina> roll 1d20+19
[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+19 and gets 24." [1d20=5]
[20:41] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(24)>Jaela(13)>Adrian(9)'
[20:41] <Willim> roll 1d20+4 since what he hell
[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+4 since what he hell and gets 19." [1d20=15]
[20:41] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(24)>Willim(19)>Jaela(13)>Adrian(9)'
[20:42] <Kotono> OOC: Someone roll Ithea's init sicne she's in awayland?
[20:43] <Afina> roll 1d20+9 cat
[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+9 cat and gets 14." [1d20=5]
[20:43] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(24)>Willim(19)>Ithea(14)>Jaela(13)>Adrian(9)'
[20:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20-10
[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-10 and gets 4." [1d20=14]
[20:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 16." [1d20=10]
[20:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20-10
[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-10 and gets 8." [1d20=18]
[20:43] <Kotono> OOC: Strike that one.
[20:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 26." [1d20=20]
[20:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 20." [1d20=14]
[20:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 7." [1d20=1]
[20:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 17." [1d20=11]
[20:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 11." [1d20=5]
[20:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 20." [1d20=14]
[20:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 19." [1d20=13]
[20:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
[20:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 7." [1d20=1]
[20:44] * Kotono changes topic to '????2(26)>Afina(24)>????3(20)>Willim(19)>???1(16)>Ithea(14)>Jaela(13)>Adrian(9)>Butcher(4)'
[20:45] * Kotono changes topic to '????2(26)>Afina(24)>????3(20)>Willim(19)>????5(17)>???1(16)>Ithea(14)>Jaela(13)>???6(11)>Adrian(9)>????4(7)>Butcher(4)'
[20:45] * Kotono changes topic to '????2(26)>Afina(24)>???7=????3(20)>???8=Willim(19)>????5(17)>???1(16)>Ithea(14)>Jaela(13)>???6(11)>Adrian(9)>????4=???9(7)>Butcher(4)'
[20:45] <Kotono> OOC: Go ahead and open, Afina.
[20:48] <Afina> If it's undead, Afina has just the spell! Flying back from the door, the fairy points and unleashes a ray of brilliant blue that freezes the bones on contact to immobilise any undead foe!
[20:49] <Afina> roll 1d20+25 ranged touch, DC 22 fort or paralyzedc
[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+25 ranged touch, DC 22 fort or paralyzedc and gets 37." [1d20=12]
[20:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+12
[20:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 and gets 32." [1d20=20]
[20:50] <Afina> She also hastes herself and her allies!
[20:50] <Kotono> The brilliant blue ray hits and nothing happens. HE continues to waddle forward. Below, the floor rattles and shudders, the wood shuddering. OOC: Willim, go.
[20:52] * Willim turns toward the commotion. Zombies are good, he can help subdue it for hanging so they can move on! The sooner they're done, the sooner he can go see Mother! He heads back over toward the butchery. OOC: Depending on how far away it is, either a 70 or 140 foot move
[20:52] <Kotono> OOC: You can reach the doorway easily enough. Just planning on getting into position, or...?
[20:54] <Willim> Position to block the thing from slicing up Afina.
[20:54] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. Ithea, go.
[20:55] <Afina> OOC: I'm way back anyway
[20:56] * Ithea gets into attack range, launching a test jab with her glaive to test the thing's defenses.
[20:56] <Ithea> roll d20+27
[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+27 and gets 47." [d20=20]
[20:56] <Ithea> roll d20+27 threat?
[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+27 threat? and gets 33." [d20=6]
[20:56] <Kotono> OOC: No crit.
[20:56] <Ithea> ooc: alas, the second time I roll a 20 and it's not crittable.
[20:56] <Ithea> roll d10+15
[20:56] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+15 and gets 24." [d10=9]
[20:57] <Kotono> Ithea's stab goes into the protruding gut of the thing. No blood. Just torn flesh. No blood this time. OOC: Jaela.
[20:58] <Jaela> Deciding that it's about time for Gae Dioltas to shine, Jaela runs HIM down!
[20:58] <Kotono> OOC: 10ft reach, yes?
[20:59] <Jaela> roll 1d20+30 charging, yes
[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+30 charging, yes and gets 40." [1d20=10]
[20:59] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[20:59] <Jaela> roll 1d8+60
[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8+60 and gets 63." [1d8=3]
[21:00] <Kotono> Stabbed again. Gut torn open. No blood. No blood at all. Only too much flesh. Too much fat. Too much rancid fat. The smell is death. OOC: ??? goes.
[21:00] <Kotono> There is a shudder again. A floorboard gives way, as a red blur erupts out at Ithea!
[21:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 AC?
[21:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 AC? and gets 32." [1d20=12]
[21:01] <Ithea> ooc: 33
[21:01] <Jaela> OOC: 21 right now
[21:01] * Kotono changes topic to '????2(26)>Afina(24)>???7=????3(20)>???8=Willim(19)>????5(17)>???1(16)>Ithea(14)>Jaela(13)>Chain(11)>Adrian(9)>????4=???9(7)>Butcher(4)'
[21:02] <Kotono> A burning red chain, end nothing but a fishhook, right at Ithea's eye! Speed at the last second is her saviour, letting her dodge! OOC: Adrian.
[21:02] <Kotono> Adrian appproaches, getting into position from away! OOC: ???? is up.
[21:02] <Kotono> Another floorboard gives way, another blur! This time the red comes at Jaela, right towards her one good eye!
[21:03] <Jaela> Due to her foresight, she is made of stone and cannot be maimed any further, although she doesn't doubt it would hurt!
[21:03] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
[21:03] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 38." [1d20=18]
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d6+18
[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6+18 and gets 19." [1d6=1]
[21:04] <Kotono> Jaela's wooden eye is terribly poked, but stone cannot be popped! A moment later, a second chain comes up and flies at Ithea as well!
[21:04] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 24." [1d20=4]
[21:04] <Kotono> Pure speed allows Ithea to dodge, safe! OOC: Butcher.
[21:05] * Kotono changes topic to '????2(26)>Afina(24)>???7=????3(20)>???8=Willim(19)>????5(17)>???1(16)>Ithea(14)>Jaela(13)>Chain(11)>Adrian(9)>Chain=Chain(7)>Butcher(4)'
[21:06] <Kotono> The butcher's reach is too long. Too long for its arms. Much too long as it tries to cleave the flying Jaela!
[21:07] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 AC?
[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 AC? and gets 35." [1d20=10]
[21:07] <Kotono> roll 3d4+14
[21:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d4+14 and gets 19." [3d4=1, 1, 3]
[21:08] <Kotono> Jaela's side is chopped, but only that as stone cannot be but chipped! A moment later, the Butcher silently strikes out at Ithea, somehow matching her reach!
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 AC?
[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 AC? and gets 41." [1d20=16]
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 3d4+14 and a fortitude save.
[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d4+14 and a fortitude save. and gets 20." [3d4=1, 2, 3]
[21:10] <Ithea> roll d20+22
[21:10] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+22 and gets 23." [d20=1]
[21:12] <Kotono> The blow cuts into Ithea's side! A slice of her side is lost, cut away. Steak. A steak that bleeds her red blood, rising up to hang off a hook in the butchery. Another slice of dripping meat. Screams. Screams from outside, Ithea's voice screaming dozens of times. OOC: Afina, go.
[21:14] * Kotono changes topic to '????2(26)>Afina(24)>???7=????3(20)>???8=Willim(19)>????5(17)>???1(16)>Ithea(14;*)>Jaela(13)>Chain(11)>Adrian(9)>Chain=Chain(7)>Butcher(4)'
[21:14] <Afina> Floating down beside Ithea near the door, Afina prepares to deal with the next chain that comes out to pop someone's eye. They want to tear and twist her, do they? Well she'll give them a reason to fear her in turn for their cheek...
[21:14] <Afina> OOC: Readied action to cast metal melt on first chain to fly up
[21:15] <Kotono> A moment later, Afina's wish comes true! A red blur erupts out, as...OOC: Afina, go.
[21:16] <Afina> Thrusting her hand towards the blur, Afina wills it to be reduced into a worthless iron slurry!
[21:16] <Afina> OOC: DC 24 will or melted
[21:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 9." [1d20=6]
[21:16] * Kotono changes topic to '????2(26)>Afina=????3(20)>???8=Willim(19)>????5(17)>???1(16)>Ithea(14;*)>Jaela(13)>Chain(11)>Adrian(9)>Chain=Chain(7)>Butcher(4)'
[21:17] <Kotono> The cina melts away, a sizzling red the shade of blood. Blood that soaks into the wood like a stain. Another chain. Another chain, coming out at Afina!
[21:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 AC?
[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 AC? and gets 39." [1d20=19]
[21:18] * Kotono changes topic to '????2(26)>Afina=????3(20)>Chain=Willim(19)>????5(17)>???1(16)>Ithea(14;*)>Jaela(13)>Chain(11)>Adrian(9)>Chain=Chain(7)>Butcher(4)'
[21:18] <Kotono> Too fast. Afina is still too fast, the fish-hook barb missing her! OOC: Willim, go.
[21:18] <Afina> OOC: 48
[21:21] * Willim moves betwixt Ithea and the butcher, bodily blocking her from view of HIM.
[21:21] <Willim> OOC: AoO bait, I believe.
[21:22] <Willim> OOC: Wait, strike that. If I'm gonna take AoO's, I might as well just go gettim.
[21:22] <Ithea> ooc: just full attack him, yes.
[21:22] <Willim> OOC: I thought he had the reach?
[21:22] <Willim> OOC: That would put me not in range
[21:23] <Ithea> ooc: you can't reach him with a 5ft step?
[21:23] * Willim moves betwixt Ithea and the butcher, bodily blocking her from view of HIM as he recklessly enters melee! OOC: Rage, AoO bait. 5 foot step into melee, I believe. According to Merc.
[21:27] <Willim> OOC: Make that a 15 foot step, since the fat boy has reach
[21:29] <Kotono> OOC: He has reach, yes.
[21:29] <Kotono> OOC: You'l eat an AoO if you wanna attack him. You okay with that?
[21:30] <Willim> OOC: Hit me!
[21:30] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 AC?
[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 AC? and gets 31." [1d20=6]
[21:30] <Willim> OOC: 30!
[21:30] <Kotono> roll 3d4+14 and fortitude
[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 3d4+14 and fortitude and gets 21." [3d4=4, 2, 1]
[21:30] <Willim> roll 1d20+29
[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+29 and gets 33." [1d20=4]
[21:31] <Kotono> OOC: Carry on.
[21:31] <Willim> roll 1d20+32-6+1 PA
[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+32-6+1 PA and gets 34." [1d20=7]
[21:31] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[21:32] <Willim> roll 7d10+17+6 magic/silver
[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 7d10+17+6 magic/silver and gets 59." [7d10=4, 4, 9, 4, 2, 5, 8]
[21:32] <Ithea> ooc: Using opportunist to make an AoO after Willim smacks him.
[21:32] <Kotono> Willim is in. Into the creaking floor, punching. Flab is crushed, viscious black liquid nowhere to be seen. Only the smell of misery. Only the chain that erupts out, going for Willim!
[21:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 AC?
[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 AC? and gets 29." [1d20=9]
[21:32] <Willim> OOC: 30
[21:32] * Kotono changes topic to '????2(26)>Afina=????3(20)>Chain=Willim(19)>Chain17)>???1(16)>Ithea(14;*)>Jaela(13)>Chain(11)>Adrian(9)>Chain=Chain(7)>Butcher(4)'
[21:33] <Kotono> A narrow miss, again coming within a breath of piercing an eye. Another without mercy, without waiting, coming at Ithea!
[21:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 Ithea AC?
[21:33] <Ithea> ooc: *pokes* can I use opportunist? Y/N?
[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 Ithea AC? and gets 21." [1d20=1]
[21:33] <Kotono> OOC: On him? Sure.
[21:33] <Ithea> Just before Willim pounds on the butcher, Ithea holds her bleeding side while wincing, biting her lip, her eyes narrowing as the butcher's attention is focused on trying to defend itself from Willim and she slashes at it while the opportunity presents itself.
[21:33] <Ithea> roll d20+27
[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+27 and gets 45." [d20=18]
[21:33] * Kotono changes topic to '????2(26)>Afina=????3(20)>Chain=Willim(19)>Chain(17)>Chain(16)>Ithea(14;*)>Jaela(13)>Chain(11)>Adrian(9)>Chain=Chain(7)>Butcher(4)'
[21:33] <Ithea> roll d10+15
[21:33] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+15 and gets 19." [d10=4]
[21:34] <Kotono> Ithea stabs out again. More pierced fat. More smell. It does not die. It will not die. It says nothing to all these wounds. Nothing at all. OOC: Ithea, go.
[21:35] * Ithea continues to assault the evil creature, putting more effort into her attacks now. Enough damage HAS to do something! (ooc: AS 4, PA-5)
[21:36] <Ithea> roll d20+26
[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+26 and gets 38." [d20=12]
[21:36] <Ithea> roll d20+26
[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+26 and gets 46." [d20=20]
[21:36] <Ithea> roll d20+21
[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+21 and gets 35." [d20=14]
[21:36] <Ithea> roll d20+16
[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+16 and gets 24." [d20=8]
[21:36] <Kotono> OOC: All hit.
[21:36] <Ithea> ooc: Hatbot taunts me with 20s when I can't crit >.<
[21:36] <Ithea> roll d10+25+4d4
[21:36] <Ithea> roll d10+25+4d4
[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+25+4d4 and gets 35." [d10=2][4d4=1, 2, 3, 2]
[21:36] <Ithea> roll d10+25+4d4
[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+25+4d4 and gets 41." [d10=9][4d4=1, 1, 3, 2]
[21:36] <Ithea> roll d10+25+4d4
[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+25+4d4 and gets 37." [d10=2][4d4=3, 3, 2, 2]
[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+25+4d4 and gets 45." [d10=8][4d4=3, 4, 2, 3]
[21:37] <Ithea> roll d20+18 K:R I'll roll it even if he dies. I want to know what that * means!
[21:37] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+18 K:R I'll roll it even if he dies. I want to know what that * means! and gets 26." [d20=8]
[21:37] <Kotono> Torn. Torn and burned. Flaps of fat hang like curtains now. The last strike hits something hard. Something inside, something smooth and silky white. A pouch inside of the great flabs of fat. Hard as steel, if not harder. OOC: Jaela.
[21:37] * Jaela will see about putting that thing down for good! She is in position, and no roaches are in sight. They could not get her when she's using this spell, anyway. Nothing can get at her here when she is made of stone. So that butcher is already dead! Val'Finnegan replaces Gae Dioltas, and the holy spear is the vessel of her vengeance!
[21:37] <Jaela> roll 1d20+18 devotion
[21:37] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+18 devotion and gets 24." [1d20=6]
[21:38] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32-10 (10pa)
[21:38] <Jaela> roll 1d20+32-10 (10pa)
[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32-10 (10pa) and gets 36." [1d20=14]
[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+32-10 (10pa) and gets 40." [1d20=18]
[21:38] <Jaela> roll 1d20+27-10 (10pa)
[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+27-10 (10pa) and gets 19." [1d20=2]
[21:38] <Jaela> roll 1d20+22-10 (10pa)
[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+22-10 (10pa) and gets 28." [1d20=16]
[21:38] <Kotono> OOC: All hit.
[21:39] <Jaela> roll 4#1d8+23+20+2d6
[21:39] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 4#1d8+23+20+2d6 and gets 213." [4#1d8+23+20+2d6 = 50, 58, 54, 51]
[21:40] <Kotono> Stabbing, ripping. A banquet of flesh. Its stomach is torn away, all hanging no. No organs. Only chains holding up the white sphere. A white silken sphere, so hard that not even Val'Finnegan can pierce it. The butcher still lives. It does not die. It does not bleed. Instead it licks its lips, ripping off a bit of its hanging fat and noisily chomping and chomping and chomping it down! OOC: Chain
[21:40] <Kotono> is up.
[21:40] <Jaela> OOC: Sorry, +8 to that
[21:40] <Ithea> ooc: opportunist to attack after Jaela! >_>
[21:40] <Kotono> OOC: Can't you only use it once per rou-oh wait, you just toko your turn. Go ahead.
[21:41] * Ithea attempts to jab at that sphere after Jaela hacked away at so much of the butcher!
[21:41] <Ithea> roll d20+26
[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+26 and gets 44." [d20=18]
[21:41] <Kotono> OOC: Damage.
[21:41] <Ithea> roll d10+25+4d4
[21:41] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+25+4d4 and gets 42." [d10=9][4d4=2, 2, 2, 2]
[21:42] <Kotono> The sphere is struck. The sphere is not damaged. Yet a moment later, it shudders. The sphere shudders, tumorously quaking! OOC: Chain.
[21:42] <Kotono> Another chain is moving, circling, darting up again, going for Afina!
[21:42] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
[21:42] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 38." [1d20=18]
[21:42] <Kotono> Too fast, again Afina is too fast! OOC: Adrian.
[21:43] <Kotono> Adrian works his way in, closing in! With a face of grim determinatino he makes one great cleaving strike at the sphere!
[21:43] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 (+1 haste, -10 PA)
[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 (+1 haste, -10 PA) and gets 23." [1d20=2]
[21:43] <Kotono> roll 2d6+41
[21:43] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+41 and gets 45." [2d6=2, 2]
[21:44] <Kotono> The sphere is struck. The sphere is not damaged. Yet a moment later, it shudders again. It begins to bulge in all directions, too small to hold what is within! OOC: Chains.
[21:44] <Jaela> roll 1d20+18
[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+18 and gets 38." [1d20=20]
[21:45] <Kotono> Chains again, one at Adrian and one at Willim!
[21:45] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 Adrian
[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 Adrian and gets 30." [1d20=10]
[21:45] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 Willim
[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 Willim and gets 33." [1d20=13]
[21:46] <Jaela> "Stop hitting that horrible thing! My eye, my eye!"
[21:46] <Kotono> OOC: 31 for Adrian, once again haste saves teh day.
[21:46] <Kotono> OOC: AC, Willim?
[21:46] <Willim> OOC: 30! EYBALLIN'
[21:46] <Kotono> roll 1d6+18 and CMD since it gets a grapple
[21:46] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6+18 and CMD since it gets a grapple and gets 21." [1d6=3]
[21:47] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24
[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+24 and gets 29." [1d20=5]
[21:47] <Willim> OOC: way higher than that.
[21:47] <Willim> OOC: 56
[21:47] <Kotono> There is a wet pop as the hook reaches Willim's left eye! The chain burrows in and hangs there, pulling down! Pulling down hard as the floor groans louder, but Willim does not fall! OOC: You are now down a left eye and the chain is pulling on you. Butcher is up.
[21:47] <Ithea> "What are you screaming about, Jaela?" Ithea asks, confused, though she does look at the white sphere a little more warily.
[21:48] <Jaela> "It's a WOMB for some shit too HORRIBLE for the fucking ABYSS!!!!!!!!"
[21:48] * Willim roars in incoherent pain!
[21:49] <Kotono> The butcher staggers! It falls to its ass, mouth full as it devours its hanging flesh! The sounds of eating are loud. Too loud, drowning out conversation! OOC: Afina, go.
[21:49] * Ithea still doesn't see how hitting it would be a bad thing, not unless it...grows on pain? Ithea grimaces and decides to focus on the chains instead.
[21:50] <Afina> Helping out Willim, Afina targets the chain stuck in his eye and melts it before she backs off away from the door once more!
[21:50] <Afina> OOC: DC 24 will or melted
[21:50] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3
[21:50] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 and gets 14." [1d20=11]
[21:51] <Kotono> The chain melts. Willim is free, eye socket now empty. Not just empty, black. Black, as if nothing was ever there. OOC: Chain and Willim are up. Go ahead and go, Willim.
[21:51] <Willim> OOC: Anything left of that chain?
[21:52] <Kotono> OOC: Just some red melt on the floor, if you mean the one that de-eyed you.
[21:52] <Willim> OOC: Groovy.
[21:53] <Willim> "What the hell is that thing?! And why all the chains?!" Willim snarls, preparing to grab the next chain as it flies out of the floor. OOC: Readied action
[21:54] <Kotono> At the same time, another chain moves, going for Ithea...OOC: Willim?
[21:55] * Willim quickly reaches out, snatching for the chain. OOC: 5 foot reach sufficient?
[21:55] <Kotono> OOC: Yes.
[21:55] <Willim> roll 1d20+34 grapple attemt
[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+34 grapple attemt and gets 46." [1d20=12]
[21:56] <Kotono> OOC: Success.
[21:57] * Willim wraps his arms around the chain, pulls it away from Ithea, and gives an almighty YANK!
[21:58] <Kotono> Dozens and dozens of feet of chain surge out as a metallic SNAP is heard! At this the chain's red color fades, going still. OOC: Chains are up.
[21:59] * Kotono changes topic to '????2(26)>Afina=????3(20)>Willim(19)>Chain(17)>Chain(16)>Ithea(14;*)>Jaela(13)>Chain(11)>Adrian(9)>Chain=Chain(7)>Butcher(4)'
[21:59] <Kotono> Two more chains go - one at Ithea, one at Jaela!
[21:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 Ithea
[21:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 Ithea and gets 38." [1d20=18]
[21:59] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 Jaela ACs?
[21:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 Jaela ACs? and gets 33." [1d20=13]
[21:59] <Ithea> ooc: hit on my side
[21:59] <Jaela> OOC: 23
[21:59] * Willim frowns as the chain goes limp in his arms.
[21:59] <Kotono> roll 1d6+18 Ithea and CMD since a grapple is incoming.
[21:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6+18 Ithea and CMD since a grapple is incoming. and gets 20." [1d6=2]
[21:59] <Kotono> roll 1d6+18 Jaela and nothing else since you're solid stone.
[21:59] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6+18 Jaela and nothing else since you're solid stone. and gets 19." [1d6=1]
[21:59] <Ithea> ooc: higher than that
[22:00] <Kotono> OOC: No no, the grapple hasn't been made yet. Just asking for your CMD so I know what to roll against.
[22:00] <Ithea> ooc: oh right. 41
[22:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24
[22:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+24 and gets 33." [1d20=9]
[22:01] <Kotono> Again the chains strike! Agony as Ithea's right eye is popped like an overripe leg full of pus, depriving Ithea of half her sight. Jaela is slashed as well, wounded by her stone body protecting her once more! OOC: Ow. You have a chain in your eye trying to tug you down, Ithea. You're up.
[22:08] * Ithea doesn't have a chance to thank Willim for intercepting one of the chains as another digs into her eyeball. Ithea immediately just jabs at it, trying to break it.
[22:08] <Ithea> roll d20+20 (PA-7)
[22:08] <Ithea> roll d20+20 (PA-7)
[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+20 (PA-7) and gets 24." [d20=4]
[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+20 (PA-7) and gets 31." [d20=11]
[22:08] <Ithea> roll d20+15 (PA-7)
[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+15 (PA-7) and gets 16." [d20=1]
[22:08] <Ithea> roll d20+10 (PA-7)
[22:08] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+10 (PA-7) and gets 30." [d20=20]
[22:09] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits.
[22:09] <Ithea> roll 3#d10+29
[22:09] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls 3#d10+29 and gets 102." [3#d10+29 = 36, 34, 32]
[22:09] * Kotono changes topic to '????2(26)>Afina=????3(20)>Willim(19)>Chain(17)>Ithea(14;*)>Jaela(13)>Chain(11)>Adrian(9)>Chain=Chain(7)>Butcher(4)'
[22:09] <Kotono> The chain is shattered. Broken. Another lies shattered as the floor groans again, beginning to sag downwards. OOC: Jaela.
[22:12] * Jaela strikes at the nearest of the chains with all her might, before taking off up and back!
[22:13] <Jaela> roll 1d20+20 10pa
[22:13] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+20 10pa and gets 38." [1d20=18]
[22:13] <Jaela> roll 1d8+23+20
[22:13] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8+23+20 and gets 51." [1d8=8]
[22:14] <Jaela> OOC: Flying 20ft back/50ft up
[22:14] * Kotono changes topic to '????2(26)>Afina=????3(20)>Willim(19)>Chain(17)>Ithea(14;*)>Jaela(13)>Chain(11)>Adrian(9)>Chain(7)>Butcher(4)'
[22:14] <Kotono> Another chain is sliced, shattered, ruined! It crashes on the sagging floor, as another darts out, this one at Afina!
[22:14] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20
[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 and gets 29." [1d20=9]
[22:14] <Kotono> But again Afina is far too fast for it! OOC: Adrian.
[22:15] <Kotono> Adrian takes the hint, retreating out of the house with all due haste! A moment later, another chain strikes, this one at Willim!
[22:15] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 AC?
[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 AC? and gets 28." [1d20=8]
[22:16] <Willim> OOC: 30
[22:16] <Jaela> "That fucking WOMB will give BIRTH to the most unholy damned critter in the ENTIRE FUCKING ABYSS!" Jaela helpfully warns, hopefully far and safe enough from the coming horror. "It must be a DEMON COCKROACH! FLEE!!!!!!!"
[22:16] <Kotono> But Willim is a hair too fast, dodging the chain as his surviving eye narrowly avoids piercing! As the butcher continues to consume himself, the floor creaks again! There is a terrible groan as at last chains burst forth, the floor disintegrating! OOC: Afina and Jaela are flying, Adrian is out of the house.  Willim can fly. Ithea, do you have any means of arresting your fall?
[22:17] <Ithea> ooc: casting blink, that's about it
[22:17] <Ithea> ooc: that or teleporting, but again, nothing as immediate action
[22:17] <Willim> OOC: Can I make a reflex save to catch her?
[22:18] <Kotono> OOC: Not out of your turn, no.
[22:18] <Kotono> While Willim is able to fly and save himself on instinct, Ithea is not so lucky! She plummets into a sea of red, a sea of terrible red and chains and oh god NO! The chains are coming for her, the chains are coming for her from all over!
[22:18] <Kotono> roll 4#1d20+20 AC?
[22:18] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4#1d20+20 AC? and gets 120." [4#1d20+20 = 32, 33, 31, 24]
[22:18] <Ithea> ooc: AC 33
[22:19] <Kotono> roll 1d6+18
[22:19] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d6+18 and gets 24." [1d6=6]
[22:20] <Kotono> Falling! Agony spreads into her legs as a chain pierces through, fishhook digging into her flesh as she's plummeting down! Above they can see a sea of chains and red and fire and misery, surrounding Ithea and dragging her down! OOC: Ithea is 50ft down and plummeting fast into a nightmare. Afina, you're up.
[22:20] <Kotono> "Ithea!" Adrian calls, staring in a moment of unguarded horror. "ITHEA!"
[22:21] * Ithea screams as she falls and a hook goes into her leg. The pain from all the wounds she's accumulated in the last few minutes is excruitiating.
[22:21] * Afina puts her fear aside (easy with a greater heroism spell) and zips down after Ithea, small hands grabbing onto her fur before the fairy dimension doors them both back out and in the centre of the village!
[22:22] <Kotono> OOC: That does provoke a response though before that, lemme adjudicate that.
[22:22] <Kotono> Afina dives down into the hellish misery! Chains...they're coming for her! Chains dart out to try and claim her as well!
[22:22] <Kotono> roll 4#1d20+20 AC?
[22:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4#1d20+20 AC? and gets 119." [4#1d20+20 = 27, 35, 26, 31]
[22:22] <Afina> OOC: 48
[22:23] <Kotono> But none hit! None touch her as she dives down, reaching Ithea! Calling on her magic the two vanish and reappear, out of the house! Meanwhile the entire house is shuddering, chains erupting through the floor and into the walls! OOC: Free act for now.

[22:24] * Willim immediately flies out of the collapsing house!
[22:24] * Afina is good where she is!
[22:24] <Jaela> "Die, motherfuckers!" Jaela cries, pointing Val'Finnegan at the collapsing house and the chains alike. But rather than the usual blast, a rainbow-colored beam is what ends up striking at the forces of the Abyss!
[22:25] <Kotono> Adrian staggers back, turning to Ithea and Afina. He exhales with a visible shake of his body, stumbling away from the house! OOC: Roll a d8 to determine effect.
[22:25] <Ithea> "T-t-thanks," Ithea stutters out, wincing as she grabs her leg.
[22:25] <Jaela> roll 1d8
[22:25] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8 and gets 1." [1d8=1]
[22:26] <Jaela> OOC: 20 fire, ref26 half?
[22:26] <Kotono> OOC: No reflex save for 'em here.
[22:26] <Willim> Cautiously, Willim pokes at the empty eye socket in his face.
[22:26] * Jaela laughs maniacally as the ruins are enveloped in flame!
[22:27] <Kotono> Flames further baste the chains, but for every few shattered, more come! More chains come, groans as they rip through the house! With a great groan the house collapses downwards, the crunch and sizzle of wood and metal the only sound. Then...silence, a red glowing pit where the house was before. No chains. Now there are only five houses.
[22:28] * Jaela points Val'Finnegan at the other houses, one by one. "Who's next, bitches? Come on, come and die!"
[22:28] <Kotono> No response.
[22:28] <Afina> "So... we need a new zombie to hang," Afina points out, eyeing the other houses speculatively.
[22:28] <Kotono> Willim finds the eyesocket is empty. On a glance, Ithea's is the same way - black empty.
[22:29] * Willim frowns. "This is less than convenient."
[22:29] * Ithea tries to heal some of the damage on herself as she tries to calm her racing heart down some.
[22:30] <Ithea> roll 4d8+15 CSW
[22:30] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls 4d8+15 CSW and gets 36." [4d8=5, 6, 6, 4]
[22:30] <Kotono> Rapidly new flesh forms. The flesh is all gray. The color of the ground. No life in it in color, only gray flesh.
[22:32] * Ithea eyes the grey flesh with concern, it's definitely nothing good for calming her heart down, as she searches her memory for any possible information about what this means.
[22:32] <Afina> Waiting a moment for people to heal, and narrowing her eyes at Ithea's new colouring, Afina comments, "A trip to somewhere more lively after this would be good for all of us. Does someone else want to pick the next house to try?"
[22:32] <Kotono> Adrian takes a long, shaky breath. He rubs his face, "We need to find something, fast. I'm losing my control, and damn it, I can't seem to stop it."
[22:32] <Kotono> OOC: K:P.
[22:32] <Ithea> ooc: any knowledge check to recognize symptoms or anything?
[22:33] <Ithea> roll d20+24
[22:33] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+24 and gets 38." [d20=14]
[22:34] <Jaela> The others can decide on the next building to tear down, while checking it for hostile roaches. Meanwhile, Jaela brings herself back up to speed.
[22:34] <Jaela> roll 2d8+10 CLWx2
[22:34] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 2d8+10 CLWx2 and gets 22." [2d8=8, 4]
[22:35] <Kotono> Jaela's flesh returns as normal.
[22:36] * Willim attempts to center himself, calming down and focusing. He calls upon his demonic heritage in hopes of purging any possible mental control over himself. OOC: Protection from Good, blocking mental control of any kind, CL 15
[22:37] * Ithea groans and feels like crying as her mind latches onto what the grey flesh means, and after a brief thought, actually does go do that, flopping down so she's sitting, cupping her face on her hands and leaning into her knees as a few sobs escape from her. This place was horrible and she really really wished she'd skipped on coming now.
[22:37] <Kotono> "...Ithea?" Adrian stares, coming over to her. He fidgets a moment, "C'mon, we have to keep going so we can get out of here."
[22:38] <Jaela> "You do that!" Jaela calls from fifty feet up. "I've got your back!"
[22:38] * Ithea sniffles, rubbing her face and nods as she stands up. "Yeah, let's get out of here."
[22:38] <Afina> "We can leave at any time," Afina pipes up uncomfortably. "Adrian can make a porta, Jaela can plane shift. There's nothing stopping us except wanting to find Anna."
[22:38] <Afina> *portal
[22:38] * Willim stands. "Yeah. We should go back to the bordello. Mother misses me."
[22:43] <Jaela> "Fuck no," Jaela instantly vetoes that. "Adrian, get the door for-- uh, what was it? Freedom? Get that! If there's anything, yell and step aside, I'll rush right through! Ithea! Living with one normal eye is awesome, take it from me! Afina-- you're actually okay. Huh. Whatever. Watch out for roaches! They're hiding!"
[22:45] * Jaela snaps her fingers with the grating sound of stone against stone. "Come on! If Anna went through all this on her own, she's fucking awesome! We're gonna recruit the fuck out of her!"
[22:45] * Ithea snorts at Jaela's declaration and shakes her head. Hopefully Anna will be found soon then.
[22:46] <Willim> "I agree with Jaela. We've come too far now to just give up and go see Mother right away. We need to press on and finish first." Willim says with conviction. "Even is we lose all of our eyes."
[22:46] <Afina> "The Unseelie in the Gloaming Wood were pretty horrible, too," Afina shrugs to explain her acceptance of freaky stuff. "I had to hide out in their playgrounds and kill them a lot." Of course her greater heroism spell helps a lot, too. Horrible twisting and pounding metal-meat things...
[22:47] <Jaela> "That's the spirit!" Jaela agrees brightly, a wide smile on her face. "This shit ain't got nothing on my nightmares! Try harder, assholes!"
[22:47] <Kotono> "Yeah, we have to keep going. Not going to stop here. Not for Lifasa," Adrian downright chants it, "Pick another building, we have to find osmething."
[22:47] <Jaela> "FREEDOM! Get it!"
[22:48] * Afina goes and opens the door in question since no one else is moving on it.
[22:49] <Kotono> The door to Freedom opens. Shop. It's all a shop. Glass display cases, dusty. Shelves. Signs advertising sales. There is one good for sale - nooses. Hundreds and hundreds of nooses are for sale. There are stairs going up.
[22:50] <Afina> "Oh, nooses. That's handy. Freedom of the grave or something?" Afina commentates as she flutters inside, keeping clear in case they animate and attack her.
[22:50] * Willim heads inside as well.
[22:51] <Jaela> "Is there anything with more than two feet?" Jaela calls after those two.
[22:51] * Ithea waits outside, not really interested in finding out any more surprises. If there's anything interesting, the others will say so anyway.
[22:51] <Afina> "Can't see yet," Afina calls back, starting to flutter up the stairs.
[22:52] <Jaela> "I'll wait till you check! Be thorough! Because they hide!"
[22:52] * Willim follows up!
[22:52] <Willim> "You know," Willim remarks to Afina, "Mother misses us. We should go see her when we're all done here."
[22:53] <Afina> "We can look for your succubus after we find Anna. I doubt she'll be on this layer anyway, bordelo or no," the pixie replies distractedly as she keeps her ears sharp for attacks.

[Corwin]

[22:00] <Kotono> OOC: Will save, Ithea.
[22:02] <Ithea> roll d20+20
[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+20  and gets 37." [d20=17]
[22:03] <Kotono> Silence. The silence of empty gray air. Afina and Willim ascend. Another floor. More nooses for sale. Racks and stacks and heaps of nooses, just like before. Stairs going up. Nothing is dissimilar.
[22:04] <Willim> "There's got to be something other than just nooses." Willim says, heading for the next floor.
[22:05] <Afina> "There doesn't have to be. But we should look anyway," Afina replies, following.
[22:05] * Jaela ascends further, until she is a good one hundred feet away from the ground, stone wings working overtime to keep her afloat.
[22:05] <Kotono> Another floor. More nooses for sale. Racks and stacks and heaps of nooses, just like before. Stairs going up. Nothing is dissimilar.
[22:06] <Afina> "This is pointless," Afina declares, turning around and going back down.
[22:07] <Willim> "This is stupid. There isn't anybody around. Why would they have all these nooses?"
[22:08] <Afina> "The same reason for the Ithea dolls. For the hooks. For the roaches. For the chains. For the... meat and the twisting. Pounding," Afina shudders visibly in the air before hurrying back down and out.
[22:08] * Willim heads back down as well. Splitting up is unwise here.
[22:09] <Kotono> On returning to the second floor, you find that the nooses are gone. The sale signs have rusty red writing splayed over them now.
[22:10] * Willim checks it out!
[22:12] <Kotono> What is written is the following, "ASLEEP."
[22:12] <Willim> "...asleep?"
[22:13] <Afina> "Don't think about it too hard, nothing good will happen," Afina doesn't even bother to look, simply continuing on her way.
[22:13] * Willim shrugs and follows on down.
[22:13] <Kotono> As Willim and Afina see this and the others wait outside, it is heard. The rattle of metal. A din of it so loud that the ground shakes. Quakes. Shudders, rippling.
[22:14] <Willim> "Nothing good can come of that." Willim says, picking up the pace.
[22:14] <Afina> This is definitely going to be something bad, so Afina doesn't delay in regrouping with her friends.
[22:15] * Ithea is pacing outside the house, eyeing the ground nervously, concerned it might open up again.
[22:16] <Kotono> Adrian is nearby Ithea, a hand against the wall of Freedom to keep himself up. "That can't be good," he greets them with, "Did you find anything in there?"
[22:16] <Afina> "Nooses and more nooses," Afina replies. Looking up and seeing Jaela on overwatch, she calls upwards, "See anything?"
[22:16] <Willim> "Vanishing nooses." Willim says, looking around and staying close to Ithea and Adrian, in case the ground splits open and they need to get airborne in a hurry.
[22:18] <Jaela> "Lots of gray!" Jaela calls down. "No roaches. But they're out there!"
[22:19] <Ithea> "Shall we check out the church next?" Ithea suggests, not really wanting to go to the surgery house, even though that could well have cadavers or something.
[22:19] * Jaela abruptly flies fifty more feet up.
[22:20] <Afina> "We may as well," Afina goes with that, flying over to open the church door.
[22:20] <Willim> "I think Jaela will not be joining us if we do. Just a hunch." Willim drawls.
[22:20] * Ithea accompanies the pixie this time.
[22:20] <Jaela> roll 1d20+29
[22:20] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+29 and gets 36." [1d20=7]
[22:20] * Willim joins them as well.
[22:21] <Kotono> As you approach, a sound. The clang of heavy iron bells. The door opens. The door always opens, just like that. Pews. Dark pews and lit candles. An altar, with a robed man, clad in silver and white. A robed man sobbing before the altar. Adrian follows along as well.
[22:21] <Kotono> As Jaela floats up, she feels a sharp, sudden burning sensation just above each of her eyes.
[22:22] <Ithea> "Who are you?" Ithea asks suspiciously of the sobbing robed man.
[22:23] <Kotono> No response.
[22:23] <Kotono> "Are you alright?" Adrian calls a moment later, "You there!"
[22:23] <Jaela> Her hands shaking slightly, Jaela turns her head to look into the reflective surface of the arm guard on her armor.
[22:24] <Afina> "He's probably like the butcher," Afina points out. "We may as well hang him before the chains and the meat things of metal take him."
[22:24] <Kotono> Doing so, Jaela can see a pair of antenne growing out from just above her eyelashes. The antenne of an insect or vermin, like a cockroach.
[22:25] <Ithea> "Do you know how to get out of this layer?" Ithea asks the sobbing man, though Afina's idea sounds like a good option if he doesn't reply.
[22:25] <Kotono> The sobbing continues....and slowly, the robed man stands up. His back is to you.
[22:25] <Willim> "Here we go..." Willim says, preparing for another fight.
[22:27] <Kotono> Sobbing. He sobs as he turns. Eyes. No eyes. Bloody tears come from eyesockets plugged up with fishhooks. His mouth is shut. Sewn shut with chains. No nose, torn off. Around his neck is dulled gold symbol of some sort, broken. Hanging broken. The sobbing sounds continue. He takes a step forward, and then another. Another. Another.
[22:29] * Jaela closes her eye and calls upon the divine protection of the Seldarine. She can continue to serve them for as long as she has her mind and while her magic listens to her. Once that ability has left her, all that she will have to do is die.
[22:29] <Willim> "Well, that's not good." Willim says.
[22:29] <Kotono> Another. Another. Another. He is coming towards you. He is coming. He is coming. He is coming. Closer and closer. He is approaching the party.
[22:30] <Ithea> ooc: k:r to recognize symbol?
[22:30] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[22:30] <Ithea> roll d20+13
[22:30] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+13 and gets 30." [d20=17]
[22:30] <Afina> "Hanging him would be merciful, assuming he's not a demon in disguise... then it's just sensible," Afina points out, flying around behind him and jabbing her sword in his back in a gesture to move rather than a stab.
[22:32] <Ithea> "...Tyr's symbol?" Ithea mutters in question, keeping her weapon pointed towards the man as he approaches but not taking any immediately offensive gestures yet.
[22:33] <Kotono> The man stares at Afina with fishhooks. He approaches and approaches towards the party...and stops at Ithea's words. He turns to her. He approaches. He spreads his arms wide, as if to embrace her. Embracing her, even as bloody tears fall.
[22:34] <Willim> "You know, Tannin mentioned that whole planes can get pulled into other planes the other day. Maybe this town here used to be part of a prime, and became part of the Abyss." Willim speculates.
[22:34] * Afina relents on her poking since he might not be a lost cause. "A town that loved Ithea?" she then asks at Willim's supposition.
[22:35] <Kotono> "T-that's not the farthest fetched idea we've had today," Adrian mutters, shaking his head.
[22:35] * Ithea moves and keeps one of the others between her and Tyr's follower. "Hey, I don't follow Tyr, and this guy apparently does."
[22:35] <Willim> "Well, I'm assuming that the Abyss made it completely insane."
[22:35] <Kotono> Approaching. He approaches and reaches out for Ithea. Approaches even as other bar his way.
[22:35] <Jaela> Now despairing, Jaela calls upon Detect Magic and takes a long look at herself.
[22:36] <Kotono> You detect no magic.
[22:36] <Kotono> Again the rattle of chains is heard! It's loud enough to shake the ground again. Shaking like a rotten tumor. Shaking. Shuddering in pain.
[22:36] <Ithea> "Unless you say something, I'm going to knock you out if you keep moving closer!" Ithea warns the man.
[22:36] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
[22:36] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 9." [1d20=3]
[22:37] <Kotono> Amid the sobbing, a tiny whisper can be heard. A single word, a single word full of chilling pain. "H...el..p."
[22:38] <Afina> "I guess he's not like the Butcher. Get Jaela down here, maybe she can heal him?" Afina suggests.
[22:38] <Willim> "I'll go get her." Willim says, heading back outside. He flies up toward Jaela.
[22:38] <Ithea> "How?" Ithea asks, frowning and actually lowering her weapon a bit at that. She nods at Afina's words though, that might help a bit, though with the degree of some of his injuries...
[22:41] <Kotono> Willim finds Jaela far up, antenne coming out from her hea dnow. Meanwhile the man just stares at Ithea with those fishhooks. He stares and reaches for her.
[22:42] <Willim> "Jaela we-hey, that's a good look for you." Willim says.
[22:42] <Ithea> Even though she feels for the man's plight, given where this place is and what's happened so far, Ithea has no intention of letting him reach her, keeping Adrian firmly between them.
[22:43] * Jaela is tapping her fingers against the shaft of her spear, deep in thought. She gives Willim a brief glance, but doesn't really acknowledge him past that.
[22:44] <Willim> "We found a man who looks to be human. He's pretty cu up, and he's wearing a holy symbol. Found him in the church. Think you can come down and heal him? If any roaches show up, I'll do my best to keep them off of you." Willim offers.
[22:44] <Afina> "Maybe he can communicate through touch? If he tries anything underhanded I'll kill him," Afina reassures Ithea so they can make some progress.
[22:45] <Kotono> "I'll second that," Adrian offers.
[22:45] <Ithea> "He didn't react until I mentioned his god's name, you say it and let him touch you. I've got enough problems with what's apparently undead flesh!" Ithea says stubbornly, pointing at the grey splotches of skin. "I'm all pasty!"
[22:46] <Jaela> "Yeah sure whatever," Jaela says, her heart not in it. She arrests her wings and drops most of the way, gliding the remaining twenty feet down upon them to land near the building in question.
[22:47] <Kotono> "...maybe it's stupid, kitty," Adrian says, "But if he's a good soul trapped here-" A stop as Jaela descends and joins the rest of the party.
[22:47] <Afina> "Fine," Afina shrugs, floating in front of the maimed 'priest'. "You serve Tyr? Why are you still alive?" she asks promptly grabbing his thumb. She has her sword in the other hand ready if this proves unwise.
[22:47] <Jaela> "Not a fucking word," Jaela says preemptively.
[22:47] * Willim drops as well, landing with a double CLOP on the ground.
[22:49] * Ithea holds back words about the antennae, as requested.
[22:49] <Kotono> At Afina's words, he turns towards her. His entire body convulses with a wracking, silent sob as he crumbles, sobbing silently. No sounds now. No sounds of sobbing. Only a shaking body, collapsing to his knees.
[22:49] <Jaela> "What's the deal?" Jaela asks, taking a look at the troubled cleric. "Do we need someone to carry him? I'm already a goner, so I could do that."
[22:50] <Willim> "Just some healing."
[22:50] <Ithea> "Can you fix him up enough that he can talk?"
[22:51] <Afina> "You want to be free? Free to leave the Abyss or the freedom of death?" Afina clarifies, considering the Freedom building just seen.
[22:51] <Kotono> roll 1d20+6
[22:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 and gets 10." [1d20=4]
[22:51] <Jaela> "Probably not. Yo, Priest of Holy Judgement," she says, raising her voice to catch his attention. "Accept this and I'll free your mind." Without waiting on a confirmation, a Holy Aura settles down on all of them, she and the priest of Tyr included.
[22:54] <Kotono> At that moment the holy light settles on them. It seems dim and dull...and then, the broken holy symbol catches the radiance. The radiance of the Holy Aura grows brighter, pushing away the gray. Pushing it away. For a moment, you all feel alive. The voice echos amid you, 'Kill me. Kill me. Kill me.' he chants, 'They won't let me do it. Kill me. Kill me. Free me. Free me.' His chant is endless,
[22:54] <Kotono> 'Free me. Free me. In the Holy Judge's name, free me. Free me. Free me. Free me. Free me. Free me. Free me!'
[22:54] <Afina> "I understand," Afina nods gravely, clasping her tiny hand around his. "Come with me," she starts to tug him out of the church before calling over, "Somebody get a rope."
[22:54] * Willim freely pulls silk rope from his pack!
[22:55] <Jaela> "From what I gathered about this place, if you die, you can pass on properly," Jaela assures him. "So don't worry. I'll probably follow you pretty quickly, too. It'll be okay now."
[22:55] <Kotono> The man rises. He rises and follows. His voice continues without abatement. 'They won't let you. They're jealous. Jealous. Jealous. They won't let anyone die. They won't.' His voice pleads, 'The ones below won't let anyone die. They'll come for you. The bloated demons will come for you.'
[22:55] <Ithea> "They won't let him kill himself? Why not? They don't seem to have any problems trying to kill -us- off!" Ithea mutters, eyeing her grey flesh again.
[22:56] <Willim> "Or maybe they just want to make us like him." Willim points at the priest.
[22:56] <Afina> "We're not dead, though," Afina points out. "We'd be more likely to end up like him than just die if we lose here."
[22:56] * Ithea grimaces.
[22:56] <Jaela> "Yeah they're not trying too hard. Fuck those assholes, we'll kill the lot of them!"
[22:56] <Ithea> "Thanks, as if things didn't already feel nasty enough," Ithea says to Willim
[22:57] <Jaela> "Might wanna hurry the fuck up. This spell won't hold even two minutes."
[22:57] <Willim> "We'll be done here soon. Relax and enjoy. Jaela mentioned that the next layer is supposed to be worse." Willim heads over to the gallows and ties off a quick and dirty noose.
[22:58] <Kotono> Onto the gallows. The man follows eagerly. He follows eagerly to death. Up the gallows he goes, waiting on Willim.
[22:58] <Afina> Leading the priest over onto the gallows, Afina asks, "Anyone that knows Tyrran prayers, it'd probably be nice for him to hear before he dies." With that suggestion she does her best to position him for hanging. Just because she doesn't believe in Gods doesn't mean she can't show a dying man some comfort!
[22:59] <Willim> "I only know prayers to Tempus. I can say them if no one else has a better one. They're not really appropiate though for a hanging."
[23:00] <Ithea> "Outside of asking Tyr to watch over his soul, are any more words needed, really?"
[23:00] <Willim> "Probably not." Willim slips th noose around the man's neck as when he's close enough.
[23:01] <Afina> With Willim settling the noose, Afina goes for the lever and waits for any words to be said before doing the deed...
[23:01] <Kotono> The noose is on the man's neck! Abruptly he rises up, starting to be strangled! At the same time, they come. They come from all over. Fat. So fat. So bloated. Gray flesh, floated. Six feet tall and just as fat and wide. Dozens of them, nude. Fat and nude, approaching the gallows from all around!
[23:02] * Willim sets hiself, ready to defend the man until he is properly dead!
[23:03] * Afina winces, not having expected this. It's supposed to be a quick snap of the neck from a drop, not... rising up and being asphyxiated! But if this is what the Abyss wants to open the next portal, so be it. Time to fend of the interlopers...
[23:03] * Jaela ascends once more, deciding to keep watch twenty feet above the noose and slightly off to the side. "Watch over him, Tyr," she says, pointing her lance at the the demons. "Guide your loyal servant's soul back into your lap!"
[23:04] <Ithea> "Are these guys demon wombs too, or can we do some damage?" Ithea asks Jaela.
[23:04] <Kotono> Adrian draws Gaelach, "If it's a fight they want," he mutters darkly, "C'mon, Ithea, let's find out."
[23:05] <Kotono> OOC: Init here.

[23:05] <Willim> roll 1d20+4
[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+4 and gets 23." [1d20=19]
[23:05] <Jaela> roll 1d20+4
[23:05] <Afina> roll 1d20+19
[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+19 and gets 33." [1d20=14]
[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+4 and gets 13." [1d20=9]
[23:05] <Ithea> roll d20+9
[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+9 and gets 18." [d20=9]
[23:05] <Kotono> roll 1d20+7 Adrian
[23:05] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+7 Adrian and gets 23." [1d20=16]
[23:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20-4 zombie hoard
[23:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20-4 zombie hoard and gets 1." [1d20=5]
[23:06] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Adrian=Willim(23)>Ithea(18)>Jaela(13)>Zombie Horde(1)'
[23:06] <Kotono> OOC: Open Afina. The bloated ones are 30ft away from the gallows in all directions and closing.
[23:07] <Jaela> "Don't know, don't care," Jaela responds curtly. "They're fucking with the wrong person! The Seldarine will smite them right back!"
[23:08] <Afina> Positioning above the gallows as well, Afina hastes her allies before zapping a black beam of negative energy disrupting... energy! At one of the zombies!
[23:08] <Afina> roll 1d20+29 ranged touch
[23:08] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+29 ranged touch and gets 42." [1d20=13]
[23:08] <Afina> roll 10d8 if undead (if dies then half damage to nearest other zombie)
[23:08] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 10d8 if undead (if dies then half damage to nearest other zombie) and gets 43." [10d8=8, 6, 1, 2, 6, 4, 1, 4, 5, 6]
[23:09] <Afina> roll 1d6+2 extra damage forgotten
[23:09] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d6+2 extra damage forgotten and gets 7." [1d6=5]
[23:11] <Kotono> With a powerful blast, one of the bloated ones explodes! A rain of slurry, bone and meat! Raining down like the greasy black drizzle that still falls. OOC: Adrian and Willim. Go.
[23:12] * Willim eyes the zombies carefully, holding his position. OOC: Readied action for when they're in range. They'll come to us, no doubt.
[23:12] <Kotono> Adrian does the same, taking up a protective position near the hanged man! OOC: Ithea.
[23:15] * Ithea has no desire to move closer to the zombies, and decides to do the same as Willim and Adrian.
[23:15] <Kotono> OOC: Jaela, go.
[23:17] <Jaela> "Taste life, bitches!" Jaela cries, her left hand clasping her holy symbol as it is suffused with light! The aura around her seems to drain dangerously, but it is only for a moment, for then it explodes outwards!
[23:17] <Jaela> roll 9d6 turning DC27 half
[23:17] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 9d6 turning DC27 half and gets 28." [9d6=5, 2, 3, 1, 1, 6, 5, 2, 3]
[23:17] <Kotono> OOC: What's the save type?
[23:19] <Jaela> OOC: Will
[23:19] <Kotono> roll 1d20+8
[23:19] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 and gets 13." [1d20=5]
[23:19] <Kotono> For positioning, where exactly are you and what's the radius of this?
[23:20] <Jaela> OOC: 30ft radius, I'm ~20ft up in the center
[23:20] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[23:25] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Adrian=Willim(23)>Ithea(18)>Jaela=Zombie Horde(1)'
[23:26] <Kotono> Holy power cuts into the bloated ones! They wither back, the entire front line melting into blubber. Vile pools of stench, repulsing. At the same time wounds heal. Ithea's body, more gray. Gray creeps up her body, in lines and digs and streaks. With the front line pushed back with holy energie sand life, the zombie lines are still 30ft back! OOC: Okay. More, in PM to Ithea and in here.
[23:28] <Kotono> Meanwhile the man hangs. He continues to hang, continues to slowly die! Below...the rattle of metal, another din! From the hole where the Butchery was. Fire erupts. Arcs of fire and metal, exploding outward and into the sky. The sound of metal is deafeningly loud. OOC: Afina, go.
[23:30] <Ithea> "Out of curiosity, does he -have- to die by hanging? We can't just stab his heart?" Ithea asks, eyeing the butchery and then the zombie hoard.
[23:30] <Willim> "Well sure, but not if we want to open the portal!" Willim retorts.
[23:32] <Afina> Mastering her fear (or ignoring it thanks to greater heroism), Afina flies directly over the butchery and looks down, trying to discern a central point for all chains which she can blast a ray of deanimation down into and hopefully end their threat at a stroke! If she can't see such a thing she'll have to settle for melting choice bits of metal.
[23:33] <Kotono> Afina flies over! Down down down...ruin. The flesh is torn. The chains are broken. They are flowing. Knitting around it. The white sphere. The white womb. Forming arms. Forming legs. Forming body. Forming around it. The white womb spins, as the shattered hellscape below obeys.
[23:34] <Afina> Hoping it's a construct despite talk of wombs, Afina launches a copper-red ray from her fingertips, a screech of grinding gears heard as it tears through the air to strike the orb below!
[23:35] <Afina> roll 1d20+29 ranged touch
[23:35] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+29 ranged touch and gets 38." [1d20=9]
[23:35] <Kotono> OOC: Hit. Effect?
[23:35] <Afina> roll 15d6 if it's a construct
[23:35] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 15d6 if it's a construct and gets 53." [15d6=1, 2, 6, 3, 1, 6, 2, 5, 6, 3, 1, 5, 6, 5, 1]
[23:35] <Kotono> The beam strikes. Chains die. Chains wither. Yet so many more, knitting and forming and obeying! OOC: Adrian'n'Willim, go.
[23:37] <Willim> OOC: Range to nearest target?
[23:39] <Kotono> OOC; 30ft, Jaela's turn held them at bay and melted the first wave.
[23:40] <Willim> OOC: Holding/readied until in range. Wading into zombie combat in the Abyss sounds like a bad idea. This place is crazy already.
[23:42] <Kotono> OOC: Dittow ith Adrian. Ithea.
[23:42] * Ithea is perfectly happy to let Jaela do all the work if she can keep them at bay indefinitely, though any that approach closer will get cut to shreds by her glaive. OOC: still holding/readied as well!
[23:42] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. Jaela and Zombies. Go Jaela.
[23:43] * Jaela can feel her fear bubbling just below the surface, and so she calls upon the protections of Greater Heroism to bolster herself!
[23:45] <Kotono> Fear is held back, bravery coming! At the same time the zombies advance! They shamble forward, approaching fast! They surround the gallows, trying to get up! OOC: Ithea, you can drop an AoO on one, and up to three if you have CR, I forget. You have the reach to abuse 'em here.
[23:45] <Ithea> ooc: no CR, so just the one.
[23:45] * Ithea stabs at one of the zombies that come into range!
[23:45] <Ithea> roll d20+27
[23:45] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+27 and gets 30." [d20=3]
[23:45] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[23:46] <Ithea> roll d10+15
[23:46] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+15 and gets 18." [d10=3]
[23:47] <Kotono> With a stab Ithea strikes out, another zombie skewed. It falls, falls, falls. It is trampled as the others advance, coming at the party! OOC: Ithea, Willim and Adrian were all holding. You can attack as the zombies rush you if you want to take your held actions.
[23:48] <Kotono> Adrian takes this chance, Gaelach glowing softly under the dull gray of the world around it!
[23:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 (+1 haste, -10 PA)
[23:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 (+1 haste, -10 PA) and gets 36." [1d20=15]
[23:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 (+1 haste, -10 PA)
[23:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 (+1 haste, -10 PA) and gets 23." [1d20=2]
[23:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[23:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 31." [1d20=15]
[23:49] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
[23:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 13." [1d20=2]
[23:49] <Kotono> roll 2d6+41
[23:49] <Kotono> roll 2d6+41
[23:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+41 and gets 48." [2d6=3, 4]
[23:49] <Kotono> roll 2d6+41
[23:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+41 and gets 50." [2d6=4, 5]
[23:49] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+41 and gets 47." [2d6=4, 2]
[23:49] <Kotono> With a strangled battlecry Adrian strikes! The zombie in front of him is shredded. Shredded like bone and blood and skin, the one behind it skewered in a lunge! OOC: Ithea and Willim, if you're gonna go, say so or keep holding.
[23:50] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Willim(23)>Ithea(18)>Adrian=Jaela=Zombie Horde(1)'
[23:50] <Willim> roll 1d20+26+1-5 PA
[23:50] <Willim> roll 1d20+26+1-5 PA
[23:50] <Willim> roll 1d20+26+1-5 PA
[23:50] <Willim> roll 1d20+26+1-5 PA
[23:50] <Willim> roll 1d20+21+1-5 PA
[23:50] <Willim> roll 1d20+16+1-5 PA
[23:50] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+26+1-5 PA and gets 39." [1d20=17]
[23:50] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+26+1-5 PA and gets 38." [1d20=16]
[23:50] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+26+1-5 PA and gets 35." [1d20=13]
[23:50] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+26+1-5 PA and gets 31." [1d20=9]
[23:50] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+21+1-5 PA and gets 27." [1d20=10]
[23:50] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+16+1-5 PA and gets 18." [1d20=6]
[23:50] <Kotono> OOC: All but the 18 hit.
[23:50] <Ithea> ooc: I'll go
[23:50] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Willim=Ithea=Adrian=Jaela=Zombie Horde(1)'
[23:50] <Willim> roll 5#7d10+11+5
[23:50] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 5#7d10+11+5 and gets 279." [5#7d10+11+5 = 63, 51, 57, 58, 50]
[23:51] * Ithea attacks more of the zombies as they come into range, attacking relentlessly with magic-fueled strikes (ooc: AS 3, shocking grasp)
[23:51] <Kotono> Zombies are ripped to shreds, utterly destroyed with each blow. Exploding out. Shattered like glass. Raining backwardsa nd repulsed.
[23:51] <Ithea> roll d20+20 (PA-10) zombie 1
[23:51] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+20 (PA-10) zombie 1 and gets 40." [d20=20]
[23:51] <Ithea> roll d20+20 (PA-10) zombie 2
[23:51] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+20 (PA-10) zombie 2 and gets 40." [d20=20]
[23:51] <Ithea> roll d20+15 PA-10 zombie 3
[23:51] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+15 PA-10 zombie 3 and gets 29." [d20=14]
[23:52] <Ithea> roll d20+10 PA-10 zombie 4
[23:52] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+10 PA-10 zombie 4 and gets 23." [d20=13]
[23:52] <Kotono> OOC: All hit.
[23:53] <Ithea> roll d10+35+3d4+5d6
[23:53] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+35+3d4+5d6 and gets 73." [d10=10][3d4=4, 4, 1][5d6=3, 4, 5, 3, 4]
[23:53] <Ithea> roll d10+35+3d4+5d6 z2
[23:53] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+35+3d4+5d6 z2 and gets 63." [d10=5][3d4=3, 4, 4][5d6=1, 6, 1, 3, 1]
[23:53] <Ithea> roll d10+35+3d4+5d6 z3
[23:53] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+35+3d4+5d6 z3 and gets 71." [d10=5][3d4=2, 2, 4][5d6=2, 5, 6, 5, 5]
[23:53] <Ithea> roll d10+35+3d4+5d6 z4
[23:53] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+35+3d4+5d6 z4 and gets 61." [d10=7][3d4=2, 1, 2][5d6=3, 3, 2, 2, 4]
[23:55] <Kotono> More zombies are shredded, force back! The horde's numbers are thinned. The bloated ones are thinning back! Yet...a stifled groan comes from the hanged man. His body begins to glow, light pooling downward. At the same time...eruption. It comes out. It flies out from the fiery abyss. A thing of chains, a giant's body. Looming over you. Too tall, like the buildings. Chains and flesh, whirling and
[23:55] <Kotono> spinning. Within...the white womb. The white sphere is within it. The chains connect to it. Lines of red flow out from it through the chains. On seeing it, ice cold terror fills each of you. It has awoken. It has awoken. It has awoken...and it sees you. It knows you. OOC: This fear is felt even through greater heroism. It enters init now. It is 50ft away from the gallows and 10ft away from Afina.
[23:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20+5
[23:56] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 19." [1d20=14]
[23:56] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Nightmare-In-Chains(19)>Willim=Ithea=Adrian=Jaela=Zombie Horde(1)'
[23:56] <Kotono> OOC: Go Afina.
[23:58] <Afina> Launching another cacaphonous ray of rusting copper at the chain-wreathed horror, Afina flies backwards towards the gallows again, seeking safety in numbers rather than her usual composed splitting up to reduce area effects.
[23:58] <Afina> roll 1d20+29 ranged touch
[23:58] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+29 ranged touch and gets 41." [1d20=12]
[23:58] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[23:58] <Afina> roll 15d6 if it's a construct
[23:58] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 15d6 if it's a construct and gets 49." [15d6=6, 4, 4, 3, 3, 4, 6, 2, 2, 1, 1, 6, 3, 3, 1]
[23:59] <Kotono> Another beam hits it. Chains again wither, again fade. But there are more chains. More chains flowing like water, flowing and flowing and coming from all directions! OOC: Nightmare-In-Chains is up.
[00:00] <Kotono> Within the chains, the white womb can be seen spinning! A momentary hum fills the air, as...OOC: Will save, everyone but Willim.
[00:00] <Afina> roll 1d20+23
[00:00] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+23 and gets 39." [1d20=16]
[00:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 Willim (+2 holy aura)
[00:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 Willim (+2 holy aura) and gets 25." [1d20=5]
[00:00] <Kotono> OOC: I mean Adrian.
[00:00] <Jaela> roll 1d20+37
[00:00] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+37 and gets 38." [1d20=1]
[00:01] <Ithea> roll d20+30
[00:01] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+30 and gets 42." [d20=12]
[00:01] <Ithea> ooc: was using cunning insight, forgot to say that
[00:02] <Kotono> Around you, the zombies shift! Antenne. Antenne and shells. Creeping shells, crawling legs, so many legs. Bloated cockroaches, gray and black and oh god they're coming back!  OOC: Okay. -4 AC and saves to Jaela and Adrian until furthern otice. Willim, go. Cockroach-zombies all around the gallows now.
[00:03] <Willim> "Oh hey, the roaches are back!" Willim says, laying into them with all due violence!
[00:03] <Willim> roll 1d20+26+1-5 PA
[00:03] <Willim> roll 1d20+26+1-5 PA
[00:03] <Willim> roll 1d20+26+1-5 PA
[00:03] <Willim> roll 1d20+26+1-5 PA
[00:03] <Willim> roll 1d20+21+1-5 PA
[00:03] <Willim> roll 1d20+16+1-5 PA
[00:03] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+26+1-5 PA and gets 36." [1d20=14]
[00:03] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+26+1-5 PA and gets 23." [1d20=1]
[00:03] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+26+1-5 PA and gets 37." [1d20=15]
[00:03] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+26+1-5 PA and gets 28." [1d20=6]
[00:03] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+21+1-5 PA and gets 22." [1d20=5]
[00:03] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+16+1-5 PA and gets 26." [1d20=14]
[00:03] <Kotono> OOC: 5 hits.
[00:04] <Willim> roll 5#7d10+11+5
[00:04] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 5#7d10+11+5 and gets 277." [5#7d10+11+5 = 49, 58, 42, 74, 54]
[00:04] <Kotono> More bloated ones are broken. Shattered. The linesof them are eshattered. They are losing, broken, bleeding, dying. Yet the Nightmare-In-Chains looms over all of them, casting a shadow over all the party! OOC: Ithea.
[00:06] <Ithea> "Ewww, roaches again, and now they're not just demon roaches, they're zombie demon roaches?" Ithea complains as she fires a prismatic spray at the zombie demon roach hoard, thinking now was definitely a good time to use that! Immediately afterwards, she begins to blink in and out of reality (ooc: quick casting blink)
[00:07] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. d8 to see what prismatic effect you get.
[00:07] <Ithea> ooc: anything besides rolling a d8?
[00:07] <Ithea> roll d8
[00:07] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d8 and gets 2." [d8=2]
[00:07] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3 reflex half
[00:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 reflex half and gets 7." [1d20=4]
[00:08] <Ithea> ooc: I have learned well from Baleruk, I guess.
[00:08] <Kotono> The spray of rainbow color does not belong. It struggles against the gray, as zombies are fried. More of them fall, more of them pushed back again! OOC: Yes. Adrian'su p.
[00:08] <Kotono> Pushing his position, Adrian shudders but lays into the surviving zombies!
[00:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (+1 haste, -10 PA)
[00:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 (+1 haste, -10 PA) and gets 37." [1d20=17]
[00:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (+1 haste, -10 PA)
[00:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 (+1 haste, -10 PA) and gets 29." [1d20=9]
[00:08] <Kotono> OOC:+1 tothose.
[00:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+16
[00:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+11
[00:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+16 and gets 24." [1d20=8]
[00:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+11 and gets 19." [1d20=8]
[00:09] <Kotono> roll 2d6+41
[00:09] <Kotono> roll 2d6+41
[00:09] <Kotono> roll 2d6+41
[00:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+41 and gets 49." [2d6=2, 6]
[00:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+41 and gets 43." [2d6=1, 1]
[00:09] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+41 and gets 50." [2d6=3, 6]
[00:09] <Kotono> More die. The zombies are broken, shattered. They lie before you, wiggling like wounded bugs. But no more. They are no more upright to approach. OOC: Jaela, go.
[00:09] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Nightmare-In-Chains(19)>Willim=Ithea=Adrian=Jaela'
[00:10] * Ithea looks towards the hanging fellow, wondering if he's still alive, or still got some fight in him.
[00:10] <Kotono> He is hanging. He is dying. Light falls from him, plunging to the opening the trap door has made as it opens. He is falling, one mote of light at a time.
[00:11] <Jaela> With an inarticulate scream, Jaela touches back down and slams Val'Finnegan's shaft into the ground, holy light once more filling the immediate area! It lingers, offering further protection from harm to Jaela and her allies, and meanwhile she turns the spear towards the unspeakable, gigantic horror and strikes at it with channeled moonlight!
[00:11] <Jaela> OOC: Moon Bolt, Protection Devotion
[00:12] <Jaela> OOC: SR?
[00:12] <Kotono> OOC: No.
[00:12] <Jaela> OOC: Is it living or undead?
[00:13] <Kotono> OOC: It is not undead.
[00:13] <Kotono> OOC: Nor is it living.
[00:14] <Kotono> The moon bolt lies...nothing happens. There is no injury. Moonlight shatters. Then...The hanged man glows again. He is crumbling. Crumbling below, legs gone and knees vaporized into light. His hips, his chest are fading, falling downwards as a glow can begin to be seen from the trap door below him. OOC: Afina, go.
[00:15] <Afina> Another deanimating ray is fired and Afina continues her retreat, flying past Jaela as she continues backing off!
[00:15] <Afina> roll 1d20+29 ranged touch
[00:15] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+29 ranged touch and gets 42." [1d20=13]
[00:15] <Afina> roll 15d6
[00:15] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 15d6 and gets 45." [15d6=1, 5, 2, 3, 2, 3, 5, 2, 3, 6, 2, 1, 3, 3, 4]
[00:16] <Kotono> Another beam. Chains die. It lives. It does not die. Its chains die, but more come! More come even as they crumble! OOC: Nightmare-In-Chains.
[00:16] <Kotono> From those chains a single one comes out! It travels the fifty feet of distance with ease, assailing Adrian!
[00:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20+54
[00:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+54 and gets 62." [1d20=8]
[00:16] <Kotono> roll 2d6+15 and grabbin' times.
[00:16] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+15 and grabbin' times. and gets 22." [2d6=5, 2]
[00:17] <Kotono> roll 1d20+60 vs CMD
[00:17] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+60 vs CMD and gets 78." [1d20=18]
[00:18] <Kotono> The chain wraps around Adrian! It squeezes him tight, blood popping out of spots on his body like an oversqueezed fruit. He bleeds. He cries out, struggling against the chain! OOC: Willim, go.
[00:19] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Nightmare-In-Chains(19)>Willim=Ithea=Adrian(grappled)=Jaela'
[00:19] <Willim> To Adrian's aid Willim goes, grabbing the chain and attempting to break it! OOC: Grapple or attack v break?
[00:19] <Kotono> OOC: Attack.
[00:20] <Willim> roll 1d20+26+1-5 PA
[00:20] <Willim> roll 1d20+26+1-5 PA
[00:20] <Willim> roll 1d20+26+1-5 PA
[00:20] <Willim> roll 1d20+26+1-5 PA
[00:20] <Willim> roll 1d20+21+1-5 PA
[00:20] <Willim> roll 1d20+16+1-5 PA
[00:20] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+26+1-5 PA and gets 37." [1d20=15]
[00:20] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+26+1-5 PA and gets 36." [1d20=14]
[00:20] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+26+1-5 PA and gets 24." [1d20=2]
[00:20] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+26+1-5 PA and gets 28." [1d20=6]
[00:20] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+21+1-5 PA and gets 19." [1d20=2]
[00:20] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+16+1-5 PA and gets 28." [1d20=16]
[00:20] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits. Roll them seperately.
[00:20] <Willim> roll 7d10+11+5
[00:20] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 7d10+11+5 and gets 54." [7d10=5, 6, 7, 6, 9, 1, 4]
[00:20] <Willim> roll 7d10+11+5
[00:20] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 7d10+11+5 and gets 58." [7d10=4, 10, 7, 5, 4, 4, 8]
[00:22] <Kotono> Two strikes. The chain buckles at the first, hard. Harder than adamantine. Harder than diamond. Ungiving. The second blow hits it - slowly does the chain crack. For seconds it holds, until with a metal SNAP it is broken! OOC: Ithea, go.
[00:22] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Nightmare-In-Chains(19)>Willim=Ithea=Adrian=Jaela'
[00:24] * Ithea holds her action, readying to attack any other chains that come their way and cutting them before they can grab onto any of them.
[00:25] <Ithea> ooc: just readying to attack any chains that come our way
[00:25] <Kotono> OOC: Right. Adrian's up.
[00:26] <Kotono> Coughing up blood and wiping his mouth clean, Adrian grimaces. "Now what the hell are we going to do," he asks, glancing back at the fading, dying man. He goes over to the trap door, looking down, "A portal's forming!" OOC: Jaela, go.
[00:27] * Jaela prepares to meet any striking chain with a charge of her own. After all, her body can't be drained while it's made of stone, and even if that thing can overcome her final defense, she's not going to let herself live for much longer with the horrible change already done to her. "Then we just need to hold on for a few more moments!" she responds to Adrian, invigorated by that, at least.
[00:27] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. Afina, go. Ithea and Jaela are holding.
[00:28] <Afina> A delaying action only really works if they're not just overrun, so someone unfortunately has to keep the damn thing busy. Skirting around closer to Jaela, Afina fires another beam at it to at least give it something to think about while they buy time!
[00:28] <Afina> roll 1d20+29 ranged touch
[00:28] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+29 ranged touch and gets 41." [1d20=12]
[00:28] <Afina> roll 15d6
[00:28] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 15d6 and gets 52." [15d6=3, 4, 3, 4, 2, 3, 5, 5, 4, 3, 5, 1, 5, 1, 4]
[00:29] <Kotono> Another beam strikes it, more chains dying. Yet it refuses to die. It will not die. Within, the white womb spins. For a moment it bulges out, lines of power flowing out into the chains! For just a moment there are gaps, a chance to peer within! OOC: It's a free action to look in, if any of you want to.
[00:30] <Afina> OOC: I'll pass
[00:30] <Willim> OOC: Pass.
[00:30] <Jaela> OOC: I'll do it, I already want to die
[00:30] <Ithea> ooc: I'm focusing on chains.
[00:30] <Kotono> OOC: Will save, Jaela, and then a K:P checks.
[00:30] <Jaela> roll 1d20+37-4
[00:30] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+37-4 and gets 50." [1d20=17]
[00:31] <Jaela> roll 1d20+22 K:P
[00:31] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+22 K:P and gets 41." [1d20=19]
[00:33] <Kotono> OOC: Nightmare is up.
[00:34] <Jaela> OOC: Wait!
[00:35] <Kotono> OOC: Hm?
[00:37] <Jaela> "Oh for fuck's sake!" Jaela snaps. "That-- that thing, it's-- fucking Dagon's twin, or Pazuzu, or Pale Night-- fuck, my eye, what did I see-- we can't let it wake up! That shit's beyond horrible! If we don't break that damned womb it'll fuck up Creation or some shit like that, I just know it!"
[00:38] <Willim> "We can't just leave?" Willim says in disbelief. "Wouldn't it be stuck here?"
[00:38] <Afina> "Then kill it next time I weaken the chains and before the new ones come in to replace them!" Afina snaps back just as quickly, hoping for a little support since her own attacks are rather fruitless on their own.
[00:38] <Ithea> "...oh, -now- you want to break the womb?!?" Ithea exclaims in protest.
[00:39] <Jaela> "Fuck you! It will rape your soul!"
[00:39] <Kotono> "Are you fucking crazy!?" Adrian sputters, "We have a chance to get away from this hellhole!" OOC: It's going to act while you're talking at least, since it's on its turn anyway.
[00:39] <Jaela> OOC: Held actions!
[00:39] <Kotono> OOC: Are you going to take one?
[00:40] <Jaela> She must be crazy, because she switches for her lance and then charges at that unholy womb with all the might she can muster!
[00:40] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Jaela>Nightmare-In-Chains(19)>Willim=Ithea=Adrian'
[00:42] <Jaela> roll 1d20+30+4+5+9-15 (GH, K:D, charging smite, 15PA)
[00:42] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+30+4+5+9-15 (GH, K:D, charging smite, 15PA) and gets 36." [1d20=3]
[00:42] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[00:42] <Ithea> "Oh, c'mon!!!" Ithea exclaims as she sees Jaela charge, and grimacing, teleports next to Jaela to give her assistance, attacking full out hoping a ton of attacks all at once will finish this nightmarish thing off as her glaive slashes in a flurry of more magic-enhanced attacks. (OOC: quick cast dimension hop, AS 4, shocking grasp)
[00:43] <Ithea> ooc: sec, I'll roll in a bit
[00:44] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Ithea=Jaela>Nightmare-In-Chains(19)>Willim=Adrian'
[00:44] <Jaela> roll 1d8+105+90+27+15 (charging smite, PA, divine might, devotion, good/silver)
[00:44] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8+105+90+27+15 (charging smite, PA, divine might, devotion, good/silver) and gets 244." [1d8=7]
[00:44] <Kotono> OOC: Okay, do your attacks, Ithea. I'll resolve 'em at once.
[00:45] <Ithea> roll d20+31+6-8 (PA8)
[00:45] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+31+6-8 (PA8) and gets 32." [d20=3]
[00:45] <Ithea> roll d20+31-8
[00:45] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+31-8 and gets 24." [d20=1]
[00:46] <Ithea> roll d20+26+6-8
[00:46] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+26+6-8 and gets 38." [d20=14]
[00:46] <Ithea> roll d20+21+6-8
[00:46] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+21+6-8 and gets 31." [d20=12]
[00:46] <Ithea> ooc: was using cunning insight on the attacks with +6
[00:46] <Kotono> OOC: One hit, hatebottin' rides again.
[00:46] <Kotono> OOC: Righto.
[00:46] <Ithea> roll d10+15+16+4d4+5d6
[00:46] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+15+16+4d4+5d6 and gets 68." [d10=4][4d4=4, 2, 1, 3][5d6=2, 5, 6, 5, 5]
[00:47] <Ithea> ooc: actually, does the +3 attack vs metal from shocking grasp help make any more hits?
[00:48] <Kotono> Twin blows! Ithea appears and stabs with all her might, as Jaela charges in! Together they meet a wall of flesh and chain, protecting the womb! With divine, electric fury they punch through it, causing it to explode away! They strike the wound, with shudders! Abruptly it begins to spin faster...in the air above it, a grail. A grail made of the night's darkness, overflowing with it. This grail
[00:48] <Kotono> illuminates everything with the glow of nightmares, as it tips over! The contents of the grail spill out, landing on Ithea! OOC: Will save.
[00:48] <Ithea> roll d20+20 should have saved some insight, curses...
[00:48] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+20 should have saved some insight, curses... and gets 38." [d20=18]
[00:50] <Kotono> Slowly the grail begins to rise again, blackness reforming within! OOC: Willim.
[00:51] <Willim> "What the hell is that!?" OOC: Uhhh
[00:52] <Ithea> "Something you don't want spilling on you!" Ithea calls back, grimacing at the thoughts that flashed through her head. She wouldn't act on those thoughts! Ever!
[00:52] <Jaela> "Break the damn womb, already!" Jaela calls to her allies. "Just a bit more!"
[00:53] <Willim> "Uhh...right." Willim jumps into the air and goes to aid Jaela and Ithea, charging in! OOC: Rage, charge, b-blam
[00:53] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[00:53] <Willim> roll 1d20+32-6+1+2 PA
[00:53] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+32-6+1+2 PA and gets 42." [1d20=13]
[00:53] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[00:54] <Willim> roll 7d10+17+6+2
[00:54] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 7d10+17+6+2 and gets 64." [7d10=8, 5, 5, 3, 5, 4, 9]
[00:54] <Ithea> ooc: opportunist, hitting it again
[00:54] <Kotono> OOC: Go ahead.
[00:54] * Ithea jabs at the sphere again along with Willim!
[00:55] <Ithea> roll d20+31-8 (add +3 if shocking grasp vs metal applies)
[00:55] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+31-8 (add +3 if shocking grasp vs metal applies) and gets 37." [d20=14]
[00:55] <Kotono> OOC:Hit.
[00:55] <Ithea> roll d10+15+16+4d4+5d6
[00:55] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+15+16+4d4+5d6 and gets 69." [d10=9][4d4=3, 4, 2, 2][5d6=4, 5, 4, 3, 2]
[00:56] <Kotono> Twin blows, a stab and a smash! The chains whirl around, more brokena nd flesh battered! A bit of force gets through to the womb, denting it again! But it continues to spin, continues to live! OOC: Adrian's up.
[00:56] <Kotono> "Fuck!" Adrian lingers a moment, looking down, "Selune..." he breathes, racing forward, "If you care anything about this blade, please...!"
[00:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 (+2 charge, +1 haste, -10 PA)
[00:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 (+2 charge, +1 haste, -10 PA) and gets 30." [1d20=7]
[00:58] <Kotono> Adrian's blow is too heavy, whizzing by! At the sametime space seems to twist, the blow going even more errant! Meanwhile a burst of light comes from the hanged man, his body dissipating and flowing down into the trap door! OOC: Afina.
[00:58] <Ithea> ooc: guess she doesn't
[00:58] <Afina> Another deanimating ray is launched by Afina as she follows the others, still hanging back behind their line!
[00:58] <Afina> roll 1d20+29 ranged touch
[00:58] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+29 ranged touch and gets 34." [1d20=5]
[00:59] <Afina> roll 15d6
[00:59] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 15d6 and gets 55." [15d6=2, 5, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 4, 6, 5, 6, 6, 3]
[00:59] <Kotono> OOC: How far back are you, Afina?
[01:00] <Afina> OOC: 20 feet behind the party
[01:00] <Kotono> OOC: Okay. Go Ithea, then Jaela.
[01:01] * Ithea keeps attacking with the same, though she puts a bit more care into her attacks hopefully hitting this time. (OOC: AS 4, PA-3, shocking grasp)
[01:01] <Ithea> roll d20+31-3
[01:01] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+31-3 and gets 29." [d20=1]
[01:01] <Ithea> roll d20+31-3
[01:01] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+31-3 and gets 41." [d20=13]
[01:01] <Ithea> roll d20+26-3
[01:01] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+26-3 and gets 31." [d20=8]
[01:01] <Ithea> roll d20+21-3
[01:01] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+21-3 and gets 37." [d20=19]
[01:02] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits. Hatebottin' strikes again.
[01:02] <Ithea> ooc: I forgot I had blink up so I need to roll d100s to see if they even hit too. More hatebotting time?
[01:02] <Ithea> roll d100
[01:02] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d100 and gets 47." [d100=47]
[01:02] <Ithea> roll d100
[01:03] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d100 and gets 24." [d100=24]
[01:03] <Kotono> OOC: What's the miss chance?
[01:03] <Ithea> roll d10+15+6+4d4+5d6
[01:03] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+15+6+4d4+5d6 and gets 51." [d10=7][4d4=3, 2, 2, 4][5d6=3, 5, 2, 1, 1]
[01:03] <Ithea> ooc: 20%
[01:03] <Ithea> roll d10+15+6+4d4+5d6
[01:03] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+15+6+4d4+5d6 and gets 58." [d10=7][4d4=4, 4, 2, 4][5d6=3, 6, 4, 1, 2]
[01:04] <Kotono> Again and again Ithea strikes, the semi-ghostly glaive cutting nito the chains! More of them and flesh are being cleaved - you're getting to make some headway in the mass. Yet more come, the white womb within spinning faster yet! OOC: Jaela, go.
[01:05] <Kotono> Dodging a chain in the meanwhile, "Jaela! I swear to any gods that are listening that you're insane! Insane!" Adrian calls, "If I die here, I'm going to haunt you, damn it!"
[01:05] <Jaela> Gae Dioltas has done its job in getting her in the door! Now, however, it is Gae Bolg that will have to finish the job. There is no time to hold back! Jaela strikes at that unholy womb with all her might, with no fancy tricks or feints, merely direct jabs that she puts most of her muscle behind!
[01:06] <Jaela> roll 1d20+31+4+5-10 (pa, racial smite)
[01:06] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+31+4+5-10 (pa, racial smite) and gets 31." [1d20=1]
[01:06] <Jaela> roll 1d20+31+4+5-10 (pa)
[01:06] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+31+4+5-10 (pa) and gets 36." [1d20=6]
[01:06] <Jaela> roll 1d20+26+4+5-10+9 (pa, smite)
[01:06] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+26+4+5-10+9 (pa, smite) and gets 44." [1d20=10]
[01:06] <Jaela> roll 1d20+21+4+5-10 (pa)
[01:07] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+21+4+5-10 (pa) and gets 26." [1d20=6]
[01:07] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
[01:07] <Ithea> ooc: opportunist to follow up on one of Jaela's hits. Note to self, retrain something to combat reflexes if I make it out alive
[01:07] <Kotono> OOC: Okay, let Jaela's damage resolve first.
[01:08] <Jaela> roll 1d8+24+9+5+20+2d6 (+4 fiend-bane/+6 total good-aligned weapon)
[01:08] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8+24+9+5+20+2d6 (+4 fiend-bane/+6 total good-aligned weapon) and gets 72." [1d8=6][2d6=3, 5]
[01:08] <Jaela> roll 1d8+24+9+5+20+2d6+5 (+4 fiend-bane/+6 total good-aligned weapon, smite)
[01:08] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8+24+9+5+20+2d6+5 (+4 fiend-bane/+6 total good-aligned weapon, smite) and gets 80." [1d8=8][2d6=5, 4]
[01:08] <Kotono> OOC: Roll, Ithea.
[01:08] <Ithea> "You're not the only one who'll be haunting her, Adrian!" Ithea says, as she stabs right after Jaela again, digging her glaive's blade in deeper by an opening made amongst Jaela's strikes.
[01:09] <Ithea> roll d20+31-3
[01:09] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+31-3 and gets 29." [d20=1]
[01:09] <Ithea> ooc: haha
[01:09] <Jaela> "Victory or death!"
[01:10] <Kotono> As Ithea thrusts and manages to miss, her glaive passing through thin air? Jaela strikes! More chain and flesh are shattered, as she thrusts at the womb! Again she fails to penetrate it, managing only to dent it inwardly! OOC: Nightmare-In-Chains is up.
[01:10] <Kotono> Again the chains rise! As one the chains rise, spinning about! The chains spin, flaying everyone around it! As this happens, the grail above beginst o rise back up to being upright! As it does, you can see it's refilling faster!
[01:10] <Kotono> roll 1d20+54 vs all, AC?
[01:10] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+54 vs all, AC? and gets 66." [1d20=12]
[01:11] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Ithea=Jaela>Nightmare-In-Chains(19; 1)>Willim=Adrian'
[01:11] <Kotono> roll 2d6+15 all, assuming that hits.
[01:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+15 all, assuming that hits. and gets 25." [2d6=6, 4]
[01:12] <Kotono> OOC: Bypasses all PC DRs.
[01:12] <Afina> OOC: 50% miss chance!
[01:12] <Ithea> ooc: ditto on miss chance
[01:12] <Kotono> roll 1d100 miss chance does apply, though.
[01:12] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 miss chance does apply, though. and gets 58." [1d100=58]
[01:12] <Afina> OOC: saccing 5th level slot as immediate to negate 25 damage
[01:13] <Kotono> The chains slam out! Each one is struck. Stricken, cast back! The entire party is cast back to 30ft away from the Nightmare-In-Chains! None are held, none are grappled. Sparks rise from Afina's spell sacrifice, keeping her untouched! Yet the chains strike through blink and speed, pushing all back! OOC: Everyone is pushed back to 30ft away from the Nightmare-In-Chains. Willim, go.
[01:14] <Willim> Willim charges right back in! OOC: Charge go go go
[01:14] <Willim> roll 1d20+32-6+1+2 PA
[01:14] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+32-6+1+2 PA and gets 43." [1d20=14]
[01:16] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[01:16] <Willim> roll 7d10+17+6+2
[01:16] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 7d10+17+6+2 and gets 56." [7d10=1, 8, 1, 6, 4, 3, 8]
[01:18] <Ithea> "Okay, I'm hoping its pushing us away means we're actually doing it and not just pissing it off!" Ithea exclaims as she prepares to teleport back in.

[Corwin]

[20:40] <Kotono> Again Willim strikes! Chains harder than diamond give way, perverse flesh struck back! The mass swirls before you, as Adrian coughs up more blood and charges right on in!
[20:41] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 (+2 charge, +1 haste, -10 PA)
[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 (+2 charge, +1 haste, -10 PA) and gets 37." [1d20=14]
[20:41] <Kotono> roll 2d6+41
[20:41] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+41 and gets 45." [2d6=2, 2]
[20:42] <Kotono> Adrian charges in, ducking another whirling chain as he strikes! Gaelach strikes against the hard chain, the wiggling flesh. It strikes hard, loud. Loud enough to echo! Behind you the light from beneath the gallow's trap door grows brighter! OOC: Afina, go.
[20:44] <Afina> They've almost got it, and the chains are fairly in retreat now, so Afina takes the chance to strike for real. Dashing inbetween Adrian and Willim, she plants her dagger into the womb, stabbing it viciously twice before she flees back towards the gallows!
[20:44] <Afina> roll 1d20+42 6th level arcane strike
[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+42 6th level arcane strike and gets 56." [1d20=14]
[20:44] <Afina> roll 1d20+37 6th level arcane strike
[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+37 6th level arcane strike and gets 41." [1d20=4]
[20:44] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
[20:44] <Afina> roll 1d4+15+1d6+1d6+6d4 cold/swift/arcane
[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+15+1d6+1d6+6d4 cold/swift/arcane and gets 40." [1d4=3][1d6=2][1d6=6][6d4=1, 4, 1, 4, 3, 1]
[20:44] <Afina> roll 1d4+15+1d6+1d6+6d4 cold/swift/arcane
[20:44] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+15+1d6+1d6+6d4 cold/swift/arcane and gets 34." [1d4=2][1d6=1][1d6=3][6d4=1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 4]
[20:45] <Kotono> Afina flies in, stabbing. Stabbing hard, stabbing long! She does not penetrate, a pair of small dents form instead from her blows! OOC: Ithea, go.
[20:46] <Ithea> ooc: going to let Jaela go first
[20:46] <Kotono> OOC:Go Jaela.
[20:46] <Jaela> Her lance, once more. Afina had made it for her specifically for such charges, and charge into that monstrosity Jaela does, Gae Dioltas's tip glowing brightly!
[20:46] <Jaela> roll 1d20+30+4+5+9-14 (divine might, pa, smite)
[20:46] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+30+4+5+9-14 (divine might, pa, smite) and gets 52." [1d20=18]
[20:47] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[20:47] <Jaela> roll 1d8+105+27+15+42
[20:47] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8+105+27+15+42 and gets 195." [1d8=6]
[20:47] <Jaela> OOC: Sorry, +42 more
[20:48] <Kotono> Jaela charges in with full fury! The impact is again loud. Too loud as chains are split, the womb stricken oncemore! A larger dent, another! Yet somehow it does not break. Adamantine would've been torn apart by now, but the womb endures! OOC: Ithea.
[20:49] <Kotono> "Fuck," Adrian grunts as he dodges again, "Why the hell isn't that damn sphere breaking?"
[20:49] <Jaela> "Do I look like I know?!"
[20:50] <Kotono> "This was your bright fucking-" A pause as he dodges another chain, bringing Gaelach back 'round in ad efensive sweep, "idea!"
[20:50] <Ithea> "It's stubborn, but so are we!" Ithea says as she teleports over and swipes at it repeatedly with magic charged strikes.
[20:50] <Ithea> ooc: AS4, shocking grasp
[20:50] <Ithea> roll d20+34
[20:50] <Ithea> roll d20+34
[20:50] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+34 and gets 54." [d20=20]
[20:50] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+34 and gets 54." [d20=20]
[20:50] <Ithea> roll d20+29
[20:50] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+29 and gets 37." [d20=8]
[20:50] <Ithea> roll d20+24
[20:50] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+24 and gets 26." [d20=2]
[20:50] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits.
[20:51] <Ithea> roll 3#d100
[20:51] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls 3#d100 and gets 168." [3#d100 = 22, 84, 62]
[20:51] <Ithea> roll d10+15+4d4+5d6
[20:51] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+15+4d4+5d6 and gets 56." [d10=9][4d4=4, 4, 4, 3][5d6=1, 2, 5, 6, 3]
[20:51] <Ithea> roll d10+15+4d4
[20:51] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+15+4d4 and gets 31." [d10=5][4d4=2, 4, 1, 4]
[20:51] <Ithea> roll d10+15+4d4
[20:51] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+15+4d4 and gets 35." [d10=10][4d4=2, 3, 1, 4]
[20:51] <Kotono> roll 56+31+35
[20:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 56+31+35 and gets 122."
[20:56] <Kotono> Again and again and again Ithea strikes! Every strike rips into the white womb, yet does not tear it! More dents, more shattered metal, more splintered flesh! Yet it spins...above it, the dark grail refills further! It's almost full again, almost upright! Meanwhile the Nightmare-In-Chains spins once more! There is a terrible droning burst! The houses around you collapse in a great crumbling,
[20:56] <Kotono> the ground splintering beneath you! The gray ground quakes. It shakes and shudders, refusing to hold you up! From Afina, Jaela, Adrian and Ithea dark-light flows, flowing into the white womb! The chains recede in, wrapping around it as...faces. The Butcher's face. The faces of babies. The face of the hanged man. The faces of Ithea, Adrian, Afina and Jaela! Faces that scream and surround and
[20:56] <Kotono> cover the white womb like armor! OOC: Balance check for everyone on the ground to avoid being knocked prone by the earthquake. Afina, your paranoia is gone. Jaela, your antenne are gone, as well as your paranoia. Ithea, your undead changes are gone. Afina and Adrian, the -4 saves/AC penalty is gone.
[20:57] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Ithea=Jaela>Nightmare-Of-Faces(19; 2)>Willim=Adrian'
[20:58] <Willim> OOC: I'm in the air, so no save?
[20:58] <Kotono> roll 1d20+3 Balance for Adrian minus ACP, will look it up if it's close.
[20:58] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+3 Balance for Adrian minus ACP, will look it up if it's close. and gets 16." [1d20=13]
[20:58] <Kotono> OOC: You're safe, Willim.
[20:58] <Kotono> OOC: Who else is on the ground? Ithea at least.
[20:59] <Ithea> roll d20+17 balance
[20:59] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+17 balance and gets 25." [d20=8]
[20:59] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Ithea=Jaela>Nightmare-Of-Faces(19; 2)>Willim=Adrian(prone)'
[20:59] <Kotono> From the shaking Adrian is knocked down! The faces. The faces scream and cry out, a hideous din of noise that assails all of you! OOC: Fortitude saves, all.
[21:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 Adrian (+2 holy aura)
[21:00] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 Adrian (+2 holy aura) and gets 34." [1d20=9]
[21:00] <Ithea> roll d20+22 fort
[21:00] <Jaela> roll 1d20+37
[21:00] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+22 fort and gets 30." [d20=8]
[21:00] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+37 and gets 57." [1d20=20]
[21:00] <Willim> roll 1d20+29
[21:00] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+29 and gets 30." [1d20=1]
[21:01] <Afina> roll 1d20+18
[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+18 and gets 33." [1d20=15]
[21:01] <Kotono> roll 10d8 sonic halved for everyone but Willim. Willim is deafened until further notice and also confused for one round.
[21:01] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 10d8 sonic halved for everyone but Willim. Willim is deafened until further notice and also confused for one round. and gets 48." [10d8=7, 1, 2, 8, 8, 1, 6, 5, 3, 7]
[21:02] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Ithea=Jaela>Nightmare-Of-Faces(19; 2)>Willim(deaf, confused)=Adrian(prone)'
[21:02] <Kotono> OOC: Willim, you're up. d100 for confusion.
[21:02] <Willim>   roll 1d100
[21:02] <Willim> roll 1d100
[21:02] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d100 and gets 19." [1d100=19]
[21:03] <Kotono> OOC: ACt normally. Lucky. Go.
[21:04] * Willim claps his hands over his ears momentarily before remembering himself, moving in for the kill on the womb!
[21:04] <Willim> roll 1d20+32-10 PA
[21:04] <Willim> roll 1d20+32-10 PA
[21:04] <Willim> roll 1d20+32-10 PA
[21:04] <Willim> roll 1d20+32-10 PA
[21:04] <Willim> roll 1d20+27-10 PA
[21:04] <Willim> roll 1d20+22-10 PA
[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+32-10 PA and gets 26." [1d20=4]
[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+32-10 PA and gets 26." [1d20=4]
[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+32-10 PA and gets 28." [1d20=6]
[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+32-10 PA and gets 33." [1d20=11]
[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+27-10 PA and gets 25." [1d20=8]
[21:04] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+22-10 PA and gets 15." [1d20=3]
[21:04] <Kotono> OOC: One hit. Hatebottin'.
[21:04] <Willim> OOC: Shit, those were supposed to be -6
[21:04] <Willim> OOC: if it matters
[21:05] <Kotono> OOC: Ironically it doesn't. Oen hit. The dice betrayed you.
[21:05] <Willim> OOC: and +1 from haste
[21:05] <Kotono> OOC: Nope.
[21:05] <Willim> OOC: hatebort.
[21:06] <Willim> roll 7d10+17+10 since it's all that mattered, I'll take it.
[21:06] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 7d10+17+10 since it's all that mattered, I'll take it. and gets 71." [7d10=3, 3, 10, 3, 9, 10, 6]
[21:07] <Kotono> The face of a child is maimed. Willim's strike punches through, shattering the innocent face in blood and bone and snot and spit and shit! The faces are not silent, wailing instead! OOC: Adrian.
[21:07] <Kotono> Adrian manages to get up, making a single slash as he repositions himself!
[21:08] <Ithea> ooc: opportunist go
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 1d20+21 (+1 haste, -10 PA)
[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+21 (+1 haste, -10 PA) and gets 35." [1d20=14]
[21:08] <Kotono> OOC: Go for it, Ithea.
[21:08] <Kotono> roll 2d6+41
[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+41 and gets 45." [2d6=2, 2]
[21:08] * Ithea also jabs it along with Willim and Adrian.
[21:08] <Ithea> roll d20+34
[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+34 and gets 50." [d20=16]
[21:08] <Ithea> roll d10+15+4d4
[21:08] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+15+4d4 and gets 33." [d10=8][4d4=1, 2, 3, 4]
[21:09] <Kotono> Sword and glaive together. Faces are split, chains sundered, coming closer again to the womb! Nightmares die before you, faces split apart! Behind you, the light from the gallows begins to dim! OOC: Afina, go.
[21:10] * Afina looks at the gallows. She'd been assuming that the priest was slowly suffocating and the portal wouldn't open until he was dead, so she wants to confirm things are proceeding as planned...
[21:10] <Kotono> The hanged man is gone, having dissolved into light previously.
[21:11] <Afina> Is there a portal under the gallows?
[21:11] <Kotono> There is indeed a swirling portal beneath the gallows. It is beginning to shrink andf all away.
[21:13] <Afina> "We're almost out of time!" Afina warns, dashing in for another pair of stabs with all she has before retreating to hover directly above the portal, bare feet away!
[21:13] <Afina> roll 1d20+42 6th level arcane strike
[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+42 6th level arcane strike and gets 51." [1d20=9]
[21:13] <Afina> roll 1d20+37 6th level arcane strike
[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+37 6th level arcane strike and gets 54." [1d20=17]
[21:13] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
[21:13] <Afina> roll 1d4+15+1d6+1d6+6d4 cold/swift/arcane
[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+15+1d6+1d6+6d4 cold/swift/arcane and gets 43." [1d4=4][1d6=3][1d6=4][6d4=4, 2, 2, 4, 3, 2]
[21:13] <Afina> roll 1d4+15+1d6+1d6+6d4 cold/swift/arcane
[21:13] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+15+1d6+1d6+6d4 cold/swift/arcane and gets 34." [1d4=2][1d6=4][1d6=1][6d4=3, 3, 2, 1, 2, 1]
[21:14] <Kotono> Faces are sundered. Faces die. Afina cuts through her ownf ace, hears her own death cry. The white womb can be seen beneath. It is dented all over, spinning even faster. A drone. A drone of noise, and beneath it, "...victims..." is heard, hideously distorted. As if through water and echoed, "...first...victims..." OOC: Ithea, go.
[21:14] * Jaela attacks relentlessly, one jab coming after the other. The faces of innocents burst under Gae Bolg's strikes, but this is a freedom for them, a release from a fate truly worse than death and a chance to pass on. And then, beyond those mortal shields, lies her true target!
[21:14] <Ithea> "How much time do we have left?" Ithea asks as she slashes away at the monstrous being.
[21:14] <Ithea> ooc: AS4, shocking grasp again
[21:15] <Ithea> roll d20+34
[21:15] <Ithea> roll d20+34
[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+34 and gets 37." [d20=3]
[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+34 and gets 52." [d20=18]
[21:15] <Ithea> roll d20+29
[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+29 and gets 35." [d20=6]
[21:15] <Ithea> roll d20+24
[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+24 and gets 35." [d20=11]
[21:15] <Kotono> OOC: All hit.
[21:15] <Ithea> roll 4#d100
[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls 4#d100 and gets 150." [4#d100 = 98, 16, 4, 32]
[21:15] <Ithea> ooc: bah, two misses
[21:15] <Ithea> roll d10+15+4d4+5d6
[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+15+4d4+5d6 and gets 43." [d10=3][4d4=2, 2, 3, 1][5d6=1, 3, 5, 5, 3]
[21:15] <Ithea> roll d10+15+4d4
[21:15] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+15+4d4 and gets 32." [d10=6][4d4=4, 3, 1, 3]
[21:16] <Kotono> Again more faces die. The faces die and wither away, more of them broken! OOC: Jaela, go.
[21:16] <Jaela> roll 1d20+31+5+4-10 (pa, divine might)
[21:16] * Afina tries to guage the rate of shrinkage below her...
[21:16] <Jaela> roll 1d20+31+5+4-10 (pa, divine might)
[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+31+5+4-10 (pa, divine might) and gets 45." [1d20=15]
[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+31+5+4-10 (pa, divine might) and gets 42." [1d20=12]
[21:16] <Jaela> roll 1d20+26+5+4-10 (pa, divine might)
[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+26+5+4-10 (pa, divine might) and gets 44." [1d20=19]
[21:16] <Jaela> roll 1d20+21+5+4-10 (pa, divine might)
[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+21+5+4-10 (pa, divine might) and gets 30." [1d20=10]
[21:16] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits.
[21:16] <Ithea> ooc: I'll use opportunist after one of Jaela's hits.
[21:16] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[21:16] <Jaela> roll 3#1d8+24+9+5+20+2d6
[21:16] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 3#1d8+24+9+5+20+2d6 and gets 197." [3#1d8+24+9+5+20+2d6 = 62, 70, 65]
[21:17] <Afina> "Ten seconds!" Afina yells. Perhaps optimistically, but she can fit through much smaller portals than say Willim.
[21:17] * Ithea keeps trying to hit the thing alongside Jaela, using the tempo of strikes between the two of them to sneak in an extra strike.
[21:17] <Ithea> roll d20+34
[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+34 and gets 40." [d20=6]
[21:17] <Ithea> roll d100
[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d100 and gets 81." [d100=81]
[21:17] <Ithea> roll d10+15+4d4
[21:17] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+15+4d4 and gets 33." [d10=7][4d4=4, 3, 3, 1]
[21:18] <Kotono> With fury, the faces are torn apart! They fall away, crumbling, save for a few that cling to the chains! The white womb beneath is spinning faster! As this happens, the grail above is upright! For am oment it stays that way, before tipping over and splashing onto Jaela! OOC: Will save, Jaela.
[21:19] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Ithea=Jaela>Nightmare-Of-Faces(19;)>Willim(deaf, confused)=Adrian(prone)'
[21:19] <Jaela> roll 1d20+37-1
[21:19] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+37-1 and gets 51." [1d20=15]
[21:19] <Jaela> OOC: Actually 52, no -1
[21:20] * Jaela eyes Ithea with fury, before she tears her gaze away and redirects it towards her true enemy!
[21:21] <Kotono> The white womb is spinning faster now! "...first...victims..." is heard again, terribly distorted, "...Come...suffer...with...me....!" With that chains lash out, a mated pair! One flies at Adrian, the other Ithea!
[21:21] <Kotono> roll 1d20+54 Adrian
[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+54 Adrian and gets 68." [1d20=14]
[21:21] <Kotono> roll 1d20+54 Kitty
[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+54 Kitty and gets 57." [1d20=3]
[21:21] <Ithea> ooc: hit
[21:21] <Kotono> roll 1d100
[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 53." [1d100=53]
[21:21] <Kotono> roll 4d6+30 Adrian, all vile
[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d6+30 Adrian, all vile and gets 40." [4d6=3, 2, 3, 2]
[21:21] <Kotono> roll 4d6+30 Ithea, all vile
[21:21] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 4d6+30 Ithea, all vile and gets 45." [4d6=3, 6, 1, 5]
[21:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+60 CMD Adrian
[21:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+60 CMD Adrian and gets 77." [1d20=17]
[21:22] <Kotono> roll 1d20+60 CMD Ithea
[21:22] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+60 CMD Ithea and gets 72." [1d20=12]
[21:22] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Ithea(grappled)=Jaela>Nightmare-Of-Faces(19;)>Willim(deaf, confused)=Adrian(grappled)'
[21:23] <Kotono> The chains dig into and wrap around, barbed and clinging and marrying into the flesh of the two victims! OOC: Willim, go. You're no longer confused, act normally.
[21:23] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Ithea(grappled)=Jaela>Nightmare-Of-Faces(19;)>Willim(deaf)=Adrian(grappled)'
[21:24] * Willim pounds again on the beast, striking for the core! Everything around him is blissfully quiet.
[21:24] <Willim> roll 1d20+32+1-6 PA
[21:24] <Willim> roll 1d20+32+1-6 PA
[21:24] <Willim> roll 1d20+32+1-6 PA
[21:24] <Willim> roll 1d20+32+1-6 PA
[21:24] <Willim> roll 1d20+27+1-6 PA
[21:24] <Willim> roll 1d20+22+1-6 PA
[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+32+1-6 PA and gets 40." [1d20=13]
[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+32+1-6 PA and gets 40." [1d20=13]
[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+32+1-6 PA and gets 32." [1d20=5]
[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+32+1-6 PA and gets 38." [1d20=11]
[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+27+1-6 PA and gets 39." [1d20=17]
[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+22+1-6 PA and gets 20." [1d20=3]
[21:24] <Kotono> OOC: Four hits.
[21:24] <Willim> roll 4#7d10+17+6
[21:24] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 4#7d10+17+6 and gets 234." [4#7d10+17+6 = 45, 58, 63, 68]
[21:27] <Kotono> Willim strikes again and again and again! This time...cracks! Tiny cracks begin to form over the white womb! Tiny cracks, tiny breaks! Meanwhile Adrian struggles in vain, trying to escape!
[21:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20+24
[21:27] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+24 and gets 43." [1d20=19]
[21:27] <Kotono> But Adrian is held tight, unable to even budge the chains! Meanwhile the light of the portal becomes even dimmer! OOC: Afina, go.
[21:28] <Afina> She can hardly go by herself, can she? "We'll have to hang someone else in a few minutes," she mutters irritably, firing another gear-grinding ray to hopefully kill the two currently active chains hassling Ithea and Adrian.
[21:28] <Afina> roll 1d20+29 ranged touch
[21:28] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+29 ranged touch and gets 36." [1d20=7]
[21:28] <Afina> roll 15d6
[21:28] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 15d6 and gets 56." [15d6=5, 5, 3, 4, 3, 4, 1, 3, 4, 1, 6, 3, 5, 6, 3]
[21:29] <Kotono> The beam strikes the nightmare! Chains crumble - Ithea and Adrian are freed! OOC: Ithea, go.
[21:29] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Ithea=Jaela>Nightmare-Of-Faces(19;)>Willim(deaf)=Adrian'
[21:30] * Ithea gives a quick thankful nod to Afina before continuing her assault on the cracked orb. "Almost there..." she mutters, hopefully. (OOC: same as last few rounds)
[21:30] <Ithea> roll d20+34
[21:30] <Ithea> roll d20+34
[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+34 and gets 45." [d20=11]
[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+34 and gets 48." [d20=14]
[21:30] <Ithea> roll d20+29
[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+29 and gets 30." [d20=1]
[21:30] <Ithea> roll d20+24
[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+24 and gets 43." [d20=19]
[21:30] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits.
[21:30] <Ithea> roll 3#d100
[21:30] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls 3#d100 and gets 50." [3#d100 = 18, 25, 7]
[21:31] <Ithea> roll d10+15+4d4+5d6
[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+15+4d4+5d6 and gets 44." [d10=9][4d4=1, 4, 2, 1][5d6=2, 1, 5, 3, 1]
[21:31] <Kotono> Another strike! Another tiny crack. The womb is cracking, shuddering! OOC: Jaela.
[21:31] <Jaela> "How dare you go into my brain?!" Jaela exclaims, stabbing into that core with a viciousness surpassing her previous barely-controlled violence. "How dare you try to turn me in a goddamn fucking cockroach? Die, motherfucker! Die! Die!"
[21:31] <Jaela> roll 1d20+40-10
[21:31] <Jaela> roll 1d20+40-10
[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+40-10 and gets 36." [1d20=6]
[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+40-10 and gets 34." [1d20=4]
[21:31] <Jaela> roll 1d20+35-10
[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+35-10 and gets 35." [1d20=10]
[21:31] <Jaela> roll 1d20+30-10
[21:31] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+30-10 and gets 33." [1d20=13]
[21:32] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits.
[21:32] <Ithea> ooc: opportunist after her hits.
[21:32] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[21:32] <Jaela> roll 3#1d8+24+9+5+20+2d6
[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 3#1d8+24+9+5+20+2d6 and gets 210." [3#1d8+24+9+5+20+2d6 = 76, 65, 69]
[21:32] <Ithea> roll d20+34
[21:32] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+34 and gets 37." [d20=3]
[21:33] <Ithea> roll d100
[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d100 and gets 81." [d100=81]
[21:33] <Ithea> roll d10+15+4d4
[21:33] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+15+4d4 and gets 28." [d10=2][4d4=4, 2, 1, 4]
[21:34] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Ithea=Jaela>Nightmare-Of-Faces(19; 1)>Willim(deaf)=Adrian'
[21:35] <Kotono> The blows strike over and over! Cracks! More cracks, running all up and down! Above the dark grail begins to rise once more, refilling! But that...the chains shudder and break, falling away! The faces crumble to bone and waste, the sphere alone. "This...will...end...!" The voice declares, "...Your...meaningless...lives...end...here!" At this the womb begins to glow! Terribly glow, the sky above
[21:35] <Kotono> cracking! Cracking like glass, like the womb. The ground turns cracks, the air becoming jaggedly painful to breathe! Terrible light is gathering around the the womb! OOC: Willim.
[21:35] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Ithea=Jaela>White Womb19; 1)>Willim(deaf)=Adrian'
[21:35] * Kotono changes topic to 'Afina(33)>Ithea=Jaela>White Womb(19; 1)>Willim(deaf)=Adrian'
[21:36] <Willim> Blissful silence accompanies Willim's violence!
[21:36] <Willim> roll 1d20+32+1-6 PA
[21:36] <Willim> roll 1d20+32+1-6 PA
[21:36] <Willim> roll 1d20+32+1-6 PA
[21:36] <Willim> roll 1d20+32+1-6 PA
[21:36] <Willim> roll 1d20+27+1-6 PA
[21:36] <Willim> roll 1d20+22+1-6 PA
[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+32+1-6 PA and gets 38." [1d20=11]
[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+32+1-6 PA and gets 44." [1d20=17]
[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+32+1-6 PA and gets 33." [1d20=6]
[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+32+1-6 PA and gets 30." [1d20=3]
[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+27+1-6 PA and gets 39." [1d20=17]
[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+22+1-6 PA and gets 24." [1d20=7]
[21:36] <Kotono> OOC: Three hits.
[21:36] <Willim> roll 3#7d10+17+6
[21:36] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 3#7d10+17+6 and gets 171." [3#7d10+17+6 = 56, 64, 51]
[21:37] <Kotono> Blow after blow after blow hits! The white light throbs further, shaking as the womb wobbles about in the air! Adrian grimly continues, "Shut up!" he snaps, "Here's your damn meaning, demon!"
[21:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 (+1 haste, -6 PA)
[21:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 (+1 haste, -6 PA)
[21:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 (+1 haste, -6 PA) and gets 40." [1d20=15]
[21:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 (+1 haste, -6 PA) and gets 29." [1d20=4]
[21:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+20 (+1 haste, -6 PA)
[21:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+20 (+1 haste, -6 PA) and gets 38." [1d20=18]
[21:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+15 (+1 haste, -6 PA)
[21:37] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+15 (+1 haste, -6 PA) and gets 26." [1d20=11]
[21:38] <Kotono> roll 2d6+33
[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+33 and gets 45." [2d6=6, 6]
[21:38] <Kotono> roll 2d6+33
[21:38] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+33 and gets 41." [2d6=2, 6]
[21:38] <Kotono> More blows rain down, Gaelach shimmering as the world around you cracks into sharp edges! Again and again the womb is stricken, shuddering terribly with each blow! OOC: Afina.
[21:40] <Afina> "This is never going to end, is it?" Afina laments at the interminable battle with a stupid ball. Giving the portal up as lost, she loops over for another pair of stabs before circling back to a safe distance.
[21:40] <Afina> roll 1d20+36
[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+36 and gets 49." [1d20=13]
[21:40] <Afina> roll 1d20+31
[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+31 and gets 47." [1d20=16]
[21:40] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
[21:40] <Afina> roll 1d4+15+1d6+1d6
[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+15+1d6+1d6 and gets 24." [1d4=2][1d6=4][1d6=3]
[21:40] <Afina> roll 1d4+15+1d6+1d6
[21:40] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+15+1d6+1d6 and gets 23." [1d4=1][1d6=2][1d6=5]
[21:41] <Ithea> "It's cracking now, I'd say we're getting there!" Ithea says, trying to be a little optimistic.
[21:41] <Kotono> Afina's dashing blows can barely dent the sphere, yet each one sends it wobbling worse! It shudders in the air! OOC: Ithea, go.
[21:44] * Ithea keeps assaulting the creature, grimacing as she'll have to start sacrificing different spells at the rate this is going. "Die already!" she exclaims as electricity and magic merge together around her glaive's blade once more.
[21:44] <Ithea> roll d20+34
[21:44] <Ithea> roll d20+34
[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+34 and gets 48." [d20=14]
[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+34 and gets 40." [d20=6]
[21:44] <Ithea> roll d20+29
[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+29 and gets 48." [d20=19]
[21:44] <Ithea> roll d20+24
[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+24 and gets 42." [d20=18]
[21:44] <Kotono> OOC: All hit.
[21:44] <Ithea> roll 4#d100
[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls 4#d100 and gets 250." [4#d100 = 67, 41, 58, 84]
[21:44] <Ithea> roll d10+15+4d4+5d6
[21:44] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+15+4d4+5d6 and gets 50." [d10=7][4d4=4, 2, 1, 4][5d6=6, 4, 5, 1, 1]
[21:45] <Ithea> roll 3#d10+15+4d4
[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls 3#d10+15+4d4 and gets 93." [3#d10+15+4d4 = 32, 35, 26]
[21:45] <Ithea> ooc: I'll use opportunist after Jaela also if it's still not dead.
[21:45] <Kotono> Again and again and again Ithea strikes! The sphere wobbles worse, but it endures! The cracks are visible in the light now, running considerably over its entire surface!OOC: Jaela.
[21:45] <Jaela> Can she feel proud if her life is ended by the likes of Pale Night, while Crusading in the Abyss? Jaela can think of worse fates. Although she is keenly aware that if that thing within was really that confident of his victory, he would be ranting about eternal torment and marriage, instead of skipping straight to the death threats. In this context, they really are a show of weakness, much like the landscape's changes are a child's tantrum. And so, she strikes at it methodically, her rage quelling. The same spot, over and over again, just like during practice with a stationary target.
[21:45] <Jaela> roll 1d20+40-10
[21:45] <Jaela> roll 1d20+40-10
[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+40-10 and gets 44." [1d20=14]
[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+40-10 and gets 32." [1d20=2]
[21:45] <Jaela> roll 1d20+35-10
[21:45] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+35-10 and gets 34." [1d20=9]
[21:46] <Jaela> roll 1d20+30-10
[21:46] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+30-10 and gets 27." [1d20=7]
[21:46] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
[21:46] <Jaela> roll 2#1d8+24+9+5+20+2d6
[21:46] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 2#1d8+24+9+5+20+2d6 and gets 131." [2#1d8+24+9+5+20+2d6 = 63, 68]
[21:47] <Ithea> roll d20+34
[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+34 and gets 42." [d20=8]
[21:47] <Ithea> roll d100
[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d100 and gets 26." [d100=26]
[21:47] <Ithea> roll d10+15+4d4
[21:47] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+15+4d4 and gets 32." [d10=4][4d4=3, 3, 4, 3]
[21:48] <Kotono> Again and again. Blow after blow. More cracks. More shudders. How it does not split defies all logic. It holds together somehow, despite all odds. Despite all reason, it clings to the state of being solid! Then...the light around the sphere grows heavier! It grows to be as bright as a star! The ground, the sky, everything cracks more, cracks further! A moment later, a wave of force flows out
[21:48] <Kotono> from the frantically spinning, glowing womb! OOC: Fort, all.
[21:48] <Jaela> roll 1d20+37
[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+37 and gets 46." [1d20=9]
[21:48] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 Adrian
[21:48] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 Adrian and gets 45." [1d20=20]
[21:49] <Afina> roll 1d20+18
[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+18 and gets 34." [1d20=16]
[21:49] <Ithea> roll d20+23
[21:49] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+23 and gets 41." [d20=18]
[21:51] <Willim> roll 1d20+29
[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+29 and gets 45." [1d20=16]
[21:51] <Kotono> roll 6d12 force damage, Jaela half, Adrian half, Afina half, Ithea half, Willim half.
[21:51] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d12 force damage, Jaela half, Adrian half, Afina half, Ithea half, Willim half. and gets 43." [6d12=10, 5, 4, 8, 10, 6]
[21:52] <Kotono> The blast of force is terrific! It knocks everyone back 10ft in raw agony, the womb shaking in the air all over, barely able to stay afloat! More light gathers around it, blindingly bright! OOC: Willim.
[21:54] <Willim> "Aaagh! WHAT DOES IT TAKE!?" Willim shouts loud enough to hear himself. He surges back in!
[21:55] <Willim> roll 1d20+32+1+2 moving 10 ft and charging
[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+32+1+2 moving 10 ft and charging and gets 49." [1d20=14]
[21:55] <Kotono> OOC: HIt.
[21:55] <Willim> roll 7d10+17+2
[21:55] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 7d10+17+2 and gets 57." [7d10=8, 7, 5, 3, 2, 5, 8]
[21:56] <Kotono> Another strike, another crack! This time the crack is audible, like the sound of tearing rock and steel! A nightmarish sound, painful to your wounded ears! Adrian follows suit, squinting and slashing!
[21:57] <Kotono> roll 1d20+23 (+1 haste, -10 PA, +2 charge)
[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+23 (+1 haste, -10 PA, +2 charge) and gets 34." [1d20=11]
[21:57] <Kotono> roll 2d6+41
[21:57] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 2d6+41 and gets 47." [2d6=4, 2]
[21:57] <Kotono> Another blow, another audible crack! The womb is shaking terribly now! OOC: Afina, go.
[21:58] * Afina is sorely tempted to swear herself to the Unseelie Court if this thing would just die. Even Seelie, vaunted champions of life, draw the line at certain aberrations and devourers, but all the same... Unseelie are just more suited to killing. Still, she's not desperate enough to vocalise such a pact, for all that it tempts. Still...
[21:58] <Afina> roll 1d20+41 5th level arcane strike
[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+41 5th level arcane strike and gets 46." [1d20=5]
[21:58] <Afina> roll 1d20+36 5th level arcane strike
[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+36 5th level arcane strike and gets 53." [1d20=17]
[21:58] <Kotono> OOC: Two hits.
[21:58] <Afina> roll 1d4+15+1d6+1d6+5d4
[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+15+1d6+1d6+5d4 and gets 37." [1d4=4][1d6=2][1d6=1][5d4=4, 1, 3, 3, 4]
[21:58] <Afina> roll 1d4+15+1d6+1d6+5d4
[21:58] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+15+1d6+1d6+5d4 and gets 38." [1d4=3][1d6=4][1d6=2][5d4=4, 4, 4, 1, 1]
[21:58] <Afina> She was never a very good Seelie, she thinks as she lunges in and stabs fiercely before rebounding away.
[21:59] <Kotono> A twin-set of blows, more cracks! Again the cracks flow deeper over it! OOC: Ithea, go.
[22:00] * Ithea charges at the creature, jabbing it with more lightning.
[22:01] <Ithea> roll d20+30 (PA-6, charge)
[22:01] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+30 (PA-6, charge) and gets 31." [d20=1]
[22:02] <Kotono> Ithea charges in, but her blow this time misses, the shaking of the womb too much! OOC: Jaela.
[22:02] * Jaela flies back until she is right by Afina and over the portal. She shields the pixie with her body, and Val'Finnegan finally comes out to play! This has been such a gloomy realm-- but now, her very enemy has given her the way to use it! "Photon Lancer!"
[22:02] <Jaela> roll 1d20+14+5+4 ranged touch
[22:02] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+14+5+4 ranged touch and gets 26." [1d20=3]
[22:03] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[22:03] <Jaela> roll 15d6 please die
[22:03] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 15d6 please die and gets 51." [15d6=3, 5, 2, 5, 1, 5, 4, 2, 1, 6, 2, 2, 5, 5, 3]
[22:04] <Jaela> roll 1d4+5 swift close wounds Ithea
[22:04] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d4+5 swift close wounds Ithea and gets 8." [1d4=3]
[22:05] <Kotono> The Lucent Lance flies into the womb! It embeds right in, cracks running upa nd down further! A crack and another crack, another! A piece falls away and another...red blood. Blood as red as yours. Blood trickles out of the cracks and holes now, but the womb does not fall! Instead the light around it grows even brighter, like a star up close! With a scream of wordless rage, there is another burst
[22:05] <Kotono> of pure force! Meanwhile, above you, the dark grail continues to refill, almost there! OC: Fort, all.
[22:05] <Willim> roll 1d20+29
[22:05] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+29 and gets 47." [1d20=18]
[22:06] <Jaela> roll 1d20+37
[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+37 and gets 39." [1d20=2]
[22:06] <Afina> roll 1d20+18
[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+18 and gets 24." [1d20=6]
[22:06] <Kotono> roll 1d20+25 Adrian
[22:06] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+25 Adrian and gets 28." [1d20=3]
[22:07] <Ithea> roll d20+23
[22:07] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+23 and gets 29." [d20=6]
[22:07] <Afina> OOC: +4 so 28 for Afina
[22:07] <Kotono> roll 6d12 force Willim half, Jaela half, Afina half, Adrian half, Ithea half.
[22:07] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d12 force Willim half, Jaela half, Afina half, Adrian half, Ithea half. and gets 31." [6d12=2, 2, 12, 6, 2, 7]
[22:08] <Kotono> Again the party is knocked back by 10ft, the entire sphere shaking even more! Blood starts to pour out, staining the ground all over and making a puddle! OOC: Willim.
[22:09] * Willim charges back in again!
[22:09] <Willim> roll 1d20+32+1+2 moving 10 ft and charging
[22:09] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 1d20+32+1+2 moving 10 ft and charging and gets 42." [1d20=7]
[22:09] <Kotono> OOC: That be a hit.
[22:09] <Willim> roll 7d10+17+2
[22:09] * Hatbot --> "Willim rolls 7d10+17+2 and gets 57." [7d10=1, 8, 6, 7, 5, 9, 2]
[22:10] <Kotono> Another thick, heavy blow! Another part of the white womb shudders, blood gushing out like a jet! A scream comes from within the womb, yet it survives! It lives, bleeding like a fountain, but surviving! "...will...suffer...make you...suuuffeeerrrr!" OOC: Adrian.
[22:11] <Kotono> Adrian coughs up yet more blood, staggering! Despite his stagger he charges in, going straight down in a pure cleave!
[22:11] <Kotono> roll 1d20+2 (+1 haste, +2 charge, -10 PA)
[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 (+1 haste, +2 charge, -10 PA) and gets 5." [1d20=3]
[22:11] <Kotono> OOC: +21, still a whiff.
[22:11] <Jaela> So it even stopped trying to kill them, and is now just trying to take someone down with it? Oh, that is just so sad....
[22:11] <Kotono> Yet it's too aggressive, missing by an inch! OOC: Afina.
[22:11] <Jaela> roll 1d4+5 immediate, Afina
[22:11] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d4+5 immediate, Afina and gets 9." [1d4=4]
[22:14] <Afina> Even as she's blasted back and honestly wounded more than she has been in at least a century, Afina just feels ennui at the monotonous routine of looping around and stabbing an inanimate ball. Nodding momentarily to Jaela for the slight healing, the cut up pixie braces herself, clutching Shieldshard tightly and mentally slapping herself to try and stay focused for another hit and run attack.
[22:14] <Afina> roll 1d20+42 6th level arcane strike
[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+42 6th level arcane strike and gets 47." [1d20=5]
[22:14] <Afina> roll 1d20+37 6th level arcane strike
[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+37 6th level arcane strike and gets 46." [1d20=9]
[22:14] <Afina> roll 1d4+15+1d6+1d6+6d4
[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+15+1d6+1d6+6d4 and gets 34." [1d4=1][1d6=1][1d6=1][6d4=1, 4, 1, 3, 3, 4]
[22:14] <Afina> roll 1d4+15+1d6+1d6+6d4
[22:14] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d4+15+1d6+1d6+6d4 and gets 36." [1d4=3][1d6=2][1d6=6][6d4=1, 4, 2, 1, 1, 1]
[22:14] <Kotono> Two more holes, two more gushes of blood! It bleeds out terribly, the womb now just barely staying above ground, even as the light around it intensifies! OOC: Jaela'n'Ithea, go.
[22:15] <Jaela> Once more into the breach! Jaela swoops down upon that ball-star of a nascent demon lord!
[22:15] * Ithea charges in again as well, stabbing with the bladed end of her polearm, charged with electricity.
[22:15] <Ithea> roll d20+30
[22:15] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+30 and gets 35." [d20=5]
[22:16] <Ithea> ooc: +2 to that
[22:16] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[22:16] <Ithea> roll d100
[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d100 and gets 12." [d100=12]
[22:16] <Kotono> OOC: Bummer. Go Jaela.
[22:16] <Jaela> roll 1d20+39-6 (diving charge, 6pa, 9divine might, 5devotion)
[22:16] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+39-6 (diving charge, 6pa, 9divine might, 5devotion) and gets 40." [1d20=7]
[22:16] <Kotono> OOC: Hit.
[22:16] <Ithea> ooc: opportunist after her
[22:16] <Kotono> OOC: Go ahead, Ithea.
[22:17] <Jaela> roll 1d8+80+48+36+20
[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8+80+48+36+20 and gets 189." [1d8=5]
[22:17] <Ithea> roll d20+32
[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+32 and gets 35." [d20=3]
[22:17] <Ithea> roll d100
[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d100 and gets 28." [d100=28]
[22:17] <Ithea> roll d10+15+5d6
[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d10+15+5d6 and gets 43." [d10=4][5d6=6, 3, 3, 6, 6]
[22:17] <Jaela> roll 1d4+5 immediate, Afina
[22:17] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d4+5 immediate, Afina and gets 7." [1d4=2]

[22:18] <Kotono> Lance and glaive. As has happened so many times before, the two plunge into the womb. This time, silence. A moment of silence, everything stopping. Crack. Crack. Crack. Crumble. Crumble. Crumble! Before your eyes the womb shatters at last! Above you the foul grail explodes into shards, as there is now a thing before you! You cannot see it, you will not see it - for it is only there a moment,
[22:18] <Kotono> before all the light around it plunges inward. Around the party, an artificial sunrise erupts, blackening everything. (More)
[22:21] <Kotono> Awareness comes back slowly to the party. Pained bodies barely respond. Awareness comes as eyes open...the party lies about. There is nothing left. Nothing left of the nightmare. Instead...a great mass of pure light simply resides where it once was. The world is silent now, the whole gray world is silent. All that remains standing is the silent gallows.
[22:22] <Afina> "That took forever," Afina grumbles before noticing the lack of... much at all. "Where are we going to find someone to hang, now?"
[22:22] * Willim sees Afina's lips moving, but cannot hear the words. "WHAT!?" he shouts.
[22:23] <Jaela> "Portal's gone?" Jaela asks, quite resigned. She studies the pure light, approaching it.
[22:23] <Ithea> "Well, at least we won," Ithea says with a small smile to Afina. "And I'm no longer turning into a zombie..."
[22:23] <Kotono> Adrian manages to sit up, "We won," he asks, utterly dazed in voice.
[22:23] * Ithea also goes examine the light along with Jaela.
[22:23] <Kotono> OOC: K:P checks, anyone who studies the light.
[22:23] <Ithea> roll d20+24
[22:23] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+24 and gets 41." [d20=17]
[22:23] <Jaela> "Fuck yeah," Jaela deadpans, raising Gae Dioltas half-heartedly.
[22:23] <Jaela> roll 1d20+22
[22:23] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+22 and gets 31." [1d20=9]
[22:27] <Ithea> "Huh, another dragon gift. Except, y'know, unholy monstrosity instead of dragon this time," Ithea comments.
[22:27] <Afina> "Can we hang it?" Afina asks pertinently.
[22:28] <Jaela> "Don't think so."
[22:28] <Ithea> "I doubt it. It'll empower whomever touches it, I think."
[22:28] * Willim looks at everyone and hears nothing. "AM I DEAF?"
[22:28] * Afina turns to look directly at Willim and nods.
[22:28] <Kotono> Adrian tiredly rises, looking over to Wilim. He shrugs and says something - something Willim can't hear, but it sounds like, "Are you?" to the others.
[22:28] * Jaela spares a Panacea on Willim for the sake of her ears.
[22:29] <Jaela> roll 1d8+16 hp too
[22:29] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d8+16 hp too and gets 20." [1d8=4]
[22:29] <Kotono> OOC: Deafness negated.
[22:29] <Willim> "WHAT'S THaa-oh. That's better. Thanks." Willim nods at Jaela. "What's with the light?"
[22:31] <Ithea> "It's like the mist dragon, remember how it left orb of power? Same kind of deal, Willim," Ithea answers.
[22:31] * Jaela heals herself back up, and then follows up with Ithea.
[22:32] <Kotono> "I'm not sure if I trust anything from here." With a look about, "Has anything here worked out well?"
[22:32] <Jaela> roll 2d8+10 Afina
[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 2d8+10 Afina and gets 21." [2d8=4, 7]
[22:32] <Jaela> roll 2d8+10 Afina x2
[22:32] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 2d8+10 Afina x2 and gets 16." [2d8=1, 5]
[22:32] * Willim shrugs. "I'm not having a bad time. The fight was fun." Willim looks at the others. "I might be the only one though."
[22:33] * Jaela finally heals Adrian.
[22:33] <Afina> "Whatever it is, it didn't do that thing much good," Afina shrugs, flashing Jaela a brief smile after the healing. "If anyone wants to use it they can also volunteer for hanging?"
[22:34] <Ithea> "I'll pass on hanging, Willim already left me with the sensation of choking once," Ithea snorts.
[22:34] <Willim> "I said I was sorry!"
[22:35] <Kotono> "How does that remotely make sense?" Adrian blink-blinks, "I don't think we've fought this far to start engaging in recreational suicide, damn it."
[22:35] <Ithea> "I'm sure she was just joking, Adrian," Ithea says, rolling her one good eye.
[22:35] <Kotono> All that remains within sight is the gallows. The buildings are shattered, ruined. No red light comes from the hole where the Butchery was.
[22:35] <Jaela> "I'll volunteer for the hanging, just as long as someone goes for it already. We don't have the time to waste on this crap."
[22:36] <Afina> "We can hold you up so you don't break your neck," Afina insists. "How else are we going to get out of here, anyway?"
[22:37] <Kotono> As the party talks, a breeze blows. A breeze of warmth, smelling of high summer.
[22:37] * Willim sniffs. OOC: Scent catch anything else?
[22:38] <Afina> The scent unconsciously elicits a relaxed smile from Afina, being her season of choice. She turns her head, first in the direction of the wind and then the way it came from, wondering what it portends.
[22:39] <Willim> "I smell...a forest. Not something from here. An actual forest...like on Lifasa." He points to his left. "That way. It's new, I don't remember smelling before. Can't be too far."
[22:39] <Kotono> To your left. Just past the city, the ghostly image of a tall oak tree appears. Beneath it the cloud cover relents, pure golden sunlight coming down.
[22:39] <Willim> "It smells...like humans, I think."
[22:40] <Afina> Oh, why did it have to be humans? "Hurry up and do something about the demon-egg yolk, then we can check it out," Afina suggests, getting up and taking flight.
[22:40] <Jaela> "We should go there," Jaela states. "And it's not something messing with my mind. This empowering shit or whatever, get it done and follow." She takes off almost at the same time as Afina.
[22:40] * Willim juts his thumb at it. "If nobody wants it, I'll take it."
[22:41] <Willim> "It's from the aAbyss, so it's probably good for me." Infalliable logic!
[22:41] <Kotono> Adrian looks back and forth, "You know what? Even fi it's another trap, that looks damned better than anything before," With that Adrian heads to the forest as well.
[22:42] <Ithea> "I'm interested, but I wasn't sure if anybody else was," Ithea says with a shrug. "If you think it won't make you go nuts and try and kill us all though, you're welcome to it, I guess?"
[22:43] <Willim> "Long as I don't wind up undead, I doubt it'll make me much worse." Willim grabs at the light.
[22:43] <Jaela> "I think it's a way out," Jaela murmurs to Afina. "Even if it is, we can just challenge this layer again."
[22:43] * Ithea goes after the others while letting Willim do whatever needs to happen to absorb that power.
[22:44] <Afina> "Not like it can give us anything worse now, can it?"
[22:44] <Jaela> "I've been meaning to return to Arvandor anyhow, so might as well make it now."
[22:45] <Kotono> Willim grasps the light! It flows into his body, like water down a drain.
[22:46] * Willim shakes off momentary pain and blinks. "...huh. Not bad." He kicks off the ground and flies after Ithea.
[22:47] <Kotono> The party advances to the tree. Warmth. It's warm here, alive. The scents of the forest, of life. The tree is tall, branches not stopping the sunlight from cascading down. As you enter the sunlight, you see images. Images, figments. Bodies, hundreds of bodies rising up into the sunlight.  On the tree's trunk, the symbol of an arrow can be seen. OOC: K:R here, if anyone cares to make it.
[22:47] <Jaela> roll 1d20+22 I always care
[22:47] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+22 I always care and gets 26." [1d20=4]
[22:48] <Ithea> roll d20+13 K:R
[22:48] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+13 K:R and gets 26." [d20=13]
[22:50] <Jaela> "It is an honor, Great Archer," Jaela says respectfully, bowing before the tree as much as her full plate allows.
[22:50] * Willim scratches his head. "What's this?"
[22:51] <Kotono> The arrow carved into the tree's trunk grows bright. "Thank you," It is a woman's voice, heard from very far away. "Your defeat of the Nightmare has weakened the control of the Abyss over our souls. We are finally free from the nightmare!"
[22:51] * Ithea scratches the back of her head. "Well, it wasn't our goal originally, but Jaela convinced us we couldn't let that thing live," Ithea admits.
[22:51] <Jaela> "I expected as much," Jaela responds, nodding slightly. "Once I realized that, I couldn't unsee it and walk away, and neither could my friends."
[22:52] * Afina could've, but she couldn't leave her friends. She won't disillusion the spirit, though.
[22:52] * Willim absolutely could have, but Jaela will probably hit him if he says so.
[22:53] <Kotono> "I cannot stay long. There are others here, others who will hunt you." The voice whispers. As it does, a forest green, hooded cloak appears in the air. It is ghostly, "The rainment of the Forest Hunters of Solonir Thelandria. If one of you wishes to wear it and gain its powers, you may, for I have no more use for it. It will make you a peerless woodsman, even if you have never set foot in a
[22:53] <Kotono> forest. But once taken, it cannot be removed."
[22:54] <Afina> Afina's woodsy skills are first rate already! And she's quite fond of her current cloak.
[22:55] * Willim already has a very pretty cloak, and just ate the heart of a baby demon prince anyhow.
[22:56] <Kotono> "I need my cloak," Adrian confesses, "Now more than ever, with what's ahead of me."
[22:57] <Ithea> "I don't use a cloak anymore, sold mine a while ago, and I kind of miss having one, though I don't know that I'm the best fit for it. Jaela?" Ithea asks the other person who might get some use out of it. And she was the one who pushed them to defeat the creature after all.
[23:00] <Jaela> "If you miss it, then don't deny yourself the pleasure of a cloak," Jaela responds to Ithea's query.
[23:00] * Ithea laughs at how Jaela worded it. "Well, okay, I'll take it then."
[23:01] <Kotono> At those words, the cloak flies to Ithea. It settles onto her shoulders and becomes solid, resting onto her! "I shall go...blessings on you...for I fear your trials are not done yet..." With that the image of a beautiful blonde elf is glimpsed, ascending to the heavens. Thereafter the clouds cover again, the trees fade, and the scent of life fades.
[23:01] <Jaela> "Thank you for the honor," Jaela tells the spirit. Lacking in an image, she salutes the cloak itself with a summoned Val'Finnegan.
[23:03] * Jaela inhales sharply one last time, before turning towards the others. "If we didn't take that creepy thing out, we could've been tied to it just like all these people. No matter where we left. Leaving those things behind is horrible as fuck."
[23:04] <Willim> "I briefly imagined that thing getting control of the Aurora." Willim shakes his head.
[23:05] <Afina> "I won't argue with the result, but remember how many Lifasans are enduring worse fates," Afina replies blandly. "We have our own to worry about before fixing all the planes."
[23:06] <Jaela> "If we get out of the 210th layer okay, I'll show you that you're wrong," Jaela insists. "Our actions have meaning, even beyond helping those we saw here."
[23:06] <Ithea> "Well, on the plus side, we're not ending up hated by another set of deities, and actually made a friend if anything," Ithea says.
[23:07] * Willim claps Ithea on the shoulder. "Good on you for looking on the bright side."
[23:08] <Afina> "True, it can draw others to our Crusade to hear of such successes," Afina concedes. "Anyway, we still have to re-open that portal."
[23:09] <Jaela> "Okay. Let me fly up and look at what changed, first? I can always hang myself after." And Jaela does so!
[23:09] <Kotono> "That means we have to find someone, but it works out. If something's going to come and hunt us?" Adrian shrugs, "I say we go to the gallows and let 'em cometo us."
[23:10] * Willim nods to Adrian. "And then hang 'em."
[23:11] <Kotono> Jaela flies up. The grayness is cracked all over. The only thing of note you can see is the bordello - crumpled as well, shattered and broken.
[23:13] * Jaela frowns, and then flies right back to the gallows. "Look," she says while there. "Either we make camp here, pretty much, or I get hanged. I can actually survive that shit normally, so I'll only die for real if that weird portal magic fucks me up. Afina, did you look at the forming portal? Did it start before that Tyr priest finally croaked?"
[23:14] * Afina tries to recall from glimpses perhaps seen as she looped around between undying ball and the gallows...
[23:14] <Kotono> It started as the priest died.
[23:15] <Afina> "Ahh... I'm pretty sure he was dead when it started, now that I think about it," Afina admits.
[23:16] <Jaela> "Shit."
[23:17] <Afina> "Yes," Afina nods succinctly. "Means using a corpse or summon won't work either. Someone must die for us to reach the next layer."
[23:18] <Jaela> "We could... go look back at the bordello, I guess? Or fly around? It's a fuckhuge plane, there's gotta be more stuff here to find and kill."
[23:19] <Ithea> "Let's check to see if we can detect any remains of the portal's energy and try and  rig us a way to reopen it without anybody dying, first?" Ithea suggests.
[23:19] * Jaela decides to check if Detect Magic works, now, at Ithea's words.
[23:19] <Ithea> "There might be enough residual energy and maybe we can charge it back up or something with planeshifting magic?" Ithea adds, trying to detect magic as well.
[23:19] * Afina does the same!
[23:19] <Kotono> Jaela detects magic! It works! She can see the normal auras around her friends.
[23:20] * Afina shakes her head.
[23:20] * Jaela ensures there is nothing new and unusual about any of them, before observing the area of the gallows.
[23:20] <Kotono> Nothing new and unusual. OOC: Goin' back to the gallows then? It's not a far walk, but.
[23:20] <Jaela> OOC: I flew back there way back, didn't we all go there?
[23:21] * Afina goes back to the gallows rather than shaking her head!
[23:21] <Ithea> ooc: Oh, thought we'd already started heading back. "Jaela frowns, and then flies right back to the gallows."
[23:21] <Kotono> OOC: Okay.
[23:21] <Kotono> The party returns to the gallows. There is fading magic beneath the trap door, where intact gray earth rests.
[23:22] <Afina> roll 1d20+25 spellcraftin
[23:22] * Hatbot --> "Afina rolls 1d20+25 spellcraftin and gets 26." [1d20=1]
[23:22] <Jaela> roll 1d20+25
[23:22] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+25 and gets 29." [1d20=4]
[23:22] * Ithea opens the trap door so they can get a better look at the fading magic while it's still there.
[23:22] <Ithea> roll d20+17
[23:22] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+17 and gets 35." [d20=18]
[23:23] <Kotono> The magic is that of a portal. Ithea can decipher it - it is a portal keyed to the sacrifice of life and soul. The life and soul are offered up to it and the portal briefly opens.
[23:24] * Ithea continues to examine it and tries to figure out if there's a way to force it back open without anybody dying, or at least open enough for them to use the small opening to planeshift onward since they have that magic available.
[23:25] <Kotono> Ithea thinks it might just be possible, but there would be a high chance of calamity. It would take a UMD check and then a planeshift right after, and even then, things could randomly go wrong.
[23:26] * Ithea frowns. "Okay, I...I think I can try and force it open for a brief moment, not enough for us to walk through, but we could use the opening to planeshift through," Ithea admits. "...but things could really go wrong, not just in the attempt to opening, but just trying to pass through such a small opening."
[23:26] <Ithea> "Still, it's a way through without anybody dying...I think."
[23:27] <Jaela> "Yo, Adrian, don't you have powers over portals? What if you reopen that specific one before it fades completely?"
[23:28] <Ithea> roll d20+17 spellcraft to tell if Adrian can make the process safer?
[23:28] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+17 spellcraft to tell if Adrian can make the process safer? and gets 28." [d20=11]
[23:28] <Kotono> Ithea thinks he could, since he'd be tearing into the portal. Adrian considers a moment and shrugs, "I don't honestly know. I tear a hole into the planes versus creating a conduit with magic."
[23:29] <Jaela> "Yeah let's go with that."
[23:30] <Ithea> "He'd probably help make the process safer," Ithea says, agreeing with the idea as well. She removes her bracers before they start, in case she still needs to be try and coax the portal in addition to Adrian's effort.
[23:30] <Jaela> But she wouldn't be waiting while twiddling her thumbs! When Adrian looks like he is about to open that portal, Jaela will call upon Holy Aura once more. Wherever they end up, they will be more than ready!
[23:30] <Kotono> "Tell me when," Adrian says, Gaelach drawn.
[23:30] * Jaela decides to boost Ithea as well, just in case.
[23:31] <Ithea> "Everyone get close, we'll only have a moment to planeshift," Ithea says first, once that happens, she gives the go ahead to Adrian, keeping her eye on the lingering traces of portal magic so she can try and help Adrian along.
[23:32] * Willim moves in!
[23:32] <Kotono> OOC: Roll your UMd when you're ready, kitty.
[23:32] <Ithea> roll d20+23 UMD
[23:32] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+23 UMD and gets 35." [d20=12]
[23:32] <Kotono> Ithea invokes the portal! For a moment the ground beneath rustles and twists, as a second later Adrian's blade plunges into the ground, ripping!
[23:32] <Kotono> roll 1d20+14
[23:32] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+14 and gets 17." [1d20=3]
[23:33] <Kotono> There is a hideous moment of nothing, then? The ground in a line explodes out, parting into a portal! Ther eis no chance to react, the gallows plummeting into the portal along with the party, sucked down relentlessly! (More)
[23:35] <Kotono> There's solitude here. Solitude and peace. The simple pleasure of darkness, of unfeeling. The gallows floats in this darkness, the party standing on it. It is not warm or cold. It smells of nothing. Below, you see shimmering waves of black - as if a sea. As if the gallows are your raft in a great black sea.
[23:35] <Jaela> roll 1d20+22 K:P where are we?
[23:35] * Hatbot --> "Jaela rolls 1d20+22 K:P where are we? and gets 39." [1d20=17]
[23:35] <Ithea> "...okay, I'm guessing it worked?"
[23:36] <Ithea> roll d20+24 K:P same question
[23:36] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+24 K:P same question and gets 25." [d20=1]
[23:36] <Afina> "I don't know, does anyone know what layer 210 is supposed to look like?" Afina asks, looking around.
[23:36] <Willim> "This is layer 210?" Willim asks.
[23:36] <Ithea> "Well, it's not 209 anymore, I think," Ithea replies with a shrug.
[23:36] <Kotono> As you look about, the gallows sails along. It sails long, and ahead? You see a great, classical temple. It is of white stone and pillared, with but a single door within. Your gallows approaches it relentlessly.
[23:37] <Jaela> "Might be two-ten," Jaela says guardedly.
[23:38] <Kotono> Within moments, the gallows arrives. There are a few stone steps leading up to the door, which is open. You cannot see what is inside.
[23:38] <Afina> "Well, shall we?" Afina takes flight now, fluttering over the steps and up towards the door.
[23:39] * Ithea steps up the stone path, moving towards the door. "Well, this is hopefully the place we can find out," Ithea says.
[23:39] * Willim nods. "Another fight maybe, too."
[23:39] <Jaela> Warily, Gae Bolg out, Jaela can only follow.
[23:41] <Kotono> Thus, the party heads to the door and within. Within this temple is darkness again. Before you sits a man. He is perhaps twenty feet tall, slender to the point of being bones. He wears gray cloth, his eyes covered with a metal band of strange runes. His voice is dry but with a hint of curiosity in every word, "Welcome to 210. ...ah, I see. Yes, 21 has the potential to do everything you want it
[23:41] <Kotono> to."
[23:42] <Jaela> "Not to be rude, but are there other visitors?" Jaela has to ask. If he names Anna, it would seem more legitimate....
[23:43] <Kotono> "Yes. I regret to inform you that 21 has already been taken," The creature confesses, chuckling, "Not that it has been what she dreamed of, for anyone that holds 21 cannot lie to themselves. They can only see the truth."
[23:44] <Jaela> That... sucks. So much! "How long ago? And, uh, what is 21 anyhow?"
[23:45] <Kotono> "As I reckon it, not even a blink of an eye. In your reckoning...days? Weeks?" It answers, "21 is what the Three used to attempt to comprehend evil."
[23:46] <Afina> They really did delay far too much. "Did the new bearer of 21 disclose any of their plans?" Afina asks to try and salvage some information.
[23:47] <Kotono> "She did not, yet it does not matter." The creature before you is silent a moment, "Her dream was a fool's dream born of despair and anger. She can no longer lie to herself."
[23:47] <Jaela> "Can you, uh, tell us that dream? 21 might not grant it, but maybe we could."
[23:48] <Kotono> "It is the same as yours," he answers, "To kill what cannot be killed. To kill a divinity."
[23:48] <Jaela> "Why's that foolish? Can't 21 do it?"
[23:49] <Afina> "Can't anyone do it?" Afina frowns. She's sure she heard people mention dead gods when she was travelling through the Astral...
[23:49] <Jaela> "Pretty sure a god can kill another god," Jaela mutters. "And actually, even better question. Which god does she hate on?"
[23:49] <Kotono> "Destruction cannot make her happy," Now he drums his fingers in the air, as if something is solid. Indeed, the sound of fingers on wood is heard. "What she wants is the happiness she lost. All the killing she can do will not restore that to her."
[23:50] <Jaela> "Eh, happiness can be found in the strangest of places." Jaela shrugs. "So who's her enemy? Is it really Bel and Abigor?"
[23:51] <Willim> "I thought they were just overinflated devils." Willim admits.
[23:51] <Afina> "Yes, I don't need 21 to recognise that in myself. I'll still take it, though," Afina volunteers, not one to shy away from her own uncomfortable truths.
[23:52] <Kotono> "No, it is Chauntea," The being answers, "If you desire 21, find her. I doubt she will use it now, perhaps except if she gives into her despair."
[23:53] <Willim> "Chauntea?" Willim looks askance.
[23:53] <Jaela> "Thanks," Jaela says honestly. "Do you know what else is forgotten and left out there across the planes we could use? Either against the devils and Hell, or to deal with the Triad and Bahamut?"
[23:54] <Ithea> "Chauntea?" Ithea mutters in surprise, wondering what someone would have against that deity.
[23:54] <Afina> "Didn't Elrisa mention someone who wanted to kill Chauntea?" Afina looks thoughtful. "But then why was she researching Abigor at the Court of Stars?"
[23:54] <Afina> She doesn't really consider there being multiple people involved for some reason.
[23:54] <Jaela> "Could be two people," Jaela muses. "Two went here, only one made it?"
[23:55] <Ithea> "Well, it could be how one person got through 209," Ithea mutters.
[23:55] <Kotono> "I was created by the Three to maintain this place. I know of nothing beyond it that does not relate to my duty." He pauses a moment, "Tell me. What of good and evil? Do they still persist in the world, or has law and order answered the question?"
[23:56] <Jaela> "All four are out there. Still kicking." Jaela shrugs again. "To confirm, the woman holding 21 is Anna? Can you describe her, please?"
[23:57] <Kotono> "Yes, though she has taken many names close to her." An image appears before you - a blonde, rather busty young woman. Her face is lean and drawn, arms fitted with leather straps that crisscross. Her eyes are determined, her gaze hard. "That is her true apperance, but ever does she cloak herself in memories as her fury and despair clouded her mind."
[23:58] <Jaela> "Could be why the Sending failed," Jaela muses. "But should be workable, now. Thanks."
[23:59] <Ithea> "Now I want to know how we can get back to the others from here," Ithea chips in.
[23:59] <Jaela> "Before that, I want to know who the Three are, please."
[00:00] <Kotono> "You may leave as you wish." The being replies, "There will be no barriers for you now that 21 has left this place." After a moment, "The Three who created all. The incarnations of Law, Balance and Chaos. I know not if they are still known to all."
[00:01] <Jaela> "Do they, too, each have a different name?"
[00:02] <Kotono> "They have many names." He considers a moment, "Do you know of any beings beyond the Gods, who rule over them? Three of them, perhaps?"
[00:03] <Jaela> "Ao?"
[00:03] <Willim> "I heard someone mention that name once."
[00:04] <Kotono> "Ao? Ah, I see. The Incarnation of Chaos. What of Balance and Law?" He asks, "Perhaps he is the only one remembered. I know that they were ever distant, even in the days where they attempted to understand Good and Evil."
[00:04] <Afina> "Yggdrasil?" Afina is just guessing now, wondering if the World Tree fits into this thing's cosmology.
[00:04] <Jaela> "He understands Evil, alright." The fucker. "So who are the other two?" She nods at Afina's suggestion, asking, "Is that another one?"
[00:05] * Willim shrugs. "I only know Tempus, god of war. And not too terribly well."
[00:06] <Ithea> roll d20+13 K:R for a reasonable guess option?
[00:06] * Hatbot --> "Ithea rolls d20+13 K:R for a reasonable guess option? and gets 20." [d20=7]
[00:06] <Kotono> "There are two others. the incarnations of Balance and Law. Together they were the Three who created everything and gave birth to all you know. Of the name Yggdrasil I do not know. It is not one of their names, for I would know it."
[00:07] <Jaela> "Any chance one of those two understood Good?"
[00:07] <Afina> She supposes no one ever established where the World Tree came from, at least that she heard of. Afina falls silent to reflect on this and listen for the moment.
[00:07] <Kotono> "I do not know. I do know that of them all, the Incarnation of Law grappled with it the longest. It was still attempting to find the center of all Law withing Good and Evil when I was created. I know not what the answer was."
[00:09] <Jaela> Well, that's... surprisingly unhelpful. Jaela can't help but frown. "Basically, the barriers sealing this plane are gone, now? We can come and go as we want? Fuck, we could've come over right away?"
[00:09] <Afina> "Will you remain here, with the object you guarded gone?" Afina asks at last. "If you wish it, you may leave with us."
[00:10] <Kotono> "You may come as you please, now that you have come. The barriers are not gone, only that you are not inhibited from leaving or coming now. For mortals, you are interesting creatures. I shall remain, for in time 21 will return. ...ah, I see, you don't understand. You couldn't, with your perspectives."
[00:11] <Jaela> "Is 21 an actual physical thing?"
[00:12] <Afina> He probably has a longer view than her, she'll grant that... even if 'mortal' is something fey usually call other people. She supposes it's pretty impolite, broadcasting an implicit assumption of 'you will die' as it does.
[00:12] <Kotono> "21 is. The form it will take in your world is still to be determined. It is made of things beyond what you know, of the realms that drive creatures not of it into insanity. It is not hostile, for it simply is. In fact, I may have rubbed off on it. 21 desired to leave. I am not surprised that 209's defenses have failed twice so quickly."
[00:13] <Ithea> "Fuck 209's defenses," Ithea mutters.
[00:13] <Jaela> "So 21 is an idea, at least in part? And probably sentient? Neat." Jaela grins at Ithea, before giving the guardian a wave. "I'm Jaela! What's your name?"
[00:14] <Kotono> "Would you?" With a curious bit of amusement, "The particular defense you fought was one of the Incarnation of Chaos' creations. Not yet born to any true power, but servicable as a guardian."
[00:15] <Kotono> "A name? I have no need for such. 21 is only named because it is made by the three with the essence of the Heavens, to use as a weapon to understand evil."
[00:15] <Jaela> "We'd much rather Ao fucked himself, in truth," Jaela responds with matching amusement. "I'll call you 21's Guardian, then. A title's fine too. So, guys, ready to head on home?"
[00:16] * Ithea raises an eyebrow at the being, and goes back to being silent for the moment, merely nodding to Jaela's question.
[00:16] <Afina> "Yes, there's nothing else we can do here."
[00:16] <Kotono> Adrian listens to all of this for a goodly long time, "There's one thing I want to know," he speaks up.
[00:18] <Willim> "I think that everyone here has had enough of the Abyss for today." Willim says, only lying a little.
[00:18] <Kotono> "Yes?" The being questions right back. "Ah, I see. No. Law and Chaos are the closest names to the two constants beyond all you know. Good and Evil have no place beyond all that the Three created. No, Good and Evil were created by those born in what you know as the multiverse."
[00:20] <Kotono> Adrian frowns at it, but nods. "That matches up with what you said. Was curious." He nods then, "I'mr eady to go back."
[00:20] * Ithea ponders asking if there's a reason why good often seems so ineffective compared to evil, but isn't sure she wants to know what the being thinks on the matter.
[00:20] <Kotono> The being merely smiles.
[00:21] <Jaela> "Later, Guardian. On three, one, two--"
[00:21] * Jaela plane shifts them all to the Aurora's courtyard.