A Handful of Dust Session 12

[07:48.25] <DM> A rime of frost spreads from the wounds in the chest and back of the knight.
[07:48.31] <DM> [jesus, let me do the intro.]
[07:48.41] <+AagKaKuna> (As a reminder, what's the grey at the edge of the room?
[07:48.52] <DM> Blood wells, drips, and then freezes to his armor, his vision blurring as he marches up the steps. Behind him, a screaming, thrashing mass of fleshy shadows writhe atop the dying flames. A few, on the fringes, look towards the fleeing figures, faceless mouths hissing.
[07:50.28] <DM> And as he is buried, you hear the crackling breaking ice of the dul-ahan's laughter.
[07:50.31] <DM> What do you do?
[07:50.47] <DM> The dark grey squares are blocked by fallen rubble from a collapsed chamber.
[07:51.30] * Penumbra and Kir rushes onwards towards the opened door with the body he so desperately wants to bring with him
[07:51.38] * DM changes topic to: A Handful of Dust Session 12 - Creeping Frost - ＋https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBoGSMuuHf4&feature=youtu.be&t=5m50s，
[07:51.47] <+Penumbra> [turn]
[07:52.06] * Repriever continues to run, limping, casting clouds of frosted breath from bloodied lips. The soft humming glow of Tangent swaying in his hand like a will-o-wisp in the wood, casting long shadows on the furniture left here.
[07:52.16] <+Repriever> [I'm confused as to what order we're doing anything in]
[07:52.24] <DM> [We're beginning in initiative order.]
[07:52.25] <+Shala> [init order?]
[07:52.26] <+AagKaKuna> (Initiative order)
[07:52.33] <+Penumbra> [Shala's turn]
[07:52.42] <+Repriever> [oh, then just save that for 30 minutes from now :p]
[07:52.57] <DM> Penumbra, and Kir, you make your moves without incident, dragging the body around a fallen chunk of marble.
[07:52.59] <+Melchior> [zing]
[07:53.02] <DM> You do not look back.
[07:53.05] * Shala RUNS
[07:53.25] <+Shala> [turn]
[07:53.42] <DM> As you reach the darkened chamber beyond the seals, you see that you lie at the base of a vast spiral staircase, heading upwards.
[07:53.55] * Shala runs with a distinct lack of grace and take a breather behind the wall
[07:54.11] <+Melchior> "Onwards and upwards!"
[07:54.14] <+Shala> [the | are the staircase?]
[07:54.16] <DM> Melchior, the sounds of screaming and battle are behind you. Kir, Penumbra, and Repriever have not yet entered the far chamber.
[07:54.20] <DM> [Yes.]
[07:54.23] <+Penumbra> [is the spiral staircase made of stone? how thick is it?]
[07:54.43] * Melchior can see everyone through the open door behind her.
[07:54.59] <DM> The spiral staircase is made of a bright, brilliant electrum, the balustrade twisted into the shape of glittering vines.
[07:55.22] <DM> Given the plants you saw before, you cannot help but wonder if the Elementalists...grew these stairs.
[07:56.03] <DM> Once you make it to the stairs, we will exit initiative order for a few minutes. You can take free actions, and then we'll reroll initiative.
[07:56.27] <DM> And Melchior, I believe that central door is still sealed, since Kir shot the north door with the void bolt.
[07:56.34] <+Penumbra> [and if so, does it have a personality? how does it feel getting stepped on constantly... what if... what if... it dreams of metallic sheep?]
[07:56.58] <DM> Do you go up, Melchior?
[07:57.25] * Melchior scouts ahead.
[07:57.51] * Melchior proceeds up a normal move along the stairs. What does she see?
[07:58.03] <DM> The staircase rises for quite some time, passing several blocked and darkened passages with collapsed rubble. At the top, however, you can see a faint, white light.
[07:58.13] <+Melchior> "Light is good."
[07:58.35] <DM> Aag, your turn.
[07:58.35] <+Melchior> "Hurry to us, all!"
[07:59.18] * AagKaKuna moves to the stairs
[07:59.30] * AagKaKuna glances back, and see repreiver is still fucking close to the zombies
[07:59.35] * AagKaKuna turns around to help everyone
[08:00.13] <+AagKaKuna> [Turn]
[08:00.14] <+Repriever> [please do not run backwards]
[08:00.54] <DM> Aag, as you turn around and run back, you see the coiling, writhing mass of zombies, and others streaming through the broken window.
[08:01.00] <DM> Repriever.
[08:01.20] <+Repriever> [repeat aforementioned activity]
[08:01.51] <+Repriever> Until I get to there, in which I push Aag along.
[08:01.59] <DM> Shadows of desks, long unused, are formed and move, cast by Tangent's light.
[08:02.03] <+Repriever> "Keep. Moving."
[08:02.26] * AagKaKuna throws an arm around Repreiver, helping the wounded man, if he gets to me
[08:02.39] <DM> He reaches you, Aag.
[08:02.45] * Repriever shrugs you off.
[08:03.17] <+Repriever> "Are you fucking..." He coughs out cloudy breaths and bits of crystallized blood. "Stupid?"
[08:03.18] * AagKaKuna insists. we can move faster than injured repreiver
[08:03.20] <+Repriever> "Go!"
[08:03.25] <DM> The mass of zombies writhes and pulsates around the buried dul-ahan.
[08:04.27] <DM> A flash of blue, and one of the zombies explodes in a torrent of black pus.
[08:04.32] <+Repriever> [can I spend my second move to move them out of the way?]
[08:04.38] <+Repriever> [there's no reason to stop this short]
[08:05.22] <+Melchior> [why was the dullahan being buried by the void zombies, were they fighting each other?]
[08:05.33] <+Repriever> [I set him on fire]
[08:05.39] <+Repriever> [they are attracted to light]
[08:05.45] <DM> Lacking eyes, the zombies charged blindly towards the only source of heat and light they could find.
[08:06.01] <DM> The dul-ahan steps forward, and the fire from the ignited grease instantly dies.
[08:06.21] * Repriever shoves Aag to go.
[08:06.24] <DM> It speaks a word, in infernal.
[08:06.27] <DM> A command.
[08:07.07] * ork (6c14132b@ircip1.mibbit.com) has joined channel #nesdnd
[08:07.11] * ork is now known as Kir
[08:07.17] <DM> The zombies cringe, and slowly extricate themselves from the pile, lining up in ranks behind the dul-ahan.
[08:07.25] * DM sets mode +v Kir for #nesdnd
[08:07.38] <+Penumbra> [See guys, punctuality and formation]
[08:07.38] <+Kir> [link to battlemap?]
[08:07.44] <+Penumbra> ＋https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UX__YUPiqtjKS9YS8KvxR9-ZXuwmfcp8DN5RX_BEYFo/edit#gid=0，
[08:07.56] <DM> Penumbra and Kir, carrying the mysterious corpse together, take your turns.
[08:08.07] <+Shala> [good thing they cant climb stairs!]
[08:08.13] * Shala hopes they cant climb stairs
[08:09.34] <+Repriever> [you two should be able to run and get up the stairs]
[08:09.38] * Penumbra sees Aag run back, Penumbra hears the command, but Penumbra knows what Parhelion says is true, and now is the time to run
[08:09.47] * Kir runs
[08:09.53] <DM> You make it to, and up, the stairs.
[08:09.57] * Melchior sees Penumbra and Kir dragging Kir's countryman's corpse.
[08:10.12] * Kir and Penumbra carry the corpse between them, gear shaking with the sprint
[08:10.21] <+Melchior> "Stop slowing yourselves, put him on Kylma and run!"
[08:10.25] <DM> Somewhere along the line, the head of the corpse got left behind, though.
[08:10.28] <+Melchior> [Kylma is very far from encumbered]
[08:10.33] * Repriever says to Aag:
[08:10.47] <+Repriever> "I'm right. Behind. You."
[08:10.52] <DM> Shala, I'm going to assume that you book it up the stairs.
[08:10.58] * Shala knows that if she had ever seen the 1998 classic The Mummy starring Brendan Fraser, this would be just like that
[08:11.05] <+Penumbra> "The dul-ahan's commanding the dark creatures! But..."
[08:11.09] * Shala BOOKS IT
[08:11.25] <+Kir> "RUN!"
[08:11.55] <+Penumbra> [so both Durosan and "Kir's countryman's corpse" are headless]
[08:12.15] <DM> Melchior is off the board.
[08:12.17] <DM> Aag, your turn.
[08:12.28] * AagKaKuna sees that repreiver is there, and books it up the stairs
[08:12.50] <DM> [Feel free to follow the initiative order and take your turns when the person before you is done. You don't need me to tell you it's your turn.]
[08:12.55] <+AagKaKuna> [Turn]
[08:13.20] <DM> Repriever, you are last.
[08:13.36] <DM> Its frozen gaze does not relent.
[08:13.42] <DM> You know it watches.
[08:13.45] * Repriever staggers through the doorway, leaning on its jamb for a half-draw of frosted breath, leaving a cascade of ruby droplets in his wake.
[08:14.03] * Repriever considers the stairs, and wonders if his old ass can make it, then goes.
[08:14.37] <DM> Repriever looks halfway to a frozen corpse when he finally passes the doors.
[08:15.47] <DM> Exit initiative and act freely.
[08:16.06] <+Kir> "Up stairs, go!"
[08:16.10] <+Penumbra> "... he himself serves someone greater!"
[08:16.11] * Kir yells at Penumbra
[08:16.17] * Repriever clambers up the steps, leaning heavily on the balustrade of electrum vines.
[08:16.34] <DM> Melchior, as you are the first to reach the top of the stairs aboard Kylma, you see an incredible sight.
[08:16.39] <+Melchior> "There's light ahead!"
[08:17.10] * Repriever barks something in Celestial, though the word seems to fail in its third dimension.
[08:17.30] <DM> Though it may be an illusion, the entirety of the room is suffused with a soft, warm glow of white light. Hundreds of feet in the air above, a tiny copy of the Armillary Sphere turns, glowing with the golden light of day.
[08:17.50] * Penumbra looks up and squints at both Shala's staff, and the distant light, until she finally decided to avert her eyes
[08:17.59] <+Shala> "Will they follow us in here?"
[08:18.01] <+Melchior> "More elementalist light."
[08:18.08] * Shala looks down at the winding staircase
[08:18.15] <DM> Throughout the room float tiny, white flowers.
[08:18.18] <+Melchior> "The void-born covet light."
[08:18.24] <+Penumbra> "They are being commanded, to what purpose, I do not know."
[08:18.31] <+Shala> "That's a curious thing"
[08:18.32] <DM> It appears to have no floor, no ceiling.
[08:18.41] <+Melchior> "A way through, a way out."
[08:18.42] * Shala looks at Penumbra with skepticism
[08:18.54] * Shala looks down
[08:18.56] * Repriever meets Shala's gaze from farther down the stair, pallid, blue lipped, and trailing ribbons of frosted air.
[08:19.02] <DM> Wrought iron grates float in the nothingness, perhaps once more comprehensive than they are now. Because for chunks of them, the levitation magic has failed.
[08:19.10] <+Repriever> "Did I. Say. Stop?"
[08:19.10] * Shala gasps in her throat
[08:19.19] * Kir gulp
[08:19.20] * Melchior is looking for a way forward.
[08:19.23] <DM> There is no floor, Shala, and no ceiling, or no walls, as far as you can see them.
[08:19.26] * Repriever sucks harshly between words.
[08:19.28] <+Melchior> ?roll 1d20+6
[08:19.28] <%tBot> Melchior: 16 ([10] +6)
[08:19.32] * Kir looks for a pathway across the grates
[08:19.47] * Shala huffs
[08:19.50] * Kir also tries to figure if he could jump sections
[08:20.22] <DM> Map updated, guys.
[08:20.27] * AagKaKuna huffs, out of breath
[08:20.27] <DM> You begin on the far right.
[08:20.38] <+Shala> [wait, where are the grates?]
[08:20.48] * Repriever rattles Tangent against the balustrade as he climbs, using it half as a walking stick on some steps. Metallic taps ring out.
[08:20.57] * Penumbra looks down to see Parhelion stumbling onwards behind us
[08:20.58] <+Kir> [the outlined tiles, look at the top]
[08:21.25] * Kir reloads his crossbow with a fire bolt
[08:21.32] <+Melchior> "Alright, make our way across. Careful, all."
[08:21.37] <DM> Melchior, as you peer forward, you see that over several gaps in the perhaps unstable structure that was once used to service this floating air garden, there is in the distance a place where the illusion is dispelled, to reveal a solid grey wall.
[08:21.43] * Kir also takes the second crossbow from Barg and loads it with a fire bolt as well
[08:21.55] * AagKaKuna hands repreiver a potion of cure major wounds
[08:22.02] <+Melchior> [initiative to start moving across?]
[08:22.13] <+Shala> [i thought we were doing free actions]
[08:22.20] <DM> You have another minute to take free actions before we reroll initiative.
[08:22.32] <DM> [OOC minute.]
[08:22.32] <+Melchior> "Penny, what did you do to wake up those monsters?"
[08:22.37] * Repriever tops the stair, tripping on the sudden flatness. He falls to his knees as the glowing sword clatters from his hand, flickering out to dun steel.
[08:22.53] <+Kir> "Mel, we can make arrow with amethyst?"
[08:23.00] <+Repriever> "That's. Not. Good."
[08:23.00] <DM> A harsh, metallic clank, as you see the massively wounded Repriever fall.
[08:23.04] * Melchior is suddenly less interested in the answer and more interested in Repriever.
[08:23.15] * AagKaKuna runs to repreiver's side, holding a potion of cure major wounds
[08:23.17] <+Melchior> "Oh hell ducky! Heal yourself!"
[08:23.24] <DM> Steel of his greaves on the steel of the grate.
[08:23.29] <+AagKaKuna> (Serious wounds, sorry)
[08:23.37] <+Melchior> "Don't feed him that brew Aag."
[08:23.46] * Repriever pushes it away.
[08:23.48] * Melchior is instantly suspicious that Aag is using his mutagen potion.
[08:23.59] <+Repriever> "Save it. For them."
[08:24.03] <+Melchior> "Flame heal if you must."
[08:24.07] <+AagKaKuna> "It's a potion, it heals."
[08:24.10] <+Penumbra> "You have to stand up."
[08:24.11] <+Shala> "I'M fine."
[08:24.13] * Shala brushes back her hair
[08:24.22] <+Melchior> "Good. Get moving."
[08:24.24] * Repriever looks at Aag, clutching his collar from the ground.
[08:24.25] * AagKaKuna shows it to melchior
[08:24.30] <+Melchior> "Kir, what do you need for the arrow?"
[08:24.32] <DM> Repriever's armor is covered in blood, which has spilled over the chainmail, turning the silver to a dark, blackish red. And you see that the chips of blood have themselves frozen, and they sprinkle to the floor as you prop him up.
[08:24.34] <+Melchior> "Amethyst?"
[08:24.35] * AagKaKuna lets her give approval
[08:24.36] <+Repriever> "Your. Fire can't. Heal me."
[08:24.44] * Repriever tries to laugh.
[08:24.47] <+AagKaKuna> "It's not mine. It's from down there."
[08:24.54] <DM> Repriever coughs blood as he tries.
[08:24.54] <+Melchior> "You swear it?"
[08:25.01] <+Melchior> "You swear it?"
[08:25.02] <+Repriever> "It's. Near the. Heart."
[08:25.12] <+Repriever> "Burn it."
[08:25.15] <+Repriever> "Burn it out."
[08:25.16] <+AagKaKuna> "I swear it."
[08:25.18] <+AagKaKuna> "What?"
[08:25.20] * Shala looks anxiously at the top of the stairs
[08:25.26] <DM> As he speaks, the rime of frost spreads and grows up his neck.
[08:25.28] <+Melchior> "Heal with your flames."
[08:25.31] <+Melchior> "Now!"
[08:25.37] * Repriever draws himself to his knees.
[08:25.37] <+Kir> "Purple shards, Mel, from cave!"
[08:25.41] <DM> Repriever, take...
[08:25.44] <DM> ?roll 1d6
[08:25.44] <%tBot> DM: 6 [6]
[08:25.47] <DM> 6 damage.
[08:25.47] <+Repriever> "Real fire."
[08:25.55] <+Melchior> "Give them to me Kir. I'll enchant them!"
[08:25.56] <+Repriever> "Burn me."
[08:25.59] <DM> As the icicles spread through your bloodstream, freezing your blood.
[08:26.07] <DM> You feel him grow colder as you bicker and delay.
[08:26.09] * AagKaKuna puts hands on the side of the wound, and casts a spark
[08:26.12] * Penumbra watches helplessly
[08:26.14] <+Repriever> "Parh... elion..."
[08:26.18] <+Kir> "No, make arrows with shards from beetlecave!"
[08:26.23] * AagKaKuna casts it into the open wound
[08:26.30] <DM> Shala, as you look down.
[08:26.37] <+Repriever> "Burn me!"
[08:26.45] <+Melchior> "We don't have the time now, unless your arrow's already fletched."
[08:26.47] <DM> You hear the clatter of something loud hitting the base of the staircase.
[08:26.48] <+Repriever> "True flame!"
[08:26.54] * AagKaKuna tries to balance not killing Repriever
[08:26.54] <+Shala> "Do it already! THEY'RE COMING!"
[08:26.56] <+AagKaKuna> "Are you SURE?"
[08:26.57] * Melchior takes a torch and lights it.
[08:26.58] <DM> Your tiny, pitiful little spark dies, Aag.
[08:27.05] <+Melchior> [-1 torch from inventory]
[08:27.05] * AagKaKuna casts burning hands
[08:27.09] <+Repriever> "Parhelion. Does not burn."
[08:27.15] * Melchior approaches Repriever with the flame.
[08:27.19] * Penumbra shouts "They're here! We must hurry!"
[08:27.19] <+AagKaKuna> directly into the hard, frozen flesh
[08:27.19] * Repriever nods, spitting blood.
[08:27.21] * Kir looks across the gratings for a path
[08:27.25] <+Melchior> "What do we do?"
[08:27.26] <DM> Okay, Aag, what does that spell do?
[08:27.31] <+Penumbra> "Do as he says."
[08:27.34] * Melchior holds the torch towards Repriever.
[08:27.50] <+AagKaKuna> (A cone of flame, 1d4 per level)
[08:27.55] <DM> Roll damage.
[08:28.06] * AagKaKuna mumbles to the flame to not harm, just burn
[08:28.09] <+AagKaKuna> ?roll 4d4
[08:28.09] <%tBot> AagKaKuna: 10 [3 4 1 2]
[08:28.12] * Kir runs across to the first gap and jumps it
[08:28.13] <DM> Yikes. :p
[08:28.28] <DM> Not sure why you didn't try firebelly first, but...them's the breaks
[08:28.41] <DM> You order the flame to purify, perhaps a little too harshly.
[08:28.48] * Kir tosses a rope back across, and ties his end to the grating
[08:28.53] * AagKaKuna again brings the potion to repreiver's lips.
[08:28.56] <+AagKaKuna> DRINK!
[08:28.58] <DM> Okay, halt Kir.
[08:29.02] <DM> Everyone roll initiative.
[08:29.06] * Repriever eyes go wide as flame enters the holes in his chest, expanding his lungs, thawing his heart.
[08:29.07] <+Kir> ?roll 1d20+7
[08:29.07] <%tBot> Kir: 21 ([14] +7)
[08:29.08] <+Melchior> ?roll 1d20
[08:29.09] <%tBot> Melchior: 2 [2]
[08:29.09] <+Shala> ?roll 1d20+11
[08:29.09] <%tBot> Shala: 23 ([12] +11)
[08:29.13] <+Penumbra> ?roll 1d20+2
[08:29.13] <%tBot> Penumbra: 10 ([8] +2)
[08:29.26] <DM> The flames pour into Repriever's body, entering the open wounds which begin to smoke.
[08:29.42] <+Shala> "Did you KILL him?"
[08:29.50] <+AagKaKuna> ?roll 1d20+6
[08:29.50] <%tBot> AagKaKuna: 17 ([11] +6)
[08:29.52] <DM> Smoke comes out of his mouth, and his hair begins to catch alight.
[08:30.09] * Melchior stares in fear and uncertainty.
[08:30.15] <+AagKaKuna> "DRINK THE DAMN POTION. MEL, TELL HIM TO DRINK!"
[08:30.17] * AagKaKuna roars
[08:30.20] <+Melchior> "DRINK IT!"
[08:30.31] * Melchior takes the potion and holds it up to Repriever's lips.
[08:30.34] * Repriever snatches it, and chugs in a blaze of flame.
[08:30.43] * Penumbra watches unflinchingly as this continues
[08:31.03] <+Repriever> [init roll]
[08:31.05] <+Repriever> ?roll 1d20
[08:31.05] <%tBot> Repriever: 4 [4]
[08:31.22] <DM> Heal 3d8+4 damage, Repriever.
[08:31.28] <+Repriever> ?roll 3d8+4
[08:31.28] <%tBot> Repriever: 16 ([7 2 3] +4)
[08:31.28] <DM> Kir, let's say you made it about...
[08:31.39] <DM> 25-30 feet onto the gratings.
[08:31.45] <DM> The first serious gap still lies ahead of you.
[08:31.50] <+Kir> ohh
[08:31.55] <+Kir> then no rope stuff yet
[08:32.13] * Repriever coughs up smoke as the holes puncturing his lungs seal, and draws a crisp, deep breath, which he immediately used to curse Aag in Celestial, proper and true.
[08:32.15] * Kir gets a coil of rope or three from Barg's back
[08:32.22] <DM> In ancient days...even mages learned from the paladins. The potion is true protective magic, made at the Citadel of the Wardens.
[08:32.55] <+Shala> "You stupid idiot! He's not a steak!"
[08:32.56] <DM> As he drinks, a whispering river of celestial runes flow over Parhelion's wounds, and close them.
[08:33.03] * Shala huffs again and runs to Kir
[08:33.25] * Kir also lashes the corpse to Barg's back before running out
[08:33.27] * Repriever whispers in Draconic to Aag.
[08:33.32] <DM> Take care of the initiative counter, guys.
[08:33.37] <DM> While I roll init for Duro and the zombies.
[08:33.41] <+Melchior> "Not to Barg, Kylma!"
[08:33.52] <DM> Oh, you did! +50 xp to whoever did that.
[08:33.54] <DM> I love you.
[08:33.56] <+Melchior> "Barg isn't much of a jumper, she'll need to be on the gecko."
[08:34.00] * Penumbra feels the love
[08:34.11] <+Kir> "Shadow Lady, you do?"
[08:34.23] <+Repriever> [for those who know dragon tongue, he said "Good"]
[08:34.28] <DM> ?roll 1d20
[08:34.28] <%tBot> DM: 3 [3]
[08:34.31] <DM> ?roll 1d20+2
[08:34.31] <%tBot> DM: 12 ([10] +2)
[08:34.51] * AagKaKuna nods to repreiver.
[08:34.53] * Melchior knows Draconic
[08:35.03] <+AagKaKuna> "tell me if it is still cold"
[08:35.33] <DM> Shala, from below.
[08:35.38] <DM> You hear a clattering on the stairs.
[08:35.43] <DM> The clattering of hooves.
[08:35.47] <DM> Take your turn.
[08:35.54] <+Shala> " O_O "
[08:36.11] <+Penumbra> [oh boy, I have a spear, big whoop]
[08:36.16] <+AagKaKuna> [What is Kir doing all across?]
[08:36.27] <+Shala> [can unseen servant sniff out the right panels?]
[08:36.31] <+Shala> [or does it hav enow eight]
[08:36.36] <+Shala> [no weight]
[08:37.05] <DM> Kir, we start on the far right, not the left.
[08:37.09] <+Kir> ohhhh
[08:37.17] * Shala summons an UNSEEN SERVANT to scout the area
[08:37.23] <+Penumbra> [stupid]
[08:37.30] <+Shala> [you're stupid :p ]
[08:37.44] <DM> The unseen spirit returns, whispering thanks and gratitude to you, great mistress, for liberating it from hell.
[08:37.45] <+Shala> [im just following kir anyway]
[08:37.45] <+Penumbra> [Well, you're a wizard, Shala.]
[08:38.09] <+Shala> "Spirit...I'm sorry."
[08:38.22] <+Shala> [TURN]
[08:38.35] <+Shala> [wait no, move as far as the servant goes before falling :p ]
[08:38.35] <DM> The spirit whispers in your ear of what it has seen.
[08:39.04] * Kir checks the status of both of his bows
[08:39.22] <DM> One is loaded, I believe?
[08:39.36] <+Kir> [thought I loaded both before moving out?]
[08:39.41] <DM> You're also carrying the grapple bow, in sum you are a bit weighed down.
[08:39.51] <+Shala> [ok turn]
[08:40.07] <+Kir> [Oh? thought I put that back before last session, then took the second crossbow this session]
[08:40.27] <+Kir> [I've been leaving the grapple bow on Kylma, I think
[08:40.28] <+Kir> ]
[08:40.48] <+Shala> [ork is ur turn]
[08:40.51] <DM> Then, the grapple bow is on Kylma, and you're carring the two light crossbows and your normal bow.
[08:40.53] <DM> They're loaded.
[08:41.09] * Kir runs forward, then turns to cover the stair entrance
[08:41.12] <+Melchior> "Leave a path clear, I'm going to run ahead!"
[08:41.51] <+Kir> [held action: if more than one enemy fills the doorway, one crossbow after another (if possible)]
[08:42.00] * DM changes topic to: A Handful of Dust Session 12 - Creeping Frost - TIME TO GO - ＋https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtTmiYA5D4k，
[08:42.21] <DM> Aag.
[08:42.21] <DM> Go.
[08:42.33] * AagKaKuna makes sure repreiver is back on his feet, and then runs
[08:42.37] * Penumbra nods
[08:43.15] <DM> One other individual besides Melchior can fit on Kylma. Though Barg is also up on her riding basket, so.
[08:43.21] <+AagKaKuna> [Turn]
[08:43.33] <DM> I'll let Mel figure out what triggers encumbrance.
[08:43.50] <+Penumbra> [btw the body is on Kylma right?]
[08:43.57] <DM> [Oh, yeah, then she's loaded.]
[08:44.06] <+Shala> [hey where did i go]
[08:44.18] <+Melchior> [Kylma's large and strong
[08:44.26] <DM> [I dunno, did you forget to press enter?]
[08:44.27] <+Melchior> she has high carrying capacity, I'll check the exact amount]
[08:44.35] <DM> [Otherwise, just place yourself where you last were]
[08:44.45] <DM> A cold wind whispers up the stairs, and it carries a chill, mocking voice.
[08:44.51] <DM> "Too slow."
[08:45.23] * Shala considers stopping to set the damned thing on fire again
[08:45.39] * Repriever sends palpable disapproval at Shala.
[08:45.46] <DM> The dul-ahan tops the stairs, aboard a summoned black steed with eyeless sockets. Black icicles hang from its mane and bridle.
[08:46.10] <DM> Triggers from you both.
[08:46.10] <+Melchior> [800 lbs is Kylma's carrying capacity with a light load, being a large biped]
[08:46.19] <DM> Penumbra and Repriever.
[08:46.19] * Repriever is unarmed.
[08:46.36] <+Repriever> Tangent still lays dun on the floor.
[08:46.39] <DM> [It could coup de grace you if Penumbra wasn't there, lol]
[08:46.45] <+Penumbra> ?roll 1d20+8
[08:46.46] <%tBot> Penumbra: 16 ([8] +8)
[08:46.46] <+Repriever> [I have a shield]
[08:46.49] <+Repriever> [so no it can't]
[08:46.51] <DM> Also, Penumbra, roll a will save.
[08:46.53] <+Penumbra> [miss?]
[08:47.01] <+Repriever> [+4]
[08:47.01] <+Melchior> "Old man! Get on with me!"
[08:47.03] <+Penumbra> ?roll 1d20+11
[08:47.04] <%tBot> Penumbra: 23 ([12] +11)
[08:47.06] * Melchior gestures to Kylma.
[08:47.07] <+Kir> ?roll 1d20+7
[08:47.08] <%tBot> Kir: 12 ([5] +7)
[08:47.14] <DM> You manage to resist its aura of fear.
[08:47.19] <+Penumbra> [btw, I remembered to add my paladin resilience which I forgot originally]
[08:47.22] <DM> Aided by the opposing aura from the white knight at your side.
[08:47.26] <+Kir> [do I get to fire both bows?]
[08:47.29] <+Melchior> [am I still shaken, btw?]
[08:47.40] <DM> You are only shaken if you're within 30 feet of the dul-ahan.
[08:47.54] <DM> And I'll let you reroll the save.
[08:48.03] <DM> Penumbra.
[08:48.07] <+Penumbra> "Stay back!"
[08:48.12] <+Penumbra> ?roll 1d20+11
[08:48.12] <%tBot> Penumbra: 13 ([2] +11)
[08:48.20] <+Penumbra> [lol?]
[08:48.44] <+Repriever> "Run."
[08:49.12] <+Penumbra> "Not this time."
[08:49.15] <DM> Your spear scrapes off the breastplate.
[08:50.19] * You are now known as Durosan
[08:50.26] <Durosan> "Then we duel...my 'mistress'."
[08:50.32] * Repriever mutters the command in Celestial."
[08:50.37] * You are now known as DM
[08:50.45] <DM> Repriever.
[08:50.46] <DM> Your turn.
[08:50.55] <+Kir> "Magic Girl, retreat!"
[08:50.59] <DM> Also, Penumbra.
[08:51.05] * Repriever shifts to the sword on the ground.
[08:51.19] <+Repriever> "Come on, Warden. No laying down."
[08:51.43] <+Penumbra> [Yes?]
[08:51.46] <DM> pcmw.
[08:52.02] <DM> Kir, you can't get a clear shot at the melee.
[08:52.13] <DM> You can choose to move further instead, if you like.
[08:52.14] <+Repriever> [ugh, what are we doing here?]
[08:52.30] <+Shala> [you're going to die if you stay there]
[08:52.35] <+Repriever> [duh :p]
[08:52.49] * Kir reloads the bow he fired with another fire bolt
[08:53.02] <+Repriever> "Penumbra. Run!"
[08:53.04] <+Penumbra> [Can't let Repriver get turned into another Palasicle]
[08:53.19] * Repriever grabs hold of Kylma's saddle.
[08:53.30] <+Repriever> [turn]
[08:53.34] * Kir retreats to the maximum range of his bow
[08:53.35] <DM> The void zombies fill the staircase behind the dul-ahan, snapping and snarling for blood, but it silences them with a command.
[08:53.41] <+Kir> "Withdraw!!"
[08:53.50] <DM> Another order, in infernal.
[08:54.18] <+Repriever> "Silence, Durosan."
[08:54.32] <DM> Melchior, move yourself, Kylma, and Repriever.
[08:55.05] <+Melchior> [full round move action]
[08:55.10] <+Penumbra> "I am not your 'Mistress'."
[08:55.12] <DM> Also, since I saw the path you're making, make a Ride check to not knock Aag and Kir off the grating as you pelt by.
[08:55.29] <+Shala> [oh jeez]
[08:55.30] <+Kir> [should I make an acro check instead?]
[08:55.37] <DM> If Iggy fails.
[08:55.43] <+Kir> [ok]
[08:55.45] * Repriever regrets leaving Penumbra. Tangent ablaze in light once more.
[08:55.46] <+Melchior> Alrighty, I'm also using a focus point
[08:55.50] <+Melchior> to improve my roll
[08:56.03] <+Melchior> ?roll 1d20+7
[08:56.03] <%tBot> Melchior: 24 ([17] +7)
[08:56.35] <DM> You jump RIGHT over them.
[08:56.37] <+Melchior> "I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE A PATH CLEEEEAAaaaarrrr-"
[08:56.42] <DM> A giant, soaring Gecko of the sky.
[08:56.47] <+Melchior> [Is what you hear as I zoom past]
[08:56.49] * Kir shrinks gratewards
[08:56.50] <+Penumbra> [my computer is lagging D:]
[08:57.08] * Repriever groans at the motion as he really hates riding things.
[08:57.08] <DM> And as you do so.
[08:57.11] <DM> And land.
[08:57.15] <DM> The entire grating twists.
[08:57.23] <DM> Everyone, Acro check.
[08:57.27] <DM> ?roll 1d8
[08:57.27] <%tBot> DM: 5 [5]
[08:57.28] <+Kir> ?roll 1d20+8
[08:57.28] <%tBot> Kir: 9 ([1] +8)
[08:57.34] <+Melchior> ?roll 1d20+4
[08:57.34] <%tBot> Melchior: 21 ([17] +4)
[08:57.35] <+Repriever> [dead preev time]
[08:57.36] <+Shala> ?roll 1d20+5
[08:57.36] <%tBot> Shala: 9 ([4] +5)
[08:57.37] <+Penumbra> ?roll 1d20+2
[08:57.38] <%tBot> Penumbra: 15 ([13] +2)
[08:57.41] <+Repriever> ?rollt 1d20-7
[08:57.41] <+Shala> [...]
[08:57.42] <%tBot> Repriever: -6 ([1] -7) (t)
[08:57.49] <DM> Mel's roll counts for you, Repriever.
[08:57.54] <+AagKaKuna> ?1d20+2
[08:57.54] <%tBot> Not understood: 1d20+2
[08:57.59] <+AagKaKuna> ?roll 1d20+2
[08:57.59] <%tBot> AagKaKuna: 13 ([11] +2)
[08:58.02] <+Repriever> [oh, cause I thought fate really hated me for a second :p]
[08:58.14] <+Melchior> [it does but that's beside the point]
[08:58.44] <DM> A chunk of railing behind the gecko breaks off with a shriek, falling into nothingness.
[08:58.52] <DM> Leaving a huge gap in front of Kir and Shala.
[08:59.01] <DM> And Aag.
[08:59.03] <+AagKaKuna> (What am I, CHOPPSED LIVER?)
[08:59.11] <DM> (I got it in :p)
[08:59.36] <+Kir> "Shala, go LEFT PATH!"
[08:59.38] <+Melchior> [good thing there's a side path]
[08:59.45] * Shala feels her body lurch on the ancient grating
[08:59.46] * Kir yells at the straggler
[08:59.50] <+Shala> [what about the acro check?]
[09:00.10] <+Repriever> "We have to go back!"
[09:00.29] <+Melchior> "We have to get out of here."
[09:00.31] <DM> Kir and Shala, you are thrown against the side railings.
[09:00.35] <DM> Bruised, you take...
[09:00.37] <DM> ?roll 1d2
[09:00.37] <%tBot> DM: 2 [2]
[09:00.41] <DM> 2 damage.
[09:00.50] <+Melchior> "Pen's clever enough to get herself out of this fight."
[09:00.53] <DM> Everyone else is fine, barring the falling metal.
[09:01.06] <+Melchior> "This whole place's crumbling."
[09:01.09] <+Repriever> "Littletits isn't!"
[09:01.16] <DM> Shala, you're up.
[09:01.17] <+Melchior> "Fucking hell!"
[09:01.19] * Shala sprints down the left path
[09:01.44] <+Melchior> [you can run diagonals to get a bit further]
[09:02.02] <+Shala> [gracias]
[09:02.02] <+Repriever> [every second diagonal is double]
[09:02.10] <+Melchior> [just remember that after running 2 diagonals, you have to count that double, yeah]
[09:02.12] <DM> Her new mage armor's cloak rippling as she runs, Shala chooses one of the more esoteric paths.
[09:02.12] <+Shala> [i just did one]
[09:02.22] <+Melchior> [smart move]
[09:02.30] <DM> Gentle, white flowers without roots floating on a warm breeze smack you in the face as you go.
[09:02.47] <DM> Kir.
[09:02.56] * Shala gulps and tries to process the grate layout
[09:02.57] <DM> It's a DC 10 Acro check to jump the railing, btw.
[09:03.14] <+Shala> [lol]
[09:03.20] * Kir watches the fleeing mage, satisfied when she takes the right path
[09:03.24] <DM> The 2 square one, that is.
[09:03.37] <DM> It's only a DC 5 for the one in front of you, Shala.
[09:03.37] * Kir makes sure his weapons are loaded and trains them on the door
[09:03.47] <+Shala> [literally cant fail then]
[09:03.48] <+Repriever> [she auto makes it, she has high dex, I think]
[09:04.17] <+Kir> held action, if I get a clear shot at the Dul Ahan and the zombies I fire the crossbows in succession
[09:04.30] * Shala wondered the efficacy of all those jumping exercises in higher spells III, but doesnt any longer
[09:04.41] <+Melchior> [this is good music for a 'high-energy fleeing through some sort of ethereal chamber' sound ＋https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D62mEMSGVXc， ]
[09:04.54] <+Repriever> [and then his dick fell off?]
[09:05.06] <+Kir> turn
[09:05.24] * Penumbra blocks all the sounds of flight from her mind focuses on her target
[09:05.33] <DM> Aag.
[09:05.41] * AagKaKuna runs
[09:06.10] <+Repriever> "Goddammit. She's going to get herself killed."
[09:06.11] <+AagKaKuna> (Full turn of running is 60 ft, right?)
[09:06.18] <+Repriever> [120]
[09:06.22] <+AagKaKuna> oh
[09:06.26] * AagKaKuna keeeeeps running
[09:06.37] <+AagKaKuna> what's the check to jump the gap
[09:06.40] <DM> Acro check, Aag, to leap the grates.
[09:06.42] <DM> It's 5.
[09:06.48] <+AagKaKuna> ?roll 1d20+2
[09:06.48] <%tBot> AagKaKuna: 20 ([18] +2)
[09:06.59] <+AagKaKuna> want me to roll for each?
[09:07.01] <DM> Yes.
[09:07.10] * Shala sees the half-demon race past her
[09:07.25] <+Melchior> [funny thing is, if I'd wanted to do a maximum movement, Kylma could have run 40 spaces]
[09:07.34] <+AagKaKuna> ?roll 1d20+2
[09:07.34] <%tBot> AagKaKuna: 4 ([2] +2)
[09:07.38] <DM> Uh oh.
[09:07.42] <+AagKaKuna> :(
[09:07.43] <+Shala> [ :O ]
[09:07.47] <+AagKaKuna> Bye bye
[09:07.51] <+AagKaKuna> (that's the second grate)
[09:07.59] * Shala SCREAMS
[09:08.02] <+AagKaKuna> (reflex save to catch the grate?)
[09:08.06] <+AagKaKuna> (or strength?)
[09:08.14] <DM> Make a reflex save.
[09:08.17] <DM> That's what the rules say.
[09:09.27] <DM> Aag.
[09:09.54] <+AagKaKuna> ?roll 1d20+3
[09:09.54] <%tBot> AagKaKuna: 9 ([6] +3)
[09:10.29] <DM> You fall, Aag.
[09:10.52] * AagKaKuna closes his eyes as he plummets
[09:11.06] * Repriever sees things crumbling.
[09:11.13] * Melchior does not see him fall, focused on directing Kylma.
[09:11.28] <DM> He is gone in an instant, cloak rippling as he totters backwards from the second grating.
[09:11.29] * Shala is stunned but feels her legs moving her forward regardless
[09:11.30] <+Melchior> [or wait, was Aag ahead of us there? maybe I did see it]
[09:11.34] * Kir hears Shala's shriek somewhere far, in another dimension
[09:11.44] * Kir only sees the melee in front of him
[09:12.20] <+Repriever> "Save the girl, Kallos!"
[09:12.38] <DM> Okay.
[09:12.40] <DM> Aag falls.
[09:12.42] * AagKaKuna thinks of Akvan, of the tribe, of the last time there was a fall like this
[09:12.50] <DM> Into the blank, white, nothingness.
[09:12.52] <+AagKaKuna> and of the flame that waited at the bottom.
[09:13.02] <+Melchior> [can shala's spirit catch him?]
[09:13.12] <+Shala> [my turn has to come up first]
[09:13.18] <+Shala> [is it fast enough?]
[09:13.18] <DM> [That's a question for Shala, but I doubt it.]
[09:13.25] * Kir stirs from his focus
[09:13.27] <DM> [Look at the rules for what the servant can do]
[09:13.48] * AagKaKuna 's thoughts are consumed by her lights, and the fire burns out from his brand
[09:13.51] <+Shala> [the servant cant pull shit]
[09:13.53] <DM> The black horse breaths a breath of frost as Durosan strikes, Penumbra.
[09:13.57] <DM> ?roll 1d20+14
[09:13.57] <%tBot> DM: 29 ([15] +14)
[09:14.02] <+Shala> [im thinking of my elemental]
[09:14.09] <+Penumbra> [hit]
[09:14.36] <DM> ?roll 1d8+6
[09:14.36] <%tBot> DM: 13 ([7] +6)
[09:14.39] <DM> ?roll 1d6
[09:14.39] <%tBot> DM: 5 [5]
[09:14.42] <DM> 18 damage.
[09:15.10] <DM> It plunges its sword down into your neck, a torrent of shadow blood spurting forth.
[09:15.20] <DM> "Disappointing."
[09:15.25] * Penumbra 's form ripples, weakened by the light and cold and darkness, but she does not cry out as his sword slipped past her defenses
[09:15.30] <DM> It strikes again.
[09:15.33] <DM> ?roll 1d20+9
[09:15.33] <%tBot> DM: 19 ([10] +9)
[09:15.38] <+Penumbra> [hit by 1]
[09:15.46] <DM> ?roll 1d8+6
[09:15.46] <%tBot> DM: 12 ([6] +6)
[09:15.48] * Repriever shouts out in the god's tongue.
[09:15.50] <DM> ?roll 1d6
[09:15.50] <%tBot> DM: 6 [6]
[09:15.53] <DM> 18 more damage.
[09:15.59] <+Shala> [jfc]
[09:15.59] <+Penumbra> [is down]
[09:16.19] * AagKaKuna falls as a Meteor, a trail of sparks and flame, a bright light in the white empty
[09:16.25] <+Kir> [do I get a clear shot now to trigger my held action?]
[09:16.39] <DM> Yes. Kir.
[09:16.48] * Kir sees cold
[09:16.52] * Kir shoots flame
[09:16.53] * Penumbra dies doing her duty
[09:16.57] <+Kir> ?roll 1d20+7
[09:16.57] <%tBot> Kir: 14 ([7] +7)
[09:17.07] <DM> Penumbra, the dul-ahan's strikes unbind your form, and you disappear. Describe your destruction.
[09:17.12] <DM> Miss, Kir.
[09:17.16] * Penumbra even if she did not know she would remain, she would not have feared such a death
[09:17.16] <+Kir> [if I hit a zombie, that's an explosive bolt
[09:17.18] <+Kir> ]
[09:17.26] <DM> That's true.
[09:17.41] * Repriever huffs at this, and looks to Melchior, trying to figure out what to do.
[09:17.53] <+Kir> [or does it just go completely wide?]
[09:18.00] <DM> The dul-ahan snatches the arrow as the spear clatters to the grating with a clank. And snaps it, contemptuously.
[09:18.02] <DM> Roll splash damage.
[09:18.08] <+Kir> ?roll 1d6
[09:18.08] <%tBot> Kir: 4 [4]
[09:18.30] <DM> It explodes in its face, and it cries out, stumbling backwards.
[09:18.37] * Kir draws a bead on the monster's head with the second bow
[09:18.40] <DM> The dark horse shying.
[09:18.48] <+Penumbra> The Durosan knew my name, and he knew my form. His sword rippled through my chest, then my arms, and finally through my throat as the light pierced my shadow body. I fell, but I did not fall. For I died doing my duty.
[09:18.54] <DM> Can you attack with 2 bows per turn?
[09:19.10] <+Kir> [no idea, and it was a held action anyway
[09:19.12] <+Kir> ]
[09:19.21] <+Kir> [I didn't move and if each is a standard action...?]
[09:19.56] <+Melchior> [I don't believe that you can do a double attack just by holding an action]
[09:20.15] <DM> [Double attacks require two weapon fighting, however you CAN attack with a penalty]
[09:20.38] <+Kir> [oh, because I specified that I'd shoot one, then switch and shoot the other should the opportunity arise]
[09:20.55] <+Kir> [otherwise to hold position. doesn't really matter much either way]
[09:21.30] <DM> Repriever.
[09:22.08] <+Repriever> "I can't do it."
[09:22.13] * Repriever glances to Mel.
[09:22.14] <+Shala> [wait, is that a double gap in my way now?]
[09:22.28] <+Melchior> "Yes you can old man."
[09:22.36] * Kir turns to see the others
[09:22.41] <+Melchior> "RUN!"
[09:22.53] <+Repriever> "Save her, boy!"
[09:22.53] * Kir notes Aag's absence... and Shala at the precipice
[09:22.56] * Repriever barks at Kir.
[09:23.11] <+Kir> "Wait, I help!"
[09:23.17] * Kir yells to Shala
[09:23.17] <+Melchior> "HELP BY RUN!"
[09:23.24] <+Shala> "IT'S TOO LATE!"
[09:23.25] <+Repriever> [I defer to you, since I'm on Kylma]
[09:24.07] <+Repriever> [so, I guess, hold my standard in case the dul-ahan catches us]
[09:24.47] <+Melchior> [That'd be turn. Time for the void zombies to go]
[09:25.31] <DM> The dul-ahan, looking disappointed, points its spear forward.
[09:25.36] * Repriever talks softer, so only Melchior can hear.
[09:25.43] <DM> And the zombies swarm.
[09:25.51] <DM> Ignoring the spear, fallen, at their feet.
[09:27.14] <DM> One or two topple off of the railings in their haste to get at you.
[09:27.20] <+Melchior> "Make your way Shala! We'll pick you up across the leap!"
[09:27.33] <DM> They run, shrieking, at Kir.
[09:27.54] <DM> Melchior.
[09:28.17] * Melchior moves the route on the map.
[09:28.31] <+Melchior> [double move, but not all-out sprint]
[09:28.36] <+Melchior> [I have to make one jump]
[09:28.58] <+Melchior> ?roll 1d20+4
[09:28.58] <%tBot> Melchior: 15 ([11] +4)
[09:29.07] <+Melchior> [that's kylma's acrobatics check]
[09:29.12] <+Repriever> [turn kylma's tail for shala and kir to assist]
[09:29.26] <+Melchior> Turn.
[09:29.49] <+Shala> [do the spaces count irt movement?]
[09:29.54] <+Melchior> "Get to us!"
[09:29.59] <+Melchior> [Yes they do.]
[09:30.04] <+Melchior> [Shala's turn.]
[09:30.23] <+Shala> [who's count is correct there :p ]
[09:30.23] <+Repriever> [you can jump twice]
[09:30.26] <DM> Okay, you made it.
[09:30.30] <+Shala> [gotcha]
[09:30.33] <+Melchior> [you have a straight line, you can sprint shala]
[09:30.46] <+Shala> [wait, im doing the two square jump too?]
[09:30.47] <+Repriever> [jump to melchior]
[09:30.55] <+Melchior> [hmm actually
[09:31.03] <+Kir> "Wait, I help from this side!"
[09:31.06] <+Melchior> yeah if she did a straight jump she'd have to do a second 10 foot one]
[09:31.13] <+Melchior> [stay where you are for now, get to us next turn
[09:31.23] <+Melchior> ]
[09:31.30] <+Repriever> [dulahan is mounted]
[09:31.39] <+Repriever> [probably not good to stand around :p]
[09:31.59] * Shala sprints numbly and JUMPS THE GAP
[09:32.22] <+Shala> ?roll 1d20+5
[09:32.22] <%tBot> Shala: 20 ([15] +5)
[09:32.28] <+Melchior> [she can share a space when mounted]
[09:32.35] <+Melchior> [large creatures can have multiple people ride them]
[09:32.43] * Repriever assists in catching her.
[09:33.08] <+Melchior> "Good. Now to us! To us!"
[09:33.10] <DM> Kir.
[09:33.12] * Melchior shouts to Kir
[09:33.17] <DM> You stand, considering your situation.
[09:33.25] * Kir pauses before turning and running
[09:33.31] <DM> And as you do so, the artifact of Bel hums on your wrist.
[09:34.02] * Kir imagines a rope of liquid metal, stretching from the bracer to the spear and dragging the shadowed weapon towards himself
[09:34.06] <+Kir> use magical device
[09:34.18] <+Kir> ?roll 1d20+11
[09:34.18] <%tBot> Kir: 17 ([6] +11)
[09:34.28] <+Kir> [penumbra's sphere]
[09:34.54] * Repriever stutters a gasp, then holds it, at the sight of this.
[09:34.57] <+Kir> [spear]
[09:35.17] <DM> As you hold out your fist, the multi-tool hums with arcane power, and a tiny, thin line of liquid silver, almost a string zips forward, as the sphere uses all its available mass to execute your command.
[09:35.36] <DM> It weaves and dodges around the legs of countless charging zombies.
[09:35.44] <DM> And it wraps around the spear of dark metal.
[09:35.46] <DM> With a zip.
[09:36.13] <+Kir> "Reach. Come. OBEY!"
[09:36.41] * Kir shouts, his voice sounding throughout the chamber
[09:36.51] * Repriever mutters, raspy, "Kallos."
[09:37.02] * Kir throws his arm to the right side of the path
[09:37.03] <+Shala> "Look...LOOK!"
[09:37.10] * Kir 's hand is empty....
[09:37.35] * Kir suddenly stands differently... the shadowspear in his hand
[09:37.36] <DM> As you gesture, the liquid metal zips to the side, whipping the spear off the balcony and soaring down into nothingness...
[09:37.41] * Kir turns and runs
[09:37.47] <DM> And then retracts, pulling it to you.
[09:38.17] <DM> The son of Bel returns, Penumbra in tow.
[09:38.38] <+Kir> [how far can I move having done that?]
[09:38.48] <DM> Hm.
[09:38.54] <DM> Normal move.
[09:39.21] * Shala points up
[09:39.27] <+Melchior> "What?"
[09:39.29] * Melchior looks.
[09:39.32] <+Shala> "ANOTHER..."
[09:39.35] <+Melchior> ?roll 1d20+6
[09:39.35] <%tBot> Melchior: 20 ([14] +6)
[09:39.36] * Shala slaps the ground
[09:39.39] <+Shala> "ANOTHER TRICK"
[09:39.47] <+Melchior> [perception roll]
[09:39.57] <+Kir> turn
[09:40.01] <DM> A beacon of blazing light is falling from the ceiling.
[09:40.20] <DM> It occurs to you, Melchior, that you were so busy running that you failed to do your duty and examine the enchantments of this room.
[09:40.20] * Melchior wonders if the room loops on itself, and that is Aag tumbling by.
[09:40.27] <DM> Aaaand then you figure it out cause you're super smart.
[09:40.35] <+Melchior> [Fuckin' a]
[09:40.41] <+Repriever> [I have my standard still]
[09:41.10] * AagKaKuna falls, eternal. He embraces this, and knows that death has come for him, finally. He lets go, and the flame takes him. First the extremities, fingers and toes, then the hands and arms and feet and legs, dissolving into trail of sparks. Soon, all that is Akvan is a burning streak across the great empty, a streak, and a bronze medallion, a circle circumscribing a stylized flame.  It looks cold to the touch, even as an inferno r
[09:41.48] <+AagKaKuna> The village is gone, the rage, and Akvan is burned away with it all.
[09:42.06] <+Melchior> [If he is coming close, can I use my last spell of the day to cast air blast on him, to slow him and push him towards a platform?]
[09:42.17] <+AagKaKuna> (I was told the last word was cut off, it should read "rages")
[09:42.19] <+Shala> [or i could]
[09:42.22] <DM> He's falling, and fast, but he falls directly vertical.
[09:42.30] <DM> To the same square where he fell.
[09:42.40] <+Kir> [Mel I'll grab him once I'm across the gap, and have blown up some grates]
[09:42.44] <+Repriever> "Swing me out!"
[09:42.53] <+Melchior> "On the tail?"
[09:42.53] <DM> Yeah Repriever, you can do it.
[09:42.59] <DM> Roll a strength check.
[09:43.00] <+Repriever> "Yes!"
[09:43.06] <+Melchior> "Kylma, tar akam, tar akam, Iala!"
[09:43.07] <+Repriever> ?rollt 1d20+2
[09:43.08] <%tBot> Repriever: 5 ([3] +2) (t)
[09:43.14] <+Repriever> [;)]
[09:43.18] <DM> Okay, Aag, roll a strength check as well.
[09:43.23] <DM> And one for Kylma.
[09:43.29] <+Melchior> ?roll 1d20+5
[09:43.29] <%tBot> Melchior: 22 ([17] +5)
[09:43.30] * Repriever mutters, "My turn."
[09:43.32] <+AagKaKuna> ?roll 1d20+3
[09:43.32] <%tBot> AagKaKuna: 6 ([3] +3)
[09:43.34] <+Melchior> [KYLMA IS A BEAST]
[09:43.40] <DM> Okay.
[09:43.47] <DM> Repriever, you dislocate your arm, taking
[09:43.52] <+Shala> [lol jesus the gods want scale boy dead]
[09:43.54] <DM> ?roll 1d6
[09:43.54] <%tBot> DM: 1 [1]
[09:43.57] <DM> 1 damage.
[09:44.05] <+Repriever> There is a terrible pop.
[09:44.07] <+Melchior> [but they don't want to hurt Repriever much more, so that's nice]
[09:44.15] <+AagKaKuna> :(
[09:44.16] * Repriever screams, but holds Aag.
[09:44.22] <+Shala> "YOU'RE ALIVE!"
[09:44.29] <DM> Aag, your body slams against the twisted metal of the grate.
[09:44.29] <+AagKaKuna> In an instant, the flame is gone
[09:44.40] <DM> Aag shined like a light, like nothing you had ever seen before, outside of Repriever's own power
[09:44.43] <+Melchior> "FUCKIN' BRILLIANT."
[09:44.43] <DM> ?roll 1d6
[09:44.43] <%tBot> DM: 3 [3]
[09:44.46] <DM> You take 3 damage.
[09:44.56] <DM> As your light flickers out.
[09:45.00] <+Melchior> "Lo, the Phoenix from on high!"
[09:45.05] <DM> But he pulls you in.
[09:45.14] * Repriever 's sword arm goes limp, dislocated, as he shouts in every language he knows.
[09:45.20] * AagKaKuna whispers to Repreiver the same thing Repreiver had said before
[09:45.23] * Shala slaps him
[09:45.27] <+Repriever> The gist of it is a few bad names.
[09:45.31] <DM> [ ＋https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7mv8FSJDnQ， ]
[09:45.32] <+Shala> "Get up! And JUMP BETTER NEXT TIME!"
[09:45.54] <+AagKaKuna> (Why does shala hate him so much? He likes her well enough :( )
[09:45.58] * Melchior looks up above the grates, looking for something that Kir might be able to swing from.
[09:46.03] <+Shala> [ :p ]
[09:46.04] <+AagKaKuna> :p
[09:46.12] <DM> The dul-ahan.
[09:46.14] <DM> Is not.
[09:46.16] <DM> Impressed.
[09:46.18] * Kir eyes the gaps... nothing he can't jump
[09:46.23] <DM> Actually, though, it is.
[09:46.24] * Repriever pats Tangent in its sheath with the wrong hand.
[09:46.51] <+Repriever> "Son of a..."
[09:46.53] <DM> Gnashing out, "Trickery" it spurs its shadowsteed into a charge.
[09:46.55] * Repriever trails off in celestial.
[09:47.03] <+Melchior> "Charge to us!"
[09:47.33] <+Melchior> "Alright, turn and fight the horseman when he gets to us, or wait for Kir and flee?"
[09:47.38] <DM> Shoving, trampling, and knocking zombies out of the way.
[09:48.08] <+AagKaKuna> [Poor zombies, cursed to fall for eternity)
[09:48.12] <DM> The hooves of the steed ring, leaving icicles to form on the grates and rails in its wake.
[09:48.29] <DM> [More like, splat onto the grating next turn]
[09:48.46] <DM> It looks at you, and points its sword at Repriever.
[09:49.27] * Repriever sighs at his dislocated good arm.
[09:49.40] <DM> Let's see...
[09:49.48] <DM> It just moved 100ft, with a jump.
[09:49.51] <DM> I think that's good for a turn.
[09:50.15] <DM> Repriever.
[09:50.21] <+Melchior> "Set your joint if you can."
[09:50.37] <+Shala> [oh god it's going to cut us off at the pass]
[09:50.54] <DM> Also Kir, roll a will save.
[09:50.56] <+Kir> [nope, I have a plan]
[09:51.00] * Repriever forces his dislocated hand around the hilt of Tangent, then tries to set the joint.
[09:51.06] <+Kir> ?roll 1d20+1
[09:51.06] <%tBot> Kir: 20 ([19] +1)
[09:51.08] <DM> You feel a wave of gratitude that it ignored you as the temperature plummets.
[09:51.09] <+Repriever> [heal check?]
[09:51.17] <DM> Yes.
[09:51.23] <+Repriever> ?roll 1d20+5
[09:51.23] <%tBot> Repriever: 20 ([15] +5)
[09:51.26] <DM> Nice.
[09:51.31] <DM> You can have the 1 damage back.
[09:51.34] * Repriever pops his arm back into socket.
[09:51.35] <DM> :p
[09:51.43] * Repriever bitches about this, too.
[09:51.49] <+Melchior> "Hold on!"
[09:52.17] <+Repriever> [holding standard, turn]
[09:52.40] * Melchior returns to pick up Kir.
[09:53.03] <+Melchior> "GET ON!"
[09:53.16] <DM> The slightly lessened army of void zombies manages to get it together and start charging again.
[09:53.25] <+Melchior> "VAVHUSKA, KYLMA!"
[09:53.29] * Kir calls the metal to do that for him
[09:53.46] * Kir grins, grimly
[09:53.48] <DM> Okay, so...Melchior, you moved, I'm assuming.
[09:53.50] <DM> Anything else?
[09:54.20] * DM changes topic to: A Handful of Dust Session 12 - Creeping Frost - Twisted Metal - ＋https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ZCM4FuI5A，
[09:54.39] <+Melchior> That is all for now.
[09:54.48] <+Shala> [wait, im on kylma right?]
[09:54.59] <+Repriever> [we all are]
[09:55.03] <+Shala> [good]
[09:55.07] <+Melchior> [yes, we're getting a small crowd on Kylma. Good thing she holds 800 pounds at light encumbrance]
[09:55.14] <DM> She is a pretty massive creature.
[09:55.21] <DM> See pics for reference.
[09:55.24] <DM> ;)
[09:55.27] <+Repriever> [if you need speed, dump the tank first :p]
[09:55.30] <+Penumbra> [Repriver and Melchior got all the kids onto the minivan]
[09:55.42] <DM> So Kir.
[09:55.56] <DM> You can now give the sphere 2 orders per turn.
[09:56.00] <+Melchior> [＋http://i.imgur.com/GUSEYLU.jpg]，
[09:56.03] <+Melchior> [ ＋http://i.imgur.com/GUSEYLU.jpg， ]
[09:56.06] <+Kir> [ D: ]
[09:56.19] <DM> The scope of its actions are obviously more ambitious as well.
[09:56.19] <+Melchior> [that pic doesn't show the saddlebags]
[09:56.34] <+Kir> [how stable am I on Kylma?]
[09:57.05] <DM> You clamber onto the back, bows rattling at your sides, spear under your arm.
[09:57.18] <DM> The metal forms a sturdy rope that pulls you in.
[09:57.25] <+Kir> [i.e. do I still need to hold on with the metal or am I steady... I've got a crazy idea ;)]
[09:57.51] <DM> You can take another action with the metal.
[09:57.51] <+Melchior> [tripwire]
[09:57.58] <+Kir> [better]
[09:58.21] * Kir orders the metal to steady his arm as he aims a fire bolt at the grate holding the Dul Ahan
[09:58.43] <DM> Do you have one loaded?
[09:59.09] <DM> You fired off one fire bolt, already. Did you put fire bolts in both?
[09:59.09] <+Kir> [yeah there's one crossbow loaded - had both loaded, fired one as the held action]
[09:59.18] <DM> When you loaded them.
[09:59.21] <+Repriever> [he did]
[09:59.21] <+Melchior> [he didn't get to fire the other that time]
[09:59.31] <+Melchior> [so he only fired one of the pre-loaded bows]
[09:59.37] <DM> I'm just confirming he chose the correct type of bolt when he originally pre-loaded them.
[09:59.38] <+Melchior> [we agreed he couldn't fire 2 in 1 turn]
[09:59.52] <DM> Meaning he loaded them both with fire.
[10:00.10] <+Kir> [yeah, no point in anything else currently :p]
[10:00.17] <DM> Hmmmmmm.
[10:00.26] <DM> Next time, let me know your selections. ;)
[10:00.36] <DM> Roll attack, then.
[10:00.42] <+Kir> [I did! way back before we rolled initiative...]
[10:00.49] <+Melchior> [he did]
[10:00.54] <+Kir> [do I get a bonus for the metal stabilizing me?]
[10:01.04] <DM> No, because you're firing from geckoback.
[10:01.13] <DM> You aren't used to that.
[10:01.34] <+Kir> ?roll 1d20+7
[10:01.34] <%tBot> Kir: 26 ([19] +7)
[10:01.39] <DM> Nice shot.
[10:01.40] <+Melchior> HNGH!
[10:01.43] <+Kir> that's a crit
[10:01.53] <DM> A critical hit against the grating, but...
[10:01.56] <DM> Roll to confirm.
[10:02.01] <+Kir> ?roll 1d20+7
[10:02.01] <%tBot> Kir: 24 ([17] +7)
[10:02.09] <+Melchior> [so good]
[10:02.10] <DM> I mean, that beats the grating's AC. :p
[10:02.18] <+Kir> haha
[10:02.18] <+Shala> [oh god]
[10:02.22] * Shala mini-swoons
[10:02.30] <+Melchior> [Kir is now a sex symbol]
[10:02.30] <+Kir> damage
[10:02.32] * Repriever has a sinking feeling.
[10:02.35] <+Penumbra> [everyone roll save vs crush, yes, even the guys]
[10:02.42] <+Kir> ?roll 1d8+1d6
[10:02.42] <%tBot> Kir: 6 ([2] [4])
[10:02.57] <DM> And again, since it's 2x?
[10:03.05] <DM> Or is it 3x
[10:03.22] <+Kir> 2x
[10:03.25] <DM> Roll it again.
[10:03.33] <+Repriever> [his hit is so good, it is giving repriever ptsd, actually]
[10:03.40] <+Kir> ?roll 1d8+1d6
[10:03.40] <%tBot> Kir: 9 ([3] [6])
[10:03.49] <DM> So 10 splash damage on the dul-ahan...
[10:03.51] <DM> And...
[10:04.06] * AagKaKuna 's brand gets all hot and flush at the success!
[10:04.08] <+Kir> the idea was all the grates around the one I shot would blow up
[10:04.21] <+Kir> and the Dul Ahan would get dropped
[10:04.28] <+Kir> into FREEFALL
[10:04.46] <DM> A massive explosion rips through the grating, the latent fire spell feeding off of Kir's hate, as the metal twists, the levitation magic on the entire section of grating failing all at once.
[10:04.59] <DM> [Also, the current session title.]
[10:05.02] * Kir whispers under his breath
[10:05.06] <+Kir> "Fall."
[10:05.09] <DM> Kylma needs to make an Acro check.
[10:05.21] <+Melchior> [ ＋https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRtKmwP04sc， ]
[10:05.26] <+Melchior> ?roll 1d20+4
[10:05.26] <%tBot> Melchior: 11 ([7] +4)
[10:05.29] <DM> As the shockwave makes your section of railing lean to the side.
[10:05.52] <DM> You all tip and get falling anxiety, but you manage to hold on as the floor angle goes 40 degrees up.
[10:05.53] <DM> And...
[10:06.01] <DM> Durosan falls.
[10:06.13] <DM> Also, a reflex save for Kylma.
[10:06.32] * Kir 's grin is threatening
[10:06.34] <DM> Shards of shrapnel from the destroyed railing go everywhere.
[10:06.43] <+Melchior> ?roll 1d20+7
[10:06.43] <%tBot> Melchior: 14 ([7] +7)
[10:06.47] <DM> As Kylma shields you with her body.
[10:06.53] <DM> She takes...
[10:06.56] <DM> ?roll 1d8
[10:06.56] <%tBot> DM: 8 [8]
[10:06.58] <DM> 4 damage.
[10:07.13] <DM> Quarking in pain as a huge twisted spike rams into her side.
[10:07.19] <DM> And zipping over your heads.
[10:07.34] <+Melchior> "Vavhuska!"
[10:07.59] <DM> ?roll 1d20
[10:07.59] <%tBot> DM: 9 [9]
[10:08.01] <DM> ?roll 1d20
[10:08.01] <%tBot> DM: 18 [18]
[10:08.15] <DM> One of the zombies heads explodes as a piece of metal slams into its eye socket.
[10:08.25] <DM> It falls.
[10:08.49] <DM> The dul-ahan's cape is tattered.
[10:08.51] * Kir laughs, lowly and slowly
[10:09.00] <+Melchior> "Save it for later."
[10:09.06] <DM> And it falls, and as it falls, you see it also falling from the ceiling.
[10:09.07] <+Melchior> "Good one though."
[10:09.15] <DM> It hurts your head a little to see the illusion.
[10:09.18] <DM> Or...space-bending.
[10:09.27] <DM> Aag, your turn.
[10:09.30] * Repriever is thoroughly bemused and unsure.
[10:09.46] * AagKaKuna uses the last reserves of power to heal Kylma
[10:09.58] <+Kir> "Kallos not me, Old Man."
[10:10.03] <+AagKaKuna> ?roll 1d8+4
[10:10.03] <%tBot> AagKaKuna: 11 ([7] +4)
[10:10.08] <DM> [zing!]
[10:10.10] * Kir preempts the question
[10:10.18] <+AagKaKuna> [TURN]
[10:10.21] <DM> Good turn.
[10:10.31] * Repriever says softly, "Yeah."
[10:10.40] <+Melchior> [kylma was at 15/19, heal probably wasn't needed yet]
[10:10.46] <+Melchior> "We move out now."
[10:10.46] <DM> Warm fire rolls into Kylma's body, and she hums in appreciation, as her body expels the shrapnel, the skin reforming.
[10:10.57] <+Kir> "Kallos dead"
[10:11.03] <+AagKaKuna> (Whoops, I misread... Thoguht she had taken 8 damage)
[10:11.06] <+AagKaKuna> (oh well)
[10:11.11] <DM> The durosan falls.
[10:11.21] <DM> Durosan, the dul-ahan.
[10:11.24] <+Melchior> [wait she did take 8. Oh well, all good]
[10:11.33] <+Repriever> "I remember his face."
[10:11.34] <+Melchior> [wait no she took 4, made the save for half damage]
[10:11.35] <DM> [She took half damage since she made her save.]
[10:11.47] <+AagKaKuna> (Yeah, I realize that now. Still, Kylma is happy :p )
[10:11.58] <DM> He spends his turn angling his body, black cape whooshing as he makes another pass by you.
[10:12.06] <DM> The sound of his keen sword cutting the air.
[10:12.17] <+Melchior> "We're getting out of here."
[10:12.19] * Repriever glances after Durosan.
[10:12.41] <+Kir> "We should kill monsters. Friends in danger..."
[10:12.58] <+Melchior> "Not in this room. Better places."
[10:13.00] <DM> He looks nonplussed, Repriever.
[10:13.01] <+Shala> "They'll probably fall down the first hole they find"
[10:13.30] <DM> I'll allow you to spur Kylma to move before the zombies, if you want to spend your turn doing it.
[10:13.31] <+Repriever> That makes two of us.
[10:13.50] <+Repriever> [to nonplussed]
[10:14.41] <DM> Do you know how to ride a horse?
[10:14.41] <+Melchior> [Spur Kylma, so we can move Rep]
[10:14.44] <DM> Or, gecko, in this case.
[10:15.14] <+Repriever> [oh, I wasn't doing moves, but okay]
[10:15.16] * Repriever does.
[10:15.28] <+Repriever> "Vavhuska!"
[10:15.33] * Repriever has no idea what that means.
[10:15.36] <DM> Oh god.
[10:15.40] <DM> Iggy, what did he just say?
[10:15.43] <+Melchior> [Strength]
[10:15.57] <DM> Kylma gets the gist. Lol.
[10:16.05] <DM> Roll her acro check, Iggy.
[10:16.17] <+AagKaKuna> (isn't Kir ALSO riding Kylma?)
[10:16.21] <DM> Everyone is on Kylma.
[10:16.23] <+Melchior> [all 4 of us are on kylma]
[10:16.28] <+AagKaKuna> (lol)
[10:16.30] <+Melchior> ?roll 1d20+4
[10:16.30] <%tBot> Melchior: 19 ([15] +4)
[10:16.44] <DM> You cross the first gap.
[10:16.48] <DM> Roll it again.
[10:16.56] <+Melchior> ?roll 1d20+4
[10:16.56] <%tBot> Melchior: 22 ([18] +4)
[10:17.00] <DM> You cross the second.
[10:17.29] <+Melchior> With a full move action from Kylma, that's where we finish.
[10:17.55] <+Repriever> [m'sak, a neckbeard's intro to his balls]
[10:18.30] * Melchior takes control from Repriever with an appreciative nod.
[10:18.42] <+Melchior> As Kylma has already moved, that'll be Melchior's turn.
[10:18.47] * Repriever seems distant.
[10:18.54] <DM> The void zombies split up, forming two groups, and jumping the gaps.
[10:19.06] <+Melchior> [UH OH THEY'RE JUMPING ZOMBIES]
[10:19.11] <DM> A few of them fall.
[10:19.18] <+Melchior> [They're average-jumping zombies]
[10:20.02] <DM> Anything, Shala or Kir?
[10:20.17] <+Shala> [nope, ere for the ride]
[10:20.38] * Kir reloads both crossbows, fire bolts
[10:21.36] <DM> The wight grabs for the rail.
[10:21.38] <DM> ?roll 1d20+5
[10:21.38] <%tBot> DM: 23 ([18] +5)
[10:21.52] <DM> A gauntleted fist of mail clamps.
[10:22.10] <+AagKaKuna> (Do the zombies have to do acro checks? :p )
[10:22.34] <DM> Nah, I just ad libbed a few of them falling and dying.
[10:22.43] <DM> Since rolling 1d20 18 times was not appealing to me.
[10:23.01] <+Shala> [WEAK]
[10:23.13] <DM> ?roll 1d20+5
[10:23.13] <%tBot> DM: 12 ([7] +5)
[10:23.23] <DM> It leaps the gap, drawing its sword again.
[10:23.27] <DM> Coming onward.
[10:23.43] <DM> Repriever.
[10:24.12] <+Repriever> "He'll never stop."
[10:24.19] * Repriever spurs Kylma.
[10:24.27] <DM> Acro check, Iggy
[10:24.29] <+Kir> "We go and kill"
[10:24.33] * Kir is deadpan
[10:24.39] <+Melchior> ?roll 1d20+4
[10:24.39] <%tBot> Melchior: 21 ([17] +4)
[10:24.47] <DM> Wait, spurs him which way?
[10:25.00] <+Melchior> Onwards and away from a place where we all might fall to our deaths.
[10:25.11] <+Melchior> [Also I took the reins, so I should be in control of movement right now]
[10:25.25] <+Melchior> [but whichever :)]
[10:25.34] <+Repriever> [the correct way]
[10:25.36] <+Melchior> Let's double-move into the next room.
[10:25.53] <+Shala> [woo, thank god, fuck that room :p ]
[10:26.36] <DM> Congratulations, you all.
[10:26.42] <DM> You've made it back into the Armillary Chamber.
[10:27.04] <+AagKaKuna> Oh, ffs
[10:27.06] <+AagKaKuna> Wait, that's OK
[10:27.06] <+AagKaKuna> sorry
[10:27.12] <+AagKaKuna> I thoguht you had just put us back at the door of this room
[10:27.14] <+AagKaKuna> sorry
[10:27.20] <+Melchior> [different armillary chamber]
[10:27.22] <DM> That would have been pretty funny.
[10:27.27] * DM makes a note.
[10:27.38] <+Melchior> "Can we seal this way or collapse a path?"
[10:27.55] <DM> The passageway you pass through is a long, narrow corridor of stone.
[10:28.02] <DM> Looking upwards, it appears to have no ceiling.
[10:28.08] <+Melchior> "Jam it with floating debris?"
[10:28.23] <+Kir> "We need to leave mountain going south"
[10:28.32] <+Shala> "No time!"
[10:28.35] <+Kir> "Or west. We enter from north or east?"
[10:28.43] <+Kir> "We kill wight"
[10:28.51] <+Melchior> "He's backed up by all of the void zombies."
[10:29.29] <DM> Melchior, move Kylma as far as is appropriate.
[10:29.29] <+Melchior> "We could hold a chokepoint again."
[10:29.34] <DM> Also.
[10:29.40] <+Melchior> "So do we hold here?"
[10:29.43] <+Kir> "Fire bolts like bombs:
[10:29.44] <+Kir> "
[10:29.46] <+Repriever> "You are no match for Durosan."
[10:29.56] <+Repriever> "I won't let you try."
[10:30.00] * Shala nods solemnly
[10:30.08] <+Kir> "We trap him. Pin him. Kill from far."
[10:30.13] <+Melchior> [what is the grey space?]
[10:30.16] <+Shala> "Pin him with what?"
[10:30.26] <+Melchior> "In the door, presumably."
[10:30.28] <+Repriever> "It's uncanny."
[10:30.29] * Kir holds up his braced arm
[10:30.50] <DM> The dark grey is solid stone.
[10:30.58] <DM> The light grey is essentially a lip of stone you can walk on.
[10:31.00] <+Melchior> [Raised or lowered?]
[10:31.12] * Shala throws her hands up in the air
[10:31.15] <DM> The white is obviously falling, falling for miles.
[10:31.15] <+Melchior> oh, so is white open space then?
[10:31.28] <DM> You're essentially on the edge of a massive balcony.
[10:31.45] <DM> It extends as far as the eye can see, for miles, in the great circumvallation of the thousand-isled chamber.
[10:31.46] <+Melchior> [moved]
[10:31.47] <DM> Except, this time.
[10:31.50] <DM> You are not on the ground.
[10:31.52] <DM> Looking up.
[10:32.05] <DM> The sphere is still high above you, but you are now miles up off the ground.
[10:32.17] <+Repriever> "I hate heights."
[10:32.20] <+Melchior> [Alright everyone don't fall or we'll have to replay the last 6 hours of gameplay as we crawl back up from the chamber's bottom]
[10:32.38] <DM> Oh, it's worse than that, Melchior.
[10:32.40] <+Repriever> [/me dodges off a rock]
[10:32.41] <DM> But we'll get to that.
[10:33.25] <+Repriever> [I forgot what we're doing]
[10:33.31] <+Repriever> [where is the exit]
[10:33.47] <+Melchior> [Running further across the chamber, from platform to platform]
[10:34.00] <+Repriever> [no, I mean, from the mountain]
[10:34.02] <DM> Ah, you jumped onto the first rock?
[10:34.07] <+Melchior> [Yes]
[10:34.10] <DM> Very well.
[10:34.31] <DM> As you jump onto the rock...
[10:34.36] <+Melchior> [Momentum transfer]
[10:34.39] <DM> Kir protesting that you can still fight.
[10:34.42] <DM> Exactly, Melchior.
[10:34.50] <+Melchior> "Shala, air blast us."
[10:34.57] * Shala DOES
[10:35.03] <DM> Roughly 1000 pounds of force start to carry you out into the chamber, bumping smaller rocks out of the way.
[10:35.04] <+Melchior> "We'll get ourselves clear of the wight."
[10:35.11] <+Melchior> "Alright, let's find a way out of here."
[10:35.14] * Repriever dismounts Kylma.
[10:35.15] <+AagKaKuna> "At a nice, slow, drift"
[10:35.17] <+Melchior> "Eyes at the ready everyone."
[10:35.17] <DM> Shala, describe your magery.
[10:35.28] <+Melchior> "We want to find a way out of this chamber."
[10:35.33] * Repriever draws Tangent again.
[10:35.39] * AagKaKuna dismounts, keeping an eye on the door we came from, just to make sure that damn dulahan can't fly, or some such nonsesne
[10:35.43] <+AagKaKuna> nonsense*
[10:35.44] <DM> Durosan walks out of the chamber, onto the balcony.
[10:35.55] <DM> He looks down at his sword, and then back at you.
[10:36.01] <DM> And he watches you, silently.
[10:36.03] <DM> As you drift away.
[10:36.04] * Repriever looks down at Durosan.
[10:36.06] * Shala extends the key in her outstretched arms and gives it a littlle mental coaxing
[10:36.22] * Kir draws a bead on the shrinking wight
[10:36.26] <+Repriever> "This is far from over. They never stop."
[10:36.27] <DM> Kir.
[10:36.31] <DM> Before you fire your arrow...
[10:36.40] <+Shala> "Then why are we here?"
[10:36.48] <DM> You are reminded that a duty to being a scout comes before a duty to blowing things up.
[10:36.50] <+Shala> "What protecting can we do?"
[10:36.59] <DM> Perhaps.
[10:37.01] * Kir shakes it off
[10:37.02] <+Repriever> "I've been asking myself that."
[10:37.13] <DM> Especially since he shrugged off the last bolt comparetively easily.
[10:37.14] * Kir looks around the chamber
[10:37.24] <+Kir> ?roll 1d20+10
[10:37.24] <%tBot> Kir: 26 ([16] +10)
[10:37.31] * Repriever kneels for a moment, remembering his immense agony.
[10:37.44] * Melchior places a comforting hand on Repriever's shoulder.
[10:37.52] * Melchior has dismounted from Kylma.
[10:37.58] * Repriever fingers the torn bits of mail on his chest, and the pink, soft flesh regrown underneath.
[10:38.12] * Kir waves the Penumbra spear towards Repriever, and gives it to him if he'll take it
[10:38.29] <DM> Pcmw, Kir.
[10:38.43] * Repriever is apprehensive to take it.
[10:38.54] * Shala looks pensively over the edge of the rock
[10:39.16] <+Repriever> "I promised her, if she went back in..."
[10:39.30] <+Melchior> "You wouldn't take her back out?"
[10:39.39] <+Repriever> "I'd kill her."
[10:39.50] <+AagKaKuna> "Not here. Not where the corrupted shadow is"
[10:39.58] <+Melchior> "She never answered what she did to awaken those void things."
[10:40.16] * Kir nudges Melchior and points down, past the islands, to what must be the floor of the chamber
[10:40.21] <+Repriever> "Don't offer it to me, not now."
[10:40.27] * Kir says something softly in Gora Miri
[10:40.32] <+Repriever> "I need time to think."
[10:40.34] <DM> Kir and Shala realize what's up as the adults loudly bicker.
[10:40.39] <DM> 'adults'
[10:40.40] <+Melchior> "What?" asks Melchior in Gora Miri.
[10:40.46] * Shala 's eyes widen
[10:41.06] <DM> Far below, and miles and miles away, the floor of the Tower of Elementalists sparkles with the light of a thousand torches
[10:41.23] <DM> The lights twinkle as various islands drift in front of them in the semi-darkness.
[10:41.36] <+Repriever> "What now?"
[10:41.37] <+Shala> "It's so flippin' huge" she mutters to herself
[10:41.47] <+Kir> "What...."
[10:41.59] * Kir meets eyes with Shala
[10:42.00] <+Melchior> "Searchers below."
[10:42.06] <+Kir> "Who?"
[10:42.07] <DM> Around them an orderly camp has been set up. And Repriever, as he squints down...realizes the layout of what he's looking down at. Tents. He has seen them many times before.
[10:42.17] <DM> Although never from this far above.
[10:42.24] <DM> The forces of good lacked an air force.
[10:42.34] * Repriever chuckles, standing with a groan of pain.
[10:43.03] <+Repriever> "You know."
[10:43.32] <+Repriever> "You're trying damned hard to live up to the Five today."
[10:43.43] <+Melchior> "Yeah?"
[10:44.02] <+Repriever> "Dragons."
[10:44.17] * Repriever holds up Tangent, and speaks to it.
[10:44.29] <+Repriever> "Should I throw myself off now, Warden?"
[10:44.52] <+Melchior> "Hardly."
[10:45.00] <DM> Tangent has no reply.
[10:45.09] <+Melchior> "We'll stay quiet, stay subtle, find our way out of the chamber."
[10:45.14] <+Melchior> "There should be an exit.
[10:45.16] <+Melchior> "
[10:45.16] <+AagKaKuna> "Why are the dragons here?"
[10:45.42] <+Repriever> "Because we killed a baby, and the mage's master killed his sisters."
[10:45.51] <+Repriever> "They're pissed."
[10:45.56] <+Shala> "Because it is an old, abandoned, tortured, dark, EVIL PLACE!"
[10:46.10] <+Kir> "We try to exit mountain... upwards?"
[10:46.15] <DM> Shala's voice echoes again.
[10:46.16] <+Melchior> "And one of us might have made a soup out of one of their hearts."
[10:46.23] <+Kir> "To us, choice of direction this way"
[10:46.24] <+Repriever> "In hindsight, probably not the best thing to say to a dying velcirath."
[10:46.28] <DM> Place...place....place..
[10:46.30] * Melchior mouths "Shut up." to Shala.
[10:46.36] * Shala rolls her eyes
[10:46.40] <+Kir> "Can climb down in direction of choice"
[10:47.24] <+Repriever> "I hope you don't mind if I sit my old ass down."
[10:47.30] * Repriever plomps down next to Kylma.
[10:47.34] <+AagKaKuna> "Are the frogs screwed?"
[10:47.42] * Melchior sits down cross-legged and pulls out her skull.
[10:47.44] <+Kir> "City well hidden"
[10:47.46] * Melchior uses Future Gaze.
[10:47.47] <DM> Repriever has looked better.
[10:47.57] <+Kir> "We lead zombies to dragons?"
[10:48.42] <+Melchior> "They may resolve that for us, or the wight may tell them of us."
[10:49.09] <+Repriever> "The spear, boy."
[10:49.16] <DM> ?roll 1d3
[10:49.16] <%tBot> DM: 2 [2]
[10:49.18] * Repriever sheathes Tangent and holds out his hand.
[10:49.19] <+Kir> "Fire against ice"
[10:49.23] <DM> Take 2 non-lethal damage, Melchior.
[10:49.28] * Kir mutters as he hands repriever the spear
[10:49.30] <+Melchior> "Shala, let's rise higher."
[10:49.43] * Repriever whispers to the spear in Celestial.
[10:49.48] <+Melchior> "Get on Kylma, we'll go to the bottom and start moving ourselves upward."
[10:49.55] * Shala nods
[10:50.11] * Shala DOES THIS and air blasts with a flourish
[10:50.48] * Shala realizes one slip from her sweaty hand and the key is dragon food
[10:51.04] <DM> The rock begins to move.
[10:51.15] <+Melchior> "So much blood."
[10:51.28] <+Melchior> "There's going to be an awful fight here."
[10:51.31] <DM> As Kir continues to scout with his telescope, he sees the dark wings of Velcirath patrols, scouting out the edges of the chamber.
[10:51.53] <+Penumbra> [DM pmw]
[10:52.11] <+Melchior> "Bother. I've got no spells left, I could have cloaked our rock in invisibility."
[10:52.57] <+Repriever> "I have very little left."
[10:53.10] * Repriever groans and strains against his wounds.
[10:53.10] <+Melchior> "Still haven't raged though."
[10:53.20] <+AagKaKuna> "I'm burning embers"
[10:53.25] <+Repriever> "And I'm saving it for someone worth it."
[10:53.28] <+Melchior> "Let's just keep out of the way."
[10:53.31] <+Melchior> "Hmm."
[10:53.56] * Repriever hands the spear back to Kir.
[10:53.59] <+Repriever> "Do not say her name."
[10:54.10] * Kir nods
[10:54.16] <+Repriever> "When it is time, I will speak to her."
[10:54.38] <+Repriever> "I can't promise she..."
[10:54.39] * Melchior shifts focus, and casts minor figment.
[10:54.41] <+Repriever> "I can't promise."
[10:55.21] * Melchior takes her crystal sculpture and runs her hands over it. A hazy, rough texture flows out of it.
[10:55.40] <DM> The base of the rock is now covered in what will appear to outsiders to be rock.
[10:55.43] <+Melchior> And, in a few seconds, a minor figment covers the party, extending our rock to hide us from sight.
[10:55.57] <DM> Well done, Mel.
[10:56.09] <DM> A Velcirath party passes distantly overhead a few minutes after you do this.
[10:56.32] * Repriever shuts his eyes, and becomes very quiet.
[10:56.49] * AagKaKuna sits, crosslegged, leaning against the gecko
[10:56.50] <+Melchior> [how long have we been awake?]
[10:56.52] * Shala does a little prayer to the creepy mage aliens
[10:57.15] * Kir watches the camp
[10:57.23] <+Melchior> "So long as I am awake, I can maintain this figment."
[10:57.24] * Repriever after a moment, laughs softly.
[10:57.31] <+Repriever> "That little shroom head."
[10:57.55] * AagKaKuna closes his eyes for a moment, not falling asleep, just resting his eyes
[10:58.15] * AagKaKuna needs to come to terms with facing death, and embracing it
[10:58.21] <DM> The room, which was chill when you first entered it.
[10:58.26] <DM> Begins to warm.
[10:58.32] <DM> Strange, how long ago it seemed.
[10:58.43] <DM> When you treaded the floor, a thousand shadows cast by pale moonlight.
[10:58.45] <+Melchior> "Warm air rises. We may be growing closer to the top. Either that or it's the dragons."
[10:58.51] <DM> And Penumbra awoke for the first time.
[10:59.04] <DM> An intense, oppressive, magical power begins to emanate from below.
[10:59.11] <+Repriever> "Have you ever seen the ruin a dragon army brings?"
[10:59.27] <DM> Aag feels something also, in particular.
[10:59.30] <+Melchior> "Only the aftermath, never the act."
[10:59.32] <DM> Something exciting, and also terrifying.
[10:59.58] * Repriever sighs.
[11:00.03] <DM> The Armillary sphere glows miles above, as you rise like a spacecraft slowly reaching towards a distant moon.
[11:00.06] * AagKaKuna still has his eyes closed
[11:00.07] <+Repriever> "I don't know why I'm here."
[11:00.49] <+Melchior> "To protect what's right. To keep safe those who need protecting. To undo past harms done to the world."
[11:00.59] <+Melchior> "That's what I assumed your reasons are."
[11:01.09] <+Repriever> "Those are all pretty good."
[11:01.11] * Repriever admits.
[11:01.20] <DM> The chamber brightens, a bit.
[11:01.24] <+Melchior> "I'm here because we wanted to help Aylesh, and we wanted to get out."
[11:01.26] <DM> And soon, Repriever feels it.
[11:01.35] * AagKaKuna opens his eyes
[11:01.41] <+AagKaKuna> "Something comes."
[11:01.42] * Repriever also does that.
[11:01.49] * Shala is looking straight up
[11:01.52] <+AagKaKuna> "We can't let it find us"
[11:02.04] <+AagKaKuna> "It is a parody of her flame."
[11:02.11] * AagKaKuna looks at the Knight
[11:02.17] <+Melchior> "Stay silent and stay in the figment."
[11:02.17] <+AagKaKuna> "A dragon? A true dragon?"
[11:02.21] * Melchior speaks softly.
[11:02.24] * AagKaKuna whispers
[11:02.30] <+Repriever> "She comes."
[11:02.41] <+Melchior> "Even if it can see through the figment, it may not notice us."
[11:02.44] * Repriever whispers.
[11:02.53] <+Repriever> "I am three centuries too old for this shit."
[11:02.53] * Melchior lies on her back, still beside her animals.
[11:02.56] <DM> A vaguely humanoid figure floats into the chamber, through the obsidian door. It does not walk.
[11:03.20] <DM> It glows bright blue, like the white-hot core of a star.
[11:03.53] * Repriever is near Melchior, flush with the stone.
[11:03.54] * Melchior detects magic.
[11:04.04] <+Repriever> "Two down, five to go."
[11:04.29] <DM> ?roll 1d10
[11:04.29] <%tBot> DM: 1 [1]
[11:04.33] <DM> Melchior, take one damage.
[11:04.36] <DM> ?roll 1d5
[11:04.36] <%tBot> DM: 5 [5]
[11:04.41] <DM> You are blinded for 5 minutes.
[11:05.03] * Melchior winces and scrunches her eyes shut.
[11:05.03] * Repriever scrunches his brow.
[11:05.04] <DM> You attempt to look at this being, and it sears your retinas with a flash of pain.
[11:05.10] <+Repriever> "So no names, old man."
[11:05.18] * Repriever mutters to himself.
[11:05.32] <DM> The figure, far below, considers the hall.
[11:05.42] * Repriever grabs Melchior's arm, and squeezes it.
[11:05.51] <+Repriever> A comforting squeeze.
[11:05.52] * Melchior squeezes Repriever's hand back.
[11:05.57] <DM> “I smell lavender...and sweat,” she says softly.
[11:06.12] <DM> In a voice that somehow carries to fill the room.
[11:06.30] <DM> A voice you all, somehow, hear.
[11:06.31] * Repriever squeezes Tangent in the sheath with his other hand.
[11:06.41] <+Repriever> [say, not so]
[11:06.43] <+Repriever> [D:]
[11:06.56] <DM> The Velcirath patrols all rush to converge, and do homage, to the daughter of the one true God.
[11:07.17] <DM> You see them falling like dark stars, to kneel before her.
[11:07.44] <DM> Melchior and Shala, crouched on the bottom of their disguised rock.
[11:08.01] <DM> The others, peering down as you may, covered by your mage's illusion.
[11:08.20] <DM> Waves of heat and pressure come of of her hard enough to see the lines.
[11:08.28] * AagKaKuna shivers, a combination of revulsion, fear, and ecstasy
[11:08.29] <+Melchior> [The illusion is large enough to cover the full surface of the rock]
[11:08.40] <+Melchior> [also I believe I am back on the top now]
[11:09.13] * Shala watches with morbid curiosity
[11:09.15] * You are now known as Carcephon
[11:09.26] <Carcephon> "There was a battle..."
[11:09.44] * Kir sits cross legged
[11:09.44] <Carcephon> "And they fled...into the depths."
[11:10.05] <Carcephon> "Through water...and void."
[11:10.10] * Carcephon considers.
[11:10.17] * Kir was considering the gauntlet until.... the dragon
[11:10.55] <Carcephon> "Well, Tar. We must..."
[11:10.57] * Carcephon pauses.
[11:11.05] * Repriever swallows.
[11:11.35] * AagKaKuna shivers again. the flame of his soul are bare embers, but he knows, fears, that she can sense them
[11:12.04] * Carcephon touches her forehead with a finger of blue-white light.
[11:12.36] <Carcephon> "The Athtars interfere again. Their lines are converging on this place."
[11:13.12] <Carcephon> "Positions, Tar."
[11:13.35] * Repriever winces.
[11:14.14] <Carcephon> Hordes of ssethkar legions immediately begin to line up in formation, before their camp, while flights of Velcirath circle overhead in tightly-drilled formations of three.
[11:14.19] * You are now known as DM
[11:14.46] * Repriever says again, softer still, almost as if in prayer:
[11:14.53] <+Repriever> "Two down, five to go."
[11:15.04] <DM> Carcephon speaks a word, and as she does, the humanoid flame bulges outward, and lengthens, the white-hot form cooling as slate grey plates form over seamless blue scales, protecting her flanks and sides.
[11:15.07] * AagKaKuna looks in askance at the old knight
[11:15.43] * Melchior tries opening and closing her eyes, blinking widely and seeing if her vision is recovering.
[11:15.46] <DM> She assumes her draconic form and vast wings of midnight blue unfurl above a fifty-foot tail.
[11:15.51] * Repriever reaches instinctively into his belt pouch for a piece of chalk.
[11:16.02] <DM> You can begin to see the blurry outlines of things, Mel.
[11:16.33] * Repriever starts drawing on the rock around them.
[11:16.45] * Kir shrinks back from the edge of the rock
[11:17.05] * Kir 's mouth gapes slightly
[11:17.26] <DM> And before long...
[11:17.44] <DM> A sound you remember from long ago echoes through the chamber.
[11:17.53] <DM> The sound of the opening of a Conjurer's portal.
[11:18.06] <DM> Several, in fact. Some in the air, some on the ground.
[11:19.03] <DM> There are Zeruvai, bearing glowing white gems on their hands, and gecko-riding soldiers.
[11:19.38] <DM> And higher, several hundred feet above, a golden portal forms, and a mage exits, walking on air as if it were earth.
[11:19.45] * Repriever mutters to himself as he, in anguish of his wounds, crawls around drawing white lavender in chalk.
[11:20.04] * Shala hugs the rock with her fingers and peers over the edge
[11:20.12] <DM> He has a long, flowing white beard, and a bald head. Shala knows him well.
[11:20.20] <+Shala> "He's here"
[11:20.22] <DM> At least, from afar.
[11:20.46] * Repriever mutters about seven, five, and none.
[11:20.51] <+Shala> "Zabul Bel Kishar" she mutters to herself
[11:21.38] <DM> Zabul speaks, a deep, imperious voice, gravelly from years of command.
[11:21.39] <+Melchior> "What's he doing here? I'm not familiar with."
[11:21.59] * Repriever runs out of the chalk piece, and sits, sighing, listening.
[11:22.00] <+Shala> "A stately conjurer, used to killing"
[11:22.09] * You are now known as Zabul_Bel_Kishar
[11:22.16] <Zabul_Bel_Kishar> "Do you HAVE her?"
[11:22.23] * You are now known as Carcephon
[11:22.36] <Carcephon> "She eludes us both...little man."
[11:22.51] * Melchior grins in spite of herself.
[11:22.57] * Shala feels her heart beating out of her chest and a panic infest her body
[11:23.22] * Repriever moves nearer Shala and Melchior again.
[11:23.36] * You are now known as Zabul_Bel_Kishar
[11:23.49] <Zabul_Bel_Kishar> "Then leave this place. It is a relic of our people."
[11:24.11] * You are now known as Carcephon
[11:24.20] * Carcephon chuckles warmly, throatily.
[11:24.28] <Carcephon> “Mmmmhmhmhmhm…”
[11:24.59] <Carcephon> “Come and make me, little man.”
[11:25.06] <+Shala> "Ohhh...."
[11:25.08] <+Shala> "Mistake"
[11:25.13] * Shala is whispering
[11:25.17] * You are now known as Zabul
[11:25.19] * Repriever places a hand on Shala's shoulder
[11:25.32] * Zabul looks at his shoes.
[11:25.35] <+Melchior> "Many mistakes made today."
[11:25.58] <+Shala> "At least they're....they're fighting each other. And not bothering to look up."
[11:26.11] * Zabul speaks a word of power, and the foundations of the Tower shake.
[11:26.36] <+Repriever> "God seethes, child."
[11:26.47] * You are now known as DM
[11:26.49] <DM> Carcephon begins to bleed out of every pore in her body, the black blood coating her skin.
[11:26.50] * Melchior is tempted to detect magic again, but thinks better of it, given that she nearly blinded herself last time.
[11:27.04] <DM> And she screams in reply, defying the Kasathic ordinance of death.
[11:27.19] * Shala clutches the key in her fist and brings it up to her forehead
[11:27.33] <DM> And she breathes a wall of blue fire, as Zabul's guardian magi cast spells to counter.
[11:27.41] <DM> And then the Velcirath begin flinging fireballs...
[11:27.50] <+Repriever> "No one of them will take you from me."
[11:28.13] <DM> Sword-spell maguses stride confidently through the flames, channeling anguish through their weapons.
[11:28.22] * Repriever breathes painfully.
[11:28.30] <+Melchior> "Keep eyes out for a gateway to the outside."
[11:28.33] <DM> And the Ssethkar hiss as one and advance into a rain of arrows.
[11:28.37] * AagKaKuna is a curled ball
[11:28.37] <+Melchior> "Leave them to fight their fight."
[11:29.11] <+Kir> "And wight?"
[11:29.29] <+Repriever> "He's coming."
[11:29.34] <+Melchior> "Is he?"
[11:29.48] <+Melchior> "I don't know how well he knows this place. He's not native to it."
[11:30.01] <+Repriever> "Remember his name, and use it if he ever catches us."
[11:30.18] <+Shala> "Approach the sphere...approach the...sphere"
[11:30.32] <+Melchior> "You have the helm, Shala."
[11:30.47] <+Melchior> "Steer us."
[11:31.00] <+Shala> "Near the base, and access grate"
[11:31.09] * Shala pounds her head lightly to jar the thoughts into place
[11:31.09] <DM> Roll a dex check to properly aim the rock towards the Sphere, Shala.
[11:31.25] <+Shala> ?roll 1d20+3
[11:31.25] <%tBot> Shala: 15 ([12] +3)
[11:31.28] <DM> Durosan is gone.
[11:31.30] <+Melchior> [the sphere? aren't we in a sphere? Or do you mean the walls of the sphere?]
[11:31.47] <DM> The Armillary sphere, great cracked orb of moonlight, hangs near the ceiling, Melchior.
[11:31.56] <+Melchior> [ah, that sphere]
[11:31.59] <+Shala> "Right, let's move"
[11:32.08] <DM> You blow upwards, further, further.
[11:32.39] <DM> The blue dragon and the archmage, and their armies, continue to duel below, more cracks opening up in the floor, a dozen new scars.
[11:33.17] * Kentharu (474478da@ircip1.mibbit.com) has joined channel #nesdnd
[11:33.26] * Kir pictures the fate of Aylesh
[11:33.40] <+Melchior> [hi kentharu, we're on a flying rock, avoiding a huge fight between dragons and mages]
[11:33.49] * AagKaKuna tries not to think of the frogs
[11:33.55] * DM sets mode +m  for #nesdnd
[11:34.49] <DM> You hope that many hundreds of feet of rock will protect the frogs from this fate. It was a long journey down.
[11:35.37] <DM> Flashes of fireballs and discharges of terrible magic continue.
[11:35.48] <DM> But soon, you are above all that.
[11:35.53] * Melchior tests her vision again.
[11:36.14] * Repriever limps around, getting a view of things.
[11:36.15] <DM> And as you come close to the ceiling, the illusion of stars begins to vanish, and you see the armillary sphere for what it is...a vast magical machine.
[11:36.24] <DM> The damaged power source of this entire place.
[11:36.41] * Melchior stares in wonder.
[11:36.43] <DM> It hangs in mid-air, floating on its own.
[11:36.51] <+Repriever> "They tried to better the world."
[11:36.53] * Melchior cautiously detects magic.
[11:37.02] <+Repriever> "But they ruined it."
[11:37.21] <DM> The concentric spheres continue to slowly rotate around each other.
[11:37.37] <+Melchior> "What was this ley engine?"
[11:37.41] <+Shala> "Wont be the last"
[11:38.04] <+Shala> [knowledge arcane]
[11:38.08] <+Shala> ?Roll 1d20+11
[11:38.08] <%tBot> Shala: 16 ([5] +11)
[11:38.39] <+Repriever> "A foolish mistake."
[11:38.55] <+Shala> "What it was is fairly unimportant"
[11:38.55] * Melchior tries to make sense of the lines of this armillary sphere.
[11:38.57] <+Shala> "But"
[11:39.12] <+Shala> "Power remains here"
[11:39.15] <+Shala> "Hmmm..."
[11:39.29] <+Repriever> "It'd make one hell of a bomb."
[11:39.43] * Shala takes otu the key and shrugs
[11:39.49] <+Melchior> "Shala..."
[11:39.56] <+Shala> "I was told I had special access"
[11:40.01] <+Shala> "Time to find out"
[11:40.04] <+Melchior> "Don't stick the key into a sphere of immense and unclear power until you know what you want to do."
[11:40.05] * Kir watches the battle below
[11:40.12] <+Kir> ?roll 1d20+11
[11:40.13] <%tBot> Kir: 17 ([6] +11)
[11:40.18] <+Kir> [perception]
[11:40.30] <+Shala> "We need to escape. I happen to specialize in teleportation. This is a big floating sphere of power."
[11:40.31] <+Repriever> "She knows what she wants. She's one of the Five."
[11:40.44] * Shala approaches the sphere
[11:41.02] <+Shala> "Are you going to behave?"
[11:41.04] * Shala asks it
[11:41.07] <+Repriever> "The rules didn't apply to them, not like me."
[11:41.15] * Repriever watches Shala.
[11:41.22] * Shala holds the key up
[11:41.29] <+Shala> "Now, where do you need to go..."
[11:41.37] <DM> Far above, the sphere is a smooth surface of white moonlight, except the great gash in its side, made by Penumbra's order long ago.
[11:41.50] * Melchior studies this object further.
[11:42.11] <+Shala> [how close are we to it]
[11:42.14] <DM> In the gash, there seems to be...twisted rock and metal, damaged machinery, broken gears...
[11:42.37] <DM> You are about a hundred feet away, the planetoid growing huge and awe-inspiring in your sight.
[11:42.43] <DM> And as you draw close.
[11:42.51] <DM> The rings start to slow.
[11:42.56] <+Repriever> "When Sael played, the sun would set a little slower, like a peeping child, just to hear him sing."
[11:43.30] * Repriever clears his throat.
[11:43.39] * Repriever looks around to make sure no one was paying attention to that.
[11:43.49] <DM> Everyone is looking at you, Repriever.
[11:43.50] * Shala is focused
[11:43.58] <DM> Just kidding. ;)
[11:44.10] <+Shala> "A key needs a keyhole"
[11:44.16] <DM> Far below, Carcephon screams.
[11:44.16] * Shala mutters
[11:44.33] * Melchior is studying this sphere as much as she can with what time she has.
[11:44.36] * AagKaKuna peers down, trying to make out what can be made out in the flashes of light and the darkness below
[11:44.54] <DM> As you draw near to the Sphere, a small circle opens, and lowers down, like a disc.
[11:45.18] <DM> Aag, it is so far down below, and there are so many floating rocks in the way, it is difficult to see...even the dragon looks small from this height.
[11:45.25] <DM> But the fight rages on.
[11:45.39] <+Repriever> "Ere the dawn, there will be four."
[11:46.02] <+Shala> "Here we go"
[11:46.07] <+Shala> "Here I go"
[11:46.24] <+Shala> [is it an entrance?]
[11:46.43] * Melchior commits all that she can to memory about the Armillary Sphere.
[11:46.44] <DM> Currently, it's a floating white disc, about forty feet in diameter, made of white moonstone.
[11:46.44] <+AagKaKuna> "Ominous"
[11:47.35] * Shala looks back at the crew as if to ask, "is this safe?"
[11:48.01] * Shala steps onto the disc
[11:48.21] <DM> Shala, are you holding the Key?
[11:48.26] <+Shala> [yes]
[11:48.34] <DM> It pricks your finger, slightly.
[11:48.44] <DM> And a drop of blood wells and vanishes into the metal of the Key.
[11:48.54] <+Shala> "Ow!"
[11:48.57] <DM> The rust falls off.
[11:49.07] <+Shala> "No fair warning for that!"
[11:49.10] <+Melchior> ?roll 1d20+13
[11:49.10] <%tBot> Melchior: 30 ([17] +13)
[11:49.13] * Shala admonishes the magical item
[11:49.15] <DM> It doesn't look like an innocuous, grandmotherly old Key anymore.
[11:49.30] <+Melchior> [that's an arcana roll coupled with a focus point spent to improve my roll with sudden insight]
[11:49.40] * Melchior is intensely interested in this instrument of power.
[11:49.41] <DM> It is bright silvery metal, with a diamond set into the base.
[11:49.57] * Melchior wonders if the key was once glamoured to appear in a lesser form.
[11:50.03] <+Melchior> but that is a distraction
[11:50.09] * Melchior keeps all eyes on the sphere.
[11:50.27] <DM> "Authentication completed for Shala Tell Ashara."
[11:50.40] <DM> Says a cool, crisp voice from above.
[11:51.02] <DM> "Rank: Master. Authorized holder of the Key of Elements."
[11:51.03] * Repriever leans on one foot, slouched, holding a hand to his stomach.
[11:51.21] * Shala laughs and smiles at that
[11:51.22] * AagKaKuna flinches at the voice
[11:51.31] <DM> "Ready to receive input data."
[11:51.32] <+AagKaKuna> "Can you make it... quietr?"
[11:51.39] <+AagKaKuna> quieter*
[11:51.48] <+Shala> "Input...data...."
[11:52.28] <+Shala> "You will do what I ask?"
[11:53.11] <DM> "System is currently in a low-power state due to severe damage. Power reserves are currently at twenty percent."
[11:53.46] <+Shala> "Is that enough to teleport several people outside of the tower?"
[11:54.20] <+Repriever> "And a lizard, plus two animals."
[11:54.28] <DM> "As the domain of the Tower of Conjuration, utilization of the Armillary Sphere for non-school activities is forbidden by the terms of the Treaty of the Nine."
[11:54.40] <DM> "Teleportation is outside the remit of this system."
[11:54.53] <+Melchior> "Ask it to open a path to the surface then."
[11:55.09] <+Melchior> "And seal it again once we are passed."
[11:55.18] <DM> "Master, corollary: The Sphere cannot cast the spell."
[11:55.25] <+Repriever> "And ask it to open a hidden tunnel, for Aylesh."
[11:55.36] <+Shala> "Shh! One at a time!"
[11:55.38] * Melchior gives a 'good thinking' approving nod to Repriever.
[11:55.42] * Repriever grumbles.
[11:55.48] <+Repriever> "I should stab it, it's useless."
[11:55.53] <DM> "Requisite energy can, however, be provided, if the spell is cast from an outside source."
[11:56.12] <+Shala> "Well that's mighty convenient!"
[11:56.30] <+Shala> [note, i dont have a teleportation spell, so to speak :p ]
[11:56.34] <DM> "It is not this Sphere's fault if its Master does things the Sphere is not allowed to do."
[11:56.35] <+Melchior> "Can your lady cast us a miracle, Rep?"
[11:56.56] <DM> [You don't, per se, Shala...]
[11:57.00] * Melchior ponders using 'mending' on the Armillary sphere.
[11:57.03] <DM> [But you know enough to try]
[11:57.08] * Repriever thinks.
[11:57.33] <DM> [You know the theory, you've seen it done...]
[11:57.44] <+Shala> "I will power up the Sphere then! And it will teleport us outside."
[11:57.53] <+Repriever> "Wait."
[11:58.01] <+Melchior> "Would mending it help in any way?"
[11:58.15] <+Repriever> "Can it channel for me?"
[11:58.26] <DM> "Indication of multiple subjects. Please place them within the Sphere."
[11:58.38] * Shala presses her palm to her head
[11:58.44] <DM> "Request for clarification, Master."
[11:58.47] * Melchior groups together with the group and the animals.
[11:58.55] <+Melchior> "Make sure it brings Kylma and Barg too."
[11:59.03] * AagKaKuna keeps a hand on Kylma's side
[11:59.07] <+Repriever> "And me."
[11:59.12] <+Shala> "All of the creatures currently assembled on this platform."
[11:59.14] <+Repriever> "I don't know if knows what I am."
[11:59.19] * Kir stands with the rest of the group
[11:59.45] * Repriever groans in Celestial.
[11:59.48] * Kir is still enthralled by the battle below but...
[12:00.15] * Shala concentrates deeply and breathes in the intoxication of MAGICAL POWER
[12:00.29] * Shala tries to fold, bend, manipulate space
[12:00.48] <DM> Oh, you do?
[12:00.52] <DM> Like, right now?
[12:00.59] <+Shala> [lol doesnt it need that?]
[12:01.03] <DM> No, it does.
[12:01.10] <DM> The disc begins to rise.
[12:01.22] <DM> And it takes all of you with it, up into the bowels of the sphere.
[12:01.56] * Repriever draws Tangent again, shimmering white.
[12:01.59] <DM> As it rises, you see glass tubes, moving gears, a thousand different lines of bright, flowing organic energy. You see kasathic runes moving, tiny little automated-repair bugs walking on crystal legs.
[12:02.21] * Kir looks around.
[12:02.24] <+Melchior> "I have half a mind to repair this thing... but perhaps it is best left half-broken right now."
[12:02.32] <+Shala> "It's truly beautiful"
[12:02.35] <+AagKaKuna> "Is it repairing itself?"
[12:02.35] <+Kir> [does it remind me of my homeland?]
[12:02.43] <+Melchior> "There are limits to self-repair."
[12:02.44] <+Repriever> "She broke it. Don't undo her hard work."
[12:02.58] <+Melchior> "It could be used to the ends of our hunters."
[12:02.59] <DM> In a way, Kir.
[12:03.02] <DM> But it is far more advanced.
[12:03.17] <+Melchior> "Perhaps, when they are a threat no more and the world is better, we will return."
[12:03.22] <DM> And as the disc continues to rise, it enters the core of the sphere.
[12:03.29] <DM> There, there is a tiny, rotating globe of the world.
[12:03.50] * Repriever lofts Tangent as if it'll block the new and strange lights from his eyes.
[12:04.23] <DM> The globe shows a tracery of silver lines, running from the Earth's core to the point on the map where the Tower of the Elements is located.
[12:04.34] * Melchior can almost taste the magic, a dry tang in her mouth.
[12:05.08] <DM> "Master, you will need to realize the spell, words of power, and intended destination."
[12:05.15] * Repriever lowers Tangent and caresses the air before the globe with the back of his hand.
[12:05.20] <+Shala> "I...I can do that"
[12:05.34] * Shala speaks to somewhere in the room to noone in particular
[12:06.13] <DM> The globe is beautiful.
[12:06.24] <DM> Tiny weather patterns move across its surface.
[12:06.27] <DM> Ash storms and hurricanes.
[12:06.49] <DM> Melchior realizes it is a completely accurate scryed representation of the planet as it is now, live-updating.
[12:06.53] * Melchior looks at the earth. Are the lines across it major ley waypoints?
[12:07.15] <+Repriever> "Our mother is sick."
[12:07.23] <DM> The lines appear to be the Armillary Sphere's various channeling routes for the energy of the planet.
[12:07.30] * Repriever is soft as down.
[12:07.39] <DM> Sucking power from the core.
[12:07.54] <DM> You realize, this was how they did it.
[12:07.54] <+Melchior> "Hmm."
[12:08.05] * Melchior had suspected as much from her earlier investigation.
[12:08.09] <DM> How the Elementalists awoke the dragons.
[12:08.32] <+AagKaKuna> "Where.... are the glass wastes?"
[12:08.36] <+Melchior> "So much to learn, so much to learn..."
[12:08.41] <+Melchior> knowledge geography
[12:08.44] <+Melchior> ?roll 1d20+6
[12:08.44] <%tBot> Melchior: 15 ([9] +6)
[12:08.47] <+AagKaKuna> "where are the lands my ancestors walked?"
[12:08.50] <+Melchior> "Thereabouts."
[12:08.51] <+Repriever> "I'm sorry."
[12:08.51] <+Kir> perception
[12:08.53] * Melchior gestures.
[12:08.56] * Repriever steps up to the globe.
[12:08.56] <DM> You point them out, Melchior, far to the east.
[12:08.59] <+Kir> ?roll 1d20+10
[12:08.59] <%tBot> Kir: 20 ([10] +10)
[12:09.16] <DM> Kir, the room has walls of transparent glass, the moonstone disc the floor.
[12:09.18] * Kir looks for Gora Mir, but doesn't point it out to anyone should he find it
[12:09.22] <DM> There are no exits.
[12:09.29] * AagKaKuna reaches out to touch where Melchior pointed
[12:09.31] <DM> You do see the tiny vale, a gap between the mountains.
[12:09.31] <+Kir> [that was perception on the spinning map :p]
[12:09.49] <DM> "Master, your servants are molesting my systems."
[12:09.57] <+AagKaKuna> "Me closes his eyes, his hand against his lost home"
[12:10.02] * AagKaKuna *
[12:10.15] * Repriever points to the globe, a patch of glacier.
[12:10.16] <+Melchior> "Don't touch, just look."
[12:10.17] <DM> Comes the cool, robotic voice from the interior of the Sphere.
[12:10.23] <+Kir> "Map very good."
[12:10.28] * Melchior nods.
[12:10.33] <+Repriever> "Nothing remains."
[12:10.53] <+Shala> "Hmm? Oh."
[12:11.03] <DM> Even the magma channels glow a faint red, and appear warm and tingly to the touch.
[12:11.10] <+Shala> "Well we better get this show on the road then."
[12:11.11] <DM> Though your fingers pass through the clouds.
[12:11.21] <DM> "As you command, Master."
[12:11.33] * Melchior looks about, considering where the lands of the Kieli may be.
[12:11.37] * Shala does a quick prayer
[12:11.38] <+Melchior> ?roll 1d20+6
[12:11.38] <%tBot> Melchior: 23 ([17] +6)
[12:11.39] <DM> The globe opens up, slicing in half and showing the layers of the core.
[12:11.48] <+Repriever> [prayer to who?]
[12:11.50] <DM> Unclear due to lack of sufficient data, Melchior.
[12:11.54] <+Shala> "So, once this ritual is done, where do go?"
[12:12.00] <+Shala> [the kasatha :p ]
[12:12.05] <+Repriever> [hisss]
[12:12.10] <DM> "That is your will, Master."
[12:12.12] <+Shala> [im asking you guys btw]
[12:12.21] * Melchior looks to Repriever.
[12:12.25] <+Melchior> "Where is our next haven?"
[12:12.27] <DM> "And contingent upon your control of the spell."
[12:12.37] * AagKaKuna sings a soft lullaby
[12:12.40] <+Repriever> "West."
[12:12.49] <+Melchior> "Calcis?"
[12:12.50] * Kir stares at the world
[12:12.53] <+Repriever> "Yes."
[12:12.58] <+Repriever> [who has sael's flute?]
[12:13.17] <+AagKaKuna> (Me)
[12:13.36] <DM> "At reserve power, we possess a limit to channel a teleportation of *static* weight units approximately 74.333333333 leagues."
[12:13.53] <+Repriever> "You'll find haven there, among their faithful warriors."
[12:14.07] <+AagKaKuna> "Will you not come with us?"
[12:14.17] <+Repriever> "But we have little choice in how we get there."
[12:14.24] * Repriever ignores the question.
[12:14.31] * Repriever points to the region on the map.
[12:14.48] <+Repriever> "To the north the dead walk, to the west the barrens stretch forever, exposed."
[12:15.03] <+Repriever> "We have no choice but to move south, through the Conjurer clans."
[12:15.19] <+Shala> "The Diviners Tower"
[12:15.23] <+Repriever> "To the broken seas, and west, to the Glass Tower."
[12:15.24] <+Repriever> "Yes."
[12:15.26] <+Shala> "Should be our next destination"
[12:15.34] <+Shala> "Show up right on their doorstep do you think?"
[12:15.44] <+Repriever> "Can we go that far?"
[12:15.53] * Repriever seems uneasy about it.
[12:15.58] <+Melchior> "We can get out of here, at the very least."
[12:16.08] <+Melchior> "That's the first step."
[12:16.13] <+Kir> "We need to leave mountain"
[12:16.14] <+Shala> "What's the worst that could happen?"
[12:16.16] <+Melchior> "Let's not be too ambitious beyond getting to the surface."
[12:16.25] <+Repriever> "Your insides become your outsides."
[12:16.28] <+Melchior> "Well, we could show up high in the air, or fused into rock, or over the ocean."
[12:16.39] <+Melchior> "Also splinching, which I've heard is a right nasty experience."
[12:16.43] <+Melchior> "Or we'll scatter."
[12:16.50] * Repriever waits for the globe to spin, then points to the mountain we're in.
[12:16.56] <+Melchior> "Either each showing up in a different place, or with different bits of us showing up in different places."
[12:17.03] <+Shala> "So, the immediate surface?"
[12:17.06] <+Repriever> "West face, south as we can go."
[12:17.13] <+Repriever> "Be conservative."
[12:17.15] <DM> "Master, there is an indication that individuals with potential hostile intent have detected your presence."
[12:17.18] <+Melchior> "Or I'll end up showing up in a different dimension as a gnome."
[12:17.33] <DM> "Defensive systems are currently powered down."
[12:17.42] <+Repriever> "Before you do."
[12:17.43] <+Melchior> "Time's come to move, Shally."
[12:17.45] <+Repriever> "Ask the machine."
[12:17.50] <+Shala> "Crap, give me the word of power then."
[12:17.56] <DM> "You have approximately 45 seconds before you are eaten by a dragon."
[12:17.57] <+Repriever> "If he knows how to put me back together."
[12:17.57] <+Kir> "Save frogs!"
[12:18.16] <+Shala> "Sphere, can you put the paladin back together?"
[12:18.22] <DM> "No."
[12:18.24] <+Shala> "Sphere, can you save the...frogs?"
[12:18.25] <DM> It says, cooly.
[12:18.28] <DM> "How?"
[12:18.31] <DM> It says, inquiringly.
[12:18.33] <+Repriever> "You piece of shit."
[12:18.34] <+Melchior> "Alright, open up an escape tunnel for them."
[12:18.43] * Repriever feigns kicking it.
[12:18.44] <+Shala> "An escape tunnel, a safety hatch, something."
[12:18.50] <DM> "Very well."
[12:18.52] * Shala says rapidly
[12:18.52] <+Melchior> "Then teleport us out of here."
[12:19.06] <+Shala> "And now, teleport us out.....to the TOWER OF DIVINATION"
[12:19.07] <DM> "Geomancy channeling activated, smoothbore non-collapsible tunnel to nearby source of security."
[12:19.13] <+Repriever> "And put me near some loose stones."
[12:19.20] <+Repriever> "In one piece."
[12:19.29] <+Repriever> "Or I swear..."
[12:19.31] * Melchior sits down on Kylma, puts one hand on Barg, and stretches out another to touch Repriever.
[12:19.32] <DM> "Sector 3384-G. Automated pathfinding."
[12:19.35] <DM> "Processing."
[12:19.39] <DM> "Complete."
[12:19.41] <DM> The mountain shudders.
[12:19.59] * Repriever reaches for the air.
[12:20.00] * Shala doesnt enjoy the feeling of her stomach being in her mouth
[12:20.07] <DM> "Please insert the Key into the core to receive the Word of Power."
[12:20.12] <+Melchior> "Do it."
[12:20.14] * Shala fumbles for the key and inserts
[12:20.44] <+Repriever> "I'll be back for you."
[12:20.46] <DM> A crushing, tearing sound, as a Dragon's claws impact the Sphere outside.
[12:20.52] <DM> Shala.
[12:20.59] <DM> Make a Use Magic Device check.
[12:21.10] <+Melchior> [crit fail inc]
[12:21.14] <+Shala> ?roll 1d20+5
[12:21.14] <%tBot> Shala: 21 ([16] +5)
[12:21.18] <+Melchior> [phew]
[12:21.18] <+Shala> [thank god]
[12:21.30] <+Repriever> [time for preev to make a UMD check to not explode]
[12:21.32] <+Repriever> [;)]
[12:21.39] <+Shala> "EXCELSIOR!"
[12:22.16] <DM> Trillions of runes analyze and process your reality. Destroy it. Copy it exactly, and send it through the aether.
[12:22.21] <+Melchior> "Of course."
[12:22.38] <DM> You feel your bodies dissolving in a web of information as everything goes white.
[12:22.56] <DM> Now...
[12:23.04] <DM> Everyone else, roll a Use Magic Device Check.
[12:23.07] <+Melchior> "I'd be more worried about philosophical death if I hadn't gone through it a few dozen times already."
[12:23.11] <+Shala> [oh no D: ]
[12:23.12] <+Kir> ?roll 1d20+11
[12:23.12] <%tBot> Kir: 21 ([10] +11)
[12:23.27] <+Melchior> ?roll 1d20+6
[12:23.27] <%tBot> Melchior: 12 ([6] +6)
[12:23.29] <+AagKaKuna> ?roll 1d20
[12:23.29] <%tBot> AagKaKuna: 14 [14]
[12:23.35] <+Repriever> ?roll 1d20+3
[12:23.35] <%tBot> Repriever: 4 ([1] +3)
[12:23.39] <+Shala> [lol]
[12:23.39] <+Repriever> [FUCKING KNEW IT]
[12:23.41] <+Melchior> [HMMP]
[12:23.42] <+AagKaKuna> Yup
[12:23.44] <DM> [Lol.]
[12:24.03] <DM> Your minds are all one, for a moment.
[12:24.07] <DM> You will forget, one day.
[12:24.12] <+Melchior> [ ＋https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/qsCKZNao65WtYtH2s6Nc_Kr8uyWzz2khWQQhsdKQZKMXnlxOogP2ee64pA1TkjTbHA8=s630-fcrop64=1,00005645ff77f035， ]
[12:24.13] <DM> The memories will fade.
[12:24.21] <DM> But for a moment...for a moment.
[12:24.31] <DM> You are one being.
[12:24.59] <+Melchior> But then again, weren't we always?
[12:25.23] <DM> You see the Velcirath land in the midst of the square, as the sun rises and shines off of your pitiless shield.
[12:25.42] <DM> But something is wrong. The Velcirath holds up his hands, and says, “I am Andrathagora. What my people have done here is wrong. Though I was sent to, I will not fight you.”
[12:25.55] <DM> You sneer, and you hear the harsh bark of your voice emergent from your chest. “Don’t listen. It’s some demonshit trick.”
[12:26.13] <DM> You draw Tangent in a brilliant arc, an afterimage of unknown geometries glowing through the air.
[12:26.13] <DM> The Velcirath holds up its claws in a sign of passivity. “Strike me down if you will, but I will not harm you.”
[12:26.30] <DM> You do not hesitate for even a moment.
[12:26.48] <DM> At your Celestial command, Tangent becomes a beam of golden, pure light, and you pass it through the Velcirath’s chest. Its eyes go wide, and it coughs blood onto your armor.
[12:27.11] <DM> And it whispers, “Lines…”
[12:27.26] <DM> You kneel in the middle of a glowing circle, chains of starlight binding you to the floor.
[12:27.49] <DM> “You stand accused of altering the Record, _____," it says.
[12:28.08] <DM> The figure above you whispers in a thousand languages and none; you realize that for the first time in your life, you are hearing the legendary truespeech.
[12:28.42] <DM> Though you cannot see it, you see its silhouette far above, backlit by some light you cannot see. The shadow takes a pose you know from Kanetic bas-reliefs: The four-armed justice bearer.
[12:28.55] <DM> “In reckless pursuit of cosmic power, of restoration to your broken throne…”
[12:29.29] <DM> “Gods rise, and fall, ____. This is the way of the Record. But beyond the gods is Time, and its writ is absolute.”
[12:29.58] <DM> You stand in space, and Iii is at your side.
[12:30.10] <DM> It was not difficult, after you tamed the Dragon.
[12:30.29] <DM> The remnants of the inferior civilizations were destroyed.
[12:30.34] <DM> Then you burned it all.
[12:30.50] <DM> And you burned more. The forests, and the oceans, rising in endless smoke.
[12:30.59] <DM> Then the land itself, melting under your flame.
[12:31.36] <DM> Nothing else could survive, but you, and Her, and the purified true race of the dragons, Kharvalath your avenging angel.
[12:32.16] <DM> She takes your hand in hers, as you look down upon the molten world, and she says, "Now you, and I will reign eternal, my prince, my Akvan."
[12:32.42] <DM> And you feel nothing.
[12:33.51] <DM> "Kir," she said, after you kissed her.
[12:34.07] <DM> You had never kissed anyone before.
[12:34.14] <DM> End session.