[S]torm of Ascension

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ZeusToday at 8:06 AM
AC: That's the plan.
GalayisToday at 8:30 AM
Down you descend into the depths of the fortress and Skaia itself, following the inclined elevator shaft as far as it leads. The walls of the descending tunnel, lined with dimming or broken light fixtures, incorporate the violet hues of the malevolent moon's gothic architecture with plates of black carapace, blending together the further you travel until at the tunnel's end, the two are practically indistinguishable from each other in their homogenization.

You arrive at an armored, reinforced entrance to a high-security compound, replete with weapons emplacements and covered firing positions, none of which are manned as miscellaneous weapons and equipment lay strewn across the floor at the opposite end of the entrance chamber where the lift would stop. There are signs of a brief struggle to be seen throughout the entrance, with marks across the walls, floors, and emplacements suggesting the soldiers were forcibly removed from their placements and struggled against this. A breeze flows past your cheek and up the shaft and you're given an idea of what happened; as the fortress in its mountainous shell was upturned during the storm of ascension, the air from above and below chased after each other in the sudden clash of differential pressure, carrying the soldiers with them.
ZeusToday at 8:35 AM
Forward Colt walks at the ready with the Waterdeep in tow the draconic head already sparking to life as he prepares himself for the battle below.

All of them have had guards of some kind. Colt's ready for that. What Colt does when he heads towards the room is... different though. He casts light on his guitar before fully entering the chamber at the end of the hall.

"Let's rock it jacky boy."

Roll iniative?
GalayisToday at 9:11 AM
Entering the compound, you find yourself in a central connecting room lined with carapace-armored doors, some firmly shut, others thrown off their frames, while most hang off a few remaining hinges. Deactivated or otherwise shattered computer terminals are arranged at the center of the room, encompassed within a ring of counters and desks. The breeze continues to softly blow past your cheek, pointing your gaze toward a specific door in the corner of the room.

As you head toward and through the door into a long, wide hallway, a voice rings scratchily out through the facility's damaged speaker system,

"You've been a real work of absolute bitch to deal with. I ain't putting up with you or your bullshit anymore, now it's come to this."

The hallway soon leads into another connecting room, this time with just one door opposite its entrance. It appears to be an office space of sorts, littered with scattered notes and documents dotted with belligerent scribbles and remarks about anything from shitty dress-codes and incompetent superiors and subordinates to, namely, all manner of insults and derision against you and all the trouble you keep making. A space opposite the piles of scribbled papers is noticeably empty, with outlines on the floor suggesting the placement of walls of some kind.

"This whole situation is a crock of shit, but if anything, I'm gonna have fun cutting you and that dumb fucking outfit to shreds."

The door out of the room is unlocked, and through it you walk into an immense chamber lined with dozens of large carapace-gothic pillars in every direction, with space made for walkways leading toward a central clearing with a structure at its center. Lights are installed in the walkways, central area, and the pillars adjacent to both, while dim floor lights barely illuminate the spaces between the rest of the pillars supporting the chamber.

"I ain't taking no chances, either."
Heading into the clearing, you're accosted by a pair of Burlap and Foam Lich queens with Jack nowhere to be seen just yet.

ROLL INITIATIVE
Avrae
BOT
Today at 9:12 AM
@Zeus  :game_die:
Result: 1d20 (18) + 1
Total: 19
@Galayis
Lich Queens: Rolling 2 iterations...
1d20 (14) + 3 = 17
1d20 (11) + 3 = 14
31 total.
@Galayis  :game_die:
Jack Noir: 1d20 (20) + 9
Total: 29
GalayisToday at 9:14 AM
TURN ORDER:

Jack Noir gets a bonus major action -> You -> Burlap/Foam Lich Queens.
ZeusToday at 9:14 AM
Reaction! Start of Jack's turn Incoming!
+5 Aegis
GalayisToday at 9:17 AM
Whatever Jack does during his turn, it's out of your sight entirely.
YOUR TURN
ZeusToday at 9:18 AM
Cool
I back up.
And let loose a howling gale! Using a major Slot Lightning Bolt on the middle of the wall to hit both lich Queens.

Overdrive [both kinds] two handed power slide [prone for +1 DDup]

Static shock Spread, Petrifying, and deadened.

I'll spend 30,000,000 to guarantee the hit.
30 feet from the target so they both get hit
And I'll roll my attack roll for posterity sake
Avrae
BOT
Today at 9:21 AM
@Zeus  :game_die:
Result: 1d20 (20) + 19
Total: 39
ZeusToday at 9:21 AM
Haha
Oh this is fun.
Free action DDup
From AMPE
Avrae
BOT
Today at 9:23 AM
@Zeus  :game_die:
Result: 48d8 (2, 3, 2, 8, 7, 1, 1, 6, 7, 1, 1, 8, 1, 8, 6, 4, 4, 4, 6, 4, 2, 3, 2, 4, 6, 7, 4, 5, 2, 3, 1, 6, 5, 6, 5, 7, 1, 7, 1, 2, 6, 1, 8, 2, 6, 2, 2, 8) + 10 + 10
Total: 218
ZeusToday at 9:23 AM
Die.
Avrae
BOT
Today at 9:23 AM
@Zeus  :game_die:
Result: 6d4 (2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 2)
Total: 13
GalayisToday at 9:29 AM
With a deafening thunderous drum-roll, you conjure a storm of divine electricity that arcs from the center structure's carapace walls to the two Lich queens, vaporizing them near-instantly.
You can almost hear someone fiercely cursing under their breath.
ZeusToday at 9:30 AM
"What's the matter Jacky boy, I thought you were leaving nothing to chance."

The smirk on your lips is eminent.
Minor action Inspire
I'll use my stored roll of 50 something
For 5 aegis
GalayisToday at 9:32 AM
Not even the voice of narration counted on you actually rolling a high initiative for once.

The sounds of your inspiring riffs drown out the sounds of shuffling footsteps approaching your position.
GalayisToday at 9:41 AM
As you finish the riff, you suddenly notice the sounds of those footsteps as they come running at you.
Avrae
BOT
Today at 9:41 AM
@Galayis  :game_die:
Stealth Vs Perception: 1d20 (11) + 9
Total: 20
@Zeus  :game_die:
Result: 1d20 (11) + 1
Total: 12
ZeusToday at 9:41 AM
Lol it's +0
So 11
GalayisToday at 9:44 AM
You fail to turn in time to see Jack Noir, decked in a bedazzorbed suit, approach you with blades in hand. The images of a burlap sack and a pair of sparring gloves are illuminated in the suit's orbs.
Avrae
BOT
Today at 9:44 AM
@Galayis  :game_die:
Menacing Strike Vs Will: 2d20kh1 (1, 12) + 9
Total: 21
ZeusToday at 9:45 AM
Just barely
Avrae
BOT
Today at 9:45 AM
@Galayis  :game_die:
Trip Attack Vs Reflex: 2d20kh1 (20, 17) + 11
Total: 31
ZeusToday at 9:45 AM
Obvious hit is obvious
Avrae
BOT
Today at 9:46 AM
@Galayis  :game_die:
Menacing Strike damage | disadvantage on attack rolls until the start of Jack's next turn: 6d8 (3, 1, 5, 8, 6, 5) + 9
Total: 37
@Galayis  :game_die:
Trip Attack CRITICAL damage | forced prone: (6d8 (1, 1, 1, 1, 5, 3) + 9) * 2
Total: 42
@Galayis  :game_die:
Total damage taken: 37 + 42 - 10
Total: 69
GalayisToday at 9:51 AM
Jack approaches with a long double-edged sword in hand, plunging it into your torso as he stares you down with bloodlust in his eyes, suddenly souring your confidence. He quickly follows this up, the suit's orbs lighting up with the image of the sparring gloves, by pulling out a cast iron horse hitcher and smashing your kneecaps with it before yanking it toward him and knocking you to the ground as it catches on your legs and upends them.
YOUR TURN.
ZeusToday at 9:54 AM
"Oh that's fun Jacky boy." He grins from the ground after a yowl of pain. He activates The DracoBusters engines and flies 20 feet away for 20 ampe.
GalayisToday at 9:56 AM
Inescapable! - Attack of Opportunity
As you fly back in retreat, Jack swiftly pulls out a pocket-blade and swings it at your throat.
Avrae
BOT
Today at 9:57 AM
@Galayis  :game_die:
prone advantage - reaction disadvantage: 1d20 (2) + 13
Total: 15
ZeusToday at 9:57 AM
And he swings wide
"It's time for you to take a time out though."

Major Slot Lift!

Petrification, Deafened, and Fade 3
Until the end of my next turn.

Over drive x2 combob, Prone Position, and spending 30 for a ddup, two handing it for a grand total of
4Pd12+2CHA
+6 from boonies for safety
Avrae
BOT
Today at 9:59 AM
@Zeus  :game_die:
Result: 2d20kl1 (14, 4) + 16 + 6 + 6
Total: 32
ZeusToday at 9:59 AM
I assume that hits fort?
GalayisToday at 9:59 AM
That's a hit; Fort 27
Avrae
BOT
Today at 9:59 AM
@Zeus  :game_die:
Result: 24d12 (2, 5, 3, 5, 1, 3, 11, 10, 7, 12, 6, 11, 2, 10, 5, 9, 7, 7, 12, 11, 12, 11, 6, 4) + 20
Total: 192
ZeusToday at 10:00 AM
Cool 192 damage and he can't act as rubble and Ice freeze him over.
My torn again I assume
GalayisToday at 10:11 AM
Extending psychic tendrils to the pillar nearest to Jack, you slice away a thin disk and send it careening into the archagent. Jack's body folds against the impact as arcane energies expand from the point of impact into a gaseous cloud that flash-freezes him into a walking modern art project.
Being a petrified ice-statue, Jack is incapable of doing anything on his turn.
YOUR TURN
ZeusToday at 10:13 AM
Let's go again! He's petrified so this attack automatically hits since it targets fort
Falling Damage > Petrified > and Dazed
Using major slot gravity well
I think you see the pattern at this point.
Avrae
BOT
Today at 10:14 AM
@Zeus  :game_die:
Result: 6d4 (2, 4, 3, 3, 1, 1)
Total: 14
ZeusToday at 10:14 AM
Aaaand an attack roll for the gravity well effect
Avrae
BOT
Today at 10:14 AM
@Zeus  :game_die:
Result: 1d20 (1) + 16
Total: 17
ZeusToday at 10:14 AM
Still an autohit
Overdrive > Two handed > Prone position
Avrae
BOT
Today at 10:15 AM
@Zeus  :game_die:
Result: 12d12 (3, 2, 6, 10, 12, 5, 6, 5, 6, 7, 2, 11) + 10 + 1d10 (4)
Total: 89
@Zeus  :game_die:
Result: 24d12 (10, 2, 5, 12, 12, 1, 6, 12, 9, 7, 9, 12, 5, 6, 9, 4, 5, 9, 5, 3, 5, 4, 2, 4) + 20
Total: 178
@Zeus  :game_die:
Result: 24d12 (9, 11, 1, 11, 4, 4, 8, 2, 4, 4, 11, 2, 11, 10, 5, 6, 9, 4, 3, 10, 7, 1, 7, 2) + 20
Total: 166
@Zeus  :game_die:
Result: 12d4 (4, 1, 4, 4, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2)
Total: 29
GalayisToday at 10:20 AM
You can stop now, he's already dead.
ZeusToday at 10:20 AM
That was for me.
GalayisToday at 10:29 AM
In a merciless display, you exercise your psychic prowess to its maximum and compact the archagent into a bloody ice cube as bits and pieces of his everything fly off in reaction to the immense exerted force of the process, like watching the streaks of material fly out from beneath a hydraulic press as it flattens the object beneath it.

Among these pieces strewn about the place are two of noteworthy mention; a frozen pocket with a playing card sticking out from the top that falls and slides across the floor toward the center structure and Jack's hand, his middle finger outstretched. His bedazzorbed body then explodes in a ball of flaming ash, leaving nothing else behind.
> A One-finger Salute to send you off
VICTORY!!!

GAIN 3,000 exp
Recover 2(HD avg. + Con + 9) hp
Acquired:
6 T9 Grist
9 T8 Grist
17 T7 Grist
31 T6 Grist
45 T5 Grist
87 T4 Grist
136 T3 Grist
235 T2 Grist
376 T1 Grist
666 build Grist

ZeusToday at 10:31 AM
You'll pop a use of the windy thing before captchalougling the pair of items for your hunt for your pillar.
"Enjoy the show Lucy?"
GalayisToday at 10:34 AM
The girl's voice appears from the left while she leans with a hand on your right shoulder,

"Man, I haven't seen brutality like that since I last got halfway serious in a fight."

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