Tanyasha is caught in the webs, looking angry at the webs that grip her.
Rylee growls and rips at Kjel again, blood sprays as the claws bite deep and expose muscle and tendons to light.
But it misses with it's bite, as it's teeth clash on Kjel's armored calf. The claws also scrape off the same piece of armor on the other leg. But the third claw swipe hits flesh just above the knee, tearing into Kjel's thigh from behind.
Almost as soon as the dog wounds Kjel, the red dust on him from the room with the skeleton bursts into growth, sucking more blood from his body to grow out in piles of fluffy red lichen.
Lineera offers another blast of necromantic energy to the undead beast as she tries to put it under her sway once more.
The small dog skeleton again shakes off Lineera's burst of dark energy.
Tanyasha laughs, and then her body seems to drain of mass, shrinking in on itself, collapsing down until she vanishes, the webs she's caught in hanging limp as her body vanishes.
Lineera, still looking at the skeleton dog, see's a reddish tendril move out into her line of vision. As her head slowly turns around, she sees that Tanyasha is now directly behind her. The woman's face is inches from hers. "Try that again, b*+@#..." The undead plant woman says with a hiss.
Kjel switches targets to the adjacent dogish thing.
Kjel slams the axe into the dog, and there's the sound of cracking bones, but the thick heavy vines on it seem to cushion the blow.
Riley 5 ft steps behind the dog. "There's not going to be a dog left for her to do it to b@&&~."
Eva pulls an alchemist's fire from her belt, unstoppers it, and pours some of the liquid on the wound where the vines are burrowing. Fire flares up and she cries out, but the vines appear to have been killed.
Mahb moves toward where Tanyasha has reappeared, and tries to Evil Eye the woman to reduce her saves.
But Tanyasha shrugs off the lasting effects, and is only affected for one round.
Riley slams his weapon into the dog, and bones crunch and sap sprays.
Rylee whines and does a dodging run away from Kjel and Riley, avoiding them as much as possible by jumping over the prone and writhing Eva.
It looks almost like a trained circus dog as it bounds around. Once it reaches Lineera, it growls and bites at her.
But it misses with it's bite, yet again.
Mahb attempts another evil eye on Tanyasha, this time to reduce her attack.
But again the fiendish and otherworldly creature shrugs off her best mojo.
Lineera backs up and slips herself into the stairway, focusing purely on defense to just stay alive until help arrives.
Tanyasha grins, and adjust 5ft, cutting Lineera off from the rest of the group. Those shark teeth seem to fill Lineera's vision and then the horrible thorned vines whip into the stairwell, slashing at Lineera.
Lineera let's out a bloodcurdling scream as the vines slash through her body, impaling her front to back, then she collapses on the stairwell, sliding down several steps. "Leave my dog ALONE!" The plant woman hisses with feeling.
There's a sudden flash of purple/black energy near the altar, and voices echo ghostly through the room.
"Luther! Watch out! It's spewing acid!"
"Scath! Scath! Are you ok?"
<Buzzsaw sound of something animal>
"Alexis! Don't do it! You don't know what will happen!"
<Sound of something crashing>
Where the altar is, a sudden round portal opens, showing the same room, but as in a mirror darkly. A humanoid in a dark pointed mask stumbles back, a lynx attached to it's throat from behind, blood spraying as the claws rip open said throat.
A heavily muscled man is in the process of ducking a spew of acid from some sort of undead plant creature as he slams his fist into it's spine, sending bones shattering out in a spray of chips and shards.
A red-haired woman with a haughty expression drives a glowing sword into another masked humanoid, her features twisted in anger.
A half-orc is in mid leap, a heavy axe buried halfway through another undead plant creature, acid sizzling on his chest and face as he screams through the pain.
A human man with a sword lies wounded, his arm bent at an odd angle, but a humanoid in a mask lies dead next to him, it's head severed.
Finally, a woman stands over the shattering shards of a familiar black statue. She steps back as if in slow motion, and her hand comes into contact with the portal. If the portal was a mirror, it's now projecting it's reflections into the room, the woman splits into two women, mirror images of each other, one looking deeper into the mirror world, another in the room with Kjel, Eva, Lineera, Riley and Mahb.
Then the world seems to come crashing back down into a normal pace of time, and the portal snaps shut, leaving the mirror double staggering.
What in seven heavens happened? The woman was indeed in shock, as everyone could notice when she gazed the room slowly, absorbing the scenario. She tilted her head to one side at seeing two partially known figures there, but still did not understood what was going on.
She does seems like someone you once knew in Perdition's Point, but it cannot be her, as she was confirmed dead, was she not? It could be the same woman, were not for the scars and the aura of power around her, as the Alexis Carevin you knew, mother of one of the children who were kidnapped, was weak and got cut to several pieces when Perdition's Point was first attacked by monsters. This was not the same hopeless woman you knew, no. Anyone could see determination in her face, to the point of fearing it.
Alexis looks behind her once more, but the statue and the portal are gone, and unspoken fears old forgotten return to her mind once more. If it's not her, it's certainly a twin, and there's definitely something wrong as the confused woman asks a question to no one in particular: "When am I?"
Kjel will continue to try to dispose of the 'dog'.
power attack
A whiplike vine snakes out to try to rip Kjel, but it is deflected by his shield. Then Kjel's axe slams into the dog, and bones crack and shatter, and the dog collapss in a pile of bones and vines. Tanyasha screams in anger, and turns her glowing eyes on Kjel. "YOU DIE NOW!"
"Yeah, not like you didn't intend to kill me before. "
Eva, skin pale and barely conscious, fished out her healing infusion as she heard Lineera scream. She glanced that way worriedly, trying to not draw attention to herself more than she had too in her weakened state. As the black energy formed near the altar, her attention focused there as she downed her infusion. It was in shock she stared. One hand around her bloody middle, tears escaped to fall down her face. She had seen the remains. 'It can't be... no... It's not possible. This has to be a trick! Some sort of trick! S-she c-can't be... It's the blood loss, it has to be! This is a mirage, a figment of my mind. An Illusion!' With her thoughts running around like squirrels on coffee and her voice quiet, full of emotion, and shock, she addressed the woman before her. "A-Alexis...?"
Riley tumbles into melee with the dog and attacks.
Tanyasha whips out one whip and slashes at Riley as he closes.
However, he still manages to dodge the attack, the whip like appendage scraping off his leather armor and leaving gouges in it, but not in Riley. He then slams his weapon into Tanyasha, drawing a black/green blood from the woman.
Tanyasha reaches out and grapples Kjel, wrapping a vine around him.
The razor sharp barbs on the vines slice into Kjel's skin, sending blood dripping to the ground.
Her other vine whips at Riley, since he actually damaged her.
But again, the razor sharp barbs slice into Riley's armor, without actually drawing blood.
The gorgeous woman finally gets a grip on what's happening and move into action, avoiding getting to close to Mahb and Eva, but still intending to stop the vine creature. "I knew you were involved in this, Eva!" She extends an outstretched hand towards the plant/half-orc/whatever that is and pronounces a sweet enchantment.
"You should rethink your way of living!"
Unless someone has healed Kjel along the way that I missed, he is now unconscious (and grappled) at -3 (would be -9 but you registered a hit by the dog which was actually a miss).
Tanyasha's eyes droop, and Kjel's unconscious body slumps to the floor as she releases it. Alexis's spell seems to have had an effect on her, for now at least.
"I would take that chance to heal or to kill, if I were you. She won't stay like that for long!"
Mahb creeps forward while the plant-woman is ensorceled. A single ropey tendril of hair creeps along the floor to wrap around Tanyasha's foot as the hag utters words of power. Electricity dances from her body and winds through the hair, delivering a sizable jolt.
Eva, pulled out of her shock, debates for only a hair of a second between healing and throwing a bomb. Oh she wanted to light that weed on fire so badly but she wouldn't survive another hit from those vines. Healing had to take priority first. Drawing the cure wand, she cast a healing on herself.
Riley tumbles 15 feet around the vine woman to set up a flan if Kjel recovers. He swings his blade with vengeance.
Seeing the new caster, he makes sure Lineera is unconcious and then winks at the gorgeous Alexis.
Riley slams his weapon into Tanyasha, and green-black blood sprays. Mahb's hair snakes out and the plant woman grimaces in pain as electricity burns her flesh.
Eva, feeling some better, got up and moved to Kjel, making sure she was around the corner from Tanyesha. It might not help keep her safe, but it was worth an attempt.
Kjel will attempt to stabilize.
nope
Alexis moves to get a better view of the horrendous plant-undead monster, ending up behind Mahb, and shoots a ball of snow at the creature, freezing a large spot of it!
"I bet your fingers are inside this as well evil hag!"
Riley 5 ft steps to hopefully get a flank if the lazy Dwarf gets up.
The plant woman struggles to overcome the lethargy forced upon her, but she is unable to resist as more attacks land, and she finally collapses into a pile of green black blood and broken plant like body parts.
With a stab of the wand, Eva heals Kjel.
Reaching down she checks to make sure he doesn't need plants or such removed from him too.
"Uhh, did someone get the owner of that chariot that hit me? Is the plant lady down I hope? I can't take many more fights like that. Thanks Eva you're a lifesaver. "
Alexis shoots two Acid Splashes at the dead plant, just to be sure, but then something startles her and she slowly retreats her upraised hand - the left - and stretches her fingers while looking at them. "What in seven kingdoms happened?"
She looks worried and takes a few steps away from Mahb and the others, surveying the place the portal was at.