Alathea trembles with fear at the Fetch's gaze, but pushes her fear down.. Despite her intense dislike of the woman, the Aes Sedai's directions seem as sound as any, and she complies withonly a scowl in her direction and pulls Tesliin to the column. Once there, she reaches out and releases the catch on Moira's collar. "You are in the same danger as we are, yes? Then fight alongside us!"
The Borderlander's eyes widen at the sight of the Fade, but he turns his fear into anger, gripping his sword hilt even tighter.
notes of the map
AA14, AA16, AC14, AA16, half these squares are considered part of the column/portal stone.
Charging in together, Ryland and vala swing at the woman, ryland doing a basic swing and Vala seeking to end the attack quickly. The woman sidesteps the rylands attack and tilts her head, allowing the blade to swish the air over her head. The only one able to hit her is Rhoekk, rushing forward and jabbing at her thigh. Expecting to deal massive damage, the woman flows with the hit, denying Rhoekk his truly savage blow.
The matron stares at Alathea. Free? Me? It has finally happened! Over 400 years of being leashed, and now i am free!Tears begin to stream down her face as the full implication of what Alathea has done hits her.
Looking at the tables, the Matron scans the contents. Nodding, she sprints to a table, and grasps a small statue, and then a green and white rod.
Vala drops to her knee and than thrusts out as she executes Lizard in the Thornbush, dropping out of sight of the Fade, and seeking to impale the woman with her blade
Fia pales under the gaze of the Myrddral, her palms going sweaty. She stands frozen as a wave of fear washes through her, then grits her teeth and forces herself to action as the others push past her. Go on fool, you've faced these and others before and seen them die too. One foot moves forward, then another and then she's running towards the center with the others.
Kodokura will move to AA13 to try to shield the women from the fades with his body, if nothing else.
Rhoekk follows up his first attack with a flurry of spear attacks.
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Ryland howls when the fade steps out and changes opponents, rushing head long at the eyeless.
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Ducking and dodging the thrusts from Rhoekk, the woman smirks. My turn is all she says, before going into action.
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Smirking still, she thrusts out her foot, and disappears... only to appear behind Fiallain.
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Spinning, Rhoekk catches sight of the woman in her new position, threatening Fiallain. He dashes forward to strike her.
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Amorial sees what he thinks is Mistress Tiedra and charges through the portal aiming for the Myddral. Amorial will stop short 10' from the Myddral to take advantage of his superior Reach thus if the Myddral attempts to attack Amorial he will retain an AoO.
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Ryvin grunts with pain when she is suddenly stabbed.
Her eyes widen with shock as she sees the corpse-pale Shadowspawn right in front of her -- and she channels instinctively, flows of all five powers snaking out at the hideous monstrosity.
Alathea gasps as the woman appears behind Fiallain. What did she do? I saw no Weaves!
As the fade appears from nowhere, Kodokura lashes out, but the shadowspawn easily turns aside his blade, slashing him casually across the cheek with a flick of its wrist. Kodokura grunts in pain, falling back a step, blood running down his face to drip onto the Asha'man pins on his chest...
Next round, another attack.
Kodo continues slashing in vain, just hoping to keep the creature's attention on him and not on the women.
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I stand and look to the Aiel man and than the others, she looks at the Endangered Kodokura, she yells at Rheokk[b]" Save your kinsman, and I'll save mine, lets show these fiends what it truely means to dance with death!"[b] She than moves up to the side of the Fade and poises to strike.
Forcing herself to shake off the fade's gaze, Fia senses the others in danger as well. Yelling she calls "Fight together, don't let them pick you o... Her voice cuts off suddenly in surprise. No... it can't be. I am... shielded? By whom, how? Sensing someone suddenly next to her, she turns her head to see the woman smirking at her.
With a snarl, she moves swiftly, sliding easily across from her companion, placing the woman between them. Her arm shoots out as if to strike, the blow meant to distract more than to cause harm even as she assumes a defensive pose.
The matron, after tearing her skirt off at the hem, ties off an end, and begins to stuff items into the makeshift bag. Having cleared the table on one end of the room, she sprints through the now obvious illusion, disappearing from sight.
The Aes sedai moves in behind the fade, attempting to distract it from harming someone in the group.
Attacks the Fade than
Litheene barely stands, blood generously staining her gown, trickling to a small pool beneath her, the many gashes in her body paled by the searing pain of the shadow blade cut in her stomach, seeping vileness into her. As if in a dream, she sees the matron ... Moira, was it? rushing half naked past her. With no more strength to wonder if she's real and which side she's on, Litheene drops the harden air and calls out to her.
Moira! Do you know what any of those items do? I ... Please, I need healing, I ...
Litheene forces her mind to focus on the circle of silence, realizing the need to alert her friends. She unleashes a blade of pure spirit at the ward, and yells, unsure if her weave even works There are four fades! The other half of the room is behind an illusion!
Alathea looks frantically about the basement room. Light help us all! We have walked into a trap, and we are being slaughtered!
Although she has been warned against doing so, Alathea sees no other option than to use the One Power. I may die or burn out or go mad, but if I do nothing, we will ALL be killed! With a deep breath, she opens herself up to the sweetness of saidar...
two quick slashes, Amar attempts to cut into his opponent, only to have one strike turned away. Using the tight quarters to his advantage, his second strike is successful.
A ripple and wave shimmies the air between the column and far wall, as if something hit a pan full of water. A moment later the image displaces, reviealing the same image as before, the noticeable difference being Moira, the matron, standing, holding two ter'angreal and shoving into her bag. Her lips appear to be moving, but words cannot heard. A moment later, 2 fades appear, and attack.
Just as Moira finishes speaking, a Fade appears standing in front of Moira. A moment later, one appears in front of Litheene. In a voice that is a cross between a snake, a wasp, and liquid fire, the Myrddraal speaks.
I cannot wait to taste your flesh, channeler. Your ability makes your blood so much sweeter, your flesh, more tender.
Licking its lips, it lunges forward, driving its sword at your naked flesh.
The action is mirrored by the first fade, speaking to Moira and then driving the blade home.
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A gardener. Even better she says before slashing into you with her fell blade, her tongue protruding, slashing about, as if awaiting the visceral spray of blood to fall upon her blackened tongue
I shall feed you to my Fist, fair maiden. I can smell your purity in the air, and i cannot wait to taint it.
It attacks with a viscious swing
One appears beside Fia, and swings.
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A massive surge of saidar can be felt being channeled. This amount is greater than what the Matron channeled when she literally threw the mansion across the alley. Looking around, the glow around the Aes Sedai is overpowering, making it difficult to look at her, and especially at the ring upon her finger.
After the woman slips away from her confrontation between herself and rhoekk and vala, she appears next to Fia. Not a moment later, Rhoekk leaps after the woman, charging her and thrusting his spears in an attempt to pin his opponent, and hopefully protect the wise one apprentice.
Fia back peddles, using her hand to hand combat skills to prevent any serious injury along with helping one of her teammates out with hitting this woman.
A moment later, the woman vanishes from between fia and rhoekk, only to appear next to amorial, who only moments before had just connected with a Fade. Smiling at the Ogier, the woman slashes at him with her fell blade, causing horrendeous damage to the fair ogier.
Taking a beating from the viscious Ryland who has gone feral, the fade steps into a shadow and disappears, only to reappear infront of Moira. It swings at the matron, only to have its swing go wild.
Vala, rushing in to help Ryland with his foe, is able to prevent a flanking maneuver against him by making herself a threat against another Fade. Blows were exchanged, but the fade also vanishes into shadow.
Litheene, bleeding from numerous sword strikes, and barely clinging to life, prior to the matrons attack, had begged the matron for healing aide. Unfortunetly, her please where felt by another Fade. Taunting his chosen foe, the Fade strikes, only to have his sword strike the column.
Ryvin, new to being bonded, traps her warder in with a fade, hoping that the close confines will ensure victory for her ward. Instead, the Fade slips out of the ward, only to appear behind her, clothes smoldering from the fire that was placed upon them. Seeking retribution, the Fade swings, only to swing wide and miss Ryvin.
A'mar, having been placed nose to nose with a borderlander's most hated enemy, only connects on one swing with the shadowspawn.
Kodokura, in an attempt to look menacing, swings his blade at the fade, but only succeeds in cutting the air. my instructor would be appalled by me right now he thinks, taking a moment to center himself and swing with a little better accuracy, still missing, but not looking a fool. Moments later he feels an odd pressure begin to build upon his brain, a pressure that presses upon his link with Saidan.
The matron, having survived her encounter against the fade, and wanting to continue making the room safe for others to channel, is suddenly struck down with an unknown force, one that has left her a shattered wreck, easy meat for the Fade.
Feeling a HUGE surge of power from the aes sedai, Fia and alathea are shocked to see that it has been the aes sedai that has been hampering with their efforts, cutting down their companions with the most devious of methods, severing.
Should I have had a chance to do an AoO on the fade that moved away from Kodo?
Fia winces as the Myrdral's blade slices her. She turns and spins out of the reach of his blade and heads toward Rhoekk.
Rhoekk!Fiallain whispers as she nears.. "The Aes Sedai has betrayed us. The Asha'man is disabled and she has me shielded. Kill her!! She keeps her voice pitched low, hoping that the woman was yet unaware that her duplicity had been found out and that they might be able to act before she could shield herself from physical attack.
She then continues past him and heads towards Vala and Ryland, whispering "The Aes Sedai, the one who thinks she's in charge, is a darkfriend and has attacked us. We must kill her. Now. On the other side of the column."
Vala hearing the woman's words springs into action rushing to the other side of the column sword ready as she rushes about.
Kodokura reels as he feels the knife of the Power lance between him and the Source, clutching his head and screaming as he feels something in his head snap.
Ryvin leans back from the Myrdraal, watching its attack go wide.
Behind her, the dome fades into nothing as she allows the Master Ward to dissipate.
"Shut up," she tells the monster in front of her, her voice oddly dismissive. "You're annoying."
The air blurs between Ryvin and the Fade, and she seems to just turn her back on the monster and ignore it...!
The next moment, Ryvin's eyes blaze at the Aes Sedai as she launches a weave into the room! Red sparks squiggle and squirm through the blaze of saidar surrounding her...
Litheene drops to a knee from fear and fatugue as the fade appears, her life saved by the sudden motion, as the blade swings at the place her neck was, stricking the column.
Alathea watches, helplessly, as the Aes Sedai's--no, Black Ajah's!--Weave descends towards Kodokura. Moira's scream...she must have Stilled her, too! Kodokura does not scream, though...perhaps he's avoided the wretched woman's attack. Light send that it is so! But she is so strong!
Knowing that she has little chance of Shielding her with the Black Sister holding so much saidar, Instead, Alathea begins to Weave about the woman in a pattern ironically similar to Healing, but to opposite effect. Let what your fellow Black Ajah taught me bring you down!