Rolling away from the flames, Relan fires off a couple shots ineffectually and shouts out his frustration.
Nalar holds another spell as Vuloo dispels yet another one of the wizardess' arcane defenses.
; P
Oriana shoots off a couple of arrows as well that clang off the ceiling
; miss
; miss
Braelex hits the woman square in the chest with a pot full of exploding fire, causing her to shy back cursing as she is slightly singed.
Andel stops his recitation and fires off a spray of crystalling shards
; success
Nalar holds and casts another magic missile as she begins casting, hoping that Vuloo took down the shield, but alas they slam into that invisible force again and she completes her spell.
"Little wizard, what do you say you strip down naked and go play in the corner, by yourself."
Relan puts away his bow and retrieves his pole arm. If no one can give me flight or levitate can someone enlarge me?
Braelex resumes her nonsensical muttering.
Vuloo babbles back at Braelex.
Andel fires his bow again at Sorshen.
Nalar sneers at the Sorshen as he throws of the spell with ease. "Allow me to return the favor" He says, casting a spell at her.
Relan swaps weapons as Vuloo and Braelex make nonsensical noises and Andel and Oriana fire more ineffectual arrows.
; miss
; miss
Nalar casts a spell and feels it unravel as it touches the woman, repelled by spell resistance.
Sorshen laughs, her dominance in the fight apparent and proceeds to cast another spell, this time addressing the Maiden commander.
"Oriana, sweetness, go find Quennelle and stay by her side, won't you?"
The Maiden, stands firm, shaking for a moment and then says with a quavering voice, "No."
Rage distorts Sorshen's features for a moment, the look completely unnatural before she returns to her serene, arrogant look.
; act normally
Vuloo will cast protection versus evil on himself once again in attempt to break the confusion spell.
; success
He cancels all life links as an immediate action.
Andel will cast timely inspiration on either Relan, Braelex or Oriana (in that order of priority), depending on who misses their attack this round - giving them a retroactive +1 competence bonus on the attack.
Snarling, Braelex jabs herself with the crossbow bolt again, this time finding an exposed joint in her armor. She cries in pain, looking around wildly for the culprit.
Nalar hisses curses between his teeth as he tries to find a way to deal with the flying foe. Noticing the flickering form he calls her out on it, hoping that perhaps he can distract her.
"Losing control of your form impostor! Careful, get too mad and you'll ruin your disguise! Not that it could actually fool anyone, no wonder you had to charm your minions!" He taunts in Thassilonian.
Standing defiantly Relan is ready to engage if the enemy dares to approach.
Relan grasps his weapon in frustration casting about for an opportunity while Vuloo escapes the confusion with a protection spell.
Oriana, with some insipring help from Andel, continues to fire her arrows grazing the wizardess with a shot this time drawing a line of blood along her cheek. Sorshen raises her hand with a gasp and her eyes flare red for a moment as she looks at Oriana with unbridled hatred.
; miss
; HIT!;
Braelex continues to walk in circles stabbing herself incessantly.
Nalar focuses venemous words at Sorshen in a seemingly futile attempt to get through to her. To his surprise, a lull in the battle causes his words to echo clearly and the woman whirls on him, her features shifting for a moment showing blazing red eyes, horns on her forehead and alabster white skin, before she again regains control of her emotions and her appearance flashes back to "normal." She whirls back to Oriana, but glances askance a couple times at Nalar, trembling slightly.
Braelex comes back into focus, shaking her head a moment before turning to Sorshen. "I just knew there was a hideous beast under that mask," Braelex adds to the taunting. She unhooks a grenade and hurls it at the imposter. "Something stinks in here, and it's her!"
;
"... sorry, bad pun."
Vuloo will cast protection from evil on braelex to give her another save versus the confusion spell.
Andel will again cast timely inspiration on either Relan, Braelex or Oriana (in that order of priority), depending on who misses their attack this round - giving them a retroactive +1 competence bonus on the attack.
Nalar raises a hand, trying his luck with another spell.
Andel will attempt to identify Sorshen when she momentarily shifts to her true form.
Relan continues to stand at the ready while Vuloo sends another protection spell Braelex's way
Braelex acts normally this round and throws a bomb exploding in a cloud of fire and noxious fumes scorching "Sorshen" slightly before the greenish gas takes her from your view.
Andel tries to pick out what he sees in Sorshen's features, but the moment is too fleeting and incomplete for him to assess well.
Nalar sends a sparkling blast of glitterdust into the cloud as well, an explosion of glittering light that hopefully catches the caster in the vapor cloud.
; success
The wizardess flies out of the cloud to the north, fiery holes still smoking on her now glitter-covered gown and she turns her rage on Braelex,casting a spell and sending a ghostly demonic version of herself streaking toward the alchemist.
Vuloo, getting nervous, casts a silence spell on the space around Sorshen.
Andel will move behind a pillar and then will once again cast timely inspiration on either Relan, Braelex or Oriana (in that order of priority), depending on who misses their attack this round - giving them a retroactive +1 competence bonus on the attack.
Braelex's eyes bulge in overwhelming fear as she lets out a bloodcurdling scream. She drops her crossbow and bolt as she grasps her head with both hands. Then her scream suddenly ends as she falls to the ground, dead.
With a gasp of breath you open your eyes, like you're rousing from a dream. You are lying on a flat piece of stone ... very uncomfortable. There are short stone walls surrounding you closely but no ceiling. Looking up you recognize one of the lights of the Lady's Light looking down at you.
... and it appears you are wearing a dress.
; miss
; miss
Sitting up, something feels wrong. You recognize the sarcophagus where you found the apparently dead yet well preserved body of Sorshen when you first entered the Lady's Light from the chute up above. You can hear the river ahead of you.
In fact, looking around you don't see the body of the Runelord. You appear to be sitting where she was lying.
Although your hands appear to have a different pigment and you notice long black hair swinging into your view as you turn your head ...
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As he tries to identify the spell just cast Brewer's scream cuts through the air sending a chill down his spine and demolitioning his train of thought. As her life less corpse drops to the floor only one spell remains in his mind. "Phantasmal Killer." He whispers under his breath. Damn it, it can't end like this He thinks as he casts Dispel Magic targeting Sorshen's sheild spell.
You've become a human ... female, and apparently quite beautiful. Having just been up close to someone posing as Sorshen, you don't need a mirror to realize that you have awoken in that body.
You feel spry and robust, stronger and clear minded.
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Unsure of all that is happening Relan stays ready and watches the floating woman, hoping for a chance to attack.
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Relan watches the display of magic back and forth and tries to stay abreast of what's going on, itching for a chance to stab the woman.
Vuloo creates a sound dead zone in the north east portion of the room, obviously affecting Sorshen by the look on her face.
Oriana fires again, running dangerously low on arrows and again gains benefit from Andel's spell, this time putting an arrow into the woman's shoulder, her silent cry unheard but very visible
;
; miss
Nalar targets the shield spell with his dispel and shatters it.
Sorshen herself looks about and has to make a decision ... west or north. She flies west, above the party and finds the ability to hear again and casts another spell. Vuloo feels paralysis coming over him.
Having taken care of the sheild spell Nalar falls back on his trusted tactic, holding a spell ready to disrupt Sorshen's concentration.
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Narrowly evading Sorshen's spell, Vuloo covers the room above them with another silence spell - taking care to keep the sphere above Nalar .
Andel will once again cast timely inspiration on either Relan, Braelex or Oriana (in that order of priority), depending on who misses their attack this round - giving them a retroactive +1 competence bonus on the attack.
Relan continues his frustrated perusal of this spell fight from afar. Vuloo pushes through the paralyzing spell and creates another bubble of silence, affecting the woman again.
Oriana fires 2 more arrows striking the woman once with help from Andel, yet again.
;
Nalar readies a spell, but the faux Runelord instead flies southeast into the stinking cloud disappearing from view. She then descends to hover 5 feet above the floor and rips her guisarme from the wall near the bed side.
"Fine then, come get it!"
With a look of determination on his face Relan advances cautiously (Combat Expertise) and attacks. It seems he has been standing stiff too long and his muscles to not respond initially to his demands of them.
Vuloo casts burst of radiance such that he hits Sorshen but not Relan.
If she succeeds in the save, he will use his misfortune revelation as an immediate action to force her to re-roll the save.
For the final time, Andel will cast timely inspiration on Oriana - giving her a retroactive +1 competence bonus on the attack.
Relan moves stiffly and carefully taking a probing swing at the woman who knocks his polearm aside with hers with a casual hiss of disdain, eyes glowing inhumanly red now.
Vuloo casts a dazzling burst of light and the Runelord seethes in true pain for the first time as the radiant light burns at her, creating tendrils of smoke on her exposed skin charring the flawless alabaster and blinding her.
;
Oriana drops her bow and draws her longsword rushing in with a wordless scream to duck in past Relan.
Seems real enough, she determines after a moment. We just came through here... any tracks?
Seeing Sorshen pick up her guisarme Nalar unleashes his spell, sending a volley of magic at her.
Rapidly exhausting his magic, Nalar fires another round of rays.
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Nalar slams the woman with bolts of force. Blinded she snarls in frustration and flies straight up 10 feet spraying fire from her finger tips at where Relan and Oriana were.
Fire damage, Reflex Save DC 16 for half.
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