La Siréene grits her teeth in agitation. ”potentially, yes, but not currently, as I do not have such magic memorized.”
The bone golem appears across the plain of snow. The horrific humanoid figure is a large mass of bones and skulls, tied together with slick ropes of sinew.
It starts lumbering towards you.
Round 1:
Ianez chants melodiously in an arcane tongue, and everyone around him feels their spirits uplifted by his words.
La Siréene steps back to and starts casting . Bone Golem is the primary concern. Think about Olivia later...
Olivia rears up and backwards, like an umbrella blown by the rain. Her outline appears blurred, shifting, and wavering. She reaches out and casts ice storm. Great magical hailstones crash upon your heads, bludgeoning your party for damage! The chill inflicts an additional cold damage to every creature in the area. A depressing heavy snow and sleet rains down.
La Siréene staggers as the hailstones hit, her magic waning, the shadows surrounding her flickering...
Elspeth is Incorporeal, so half damage from spells = 8 damage.
MM is Dr 2/magic and turns 5 points of bludeoning into NL, so 7 +5 = 12 damage.
Have I got this right?
"Holy ones! Attack the Bones" yells Caromarc, relying on the Archon's truespeech.
Realising his orders do not command them to stay in the deadly cold the Archons fly out, only one losing the battle against the winds
Those who can attack the golem
Turning to Quinn the Earl shrugs
"If I am correct, the lady will see death as a blessing, but I doubt our attacks will do more than subdue her."
Turning back, and with regret in his voice he apologises and lets loose with a spell.
Pushing through the storm - and Blackacre - the Manservant moves towards the Golem
Elspeth - incoporeal - ignores the wind forces of the storm and moves towards the wraith.
The light rays pierce the golem, heating and cracking its yellowed bones!
The lone pair stand on the ice bridge, the monk and Caromarc. The ice chasm looms vast all around them. The snowy winds whip Caromarc's cape wildly about. The wizard steadies himself...raises his hand... Five magic missiles rise up from the darkness and sail through the white of the storm, five bolts of burning blue energy that cut through the air...shhhhhhwwmm, shhhhhhwwmm, shhhhhhwwmm, shhhhhhwwmm, shhhhhhwwmm....
They home in, hit the flying spectre, and knock her about, each impact radiating a pool of prismatic light. When the first one hits, she pops open her parasol and tries to block the subsequent missiles. The gesture is sadly human and ineffective.
Volst grimaces, exerting tremendous effort in his unseen, faraway struggle back on the ground. "Gggnnntthhh!" he grunts, and you can tell his attention is preoccupied elsewhere. "Oh, no," he utters. "This is going poorly."
THIRD WAVE OF SKELETON MINIONS DEFEATED. BATTERY NEEDS NEW CHARGE.
The Eternity Bracer erupts with blue sparks. Black-violet tendrils lash out electrocuting Quinn!
"They're bringing the siege harder now. We're getting hit by more powerful foes!"
… Wait. The summoning spell, it is not merely diminishing away, disappearing… it is being siphoned, drawing into her shape, as intangible shapes play around her wrists, eventually forming rows of binary …
”OhGHH –” … and once again, La Siréene’s vision goes green.
UNSTABLE VOID ENERGIES SUCESSFULLY INTEGRATED INTO PATHETIC FLESH INTERFACE.
CONNECTING …
”-HHHKCHT!” The metallic static once again ends La Siréene’s moan of pain, as the binary changes, morphing into darkness, so tangible as to appear material, curling around her hands.
The world once again wavers before her eyes …
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A shadow, empty. No texture, no body, no identity, no sex.
La Siréene faces it, standing opposite of it, dressed in nothing but the heart resting on her chest.
It stands still, at attention, patiently observing.
La Siréene tenses first, then relaxes, observing the form for a few moments until she speaks up.
”Nameless? “
The empty form shakes its head.
"ผมมีชื่อ ฉันพี่น้องเงา."
Pause, then the form nods to La Siréene.
"ชื่อของคุณคือ La Siréene ฉันเป็น ... สร้างขึ้นจากคุณ บางแง่มุมของคุณสัมผัสได้ถึงความเป็นโมฆะ "
Shadow Sibling makes a sweeping gesture.
"คุณทราบตนเอง กับคุณคนอื่น ๆ ทั้งหมดจะเป็นโครงสร้าง บางทีคุณอาจจะพบพวกเขาที่น่าสนใจ; คุณดูเหมือนจะตะลุยในพวกเขา แต่พวกเขามีความสำคัญที่สุด คุณเป็นคนตัวเองเท่านั้นดังนั้นคุณต้องรักษาด้วยตนเอง เมื่อเป็นเช่นนั้นผมพยายามที่จะรักษาความปลอดภัยของคุณ. "
The Shadow Sibling bows deep before its mistress.
"พรพระเจ้าของฉัน."
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As La Siréene opens her eye, the darkness fades away, only leaving her body with a shadowy appearance.
She looks around at her allies, sees that they do exist.
She turns her attention to the Bone Golem again, a grim expression on her face.
So… within my mind, you reside, then.
จริง.
One of these threats must be eliminated forthwith. Let us take the nearest one.
Blackacre advances to the edge of the ice storm , drawing his pistol and loading a barrel. He peers through the ice and snow, takes careful aim, and fires on the golem.
A bone golem is immune to any spell or spell-like ability that allows spell resistance. In addition, certain spells and abilities function differently against the creature, as noted below.
• Magical effects that heal living creatures slow a bone golem (as the slow spell).
• A magical attack that deals negative energy damage breaks any slow effect on the golem and heals the golem.
• A raise dead, resurrection, or true resurrection spell negates its DR and immunity to magic for 1 minute.
In addition to melee attacks, bone golems are able to magically duplicate their bones and create a bone prison, which traps and attacks those it contains. These can be destroyed, but this has no effect on the golem itself.
The shot hits and smashes a skull tied into the golem's carapace. The bony hulk creaks, but does not break.
Quinn find it hard to decide which target to fire upon. There is an internal struggle within him in firing to the female floating in the air, but two thins helps him make up his mind. It is Caromarc's response to his initial question, "If I am correct, the lady will see death as a blessing, but I doubt our attacks will do more than subdue her." and her initial acrane attack upon the monk's friends.
This seems to make sense to the monk and he releases his volley of four arrows towards the floating spectre.
Quinn's first and fourth arrows hit Olivia. Her dark form is lit up by sizzling bolts of electricity! brzzzzzz zzzzzz ZAP! She throws her hands up in twitching claws.
Quinn's first and fourth arrows hit Olivia. Her dark form is lit up by sizzling bolts of electricity! brzzzzzz zzzzzz ZAP! She throws her hands up in twitching claws.
I trudge towards the bone behemoth, not knowing what I will so when I get there.
The golem magically duplicates its bones, which fan out like fingers...more of them...more of them...a sculpture reaching up to the sky like a twisted pipe-organ made out of marrow. It breaks off some bones, and throws a round bone cage onto the Mechanical Manservant. He is caught!
The monster huffs and continues trudging in the direction of Blackacre and Sandru .
Volst rummages around in Phoebe's satchel. "What is this?" He jerks his hand back as if something bit him. "I think these are bird droppings! Why is this infernal girl carrying around bird droppings? How disgusting!"
He flicks the guano from his hand , and ends up comically and quite accidentally casting eagle's splendor upon Ianez.
Round 2:
Round 2:
Ianez calls on his newly-increased arcane mastery and slicks the ground under the bone golem with ectoplasmic slime.
The slick coats the snowy ground. The golem's feet slide back and forth, and slice out from under it.
Top-heavy...it falls and lands on its back.
La Siréene turns towards Olivia, raises her hand, and calls down a Flame Strike, careful to hit her with the edge of the blast so as not to injure Elspeth.
La Siréene stares at her hand afterwards, contemplatively. No sadness, no sorrow. I am … unperturbed at seeing Olivia again.
ของผู้หญิงแน่นอนสำหรับคุณคิดถูก คุณอยู่นอกเหนือความเศร้าโศกเกินกว่าความโศกเศร้าสำหรับสร้าง
La Siréene looks at her own form. To prioritize another being before oneself is a construct action…
FssssskKRAKOOOM! A column of fire lights up the cavern, bathing the restless spirit in flames.
Olivia exhales softly into the frigid air, half sigh, half like the reedy wail of a banshee. Nooo...
She eerily breaks away from Elspeth and floats through the snowstorm, out over the icy ravine, until she hovers next to Caromarc . For a moment, she looks at him searchingly, as if expecting to find some answer to her torment and misery. Her features harden into a snarl. She reaches out, gently caresses the mage's chin, and places both her hands against his cheeks. Her touch is ice, and leeches the warmth from his skin. He turns blue. Ice crystals form along his jawline and upon his brow.
Tears form on Caromarc's face - then freeze solid. He falls over the edge - and vanishes into the driving snow.
swift action to shift to K15
Elsepth freezes momentarily - then charges Olivia. Only Caromarc hears her words
You B*$!*!
Suddenly on Olivia, Elspeth strikes wildly.
Can Elspeth (incorporeal) grapple Olivia (incorporeal)?
"Jornel!" screams the Mechanical Monstrosity, lashing out with his Scythe.
Is he free?
Not sure if the fact they were both incorporeal cancelled out.
The scythe cuts through the bones, and splits the cage open. It falls to the ground around the Manservant. He is free.
Elspeth attacks courageously but doesn't damage the wavering chill form.
Advancing on the Bone Golem, the Scythe-wielding Servitor brings it down again.
Above the ice a vortex opens momentarily and Caromarc plunges out, landing in the snow.
One of his Pearls goes dark as he again releases his magic
The Manservant misses. The blade sinks into the nearby snow.
Caromarc's magical bolts zoom through the storm like glowing vultures...once more, slamming Olivia with an arcane barrage!
Blackacre takes a 5' step to I29, loads powder and shot, rules Thou shalt not stand in our way, golem , and fires on the bone golem.
The prone guardian braces itself as another skull on its torso is blown to pieces.
It cricks its neck and focuses on Blackacre with silent menace.
Quinn takes a 5 foot step back away from Olivia and unleashes his 4 arrows.
Two arrows strike Olivia. brzzzzzz zzzzzz ZAP!
She is rocked by seizures and vaporizes into...oblivion...
"ThAAAnk you"..she says. "Please stop Hareton, my heroes." Her spirit breaks apart and blows away with the snow.
Not that it's mattered, but don't forget the good hope spell.
Two of the archons rise higher, three of them pour holy fire into the fallen Golem. The last archon braves the storm to assist his fellows.