Will really wished they didn't need to keep doing that. He was starting to get paranoid that he was slowly attuning himself to hell. Even still, as soon as they break through back to the material plane, he charges off. He leaps high as he closes on and swings for the Captain.
Zerisi cocks his arm back to launch the card at the Captain, but seeing Will run off in that direction, he changes tactics and follows along in his wake, abandoning his card to pull the sword from his hip, he starts to swing it just as he reaches the captain.
Dragash takes a step forward, away from where they teleported and lobs several bombs at the creature carrying the captain. He's making sure not to catch any of his compatriots in the blast but the captain will get caught too. Dragash does not think that the delibating effects of his bombs will cause any issue to this pair so throws frost bombs instead.
Dissipating into the ethereal plane, a few of your attacks go straight through.
A mere two blows connect; Will's charge and Dragash's bomb. While they piece and scorch the captain with frost they prove unable to prevent him from transferring with his xill directly onto the Ethereal plane.
With the captain fled, a rare moment of calm grips the landscape as the party processes what it has learnt.
Rosa seeing his gone says some rude words, then straps her thing on.
"I know where the Demon has gone, So I'm going after him, it up to you if you want to come as well. I must warn you, we may end up a long way away and have to send some time there looking."
Dragash sighs annoyed that the thing got away. "Shall we go back to town then? We know that the emissary is attacking a town to the north of the crash location at dawn and I can't think of many that are around here. I'd rather not let the town get destroyed."
Rosa stops,
"I I'll bet that's where he's going. To meet up with this thing. Ok I agree let's head back to twon"
Zerisi nods absentmindedly as the others plan to return. After a moment, he starts counting on his fingers...
"Mhmm, yes, yes...er...did we miss a room in the ship? It could have more... Who knows!?"
Zerisi's eyes light up at the idea of more unknowns.
"Just the shadow. Didn't seem like it could leave." At least he hoped. With the captain gone, who knew. Highest priority was the city and this thing called the emissary. Will begins walking back towards the ship anyway. They'd left some important things back there.
Coming out from behind a rock, the bat-lady looks nervously at you, shooting cautious glances at the ship.
She seems unwilling to come with you, preferring to stay here and keep watch on the ship.
Together, the chartered adventures ride through the night, racing against the dawn and the horror prophesied to fall with it. Eventually you cross the final hill and look down on the town below; lamps dimmed, streets still busy with small bangs of men and women joining then splitting then joining again in hushed discussion and angry gesture. Even from a distance the air seems stifling, oppressive and humid, as if from a final storm.
Then, suddenly, the tension explodes with a lightning bolt in the form of a terrifying apparition.
From your position high on the hill, you hear a terrifying roar, deep and alien, as a purple-skinned giant's head explodes out of the roof of the Mineshaft tavern before shrugging off the building and smashing its way through the wall onto the streets. Screams filled the air as the monster charges forward, grabbing men and women bodily and crushing them or tearing them apart with its bare hands.
By the time you reach the town, five men lie dead, two of them split in half as the giant rampages. Recalling Abtaroh's journal, Dragash guesses that the creature is Nalan Hossler, given a potent and experimental dose to attempt to trigger a dramatic transformation in body and mind.
You spy Dalviss, entreating the town's guard and encouraging them to set up a solitary ballista as he turns to you, desperate, his eyes filled with a simple plea. HELP US!
As the bat woman comes our Rosa turns to the summoned Devils and Hector.
"If you don't want to rost for all time in a pit of Lava, you will go back and report we have an Incursion form the void. Agent Rosa Luminass Hound, Location Prime Duskpawn town, estimated time 12 hours form now. Do you understand."
They node.
"Tell them to send support and get word to the Hell Knights."
Then she calls out.
"Hector!"
"Yes Mistress"
Says a voice as the imp comes into view just above her.
"Your going with them, go back and give a full report, tell the everything, the location and the entity we will be facing. You understand, if it gets past us I want who ever they send next to know what they will be facing. This thing has to be stopped do you understand?."
The Imp nods, all playfulness now gone from him.
"Yes mistress, as you command"
"Good! now go!"
The summoned Devils and Imp vanish with a puff of brimstone.
Rosa turns to the others.
"Well lets hope someone is on watch that understands the agency of this. Now lets get going"
"...well, this will be one hell of a story..." Zerisi says, uncharacteristically subdued. The colorful man is standing still, focusing on the Emissary.
Shaking himself back after a split second, he starts humming a tune, and over a few seconds moves into freely singing a melodic song. Though free of any words, it quickly morphs from its slow pace into a heart-pounding rhythm, and though it's strange, everyone who hears it feels buoyed.
"Wait for the opening," Will says, surprisingly loud. He and Arion move into position in front of the others. He holds his weapon high as he stands in the stirrups. They are obviously about to make a charge against the monstrosity.
Dragash moves up swigs a potion then coats an arrow for later.
Munching on a leg, the purple-headed monstrosity notices you, turns and roars.
Rosa moves, taking her sword she points at the best.
Round 1
The head of his weapon comes down at the same time he urges Arion forward into a charge. He lets momentum bring it back, then swings it forward and up when he reaches the monstrosity.
Zerisi draws a card from his deck and took a quick look at it as he strode forward quickly, sidestepping Rosa to open up a path towards the beast.
'Well-played Fates, well-played.' he thought, imbuing the card with energy and hurling it past Will and towards The Emissary.
"'The Marriage'" he said, announcing the card, "represents unification of teams! Appropriate, yes? Master Emissary, I fear you won't survive the day!"
As soon as Will moves into range, the creature lashes out with its vicious bite, trying to sink teeth into his shoulder.
Will's charge and Zerisi's card fail to penetrate the creature's tough hide.
Dragash coats another arrow and moves up drawing his bow.
Furious, the purple-skinned giant advances, lashing out with bite, slam and tentacle against the bow-wielding Dragash, the creature's low cunning detecting a more fragile opponent.
Behind you, Dalviss attempts to rally the townsfolk in a cheer; he raises an old halberd, his former life's armor strapped to his body in his efforts to help fend off the purple beast. "Yes! YES! Look, good people of Dustpawn, to our deliverers from madness! To our... to out..." his voice falls away as high above, the mysterious emissary exerts his power and will. A shadow appears in the sky, an illusion of a moon, its face a changing kalaidoscope of monstrous faces, each more bestial than the last. It slips across the sky and slides between the sun and the planet, turning the land for miles around Dustpawn to a ghostly blue twilight.
With the shuddering comes the transformation. In a thousand voices, the people of dustpawn collapse to the ground, scratching at their risks, grasping at their bellies as a single scream rises from them; skin slowly turns into scales, nails into claws, hair into fur. They shudder and shake as the bestial magic begins to take its toll.
Of them all, one experiences the change the fastest. Dalviss Crenn, fallen to a single knee, face bowed to the ground where you cannot see as his body seems to bulge and expand. When he looks up again to see you, his face has undergone a swift and agonizing wolflike transformation, as he springs at you!
Round 2
Will leaps of his steed with practiced ease and is about to order him to attack the giant beast when the world goes dark. A strange object covers the sun and the people of Dustspawn collapse. Delviss is the only one to get back up, but he is not the same. Will can sense a predatory intent coming from behind and makes a judgment call. He sends Arion back while he engages the monster.
Dragash drinks a potion and moves away from the creature.
Resisting part of Will's strength-sapping scythe, the creature's hide is regardless penetrated by Will's blow.
Ignoring Arion, Dalviss fixes his gaze upon Zerisi and charges forward, Halberd swinging.
Rosa sword flamed with black fire then she was gone, coming into being again behind the demon her great sword flashed twice seeking to shatter its spine, and back.
Uses her Travel domain ability to teleport to the other side of the best giving others flanking.
She places her Neg energy in her massive blade
Attack 1:
Attack 2:
"Demon I have fight greater beings than thee and sent them back to the void."
She says as her grate blade swings.
Zerisi swoops forward in a rolling tumble, and throws a handful of cards in the air, briefly obscuring him from vision. A fraction of a second later, 4 more of him have appeared, copying his motions exactly.
There are a few that do not, the fey template is one, or the Sudden Shift (Sp) from the Trickery/Deception domain, where a miss attack allows a PC to teleport shift in combat, this is another, the power granted by the travel domain, they are classes as moves action [Or less] (Sp) stating the part action a PC dose in place of a move and so letting you have an action after. Where as casting the spell takes that action, unless you have feats to reduce it. Also they are classes as move with line of site [restricted] in description so as to do away with disorientation and let them act as a move action as you know where you are, again in cases where there is no line of site, there is disorientation and again you need feats to remove it.
All other GMs I have played with and myself rule that this is the case for movement action powers like this, that are restricted to line of site and stated clearly as as move action.
None move action Teleport [or less] like power or none line of sight ones [restricted] and yes a PC turn ends.
If your ruling is this it ends her term then I will have to change action. But that would brake a number of powers like this in the game.
Like Sudden Shift which would be the most useless and deadly power ever in combat haha.
If you agree then I did get wrong is she can't have a full attack, so she dose not do that second attack.
Rosa teleports, appearing next to Dalviss and smashing down with a blow, connecting.
The giant attacks Zerisi as he downs a potion in front of it.
Its strength somewhat sapped, the creature lashes out at Will.
Round 3
Acrobatic as he was, Will could only dodge or deflect most of the attacks. Two got through his defenses and one nearly gutted him. He misjudged the reach of its claws. Painful lesson. He didn't want to take another flurry like that. Will draws back for an attack with his main weapon but doesn't follow through. Instead he jabs with his left hand into the beasts leg, injecting his Ki to disrupt the beast and cause excruciating pain.
Dragash coats another arrow, last one for now and heals himself so he is not on the brink of death in the safety of his invisibility.
Will's blow just barely connects, staggering the creature
Casting an eye brwteen the many Zerisis, the lupine Dalviss growls and rounds on Rosa.
In unison, all 5 Zerisis draw a pair of cards from their deck, and then launch them at the Emissary in rapid succession.
The cloud of illusionary cards disappear just before hitting the monster, leaving only the two real ones, which deflect off the the beast and stick into the wall of a nearby building, staying there for only a second before they disappear, having re-materialized back in Zerisi's deck.
'Well, deception won't win the day, it seems...'
Zerisi calls out to the others is a lighthearted voice,
"An idea, friends! Just kill it, before it does the same to us! Easy!"
The Great demonic best turns on Rosa, smashing down on her large form, she blocks one blow but another hits her hard, she takes it grunting in pain, then with out stopping returns blows with the best. But she was a hound of hell trained and bread for this, she had slain Demons and devils alike, this to her was an act of worship more than a fight.
"Get thee BACK!"
And a blow of her sharper than sharp blade seeks to cut deep into the hide if the best.
"The Hells Command THEE!"
Again that black hell blade comes down seeking cutting deep.
Rosa blade screams in joy as it cuts burning with black fire.
Rosa's twin blows connect. Dalviss roars in pain as his shoulder is sliced open.
Winded, Nalan bites at Will.
Will didn't have a lot of options to attack with walls on either side but he still had a few tricks up his sleeve. For instance, with walls on either side, he could use them as springboards to get greater height and strike at the head. He springs off one wall and then another, gaining a few feet and strikes high with an overhead chop.
Again penetrating the giant's hide, Will manages to severely hurt the creature; though far from fatally.
Dalviss continues smashing into Rosa.
Rosa takes the hit then shifts back some 20' blinking in and out of existence. Then a wave of dark energy wells up from her,
Channel Neg energy harm devil will save DC16 1/2 on it, heals Rosa.
The giant is unaffected by Rosa's burst.
The cloud of Zerisis slides up behide Will and continues to throw cards at Nalan, convinced from the harrow cards he's drawn so far that this is the right course of action.