"She's down boss"
Says the unseen imp.
Rosa move out and looks down where the centipedes are.
"back to me, we go hunting another way"
She says, as they brake combat and head to her. Rosa turns and heads back down the passage they came.
She says as she walks away.
"While my pets are here I will use them to scout the other caves. Hector your with me, if any of you others wish to, then follow"
She walks up and past the fallen woman, check the caves are dead ends then heads back to other cave root and then sends her three centipedes off down the other caves.
"Hector follow behind them, report what you see"
She moves in a little then waits for him to come back.
Even though he never really showed emotion, Will was starting to feel a little underutilized. Those bombs of Dragash were incapacitating every target so far. That was probably best case really. No way to know if someone like that bat woman was too far gone to be returned to normal or not. "Bind and stabilize only," Will says to Zerisi as he follows after Rosa. No since risking their own lives trying to subdue them all if it was a lost cause. But Dragash gave them an opportunity at least. Now they had to clear the mine.
Dragash walks over to the bat creature and with a little more time attempts to identify the creature or if it was an Id mutation like Leeara how far gone she is.
"Rosa, Look out for another planet thing would you? I'm wondering if the planet thing this creature was talking about is related to the planet sphere we found with Leeara. I'm beginning to wonder if what we're up against is a cult of worshippers to space instead of something from the meteor, either way, it's not something pleasant."
Dragash pauses as he examines the Bat "We should be cautious we haven't met this starry robed figure yet who has the poison to mutate us."
"absolutely wrecked"
"absolutely wrecked"
The centipedes advance.
The tunnel widens into a cave with an exit leading out the opposite wall. A five-foot-wide pit fills the eastern side of the cave, and just beyond the pit, a three-foot-tall wall of jagged stones has been erected to form a low barricade.
Dragash identifies an id mutation; a permanent one, by this stage. Only Wish or death will save her.
If restored to consciousness, she snarls and starts uncontrollably biting and scratching; heavy mundane or magical restraints are required.
Rosa nods as Dragash asks her to keep an eye out for more planet Orbs.
"That I will do Dragash"
She then heads odd behind her pets and Hector.
As Will comes up to join her she smiles at him.
"Glad to see your coming Will, Would you mind taking point behind my pets, I have to keep an eye on them, they need some controlling. Call out the root and I will send them."
When they get to the.
Rosa looks at it.
whisper "Hector have a look past it"
To the Centipedes,
"Up and over"
They go up the cave walls looking for a way past the three-foot-tall wall of jagged stones.
Dragash shakes his head. "We are not going to get much out of her, she is beyond our help." He looks solemnly at her. "We could either keep her alive and try to find a solution to her predicament as there might be some way to reverse this mutation that is with the starry robed figure or at the crash site. Though we would need to cage her somehow which will be difficult. The only other way I see is..." He pauses as he gets up. "..killing her." Dragash sighs "It would be a small comfort her mind released from this."
Dragash looks to Zerisi "I saw you cast some magic before, would you have anything to calm her down? We know she is capable of speech as she was talking in Aklo. Perhaps you had a spell that could get her to talk at that level once more? I can talk Aklo if you can't.. are willing to give that a go if you have something?" Dragash asks Zerisi.
Stand behind some mildly disobedient, enormous, venomous, bugs? Sure why not. Will rolls his eyes at the request but complies anyway. Truth be told, he was getting bored. He realized the importance of properly scouting your foe but this was not war. This was supposed to be an adventure. Something he hadn't done in a while. I would be nice to square off against the unknown for once.
As the worms climb their way across the walls, a figure in black star-struck robes stands from his crouched position hiding behind the barricade, and flees. "Intruders! INTRUDERS!"
Rosa looks round as all Hell brakes lose, she slaps Will once on the back,
"Your go"
She says with a smile and gets ready for combat.
"Hector go get the others!"
Dos not say anything but shots off to get the others.
when he gets to them,
"We found trouble Boss says come"
"So Zerisi, do you have anything to help with this? A spell to calm emotions? Maybe subtle mind-affecting spell to ease her into her speech like she was doing before?" Dragash asks once more.
"Hmmm..." Zerisi says, trailing off into thought.
I suppose I could try and charm her, like with Leeara. Though she's a bit more far gone. Perhaps it's worth a shot though"
"And if that doesn't work, I can always paralyze her body and we can bring her back to town!" he says with an over-eager grin.
"And never fear, she'll still be able to talk with you. I can even give her access to our language, if you like."
The Centipedes have made it past the wall, as that is what made wee man run off.
Rosa says "Hold and defend"
To the Centipedes just the other side of the wall.
"Sword, shield"
Her force shield comes up again.
Bound, Zerisi's charm proves unable to moderate her struggles.
For a brief moment it seems Rosa's slap on the back might have been too much as Will leans dangerously far over the pit. But with seemingly little effort, he explodes off the edge and sails high over the pit and the 3ft wall on the other side. At the fork, he peers down the narrow tunnel. It would be a tight fit and the man appeared to be blocking the exit. Will looks back at the centipede's and then the narrow corridor. "Rosa, send them right," he says across the pit.
Rosa seeing Will jump, is on moment looking on at him then as he moves she is the other side of the Wall. There is a slight smell of brimstone as this happens. She Drops 5' and lands as he arrives.
Landing she Nods at asks her to send them right.
"head right my pets and hunt"
The centipedes move off right.
A flurry of casting can be heard from within the cave.
Rosa blinks herself forward safely; Will faces a different danger. As he approaches the edge of the pit to leap across, he finds the floor beneath him suddenly slipping away as a concealed floor flips, seeking to dump him down into a pit. At the last moment, he manages to leap away.
Deep within the pit, a wicked axe trap melts into black ooze, which slowly begins to climb its way up the walls.
"Hmm. That doesn't seem to be working Zerisi." Dragash says looking down at the struggling bat creature in front of them.
"I can talk Aklo if that could help. Maybe I can try talking to her as you administer another spell?" Dragash asks hesitantly, not entirely sure what would work.
"No harm giving it a go I suppose" He shuffles his feet a bit before trying to talk. This is not the first time he's seen a rabid half human creature. He's had plenty of experience with Werewolves, though those that lose themselves so readily are no use to the pack so are often either exiled or killed.Those are both options he doubts they will be that useful here despite it being common back in the forests of his former home.
"Calm down, we heard your singing about the sky above. About the planets. Is one of the planets Abbalon? We found a small one with a friend of yours. Do you have a planet too?" Dragash asks carefully.
Round 2
"The boss wants you now, we got trouble"
Says the imp down the cave, as it zips in.
Speaking Aklo, that bat-woman seems to perk up at Dragash mentioning the planet; he produces it.
She noticeably calms down, and resumes muttering her strange words in Aklo. Her fingers start to move beneath her bonds, indicating she wants to gesture something.
Deep within the cave, chanting emerges. With a gesture, a ball of fire shifts into your midst and explodes.
Synchronized gestures follow, along with a further flurry of fireballs.
A bead of glowing light was all the warning Will got and all the warning he needed. He pushed his senses to their very limits to both protect and avoid against the oncoming wave of fire. He presses hard against the stone to expose as little flesh as possible to the scorching heat. Most hit and incinerate the centipedes but one manages to impact close to him. The burn is minor compared to the damage that could have happened. He thinks about retreating down corridor but knows that Rosa, if she survives, is now at heavy disadvantage from the ooze and the casters.
Thinking quickly, he decides that removing their obstacle to retreat was the wisest course. He scampers across the opening and squeezes past Rosa over to the hole. As artistic as his attacks usually were, this one was pure violence. He rises his blade high and brings it down. A blade of pure force erupts from the end and slams into the ooze at the bottom of the pit.
Will's blade smashes into the ooze, yet barely seems to faze the creature; it would seem it will take many such blows to take it down.
Seeing Will have a problem then the Ooze Rose sees what kind.
She sends her pets past and makes the port across after Will.
On Will sugestion she sends them down to the right.
Then hearing the mumbled words of magic casting she trys to work out what.
Her eyes go wide
"£&%*£^!!"
Is all she says trying to protect herself, then a storm of magic fire balls hit the space and hell comes after.
R = Rose = 68/75 Fire DMG [Alive]
C1 = Centipede 1: 107 Fire DMG [Dead]
C2 = Centipede 2: 116 Fire DMG [Dead]
C3 = Centipede 3: 134 Fire DMG [Dead]
A wall of flame comes Rosa's way she dos her best to cover herself with her force shield and move under the blasts but a few got past and the heat is there no mater what. Her flash could take some, but all those fire balls all at once. The three Centipedes and the Rosa got engulfed in magic flame. Their Scrams fill the are as they burn and die. Just as fast as they came the magic Flames dissipate. Few things could have survived that, yet from the Flame Rosa is reviled, still Standing, still alive. Her flesh is a horror to be seen, Her Skin blacked, her clothing smoldering, her Silver eyes glowing with red with heat, from blacken and broken lips she says.
"You ^F%£^£ers are going to pay for that."
And then she moves up past will says a few words low and into the Cave wall just behind him to become unseen. Out of site of the mages who fire bombed her.
Rosa says they will pay then Steps behind Will.
"Hold on Will I am getting is past this black blob"
Then she reaches out touching him they vanish,
The is a moments image of the Hells the smell of brimstone and fire.
They they come into being down the cave.
Zerisi looks on as Dragash interrogates the bound woman, his attention waning as he doesn't understand the words they speak.
When Hector comes and delivers his message, he immediately makes for the other end of the cave, trying to join the others as soon as he can.
Dragash is about to help the bat creature with what she's pointing at, then the imp flies in warning that the others are in trouble. He says to the creature in Aklo hastily. "My friends are in danger, stay right here I will be back. I won't be long."
Dragash then downs a potion of Expeditious Retreat and chases after Zerisi at speed.
In front of Rosa and Will, the air flickers then expands into a star-studded hole; a woman with long white hair and black-studded robes steps out, pulling with her three lesser cultists.
Two aim rays of fire at Rosa.
The third begins chanting a spell.
The ray of fire deflects past Rosa missing her.
She smirks at the gang of cultists.
"Nice try ^££&* wits, now lets see you do that again"
Rosa takes a 5' step back to Will and says
"Hold on Will..."
Then Rosa places her hand on him and says a word, then they are in another place, a place of fire and pain, a place where the sun never shines, they move through a landscape if doom, around them are the Hells.
They pop back into being at the entrance to the mine, close to Will Mount.
"...^££&* I miss home"
Rosa says leaning back on the wall close to will mount, she smiles at him.
Hector follows the others to the fight.
Rosa Sword is pointing out form her as she leans on the wall. It starts to glow with Electricity.
"We going to start killing soon?"
Round 3
Will's reaction to the first jump is the same as it was the second. He stood there a moment, eyes slightly wide and pulse quickened. "It's...nice," he says in an attempt to be polite despite having seen something horrifying. He had little experience with the planes and did not recognize the Nine Hells. The experience is quickly ignored in favor of the battle at hand. He dashes forward and and down the tunnel, realigning his Ki after the disruptive journey.
Zerisi continues his movement towards the action, stopping just before the cave narrows to cast a spell.
As the echos of his chant quickly fade off into the cave, 5 copies of Zerisi explode out of nowhere, each mimicking his fluid motions as he fingers a card from his deck and looks down the passage in front of him.
Dragash speeds into view of the cultists. Hah the starry robed figure, let's give her what for.
Dragash bottles a blinding bomb and lets it fly at the starry robed figure.
Let's hope this gives me just enough time to get some more ready. He thinks as he is getting prepared to throw another allotment.
Dragash's bombs create chaos among the amassed cultists.
The one casting however maintains her spell.
With no foes plaguing it, the ooze sinks down to the bottom of the pit.
The two cultists at the rear advance.
The three cultists summon magics. "FOR THE NIGHT! THE ENDLESS NIGHT!"
A small man of earth and stone appears, and punches Dragash in the chest.
The white- haired woman clutches at her eyes, then mutters to prepare a spell.
Round 5
Three spells of grease head towards the floor near Dragash.
He flips up on the wall as all three miss him, he lands back on the ground only to have an Earth creature appear next to him which aims for his chest. Dragash deftly dodges the punch then sees the enemy group is still in a tight cluster.
Sorry stony fella, these bombs are going towards your masters today!
Dragash throws caution to the wind, he stands on the grease patch then throws a barrage of bombs at the weakened cultist leader. Getting all of the cultists he can see in the blast. The tunnel is engulfed in both fire and webbing, sealing the cultists into a web left behind by the tanglefoot bomb.
Rosa stays put and starts to mutter getting a spell ready.
The one casting however maintains her spell.
As Will comes down the tunnel the Dragash is blocking, he notices the alchemist standing firmly as if trying to avoid slipping on ice. A slight glisten on the floor alerts him to the cause. With little seeming effort, Will floats over and past the goo to land within striking range of one of the cultists. But he ignores the man in favor of the robed figure in the back who seemed to be the leader. He thrusts his fauchard dangerously close to the nearby cultist and at the face of the woman behind him.
In a burst of feathers, Zerisi disappears, leaving only a tiny Raven in his place. His duplicates follow suit, and the flock advances forward, and up, into the cave, settling into the dead end past the robed-woman.
Mirror Images Remaining: 5 images -- 49 rds