Lyla stays on the ground, prostrate under the statue of Urgathoa.
Karri finishes her chant and drags a squadron of fiendishly deformed lightning elementals out of her flesh. She sends them in a buzzing whirl towards the high priestess that has Lyla and Nalun prostate.
They in turn swarm around Andaisan. With lightning bolts arcing and crackling, and scorching the cleric and her steel armor.
Karri then sends out bolts of power slamming into the cleric again and again.
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Nalun continues his prostration
With the priestess surrounded by living lightning, Ortik continues speaking, his words still echoing with the Old Dame's voice. "Your death will ease the Old Dame's suffering," he intones. "You are the infection. We are the cure."
Andaisin flinches several times as the elementals blast her with hell-charged lightning. "Oh, I assure you, I'm far worse than a simple infection."
She clutches her holy symbol and speaks a word in a blasphemous tongue...
...and blasts the elementals surrounding her with negative energy.
The elementals, Demitri and Lyla feel the full force of Urgathoa's unholy power. It's surprisingly weak...
"So you say," Ortik replies, altering his prayers. "Your goddess is weak here. Already she withdraws her support from you. I wonder...will Pharasma show you mercy when we send you to her?" Ortik finishes his spell, and the room begins to smell even stronger of ozone. Dark clouds form in the ceiling, and a blast of lightning is sent down into Andaisin as he brings his fist down into the palm of his left hand.
Lyla feels the surge of negative energy chill her fallen body. Immediately, she concentrates to fight off the pain, and she can feel her body regenerating from the tainted touch of Urgathoa. Feeling better, the halfling girl tries to get up again, but is unable to shake off the priestess' control.
Andaisin barely manages to twist out of the way of Ortik's lightning. "I have all the power I need. Your taunts are empty, as is your future."
Demitri casts another spell. "Approach!"
Andaisin tuts. "No."
Nalun continues his prostration
This is beginning to get old. he says to Lyla.
The swarming elementals continue to do their work and fill the air with the odor of ozone.
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Karri shrieks, her voice not her own, as the fiendish elementals continue to torment the priestess, "Even your goddess is beneath all of the Abyss!!" Another wave of pure energy goes from Karri's outstretched hand driving into Andaisin.
Andaisin gets battered and zapped once again.
"ENOUGH!" She barks, and channels another burst of unholy power...
...and this time, it seems Urgathoa has taken notice of how badly Andaisin's been wounded. The necrotic energy screams forth from her holy symbol...
...and blasts the lightning elementals attacking her out of existence. Demitri stands firm, but Nalun & Lyla feel the full displeasure of the Pallid Princess as she scourges their flesh. Andaisin glares at Karri and starts stalking over towards her, gathering more magic into her hands.
Once again, Lyla feels the channeled energy of Urgathoa tearing her from insde. And once more, she concentrates on the wounds, focusing her mind and senses on her pown physilogy. The halfling girls reaches out to parts of her body to work in specific, calculated ways, healing its wounds from the inside with a mere command of the brain, as if organs and blood could be controlled as easily as arms and fingers.
Fending off the worse of Andaisin's attack, she also notices that the shock has snapped her out of her control, and she quickly kips up. She grabs a bomb and throws it at Andeisin, rooting for a massive explosion.
CG Tiny humanoid
Init +6;
AC 22, touch 18, flat-footed 16 (-1 vs. tiny or smaller enemies)
Ref +12
Ranged repeating light crossbow +12
Special Attacks bomb +13
Str 6; Dex 22;
Skills Acrobatics +16 (+21 to jump), Disable Device +16, Sleight of Hand +11, Stealth +20
Andaisin barely flinches when Lyla's bomb impacts against her back.
Demitri will drop his sword and draw his hand crossbow and takes a shot.
Andaisin doesn't even notice the bolt soaring over her head.
Again, Ortik brings his fist into his palm, and again a bolt of lightning streaks down into the pallid priestess. The retort echoes in the underground chamber, bouncing off the walls.
Get her guys! I'll just be down here...
Andaisin's hair stands on end for a brief moment before falling all around her face. She continues her march on Karri.
Fueled by Legion, Karri stands her ground. The flesh if her arms seems to bubble and writhe with Legion's frantic need to be physical. With no effort at all, she unleashes another wave of raw power into the priestess. Her mouth twists as each bolt drives Andaisin's body back.
Andaisin stops in her tracks as more magic missiles smash into her. She utters a quick prayer and lays a hand on herself...
...and her body knits several grisly injuries together. She continues to march on the air towards Karri, beginning to bring her scythe to bear.
As Andaisin walks in the air towards Karri, Lyla notices the priestess proximity to the sanctum's wall and seizes the opportuniry to stop her in her tracks.
The girl jumps over the pool, landing next to Ortik, and immediately throws a gooey projectile at Andaisin.
The bomb explodes into liquid, splashing the floating priestess and the wall behind her; within seconds of the impact, the solution starts to solidify into a potent glue.
A mocking echo, Karri hisses at the priestess, "Healing? So much for your corage! Can you feel Pharasma calling you home? Undeath will pass you by, and only your eternal torment at our hands will mark your passing!" The scarred girl reaches into herself to bring Legion to this world.
Andaisin's scythe arm gets glued to the wall from Lyla's tanglefoot bomb. Now she's starting to look annoyed.
Nalun springs to his feet, rapier in hand!
He darts around the fountain, headed for the murderous she witch.
"Fall, damn you, FALL!", Ortik cries, slamming his fist into his palm again, sending another blast of electricity into Andaisin.
Andaisin's hair stands up again. She growls in frustration.
Demitri picks up his sword and moves.
Andaisin turns her back on Karri and glares at Lyla. She starts casting another spell...
...and points at the halfling. "I would have your eyes rot and fall from your skull. I suppose I will have to settle for taking your sight." Urgathoa's unholy energy leaps forth...
...and the halfling's eyes immediately begin to cloud over.
In the meantime, Andaisin flexes her scythe arm...
...but is unable to pull it free from the wall.
"Dammit", Lyla blurts out as the light dims from her eyes untill there's nothing but darkness left. "Well, now I'll just have to humiliate you by showing that I can kick your butt with my eyes closed", she answers impertinently. She pats her body looking for her extracts, and removes a vial from the pocket in which she keeps the fire breath solution. A little awkwardly, the girl uncorks the vial and drinks the potion; without the distraction of sight, the burning sensation in her mouth seems even stronger than usual. Feeling the arcane fire building up down her throat, Lya stretches out her hand and says "Ortik, just pick me up and point me in the right direction."
Demitri will cast a spell "Inheritor guide my blade."
Karri unleashes the horrific essence inside of her. The two protoplasmic blobs hit the wall near Andaisin, shifting into two spiny black and red spiders. The scuttle to the priestess and attack, mandibles dripping with venom. With eyes glowing green, she crosses her arms and smirks, "You should have let the Inquisitor take you. He would keep you alive. I'll just give you to the Abyss."
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Nalun frowns at the Cleric stuck above him, while he would love to capture her alive and bring her in...he knows she deserves death.
Nalun sheathes his Rapier and draws his bow.
Still, he has to give her the option...
You're finished, stop resisting and we will bring you in. I can't promise it will go well, but I will promise the justice of Abadar.
Ortik dips and scoops up the miniature alchemist, cradling her in one arm as a mother might her babe. "Mind the beard!", he says, aiming her towards the floating priestess, while also directing another lightning bolt into her.
Andaisin somehow manages to twist away from the worst of Ortik's called lightning. Unfortunately, the spiders seize the opportunity to start chomping on the priestess.
One spider bites down on her neck...
...but aside from the bite marks on her neck, it doesn't seem to stop her. The second spider can't seem to get its mandibles through her armour.
"Surrender? Don't make me laugh." Andaisin snarls. "Go ahead, strike me down, if you can. I'll become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
Her unholy symbol pulses out another wave of negative energy in response...
...and the spiders recoil from the sheer, overwhelming pain of their bodies being scourged by unholy power. Karri ends up taking the worst of it as well, her scars responding to the influx of energy by burning a bright, sickly green.
What Andaisin is doing, I assume, is trying to break free (which she can do with that roll, if you swap that Ref save for a Str check). But she remains entangled as long as the goo is active (2d4 rounds, but Lyla rolled a 3).
Lyla pulls on the dwarf's beard and gets ready to attack Andaisin. "Just say the word, Ortik!"
"Not likely." Demitri says before throwing his sword at her!
Nalun studies his target and fires his bow.
Nalun's arrow bounces off of Andaisin's armour, but Demitri's sword finds its mark. Somehow, the priestess still clings to life.
Her eyes are bright, and mad with what appears to be glee.
Ortik directs another blast of electricity, while setting up an arc for Lyla's flame breath. "Now, Lyla, light her up!"
Karri hisses at her spiders, "Kill her! Now!!!!" Then, she throws another trio of missiles into her.
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Lyla hears Ortik's voice accompanied by the crack of lightning, and opens her mouth releasing a powerful burst of flame. Though she cannot see the fire illuminating the chamber, the girl feels the heat on her face as the combined forces of Ortik's lightning, Lyla's bonfire and Karri's arcane blasts come together to engulf Andaisin.
The combined blasts of magic, lightning and fire rip Andaisin's form asunder. Her eyes brighten.
"...YES."
The tanglefoot goo tethering her to the wall comes loose, and her corpse falls to the floor with a *THUMP*.
Demitri will go pick up his sword. "We'll do a quick sweep and then we'll get someone to heal you Lyla."
"Don't worry about me, chief. First, we gotta check if Andaisin is alive and, if so, make sure she's gagged and bound. She said something about becoming impossibly more powerful if we struck her down and, well, even if it's probably just the cuckoo voices in her head, we can't take any chances." Realizing what she just said, she adds "Er, no offense, Karri."
She jumps off Ortik and lends a little awkwardly on the floor. The halfling reaches for her bag and searches for some of her alchemical components, laying the alchemist kit on the ground and looking for the right components. She uncorks and sniffs each vial, putting aside the ones she wants. "About this blindness, I have an idea that might work, at least temporarily. I just need someone to help me with the quantities to make sure I'm cooking the right stuff. I don't want to make any mistakes on one..."