As Tenja's hand touches the sarcophagus, the lid splits open. Standing in the swirling dust is an emaciated tiefling woman who looks more devil than humanoid and all dead. A red stone on an iron chain blazes on her chest.
"No one shall have the Wrathstone but me! You'll die, just like all the rest. Your souls will pay my way into Asmodeus's Court!" Her staff raises high, but already Kel's arrows are winging towards her, along with Urlag's chains.
Neither arrow hits, but Urlag's chains wind themselves around the screaming figure.
Urlag's chain digs a little deeper into the brittle flesh.
"Taste Avandra's fury, foul creature!" Andrus says as he unleashes his lance of faith.
Andus puts his studies to good use. Although his attack hits, the radiant light of Avandra does no more damage than usual.
Agera's face twists as the attacks hit and the red stone around her neck flickers.
"Wrathfire, aid me. Make them mine."
Andrus, Urlag, Tenja and Kith all look to Agera for guidance, their weapons ready to turn on their friends.
"Nice technique. Shame you're trying to kill us all, I could have learned a few things. Xod, distract her!" At this point, an imp swoops down and strikes at the tiefling with it's barbed tail before disappearing once more.
Poisonous herself, Agera resists Xod's poison, but can't avoid the initial blow.
Zareth's words give him enough time to take stock and assess their foe.
"The only thing I teach these days is how to die in one easy lesson. I help you channel rage towards each other." Agera's smile is not pleasant as she raises the stone around her neck and points it at Kith and Urlag.
"Little dwarf, kill the other little dwarf. Hulking orc-thing - just wrap up the cleric for me."
You can’t take actions. Instead, the dominator chooses a single action for you to take on your turn: a standard, a move, a minor, or a free action. The only powers and other game features that the dominator can make you use are ones that can be used at will, such as at-will powers. For example, anything that is limited to being used only once per encounter or once per day does not qualify.
You grant combat advantage.
You can't flank.In spite of this condition, the creature’s allies remain its allies, and its enemies remain its enemies. (Thus, if the dominator makes the creature attack one of its allies, it does not attack an ally of the dominator.) If the dominator tries to force the creature to throw itself into a pit or move into some other form of hindering terrain, the creature gets a saving throw to avoid entering the terrain.
Unable to stop himself, Urlag's chains slam into Andrus, but Kith's charge is easily avoided by Tenja.
Unaffected by Agera, Kel concentrates on sending more arrows into her.
Agera smiles triumphantly as the arrows fly over her head.
"Dwarf thing - remove that incompetent baldy. Little cleric, I do believe your goddess wants you to destroy the wizard with pretensions to learning."
Tenja lashes out at Kith.
Tenja tries and fails to hit Kith, the dwarven friends going nose to nose with despair written large on their faces. Agera laughs.
Andrus nods to Agera and turns to Zareth. He seems confused as he runs at him and swings his mace.
Andrus halfheartedly swings at Zareth and misses terribly. Then he shakes his head clear and glares at Agera. "You'll pay for that, witch! NOBODY controls me!!"
Agera laughs again. "Do you really think that? EVERYONE controls you, fool cleric. Your goddess, your "friends", everyone. Including me."
Strolling past Urlag, Kith and Tenja, she stamps her staff on the ground three times sending mental confusion towards Zareth, Andrus and Kel.
Willy-nilly, the friends slide over the floor, opening fire on each other. Kel's arrow sinks deep into Andrus and he looks on with shock as his bow seems to take on a life of its own.
"No one controls me. No one." Zareth glares at Agera with obvious malice as he instinctively sets her alight and sends Xod after her.
Agera howls with laughter as Zareth tries to set fire to her. "Not only am I under the protection of Asmodeus, I was a tiefling, you idiot. Did it somehow escape your notice that I'm as resistant to fire as you?"
She turns her gloating attention back to Kith and Urlag. "So adorably controllable. Half-orc - remove that pestilential lucky cleric. Baldy - hit the other dwarf."
Andrus staggers after Kel's bow hits him. He feels the effects of the undead tiefling's spell and looks down at his mace, and prepares to throw it at Zareth. Then he stops and slowly lowers his mace. He blinks a few times in rapid succession. "What?" he asks. "Nice try, witch!"
Andrus is interrupted by the whirling blades of Urlag's chain. The first one connects in a soft spot, but the second one bounces off his armor. Andrus smiles for the first time in this battle and kisses his holy symbol. "Thank you, my Lady."
Kel keeps up the attack on Agera launching two more arrows at her but this time using his fire arrows.
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And Kel promptly misses his target completly.
Andrus nearly falls under Urlag's attack, but the half-orc manages to control a fragment of his mind long enough to divert the worst of the blow away.
Agera watches amused, shaking her head as Kel sends fiery arrows towards her. "I. Was. A. Tiefling. I resist fire," she shouts.
Kith swings her hammer once more at Tenja.
Tenja strikes at Kith.
Tenja's attempt to mallet Kith into the ground is half-hearted at best, but his eye remain glazed and his mind is still not his own.
Andrus tells Agera, "Get over here!" with authority. Then he heals himself and moves into position.
"Never talk about my Lady again, foul one! You are hereby under her censure. Every success will cost you now. She will turn your good luck into bad. Never mess with Avandra, witch!"
Andrus then casts his most powerful spell on Agera.
Hauled towards the vengeful figure of Andrus, Agera does not resist. Rather she calls out. "Join me, brethren!".
From the corners of, ancient suits of armour stir and start to move.
Her staff held high, Agera once more sends her rays into the companions, urging them to hit each other. As her own attacks hit, Andrus's power comes into play and each blow sends wracking pain through her body.
"Are you so uncertain that you have to bring your minions into this?" Zareth thrusts his arms to the sky and flames explode from beneath the armors.
She didn't summon the armours, they were there already among the junk. She called out to them as flavour text. Her one action was her Hellish Wrath attack which gives her three basic attacks.
Zareth blows up two of the animated armours, leaving himself vulnerable as his powers restore themselves.
Agera continues to wreck havoc among the friends, urging Kith and Urlag on to attack their allies.