Recognizing the supreme threat presented by PusInBoots, the underworld dragon's eyes google in momentary fear!
What in Yomi is THIS!? A Prince of Cats!?
The underworld imperial dragon turns on PusInBoots with savage fury!
Bite 1d20+22 deals 2d6+12 damage!
Claw 1d20+22 deals 1d8+8 damage!
Claw 1d20+22 misses the nimble Cat!
Gore 1d20+21 deals 1d8+12 piercing damage!
Tail Slap 1d20+21 whacks Cat back for 1d8+12 bludgeoning damage!
MMEEEOOOOOUUCHH!!
No wonder I felt it when this dragon attacked Bear! SACRED HEART OF JESUS, this thing is nasty!
GAIJIN AT THE GATES!! ROUND 3!! FIGHT!! EEE EEE EEE OOO OOO OOO!!!
PUS IN BOOTS!
LORD PERPIREEN!
JOHANN!
UNDERWORLD DRAGON!
ALGORAL!
HABIBA!
IHRIN!
MWIKALI!
ABE NO TOSHIRO!
OOH OOH AH AH AH AHHH!! MAN... I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON... DID SOMEONE LACE MY BANANAS WITH SOMETHING??
Do not trouble yourself, my darling! Oh! No! Please, do not...
Driven by her own fearful curiosity, perhaps, jorogumo makes no move to stop Fox San from peeking out the window...
"It cannot be...is that Johann?! And the others, how did they get here?!"
Frantically, the Fox tries to get the window open so he can shout to his friend, the Bear.
Johann grows to a HUGE bear! He does his best to grapple the dragon again!
[dice=Claw Attack 1 & damage]d20+16; 2d6+7+d6
[dice= Free Grab attempt]d20+24 4 damage Kraken style when grab is successful
[dice= Claw Attack 2 & damage]d20+16; 2d6+7+d6
[dice= Free Grab attempt]d20+24 4 damage Kraken style when grab is successful
[dice=Bite Attack & damage]d20+16; 2d8+7+d6
[dice=confirm Bite Attack & damage]d20+16; 2d8+7
HP: 49/135 (thanks for all that healing)
GGGRRRRRAAAAAAARRRRR!!!
The Bear sinks his jaws deep into dragonflesh, and it tastes pretty good!
Do not trouble yourself, my darling! Oh! No! Please, do not...
Driven by her own fearful curiosity, perhaps, jorogumo makes no move to stop Fox San from peeking out the window...
"It cannot be...is that Johann?! And the others, how did they get here?!"
Frantically, the Fox tries to get the window open so he can shout to his friend, the Bear.
Ihrin goes in to strike two more times.
Pay NO mind to those trespassers, my sweet kitsune! Here, I shall play some music to soothe your jangled nerves, my love...
The jorogumo strums an exotic harp...
Mwikali Casts Lighting Bolt [DC16]
Ihrin goes in to strike two more times.
[Dice=Dagger 1]1d20+10
[Dice=damage]1d4+3[Dice=Dagger 2]1d20+5
[Dice=damage]1d4+3
Her daggers bounce harmlessly off the steel-hard dragonscales!
Mwikali Casts Lighting Bolt [DC16]
Y Y Y Y YOWCH!!
Now he had had time to study the best. Lord P takes to the air and spotting a two suitable metal bells, sends them at the sides of the Dragon head.
Spends a hero point for second attack
Telekinetic projectile TH Studied target.
Non lethal DMG, he is trying to knock it out
Now he had had time to study the best. Lord P takes to the air and spotting a two suitable metal bells, sends them at the sides of the Dragon head.
Spends a hero point for second attack
Telekinetic projectile TH 1d20+12+2 Studied target. 1d6+3d6+2+4
Non lethal DMG, he is trying to knock it out
The lanterns crash into the underworld imperial dragon's temples, knocking it senseless! Its long, serpentine body flops about and it snores loudly...
ZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZ!!
PusInBoots winks at Lord Perpireen.
Jolly good show, Lord Perpireen! Excellent timing, as always!
Turning to Johann, and skipping jauntily down the scaley coils of the unconscious dragon to clap his big friend on the haunches...
My drinking companion, Johann! In full bear form and fury, I see! I'm glad this dragon did not singe off all of your fur... That bare streak down your back looks, um... stylish! Si, very chic!
Looking around for Ogon Fox, he inquires: Where's our friend the Fox at? I do not see him here... But wait! Look there! Up, at the highest window there in the castle! Is that not Monsieur Fox!?
Up in the jorogumo's mating chamber, the jorogumo grows agitated as her intended mate continues to ignore her to look out the window at the battle unfolding below...
She puts down her harp and casts suggestion on the kitsune...
Silly boy! Why don't you just come over here and make love to me!
She removes her kimono, revealing the curvy, womanly body of a Japanese woman in her twenties...
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Johann turns back into his normal self. "My good friend Signor Pusinboots! Your timing. Quite impeccable, chum! Quite nice! Your blade is always welcome here. Quickly, let me introduce you to the others."
Johann happily introduces all to Pusinboots, but then wants to push forward. "The Fox is still waiting for us, still needs us! Forward friends! Uh...after maybe a quick healing spell or five?"
HP: 49/135
PusInBoots spies the young Japanese man approaching the Flower Palace (Abe no Toshiro).
Now, who's this chap? He's got a determined look upon his mug, he does!
To Abe no Toshiro: Kon'nichiwa! Nani ga anata o shiro e to fumidashite genwaku sa semasu ka?
Toshiro looks faintly surprised to see a whole group of foreigners standing around the unconscious body of a dragon.
"Watashi wa kami ni eraba reta Abe no Toshirōda! Shōgun no oikoshi no yōna kōhai o kikkake ni shite, shōgun no dokusai-teki shihai wa watashitachi no min o appaku suru ni wa ikisugite ita. Shikashi, kore wa watashi no hitobito no ma de shira rete imasu. Naze gaikoku hito no shūdan ga kon'nani totsuzen arawarete doragon ni te o oita no ka, tazuneru koto ga yori jūyō kamo shiremasen."
"But this is known among my people. It may be more important to ask why a bunch of foreigners has shown up so unexpectedly, and laid hands on a dragon, yes?"
Algoral flies over to Johann and begins to tap on him with a wand in a rather complicated rhythm.
Look at you, fit as a fiddle. Let us go on and rescue your widdle
foxy friend. Who is in grave danger if a dragon
guards the gate. We must quickly hop on the wagon!
Lord P waves a hand as he flys around he sleeping Dragon.
"You are wounder full, I know my king will be more than happy to find a place for you in the land of myths. Now lets me get this spell right."
HE works a complicated spell that opens a door to the Bright ways.
"Algoral, give me a hand we need to let him sink in"
The door comes into being under the dragon and slowly he sinks from view.
The entrance hall seems to have been this large underworld imperial dragon's lair. Accessed by a short flight of wooden steps that ascend the mortared stone foundation of the castle to an open square doorway in the wood-and-ricepaper first story.
The interior is lit by paper lanterns hung from the rafters some 20 feet above the wooden plank floor.
To the north, another flight of wooden stairs ascends to the first floor proper.
Heaped up behind the stairs to the first floor proper is the underworld imperial dragon's hoard!
Lord P waves a hand as he flys around he sleeping Dragon.
"You are wounder full, I know my king will be more than happy to find a place for you in the land of myths. Now lets me get this spell right."
HE works a complicated spell that opens a door to the Bright ways.
"Algoral, give me a hand we need to let him sink in"
The door comes into being under the dragon and slowly he sinks from view.
Into the First World of the Fey slips the slumbering underworld imperial dragon, where it will soon awaken to a new life in a primordial and magical world...
slaps her hands together to get the dust off.
"Thank you Algoral, another safely tucked away. So what next? and who is that girl?"
"I must inquire later where all your pets go Lord P"She says tossing the sword to Ihrin."Learn to use that" she said a bit with a b*&$+y tone as she then turned to walk into the tower proper.
"Come the Fox awaits"
Ihrin was shaken to the core her body still felt the goosebumps from the dragons presence. She walked back in to help put away the goods from the dragon being whisked magically away. As she does Mwikali thrusts a sword at her and told her to use it!
"Uh..sure" she stumbles still reeling from the dragon fear. After a bit she regains her self and scowls, hating the fact she was so shaken in battle.
Ascending the stairs into the castle entrance hall, the adventurers spot the underworld imperial dragon's hoard piled up behind another short flight of wooden stairs ascending to a hall on the ground floor proper. Oriental coins of platinum and gold, with pearls interspersed, and an ornate katana sword in a jeweled ebony scabbard...
After collecting all the treasure in a bag of holding and Rumplestilskin's Rucksack, the adventurers ascend the stairs up to the hall on the ground floor.
"Abe was it, we come to rescue a friend. If that means we must topple this diamyo or what not then so be it." she says looking over the youth. Oddly she wants to reach out and touch the boys face it's strange how was fascinating. As were manus here. More importantly something about this boy intrigued her.
Her hand gets up and almost to his face before she pulls it back,"You seem touched...I mean concerned about your peoples plight. I admire that my people too are subjugated, Granted it is not our goal, but if it helps us rid Fox of his bounty then by all means we shall aid you" she says in Japanese turning away and conversing with Kiku.
Up in the jorogumo's mating chamber, the jorogumo grows agitated as her intended mate continues to ignore her to look out the window at the battle unfolding below...
She puts down her harp and casts suggestion on the kitsune...
Silly boy! Why don't you just come over here and make love to me!
She removes her kimono, revealing the curvy, womanly body of a Japanese woman in her twenties...
Weakened by the jorogumo's poison and under the sway of her enchantments, Toshio gives way to his bodily passion and acquiesces, moving swiftly into her embrace.
Abe frowns as the gaijin begin speaking languages he does not know. He speaks calmly into the air.
"Dō ka watashi no mimi o karera no kotoba ni, karera no kotoba o watashi no mono ni magete kudasai."
When next he speaks, the words come out in your own languages, perfectly accented, though stiff and formal.
He frowns further at what he then hears.
"Girl? Excuse me? Why do you come to my land to insult me?" he shakes his head.
"Let us continue with a minimum of rudeness, please. We must dispatch the shogun before he does more harm to my people."
"Sore ga watashi ga itte iru kotodesu..." She says looking at the boy her face leaning in to look at his face before leaning back."Sumimasen, watashitachiha yūjin o sukuu koto o kakujitsu ni suru hitsuyō ga arimasu, kare wa fokkusumandesu. Sunēkubeāmandearu yohan no yōde wa naikeredomo. Watashitachi no osore wa sore ni yotte nani mo imi sezu, karera wa anata no seishin no yōna monodesu. Ā, karera wa tokidoki oshaberi o suru no ga sukidesuga, sore wa karera no ma no yūjō no shirushidesu."
Giggling in back ground.
"But we are spirits of another sort, I with the morning's love have oft made sport"
Comes a voice from the air.
After introductions are made beteeen young Abe no Toshiro and the others, and after looting the dragon's hoard, the adventurers proceed up the second short flight of wooden steps ...
This hallway is lit by paper lanterns hung from hooks in the wooden rafters (20 feet overhead)...
Fearsome, demonic masks are hung on the walls, six on each side, twelve in all...
As soon as Johann leads the way into the hallway, the twelve demonic "masks" begin to fly off the walls and cackle hideously!
Shin'nyū-sha! Kōgeki!
Lord P says a few words in Fey.
INITIATIVES:
SPIRIT ONI
DIRE BEAR JOHANN
LORD PERPIREEN
ALGORAL
IHRIN
ABE NO TOSHIRO
MWIKALI
HABIBA
MASK ATTACK!! ROUND 1!! FIGHT!! EEEEK!!
SPIRIT ONI (12)!
DIRE BEAR JOHANN!
IHRIN ARDLEAN DRACUL!
ABE NO TOSHIRO!
ALGORAL!
LORD PERPIREEN MCGIBEL!
MWIKALI & KIKU!
HABIBA AL-SAHIM!
OOH OOH AHH AHH AHHH!!
Lord P says a few words in Fey.
The demonic mask-like oni fly off the walls and charge the adventurers, attempting to gore with their poisonous horns!
Two fly at Johann...
Two fly at Ihrin...
Two fly at Mwikali...
Two fly at Abe...
Two fly at Habiba...
One flies at Lord Perpireen...
...and one at Algoral...
In the great hall nearby, Ashikaga Yoshinori Shogun notes the silence following all the roaring of his pet underworld imperial dragon... Several moments of muffled conversation are heard from the front entrance, and then, he hears the hideous cackling of his spirit oni, and the words "Intruders! Attack!"
How can this be!? Has my underworld imperial dragon been slain!? I must see for myself...
Turning invisible, the Shogun flies from his throne to investigate the disturbance in the Hall of Masks...
Seeing a band of mostly gaijin and one local youth engaged in a skirmish against his spirit oni guards, Ashikaga Yoshinori Shogun throws off his disguise and becomes visible, revealing his true, monstrous form, as he blasts the nearest intruders with a cone of cold, heedless of catching several of the spirit oni in the blast as well!
In a deep, inhuman voice, the blue-skinned, yellow-horned giant oni bellows: Watashi no doragon de nani o shimashita ka!?
Seeing a band of mostly gaijin and one local youth engaged in a skirmish against his spirit oni guards, Ashikaga Yoshinori Shogun throws off his disguise and becomes visible, revealing his true, monstrous form, as he blasts the nearest intruders with a cone of cold, heedless of catching several of the spirit oni in the blast as well!
The two spirit oni on Johann attempt to evade the brunt of their Lord's cone of cold...
The two on Ihrin also twist and turn in the icy blast...
... but are caught in the full fury of the blast, and both fall lifeless to the floor at Ihrin's feet!
Toshiro searches his mind for information on Ogre Mages before acting...
Noticing that he has slain two of his own spirit oni and damaged two others with his cone of cold, the Shogun laughs cruelly!
HOHOHOHOHO!! Koko no Honshū dewa seikatsu ga yasuku, soshite rei mo sōdesu…
Abe no Toshiro's righteous young blood boils at the ogre mage oni's evil sentiment...
Habiba screams as essential facets of her personality are dampened, but fights on!
She too, wracks her brain...
Toshiro searches his mind for information on Ogre Mages before acting...[dice=Kn. Planes]1d20+15
Young Toshiro knows that ogre mages are native outsider oni spirits that are indigenous to the Asian lands. He knows they are shapeshifters that delight in usurping positions of power in mortal communities and imposing their tyranny on their hapless subjects, whom they consider slaves and chattel. He knows they can use a variety of spell-like powers, including (obviously from this encounter) fly, invisibility, disguise self, and cone of cold...
[dice=Fort]1d20+4
[dice=Fort]1d20+4
Habiba screams as essential facets of her personality are dampened, but fights on!
She too, wracks her brain...
[dice=Kn. Religion for Planes]1d20+17