Rhyol takes a step forward and her form grows as she rages. She slams the form with a sizzling appendage.
Let her go now! she booms.
Zephyr begins gathering charged clouds...
@GM Nowruz - Please add 2 points of damage to my last attack due to Inspire Courage.
The plucky Mephit flies closer to the beast and lets loose another torrent of water.
Critical confirm rolls:
Feeling something affect him but shakes it off as he draws a scroll and reads the spell while touching his bow.
Rhyol smacks the large chaotic creature really good into the face!!
Octaris can also summon an unbelievably strong water blast that clearly breaks some bones!
Zephyr and Krakos both prepare to hurt the Protean!!
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The three wysps that are still chaotically controlled are erratically flying around.
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Initiative - BUFFS: Good Hope, Inspire Courage +2
Jamila, -43, Will save DC 22, roll d100 and check confusion table in case save not made
Ember
Naunet protean, -74, 20 ft off the ground
Warp wave
Octaris
Zephyr
Rhyol, bull's strength
Krakos, -10
Wysps, elementals, fire freed from Chaos
Those bolded may act. Lots of stuff going on so if I make a mistake please tell me! :-)
"Good work everyone, we're definitely hurting it!"
Ember looks down at the scroll of haste in her claw and attempts to activate it.
She then retrieves her wand of cure light wounds from her haversack while maintaining her performance.
The fire of pain cuts through the haze that dazed Jamila, replaced with a rage that can only be answered with her own flight to attack the beast with her own weapon.
You are all hasted!
Jamila approaches and the protean bites her so hard that she almost looses consciousness!
But Jamila's will cannot be broken so easily!! She expertly untangles from the protean's grip and slashes with her blade so hard across the snake-creature's head that it is almost cut off!
~
The protean is clearly afraid now and shouts.
"%&%$$$&&/)(//%&%&%&$%$%"
The Rift Spinner then concentrates and clearly believes that it is hopeless to stay and fight! It attempts to flee into the Maelstrom, by ripping a tiny hole into the vast expanses of the plane in its wake.
Suddenly, it vanishes!!
Again, the Maelstrom’s influence produces a mutating effect that warps your very being!
Octaris feels the effect of this plane on his mind!
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The three chaotic wysps are flying around but the earth wysp that you calmed talks to you!
Restore order? Yes! Shut the rift! It's pretty big, but we can try. Might be better to do it from the other side though. If it closes and we're here, that's not good!
”Nicely done Jamila!” shouts Ember.
She smiles at the wysp. ”So it sounds like we need to help your colleagues first and then we can all head back through the rift and try to close it from the other side?”
Octaris tries to resist the force of the Maelstrom
The Torrent flies closer (to blue) and then tries to free the wysp attuned to the plane of water (blue).
He calls out in Aquan telling the creature that everything will be alright.
Rhyol shrinks back to her normal size, and seemingly sags a bit from the exertion.
What...to...do now...? she asks as she catches her "breath". she moves to help free a wyrd.
Seerus moves to Jamalia, while pulling out a scroll and reads the scroll while looking over her wounds.
Zephyr gravitates towards air. He is most comfortable with it. He speaks its language.
Rhyol shambles over to the air wyrd.
Snap out of it...we have to close the portal!
You are easily able to get the remaining wysps under control!!
Rhyol does a great job to align air and Octaris of course water!
The last one Ember can easily take care of.
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The wyps fly back through the open portal to the ivory tower on the Plane of Air, and you follow.
As soon as the last of you is through, the roiling incursion of color slows and contracts upon itself to eventually form a vibrating sphere.
Although the disruption beyond its otherworldly borders has abated, the tenacious rift remains, and you can tell if not dealt with in its weakened state it may eventually grow once more.
~
The portal seems to have been diminished, but is still active and a potential danger. To try and close it for good, you'll need to find a way to either disrupt it and its connection to the Maelstrom further, or weaken the strength of the elemental air power around here.
Ember changes her performance to help the team focus on the task at hand and then tries to draw on her knowledge of the planes to assist in working out how to close the portal.
I think I might have found a weak spot...come..look! Rhyol says excitedly.
Octaris tries to force the portal closed by force of will.
The Torrent nods at his fiery companion.
"Right, I see what you mean."
Ember, Rhyol and Octaris unleash their power to try and shift the planar energy back into place! You work to shape the magic into its altered form. Together, the lingering portal shudders mightily - then vanishes!
~ ~ ~
Tired from your ordeal, but confident the current danger is gone, you rest briefly before pulling out the sending mechanism and calling on the ship to pick you up.
A brief response comes back "Well. That was quick. Glad to see you made it. We'll be over soon. The currents are acting smooth as I've seen them. Your doing surely!"
Indeed, the journey back to Armun Kelisk is remarkably simple.
With the rift's closure, the disturbances among the air currents seems to have vanishes. By the time you reach the city, word appears to have already beaten you there, and while you walk through the streets to meet with Ashasar you find the suli already walking in the other direction, eager to meet you.
“I knew I could count on your team to handle this dangerous task. Congratulations on a job well done. Tell me: how did your mission go?”
Shortly after closing the rift Ember pulls out her notebook and starts scribbling away.
”How does this sound… once the cyclone had been dealt with we discovered the source of the problem we had been sent to investigate, a great rift into the Maelstrom itself! Our intrepid band bravely sallied forth, into the unknown beyond the rift in hope of finding a way to close it. We found ourselves in a dangerous and fantastical landscape of flying islands, where we met some poor trapped wysps who had been ensorcelled buy the maelstroms chaotic power. As we tried to free them we were attacked by a great monster, some strange tentacled dragon thing. It was no match for our heroes, after an epic battle the beast fled from us and we were free to rescue our wysp friends and close the rift once we had returned back to the other side…”
Once the party reach Armun Kelisk and meet back up with Ashasar, Ember replies ”Oh, definitely a success, we befriended some wyrds, discovered an interesting tower, visited the Maelstrom, rescued some wysps, fought a protean and then closed the rift that had been causing all of this bother.”
“I’ve got it all written down in my book and in my head. If your happy to take us all out for more of that bubble-halo pie, I’ll be happy to give you the full rendition.” she continues with a grin.
Umm...what she said...not good at words..but give me time. felt good to let loose..haven't done that for a bit...
Okay, it's time to fly back and confirm that the abnormal wind patterns have subsided. Flying should be a lot smoother now...
He listens carefully and asks a ton of questions.
A lost air lord? Ashasar says, curious.
As he listens to your story, the suli's eyes widen.
"Ranginori...there is a name I have not heard in a long time. He was one the of Elemental Lords of Air, though of course long since sealed away. Forever, we had thought. But if this rift was centered on that tower, and the tower connected to him...I cannot believe that place being the focal point of this is mere coincidence."
He shakes his head. "But that is something we will need to look into tomorrow. For now, please rest in the city. I have little doubt we will look to call on you again, but part of life is enjoying the victories as they come. And yours was quite the victory."