"Wait a minute," starts Triphylla. Then she spots the hidden switch nearby the goat and realizes the trap is about to be sprung. Invoking the magic of her Ioun stone, she protects herself with a Shield spell, then grabs the switch tightly, but does not pull it.
"Watch yourselves!"
The sylph shifts to an aggressive stance and starts spinning his rope dart. He might not see there would-be attackers right now, but something tells him that might change real soon.
Lope is at the point of checking the desks when he overhears Triphylla "A white ram... of course! That is the ram the townsfolk was telling us about!" he reacts quickly, reading his blade and casting shield ""
"Lope, there's something in that room!" shouts Triphylla, hoping she is not too late to alert her friend to danger.
To Triphylla's dismay and amazement, the white ram shape wavers to reveal a tall blue skinned woman, draped in revealing attire and the bits of machinery that appeared to trap her fall aside. Her sultry gaze falls on Triphylla with a wicked smile suggesting all manner of debased pleasures, with her little finger in the corner of her mouth she coos, "Little one, you and I shall be such friends! Oh! The pleasure and the pain we shall share together, it will be exquisite!"
<--- FAIL
A sensual pairing of seduction and destruction, pairakas embody the corruptive nature of unbridled lust. Pairakas spend little time in their true form while on the Material Plane, choosing to cloak themselves instead in alluring forms to seduce potential victims, ruin relationships, and foment obsession. In its true form, a pairaka’s body is a foul landscape of blazing rashes, oozing pustules, and taut blisters suggestive of the corruptions it harbors, bodily and spiritually.
Pairakas pride themselves on perversion. They love nothing more than turning lovers against one another or destroying the bonds of friendship. Pairakas feed off this slow torment and savor each broken heart or disappointment. They use lust and sexuality as their primary tools, wielding taboos and carnal appetites to sever once-friendly relationships. Pairakas also use their seduction to spread disease, charming victims into physical contact.
Just as all other divs suffer a weakness, pairakas cannot stand the color red. They never wear the color or enter a place that is painted red, and they always attack creatures that are garbed in clothes of a crimson hue first.
Environment: Bad lighting, 20% miss chance unless you have low light vision or a light source of some sort.
Buffs and Debuffs:
Triphylla Shield
Lope
Blue Woman
Valeria
Diana Mage Armor
St John
???
Triphylla Shield, Charmed
Lope
Blue Woman
Valeria
Diana Mage Armor
St John
???
COMBAT ORDER:
Triphylla
Lope
Blue Woman
Valeria <----- WE ARE HERE
Diana
St John
???
Valeria, Diana and St John are up.
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Valeria felt a wash of revulsion and hatred towards the now former ram when it changed its form. She knew what it was after seeing several attack the succubi harem that had imprisoned her in one of her few lucid moments there. Valeria shrugged off the terror that memory brought forth and focused on the thing before her and let that swell of hatred stick with her, wherever it came from.
"Careful, she's the div rip off of a succubus! If you are wearing red, she will be coming for you first!" Getting just within range for her prayer to affect the div Valeria called out, "Nocitucla, the Redeemer Queen! I beseech you let this creature suffer your displeasure!" A pulse of divine hatred lashed out at the div in an effort to make it harder for her to hit them.
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"Whoa, whoa, whoa. She's not going to hurt any of us. Really. Just this one time, can we try talking to her first, please?"
Lope narrows his eyes, watching the blue-skinned figure closely "Triphylla" he says, his voice laced with suspicion, "This eagerness of yours to... befriend her feels uncharacteristic" he glances at her bloodstained clothing, a stark contrast to her unusually subdued tone "Since when do you advocate for restraint when faced with a foe dripping with malice?"
"This succubus or div, or whatever it is... Do you think she might be the source of the nightmares, Valeria?!" he gestures towards the creature with Gloria.
St. John runs up next to the creature ready to do battle with it but doesn't attack it, yet.
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"That's unfair," Triphylla replies to Lope. "You're forgetting when I single-handedly convinced Sir Guisarme to surrender to us. And there was that other time when I fooled the Emperor into killing himself. You don't give me enough credit, and I'm kind of hurt, to be honest. My friend here has described to me a wonderful evening of pleasure and pain that I bet Cyrene would wholly endorse, were she still with us. That reminds me, what ever happened to the dagger I lent her? Oh fret. Your horns are exquisite, by the by. I have a pair of my own I bet you'd like to see. Oh, and what does this lever do?"
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While her knowledge of outsiders still needs quite a bit of further study, there's little doibt in her mind as to the cause of Triphylla's friendliness towards the demon.
"No one has forgotten your contributions to our goals, Triphylla. Lope was just surprised at your friend's sudden appearance. But don't forget why we're here - we're trying to stop those terrible nightmares plaguing the town. We should deal with the cause as swiftly as possible, right?"
Figuring the best option is to defeat the demon before it can charm any other member of the party, Diana casts Haste on the party, excluding Triphylla from the effects.
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"Yes, of course, Diana. You all should get looking around for that. I'll wait here."
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Valeria nodded her head in response to Lope's question and said, "Oh yes, the mayhem and the depraved things happening are exactly the kind of thing a Pairakas would do."
While the party debates the strange woman's appearance there's a bestial roar from within the office room behind Lope, that turns your bowels to water! Inside is a huge snarling, canine beast rearing up on all fours! Horribly its slender front limbs looking more like hands than a wolf’s paws. A wave of crushing despair hits most of you, you should never have come here!
To Triphylla the strange woman smirks and suggests, "This will be fun, I promise!"
<--- FAIL
<--- PASS
<--- FAIL
<--- PASS
Environment: Normal.
Buffs and Debuffs:
Triphylla
Lope Shield, Charmed
Estini Mage Armor
Blue Woman
Valeria
Diana Crushing Despair
St John
Canine monster
Triphylla
Lope Shield, Charmed
Estini Mage Armor
Blue Woman
Valeria
Diana Crushing Despair
St John
Canine monster
COMBAT ORDER:
Triphylla <----- WE ARE HERE
Lope
Estini
Blue Woman
Valeria
Diana
St John
Canine monster
Triphylla, Lope and Estini are up.
Caught between the desire to run away from this place and not wanting to be the first to run, Esinti lashes out at the canine newcomer. He whirls the rope and then kicks the dart at the beast.
[dice=Attack 1]1d20+8
[dice=Damage]1d4+9
[dice=Attack 2]1d20+8
[dice=Damage]1d4+9
[dice=Attack 3]1d20+3
[dice=Damage]1d4+9
"Triphylla! If you value our lives, focus your mind! Valeria, please save her!" Lope's plea is eaten by the sudden wave of despair that strikes him, but he clenches his teeth, gripping Gloria tightly "Take the demon! I will try to hold this beast!"
Despite his best efforts though, Lope is truly caught by the beast and completely ruins his spell. Determined to keep up though, he follows up with as many attacks as he can, Gloria bursting in flames as it goes.
Valeria glared at Triphyla when she heard the div tell her to just watch and said, "See! That is the kind of thing beings like her do. They manipulate you, charm you, convince you they are your friend. They then shift you, slowly, towards becoming as much of a monster as they are until your soul is damned and you really are a monster, even worse than them because they don't have a choice in what they are but you do!"
Triphylla shrugs off her friends righteous outrage. The monster isn't attacking her, and the group seems plenty capable of taking down one nasty demon. She was excited to see how the new guys fared. Finding a piece of junk against which to lean, she lets go the lever and fishes in her sack for cutting of spiced jerky to gnaw while she watched the festivities. She turns her lantern in the general direction of the action.
"Nice strike, Lope!"
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Befuddled by magic, Triphylla watches the battle as if it was sport.
With his sword shrouded in flame, Lope attacks the leonine creature. His first blow sears a deep cut in the things flank but it dances away from his followup.
Esinti's sword blurs with the speed granted by Diana's spell. He manages to score several hits, leaving the things flank a bloodied and burned mess.
St John rushes the blue woman, but disconcertingly she cackles "Oh! So eager, I do love that in a man..." Then she suddenly strikes his face with a clawed hand, it hurt but St John had been hit harder than this.
<--- HIT
<--- FAIL
Then to everyone's consternation she smoothly rises up it the air, ending 15' off the ground.
Environment: Normal.
Buffs and Debuffs:
Triphylla
Lope Shield, Charmed
Estini Mage Armor
Blue Woman
Valeria
Diana Crushing Despair
St John ???
Canine monster
Triphylla
Lope Shield, Charmed
Estini Mage Armor
Blue Woman
Valeria
Diana Crushing Despair
St John ???
Canine monster
Damage Log:Round: 2
Canine was hit by Lope for 20 (total damage taken 20)
Canine was hit by Estini for 13 (total damage taken 33)
Canine was hit by Estini for 12 (total damage taken 45)
St John was hit by Blue Woman for 5 (total damage taken 5)Totals:
Canine: 45 damage
St John: 5 damage
COMBAT ORDER:
Triphylla
Lope
Estini
Blue Woman
Valeria
Diana <----- WE ARE HERE
St John
Canine monster
Diana and St John are up.
Diana looks worriedly at the way St John's skin is reacting to the demon's claws, but she knows her magic can't do much to heal whatever is happening. She instead focuses on the help she can provide, and casts her Fly spell on St John.
"That should let you follow her up. But be careful - that rash doesn't look too healthy to me."
Lope observes the creature dodge his last swing and frowns "Sic, I will need some help here it would seem. I can make someone else fly. Triphylla, do you sure think that devil is with the folks of Taldor? Because she looks like the source of the nightmares by all reason!"
St. John winces as he is hit and as the woman flys away he slashes at her. Feeling the spell take hold on him he then floats up to match the woman and attacks her hard.
"Ooh, you didn't tell me you could do that!" Triphylla exclaims to the levitating woman.
When St. John joins her in the rafters she chirps, "That's clever, Diana." She watches with concern when the man with the sword scores her very good new friend. Who was this guy anyway?
The halfling frowns at Lope. "We're short on evidence, and anyhow, I can't see it. How do we know it's not these two guys we just met who are the source of the problem? If you move out of that doorway I'll throw you a little help."
St John's falcata flicks out as the woman rises up, he scored what should be a telling blow yet instead of lopping a leg off she was left with a deep graze.
Empowered by Diana's magic, St John finds himself rising up to follow the peculiar blue woman and he winds up for a big swing but she darts one side with a condescending remark, "So keen to embrace me? Perhaps I'll grant your wish!"
Meanwhile 800 lbs of canine fury launched itself at Lope, he managed to slap its snout away with Gloria, his arcane shielding cracked with sparks as it turned aside one claw but the other one snuck past.
<--- MISS
<--- HIT
<--- MISS
bite +14 (1d8+6), 2 claws +14 (1d6+6)
Environment: Normal.
Buffs and Debuffs:
Triphylla
Lope Shield, Charmed
Estini Mage Armor
Blue Woman
Valeria
Diana Crushing Despair
St John ???
Canine monster
Triphylla
Lope Shield, Charmed
Estini Mage Armor
Blue Woman
Valeria
Diana Crushing Despair
St John ???
Canine monster
Damage Log:Round: 2
Canine was hit by Lope for 20 (total damage taken 20)
Canine was hit by Estini for 13 (total damage taken 33)
Canine was hit by Estini for 12 (total damage taken 45)
St John was hit by Blue Woman for 5 (total damage taken 5)
Blue Woman was hit by St John for 4 (total damage taken 4)
Lope was hit by Canine for 7 (total damage taken 7)Totals:
Canine: 45 damage
St John: 5 damage
Blue Woman: 4 damage
Lope: 7 damage
COMBAT ORDER:
Triphylla <----- WE ARE HERE
Lope
Estini
Blue Woman
Valeria
Diana
St John
Canine monster
Triphylla, Lope and Estini are up.
Esinti aims for the beast's neck and lunges at it repeatedly. The alchemically treated rope groans and creaks as the sylph works it and puts it under considerable strain.
In this world, Triphylla had never encountered anyone so sincere as Valeria. Her words cut through the charm long enough for the halfling to steel herself and ward it off completely. Suddenly horrified at the situation and her failure to help her friends, she springs into action to help Lope with the extra-planar beast. Moving toward the fight, she dips into her sack and stuffs a wad of Barbarian Chew between her lip and gums, and almost instantly she can feel the rage swell inside of her.
"Step to the side, Lope! Let it come out between us!"
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Lope groans as the claw got him, though the magics around him ease a bit the pain. The aldori slashes once and again with haste, loading his strikes with arcane magic.
"Not sure that is a good idea my friend, but you asked for it!" the Aldori steps away from the door after his attacks, leaving entry to the beast into the room.
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Triphylla takes a wad of something that might be alchemically enhanced tobacco and starts chewing.
Lope's sword Gloria bites deeply into the wolf-thing's flank, sending blood flying and causing it to howl!
In as many heartbeats, Esinti lofts a trio of arrows. The first shatters on the things snout but frustratingly it leaves barely a scratch. The next two arrows miss and the final one hits but it again shatters as if he'd been firing point blank into a stone wall. Even so the massive lupine creature has lost a lot of blood and is looking increasingly ragged.
Floating above the blue woman gives St John a saucy wink, "Darling I know just the thing for you!" and then she starts chanting the words to a spell!
Environment: Normal.
Buffs and Debuffs:
Triphylla
Lope Shield
Estini Mage Armor
Blue Woman
Valeria
Diana Crushing Despair
St John ???
Canine monster
Triphylla
Lope Shield
Estini Mage Armor
Blue Woman
Valeria
Diana Crushing Despair
St John ???
Canine monster
Damage Log:Round: 2
Canine was hit by Lope for 20 (total damage taken 20)
Canine was hit by Estini for 3 (total damage taken 23)
Canine was hit by Estini for 2 (total damage taken 25)
St John was hit by Blue Woman for 5 (total damage taken 5)
Blue Woman was hit by St John for 4 (total damage taken 4)
Lope was hit by Canine for 7 (total damage taken 7)Round: 3
Canine was hit by Lope for 21 (total damage taken 46)
Canine was hit by Lope for 27 (total damage taken 73)
Canine was hit by Estini for 1 (total damage taken 74)Totals:
Canine: 74 damage
St John: 5 damage
Blue Woman: 4 damage
Lope: 7 damage
COMBAT ORDER:
Triphylla
Lope
Estini
Blue Woman
Valeria <----- WE ARE HERE
Diana
St John
Canine monster
Valeria, Diana and St John are up.
"Tsk! She is casting something obscure!" Lope shouts without looking away from the wolf-like beast.
St. John ignores her banter and attacks with his falcata and buckle in a whirlwind of steel and mithral.
Valeria was glad that Triphylla was starting to get involved in the fighting but when she heard the div start to cast something she was not amused. Not knowing what it was and unable to counter it Valeria tried a different tack. She cast a spell of her own to try and foul up the blue b&!+%'s ability to speak straight.
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"She's trying to summon a swarm of killer bees! Quick, try to break her focus!"
Diana briefly considers aiming at the blue woman as well, but seeing St John's flurry of blows and Valeria's spell, turns her attention to the canine beast. With Lope letting the way clear for it to charge at the group, she tries to stall it if for only a moment.
Recognizing what the blue woman is doing, Diana shouts out a warning.
<--- FAIL
Valeria had independently come to the concussion that allowing her to cast a spell would be disastrous so she invoked Nocutulla's curse which drastically affected the woman's chant which became garbled nonsense, yet somehow the blue woman was managing to bull through this curse!
<--- PASS
Turning her attention to the canine, Dianna opened her mouth to scream, but no sound came out at all. Strangely the creature thrashed and blood welled up out of its ears.
<--- FAIL
Floating alongside the chanting blue woman, St John unleashes a whirlwind of steel. If he'd been facing a normal human, they would have been disemboweled, decapitated and more. This woman was not normal, with skin tougher than some metals. St John's blows hurt her, but not in a truly debilitating way. She seemed almost to be enjoying the pain, and not once did her chant falter.
Sorely wounded but still dangerous, the canine monster squeezed out of the office and moved to savage Lope! Still the magus's protective spell turned aside the worst of it.
<--- MISS
<--- MISS
<--- HIT
Environment: Normal.
Buffs and Debuffs:
Triphylla
Lope Shield
Estini Mage Armor
Blue Woman
Valeria
Diana Crushing Despair
St John ???
Canine monster
Triphylla
Lope Shield
Estini Mage Armor
Blue Woman
Valeria
Diana Crushing Despair
St John ???
Canine monster
Damage Log:Round: 2
Canine was hit by Lope for 20 (total damage taken 20)
Canine was hit by Estini for 3 (total damage taken 23)
Canine was hit by Estini for 2 (total damage taken 25)
St John was hit by Blue Woman for 5 (total damage taken 5)
Blue Woman was hit by St John for 4 (total damage taken 4)
Lope was hit by Canine for 7 (total damage taken 7)Round: 3
Canine was hit by Lope for 21 (total damage taken 46)
Canine was hit by Lope for 27 (total damage taken 73)
Canine was hit by Estini for 1 (total damage taken 74)
Canine was hit by Diana for 15 (total damage taken 89)
Blue Woman was hit by St John for 7 (total damage taken 11)
Lope was hit by Canine for 10 (total damage taken 17)Totals:
Canine: 89 damage
St John: 5 damage
Blue Woman: 11 damage
Lope: 17 damage
COMBAT ORDER:
Triphylla <----- WE ARE HERE
Lope
Estini
Blue Woman
Valeria
Diana
St John
Canine monster
Triphylla, Lope and Estini are up.
Turning her attention to the canine, Dianna opened her mouth to scream, but no sound came out at all. Strangely the creature thrashed and blood welled up out of its ears.
[dice=Fort DC 16]1d20+9-2 <--- FAIL...
Sorely wounded but still dangerous, the canine monster squeezed out of the office and moved to savage Lope! Still the magus's protective spell turned aside the worst of it.
[dice=Melee bite]1d20+14[dice=Damage]1d8+6 <--- MISS
[dice=Claw]1d20+14[dice=Damage]1d6+6 <--- MISS
[dice=Claw]1d20+14[dice=Damage]1d6+6 <--- HIT
Lope does his best to endure the powerful blows of the canine and answer in place with the magic of his blade. He steps aside to give Tryp an opening.
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Seeing that Lope has the menacing beast on the ropes, Triphylla returns her attention to the witch. Seeing the others fail to stop the casting of the spell, Triphylla reaches into her pack and retrieves a vial of Silence Dust to throw at her.
Esinti sees how Lope is struggling to keep the damned canine at bay and in answer to that, ups his efforts in undoing the beast. On the other side of the room, he knows St John is keeping the she-devil busy, and that he will need their help to overcome it.
Lope capitalizes on the opportunity of the canine being stunned and finds his first attack goes into a vital spot.
Desperately hoping to stop her summoning, Triphylla threw a vial silence dust at the blue woman. Triphylla's throw was well judged and the vial struck her face, smashing into a cloud of choking dust. Surprised the blue woman laughed, but her voice was quiet as if far away...
Lope delivered a pair of truly vicious attacks, thrusting Gloria so deep into the beasts flank that her flame seemed to be snuffed out only for it to burst back when he shoved his boot on thing's corpse to yank it back out! In death the caine thing twitched and a thin stream of smoke came out of its nose and ears.
With his target dead, Esinti whirled on to the Blue woman and lofted a quartet of arrows faster than seemed possible. The arrows slammed into her skin with terrible force, smashing into flinders, leaving small marks behind.
<--- PASS
Despite everyone's best efforts the blue woman's now nonsensical chating came to a quiet crescendo and suddenly the air was filled with the demented drone of angry wasps! At that same moment, the blue woman shouted another nonsensical word, and it seemed like she was about to cast some other spell but it fizzled as Valeria's curse took hold!
<--- FAIL
One swarm of wasps viciously attacked poor Triphylla, causing welts to appear all over her face!
<--- PASS
Another biting and stinging swarm washed over Diana, getting into her hair and stinging inside her nose and ears.
<--- PASS
Similarly the final swarm concentrated on Valeria, buzzing and stinging her mercilessly giving her a horrible hot flush and the shakes.
<--- FAIL
Environment: Normal.
Buffs and Debuffs:
Triphylla
Lope Shield
Estini Mage Armor
Blue Woman
Valeria
Diana Crushing Despair
St John Poisoned (4 rounds), One Dex damage
Triphylla
Lope Shield
Estini Mage Armor
Blue Woman
Valeria
Diana Crushing Despair
St John Poisoned (3 rounds), One Dex damage
Damage Log:Round: 2
Canine was hit by Lope for 20 (total damage taken 20)
Canine was hit by Estini for 3 (total damage taken 23)
Canine was hit by Estini for 2 (total damage taken 25)
St John was hit by Blue Woman for 5 (total damage taken 5)
Blue Woman was hit by St John for 4 (total damage taken 4)
Lope was hit by Canine for 7 (total damage taken 7)Round: 3
Canine was hit by Lope for 21 (total damage taken 46)
Canine was hit by Lope for 27 (total damage taken 73)
Canine was hit by Estini for 1 (total damage taken 74)
Canine was hit by Diana for 15 (total damage taken 89)
Blue Woman was hit by St John for 7 (total damage taken 11)Round: 4
Canine was hit by Lope for 22 (total damage taken 111)
Canine was hit by Lope for 20 (total damage taken 131)
Blue Woman was hit by Estini for 3 (total damage taken 14)
Triphylla was hit by Wasps for 6 (total damage taken 6)
Diana was hit by Wasps for 4 (total damage taken 4)
Valeria was hit by Wasps for 4 (total damage taken 4)Totals:
Canine: 131 damage
St John: 5 damage
Blue Woman: 14 damage
Lope: 7 damage
Triphylla: 6 damage
Diana: 4 damage
Valeria: 4 damage
COMBAT ORDER:
Triphylla
Lope
Estini
Blue Woman
Valeria <----- WE ARE HERE
Diana
St John
Valeria, Diana, St John, Triphylla, Lope and Estini are up.
With the woman still infront of him St. John attacks with a blur of attacks on her.
While the initial spell was not stopped whatever the b~*+* tried to cast next was! The swarm she produced assaulted Valeria and she quickly moved away from it, pulling Dignity's Barb, and loaded her weapons.
Sidestepping the swarms, Triphylla reaches into her pack for her jar of vermin repellent. She quickly scoops some out and slathers it across her neck and arms and then holds the jar up for Diana to take it from her, if she wants it.
"Diana!" she shouts to get the wizard's attention.
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Lope eyes the walls and ceiling but observes it is too far from where the woman is flying. He does put his hand on his pocket and takes a wing feather "I was saving this trick, but I guess it needs to be done now"
With a word of power the feather is consumed and Lope's feed start to float over the ground. With the haste and the enhanced speed, the Aldori flies to go meet the woman "You, batwoman, don't leave just yet before we can dance together"
Diana cries out as she tries to run outside the cloud of killer wasps. Distracted as she is from the stings and buzzing sounds, she fails to understand just what their foe was trying to cast.
"Thank you for your concern, Triphylla, but if I understand the spell she cast correctly, the wasps won't move from the spots where they were summoned, so we should be safe if we just avoid them."
Unsure what else to throw at their foe, Diana thinks back to Valeria's warning about this type of demon, and tries to get her attention by creating an illusion of a redhaired angelic being next to her, wearing a flowing crimson colored robe and wielding a shield and sword apparently made from bright reddish metal.
Triphylla pulls back the jar. "I hope you're right!"
Valeria moved out of the swarm and loaded Dignity's Barb.
Diana conjured the image of a red-haired angelic being next to her, hoping it might draw some of the blue-skinned woman's ire.
Meanwhile St John kept up his furious assault. Most of his blows either didn't connect or didn't seem to do any damage but he managed to catch the woman in an awkward way that caused her arm to bleed profusely causing her to suck in air suddenly as the pain surprised her.
Triphylla slathers some rather pungent bug repellant over herself, but the Diana points out that the summoned insects are unable to move.
Lope uses the power of a feather token and rises up in the air to face the blue woman.