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The joy in defeating the demon, banishing the world madness, and saving the world is eclipsed by the loss of One and Two. Though she never learned their real names, they were her friends nonetheless. No, Ven, I'm afraid there is nothing I can do. Wencan create a monument in their honor.

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As the days and weeks passed, Kris held funeral rights for all who lost their lives. She sailed those home who wanted to return, and she spent the rest of her days on her ship, sailing from one port to the next interacting with the people at the docks, spreading the tale of what happened and th religion of the Shavra, and searching for a way to save Ven's soul.

Kris uses Balance the Scales to deal 18 damage to th demon.

Let's finish strong! Extra damage for everyone!!

Kris holds aloft her stone egg censure and uses her hands, wings, and tail to touch each of her companions on the forehead.

You touch each target on the forehead, leaving behind a symbol of your god at the place you touched that remains for the duration. An affected target’s eyes and mouth shine with light, signaling to all that it has been anointed by your god to fight in his or her name. Each target gains a +10 bonus to Health and makes attack rolls and challenge rolls with 1 boon. Creatures make challenge rolls to resist the target’s attacks with 1 bane, and the target’s attacks deal 2d6 extra damage. When the spell ends for a target, it must get a success on a Will challenge roll with 2 banes or gain 1d3 Insanity.

Kris screams in pain as th demon tears at her scales, but she stands firm knowing that every ounce of pain she suffers, this thing will suffer the same.

She says a prayer for Thomas and then swipes her sword right back!

Boons: Blessing, Prayer. Banes: Horrifying
Sword of Dawn: 1d20 + 4 + 1d6 ⇒ (8) + 4 + (4) = 16
Damage: 3d6 + 2 ⇒ (6, 5, 3) + 2 = 16

She then grabs the incantation of Overcome Affliction and tosses it to Thomas (minor action; thomas gets a boon to cast it because of prayer).

Standing proud and ready to face this worldy intruder, Kris summons a sword to her hand and takes a swing.

Triggered action: Cast Sword of th Dawn.

Boons: Blessing. Banes: Horrifying.
Sword of Dawn Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21
Damage: 3d6 + 2 ⇒ (5, 4, 1) + 2 = 12
The blinded roll below should come with a bane due to Kris' Inner Radiance.

Sword of the Dawn (1/1)
Duration 1 hour; see the effect
A crescent blade of rose-colored light emerges from your hand and remains for the duration or until you drop it, which ends the spell. The blade functions as a melee weapon that you can wield in your off hand and that deals 3d6 + 2 damage. You can substitute Will for the attribute you would normally use to attack with this weapon. The blade emits light in a 5-yard radius. Finally, if the total of your attack roll is 20 or higher and beats the target number by at least 5, the target must get a success on a Strength challenge roll or become blinded for 1 round.

Triggered. On your turn, you can use a triggered action to cast this spell.

Hoping to capitalize on the massive attacks, Krislyx casts another spell! Strange glyphs appear in the air around her over a three yard radius, and she moves in close to the demon.

Strange glyphs fill the area and remain for the duration. The area moves with you, staying centered on a point in your space. Until the spell ends, whenever a creature in the area, including you, takes damage, you can choose a different creature in the area to take an equal amount of damage.

Kris holds up her holy symbol, invoking the power of her faith to destroy the demon.

Casting Divine Justice
Boons: Blessing 1, Demon 3, Corruption 10. Prayer 1. Banes: Horrifying 1, Spell defense 1.

Boons: 13d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 2, 2, 6, 3, 4, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 4) = 33
1d20 + 4 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 4 + 6 = 18
Damage: 9d6 + 8 ⇒ (5, 6, 6, 4, 2, 2, 3, 6, 4) + 8 = 46
If Failure, Insanity Gain: 1d6 ⇒ 5

You call out to your god to mete out justice against the target. Make a Will attack roll against the target’s Will. You make the attack roll with a number of boons equal to the target’s Corruption score. If the target is a demon, devil, faerie, spirit, or undead, you make the attack roll with 3 boons. On a success, the target takes 8d6 + 8 damage, and it must get a success on a Will challenge roll or become stunned for 1 round. If you get a failure on the attack roll, you gain 1d6 Insanity from realizing that either you misjudged the target or your god was not listening to your prayer.

Your reign of terror is over, Rudebendius! You have been spreading madness and horror all across the seas! It's time for it to end!

Now, come to me and submit!

Casting Forceful Summons. Triggered action for Inner Radiance.

The familiar light glows out from beneath her scales, and wings of light form on the Naga's back.

Boons:Blessing, Inner Radiance. Banes: Necromancer

Will vs Will: 1d20 + 4 + 1d6 ⇒ (13) + 4 + (3) = 20
Potential damage: 3d6 ⇒ (3, 1, 5) = 9

As she speaks the word of summons, a glyph falls from her tongue and dissolves in the air.

Make a Will attack roll against the target’s Will. If the target has a Health score of 50 or lower, you make the roll with 1 boon. On a success, the target teleports to an open space you can reach, falls prone, and becomes immobilized for 1 hour. When the target is immobilized in this way, it is also impaired. At the end of each round, the target can make a Will challenge roll with 2 banes and ends the effect on itself with a success.

Attack Roll 20+ The target also takes 3d6 damage.

"Ok, guys. There he is. I've got a plan for this. One, Two, come here a moment."

Kris pulls out two of her scrolls she purchased way back in Freeport. "These will turn you two into holy warriors, vastly improving your ability to combat the undead and the necromancer. But you have to read them. I can help, but you have to do it. To start with, let me bless you."

Each scroll requires them to make an intellect challenge roll with 2 banes. They get one boon from Blessing and one boon from prayer. Then one boon for the help action, which Kris will do.
This will net one boon for the casting rolls. Each spell will last for 6 rounds, meaning that as soon as we cast it, we'll have to begin the attack.

Round 1: Cast Blessings. Everyone has a boon for 1 minute.

Round 2: Help One.

Help: 1d20 + 3 + 1d6 ⇒ (4) + 3 + (6) = 13
One Int: 1d20 + 0 + 1d6 ⇒ (11) + 0 + (1) = 12

Round 3: Help Two
Help: 1d20 + 3 + 1d6 ⇒ (6) + 3 + (2) = 11
Two Int: 1d20 + 0 + 1d6 ⇒ (3) + 0 + (4) = 7

Looks like only One gets the benefit of Holy Armaments:

You drop whatever you are holding. A gleaming shield adorned with the symbol of your god appears on your arm, and a shining blade appears in your hand. Both items shed light in a 5-yard radius and remain for the duration or until you drop one or both of them, which ends the spell. As part of the casting of this spell, you can attack with either the sword or shield. The shield is a large shield with no Strength requirement. While you wield it, the shield imposes 1 bane on attack rolls made against you. Attacks with the shield deal 1d6 + 2 damage. The blade is a sword with no Strength requirement that grants you 1 boon on attack rolls you make with it. Attacks with the weapon deal 2d6 + 2 damage. Whenever you attack with either the shield or the sword, you can use Will in place of the attribute you would normally use to make the attack. Attacks you make with either weapon deal 2d6 extra damage to demons, devils, faeries, spirits, and undead. Finally, if the total of your attack roll is 20 or higher and beats the target number by at least 5, your attack has an additional effect. If you made the attack with the shield, the target becomes dazed for 1 round. If you made the attack with the sword, the target takes 2d6 extra damage.

"Come friends, we must find this necromancer."

Kris says a prayer for Ven.

Ven Boon: 1d6 ⇒ 6
Ven extra damage: 1d6 ⇒ 1

not much extra damage, but that should be enough to knock ven up into the 20+ group for an extra turn.

She then fires a burning beam at one of the blinded ones.

Will vs Agility: 1d20 + 4 + 1d6 ⇒ (10) + 4 + (4) = 18
damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4

Kris flies close to the enemies to engulf them with the light. Then she activates her Imperious Light to cause all the enemies in her light to become immobilized.

While you are emitting light from the effect of your Inner Radiance talent, you can use an action to force one creature within the area of light to make a Will challenge roll. On a failure, the creature becomes immobilized for 1 minute or until it is no longer in the radius of your light. When the creature is immobilized in this way, it is also blinded. At the end of each round, an affected creature can repeat the roll and removes the immobilized affliction from itself on a success. Once you use this talent, you must wait at least 1 minute before you can use it again.

Exemplar’s Authority. When you use Imperious Light, you can choose a number of creatures equal to your Power score.

Kris opens up with a burning beam, triggering her inner radiance at the same time. She begins to glow and wings of light appear from her back, lifting her into the air.

Will vs Agility: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21
damage: 1d6 ⇒ 6
Creature hit is also blinded for 1 round.

Granting a Prayer boon to Ven, which also grants a boon to me for 1 round.

Will: 1d20 + 4 - 1d6 ⇒ (5) + 4 - (3) = 6
Insanity: 1d3 ⇒ 3

I have never seen such vile. This is worse than Anne the Red.

"How is everyone? Is anyone hurt?" Kris inquires. "I have some scrolls that can help."

Kris fires a beam of light at one of the skeletons, activating Inner Radiance at the same time.

will vs agility: 1d20 + 4 + 1d6 ⇒ (5) + 4 + (1) = 10
damage: 1d6 ⇒ 1

Kris pulls out an incantation and reads it aloud, making the skeletons movement more difficult.

Censer. Undead must make will challenge roll or become impaired for 1 minute and cannot take fast turns.

Good job, Ven, Kris whispers as they move on.

Kris pulls out one of her scrolls which she had prepared for such an occasion, and begins to cast.

Censure: all undead within short range must make a will challenge roll or be impaired for 1 minute. While impaired in this way, they cannot take fast turns.

will: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23

Kris immediately casts Blessing on everyone; preventing the fear from coming in and enhancing their actions all around.

"Of course not everyone can use magic, silly! That's why I have scrolls! Anyone can use a scroll. It's just a little difficult sometimes. That's why we have prayers and blessings and can even help them as they try to read it! It's a risk, but I think it's better to try and gain a boost of power than to not try at all."

Using an incantation is an intellect challenge roll with 1 bane for each rank the spell is above your power score.

Okay, Kris says. This is it. This is where we make our stand and protect the world. This is why the Shavra was brought back - to stop this necromancer and whatever other horrors are here.

I have come prepared with a lot of magic to make us stronger, but many of them require you to read the incantation. If we can, let's try to sneak up on the necromancer and prepare ourselves immediately before the assault.

I have several sun shards we can use, some Mantles of Holiness, and two Holy Armaments. Plus, I have several overcome afflictions that I can hand out. Each of these requires you to invoke the incantation; I cannot cast the for you. Ven, I think you should have no issue with them, but Thomas, if you're willing I can help you cast.

Handing out one of these each to Ven and Thomas.

Are we ready?

Thank you Ven, Kris says, a genuine gesture of gratitude given.

I feel it is not long. After a rest, we should only be there in another hour or two, at most. Or twice that if we leave now.

New fastest route talent now quadruples our speed instead of only doubling! :)

Level 10 Mystic Navigator

Characteristics Health +2 (39)

Magic You learn one spell.

Forceful Conversions (Theurgy)

Exchange Rainbow for Sword of Dawn (Celestial)

Commune with the Seas You can use an action to cast your senses out over and under the waters to learn hidden truths. If you concentrate for 1 minute, you learn three true things about the waters within 10 miles of you. Once you use this talent, you cannot use it again until you complete a rest.

Expeditious Travel When following a route you discover with your Fastest Path talent, you quadruple the rate of travel instead of doubling it.

Stand back! Kris warns, as she backs up to a good distance. She then concentrates, focusing the light as it sheds from her scales.

Casting Focused Light. 2d6+1 damage to the object per round for 6 rounds. Triggered Action to activate Inner Radiance.

Will: 1d20 + 4 - 1d6 ⇒ (20) + 4 - (6) = 18

There are souls inside! And they are filled with anger, with loss, with terror. We must free them! They do no belong here.

Ven! Kris screams, watching him flee. She knows how fast he can move, and she just watches in nearly stunned silence as he vanishes out of sight.

She turns back to the crystals and mentally prepared herself. She has to know what scared him so much; what made one of the bravest men she had ever known to flee in abject terror. She touches the crystal.

"Oh, do be careful, Ven! You always rush into these things with no concern for your own safety!" Kris chides, awaiting Ven to report what he saw and felt.

What do you think that was? I wonder if she was what's causing the fear in the village. Between her, th necromancer, and the demonic statues, no wonder they turned to false gods and strange religions and sacrifices.

Slow

Watching Ven struggle and suffer, Kris knows what she must do. She focuses her energy on the scales of justice, ensuring things will be balanced. Light erupts from her, glowing from underneath her scales. Strange glyphs appear around her, rotating an swirling in a three yard radius. Then, she moves in to face the horror head on.

Action: Cast Even the Scales. Then move to be within her reach.

Until the spell ends, whenever a creature in the area, including you, takes damage, you can choose a different creature in the area to take an equal amount of damage.

This isn't right! This is an abomination! A leech upon the souls of all! Kris calls out.

She holds aloft her cosmic egg and focuses her energy. It's time the Shavra looked into your soul and truly judged you for your actions.

Casting Divine Justice.
Target. One creature you can see within medium range.

You call out to your god to mete out justice against the target. Make a Will attack roll against the target’s Will. You make the attack roll with a number of boons equal to the target’s Corruption score. If the target is a demon, devil, faerie, spirit, or undead, you make the attack roll with 3 boons. On a success, the target takes 8d6 + 8 damage, and it must get a success on a Will challenge roll or become stunned for 1 round. If you get a failure on the attack roll, you gain 1d6 Insanity from realizing that either you misjudged the target or your god was not listening to your prayer.

Boons: Prayer, Blessings, spirit 3, Corruption 10. Banes: None.
Boons: 15d6 ⇒ (6, 3, 2, 3, 3, 1, 5, 4, 1, 2, 5, 1, 2, 5, 4) = 47
Will vs Will: 1d20 + 4 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 4 + 6 = 28
Damage: 9d6 + 8 ⇒ (3, 1, 4, 5, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2) + 8 = 35

It must get a success on a Will challenge roll or become stunned for 1 round.

Frightening: 1d20 + 4 + 1d6 ⇒ (4) + 4 + (3) = 11

Kris immediately starts casting Blessing on everyone. Boons all around.

Do you think destroying the crystal will stop the nightmares?

Trusting in Ven, Kris follows.

"I can pary over him. But we should take him from this cave. It wasn't until we got here that this started happening. How are One and Two?"

Kris nearly yelps at the sudden sound, but she turns around with clear relief in her eyes. "Ven! Oh, Ven, I was so worried! You were yelling in your sleep! I couldn't wake you up! Look, Thomas is still out and I cannot see what is causing it."

Ven? Thomas? Ven! Thomas! Kris is getting increasingly worries that her friends are not waking up.

She looks around into the darkness and lets loose a burning beam in a random direction, using it to power her inner radiance. She begins to glow, illuminating the cave around her. Perhaps she can see something here that might be causing this?

Kris wakes suddenly from the nightmare; the images still reeling her mind. It takes a moment for her to clear her head and try and brush away the images before she notices that her companions are experiencing the same as her. It's a nightmare trap, she thinks to herself.

The first thing she tries to do is wake them. She gently shakes Ven and Thomas, Ven? Thomas? Wake up! You are having night terrors! Wake up!

If that doesn't work, then she readies herself to start using magic. She shall protect her friends and bring order to their ailing minds.

As it dissipated away, Kris descended to the ground and slithered back to Ven and Thomas. There, that should stop it from ever hurting anyone again.

Clear of the deadly mist, Kris continues to shine her light down on the creature!

Action to concentrate and continue the spell. Agility challenge roll with 1 bane, or take 2d6+1 damage.

Strength. Banes: 3. Boons: Blessing.
Banes: 2d6 ⇒ (1, 2) = 3
Strength: 1d20 - 1 - 2 ⇒ (13) - 1 - 2 = 10
Wow. I did not think I would pass that.

Will. Boons: Blessing.
Will: 1d20 + 4 + 1d6 ⇒ (8) + 4 + (5) = 17

Slow

Kris felt the encroaching mist try to consume her, but she refused to let it. Instead, she focused her light and blasted it!

Triggered Action: Inner Radiance

As she casts, she starts to shine. As she shines, new glowing wings appear from her back and she starts to fly. She rises into the sky hoping to get above the mist and blast it with light from above!

Focused Light. A beam of light in a color you choose, 1 inch in diameter, extends up to 20 yards from your hand in a direction you choose. The beam turns darkness within 1 yard of it into shadows. The beam cannot extend through any solid and non-transparent creature or object it touches; thus, such obstacles provide total cover to anything behind them. Any object touched by the beam takes 2d6 + 1 damage. When you cast the spell, each creature in the beam’s path can make an Agility challenge roll.

A creature dodges the beam on a success, or takes 2d6 + 1 damage on a failure. For the duration, each time you use an action to concentrate on the spell, you can point the beam in a different direction. The first creature or object in the path of the light is subject to the spell’s effect as if you had just cast the spell.

Will: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14

Kris immediately blesses everyone in the group.

Kris wakes up early, ready to face the day. She feels confident; perhaps more confident than she has in a long time. Something felt right about all this.

Before they left, she approached Thomas, Thomas, back in Freeport I purchased some things that I think will help. These are for One and Two. I will help them cast the incantations when it comes time, and it may not work. But if it does, they will become formidable against any foe.

Kris hands Thomas her two incantations of Holy Armaments.

Level 9

Characteristics. Health +2 (37), Power +1 (5)

Magic. You learn one spell.
Divine Justice (Theurgy)
Exchange Consistency for Forceful Summons (Order)

Exemplar’s Authority. When you use Imperious Light, you can choose a number of creatures equal to your Power score.

Order’s Wings. While you are under the effect of your Inner Radiance talent, a pair of wings made from solidified light grow out from your back and grant you the flier trait.

Angel Attack

Boons: 2d6 ⇒ (4, 3) = 7
Angel Attack: 1d20 + 3 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 3 + 4 = 16
Damage: 3d6 + 2 ⇒ (6, 1, 1) + 2 = 10

Kris focuses a beam of light and directs it to the statue!
Boons: Blessing, Last Round Prayer Use
Boons: 2d6 ⇒ (6, 3) = 9
Attack: 1d20 + 4 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 4 + 3 = 27
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3
Attack Roll 20+: The target also becomes blinded for 1 round.

Triggered Action for Inner Radiance; Kris begins to glow.

Prayer damage last round: 1d6 ⇒ 6

Prayer boon to Ven: 1d6 ⇒ 6
Prayer Damage this round: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Blessing boon
Will: 1d20 + 4 + 1d6 ⇒ (5) + 4 + (1) = 10

Kris says her prayers and calls upon more help in the coming battle. Once again she summons Angelic Aid, bringing forth a representative of the Shavra. A Winged Naga grows our from her and takes form to join the fight.

Destroy that thing! Kris calls out.

The angel takes flight and draws its sword to attack!

Boons: 2d6 ⇒ (4, 4) = 8
Attack: 1d20 + 3 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 3 + 4 = 26
Damage: 3d6 + 2 ⇒ (1, 1, 3) + 2 = 7
20+: Flare. A sighted creature must get a success on an Agility challenge roll or become blinded for 1 round.

Will vs Insanity: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Curses? No, such pitiful magic cannot stand against the Shavra, Kris declares.

She moves up to Thomas, One, and Two, casting a new spell. Light shines behind her eyes as she casts, and phantom wings made of light appear behind her.

She touches Thomas, One, and Two - and the faint wings of light transfer to each of them. Their eyes shine with the radiance Kris is known to project.

Casting Annoint the Faithful.

You touch each target on the forehead, leaving behind a symbol of your god at the place you touched that remains for the duration. An affected target’s eyes and mouth shine with light, signaling to all that it has been anointed by your god to fight in his or her name. Each target gains a +10 bonus to Health and makes attack rolls and challenge rolls with 1 boon. Creatures make challenge rolls to resist the target’s attacks with 1 bane, and the target’s attacks deal 2d6 extra damage. When the spell ends for a target, it must get a success on a Will challenge roll with 2 banes or gain 1d3 Insanity.

Round Counter
Blessing: 1/6
Annoint: 0/6

The first thing Kris does is a familiar sight - she pulls out the symbol of her god, the small egg shaped stone held like a censer with three delicate chains.

She starts to focus on it, allowing the winged naga to rise above her as she touches her allies and lays upon them a blessing.

Fast turn. Cast Blessing and grant 1 boon to all attack and challenge rolls for 1 minute.

This is no god! Kris declares. This is naught but a construct, a thing of metal and stone and magic and nothing more. It holds no power against the Shavra!

Actions and stuff to be posted a bit later. Still gotta reset her castings and stuff.

As the eve drew on, Kris retired to the room which was provided. She rummaged through her pack and sorted all get incantations and gear. Soon, they would face the necromancer, and today had taught her to keep her scrolls organized and at the ready. She spent too long trying to find the right ones. They needed to be ready to grab and use at a moments notice.

Afterwards, she said her prayers to her god, to th Shavra, which was also her somehow, and then fell asleep.

Kris smiles warmly at the crowd, accepting the adulation and cheers. Whichever of the villagers is most injured (especially if it's a child), she'll use her shared recovery to heal them.