The Steel Tsar sneds a force of wraiths to disperse the glowing cloud
He bellows
Seeing Nimora impaled on his sword he wrenches it viciously through her entrails
The reddish smeared skeletons continue to arrive. Shimmering grey-blue shields spring into existence in front of the three units arranged to the fore of the dwarven advance.
The dwarves let loose a volley of crossbow bolts then switch to hammers and close.
For the Stone Lord!
The starhawks circle over the field using their powers as best they can, as well as their beaks and talons. Three of them band together to hit the advancing line of skeletons with a telekinetic push.
The Steel Tsar sneds a force of wraiths to disperse the glowing cloud
He bellows
Seeing Nimora impaled on his sword he wrenches it viciously through her entrails
She gurgles slightly, blood dripping from her mouth as the life fades from her eyes and she crumples to the ground.
The Steel Tsar sneds a force of wraiths to disperse the glowing cloud
He bellows
Seeing Nimora impaled on his sword he wrenches it viciously through her entrails
Mirathan leaps upon the behemoth
No!
The Pigeons/Yugoloths charge at the Armies of Light.
"Kill us as dead as you wants, we stills comes back." A red-skinned Yugoloth grins.
The bolt strikes the giggler as he circles Oroth.
Alack! I'm struck!
What cursed luck!
The harlequin collapses into a puddle and absorbs into the earth
Thorny vines of dripping blood erupt from the ground and ensnare Beren Fishfinder.
The bolt strikes the giggler as he circles Oroth.
Alack! I'm struck
What cursed luck!The harlequin collapses into a puddle and absorbs into the earth
"I don't think he's dead." Frogskin says quietly.
The wraiths find that the cloud burns them like acid.
The large bear struggles, pierced through his silver armor
AUUUGH!!
He bites at the vines encircling him
A pair of apparent elves crest one of the ridges overlooking the battlefield.
Hmm. Good thing we brought our army with us. Shame it's largely imaginary.
The male elf waves at a large spread of air, which seems completely empty, though the mage-sighted might notice a strong aura of illusion and evocation magic.
Dhuhah casts cure critical wounds on her.
Blood still drips from the young dryad
A curse. The harlequin. I need the dagger ...
Spring Sapling faints
You mean a shame for everyone else that it's large and imaginary, darling.
She smiles, wolfishly.
The starhawks pulverize the front line of skeletons. A squadron of dracoliches advance to challenge them
Another three starhawks join these ones and prepare to face the dracoliches, readying a powerful Energy Wave to send against them.
E7 blasts IB's undead army with lances of pure sunlight, as Marsh Shadow lets loose with gouts of acid.
Windwalker and the avian legion manage to overcome the wraiths, with heavy losses. Still, they turn to help the dwarves that are caught btwn two foes.
You mean a shame for everyone else that it's large and imaginary, darling.
She smiles, wolfishly.
Kobold Cleaver appears out of thin air.
"A shame for you, too."The 'elves' find their minds beset by a powerful force, attempting to break them.
E7 blasts IB's undead army with lances of pure sunlight, as Marsh Shadow lets loose with gouts of acid.
A dim voice sounds in E7's mind
Grandfather ...
Sky retreats from his aerial fight to hover over LJ. He casts a critical eye over his landbound enemies.
:"Air once dormant,
Shall swirl like snow,
Sent to torment,
Our undead foes.:"
His Auran words speak true as a massive tornado filled with positive enrgy rip in the Army of Black.
Azuri'ith continues his attack, blasting undead with powerful wind, occasionally turning into a cyclone when he is far enough from his allies.
Those air elementals remaining continue their assault on the wraiths, drawing forth positive energy from their goddess to infuse their attacks.
Dwarves die by the dozens as they fight on two fronts, yet they sing
Hail the Stone the gives us Life, Blast the foe that brings us Strife. Fight for the Lord of Stone!
The third time his name is sounded a large man of stone slowly erupts from the earth. His body is covered with gems of all types and veins of ore, both precious and mundane, streak his granite skin. He stands over 9 feet tall and holds a stone hammer aloft.
The Stone Lord! The Stone Lord! The dwarves are rallied and fight like men possessed.
Oh go away you wretched evil marble.
The male elf draws a net from his belt, swings it round to snare the assailing magic, and hurls it back at the small black marble, transformed into a banishing spell.
E7 blasts IB's undead army with lances of pure sunlight, as Marsh Shadow lets loose with gouts of acid.A dim voice sounds in E7's mind
Grandfather ...
E7 loses his grip on Shadow Marsh. As he falls wings of green flow from his back, and he regains his balance.
Spring Sapling!
The female loses her patience, and snaps an order. The whole host of nightmares and dreams, which had been intended to sweep the Starhawks and anything else from the skies, before picking off targets for the pair's amusement, turns on Kobold Cleaver.
Oh go away you wretched evil marble.
The male elf draws a net from his belt, swings it round to snare the assailing magic, and hurls it back at the small black marble, transformed into a banishing spell.
A second Warden appears, and stands next to the first
His appearance may be radically changed, but LJ recognizes her love in an instant. Her heart lurches as she realizes that this may very well be the last time she ever sees him. But there is no time now to dwell on that. She continues to fire her bow, holding the majority of her power in reserve. She was to be the third strike against Innocent Blood. The time was drawing closer.
The tornado rips into the Amry of the Black, tossing carnies and undead to and fro. Wraiths fly up to challenge the new threat, screaming wildly
A powerful energy, not postive, negative, or Force, scatter the wraiths quite literally to the winds.
:"People should know better to send the incorporeal to fight a Spirit Shaman...":
:"I call for something above the norm,
so my foes feel a fire storm.":
Oh go away you wretched evil marble.
The male elf draws a net from his belt, swings it round to snare the assailing magic, and hurls it back at the small black marble, transformed into a banishing spell.
"First of all, I'm not a marble. Second...."
The lich grins."This party is invitation only."
He sends forth a blast of anti magic into the group of nightmares. They fly back, and most are dispelled.
The circle of smog pulls up into itself and spreads outward rapidly. Creatures of Life choke as its acid both burns their skin and enters their lungs. As they die they hear voices.
Join us and you shall live.
Frogskin quickly counters, sending positive energy into the cloud and blowing it back into the enemy.
"I don't think that living is what you have in mind. How's this instead?"
JH pounds the ground with his hammer, and the earth rolls outward towards the Bone Servants and dinosaur skeletons knocking them prone but not affecting a single dwarf. The smaller dinosaur skeletons simply crumble under the sonic earthquake.
A portal is ripped into existence as Nimora falls. "Go, show them what you have learned. But leave the Tsar to me..." Both figures jump into the portal.
The circle of smog pulls up into itself and spreads outward rapidly. Creatures of Life choke as its acid both burns their skin and enters their lungs. As they die they hear voices.
Join us and you shall live.
Frogskin quickly counters, sending positive energy into the cloud and blowing it back into the enemy.
"I don't think that living is what you have in mind. How's this instead?"
Am I the enemy you had in mind?
A small kobold in robes of a shaman stands next to two large kettle drums.
Mirathan assails the Tsar with his daggers, oblivious to the fact that they have no affect. There are no wood elves alive in the Tsar's sword reach.
Aidan appears brfore a legion of undead and harlequins.
"Hello... and goodbye!" Faire sears the undead as Aidan speaks those words..
More vines wrap Beren as HT continues the attack. Eventually vines erupt from within the Bear Lord's body itself.
The reddish skeletons close with the right flank of the army of undeath, with devestating results for both sides. The massed hordes of flailing mindless undead can defeat the reddish skeletons, but many of them collapse into ash and dust too. More lines of the reddish smeared skeletons continue to advance down the hill towards the undead.
Meanwhile, blue lightning springs up around one of the units facing the dwarves, and they begin to close in one one of the dwarven flanks...
The dwarves continue bombing the constructs, but they are beginning to run low on bombs.
Suddenly, the Yugoloths veer off course."Gotcha, ya morons!"
Most of the force stays to fight their surprised 'allies', while a third goes to help the dwarves.
More vines wrap Beren as HT continues the attack. Eventually vines erupt from within the Bear Lord's body itself.
Meepo glares.
"You're mine, tree."He charges, firing his machine gun at the tree.
The reddish skeletons close with the right flank of the army of undeath, with devestating results for both sides. The massed hordes of flailing mindless undead can defeat the reddish skeletons, but many of them collapse into ash and dust too. More lines of the reddish smeared skeletons continue to advance down the hill towards the undead.
Meanwhile, blue lightning springs up around one of the units facing the dwarves, and they begin to close in one one of the dwarven flanks...
Jorel Longstrider and Rockspltter emerge from the dispersed cloud, looking much worse for the wear. They charge the rear of the Bone Servants. Jorel casts Epic dispel evil on the portal from which the foul constructs pour forth. rocksplitter bulls over any servants caught in his path.
Mirathan assails the Tsar with his daggers, oblivious to the fact that they have no affect. There are no wood elves alive in the Tsar's sword reach.
There is a flash of light as The Bard appears in front of The Steel Tsar, deflecting an attck that would have killed Mirathan.
"Remember me?"