Author Topic: The strange village-Chapter I  (Read 47861 times)

Offline VennDygrem

  • Epic Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 4587
  • Exceptionally Average
    • View Profile
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #160 on: October 22, 2014, 05:50:56 PM »
Though both hidden and invisible, if any could see her they would know that Serafina's eyes instantly began glowing as soon as the group came under attack. Like a flame igniting, so too do the spirits of her allies ebb and swell, as vigorous energy floods into them and drives them on. A confident smirk creeps onto her face, though no one would know it right now.

(click to show/hide)

Offline Raineh Daze

  • Epic Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 10577
  • hi
    • View Profile
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #161 on: October 24, 2014, 11:14:44 AM »
The first thing the goddess did upon arrival was to catalogue the enemies they were facing, identify their weakpoints, and relay as much of this information to her allies as possible. The second was to change back once more from 'wise teacher' to 'hit things with a golden blade': as against the undead before, she summoned an elaborately-embellished falchion, gleaming far too brightly for this cruel place--even more so after the goddess said but a single word.

(click to show/hide)
« Last Edit: October 24, 2014, 04:53:47 PM by Raineh Daze »

Offline SorO_Lost

  • Epic Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 7197
  • Banned
    • View Profile
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #162 on: October 24, 2014, 07:22:18 PM »
Appearing in the area Izuna quickly surveys the area and decides on his tactic. Hands flashing into complex arcane seals and sigils he prepares to summon twisted vines the moment after everyone let's their initial volleys of death.

(click to show/hide)

Offline oslecamo

  • Honorary Mod
  • *****
  • Posts: 10080
  • Creating monsters for my Realm of Darkness
    • View Profile
    • Oslecamo's Custom Library (my homebrew)
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #163 on: November 02, 2014, 04:31:41 PM »
Nina's ribbon assault tears and wraps around her "mount" leaving it pretty hurt and restrained, and it seemed like the warlord would've suffered the same fate, but at the last moment he throws his ragged cape in the path of the ribbons and the piece of clothing takes most of the damage, with the azanideo being only lightly damaged. Underneath the dirty garment is revealed a belt filled with strange contraptions.

Imos auras quickly reveal the exalted surrounding the party are quite durable of both mind and body, only one fallking to sickness, and another opening its mind to him. It's not a pleasant feeling. When Imos fires his spines, the warlord's armor proves to still be quite sturdy despite its apparent bad condition, and the projectiles fail to find an opening.

As Serafina speeds up her companions, Steyven steps forward to attack the warlord in personal combat. As the bullroarer comes down to smash the warlord's helmet, the azanídeo reveals surprising skill at managing to deflet it with its armored gauntlet. However Steyven is relentless in his assault and his two next blows get under the warlord's guard and crush some of his armor plates, igniting the fur underneath. At first the azanídeo doesn't seem much botherered by the fire, but as they burst in white sacred flames, it squeals in clear pain.  The warlord still manages to pull back before Steyven sucessfully activates the bullroarer's secret surge ability.

Tsukyo creates the perfect weapon for the situation (or at least the weapon she considers better for their current challenge), Isuma creates a miniature forest to entrap the exalted.

Naked skins dangerous! Deal with them! I'll go get help!-squeals the warlord, grabbing three strange tiny small  oval devices with rough surfaces from his belt that he throws at Steyven. The first misses as the azanídeo is partially blinded by the righteous light of the warrior, but as the trinket falls to the floor, it explodes violently in a burst of flame so intense the stone floor itself is partially melted! All party members but Isuna are caught in the blast, as well as one of the exalted, but the flames don't seem to affect it.

The two next bombs from the warlord land right upon Steyven, giving him no opportunity to take cover from the blast, and still reaching his allies. When the smoke clears you see the warlord has swiftly moved away from you, unnaturally fast for someone clad in heavy armor, and is now behind the exalted who was guarding the entrance, who meanwhile moved closer to you, raising a clawed hand and from it unleashing a dark ray of draining energy upon Steyven.

The exalted behind the party starts shouting from behind the vines now separating it from you:
You little shitfaces think you're special with those fancy powers of yours? You're just more food for us! The moment you decided to come here, you've proved how seriously retarded and braindead you are, because you've just thrown away the worthless existences your creators gave you! You're less than pathetic!

Its insults are filled with vitriolic, malice and hate that threatens to sour your mood. Then another of the exalted adds:
In other words, worms, HALT!

The last word has an overhwleming, powerful power behind it, and you feel compeled to obey it. The third exalted inside the vines doesn't say anything but instead spits green bile on the floor next to you, and from there sprout two hideous red beings quite similar to its "parent", except they're "just" as tall as Steyven and lack wings, plus are carrying rusted glaives. The fourth and last trapped exalted meanwhile is trying to shake off Nina from over him,  then suddenly disappears in a puff of smoke, and appears again outside the vines, leaving Nina behind.

(click to show/hide)

(click to show/hide)
« Last Edit: November 02, 2014, 04:34:50 PM by oslecamo »

Offline ketaro

  • Epic Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 4241
  • I'm always new!
    • View Profile
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #164 on: November 02, 2014, 05:02:44 PM »
As the Warlord moves to flee, Nina's lance suddenly lashes out to impale him on the spot.

(click to show/hide)
« Last Edit: November 02, 2014, 10:28:04 PM by ketaro »

Offline phaedrusxy

  • DnD Handbook Writer
  • ****
  • Posts: 10708
  • The iconic spambot
    • View Profile
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #165 on: November 02, 2014, 10:46:58 PM »
Steyven barely manages to roll aside as the first fire bomb misses its mark, gets hit full in the chest and screams as the second one burns his flesh, then seems to somehow absorb and heal himself from the third. The black ray of negative energy seems to visibly weaken him, though.

(click to show/hide)
I don't pee messages into the snow often , but when I do , it's in Cyrillic with Fake Viagra.  Stay frosty my friends.

Offline oslecamo

  • Honorary Mod
  • *****
  • Posts: 10080
  • Creating monsters for my Realm of Darkness
    • View Profile
    • Oslecamo's Custom Library (my homebrew)
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #166 on: November 06, 2014, 12:44:40 PM »
Nina's lance pierces the armor and impales itself on the fleeing Warlord's shoulder, making it squeal again in pain, and again when the more white flames burst from the wound, but the azanídeo proves quite durable and tenacious, managing to pull its body away from the weapon as it scurries behind the approaching exalted.

Offline Raineh Daze

  • Epic Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 10577
  • hi
    • View Profile
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #167 on: November 06, 2014, 04:30:24 PM »
With extreme irritation at being nearly immolated, the goddess ablated the worst of the damage through a hasty shield, leaving a minor amount of damage that began to heal even as she, somewhat poorly, attempted to cut through one of the smaller Exalted to buy herself a path out of this mess of trees and outsiders.

(click to show/hide)

Offline phaedrusxy

  • DnD Handbook Writer
  • ****
  • Posts: 10708
  • The iconic spambot
    • View Profile
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #168 on: November 18, 2014, 02:55:47 PM »
Steyven quickly dissappears and reappears just outside the reach of the azenido next to him, then opens his mouth and breathes a gout of flames, engulfing the warlord and the two azenido nearest him. Then Steyven quickly hurries behind a column to try and avoid any reprisals from the warlord. He can't afford to be hit with any more of those flaming bombs...

(click to show/hide)
I don't pee messages into the snow often , but when I do , it's in Cyrillic with Fake Viagra.  Stay frosty my friends.

Offline ketaro

  • Epic Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 4241
  • I'm always new!
    • View Profile
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #169 on: November 19, 2014, 01:00:00 AM »
While the Warlord was definitely a priority, this situation somehow felt a bit more precarious than the last fight and trying to pull off the same trick twice in a row gave Nina a strange feeling; though a lot of feelings were generally still strange with her. Regardless, there was something really big still right next to her, and one of the other ones was spitting up reinforcements. If they could all do that, they needed to be stopped before her party got too far behind on the numerical advantage. The tiny girl leaps off the ground and bounds up the form of the Exalted beside her in much the same fashion she did it's friend. Crawling around to it's head, she somehow perched herself before it and brings about a pair of tiny fists that promptly begin radiating in golden energy before suddenly unleashing a torrent of punches at it's head with such force that the golden power burst right through the giant rat and continued into it's allies beyond it.

(click to show/hide)
« Last Edit: November 19, 2014, 01:06:53 AM by ketaro »

Offline Gazzien

  • DnD Handbook Writer
  • ****
  • Posts: 2113
  • Science? Science.
    • View Profile
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #170 on: November 22, 2014, 04:53:30 PM »
Imos frowned, and ignoring the danger, attacked the single minion that he could sense the thoughts of. First a flurry of spines, then force-blasts.

Attack stats.

Offline VennDygrem

  • Epic Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 4587
  • Exceptionally Average
    • View Profile
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #171 on: November 22, 2014, 11:08:26 PM »
With more reinforcements and her allies facing increasingly annoying odds, Serafina decides it's time to even up the field again. Were she not invisible, she would be seen to glow softly, her eyes becoming soft orbs of flame. She raises her hands, and with an effort of will channeled into her magic, brings them down again. Then, invisibly, she flies out from under Tsukiyo to head off the Warlord.

(click to show/hide)

Offline SorO_Lost

  • Epic Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 7197
  • Banned
    • View Profile
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #172 on: December 03, 2014, 03:22:22 PM »
Izuna runs through the gap in the vines after the wizard only to come head on with another creature. While still in mid-run he exerts his will outwards shoving the creature away.

(click to show/hide)
« Last Edit: December 03, 2014, 03:25:19 PM by SorO_Lost »

Offline oslecamo

  • Honorary Mod
  • *****
  • Posts: 10080
  • Creating monsters for my Realm of Darkness
    • View Profile
    • Oslecamo's Custom Library (my homebrew)
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #173 on: December 16, 2014, 06:54:46 PM »
Imos spines shot at the Exalted whose vulnerabilities he could sense succeed on weakening it, before Nina lulls the monster and his spawn to a deep sleep even as the battle rages around them!

Tsukyo's blade proves of a refined craft indeed as it slices the other standing spawn neatly in half, the goddess barely feeling any resistance from its flesh against her weapon.

The Azanídeo Warlord manages to duck out in time to evade the worst from Steyven's flame, the nearby Exalted isn't so fast and is entangled by the pure white flames, screaming in pain!

Nina follows up with her flurry of radiant punches. The Azanídeo once more tries to dodge the incoming attacks with seemingly impossible agility despite its bulky armor. But the animated doll was ready for that, and her wave of attacks elegantly matches her target's evasion attempts to smash it against the ground anyway, before the giant rat burts in more pure white flames! Nina can feel the charred pile of flesh still twitches under the grasp of her martial energy, although it isn't offering resistance anymore. The other nearby exalted simply explodes into a burst of scarlet light, leaving behind a smell of sulphur.

The expression of the other exalted changes to panic at seeing their master fallen, and then they all disappear without a trace.

Then the exalted who had been delayed into teleporting arrives, only to be slammed violently against the nearest wall by Izuna's secret arts! As it recoils from the impact, squealing in pain, the monster seems to notice all of its allies are gone or down, and then pops out from the cavern again, although as with the others, Serafina can't sense they're coming anywhere near you anymore.

(click to show/hide)

Offline VennDygrem

  • Epic Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 4587
  • Exceptionally Average
    • View Profile
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #174 on: January 23, 2015, 09:37:59 PM »
The invisible flame-pixie cheers in triumph.

"Hooray! Take that, you lousy abominations!"

She flies around the cavern, documenting what needs to be burned cleansed by pure fire.

Then she comes to the warlord.

"So, we can't just leave this thing here. But where did he come from? How did he get here and taint the surrounding area, including the water supply? Speaking of which, we may want to see what we can use to convince the townsfolk of what was the cause of their spoiled lands and water, without risking the spread of their corruption. Their opinion doesn't really matter, but I still think they deserve to know."


Offline Raineh Daze

  • Epic Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 10577
  • hi
    • View Profile
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #175 on: January 24, 2015, 06:25:49 AM »
Once again, Tsukiyo steeled herself for having to seize hold of something so inherently corrupt, then grabbed the thing and attempted to try learning its past.

(click to show/hide)

Offline SorO_Lost

  • Epic Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 7197
  • Banned
    • View Profile
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #176 on: January 24, 2015, 10:41:51 AM »
"That was fun"

(click to show/hide)

Offline VennDygrem

  • Epic Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 4587
  • Exceptionally Average
    • View Profile
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #177 on: January 26, 2015, 02:51:12 PM »
While Tsukiyo extracts the information from the warlord, Serafina gathers everyone into a loose group and concentrates for a brief moment. Everyone glows subtly before the light subsides, though each member of the party felt a pleasant warmth that seemed to numb their aches and bruises, which disappear after the warmth fades.

(click to show/hide)

Offline phaedrusxy

  • DnD Handbook Writer
  • ****
  • Posts: 10708
  • The iconic spambot
    • View Profile
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #178 on: January 26, 2015, 05:09:42 PM »
Steyven says "Thanks a lot! I'll try to speed things along on myself. I got torn up pretty bad..." Then he does something paradoxical... and breathes fire on himself! It seems to heal his wounds a bit, though.

(click to show/hide)
I don't pee messages into the snow often , but when I do , it's in Cyrillic with Fake Viagra.  Stay frosty my friends.

Offline ketaro

  • Epic Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 4241
  • I'm always new!
    • View Profile
Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #179 on: January 26, 2015, 11:48:11 PM »
Immediate threats gone, and most awaiting further information on where to go from the old lady, Nina simply took to stabbing at the corpses to verify their deaths; except the warlord one the old lady was trying to do something with.