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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #100 on: April 25, 2014, 01:38:08 AM »
Nina paused momentarily and visibly stumbled after that onslaught in retribution for her direct assault. Saving Joanna was certainly her goal, but self preservation was telling her to back off and try again from a new angle. Bringing about her spear, it flashed brightly as it was stabbed forward twice, seeking out Joanna in her quickly crumbling shield of corpses. In the midst of Nina's strikes, a needle was silently loosed and lodged into the wall near where they had entered to which the tiny girl promptly flew through the air towards in an escape after striking.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #101 on: April 25, 2014, 09:26:09 PM »
Bulwark stands tall, living up to his name.  He steps out of the mob and then lashes out at the mob around Joana., trying to distract its members from attacking his allies and focusing that attention upon himself.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #102 on: April 30, 2014, 08:53:25 PM »
A massive stream of fire out of nowhere burns a sizeable chunk of one of the new undead mobs, plus of Joana's depleted mob.

Serafina follows up on the burning, turning more corpses to dust, and many more fall on the ground with the strength of the impact!

Tsukuyomi, Imos and Steyven then combine their efforts to tear trough the last bodyguards of Joana, finally exposing her.

Nina quickly takes the chance to inflict two quick lunges with her spear. Joana tries to dodge and isn't fast enough, yet the tip of the spear barely penetrates her hardened flesh.  The doll can't stop feeling like she may as well be trying to pierce trough a steel block. Nina then swiftly retreats to the back of the cavern with her needles, and  this time Joana proves faster as she twists one of the chains attached to her arm to lash at the fleeing doll's back.

Bulwark follows up his assault personally engaging with Joana with a flurry of attacks, but altough he seems to first catch Joana off-guard and inflict a cut on her shoulder, she then procceeds to dodge all of his other attacks with a disturbing grace.

Why won't you stop moving?

Screams Joana, now partially charred from Serafina's flaming feedback, as the priestess grabs two more chains firmly in her hands, steps behind Bulwark, and procceeds to lash out with them. The other floating chains simultaneously lash, even more violently than before! Imos finds himself unable to escape the attacks, while Bulwark, Tsukuyomi and Steyven find themselves wrapped in tightening metal links!

The smaller undead mobs limber towards you as Joana strikes with her chains, attempting to swarm you under dozens of rotting bodies and rusty weapons, but they prove less effective than Joana's corpse bodyguards, now all reduced to dust in the cavern's floor.

You can now also see clearly that dark smoke is exiting from Joana's wounds, and as it comes out, they're slowly closing up.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #103 on: April 30, 2014, 09:28:10 PM »
As Nina escaped and the chain followed after her, she twisted around to face it in mid-flight as if waiting for it and intercepts it with a tiny fist. It's a glancing strike however as the chain merely curves around and hits her regardless. Regaining her composure, a dark red aura of energy begins seeping out slowly from her body and focuses into her spear as she turns it on the nearby mob.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #104 on: May 01, 2014, 02:06:04 PM »
Almost competently unseen by all, Izuna decides to change tactics and stop some of the creatures from swarming over everyone. Slamming his hands together as he jogs around to better see the horde behind everyone. He slams his left arm into the ground as it rapidly growing and thickening spined vines spring up over the area. It's one of Izuna's best techniques, and enormously useful as a fuel source.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #105 on: May 01, 2014, 06:39:08 PM »
Steyven says "Could you sidestep, Tsukiyo, so I can reach her?"
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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #106 on: May 02, 2014, 09:14:00 AM »
The chains, though they ensnared the goddess, seemingly failed to harm her; an invisible barrier repulsed the damage itself and the chains could be seen tightly pulled against what looked like the glimmer of paper in the air, rather than Tsukiyo's flesh. The mob, meanwhile, bypassed that but continued to present no threat to her integrity.

"Sadly, I'm rather tied up at the moment."

And then she struck out at the undead that had rather stupidly decided to stand right beside her.. Flaming sword was go.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #107 on: May 02, 2014, 11:00:11 AM »
Makes both of the Will saves automatically
Makes the Fort save.
Uses 29 points of Divine Shield to block one of the chains. (I wasn't going to do this, which is why I rolled a save for it, but then realized it would have killed me before my Fast healing kicked in).
Passes the Mob save, and DR 11/magic prevents the 1/2'd damage.
Takes 29 piercing + 6 negative energy.
Imos moves to T14, putting more people inside the aura. He's not adjacent to a chain, so I think I can do that?
Throws spines, uses missiles.
Spines are 36/X/37 (confirm 25)/20/27, damage is 15/-/18 (+15)/20/14
Missiles are 6/4/2/4/3, I'm assuming that Dragonfire doesn't apply to them.

Imos is at 8 HP.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #108 on: May 02, 2014, 11:46:14 PM »
Bulwark decides that this isn't working, Joana is too close to himself and his companions.  He puts all his strength behind a single blow, hoping to knock her back and give the party some breathing room.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #109 on: May 04, 2014, 03:59:53 PM »
Steyven once again unleashes a gout of flames from his mouth, and instead of washing over Tsukiyo (who is between he and Joana), they instead dodge around her in a twisting path and slam into the chain priestess from behind. Then he dissappears in a flash, and reappears right next to Joana and unleashes a flurry of blows from his spinning weapon and also his shield, each burning with the flames of his weapon's odd song.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #110 on: May 10, 2014, 10:01:34 AM »
A fire sparkles in Serafina's eyes as she is finally able to single Joana out from the rabble. Softly, she speaks, "Burn, ye corrupted, and may ye be reborn into purity."

Guessing that much of Joana's control over her nearby minions seems to be connected to her chains, Sera conjures a layer of slippery grease upon the chain in her left hand, making it difficult to hold onto.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #111 on: May 11, 2014, 06:56:42 PM »
As Serafina condemns Joana, the rest of the party unleashes a variety of attacks upon the chain priestess. Each of them causes ever growing pure-white flames to burst from the undead priestess on top of breaking more of her hardned flesh, until she's turned into a ball of light that illuminates the whole cavern as if it was daylight.

Ah... I remember now... I remember the warmth of the sun above...

And with this last words, she explodes in a burst of light! As the flames disappear as fast as they bursted out, the only thing left of her body being a pile of dust, upon which lay her chains and some charred pieces of clothes and jewlery she was wearing.

The other undeads, as well as the animated chains, instantly freeze with their mistress's destruction, and then fall limp on the floor once more, except those caught on Izuma's sudden forest that remain holded up by the throned branches in some macrabre display.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #112 on: May 11, 2014, 07:00:10 PM »
Tsukiyo allowed her blade to dissolve into motes of light that quickly became nothingness, and promptly replaced it with paper and a pen--not, at that, a pen familiar to the surface world--to make notes about their encounter. "I doubt this shall be the last time we must fight her, though it should hopefully be the last with so many minions."

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #113 on: May 11, 2014, 07:21:00 PM »
Imos nodded, staying quiet.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #114 on: May 11, 2014, 07:29:50 PM »
Nina slowly turned to stare at what remained of Joanna as her own weapon, too, vanished in a bit more hasty of a fashion; with a some what volatile spark of energy as it broke apart and flowed back into the child. "Miss Tsukiyo, you said she'd return despite her destruction, but in just as poor a state as before we came to her. Is there any way you know of to deal with her Taint before then? No one should need suffer like this."

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #115 on: May 11, 2014, 07:33:49 PM »
Serafina exhales a sigh of relief, then says, "I am just glad she gets to rest, even if only temporarily. In fact, we should burn the rest of the bodies. It will make it easier should we return to find Joana raised once again. And... maybe we should look into that sound we heard during battle. There could be more undead further in."

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #116 on: May 11, 2014, 07:37:12 PM »
"I know of no way to cleanse the Taint from a person or object that cannot be accessed. Without Joana herself present, there is no way to cleanse her."

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #117 on: May 11, 2014, 07:59:40 PM »
The battle over, Bulwark relaxes somewhat but remains quiet.

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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #118 on: May 11, 2014, 09:32:01 PM »
The rage of the dragon that had filled Steyven subsides, and he looks almost deflated as blood drips out of his wounds and the fatigue of battle sets in.
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Re: The strange village-Chapter I
« Reply #119 on: May 12, 2014, 12:47:09 AM »
Nina turned her gaze to the ground as Tsukiyo gave her answer. "Then maybe we can return later..."

Her attention turned to herself finally and the few marks still upon her from the battle. As well, a noticeable but still small crack ran along the side of her face that she could feel under her magical disguise. "...I'll require some repair later if not available currently." she thought aloud to herself as she walked up to Joanna's remains and stared at them once again as though considering collecting them. In the end she left them be and moved closer towards the tunnel Serafina had pointed out sounds had been coming from earlier and a bland, grey trail of energy followed her as she did.

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