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Pulpatoon · #321 Post by **Pulpatoon** » Sun Dec 07, 2014 6:19 pm

With the dragon about to make her way upstairs and Onde unchained, Oelle starts looking for a safe exit from the tower.

mb. · #322 Post by **mb.** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 5:09 am

Note that Nessilka's voice is coming from above. My descriptions might not have been clear, but it's clear to you that she's the cause of the collapsing ceiling...

Spartakos · #323 Post by **Spartakos** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 7:50 am

If the dragon's up top, I say we go down and GTFO. But we need to get Aziza loose.

Bedwyr uses his sword to cut at the demon's chain, trying to untangle himself and free Aziza from its clutches so they can beat a retreat, before the dragon's fury undoes them all.

KingOfCowards · #324 Post by **KingOfCowards** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 12:15 pm

Spartakos wrote:If the dragon's up top, I say we go down and GTFO. But we need to get Aziza loose.

Bedwyr uses his sword to cut at the demon's chain, trying to untangle himself and free Aziza from its clutches so they can beat a retreat, before the dragon's fury undoes them all.

I was thinking the same thing. This room actually seems more dangerous with an angry dragon in it.
Boggs will assist Onde, and make a break for the stairs.

Pulpatoon · #325 Post by **Pulpatoon** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 5:21 pm

Seeing Boggs and Bedwyr freeing Aziza, Oelle rushes to Onde and attempts to corral/carry her to the stairs. While doing so, he double checks that he has his books and looks around to see if there's anything of, uhm, significant scholarly interest to grab while the imps are occupied.

Kanye Westeros · #326 Post by **Kanye Westeros** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 6:11 am

Aziza
Cricket: 3 hold

Seeing that retreat is now the better part of valor, the bear releases the magical pressure she'd been holding in.
Returning to my own form
And almost before the fur disappears, I immerse myself in another form, one quite alien...
Shapeshifter [2d6+1] = 10+1 = 11
Chitinous plates snap and crackle into place over my skin as I shrink rapidly, my limbs warp and change, new limbs sprout, and then, quick as you please, A cricket slips easily from the grasp of the demon. It leaps onto Bedwyr's shoulder, chirps quickly and then bounds at top speed for the stairs...Its small cricket brain focused on one strange, un-cricket-like, thought. spear...get the spear...need the spear...

mb. · #327 Post by **mb.** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 12:15 pm

Bedwyr, you raise your sword, and suddenly Aziza disappears! Considering your goal was to free her, you can't help but pause. The demon draws together and begins writhing across the floor back towards the digram. If you'd like to follow through and strike the demon anyway, please roll Hack & Slash + DEX.

Oelle, the chamber is quite bare. The most likely place to find something academically interesting would be behind the curtain.

Boggs, Oelle crouches beside you and begins helping Onde to her feet.

Aziza, you fall to the floor, and are surrounded by looming shapes: the demon's chains receding, Bedwyr's feet. The most imminent danger to you seems to be getting crushed inadvertently.

The imp cloud drops the gem, which arcs down towards the crawling demon.

What do you do?

KingOfCowards · #328 Post by **KingOfCowards** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 12:30 pm

"Bedwyr! Let's get out of here. Let the dragon deal with the demon."

Although I wouldn't mind you grabbing that gem

Pulpatoon · #329 Post by **Pulpatoon** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 1:13 pm

Seeing Boggs' eyes on the falling gem, Oelle says, "I have Onde. Get the gem. It's trouble in the demon's hands."

While attempting to either get Onde on her own two feet or to pick her up, Oelle glances over her, appraising the effects of the demonic ritual. Is she still bearing horns? How transformed does she appear to be, and does Oelle have a sense of its permanency?

Kanye Westeros · #330 Post by **Kanye Westeros** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:14 pm

Aziza
Cricket: 3 hold

The cricket bounds, and twists, nimbly avoiding the stomping feet of the titans clashing above her. The insects single minded determination focused only on the stairway through which the group had entered this hellish chamber.
To speed things along, I am pre-rolling a Defy Danger, just add whichever stat you feel is appropriate.
[2d6] = 9

Spartakos · #331 Post by **Spartakos** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 1:42 am

What are the risks if I try to catch the gem as it falls?

Pulpatoon · #332 Post by **Pulpatoon** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 2:48 am

It could be burning hot, or shatteringly cold. It could turn you into a newt, or suck your blood out to open the demon portal. Or it could be fine. Only one way to find out!

mb. · #333 Post by **mb.** » Fri Dec 12, 2014 1:33 pm

Boggs, what you know is that it's a large gem burning with unholy arcane flames. Any number of things could happen it you touch it.

Spartakos · #334 Post by **Spartakos** » Sat Dec 13, 2014 5:12 am

Okay, Eff that then. Let's boogie.

Seeing the tower being caught between a demonic ritual and a dragon's wrath, Bedwyr decides that discretion is not merely the better part of valor, it's the only part right now. With Oelle and Boggs assisting Onde, he makes a break for the stairs. When he gets there, he will stand with sword ready to cover the retreat of his comrades; once Oelle, Onde, and Boggs are through, he will also head down. He can't see Aziza, but trusts in her ability to get herself out...if anything, more than the rest of them, with her ability to take a flying form if needed.

KingOfCowards · #335 Post by **KingOfCowards** » Sat Dec 13, 2014 10:21 am

Sounds good. Let's beat it.

Kanye Westeros · #336 Post by **Kanye Westeros** » Sat Dec 13, 2014 5:38 pm

Also what should I do to get my stuff back? That spear of mine has sentimental value!

mb. · #337 Post by **mb.** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 4:08 am

Boggs & Oelle, shuffle Onde off towards the stairs, as Bedwyr covers their escape. Aziza bounces free of the crowd undamaged and (I assume?) heads for the stairs with the others.

The action in the chamber continues as you flee from it: the gem arcs down to the crawling pile of chains, which swallows it and begins to glow from within, dragging itself slowly towards the diagram on the crumbling wall. As you begin to descend the stairs, the temperature drops dramatically as the small chamber is swallowed in a blast of icy crystals which billows out towards you as you duck down the stairs into the chamber below.

The chamber below seems much as you left it, with the exception of the broken chain and absent dragon.

Aziza, you believe that your stuff is somewhere downstairs from the chamber below this one, near the cells are where you were imprisoned.

Kanye Westeros · #338 Post by **Kanye Westeros** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 4:39 am

Then that's where I'm going

mb. · #339 Post by **mb.** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:30 pm

Our doughty heroes having fled the climax of the action, let's switch to a little narration...

Descending through the dragon's chamber and into the one below it, you're all pleased to find that the gnolls have fled and all is empty and still. Everything is as you left it: table overturned, eating utensils scattered around the floor, and a few boxes and barrels standing beneath the stairs, obviously emptied by the fleeing gnolls. Descending the stairs through the arched opening, you find the holding cells, and near them a stout door secured by a crude padlock, quickly dispatched by Boggs. Behind the door a small chamber holds Aziza's gear, and a small collection of weapons and other items, none of them of particular quality.

As you return to the gnoll's chamber, the walls and floor tremble, followed by a faint sound of explosion and tumbling stone from above, and the mixed smell of burning and winter a moment later.

I don't want to assume too much: are you all intending to GTFO as quickly as possible, or is there anything you still want to do?

Spartakos · #340 Post by **Spartakos** » Mon Dec 15, 2014 1:02 am

I'm good to flee the scene; as far as I'm concerned, we have what we came for.

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