Re: An Innocent Campaign - IC
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Combat Round 3
Anastacias blade flashed through the air, cutting Tayas arrow apart before it could hit her.
"Geesh, the fishy poison got to ya, didn't it? Propably not the one.." The Dark haired lady mused, before peeking over to Anastacia.
Anastacia yelped as she failed to deflect the second arrow, shot by Ellana.. it hit her chest, though, the woman seemed to use some healing magic, tearing the arrow out and covering the wound, a bit of blue flowing out from under her hand.. then again, those that could see well enough in the limited light provided by Ellana, would notice the same kind of blue on the arrows tip, almost as if this creatures blood was blue?
"See, thats the problem! Chivalry is dead and no one has the diamonds lying about. Or the obsidian, whatever works. Oh and trust me, I'd like if you could stop me.. as I said, come on, stop taking it easy.
As for dirty tactics.. trust me, I've done some things worse. Anywhoo, you got some martial skill, no? A sword is dangerous a few feet away from its wearer, if you are further away they can't cut you, but if you are closer, they can't strike at you either." She shrugged.
"Hard to explain without demonstratin' it I guess and.. owww.. geesh, .. alright." The Dark haired lady observed as Alices staff impacted Anastacia with a cracking noise from her ribs, sending her stumbling back and coughing, even if her follow up attack missed the katana wielding blonde, Anastacia now looked for the first time properly wounded, blood flowing from the corner of her mouth. Well, presumambly blood? It was a crystal clear blue color.
Still, the dark haired lady observed, seeming suprisingly unconcerned.
"Well, I guess at least some of them aren't pushovers. I'm not convinced though... Alright, Anastacia, time to test them properly. Unseal your powers." The dark haired one grinned, leaning her head into one hand, leisurly placing her elbow on top of the slave-perch.
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"Ah.. thank you great mistress." Anastacia smirked.. and sheathed her Katana, folding her hands, chanting:
"White as the snow, Frau Holle" Exhaling, her breath condensing in the cold caves air. Yes, cold, colder than you remember. Infact, there is a cracking of the muddied underground as a thin layer of frost creeps outwards from Anastacia. The womans expression grew more neutral and cold, her eyes flaring up in a teal glow, as her blonde hair seemed to grow out, turning more and more pale-white, as a gust of misty white snow rushed around the now white haired womans form, engulfing her, forming a luxurious, eastern styled long dress. Her outfit completed with a needlepin, forming flower out of pure ice, and several small, blue flames burning into existance, lighting up the place in an eery blue as the formerly muddy cave quickly turned into an ice cave.. with the sole exeption of an about 15 ft diametre around the black haired leader of Anastacia, where the frost would not, or could not approach..
"Feel the whole might of a servant of the Twilight Fortress, lowly mortals." Anastacia said, calmly. On the plus side, unleashing her full power seemed to have occupied her mostly, as she draws her blade.. now half-see through and made of pure ice, with an edge that seemed to slightly glow by itself.
(You all take 6 Cold damage. You need to succeed on a constitution save, DC 17 or take another 8 points of cold damage and move at half speed. Taya and Ellana gain a +4 bonus on that save due to being further away. (not sure on Maras position, if in doubt no bonus.) Anyone dropped to 0 or lower by this damage is flash-frozen on the spot, unable to act, but fully conscious of whats going on around them.)
Mara still doesn't let this discourage her. What can she do but try her best? She gathered her energy and.. fascinatedly, noted that the cascading electricity, turned.. to cascading rock and stones. Not only that, but her clothes itched.. again. The cold helped her fight any urges to strip down, as Anastacia lifted her hand to intercept the bolt casually.
"Pathetic, I can.. ugh.." Only to stumble back, with the bolt bursting through and shattering a shield of snow and ice, impacting on the icy womans arm, tearing her kimonos sleeve before she could slap them away, with a pained growl and although she did not lose her cool, she growled in humiliated anger.
"Impossible.. t.. they can still hit me, even in this form, Great one, what should I do.. I am unworthy to fight for your glory.." She said words that caused her mistress to chuckle and respond:
"Nah, nah, don't be such a downer! Remember, we came here to find one that could actually challenge me. I mean, they keep using pathetically low rank spells, but, so would I when not sure who I face... plus, they seem rather affected by your cold. How odd. That said, perhaps they are just pretending to be affected by the cold and poison to catch us unaware?" "M... mistress?" "An important skill when facing powerful mages is acting. Pretend you are hurt by fire despite making yourself immune to it. Pretend you can't read and counterspell their arcaneries unless you absolutely have to. Anyway, don't worry, if they manage to destroy you I'll revive you."
"If they destroyed me I'd not be worthy of .." "Hush. Your devotion is worth the effort to restore you time and time again my little ice puppet." "G.. great one.. you are too merciful.." The ice creatures voice almost broke.
"Heh... now enough of that, focus on your opponents." The dark haired woman had actually moved out of her bored posture, ever since Mara managed to hit the transformed ice woman, her expression was curious, interested, dark, sharp eyes taking in all four of you carefully.
You are facing an ice woman, wielding a blade of pure ice. You have a feeling behing hit by it might give you a chill. She is holding her side and although she remains impressively calm seems to have trouble breathing after taking a row of powerful attacks from you. The ice womans mistress still seems unconcerned by whats happening, but watches you closely now.
Initative: Taya -> Ellana-> Dark haired Lady-> Ghostly Flame x4 -> Alice -> Anastacia (pretty heavily injured) -> Mara