(BETA: CD) Ashior

[Incubus]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

The angel swung out in retaliation against the giant wasps, but they proved too nimble, darting away from her blow. However, now that she had her eyes on them, their next strikes proved easy to avoid as she managed to put her shield between her and each of them in turn, despite the difficulty involved in being surrounded like this.

((Not a single dice roll above a 6 for anyone ._. ))

 

[Tassadar]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

(Fail.)

Ashior pushes forward with her shield as she blocks the last of the hovering insects, and then swings down at it with her mace, trying to squash the accursed thing once more. Her angelic wings continued to beat wildly in an effort to ward off the other two insects before she could put her shield between herself and them.

(Attack once and then block.)

 

[Incubus]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

The combat continues on, with the angel still having difficultly landing a blow against the wasps, but managing to successfully guard herself.

(bonus round)

After a second failed attack, the wasps seemed to come at her all the fiercer, one of them narrowly being blocked by the shield; another slipping past her defences and once again stabbing a stinger into her side (3 damage, 1 AP to remove).

 

[Tassadar]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

Grunting in pain, Ashior pauses to pull the stinger out once more, before continuing on in the same pattern. Her mace hummed through the air, trying to strike down the insects, followed by interposing her shield between her body and their stingers.

 

[Incubus]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

Finally catching a break, or perhaps beginning to see the pattern these creatures moved in, Ashior stepped forwards with purpose and swung her mace down, connecting cleanly with one of them and sending it to the ground, unmoving.

Then she whirled and brought up her shield, deflecting one of the incoming wasps, and whirled to block the other only to find it not where she anticipated; moments later she was rewarded by another sharp stabbing pain through her shoulder as the creature left another stinger inside of her. (Another 3 damage, you know the deal)

 

[Tassadar]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

Ashior grimaces as she feels her mace impact with one of the insects, as much expression as the angel could give in such circumstances. The expression only changes slightly as another stinger jabs into her arm. She quickly pulls it out, and turns to swat at the one that had stung her. Whether she hit it or not, her shield comes up once more, trying to fend the insects off.

(Remove stinger, attack, block.)

 

[Incubus]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

The angel lashes out once more, connecting with a second wasp, sending it crashing to the ground. She immediately whirls to face the final one, bringing her shield up. The wasp darts to and fro, trying to find an opening past the shield but the skilled inquisitor easily ensures there's no opening.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

The fight was nearly over, Ashiors mace having swatted down another wasp, leaving only one remaining. Her shield easily kept it at bay, for now, and then the angle abandoned her defense, lowering her shield to swing twice at the insect. The inquisitor wanted to end this now, rather than give it another chance to try and sting her.

(2 attacks.)

 

[Incubus]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

With a final decisive move, the angel dropped her guard to step forwards swinging, smashing the giant wasp to the ground in her first swing, and following up with a brutal second strike, crushing it utterly to ensure its death. With that done, the road was clear, leading onwards between the two small hills with cliffs overlooking the road; as if the path had been dug through the terrain ahead.

(Just as confirmation, by my records you're on 17/32 hp, is this what you have?)

 

[Tassadar]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

(If I don't regenerate health between encounters, then I've taken a total of 18 damage this game. The wasps did 15 of that, so if health auto-restores after every fight, then yes I'd be at 17/32. Otherwise, I'd be at 14/32 since the plant whipped me once.)

Ashior slowly lowered her mace as she looked down on the remains of the last of the insects that had assailed her. They'd stung her several times, but so far she wasn't feeling any ill effects, which meant that they probably weren't poisonous. Or that their venom was very slow to act. Either way, she couldn't do much of anything about it at the moment. Her white robes were stained with her blood, however, and while the stingers had been removed, she couldn't be sure what other damage might have been dealt. She hadn't bleed much, but still, it might be nice to find a place to cleanse herself at some point, if she could find the time. The Inquisitor shook her head at the thought, knowing that it was unlikely that she would find a place that was safe within the corrupted lands.

She kept her shield and mace in her hands as she advanced further along the road, toward the pass between the hills. She'd been attacked at nearly every turn so far, and in such a narrow space the angel knew she'd need to be very careful.

 

[Incubus]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

(Yeah, you're on 14, not 17. I was'nt expecting you to get so beaten up in the last fight, so I feel kinda bad about the obvious ambush. So bad that i rolled a dice to determine whether or not there'd be one. Not so bad enough that the dice telling me yes won't result in one though.)

As Ashior moved through the narrow valley, keeping her eyes up; this was a natural ambush location and the dreamscape had been far from safe thus far. Then again, the tall grass fields weren't exactly not an ideal ambush location either, so it was really only moving form the frying pan to the fire, in a sense. Heck, at least here the directions it could come from were limited, if so was the way to escape.

The attack came faster than the angel could defend herself from, however. While she did raise her shield instinctively as soon as she caught a flash of movement overhead, it proved to be utterly useless against the large, weighted net that was cast over her. Loosely ensnared, she weighed up her options even as a group vaguely familiar looking sprites poured over the edge, landing around her; two on either side, all holding the same trident weapons, perfectly designed for attacking through a net without damaging it.

"Well, well, well, looky what we've caught ourselves. Now just surrender yourself peacefully and it doesn't have to be violent," one of the ones before her instructed smugly, he knew he had the upper hand.

((You're ensnared. Movement will cost 2AP as you're basically dragging along a weighted net and you're more or less landbound. Attacks from your mace will be at a heavy penalty as your mace is almost useless at attacking through the net and almost as bad at striking it directly. There are 6 weights attached to the edges of the net, attacks can be made at those; destroying enough of them will allow escape from the net, with further destructions making escape cost less AP, although it's probably less AP to just escape asap.

Alternatively, you're welcome to surrender. I have plans for either route.))

 

[Tassadar]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

( No worries, it's only a game. I figured that there was going to be an ambush. Is it just like escaping a grapple to get out of the net?)

Ashior waited in a crouch beneath the net as the ones that had thrown it, four sprites like the one she'd been following, descended around her. Her wings pushed upwards, allowing her arms to move a little better than if she'd just let the net rest fully on her, and from the confines of her hood, the angel glared at the tiny winged creature who had suggested that she surrender. She gathered herself for a moment before her mace began to glow white, and said; "You shall not have me!" And tried to swing her mace at one of the weights holding down the net. She also tried to keep her shield between herself and the sprites tridents, though with the net above her it was much more difficult than before.

(Use Blessing of Light, then take a swing at one of the weights. Shield is just for fluff pending the answer to the following question: Can I use the shield to increase my defense while ensnared?)

 

[Incubus]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

Invoking a blessing of battle, the angel swung down with her mace, shattering one of the six weights on the bottom on the net in one deft blow shattered it. There still wasn't enough of a gap to make slipping through possible however.

The sprites seem to give a shrug, "Your call," the leader says a little regretfully as they move in to strike at her with their tridents. While she manages to distance herself from two of them, the other two strike at her through the net, fairly weak blows designed to discourage resistance rather than any deep attacks. (take 4 damage, put you on 10 hp)

 

[Tassadar]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

Ashior winces as she feels the barbed trident jab into her flesh. The numerous injuries she'd acquired so far were piling up, and if she got hit a few more times, she didn't think she'd be able to keep fighting. Once more raising her mace, she swings for another one of the weights, before trying to keep her shield up, blocking against further attacks.

(Swing and block.)

 

[Incubus]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

With another grunt, the angel brought down her mace on the second weight, shattering it. There was now a visible gap under the net, but still a very tight squeeze (AP 10). Still, this time she was prepared for the strikes, and a combination of dodging within the net and deflecting blows with her shield saw that none of them managed to mark her.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

Ashior allowed herself a grimace, as pleasurable expression as the Inquisitor could manage under the circumstances, as the second weight shattered. Her defense held for the moment, and so Ashior took another swing at a weight as soon as the sprites tridents were away from her. Then, she once more reverted to her defensive stance.

(Attack and block.)

 

[Incubus]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

The third weight shattered as easily as the first two, expanding the gap under the net further (AP 8 to escape). It'd still require going to ground and crawling under awkwardly, but at least it wasn't such a tight squeeze now.

The tridents poked in for another attack, one of them catching her arm as she avoided or deflected the rest (another 2 damage). "Lookout, she's getting out," one of the sprites called in alarm.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

'Not yet.' Ashior thought to herself just as the trident scraped her arm. If she got out now, she'd be open to the sprites attacks, and if all of them swarmed her at once, the angel knew she was too tired to fight all of them off. So, her mace swung for another of the weights holding down the net, and then she lifted her shield defensively again.

 

[Incubus]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

Swinging her mace down on the next weight, she shattered it, making the hold larger still; well, at this point it was becoming less and less a hole and more a direction in which the net was no longer secured. It'd still involve some effort in getting out, but that was mostly because of the tight quarters they were in. (AP 6)

Inspired on to putting down the angel before she escaped, the tridents struck forth once more, two of them biting into her flesh, causing yet more tears in her robe with a third narrowly missing. (another 4 damage, you're on 4 hp :| I wasn't expecting this to go quite so badly) Her wounds were beginning to take their toll, she couldn't keep this up for much longer at this rate.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: (BETA) Corrupted Dreams

(Well, that's not good.)

Ashior pushed herself out of the net as quickly as possible, trying to avoid wincing in pain as she felt more tridents pierce into her flesh. If the angel showed weakness, it would only spur her foes on further. Her white robe was badly torn now, and covered in her blood wherever she'd been hit. But, now that she was out, she could begin fighting back. In a moment. Turning toward the sprites with her back to the wall, Ashior raised her shield, the angel desperate to avoid further injury.

(Escape and block.)