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Chloe: HP = 35/80, PP = 47/73, EP = 16/79, Status = Definitely Not Fine, Pregnant, Puppeteer DC 55, Excited, broken leg means she cannot run any longer
Lord Aaron
Arkien the Lewd Faerie
Lord Aaron
Arkien the Lewd Faerie
Rolls
Resistance: Chloe rolls a natural 1... You have the worst dice luck. Of all time.
Chloe felt the tendrils of control constrict all the tighter the more desperate that her efforts to resist them became; it was like the harder that her will strained, the more she fell into it. Where she pressed with iron and stone, the whispering air of its control curled through every gap in her defenses to rest among her mind, forcing her body to act under its commands even as she remained a fully conscious prisoner in her own body. Chloe felt herself crawling forward, the agony of her deliberately broken leg ignored by the abomination that was controlling her body, but with one limb unable to support her weight the healer was forced to drag herself ever forward, ever closer to the unknowable horror that had been summoned to capture her.
Thread-like, translucent tendrils that glimmered like strands of moonlight floated towards her as she crawled closer to the abomination's main body, embracing her as Chloe crawled across the ground. The pale, otherworldly glow was brighter as they brushed across her skin, winding around her body in a manner that left her movements unimpeded but that left her skin tingling with an electric quality every time the thing's appendages brushed against her exposed flesh. With every passing moment she crawled closer, closer to the horror that had claimed control of her body, and every foot allowed her to see it more clearly. From afar the thing was almost invisible, but up close it came into focus; the floating monstrosity had a bell shaped body nearly as large as a small shack, and dangling beneath it were countless tiny tendrils like the ones embracing her and the ones used to control the creature's victims, but alongside them were about a dozen larger ones nearly as thick around as her wrist. It was those that began to coil towards her as she drew closer, waiting until they were within reach, a danger that came closer and closer with every passing second...
And then, just as they were about to touch her, about to coil around her limbs and lift up into their embrace, she heard Lord Aaron call; "Chloe!!!" A glowing orb of flame, about the size of a beach ball and with flickers of pure white among the smoldering orange, launched into the floating horror's main body. It exploded as soon as white-orange touched the transparent blue, flaring with fingers of consuming fire that ate through the being's flesh. Chloe felt its agony transmit directly into her brain as the flames consumed it, overwhelming even the pain of her own broken leg, and as the explosion flared down still the creature hovered over her. It burned, but it did not die... Not at first. A moment later, however, the remaining flames went from white-orange to deep, dark blue, flaring back to life and coiling in tendrils through the creature's body like a thing alive.
The blue fire weaved into the creature like growing strands of vines, and flares of bright white erupted resembling flowers as it dug through the monster's frame, illuminating darkening portions of its increasingly charred innards. The flames eventually took the form of a pair of rose bushes coiling through the creature's body, by which point the tendrils were flailing and Chloe's entire body was alight with white hot agony being poured into her mind through the creature's controlling tendrils. Luckily she didn't have to experience the whole of its end first hand, for the tendrils touching her burned away to nothing during its final moments. That allowed her to see the two burning strands rend to either side, tearing the creature in half and burning the last of its body away, leaving behind only a wreath of blue flame through which Arkien strode, her own frame wreathed in a layer of flickering blue that seemed to erupt from her right eye. The orb looked not so much covered in fire but as if it were formed from the blue flame that the faerie was controlling, and she strode through the burning remnants of where the controlling creature had been to stand over Chloe imperiously.
"Back to the cabin, now!" she commanded, and with an effort of will she caused Chloe's broken leg to seize painfully, the bones shifting back into their proper place, albeit not knitting together; she had set it so that Chloe could be healed, but not done it herself just yet.