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Re: Winter Night (thetwo)
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Ashley's offer, spoken confidently though it was, initially earned only a light titter of laughter from the voice emanating from the darkness. "Ahhh, yes... Yes we DO know who YOU are, ahahahaha!"
The wind mage's well honed training allowed her to push past the lingering pain and exhaustion caused by her injuries, concentrating upon a more esoteric use of sorcery. Altering the flow of time on any king of large scale was impossible, at least according to everything she had ever learned of it, but while such a hard rule could not be broken entirely, like many it could certainly be bent. Her mental reactions began to heighten, allowing her to process input far faster and more efficiently, and while it wouldn't allow her body to move much faster than normal, it would ensure that she could react to multiple threats at once... At least until an opposing magical force rent into her construct with the brutal efficiency of one who was well practiced in the art of disrupting an opponent's magic.
Her energies dissipated as quickly as they'd come together, wasted with no real benefit to her cause. Even as it did so, however, Ashley felt Jenn capitalizing on the distraction she'd caused, conjuring a pair of bursts of intense cold. Like her spell, one of them was rent asunder, but the other worked and lashed out, splashing across the cavern in an expanding wave from one of her outstretched hands. The goblins in it's wake froze in their place and promptly seemed to wink out of existence, leaving behind icy shells in their image that provided a small group of silent sentinels standing in the darkness beyond the edge of their two conjured lights. The tentacle-bearing creatures retracted their limbs into their main bodies, using the cover of the pillars to protect them from the brief burst of cold, and where it splashed into the wall of darkness it seemed to splash against some unseen barrier.
Even as a group of the lesser demons vanished, however, another squad of them emerged at the edge of that darkness the moment that Jenn's ice burst faded. "Our primary target is here! Go, bring her down quickly, but make sure not to kill her!" the voice commanded, and the quintet of freshly summoned goblins began advancing towards Ashley, picking their way between the pillars.
Another, perhaps more distressing distraction came before any significant reaction could be given to the group; More magic, coming from the back of the room in relation to Jenn and Karena, and more or less directly to Ashley's right. Power gathered, and was unleashed in a burst of black lightning that seemed to weave towards the besieged pair through the columns. Karena moved quickly, and could have gotten out of the way completely, but Jenn lagged in the back of their alcove. The knight halted and reversed, putting herself between Jenn and the oncoming blast only to take it directly on the chest... Or seemed to. The black energy splashed across her body, causing her to wince, but rather than incinerate her the lightning seemed to gather rapidly around the woman's sword, which she slowly lifted and then swung. The captured power splashed across the ceiling, causing the ice above to crack ominously, but it left the pair unharmed. Even looking where it had come from offered Ashley no sign as to what the deadly spell might have come from.
Unfortunately, the mages weren't the only threat. The bunch of goblins that had escaped Jenn's spell, even as more of their kin were summoned, stalked back into range and began jabbing at Karena with polearms, forcing the knight to shift and parry desperately to evade the attacks. They didn't so much as touch her, but the tentacles that had retracted away from the cold shifted back out and began to lash at her. Covered as they were in bony clubs, points and blades, they might have proven dangerous had Karena not apparently been quite an adept fighter, blocking every strike that came for her.... Except the last pair. As she fought, two tendrils had snuck towards her from below, and at the opportune moment they grabbed her by the ankles. She was yanked from her feet just as she took off the stinger-like tip of one of the tendrils, falling on her ass with a shout of surprise only for the tendrils to begin dragging her into the darkness.
Ashley: HP = 52/52, PP = 72, EP = 47/78, Status = Okay, Weakened, Light, Find on Jenn, Ring at 18/20 EP
NPCs
Jenn: ???, spent 76 EP, Injured, Weakened, Low on EP
Karena Arselone: Injured, Weakened, Grappled by a Tentacle Horror
Dornhall the Troll Slayer: ???
Daniella Boulay: ???, spent 18 EP
Ryon Toma: ???
Alex Kovisto: ???
Professor Laura Steiner: ???, spent 4 EP
Arclan Clay: ???
Jiub the Slaver: ???
Ayeila: ???
Caragor: ???
Grumush: ???
Gronkor: ???
Dalmen: ???
Scortha: ???
Nilsin the Red: ???
Trogo son of Trondor: ???
Ylsig: ???
Group 1
Steiner, Ryon, Jiub, Grumush, Arclan, and Gronkor
Group 2
Ashley, Jenn, Dornhall, and Karena
Group 3
Daniella, Dalmen, Ylsig and Trogo
NPCs
Jenn: ???, spent 76 EP, Injured, Weakened, Low on EP
Karena Arselone: Injured, Weakened, Grappled by a Tentacle Horror
Dornhall the Troll Slayer: ???
Daniella Boulay: ???, spent 18 EP
Ryon Toma: ???
Alex Kovisto: ???
Professor Laura Steiner: ???, spent 4 EP
Arclan Clay: ???
Jiub the Slaver: ???
Ayeila: ???
Caragor: ???
Grumush: ???
Gronkor: ???
Dalmen: ???
Scortha: ???
Nilsin the Red: ???
Trogo son of Trondor: ???
Ylsig: ???
Group 1
Steiner, Ryon, Jiub, Grumush, Arclan, and Gronkor
Group 2
Ashley, Jenn, Dornhall, and Karena
Group 3
Daniella, Dalmen, Ylsig and Trogo
Rolls
Ashley tries to cast Haste.
Casting: 17 + 70 - 10 = 77, success.
Enemy ??? casts Counterspell.
Casting: Success.
Focus vs Focus: 18 + 30 + 8 = 56 vs 39 = 4 + 29 + 8 + 3 - 5, Ashley's been countered.
Jenn tries to cast Cone of Cold while using Quicken Spell to cast the same.
Casting: Both succeed, one barely.
Enemy ??? casts Counterspell, but may only do so once.
Casting: Success.
Focus vs Focus: 3 + 30 + 8 = 42 vs 28 = 6 + 27 - 5, one of Jenn's spells has been countered.
Attack: 74 vs 48, electing to roll once for the goblin group.
Damage: 1 + 1 + 9 + 2 + 1 = 14, 14 x 5 = 70 damage, which is enough to make numerous goblincicles.
Enemy ??? casts Blightning at Jenn and Karena.
Casting: Success.
Attack: 59 vs 49 for Jenn and 106 for Karena, but Karena elects to block for Jenn and take the hit, in so doing allowing her to use Parry Magic.
Parry DC: 48 + 5 = 53, but capping out at 50.
Resistance Check: 2 + 25 = 27, failure. Spell parried.
5 more goblins are summoned.
Jenn's spell wiped out half of the goblins, so there are still 5 left. They all attack Karena.
Attacks: 52 vs 101, miss. 50 vs 96, miss. 54 vs 91, miss. 53 vs 86, miss. 54 vs 81, miss.
The Tentacle Horrors attack Karena. Each makes 5 attacks, with the first four purely targeting her armor and the last being a grapple attempt.
Attacks: These are vs 76; 65, 44, 64, 54, and the grapple is 79.
Attacks: These are vs 71; 45, 68, 63, 58, and the grapple is 60, which hits because Parry penalizes dodge against grapple attempts.
Karena has been grabbed by both of the Tentacle Horrors.
Perception: 2 successes vs ?? successes needed.
Casting: 17 + 70 - 10 = 77, success.
Enemy ??? casts Counterspell.
Casting: Success.
Focus vs Focus: 18 + 30 + 8 = 56 vs 39 = 4 + 29 + 8 + 3 - 5, Ashley's been countered.
Jenn tries to cast Cone of Cold while using Quicken Spell to cast the same.
Casting: Both succeed, one barely.
Enemy ??? casts Counterspell, but may only do so once.
Casting: Success.
Focus vs Focus: 3 + 30 + 8 = 42 vs 28 = 6 + 27 - 5, one of Jenn's spells has been countered.
Attack: 74 vs 48, electing to roll once for the goblin group.
Damage: 1 + 1 + 9 + 2 + 1 = 14, 14 x 5 = 70 damage, which is enough to make numerous goblincicles.
Enemy ??? casts Blightning at Jenn and Karena.
Casting: Success.
Attack: 59 vs 49 for Jenn and 106 for Karena, but Karena elects to block for Jenn and take the hit, in so doing allowing her to use Parry Magic.
Parry DC: 48 + 5 = 53, but capping out at 50.
Resistance Check: 2 + 25 = 27, failure. Spell parried.
5 more goblins are summoned.
Jenn's spell wiped out half of the goblins, so there are still 5 left. They all attack Karena.
Attacks: 52 vs 101, miss. 50 vs 96, miss. 54 vs 91, miss. 53 vs 86, miss. 54 vs 81, miss.
The Tentacle Horrors attack Karena. Each makes 5 attacks, with the first four purely targeting her armor and the last being a grapple attempt.
Attacks: These are vs 76; 65, 44, 64, 54, and the grapple is 79.
Attacks: These are vs 71; 45, 68, 63, 58, and the grapple is 60, which hits because Parry penalizes dodge against grapple attempts.
Karena has been grabbed by both of the Tentacle Horrors.
Perception: 2 successes vs ?? successes needed.
Ashley's offer, spoken confidently though it was, initially earned only a light titter of laughter from the voice emanating from the darkness. "Ahhh, yes... Yes we DO know who YOU are, ahahahaha!"
The wind mage's well honed training allowed her to push past the lingering pain and exhaustion caused by her injuries, concentrating upon a more esoteric use of sorcery. Altering the flow of time on any king of large scale was impossible, at least according to everything she had ever learned of it, but while such a hard rule could not be broken entirely, like many it could certainly be bent. Her mental reactions began to heighten, allowing her to process input far faster and more efficiently, and while it wouldn't allow her body to move much faster than normal, it would ensure that she could react to multiple threats at once... At least until an opposing magical force rent into her construct with the brutal efficiency of one who was well practiced in the art of disrupting an opponent's magic.
Her energies dissipated as quickly as they'd come together, wasted with no real benefit to her cause. Even as it did so, however, Ashley felt Jenn capitalizing on the distraction she'd caused, conjuring a pair of bursts of intense cold. Like her spell, one of them was rent asunder, but the other worked and lashed out, splashing across the cavern in an expanding wave from one of her outstretched hands. The goblins in it's wake froze in their place and promptly seemed to wink out of existence, leaving behind icy shells in their image that provided a small group of silent sentinels standing in the darkness beyond the edge of their two conjured lights. The tentacle-bearing creatures retracted their limbs into their main bodies, using the cover of the pillars to protect them from the brief burst of cold, and where it splashed into the wall of darkness it seemed to splash against some unseen barrier.
Even as a group of the lesser demons vanished, however, another squad of them emerged at the edge of that darkness the moment that Jenn's ice burst faded. "Our primary target is here! Go, bring her down quickly, but make sure not to kill her!" the voice commanded, and the quintet of freshly summoned goblins began advancing towards Ashley, picking their way between the pillars.
Another, perhaps more distressing distraction came before any significant reaction could be given to the group; More magic, coming from the back of the room in relation to Jenn and Karena, and more or less directly to Ashley's right. Power gathered, and was unleashed in a burst of black lightning that seemed to weave towards the besieged pair through the columns. Karena moved quickly, and could have gotten out of the way completely, but Jenn lagged in the back of their alcove. The knight halted and reversed, putting herself between Jenn and the oncoming blast only to take it directly on the chest... Or seemed to. The black energy splashed across her body, causing her to wince, but rather than incinerate her the lightning seemed to gather rapidly around the woman's sword, which she slowly lifted and then swung. The captured power splashed across the ceiling, causing the ice above to crack ominously, but it left the pair unharmed. Even looking where it had come from offered Ashley no sign as to what the deadly spell might have come from.
Unfortunately, the mages weren't the only threat. The bunch of goblins that had escaped Jenn's spell, even as more of their kin were summoned, stalked back into range and began jabbing at Karena with polearms, forcing the knight to shift and parry desperately to evade the attacks. They didn't so much as touch her, but the tentacles that had retracted away from the cold shifted back out and began to lash at her. Covered as they were in bony clubs, points and blades, they might have proven dangerous had Karena not apparently been quite an adept fighter, blocking every strike that came for her.... Except the last pair. As she fought, two tendrils had snuck towards her from below, and at the opportune moment they grabbed her by the ankles. She was yanked from her feet just as she took off the stinger-like tip of one of the tendrils, falling on her ass with a shout of surprise only for the tendrils to begin dragging her into the darkness.