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Allyria curses silently at the crowd blocking her path to the door. She could likely have destroyed any locks and bars on the door with a swing or two of her spiritual blade, but the area wasn't clear, and the mob of frantic nobles was unlikely to listen to her if she asked them to part, even if it would grant them their freedom.

Thinking fast, Allyria feels for any demons in the area before heading through the double doors, not wanting to get caught so quickly and hoping to find another way out of the mansion. She keeps her powers active, though she lightens her aura to allow her to keep moving for a while longer before the strain cripples her. She runs through the doors, though if any lone demons are in her path, she'd risk a quick slash to injure it and hopefully regain some of her energy from it.

(Drop down to Battle Aura 4 and move on. Buff powers can be lowered without paying a second activation cost. I'm thinking I should start putting in errata for the various Spirit powers to give ideas on what people can use them for other than maiming things, and what is or isn't allowed.)

 

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Allyria's Status: HP = 25/41, P = 38, EP = 25/73; Battle Aura 4, Energy Blade 5

Perception: Failure

The sheer number of demons in the area overloads Allyria's senses. All she can feel is that there are many of the foul creatures in the mansion, but she is unable to tell where. Her continued use of her spiritual powers is starting to wear on her, but she knows that she can maintain her aura and her blade for some time yet before she exhausts herself.

Running through the double doors, Allyria is first greeted to a hard tile floor and a wide open room, around which are stationed many intriguing items. Ancient suits of armor, weapons, and statues of warriors are lined up throughout the room. Along the walls are many framed paintings, spanning a wide range of styles. The gallery is clearly meant to impress visitors with the owner's fine appreciation of culture, though Allyria must wonder if the owner knows what culture is, seeing as the mismatched items don't seem to be arranged into any sort of order. Across from the entrance is another set of double doors, opened by the fleeing nobles, but the room beyond is dark.

Despite her wariness, no attack comes as Allyria sprints into the gallery. The humans who had entered the room have moved on further throughout the wing, and she is currently alone. Behind her, she can hear screams as the demons move through the crowd looking for her. "Keep searching! Spread out across the mansion!" she hears a demonic voice yell, "An amazon! Blonde, with spirit powers! The master says whoever grabs her gets to have some fun first before we bring her in!"

(I was wondering about changing the level of the buff myself. And the doors and windows are guarded by more than just locks, though you are welcome to try busting through anyway)

 

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Allyria, hearing the voices of the approaching demons and sensing that the place was full of them, rushes forward into the darkened room. She knew that she could be walking into a trap, and that the light of her aura and energy blade would make her stick out in the dark, but she couldn't afford to remain in any one place for too long.

As she moved, she kept probing the area with her senses, trying to find a convenient way out or perhaps a window low enough that she could reach it and escape the demon infested mansion. She also tried to keep track of where the nearest demons were, hoping to keep track of distance rather than trying to keep track of every single demon in the place.

 

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Spoiler

Allyria's Status: HP = 25/41, P = 38, EP = 20/73; Battle Aura 4, Energy Blade 5

Perception: Success

As Allyria rushes into the dark room, her spiritual senses stretching out, she finds it easy to learn many things about her situation. She can tell that the demons still seem to be searching the crowd, and have yet to enter the gallery she had just run from. She also can feel that, in addition to more mundane locks barring the doors, all the nearby windows have some kind of power stretched over them like a curtain. Even without testing them herself, she can tell that these barriers would be difficult to break, and may conceal other security measures the demons may have placed. Of more important note, however, is the fact that she is not alone in this darkened room.

In several areas of the room she can feel a demonic and hostile presence, slowly closing in on her. Before she can even turn to face the threat, she feels one of the presences lash out at her.

To-hit: 4 + 24 = 28 vs 53. Miss.
Perception: Success

Her supernatural senses and superhuman reflexes, though, allow her to easily avoid the attack. The soft blue light of her energy blade casts just enough light that she can make out her attacker, a strange thin humanoid with clawed hands and strange shifting skin. It growls at her as it watches her energy blade, probably hoping to disable her before she could use it, and she can hear several other growls of the same type. At the same time, she can just make out a muffled whimper, though she is unable to place where it is coming from in the darkened room. Her blade and aura shed enough light into the room that she can see rows of chairs lined up in the main area. If she isn't careful, she might stumble over them in the heat of battle.

 

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As she regains her balance after avoiding the strange demons sudden attack, Allyria figures that the creature would likely try to fade back into the darkness and attack her once more from the shadows. From the other creatures she sensed closing in on her, she wouldn't be surprised if other demons began striking at her from the shadows if she engaged the creature.

Deciding not to let the demon escape, Allyria takes careful note of the nearby chairs before closing her eyes, allowing her spiritual senses to guide the flow of her movements. She quickly lashes out at the demon, slashing horizontally across with her energy blade and trying to bisect the foul creature with a single blow. She also keeps her senses centered around herself, keeping note of anything that approached her from any direction, as she suspected that an attack would likely come from another demon such as the one she was attacking.

 

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Spoiler

Allyria's Status: HP = 25/41, P = 38, EP = 19/73; Battle Aura 4, Energy Blade 5

Perception: Success
To-Hit: 4 + 40 + 12 = 58 vs 28. Hit
Damage: 1 + 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 8 + 12 = 31. Drain 4 energy.

Allyria closes her eyes, allowing her to concentrate solely on her powerful spiritual senses. SHe sends out pulses of spiritual energy, allowing her to not only locate her enemies, but also lets her keep track of all the obstacles in the room. With this knowledge, she deftly avoids the chairs as she moves forward to strike the demon that had attacked her. Her energy blade swipes through it's chest, causing it to howl and pain and drop to the floor in front of her. She can feel it glaring up at her angrily. It is grievously injured, but still has some fight left in it, which is immediately obvious as it leaps at her, it's claws bared. At the same time, she can feel two other demons lunging for her from behind.

Grapple: 19 + 24 + 9 = 52 vs 53. Miss
Grapple: 17 + 24 + 9 = 50 vs 53. Miss
Grapple: 13 + 24 + 9 = 46 vs 53. Miss

Despite having the advantage of surrounding the assassin, Allyria manages to weave out of their grasps, though several claws pass close enough to her that she can hear them whistle as they slice through the air. The demons collide in the spot that Allyria once stood, growling angrily and clawing at each other before realizing that they had missed their target. Shoving each other like children, the demons hunch and spread out, moving away from each other, obviously hoping to surround the woman again. Since the demons are unaware of Allyria's ability to spot them easily, as well as sense the entirety of the room, however, she may be able to take advantage of their attempts to be stealthy, as it slows them down, giving her time to react.

In addition to the three demons she is facing off against, Allyria can also sense the presence of a fourth demon, identical to the others, but this one holding another presence close. A small portion of her senses notes that the noble is a woman, that her dress has been torn, exposing her breasts. One of her hands is held forcefully behind her back by the demon, while her mouth is covered by one of the demon's clawed hands. It is obvious that Allyria had interrupted the demon's attempt to take advantage of the woman, and that the demon is staring at the ensuing battle, wondering if it should join in and risk losing it's captive.

(Gain 4 corruption)

 

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Keeping her guard up and knowing that the demons are going to make another attack on her, Allyria prepares to strike out against the injured one. Rather than go for it immediately, however, she waits until it is about to attack, trying to keep the fact that she could sense the demons movements a secret.

She ignores the demon holding down the noblewoman, figuring that if she won the fight, then she could aid her. As is, she would do no one any good if she ended up just like her, stripped and helpless, a plaything for the demons. She can feel her energy slowly draining, but the power she was taking from the demons was keeping her strength up.

 

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Spoiler

Allyria's Status: HP = 25/41, P = 38, EP = 17/73; Battle Aura 4, Energy Blade 5

Perception: Failure

Though Allyria's intent is to trick the creatures into rushing in immediately, the demons appear to have learned from their earlier mistake. Growling to each other, they spread out, surrounding her again. She can also sense the demon holding the nobelwoman captive edging closer towards her as well, though he keeps his grip on his hostage. Deciding that the time for stealth is gone, Allyria strikes out at the injured demon.

To-Hit: 9 + 52 = 61 vs 28. Hit
Damage: 5 + 3 + 2 + 5 + 2 + 8 + 12 = 37. Drain 3 energy.

Luckily, the demons' ability to recognize her power does not allow the injured creature to react any more quickly to her attack. Like the earlier demons, this one also disappears in a puff of blue smoke, it's spiritual energy flowing through Allyria's energy blade and into her. Enraged by the sudden attack, the two other demons rush in, claws forward.

To-Hit: 15 + 24 + 6 = 45 vs 53. Miss
To-Hit: 6 + 24 + 6 = 36 vs 53. Miss

Like before, Allyria is able to swiftly dodge their attacks. This brings an angry growl from the captive holding demon, however, and he throws the girl to the floor before holding a hand out towards Allyira.

Casting: 1 + 11 = 12 vs 22. Fail.

Allyria senses a buildup of energy in the creature's aura, but just as the demon is about to release it, it's former captive kicks out and her foot catches the demon right above the knee. The demon stumbles and loses it's concentration, growling and swiping a claw ineffectually at the girl as she tries to crawl away from the beast.

(Gain 2 XP, 3 Corruption)

 

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Dodging and weaving and issuing a return strike of her own throughout the creatures attacks, Allyria flows gracefully from dodge to doge, and into her attack, before reflexively dodging the creatures failed spell. Recognizing magic when she sees it and knowing that the mage was likely the biggest threat of the group attacking her, Allyria directs her movements so that she gets close to it before unleashing a quick slash directly at the demons neck.

Not only did she intend to slay the greatest danger among her current enemies, but hopefully the demons would concentrate on her and allow the woman to flee. Allyria doubted that she could escape, but giving her the chance was the greatest way in which she could thank her for distracting the demon and preventing him from using whatever spell he'd intended to send her way.

 

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Spoiler

Allyria's Status: HP = 25/41, P = 38, EP = 18/73; Battle Aura 4, Energy Blade 5

Perception: Success
To-Hit: 11 + 52 = 63. Hit
Damage: 5 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 12 = 36. Drain 6 Energy.

Surging forward, Allyria quickly crosses the distance to the demonic mage and slashes her energy blade across his torso, cleanly cleaving it in two, the sections exploding into blue smoke. The noblewoman, nearly blind in the dark room screams at the sudden inexplicable sounds and flashes of activity, scrambling desperately to escape, but unable to move far. At the death of the mage, the two demons snarl, then turn and flee, heading out of the door towards the gallery, the direction Allyria came from, likely to summon help. The demons are not terribly fast compared to the supernatural assassin, and she may be able to kill them before they reach the lobby, but the sounds of combat might attract attention anyway.

Still on the ground, the crying noblewoman is attempting to crawl across the floor, lightly pushing the chairs she bumps into out of her way. Even though the forms of the demons are visible leaving the room, the light from the lobby is attracting her, and she wordlessly presses on in that direction. Looking around the room with her improved senses, Allyria spots another door, this one looking like it heads towards the rear of the mansion.

(Gain 2 XP, 6 Corruption)

 

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Rather than pursuing the demons, Allyria immediately turns and runs through the door she'd spotted. She'd have liked to have helped the noblewoman, but the assassin also knew that stopping to aid her would more than likely result in her capture. She didn't know what the demons goals were here, but she knew they couldn't be good. Allyria wanted nothing more than to escape, flee the area and bring back a strike force to level this foul place, but her mission remained, that the mark just happened to be a demon didn't change the fact that she could not return without having finished off her target.

Allyria strides quickly through the door, making sure to close it and hopefully lock it behind her once she is sure that the room beyond wasn't infested with demons. She tries to remain as silent as possible, and once she is sure that the area is empty of demons, she releases her magical aura and blade, hoping to try and regain some of her energies before she is forced to fight again.

 

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(I haven't been keeping track of the number of rounds of combat since you started using energy, sorry. I'll give you 2 energy to make up for it EDIT: Corrected, thanks for the info )

Spoiler

Allyria's Status: HP = 25/41, P = 38, EP = 18/73

Perception: Failure

Leaving the crawling woman to her fate, Allyria rushes to the door and into the next room. Like the one she just left, this room is very dark, though the large, wall-spanning window to her right illuminates the room almost completely with each crack of lightning. Between the sporadic bursts of light and her own spiritual senses, Allyria is unable to detect anything hostile in the room, which appears to be some sort of sitting room.

Comfortable looking chairs sit around cozy tables placed evenly about the room, while what appears to be a bar adorns a smaller part of the left wall. Besides the large window, the room's most impressive feature is a small stage, much like the one in the dining hall, but lower and seemingly placed to provide space for entertainers to amuse guests, rather than offer a central place to speak from. The rear wall of the room sports a two sets of double doors that may lead outside to the mansion's rear gardens, while smaller doors on the left wall look like they may exit into the servants hallways and storage areas.

Relieved at having spotted no enemies in the large, but cozy, room, Allyria allows her supernatural enhancements and energy blade to dissipate. The sudden jolt of returning to being a normal human brings on a slight wave of disorientation, but it quickly passes, and the amazon is ready to move again. From the door behind her she can hear muffled shouts and screams, as more humans flee into the gallery, and more demons follow them.

 

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Shaking off the usual disorientation of returning to her normal state, Allyria quickly gives the room a cautious glancing over, probing swiftly with her spiritual senses for anything unusual. Determining that she is free of any danger, Allyria glances quickly between the three possible exits.

The servants quarters were most likely guarded in some way, and going in that direction would mean staying in the accursed mansion. The storage areas were likely the most safe, since she doubted that the demons much cared for whatever supplies they kept there, but she knew that they would likely be searched at some point, since the demons from earlier had escaped and would warn their fellows of her escape. The double doors led outside, a potential exit, and from where she was, the amazon could detect no hostiles. Which, of course, meant a trap. It was probably not directly for her, but she didn't doubt that the demons had erected some kind of defense in the gardens in case some of their victims escaped.

Knowing her supply of energy was low, and that it would be best to try and regain some of it before she tried to face any more demons, Allyria tries to open the door that seemed to lead to the storage areas. She would keep her senses probing the immediate area around her, and try to find a place to rest briefly that was well hidden and offered a defensible position.

(Energy doesn't regenerate when it's being actively used, so I shouldn't have regained anything yet. )

 

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Perception: Success

Allyria stretches her spiritual senses out across the room, feeling pulses of energy bounce back from the furniture arranged in the room. The large window features of magical barrier like those in the other rooms as do the sets of double doors. What is different about the barriers in this room is that she can sense a weakness to these, signalling that she should be able to break through them without much trouble. Underneath that though is a different kind of power, some kind of alarm, perhaps. The closest demonic energies she can feel are coming from the gallery behind her, just starting to move into the darkened room she has just left. Perhaps the demons never expected any humans to make it this far away from the dining hall, and simply set up the magical barriers as a failsafe.

Deciding that the storage area would be safer than heading outside, Allyria swiftly moves through the door on the left side of the room. A narrow stone hallway extends far to her left and right, unadorned by any kind of decorations like she had seen in the other rooms. Nearby is a door on the opposite wall, likely leading to a storage area, while past it on the far wall is a wooden door, probably the servants exit to the gardens. To her left the hallway extends, then rounds a corner, branching out to other areas of the mansion.

 

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'Wonderful. An alarm. I guess I'm not getting outside immediately. Still, perhaps I can use it as a trap later, once I've got my strength back.' Allyria thought to herself, as she turned to move into the storage area.

Rather than risk wandering through the mansion, Allyria takes the door leading into the storage area. She keeps her spiritual senses active, probing the room briefly before opening the door. She keeps alert even as she enters, hoping that this area was empty but unwilling to let her guard down.

 

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Allyria's Status: HP = 25/41, P = 38, EP = 18/73

Perception: Success

As Allyria scans the storage room, she is disappointed to discover that it is not empty, though the auras inside seem weak, at least. Silently opening the door and stepping inside, she can immediately see why. The weak auras seem to emanate from the rear of the moderately sized room, and she can see half of a dozen small creatures gibbering excitedly in high pitched but still creepy voices. She can't understand the words, but she can quickly figure out what the conversation is about. The small creatures seem focused on attempting to pry open a hole in a wooden barrel, and after a quick look around the room, Allyria realizes that this is the mansion's liquor store.

The barrel itself is larger than the creatures, each one only a few feet high, dark skinned, but sporting long vicious claws on the end of each finger. They seem to be having trouble reaching the top where the barrel is plugged with a cork. A few scratch at the sides, but a swipe from the tallest of the short creatures stops them. Apparently he understands the liquid inside will spill and be difficult to drink if they just break the barrel. All of the creatures are crowded around the barrel and have yet to notice the assassin, though there doesn't seem to be anyplace to hide in the cramped storage area.

Stealth: Failure

Unfortunately, as Allyria studies the room, the wooden door shuts with an audible clunk behind her, and the small demons turn to face her, growling in anger. They bare their claws, but do not yet move to attack her.

 

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(And so, the problem with a player knowing all or most of the enemies stats is pointed out for all to see.)

Knowing that she couldn't afford to let a single one of the creatures live, and that letting any of them escape would likely spell her doom, Allyria only smiles. The creatures, despite the savage looking claws, were still very small and therefore more than likely very fragile. She swiftly gathers her energies into herself just as she had done earlier in the great hall. The amazon starts to glow in a soft blue light, the effect very different from her golden battle aura.

As she feels her blast ready, Allyria suddenly breaks into a run toward the demons. She charges silently and swiftly, hoping that her seemingly direct and unarmed attack would catch the creatures by surprise and allow her to destroy them without reprisal. When she is almost on top of the demons, she unleashes her blast from an upraised hand, sending out bolts of energy, one for each of the small demons, that strike each of the creatures directly in the chest.

(Energy Blast 7, the all enemies within 50 ft version.)

 

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Allyria's Status: HP = 25/41, P = 38, EP = 11/73

Though the small demons do not seem particularly smart, they are aware enough to recognize Allyria's build up of spiritual power. She runs towards the creatures who react instinctively by lunging for her, their speedy forms reaching her just before she can finish channeling her power.

Grapple: 9 + 20 + 3 = 32 vs 41. Miss
Grapple: 14 + 20 + 3 = 37 vs 41. Miss
Grapple: 19 + 20 + 3 = 42 vs 41. Hit
Grapple: 16 + 20 + 3 = 39 vs 41. Miss
Grapple: 8 + 20 + 3 = 31 vs 41. Miss
Grapple: 10 + 20 + 3 = 33 vs 41. Miss

Without her supernatural speed, Allyria finds it more difficult to weave away from the incoming attacks as she had before. She almost makes it through the group of grasping creatures fine, but one manages to latch onto her, it's clawed hand wrapping around her arm. It growls up at her just before she releases her wave of energy.

Damage: 4 + 28 = 32

The blast disintegrates the demons, sending their ashes scattering to the far sides of the room. The room is now clear, though the shockwave from the blast rebounds off the walls of the enclosed space with an audible crash. The sound is loud enough that nearby demons may have heard it, but Allyria is sure the larger groups in the main area will not have noticed it.

 

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The immediate threat having been dealt with Allyria quickly scans the room with her eyes and supernatural senses. The first thing she checks for are other threats that might be lurking in the room, but she also looks for a place to hide briefly and meditate to recover her energies. She'd try and find an out of the way corner, preferably with a good amount of visual cover so that she could remain hidden in case any demons came to investigate the sound her energy blast had made.

 

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Allyria's Status: HP = 25/41, P = 38, EP = 11/73

Perception: Success

Allyria's spiritual senses sweep over the storage room, quickly confirming that there are no more threats present. After a few minutes of searching, she discovers a small recess created by several barrels having been removed from their usual place. It was large enough that she could remain unseen within it should someone open the door, but if they searched the room she would easily be found. Besides that, the room is nearly filled with heavy barrels.