Deladriel takes a 5 foot step to the right and begins weaving green magic between her hands. Speaking in druidic, she directs her hands ahead of her, directed at the head of the creature...
Dianysia casts mage armor, then calls out tho the new person, "This way!"
Braids: Braids looks around, hoping her companions will soon be after her, but after watching the human start to run, and the other thing suddenly turn hostile, she dicides to move around to the other side of the arch, while running through the pages and pages of books her father, and Terry had her reading, trying to figure out what the cat critter then was.
Braids: As she comes around the arch, she does a search check for any kind of information from the nearby walls, or anyway she can find a way out of her current mess.
DM: The human woman is looking very wide-eyed... but she pulls a length of crystal (similar to the ones you've seen Beth use) out of her belt, and aim it at the red creature, concentrating for a second before a blue beam lances out towards it...
DM: striking the creature, causing bits of frost to blossom of the scales, and a wash of cold air to expand outward before dissipating
DM: the red critter wheels and moves... unfortunately for her, it's heading after braids...
Braids: Braids sees the thing coming and shouts at it, "Wasn't me dragon guy, cat, thing! I have... ummm, shiny things if you want something... plus you don't want to eat me, I will give you really bad stomach aches..." Braids says in Draconic as she tries to stay out of its way.
DM: the critter simply roars in response, and swipes at Braids with its forward claw...
DM: the claw catches on the archway, throwing the creature off balance so it can't complete its swipe.
Braids: "Hah, maybe you are not such a scary Dragon Kitty, attaching stone archways and all that!"
Deladriel: It is at this point that the fruition of Del's spell becomes readily obvious as spiders emerge from everywhere...cracks in the floor, corners, walls, EVERYWHERE...and converge on the head of the creature
Dianysia: "Oh, great, she's antagonizing it," Dia mutters irritably.
Dianysia: "Oh no no... spiders... no... Del... not spiders!"
Deladriel shifts into cat form and prowls quietly to the south...keeping an eye on the swarm
Dianysia steps quickly around the pillar as she reaches into her pouch, withdrawing a small clear gem, and focuses on it a moment. She mutters a handful of of words in an ancient arcane tongue, and from the crystal shoots a line of color-shifting energy, making a sizing, hissing, screaming noise, heading straight for the spider-laden creature.
DM: the energies wash over some of the spiders and the back of the critter, the carefully aimed spell impacting the archway to avoid splashing onto the newcomer... the creature roars in pain, but doesn't seem even slowed down by the effect
Braids: The metal dog, sensing the concern in its masters mind, and quite possibly the urgent come help command as well, looks up from its rest position and moves towards the dragon cat, and lets out a metallic howl, just before it lungs at it.
Braids: The metallic hound grabs a chunk of the cat dragons hind end in its mouth, and tugs on it slightly, while Braids quickly looks at the spiders, then says in draconic, "You should probably have that looked at..." as she steps back, lifting the scroll to eye level, and mutters, "Now lets see if I can read my own writing," then says a bit louder, "Itelium carsis montil, firam." and thrusts her free hand forward letting four speeding globs of energy stream out of her hand and slam into the dragon kitty.
DM: the magic missiles slam into the critter's hide... knocking a single scale off.
DM: the woman closes her eyes, obviously concentrating as a strange hum seems to surround her... before she lifts off the ground, raising a good fifteen feet (halfway to the ceiling) and starts drifting over towards the creature.
DM: the red thing growls, leaning down to rip into the spiders surrounding it, swiping with both claws... sending broken bits of spiders flying all over the northwest part of the room
Deladriel drops her attention to the spell and growls loudly as she races toward the creature. She reaches it's end and begins tearing and ripping at it's hind end with all the power she can muster..
DM: the critter now has a few scales missing here and there, but it doesn't even look like it's slowing down any yet
Dianysia sighs, looking more than slightly annoyed that her last spell didn't have as great an affect as she wants, and takes stock of the situation. Noting that things are not going as well as she'd hoped, and that the creature seems undamaged, she swears in angry draconic as she grabs a box, roughly a foot big from her pack, and tosses it towards the fighting. "Sure hope this thing works as well as it did last time..."
DM: so... the box lands right where it's supposed to, and disappears in a cloud of smoke... resolving to reveal Candace, who you met previously... :)
Dianysia: "Oh, sorry Candace! Watch out!"
Braids: The metallic hound lets out another mechanical howl as it lungs forward and tries to bite into the Cat-dragon again....
Candace: Elven - "So, I guess it's welcome to the party again, eh?"
Braids: As the hound grabs the kitty dragon again, Braids drops the scroll, and pulls out her sling, and stuffs her hand into the bullet pouch, focusing on the subtle possibilities of magic, and forcing them into the stone, imbuing them with magical energy.
Dianysia: E "What can we say? We missed you!"
Braids: "Wow, is this like a pop out of no where convention?" Braids asks, hearing the new voice yelling out.
Dianysia: "Apparently!" Dia calls back. "Now, if you come over here, we can protect you better!'
Braids: "Um, while I like people, I like air too... so I think I will stay here until this dragon kitty cat is dead, and you know, I have like a minute or so to figure out such simple things like, where in bit did I end up and in which direction home is in!" she shouts back.
DM: Candace grins, taking a look at the large red thing. "So what're we facing today? Some oversized lizard kitty?" Candace pulls out her holy symbol and starts praying in some dialect you've not heard before, gesturing with her symbol to all directions as a burst of light radiates outward, and all of you feel yourselves touched by... SOMETHING. "No need, luv. I like the challenge here better." Letting her symbol drop on its chain, Candace pulls a nice large sword off her back, and grins widely, a new gleam coming to her eye. "Here, kitty kitty!"
Dianysia: "You're not in Bit, so you won't find home, now come on!"
DM: the human woman continues to drift along, halfway between floor and ceiling, to get a good angle on the creature, before lashing out with her strange crystal again, the same blue beam lancing down...
DM: to strike the critter on the back, the wash of cold air radiating out again as the frost appears briefly on the critter's scales and vanishes just as quickly.
DM: the critter, for its part, spins around, and swipes one claw at the remaining spiders, sending spider chunks spraying off to one side, as it swipes out with the other claw at the iron dog, and lunges with teeth open at Del
Braids: Braids suddenly screams out in pain as the iron dog drops to the ground, the burning color of its eye fading.
Dianysia: "Are you okay?!
Braids: "Yes... just a killer headache, not the first time...."
DM: the dragon-kitty is following through on its bite on the jaguar-kitty, trying to get a solid grip with its teeth
DM: Deladriel apparently managed to swipe the critter's tongue or something, because a reflexive reaction made its jaws open quickly, giving Del all the opening she needed to slip free from danger
Deladriel Takes a bite at the creatures throat, then backs up to try to goad the creature to follow
DM: The dragon takes a swing at Del as she darts away, trying to catch her...
DM: it scores a NASTY swipe on Del's hindquarters as she moves
Dianysia watches what's going on carefully, and sighs. "Wonderful. Icidia denkon cre-ehn," she mutters, after reaching into her pouch again and withdrawing a dart and couple other small components. She begins pointing at the creature again. This time, a green arrow slips from her finger, dripping what can only be considered to be acid as it flies at it's target.
Braids: Braids, still reeling from the death of the iron dog, focuses herself for a moment, staring at the dragon kitty, and gripping the sling tight, and it starts to glow a vibrant pink, then orange color before the glow fades into nothing and she drops a glowing stone into it, and starts to spin it.
DM: Candace still holds her sword in a guard position, but moves to stand next to Del, murmuring a prayer to Ascar before placing her hand on Del's back, the flesh re-knitting quickly. "I hope you know what you're doing, cat."
DM: the human woman hangs there in the air, a strange hum coming from her again, as she focuses on the creature, the hum suddenly disappearing as the creature's flesh dimples, a soft "thud" sound accompanying each of the four impact points
DM: the creature itself roars out in fury, its eyes seeming to glaze over slightly as it charges forward, lunging at Deladriel recklessly
DM: the claw slashes at Del's head, which is pulled out of line just in time, but still scoring a wicked set of gashes on her shoulder
Deladriel reels back but gets a focused look on her face as she focuses on keeping the creature involved...she swipes hard at the creatures head...
Deladriel connects full on then backs up again....bracing herself for another attack
DM: the critter swipes again... connecting with another set of gashes on the other shoulder to match
Deladriel looks severely battered...but remains focused
Dianysia: "Candace, please keep her up!"
DM: the critter is STARTING to look a little the worse for wear... especially as the acid is continuing to eat through its hide... it's still going to where it doesn't even seem to notice the damage tho
Dianysia turns to the warpig, trying to get it to attack to the creature.
DM: Ruby just stares at you... obviously NOT going to follow that command.
Dianysia: "Stupid pig," Dia mutters, then casts another acid arrow at the creature herself.
Braids: Braids, keeping the sling spinning moves up a little bit in order to get a clear line of sight on the dragon gato, and then focuses her aim for a second, letting the weapons blood lust for the dragons blood help guide the aiming, the suddenly looses the blue stone. The stone arches beautifully, accelerating towards the dragon cat's head, slamming hard into it, leaving some damaged scales behind and a painful looking wound.
Braids: "Hah, like those stones don't you kitty! Just keep running!"
DM: Candace grimaces, knowing she's likely to get hurt... but backs away from the dragon-kitty as carefully as possible, trying to get close enough to heal Deladriel again... chanting a prayer to Ascar again, this time a bit more fervently, as greater healing energies flow through her to close the gaping sores in Deladriel's hide
DM: the human woman continues drifting along between ceiling and floor, the buzzing starting up again as she focuses on the creature... before releasing mental energies to again slam in against its hide
DM: the red critter roars its frustration again, charging straight at Deladriel still... creating an opening for Candace as it does so, which she of course takes...
DM: Candace's sword finds a gap between the creature's scales, sliding in deep to carve a chunk off its hide as the creature's claws carve another set of deep gashes in Deladriel's side.
Deladriel takes a 5-foot step back, shifting to Elf form...she starts weaving glowing green magic once again and says "Radix Excipio"...upon completing her spell...the very grass and weeds at the feet of the creature begin to entwine up the creature's legs and body...trying to pull it to the ground with massive force
DM: both the dragon-critter and candace manage to keep moving just enough to keep the grasses from wrapping around their legs, letting them move, albeit slower than normal
Deladriel: "Now Candace! Hit it hard!"
Dianysia: "Why won't this damn thing die already," Dia mutters in frustration. She speedily moves 30 ft directly in front of her previous location. After grabbing yet more items from within her spell pouch, she says "Levitas Offendo!" At this point, she releases a line of electricity at the creature, aiming so as not to hit anyone.
DM: you send a line of electricity streaking out to course over the critter and streak into the distance... the critter has the presence of mind to drop slightly to avoid catching the worst of the blast, although it's still looking quite the worse for wear, several patches free of scales, and a few ribs showing in the portion Candace carved off...
Braids: Braids mutters something under her breath as an elven woman gets in her firing line, and quickly moves to another vantage point, pulling another blue stone out and spinning her sling and once again letting the stone loose.
Braids: Braids smiles as she watches the stone slam into the dragon cat with a solid, and loud, thumb, a bright flash of pink shooting out for a moment.
DM: the shot streaks in towards the creature, slamming into its flank as you all hear a loud "crack" sound, that side caving in noticeable and not coming back out
DM: Candace grins, and shouts out a cry to her patron as she swings with all her might at the creature's head... nearly missing the neck and slicing a deep gash into its shoulder, striking clean through and perhaps even passing through some bone, by the sound of it
Dianysia: "Nice hit!"
DM: the creature totters for a second, before falling down, breathing heavily... the light goes out of its eyes as it seems to visibly deflate in front of you... its last breath disappearing in a rattling wheeze
Candace grins. "Thanks, luv. Now somebody get these bloody weeds off me boots!" (Elven)
Deladriel falls to the ground on her back...staring up to the sky
Deladriel ends her spell
Dianysia checks for breathing... "Del? Del?"
Deladriel is definately breathing
Dianysia notes that Del is still conscious. "You stupid, inconsiderate, how could you do that...?!"
Braids: Braids walks back to the archway the moment she determines that none of the others are going after her head, after picking her scroll back up. She spends a few moments salvaging her old homunculus first, then starts to study the gate.
Deladriel: breathes heavily while she talks..."Monster attack newcomer...she look like she need help...and that armor...I think better if thing focus on me...and I needed help from Gaia"
DM: The human woman comes down from above the floor, landing next to the crystal lance embedded between two of the paving stones, and withdraws it carefully. (Elven): "Did you have to kill it? Who are you people, anyway?"
Dianysia: E - "Not that stupid....My name is Dia, and what else were we supposed to do?"
Candace: "Oh yeah, let me have a look at you, dearie." Candace comes over to Del, placing her hands on Del's shoulders to let the healing energies flow.
Deladriel: "My thanks"
Deladriel: "You cover me well...I had hoped grass work better though"
Braids: After a while Braids steps away from the archway, and starts saying random things that sound almost like celestial.
DM: "Now I'll have to find a new one." The woman rounds on Braids, pointing and switching over to Draconic. "You! What did you do on the other side!?"
Candace: "No worries, luv. How you feeling now, cheery or you need another?"
Deladriel: "I can recover now...but not refuse another if you have it"
Candace: "Let's give this a try, shall we?" (Cure moderate)
Braids: Braids turns to the woman, "I did nothing... I picked up a tablet, read it, got corrected, read it again and here I am, and I can't seem to activate the portal again, so anyone know the way back to Bernsville, or Herendor. Either is pretty close to where my friends were," she replies in common bit.
Deladriel: "I good now...you do well"
Deladriel slowly stands up to face the new threat
Candace: "Any time, luv." Candace calls out in general, still speaking Elven "Anybody else get hit?"
Dianysia: "Not about to happen, as I've already said," Dia says irritably. "What is it that we can do for you, Mis....?"
DM: the woman (still in draconic) "Oh for the God's sake... a stray traveler, I have NO idea what most of what you just said means, but it means you're not supposed to be here." (switching back to Elven) "GABI!!! GET DOWN HERE, WE HAVE A HICCUP!!!"
Dianysia: "A hiccup? Well, I wouldn't go that far... annoying so far, yes... cowardly... yes... but a hiccup? Come on... "
Deladriel: "You know...if you hold breath...hiccups go away!"
Braids: "Hey hey hey, I aint no hiccup lady, unless of course you hiccup solution is to send me home, then I will hiccup all you want," Braids replies in elven, "Especially if I am further away then a few days or weeks."
DM: the woman rounds on Dia, still speaking in Elven. "And you! What are all of you doing here!? The Riders were supposed to make sure nobody interfered in my ritual, WHY did you have to show up NOW? Not that I'm not grateful for the assist, but I could've handled the drake myself, and at least then I wouldn't have to go searching for a NEW one!"
DM: "Oh good, I don't have to keep switching tongues. Look, you're NOT supposed to be here, I don't know what you did on the other side, but you're going to have to come with me, until we get things sorted out."
Braids: "That was a drake? Interesting... never seen one of them before..."
Deladriel: "You strange lady...not know why you call it ritual...you want make woopie with the thing...I sorry...not know where you find new one"
Braids: "Hey, unless I am going home, I aint going with you... besides seems you have an admirer I think...."
Dianysia: E - "The Riders? Oh, the ones on pigs? Obviously sent the wrong ones after us... and we didn't really want to interrupt your ritual, I don't think..We were just sent to this tower... Did we want to stop the ritual?"
Deladriel: "I like rituals...very much fun" Deladriel says with an air of still connecting ritual to sex somehow
Dianysia: "Del, you need help... I think I saw a jaguar earlier this morning..."
DM: "Look, NONE of you are supposed to be here. Don't you know these towers are forbidden? I thought the local Church was doing a better job than this..." the woman starts muttering to herself in some langauge none of you have ever heard... although it sounds strangely familiar (different dialect of Common, but she's swearing, lol)
Braids: "Oh... church... damn..."
Dianysia: "Neither are you.... You're not from here either..." Dia says with certainty. "Besides, the church told us to come. Now, where are you from?
DM: "Yes, of COURSE the Church! Look, you're going to have to go, right now. GABI! GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE NOW!!!"
Deladriel: "You say strange things...what you talk about here?"
Dianysia: "She's speaking our tongue... but a different form of it..WHERE ARE YOU FROM?"
Deladriel: "I think she eat too many moonberry..." Del starts rolling her eyes and making the 'coo coo' sign
Braids: "Well it does make sense the church would be here... but damn... not good," Braids says, and pulls a hammer from a pocket in her pack and points it at the floatie woman, "I am going to go, if you want to argue with me fine, but you should know, this hammer is a powerful... I know I was out of stuff to enchant and was board, but anyways... alls I want to do is leave."
Dianysia: "She never said she was church... just that church was supposed to prevent our arrival. Now where are you from, for the last time."
DM: "Listen, woman. It would make NO sense to you even if I did tell you, even if I COULD tell you. Just run along, and..." The woman checks herself, really stopping to think about what had been said. "Wait, the Church sent YOU here? Oh damn." She turns to Braids. "Sit down, stay put, and we'll TRY to get this taken care of without hurting you in the process. GABRIELLE!!" It's at about this time you hear footsteps, as a figure appears coming down the rampway, clad in close-fitting black leathers (studded leather armor). The new arrival grumbles in Elven. "What IS it?"
Braids: "I aint listening to no churchie," she says, putting the hammer back, shurgging off her failed attempt to fake her way out of this one, then starts to head out towards Del, Dia and Candace.
Deladriel shifts to cat
Candace has moved during this conversation to lean against the pillar on the inside, her sword still in hand, dripping bits of gore from the drake.
Dianysia: "It's you! You're the reason Beth is dead!"
Dianysia: "And the reason I've got this rediculous geas going!"
DM: The woman blinks, continuing to make her way down the ramp. "Excuse me? Who is 'Beth'? Sue, what's going on here?" The previously flying woman, now identified as Sue, sighs. "These are the ones we were told were headed here, apparently the Riders couldn't stop them. And THIS one," here she points at Braids "came through the arch. We definitely have a situation."
Braids: "Well on the upside..." Braids says to herself, "Nothing is on fire this time..."
DM: Gabi: "So?"
Dianysia: "Yeah, we were the ones sent and obviously weren't destroyed by the riders... they did try, though, if that's any consolation. Now, as to why we're in this situation... who are you, where are you from, and why do you dislike us?"
Braids: Braids pops the cap of her scroll case off again, and slowly starts to feel the various scroll caps until she finds the one she wants, and starts to slowly pull it out.
DM: Sue: "So, you're the Roc. I'm just a Wayfarer. You've got to make the choice."
DM: Gabi sighs, and barks out a few short words in that other strange tongue, sounding like "find the curl, mill the best"
Dianysia: "Oh, shit... she said bind the girl kill the rest!"
Candace swings her sword up to the ready, her face setting stonily. "They're attacking!" she calls out in Elven
Braids: Braids finishes pulling out the scroll, and with her pinky finger unlatches the only thing holding it closed, and says, "Screw that, I ain't being tied up," and starts to read something on the scroll.
Dianysia grabs another box from her bag...
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