A Cleansing Experience pt15
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round One - Init 23.
It is now Kravar's turn! Corrupted Solar is next!
GAME: Kravar rolls 30: (7)+30: 37
GAME: Kravar rolls 25: (12)+25: 37
GAME: Kravar rolls 20: (11)+20: 31
GAME: Kravar rolls 15: (2)+15: 17
Kravar swears. Try as he might as he can't manage to land a single punch on the Solar, can't keep it from retrieving its fearsome weapon. "What could be controlling it?!" He bellows. "The sailor has been freed from posession - why not that?" He points at the Solar.
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round One - Init 22.
It is now Corrupted Solar's turn! Stirling is next!
The Solar, for its part, remains blank in its expression. It moves towards the fallen greatsword, swiftly drawing away from the others, and picks it up. Just like that. Now in its hand, it raises it and points it towards Kravar. Great.
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round One - Init 21.
It is now Stirling's turn! Asumit's Voice is next!
GAME: Stirling rolls ranged+1: (3)+14+1: 18
GAME: Stirling rolls 8d6+7: (23)+7: 30
Stirling continues to fly through the air in his massive bug like form and fires a bolt of electricty from his equally large deathray. Its not a lot but he manages to do more than just annoy the solar with his attacks.
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round One - Init 18.
It is now Asumit's Voice's turn! Asumit's Hound is next!
The voice is unconscious, given everything that's been done to him, and underneath Sophia.
There are still hounds, of course, but now they're caught between celestialsn, blade barriers, and are turning towards Sophia. Who's sealed away. Mostly.
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round One - Init 16.
It is now Asumit's Hound's turn! Durrankar is next!
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round One - Init 14.
It is now Durrankar's turn! Thyrson is next!
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round One - Init 10.
It is now Thyrson's turn! Angelic Host is next!
GAME: Durrankar casts Reverse Gravity. Caster Level: 16 DC: 25
Durrankar looks to Kravar and the Solar and shakes his head. Finding the hounds STILL going after Sophia is getting annoying though. "THE HOUNDS ARE GOING TO FLY!" Durrankar calls out...as a warning to everyone who is engaging the hounds....and stamps his staff on the ground. The hounds that are caught...hurtle into the air...along with many of the ones that are attacking them. However...the ones that are attacking them....can fly. So that makes a bit of difference in the end.
GAME: Whirlpool rolls 1d20+16: (9)+16: 25
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round One - Init 6.
It is now Angelic Host's turn! Priests is next!
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round One - Init 5.
It is now Priests' turn! Astaren is next!
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round One - Init 4.
It is now Astaren's turn! Sophia is next!
Astaren offers a yawn as he hovers there in the air, "Oh what to *yawn* do..." glancing around, "Going to take a nap here, but first." lazily tracing a few runes in the air and putting more stone around Sophia and the webbed void shard.
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round One - Init 2.
It is now Sophia's turn! Kravar is next!
GAME: Sophia rolls knowledge/the planes: (9)+5: 14
GAME: Sophia casts Spell Immunity. Caster Level: 10 DC: 21
GAME: Sophia rolls 4d8+10: (15)+10: 25
Sophia looks a bit relieved now that additional walls are going up, saying a quick prayer to heal some more of her wounds as she stands over the sailor. Hearing the baying of the demon hounds outside, she draws her sword out, the blade gleaming white as the celestal runes burn from the intensity of being in this place.
GAME: NEW ROUND!
Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round Two - Init 23.
It is now Kravar's turn! Corrupted Solar is next!
GAME: Kravar rolls 27: (3)+27: 30
Kravar chases the Solar down to the ground and swings his shield, trying to bash it back. The blow misses and Kravar spins halfway around from the momentum of his own swing before righting himself. But once again he finds himself well within striking range of the large outsider.
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round Two - Init 22.
It is now Corrupted Solar's turn! Stirling is next!
GAME: Whirlpool rolls 1d20+31: (12)+31: 43
GAME: Whirlpool rolls 1d20+26: (13)+26: 39
GAME: Whirlpool rolls 1d20+21: (5)+21: 26
GAME: Whirlpool rolls 1d20+16: (13)+16: 29
GAME: Whirlpool rolls 36+18: (11)+36+18: 65
GAME: Whirlpool rolls 3d6+18: (12)+18: 30
GAME: Whirlpool rolls 3d6+18: (4)+18: 22
GAME: Whirlpool rolls 3d6+18: (3)+18: 21
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round Two - Init 21.
It is now Stirling's turn! Asumit's Voice is next!
GAME: Stirling rolls ranged+1: (14)+14+1: 29
GAME: Stirling rolls 8d6+7: (24)+7: 31
Stirling continues to be a very large but mostly annoying nat, circling the Solar in the air and delivering accurate bolts of lightning from his long deathray. "Just get it down. We can try save it then."
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round Two - Init 18.
It is now Asumit's Voice's turn! Asumit's Hound is next!
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round Two - Init 16.
It is now Asumit's Hound's turn! Durrankar is next!
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round Two - Init 14.
It is now Durrankar's turn! Thyrson is next!
GAME: Durrankar casts Greater Dispel Magic. Caster Level: 16 DC: 23
GAME: Durrankar rolls 1d20+16: (18)+16: 34
When Durrankar completes his spell, the solar drops to a knee, clearly holding himself back. "Hurry," it says, "I can only hold it back for so long..." Durrankar has given it a chance to hold back.
"THAT WAS MY LAST ONE! WHATEVER YOU HAVE IN MIND...DO IT NOW!" Durrankar shouts to his companions.
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round Two - Init 10.
It is now Thyrson's turn! Angelic Host is next!
Astaren glances to the Solar and offers in a sleepy voice, "Bind him, take his weapon, we cannot save him here." letting out another yawn
GAME: Thyrson casts Hold Monster. Caster Level: 16 DC: 24
GAME: Thyrson casts Disintegrate. Caster Level: 16 DC: 25
GAME: Thyrson rolls 1d20+20: (18)+20: 38
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round Two - Init 6.
It is now Angelic Host's turn! Priests is next!
The Angels and the priests are bunkered odwn, now, protected and healing each other. The great hounds have thinend in number and are being cut down by them, at this point.
Good work, everyone.
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round Two - Init 5.
It is now Priests' turn! Astaren is next!
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round Two - Init 4.
It is now Astaren's turn! Sophia is next!
Astaren taps his ring and motions to the wall of Iron, where a a large chunk of it turns into chains. He flys down to Sophia and yawns, "take the chains Sophia please, and help tie up the Solar. Let me watch over that void shard. Asuass somehow can hold it. That should be impossible for anything short of a diety." turning to star at the void shard in the sailors hand.
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round Two - Init 2.
It is now Sophia's turn! Kravar is next!
GAME: NEW ROUND!
Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round Three - Init 23.
It is now Kravar's turn! Corrupted Solar is next!
GAME: Sophia rolls 1d20+13: (15)+13: 28
GAME: Sophia rolls 1d20+8: (9)+8: 17
GAME: Sophia rolls 1d8+4: (2)+4: 6
GAME: Sophia rolls 1d20+17: (10)+17: 27
Sophia comes out from the walls of stone, advancing towards the Solar and, paralyzed or not, smacks him with the flat of her holy blade. The weapon flares at the contact, though whether it's from hitting one of the most High or just the vile sorcery affecting the solar is hard to say. Then Sophia whistles, and the golden and silver dinosaur rumbles up near her...
And then promptly knocks over the solar, settling on him the way a cat might settle on a human's lap. Except the cat is much bigger than the person.
And weighs several tons.
And then it licks the solar's face. Celestial dinosaur slobber.
GAME: Whirlpool advances the initiative order.
Round Three - Init 22.
It is now Corrupted Solar's turn! Stirling is next!
GAME: Whirlpool reverses the initiative order.
Round Three - Init 23.
It is now Kravar's turn! Corrupted Solar is next!
Kravar snatches up the chains provided by Astaren. He wraps them around the Solar's wrists, working as quickly as he can. He loops them around until they're covering the celestial's forearms as well and then pauses to see how much slack he has left.
GAME: Whirlpool removes the timestop.
Timestop by Whirlpool has left.
Astaren is resting against the stone wall staring at the void shard, clearly unhappy
At last, the Solar is subdued. The vessel of ASumit's voice, the individual who nearly died, is bleeding and unconscious, but still he holds the void shard.
Above you, there is a flash of light. A brilliance so blinding that it can only be a conduit to the most high. A flash of crystal as the shard itself begins to dissolve, hardeneing and becoming a clear and transluscent gem. Changed, it seems, by the work of the Gods themselves.
There is murmured awe from the priests present.
But there is an aura of displeasure. It is not directed at you, of course, you instinctively /feel/ that, but the displeasure of a God is a violent and terrible thing to viscerally feel.
Daeus is... righteosly unhappy with one who dared breach his realms in a assault on the remnant of a fallen brother.
For a moment, all becomes as flame.
You awaken sharply and suddenly. You and every other priest is now... in Alexandria, before the Book of the Light, an artifact of immense power housed there, and the book, before yuour very eyes, flips several pages to rest on one in specific.
A direct message from on high, it would appear.
There's a lot of parishoners ion the middle of the service who are looking on in awe. Oh boy.
This is gonna take some time to explain.
Durrankar sits up and......he immediately regrets it. He lays right back down...and lets out an urrrrgh. "I wish I had eaten something....so I can throw up."
Kravar looks around, taking in their surroundings and the service. He has a vague sense he's been here before. The last of his adrenaline fades, but then curiousity comes crashing into its place. He creeps towards the book and peers at the opened page.
Sophia sits up slowly, then sighs, "At least I'm not in Byrn Myridorn anymore. Good." She winces and stands up slowly, making her way towards the book as well to look at the page that was opened.
Astaren hops up on his feet, looking around for the crystal and frowning. "Hey anybody see a crystal anywhere?" then noticing the book and snapping his fingers, "Ah ha!" waving to head priest. "Hey you, mind taking that down and cleaning that here Solar of Deus. Poor fella is bound by the book of Darkness by Asumit and all. I am sure when the Solar woke up this morning he did not expect to be sat on by a dino and licked in the face, that is going to be a story." Winking over to Sophia as he walks up to the book to peer at it.
There is now another flash of light. Now, a great celestial being arrives, armed and armored. The Solar, healed and purified. Restored to purpose.
As Astaren darts towards the book, it simply takes a position beside it, eyes locked on the crowd. It reaches out, makes a gesture, and one parishoner suddenly collapses.
"WE SEE YOU, WRETCHED ONE, IN EVERY EYE. YOU HAVE CROSSED A LINE EVEN THE MOST FOUL OF MORTALS HAS FAILED TO CROSS SINCE THE FALL OF KULTHUS. YOU SHALL SHARE THEIR FATE."
The mortal, the parishoner, convulses once and spits out black ichor before going still... and then gasping.
Evidentally, he was another in Asumit's control.
"THE BOOK OF THE LIGHT AND THE CATHEDRAL IT IS HOUSED IN ARE NOW UNDER MY PROTECTION."
There's a lot of staring. And gasping. And shock.
Seems like Daeus, in fact, did restore the angel to health and vigor. And now he's here.
Sophia drops to one knee before the Solar, lowering her head in respect before glancing up towards him. "Glad to see that you're doing better now." Which is true enough, a relieved expression crossing the cleric's features.
Astaren steps back as he goes quiet. A glance to the book, to the solar, and then to the audiance. "Well...' trailing off as he considers his options, "Seems everything here is in order. I am off, Sophia we should meet up and talk soon." then turning he makes a wave of his hand and vanishes through a dimesion door. *POOF*
GAME: Astaren rolls linquistics: (14)+linquistics: 14
GAME: Astaren rolls linquistics: (7)+linquistics: 7
GAME: Astaren rolls linguistics: (15)+19: 34
Durrankar actually thumps his tail as it seems the Solar has been returned to it's radiance. "It is good to see you have recovered." he then puffs out a bit of smoke from his nose. He was going to have a bit of a time explaining this to Svarshan...when he saw him again.
Kravar's suddenly very concious of his worn gear. Battleworn, so that might count for something in a warrior god's eyes. He slips his shield off of his hand and then slings it across his back. His wings change back to a cape to settle across his shoulders. "Yes...well fought." He adds to the Solar after a moment's hesitation. "Even if you weren't, ah, yourself."