D&D II Act One Scene IV(a) - The Dead in Osinzir

Fourier · 20-07-2018 07:49PM

Tsoin gets them to Zhulugal fast enough, thirty or so racers lie between them and the finish line at the Ziggurat, a ten minute journey at Tsoin's current speed.

Banjo · 20-07-2018 07:59PM

"ok, last leg. The important thing is that we all had fun taking part and that I mostly didn't kill almost anyone directly. And that i win. With that in mind, let's try these boots out. Follow me! And if it doesn't work, we can always hit the Pagoda and spend the next few millennia training."

She wonders whether those other 30 racers are all future hers from the past still desperately trying to beat herself....

Ooc : time to find out if the boots maketh the man

Fourier · 20-07-2018 08:13PM

Banjo wrote: »

Ooc : time to find out if the boots maketh the man

OOC: CON check when using the boots

Banjo · 20-07-2018 08:16PM

Ooc : Natural 20 baby! 22 with mod. I thought she put them on yesterday though...

Fourier · 20-07-2018 08:23PM

Banjo wrote: »

Ooc : Natural 20 baby! 22 with mod. I thought she put them on yesterday though...

OOC: Sorry it's a check for using them, not putting them on, I'll edit the above. Thought "use" but typed "put"

Fourier · 20-07-2018 08:33PM

Retula darts past most other racers at massively high speeds, she nears the leading two. A mage clad in odd armour:

And a blue dragon.

The mage, seeing her approach, reaches into a satchel and reads a scroll aloud, presses his hand to his earth elemental mount and strange symbols appear. The area near the finish line vanishes, a couple of feet squared in total, the finish line with it. The dragon digs its claws into the ground to stop, looking around desperately.

The mage dismisses the earth elemental, summons an air elemental and takes to the skies.

Banjo · 20-07-2018 08:43PM

Retula runs as fast as her little feet will carry her and jumps.

Ooc : I know, I know, at normal speeds her jump distance is terrible with her pitiful strength but with a faster base movement rate maybe it's.... better?
If feasible she will attempt to Thorn Whip the Elementalist or his mount and Indiana Jones across the shortfall. Worst case scenario she can Blessing of The Raven Queen to the other side as a bonus action if she's not going to make it. Not sure if it conserves momentum

"Even brown dragons can fly, don't be such a pussy!" She shouts, realising as she says it that maybe it's not the jump he's afraid of.
"Luuuuuuuummmmmoooooool!"

Fourier · 20-07-2018 08:45PM

Banjo wrote: »

Ooc : I know, I know, at normal speeds her jump distance is terrible with her pitiful strength but with a faster base movement rate maybe it's.... better?
If feasible she will attempt to Thorn Whip the Elementalist or his mount and Indiana Jones across the shortfall.

OOC: Just in case this alters your action, you have to break the Finish line rope to win.

Banjo · 20-07-2018 08:53PM

Ooc :...so this is how it feels to be a blue dragon!
They can fly, can't they?
Cause browns can and they ain't gotta no wings...
When I said "don't be such a pussy" I misspoke. What she actually said was

"Follow that line stealing son of a glagnorp!"
As she attempts to inverse-flinstone up the dragons back into a riding position, or at least get close enough to to BotRQ into position to land on the Elementalist

Fourier · 20-07-2018 09:01PM

Banjo wrote: »

As she attempts to inverse-flinstone up the dragons back into a riding position, or at least get close enough to to BotRQ into position to land on the Elementalist

The Blue Dragon turns to Retula, a bit dumb founded, but quickly realises her meaning and looks up. Enraged, he takes to the sky, Retula managing to run up his tail quick enough with the boots. He pursues the mage with almost murderous intent.

The mage turns and with his right hand gestures at the finish line, pushing it further into the sky. Urging his elemental onward. The dragon is faster though and slowly gaining on him.

In desperation, he summons a huge ball of flame and hurdles it at the dragon....

Banjo · 20-07-2018 10:24PM

She summons Mr H 30ft in front of her, accounting for the Wile E effect and gravity, to intercept the fireball.

"Im sorry, dude. We had a good run but her will be done..."

Fourier · 20-07-2018 10:34PM

Mr. Hurumphalgrumps looks at the enormous fireball approaching him. He turns and winks at Retula.

"No problem pardner, gotta a job to do, ye gotta do it and do it well. It was all just a dream anyway..."

The flash fills the sky.

Spectators below gaze in awe as Retula atop the dragon bursts through the after-smoke toward the Mage...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdHHIVMJ_VQ

Fourier · 20-07-2018 10:39PM

The Mage turns, clasps his right hand above his head and dives off the elemental toward Retula, summoning spell charging...

Banjo · 20-07-2018 10:42PM

As soon as he's in range, bonus Hex and Eldritch Blast. Break his Concentration....

"Only one of us can win, Blue. Let's make sure it's not him!"

Edit : wait! Missed that! Edit incoming!

Seeing the Elementalist leap, she dismisses the KRAAAAW! that may or may not be in her head. Sure the repulsion trick would be fun but like when would it ever be useful? Shwah! Shut up, Hetyaro!

"Blue, when it happens, break hard right, fast!"

She points her right hand at the mage and shouts "THE SHADOWS VEIL!"

OOC :casting Darkness on him using bound spirit and hopefully he'll miss us

"Hey can't you breath zap him or something?"

Fourier · 20-07-2018 10:59PM

The sphere of black covers the Mage, who spins out of control. The blue dragon turns a hard right as the mage falls toward the ground, dying on impact.

Retula then sees four figures of shadow appear on the back of the dragon. One speaks to her.

"You aren't winning Retula. You're immortal here, but we can still drag you from the mortal plane. For we are psychopomps like yourself."

They begin to pace around her, waiting to strike....

Banjo · 20-07-2018 11:13PM

"The **** you will!"
She takes 5 flowers from her bag.
"My lady, it's time, five gifts you bestow, 5 blessings you bequeath"
She bites the head off the orchid and chews defiantly.

In her mind she thinks "the Elementalist, the wings of shadow" and hopes her scribe and book holder are listening.

Fourier · 20-07-2018 11:29PM

The orchid rushes through Retula, clearing her mind and cleansing her body.

OOC: +2HP permanently

Seeing her improvement after one flower, they rush to take the others, consuming them with greed.

The sickening feeling they then get is enough to tell them they've messed up.....

Banjo · 20-07-2018 11:35PM

Hex on the nearest one and EB if he's outside 5ft

Fourier · 21-07-2018 09:35AM

Banjo wrote: »

Hex on the nearest one and EB if he's outside 5ft

The hex combined with whatever the lotus is doing to him, causes him to double up in pain, so that when the Eldritch Blast hits him, he loses his balance and falls from the dragon.

The other three hold out their arms to the one on their left, a line of black energy passing between each one, forming a triangle, which then begins to fill with black energy inward toward Retula....

Fourier · 21-07-2018 09:37AM

OldGoat wrote: »

OOC: I rolled a 6.

A gush of powerful wind, carrying soil and tree roots, smashes into the crowd. Mags takes a decent brunt of it, but to no major damage.

OOC: 4HP lost

Banjo · 21-07-2018 10:04AM

Fourier wrote: »

The hex combined with whatever the lotus is doing to him, causes him to double up in pain, so that when the Eldritch Blast hits him, he loses his balance and falls from the dragon.

The other three hold out their arms to the one on their left, a line of black energy passing between each one, forming a triangle, which then begins to fill with black energy inward toward Retula....

Ooc : I'm not sure how big a dragons back is. Does this work, spatially?

She waits until the triangle almost has her trapped, then using the Blessing of the Raven Queen (bonus) Retula steps to
(If they are tangible beings) just behind the shadow nearest the dragons head, grabbing him and jumping off the dragons back.
Ooc : the idea being to pull the black triangle over the dragons head like a hood. Putting a lot of faith in the Scribe being active and that Elementalist being at least L5 so good for a cast of Fly as per his binding above

(If they are intangible) up to 9 feet behind the shadow nearest the dragons head, using thorn whip (action) to accomplish the deplanarisation instead.

Fourier · 21-07-2018 10:07AM

OOC: STR(Athletics) check

Banjo · 21-07-2018 10:08AM

Ooc : bastard! My biggest weakness!

Edit : 5-1=4

Banjo · 21-07-2018 10:34AM

(just in case you read pre-edit, it was a 4. Tension is killing me! I'd bite off my fingernails but they're metal

)

Fourier · 21-07-2018 10:42AM

Retula and the shadow being struggle, during which his shadow hood comes loose and she sees a woman with the same ink skin and white bone tattoos that she herself has sprouted.

"You don't deserve to be one of us Warlock, this is our afterlife, not for beings we've never met to meddle in...tell..." she begins to overpower Retula "...your Queen..." she manages to get a hand free that she places on Retula's stomach "...you failed..." She casts a spell of force that blasts Retula from the dragons back. Sending her tumbling toward the ground....

Fourier · 21-07-2018 11:12AM

Retula halts after only a few feet, she can see Zassan itself on the distant horizon this far up. The Dragon however continues in its flight upward toward the finish line.

Banjo · 21-07-2018 11:20AM

Ooc : all out of tricks - unless the groundhog scroll works retrospectively...?

Fourier · 21-07-2018 11:28AM

Banjo wrote: »

Ooc : all out of tricks - unless the groundhog scroll works retrospectively...?

OOC: It does, repeats a minute containing the current moment, until something occurs of your choosing. The current moment can be at the end or start or middle of the minute.

Banjo · 21-07-2018 11:36AM

Ooc :I got you babe... I got you babe
Activate groundhog, either till the plan works if that's not too long ago, or till the psychopomp rolls a critical fail on that force palm, sending her backwards and planeshifting the dragon tail first.

Fourier · 21-07-2018 12:02PM

Retula finds herself back on the dragon and makes an attempt at the tackle again. This fails twice, as even when breaking the grapple she is blasted from behind, until the third time Retula ducks it and has enough intuition for the one she is tackling that she deflects all his attempts to break free.

The planeshifting spell is dragged over the dragons head as Retula and the shadow figure fall off, him toward ground, Retula halting in midair thanks to the Elementalist.

A quiet enough implosion and the dragon and the remaining two shadows are planeshifted to the afterlife.

Retula floats in the quiet of the high atmosphere, a mile above her the finish line and the soil that was beneath it hover, the deserts south of Zassan stretched out below her. .

D&D II Act One Scene IV(a) - The Dead in Osinzir

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