Bereft of consciousness the woman hardly even stirs as Lyriel picks her up with one strong arm locked around her chest. In her dreams though her prospective groom still has her in the hold of his tentacles and she can't completly fight off his chaotic influence yet.


22:35, Today: Levkojen rolled 5 using 1d20. Save vs Chaostouched.

Ravex interdicts himself between Gethin's new position and the mass of the voice. Even though his attack isn't exactly on the mark, it is enough to get the sea-gods' attention. "Come on you ugly shit! I've got a tasty metal stick, just for you!"

Minor: Activate Rain of Steel
Move + Standard: Charge to K3. Rolled 17 to hit vs AC. Dealing 8 damage.

The voice is marked.

Shark-tooth necklace AND Rain of Steel are active.

Dry land, yes, that would be nice, Gethin reflects as he fights to retain his balance against the pulls and tugs of the waist-high subterranean tide and abjures Pelor to spare him the deeper currents.

Ravex cuts through the water--it slides off his scales seamlessly. A tentacle whips overhead (OA Threatening Reach 3 misses although range on tentacle is M2). He thrusts his spear at one of its "blow holes"! No time for niceties in mortal combat. The aperture seals before his head can penetrate, an unknown membrane closing the gap. The force of the rejection jars Ravex's wrist.

In retaliation, two limbs lash at the dragonborn, each blessed with hook-like additions. They slip between the plates of his armor, both scale and plate (10+14 dmg and chaos touched; Ravex is bloodied), leaving one his forearms a smoking black mess.

OOC Lyriel and Gethin are up


Deep water: Characters moving into this water must swim. Due to the choppiness of the water and the movement of the tides and the creatures within, this requires a DC 15 Athletics check. Aquatic combat rules apply.
Furnishings: Altar -23, Statue N6 -23
Chaos Touched: if you're chaos touched, the voice can force you to reroll any one roll once per round. He can only do this once per round. For example, he had Ravex reroll his save which he made anyway.
Abominable Horror: anyone ending his turn within the aura is marked by the Mezzo until the end of its next turn
Ledge: The ledge is roughly 2 squares high and requires a DC 20 Athletics check to climb.
Tide: Rows K, L, and M have waist-high water. Treat as difficult terrain but no more.
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  Lyriel backed away guardedly, burdened with a prospective rescuee and unwilling to risk being caught up in the tentacle-tangle. She wasn't completely removed from the action, though: a few barked commands improved the defensive positioning of those already so entangled.

 
  Std: Second Wind: Lyriel regains 15 hit points and gains a +2 bonus to all defenses until the start of her next turn.
  Move: SW-SW to N3.
  Minor: NTA: Gethin and Ravex can shift up to 2 squares. Gethin and Ravex gain a +2 power bonus to AC until Lyriel's EONT.
  Assuming that she avoids the OA...
  Free: Drop Levkojen.
  Free: Swap weapon.

  Poised Assault: +1 to the attack rolls of basic attacks.
 
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"Thank you!" Gethin gasps, to Pelor and to Dawnstone and to his spirit.

Gethin takes only a moment to re-assess the situation, then presses the attack.  Lyriel's distraction allows him to dart in, he jabs hard, then he moves to help the newcomer.  Partly because it's the right thing to do, partly because she flattered him so beautifully, party because he hopes she's got some fight left in her because Gethin is about spent.

EFFECTS: +2 AC
OUT OF TURN (LYRIEL): Shift 2 to J2
STANDARD: Invigorating Smite vs Voice (rolled 30 vs Will for 15 dmg & bloodied allies within 5, that's Ravex and Lev, gain 8 HP)
MOVE: to K4 (provoking OA, but marked by Ravex)
MINOR: Lay on Hands, Lev (Gethin -1 surge & gain Resist 3 All USoNT; Lev heals surge+7 HP = 19 HP)

SUMMARY: Voice hit for 15 dmg, Ravex +8 HP, Lev +27 HP
This message was last edited by the player at 17:53, Wed 04 July 2012.

Shrill, what a shrill sound, you think. Like a little boy whining over a lolly dropped in the sand. A sound that inspires both pity and fury. Stupid little boys. The voice cries like a little boy at the first touch of Gethin's blade. That must be why it doesn't attack either Gethin or Lyriel when it has the opportunity to do so. It doesn't want Ravex to touch it.

Silent, the swimmer loops around the voice and snares Ravex, jerking him closer (grabbed and pulled; he's above the tendril in deep water).

OOC Lev, DS, and Ravex are up


Deep water: Characters moving into this water must swim. Due to the choppiness of the water and the movement of the tides and the creatures within, this requires a DC 15 Athletics check. Aquatic combat rules apply.
Furnishings: Altar -23, Statue N6 -23
Chaos Touched: if you're chaos touched, the voice can force you to reroll any one roll once per round. He can only do this once per round. For example, he had Ravex reroll his save which he made anyway.
Abominable Horror: anyone ending his turn within the aura is marked by the Mezzo until the end of its next turn
Ledge: The ledge is roughly 2 squares high and requires a DC 20 Athletics check to climb.
Tide: Rows K, L, and M have waist-high water. Treat as difficult terrain but no more.
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:10, Sat 07 July 2012.

In reply to Autarch (msg # 776):

The spirit once again vanishes, only to appear by Ravex in the water, pulling him out and placing him back on land. The shaman refused to allow this foul thing an easy victory by drowning all his friends, as it did all those townsfolk. Tonight, you will be the one overwhelmed and dragged to your own death! His mental message from the spirit to the thing went out.

(OOC-Minor action spirit vanishes.

Move action-Spirit reappears in K6-no OA possible due to its teleporting. Ravex gains 4 temp HP.

Standard action-Moves Ravex to K2 on land. Spirit now at L2. Any ally next to spirit gets +2 on all saves.)
This message was last edited by the player at 21:17, Fri 06 July 2012.

By now, the dragonborn was used to being teleported around by the crystal-man's crazy hi-jinks. So the warrior just kept on poking, and slashing, and breathing fire. All the usual Ravexian hate and discontent.

Shark Tooth and Rain of Steel deals 2 and 6 damage

Minor: Dragons breath. Rolled 28 vs Voice reflex, dealing 7 fire damage.
Standard: Reaping Strike vs Voice. Rolled 21 vs AC, dealing 7 damage. Automatically deals 2 damage on a miss.

The voice remains Marked
Save Ends: Rolled a 20

For a second time the woman is wakened by the golden knight. ''I thank you, kind man. You keep saving me. Perhaps I should make it clear to Dagon now that I don't want him.''
Fluidly the woman rises to her feet and moves past the wolf-woman only to dive into the water again, nimble like a threading needle. At the same time a strong wind suddenly rises in the cave and ruffles the calm water. The woman resurfaces again and commands the wind to rise even stronger, calling a storm which drives the two tentacled monstrosities towards the shore and mercilessly harrowing the large voice. Standing in the eye of the storm but totally calm herself she strikes out with her right hand, ramming it into one of the softer parts of the smaller beast, while her left summons a swirl of magic fire and throws it in the bigger beast's face (in lack of a better term).
''Go away,'' she sings, ''I don't want no part of you and my answer is no! No populating of the seas! And now shoo, into the deep and away!''
A quick elegant backstroke later and she's backed away again from the aberrant monsters, into the cover of one of the snake statues.

OOC: delay after Dawnstone
MOVE     : stand up
MINOR    : Fallen Needle, walk/swim to L5 (N3-M4-L5)
AP       : Call up the Savage Wind vs Voice crit, 19 dmg
                                   vs Tendril hit Fort 17, 15 dmg on a hit
           Voice and Tendril are slid one square south if K3 is free, or one square SE if not
STANDARD : Calm Before the Storm vs Tendril hit Fort 28, 10 dmg
           stance (slowed, immediate counterattack if adjacent enemy attacks)
NO ACTION: Desert Wind Flurry, 6 fire dmg to Voice, attacks-2 vs Lev, Lev shifts* to M5
           (*shift possible due to natural swim speed)
NO ACTION: Save vs chaostouched failed

This message was last edited by the player at 21:38, Fri 06 July 2012.

Red! for the paladin's spill.
Crème! for the shape changer's loss.
Salmon! for the dragonborn's deluge.
Okra! for the voice's effluvia.

It's true. After the bloodletting, the curious clotting of Dagon's mouthpiece produces spiny honeycombs and not the sweet, crunchy ones. They mat Lyriel's fur and befoul Gethin's breastplate. A few of them reach the shore, nestling beside Lev's toes. One, more intrepid the rest, leaps over the ledge and smears itself all over one of DawnStone's forgotten crystals.

OOC Lyriel and Gethin are up


Deep water: Characters moving into this water must swim. Due to the choppiness of the water and the movement of the tides and the creatures within, this requires a DC 15 Athletics check. Aquatic combat rules apply.
Furnishings: Altar -23, Statue N6 -23
Chaos Touched: if you're chaos touched, the voice can force you to reroll any one roll once per round. He can only do this once per round. For example, he had Ravex reroll his save which he made anyway.
Abominable Horror: anyone ending his turn within the aura is marked by the Mezzo until the end of its next turn
Ledge: The ledge is roughly 2 squares high and requires a DC 20 Athletics check to climb.
Tide: Rows K, L, and M have waist-high water. Treat as difficult terrain but no more.
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:53, Tue 10 July 2012.

  Lyriel held up one arm to fend off the worst of the ichory assault, and especially to ensure that none of it got in her face; she didn't need that stuff finding its way inside her. As for the grime everywhere else, it couldn't be helped, and was joining the already-considerable quantity that had accumulated during their expeditions into the church and the caves.

 
  Move: Shift SE.
  Free: Switch to bow.
  Std: RBA vs Tendril: AC 20 for 13 damage (14 if it is actually bloodied at this time).

  Poised Assault: +1 to the attack rolls of basic attacks.
 
This message was last edited by the player at 02:38, Sun 08 July 2012.

Gethin sees his old nemesis the Tendril drawing closer.  He'll go toe-to-toe with anything in a fair fight, but grabbing a metal man and dragging him under the water?  That's just not an equal contest.  It would be like Gethin punting the slimy squid onto the sand and just waiting for it to expire.  Where's the glorious victory in that?

So Gethin decides to concentrate his efforts on the larger thing.  Get it off Ravex, too, he hopes.  The paladin's attack is powerful, but one of the many slimy arms bats it harmlessly aside.

STANDARD: Valorous Smite vs Voice (18 vs AC for 18 dmg)
MINOR: Divine Challenge Voice (marked, penalty: 7 radiant dmg)

Surprising seconds pass without any blood, ichor, or viscera spilled.

OOCLev, DS, and Ravex are up


Deep water: Characters moving into this water must swim. Due to the choppiness of the water and the movement of the tides and the creatures within, this requires a DC 15 Athletics check. Aquatic combat rules apply.
Furnishings: Altar -23, Statue N6 -23
Chaos Touched: if you're chaos touched, the voice can force you to reroll any one roll once per round. He can only do this once per round. For example, he had Ravex reroll his save which he made anyway.
Abominable Horror: anyone ending his turn within the aura is marked by the Mezzo until the end of its next turn
Ledge: The ledge is roughly 2 squares high and requires a DC 20 Athletics check to climb.
Tide: Rows K, L, and M have waist-high water. Treat as difficult terrain but no more.
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:06, Fri 13 July 2012.

In reply to Autarch (msg # 783):

The spirit fills Ravex with a fiery power, vanishing as it did so. Giving him  strength and speed beyond what his normal martial prowess allowed. Then the spirit reappears right where it vanished-given the Dragonborn even more staying power.

(OOC-Standard action-infused strike. Ravex gets a free Basic Melee attack at +4 to hit and +6 on damage. Spirit vanishes.

Minor action-Spirit returns to L2. Ravex gains 4 temp HP. Spirit stays at L2. Anyone adj to spirit gets +2 on all saves.)

The woman hits the tentacled absurdity as it encroachs on her, pummeling it right in a saucer-like eye right above the beak. The thing's tentacles flail at her, but fail to find purchase as the woman slips through its grasp. She waits on the terrible bite of the beak but it isn't coming - perhaps it needs to hold her fast first, to get in reach with the powerful but stunted maw?
She cries out in delight, calling to the sea in a single high note. And the sea replies, sending a single buffeting wave at the cavern shore. The large voice is too big to be baffled by a wave, but the smaller tendril is badly shaken through, and after it is drenched it has also to suffer a gust of fire summoned by the woman.
After that she retreats into the cover of another statue, to get away from tendril and beak. Better to be save than sorry.


IMMEDIATE: Calm Before the Storm vs Tendril (in case it moved adjacent before attacking)
           crit, 22 dmg prone
STANDARD : Buffeting Wave vs Voice Fort 13, miss ?
                          vs Tendril Fort 27, hit ?, 6 dmg prone
NO ACTION: Desert Wind Flurry, 6 fire dmg to Tendril
MOVE     : shift to L4
MINOR    : Fallen Needle, shift to M3
NO ACTION: Save vs chaostouched success

This message was last edited by the player at 15:09, Wed 11 July 2012.

Aside from applying the appropriate ferocity granted to him by Dawnstone's spirit, and keeping up his rhythmic slashing according to his stance, Ravex decides to spend the majority of the next few moments taking a breather.

Free: Melee Basic. Rolled 37 vs AC, CRIT, dealing 19 damage + 4 cold.

Standard: Use Second Wind, regain surge value and +2 all defenses.

Shark-Tooth Necklace and Rain of Steel deal 6 and 7 damage (total 13).
Rolled 5 to end Chaos Touched, failed.

The voice weeps from orbs and rents alike.

Does the voice weep for the shattering of its maritime nuptials? Does the voice weep for the loss of its storm-tossed seaport? Does the voice weep for the unforgiving swath of khopesh? No, surely it does not. It weeps for it will have to ride, have to ride the night current. Already it begins to drift away to the wrong depths of the lagune. Oh, it's still within reach of shaft, blade, and fist, but still, parts of it warp and wobble, already on a trip to endless atonement.

OOC Lyriel and Gethin are up; M3 is occupied, Lev.


Deep water: Characters moving into this water must swim. Due to the choppiness of the water and the movement of the tides and the creatures within, this requires a DC 15 Athletics check. Aquatic combat rules apply.
Furnishings: Altar -23, Statue N6 -23
Chaos Touched: if you're chaos touched, the voice can force you to reroll any one roll once per round. He can only do this once per round. For example, he had Ravex reroll his save which he made anyway.
Abominable Horror: anyone ending his turn within the aura is marked by the Mezzo until the end of its next turn
Ledge: The ledge is roughly 2 squares high and requires a DC 20 Athletics check to climb.
Tide: Rows K, L, and M have waist-high water. Treat as difficult terrain but no more.
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:48, Thu 19 July 2012.

  The unearthly wailing transitioned to a poignant gurgling as another arrow thumped solidly into the monstrosity's undulating frame.

 
  Move: Shift E to O5.
  Std: RBA vs Voice: AC 24 for 15 damage. Spend tips if necessary to make that hit.
  Minor: None.

  Poised Assault: +1 to the attack rolls of basic attacks.
 

Victory seems almost at hand, but Gethin can't quite grasp it yet.

START: Resist 3 ends
STANDARD: Virtuous Strike vs Voice misses (Voice remains Challenged)

With little left besides the last-gasp thrashing, the tendril still extends itself around and about Lev. Its grip is wet and slobbery and a bit too pointy about the beak. However, even with her scant association with these wedding crashers, Lev knows that one of them can sever the bond between the feminine and the marine at will.

OOC Lev, DS, and Ravex are up


Deep water: Characters moving into this water must swim. Due to the choppiness of the water and the movement of the tides and the creatures within, this requires a DC 15 Athletics check. Aquatic combat rules apply.
Furnishings: Altar -23, Statue N6 -23
Chaos Touched: if you're chaos touched, the voice can force you to reroll any one roll once per round. He can only do this once per round. For example, he had Ravex reroll his save which he made anyway.
Abominable Horror: anyone ending his turn within the aura is marked by the Mezzo until the end of its next turn
Ledge: The ledge is roughly 2 squares high and requires a DC 20 Athletics check to climb.
Tide: Rows K, L, and M have waist-high water. Treat as difficult terrain but no more.
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:18, Tue 24 July 2012.

''I think all those marriage vibes I get here might be a bit premature.'' Proclaims the woman. She continues to ramble.
''Actually I'm strongly inclined against the whole union, considering that I've not even been asked beforehand! Seems like this might have been arranged by my family without my knowledge? I strongly object this treatment of my own preferences and would wish for a great deal more of respect from my prospective groom.'' She shoves at the masses of tendrils which engulf her and averts her face as to avoid an unwanted kiss. Which might or might not have been coming, considering the sharp beak snapping open and close inches before her nose.
''Also, I don't approve of importunate best men!'' Forming her hand into a hard edge she thrusts it deep into the mass of tentacles, evocing streams of gushing ichor and the smell of burnt cuttlefish.

As the tentacled monster deflates and sinks to the bottom of the cave, eldritch alien energies, a gift of Dagon, course through the woman and take her out of sight. ''I... can't see myself anymore? Am I still here? Oh! I am invisible!''
She adapts quickly and uses her newfound advantage to paddle around the big beast still alive, forcing it to divide its attention between herself and her allies on the beach.


IMMEDIATE: Calm Before the Storm vs Tendril hit Ref 26, 15 dmg prone
STANDARD : Fallen Needle vs Tendril hit Ref 23 (use tips if neccessary!), 12 dmg
           Tendril has attacks-2 vs Levkojen
NO ACTION: Desert Wind Flurry, 6 fire dmg to Tendril, or to Voice if Tendril is already dead
           (if I target voice with this I can also shift, and voice gets attacks-2 against Lev)
FREE     : Hidden Lore, triggered by tendril's death, invisible ueomnt
MOVE     : swim to I4 (invisibility protecting Lev from OA's)
MINOR    : -

This message was last edited by the player at 15:47, Thu 19 July 2012.

In reply to Levkojen (msg # 791):

As soon as the brave monk burnt the remaining tendril to ash, the spirit vanished once more. Only to reappear by Lyriel, and carry her over and place her near the remains of the dead appendage. Filling her with life and energy to destroy Dagon's foul voice.

(OOC-Minor action-Spirit vanishes.

Move action-Spirit appears next to Lyriel. She gains 4 temp HP.

Standard action-Moving Lyriel to L4. No OA from Voice. Spirit is now at M4. All allies near spirit get +2 on all saves.)
This message was last edited by the player at 15:20, Thu 19 July 2012.

Ravex keeps up the pressure on the Voice. Slashing and cutting, and generally making a bloody mess of things.

Standard: Reaping Strike vs Voice. Rolled 30 vs AC, dealing 8 damage.

Rain of Steel Damage: 6
Shark Tooth Necklace: 2

Chaos Touch Save Ends: 16, success

Not caring one whit for tradition, Levkojen extricates herself from the bonds of matrimonial and oceanic monstrosities. Plunging her hand within the mantle of the monster, she bumps her fingers around a shell. Extending them, she encircles it within her palm and squeezes with bone-crushing force.

It pops with an audible hiss and its owner, the cepholopod, sinks below, its spirit and various other vital organs crushed.

She finds the experience liberating (free shift granted by Desert Wind Flurry).

With what really amounts to its lasts thrashes, the shadow of Dagon cuffs the paladin (hit twice for 17 dmg and Chaos Touched). The blows knock him off-balance momentarily and bring a welcome trickle of blood to his lips (Gethin -> Bloodied). Even though a slight red haze obscures his vision, he's into it. He's pretty sure he can land the killing blow and impress the new girl, newly available.

OOC All are up




Deep water: Characters moving into this water must swim. Due to the choppiness of the water and the movement of the tides and the creatures within, this requires a DC 15 Athletics check. Aquatic combat rules apply.
Furnishings: Altar -23, Statue N6 -23
Chaos Touched: if you're chaos touched, the voice can force you to reroll any one roll once per round. He can only do this once per round. For example, he had Ravex reroll his save which he made anyway.
Abominable Horror: anyone ending his turn within the aura is marked by the Mezzo until the end of its next turn
Ledge: The ledge is roughly 2 squares high and requires a DC 20 Athletics check to climb.
Tide: Rows K, L, and M have waist-high water. Treat as difficult terrain but no more.

  The faintly quease-inducing lurch that accompanied the act of being whisked away elsewhere was thankfully brief, although suddenly finding herself mired in the knee-deep water wasn't the most welcome development, even if it did allow for a surprise slash.

 
  Free: Swap weapon (sword).
  Std: MBA hits Voice for 16 damage.
  Move: None.
  Minor: None.
 
This message was last edited by the player at 04:30, Tue 24 July 2012.