Start of #Sharn buffer: Wed Jun 13 22:39:43 2007 [17:16:38] [When we last left the group, they were in the Depths of Fallen, searching out the largest known remains of the Crystal Tower for some sign of the cause of the Ravers. They just found a locked engine room with an arcane device most likely once responsible for keeping the Tower aloft. They found eight bodies, and decided to take them back to the upper levels of the city once they were finished searching the tower.] [17:17:53] [Session Start] [17:19:59] * Sev starts down toward the end of the hall, wiping his forehead a bit. [17:20:10] [After exiting the adamantine vault/chamber, the group continues westward, following the corner of the adamantine wall.] [17:20:46] [Sev's maul now glows with the force of a light spell, precluding the need for Mari to hold her torch aloft.] [17:21:41] * Aurora moves along, staying as alert as she can [17:21:47] * Marianysa is now holding clutching both her sword and the one she took from the tomb, looking around warily. [17:21:54] * Phanos takes up the rear as usual, with zombie guard. [17:22:11] * Sev continues down the hallway, spitting on the ground as he walks. [17:23:13] [Sev makes out the collapsed remains of the hallway towards the south, but also the marble slabs of doors torn from their hinges on the wall to his right. [17:23:15] ] [17:24:32] * Sev looks back, shrugging. [17:24:36] Looks like there's only one place to go. [17:24:42] Yeah, seems like it. [17:25:10] Let's go on ahead, then. [17:25:12] [The broken doorway leads to an adjacent hallway that doubles back.] [17:25:43] [More rubble blocks this hallway's southern expanse as well.] [17:25:46] Hmfh.. [17:26:00] * Aurora walks along. "Alright, so I got this bow, Sev got that emblem, Mari got the sword... [17:26:03] This makes a complete turn right after the door, so.. [17:26:09] Might wanna.. [17:26:22] * Sev strafes into the door, his maul in hand and setting ready to strike anything that leaps out at him. :p [17:26:28] Might want to what? Oh... [17:26:53] Clear? [17:27:31] And Aun got... hm. Some ... things. [17:27:46] [Sev pounces out into an empty hallway, stretching on into darkness. Toward the end the glowing walls reveal an opening on the left side.] [17:28:01] It's probably better if we actually find out what those things are before saying that I get them, though. [17:28:03] Hmhf.. Alright, clear so far as I can tell. [17:28:24] ... this kinda reminds me. Phanos, what did you do with all the stuff from the church? You know, when we fought off all those assassins? [17:32:35] "I brings dem back." [17:32:41] "At me shop ya." [17:33:48] * Sev shrugs, leaning back to look at them and then back down the other hall. [17:34:33] (Don't forget to update your own positions on gametable) [17:35:21] [As Sev scrutinizes the second hallway, he sees no sign of movement.] [17:35:57] Alright, let's see about getting taht split up after this [17:36:06] * Sev takes a stride down the hallway, moving along carefully. [17:36:11] I dunno about that, but if you say so.. [17:37:54] We've got a lotta places around here.. Don't stray too far, anybody, eh? [17:38:04] * Sev stays in place, looking between the visible doors as if choosing. [17:38:13] [Sev passes right by a doorway on his left, briefly checking inside to see it empty. Up ahead the hallway turns to his right, sporting two more doors. As he walks north, the tower seems overall less damaged, with fewer cracks running along the walls.] [17:38:57] * Aurora looks around [17:39:36] "Not a ting I wanted anyway mon." [17:40:52] Huh.. This side of the tower's not so trashed up. [17:40:59] Must've been the other side that took the brunt of the fall. [17:41:23] * Marianysa follows Sev, trailing behind slightly. "Maybe..." [17:41:49] Hm. Is there anything in the rooms, so far? Maybe we can find some more evidence as to what happened down there. [17:41:57] Alright, I'm gonna check the next turn, but after that we should make sure these rooms here are safe. [17:43:46] [Sev turns the corner to find another stretch of hallway. A marble door leans against the southern wall not too far from it, dislodged from the doorframe on the northern wall. Further down he can just barely make out double marble doors leaning on each other.] [17:43:56] Hfm.. I can't even see the very end of this one.. Let's just start looking in the doors. [17:44:23] * Sev turns, heading back into the room directly behind him. [17:44:32] * Aurora follows along [17:44:45] * Aun checks another room. [17:45:38] * Aurora stays in the intersection so she can keep her eye on both of them [17:46:01] [Aun walks into a corner room of the tower. It seems it might've once been used as a maintenance crew's quarters. It's hard to tell with the damage and roll of years, but it definately doesn't seem like something nobles and upper class citzens would live in.] [17:47:29] [Sev enters the other room on the corner and finds two mattresses torn and piled in a corner, and around it bodies.] [17:47:37] Find anything? [17:47:54] [Large chunks of flesh are missing from them, as if biten off.] [17:48:08] Yeah. Slumber party that never woke up. We've got something feeding off 'em. [17:48:59] Yeah, I've got a room full of broken furniture. [17:49:02] "Maebbe de bugsoz." [17:49:26] "dey teard dem up ya?" [17:49:41] Awful big bites for bugs, but.. [17:49:53] * Sev starts down the hallway, keeping his maul held up. [17:50:04] I'm not sure, the bugs seemed pretty thorough. [17:50:27] * Aurora pulls out her shiny new (old) bow, recovered from the cleric. [17:50:37] (You did all just kill a Barghest) [17:51:19] ( Nah. that was Aun. With her creepy laughspell ) [17:51:54] * Phanos moves into the room, searching the bodies for anyhting of value. [17:52:41] [The bodies are stripped naked, and all of their faces, instead of pain or fear, show anger and fury.] [17:53:12] "tut tut, deez shells look mad-mad." [17:53:24] * Phanos takes out his scythe, poling one. [17:53:28] ((Poking)) [17:53:42] [They don't react.] [17:53:58] "ded though." [17:53:58] Well yeah they look mad, you're staring at them. [17:54:02] * Sev snorts to himself, grinning. [17:54:04] Weird... [17:54:11] "I'm a handsomer one den you mon." [17:54:15] Psh. [17:54:54] * Sev moves across the doorway ahead, looking in as he ends pushed against the other wall. [17:55:52] [As Sev passes that door, he sees more bodies, piled ceiling high in the next room.] [17:56:36] "looks like eet get hungry mon." [17:57:12] * Sev grimaces. [17:57:20] * Phanos points, ordering a zombie rummaging squad. [17:57:26] Looks like this was a feeding hole. Lotta bodies. [17:57:58] "wez look for some kinda papaz. If dey gots papaz, we kin get em buried good." [17:58:21] We're already dragging enough bodies outta here. [17:58:28] I don't think we'll manage all these. [17:58:39] Seems like they're ravers. They must eat their own. [17:59:09] "Ya. Looks like." [17:59:22] [All of the bodies, of varying ages and either gender, are stripped naked and thrown haphazardly onto the pile. Some of their fingertips have been worn down to bone. All of them share the same deranged look of horrific anger.] [18:00:02] * Aurora shivers. [18:00:02] "Ya. Ravaz all mon." [18:00:07] Urgh.. Don't dead people usually look either calm or scared? [18:00:13] Or it could be the Barghest. But it seems odd that it wouldn't eat them whole, in that case. [18:00:14] Yeah... [18:00:21] It's ravers, I'm sure of it. [18:00:33] * Phanos withdraws from the room, zombies trailing after. [18:00:52] * Sev shrugs a little. [18:01:05] * Sev continues on slowly. [18:01:24] * Aurora moves on [18:02:10] * Aun leaves the room, trailing close to the back. [18:02:20] [Sev walks up to the double marble doors, barely able to see inside the room since the doors are mostly intact on their hinges. Down the hall he spies another doorway on the edge of his vision.] [18:02:55] * Sev shoves on one of the doors with the haft of his maul, peering in. [18:04:32] [Sev peers inside and sees a great, wide crystal stairway with moldering brown carpet that might have once been deep red in color.] [18:04:47] "Reeal graceful steppin' mon." [18:05:06] Psh, and your shambling corpses are quiet like mice. Yeah, sure. [18:05:25] Stairs. Big stairs here, leading up. Nothing else, though. [18:05:27] "Dey don't blabbah neah as much." [18:06:42] Yeah, I wish some of us wouldn't talk so much too.. [18:06:49] * Sev rolls his eyes, looking back down the hallway. [18:07:56] "Ya. I agree mon." [18:08:21] [Further down, just past the doorway he spied before, is another one on the opposite wall.] [18:10:22] * Sev moves down the hall, keeping his eyes forward and mumbling. [18:11:56] [Sev sees more empty rooms that look like they once belonged to maintenance crew.] [18:13:45] Hmf. Alright, looks like that's the end of this part of the place. [18:13:52] Those stairs are likely our best bet. [18:14:39] * Phanos nods. [18:15:48] * Marianysa frowns, following Sev. [18:15:56] Lead the way. [18:16:23] * Phanos moves to the base of the stair. [18:16:48] * Sev moves back down the hall, toward the stairwell. [18:17:11] [The group, leave by Sev and his brightly glowing hammer, walk up the stairs. The carpet, despite its appearance, doesn't belch up clouds of dust at their passing, apparently having seen regular use. The staircase shallowly ascends and curves down toward the south.] [18:17:18] lead* [18:19:32] [The next floor of the tower is much like the first, with poor, cramped appartments probably meant for the tower maintenance crew and laborers that worked at upper crust establishments. All of them have the look of a ransacked, looted home after a particularly bad towerquake.] [18:21:48] [As they continue on and find the next stairs upward, they notice that there is no access to the middle of the tower, supposedly taken up by the giant adamantine chamber. The appartments surround this central metal shaft, and continue to do so for floor after floor as the group ascends.] [18:23:53] [After they've gotten used to the monotony of searching empty, broken, and often bloodstained rooms, they finally see something new upon reaching a new floor. The once-luxurious carpet covering the floor has been burned away by fire damage.] [18:24:18] * Sev rubs his eyes, groaning. [18:24:22] My legs.. ugh.. [18:24:39] Sev? What's wrong? [18:25:05] You just tired, or is it something worse? [18:25:22] All that walking. ~_~ [18:25:26] * Sev motions to the carpet. [18:25:29] But what do you make of this? [18:26:22] Age. I hope [18:26:26] * Marianysa bends down to look. "Apart from the obvious?" [18:26:49] * Sev shrugs. [18:29:49] * Sev motions to the door, nodding to the others. [18:30:02] * Phanos braces himself [18:30:04] Shall we then? [18:30:10] Sure [18:30:15] May as well. [18:30:20] * Sev nods, shoving at the door to open it. [18:30:27] * Marianysa shrugs and stands back up. [18:35:25] * Marianysa looks back at the carpet. "Wait...there's a pattern here. The burns are...footsteps. Someone was trailing fire somehow." [18:35:34] ..What? [18:35:43] Do... wait, you.. what? [18:35:50] Trailing fire on their feet? [18:36:43] * Marianysa points at the burns. "Look, the burns are positioned like footsteps. So someone was...I dunno, on fire or their footsteps burn or something. Some kind of fiend?" [18:38:41] * Aurora looks down at them. "Creepy." [18:39:03] I dunno.. [18:39:53] Hm. Might have been a fire elemental. [18:40:03] Sometimes they get loose from their bindings, and cause havok [18:41:04] * Sev steps into the next hall, grumbling and looking around. [18:41:05] Great.. [18:42:10] * Marianysa looks at Aun. "It couldn't still be here, could it?" [18:42:35] If it's still here, I'd think more of this place would be burned... [18:42:51] * Aun shrugs. "Yeah. I don't know much about elementals, but I'd be suprised." [18:44:24] [Sev steps out into the hall and the carpet shows the same firedamage, only existing unburned at the edges near the walls. Towards the north, where the group has by now realized the stairs leading up are, the wall has collapsed blocking quick access.] [18:45:17] [The second stairs leading up should be on the south wall, and looking down that way, Sev sees the hallway turn a few corners, making room for the less luxurious rooms on the inside of the tower, lining the adamantine vault.] [18:46:41] All these different weird creatures here, and the fall...they couldn't all be connected, could they? [18:47:03] Considering the circumstances? Probably [18:47:04] Couldn't say for sure. [18:47:45] But what could Fire Elementals, Half-Rakshasas, the Government, the Ravers, the Church of the Silver Flame, and the Fall have to do with each other? [18:49:21] Gimme a few days and a couple beers and I'll have a connection for you. [18:49:30] * Sev starts down the north hall. [18:49:41] Fire Elementals could have been here to start with. [18:49:54] * Marianysa follows Sev. [18:50:01] This was a posh tower. They could have bound them to the heating system or something. [18:50:33] And then escaped during the Fall? [18:50:34] What about that crystal shaft? [18:51:18] [A cool breeze settles on Sev's face and the smell of fresh late-winter morning hits him all at once, for the first time in hours since descending into the Depths. Apparently the rubble blocking his way further north isn't airtight, and they're high enough into the remains of the Crystal Tower to feel the breeze.] [18:51:41] * Sev takes a deep breath. [18:51:43] Aah.. [18:53:01] Whew.... [18:53:07] Nevre realized I'd miss the wind this much [18:53:10] (You can't get past any of that rubble) [18:53:11] Mm, yeah.. [18:53:11] * Marianysa sighs. "Felt like I'd never feel fresh air again." [18:53:50] Ooh, that's nice. [18:57:32] * Sev moves to the door nearest him, pushing through with a sigh. [18:57:36] On the road again. ~_~ [18:59:46] [Sev enters a fairly open Ten-by-ten room, with the furnature broken and scattered by the Fall. Just like all the other inner-tower Apartments it looks like it once was nice, but nothing special. Moving on he finds the second room, and once again, it lies empty.] [19:01:19] * Sev grumbles, rustling his hair and moving back out. [19:01:22] Nothin' in there. [19:02:41] C'mon, what about this way? [19:05:54] [Aun looks into what was once a fine studio apartment, but is now covered in bloodstains and claw marks.] [19:05:54] * Aun goes into one of the rooms behind Sev [19:06:30] * Marianysa pokes into another room. [19:06:50] [Mari turns the corner and sees another marble door.] [19:06:58] * Sev takes a stride, moving down the hallway and checking the further marble door. [19:07:19] [19:09:05] [Sev walks up to the door to an outer-wall apartment and pushes it open... and two blank faceless creatures turn their heads in unison to stare blankly at him.] [19:09:08] [INIT] [19:09:20] * Aun searches the apartment to see if it has- Or not! [19:14:04] * NovaSeaker changes topic to 'Init Order: Phanos, Aun, Sev, Mari, Aurora' [19:15:29] [Sev's Turn] [19:16:22] [Suprise Round] [19:16:28] (So where are these guys, again?) [19:16:36] (Whoops!) [19:17:53] (There we go) [19:18:31] (Five foot steps are available, right?) [19:18:54] (Yes) [19:19:10] * Sev takes a quick step into the room, heaving his maul against the closest faceless creature. [19:19:15] There y'are. Here's a kiss from Sev! [19:21:32] [Sev smashes his maul, feeling the faint tug of enhancement magics, into the faceless creature's lack of a mouth. It cruples to the ground before so much as flailing, it's neck snapped completely backward.] [19:22:12] [Mari's Turn] (You may only take one move or standard action in a supprise round) [19:22:25] Hah.. awesome.. [19:23:10] * Marianysa dashes into the room, brandishing both swords. [19:24:32] * NovaSeaker changes topic to 'Init Order: Phanos, Aun, Sev, Mari, Aurora, Faceless' [19:25:23] [As Mari enters the room the second creature tracks her movements with it's black face, somehow seeing her without eyes, and then charges, claws bared.] [19:27:47] * Marianysa grimaces. "That's the only shot you get." [19:28:01] [With it's fingertips, not yet worn away to bone like the first faceless creature they encountered that fled with Aun, the monstrocity rips at Mari's abdomen.] [19:28:08] [Phano's Turn!] [19:28:40] * Phanos , curious to the noise, shuffles down the hall with his zombies [19:29:37] [As Phanos turns the corner, he catches sight of the wildly flickering light as Sev swings with his maul.] [19:30:17] [Aun's Turn!] [19:36:13] [Aun rushes towards the sound of battle.] [19:36:17] [Sev's Turn!] [19:36:42] * Sev takes a five-foot step again to Mari's side, swinging his maul downward in an arc. [19:39:16] * Sev pulls his maul loose as it crunches into the thing's head, grinning a bit. [19:39:24] And that is why you don't mess with a guy with a maul. [19:39:34] * Marianysa stares for a second, then grins. "Nice shot." [19:39:54] * Sev turns, nodding to Marianysa as he heads out of the door. [19:40:07] Two fresh stiff ones! Maybe you should check these out, zombo-man. [19:40:33] * Phanos heads inside. [19:40:44] * Aurora hears the noise, runs around the corner, bow raised. "I'm coming to help!" [19:40:45] "I no no why dey not got no faces." [19:41:05] * Sev shrugs. [19:41:11] Well I know why they ain't got a pulse. [19:41:44] * Aurora gets to the group. "That was fast." [19:41:52] And hard. [19:41:54] * Sev winks at Aurora. [19:42:10] "Ya mon. You basha dem good." [19:42:48] [As Phanos inspects one of them, it's neck realigns and it's face springs back to stare up at Phanos. Then it claws for his throat.] [19:43:24] * Phanos attempts to back off [19:43:51] Phanos! [19:44:08] Oh, that's it..! [19:44:12] [Phanos's Turn] [19:47:48] * Phanos spits out a quick, reactive curse, his palm turning black as he places a palm over the creature's face. [19:48:35] [The creature jerks as it's black face erupts in lesions and a few layers of skin are disintegrated. It falls back to the floor, still.] [19:48:44] * Phanos pulls out his scythe, his zombies shuffling in. [19:49:05] [Aun's Turn] [19:51:12] [Aun moves in and looks down at it, then pierces it through with her thinblade.] [19:52:12] [The creature's hide was too thick, absorbing her thrust.] [19:52:17] [Sev's Turn] [19:54:41] * Sev focuses all his energy on moving, squeezing past the pack of zombies and ending up against the wall. [19:55:00] [Mari's Turn] [19:58:16] * Marianysa slips past Aun, slashing at the Faceless with her new sword. [20:02:15] [Mari slices at it's neck, cutting clean through its spine and decapitating it nicely.] [20:02:20] [Aurora's Turn] [20:02:38] * Marianysa grins. "I like this sword." [20:06:05] * Aurora walks up to Phanos and waves her hand, healing some of his wounds [20:06:19] "Thankya big." [20:06:50] [Suddenly, the other faceless one flips over on it's stomach and ...skuttles toward Mari, lashing out at her ankle.] [20:09:28] [It yanks on her, trying to pull her down to it, but she manages to wrench her ankle free of it's grasp.] [20:09:34] [Phanos's Turn] [20:10:26] * Marianysa cries out, kicking at the faceless monster. "Dammit!" [20:13:25] * Phanos points towards the monster that's still up, and some zombies change focus to it, one stumblingly rushing for it. Phanos moves around to its other side, taking a swipe at it himself [20:20:16] [Phanos's slice tears open it's back, exposing it's spinal cord, which his zombie lumbers forward and slams it's meaty fists into, nearly breaking the creature in half.] [20:20:34] [Combat End] [20:22:11] Ugh. [20:22:18] These things just don't give up, do they? [20:22:21] * Phanos wipes the blood free from his scythe. "Thankya big big der pitshakalarughan." [20:22:23] * Marianysa pokes the dead faceless with her sword. "You better not put that head back on." [20:22:30] [His other zombies are busy dismembering the first dead one.] [20:23:08] [The sound of tearing meat fills the room.] [20:24:40] "Stop now, it ded." [20:24:58] [They comply, absently dropping the body parts.] [20:24:58] * Sev wipes his face, scowling. [20:25:00] We done here? [20:25:15] I think so [20:25:19] Where now? [20:25:29] ... Mari, how're you feeling? [20:26:06] * Marianysa winces. "Not so hot." [20:26:29] Lemme fix that. [20:26:36] * Aurora steps over and gets to work [20:32:13] * Marianysa shivers a bit, then stretches. "Oh man, that feels good." [20:32:36] * Phanos searches the room calmly. [20:32:50] * Sev shrugs, rubbing his arm a bit. [20:33:03] Anything left for me, or what? [20:33:12] * Sev looks around, looking down the hall. [20:33:14] "you hitsd em good." [20:33:56] [There is a lack of carnage in this room you'd expect there to be. It is mostly clean and sterile, comparatively, though still damaged by the Fall. The door to the east opens into a smaller bedroom, with another door further east.] [20:34:40] Yeah, and they hit me good too. [20:34:44] "Looksa like we got some more doars." [20:34:46] * Sev grumbles, shaking his head. [20:34:55] * Marianysa follows Sev and Aurora out of the room. [20:35:07] And I healed you good. [20:35:37] "I gots no more juju for today." [20:35:44] [The door furthest east leads to a decent sized bathroom.] [20:35:56] "Welp, not much anyhow." [20:36:35] * Phanos points to the rooms, sending a zombie slowly walking into them. after a peroid of time, he heads in himself and looks around. [20:37:21] [In the bedroom, towards the south, are bodies, but they're all in fetal positions, and look extremely emaciated.] [20:37:47] ... poor people must have starved to death [20:37:50] That's no way to go [20:38:14] [When Aurora approaches the bodies to check them further, she realizes they are Faceless.] [20:38:23] Wh-... AGH [20:38:42] What happened here? [20:39:02] "No moufs to eat?" [20:39:16] [Unlike other rooms where the were signs of ravers being housed, there are no bodies that are consumed.] [20:39:21] * Phanos moves into the bathroom, looking around. [20:39:46] [The bathroom is mostly empty and by the inch of dust on everything probably hasn't been used since the Fall.] [20:40:12] "Nobody comes heah." [20:40:22] * Phanos casts detect undead, looking around. [20:40:26] This place creeps me out. [20:41:45] [Phanos detects no undead presence.] [20:42:15] * Marianysa enters the room and starts poking around. [20:42:59] [Phanos detects moderate magic coming from.... the toilet.] [20:43:49] "Magic poo poo hole." [20:45:16] uh... huh [20:47:17] [Aun] "Only makes sense. Not like they just dumped their shit down pipes to the rest of the city." [20:47:38] I guess. [20:47:53] "Les go." [20:48:03] * Aurora nods. [20:48:45] [Just around the corner, the group spies the double doors leading to every staircase.] [20:51:38] * Sev moves to the doors, leaning against them and listening beyond. After that, he pushes them open. [20:51:54] * Aurora stands as backup [20:53:42] * Sev pushes the door open, moving onward. [20:54:07] [Sev steps into the room, and sees the south wall of the tower cracked open and the stairs caved in.] [20:54:12] * Marianysa follows Sev and Aura. [20:55:38] Well this isn't gonna work.. Urgh, this place is a madhouse. [20:55:38] [He can't see much beyond the crystal, sunlight not quite reaching all the way down in the crevass between Hethran Tower and the mountain of rubble, in which the crystal tower remains neatly lie.] [20:56:02] * Sev looks back out, moving down the hallway again and stopping at the next door. [20:56:22] * Phanos looks down the hallway after sev [20:56:26] So we got a chunk of crystal. [20:56:33] And some bodies... [20:56:37] And we saw that weird room. [20:56:46] I'm starting to think we might have learned all that we could learn here. [20:57:06] The only new thing I can think of is maybe trying to bring back one of the faceless bodies to be examined, and that's all [20:57:14] Or a Raver body [20:57:30] [The room is another of those nice "affordable" interior apartments.] [20:57:42] [And it is burned beyond all recognition.] [20:58:14] Do we even know our way back? Anyone? [20:58:19] [The paint on the enterior walls has charred and cracked off, piles of ashe where furtinture used to be.] [20:58:31] (interior) [20:59:05] "I dont remembah mon." [20:59:15] "We kin only go right straight ya?" [20:59:47] We didn't really learn what we came here for. [20:59:57] And we still don't know what the deal with the fire is. [21:00:21] I'm going forward. It's all I've got right now. [21:00:29] * Sev continues onward, wiping his forehead again. [21:00:44] * Aurora nods [21:02:27] [This room has more emaciated faceless corpses. One of them in particular has a bloody lower section of its face, as if it tried to tear open the smooth skin... only to meet with solid bone.] [21:03:03] Urgh.. sick. I'm gonna go crazy here if we don't get out soon. [21:03:30] * Aurora shudders. [21:03:54] * Marianysa puts a hand over her mouth. "Oh no...these...they're victims too." [21:04:04] ... yeah. [21:04:35] This.. whatever it was, must've happened before they all died. [21:04:38] So we need to add a raver body and a faceless body to our list of things to carry back... [21:04:47] I don't know who could possibly examine them, though [21:04:58] I'm not carrying any of these damn things. Seeing them is bad enough. [21:05:34] Whoever did this...if they're still around... [21:05:37] [Compared to the other corpses you've seen, the starved faceless are newer.] [21:05:40] * Marianysa clenches a fist. [21:06:38] "I heah dey got dis zombo rod. I wants to gets me one, dat way, I walk dem out." [21:07:09] Once this whole mess is over with, I want this tower excavated, the bodies buried or burned as they deserve, and the whole place purified. [21:07:51] * Sev shakes his head, moving to the corner of the hallway and turning it. [21:10:00] ... zombo rod? [21:10:05] [Sev looks further down the corridor, seeing more apartment doors on either side of the hallway. Further down he sees the double doors that lead to a staircase that, following the pattern of all the floors they've been to, should lead down.] [21:10:29] "Ya mon. Magik stick, got de juju fo me to have twice as much zombos." [21:10:58] * Sev groans, pushing the door to his left inward and glancing into that room. If nothing of immediate concern is there, he starts toward the stairwell. [21:11:23] [The room is once again filled with ash, but otherwise of no note.] [21:13:29] * Aurora follows along, but glances back at the room [21:14:19] [Sev looks into the stairwell, and it does indeed lead back down to the level they came from] [21:14:41] Oh, how novel. A stairwell that ISN'T FREAKING DEMOLISHED. [21:14:50] Get over here, we're going! [21:14:52] ... whew. [21:15:33] * Marianysa nods, expression still dark. [21:15:53] (You coulda just went back the way you came if you wanted to go down >_>) [21:16:06] (The demolished ones went up.) [21:16:13] (Yeah, but Sev isn't the fastest Kenyan in Kenya.> [21:16:22] (KENYANS) [21:16:32] ... maybe this'll elead to some spot downstairs that we missed [21:16:42] (You explored all of last level) [21:16:54] (Just bodies and carnage and no fire damage.) [21:16:58] * Sev groans, rubbing his eyes. [21:17:09] I have no clue.. what're.. where're we going? [21:17:13] * Sev looks back to Aurora. [21:18:41] We're going down these stairs, and if we don't find anything useful, we're going to get a raver body, a faceless body, and those other bodies, then go home. And maybe check out the airlocked room one more time [21:18:49] Alright. [21:20:21] ... hm. [21:20:23] That STILL doesn't tell us anything about where they came from. [21:20:28] Well, let's check out that one room. [21:20:33] Jkust because it looked empty doesn't mean it is [21:20:53] [The room you checked previously is just as empty as when you checked it before.] [21:20:54] We need to scour this place. We need to make the most of this trip [21:20:57] * Aurora searches. [21:21:17] * Sev leans against the wall, holding his head. [21:21:30] ... hm. Let's continue searching this floor [21:21:32] Let's circle the hallway. [21:21:39] Yeah, I doubt the faceless bodies will turn up much in testing other than that the bodies do, in fact, not have faces. [21:22:01] * Sev picks up his maul, heading for the next turn of the hall. [21:23:40] * Sev continues his stride, kicking in the door at the turn, staring into it and then moving onward past the next curve. [21:24:03] * Marianysa clenches her sword tightly, following Sev. [21:25:42] [Sev gets near the door and kicks out without much thinking... not realizing that it just got a few degrees hotter as he came close to the door. He kicks it in... and a raging inferno greets him as the room beyond is alite in fire. And in the middle of the room is a burning man. Not a fire elemental, but flesh and blood being consumed by fire. And it looks Sev right in the eye, whispering.] "Buuuurrrrhhnnn...." [21:26:05] * Sev blinks, grabbing his maul. [21:26:08] [INIT or Session End, you decide] [21:27:27] * Sev 's eyes widen, arms buldge and he stands up on the balls of his feet. [21:29:36] * NovaSeaker changes topic to 'Init Order: Phanos, Mari, Sev, Aun, Aurora' [21:31:19] [Phanos moves up, commenting on the fire.] [21:31:29] [Mari's Turn!] [21:32:20] * Marianysa moves up beside Sev, balking at the fire. "Oh hell." [21:32:37] Think fire's gonna stop me? WATCH THIS SHIT [21:34:12] * Sev tightens his grip on his maul, staying there and readying for the creature's movement toward the door. [21:36:07] [Sev's Turn] [21:36:19] [21:36:33] [Aun's Go] [21:38:25] * Aun moves towards the back and begins chanting, pretty sure she can't directly effect the fireman [21:39:44] [Aurora's Turn] [21:42:08] * Aurora moves closer, shuffling past zombies every step of the way [21:42:41] * Aurora draws her new bow, jsut in case [21:43:51] [The Burning Man steps closer, holding out a hand to Sev at the doorway.] "Buuuurrrrrnnnnnn" [21:44:03] [Phanos's Turn] [21:44:51] * Phanos steps in front of his zombie cohort, sticking his finger out, chanting magically and spitting brine onto its tip just as a magical ray forms and streaks for the burning man. [21:45:45] Wa-wait...maybe he's like the faceless ones and the ravers... [21:45:48] [Phanos's aim is overly cautious, trying not to hit Sev, and instead hits the ceiling above th Burning Man.] [21:45:57] [Mari's Turn] [21:48:07] [Sev's Turn] [21:48:46] * Sev grins, puffing his chest out. [21:48:54] C'mon you sonnuva bitch. ONE MORE STEP! [21:49:05] * Marianysa raises her weapons defensively, but doesn't move. "I don't know why you're here, but we don't need to fight..." [21:49:24] [Aun's Turn] [21:50:42] (I'm going to hold action until Mari possibly gets attacked and then move next to the fireman. Is that doable?) [21:51:11] (Condition: Mary gets attacked; Action: Move. Sure) [21:51:25] (There's a wall between her and it though) [21:51:32] (Sev's tanking the door) [21:51:44] [Aurora's Turn] [21:53:25] * Aurora steps closer to Sev and Mari. "All we've fought so far has been in self-defense. We aren't inclined to hurt." [21:53:51] BEST DEFENSE IS GOOD OFFENSE! HAHAHAH! [21:54:10] Quiet down, Sev. [21:54:13] * NovaSeaker changes topic to 'Init Order: Burning Man, Phanos, Mari, Sev, Aun, Aurora' [21:54:52] [The Burning Man starts to step toward Sev... then pivots, spinning on his heal, and ducking low diagonally to the side, using the door frame as cover against Sev's readied swing.] [21:55:27] COWARD! [21:55:47] [Two burning hands come speeding Sev's way as his maul hits the doorframe.] [21:59:30] [Sev blocks one burning claw with his maul but the other hits him full in the chest, raking his skin and burning him from the inside. He manages to shove the claw off him before it pulls him into the inferno.] [21:59:42] [Just then... around the corner a second burning man appears.] [22:00:01] * Aurora reacts and pulls out a small piece of paper with some Silver Flame scripture. She recites it rapidly, and it's consumed in a white tongue of flame. Mari appears to be protected [22:00:43] What the..?! [22:00:57] * Marianysa stares. "More of them?" [22:01:15] [It claws at Sev as well.] [22:01:40] [But it misses wildly, stetting part of the doorframe on fire for an instant.] [22:01:48] [Phanos's Turn] [22:02:01] * NovaSeaker changes topic to 'Init Order: Sev, Burning Man, Phanos, Mari, Aun, Aurora' [22:02:39] [Phanos makes the same motions he did last turn.] [22:05:35] [The new burning guy screams in pain as the salt hits him, and staggers in place, stunned.] [22:05:39] [Mari's Turn] [22:06:39] I didn't want to do this. [22:07:06] * Marianysa slashes at the flaming man, pivots, and slashes a second time with her other sword. [22:10:55] [The burning guy lets out a pained whisper as it collapses to the ground. Suddenly the smell of burning flesh increases tenfold as it collapses in on itself.... as if all that time that the fire consumed it slower than it should have caught up to it.] [22:11:14] [Sev's Turn] [22:11:37] * Sev stares at the other fire humanoid, grinning as he heaves his maul at it. [22:11:47] Ash to ash and all that! [22:13:33] [The original burning man hits the ground.... but isn't instantly consumed in flame.] [22:13:49] * Sev watches him, smirking. [22:14:03] [Phanos's Turn] [22:15:26] * Phanos stands there. "I dont got no more juju!" [22:15:47] * Phanos surrounds himself with zombies. [22:15:55] [Mari's Turn] [22:20:15] * Marianysa pushes past Sev, leaping through the flames to face the burning man. She takes a swipe at him. [22:22:55] [Mari's blade plunges into the burning man's neck... and fire streams out, consuming outward from the wound at a blinding pace until a charred skeleton is all that's left.] [22:23:34] [Combat End] [22:24:39] Any more? Search... [22:24:42] You okay? [22:25:56] * Marianysa comes running out of the flames, trying to beat out the fire on her clothes [22:26:08] Drop and roll, Mari! [22:26:30] Oh geez! [22:26:35] * Aurora tries to help [22:26:38] * Sev drops on top of Mari as she drops and rolls, patting her down. [22:26:39] Are you crazy?! [22:27:03] Owowow, get off! [22:27:03] "Fire bad." [22:27:11] * Sev pats her down a few more times, getting up. [22:27:17] Even I wasn't running in there and I'm nucking futs! [22:28:07] * Marianysa gets up. "It worked, didn't it!?" [22:28:33] You're too reckless for your own good! [22:28:47] [The room continues to burn, the fire taking it's natural course. The walls of the tower are crystal and the doors granite, so there's little danger of the fire spreading.] [22:29:09] I don't have a whole lot of healing left. [22:29:16] Look, he nearly dragged you in! [22:29:48] Let's just get the heck outta here or hole up or somethin'. [22:31:00] * Aurora looks over the room for anything decent [22:31:05] * Aurora does not get cloes to the fire [22:31:20] [There is not that is not burning in here.] [22:31:28] (nothing*) [22:32:44] * Aurora frowns. "There's a back room over there..." [22:33:01] "So you try get there." [22:33:01] * Marianysa looks back into the fire. "I feel bad for them, though..." [22:33:29] [From what you can see, there's just more burning.] [22:33:47] (The back room is where they kept all their extra fire) [22:33:56] ( hahaha ) [22:34:41] (hahaha) [22:35:29] It's so bizarre. There must be something about the tower that's causing all these seperate deviations. Some kind of wild magic, or something. [22:35:49] I know... [22:35:57] ( Is there a bone we can grab or something? ) [22:36:23] (You can snatch one away real quick, yeah) [22:37:20] * Aurora grabs a bone, as icky as it is. She puts it away and wipes her hand on a convenient place. "eew" [22:38:16] [The bone comes away quickly, any ligaments holding it to the rest of the skeleton consumed by flame. It's brittle, like chalk.] [22:38:37] * Sev (~crazysapi@ip24-252-34-39.om.om.cox.net) Quit (Quit: So good to see you once again. I thought that you were hiding, you thought that I had run away chasing the tail of dogma.) [22:39:06] [Disturbed, the group looks around the coner. The hallway to the stairs upward looks undamaged...] [22:39:09] [Session End.] End of #Sharn buffer Wed Jun 13 22:39:43 2007