Start of #Odal buffer: Mon Nov 23 19:22:11 2009 [17:40:14] * When last we left our heroes, they had just captured a trio of grave robbers, working for the cult of Orcus in Ivorgard's necropolis. They're operating out of the Shadowfell, and seem to be striking at the tombs of Ivorgard's nobles for some reason. How this ties in to the ioun stone they recovered has yet to be discovered [17:40:18] [Session start] [17:45:25] * Eve_Kasnora tosses Elena and Paera the other two amulets that will let them pass through the portals. [17:45:46] "Now all that is being left is finding where a portal is opening." [17:46:14] * Eilenia takes an amulet. "Delightful." [17:46:22] Did you ask them where the portals were? [17:46:50] "They were being vague. Apparently they are being not hard to find." [17:47:37] Shall we wander about until we find one, then? [17:50:25] "That is being one option." [17:51:37] Perhaps the tunnels we were in earlier might help? [17:52:07] "That is being outside necropolis. Maybe we are being better served by asking around." [17:52:15] * Eve_Kasnora tries to find that spokesperson again. [17:53:44] * Eve doesn't have to go far. The necropolis's elder is currently sitting in front of one of the palacial tombs, smoking a long, thin pipe. As she approaches, he looks up and places the pipe in the outstretched hand of a piece of funerary statuary. [17:54:38] The sooner we get out of here, the better. [17:56:53] * Eve_Kasnora bows respectfully once more. "We are being one step closer to routing this cult from your home." [17:57:47] * Eve_Kasnora produces the one amulet she kept for herself. "The captives are saying these icons are letting us walk between the world and the Shadowfell. Would you be having any idea where we might be finding a place to do so?" [17:58:54] * He nods. "Practically every tomb in the necropolis has a shallow space, and after the world broke, it only became deeper. I imagine that if you try to enter the back rooms, you'll find yourself below." [18:00:04] I suppose that makes sense. [18:01:27] "Thank you." [18:01:46] * Eve_Kasnora nods her farewell, then turns to the others. "Are we being ready?" [18:02:47] Anytime you are, Eve. [18:03:01] Always. [18:04:11] * Eve_Kasnora nods, and then makes her way back toward the less populated areas of the necropolis and begins check mousoleum doors to see if one's open. [18:04:53] * Paera follows Eve, not bothering to look back. [18:05:23] * Eventually, Eve finds a mausoleum that's unlocked. it looks like it was only partially constructed, possibly to house a noble not yet deceased. The front hall is currently bare of ornaments [18:08:42] "Good. If there is portal here, they are not likely to be monitoring this entrance. They are not wanting to loot un-decorated tomb, I am thinking." [18:09:18] * Eve_Kasnora enters and unsheaths her swords, letting her grandfather's glow warm enough to light the way but dim enough to not terribly bother Tabitha. [18:10:03] * As you enter the mausoleum, you notice that the world seems to have the sort of metaphysical downwards pull that comes with the Shadowfell [18:10:17] I do not like this place. [18:10:53] "I am not liking it either. But we are sometimes having to do things we do not like to do the most good." [18:11:12] * Eve_Kasnora pauses a bit after saying that with a sour look on her face. [18:11:23] * Paera shudders. "Well, let's get it over with." [18:11:41] * Eve_Kasnora nods. [18:14:12] * Eilenia follows Eve onward. [18:16:15] * Eve_Kasnora moves furhter into the metephorical shallow point, checking behind her to see Elena and Paera following. [18:16:49] "Tabitha, be holding onto Paera, just in case you are needing to be touching for amulets to work." [18:17:25] * Paera sticks as close to Eve as she can, not wanting to risk being left behind. [18:18:25] * Tabita puts a hand on Paera's shoulder, and there's a brief moment as the equilibrium between world and shadow shifts. With suprising suddenness, you find yourself in the shadowfell, the heavy, humid air of the stagnant crypt pressing down on you. [18:19:06] Do these amulets work both ways? [18:20:21] "That is being a question for later. We are already losing a day." [18:20:55] * Eve_Kasnora turns back around and heads back out of the mausoleum into the shadofell version of the necropolis. [18:24:24] * Eilenia follows Eve [18:24:49] * Eve emerges into the shadowed reflection of the necropolis. In the central gardens, an idol of bone and thin-stretched flesh celebrates Orcus, while around him, hasily-constructed forges are being used to melt down the posessions of the dead into his demonic regalia. Though the courtyard is active, it seems as though much of the necropolis has been repurposed into a prison camp, as you can see the obscured forms of numerous unarmed figures through th [18:25:07] (In case that didn't get through: numerous unarmed figures through the smoked glass windows of the necropolis opposite your partial construction. Though the buildings are crumbling, each necropolis is shored up with black steel to make up for much of its weaknesses) [18:26:12] * Eve_Kasnora 's eyes lock for a horrified moment on the flesh-adorned demonic idol. [18:26:52] I wonder how the dulling properties of this plane might affect a roaring inferno. [18:27:02] me 's grandfather's sword begin glowing intensely bright, shining like the light of day. [18:27:08] * Eve_Kasnora 's grandfather's sword begin glowing intensely bright, shining like the light of day. [18:27:32] "We will be finding out *SHORTLY*." [18:27:45] This is disgusting. I say we level it. [18:28:14] * Eve_Kasnora takes a moment to take further stock of the situation and sees the repurposed contstruction serving as prison cells. She grows even more aghast. [18:30:07] * Eve_Kasnora moves quickly to the nearest prison-mausoleum opposite the one she just exited. [18:30:35] * Eilenia follows [18:31:58] * Eve's movement doesn't go unnoticed, and at the forge, cultists begin to shout and point towards her. It seems as though they're not rushing in immediately, however. The door of the prison-mausoleum is decorative and delapidated, but a heavy lock, bolted to the doorframe, secures it in place [18:33:04] * Eve_Kasnora hears the shouts and speeds up her quick pace into a full-on run, shoulder-tackling into the door opposite it's lock, betting on it's delapidated hinges being weaker than the newer looking lock. [18:33:39] * Eilenia hurries up [18:38:25] * Eve_Kasnora CRASHES into the mausoleum! [18:38:48] * Eve_Kasnora looks around, holding her blade up high and dimming it to not blind any prisoners. [18:38:49] * Eve slams her shoulder into the door, and stumbles for a second, but the door rattles and gives under a second blow. Inside, in the atrium, are a pair of cultists, wearing slick black-dyed leather armor and carrying heavy maces. The turn and ready their weapons, getting ready to protect their charge [18:39:13] * There are no prisoners in the room, but there are several doors barred from this side [18:40:59] * Eilenia weaves a spell. The sound of arrowfire coming from off to the side and the sounds of the dying erupts from within the clusters of cultists. [18:50:02] * Eve_Kasnora sees the cultists and raises her sword over her head threateningly and makes it glow to maximum brightness. "BY THE LIGHT OF BAHAMUT, YOUR DESPICABLE LIVES WILL BE ENDING HERE IF YOU ARE STANDING IN MY WAY!" [18:51:20] * One of the cultists breaks for it, knocked a door's bar out of the way, and makes for one of the smoked glass windows, heading through a room of hostages. Among the other prisoners is a shirtless man with a tattooed chest. [18:52:13] * Paera tries to find a holy symbol of Orcus, but can't recognize one in the room. Her hesitation allows the remaining guard to advance on Eilenia [18:53:52] * Eilenia backs off. Suddenly, Orcus himself in all his undead demonic glory appears in an explosion of brimstone and hellfire, roaring in fury. [18:54:32] * Eilenia points her hand at Orcus, summoning a swarm of fey daggers, which promptly slice the demon lord to pieces, before shearing off all undead flesh off of its bones, leaving nothing but a skeleton, which quickly falls apart. [18:55:22] * Ottonius booms out of the now open door and screams aimlessly. "The time of heroe's glorious return has arrived ! Evil, fear us !" *Explosive pyre, without implement, but with spirits, added for a much greater emphasis* [18:56:50] * Eilenia hope shtat illusion is enough to scare the cultists off [18:58:23] * The cultist seems rattled, and as the prisoners begin to get loose, he begins to make his move to escape and warn the others. [19:01:43] * Paera blinks in confusion. "W-what just happened? You didn't do that, did you Eilenia?" [19:01:47] * Eve_Kasnora 's sword shines light on the scene and she suddenly realizes that the cultists are wearing leather armor made out of people. [19:02:08] "aaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGRRRRRGGGGHG!" [19:02:43] * Eve_Kasnora explodes with months of pent-up anger at a world failing to live up to her standards of decencey. [19:03:12] I shall tell you later. [19:03:16] * Eve_Kasnora rushes at the last cultist with both swords swinging around her, slicing his head from his shoulders and his torso from his waist. [19:03:40] * And with that, both of the cultists are taken care of. [19:03:46] [Skill challenge over] [19:03:50] * Eve_Kasnora turns right back around and runs out of the room. [19:04:37] Even in the darkest of the realms, light comes down to save the righteous for the wicked ! That is heroism incarnate in action ! [19:04:42] * Eve_Kasnora runs around to the window that the first cultist jumped through, hoping to find him staggering away. [19:05:49] * Ottonius looks around for other cells where people could be imprisonned [19:06:08] Oh, hello there, helpful person. [19:06:32] * Eilenia is a young eladrin girl in a blue robe. She has solid blue eyes and long blonde hair. [19:06:32] * As Eve heads outside, she finds that the first cultist has already staggered away. Alarmingly, she also finds that numerous cultists are also staggering towards her. Dozens of them, along with zombies, and terrible undead abberations, made from what must have been dozens of corpses, amalgamated into one. [19:07:37] * Tabita is standing in the back of the group, somewhat aghast, yet relieved to be on her home plane. She's a young shadar-kai woman with short black hair, and suprisingly few visible tattoos or piercings for her kind. She's dressed in a set of black clerical vestments. [19:08:25] * Eve_Kasnora sees the incoming hoard and grits her teeth, breathing hard with seething anger. She hunkers down for the coming fight. "Come and face your judgement." [19:08:48] * Paera looks out the window after Eve. "Oh, hells." [19:08:49] * The cultists and their creations notice Eve and pick up their pace, heading towards her, in a neigh-unstoppable wave of rotting flesh [19:09:22] * Ottonius is a flamboyant young lad, badly shaven, with flames tatooed upon his heart, a more abstract sign on his left hand, and eyes looking up, flaming with righteous justice. He seems fresh enough to not have been around for too long. [19:13:08] * Paera is a short, thin Tiefling girl with red skin and shoulder length slightly burnt seeming black hair. A pair of long, thin horns curl tightly around her head. She's dressed simply in a grey clerical robe. [19:15:54] * Eve_Kasnora is a statuesque beauty from the cold northern realms, cloaked in a fur-lined scale overcoat. Her normally striking features are currently somewhat marred by her righteous anger. [19:17:10] [Session end] [19:17:26] * Ottonius is now known as Ranakel [19:17:31] * Paera is now known as Yon [19:17:37] * Charles (CHBoucher@dsl2-161.gsinet.net) has left #Odal [19:17:58] * Eilenia is now known as Demota [19:20:25] * Eve_Kasnora is now known as NovaSeaker [19:21:49] * Yon (dlarmour@wnpgmb1302w-ad01-29-76.dynamic.mts.net) has left #Odal End of #Odal buffer Mon Nov 23 19:22:11 2009