Start of #Odal buffer: Mon Dec 14 20:59:42 2009 [18:12:33] * When last we left our heroes, they had stopped the cultists' assault on the mausoleum they had rescued prisoners from, leaving the remnants of the cult to retreat down the boulevard and regroup. They seem to be performing some sort of hurried ritual [18:13:38] * Eve_Kasnora looks off toward the cultists and watching the skies above their ritual. [18:13:54] "Are prisoners all being rescued?!" [18:14:15] * Eve_Kasnora glares off in the direction of the cultists, looking like she's ready to explode. [18:20:40] [Session start] [18:20:51] I do believe so. [18:21:17] * Xan hops down, strolling towards Eve. [18:21:18] Eve, I am absolutely certain that you were interested in my mentor, and that the cultists are performing some kind of ritual. [18:21:21] * Eve_Kasnora looks back. [18:21:54] * Eve_Kasnora blinks at Elena for all of a brief moment, then turns to Paera. "Did we get everyone through a portal?" [18:24:58] * Paera blinks ate Elena, sputtering a bit. "What does the ritual have to do with...that?!" [18:25:06] "Paera!" [18:25:18] Absolutely nothing. Combining sentences saves time. [18:25:20] "This is not being the time to be wasting! Is everyone being safe?!" [18:25:20] * As Eve watches the sky above the cultists, the air seems to split open like an infected wound, and a necrotic radiance pours out onto the cultists. They redouble their efforts under the deathly glow [18:25:37] "DID THEY GET THROUGH PORTAL?!" [18:25:44] Yes! They got through! [18:25:55] * Eve_Kasnora takes off running toward the cultists immediately, swords drawn. [18:26:09] * Eilenia runs after Eve [18:26:56] * Xan narrows his eyes, and vanishes. [18:33:15] Oh, where did Xan go? [18:33:29] * Eilenia continues running after Eve at the cultists. [18:33:38] Paera, do you know anything about... stopping whatever it is they are doing? [18:34:32] * Paera jumps a little. "M-me? I don't even know what they're doing at all!" [18:35:24] "Can you be reversing the effect? Consecrate the area?!" [18:46:54] * Xan seems to step into existence in the midst of the cultists, a silver blade materializing alongside him, vertically slicing one of the cultists in two neatly. Xan stands calm, looking around him, sizing up the other three. [18:47:46] There he is! [18:47:50] Hello, Xan! [18:47:57] * Eilenia waves, running towards the cultists [18:48:01] They're...binding their souls to this plane. [18:48:06] So even if you kill them... [18:48:50] "Rituals take time to cast." [18:48:54] I don't know what they're planning, but we need to disrupt the ritual more than we need to kill them! [18:49:08] * As Xan strikes the cultist down, an indistinct, murky form emerges from his body, bearing only the slightest resemblance to a humanoid. It seems to be sticking to the ground, and with its two arm-like protuberances, it reaches out towards the statue [18:52:09] * Kentaro changes topic to 'Xan, 28. Cultist 3, 23. Cultist 2, 22. Eilenia, 20. Cultist 4, 18. Eve, 15. Paera, Soul, 14.' [19:00:58] * Two of the cultists try to make an end run around Xan towards the statue, but one of them is caught by his blade and falls, his murky soul seeping out of his form. [19:01:03] [Eilenia's turn] [19:04:58] * Eilenia hurls a shining red mote of light at the enemies before her. It strikes the ground, then explodes with intense concussive force and setting the ground on fire. One of the cultists is knocked unconscious by the burst. [19:09:28] * Another cultist makes a break for the central plaza [19:09:38] [Eve's turn] [19:12:38] Oh, delightful! [19:12:43] No strange ghosts [19:12:53] * The incendiary blast seems to have burned away some of the bonds keeping the souls stuck to the ground. [19:16:39] * Eve's radiant attacks weaken the bonds as well. [19:16:47] [Paera's turn] [19:17:20] * Kentaro changes topic to 'Xan, 28. Soul 2, 22. Eilenia, 20. Eve, 15. Paera, Soul, 14.' [19:17:26] * Eve_Kasnora takes in the details of the battle the split second before she enters the fray, and notes that killing strikes aren't keeping them down. She saves her lethal swings for the blasphemous specters that rise from the corpses, swinging her swords at all targets she can reach. [19:18:08] * In that case, the bonds aren't nearly as weakened as they may have been [19:19:58] * Kentaro changes topic to 'Xan, 28. Cultist 3, 23. Soul 2, 22. Eilenia, 20. Cultist 4, 18. Eve, 15. Paera, Soul, 14.' [19:20:58] * Kentaro changes topic to 'Xan, 28. Soul 2, 22. Eilenia, 20. Cultist 4, 18. Eve, 15. Paera, Soul, 14.' [19:22:04] * Xan (rustangel@ip-118-219.atvci.net) Quit (Ping timeout: 180 seconds) [19:22:21] * Paera runs after Eve, bracing herself as she raises her holy symbol. A brilliant shockwave of white light passes over Eve and her assailants. [19:22:37] Keep them ALIVE if you can help it! [19:22:52] "I will try!" [19:22:52] * A soul slides past Eve, pressing itself into the ground as she swings at it, her blade narrowly missing [19:22:59] [Xan's turn] [19:31:37] * Xan (rustangel@ip-118-219.atvci.net) has joined #Odal [19:36:56] * Xan steps out towards the cultist, his blade forming into a chain that lashes out for the neck of the running cultist. [19:38:38] * The cultist ducks in his all-out sprint, the blade barely passing over him [19:38:42] [Eilenia's turn] [19:44:04] * Eilenia focuses, and the area of flame suddenly expands drastically in size. However, it takes care not to hurt Eve or Paera. Then, deciding that perhaps the warmth may be good, she wades into it, before creating a flickering orb of hypnotic light and color near the enemies headed for the statue [19:50:20] [Eve's turn] [19:53:21] [Paera's turn] [19:54:41] * Eve_Kasnora is succesfully stopping the spectre next to her from moving closer to the flesh and metal idol of Orcus, but she sees the rest of the enemies inching closer. "I am needing help! Someone take this one!" [19:56:02] * Eve_Kasnora then beelines across the combat, barrelling into the other spectre and the last conciouss living cultist, swords swinging. She deftly smacks the flat of her off-hand blade across the living enemy's temple, toppling it to the floor unconcious. Her grandfather's sword shines like the sun as it stabs into the shadowy substance of the spectre's form. [20:09:22] * Paera points at one of the spirits. "Erathis will NOT let you go any further!" A beam of light blasts from her hand, causing the spirit to shudder and glow. [20:12:36] * As the spirit is pulled back towards the statue, the party notices a pair of cultists with sacrificial daggers shoving a pair of bound hostages towards the statue. [20:13:11] * Eve_Kasnora 's eyes go wide. "Bahamut's Grace, No!" [20:13:39] * Kentaro changes topic to 'Xan, 28. Soul 2, 22. Eilenia, 20. Cultist 4, 18. Eve, 15. Paera, Soul, 14. Hostage taker 1&2, 8.' [20:13:45] [Xan's turn] [20:15:27] * Paera 's eyes glow a brighter red than usual. "NO!" [20:17:04] * Xan deftly rushes southward, his blade whirring outwards in a boomerang-like pattern towards a cultist, but only whizzing by his head. [20:18:36] I thought we were nearly DONE with this. [20:20:33] * Eilenia lashes outward with her longsword at the running soul. "You're dead. Act like it." [20:20:58] * The longsword only barely tears away any of its spiritual fetters [20:21:04] [Eilenia's turn] [20:27:06] * Eilenia RUNS as fast as she can, slipping past the nearby dark soul and whispers words of arcane power. She points at one of the hostages, who promptly vanishes from sight. "There! I've sent him to a safe place!" [20:27:36] * Eilenia looks at the spot where he used to be and winks. Hopefully he picks up on it. [20:28:02] Quickly! [20:29:18] * There's a struggle, and it seems as though the hostage is wrenching himself free of the cultist, who's beginnign to un-sling his dagger [20:29:28] [Eve's turn] [20:30:44] [Paera's turn] [20:40:29] * Eve_Kasnora pauses for a moment. She hesitates, wondering if she should go to the hostages' aid, or keep the spectres from their goal. Then she sees one of the hostages disappear as Elena casts a spell, and decides to trust her comrads, turning on the specter and howling with righteous indignation. [20:44:21] * Paera breaks into a dead run, eyes flashing with rage, heading for the cultists with the hostages. "You're not harming ANYONE else today!" She comes to a stop and braces herself as she points both hands at a cultist. A massive beam of holy light bursts from her hands, blasting the cultist off into the distance and pushing Paera back a foot. [20:44:36] * The soul facing eve slides away from her, pulling upwards even as the bonds attaching it to the ground fray. It touches the idol of Orcus and is drawn inside, the meat beginning to twitch and pulsate, the motion working its way up to its head. [20:45:24] * Eve_Kasnora follows the twitching motion. "I will rip your heart out." [20:46:07] No more ghosts today, please. [20:46:23] * A small black spindle, implanted in the idol's flesh like a third eye pulls itself out of the idol's head and begins to lazily rotate in a wide orbit around the idol's head, as eyelids slide up to reveal silver eyes, painted with blood and offal. From deep within the idol, and voice rumbles. "Yes. The time for tending has come. I arrive." [20:46:54] Oh dear. Eve, you have experience fighting demons, I hope? [20:47:29] * (The time for rending, that is. Can the log be edited after this?) [20:47:39] [Session end.] [20:47:47] ( yeah ) [20:51:03] * Paera is now known as Yon End of #Odal buffer Mon Dec 14 20:59:42 2009