Character Name Type Player Sex Notes ..Arawn...........Druid...John.Haight........Ma..Alfar/Backup Navigator ..Dorhak..........Warrior.Kevin.Newark.......Ma..Captain/Leader/Dwarf ..Fremea..........Sidh....Tobie.Bonahoom.....Fe..Faerry/Archer/Magician ..Kiet............Acrobat.David.Sanders......Ma..Human/Magician ..Mournath........Sailor..Gibert.Isla........Ma..Human/Navigator ..Pyandalgor......Hunter..Panthera...........Ma..Human/Hunter ..Raddok..........Miner...Bess.Hadley........Ma..Human/Miner ..Tsia.Phan.......Thief...Don.Ker............Fe..Human/Thief ..Unali...........Ninja...Wout.Broere........Fe..Human/Dagger Maiden ..Upus............Warrior.Gerald.Ford........Ma..Normal/Barbarian Warrior ..Kimis...........Warrior.NPC................Fe..Normal/Diumgi Companion ..Z'leyra.........Healer..Alex Koponen.......Fe..Human/Shaman/1st Mate ..Barbosa.........Warrior.Npc................Ma..Dwarf/Outcast ..Bes (3).........Warrior.npc................Mo..Bes.............. 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IC: As Arawn's arrow plunged into the leader he saw Unali close … "Check on Unali!," he called out in the direction of Opus, Kimis, … At the same moment he did this he maneuvered himself slightly via levitation so that the witches wouldn't know exactly where he was. He put his bow away and prepared his buckler and dagger, guiding himself so that he could melee the witches while still maintaining height advantage. (OOC: I figure all this will take up his attack action but if he is able to pull off a Martial Arts kick while doing so please feel free to roll for Arawn) [Phase 10: With his buckler and elven dagger in hand he positioned himself to aid Pyan or Z'leyra with their opponents (witch b or d), moving to help Dorhak if the witches were already done or the dwarf was in trouble. He'll take advantage of Invisibility and Height Advantage bonuses while in melee. GM: Ack. Yes. You see Unali/#1 dip below the ground only. From Raddok: [Re: Actions] [OOC: my error - I guess Mournath entirely disappeared. I had assumed some dust or glittery remnants remained, like ash, to blow away in the wind. Please correct my error if there's nothing to see.] GM: Ack. You did fine. Yes there is ash. Maybe clothing bits and maybe a boot or so. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [New Stuff] [Ma 9th, 1636TH] [Time: 2:30:24 pm] [Phase 9] Unali runs down the hall and enters a small threshold to a room where she sees Fremea fighting 3 females. [Time: Minutes before party finds this site] Fremea flies off to face what lies ahead..... As Fremea flies about 30-35 feet above the dense canopy of trees, she spots a group of vultures. She dives slightly to the east and heads that way. Another 100 feet and she scares the birds away. She looks down and sees little. But Fremea gets lower near the ground and finds a body of a Bes. Pulling her dagger she scans for enemies but sees nothing. She lands carefully and inspects the body. A single sword piercing blow is seen mid chest and enough blood shows it was a quick death. Its too clean to be a animal or creature. She figures it to be a blade of some kind. Probably a sword? She sees the spear of the Bes with blood so maybe the Bes got a good hit back. In one hand is a piece of cloth, looks to be blue maybe from a tunic? She is no tracker like Pyan. But she tries to find a blood trail. It looks like a faint one heading North east. She hovers in that direction slowly to follow the trail that goes for 30 or so feet. Then suddenly it stops. She finds a bandage and a torn cloth from a blue shirt or pants? Whoever it was they must've stopped the bleeding. The trail ends. She flies toward the NE to see if she can spot anything. As she dodges and weaves among the tall trees, she flies for 5 or so minutes. A bird squawk makes her look to the right. BAM! Fremea suddenly finds herself stopping by ...by..air? She slides down from the impact dazed and a bruise forms on her forehead. Wait. There is nothing there? She flies a bit forward and waves her dagger back and forth. It suddenly impacts against air. No some invisible structure? She reaches out and touches it to find something solid there. She finds it's a column or round chimney style thing. As she circles it its about 5 feet wide. She moves down and it's on the ground and seems to go underground? But she can't locate a hatch or door? She hovers upward to see how far high this goes. It breaks the canopy which is about 60 feet high in this area. It goes up more and more. Another 40...60... Finally she finds the top about 150 feet above the ground. All invisible. She moves her hands above the top and finds grooves where it may open. But she can't find a knob or latch or anything. It would take time to explore the full surface to find a window or hole or such. She wonders if she should alert Dorhak? The sapphire doesn't seem to work. It may be not an actual lock. Fremea considers her options. She has some innate ability to cast some magic for her Sidh based abilities. She decides to cast Insubstantial and then Levitate so she can enter the structure. Using the wand she lowers herself. As she passes the top it does seem maybe a hatch but no locks. But it is pitch dark...so hard to tell. Since she can no longer touch things she can't tell detail. But it looks like it may be a hatch that uses a twist wheel to open? About 70 feet down of the 150 you can see light at the bottom. Another 10 feet the spells end. She becomes solid again. As she descend on wings now she hears a click, then from above, you look up to see a blue energy of ball. It zooms toward Fremea and she tries to dodge but it homes in and impacts her mind. The psychic hammer bypasses her resistance and she is shocked mentally. She suddenly feels paralyzed and falls. She falls the 70 feet. She gets lucky and lands on her back on the ground hard knocking air out of her lungs. But she is stunned by the hammer's spell. A shadow falls above Fremea and she glances up to see a form in the dim candle light. "Hello Fremea...at least its not Thig." Then a heavy object blams into Fremea's head and she is knocked out. Unsure how long time has passes..she wakes up to find hands bound by steel? Cuffs or shackles. There is a gag in her mouth probably so you can't cast verbal magic. A blindfold is over her eyes. A hood was placed on the head so Fremea can't see anything but darkness. Fremea can hear flickers of candles and a person working footsteps... "...he said they might find me. I must …" The voice is a heavy accented Marentian but with undertones of Ba'ru? Then she hears a door close and feet moving away... With aching headache she can't place who the voice is. But clearly the man seems to know her and Thig? To consider Thig a worse threat shows he may have good info? But he is underestimating her that's good for her. She tries to move her hands which are behind her back. Her necklace is around her neck and she considers her next move. The footsteps seem to be one person probably wearing boots on a floor of light – not hard – wood? Etain taught her to use her other senses and now it seems to come in hand. Fremea listens carefully to make sure the footsteps really did move away and then she will use her training to get the cuffs in front of her, so that she can use her sapphire on the cuffs. Fremea listen to the footsteps and they are clearly heavy so male. She tries to move her bounds under her butt but the chain links interfere as they interlock too tightly. Then Fremea hears a voice. Muffled but male from outside and sounds like slightly up? She doesn't understand the voice. But it seems agitated. Shocked. Angry. Then she hears a muffled female voice. Still unsure what is said. She seems to speak a quick series of words. Then suddenly the male voice screams and ends. Fremea retries and this time get hands under her legs and with grace of a martial artist pulls the cuffs around her feet. Watching Kiet do some acrobatics and Unali as well gave her tips on how to do this. Then it is easy to pull up the cuffs to her neck and to the sapphire at her neck. She hears a click. She pulls the gag out before anything. Then more footsteps. It sounds like 1 or 2 ? maybe more? These are lighter steps. Then a female comes near and she speaks a few words. Another female is heard and seems to ask a question, it sounds like? Fremea gets the idea they are talking about Fremea now. By now cuffs are unlocked and it is only a matter of effort to throw cuffs off and pull hood off if needed. The first female voice which is the one you heard outside answers and then seems to move away slightly. The other female does something which Fremea recognizes the sound of a blade being pulled out of its sheath or holding place. As Fremea hears the blade starting to come out of its sheath, she will make a quick strike attack (either to make the attacker prone or at least stop the blade being pulled out) at where the sound is and remove her hood at the same time. Then a follow up attack with her dagger. She counts not just to orient herself in the space she is in and the time, but her soul as Etain taught her to calm down. She slows her breathing and time seems to slow down. She hears the blade user seem to walk forward ever so slightly as clothes rustle and she estimates time and distance. Then the first female seems to speak more strange words and Fremea is startled to hear crumbling noises. As if a wall collapsed? Sitting in a chair she should be level to any blade coming her way. She braces her feet to the front arm legs. Closer the rustling is heard. She uses her legs and lunges off the chair forward. She hopes the attacker is coming to her directly in front. Ducking head slightly she lunges and hits some person? Using a martial arts sweeping leg roll she trips the person together with her tackle and both fall to the ground. Fremea moves her hands and throws off the cuffs as she reaches to her head and pulls the hood off. She sees 3 human females wearing green and brown. Two are about 4 feet away staring at her. The other is on the ground startled. Fremea glances around to memorize the room. Fremea spots her bag and weapons in a corner but too far! Fremea can also see to her left and above seems to be a destroyed section of the room? Part of a wall and is that a desk or chair? The tackled female gets to her hands and knees. She draws her hand with a dagger up and then toward Fremea. But Fremea rolls away as the blade hits the wooden floor. Fremea smiles. She knees the female in the chest and at the same time does an arm grab for the dagger. Any first level martial artist learns this lesson. Shift hands and wrist up then down. Pull arm and wrist away from each other. The female in pain drops the dagger. Fremea grabs the dagger and with great force kicks the female away from her. On her back, Fremea can see she is 3 to 1. The other two are both pulling daggers out. This room is about 20 by 20 so a tight spot with maybe 15 x 15 in free space. A chest – probably clothing is to Fremea's right. The pile of wood and stone is to her left and was something once. Fremea knows that it is more difficult to fight 3 to one and she only has this one dagger, and no magic right now. She could use her special item, but then it might affect other things in the forest and she is not wanting to upset anything down here that she does not need to. It seems best to make sure these women don't keep an advantage on her. She remembers her lessons well, even if she did not want to have them, and she has a little help that these women don't know about. She quickly taps twice on her Armor Pin, activating the spell held inside, sweeping her legs around (and using her wings to boost the move) she pops up onto her feet and charges the women. The first she will use a technique to unbalance and throw to the side, the second she will use her momentum from the throw to sling herself into and use the acquired dagger to take out as quickly as she can. Fremea activates her pin then uses her wings on her back to propel herself up then her legs and feet to jump – a acrobatic martial act that can damage most normal human backs unless trained – to her feet. She charges the two females unsure which is the spell caster. But based on height the one on right must be it. If height determines status in such cultures. She reaches for the taller ones left hand which is dagger free and feigns a stab at her chest. But at same time she sweeps the females left leg not to trip but to cause her to lose balance. The female stumbles slightly off with her center of gravity off but is starting to recover. But Fremea turns right, knowing the other female will stab at her back so plans for this by ducking – it helps to be smaller. As she does she flings the taller female to the right and pushes with her hands to give her momentum. The female goes flying toward the area Fremea fell from. The female next to Fremea stabs at Fremea's right upper chest but her newly reinforced armor blocks any damage. As the tall female goes flying away the kicked one that Fremea wrestled with recovers and charges. But at the last instant both her and Tall One collide. The Tall one grunts and roars in anger and grabs the bumbling female and tosses her behind her and toward the area Fremea fell from. The Tall one recovers standing and growls at Fremea. As the Tall one (F2) flings the other away (F3) the female hits the wall. A subtle click is heard. The female (F3) must've heard and it looks down to the shaft/tube entrance? Suddenly a blue sphere hits the female. She collapses on the ground. Since she is ducked down Fremea stabs the female next to her (F1) doing 11 points to her lower right just above her hip. The stabbed female (F1) thrusts at Fremea but misses. The other female (F2) stands but does not charge Fremea. Fremea grins her little wicked smile at the tall one. Then the Tall Female (F2) speaks some words and points at Fremea. A dark corona forms around Fremea and Dark Lightning encircles her. She is immediately scorched by the heat of the dark lightning. Fremea realizes she only has 15-20 sec maybe to live. She has to kill the witch NOW. She changes her plans and charges the witch. As she does she buffets her wings to create a parachute like effect to slow her down but also to give her guidance to uplift her body. As she does She leaps up and stabs at the tall one's head – a difficult attempt by the most skilled. Female F1 who was stabbed moves and swipes at Fremea but misses. The Witch (F2) also thrusts at Fremea but misses. Fremea gets behind the Tall One and leaps onto her back. She grabs the neck of the Witch and reaches around shoving the dagger toward her eye but the last second the female tilts her face up and the dagger pierces into her lower jaw/neck. The damage is 17 points. But the blade pierces the carotid artery and and she should die quickly hopefully. Both Fremea and witch fall to the ground. The first female stabbed (F1) swipes and hits Fremea's left leg but with her armor and armor spell she takes no damage. Fremea is pissed off, and instead of hoping that the witch dies, she will jerk the dagger hard in the witch she is still with, ignoring the other one attacking, making sure she is dead. She will then turn her attention to the other one, waiting for the attack to come and then using her training again, to grab at the dagger coming at her and using the momentum to drag the woman in, using her dagger and the one Fremea is using to stab her, hopefully finishing her off. Once the standing one is dead, she will cuff the unconscious one (knowing that someone will want to question) and making sure her mouth is gagged, just in case. And then tied up extra if need be, then see if she can find her stuff and get outside to find the party. Fremea uses both hands to push the dagger up and into the sinus cavity and then the brain. She twists the dagger to ensure bone and tissue mingle in a blood bath. The dark lightning ends around her. The other female swings on Fremea hitting her in right middle ribs but her armor and armor spell protect her. The other female on the ground wakes up. Fremea jerks a eyebrow these gals must be trained to wake up faster. Fremea charges (F1) the one standing and grabs her hand. She tries to pull the dagger to the female's body but the woman deflects and she misses her strike. Female (F1) pulls the dagger back toward Fremea and impales Fremea in middle ribs again but again she takes no damage from her armor. The other female (F3) stands and grabs her dagger. She charges Fremea and hits her from behind on her right shoulder but her armor protects her. From to the right in a dark hallway Fremea can hear shuffling feet, then some kind of struggle then a wet sloppy something that sounds like a blade hitting a body. She hopes its not more females to help these 2. Fremea charges the female charging (F3) but at the last second the female reaches up and deflects Fremea pushing her off and away. [Time: 2:30:24 pm] [Phase 9] Unali enters the room where Fremea is and sees her struggling with a female and another moving to attack her. A third one seems to be gutted by a dagger in her head jaw up. She rushes to help Fremea and stabs her (F1) doing 11 points to her right lower back just above her hip. But the other dagger fails to hit. As Arawn's arrow plunged into the leader he saw Unali close in and execute a deadly blow. A moment later he saw the pair disappear behind a bush. He knew that Unali was a very, very capable woman but he didn't want to leave her to face danger alone. "Check on Unali!," he called out in the direction of Opus, Kimis, Tsia, and Barbosa. He knew they wouldn't be able to see him even if could point but hoped they'd figure to investigate the last spot she rushed to. Arawn puts his bow away and draws his sword/buckler. He looks around for a target and finds one only feet away #11 (b) fighting Pyan. He lowers him a bit so his boot is level to the witch and draws back and kicks the witches head. Arawn hits the females right side of the skull and Pyan who is staring at her hears a crunch and snap. She takes a massive 11 points to the head from the martial artist kick. Her jaw and temple crack. Her skull jerks left then back and she drops her dagger. She falls to the ground dead before she hits the ground. Arawn looks jaw-slack in shock. That was a bit intense and brutal. But realize it was a lucky hit. Z'leyra sees #11 fall to her left and guess Pyan got a good hit. She thrusts at #13 (#c) but misses. Tsia hears Arawn's voice. Unali she was that way? Tsia doesn't see her but heads that way and wonders where the nude female is? Kiet smiles at Dorhak wrestling a female. He shakes his head always fooling around. He comes alongside the right side of them and whistles. The female looks up and snarls. Kiet uses his shield to bat the female off of Dorhak then pieces right in her right middle back where her heart is, doing the final points to kill her. Kiet smirks at Dorhak and almost offers a hand. But Dorhak might get upset and pull him off his feet then losing contact with ground. Pyan is shocked to see the female just collapse and sees her skull cave in do these witches have some suicide technique? He steps over her body and charges #13 (d) he hits hard in her left leg doing 15 points. Amazingly she stands still. Kimis grunts at Opus to follow then turns east and moves to help the others. Raddok will continue to focus on killing #19, protecting the king & assisting the Bes guard. Once witch is dead. He will look about to see where he's needed most – anyone needing help, down or missing [Unali is out of sight down stairs, but not sure Raddok can see stairs from where he is]. He will now be able to see where everyone is & that some of the party is missing (he briefly notes with puzzlement & a chill up his back, a strange powdery pile), & that Dorhak is fighting with a witch, although assistance seems to be coming toward him. Raddok will call “Healer here,” & dig for his first-aid pack, and stay near the king & the wounded Bes, unless Dorhak or someone calls to him to go/help elsewhere. Raddok swings on #19 with mace but misses. The King hits #19 in left middle ribs doing 6 points with his spear. Opus runs after Kimis toward the east to help the others. The Bes guard hits #19 In center chest doing the final damage to kill her. The last female topside hits Z'leyra in the center chest but her armor protects her. Dorhak stands and grabs his gear then moves toward #13. He hits her on her left shoulder doing the final damage ot kill her. Down below Female 1 (F1) turns to Unali and swipes her dagger she slices right across her chest but Unail's armor protects her. Female (F3) charges Fremea and misses her attack. Fremea tries a leg sweep but fails to make contact with the witch (F3). But at same time she grabs for the dagger since she has yet to get a dagger of her own. Her strength is not great but as she tries to pry the dagger free she is able to deflect the dagger to do a slight stab into her right center chest doing 3 points of damage. [Time: 2:30:27 pm] [Phase 10] Fremea leaps to the air using her wings to tackle the female (F3) and does this skilfully knocking her fully back into the wall. The female drops her dagger and Fremea grabs it and stabs high but it goes low hitting the female in her left upper leg doing 11 points. Finally she has a dagger fully in control. Unali tries to subdue Female nearby (F1) hitting her in the right shoulder doing 9 points – sadly the magical dagger's damage boost is enough to do the final damage to kill her. Even a light subdual attack is just too big with a magical dagger. Unali didn't realize how badly she was already hurt by Fremea. The female last alive slumps down the wall (F3) and starts to stand but a click is heard. She begins to reach the wall when a blue Psychic Hammer ball hits the female. She is knocked out. Fremea smiles and glances at Unali. Then seeing her bag and her own personal gear she rushes to redons her gear. Tsia rushes into the room and looks around confused. From outside Arawn looks down and is saddened to see a dead Bes Guard, Pyan hurt and what remains of Mournath. Signs of a Disintegrate spell is obvious. Ash has blown away but there is still faint traces of ash. His boots are still intact but coated in ash. Torn threads of what used to be clothing is on the ground blowing about. Near where the nude female stood a form lands. The Vily holds her bow in hand. Anger spills from her face and don't need to be a empath to see that. She glances at the battlefield. Then below as Unali nears the shaft it reappears. She stares at this tall structure and if looks could kill all would be dead. “What have you bought to my forest?!” The Vily says. She glances around for Arawn but doesn't see him. She stares at Kiet. “Was this your doing?” She storms closer toward Kiet reaching only a few feet from him. “This blight will be destroyed. I will order the forest to take this place...back to the forest. If you don't want to be a part of this you have ten minutes to move out!” GM: Actions? Comments? GM: So 10 phases. 30 Seconds of combat. One of our longest ones in years. Next update I'll update mana report for experience. I'm busy Tuesday so if I did update next week it'd be Monday or Wed. So we'll see. Now to inform Bert of his death. Guess he is too busy to read. The Fremea stuff was done over weeks in email. GM: Groups- [here to remind me of walking groups] Kiet/Dorhak 1 Raddok/Mournath 2 Fremea Unali/Barbosa 3 Z'leyra/Tsia 4 Arawn/Opus/Kimis/Pyan 5 King/2 Bes 6 5 2 1 4 3 6 – Spread out skirmish line.