` HT Player DS Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- FH.John Haight.......HY..Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Al.. Ma ...Kevin Newark..........Dorhak............Warrior.Normal/Dwarf....Ma --.Tobie Bonahoom....YY..Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry.. Fe W3.Mark Murtha.......HN..Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human....Ma W2.David Sanders.....HN..Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human ..Ma R4.Wout Broere.......YY..Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human ..Fe ...Don.Kerr..............Maelorna..........Dancer..Normal/Human....Fe ...Gilbert.Isla..........Mournath..........Sailor..Normal/Human....Ma R3 Panthera..............Pyandalgor........Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma R4.Alex Koponen......YY..Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human ..Fe R3.Fukishtu.Newsome......Npc...............Chief...Normal/Human....Ma R3.Lucria.Cegra..........Npc...............Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra Game Web Site - http:/nrgcomputers.com/pbem/ Public posts/actions to pnpgm@list.powersandperils.org (mailing list) Private emails (not public actions) to pnpgm@comcast.net Game Update #98 sequence (file #693) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Admin Notes: None. ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Recap] From Mae: [Re: Actions] 'See how easy it is, like a toy isn't it?' the voice ... She can hear the language of the creature and her inner... GM: Ack. From Dorhak: [Re: Actions] Our good natured dwarf will continue as before, helping out Unali. No rEason to change here. GM: Ack. From Don: [Re: My Status] Due to unforeseen complications the forces of Law had managed to keep our GM from killing us. His oracle has divined that he must pay 10 greater soul gems in order to keep his divine influence working. Sadly, he has found himself lacking and will return to our demise soon enough, his oracle has assured us. (OOC - Scott's pc is down and he should be back up by Tues to do an update. GM: Ack. Thanks. Yep In a nutshell. Sept-Dec pc would rarely do a BIOS issue. But I'd reboot and fine. Well Friday before this post by Don I used it fine. Saturday it would not boot at all. Turns out OS crashed. Tech came out Tuesday to house and we confirmed the HD (SSD) died nothing on it. Why I have no idea. Unsure if the BIOS issue led to it or just random coincidence. Replaced drive with normal drive since this is second SSD to die on me since 2012 (first in '12). So reinstalled stuff. Found Chasis Intrude error on system now with BIOS and long story short after wrangling got if fixed. But its not fully fixed when it came back. Tobie says its not a big issue per se just more annoying. But I'm 100% back now. Only thing I lost was time for that week. I was able to recover my Firefox bookmarks (from backup), fix trillian to what I wanted last night and all documents were saved to other drive. So I lost nothing but time. Sadly D3 is a tad slower now but unsure if its the normal drive compared to SSD though. :< ------------------------------------------------------------ [New Stuff] [Febris 4th, 1635TH] [Kameran Lands - Forest South of Kameran capital] [Time: 4:05:26 am] [Phase 11] Z'leyra turns to face the group and sees only 2 of the creatures hovering around. The third is either on the ground not seen or flown off. With staff in one hand she grabs her begins to tap her drum on her hip with her left hand to cast a shamanic trance. Both Kell and Kiet begin to surge magical energy through their bodies in preparation for spells. Fremea raises her bow at the one hovering near Kell. There is a slight chance of hitting others but its slim. Better than firing on the one attacking Kiet as the acrobat could be hit far better on a misfire. She fires and the arrow goes fast but zooms past the flying Daiva going into the darkness below. 'See how easy it is, like a toy isn't it?' the voice teases Maelorna as she watches the hound rip into the creature and she directs it to attack another. However, even now she can feel the will of the creature starting to fight against her desires. She can hear the language of the creature and her inner voice almost sings in delight at the sounds as too late she recognizes the spell and gives it a knowing grin, as the bone jarring pain slams into her body, caressing her with the lover's embrace of the oh so familiar tendrils of white hot agony as with a will borne out of desperation she ignores the urge to curl up into a fetal position or worse, lose herself, letting the voice take control. She counts the seconds, working out how long she has before needing to send the hound back. Forgotten in her hands, the crossbow feels reassuringly heavy as she realizes she hadn't dropped it, she tries to raise it up to take aim at the creature, the edges of her vision fading as she fights through the haze of pain. Mae fires her repeating crossbow at the beast she summoned but the bolt goes wild and she misses. Z'leyra casts her spell to orient herself into a trance. Kiet casts his smokeless flame as quickly as he can since his rings will take a bit longer. The flame seems to spit out toward the hovering beast but upon splashing on it's chest it seems to splay in 2 different directions into the air. Kiet groans as the beast's magical defense must've helped it. Kell says the magical words and flings the energy web toward the beast hovering near him. But nothing leaves his hand as the spell fails. Corona dives toward the creature attacking near Kell and the eagle's magical eyes fire a beam at it but it hits the ground below missing it. The summoned beast turns to Mae. It's gaze fixes upon Mae but she seems to realize this and divert her own gaze. The creature now knows control is lost and time for a snack. It charges straight for Mae. It leaps straight for Mae but at the last second she ducks and the beast misses her by a inch. The Warden of Hell hovers left and then right trying to feign an attack and then slashes his sword downwards at Kiet hitting him in the left shoulder doing 4 points even past his iron skin spell. This causes his shield arm to flex and almost lose grip but he should be able to hold his shield for a few more seconds. But the new jolt of pain from this strike adding with the spell cast by the Warden is forcing him to grit his teeth and his legs are starting to shake. The second daiva sees Kell throwing or trying to do some spell and figures he is a threat. The Daiva raises his spear and tries to stab the trader but the tip of the blade misses his neck by 2 inches just as the daiva passes behind Kell. Unali notices the dog beast seem to just attack the red head? Is that normal? But no time to figure this out. She rushes forward to help against the flying beast above Kell before it flies away for another strike. She sees the creature trying to get behind Kell and runs toward it. Using her acrobatic skills she leaps upwards using the momentum of her legs as thrust and swipes both daggers toward the middle and upper portions of the beast. She is able to get high enough to stab high enough to hit the creature's shoulders. The dagger from Z'leyra hits right shoulder doing doing 11 points and the dagger from Kell does 7 points drawing deep blood from the wounds. Arawn sees the group trying to fight these flying creatures but to leave Pyan could be dangerous. The Druid sees that Mournath seems reluctant to move or something. But at least he is not almost dead. Arawn knows he can't leave Pyan without putting him at high risk. Then he sees the dog creature attack Mae and begins to yell at the beast. Mournath does a inventory of his life. He seems to have the time now as the radiates up and down his spine. Was he even hurt by a blade or is something else? His wanderlust to explore may end here now. Kell turns and stabs upwards with his own spear as the creature starts to flee. The spear impales into the daiva's left upper chest doing the final damage to kill the beast. That with the damage done by Unali forces the creature to slam to the ground dead. Z'leyra sees the dog creature attack Mae and realizes that banishing a summoned beast is difficult if you are not the one who summoned it. Fuk and Lucria see the second Daiva slam to the ground. They both turn to help Kiet and rush to help. Fuk swings his sword at the beast but misses entirely. Lucria though is lucky and hits the creature in his left leg doing 4 more points with his sword. Kiet is happy to see some support finally. Kiet swings his tulwar at the creature and hits him in the right arm doing 2 points of damage. Mae knows firing a crossbow at this melee range is difficult so she drops her bow and draws her dagger and hopes she can fight off the beast before others come to help. Dorhak continues to sing, "We dwarves never ne'er drink to the lasses, Over draughts scarce enough for a fly!" The Dwarf sees the dog thing attack the red head. He sees the second Daiva fall to the ground thanks to Unali. Dorhak makes mental note not to cross Unali. The small man looks over his shoulder to see Kiet now with the Ticasian men. So the red head needs help. The dwarf raises mace and charges to help Mae. Dorhak hits the dog beast-thing in the side doing 6 points of damage. [Time: 4:05:29 am] [Phase 12] Z'leyra allocates more magical energy to complete her spell. Fremea looks at the last creature but it is too dangerous to fire on it and hit the 3 men below. She looks at the dog creature but could also hit Mae so lowers her bow for now and checks the area out for more enemy. Z'leyra raises her staff and gestures toward the last creature over Kiet. She finishes the spell and a clap of thunder is heard. The creature begins to shimmer and then screams as the scream goes from the mundane to a echo as if passing beyond the realm. Then the creature is banished from this world. The Warden emerges back where he came and realizes he has a new profound enemy. The summoned beast ignores Dorhak and bites toward Mae. It clamps down on her lower right side just above her hip doing 6 points of pain. Unali sees the third beast seem to disappear. Maybe Arawn sent it away? But she has no time to guess. She turns and runs to help Mae who screams from a bite. Both of her magical daggers hit the beast. The one from Z'leyra does massive damage and with Dorhak's wound kills the beast. [Time: 4:05:37 am] As the group recovers those not affected by the pain spell notices everyone fall to the ground as they are unable to move due to the pain. Unali, Z'leyra and Arawn rush back and forth to help those collapse to the ground so not to hurt themselves. Even after the death of the daiva's the spell effects continue. [Time: 4:06:31 am] It takes almost a minute later before the pain finally ends. Fremea completes her aerial recon and finds no other enemy at this time. As she lands the burning tree seems to crack and the top fall luckily to the side away from the party. Fremea, Z'leyra and Arawn begin to check out wounds. None seem life threatening like Pyan's. But at least half of the party is wounded. Up until the pain is too much Dorhak continues his song even after the combat is over. Then once the pain leaves and he can sit up he completes the song. "Club us with the miner and ditcher, Or herder that makes his own horn, To join us o'er bottle or pitcher, Foaming o'er with essence of corn. We care not a whit, with whom we get tipsy, Or where with brown stout we regale, We'll even weather the storm with a gypsy, If he be a lover of ale. We'll weather the toughest storm weary, Although we get soaked to the skin, If the outside of our home looks dreary, Know we are right warm and happy within!"" Kell waves a hand in front of Mournath but can't figure out why the man is not reacting. Actions? Comments? Next Update..Monday... GM: Finally the combat is over. Took 13 phases or 39 seconds. A very long combat in game terms. Half are wounded with only Pyan seriously hurt. We shall move on. From now on I get back to normal schedule with only Tue/Wed off. So there is a good chance of a Monday update (though later in evening than by evening). Since I'm off Wednesday I'll try to do a Friday update start that day at least to prepare it if I can. If not enough posts then will try Thursday but the odds are lower since limited time on Thursday nights. So don't be surprised if Friday updates are delayed. Well all survived. Darn. Maybe next time. :) I hope everyone has a great new years. Cya next year. I will do experience and such for next update. I got to figure out how to allocate the special tree experience. Consider this the Friday update. Special thanks to Alex for being there proofing what the dwarves make. Giving me the motivation to work. :) GM: Healing: At glance: Pyan, Kell, Z'leyra, Mournath, Kiet, Mae are all wounded. I may have missed another but this will be figured out in my notes next time. If Z does a Mist spell to heal this should fix everyone. But Pyan will have to suffer a bit for 2 more hours before the sunrise. Then can accept another healing. The healers will need to decide on what healing for him at Sunrise. Lucky he is knocked out for now but could wake up. Mournath you and Pyan are paralyzed by the howl for hours. :< GM: Affected by Pain Phase 9: Kell Phase 10: Dorhak, Fremea, Kell x2, Kiet, Mae, Mournath, Pyan, Fuk, Lucria Not Affected: Unali, Arawn, Z'leyra Affected by Howl: Pyan, Mournath GM: Necklace Use Feb 4 - Z'leyra Dwarven Feb 5 - Kell Kameran Feb 6 - Kiet Kameran Feb 7 - ??? Based on walking not riding there will be more travel time so Feb 7 should allow 2 more slots to use the language necklace. Sign up!