0G. What can the matter be? (Bozon & Aflae)
Those present:
Bozon, Tine, Jen
Aflae, Azraille, Aflan*, Diakon, Reuel*, a Grey Wizard (in green light), King Samhradh, Summer Knight*, Flana*, Faela, Lafane*, a White Wizard, a Grey Wizard*,
Below: Patrus Cosmodomini*, Auricle, BVelAnna, Nafael, a White Wizard*, a Grey Wizard*
*have crow on them
King Joe
Pontorna
Giant Kami (like a rock golem) taking up entire side wall behind the throne
VI Joe
Negotiator Balur Crystal
100 or so various* people of King Joe's court, including soldiers, mages, archers, gunmen, golems, etc
Jen and Tine hug Bozon in ways that don't impede his movement too much. Tine looks at the balcony where his father was and says, "We should help my dad!"
Jen tells him, "He's probably here for you, Tine. We need to leave, and by getting to safety we'll help him."
Just then King Samhradh and the Summer Knight appear (near one of the green fields' nodes along the walls), the Knight is manipulating the field when it goes haywire. Bozon and kids remain safe within their green-light bubble, but throughout the room green lights and distortions appear moving about violently and at random. They obliterate Lafane just after she kills about 25 or more of the guards and soldiers with her drones. The Summer Knight looks panicked and works faster than the eye can follow, but he is torn into hundreds of pieces by temporal-spacial fissures interspersed with green light.
Seeing that his compatriot is dead, King Samhradh runs to Jen and Tine. The Holy fire licks out toward the King, and the bubble extends itself around him.
Tine and Jen embrace King Samhradh as they make their way together toward the exit. However fast Bozon tries to hurry, the bubble moves at its own pace, forcing the 4 of them to keep slow pace with it.
The Kami kills the Grey Wizard from team Royal by swatting him like a bug. Although he defends himself and about 10,000 lbs of rock break off of the Kami and fall to the ground as useless rubble, the Wizard doesn't survive.
Pontorna himself manages to send a beam of focused agony and destructive force from his staff into the minds of Aflan and Flana (killing them) before Azraile bites a chunk out of his collected souls.
09:02, Today: Narrator, on behalf of Aflae, rolled 122 using 9d26 with rolls of 17,21,17,14,16,6,15,10,6. Shoot them back - enhanced by guns and armband
((In a battle, only one cliche can be used at a time))
Aflae's blast pushes most of the rest of the guards against the walls and leaves them unable to do anything for a few moments. Some of the guards seem to listen carefully to Aflae's speech against Pontorna.
09:14, Today: Narrator, on behalf of Azraile, rolled 150 using 18d16 with rolls of 7,8,16,12,11,6,6,6,16,5,1,13,3,2,14,9,12,3.
The flames cooperate with Azraile's emancipation of a few of the souls around Pontorna, but they refuse to allow Azraille to use up the gauntlet, whispering, "You'll need this later."
He looks at Azraille murderously, and a bright light forms in his eyes. But then with a look of surprise he seems to lose sight of hir (Az is now engulfed in holy flames and invisible to everyone except Bozon, Aflae and Reuel, though they don't know this).
The freed spirits are all covered in the Holy fire and disappear (some are ecstatic, some at peace and some seeming apprehensive) except one. That one who remains is Pon. Pontorna is no more, Torna remains, and everyone's seems to just know this to be true. Pon's flaming spirit speaks to Azraille (who is now in the spirit realm), "Thank you for freeing me from my nemesis, strange thing. In my next life I will name my familiar after you. What shall I call it?"
As shi is speaking with Pon, the Holy flames clearly want Azraille to gather the disembodied spirits, but not to do anything else to Torna for now.
King Joe shouts, "ENOUGH!" and the green lights immobilize everyone's feet, hands and other weaponry, while blue light (I think it was blue that did this) prevents everyone from using any magic, but allows them to still speak.
Joe continues, "There will be no more desecration of this Court today! I will not tolerate it! We have business to attend to."
Torna announces, "Creature, I know you are in here. The moment I find you, I'm eating you!" Looking at Teams Alpha and Royal, Torna declares, "All of you have earned my wrath, and I will be saving your bodies and spirits for maximum torment before I add you to my collection."
Seeing that the situation is under control he says, "Bring the negotiator Balur forward. It is time to finish this and unseal the time-freeze on the outside world. Diakon, I trust you completed the spell as planned?"
The blue and green lights around Diakon go dark and he replies, "I have completed the spell."
Torna continues, "Good. Once Balur is seen to, you may make your wish."
The container around the Negotiator Balur is opened and Torna addresses the node, "Do you understand your position?"
"Yes. I will obey your demands. There is no other choice."
"Good."
Bozon and friends continue slowly toward the exit, ignored by Torna, King Joe and the rest of the Court. Bozon gets the feeling that he doesn't need to continue playing the igil any more. The safety bubble will continue to lead them to the exit in its own time.
Aflae's Holy flames seem to want to remain a secret for now.
Those who remain:
Bozon, Tine, Jen
Aflae, Azraille, Diakon, Reuel*, a Grey Wizard (in green light), King Samhradh, Faela, a White Wizard
Below: Patrus Cosmodomini*, Auricle, BVelAnna, Nafael, a White Wizard*, a Grey Wizard*
King Joe
Torna* (aka Pontorna)
Giant Kami (like a rock golem) taking up entire side wall behind the throne
VI Joe
Negotiator Balur Crystal
50 or so various* people of King Joe's court, including soldiers, mages, archers, gunmen, golems, etc
*have crow on them
Disembodied spirits:
Aflan, Flana, Summer Knight, Lafane, a Grey Wizard, a White Wizard, the Dragon, the Dragon Avatar and about 50 various guards, soldiers, etc