Cyndari WIS Save: 10

OOC: I will give some time for Aisha to react to Harmony's "attack" before advancing.

Aisha does her best to pretend she stumbled to the side.. as she is not fully 'in control' of her faculties while mind controlled " " 

Performance dodge: 5

"Enough games!" The bald tattooed man barks. He raises his hands high and looks toward the shrine.

"I call to you, Kayel! The time has come. Take hold of your vessel."

The symbols on the shrine begin to glow a deep blood red color, and an arcane hum fills the air as it wavers above the shrine like a mirage. As the symbols glow, so too does Rajiira begin to glow.

"Umm...sister?" she asks as she examines her glowing arms.

Harmony 'failed' to hit Aisha before feeling like her spell worked. Yes! But then she heard the man, shocked and stunned to see the symbols glowing and Rajira glowing. What the?! "No, stop! Stop him and destroy the shrine!!" Harmony commanded the jellyfish, pointing to the bald man and the shrine.

(I'm writing this based on the assumption you're speaking in common since you didn't do moon speak this time)

The world stopped. Time itself stopped. Aisha hearing the words, and seeing the immediate follow up. her heart stopped beating, or atleast it felt like it. Once again, Aisha wasn't the smartest, or the strongest. She didn't even have the strongest constitution... she was rather fragile, and she felt like a small dry twig in this moment, ready to break. in the span of less than a moment her breath came out ragged, haggard, her shoulders slumped. In her effort to keep her sister safe.... she had brought her into danger... had unwittingly completed the plans of these scum licking bastards...

Her mouth turned into a frown, her lips quivering as tears began to well in her eyes, already streaming down her cheeks, warm, and salty. Sound came back to the world, and time began to move again. Aisha's eyes locked with Rajiira's.. her frown intensifying as if she was getting ready to cry like a wretch. Her pupils .. normally thin slits, were wide and black, Aisha's ears tapered down against her skull. Her tail puffed up with frustration, and stress, she looked nothing like the general beauty she was when they first came here. She had become disheveled over time, here, stressed with the pressure of everything until now and now she looked like a long abandoned stray..

Rajiira... You were all I had left.. her voice wavering, breaking, cracking.... Aisha has failed you... But Aisha.... w..w.. will nyot let you be twisted .. Aisha will nyot let your soul be devoured here... Aisha.. will see you on the other side...

with one last swallow, Aisha reached for her bow and an arrow... Aisha knew Rajiira would understand.... they were twins.. afterall.. She drew the string back hard, and fast. Knowing Rajiira wouldn't dodge. They had been together through everything growing up, and together when their parents had left Toril.... through Aisha's mind flashed every moment she and her sister had been through... every happy moment, every sad one, every time they had been there for the other like when Aisha had broken her leg and Rajiira had to fight off a bear alone before taking her out of there.

Like the time Rajiira's heart had been broken, and Aisha stayed up with her all night, cradling her, comforting her as warm tears flowed down her sisters cheeks. Many and more situations just like that... Aisha's arrow flew.. and she hoped her aim was true... she wanted it to be a quick end... so she aimed for the head... (The DM obviously has to decide how to adjudicate this but..)

Even so, as the arrow whistled through the air, Aisha let outa wail akin to a loving mother finding their child dead, echoing through the chamber..... Tsavi likely able to hear if she was able to get near the entrace.

But Aisha knew she wasn't going to let her sister.. her primary driving force for everything she has done in this world.. be possessed by some bastard deity who had gone rogue. And in that moment, she verbally cursed Kayel for bringing this about... and if the catlord heard her plea, and responded to her curse... Kayel would find the future to not be so bright..

Rajiira closes her eyes, tears mixing with the fur of her face, waiting for the end to come. Aisha looses her arrow. Then Rajiira is gone - physically, as the arrow sails through her form to splash in the water near the Cyndari and Dokkalfar. "Sister!?" She shouts, and then she is gone from view.

The force of a sudden disruption in the air ripples through the pool, the party, and demons alike, and a purplish arcane web creases the air above the shrine. An image forms through the web as it expands, an image of a familiar forest clearing...

The warm fire typically lit when you have visited the clearing to speak with the Rikirtan deities is silent, and the forest seems dim and dull. Gabrielle and Ginan stand on the edge of the clearing, eyeing its center warily as the ground cracks and shines with a fiery red light. Suspended above it all is Rajiira, hanging limply high above the ground.

The man standing by the shrine cackles and draws a dagger from within his robes. A voice not his own, deep and booming, emanates from him as his eyes glow the same color as the rippling magic. "Chosen of Gabrielle, Ginan and Tylyn. Three gods against one, and you still shall fall."

Initiative:

OOC: The party has won initiative and can take the first actions of our final battle!

(Will the charmed Cyndari follow Harmony's original commands she said before all of this and initiative started?)

OOC: Yep, it's still charmed by Harmony but is acting in the enemies' group initiative. 

Garu will use her action to pull a scroll of Owlbear Summoning and cast it.

(will post at lunch at work)

Harmony was in awe that Aisha was willing to kill her sister, knowing that this whole time she's been fighting for her sake and only just got her back. This is too cruel, sad and utterly twisted of Kayel to do. Then she watched, the clearing appear with Rajira up high and the man, now clearly Kayel as she heard him and glared. She will quickly touch Aisha and Garu with her hands. "Let's stop him, for good." Harmony told them, casting Heroism at 2nd level on them.

Insanity roll (CHR save: 12 )    DM do with this what you will, she's been stressed this whole time, her body and mind are tired, she just got her sister back, was forced to make a split second decision to kill her, only for that to fail.

Aisha's breaths came out more in heaves. No... no no no no... I can't fail her now.... I cannot... UUuuuaaghhh!!! T'SAVI! she cries out, hoping beyond hope that her last remaining anchor could hear her.. somehow....

Aisha's body swayed, dizzy, lightheaded feeling numb yet on fire at the same time... She drew her next arrow.. (I THINK we got some of her arrows silvered? and she has atleast 9 left?) one of the silvered ones, spitting on the tip before aiming at the one who was trying to take her sister away... Aisha had tunnel vision... the 'cultists' didnt exist.. Garu.. didn't exist.... Harmony didn't exist... only herself, Rajiira... and the traitor who was trying to harm her. Two arrows knocked at the same time, both silvered and both now sailing at the man

Die: Attack: 28 Damage: 11

you bastard! : Attack: 23 Damage: 10

Attack Rolls:

OOC: With a nat 20 there Aisha may have tunnel vision/rage but is certainly in full control.

Ten tentacles surface from the water, the Cyndari flailing at anything in its path. Garu's shield protects her from the stinging bite of two tentacles, and the paladin quickly reads off a scroll that dissipates into the air. The spectral form of an owlbear plods into the water, blocking the path of the quickly swimming Dokkalfar. While they swarm and claw at the newly arrived owlbear, two others rapidly reach the dry land around the shrine, pulling themselves out of the water and throwing themselves at Garu, clawing at her head and arms, but bolstered by Harmony's magic, she holds them at bay.

Four tentacles strike directly at the shrine, and two more at the cultist seemingly linked to it and the image floating above it. The shrine glows in the spots where it is struck, but seems to be protected by some arcane barrier, which also protects the man from both tentacles and Aisha's arrows. The last pair of tentacles slaps at Aisha as the man laughs again.

"Do you think me unprepared? Do you think me so simple?"

The ground in the image of the forest clearing is rent asunder, and a great feral hybrid of beast and man pulls itself from the cleft. It roars into the sky and speaks from the clearing, but the voice still spills from the man linked to the shrine. Rajiira falls to the ground beside the beast in the clearing.

"Blood of Toril. You will be Rikirta's undoing!"

Round 2 Order:
Players <=====
Enemies

Placement:
Garu is engaged in melee combat with two Dokkalfar.
The owlbear is engaged in melee combat with two Dokkalfar in the water.
All combatants are within melee range of the Cyndari and within movement range of one another.

Health:
Aisha is lightly wounded.
Harmony is lightly wounded.
Garu is lightly wounded.
The owlbear is lightly wounded.

Harmony watched as the jellyfish ended up attacking Garu and Aisha, shaking her head. "No, that is not what I need! Do not attack my friends! It is the enemy that you must deal with!" she yelled at the jellyfish, gesturing to differentiate who is ally and who is enemy. Then she watched the beast appear, thinking and having heard Aisha's cries. "FOCUS, Aisha!! You're not alone, we're here with you! Let me help!" Harmony calls out to Aisha, giving her Bardic Inspiration.

Aisha watches in disbelief as her arrows fail to penetrate, her fury only grows she knew atleast one of her arrows was true... but her mind sharpened, focused in it's fury. She could faintly hear harmony in the back of her mind. Fine... if I must do this the hard way... she was going to make him watch all his plans crumble before him, or.. die trying...

Aisha was now indiscriminate. her bow turned towards the first enemy near either Harmony or Garu... two bolts flying...

Fwish: Attack: 16 Damage: 7

Twang: Attack: 18 Damage: 9

 Bardic for 2nd attack: 4

Garu casts Bless to buff Harmony, Aisha, and Garu. She then will give the command to the owlbear to attack the Dokkalfar he is engaged with.
(OOC: do you want to roll the attacks for the owlbear or me?)

Attack Rolls: