While you're thinking about it, Eira changes back from her bear form and casts [Tooltip Not Found], creating a circle of flames (opaque, 20ft high and 1 ft thick) around the dark Ethan. DC17 for ½ of 21 fire damage
"We are here to destroy as many Phylacteries as possible! As enemies of that most evil and hated of liches we hope to strike at the heart of his evil power! If you stand with him or seek to impede us then you shall be the first to meet your final end!" Trisk blusters and flusters, stepping forward and swishing his wizardly robes and cloak in an overly dramatic fashion.
When the little girl, Piccolo sees the Lich, she opens her mouth, and if she had a voice, you are sure she would be screaming.Her body shaking violently, tears streaming from her eyes, fists clenched in anger so tightly that you see blood dripping from the nails of her hands biting into her flesh, and from her mouth where she bit her tongue.
"We are here to destroy as many Phylacteries as possible! As enemies of that most evil and hated of liches we hope to strike at the heart of his evil power! If you stand with him or seek to impede us then you shall be the first to meet your final end!"
Trisk blusters and flusters, stepping forward and swishing his wizardly robes and cloak in an overly dramatic fashion.
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"A rightful place awaits you in the Realms Above, in the Land of the Great Light. Come in peace, and live beneath the sun again, where trees and flowers grow."
— The message of Eilistraee to all decent drow.
"Run thy sword across my chains, Silver Lady, that I may join your dance.”
Seeing Trisk suddenly go into a berserker's type of rage (albeit not really when he glances a second time), Randy's armour begins to glow even brighter in response as he performs a reloading animation.
"We're not afraid of anything that you throw at us, bozo!"Randy snarls, temporarily adopting the mindset of a general scolding his platoon for failure. "Listen up! I don't know if you're the lich trying to hinder the whole of Thay. I don't know if you're the real bozo that will move onto the Sword Coast and take advantage of the problem me and Ethan are dealing with over there either. But right now, I need you to fess up! Stand on the wrong side of good and evil, and we won't hesitate to wipe you out! " His rather aggressive expression does not change even as he then reaims his bayonet at the sepulcher on his right. "Or... I can smash this and then let my brother smash the one on the left... and then let someone else smash one of the pillars south. And we can take things from there. You have been warned!"
(Welcome back, Brian!)
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Wildland Shifters Pt 2 (Pt 1 with PyromaniIsDeadThankGod) Celci (The Lamb) - Non-Binary Changeling Sorcerer (Shadow Magic) Maya Kurosaki- Female Kitsune Cleric (Twilight Domain); Currently in Lancea Randy Wolftree - Male Human Artificer (Armourer); Currently in Crimson Sands of Time Shijiro Otsune- Male Kitsune Blood Hunter (Order Of The Lycan) Trojan Dseyller - Male Tortle Barbarian (Path of the Ancestral Guardian) Xenia Ironhide - Female Kobold Rogue (Soulknife)
The demilich replies "This is the Doomvaukt of Kazit Gul. Szazz Tam may rule Thay, but this beauty if a dungeon is mine. Under Tam's rule, outsiders such as ye have been scarce. Too few to sustain a lich through the completion of his masterwork. For thee, have I this offer: my aid for but one soul to feed my Phylactery. I shall aid this coup of yours and set about the opening of my Doomvault once more to the wider populous of Faerûn. All I ask in return is a single soul. Do we have a deal?"
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The girl composes herself and plays a mocking flat tune at the Lich, her hatred not concealed from the others
An image of Kazit Gul before he was a lich, being ruled and manipulated by Tam. Now, trapped inside stone walls, a prisoner here just as she. Mocking Laughter at the plight of the trapped rat in his cage, king of nothing.
At the same time, she tends to Ethans wounds (fast hands Healer) 22
<I kinda need a yes or no. Hostile NPCs are up and you just told this lich you're here to destroy what tethers him to this mortal coil, so he's definitely not neutral. I just don't know what side he's on until players decide.>
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"We are not here to feed liches! We are here to destroy phylacteries so stand aside and be spared or oppose us and face thy doom!"
Trisk's Intimidation: 19
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"A rightful place awaits you in the Realms Above, in the Land of the Great Light. Come in peace, and live beneath the sun again, where trees and flowers grow."
— The message of Eilistraee to all decent drow.
"Run thy sword across my chains, Silver Lady, that I may join your dance.”
"We are not here to feed liches! We are here to destroy phylacteries so stand aside and be spared or oppose us and face thy doom!"
Trisk's Intimidation: 19
(ooc: WOW! That's pretty good for a straight roll no modifiers.)
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"A rightful place awaits you in the Realms Above, in the Land of the Great Light. Come in peace, and live beneath the sun again, where trees and flowers grow."
— The message of Eilistraee to all decent drow.
"Run thy sword across my chains, Silver Lady, that I may join your dance.”
(OOC: In order for Piccolo to be released from her Curse which holds her mortal spirit in the doomvault, we must destroy this lich!) She shakes her head in the negative to the liches request.
"We are not here to feed liches! We are here to destroy phylacteries so stand aside and be spared or oppose us and face thy doom!"
Trisk's Intimidation: 19
"You threaten to destroy these phylacteries," the demilixh balks. "Surely, you may surmise that one belongs to me?! Shall I stand idly by as you pillage my Doomvault? I have watched you all, theough the eyes of my dread warriors. The living who puppet them allowed you this far. Had I wrested control from them, perhaps you would not. Tam will surely end them if he continues to rule. If you somehow survive the shadow of Eltab, you may indeed prove an effective force in this plot to finish the Zulkir of Necromancy."
Piccolo smiles, but her eyes show the hatred of being a prisoner to this Lich for a century. She prepares herself for all that he can throw at them.
She plays a quick tune on her instrument to Trisk
Trisk sees an image of the party defeating the Lich, destroying the phylacteries. He sees the original room with the tree with chains, binding the small girl. The chains break as the Lich is defeated, and....she is free.
"Our mission was to destroy one or more phylacteries! Now that we are finally here we cannot fail to even try, this lich or whatever it is before us is part of what chains Piccolo to the Doomvault! It must be destroyed!"
Trisk will ready himself for a fight and attempt to even strike first if possible.
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"A rightful place awaits you in the Realms Above, in the Land of the Great Light. Come in peace, and live beneath the sun again, where trees and flowers grow."
— The message of Eilistraee to all decent drow.
"Run thy sword across my chains, Silver Lady, that I may join your dance.”
Shifting his baseball bat in a defensive position, Ethan braces for an all out attack from the lich, but all he istead got was... Kazit Gul... wait.. a different lich? And he's explaining that the phylacteries are connected to him? Isn't their original goal trying to destroy... wait...
"Wait... context?" Ethan asks out of nowhere, brain scrambled (rp wise) after all of this combat. "So let me get this straight:" Ethan suddenly protests with a truckload of confusion. "You're not affiliated with the lich, yet you're saying destroying these will destroy you instead? I thought... hold on a minute." He recalls his words for a minute... This the doomvault of Kazit Gul... we're trying to target Szazz Tam. I shall aid this coup... Wait... coup? Oh right... From what he can recall, it seems that the lich wants to 'ally' with them. But from his recent experiences with these fiendish monsters, he's got no reason to trust them.
Except that this time, he felt that there was something wrong, especially when Trisk and Piccolo straight up intimidated him and he reveals that he's not the lich that they're aiming for. Did they travel into the wrong Doomvault? He's confused... "Guys..." He turns to the others. "I'm not 100% certain but... I think we might be in the wrong room. Either that or he's trying to deceive us. Randy. What are you thinking?"
"Look, if you're trying to throw us off, don't. your words may be convincing for the common mind, but don't But let me ask you this before I make my decision..." When he hears Piccolo play her music to Trisk, the Simic gestures his arm towards her. "Fess up. If you're not Szazz whatever, were you there when this fellow, the one that got imprisoned her against her will by the other lich, were you there when it happened?"
He's definitely not sacrificing his soul just to fuel some cause that might end up worsening the situation. In fact, he has no intentions of abandoning his shifters in the Sword Coast so soon. And besides, he's already taken a defensive stance; should the lich try to attack them, let alone yell another monologue of his own, he will cut him off mid-speech with one of his strongest spells he had been holding for some time, but he won't release it just yet.
<this is not flavor, it's mechanically significant. You either have a demilich with yiu or against you. He's going to sit this round out as he's still on the fence. Even in undeatj, he remains ever wary of the shifting winds of power in Thay.>
The Tyrant shadow surges through the wall of fire, still resembling Ethan, who feels his own skin searing as he watches his doppelganger burn, his matter black surface looking like charred ash.
<While linked, every time the shadow is damaged, the creature takes half of that damage as psychic damage, (so 10hp, see #6486). The creature (Ethan) may repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, taking 26 psychic damage on a failed save, or ending the effect on a successful one.>
The dark Ethan grabs Randy with his monstrous claw, grappling his brother from another mother and forcing him into the ring of fire from whence he emerged 22 to hit for 8 bludgeoning and grapple 11 (ba)
See above. Save = 23.
While you're thinking about it, Eira changes back from her bear form and casts [Tooltip Not Found], creating a circle of flames (opaque, 20ft high and 1 ft thick) around the dark Ethan. DC17 for ½ of 21 fire damage
Tyrant Dex save 3
Tetrevess is up, if they're still playing, then the tyrant.
Anyone can answer the lich, if you're so inclined. It's Kazit Gul, he'll tell you, if you ask.
BA: Trisk:
"We are here to destroy as many Phylacteries as possible! As enemies of that most evil and hated of liches we hope to strike at the heart of his evil power! If you stand with him or seek to impede us then you shall be the first to meet your final end!" Trisk blusters and flusters, stepping forward and swishing his wizardly robes and cloak in an overly dramatic fashion.
When the little girl, Piccolo sees the Lich, she opens her mouth, and if she had a voice, you are sure she would be screaming.Her body shaking violently, tears streaming from her eyes, fists clenched in anger so tightly that you see blood dripping from the nails of her hands biting into her flesh, and from her mouth where she bit her tongue.
"We are here to destroy as many Phylacteries as possible! As enemies of that most evil and hated of liches we hope to strike at the heart of his evil power! If you stand with him or seek to impede us then you shall be the first to meet your final end!"
Trisk blusters and flusters, stepping forward and swishing his wizardly robes and cloak in an overly dramatic fashion.
Seeing Trisk suddenly go into a berserker's type of rage (albeit not really when he glances a second time), Randy's armour begins to glow even brighter in response as he performs a reloading animation.
"We're not afraid of anything that you throw at us, bozo!" Randy snarls, temporarily adopting the mindset of a general scolding his platoon for failure. "Listen up! I don't know if you're the lich trying to hinder the whole of Thay. I don't know if you're the real bozo that will move onto the Sword Coast and take advantage of the problem me and Ethan are dealing with over there either. But right now, I need you to fess up! Stand on the wrong side of good and evil, and we won't hesitate to wipe you out! " His rather aggressive expression does not change even as he then reaims his bayonet at the sepulcher on his right. "Or... I can smash this and then let my brother smash the one on the left... and then let someone else smash one of the pillars south. And we can take things from there. You have been warned!"
(Welcome back, Brian!)
Wildland Shifters Pt 2 (Pt 1 with PyromaniIsDeadThankGod)
Celci (The Lamb) - Non-Binary Changeling Sorcerer (Shadow Magic)
Maya Kurosaki - Female Kitsune Cleric (Twilight Domain); Currently in Lancea
Randy Wolftree - Male Human Artificer (Armourer); Currently in Crimson Sands of Time
Shijiro Otsune - Male Kitsune Blood Hunter (Order Of The Lycan)
Trojan Dseyller - Male Tortle Barbarian (Path of the Ancestral Guardian)
Xenia Ironhide - Female Kobold Rogue (Soulknife)
(OOC: We must continue to figure out how to destroy the Phylacteries, and damage the magic that holds them in place.)
The demilich replies "This is the Doomvaukt of Kazit Gul. Szazz Tam may rule Thay, but this beauty if a dungeon is mine. Under Tam's rule, outsiders such as ye have been scarce. Too few to sustain a lich through the completion of his masterwork. For thee, have I this offer: my aid for but one soul to feed my Phylactery. I shall aid this coup of yours and set about the opening of my Doomvault once more to the wider populous of Faerûn. All I ask in return is a single soul. Do we have a deal?"
The girl composes herself and plays a mocking flat tune at the Lich, her hatred not concealed from the others
An image of Kazit Gul before he was a lich, being ruled and manipulated by Tam. Now, trapped inside stone walls, a prisoner here just as she. Mocking Laughter at the plight of the trapped rat in his cage, king of nothing.
At the same time, she tends to Ethans wounds (fast hands Healer) 22
<I kinda need a yes or no. Hostile NPCs are up and you just told this lich you're here to destroy what tethers him to this mortal coil, so he's definitely not neutral. I just don't know what side he's on until players decide.>
"We are not here to feed liches! We are here to destroy phylacteries so stand aside and be spared or oppose us and face thy doom!"
Trisk's Intimidation: 19
(ooc: WOW! That's pretty good for a straight roll no modifiers.)
(OOC: In order for Piccolo to be released from her Curse which holds her mortal spirit in the doomvault, we must destroy this lich!)
She shakes her head in the negative to the liches request.
"You threaten to destroy these phylacteries," the demilixh balks. "Surely, you may surmise that one belongs to me?! Shall I stand idly by as you pillage my Doomvault? I have watched you all, theough the eyes of my dread warriors. The living who puppet them allowed you this far. Had I wrested control from them, perhaps you would not. Tam will surely end them if he continues to rule. If you somehow survive the shadow of Eltab, you may indeed prove an effective force in this plot to finish the Zulkir of Necromancy."
Piccolo smiles, but her eyes show the hatred of being a prisoner to this Lich for a century. She prepares herself for all that he can throw at them.
She plays a quick tune on her instrument to Trisk
Trisk sees an image of the party defeating the Lich, destroying the phylacteries. He sees the original room with the tree with chains, binding the small girl. The chains break as the Lich is defeated, and....she is free.
"Our mission was to destroy one or more phylacteries! Now that we are finally here we cannot fail to even try, this lich or whatever it is before us is part of what chains Piccolo to the Doomvault! It must be destroyed!"
Trisk will ready himself for a fight and attempt to even strike first if possible.
Shifting his baseball bat in a defensive position, Ethan braces for an all out attack from the lich, but all he istead got was... Kazit Gul... wait.. a different lich? And he's explaining that the phylacteries are connected to him? Isn't their original goal trying to destroy... wait...
"Wait... context?" Ethan asks out of nowhere, brain scrambled (rp wise) after all of this combat. "So let me get this straight:" Ethan suddenly protests with a truckload of confusion. "You're not affiliated with the lich, yet you're saying destroying these will destroy you instead? I thought... hold on a minute." He recalls his words for a minute... This the doomvault of Kazit Gul... we're trying to target Szazz Tam. I shall aid this coup... Wait... coup? Oh right... From what he can recall, it seems that the lich wants to 'ally' with them. But from his recent experiences with these fiendish monsters, he's got no reason to trust them.
Except that this time, he felt that there was something wrong, especially when Trisk and Piccolo straight up intimidated him and he reveals that he's not the lich that they're aiming for. Did they travel into the wrong Doomvault? He's confused... "Guys..." He turns to the others. "I'm not 100% certain but... I think we might be in the wrong room. Either that or he's trying to deceive us. Randy. What are you thinking?"
"Look, if you're trying to throw us off, don't. your words may be convincing for the common mind, but don't But let me ask you this before I make my decision..." When he hears Piccolo play her music to Trisk, the Simic gestures his arm towards her. "Fess up. If you're not Szazz whatever, were you there when this fellow, the one that got imprisoned her against her will by the other lich, were you there when it happened?"
He's definitely not sacrificing his soul just to fuel some cause that might end up worsening the situation. In fact, he has no intentions of abandoning his shifters in the Sword Coast so soon. And besides, he's already taken a defensive stance; should the lich try to attack them, let alone yell another monologue of his own, he will cut him off mid-speech with one of his strongest spells he had been holding for some time, but he won't release it just yet.
The Wildland Shifters
Daisy Ethalena - Female Wood Elf Ranger (Monster Slayer)
Ethan Wolftree - Male Simic Hybrid Warlock (The Hexblade)
Mira Laurits - Female Harengon Sorcerer (Clockwork Soul); Lancea
Raiden Kurosaki - Male Kitsune Wizard (Bladesinger); Lancea
Rixian Nishinoya - Male Fire Genasi Paladin (Oath of Vengeance)
Tenebris Amaro - Male Dark Elf Druid (Circle of Stars)
Yurime Hanasaki - Female Kumiho Bard (College Of Creation)
<this is not flavor, it's mechanically significant. You either have a demilich with yiu or against you. He's going to sit this round out as he's still on the fence. Even in undeatj, he remains ever wary of the shifting winds of power in Thay.>
The Tyrant shadow surges through the wall of fire, still resembling Ethan, who feels his own skin searing as he watches his doppelganger burn, his matter black surface looking like charred ash.
<While linked, every time the shadow is damaged, the creature takes half of that damage as psychic damage, (so 10hp, see #6486). The creature (Ethan) may repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, taking 26 psychic damage on a failed save, or ending the effect on a successful one.>
The dark Ethan grabs Randy with his monstrous claw, grappling his brother from another mother and forcing him into the ring of fire from whence he emerged 22 to hit for 8 bludgeoning and grapple 11 (ba)
Players are up again