Aeydof the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm /ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\
On the surface, an awesome purple light show of various hues catches your attention as you navigate the star's surface in an effort to descend further below, a task alone that your mind can barely wrap your heads around. About 10,000 miles away, a colossal wave of burning gas rolls towards you - threatening to shatter the shields protecting you from instantly vaporizing. ****! Here it comes!
Avoiding the wave is impossible, and there is a chance your shield breaks.
Everyone needs to make two saves: DC45 STR save to take half of 2d5000 damage, and a DC40 CON save to not have the shield break. If you fail this save you are instantly vaporized as your sole mode of protection fails.
This post has potentially manipulated dice roll results.
Alright, let's see if Father's lucky today...
DC45 Str: 52 DC40 Con: 39
His luck as run out and when his protection fails him, he gives one final look to Dia and Tora, saying, "You better survive this." before being fully vaporized.
Aeydof the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm /ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\
You soon realize you're sinking into the core. Pure white light surrounds you now, as does a rumbling sound so deep that you feel it more than hear it. As you go deeper, the rumbling gets louder and higher in pitch. After a while, you notice that things colored red grow darker in color. It's as if they're fading to black. Orange items look yellower and purple items turn blue. As you descend further, the orange fades to black too. The light around you takes on a strong yellowish green tint.
The gas inside the star is growing hotter and is producing shorter wavelengths of radiation. Longer wavelengths at the red-orange end of the spectrum disappear, as a result, items that reflect those wavelengths end up black, absorbing all wavelengths. As you descend deeper you find the solar radiation shifting higher up the spectrum. The light grows green, then blue, and everything that isn't blue or violent grows black. Thousands of miles down below, you can see nothing but violet light. Since you both know nothing of light wavelengths, all of this is very eerie to you both.
During your journey down, you notice occasional pillars of shadow resting on dense patches of plasma. You realize that the pillar are huge tentacles carved out, housing hundreds of eldritch creatures that float around them. Some of them watch as you descend. As you gaze around, you see that they are everywhere. All you can hear is the deafening roar of the star.
What you're passing through now as you descend further is denser than solid rock. Overhead, a 400,000 mile deep sea of gas presses down on you. Nothing but the Umbral shield is protecting you. Outside the shield is boiling whiteness. Then, you bump into the black core of the star and in a moment are sucked into it, into the unknown, into the oblivion of something beyond space and time.
(What you are about to read is the best representation of what your mind is "seeing" and "processing". While mortal, a creative liberty will have to be taken and assumed as you are definitely no longer in any time, space, or dimension that would or could possibly make any sense to you at this moment in time. Your imagination will have to be used!)
THE SHADOW EMPIRE
You stand before the beginnings of a vast ancient city in some sort of desert, as if the core of the Umbral star was actually some sort of dimensional habitat. Yet, you can't tell if you're in the core any longer - you feel no heat from the star, you are no longer shielded, and the sky is a horrible red and purple dawn, like the last day before a terrible annihilation. The ground seems solid at your feet. The air is still, and the deafening rumble of the star has ceased. The only thing you can hear are the sounds of a civilization beyond this reality.
The city ahead consists of ancient structures and towers made of pure black stone, runes are carved along nearly every inch, and terrible eldritch horrors populate it in numbers you couldn't possibly count. Pyramids and obelisks litter the vast city in totality, and in the background, hiding about a fourth of the sky from the ground, is the most terrifying thing you've ever seen in your life. It can only be explained as a upright elongated multi-eyed eldritch octopus-like entity with tentacles slowly writhing, towering over the city like a mortal over an ant. It's surface contains countless reptilian eyes - they all move independently of each other. Its skin is pitch black and featureless. It's shape mutates and undulates, the eyes of orange and red seeing all. It is so large it is impossible to tell just how titanic it is from this vantage point.
As you gaze upon an Elder God, you can still feel you are being tested. Even now.
COME, MY CHOSEN. YOU HAVE TRAVELED FAR. AS YOU PROVE YOUR WORTH, WITNESS THE FATE OF YOUR WORLD. BEHOLD, THE ONE WHO SHALL HERALD IT'S COMING.
THE BLACK EMPRESS The Black Empress is one of the many Heralds of Umbra - avatars of the Elder God to perform it's bidding across time and space, corrupting and destroying worlds. In the sky, a rift opens, and Aetharis is shown from space - a shadow ridden planet suffocating under the throes of Darkness. Like an infection, the Darkness spreads at a rapid pace, destroying all life on the planet. You realize that if you wish to proceed further, the Black Empress must be defeated. Whether you chose to save your world or not, is up to you.
The Black Empress is a female drow warrior of unknown origin. You recognize her from earlier in your journey - but this time, appears much more menacing and powerful. She is wearing black armor and appears to be fluent in magic that would rip that fabric of reality in half. In her hand is a huge pole arm. Her helmet allows her white long hair to flow freely. She slowly approaches.
"Come. It was been a while since I enjoyed the challenge of testing a Chosen. Defeat me, and you may pass."she declared.
Defeat her in three rounds and save your world. She even lets you attack first.
Dia starts by dropping Maddening Darkness. Dark smoke envelops the Empress and surrounds her with gibbering shrieks.
As long as the Empress is within the darkness, she must make a DC 49 Wis ST or take 37 psychic damage, half on success.
If she fails that ST, Dia will use Commanding Obedience.
Whenever a hostile creature you can see within 30 feet of you fails a saving throw due to a spell of 1st level or higher that you control, you may command that creature to kneel. On that creature's turn, it must face you, then kneel and end it’s turn. While kneeling, the creature is considered prone. If the creature is immune to the prone condition, then the creature just ends it’s turn.
Dia also uses Brand of the Deceiver's Guile. The Empress must make a DC 49 Int ST or subtract a d6 from all attacks she rolls against Dia.
Sexy Twilight Destruction: 51
An'zig Vra: 98
An'zig Vra 2: 28
An'zig Vra 3 (only to be paid attention to if I'm able to use Commanding Obedience): 88
This post has potentially manipulated dice roll results.
Tora looks upon Jezzika with a few blinks before snarling. "Wont this be delightful." Seeing Dia make the first move, Tora takes her shot as Jezz is prone, lunging and unleashing many attacks.
This post has potentially manipulated dice roll results.
Dia's Maddening Darkness remains.
DC 49 Wis ST or 46,000 psychic damage, half on success. If she fails, Dia will trigger Commanding Obedience again.
Then Dia casts blight. DC 49 Con ST from Jezz or 43,000 necrotic damage, half on success. If Jezz succeeded on the first ST but fails this one, Dia'll use Commanding Obedience again.
Finally, Dia tries Brand of the Deceiver's Guile again. DC 49 Int ST or she must subtract a d6 from future attacks against Dia.
Tora continues her assault on the Prone Jezz, looking her in the eyes as Tora's eyes fill with darkness and black shadows, a loud bell erupting around her into Jezz's mind.
Attack 1: Toll the dead: Wisdome save of 45 or take 37
Let's have: Attack: 53 Damage: 15
Some: Attack: 60 Damage: 10
Smickety smacks: Attack: 47 Damage: 11
On FOB: Invoke Wrath. The target suffers disadvantage on all attack rolls against targets other than you until the end of your next turn.
Dex ST: 52
Dex ST: 47
Dex ST: 53
Dex ST: 49
Dex ST: 43
Stella Diamant, Human Rogue 17 (Swashbuckler), The Exploits of Misfit Company
Kat, Medtech, Cyberpunk: Red
Shi, Changeling Bard 4 (College of Spirits), Tyrant's Grasp
Dani, Human Artificer 9 (Armorer), Skulls and Starships
DM, Project Point (Teams Scimitar and Longsword)
Everything Else!
Tora does her best to carefully navigate and concentrate on the protection.
DeX 1 55
DeX 2 55
DeX 3 55
DeX 4 46
DeX 5 46
Spending a ki point to reroll nat 1: 54
Nina Wildvale|Changeling|Wild Magic Sorcerer|Rise of The Reunelords|Active
Kai Loire|Water Genasia|Life Cleric|Road To Phandalin|Retired
Willow Twilight|Swiftstride Shifter|Blood Hunter|Ebberon|Retired
Meephylia Polliwog|Grung|Dragon Sorcerer|Descent To Avernus|Retired
Ashryn Rairs|Changeling|Hexblade Warlock|Out Of The Abyss|Dead
Dex 1: 40
Dex 2: 47
Dex 3: 36
Dex 4: 34
Dex 5: 31
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\
Dia: You can feel the sunspot literally altering your cellular structure. It's very painful. You suffer 1532 points of damage.
Father: Oh, this is gonna leave a mark. Who said walking on a star would be easy. You suffer 1139 points of damage.
Tora: No damage.
THE SOLAR FLARE
On the surface, an awesome purple light show of various hues catches your attention as you navigate the star's surface in an effort to descend further below, a task alone that your mind can barely wrap your heads around. About 10,000 miles away, a colossal wave of burning gas rolls towards you - threatening to shatter the shields protecting you from instantly vaporizing. ****! Here it comes!
Avoiding the wave is impossible, and there is a chance your shield breaks.
Everyone needs to make two saves: DC45 STR save to take half of 2d5000 damage, and a DC40 CON save to not have the shield break. If you fail this save you are instantly vaporized as your sole mode of protection fails.
If any of you survive this ordeal, level up.
Alright, let's see if Father's lucky today...
DC45 Str: 52
DC40 Con: 39
His luck as run out and when his protection fails him, he gives one final look to Dia and Tora, saying, "You better survive this." before being fully vaporized.
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\
Tora prepares herself, body, mind, and soul before gritting her fanged teeth. Let's do this.
Strength Save: 61
Con save: 57
Nina Wildvale|Changeling|Wild Magic Sorcerer|Rise of The Reunelords|Active
Kai Loire|Water Genasia|Life Cleric|Road To Phandalin|Retired
Willow Twilight|Swiftstride Shifter|Blood Hunter|Ebberon|Retired
Meephylia Polliwog|Grung|Dragon Sorcerer|Descent To Avernus|Retired
Ashryn Rairs|Changeling|Hexblade Warlock|Out Of The Abyss|Dead
Two things Dia is not very good at, yay.
Str ST: 48
Con ST: 44
Dia lives! For now.
Stella Diamant, Human Rogue 17 (Swashbuckler), The Exploits of Misfit Company
Kat, Medtech, Cyberpunk: Red
Shi, Changeling Bard 4 (College of Spirits), Tyrant's Grasp
Dani, Human Artificer 9 (Armorer), Skulls and Starships
DM, Project Point (Teams Scimitar and Longsword)
Everything Else!
UMBRAL INTERIOR
You soon realize you're sinking into the core. Pure white light surrounds you now, as does a rumbling sound so deep that you feel it more than hear it. As you go deeper, the rumbling gets louder and higher in pitch. After a while, you notice that things colored red grow darker in color. It's as if they're fading to black. Orange items look yellower and purple items turn blue. As you descend further, the orange fades to black too. The light around you takes on a strong yellowish green tint.
The gas inside the star is growing hotter and is producing shorter wavelengths of radiation. Longer wavelengths at the red-orange end of the spectrum disappear, as a result, items that reflect those wavelengths end up black, absorbing all wavelengths. As you descend deeper you find the solar radiation shifting higher up the spectrum. The light grows green, then blue, and everything that isn't blue or violent grows black. Thousands of miles down below, you can see nothing but violet light. Since you both know nothing of light wavelengths, all of this is very eerie to you both.
During your journey down, you notice occasional pillars of shadow resting on dense patches of plasma. You realize that the pillar are huge tentacles carved out, housing hundreds of eldritch creatures that float around them. Some of them watch as you descend. As you gaze around, you see that they are everywhere. All you can hear is the deafening roar of the star.
What you're passing through now as you descend further is denser than solid rock. Overhead, a 400,000 mile deep sea of gas presses down on you. Nothing but the Umbral shield is protecting you. Outside the shield is boiling whiteness. Then, you bump into the black core of the star and in a moment are sucked into it, into the unknown, into the oblivion of something beyond space and time.
BEYOND
Coming soon.
(What you are about to read is the best representation of what your mind is "seeing" and "processing". While mortal, a creative liberty will have to be taken and assumed as you are definitely no longer in any time, space, or dimension that would or could possibly make any sense to you at this moment in time. Your imagination will have to be used!)
THE SHADOW EMPIRE
You stand before the beginnings of a vast ancient city in some sort of desert, as if the core of the Umbral star was actually some sort of dimensional habitat. Yet, you can't tell if you're in the core any longer - you feel no heat from the star, you are no longer shielded, and the sky is a horrible red and purple dawn, like the last day before a terrible annihilation. The ground seems solid at your feet. The air is still, and the deafening rumble of the star has ceased. The only thing you can hear are the sounds of a civilization beyond this reality.
The city ahead consists of ancient structures and towers made of pure black stone, runes are carved along nearly every inch, and terrible eldritch horrors populate it in numbers you couldn't possibly count. Pyramids and obelisks litter the vast city in totality, and in the background, hiding about a fourth of the sky from the ground, is the most terrifying thing you've ever seen in your life. It can only be explained as a upright elongated multi-eyed eldritch octopus-like entity with tentacles slowly writhing, towering over the city like a mortal over an ant. It's surface contains countless reptilian eyes - they all move independently of each other. Its skin is pitch black and featureless. It's shape mutates and undulates, the eyes of orange and red seeing all. It is so large it is impossible to tell just how titanic it is from this vantage point.
As you gaze upon an Elder God, you can still feel you are being tested. Even now.
COME, MY CHOSEN. YOU HAVE TRAVELED FAR. AS YOU PROVE YOUR WORTH, WITNESS THE FATE OF YOUR WORLD. BEHOLD, THE ONE WHO SHALL HERALD IT'S COMING.
THE BLACK EMPRESS
The Black Empress is one of the many Heralds of Umbra - avatars of the Elder God to perform it's bidding across time and space, corrupting and destroying worlds. In the sky, a rift opens, and Aetharis is shown from space - a shadow ridden planet suffocating under the throes of Darkness. Like an infection, the Darkness spreads at a rapid pace, destroying all life on the planet. You realize that if you wish to proceed further, the Black Empress must be defeated. Whether you chose to save your world or not, is up to you.
The Black Empress is a female drow warrior of unknown origin. You recognize her from earlier in your journey - but this time, appears much more menacing and powerful. She is wearing black armor and appears to be fluent in magic that would rip that fabric of reality in half. In her hand is a huge pole arm. Her helmet allows her white long hair to flow freely. She slowly approaches.
"Come. It was been a while since I enjoyed the challenge of testing a Chosen. Defeat me, and you may pass." she declared.
Defeat her in three rounds and save your world. She even lets you attack first.
Dia starts by dropping Maddening Darkness. Dark smoke envelops the Empress and surrounds her with gibbering shrieks.
As long as the Empress is within the darkness, she must make a DC 49 Wis ST or take 37 psychic damage, half on success.
If she fails that ST, Dia will use Commanding Obedience.
Whenever a hostile creature you can see within 30 feet of you fails a saving throw due to a spell of 1st level or higher that you control, you may command that creature to kneel. On that creature's turn, it must face you, then kneel and end it’s turn. While kneeling, the creature is considered prone. If the creature is immune to the prone condition, then the creature just ends it’s turn.
Dia also uses Brand of the Deceiver's Guile. The Empress must make a DC 49 Int ST or subtract a d6 from all attacks she rolls against Dia.
Sexy Twilight Destruction: 51
An'zig Vra: 98
An'zig Vra 2: 28
An'zig Vra 3 (only to be paid attention to if I'm able to use Commanding Obedience): 88
Stella Diamant, Human Rogue 17 (Swashbuckler), The Exploits of Misfit Company
Kat, Medtech, Cyberpunk: Red
Shi, Changeling Bard 4 (College of Spirits), Tyrant's Grasp
Dani, Human Artificer 9 (Armorer), Skulls and Starships
DM, Project Point (Teams Scimitar and Longsword)
Everything Else!
(Your HP increase x 1000 / Your to hit, saves, and check roll goes up by +30 / Your damage goes up by x 1000 / Your AC goes up by 30.)
JEZZIKA, THE BLACK EMPRESS - HERALD OF UMBRA
AC: 48 / HP: 163,000
DC49 WIS save: 38
DC49 INT save: 54
2
The Black Empress kneels.
Tora looks upon Jezzika with a few blinks before snarling. "Wont this be delightful." Seeing Dia make the first move, Tora takes her shot as Jezz is prone, lunging and unleashing many attacks.
Dont: Attack: 48 Damage: 13
Want: Attack: 51 Damage: 10
Your: Attack: 57 Damage: 6
Tentacles: Attack: 55 Damage: 12
Gushing wounds:
Attack 1: 53
Attack 2: 57
Attack 3: 63
Damage: 6
Attack 4: 72
OP Ac?
Action 1: 74
Action 2: 11
Action 2.5: 25
Action 3.: 3
Stunning strike con save dc 45:
Nina Wildvale|Changeling|Wild Magic Sorcerer|Rise of The Reunelords|Active
Kai Loire|Water Genasia|Life Cleric|Road To Phandalin|Retired
Willow Twilight|Swiftstride Shifter|Blood Hunter|Ebberon|Retired
Meephylia Polliwog|Grung|Dragon Sorcerer|Descent To Avernus|Retired
Ashryn Rairs|Changeling|Hexblade Warlock|Out Of The Abyss|Dead
46
JEZZIKA, THE BLACK EMPRESS - HERALD OF UMBRA
AC: 48 / HP: 117,000
You guys are up again.
Dia's Maddening Darkness remains.
DC 49 Wis ST or 46,000 psychic damage, half on success. If she fails, Dia will trigger Commanding Obedience again.
Then Dia casts blight. DC 49 Con ST from Jezz or 43,000 necrotic damage, half on success. If Jezz succeeded on the first ST but fails this one, Dia'll use Commanding Obedience again.
Finally, Dia tries Brand of the Deceiver's Guile again. DC 49 Int ST or she must subtract a d6 from future attacks against Dia.
Stella Diamant, Human Rogue 17 (Swashbuckler), The Exploits of Misfit Company
Kat, Medtech, Cyberpunk: Red
Shi, Changeling Bard 4 (College of Spirits), Tyrant's Grasp
Dani, Human Artificer 9 (Armorer), Skulls and Starships
DM, Project Point (Teams Scimitar and Longsword)
Everything Else!
DC49 WIS save: 40
DC49 CON save: 38
DC49 INT save: 40
JEZZIKA, THE BLACK EMPRESS - HERALD OF UMBRA
AC: 48 / HP: 51,000
Tora continues her assault on the Prone Jezz, looking her in the eyes as Tora's eyes fill with darkness and black shadows, a loud bell erupting around her into Jezz's mind.
Attack 1: Toll the dead: Wisdome save of 45 or take 37
Let's have: Attack: 53 Damage: 15
Some: Attack: 60 Damage: 10
Smickety smacks: Attack: 47 Damage: 11
On FOB: Invoke Wrath. The target suffers disadvantage on all attack rolls against targets other than you until the end of your next turn.
Gushing wounds:
Continuous: 10
More?
Attack 2: 79
Attack 3: 85
Attack 4: 67
OP ac:
Action 1: 94
Action 2: 10
Action 3: 74
Action 4: 90
Tora's AC is now 100 for the rest of the battle:
Stunning strike con save dc 45
Nina Wildvale|Changeling|Wild Magic Sorcerer|Rise of The Reunelords|Active
Kai Loire|Water Genasia|Life Cleric|Road To Phandalin|Retired
Willow Twilight|Swiftstride Shifter|Blood Hunter|Ebberon|Retired
Meephylia Polliwog|Grung|Dragon Sorcerer|Descent To Avernus|Retired
Ashryn Rairs|Changeling|Hexblade Warlock|Out Of The Abyss|Dead
DC45 WIS: 43
DC45 CON: 38
JEZZIKA, THE BLACK EMPRESS - HERALD OF UMBRA
AC: 48 / HP: 14,000