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Jun 4, 2019 12:40 am
Zenithral emerges from the pit to find one of the giants buried under a pile of orcs. The townsfolk have backed, up wary of these howling new arrivals. When they see dozens more orcs swarming onto the road to attack the other two giants, the villagers turn back to their wagons and try desperately to work them free of the mud.

Off to one side is a large charred area, blackened no doubt by one of Nurval’s fireballs. There are perhaps a dozen orc corpses smoldering there.

Nurval’s chuckle at the destruction sticks in its throat as Zenithral’s first arrow pierces deeply into its back. It wheels in the air and glares down at the archer, and Zenithral suddenly finds himself confused. That glorious being up there cannot possibly be his enemy... His second arrow finds Ilmadia instead, just as she reaches the top of the pit herself.

"What has Belhifet done to you, Swan?" The fiend chortles as it unstoppers a potion. "Plenty, if the rumors are true. But this... I’m not sure if even he can claim original credit for this, though he is certainly reaping the situation for all it is worth now."

Meanwhile, the remaining two giants pull themselves free of their holes and swat away the nearest orcs with their axes, then begin moving carefully in the direction of Easthaven and Cryshal-Tirith.

Nurval empties the contents of the potion with one moist slurp, then drops the glass bottle to the ground below. The devil grins with its entire considerable mouth as its wounds begin to close (Nurval heals 46 points). "And now to make sure you rats stay dead!" It begins chanting another spell.

Rolls

Potion of Supreme Healing - (10d4+20)

(2444233112) + 20 = 46

Jun 4, 2019 12:45 am
Round 5!
OOC:
Nurval is about 40 feet away and quite high in the air, beyond the reach of melee weapons.
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Jun 4, 2019 2:06 am
Alalla pulls herself over the edge of the pit with a grunt and surveys the scene. A dozen orc corpses. A dozen souls sent to Gruumsh. She looks away.

Ilmadia looks pale and sickly, almost like she had looked before Zenithral and his god performed their rescue. It doesn't seem to have much to do with Zenithral's arrow sticking from her shoulder. Plenty. Is it horror? Disgust? Shame? Whatever she is feeling, they don't have time for it.

"Liadon!" Ilmadia turns and Alalla tosses her bow, then quickly retrieves her glaive.

Two throws of her glaive miss, but the handaxe that follows lodges itself solidly in Nurval's far from solid bloat.

Nurval takes 12 slashing damage.

HP: 32/154
AC: 20
Zone: 15 feet away from the hole to one side
Last edited June 4, 2019 2:39 am

Rolls

Attack 1 - (1d20+10)

(6) + 10 = 16

Attack 2 - (1d20+10)

(9) + 10 = 19

Attack 3 (handaxe) - (1d20+11)

(10) + 11 = 21

Damage - (1d6+6)

(6) + 6 = 12

Jun 4, 2019 2:14 am
The bow is enough to shake Ilmadia from whatever recollection she is having. She catches it with a groan and bends quickly to help herself to Zenithral's arrows. She rips the one from her shoulder and, after checking it quickly, nocks it first.

"I haven't touched one of these ridiculous things in..." Loose. Her technique is admirable and her arrow flies true. She would have been considered a remarkable archer among the militia in Bryn Shander. As long as Zenithral with his profound new skill, or Arannis with his natural dexterity, did not make an appearance.

Ilmadia shoots Zenithral a wink. "Your grandfather thought I never practiced." She darts away to spread out the target the group is becoming.

Nurval takes 10 slashing damage

HP: 75/109
AC: 20
Zone: close to Nurval, away from Al & the pit
Last edited June 4, 2019 2:41 am

Rolls

Attack - (1d20+9)

(14) + 9 = 23

Damage - (1d8+2)

(8) + 2 = 10

Jun 4, 2019 2:32 am
Zenithral gapes in shock as he releases his second arrow. "Mother! I---" He growls, turning back towards Nurval. "His enchantments..."

Panicking, Zenithral dashes behind a boulder to prevent himself from shooting any more allies, then fires away desperately, but to no avail. Sloppy! He ducks behind the boulder, using it to hide from the devil's sight.

HP 52/105
AC 17
Last edited June 4, 2019 2:34 am

Rolls

Longbow 1, 2, 3 (Sharpshooter!!) - (1d20+6, 1d20+6, 1d20+6)

1d20+6 : (7) + 6 = 13

1d20+6 : (4) + 6 = 10

1d20+6 : (11) + 6 = 17

Jun 4, 2019 2:43 am
Nurval grunts away the attacks (Nurval resists the damage from Ilmadia’s arrow, reducing the damage done by 5) and finishes his spell... For a moment Alalla feels her perception of the scene terribly altered. Nurval is an ally - a commander worthy following! And all of these who oppose her commander... Her fingers involuntarily tighten about her weapon. And then she recognizes the mental intrusion for what it is and successfully blocks it with her iron determination.

The devil snorts in frustration and turns back to the giants and lets out a commanding bellow. "Keep it steady! Don’t let them surround you!"

The giants nod and each lets loose a tumbling boulder that rolls through the orc ranks (9 more orcs die). The orcs are fast, however. Even as some of them fall in broken heaps, dozens more spring forward with surprising speed and begin hacking at the closest giant’s legs as if felling a meaty blue tree (FG 3 takes 131 slashing damage).

More arrows come whistling in from the village bowmen (FG 3 takes 23 piercing damage), and the besieged giant realizes in horror that it is in trouble. The second giant comes to the same conclusion, and turns to run.

"No... Idiots!" Nurval shakes a pudgy fist in the giants’ direction. "Stones for brains! Don’t break formation! In Avernus you’d be given your own intestines as medicine for such cowardice!"

Rolls

Al wis save DC 19 - (1d20+1)

(17) + 1 = 18

Boulder 1 damage - (4d10+6)

(2182) + 6 = 19

Boulder 2 damage - (4d10+6)

(77710) + 6 = 37

Dmg to giant 3 - (12d12+36)

(11119517118108311) + 36 = 131

Dmg to giant 3 - (4d6+8)

(2436) + 8 = 23

Al wis save adv! - (1d20+1)

(19) + 1 = 20

Jun 4, 2019 3:15 am
Round 6!!

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Jun 4, 2019 3:21 am
"Stay out of my head!" Alalla throws her glaive once more and follows with two hand axes. It seems to do little against the massive fiend.

Nurval takes 17 slashing damage.
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Rolls

Glaive - (1d20+10)

(15) + 10 = 25

Handaxe - (1d20+11)

(7) + 11 = 18

Damage - (1d10+5)

(5) + 5 = 10

Other handaxe - (1d20+10)

(17) + 10 = 27

Damage - (1d6+5)

(2) + 5 = 7

Jun 4, 2019 3:22 am
"Come on, now, focus!" Zenithral steps out from behind the boulder with arrows ready. His arrows simply don't fly true and he wished he had that magic bow again. He hides behind the boulder once more. "You're mother's a better archer than you it seems..."

Purification. Orcs. Giants. Devils. Zenithral's mind was just too out of focus. Getting smashed by boulders and blasted by a fireball probably had something to do with it too.

HP 52/105
AC 17
Last edited June 4, 2019 3:25 am

Rolls

NeeeaaH! (Longbow 1, 2, 3, Sharp) - (1d20+6, 1d20+6, 1d20+6)

1d20+6 : (4) + 6 = 10

1d20+6 : (8) + 6 = 14

1d20+6 : (1) + 6 = 7

Curving Shot vs Giant - (1d20+6)

(4) + 6 = 10

Jun 4, 2019 3:27 am
"Focus, Zenithral," Ilmadia calls, adopting Arannis' tone with a mocking twist. "A watchman cannot watch if he is unfocused!" Another skilled shot hits Nurval's stomach.

Nurval takes 9 piercing damage.
Last edited June 4, 2019 3:39 am

Rolls

Attack - (1d20+9)

(14) + 9 = 23

Damage - (1d8+2)

(7) + 2 = 9

Jun 4, 2019 3:35 am
Alalla, still reeling from the magical battle for control of her mind, finds herself hurling her glaive in the wrong direction. At the wrong enemy. The weapon grazes Ilmadia’s side (Ilmadia takes 10 damage instead of Nurval. Also, he resists the damage from Al’s nonmagical handaxe).

The wounded giant topples, and orc and human voices blend together in cheers of triumph. As the orcs give chase to the final giant (56 damage to FG4), Nurval waggles its head back and forth violently, spittle flying. With wrath in its eyes the amnizu whirls on Zenithral. "Enough from you!"

...And suddenly Zenithral finds himself wondering why he is even here. Confusion warps his mind so thoroughly that he cannot bring himself to act (Zen is stunned for 1 minute, but can reroll the DC 19 Intelligence saving throw at the end of each of his turns).

Rolls

Al wis save DC 19 vs instinctive charm - (1d20+1)

(17) + 1 = 18

Zen int save DC 19 - (1d20+3)

(10) + 3 = 13

Orc damage to giant 4 - (4d6+12)

(6652) + 12 = 31

Bowmen damage to giant 4 - (4d6+8)

(4634) + 8 = 25

Jun 4, 2019 3:57 am
Round 7!!!

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Jun 4, 2019 4:00 am
Where was he?

Bow. He had a bow. Arrows? Yes, he had arrows. But why? And what was that...thing in the sky?

He looked around to find two women, a tiefling and a half-elf fighting. A glaive to the half-elf. A handaxe to the thing. An arrow to the thing. He wished he could shoot like that. He looked over at the fleeing frost giants and the orcs and archers. Was he supposed to be over there? Who was he supposed to shoot? Everyone was attacking everyone else.

Perhaps he just needed to watch for a bit. Yes. That seemed like a good idea.

HP 52/105
AC 17
Last edited June 4, 2019 4:05 am

Rolls

Int Save - (1d20+3)

(13) + 3 = 16

Jun 4, 2019 4:14 am
Alalla summons her glaive and grips it tight, wracking her brain. "We can't fail now, Torm," she whispers. "We can't. We-" A sudden remembrance strikes her and she rips her bag from her back and digs through the magical space. There. "Liadon! She throws a thin wand to the elven woman.

Al spends her action retrieving the wand from the bag of holding.

HP: 32/154
AC: 20
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Jun 4, 2019 4:16 am
Ilmadia catches the wand with a look of surprise. She grins and turns back to the devil, pointing the want into the center of its mass. She shouts an arcane word and lighting shoots from it into the fiend. It jiggles repulsively, wounds spraying slightly steaming blood.

Nurval takes 16 lightning damage.

HP: 64/109
AC: 20
Last edited June 4, 2019 4:25 am

Rolls

Nurval dex save DC 15 (advantage) - (1d20+7, 1d20+7)

1d20+7 : (8) + 7 = 15

1d20+7 : (13) + 7 = 20

Damage - (10d8)

(4113242258) = 32

Jun 4, 2019 4:25 am
In the distance the wails of the last giant can be heard as the orc army catches up to it.

While Nurval staggers under the power of the lightning wand, a new sound reaches the companions’ ears. An enormous eagle swoops down from the sky, heading for Zenithral like an arrow from his own bow. Just before striking the archer, it’s form shifts into Halla. The woman crouches low, words and hands already weaving a spell. A moment later, clarity of mind returns to Zenithral on the wings of a warm breeze (Zen’s no longer stunned).

"No! I grow tired of this realm. Kill me, and send me back to my home. And perhaps I will take some of you with me... Or something worse still!" Nurval spits his most vile curse yet, attempting to crush Halla’s mind with an awful, powerful spell.

The woman gasps and grabs her skull, then drops to her knees. Her voice becomes only the most pitiful of moans (Halla takes 18 psychic damage and is subject to the Feeblemind spell).
[ +- ] Feeblemind

Rolls

Halla int save DC 19 - (1d20+6)

(9) + 6 = 15

Dmg to Halla (psychic) - (4d6)

(4266) = 18

Jun 4, 2019 4:33 am
Round 8!!!

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Jun 4, 2019 4:36 am
"Halla! So wonderful to see y---"

Zenithral staggers backwards in horror as his wife's mind is assaulted. He whips around to see Nurval, his mind coming back to him.

"You." His voice is filled with pure hatred. His mind cleared, he now sets his sights on one goal: sending that devil back to the hells.

He steps around the boulder once more to make sure Halla, Alalla, and Ilmadia are out of his sight. Despite his reserves of focus and magic being gone before, his arrows burst into light and he lets loose. One arrow. Two. Radiance bursts from them as they strike.
(39 damage to Nurval. Needs to die.)

When Nurval falls out of the way of the third, he bends it through the air and it hits the fleeing frost giant with a flash.
(20 damage to frost giant)


HP 52/105
AC 17
Last edited June 4, 2019 4:50 am

Rolls

Longbow 1 (Sharp) - (1d20+6)

(19) + 6 = 25

Longbow 2 - (1d20+6)

(17) + 6 = 23

Longbow 3 - (1d20+6)

(8) + 6 = 14

Curving Shot vs Giant - (1d20+6)

(18) + 6 = 24

Damage vs Nurval - (2d8+28)

(56) + 28 = 39

Damage vs Giant - (1d8+14)

(6) + 14 = 20

Jun 4, 2019 4:59 am
Nurval roars as each arrow strikes deeply into its corpulent mass. Its wings beat furiously to keep it aloft, but then the body swells like an enormous, bloated pimple. It pops, and black sludge rains down on those below.

Nurval plagues this plane no more.
Jun 4, 2019 5:03 am
The giant bellows its last, and then there is only the cheerful victory howls of scores of orcs as they make their way back to the road. One of them breaks off from the rest and trots up to the companions. Morrugh is covered in blood, but from his wide-tusked smile it does not seem to be his own. "Thur’Kafaz! A bird told me that we would be needed in the East, and so we have come!"
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