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<blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 2306599" data-attributes="member: 22622"><p><strong>Episode 26: Sacrifices</strong></p><p></p><p>Episode 26: Sacrafices</p><p>Pachon 6, 1122</p><p></p><p>Before them stood Evil. Pyre, the large Yuan-ti High Priest stood 50 ft tall. Herhands replaced by large vipers. The 50 foot tall reptilian being chanted carefully, as if any misspoken word could upset the large portal in front of her. Besides here was a familiar Drow Priestess named Cyntharia. Adorned in a red robe with a large ruby spider necklace draped around her frail neck, she held an old tome and a magnificent staff tipped with a spider similar to that of her necklace. Neither Pyre nor Cyntharia paid any attention to the six party members who had just “flushed” into the room.</p><p></p><p>Syxen, Rin, Alexandra, Vivian, Nikylik and Jalentriel, and unlikely band of heroes—all with ulterior motives—stood up. The chanting was an old form of Arcane Draconic. It was apparent that the ritual was opening the portal, to what the party know knows as the Ice Dimension- a rift between the plane of ice and Chrystaria. the dimension was one of six used to hold the magical crystals that created the shield over Chrystaria that prevents from planar travel and invasion. Of course the crystal can also be used to shut down the shield if it and the five other crystals fall into the wrong hands. Vivian already has one of the crystals in the form of the Masamune, the fire crystal. The location of the other four crystals is a mystery, but the group knows that there is a tome in the land of the elves that holds their locations.</p><p></p><p>Previous clues the party led them to believe that Cyntharia was a drow from a plane called Toril from a land called Faerun. There, a god, Lolth had planned on taking over Chrystaria by uniting the enslaved Drow. It was suspected she was working with the Chrystarian God’s Set and Sobek, as well a banished god from her plane called Seredess. But alliances between evil gods’s can be thin, as time soon will tell.</p><p></p><p>In any case the last time Vivian had seen Cyntharia, Vivian found herself on the losing side as the Drow Lich stole the Eland Stone, an artifact used to activate ancient dimensional transportation devices. Cyntharia used the device to transport to Chrystaria a small troop of drow including herself, and several others, more importantly Jezz the Lame, a devout Lt. of Lolth in Faerun. This also included Tryan, a former associate of Vivian from Faerun and a cultist of Seredess.</p><p></p><p>Now, here is Cyntharia, apparently opening the Ice portal to travel there and retrieve the Ice Crystal/weapon. Two sacrifices lay before her. A young Chrystarian woman, whose tattered clothing shows signs of royalty? It was the real Alexandra, the Nomarch’s Daughter. Beside her was a halfling young boy, perhaps from the nameless village.</p><p></p><p>The party moved to save them, but was met by six drow all bearing two-bladed swords with the Lolth holy symbol embedded in the hilt. The leader of the troop wielded a blade powered by a sharp blue energy, a soulblade no doubt.</p><p></p><p>Jalentriel moved first, casting various protection spells. Syxen, Vivian and Rin took the frontline, hammering through the drow and meeting them blow for blow. Nikylik and Alexandria hammered spells over the fierce melee fight before them, with Alexandria interrupting the chanting several times firing her damaging exploding fire beetle spell in-between the two several times. Pyre stood adamant in the chanting. With every word he spoke the 60ft circular disk rippled with blue wavy light as the 100s of frozen Yuan-ti on the ice dimension looked clearer. Cyntharia was easily angered though and spit several waves of negative energy at the party, sending unholy damage to them.</p><p>Just as Syxen and Rin broke the bodies of the drow warriors before them, Alexandria fired a massive fire beetle spell at the two evil clerics, this time seriously damaging Pyre. Cyntharia urged pyre to take care of their pest problem as she finished the chanting.</p><p>Pyre charged the party pulling a large Falchion shaped like a massive cobra from his sachets. The Falchion was the size of the 8 foot tall Syxen. Syxen met the extremely large Yuan-ti head on with his own smaller Falchion. The two exchanged blows as each sword clash produced an explosion of light and dark energy. Rin and Syxen joined the fight as Pyre’s blows began to chafe the metal of the brave Forged. Alexandra attempted to sneak by Pyre, but her Falchion met her feet nearly slicing the Priestess of Isis in Laugh. She fell to the ground bleeding heavily as Pyre mocked her weak God. Nikylik, pepped up with a haste spell, jolted over to Alexandria, binding her wounds so that the priestess could heal herself.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Cyntharia continued the chanting and strolled about the back of the room, unmet by any combat. She donned the warm heavy fur clothing in the back of the room still chanting. Within seconds of her words the portal appeared nearly complete. She called her drow warriors back. Viewing the blood, flesh and metal flying about. She flew to the top of the ceiling and launched massive ball of fire energy at everyone--- including Pyre.</p><p></p><p>“You have been unworthy to join me, but thank you for being stupid enough to help me open the portal,” she said spitting another one at her. The entire room heated beyond the hottest temperatures. A seared Jalentriel fell to the ground gasping for air and dying from his burns. The others looked badly injured as well. Alexandria barely escaped death as she managed to turn into a beetle and scurry behind a nearby statue.</p><p></p><p>An angry Pyre stopped focusing his attention on Syxen and turned it to Cyntharia.</p><p></p><p>“You traitor, my god trusted you. Now you will meet your end,” he said, turning his Falchion on her. He stabbed her with the Falchion and through her to the other side of the room. Her remaining Drow guards attempted to help, but were killed by Vivian’s breath weapon.</p><p></p><p>Alexandria flew over in beetle form to the sacrifices. Unfortunately she had gotten to the halfling boy too late as he had been injured by the ice attack and broken into pieces. She unbound Alexandria and turned her into beetle form.</p><p></p><p>Cyntharia floated to the top of the 100ft ceiling firing a massive ice attack into the room. Syxen, knowing he could not reach the Drow Lich, laid a massive blow into the distracted Pyre splitting him in half; Rin joined the attack to finish off the creature. As Pyre fell to the ground in a mass of flesh and scale, his Unholy Falchion toppled on top of him. Cyntharia, seeing her greatest threat dead, cast an invisibility spell on herself. Vivian, wielding the Masamune, could still see her however, and through a tanglefoot bag at her legs. The others saw the floating tanglefoot bag and fired at her. Jalentriel attempted to teleport on top of her, but missed her terribly and ended up at the top of the temple in the pool of snakes.</p><p></p><p>Nikylik turned into a bat and flew up to the Cyntharia, attaching to her tightly. However, it was not enough as she flew into the portal with the bat formed gnome attached to her.</p><p></p><p>Rin screamed out no as she headed to the portal before being held by Vivian.</p><p></p><p>“We will rescue the little one but we need to rest first we are no help for him in this form,” she told her.</p><p></p><p>Alexandria turned back into human form and healed the wounds of her namesake. She then began the ritual to resurrect the halfling boy.</p><p></p><p>Syxen consoled Princess Alexandra. Neither the halfling nor her knew much about their captors other than they were captured.</p><p></p><p>A bloody Rin hobbled to the furs and began to rampage through them finding several pieces of torn parchment.</p><p></p><p>The information found put more of the pieces together.</p><p></p><p>One of the papers was a page from a book that could have only came from the libraries of the church. Giving indication that the drow may have some type of relationship with the Chrystarian Church. The paper had information about the Yuan-ti temple and a brief description that it held the Ice Portal. On a separate piece of parchment was a note about the ritual. Two nobles blooded virgins were needed to open the portal and the portal would stay open for one week or until the two had been drained completely of blood.</p><p></p><p>On another sheet of paper was a note from Cyntharia to one of her henchmen. “Now that we have used the Yuan-ti and its cultists to cause havoc in the Quarta Set Kingdom and we have manipulated the Witchhunters with the Masamune into causing the havoc, it is time to steal Regal’s Sword as Ihat Quaa is reluctant to helping us obtain it until he is in power. We can not go by his timeline as he may betray us so we shall obtain it on our own as security will be laxed.”</p><p></p><p>The last bit of paper was a note written by Jezz to Cyntharia instructing him that the god’s have ordered her to destroy the Yuan-ti after the portal is open as there will be no room for the snake slaves with the Drow, Shadowdemons, and Cultists of Set. It also notes that he had talked to “Mr. Smith” and “Mr. Smith” was assuring that the people whom have the Masamune will be traveling to Quarta Set soon just as Jezz asked. Jezz tells Cyntharia in the note to keep them occupied and obtain the sword after they are weakened by the Yuan-ti. Then bring both the Fire Crystal Masamune and the Ice Crystal weapon to him.</p><p></p><p>“Mr. Smith!” yelled Vivian as she realized how far the manipulation had gone. “</p><p></p><p>“Let us rest as we have much to do if we are going to apprehend the culprit behind all of this,” suggested Alexandria.</p><p></p><p>The party rested for the night as Syxen took watch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DonTadow, post: 2306599, member: 22622"] [b]Episode 26: Sacrifices[/b] Episode 26: Sacrafices Pachon 6, 1122 Before them stood Evil. Pyre, the large Yuan-ti High Priest stood 50 ft tall. Herhands replaced by large vipers. The 50 foot tall reptilian being chanted carefully, as if any misspoken word could upset the large portal in front of her. Besides here was a familiar Drow Priestess named Cyntharia. Adorned in a red robe with a large ruby spider necklace draped around her frail neck, she held an old tome and a magnificent staff tipped with a spider similar to that of her necklace. Neither Pyre nor Cyntharia paid any attention to the six party members who had just “flushed” into the room. Syxen, Rin, Alexandra, Vivian, Nikylik and Jalentriel, and unlikely band of heroes—all with ulterior motives—stood up. The chanting was an old form of Arcane Draconic. It was apparent that the ritual was opening the portal, to what the party know knows as the Ice Dimension- a rift between the plane of ice and Chrystaria. the dimension was one of six used to hold the magical crystals that created the shield over Chrystaria that prevents from planar travel and invasion. Of course the crystal can also be used to shut down the shield if it and the five other crystals fall into the wrong hands. Vivian already has one of the crystals in the form of the Masamune, the fire crystal. The location of the other four crystals is a mystery, but the group knows that there is a tome in the land of the elves that holds their locations. Previous clues the party led them to believe that Cyntharia was a drow from a plane called Toril from a land called Faerun. There, a god, Lolth had planned on taking over Chrystaria by uniting the enslaved Drow. It was suspected she was working with the Chrystarian God’s Set and Sobek, as well a banished god from her plane called Seredess. But alliances between evil gods’s can be thin, as time soon will tell. In any case the last time Vivian had seen Cyntharia, Vivian found herself on the losing side as the Drow Lich stole the Eland Stone, an artifact used to activate ancient dimensional transportation devices. Cyntharia used the device to transport to Chrystaria a small troop of drow including herself, and several others, more importantly Jezz the Lame, a devout Lt. of Lolth in Faerun. This also included Tryan, a former associate of Vivian from Faerun and a cultist of Seredess. Now, here is Cyntharia, apparently opening the Ice portal to travel there and retrieve the Ice Crystal/weapon. Two sacrifices lay before her. A young Chrystarian woman, whose tattered clothing shows signs of royalty? It was the real Alexandra, the Nomarch’s Daughter. Beside her was a halfling young boy, perhaps from the nameless village. The party moved to save them, but was met by six drow all bearing two-bladed swords with the Lolth holy symbol embedded in the hilt. The leader of the troop wielded a blade powered by a sharp blue energy, a soulblade no doubt. Jalentriel moved first, casting various protection spells. Syxen, Vivian and Rin took the frontline, hammering through the drow and meeting them blow for blow. Nikylik and Alexandria hammered spells over the fierce melee fight before them, with Alexandria interrupting the chanting several times firing her damaging exploding fire beetle spell in-between the two several times. Pyre stood adamant in the chanting. With every word he spoke the 60ft circular disk rippled with blue wavy light as the 100s of frozen Yuan-ti on the ice dimension looked clearer. Cyntharia was easily angered though and spit several waves of negative energy at the party, sending unholy damage to them. Just as Syxen and Rin broke the bodies of the drow warriors before them, Alexandria fired a massive fire beetle spell at the two evil clerics, this time seriously damaging Pyre. Cyntharia urged pyre to take care of their pest problem as she finished the chanting. Pyre charged the party pulling a large Falchion shaped like a massive cobra from his sachets. The Falchion was the size of the 8 foot tall Syxen. Syxen met the extremely large Yuan-ti head on with his own smaller Falchion. The two exchanged blows as each sword clash produced an explosion of light and dark energy. Rin and Syxen joined the fight as Pyre’s blows began to chafe the metal of the brave Forged. Alexandra attempted to sneak by Pyre, but her Falchion met her feet nearly slicing the Priestess of Isis in Laugh. She fell to the ground bleeding heavily as Pyre mocked her weak God. Nikylik, pepped up with a haste spell, jolted over to Alexandria, binding her wounds so that the priestess could heal herself. Meanwhile, Cyntharia continued the chanting and strolled about the back of the room, unmet by any combat. She donned the warm heavy fur clothing in the back of the room still chanting. Within seconds of her words the portal appeared nearly complete. She called her drow warriors back. Viewing the blood, flesh and metal flying about. She flew to the top of the ceiling and launched massive ball of fire energy at everyone--- including Pyre. “You have been unworthy to join me, but thank you for being stupid enough to help me open the portal,” she said spitting another one at her. The entire room heated beyond the hottest temperatures. A seared Jalentriel fell to the ground gasping for air and dying from his burns. The others looked badly injured as well. Alexandria barely escaped death as she managed to turn into a beetle and scurry behind a nearby statue. An angry Pyre stopped focusing his attention on Syxen and turned it to Cyntharia. “You traitor, my god trusted you. Now you will meet your end,” he said, turning his Falchion on her. He stabbed her with the Falchion and through her to the other side of the room. Her remaining Drow guards attempted to help, but were killed by Vivian’s breath weapon. Alexandria flew over in beetle form to the sacrifices. Unfortunately she had gotten to the halfling boy too late as he had been injured by the ice attack and broken into pieces. She unbound Alexandria and turned her into beetle form. Cyntharia floated to the top of the 100ft ceiling firing a massive ice attack into the room. Syxen, knowing he could not reach the Drow Lich, laid a massive blow into the distracted Pyre splitting him in half; Rin joined the attack to finish off the creature. As Pyre fell to the ground in a mass of flesh and scale, his Unholy Falchion toppled on top of him. Cyntharia, seeing her greatest threat dead, cast an invisibility spell on herself. Vivian, wielding the Masamune, could still see her however, and through a tanglefoot bag at her legs. The others saw the floating tanglefoot bag and fired at her. Jalentriel attempted to teleport on top of her, but missed her terribly and ended up at the top of the temple in the pool of snakes. Nikylik turned into a bat and flew up to the Cyntharia, attaching to her tightly. However, it was not enough as she flew into the portal with the bat formed gnome attached to her. Rin screamed out no as she headed to the portal before being held by Vivian. “We will rescue the little one but we need to rest first we are no help for him in this form,” she told her. Alexandria turned back into human form and healed the wounds of her namesake. She then began the ritual to resurrect the halfling boy. Syxen consoled Princess Alexandra. Neither the halfling nor her knew much about their captors other than they were captured. A bloody Rin hobbled to the furs and began to rampage through them finding several pieces of torn parchment. The information found put more of the pieces together. One of the papers was a page from a book that could have only came from the libraries of the church. Giving indication that the drow may have some type of relationship with the Chrystarian Church. The paper had information about the Yuan-ti temple and a brief description that it held the Ice Portal. On a separate piece of parchment was a note about the ritual. Two nobles blooded virgins were needed to open the portal and the portal would stay open for one week or until the two had been drained completely of blood. On another sheet of paper was a note from Cyntharia to one of her henchmen. “Now that we have used the Yuan-ti and its cultists to cause havoc in the Quarta Set Kingdom and we have manipulated the Witchhunters with the Masamune into causing the havoc, it is time to steal Regal’s Sword as Ihat Quaa is reluctant to helping us obtain it until he is in power. We can not go by his timeline as he may betray us so we shall obtain it on our own as security will be laxed.” The last bit of paper was a note written by Jezz to Cyntharia instructing him that the god’s have ordered her to destroy the Yuan-ti after the portal is open as there will be no room for the snake slaves with the Drow, Shadowdemons, and Cultists of Set. It also notes that he had talked to “Mr. Smith” and “Mr. Smith” was assuring that the people whom have the Masamune will be traveling to Quarta Set soon just as Jezz asked. Jezz tells Cyntharia in the note to keep them occupied and obtain the sword after they are weakened by the Yuan-ti. Then bring both the Fire Crystal Masamune and the Ice Crystal weapon to him. “Mr. Smith!” yelled Vivian as she realized how far the manipulation had gone. “ “Let us rest as we have much to do if we are going to apprehend the culprit behind all of this,” suggested Alexandria. The party rested for the night as Syxen took watch. [/QUOTE]
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