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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 824817" data-attributes="member: 1210">Battle With a Bile LordRed swings his greatsword again, and this time he manages to punch a hole through the armor of the deathbringer along its upper arm.  His skill is phenomenal; he inflicts what should be telling damage, but the deathbringer hardly seems to notice.  Red snarls at it, but its sewn-shut eyes don't seem to notice.  Still, it clearly knows where he is.  It swings its two flails around, but instead of striking at Red it slams Thrush twice in the chest and head, then twice more in the arms, and tries to trip him with the chain of a flail!  The former servant of the Bile Lords manages to keep his feet by bracing all his weight and strength against the chain, then rolling it free of his body, but he's stumbling, the bones of his chest broken, blood pouring from his mouth and nose.  He looks like he's nearly down, and he's stunned from the force of the critical hit to the head.Angelfire tumbles in towards Chemnu, but as he does so Axon catches him mid-tumble* and stabs him in the leg, stopping him cold and knocking him prone.  Even so, he's close enough to Chemnu that the sickening aura around the Bile Lord is making him feel ill and weak.  Habiskis appears as he tries frantically to stab Chemnu with the unicorn horn dagger; his blow hits the Bile Lord right in the eye and inflicts some damage, but as the imp screams curses the damage heals almost instantly.  Even he, from Hell, is sickened by Chemnu's aura.  Lionel, Horbin's planetar buddy, is moving in at the Bile Lord, casting defensive and buffing spells, trying to banish him and so forth.Sheva quaffs a bitter-tasting potion of haste and casts the last spells she has time to before joining battle, divine power, righteous might and death ward.  She moves in towards Chemnu.  As she gets within his sickening aura her stomach roils and rebels and she feels the threat of vomit churning within her.Chemnu sprouts a dozen image replicas and then blasts Angelfire with a finger of death.  The scarlet warrior of Coila shrugs off the blast, but he's on the floor....*I use the counter tumbling variant in Sword & Fist, which allows you to make an opposed tumble check to take your aoo on somebody tumbling anyway...Next Time: This battle took most of two games to resolve!  It only gets uglier!  Watch a pc get flat-out slain by Axon and Axel- after all, what do you get when you mix a threat range of 7-20 with the ability to inflict maximum damage when he doesn't inflict a crit??</blockquote>

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