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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 1867300" data-attributes="member: 4441">*Staeven watches in sudden horror as the Baroness plants a dagger squarely in his heart.  The Phoenix Knight collapses, dead, as Ssessarina, in the Baroness' guise, falls silent, a terrible smile on her face.**Nessa uses her magic boots to put herself off the ground.  Unknown to her, the invisible Aekir lashes out, clawing deeply into her legs, drawing again part of her spirit.  Nessa gives a scream to warn the others of her danger.**Torr continues to keep himself still, drawing no further ire from the forces of good.  Sebastion hears Nessa's cries and glares at Torr.*"Make no move if you wish to preserve what is left of your miserable life," he warns, and then charges towards Nessa, swinging at her invisible attacker.  With a lucky hit, he strikes Aekir, blood appearing from the air to splatter on the walls and floor.*Ralam suddenly seems to fade from view.  Darren, not wanting him to get away, stabs in his last location.  That fails to find purchase, and in despiration that the assassin hasn't moved, Darren weaves the blade in the air and stabs again, this time striking deep.**Aekir rips and shreads Nessa, pulling her down into his vile embrace.  With a shudder, he finds her heart, and thrusts into it, ending the holy mage's mortal life.*Nessa:  [spoiler]You find yourself back where you were, but everthing about you is in tones of gray and white.  The walls seem misty and unsubstantial, and vaguely you can see Lyssia (in full color) through the wall.  You realize you are in the realms of the spirits, the place between life and death, and it seems you've been given a second chance to fight for good.  The laws of reality do not hold sway here, and those that seem in full color like you are also spirits, or things that can affect them.[/spoiler]*Ghost dashes forward from his hiding place, and attempts to slash his blade across Norin's throat and end the saint's life.  To his surprise, the attack goes wide, and only strikes a deep gash on the monk's arm.  Though Ghost remains invisible, Norin realizes that someone has just attacked him from an unseen quarter.**Regardless of his own safety, Norin leaps away from his attack, towards the invisible assassin that Darren attacked.  As the saint leaps in, Ralam becomes visible again, making him a target for the righteous monk.  His fist is encased in golden ice as it hammers Ralam's jaw.  The blow reels him, and while he is able to fend off the affects of the ice which threaten to slow his limbs, the punch leaves him stunned.**Sylinda's summoning finally comes to fruition as a grace of unicorns appear in the room.  Two immediately go to attack Ralam, while a third begins to threaten the invisible attacker standing over Nessa's corpse.  The fourth remains between Sylinda and danger.**One of the unicorns threatening Ralam manages to spear him with its pure white horn.  The one trying to help Sebastion cannot seem to spear the invisible assassin.*Spirit Combat[spoiler]*Lyssia sees Gwyn, the only one in color in this strange world, and sears him with her rays of holy light.  Gwyn feels the pain only distantly, even though his flesh seems to dim in color.  Taking advantage of the spirit realm, he dives beneath the floor, and comes up under Lyssia.  Startled, she reflexively slashes down with her longsword, slicing clean through Gwyn without leaving a mark, though his colors dim further.  Tacking her, Gwyn manages to pin her in a viscious bear hug.**Staeven steps out from behind the shadowy screen.  Gwyn is understanably somewhat startled to see his killer again, and realizes that Staeven must have died.  The Phoenix Knight has his glimmering bastard sword in one hand, and points it at Gwyn.*"Let her go demon!  I killed you once, and I can do it again!" he roars.[/spoiler]~~~~~~~~~~~~s~~S,St~~s~~sssssssssss~~Gh,~~T~~D~L,G~~~~~~U,R,U~~~~~U~~~No~~~Sy~~~U~~~~~~------d--------~~~A,Se~~~~~~~~~~N~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~[OOC - Initiative:Ssessarina - 26 <s></s><s>Nessa - 24 [N]</s><s>Torr - 22 [T] (shaken)</s><s>Sebastion - 21[Se]</s><s>Ralam - 18 [R]</s><s>Darren - 15 [D]</s><s>Aekir - 12 [A]</s><s>Ghost - 11 [Gh]</s><s>Norin - 10 [No]</s><s>Sylinda - 9 [Sy]</s><s>Unicorns - 9 </s><s></s><s>Spirit Battle</s><s>Lyssia - 25 [L]</s><s>Gwyn - 23 [G] </s><s>Staeven - 20 [St]</s><s></s><s>s - screen</s><s>d - doorway</s><s>---- - wall</s><s>~ - 5'</s><s></s><s>Italics mean that someone is invisible, hidden, or otherwise concealed.  Please do not make use of this information if you don't know it otherwise.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></s><s></s><s>Ssessarina kills Staeven (rolled craptastically on his Fort save...), and he joins the spirit battle this round.  Nessa goes up and gets hit with a 22 on an AoO by Aekir, dealing 17 points of damage, 1 point of Vile damage, and a negative level to her.  Torr delays.  Sebastion charges, hits Aekir (I did roll his 50% miss chance) with a 35 for 19 points of damage.  Ralam activates the ring (standard), and sheaths his weapon (move).  He can move and attack next round.  Darren gets an AoO, missing because of the invisibility.  He then feints successfully and makes an attack (this time hitting) with an 26 for 30 points of damage to Ralam.  </s><s></s><s>Aekir makes a full attack on Nessa, provoking an AoO from Sebastion, which misses because of the invisibility.  Aekir hits Nessa four times, and one is a crit.  She takes 69 points of damage, 4 points of vile damage, and four negative levels.  Nessa dies, and joins the spirit combat next round.  Aekir did not get her soul.  Ghost attacks Norin, but he makes his Fort save and doesn't die.  Norin takes 27 points of damage from an invisible attacker.  Norin goes to attack Ralam, his aura supressing Ralam's ring of invisibility.  He hits a 30 for 14 points of damage to Ralam. Ralam makes the save on the Touch of Golden Ice with a 20, but sucks it up on the stunning attack with a 6.  Ralam is stunned.  Sylinda summons 4 unicorns, I assume two attack Ralam, and one goes to attack Aekir.  The fourth says put in case of need.  The unicorn near the door is actually attacking through the door, but I couldn't put that on the map.  The two attacking Ralam were in the SE, corner, but then moved to attack him.   Ralam is hit once by one unicorn for 10 points of damage.  Aekir is missed.</s><s></s><s>Spirit Combat</s><s>[spoiler]Lyssia hits Gwyn with a touch attack of 23 for 20 points of damage.  Gwyn goes to intiate a grapple, Lyssia takes her AoO, hits and confirms a crit with a 25 for a total of 20 more points of damage.  Gwyn gets a touch attack, and beats Lyssia grapple check by one to grapple her.  Staeven makes some threats, not attacking for fear of hitting Lyssia.  Nessa can act next round.[/spoiler]</s></blockquote>

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