Heroes, Inc. : Rasheman

[DM_Matt]

Enraged by Kayla's suffering, Murdoch blasts Khalid with two of his most powerful acidic blasts, blowing bits of armor and bone everywhere. This is the first time anyone has hurt Khalid badly enough to reveal his true skeletal form under the armor. Devran thinks he is probably a death knight.

Devran heals Timrin, leaving Khalid back to square one. Wounded and quite aware that he's lost, khalid waves his hand, and a crystal telekinetically moved from Geberath's pocket to Khalid. Khalid pockets it and runs towards the transporter.

Dyria manages to wrap her whip around his legs, and drags him to the ground as he tries to run.

Alethia/Neverone finally shatters the skull,and suddenly Geberath, screaming with pain, is sucked into the sword.

Shando and Sarah can still act v Khalid.

The evil black taint starts floating out of the crystals, and the earth begins to shake. some of the crystals explode...

 

[kirinke]

Alethia/Naverone stagger as the sword sucks Geberath into it's matrix and turn, glaring at Khalid. "No!" They shout, waving their hands at the creature and a wall springs up between the death knight and the transporter, shimmering with light and goodness.

"You won't escape," they shout.

ooc
Casting Wall of good, encircling the transporter so he can't get out.

 

[Steve Gorak]

Controlling his growing grief, and the urge to disregard the combat at hand to heal Kayla, Murdoch will attempt to let go a quickened blast on Khalid.
OCC: one spray: quickened (from rod), purified, maximized, empowered, arcing vitriolic eldrich cone (80+5d8 +1 damage + 16/ round for 2 rounds from acid). The arc will target any remaining tiger clan warriors.

Note the ongoing acid damage on Khalid

He then kneels next to Kayla and uses his cure moderate woulds potion on her (even if it's futile - grief stricken, he's not thinking too clearly right now).

 

[Hawkeye]

Fighting back the pain, Shando grits his teeth and shouts 'You will not be leaving! at Khalid. Shando throws his flaming body onto Khalid, holding as tight as he can, letting the flames on his body come into contact with the Death Knight's body.

Seeing Shando engulfed in flames, Sarah screams,"Opa, no! and then is suddenly standing next to Shando and Khalid, her fist glowing blue as she attacks the prone Death Knight, heedless of the flames.

[sblock]Dimensional slide adding 4 extra pp to make it a move action for 9 total used. Greater psionic fist charged, ready for the attack, her Holy radiance also adding to the damage.[/sblock]

Hawkeye

 

[Falkus]

Dyria does her best to keep Khalid on the ground with her whip, and stop him from going anywhere. He tried to get up, she would be there to keep him down.

 

[frostrune]

"A death knight!!" Devran shouts as he move toward the growing melee. "Get that crystal from him. It may be our way to drop the ward in Gebereth's room."

OOC: Depending on what he understands of the animated fireball engulfing Shando he will cast either a dispel magic or dismissal; whichever he thinks has the best chance of success in removing it.

Timrin shields his eyes from the blast of energy released when Naverone finally shatters the crystal skull. When the flash finally clears he quickly surveys the room and darts off to gather up Maggie. When he reaches her he will lay on hands (+102 hp, if neccessary). He shouts over the growing din, "This cavern seems unstable. We need to go people. To the transporter!"

 

[kirinke]

Alethia/Naverone laugh harshly and teleport again, this time shimmering behind Khalid. They are alight with holy radiance and sanctified hell-fire and they too leap on the death knight, the sword in their hand changing to a mace. They attack.

 

[Hawkeye]

He shouts over the growing din, "This cavern seems unstable. We need to go people. To the transporter!"

OOC: No wonder Maggie, Sara and Kayla changed into Red shirts just before we came on this mission. .

Hawkeye

 

[DM_Matt]

Murdoch blasts Khalid once again, then frantically tends to Kayla. She is awake (though incoherent), but dying. She weakly grasps him and looks up at him and smiles briefly, mumbling something. He pours the potion down her throat, and she stabilizes, but as he watches the wounds heal, he sees that there is a further problem. Geberath's barbed thorns still stick inside her, and her wounds heal around them. They will have to be cut out one-by-one, but each additional healing gets them stuck tighter in, and Kayla is too weak to withstand much extra cutting without dying. It will be a slow and painful process to take advantage of uneven healing to cure wounds, cut, cure wounds, cut, etc.

Devran uses dismissal to dissipate the residual elemental soul energy of the living flames engulfing Shando, which are no longer sustained by Geberath's power, and collapse.

Timrin goes to Maggie and picks her up. She's alive, but he is unable to wake her.

Sara is dead.

Khalid utters a mighty word of arcane power (PW, Stun), and Sarah collapses. Shando feels his shield against evil magics saving him from the same fate (Khalid fails to meet SR) Kayla, mercifully, passes out, and Maggie sleeps deeper than before.

Shando, no longer able to use that fire against Khalid, stomps down and shatters the Death Knight's skull instead.

The cavern begins shaking more violently than before. Its may soon collapse. The transporter, meanwhile, does not seem to work. Naverone cannot connect to it telepathically like he usually would be able to, and the red crystal never glows.

 

[kirinke]

never happened apparently.