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As Trajan and Anne Marie enter the temple sanctuary four Jazumai rise on each of the balconies and start firing their shortbows at the heretical interlopers. One rank fires at Trajan and one rank fires at Anne-Marie, who takes a couple of very nasty hits.
As Trajan starts to push his way through the innocent worshippers Jazil summons down a flamestrike which singes him and cremates four of the tanners near him. Taran is still hidden in the crowd and quietly uses a small blowpipe to fire a dart poisoned with Blue Whinnis at the priest, but although it penetrates his enchanted armour he is able to shrug off the effects of the venom.
Trajan manages to make his way through the now panicking crowd and up to the stage with the evil Jazil who is happy to reveal that his holy water sprinkler does fine double duty as a Morningstar as he grows to 12ft tall and his torso is surrounded by flickering yellow chaotic energy.
Anne-Marie vaults up to the balcony nearest to her and starts attempting to duel with the Jazumai up there, but the damned archer specialists keep stepping back and unleashing a fusillade of arrows at her – she is able to deflect one or two but takes some more nasty wounds before taking two of them down (then she has to dive back off the balcony to avoid death at their hands).
The Jazil has summoned the righteous might of Asura to himself, and surrounded by Dispel Law attempts to swap full attacks with Trajan, trusting in his magical buffs to pull him through. He trusted wrongly, and Trajan’s scimitar bites deeply again and again
Meanwhile Taran is taking out the other acolytes and M’ir is using his Mass Concussion dorje to good effect at the Jazumai on the other balcony who are still raining arrows down around him and Trajan.
Tania decides to do something useful and unleashes a fireball upon the balcony – failing to consider the potential for collateral damage. True, the four Jazumai on the balcony go down, but so do most of the innocent worshippers in the temple who were struggling to leave or milling around in the confusion.
Jazil is beheaded by a mighty critical hit from Trajan, who then runs towards one of the side exits from the sanctuary while the others stare at the devastation wrought by Tania amongst the innocents.
Bursting through the door Trajan sees the two surviving Jazumai from Anne-Maries balcony running down the stairs, scimitars to hand.
“In Asura’s name, hold!” Trajan calls out to them “I mean you no harm”
The foremost one holds his head up proudly “You may attempt to kill us all, heretic, but others will come. You shall not corrupt this place unless it is over our dead bodies”
Trajan raises his eyebrows. “You’ve got it wrong… THAT guy was the one /corrupting/ the temple… I’m here to rescue it. He’s sold you down the river and attempted to get honourable men such as yourself to do the dirty work for him and his masters”
“If I was an evil heretic would I tell you to heal your wounded and leave with my blessing? I do such right now and I will happily call upon Asura to heal you too”
The Jazumai are given pause. This isn’t the way that the dangerous heretic they have been hunting is supposed to be acting. They are good at sensing motives and this young Southlander before them is on the up and up.
“We accept your offer of healing, and your offer of peace. We will take a report back to Jannek, the leader of the inquisitions in the Southlands”
(While this is going on Tania has made her way up to the balcony with the Jazumai she had taken out with the fireball. Finding all four of them stabilised but near death she secretly slits the throats of each of them. She brings back a report that “they were all killed by the fireball” and nobody double checks her perfidy.)
The two Jazumai take their mounts and ride off into the night. The party start a quick search of the premises and Jazil’s quarters – finding one thing of particular interest, a document, possibly a treaty, between the Black Circle and the Queen Below.
Less than twenty minutes have passed since the assault on the temple started, and they fade back into the night; clean up; and return to their taverns. Mission accomplished?
As Trajan starts to push his way through the innocent worshippers Jazil summons down a flamestrike which singes him and cremates four of the tanners near him. Taran is still hidden in the crowd and quietly uses a small blowpipe to fire a dart poisoned with Blue Whinnis at the priest, but although it penetrates his enchanted armour he is able to shrug off the effects of the venom.
Trajan manages to make his way through the now panicking crowd and up to the stage with the evil Jazil who is happy to reveal that his holy water sprinkler does fine double duty as a Morningstar as he grows to 12ft tall and his torso is surrounded by flickering yellow chaotic energy.
Anne-Marie vaults up to the balcony nearest to her and starts attempting to duel with the Jazumai up there, but the damned archer specialists keep stepping back and unleashing a fusillade of arrows at her – she is able to deflect one or two but takes some more nasty wounds before taking two of them down (then she has to dive back off the balcony to avoid death at their hands).
The Jazil has summoned the righteous might of Asura to himself, and surrounded by Dispel Law attempts to swap full attacks with Trajan, trusting in his magical buffs to pull him through. He trusted wrongly, and Trajan’s scimitar bites deeply again and again
Meanwhile Taran is taking out the other acolytes and M’ir is using his Mass Concussion dorje to good effect at the Jazumai on the other balcony who are still raining arrows down around him and Trajan.
Tania decides to do something useful and unleashes a fireball upon the balcony – failing to consider the potential for collateral damage. True, the four Jazumai on the balcony go down, but so do most of the innocent worshippers in the temple who were struggling to leave or milling around in the confusion.
Jazil is beheaded by a mighty critical hit from Trajan, who then runs towards one of the side exits from the sanctuary while the others stare at the devastation wrought by Tania amongst the innocents.
Bursting through the door Trajan sees the two surviving Jazumai from Anne-Maries balcony running down the stairs, scimitars to hand.
“In Asura’s name, hold!” Trajan calls out to them “I mean you no harm”
The foremost one holds his head up proudly “You may attempt to kill us all, heretic, but others will come. You shall not corrupt this place unless it is over our dead bodies”
Trajan raises his eyebrows. “You’ve got it wrong… THAT guy was the one /corrupting/ the temple… I’m here to rescue it. He’s sold you down the river and attempted to get honourable men such as yourself to do the dirty work for him and his masters”
“If I was an evil heretic would I tell you to heal your wounded and leave with my blessing? I do such right now and I will happily call upon Asura to heal you too”
The Jazumai are given pause. This isn’t the way that the dangerous heretic they have been hunting is supposed to be acting. They are good at sensing motives and this young Southlander before them is on the up and up.
“We accept your offer of healing, and your offer of peace. We will take a report back to Jannek, the leader of the inquisitions in the Southlands”
(While this is going on Tania has made her way up to the balcony with the Jazumai she had taken out with the fireball. Finding all four of them stabilised but near death she secretly slits the throats of each of them. She brings back a report that “they were all killed by the fireball” and nobody double checks her perfidy.)
The two Jazumai take their mounts and ride off into the night. The party start a quick search of the premises and Jazil’s quarters – finding one thing of particular interest, a document, possibly a treaty, between the Black Circle and the Queen Below.
Less than twenty minutes have passed since the assault on the temple started, and they fade back into the night; clean up; and return to their taverns. Mission accomplished?
