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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darkbard" data-source="post: 9067373" data-attributes="member: 1282">[USER=20459]@Nephis[/USER] and I have consulted on our moves here, and I will present fiction and mechanics here in a single post.[HR][/HR]Recognizing that the only hope remaining for The Blessed is an immediate exorcism, ARUNNY also knows this time she cannot be the one to perform it. This liturgy must come from Ibhea, invoking both the full might of Omthala and that of her son, Delban, Sorcerer-King. And so she does what comes naturally to her: endure the pain and suffering meant for others by intervening herself between the purple appendages and the whisky priest, blocking repeated lashes with her morningstar, Omthala's holy shield (Battle Cleric's Lore's +2 shield bonus) wreathing her in a protective glowing shell as she is buffeted by blows from the writhing tentacles.She is quite successful in her ploy, almost unequivocally so, until one spasmodic tentacle threatens to lash her from beyond her peripheral vision. But just in the nick of time, Qamra does a combination front handspring and aerial cartwheel, slicing the appendage in half with her sword, and lands in a three-point stance, sword outstretched in her remaining hand, beside her "older sister."[HR][/HR]Arunny makes a Primary Skill Endurance check to take on and withstand the blows meant for Ibhea, aided by Qamra's Secondary Skill Acrobatics check (+12 vs 13 Easy DC = autosuccess for +2 bonus), r(11) +7 (training exhaused in earlier Group Endurance check) +2 = 20 vs 18 Moderate DC. Success.I am now wagering that Advantage for 2 Successes (if appropriate) against that Hard DC.[HR][/HR]IBHEA lifts the holy symbol of Omthala from around his neck, the shining symbol of a widespread faith. Yet he knows that divine power alone is insufficient to cast out the Far Realm malevolence that threatens The Blessed. "Radiant Mother, everlasting source of light and life, lend us your power here, and join with your Heavenly Son; hasten to our call for help and snatch from ruination and from the clutches of the noonday abomination these children. Strike terror into the abomination now laying waste to your oasis. Fill your servants with courage to fight against this impending doom, lest it despise those who put their trust in you."I command you, malevolent interloper, alien to this realm, along with all your minions now attacking these servants of Delban, newly baptised in their faith, by the mysteries of Omthala's searing light and those of the burning black flame. I command you, I who am a minister of divinity despite my own frailties and unworthiness; nor shall you be emboldened to harm in any way these creatures, or the bystanders, or any of their possessions."Be gone from this place! Retreat to your incomprehensible domain! Free these innocents of your malign influence! Retreat now until the final battle is met on the Plane of Cosmic Spheres Contended, where you will meet your final doom and all creation shall be free of the threat of your influence everlasting!"BEGONE!" he finishes, and his voice rises to an almost-thunderbolt clap, worthy of the most puissant utterances of Arunny, Omthala's Searing Voice![HR][/HR]Ibhea is augmenting his Primary Skill Religion check to intone Omthala's liturgy of exorcism with both Divine (Shining Symbol Encounter Power for +2 power bonus) and Arcane (Secondary Skill Arcana check, r(19), +11 = 30 vs 13 Easy DC. Success for +2 bonus), r(8) +15 +2 +2 = 27 vs 26 Difficult DC. Wagered for 2 Successes and closing out the SC.[HR][/HR]With the great sucking sound of a vacuum, the planar conduit begins to dilate and pull all of its excrescence with it. The purple spherical structure disjoints. The seven Blessed are dropped, unceremoniously, from their suspended space, falling hard against the rough-cut wooden boards of the spartan cathedral. All light, even Xin Mae's lantern, is snuffed out. Stillness and calm. And following, a sense of great relief, sanity restored.[HR][/HR]We had discussed hard-cutting to the 3 settlements of the remaining 9 Blessed in succession, but I propose that Dolg Hana is ripe for conversion to Delban's worship, considering the miracle--and his key influence thereto--worked here today. So, perhaps before setting forth, pivoting to that Quest is in order!</blockquote>

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