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<blockquote data-quote="htetickrt" data-source="post: 1761360" data-attributes="member: 16534"><p style="text-align: center">Vampire Smackdown I</p><p></p><p>A tense moment passes as the two groups glare at each other. The vampires, whose gazes carry their own enchantment, come out the better. Calla’s already delicate mind breaks under the strain, and she goes over to their side. Obeying Trella’s order to flank the priestess provides her an opportunity to do so without making her defection obvious.</p><p></p><p>The druid pays her little mind. “Stay still!” she cries to the goblins before walling them and the new enemies off into two separate regions with stone.</p><p></p><p>Andy mutters, “Whoa. Hot and powerful.” She glances around, sees an opportunity to retreat, and takes it with an impressive display of acrobatics. A quick sprint takes her to Buttercup’s location, where the half-orc has been chained to the wall with iron manacles. It also takes her into range of an injured vampire, whose rapier takes advantage of her surprise. Blood blossoms incarnadine across her tunic.</p><p></p><p>Back in the main room, Calla slides around the stone wall with eerie grace, focusing her vision on the platinum-haired man who lays hands upon Danek. Two steps take her into range; a flick of the wrist plunges a dagger into the wizard’s neck, just nicking the jugular. She is gone in an instant, but a startled and bloody Lenara notes her identity with shock.</p><p></p><p>Danek is barely cognizant of this new development, as she has only had eyes for the drow engaging Kai since that barbarian entered the room. Working herself into a blind rage, Danek charges around the stone wall, interposes herself between Kai and the enemy barbarian, and nearly slices off one of the drow’s arms with a mighty hack of her longsword. The two trade snarls at close range.</p><p></p><p>Quid smiles at her bravery. Getting into the moment, the Waukeenar blasts the last vampire in the room with her wand again while screaming, “Commie bastard!” Rhien’s fists and Kai’s missiles finish it off.</p><p></p><p>Kyree grumbles, “Shhh.” The elf listens intently near the wall blocking off the high priestess, waiting for her return. His patience is rewarded by the sound of heavy boots approaching. He raises his bow, arrow at the ready, in preparation for a sudden disappearance of the wall, but such does not occur. Instead, the archer—and everyone else in the area—hear the smashing of metal against stone with awesome force. With each of three hits a network of cracks begins to grow in the wall. The fourth breaches the barrier, sending chunks of stone crashing to the ground around the opening. Triumphantly looking through the breach, the drow opens her mouth to utter a word so vile to the ear that all goodly creatures would be stunned into inactivity.</p><p></p><p>She never gets the chance. Kyree’s arrow flies true, passing through shields of fire and chaotically swirling energies to lodge above her left breast. Surprised by the affront to her person, she cannot maintain her concentration and loses the evil magic to the Weave.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps feeling her mistress’ pain, the drow barbarian’s anger deepens. Pushing past Danek, she drives the blade of her greatsword into Kai’s left arm. The sorceress grits her teeth, but thanks Tymora for small favors when the drow’s body provides sufficient shielding to spare her from the volley of acidic spittle that comes her and Kyree’s way next, courtesy of the quth-maren.</p><p></p><p>Khail advances on them, sword at the ready, but he is turned aside by some invisible force before coming into melee range. Cerridwin’s summoned swarm makes the boundary of this effect clear: Wasps circle the priestess at a radius of ten feet, unable to close.</p><p></p><p>The giants, forgotten by all, ignore this new wrinkle. Massive greatclubs bludgeon the quth-maren, turning two to pulp. Trella cheers them as she rushes to Kai's aid. "Yeah! Smash the agents of your former masters!" She adds, "SOMEONE FIND CALLA!" before her transformation into a dire bear renders her unable to speak.</p><p></p><p>Cerridwin, perhaps feeling a new kinship to the druid in his new satyr form, obeys, but he can do little to stop her. Lenara looks down on him from the wall he has scaled, lamenting the loss of his companion’s humanity while he chugs a healing draught.</p><p></p><p>With Trella’s massive ursine form completely blocking the drow barbarian’s approach, Kai finally returns her attention to the priestess. The words of an abjuration form on her lips, only to turn into a gurgle as Calla slips up behind her and plunges a dagger into her kidney. Coughing blood, Kai steadfastly tries again. Upon her success, she makes haste toward the hallway, where her safety is compromised by Andy’s losing battle against a vampire. “This is turning out to be a very bad day,” she murmurs.</p><p></p><p>The drow priestess, Dorina T’sarran, isn’t having a much better one. With the vanishing of her anti-life shell, the troublesome adventurers are free to assault her directly; worse, that damned archer and the priest of that insipid trade goddess are waiting for her next prayer. Trusting her defenses she attempts to get it off anyway, but once again a wound due to Kyree’s arrow disrupts it. “You will die, elf, and serve me for eternity!” she snarls.</p><p></p><p>Kyree retorts “Bring it on, drow.” He congratulates himself for his improved repartee.</p><p></p><p>Sadly no one hears it. The battle raging around the elves is as chaotic as the soul of a drow, and equally as violent. Barbarians rage, stone giants smash, quth-maren spit, and noble guards stab in a brutal cacophony of rending flesh. Trella the bear punctuates the exchange by digging both claws into the drow barbarian’s sides, lifting her off the ground, and biting down hard on her shoulder. The dominated female’s screams echo across the chamber. Kai shudders and transports herself and Andy away before they end up in a similar position with the vampires.</p><p></p><p>Their absence seems to degrade matters further, and the melee closes in on both Kyree and Dorina. The former is stabbed repeatedly by the rapiers of the noble guards; the latter is assaulted with little effect by Rhien and Danek. Along the way, the monk is stabbed in the back by Calla, but he does not falter, nor does he fall when Dorina nearly caves in his head with a single blow.</p><p></p><p>The priestess remembers who has been the greatest threat, however, and has her minions carry out desires she cannot. Having already surrounded Kyree, the noble guards display deadly precision in taking the elf apart. Steel flashes out faster than he can dodge, puncturing his legs and driving him to his knees. Helpless, he watches the nearly-erotic pleasure gained by his enemy as the vampire ever-so-slowly drives his blade through a gap in Kyree’s chain shirt and into his heart. Perhaps he would have gained some consolation in the disappointed look that a second guard exhibits upon noting that his own blade’s deft trip into Kyree’s brainstem comes too late, but the archer is dead before the first weapon is withdrawn. Dorina’s howl as Kyree’s body strikes the earth is unabashedly exuberant.</p><p></p><p>Trella roars in anger at the sudden loss of her friend. The great dire bear tears off both of the barbarian’s arms, bites off her head, and spits the vacantly staring orb at the nearest vampire before drinking deeply of the drow’s fading life. When she has her fill, the body is dropped carelessly on top of its severed arms, and Trella goes in search of a new victim. Off in the other room, vampires unknowingly mimic the druid’s actions on the helpless Buttercup, drinking deeply of his lifeblood.</p><p></p><p>The sight of naked violence against a drow awakens something deep within Lenara, and he grows bold in his perch. Spying Calla skulking below him, the wizard abandons caution and dives upon her. Cold steel from the preternaturally-aware halfling penetrates his arm, but sheer momentum manages to take her down to the ground with him, at least for a moment.</p><p></p><p>Rhien watches Dorina’s cold eyes linger on Kyree’s corpse, and he knows what must be done. Feinting forward with his right fist, the monk spins out of the blow and executes a perfect back-flip that leaves him on one knee before Kyree’s body. Still in motion, Rhien scoops up the elf and somersaults to the far end of the room with him in tow. There he lays hands upon the archer, calling upon the mightiest of gifts his gloves grant to restore life and health to Kyree fully. With unmatched speed, Kyree’s physical form is completely restored. His soul, having barely traveled from his body, quickly returns from its nascent trek to the Outer Planes, and the elf returns to awareness with a gasp and a cough.</p><p></p><p>Danek notices none of this, as her full attention is focused on the priestess. Dorina is unimpressed. “What are you going to do with that thing, little half-breed?” she mocks.</p><p></p><p>“I cut you good before.” Danek’s rage gives her strength.</p><p></p><p>“And you were burned,” Dorina retorts, referring to the action of her fire shield. “And lucky. You will fail, and you will all die.” She begins to pray.</p><p></p><p>Danek brings her enchanted blade down, as hard and as accurately as she can muster. It descends, aimed squarely at the vampire’s clavicle…and deflects off of her many-layered protections. Dorina’s fangs, exposed when she grins, glint evilly in the dim light afforded by the party’s lantern. “I told you so,” she says, and flames blanket the room.</p><p></p><p>Cerridwin and Lenara share a glance before awareness ends in the instant incineration of their bodies. Others survive, though their pain is made all the greater for it. Danek, blistered and nearly blinded by tears, turns again on Dorina, but the laughing priestess is gone, hidden behind the ruined stone wall. Danek charges after, but again cannot land her blow. Dorina’s wounds fade, and she looks at the barbarian hungrily.</p><p></p><p>The stone giants lose their taste for the battle and flee, bowling over a hiding Andy in their haste to escape. Khail ignores them, slashing at vampire guards in a flurry of steel that turns one to gas.</p><p></p><p>Kyree glares hatefully at those remaining. “This is for killing me!” he shouts, a rather poor retort until it is backed up with a stunning display of marksmanship. Remaining prone, the archer takes a vampire’s eye with his first arrow, its knee with his second, and finally its heart with his third. The last is fired with such terrible force that it actually carries the organ out the other end, sending the vampire to join its nebulous fellow.</p><p></p><p>Kai and Andy choose this moment to emerge from the mist. The latter moves to aid Buttercup, who continues to be drained by the vampires, while the former launches another abjuration. Though Andy’s ineffectual punch only earns her a chuckle, Kai’s spell has a far greater impact, banishing several standing spells from the region.</p><p></p><p>This includes the local darkness, allowing the glow from Quid’s stone to shine through and blind the nearest vampires. It also includes the force dominating Calla, and the halfling answers her release with a scream that would shatter glass, were any present. She charges wildly into the room, looking for foes; the apparent courage of both tiny halflings shames the stone giants into moving to Andy’s aid.</p><p></p><p>Despite their visual impediment, the noble guards trade blows with the group’s warriors in a continuation of the wild scrum. At the end of the first volley, Khail is down, but Trella has taken a vampire’s unlife in revenge. Thankfully for everyone’s future nightmares, she doesn’t try to eat it as well after ripping it to pieces.</p><p></p><p>Kai blasts the remaining guard in the main room with force missiles; these and Calla’s dagger are sufficient to eliminate it. Continuing on, she passes through the breach in the wall to join Danek; yet another abjuration evens the playing field. Rhien’s successful jump kick heralds the speedy monk’s presence an instant later. Danek, emboldened, slices through undead flesh with her own attack.</p><p></p><p>Dorina snarls her displeasure, breaking several of Rhien’s ribs with her retaliatory strikes. Glaring at Kai, she then steps back into utter blackness.</p><p></p><p>The sorceress waits for Quid to advance, but she is busy restoring consciousness to the paladin. Khail rises with a grunt and immediately imparts his torn body with healing magic; Trella, in similarly bad shape, reverts to her normal form and slumps against the broken stone. She is flanked by a quite cautious Kyree.</p><p></p><p>Calla leaves them, looking for a more immediate kill. She finds it where Andy is, leaping over the poor monk’s body as she is pounded to the ground by a noble guard, ashen-faced and bleeding heavily. “Pick on someone your own size!” she screeches, completely missing the irony. The sole remaining stone giant—the others having already succumbed to the vampires’ fists—goggles at her.</p><p></p><p>Quid finally arrives on the scene, illuminating the drow priestess in faux-daylight. The massed group does not hesitate to take advantage, lessening the force animating her with magic, fist, and blade. Knowing she cannot stand against the assault here, Dorina turns to mist with a feral snarl and flies off down the darkened passageway, quickly entering a small hole in the ceiling ten feet away.</p><p></p><p>Khail passes through the arch, glances around, and asks, “Where did she go?” Kai suppresses a scream.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="htetickrt, post: 1761360, member: 16534"] [CENTER]Vampire Smackdown I[/CENTER] A tense moment passes as the two groups glare at each other. The vampires, whose gazes carry their own enchantment, come out the better. Calla’s already delicate mind breaks under the strain, and she goes over to their side. Obeying Trella’s order to flank the priestess provides her an opportunity to do so without making her defection obvious. The druid pays her little mind. “Stay still!” she cries to the goblins before walling them and the new enemies off into two separate regions with stone. Andy mutters, “Whoa. Hot and powerful.” She glances around, sees an opportunity to retreat, and takes it with an impressive display of acrobatics. A quick sprint takes her to Buttercup’s location, where the half-orc has been chained to the wall with iron manacles. It also takes her into range of an injured vampire, whose rapier takes advantage of her surprise. Blood blossoms incarnadine across her tunic. Back in the main room, Calla slides around the stone wall with eerie grace, focusing her vision on the platinum-haired man who lays hands upon Danek. Two steps take her into range; a flick of the wrist plunges a dagger into the wizard’s neck, just nicking the jugular. She is gone in an instant, but a startled and bloody Lenara notes her identity with shock. Danek is barely cognizant of this new development, as she has only had eyes for the drow engaging Kai since that barbarian entered the room. Working herself into a blind rage, Danek charges around the stone wall, interposes herself between Kai and the enemy barbarian, and nearly slices off one of the drow’s arms with a mighty hack of her longsword. The two trade snarls at close range. Quid smiles at her bravery. Getting into the moment, the Waukeenar blasts the last vampire in the room with her wand again while screaming, “Commie bastard!” Rhien’s fists and Kai’s missiles finish it off. Kyree grumbles, “Shhh.” The elf listens intently near the wall blocking off the high priestess, waiting for her return. His patience is rewarded by the sound of heavy boots approaching. He raises his bow, arrow at the ready, in preparation for a sudden disappearance of the wall, but such does not occur. Instead, the archer—and everyone else in the area—hear the smashing of metal against stone with awesome force. With each of three hits a network of cracks begins to grow in the wall. The fourth breaches the barrier, sending chunks of stone crashing to the ground around the opening. Triumphantly looking through the breach, the drow opens her mouth to utter a word so vile to the ear that all goodly creatures would be stunned into inactivity. She never gets the chance. Kyree’s arrow flies true, passing through shields of fire and chaotically swirling energies to lodge above her left breast. Surprised by the affront to her person, she cannot maintain her concentration and loses the evil magic to the Weave. Perhaps feeling her mistress’ pain, the drow barbarian’s anger deepens. Pushing past Danek, she drives the blade of her greatsword into Kai’s left arm. The sorceress grits her teeth, but thanks Tymora for small favors when the drow’s body provides sufficient shielding to spare her from the volley of acidic spittle that comes her and Kyree’s way next, courtesy of the quth-maren. Khail advances on them, sword at the ready, but he is turned aside by some invisible force before coming into melee range. Cerridwin’s summoned swarm makes the boundary of this effect clear: Wasps circle the priestess at a radius of ten feet, unable to close. The giants, forgotten by all, ignore this new wrinkle. Massive greatclubs bludgeon the quth-maren, turning two to pulp. Trella cheers them as she rushes to Kai's aid. "Yeah! Smash the agents of your former masters!" She adds, "SOMEONE FIND CALLA!" before her transformation into a dire bear renders her unable to speak. Cerridwin, perhaps feeling a new kinship to the druid in his new satyr form, obeys, but he can do little to stop her. Lenara looks down on him from the wall he has scaled, lamenting the loss of his companion’s humanity while he chugs a healing draught. With Trella’s massive ursine form completely blocking the drow barbarian’s approach, Kai finally returns her attention to the priestess. The words of an abjuration form on her lips, only to turn into a gurgle as Calla slips up behind her and plunges a dagger into her kidney. Coughing blood, Kai steadfastly tries again. Upon her success, she makes haste toward the hallway, where her safety is compromised by Andy’s losing battle against a vampire. “This is turning out to be a very bad day,” she murmurs. The drow priestess, Dorina T’sarran, isn’t having a much better one. With the vanishing of her anti-life shell, the troublesome adventurers are free to assault her directly; worse, that damned archer and the priest of that insipid trade goddess are waiting for her next prayer. Trusting her defenses she attempts to get it off anyway, but once again a wound due to Kyree’s arrow disrupts it. “You will die, elf, and serve me for eternity!” she snarls. Kyree retorts “Bring it on, drow.” He congratulates himself for his improved repartee. Sadly no one hears it. The battle raging around the elves is as chaotic as the soul of a drow, and equally as violent. Barbarians rage, stone giants smash, quth-maren spit, and noble guards stab in a brutal cacophony of rending flesh. Trella the bear punctuates the exchange by digging both claws into the drow barbarian’s sides, lifting her off the ground, and biting down hard on her shoulder. The dominated female’s screams echo across the chamber. Kai shudders and transports herself and Andy away before they end up in a similar position with the vampires. Their absence seems to degrade matters further, and the melee closes in on both Kyree and Dorina. The former is stabbed repeatedly by the rapiers of the noble guards; the latter is assaulted with little effect by Rhien and Danek. Along the way, the monk is stabbed in the back by Calla, but he does not falter, nor does he fall when Dorina nearly caves in his head with a single blow. The priestess remembers who has been the greatest threat, however, and has her minions carry out desires she cannot. Having already surrounded Kyree, the noble guards display deadly precision in taking the elf apart. Steel flashes out faster than he can dodge, puncturing his legs and driving him to his knees. Helpless, he watches the nearly-erotic pleasure gained by his enemy as the vampire ever-so-slowly drives his blade through a gap in Kyree’s chain shirt and into his heart. Perhaps he would have gained some consolation in the disappointed look that a second guard exhibits upon noting that his own blade’s deft trip into Kyree’s brainstem comes too late, but the archer is dead before the first weapon is withdrawn. Dorina’s howl as Kyree’s body strikes the earth is unabashedly exuberant. Trella roars in anger at the sudden loss of her friend. The great dire bear tears off both of the barbarian’s arms, bites off her head, and spits the vacantly staring orb at the nearest vampire before drinking deeply of the drow’s fading life. When she has her fill, the body is dropped carelessly on top of its severed arms, and Trella goes in search of a new victim. Off in the other room, vampires unknowingly mimic the druid’s actions on the helpless Buttercup, drinking deeply of his lifeblood. The sight of naked violence against a drow awakens something deep within Lenara, and he grows bold in his perch. Spying Calla skulking below him, the wizard abandons caution and dives upon her. Cold steel from the preternaturally-aware halfling penetrates his arm, but sheer momentum manages to take her down to the ground with him, at least for a moment. Rhien watches Dorina’s cold eyes linger on Kyree’s corpse, and he knows what must be done. Feinting forward with his right fist, the monk spins out of the blow and executes a perfect back-flip that leaves him on one knee before Kyree’s body. Still in motion, Rhien scoops up the elf and somersaults to the far end of the room with him in tow. There he lays hands upon the archer, calling upon the mightiest of gifts his gloves grant to restore life and health to Kyree fully. With unmatched speed, Kyree’s physical form is completely restored. His soul, having barely traveled from his body, quickly returns from its nascent trek to the Outer Planes, and the elf returns to awareness with a gasp and a cough. Danek notices none of this, as her full attention is focused on the priestess. Dorina is unimpressed. “What are you going to do with that thing, little half-breed?” she mocks. “I cut you good before.” Danek’s rage gives her strength. “And you were burned,” Dorina retorts, referring to the action of her fire shield. “And lucky. You will fail, and you will all die.” She begins to pray. Danek brings her enchanted blade down, as hard and as accurately as she can muster. It descends, aimed squarely at the vampire’s clavicle…and deflects off of her many-layered protections. Dorina’s fangs, exposed when she grins, glint evilly in the dim light afforded by the party’s lantern. “I told you so,” she says, and flames blanket the room. Cerridwin and Lenara share a glance before awareness ends in the instant incineration of their bodies. Others survive, though their pain is made all the greater for it. Danek, blistered and nearly blinded by tears, turns again on Dorina, but the laughing priestess is gone, hidden behind the ruined stone wall. Danek charges after, but again cannot land her blow. Dorina’s wounds fade, and she looks at the barbarian hungrily. The stone giants lose their taste for the battle and flee, bowling over a hiding Andy in their haste to escape. Khail ignores them, slashing at vampire guards in a flurry of steel that turns one to gas. Kyree glares hatefully at those remaining. “This is for killing me!” he shouts, a rather poor retort until it is backed up with a stunning display of marksmanship. Remaining prone, the archer takes a vampire’s eye with his first arrow, its knee with his second, and finally its heart with his third. The last is fired with such terrible force that it actually carries the organ out the other end, sending the vampire to join its nebulous fellow. Kai and Andy choose this moment to emerge from the mist. The latter moves to aid Buttercup, who continues to be drained by the vampires, while the former launches another abjuration. Though Andy’s ineffectual punch only earns her a chuckle, Kai’s spell has a far greater impact, banishing several standing spells from the region. This includes the local darkness, allowing the glow from Quid’s stone to shine through and blind the nearest vampires. It also includes the force dominating Calla, and the halfling answers her release with a scream that would shatter glass, were any present. She charges wildly into the room, looking for foes; the apparent courage of both tiny halflings shames the stone giants into moving to Andy’s aid. Despite their visual impediment, the noble guards trade blows with the group’s warriors in a continuation of the wild scrum. At the end of the first volley, Khail is down, but Trella has taken a vampire’s unlife in revenge. Thankfully for everyone’s future nightmares, she doesn’t try to eat it as well after ripping it to pieces. Kai blasts the remaining guard in the main room with force missiles; these and Calla’s dagger are sufficient to eliminate it. Continuing on, she passes through the breach in the wall to join Danek; yet another abjuration evens the playing field. Rhien’s successful jump kick heralds the speedy monk’s presence an instant later. Danek, emboldened, slices through undead flesh with her own attack. Dorina snarls her displeasure, breaking several of Rhien’s ribs with her retaliatory strikes. Glaring at Kai, she then steps back into utter blackness. The sorceress waits for Quid to advance, but she is busy restoring consciousness to the paladin. Khail rises with a grunt and immediately imparts his torn body with healing magic; Trella, in similarly bad shape, reverts to her normal form and slumps against the broken stone. She is flanked by a quite cautious Kyree. Calla leaves them, looking for a more immediate kill. She finds it where Andy is, leaping over the poor monk’s body as she is pounded to the ground by a noble guard, ashen-faced and bleeding heavily. “Pick on someone your own size!” she screeches, completely missing the irony. The sole remaining stone giant—the others having already succumbed to the vampires’ fists—goggles at her. Quid finally arrives on the scene, illuminating the drow priestess in faux-daylight. The massed group does not hesitate to take advantage, lessening the force animating her with magic, fist, and blade. Knowing she cannot stand against the assault here, Dorina turns to mist with a feral snarl and flies off down the darkened passageway, quickly entering a small hole in the ceiling ten feet away. Khail passes through the arch, glances around, and asks, “Where did she go?” Kai suppresses a scream. [/QUOTE]
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