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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7445152" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 57, Part Two - Pathos of the Inanimate</strong></p><p></p><p>The unit’s frontline were struggling against Professor Bugge’s dread wight minions, and trying to fend off his flayed dire jaguar too. Rumdoom grew tired of wrestling with the beast and – remembering a design flaw in the smaller versions they had fought many years ago – used his knowledge of the Runes of Destruction to tear the large metal plate holding a tank of witchoil in the jaguar’s chest. It expired, messily and noisily.</p><p></p><p>Quratulain stepped into the gap, drew her dragonbane greatsword and hacked at Harkover Lee, failing to grasp the complexities of the situation and keen to use her new sword. Leon shouted at her to stop, then used a bardic trick he’d learned during his first days in the bayou near Flint to teleport Harkover Lee into the foyer, out of harm’s way, and heal him in the process. Then Leon tried to dispel Bugge’s necrotic zone, but failed.</p><p></p><p>Up on the wall of the throne room, Uru took on the semblance of Korrigan, and changed his hat of hats into the Crown of Risur. From this vantage he taunted Catherine Romana (“You’ll never take the crown from me, ever!”) and then vanished. Romana cursed again, then she vanished too.</p><p></p><p>Now the dragon was gone, the throne room was clear: Bugge saw what had happened to his pet, and raised it to wrestle with Rumdoom once again; Amielle had line of sight to the necromancer and shot at him, learning the hard way what Uru had learned earlier – that he was protected from ranged missiles; Ascodel stepped up alongside Andrei - “Helping you out, fist-man!” he cried – and together they dealt with the rest of the wights; Sevitar was finally face-to-face with ‘Cedric San’, alias Professor Johan Bugge, for the first time in half a century. He placed another necrotic shroud over the necromancer and then disappeared into the shadows.</p><p></p><p>Something very strange then happened. Lauryn Cyneburg appeared in the throne room, along with Viscount Nigel Price-Hill and a squad of RHC officers and elite guards. They arrived just in time: lantern guards and golems were approaching from the east. Cyneburg gestured towards them, and led her men to fend them off. Gupta followed suit, still in tiger form. But when she engaged with the enemy, Cyneburg, Price-Hill and the squadron faded and vanished! Fortunately, Asrabey Varal arrived just at that moment, and waded into combat with the Ob squadron alongside Gupta. Gupta was practically immune to their weapons, and tore into them with a gusto that even Asrabey found difficult to match.</p><p></p><p>Within Ludo’s dome, the assassins had turned their attention to Dame Jillian. Now she fell too. At that moment Korrigan reappeared, still wearing the crown, but also clutching a strength potion he had taken out in the foyer earlier. He swigged it, then stepped up to challenge the necromancer. At once he felt the draining effect of a necrotic aura that surrounded Bugge, but he ignored it and struck him with his Holy Avenger. Behind him, his allies in the necrotic zone cried out in pain. Then Quratulain stepped up to Bugge, again shrugging off his baleful aura, and struck him with her armblade, a blade that could pry open magical defences. Once again, their allies in the<em> feeding zone </em>cried out. Unaware of what was happening, Sevitar appeared just behind his nemesis and plunged his greatsword into his back and out through the other side. “Ashes to ashes!” he whispered in Cedric San’s ear. But San merely chuckled – while Andrei, Ascodel and Rumdoom cried out once again – and then said, in a croaking sing-song voice, “Venkiooooo!” The skeletal dragon tyrant crashed through the ceiling and came to its master’s aid, spraying his attackers with gouts of acid.</p><p></p><p>Realising that San could not be killed because of the <em>feeding zone</em> spell he had cast, Leon redoubled his efforts to dispel it. As soon as it vanished, Uru emerged from hiding and embedded a shuriken in the necromancer’s head. The old man collapsed into ash, his form crumbling around Sevitar’s sword. Sevitar stared into the space where San had once been, and then he too faded and vanished to the sound of Uru crowing something rivalrous about how Sevitar thought he was ‘better at stealth’ and now Uru had stolen his kill. The last thing Sevitar thought as he went was, “I think… you have me confused… with someone else.”</p><p></p><p>At that moment, Leon’s tampering with the roof lantern paid off. The palace became coterminous with the Dreaming. There was Thisraldion, lounging on his throne. When he saw what was happening he gave a cry of outrage and leapt to his feet with his vorpal blade in hand. There was a blinding flash of light and Thisraldion vanished, only to reappear inside Ludo’s bubble. With a <em>snickersnack</em>, he cut off the head of one assassin. Blood splashed on the inside of the dome. <em>Snickersnack</em>! Another head bounced off of it. </p><p></p><p>Lerina the Unseen Marauder and Lavac the Gremlin Herald appeared to the south of the chamber. Lavac rubbed his hands with glee, sensing a lantern golem nearby, and scampered off to wreck it. Lerina gave a battle cry that galvanised all who heard it, then leapt towards the psychic dome and struck it an immense blow with her lightning-charged hammer.</p><p></p><p>In response to Lerina’s cry, Amielle shot the jaguar, freeing Rumdoom. When Venkio closed its enormous jaws on Korrigan, Rumdoom issued an eschatological fiat and the dragon’s mouth was held open. Korrigan then struck at Venkio, calling on his team to follow suit. At once, Leon landed a debilitating curse that caused the tyrant to reel.</p><p></p><p>In the foyer of the palace, Furg and Sallin appeared with an entire brigade of rangale. The last Ob squadrons were approaching from the north and the rangale moved to engage them, with Furg’s poisonous frogs in support. Sallin reached out from the branches of her tree and laid a hand on the scaly hide of Harkover Lee, ridding his body of the poison that had caused him to return to his original form. His ragged breathing eased as he became human once again, albeit supine, pallid and unconscious.</p><p></p><p>Seeing that Lerina had weakened the dome, Rumdoom used his <em>frost giant’s plate </em>to grow to enormous size. Then he smote the dome with another rune of destruction. It imploded, with a noise so loud it was practically inaudible. Almost everyone close by was blown off their feet, even Rumdoom himself. Venkio fell and lay still, its ribcage shattered by the blast. Only the two kings remained standing. Ludo Marcione was on his knees. Thisraldion raised his vorpal sword, but Korrigan bade him to stay his blow.</p><p></p><p>“Mortal mercy is a mystery to me,” said Thisraldion.</p><p>“Mortal <em>justice</em>,” Korrigan corrected him. </p><p></p><p>Only Ludo and Campion Price-Hill remained alive. Thisraldion had beheaded all the others.(Korrigan noticed that in death the shadow-men appeared to be nothing more than <em>porteurs de mort </em>who had been killed in the line of duty, then subjected to the same grim process that had sustained the un-life of Cillian Creed, Reed Macbannin’s ‘butler’.) Ludo begged for mercy, until Thisraldion silenced him with a blow across the back of the head from the pommel of his sword. Campion Price-Hill remained on his knees, arms raised in stony, self-satisfied surrender. Catherine Romana was nowhere to be seen.</p><p></p><p><strong>Song for Thisraldion</strong></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeVjEg4znQk" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeVjEg4znQk</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7445152, member: 79141"] [b]Session 57, Part Two - Pathos of the Inanimate[/b] The unit’s frontline were struggling against Professor Bugge’s dread wight minions, and trying to fend off his flayed dire jaguar too. Rumdoom grew tired of wrestling with the beast and – remembering a design flaw in the smaller versions they had fought many years ago – used his knowledge of the Runes of Destruction to tear the large metal plate holding a tank of witchoil in the jaguar’s chest. It expired, messily and noisily. Quratulain stepped into the gap, drew her dragonbane greatsword and hacked at Harkover Lee, failing to grasp the complexities of the situation and keen to use her new sword. Leon shouted at her to stop, then used a bardic trick he’d learned during his first days in the bayou near Flint to teleport Harkover Lee into the foyer, out of harm’s way, and heal him in the process. Then Leon tried to dispel Bugge’s necrotic zone, but failed. Up on the wall of the throne room, Uru took on the semblance of Korrigan, and changed his hat of hats into the Crown of Risur. From this vantage he taunted Catherine Romana (“You’ll never take the crown from me, ever!”) and then vanished. Romana cursed again, then she vanished too. Now the dragon was gone, the throne room was clear: Bugge saw what had happened to his pet, and raised it to wrestle with Rumdoom once again; Amielle had line of sight to the necromancer and shot at him, learning the hard way what Uru had learned earlier – that he was protected from ranged missiles; Ascodel stepped up alongside Andrei - “Helping you out, fist-man!” he cried – and together they dealt with the rest of the wights; Sevitar was finally face-to-face with ‘Cedric San’, alias Professor Johan Bugge, for the first time in half a century. He placed another necrotic shroud over the necromancer and then disappeared into the shadows. Something very strange then happened. Lauryn Cyneburg appeared in the throne room, along with Viscount Nigel Price-Hill and a squad of RHC officers and elite guards. They arrived just in time: lantern guards and golems were approaching from the east. Cyneburg gestured towards them, and led her men to fend them off. Gupta followed suit, still in tiger form. But when she engaged with the enemy, Cyneburg, Price-Hill and the squadron faded and vanished! Fortunately, Asrabey Varal arrived just at that moment, and waded into combat with the Ob squadron alongside Gupta. Gupta was practically immune to their weapons, and tore into them with a gusto that even Asrabey found difficult to match. Within Ludo’s dome, the assassins had turned their attention to Dame Jillian. Now she fell too. At that moment Korrigan reappeared, still wearing the crown, but also clutching a strength potion he had taken out in the foyer earlier. He swigged it, then stepped up to challenge the necromancer. At once he felt the draining effect of a necrotic aura that surrounded Bugge, but he ignored it and struck him with his Holy Avenger. Behind him, his allies in the necrotic zone cried out in pain. Then Quratulain stepped up to Bugge, again shrugging off his baleful aura, and struck him with her armblade, a blade that could pry open magical defences. Once again, their allies in the[I] feeding zone [/I]cried out. Unaware of what was happening, Sevitar appeared just behind his nemesis and plunged his greatsword into his back and out through the other side. “Ashes to ashes!” he whispered in Cedric San’s ear. But San merely chuckled – while Andrei, Ascodel and Rumdoom cried out once again – and then said, in a croaking sing-song voice, “Venkiooooo!” The skeletal dragon tyrant crashed through the ceiling and came to its master’s aid, spraying his attackers with gouts of acid. Realising that San could not be killed because of the [I]feeding zone[/I] spell he had cast, Leon redoubled his efforts to dispel it. As soon as it vanished, Uru emerged from hiding and embedded a shuriken in the necromancer’s head. The old man collapsed into ash, his form crumbling around Sevitar’s sword. Sevitar stared into the space where San had once been, and then he too faded and vanished to the sound of Uru crowing something rivalrous about how Sevitar thought he was ‘better at stealth’ and now Uru had stolen his kill. The last thing Sevitar thought as he went was, “I think… you have me confused… with someone else.” At that moment, Leon’s tampering with the roof lantern paid off. The palace became coterminous with the Dreaming. There was Thisraldion, lounging on his throne. When he saw what was happening he gave a cry of outrage and leapt to his feet with his vorpal blade in hand. There was a blinding flash of light and Thisraldion vanished, only to reappear inside Ludo’s bubble. With a [I]snickersnack[/I], he cut off the head of one assassin. Blood splashed on the inside of the dome. [I]Snickersnack[/I]! Another head bounced off of it. Lerina the Unseen Marauder and Lavac the Gremlin Herald appeared to the south of the chamber. Lavac rubbed his hands with glee, sensing a lantern golem nearby, and scampered off to wreck it. Lerina gave a battle cry that galvanised all who heard it, then leapt towards the psychic dome and struck it an immense blow with her lightning-charged hammer. In response to Lerina’s cry, Amielle shot the jaguar, freeing Rumdoom. When Venkio closed its enormous jaws on Korrigan, Rumdoom issued an eschatological fiat and the dragon’s mouth was held open. Korrigan then struck at Venkio, calling on his team to follow suit. At once, Leon landed a debilitating curse that caused the tyrant to reel. In the foyer of the palace, Furg and Sallin appeared with an entire brigade of rangale. The last Ob squadrons were approaching from the north and the rangale moved to engage them, with Furg’s poisonous frogs in support. Sallin reached out from the branches of her tree and laid a hand on the scaly hide of Harkover Lee, ridding his body of the poison that had caused him to return to his original form. His ragged breathing eased as he became human once again, albeit supine, pallid and unconscious. Seeing that Lerina had weakened the dome, Rumdoom used his [I]frost giant’s plate [/I]to grow to enormous size. Then he smote the dome with another rune of destruction. It imploded, with a noise so loud it was practically inaudible. Almost everyone close by was blown off their feet, even Rumdoom himself. Venkio fell and lay still, its ribcage shattered by the blast. Only the two kings remained standing. Ludo Marcione was on his knees. Thisraldion raised his vorpal sword, but Korrigan bade him to stay his blow. “Mortal mercy is a mystery to me,” said Thisraldion. “Mortal [I]justice[/I],” Korrigan corrected him. Only Ludo and Campion Price-Hill remained alive. Thisraldion had beheaded all the others.(Korrigan noticed that in death the shadow-men appeared to be nothing more than [I]porteurs de mort [/I]who had been killed in the line of duty, then subjected to the same grim process that had sustained the un-life of Cillian Creed, Reed Macbannin’s ‘butler’.) Ludo begged for mercy, until Thisraldion silenced him with a blow across the back of the head from the pommel of his sword. Campion Price-Hill remained on his knees, arms raised in stony, self-satisfied surrender. Catherine Romana was nowhere to be seen. [B]Song for Thisraldion[/B] [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeVjEg4znQk[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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