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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7457972" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 60, Part One - Chit-chat, chop-chop</strong></p><p></p><p>“It’s an honour to cross blades with you again,” said Lya as they fought. “Despite our past disagreements and their consequences,” she briefly flared with ghostly fire, then smiled, “this is not personal for me.” All the while she was fighting with great panache, and a dancing lantern blaster at her shoulder was firing beams of energy all about her. The dragon’s necrotic witchoil aura was clearly bolstering her ghostly form, and though totally outnumbered, Lya talked casually and with great confidence.</p><p></p><p>Though he was on fire, having been struck by Lya’s tiefling curse, Korrigan responded in kind and tried to contain Lya while the others dealt with the mechanical dragon. Quratulain struck it with her dragonbane sword (an odd choice ,which needless to say had no additional effects, but in her hands was quite devastating anyway) and then sprang into the air and fired at it with her pistols. She was fighting in a wholly new way. Where previously her moves had been economical, designed to conserve energy, she now committed herself entirely to each manoeuvre.</p><p></p><p>“I won’t try to persuade you with compassion,” Lya went on. “Nicodemus cares about saving the world from suffering. He and I both have seen wars, and bloodshed. We agree it must stop. But for different reasons.” Her rapier sliced a hole in the very air next to Korrigan and a blazing inferno roared out from this wound in reality.</p><p></p><p>Gale joined the fray and snuffed out the flames on Korrigan. Andrei finally clambered back on to the deck. Lya caught sight of him and her eyes flashed. She ignored Korrigan’s challenge and sprang across the deck towards Andrei. “It wasn’t the atrocities I saw, or the horrible wounds my friends suffered that bothered me most,” she said as she went. “It was that there was no place for reason. When I’m honest with myself, a stranger’s suffering – it doesn’t bother me.” Her serrated, ethereal blade, sliced Andrei’s left arm clean off. Then she turned to the mechanical dragon shouted, “Now!” Vents along the dragon’s flanks erupted with fire, engulfing a huge swath. The force propelled the massive construct through the air, where it turned and nose-dived at the glass capacitor. As Lya watched it go she continued. “But a mind left fallow, poisoned by desperation? That is cruel.”</p><p></p><p>The dragon crashed into the capacitor like a starling into a window, bouncing off harmlessly, to slide to the deck in a crumpled heap. The capacitor was made of glass, but magically reinforced to withstand ship-to-ship artillery fire. Lya had miscalculated and lost her cool for a moment. “Merde!” she hissed.</p><p></p><p>“I really wish we had a chance to discuss these matters in a less aggressive fashion,” said Korrigan as he took to the air, coughing smoke from the reality wound. His filigree markings now glowed from the energy he had absorbed. He passed a potion over his shoulder and asked Kai to open it for him, then swigged the contents.</p><p></p><p>Despite the failure of her coup-de-gras, Lya went on as if nothing had happened. “You’re loyal and decent, I respect that. But a new age of reason is upon is. Your time is past, your ‘majesty’.” This last word was dripping with sarcasm.</p><p></p><p>Quratulain was outraged. “You will kneel before the king!” she demanded, aiming her pistols at Lya’s knees. Lya turned and gave her an infuriating smile. Her dancing lantern blaster fired, Quratulain ducked, rolled and and fired back, her <em>ghost-touched </em>bullets ripping holes where Lya’s knees would have been if she were real. “You will <em>kneel</em>!” Quratulain bellowed. But Lya didn’t kneel, she simply discorporated.</p><p></p><p>They finished off the mechanical dragon quickly, Andrei shot-putting a cannonball one-handed, Korrigan hitting it with absorbed energy. When it lay still, they hastened towards the prow to gather round the fey portal pad. Asrabey joined them from the stern, with a warning that the kraken’s bow-wave was almost upon them. Leon and Uru had done their best, but the brand was still not charged.</p><p></p><p>Then Harkover Lee ran inside the capacitor. As he ran he shouted, “I don’t care what Amielle said, from what I can tell, that ritual is nearing completion. You have ten minutes, maybe a little more!” Once inside the curved glass half-cylinder, Lee unleashed an astonishing amount of magical energy, . Already weakened, it drained him utterly, and he collapsed and then vanished – magical contingencies whisking him away to a place of safety.</p><p></p><p>At once, Rutger Smith gave the order to fire and the brand tore a hole in the force-field surrounding the Governor’s island. </p><p></p><p>Korrigan muttered the requisite command word and those stood on and around the pad were teleported through the breach.</p><p></p><p>In that split second, the shattered dragon rose and pounced. Asrabey spotted it and stepped away to block the monster with his shield. They teleported away leaving Asrabey behind, finishing off the mechanical dragon with a blow from his vekeshi blade. The breach in the force-field closed at once. Then the Coaltongue disappeared entirely, Admiral Smith having activated the portal pad’s second function, translating the vessel into the Bleak Gate. </p><p> </p><p>Erupting from the waves behind it came a great mass of enormous tentacles, each one over two-hundred feet long. With the Coaltongue gone they slapped against the forcefield as did the bow-wave the kraken had created. Then the wave subsided and the kraken withdrew.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7457972, member: 79141"] [b]Session 60, Part One - Chit-chat, chop-chop[/b] “It’s an honour to cross blades with you again,” said Lya as they fought. “Despite our past disagreements and their consequences,” she briefly flared with ghostly fire, then smiled, “this is not personal for me.” All the while she was fighting with great panache, and a dancing lantern blaster at her shoulder was firing beams of energy all about her. The dragon’s necrotic witchoil aura was clearly bolstering her ghostly form, and though totally outnumbered, Lya talked casually and with great confidence. Though he was on fire, having been struck by Lya’s tiefling curse, Korrigan responded in kind and tried to contain Lya while the others dealt with the mechanical dragon. Quratulain struck it with her dragonbane sword (an odd choice ,which needless to say had no additional effects, but in her hands was quite devastating anyway) and then sprang into the air and fired at it with her pistols. She was fighting in a wholly new way. Where previously her moves had been economical, designed to conserve energy, she now committed herself entirely to each manoeuvre. “I won’t try to persuade you with compassion,” Lya went on. “Nicodemus cares about saving the world from suffering. He and I both have seen wars, and bloodshed. We agree it must stop. But for different reasons.” Her rapier sliced a hole in the very air next to Korrigan and a blazing inferno roared out from this wound in reality. Gale joined the fray and snuffed out the flames on Korrigan. Andrei finally clambered back on to the deck. Lya caught sight of him and her eyes flashed. She ignored Korrigan’s challenge and sprang across the deck towards Andrei. “It wasn’t the atrocities I saw, or the horrible wounds my friends suffered that bothered me most,” she said as she went. “It was that there was no place for reason. When I’m honest with myself, a stranger’s suffering – it doesn’t bother me.” Her serrated, ethereal blade, sliced Andrei’s left arm clean off. Then she turned to the mechanical dragon shouted, “Now!” Vents along the dragon’s flanks erupted with fire, engulfing a huge swath. The force propelled the massive construct through the air, where it turned and nose-dived at the glass capacitor. As Lya watched it go she continued. “But a mind left fallow, poisoned by desperation? That is cruel.” The dragon crashed into the capacitor like a starling into a window, bouncing off harmlessly, to slide to the deck in a crumpled heap. The capacitor was made of glass, but magically reinforced to withstand ship-to-ship artillery fire. Lya had miscalculated and lost her cool for a moment. “Merde!” she hissed. “I really wish we had a chance to discuss these matters in a less aggressive fashion,” said Korrigan as he took to the air, coughing smoke from the reality wound. His filigree markings now glowed from the energy he had absorbed. He passed a potion over his shoulder and asked Kai to open it for him, then swigged the contents. Despite the failure of her coup-de-gras, Lya went on as if nothing had happened. “You’re loyal and decent, I respect that. But a new age of reason is upon is. Your time is past, your ‘majesty’.” This last word was dripping with sarcasm. Quratulain was outraged. “You will kneel before the king!” she demanded, aiming her pistols at Lya’s knees. Lya turned and gave her an infuriating smile. Her dancing lantern blaster fired, Quratulain ducked, rolled and and fired back, her [I]ghost-touched [/I]bullets ripping holes where Lya’s knees would have been if she were real. “You will [I]kneel[/I]!” Quratulain bellowed. But Lya didn’t kneel, she simply discorporated. They finished off the mechanical dragon quickly, Andrei shot-putting a cannonball one-handed, Korrigan hitting it with absorbed energy. When it lay still, they hastened towards the prow to gather round the fey portal pad. Asrabey joined them from the stern, with a warning that the kraken’s bow-wave was almost upon them. Leon and Uru had done their best, but the brand was still not charged. Then Harkover Lee ran inside the capacitor. As he ran he shouted, “I don’t care what Amielle said, from what I can tell, that ritual is nearing completion. You have ten minutes, maybe a little more!” Once inside the curved glass half-cylinder, Lee unleashed an astonishing amount of magical energy, . Already weakened, it drained him utterly, and he collapsed and then vanished – magical contingencies whisking him away to a place of safety. At once, Rutger Smith gave the order to fire and the brand tore a hole in the force-field surrounding the Governor’s island. Korrigan muttered the requisite command word and those stood on and around the pad were teleported through the breach. In that split second, the shattered dragon rose and pounced. Asrabey spotted it and stepped away to block the monster with his shield. They teleported away leaving Asrabey behind, finishing off the mechanical dragon with a blow from his vekeshi blade. The breach in the force-field closed at once. Then the Coaltongue disappeared entirely, Admiral Smith having activated the portal pad’s second function, translating the vessel into the Bleak Gate. Erupting from the waves behind it came a great mass of enormous tentacles, each one over two-hundred feet long. With the Coaltongue gone they slapped against the forcefield as did the bow-wave the kraken had created. Then the wave subsided and the kraken withdrew. [/QUOTE]
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