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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7587705" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 221, Part Two - Overwhelming Odds?</strong></p><p></p><p>Uriel blessed his allies with the Staff of the Hierophant. Heid ducked behind Komanov’s throne. Quratulain took steady aim at the chest cavity of the vsadbni, Hamul. She realised her lantern blaster and pistol would not be of that much use here, and that the angle was all wrong for a good shot. Korrigan swigged a potion of giant strength from the Borenbog’s Gourd. Uru appeared from hiding behind Komanov and hit her with a shot that would have felled an elephant. She grimaced, but did not spare him a glance, relying on her allies to defend her, and on her dancing frostblade. It missed, as did her lackey, who tried to cast a horrid spell on Uru to no avail. Uncomfortable with such exposure, Uru hid in the shadows of the Grim Candle and took to the air on Little Jack.</p><p></p><p>Komanov fired her death weapon. No one was expecting that the necrotic beam it issued would be so broad or so long. Most of the unit leapt out of the way, except Rumdoom, who was hit full force. He was still standing when the beam subsided, though it had carved a path of death through everyone else it hit, mowing a two-hundred foot swathe through Komanov’s army, killing loyalist and rebel alike. Rumdoom then began to loudly list all the other things that hadn’t killed him – two krakens, a behir, the Family, a bomb that almost killed the Bruse of Ber, the fall from the Lance of Triegenes in pursuit of the Ob’s colossus. What chance did she have?</p><p></p><p>Nebo began to sing. The vsadni joined in one by one – two horns, a harp and… no drums. Nebo turned his head to look at Tzertze, who was holding his picks the wrong way round. Wordlessly, the fiery drummer declared his defiance, taking a single stride towards Betel and striking his chest cavity with first one pick, then the other. Slain, Betel toppled backwards, crushing all beneath him. The vsadni’s music did not seem quite so fearful now. Rumdoom uttered a fiat, and none of the unit faltered.</p><p></p><p>Rumdoom ran forward to square off against Komanov then, sufficiently wounded, unleashed the fury of the Icy End of the World. Even she could not stand cold that extreme. To stop the blizzard, she struck at Rumdoom with her frostblade. The blow landed, but he soldiered on, and courtesy of Gupta, radiant Vekeshi fire punished the Grandis. She cried out, her frostblade shattered, and an aura of forgetfulness caused all around to lose their sense of purpose. Most quickly shook off the charm, but Korrigan succumbed. Badly injured, Komanov sought to drain the life-force of a dying ally (of which there were many all around), but she could not do so, thanks to the power of the Icy End.</p><p></p><p>Kvarti checked out the icy heart of Yarost, but couldn’t draw a bead on it from this angle, so he knelt and took careful aim at Komanov’s lackey.</p><p></p><p>Gupta asked Nebo a question: “Nebo, can’t you see we're all turning on you?” This perplexed the vsadni, and he stood dumbfounded.</p><p></p><p>Uriel now called down a radiant beam that forced Yarost to his knees. Sweat springing from his blue brow, he maintained it. Yarost could do nothing, not even defend himself. Tzertze crowed with delight at this opportunity, stomped towards Yarost and killed him too. </p><p></p><p>Quraulain took out the enormous Nok Gun from her magical cloak, and used her rocket boots to leap into the chest cavity of Hamul. She braced for kickback, and opened fire with all nine barrels. The foul vsadni gave a terrible moan. The gun had all but shattered his icy heart. Within, Quratulain could see the frozen form of an ancient dwarven corpse.</p><p></p><p>Korrigan shook off the pall of forgetfulness and took command of himself. It was not like him to succumb to such trickery!</p><p></p><p>Komanov took another swing at Rumdoom. With a sweep of her hand, an invisible force crashed against him like a titanic hammer. The ground beneath his feet blackened and decayed. Then she stepped away, to win clear of the Icy End and the necrotic blight she had invoked, and raised a huge wall of ice in a horseshoe around her. (Kvarti cursed. His target was again denied! He instead drew a bead on the frostwyrm Distemper, studying it for weaknesses.) Rumdoom shrugged and simply stepped through the wall – it wouldn’t be there at the end of time! Both Komanov and her lackey attacked him again, but their blows did not land.</p><p></p><p>Gupta focused her mind and tried to ask another question of Nebo – a very difficult thing to do. She asked, “Is even your steed afraid?” (The stupid creature had done nothing without instruction from its rider.) Again, she baffled Nebo, who was kept out of the fight.</p><p></p><p>Loyalists on the fringes of the army had been herding remorhaz towards their position, seeking to support Komanov. Now they were intercepted by the frost giants of Clan Thunder, who were smart enough to know which way the wind was blowing. Boar cavalry from Mirsk was also riding out to join the fray. These unexpected allies would sow even more confusion in the ranks of the doomsday army, unable to distinguish between loyalist and mutineer. Likewise, Tzerzte, who had not responded to any attempts the unit made to co-ordinate with him and – having slain both axemen – now stomped off to enjoy his freedom by killing as many dwarves as possible.</p><p></p><p>Uriel took the form of a small bird and flew high into the air – to avoid the multiple, overlapping and deadly auras on the battlefield. Quratulain stowed the Nok Gun, took out her lantern blaster and fired. Now the icy core was cracked, a single force blast was all it took to finish the job. She jumped out before Hamul took her down with him.</p><p></p><p>Uru took another shot at Grandis Komanov. This time, she gave an anguished cry, before her form dissipated into snowflakes.</p><p></p><p>Korrigan flew towards Nebo’s steed, and led the attack on the creature, cutting into it with the Sword of Maur Granatha. Even without Nebo’s command, the beast knew to respond to a direct attack. The ground cracked beneath the weight of the plated white worm as it reared back to lunge for him, maw open and spraying dried black pus. It took more fiery, radiant revenge from Gupta. Then Gupta asked yet another question of Nebo – more than she had ever asked before, with each attempt more difficult that the last. “Is your false leader watching?” Nebo was bamboozled yet again!</p><p></p><p>Komanov reformed atop her own twenty-foot-high wall. She fired the Cyclopean Revelation again, but Kvarti and Gupta threw themselves clear. (The same could not be said for scores of infighting dwarves…) To protect her from further attack, her lackey struck at Rumdoom with his gravestone staff. Rumdoom deflected the blow, then crushed the lackey’s head with his hammer.</p><p></p><p>At once Komanov intoned, “Lackey! How dare you die before my grand victory?” Her fallen minion struggled to his feet. But Komanov herself was forced to her knees, by a beam of light called down from on high by Uriel. Then Quratulain shot her with a magical beam from her lantern blaster, shrinking her down to tiny size. An insult!</p><p></p><p>Kvarti finally made a shot, and his bullet tore into the frostwyrm. Its turgid flesh tore open and rotten black innards sprayed across the battlefield as it died, creating a choking miasma. Nebo fell into this mess and struggled to stand up again.</p><p></p><p>Korrigan flew down to challenge the lackey, enabling Rumdoom to break away and dash up the ice wall with Asrabey’s slippers. Once there he hollered at Grandis Komanov in triumph and, without mercy, for she was unable to defend herself, brought his craghammer down upon her shrunken form. She fell back, close to death. The power of the Voice of Rot empowered all those who defended her, and she was surrounded by a foul necrotic cloud. Nebo stood and drew his Morningstar.</p><p></p><p>“Finish her!” said Korrigan.</p><p></p><p>Rumdoom rooted in his pack for his Icy End Grenade, but the rest of the unit urged him telepathically, and he opted for simplicity by stepping on her. Though her body was entirely crushed, she began to scream.</p><p></p><p>At once, a great rift appeared beneath them, causing the ice wall to crumble and fall away. Uriel recognised it as planar in nature: not a physical scar in the earth itself, but a hole in reality leading who-knows-where. Grandis and Nebo – and the massive bodies of the three other, fallen vsadni – were slowly torn to pieces and drawn into it. Komanov’s screams rose above the cacophony and formed her final words: “Devour me, Voice of Rot, and take this world with me!”</p><p></p><p>The rift widened and intense winds pulled creatures and corpses towards the it.</p><p></p><p>Uru had hidden himself close to Komanov. As soon as she fell, he grabbed the Cyclopean Revelation in many ghostly hands, and flew away.</p><p></p><p>Korrigan shouted at the rest of his team to run. They needed no further encouragement.</p><p></p><p>Fearful of contact with the Stone, Uriel took it up telekinetically and, still in bird form, flew off as best he could. Rumdoom grabbed Heid and dragged him along with him. Korrigan grabbed poor Bhalu – crucifix and all – and bore him away, healing him as he went. The eladrin warrior cried out as his wounds were jostled.</p><p></p><p>But the intense winds were such that they grabbed those unable to resist their pull and dragged them back towards the rift. Many of Komanov’s army and all of her close coterie were dragged in. If the rift had remained open, it is unlikely that every member of the unit would have escape. But just as things were looking desperate, the planar breach was sealed, closing up as if it had never existed.</p><p></p><p><strong>End of Session</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7587705, member: 79141"] [b]Session 221, Part Two - Overwhelming Odds?[/b] Uriel blessed his allies with the Staff of the Hierophant. Heid ducked behind Komanov’s throne. Quratulain took steady aim at the chest cavity of the vsadbni, Hamul. She realised her lantern blaster and pistol would not be of that much use here, and that the angle was all wrong for a good shot. Korrigan swigged a potion of giant strength from the Borenbog’s Gourd. Uru appeared from hiding behind Komanov and hit her with a shot that would have felled an elephant. She grimaced, but did not spare him a glance, relying on her allies to defend her, and on her dancing frostblade. It missed, as did her lackey, who tried to cast a horrid spell on Uru to no avail. Uncomfortable with such exposure, Uru hid in the shadows of the Grim Candle and took to the air on Little Jack. Komanov fired her death weapon. No one was expecting that the necrotic beam it issued would be so broad or so long. Most of the unit leapt out of the way, except Rumdoom, who was hit full force. He was still standing when the beam subsided, though it had carved a path of death through everyone else it hit, mowing a two-hundred foot swathe through Komanov’s army, killing loyalist and rebel alike. Rumdoom then began to loudly list all the other things that hadn’t killed him – two krakens, a behir, the Family, a bomb that almost killed the Bruse of Ber, the fall from the Lance of Triegenes in pursuit of the Ob’s colossus. What chance did she have? Nebo began to sing. The vsadni joined in one by one – two horns, a harp and… no drums. Nebo turned his head to look at Tzertze, who was holding his picks the wrong way round. Wordlessly, the fiery drummer declared his defiance, taking a single stride towards Betel and striking his chest cavity with first one pick, then the other. Slain, Betel toppled backwards, crushing all beneath him. The vsadni’s music did not seem quite so fearful now. Rumdoom uttered a fiat, and none of the unit faltered. Rumdoom ran forward to square off against Komanov then, sufficiently wounded, unleashed the fury of the Icy End of the World. Even she could not stand cold that extreme. To stop the blizzard, she struck at Rumdoom with her frostblade. The blow landed, but he soldiered on, and courtesy of Gupta, radiant Vekeshi fire punished the Grandis. She cried out, her frostblade shattered, and an aura of forgetfulness caused all around to lose their sense of purpose. Most quickly shook off the charm, but Korrigan succumbed. Badly injured, Komanov sought to drain the life-force of a dying ally (of which there were many all around), but she could not do so, thanks to the power of the Icy End. Kvarti checked out the icy heart of Yarost, but couldn’t draw a bead on it from this angle, so he knelt and took careful aim at Komanov’s lackey. Gupta asked Nebo a question: “Nebo, can’t you see we're all turning on you?” This perplexed the vsadni, and he stood dumbfounded. Uriel now called down a radiant beam that forced Yarost to his knees. Sweat springing from his blue brow, he maintained it. Yarost could do nothing, not even defend himself. Tzertze crowed with delight at this opportunity, stomped towards Yarost and killed him too. Quraulain took out the enormous Nok Gun from her magical cloak, and used her rocket boots to leap into the chest cavity of Hamul. She braced for kickback, and opened fire with all nine barrels. The foul vsadni gave a terrible moan. The gun had all but shattered his icy heart. Within, Quratulain could see the frozen form of an ancient dwarven corpse. Korrigan shook off the pall of forgetfulness and took command of himself. It was not like him to succumb to such trickery! Komanov took another swing at Rumdoom. With a sweep of her hand, an invisible force crashed against him like a titanic hammer. The ground beneath his feet blackened and decayed. Then she stepped away, to win clear of the Icy End and the necrotic blight she had invoked, and raised a huge wall of ice in a horseshoe around her. (Kvarti cursed. His target was again denied! He instead drew a bead on the frostwyrm Distemper, studying it for weaknesses.) Rumdoom shrugged and simply stepped through the wall – it wouldn’t be there at the end of time! Both Komanov and her lackey attacked him again, but their blows did not land. Gupta focused her mind and tried to ask another question of Nebo – a very difficult thing to do. She asked, “Is even your steed afraid?” (The stupid creature had done nothing without instruction from its rider.) Again, she baffled Nebo, who was kept out of the fight. Loyalists on the fringes of the army had been herding remorhaz towards their position, seeking to support Komanov. Now they were intercepted by the frost giants of Clan Thunder, who were smart enough to know which way the wind was blowing. Boar cavalry from Mirsk was also riding out to join the fray. These unexpected allies would sow even more confusion in the ranks of the doomsday army, unable to distinguish between loyalist and mutineer. Likewise, Tzerzte, who had not responded to any attempts the unit made to co-ordinate with him and – having slain both axemen – now stomped off to enjoy his freedom by killing as many dwarves as possible. Uriel took the form of a small bird and flew high into the air – to avoid the multiple, overlapping and deadly auras on the battlefield. Quratulain stowed the Nok Gun, took out her lantern blaster and fired. Now the icy core was cracked, a single force blast was all it took to finish the job. She jumped out before Hamul took her down with him. Uru took another shot at Grandis Komanov. This time, she gave an anguished cry, before her form dissipated into snowflakes. Korrigan flew towards Nebo’s steed, and led the attack on the creature, cutting into it with the Sword of Maur Granatha. Even without Nebo’s command, the beast knew to respond to a direct attack. The ground cracked beneath the weight of the plated white worm as it reared back to lunge for him, maw open and spraying dried black pus. It took more fiery, radiant revenge from Gupta. Then Gupta asked yet another question of Nebo – more than she had ever asked before, with each attempt more difficult that the last. “Is your false leader watching?” Nebo was bamboozled yet again! Komanov reformed atop her own twenty-foot-high wall. She fired the Cyclopean Revelation again, but Kvarti and Gupta threw themselves clear. (The same could not be said for scores of infighting dwarves…) To protect her from further attack, her lackey struck at Rumdoom with his gravestone staff. Rumdoom deflected the blow, then crushed the lackey’s head with his hammer. At once Komanov intoned, “Lackey! How dare you die before my grand victory?” Her fallen minion struggled to his feet. But Komanov herself was forced to her knees, by a beam of light called down from on high by Uriel. Then Quratulain shot her with a magical beam from her lantern blaster, shrinking her down to tiny size. An insult! Kvarti finally made a shot, and his bullet tore into the frostwyrm. Its turgid flesh tore open and rotten black innards sprayed across the battlefield as it died, creating a choking miasma. Nebo fell into this mess and struggled to stand up again. Korrigan flew down to challenge the lackey, enabling Rumdoom to break away and dash up the ice wall with Asrabey’s slippers. Once there he hollered at Grandis Komanov in triumph and, without mercy, for she was unable to defend herself, brought his craghammer down upon her shrunken form. She fell back, close to death. The power of the Voice of Rot empowered all those who defended her, and she was surrounded by a foul necrotic cloud. Nebo stood and drew his Morningstar. “Finish her!” said Korrigan. Rumdoom rooted in his pack for his Icy End Grenade, but the rest of the unit urged him telepathically, and he opted for simplicity by stepping on her. Though her body was entirely crushed, she began to scream. At once, a great rift appeared beneath them, causing the ice wall to crumble and fall away. Uriel recognised it as planar in nature: not a physical scar in the earth itself, but a hole in reality leading who-knows-where. Grandis and Nebo – and the massive bodies of the three other, fallen vsadni – were slowly torn to pieces and drawn into it. Komanov’s screams rose above the cacophony and formed her final words: “Devour me, Voice of Rot, and take this world with me!” The rift widened and intense winds pulled creatures and corpses towards the it. Uru had hidden himself close to Komanov. As soon as she fell, he grabbed the Cyclopean Revelation in many ghostly hands, and flew away. Korrigan shouted at the rest of his team to run. They needed no further encouragement. Fearful of contact with the Stone, Uriel took it up telekinetically and, still in bird form, flew off as best he could. Rumdoom grabbed Heid and dragged him along with him. Korrigan grabbed poor Bhalu – crucifix and all – and bore him away, healing him as he went. The eladrin warrior cried out as his wounds were jostled. But the intense winds were such that they grabbed those unable to resist their pull and dragged them back towards the rift. Many of Komanov’s army and all of her close coterie were dragged in. If the rift had remained open, it is unlikely that every member of the unit would have escape. But just as things were looking desperate, the planar breach was sealed, closing up as if it had never existed. [B]End of Session[/B] [/QUOTE]
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