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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7918417" data-attributes="member: 79141">Session 258, Part ThreeRound 10The entire area erupted in a ball of fire, as the Revolution launched incendiaries and the ancient demon exploded simultaneously. Conquo and Korrigan were both set on fire. Korrigan ignored the flames and spent most of the rest of the titanic encounter ablaze or smouldering.Quratulain used her firesight eye to fire at the invisible Ghost Council.  Though she could hurt the ghosts a bit, she felt that her skills would be best put to use on the Revolution.  “Get me up there,” she said to Leon. Leon obliged, and they reappeared on the gunnery deck.The Ghost Council tried to grab at Rumdoom and Korrigan, to envelope them and carry them off. Rumdoom struck back, and again yelled at Korrigan, “Icons?!?”“Are you as clever as I thought?” asked Nicodemus. “Or was it just chance that you kept stumbling into my way? We first met in the garden of Mayor Macbannin’s manor, on Cauldron Hill. Do you remember? We talked about chaos.”  Then he used his thoughtseize power on Conquo to stop him from defending himself; Korrigan negated it with his bracers of liberty.Korrigan used Bolt of Avilona to escape the Ghost Council, and his worldwide telepathic network to heal Uru. Then he urged Gupta, Matunaaga and Linia to move to where they were most needed.  Linia picked up Matunaaga and flew into the air, towards the Revolution, covering the whole, huge distance in an instant (even Matunaaga was not as fast as an angel in flight). Gupta reverted to humanoid form and studied Borne for weaknesses.Uru shot Han; Bert shot at Uru before he could hide, freezing him in the open; Han urged him to shoot again, but as he prepared to do so, Lavanya barged into him and caused him to miss. Han Jierre slapped her across the face and cursed the mastermind’s adolescent devotion to Kasvarina.Matunaaga crashed through the reinforced windows, spraying all within the bridge with broken glass.  The pilots cried out in alarm, and hid behind their chairs.  Without them, the Revolution ceased the ruthless circle it had carved above the axis seal, and veered off in a straight line.Below, Gupta was looking for ways to breach Borne’s witchoil reservoir, but discovered several other weaknesses in the process, areas which the Ob’s hasty repairs had not rendered impenetrable. Even as Borne brought his foot down on Conquo, she shared them with the others: They should aim for his dorsal vents; the chest-plate around his wayfarer lantern; his left armpit; or either knee.That was all the information Conquo needed. He braced himself for a last-ditch feat of strength!Round 11From the Coaltongue, Rutger Smith urged them to “Get the shields down!”  The brand was ready to fire, but the Revolution was still immune to it.Uru looked around.  He could see lantern-tech shield generators close by him on the bridge, but he was frozen out in the open and badly injured. His memories of the Gyre were flooding in apace, and he summoned the rival ghost council he had formed in their struggle against the Voice of Rot: Amielle Latimer, El Perro, Lorcan Kell, Rush Munchausen and Olivert Boone coalesced around him. Linia, hovering outside the bridge, healed him.The Revolution continued its bombardment of the Coaltongue and all available targets down below, though it was now one gun short. Quratulain used a magic item (where did this come from?  did she find it in the Gyre?!?) to summon a wall of fire in a ring upon the gun deck, burning every crew,  forcing them away from their posts. Lya then appeared through the flaming wall and attacked both Quratulain and Leon, using their proximity and the cramped conditions against them.  There was a horrible, gnawing sound and Leon’s blood splashed across the bulkhead – his right forearm (already severed long ago and reattached by Wolfgang Von Recklinghausen) clattered to the floor, still holding his Dreaming Blade.  He fell back into a corner in shock.  Quratulain interposed herself and counterattacked, as did Leon’s severed arm!“Nice sword!” said Han Jierre, before urging Lya to attack again.As she did so, poor Lya said, “Please, stop them. They’ve stolen my life from me.”“The king is here, and he is forgiving,” said Quratulain. “We will stop them. Fear not.”Matunaaga unleashed a flurry of blows at Bert Facie, dropping him in an instant.Uru’s ruthless, ghostly warriors crowded around Han Jierre. “Someone get these cuffs off me!” cried Lavanya, in a voice that sounded very much like Kasvarina. She barged her way out of the bridge, through the guard room and joined the fight against Lya, holding her cuffs as if she hoped to get them sawn off!Down below, Kai crowed in triumph as – at last – another icon arrived. Ascetia! With it, memories of their time there, and of their meeting with William Miller.The Ghost Council tried to take control of Rumdoom again, but he resisted and attacked back, shouting to Korrigan as he did so, “Are you going to give me any of those icons or what?”The ghost council crowded round Korrigan too: “Nicodemus is our leader. Nicodemus is our leader.”“He’s not my leader! Fuck off!” said Korrigan, letting his discipline slip.A quiet, calm voice admonished him, half-jokingly, “Now, dear. Not in front of the boy,” and he realised that Elizabeth’s spirit was with him, and that he had brought her from the Gyre. (Helandra was with Gupta, too.)Borne’s foot hovered above Conquo. The colossus was reluctant to kill him. He had not been raised for violence. “Go on, my boy!” urged Nicodemus. “For the good of all! Crush our opposition!”Korrigan summoned his future self and both of him headed in separate directions. One healed all his friends – Gupta, Conquo, Leon, no matter where they lay on the battlefield – the other said to Nicodemus:“The difference between us is that I care about the people, while you care only about fulfilling your plan. That is why I’ll succeed and you’ll fail.”“You couldn’t be more wrong,” said Nicodemus, drawing out a scroll and casting a resilient sphere over Rumdoom, as one might place a glass over an insect. Then he urged Borne on a final time, and the colossus brought its foot down on Conquo.Conquo was just under half Borne’s size – puny compared to him, but still strong enough, he hoped, for one last, desperate manoeuvre. As Borne’s foot descended, Conquo caught it and twisted with all his might, rending the leg to one side and causing the weakened gears in his knee to bend and sheer. Borne cried out and began to sob, but still his foot came down, inexorably, on Conquo. Conquo’s head and torso were utterly crushed.Kasvarina cried out in double agony – both of her children were in pain; pain inflicted by each other!Nicodemus admonished Borne. “Pain is fleeting! There are still more foes! Turn about!” Borne did as he was told.Gupta stood in wonder at the colossus and realised that he did not want to kill and was beginning to doubt his master.Nevertheless, Xambria had spotted her chance:  As Borne raised his arm to steady himself on his lumbering turn, she fired the brand. It fizzled out uselessly, thanks to his all-but impervious wards.</blockquote>

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