RL:O - Chapter VIII: Ravenheart, Part II

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RL:O - Chapter VIII: Ravenheart, Part II

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"They slept on the abyss without a surge--
The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before;
The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,
And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need
Of aid from them -- She was the Universe."
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Here the log of our last session and the campaign's conclusion with me as DM:
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Rafe: SUMMER IN THE YEAR OF WILD MAGIC.
VAN: it's 15:20 here
Rafe: Before you, the burning city of Marsember...
Rafe: Everyone, on that balcony.
Rafe: What do you do?
Rafe: Fire, and sounds of fighting from down in the city.
Rafe: Jarryd, still infected with vampirism.
VAN: can we see who is attacking?
Rafe: No.
combatmedic: Moorkoft draws his scarf over the loewer portion of his face, to screen out some of the smoke and ash
Jarg: I can go help with the fighting maybe the others can helpw with putting out the fire?
combatmedic: -as well as the stink of the burning town
VAN: Ino has fly
VAN: can get Jarg and go check
combatmedic: ''I need to find her.''
Rafe: The entire city is burning, what are you going to do, throw bucketts full of water?
VAN: I prefer g ofighting
Rafe: *BTW, I should point out - I don't care who dies today.*
combatmedic: ''She may be with the amry- or she may be in the citadel''
VAN: ok water sounds better...
Rafe: Tatyana - three rooms to the left.
VAN: safer1
Jarg: Jarg wets a scarf and does the same as Jamethon
combatmedic: ''Inovidil, Jarg- do you think we can get to the citdael from here- perhaps by flight?''
Jarg: Ino?
VAN: yes I can do that
Rafe: You are in the citadel, LOL.
Jarg: good'
combatmedic: ignore my goofiness
Rafe: From the balcony, you can see the entire city is on fire.
VAN: We can fly and try to help
combatmedic: Jamethon rushes to Tatyana's room
Rafe: The only spot not engulfed in the flames are the palace itself and the harbour, to the southwest.
Jarg: JArg will unsheath his two blades once he is at the citadel. Better to be prepared thna not incase there is fghting in the citadel
VAN: Inovidil did waht jamethon did with the scarf
VAN: and casts mage armor
VAN: Jarg do u want to go there and see what we can do?
Jarg: YEs I do
Jarg: I'm the most capable in fighting.
VAN: OK, lets inform Jamethon and we will go
Jarg: As well I am kind of sneaky
Rafe: Outside in the corridor.
Rafe: Empty.
Rafe: YOu can smell the scent of sulfur, and of fire
Rafe: - What would the scent of sulfur tell you?
Jarg: Demons
VAN: fireba;ll
combatmedic: ''My Lady! Come with me!''
VAN: lol
Rafe: Think simpler...
combatmedic: gunpowder
Jarg: how the fire was started
combatmedic: rotten eggs!
Rafe: The door to Tatyana's room - locked.
VAN: we don't know we were slleping
Jarg: my wife would say aomehting
Rafe: ROTTEN EGGS? YOU GOTTA PAY
Jarg: Can Jarg try to unlock it or not?
Jarg: Screw that
Jarg: I kick it down
combatmedic: Jamethon will try to force it open if she doesn't answer
VAN: break it it's esier I think
combatmedic: yeah we bash it
Rafe: JArg tries to kick it; fails, which looks absurdly funny in that moment.
combatmedic: Bulls Stregth on good old Jarg
Jarg: Ino ro Moorkroft you got a spell?
VAN: have to check if I have knock wait a sec
combatmedic: [yep- casting BS on Jarg]
Jarg: I'll try after the spell, feeling stronger
combatmedic: okay will hold one sec for her to check- if that's okay with the DM
Rafe: OK.
Rafe: BTW, Ewan, you got PM.
Rafe: here.
VAN: got it!
VAN: Ino casts knock
Jarg: "HI HONEY WE"RE HOME!" <---------- OOC
Rafe: Door swings open...
Rafe: Chaos in the room...
Rafe: Tatyana gone.
Rafe: Two guards. The throats torn away.
Rafe: Window open.
combatmedic: Jamethon rushes to the window
Jarg: We look for quick clues or not?
VAN: "Holly Mystra!"
Jarg: guess so
Rafe: Down: a hundred meters of free fall.
Jarg: Torn out by huge maw?
Rafe: Above, the roof.
VAN: yeah spot check if u want
Rafe: @Jarg: Yeah.
combatmedic: [looking for clues]
Jarg: [ditto as Jamethon]
Rafe: Blood on the bed.
Jarg: I have darkvision @ Raf
VAN: heal check to see when they died Ewan
Rafe: The guards' weapons in their sheets.
Rafe: Blood and wounds, very fresh, like still warm.
VAN: under the bed anything?
combatmedic: Jamethon dips a finger in the fresh blood and holds it very near his mouth
combatmedic: ''Died not long ago...still fresh''
Rafe: Jamthon will suddenly feel a irrestible urge to lick his bloody finger...
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combatmedic: he does so
Jarg: Are Jamethons eyes still red? @ Raf
Rafe: Yeah.
combatmedic: ''Hmmm....yes, still fresh. She cannot be long gone.''
VAN: Jamethon lets fly outside and look
VAN: "Jarg coming with us?"
Rafe: Behind you, growling...
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combatmedic: Jamethon whips out the Von Zarovich sowrd and spins on his heels
Jarg: Yes
combatmedic: to face the possible danger
Jarg: Turn to face the growling
VAN: Inovidil casts immediately stoneskin
Jarg: Raf you have a pm in the chat here
Rafe: Answered.
Rafe: In the door, ragged and burnt, young Harkon Lukas.
Rafe: "What's going on?" - You realize Sasha is missing.
Jarg: Is his bfdace blody?
Jarg: face bloosy?
Jarg: bloody*
Rafe: Oooh, Steve, what happened last night? :-D
Rafe: Yeah, the boy's face is bloody.
Jarg: its my typing skills
combatmedic: ''She is, is she- well, my lady has gone too- or more likely been taken.''
combatmedic: ''We MUST find her.''
Jarg: "HOw did yopur face get all bloddy, boy?"
Rafe: "No. She fed, and then she left."
VAN: "Harkon, what happened?"
Rafe: "You think I can't fight, dark elf?! - Everyone here mistakes me for one of the child vampires."
combatmedic: Jamethon frowns at the boy's words
Rafe: PPC You see where we are heading to...
Jarg: Youre a wolf thing not a vampire
Rafe: OOC
combatmedic: ''It doesn't matter- only SHE matters now.''
combatmedic: Jamethon crwals up into the window and peers out
VAN: we are heading to a tpk I thik: total party kill
combatmedic: trying to get a look around in hopes of seeing Tatyana
Rafe: Harkon simply walks by Jarg, to the window. "So my enemies, don't bleed, drow BOY? - Man, you're really not smart!"
combatmedic: [scanning the skies for a big raven]
Jarg: Jarg removes something from his puch
Jarg: pouch*
Rafe: No raven out there...
Jarg: I sheath a sword for that, Raf
VAN: "lets go outside"
VAN: "we have nothing else to do here"
Jarg: JArg unstoppers the vial and.....
Rafe: Suddenly Jarg plunges on Moorkroft, spilling a flask of holy water on him...
Rafe: O.o
combatmedic: Moorkoft is so starled he falls out the window just as he starts to speak
VAN: "You fool!"
VAN: Ino casts fly on herself and flies out
Rafe: ...And stops a few meters under it, the water burning on his skin like oil...
VAN: trying to get him
Rafe: Moorkroft already cast a spell himself, right...
Jarg: "Aha!"
combatmedic: Walking on the air as easily as any mortal man might cross a smooth floor
combatmedic: he moves away from the window a few paces
VAN: featherfall?
Rafe: OOC you see why I thought I wouldn't need a new script for this one...
combatmedic: then turns and faces Jarg, his face looking most uncanny in the lurid hell-light of the flames below
Jarg: "I Knew it, I knew he was a Vampire!"
combatmedic: ''YOU BETRAY US ALL DARK-ELF.''
Rafe: Harkon: Facepalm.
VAN: "Holly Mystra!"
combatmedic: ''How long have you been working for the lich?''
Jarg: I work for noone, you bloodsucker
combatmedic: Jamethon raises his hands and invokes Ezra
Rafe: Harkon: Turns around and runs out of the room.
Jarg: Jarg grabs Van and moves away from the window
combatmedic: ''Lady of the Mists- Lend you servant the power to do battle in your name''
Jarg: Weve got to get out of here
VAN: "yes"
Rafe: Behind you, movement...
combatmedic: ''Run, elfling- I will follow you through this world and beyond- through the Mists of Death if need be.''
Rafe: o.O
VAN: we keep running
Jarg: Yes
Rafe: In the door, Sasha, huge wounds on her arms and chest. Bite wounds and slashes.
VAN: "what happened? Sasha? you ok?"
Rafe: "He... Is... Here..." Sasha looses balance and falls to the ground...
Jarg: Who is here?"
Rafe: Her sword, bloody, rolls away from her....
Jarg: OOC RAf we know about Strahd?
Rafe: "The assassin... Strahd's assassin..."
Rafe: OOC Yeah.
VAN: "she needs help!"
VAN: OOC Do we have any potions?
Jarg: "Who is Strahd's assassin?>"
Rafe: No, and the only cleric of the party is outside flying, his head burning
Rafe: Sasha faints in Jarg's arms...
VAN: great
Jarg: quikc search of Sasha
Jarg: anything on her
Rafe: *Pervert*
Jarg: ty
Rafe:
Jarg: OOC yeah baby!
VAN: Inovidil tries to stop the bleeding
Rafe: Nothing but some mundane items. Her paladin symbol, a hammer.
Rafe: a seal with a hammer on it.
Jarg: "keep an eye on the window and I on the hallway, ok"
Jarg: look at the seal
VAN: "ok"
Rafe: @Ino: Doesn't work. Sasha will die unless she gets really quick help...
VAN: untrained healing
Rafe: Sec please will be back in a min
VAN: the only thing I can do
VAN: "I can try to get her to a temple"
VAN: "but doubt will be anyone there"
Jarg: exactly
VAN: "do u know how to help her?"
Jarg: OOC looking at my pc sheet
combatmedic: [Jamethon does- but someone tried to kill him]
combatmedic: [LOL]
VAN: and at his condition doubt he will help us, he will be just happy for the blood!
Jarg: we can only do untrained heal checks to stop the bleeding
VAN: yeah but we don't have much time I think
VAN: the fire will get inside
Jarg: we need top get to safety and fast
combatmedic: [better toss her out the window to the cleric]
VAN: lmao Ewan!
Jarg: hah!
combatmedic: [maybe he'll play nice]
VAN: at least we will keep himn busy1
Jarg: you have teleport, ino?
VAN: I'm only 8!
Jarg: no
Jarg: lol
Rafe: Mwahahaha... marsember burns...
VAN: and no dimension door
VAN: so Raf, untrained healing
Rafe: So?
VAN: and we just hope goes well
Jarg: untrained healing
Rafe: The bleeding is stopped so far, but the wound would have to be closed and to be cleaned, both things you don't know how to do, in all the haste...
Jarg: I can carry her
Jarg: lets get the **** out of here
VAN: yeah
VAN: and go where btw?
VAN: the city is burning!
Jarg: can you do a mist type spell to obscure the hallway behind us??
VAN: don't have obscuring mist prep
Rafe: Waiting for Ewan!
Rafe:
combatmedic: a soot stained figure suddenly looms in the open window
VAN: these are all Jamethon's spells!
Jarg: OOC Raf how far is the exit of the city from heree? Or do we know of a secret exit underground from the palace? We did have special papers
combatmedic: Jamethon, holding his naked sword
combatmedic: ''Give the woman to me, and she may yet live.''
Rafe: The only place you saw that the flames had not reached yet was the harbor...
VAN: we can fly we don't need that
combatmedic: ''I am not without mercy.''
Jarg: how far
Rafe: That's surely one place to check, but for that you have to exist the palace first...
VAN: now we have Jamethon's problem...
Rafe: Half an hour on Harkon's back...
VAN: and flying?
Rafe: Ten minutes...
VAN: great
Jarg: I dont trust Moorkroft......... Harkon meet us in the port
Jarg: INo cast fly lets get out of here
Rafe: But then again, what about the rest of your friends, of Sergej, Tatyana, Harkon, and poor old Gondegal...
VAN: is there a window nearby?
Rafe: HArkon = long gone
VAN: they are still inside???
Rafe: Just the one Moorkroft is standing in...
Rafe: @VAN: You do not know, but you suppose!
Rafe: The city's under attack...
VAN: great
Jarg: nother knock spell on another door
VAN: we cannot leave them back
Jarg: Ill caryy Sasha
VAN: "Jarg can you fight Jamethon alonme?"
Rafe: Clarification: Where is the grpoup, where do you want to go?
Jarg: I have no spells but yes
VAN: "I'll get Sasha and try to find the others"
Jarg: Ok
Jarg: go
VAN: "You can fight better than me"
Jarg: Jarg unsheathes his other blade
Jarg: beckons Moorkroft
VAN: Inovidil gets Sasha and moves as fast as ashe can yelling the names of the others
Jarg: Lets see what youp;ve got, bloodsucker
Rafe: Behind, another shadow in the door...
Jarg: OOC this should be interesting
Rafe: "Where... Isss... My... Pray..."
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VAN: sorry Steve but we cannot leave the otehr burn
Rafe: *prey
Jarg: OOC Gollum?
Rafe: VAn cannot get out...
VAN: great
Jarg: fireball the thing now!
VAN: he is infront of me?
Rafe: Van and JArg, locked in between Moorkroft and ,,, Who could that be... You already know!
Rafe: @Vannie: Yeah!
Jarg: Jarg moves to face Moorkroft
Jarg: Fireball!
combatmedic: Moorkoft is casting a spell
VAN: Ino gets back and casts lightingbolt
VAN: no fireball in there!
Jarg: Initiative
VAN: it';s enough fire!
combatmedic: [fireball will smoke all of you, carzies!]
Jarg: if Jarg sees him casting he will move to atack him to stop the spell
VAN: I said lightingbolt
Jarg: I have SR by the way ewan OOC
Rafe: The fireball buizarrely pushes the undead out of the room, against the wall of the opposite corrdior...
VAN: no fireball!!!
VAN: lightingbolt!
Rafe: *lightning...
VAN: it was illusion?
combatmedic: SR won't help you with this- and why assume I am attacking you and not the bad critter? Hmmmm
Rafe: ...From outside the door, you can hear the undead again... "Noone can escape... RATIK."
Rafe: o.O
Rafe: And so, the circle closes...
Jarg: OOC who is RATIK?
VAN: the assassin
Rafe: Bad bad man...
VAN: can we close the door?
VAN: and lock it?
Rafe: You can try...
combatmedic: Ratik Ubel
combatmedic: ''Ratik Ubel''
VAN: don't think we have other choice
Jarg: OOC no idea who he is even OOC is he in one of the STrahd books?
VAN: yes
Rafe: Nope, FR-related RL badass.
VAN: famous assassin
Jarg: worse than entreri?
VAN: don't know
Rafe: Not really, but in this campaign, worlds worse...
Jarg: okay close the door or try
VAN: Inovidil tries to close the door
Jarg: Jarg is trying to sop moorkroft from casting
VAN: is there anything heavy to put behind?
combatmedic: [I take it Jarg is closing the door- not attacking the party cleric- then?]
Rafe: Close the door OR stop Moorkroft - can't do both...
Jarg: @ Van Sasha?
VAN: she is on the floor
Jarg: Close door
combatmedic: [bring it on]
combatmedic: a flash of brimstone and smoke fills the air in front of the window
Jarg: OOC Jarg needs a reason to trust Moorkroft......
combatmedic: a deep growling can be heard from within the smoke
combatmedic: yellow eyes blaze through the murky air
Jarg: Hell hound!
combatmedic: a canain form can be seen- large and somehow mishappen
Rafe: Mwahahahahaha...
VAN: as if we don't have enough fire...
Jarg: Initiative@ Raf
combatmedic: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Rafe: You do for yourselves this time, if you fight between yourselves...
VAN: ok guess Ewan plays first
Jarg: OOC Jarg needs a reason to trust moorkroft
VAN: and he summons the hell hound
Rafe: Hehehe... TPK anyone?
Rafe: Something hammers agains the door, letting the wood splinter and making it shake...
combatmedic: i CAST A SPELL- YOU SHOULD GO NOW
Jarg: it happens
VAN: I had this feeling remember?
combatmedic: here comes Ratik Ubel
Jarg: Deal with the thing, Van. Fireball it I dont care
Jarg: we can fly out of here
VAN: i cannot cast fireball in a room
VAN: it will get all of us
Jarg: okay well do something
combatmedic: the hell hound rushes out of the smoke and charges Jarg!
VAN: to fly away we need to get to the window
VAN: behind Ewan
Jarg: Jarg attacks it he was ready
combatmedic: smokes and fire pour from out its nostrils and its long red mouth hangs open
Rafe: Mwahahaha...
VAN: Inovidil gets back and is ready to cast a spell if the door opens
VAN: and gets cover
Rafe: The door breaks, and the ghoul's hand aims for the doorknob...
VAN: wait a sec
VAN: hate this ghoul
Jarg: OOC @ RAf Jarg has evasion if that helps for the hounds firebreath
VAN: hate this ghoul
Jarg: OOC @ RAf Jarg has evasion if that helps for the hounds firebreath
VAN: hate this ghoul
Jarg: OOC @ RAf Jarg has evasion if that helps for the hounds firebreath
VAN: Ino casts magic missiles
Jarg: @ Raf also applying DOdge to the Hellhound
Rafe: The hound jumps on Jarg, but does not manage to grab or wound him... He pins him against the wall, however...
VAN: "Jamethon stop it!!!"
Rafe: The magic missiles hit the undead's hand, but you can see they do not do visible damage...
VAN: "Please help us! We are your friends"
combatmedic: Another falsh of smoke appears near the wiondown adn asecond dog from the Pit makes its appearance
VAN: Inovidil tries to reminds Jamethon that are friends and get himn by their side if possible
Jarg: using the wall as a push off point, Jarg pushes with both feet the hellhound at the arriving hellhound
combatmedic: Jamethon enetrs the room and absnetmindely srcathes the beast behind its ears
Rafe: The door swings open...
combatmedic: ''Restrain the dark elf traior, and I will glady help you, freind.''
combatmedic: ''And it looks as if you will need me- and my hounds''
combatmedic: [pointing to the door with his sword as Jarg pushes the hound atop him]
Jarg: @ Raf is there a free way to the window now?
VAN: "I do, tell them to attack the assassin undead!"
Rafe: Jarg manages to get himself free for a second... Still, to get out the window, he'll have to wrestle Moorkroft...
VAN: bullrash Ino has fly will get u
Jarg: gotca
Jarg: Jarg rushes Moorkroft
Rafe: Spelling, friends!!!
Rafe: :-)
VAN: Ino casts fly on herself
Rafe: In the moment Moorkroft lets the hounds loose agains Ratik,
Rafe: Jarg plunges against the tainted priest again, and, in a scene mirroring the earlier confrontation between them
Rafe: falls with him out of the window...
VAN: Ino flies outside
combatmedic: Moorkorft simply lets go of the elf
VAN: and goes down
combatmedic: pushing him away
VAN: to ge tJarg
Rafe: Hehehe... How long did that airwalk spell last again?
Rafe: Will Ino save them both...
Rafe: ???
Jarg: Can Iget to the window now?
Rafe: *Insert dramatic music.*
combatmedic: 10 minutes per level of the caster
combatmedic: over an hour at my current l;evel
Jarg: Airwalk?
Jarg: 0_o
combatmedic: hahahaha!
VAN: doubt isn't so strong
combatmedic: yep
combatmedic: i'm not a vamp silly
Rafe: Hahaha, yo are already out the window...
VAN: but can get one of them
combatmedic: was just using a bog standard cleric sepll
Jarg: Yes and your face is all burned from the holy water because???....
VAN: yes but u had dmg form holly water
combatmedic: maybe he lied
Jarg: jarg gets to the window and jumps onto Van
combatmedic: drow are sneaky
Jarg: get us out of here
Rafe: Hahahaha, the water gave a flamable reaction, but did no damage...
combatmedic: do you trust an agent of the lich Fallenleaf? JJamethon doesn't
VAN: nobody does
Rafe: So...
Rafe: Inside, the hounds wrestle with Ratik...
Rafe: Then, as Moorkroft and the others exchange a long look,
VAN: so Ino gets Jarg and fly away
Rafe: an explosion shakes the room they had just been in...
Rafe: Maybe the dogs got killed...?
Rafe: - Their death might well have caused that...
Jarg: talk about bad eating habits OOC
Rafe: Yeah, farts...
Rafe: Dangerous weapons of self-destruction, they can be...
Jarg: OOC tell tjhat to tehm who invented Stinking CLoud eh?
Rafe: Hehe...
Rafe: But, now, what to do?
Rafe: Sasha is lost...
Jarg: Okay so we're flying out of the city, Van?
Rafe: AND YOUR FRIENDS???
combatmedic: Moorkorft will air walk down to another wonidow and search for old Gondegal
combatmedic: if he cannot find the Lady perhaps he can at least save his poor old freind
VAN: yes
Jarg: Besides Gondegal where are our other friends?
VAN: we will try to help them
Rafe: In the rooms to your sides - now supposedly either dead or downside, fighting...
VAN: "Jarg we need to checkon our frineds"
VAN: does we know that Jamethon si ok?
Rafe: While floating down, Moorkroft will spot a strange scene at the castle's jousting court...
Jarg: go for it lets help our friends
Rafe: A giant raven on the pavillon where the duke usually sits...
Rafe: Back in a sec...
VAN: why is the raven so important Ewan?
VAN: u were looking for that before
combatmedic: hehehehehehee
combatmedic: [wouldn't you like to know]
VAN: I think it has something to do with Fallenleaf
Jarg: ah that wouldnt happen to be Fallenleaf wwould it?
Jarg: OOC
VAN: it;s his animal form right?
combatmedic: Moorkoft approaches the raven
Rafe: Aaargh! First chapter, of RLO!
Jarg: I think so
Rafe: If you remembered well you would know that it is certainly NOT Fallenleaf...
combatmedic: i got it
combatmedic: [I know, raf, I know]
Jarg: I dont OOC i wasnt here LOL
VAN: I don't remeber sorry
Rafe: I was counting on it, man!
combatmedic: Moorkroft approaches the raven and knells to the ground before it
combatmedic: lifting up his sword in homage
Rafe: Then, let's be surpised!
Jarg: OOC ruh roh
VAN: can we see Jamethon and the raven?
Jarg: OOC hats Zarovich sword.....
Rafe: The raven stops feeding on the duke's remains and hops off the podest where the throne and the corpse lie now...
combatmedic: with tears in his eyes Jamethon looks up at the huge carrion bird
Rafe: To muster Moorkroft with the cold eyes of an hungry animal...
Rafe: Jarg? Vannie?
VAN: we saw that?
combatmedic: in a whsiper- ''do you not remebr me....?''
Rafe: I suppose...
Jarg: @ Raf we think that is Strahd?
Rafe: Nope.
VAN: if yes we go down as well if no we enter inside agaion
VAN: ok so we go down
Rafe: You decide...
Rafe: Good.
Jarg: @ Raf we know the sword is Zarovich sword?
VAN: but not aproach very much
Rafe: @Jarg: Yes.
VAN: it's the one Jamethon gets from the fountain
Jarg: Low voice to Ino "Sasha could have been useful right now
combatmedic: Jamethon continues to kneel before the great corvid
Rafe: Let's put in some nice music...
Rafe:
combatmedic: ''You cannot doubt my faith, surely not''
VAN: Ino says in low sad voice "guess she is dead"
Jarg: ANd if he offers the sword to that Raven, it must be Sergei's brother, Strahd
VAN: "I couldn't help her,I had to help you"
Rafe: The raven hops towards Moorkroft and unceremoniously knocks him down with the giant beak....
Jarg: Ino we're not in a room anymore
combatmedic: Jamethon looks wounded as he tumbles- not in body but in spirit
VAN: I know, I was talking about before
combatmedic: He gets to his feet and stares at the bird
Jarg: yes but we are not in a room anymore
VAN: what's your point?
Jarg: HOw far is the Raven from us?
Jarg: @ raf
Rafe: Some fifteen meters...
combatmedic: ''Please- I know it must be you- try to remembr me, my lady!''
Rafe: The bird begins to pin Moorkroft to ground with a foot and tears away his armor with the giant beak...
combatmedic: Moorkoft doesn't resist
Rafe: IF YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING DO IT NOW!!!
Jarg: Fireball it INo!
combatmedic: he moans like a lover and writhes on the ground
combatmedic: ''My sweet lady''
VAN: no I wait
Jarg: INo thats Sergei brother
VAN: "He doesn't do anything to Jamethon"
Jarg: if it attacks him fireball it
Rafe: OOC How the hell do you assume this is STRAHD?
VAN: Ino casts soundlance t oit
Rafe: I am literally ROFLing over here...
VAN: I don't think it;s Strahd
Rafe:
Rafe:
Rafe:
combatmedic: Jamethon continues to wtist and moan beneath the great bird
Rafe: Then soundlance hits the raven with a stinging sound, like from hitting a small bell...
Rafe: Please, don't MOAN...
Jarg: because the sword is a zarovich sword
Jarg: and the symbol of the zarovich is the raven
Rafe: And the bird, with the EYES OF A WOMAN, rises its giant head...
Rafe: You are sure you have bought Jamethon another minute...
VAN: Jamethon get away
combatmedic: Jamethon crwals out from beneath the bird and looks about, seeking the source of the spell
Rafe: BTW, sorry Steve, not trying to play the fool of you... It's just too funny that you forget that detail of the campaign...
combatmedic: 'NO! I will not leave her now''
VAN: "It will kill you!"
Jarg: We attack it or not?
VAN: "wait a sec!"
Jarg: Im for kicking some Raven butt..
VAN: "Jamtehon go away! It will kill you"
Rafe: Then something HEAVY hits Jamethon on the head (KO for one round) - Sergej's boot.
combatmedic: [unnhhhh sleeptime]
combatmedic: the cleric slumps to the ground
VAN: "What the &*&("
Rafe: The exiled count staggers over the crumbling jousting place towards the bird....
VAN: Ino looks around
Rafe: "My love... Drink it. Drink from my veins, as you have done so many nights.."
Rafe: "Drain me, if this will give you life..."
Jarg: Jarg looks around too
VAN: can we see Sergei?
Rafe: *Sergej on the scene...*
Rafe: Yeah, he's right there at the raven...
Jarg: HEs talking to the bird?
Jarg: so if the raven is his love
VAN: "Sergei what are you doing?"
Rafe: Yeah.. You haven't got it yet, my friend, or have you?
Jarg: Thats Tayana!
Jarg: Get sergei away from her
Rafe: Sergej ignores you and approaches the bird...
VAN: and she is still alive?
combatmedic: [ehehehe- oops i'm KOed]
VAN: after the soundlance?
Jarg: jarg rushes the scene
Rafe: "Sergej, NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
VAN: :Get Jamethon away Jarg"
Jarg: have better idea
Jarg: Raf look at your pvt chat box
Rafe: Behind you, at the opposite end of the jousting round, in a breach in the wooden wall, the white knight you saw on another occassion, in the forests of Cormyr...
VAN: lol everybody is here!
VAN: only Strahd is missing
Jarg: Jarg sheathes a blade and removes something from his belt
VAN: Ino turns to the man, "Quickly people may need help!"
Rafe: Jamthon can act again...
VAN: "Can you get inside and help them"
combatmedic: Unnhhhh
Rafe: The man doesn't seem to care, and takes off his helmet...
combatmedic: struggl;ing to hsi feet Jamethon snatches up his sword
combatmedic: Seeing Jarg rushing twaords him, he moves to en garde position
Rafe: A face shows that strongly resembles Sergej, but, like ten years older...
Jarg: JArg moves as fast as he dcan to the raven
VAN: here he is'1
Rafe: Both Jarg and the ALchemist rush towards the Raven Queen...
VAN: now noone is missing lol
Rafe: Sergej stands before her, protecting her with his own body...
Rafe: @Vannie: I promised!
VAN: do we recognize him?
Jarg: glob of darkness on sergei
combatmedic: Turning in surprise as Jarg rushes past him towards the Raven
Jarg: globe*
VAN: no to sergei!!!
combatmedic: Jamethon runs after the dark elf, but doesn't attack him
Jarg: OOC Raf i have that innate once per day
Rafe: Both the coutn as well as the raven vanish in a sphere of darkness...
Rafe: OOC I know!
Rafe: So...
VAN: they are all in darkness lol not much we can do/1
Jarg: @ Raf how far was i from the raven and sergei?
Rafe: Three meters out of where the spell would take effect...
Rafe: Moorkroft?
Jarg: cancel spell
Rafe: *Hey you're lucky, got fifteen mins longer!*
combatmedic: ajMETHON WILL ATTEMPT TO AID THE rAVEN IN ESCAPING
Jarg: and keep moving towards the raven, hoping to surprise
Rafe: The globe of darkness dispells before your eyes...
combatmedic: [caps]
Jarg: and stake it
VAN: I think we should stop Strahd
VAN: how funny that sounds!
Jarg: LOL!
Rafe: The Alchemist gasps...
Rafe: Sergej can be seen, pierced through by the Raven giant black beek...
Rafe: ...And the monster extends his large wings...
VAN: If Ino casts anorther soundlace to it
combatmedic: Jamethon casts a spell
Rafe: The bird is visibly shaken, but still manages to get off the earth, hanging in the air, with Sergej in its beak...
VAN: to whom?
combatmedic: rafe- I pmed you the spell
Jarg: Jarg will jump and attempt to stake the bird
VAN: what is Strahd doing?
Rafe:
Jarg: @ Raf I own that DVD
Rafe: THE ALCHEMIST; WHOEVER THAT MAY BE, is still not close enough to interfere...
VAN: so we kill Tatyanna or no?
Jarg: I dont think I can make it
VAN: Jarg stakes the bird?
Jarg: in time
Jarg: @ Van I dont know Im tryong
Rafe: Suddenly, a cloud of darkness materializes around, slowing you dowjn and obscuring your sight...
Rafe: For a moment, you feel like you are flying, you do not feel the ground...
combatmedic: hehehee
Rafe: ...But Jarg is already in the air, plunging on the surprised beast...
Rafe: And piercing his sabre right through her chest...
Rafe: [No joke, I rolled two 20s, one for Moorkroft and one for Jarg!]
Rafe: o.O
VAN: what did Moorkroft?
Jarg: OOC Holy *&^*%*
combatmedic: nice
Jarg: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
combatmedic: heheheheh
Jarg: @ Van a spell
Jarg: @ ewan to help Jarg?
VAN: ok
Rafe: Blood, black as the mist around you, begins to flood out of the raven's mouth, and it let's Sergej's body fall down...
combatmedic: sure buddy
Rafe: On its way down, the raven's form begins to flicker....
Jarg: @ Raf JArg grabs attempts to hold the blade there by somehow latcjing onto the bird and not letting go
VAN: Ino flies to get Sergei
VAN: so he will not fall down
Rafe: And as the body crashes on the blood-covered throne of MArsember,
Rafe: The body shrinks...
Rafe: As he dares to open his eyes again, JArg finds himself standing over the
Rafe: naked body of Tatyana, covered in black feathers...
Rafe: ...
Rafe: Soooooooooooo...?
Jarg: @ Van, ewan,,,,,, seriously I behead her or not?
VAN: she is dead
VAN: but still...do it
Jarg: Jarg thinks shes a vampire
Jarg: Jarg beheads Tatyana
VAN: Sergei is alive?
Rafe: The Alchemist has come near enough and kneels at the body of his dead brother...
Rafe: "Kill the monster! Kill her right now! Or she will bewitch you too!"
VAN: so he died?
combatmedic: Jamethon leaps on top of the woman
combatmedic: his body taking the blow meant for Tatyana
Jarg: OOC Gah!
Rafe: [35 DAM to JArg, sneak attack from Moorkroft with the Sunsword!]
combatmedic: Jamethon thrust upward
Jarg: IM still standing
combatmedic: at the surrpised elf
Rafe: The Alchemist shouts to Inovidil: "Kill them! Kill them all! DonÄt think! Kill them!"
combatmedic: ''I'll take you with my, traitor......''
Jarg: Still beahed her
Jarg: behead her
combatmedic: Blood bubbles from the clerics mouth and he laughs like a madman
VAN: Is Tatyanna dead?"
VAN: "Kill her Jarg!"
combatmedic: [taking all hits to shield Tatyana's body- even if it means dying]
Jarg: IM trying!
Jarg: Moorkroft is behind Jarg thus he can behead Tayana
combatmedic: [Jamethon fights like a madman, but can he really best the drow swordsman in melee]
Rafe: Weakened and shaken from the blow and the blood loss, Jarg manages to deliver a final blow before he sinks down himself...
Rafe: ...And with a clean cut, sewers Tatyana's head from her body...
Jarg: @ everyone GO ME GO!
combatmedic: Seeing the blow slip past him and strike Ttayana, Jamethon screams
combatmedic: NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jarg: @ Van shes dead real now!
Jarg: porlly me too hahah!
Rafe: [Figured out Moorkroft could not be quick enough to grapple him...]
VAN: just hope we did the right thinmg
combatmedic: [right]
Rafe: [Jarg's not dead unless Moorkroft wants it...]
combatmedic: Jamethon attacks Jarg, tears streaming down his face
Jarg: @ Raf oh well
Rafe: One blow, then another, and JArg sinks over Tayana's beheaded body, lifeless...
combatmedic: [let's say he's KOed, but not dead
combatmedic: Jamethon snatches up the severed head and runs off into the mist
Rafe: "Let's end this madness."
VAN: "What have u done?"
VAN: "Yoy are insane?"
Jarg: @ ewan my precious my precious ... holding hte head and running off LOL
VAN: "Inovidil goes to check on Jarg"
combatmedic: the cleric, his body bleeding from its grievous wounds[ Jarg was strong!]
Rafe: Before Jamethon can run away, he is brutally kicked and hit with iron boots and gauntlets, and rols down from the pile of bodies...
combatmedic: rushes away
combatmedic: hoping they others will want to save Jarg more than they wish to kill him
combatmedic: Ugh
combatmedic: Jamethon falls down
Rafe: The Alchemist hits Moorkroft again, sending him to the ground, and takes the Zarovich sword out of his hands.
combatmedic: he clings to the head
VAN: Ino check if Jarg is still alive
Rafe: "Stay down, you fool!"
combatmedic: ''Ughhh...
Rafe: Ino will get a signal... A weak one, but nonetheless, JArg is still breathing...
combatmedic: Someting like a smile dances across Jamethon's lips
VAN: same thing Raf, untrained healing
combatmedic: ''You killed her, you fools...don't you know....uhnnnn...what she is...''
Rafe: Over at the breach in the jousting fence, cries of victory...
Rafe: You can see little Harkon running towards you, pulling old Gondegal, looking like if he had been burned a few times to much, after him...
Rafe: "I know - knew what she was. I know why to fear and to loathe her."
combatmedic: Jamethon looks past the Alchemist for a monet and sees the boy and the old man
combatmedic: ''At least they made it out alive....''
Rafe: The Alchemist steps over to his fallen brother and cuts of Sergej's head as well.
Rafe: [Back in a sec]
combatmedic: Jamethon takes the oppurtunity to stand, wobbling to his feet
VAN: wow first we save Ezra and now we kill her! lol
VAN: we r a really starnge party!
combatmedic: the cleric quickly intones another spell, trying to heal himself
Rafe: *The spell does not work*
VAN: obviously...
combatmedic: Jamethon sinks to his knees andin despair
Rafe: The Alchemist walks over and - with surprising gentility, takes up Tatyaana beheaded body and lies her next to Sergej's and the duke's.
combatmedic: Jamethon walks over and places the head down, right against the neck stump
VAN: "Jamethon, wait!"
combatmedic: He pauses a moment, the head in his hands
combatmedic: '''Yes?''
VAN: "come here"
Rafe: "Whatever evil tainted them, it was not of this world. Let's hope that, in realms far from our own existence, they will find happyness in another life. Happyness that equals the madness that they had to endure in this world."
VAN: "we need you. Please try to help me with Jarg"
combatmedic: The cleric tramps towards Inovidil, the head still tightly gripped
combatmedic: ''Jarg- he tried to murder me''
VAN: "He didn't"
combatmedic: ''he attacked me
VAN: :He tried to save you"
Rafe: I say, we leave the party at this moment...
combatmedic: ''He tried to send me out that window to my death''
VAN: "This woman was a vampire"
VAN: "You didn't see that?"
combatmedic: ''He couldn't have know I'd asked Her for the boon of walking on air just then...''
VAN: "I could save you"
VAN: "He thought you were a vampire"
Rafe: Not only is it the hour already, but I am cinvinced the future fate of our party, the Alchemist and all the evils and wonder s that may befall them is not mine to tell...
VAN: "becasue your head was burning from the water"
Rafe: Or am I wrong, Ewan?
Rafe:
combatmedic: OOC Yep
combatmedic: You arennot wrong
VAN: so waht?
combatmedic: Welcome to the jungle, baby!
Jarg: lol
Rafe: So, that's my final word as DM: Thank you very much for one of the best campaigns I ever ran!
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Re: RL:O - Chapter VIII: Ravenheart, Part II

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I disavow all involvement in this game.
Delight is to him- a far, far upward, and inward delight- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.

-from Moby Dick (Hermann Melville)
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