The stands are filled with devils. They are excited, but quiet.
Zahar came with us but is gone.
The pits be about 100 feet deep.
There are various openings about the wall. Some are large, some are ludicrously so.
It is not just us in a pit with her looking down.. we hear crowd sounds all around us. This is clearly a spectator sport.
Some of the devils shout mortal scum! and huck some rocks... and something flashes as the estuff they throw bounces off. There's a force field.
Asmodeus: "I know I would be wasting my time and yours if I sent my normal followers after you, so I have prepared something special."
We spend a round buffing... We see a being a good 20ish feeet tall formed of a mass of limbs. Moving on a slew of tentacles that are pulling it across the floor. Each of the hands is carrying a sword.
It's a hecatoncheireis.
Ed is in the crowd, but we don't yet see him.
We see Ed as he releases chains through his body which hookshot through the field. Its as though there's no field. Feels a strange resistance, but... gets through. He;s got a lot of chains around him, joins up with us.
Admatha pulled out the undead of that person who had been antagonizing her for so long. She lets go a wraith.
We also See Joe walk in. Asmodeus action that round. "Let's see how you fare against my pet!" and sits on her thrown with a ruby scepter and sits demurely and entertained. There's an orb encrusted in the throne.
This thing has palpable telepathic waves... and it says "We will crush, destroy you, etc." It's Got telepathy 1000 ft and its going to use it, damn it.
Ann Says to joe that they were brought here for a purpose. joe knows what he must do and releases that which we was holding. A Tarrasque... It's not Pseudonatural... it looks changed dramatically though... it msut have been THAT one, but it doesn't look the same way. Strong winds emanate from his face and it like jumps out of him. He just manifeested.
The telepathic waves just... stop... All of the hec torsos reorient.
Asmodeus kina looks back and lookjs a little surprised and continues watching. Joe recognizes that he knew kiranselye from long ago when he sees Asmodeus.
Simone uses mislead to get a bit away... the hec has noticed it, but whether they consider it a threat.... well, they don't take an attack of oppportunity. like 98 of them are focused on the tarrasque.
Asmodeus notices her, but she's more interested in the uber epic duel. The crowd roars and they're very excited. Standing ovation just happens. They are pumped. There's no sense of feat that it might get out.
Asmodeus is confident that her pet will tear through the tarrasque. Also, i shared smite with it. 63 misses. Actually 64 misses... It manages to just barely parry every thing. Like it -just- misses.
The crowd is completely unaffected by the wail of the banshee that Admatha's minion does. The Tarrasque really te4ars into the creature... bite claw claw horn horn tail slap. THe hec clearly takes a shit ton of damage... some torsos are torn off.
Those of us nearby feel the ground is unstable. 65 misses the thing.
Do we get the action points? yes we do!
Asmodeus is paying attention to us but also to a swirling vortexz of ebnergy right in front of her... some kind of scrying sensor. Its a geomantic effect. Its something with a wide area probability change. She says into the sensor: "Idiot, leave the dragon alone, get the shapeshifters now!"
The hec is not even winded. It swings 100 times and misses the tarrasque twice. Fake Simone is Skewered, but its there. The Tarrasque is looking not so good. The Tarrasque is winded but not yet wounded. It suffers heavy blow after heavy blow. It screams... its resisting them with regen, but its still damaging it.
Ann Leaps out of Joe's mind... out of Joe's face into the tarrasque... the Tarrasque is even more badass... and has ghostly chains all around it.
For ottos irrestitable will have to target a head.
Vshir manages to stagger it. strikes teh dark matter essence in there.
Admatha pulls out a body so she can revit the tarrasque. Her body cannot be used to revitalize. She uses her own... and hte damage doesn't trample. She revitalizes him for 180. The tarrasque is not longer winded.
The tarrasque beats the shit out of the Heca and now the Heca is winded.
Chunks of the tarrasques carapace have gone flying. 68 misses. 73 hits.... its ac 69 or 70. 118 dmg ona crit, 5 more hits...
It is able to partially resist each hit. Event hough Smites normally go through. It has stop putting up the level of resistance it has before... we're actually striking wounds... It is taking owunds.
Asmodeus. She continues to look intrigued but is still mostly paying attention to the sensor... she's muttering something through it.
The Heca summons another one. It just appoears as the heca glows with unholy energy to call it.
Joe drains from the heca and donates to Ann. conduits between the summoned. 56 SR breached it. The fresh Heca has 5 Negative levels.
The Tarrasque goes.... it drops the one Heca. It is unconscious but not Dying. The tarrasque goes nuts on that fucker. Once its finished, it turns and looks at the other. It was looking for a way to eat the heca but its just too big.
I give ed a move action and a standard action. He hookshots the orb. 71 attack roll... he knows he has to get it... so he sends a bunch... Asmodeus immediately responds, and deflects them so that they don't grab her, which was her thinking. But he gets the orb. Bam! Changes happen! But not here.
The crowd roadred when the Heca went down. Also, there's a colelctive grasp when Asmodeus is 'attacked.
Asmodeus looks totally shocked. The scrying sensor is gone.
Teleporting here doesn't work except for the merit point movement.
Asmodeus goes. Asmodeus concentrates and draws a couple symbols in the air. At the conclusion of the spell, she's a 12 foot tall, wreathed in flames... She may have done something to alter the flow of time... Whereupon she looks at Ed, and he feels himself with great difficulty shake off the desire to become her servant and she nods and as a free action, teleports right next to him. and she's holding the rod... She holds it behind her as though she's not going to fight him with it. the energies she's glowing with are those of the hell fist.
The other one does not yet regain consciousness. The dark matter thats holding it together is pulling it back together, but it doesn't manage to just yet... the tarrasque fucked it up.
And the other one attacks the tarrasque, hits 93 times, does 93 damage... Ahh, debuffs at work.
So now... Asmodeus is the big threat. Joe Takes another 6 neg levels.
Mephistopheles appears in the throne Asmodeus just vacated. and he says "I've been plotting this for thousands of years... if all I had to do was throw that rock down there I'd have done this a long time ago. He turns into Hextor... its clear he was before. He puts the field back up.
"To you, Denizens of nessus, join with me now, or perish in flames A lot of them get up and draw weapons... and then another bunch do.
The stands erupt in chaos: Cries of "mephisto[pheles, the true king" and "My lord Asmodeus!"
Yes, we're in an arena with Asmodeus and two hecatonchereis and and a legendary pseudonatural tarrasque... and it's safer in here.
Asmodeus seems annoyed, like that's an inconvencience. Asmodeus can and has beaten down mephistopheles before.
Asmodeus is pissed, and there's that look of "Yes, what a surprise, he's taking advantage of the situation... Ass... I'll deal with him later." No sign of "I'm trapped in here." It's more of "That guy's an asshole and I'm going to kill him, a lot." The heca ignores Vshir as he's
70 hits Asmodeus. Vshir carves into her a bit. She wasn't staggered by Staggering crit. She starts deflecting some attacks with the ruby rod, which doesn't seem to be bothered with it.
46 resists the will save that Asmodeus forced.
dariel and Owl coup de grace the Heca... that smite is helping iwht the keeping it down.
The Tarrasque turns to the other Heca... but without the smite bonus, it is fairly ineffectual... it abosrbs almsot all fo the hit. like,... it does 5 damage.
43 won't successfully dispel anything.
Ed Makes his full attack... needed to make another will save, but passed. He felt like he shoudl be liking her boots, but then is like wait, I don't have a tongue, and full attacks.
There is a very good chance that this is actually Asmodeus... not just an avatar... if we kill her... she's down... Avatars are a flow thing, and there's not flow here.
Ed hits 9 times, with 2 crits, against asmodeus. Whubbada whubbuda whubbuda. 1026 damage. She is winded. And wounded. He takes a rod and casts it defensively. The effects: The 2 heca have their wounds go away badly. It is like mass heal.. The downed one knits back together a lot but stays down. She is encased in a field. The ability is something that has been theorized is Asmodeus last resort. The reverie of Nessus
She's in a field of force that cannot be breached. and 50 feet around it becomes antimagic. 3 rounds to bring her back to perfect health... the most important facet of the rod: It gives you all the rest of spending a full night of sleep, usable 1/day. This begins round 1. Oh, and anyone who touches the rod who isn't her will die quickly. Like Inflict crit wounds every wounds. When Asmodeus went into the Shell. The Heca suddenly jolted.
We have a few choices: We can leave... Joe knows that there is an opening that leaves to the outside. The Barrier above shimmers but isn't removed, btu the cages are opened. If we do not finish the fight with Asmodeus... If we want to defeat Asmodeus, we've done that... Or we could stay and try and kill her.
We can escape.
We Players deliberate.
We run... Joseph leads us back out of the city. The guards of the Colliseum left Our flight through the city is rather unimpeded. Joseph is leading us back the way he came.
We win in lunatic mode with no continues, but no extra stage for us... We make it back to the temple. That's where Joe and Ed came in. We're in the temple... Ed goes to the room. He's doing what Vance did. He doesn't have access. No nexuses here. The temple looks bacdly damaged... inside are defiled images of many of the gods.
Ann doesn't know another way to return... but she senses that a way will become known to us. Ed goes down to where the globe is... there are no nexuses there. THe floor was all translucent, but now its more like a cave... the gluyph that was there is still there, but it looks kinda drained...
The chains on Ed feel dormant. The orb is warm and pulsy. Ed takes the orb to the Bio shrine in the temple. Joe gets the idea that he was not supposed to have power over the temple... more the opposite.
Admatha asks who bears the blood of a god.
Simone and Dariel Try and fill the area with the essence... and its being used... it forms an area of energy which is a portal out. A booming voice says "you should hurry." It's not a voice we know. We have never heard it. It's a male voice. We go through the mystery portal. we arrive in a cave... and we see the biggest dragon ever... we see bahamut...
We bow respectfully. Bahamut says He'll be taking hte orb. We get the impression he's really fucking sick of not having the orbs.
We are consolidated here.
First, if we want to ask Bahamut stuff, we can. We're ion his personal layer... its a cacvern with crystalline structures in the wall.
Bahamut takes the orb... and after a moment, some of us vanish (those of us who exist in the friday session.)
We can ask bahamut questions ifLike, for instance, who the fuck is heironeus.
Take that, Asmodeus!
Fugue!
The stands are filled with devils. They are excited, but quiet.
Zahar came with us but is gone.
The pits be about 100 feet deep.
There are various openings about the wall. Some are large, some are ludicrously so.
It is not just us in a pit with her looking down.. we hear crowd sounds all around us. This is clearly a spectator sport.
Some of the devils shout mortal scum! and huck some rocks... and something flashes as the estuff they throw bounces off. There's a force field.
Asmodeus: "I know I would be wasting my time and yours if I sent my normal followers after you, so I have prepared something special."
We spend a round buffing... We see a being a good 20ish feeet tall formed of a mass of limbs. Moving on a slew of tentacles that are pulling it across the floor. Each of the hands is carrying a sword.
It's a hecatoncheireis.
Ed is in the crowd, but we don't yet see him.
We see Ed as he releases chains through his body which hookshot through the field. Its as though there's no field. Feels a strange resistance, but... gets through. He;s got a lot of chains around him, joins up with us.
Admatha pulled out the undead of that person who had been antagonizing her for so long. She lets go a wraith.
We also See Joe walk in. Asmodeus action that round. "Let's see how you fare against my pet!" and sits on her thrown with a ruby scepter and sits demurely and entertained. There's an orb encrusted in the throne.
This thing has palpable telepathic waves... and it says "We will crush, destroy you, etc." It's Got telepathy 1000 ft and its going to use it, damn it.
Ann Says to joe that they were brought here for a purpose. joe knows what he must do and releases that which we was holding. A Tarrasque... It's not Pseudonatural... it looks changed dramatically though... it msut have been THAT one, but it doesn't look the same way. Strong winds emanate from his face and it like jumps out of him. He just manifeested.
The telepathic waves just... stop... All of the hec torsos reorient.
Asmodeus kina looks back and lookjs a little surprised and continues watching. Joe recognizes that he knew kiranselye from long ago when he sees Asmodeus.
Simone uses mislead to get a bit away... the hec has noticed it, but whether they consider it a threat.... well, they don't take an attack of oppportunity. like 98 of them are focused on the tarrasque.
Asmodeus notices her, but she's more interested in the uber epic duel.
The crowd roars and they're very excited. Standing ovation just happens. They are pumped. There's no sense of feat that it might get out.
Asmodeus is confident that her pet will tear through the tarrasque. Also, i shared smite with it. 63 misses. Actually 64 misses... It manages to just barely parry every thing. Like it -just- misses.
The crowd is completely unaffected by the wail of the banshee that Admatha's minion does. The Tarrasque really te4ars into the creature... bite claw claw horn horn tail slap. THe hec clearly takes a shit ton of damage... some torsos are torn off.
Those of us nearby feel the ground is unstable. 65 misses the thing.
Do we get the action points? yes we do!
Asmodeus is paying attention to us but also to a swirling vortexz of ebnergy right in front of her... some kind of scrying sensor. Its a geomantic effect. Its something with a wide area probability change. She says into the sensor: "Idiot, leave the dragon alone, get the shapeshifters now!"
The hec is not even winded. It swings 100 times and misses the tarrasque twice. Fake Simone is Skewered, but its there. The Tarrasque is looking not so good.
The Tarrasque is winded but not yet wounded. It suffers heavy blow after heavy blow. It screams... its resisting them with regen, but its still damaging it.
Ann Leaps out of Joe's mind... out of Joe's face into the tarrasque... the Tarrasque is even more badass... and has ghostly chains all around it.
For ottos irrestitable will have to target a head.
Vshir manages to stagger it. strikes teh dark matter essence in there.
Admatha pulls out a body so she can revit the tarrasque. Her body cannot be used to revitalize. She uses her own... and hte damage doesn't trample. She revitalizes him for 180. The tarrasque is not longer winded.
The tarrasque beats the shit out of the Heca and now the Heca is winded.
Chunks of the tarrasques carapace have gone flying. 68 misses. 73 hits.... its ac 69 or 70. 118 dmg ona crit, 5 more hits...
It is able to partially resist each hit. Event hough Smites normally go through. It has stop putting up the level of resistance it has before... we're actually striking wounds... It is taking owunds.
Asmodeus. She continues to look intrigued but is still mostly paying attention to the sensor... she's muttering something through it.
The Heca summons another one. It just appoears as the heca glows with unholy energy to call it.
Joe drains from the heca and donates to Ann. conduits between the summoned. 56 SR breached it. The fresh Heca has 5 Negative levels.
The Tarrasque goes.... it drops the one Heca. It is unconscious but not Dying. The tarrasque goes nuts on that fucker. Once its finished, it turns and looks at the other. It was looking for a way to eat the heca but its just too big.
I give ed a move action and a standard action. He hookshots the orb. 71 attack roll... he knows he has to get it... so he sends a bunch... Asmodeus immediately responds, and deflects them so that they don't grab her, which was her thinking. But he gets the orb. Bam! Changes happen! But not here.
The crowd roadred when the Heca went down. Also, there's a colelctive grasp when Asmodeus is 'attacked.
Asmodeus looks totally shocked. The scrying sensor is gone.
Teleporting here doesn't work except for the merit point movement.
Asmodeus goes. Asmodeus concentrates and draws a couple symbols in the air. At the conclusion of the spell, she's a 12 foot tall, wreathed in flames... She may have done something to alter the flow of time... Whereupon she looks at Ed, and he feels himself with great difficulty shake off the desire to become her servant and she nods and as a free action, teleports right next to him. and she's holding the rod... She holds it behind her as though she's not going to fight him with it. the energies she's glowing with are those of the hell fist.
The other one does not yet regain consciousness. The dark matter thats holding it together is pulling it back together, but it doesn't manage to just yet... the tarrasque fucked it up.
And the other one attacks the tarrasque, hits 93 times, does 93 damage... Ahh, debuffs at work.
So now... Asmodeus is the big threat. Joe Takes another 6 neg levels.
Mephistopheles appears in the throne Asmodeus just vacated. and he says "I've been plotting this for thousands of years... if all I had to do was throw that rock down there I'd have done this a long time ago.
He turns into Hextor... its clear he was before.
He puts the field back up.
"To you, Denizens of nessus, join with me now, or perish in flames
A lot of them get up and draw weapons... and then another bunch do.
The stands erupt in chaos: Cries of "mephisto[pheles, the true king" and "My lord Asmodeus!"
Yes, we're in an arena with Asmodeus and two hecatonchereis and and a legendary pseudonatural tarrasque... and it's safer in here.
Asmodeus seems annoyed, like that's an inconvencience. Asmodeus can and has beaten down mephistopheles before.
Asmodeus is pissed, and there's that look of "Yes, what a surprise, he's taking advantage of the situation... Ass... I'll deal with him later." No sign of "I'm trapped in here." It's more of "That guy's an asshole and I'm going to kill him, a lot."
The heca ignores Vshir as he's
70 hits Asmodeus.
Vshir carves into her a bit. She wasn't staggered by Staggering crit. She starts deflecting some attacks with the ruby rod, which doesn't seem to be bothered with it.
46 resists the will save that Asmodeus forced.
dariel and Owl coup de grace the Heca... that smite is helping iwht the keeping it down.
The Tarrasque turns to the other Heca... but without the smite bonus, it is fairly ineffectual... it abosrbs almsot all fo the hit. like,... it does 5 damage.
43 won't successfully dispel anything.
Ed Makes his full attack... needed to make another will save, but passed. He felt like he shoudl be liking her boots, but then is like wait, I don't have a tongue, and full attacks.
There is a very good chance that this is actually Asmodeus... not just an avatar... if we kill her... she's down... Avatars are a flow thing, and there's not flow here.
Ed hits 9 times, with 2 crits, against asmodeus. Whubbada whubbuda whubbuda. 1026 damage. She is winded. And wounded. He takes a rod and casts it defensively. The effects: The 2 heca have their wounds go away badly. It is like mass heal.. The downed one knits back together a lot but stays down.
She is encased in a field. The ability is something that has been theorized is Asmodeus last resort. The reverie of Nessus
She's in a field of force that cannot be breached. and 50 feet around it becomes antimagic. 3 rounds to bring her back to perfect health... the most important facet of the rod: It gives you all the rest of spending a full night of sleep, usable 1/day. This begins round 1. Oh, and anyone who touches the rod who isn't her will die quickly. Like Inflict crit wounds every wounds. When Asmodeus went into the Shell. The Heca suddenly jolted.
We have a few choices: We can leave... Joe knows that there is an opening that leaves to the outside. The Barrier above shimmers but isn't removed, btu the cages are opened. If we do not finish the fight with Asmodeus... If we want to defeat Asmodeus, we've done that... Or we could stay and try and kill her.
We can escape.
We Players deliberate.
We run... Joseph leads us back out of the city. The guards of the Colliseum left Our flight through the city is rather unimpeded. Joseph is leading us back the way he came.
We win in lunatic mode with no continues, but no extra stage for us... We make it back to the temple. That's where Joe and Ed came in. We're in the temple... Ed goes to the room. He's doing what Vance did. He doesn't have access. No nexuses here. The temple looks bacdly damaged... inside are defiled images of many of the gods.
Ann doesn't know another way to return... but she senses that a way will become known to us. Ed goes down to where the globe is... there are no nexuses there. THe floor was all translucent, but now its more like a cave... the gluyph that was there is still there, but it looks kinda drained...
The chains on Ed feel dormant. The orb is warm and pulsy. Ed takes the orb to the Bio shrine in the temple. Joe gets the idea that he was not supposed to have power over the temple... more the opposite.
Admatha asks who bears the blood of a god.
Simone and Dariel Try and fill the area with the essence... and its being used... it forms an area of energy which is a portal out. A booming voice says "you should hurry." It's not a voice we know. We have never heard it. It's a male voice. We go through the mystery portal. we arrive in a cave... and we see the biggest dragon ever... we see bahamut...
We bow respectfully. Bahamut says He'll be taking hte orb. We get the impression he's really fucking sick of not having the orbs.
We are consolidated here.
First, if we want to ask Bahamut stuff, we can. We're ion his personal layer... its a cacvern with crystalline structures in the wall.
Bahamut takes the orb... and after a moment, some of us vanish (those of us who exist in the friday session.)
We can ask bahamut questions ifLike, for instance, who the fuck is heironeus.