Eberron is a world of pulp noir where swashbuckling and intrigue run rampant. The Last War is over, the war to end all wars, but many say the fighting has simply shifted from the battlefield to the shadows.
In the wake of a long and terrible war, a world struggles to find its destiny. Will it descend once more into brutal conflict and end in spectacular annihilation, or will the world emerge at last into a new era of peace and prosperity? One group of heroes hopes to make Eberron a better place. The Grey Company, formed by a collection of heroes recruits new members to their growing ranks -- you among them.
Taris calls out through the mental link and finds no one can hear her, the link is broken. With Je's mental babbling and his mind broken the network has been broken!
Taris and Zeevan move, the timing makes it hard to allow both of them to swing and flank at the same moment. Taris, her long polearm forces her to move backwards actually to threaten with its pointy end! She does so, swings several times with all her might but only manages to cleave into the marble floor leaving large rents in the marble. Zeevan then leaps off the bed and slices trough the air. The flaming blade misses, but the other clips 'Sorshen' in the shoulder for a light wound.
Orianna presses forward, "I will have my revenge!" She goes wild striking with reckless abandon and manages to land a blow cutting her foe with one of the strike on the arm causing more blood. Little by little you are weakening the Lord of Lust.
Je cries out, "It is futile! Futile!" He takes his psionic crystal shard and plunges it into his neck gouging his flesh and muscle with it. Blood pours from the self inflicted wound!
Sorshen is laughing now, "Pathetic! Taris, just, stop!" She wave her hand at the knight and the woman pauses, there is a tightness in her chest, a feeling of paralyzation taking over, but Taris is strong willed, and she will not give up so easily. The power of the dark spell never takes hold!
The heroines..
Taris: 5ft, Full Attack, Power Attack: 13 Miss, 14 Miss (No Action Points since there is no way you'd hit)
Zeevan 5ft, Flanking (Menace), Full Attack 23 Miss, 28 Hit for 11 - 5 DR = 6 Dmg
Orianna: 5ft, Full Attack 17 Miss, 28 Hit for 10-5DR = 5 Dmg
Je: Confusion: 52 - Deals 9 Dmg to Self
Combat Round 5
Sorshen: 5ft, CoD 30, Hold Person vs Taris: Will Save: "20" (26) vs 19 Success
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." - Gandalf
J.R.R. Tolkien, Council of Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Already mortified by the suicidal act by Je under Sorshen's control, Taris' anger intensifies as she feels the invisible force of magic tightening on her, and fights past it with righteous indignation. Her gaze passes over Zeevan when she faces forward to return attention to the enemy, and she almost forgets who is who.
It's thanks to the vamp's style of dress that the confusion doesn't last for what constitutes a critical moment in the fight, and she attempts to shove Sorshen against the nearby pillar from which hangs the corpse of the Grey Maiden. The condemnation on her face is murderous.
(Don't forget the Invisibility potion I gave to Zeevan.)
Turn: Improved Bull Rush, pushing Sorshen diagonally against the pillar with the body hanging from it. I'm guessing that the body hangs from the north face of the pillar for the Runelord's viewing pleasure from the bed.
Zeevan should still be able to reach Sorshen with a 5 foot step. If I can move her further, I won't, Sorshen will just get knocked against the pillar.
Stand Still activated. Action Point in reserve if triggered.
Taris slams herself up into Sorshen and knocks her back into the pillar and the corpse. The impact knocks the Lord of Lust on her ass. At that moment Zeevan leaps forward slicing and dicing, but even prone the enemy is near impossible to hit. Zeevan manages to connect once with her off hand opening a slender wound in the woman's arm pit area.
Orianna charges forward and hacks into Sorshen, "For the Grey Maidens!" Her longsword opens another wound on the Lusty Lady. That's enough she weaves her hands about barely moving, and poofs through a dimensional doorway as she leans back escaping to the far side of the room where the other end of the portal opens up. Then she climbs to her feet safely there.
As Je babbles he's drooling and bleeding on himself. You can see that the thick crystals he summoned around Sorshen's body to keep her anchored to the ground are starting to melt away, she won't be earth bound for much longer.
Taris and Zeevan...
Taris: Imp Bull Rush: 27 vs 21 Success (+5) Knocked into Pole, Knocked Prone
Zeevan: 5ft, Attack vs Prone: 20 Miss, "20" (Crit: 19) Normal Hit for 9 _ 8 SA = 17 - 5DR 12 Dmg
Orianna: Move, Attack 28 Hit for 16-5DR = 13 Dmg
Je: 26 Babbles
Combat Round 6
Sorshen: CoD 33, Dimension Door, Stand
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." - Gandalf
J.R.R. Tolkien, Council of Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Zeevan darts across the room, at the last moment she leaps with great speed and slams her flaming blade into Sorshen's belly with a twist that is unavoidable. Its a serious blow that causes the Lady of Lust to cry out, you may be weakening her at last.
Taris and Orianna...
Zeevan: Scouts Charge: 24 Miss AP + 6 = 30 Hit for 5 + 13 SA = 18 - 5/DR = 13 Dmg
Put Zeevan 1SE of Sorshen
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." - Gandalf
J.R.R. Tolkien, Council of Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Taris pivots as Zeevan launches herself northward, and she follows behind with tunnel vision on Sorshen, charging and yelling like she did during the war.
Charge with Action Point.
Intimidate for Shaken.
Stand Still again. Action Point here if no need after initial roll for Charge.
Taris turns and charges, her pole arm held low like a spearing lance. The knight reaches her target, a war cry on her lips, even as she spears Sorshen with the cold iron weapon pinning her to the wall. That's when Orianna leaps from the charge of her own, "This ends now!" She swings her longsword across in a strong horizontal arc and hacks the head from the Lord of Lust!
As the head topples to the ground the whole form of Sorshen changes! She is not Sorshen, as you suspected, instead the form of the woman changes into that of a winged demoness. Her headless body has its wings thick with crystals from Je's power. Her head, horned, with a screaming smile on it, rolls to a stop against the side of the wall.
Je, starts to come out of his babbling, "She's a deamon, a deamon, I can see it I can see it." It seems perhaps Je had seen her true form at some point and it helped to drive him over the edge. He slumps to the ground pulling his knees to his chest, he will never be the same again.
Taris: Charge: 31 Hit for 15 Dmg, Stand Still
Orianna: Charge "20" (Crit: 35) Critical Hit for 25 Dmg - 5DR = 20 Dmg = DEAD
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." - Gandalf
J.R.R. Tolkien, Council of Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Twin blades clatter to the ground as Zeevan slumps against the wall, staggered with fatigue after the hard-won fight. Sweat is pouring off of her, and her breath is coming in great gasps. "Well done, everyone." She flips around and sits, her head between her knees. "That was ... really close. Oh wow." She stops talking, trying to catch her breath.
Rule Number 12: "A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head."
Taris stares down at the severed head, as if appraising the cut would confirm that the demon wouldn't come back. That screaming smile, as though the demon found pleasure in its own death. A little creeped out, she looks away and catches her breath. "Yes, that..." she arches her back, "almost looked bad for your friend."
She gives a short nod to Orianna, and after laying her polearm against the wall, she walks over to the psychic mumbling to himself out loud, as though he had gazed into the Abyss.
"It's gone for good, Je. Here." She holds out her Cure Light Wounds potion. "Drink this, and everything will be all right."
