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Old Dec 8th, 2021, 11:11 PM
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All of the adventurers had trained for combat before. All were ready or at least determined to end these memories, with violence and to protect their own lives. Yet in the dreamscape, it was not that easy. Once more Oguun lacked the focus to truly undo the far away combatant and even Geghard with a swarm of spear thrusts was thwarted in his haste to end the one strengthening the enemies. The young monk evaded the blows with a calm and vexingly uncaring expression. And even when the githzerai's necromancy started to turn the serene man's face and skin to grey, the damage simply exploded into dust as the expression ignorant of death simply reconstituted itself to silently mock Geghard. With another ring of the bronze bell, a shining halo appeared above the man and although Geghard's studies into magic had turned less to the divine, he instinctively knew that this was another layer of protection to quell his ambition to end the caster.

Meanwhile, in the alleyway, Rolen lamented the absence of the rider's mind and although he had looked so sad on his horse before, after all it was just makebelieve and all those memory shapes weren't real people. In the back of his mind the high-elf could still see the room of sleeping adventurers before himself, and the blue chair in which the real Almavalesh was sitting right before his other self. Nonetheless, disregarding what was real and what not, the dream had decided to fight him and his companions. And Aurora had proven deftly how they could burn. Unfortunately, just in the moment that Rolen cast and launched his bolt of fire, a whip made from thorny matter sprouted from Baka's shroom-covered staff and yanked the dark rider right out of the wizard's aimed trajectory. As the projectile extinguished against the stone wall of the house on the opposite of the street, the rider seemed to be well trained on his horse as he managed to not fall from the sudden pull and instead steered his horse to negate the momentum of the tortle's spell. Dispassionately the human male dropped his long riding spear and from a sheath at his hip drew a rapier that he immediately turned on the druid. This time the thrust came even faster than with the spear, but Baka managed to easily turn to the side and deflected it with his shell. This time without letting his companions on his back come to harm. Following the momentum of its rider the horse turned into another attack as well, but even as it forcefully sheered out, Baka had been able to predict the movement and the hooves only struck empty air.

Thwarted by unfortunate happenstance as Rolen's attempt to help had been this time, the young necromancer and Oguun nearby had not been much more fortunate. Oguun still managed to deflect the blows of the human officers before him, but after his first success at dispersing the noble that had struck Grimly, the cleric's spells had failed him. Maybe it was the constant onslaught of spear thrusts against his metal armor that sapped his inspiration to end the other clergymen, but at least for now the adventurers were still holding their own. Derek as well made another brush with the surprising turns because after he directed his familiar Nephala to aid Aurora, when the raven noticed the glowing spores she simply deterred and flew to harry an officer next to Oguun despite her master's orders. As Derek observantly witnessed this from the corner of his eyes, it served as enough of a distraction that the necrotic spectral hand which he was summoning on top of the roof was easily dodged by the adventurer. There were no signs of gloating from the burly man, but something inside him seemed to have changed as he suddenly dropped his crossbow and turned away to step out of view for a second. But just a moment later he reappeared at the roof's edge and this time he had the little mallet back in his dominant hand which he had used for hammering the tiles before. With a surprisingly smooth movement, the larger man swung himself over the roof and with one hand let himself hang down to his full length before dropping the rest of the way, right in front of both Derek and Rolen. And before the young adventurer could even shout for help, the hammer was already swung towards his head. Just in the last moment the wizard's arcane armor deflected the blow, but the next strike followed at once and now both of the party's wizards were in melee with a large man, seemingly intent on killing Derek.

Mostly unaware of the struggle on the other side of the street, Aurora was also still hacking and slaying at the Scarlet Legionnaire in front of her. Her sabers drew through sinew and cut into flesh, but after each successful blow that should have killed the man, in a swirl of particles the officer simply knitted back together. The eternal bride had to fight with her own frustrations, but the more her emotions got the best of her the less she was able to make what she wanted a reality in the dreamscape. And so eventually she got careless in her swings, and finally the spear of her opponent connected and stabbed into her side. The fungal matter imitating a dress closed quickly over her wound when the spear was pulled out, and as Aurora's own blood began to flow out and onto the matter that looked crimson under the shine coming from Mayuri, although she felt the stinging clearly her pain was now hidden from view for all others and the fake gown even prevented her from properly applying pressure against the gash to stop the bleeding. As Aurora was forced to come to the painful realization that nothing about the cut was sewing itself together just as her dress or her opponent were doing, from out of nowhere Grimly suddenly appeared and rammed both his daggers into the Legionnaire's kidneys. And then the blades burst out on the other side as the body gave way and turned to dust for a moment, leaving the flesh underneath to return unharmed. Earlamar could see the human's blood wet on his blades, but the stab wound was as if undone. As Aurora was staring at the still yet not dead enemy, suddenly the Legionnaire's indifferent expression shifted. No longer did the man look like a puppet, but suddenly he seemed fully there. He looked up from where he had just received a killing blow and clearly returned Aurora's gaze with wide, frightened eyes full of pain. "But... I don't want to die!" He spoke with a broken voice as he desperately clutched his spear. Not a voice that Aurora had ever heard before, but still so very human. "Please don't kill me!!"
 
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I cursed myself for missing my attack. We were in a desperate situation, and I couldn’t even land a hit with my main attack? I was disappointed that Nephala wasn’t making any kind of difference, but there wasn’t much I could do about it, so I left her to her where she was. I was preparing to try my spell again when the crossbowmen put down his crossbow, much to my puzzlement. He backed out of sight before jumping off the roof with a mallet. It seemed strange for him to give up his height advantage and ranged weapon to jump in the middle of melee…at least until he swung at my head.

Being shot at was one thing, but having a huge man tower over my five foot two hundred twenty pound self and swing at me with a mallet was utterly terrifying. Understanding started to dawn on me that we weren’t going to win this fight. We were all going to die here. Making a spell attack at this range would more than likely miss, so I focused entirely on avoiding any hits while hoping that someone would come to my rescue.


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After recoiling from being stabbed, Aurora looked in the eyes of the Legionnaire and scoffed. "It's too late to ask for mercy, don't you think?" She gathered herself back and 16 to hit for 8 damagepierced the man's chest with both sabres. The eternal bride changed her grip to a backhand one and begun pulling the swords to the sides. A small tear appeared in her enemy's chest, some particles flying around, before he WIS Save 22burst into a cloud of dust. Aurora made a wide smile. "Let's finish them all!" She screamed and rushed straight through the falling dust. The rider was turned in Baka's direction, so she used the occasion to 16 to hit for 6 damageslash him across his leg. With her eyes still wet, she begun laughing, while still holding her guard up.


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- Aurora Turpis 17 7/11 Weapons out Kill Legionnaire, attack rider P 13

Move: to P 13
Action: Attack the Scarlet Legion. 16 to hit for 8 damage.
Bonus Action: Attack the Dark Rider. 16 to hit for 6 damage.
Free action:
Reaction: AoO if for some reason it gets triggered.
Other: WIS save against the legionnaire: 22, success.

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The githzerai was nothing if not a creature of faith. Even in the madhouse of Almavalesh's suborned mind, he remained certain the cold logic of Zerthimon's knowing held true. The Third Circle counseled endurance and so Oguun endured more strikes, fending off each one. The Seventh Circle counseled patience. Oguun patiently struck the funeral gong once more over the distant acolyte.

Patience was rewarded as the reverberations rang through all the construct's layers of protection, shaking it into dust that dispersed without reforming. It was progress.


 


 
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One of them got close to himself and Derek, his comrade chose to defend himself from being attack, this gave the opportunity for Rolen to attack from the side while he was distracted.

He reached onto his belt and grabbed a dagger, he then raised his staff and cracked the dream person on top of it's head, he knew that it wasn't going to do much to it, he wasn't that strong after all, but it did provide him with just enough cover to drive his dagger into the mid section of the adventurer.

"Ha! Didn't think that I would be capable of doing that did you!?" He asked it.


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Interaction: Draw Dagger
Action: Attack with Staff
Bonus Action: Attack with Dagger
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Dice Staff Attack:
1d20+1sch11 (13)+1 Total = 14
Dice Damage:
1d6-1 (3)-1 Total = 2
Dice Dagger Attack:
1d20+5sch11 (6)+5 Total = 11
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Geghard whipped his head around when the acolyte suddenly dropped, reflexively annoyed that he had been denied the satisfaction after all of his frustrated swinging. He was no pride-swollen gladiator, though; quite the contrary. His eyes found the next target up, and it was big...and glowing. The spearman slid behind the rider's mount, jabbed it hard in the flank, then when it turned ran his spearhead deep into the beast's sternum. This creature at least fell quickly. Its master was thrown awkwardly to the ground as well, though he appeared to have plenty of fight left in him.

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Movement: R15
Free action:
Action: Attack horse - 13/8
Bonus action: Attack horse - 19/9, 17 WIS save
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Abilities: Polearm Master, Dueling
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Thwarted at dismounting the rider, Baka emits a deep, rumbling growl of disapproval. Stepping back, he winds up the arm holding the fungal-infused quarterstaff in a huge arching underhanded swing. The bulbous head of the Shillelagh strike = 11 @ 8 DMGstaff swings upwards towards the rider, but the jostling of the steed and rider make the strike a difficult one for the slow, lumbering tortle to land.


 


 
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Earlamar looked over at tempting target that was the adventurer, but opted for the opportunity closer at hand. Earlarmar stepped to the prone former rider and stuck him with his short sword.

OOCMove to P13. Short sword and dagger on rider; sword for 17/7; bad WIS even if that was enough. Rolls.
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Just when the opposition was starting to seem insurmountable, finally the adventurers managed a breakthrough. Undeterred by the sudden display of emotion of her enemy, Aurora finally landed another conclusive hit, but this time she made sure to entirely rip the memory apart. Maybe it had been the wound that had given her a sudden surge in determination, but in any case she dispersed the Scarlet Legionnaire into a rain of dust that disappeared just after she pierced through it and stormed at the rider that was fighting Baka. She swung her blades elated by her previous success, but this enemy was slightly more skillful as the human interjected his rapier into her strike and parried the blow that had aimed for his leg.

On Geghard's front, Aurora's success seemed to spill over as Oguun patiently rung his own deadly bell for a third time, but even as the other clergymen had erected a barrier to misdirect anybody's intent to harm him, the githzerai's mind had been sharped in the limbo and when he finally settled his thoughts after enduring blow after blow from the spears directed at him, his magic struck true and the young monastery decayed on the spot, falling into dust before Geghard had ever gotten his revenge. Using that frustration as motivation, the human spear wielder quickly dashed forward and instead unleashed the full force of his combination attack on the rider's horse that was still half-blind from Baka's luminescent spore bomb. Just after parrying Aurora, the rider was thrown off his mount, dodging Baka's strike but taking an ugly spill right before Earlamar's feet. As the horse turned to dust as well by Geghard's precision strikes and force of will, Earlamar rammed both his blades into the momentarily stunned target at his feet. But as the half-elf was still shaken from everything that had been happening in this short timeframe he didn't manage to make the murder of the memory his reality. It gave the dismounted rider an opportunity to roll to his feet as his body reassembled itself, but when he thrust his rapier at Earlamar, the rogue managed to parry as well.

At the mouth of the alleyway the battle took another turn as well when Derek was cowed by the sudden assault by the muscly human, focusing everything on weaving his way through the mallet lest his arcane defenses could fail him. This provided Rolen with just the distraction though to show the enemy his own elven heritage. An illusionist was what he was striving to become, however his flowing movement as he drew one of his daggers and stabbed it into the emotionless human's side suggested that he was far from helpless when closed upon. The wound was deep and as the memory of an adventurer bled, his movements were already becoming sluggish from all the deep wounds that the wizards' combined assault had left on his body. In response to Rolen's actions he now swung his mallet at the high-elf, but Rolen's magical reinforcements held true as well and the mallet found no purchase against the arcane layers of force.
 
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Order was nearer to being restored. Oguun kept his shield between himself and the two memories that flailed at him, the shield ringing with every failed blow. He turned to the one who pinned Rolen and Derek, calling once more for the funeral gong. "Less than a husk. Be shaken apart, blow away on the wind."


 


 
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Aurora was surprised when the rider managed to block her strike. "Huh? A sword master?"
The woman straightened herself and took an elegant posture of a fencer, with one weapon in front and second behind her back. She moved back and forth, imitating the movements that she sometimes saw during fighting performances back home. Aurora tried to jab the rider's chest but her weak attempt was stopped by some armour. Without a second thought, she quickly gave up on rules and traditions, to swing with her other weapon, very lightly scratching her opponent's arm. "T-to first blood, right?"


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- Aurora Turpis 17 7/11 Weapons out attack rider P 13

Move:
Action: Attack the Dark Rider: Miss
Bonus Action: Attack the Dark Rider: 21 to hit... for 1 damage
Free action:
Reaction: AoO if for some reason it gets triggered.
Other:

 

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I had expected Rolen to take the opportunity to get away from the mallet-wielding adventurer, but instead he came to my defense. Encouraged now that the adventurer's focus was taken off of me, I tried to help Rolen. I drew my runes and said, "Chill touch!"
Attacking with disadvantage
Dice Roll:
d20+5 (10)+5 Total = 15

Dice Roll:
d20+5 (4)+5 Total = 9

Dice Roll:
d8 2


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Geghard joined Aurora in raining blows on the former rider; it took two more to finally disperse his form. Then he stalked over beside Oguun. The extraplanal cleric had been heroically fending off two soldiers while magically dispersing other enemies. Had these last two foes been real, they likely would have surrendered, but Geghard could only expect these dream-things to fight to the end. "Alright," he offered in modest encouragement, "let's wrap this up."

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Initiative
Movement: Engage rider, then R13
Free action:
Action: Attack rider - hit, WIS save failed
Bonus action: Attack rider - hit, save made
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Abilities: Polearm Master, Dueling
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The adventurer that was engaged with them finally fell to the blows from their fellow comrade Oguun, he looks around for his next target and notices the faerie fire around the Dark Rider and instinctually sheaths his dagger, as it doesn't seem to be needed at the moment. He then moves his free hand and places it upon his staff, then pointing it towards the Rider and a firebolt shoots from it, striking it. The fire explodes as it hits him, igniting anything else around him that is flammable.


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Interaction: Sheath Dagger
Action: Attack Dark Rider with Firebolt
Bonus Action:
Reaction:
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Dice Attack with Advantage:
2d20+6kh1sch15 (3, 18 (keeping 18) )+6 Total = 24
Dice Fire Damage:
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Earlamar scampered over to the legionnaires as well, then ended one with a short-sword backstab.

OOCMove to S10. Short sword to finish whichever legionnaire that is, with a good WIS save. Dagger miss on other legionnaire.Rolls.
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