The Concordium

[MikelaC]

ESHALYN

Eshalyn smiles at the fiend
I believe they are part one of our plan. I had thought they would have to be taken alive, but it sssseemsss like I wasss wrong. I do hope the druid ssssurvivessss, dead he issss of no usssse to me.
Eshalyn continues to divide her attention between the fiend and the pool, however the one-sided nature of the battle (so far) is beginning to lose interest for her.

[teh_meh]

Tom is floating? then fighter1 attacks... and misses, fighter 2 attacks.... and FRICKIN MISSES! thats it I'm changing dice..... Lazarus your move.. *grumbles*

[WhiteKnight777]

Lazarus simply laughed aloud, gesturing with another of his enchanted rods as his form blurred and swelled into something... horrible. Leering, he surged forward, grabbing one of the fighters in his gargantuan hands and starting to squeeze the life out of him.

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Quickened Shapechange into a Dusk Giant (Heroes of Horror). Then I grapple... oh, fighter 2, I suppose.

Touch Attack:(1d20+24)[27]

Grapple check:(1d20+32)[44]

[Vox Clamantis]

Fierna sniffs, spreading her fingers to admire her nails and paying only nominal attention to the scrying pool. Hmph. I'll never understand why Cluverius bothers with his home plane. He could have a seat at my father's court in Abriymoch and a retinue of devils to command, but instead he languishes here, pursuing goals that he won't even tell me about. She glances at the pool as a mage crumples to the ground, two holes blasted through his chest. Your friends must be using an alternate definition of 'capture'. I do hope they bring back at least one alive. The old man really is a joy to watch when he's at play in their minds. I'd swear he has fiendish blood in him somewhere...

[Falconknight06]

Cargean, finishing his posters asking for Shocker lizards, hands them to Zephyr. "Take these to the local town and leave them around, I hope they get me some responses." "Sure thing" Zephyr says in his whispy voice, as he turns into a whirlwind of flyers and heads toward town.

Cargean decides he'd like to find Eshalyn. She interests him a great deal. He flies out of his window and sees her and the demon standing by the pool. "Hello ladies," Cargean says as smoothly as possible as he lands next to the women, "what are we watching?

[MikelaC]

ESHALYN

Eshalyn smiles at Cargean as he enters
We ssseem to be watching the annhilation of a random adventuring party that Lazarusssss and Tom came acrossssss. I had asssssumed that we would have needed them alive, but they sssseem to have a different idea. There issss one druid that I would have liked to talk to....but it sssseemsss not to be.
Eshalyn glances sideways at Fierna
And even if they did, they might not let me usssse him.

[teh_meh]

um, fighter 3.... RUNAWAY! he runs 80 ft. away... screaming.... and maybe peeing his pants...

[Falconknight06]

Cargean looks into the pool, hoping to get a better look of what is happening.

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Spot check
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[Vox Clamantis]

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I'll be using the terms in their specific senses, so it's probably better to just remind everyone once and then never again:

Demon refers to one of the tanar'ri, who are Chaotic Evil and reside in the Abyss.

Devil refers to one of the baatezu, who are Lawful Evil and reside in the Nine Hells. Both of Cluverius' bound fiends are devils.

Fiend can refer to a member of either group.

[teh_meh]

0 dex druid still alive just parlazed. perfect.

[MikelaC]

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I'll be using the terms in their specific senses, so it's probably better to just remind everyone once and then never again:

Demon refers to one of the tanar'ri, who are Chaotic Evil and reside in the Abyss.

Devil refers to one of the baatezu, who are Lawful Evil and reside in the Nine Hells. Both of Cluverius' bound fiends are devils.

Fiend can refer to a member of either group.

ooc: Glad to see at least one person remembers the real and exact meaning of the terms, demon/devil/fiend has become totally interchangeable of late, and this board (cough Sabine cough) doesnt help.

[Jalor]

Azazel remains invisible while Tom swoops down after the fleeing fighter. "Gee, I bet you're having trouble running after my spell exhausted you." Ice crackles in an aura around his hand, and he strikes at the fighter.

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Sorry if I wasn't clear, but exhaustion halves their speed as well. He traveled 40 feet, not 80. Poor guy.

Anyway, touch attack (1d20+10)[22] for (3d6)[14] Dex damage, no save.

[WhiteKnight777]

Lazarus

Lazarus continued to squeeze the fighter he held in his hands, choking him down into unconciousness.

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So I assume this would be a Pin check. Basically, Lazarus is just going to deprive him of oxygen 'till he passes out.

Grapple - (1d20+32)[44]

[teh_meh]

crap yeah 40 ft. sorry. yeah, he passes out.... fighters get screwed.... BUT theres one who hasn't run away. he also runs away 40 ft. and pees his pants....

[WhiteKnight777]

Lazarus

Shrinking back down to his normal form - for now - Lazarus took the bag of gems from the ever-present Giles and began to capture the souls of the dead into the glittering black sapphires. So many times had he used this spell that it had become part of his very essence, and the gems sparked with pale violet balefires as the terrified souls were pulled screaming into their depths.

Mind taking care of that last one, Tom? I want to make sure I catch the little bastards before they flee off to whatever their eternal fates might be.

[Jalor]

"I've got the little pest. I hope you have some way of getting them back to Alcazar." Tom dive-bombs the last one, trailing icy vapors from his skeletal hand.

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You know the drill by now. (1d20+10)[19] touch attack, (3d6)[5] Dex damage, no save.

[teh_meh]

fighters continue there 40ft. run. although the one you touch looks pretty uncowrdanated.

[Jalor]

"Damn it, still not down yet." More frost gathers around his hand, and he tries to slap the fighter again.

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(1d20+10)[29] touch attack, (3d6)[14] Dex damage.

[teh_meh]

Umm.... his limbs also stop working...

[WhiteKnight777]

Lazarus

Lazarus smiled as he finished stuffing the last soul into a gem, dropping the filled gems unceremoniously in a seperate bag. "The same way we got here, of course. Being unconcious makes it difficult to resist being teleported."

[Sissyphus]

DAken enters the room just in time to watch the action, well i guess we've lost some of the adventurers, but i think they'll still work for our purpose, even if we have to reanimate them, after the bronze dragons would attack on sight if they saw undead, a perfect reason for combat, especilly if the bodies show no sign of being undead, eh?

[MikelaC]

ESHALYN

Eshalyn looks away from the battle and strolls around the room for a moment. As she comes back to the pool, she is now standing beside Cargean, and casually links an arm in his.
Did the druid manage to ssssurvive the battle? I kind of lossst track. I wonder how long it takesss to resssearch a new sssspell, itssss ssssomething Ive never done.

[Falconknight06]

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Sorry about the demon comment. I'm pretty sure Cargean would have known they were devils as he has met demons before. CE that he is. I as a player didn't know which you had bound. My bad

"Those two do very good work," Cargean said smiling, "this is likely one of the most enjoyable things I've ever seen." Cargean does nothing to stop Eshalyn from linking arms with him, and turns and answers her, "Aye, the nature linked one is still alive from what I saw. As for researching spells, I wish I could help you. Any time I can spend with a beautiful woman is a good use of time in my book, but my spells are just sort of innate. You might want to talk to the devil binder."

[teh_meh]

survivors are: druid, 3 fighters.

[Jalor]

Azazel drops his invisibility, coming down to perch on Tom's shoulder again. He casts spells to prevent the two bodies from decaying before heaving them into his Portable Hole. Folding up the hole, he grabs the nearest incapacitated adventurers and piles them up for teleportation. "I hope to raise those two as intelligent undead. They have far too much experience to waste."

[MikelaC]

ESHALYN

Half of my sssspellssss are innate as well. Ssssorcery isss one of my talentssss, and those sssspellssss are jussst a part of me. I dont even know if I can 'ressssearch' a sssspell of that nature, or if I can convert a druid sssspell to work in that way. But I can alwaysss try.
She smirks at Cargean
But then, ssssorcery issss only one of my talentssss

[Falconknight06]

ESHALYN

Half of my sssspellssss are innate as well. Ssssorcery isss one of my talentssss, and those sssspellssss are jussst a part of me. I dont even know if I can 'ressssearch' a sssspell of that nature, or if I can convert a druid sssspell to work in that way. But I can alwaysss try.
She smirks at Cargean
But then, ssssorcery issss only one of my talentssss

I would love to learn of some of your *ahem* other talents sometime, though we should probably wait until we figure out what we're going to do with these adventurers first," Cargean blushes ever so slightly, but he can't help but hide a grin, "If you don't mind me asking, what Druidic magic were you hoping to learn? I've always been partial to Faerie Fire myself."

[MikelaC]

ESHALYN

Druidsss have a ssspell. They call it Sssirinesss grace. Bardsss can cassst it too, which isss why I hope to be able to make it. It ssseemsss to boossst a perssssonssss appearance and through thisss beauty, they become sssso dissstracting, they become near impossssible to hit in battle. My own battle ssskillsss are weak asss it isss, sssso I need every advantage I can get.

[Falconknight06]

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I believe you are fairly distractingly beautiful as you are

[WhiteKnight777]

Lazarus

"That will be rather difficult when I've got their souls in my pocket, I'm afraid. Still, no fear - I'll be putting them to very good use. They have enough energy for all sorts of things... perhaps even golems. We shall have to see."

As he spoke, he cast another Teleportation spell, Lazarus, Tom, and the bodies appeared in a flash of light in the middle of the room with the others. He looked around and grinned.

"We're back, and we brought party favors." Announced Lazarus cheerfully.

"I shall just go and fetch some chains for when our guests wake up, shall I sir?" asked Giles in his usual unflappable tone. Lazarus nodded, and the Butler disappeared down one of the passageways.

Lazarus plopped down onto a divan, idly plucking a grape from a bowl. "So... we've got a few patsies now. Did you manage to find anything about the dragon or dragons we're planning to annihilate?"

He looked at the snake priestess with a grin, having caught her last pronouncement. "He's quite right, by the way. You're quite possibly the most ravishing vision of loveliness I've ever laid eyes on, and considering the... extensive size of my old harem, that's quite a statement to make. Besides, I've got more than enough arcane wrath for the both of us."