romania ♔ in the end of the night i can feel you breathe

[pickyourbattles]

♬ Night - Zola Jesus

WHO || Willow, Paige, Nathan, Henry, Aurelius, Dovan [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights travel to Romania to investigate a mysterious, magical fog
WHERE || Romania
WHEN || April 11th [back dated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

February in Romania isn't very comfortable, so hopefully everyone bundled up for this little trip into the countryside.  The appearance of a mysterious bank of fog into which several locals have gone inexplicably missing upon entering, has caused Wynn to speculate that it might be connected to the mist that appears when the Veil brings people from other worlds.  Could this be the first instance of a door going the other way?  If so, here's hoping it's a round trip...

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[pickyourbattles]

[ aurelius wheels around, trying to follow it with his weapon and firing off a single shot (atk 17, dmg 7) ]

[somepagesturn]

NO! [HENRY THAT IS STUPID. Paige pulls her silver dagger out, now figuring she better save her spells for healing and rushes to Henry so she can yank him to safety like a tiny mama bear.]

[autorevive]

[um of course nathan is going to take his attack of opportunity!! doru took a chunk out of his shoulder. that shit's personal. attack 20 total; 3 dmg if it hits.

and then he goes after it and takes his normal attack, striking with the short sword again and critting on 19 (and 26 total)! foooorrr 20 dmg with penetration. nathan is getting shit done tonight son.]

FREEDOM!!!!!

[yes he is quoting braveheart. that happened.]

[count_strahd_von_zarovich]

[Willow would know (And be able to freely share) that a Blaspheme's bite dazes and spreads disease - as they've all seen all too well. Sadly, the damn thing really doesn't have weaknesses to speak of. It's one mean bastard, with one desire: to spread it's infection. There is one more special ability it has, which it spins about to demonstrate to Nathan, in response to that massive blow he dealt.]

["BURY! BURY BURY BURY!" as it whirls around, and begins smashing Nathan over and over and over and over. Nathan needs to make a Reflex save DC 18. If he succeeds, he only takes 5 damage. If he fails - He takes 11 damage, and is also pounded bodily into a shallow grave, entombed and treated as Pinned, until he succeeds on two grapple checks to free himself.]

[wanttobeahero]

[ It was stupid and not very effective, but he'd been hoping to help in some way. With a fort save of 15, Henry falls back willingly when Paige grabs him. He still has his dagger out although at the moment, he just keeps it tucked at his side. He's still alert enough to be worried about Nathan and everyone else, but just waits and catches his breath a moment, his face a mask of concern. ]

[olreliable]

Oh my god Nathan!

[Willow rattles off the facts about the monster in a hurry, but she's a little too freaked out about it going after Nathan like that. She's going to cast magic missile to try to help out, but she's still such a baby so it's only one missile... 4 damage.]

[pickyourbattles]

[ aurelius takes another shot, afraid to stop firing at this point, but he only got a 16, because that shit is disturbing. 3 dmg if it happens to hit :( ]

[somepagesturn]

[EVERYTHING IS HORRIBLE. Paige cringes and casts cure light wounds on Henry, healing him for 12 dmg.] Willow! Don't get close to it.

[must protect all the bbs.]

[autorevive]

[nathan made his ref save. FUCK YOU DORU HE'S NOT BEING BURIED ALIVE. AGAIN.]

BURY THIS, COCKSUCKER! [he attacks doru again, and ... crits on 19 again. IT WAS DESTINY. for 10 dmg.]

[count_strahd_von_zarovich]

[The Blaspheme will recklessly charge at Paige, intent on biting as many people as possible, in hopes of spreading it's horrible disease. This will provoke Attacks of Opportunity from both Henry & Nathan, so feel free to add those into your next tags.]

[Though it completely ignored her turning earlier, it seems angered by her healing Henry] CURSE YOUR GODS! [He lunges at her with an atk of 22, for 19 damage if that hits. Also (If it hits) she will be Dazed, and she needs to make a Fort save DC22 vs the disease.]

[wanttobeahero]

[ He's even more determined now, with the creature lunging at Paige, and he takes that attack of opportunity, lunging with his probably ineffective weapon (atk 10, 3 dmg if it hits) because this thing seems nearly impossible to defeat. D: ]

[olreliable]

[Willow has no idea how to fight this thing. Nathan seems to be trying to blow it up, but it just keeps coming back. Knowing that she's basically useless with weapons and that all of her spells are going to be piddly, she just jumps up and waves her arms.]

Hey! Nice Doru. Good Doru. [Tries to reason with the monster?? Diplomacy 17?? Look it probably won't matter but w/e.]

[pickyourbattles]

[ does a 23 hit????? that was almost a nat 20, cry. 7 dmg if so... ]

[autorevive]

HEY! Lay off our tits! [uhhhh of course nathan is going to take his aoo with the short sword, which ends up being an atk 23 for 4 dmg if it hits.

and theeeen he takes his normal attack, which ends up being atk 24 for 5 dmg.]

[somepagesturn]

[Paige barely makes that fort save (23), but she's definitely not looking too good right now. Knowing she's the only one who can heal anyone if things get really bad, she backs away from the fighting a bit.]

Don't let it touch you! [She cringes. This is so bad. So very bad. But it seems to dislike her healing, so she grits her teeth and casts cure serious wounds on Doru for 20 damage. And this time it really is damaging. X(]

[count_strahd_von_zarovich]

[The creature roars, angrier than ever, when that holy mojo flows through him. It's oozing black sludge-like blood from it's massive collection of slashes and bullet wounds. Willow attempts to communicate, and it turns to her as Paige's magic burns through it;] Not... again... [Doru falls to his knees, the glimmer of un-life fading from his eyes. The body rapidly decomposes, even as it's falling, leaving little more than a skeleton and a pile of gore.]

[Suddenly all through the town, the cries of the dead tortured souls rises up to a maddening din. And then, it ends in an abrupt silence. The few shambling dead they might have seen heading their way, from the edges of the town or wherever, all instantly stop and fall to the earth, returned to death. Anyone infected also no longer feels sickened. The supernatural disease dies with Doru.]

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... Well. [ aurelius looks around with wild eyes at the falling zombies. and then back at his teammates, concerned ] Is everyone--

[autorevive]

[nathan flips off doru's remains. that'll teach him.] Serves you right, window-licking cunt bastard!

[anyway. he then addresses aurelius.] I'm okay. Except for the whole chunk taken out of my shoulder! [he basically shoves his shoulder in aur's face.] Look at it!

[somepagesturn]

Oh sweet Milil. [Paige gasps and raises her pin to her lips to kiss it, faltering a bit. She's pretty banged up, but she'll endure. Nothing a good night's sleep won't fix.] We actually did it...

[pickyourbattles]

[ aurelius recoils slightly, jaw dropping as he stares at the wound ] We should head back to Ireena, let her know. Maybe the, er, paladin can help with that on the way.

[olreliable]

Maybe we can take a look around before we go? I'd hate to have missed something and have it just end up buried in the rubble.

[count_strahd_von_zarovich]

[Someone in the init plurk had a 20+ search, which is more than enough. Digging about in the rubble, they would find that the corrupted altar survived the blast, with the corpse of the mad priest Danovich lying lifelessly nearby.]

[Amid the ruins, they find the remains of the Lightbringers Thendrick and Mathilda. There are some items among their possessions that are completely undamaged by the explosion, clearly magical. A +2 Greatsword, one suit of +1 Chainmail, Two scrolls of Cure Moderate Wounds, and one Scroll of Restoration.

[Additionally the altar contains the fragment of the Liber Blaspheme that Danovich used to raise his son Doru as a Blaspheme. And there is something curious about it... It's clearly torn from a larger book. Paige knows it's an excerpt from a copy of the Book of the Damned, but there's something more. They've seen the handwriting before. It's a perfect match for the handwriting on the letter they had found - the one that was allegedly from the dead Burgomaster.]

[somepagesturn]

[as soon as the page is found, paige gasps, recognizing the handwriting. (wis 22)] It's that scumsucking jerk Strahd again.

[autorevive]

[nathan grabs at the greatsword as soon as someone else unearths it. don't count on him to do any work by himself tbh.]

I say we murder the shit out of him! [he triumphantly swings the sword around.]

[pickyourbattles]

[ /collects potions like pokemon ] What is he ... getting out of all this?