chapter finale ♔ maybe one day we can break the distance

[allaboutme]

♬ break the distance - ashton edminster

WHO || Cordelia, Kate, Ashley, Elijah, Topher, Astrid [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights investigate a man named Estavan, whose Trade Consortium is linked to a series of mysterious attacks
WHERE || PTC Warehouse, London
WHEN || June 12th [forward dated - changing the date from last log being in 2016 to being in 2017 surprise]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

A several year operation investigating a Consortium known as PTC run by a mysterious man - now revealed to be a ogre - named Estavan has led to the discovery that he made a a business deal with a trio of demons. To no one's surprise, that did not end well, and Estavan has asked the Knights for help in setting things right. Estavan has asked the Knights to head to his warehouse in London and keep the creatures busy while he goes to meet with the Consortium's Ruling Council to find a way to take care of them. While Phineas, the Doctor, Val'drin, and Alec stay behind to clean things up at Estavan's home, Cordelia and Kate phone for back-up to meet them downtown at the warehouse.

They meet up in the warehouse district of the city, outside the large building.  There are several empty trucks parked out in the lot, but otherwise, no visible lights on, and only one door set in the side of it, and a few closed heavy loading doors. 

Comments

[pathology]

[astrid takes another shot at it with no comment. fuck this, ok. (atk 24; 8 dmg)]

[ofmyword]

[stop shooting things at him??? (reflex save 31) just gonna keep biting the damn thing because fucking DIE. (atk/damage 29)]

[killmypatience]

[Kate will also take another round of just shooting at the spider. DIE SPIDER DIE (attack 23, damage 7, attack 21, damage 14).]

[allaboutme]

[ and between all of their attacks, the thing begins to weaken, finally loosening its grasp back on elijah and then keeling over, where its slimy body slides off the edge and goes falling infinitely into the air below.

/init ]

Can I be the first to say ew?

[pathology]

Yeah, sure, and I'll be the second. Let's never do that again, okay? Great.

[ofmyword]

[yeah elijah's just gonna be over here wiping his mouth and checking his suit because #priorities.]

[allaboutme]

[ the pixies go back to shaking the little bars of their cage.

"Free us! Free us! We can help your friend!"

you know, that one who's turned to stone or whatever ]

[pathology]

[she glances over at the pixies and sighs deeply.] ... Yeah, yeah, we should. Unless one of you guys have the magic to fix this, I've had a stone teammate before and dragging them around is the worst.

[killmypatience]

[Kate sighs a bit in agreement before making her way back to the cage to try and open it (disable device nat 20, 23 total).]

Warn me if another one of those creepy spiders shows up.

[allaboutme]

[ kate no more than barely touches the lock than it bursts open and the pixies come whizzing out, zooming around their heads. a pair of them light on topher's shoulders and start casting a spell, glittery dust flying everywhere as they do so.

annnd color starts to flood over him as he turns back to flesh. ]

Good, because that's not a spider but something's coming... [ and sure enough, an island of wooden crates and barrels, stacked high on a wide pallet, is coming towards them rapidly. something in the middle of the crates and barrels appears to be on sale, though the flames seem to be concentrated and restricted to a single location on the pallet. ]

[andblockbuster]

[Topher comes back to life and proceeds to yelp:] PIPES.

[Because when one gets turned to stone and then back to flesh, the first thing you should always do is make Harry Potter references.

He falls backwards onto his butt and looks around in confusion.] ...Is something on fire?

[killmypatience]

[Kate turns towards what Cordelia is indicating and sees both the cart on fire and how fast it's approaching and the glances back to the forklift beyond the pallet.]

Get back on the forklift.

[maybe they'll have a chance to at least climb on and have something they can drive, and not just get bounced uncontrollably into a sea of pallets. But she will go try and do that and hope that they can get off before impact?]

[allaboutme]

[ reflex saves please! dc 15 to make it onto the forklift. cordelia doesn't bother to ask questions, leaping towards the forklift with a little shriek (reflex 18) ]

[killmypatience]

[Kate leaps after her like the graceful gazelle she is, landing easily and making her way to the driving controls (reflex save 26).]

[andblockbuster]

[after two action points, which translate as Topher starting to jump and getting scared, he finally LEAPS MAJESTICALLY onto the forklift (reflex 22).]

[pathology]

[after watching amateur hour with topher brink, astrid leaps across like a graceful swan. (ref 25) ]

[ofmyword]

[something something vampiric grace helps him get across (reflex 28)]

[allaboutme]

[ the flaming pallet smashes into the other one and cordelia lets out a screech. out of the pallet rises a figure with a horned head, bronze skin, and a rather displeased look upon his face, although that seems to have nothing to do with the fact that he's the source of the fire himself.

"I don't know who you are," he bellows, "and I don't care. But I'm not going to let you ruin our plans. Do you hear me? Prepare to burn!"

with that, the creature seems to turn into smoke, which drifts over towards them ]

[killmypatience]

[Well that's ... terrifying, but Kate tries to step up quickly to at least force the thing to be solid again. She looks at where she is on the forklift and gestures the rest of her team to move in closer.]

Everyone stay close.

[And she will then cast Create Ice to make an anchored plane of ice as a Hemisphere on the end of the forklift with a radius of 5 feet. It will last five minutes (50 turns). Fire can melt the ice, but if it goes that route it will create a great cloud of steamy fog that will last 10 minutes.]

[pathology]

[astrid doesn't think ... guns will help......????? so she is holding action. but also, what the fuck.]

[ofmyword]

[what the fuck x2 holding action since can't bite smoke so he's useless rn.]

[andblockbuster]

Does anyone carry a personal fan? Or something? [WHY IS THIS THE HOLDING ACTION PARTY.]

[allaboutme]

[ cordelia's eyes grow wide as kate suddenly magically coats the end of the forklift in a sphere of ice ] I must have left that in my other forklift. What are we going to do??

[ the mist rises ... up and over the sphere, hovering right on top of it and then coalescing into the figure again who looks real friendly.

"You made a grave error coming here," it thunders, as below its feet the ice ball begins to steam, slowly melting away. "And for that, you die." that was an intimidate 29 which they need to will save against or be shaken (-2 on rolls) ]

[killmypatience]

[Kate just barely makes that will save (will save 30), but she grits her teeth and holds her ground. This would not be the first mission where she's been set on fire but she's hoping that it doesn't get added to the list.

It would just be a nice change of pace.

Still, she doesn't bother to dignify his threat with a response and simply launches an Ice Javelin at him instead (ranged touch attack nat 20 for 5 points of cold damage), and he needs to make a fort save for DC 15 or take a -1 enchantment penalty to attacks, AC, and reflex saves.

IT'S NOT A LOT OF DAMAGE but maybe the melting ice will ... screw things up somehow, she's winging it here.]

[pathology]

[astrid was so close but her will save was 24, sooo she's shaken. and would like to go home. maybe she'll just ... say that.]

What if nobody made a grave error and we all went our separate ways?