Summary of 03/05/98 Minisession

T'SKRANG OF LIGHT, T'SKRANG OF DARKNESS

A Summary of the 03/05/98 Minisession from Aliou's Viewpoint

By Brian P. Clausen 3/11/98

Round 1: Aliou slams and bolts the door (as movement), uses the Reshape Object talent to blob the door mechanism, and sends Leelay to wake Pole before the unholy horde can take advantage of him.
Round 2: Aliou summons an Earth elemental to guard the door and promptly falls to the floor, where he spends most of the remainder of the combat.
Round 3: The dark shade emerges from a shadow in the corner of the room and appears to be a T'skrang potling. Aliou is forced to use up an orichalcum coin to draw in the room a Circle of Protection versus horrors. He orders the earth elemental to strike at the horror, but the elemental only succeeds in removing plaster. Leelay rejoins Aliou.
Round 4: Aliou successfully reattunes a matrix to Drastic Temperature. The horror fails to penetrate the circle and the elemental again misses the horror. Pole bursts through the door to join Aliou in the circle.
Round 5: The horror again fails to penetrate the circle, ending up in a different corner of the room. Aliou starts a bonfire on his bed, using the light to trap the horror. He orders the earth elemental to widen one of the small windows into an escape route and then sucessfully weaves both threads for Drastic Temperature. Meanwhile a necropotling and a wingding potling penetrate the circle, keeping Pole and Leelay busy.
Round 6: The necropotling casts Ethereal Darkness, plunging the room into shadows and allowing the horror to move again. Aliou and Leelay move near the bed and Aliou casts Drastic Temperature near the entrance to his room.
Round 7: Aliou uses another orichalcum coin to set up a COP vs. Horrors centered on his person and then Leaves to the bathroom at the end of the hall. The earth elemental pushes through the wall and is dismissed. Pole leaps through the exit and glides to safety.
Round 8: Aliou releases the Fireball spell in his fire coin, removing the wingding potling problem.
Round 9: Leelay rejoins Aliou, who summons a fire elemental and sends it after the necropotling in the hall. It scores a spectacular hit (53 points, double-open end) and kills it.
Round 10: Aliou finally stands. The fire elemental kills the second necropotling. The t'skrangian horror has apparently gotten away.

Aliou, accompanied by the fire elemental which reluctantly calls rogue flames into himself, moves out into the central area to inspect the damage. A large number of guards have been killed in Foul Vapors and surprise Bone Shatters. Meanwhile Pole rouses the rest of the guards and convinces them that an attack has occured. Morok and his ladies come to examine the situation and Aliou and Pole use it as a chance to show him what fried horror constructs look like and the protection afforded by orichalcum.

Aliou and Pole accuse the empire's ambassador of consorting with horrors and convince Morok to allow them to go after him and the empire's tower. The fire elemental is sent to slowly burn the tower from bottom to top. Aliou casts Sky Lattices around the tower to provide escape routes for those in the tower. Pole climbs one lattice to assist in the evacuation and to watch for the ambassador. After many have been evacuated a dark shape is briefly seen to leave the towertop. The ambassador appears and begins to shout in a manic state. When Pole goes after him the ambassador prepares to throw himself off the tower. Aliou begins a Sky Lattice to catch him for questioning when suddenly Tula the traitorous troubadour reluctantly says, "Not this time you won't," taunts Aliou, and stabs Morok with a dagger. The ambassador hurls himself off the tower to his death while Tula sprints for safety. She is unable, however, to outrun the rain of arrows Morok's guards send after her with a little prodding from Aliou. She falls, arm outstretched, and suddenly a dark T'skrangian hand reaches out to her from the shadows and they both disappear. A medic attends to the wounded Morok and discovers that the blade used was poisoned. Aliou considers gaining the Elementalist Cold Purify talent as an aid against poison until he rereads it and remembers what an incredibly sucky talent it is, even more laughable since it's fifth circle.

The fire elemental reaches the top of the tower and gleefully proclaims his brilliance to the world. He is dismissed just before the tower collapses on itself. Morok is moved back into his building surrounded by doctors, guards, and torchbearers alerted to the horror's mode of travel. Aliou goes to search the flattened body of the ambassador and sends Leelay to inspect the rubble. Meanwhile Pole charges up to Tula's room with the intent of seeing what valuables she left behind. Upon entering her room he makes the unpleasant discovery that the t'skrang potling has brought the ork back to her room to pack.

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