In which our heroes ...
Orhan 4 Day 6 TE 6063
After a while we manage to get through the first wave, but the second and thirds waves are smiting us down. Suddenly blinky shows us and declares that in exchange for fate points he will crush our enemies.
Imre gives blinky three fate points. Four people (the next wave) teleports in, and then suddenly teleports right back out again. Then we all get permanent haste for the combat. Also, +100 OB for us. Finally, all bleeds and stuns and poisons go away. Plus we get permanent initiative.
Remaining evenmies are: Monk, chainmail (who was casting mind control), sword plate, axe plate, Iblis, lightning bolt caster, leather.
Remaining good guys are: us and Jaezel.
Alynna goes to town on mind controlly chain guy, and Oathar mind controls Iblis to attack her. Imre lightning bolts one of the plate mail guys.
Iblis attacks the monk and misses pitifully. The guy with the act is shocked. "Wait! We were winning! they made a dark pacts with a horrible thing from beyond and now they are winning. Two can play at that game!" But his summoning spells fizzle as blinky blinks. The monk is similarly shocked, and casts dispel essense on Iblis but fails. The chain caster throws mentalism/essense at Imre and luckily, Imre resists. The final guy attacks Jaezel. A plate attacks the monk again and hits. One final guy goes invisible
Newly invigorated, the fight goes on.
Then our luck turns and we start sucking again. But due to our inherent awesomeness, we manage to pull through. That, plus Imre cuts loose and slays everyone.
Once the remaining bad guys are down, we blast through the stone wall and charge. We can feel the power in there as our spell points are doubled.
As we head in, the remaining four say, "Wait! We must talk!" Imre thinks they are unhappy, but think that talking is their best chance. Haeraan and Alynna charge them regardless.
They get desperate and grab for the crystal hand. They get it, but Oathar casts Item Returning on it. When they try to dispel that, Blinky shows up and Oathar gives him a fate point. Blinky gives Oathar the hand. The morale of the bad guy breaks, "AGAIN! Where does this demon keep coming from!" We take them down while they take morale crits.
We use the hand and open the outer crystaline door leading us to the intner Kregora shielding.
Then we use the hand to open the kregora door. Our power points double again.
Alynna prays to Cay and prepares to use the ring. Cay warns her that the release of this much energy always has consequences. In particular, there will be a very very obvious consequence.
We teleport Iblis out to the desert before we do this thing. Oathar commands her to spend 4 hours in quiet contemplation of her evil.
"Dearest Luna,
About to frag myself horribly. Even if I don't remember, I always loved you.
Haeraan"
Well, we go ahead with plan omega-frag. Oathar uses a Voorig Kye scroll and opens a Holy Bridge directly to Neela. Alynna uses the ring to destroy the kurzalaen. The mountain shakes and truly epic amounts of power are released. The crystal explodes in light and a giant pillar of energy shoots up and out and the roof of Gathaena blows up into the sky and it's time to go. We teleport to the sand lion place (where we sent Iblis). The mountain explodes and the pillar of light slowly fades away, and blue natural sunlight streams down to Gathaena. Iblis fades away.
We all lose half of our talent points from time travel benefit due to fragging damage of suddenly remembering this giant crater was here the whole time.
Neela sends a messenger, (Pinchy, the flying crab), you have done well. Perhaps I can releave some of your pain with additional pain. He starts pinching us. We each get five pinches, which translates into five fate points each. Holy Crab, we got five fate points each! We're doomed! Also we're all healed and our power points are restored to standard 100%. Pinchy also says, "Stay here, I'll be right back and vanishes." Then Mahari Ridane appears.
"This crab tells me you freed me."
She reads the past from our minds and asks us for her items.We give them to her. She goes away and says the cryo chamber is stabilized for the time being. "We'll talk but I need to do a number of things immediately." She gives us the unicorn sword and vanishes.
We start travelling around the human villages, and start trying to recruit them into our military forces. We find Gadrel where we left her and Merlaenus is sitting there meditating over Gadrel. "With the destruction of the kurzalaen, the Ataza and Taza have been reabsorbed into the Ishru. It will take a while, but I think the Ishru will be different beings when they awaken. When they do, my purpose will be done. Before I go, take this." Imre gets a spell list: Shaman's Intuition. Well, technically we all get it, but Imre snaps it up. "It can be used for both good and evil. I trust you will know the difference." "When I finish attending to the Ishru, my time on this mortal plane will be done."
Orhan 4 Day 7 TE 6063
Jaezel is recruited by Oathar to be loremaster in charge of training the Quellbourne folks once he's done helping Mahari Ridaen. We should consider these folks "her people" and we should probably not recruit them until afte a year's past and we talked to her about it.
Jaezel grabs a teleport point in Quellbourne.
Mahari Ridaen sends us a IOU for an item of our choice each. If a weapon it gets an Weapon IV, III, II, and I on it. If a Armor it gets an Armor IV, III, II, I, and if an other item it gets a General IV, III, II, I. She'll be busy for a while, but will make us these to take to Armageddon with us. She'll also show up to Armageddon herself.
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