Dawn of the Third Age/IC Logs/Session 10
Session Start (Anshu:#celestialdeliberative): Sun Oct 31 11:01:23 2010 -0600
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[11:46] * Nomoe_Hideaki stands close to the air ship's opened outer doors, his clothes ripple as if struck by an invisible breeze and a faint aura of colorless essence shimmers around his hands. ***Young and Maiden Bright as well as Ambassador Shadow Phoenix Ruby have confirmed our target and both are in position,*** he states via comm bracelet.
[11:49] <Brazen_Sand> ***Is the Empress saying anything else?*** Brazen asked
[11:50] <Nomoe_Hideaki> ***All ready for assault run? What are your orders, General Noldarr?*** Nomoe's expression is empty of all but total concentration.
[11:53] <Noldarr> ***Align the ship with the Daystar and begin our assault run.***
[11:55] <~Anshu> As Bright Snow kneels before the Empress, tensing to strike, and Ruby moves invisibly into position, the Empress makes a small gesture, and the General and the rest of the gathered monks and Dynasts rise to their feet. "Your quarters are ready, and the candidates are waiting for your convenience, Your Majesty," he says.
[11:56] <Noldarr> The airship groaned as it was flanked by the burning orb, concealed from prying eyes by the incandescent torch of the Once-Guarding Star. To those below, it would materialize with sudden speed, a speck of blackness against golden flame, a stray sunspot that morphs into the herald of death like a lightning bolt from a clear blue sky.
[11:58] <Shadow_Phoenix_Ruby> ***"Question,"*** she says though the comm device, ***She is to be shown to her quarters. Does this change things?***
[12:00] <Brazen_Sand> ***Go go go!*** Brazen responded.
[12:00] <~Anshu> "Thank you, General. I'd prefer to get to work quickly; the Anathema Deliberative is growing more concerned with us. They will surely not wait much longer before attempting to strike directly at our operations." The Empress and her guard begin to move forward, deeper into the manse, with the General leading the way.
[12:01] <~Anshu> "As you wish, Your Majesty. And your guards?"
[12:01] * Shadow_Phoenix_Ruby follows as silently as possible. ***She is on the move, I'm following.***
[12:01] <Nomoe_Hideaki> "Cayal-san, unless General Noldarr has superceding order for you your task will be to prevent a concerted mobilization of mortal and Dragonblooded forces. Sow confusion, disrupt their formations, especially if they coordinate with numbers against a single one of us," Nomoe instructs his ally, the Air Aspect Ledaal Deris Cayal, Air Dragon Master.
[12:03] <Brazen_Sand> As the ship lifted into the air, Brazen hoisted his massive lance from his back and stood near the open door, the desert wind spraying sand that would've scoured the face of a lesser man. Brazen didn't even blink.
[12:04] <Brazen_Sand> He bared his teeth in a feral grin, his short black hair pushed back
[12:05] * Bright_Snow , in the guise of the Air Immaculate Tepet Argona, follows the emperor and the General keeping pace as part of their entourage
[12:06] <Brazen_Sand> ***Just give the word, and I'll be ready!***
[12:06] <~Anshu> "Once I am secure, they know their tasks. They will be inspecting things here, making sure that all is in order. You should consider them to speak for me," the Empress says.
[12:06] <Nomoe_Hideaki> */Time to cleanse this infernal infestation from the face of Creation/ anticipation anticipates the thought*
[12:06] <Nomoe_Hideaki> *accompanies
[12:08] <Bright_Snow> Yeah I'm buying the Swarm knack I think
[12:08] <Brazen_Sand> Cool
[12:08] <Brazen_Sand> (D'oh!)
[12:09] <Noldarr> ***It is time. Gentlemen. Ladies. Today we remove at last the stain of the old Realm on our Creation.*** He drew his sword and leveled it at the onrushing manse. ***Attack.***
[12:11] <Brazen_Sand> ***YEEEESSS!!*** Brazen snarled gleefully as he leapt out of the airship, heedless of the hundreds of feet of air beneath
[12:13] <Brazen_Sand> As the wind rasped against his 5-o'clock shadow, his eyes burned green with terrible flame.
[12:16] * Shadow_Phoenix_Ruby grimaces as she sneakes upon the Empress stealthily moving between her guards and herself, her sword in hand and poises to strike, just a bit more, she thinks to herself. As the near the door, she drives her weapon home, the inivisible blade sharp and hot as it seeks the Empress's back. The attack will certainly drop her protection and leave her quite vulnerable but if
[12:16] * Shadow_Phoenix_Ruby she can knock her out then she will have at least served a part of her purpose.
[12:16] * Nomoe_Hideaki takes a simple step outside and arms spread wide just lets himself fall in a calculated arc, his haori with the Nomoe Mon and his long black hair fluttering in his wake. ***Let's make this quick. It would be embarrassing to take too long against just a few Dragonblooded traitors.***
[12:18] <Bright_Snow> As Shadow Phoenix Ruby strikes, Bright Snow, gasps her own Dire Lance swirling into her hands from the bracelet at her wrist. Lunging forward she strikes at near enough the same instant, a flash of colour and light in this dimly lit manse. "It is too early for creatures of the Yozi to claim those protectors of creation the Anathema, and that such a tool does is an insult we cannot forgive."
[12:21] <Brazen_Sand> The flame engulfs Brazen, when it burns out, where there once was skin there is only orihalcum hard red scales, where there once were hands there are vicious black talons. The beast he has become laughs as he slams against the roof of the previously invisible manse, his 3 eyes seeing to the very last particle of existence.
[12:22] <Brazen_Sand> The roof cracks under his weight, but Brazen quickly regains his footing on his massive Tyrant-Lizardesque feet.
[12:24] <Brazen_Sand> His wings spread wide and he lets loose a thunderous nightmarish roar that can be heard deep within the manse.
[12:30] <~Anshu> As Ruby plunges her beamklaive into the Empress's back, the Terrestrial matriarch's body suddenly turns to red diamond, the facets refracting and scattering the concentrated power of the Alchemical's weapon of light
[12:38] <Bright_Snow> After the flashes of light, gone is Tepet Argona replaced with a large shimmering shape, hissing through the cycling colours that hide it from easy viewing. Its eyes each shimmering with a different light focus on the dire lance and adjusting its plunge towards the Infernal Empress.
[12:44] <~Anshu> As Snow's dire lance thrusts toward her, the Empress's diamond form dissolves into black and sticky writhing shadows, and reappears two dozen feet away. "You see?" she calls. "The Anathema are among us even now, and they're sure to have more than just these two. Stall them,"
[12:45] <~Anshu> she orders.
[12:47] <Noldarr> It is at that moment that the ceiling begins to crumble, then shake, a low, guttural thunder slowly building as two golden and one green star impact the manse with meteorite force, tearing through sky, sand, wood, stone, and flesh.
[12:47] <Brazen_Sand> Brazen drove his spear, now noticably shorter looking in relation to himself, through the roof like it was no harder then a silk sheet. Moving rapidly, the spear spun in a circle while green fire flared up and around it
[12:48] <Brazen_Sand> The circle fell into the audience chamber and shattered into fragments while the rest of the team jumped into their midst.
[12:54] <Nomoe_Hideaki> Falling slower than the other two due to the pose he has assumed Nomoe lags behind Noldarr and Brazen Sand a bit. Seeing the two of them weaken, then break the ceiling with great noise he smiles grimly. ***Nice distraction.*** He changes his pose slightly, banking to the left and accelerating hard until - just before he would hit a wall - his form flickers and disappears.
[12:56] <Nomoe_Hideaki> Inside the manse, among the general meleé, there's a second flickering as Nomoe in his trademark move re-appears - directly behind the Empress. In quick succession he aims a succession of punches and a leg sweep at her, the force of his attacks shaking the walls as parts are deflected by the Empress' defenses.
[12:58] <Nomoe_Hideaki> He bows slightly then, his mouth curled in an ironic grin. "My apologies, Empress, but this is not your world anymore," he says before flickering again to step back a meter or two, outside immediate engagement range, incidentally allowing him to aim a two-finger strike below the ribs of the Fiend.
[12:58] <Nomoe_Hideaki> "And I don't much like the lies you are spreading about me."
[13:00] <Nomoe_Hideaki> He says, without dignifying the Infernal with looking at her while he attacks.
[13:11] <Nomoe_Hideaki> Then, evaluating the situation and seeing a weapon he recognizes in the hands of a strange and unknown figure he does a mental double-take before understanding. */Ah, it is you. I hope you won't mind me joining in,/* he thinks, inclining his head toward Bright Snow with a small smile.
[13:20] <~Anshu> The Empress shifts aside, dodging with incredible speed and grace, letting Nomoe's strikes fall on the three mortal monks rushing futilely to her aid; all three fall dead under the Solar's blows. The Fiend was off like a shot - along with two of the other members of the Empress's guard - running rings around the room at top speed. As Nomoe flash-steps next to her, she slides away from the blow like a gust of air.
[13:25] <Nomoe_Hideaki> As three mortals fall to the ground, every bone in their body shattered, every organ ruptured, Nomoe frowns slightly. ***That is an annoying Charm. Careful with the Empress, she can redirect attacks.***
[13:26] <Noldarr> ***We'll just make sure she can't avoid them in the first place.*** Noldarr's voice is grim.
[13:32] <~Anshu> The seeming Wood Aspect from the Empress's guard makes a sudden, aggressive gesture toward Nomoe, splaying her fingers wide at the last moment. Silver sand suddenly erupts in a shocking explosion from the stone beneath Nomoe's feet.
[13:35] * Nomoe_Hideaki without transition is standing on the ceiling, with with an open handed palm strike deflects the sand blast to rain down all over the battle field.
[13:36] <Nomoe_Hideaki> A moment later he stands on the floor again, tilting his head and giving the apparent wood a look of infuriating pity.
[13:36] <Nomoe_Hideaki> *Wood Aspect
[13:39] <Noldarr> Noldarr thunders into the manse, wreathed in golden mists, blade glowing with the brilliance of the rising sun. As he and the Empress stare each other down, the world slows to a crawl, two masters posed to strike. He searched in those eyes for the spirit of the young officer who had saved Creation, whose tenacity he had at one time admired - but all he found was sibilant darkness.
[13:40] <Noldarr> No matter. It was only in the deepest night that the faintest stas could be seen. It was always darkest before the Dawn.
[13:40] <~Anshu> The Empress's eyes flash black, and then all is darkness, an unnatural pall of darkness falling over the desert for three miles in every direction.
[13:41] <Brazen_Sand> Brazen snarled in surprise, his 3 glowing eyes a pinprick in the sudden darkness. He saw mortals blindly run in shrieking terror.
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[14:00] <~Anshu> Red hair streaming behind him, the "Fire Aspect" leaps between the Empress and Noldarr's blows, sparks and brass shavings flying from his body as the Solar's blows fall on him, the crossed swords of the Slayer Caste alight on his brow.
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[14:03] <~Anshu> and the bilious green light of Ligier strobing around him
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[14:11] <~Anshu> As the darkness surges outward to engulf the entire room, the entire manse, there is a flicker of movement from within; the Empress's mighty spear, the Eye of the Fire Dragon, licks out from the darkness to stab and slash at each one of you, as if she were standing just behind you, out of sight.
[14:12] <Noldarr> Noldarr casually whirls around, ignoring the Slayer as he interposes his shield between the spear and his torso, the glaive bouncing off with ringing finality.
[14:14] <Brazen_Sand> Brazen Sand laughed as the spears simply clanged off of his invincible scales.
[14:14] <Noldarr> As the blade clangs off, his own rushes into the darkness, lashing like a tongue of Solar flame at the Empress
[14:21] * Nomoe_Hideaki coughs quietly as a direlance pierces his back and emerges from his chest. *Surprise and a distant pain as Nomoe loses control of the bond /What .../*
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[14:25] <Brazen_Sand> Suddenly one spear managed to pierce him, but only barely pierced the surface. He shrugged the pain off easily
[14:25] <Nomoe_Hideaki> *... and darkness ...*
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[14:28] <Brazen_Sand> Brazen saw all of his circle-mates fall, so suddenly, so...unfairly. He roared in anger and landed among the milling, blind, mortals. So weak, so easily led. This is what they got...a horrible death, from those who were supposed to be leading and defending them...
[14:29] <Brazen_Sand> This WOULD NOT STAND!!
[14:30] <Brazen_Sand> "GENERAL NOLDARR, LEAD THE REST OF THE CIRCLE TO SAFETY. THESE SLAVES AND SLAVEMASTERS ARE MINE!"
[14:32] <Noldarr> "Your sacrifice...if it comes to that, will not be in vain, Brazen Sand."
[14:32] <Brazen_Sand> "RUB IT IN NOMOE-SAN'S NOSE FOR ME!" He responded.
[14:32] <Noldarr> "Hmph. If he survives this, I will try."
[14:33] <Noldarr> "I will return as soon as they are safe."
[14:34] <Brazen_Sand> THe beast's skin burst, now he was a flowing apparition of solid green flame, flaring in all directions as his anima shot forth through teh darkness.
[14:40] <~Anshu> Noldarr's counterattack strikes more sparks from the Slayer's flesh.
[14:43] <Brazen_Sand> "STILL UNDER THE LASH OF THE YOZIS, EH? AND NOW THE EBON DRAGON HAS YOU GUARDING HIS NEW PET?" Brazen taunted
[14:43] <Brazen_Sand> "TELL ME WHY YOU STAY AS SLAVES!" He snapped
[14:51] <~Anshu> Suddenly, all non-Solar animas are blotted out, and black tentacle-tongues extrude themselves from the shadows to caress and taste the Celestials, fallen and fighting alike. Brazen feels their cold, clammy touch the most as they attempt to violate him.
[14:53] <Brazen_Sand> Brazen swatted the tentacles away with his claws, grasping one that quickly flared green and then fell into mewling ashes.
[14:54] <Brazen_Sand> Onto the stone-strewn floor
[14:54] <~Anshu> "Mmmmm, you taste good," comes the Fiend's sultry voice, echoing out of the darkness.
[14:54] <Noldarr> "Get some hair." Noldarr whirled and slashed at the tentacles, ensuring that none touched him. >_>
[14:54] <Brazen_Sand> "YOU'LL TASTE EVEN BETTER, FILTH!"
[15:00] <Nomoe_Hideaki> A severe looking man in blue jade armor with the shaved head of an Immaculate races over to where insidious sneak attacks have felled Nomoe Hideaki and Bright Snow (though he does not know her under this name).
[15:04] <Nomoe_Hideaki> Thinking quickly he throws his jade chakram aside, steering it by the thin essence thread he has attached to it. His hands now free he gathers up the patron who has shown him the true path and after a moment's consideration his mate as well.
[15:05] <Nomoe_Hideaki> Though not quite as fast as Nomoe's supernal movement his speed is that of a tornado as he leaves the manse on a column of whirling air through the hole in the roof created by Brazen Sand and Noldarr. In big jumps he retreats toward the air ship with the two wounded heroes of Sun and Moon.
[15:09] <~Anshu> "Oh, but it's so fun," the Fiend answers Brazen's challenge. "You should come back to the Thing, you'll see."
[15:12] <~Anshu> The Wood Aspect makes another aggressive gesture at Noldarr's general location; another torrent of silver sand erupts, this one a much larger blast.
[15:15] <Noldarr> "This vulgar mimicry will end now." Noldarr recalled his last battle with the Fiend, how he had plunged his blade into the heart of the earth and shattered the ground for miles around. Last time, his power had been unfocused, barely controlled, but he was not the warrior he had been then. As the Dawn breaks, the Sun ever rises, and now it unleashed the zenith of its power, a torrent of...
[15:15] <Noldarr> ...annihilating light that consumed all in its wake, disintegrating the Manse with a thunder that blasted sand into glass, a roar that could break the very cosmos.
[15:16] <Brazen_Sand> "I DON'T NEED THE THING, I'VE FOUND SOMETHING BETTER!" He said, grinning as he saw Noldarr destroy the manse while the rest of the Infernals were distracted...
[15:39] <Noldarr> Noldarr charges across the draft of wind following the wake of his earlier stroke, doom drawn and imminent, gilded by the light of the sun. Across him, the Empress span and whirled in the typhoon currents, dodging and weaving, a serpent in a whirlpool. "Give up," she hissed, eyes inky black, hair the color of blood streaming in the wind. "Brave as this last stand is, it won't accomplish...
[15:39] <Noldarr> ...anything. I defeated your kind for over seven centuries, and you expect me to be felled now? NOW?
[15:42] <Noldarr> Noldarr feinted, crossing blades, drawing down, gold-on-black. "You speak the truth. For seven centuries you slew the Solars. For seven centuries you kept us down. But let me tell you something, _Highness_. When the Primordials fought us in the Age of Glory, they learned a lesson - a lesson you failed to learn. Greater beings than you have tried to stop us." Pointing his blade at her heart,...
[15:42] <Noldarr> ...he narrowed his eyes. "Tell this to your master, Highness, for apparently he has forgot..."
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[15:42] <Noldarr> And then, a flash of steel, sunlight glinting off - "...You cannot stop the rising sun."
[15:47] <~Anshu> The Empress screams as the blade cuts into her, the golden sunfire it carries burning her and falls to the ground at Noldarr's feet.
[15:49] <~Anshu> Then the Slayer and Scourge are on him, their blades flashing in the light of his flaring anima.
[15:55] <Nomoe_Hideaki> Meanwhile a good way outside the crater where one the manse stood Ledaal Deris Cayal is rendezvousing with the air ship, having called down Iselsi Saraban Veata by comm bracelet. Carefully the two wounded Exalts he carries are brought aboard and the air ship lifts off again.
[15:58] <Brazen_Sand> Brazen just sat there.
[15:58] <Brazen_Sand> on fire
[16:01] <~Anshu> The Slayer then flits away like the speeding wind.
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[16:15] <~Anshu> After a furious tide of blows being traded back and forth, each side retreats to tend their wounded. As Veata's airship pulls out of the dune and flies away, there's a great blast from behind, and you turn to see the remains of the manse engulfed in the poisonous radiance of a Total Annihilation spell.
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