Turn 43
Make them pay, friends. Never stop making 'em all pay. They'll rue the day they killed livestock in MY town! - Dennis yelled.
What is everyone trying to find, here? - Serrana asked.
Where the enemies come from. We want to fortify this place, but so long as zombies, demons, and dark spirits can pop up at any time, that won't be possible. As such, we need to find where they originate and put a stop to it. - dragon replied, smoke getting out of his maw when he spoke.
Hmm these could be interesting, hold up a bit and I may be able to do something against demons. - Vivian said after a while.
[4 +2] Dragon recklessly flied forward into the catacombs, flying forwards, not even thinking about others following him or taking turns to any of sidepaths. After a short while, Aaron reached the place from all the undead and dark spirits come - a vortex of purple and black, dark energy in place of one of walls, tomb of undead duke nearby, a plaque with inscription "Duke Lysandr of Heights" on it. The vortex was a portal to underworld, a place where Aaron has been before. This one opened to different place though, and dragon could see countless undead moving towards it, still far away in the distance.
[6] Duke ran into catacombs. He ran and ran following Aaron, but then he lost him from his sight and took several turns. Only when he lost his breath and stopped for a moment, he realised that he lost himself in this dank maze. Moans of undead and noises of commotion were coming from all around.
[6] Serrana descended down next, cautiously moving onwards. It took her a while to decided which way to go on first intersection - she went straight, and only then turned left and entered a room with several bloated, dog-like zombies!
[Serrana: 6, Ghouls: 3] Exorcist panicked and instead of shooting a few weaker holy bolts, she sent a powerful wave of holy energy that obliterated undead, but also burnt her staff to ashes!
[6] Vivian tried to grind one of titanite chunks into powder and did it successfully, but she dropped the bag with it. She attempted to catch it mid-air, and scattered most of the powder on herself and it instantly infused into her garb!
[Lysander: 2, Gargoyle: 4] Demonologist clutched his embers and his fist set ablaze with dark flame, strenghtening power of his dark bolts. With several swift moves, he sent three of them at the gargoyle, but it flied away from every shot and charged!
[Gargoyle: 3, Lysander: 6] Instead of impaling him on his spear, stone beast grabbed him and was about to smash him against ground, but Lysander started beating on the gargoyle with his black ember, greatly increasing the flame until it torn out two beings from inside the stone - a pale energetical orb, and a strange energetical imp. A demon and dark spirit, fighting for possession of arcane construct, yet they were able to unite against demonologist and his companion.
[6] The construct without new orders from it's masters fell on the floor, smashing Lysander, but also losing it's wings due to fall damage!
[3] In the meanwhile, Naablvat was resting and recovered all his strenght!
The sooner we reach our target, the better. - Pguhyuh said, encouraging others to move towards their goal.
Agreed. Lingering will only draw unwanted attentions, and may weaken lyirah. This doesn't mean we shouldn't be cautious. - inquisitor agreed.
[2] The group slowly moved into passage leading eastwards.
[3] Smoke tried using his infravision to detect enemies, and it seemed that next corridor was clear.
[4] On the way Pguhyuh used some of his arcane dust to strenghten powers nested within torn manuscript. It was successfully imbued with more arcane power and even started glowing with pale light.
[3] Inquisitor moved ahead to scout for the group.
[6] He put on the warded armor he picked up off undead duke, and somehow it immediately glued itself to him! Looks like it'd take some magic or death to take it off Reynald!
[6] Alexander immediately prepared the forge to start smithing, Ghatzu helping him with everything despite being sightless. When the furnace reached right temperature, he melted down ingots and filled a sword-form, fire in the furnace was so great and powerful that several fire and smoke imps spawned from within it. Alexander grabbed them with his bare hands and hammered them down, their demonic blood mixing with molten iron, forming a new and strange alloy. Then after some time he started hammering on the sword to properly shape it, Ghatzu performing some dark rituals nearby cause he had a great idea how to make the weapon better. When the weapon was ready, the sightless man imbued it with all the dark energy he drawn during rituals, greatly enchanting the sword made of blood-red alloy!
Ghouls: Dead
Gargoyle: -60 HP [60/120]
Arcane imp: [80/80]
Energetical haunt: [60/60]
Naablvat: Rested [140/140]
Aaron: 1 turn for dragon form to end
Pguhyuh: +30 to Torn Manuscript's bonus, lost amethyst dust
Lysander: -30 HP, immobile
Alexander: Forged Darklurker demonsword
Vivian: Lost one titanite chunk, Alchemist's Garb receives a Weak Arcane resistance and +1 anti-magic protection
Serrana: Lost Blessed Staff, level up!
OOC
What the hell is going on with all those sixes?
Darklurker demonsword - 60 physical damage, 30 dark damage, 10 fire damage, double damage against gods, +2 to evil with each kill, increases taint by 1 with each kill
When taint is high enough, you get a curse placed upon you.