The Sisters' Chronicles Thread 2: Nobody likes Abadaius

[Valmark]

The rest of the ghosts emerged from the ground- two swarmed Kat, two Alifa, four Taddeus and the last five attacked Boots.

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Kat's Steed gets 'Killed'.

Taddeus' mount is beaten up with 20 damage ('cause it halves necrotic).

Boots is attacked:
23 to hit, 14 necrotic
26 to hit, 6 necrotic
Crit for 17 necrotic
There are more attacks but they missed.

Alifa is attacked:
18 to hit, 11 necrotic
26 to hit, 13 necrotic
Rest missed.

Tilly is attacked:
15 to hit, 9 necrotic
21 to hit, 14 necrotic
20 to hit, 10 necrotic
Rest missed.

Taddeus takes 7 damage.

Kat takes 14 damage.

Taddeus chuckled as he healed most of the damage received. Then 'paled', even if he was already paled.
"Right! My horse doesn't heal!" and stabbed the new ghost.

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You'll never kill it but maybe you can soften it up enough.
(1d20+8)[24] adv. (1d20+8)[21] (2d8+4)[18]
(1d20+8)[26] adv. (1d20+8)[23] (2d8+4)[12]

Afterwards it's Boots. You have five ghosts on you.

[Xihirli]

Boots engaged her ghosts in a storm of whip-cracks, the air around her filled with lava as she brought Aizu and other magma fey to bear on her enemies.

[Valmark]

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**** I accidentally deleted the damage taken and had to recalculate the total damage taken by every remaining ghost.

35/38/29/21/23 <-- Damage taken by those attacking Boots (the last three don't have the second round of Spirit Guardians factored in yet)
35/10/10/20 <-- Damage taken by those attacking Taddeus

Plus two on Kat and two on Alifa.

Kat barely dodged one slam, then realized those were chasing her and galloped back into melee shooting one of Taddeus' enemies as she did so.
"They should follow me into the spell"

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Go! (1d20+7)[15] (1d8+4)[6]+(4d6)[12]+(1d8)[3]

Afterwards it's Alifa.

Unfortunately Kat's arrow went wide.

[Xihirli]

Alifa nodded assent and vanished, reappearing next to Boots.

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Benign Transposition and Spirit Guardians for the round : (3d8)[20]

[Valmark]

As nearly half of the ghosts burned under Boots' Guardians, Taddeus traded blows with the two fighting with him- meanwhile, the four chasing Alifa and Kat charged after them into the Spirit Guardians.

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Four attacks on Kat
(1d20+7)[20] (1d10+4)[14]
(1d20+7)[22] (1d10+4)[12]

(1d20+7)[16] (1d10+4)[11]
(1d20+7)[23] (1d10+4)[12]

Four attacks on Alifa
(1d20+7)[16] (1d10+4)[9]
(1d20+7)[14] (1d10+4)[7]

(1d20+7)[26] (1d10+4)[7]
(1d20+7)[19] (1d10+4)[13]

Two attacks on Taddeus
(1d20+7)[16] (1d10+4)[13]
(1d20+7)[13] (1d10+4)[13]

Two attacks on his mount
(1d20+7)[16] (1d10+4)[8]
(1d20+7)[18] (1d10+4)[8]

[Xihirli]

"Everybody stay on guard! Let Fiamma’s Warriors handle this!"
And her lava burned brighter than ever as she lifted her shield.

[Valmark]

As Alifa and Kat started moving erratically to avoid attacks, the ghosts took some last strikes.

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On Alifa
(1d20+7)[13] dis. (1d20+7)[24] (1d10+4)[12]
(1d20+7)[11] dis. (1d20+7)[10] (1d10+4)[12]
(1d20+7)[14] dis. (1d20+7)[23] (1d10+4)[5]
(1d20+7)[8] dis. (1d20+7)[11] (1d10+4)[13]

On Kat
(1d20+7)[27] dis. (1d20+7)[16] (1d10+4)[6]
(1d20+7)[25] dis. (1d20+7)[12] (1d10+4)[5]
(1d20+7)[11] dis. (1d20+7)[18] (1d10+4)[11]
(1d20+7)[23] dis. (1d20+7)[20] (1d10+4)[5]

On Taddeus
(1d20+7)[19] (1d10+4)[6]
(1d20+7)[10] (1d10+4)[10]

[Valmark]

As the last ghosts burned out, the group was left to gather their breath. Tilly and Taddeus' mounts were hurt, while Kat only really had some light scratches and Taddeus was regenerating.

"This was... Unsettling. It's no surprise communications stopped- ghosts should not be this crazy"

[Xihirli]

"Me and Tilly need a breather before we continue," Boots said, getting off her plant horse.
"What would cause ghosts to go nuts like that?"

[Valmark]

Taddeus shook his head.
"I don't know. It's not corruption for sure... unless the Vassal made ghosts out of darklings, but why would he? That said..." he frowned "He could be able to control the ghosts -much like how the Lich Queen is capable of controlling all the undeads of the Deathlands- but then to make them act like this, just attacking blindly, he either gave stupid orders or has gone crazy as well... Regardless of the fact that this might as well be open rebellion. If we went back now reporting what we found the Lich Queen would drop everything and come here" Taddeus explained.

"And probably raze everything to the ground"

[Xihirli]

"Hm. How about we investigate for the rest of the day and Send to the Queen once we have more information."
"Good idea." Alifa manifested Peter and started putting up her some."Peter and Hoots can start looking around while we try to recover."

[Valmark]

"Oh! But... If you know her enough to Send to her why would you need a deed under your name?" Taddeus asked sitting crosslegged within the dome.

"Because you can't Send to her?" Kat asked the vampire, who shook his head "Never actually met her"

[Xihirli]

"Oh, I was hoping you could," Alifa admitted. She sat down and sent Peter to go scout with his teleporty joy.
"Well, similar plan I suppose. We try to handle this ourselves. If it's too much, find a way to call in the cavalry."

[Valmark]

"I could Send to father if need be. He's one of the two other Vassals" Taddeus sighed "So he has to have met her. So, you had asked me what you should know about the Phantom?"

[Xihirli]

"Yeah," Boots said.
"Though I'm worried any information you have on them may be... strictly academic, now."

[Valmark]

"If only. I know he's also got a physical body he puppeteers... But aside from that I never had the dubious pleasure of dealing with him" Taddeus shrugged "Be polite and watch out for ghosts coming out of walls?"

[Xihirli]

"So, how’d you become a vampire anyhow?" Alifa asked.

[Valmark]

"Staged an attack against the previous baron with Dethera. Once won, the only way to ensure we would have a just ruler was for someone we trusted to step up- that and the fact that there was no other solution that would see us spared for hunting down and killing a baron" Taddeus sighed "So I met with who would become my father, and there was a grand ceremony as I became the baron of my lands... Which included my transformation. Taddeus was the name of the vampire that transformed my father, Parsimmon is his name and the name of who transformed me, Vassimius is my original name and Emerhet is the family name- the III because I'm the third. Brother is third as well, while father is second- so he's Taddeus Parsimmon Emerhet the II"

Kat didn't comment, but by the looks of it she didn't like how things went.

[Xihirli]

"Oh, I understand. You weren’t chosen as baron because you were undead, you became undead so that you could be a baron. Well… what happened to your old family?"

[Valmark]

"Dead" Taddeus said without emotion "I've been unalive for eighty years now and was an only child- my family died of old age. Happily, as I could control and make sure they could live without trouble- which is everything I wished for when I was made a vampire"

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By the way Kat roll some hit dice as the rest is coming to an end (2d8+2)[10]

[Xihirli]

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Cool I’ll roll some too
Alifa (3d6+9)[18]
Boots (4d10+8)[31] know what (5d6+10)[27] too

"Wait, so how old is the hot necromancer? Isn’t she alive?"

[Valmark]

"Oh, she's alive. Found a couple ways to extend her lifespan through... Not very pleasant methods, but nobody was hurt against their consent or was killed so it's... Fine" Taddeus Parsimmon Vassimius Emerhet the III assured Boots "There's a lot you can do when you specialize in the manipulation of souls and bodies and have a laboratory you can work in all day with essentially unending resourcess. If she was an adventurer she'd be long dead though- oh ans she's nearly an hundred years old. As am I if we consider both my life and unlife"

[Xihirli]

"She looks crazy good for a hundred," Boots said. She stretched and got up.

"Alright, everybody ready?"

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Forgot Tilly. (4d10+12)[35]

[Valmark]

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Which reminds me, Taddeus' zombie horse (3d10+9)[18]

Peter and Hootie came back- they reported that the nearest villages looked the same, though they hadn't tried interacting with the illusions since it could trigger an ambush. They reported of having spotted a nearby castle -which Taddeus identified as probably the castle of one of the Phantom's underlings- and further inside, seen from afar, green sickly looking clouds in the sky.

"That... Is a bad sign. It means a lot of necromancy magic done without a care for the enviroment- that's another crime that would require immediate intervention once discovered"

[Xihirli]

"Let’s head that way, then. And if we have to fight a wraith lord we have a Paladin."
Boots smiled. "That’s right – follow me!"

As she walked, Alifa churned the air as if pulling at it. It wound into all sorts of shapes until it took on a wide, gaping maw on a windy facsimile of a face. Twisters made up a body as she wove an Air Elemental.
"Welcome to the world… Bilbo Swaggins," Boots named it.

[Valmark]

Soon enough they could see said clouds- the innatural green cast a shadow over them.

"I suggest anybody who isn't an undead sticks close to the paladin" Taddeus said "You'll have an easier time breathing. And... Yes, this is the direction to the Phantom's stronghold- there's little hope he's still fine"

[Xihirli]

Alifa had Peter go into his little dimension and wrapped an arm around Boots.
"Oh wait, I might have something for this!" Boots said. "Do you think the gas is poisony or disease-y?"

[Valmark]

Taddeus looked around.
"Probably poisonous. My guess would be that it can make you weak enough to catch more diseases, but it's not inherently a disease"

[Xihirli]

"Alright then!" Boots said, excited, and craned her head back to kiss Alifa's forehead. She blew a kiss to Kat and gave Tilly a few pats on the side.

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Casting Protection from Poison on Alifa, Kat, and herself which she shares with Tilly.

"Okay, now we're super ready. Isn't that right, Bilbo Swaggins?"

[Valmark]

The elemental churned- it exuded confidence within every whisp of wind.

As they entered under the poisonous area the sickly air filled their nostrils.

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Kat can fail this save still (1d20+7)[18] adv. (1d20+7)[26]

DC 10 Con save to not be Poisoned.

As the sun got hidden from view Boots started smelling more undeath- no direction in particular though.
In the distance, a much bigger manor then the one Taddeus lived in came into view- the green clouds seemed to be more concentrated in there out of all places, and green smoke came from the highest tower.
"Not ominous. At all"