The Sisters' Chronicles Thread 2: Nobody likes Abadaius

[Xihirli]

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d10s, Xi. The damage dice are d10s. (1d10+8)[18] and (1d10+8)[18]

[Xihirli]

"Hey!" Boots shouted as Illumi-Naughty got cracked. She aimed the whip as she did so, raking it at the giant's back. With a crack of thunder, it connected. She launched an assault on the giant's back, but did more damage to the dirt at his feet.
"Okay, that was just embarrassing."

Alifa's attention was occupied with the other giant. She this time slammed her staff into the ground. Fissures formed in it until a toad head leapt from them, hopping over on the rest of its body over to the giant that had killed Illumi-Naughty.
"Wailing audible from the depths of the darkness so thick, be wrapped in the armor of Death itself and show yourself!!"
And a long croak came from the slaad's throat as its claws raked at the giant, little explosions of light forming where the scratches connected.

[Valmark]

The giant keeled over, fire rising to protectively envelop it.

The other one was still fighting strong, so Kat ducked under his legs and pulled out a rapier- passing by she skewered his butt before tumbling away, Hootie swooping down to blast cold on the giant.

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Rapier! Cold!
(1d20+3)[4] against DC 14 to halve (3d6)[4]
Attack (1d20+7)[17] (2d8+4)[16]+(4d6)[11]

Seeing that his buddy had been taken down the giant turned towards the evil toad that took down his friend, deciding to take at least somebody down with him.

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On the slaad!
(1d20+11)[15] (6d6+7)[29]
(1d20+11)[24] (6d6+7)[32]

Then it'll be you.

[Xihirli]

The giant was caught between Boots's whip and Alifa's beams... not an enviable position, but one that the slaad was perfectly happy to take advantage of as it raked into the pushed giant.
However, its froggy claws failed to get past the armor. But Kat had a wall of tanks between her and the giant, so that was good.

[Valmark]

The giant looked up at Hootie and seemed about to rip a piece of rock, but Firaga frowned and cautioned him "Don't be a sore loser"

At that the giant sighed- then Kat shot an arrow in his knee, showering him with cold.

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Dex save! (1d20+3)[22] to halve (3d6)[8]

Attacks! (1d20+8)[16] damage (2d8+5)[9]+(4d6)[22]
Potential bolt (1d20+7)[17] (1d6+4)[7]

The giant grunted and cut into froggie.

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On the slaad:
(1d20+11)[15] (6d6+7)[28]
(1d20+11)[29] (6d6+7)[21]

He has 40 hp left before Kat attacks him, so I think you can defeat him homewever you want on your turn.

[Xihirli]

Boots's whips came up and smacked the giant into the ground.
"Alright, Firaga. Your mother better be-"
"Thank you for letting us in, Firaga."
Boots finished her sentence.

[Valmark]

Firaga rolled his eyes as the second giant was thrown down and enveloped in Fiamma's protective fire.

"Follow me"

Leading them in, foxfires came carrying a sash for Kat.
"Against the heat" he explained "By the way, what do we how this visit to?"

[Xihirli]

"We came for advice from Ethrindae."
"And guidance, looking for a particular crossing." Alifa described it as Boots had told her.

[Valmark]

"That sounds... Like the Swamps. You'll have to ask Queen Pleia- luckily, the return of Monarch Nasa has made her more... Diplomatic" as they walked in, they saw a foxfire spirit scurrying away- it was holding a key.

"Ah... Here it is. Mother decided to make it different this time" Firaga waited until the spirit disappeared around the corner.
"You're to steal the key without hurting the spirit"

"Why?"

[Xihirli]

Alifa pointed at the spirit. "Drop," she ordered.
"It’s part of the trial to gain admittance." Boots lifted a hand and squeezed, and vines sprouted to do the same to the fox.

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Command: Drop from Alifa, Channel Divinity, Nature’s Wrath from Boots.
WIS save or drop the key and hold still from Alifa, STR/DEX save or be restrained (repeat save end of turn) from Boots.

[Valmark]

The foxfire dropped the key, then vines reached up and pinned it in place with an helpless yip.

Kat sauntered up, picking it up.
"...done?"
"Very well, follow me" and Firaga proceeded down the corridor.

[Xihirli]

"Sorry if that was too boring!" Boots called.
"I'm not."

[Valmark]

"You better be, that was lame. I expected it from Alifa but not you" came Fiamma's thunderous voice as they were showed into her throne- again, the fiends in her service were with her. There was also Nabar, though no sign of Ethrindae, Xvchimkx, Oegh, Elwina or Ronald.

"At least it was funny looking at you destroy a bunch of books"

[Xihirli]

"I only did it that way because I was so eager to see you as quickly as possible," Boots said, trying to smooth it over.

"Where are the rest of the circus performers?"

[Valmark]

They're away because... What was the reason again?"

"Nasa's elementals told yours to go die in a flood" filled Nabar in.

"Right. And Ethrindae's group needed the training, so I sent her to break up the fighting"

[Xihirli]

"What!?" Boots said. "But we asked them to come here for their protection! Now they've been sent into danger!? What if Abadaius attacks?" Boots shot off a Sending.
Ethrindae. Where are you? Have you seen any cultists? A tabaxi with a cape maybe?

[Valmark]

Fiamma waited for Boots' outburst to subside.

No cultists, no tabaxi. We're at the border between Fiamma's and Nasa's finishing up whipping some elementals into formation.

"I'll remind you that I can see through Ethrindae's eyes" Fiamma said "She's never out of sight. And she's also with her group and a small army of elementals" the Queen reassured her.
"Honestly not dangerous enough, I should have something prepared for when they come back- that said, I think you won't be able to keep her here for much longer. She has pleaded me to train them because it's dangerous- I don't think she's planning on sticking around for long"

[Xihirli]

"But..."
"We can't control her, Boots. You say they're coming back here?" Alifa confirmed. "We'll see them again real soon, Boots. They can handle themselves."

[Valmark]

"Yes. If it helps they're on the shortest road to Pleia's Swamps if you plan on going there- if you don't want to wait you don't even have to take a detour" Fiamma said.
"Otherwise Boots, in my bedroom in five minutes. Alifa, Kathleyîënis, you're invited as well"

Kat, who had been looking the other way until now, shook her head vehemently.

[Xihirli]

"It's alright, Kat. Me and you can hang out with Firaga."
"...Yeah, okay. I'll say good-bye to Aizu on the way out and we can meet up with them a little later."
"Maybe they'll come with us!"
Boots blanched. "Maybe not."

[Valmark]

Ten minutes later, Firaga was showing them around his archives- they had been refilled a bit from the last time they had been there.
"Thanks to the Seas, I can actually keep ink without it boiling and getting ruined. Though I mostly just pyroscribe so that it can't be destroyed" he explained, comparing spells.

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Gave you the spell list on discord.

Boots was busy.

[Xihirli]

"Great!" Alifa said. "Let me know if you see any spells you like... I wouldn't mind copying Summon Elemental."

[Valmark]

"What about... That one?" Firaga pointed at Misty Step "I admit I struggle with a lot of the simpler spells"

Kat nodded knowingly "I used to be made fun of for that"

"Oh, luckily that doesn't happen. There were a couple feys that tried doing that, but they lacked the expertise to back up their taunts"

[Xihirli]

"Sure thing!" Alifa said. "Extraplanar travel and outreach was kinda my specialty as a student. Probably because my teacher wanted me to take this mission eventually." She looked at all the spells in her book. "Wow, is she going to be impressed when I come back..."

[Valmark]

"I really wish I had a teacher as well" Firaga sighed looking down at his book "Well... Not quite. More like someone who gets what I talk about and gets excited about my accomolishments. Father doesn't care and Mother is only happy of what I can do that makes others stronger as well"

"Or someone happy to help you do what you like" Kat sighed along.

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Tell me when you wanna skip ahead.

[Xihirli]

"Oh? Who is your father?" Alifa asked.
"And what do you like talking about? Maybe me and Kat will understand."

[Valmark]

"Ooregh- you've seen him once when you came back from freeing Queen Nasa" Firaga said "Not big on love. And... Well, just magic really. Mother has only expressed interest in proxy magic and the way I craft my magic items, and really only how to apply it in practice. Although in her defense most feys don't need a formal understanding of magic- we have a lot of innate power to us"

[Xihirli]

Alifa nodded. "Yeah, magic is almost more feyish and... freeform here. Where we come from magic was structured into a weave by one of our oldest goddesses, which made it a lot more structured. I can see fey being even stronger here than there... though maybe not. Say, Firaga, what are fey here? Where do they come from? For us, the first fey was half-primordial, half-god and she made Faerie."

[Valmark]

"Oh wow if you told most of our feys they are part gods they'd spit in your eye" Firaga chuckled "Faerie, in the absence of a Monarch, is a mass of ever-changing chaos. Feys are born from it and soon after die to it- despite the fact that we are its native inhabitants we're incapable of surviving for a long time in it. The thing changes with a Monarch- someone in tune with Faerie, capable of shaping it in a way that reflects their nature. So... We're essentially elementals, just not pure ones. It's also why feys within a Territory tend to resamble it- they are born from it -or from creatures that live within it- and belong to it. The exception is when feys lose their Monarch, which leads to the destruction of their Territory- the feys then have three choices. Run to another one, run into the Material or perish... At least we think" Firaga frowned.

"Three things happen if you reach the border of Faerie- you re-enter it from the opposite side, keep walking without ever going anywhere or disappear. Though we can't be actually sure what happens to those who disappear"

[Xihirli]

"Are you aware of any Faerie Refugee nations in the Material? Or do they generally go into humanoid cities?" Alifa took a moment.
"Also, what got you into magic?"