The snakewoman priestess continued hugging you, her entire body rather cold, and then finally pulled away, her tail uncoiling from your legs.
"I'm... I'm sorry." Velk'lea said, wiping her face. The tip of her tail whipped this way and that. "It's just... Quoo became a whelp, and then... well, vanished, and she's never been quite... right. I thought she'd wandered into the desert and I thought she was dead. Thank you, thank you."

>>21056282
"No, no, don't worry about it. She's safe in my kingdom right now, she was rescued by a group of my friends."

"She's alive, well, and probably better than she's been in quite awhile.
Apparently what happened was that she was sentenced to death for drinking the sacramental wine. The scouts I had sent, the other humans who were here before, rescued her and brought her to my kingdom across the western ocean. She's living there quite happily, and has agreed to run the winery.
Oh yes, we were also able to fix her heat-blindness for her."

"But don't take my word for it," hand her the letter, "have hers."

>>21056282
"The humans who came here last time heard she was going to be killed and decided to rescue her. I was going to be in the area so she asked me to deliver this to you."

Rolled 80

>>21056321
This, and then say "I also have one more gift for you." and synth her a heat-crystal.
Rollan' for heat-crystal.

>>21056342
Good idea, get her flayed.

>>21056342
Make it so it can turn on and off. If it's always on, it'll be way too obvious and she'll get flayed.

"No, no, don't worry about it." You say. "My friends, the other humans who were here before, rescued her and brought her to my kingdom across the western ocena. She's living there quite happily."
"Is she?" She asked, and showed off her pointed teeth in a wide grin. She clasped together her hands.
"But don't take my word for it." You say, and pull out the letter. "Have hers."

Anxiously, she pulled it open, and started reading.

"You would be Queen Ishe'dalda?" She asked.
"Ishelda." You say.
"Right, sorry." She said, and went back to the letter. She finally finished it, and then... ate the paper.
"Thank you, again." She added. "It sounds like she's been quite well received, in your kingdom."

>>21056342
Didn't we already make one a few threads ago after we talked to our snake friend?

>>21056361
We left it with her

>>21056360
"She took a bit of getting used to, but yes. Anyone is welcome in New Arcturus."

>>21056361
Yeah, we gave that one to her.

>>21056360
"Can you tell me why she was branded as a whelp?"

"She took a bit of getting used to, but yes, anyone is welcome in New Arcturus." You say.
"I'm glad to hear that." She said.
"I also have one more gift for you." You say. You close your palm, and focus your magic. When you open it again, a small crystal sat in your palm, glimmering with magic and warm to the touch.
She reared back a fraction.
"I... I cannot accept it. I apologize." She said, eying the crystal.

"... Can you tell me why she was branded as a whelp?"
"They've been... looking for an excuse, ever since the accident." She said, and whipped her head out the doorway for a moment, before slithering back into the sunlight. "The handmaidens, I mean. What she did... didn't matter. All that mattered was getting rid of her, to them. That's why they haven't pursued her, like they do to most whelps who are branded heretics."

>>21056440
Assuming that we actually made it able to do so:
"Can you not accept the gift because it is magical? It can turn off if you will it.
But I will not be offended if you reject it anyway, I believe that I understand your situation."

"Can you not accept the gift because it is magical? It can turn off, if you will it." You say, and impart a small portion of will into the crystal, and it winked out. "But I will not be offended if you reject it anyway. I believe that I understand your situation."
"It is still magical, I am afraid." She responded. "Again, I cannot accept it. But thank you for offering."
She bowed, and suddenly, three snakewomen burst into the room, the guard standing at the doorway. They were all different sizes, and the smallest lizardwoman was but a little girl, holding a baby version of those strange, scaled creatures from outside.

"My daughters." She said. "I have wonderful news. Quoo is alive."

They immediately started cheering.

>>21056578
"I want to help you and your people, Velk'lea. From the stories I've heard, the priestesses rule over you with fear and tyranny."

>>21056606
It's the handmaidens who are bitches.

>>21056606
Might want to wait till we are alone to say that.

>>21056626
Oops, meant the handmaidens.

"I want to help you and your people, Velk'lea. From the stories I've heard, the handmaidens rule over you with fear and tyranny." You say, waiting until the guard left. The daughters go very quiet, and turn to the priestess.

"Please leave the two of us alone, for a moment." Velk'lea said, and her daughters- after a glance at you- nod and leave the room. With a harrumph, Grayson followed, your father, Kell, and Kristoph following.

"The handmaidens have, for longer than our kind has remembered, had two jobs. These are secrets that my predecessor told me, and I will tell to the daughter that succeeds me. I thought, for the longest time, that it would be Quoo. The Handmaidens have two jobs. Two that were given by a figure with a single eye. They're to be caretakers of the Great Wyrm, and the keepers of our laws." She said. "But... the Great Wyrm is no god."

>>21056690
"How are they still in power then?"

"How are they still in power, then?"
"This is why they do what they do." She said. "Because they brand whoever fights against them as heretics, and bring them before the Great Wyrm for a trial... then they use magic on whoever they bring. The magic that the Wyrm smells, and has insatiable hunger for. Anyone who argues is killed, this way or another, and they keep their overminds in control with the same magic that lets them control the Great Wyrm. This... This is how you can help."

She blinked, and took a deep, deep breath. "You can help by killing the Great Wyrm."

>>21056840
"Who or what exactly is the Great Wyrm? What's the history of it?"

"Who or what exactly is the Great Wyrm? What's the history of it?"
"Long ago, further than most history can remember, we were given a box. We were told, bound, to hold it, keep it safe, prepare it for the future. Generations passed, as we sealed the box within a chamber, far underground. One morning... the world shook. And when we laid eyes upon the box, we saw the Great Wyrm, instead. It had hatched into the beast. The beast... devours magic, as if it were food. We sate it, when we can, with the blood of the living, the flesh of the daryeh and wine."

>>21056897
"And what happens if you do not feed it?"

"And what happens if you do not feed it?"
"We don't know." She said. "We never have. The handmaidens tell us that it simply goes berserk and would get free... but I do not believe them. But this is how to free our people." She said. "If we kill the Great Wyrm, the handmaidens have no excuse to keep their power."

>>21057028
"But they could use it as an excuse of sorts to claim further power and remove all rights from everyone else, could they not?"

>>21057052
In their panic

>>21057028
"I fear that killing it may bring more harm, Velk'lea. What if it were to split your nation into two opposing sides, leading to a bloody civil war. I will help where I can, but not if it causes a war."

>>21056897
"It would remove their excuse, but not their power. Would they not cling to their power even harder?"

"But they could use it as an excuse of sorts to claim further power in their panic, and remove all rights from everyone else, could they not?"
"They could try... but we priestesses have prepared for this... eventuality. We will go through with our plans."
"I fear that killing it may bring more harm, Velk'lea." You say. "It would remove their excuse, but not their power. Would they not cling to their power even harder?"
Suddenly, her facial expression changed, to something... predatory, something malevolent.
"Their excuse is their power." She said. "The populace follows them because of their love for the Wyrm. the love for that false god. If the god were to vanish... so would the love. And we priestesses will have the rest of the people's love, for we actually benefit them."

>>21057125
"Because so many people love him, I would feel bad about killing him. He only has to vanish, right?"

"Because so many people love him, I would feel bad about killing him. He only has to vanish, right?"
"If he vanishes, the handmaidens will remain in power, because in order to cling to their power, they will simply say that he will return any day." She said, and frowned. "You don't need to help us, if you do not wish to. We intend to go through with our plans nonetheless."

>>21057253
"If it saves bloodshed, then I will help"

"What do you need me to do?"

>>21057253
"I originally came to this continent because the leader of the dwarves, Tyr, plans to destroy the flow of magic into this world in less than a month. If I fail to stop him, the Great Wyrm will starve regardless.

Magic does too much good in the world for me to allow that to happen however. I would ask you to stay your plans for one month. If in that time I do not contact you, then the Great Wyrm will have no magic left to eat. After that, I will aid your people if I am still able."

>>21057253
"...I'll think about it. Could I see him?"
Fuck, Quaz is going to be so heartbroken if we do this.

>>21057333
He's not going to destroy the flow of magic. He's going to destroy wizardry. Talents like sorcery will still work. There will still be stuff for him to eat.

"... I'll think about it." You say. "Could I see him?"
"It shouldn't be hard to arrange." She said. "But if he goes wild toward you, the handmaidens will take you as a sacrifice, like they've done so for any curious elven couriers who have arrived. Are you certain?"

>>21057378
"I doubt they could take me."
That being said, let's have kristoph erect an anti-magic ward if we do go see the Great Wyrm.

>>21057378
"From what you've told me, if he can't smell any magic it should be fine. I think I can hide that."
Go Kristoph, it's your time to shine!

"From what you've told me, if he can't smell any magic, it should be fine. I think I can hide that." You say.
"Well... be careful." She said. "My daughter cares for you, and I'm thankful that you took care of her, especially after her accident." She cleared her throat. "If you make a decision, though... inform me, or if I'm unavailable, inform the priestess Grek'alith."

>>21057487
"Well, if not I'll simply have to make a daring escape."

>>21057487
"Thank you, I will."

Thank you

"Thank you, I will." You say.
"I can most likely lead you to his chambers, or I can have one of my daughters do it for you." She said, her hood flaring. "Except for little Bell'lea. she's still quite young."

>>21057487
Accident? Oh the foot. I've woken up to worse. She almost got herself killed by the guards though.

>>21057623
She's talking about the accident where she lost her heat vision.

>>21057615
"I'll leave you to your rest, Velk'lea. Take care"

Rolled 100

>>21057615
Punch the wall with magic. Turn it into a heat stone.

>>21057658
Even though it's a nat 100, we don't want to get her flayed. So no, let's not.

>>21057658
You know what, fuck you too dice.

>>21057615
"Um, if any of you want to move to New Arcturus you're welcome there. It would probably be good for Quaz to be around others of her kind."

>>21057658
What? No.

>>21057658
No.

>>21057658
Hell to the Yeah!

Rolled 15

>>21057667
Turn the Great Wyrm into a heat stone too.

"Accident?" You ask. "Oh, the foot. I've woken up to worse."
"Erm, that's not the accident I was talking about. When she was very little, she got caught underfoot a Daryeh, and she was... hurt, badly. Since then, she's had other incidents, like the time she stuck her head in a fire... but her overmind was... damaged, somehow."
She shook her head, and sighed. "Her undermind is still intact, however- that's why she still lives."

"Um... if any of you want to move to New Arcturus, you're welcome there." You say. "It would probably be good for Quaz to be around others of her kind."
"That's... that's a very kind offer, Queen Ishelda." She said, and closed her eyes. "I- I don't know how to respond to that."

>>21057658
Heh. let's do this shit.

>>21057708
Okay. Then instead of punching a wall here, open a small portal to New Arctures and then punch a wall there for them to... be around. Or whatever it is they do with warmth.

Rolled 27

>>21057708
You know what, forget I said it. It's far to cold back home, and you are needed here.

I can talk to a friend about restoring her overmind, if you like. He'll probably need another as a pattern.

Rolling to hide away magic.

>>21057708
"Well, you can think about it. I can't arrange the transport just yet anyway. If you've got plans to deal with the handmaidens then I can understand that you can't really run away from that."

>>21057766
You want to use magic to hide magic? Yeah that'll work. No, just ask Kristoph.

>>21057743
We can punch a wall to open a portal back to the warm and loving embrace of new arcturus.

"Well, you can think about it." You say. "I can't arrange the transport just yet, anyway. If you've got plans to deal with the handmaidens, then I can understand that you can't really run away from that."
"I'm certain I will accept, in time." She said. "But for now, we must go through with our plans."
You give her a hug- a proper one, this time, and the two of you leave the room, meeting up with the three daughters, and your companions. The youngest snakewoman was currently curled around him, napping Grayson's enormous head, hugging the small, scaled creature in her hand, snoozing.
Grayson caught your eye, and harrumphed.

Rolled 59

>>21057658
rolling to confirm Fate Point.

>>21057833
D-NIGH-DA

>>21057833
>I don't always confirm fate points- I said that way back when.
>Regardless, fate point unconfirmed, since this roll didn't break 70+

>>21057832
"Having fun?"
<Kristoph, do you think you can smother all of our magic so Wyrmy can't smell it?>

>>21057832
I think you missed some punctuation there.

"grayson, today a strange thing happened. I didn't cast magic when I could have."

>>21057924
That's not strange. We could cast magic any time but rarely do it.

>>21057832
>The youngest snakewoman was currently curled around him, napping Grayson's enormous head, hugging the small, scaled creature in her hand, snoozing.

Maybe I'm just being dumb right now, but I seem to be having difficulty understanding this part. Can somebody elaborate?

>>21057957
She's wrapped her snake part around his head and gone to sleep, and she's hugging the little creature thing like a teddy bear.

"Having fun?" You ask. Gently, as to not wake the snakegirl sleeping on his head, Grayson nodded. The snakegirl mumbled something in draconian, and tightened the tail coiled around the dire bear's jaw.
"Kristoph, do you think you can smother all of our magic so Wyrmy can't smell it?" You murmur to him, softly, and he nods a fraction.

The group of snakewomen and your group walk all the way down through the tunnels, taking seemingly random passageways, until you reach a large gate, with eight snakewomen guards- they all have, not only veils over their faces, but large hoods, hiding everything but their eyes from sight.

"Priestess Velk'lea." One of them say, and slither forward. "And her daughters, and the new visitors. Welcome to the Great Palace of the Great Wyrm. I am Handmaiden Tuel'va. For what reason have you come to this place?"
Velk'lea gave her a polite smile. "Lady Ishelda, from far to the east, nobility of the land of Cerenia, made a pilgrimage to this land in order to lay her eyes upon the Great Wyrm." She lied, smoothly. "Alongside her retainers, of course."

"The two great ... beasts, will not be allowed in the chamber, of course." The handmaiden said, eying Grayson and Kell. "But the humans may."

>>21057957
Bell'lea is asleep on Grayson. She's holding a pet? Iunno.

>>21057978
>from far to the east
You mean West, Exabyte. We haven't circumnavigated the globe YET.

>>21057978
<Grayson, if you hear screams, do not hesitate.>

>>21058011
We're also not a Lady and not from a kingdom called Cerenia. It's called lying.

Rolled 95

>>21058011
> implying the world is spherical

You know what, fuck it. Make the world a sphere.

>>21057978
"That is fine. Wait here, you two."

>>21058011
Also, New Arctures and not Cerenia. And we didn't come here just to see the great werm. And then there is Her Royal Majesty Ishelda and not Lady Ishelda. oh wait exabyte said she's lying. Hmm. I wonder why in the world a lie might be different to the "truth."

Rolled 55

>>21058043
That's boring, make it a cube

>>21058059
Cerenia's the continent

Rolled 87

>>21058075
no it's flat like a disc and it sits atop four giant elephants that are standing on the back of a giant tortiose that flies through space eating stars.

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>>21058107
It's never been mentioned before, she just made it up.

"That is fine." You say, and nod.
<Grayson, if you hear screams, do not hesitate.> You say, over the rings, and Grayson nodded again, just as softly as last time.

"Stay here, okay?" Kristoph asked the troll. "Stay here."
The troll grawwed, and then immediately sat down.

The handmaidens split, and Tuel'va, and one of the other veiled handmaidens, both opened the door.
"Lady Ishelda, I am afraid we won't be able to accompany you." Velk'lea said, and bowed.

You, Kristoph, and your father step in through the long hallway, led by two handmaidens on either side, and they stopped at a second set of gates. You feel something ... breathing, on the other side.

The handmaidens share a glance, and you feel enchantment magic come from them, and they open the door. Immediately, Kristoph's antimagic flows over you, hiding your magic, and in front of you... You see a demon.

A 'beast' demon, according to the hobgoblins- demons that took the shape of dragons. It stared down at you sleepily, and you can tell, intuitively, that the creature is much, much larger than any other you'd seen, and much, much older- it's warped, charred scales cracked with age, and those blazing eyes...
A chill runs over your body- you can sense incredible amounts of magic from it, even through Kristoph's anti-magic.

One of the walls behind the demon start trembling.

Rolled 13

>>21058144
It's a demon. That makes this a lot easier.

Should we go for an astral fire alpha strike?

>>21058144
You know, I think we might agree to Velk'lea's plan after all.
Stay composed, stay composed, stay composed...

>>21058144
"Do you know who I am?"
Also rolling for sending it the thought and memories of our adventures with Demons
<Fear me.>

Rolled 24

>>21058201
heh forgot rolling silly me

>>21058185
No, we tell her before we try and kill it. And we see what all this wall-trembling business is.

Rolled 55

>>21058144
You godless monstrosity you and all your kind shall suffer for your crimes against me and my people as you burn in astral fire for all eternity!

Rolled 67

>>21058144
Make an astral fire elemental if it does anything fishy.

>>21058201
>>21058210
No.
>>21058214
>>21058185
Chill your fucking tits cockbites

Okay guys, we might have to lie to Quaz about this one.

Yeah, we're killing this thing. Maybe not now, but we're going to tell Vel what this thing is and why we are going to take great pleasure in tearing it apart.

>Trying to cast when you're smothered in antimagic
>Suddenly going berserk in the middle of a heavily guarded area with no plan while the party is split up
Cool ideas, bros.

>>21058249
Yea I know right.

>>21058144
Stay calm for now. We don't kill it without a plan, but this thing is going to die.

Keep our calm, don't leak any magic, thank them for letting us see it and then leave politely.

Guys, we're not killing it right here right now. That's stupid. That is the stupidest possible thing we could do.

No. Bad. You're supposed to THINK, not react.

>>21058224
>>21058214
>>21058210
>>21058185
Oy, dumbasses. We're trying to HIDE our magic. Quit rolling.

"Do you know who I am?" You ask, your voice trembling- with what, you're not sure- but the demon simply stares at you, and then moves along, looking to your father, and then Kristoph, just slowly breathing, calmly... and then it closed it's eyes again, laying it's head back down.

"He's been unusually pleased this morning." The other handmaiden said, and Tuel'va nodded.
"Thank you for letting me see-" You say, but something interrupts you.

The wall shuddered, and exploded open, as a dozen tall, burly men made of stone burst out, roaring with battle-lust, their faces covered in lichen, and wearing heavy steel armor. They held strange weapons that were a fusion of axes and hammers, and they brought the hammer down on one of the demon's paws, already in movement!

"Dwarves!" Tuel'va called, roaring down the hallway. The dragon whirled about, and snatched a dwarf in it's mouth, roaring as it crushed the screaming man.

You hear hissing come from the hallway you just were, and the clank of steel. A dwarf brought his axe-hammer down on you, and you drew Rikar just in time, as Kristoph lifts his anti-magic from you.

>>21058266
You're talking to /tg/. Anything that involves common sense is thrown out the window.

>>21058225
Alright then, we will present a calm facade.
But you had best have some good words to stop the unfathomable RAGE from bubbling over.

Rolled 97

>>21058283
Cut his hand off at the wrist.

>>21058285
>Anything that involves common sense is thrown out the window.
>/tg/

Nigga, you're talking to the EPITOME of common sense on 4chan. Now shut your mouth.
>>21058283
Feint, stab, stab, behead, just like Redglare taught us.

>>21058283
We aren't in any shape to fight the demon right now, when we fight it I want the Jormungandr to be dropping astral fire on it as we scorch it from existence, not trying to fight it with only 3 people and with a dozen dwarves flailing about.

Fighting retreat, get to Grayson and Kell.

>>21058306
Really? That's all?

>>21058283
Retreat. We don't want to fight the dwarves if they're trying to kill it for us. And Grayson and Kell will barge in at the commotion and cause even more havoc. We need to get away, and come up with a plan.

>>21058283
Decision time. Take advantage of the confusion to bring the rest of our troops in to kill the bastard, or retreat? (Bonus: we should be able to portal in here fairly reliably now.)

Rolled 57

Aye, back off from the fight and tell Grayson and co. to not interfere

>>21058283
Grayson, group up.

Raziel, we've been attacked by dwarves. Be ready

Exa, did you e-mail Lord Licorice to change the archival of the previous thread?

>>21058354
Why do we get free portals?

>>21058384
>I did, yeah.

Your blade flashes out, and you parry the blow, before slicing off the dwarf's hand. The blade tears through the steel of his armor, and then the stone of his flesh.
"Fighting Retreat!" You call to your companions, and you see your father wielding the golden blade, as it flashed out,whipping through two dwarves at once and parrying their blows.

>YOU.
"You!" Someone roars from the tunnel in the back of the chamber. you see a dwarf, made of some reddish stone, with an enormous, unbelievably dark hammer- one that almost looked like it was made of obsidian. Molded out of his head was a crown, complete with gems set into it. "Dras'lea, I will *slay* you!" He roared, and charged, as Kristoph and Abel back away. The hammer slammed into Tuel'va's tail, and it tore through, as if her powerful, muscled and armored tail was merely butter.
"You cannot stop me!" He roared, and took a step forward. The demon behind him, it's meal done, reached for the dwarf with the hammer-

And he whirled about, and in a single blow, smashed the demon's skull. It collapsed, perfectly still.
"You cannot stop me!" He growled, again.

Rolled 66

>>21058415
"Overlord Tyr. I am not Dras'lea. You are the one who must be stopped from removing all wizardry."

rolling for subdue i guess

>>21058415
Well. How terrifyingly convenient.

Rolled 45

>>21058415
Silence him.

Rolled 24

>>21058415
Stop him

Rolled 34

>>21058415
"Oh dear, I believe we have another case of mistaken identity."

I believe it's time to retreat. Hastily.

Rolling to cast haste.

>>21058415
"You shouldn't assume I'm Dras'lea just because I look exactly like her and I'm wearing her clothes. Can't we talk?"

Rolled 99

Guise we might wanna back the fuck up and erode him to death.

Rolled 67

>>21058443
I'd like to support this course of action. But only if Kristoph has turned his anti-magic field off.

>>21058452
We're not wearing her cloak right now. It's in our pocket I believe.

Rolled 64

"You have me mistaken, sir."

Portal up to the jormangandr with our crew.

>>21058457
I really hope you were casting Erode or something.

>>21058457
Erosion time. WATER CANNONS OF DEATH or water elementals hugging him to death.

"Overlord Tyr. I am not Dras'lea. You are the one who must be stopped from removing all wizardry." You say, as more and more dwarves pour out of the tunnels.
"It doesn't matter who you are." He said, and punctuated his sentence by slamming the hammer into Tuel'va's head, killing her instantly.
You reach out, with your hand, and bring forth your magic, to stop, or to silence him- you're not quite sure what you're doing, but you need to do it now. Magic bursts from your hand, and tears into the overlord's stone flesh, dust falling from it.
"No." He cries. His entire torso rears back as he brings the hammer behind his head- and then throws it, straight at you. The terrifyingly devastating hammer tore toward you. You quickly look to Kristoph and your father, both struggling to hold their own against the sudden dwarven invasion.

<Aeriel!> You cry, and the three of you land on Jormungandr, torn through space. Grayson and Kell land next to you, seemingly unharmed.

Rolled 72

>>21058497
Back. Evacuate.
Save.

>>21058497
Quickly check everybody for injuries. Then try and get to Velk'lea and tell her to gather her allies and begin evacuation.

It's time to GTFO.

Rolled 13

>>21058497
To the entrance, we should get that nice snakelady out. Especially now the demons dead.

Rolling for stealth.

Rolled 61

>>21058497
"Too close. Thanks, Aeriel."

>>21058497
"Everyone! Prepare for combat! Tyr and the dwarves are here."

>>21058497
Fire the cannons. That whole giant chamber with the dickish dwarves fighting the dickish handmaidens? Dust please.

>>21058497
Tell Aeriel to traslocate Velk'lea and her daughters to the ship and get the fuck out of there.

Rolled 43

>>21058536
This this this, make sure Jormy's cannons are in force beam mode. That will FUCK the dwarves.

>>21058497
"Well, that got exciting. The Great Wyrm was a demon, Tyr and the dwarves killed it."

>>21058545
>>21058536
>Act of war without any seeming catalyst
Get your fucking heads together shitdicks

>>21058497
That was a badass hammer. Rolling to port it to us.

>>21058497
Well. On the one hand, the Wyrm was a demon, and it got killed by Tyr. That is good news. On the other hand, the bad news is that Tyr knows we are here and his first action was to try to kill me on sight.

On the OTHER hand, we know that we can hurt him. And if we can hurt him we can kill him. On the fourth hand, now Tyr knows this too and will probably make us a high priority target.

Kaliel, I need more hands.

>>21058559
Although I disagree with firing the cannons, we have plenty of provocation.

"Is anyone injured?" You ask.
"I'm fine." Kristoph said.
"Tired, but I'm fine." Your father said. He was kneeling, and wheezing, and... bleeding. Fellwind rushed to him.

"Everyone!" You say. "Prepare for combat! Tyr and the dwarves are here."

<Aeriel, translocate Velk'lea and her daughters here, now.>
<Right away.> He said, and with a flash of light, some snakewomen appeared, wounded. One held a hammer, a terrifying expression, and she had a crushed dwarf in her tail- Velk'lea.

"We have to get back." Velk'lea said, hissing. "The dwarves are retreating. They have... whatever that was, inside the Great Wyrm's body."

Rolled 57

>>21058562
nigga you need a nat 100 for that.

>>21058559
There's a pretty serious catalyst for us to attack both of them.
The dwarves attacked us directly, and the snakes are in league with a demon.

Rolled 97

>>21058562
You dropped these.

Rolled 76

>>21058562
forgot mah roll

>>21058562
Grab Tyr, not the hammer. Isolated from his army and tied down, he might actually listen to us.

>>21058572
>>21058579
Can we use this to port whatever they took from the Great Wyrm's body, or at least take whoever has the item, probably Tyr.

>>21058570
It would seem like an unprovoked attack to most of the city you fucknut.
But yes, charge, must not allow Tyr get the box.

Rolled 14

Open a portal behind tyr and maim him with soul fire

>>21058559
>Tried to kill us with a giant hammer.
>Tell him we're not Dras'lea
>Tries to kill us anyway.

>Come on you guys, opening fire would be stupid.

Rolled 40

>>21058586
or grab the box. it's totally not the Gearworks right..?

Rolled 29

Seriously, what is up with you guys today? You're posting like headless chickens. Stop saying things on impulse and fucking THINK. We need to get information out.

Use a spell to broadcast from the Jormungandr that Tyr just killed both the Great Wyrm and Tuel'va, and not to approach him as he's armed and dangerous. Suggest that the Handmaidens begin immediate evacuation of the city.

Rolled 95

>>21058572
"Quickly then. We'll accompany you."

Port back down there.

>>21058572
"Right."
Steer the ship towards the Dwarves.
"Aeriel, can you grab that thing?"

Rolled 13

>>21058572
Fuck, really? Ariel, if you please. Us, snakey, bear knight AND kal.

Rolled 76

>>21058572
Seek and destroy the dwarves.

>>21058611
They're not going to evacuate the city. Not before the dwarves can escape, anyway.

>>21058607
>opening fire through the city without a seeming (to the most of the city) provocation

>>21058600
I was simply pointing out that we have plenty of provocation. No need to get nasty, asswipe.

>>21058635
Yes we have. It's just that most of the city doesn't know that and would see it as an unprovoked attack you dumbass.

Rolled 66

Rollin' for making love instead of war.

>>21058656
>Rolled 66
>post 21058656
>56
>6
>666
>"love" not "war"

>>21058645
And I initially stated that was against firing, you cuntface.

>>21058666
That's retarded and so are you.

"Right." you say, and urge the control crystal to go toward the largest building there- the palace, you assume, where the dwarves and the Great Wyrm lie underneath.

"Quickly then, we'll accompany you." You say.
<Aeriel, if you please. Me, Velk'lea, Grayson, and Kaliel.>

<Right away.> Aeriel said. You tear through space, once again, and you end up in the chamber of the Great Wyrm, where there's the instant stench of death, and demonflesh is strewn about the room, a massive cavity in the Wyrm's torso. Dwarves are fighting the handmaidens, of which more and more are coming with weapons, but Tyr is nowhere to be found- but you give the tunnel a look. He must be.. inside.

Grayson rears back, and starts mauling a dwarf, roaring as he does so, while Kaliel struggles to recover from the sudden translocation. Velk'lea goes back into the fight, and one of the dwarves poke out of the tunnel.
"Retreat!" He cries. "The overlord is safe! Retreat!"
The dwarves change stances, slowly backing up toward the tunnel.

Rolled 61

>>21058666
>>21058673
>21058666
>666

IT KEEPS HAPPENING

Rolled 40

>>21058676
Port around quickly, attacking to disable rather than kill. Try and capture all of them.

Rolled 20

>>21058676
We won't be able to catch him in the tunnels, it's too easy to hold.

What we could do is summon up a horde of Earth Elementals ahead of where Tyr is or just collapse the tunnel ahead of him.

Rolled 97

>>21058691
Supporting this.

Rolled 45

>>21058676
"The Overlord is NOT safe."
Teleport him back here.

Rolled 68

>>21058676
>>21058676
Laser beam of death. Shut that dwarf up.

Rolled 49

>>21058676
Earth elementals in the tunnel. Wreak havoc in the direction Tyr went.

Rolled 50

>>21058676
Traslocate whatever Tyr got from the demon's chest.

>>21058706
Huh. Well, that's that.

>>21058701
Do this as well. Signature spell, so no roll needed.

Rolled 47

>>21058676
"Fire the force cannons around the palace! Collapse the tunnels!"

Rolled 2

>>21058701
This

>>21058743
I believe we decided that this was retarded.

You close your eyes, and reach into your cloak's pocket, taking ahold of Aeriel's orb in one hand. With the other, you grip Rikar.

You open your eyes again, and suddenly you Moved, here and there, as you swing your blade. Knees are torn asunder as you whirl around, Rikar flashing as you spin, Moving over and over, every Dwarf in the chamber collapsing.

The dwarf- the one poking his head out, 'eeps' and raises his hand, to show he had no weapon.

You give him a glare, and then you focus your will, through the tunnel- and what a tunnel it was, longer than you could've thought, and you feel a Presence, carrying two artifacts- one on his shoulder, and the other under his arm- and you will two earth elementals into existance, in front of him.

for a flash of a second, you see Tyr, running, with the hammer on his shoulder, and a strange, flesh-colored box under his arm, written in ogrish, with a keyhole. He swings his hammer, and awareness of both elementals suddenly vanish.

You open your eyes again.

... The ogrish rune on the box... said Triune.

Rolled 9

>>21058785
That's stupid.
>>21058768
"Mine."
Take the box.

>>21058768
Meddling seers...

I hope the world key isn't used there.

"Raziel, can you come down here at next convenience? I'd like to see what happened here many years ago." RE how the demon got here.

>>21058768
Neat. Aeriel, take me there.

Rolled 58

>>21058768
That box is OURS, not his.

Take it, or get in front of him, block him off from his goal.

Rolled 25

>>21058768
Drag him back here

>>21058792
Raz can wait. This whole place is a shitstorm of epic proportions, and now there's the power struggle between the priestesses and handmaidens. She can come when it's all settled down a bit.

"Aeriel, take me there." You say.
<There? Where?>
"In front of Tyr."
<But, I don't know where he is, and I can't->
You close your eyes, and reach for the box, and for Tyr himself, bringing forth your magic... but the magic doesn't cling to the box, for whatever reason- your hold on it is too slippery to grab it- so instead, you grab Tyr, and, gritting your teeth, try to drag him back-

And, with a start, you realize that he's not being pulled back. His hammer is refusing to slow, and as he's hanging onto it, he is as well. You start breathing deeply, your magic slowly being expended.

Rolled 47

>>21058836
I thought he didn't like magic.

Try harder woman.

Rolled 75

>>21058836
erode his hand. Make him let go.

Rolled 59

>>21058836
Take his hammer.

Rolled 72

>>21058836
"If he won't come here, then we go there."

Use him as an anchor to port ourselves there. Then take his arms off.

Rolled 97

>>21058836
If you can't affect him directly, do so indirectly. Drop a portal in front of him that opens in front of you, pointed toward the tunnel wall.

>>21058836
So leave the hammer there. We don't HAVE to teleport everything he's touching, do we?

>>21058862
It's non-teleportable.

>>21058862
>Teleport the thing that's stopping teleportation from working
Good plan.

>>21058868
Normally I'd argue against stable portals but that roll disagrees with me.

Of course we still have the hammer to deal with.

>Sunder is a hammer. Massive, powerful, and it can only be moved by the arm of the holder. It can be an unstoppable force, an unmovable object, whatever the holder desires. I've seen Tyr stand on it, suspended by it as if gravity did not exist.
Just to remind everyone what we're dealing with.

>>21058891
He'll run full tilt into a wall. Either he'll keep going, in which case we'll at least be closer, or he'll be at the very least disoriented.

You grip Aeriel tighter, and close your eyes again, and you raise a portal up in front of Tyr, putting the other one in front of the chamber wall. The spell pries open a hole, and you see Tyr charging toward the other end of the tunnel- and toward your portal and you, paradoxically. He skids to a stop, staring at the portal.
"Enough *wizardry*." He snarled. He banged the hammer against the surface of the portal- and it shook, reverberating the spell, as you feel it lose a slight amount of coherency. He reared back, and swung the hammer again. The portal shook again, and from your vantage point of the backside of the portal, you see a crack appear.

Rolled 63

>>21058932
Get him lads!

We have minions for a reason.

Rolled 57

>>21058932
Rapidly move the portal forward.

>>21058908
Thank you for that, I genuinely forgot what it did exactly.

It's both an immovable rod and the exact opposite of an immovable rod at the same time. In the form of a warhammer.

So keeping that in mind, no taking any hits from it. At all, ever. Focus on dodging. Focus on taking out his mobility. Cut off his hand/arm if we are able.

AND FOR SCHOLAR'S SAKE, KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR A BRICK!

Rolled 57

>>21058932
"It's not wizardry."
Break his wrists. The only way we're going to stop the hammer is stopping him from holding it.

Rolled 64

>>21058932
Run through and attack him with Rikar.
"No wizardry here, I'm afraid."

Rolled 40

>>21058932
blood magic this asshole into oblivion

Rolled 66

>>21058932
"This isn't wizardry."

Have earth elementals appear below him and drag him down while we charge as he's pulling back his hammer and cut his wrists off.

"Do you see me using a book or bracer? Magic IS my talent!"

Rolled 41

>>21058932
Man all of these average rolls.

Um...

Kristoph! Deny him his shit!

>>21058964
how about no. No blood magic.

>>21058964
Confirmed for asshole.

>>21058964
NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE
Never. Never fucking ever. Fuck you.

Rolled 37

>>21058932
"I'm a Sorceress, thank you very much. There's a difference."

Clearly he's not going to be sensible. Attack him - specifically, attack his arms/hands. Render him unable to hold Sunder.

>>21058976
Kristoph would destroy the portal if he tried right now.

Rolled 59

>>21058932
His arms. Relieve him of them.

Rolled 67

>>21058998
Well then he can go through the portal and fuck up his tricks.

Still in the tunnel, he roared again, slamming the hammer into the portal that stood in his way. Somehow, paradoxically, the hammer didn't go through the portal, but instead, collided with it.

"No wizardry here, I'm afraid." you say, and dive through the portal, Rikar in hand. With your will, you raise two earth elementals on each side of him, grabbing his feet, and you dive forward, Rikar in hand. "Magic *is* my talent!" you cry, diving into the tunnel. You slash one of his wrists, and he growls, even louder, and brings down the hammer with his other hand, forcing you to leap back, away from him.
"And my talent." He snarled. "Is this."

Sudden evocation bursts from him, and one of the stones from the tunnel- one of the larger ones, to be more precise- fly toward you, flattening into a solid object. It clung to your leg, heavy, and weighed you down. Strange, dwarven hands started reaching from the stone, and the elementals around his ankles... let go of him, and start tromping toward you- you still have awareness of them, but they're being moved *physically* by the dwarf.

"Kristoph!" You cry, turning to the portal. The knight charges toward the portal, and Tyr raises a hand, putting a large stone wall in front of the other side of the portal- stopping Kristoph from coming through.

Rolled 48

>>21059047
fuck him up with a massive force beam

Rolled 34

>>21059047
"Silence."

Rolled 83

>>21059047
Annihilate most things in a thirty foot radius.

>efereast space,
>Feast on Space

Rolled 39

>>21059047
laser beams of death!

Rolled 7

>>21059072
supporting

>>21059047
Cut off power to our elementals. Not only does it stop him using them against us, but that makes them explode right?

Rolled 48

>>21059047
Rip his talent out him.

Well if we can do that kind of thing.

Rolled 72

>>21059047
"Thou art a hypocrite and a fool Tyr Ironhand (I think it was Ironhand)."

Take control of his talent and cut his arms off.

Rolled 84

>>21059047
The box was under his arm so I think he would have dropped it by now.

So have a water or air elemental grab the box and move it away from him, back to our people.

Then shoot him in the face with a force beam.

>hurrrs
>good roll
>durrs
>good roll
>hurrs and durrs
>durrs and hurrs
fucking dumbasses

>>21059107
That has a nice flair to it. Let's do that.

Rolled 4

>>21059107
I like this one. Supporting.

Rolled 33

Cutt his hands off and fuck everything up with soul fire. The wall, the golems, tyr, eberything in the tunnel

>>21059114
>>21059134
What the fuck are you doing?

>>21059134
You were better off with the roll you deleted bro.

>>21059134
Roll was not for anything, correct?

C'mon guys, we aren't gonna beat Tyr by using magic with no physical fighting.

We've gotta kick his ass a little the old fashioned way first. We shouldn't be using magic to attack him directly (as that CLEARLY isn't fucking working anyway), we should be using it to level the playing field and make it a fair fight.

Rolled 61

>>21059047
"Aeriel, Move something ONTO him!"

>>21059157
So, anti-magic field?

You raise your palm, and a beam of Force shoot from your palm. He whirls his hammer around, putting the head of the weapon in the beam's way, and your spell suddenly refracts every direction, cracking the tunnel around you, and one of the elementals. You disable the other- but it continues walking.
"Thou art a hipocrite and a fool, Tyr Ironhand!" you say, and reach out with your magic. You try to seal him as best you can and the other elemental fell apart, but your spell refused to seal him permenantly. Tyr rears back, hammer in one hand, the box held under the arm of his other, broken hand.

With another glare, you raise a palm, and fire a force beam directly toward his head. He swings his hammer at the same moment. His neck shot back- but his hammer continued it's deadly arc directly toward you.

>Roll 1d100 to dodge!
>You only get one chance at this, as there's still the stone encumbering your leg.
>Taking first roll!

Rolled 35

>>21059178

Rolled 14

>>21059178

Rolled 34

>>21059185
Well, we died.

Fun playing.

>>21059185
Dammit.

Fate Point?

>>21059191
Maybe not. Our armor is pretty good

>>21059202
Artifact hammer vs. Near artifact armor.

Wait, are we even wearing our armor.

>>21059202
Stopping an unstoppable force good?

Rolled 65

Fate point to slow down time, dodge and cut his throat.

>>21059225
The armor? Yes.

But does anyone ever remember a helm being mentioned?

>>21059178
Fate.
Both of them, one for dodge and one for box.

>>21059234
That's not how fatepoints work.

>Fate point vote!
> [] Yes: Use it to dodge this blow.
> [] No: Be unable to dodge the armor, and all of the consequences therein.

>>21059227
No, but it's probably good enough to turn a killing blow into a "Most of your bones are shattered" blow.

>>21059195
Depends on whether or not we're likely to die of this.

Course, we could just use to Fate Point to stop Time for a bit or something.

>>21059245
Yes.

>>21059245
Yes, fatepoint to dodge the magic breaking artifact hammer.

>>21059245
>unable to dodge the blow, even. Whoops

>>21059245
[x] Fate point.

>>21059245
How many do we have?

>>21059245
Yes, and then second fate point for grabbing the box.

>>21059245
Yes

>>21059245
Can we use it to stop time instead?

>>21059245
I don't want to but fuck this going to hurt a lot if take this hit.

So yes.

>>21059270
>You have only one fate point.

>>21059271
Uhh, we only have one, bro.

>>21059284
Where did the other one go?

>>21059245
Fate point!

>>21059271
We only have one.

>>21059290
I don't think we earned another one.

>>21059290
As far as I know, this is the one we've had since before the timeskip.

>>21059290
I don't think we've ever had two at a time.

>>21059245
Yes on Fate Point but use it to Stop Time.

Rolled 59

>>21059284
Why are we using a fate point when we have the awesome semi-artifact armor?

[x] No

Rolled 82

>>21059245
nah, fate points are valuable.

>>21059345
Because semi-Artifact armor is not Artifact armor. It won't stop a blow from an Artifact weapon.

>>21059245
Yes, use the fate point

>>21059370
Um...the armor is a full Artifact.

>>21059362
And we're about to be horribly injured in such a way that would likely screw things up for the long term.

>>21059370
But it is artifact armor. It just didn't imprint on what it was exactly until we got a nat 100 - which we did and gave it the concept of knighthood.
The Armor is in fact a legit artifact.