You're still trapped in the Grove of Joy, but you've managed to disrupt the Dramatae's budding monster army.

Also, as a bonus, you've finally cornered Tragedy. No more escapes, no more giant constructs (Or giant monsters if you believe Tricia, even though she's wrong), and no more bullshit that's protects him or lets him escape.

The Dawnchasers vs. Tragedy.

Someone's gonna die.

Official Boss Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jt-54HwINc

So Tragedy, is a giant ball of corpses that shoots magic lasers a monster or a construct?

>>25118062
We said it was a monster, Tricia said it was a construct

>>25118087
Yes, we need to ask him.

Also, something I realize: WE are the ones with a hostage now. The maw. We should start making demands of the dramatae.

>>25118062
>>25118097
yes, WE claimed it was a monster. Tricia claimed construct.

>>25118108
We're still stuck in here as of now.

>>25118124
yeah, but I mean once we kill tragedy and get out of here.

We start demanding things. Like whisper flutes.

>>25118087
"So Tragedy, is a giant ball of corpses that shoots magic lasers a monster or a construct?" You ask.

"What? Ugh, enough of your mindless insane chattering!"

Tragedy has 12 wounds.
He hits on 14+
You only wound him on 14+

He has four nasty surprises.

No healing spells.

Two actions per round. (Mask Haste)

Crits will only cause a stall.

Enlightenment will NOT destroy the mask.

He can cast spells & he has a Blade of Dramatae which is a replica of the blade known as Soma.

Roll for initiative and give initial orders for the Dawnchasers. (Julian's plan is to Attack With Righteous Fury and little else. He's a Red Occuli Paladin, it's his forte.)

You are currently equipped with Beacon and Clang.

Rolled 3, 9, 5, 9, 1, 2, 5, 1, 5 = 40

>>25118224
1d10 for initiative

>>25118224
Wait so, do you mean he can't cast healing spells, or is "No healing spells" one of the nasty surprises, and we can't heal ourselves in this fight?

>>25118224
Combat reminder:

A melted head TOTALLY COUNTS for dragon deals, and a single application of melt-bones-poison will make this fight significantly easier. Probably cancel his haste.

>>25118251
Initiaive

Rolled 10

>>25118251
Rollan

Rolled 6

>>25118224
Right. we need to slow him down first of all. Knowing our luck we're going to miss our strikes half the time (damn first roll system)

Mari: Analyze.

Tricia distracts with insects. BEES in the mask are always fun.

Mage tries to sink him in mud.

Lea goes to town on his ass.

And I think we should try to bite him.

>>25118251
rolling

>>25118298
FUCK YES

Rolled 1

hah ,initiative

>>25118260
>Wait so, do you mean he can't cast healing spells
Yes, Tragedy has no healing capabilities.

Also, I'm going best of Three, with a crit fail meaning that I take the worst of the other two, and two crit fails means Bad.

Rolled 18

>>25118251
ah yes, initiative.
Mari/pari, hang back and continue firing until such time as we have all gotten up in tragedy's face, at which point go for backstabs.

Lea, join us in operation get up in tragedy's face

Tricia and mage, hang back and provide support. We could use some fire, or some giant fire breathing centipedes.

>>25118299
this, and bite the crap out of him.

>>25118298
Alright, you act first.

>>25118299
>Mari: Analyze
oh, I'm seconding this hard. Forget hanging back and firing, spend that round analyzing.

And yes, we should totally get up in his face and bite him. any poison would give us an advantage, I personally say white for this one. I want to test how it interacts with masks.

>>25118355
I say we approach him with a shield charge. Bite him, if the action economy works like that, or if not, we'll bite him next turn.

>>25118355
Meaning Ssen has first action or our group as a whole?

>>25118355
charge and go for a bite right away with the white.

>>25118389
I hope that "anti-magic-rune" quentin gave us on clang is worth all the gold we payed.

We really should have tested it.

>>25118383
Ssen's first. We rolled the highest initiative.

>>25118355
Spear and tail whip to test the waters out.

>>25118350
>>25118373
>>25118389

So you're charging Tragedy with intent to bite?

1d20 +1

Rolled 8

>>25118599

Rolled 13 + 1

>>25118599

>>25118586
Very risky, we don't know if he has any unpleasant magic shields which will react badly to us jamming our face into them.

>>25118599
yep. we are.

>>25118618
sorry for deleting that, I realized I might have shifted the vote by saying things twice, and freaked out.

>>25118631
It's okay anon, I forgive you...

This time.

>>25118605
>>25118613
(Waiting for #3)

Rolled 19

>>25118694
sorry! Didn't realize

>>25118700
That'll do it.

>>25118715
yeah, JUUUUST enough to bring the average up. I'm glad I'm lucky!

>>25118755
We were going for best of 3

Average of 14.3 repeating.

>>25118783
It's best of three, not average.

>>25118807
>>25118783
I dunno, it used to be averages. I think the best of three thing was only for the plot-critical quick-quick out of the bomb site. though I might be wrong.

>>25118700
You lunge forward, jaw open, fangs extended. You leap and smash into Tragedy, and you snap out your jaws and bite down hard on the man's arm.

"AH!" He screeches. "Oh, no you DON'T!" He says.

Before you can inject the poison, There's a flare of light and Tragedy's...not there. You've got a mouthful of nothing. Also, Tragedy's a few feet away, still wearing his mask and a new set of robes. You see the two wounds from your fangs his arm bleeding, and he's panting, but he blinked before you had a chance to inject.

(Tragedy can blink at will, but it costs him one of his two turns)

>>25118828
It's written right here: >>25118329

>>25118829
Did Tragedy just scream like a little girl?

Everyone with a ranged attack fire at will, Lea go for a running kick

>>25118829
son of a bitch

well at least we found out one of the four surprises.

also means constriction is basically worthless against him.

>>25118864
>did tragedy just scream like a little girl
I think I would too, given that I just got bit by a snake-lady with bone melting poison.

Also, we crossed like 20 feet and bit a guy fast. Real fast. I would be screaming like a girl at that, too.

>>25118888
Quads makes it canon. We need to taunt him for it.

"Did you just scream like a like a little girl? Some battlemage you are!"

>>25118864
>>25118829
no, not fire at will, we want MARI to analyze.

Everyone else fire at will.

>>25118829
So if we could get him to use up both of his actions for a turn somehow, we could bite him without him blinking away?

Rolled 2, 9, 11 = 22

>>25118829
"Nice trick." Mage says. "Try this one!" Mage slams his staff on the ground. He's trying to turn the ground into mud to slow Tragedy up.

Lea hangs back and waits for Mage's spell to go off.

Mari hangs back and tries to get a grip on Tragedy's style. It's not going to be easy. (Target: 40)

You feel the round rumble a little.

Twice.

Tricia tries to summon a large enough swarm.

>>25118929
GOD DAMMIT MAGE!

Way to fuckin go.

>>25118929
>feel TWO graboids

Great. Get the elephant gun.

Why don't we have a ballista yet? Ssen could totally operate one, and it would totally kill a graboid.

Rolled 3, 14 = 17

>>25118929
Mage swears as all that happens to the ground is some sparks. "Thrice damned Citadel Enchanted ground!" He swears.

A swarm of wasps emerge from Tricia's free sleeve. "Get him!" She snaps. The wasps buzz around Tragedy, but unlike others they seem to not do that much to distract him. They don't even seem to be able to get inside the mask.

Julian lets out a wordless roar, and charges Tragedy, sword drawn. (+1 to hit.)

Tragedy's forced to respond to the attacking Paladin.

You feel the ground rumble for a third time.

Another thing about these rumbles, you can tell because so much of you is on the ground at once...they're not coming from the same place. There's not one thing rumbling once, there's three different things causing the disturbances.

Rolled 20, 12 = 32

>>25119014
Julian misses, Tragedy doesn't. Doesn't seem to be slowing down your Uncle any though.

Your turn.

>>25119014
>three graboids

Great! Marvelous! Fantastic! I wonder if we should warn the others.

>>25118829
This tell me we need to constantly threaten him with a furious onslaught of attacks he cannot afford to take.

If we get a moment during which Julian or Lea has forced him to blink, we might want to poison Beacon, or pounce on him to force him to skip a turn completely/take the poison.

>>25119031
I stab at thee, Tragedy!
Stab/tailwhip combo.

we should try either a piercing strike or another bite.

whichever. Though he probably tastes bad.

>>25119050
This

>>25119031
Let's quickquick if we can. We want to poison him. Get the clear(?) (the bone-dissolving one) on our claws if we can do it quickly and thrash his shit.

>>25119014
suspicious feeling those rumbles are the zombie loved ones.

>>25119031
Beacon Pierce(the armor rending one)

>>25119089
yes. Beacon pierce.

Though, I don't know what we should do about the 3 terrible fire breathing zombie loved one centipedes.

>>25119031
Guys just gonna throw this out there but we really ought to ensure that, whatever we do, we unrelentingly gangbang Tragedy with the most threatening attacks possible. We have to goad him into wasting his time with blinking.

>>25119141
Might work

>>25119160
well, yeah. Beacon pierces and bites and... maybe a constrict? That would force a blink, but make it hard to attack him for our friends.

>>25119160
>>25119163
Hence why I think we may want to exploit the fact that he clearly is frightened by our venomous aspects. Mayhap we ought to flip our shit and go full on poisonous whirlwind like our bout with Granny.

>>25119190
They'd be able to strike him easily every time he blinks away from us.

>>25119053
>>25119089
>>25119105

Pierce it is.

1d20 +1 (It's +1 due to Pierce, instead of the normal +2)

Rolled 6 + 1

>>25119231

Rolled 7 + 1

>>25119231
!!

Rolled 19 + 1

>>25119231
Lets do this!

Rolled 4

>>25119231

>>25119244
>>25119247
UGH I'm sorry for my shitty rolls

>>25119262
THANK YOU!

>>25119262
cutting it close so far.

>>25119262
My dice, I love them

>>25119262
Another set of three saved by a third roll 19. Nice.

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>>25119262

Well, the fight is going to be pretty one sided until those undergrounders arrive.

Rolled 3, 19, 13, 6, 16, 7 = 64

>>25119262
You lunge with Beacon and you know you've got the bastard. You can feel it touch something, and you see Beacon begin to light up...but once more...the bastard's just not THERE anymore.

Mage decides to forego any subtlety or clever tactics for now and goes to plan 'shoot him in the head with fire.'

Lea does a jab at Tragedy.

Mari continues her study.

That rumbling is getting louder.

Yep, that's louder.

Tricia tries to get her swarm to intensify around Tragedy.

Tragedy takes a swing at you.

Julian takes a swing at him.

And that's rumble number three.

>>25119404
ooop, that's a hit. I wonder if his sword has smite good.

Who am I kidding, of course it does.

>>25119404
Poor mage, maybe Lea's jab will interrupt Tragedy's attack on us...

Bite him when he takes the swing if he goes for it

>>25119404
Guys if this is a zombie hoard a-comin', then I say we have our group handle them and we, along with Lea, take Tragedy in a 2-on-1 with us flipping our shit in full beast mode.

>>25119431
oh yes. While he is stabbing us, fall into the blade and bite him. Personal like. It's personal.

Rolled 4, 7, 7, 1, 1, 1 = 21

>>25119404
By all the myriad Darknesses, that sword HURTS.

Mari's about half-way there.

Lea...does something weird. Her jab was aimed at Tragedy, but she missed him, and she WOULD have hit Julian but instead she corrected it and slammed her hand into a tree. Hard, and in the wrong place. You know Lea knows better. It look like it hurt too. Even with her new Quicksilver bracers.

>>25119496
Your turn

>>25119404
If he's going to blink every attack he's never going to be able to fight back and we'll gradually kill him. He must be stalling for whatever the rumbling is.

>>25119508
Bite

>>25119508

Pierce again. Can we tail disarm?

>>25119508
Just regular ol' attack. Biting an piercing won't work.

>>25119496
Clang-lock the arm he stabbed us with, draw him in, bite him.

One of them zombie pullin-bites that always seem so effective in the movies is what I am trying to describe.

>>25119496
Huh, she missed with a 19? Or rather the 19 was good enough to not hit Julian. The bracers are probably possessed by her dad's ghost or some shit.

>>25119496
Hmm, is Lea's dad messing with her attacks somehow, or is this another one of Tragedy's tricks. She really should've hit on a 19.

>>25119552
Seconding this

>>25119496
Ugh that was one of his blinks I think. Let's stab/tail whip in that order. He'll think he's wise by dodging the same sort of strike we just used, but i intend to use that as a feint.

>>25119496
cursed bracers of inaccuracy?

>>25119508
tail disarm, and beacon attack if we can do both at once.

>>25119557

No, she rolled a 3.

I forget, where'd she get the bracers?

>>25119615
Mage was the one who rolled a 3.

>>25119629
her dead mummy zombie evil dad.

>>25119615
The three was Mage's fireball, no? First roll goes to first attempted action and so forth.

>>25119629
Her Zombie dad

>>25119615
I think the 3 was for mage's fireball

>>25119640
>>25119652
In which case, we really need to tell her to ditch them. Or just start kicking if they won't come off.

>>25119666
OH FUCK ME RUNNING

>>25119639

Then how did Tragedy hit us?

Mage: 3

Lea: 19

Mari: 13

Rumble: 6

Tricia: 16

Tragedy: 7

And Julian, I don't know.

>>25119701
The rumble didn't roll, bro, the 16 was tragedy, the 7 was Julian.

>>25119666
we just need to re-forge 'em

>>25119722

*facepalm*

Okay, then. I just thought that the graboids had a target DC too.

>>25119747
That probably won't help. Beacon's been reforged loads but it still acts the same whatever weapon it is.

>>25119666
Shouldn't this be good for us. We are Satan, after all. Also Lea drop those bracers.

>>25119823
we need to convince SOMEbody to eat an apple.

>>25119599
I'm seeing one for a double attack, one for a disarm, one for a pierce, one for a normal attack, one for a straight bite, and two for a shield bash/bite attack.

>>25119845
I'll rescind my suggestion for double attack and go with shield bash + bite

>>25119841
>we need to convince SOMEbody to eat an apple.

You've caused most of the beasts of the garden to forget the names and orders that they were given.

straight bite

>>25119845
shield bash and bite is fine by me, didnt even know we could shield bash.

with the White.

>>25119845
Spear and tail whack. I want to charge up Beacon and get him down so we can dogpile Tragedy with crits.

>>25119871
>>25119845
Okay, shield bash and a bite.

2d20 +1 each

Rolled 6, 10 + 1 = 17

>>25119893

>>25119893

Rolled 2, 16 = 18

>>25119893

Rolling

Rolled 5, 2 + 1 = 8

>>25119893
Lets see...

Rolled 13, 2 = 15

>>25119893
hokay

Rolled 1, 10 = 11

>>25119893
Whacking and Smacking

Rolled 11, 7 + 1 = 19

>>25119936

Dude. We're lucky it's best of 3.

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>>25119893
The dice... Those cunts.

>>25120006
I blame myself

welp, at least the 16 was in the first three.

>>25119914
>>25119922
>>25119926
Thanksobama

Rolled 9, 10, 5, 6, 13, 12 = 55

>>25119922

You swing wildly with Clang, causing Tragedy to dodge away. Then you snap forward and once more sink your fangs into him, the upper arm now.

And again, before you can get the poison in him, he's blinked away. This time, he's still bleeding though.

Mage cracks off another fireball.

Lea goes for a spin kick.

Mari continues to study.

You see the ground start to crack in two different places. Whatever's down there is coming up very very soon!

Tricia still tries to keep her swarm under control enough to attack Tragedy.

Tragedy attacks Julian.

Julian responds in kind.

And there's crack number three!

>>25120036
So we failed to pin, but we succeeded at biting?

>>25120059
Everyone's shit!

>>25120059
mage fucked up, so did lea, mari didn't get much progress, tricia fucked up a bit, tragedy missed as did uncle...

>>25120059
"Ugh..." Tricia shakes her head. "There's something that's in the way!" She says. "It's loud and..." She notices the cracks on the ground. "Oh fuck me." She draws her sickle.

Lea's kick sails wide and misses Tragedy, misses you too.

Your turn.

Roll 1d20

Rolled 9

>>25120131

Rolled 17

>>25120131
This can't be good...

>>25120059
"Heads up, we have more company! Underground!"

Might as well warn everyone.

Rolled 9

>>25120131

Rolled 6

>>25120131

Rolling

Rolled 10

>>25120131
We should probably switch over to spearwork now that guests have arrived.

Either that or full clawmaul.

>>25120147
Lea doesn't have any bandages around her nose, mouth, or face.

Which is unblemished.

>>25119874
that probably has some biblical significance I haven't noticed.

But eat the apples.

Rolled 5

>>25120147

Thank you.

>>25120206
what on the fuck

Rolled 1

>>25120206

Hold up. I thought Lea had everything wraped up because her whole body, including her face, was wrecked by the cancer treatment?

>>25120206
Oh FUCK.

>>25120206
..."Lea the bracers are cursed!!"

>>25120206
Lea is an imposter. Or possessed. I'm guessing possessed as she has been NOT attacking us.

>>25120248
I'll assume that roll was your Perception check.

>>25120262

Don't forget the painting for Citadel. Tradgedy might be subverting Lea.

>>25120262
Okay, your turn.

>>25120206
The fuck is going on!

Lea take off those bracers!

Also you might have cancer now!

Shit!

>>25120293
Beacon thrust + tail whip in that order.

>>25120293
Tell lea to get the bracers off. Simultaneously, go and smack the bracers right off.

>>25120293
alright, shield bash and bite again. It always gets him to teleport and we need that.

Rolled 7, 15 = 22

>>25120262
Has "Lea" said anything? If she hasn't it might be Lea's dad under an illusion.

>>25120293
Constrict Lea and get those bracers off. Call out that they are cursed.

>>25120293

How many wounds are we causing with bites?

Beacon thrust + tail disarm.

>>25120344

Then why hasn't he attacked anybody?

>>25120346

No.

>>25120372
He's tried to, Lea resisted punching Uncle and missed us.

Be more observant.

>>25120372

Remember how Lea's last kick missed Tradgedy and us? I think "Lea" did just attack us.

>>25120419

Then it's not Lea's dad. Lea is resisting attempted subversion from Tragedy.

>>25120426
no no, she's obviously fighting off some type of control.

>>25120447

Probably Citadel control, considering it's making her look more like the painting.

>>25120466
yep. Coming from the bracers.

The bracers are a citadel-flavored beacon.

We should really do something about that.

>>25120436
From the Bracers.

Hence wrap and remove

>>25120436

Okay, you're right, I guess. Constrict Lea and try to take off the gauntlets.

Alternate plan: we've gotten Tragedy once and he's gotten us once. Two hits to Beacon. How fast can we get to five?

>>25120372
>>25120325
You honestly don't remember seeing the bracers on Lea until AFTER the necrosphere explosion, which was about the same time that the sphere spawned Lea's Father and gave off that weird spell...

Anyway, I see two votes for a double attack. Who are you attacking?

Rolled 5, 13 = 18

>>25120501
Mebbe Beacon's Light could get rid of any Citadel bullshit on "Lea" so we know what to do as well as the normal crit flalouring.

Tragedy

>>25120532

Lea. Tell her what we're trying to do, maybe take a few hits and charge Beacon, wrap her, and try to rip the gauntlets off.

Then Enlightenment to boost our party.

>>25120532
we attempt to slap them bracers right off of lea.

Or constrict and remove.

Or yell at her to remove and then stab tragedy. We will observe her reaction and react next round.

>>25120532
Constrict and remove bracers IMO.

>>25120532
stab tragedy and shout at Lea to take off the bracers, they are trying to influence her.

>>25120589
yes, stab and shout.

we will go after lea NEXT turn if she doesn't remove them.

The Bracers might be summoning whatever is causing the shaking.

We need to get them off

>>25120587
>>25120572
>>25120501
"Lea!" You yell as you try to wrap your tail around her arms. "Get those things off!"

At the same time, you try to stab at Tragedy with the spear.

>>25120655

Roll?

>>25120655
2d20 +2

Rolled 12, 15 = 27

>>25120655
(im guessing you want rolls.)

Rolled 20, 10 = 30

>>25120680
Rolling!

Rolled 5, 9 = 14

>>25120682

Rolled 10, 20 + 2 = 32

>>25120680
forgot my damn dice.

>>25120686
>>25120704
hah thats funny as hell.

Rolled 16, 20 = 36

>>25120704
>>25120686

YES.

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>>25120686
>>25120691
>>25120719

>>25120704
>>25120777

Wait, sorry, I meant this.

>>25120682
Your tail wraps around Lea's arms and slams her to the ground. Lea lets out a pained grunt and looks at you with one eye that's calm and unfeeling, the other one is Lea's look when she was freaking out about her father.

Your jab with the spear is dead on. He still blinks away, but too late. He's got another bleeding wound on him.

"MONSTER BITCH!"

"Let...me...go." Lea says in a calm measured voice that is hers but you know isn't hers.

[spoilers] Have to step out for a moment. I will return in 30min [/spoiler]

>>25120810

Back to first roll?

"Let go of Lea first."

>>25120810
No. You let HER go.

>>25120810
you know I am really confused about what is happening right now.

but we say "Of course", and slip ourselves, AND the bracers, off of her. "Sorry about that, but I expect you to do the same to me if I had like an evil hat or something."

>>25120880
>>25120879

Better. "Unhand Lea this instant."

>>25120810
"I'll let Lea go when she asks; you however will remain constricted as long as possible"

>>25120899
It might work, the bracers are build to fit a man afterall.

>>25120941
Not good, for the same reason you don't say "let her go" to a villain holding a hostage by a ledge.

>>25120984

Point.

>>25120977

>inb4 the bracers are suddenly a perfect fit.

>>25120984
Good point. We don't have to say a thing. just yank the bracers off of her.

>>25121008
>>25120977
I still say it's worth trying to slip them off.

>>25120810
"This is an abomination in His sight, old man, and I won't allow it to continue."

>>25121018
well, we can say stuff, just nothing that's double entredes with hands. or arms.

Also, afterwards we can talk to her. I fully expect her to punch us out if we wear an evil hat and it makes our armor transform into tit-plate.

Power went out, found a tablet. Kinda glad I didn't have a chance to fuck hit up by rolling.

>>25121411
your POWER went out?

This is no time for lamia quest, the zombies are coming.

Rolled 16, 15, 15, 1, 13 = 60

"This is an abomination in His sight, old man, and I won't allow it to continue." You say. "I'll let Lea go when she asks; you however will remain constricted as long as possible."

"Ssen?" Mage asks. "What's going on?"

Lea struggles in your grip trying to break free. "This is what she wants, lamia. I asked, and she agreed to let me help her. She's not fighting me, like in those Lightbringer stories. Let me go and I'll stop Tragedy for you. I promise."

"Just shoot, Mage!" Mari yells as she continues to study Tragedy.

Mage fires at Tragedy, who's still stunned from that last blink, which must have been painful.

The ground erupts, and you see two giant centipedes burst out of the ground.

Tricia's ready for them and slashes at one of them. (Bonus +2)

Tragedy's stunned and he blinked.

Julian goes to attack him.

The third centipede arrives as well.

>>25121599

Tragedy dun goofed.

Everybody rocked.

Don't let the old man go. Tell him to prove that Lea wants it.

>>25121599
Huh, I'm stunned. I can't think up any witty remarks.

Either way, lea isn't talking for herself, and that's worrying. I suggest this:

"Helping? All you're doing is throwing her off her game! Stop distracting her!"

>>25121599
Mage and Julian both hit the stunned Tragedy.

Tricia swings...but her scythe gets caught in a chitin plate and rips from her hand it, it lands on the ground and she dives to get it back.

Lea breaks free of your grip, but you see a little bit of a birthmark form on her face. The effort of breaking free, as well as just being in combat, isn't sitting well with the old man apparently.

Your turn.

For your information the centipedes are all grey and reek of dead flesh. They're even a bit more disgusting as they have human eyes on their 'heads.' These are Tricia's Aunt, no question.

>>25121599
"Lea keeps telling me to be the Paladin, and that's what I'm going to do. And if she DID actually agree to this, that just means we're going to have a LONG FUCKING CHAT ABOUT IT."

>>25121599
"You have a very bad habit of speaking for Lea whether she likes it or not."

>>25121697
Well, shit. we need to deal with tragedy, sandworms, AND lea.

Lea is the most concerning. I suppose we can't actually get the bracers off of her without her say-so?

Then continue piercing tragedy so as to build beacon charge.

>>25121725

Seconding

>>25121725
>>25121804

yeah, I like this one.

Though, what ACTION do we take?

>>25121697

>>25121725
thirding, rewrap Lea and attempt to rouse her from her terror, and take a stab at Tragedy with Beacon.

>>25121845
stop with the wrapping, just take the things off.

>>25121725

Thirded.

"There's this little problem of me not trusting you at all. Let Lea go. Her life is no longer any of your business."

>>25121866
she got better when she was forced to try and break free, her father has control so I really doubt we even could take them off unless she is wrapped.

>>25121599
>"This is what she wants, lamia. I asked, and she agreed to let me help her. She's not fighting me, like in those Lightbringer stories. Let me go and I'll stop Tragedy for you. I promise."
...I'm half-inclined to believe him.

Mainly because he's no longer in that undead body, and thus not under the control of the Dramatae.

>>25121697
Bite Tragedy and get those cuffs off Lea

>>25121697
She 'wants' the opposite of everything she stands for controlling her body? I doubt that. Now go back to your corpse

>>25121913
I don't. Mainly because he doesn't ask. He commands.

>>25121913

When has he ever asked Lea anything?

>>25121913
I doubt Lea agreed. Lea stayed silent and her dad took it as agreement.

>>25121697
"You don't ask. You never ask. You demand. You rule."

"And that is why you are unworthy."

So, I see a vote for rewrapping Lea/attack Tragedy, one for a straight attack, and one for just trying to rip the bracers off of Lea.

We should REALLY tell him that he's messing up lea's game.

>>25122052
I'm going to be level with you on this one echo, we're a bit flustered by this turn of events.

>>25122052
We need our monk back, and as things are Lea's old man is making things difficult.

Wrap and attack.

>>25122052

Straight attack.

"Let Lea go. You are her father, not her dictator. Let her go, or I swear on the Light, I will make you let her go."

How much of a charge does beacon have? We'll need to use it on Lea.

>>25122052
We need to do something about lea for sure, getting tragedy to blink again would be a bonus

>>25122133
I'd rather we not do too much damage to Lea herself. Those bracers are obviously shady as shit.

>>25122170

Which is why I voted for straight attack. If Lea's dad attacks Tragedy, that's fine, but I'd prefer Lea being in control.

>>25122170
The attack is for tragedy

>>25122052
Straight attack. BUT:

Yell to lea:

"If lea really accepts this, take the bracers off. SHE will put them back on."

So two for straight attack, two for wrap/attack.

Beacon has 2 charges.

>>25122236
Like I said, flustered.

I would be the tiebreaker, but I already voted.

>>25122232
Nice.

>>25122232

"If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours. If it doesn't, then you never had it in the first place."

Nice line, anon.

>>25122236
Straight spear.

>>25122232
>>25122199
>>25121802

"You have a very bad habit of speaking for Lea whether she likes it or not." You say. You hold up a finger before Lea can respond and strike at Tragedy.

1d20 +2

Rolled 3

>>25122323

Rolled 2 + 2

>>25122323

Rolled 18

>>25122323

>>25122232

Seconding

Rolled 14 + 2

>>25122332
>>25122341

Really?

Rolled 8 + 2

>>25122323

>>25122332
>>25122341
>>25122342
/tg/ dice are trolling us, but then feel bad and give us a good 3rd roll.

>>25122323
Eh, it doesn't matter if we miss while talking to lea. Multitasking failures are understandable.

>>25122383
Seems that way...

Rolled 3, 7, 17, 7, 5, 3, 16 = 58

>>25122342
You swipe at Tragedy, it's a perfect shot...that he naturally blinks out of the way from. Still Beacon starts glowing like crazy, and the usual gleam from the others is showing up...save for Lea and Julian.

Mage shoots a bolt of electricity at one of the centipedes.

Lea shakes her head and swipes at one of the other centipedes. "I tell Lea what's the right thing to do!" She says. "Have I ever been wrong?" "No, Father." "I've ALWAYS provided for you and the family, you NEVER went hungry, and you were ALL skilled! Aren't you USING my teachings? Didn't good COME from me having you read the Teachings?" "Yes Father." "So, attack those centipedes, they don't discriminate friend from foe." "Yes, Father."

Lea kicks at another centipede.

Mari has a bead on Tragedy and is shouting out tactics. (+1 bonus)

One of the centipedes attacks Tricia.

Another is on Lea.

Tricia gets her sickle and back in the fray.

Tragedy swings his blade at you.

Julian goes for Tragedy.

The last centipede goes for Julian.

>>25122661
Julian and Tricia both get singed by the fire that these things are spitting.

Everyone else misses.

Your turn.

>>25122661

Use the group buff. Not enlightenment beam.

>>25122661
>centipedes rolling high
Shit.

also, I suggest we do the "Take the bracers off, she'll put them back on" thing. Or, perhaps,

"You are only slowing her down, old man!"

>>25122699
Beacon's one charge shy.

>>25122687
double sweep Tragedy

>>25122737

"Take off the bracers, if she really agreed then she'll put them back on."

Thing.

While attempting to bite Tradgedy

>>25122661
You know something if D-Lea attacks the centipedes and only the centipedes, we'll forget about her during this fight, behead Tragedy and deal with that problem after the fight.

>>25122737
fair enough, we need one more charge. Tragedy should be nice and easy to hit now that mari's calling the shots. Hopefully we can use one of the several good one-liners we've accumulated and a beacon-flare to boost our comrades and do... something to solve this lea thing. No idea what.

>>25122687
>>25122661
Beacon and Tail, also yell out this out to Lea

"You will only hold Lea back if you continue your hold over her. Let her take off those bracers, so that she may receive the light of Beacon!"

>>25122737
Spear and tail whack attack.

>>25122661
Buff, then kill everything we can.

Then we have to lay the fucking law down on Lea, because seriously? This shit needs to stop.

>>25122661
"and yet, she could only surpass you once she stopped listening." double stab Tragedy

>>25122687

Beacon and tail disarm.

>>25122661
"And she's better than you'll ever be. If you have any doubt, release her and see for yourself."

>>25122815
>>25122821
>>25122774
"You're only slowing her down, old man!" You snap. "She surpassed you when she stopped listening to you! And she's better than you'll ever be. If you have any doubt, release her and see for yourself."

You do a double sweep and strike against Tragedy.

1d20 +3

Rolled 19 + 3

>>25122902

Rolled 1

>>25122902
11 or up!

Enlightenment beam on Lea would be the simplest way to deal with the problem. Costs us a couple of hits against Tragedy that the group buff would have got us but gets us Lea back in the fight which should even it out. I don't think he's going to be persuaded out.

Also what's Mab/Maxine doing? Hiding behind a tree watching? Her magic seems powerful and useful.

>>25122922
>>25122920
oh my god

>>25122902
Eh, why not.

Rolled 18

>>25122922
goddamit!

Rolled 6 + 3

>>25122902
Rolling

>>25122926
I think a wide-area group buff will do to fix lea's problem, given the way the dialogue is going.

>>25122902
Wait wait wait. I fucked up.

2d20 +3.

I'll ignore those two above.

>>25122922
Had you rolled properly with the +3 I might be mad, but I think we can make a case that this shouldn't count.

>>25122946
Sweet. The 1 means we take the second best but the second best is still 18 (+3).

Rolled 10, 6 = 16

>>25122966

Rolling

Rolled 7, 18 + 3 = 28

>>25122966

Rolled 14, 17 = 31

>>25122966
Okay.

>>25122969
>People seriously still try and use that argument

Rolled 10, 20 + 3 = 33

>>25122966

Rolled 13, 16 + 3 = 32

>>25122966

Rolled 18, 8 + 3 = 29

>>25122945
Fuck.
>>25122926
Mab don't want to touch this fight with a 10ft expanding rod.

AoE is the best choice here...
>>25122966

Rolled 7, 19 + 3 = 29

>>25122969
no, lack of modifiers are not a reason to discount rolls.

>>25122966

>>25122969
the + has never been required and has always been optional.

>>25122959
Lea won't get the buff. She's not glowing.

I find it hilarious that the first roll set would have succeeded, 19, 18, critfail uses worst of the other 2 so an 18+3 instead of 19+3.

>>25122991
It's a decent argument. We'd ignore rolls on a d2 or a d200.

Enter the dice roll properly and there would be no issues.

>>25123026
she will if she takes the bracers off.

like we are telling her dad to do so that she can SHOW him how good she is.

which will then be facilitated by the buff.

>>25122993
>>25123045

In which case we would natural 20 on Tragedy, so no complaints there.

Rolled 6, 7 + 3 = 16

>>25123026
she will if daddy dearest lets go

>>25123045
except when you need to roll anything higher than a 1d, at which point you cannot enter the dice properly.

>>25123071
stupid dice...

>>25123045
4chan doesn't even let you use modifiers properly on multiple dice. Should all those 2d20 rolls not count? The modifier makes literally no difference to the dice roll whereas the dice size makes a massive difference. We've gone over this loads of times already.

>>25123056
I'm saying I don't think he gives a shit about our arguments so he won't take them off. We'll see.

>>25123045
no its an absolutely worthless argument, because d200 and d20 are different dice, d20+1 and d20(+1 manually) are the same dice, and the modifiers are applied afterwards(19+1 is not a crit, 20+1 is)

>>25123125
However Echo wants to handle it is how he'll handle it.

Seriously, some of you need to take a step back from the keyboard for a few minutes. There's no reason to be upset.

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>julian doesn't get the buff
Oh red paladins, you so wacky

>>25123191
and echo will handle it by ignoring whether or not the roll has modifiers and adding them afterwards, as he always has.

>>25123192
I imagine after Julian sees us shining Light, and our allies receiving it (but NOT him) he's going to ask himself some serious questions.

>>25123242
As he should. Maybe even Lea's old man will start to wonder if maybe he's just a colossal, controlling asswipe.

But somehow I doubt it.

>>25123191
>However Echo wants to handle it is how he'll handle it.
And Echo handles it by taking the dice whether modifiers are on them or not, and has done every time it's come up in the past, and that's why you bringing it up again is fucking stupid.

>>25123242
we still haven't told him about the elf-land-trade-truce thing yet.

He's gonna be... grumpy.

>>25123191
which is the point, we had this conversation ~40 threads ago including Echo ruling that a lack of modifiers does not disqualify a roll, they will be added manually afterwards if they are not included.

Rolled 7, 15, 2, 14, 7, 3, 2, 17 = 67

>>25122991
You swipe at Tragedy with your tail. Like always, the bastard blinks away, but this time, Mari points and you lunge and the bastard reappears JUST in time to pierce the fucker right in the side. No blinking out of THIS one, AND Beacon is fully charged.

Mage shoots another lightning bolt at the centipede.

"You NEED me Lea! You know I'm the best at this style, you've seen my trophies, how the other pit fighters all respect me. You can be better Lea, but I will always have that little edge, you know I'm right Lea. Lea...Lea...Lea are you being ungrateful again? Answer me, child. One moment..." Lea jabs at a Centipede.

Mari keeps at the fringes of the fight, watching Tragedy's style.

A Centipede belches fire at Lea.

Also at Mage.

Tricia swipes her sickle at one of them.

Tragedy goes for you with his sword.

Julian does the same to him.

The last centipede tries to body slam Tricia...like a demented hug.

>>25123275

Credit where it's due, he seems to be at least a benevolent controlling asswipe. Still not good, but at least not intentionally bad.

>>25123297

FUCK! TRICIA'S DOWN! MAN DOWN, MAN DOWN!