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Silvean
08-21-2014, 09:26 AM
>incant 740
You begin drawing a faint, twisting symbol while softly intoning the words for Planar Shift...
Your spell is ready.
You gesture.
With the rune pattern of your destination burned into your memory, a deep understanding of demonic gates, and a bit of hubris, you forgo a summoning circle and daringly tear a planar rift into the air before you. A small shadowy rift begins to take form before your eyes. Suddenly, a small black void floats out of the rift and stops directly over you!
... 45 points of damage!
Right hand explodes into thousands of pieces!
You are stunned for 7 rounds!

The rift begins to waver lazily and suddenly implodes upon itself in a large plume of soot-filled black smoke. When the rift clears, a lithe black abyran'ra is standing around, surveying the surroundings.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.

A lithe black abyran'ra tries to sink its curved fangs into you!
AS: +520 vs DS: +394 with AvD: +34 + d100 roll: +67 = +227
... and hits for 78 points of damage!
Spinal cord damaged by smash to the back.
!S>
A lithe black abyran'ra tries to sink its curved fangs into you!
AS: +520 vs DS: +392 with AvD: +34 + d100 roll: +44 = +206
... and hits for 65 points of damage!
Incredible shot to the eye penetrates deep into skull!

It seems you have died, my friend. Although you cannot do anything, you are keenly aware of what is going on around you...

You mentally give a sigh of relief as you remember that the Goddess Lorminstra owes you a favor.

...departing in 10 mins...
A lithe black abyran'ra undulates its coils in exultant victory!
DEAD>
* Silvean just bit the dust!
DEAD>
A triton radical charges into view, his determination clear in his battle-ready stance!
DEAD>
A lithe black abyran'ra freezes for a moment and stares around the area in a disquieting fashion, its pupiless eyes offering no hint of emotion.
DEAD>
A triton radical just went through a crumbling arch.
DEAD>group op
Your group status is already open.
DEAD>look
[Ruined Temple, Third Floor]
A slender marble arm sticks out from a pile of rock and dust in the middle of the chamber. Stoic faces gaze up at the sky from the floor, the magnificent statues that they once belonged to are now merely random debris scattered around. You also see a lithe black abyran'ra and a crumbling arch.
Obvious paths: east, southeast
DEAD>
A triton executioner stalks in silently, his cold eyes gleaming with hatred.
DEAD>
A lithe black abyran'ra descends upon your corpse, its talons moving in swift, sweeping arcs across your back as its forked tongue darts in and out quickly.

After a moment, the abyran'ra plunges its hand into the base of your neck and rips out your spine in one fluid movement!

The black abyran'ra rises up on its coils and runs its scythe-like talons over the blood-drenched spine in a sinuous fashion, a faint webwork of incarnadine energy lacing across its surface. After a moment, it begins to grow longer and longer, its bony protrusions melding into razored blades that wreath it on all sides. With one swift, sharp *CRACK* of the whip-like bone, the blood drenching the bladed spine bursts into flames -- the rippling scarlet hue cast by the blaze washing over the abyran'ra's face in lurid waves.

DEAD>
Pulling his lips upward, the triton executioner whistles softly through his teeth.
DEAD>
A lithe black abyran'ra suddenly thrusts its hands forth, its spindly, serpentine fingers tracing a complex pattern in the air -- the intertwined sigils clearly visible as dark crimson light trails from the abyran'ra's fingertips to form an undulating webwork of otherworldly beauty -- then it vanishes.
DEAD>l
[Ruined Temple, Third Floor]
A slender marble arm sticks out from a pile of rock and dust in the middle of the chamber. Stoic faces gaze up at the sky from the floor, the magnificent statues that they once belonged to are now merely random debris scattered around. You also see a triton executioner, a lithe black abyran'ra and a crumbling arch.
Obvious paths: east, southeast
DEAD>
A lithe black abyran'ra scythes its talons back and forth, their swift and sinuous movements mirroring the undulations of the serpents atop its head.

....LATER....

A lithe black abyran'ra just came through a crumbling arch.
>incant 720
You trace an intricate sign that contorts in the air while forcefully invoking Implosion...
Your spell is ready.
You gesture at a lithe black abyran'ra.
A void rips open in the area, directly above a lithe black abyran'ra!
Rather abrupt decompression causes a lithe black abyran'ra to explode!
Tiny abyran'ra particles disperse rapidly through the area!
Quite severely dead.
A spectral triton defender is not affected by the vacuum of the void.
A number of items ranging from 10 to 18 feet from the void were sucked into the blackness. The void disappears without further incident.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
(Forcing stance down to guarded)
>
[Roll result: 204 (open d100: 174)]
A spectral triton defender swings a lackluster blue steel harpoon at your thick rowan runestaff and connects!
Your thick rowan runestaff is knocked to the ground!
Roundtime: 20 sec.

WTF.

Sorcasaurus
08-21-2014, 09:43 AM
[Roll result: 204 (open d100: 174)]
A spectral triton defender swings a lackluster blue steel harpoon at your thick rowan runestaff and connects!
Your thick rowan runestaff is knocked to the ground!
Roundtime: 20 sec.

Even just reading this here gives me that "oh shit" panic moment.

http://media.tumblr.com/a1ccd003ef0dc89fdac7bc40d69c284c/tumblr_inline_naihn6udu01s05k56.gif

Fallen
08-21-2014, 02:40 PM
Fun times. Didn't feel like trying to animate it?

Silvean
08-21-2014, 03:04 PM
Fun times. Didn't feel like trying to animate it?

Well, you know, all my training is in demon lore for safety.

Allereli
08-21-2014, 03:12 PM
I'm looking forward to the day I release one into the Cavern of Ages

Jeril
08-21-2014, 06:08 PM
I'm looking forward to the day I release one into the Cavern of Ages

I love presents.

Silvean
08-21-2014, 07:45 PM
I wish they would review the sorcerer lores, my training in demon lore is almost entirely a RP choice. Going through the benefits:

Phase: Barely use it for encumbrance, boxes go in disks and my hunts take 1 or 2 minutes
Cloak of Shadows: I cannot recall the last time I saw this proc (it's the RT and not the stun that gets me), your results may vary
Balefire: Rarely use it, maybe the demon lore makes a difference for people who do
Torment: I've probably used this more than most but the demon lore was not helpful
Minor Summoning: Nice RP tool
Planar Shifting: Demon lore lets me avoid using gold rings in exchange for the occasional amusing death, another RP tool, i.e. I like the messaging

Now, I know some of you may get more mileage out of the demon lore benefits but I think they are outrageously weak. In mechanical terms, the necromancy lore benefits to Pain and dual benefits to Ensorcell are far superior. Perhaps I am stating the obvious.