Part 4>>>The Shadow of Love (an LoF adventure)

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Andrion Wilgor 60/60

Disappointedly Andrion saw that he had not managed to boost his first spell with shadow magic and that the Doom Knight was just a simple undead. His two others spells happened without any problems though, and thus invisible, stoneskinned and carrying a globe of invulnerability Andrion, preceded by his newly summoned underling stepped out of the door and looked down both directions of the corridor looking for any opponents.

[Morgeruat]

Morguerat

Eyeing the globe suspiciously and trying to assemble his thoughts Morguerat almost failed to notice not only the notes shoved into his hands, but that he was writing quickly, his penmanship clean and practised as always, but seemingly without his own input. The papers quickly filled with words of the two shapes in the same sentence alternately referring to the shadowed one as master, and as a mad dog needing to be put down. The silent one is referenced as both savior of the land and a savage careless destroyer. Many others were mentioned, long forgotten by many, a jumbled glimmer of a Nebling, Galadria, Rogovich, Byronas, and one still a monkey, Sir ReGiN. The names were recalled even as the memories faded into distant dreams, barely more than the whispers they had been before the visions in the ball. After he had finished writing he glanced at them and wondered at a great many of the names, and descriptions, for many were voices that had long been silent, or that had been cast out for angering the Overgod, Ziroc, and his primary avatar Choc (though some said Choc ruled over Ziroc). Threads that grew, evolved and changed substantially from their original form, He was truly in the Lord of the Forums then, although it had grown much since the moderately silly game he had been part of before the fall.

He knew then where he was, but the part he would play was as yet unrevealed. There were two places that would make sense for him to travel to, the home keep of Keldorn's Order, and a smaller closer stronghold built as a waystation for the Inquisitor branch of the Paladin's clan. Neither would welcome him he feared. Paladin's who were fallen were treated as heretics and traitors, and could expect exile as the least of their punishments. "What does it mean though..." Morguerat pondered aloud.

[Larry_OHF]

The four guards that were investigating the scream stopped abruptly, each of them frozen in fear for what the saw.

Guard 1: "It's some kinda undead warrior!"

Guard 2: "But who summoned it here?"

Guard 3: "Let's just kill the thing and then worry about that!"

Guard 4: "I'll go sound the alarm of a possible intruder!"

Guard 3 stood on the stairs, behind the other two who had just drawn their weapons, and aimed his cross bow.

Guard 4 went running back down the stairs to warn other guards.

Guards 1 & 2 begin charging at the Doom Guard, but have a few steps more to ascend.

Doom Guard and Andrion are standing to the right of the stairs, if one were coming up them, then they would turn right to meet the melee.

OOC>>>Andrion and Doom Knight's move.



Nanashi saw the guard running down the stairs, probably to sound an alarm. She decided that she would go ahead and help this mageling after all, especially since the foolish guard was running straight at her. She uncloaked from the shadows and lunged at him in her hybrid form, slashing his throat before he knew he'd been attacked. His head rocked to the side for a moment, a few sinews still holding it on top of his shoulders...and then the whole body collapsed down dead. She smiled and looked up at the other three guards. Andrion seemed confident enough. She decided that she would let him do all the work. What she needed to do was find that mortal Larry. And take his life before Andrion had a chance to. Afterall, she did not want to lose favor in the sight of the Master.

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Andrion Wilgor 60/60

Beneath his invisibility he smiled to himself. The guards had no idea of what they were up against. For a moment he thought that he would just play with them and hit them with his staff while hid under invisibility, but then he decided that he had no time for this. Instead he started casting a spell.

Doom Guard 78/78

The Doom Guard turned its gaze towards the nearest guard and rushed up to him, then swung it's sword at him.

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[Larry_OHF]

The three guards heard a chanting and figured the mage that was responsible for this knight was right here with them. He had some sort of invisibility. Only the third guard who was taking aim at the undead was immediately aware of what happened next, as he saw a blast of icy cone of cold shoot from a place in the air, and for just a fraction of a moment, he thought he could see the shimmer of a man that was standing there doing the casting, but as the spell ripped across the air and striking his companions, the shimmering figure was no longer visible.

Then he too got hit by the blast.


OOC>>>All three guards were hit in one turn by the blast of cold from the spell, suffering cold damage.

Guards 1&2: The first guard who had run the quickest was now the first in line to meet the blade of the undead creature. He was freezing cold, but had to protect his life. He swung his sword up to block the unholy strike. The second guard now arrived and stepped to the right side of the undead, preparing to strike, but was a bit slowed due to the cold blast.

Guard 3: The guard shook off the cold and aimed for the place he'd seen the shimmering figure. He hoped the guy stayed still long enough for a bolt to find him. Still shivering a little, he waited until his arms steadied themselves before he fired. He needed only another moment.

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Andrion Wilgor 60/60

He smiled watching the guard notice him briefly. Maybe he had partially become visible, but his other protections were still up and he had nearly nothing to fear of this guard. He lifted his hands and begun casting another spell aiming to kill this annoying guard, while commanding the doom guard to keep the other two guards occupied by attacking them.

Doom Guard 78/78

The undead swung his sword in a swift motion at Guard 1's side.

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[Larry_OHF]

Guard one again parries the attack, finding himself as the man to take the whole attention from the undead. This was good for his companion, guard two, as he was in line to strike now.

Guard two, seeing that the doom guard is occupied with beating at guard one's sword, takes advantage of this opportunity and swings his sword in a heavy side-long swing for the undead's head. The head gets severed clean off, and rolls down the stairs.

The Doom Guard, however, is still fighting as though nothing had happened, for it did not need its rotting sockets to see the enemy.

OOC>>>Severing the head was a critical hit, and took 19 hp from the undead.

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[Larry_OHF]

For Guard 3: It was too late. His arms were shivering from the cold and would not steady well enough to take a proper aim. To his horror, he saw the shimmer of a man again where the shimmering had been before...which meant that a spell was on its way. What would it be? Before he had time to decide what he would do, the spell was done and the shimmering man was gone. But the guard was not so worried about the shimmering man as he was at what was now coming his way at lightning speed. He knew that he was a dead man. Four bolts of magical fire penetrated his flesh one at a time, all within the same second. They left burning craters in his chest, but no arrow stuck there. It did not matter, for they did their job, which was to end life. And the guard's life passed from him. As he fell to the ground in dying agony, the bolt that he had aimed fired off, shooting wildly high and to the left of the battle scene, popping off the wall of stone above the heads of the undead creature and the two guards.

Guard 1 took the opportunity to look around and see his dead comrad laying on the steps just below them...a light whisp of smoke coming from his chest. It startled him, and he momentarily froze in shock at the sight of his dead friend's body.

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Doom Guard 59/78

Using Guard 1's momentary shock the undead swung his heavy sword once again at him. But with this he was again vulnerable to an attack from Guard 2.

Andrion Wilgor 60/60

Andrion saw that the doom guard was taking care of Guard 1, so he decided to attack Guard 2 himself. His shimmering shape became slightly visible again as he cast another spell.

OOC: yes he does also finish the spell and unleash it at the guard. [img]tongue.gif[/img] Spell is chromatic orb.

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[Larry_OHF]

Guard 1: His attention had been averted and that was just too bad for him. The undead was relentless on this man's life, for when he decided to take the life of him, he would not let up. The sword fell heavily downward, cleaving a slit into the man's head, seperating it into two halves. He fell dead instantly.

Guard 2: He watched the undead kill his companion and he was both shocked and outraged. He begin hacking at the undead with severe strikes as though he were cutting down a tree. Again and again he slashed, as the undead's sword was pulled from the head of his dead friend.

He expected that the Doom Guard would now begin his attack on him. He did not understand then what happened as he was attacked by magical means. He just stood there, aching and unable to move...fear building in him.

OOC>>>
* Guard 1 is dead.
* Doom Guard has been dealt 36 HP damage from the slashing of Guard 2.
* Guard 2 has been paralyzed by Chromatic Orb, suffering 22 hp damage.