Points of Light: The Twisting Halls

[Vanira]

Riona Oota​

HP: 17/17
Interactions: GinkyGotBack
Mentions: Kostin, Aelena and Keth

Those were the ugliest, grossest rats Riona had ever seen, and she wanted nothing to do with them. She squirmed watching her companions kill them and took a sigh of relief when Keth made the last one ran off. She needed to keep them around, regular rats were bad enough.

Riona turned her attention towards the goblins to the right that tried to hurt Aelena and Kostin, and the cleric was not going to stand for it. They could hide, but she was out for their blood and thus immediately marched her way to the right door. Was it stupid? Yeah, even she knew that but did she care? Nope. Not a single care as she walked in, and gave a cold glare to the goblin on her right. Quickly, she reached out with her hand and made a quick hand gesture, “inflict wounds!” Her hand glowed as she hit the goblin in the head a burst of energy releasing on contact (16 damage). The goblin fell to the ground, looking more of a husk from the assault of necrotic energy. Riona turned her gaze to the other goblin and got ready to strike again.
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[GinkyGotBack]

Interaction:
Vanira (Riona)

As Riona entered the room and ended the life of the poor innocent goblin, an arrow went flying into her chest. At the other end of the room was a crouched goblin, wearing a familiar shit-eating grin on its face. Chuckling, the goblin took another arrow from its quiver and readied it into its bow. "So, come back for your box, eh? Well, I wish you good luck, molkac!"​

 

[MToki]

Nala Ammil



13/13 HP

Nala was, quite frankly, tired and upset. He was supposed to meet his brother by now and have an idea of what the fuck he was gonna do. Instead, he was fighting some goblins. Watching the healer of the group get shot was the last straw for him. The druid jogged over to a goblin on the right of Riona, knowing full well he was acting irrationally, and hit the green monster over the head with his staff. (5 pts bludgeoning damage) "Sal am desha sick Ath var goblins interfering ausa saren job. Sar should've just mertel var all sunti sar had Tel' chance." He grumbled under his breath, not very mean or intimidating, more like an old man complaining about the new generation.

I am so sick of you goblins interfering with our job. We should've just killed you all when we had the chance
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Mentions: Vanira
interactions: GinkyGotBack

 

[Noam]

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Kostin Nemetsk
9/14 HP
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Kostin nocked another arrow and leaned around the door. Aelena and Keth were holding their own, and Nala was tucked out of the way, and Riona--

Riona made a gesture, and the guy in front of her withered, skin going gray and rotten where he stood. He let out a long rattle and collapsed, and he was dead before he hit the ground, he didn't even try to catch himself and what the entire fuck was that--

Another goblin snapped off a shot. The arrow buried itself in Riona's chest. She stumbled back, and Kostin shouted, raising her own bow and shooting him right in his smirking face. (9 points of piercing damage)

 

[Soap]

Aelena

HP: 31/31
Interactions: GinkyGotBack

Aelena let out a small yelp and pressed her back against the wall of the cave, letting the arrow fly past her. Narrowing her eyes, and muttering a spell marking her target as she went through the doorway with her bow in hand, knocking back the arrow.

Unfortunately, it missed it's target.

The arrow hit one of the walls of the cavern and dropped to the ground. She attempted to shake her daze off, or whatever was that made her miss a target.

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[GinkyGotBack]

Interactions:
Noam (Kostin) Soap (Aelena) KingHalliwell (Keth) Vanira (Riona) MToki (Nala)

Being the last man (goblin) standing, he did what any self-respecting goblin would do and made a run for it. Disengaging and moving nimbly out of reach, the remaining goblin made a run for a pair of doors on the opposite end of the room. Opening them, he made his way into the next room, screaming bloody murder and something that was most likely a call for help in goblin speech. Coming to a grinding halt in the next room, the goblin turned around and looked back and forth as if trying to figure out what to do.​

 

[KingHalliwell]

Keth​

HP: 34/34
Interactions: GinkyGotBack
Mentions: Everyone

Keth turned to face the door that led into the adjoining room of the dungeon and pushed it open. He looked around at the bodies that lay on the floor before moving further into the room, he gave everyone an approving smile and turned int the direction of the noise coming from further in. He could hear one of the goblins further down the hall, so he started to follow the sounds, hoping to catch a glimpse of the goblin. Or to catch it by surprise enough that he could get a well time attack off on it. Keth smiled as he stalked up behind the goblin, who wasn’t paying attention to what was behind him.
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[Vanira]

Riona Oota​

HP: 10/17
Interactions: GinkyGotBack
Mentions: Keth
Riona winced as she got the arrow free from her chest. An unpleasant, but familiar taste of iron in her mouth. Thankfully it had missed the important arteries. Her eyes followed the little goblin running for its life. At least that one had some brains. After a moment she saw Keth stalk after it, and she followed closely behind. That little shit wasn’t going to get away. They don’t want to give the box back, fine, but don’t expect them to play nice.

As Riona got to the doorway she saw the desperate look in the goblin’s eyes. Not wanting it to attack Keth out of fear, she raised her hand towards it and spoke the words for sacred flame. After a moment, she watched the white flames burst from the ground, engulfing the goblin who yelped in pain before falling to the ground. “That takes care of that…” she muttered under her breath.

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[Soap]

Aelena

HP: 31/31
Interactions: Vanira
Mentions: The fucking dragon

Glad enough that the fight was over. Aelena moved over to Riona, placing a gentle hand on her shoulder to get her attention. "Okay?" She glanced down towards her wound with sympathy, that must've hurt. Aelena was lucky not to get hit as much this fight. Well, besides the burn from earlier, but she was recovering perfectly fine.

A last pat on the shoulder to Riona before the brunette had started exploring the cavern.

A set of doors caught her attention, she went to open it by the handle before she decided maybe it'd be a bad idea to alert more Goblins that easily. Instead she opened the door slowly, peeking through a crack. Woah! That's the most gold she's ever seen in-- Her eyes widened and she closed the door as softly as possible. "Um." She backed away from the door slightly mumbling as she did. "In there, there's a..." With the fear instilled in Aelena's body, those words alone was all she could get out.

The dragon itself was even more terrifying than what she'd read in the books, and it was just asleep!

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[GinkyGotBack]

Interactions
MToki (Nala) Soap (Aelena) KingHalliwell (Keth) Vanira (Riona) Noam (Kostin)

Yes, indeed, what laid on the other side of the door was a white dragon no bigger than a bear. It was curled up on a bed of thick ice and underneath this ice was an assortment of coins, gems, and something else... Something Aelena couldn't see clearly. The dragon began to stir slightly as the half-elf peeked through the door, letting a wintry blast of air hit her, so strongly that the door nearly swung open completely. In the center of this room was a bright blue glowing circle that was 10 x 10 feet in diameter. Its purpose was unknown to Aelena and the others, but from what could be gleaned from afar it was obvious that it held some great power.

Meanwhile, the room where Keth and Riona stood was a large one, 40 x 40 feet with smooth walls. Torches hung against the walls shedding a dim light through the room, revealing seven statues arrayed near the far wall. Standing on guard was a front rank of four men-at-arms, and in the back, a noble queen flanked by a mounted knight and a small elephant carrying a siege tower on its back. The floor of this large room featured an alternating pattern of lighter and darker squares. Nala, in all his curiosity, entered the room and stepped forward to examine the statues. Walking fifteen feet forward, Nala was suddenly pushed backward as a searing pain flared in his mind as if his brain itself was on fire. Just as all this was happening, the statues on the other side of the room began to shake and tremble as their onyx limbs twitched and moved. Their heads slowly grated towards Nala, their focus set entirely on him.

The knight moved first, its horse leaping over the black pawn in front of it and dashing to its right before coming to a stop. Then the rook came to life and charged thirty feet straight forward, the elephants head moving back and forth and swinging its trunk all the way. It stopped only ten feet away from the druid, rearing up on its hind legs before placing its feet back on the ground with a heavy slam. Nala had the feeling that if he didn't move quickly, the other statues would make theirs first.​

 

[Noam]

Kostin Nemetsk
9/14 HP
Interactions: Soap
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Kostin said a very rude word in Infernal and dragged Aelena back several feet from the door. "Is that a gods-damned dragon in there?" Her voice rising to a very quiet squeak.

A guard drake was one thing. She'd seen those before, and they were nasty, but not particularly clever. You could avoid them entirely with proper planning. An actual dragon, though, was something else entirely. Kostin didn't want to die.

...that was actually the first time she'd had that thought in a good long while. I don't want to die. Huh. Put that one in my memory book.

"We need to go get the others and leave, very, very quietly," she hissed, clutching Aelena's arm. "We need to--" There was a grinding noise in the other room, and then a clatter of stone like a wall coming down. "Oh, what the fuck now?" She let go of Aelena and started towards the door.

 

[MToki]

Nala Ammil



HP 8/13

The druid, seeing the now animated statues, began to realize that he was in a lot of trouble. Nala, approaching the knight, channeled nature's power in the air around him. Sparks of static came together until it exploded in walls of lightning, hitting the statue. (7 thunder damage) Seeing as the knight was still standing, Nala was panicking. His calm demeanor, one he's developed for years, started cracking, as enemies readied their attacks against him.​

Mentions:
Interactions: GinkyGotBack

 

[Soap]

Aelena

HP: 31/31
Interactions: Kostin, Noam
Mentions: Nala, MToki

Aelena nodded towards Kostin, it was indeed a dragon, and she wasn't sure about Kostin, but it was no secret that Aelena hadn't seen one before and that was just slowly adding to her anxiety. They needed to find this box and get out of here as soon as possible. The longer they stayed in here only meant that whether or not they liked it, that dragon was going to wake up soon. Aelena's just hoping that the box is somewhere near here and no-where near there. She stood quiet as she followed her when her eyes landed on Nala...

What— was... “I... have to go help him.” Aelena told her, running out and stepping onto a bishop spot. Muttering a spell before she drew her arrow back to hit the knight, damaging him successfully

 

[KingHalliwell]

Keth​

HP: 34/34
Interactions: GinkyGotBack
Mentions: MToki

Keth watched as the Knight moved focusing on Nala. He also observed the reaction to Nala. He recalled the few time he saw the Druid in his tribe play chess. It was something they had taken from one of the places they had been, he took in his position on the field. He was directly across from where a Knight would have been if all the pieces were here. Keth walked forward two square, wincing as he expected some pain when he didn’t he stepped to the right waiting again when nothing happed he looked at Nala and nodded. He pulled one of his hand axes from his belt and launched it at the queen piece watching as it landed, chipping the stone (6 slashing damage). He readied himself for whatever came next.​

 

[Noam]

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Kostin Nemetsk
9/14 HP
Interactions: Everyone
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Kostin stopped, taking in the scene in front of her. "Chess," she muttered to herself. "It's like chess. Okay, okay." And she was on the bishop's square. Bishop goes diagonal.

She hopped forwards, towards Nala, and shot over his head towards the queen. The arrow took a chip out of her stone crown before snapping on the opposite wall. (3 piercing damage)

"Are you okay?" she said to Nala, reloading her crossbow. Raising her voice, she called out to the rest of the party. "There's a fucking dragon in the other room. We need to get out of here as fast as possible. Whatever's in that box isn't worth dying for."

 

[GinkyGotBack]

Interactions:
KingHalliwell (Keth)
Mentions:
Noam (Kostin) Vanira (Riona) Soap (Aelena) MToki (Nala)

As the adventurers made their moves, attacking the queen with bolts and thrown axes, the queen grinded forward towards Keth, unfurling its sharpened claws (15 Slashing damage). Stopping in the space in front of him, the queen reeled back her slender, onyx arms and raked her knife-like appendages across his chest. The stone cut deep into his flesh and he was racked with pain as blood and muscle began to show through his damaged armor. The queen statue whipped her hand aside, flicking the crimson liquid off her fingers as she stood still and awaited her turn.​

 

[Vanira]

Riona Oota​

HP: 10/17
Interactions: GinkyGotBack
Mentions: Keth

Riona’s smile faltered at hearing about a damn dragon, then the chess pieces move. This day has been too long. She was going to step further into the room but hesitated by the amount of people standing on it already. This all just reminded her of her sister teaching her chess and calling her too stupid to understand it. In anger, she turned to the Queen piece that just attacked Keth and called out sacred flame. Yet the chess piece managed to miss the fire. How could a stupid chess piece miss fire? She could hear the taunting voice of her sister. Oh, by all the gods, I am too stupid for this game. This was just reestablishing Riona’s hatred for chess.

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[GinkyGotBack]

Mentions:
Noam (Kostin) Vanira (Riona) Soap (Aelena) MToki (Nala) KingHalliwell (Keth)

Next up, the pawns came to life, with three of them advancing 10 feet straight forward, like soldiers marching into battle. The only one that didn't move was the one being blocked by the knight. Speaking of the knight, the mounted fighter sprung to life once again, making a beeline towards Nala before suddenly turning to its left and stopping there. The knight stared at the druid intently before standing motionless once again.​

 

[Soap]

Aelena

HP: 31/31

What the heck were these things anyway? And why attack Nala? Why were they even moving so oddly? They clearly could've just walked right up to them without any-- where they magical?

Hm, they had to be magical.

Right?

Right of course.

Aelena's mind was full with way too many questions as she knocked back an arrow, letting it go as soon as the knight moved, misdirecting her aim the arrow flew forward and it didn't hit any mark. At least she didn't hurt one of her party members...

a frown was set on her face.

Damn it.

She was never good at games.

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[KingHalliwell]

Keth​

HP: 19/34
Interactions: GinkyGotBack
Mentions:

Keth grunted as the Queen’s claws dragged through his skin. He fell to one knee pressing a hand to the wound, pulling it away wiping the blood that poured from the wound. He felt the rage bubble to the surface and burst forward. His tusk growing, his nails turning black and forming claws. He let out a roar as he stood grabbing his sword off his back and slashing across the stone of the queen (12 damage), watching as more and more of the Queen's stone body chipped away.​

 

[GinkyGotBack]

Interactions:
Noam (Kostin)
Mentions:
KingHalliwell (Keth) Soap (Aelena) MToki (Nala) Vanira (Riona)

Screeching to life, the Rook began to stampede towards Kostin and slammed its trunk into her (10 Bludgeoning damage), knocking the wind out of her for a moment. The onyx elephant stood on its hind legs, miming a victory trumpet as it froze in place to await its next turn.​

 

[Noam]

Kostin Nemetsk
0/14 HP
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Keth roared, there was a flare of sacred flame, and the floor rumbled. Kostin looked up, saw a black stone elephant rampaging towards her, and had just enough time to think Well, this is really going to hurt.

The stone trunk slammed into her ribs, tossing her back several feet. She hit the wall with an audible crunch, slumped over, and didn't get up again.

 

[MToki]

Nala Ammil



HP 8/13

Seeing Kostin fall filled Nala with a new rage. He stalked over to the knight, gripping his staff tightly, once again infusing it with nature's power. Using his anger, he whipped his staff up high and brought it down to the knight's side. (7 pts Bludgeoning Damage) The druid was definitely going to murder whatever magic user thought living chess pieces were a good idea.
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Interactions: GinkyGotBack

 

[GinkyGotBack]

Interactions:
KingHalliwell (Keth)
Mentions:
Vanira (Riona) MToki (Nala) Noam (Kostin) Soap (Aelena)

The queen sprung to life and tore its claws through Keth's chest once more (10 Slashing damage). After her work was done, the queen shifted to her right and slid herself to the edge of the room, allowing Keth an opportune moment to strike while her back was turned.​

 

[Vanira]

Riona Oota​

HP: 10/17
Interactions: Kostin Noam | Knight GinkyGotBack
Mentions:

Eyes widen as Riona watched Kostin go slump on the floor. All because of a chess piece. Chess should have never been invented it just causes emotional pain and now physical as well. Peeking around the corner and still refusing to go onto the board, Riona pointed at Kostin. “Come on get up, healing word.” Channeling more power and slightly brighter purple glow surrounded Kostin for a moment (healed 7 hp).

Turning her gaze to the Knight she held out her hand and cried out sacred flame. It only grazed the side of the Knight, unfortunately (1 hp radiant).
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