Points of Light: The Twisting Halls

[GinkyGotBack]

KingHalliwell Soap Vanira Noam MToki

The pawns across from Kostin, Aelena and Riona advanced by 5 feet, approaching the adventurers slowly but surely. No longer blocked by the knight, the pawn that hadn't yet moved forward 10 feet. However, the pawn at the bottom of the room could not move as the knight was now blocking that one.

That would not last long as the knight leapt to life and circled around Nala, moving to the southern wall of the room. Aiming its lance, the knight's arm shot forward and pierced through his robes with ease (10 Piercing damage).

 

[Soap]

Aelena

HP: 31/31
Interactions: GinkyGotBack

Aelena's eyes widened as she noticed Kostin took a fall and not get back up. Her heart started pounding with worry, she just met this group today, but that didn't mean she didn't care about them any less than she would've for anyone else. Even though they hardly know each other, this is the most she's ever felt like she actually had friends and she wasn't ready to lose that just yet. Raising her bow towards the knight, she pulled back on her string and sliently prayed, calming her nerves and hoping that this'd actually hit.

Thankfully, it worked.

A relief breath escaped her as the knight crumbled to the floor, the arrow striking in a vulnerable crack making it shatter into pieces. Thanks to Riona, Kostin seemed to be alive and well, but if they wanted to keep it that way they needed to eliminate these dumb things and Aelena felt more confident in a game where she can count on her team.

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[KingHalliwell]

Keth​

HP: 14/34
Interactions: GinkyGotBack
Mentions:

Keth saw his chance as the queen moved away from him. He pulled his axe back and swung across the Queen’s stony exterior. Cleaving a large chunk out of the stone (12 damage). Once the queen was out of range he turned and surveyed the battlefield. Looking for his next enemy realizing that he couldn’t quite get the queen he stepped up to the rook and brought the axe down on him. (20 Damage)​

 

[GinkyGotBack]

Interactions:
KingHalliwell (Keth)

Almost as in response to Keth's attack, the elephant rook sprung to life and countered with a slam of its trunk against the half-orc's torso (13 Bludgeoning damage). The rook stayed where it was, having no intention of moving from its spot as its animated limbs began to screech to a halt to pose as a statue once more.​

 

[Noam]

Kostin Nemetsk
7/14 HP
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The same healing magic as before sank into her body, and Kostin jerked back into consciousness. She coughed, tasted stone and blood in the back of her throat, and rolled over.

The floor was littered with stone shards, and the knight was gone. The rest of the party was spread out around the room, still facing off against several other chess pieces. Kostin saw the stone elephant poised over Keth, its trunk reared back. She fumbled for her crossbow and fired off a hasty shot, but the arrow flew wide and skittered off on the floor somewhere. Snarling, she hurried to reload, standing up and bracing her back against the wall.

 

[MToki]

Nala Ammil



HP 0/13

Nala, reveling in the fact that he actually seemed to hurt the knight pretty badly, was terrified to see the living statue circle around and raise his lance. He watched his life flash before his eyes as the weapon pierced through his robes and flesh like butter. The druid crumpled to the ground, falling unconscious.
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[GinkyGotBack]

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

Chunks of the black stone that made up the queen began to crack and fall off as it moved. Turning in place, the statue positioned itself to face Kostin and started charged diagonally at her with claws at the ready. Lunging its arms out, the queen tried to stab all of its claws into the Tiefling who managed to duck out of the way just in time. Looking up, Kostin would see that its hands had pierced through the stone walls behind her and had gotten stuck. As the statue struggled to pull them out, it started to become inanimate as its turn had ended, leaving her only weapons trapped for when its turn came next.​

 

[Vanira]

Riona Oota​

HP: 10/17
Interactions: Nala MToki | Queen GinkyGotBack
Mentions:

It didn’t take long before Riona saw yet another one of her companions fall to the ground. This time it was Nala. Sucking in a breath, Riona held up her hand and casted another healing word. Nala was surrounded by the familiar purple light (healed 5hp). Seeing him stir to consciousness she focused her attention to the Queen and casted sacred flame at the statue. It hit the statue but only barely (1hp radiant).

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[GinkyGotBack]

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

Although one pawn was unable to move with the broken remains of the Knight statue in front of it, the others made their slow advance towards the party. One pawn stopped in front of the freshly rejuvenated Nala and deanimated, slipping back into its frozen state. However, one Pawn that stood diagonally from Keth had raised its sword to attack and smacked the barbarian with the flat of its stone blade (3 Bludgeoning damage). The half orc's primal fury would cause him to ignore most of the damage, fortunately, leaving him not nearly as injured as he might have been from the attack.​

 

[Soap]

Aelena

HP: 31/31
Interactions: GinkyGotBack

It was happening too fast-- first Kostin fell unconscious, Keth got hurt, Nala dropped to the floor. Aelena's head was spinning with worry; she just met these people! How could she let them die? She was supposed to be helping and to her knowledge she was doing all of nothing! Fear rose in her chest and for a split second a sudden burst of confidence flowed through her, pulling her bow up for another time with small amount of bravery letting out a shaky breath as the aimed for the queen, pulling back the string so tightly it had made blood on her hands.

That's this game worked right?

Once the queen was dead, it was over.

It had to be over.

Her arrow flew with high velocity and much to her surprise, strike. Shattering the game piece into, well... pieces.

 

[KingHalliwell]

Keth​

HP: 11/34
Interactions: Everyone
Mentions:

Keth glanced over at the rest of his party. They were a lot worse for wear. Keth was confused, everything had stopped moving, nothing made a move to attack. But Chess wasn’t over until the king was captured. The only problem was there was no King. There was a spot for him on the board, but it sat empty. “What should we do?” He asked, “There is no king for us to take out to end the game.” He was afraid to move, fearing the repercussions of moving. He pulled his greataxe up and held it at the ready to attack any stone piece that moved in the range of his attack.
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[GinkyGotBack]

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

Just as Keth had predicted, the Rook once again came to life ready to trample on anyone in its way. As it turned to face Aelena, rearing back to crush her beneath its stone feet, Keth swung his greataxe at its hind legs. Cleaving through the surprisingly brittle stone, the rest of the statue fell to the ground and shattered into pieces. Perhaps without the Queen, the other chess pieces had become weaker as a result? Regardless, all that stood in between the party and the doors on the other side of the room now were four pawns that could only move forward.​

 

[Noam]

Kostin Nemetsk
7/14 HP
Interactions: MToki
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With the queen and the rook destroyed, only the pawns stood at the end of the room. Kostin drew her sword and stabbed at one of them. To her surprise, the blade pierced the stone easily, and it crumbled at her feet."The pawns aren't as tough as the others," she called to the others. "Maybe if we smash them all, that'll end it, no king required."

Nala was still looking a little rough. Kostin sheathed her sword, walked over to him, and offered him a hand up, carefully avoiding eye contact.

 

[Noam]

7/14 HP
Interactions: Vanira

With the pawns defeated, Kostin left Nala to recover his dignity. She picked through the rubble towards Riona. “All this for whatever sketchy shit Traevus was hauling,” she grumbled. As if she hadn’t traded in sketchy shit for most of her life. “I have half a mind to ask for bonus pay.”

 

[Vanira]

Riona Oota​

HP: 10/17
Interactions: Kostin Noam
Mentions:​

Riona looked over at Kostin and sighed, finally taking a step on the chess board. "Maybe what is inside that box is worth more." She bit her lower lip as she glanced around at her companions. She wondered if she might have put her foot in her month but there was no going back now. "Maybe we can take a look once we get it? With some good lockpicking I am sure the old dwarf won't know the difference." Riona shrugged as she walked over, making sure all of her companions were in....decent condition before heading towards the other door the pawns were protecting.

 

[KingHalliwell]

Keth

HP: 11/34
Interactions: Vanira
Mentions: Noam Soap MToki GinkyGotBack

Keth shook the rage from his system, before joining the group, “As is if that grumpy old dwarf would give us bonus pay.” He answered. put a hand on Riona’s shoulder, grabbing her attention before she started to mess with the door. “We should all rest,” He explained, “we're not going to get far if we don’t.” Turning to the rest of the group. “It's late, we could set up a watch and take a long rest if you guys agree or settle for a short rest.”