Log:Rift Crisis II, Scene 16

Rift Crisis II 2019/05/31 Laurel Moonshadow The Stranger Titan Ghravvruhs

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This scene follows on directly from Scene 11.

Kalwara is not going to make the mistake of engaging the ice elementals hand to ice, so she selects one, and might as well be the one she knocked off its feet. Pointing her sword at the elemenntal she shouts "Wara." (Wing in her native tongue. As she does a powerful blast of wind comes from the blade directed at the elemental.)

The living block of ice slides backwards over the metal floor.

Having been warned of the spells and enchantments weaved upon his enemies, even Nohrbor is wary about leaping in bodily into the fray though fear has not touched his spirit.

The Stranger reaches out with his mind and takes hold of a particularly heavy looking chair, hoping to smash it upon Ghravvruhs directly.

The demon spots the attack coming and tries to shield Gravvruhs with its wing.

Moonshadow casts Flare upon the demon.

The stone chair begins glowing with telekinetic energy as its hurled by Nohrbor Nanuran Surryx, The Stranger.

The Demon's wing intersects the heavy chair before it breaks apart with a loud crash.

Nohrbor Nanuran Surryx sneers and finds his next target.

Moonshadow fires off her spell just as the demon moves to protect it's master from The Stranger's thrown chair, and misses.

The demon shields itself from the magic light and roars as if in pain, even though it wasn't struck!

Titan steps forward toward the ice elementals, growing to his full eight meter height as he walks. He's just barely able to fit in the room, with its arching ceiling. He then attempts to palm the head of the elemental, intending to throw it across the room as soon as he can.

The sound of grinding ice emerges from Titan's hand.

Ghravvruhs regains his feet and his dignity - but on seeing Titan grow to giant size, he decides that more reinforcements may be needs. He chants in some eldritch tongue the beginnings of another summoning spell.

The elemental Titan is holding tries to break free of his grasp.

The elemental Kalwara attacked slides back toward her and attempts to engulf her!

One elemental launches an icicle at the Stranger.

The last shoots a massive snowball at Laurel.

The Stranger deftly ducks beneath the icicle.

Kalwara has seen magi casting spells before. She remembers the advice of her ranger training instructor on the subject. "Smack they in the mouth." So that's waht she tries to do, running over to the mage and slicing down with her blade in a slashing cut at his face.

Kalwara's blade is blocked by a blade which seems to be formed out of its own darkness.

The Stranger laughs outloud, clearly starting to enjoy himself a bit- shurking his human disguise with his manner, though not his form.

"HA- these enslaved beasts serve you well Wizard. But I will break these and your toys first- then you." He smiles wildly at Ghravvruhs as he begins glowing with telekinetic energy.

Fields are erected along his arms and back, tracing his skeleton looking like lapping waves of some impossible flame.

He charges one of the demon's headon.

The demon is knocked back some 8m, but lands on his feet. He roars in pain again!

Moonshadow tries Flare again, this time on the mage.

The demon blocks the light attack with extended shadow tentacles - with then vanish. The demon howls! And collapses to the ground in pain.

Titan tries to pick up the held ice elemental and smash it into another one of their number, away from his allies.

The two elementals are hit together so hard they melt briefly where they meet, causing them to stick together a little.

The sorcerer-king seems worried by what happened to his demomic bodyguard. He seems to change faster still, and a rift appeats amid the summoning circle, from which an ice-cold wind is immediately felt.

Titan shouts as he smashes the two elementals together, and letting go of the one he was holding. "You picked the wrong dimension to try to invade!"

Two elementals blast at Titan with a snow flurry - as they pull themselves apart from each other.

One elemental again tries to blast the Stranger.

Titan withstands the blasts of cold, apparently not even registering it.

"But take heart Wizard-" The Stranger says boldly. "Your schemes seem to provide good sport for beings such as we!" He laughs again, telekinetic energy blazing along his form.

The elemental's blast goes wide- he doesn't even glance its way.

The last tries to engulf Kalwara again.

Ghravvruhs ignores the taunts, intent on his summoning...

Kalwara tries again now the demon is out of the way. Reversing the swing of her blade she slices up and across aiming for the magi's neck.

Ghravvruhs's voice cracks as Kalwara strikes his throat, interrupting his spell!

The rift, about man-sized now, remains open.

Seeing his plaything getting his senses back Nohrbor Nanuran Surryx can do only one thing! Hit it again of course!

The Stranger charges the demon-again, leaving a trail of telekinetic and spiritual energies in his wake as he cross the gap between them.

At the last second the distance between the ground and his feet increases and he launces a spinning heel kick at the demon's face.

Moonshadow flies over to the demon and casts Moonlight.

The demon howls in pain once more at the bright light.

Kalwara runs to a wall, and then up it, her momentum stifficent to allow her to climb the wall to the ceiling above the magi. Pointing down with her sword she once again summons a fierce wind

The sorceror is knocked to hands and knees by the force of the blast.

As the wind slams the magi down into the floor Kalwara's slowing speed ses her falling from the ceiling, tucking and turning to land on her feet.

The demon, feeling its very self being torn apart by the cursed being of light, takes to its wings and hurls itself bodily at it: kill or be killed.

Attacking a blinded adversary is hardly sporting, so Nohrbor Nanuran Surryx glances around the battlefield for another target to apply his will & might to when out of the corner of his eye the Demon stands to its feet and charges Moonshadow. He leaps without a thought, getting between the demon and Moonshadow- taking the full brunt of the blow head on & bouncing off the demon and into the air.

He goes on to strike the ceiling with great force, cracking it and causing chips of the sruface to plummet back to earth with Nohrbor Nanuran Surryx in tow.

He falls limply to the ground- completely unconscious.

Titan reaches out and tries to backhand the shadow demon...attempting to swat it out of the air.

The demon goes flying back against the far wall, its worldly form torn up into little bits of shadow that then dissolve as its spirit flees back to its home plane.

Titan shouts again, toward the mage, "Surrender! Otherwise, I'm bringing this whole place down!"

Titan causes the very ice elementals to tremble in fear. But not the sorcerer. He laughs, pulling himself to his feet. "You fools, know you not who I am? I am the Ice Wolf, who cannot fall but by the hand of the heir of Brun. You cannot defeat me. And even now my forces are ensuring that the line of Brun is forever eradicated! I retreat for the moment, yes, but the war is mine!

The sorcerer-king retreats though the rift before the heroes can react!

The elementals, no longer bent to the will of the absent sorcerer, themselves head toward the rift and the eternal cold of home.

Moonshadow says, "So how do we close this rift?"

Titan doesn't try to stop the elementals from leaving. Instead...he relaxes a little and shifts back to normal size. "I have no idea how we close it. I mean...we could plug hte hole with a table or something.

The problem is solved in seconds, when Ghravvruhs closes the rift from the far side to prevent being followed.

With Ghravvruhs gone, the magical anchor holding the two world together vanishes too. Parts of the castle begin to vanish, indicating that the heroes might want to evacuate the island or risk ending up on the wrong world when things return to normal....

Moonshadow says, "We should get out of here. Can I give anyone a lift?"

Nohrbor Nanuran Surryx, the Stranger lays face down on the ground for !Sorry got foo'd

He ebegins to rustle as the worlds begin to seperate.

"I don't think I've been hit that hard since Fxlaxertasian-9." The Stranger says as he stands to his feet and takes to the air. He begins to laugh as if that is just the height of a good party. "Do not tell me that I missed the whole battle!" he says looking around.

Kalwara scoops up the Stranger and runs out of the castle and back to safe ground on the far end of the bridge.

Titan moves quickly as well, flying out...and switching to leaping when there's enough clearance to do so.

The Ice Wolf's castle is in confusion, not least because the resident elementals are no longer bound to their master's will. This leads to a certain amount of infighting. The heroes face no organised opposition.

Moonshadow flies out, following the others.

Kalwara smiles as the heroes regroup a safe distance away. "That was a glorious fight. I would be honored to stand at your shoulders again if you even require my presence."

The ice giants begin to restore some order in the end, but by then the heroes are long gone. The castle continues to be replaced by what should be there, as do the troops from Chinatown as they flee across the iced-up bay.

Titan smiles. "Thank you. And...everyone...well done. Turned out pretty well, I think." He tilts his head, "I should probably check on Kihzra, I think."