Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
Reaping Ruin
Eleventh Day of the Ninth Month 294 AC
Out of the corner of your eye you catch a glimpse of Oathkeeper expending its own magic to heal its bearer, but your eye is fixed upon the foe before you, he must not have a chance to strike...
Ser Richard heals 17 Damage
(Ser Richard at 90/211 HP and 35 Temp HP)
The bolt of black desiccating power flies directly at Garin as he stands under the shadow of the giant, but you are ready for it. A wall of light rises between them, just wide enough to catch the blow, yet offering no cover from his blades. Yet even as the spell fizzles the mage is not daunted. Hollow eyes behind a mask of brass meet yours...
Time warps and roils, first a ripple, too quick to counter, then a sea change no senses, even yours, can feel, though one would have to be blind and deaf to miss the foes the tide brings. The mage now stands more than fifty feet from his guards and surrounded instead by four titanic beasts of fire and molten stone. Low slung, they are like hounds of some dread god and just as loyal to their makers as any mastiff.
The belt of iron and adamant around his waist shines with familiar power, his fingers click together like some mechanical monstrosity, and magic unseen and unknown twists and writhes in the space between you like serpents each trying to swallow the other. For a moment you think you have the upper hand, but then the spell surges in a knotwork of strange energies and slips into being...Withering flame that does not shine falls over you and all your company, and your life burns at its touch like dry kindling...
You, Ser Richard, and Garin take 66 Damage
(Ser Richard 62/211
Garin at 156/222
Viserys at 159/225)
For you and Garin the curse is grievous, but one you can endure, for Ser Richard it is nearly his death. The sizzling sound as the knight spits blood on the hot floor is dreadful to hear, and alas, you are not the only one with ears to hear it. The giant who had been lending his shield and his life to ward his master now raises a hammer festooned with runes of sundering.
Yet he is too eager, too sure of his kill as the knight darts aside from the blow that shakes the hall and then cuts at the giant's armored wrist, thinking to sever it. The blow has not the strength to cut through adamant and rune-scored flesh, yet still the foe recoils enough for he knight to lunge and deal a blow to its already wounded leg.
The howl of the giant is even louder than the blow of its hammer had been, but by spite and stubbornness he does not fall, at least not until Garin, graceful as the reaper's scythe, jumps forth and cuts a second smile under its chin. Finally, like a mountain collapsing in avalanche, the giant dies.
And that is when you realize the mage had not fled merely for fear of Garin's daggers or Ser Richard's blade...
Even as Oathkeeper's bloodied blade again surges with the light of stolen life to heal its bearer, the runes upon the dying giant flash so bright they seer the eye and the light explodes outward in a wave of soundless death that envelops your friends, breaking bone and tearing flesh.
Ser Richard heals 20 Damage
Ser Richard and Garin take 68 Damage
(Ser Richard 14/211
Garin at 88/222
Viserys at 159/225)
The armored mage laughs, the sound hollow, like a great bell deep underground. "Behold the King of the Garden, Great Dragon Returned and Lord of all he surveys. Rich shall be my reward when I bring your skull before the Throne of Iblis whom I served of old."
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OOC: Viserys cannot see Death Throes on the other giant which means it had it as contingency the way you guys have heal, so when it drops below a certain amount of HP the spell triggers and then when it dies explosion time. Also that did not feel like Mythic time stop, just the regular kind. Not yet edited
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Here's an edited version of the chapter, @DragonParadox.
