The Good News: The second test given to Mage to prove that he is the reincarnation of Dagda the Good, a hunting trip, turned out to be a ruse by 'Queen Mab' so that you and she could talk privately.

In actuality Queen Mab is Maxine Rollands, an elf who believes in the cause of the Fey Court, but has a greater belief in securing personal power and comfort for herself. She was willing to hand over control of the Fey Court, in exchange for some political deals, and a 'retirement plan' for herself.

After a little haggling and deal making, you agreed.

Bad News: Comedy's trap turned out to be her leading a squad of Citadel Soldiers to capture/kill all of you. Thankfully, you and Julian managed to fast talk your way out of that conflict...which then spilled into another as Comedy's back up plan of 'Just Kill All Of Them' came into effect.

You all ran into the woods to escape the monsters that Comedy had summoned, only to find yourself lost in the woods. Comedy arrived to taunt you, semi-revive Donovan again, and tell you that you were now trapped in the Dramatae's Grove of Joy.

You wandered with Lea, searching for you lost companions, when you happened upon the Corpse Quarry. The dumping site where all dead bodies that 'vanished' from Citadel ended up. They were being fed to a giant semi-magical/semi-mechanical construct that you called Citadel's Maw. The Maw broke down the bodies to their base elements, and used them to nourish crops, feed animals, and construct more Citadel.

The Fifth, or the Original Spirt of the Land, arrived to inform you of this. Also to make another plea for you to reinstate them as the dominant power. Once more you refused, and once more the Fifth took it calmly. They also reunited you with your companions.

Now you stare out at that pulsing red monstrosity of metal and stone, across a sea of corpses. This may not be Citadel's heart...but it's still a major organ.

Hello again, echo!

Okay, let me throw out some priorities for us to think on.

1. Everyone else gets to use boots for walking on the corpse pile, not fair
2. Are those other guys okay? Mab and the elves and the soldiers?
3. We have a woodland compass now, we can totally get somewhere
4. Get like, a sandwich for Ssen at some point, that's a full day of missed meals by my count
5. Deal with that sandworm before it rampages
5. (optional a) use lightmare in a pokemon battle with the sandworm

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>>25097499
oh, and I forgot
6. smash everything and set this ENTIRE PLACE on fire. Burn it to the ground. We've not had a fire in a while.

>>25097499
"So..." Peri asks. "Who's going in there first?"

"Hang tight." Mage says, he steps forwards and puts his hands up in mid-air. "There's a spell here, at the border of the pit."

You check with your eyes, yep, he's right. There's a shimmering wall of magic there. It goes along the entire side of the corpse quarry.

Mage takes his staff and swings it through the air. It passes through with no issues. Then he swiftly pokes his arm in and then back out. Nothing happens.

He shrugs. "Okay, so...I have no idea what this is, but it's not a barrier. I think. At least it's not stopping anything from coming in or out."

>>25097752
"It probably only eats things in there. Which means this would have... some risk to it."

"Or it could be some mind affecting thing, which means we'd need a person out here to pull whoever goes in there back."

>>25097791
"It probably only eats things in there. Which means this would have... some risk to it."

"Or it could be some mind affecting thing, which means we'd need a person out here to pull whoever goes in there back." You say.

"Oooh! Oooh!" Mage waves his hand.

"You're needed to figure out how to smash the Maw appropriately." Tricia says.

"Fine." He grumbles.

>>25097865
"Mmmmaybe two people. With the woodsman's compass, on account of us getting seperated. One of you has that, right? I do not, and it's been a bit disconcerting.

I nominate Lea and Peri, as our two most generally athletic members. I'm assuming it's you two who managed to drag me out of the inn way back."

>>25097964
unless we don't want lea seperated from us? I assume it's fine if we have peri/meri there, but maybe not?

Sorta hope some people show up for me to bounce ideas off here.

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You're nearly late Echo.

Also I figured something out about the paladin gems. Paladins worship His Light and wear those gems that are colored to signify what order they are a part of. If you take it a bit literally our order as one of the oldest uses a clear gem and we have done many of the duties the other orders have. Now the interesting part is if you take the idea of his Light a bit literal. His light encomasses all things, and if you split the light through a prism you get the colors of the rainbow and split duties.

Hope that made sense.

>>25097964
"Mmmmaybe two people. With the woodsman's compass, on account of us getting separated. One of you has that, right? I don't, and it's been a bit disconcerting." You say.

Peri rummages around in her pack and pulls another compass out. This one is covered in green-tinted bronze. "Is this it?"

Lea takes it. She looks at the treeline and nods. "Yes...this is it."

"Alright, I nominate Lea and Peri, as our two most generally athletic members. I'm assuming it's you two who managed to drag me out of the inn way back."

Peri points at Lea.

"Alright." Mage sighs. "Let's get this ovAUUGH!" He gags as his head crosses over the barrier and he stagges back, gasping for air. "Uhh..." He drops to the ground and nearly heaves.

"What happened?" Tricia asked.

"Smell...air...urlp..." He vomits onto the ground.

Tricia looks at you and then goes over to the wall, she sticks her hand through the barrier and then instally pulls it back.

"Oh, by the Light!" She gags. "Ugh...I can smell it through my SKIN." She shudders. "Decomposition fumes, methane, and the smell, by the Light, the SMELL." She shakes her head. "It's unbearable. I doubt anyone could last five minutes in there."

>>25098123
Makes a bit of sense. ARE there paladins of every color? I can't recall.

Reds for war, oranges for administration, blues for police, green for... tree... guards? Something like that? I can't remember. I can't remember yellow either.

But violet was the paladin-law, and they're temporarily disbanded. which worries me.

>>25098182
Never said there were ones for every color, that would be a little silly. But that's my idea

>>25098137
wait, the spell holds in all the gasses, including copious amounts of methane?

stand waaaaay back and shoot a fire arrow in there, boom if there is enough methane.

>>25098137
"Haha, okay, I see what's going on here. Good thing I've not eaten. So, let's see... We could try imprompdu masks, if we don't mind tearing up some perfectly good traditional elven hunting gear a bit. It wouldn't help much.

Do, uh, we want to replace the smell of rot with the smell of burnt rot? We could if we wanted. It's really a preference thing. Fires have been known to clear out bad smells."

>>25098281
That's insane anon. I like it.

>>25098340
well, it fits nicely into part 6 of my plan

"Haha, okay, I see what's going on here. Good thing I've not eaten. So, let's see... We could try impromptu masks, if we don't mind tearing up some perfectly good traditional elven hunting gear a bit. It wouldn't help much.

"Do, uh, we want to replace the smell of rot with the smell of burnt rot? We could if we wanted. It's really a preference thing. Fires have been known to clear out bad smells." You say.

"Uhh...we should get behind a tree then...or in a ditch." Mage says.

You all head pretty far back, and get behind a tree that's also past a small dip in the ground.

Mage takes careful aim with his staff. Takes a deep breath, and shoots a fireball. He then hits the dirt. The flaming sphere hurtles through the air and...stops mid-air as it smacks into the barrier.

"Huh." He says.

"Let me try." Mari says. She wraps one of her bolts in oil-soaked cloth and has Mage hold up a flame. She shoots through the flame, the oil lights, and the blot soars through the air, reaches the barrier...and the flame instantly goes out the moment it hits it. The bolt sails through and thuds into one of the dead bodies.

Peri comes out. "Okay, my turn." She fishes around the ground for a small rock, and uses a dagger to carve a rune into it. "Mage? A little juice please."

Mage charges the rock and the rune glows red. "Let's see if this works." She chucks the rock.

It passes through the barrier...you all tense waiting for the fire rune to detonate...and...nothing.

"I hate it when these bastards do smart things." Peri says.

"Ten to one, Rage thought this one up." Tricia says.

so, am I the only one who feels that this is ALL building up to isen riding in and saving the day?

With a battallion of longgunmen?

QUESTION:

Wasn't there a note that the Dawnchasers found in the tower with the dead Lamia that indicated something about how Liam Patrick could have succeeded if he tried redeeming the Heart of Citadel instead of destroying it?

I don't exactly remember the details, but it might be worth checking back to see if that was the case.

>>25098503
but this isn't the Heart. so lets fuck it up. maybe if we put a blast stone inside the barrier then activate it?

>>25098501
"Great, looks like we're going in. Unless one of you has any brilliant ideas on how to smash a magic barrier. Appreciate your boots, ladies and elf kings, no matter how silly they are."

Mutter about the fairness of life while entering corpsepile. If we're lucky, rotting meat isn't SO bad for lamias, smellwise.

Also, if everyone starts dropping from corpse-gas-poisoning, maybe we should loner this one.

>>25098581
>>25098503
this is like, the stomach or mouth. I am completely fine with giving the citadel a broken jaw.

Forever.

Fuck your soul eating, if we're redeeming you, you don't get to do that any more.

Honestly using corpses as fertilizer isn't all that bad. But ya most people would prefer not to.

>>25098581

Here it is:

>I have made a study of my fall, though, and I have learned my biggest mistake. There was another option. Past Tallows' insistence that the 'Fifth' take over, no idea how, and past the idea of letting Citadel starve to death or to rip The Heart out and collapse the entire thing. There is a way to prevent the deaths.

>Free Citadel.

This is the stomach of Citadel, or how it gets its nourishment. Perhaps some discretion is necessary, here? It may be that Citadel is being force-fed souls and corpses to make it become huge and bloated. Although... freeing Citadel may involve taking the force-feeding tube out of its mouth so it can attempt to find another way to sustain itself other than with the corpses of the dead and souls.

>>25098673
Look, it's not the corpses that is the matter. I don't mind plotting those into the ground to be one with nature or whatever.

It's the mass grave/soul eating.

>>25098700
The souls are taken upon death. These are just the bodies.

Our plan is to ROLL that piece of shit out of here if at all possible so we can deal with it in a non-corpse-stank zone.

Everyone agree?

>>25098691

Here's the rest of the message for posterity's sake:

>To be exact. ALL of Citadel has to be set free. That is how we could have won.

>Of course, it matters little now. I sit here, and there is no answer. I hear Ssen out there, having difficulties hunting actually...maybe that is my answer.

>Should anyone find this, and it makes no sense, burn this letter, or use it for some other use or toilet paper. But...if an Occuli or, by the Light I pray, the Caligo Clarus find this. Then when you reach the Heart of Citadel, and you can break all those barriers and spells that surround it, and if you can beat the Dramatae...free Citadel from itself.

>>25098710
I dunno, I think this thing is intrinsically related to the souleating. Breaking it is a good idea.

"Great, looks like we're going in. Unless one of you has any brilliant ideas on how to smash a magic barrier. Appreciate your boots, ladies and elf kings, no matter how silly they are." You say.

Mage shakes his head. "Ssen, there's no way that we can get through there." He puts a hand to his mouth. "The air's not breathable."

"We can do it." Tricia says. "Don't you have a spell that can blow wind around us or something?"

Mage sighs and shrugs. "Once more, I cannot solve all of our problems with a simple wave of my staff!"

Tricia winces. "Sorry, you're right."

Mage sighs and shrugs. "It's fine, it's fine...I could just Ghoul Magic to shut down our noses."

"That can't be healthy." Lea says.

"It's not, but that's what I got." Mage says.

"Umm, what about Julian, Mab, and all the others that were with us?" Mari asks. "Maybe we should hang back on this and look for them?"

>>25098774
How big is this thing? We know it's as deep as a mountain, but how wide? Wide as our hometown, was the descriptor?

Low long does a slither in and out of our hometown take, for reference? They might be right.

>>25098774
Well, fire's out. What about cloudkill? Would that do anything, I wonder?

>>25098881
shit is just mustard gas man. won't do squat

>>25098774
"Stop sounding so darn convincing, darnit. You might even be right on this one.

Do you think we'll even be able to get back here if we leave? That compass is supposed to handle it, right?"

I'm trying to think of a punnish way to tell our friends to set things on fire on the way out because fuck comedy, btu I can't think of it.

>>25098937
er, erase one of those darnits.

That's redundant that is, and I am ashamed.

>>25098881

Well, we've seen that flames entering the barrier are immediately extinguished. Probably applies for mundane flames as well. It may extend all types of magic that cause detonation or rapid heating.

Although.... what if we were to start a spark or reaction within the barrier? All it would take is some rock scraping against another rock hard enough, or like an exotic species of insect that can cause immense amounts of heat as a defense mechanism. Like a bombardier beetle or something.

There might be some potential in creating a chemical reaction inside the barrier that is vastly exothermic, but I don't know if chlorine gas can react with methane or any other stuff in there to do something like that.

>>25098975
I think the best we can hope for is starting a spark inside.

which is... dangerous as fuck. We'd have to outrun an explosion if it works.

>>25098774
Doesn't Beacon have anti-magic properties? If we set the tip on fire and poke it through the barrier, would that work?

>>25098975
Methane is highly inflammable at the right mixture with air. And we don't ACTUALLY know what our poison contains, do we? It may be possible that the trick would have an unknown effect.

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>>25099063
Try it. Then do this

>>25099053
Do decomposing bodies produce methane? if so, we need a delayed method of starting a spark from inside the barrier

>>25099087
we have to be willing to entertain the possibility we CAN'T burn off the corpse gas, and need to either hurry and get in there and break it or go after mab and the others.

and we really need to save mab and the others. I say we go, after one more arson attempt.

>>25099063
Dunno, but I somehow doubt it.
>>25099053
Outrun an explosion? Yeah, bad idea.

I'm thinking rain. Rain has a tendency to settle gases and particulate matter, and it's the opposite trick from what Rage clearly anticipated.

>>25099112
Yeah, I think going after the others would be best.

I guess we can ask Tricia if there are any interesting bugs that live around here that could set shit off

>>25099123
You are smart and I like you.

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We've run into the adventure game portion of lamia quest, where we rub everything on everything to get a solution to a problem.

"A few more tries, then we'll get going. The satisfaction of breaking citadel's maw can wait until after we save some innocent... revolutionary terrorists, conscript soldiers, and rogue royalty. Huh. Strange day."

>>25099145
Thanks. Only question is can Mage do it?

Wait a second I've got something!

A bit of googling has revealed that methane reacts explosively with chlorine when exposed to visible light. Cloud kill is pretty much agreed on to be mustard gas, and that contains chlorine.

It makes sense to me...

>>25099266
Entirely true. So, produce some of the three venoms, mix them in a jar, close the jar, throw it through the barrier so it breaks.

>>25099266
we'll try hucking some cloud kill in there, and try setting flame directly in there. If those don't work, we out-y. agreed?

Unless mage can make it rain for his bitches, but he's not pimp enough to do that.

>>25099294
I think we can spit it even, and don't need the jar?

Echo didn't specify how, exactly, we threw the cloudkill. but we can.

"Stop sounding so darn convincing, darnit. You might even be right on this one.

"Do you think we'll even be able to get back here if we leave? That compass is supposed to handle it, right?"

Mage looks at the compass and nods. "The Woodsman Compass, if I'm understanding this correctly, isn't a finder like the Hunter's or the Miner's but it's a dispel artifact. It'll keep the magic from separating us, or spinning us around."

"And with the light from the Maw," Mari says. "We should be able to GET DOWN!" She yells.

You all hit the ground at the same time as a bolt of black-colored fire sails over all of you.

"Some would find your continued refusal to die exceptionally insulting." A voice says. "I know Comedy thought leaving you here to rot was appealing and gave her a Citadel boost...but I'm just sick of you freaks."

You look up. Tragedy is walking towards you. He's got a white mask on, and it, along with his hands are crackling with energy. "So, no tricks, no clever plans, just me killing you with overwhelming force."

"I was thinking the same exact thing, actually." Tricia says to you quietly.

Tragedy points his hand out at the corpse quarry, and you see a flare of magic...the ground starts to rumble.

"Oh, what new fresh Darkness is THIS going to be?" Peri asks.

>>25099266

Somehow, setting the air on fire seems to strike me as a bad idea. Especially when the methane is so plentiful that the Dawnchasers can smell it from their presumably fairly far-off vantage point.

>>25099312

Legion of corpses, fallen army, army of the dead, etc.

How blase.

>>25099307
We can indeed spit it. Let's.

>>25099312
The above. Start hocking up a cloudkill loogie to spit on the corpsepile.

...how strange our lives have become.

>>25099312
"Oh, he's going to make a giant monster made out of dead people. 5 gold on that."

>>25099350
Sorry, this is me, sans name.

>>25099320
it is contained in the barrier I thought...
>>25099312
Cloudkill lougie into the maw!

>>25099312
"Hey tragedy, we've been looking for you! I've got some very pointed remarks that robin and his crew would like me to relay to you."

Shit we need a one liner for this..

And I will kill you with minimal force! *spit poison into the maw*

>>25099312
"Tragedy, you aren't even worth my spit. But here's some anyway."

Time to toast the corpses.

>>25099418
>"I've got some very pointed remarks for you"
Is that good enough? It's all I got.

we're going to stab him is the joke.

>>25099312
"Oh look, you're alive. What a tragedy that is."

>>25099312
Assuming we manage to be a spitfire and set off a corpsebomb, we can take advantage of the distraction to try to wrap Tragedy.

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>>25099503
>spitfire
ohohoho

hee hee hee

HOO HOO

oh my, this will be good.

"Oh, he's going to make a giant monster made out of dead people. 5 gold on that." You say.

You get up. "Hey Tragedy, we've been looking for you! I've got some very pointed remarks that Robin and his crew would like me to relay to you."

"Spare me." Tragedy says. He walks over to the Corpse Quarry and...jumps in.

The rumbling increases, and a giant sphere of corpses rises out of the mass. It's huge. As big as four houses arrange in a cube. It hovers over the Corpse Quarry.

"Okay, giant sphere is not a giant monster." Tricia says.

You see the section of the sphere closes to you slowly start to glow. "We should already be running." Mage says.

So, who thinks tragedy absolutely could not stand it if we knocked him into the stench field?

Then we could fight to keep him in there. It would also prevent him from being able to cast fire at us.

>>25099628
Cloud Kill spit to light him up?

>>25099628
"Spheres can be monsters. You're just trying to welch!

Oh, and TAKE COVER!"

>>25099667
Yeah, still worth a try.

>>25099696
>>25099667

can we take cover first? He's like charging a beam or some shit. We can charge our spit for three rounds behind cover anyway.

>>25099713
Can we charge and move at the same time?

>>25099713
Yes, we definitely should. But yeah, we need to start prepping it.

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>>25099727
you got me!

>>25099743
We still got to use the on-liner before we hit him

Get running. Try to find a rock or tree or something. Perhaps pull whomever is slowest along with you. Or whomever trips.

Gonna use spitting corbas as a base for spitting poison ability. Wikipedia says that they can spit up to 6 feet and the largest species is about that length. Assuming size = range, we've got a range of about 20 feet, more if our increased mass gives us additional force.

"Spheres can be monsters. You're just trying to welch!

"Oh, and RUN AND TAKE COVER!" You scream.

You all run. The sphere crosses over the barrier, there's a lord humming noise, and the a CRACK! And you're all hurled forwards by the impact.

Slowly you pull yourself up. You look behind you. A giant crater is behind you, and some of the trees are on fire.

"How are we supposed to FIGHT that thing?!" Lea asks as she pulls herself up.

"It's not stopping!" Peri yells.

"It's getting ready to fire again!" Mage points at a spot on the sphere where you see the glow again.

You start to generate the triple poison ball in your mouth.

You can run deeper into the woods. You can try to run along the exposed ridge of the Corpse Quarry. You can try to run UNDER the sphere. Or you can run towards that spot you discovered earlier, with the rhythmic metal on metal sounds and large magic glow.

And from now on, you'll need to roll to avoid getting blasted by the sphere.

>>25099939
The trees will at least provide us with some cover. Make sure the group sticks close to the woodsman compass, though.

>>25099939
Earlier spot, everyone stick together.

>>25099939
Let's meet up with the rest of the gang at (probably) metal-ville.

Rolled 7

>>25099939
Starting now?

In any case: I'm not sure if we want to lead the necrosphere towards the other location, where our other allies might be. I'd be more inclined to try to take the thing out here first.

>>25099939
Towards the spot we found earlier. There's cover on the way, and we'll cut down on investigation time.

>>25099939
Sneer at the fear sphere, and stay here.

>>25100086
As long as we don't leer. Because...ewww.

>>25100030
Starting when he tells us to start.

Rolled 17

>>25100059
>>25099999
>>25099993
You run through the forest towards the other area that has a magical glow. The Necrosphere keeps coming towards you.

"Remember when...the worst...we had...to deal with...was a ghoul...raiding party?" Tricia asks you ask you head through the woods.

Roll 1d20 to see if you can't hurry up the poison spit a bit.

The sphere begins charging a new blast.

Rolled 4

>>25100136
Guess I'll take my dice out of mothballs.

Rolled 10

>>25100136
Hock for our lives!

>>25100167
... should've kept them in there...

Rolled 12

>>25100136

>>25100167
And back they go again.

I swear, I've never broken double digits.

Rolled 15

>>25100182
>>25100176
>>25100167
FUUUUUCK

>>25100167
>>25100176
at least that roll was for us poison spitting.

I hope.

>>25100193
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT!

I FORGET TO TAKE OFF MY DICE AND THIS SHIT HAPPENS

>>25100136
Hold up your finger in a "one second" motion.

We're working on some very complicated lamia spitting techniques here. Can't talk.

>>25100200
it was to speed up production

Rolled 11

>>25100167
You hold up your finger as you focus on getting the poison up. It's going to take a bit to get that lump of poison right. Running kind of makes it hard. It'll take you about twice as long as when you're standing still, so four more turns...unless you can speed it up.

Your'e now about halfway there to the new site.

The sphere's half-way there for a new blast, but continues to charge.

Roll 1d20 to try and speed up the poison spit.

Rolled 10

>>25100305

Rolled 6

>>25100305

>>25100314
Uuuuh, well that's mediocre I guess.

>>25100314
mediocre!

We should really be shooting at the orb, but three things is far too many multitaskings.

Rolled 19, 8 = 27

>>25100305
>rolling again

>>25100394
Fuck you anon

>>25100305
At this rate, we're going to blow up the sphere just as we get to the other site. That may or may not go over well.

>>25100422
it will probably just melt tragedy out from the inside of it. It's no longer in the methane field.

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>>25100394
>roll a 19
>it's too late to consider
>somehow ended up rolling 2d20 anyway, so it probably couldn't have counted
I don't even know anymore.

Rolled 14

>>25100305

inb4 nat1

>>25099856
Update on this little bit of research. 8ft seems to be the upper range for spitting cobras with 10ft being recommended in addition to protecting your eyes.

90% accuracy is the only statistic I've gotten, everyone else states near perfect accuracy.

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Not much we can say here. It's rude to talk with your mouth full and all.

Rolled 10

>>25100314
You've not really gotten the hang of poison together. The White is ready, but you're still working on the Black. Four more turns.

You're almost reached the area. It's a large clearing.

The Necrosphere charges.

Roll 1d20 to speed up the poison process.

Also, you have a spitting range of 20-25 feet.

Rolled 8

>>25101126

>>25101140
CITADEL!

Rolled 13

>>25101126
so we're back to the first roll? meh

Rolled 19

>>25101126

>>25101126
thank god that sphere needs time to convert energy.

I bet he's burning a LOT of citadeljuice here.

>>25101140
FFfffffff

Hopefully the sphere isn't shy about friendly fire, otherwise we might have a problem once we get there.

>>25101225
>>25101191
How to you roll a minute after the first roll enters?

>>25101271
By putting dice+1d20 in the email field. Why, how do you do it?

>>25101310
please don't be that stupid...

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>>25101126
>>25101254

>>25101376
oh man he has the mask and the personal vendetta and everything

>>25101140
Still slow progress, you've got about half of the Black ready.

You reach the end of the treeline of this part of the forest and you see what's on this side of the Grove.

You've found that monster/Fey Court army! That rhythmic metal sounds were people training with swords and other weapons.

This army is huge. You see mer, lizard people, naga, lamia, minotaurs, harpies, Fey Court elves, some humans with bug-eyes or chitinous skin who must be wasp witches and their children, and creatures you've never even seen before.

Also, you see sporadically placed around the training camps are 10 feet high metal poles that support crystals that are glowing blue. You've seen those before those are...

"My Rosetta Spires!" Mage says. "Those bastards copied my creation!"

It must be how they're able to allow the army to communicate...also, you notice that some creatures are being brought closer to the spires, there's a flare of light, and they come away with white scales, fur, skin, or hair.

"Never mind that!" Tricia says. "EVERYONE SCATTER!" She yells. "INCOMING!"

How are you going to dodge the Necrosphere blast, apart from also using Quick-quick?

Duck behind the trees, dive into the army encampment, find a ditch, or come up with your own option?

>>25101405
Camp, lets get some friendly fire done.

>>25101126
Shouldn't it be three more turns? It was four more last turn...

>>25101405
Either dive into the enemy camp, or go right up a tree. Both work.

>>25101405
Let's destroy the spires.

>>25101405
Use quick-quick, but stand right in front of one of the Rosetta Ripoffs and see if Tragedy is as stupid as he seems.

>>25101405
weave through the spires, get the sphere to take them out

>>25101405
go to the spires. friendly fire time.

>>25101405
dive towards the nearest spire

>>25101437
Maybe try to get him to damage the spires? Maybe if we can destroy enough we can loosen Citadel's hold on the army. If there are any uncorrupted still among them, it would help to have them on our side.

Besides, just getting them all killed off doesn't sit right. Unless they're literally ALL corrupted, which it doesn't sound like they are.

>>25101486
oh!

we should STAB him with a spire!

Tip it over right into the direction he's floating in! Like a giant spear!

>>25101459
>>25101470
>>25101471
>>25101475
>>25101482
Well, that looks like a consensus. Time to ex-spire their language skills.

And if Tricia helps: "I love it when you Babel."

>>25101486
Spires is good

>>25101486
you raise a valid point, we wanted to de-convert these guys.

Therefore, we should go to a spire and get him to nuke THAT. but we have to go through enemy camp to do it.

>>25101524
no story seeker.

we cannot do puns.

our mouth is full.

this is our hardest test ever.

>>25101546
No puns? I don't think I understand. Like doing puns, but... not? Is it like those anti-jokes where the joke is that you're expecting a joke but the answer is serious?

>>25101482
Also, maybe diving towards the thing that is corrupting people through an unknown mechanic is not a good idea?

>>25101546
>>25101737
Don't worry, we'll spit out this poison and get punplugged soon enough.

>>25101737
no puns.

no jokes.

no quips.

no one-liners.

no japes.

>>25101750
It's cool. We can't be corrupted, we're the main character. It's like we'll never suddenly die of the flu.

>>25101524
You speed your way up to the nearest Rosetta Spire. You wave your arms and tail at the Necrosphere. You're still trying to finish your poison spit. You're done with the Black, now just the Clear remains which is the quickest (But you save it for last because it stings a lot), then mixing the three together, and then you'll be ready.

Tragedy's plan isn't a bad one. No frills, just blow you the fuck up. And since you're right there, waving at him, in a clear field...well, easy pickings. Yes, there may be some collateral damage to the army, but big deal, it's still growing. He won't be able to fire like he has after this shot, but if it gets rid of the Paladin Serpent...then what's a few more vaporized monsters and apple trees?

The Necrosphere's blast is actually based on the same idea that you guys had. The thing is a massive ball of decaying corpses. Methane, and a lot of other gases are built up in this thing, properly directed with a little magic, and boom.

Of course, Tragedy didn't realize that what just about 20 feet away from your position. Well within the blast radius.

Roll 1d20 to Quick Quick out of said blast radius.

(We'll go back to best of three)

>>25101750
yeah, I thought about that after we all decided to dive towards it.

But you know, oops! Whatever! We'll probably be fine. White Ssen would be kinda scary.

Rolled 13

>>25101796
outta here

Rolled 9

>>25101796
Cmon...

Rolled 15

>>25101796
Dice for quickquick

Rolled 19

>>25101796
What if we went a level beyond QuickQuick? What if we used... QuickQuickQuick?

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Rolled 1

>>25101796
It's time.

>>25101829
Thank you for taking the time to find an appropriate image.

Rolled 8

>>25101796
NO WHAMMIES

judging by the rolls the dc was probably 16.

>>25101829
You missed the +

>>25101849
Ineffective whammy is also acceptable.

>>25101848
yes, I am glad I did that.

>>25101828
>>25101826
I regret rolling...

not worth the 9

Rolled 579

>>25101870
Works fine without.

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>>25101353
It's called a joke, man.

Is this the first time we lept away from an explosion? It might be.

I don't think we jumped away when we had shells raining on us.

I wonder what happens when you shoot a language pillar with magic energy overloads

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>>25102031
EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS EVERYONE FOREVER

>>25102031
Nihil bonum, certus sum
Nada bueno, estoy seguro
Othingnay oodgay, I'may ureshay.

>>25101827
Explosions...really...hurt. You're clear of the blast area, so you weren't vaporized or burnt, but man alive. You feel like you've been punched all over your body. Twice, now!

Also, you're pretty sure you've pulled a quick-quick muscle, because there's no chance you're doing that again.

You pull yourself up, thankfully your glands are a bit more instinctual than the rest of your body. You can feel the sting of the clear in your mouth, and all of the elements are mixing together.

You look at your handy-work. Well, the blast did take out a large chunk of the monsters that were nearby, but you also see something else. The destruction of the Rosetta Spire has caused what Mage will later call a 'Babel' effect. (He thought the new spelling made it seem more 'scholarly and official' to the other wizards.)

Everyone is hearing a different thing. Languages, tongues, sounds. One person can perfectly hear the wind, while another hears the sound of grass being bent. Another hears thing incredibly soft, while another almost has their ear drums rupture at the buzzing of a gnat. And forget about any one person understanding another.

For the heavily Corrupted, it's even worse. They scream and thrash on the ground. A few look to be like they're trying to rip the white out of their flesh. Others seem to be fighting their right side of their body with their left. It's just in the small radius that the destroyed Spire was...but it's impressive anyway.

"SSEN!" You hear Mage yell from a ways away. "I'VE GOT A DAWNCHASER PLAN!" He's got Peri/Mari and they're pointing at another Rosetta Spire. "KEEP THAT THING BUSY!" They take off.

"You think you're clear?!" You hear Tragedy's voice boom from the sphere. "Fine! Let's see how YOU like it when your foe REFUSES TO DIE!"

The Necrosphere starts to glow a different color now.

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Am I the only one who thinks that making Ssen white would just make things WORSE for the dramatae?

You don't want a renegade paladin on your ass, right?

>>25102131
Nichts gut, sicherlich.

>>25102162
Try to get back to the treeline, I think. We don't want TOO many casualties. Any that happen here are regretful.

One more turn until we can just fuck tragedy's day with warcrimes.

>>25102162
About one turn until we've got it ready?

Fine then, charge up into spitting distance of it, and cut past it so it has to make a sharp turn.

>>25102162
Roll our eyes and move into position where we can get the best shot possible on him

>>25102242
(Or, in other words: let's go on a quick tangent to the necrosphere.)

>>25102173
oh god, if ssen turned white she would serve citadel, not those dramatee idiots who have damn near killed it with thee incompetence. Let use hope we never have to see what a white ssen would do, I fear the would wold not survive such a thing.

>>25102278
Ummmm.....Tragedy's really the only incompetant one. Rage had his shit airtight. comedy's a bit meh, Peace is a force to be reckoned with.

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>>25102328
there's plenty of infighting among the citadel servants.

Comedy likes wasteful parties, and Peace was dumb enough to agitate the HELL out of the snake.

>>25102256
>>25102250
>>25102242

You charge towards the Necrosphere. The mass in your craw is tingling and..actually is kinda sweet...to your tongue anyway.

The Necrosphere just hangs there in the air. The smell is horrific, and the arcane glow is still mounting.

As you approach, something drops from the bottom of the sphere. A body that's dried and desiccated. The skin pulled tight, and quicksilver bracers on his arms.

Lea's father takes a combat stance.

The Sphere is about 20-30 feet above you right now. Your poison spit is ready.

>>25102371
Based solely on that pic and punchline I'll change my stance

>>25102388
Shoot the sphere. Fuck lea's father.

He is inconsequential in comparison to getting a good deadly gas shot in on tragedy.

Rolled 8

>>25102388
Spring at the ball and spit so we're not stretching on distance

>>25102242
sounds good. i'm a bit concerned what he's doing right now though, maybe he's about to absorb some of the fresh corpses?

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>>25102371

>>25102388
Shoot da sphere

>>25102413
>>25102388
oh, are we rolling on this one? Shit.

>>25102413
>>25102411
>>25102430

Roll 1d20 +2

Rolled 19 + 2

>>25102482
doin' it! Hope it's not AWFUL!

Rolled 14 + 2

>>25102482
This time for sure

Rolled 15 + 2

>>25102482

>>25102508
>>25102494
Holy fuck am I glad I went back to type

>>25102494
we obviously are SUPPOSED to do warcrimes upon tragedy.

>>25102567
He certainly deserves it.

>>25102494
You take a deep breath, and you spit.

The ball of poison splats right into the sphere. Your eyes see the yellow fumes come off of it. The lump burns right through the dead flesh too. It sinks past the shoulder of one body, and you see it rupture open the stomach of another dead body.

There's a sound of gas releasing, and you smell rotten eggs.

"SSEN!" You hear a voice scream. You look, you see Julian and Maxine. Maxine's eyes and hair are glowing green, and Julian is pushing Mab down. "BRACE YOURSELF!" He screams.

The world around you goes green...and then the methane detonates.

Roll 3d20 to hit a target number.

Rolled 17

>>25102742
like, individually we each roll one, or one guy rolls 3?

Rolled 19, 5, 3 = 27

>>25102742

Rolled 12, 4, 5 = 21

>>25102742
Oh shiiii-

Rolled 9, 9, 4 = 22

>>25102742

>>25102771
>>25102769
I certainly hope it's just the first three. I know it's probably not.

also things keep EXPLODING today!

We need music for when shit blows the fuck up...

Also don't we need the fucker's head

>>25102836
you know I really hope there's a body leftover.

Rolled 19, 2, 4 = 25

>>25102836
Yeah, we already liberated his mask

>>25102771
"Ssen!" You feel someone gently slapping you on the side of your face. "Ssen, wake up!"

You grab the hand and slowly pull yourself up. Tricia is looking at you.

"So...you want the good news, the great news, the bad news, or the aggravating news?"

>>25102836
I think not dying is a bigger concern.
Uh, when we blow him into smithereens, Citadel can make Zombie Tragedy, and then we take that one's head?

>>25102867
Aggravating, bad, good, great. In that order

>>25102867

Aggravating news to bad news to great news. Need to know what went wrong before what went right.

>>25102867
"Oh, Tricia, I was having the silliest dream. I had just won a bet and everything was exploding."

>>25102867
"Bad then good then aggravating then great."

>>25102867
Lets get the bad news, the aggrivating news, and end with the good news.

>>25102896
But what about the great news?

>>25103003
TOO MUCH NEWS!!

>>25102867
"I'm going to have to hear all of it at some point, right?"

>>25103063
Our lamia brain can handle it

>>25102882
>Aggravating news to bad news to great news. Need to know what went wrong before what went right.

this

>>25102867

Let me guess.

Good news, the monster army is gone with the wind.

Bad news, most of them are dead.

Aggravating news, Tragedy escaped.

>>25103101
I would think that is would be that his body isn't recoverable

>>25102885
"Oh, Tricia, I was having the silliest dream. I had just won a bet and everything was exploding." You groan.

"You didn't win the bet. Giant sphere doesn't count as a monster." Tricia says. "She's fine."

You hear sighs of relief. You slowly get pulled up, you see the Dawnchasers, Julian, and Mab. You also see that you're on the only little patch of green surrounded by a massive crater.

"Mab's magic saved your ass." Mari says.

"Alright, so give me the bad news, first." You say.

"We're still stuck in the Grove." Tricia says. "Mage says we can't get out unless we find a portal, which there aren't any, or are tossed out, which only the Dramatae can do."

"And the aggravating news?"

"We've picked through the remains of the big dead body sphere." Tricia gestures. You see dead greying bodies here and there, most of them are burnt husks, but you also see a few piles of fresh ones, and more than a couple hanging from the apple trees. "We can't find Tragedy." She sighs. "Now, it was a BIG explosion and we haven't found a body...but we know better."

"Good news?"

"Well, as you guessed, the big death sphere of dead bodies is gone." She says.

"And the great news?"

"I rewired the Rosettas." Mage says. "I built the things, so I know how they work." He grins. "The monster army the Dramatae was building? Yeah. Not so much anymore." He nods. "Most of the lesser corrupted monsters have wandered off with their own species. They're trying to find a way out."

"They aren't planning on working together." Lea says, she's fitting a pair of quicksilver bracers to her wrists. "But they aren't fighting each other at least. Mostly they just want to go home."

"We also found the Salt Queens." Mari says. "They're fine."

"I've been able to subdue the Corrupted monsters." Mage says. "I've got them walking in circles or given the crippling vertigo. But it's a stopgap at best, I can make them go crazy, but that's fatal."

"So that's the situation." Tricia says.

>>25103204
Mab's thoughts:

>Oh shit, if that paladin dies, so does the cushy elf-nation agreement and my only ticket of getting rid of thistleblossom

>>25103204
Alright, we might have a solution for the corrupted. We just need to light beacon into its burst mode so it covers them all. Mage can you gather them up into a single spot?

Lets start sparring with Lea to charge up beacon.

>>25103204
So I guess we've got to find an exit and get everyone the fuck out.

Also Giant spheres are monsters, you just don't get it. Their true evil is beyond your comprehension.

>>25103252
we should PROBABLY be able to charge the beacon by just focusing hard for 5 rounds. I don't know if fighting is ACTUALLY needed.

>>25103204
"Well, it seems that it's time to go make friends. And... a portal. Tell me, does anyone know where the elves and conscripts are? They're the only unknowns on my saving-list right now."

>>25103204
"Lea. Lea. LEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Hug time. Dad won't bother you anymore."

>>25103302
they can just make another one. Don't suggest this.

>>25103309
Fine. Then we just hug everyone. And we'll talk to lea later about her dad.

>be riding floating corpse tank juggernaut
>about to straight up murder that paladin with your wave motion cannon
>she spits at you
>everything explodes

>>25103204

First things first. Does anyone have that wooden compass or woodsman's compass or something? We may be able to use that in conjunction with Maxine's magic to find our way to the portal.

>>25103317
I'm OK with hugs in general, yes.

First order of business is the corrupted creatures. We need to fix that, somehow.

Fight one of the weaker ones until we can use a wide-beacon-burst?

OH!

let's wire beacon right into one of the language pillars and send a pulse out

that aught to do it.

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>>25103365
make some kind of pulse beacon, one might say?

>>25103204
"Think we could jumpstart beacon off of one of those language pillars? They must be full of all sorts of magic, right? They're huge."

>>25103451
could we just take ones of those things with us...

and like rig it to beacon to use at any time

You pull everyone into a full group lamia hug. Mab is a little startled and squirmy.

Julian shakes his head. "You NEVER use acid on corpse undead, girl!" He lightly bops you on the head. "Didn't your father teach you anything." He shook his head. "First necromancer he ever fought ended up with his eyebrows singed off and a chunk of femur stuck in his side." He smiles at you. "He'd be VERY disappointed." He says with a joking smile.

"Well, it seems that it's time to go make friends. And...a portal. Tell me, does anyone know where the elves and conscripts are? They're the only unknowns on my saving-list right now."

Julian shrugs. "If they were smart they ran back to their camp."

"If they were unlucky they got eaten by that giant fire-breathing undead centipede." Mab says.

"Giant what-now?" Mage asks.

Mab points at Tricia. "Her fault."

"How is it MY fault?" Tricia says.

"Cause that's the crazy undead wasp witch that was summoned because YOU'RE here!" She snaps.

"Huh." Tricia says. "So that's what she meant. Thought that it was a metaphor or a summon."

You hold up Beacon and look at Mage. "Think we could jumpstart beacon off of one of those language pillars? They must be full of all sorts of magic, right? They're huge."

Mage shrugs. "I suppose. It's always risky pushing a different kind of magic through a construct that wasn't supposed to do it...but they did modify it already to corrupt them." He nods. "Okay, come on. Lets see what we can do."

You head over to one of the Rosettas. You see corrupted lizard people just lying on the ground.

"I've got them so dizzy, they can't even think straight." Mage says. "Alright...touch Beacon here...and let me see what I can do."

Roll 1d20

Rolled 15

>>25103568

>>25103568

>>25103568
It was less acid and more chlorine gas Uncle!

>>25103568
"Wait, that thing breathes FIRE? Where do they find this stuff?"

>>25103597
Mage fiddles with some runes and stones that are on the Rosetta's side. He's in his element.

The others are trying to figure out what to do, or are still picking through the remains of the Necrosphere to hopefully find Tragedy.

You however...feel someone behind you. They put a hand on your shoulder and...it does feel a little relaxing...

"We can make a deal..." A voice whispers. Ohh, that's a pleasing voice. "No more Lightbringers, and I'll just take what you say is okay. Bad people...monsters...whatever...but I need to eat. Is that too much to ask? I'll even help you make the other monsters smarter...I will want my cities back, no changes in them, of course...just have them be back as part of me...please?" The voice continues.

"I can help you too...give Tricia a stable body, heal Mari and Peri and let them live long...just let me be, and we can make a deal on my new diet...the Grand Seal can fix a lot of things that are wrong with me. Make me better. You can make me better...isn't that what you wanted?" A chuckle. "I can make you better if you want me to, all you have to do is ask, and I'll ev-"

"Okay!" Mage says, and the presence is gone. "Step back Ssen. Let's try that zapping the brillitite idea. Maybe we can have ONE thing that doesn't explode today. Okay?"

As you look down at yourself, shaking your mind free, you can't help but notice that one of your scales looks very VERY pale...but then it fades back to the usual green.

>>25103832
For god's sake, tell someone that Citadel just tried to talk with us.

>>25103832
"Okay, we're done trying to convert citadel. Thing just tried to talk with me."

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>>25103832
So, Citadel is finally trying to get on Ssen's good side?

Better bring out its A game, Ssen's a discerning lady.

>>25103891
those... two sentences don't really follow. Usually we LIKE people we try to convert to talk to us.

It's just this one is... creeps. Major creeps.

>>25103832
Well now it's time to fucking alert people that the Citadel just tried to talk to us.

We ain't a fucking zombie infectee who doesn't tell anyone and almost gets everyone killed.

>>25103891
That's an unpladiny thing to say.

>>25103832
Get back a few feet, talk to some other dawnchasers

"Citadel seems to have finally taken a personal interest, I just talked to it. You guys get any of that?"

>>25103937
yeah, we're telling people.
Just not implying that we want convertees to never talk. That's not quite right.

>>25103960
this

>>25103934
except this one just tried to corrupt us by offering to make us "better", and we all know what happens when people accept a gift from Citadel/Dragon of Shadows.

>>25103987
yeah. We -usually- like the convertees to talk.

We don't like the convertees to be trying to use magic control on us.

Well. It's good to know it's willing to talk.

>>25103832
"Citadel was just trying to convert me, give me a second."

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>"You didn't win the bet. Giant sphere doesn't count as a monster."

>>25104088
they're just not as VERSED in monster knowledge as us.

>>25104088
It's totally a monster. Tricia's just being awkward because she doesn't want to pay.

>>25104115
she never actually took the bet, she can just say that.

But no, she claims it's not a monster!

>>25104126
Well, of course TRICIA thinks that a collection of bodies isn't a monster...

>>25104148
ah I see okay that makes sense.

>>25103960
"Ugh, give me a minute...Citadel seems to have finally taken a personal interest, I just talked to it. You guys get any of that?"

Everyone just stares at you, there's some head shaking.

"Great." Tricia says. "Another one. You'd think that they'd get the hint after a while that we just want them to FUCK! OFF!" She screams at the sky.

"Well, the Fifth isn't too bad." Lea says.

"I don't trust that guy." Mari says. "He...She...Whatever...is planning something. It wears a mask, and is old and crazy."

"They're all old and crazy." Peri says.

"Yeah, but I think Mari might be right in that the Fifth's just a bit cleverer than the others." Mage says. "Hidden plans and crap. Anyway, you feeling okay Ssen?"

>>25103960
Maybe discretion is in order hiere...

>>25104199
"i do now....but that was scary. I think I saw a scale turn paler for a second. Back to normal now, but still scary as hell."

>>25104199
"I am now. but if i start staring off into space, or if any part of me starts turning white, hit me. Hard"

>>25104199
"I'm worryingly fine, now. Might have turned a bit... pale earlier, but I didn't accept anything. It seems to be kind of desperate."

>>25104199
I'm better now, scale went a little pale for a second but all good now.

Getting really fucking tired of corruption shit.

It offered to behave how I wanted it to, even promising to only eat 'bad people'. And that I would of course be there to help it determine who the 'bad people' were.

Please, none of you hesitate to kill me on the spot if I start thinking I have the right to pass that judgement on others.

>>25104199
".... (a look of shock/horror dawns on ssen's face) ooooh this is bad I think citadel now knows how to worm its way into the mind of a lamia. This is bad this is very bad."

>>25104242
"I do now....but that was scary. I think I saw a scale turn paler for a second. Back to normal now, but still scary as hell. If I start staring off into space, or if any part of me starts turning white, hit me. Hard"

"It tried to corrupt you?" Julian asks.

"Yeah, but I didn't accept anything. It seems to be kind of desperate." You say.

"Good." Tricia says.

"Are we still okay with me lighting up Beacon?" Mage asks. "I don't want this to end up being Bad, or anything."

>>25104353
It could already do that, it's how its been corrupting them

>>25104199
"no. Nothing that's happened recently has been remotely 'okay', but I can keep going."

>>25104359
Wait, can't we charge beacon by intercepting hits with clang? Just have Lea wail on clang for a bit.

>>25104199
"Better than I was a second ago... unless I'm mistaken one of my scales even went white for a moment there."

"It sounded so... reasonable. It offered so much. For a moment I actually forgot that it eats people's souls."

"Go ahead, Mage. Light, don't let us fuck this up."

>>25104353
>>25104364
yeah, we've been vulnerable this entire time.

>>25104380
Or have everyone do it and call it a clangbang

>>25104364
I meant the whole we arnt completly vulnerable to citadels influence due to the whole being a lamia thing, like our friends were during our 3 month stay in citadel

>>25104359
Light 'er up Mage. We consecrating this hellhole

>>25104389
I thought a clangbang was what happened after we started sleeping with Tricia and Clang.

Dad DID say to use protection.

>>25104380
Insulting to the beacon! No, the only way is to charge it with magic energy.

>>25104359
"As long as the power's going through beacon, it will probably turn out good. Maybe even dispel all the cursed magic around here, that'd be nice."

>>25104399
The translator tower probably had something to do with it

Guys...What if this taints beacon? Isn't that how peace got her sword?

>>25104456
Beacon is too pure for that. The lantern-metal sword was shit anyways and not pure.

>>25104456
No. Peace took it from Father. The sword was made out of the non-pure lantern-metal.

Go ahead Mage. Lets ruin another of the Dramatae's plans.

>>25104456
Ehh, I don't think Citadel would have made that corruption attempt if it didn't think this was going to work. It would have let it happen. It's desperate, and it thinks this will cause it immeasurable harm.

"It sounded so... reasonable. It offered so much. For a moment I actually forgot that it eats people's souls.

"Go ahead, Mage. Light, don't let us fuck this up."

Mage nods. Everyone takes a few steps back, and gets behind one of the larger corpse piles. Mage takes a deep breath, aims his staff, and shoots a lightning bolt at Beacon.

The light pulse that comes off of it isn't as big as it was the other times. Just as how Beacon doesn't light up brightly when you mock fight with the other Dawnchasers.

Still your ranseur flares for a moment, and then the Rosetta flares as well, then the next Rosetta, and the next, and the next. Mage looks very pleased with himself. "Bastards try to hijack MY construct."

You look at the lizard people that were under this Rosetta. They're still on the ground, loopy as all get out, but the shiny white scales now look dull, dingy white, and in a few cases a little greenish. It also looks like the dull white scales are flaking off. Slowly.

One Lizard Person gets to his feet. Takes a few steps...vomits onto the ground...takes a few more steps, peels off a few white scales, and then looks at you and blinks in surprise.

<A Beautiful One? Where is this one? This one remembers being at a feast...eating and eating but never full...the air smells of eggs and death. Why is this one covered in sickness and dead scales?>

>>25104524
<Bad thing, Citadel, tried to corrupt you all. Tried to turn you all into monsters. I think I've managed to reverse the effects>

>>25104524
<You were overcome by the spawn of the dragon who was of shadow. Flee this place, return to your home if you remember it, and to mine if you do not>

>>25104524
<That's a VERY good question. You and all these were being controlled, and we're now lost in some magical woods. I'm still working on a way out.>

>>25104577
>>25104579
Combine and conquer.

>>25104524
<It's complicated.>

>>25104605
don't tell them to flee just yet. we want to gather them together to flee once a portal arrives.

>>25104629
Oh, balls, forgot about portal bullshit!

>>25104577
<Bad thing, Citadel, tried to corrupt you all. Tried to turn you all into monsters. You and all these were being controlled, I think I've managed to reverse the effects. But, we're now lost in some magical woods. I'm still working on a way out.>

The lizard man looks at you for a moment and then nods. <Thank you Beautiful One. I will see to These Others, and ensure that they return. Then we will search for an exit. We will find you, should we be successful.>

Tricia and the others look at you. "Good news, I hope?" Julian asks.

>>25104696
"It seems to have worked, they are no longer corrupted and are going to look for an exit and tell me if they find one."

>>25104696
Yeah, he's fine and he's going to help the others. After that we're gonna get the fuck out of here.

>>25104696
"So far, none of them want to eat us"

>>25104747
No.

>>25104696
"Great results, they're hardly mad at all! In fact, they'll be gathering together and waiting for us to find a way out and save them with the compass. Ideal, really."

>>25104773
"Well, I guess they'll be technically searching on their own for a way out, but that's basically waiting for us to save them when it comes to crazy magic portals."

>>25104696
<You can find us at Stone Hall, Scheherazade's home. Once we get out take everyone you can get to listen and go there. Its the safest place for everything not human>
to Julian "They're back to themselves at least. Now we know we have an answer to Citadel's corruption."

>>25104766
But it's true.

>>25104861
It's rude and racist.

<You can find us at Stone Hall, Scheherazade's home. Once we get out take everyone you can get to listen and go there. Its the safest place for everything not human.>

The lizard man bows and goes to his companions.

You turn to Julian "They're back to themselves at least. Now we know we have an answer to Citadel's corruption."

"Sort of," Mage says. He points, a few lizard people are still white, and are twitching on the ground going through a Babel effect. "If you're too far gone..."

Tricia pats Mage on the back. "You're brilliant Mage, you figured this out with just bashing things together. We get back home, you'll get the kinks worked out."

"Thanks." Mage says.

"Alright." Mab says. "And I'm going to call that the test of Love, and we're done. He's Dagda, whoopie." She looks at you. "Now how the fuck do we get OUT of here?!"

well, we should work on making contact with the various monster groups and finding a way out.

How the hell do we make portals. Do you think if we shattered the maw, a portal would show up?

>>25104913
"I have no idea, and I'm very open for suggestions."

>>25104885
Hey, it' a very reasonable concern amongst recovering Citadel-corrupted "monsters".

>>25104913
"Killing Comedy seems like a good idea. It might even help us get out."

>>25104913
"Oh, that's a great question. I'm still working on that.

We could try starting a wildfire, to reduce the magical-forest to a... not forest. That might also remove the magical part. We also need to break a giant magical sphere in the center of this place, that might do it. Or at least the dramatae will kick us out for damaging their sweet forest so badly."

>>25104913

The woodland compass should help us navigate the forest. If it's anything like a regular compass, it should show which way is definitely North, at the very least. Perhaps there's an area of the forest where the enchantment is weakest and where the Dawnchasers can attempt to make a permanent exit?

Does the forest use Elven Magic? If so, perhaps Maxine and Mage can postulate how the nature of the magic forest works. It gets people lost and makes them stay lost, but is it just altering perception of the forest, or is the forest actually moving, or is it all just a very clever magic maze?

Tricia might be able to grab a bug and have it fly up to see if it can gain a good vantage point. See if there are any absolutes in the forest.