Mists Over the Musarde, Chapter Three

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:06 am

"I shall not," Bennedict replies. "Remove whatever enchantment you've placed my associate under, and perhaps we'll discuss it." He nudges Buckman with the toe of his boot, both to indicate whom he was referring to and to try and shake him out of whatever had him ensorcelled.

ewancummins · Post by **ewancummins** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:26 pm

outside-

tarlyn wrote:The dwarf is about to head in Jon's direction but instead looks up at the castle.

Looking up at the castle from just a few paces downhill, it takes Norzak a moment to realize what's wrong with the scene. Not only is it night outside when it had been day a short hour ago, and not only has the terrain altered somewhat, but the castle....is not in ruins! Standing so close to the corner tower as he is, Norzak has to back up a little to really appreciate just what he's seeing. The walls of the castle stand firm and tall and there are flickering lights in motion atop the battlements.

ewancummins · Post by **ewancummins** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:40 pm

Adam wrote:"I shall not," Bennedict replies. "Remove whatever enchantment you've placed my associate under, and perhaps we'll discuss it." He nudges Buckman with the toe of his boot, both to indicate whom he was referring to and to try and shake him out of whatever had him ensorcelled.

Buckman looks up at Benn when kicked, and snarls like a feral dog disturbed at its meal. The man's eyes are fever bright.

Wolutha laughs.

She makes a gesture towards Benn , nothing intricate like casting a spell, just a dismissive wave of her hand.

Benn feels his crossbow twisting in his grip. The wooden parts of the weapon are buckling and warping all out of shape!

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:51 pm

Bennedict looks down at his now useless weapon, an eyebrow twitching in irritation.

"Well played," he says, dropping the weapon to the ground. "But I have my doubts whether you can do the same trick to this."

He takes a step back and speaks the invocation to The Morninglord, summoning his righteous hammer to his aid. With the brilliant explosion of light, he looks up to the witch. "En garde!" he shouts, pointing and sending the hammer streaking towards its target.

ewancummins · Post by **ewancummins** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:28 pm

Wolutha screams in anger and pain as Benn's conjured hammer strikes her, knocking her to he knees [Dorgio can clearly see her now]. She doesn't look badly hurt, though....

Dorgio sees Buckman moving on the opposite side of Benn, a few feet away from where the priest is hiding off to the left side of the corridor.
Too late, Dorgio see what Buckman is doing with his pistol...

BOOM!
A cloud of gunsmoke fills the air between Benn and Buckman, as the crack of the pistol-shot reverberates around the stone chamber.

Benn feels a hard impact in his side, like being struck with a heavy club.

steveflam · Post by **steveflam** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:59 pm

Norzak looks at Cirdan. "Dangit all! I think we got some trouble up there" he points to the castle top. " You see it nice an new? Cuz I do. Hell's bells that's odd. I know Jon's run off, but I's gonna go back up an help tha others. The lad ain't in any immediate danger. You should folllow me cuz we might need ye up top, buddy."

Norzak turns and runs back in the castle, heading for the room and his friends.

Brock Marsh Runoff · Post by **Brock Marsh Runoff** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:47 pm

Dorgio's shout of warning is drowned out by the gunshot. His eyes go from Benn to the witch to Buckman, thinking through the best course of action with what split seconds he has. He could sear the steel in Buckman's other pistol, even a backwater Gundarakite had seen what fire would do to smokepowder, just as the Barovians had learned when Ardonk Szerieza's freedom fighters had destroyed a garisson of Strahd's puppets only months before Dorgio had been forced to flee. No, he couldn't do that to Buckman, but he needed to be stopped, somehow.

"Morninglord!" Dorgio shouts as he lunges at the witch with his cold iron spear. Maybe if he could disable her...

ewancummins · Post by **ewancummins** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:22 am

Dorgio's spear pierces Wolutha's breast - and passes clean through her body without spilling a drop of blood! Indeed, her flesh offers no resistance at all, and the priest overextends himself and stumbles right through her as if she were made of naught but light and dust. The contact as he passes through her insubstantial flesh is whispy and fleeting, but accompanied by a terrible chill, like being dunked in an icy lake.

Lord Skybolt · Post by **Lord Skybolt** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 3:34 am

Alain on seeing Dorgio's spear go through her tries a spell(MM) of his own all focused on her . And of coarse seeming to not be the source of the spell as usually . After casting the spell shouting to the rest of the party for help in here ala :" Theirs a witch that needs killing in here ."

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:31 am

Benn staggers, holding a hand of the blood spurting from his side. He turns, a glare of anger withering Buckman. "Weak minded fool," he growls, mentally willing the spiritual weapon to continue assaulting Wolutha. "Perhaps it's time for you to go bother someone else!"

With that his mind turns a dark corner, his voice twisting into the eldritch words of a prayer to the Overseer, flooding Buckman's mind with waves of fear and panic.

ewancummins · Post by **ewancummins** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:36 pm

Wolutha is struck by the conjured arrows of magical force. She slides sideways across the floor, away from the corrdidor and into the well-lit room [Buckman's lantern sits on one of the tables, lighting the area]. She only narrowly avoids Benn's hammer as it continues to attack.

In the better lighting of the room, you can all see that Wolutha's form is not solid in appearance. The vague outlines of objects on the opposite side of her body can be seen by staring through her. Despite the successive magical assaults upon her, Wolutha doesn't show any obvious signs of injury.

She steps swiftly towards Dorgio, who is the closest to her. Before the priest can escape, she flits past him, one arm actually passing through his body as she does so, and her lips brush against his face as lightly as the errant kiss of a spiderweb.

Buckman shrieks- a noise more bestial than human- and flees from Benn, climbing into the open window [the one through which Norzak and Cirdan passed earlier].

ewancummins · Post by **ewancummins** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:01 pm

Outside the castle-

Norak and Cirdan hear Alain's cry for help, followed by an awful inhuman scream!

A figure suddenly springs up into the open window, sillhouetted by the light from within. It's Buckman!

Lord Skybolt · Post by **Lord Skybolt** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:10 am

Alain casting same spell again as soon as he can at the witch and then moves to stay out of her reach if at all possible but to let the rest of the party in to the room for their wack at her . Next he'll cast (DU) at her if she is in range of that spell all ways moving to stay out of her reach .

ewancummins · Post by **ewancummins** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 2:56 am

Alain's bolts of force streak across the room and strike Wolutha. The ghostly witch screams, then fades away into thin air. Where she had been a moment before is now empty space.

JMaytr · Post by **JMaytr** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 4:03 pm

Jonathan runs as fast as his legs can take him. The blood pounds furiously in his ears. Outside was not outside, his mind kept telling him. His mind must be under a spell, the boy thought. Why else can I have these thoughts without controlling my body?

Jonathan tried to look ahead of him, to see where he was running, but all he saw was the color of blood. He didn't feel hurt, but the fall may have done some damage to him after all.

The boy could not stop running however.

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Mists Over the Musarde, Chapter Three