Situation
Time: 8:50 AM
Date: October 20th 327(CE)
Weather: Cloudy and chilly with a light mist hanging in the air and limited vision
Those Involved:
@CaptainLiterally @TheEccentric @Huntress @The Last Curse @Karyra @slifer @DangoYumi @DrabiaTheKiller @TheCrimsonFker @Elvario
TooLongDidn'tRead: Taking the fight to the thief, the party blows up a platform, but the last battle had only just arrived at the final stage......
Note From The Author: (Here we are. I knew you guys could handle it. Just a bit more.)
Post Listening:
Forest Village of Pinnacle
*Crunch* *Bang* *Snap* *Pop*
A monstrous Lilirel emerged from the mists below to land on a relatively large set of platforms. Hitting her body on several things between the fall and the climb, she would prefer to not flying into things anymore if she could help it. She would have to reorient herself for a bit before she could catch up with the party, wherever they may be.
Labra was like a mosquito: quick, annoying, and comparably harmless. Perhaps it was for the best since she drew the attention of a couple hags with her aerial maneuvers and swats. They started to conjure the dark magic that had killed Jeremiah once and a took the lives of a few more of her comrades in the mines. Little did Labra know, she had allies moving in.
Diana was first to arrive on the scene. Her vines, branches, and other animated plantlife successfully carried her to the underside of the platform with the thief, the witches, and countless undead soldiers on it. For the moment she was hidden with no one but Jeremiah even aware that she left the bridge. The monsters that had tried diving after her were held up by stella's light dome or simply lost over the edge. Now the question became, what could she do from under here...
Jeremiah was obviously too late to reel Diana back in. However, he would have seen the vines she had offered to him before she moved on. Fortunately, he chose to move to support ren and shurik who were about to be surrounded and overwhelmed. With a back attack, he was able to sweep a handful before they few that remained could even to put up a proper fight. Now defending Ren and Shurik's back, the two were able to continue focusing on the grew ferociousness of the skilled and equipped undead now marching to them in formation.
With most of what was left of the party gathered, the thief and the relic in sight, and the combat leading to its climax, Shurik was able to leave the fighting to Ren long enough to buff himself and leap into the air before bombarding the platform. The explosion rocked the platform made of plant life. Bone warriors not instantly reduced to black dust were launched off the sides from the blast. A crater was left and the platform was now catching fire in a few places. The portals shimmered and danced in place, seemingly unaffected by the blast. However, the horde enemy was momentarily dispersed and nothing else came out of the portals for the time being. All that remained was the 4 witches and the thief that remained on his throne. the witches were disrupted from casting their magics on labra, fortunately, but now shurik had the attention of all as he came down, out of the sky, to cleave the bone throne in 2 down to the platform base. With a single strike and an audible boom on impact, Shurik might start to rise as the throne would crumble and fall apart. However, no thief occupied the chair except for the severed sleeve of his coat.
Before Shurik could fully stand or swing around to find where the thief had went, the platform collapsed. The 4 hags, Shurik, and Diana, who was under the platform, are now all in free fall. Meanwhile, the portals remained in place in the air. Occasionally, a monster would move through one of the openings only to fall, screaming, into the mists below. The undead army, the witches, most of the monster hoard, and the portals were neutralized for the moment. All that remained was the thief, now standing on a branch just over one of the buildings that made up the ring of businesses around the plaza. Without the platform that made up the plaza, the group was currently cut off from the thief and would have to go around unless they tried leaping the large gap or flying. There were several ways around however, clogged with what remained of the monster forces.
Euthalia would continue to struggle on her own and would seemingly do alright for the moment, far enough away from her allies so as not to harm them with her poisons, but also not be much assistance to them other than keeping aggression from the top tier enemies on herself.
Lilirel and Euthalia could hear the boom and resulting destruction from where they were.