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INT. Cave cavern thing

The shadow versions of the party loiter uncertainly before them. The copies, solid and three dimensional, are exact - there is even a shadow Rasputin on the shadow Greibel's head - but absolutely black. To Amadi and Greibel, they seem to be gleaming.

Because the shadow Gravedigger-tree is right on top of where the pinpoint hole was, it is also unclear whether or not the hole actually closed.

Everything is silent.

Then the shadow Amadi jumps out of its tree and starts to approach its vivid other self.

AMADI
(to her shadow-self)
I'm not the whole. Are you the whole? Probably not. This is a bad idea.

She hears it repeat the same back at her, but the words aren't quite there.

The shadow Greibel picks up some water and it turns into a blob in its hand.

The shadow Rhu reaches out to poke the other Rhu. To Rhu, it looks like a dark, crisp-edged silhouette, and, unlike most everything else he can see, not hairy. It feels like nothing at all.

RADEK
...That's not right. Not at all.

Rhu steps past his shadow self, and the shadow turns after him.

The shadow Amadi looks up at Amadi and then licks the Gravedigger tree below her.

'''''Ellemerr''' (Amadi): So I'm sitting in the Gravy-Tree. And my shadow is walking up and... licking my tree?

Amadi suppresses a sudden urge to lick the Gravy tree as well.

Rhu waves his arms around the shadow Rhu form where the hair should be.

RHU
(to the shadow Rhu)
...why aren't you hairy?

The shadow Rhu tries to hit Rhu with its maul, though it misses. ''(rolled 13 vs AC)''

The tree bristles in fury.

The shadow tree also bristles in what might be fury.

Then the shadow Rhu tries to grab the other Rhu's head, hands outstretched. This doesn't work either, and it winds up smearing a palm across the side of Rhu's face. This time the touch burns like ice.

RHU
HEY!

Rhu responds by slicing at his shadow with a strike through the fabric of space itself, but misses as well. ''(rolled 14 vs AC)'' Only after does he remember to swear an oath of enmity against it.

The Gravedigger, still being a tree, summons his cloud of boiling blood and grit and then attempts to pummel the shadow Greibel into the earth with his shovel. It doesn't entirely succeed.

Meanwhile the Georges kneel down and aim their weapons at each other.

Greibel decides now would be a good time to try to summon a lightning storm inside a cave. Then he thinks better of it and instead calls forth the spirit pack on his and the Gravedigger's other selves. The spirits trample through and out another wall without any apparent affect. ''(rolled 12, 11 vs reflex)''

GREIBEL
I guess they were....
(he puts on glasses)
Spooked.

Amadi sticks her tongue out at her shadow and climbs higher up in the tree, viciously mocking her black clone as it's left behind.

It staggers from the force of the attack.

Radek shakes his head and powers up the eyebot and sets it loose over the battle.

RADEK
Try to leave one unharmed for study, please.

The shadow Gravedigger assumes the form of the fearsome shadow ram-tree, takes a step back, and then rams the other tree with its shovel, throwing him back a few meters. ''(rolled 19 vs fort)'' Radek shoots it with some sort of lightning pellet, reducing the effectiveness of the shadow's attack and doing what looks like considerable damage. ''(rolled 32 vs AC (natural 20))''

Amadi falls out of the Gravedigger's branches as a result. ''(rolled 10 acrobatics)''

The shadow Radek shoots his counterpart as well with some sort of shadow pellet, to similar, though less potent, effect. ''(rolled 22 vs AC)'' He seems almost to be grumping.

The shadow Greibel summons a massive swarm of clinging insects, clouding the air, centred on Amadi, and covering George, Greibel, both Gravediggers, and Radek as well, eating at Amadi and the other Greibel in particular. Then it swarms away, coalescing around the shadow Greibel in a horrible black cloud, buzzing silently.

Amadi seems mildly surprised at this, and possibly a little pleased - this actually hurt her.

SHADOW AMADI
(silently, to Amadi)
Are you real?

Only Amadi and Greibel hear this.

AMADI
More or less. They think I am. I think. And that might be good enough. Does anyone think you are?

The shadow Amadi walks up to the other Amadi and pokes her. There's a massive spark, but it doesn't actually hurt either of them.

SHADOW AMADI
(silently)
I'm real. I'm real. I'm real, I'm real, I'm real!
 
AMADI
(grinning)
You don't sound like you believe that.

The shadow Amadi shrieks something silently and lashes out at her other self with focused sound that nobody can hear. ''(rolled 22 vs reflex)''

Amadi clutches her ears and no longer looks like being hurt might be a fun thing.

Meanwhile the shadow Rhu takes this opportunity to randomly fall over.

'''''Ganelon''' (Radek): Clearly he's been blessed by Hazz. Even moreso than you.

Rhu looks down at the shadow Rhu with something approaching pity, but from the direction of annoyance, and takes a step back and 



Gaurav: Standard: Oath of Consuming Light (Level 5 Daily)

Ganelon: We're not in a great spot here. People are hurt and I can only heal so much.
Frezak: Don't worry about me. I'm A TREE.
Apheori (GM): A felled tree. Roots sticking up.
Frezak: I CAN RISE AGAIN
Apheori (GM): Defruited.
Frezak: My fruit!


Gaurav:
rolling d20+7 wisdom vs reflex
(
20
)
+7
=
27
YES
Apheori (GM): WAZZAT DO?
WAZZAT DO? WAZZAT DOOOOOO?
Gaurav: That's 2d10+WIS(+5) damage, and I can never remember if you add half level to damage too.
Apheori (GM) clings to Gaurav's head.
Apheori (GM): WHAZZAT DO?
...sorry, I'll stop.
Ganelon: You do not add half level to damage.
So, 25+1d6 damage. Anything else?
Gaurav: What's the 1d6 for?
Ganelon: Crits on a +1 weapon.
Frezak: So you disintegrate Dark Rhu?
Gaurav: "Whenever you hit the target with a divine power, the target takes 1d6 extra radiant damage"
Ganelon: Or if it's not +1, just 25.
Neat.
Gaurav: And that's (also) an aftereffect.
Apheori (GM): So 25?
Gaurav: I used my Implement, but I don't think it's a +1 implement. So yeah, 25.
Ganelon: The extra damage thing is a save-ends effect.
You probably want a thingy for that.
Apheori (GM): Oh.
Ganelon: And if they're vulnerable to radiant damage, this is radiant damage.
Apheori (GM): They ain't.
And I'm quickly losing track of all these effects.
Whoo!
Gaurav: so the aftereffect kicks in after the first one ends, right?
Ganelon: Yes, if he saves against the effect, he gets hit by the aftereffect.
Gaurav: so basically every time I hit shadowRhu with a divine attack, he gets 1d6 extra damage, until he saves against that.
Ganelon: Which is amusingly another save-ends.
Gaurav: THEN that changes to a 1d4 extra damage, until he saves against THAT.
wow.
Ganelon: Though you can't do better than Thrall.
"Hit: The target is Dominated (Save ends)
Aftereffect: The target is Dominated until the end of its next turn."
Gaurav: nice.
Ganelon: (It's in the level 20s)
Gaurav: I should really get an implement for Hazz' at some point. Perhaps a tentacle that I can wave at people.
okay, so that leave a minor. Hmm.
Ganelon: Oh, right.
Gaurav: Can I diplomacy with shadowRhu as a minor? Or would that count as a standard?
Ganelon: You hit him with an attack, so the eyebot shoots a laser at him.
5 damage automatically.
Gaurav: robots are my friend
Ganelon: There are no rules for diplomacy during combat.
Apheori (GM): Go ahead and give it a wonk.
Gaurav:
rolling d20+1 diplomacy against shadowRhu
(
12
)
+1
=
13
Frezak: Remind me of the 'bot's range?
Ganelon: It's 3.
Frezak: As far as lazors go?

RHU
"Stop this! Your life is worth more than dying in disgrace in a filthy hairy cave!"
Frezak: Gah.
Ganelon: So Shadowgraves is no longer in range, unfortunately.
Gaurav: WOOOOOOO laserbolt!
Apheori (GM): The shadow Rhu doesn't respond and just lies there.
Gaurav: so that was actually -2 to attack since I range-attacked someone prone, but natural 20 woo
and that's the end of Rhu's turn.
Frezak: All RIGHY
Apheori (GM): Yeah, sorry.
Frezak: Move: Stand.
I use my standard action to let Codrichun briefly touch this world.
The tree shakes its leaves, and a boiling could of grit and bone drips from them like ravenous pollen, gathering around the Gravy Tree before blasting out.
Apheori (GM): XD
Frezak: Soo...
Shadow Greibel, Shadow Gravy and then Shadow Amadi.
rolling 1D20+12
(
15
)
+12
=
27
rolling 1D20+12
(
14
)
+12
=
26
rolling 1D20+12
(
15
)
+12
=
27
Vs AC.
Apheori (GM): I think that gets them all.
Ganelon: The eyebot is an excellent multitasker and lasers both of those two for 5 damage each.
Frezak:
rolling 2D10+5
(
8
+
2
)
+5
=
15
And all targets have -2 to all defenses, Save Ends.
so Shadow Gravy takes... 15 damage and the others get 20?
Apheori (GM): Isn't it 10 and 15 on the others?
Ganelon: Shadow Gravy takes 10 'cause he's got resist 5 from Shadow Radek.
The others take 15 and 5 from a laser. 20 total.
Apheori (GM): Ah, I already subtracted the lasers.
Frezak: Dammit!
Dark Gravy isn't dead!
LET US AMEND THAT
Apheori (GM): Man, for a god Amadi sure is squishy.
Ganelon: I don't remember if your chainshovel was used today.
Frezak: Minor action: I slam him again with a shovel.
Ganelon: I guess we were thinking the same thing, though!
Frezak: YEP
rolling 1D20+9
(
18
)
+9
=
27
AC
Gaaah
Ganelon: We're all squishy. Gravy is just exceptionally un-squishy for a PC.
Apheori (GM): How much damage does the shovel do?
Ganelon: Actual gods, though, tend to have immunity to attacks from anything level 20 and below. I think.
Frezak:
rolling 1D10+5
(
10
)
+5
=
15
And he's prone.
Ganelon: I think that's curtains for 'im.
Apheori (GM): Nope, still alive.
Ganelon: Bah!
Apheori (GM): XD
Frezak: Goddam!
Ganelon: Damn my own resist 5!
Apheori (GM): Oh, forgot the resist.
Ganelon: NEW PLAN
SHADOW RADEK'S POWER IS GONNA RUN OUT BUT WE SPITE KILL HIM ANYWAYS
Frezak: I kinda want to execute my dark self now.
I can just AP and end him.
Apheori (GM): Do you want to?
Frezak: YES
Apheori (GM): Pity.
You might have found shadow Radek's response... interesting.
Frezak: Then I can mark the people flanking my fruit.
Ganelon: Interesting?
Frezak: AP!
Apheori (GM): FRUIT.
Ganelon: You mean healing his ass for like 10 and 20 THP?
Frezak: Strength Of Stone!
rolling 1D20+9+2
(
14
)
+9+2
=
25
AC
HRAAAAAAGH
rolling 1D10+5+5
(
10
)
+5+5
=
20
HEADSMAN CHOOOOOP
Bear Soup Guy: The crits are real
Apheori (GM): The Gravy tree smashes the shadow gravy tree into the ground, spilling branches and crap everywhere.
Frezak: And then Gravy explodes out the tree, landing next to Amadi and screaming about fruit.
Apheori (GM): The dissolve into a strange black liquid and sink into the rocky floor of the cavern.
They*
Frezak: And marks the two interlopers.
Apheori (GM): The branches. The dead guy.
Frezak: Doing the desert raider thing again.

RADEK
...Interesting.

Frezak: Turn over!
Apheori (GM): There's a puddle.
Ellemerr: That was pretty awesome.
And I should sleep. >.<
Apheori (GM): But it's shrinking.

THE GRAVEDIGGER
GERRROF MY FRUUUUIIIIIT! Raaarghaaarglearrrgh.

Apheori (GM): Heee.
George shoots the other George!
Gaurav: yay!
brb
Apheori (GM):
rolling 1d20 + 15
(
9
)
+15
=
24
rolling 4d6 + 8
(
5
+
6
+
1
+
3
)
+8
=
23
He grumbles.
Ganelon: Nice shooting
Frezak: Also I get 4 THP from Weight Of Earth.

GEORGE
Fuck.

Apheori (GM): The problem is shadow George then does the exact same thing, except at Amadi.
rolling 1d20 + 15
(
10
)
+15
=
25
Ganelon: I can't saaave heerrrrr
(Well actually, I could on my turn)
Ellemerr: Hit
Also when I said I should sleep I meant I should sleep.
Apheori (GM): Noooo.
Ganelon: Yeah, I know.
Apheori (GM) clings to Ellemerr.
Apheori (GM):
rolling 4d6 + 6
(
6
+
4
+
2
+
3
)
+6
=
21
Frezak: good lord
Ellemerr: I have to get up in 7 hours, devil woman!
Also OUCH

GEORGE
Wait, what?
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