Session Start: Sat Feb 21 16:56:22 2009
Session Ident: #castlevania
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<Holmes> [The intrepid party finds itself locked in mortal combat
with the Damacine Golem itself under the city of the dead.  Do they
stand a chance against this ancient horror?  Only if their friends
return from Stavograd in time!]
* Nyyx , as of last session, was running around avoiding direct
combat while waiting for her companions to return from Stavograd.
<Roland> Now would be a great time for someone to reveal their secret
backup plan to destroy the golem by dropping a city on top of it.
<Charlotte> Do I look like I can pick up a city/
* Nyyx continues to avoid the golem. "Wouldn't that be nice?"
* Skip continues to dodge and jump around like a flea escaping the
giant paw of waggling doom. "Is there no way to stop it?!"
<Roland> Well, maybe you could find the big red button that
transforms the whole city into a giant golem.
<Nyyx> Is there such a button?
<Skip> How was this one made? And who made it? Maybe they know how to
destroy it!
<Roland> Lady Natalia, you should turn into a flock of bats and blind
it with your wings.
* Nyyx thinks for a moment. "I...well, if I can do that, I haven't
figured out how yet."
<Roland> Not feeling a sudden jump forward in ability coming on,
then?
<Nyyx> Unfortunately, no.
<Nyyx> I could throw my cloak in its face, but I doubt it'd have much
effect.
<Roland> How about a pack of dire wolves?
<Roland> Summoned, mind, not changed into.
* Nyyx shakes her head. "Maybe the blood's too dilute."
<Charlotte> Anything we can drop this thing into where it can't get
out?
<Holmes> [The Golem stomps down trying to kill the summoned scorpion
and manages to crush it badly.]
<Roland> well, maybe if we had a really big bag of holding and a
really big portable hole.
* Nyyx is now known as Nyyxfeed
<Charlotte> Maybe we can trap it somehow else... any way to keep it
from leaving this room?
<Holmes> [The golem steps forward and jumps off of the vault.  As it
does so, the scorpion ineffectually scrapes at it.  The Golem lands
on the stone below and begins walking toward the western wall of the
chamber.]
<Holmes> [The Golem strides over to the western wall and places its
right hand on the stone.  With a shimmer, a large section of the wall
melts away into mud around the abomination's feet, leaving a clean
archway above and exposing several floors of chambers beyond the
wall.]
<Roland> So much for locking it in.
<Holmes> Golem: "My apologies, but I have business above."
<Charlotte> Why?
<Holmes> [The Golem doesn't answer and instead started grinding its
way through the exposed floors toward the west.]
<Holmes> [After several minutes of this racket, the party begins to
hear deafening thuds from the west and the sound of crashing stone.]
* Nyyxfeed is now known as Nyyx
<Holmes> H.E.R.: "Any ideas?"  [He takes a ring out of his pocket and
concentrates for a moment.]
<Roland> throw a rock at it.
<Charlotte> I guess we better unload with everything we've got
* Nyyx frowns. "They're not back yet."
<Charlotte> I guess we can hold off a little longer...
<Holmes> [Nyyx picks up a chunk of stone from the edge of the vault
chamber and flings it toward the behemoth, missing widely.]
* Nyyx sighs.
<Roland> I think you need a bigger rock.
<Nyyx> Or better aim.
<Holmes> H.E.R.: "Most of our remaining forces are withdrawing to the
top of the central tower.  The Boccobite Contact is there with Lydia.
It sounds like he shut down at about the same time the Golem woke
up."
<Nyyx> What's the connection?
<Holmes> H.E.R.: "Well, that fool used a piece of the Golem to build
his new body, so there's that.  Bet it's biting him in the ass."
* Nyyx winces. "I'd forgotten about that."
<Charlotte> Shoot.
<Holmes> [Over in the passage that the Golem is carving out, the
party can now see sunlight streaming in.]
<Roland> My Contact clearly did not think his clever plan all the way
through.
* Nyyx picks up a bigger rock, throws, and misses again.
<Holmes> [With a bound, the Golem lands on the pile of rubble created
in its excavations and then leaps for the surface, landing with its
top half spread over the pavement and his legs still visible to the
party in the midday light.]
* Nyyx frowns and flies after the golem.
* Nyyx jumps in mid-air and swings her sword, hard, at one of the
golem's flailing legs.
<Holmes> [The blade strikes and sparks along one of the Golem's legs,
leaving a deep cut in the metal.]
<Holmes> [The Golem climbs the rest of the way out of the ground and
stands to its full height looking down the chasms at Nyyx
imperiously.]
<Holmes> Golem: "VERMIN!"
<Holmes> [Mechanical spiders ring the gap and they and the Golem
bathe the chasm in shadows.]
<Roland> that's probably bad.
<Nyyx> I'm willing to bet that.
* Nyyx takes another leap-and-swing at the golem, but her blade
glances off its armor.
* Skip flies up after the golem. Emerging from the hole, he examines
the area. "Are you all right, Nyyx!?"
<Holmes> [The Golem points his left hand at Nyyx palm forward and
five missles of force expel outward and strike her in midair.
Afterward, the Golem strides toward the tower and out of sight.]
* Roland whips a hand towards Nyyx and an answering dart slams into
her from the other direction, making it all better.
* Nyyx grunts as she's pummeled by the missiles, but after Roland's
help, she looks barely scratched. "Still standing."
<Roland> I should certainly hope so.
* Roland lets himself be carried along by a friendly air elemental.
* Charlotte runs and fires a couple arrows, but they can't punch
through the golem.
* Nyyx jets off after the golem, and once she catches up, slashes
into it with an incisive precision strike.
* Skip continues his flight toward the brawl.
<Holmes> H.E.R.: "What in the hell are they doing going after it
alone in the open like that!"  [H.E.R. takes to the air with a blur
of speed.  He flies out of the chasm and flies level with Skip.]
<Holmes> [As Nyyx and Skip burst from the chasm, they notice that
hundreds of spiders are still collected near the breach in the street
and around the tower.  Most of the fighting around the tower appears
to have stopped however as no offensive fire can now be seen.]
<Holmes> [Dozens of the spiders have begun scaling the near vertical
walls of the tower and are working their ways skyward.]
<Holmes> [The Golem itself strides to the edge of the wall and places
a hand on his chest.  At this, several of his damaged areas appear to
knit back together and several spiders leap from the wall and street
to climb on along the Golem.]
* Nyyx continues to pursue the golem. She hurtles toward it with
another leap attack, but again, she's foiled by its thick armor.
<Holmes> [Charlotte finds herself largely left behind in the battle
with no flight and no spotter for her attacks.]
<Charlotte> Agh.
* Charlotte kicks a rock in frustration
<Holmes> [The Golem begins climbing the wall of the central tower.
Numberless spiders follow suit, climbing the wall and hitching a ride
on the monster.]
* Nyyx continues to harass the golem ineffectually.
* Nyyx changes plans and shoots for the top of the tower.
<Charlotte> I need a way out of here!
<Roland> eh?
<Roland> Oh.  Why didn't someone Fly you? 
<Holmes> [Skip and His Emminent Remains follow Nyyx as she flies up
the side of the tower, leaving the Golem in the dust.]
<Charlotte> I don't know.
* Roland sets himself down, snaps his fingers, and an air elemental
scoops Charlotte up in its arms.
<Roland> Up up and away, or something.
<Charlotte> Thanks!
<Holmes> [Trailing behind, Charlotte and Roland float up and out of
the pit appearing for all to see as the laziest adventures ever to
get anything done.]
<Holmes> [As the spider horde and the Golem continue to climb the
central tower, the party reaches the summit with the swarm only
minute or so behind.]
* Roland strolls along down the street towards the tower, sipping at
his drink.
<Holmes> [The party flies between the columns holding up the roof and
find themselves before the two great doors leading into the audience
chamber where they met His Emminent Remains upon entering Lifebreak.
The handful of remaining guards watch the approaching horde scaling
the wall from the railing.  Many have wands aimed in anticipation.]
* Nyyx heads straight for the doors and attempts to get inside.
* Charlotte flies along with the air elemental and fires off arrows!
One of them hits and knocks off several spiders
<Holmes> [Nyyx lands and runs up to the great doors.  None of the
guards get in her way as she shoulders them open.]
* Nyyx scans the room for the Boccobite Contact.
<Holmes> [Skip and H.E.R. land just as she steps over the threshold
with Charlotte and Roland bringing up the rear.]
<Holmes> [The chamber is much how she left it last, but the people
within are far different, provided that the term ever applied.  The
Boccobite Contact sits in the center of the room unmoving.  The
remaining Boccobites are arrayed around him, ready for combat and
alight with defensive magic.]
<Holmes> [Further out, the surviving Nerull clergy are centered near
the thrones with Lydia.  All of them are horribly changed.  Several
are wounded or even missing limbs and all now have demonic features.
Whether beards of iron whiskers, a nimbus of flame or in the case of
Lydia, great blackbird wings, all are marked by the Pit.]
<Holmes> [Lydia turns toward Nyyx as she enters.]  Lydia: "I'm
surprised you made it back.  He's almost here.  Wouldn't happen to
have a plan, would you?"
* Roland looks down at his wrist. "It's handled."
<Nyyx> We're attempting one, but some of us aren't back from the
crucial part.
<Charlotte> Stupid golem...
<Nyyx> They should be back any time now.
<Holmes> [Behind her, H.E.R., Roland, Charlotte and Skip are run into
the chamber.  H.E.R. runs up to Lydia and they whisper together for a
moment.]
<Holmes> [Lydia nods and H.E.R. backs away a few steps.]
<Holmes> H.E.R.: "What is wrong with the Contact?  We should evacuate
while we can."
<Holmes> Lydia: "He is not mobile.  Not only will he not move, but we
can't move him.  Might have some of those damn rods incorporated.
Once we got your message, we retreated up here.]
<Holmes> "
<Holmes> Lydia: "The Contact is not totally lucid, but he
<Holmes> 's talking.  The Golem is coming for him.  If he can
incorporate the Contact, he will have the powers of dozens of priests
and mages, centuries of knowledge, regenerative and lightning
abilities and will know the inner workings of the Seven Temples
better than anyone outside of the Chorus."
<Holmes> Lydia: "We stop the Golem here or we are done."
<Nyyx> Can we extricate the part of the Golem the Contact merged
with?
<Holmes> Lydia: "I don't know.  His servants only told us what he did
once he fell ill.  I don't think they understand it very well.]
<Holmes> [Through the open doors, the party can hear the guards
firing arrows and spells down on the approaching horde.  Thirty
seconds left before they reach the summit.]
* Nyyx grits her teeth in frustration. "Would you let us destroy the
Contact if that would remove the danger of the golem merging with
him?"
<Charlotte> There's gotta be another way... any big fancy weapons
around here?
<Holmes> [END OF SESSION.]
Session Close: Sat Feb 21 23:54:20 2009