An Arctic Advent - IC

Well...This could take a bit...The initial blast had caught Carn off-guard, but he had been ready for the attack against Blood (And by proximity, himself,) taking advantage of the momentary opening provided by its attack to try and get a quick strike in at it...

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...But the cold was chilling him to the bone, something which unnerved him slightly...It wasn't natural, and it was definitely worrisome for him...But since when would a little chill keep him out of the fight? "I don't think you heard me...I said fight ME! Not the unicorn! And I'm gonna beat on you until you get that message!!" He didn't attack just yet, but he charged the snake, intending to start brawling with it to keep its attention...If it focused on...Really, anything but protecting itself, he'd be right there to give it a crushing paw to the side of the head, or a bite at its throat, or whatever else he could muster...

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"Hmph, this thing doesn't mess around. Quite actively destructive for an ice beast...I might actually be in trouble..."

Adam smirks as he casually tosses a coin in the air:

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Adam smoothly catches the coin on an outstretched wing. As he slides it down towards his spine, a crackling chain of white lightning bursts around the coin. The blinding light arcs through Adam and back a staggering seven times. Calmly he lands, posture intimidating and wings spread wide.

With teeth sparkling a magical white, he grins and says:
"COME AT ME BRONY!"

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Glenrir quivers and howls, a slight blur around his hooves the only evidence of some of the exhaut from his magic, making their movement seem frenic as his speed increases. The glow spikes, and he blurs a little bit in motion. A rush forward under the speed proves quite useful as the wolf gets used to his increased momentum, blazing a bit past the snake, side-swiping it at super-speeds. The speed and momentum add heat, and the growing frost slides off Glenrir as he makes his attack.

Finishing the movement, the wolf howls, and a bit of the built-up magic pulses from the timber wolf into Ursus. (He may heal 6 HP or make a saving throw)

Glenrir's own puncture wounds from the little ice shards remind him of the race. That in turn gets his blood flowing, and from the blood rush little spines launch like a cactus to hit the snake every time the snake hits him.

(Deals 15 damage before resistances and vulnerability on Frenzy)
(Critical special targets Ursus)

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Blood winces as he's injured and grins as his blood starts moving and changing, forming something.

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LoganAura wrote:Blood winces as he's injured and grins as his blood starts moving and changing, forming something.

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You are at 21 HP, and just saved from both weakened and 3 ongoing damage.

5 initiative turn
The Fire-Eater, while suffering from debilitating effects, once again focuses upon siphoning the heat from all of you. (You all suffer 3 ongoing damage (save ends).)
With a whirling spin it tries to shake of the effects of the earlier attack, but only breaks free from half of the effects:
Current conditions: Dazed, -2 to saves

15 initiative turn: It's body reforms slightly and it lunges for Ursus and breathes a torrential wind of icy cold out. (6 damage to Ursus, Camellia, and Blood Mage. Ursus is weakened (save ends))

With that attack the beast shakes off another effect, regaining most of it's posture.
Current condition: -2 to saves

Up next: Camellia

Camellia is gonna wait for Glenrir to go first.

Ramsus wrote:Camellia is gonna wait for Glenrir to go first.

(Alright, the initiative has been adjusted as such)

The best reforms some more then lunges with his cold breath again, but this time also launching a showering of icicles as it does so. His lunging biting frost breath targets Adam Smash (Adam, Glenrir, and Nihil all take 1 damage, Adam is weakened (save ends)). (And the icicles deal 1 damage to every one)

Current conditions: -2 saves

Next up is:
-8 = Nihil(2)*
-7 = Wave Rider (2)
-7 = Glenrir (2)
-7 = Camellia (2)
-7 = Ursus (2)
-7 = Adam Smash (2)
-5= Blood Mage (2)
(Let's see what crazy combos you come up with, third round is *always* a heavy combat round)

Nihil notices Camellia holding back despite clearly having an opportunity to attack and follows her lead, assuming she's got some kind of plan.

(Delaying my turn till after Camellia's new position.)

(Operating under the assumption Wave Rider is delaying too, or that it won't matter)

Glenrir's body pulses. The magic inside him grows, and a delicate blue blossom sprouts from his shoulder. He plucks it with his teeth, making sure none of the petals themselves contact his mouth or bark. With the bravado of a gladiator using a morningstar, Glenrir smashes the tiny flower into the snake, the cursed bloom's effects working immediately as magic snakes up the snake, making mockery of its proud fangs and making squishy its plated scales before blasting through the eyes to mess with its insides.

"Now!" He calls out.

[Using Family Recipie to reapply Dazed, Vuln 5, Weakened, and -2 to saves (individual save ends)]

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RavenscroftRaven wrote:(Operating under the assumption Wave Rider is delaying too, or that it won't matter)

Glenrir's body pulses. The magic inside him grows, and a delicate blue blossom sprouts from his shoulder. He plucks it with his teeth, making sure none of the petals themselves contact his mouth or bark. With the bravado of a gladiator using a morningstar, Glenrir smashes the tiny flower into the snake, the cursed bloom's effects working immediately as magic snakes up the snake, making mockery of its proud fangs and making squishy its plated scales before blasting through the eyes to mess with its insides.

"Now!" He calls out.

[Using Family Recipie to reapply Dazed, Vuln 5, Weakened, and -2 to saves (individual save ends)]

The beast lets out a maddened bellow, which sounds akin to the shrill screech of metal scraping against metal. It turns it's focus upon Glenrir, preparing to strike the timber wolf next.
(Purely flavour reaction)
(Current conditions: Dazed, Vuln 5, Weakened, -2 to saves. You've figured out that it has a permanent 3 resistance.)

Next up!
-8 = Nihil(2)
-7 = Wave Rider (2)
-7 = Camellia (2)
-7 = Ursus (2)
-7 = Adam Smash (2)
-5= Blood Mage (2)

Wave Rider concentrates for a moment before focusing what ever light she can find into the Fire Eater's eyes. Then she quickly circles the head and forms a black thunder cloud.

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Camellia coils up some more and then just.... vanishes. A moment later she reappears in the form of Blackwell the Minotaur, bursting out from inside of the beast with a loud, "Oh Yeah!"

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Start of Turn: HP: 20/30, PiPs: 10, Status: Ongoing 3 damage (save ends)
[-10] Crescendo
1d4+1: 3+1 = 4 - 3 + 5 = 6
1d6+2: 4 + 2 = 6 -3 + 5 = 8
1d8+3 = 6 + 3 = 9 -3 + 5 = 11
1d10+4 = 10 + 4 = 14 - 3 + 5 = 16
1d12+5 = 5 + 5 = 10 - 3 + 5 = 12
d10 crit: flip, calling heads: heads.
Total: 53 damage & it's stunned until the end of it's next turn.

Save vs Ongoing 3 damage: 7 + 3 = 10. Success (barely).
End of Turn: HP: 20/30, PiPs: 0, Status: Pure awesome.

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After seeing 'Blackwell' jump out Nihil flies into the air as his left claw begins to glow red, not questioning how she did it and staying focused on attacking that wound. He claws at the top of the hole and as he rips it open a bit further the red glow seeps into the snake's body.

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Just after Camellia's brutal assault, you notice the creature's body fissure into a fragile looking structure, and you feel the chill around you deepen as it's frozen spirit appears to now be exposed. (bloodied)

(No resistance on Nihil's attack, with 5 vuln, the total was: 23 = 6 + 5(vuln) + 12)
(Fire-Eater now suffering: 5 vuln, weakened, blinded, 5 OGD, Dazed, -2 to saves, stunned)

Next up: -7 = Ursus (2)
-7 = Adam Smash (2)
-5= Blood Mage (2)

Pretty much no matter what happens I'm going to do this:

Adam closes his eyes and spreads his wings wide. The air seemingly flickering as he slips into a meditative trance. Light coalesces and rains down upon the party, soothing wounds and sloughing away malaise.

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The chill froze Ursus to his core, and the breath attack pushed him away, ruining his attempts to interfere with its strikes...He needed to think of something, getting through its frozen hide would be a pain...But then Camilla shattered most of it, leaving the core...He reached for something, producing a massive blade, almost the size of the ponies he was fighting alongside, smashing at the beast with the hilt...Though really, he was too frozen up for the moment to do much more than distract it, though if he could land a solid hit with that blade...

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Blood lets out a bit of giddy laughter as the fire eater damages him, blood splattering across the ground as he gets injured again and again,

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Blood blasts the fire eater with a burst of magic to make it attack itself one more time.

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Blood's horn glows as he lets out a loud scream, blood seeping from his personal wounds and joining together, orbs of blood floating around him as he chuckles again.

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Mage floats blood out of the snow drop by drop, merging with his own blood as he grins. "Hey, Fire Eater? SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!" The blood bursts out into a large blood red alicorn shape, glaring at the fire eater as Blood's wounds mend back up and he bounces. "All right, Bloody good fun and all that, but I think it's time for you to go. GIGANTE!"

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Gigante used his horn to cut his adversary as blood bounced around. "Don't worry about me, I've had worse injuries. I'll tell you the story of how I got my cutie mark later."

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The numerous blows add up and a smearing of frozen blood from the giant colours the whole snake a fitting bloody color. Bands of blood had forced the creature to whip itself with it's own tail.
(5 initiative turn: Stunned)
End of turn Status effects: -2 saves, Weakened 5 vuln, dazed, 5 ongoing damage

Initiative turn 15
Having shaken off some of the worst debilitating effects, the beast soots out a storm of icicles, that radiate cold wherever they land:
(All of you take 7 damage)
End of turn Status Effects: -2 saves, dazed, 5 ongoing damage

Initiative turn 10
It nearly falling apart, from a gaping wound in it's side, the creature launches another barrage of icicles. (6 damage to everyone)

End of turn status effects: None
Other known stats: Terribly injured and permanently fractured from all the damage it's taken.

Next up: -7 = Glenrir (3)
-7 = Wave Rider (3)
-7 = Camellia (3)
-7 = Nihil(3)
-7 = Ursus (3)
-7 = Adam Smash (3)
-5= Blood Mage (3)

SilentBelle wrote:Initiative turn 15
Having shaken off some of the worst debilitating effects, the beast soots out a storm of icicles, that radiate cold wherever they land:
(All of you take 7 damage)

Tired of getting pelted by icicles Nihil crouches down on the ground and disappears into his shadow until the worst of it has passed.

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Adam, feeling MORE than willing to place all his chips on the table at this point, pulls out a shining glass just before being struck:

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"Fall!" The wolf orders.

Glenrir pulls a sliver of wood from himself, frozen dead from the constant frosting and refrosting, but still infused with some life force, a semi-sentient spear. He rushes the snake, impaling it with his mighty wooden rod, snaking around the scales as it worms into the serpent.

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"Why won't you die already!" Wave Rider gathers moisture from the air and compress it into a ball of boiling water before shooting it at the Fire Eater.

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Z2 wrote:Adam, feeling MORE than willing to place all his chips on the table at this point, pulls out a shining glass just before being struck:

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(This in fact kills the beast)

It's own made spray of icicles had been ricocheted back at the beast by Adam smash, causing a final fracture in it's body before it caves-in on itself.

With a giant crash, the icy beast lets out an eerie cry and falls into a thousand shards of ice. An emerald crystal is revealed as it's core. You see a misty spirit of ice blow away in the cold wintery wind.

Blood pants in exhertion going back to the fire stone and repeatedly using Fire and Light spells to try and bring the heat back from it. "Somepony help me!"

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