Special Edition

number 2

Orion beset

It almost seems that Orion's enemys were waiting for Rochelle to go away...

The 21st of December, 2001...

OrionDouglas sighs sadly as she cuddles Jolt.

GreyMan enters this room

GreyMan pushes open the doors, handgun drawn...

OrionDouglas cuddles her fox kit.

GreyMan aims his gun towards his target, who is blissfully unaware...

[GreyMan] (( Any characters that can pick up surface thoughts can read 'OrionDouglas' ))

GreyMan shoots OrionDouglas.

Kashshaptu watches GreyMan shoot Orion?

[GreyMan] (( The bullet is off target, and clips her shoulder. ))

[GreyMan] curses.

Rina drops to the ground after the loud shot messes up her concentration, she sighs, "Crime in progress Mister Jerl."

Jerl nods to Rina

OrionDouglas gets shot in the shoulder. She crys out and drops Jolt as she screams in pain.

Rina turns her head to the one with the gun in the air, "Please hold still sir."

Jerl appears quite instantly by ODie, catching dropped Jolt and setting whatever it is down as he leans to examine ODie's wound

Morgaine looks to Greyman and sips her vodka before sending a bolt of screaming plasmic energy his way...can she autohit too ?

Kashshaptu crouches on the beam, seemingly ready to leap off toward GreyMan as her wings stretch out

MallusPneumaticosRex reforms as his human self and watches the room below with interest. maybe his problem will get hit by a stray bullet and be reduced to an inconvenience.

GreyMan looks down at the small child. He exerts his will. "Turn away."

[OrionDouglas] ((Jolt is a fox kit given to her by Rochelle))

Rina sighs, clasping a gauntlet/braclet on, "Please sir. Stop your attacks on me, I'm with the local athorities."

Jerl presses a hand on ODie's shoulder, blood being forced back into the wound, the bullet pulled from her shoulder, and flesh sealing as a small wound dampens Jerl's shoulder with blood

Bloodsmythe cowers and looks up at GreyMan.

GreyMan aims at the man fixing Orion. He fires off another shot.

Bloodsmythe grabs at GreyMan's gun

Jerl growls and quivers as ODie's wound heals, and turns to catch the bullet in his already wounded left shoulder, and then he glows black, Hellfire beginning to swirl around his elven form

Morgaine just fires more plasma bolts at Greyman, shooting people is kind of rude

OrionDouglas is too much in shock to realise who's touching her.

[Bloodsmythe] NO like Bang stick!!!

Kashshaptu leaps off the rafters, soaring directly at GreyMan ..

MallusPneumaticosRex reaches for Tia to stop her but is too late... Damn it all to heaven!

Rina sighs again, "Adults." she waits to see if he's going to escape, walking around the crowd.

Jerl appears suddenly inches in front of Greyman's gun

GreyMan shimmers slightly and appears in another location.

[Bloodsmythe] ...LOUD wand...

GreyMan fires again.

MallusPneumaticosRex reforms as his demon self and leaps off the rafters.

Kashshaptu flies back up to the rafters

Jerl hurls Hellfire at Greyman's new location, darting to one side to again cover ODie

Morgaine redirects the plasma at greyman, wondering why she's bothering...it looks like not a single thing has hit this guy

GreyMan attempts to dodge the hellfire.

Bloodsmythe oozes to a dark corner

Rina redirects her walk to Grey, avoiding the people doing all the messy work. "Three down, hopefully three to go."

[MallusPneumaticosRex] Flies in and attempts to strike greyman with his warhammer

Jerl crouches, drawing twin longknives from his boot-sheathes

OrionDouglas whimpers. "Rochelle?"

Jerl looks down at ODie"She ain't here darlin'...yer fox-kit's right by yer head"

Kashshaptu growls slightly, watching GreyMan cautiously .. her wings held back, ready to leap again

OrionDouglas whimpers again and Jolt licks her face and whines.

Jerl 's emerald eyes sparkle with a certain glee as his shoulder bleeds

GreyMan laughs slightly as Mallus misses badly.

MallusPneumaticosRex does a barrel roll and comes in again for a second strike

GreyMan glares at Jerl. "Annoying elf. Away"

[Jerl] Not elf, mister...guess again

Morgaine fires again at Greyman

GreyMan removes an amulet from his pocket. Someone might recognize it as Orion's lost NVN amulet.

GreyMan throws the amulet, which gleams in a black light, at Jerl.

Iceball floats in through a open upper window.

Jerl appears inches in front of Grey Man, longknives held to his sides, running up his arms ina reverse fashion

GreyMan attempts to dodge MPR's attack.

Kashshaptu leaps off the rafter beam, again soaring directly at GreyMan to plow into him

Jerl floats backwards, catching the amulet

GreyMan gets clipped by Mallus' blow.

Rina waits behind the crowd, scribinga rune as slow as she pleases.

Iceball hangs in the air for a moment above everything.

Bloodsmythe snakes a tendril at GreyMan trying to grabb his gun.

GreyMan frowns slightly. "What? Can't a guy kill his niece in piece?" He giggles slightly.

Jerl appears by ODie again, his knives sheathed

MallusPneumaticosRex follows up Tias attack by attempting to claw greymans throat

OrionDouglas whimpers, oblivious to anything else.

Jerl kneels, setting the amulet by her side"Hey miss, I found something that may belong to ya"

Morgaine fires yet again at Greyman, obviously missing a good fight

Iceball hovers down to about head level on most of the people. If it had eyes, it would be watching the combat.

GreyMan gets plowed into by Tia. "Oof!"

Kashshaptu flies up into the rafters again

Iceball moves over closer to GreyMan.

GreyMan gets singed by the burning plasma as he trys to get up again.

GreyMan looks at Iceball with interst. He attempts to talk to it.

Iceball increases the amount of cold in the plasma, canceling it out.

[GreyMan] Well? Aren't you going to show your real form?

Jerl puts a hand on ODie's shoulder again, a warmth pulses through her body and shakes her from the shock that the first bullet put her into...warming her inside adn out, and her amulet floats in front of her

MallusPneumaticosRex goes into his caustic ooze form and attempts to roll over greyman to do an acid attack

Iceball vibrates softly.

OrionDouglas comes around and sees her NVN amulet in front of her. "I.. lost that."

Kashshaptu moves around on the rafter beam, just watching GreyMan again

Iceball tries to counter Mallus's attack by freezing him in place.

Jerl lets go of her shoulder, blood soaking his own in two spots, his tunic stuck to his torn flesh

GreyMan smiles at Iceball. "I just want to see her reaction."

[Jerl] Well, there it is, ma'am, jest fer you

Rina finishes the rune, yawning abit as she holds it in the air, "Are you done?"

Paris enters this room

[GreyMan] You mean my niece? Yes. She's the one.

GreyMan glances at Paris as she enters. "Hmmm, ammo."

GreyMan gets hit with some acid before it freezes.

Jerl smiles at ODie softly, and a sphere of Hellfire erupts around the two, with a forceshield just behind it

Rina waits another moment to see if all the attacking is done.

OrionDouglas continues to stare at the amulet.

[MallusPneumaticosRex] Is frozen in place, like a wave that has been stopped mid break

GreyMan would enjoy making MallusCubes but he needs a reload.

MallusPneumaticosRex slowly melts his way out of the frozen state

Jerl chuckles silently, and TK's the amulet, and puts it on madam ODie

Rina sighs, thrusting a containment rune to GreyMan while he's not paying attention.

Jerl helps Mallus with a burst of Hellfire...but not enough to cause any damage

Bloodsmythe snakes a tendril toward GreyMan's gun, it isn't really attacking it just wants to stop the noise.

MallusPneumaticosRex bursts free of the ice with a scraem of pure rage

GreyMan yells "BOO!" at Bloodsmythe.

Iceball tries to counter the containment rune.

Kashshaptu still watches GreyMan, then looks at Mallus

Iceball shakes in pain, and will be caught in the rune as well if GreyMan can't block it.

MallusPneumaticosRex attacks iceball with a wave of acid

OrionDouglas screams in pain as the amulet settles against her flesh.

Jerl watches ODie scream, his mind totally lost in what could be happening as the scream to him becomes a deafening roar within the force shield

Bloodsmythe rears at GreyMan "Evil... YOu like master..."

Iceball vibrates and settles on the floor. A form begins appearing where the iceball landed...

Iceball exits from this room

Rosetta enters this room

Bloodsmythe again lashes out with a tendril

Rosetta appears, standing a inch above the floor, where Iceball should have been. She scours the room as if though she were a newly made queen, and those she surveys are her subjects.

GreyMan walks thru the containment field as if it wasn't there, heading towards Paris.

Rosetta tries to freeze BloodSmythe's tendril in place.

Kashshaptu growls and snorts at Rosetta and GreyMan

Rina starts walking to Grey, "I was being nice."

Rosetta looks through the hellfire field to ODie and smiles. It's a evil smile. The kind of smile a small child gives before it pulls the wings off a fly.

OrionDouglas glances up. "ROCHELLE!"

Rosetta motions to Orion, beckoning with one slim finger.

GreyMan lets his gun get grabbed.

Jerl drops his Hellfire before someone's scorched

Bloodsmythe absorbs the gun

OrionDouglas stands up and runs over to Rosetta, hugging and kissing her.

[OrionDouglas] Ooo! Where we going Rochelle?

Rina walks up behind Grey, following him the whole way there, "Sir."

Rosetta returns the kiss to Orion, and then breathes a breath of pure, unadaturated Absolute Zero Cold into Orion's mouth and down into her body.

OrionDouglas ' bodyheat gets robbed from her.

Rosetta sucks in the breath from Orion's body, then steps back, smiling.

[OrionDouglas] R..r...rochelle! Don't take too much!

OrionDouglas falls to her knees.

Rosetta took it all, except the bare minimum to keep Orion alive.

Rina was told there would be days like this.

Jerl 's black aura grows darker and darker

GreyMan looks at Rosetta. "Then I think I shall depart! There is one more I want."

GreyMan exits from this room

Bloodsmythe realizes the noise has ended and goes to a shadowed corner

OrionDouglas ' heart breaks.

[OrionDouglas] (( Jolt comes over and whines at Rosetta ))

Rosetta smiles cruelly at Orion, and slowly turns her back on her.

Rosetta looks down at Jolt, and freezes him solid, all the way through.

Jerl cocks his head at Rosetta as a river of Hellfire begins to fall from over her head

Bloodsmythe extends its eyestalk and looks at Rosetta. It makes no hostile moves. "You... Hurt... Doggie..."

OrionDouglas 's NVN amulet shatters...

Rosetta is there one second, and simply not the next. She leans up against the bar and examines herself in the mirror behind the bar.

Jerl 's reflection is looking over Rosetta's shoulder in the mirror

OrionDouglas :: The part of herself that she put in the amulet long ago returns to her, the same part that allowed GreyMan to use the amulet to find her ::

Rosetta pays Jerl no attention at all. She continues perfecting her look in the mirror slowly, taking her sweet time about it.

OrionDouglas looks at Jolt, who is solid ice.

Jerl smiles as a violet rose winds itself into Rosetta's hair, and then he is again by ODie

OrionDouglas slowly gets to her feet, fire in her eyes.

Jerl looks at the pup and leans by it and ODie

Jerl looks at ODie "Can i have the li'l bugger?"

OrionDouglas raises a hand and points at Rosetta.

[OrionDouglas] You're not Rochelle! What have you done with my Rochelle!?

Rosetta finishes fixing her dress and looks into the mirror.

Bloodsmythe oozes toward the frozen kit "Doggie... not... moving..."

Rosetta turns, and suddenly she looks exactly like the old Rochelle. She smiles at Orion and walks slowly towards her.

OrionDouglas blinks... uncertain..

MallusPneumaticosRex extends a tendril and sends down an acid rain on All the combatants

[Rosetta whispers to OrionDouglas] ~Of course I'm Rochelle! Do you not recognize me?~

Rosetta moves up closer to Orion, taking her hand in her own.

Bloodsmythe reachs a tendril toward the kit."Wake up... doggie...

OrionDouglas snatches her hand away, Rochelle knows better than to talk directly into her head. She screams "WHERE'S MY ROCHELLE?"

Bloodsmythe shrieks as it is drenched in acid. it seeps through a crack in the floor trying to escape.

Jerl picks up the iced kit and puts it on a table. He pulls a silver elfstone from his heart and it splits, forming one black and one blue, the black goes back into his chest, and he pushes the blue stone into the kit's chest gently, the magical elfstone glows within the icefox

OrionDouglas gets burned by acid. (( WTF?? ))

MallusPneumaticosRex laughs as he watches little whiffs of smoke from the acid drops where they hit!!!

Rosetta freezes the acid before it hits her.

Rosetta steps back, the illusion broken. She snarls at Orion.

OrionDouglas screams in pain again.

Jerl smiles softly at his new creation

[Rosetta whispers to OrionDouglas] ~You and HER are MINE to do with as I wish! I will make you watch her die SCREAMING a thousand times in front of you!~

OrionDouglas starts to shake her head to clear it of the voice but stops when she hears something that gives her hope.

OrionDouglas whispers to herself. "She's alive??"

Rosetta stops in mid-mental rant and stares at Orion, realizing she might have given a bit much away....

MallusPneumaticosRex forms a ball of black ooze, the size of a softball and pitches it at Rosetta, freeze this!

Rosetta thrusts a hand out towards Orion and fills her head with images of Rochelle screaming. Bleeding. Tortured. Dying. Dead.

Jerl smiles as an Ice-Kit licks his face with a cold blue tongue...Jerl chuckles and pets the small animal softly

OrionDouglas turns to Rosetta. "I won't let you have her!"

Rosetta 's body unforms into a fine mist, letting the black ooze ball whiz through her emepheral form.

Jerl shimmers into being beside ODie with a small, blue Ice-Kit in his arms

Kashshaptu watches intensely .. her soft snarling and growling heard by those closest ...

OrionDouglas trys to disbelieve the illusion.

[Rosetta whispers to OrionDouglas] ~ And what are you going to do to stop me, hmm?~

( OrionDouglas rolls 1d20 => 20 )

OrionDouglas glares. Fire in her eyes. She smiles slightly and says. "This."

Rosetta screams in a fit of rage as Orion breaks her illusion into pieces. The entire Keep becomes a winter wonderland.

Liress doesn't believe in snow.

OrionDouglas shouts wordlessly and is consumed by fire, she becomes fire.

[OrionDouglas] (( *kisses that last roll* ))

Salina refuses to beileve that any magic could create snow inside

Zender starts making little snowmen..

Felona takes a moment to brush the snow from her hair.

MallusPneumaticosRex growls.. I hate snow!

OrionDouglas swirls around Rosetta, filling the entire keep with heat.

Rosetta steps back a pace. Her face is a mask of complete surprise. "Oh my..."

[MallusPneumaticosRex] crank it up ODie!

Rosetta tries to get away, anywhere, away, before Orion can hurt her.

[Bloodsmythe] Must... save... Doggie...

OrionDouglas tries to tackle Rosetta.

OrionDouglas slams into Rosetta and tackles her to the floor.

Rosetta is tackled full on. There is a sound like the whine of snow when a torch is dropped into it. Rosetta is screaming. All the cold in the room flows to her, and it gets uncomforatbly warm inside the Main Hall as she tries to douse the fire.

OrionDouglas reshapes her hands into blades of fire and attacks Rosetta.

OrionDouglas ' fire is fuelled by pure anger.

Jerl watches ODie go, making sure he keeps Jolt cold as she presses on

Zender 's snowmen melt "Awwwwww."

Rosetta 's hands are covered in ice. She grabs Orion's hands and tries to extinguish this amazing inner fire.

OrionDouglas yells "Get your hands off me!" as she flares up and starts slashing into Rosetta.

Zender tries to make slush men but it doesn't work very well..

[Jerl whispers to Oriondouglas] OOC: Jerl revived Jolt, though now it's an Ice-Kit...basically a cold elemental melded with a young fox...it also has the powers of an elfstone, healing and Hellfire...and is immune to most flames because of it

[Jerl whispers to oriondouglas] Also, jerl hands Jolt over to you later or whatever, either way he gives it back

Rosetta screams in absolute agony and vanishes. There is the smell of charred flesh hanging in the air.

MallusPneumaticosRex sniffs bar b que? who's cookin?

[Kashshaptu] ~Rosetta~

OrionDouglas reverts back to herself and picks up Jolt and goes back to her room to recover.

The 22nd of December, 2001...

m- decides to sing!

[m-] *sung to Jingle Bells * o/` Slashing through the Orcs, with a good two handed blade...over the corpses we go, and through the gore we made...Mace on helmet rings!! making bodies flyyy..What fun it is to sing our Slaying song an watch these suckers DIE! o/`

[m-] o/` Oh, Right their bells with sword and spells, don't let em get away! We're brave and bold for fame and gold, We'll make alot today! o/`

[m-] o/` Crashing through the door, Into the dragons nose! Our mage whips out a cone of cold, and out his fire goes! Elven bowstrings sing! Making Balrogs fall, and our theif finds the secret door, into the treasure hall! o/`

[m-] o/` Oh, Right their bells with sword and spells, don't let em get away! We're brave and bold for fame and gold, We'll make alot today! o/`

[m-] o/` Then appears the lich, with his demon guard, Our wizard yawns and wishes, We'd run into something hard! He begins to cast....His 19th level spell...The damn lich throws a gate at us, and drops us all in hell! o/`

[m-] o/` Oh, Ring their bells with sword and spells, don't let em get away! We're brave and bold for fame and gold, We'll make alot today!Oh, Ring their bells with sword and spells, don't let em get away! We'll hack and slash and blast and trash and blow these dudes away! o/`

[m-] o/` We appear in hell, in front of Satan's throne, Our cleric waves us out the door! and takes them on alone! Satans legions don't, want to let us go...our techno pulls a bazooka out, and NUKES them till they glow! oh.... o/`

[m-] o/` Ring their bells with Prayers and spells,don't let em get away! We're brave and bold, and CRAZED we're told to think we'll live the day! Ohhh, ring their bells with swords and SHELLS, don't let em get away! We'll hack and slash and blast and trash...And drag our loot away! o/`

m- is finished and takes a bow!!!!

OrionDouglas emerges from her sphere set against one of the walls, she looks slightly shaken.

OrionDouglas :: As always, she carrys Jolt, but the small fox kit looks different from the last time she emerged. Jolt is now ice blue in color, and he also has a ice-like sheen. ::

OrionDouglas looks sadly at Jolt. "So many enemys. First that grey man.. Then that woman who looked like Rochelle.. "

Rosetta enters this room

OrionDouglas cuddles Jolt.

Rosetta floats into the room through the upper window she always enters through.

[Rosetta] The wind blows all the windows in the Keep open exposing everyone inside the the snow and cold outside.

Balatro shivers and blinks at the windows. "Stupid snow."

OrionDouglas notices the snow flakes. "I didn't do that." She looks directly at Rosetta and smiles. "Whassa matter? Not going to try the subtle approch again?"

Rosetta outright ignores Orion, settling into a throne of ice that was Not there a half a second ago, hanging two feet off the floor.

OrionDouglas sits on her couch and does things, watching Rosetta the whole time.

Rosetta sits on the throne, kicking her leg, just like her twin does, buffing her nails.

OrionDouglas concentrates slighty, a red glow eminating from her hand.

OrionDouglas continues working, every now and then a red glow can be seen.

OrionDouglas :: The red glow fades away as OrionDouglas finishes another one ::

Rosetta watches the glow on Orion's hand, eyes narrowed.

OrionDouglas is unaware of the survallence as she begins to work on another one.

[Rosetta whispers to OrionDouglas] ~ You won't beat me again like you did last night, ever again. I won't let you and HER get away.~

OrionDouglas thinks with all her might. "BOO!"

Rosetta plasters herself backwards against the throne, scared out of her wits. After a half a second of this, she looks around, and creates a wall of obscuring ice around her.

OrionDouglas finishs another sliver of pure fire. She puts it with the others in her pouch,

Rosetta covers over the ice wall, creating a little room around herself and the throne.

Project_L snaps his fingers and then points a finger at Rosetta as if he has a gun "Bang." *He lets loose a small streak of white fire to try to burn the ice*

OrionDouglas finishes another sliver of fire and fashions it into a small dagger. She then throws this at the small ice castle, to judge any effects they might have.

[Rosetta] Small holes around the ice wall appear, so Rosetta can look at everyone.

[OrionDouglas] (( Note: Rosetta can see a small red object hurtling toward her castle. ))

[Rosetta] There is a scream from inside the ice castle as the dagger speeds through one side and out the other.

[OrionDouglas] O.o "Ooo!", even.

[Rosetta] The entire ice castle and part of the floor underneath it tear loose from the ground, leaving a large hole deep enough to see the basement through. The entire thing lifts the bottom a full 20 feet off the floor.....

[OrionDouglas] That was sure.. different.. than what I expected... And even better than I had hoped! *she smiles, her eyes glinting*

[Rosetta] The entire ice castle, floor partition and all, hurls itself at Orion.

OrionDouglas trys desprately to get out of the way. (-5 penalty)

Salina blurs across the room, jumping to knock Orion out of the flurry of ice. Havn't you heard? She's a good guy...er girl now"

Rosetta hits Orion full on with the bottom of the floor, knocking her bodily backwards, and battering Salina out of the way.

Salina gets hit, moving in a blue but in the end, still on the floor is a pool of blood, her cloths torn all over the place but luckily, she's not dead

OrionDouglas gets knocked backwards, for only a short distance, as she and her couch slam against the outside of her sphere which suddenlt cracks.

Rosetta hangs in the air for a second, as if examining Orion.

OrionDouglas coughs up a little blood.

[Rosetta] The floating castle suddenly lands back into its hole, fusing into place. Rosetta appears again, floating in place, the ice castle gone. There is a visible stread of red, bright against her light blueness, across her lower stomach.

Salina groans painedly as she slowly gets to her feet "And I thought this was going to be easy..." she looks around for Orion "I hope you're watching Morgaine, I want major brownie points for this one"

OrionDouglas reaches a trembling hand for her pouch, as she winces at the pain.

OrionDouglas is still in her couch, which is now slightly embedded in the outside wall of her 'room'.

Rosetta stands, watching Orion for a moment. Her face is still and impassive, but something shines in her eyes...

Salina stumblesover toward Orion, checking herself to make sure none of her wounds are serious enough to interupt the healing process "You alright miss?"

OrionDouglas grabs her pouch and lets out a small scream in pain as some bones grate together.

Salina cringes at the sound of the scream "I'll take that as a no...Any doctor's around?"

OrionDouglas has some brused (mebey cracked) ribs, and some internal bleeding. "No."

Rosetta frowns at Salina, and a large gust of wind catches her full in the face, forcing her backwards.

Salina seems totally unaffected by the magic

Rosetta turns away from Orion.

Rosetta body is shaking all over, and her face is pointed straight towards the floor.

Salina looks around for a doctor or healer or cleric or somthing

OrionDouglas hauls herself to her feet, hand reaching into her pouch.

Salina collapes next to Orion "Is there a good reason she's shooting at you? Or is she just being a royal bitch?"

OrionDouglas coughs some more.

[OrionDouglas] She hates me because I love Rochelle.

[OrionDouglas] She also wants to kill Rochelle.. I don't know where Rochelle is so I can't warn her about this 'evil twin' thing over there, so I have to stop it before Rochelle comes to harm.. *she coughs up some more blood*

Salina wipes the blood from her face, seeming to grow stronger every passing moument "Alright, gimme a minute and I'll see what I can do"

Rosetta stands there, back turned, as the wound in her side slowly freezes over...

Salina slowly stands up, checking her own quickly healing wounds

Rosetta turns to face Orion and Salina. She looks... odd.

Salina doesn't give Rose a chance to contemplate attack, with a blur of movment, 8 daggers fly towards the woman, all aimed perfectly at kill zones

Rosetta eyes narrow, and her body dissipates into mist as the daggers whiz through her. After they all past, she reforms, and her natural angry snarl has returned.

Salina rubs her temples as she walks closer to Rose, another 5 dagger flying with a flick of her wrists "It's going to be one of those days..."

Rosetta turns misty again and the daggers pass through... but then stop in midair, and shoot back at Salina.

OrionDouglas coughs. "Miss?" She looks up at Salina.

Salina seems a bit dizzy and disoriented "Yes?" she answer distractedly

Rosetta watches Salina closely.

OrionDouglas reaches up and offers Salina a small red sliver. She coughs again. "Use this."

Salina takes it and advances on Rose "Willing to try anything once"

Rosetta steps towards Salina, still glaring at her.

Rosetta lifts a hand and points at Salina. Her skin changes from flesh to ice, and the heat of her body causes it to begin to melt...

Salina takes a moument to shakes off the icy covering, little worse for the ware, magic again seeming to have little effect on her "One more chance to leave peacefully"

Rosetta shakes all over, rage covering her face. She lifts her arms, both at the same time, and millions of tiny icy needles appear out of the air and fire at Salina, and they keep coming and coming and coming...

Salina walks right through the storm, mostly unscathed but taking stabs and scratchs all over, shreading her clothes and flesh even more "Remember that you brought this upon yourself"

Liress enters this room

OrionDouglas looks to Liress and after couching again she croaks softly.. "Liress.."

Liress tilts her head slightly to ODie, "Baby?" She gets up and wanders over to her and crouches, "Wha's happened?"

Rosetta increases the intensity, and Salina is encased in her own mini hailstorm. But the stones are pointed and spiky, and the snow is acidic and eats away at her skin.

OrionDouglas points at Rosetta. "Her.."

Salina covers herself haphazardly with her cloak, the only article that is untouched, untill she get within arms length of Rose. Only a flash is seen as her long dagger drives it's way towards Rose's heart.

OrionDouglas shakes her head in dismay at Salina...

Liress looks towards Rosetta, "Why'd she do this?" She checks ODie over to see what parts are injured, "You don't sound like you're breathing very well..."

Rosetta steps to the side as a thick, hard slab of ice appears in the path of Slina's arm, but not the blade, blocking the cut. Rosetta's arm glows pale blue for a moment, and she thrusts it at Salina. If THIS touches her, the skin won't regrow, because she'll freeze her heart inside her chest....

OrionDouglas sighs, coughing again. "She's an evil Rochelle."

Salina curses rather loudly, ducking the sloppy thrust and breaking her arm out of the ice with her other long dagger. She tosses the daggers to either side and attempt to spin past Rose's now outstretched arm and drive the red splinter Orion gave directly into the woman's forhead

Liress frowns a little, "Well, I don't care who she is, you're hurt. Tell me which parts and I'll see what I can do, though it will only be minor..."

Bloodsmythe looks at OrionDouglas "Doggie... OK?"

OrionDouglas has bruised and cracked ribs and internal bleeding. She was slammed into a marble wall.

Bloodsmythe meant the kit

Rosetta leans unnaturally away from Salina's thrust, puts her hand on Salina's arm. She holds it away from her for a moment, then with a loud snapping, Rosetta tears Salina's frozen arm and the fire shard completely off her body.

OrionDouglas glares at Bloodsmythe. "He's fine. Just go away."

[Bloodsmythe] (to OrionDouglas) "Cold... Lady... Hurt... You?"

Salina cringes after losing her limb, luckily frozen it wasn't as painful as it could have been. Screaming feriously, she jumps on Rose, wraping her legs around the woman and kicking out the back of her knees while grabing the splinter from her severed arm and stabing wildly with it. Where finesse fails, the insane will succeed.

OrionDouglas looks at Bloodsmythe. She doesn't have time to deal with this thing. She can't afford distractions.

Bloodsmythe is a simple minded creature. It doesn't understand that.

OrionDouglas winces as she realizes something.

[OrionDouglas] Of course..

[Rosetta] As the fire splinter enters Rosetta's shoulder, there is the familiar sound of a torch being dropped into a snowbank. Rosetta is screaming. Salina's entire body is subjected to the cold essence that makes up Rosetta, and it should have the same kind of effect simply touching her did a moment ago.

Liress frowns deeply, not really knowing what to do. She stands up and heads towards Rosetta and Salina. She hopes Salina took her advice and wore a seatbelt. Her eyes narrow and she sends a telekinetic wave at Rosetter, pinpointing on that shard in her shoulder to fracture it within her body.

OrionDouglas , noticing that the creature won't go away, lets a small hole appear in the cracked wall of her shelter and Jolt bounds through, hopefully Bloodsmythe will keep the now Ice-kit out of the way.

Bloodsmythe moves toward the kit

Rosetta feels the splinter shatter inside her body, and falls to her knees as her arm glows a bright warm red.

Morgaine utters a word of recall, hopefully bringin Salina to her side

[Bloodsmythe] Doggie... Ok...

Salina gets saved...and another flying lesson. Liress's wave has the expected hightened effect on the assassin, throwing her out of the magic's influence and across the room to hit a wall

OrionDouglas sees her foe weakened and gains a small amount of hope.

Liress whistles softly and continues to advance. "It's beginning to look a lot like X-mas... everywhere I goooo...." She throws another telekinetic wave at Rosetta now that she's down, this one forcing her upwards towards a rafter beam.

Rosetta puts her hand on her arm, then pulls it away. "it hurts.... "Rosetta's voice is the sound of snow gently falling on the ground, but seems long unused...

Salina never hears Morgaine's recall and ends up a broken heap on the floor against the far wall

Morgaine looks to Rosetta " If you've got any intelligence you'll stand up and walk away. I dont take kindly to people hurting my friends. " Her eyes flare softly and psi energy flows in toward her as she snarls softly.

OrionDouglas begins to shimmer, and suddenly bursts into flames. After a moment, she becomes the flames and stands up.

Rosetta is thrown up into midair, but stops, hanging in the air with a small moment of will. She sits on her knees in the air, dress wrapped around her form, head bowed...

OrionDouglas reaches a flaming hand into her pouch and withdraws the last three slivers.

[OrionDouglas] It ends now.

Rosetta vanishes from sight in the blink of a eye.

Liress ughs at Salina, "Oops..." She looks up at Rosetta and tries something else... a bit of psychopyrosis against the whole of her body.

Liress doesn't get to do that! WAAAAH!

Bloodsmythe plays with Jolt. The kit seems to find the failed mimic to be very entertaining.

OrionDouglas blinks unnoticably. She twirls around, half expecting Rosetta to be right behind her.

Morgaine moves to Salina's side and surveys her wounds before making a decision. " I'd better get Liara, she's better at this healing thing than I am."

Liress looks at Morgaine, "I wasn't aiming for her..."

Rosetta is nowhere in sight in the room.

Salina 's eyes srping open, a low groan passingher lips before words can be formed "I'll manage...justtt get that bitttch"

Morgaine slips out

Morgaine exits from this room

Liara enters this room

OrionDouglas becomes uncertain... she returns to her normal self, and collapses on the floor, coughing up a lot of blood.

OrionDouglas head sways a moment before she regains control.

Salina quickly passes out again, her body already healing it's self though at a much slower rate than usual

Liara heads straight in and immediately heads over to Salina, quickly uttering spells of healing, she also not Orian and marks her on her 'to do' list. Raw healing energy suffuses the air around her in a gentle golden glow

Liress walks back over to ODie and picks her up with a good helping portion of telekinesis, carrying her over to Salina, figuring her sister can work on them both. She calls to the kit as well, hoping the li'l thing will follow.

Liress just KNOWS her sister so well. =)

OrionDouglas falls into unconsciousness as she floats along.

Liara directs her healing energy to Orion, suffusing her with the light as she switches to a different tack with Salina, her left hand dissipates into a tiny swarm of healing instruments..based on psionics the tiny things work on repairing and healing like a tiny set of surgical tools. All the while she continues to work on healing Orion...

OrionDouglas hand relaxes and three small slivers of red crystal fall out.

Salina 's breath quickly becomes stronger, the psionic healing having just as much over effect as Liress' flying lessons

OrionDouglas ' ribs slowly mend and the internal bleeding stops?

Liress sits near them all and pulls the kit onto her lap to keep an eye on 'im. She reaches over and picks up the crystal slivers carefully.

Salina 's missing arm seems to phase back into exsitence rather than the healing replaceing it, strange

Liara notes a soft mist suffusing her healing energy and utters a spell to cauterize it...she's not having any interference with her work

Liara continues healing Orion, working on repairing her ribs, magically inducing regeneration while taking a more practical and psionic means with Salina

OrionDouglas notes that no mist seems to go near Liress.

[Bloodsmythe] Cold... Lady... Gone...

Liress keeps a close watch on Liara and notices when she casts defensive spells. She keeps a close watch around her surroundings after this. She sliver into Liara's pocket, then one into Orion's, clutching the other.

Salina 's own regeneration also strengthens thanks to Liara, and soon she is huddled form taking a nap in rags

Liara sighs softly and has a little difficulty rising. " I've done what I can, hopefully it should be enougn.

OrionDouglas stirs slightly. She bolts upright, looking around wildly.

Salina moans painfull as she struggles to sit up a moument later "Did I get her?"

Liress helps Liara to stand, "You did well, Sister. As always."

Liara smiles faintly, touched with fatigue. " I did what was needed, nothing more."

OrionDouglas is still sore, but she is no longer coughing up blood, and she can move without too much pain.

[Liress] "Should I take you home, Liara, or would you like to just sit down for a little while?" She keeps an arm around her protectively.

OrionDouglas looks around, wairly.

Salina leans back aginst the wall, keeping her eyes closed tightly "Thanks Liara...for everything"

Liara smiles over at Salina. " It's my job Salina, it's what I do."

Liress looks at Salina, "Sorry for throwing you with the tk, but I'm a little off on my game right now."

Salina would smiles back if she could see "Well you should get a raise or promotion or whatever it is healers get"

Salina waves her hand with a smile "Guess one of these days you really will have me flying"

Rosetta appears in a small flash near the people she was fighting earlier, thanks to Liara's healing fully intact again, and back to her normal bluish tint. She bows mockingly to all of them, then vanishes out the door....

Salina feels the blast of cold air from Rose and just yells "God damn it!:

Rosetta exits from this room

OrionDouglas just sees Rosetta vanish. She breaks down crying, unsure of how much she can stand.

Rosetta enters this room

#4 enters this room

Rosetta appears in the middle of the room, and beckons with a slim finger towards Orion.

OrionDouglas cuddles Jolt again, who licks her cheek.

[Rosetta whispers to OrionDouglas] ~Come and get me, if you want your Rochelle to live another day!~

#4 walks in calmly, looking strangely like a young man, contrary to his usual old grumpy disposition.

OrionDouglas looks up and sees Rosetta. She hands Jolt to Liress before hearing a voice in her head.

Rosetta grins evilly at Orion.

OrionDouglas screams "I WON'T LET YOU HURT HER!" before propelling herself out of her couch and running at Rosetta.

#4 begins to doubt the plausibility of his assignment. He shrugs the feeling off.

[#4] *dashes in Orion's path, and makes an attempt to slam her back with the blunt end of his scythe.

Rosetta freezes Orion's joints as she runs in.

#4 looks quickly to Rosetta. "Now?"

( #4 rolls 1d20 => 20 )

Rosetta Cheers for #4!

[OrionDouglas] (( O.O;;; ))

OrionDouglas gets smacked in the face by the blunt end of a scythe, she falls to the ground as her joints begin to freeze.. she glares hotly at this new interloper...

#4 loves administering justice with a capital SMACK! He turns to Rosetta quickly. "Shall I finish her?"

Rosetta nods at #4.

OrionDouglas glares at #4 as he converses with Rosetta, she prepares something...

#4 raises his scythe above his head, and brings the blade down on Orion's face.

Deathspider sighs. HE is not gettign paid for this but... With a growl and a tossing off of his hood; black hair falling free, amethyst/purple eyes with white pupils lock down upon #4 " Do that and you drop first. "

Rosetta stands in between #4 and Deathspider, preventing him from interfering.

Deathspider vanishes, appearing on the otherside of #4. A strange crecant blade whiped at the man's arm.......

OrionDouglas curses slightly as she sees the business end of the scythe come switftly towards her.

Rosetta tries to freeze Death's arm in place.

OrionDouglas quickly rolls out of the way as the scythe embeds itself in the ground with a >clang!<

#4 pulls his Rune Scythe's blade out of the ground.

Rosetta screams in anger and tries to catch Orion in a block of glacial ice to prevent her from escaping again.

#4 holds out his left arm, palm open, and sends a very slight nuclear (Yes nuclear, long story) beam at Orion.

OrionDouglas diverts her attention to the block of ice growing around her.

[OrionDouglas] (( You better explain this nuclear thing before I /ignore you right now. ))

[#4] (not nuclear as in, insta-death, nuclear as in, hurts like hell)

[OrionDouglas] (( Nuclear as in heat-radiation? ))

#4 oocly gives a defiant speech about how using insta death or insta wound crap wouldn't be cool of him. and yes, nuclear as in, extreme heat.

OrionDouglas smiles as her two foes seem to work against one another, the heat from one cancelling out the cold of the other...

Deathspider looks down at the ice about arm . With a cracking the ice is gone and a duel bladed thing slides out from under his sleeve...

Rosetta changes tactics, and forms a block of ice around Orion's feet.

#4 curses to himself quickly, realizing his error. He decides that this'll have to be done the old fashioned way.

Deathspider softly rises his arms, the cloak falling to the floor. The ebony figure exposed. With a growl and the shower of the spider like thing attached to his right arm, he gets ready, the twin blades dripping something nasty.

OrionDouglas quickly takes the crystal shard out of pocket and concentrates, she swiftly melds it into the crystal pendant hanging around her neck.

OrionDouglas looks up at Rosetta. "To much of wimp to fight your own battles huh? Where did you find the lap dog?"

#4 tries his next attack. While she is melding pendants and crystals, he dashes at her and turns left into his dash, bringing his scythe at her from the back, it's rather large blade aimed at the base of her spine.

Rosetta glares at Orion.

[Rosetta whispers to OrionDouglas] ~That's my business, and you can die quietly without ever knowing!~

Deathspider moves with a blinding speed. A speed uncommon to a what ever he may be. His blade comes out to block #4's attack.

Rosetta watches her chosen champion beat off both of them at the same time and can't resist doing a arm pump.

#4 may not be used to this realm, but he's a pro back where he came from. Heh heh.

OrionDouglas gets the blade caught in the small of her back and she screams in pain.

Rosetta :: A blast of wind tries to knock Deathspider away from #4. ::

OrionDouglas curses. Why didn't Rochelle leave her blades behind.

Deathspider growls, having had enough. He rolls backwards and then seems to mutter something. He is now severly angered. With rage, he smacks the twin fangs from the spider into the ground. Summons a horde of giant spiders to attack #4.

#4 wishes he wasn't occupied with Orion, otherwise those spiders would be frying and dying by now.

#4 trys for his next move. It is a double move, so if it fails, they both fail. If you have any objection please tell me. He twists the blade upwards, and then tries to tear it up, up, and out through the top of her head. Roll time again, folks.

[OrionDouglas] (( I object on the grounds that the move would require that the blade is embedded in ODie, which it isn't. #4 slashed at ODie's back, not thrusted the blade into it. ))

[#4] (I plead guilty. Please excuse my stupidity, I'm not used to this)

OrionDouglas staggers to her feet as blood seeps out of a cut in her dress.

Deathspider wonders how well #4 will take on a horde of spiders attacking him?

Liara blinks and throws the crystal shard in her pocket to Orion. " Use this "

OrionDouglas spies the crystal shard out of the corner of her eye and guides it into her hands.

#4 attempts to wedge the blade into the same spot that was slashed as she does something with the crystal.

Rosetta looks at the situation for a moment.

#4 speaks to Rosetta without looking at her. "If you wish to. I personally will die fighting, or emerge victorious."

OrionDouglas breaks the crystal shard as she doesn't have time to initate the change herself. As #4 trys feebly to attack her, she feels the influx of fire energy and bursts in flames.

Deathspider yanks the spiders bite from the ground. Standing up fully he takes a ancient stance. The blades held so his pal is up. Slowly they xtend though driping forth the strange venom. He watches #4.

OrionDouglas :: #4's attack was too slow, and the blade simply passes though Orion's flaming form :: ((Note: ODie is now sorta like a fire-elemental ))

#4 laughs a little. "You utilize fire? Me too!" He sends a spiraling wave of dark energy at Orion as the horde of spiders is dangerously close to him. He opts to put them as a second priority.

#4 Damns his unlucky dice, and steps on them. By the way, he got bitten by spiders. Let's see if they penetrate his boots.

Rosetta notes #4 is rolling 1d2 instead of 1d20.

( #4 rolls 1d2 => 1 )

[#4] (what the?)

[#4] (I'm getting killed by my own typos)

[OrionDouglas] (( *points and laughs at the guy using a coin instead of dice!* ))

[#4] (well, my char is gonna have to suffer for it. lemme try a dummy roll to see if my keyboard is F*cked up, ok? #4 is still getting beaten to death though.)

Rosetta grabs #4 by the shoulders. Both of them dissapear in the blink of a eye.

[Rosetta] (( I gotta get to bed, and I don't want #4 to die, tonight at least. Sound good if we escape for now? ))

OrionDouglas swears as she reverts to normal.

[#4] (I'll just have my char suffer horrible injuries for a while. Sound fair?)

[OrionDouglas] (( *grrrrrrs seriously GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRS at Rosetta...* ))

[Rosetta] (( *loves the sound of Orion purring* Aw, lil kitty cat.... Yeah, gotta go. We'll finish this another time! Muwahahaha *koff koff* Besides, I want Rochelle to join in on the final battle. ))

[OrionDouglas] FUCK! How much longer must I go through with this. *she looks upwards* Please be safe Rochelle... and hurry back... I need you..

#4 exits from this room

Liress eeps as Jolt kips up and nips at her lip, "Bah!"

Deathspider desummons those nasty spiders before they kill others. He also turns his attention to Orion..

Rosetta exits from this room

OrionDouglas trudges back over to Liress, leaving a trail of blood. She collapses by Jolt. "Ugh."

Liara blinks and breaks the kiss with Wulfey, some things are natural to her and caring is one of them, once more she surrounds Orion in that healing golden light and works on repairing her.

Liress looks at ODie with a Jolt hanging from her lower lip by his teeth, "Can 'ou get thith thin' off be?"

Liara nods slightly to Wulfey and buries her head once more in Wulfey's chest while healing Orion again..." You know, to get beaten up once is bad news...twice must be carelessness."

OrionDouglas reaches up and lightly smacks Jolt on the nose. "Bad foxie! Liress friend!"

Liress blinks as Jolt dislodges from her lip. She licks it a few times, "Thanks..."

[OrionDouglas] I won't let her harm Rochelle, I owe Rochelle that much, at least...

Liress looks at ODie, "She'll be okay."

[OrionDouglas] I don't know... they're opposites... And that woman is stronger...

Liress hmms at ODie, "Yeah, but Rochelle has something that Rosetta doesn't."

OrionDouglas looks puzzled. "What?"

Liress looks at ODie and pokes her in the chest, "You."

OrionDouglas blinks, and blushes.

OrionDouglas picks up Jolt and cuddles him. "Yeah... that's right."

Liress looks at ODie and smiles.

[OrionDouglas] Which means I have to stay alive, right?

Liress nods audibly to ODie, "Yes, you do. Or I'll be forced to harm someone, and I don't wanna!" She blinks again after saying that.

OrionDouglas gets up and cuddles Liress.

Liress hugs ODie while still looking at her sister, eyes blinking slowly.

The 23th December, 2001...

OrionDouglas emerges from her room, leaving Jolt behind. She looks refreshed, but harrowed.

#4 enters this room

#4 simply appears out nowhere and into a corner, a slight electric crackling sound heard as he lands on the ground. He does a lazy wave to Orion.

OrionDouglas glares at #4, she edges her way over near Tia.

Kashshaptu glances down into the room, just silently watching what is going on ... then notices Orion and watches her cautiously .. a light growl as a warning

OrionDouglas glanes up at Tia, fear in her eyes.

#4 draws his scythe with his right hand, pointing to the black blood encrusted blade with his left. He speaks in almost a whisper from across the hall to her, although the distance makes it sound more like a hiss. "I have your DNA on file...isn't that just wonderful?"

[Jerl whispers to oriondouglas] hey...how's the kit?

Rosetta enters this room

Kashshaptu moves to crouching on the beam, moving back away from Orion, keeping her bandaged wing clearly out of the way

Rosetta floats back into the room.

[OrionDouglas whispers to Jerl] Fine. I don't know how much I can stand, though.

OrionDouglas looks around wildly for any friendly faces...

#4 does a light bow to Rosetta as she enters. "Sorry I failed you last time, ma'am. It won't happen again."

[Jerl whispers to oriondouglas] whatta ya mean? I'm here if ya need anything

[Jerl whispers to oriondouglas] whatta ya mean? I'm here if ya need anything

[OrionDouglas whispers to Jerl] I mean that woman who looks like Rochelle, but is evil. And now she as a lap dog trained in combat! *fear*

OrionDouglas walks over to Jerl. "Please help me!"

OrionDouglas looks at the end of her limit.

Jerl hugs ODie softly"Shh....It's okay, I'm here..."

Kashshaptu lays down on the beam, careful of her damaged wing and snorts

Rosetta freezes Orion's feet in a block of ice to limit her movement.

[OrionDouglas] SHE'S HERE!

Jerl 's aura flames to life, Hellfire and Holy Water

#4 twirls his scythe in his right hand, aiming his left arm, palm open, at Orion off in the distance. He fires a blast of concentrated dark energies at her.

( #4 rolls 1d21 => 11 )

OrionDouglas screams in terror as her feet are trapped. Suddenly she is hit with a ball of dark energy.

[OrionDouglas] Ugh!

#4 dashes at her with inhuman speed, using both hands to grip his scythe now. He brings it upwards, and into a stab aimed at her chin.

OrionDouglas trys to heat up the ice around her feet.

Jerl steps between Orion and her attackers as quickly as possible, ancient black bastardsword in his hand instantly

Kashshaptu lets out a loud screech as she watches the commotion below ... moving further back into a darkened corner of the rafters

OrionDouglas sees #4 and trys to dodge backwards.

Jerl drops his sword in front of # 4 as he growls ferally

Rosetta creates a wall of ice around Jerl, trying to trap him.

OrionDouglas feels the air part as #4's blade misses her face by mere millimeters...

Jerl smiles at Rosetta, Hellfire flaring out from him, a beam of it slashing out towards Rosetta as he attempts to avoid entrapment with the dark fire

#4 has been beaten, but not for long. He tries to leap over Jerl, and into another downwards stab aimed at the top of Orion's skull.

Jerl spins quickly on his Heel, more Hellfire slashing between ODie and #4

Kashshaptu watches the fight, staying clear of it .. slightly growling

OrionDouglas sees Jerl block #4 as she drops to a crouch.

Rosetta yelps as the fire burns her side before she can reappear to one side.

[OrionDouglas whispers to Jerl] Keep her occupied!

Jerl jumps to ODie

OrionDouglas waves Jerl off.

Jerl flares another blast of Hellfire at Rosetta

[OrionDouglas whispers to Jerl] I'm not hurt! I'm preparing...

Jerl growls

OrionDouglas reaches into her pouch and draws out a sliver of red crystal, she slips this into one of Jerl's pockets.

Rosetta redirects the Hellfire, bouncing it around the room, until it fires back at Orion.

#4 retaliates for being blocked and dodged, firing a small twister of dark swirling energy from his left palm once more. It is aimed at Orion, of course.

OrionDouglas gets hit by a blast of hellfire, but strangly it only seems to have a small effect on her. The crystal around her neck glows brighter..

OrionDouglas trys to roll out of the way of #4's attack.

Jerl growls ever more Ferally and goes berserk, Hellfire flies in all directions, tens of beams of the dark fire simply let loose as he seemingly explodes, a black aura consuming him

Rosetta attempts frantically to reduce the effect of the hellfire upon herself.

OrionDouglas gets out of the way of the full blast, but is clipped by it.

#4 curses his lady luck today. He decides once more for the up-front attack, running past the black-aura surrounded Jerl, and making a diagonal right upwards slice, aimed at Orion's facial area.

Kashshaptu glances over toward Jerl

OrionDouglas gets hit by another stray blast of hellfire, but again, it's only has a slight effect.

Liress walks in. She's a drow alright, but she looks just like Liara!

OrionDouglas trys to somersault backwards.

Jerl controls his multiple bursts, Hellfire consuming the general area he is in, still spiraling out around ODie, as if it was shielding her on it's own

OrionDouglas dodges out of the way.

Rosetta vanishes into the rafters to avoid the hellfire and creates another block of ice around Orion's lower body.

Jerl grips his sword in a white-knuckled fury and launches himself, flames and all at #4

OrionDouglas glares at #4. "You don't know what you're doing."

#4 grunts in frustration, instead dropping to the ground, his feet facing Orion. He kicks them both out at her in his patented mule-kick.

Kashshaptu glances through the rafters at Rosetta

OrionDouglas stands upright and finds her lower half trapped in ice. She laughs as #4 shatters the ice with a well placed kick. "HAH!"

OrionDouglas looks to Rosetta. "You're lap dog needs to be house trained!"

Rosetta growls down at Orion and freezes her thick head in ice, then!

OrionDouglas looks down at #4 and lets loose a bolt of lightning.

#4 figures to hell with it and accepts his lack of judgement. He curses elementals. He tries to dodge the bolt o' lightning.

OrionDouglas :: The crystal around her neck glows brightly for a bit, and no ice seems to form around Orion's head. ::

Jerl slashes upwards at #4 as #4 tries to dodge

OrionDouglas hits #4 square in the chest with the lightning. Arcs of electricity leap to the blade of his scythe.

Rosetta frowns at Orion, sitting down on the rafters while she generates a large amount of energy for her next attack.

#4 can't dodge Jerl while dodging Orion, so he gets hit by default. The blade slashes across his face, and although his mask is not cut, bloodstains begin seeping out from underneath it.

OrionDouglas takes a moment while #4's stunned to throw a small red sliver at Rosetta.

#4 was indeed stunned by the lightning, although it's heat did no damage. It still hurt like hell, damnit! He calms himself down, realizing that his frustration will only hinder him. He spins around in the blink of an eye to gain momentum, and attempts a calculated surgical strike with the blade of his scythe to Jerl's throat.

Rosetta whines in pain as the sliver digs through the fleshy part of her arm and passes through into the ceiling.

Jerl spins his blade in an attempt to block

Jerl manages to knock the scythe away from his throat, and turns the blade to again slash at #4

[OrionDouglas] Come down here, bitch!

Rosetta 's eyes shine as she points her unwounded arm at Orion, and creates a full blade barrier around her of spinning blades.

OrionDouglas trys to burn up the rafter Rosetta is crouching on.

#4 's blade clashes off of Jerl's, and so he tries something else. He falls to one hand, using incredible balance to spin on it, his legs making an attempt to slam into Jerl's midsection.

#4 gets hit, although he lives on, bleeding even more.

( OrionDouglas rolls 1d20 => 1 )

#4 happens to be gushing red ooze from his mask, as a matter of fact.

Liara observes, her form blackening the ceiling like a spreading stain of pure darkness and finally concludes that Rosetta broke her promise to her...a bolt of ebon lightning rips from the voidform and at Rosetta's form above

Jerl gets kicked in the gut, getting knocked back...

OrionDouglas curses as the fire energy flares up in front of her, she strange doesn't take much damage from it, and the crystal around her neck glows brighter..

#4 notices the third opponent. He runs past Jerl, although he is significantly slower than before. He tries for an all-out scissor kick at Liara.

Rosetta :: The lightning bolts connect solidly with Rosetta, and she is blasted off the rafter and falls in a heap on a couch under it. ::

OrionDouglas sees a few spining blades of ice that bar her way.

Liara blossoms forth from the ceiling, the blackness spreading and detaching itself and lowering from above. She wears the form of a hole seeming cut in the universe itself lined with thousands of void tendrils and seeming filled with eyes....no drow is this

OrionDouglas frowns at the blades. "Is that all you've got?" she says as she trys to melt them.

Liara - as void - gets scissor kicked, the foot goes in and encounters...nothing...except cold, lots and lots of cold

[Rosetta] The figure of Rosetta seems to lie on the couch and moan softly.

Jerl spins his blade and sheathes it

#4 pulls his foot out.

OrionDouglas melts the blades and takes a few steps towards the fallen Rosetta.

Jerl empowers his elfstones to spark to life, and a rush of pure magic rockets at #4 from an angle so if he misses, Liara shant be hit

#4 falls to one knee for a second, his bloodflow beginning to let up. He dashes at Orion from behind, using up a crapload of his energy to make himself fast and silent. He brings his scythe blade first, down on her back.

Liara turns her attention toward #4, or rather several of the eyes turn to look at him before creeping tendrils of pure shadow lash out like ebony whips, seeking to restrain #4 for...er...absorbtion

Rosetta drops a gigantic block of ice upon Orion from ambush while she approaches her illusion!

#4 gets all tendrilized. Fine and freakin' dandy.

OrionDouglas hears a sound behind her and spins... as she does so she sees the growing shadow around her, she quickly looks up...

[OrionDouglas] SHIT!

OrionDouglas takes a crystal splinter in each hand and holds them above her head praying...

Kashshaptu growls, still watching the fight ... remaining clear of it

Liara reforms tendrils then,shifting the ones not engaged into things of horror, tipped by blades, long boney spears and fanged maws....can you guess what comes next kiddies??

Rosetta tries to put up shields and weapons of her own to defend #4 with from Liara...

Rosetta watches the block of ice get mostly sheared away, but a large chunk still brains Orion.

#4 laughs a bit as the tentacles get all freaky n' stuff. He crosses his arms and lets out a maniacal cackle, exploding into an inferno of fire/dark energies. He tries to simply shoot out of their icky yucky grasp.

( #4 rolls 1d20 => 1 )

#4 is dead. Oh shoot.

OrionDouglas collapses in a heap.

#4 didn't mean it literally, not yet anyway.

OrionDouglas isn't dead. She moans slightly.

Jerl appears in front of ODie, facing Rosetta

Rosetta leaps to the floor, landing next to Orion. She hurriedly tries to open a magical portal before anyone can notice, and drag Orion through...

Liara tentacles constrict all the more, aiming to conduct the true coldness of the void into their target while the mass of blades try to fricasee #4

Jerl hurls pure magic from his Elfstones at Rosetta from ODie's side

Rosetta tries to reflect the magic back at Jerl so she can finally make away with Orion.

( Rosetta rolls 1d20 => 20 )

[Rosetta] ( YES!!!! )

#4 gives up hope while he is being ripped apart. His fire energies keep the cold away for a while, but his arms are torn off. He decides for a kamikaze. Screaming all sorts of profanities, he simply explodes, and a beam of really, really, really harmful heat/dark energies fly at Jerl.

Jerl gets knocked back some and attempts to direct the elfstone's energy back at her once more.

Rosetta lifts Orion's unconsious form with Telekinesis and pulls her through the magical portal, laughing all the while.

Jerl gets blasted full-on by that blast from #4, getting slammed into the bar..and through it

OrionDouglas is such a drag.

#4 exacted his vengeance. Yay. His spirit sits down at the broken bar, and gulps down a margarita.

Jerl 's stomach is smoking from the blast as he sits up, pieces of wood and glass all about him

BrooklynAngel blinks and leans over the bar to look at Jerl.. she makes a face.. " That looked like it hurt.."

Jerl shivers, and falls back down, hie elfstones glow silver from in his chest, working hard to repair the damage

Liress glances at Rosetta and throws the crystal sliver she took from Orion last night at her back.

Liara reaches out with the spear sections of her voidform...it might be an idea for #4's spirit to flee now...this girl's a souleater

OrionDouglas suddenly awakes as her legs dissapier into the portal. She screams in rage and lashes out with her last sliver at Rosetta.

Liress remains on her seat otherwise.

#4 laughs and remembers something. He has no soul. Long story, don't ask. Later.

#4 will return to fail and die again, but hey, shit happens!

#4 exits from this room

Rosetta watches the crystal sliver fly wide as a pair of ice blocks bash against Orion's head.

OrionDouglas catches the stray splinter as her first blow is parryed. she sticks the splinter she caught in the ground and drags her self out of the portal.

Jerl gets up finally, holding his stomach and his head, leaning against the bar"Ugh..."

Rosetta yanks on Orion's legs, trying to drag her along...

OrionDouglas :: The crystal around her neck flares up as the two ice blocks shatter ::

Jerl growls softly"Oww...."

OrionDouglas gets dragged towards the portal by her legs. Sick of watching the ceiling go by she sits up and drives both splinters firmly into Rosetta's hands.

Liress glances at Rosetta and decides she needs a little push as ODie strikes, so she flares a telekinetic wave over ODie at Rosetta to push her into the portal.

Liara giggles slightly and indicates the fight " They seemed to be playing so I thought I'd help out a little"

Rosetta shrieks in fear as the splinters drive into her, and releases Orion... then gets kicked in the chest by the telekinetic wave and goes flying into the portal.

Liara glances over and utters a single spell, using human magics she propells a single firespike at Rosetta

Jerl winces, and looks up as he comprehends where the Hell he is"What happened to me and is ODie okay..."

[Rosetta] The magical portal begins closing slowly behind Rosetta.

OrionDouglas stumbles to her feet, not bleeding for once.

[Rosetta] The portal closes fully behind Rosetta. A piercing wail is heard as she is stuck back there again for a time...

Rosetta exits from this room

OrionDouglas nods to Liara and Liara (o.O) for their help. "Thank you"

Liress looks at Orion, "You okay?"

OrionDouglas looks at the nearest Liara. "Yes... I thought you gave me your splinter yesterday?"

Jerl stumbles around for a sec "Orion? Orion where you at?"

OrionDouglas looks to Jerl.

Jerl staggers a little, still holding his head, and falls back into a chair

OrionDouglas frowns and walks over to Jerl. "I'm sorry.. I'm fine, just a little drained. Th.... Thank you."

Liress tilts her head a little to Liara, "Huh?" She sips that water and gets up afterwards, walking over to Orion to inspect her.

Jerl nods up to ODie and hugs her softly"Good...cuz it'd suck if ya died...when i promised to protect ya"

OrionDouglas looks fine, not bleeding, just a little bruised.

OrionDouglas shivers slightly at Jerl's touch.

Jerl smiles softly at ODie, then staggers his way back to the bar

Jerl doesn't notice ODie shivering at his touch...that suicide blast took a helluva lot outta him...

The 24th of December, 2001...

OrionDouglas half emerges from her room, looking around warily...

OrionDouglas emerges fully and crosses over to where Liress is, hurrying, and looking around wildly.

OrionDouglas makes it to Liress unscathed.

Liress notes that ODie makes it to her unscathed! Errr....

OrionDouglas is highly paraniod today. Who can blame her.

[OrionDouglas] *paranoid. I swear this keyboard is plotting against me...

[OrionDouglas] "Hi Liress."

Allenia sighs softly and looks around, noting the arrival of Orion and raising one eyebrow at her.

Liress doesn't blame ODie.

Liress keeps her eyes on Allenia, "Hey, Orion."

OrionDouglas sits down and trys to relax.

Salina enters this room

Rosetta enters this room

Salina returns, trailed by Rosetta, whom she seems to be comforting

Rosetta follows Salina, being lead by the hand, looking for all the world, lost and confused and scared.

Salina get's Rosetta seated in a reasonably isolated place "Stay here, I'll be right back"

Salina glances at Liress and guesses the identity of her companion, and thus looks elsewhere for aid

Rosetta waits for Salina to return, curling up into a ball again.

OrionDouglas sits by Liress, unaware, trying to relax.

Salina crosses the room to Orion "Hi, remember me? Come on, we need to talk" without another words she turns, expecting the woman to follow her

OrionDouglas doesn't follow Salina. She stays right by Liress.

[OrionDouglas] You talk to me here or not at all.

Liress looks at ODie, then Salina.

Salina takes a deep breath, her hair streaking formt he water blue back to a night filled ebon. She turns back to Orion and trys to be patient "Alright...I found the woman who attacked you, and I'm trying to make it so she won't anymore...but I can't do that without you there, so please follow me"

OrionDouglas looks to Liress. "Should I trust her?"

Liress looks at ODie, "She works for Morgy, so... her perhaps, but not the other."

Salina glances at Liress, thanking her silently for the vote of confidence "Don't worry, I'll protect you" she flashs a small red dagger made of the same material that the splinters from the other night were

OrionDouglas draws a red sliver from her pouch and rises. She walks to Salina and prods her with it.

Salina is wholly unaffected, except for the small drop of blood "I'll take that as your compliance" she turns and leads the way back to where Rose is seated

OrionDouglas sees the red dagger and stops. "How did you get that? I thought I was the only one who could compress fire into crystal form."

Salina smiles over her shoulder "I'm a very resourcful girl when I want to be"

OrionDouglas follows Salina again... more warily this time.

Rosetta watches Salina talk to Orion.

Salina leads Orion back to Rose and after a reasuring smiles to the latter she waves her hand "Well this is you two's conversation, I'm just the medeator"

Rosetta looks up at Orion, feeling her heart in her throat.

OrionDouglas looks coldly at Rosetta.

[OrionDouglas] Tell me why I shouldn't kill you right now.

Salina places her hand on Orion's shoulder and whispers to her

OrionDouglas points with the splinter that's still in her hand.

OrionDouglas pushes the hand away and says to Salina, without looking away from Rosetta. "You. Don't touch me."

[Salina whispers to OrionDouglas] She's in a lot of pain, or a terrific actor, either way give her the benifit of the doubt

Rosetta looks down at the floor, then brushes away a lock of hair from her face, exposing her forehead to Orion.

OrionDouglas hears a /wh and doesn't care either way. No-one threatens Rochelle.

[Rosetta whispers to OrionDouglas] ~I don't want to fight any more... I can't win, and I don't want to be by myself anymore.~

OrionDouglas grabs Rosetta's hand and drives the splinter into it. "Speak to me normally!"

OrionDouglas fishes another splinter out of her pouch.

Rosetta screams in pain as the fire splinter is driven into her hand. "ahhh! noooooo!"

Salina curses loudly and shoves herself between the two, swiftly pulling out the splinter

Rosetta 's hand drips ice water as she curls back up into a ball and refuses to come out.

[OrionDouglas] Well?

OrionDouglas looks angry.

[Rosetta] "don't hurt me anymore..."

Salina takes the splinter and turns to Orion, keeping her from Rose "Look! I saved you once, but I won't let you do to her what she did to you, alright! Do I look like a friggin hero? Either talk civil or go away, cause next time I won't be there to distract her"

OrionDouglas looks hotly at Salina. "LOOK! You butted in, remember? Thanks for your help and all, but this IS personal." She looks back at Rosetta quickly.

Rosetta has buried her face in her knees and won't look up at Orion. Her wounded hand is cradled next to her stomach.

Salina 's eyes flash dangerously "Yes...and I relize that, but you cannot just kill her because you are upset"

OrionDouglas pulls Rosetta up by her hair, hatred in her eyes. "Look at me! Do you really wish to die so much?"

OrionDouglas ignores Salina for the moment.

Rosetta glares back at Orion and leaps on top of her. "no! but i'm tired of being misunderstood! i don't want to fight anymore!"

Salina pushs Orion back, freeing Rose's hair "Stop! Or I will stop trying to help her be civil and let you two fight it out"

OrionDouglas gets pushed back and turns on Salina. "And how exactly have you helped her be civil? All you have done is stopping me from trying to decide if I should kill her not."

[OrionDouglas] *gets

Rosetta reappears back on the couch, glaring at Orion.

Salina waves her hand toward Rose "Does she look like she's trying to kill you, is she throwing ice daggers from every direction in the hopes that one of them will kill you, cause if she is I must be blind!"

[OrionDouglas] Don't you think I don't want to end this? Huh? I'm weary and I don't know how much longer I can hold on. The only thing that keeps me going is my anger at that creature. NO-ONE threatens Rochelle!

Salina 's eyes flash with anger "Oh is that right? Well I don't care about Rochelle, i don't know who the hell you two are but I am trying to be a good person. Now help me out or I'll kill you both!" she takes a deep breath "Look, I'll sit right between you two and kill the first person who moves, alright?"

OrionDouglas fumes silently as she walks back to Rosetta.

Salina sits between Orion and Rose

Rosetta fumes back at Orion, looking almost exactly like a angry version of Rochelle. But she stays still, Salina on one side.

[OrionDouglas] Well?

Salina sighs "So, start talking, figure out why you two can't be near each other without a battle"

Rosetta looks at Orion from around Salina and hmphs, just staring at her.

OrionDouglas hmphs. As if there was anything to figure out. "I was talking to her" she says, motioning again with the splinter.

Rosetta hides behind Salina at the sight of the splinter.

OrionDouglas stands up, disgusted. "How can I negotiate when the moderater is such a deluded pain in the arse?" She stalks back into her room, sealing it up.

Rosetta stays hidden behind Salina as Orion stalks away.