Evil!Party: The finality of the battle

We have killed the stone golems and shattered the second anchor. Chuck the vampire sorcerer has been dissolved into a mist and returned to his coffin; we split up again to try to locate the last anchor, with Jenny, Bob, and Balaam traveling to one forest and Maodeus, Durest, and Ferrous go to investigate another. Maodeus spots a white tent down in that forest. Bob the skeleton keeps noticing a bad guy.

Durest: “Wipe out the tent, lad! Before all those Solari catch back up wi’ us!” He’s talking to a Brass Dragon, and honestly I don’t know what’s come over him except that he hasn’t died yet. Heat of the moment, I guess.

So… it’s not a tent. It’s a white box, looks like stone to Durest… Meowdeus shakes his head. “It’s a wall of force. With arrow-slits.”

Meowdeus uses Dominate Person and tries to take over one of the sorcerers inside. He succeeds, and has him try to turn somebody else into a sea turtle. The master sorcerer succeeds on his save, and does not become a turtle.

Ferrous moves forward.

The master sorcerer shoots Meowdeus in the face with a meteor shower. Meowdeus takes direct damage from the meteors. Meowdeus takes some further damage from the fire, and Durest takes more – but Durest has fire protection in place, which soaks a big chunk of it. Durest is also invisible, so, the sorcerer does a pair of quickened Lightning Bolts which both get through the dragon’s spell resistance, though he dodges the worst of the damage.

Meanwhile, the remaining Solari have come up beside us. Durest launches the emergency signal and summons Shadows; Balaam arrives with reinforcements. Bob hits one of the paladins with his sword. The paladins are wearing the full Helios enameled plate mail, large greatswords, no shields, some light rings and jewelry to complete the outfit.

Jenny steps in and goes after more paladins, ripping through the entire line in front of her. Meowdeus uses Disintegrate to take down the Wall of Force. He then tries to Dominate the master sorcerer, but fails. Ferrous moves up and uses his poison gas, doing health damage to one of the sorcerers. The Master Sorcerer throws another Meteor shower at Jenny, getting past spell resistance. She dodges the worst of it, but still takes some damage. He then throws two quickened fireballs at her, but she’s currently immune.

The paladins attack Balaam, moving in to surround him. He squishes one as they move in, but there are a bunch of them and they’re flanking him. Two of the paladins try to turn Bob, but fail. The third paladin concludes that this is a lost cause, and just attacks him instead. He smites twice, hitting both times, and misses on his third attack. Bob is damaged. More paladins charge Bob, and Bob goes down.

Then the archers finally loose their arrows, aiming mainly at Jenny – who is actually starting to get injured. The clerics start dropping Flame Strikes on Jenny until she goes down, and the other two throw Searing Light at Balaam. The shadows start moving in and weakening the archers, but not enough to keep them from drawing their bows.

Durest drops the least possible healing he can on Jenny, hoping to lure the clerics into actually killing her instead of just knocking her unconscious. This also allows him to remain invisible.

Balaam looks at all these priests and paladins around him, and speaks a Blasphemy. Everybody within forty feet of him is paralyzed… for the next six minutes. They’re effectively dead.

The Solari sorcerers move next; the one Meowdus controls moves away and fireballs the others. The others try to trun Jenny into a bunny, but fail to get through her spell resistance. The barbarians move to surround Ferrous, taking out a lot of the temporary energy he had from having been hit with fire.

Jenny tries to come back up, and faceplants instead; then she stands up. Meowdeus moves in a drops a Cone of Sleep Gas on the ones who were inside the wall of force. ALL OF THEM go to sleep. Beside him, Ferrous begins squishing people to death. The paladins are effectively gone; the archers take Jenny down again, but again fail to kill her.

The clerics all cast True Seeing on themselves, and then look at Durest. Durest murders Jenny with a quickened Inflict Crit, and then uses another of the scrolls to True Resurrect Jenny. At this point, Durest is now visible and the archers are all looking at him as well. “Wait a minute, the dwarf’s on the battlefield!”

Then the shadows attack, and weaken several of the archers. Balaam moves forward again and Blasphemes again, and then drops a quickened fireball on the paralyzed. Jenny comes back to her feet in an amazing display of accidental dexterity. Then she moves into the remains of our opponents, and wipes out six of the seven. One of the clerics survives, and Jenny is slightly embarrassed.

The last cleric flame strikes Durest, Durest responds with a shadow bolt, but doesn’t kill him; Durest returns with a shadow bolt… and then the shadows move in. The cleric goes down, and we spend the next ten minutes moving around the battlefield and finishing everyone off. We just killed something 227 Solari.

We collect bodies and magic items, and basically convert the whole lot into cash. By the time we’re done collecting treasure and weapons, Chuck has come out of his coffin and teleports us all back to his place, where Jafreese is once again in the hot tub. We turn a bunch of treasure over to him to fence.

There’s a certain amount of back-and-forth with Jafreese, who’s ostensibly glad to see us but also somewhat appalled; we ask about the Solari he’s enlisted to help him, and explain that that Solari is now probably a lot more valuable than he was previously. “Why?” asked Jafreese. “Because he’s one of the very few left,” we tell him. We stay there overnight, and wake up even more powerful. Chuck has gained more spells, and Durest can now deliver Touch effects sixty feet away. Jenny, of course, is just even more of a murder machine.

Chuck discusses the ways that people grow in power, and convinces us that now that we’re rested, we should go back and defeat the ridiculously overpowered earth elemental – because doing so would prevent anybody else from getting stronger that way.