The Looming Gates Report
General Summary
The final approach has come, and Rickee has abandoned the others to sprint towards Castle Nimue on his own. He is three and a half to four hours ahead of the others when he arrives at the gates. Pausing to take cookies out of his bag, he disguises himself to look like Edric Drake before calling out to the guards, clad in armor. The captain approaches the gate, rain dripping down his helmet, and upon seeing who he believes to be an ally of Count Nathara, opens the gate without question and allows Rickee access to the castle.
Inside, Rickee meets a woman, with opulent clothing and black, curly, glossy hair. Nathara, it would seem, is the Countess, but she very quickly realizes that Rickee is not, in fact, Mayor Drake. This is because as soon as the captain has left Rickee alone, Rickee dropped his illusion. He speaks plainly to the countess, about his desire to just be show a specific door within her castle and complete his mission. She laughs, thinking he is an imbecile and a liar, and approaches with alarming speed. She pins him against the wall and bites into his neck, drinking deeply of his blood. Rickee passes out around this point, and awakens in a cell after an unaccounted for amount of time passes.
Some time later, the others have approached the gates themselves. Rishaa takes out the vampire's ring and uses her celestial gifts to teleport behind the gate, her divine radiance pouring off of her. The guards, of course, take notice and rush towards her.
Rishaa swings at the captain first, striking him in the chest with her sword as she yells back at Marianne to get the gate open. Marianne leaps into action, pushing against the gate until it bursts open while Rishaa hits the captain with her sword again. She then strikes out with a side kick, a burst of radiant light intended to blind the captain and give her the advantage while he attempted to regain his footing following. Unfortunately, he manages to shield his eyes and is undeterred. As his own blade comes down, biting into her thigh, Rishaa stabs through the armor and... into a hollow chest. It still scrapes and breaks along the ribs, but now Rishaa knows that the Defiants are battling the undead.
Marianne roars in a rage, moving to engage one of the guards and bringing her axe down upon its helmet, splitting it and letting it roll off the skull that functions as its head. She backs off, moving to stand back to back with Rishaa as they wait for their combatants to approach.
The captain stalks forward, swinging at Rishaa again and again - but she moves too quickly, dodging to the side once... then twice. On the third strike, however, a glancing blow leaves a cut across her face, bleeding down her cheek.
Dimitri runs forward, calling out to one of the guards and suggesting that it attack its companions. His magic works its wonders, and it turns to bludgeon its friend while the captain lets out a hoarse cry: "hold them down!"
As one, his men pull nets free from their belts and throw them out over the Defiants within reach. Dimitri and Marianne manage to side step the heavy nets, but Rishaa becomes entangled and slowed within the grasps of the rope mesh.
The guards then move to attack, one of the skeletal attackers stabbing Rishaa in the gut, and Dimitri attempts to disrupt its attack with his silvery barbs, but unfortunately it doesn't matter. Undeterred, he gives the small luck from his spell to his monk friend, and perhaps it is a bit more than just a small morsel of luck, because the skeleton's second attack misses Rishaa completely. Meanwhile, Dimitri's charmed skeleton attacks one of the other guards, shattering its bones with two incredibly precise wounds (maximum damage on both). The injured skeleton and its companion attack back against their once-ally, but the injured one misses completely and utterly (critical failure), but thankfully the charmed skeleton does not manage to hit it back.
Character(s) interacted with
- Countess Nathara
Created Content
Rishaa Parbat
None Wood Half-Elf (Monastic Learning)
Monk 6
Monk 6
51 / 51 HP
STR
8
8
DEX
20
20
CON
16
16
INT
12
12
WIS
16
16
CHA
13
13
Rickee Trail
None Tiefling (Urchin)
Bard 5
Warlock 1
Bard 5
Warlock 1
33 / 33 HP
STR
9
9
DEX
16
16
CON
10
10
INT
12
12
WIS
15
15
CHA
18
18
Dimitri Markov
Zombie (Acolyte)
Wizard 5
Wizard 5
32 / 32 HP
STR
11
11
DEX
14
14
CON
15
15
INT
18
18
WIS
12
12
CHA
11
11
Rex Dynamio Xenetar
Chaotic Neutral Rock Gnome (Sage & Noble)
Artificer 6
Artificer 6
35 / 35 HP
STR
8
8
DEX
11
11
CON
16
16
INT
20
20
WIS
11
11
CHA
10
10
Marianne Snowden
Lawful Good Shifter (Sage)
Barbarian 6
Barbarian 6
71 / 71 HP
STR
19
19
DEX
18
18
CON
19
19
INT
18
18
WIS
16
16
CHA
9
9
Report Date
13 Jan 2023
Primary Location
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