GoCorral

This session was held over Google Hangouts. Avery, Trajan, and Will attended.

The battle began! Troops were arranged with about 400 units representing 100 soldiers each for the players. It became clear very quickly, that actually rolling all those dice would be agonizing. I quickly computed average damages for all of the archer units. We ruled that archers would deal average damage every round. Made that a lot easier. Lightning was also striking due to a powerful storm and essentially killing one of the player’s units every round.

The Battle of Phoenix

The Xorians started off by bringing rams forward to attack the three gates into the city. Preta defended the eastern gate with the contingent of wizards from the city. Torin defended the central gate. Amalius rallied the troops. The rest of the Alliance leaders joined in leading the troops as well.

The deadliness of the rams became apparent quickly. Preta shattered the wheels on one ram. Torin animated the log portion of another ram. The animated ram flailed around and killed a few Xorian troops. One of the Xorian elite spotted the errant ram and moved to attack. Degusharla, the archer rage, destroyed the animated ram in one round with his arrows. With a target identified, Preta, Torin, and Amalius moved to engage.

As the group converged on Degusharla a colossal man grew out of the dark clouds over the siege walls. The black cloud man had red eyes and a plumed helmet. He stood several hundred feet tall over the battlefield. Ares brought his hand down upon the clouds. A funnel began to form over the central gate. TORNADO Warning!

Preta, Torin, Amalius, and Kig Yupington as well all met Degusharla in battle. During a battle within a battle like this the soldiers generally stay out of it. The power scale is too great for them to have any real effect. Degusharla saw their approach and shot a full barrage of arrows at Torin. Torin would’ve died, but Athena protected him. His goddess came down from the Aether to possess Torin in a similar manner to the possession of Diomedes in the Iliad. Flames sprouted from Torin’s armor and his helmet. His spear became wreathed in divine light. Torin survived the arrow attacks unscathed.

Degusharla took a step back in shock. Preta cast black tentacles to try and incapacitate the evil dragovinian, but he evaded the grasping pseudopods. Amalius pulled out his old favorite power of retrieve. It worked and the Rage’s bow went straight into Amalius’s bag of holding. Degusharla looked at Amalius an open mouth and wide eyes before slowly gritting his teeth, narrowing his eyelids, and showing his fangs.

Torin threw his spear through Degusharla. The spear immediately returned to his hand. Degusharla rushed forward and attacked Torin. Torin and Kig fought back, getting some flanking action going. Shez’s mettle failed him and he ran away from the fearsome dragovinian warrior. Preta kept his eyes open for Frost, the mounted charger Rage. Amalius flew up in the sky a little bit to get the bow out of Degusharla’s reach. Kig successfully grappled Degusharla. Torin began using some divine positive energy magic on Degusharla. The dragovinian writhed in agony.

Frost showed up mounted on her nightmare just in time to see Degusharla turn to dust due to the overload of positive energy. Frost’s nightmare mount was quickly shot out from under her by Preta. Fortunately, Frost had a backup magic mount. She got on top of her magic spider and charged Preta who had foolishly forgotten to fly out of range. Frost pierces Preta through the heart, instantly slaying him.

Kig and Torin attacked Frost. Kig took out the spider and Torin got in a few good hits. Amalius began working his way back and trying a few more retrieve powers which failed due to divine protection on Frost provided by Blendegad. Frost threw a full attack at Torin which brought him down. Torin would’ve died again, but Athena once again intervened. She whisked him away to the dwarven city of Jord for him to recover.

Kig grappled and pinned Frost. He began using his earth’s embrace technique to deal extra damage to Frost. Frost fought back with her energy draining claws. Amalius threw a few more powers at Frost that failed to pierce her magical defenses.

Shez regained his senses and teleported back to the fight. He told Amalius to help him pour holy water on the two grapplers. The holy water proved effective, but the two remaining party members were very close to failing. Kig was knocked unconscious by Frost’s continued claw attacks. Just at that moment the holy water proved fatal as well. Frost disintegrated under the holy material. Amalius and Shez quickly stuffed the bodies and the magical gear into a bag of holding before flying back to the safety of the walls.