Destiny's Crossroad

[Collins]

"Yet you are already playing a game with lives of living beings. You kill of part of this forest, you might ruin the habitat of some owl or deer or whatever lives here. You didn't think of that now did you Mr. Fuzzy Panda HUH? Where is that information in your Environmental Assessment Information Scroll? WHY DIDN'T YOU THINK OF THE LIVES OF FUZZY PANDAS YOU MIGHT BE RUINING YOU CHAOTIC NEUTRAL MAN!" Collins just goes off rambling like a mad man hoping they will either get annoyed and leave so he can undo the magic himself.

[Leonardo]

"It seems clear now that continued talk will yield no further results." The head turns around and before he walks away says loud enough for Collins to hear "The Ritual begins tomorrow at the twilight when the sun sets behind the mountains. You better be will prepared and arrive on time because you'll have no chance if you miss the small window. If you do try to interfere though, we can not guarantee your safety any longer. Tomorrow. Sunset. At the Tree. Lets see if you have what it takes."

With that the three disappeared off into the night as the last rays of sunlight disappeared behind the mountains.

[Collins]

(great fun) "Espinoza get any and every mage we have available down here now! I have to make another phone call." Collins pulls up his portable SATCOM and starts up again. "Kerensky to Collins, Kerensky to Collins we have a "small" problem that you will want to hear and advise about."

[Leonardo]

Collins is unable to connect through to Kernesky. Some kind of wide area Jamming is in effect.

Near the Inn door the head of the 'fuzzy pandas' fiddled with a device for a while before saying "I can't patch through to HQ but this thing is telling me it's transmitting fine."

Blaze- "It seems the distortion waves from the spirit forest have accumulated high enough to cause physical interference. Until they subside only short range transitions will work."

Head- "We're too far from the Spirit Forest. The jamming can't possible cover that wide of an area."

Blaze- "The distortion waves are resonating with the tree of destiny so the tree is the center of the jamming field. The field at the Spirit forest should be vary strong now. Even if we leave the tree's area of influence the spirit forest should still provide some interference. The interference should go away as soon as the ritual starts though."

Head- "This is too many inconvenience for my liking. It will take too long to leave and call for back up so we'll have to make sure we do this quick and correctly the first time. It looks like the forest is recovering a bit fast then predicted. I'll bet that the forest awakens tomorrow and Leo moves in to finish it. Get some rest. We got a hard day tomorrow."

With that the three went to their room for the night. (To make a long distance call you'll have to go a bit aways and it will be about 3-4 am when you get back.)

[Collins]

(oh fun......) "Great...Espinoza get back in your ship and get in contact with Kerensky. Tell him what is going on and get our drop ship mages in here asap. I am going to have to go and do myself a use magic item check." Collins starts laughing to himself at his silly joke as he walks back towards the inn to try and break of any magic ritual there is.

[Leonardo]

(You find no traps. You find no invisible traps. If I understand what your doing, their is no magic aside from the distortion in the inn.)

(These are not the droids your looking for )

[Collins]

(i didn't even do my roll yet! It was a joke Leo....so these are the droids I am looking for! Cause they are fuzzy and are pandas!)

[Leonardo]

(Ok but I'm not sure what your doing so just do it or say it's ok to go to the next day sense their isn't really anything to interrupt tonight..... And I should have told you the groups actual name so that you's stop calling them the fuzzy panda's. I was trying to make a point about names. XD)

(Also these are clearly not the droids your looking for because they aren't even droids, their the latest shipment of Venezuela's. XD)

[Collins]

(fine fine fine, so pulling my unlimited resources of awesomeness now and posting)

Within moments Collins is at the Tree of Destiny (insert dramatic BUM BUM BUM! sound effect here.) And starts setting up an anti magic trap (of doom and defuzzification. you are never going to live down the Fuzzy Panda thing sorry....), fails, tries again, fails, tries again, and fails again. "Ya know you would have thought I would have learned how to do this along the way but no I just had to learn how to wear archaic armor properly..... Where is my drop ship full of mages?" Collins waits patiently for his drop ship to land so he can have them make the magic barrier to protect the tree and the area from the ritual (of fuzzy panda doom.)

[Leonardo]

(Just say everything you do this night so that I can start the next day so that I can finish this part of the event and start the new RP area. Also, I didn't really plan for a fight but sense you made a char, do you want me to add a fight balanced to your level?)

[Collins]

(could if you want to. Or you can just have the ritual happen with me not being able to do anything about it. You are the "DM")

Collins passes out from exhaustion and falls asleep under the tree for the night.

[Leonardo]

(I asked encase you would find it fun, but my sense of balance is so bent it would put the anti-spirals on high alert. =P That's why I planned to only make a fight if you really like that kind of thing.)

In the middle of the night, an hour before the sun rose the three outsiders woke up and approached the tree. Before they got near the head whispered "I admire his fore thought but to fall asleep on watch is a sad sight. Eclipse, you focus on making sure that he doesn't wake up for a little longer and clear him from the area."

Eclipse took out a cloth and dampened it with a drug and used it on Collins to make sure he was completely out cold before carrying him back to the inn. When Eclipse came back he said "I didn't give him much so he should come around when the ritual starts if he's a light sleeper but other then that he should be fine."

The leader nodded and said "Blaze, start setting up for the ritual."

Blaze nodded and took out a pendent of a crystal sword with a winged hilt. One wing black and the other white. and held it up in a praying stance. As the first rays of light started to emerge and drawn the world in twilight Blaze said "Everything is set up and ready. Beginning the final stage of the transfer." They stood their a few moments when the tree began to glow softly. Blaze then said "I'm detecting a large scale distortion. The Spirit Forest is creating a direct link to the tree of destiny. Attempting to crash link attempt........failed. Attempting to alter link connection points........failed. Attempting to stall link....... failed."

At that moment a pillar of light rose from the tree into the sky. Blaze then said "The link as been made. The Spirit forest is now trying to take the power of the Tree of Destiny and Excalibur. Creating F aux vessel...... complete. Beginning transfer to the vessel."

The head clenched his fist "I never imagined the Spirit forest would go as far as to try and evolve into an immortal while fighting a Zerosen. Leonardo, you sure as hell better pull through."

Blaze- "The Spirit Forests interference as accelerated the ritual. Estimated time of completion 43 seconds. Distortion transfer will go of in 39, a second after the ritual. Estimated time of completion of the Tree's vessel is about the same as the distortion transfer. Attempting to crash the transfer process....... failed. Attempting to alter way point...... success. Altering...... Altering...... Altering.........." With that their was a flash of light and the energy pillar collapsed into a flouting ball. "End way point altered for the Zerosen to have a chance to grab Excalibur first. Faux vessel completed on time, the Spirit forest failed. Without Excalibur though we will have to slay the Faux vessel by hand." Blaze abandoned her praying stance and added "The faux vessel will hatch in 24 seconds."

The head summoned a bow to his hand and said "Three verse one? Easy enough even if it is a god fragment."

The light in the sky began to unfold into a flying winged serpent that let out a roar as the three outsiders said as one "Dispatched in mankind's darkest hour. We are the knights of the twilight fang!"

(Ok, if you want to have fun and shoot things, this is your chance. Otherwise the three outsiders are going to slay it and disappear as the sun rises.)

[Collins]

Collins walks up and taps the Eclipse on the shoulder and waves. "Miss me?" And then Collins swings his hammer hard and fast, (yes I rolled a nat 20 and max damage so there!) and strikes true into Eclipse. (Hopefully knocking her unconscious.)

[Leonardo]

(Don't be silly. Even if you where a rouge doing max sneak attack damage that wouldn't be enough. 3.5 makes 1 shotting people very hard. Even using a +2 wounding sword as a blender to the brains of a kraken isn't enough to one shot them which in my opinion should have sense that battle was me hacking from the safety of the kraken's skull while the kraken was 1 shotting our monk from full to -7.......... Also Eclipse is a guy. Blaze is the girl........Also did you roll your move silently and hide checks? And the DC 5 spot check for the serpent thing that is clearly a more imminent threat to the inn? anyways...)

Eclipse rolls on the ground and springs back to his feat (Technically he didn't move or fall......) The head yelled out "Ignore him, First priority is grounding the fragment to prevent if from escaping or causing any unnecessary damage!" The head drew back the string of his bow and an energy arrow appeared ready to be fired. He quickly lined up the shot as the serpent started moving and he cried out "NOW!" With that he fired a shot that landed right between the eyes of the serpent causing it to recoil (Dazed) while Blaze and Eclipse teleported over the wings of the serpent and drop a large number of very small explosives over each wing. The beast cried out in pain as it crash landed near the edge of the forest.

As the beast propded itself up on it's now ruined wings (attack of opportunity), Blaze did a flurry of faints (assist) while Eclipse took out (quick draw) a pair of daggers and easily gouged out the beast's eyes (Forgot name of feat to attack with off hand for an AOO).

(I'm going to say the beast landed 30 feet from your location so you can reach the serpent and other two. Your turn)

[b2412]

'HOLY SAKE!!! Collins, i'm going to go evac the inn, also reinforcements are inbound any second now. There sending the whole goddamned army.'

Espinoza to Southern Cross Actual, relay to ODSF Actual we need a class 1 evacuation for grid 1-1-9.