Rieszthraxilath vs. Laithde

A long time ago in a MUD far, far away....

In a moment of great innovation, three noble heroes (among others) put down the art of idling/endless solo grinding to unite as one against the evil Tenochcan Empire. (among others)

Though the XP was good, during the battle members of the group were lightly annoyed by Lost Souls superstar LAITHDE, an Aligned with enough power to destroy an entire newbie kobold newbienewbie.

At this point, our protagonists needed no further encouragement to find and hit him until he shuts up or at least dies.  So begins an epic battle the likes of which have never been seen.  Maybe.

ROUND ONE!  FIGHT!

   You rumble, -|I do not aim with my hand. The who aimth with her hand hath forgotten the face of her father. I aim with my eye. I do not thoot with my hand. The who thootth with her hand hath forgotten the face of her father. I thoot with my mind. I do not kill with my wand. The who killth with her wand hath forgotten the face of her father. I kill with my heart.|- in harshly-accented Anglic.
   You feel a singular calmness and unity of purpose come over you; you have achieved Wandslinger focus.
   You attack Voni.
   Rarizzera joins you in battle against Voni.
   Voni stops resting.
   The lesser storm spirit roils darkly and swirls toward Voni.
   Ansrel joins you in battle against Voni.
   The elektros leaps toward Voni.
   You send currents of spiritual energy into hidden nooks within your two wands.
   Volcanic Ruin and Crystalline Void pulse rapidly with red light.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin toward Voni, connects with remarkable precision and heats Voni's head and chest up, despite his attempt to dodge.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin toward Voni, connects with remarkable precision and burns Voni's head and chest, despite his attempt to dodge.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin toward Voni, connects by the slimmest of margins and heats Voni's right arm up, despite his attempt to dodge.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin toward Voni, connects with remarkable precision and sears Voni's chest, left arm, and left hand, despite his attempt to dodge.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void toward Voni, connects well and regularizes Voni's head, despite his attempt to dodge, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin toward Voni, connects with remarkable precision and sears Voni's head and chest, despite his attempt to dodge.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void toward Voni, connects with superb precision and restructures Voni's head, despite his attempt to dodge, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin toward Voni, connects adequately and sears Voni's head and chest, despite his attempt to dodge.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void toward Voni, connects fairly well and regularizes Voni's head, despite his attempt to dodge, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   Rarizzera kicks at Voni with her right foot, connects with remarkable precision and wallops Voni's chest with the right boot of her pair of golden leather boots of agility, despite his attempt to block it with Dyad, though he resists the attack slightly.
   Ansrel connects well and munches on Voni's chest with her mouth, despite his attempt to block it with Dyad, though he resists the attack slightly.
   Ansrel connects adequately and tears into Voni's head with her mouth, despite his attempt to block it with Dyad, though he resists the attack slightly.
   Ansrel connects precisely and tears into Voni's right foot with her mouth, despite his attempt to block it with Dyad, though he resists the attack slightly.
   Ansrel connects with superb precision and jolts Voni's chest with her iron sai of stunning, despite his attempt to block it with Dyad, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   Ansrel launches herself upwards into the air and punches at Voni with her left foreclaw, connects with incredible precision and crushes Voni's head brutally with the left gauntlet of her parageos, despite his attempt to block it with Dyad, though he resists the attack slightly.
   Ansrel forms her right foreclaw into a vicious claw and strikes at Voni, connects with amazing precision and mauls Voni's head with the right gauntlet of her parageos, despite his attempt to block it with Dyad, though he resists the attack slightly.
   The elektros stands still for a moment, and a burst of thunder erupts from it into Voni's left leg and left foot, barely catching him and jarring them, despite his attempt to dodge, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.</span>
   Voni begins to move with incredible speed.
   You send currents of spiritual energy into hidden nooks within your two wands.
   Volcanic Ruin and Crystalline Void pulse rapidly with red light.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin toward Voni, connects with superb precision and melts Voni's head, despite his attempt to dodge.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin toward Voni, connects skillfully and burns Voni's chest and right arm, despite his attempt to dodge.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void toward Voni, connects reasonably well and reconstructs Voni's left leg, despite his attempt to dodge, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin toward Voni, connects with remarkable precision and sears Voni's head and chest, despite his attempt to dodge.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void toward Voni, connects with remarkable precision and realigns Voni's head, despite his attempt to dodge, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   Rarizzera throws an uppercut at Voni with her right hand, connects indifferently and flashburns Voni's head with her small golden flamra plate right gauntlet, despite his attempt to dodge, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   Rarizzera jabs her left arm at Voni, connects fairly well and bashes Voni's chest with the elbow of the left sleeve of her golden flamra pteralorica, despite his attempt to dodge, though he resists the attack slightly.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into Voni, catching him at the edge of the storm and jolting him, despite his attempt to dodge, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into Voni, catching him at the edge of the storm and jolting him, despite his attempt to dodge, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit catches him at the edge of the strike and pummels Voni's right leg with its winds, despite his attempt to dodge, though he resists the attack slightly.
   Ansrel slams her head forward at Voni, connects with amazing precision and pulverizes Voni's head with the helm of her parageos, despite his attempt to dodge, though he resists the attack slightly.
   Ansrel launches herself upwards into the air and punches at Voni with her right foreclaw, connects with remarkable precision and crushes Voni's head brutally with the right gauntlet of her parageos, despite his attempt to dodge, though he resists the attack slightly.
   Rarizzera starts following Voni.
   Voni flies inward.
   Rarizzera slams her head forward at Voni, connects quite skillfully and pounds Voni's right leg, despite his attempt to dodge, though he resists the attack slightly.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into Voni, catching him at the edge of the storm and shocking him, despite his attempt to dodge, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into Voni, catching him at the edge of the storm and jolting him, despite his attempt to dodge, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into Voni, catching him at the edge of the storm and shocking him, despite his attempt to dodge, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   Ansrel connects with amazing precision and jolts Voni's head and chest with her iron sai of stunning, despite his attempt to dodge, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   Ansrel swings her tail at Voni, connects with remarkable precision and pounds Voni's head with the tailsheath of her parageos, despite his attempt to dodge, though he resists the attack slightly.
   Rarizzera flies inward.
   Ansrel flies inward.
   You follow Rarizzera inward.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into Voni, catching him at the edge of the storm and jolting him, despite his attempt to dodge, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   A lesser storm spirit flies in from outside.
   An elektros flies in from outside.
   Dyad pulses as it strikes Ansrel.
   Some of Voni's wounds heal.
   Voni catches her in a good part of the strike and purges Ansrel's head, left foreleg, torso, and hindlegs with Dyad, though she resists the attack slightly.
   Dyad pulses as it strikes Ansrel.
   Some of Voni's wounds heal.
   Voni catches her in the heart of the strike and expunges Ansrel's head, left foreleg, left foreclaw, right wing, torso, and right hindleg with Dyad, though she resists the attack slightly.
   The lesser storm spirit coldly flies in front of you to protect you from Voni.
   A lick of heat washes from Rarizzera's small golden flamra plate right gauntlet toward Voni, connects well and melts Voni's head, despite his attempt to dodge, and he is affected severely by the attack.
   Voni flies outward.
   Rarizzera jabs her left arm at Voni, connects with remarkable precision and bashes Voni's left arm with the elbow of the left sleeve of her golden flamra pteralorica, despite his attempt to block it with Dyad, though he resists the attack slightly.
   Ansrel attempts to gouge Voni's eyes with her left foreclaw, connects precisely and claws Voni's head with the left gauntlet of her parageos, despite his attempt to block it with Dyad, though he resists the attack slightly.
   Ansrel connects with superb precision and jolts Voni's head and chest with her iron sai of stunning, despite his attempt to dodge, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   Ansrel forms her right foreclaw into a vicious claw and strikes at Voni, connects with amazing precision and rakes Voni's head with the right gauntlet of her parageos, despite his attempt to block it with Dyad, though he resists the attack slightly.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into Voni, catching him at the edge of the storm and jolting him, despite his attempt to dodge, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into Voni, catching him at the edge of the storm and jolting him, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into Voni, catching him at the edge of the storm and jolting him, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   The elektros throws an uppercut at Voni with its left hand, connects adequately and thumps Voni's right arm and right hand, though he resists the attack slightly.
   Voni's attempt to flee has been stopped.
   The lesser storm spirit catches him at the edge of the strike and thumps Voni's right arm with its winds, though he resists the attack slightly.</span>
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into Voni, catching him at the edge of the storm and shocking him, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   Ansrel connects with amazing precision and jolts Voni's head and chest with her iron sai of stunning, and he is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   The elektros throws an uppercut at Voni with its left hand, connects indifferently and thumps Voni's head, though he resists the attack slightly.
   Rarizzera throws an uppercut at Voni with her right hand, connects precisely and singes Voni's chest with her small golden flamra plate right gauntlet, though he resists the attack slightly.
   Rarizzera connects skillfully and hexes Voni's head with her corithil, though he resists the attack slightly.
   Rarizzera connects well and blights Voni's head with her corithil, though he resists the attack slightly.
   Voni wavers dizzyingly for a moment and then stabilizes.
   Voni dies.
   A sparkling mist rises from Voni's corpse.
   Voni disappears, swirling into nothingness.

[00:59] [OOC Laithde] uh

"uh", indeed! Now, while that's all well and fun, just senseless murderrighteous indignation won't satisfy Rieszthraxilath's dark draconic urgesdesire for justice.  Now, murderdefeating evil and lootingapproprating its ill-gotten gains for distribution to charities for poor-off families and war orphans...

   Ansrel takes the glomschal with her right foreclaw.
   Rarizzera takes the gold ring of flight with her right hand.
   You take Dyad with your right foreclaw.
   You take the great big mountain of gold coins with your right foreclaw.
   Rarizzera takes the golden copper major ring of speed with her right hand.

   Volcanic Ruin and Crystalline Void pulse rapidly with red light.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin toward the elektros, connects well and burns an elektros's right leg, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void toward the elektros, connects fairly well and reconstructs an elektros's head, despite its attempt to dodge.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void toward the elektros, connects adequately and realigns an elektros's chest, despite its attempt to dodge.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void.

Now that gets those wands primed and ready to fire.  Some of it even got on the elektros. Naughty!

Burning with what I presume (even though when you presume, you make a pre out of you and me) is anger or at least mild irritation, Laithde resolved to take revenge.  This could not stand, and the only thing to be done was the time-honoured art of master warriors all across the world...

Bring in other characters!

    Act I
    The Angry Dragon
    Eriday Teliminus 5 00:00 562

   A small crescent-moon-inscribed midnight blue limestone disc appears in the air above you.
   The glowing cerulean sphere of entrapment absorbs a yellow-and-orange fire spirit, a lesser storm spirit , a lesser storm spirit , an elektros, a lesser storm spirit , you, Ansrel, and Rarizzera and ceases growing.
   You cannot continue meditating because you have been moved.
   You stop meditating.
   You feel a bit groggy, coming out of your meditative state.
   The area is now brightly lit.
   The small crescent-moon-inscribed midnight blue limestone disc floating in the air above you begins to spin rapidly.
   You feel as though a previously unnoticed and slack line running through your body is being drawn taught, pulling you towards whence you came.
   The small crescent-moon-inscribed midnight blue limestone disc floating in the air above you ceases spinning.
   Using your powers of conjuration, you struggle against the force anchoring you here.

Ooh, she knew whose calling card that was.  How felicitous!  She'd wanted to knock his frumpy elven ass for distancetest her ability in an honourable duel between Wandslingers for a while now.  To say she exulted in the opportunity to finally do it would be an understatement.

   The green glass vial shatters.
   Someone states, ->) I do not aim with my hand. She who aims with her hand has forgotten the face of her father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand. She who shoots with her hand has forgotten the face of her father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my wand. She who kills with her wand has forgotten the face of her father. I kill with my heart. (<-
   You are surrounded by a halo of midnight blue light.
   A stream of liquid midnight blue ink appears in the air surrounding you and spins its way around and into you precisely and silently, until you are covered in an angular complex of midnight blue ink runes.
   Your scales turn translucent silver, your flesh turns translucent gray, your skin turns translucent white, your eyes turn translucent green, and your gossamer turns translucent red.
   Laithde attacks you.

SOME TIME EARLIER:

"What are you trying to tell me?  That I can dodge volleys?"
"No, Rieszthraxilath.  I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to."

ROUND TWO!  FIGHT!
   A blast of angelic frost explodes from Laithde's midnight blue pine wand toward you, catches you in a fair part of the blast and blesses you, despite your attempt to dodge, though you resist the attack.
   The anahata chakra on your upper torso is jinxed and is weakened.
   The manipura chakra on your torso is jinxed and is weakened.
   The svadhisthana chakra on your lower torso is jinxed and is weakened.
   The muladhara chakra between your hindlegs is jinxed and is weakened.
   A blast of hellfrost explodes from Laithde's midnight blue pine wand toward you, catches you in a reasonable part of the blast and chills you somewhat, despite your attempt to dodge, though you resist the attack somewhat.
   You make an impossibly complex arcane gesture with both of your foreclaws, and the midnight blue light around you becomes shot through with iridescent magick.
   Laithde appears.
   Laithde's small midnight blue porcelain mask pulses once with midnight blue light.
   Laithde's midnight blue pine wand and midnight blue pine wand pulse rapidly with red light.
   The muladhara chakra between your hindlegs is jinxed and is weakened.
   A blast of hellfrost explodes from Laithde's midnight blue pine wand toward you, barely catches you and chills you somewhat, despite your attempt to dodge, though you resist the attack somewhat.
   You cannot continue casting essence of the wind because you have engaged in activity.
   Your concentration is broken.

Well, that was underwhelming.  Nonetheless, her opponent's move made, Riesz retaliates with deadly force.

   You send currents of spiritual energy into hidden nooks within your two wands.
   Volcanic Ruin and Crystalline Void pulse rapidly with red light.

Emphasis on the deadly.  Okay, that never happened (maybe), but the most important part is still that only one of them walked away from this.

But Riesz isn't ready to stop.  Oh, no.  Drachannach are built to last.

   You send currents of spiritual energy into hidden nooks within your two wands.
   Volcanic Ruin and Crystalline Void pulse rapidly with red light.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void.
   A glob of magma spurts from Vn/span/spanbsp; olcanic Ruin.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void.

Awww, yeah.

   [ Spirit: 956.4/1632 Magick: 218.1/223 Air: 109.9/237.5 Lightning: 434.9/500.3 Chaos: 237.1/270.6 Endurance: 2004.9/2672 Speed: 62 Head: 160.6 Torso: 351.3/353.2 ]

[01:06] [OOC Laithde] heh
[01:06] [OOC Laithde] nice

Rather than let herself be spurred on by this futile attempt at damage control, Riesz kept her cool and set about strippingcollecting the contents of his blasted remains so they can be given to him in a timely manner.

   You cannot take the glowing cerulean sphere of entrapment.
   You take a bright blue great potion of spirit restoration, a small gold great ring of channeling, a small agate-set brass greater ring of precision strike, a small midnight blue porcelain mask, a black leather phylactery of theosophy, a couple of midnight blue pine wands, a small midnight blue quartz runestone, a small red-titanium-segmented strata greave, a small violet-adamantium-segmented strata greave, a small violet-titanium-segmented strata left gauntlet, a couple of small black leather phylacteries of theosophy, a golden pibrit, a small dark blue leather dactid, a golden leather sporran of holding, a small violet-steel-segmented strata breastplate, and a humongous mountain of gold coins with your right foreclaw.
   You count out forty-four thousand four hundred eighty-seven gold coins that you have picked up.

While Rieszthraxilath, kind as summer, would surely have returned the worldly possessions of such a reproachless young man (even though he's female now for some reason-- must be a hormone thing), there was a slight accident.  With all of it.  It wasn't her fault, honest; she knew that sometimes, these things just happened.  As you can imagine, that made one.

[01:09] [OOC Laithde] your dead.

He promptly logged onto his Reaper, and Riesz was once more denied the chance to have her very own Aligned wands to play with.  Rats!

Just as the battle is ripe to be joined, both sides are denied in a greater cocktease than Nilten's mother.  In the awkward silence that followed, Rieszthraxilath remembered she was still the Hand of Eris.

... but her noble companions weren't.  Time to start buffing!

   You wave.
   You quietly rumble, <Wind THpeed Rarizzera> to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.
   You quietly rumble, =>Wind THpeed Anthrel<= to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.
   You quietly rumble, ( THkyfury Rarizzera ) to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.
   You quietly rumble, =<THkyfury Anthrel>= to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.
   You quietly rumble, | Ethence of the Wind Anthrel | to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.

In the meantime, Laithde forgives and forgets regarding Riesz accidentally losing everything he owned.

   The black-armoured dark figure echoes, |- hooope... yooou didnt like this... game... yooou... wooont be... playing... it... fooor... looong... -| in sibilant Anglic.

Oh.  Well, anyway, she sits around revving her actuators while the more advanced models complete the mission.

ROUND THREE!  FIGHT!
   You quietly rumble, -|=- Fog Anthrel -=|- to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.
   Rainbow-streaked sky blue balls of magick dance from the air into and around you, and you let the currents of magick flow through you.
   You have begun to cast fog.
   You cup your foreclaws and gently blow into them.
   A thick cloud of gray fog flows from your foreclaws to surround Ansrel.
   A diminutive thick cloud of gray fog swirls around Ansrel.
   You have completed your casting of fog.
   You quietly rumble, >- Electrify Anthrel -< to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.
   Iridescent airy currents of energy spiral from the air into and around you, and you let the currents of magick flow through you.
   You have begun to cast electrification.
   You clap your foreclaws together, producing a spray of sparks.
   Ansrel attacks a black-armoured dark figure.
   A nimbus of lightning forms around your foreclaws and then leaps and clings to Ansrel.
   You have completed your casting of electrification.
   You somehow cannot bring yourself to harm the black-armoured dark figure.
   Fiik joins Ansrel in battle against a black-armoured dark figure.
   Rarizzera joins Ansrel in battle against a black-armoured dark figure.
   The black-armoured dark figure stops resting.
   The yellow-and-orange fire spirit joins Rarizzera in battle against a black-armoured dark figure.
   Ri sizzles.
   Ri rushes toward a black-armoured dark figure.
   Fiik kicks at the black-armoured dark figure with her left claw, connects solidly and thumps a black-armoured dark figure's right arm, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   Fiik kicks at the black-armoured dark figure with her right claw, connects well and thumps a black-armoured dark figure's right leg, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   Rarizzera throws an uppercut at the black-armoured dark figure with her right hand, connects reasonably well and sears a black-armoured dark figure's head with her small golden flamra plate right gauntlet, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   Rarizzera slams her head forward at the black-armoured dark figure, connects adequately and pounds a black-armoured dark figure's head and chest, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   The yellow-and-orange fire spirit coldly flies in front of Rarizzera to protect it from a black-armoured dark figure.
   You quietly rumble, \Wind THpeed Anthrel\ to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.
   Chaotic-mottled azure balls of sorcery pulse from the air into and around you, and you let the currents of magick flow through you.
   You have begun to cast wind speed.
   Ansrel connects with superb precision and shocks a black-armoured dark figure's head and chest with her iron sai of stunning, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   Ansrel connects with amazing precision and zaps a black-armoured dark figure's head and chest with her iron sai of stunning, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   Ansrel connects with remarkable precision and jolts a black-armoured dark figure's head and chest with her iron sai of stunning, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   Ansrel connects with superb precision and shocks a black-armoured dark figure's head and chest with her iron sai of stunning, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   Ansrel launches herself upwards into the air and punches at the black-armoured dark figure with her left foreclaw, connects with superb precision and wallops a black-armoured dark figure's head with the left gauntlet of her parageos, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   You gesture towards Ansrel with your thumbs crossed.
   Fiik connects precisely and perforates a black-armoured dark figure's head with her beak, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   Ri stands still for a moment, and a shockwave of light bursts from its core into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the shockwave and heating it up, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected extraordinarily severely by the attack.
   Ansrel's iron sai of stunning sizzles with electrical energy.
   Ansrel connects with superb precision and zaps a black-armoured dark figure's right leg and right foot with her iron sai of stunning, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   Ansrel forms her right foreclaw into a vicious claw and strikes at the black-armoured dark figure, connects with supreme precision and claws a black-armoured dark figure's head with the right gauntlet of her parageos, though it resists the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   Fiik connects well and scratches a black-armoured dark figure's head with her right claw, though it resists the attack.
   Fiik connects with remarkable precision and stabs a black-armoured dark figure's head with her beak, though it resists the attack.
   Rarizzera throws an uppercut at the black-armoured dark figure with her right hand, connects with remarkable precision and sears a black-armoured dark figure's chest with her small golden flamra plate right gauntlet, though it resists the attack.
   Ri slams its head forward at the black-armoured dark figure, connects reasonably well and pounds a black-armoured dark figure's head, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   Ansrel forms her right foreclaw into a vicious claw and strikes at the black-armoured dark figure, connects with supreme precision and rakes a black-armoured dark figure's head with the right gauntlet of her parageos, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   Ansrel connects with superb precision and jolts a black-armoured dark figure's head and chest with her iron sai of stunning, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   Ansrel connects with amazing precision and chews on a black-armoured dark figure's head with her mouth, though it resists the attack.
   Ansrel swings her tail at the black-armoured dark figure, connects with amazing precision and bashes a black-armoured dark figure's left arm with the tailsheath of her parageos, though it resists the attack.
   You concentrate.
   Ansrel suddenly begins moving much, much faster.
   You have completed your casting of wind speed.
   Fiik connects solidly and claws a black-armoured dark figure's left leg with her left claw, though it resists the attack.
   Fiik connects well and claws a black-armoured dark figure's chest with her right claw, though it resists the attack.
   Rarizzera kicks at the black-armoured dark figure with her right foot, connects skillfully and bashes a black-armoured dark figure's head with the right boot of her pair of golden leather boots of agility, though it resists the attack.
   Rarizzera punches at the black-armoured dark figure with her right hand, connects precisely and singes a black-armoured dark figure's chest with her small golden flamra plate right gauntlet, though it resists the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure swings the butt of its black entropy scythe into Ansrel's head.
   The diminutive thick cloud of gray fog around Ansrel twists and flows as it absorbs some of the damage.
   Ansrel connects with remarkable precision and shocks a black-armoured dark figure's chest and left arm with her iron sai of stunning, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   Ansrel connects with superb precision and zaps a black-armoured dark figure's head and chest with her iron sai of stunning, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   Ansrel launches herself upwards into the air and punches at the black-armoured dark figure with her right foreclaw, connects with amazing precision and smashes a black-armoured dark figure's head with the right gauntlet of her parageos, though it resists the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   Fiik kicks at the black-armoured dark figure with her right claw, connects well and thumps a black-armoured dark figure's right leg, though it resists the attack.
   Fiik kicks at the black-armoured dark figure with her right claw, connects with remarkable precision and bashes a black-armoured dark figure's right hand, though it resists the attack.
   Rarizzera punches at the black-armoured dark figure with her right hand, connects precisely and sears a black-armoured dark figure's head with her small golden flamra plate right gauntlet, though it resists the attack.
   Ri connects solidly and singes a black-armoured dark figure's head and chest with its body, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack somewhat.
   Both Ansrel's blue eyes and Fiik's blue eyes gleam brightly for a brief moment.
   Ansrel slams her head forward at the black-armoured dark figure, connects with remarkable precision and crushes a black-armoured dark figure's head brutally with the helm of her parageos, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   Ansrel connects with superb precision and licks a black-armoured dark figure's head with her mouth, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   Ansrel connects with superb precision and jolts a black-armoured dark figure's chest with her iron sai of stunning, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   Ansrel launches herself upwards into the air and punches at the black-armoured dark figure with her left foreclaw, connects with incredible precision and smashes a black-armoured dark figure's left leg with the left gauntlet of her parageos, though it resists the attack.
   Ansrel connects well and shocks a black-armoured dark figure's left leg with her iron sai of stunning, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   Ansrel swings her tail at the black-armoured dark figure, connects well and bashes a black-armoured dark figure's right leg with the tailsheath of her parageos, though it resists the attack.
   Ansrel throws an uppercut at the black-armoured dark figure with her left foreclaw, connects with incredible precision and wallops a black-armoured dark figure's left leg with the left gauntlet of her parageos, though it resists the attack.
   Ansrel connects with superb precision and jolts a black-armoured dark figure's head and chest with her iron sai of stunning, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   Ansrel jabs her right foreleg at the black-armoured dark figure, connects with superb precision and crushes a black-armoured dark figure's chest brutally with the elbow of the right sleeve of her parageos, though it resists the attack.
   Ansrel swings her tail at the black-armoured dark figure, connects with amazing precision and bashes a black-armoured dark figure's left arm with the tailsheath of her parageos, though it resists the attack.
   Ansrel forms her left foreclaw into a vicious claw and strikes at the black-armoured dark figure, connects with supreme precision and rakes a black-armoured dark figure's head with the left gauntlet of her parageos, though it resists the attack.
   Fiik connects reasonably well and pokes a black-armoured dark figure's chest with her beak, though it resists the attack.
   Fiik connects quite solidly and claws a black-armoured dark figure's chest with her right claw, though it resists the attack.
   Fiik connects well and rakes a black-armoured dark figure's head with her right claw, though it resists the attack.
   Fiik connects with remarkable precision and pricks a black-armoured dark figure's head with her beak, though it resists the attack.
   Rarizzera kicks at the black-armoured dark figure with her left foot, connects reasonably well and pounds a black-armoured dark figure's head with the left boot of her pair of golden leather boots of agility, though it resists the attack.
   Rarizzera punches at the black-armoured dark figure with her right hand, connects quite skillfully and scorches a black-armoured dark figure's right leg with her small golden flamra plate right gauntlet, though it resists the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure ceases to float in the air.
   The dark reaper wavers dizzyingly for a moment and then stabilizes.
   The dark reaper dies.
   A sparkling mist rises from a dark reaper's corpse.
   The dark reaper disappears, evanescing into a scattering of sparkling multicolored lights.
   One of your Tatehas flits quickly over a fresh drow corpse, sprinkling motes of blue light over it.
   A fresh drow corpse disintegrates into blue sparks that float up into Tateha.

Still, she keeps her wits about her and her senses sharp, her twin wands able and ready to explode on demand.  Such is her level of concentration and ability that she can find points of weakness on spectral beings!

   You find a weakness in a ghost's chest.

She takes advantage... not with her claws, but her arms!  It's not strength that wins wars... but love.

   You try to hug the ghost.
   The ghost would need to trust you before you could do that.
   Alternatively, you could specify your command as an override ('hug ghost!') in order to perform it as a hostile act, which would start combat between you and Vetallas.
   You rumble, > :( < in harshly-accented Anglic.
   The ghost flies outward.

Riesz gloats over her victory too quickly...

[OOC Krum] ?

Only to find that this devious Aligned has devised a mask for his atman!  Curses!  Was there anything that this guild couldn't do?

And then he switched again.

(Then, I somehow managed to somehow fail capturing a large portion of text here. Luckily, Riesz filled in, and dragonkin have nothing if not good memories: the missing portion included Rarizzera abandoning the cause to go level or something (or perhaps flee the inevitable Zraelbomb), as well as this cool customer, his second attempt at reciprocal violence thwarted, doing the same thing everyone does; repeatedly switching characters until you can get the artifact that lets you call in an invincible superdragon.

   An enormous shimmering magenta rift opens in the air and wavers and solidifies until it is Zrael.
   You will not attack without an override because it is friendly to a friend of yours.
   Zrael's magenta scales shimmer.
   As you move to attack Zrael, a look of sudden remembrance and confidence passes across Zrael's majestic face and her eyes flare with bright magenta energy.
   Zrael hisses, ~%( Memory and death lose meaning when one transgresses time. ]\+ in Xhax.

Success is mixed.

   Ansrel snickers.
   You wave to Zrael.
   You feel less groggy.
   Scylla purrs, ->) holy crap (<-
   This is a female dragon with magenta scales and bright magenta eyes.  This is Zrael, perhaps the greatest of all dragons, and almost certainly the wisest of all mortal beings -- though her morality is debatable: (No shit.  She'll assist anyone these days.) she at some point died, but her transcendence of time apparently extends to her time of death.  And transcend time she has.  Zrael is most known for her remarkable time travel magicks, which she has used to amass a fantastic quantity of knowledge.  She is permeated by a sparkling light.
   She looks about ninety-two dimins long, twenty-three dimins wide, and forty-six dimins tall.
   She is in good shape.
   Zrael gazes about curiously.
   Ansrel blinks.

   You reverberate, [| What do you teach? |]

   Ansrel blinks.
   Zrael stretches her enormous body.
   You reverberate, [| Can you thare your memorieth of algeturgy? |]
   You feel Crystalline Void hum through Zephyrius.
   You feel Volcanic Ruin hum through Eurus.
   Zrael hisses, ~%( As you have no ability in algeturgy whatsoever, Rieszthraxilath, I cannot help you. ]\+ at you.
   You wail heart-rendingly.
   Laithde appears.
   Laithde's small midnight blue porcelain mask pulses once with midnight blue light.
   Laithde stops resting.
   You rumble, [| How am I thuppothed to get Archmage now?! |]
   You thunder, [| Zraaaeeeeel! |]

Once Rieszthraxilath calmed down, she fully took stock of her situation.  She had just been given Zrael, her best friend, free of charge!  Unfortunately, her draconic greed got the better of her, and she was too busy stuffing her figurative face with the introduction and development of rare and unusual skills to properly thank Laithde for gifting unto her this thing to try and kill heras a peace offering before he left the immediate area; possibly of embarassment, though we aren't making any assumptions.  No matter, she so struggled to assauge her guilt; her haemorrhaged chakra charges served as silent thanks, even if they were never heard, and good deeds were ever their own reward.  In the end, though, it was all for naught-- she knew in her heart of hearts she had forgotten the most important thing of all in the world of Lost Souls: kindness.  A tear swept down her scaled cheek; was this what we had become?  Was this what she had become?!

Moving on as quickly as possible, not all good things are forgotten in favour of an orgy of murder and posturing.  While sunfish consort Ansrel struggles to speak clearly enough to receive training, Riesz gets a belated Valentine's Day present to brighten her spirits:

   You reverberate, [| Can you thare your memorieth of the erotic artth? |] in harshly-accented Anglic.
   Zrael hisses, ~%( I am my memoriesss, Riessszthraxilath -- prepare to receive me. ]\+ at you in harshly-accented Anglic.

Oh, baby.

Around this time, the Hand of Eris passes on, and things rapidly become profoundly stupid.  I mean funny.  IT'S BOTH!

ROUND FOUR!  FIGHT!
   A black-armoured dark figure flies in from below through the floor.
   The black-armoured dark figure calls a foul curse upon you causing your body to twist violently with a hideous disfigurement.
   Your small black leather phylactery of phylacteries of theosophy is torn from you.
   You feel less spiritually elevated.
   Your parageos is torn from you.
   Your tiny syrax chaos amulet is torn from you.
   Your small bright red leather phylactery of theosophy is torn from you.
   You feel less spiritually elevated.
   Your diminutive bright red leather phylactery of theosophy is torn from you.
   You feel less spiritually elevated.
   Your tiny chrysoprase-set white gold ring of intelligence is torn from you.
   Your mind feels dull and slow.
   Your diminutive emerald-set gold ring of ambidexterity is torn from you.
   Your paraquerlos is torn from you.
   Your tiny robe of the skies is torn from you.
   Zephyrius is torn from you.
   Eurus is torn from you.
   Ansrel joins you in battle against a black-armoured dark figure.
   You have lost the magickal prowess required to be able to cast electrical storm.
   You cannot continue meditating because you have engaged in combat.
   You stop meditating.
   You feel a bit groggy, coming out of your meditative state.
   The black-armoured dark figure calls upon the wrath of the Reaper, which is answered by a black bolt striking you leaving you visibly weakened.
   You have lost the magickal prowess required to be able to cast welkin wings.
   You open your bright blue leather sporran of holding with your right foreclaw.
   You take the rainbow pibrit from your open bright blue leather sporran of holding with your right foreclaw.
   You squeeze your rainbow pibrit with your right foreclaw.
   Your rainbow pibrit compresses, then quickly returns to its original pyramidal shape.
   A sensation of pleasure flashes through you.
   You feel a tremendous, overpowering rush of energy flow into you.
   You put a rainbow pibrit in your open bright blue leather sporran of holding with your right foreclaw.
   You close your open bright blue leather sporran of holding with your right foreclaw.
   The black-armoured dark figure laughs gutturally as slash wounds appear on you as if created internally.
   The vishuddha chakra on your throat is weakened.
   The ajna chakra on your forehead is weakened.
   The anahata chakra on your upper torso is enervated.
   The sahasrara chakra above your head is weakened.
   The manipura chakra on your torso is enervated.
   The svadhisthana chakra on your lower torso is enervated.
   The muladhara chakra between your hindlegs is enervated.
   The kalila chakra on your upper left left foreclaw is weakened.
   You feel sluggish.
   You are affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   The vishuddha chakra on your throat is enervated.
   The ajna chakra on your forehead is enervated.
   The anahata chakra on your upper torso is drained.
   The sahasrara chakra above your head is enervated.
   The manipura chakra on your torso is drained.
   The svadhisthana chakra on your lower torso is drained.
   The muladhara chakra between your hindlegs is withered.
   The kalila chakra on your upper left left foreclaw is weakened.
   You feel more sluggish.
   You are affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   You don't know how to 'drpo'. (FUCK I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TYPE)
   Ansrel connects with superb precision and soaks a black-armoured dark figure's head and chest with her water dagger, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, and it is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   Ansrel connects quite skillfully and soaks a black-armoured dark figure's head with her water dagger, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, and it is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   Ansrel connects with remarkable precision and swamps a black-armoured dark figure's head and chest with her water dagger, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, and it is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   Ansrel connects with superb precision and energizes a black-armoured dark figure's head with her upper left wing, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack somewhat.
   Ansrel connects with superb precision and swamps a black-armoured dark figure's head and chest with her water dagger, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, and it is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   You feel less groggy.
   You cannot do that because you are in defensive combat mode.
   The black-armoured dark figure chants a hideous litany to Lord Thanatos.
   An unholy cloud of putrid fumes drifts toward you engulfing you before being absorbed into your body.
   You sense your connection with your spiritual being abruptly vanish.
   Ansrel connects with amazing precision and swamps a black-armoured dark figure's right leg with her water dagger, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, and it is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   Ansrel connects well and swamps a black-armoured dark figure's chest with her water dagger, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, and it is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   Ansrel connects with amazing precision and inundates a black-armoured dark figure's head with her water dagger, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, and it is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   You have lost the magickal prowess required to be able to cast cloud form, mind maelstrom, scithial armour, scithial bonds, sea's blessing, serpentina's lightning, tornado, and torrential rain.
   You feel your control over a lesser storm spirit slip.
   You are now in balanced combat mode.
   Ansrel connects reasonably well and stimulates a black-armoured dark figure's head with her upper left wing, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack somewhat.
   The vishuddha chakra on your throat is zorched.
   The ajna chakra on your forehead is zorched.
   The anahata chakra on your upper torso is zapped.
   The sahasrara chakra above your head is zorched.
   The manipura chakra on your torso is zapped.
   The svadhisthana chakra on your lower torso is zapped.
   The muladhara chakra between your hindlegs is zapped.
   The kalila chakra on your upper left left foreclaw is zorched.
   The black-armoured dark figure catches you with a fair part of the strike and lacerates you with its black entropy scythe, despite your attempt to deflect it with your left foreclaw, and you are affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   The area goes dark.
   You feel more sluggish.
   You have been poisoned!
   The area goes dark.
   The hissing voice of the Reaper is heard as the black-armoured dark figure calls upon him to smite you leaving you slighty dazed from the aetheric attack.
   You breathe a flicker of empyrean lightning at the black-armoured dark figure, connect with supreme precision and electrocute a black-armoured dark figure's right leg, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack slightly.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   Ansrel connects with superb precision and swamps a black-armoured dark figure's head with her water dagger, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, and it is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   Ansrel swings her tail at the black-armoured dark figure, connects precisely and wallops a black-armoured dark figure's head with the tailsheath of her parageos, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   The poison has worked itself out of your system.
   The vishuddha chakra on your throat is zorched.
   The ajna chakra on your forehead is zorched.
   The anahata chakra on your upper torso is zotted.
   The sahasrara chakra above your head is zorched.
   The manipura chakra on your torso is zotted.
   The svadhisthana chakra on your lower torso is zotted.
   The muladhara chakra between your hindlegs is zotted.
   The kalila chakra on your upper left left foreclaw is zorched.
   The black-armoured dark figure catches you at the edge of the strike and slices you with its black entropy scythe, despite your attempt to deflect it with your right foreclaw, and you are affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   You have been stunned by the pain and trauma.
   The area goes dark.
   You feel more sluggish.
   You hear a gurgle.
   You connect reasonably well and claw something's head with your right foreclaw, despite its attempt to block it with its something, though it resists the attack.
   One of your somethings darts around your tail.
   The area goes dark.
   You breathe a flicker of empyrean lightning at the black-armoured dark figure, connect with supreme precision and shock a black-armoured dark figure's right leg, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack slightly.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   Ansrel swings her tail at the black-armoured dark figure, connects with amazing precision and wallops a black-armoured dark figure's head with the tailsheath of her parageos, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   Ansrel connects with superb precision and splashes a black-armoured dark figure's head and chest with her water dagger, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, and it is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   Ansrel connects with superb precision and splashes a black-armoured dark figure's left leg with her water dagger, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, and it is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   You breathe a flicker of empyrean lightning at the black-armoured dark figure, connect with supreme precision and electrocute a black-armoured dark figure's head, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack slightly.
   The black-armoured dark figure ceases to float in the air.
   The dark reaper wavers dizzyingly for a moment and then stabilizes.
   The dark reaper dies.
   A sparkling mist rises from a dark reaper's corpse.
   The dark reaper disappears in a flare of unholy fire.

   [ Magick: 222 Air: 236.7 Lightning: 497.5 Chaos: 272.7 Endurance: 2304.4/2356 Speed: 50 Head: 97.2/118.1 Torso: 201.9/259.8 ]

Believing in equality for all, he tries sharing the love...

ROUND FIVE!  FIGHT!
   The dark reaper calls a foul curse upon Ansrel causing her body to twist violently with a hideous disfigurement.
   Ansrel's water dagger is torn from her grasp.
   Ansrel's diminutive eog-set platinum ring of ambidexterity is torn from her.
   Ansrel's diminutive beech ring of water breathing is torn from her.
   Ansrel's diminutive black leather phylactery of theosophy is torn from her.
   Ansrel's diminutive black leather phylactery of madness is torn from her.
   Ansrel's pinched, strained look fades.
   Ansrel's parageos is torn from her.
   Ansrel's diminutive bright blue brass chaos amulet is torn from her.
   Ansrel's diminutive black leather holster is torn from her.
   Ansrel's diminutive yellow leather holster is torn from her.
   You wave.
   Ansrel swings her tail at the dark reaper, connects reasonably well and wallops a dark reaper's head, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   The dark reaper has been stunned.
   Ansrel connects with remarkable precision and mauls a dark reaper's head with her left foreclaw, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack somewhat.
   Ansrel connects with amazing precision and energizes a dark reaper's head with her upper left wing, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack somewhat.
   Ansrel connects with remarkable precision and mauls a dark reaper's left leg with her left foreclaw, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack somewhat.
   You join Ansrel in battle against a dark reaper.
   Ansrel connects with remarkable precision and dynamizes a dark reaper's head with her upper left wing, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack somewhat.
   The dark reaper has been stunned.
   Ansrel connects precisely and bites a dark reaper's head with her mouth, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack somewhat.
   Ansrel connects with amazing precision and energizes a dark reaper's left leg with her upper right wing, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack somewhat.
   You cannot continue meditating because you have engaged in combat.
   You stop meditating.
   You feel a bit groggy, coming out of your meditative state.
   You find a weakness in a dark reaper's right arm.
   You are already attacking a dark reaper.
   The dark reaper hurls a pale black orb at Ansrel and draw the orb back to its form taking with it some of her life force.
   Ansrel resists the attack slightly.
   Ansrel attempts to gouge a dark reaper's eyes with her left foreclaw, connects with amazing precision and claws a dark reaper's head, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack somewhat.
   The dark reaper has been stunned.
   Ansrel connects well and claws a dark reaper's head with her right foreclaw, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack somewhat.
   You quietly rumble, [| Chaoth Lightning |] to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.
   Rainbow-streaked airy currents of magick ripple from the air into and around you.
   You have begun to cast chaos lightning.
   Ansrel throws an uppercut at the dark reaper with her left foreclaw, connects with incredible precision and thumps a dark reaper's right arm, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   Ansrel connects quite skillfully and rakes a dark reaper's left arm with her left foreclaw, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack somewhat.
   Ansrel connects reasonably well and claws a dark reaper's head with her left foreclaw, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack somewhat.
   The dark reaper has been stunned.
   You swing your tail at the dark reaper, connect skillfully and thump a dark reaper's right leg, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   You make several arcane gestures with your foreclaws.
   The air hums and the smell of ozone becomes overpowering.
   The hissing voice of the Reaper is heard as the dark reaper calls upon him to smite Ansrel leaving her slighty dazed from the aetheric attack.
   Ansrel throws an uppercut at the dark reaper with her left foreclaw, connects with remarkable precision and thumps a dark reaper's head, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   Ansrel connects with amazing precision and dynamizes a dark reaper's left foot with her upper right wing, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack somewhat.
   Ansrel connects precisely and dynamizes a dark reaper's head with her upper left wing, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack somewhat.
   The dark reaper has been stunned.
   You connect skillfully and claw a dark reaper's left arm with your left foreclaw, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack somewhat.
   Multicolored motes of energy dance in the air.
   Ansrel snickers.
   Ansrel swings her tail at the dark reaper, connects with superb precision and crushes a dark reaper's right arm brutally, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   Ansrel connects with superb precision and dynamizes a dark reaper's head with her upper left wing, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack somewhat.
   You swing your tail at the dark reaper, connect well and wallop a dark reaper's head, though it resists the attack.
   You point at the dark reaper.
   An arc of polychromatic lightning leaps from your outstretched finger into a dark reaper's right leg, catching it in a quite sizable part of the arc and disintegrating it, though it resists the attack slightly.
   A dark reaper's right leg is ripped apart.
   You have completed your casting of chaos lightning.
   The dark reaper dies.
   A sparkling mist rises from a dark reaper's corpse.
   The dark reaper disappears in a flare of unholy fire.
   One of your Seseris flits quickly over a fresh drow corpse, sprinkling motes of indigo light over it.
   A fresh drow corpse disintegrates into indigo sparks that float up into Seseri.
   You feel less groggy.
   Ansrel murmurs, "..."

   [OOC Tell from Kivuli] You need no medical attention.

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[OOC Dyne] What the hell. When did I lose over 10 lives?
[OOC Krum] when you stopped paying attention?
[OOC Kaballah] pickpockets can steal lives now
[OOC Dyne] Dude, I only died like..once this past month.
[OOC Dyne] Unless I was ninja-killed/rezzed repeatedly, I'm not sure what oculd've happened.
[OOC Nilten] fail a challenge with souls penalty?
[OOC Dyne] Possibly. Yehovah usually replenishes them right away thoguh.
[OOC Dyne] Unless whatever uber-raped my grace removed life-granting as a boon. Still no clue what the hell happened to that either.
[OOC Kaballah] telling you man, pickpockets
[OOC Rarizzera] You got your grace messed up?
[OOC Krum] ... did you marry a woman or something? that usually takes years off your life.

[OOC Rarizzera] Sword?
[OOC Kaballah] can weapons be resized now? o.O
[OOC Krum] yeah
[OOC Kaballah] in general?
[OOC Rarizzera] Can't resize weapons. :P
[OOC Kaballah] ah
[OOC Krum] oh
[OOC Kaballah] bummer
[OOC Rarizzera] Derp
[OOC Kaballah] that'd be killer
[OOC Kaballah] and I reserve the word 'killer' for truly amazing things
[OOC Krum] Like Nilten's mom's blowjobs.
[OOC Kaballah] just so
[OOC Krum nods]

ROUND SIX!  FIGHT!
   The black-armoured dark figure calls a foul curse upon you causing your body to twist violently with a hideous disfigurement.
   Your small black leather phylactery of phylacteries of theosophy is torn from you.
   You feel less spiritually elevated.
   Your parageos is torn from you.
   Your small bright blue leather phylactery of theosophy is torn from you.
   You feel less spiritually elevated.
   Your gigantic aventurine-set tarnished brass greater ring of symbolic knowledge is torn from you.
   Your tiny robe of the skies is torn from you.
   Eurus is torn from you.
   Your tiny bright red mithril amulet of storms is torn from you.
   The favor of Vashanka dissipates from your body, leaving you weakened.

   You try to hug the black-armoured dark figure against its will, but it dodges.

   You swing your tail at the black-armoured dark figure, connect quite skillfully and wallop a black-armoured dark figure's right leg, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   The anahata chakra on your upper torso is zorched.
   The manipura chakra on your torso is zorched.
   The svadhisthana chakra on your lower torso is zorched.
   The black-armoured dark figure catches you with a good part of the strike and nicks you with its black entropy scythe, despite your attempt to deflect it with your right foreclaw, and you are affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   You feel sluggish.
   You feel less sluggish.
   The vishuddha chakra on your throat is zorched.
   The ajna chakra on your forehead is zorched.
   The anahata chakra on your upper torso is zorched.
   The sahasrara chakra above your head is zorched.
   The manipura chakra on your torso is zorched.
   The svadhisthana chakra on your lower torso is zorched.
   The muladhara chakra between your hindlegs is zorched.
   The black-armoured dark figure catches you with a good part of the strike and nicks you with its black entropy scythe, despite your attempt to deflect it with your right foreclaw, and you are affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   The area goes dark.
   You feel sluggish.
   You have been poisoned!
   You feel less sluggish.
   You drop a couple of somethings.
   Something extends its fingers murmuring an invocation which causes green-black claws to appear and slash you.
   The thing on your throat is weakened.
   The thing on your forehead is weakened.
   The thing on your upper torso is weakened.
   The thing above your head is weakened.
   The thing on your torso is weakened.
   The thing on your lower torso is weakened.
   The thing between your hindlegs is enervated.
   The thing on your upper left left foreclaw is weakened.
   You feel sluggish.
   You are affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   The thing on your throat is enervated.
   The thing on your forehead is enervated.
   The thing on your upper torso is drained.
   The thing above your head is enervated.
   The thing on your torso is drained.
   The thing on your lower torso is drained.
   The thing between your hindlegs is drained.
   The thing on your upper left left foreclaw is weakened.
   You feel more sluggish.
   You are affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   This drachannach are sick.
   The poison has worked itself out of your system.
   The thing on your throat is zorched.
   The thing on your forehead is zorched.
   The thing on your upper torso is zapped.
   The thing above your head is zorched.
   The thing on your torso is zapped.
   The thing on your lower torso is zapped.
   The thing between your hindlegs is zotted.
   The thing on your upper left left foreclaw is zorched.
   Something catches you in a good part of the thing and irradiates you with its something, despite your attempt to deflect it with your right foreclaw, and you are affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   You feel more sluggish.
   You have been poisoned!
   The poison has worked itself out of your system.
   You jab your right foreleg at something, connect precisely and thump something's left arm with your right foreleg, despite its attempt to block it with its something, though it resists the attack.
   You connect precisely and claw something's head with your right foreclaw, despite its attempt to block it with its something, though it resists the attack.
   You hear a crackle.
   You hear a crackle.
   You hear a crackle.
   You are now in defensive combat mode.
   You hear a thud.
   You hear a crackle.
   You hear a crackle.
   Something stops resting.
   Something flies northward.
   You will now exert yourself one hundred fifty percent.
   You quietly rumble, [| Wind THpeed mythelf |] in harshly-accented Enochian.
   You cannot begin casting wind speed because you are blind.
   Something snickers.
   One of your somethings settles for a moment on your head before taking off again.
   You hear a hum.
   You hear a crackle.
   You hear a crackle.
   You hear a thud.
   The area goes dark.
   A lesser storm spirit dances with electrical energies.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   A lesser storm spirit catches it in a fair part of the strike and bumps the black-armoured dark figure with its winds, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it is barely affected by the attack.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   A lesser storm spirit catches it at the edge of the strike and bumps the black-armoured dark figure with its winds, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it is barely affected by the attack.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   A lesser storm spirit crackles and fumes furiously.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   A lesser storm spirit catches it at the edge of the strike and bumps the black-armoured dark figure with its winds, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it is barely affected by the attack.
   A lesser storm spirit dances with electrical energies.
   You feel energy draining from the kalila chakra on your upper left left foreclaw.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   A lesser storm spirit catches it marginally and bumps the black-armoured dark figure with its winds, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it is barely affected by the attack.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   You feel less sluggish.
   You quietly rumble, [| Chaoth Lightning |] to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.
   Sparkling azure sparks of astral light ripple from the air into and around you, and you let the currents of magick flow through you.
   You have begun to cast chaos lightning.
   You make several arcane gestures with your foreclaws.
   The air hums and the smell of ozone becomes overpowering.
   The black-armoured dark figure connects reasonably well and carves a lesser storm spirit 's body mass up with its black entropy scythe, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack.
   A lesser storm spirit catches it somewhat marginally and bumps the black-armoured dark figure with its winds, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it is barely affected by the attack.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   A black-armoured dark figure's right arm is electrocuted into uselessness.
   A black-armoured dark figure's black entropy scythe is torn from its grasp.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   A black-armoured dark figure's right leg is electrocuted into uselessness.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   Multicolored motes of energy dance in the air.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
  &nbsp:The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   A lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   You point at the black-armoured dark figure.
   A spark of polychromatic lightning leaps from your outstretched finger into a black-armoured dark figure's head, connecting with superb precision and disintegrating it, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack slightly.
   A black-armoured dark figure's head is completely disintegrated.
   A black-armoured dark figure's small suit of black plate armour is torn from it.
   You have completed your casting of chaos lightning.
   The dark reaper wavers dizzyingly for a moment and then stabilizes.
   The dark reaper dies.
   A sparkling mist rises from a dark reaper's corpse.
   The dark reaper disappears in a flare of unholy fire.
   One of your Tatehas flits quickly over a fresh mutilated drow corpse, sprinkling motes of indigo light over it.
   A fresh mutilated drow corpse disintegrates into indigo sparks that float up into Tateha.
   Ansrel laughs.

   [ Spirit: 467.5/1641.8 Magick: 177.5/221 Air: 183.7/235.9 Lightning: 221.5/497.7 Chaos: 69.9/247.7 Endurance: 2322.4/2546.2 Speed: 54 Head: 108/120.8 Torso: 234/265.7 ]

Rieszthraxilath is complimented for her creative use of class mechanics by the same guy who tried dropping a fucking dragon on her less than an hour ago:

[03:00] [OOC Laithde] cant do it without summons huh? pussy.

   You nuzzle up against the dark black-armoured reaper.
   The dark black-armoured reaper echoes, |- remooove the... summooons. then... we will... see whooos... better... -| in sibilant Anglic.
   You wingsnug the dark black-armoured reaper.
   You quietly rumble, [| Chaoth Lightning reaper |] to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.
   Rainbow-streaked night-black sparks of energy spiral from the air into and around you, and you let the currents of magick flow through you.
   You have begun to cast chaos lightning.
   You make several arcane gestures with your foreclaws.
   The air hums and the smell of ozone becomes overpowering.
   The dark black-armoured reaper echoes, |- 1... v 3 is... hardly... a... match P... -| in sibilant Anglic.
   The dark black-armoured reaper walks southward and upward.
   You cannot continue casting chaos lightning because you have lost track of your target.
   Your concentration is broken.

Can you spot what's wrong with this segment?  I've included a prize! (of nothing)

   You make several arcane gestures with your foreclaws.
   The dark black-armoured reaper stops resting.
   The dark black-armoured reaper walks southward and upward.

   You quietly rumble, [| Channel Currentth |] to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.
   You stop meditating.
   You feel a bit groggy, coming out of your meditative state.
   Sparkling azure motes of sorcery pulse from the air into and around you, and you let the currents of magick flow through you.
   You have begun to cast channel currents.
   You trace your right foreclaw in the air, sensitively feeling out currents of ambient motion.
   The dark black-armoured reaper stops resting.
   The dark black-armoured reaper walks southward and upward.
   Sky blue energy pulses outward from air and washes over you.
   You feel amalgamal lightning energy, magickal energy, elemental air energy, and chaos energy surging throughout your spirit.
   You have completed your casting of channel currents.
   You shake your head.
   You quietly rumble, [| Channel Currentth |] to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.
   Sparkling azure sparks of energy dance from the air into and around you, and you let the currents of magick flow through you.
   You have begun to cast channel currents.
   A dark black-armoured reaper walks in from above to the south.
   You trace your right foreclaw in the air, sensitively feeling out currents of ambient motion.
   Azure energy pulses outward from air and washes over you.
   You feel amalgamal lightning energy, magickal energy, elemental air energy, and chaos energy surging throughout your spirit.
   You have completed your casting of channel currents.
   You feel less groggy.
   The dark black-armoured reaper walks southward and upward.
   A dark black-armoured reaper walks in from above to the south.

   Someone mews, ->) channel wool? (<-
   You trace your right foreclaw in the air, sensitively feeling out currents of ambient motion.
   You cannot do that, as you are casting a spell that would be interupted by speaking.
   Azure energy pulses outward from air and washes over you.
   You feel amalgamal lightning energy, magickal energy, elemental air energy, and chaos energy surging throughout your spirit.
   You have completed your casting of channel currents.
   Someone purrs, ->) my enochian is not that good i guess (<-
   You rumble, [| Yeah I dropped OZM to become an ovinomancer. |]in harshly-accented Anglic.
   You rumble, [| Tremble before my woolen might! |] in harshly-accented Anglic.
   You make several arcane gestures with your foreclaws.
   The dark black-armoured reaper walks southward and upward.

   You doesn't make several arcane gestures with your foreclaws.
   The black-armoured dark figure walks southward and upward.

After getting bored, she then advertises over OOC, encouraging people to come and watch this assisted character assassinationheroic clash, and people answer the call, possibly considering it more important than idling forever.  The threat of embarassing herself in front of a larger number of people is headed off by the knowledge that nothing at all could possibly ever happen to her today or, without Zrael, at any time under virtually any circumstances.

&Frater Porphyria& Something interesting happening?
&Frater Rieszthraxilath& We might have killed Laithde.
&Frater Porphyria& Oh nice.
&Frater Rieszthraxilath& Might also have looted him.
&Frater Rieszthraxilath& . . . then maybe burnt it.
&Frater Porphyria& Wonderful. I guess that's why Vet as asking for an electrical protection earlier.

[OOC Krum] what am i missing?
[OOC Rieszthraxilath] Art.
[OOC Krum] i spose ill come watch (Who knew Krum appreciated art?! Nilten's mother, that's who!)

   Krum flies in from above.
   Pikro flies in from above.
   You try to hug Krum.
   Krum would need to trust you before you could do that.
   Alternatively, you could specify your command as an override ('hug krum!') in order to perform it as a hostile act, which would start combat between you and Krum.
   This is a female (?!) tuatha with white skin, white hair, and blue eyes. She is a Hero of Lost Souls. She is permeated by a dim sparkling light. She is married to Sapphyre. She has a sahasrara chakra above her head. It has 'pwned by Nilten(tm)' tattooed on its skin in blue ink. Her eyes are blue on blue, iris and sclera alike. It has 'PROPERTY OF SAPPHYRE' tattooed on its skin in blue ink.
   She looks about twenty dimins tall, four and three twentieths dimins wide, and one and a twentieth dimins front to back.
   She is in good shape.
   She wields a kazarilin longsword in her right hand. She wears a parageos on her body, a pair of gray leather boots of flight on her feet, a large cyan fetish on her right foot, a large bright blue fetish on her chest, a large bright red fetish on her left hand, a beige steel plate forcefist on her right hand, a small cyan lightning amulet around her neck, a white steel plate left gauntlet of might on her left hand, the Circlet of Clarity on her head, and a large silver major ring of speed on her right hand.
   Krum peers around.
   You rumble, [| why are you a lady |] in harshly-accented Anglic.
   Krum asserts, ( :: where's the show :: ) in flowingly-accented Anglic.
   Someone drifts in from the east.
   Krum sighs deeply.
   You rumble, [| why ith everyone a lady |] in harshly-accented Anglic.

Riesz isn't ready for a world with such shameless gender-swapping.  This isn't a webcomic!  Nonetheless, the crowd is assembled.  The show must go on!

ROUND SEVEN!  FIGHT!
   The black-armoured dark figure calls a foul curse upon you causing your body to twist violently with a hideous disfigurement.
   Volcanic Ruin is torn from your grasp.
   Your diminutive green leather phylactery of phylacteries of theosophy is torn from you.
   You feel less spiritually elevated.
   Your parageos is torn from you.
   Your small black leather phylactery of theosophy is torn from you.
   You feel less spiritually elevated.
   Your tiny chrysoprase-set white gold ring of intelligence is torn from you.
   Your mind feels dull and slow.
   Your diminutive emerald-set gold ring of ambidexterity is torn from you.
   Your paraquerlos is torn from you.
   Your tiny robe of the skies is torn from you.
   Zephyrius is torn from you.
   Eurus is torn from you.
   Your tiny bright red mithril amulet of storms is torn from you.
   The favor of Vashanka dissipates from your body, leaving you weakened.
   The lesser storm spirit roils darkly and swirls toward a black-armoured dark figure.
   You have lost the magickal prowess required to be able to cast electrical storm.
   The lesser storm spirit dances with electrical energies.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   You cannot do that because you are in defensive combat mode.
   You are now in cautious combat mode.
   The vishuddha chakra on your throat is zorched.
   The ajna chakra on your forehead is zorched.
   The anahata chakra on your upper torso is zorched.
   The sahasrara chakra above your head is zorched.
   The manipura chakra on your torso is zorched.
   The svadhisthana chakra on your lower torso is zorched.
   The muladhara chakra between your hindlegs is zorched.
   The black-armoured dark figure catches you somewhat marginally and mildly irradiates you with its black entropy scythe, despite your attempt to parry it with Crystalline Void, though you resist the attack.
   You feel sluggish.
   You have been poisoned!
   The lesser storm spirit swirls with tremendous violence.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The poison has worked itself out of your system.
   You find a weakness in a black-armoured dark figure's left leg.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void toward the black-armoured dark figure, connects reasonably well and reconstructs a black-armoured dark figure's right arm and right hand, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void toward the black-armoured dark figure, connects adequately and reconstructs a black-armoured dark figure's head, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   You swing your tail at the black-armoured dark figure, connect indifferently and bash a black-armoured dark figure's right leg, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   Your phlogiston glands are too depleted to breathe empyrean lightning right now.
   The vishuddha chakra on your throat is zorched.
   The ajna chakra on your forehead is zorched.
   The anahata chakra on your upper torso is zorched.
   The sahasrara chakra above your head is zorched.
   The manipura chakra on your torso is zorched.
   The svadhisthana chakra on your lower torso is zorched.
   The muladhara chakra between your hindlegs is zapped.
   The black-armoured dark figure catches you in a quite sizable part of the strike and mildly irradiates you with its black entropy scythe, though you resist the attack.
   You feel more sluggish.
   You have been poisoned!
   The lesser storm spirit swirls with tremendous violence.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The poison has worked itself out of your system.
   You quietly rumble, [| THeeker THpark |] to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.
   Rainbow-streaked airy currents of astral light drift from the air into and around you, and you let the currents of magick flow through you.
   You have begun to cast seeker spark.
   The anahata chakra on your upper torso is zorched.
   The manipura chakra on your torso is zorched.
   The svadhisthana chakra on your lower torso is zorched.
   The muladhara chakra between your hindlegs is zorched.
   The black-armoured dark figure catches you in a reasonable part of the strike and mildly irradiates you with its black entropy scythe, despite your attempt to parry it with Crystalline Void, though you resist the attack.
   The area goes dark.
   You cannot continue casting seeker spark because you have been blinded.
   Your concentration is broken.
   You feel more sluggish.
   You have been poisoned!
   You hear a crackle.
   The poison has worked itself out of your system.
   The area goes dark.
   Ansrel whispers, "..."
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void toward the black-armoured dark figure, connects skillfully and reconstructs a black-armoured dark figure's head, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   You jab your right foreleg at the black-armoured dark figure, connect indifferently and pound a black-armoured dark figure's chest with your right foreleg, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it resists the attack.
   You quietly rumble, [| Chaoth Lightning |] to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.
   Chaotic-mottled night-black motes of energy flow from the air into and around you, and you let the currents of magick flow through you.
   You have begun to cast chaos lightning.
   The black-armoured dark figure flings several streams of pitch-black energies at the lesser storm spirit that surround and constrict it brutally.
   The black-armoured dark figure connects skillfully and slices a lesser storm spirit 's body mass with its black entropy scythe, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit crackles and fumes furiously.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void toward the black-armoured dark figure, connects adequately and regularizes a black-armoured dark figure's head, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   You make several arcane gestures with your foreclaws.
   The air hums and the smell of ozone becomes overpowering.
   You feel less sluggish.
   The black-armoured dark figure connects fairly well and irradiates a lesser storm spirit 's body mass with its black entropy scythe, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit looks sick.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   Multicolored motes of energy dance in the air.
   The black-armoured dark figure connects skillfully and slices a lesser storm spirit 's body mass with its black entropy scythe, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void toward the black-armoured dark figure, connects precisely and restabilizes a black-armoured dark figure's right arm, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   You point at the black-armoured dark figure.
   An arc of polychromatic lightning leaps from your outstretched finger into a black-armoured dark figure's head, catching it in the heart of the arc with remarkable control and disintegrating it, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack slightly.
   A black-armoured dark figure's head is completely disintegrated.
   A black-armoured dark figure's small suit of black plate armour is torn from it.
   You have completed your casting of chaos lightning.
   The dark reaper wavers dizzyingly for a moment and then stabilizes.
   The dark reaper dies.
   A sparkling mist rises from a dark reaper's corpse.
   The dark reaper disappears in a flare of unholy fire.
   One of your Asagis flits quickly over a fresh mutilated drow corpse, sprinkling motes of orange light over it.
   A fresh mutilated drow corpse disintegrates into orange sparks that float up into Asagi.

   [ Spirit: 1060.4/1582.9 Magick: 214 Air: 173.8/231.1 Lightning: 344.5/487 Chaos: 182/240.3 Endurance: 2374.1/2512.3 Speed: 54 Head: 117.3/119.3 Torso: 257.4/262.5 ]

   Someone hums, |- Yooou kill Vet already? -| in lugubriously-accented Anglic.
   You rumble, [| Maaaybe. |] in harshly-accented Anglic.
   Someone echoes, |- OOOh nice. -| in lugubriously-accented Anglic.
   A dark black-armoured reaper walks in from above to the south.
   The dark black-armoured reaper runs northward.

   Someone echoes, |- windsooong reaper -| in lugubriously-accented Enochian.
   Chaotic-mottled airy sparks of sorcery drift from the air into and around someone.
   Airy energy pulses outward from air and washes over you.
   You feel amalgamal lightning energy, magickal energy, elemental air energy, and chaos energy surging throughout your spirit.
   You have completed your casting of channel currents.
   Someone sings a series of ascending scales.
   Someone sings a single high, pure musical note.
   Someone echoes, |- There ya gooo. Plenty ooof proootectiooon. :P -| in lugubriously-accented Anglic.
   You stretch out tiredly.

ROUND EIGHT!  FIGHT!
   The dark black-armoured reaper chants a hideous litany to Lord Thanatos causing an unholy cloud of noxious fumes to drift toward you; but the fumes dissipate before they fully engulf you.
   The dark black-armoured reaper flings several streams of pitch-black energies at you that surround and constrict you brutally.
   The vishuddha chakra on your throat is zorched.
   The ajna chakra on your forehead is zorched.
   The anahata chakra on your upper torso is zorched.
   The sahasrara chakra above your head is zorched.
   The manipura chakra on your torso is zorched.
   The svadhisthana chakra on your lower torso is zorched.
   The muladhara chakra between your hindlegs is zorched.
   The dark black-armoured reaper catches you with a reasonable part of the strike and nicks you with its black entropy scythe, despite your attempt to parry it with Crystalline Void, and you are affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   You feel sluggish.
   You have been poisoned!
   The lesser storm spirit roils darkly and swirls toward a dark black-armoured reaper.
   You have lost the magickal prowess required to be able to cast welkin wings.
   You believe that the dark black-armoured reaper has found a weakness in your torso.
   The poison has worked itself out of your system.
   You believe that the dark black-armoured reaper has found a weakness in your torso.
   The vishuddha chakra on your throat is zorched.
   The ajna chakra on your forehead is zorched.
   The anahata chakra on your upper torso is zapped.
   The sahasrara chakra above your head is zorched.
   The manipura chakra on your torso is zapped.
   The svadhisthana chakra on your lower torso is zapped.
   The muladhara chakra between your hindlegs is zotted.
   The dark black-armoured reaper catches you in a sizable part of the strike and irradiates you with its black entropy scythe, despite your attempt to parry it with Crystalline Void, and you are affected severely by the attack.
   You feel more sluggish.
   You have been poisoned!
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the dark black-armoured reaper, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The dark black-armoured reaper has been stunned.
   You believe that the dark black-armoured reaper has found a weakness in your torso.
   The poison has worked itself out of your system.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void toward the dark black-armoured reaper, barely connects and reconstructs a dark black-armoured reaper's head, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit coldly flies in front of you to protect you from a dark black-armoured reaper.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the dark black-armoured reaper, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The dark black-armoured reaper has been stunned.
   You quietly rumble, [| Chaoth Lightning |] to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.
   Chaotic-mottled airy balls of sorcery spiral from the air into and around you, and you let the currents of magick flow through you.
   You have begun to cast chaos lightning.
   The dark black-armoured reaper connects by the slimmest of margins and severely irradiates a lesser storm spirit 's body mass with its black entropy scythe, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit swirls with tremendous violence.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the dark black-armoured reaper, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The dark black-armoured reaper has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the dark black-armoured reaper, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   You make several arcane gestures with your foreclaws.
   The air hums and the smell of ozone becomes overpowering.
   The dark black-armoured reaper connects reasonably well and massively irradiates a lesser storm spirit 's body mass with its black entropy scythe, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit catches it in a reasonable part of the strike and bumps the dark black-armoured reaper with its winds, despite its attempt to block it with its black entropy scythe, though it is barely affected by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the dark black-armoured reaper, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The dark black-armoured reaper has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the dark black-armoured reaper, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void toward the dark black-armoured reaper, connects indifferently and restructures a dark black-armoured reaper's right leg, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void toward the dark black-armoured reaper, connects skillfully and restabilizes a dark black-armoured reaper's left arm, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   Multicolored motes of energy dance in the air.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the dark black-armoured reaper, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The dark black-armoured reaper has been stunned.
   You point at the dark black-armoured reaper.
   A spark of polychromatic lightning leaps from your outstretched finger into a dark black-armoured reaper's head, connecting fairly well and disintegrating it, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack slightly.
   You have completed your casting of chaos lightning.
   Someone echoes, |- My mooother never saw the irooony in calling me a sooon-ooof-a-bitch. -| in lugubriously-accented Anglic.
   You feel less sluggish.
   The dark reaper wavers dizzyingly for a moment and then stabilizes.
   The dark reaper dies.
   A sparkling mist rises from a dark reaper's corpse.
   The dark reaper disappears in a flare of unholy fire.

   [ Spirit: 673.7/733.9 Magick: 214 Air: 226 Lightning: 433.5/436.3 Chaos: 130.8/199.4 Endurance: 2128.3/2237.2 Speed: 52 Head: 110.3/111.9 Torso: 231.8/246.2 ]

   One of your Asagis flits quickly over a fresh drow corpse, sprinkling motes of orange light over it.
   A fresh drow corpse disintegrates into orange sparks that float up into Asagi.
   You take a few pieces of azurite of protection with your right foreclaw.
   You take a couple of white zircons of protection with your right foreclaw.
   Someone takes the glomschal with its right hand.
   You wink saucily.
   Someone tries to give a glomschal to the lesser storm spirit , but it would need to trust it in order for it to be able to do that.

Riesz's heart (and her pockets) was warmed as she found his protection.  Responsibility is always an admirable trait.  Though, gems suddenly appearing on a Reaper?  Yet again, someone was being naughty! (As I later learned, it was actually a third party.  Sneaky!)

Potentially at least slightly flustered at this point, Vetallas turns away from her and, famously, picks a fight with someone much smaller than him; her lesser storm spirit, weighing in at level twenty-something.

BONUS ROUND!
   The black-armoured dark figure intones a short litany to the Reaper, invoking his wrath against the lesser storm spirit causing it to pale visibly.
   The black-armoured dark figure connects adequately and sucks the life from a lesser storm spirit's body mass with its right hand, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected extraordinarily severely by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit stops resting.
   The lesser storm spirit swirls with tremendous violence.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit barely catches it and bumps the black-armoured dark figure with its winds, despite its attempt to dodge, though it is barely affected by the attack.
   You wear your diminutive emerald-set gold ring of ambidexterity on your right foreclaw.
   The black-armoured dark figure connects skillfully and sucks the life from a lesser storm spirit's body mass with its left hand, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected extraordinarily severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure connects reasonably well and sucks the life from a lesser storm spirit's body mass with its right hand, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected extraordinarily severely by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit catches it at the edge of the strike and bumps the black-armoured dark figure with its winds, despite its attempt to dodge, though it is barely affected by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The black-armoured figure cheers.
   The lesser storm spirit swirls with tremendous violence.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit slams its body mass forward at the black-armoured dark figure, catches it with a good part of the strike and thumps the black-armoured dark figure, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack.
   The haze of midnight blue mist condenses around Ansrel for a moment.
   A diminutive halo of flickering midnight blue light limns Ansrel.
   The black-armoured dark figure connects reasonably well and sucks the life from a lesser storm spirit's body mass with its right hand, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected extraordinarily severely by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit swirls with tremendous violence.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit crackles and fumes furiously.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   One of your Tatehas pulses red.
   You rumble, [| Fight! Figh! Fight! |] in harshly-accented Anglic.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The black-armoured figure echoes, |- Gooo Vet! Kill that spirit. -| in lugubriously-accented Anglic.
   The lesser storm spirit dances with electrical energies.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   You cannot continue casting wind speed because you have lost track of your target.
   Your concentration is broken.
   The lesser storm spirit barely catches it and bumps the black-armoured dark figure with its winds, despite its attempt to dodge, though it is barely affected by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The haze of midnight blue mist condenses around you for a moment.
   A tiny halo of flickering midnight blue light limns you.
   The lesser storm spirit dances with electrical energies.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit slams its body mass forward at the black-armoured dark figure, catches it at the edge of the strike and thumps the black-armoured dark figure, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure connects well and damns a lesser storm spirit's body mass with its left hand, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected extraordinarily severely by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   You quietly rumble, [| Wind THpeed thtorm thpirit |] to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.
   You have failed to specify a valid target.
   The lesser storm spirit swirls with tremendous violence.
   The black-armoured dark figure connects indifferently and desecrates a lesser storm spirit's body mass with its right hand, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected extraordinarily severely by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit dances with electrical energies.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit swirls with tremendous violence.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit slams its body mass forward at the black-armoured dark figure, catches it at the edge of the strike and thumps the black-armoured dark figure, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit swirls with tremendous violence.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   A black-armoured dark figure's right leg is electrocuted into uselessness.
   A black-armoured dark figure's left leg is electrocuted into uselessness.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit catches it at the edge of the strike and bumps the black-armoured dark figure with its winds, despite its attempt to dodge, though it is barely affected by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit dances with electrical energies.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   A black-armoured dark figure's small suit of black plate armour writhes nauseatingly as it is struck.
   You have gained enough magickal prowess to be able to cast welkin wings.
   You are now slightly encumbered.
   The black-armoured dark figure connects adequately and withers a lesser storm spirit's body mass with its left hand, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected extraordinarily severely by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured figure reverberates, |- OOOnoooz! -| in lugubriously-accented Anglic.
   The black-armoured dark figure holds its black entropy scythe in its hands.
   The hissing voice of the Reaper is heard as the black-armoured dark figure calls upon him to smite the lesser storm spirit leaving it slighty dazed from the aetheric attack.
   The lesser storm spirit has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   A black-armoured dark figure's right arm is electrocuted into uselessness.
   A black-armoured dark figure's black entropy scythe is torn from its grasp.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   Scylla appears in a soft haze.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The black-armoured dark figure has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit catches it at the edge of the strike and bumps the black-armoured dark figure with its winds, despite its attempt to dodge, though it is barely affected by the attack.
   The haze of midnight blue mist condenses around the black-armoured dark figure for a moment.
   A small halo of flickering midnight blue light limns the black-armoured dark figure.
   You rumble, [| No! get him! |] in harshly-accented Anglic.
   The black-armoured dark figure connects adequately and sucks the life from a lesser storm spirit's body mass with its left hand, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected extraordinarily severely by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the black-armoured dark figure, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The small halo of flickering midnight blue light around the black-armoured dark figure gently fades away.
   The dark reaper dies.
   A sparkling mist rises from a dark reaper's corpse.
   The dark reaper disappears in a flare of unholy fire.
   One of you Asagis flits quickly over a fresh drow corpse, sprinkling motes of blue light over it.
   A fresh drow corpse disintegrates into blue sparks that float up into Asagi.
   You rumble, [| You can do it! Fight! |] in harshly-accented Anglic.
   One of your Asagis flutters around you energetically, illuminating you in a soft violet light.
   You feel spiritually renewed.

   You shrug helplessly.

Coming up next, Rieszthraxilath learns first-hand the follies of overriding on an Aligned in a room with another Aligned.

ROUND NINE!  FIGHT!
   Laithde incarnates.
   You attack .
   You jab your left foreleg at Laithde, connect reasonably well and thump Laithde's left leg with the elbow of the left sleeve of your parageos, despite her attempt to dodge, though she resists the attack slightly.
   The lesser storm spirit roils darkly and swirls toward .
   Laithde appears.
   Laithde's small midnight blue porcelain mask pulses once with midnight blue light.
   Scylla joins Laithde in battle against you.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin toward Laithde, catches her in a good part of the glob and heats Laithde's chest and left arm up, despite her attempt to dodge, and she is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   You send currents of spiritual energy into hidden nooks within your two wands.
   Volcanic Ruin and Crystalline Void pulse rapidly with red light.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin toward Laithde, catches her somewhat marginally and sears Laithde's chest and left leg, despite her attempt to dodge, and she is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   A glob of magma spurts from Volcanic Ruin toward Laithde, catches her in a sizable part of the glob and melts Laithde's head and chest, despite her attempt to dodge, and she is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void toward Laithde, connects well and restructures Laithde's head and chest, despite her attempt to dodge, and she is affected severely by the attack.
   Laithde has been stunned.
   A bolt of crystal leaps from Crystalline Void toward Laithde, connects quite skillfully and crystallizes Laithde's chest, despite her attempt to dodge, and she is affected severely by the attack.
   You are already attacking Laithde.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into Laithde, catching her at the edge of the storm and zapping her, despite her attempt to dodge, and she is affected very severely by the attack.
   Laithde has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into Laithde, catching her at the edge of the storm and zapping her, despite her attempt to dodge, and she is affected very severely by the attack.
   Laithde has been mortally wounded and will die soon if not aided.
   Laithde has been stunned.
   Some amber blood flows from Laithde's chest.
   Scylla's small midnight blue porcelain mask pulses once with midnight blue light.
   The vishuddha chakra on your throat is regularized and is stimulated.
   The ajna chakra on your forehead is regularized and is stimulated.
   The sahasrara chakra above your head is regularized and is stimulated.
   Scylla connects precisely and energizes your head with her blue star morning glory, though you resist the attack somewhat.
   The vishuddha chakra on your throat is regularized and is stimulated.
   The ajna chakra on your forehead is regularized and is stimulated.
   The sahasrara chakra above your head is regularized and is stimulated.
   Scylla connects with remarkable precision and energizes your head with her blue star morning glory, though you resist the attack somewhat.
   You have been blinded.
   Your tiny thick cloud of gray fog around you twists and flows as it absorbs some of the damage.
   The vishuddha chakra on your throat is zotted.
   The ajna chakra on your forehead is zotted.
   The sahasrara chakra above your head is zotted.
   Scylla draws her left hand back, then drives it forward at you with motes of sparkling light trailing behind it, connects precisely and contradicts your head with her small golden steel plate left gauntlet, though you resist the attack.
   The world goes silent.
   You feel sluggish.
   Scylla connects with remarkable precision and energizes your upper right wing with her blue star morning glory, though you resist the attack somewhat.
   You feel more sluggish.
   Thin lines of energy appear around the blue star morning glory as Scylla strikes you with it.
   Your upper right wing is regularized, and you are affected very severely by the attack.
   You feel more sluggish.
   Silvery motes drift from your upper right wing into Scylla's small black leather dactid.
   The world comes back into focus.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into Laithde, catching her at the edge of the storm and zapping her, despite her attempt to dodge, and she is affected very severely by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into Laithde, catching her at the edge of the storm and jolting her, and she is affected very severely by the attack.
   Laithde dies.
   A sparkling mist rises from Laithde's corpse.
   Laithde disappears in a flare of unholy fire. (...?)
   Your hearing returns.
   One of your Seseris flits quickly over a fresh tuatha corpse, sprinkling motes of green light over it.
   A fresh tuatha corpse disintegrates into green sparks that float up into Seseri.
   The lesser storm spirit roils darkly and swirls toward Scylla.
   Thin lines of energy appear around Scylla's upper left wing as she strikes you with it.
   You are now in defensive combat mode.
   The lesser storm spirit swirls with tremendous violence.
   Scylla connects precisely and dynamizes a lesser storm spirit 's body mass with her upper right wing, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack somewhat.
   You feel less sluggish.
   One of your Seseris glows, and a halo of rainbow forms around Scylla, but she dodges.
   The lesser storm spirit coldly flies in front of you to protect you from Scylla.
   Scylla connects precisely and blasts a lesser storm spirit 's body mass full of pure energy with her blue star morning glory, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack slightly.
   Scylla connects with remarkable precision and energizes a lesser storm spirit 's body mass with her blue star morning glory, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack slightly.
   You rumble, [| Whoa! |] in harshly-accented Anglic.
   The lesser storm spirit dances with electrical energies.
   Scylla barely connects and energizes a lesser storm spirit 's body mass with her blue star morning glory, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack slightly.
   Scylla connects precisely and dynamizes a lesser storm spirit 's body mass with her blue star morning glory, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack slightly.
   Scylla drifts westward and upward.
   The lesser storm spirit catches her in a reasonable part of the strike and bumps Scylla with its winds, though she resists the attack slightly.
   The lesser storm spirit catches her in a fair part of the strike and bumps Scylla with its winds, though she resists the attack slightly.
   The lesser storm spirit catches her somewhat marginally and bumps Scylla with its winds, though she resists the attack slightly.
   The lesser storm spirit catches her marginally and bumps Scylla with its winds, though she resists the attack slightly.
   The haze of midnight blue mist condenses around sleipnir for a moment.
   An enormous halo of flickering midnight blue light limns sleipnir.
   You stop hunting Tarabandelis and Scylla.

   Krum asserts, ( :: wtf did i come back to :: ) in flowingly-accented Anglic.

   [ Spirit: 248.1/1668.1 Magick: 150/220 Air: 198.5/235.1 Lightning: 397.5/496.3 Chaos: 130.8/245.1 Endurance: 2211/2426.4 Speed: 56 Head: 72.6/115.3 Torso: 253.7 ]

This vitals display is mostly out of formality.  See how Scylla proved the biggest danger to our heroine in this entire log.  Congratulations, Scylla!

ROUND TEN!  FIGHT!
   Vetallas incarnates.
   Ansrel whispers, "..."
   That is already your primary language.
   The haze of midnight blue mist condenses around Vetallas for a moment.
   A small halo of flickering midnight blue light limns Vetallas.
   Vetallas calls a foul curse upon you causing your body to twist violently with a hideous disfigurement.
   Crystalline Void is torn from your grasp.
   Volcanic Ruin is torn from your grasp.
   Your parageos is torn from you.
   Your tiny chrysoprase-set white gold ring of intelligence is torn from you.
   Your mind feels dull and slow.
   Your diminutive emerald-set gold ring of ambidexterity is torn from you.
   Your paraquerlos is torn from you.
   Your tiny bright red mithril amulet of storms is torn from you.
   The favor of Vashanka dissipates from your body, leaving you weakened.
   You take the small midnight blue porcelain mask with your right foreclaw.
   You have lost the magickal prowess required to be able to cast electrical storm.
   The black-armoured figure echoes, |- I think Scylla might be the Whisper. -| in lugubriously-accented Anglic.
   You cannot do that because you are in defensive combat mode.
   Your lesser storm spirit begins resting.
   You cannot do that because you are in defensive combat mode.
   Vetallas calls upon the wrath of the Reaper, which is answered by a black bolt striking you leaving you visibly weakened.
   You quietly rumble, [| Chaoth Lightning |] to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.
   Chaotic-mottled sky blue wisps of energy spiral from the air into and around you, and you let the currents of magick flow through you.
   You have begun to cast chaos lightning.
   Vetallas holds its black entropy scythe in its hands.
   You have lost the magickal prowess required to be able to cast welkin wings.
   You make several arcane gestures with your foreclaws.
   The air hums and the smell of ozone becomes overpowering.
   Multicolored motes of energy dance in the air.
   Vetallas attempts to drain strength from you but fails to do anything noticable.
   Sleipnir whickers softly.
   You point at Vetallas.
   A ball of polychromatic lightning hurtles from your outstretched finger into Vetallas's head and chest, catching it in the heart of the ball with remarkable control and disintegrating them, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack slightly.
   You have completed your casting of chaos lightning.
   The small halo of flickering midnight blue light around Vetallas gently fades away.
   Vetallas dies.
   A sparkling mist rises from Vetallas's corpse.
   Vetallas disappears in a flare of unholy fire.

   [ Spirit: 216.8/772.5 Magick: 150/177 Air: 198.5/202.3 Lightning: 389/439 Chaos: 119.8/200.5 Endurance: 2192 Speed: 56 Head: 88.4/109.5 Torso: 241 ]

The only HP Rieszthraxilath lost since Scylla tried planting a flower in her head was from hunger.

   The black-armoured figure ponders the situation.
   The black-armoured figure hums, |- Why doooes he keep trying?? -| in lugubriously-accented Anglic.
   Scylla purrs, ->) silly storm spirits (<-
   You rumble, [| I thurmithe becauthe he fucking hateth me and wantth to thcrew me over. |] in harshly-accented Anglic.

   A ghost flies in from the east.
   Vetallas ceases to float in the air.
   Vetallas returns to life, its form restored.
   Vetallas takes a ruby pibrit, a small tarnished copper major ring of speed, a small suit of black plate armour, a stupendous mountain of gold coins, a small midnight blue quartz runestone, and a great big mountain of gold coins with its left hand.
   Vetallas drops a great big mountain of gold coins.
   Vetallas squeezes its ruby pibrit with its left hand.
   Vetallas's ruby pibrit compresses, then quickly returns to its original pyramidal shape.
   Sleipnir flicks her tail.
   The haze of midnight blue mist condenses around Vetallas for a moment.
   A small halo of flickering midnight blue light limns Vetallas.
   The large halo of flickering midnight blue light around your lesser storm spirit gently fades away.
   Vetallas conjures a dark cloak out of mere shadow and wraps it around itself.
   The scythe-like blades hovering before the dark reaper shimmer for a moment and begin to emit /spanan aura ofspan style='color: #ff00ff;' unholy power.
   The dark reaper is desecrated.
   The dark reaper has been stunned.
   Foulness flares around the dark reaper for a brief moment.

   You are hindered by a dark reaper's strange physiology.
   You carefully treat a dark reaper's wounded head.
   You carefully treat a dark reaper's wounded chest.
   You carefully treat a dark reaper's wounded right arm.
   You carefully treat a dark reaper's wounded left arm.
   You carefully treat a dark reaper's wounded right hand.
   You carefully treat a dark reaper's wounded left hand.
   You carefully treat a dark reaper's wounded right leg.
   You carefully treat a dark reaper's wounded left leg.
   You carefully treat a dark reaper's wounded right foot.
   You carefully treat a dark reaper's wounded left foot.

   The dark reaper chants a hideous litany to Lord Thanatos.
   An unholy cloud of putrid fumes drifts toward you engulfing you before being absorbed into your body.
   You sense your connection with your spiritual being abruptly vanish.

The nerve!  She treats someone for the injuries that she gave them and they try to kill her.  It's a wonder Riesz helps anyone these days.

Oh, well.  ROUND ELEVEN!  FIGHT!
   One of your Asagis glows, and a halo of rainbow forms around the dark reaper, connects skillfully and flashburns its head, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   You have lost the magickal prowess required to be able to cast cloud form, mind maelstrom, scithial armour, scithial bonds, sea's blessing, serpentina's lightning, tornado, and torrential rain.
   You cannot continue meditating because you have engaged in combat.
   You stop meditating.
   You feel a bit groggy, coming out of your meditative state.
   Your small midnight blue porcelain mask dissolves into small midnight blue motes of energy that dissipate into the surrounding air.
   You quietly rumble, [| Chaoth Lightning |] to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.
   Your spiritual energy is too weak to do that.
   The dark reaper gestures causing a ripple in space around you to form and then charge at you striking you firmly.
   You have been stunned.
   You have lost the magickal prowess required to be able to cast essence of the wind.

   The black-armoured figure echoes, |- Goooddamn... Just stooop already. -| in lugubriously-accented Anglic.

   The dark reaper makes a broad clawing gesture as an invisible blade mars your body.
   You believe that the dark reaper has found a weakness in your torso.
   You are affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   You believe that the dark reaper has found a weakness in your torso.
   The anahata chakra on your upper torso is drained.
   The manipura chakra on your torso is drained.
   The svadhisthana chakra on your lower torso is drained.
   The muladhara chakra between your hindlegs is drained.
   You have been blinded.
   You feel sluggish.
   You are affected somewhat severely by the attack.
   The area goes dark.
   Your lesser storm spirit stops resting.
   You drop a lesser storm spirit .
   Scylla's small midnight blue porcelain mask pulses once with midnight blue light.
   Scylla connects precisely and energizes a lesser storm spirit 's body mass with her blue star morning glory, though it resists the attack slightly.
   Thin lines of energy appear around the blue star morning glory as Scylla strikes the lesser storm spirit with it.
   A lesser storm spirit 's body mass is restructured, and it is affected very severely by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit has been mortally wounded and will die soon if not aided. (SCYLLAAAAA!)
   Silvery motes drift from Scylla into Scylla's small black leather dactid.
   Scylla connects precisely and energizes a lesser storm spirit 's body mass with her blue star morning glory, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack slightly.
   Scylla connects precisely and energizes a lesser storm spirit 's body mass with her blue star morning glory, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack slightly.
   Some mana flows from a lesser storm spirit 's body mass.
   The lesser storm spirit crackles and fumes furiously.
   You feel less groggy.
   Scylla connects well and dynamizes a lesser storm spirit 's body mass with her blue star morning glory, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack slightly.
   Scylla lifts her right foot up, then drives it forward at the lesser storm spirit with motes of sparkling light trailing behind it, connects fairly well and controverts a lesser storm spirit 's body mass, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack.
   Scylla connects by the slimmest of margins and dynamizes a lesser storm spirit 's body mass with her blue star morning glory, despite its attempt to dodge, though it resists the attack drop spirit slightly.
   The lesser storm spirit vanishes with a whoosh.
   You feel less sluggish.
   You drop a lesser storm spirit .
   The lesser storm spirit roils darkly and swirls toward a dark reaper.
   Scylla's small midnight blue porcelain mask pulses once with midnight blue light.
   You quietly rumble, [| Chaoth Lightning |] to yourself in harshly-accented Enochian.
   Your spiritual energy is too weak to do that.
   The dark reaper calls upon the wrath of the Reaper, which is answered by a black bolt striking you leaving you visibly weakened.
   You have been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit swirls with tremendous violence.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the dark reaper, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The dark reaper has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the dark reaper, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The dark reaper has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the dark reaper, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The dark reaper has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit catches it at the edge of the strike and bumps the dark reaper with its winds, despite its attempt to dodge, though it is barely affected by the attack.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the dark reaper, catching it at the edge of the storm and jolting it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The dark reaper has been stunned.
   The lesser storm spirit releases a storm of lightning into the dark reaper, catching it at the edge of the storm and shocking it, despite its attempt to dodge, and it is affected severely by the attack.
   The dark reaper has been stunned.

COMBAT LOG!

   Vetallas incarnates.
   A small halo of flickering midnight blue light limns Vetallas.
   Ansrel sighs deeply.
   Vetallas walks southward and upward.

   [ Magick: 150 Air: 198.5 Lightning: 381.5 Chaos: 119.8 Endurance: 2113.1/2171.5 Speed: 56 Head: 109 Torso: 222.8/239.8 ]

   The black-armoured figure echoes, |- This is getting really sad. -| in lugubriously-accented Anglic.

The horrors of war proceeding to wear on her, Rieszthraxilath falters, her interestconvictions beginning to waver after such an unrepentant beatdowna horrific battle against the forces of evil.

The show over, she converses with groupie Krum; the hero(ine) of the people... a week and a half ago.

   Krum yawls, ( :: did he QQ? :: ) in flowingly-accented Anglic.
   You rumble, [| THomewhat. |] in harshly-accented Anglic.
   You rumble, [| He told me thomething like "I hope you didn't like playing thith game, becauthe you won't be doing it for long" |] in harshly-accented Anglic.
   You rumble, [| then died about eight timeth. |] in harshly-accented Anglic.
   Krum shakes her head.

   Krum axes, ( :: he was like, rrrrrnngggh. krum, why dont you BB him. I'm like, because he didnt do anything to me? :: ) in flowingly-accented Anglic.
   You rumble, [| Hahaha, really? |] in harshly-accented Anglic.
   Krum drones, ( :: yeah :: ) in flowingly-accented Anglic.
   Ansrel whispers, "He didn't even athk for hith thit back, jutht attacked."
   You rumble, [| Oh man. |] in harshly-accented Anglic.

   You rumble, [| Thit. I forgot I wath logging thith. |] in harshly-accented Anglic.
   The black-armoured figure laughs.

    Arienle 2 562
   [OOC Tell from Xaolyn] vetallas is trying to get me to get you killed by telling you to come to disco so he can ambush you
   [OOC Tell from Xaolyn] just fyi
   [OOC Tell from Xaolyn] or something, he's being real secretive about this
   [OOC Tell to Xaolyn] I just left disco, vetallas needs glasses
   [OOC Tell from Xaolyn] [OOC Tell from Vetallas] say you need some ozm buffs to Rieszthraxilath. then get him to come buff you at say disco or wherever.
   [OOC Tell from Xaolyn] did you kill him or something

    Arienle 4 562
   [OOC Tell from Sanity] When Vet inevitably comes to get his ass banned, I'll try to help out with Sanity.
   [OOC Tell to Sanity] I'd greatly welcome the help.
   [OOC Tell to Sanity] Not that I think it'll be necessary, but it's the principle of the thing that counts. :x
   [OOC Tell to Sanity] So, what, was he running his mouth while I wasn't here?
   [OOC Tell from Sanity] You logged on yesterday, he said he's going to kill your characters until they're deleted or he gets his shit back.
   [OOC Tell from Sanity] Nilten pipes up, tells him to drop it or get deleted.
   [OOC Tell from Sanity] 'cause it's six months old, grow up or GTFO.