Scourge Virus!

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Though various ways of mass-killing evil undead have been found, Mephiasu has his old orders to find a virus to kill the Scourge!

[GM]

mephiasu will use his contacts with the forsakens' royal apothacary society to learn of alchemic components ideal for the new plague.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

I should point out, just initially, that Mephiasu's contacts are a little distant from him now, he'll have to rebuild some of them. He may want to start with the scientists on the team, i.e. Handyman, Dr. Og Kalintaro...

Alternately, he knew a crazy Goblin mad professor who had all sorts of bizarre ideas for a doomsday device, a Gnubtub Kitaro.

[GM]

just note that what mephiasu needs is a plague so that it spreads from scourge to scourge till it reaches the bodies that are being made into scourge stopping the whole process.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Gnubtub was crazy enough to try anything and intuitive enough to possibly have it work. Unfortunately, for the same reason, he's a bit hard to find, especially with Mephiasu being out of circulation for so long. He did have a large lab in the midst of nowhere...

[GM]

mephiasu will go to the lab, unless he does not remeber where it is if thats the case then he will head to ratchet and ask the goblins there if they have seen him recently.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Mephiasu does luckily remember it. He travels through a large plain area, red clay and occasional grasses.

OOG: Did we decide whether Mephiasu was sealed by the Horde, the Alliance or both?

[GM]

OOG: neither it was the burning legion (if you dont know who they are wiki them there a bunch of demons essentially)

Mephiasu will slow his pace upon reaching the lab and enter while saying in a harmless voice "gnubtub.. are you there old friend its mephiasu".

OOC: also note that before he was sealed he did have a few titles including the unholy one and nightblade although most of azeroth probably still knows the name they might not recognize the person

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

OOG: I know who the Burning Legion are . Good ol' Archimonde. Of course re: the nicknames.

Substantially before Mephiasu gets to the lab, a great barrage of fire from the sky comes. It is obviously a very powerful Rain of Fire. Amazingly, in the dodging Mephiasu spontaneously does, he also cleaves in half an arrow from a distant source. Now standing below him is a massive Pit Lord, who smiles and says, "Pleased to make your acquaintance. The Burning Legion would like to collect on your bounties now, Mephiasu Nightblade. Would you like to surrender?"

[GM]

"well of course not but in the spirit of good sportsmanship I will offer the same chance to you" mephiasu will say while drawing a throwing knife and twirling it between his fingers already knowing what there answer will be.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

"Of course. This encounter was already scripted before we began." Mephiasu recognizes this particular Pit Lord as Bennerax, the Master of Seals, who created the creature that kept Mephiasu trapped (obviously not alone).

Locusts swarm around Mephiasu, taking minor amounts of his health away but also reducing his effective mobility. Webs further pin Mephiasu down. Five beetles leap at him, ready to bore into him. He can now respond and then take a full turn.

[GM]

mephiasu will quickly reach into one of his pouches and pull out his trusty flash powder and throw it on the ground creating a large flash making mephiasu dissapear (oog: he preforms vanish which is an in combat stealth that gets rid of all mobility and movement reducing effects, you can look it up on a wow wiki and itll say the same,) he will then take his main turn to teleport behind his opponent and use his stealth to perform cheap shot 3 (stab to the eyes that give a large amount of combo points and stun the target) followed by sinister strike 4 (basic move that does more damage and adds combo points) twice and end the turn with eviscarate 3 (finishing move) all unarmed.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Remember, I pit your abilities against other abilities. While you can slip out of a good number of effects and acquire a high freedom of movement, there will be many occasions where a foes' effect cannot be trumped by your powers and/or you cannot use that ability at that time.

This is one of those times. Mephiasu dreadfully underestimates the power of the swarms, the beetles and the webs. He is able to vanish and leave, but at a terrible cost. The webs are bladed and poisoned, and he feels a sadistic poison enter him, causing him to feel agony as if he were alive. One of the beetles has caught onto him and is boring in, and the swarms strike him, though they do not succeed in draining much more health than last round. Luckily, he avoids tripping off obviously goblin-constructed spider mines, dancing around them and letting them crash harmlessly into the landscape. This provides him with more cover.

He teleports behind the Pit Lord, but the Rain of Fire in the area seems to extend to effect teleportation. Mephiasu has never seen a power this strong. His recently obtained Sharingen combined with his incredible combat knowledge and lore (also recently improved by drastic margins he never believed possible) to see that Bennerax released a seal on a particularly powerful Rain of Fire. Luckily, he strikes before an incoming alchemical concoction hits, which is pierced and made harmless by his Kimimaro bone defense anyways.. but not before an erupting row of spikes from the ground below strikes. However, the spikes, despite being effectively targeted, do not pierce Mephiasu's threshold; in fact, his skin automatically begins to suck in the foe! He feels himself sapping automatically with his undead health drain and consumption from a Crypt Lord. Similarly, an arrow is caught by his hand before he strikes.

Mephiasu's strike to the eyes pushes in... and does nothing. The difficulty of getting sufficient leverage on the back of this beast when under assault is taking its toll. The sinister strike similarly seems to fail to take hold. Even worse, his Eviscerate gets him caught in the Pit Lord's skin! Luckily, he has more turn, and he can call his DIO elements now, either the parts in him, a Warlock pet and/or the RSN/Tzemke.

[GM]

Mephiasu was rarely in a worse situation he needed to find a way out of this soon or he would find himself defeated.... again.

Mephiasu had to do something but he could not show all his trump cards yet.

However he does activate curse seal of heaven and curse seal of earth lv.5 attempting to use the morphing of the bones into the velociraptor form of the curse seal of earth to crush the beetle.

He summons an air strike calling in ashley to use ego barrier control to push him and bennerax apart whie simultaniously removing the one seperating him and the crypt lord he is absorbing below him.

His Warpstalker will attempt to teleport the goblin into one of its pincers.

His Firefly tzemke open fire on the ranger in an attempt to end his annoyances.

RSN will use Magic Evasion Mist to attempt to get Mephiasu out of the Fire Rain.

Mephiasu's turtle (unnamed hunter pet) will attempt to use a turtle barrier (an armor granting effect increasing the effect of already existing armor).

Mephiasu's spirit form unleashes a lucent cross 4 attack if it can.

OOG: and that should be all mephiasu's dio since only one of his inners can go right?

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

The transformation to his velociraptor-inspired form, complete with cursed red skin, goes off without a hitch, crushing the beetle in the process, absorbing a slight amount of it into him.

The Air Strike is indeed called, another advantage of the new tactical situation Mephiasu finds himself in. Bennerax's contact is severed, finally allowing some freedom of mobility for Mephiasu. The Crypt Lord, however, retains its AT Field and, while it continues to be absorbed, is managing to get some traction.

The Warpstalker does manage to teleport itself and the goblin to a new location, taking advantage of the new positioning and the goblin's confusion to score a blow. The alchemist's humanoid mount has astounding defense, however, and the damage is marginal. Immediately, the alchemist attempts a counter-attack, but the Stalker's Warping allows it an easy dodge, and it delivers a powerful mana disruption that harms the alchemist.

The Tzemke rain fire down around the Ranger. However, with her former Highborne reflexes and skill combined with her Banshee powers, she easily evades the blast. Luckily, though, her cover is destroyed, making further attacks more viable.

The Magic Evasion Mist does indeed get Mephiasu and all his allies out of the Fire Rain! [OOG: Nice....]

Mephiasu's armor ratchets up noticeably.

The Lucent Cross 4 does cost Mephiasu quite a bit, but he was aware of the risk. It does do AOE, striking every target, but the lines converge on Bennerax. The holy beams seem to cleave through Bennerax, forming their shape inside, creating a detonation of white and red. Bennerax stoically sneers through the attack. Mephiasu can tell he registered a hit, but Bennerax will not be brought down so easily.

OOG: Until they split, yeah. However, I'm almost entirely confident you gained other DIO through questing. And I'm pretty sure that you have a passive Kage Bunshin plus from Illidan you get demonic, Naga and Blood Elf thralls.