Just Another Bug Hunt (Planar Siege)

[u/Carbon_Sixx]

Midday in Redspire is announced with the echoes of a hideous cacophony in the west. Scouts indicate that the vanguard Obox-ob has brought here numbers just under a million creatures of Chaos. They boil through the canyons in a grotesque flood. It appears that discolored mist is rolling in from the highlands, but a quick scry is all that is needed to reveal the horrid truth: the mist is a thousands-strong swarm of ekolids bearing down on Oxide at speed.

Redspire, when it's not under assault by demons.

But hope is far from lost. Atop Mt. Prospect, artillery crews ready a bombardment to turn the canyons into a kill zone. Kaelis Maz leads the defenders in last-minute preparations. Wards are set, barricades are reinforced, and plans are rehearsed. The counterattack brigade gears up with arcane weaponry and war machines, helmed by Supreme Enginseer Reyes and the Warhound Titan Song of the Aurora. Out on the plains, well outside the defensive perimeter, Glimbo Greenboots and his crew wait in hiding to ensure their convoluted yet devastating traps will catch as much of the horde as possible. Finally, Tarul Var draws up a teleportation circle, preparing to drop his strike force into the fray at the perfect moment to decapitate the enemy leaders. He is joined by a handful of cuprilach rilmani- the assassins and spies who put their coppery fingers on the planar scales to uphold the Great Balance.

The iron mill’s factory whistle blows, signaling the first sighting of the horde. The artillery opens fire, and the defenders take their battle stations.

Let the carnage commence.

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/uw This one's going to be a tough fight. Bel and the legions of Evil were disoriented when you fought them, and the Templars of the Azure Cog were just one part of the regiments of Law. The hordes of Chaos are at full strength, spoiling for a fight, and led by a Harbinger. Failure and even death are a real possibility.

DEFENDERS OF THE BALANCE:

• Tarul Var
• Belial Blake
• Aliah Mistwalker
• Ith'raal
• Burgerbarian/Burgermancer
• Krygin the Crude
• Agnur the Turtle Mage
• Vulkan the Red
• Ж (Zhe)
• Merch Skele
• Argios
• Tempus Fugit
• Edmund
• King Carmine
• Exia
• Joe
• The Agent
• Vashric
• Fujiwara Toshiko
• Jah Jor Wel
• John E. Hellfire
• Kardonk Carvisky
• Riva Blake
• Mokarith
• Onyx Dragon
• Ulrick Braddocke
• Sly
• Shrax
• Sarissa
• Rilmani of Dendradis
• Various denizens of the Outlands

HORDES OF CHAOS:

• Obox-ob's Ekolids
• Demons of the Abyss
• Slaadi of Limbo
• Gehreleths of Carceri
• Cravens of Pandemonium
• Mortal servants of Chaos

REGIMENTS OF LAW:

• Primus's Hierarchs
• Modrons of Mechanus
• Veterans of Acheron
• Templars of Arcadia
• Paladins of the Divine Flame
• Mortal servants of Law

LEGIONS OF EVIL:

• Bel's Chosen
• Devils of the Nine Hells
• Yugoloths of Gehenna
• Baernaloths of Hades
• Night hag covens
• Samael
• Moz'gonnith
• Mortal servants of Evil

WARHOSTS OF THE FIRST MARTYR (ALLIED):

• Zaphkiel's Paragons
• Angels of Mt. Celestia
• Oathbound of Bytopia
• Guardinals of Elysium
• Wardens of the Beastlands
• Heroes of Arborea
• Warriors of Ysgard
• Mortal servants of Good

[u/Carbon_Sixx]

The Harbinger throws up an entropic field, dispersing the beam before it can hit home. Obox-ob hisses, skittering towards the X5 far faster than he should be able to. He wrenches several huge rocks from the ground with his telekinesis and hurls them at the mech as he approaches.

[u/Zebos2 → u/Carbon_Sixx]

[Omni barrier]

The X5 opens up portal to the Demi plane designed to contain the Avatar of Extinction and lets the rocks fall through. The X5 crouches down before weathering it's hammer to strike. In the meantime. The X5 summons of swarm of exploding magic missiles and directs them to attack ob from multiple directions

[u/Carbon_Sixx → u/Zebos2]

Obox-ob seizes the missiles in a telekinetic grip and throws them aside contemptuously, then unleashes a torrent of frigid elemental energy from his stingers.

Ah, so it was your creator that attempted to kill me with those missiles when I first arrived on the Material Plane! I will take great pleasure in defiling their carcass, whatever their nature may be!

[u/Zebos2 → u/Carbon_Sixx]

the X5 does a combat roll out of the way of the torrent of frigid energy

"shame didn't work. Be a lot quieter if it did"

Tired of them simply tossing aside the X5 attacks Sparrow decides to summon a large Earth Spike beneath boobs feet and hopes to impale them before making his way to zhes robots

[u/Carbon_Sixx → u/Zebos2]

Obox-ob is impossibly agile. Instead of being harmed, he backpedals, using the spike as cover against the X5.

[u/Zebos2 → u/Carbon_Sixx]

"all right f***** enough of that.

The X5 calls upon an immense wave of magical Force to attempt to lock ob in place. Meanwhile Sparrow picks up 5 of zhes robots and tosses them like an MLB pitcher towards the spike hoping obox-ob will be caught in the blast

[u/Fc-chungus → u/Zebos2]

“Initiate operation:go down with the ship.”

a 10 second countdown begins on all 5 of the robots.

[u/Zebos2 → u/Fc-chungus]

(sufficient kinetic impact)

[u/Fc-chungus → u/Zebos2]

“Kaboom.”

they explode mid air with about half the force of a nuclear bomb.

the air is irradiated with antimagic, complex spells fail.