<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Technically, I think there would not be much chance to overcome a limitation of something meant to be accessible later only, but with the Goddess' favor and Gabriel showing himself to be true to the cause, I think he might have a little more power of faith behind him in a few places. I'll consider him to have a share of 'True Faith' derived power, but it only measures up to a certain point. This will burn a whole lot, but alright.</div></div><br/>Gabriel's word and faith flowed a stream of purging energies through Lady Luna. Like a shock running through her, it quenched the bleeding at least, but the young woman looked bad, the poison had severely torn at her form, but Gabriel's focus and sacrifice carried the vile poison to his own veins, only to be assaulted with what felt like a thousand fangs tearing at his veins from inside.<br/><br/>If Lady Luna was handling the pain without screaming it was a feat worthy of praise, it was enough that a trained soldier would shriek, but for Gabriel it was pain that the divine energies helped control. The poison flowed to his veins, and bursts of pain struck all over Gabriel's body there, but soon enough it begna to fade, but the effects were clearly draining.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC - Poison</div><div class="spoiler_body">This is no cheap stuff. Gabriel took 2d6 constitution damage, its temporary so it fades at rate of 1 / day, or 2 / day at complete bed rest. The total damage taken is 8, but this was the 'minute after' dose. Lady Luna must have taken a similar hit. Given how it also robs Gabriel of the <em>large share of hit points</em> its more than frightening though. However, it won't push him to 0, despite all, the poison cant seem to kill him on the spot even with Gabriel's wounds. It does hurt and means he's out of the fight, unable to follow the killer, but both he and Lady Luna live.</div></div><br/>The orcs were pushed back, and the knights fighting crushed the last remaining orcs on the ground, before a shout and shriek upstairs was accompanied by a large blast, a lone soldier staggering out, one more soldier dead upstairs. "The orcs... they....<em>dead orcs.</em>" The soldier stuttered. "Shaman... they had a freaking shaman using dead orcs as archers in window, not caring if they were hit, the shaman almost killed us both but there was fire powder in the room. Steel, he... he jumped and pulled a torch off the wall, right on top of it."<br/><br/>The protector was dead, then. Nobody survived a blast of that magnitude.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">If Gabriel wants statwise, the explosion upstairs was at least 10d6 in a contained area, like a full power fireball going off, and in closed space, probably not much chances to avoid the blast front. </div></div>