"No fair!" the death knight screeched, the baleful red light in its eye sockets seeming to move up and follow the length of its larger adversary's approaching polearm. It'd clearly taken some glee from having a longer weapon than the one the redhead would likely draw, but the larger, tigrish woman...<br/><br/>It began to lean back, in a manner suggesting it usually dealt with blows by trying to take them off its armor at a glancing-rather-than-rending angle, rather than dodge per se. All the same, the guisarme smashed and slashed down between the horns of its helm, splitting the front of helm and skull and breastplate. The helm and skull flew right off, in an uncanny echo of Garland's high-flying horned helm when Rose had struck him down in the arena.<br/><br/>In midair, the helm flew off the skull, which shrieked, "Oh dear! My unlife is passing before my eyes! Even with horse and lance, my charges never-" the skull smashed apart on the chapel floor, having arced clear over the nearer death knight. The headless, undead-body-filled suit of armor collapsed, dropping the lance to the floor.<br/><br/>"Thanks!" Aria zipped by Rose, albeit slowed by her ethereal phasing, past the first smashed death knight. The second death knight, perhaps having not decided whether to go for lance or bow until it'd come into sightline of the attackers, hadn't yet drawn a weapon to whack her at her approach or passed, although Aia reflected she just might've been able to negotiate around the dark knight safety in any case.<br/><br/>So past she went, in an effort to make it more difficult for it and the other to be able to get both herself and Rose in a single fire blast, if they possessed samesaid ability, without snaring their own. It also might help her and Rose flank the death knight if it followed her; she had<em>some</em>practice using it to targeted advantage against undead and golems and summoned elementals, but she still extremely relieved her ally seemed to be able to cleave and smash them apart outright despite a lack of this organ or that artery.<br/><br/>The passed death knight belatedly drew its lance to follow her, but rather than striking out, began to laugh maniacally at Aria as she ran by, shrieking in a deeper voice than its fallen kin, "You shall not pass!" Then it giggled in a higher pitched voice, "...I just love saying that!"<br/><br/>Aria blinked, vaguely aware of some strange, daunting and probably supernatural resonance behind its challenge. She even swore she felt her holy symbol vibrating faintly, but that was it.<br/><br/>Aria had run clear to the furthest death knight, just before the Tymoran altar. It drew a lance, and took a step back to the preferred range of the weapon, seemingly intending to use the altar itself in its considerations. It howled in a more feminine but no less evil or unnatural voice, as befit the shape of the full-plated body, with a narrower waist and perhaps-disingenuously-generous bust. This one had her helm visor already flipped up; the face underneath was grotesque; less skeletal than the other two, but seemingly by artifice - flesh preserved and retouched, a lady's face become as much flesh-toned make-up as actual flesh. Full, red lips flapped unnaturally as the death knight gnashed her teeth, eyes flaring at Rose after they beheld the first fallen death knight.<br/><br/>Rather than lancing at Aria as it might have, its eyes glowed bright red; it shot a fireball like the first. The red orb sailed right past Aria (perhaps it had seen or inferred her dodge of the other one, or sought vengeance on Rose) and the other death knight, exploding in the air around Rose. It melted away more of the stained glass and the catwalk, and set the chapel's wooden double doors aflame. The structure of the catwalk and chapel were  both stonework, without much other kindling in sight, and little likelihood of the fire spreading.<br/><br/>Now in or at the threshold of the chapel, Rose and Aria could see it had the dimensions of the golden ratio, about forty five feet wide and seventy deep. Each of the longer side walls had two small side doors, one at either end of each. The two on the left were open, with papers all scattered about in the doorway and toppled furniture visible through; probably the source of the earlier crashing, and where the other two death knights had been when the one watch-guarding the long catwalk called out with loud taunts to the living ladies which also served to warn its undead fellows.<br/><br/>The wall behind the chapel altar bore, high up, a circle of stained glass which was colored and inflected as yet another great coin symbol of Tymora. Light cast down in all colors of the rainbow, but most especially ivory and gold.<br/><br/>The stone just beneath it, though, had been desecrated (by these same death knights, presumably): a tapestry showing a scene of revelry and bacchanalia had been vandalized with blood used like paint. Whatever body had haplessly provided the blood was not visible; perhaps the eladrin guard they'd seen hidden in the bushes, or another like him stashed elsewhere on the grounds.<br/><br/>With the blood, the undead vandals had written in giant slashing Common letters: CHAOS REIGNS ACROSS THE CIRCLE OF TIME! Below that was a crude drawing in blood; a silhouette shape of the horned helmets like those the death knights and Garland wore.<br/><br/><br/><br/>First death knight KOed (but thanks for doing trip rolls in tandem!)<br/><br/>Aria second turn:<br/>run action, 120' exactly to become adjacent (nw) of third death knight, drawing one kukri<br/><br/>Nearer death knight second turn:<br/>20' east and draw lance, then (Su) 'fear' type effect, Will DC 18, at Aria (who's unaffected due to the item-cast 'mind blank'  - it's a 24 hour duration spell she casts each morning as noted in the sheet, this being the first day of the RP)<br/>It's 55' east of Rose<br/><br/>Further (the female) death knight:<br/>5' step ne (to n of altar, and 10' east of Aria), draw lance<br/>cast same 'fireball' at Rose<br/>36 dmg (18 fire 18 unholy), reflex DC 18 for half<br/><br/>(ongoing<br/>hall)      X                                          X<br/>- - A - - - - - - - A - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A - K<br/>- R R - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - R R - - - - - - - - - - K - - - - - X - X<br/>- R R - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - R R - - -<br/>(hall      X                                           X<br/>from stairway)