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Alternate ending to Abramo Aiello's final appearance
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You miscounted earlier: We actually have two Brimoraks. Does that help any?

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Not if they're just going to do the same thing, no. Mythically Powered Horse Charge!

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Scientifically speaking this is actually most inconvenient; the observations will be entirely useless, being massively confounded. On the other hand Nenio supposes that having the experimenter survive to observe again is, actually, moderately important. Haste.

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We also have some extra Babau and some Incubi? 

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Ok to the extent that the enemy has huge amounts of reinforcements they will grind us down eventually, mythic power or none. Presumably Minagho is the capstone, and Seelah has already targeted her with Smite Evil, but that Dimension Door is annoying. Hence: Challenge Evil.

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Oh come on. Minagho has a Will save of literally 21... right mythic power ignores saves, right. Yeah. So this is beginning to look like a "disengage, plot vengeance" sort of situation. But we can have a Phantasmal SatisPutrefaction first, as a treat.

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Fortunately Lann doesn't cast from Wisdom! And also he's quite used to powering through dysphoria!

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So what happens if we do this scroll with Mythic Power behind it?

Order's Wrath.

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Ok hurting demons is good orderly actually but please keep in mind that not all your allies are Lawful either!

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Hey if we ignore damage resistance anyway, we can use sonic arrows instead of cold iron. And between the Haste and the extra attacks, we can do (checks log) 159 damage in one turn.

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That... is actually outside the realm of "stings" and into serious danger. Minagho is going to activate her fallback powers.

Run Away.

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And Staunton will step between her and the victorious crusaders. 

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Oh.

How disappointing.

It is still possible that he is not acting of his free will; Minagho clearly has any amount of magic, and then, quite ordinary torture has also been known to break men's minds. But - that cannot be allowed to matter, any more than it did for the corrupted angels. In the absence of a way to free him from mind control - if, indeed, the mind control even exists - then let justice be done. Abramo will say the Shma for him, afterwards, but... justice first.

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That's rather sweet, actually. Minagho will exercise whatever shreds of plot armour she has left, and take Staunton with her.

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Kenabres Kestää!

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Then we can have a celebration in which several references are made to being "blessed by Iomedae" and "messenger of the gods", which make Abramo deeply uncomfortable. Because yes, that Mythic Power certainly came from somewhere and he hopes it was the Name, but... he did not actually receive a notarized letter certifying that it was so, and there's a reason his god is also called the Word. There wasn't so much as a burning bush to be seen, unless we are to count the crotch region of those brimoraks, which he Does Not.

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And a (briefly) incognito Queen can show up. And make the same uncomfortable remarks about breathing on stones for luck.

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It's not that Abramo is some sort of firebreathing anti-monarchical republican; sure, England was a monarchy before his armies ground the empire to dust, but then so was his ally Japan. But nonetheless he is a merchant Doge citizen of Venice and he does not kiss any rings. No, not even if it's labeled the "Lawful" dialogue option. Law does not actually consist of truckling to any random "authority" that may have lucked into a hereditary monopoly of violence over some particular area.

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Oh, now the regular army arrives to save them, and makes with the rhetoric about "time to turn back the tide". Splendid. Where were you when the Fiendish Minotaurs were hammering on the gates of the last-ditch defense, and chemical weapons poisoning the hastily-raised militia? Speaking of turning tides!

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Daeran will interject some vaguely sarcastic remarks in a similar vein!

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Yeah Abramo is not actually super fond of people who needle monarchs from behind their inherited privilege either, but the nobly-born jerk has a point.

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Galfrey has been dealing with Daeran, and indeed any number of other nobly-born jerks, for longer than Abramo has been alive, and doesn't particularly notice the latest instance. She will have a drink after dropping her hints about "big plans", though.

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And the next morning she will declare the Fifth Crusade, and Abramo its Knight-Commander. First objective: Drezen.

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Well... that is somewhat reasonable, for a monarch, actually. Give an army to the man who has demonstrated his ability to use it. Fair enough. As for objectives, Abramo will form his own judgement, or why is he in charge?

...also he will take Inspirational Leader and Force Reality as his mythic abilities; he despises mind control.

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Then we'll have a walk about the camp and a word with the available forces - oh good, we have an actual quartermaster now. 

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