The Sisterly Showdown is the twelfth episode of season 1, Fantasy High.
Adaine and the rest of The Bad Kids battle Aelwyn Abernant and a horde of elemental cheerleaders at Ostentatia Wallace's house party.
Recap[]
"Guys, last we left off, we were at ol' 69420 Spelljammer Lane at a party... for the Hudol Hellions, the team of the Hudol College of the Arcane Arts. This, uh, sports party has some unlikely sports-goers, but a group of Aguefort cheerleaders have showed up along with, uh, Aelwyn Abernant."
Synopsis[]
Riz and Adaine are on the second floor of the house, looking into the bedroom where Aelwyn has just trapped Ostentatia Wallace inside a palimpsest. Riz runs past Aelwyn to the far side of the room to try and get out of the same spell range as Adaine. On the way, Aelwyn slashes him for 8 points of damage. Riz tries to use his Insightful Fighting but is unsuccessful. He shoots Aelwyn for only 5 points of damage. She spins and casts Firebolt at Riz for 13 points of damage (halved to 6 with his use of Uncanny Dodge) before vanishing. Out in the yard, Gorgug hears a gunshot and explosion coming from the house. It occurs to Gorgug that there is a possibility, however slim, that he is his own dad. Feeling deeply unsettled, he prepares to attack if anything attacks him.
Suddenly, The Bad Kids feel an arcane whirring as time freezes around them. The Bad Kids and the elemental cheerleaders are all still moving at a normal speed, but everything around them is stuck in time. Adaine remembers that she saw Aelwyn take a silver pocket watch out of her pocket as she teleported away.
A shadow elemental cheerleader tries to attack Fabian in the hallway but fails miserably. The water elemental cheerleader, River, moves to attack Gorgug. He goes into a rage and hits her for 9 points of damage. She deals him 9 points of damage in return. Kristen is in the kitchen making out with the earth elemental cheerleader. She asks her how she came out to her parents, but the earth elemental moves to hit her. Kristen runs to the stairs on the back porch and casts Spirit Guardians.
The wind elemental cheerleader attacks Gorgug for 14 points of damage. Fig successfully casts Fear on the water and shadow cheerleaders. She also gives Gorgug Bardic Inspiration. A fire elemental cheerleader sets Kristen on fire and deals Kristen 7 points of fire damage. The Spirit Guardians, appearing in the form of academic philosophers, deal the fire elemental 16 points of damage. Another fire elemental cheerleader attacks Fabian for 12 points of fire damage and sets him on fire. Fabian takes 2 more points of fire damage from being on fire, summons the Hangman to impress Aelwyn, and runs to the edge of the pool.
Adaine realizes that Aelwyn used Misty Step, which is only a 30-foot range teleportation spell. Adaine and Riz have a quick conversation about how Misty Step is an emergency teleportation spell and that they need to find Aelwyn as soon as possible. Adaine casts Blink, successfully enters the Ethereal Plane, and searches for Aelwyn. Outside, the slime earth elemental hits Kristen for 7 points of damage but takes 11 points of damage from the Spirit Guardians. The slime elemental moves toward the porch from around the side of the house.
Riz looks out of the nearby window and sees Aelwyn, on the front porch, preparing to cast a spell. Riz jumps out of the window and tries to stab her in the head with his rapier. He uses Fury of the Small to deal a total of 26 damage to Aelwyn. Riz takes 6 points of falling damage. Aelwyn vanishes and appears on the Ethereal Plane, where she and Adaine confront each other and flip each other off.
Gorgug tries to figure out if he could use the elementals' powers against each other and decides that he might be able to do something interesting. He attacks the water elemental for 16 points of damage. The water elemental hides in the pool. While the shadow elemental flees, it takes 15 damage from Spirit Guardians. Kristen takes 2 points of fire damage from being on fire. As she runs to jump into the pool, she takes 13 points of damage. She hits the water, which splashes and freezes in mid-air; she realizes that they can interact with objects around them but that the objects will slow down more the farther they move away from them. Fabian uses Sentinel to deal the shadow elemental 9 points of damage. Kristen heals herself for 11 HP.
An air elemental runs away, frightened. Another air elemental attacks Fig for 23 points of damage. Fig casts Suggestion on the cheerleader that just attacked her and tells it to push a nearby fire elemental into a pool; the spell appears to work. Fig ends her turn by hiding behind Gorgug and giving him Bardic Inspiration. A fire elemental attacks a still-on-fire Fabian for 13 points of fire damage. The other fire elemental attacks Riz on the front porch for 9 points of damage (which Uncanny Dodge halves to 4) and sets him on fire. Fabian takes 6 points of fire damage just from being on fire. He stabs the shadow elemental, but it seems resistant to the damage. Adaine casts Web in a 20-foot cube in the space where Aelwyn Blinked into the ethereal plane and uses a divination roll for the web to successfully break through a window. She also re-enters the ethereal plane. The slime and mud elementals attack Gorgug for 11 points of damage.
Riz successfully dodges Adaine's Web spell. He disengages from the fire elemental, takes a dash action, and runs through the main hallway of the house to the back porch. Aelwyn Blinks out of the ethereal plane and is immediately trapped in Adaine's web. She Blinks back into the ethereal plane and challenges Adaine, who threatens to kill her. Gorgug hits the earth elemental for 57 points of damage and obliterates it. The shadow elemental deals Fabian 19 points of damage and successfully frightens him. Kristen runs out of the pool and looks through the living room window; she sees only Adaine's web cube. She casts Mass Healing Word and heals everyone except Adaine (who is still in the ethereal plane). She ends her turn by taking a dodge action. The air elementals that Fig frightened continue running away. The elemental that Fig cast Suggestion on tries to push the fire elemental into the pool but is rebuffed. The elemental also takes 14 points of damage from the Spirit Guardians.
Fig climbs up next to a window, readies an action to attack Aelwyn when she reappears, and gives Kristen Bardic Inspiration through the window. The fire elemental burns up Adaine's web and attacks Fig through the living room window and sets her on fire. The other fire elemental attacks Fabian for 9 points of fire damage. Fabian takes 9 points of damage from being on fire as the Hangman arrives. He immediately hops onto the Hangman and takes off down the street. As he's peeling away, he successfully breaks through his fear and uses Second Wind to heal himself.
Adaine realizes that Aelwyn, moves to the doorway of Ostentatia's bedroom, and prepares to cast Dispel Magic on Aelwyn as soon as she reappears. The slime elemental, after taking damage from Kristen's Spirit Guardians, tries and fails to drag Gorgug to the ground. Riz climbs up the side of the house, hops through the bedroom window, and lands right next to Adaine. Aelwyn reappears. Adaine casts Dispel Magic and ends Blink but fails to dismiss Aelwyn's 4th level spell. Riz tries to shoot her and misses. Aelwyn creates an eruption of icy energy from her hands, severely hurting Adaine and knocking Riz unconscious.
Gorgug grabs Kristen, jumps 15 feet into the air, and smashes through a second story window so that he and Kristen both land in the hallway outside the bedroom next to Adaine. Gorgug asks Adaine to explain what's going on and how Aelwyn was able to stop time; Adaine tells him that she doesn't know but that the goal is to "fucking kill" Aelwyn. The shadow elemental follows Gorgug and Kristen up through the second floor window, taking Spirit Guardians damage along the way. It tries to hit Kristen twice and misses. Kristen casts Cure Wounds on Riz, revives him with 27 HP, and additionally heals herself for 6 HP.
The air elemental launches Fig up into the air and drops her on the ground for 24 points of damage. Fig, still on fire, takes a point of fire damage. Fig casts Suggestion on the wind elemental again and tells it to steal the pocket watch from Aelwyn. Against the odds, she successfully climbs up the side of the house and starts to pull herself through the second story window to join the others in the bedroom. One fire elemental flies up beside Fig while the other roars up the stairs and tries to hit Kristen. Both elementals miss and the one on the stairs takes Spirit Guardians damage.
Fabian, still aflame, takes fire damage as he returns back to the front of the house. In an attempt to regain his status, he drives the Hangman through the front hallway of the house into the backyard where he believes the rest of the party is. He lands in the pool and successfully douses himself, but only then realizes that the rest of the group isn't in the yard. When he yells out for his friends, they shout back to him from the second story windows. He sees Fig being attacked by a fire elemental and shoots it with his crossbow. Adaine attempts to use Mage Hand to pull the pocket watch out of Aelwyn's pocket. Aelwyn counterspells it and makes Adaine's own spell knock her head into the door frame for 6 points of damage. The slime elemental enters the pool and knocks Fabian unconscious.
Riz takes another shot at Aelwyn and destroys her abjurative ward. He warns the rest of the group that they should spread out to avoid being in the same spell range, dodges an elemental attack, and hides in the bathroom across the hall. Aelwyn throws a Firebolt at Adaine, knocking her unconscious, before vanishing. Gorgug runs across the room to the window where Fig is being pulled down by the fire elemental, jumps through it, and tackles the elemental through one of the beer pong tables in the yard. The Spirit Guardians destroy the shadow elemental.
Kristen casts a 3rd level Cure Wounds on Adaine, healing her for 23 HP and getting herself back to full health. Kristen realizes that Aelwyn is going to reappear on the roof of the house. She tries to scramble up onto the roof but can't quite get all the way up. The air elemental that Fig cast Suggestion on flies straight up and The Bad Kids hear a scuffling noise on the roof. Fig takes another 2 points of fire damage from being on fire. She considers casting Shatter on the roof but is unable to tell where Aelwyn is. She instead looks out the window and casts Healing Word on Fabian for 15 HP. She wants to climb up onto the roof, but the rest of the group warns against it because she's not very athletic and she only has 4 HP; if Aelwyn were able to deal her 50 points of damage in one hit, Fig would permanently die. Taking her friends' advice, Fig looks out at the slime elemental in the yard and casts Vicious Mockery on it, but it seems too stupid to be affected.
The fire elemental outside with Gorgug hits him for 10 points of damage. The fire elemental inside the house takes 15 points of damage from Spirit Guardians before attacking Kristen for 9 points of damage and lighting her on fire. The Hangman drives Fabian out of the pool, through the front hallway, and up the stairs of the house. Adaine rolls up her sleeves and tries to climb onto the roof but ends up hanging off the side next to Kristen.
Riz climbs out of the toilet, hops out of the window, and starts climbing up onto the roof. He peeks his head over the edge of the roof and sees Aelwyn in a struggle with the air elemental; the elemental has successfully taken the pocket watch away from Aelwyn. Riz shoots Aelwyn for 11 damage and ducks back down below the roof to try and hide. Aelwyn looks directly at him and shoots him with a lightning bolt for 14 points of damage. She tries to take the pocket watch back from the air elemental and fails. Gorgug, still on fire and taking an attack from an elemental, takes 24 points of fire damage and climbs all the way up the chimney to get to the roof. He runs up to the air elemental, snatches the pocket watch out of her hands, and presses the button. Time resets. The Hudol kids, suddenly witnessing all of the events of the fight within two seconds, summon magic and prepare to battle.
Kristen tries to get up onto the roof again but falls and slams into the back patio. She also takes 2 points of fire damage from being on fire. Kristen runs back into the house, jumps onto the Hangman with Fabian, and uses Cure Wounds to heal him for 23 HP and herself for 7 HP. Gorgug takes 10 points of damage from the fire elemental, leaving him with 4 HP. Fig is again unable to cast Shatter on the roof without line of sight. She heals herself with Healing Word, gives Fabian some Bardic Inspiration, and comes back in through the window to meet her friends in the hallway. The indoor fire elemental takes 10 points of damage from Spirit Guardians before dealing 14 points of damage to Fabian. The outside fire elemental flies up onto the roof and knocks Gorgug unconscious.
Fabian and Kristen realize two things: elementals aren't resistant to magical items and the Hangman itself is a magical item. Fabian slams the Hangman into the fire elemental and pushes the interior fire elemental out through the hallway window. Fabian then calls down to the Hudol students in the yard and implores them to focus their attention on the roof of the house. The Hudol students, moved by his eloquent request, agree and start flying up to the roof. Adaine tries to climb up on to the roof again, this time with help from the flying Hudol students. She successfully gets onto the roof, sees Gorgug lying on the ground, and goes into a rage. She runs at Aelwyn, and punches her in the face. Aelwyn asks her if she's insane and Adaine screams back, "Yes, I'm fucking insane! You make me fucking insane!" Adaine then disappears into the ethereal plane.
Riz fails to shoot Aelwyn. He tries to hide, but Aelwyn spots him and shoots him with a bolt of lightning for 28 points of damage. He falls from the roof and slams into the back patio, unconscious. Gorgug makes a successful death saving throw. Kristen successfully gets onto the roof and runs toward the fight so that her Spirit Guardians can attack multiple people. She also heals Gorgug for 20 HP, takes the pocket watch from him, puts it on a chain necklace, and tucks it under her shirt.
The air elemental attacks Gorgug for 13 points of damage and takes 4 from Spirit Guardians. Fig can't get onto the roof, but she finally gets line of sight for Shatter, which deals 17 damage to both the air elemental. and Aelwyn. The air elemental is destroyed and Aelwyn looks extremely hurt. The fire elemental on the roof is destroyed by Kristen's Spirit Guardians. Fabian climbs onto the roof and grapples Aelwyn.
Adaine reappears from the ethereal plane and casts Tasha's Hideous Laughter on her sister. As Aelwyn succumbs to the spell, the Hudol boys land on the roof and mock her for falling victim to a first level spell. The elementals vanish as Aelwyn loses control over her spells. Adaine reaches into Aelwyn's pocket, pulls out the palimpsest with Ostentatia inside, and says, "Oops, bitch."
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Trivia[]
- The Dust Elemental Cheerleader mini was sold as part of the Dimension 20 Fantasy High Freshman Year Auction for $1,302
- The Fire Elemental Cheerleader mini was sold as part of the Dimension 20 Fantasy High Freshman Year Auction for $1,302
- The Shadow Elemental Cheerleader mini was sold as part of the Dimension 20 Fantasy High Freshman Year Auction for $1,132
- The Storm Elemental Cheerleader mini was sold as part of the Dimension 20 Fantasy High Freshman Year Auction for $1,054