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"Getting her held in place" sounds like the sort of thing giant crabs do not do very well against mythic adventurers! Arazni will slip Lucy's grip and begin plummeting at the speed of someone who is subject to normal gravity within a few seconds of Lucy getting a grip.

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... Did everyone forget about the ARMY OF DEMONS, DEVILS, AND RANDOM OTHER OUTSIDERS RAPIDLY APPROACHING?

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- No, that's around the time the resummoned Azata plays a beautiful song of emotion-calming, and the three ex-graveknights within range pause, and exchange a few words.

(The words are, "Lastwall," and "Iomedae," and "Yes.")

And, flying and equipped with an army of unholy buffs and wearing accursed weapons and armor, charge the army of devils.

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The army of devils is also being shot at, since it isn't approximately IMMUNE TO ARROWS.

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Lucy will switch to Law-light for about half a second in case any of the fiends are summoned.

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Some of them wink out of existence! Others have enchantments on them which wink out.

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Well, that is the obvious problem with having her bodyguards be unwilling draftees from Lastwall. Geb always did like poetry too much.

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The ex-graveknights will lose the ability to fly and begin plummeting!

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She catches them, neatly plucking them out of the air and setting them on her shell. “Sorry!”

She looks around for the largest piece of ex-pyramid she can find.

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There's some pretty big pieces of ex-pyramid.

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... Arazni has now noticed that the crab-monster regenerates from everything she has thrown at it as long as it's not in an antimagic field, and her rapier needs to stay within twenty feet of her, she doesn't fly nonmagically, and if she keeps throwing fireballs uselessly her staff is going to run out of juice.

And she cannot, in fact, Just Do Mortal Magic In An Antimagic Field. Arazni is a demigod, and her godly powers function continuously, but infusing a mortal spell with mythic power still requires that the mortal spell pass through the antimagic field, which is why she has been cheating by having her artifact sword do it for her.

Arazni will need a new plan. Ideally, one better than "run away" or "hit it with a sword."

Well, stage one is to order a called eyrines to pick her up so she can have some maneuverability. She doesn't think trying to grab the crab is going to go very well.

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(Kais will throw the several nearest fiends back into their own planes. The song of the azata will switch to a more vibrant, piercing one as she readies herself to charge, and a Huge air elemental will pop into existence next to them.)

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"- Don't worry," says one of the ex-graveknights. "Save Arazni." And they will get ready to start clambering over Crab!Lucy to fight any fiends that are headed for melee.

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Lucy picks up a piece of ex-pyramid bigger than she is and attempts to flatten Arazni with it.

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Arazni will be harmed by this!

... But not, like, very harmed. She's a mythic adventurer, and, also, a lich.

(Her sword returns to her hand, and she catches it without noticing.)

She's more annoyed about the fact that it sent her ride flying.

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" - Nothing except bludgeoning, magical weapons are likely to affect her!" he says.

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Oh!

Well.

Lucy’s claws are very magical.

She goes back to the tactic: sixteen attacks per round.

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Arazni takes damage from Lucy's claws! When they hit her, which is, you know, sometimes but not all the time, even though you would think a projectile hurtling through midair would be really, really easy to hit, since it would be on a predictable trajectory.

She may briefly impact the ground, which she just completely rolls with and comes back, but being punched more than twice a second is actually not good for her ability to take functional actions.

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ARMY OF FIENDS is mostly fighting Lucy's bodyguards but will pay a visit to her, vis-a-vis a handful of spells. She's immune to most of what they can throw, being either direct physical harm or relying on Fortitude saves, but how does she feel about Unholy Blight, Enervation, or Order's Wrath?

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Arazni is being beaten up by a Colossal crab! This would provide a slight glimmer of hope in her terrible, terrible day, except that she in fact knows perfectly well she can leave any time she likes, and probably, at this point, should, just by using her minor-artifact staff to Plane Shift away.

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Mmm. As it happens, the kind and decorous Miss Whitman lacks the precision required for careful maneuvers at this distance. Count Ristomaur Tiriac, however, does not.

He'll shoot the staff out of Arazni's hand.

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“Thank you!!!” she yells to Tiriac.

(Lucy totally ignores all three of these spells!)

She scoops up the staff before resuming Carcinic Pugilism.

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Sword-channeled Disintegrate not work?

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What’s Disintegrate. Can you eat it (yes, you can, when you have an effective CON of Yes).

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Arazni is not, actually, under orders not to return to life. She's under orders to not try to escape Geb, but if her body's destroyed, her antimagic field will end and she will, almost certainly, go back to being in her body.

So.

If she cancels the antimagic field and then very very quickly casts Time Stop again, not as the wielder of an artifact but as a wizard trained by Aroden -

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